Aug 11, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 14 segments
Stephanie Hammond brings incredible energy, laughter, and practical wisdom to this conversation about leadership, mindset, and building a culture where people thrive. From confidence and discipline to…
Stephanie HammondGuestMelliHostAnd you've been spending decades helping adults and training adults and, you know, what's something you've learned about people that absolutely surprises you?
Nothing surprises you anymore? [laughs]
... anymore because, and, uh, I, I, you know what, I probably shouldn't put that in the universe because then something's gonna come at me really weird this week, [laughs] now that I said that.
Um, I think that I'm pleasantly surprised a lot of the time when somebody is able to achieve what they're looking to achieve, or-
Mm-hmm
... they're able to take what I've been trying to do with them and empower them, and they're able to now do it with, with themselves.
Yeah.
It's not necessarily a surprise, but it is such a great reminder that we can do that for ourselves.
Yeah
Yeah.
Do you believe in manifestation?
Do you manifest for yourself?
Many stories, many stories of that, and I have my, a picture of my mother on my vision board, too, as a reminder.
It was a photo that she had sent to my grandmother, who'd since passed, and I inherited the photo albums that my mother sent her, and on the back of each photo, my mom wrote a story.
So this particular photo was a picture of my mom dressed for work in 1980 whatever, um, and it says, "It felt good to just get dressed up and go somewhere where I was appreciated with my first part-time job." And-
And you've been spending decades helping adults and training adults and, you know, what's something you've learned about people that absolutely surprises you?
Nothing surprises you anymore? [laughs]
... anymore because, and, uh, I, I, you know what, I probably shouldn't put that in the universe because then something's gonna come at me really weird this week, [laughs] now that I said that.
Um, I think that I'm pleasantly surprised a lot of the time when somebody is able to achieve what they're looking to achieve, or-
Mm-hmm
... they're able to take what I've been trying to do with them and empower them, and they're able to now do it with, with themselves.
Yeah.
It's not necessarily a surprise, but it is such a great reminder that we can do that for ourselves.
Yeah
Yeah.
Do you believe in manifestation?
Do you manifest for yourself?
Many stories, many stories of that, and I have my, a picture of my mother on my vision board, too, as a reminder.
It was a photo that she had sent to my grandmother, who'd since passed, and I inherited the photo albums that my mother sent her, and on the back of each photo, my mom wrote a story.
So this particular photo was a picture of my mom dressed for work in 1980 whatever, um, and it says, "It felt good to just get dressed up and go somewhere where I was appreciated with my first part-time job." And-
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