The Connectors Podcast

Welcome to The Connectors podcast - the show that helps you build meaningful connections and guides you with tools and tips to transform your life. I'm your host Jolyn Showalter, and I'm joined by my co-host Quinten Sheriff. Embedding the benefits of making connections, both in your personal and professional life can help you expand your knowledge, gain new perspectives, and open up new opportunities. This is our driving ethos; to deepen our roots and make sure that our changes and connections, instead of being on the surface and reactive, go deep and really allow for a reinvention.

The Connectors Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 75 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts The Connectors Podcast, a education show with 75 episodes published.

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  What Happens When We Stop Performing and Start Getting Real with Ourselves? | The Connectors

  Aug 20, 202616 min

  We're back, but The Connectors is evolving. After taking some space to focus on our own businesses, projects and lives, we both came back to the same realization: we weren't finished with these conversations. This season, we're going beyond people's stories to explore the patterns underneath them. How we change, why we repeat what we do, what shapes our identities, how we connect, what we're creating, and what it looks like to lead ourselves through all of it. And we're starting with one central question: What happens when people stop performing and start getting real with themselves? This season explores: Reinvention & Identity • Human Patterns & Connection • Leadership, Impact & Technology • Voice, Creativity & Expression • Wellness & Human Performance 00:00 Welcome back to The Connectors 02:07 Why we decided to keep going 04:08 What happens when we stop performing? 06:16 Reinvention, identity & self-leadership 07:19 Human patterns & connection 08:46 Leadership, impact, technology & AI 11:42 Creativity, expression & wellness 14:13 Why The Connectors isn't niching down 16:05 Finding the threads between our conversations 17:59 Join us for the new season The Connectors explores the people, patterns and perspectives that shape how we lead, live, connect and reinvent ourselves. Website: theconnectorshub.com Instagram: @theconnectorspodcast Substack: @theconnectorspodcast YouTube: @theconnectorspodcast LinkedIn: The Connectors Podcast Have a perspective or story you'd like to bring to the conversation? Email: theconnectorspodcast@gmail.com Guest intake form: LINK Hosted and produced by Jolyn & Quinten. Marketing, sound & technical support: The Design Coop Theme music: The Hypnotyst @hypnotyst And as always, stay connected. The Connectors is for informational, educational and entertainment purposes only. Views expressed are those of the hosts and guests and are not professional advice. #TheConnectorsPodcast #Reinvention #HumanConnection #SelfLeadership #Authenticity

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  Episode #76

  75 Episodes Later: Reflections and a Temporary Pause

  Mar 5, 20265 minS0

  <p>After 75 episodes of The Connectors podcast, Jolyn Showalter and Quinten Sheriff reconnect to share reflections on their journey and announce a temporary pause. They discuss the importance of growth, the future plans for the podcast, and how the community can stay engaged during their break to focus on new projects.</p><p>Keywords: podcast, leadership, community, growth, updates, future plans, reconnect, gratitude</p><p>key topics</p><p>Podcast journey and milestones</p><p>Reflections on leadership and communication</p><p>Future plans and community engagement</p><p>Takeaways</p><p>Podcasting expands your reach and learning.</p><p>...

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  Episode #10

  Building Confidence and Creating Belonging for the Next Generation

  Jan 29, 202657 minS3

  <p>In this conversation, we’re joined by Taylor Hui, a philanthropist and entrepreneur who founded the BeaYOUtiful Foundation at just seventeen, creating free confidence and wellness programs for girls and non binary youth across Canada. Her work has reached over 5,500 young people, rooted in the belief that leadership begins by showing up with heart, not having all the answers.</p><p>Taylor shared what it has been like to lead while still growing herself, how rejection became redirection, and why vulnerability and safe spaces are essential if the next generation is going to thrive.</p><p><br>• Taylor’s journe...

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  Episode #9

  Leading to Collaborate and Why We Are Not Meant to Build Alone

  Jan 15, 20261h 5mS3

  <p>This conversation felt like a remembering. Not a how-to on collaboration, not a leadership checklist, but a return to something deeply human. We sat down with Kelly Dowd to explore collaboration as a way of being, not a business strategy. What unfolded was a layered conversation about existence, philosophy, belief systems, and why leadership that ignores connection eventually collapses.</p><p>Kelly brings a rare and grounded perspective as a designer, systems architect, and author. Drawing from Buddhism,and timeless philosophical reflections, this episode centers on one undeniable truth. Humans are not meant to exist, lead, or build alone...

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  Episode #8

  Grit to Grace and the Courage to Lead Yourself Through Toxic Workplaces

  Jan 2, 202652 minS3

  <p>This conversation leaned into the emotional reality of leadership when it stops being theoretical and starts living in the body. We spoke with Dr Kaitlyn Rios about toxic workplace dynamics, confidence erosion, and the quiet moments where people realize something is no longer sustainable. We explored what healthy leadership actually feels like, how self advocacy gets rebuilt after being worn down, and how grace and grit can coexist when you are choosing yourself without burning everything down.</p><p><br></p><p> • The origin story behind Faced with Grace and why it exists (02:36)<br>• When an unhealthy workplace crosses into...

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