Susan Petersen started making baby moccasins in 2009 after becoming frustrated by the lack of well-designed baby shoes. Using her second child, Gus, as a mocc-tester, and a bag of scrap leather she picked up at a yard sale, she began experimenting.

Susan Petersen started making baby moccasins in 2009 after becoming frustrated by the lack of well-designed baby shoes. Using her second child, Gus, as a mocc-tester, and a bag of scrap leather she picked up at a yard sale, she began experimenting. Working at her kitchen table, Susan persisted until she had created a pair of moccasins that not only looked adorable on Gus’ chubby little feet, but stayed on as well. Money was tight at the time Susan started and in order to earn money to start...

Constraints are a tool of creation and innovation and successful disruptors embrace constraint as an ally, rather than battling limitation as an enemy. Nobody needs to be creative more than someone who plies their trade in the arts.

Constraints are a tool of creation and innovation and successful disruptors embrace constraint as an ally, rather than battling limitation as an enemy. Nobody needs to be creative more than someone who plies their trade in the arts. Award-winning novelist, poet and playwright Orson Scott Card joins Whitney Johnson to discuss the writer’s craft, its constraints, and how those constraints can be a spur to greater creativity. Orson is a prolific writer, but most famous for Ender’s Game, sequel...

True leadership in disruption involves knowing about and playing to your distinctive strengths. My guest this week is leadership expert Sanyin Siang.

True leadership in disruption involves knowing about and playing to your distinctive strengths. My guest this week is leadership expert Sanyin Siang. Sanyin helps leaders launch and create value by focusing on mindset, behavioral change, and team and culture building. Sanyin is a CEO Coach, Author, and the Executive Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Prior to Duke, Sanyin worked at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the...

One of the hallmarks of successful disruptors is that they embrace the risk—and opportunity—of playing where others don’t. While being ahead of the game in this manner doesn’t always pay off, when it does it pays off in a big way.

One of the hallmarks of successful disruptors is that they embrace the risk—and opportunity—of playing where others don’t. While being ahead of the game in this manner doesn’t always pay off, when it does it pays off in a big way. In this episode, Whitney Johnson welcomes four-time Olympian, World Champion and multiple-medalist turned successful entrepreneur, Angela Ruggiero, in a conversation about her stellar career as an ice hockey athlete, Olympic Committee member, co-Founder/CEO of...

Change is necessary. Even desirable. But sometimes it happens so fast it feels like it’s happening to you, not for you. Which can make it feel scary, and even lonely.

Change is necessary. Even desirable. But sometimes it happens so fast it feels like it’s happening to you, not for you. Which can make it feel scary, and even lonely. Through twenty-five years of researching, investing, consulting and coaching, Whitney Johnson has created a seven-point framework for managing through change so that whether you are building a team, starting a business or navigating your career you will have a structure to do this. In this first episode of Disrupt Yourself...