UnYielded Blog – OLD

The Day the Doctor Said I Shouldn’t Be Alive

By Bobbi July 11, 2020Habits and Practices, Mindsets, Overcoming Obstacles and Challenges

I knew I was in trouble the day the test results came back. I was in my doctor’s office and he was looking at the test results. He squinted, re-adjusted his glasses and looked at them again. He shook his head as he looked up at me and said, “Well, we’ll have to do this test again. These results cannot…

Don’t Buffer Failure

By Bobbi July 28, 2020Awareness, Mindsets, Overcoming Obstacles and Challenges

I recently sat down and talked with Dennis Stanton on my podcast. Dennis fell in love with basketball at an early age, he had his ups and downs with the sport but, his senior year in college, he was an all-American and led the nation in scoring. He played professionally in Europe. He is an Athletic Director at Souderton Area…

Navigate with Curiosity

By Bobbi July 15, 2020Awareness, Mindsets

I was recently interviewing Tony Bond on my podcast, and we were talking about how you can build meaningful connections and community. Tony is the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of Great Place to Work, the global research and analytics firm that produces the annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list, among many others. When I…

Staying Resilient

By Bobbi July 8, 2020Habits and Practices, Mindsets, Overcoming Obstacles and Challenges

Many thanks to Kristin Smedley for being a recent guest on my podcast, UnYielded: Thriving No Matter What, which is all about flourishing and putting our energy into a place of positive influence. Kristin shared her experience of learning that her infant son was blind. More than that, Kristin shared what she has learned about resilience during that journey. One…

Harvesting the Wisdom in Your Life

By Bobbi June 30, 2020Awareness, Habits and Practices

We all know someone like this: they’ve been doing what they do for twenty years and they think that gives them twenty years of experience, when, in fact, they have one year of experience that they’ve simply repeated for twenty years. Years ago, when I was around 23 or so, I had an epiphany that was painful at the time…

Tips for Saying No Gracefully

By Bobbi June 25, 2020Habits and Practices

Fact: You are always saying no to something. I used to be one of those people who could never say “no” to anyone. Then one day it occurred to me that I was making choices. Every time I said “yes” out of obligation, I was saying “no” to something else; and, often, what I was saying “no” to was more important…

You Can’t Get a Hit if the Bat Never Leaves Your Shoulder

By Bobbi June 22, 2020Just Start, Mindsets

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” Babe Ruth As a kid, I loved to play baseball. In the summertime, my sister, Nanette, and I would head down to the local ball fields and scare up a game of baseball. I was a lot younger than the rest of the players and at first it…

Persistence to Go from a $100 Piece of Land to $100 Million Investment Firm – Adam Adams

By Admin June 12, 2020Coming Soon, Podcast

In 2005, Adam Adams bought a small piece of land for $100 to start a part-time investing business. That turned into a passion for creative real estate and entrepreneurial ventures worth $100 million in 2020. Adam discusses the many challenges he faced over the years and how he remained relentless to make his dreams come true.

From College Basketball Star to Leader in Sales and Life – Pat Carroll

By Admin June 12, 2020Coming Soon, Podcast

Pat Carroll was among the top college shooting guards in the country during the 2003-2004 NCAA basketball season when his team, the St. Joseph's Hawks, made their run to the Elite Eight. Pat turned his love for team sports achievement into a passion for studying the science and skills of great team leaders and a career developing individuals and teams…

9-11 Survivor Now Helping Sales Professionals Love Their Lives – John Cerqueira

By Admin June 11, 2020Coming Soon, Podcast

Coming Soon - 9-11 Survivor Now Helping Sales Professionals Love Their Lives - John Cerqueira John Cerquiera was one of the heroes of 9-11, carrying a disabled woman dozens of floors down one tower just before it collapsed. Through this experience and his career as a strategic sales professional, he has helped people learn to work through adversity, grief, and…