Yvonne Druyeh Dood, a life and business coach, explains how she learned to “operate in your strengths” without sacrificing personal well-being or falling into the martyrdom mindset often associated with passionate work. She shares how feedback helped her recognize the importance of integrity and alignment in her pursuits. Her approach, which integrates business strategy with a holistic understanding of personal values and strengths, supports entrepreneurs in achieving both professional success and personal fulfillment. Through her Authentic Hustle workshops, she emphasizes finding balance, operating with ease, and achieving sustainability in work and life.

Alyson Van Hooser, of Van Hooser Associates, shares the concept of Infinite Influence with a wonderful story of how somebody else exhibited infinite influence in her life.

Feedback is just information. We’re the ones that put the label: it’s positive feedback or negative feedback. But really, I think feedback, if we take those labels off, it’s just information. And sometimes that information tells us as much about us and what we are doing as it does about the person sharing it with us, what they value in the world, how they see us, what they want from us.

Marisa Valdez shares how she learned to “believe in yourself” along her path from school teacher to Learning & Development Manager at BuzzFeed and what companies can do to help build a feedback culture.

In another episode of Simply Feedback, Steve Van Valin, Founder and CEO of Culturology, discusses his upcoming book, Amplify! The Power of Meaning at Work and ways for leaders to reengage their people and build a feedback-rich environment.