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We are wrapping up both the end of the year and the end of Season 2 here on the HRart of It podcast! Can you believe it? For this final episode of the season, we are taking a look back at the top 5 most downloaded episodes of the entire year. Listen along as Samm shares highlights and key lessons from some of our most inspiring conversations on the podcast. After listening to this episode, head to the show notes down below to find links to each of the full length episodes featured in this list. Thanks for a great 2021, and we'll see you next year after a short break!

This episode of the HRart of It podcast is all about a classic Qigong regulatory practice called the Microcosmic Orbit. Regulation allows us to balance our energy internally, ensuring that it is distributed in the most effective way for our healing. This simple exercise is Samm's go-to whenever she feels overwhelmed or just generally off. It's also a beautiful way that she concludes all of the healing qigong treatments with clients at the HRart Center. For the month of November, Samm has shared the five most recommended Qigong exercises she has given to clients in 2021. Each week she covered the intention and power of the exercise, and then we practiced together. Find the other episodes and the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

Join us in this podcast episode as we continue our work on releasing excess emotion through Qigong. This time we are targeting the heart and its' commonly stored emotion of deep anxiety. Our current global climate has given birth to new levels of anxiety in several different arenas of life. Without a way to move this energy out of the heart, we have the potential to create dense stagnations that can trigger anxiety attacks and panic attacks. For the month of November, Samm is sharing the five most recommended Qigong exercises she has given to clients in 2021. Each week she’ll cover the intention and power of the exercise, and then we will practice together. Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

Let’s discuss the art of releasing excess emotion through Qigong healing sounds. Anger, which resides in the Liver, will tax the organ further without a healthy release. Even if you don’t consider yourself to be an angry person, you could find yourself attracting anger, in which case, you could be storing the anger of others. Regardless, at the end of the day, our Liver always needs a little more love and care. For the month of November, Samm is sharing the five most recommended Qigong exercises she has given to clients in 2021. Each week she’ll cover the intention and power of the exercise, and then we will practice together. Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

In Chinese Medicine, the kidneys are known as the energy storage tanks, which our very yang-filled lives drain quickly. In this episode of the HRart of It podcast, we focus on caring for our kidneys. The exercise Samm shares with us is a quick way to refill these tanks. It will come in handy when you need that little pick-me-up. For the month of November, Samm is sharing the five most recommended Qigong exercises she has given to clients in 2021. Each week she'll cover the intention and power of the exercise, and then we will practice together. Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

In this episode, we begin with the simplest form of Qigong: the breath. Abdominal breathing is referred to as natural breathing in Qigong and allows us to harness the power of the breath. As we breathe, we are naturally taking in new nourishing energy with our inhale and releasing energy that does not serve us with our exhale. When we add intention to something so natural, we magnify its healing capabilities. For the month of November, Samm is sharing the five most recommended Qigong exercises she has given to clients in 2021. Each week she'll cover the intention and power of the exercise, and then we will practice together. Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

Our current go-to onboarding plan has so much room for improvement. On this special episode of the HRart of It Podcast, Samm hosts Talent Strategy & Leadership Development expert Jen Thornton in a conversation on cultural onboarding. Learn why we should care about neuroscience when doing culture work and when forming retention strategies, as well as how fear plays too great a role in terms of onboarding, culture, and retention. We close this episode with a Q & A with our live audience. To earn SHRM Recertification Credits (PDCs) through The HRart Center, and for more information on the episode, head to the show notes page at www.hrartcenter.com.

Regardless if you are a parent or not, we all have moments where we witness the upcoming generation and wonder about the world that awaits them. It is the upcoming generation that holds the hope for a much better future if we are willing to take a look at ourselves today. In this episode, Dr. Traci Baxley joins Samm to discuss how we need to show up for our children in an intentional way. This is a path that requires us to move away from fear and move towards radical love. Dr. Baxley brings to light the powerful tools for change we can access with a shift of perspective. Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

That midday office slump may just seem like an inevitability, but it's actually just one of the many common symptoms of the damage we are doing to our bodies with our unhealthy eating habits! Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo, founder of the Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology and our podcast guest for today, walks us through exactly what a typical high-sugar diet is doing to us as we move through our workdays. Samm and Dr. Ritamarie discuss some practical ways to incorporate better food choices into our lunch meetings, break rooms and office potlucks. Setting the tone for a healthy lifestyle for ourselves and our teams is a massive step toward a happier, healthier and more productive workplace. We hope you'll join us for this inspiring episode of the HRart of It Podcast! Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

Let’s reimagine what wellness at work could look like with this week’s podcast guest Ari Gronich. Ari starts the conversation off with the fact that our current definition of wellness just scratches the surface of what our workplaces so desperately need right now. In fact, effective and caring wellness programs can be the key to fixing a company’s biggest problems. The rewards for taking care of our people fully -- not just during their time spent in the workplace but also their overall health and their home life, can have a massive effect on the culture and bottom line of a business. Learn more about the power of effective corporate culture and wellness in this episode of the HRart of It podcast! Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com. Warning: This episode contains adult language.

Living in alignment with your Connected Path isn’t always easy. Samm is back in this solo episode to let you know you’re not alone in your personal growth and evolution journey. She’s giving us a connected check-in, sharing where she is on her own journey and what motivates her to keep moving forward. Yes, there are growing pains to overcome, but there is also so much joy. Join us for this episode of the HRart of It podcast! Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

Are you an empath or do you work with one? If so this episode of the HRart of It podcast is full of great information that may help you or that other person avoid that dreaded empath hangover. Samm interviews Kara Lovehart, a holistic intuitive medium and healer. Kara and Samm, both empaths themselves, discuss how to determine if you do indeed have these sensitivities and how to identify and support others who may be empathic. This may be especially important in the workplace, which can easily be one of the most draining and unavoidable social spaces we exist within.  Tune in to this episode of the HRart of It Podcast all about being an empath in the workplace!

We often talk about people being the greatest asset in business and life (this is why the podcast exists) but today we have a podcast guest who can prove it. Traci Duez uses Axiology to mathematically prove that people hold the highest value above all else. Axiology, the study of the nature of value and valuation, can measure how people think and see value, and Traci can use this data to help shift how people and teams think. You won't want to miss this episode of the HRart of It podcast as Traci and Samm discuss the math behind valuing people! Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

The time is now: we must support our people in the midst of this Employee Mental Health Crisis. Mental health expert Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge joins us on the podcast to discuss how workplaces can prioritize the mental health and wellness of their people and why they absolutely must start today. Beyond our baseline of wanting our employees to be happy and healthy because they are people we care about, how a workplace supports wellness directly affects productivity, retention and the bottom line in massive ways. We also highlight specific challenges that our employees who are also parents are facing and the need to provide them with additional support. Lastly, Dr. Roseann leaves us with some achievable ways to start creating that supportive culture that we all want as well as the numbers and statistics we need to make that a top priority within our workplaces. Start making the necessary shifts to support employee mental health in your workplace by listening to this episode of the HRart of It podcast. Find the

On this episode of the HRart of It podcast, our guest Micah Lorenc walks us through Gallup’s Clifton Strengths Assessment, a strengths-based development tool that breaks down an individual's greatest and lowest strengths. This is no ordinary, forgettable personality test. The magic of this tool and Micah’s deep understanding of it is it allows us to see what an employee, a team, and a marriage could look like if we deeply understood our own strengths as well as each other’s strengths, and then we celebrated them. This understanding has the potential to lead to dynamic, powerful teams full of individuals who all have something different to offer each other. Find this and more on this episode of the HRart of It Podcast! Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

HR is stuck and limited by this preconceived myth about what the role of HR is in our businesses and organizations. In this episode of the HRart of It podcast, our guest Carol Sanford joins us to flip this myth upside down. Carol walks us through the 9 roles that we each need to move through not only at work, but also in life. She shares how HR’s ability to be fluid with these roles is the key to unlocking creativity, innovation and ripple effects leading to grand opportunities for change. Carol assures us, “HR people have much more power than they think they do.” This episode presents a vision of how we can rethink our old thought patterns and move through life and business differently. This vision is one that prioritizes an individual’s and a workplace’s ability to change, evolve and grow. You don’t want to miss this episode of the HRart of It podcast! Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

Generation Z is quickly going to make up about 30% of the global workforce. This episode of the HRart of It Podcast is all about highlighting this next generation of HR practitioners and the power and passion they have to change the workplace for the better. This is an interview with Aleah Vaske and Kaylee Wurth, two of the four change makers behind the podcast Generation HR. They originally created Generation HR after the University of Northern Iowa’s Society for Human Resource Management (UNI-SHRM) student organization decided to research the new U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating that federal civil rights law prohibits employers from discriminating against workers on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Once they realized that this groundbreaking ruling was neither known about nor understood on campus and in workplaces throughout their community, these driven college students created the Generation HR podcast to educate their community. You won’t want to miss this conversation about Gen

The worldwide Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has put a much-needed spotlight on systemic racism in corporate America. As businesses place the responsibility of cleaning up these chronic problems on HR and DEI, tensions have risen and too often HR and DEI find themselves at odds with one another. Why is that? Today we chat with Cassandra Rose, an HR leader and DE&I expert, on the reason why this tension exists and why both agents actually need each other to move forward. She even gives us some tips on how businesses and organizations can go about finding the right DEI partner.  Join us for this optimistic and enlightening conversation all about HR and JEDIs on this episode of the HRart of It Podcast. Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

In this episode, Jeff Harry turns the tables on Samm and interviews her about the current state of HR and why woo woo is so desperately needed in our workplaces. This is a conversation that all people-centered leaders should hear as Samm and Jeff discuss everything from how HR is misunderstood to the difference between dragons and unicorns. Lastly, Samm explains what disengagement looks like from a Chinese medicine perspective as well as some simple ways we can care for ourselves energetically as we navigate a workday full of emotions and stress. Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.

In this final episode of the 2021 Book Club, Samm uses takeaways from “The Five-Element Solution” by Jean Haner to describe a new way of looking at the world and our workplaces. Now that we know the five elements are both everywhere, affected by everything, and needed for balance in our lives, what can this knowledge mean for our workplaces? Join us for this episode of The HRart of It Podcast as Samm breaks down the employee cycle in terms of the elements to show us that intuition can be that game-changing aspect of business we’re all looking for. Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com.