Grand Connection Podcast

About Grand Connection Podcast

The Grand Connection Podcast is your home for community, collaboration, and meaningful business growth. Hosted by Susan Jarema, Chief Connection Officer and co-founder of The Grand Connection, this show helps heart-centered entrepreneurs build trusted relationships, gain genuine visibility, and grow with purpose. Through the Connect, Create, Collaborate framework and the GRAND Growth Model, you'll learn how to build confidence, strengthen partnerships, expand your reach, and create opportunities rooted in generosity and community. Each episode brings stories, practical insights, and simple actions to help you grow with more clarity, confidence, and ease. If you’re ready for a place where introverts and extroverts feel welcome, where learning and leadership go hand-in-hand, and where business feels lighter because we grow together, you belong here.

Publisher

Susan Jarema

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Dec 2025

Latest episode

4 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

45 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Oct 2026

   How to Sell Without Pressure by Understanding the Buyer’s Brain With Patrick Seaton | 044

   What changes when sales and marketing begin with understanding the person receiving the message rather than perfecting the message itself? Susan Jarema speaks with Patrick Seaton, creator of Ask Alex and co-author of A Crocodile Brain Can Make or Break Your Sale, about the neuroscience behind communication, trust, and the buying process. Patrick explores why people naturally communicate from their own thinking style, how too much information can create resistance, and why effective selling is less about persuasion and more about helping someone understand a problem worth solving. Their conversation connects closely with the Grand Connection philosophy of value first, sales second. Stronger relationships emerge when communication creates space for people to feel heard, respected, and involved in their own decisions. From AI-assisted communication to trust-building and thoughtful questioning, Patrick offers a grounded approach to creating visibility and business growth through connection rather than pressure. What You’ll Hear: AI can increase productivity while still producing communication that sounds better to the sender than it feels to the receiver. Understanding different thinking styles reveals why a message that feels clear to one person may fail to connect with someone else. Effective communication becomes more inclusive when data, process, relationships, and future possibilities are thoughtfully balanced. Sales begins to feel different when the focus shifts from presenting solutions to understanding problems worth solving. The SPIN framework creates space for buyers to explore the situation, problem, implications, and value of change before a solution takes centre stage. Too much information can interrupt a buyer's decision process, even when it is shared with enthusiasm and good intentions. Examining financial, productivity, risk, and emotional implications can help make an overlooked problem more tangible. AI can become a thought partner rather than simply a content generator when it introduces perspectives the communicator might otherwise miss. Objections can signal that the seller and buyer have moved out of sync, creating an opportunity to reconsider the pace and direction of the conversation. Trust includes both character and competence, reinforcing the Grand Connection emphasis on relationships that create the foundation for meaningful collaboration and shared growth. Meet the Guest: Patrick Seaton Patrick Seaton is the creator of AskAlex, a neuroscience-based communication thought partner that runs inside Claude as an MCP. His work sits at the intersection of brain science and AI-assisted marketing. His focus: making sure what your stack generates actually lands with the person receiving it, not just the person sending it. Website - https://askalex.coach/ (https://askalex.coach/) LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickseaton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickseaton) Book - https://www.amazon.com/Crocodile-Brain-Make-Break-Your ebook/dp/B0CZL4W1PQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1 (https://www.amazon.com/Crocodile-Brain-Make-Break-Your-ebook/dp/B0CZL4W1PQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1) Meet the Host: Susan Jarema Susan Jarema is a marketing strategist, internetologist, and founder of The Grand Connection. She helps entrepreneurs grow through collaboration, smart strategy, and high-impact digital presence. Susan is also president of New Earth Marketing, where she builds brands, websites, and ecosystems designed for real growth. Connect with Susan and the Grand Connection Community: Website: https://grandconnection.ca/ (https://grandconnection.ca/) Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grand.connection (https://www.facebook.com/groups/grand.connection) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GrandConnectionCommunity (https://www.facebook.com/GrandConnectionCommunity) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grandconnection.ca/ (https://www.instagram.com/grandconnection.ca/) LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/66749100 (http://linkedin.com/company/66749100) Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxq03yde7nb57HKV1hhztYA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxq03yde7nb57HKV1hhztYA) Lead Magnet Workbook https://grandconnection.ca/lead-magnets-guide-workbook/ (https://grandconnection.ca/lead-magnets-guide-workbook/) Access your Grand Growth Bundle and Free Guest Pass: https://grandconnection.ca/gifts (https://grandconnection.ca/gifts) We are proud to have Grand Connection Podcast on the High Vibe Podcast Network. Grab your free gift from Susan in our Our High Vibe Gift Vault. Love this show? Check out the other shows on the High Vibe Podcast Network (https://network.highvibepodcastnetwork.com/). Share the Love ✨ If this episode lit something up in you… tag us on Instagram @HighVibeLeaders and let us know your biggest takeaway! 🦋 Don’t forget to rate & review — it helps us reach more conscious rebels like you. 🔊 Listen & Subscribe 🎧 Apple Podcasts (https://grand-connection-podcast.captivate.fm/apple) 🎧 Spotify (https://grand-connection-podcast.captivate.fm/spotify) 🎧 Amazon Music (https://grand-connection-podcast.captivate.fm/amazon) 🎧High Vibe Podcast Network (https://network.highvibepodcastnetwork.com/podcast/grand-connection-podcast)

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   From Connection to Referrals and Partnerships: The ASCEND Collaboration Ladder | 043

   What turns a promising business connection into a relationship strong enough to support referrals, opportunities, and meaningful collaboration? Susan Jarema introduces the ASCEND Collaboration Ladder as a practical way to recognize where a professional relationship stands and what its next natural step might be. Moving from authentic connection through trust, referral readiness, shared opportunities, collaboration, and deeper partnership, Susan shows why strong relationships rarely need to be rushed. The focus stays on curiosity, value alignment, follow-through, and Grand Giving rather than transactional networking or keeping score. The ASCEND framework also reinforces an important idea within the GRAND Growth Model: meaningful growth does not always require meeting more people. Sometimes greater opportunity comes from strengthening the relationships already present, opening doors where genuine alignment exists, and allowing collaboration to develop at a pace that supports trust. What You’ll Hear: Strong collaboration often develops through a series of natural relationship steps rather than beginning with a large proposal or immediate business opportunity. Authentic connection creates space for curiosity before either person needs to decide what a business relationship should become. Trust grows through alignment, consistency, shared values, and the experience of seeing how another person follows through. Referral readiness depends on more than being known and trusted. Clear understanding of expertise, ideal clients, problems solved, and credible results makes meaningful introductions easier. Opportunities can extend far beyond client referrals, including introductions, speaking opportunities, podcast appearances, shared content, and connections to valuable resources. Grand Giving becomes practical when relationships create genuine opportunities to open doors for one another without keeping score. Small collaborative experiments can reveal compatibility, communication style, reliability, and audience alignment before a larger partnership is considered. Deepening a partnership can be just as valuable as continually seeking new connections, especially when an existing collaboration already works well. Not every relationship needs to reach every level of ASCEND. Different connections can remain valuable as referral partnerships, trusted resources, speaking relationships, or supportive professional connections. Sustainable relationship-based growth comes from recognizing where a connection currently belongs and choosing the next appropriate step rather than forcing momentum. Meet the Host: Susan Jarema Susan Jarema is a marketing strategist, internetologist, and founder of The Grand Connection. She helps entrepreneurs grow through collaboration, smart strategy, and high-impact digital presence. Susan is also president of New Earth Marketing, where she builds brands, websites, and ecosystems designed for real growth. Connect with Susan and the Grand Connection Community: Website: https://grandconnection.ca/ (https://grandconnection.ca/) Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grand.connection (https://www.facebook.com/groups/grand.connection) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GrandConnectionCommunity (https://www.facebook.com/GrandConnectionCommunity) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grandconnection.ca/ (https://www.instagram.com/grandconnection.ca/) LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/66749100 (http://linkedin.com/company/66749100) Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxq03yde7nb57HKV1hhztYA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxq03yde7nb57HKV1hhztYA) Lead Magnet Workbook https://grandconnection.ca/lead-magnets-guide-workbook/ (https://grandconnection.ca/lead-magnets-guide-workbook/) Access your Grand Growth Bundle and Free Guest Pass: https://grandconnection.ca/gifts (https://grandconnection.ca/gifts) We are proud to have Grand Connection Podcast on the High Vibe Podcast Network. Grab your free gift from Susan in our Our High Vibe Gift Vault. Love this show? Check out the other shows on the High Vibe Podcast Network (https://network.highvibepodcastnetwork.com/). Share the Love ✨ If this episode lit something up in you… tag us on Instagram @HighVibeLeaders and let us know your biggest takeaway! 🦋 Don’t forget to rate & review — it helps us reach more conscious rebels like you. 🔊 Listen & Subscribe 🎧 Apple Podcasts (https://grand-connection-podcast.captivate.fm/apple) 🎧 Spotify (https://grand-connection-podcast.captivate.fm/spotify) 🎧 Amazon Music (https://grand-connection-podcast.captivate.fm/amazon) 🎧High Vibe Podcast Network (https://network.highvibepodcastnetwork.com/podcast/grand-connection-podcast)

3. 

   20 Sept 2026

   Grand Mixer Retreat Planning: Pricing, Safety, and Experience With Blaney Teal, Sheri Rosenthal, and Lori McDowell | 042

   What makes a retreat sustainable for the host, meaningful for participants, and valuable to the wider community? Susan Jarema and co-host Steve Brossman bring together retreat leaders Blaney Teal, Sheri Rosenthal, and Lori McDowell to explore three foundations that support stronger retreat experiences: financial clarity, thoughtful protection, and purposeful design. Blaney reframes profitability as part of responsible retreat planning, starting with expenses, break-even numbers, profit goals, and realistic pricing. Sheri highlights the often-overlooked responsibility of protecting participants and hosts through appropriate insurance, legal documents, emergency planning, and professional guidance. Lori returns the conversation to purpose, showing how transformation, community connection, and her give-back effect can deepen the experience beyond the retreat itself. Together, their perspectives reflect the Grand Connection philosophy that meaningful growth becomes lighter and more sustainable when expertise, relationships, and responsibilities are shared through trusted collaboration. What You’ll Hear: Retreat profitability begins with understanding the complete financial picture rather than choosing a ticket price first. Sustainable pricing includes more than venue and food costs. The host’s expertise, energy, preparation, and desired profit belong in the calculation too. A sold-out retreat is not automatically a profitable retreat, creating an important distinction between attendance and financial sustainability. Participant trust is strengthened when safety, legal responsibilities, emergency planning, and clear expectations are treated as foundational rather than secondary. International and domestic retreats can carry different insurance and regulatory considerations, making qualified professional guidance an important part of planning. Written agreements, cancellation policies, participant information, and contractor documentation can create greater clarity before unexpected situations arise. Retreat purpose can become a practical decision-making filter for choosing the location, activities, experience, and intended transformation. Meaningful experiences can strengthen relationships beyond the retreat itself when participants have a clear pathway to continue the connection or work. Lori McDowell’s give-back effect expands retreat impact by connecting the experience with a relevant need in the host community. The Grand Mixer itself demonstrates the Connect, Create, Collaborate philosophy, showing how complementary partners can share expertise, audiences, responsibilities, and opportunities without trying to build everything alone. Co-Host: Steve Brossman Steve Brossman is a 9-time Amazon Best-Selling Author who has built multiple 6- and 7-figure international businesses. He has supported many of our members, including myself, with high-value training that brings clarity to their Bankable Story and helps them sell their programs with ease. Through his signature FLOW Selling System, Steve empowers entrepreneurs to create inspired desirability and sell authentically without ever feeling pushy or salesy. https://stevebrossman.com (https://stevebrossman.com) Featured Guest: Sheri Rosenthal Sheri Rosenthal, founder of Wanderlust Entrepreneur® and CEO of Journeys of the Spirit®, is the world’s leading retreat strategist. With over 20 years of experience and 1,000+ retreats managed globally, she’s guided 25,000+ coaches, healers, and heart-centered entrepreneurs to plan, fill, and profit from transformational retreats that change lives while creating sustainable, thriving businesses. https://www.wanderlustentrepreneur.com/ (https://www.wanderlustentrepreneur.com/) Free Gift - Profitable Retreat Formula 4-Part Video Training Series - A retreat resource for practical guidance on planning, protecting, and creating more sustainable retreat experiences. The Profitable Retreat Formula | Wanderlust Entrepreneur (https://wanderbiz.co/GC-PFR) Featured Guest: Lori McDowell Lori McDowell is an international speaker, best-selling author, TV host, and retreat strategist who helps purpose-driven business owners grow their income, impact, and legacy through extraordinary retreat experiences. As the founder of Reimagine U Strategies, Lori designs and facilitates transformational retreats that create lasting results, meaningful connections, and unforgettable experiences that change lives and create ripples far beyond the retreat itself. https://yourextraordinarylife.net/ (https://yourextraordinarylife.net/) Free Gift - Breakthrough Blueprint - Explore how transformational retreats can strengthen connection, community, and business growth. Breakthrough Blueprint (https://www.joy.reimagineu.net/the-breakthrough-blueprint-4578) Featured Guest: Blaney Teal Blaney Teal is a Retreat Business Strategist, bestselling author of *Profitable Retreats 101*, and co-owner of a boutique Caribbean retreat venue. She helps coaches, consultants, and entrepreneurs create profitable, transformational retreats that deepen client relationships, expand their impact, and generate new revenue through proven strategies and real-world experience. https://mbxevents.com/ (https://mbxevents.com/) https://offthegridretreats.com/ (https://offthegridretreats.com/) Free Gift - Profitable Retreats 101 - A guide for practical support with planning, pricing, promoting, and hosting a retreat that makes financial sense. Profitable Retreats 101 by Blaney Teal (https://profitableretreats101.com/) Meet the Host: Susan Jarema Susan Jarema is a marketing strategist, internetologist, and co-founder of The Grand Connection. She helps entrepreneurs grow through collaboration, smart strategy, and high-impact digital presence. Susan is also president of New Earth Marketing, where she builds brands, websites, and ecosystems designed for real growth. Connect with Susan and the Grand Connection Community: Website: https://grandconnection.ca/ (https://grandconnection.ca/) Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grand.connection (https://www.facebook.com/groups/grand.connection) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GrandConnectionCommunity (https://www.facebook.com/GrandConnectionCommunity) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grandconnection.ca/ (https://www.instagram.com/grandconnection.ca/) LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/66749100 (http://linkedin.com/company/66749100) Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxq03yde7nb57HKV1hhztYA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxq03yde7nb57HKV1hhztYA) Lead Magnet Workbook https://grandconnection.ca/lead-magnets-guide-workbook/ (https://grandconnection.ca/lead-magnets-guide-workbook/) Access your Grand Growth Bundle and Free Guest Pass: https://grandconnection.ca/gifts (https://grandconnection.ca/gifts) We are proud to have Grand Connection Podcast on the High Vibe Podcast Network. Grab your free gift from Susan in our Our High Vibe Gift Vault. Love this show? Check out the other shows on the High Vibe Podcast Network (https://network.highvibepodcastnetwork.com/). Share the Love ✨ If this episode lit something up in you… tag us on Instagram @HighVibeLeaders and let us know your biggest takeaway! 🦋 Don’t forget to rate & review — it helps us reach more conscious rebels like you. 🔊 Listen & Subscribe 🎧 Apple Podcasts (https://grand-connection-podcast.captivate.fm/apple) 🎧 Spotify (https://grand-connection-podcast.captivate.fm/spotify) 🎧 Amazon Music (https://grand-connection-podcast.captivate.fm/amazon) 🎧High Vibe Podcast Network (https://network.highvibepodcastnetwork.com/podcast/grand-connection-podcast)

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