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Choice not Chance: Simplifying Success

Choice not Chance: Simplifying Success

De : Marie Chindamo
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Have you ever considered how successful individuals break free from the conventional 9-to-5 mindset and create lives where they can embrace entrepreneurial opportunities inside and outside traditional organizations? Is it a myth that achieving great success requires sacrificing your joy? Are you intrigued by the possibility of experiencing extraordinary success while enhancing your enjoyment in life?

Join us in exploring the remarkable journey of Marie Chindamo, an inspiring figure who took charge of her destiny, transforming from a state of bankruptcy to becoming a self-made millionaire entrepreneur. Marie reveals the specifics of her proven path and has analyzed the journeys of other top achievers to uncover the essential, non-negotiable traits that lead to tenfold success.

“Choice, Not Chance: Simplifying Success” invites you to dive deep into your passions and equips you with the frameworks and strategies necessary to turn those passions into a fulfilling career. We unveil the secrets of highly successful people, dispelling the myths that they have access to abilities that you don’t. Join our dynamic community, where we challenge traditional norms and celebrate innovative thinkers, allowing you to connect with like-minded individuals.

Whether you aim to transform your life completely, need guidance to overcome barriers or seek practical strategies to fast-track your progress, our episodes are filled with valuable tools, a supportive community, and actionable insights to empower your journey.

Remember, change is a natural part of life. This podcast is dedicated to helping you embrace it, take charge, and lead the way! We are invested in your personal and professional development, providing unwavering support every step of the journey.

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  • What is Misunderstanding Costing You?

    What is Misunderstanding Costing You?
    Sep 25 2026
    What Is Misunderstanding Costing You?Two people can walk away from the same conversation with completely different accounts of what happened, and both can be certain they're right.That gap between how we experience ourselves and how other people experience us is where a surprising amount of leadership happens.In this episode, I explore the role awareness and curiosity play in helping us understand ourselves, challenge our assumptions about others, and make more intentional choices about how we lead.We look at why some of the best leaders seem to have such a good “read” on people—and why what looks like intuition may actually be something deeper: a willingness to remain curious.I also explore the hidden energy cost of adapting our natural preferences to meet the demands of our environment. You can become extraordinarily good at a behavior that is simultaneously exhausting you. Effectiveness and effort are not always the same thing.And then we tackle a more uncomfortable question:When should you trust your gut—and when might your confidence simply be reinforcing a story you've already created?Research on expert intuition suggests that reliable instincts develop under particular conditions. Research on self-awareness reminds us that we're not always the best witnesses to our own behavior. And research on workplace conflict shows just how expensive misunderstanding can become when assumptions, communication differences, and unresolved tension are allowed to accumulate.In this episode, we explore:Why awareness and curiosity sit underneath so many other leadership capabilitiesWhat leaders of high-performing “superteams” do differentlyThe difference between intuition, pattern recognition, and assumptionWhy confidence in a judgment doesn't necessarily make the judgment accurateHow our own preferences can become the measuring stick we unconsciously use to judge other peopleWhy our greatest strengths can become liabilities when we overuse themThe hidden energy cost of continually adapting to an environmentHow personality differences can influence communication, collaboration, and conflictWhy remote and written communication can create additional opportunities for misunderstandingHow Insights Discovery and other self-awareness tools can give us a shared language for understanding differencesHow greater awareness can lead to curiosity, knowledge, and ultimately more choiceA reflection experimentFor the next week, don't simply think about your personality. Watch for patterns.Notice when your energy changes. Who leaves you energized? Who leaves you depleted? When do you become impatient, withdraw, talk more, talk less, take over, accommodate, or behave differently from the way that feels most natural to you?Write those moments down and ask:What was happening? What did the situation seem to require from me? What was I assuming? What evidence do I actually have that what I believe is true? What else could be true? What might I try differently next time?You don't need a personality profile to begin developing greater awareness.You just need to start paying attention.Research & ReferencesCuriosity and High-Performing TeamsRead “How to Build a Superteam That Keeps Getting Better” — Harvard Business ReviewWhen Should You Trust Your Intuition?Kahneman & Klein — Conditions for Intuitive ExpertiseSelf-Awareness, Blind Spots & 360-Degree FeedbackThe Johari WindowJoseph Luft & Harrington Ingham — Johari Window, 1955Workplace Conflict, Communication & Personality DifferencesThe Myers-Briggs Company — Conflict at Work Research, 2022Workplace Conflict in Great BritainAcas — Conflict at work: why it happens and how people try to resolve itAcas — 2025 workplace-conflict research reportThe Gap Between Employer and Employee Views of Conflict ResolutionCIPD — How Employers Are Tackling Bullying and Harassment at WorkRemote Work and Organizational SilosMicrosoft Research — The Effects of Remote Work on Collaboration Among Information WorkersPublished study — Nature Human BehaviourWhy Written Communication Is So Easy to MisreadJustin Kruger, Nicholas Epley, Jason Parker & Zhi-Wen Ng — “Egocentrism Over E-Mail: Can We Communicate as Well as We Think?” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005PubMed — Egocentrism Over E-Mail: Can We Communicate as Well as We Think?People, Culture & Organizational TransformationWhy Transformations Stall - and where only CEO's make the differenceExplore Your Own PatternsIf this episode has you wondering about your own preferences, energy, communication style, blind spots—or how these dynamics may be affecting your team—you can learn more about Insights Discovery or schedule a conversation with me.Schedule a chat with Marie And in the next episode, we'll go deeper into the psychological preferences rooted in Jungian psychology that underpin Insights Discovery and several other approaches to understanding personality—what those preferences mean, how to...
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  • Genius is a Choice: Why Your Greatest Strength Lives in Tension

    Genius is a Choice: Why Your Greatest Strength Lives in Tension
    Jul 11 2026

    Host Marie Chindamo welcomes Michele Jennae, creator of the EDG Butterfly Map and founder of Everyday Genius X365, to discuss how brilliance is inherent in everyone but often dimmed by rigid schools and workplaces. Michelle shares leaving a government job after seeing capable people “calcify” into conformity, and explains her framework for reclaiming genius through polarities—paired tensions like certainty and wonder, structure and flow, visibility and solitude—illustrated as butterfly wings that must work together for “flight.” They explore how perfectionism often comes from fear and self-talk, how workplaces can suppress originality, and why self-awareness helps us understand others. Michelle outlines eight “genius tensions,” describes integrating VIA Character Strengths, and notes practices like embodiment and awareness to rebound from “lower wing” states. She defines success as embodying one’s idiosyncratic genius and staying aligned with intention.

    00:00 Genius Within Us

    00:31 Show Intro

    00:53 Meet Michelle Jennae

    03:55 Walking Away From Work

    08:24 Culture Shift After Covid

    09:56 Butterfly Map Explained

    14:19 Movement Not Types

    17:14 Leadership And Self Talk

    20:14 Why Brilliance Gets Suppressed

    25:00 Host Assessment Results

    27:32 VIA Strengths Overview

    30:16 Practices To Stay Connected

    32:40 Client Transformations

    33:27 Lower Wing Recovery

    34:14 Awareness Creates Choice

    35:11 Perfectionism and Projection

    38:32 Reframing Fear and What Ifs

    41:52 Defining Success Today

    46:36 Blue Flame Genius

    48:25 Seeing Genius in Others

    51:35 Self Awareness and Diversity

    54:27 Staying the Course

    58:34 Closing Reflections

    Connect with Michele Jennae

    https://www.edgx365.com/meet-michele-jennae/

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelejennae/

    Support the show

    If you enjoyed this content and would like to learn more about how you can awaken and showcase your unique gifts, use the link below to join our X-Treme Executive Club. Our Club offers:

    • 30-minute private coaching calls each month with Marie Chindamo
    • Exclusive Masterclasses and access to bonus episodes of Choice, not Chance
    • Unlimited email correspondence with a coach
    • Semi-Annual live inspirational mixers with Marie Chindamo and other X-Treme Executive Club Members

    https://successschool.protilly.com/membership#nav_bar
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  • From Intern to CEO: Building Opportunity Instead of Waiting for It

    From Intern to CEO: Building Opportunity Instead of Waiting for It
    Mar 10 2026

    Host Marie Chindamo introduces an interview recorded in July 2025 with Brittany Hirson, CEO of South Bay Energy, a boutique retail energy supplier in New York and PJM. Brittany recounts joining the startup as a college intern in 2013 and rising to CEO by following strong leaders, building relationships, taking initiative, and embracing learning before feeling ready. She discusses leading by example, creating room for growth and safe failure, and the importance of authenticity in business trust. Brittany also describes her role as president of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of the Women’s Energy Alliance, focused on women supporting women through member mentorships with inclusive male allies. She shares her consulting work in operations and marketing, shifting from 1x to 10x goals through delegation and “who versus how,” views on technology and APIs, self-care through Pilates and a vegan lifestyle, and the belief that people can tap an extra 10% of effort to seize opportunities.

    From Intern to CEO: Brittany Harrison on Choice, Confidence, and 10x Leadership

    00:00 Show Intro

    00:22 Intern To CEO

    01:24 Episode Context

    04:12 Meet Brittany

    06:14 Startup Culture

    08:46 Mentorship Matters

    11:15 Women’s Energy Alliance

    15:16 Authenticity Wins

    16:06 Future Of Energy

    18:50 Confidence To Lead

    20:41 Consulting And Ops

    23:46 Defining Success

    26:25 Ten X Thinking

    27:47 Perfectionism And Progress

    29:16 Risk And Mistakes

    31:20 Mistakes Can Be Fixed

    32:00 Beautiful Mistakes and Discovery

    32:16 Tech and Leadership Tools

    33:08 APIs and Automation Basics

    34:16 Upskilling the Team

    35:10 Low Risk Tool Practice

    38:16 Too Many Tools Problem

    40:08 Avoiding the Tech Rabbit Hole

    41:24 Self-Care and Pilates Routine

    43:58 Intentional Choices and Health

    47:59 Truth Be Told Extra Ten Percent

    52:41 Spotting Opportunities and Initiative

    57:37 Final Takeaways and Outro

    Connect with Brittany

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittany-hirson-660b6788/

    A little bit about Marie Chindamo:

    Marie is the founder and CEO of ProTilly, a successful consulting practice founded over 8 years ago. ProTilly specializes in building strategy, challenging the status quo, and inspiring individuals and organizations to think radically differently to achieve transformative benefits. By encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking, Marie and her team help organizations break free from limiting practices, creating room for disruptive ideas and growth. They provide strategic guidance that’s tailored to navigating transitions, whether it's organizational change, market shifts, or leadership development.


    Support the show

    If you enjoyed this content and would like to learn more about how you can awaken and showcase your unique gifts, use the link below to join our X-Treme Executive Club. Our Club offers:

    • 30-minute private coaching calls each month with Marie Chindamo
    • Exclusive Masterclasses and access to bonus episodes of Choice, not Chance
    • Unlimited email correspondence with a coach
    • Semi-Annual live inspirational mixers with Marie Chindamo and other X-Treme Executive Club Members

    https://successschool.protilly.com/membership#nav_bar
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    1 h
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