Change Your Mindset
Welcome to Change Your Mindset (formerly known as Improv Is No Joke) where it is all about believing that strong communication skills are the best way in delivering your technical accounting knowledge and growing your business. The way of building stronger communication skills is by embracing the principles of applied improvisation. Your host is Peter Margaritis, CPA a.k.a. The Accidental Accountant, will interview financial professionals and business leaders to find their secret in building stronger relationships with their clients, customers, associates, and peers, all the while, growing their businesses.
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Ep. 92 - Mary Foley: Don a Red Cape, Be Bodacio...
Mary Foley energizes female entrepreneurs with the clarity, confidence, and tools to attract, engage, and win more clients. She is an author, energizing keynote speaker, business mentor, host of the P.O.W.E.R. Plug Podcast, and a lover of red capes....
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Ep. 91 - Jim Canterucci: Finding Your Purpose S...
Jim Canterucci is a catalyst for growth leadership change. He is the Founder of Transition Management Advisors and Constituent Hub, the author of Personal Brilliance: Mastering the Everyday Habits That Create a Lifetime of Success, and creator of a...
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Ep. 90 - Laura Stoll: Using Improv to Develop I...
Laura Stoll is the Talent Development Consultant at Ernst & Young, and she has a fascinating perspective on how you can develop top talent within your organization that is influenced by her background in improv. Laura studied at Second...
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Ep. 89 - Jon Petz: Laugh Louder, Perform Better...
Jon Petz is born to be on stage – so much so that he left his highly successful career as a corporate vice president to fulfill his purpose and passion by helping others laugh louder, perform better, and achieve more. We discuss how he evolved from...
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Ep. 88 - Jody Padar | The Roadmap to the New Firm
Jody Padar, AKA The Radical CPA, is a leader driven by a passion to foster real change in the accounting profession. She represent the next generation of accounting professionals, leading the vanguard for both digital CPAs and future-ready firms....
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Ep. 87 - Marilyn Sherman: How to Overcome Obsta...
Marilyn Sherman is a speaker and author who has spent years motivating and inspiring audiences to get out of their comfort zone and get a front-row seat in life, and this is the perfect time of the year to check in with her because she has tips and...
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Ep. 86 - Keith Harmeyer | SmartStorming: How to...
Keith Harmeyer is all about ideas! He is an expert in innovative thinking, creative problem solving, and idea generation who spent over two decades coming up with great ideas for some of the world’s best known and most successful companies (such as...
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Ep. 85 - Merle Heckman | Intentional Storytelli...
Today’s guest, Merle Heckman, truly understands the power of storytelling – and why it is needed in all aspects of business today. You see, Merle works with engineers, but he’s not an engineer (he’s the Manager of Organizational...
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Ep. 84 - Antonio Ocampo-Guzman: Designing Impro...
I’m really excited to introduce you all to Antonio Ocampo-Guzman, an actor, director, author, and theater teacher originally from Bogotá, Colombia. He is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University, where he teaches all levels of acting,...
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Ep. 83 - 2017: A Year in Review
Happy New Year! To celebrate the beginning of what is sure to be another interesting year, I’ve gone through every episode from 2017 and pulled out a quote that I found impactful. Inspired by one of these quotes? You can find an image to...
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Ep. 82 - Tim Sinclair | Business Development: W...
Tim Sinclair is the Industry Consulting Director at the accounting firm WebsterRogers, and he has worked with more than 350 companies across the U.S. and in a variety of industries. He is passionate about helping business leaders advance and grow...
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Ep. 81 - Jerry L. Esselstein: How Professionals...
Jerry L. Esselstein specializes in strategic planning, implementation strategies, personnel development, and performance measurement for private company owners, executives, and other senior management groups. Jerry has an extensive leadership...
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Ep. 80 - Boyd Search | Transforming Corporate C...
Boyd Search is the President & CEO of the Georgia Society of CPAs. Our conversation centers around how he approached changing the organization’s corporate culture, and the impact that the George Society is making on its members, associates, and...
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Ep. 79 - Ryan Parker: Adding Value to Your Orga...
Ryan Parker is the President & CEO of Endicott Clay Products and the newly installed chair of the Nebraska Society of CPA’s executive board. Our conversation focuses on the process of adding value to your organization as you grow your...
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Ep. 78 - Jay Sukow: Teaching Improv to Business...
Jay Sukow believes that the world would be a better place if everyone took just one improv class – and I agree! Jay is trying to make that world a reality as the Founder of Today Improv, where he teaches improv to actors, businesses, and everyone...
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Ep. 77 - Colin Blalock | It’s Not What You Say ...
Colin Blalock, a shareholder with Jones and Kolb, is a CPA with a very unique set of skills: Colin has developed a talent for understanding the nonverbal messages that people are saying. That's right – He has developed the ability to read body...
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Ep. 76 - Dr. David Brobeck: How FUN Increases E...
Dr. David Brobeck (AKA The Problem-Solving Professor) is a professional speaker and a professor of graduate education at Walsh University. His current academic focus is researching various means to enhancing teaching and learning based on...
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Ep. 75 - Jack Park & Maureen Zappala: Writing B...
What do a cow, a snapping turtle, and a goat have in common? Ohio State Football (really, we’re not kidding)! This is just one of the fascinating anecdotes you’ll find in the new book Buckeye Reflections: Legendary Moments from Ohio State...
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Ep. 74 - Jennifer Briggs: Indiana Passes Compet...
Jennifer Briggs is currently the Senior Vice President and COO of the Indiana CPA Society, and she will be the CEO of the society beginning January 1, 2018. On July 1st, 2017, the state of Indiana signed House Bill 1467 into law, which...
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Ep. 73 - Dr. Alan Patterson: How to Go From Tec...
Dr. Alan Patterson is the Founder of Mentoré, a consulting practice specializing in leadership and organizational development, and a thought leader at the Business Learning Institute. Dr. Patterson also wrote Leader Evolution: From Technical...
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Ep. 72 - Bill Sheridan | Human Work in the Age ...
Only 8 percent of CPAs believe that the profession is future ready, according to CPA.com’s study Welcome to the Fast Future. This is a rather concerning statistic because the future is coming, and it might be closer than you think. Bill...
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Ep. 71 - The Accidental Tour Guide: Peter’s Fav...
We’re doing something a little different today: Peter shares his favorite places to eat all over the country. He was inspired by former guest Clarke Price, who keeps a record of every restaurant he visits and often suggests new places for Peter to...
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Ep. 70 - Annie Conderacci: Facilitating Growth ...
Annie Conderacci is a change management consultant and a passionate student of improv. She studied and performed improv at The Second City, Annoyance Theater, and IO Chicago, and she performs improv and sketch all around the city. As a change and...
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Ep. 69 - Byron Patrick: Be Selfish & Get Involv...
Byron Patrick, Managing Director of CPA practice at Network Alliance, is a nationally-known industry thought leader and a multi-recipient of the CPA Practice Advisor's 40 Under 40 award. Byron has been an active member of the Maryland Association of...
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Ep. 68 - Greg Conderacci: Supercharge Your Spir...
We’re talking to returning guest Greg Conderacci, the energy management expert who wrote Getting Up!: Supercharging Your Energy and, at the age of 66, rode his bicycle across the United States in just 18 days. In Getting Up!, Greg writes about the...
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