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Welcome to The Bliss Business Podcast, where hosts Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ash Maher engage in insightful conversations about empathy in business. In each episode, Stephen, Tullio, and Ash discuss a wide range of topics, offering actionable insights to help you foster a more empathetic and people-centric workplace.
Join us as we explore how empathy can drive innovation, improve leadership, and create sustainable growth. Whether you’re a seasoned executive or an aspiring entrepreneur, our podcast provides valuable perspectives to enhance your business practices and create a thriving organizational culture.
Subscribe now to stay updated on the latest episodes and start your journey towards a more compassionate and successful business.
Join us as we explore how empathy can drive innovation, improve leadership, and create sustainable growth. Whether you’re a seasoned executive or an aspiring entrepreneur, our podcast provides valuable perspectives to enhance your business practices and create a thriving organizational culture.
Subscribe now to stay updated on the latest episodes and start your journey towards a more compassionate and successful business.
April 2, 2024
Purpose Driven Marketing for Small Businesses
Small business AI marketing without a marketing department. Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ash Maher feed a one-line purpose statement into an AI CMO and work through the campaign concepts it returns for a neighborhood nursery and a vintage store.
March 26, 2024
Purpose Driven Advertising: What Is It and Why You Should Know?
Purpose driven advertising does not require a cause, a donation, or a corporate social responsibility program. Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ash Maher break down the campaigns that got it right, the research behind why it pays, and the pitfalls that make it read as opportunistic.
March 19, 2024
How to Define Your Company's Purpose and Why
Most companies write a company purpose statement nobody can repeat back. Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ash Maher play real or fake with actual corporate purpose lines, then break down what makes the memorable ones work and how to audit your operations against yours.
March 12, 2024
Can Artificial Intelligence Make Us More Real?
AI and authenticity pull in both directions at once. Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ash Maher weigh AI as an empathy coach and a personalized tutor against AI as a mask, and land on intention as the thing that decides which one you get.
March 5, 2024
Business with Purpose: The Conscious Capitalism Journey
🎙️ New Episode Alert: Embracing Conscious Capitalism in Business - A Deep Dive 🎙️
Join us on the latest episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, where we explore the transformative concept of conscious capitalism with our esteemed hosts Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa and Ash Maher. This episode, generously supported by Zero Company, explores the essence of creating empathetic, connected, and conscious business practices that transcend traditional corporate social responsibility.
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Join us on the latest episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, where we explore the transformative concept of conscious capitalism with our esteemed hosts Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa and Ash Maher. This episode, generously supported by Zero Company, explores the essence of creating empathetic, connected, and conscious business practices that transcend traditional corporate social responsibility.
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Feb. 27, 2024
The Customer Journey: Why Empathy Is Key to Success
Empathy in the customer journey is the difference between a transaction and a customer who creates customers. Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ash Maher walk all five stages, from pre-awareness to advocacy, and show how design thinking deepens each one.
Feb. 20, 2024
The Work From Anywhere Debate: Remote vs. Office vs. Hybrid
The Bliss Business Podcast tackles the remote vs hybrid work debate head-on. Hosts Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ash Maher share how their own hybrid workplace has held a 3% annual turnover rate for five years, even through the pandemic's job-switching wave, against an industry average of 18 to 30%.
In this episode we explore:
• The data: 75% of remote employees maintained or improved productivity during the pandemic (Boston Consulting Group)
• Why command-and-control cultures ...
In this episode we explore:
• The data: 75% of remote employees maintained or improved productivity during the pandemic (Boston Consulting Group)
• Why command-and-control cultures ...
Feb. 13, 2024
The Power of Positive Empathy in the Workplace
This episode of The Bliss Business Podcast flips empathy around: instead of sharing someone's pain, positive empathy means sharing their joy. Hosts Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ash Maher explore how celebrating others builds connection just as powerfully as comforting them does.
In this episode we explore:
• What positive empathy is, and why it's the overlooked half of emotional intelligence
• A simple question that unlocks real conversation: "what's one of your top 20 best da...
In this episode we explore:
• What positive empathy is, and why it's the overlooked half of emotional intelligence
• A simple question that unlocks real conversation: "what's one of your top 20 best da...
Feb. 6, 2024
The Importance of Empathetic Leadership: Business Success Redefined
Explore empathetic leadership in this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, where hosts Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ash Maher argue it's a strategic advantage, not just emotional intelligence.
In this episode we explore:
• Why Enron's "rank and yank" stack-ranking system demoralized 80% of its workforce
• Why leadership starts with leading yourself first
• The data: empathetic leadership drives 90% higher job satisfaction and cuts turnover by 79%
• Why "people don't leav...
In this episode we explore:
• Why Enron's "rank and yank" stack-ranking system demoralized 80% of its workforce
• Why leadership starts with leading yourself first
• The data: empathetic leadership drives 90% higher job satisfaction and cuts turnover by 79%
• Why "people don't leav...
Jan. 30, 2024
Office Small Talk: How to Avoid it and Why You Should
Dive into this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, where hosts Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ash Maher move past office small talk and into the art of meaningful connection.
In this episode we explore:
• Why "people will never forget how you made them feel," and how that plays out at work
• The data: deeper customer connection can more than double purchases and triple referrals
• Real conversation-starters that replace "how's the weather?"
• Why vulnerability, not small ...
In this episode we explore:
• Why "people will never forget how you made them feel," and how that plays out at work
• The data: deeper customer connection can more than double purchases and triple referrals
• Real conversation-starters that replace "how's the weather?"
• Why vulnerability, not small ...
Jan. 23, 2024
Dealing with Workplace Resentment: The Empathetic Way
Join us on this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, where Stephen Sakach, Ash Maher, and Tullio Siragusa dive deep into workplace resentment: what it costs a business, and how to clear it with empathy instead of letting it fester.
In this episode we explore:
• Why resentment is "a connection killer, an empathy killer, a productivity killer"
• The neuroscience: resentment is linked to lower serotonin, higher cortisol, and deactivated empathy circuits in the brain
• How broken prom...
In this episode we explore:
• Why resentment is "a connection killer, an empathy killer, a productivity killer"
• The neuroscience: resentment is linked to lower serotonin, higher cortisol, and deactivated empathy circuits in the brain
• How broken prom...
Jan. 16, 2024
The Bliss Business Podcast - Introduction to B.L.I.S.S
Introducing a new podcast. The Bliss Business Podcast.
B.L.I.S.S. That stands for Build Love Into Scalable Systems.
The Bliss Business Podcast emerges as a sanctuary where the principles of empathy, love, and conscious awareness in business are not just discussed — they are celebrated and sought after.
Join Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ashkan Maher of Zero Company, as they introduce this podcast as a testament to our belief that the core of a truly successful business lies in blissful practices that elevate the human spirit and foster a thriving, conscious workplace.
"The Bliss Business Podcast’s mission is to spread empathy, connection and consciousness in business.”
B.L.I.S.S. That stands for Build Love Into Scalable Systems.
The Bliss Business Podcast emerges as a sanctuary where the principles of empathy, love, and conscious awareness in business are not just discussed — they are celebrated and sought after.
Join Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa, and Ashkan Maher of Zero Company, as they introduce this podcast as a testament to our belief that the core of a truly successful business lies in blissful practices that elevate the human spirit and foster a thriving, conscious workplace.
"The Bliss Business Podcast’s mission is to spread empathy, connection and consciousness in business.”