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Sid explores why gratitude is a performance multiplier and how simple daily habits can raise trust, engagement, and results without adding more work. Learn four practical practices to balance high standards with real humanity and change how teams show up. He shares:

• the research-backed link between gratitude, engagement, and burnout
• why gratitude as a driver of psychological safety and performance
• the myth that gratitude lowers standards
• four practices: start your day, start meetings, recognize effort, pause before reacting
• how to use specificity in praise to reinforce desired behaviors
• gratitude as intention, not reinvention

The workplace is changing faster than the conversations guiding it. We’re stepping up with a sharper plan for Season Seven: weekly episodes designed to spark action, challenge assumptions, and give you practical tools to build spaces and businesses that actually work.

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Home Page: www.sidmeadows.com
Podcast Website: https://www.sidmeadows.com/podcast

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The Trend Report introduction music is provided by Werq by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4616-werq License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Hunter Jensen of Barefoot Solutions, and Sid unpack why AI is moving so fast and the important basics leaders skip during implementation and use: data quality, governance, and a focused strategy that targets real ROI.

Hunter shares practical use cases across support, HR, and sales, plus how to deploy secure, private LLMs with RAG for reliable answers from your own data.

• Three Cs of data: clean, current, complete
• Difference between generative AI and legacy machine learning
• Strategy vs policy vs plan vs governance
• Risks of public LLMs and data exposure
• Practical use cases: documentation, support, HR, sales
• RAG explained for secure document search
• ROI modeling to pick a killer use case
• Hunter’s pivot to product and Compass platform
• Staying current with daily newsletters over books

References:

Rocky Mountain Marketing Podcast Ep 410 -Is Your Team Putting Business Data at Risk with ChatGPT with Hunter Jensen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-your-team-putting-business-data-at-risk-with/id1506956667?i=1000727063525

The Rundown AI Newsletter - https://www.therundown.ai/

Connect with Hunter:

Barefoot Solutions - https://www.barefootsolutions.com/
Barefoot Labs - https://www.barefootlabs.ai/
Email - hunter@barefootlabs.ai

The workplace is changing faster than the conversations guiding it. We’re stepping up with a sharper plan for Season Seven: weekly episodes designed to spark action, challenge assumptions, and give you practical tools to build spaces and businesses that actually work.

Connect with Sid:

Home Page: www.sidmeadows.com
Podcast Website: https://www.sidmeadows.com/podcast

Sid on LinkedIn
Sid on Instagram
Sid on YouTube

The Trend Report introduction music is provided by Werq by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4616-werq License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Join Doug Shapiro and Sid as they tackle the biggest sales and showroom challenges in the contract interiors industry — from outdated cold calling and bid-driven selling to training that fails to stick. Learn how leading teams are shifting to targeted outreach, story-led sales training, and micro-learning tools that support today’s mobile, fast-moving workforce.

They explore application-based showrooms that simulate real workplace environments, smarter approaches to RFPs and pricing strategy, and how to move from pushing products to delivering workplace solutions. The key takeaway: ask better discovery questions, build trust faster, and sell outcomes that improve how people work — not just furniture and finishes.

References:

Use coupon code FIRSTIN at checkout to get 50% off your monthly membership at sidmeadows.com/community

The Trend Report Ep. 151 - Love What You Do with Doug Shapiro - https://www.sidmeadows.com/episode151

Connect with Doug:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/doshapiro/
JSI Furniture - https://www.jsifurniture.com/
Imagine a Place Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/imagine-a-place/id1506501256

The workplace is changing faster than the conversations guiding it. We’re stepping up with a sharper plan for Season Seven: weekly episodes designed to spark action, challenge assumptions, and give you practical tools to build spaces and businesses that actually work.

Connect with Sid:

Home Page: www.sidmeadows.com
Podcast Website: https://www.sidmeadows.com/podcast

Sid on LinkedIn
Sid on Instagram
Sid on YouTube

The Trend Report introduction music is provided by Werq by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4616-werq License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/