The Action Catalyst

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  • 54 seconds
    Christmas Greetings From Adam Outland

    Host Adam Outland wishes all of our listeners a very "Catalyst" Christmas!

    25 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 minute 54 seconds
    Happy Holidays from Stephanie Maas!

    Action Catalyst host Stephanie Maas shares what's keeping her spirits merry and bright at this magical time of the year, and her wishes for all of our listeners.

    24 December 2025, 10:30 am
  • 20 minutes 30 seconds
    REMASTERED: Repairing Broken Relationships, with Ron Alford and Josh Hudson (Sales, Responsibility, Coaching, Accountability)

    Ron Alford, Senior Partner and a Professional Sales and Leadership Coach at Southwestern Consulting, and Josh Hudson, CEO of Hudson's Furniture, cover the unique relational challenges of operating in a family business, how to establish a rhythm quickly with coaching, identifying patterns in yourself, learning to accept but also to question, and letting others help you help yourself.

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    This episode is brought to you by Southwestern Coaching.

    Southwestern Coaching

    23 December 2025, 10:45 am
  • 1 minute 38 seconds
    CLIP: Double-Time Part Time for Full-Time Free Time

    Angie Moss, Sales and Leadership Coach and Certified Trainer with Southwestern Consulting, shares how her coaching client adopted the productive mindset of working ON your business rather than IN your business.

    Hear Angie and Brad's full interview in Episode 150 of The Action Catalyst.

    18 December 2025, 10:45 am
  • 27 minutes 7 seconds
    Shared Wisdom, with Dr. Alex Pentland (AI, Technology, Business, Data Science)

    Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a Professor at MIT, a Stanford University Fellow, and one of the most cited computational scientists in the world, dives into the misunderstood issues and opportunities around artificial intelligence, including alignment, human centricity, how different nations are handling the new tech, and the application you can put to work in your business straight away that he calls "a little bit of genius".

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    16 December 2025, 10:30 am
  • 3 minutes 8 seconds
    CLIP: Cutting a Cruise Ship In Half

    Richard Fain, the chairman and former long-term CEO of Royal Caribbean Group, explains how Royal Caribbean elevated the entire cruise industry, and why, early in his career, he literally, LITERALLY, had to cut a cruise ship in half.

    Hear Richard's full interview in Episode 496 of The Action Catalyst.

    11 December 2025, 10:30 am
  • 19 minutes 56 seconds
    REMASTERED: Conquering Complacency, with Angie Moss and Brad Moore (Management, Coaching, Goal Setting, Potential)

    Angie Moss, Sales and Leadership Coach and Certified Trainer with Southwestern Consulting, and Brad Moore, Senior Vice President with BancorpSouth Wealth Management, talk about the principles of working ON your business not IN your business, moving your on goalpost for success, and becoming a leader even before you have people to lead.

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    This episode is brought to you by Southwestern Coaching.

    Southwestern Coaching

    9 December 2025, 10:30 am
  • 4 minutes 26 seconds
    CLIP: Creating the Creed

    Karla Lewis, an executive sales and leadership coach and Partner with Southwestern Consulting, and Steve Frody, co-founder of City2Shore Real Estate, share the value of aligning your business and team behind a shared creed (and how to create one).

    Hear Karla and Steve's full interview in Episode 171 of The Action Catalyst.

    4 December 2025, 10:30 am
  • 29 minutes
    Delivering the WOW, with Richard Fain (Leadership, Travel, Culture, Business)

    Richard Fain, the chairman and former long-term CEO of Royal Caribbean Group, recounts the dark days of the Covid pandemic for the cruise business, and explains cheap expensive decisions, the antidote to fear, elevating and innovating the industry, and why he literally, LITERALLY, had to cut a cruise ship in half.

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    2 December 2025, 10:30 am
  • 5 minutes 18 seconds
    CLIP: Unstructured Data, Moore's Law, and Hallucinations

    Gayathri Krishnamurthy, Head of Product Marketing at Level AI, explains how AI is beginning to use data differently from previous versions and how the rate at which it's capabilities are expanding is exponential, but how despite this, the emerging technology is still not without its drawbacks...

    Hear the full conversation in a first-ever "live" episode of The Action Catalyst.

    28 November 2025, 10:30 am
  • 45 seconds
    Happy Thanksgiving, from Adam Outland

    Action Catalyst host Adam Outland shares what he's thankful for this Thanksgiving.

    27 November 2025, 11:00 am
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