Have you ever worked for a company that tells you to bring your full self to work, celebrates authenticity and psychological safety, and then turns around and crushes you with metrics, perfectionism, and burnout?

If you find yourself nodding, this episode is for you.

Shaun Tinney, a speaker, performance coach, and the author of Practice Everything, joins me for a deep, honest conversation about leadership, workplace culture, and what it really means to live and work with intention.

Shaun has spent years guiding individuals and teams through pivotal change across both corporate and creative environments, drawing on psychology, the Enneagram, and a whole lot of lived experience to help people navigate resistance with confidence and clarity.

In this interview, Shaun shares his journey from entrepreneurship and high-impact consulting to stepping away from agency life, traveling more than 70,000 miles across the country, and eventually helping shape culture, learning, and development at goodr Sunglasses during a period of rapid growth.

Shaun and I talk about the "small" stuff that ends up shaping everything: the mixed messages leaders send (often without realizing it), and the gap between what companies say they value and what actually gets rewarded day to day.

This conversation is for leaders, founders, creatives, and anyone who wants to do work that matters without burning out within systems that still run on fear rather than trust.

Take your time with this one, grab a notebook, and let it challenge the way you think about performance and The Ripple Effect your daily choices create.

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Welcome back to The Ripple Effect Podcast. Today's conversation is one of those interviews that sticks with you long after it ends.

Meet Jen Newbill.

Jen brings over 25 years of HR experience across talent acquisition, leadership development, learning and development, and HR operations. She has coached leaders and executives in both startup and large enterprise environments and completed the Awaken Coach Institute, an ICF-accredited coaching program. Throughout her career, Jen has led large, complex programs and teams of more than 50 employees, with a deep passion for feedback, coaching, and leadership growth.

Most recently, Jen served as Global Director of Emerging Talent Recruiting at Dell Technologies, where she led employer branding efforts for students and early-career talent. Over her 21-year tenure at Dell, she held multiple leadership roles across recruiting, leadership development, HR operations, and employment branding, including launching and growing Dell's global talent-attraction and employment brand team. Her work emphasized engagement, collaboration, trust, and data-driven decision-making.

A strong advocate for workplace transparency, Jen was named a Glassdoor Top Talent Warrior and has served on advisory boards for CareerXRoads, Glassdoor, and Universum. She has been featured in major publications and is a frequent podcast guest and conference speaker. Jen is also a certified CliftonStrengths coach, a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, and a certified meditation teacher, bringing a whole-person, strengths-based approach to her leadership and team coaching.

If you are a leader, executive, or people manager who feels like performance reviews miss the mark, employee engagement is slipping, or burnout is quietly taking over your team, listen until the end.

Jen brings a strengths-based leadership lens to everything she does as a CliftonStrengths certified coach, and she breaks down how you can use tools like Gallup StrengthsFinder to build high-performing teams, improve leadership communication, and create a strengths-based culture that lasts.

We talk about why so many employees feel uninvested at work, how leaders can become better listeners, and why relationship-building at work is more important than ever in today's corporate environment.

This conversation is honest, practical, and grounded in real corporate experience. If you are looking for a better way to lead, inspire, and perform without burning yourself or your people out, you are in the right place.

Connect with Jen Newbill
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I honestly can't believe we are kicking off Season 11 of The Ripple Effect Podcast.

This episode is really just me sitting down with you and talking about where this show has been, where it's going, and why I'm more excited about this season than any season we've done before. What started as an idea has turned into something way bigger than I ever imagined, and that's because of you showing up, listening, sharing, and engaging.

This show has never been about perfection or overly produced visuals. It's about real conversations, real people, and real lessons that actually matter in your life and your work. Season 11 is all about going deeper. Deeper into trust. Deeper into relationships. Deeper into leadership, career growth, confidence, imposter syndrome, and how we actually build meaningful connections in a world that keeps trying to push us behind screens.

We're going to have CEOs, entrepreneurs, community leaders, and everyday Ripplers on the show this season. You'll hear the wins, the struggles, the mistakes, and the lessons learned the hard way. We're also going to talk about AI, the future of work, career changes, side hustles, and what it really takes to build trust and connection when everything feels fast, automated, and transactional.

One thing I'm asking of you this year is to not just listen passively. I want this to be a two-way conversation. Go back and listen to the episodes again. Pull out the nuggets. Take some notes. Think about how these ideas apply to your life. Then come back and tell me what hit home, what questions you still have, or what you wish I had asked.

This podcast works best when the Ripples don't just go out, but also come back.

If you're looking for a podcast that feels more like sitting across the table having a real conversation than listening to a scripted interview, you're in the right place. Season 11 is stacked with incredible guests and powerful conversations, and I can't wait to bring them to you.

Thanks for being here. Thanks for supporting the show. Let's get rolling and make 2026 the year we create some serious Ripples.

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