Stand Up & Stand Out is a show for those making a career transition. Each week, we aim to better your future by answering your career dilemmas, entrepreneurial fears, and workplace concerns and staying unique in your values. Following nearly two decades of working in Fortune 500 companies, Nikki Green left her lucrative tech job to help the next generation of leaders leverage their uniqueness as a strength. If you dream of using your creative energy for good instead of promoting corporate greed & evil, this show is for you!
How Rural Hospitals Can Get AI-Ready: Fix the Infrastructure First | Ep 111
Rural hospitals are running on 15-year-old servers while the rest of healthcare races toward AI. Tim Buske, CRO of BridgeLink, is the guy walking into those buildings and telling the truth: you can't build innovation on a rotting foundation. There's federal money available right now to fix it — most hospitals just don't know how to use it.→ Why funding almost always goes to MRI machines instead of the infrastructure that makes everything run→ What the Rural Health Transformation Program actually is and how hospitals can access it→ The data security risk hiding in every hospital that deploys AI without proper governance first→ Why smaller IT companies solve problems in weeks that big consulting firms take years to address→ The CEO who rebuilt in two days what 500 developers spent three years building🌟 Join Nikki Green’s Community! 🌟 Stay connected with Nikki Green for more empowering content, insights, and updates. 🔗 Join the free Business Foundations Community: https://qrco.de/BizFunFollow her on her platforms and be part of the conversation: Personal Site: https://www.thenikkigreen360.com 🌐 https://www.thenikkigreen.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_TheNikkiGreen TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thenikkigreen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/TheNikkiGreen Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/_TheNikkiGreen——Connect with our guest, TIm Buske, CRO of BridgeLynchttps://www.linkedin.com/in/timothybuske/https://www.linkedin.com/company/bridgelync/www.bridgelync.com——00:00 – S9 Intro: Season 9 Preview00:18 – Welcome: Meet Tim Buske01:39 – What BridgeLink does: relational vs. transactional technology03:33 – Why rural hospitals are critically underserved in technology05:27 – The Rural Health Transformation Program: federal funding available now07:20 ⭐ – The data center in the closet: why infrastructure always gets skipped09:47 – Nikki's Cisco days and why network backbone matters more than new machines11:40 – HIPAA, data loss prevention, and the AI security risk nobody's addressing14:06 – Where healthcare AI is heading: from software development to diagnosis16:16 – The CEO who rebuilt in 2 days what 500 developers spent 3 years building18:10 – Showing leaders the "art of the possible" — getting AI in their hands20:20 – What Tim stands up for: four years sober and coaching youth baseball21:58 – How to connect with BridgeLink
27 Oct 2026
“Change Is Hard” Is a Lie — and It’s Costing You Your Best People | Ep 110
Jeff Skipper can drive a Zamboni. He has also spent 30 years helping clients like IBM, Goldman Sachs, and the Salvation Army move through major transformation. His take: the way leaders talk about change is the problem.
In this episode, Jeff and Nikki dig into what actually works when you’re trying to move people through disruption — without losing the ones you can least afford to lose.
→ Why “change is hard” is the most damaging phrase in leadership — and what to say instead
→ The running of the bulls: every role that shows up during a change initiative, and why each one matters
→ The 5 C’s framework — Clarity, Capacity, Continuity, Credibility, Coaching — and the one most leaders skip
→ What happens when you impress your shareholders by damaging your stakeholders
→ Why the best leaders tell failure stories, not just success stories
→ Jeff’s free resources: the Strategy Accelerator and 99 Ways to Express What’s in It for Me
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Jeff’s free resources — the Strategy Accelerator and 99 Ways to Express What’s in It for Me — are on his website at jeffskipperconsulting.com. Worth downloading.LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jskipper——00:00 – Welcome to Season 900:51 – Meet Jeff Skipper: 30 years leading change (and yes, he drives a Zamboni)01:38 – How a Kindle Flash Sale brought Nikki and Jeff together02:33 – What COVID taught us about getting people to change05:05 – Why "change is hard" is the wrong message: you adapt all the time07:14 – The hidden barriers leaders miss: language, pay, and fear08:27 – Young leaders, digital natives, and the tech-first trap10:37 – Why some people need to slow down⭐ 11:09 – The running of the bulls: every role in a change, and why to tell failure stories13:00 – Why "any questions?" gets silence, and how to fix it13:49 – The five C's: Jeff's free Strategy Accelerator15:29 – Capacity: 90 parallel projects and what overload does to people16:32 – What happens if you do nothing: burnout, middle managers, ripple costs18:00 – Cutting people to pay for AI, and losing your best ones19:47 – High-Impact Workshops for Leading Change: 30 scripted exercises22:06 – Where to find Jeff and his free resources
20 Oct 2026
You Don't Have to Be Palatable to Be Promotable | Ep 109
Torriel Harris got fired from her first real adult job in New York City. She was 25, she had nothing, and for a full year she didn’t know what she was going to do next. What happened in that back-to-work program in Queens — and on a two-hour commute to Staten Island for a job she wasn’t sure she even wanted — changed everything.
In this episode, Torriel and Nikki get into what it actually takes for women to stop minimizing themselves and start advancing — in their careers, their visibility, and their paychecks.
→ Why women downplay their accomplishments in interviews (and how to stop)→ How to identify your “zone of genius” and use it to advance→ The “facts over feelings” framework for career growth→ What to do in the first 24 hours after a layoff→ Why you don’t have to be palatable to be promotable
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——Connect with Torriel Harris
https://www.torrielharris.net/https://www.linkedin.com/in/torrielharris/
BLOCKED: Identify What's Standing Between You & Your Next Promotionhttps://www.torrielharris.net/product-page/blocked-identify-whats-standing-between-you-your-next-promotion
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00:00 Welcome & Season 9 introduction
02:00 How Torriel found her calling (fired from her first adult job, back-to-work program in Queens)
05:30 Why everyone’s resume looks the same right now (AI and the through line)
07:37 Facts over feelings: the framework that changes everything
09:53 “You don’t have to be palatable to be promotable”
10:36 Taking credit: Nikki’s story about sleeping under her desk
12:01 Your “through line” of interests matters more than your skills list
13:07 Show your ROI: what hiring managers actually decide on
14:05 The truth about networking (stop scheduling coffee chats)
16:44 Thought leadership is just showing your strategic brain
17:42 What to do when the layoff happens to you
19:49 “Boss up now, cry later”
20:16 The mediocre white man problem (every woman needs to hear this)
21:23 In the future, we’re all entrepreneurs
22:36 Where to find Torriel + free resources
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