The Daily Helping

459. “You Hurt Everybody Who Knows You” | Tom Hardin on Temptation, Integrity, and Redemption

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:30:07 +0000

In this episode, we sit down with Tom Hardin, a former hedge fund analyst whose career on Wall Street unraveled after four insider trading decisions led him into an FBI cooperation agreement and public disgrace as “Tipper X.” Tom now speaks globally on ethics, compliance, and organizational culture, bringing hard-earned insight to the pressures, rationalizations, and blind spots that can push good people across dangerous lines.

Our conversation goes far beyond financial crime. We explore how ambition, status, and the need to prove ourselves can quietly distort judgment, especially in high-pressure environments where unethical behavior starts to feel normal. Tom shares what it cost him personally, how his wife helped him endure the fallout, and why redemption is not about erasing the past but using it to help others avoid the same mistakes.

What emerges is a powerful reflection on character, accountability, and the daily work of closing the gap between who we appear to be and who we really are.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The gap between who you appear to be and who you actually are is the most dangerous place to live and I call it the integrity gap. And closing that gap every day is the hardest and most important work any of us will ever do.”

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Resources:

Wired on Wall Street by Tom Hardin
Tom Hardin’s website, TipperX

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458. “You are responsible for you.” | Mastering Mindset & Business with Andy Weins

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:30:46 +0000

In this episode, we sit down with Andy Weins—Army Reserve Master Sergeant, entrepreneur, and author of Stop Avoiding Your Numbers. With over two decades of military experience and a passion for helping veterans and business owners grow, Andy brings a grounded, no-nonsense perspective shaped by real-world adversity and leadership under pressure.

Our conversation explores how a pivotal moment during military service reshaped Andy’s understanding of strength, shifting him from a hardened, external mindset to one rooted in personal responsibility and growth. We dive into the power of language, how small shifts in words can rewire thought patterns, and why so many entrepreneurs unknowingly sabotage themselves by avoiding their numbers. Andy makes a compelling case that data isn’t something to fear—it’s a story waiting to be understood.

We also unpack practical insights for business owners, including why paying yourself from day one changes everything, and how clarity of vision drives every meaningful decision. This episode is a reminder that both personal and professional transformation start with the same place: the thoughts you choose to believe.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are responsible for you. Everything in your life is a direct result of your thoughts.”

Resources:

Stop Avoiding Your Numbers by Andy Weins
Andy Weins Official Website
Andy Weins on LinkedIn
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (Amazon)

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457. “Life Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint” | Lessons from the Dugout with Dr. Harley Rotbart & Ken Davidoff

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:30:37 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we welcome two remarkable voices from very different corners of the baseball world: pediatrician and parenting expert Dr. Harley Rotbart and veteran Major League Baseball journalist Ken Davidoff. Together they bring decades of experience working with young people and covering elite athletes to their new book, *101 Lessons from the Dugout*, which explores how the game of baseball mirrors the deeper lessons of life.

Our conversation explores how moments on the field—pop flies, curveballs, fielder’s choices, and even cleaning up the dugout—translate into powerful lessons about responsibility, resilience, and character. Dr. Rotbart shares how his years coaching youth baseball revealed that the challenges kids face on the diamond often reflect the challenges they encounter in school, relationships, and personal growth. Ken adds the perspective of someone who has watched the best athletes in the world perform under extraordinary pressure.

We also dive into the realities facing young people today: instant gratification, rising stress levels, and the growing pressure from both parents and society. Through the lens of baseball, our guests remind us that growth takes time, resilience matters, and success is built across the long game of life—not a single swing at the plate.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It is that the future of our country, the future of our world rests with our kids.”

Resources:

Read 101 Lessons From the Dugout
Dr. Harley Rotbart’s Website
Read No Regrets Parenting
Follow Ken Davidoff on Instagram

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456. “People Follow Leaders They Want To” | Leadership Insights with Dr. Ben Granger

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:30:10 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we sit down with workplace psychologist Dr. Benjamin Granger, Chief Workplace Psychologist at Qualtrics and author of A Leader Worth Following: How to Master Yourself, Influence Others and Create Exceptional Experiences. With more than 15 years of experience helping organizations understand employee behavior and workplace dynamics, Dr. Ben brings both research and real-world insight to the evolving conversation about leadership, human behavior, and the future of work.

Our conversation explores a powerful shift in how we think about leadership. Rather than viewing leadership as a title or role, Dr. Ben challenges us to see it as a human responsibility shared by everyone. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral science, he explains why the most effective leaders are those who earn voluntary followership—people choose to follow them not out of obligation, but because they trust and respect them. That shift requires deep self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and an understanding of how others perceive us.

We also explore the growing role of AI in the workplace and why the rise of intelligent technology makes human skills more important than ever. As knowledge becomes more accessible, Dr. Ben argues that what truly differentiates us is our ability to communicate, connect, and exercise wisdom. From mastering body language to engaging the reflective parts of the brain, this conversation offers a thoughtful roadmap for becoming the kind of person others genuinely want to follow.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking. It's greatest failures by not talking.”

Resources:

Dr. Ben Granger Website
A Leader Worth Following: How to Master Yourself, Influence Others and Create Exceptional Experiences (Book) By Dr Ben Granger
Qualtrics
Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
Prospect Theory
The Flynn Effect

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455. “Your True Nature Is Good” | Reimagining Leadership with MaryCay Durrant

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:30:45 +0000

In this episode, we sit down with MaryCay Durrant—known as MC—a globally recognized change leadership and business performance consultant with over 30 years of experience working alongside organizations like Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte, Pepsi, Hyatt, and KPMG. After a successful corporate career left her feeling disconnected and numb, MaryCay began questioning the conventional playbook of achievement. What emerged was a radically different model of leadership rooted not in pressure and performance alone, but in presence, partnership, and the wisdom of nature.

We explore her WORK model—Wake up to wonder, Orient from the inside out, Reimagine relating, and Keep nourishing what matters—and how these principles transform not just teams, but marriages, families, and personal well-being. Drawing on lessons from the natural world, including her powerful experiences with horses, MaryCay challenges us to shift from transactional and adversarial dynamics toward trust, congruence, and cooperation. This conversation is an invitation to pause, reframe tension, and lead in ways that restore both performance and the human spirit.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Your true nature and my true nature is good. It's beautiful.”

Resources:

MaryCay Durrant’s Website

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454. “Every Notification Feels Like a Threat” | Stress and Sleep with Justin Hai

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:30:45 +0000

In this powerful conversation, we sit down with Justin Hai, serial entrepreneur, product designer, and founder of Rebalance Health. Justin’s work spans biotechnology, health, and consumer innovation, earning recognition from Forbes, Time, NASA, and more. His bestselling book, Stress Nation, explores how modern life has rewired our biology—and what we can do about it. Inspired in part by his wife’s diagnosis with Cushing’s disease, Justin dove deeply into the science of cortisol and the hidden toll of chronic stress.

Together, we unpack the truth about cortisol as the body’s master alarm system—not a villain, but a hormone designed to protect us. The real problem, Justin explains, is that our always-on digital world keeps triggering that alarm. From constant notifications to late-night scrolling, our nervous systems rarely power down. We explore practical, achievable strategies to protect sleep, set tech boundaries, and reclaim human connection. The path forward isn’t about rejecting technology; it’s about using it wisely so we can restore balance and truly recover each night.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Remember what it used to feel like when you were dating your partner and you would flirt and you'd have fun and you'd laugh? Do that tonight because that's going to bring your cortisol crashing down. You guys are going to reconnect in a new fun way and you're going to sleep like a baby.”

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453. “The Gap Is Where Life Happens” | Living Fully and Fearlessly with David Schnurman

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:30:43 +0000

What does it really mean to live life to your fullest potential, especially when you’re balancing career, family, and the pressure to have it all figured out?

On this episode we sat down with David Schnurman, entrepreneur, speaker, and CEO of Lawline, to unpack that question in a deeply human way. David has spent years building companies centered on education and growth, and his newest book, 11 Suitcases, brings those ideas home, literally, through his family’s decision to move abroad.

Our conversation explored how personal development, intentional discomfort, and shared experiences shape not just individual success, but family culture. David shared how books like The Miracle Morning and The Success Principles influenced his mindset, and how creating a family rallying cry led to transformative travel, deeper connection, and lasting memories. We also talked about why saying yes more often, journaling in real time, and leaning into the space between where you are and where you want to be can radically change how alive you feel.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It's the gap of like from where I am to where I wanna be is where I live.”

Resources:

Eleven Suitcases Website
Check out Previous Episodes with Hal Elrod
Episode 50
Episode 127
Check out Previous Episodes with Jack Canfield
Episode 160
Episode 161
Eleven Suitcases by David Schnurman
Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
Your Best Year Ever by Michael Hyatt
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

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452. “We’re All Chasing the Same Brain State” | Decoding Flow and Focus with Dr. Izzy Justice

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:30:12 +0000

In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Izzy Justice, Chief Neuroscience Officer at Neuro580 and a pioneering sport neuroscientist who has worked with elite athletes, coaches, executives, and everyday high performers around the world. With tens of thousands of EEG-based brain scans conducted during live performance, Dr. Izzy brings a rare functional lens to understanding how the brain actually works in real moments that matter.

Our conversation centered on a deceptively simple idea: peak performance, presence, confidence, and even happiness all trace back to brain frequency. Dr. Izzy explains why the brain’s natural tendency toward high-frequency “noise” makes it harder than ever to feel focused or grounded, especially in a world saturated with constant stimulation and micro-traumas. He reframes confidence as an access issue, showing how elevated brain frequency blocks us from retrieving our best memories, skills, and solutions.

Most powerfully, Dr. Izzy introduces practical “neurohacks” that take only seconds and require no tools, apps, or special settings. Instead of chasing calm all day long, we can learn to intentionally downshift our brain toward the sweet spot around 10 hertz, right before the moments when we need to be our best.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

We already have everything we need for a rich human experience. By learning how to use our senses and our brain more intentionally, we can create depth, presence, and meaning in our lives without needing more time, money, or resources.

Resources:

Learn more at: https://www.DrIzzyJustice.com
Read: Life Explained: Chasing 10Hz by Dr. Izzy Justice
Follow Dr. Izzy on Instagram: @dr.izzyjustice
Connect with Dr. Izzy on LinkedIn

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451. “Meetings Are a Lazy Substitute for Real Thinking” | Designing Work That Actually Gets Done with Rebecca Hinds

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:30:23 +0000

We sat down with Rebecca Hinds, a leading expert on organizational behavior and the future of work, whose research has shaped how some of the world’s most influential companies think about collaboration. With degrees from Stanford and a career that includes founding the Work Innovation Lab at Asana and the Work AI Institute at Glean, Rebecca brings both academic rigor and real-world insight to the way we work together. She joined us to discuss her new book, Your Best Meeting Ever, a practical guide to fixing one of the most universally dreaded parts of modern work.

Our conversation challenged the assumption that bad meetings are inevitable. Rebecca reframed meetings as the most important product an organization creates, yet often the least intentionally designed. From cutting meeting debt and measuring return on time investment to applying systems thinking and user-centered design, she shared how small, deliberate changes can radically improve collaboration. We also explored how technology and AI can either amplify human potential or automate dysfunction, depending on how thoughtfully they’re used.

At its core, this episode was a call to stop defaulting to meetings out of habit and start designing them with purpose, clarity, and respect for people’s time.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We need to treat our meetings like a product. We need to treat them intentionally. And we can't just default to using meetings as a lazy substitute for real work and smart thinking.”

Resources:

Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done By Rebecca Hinds

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450. “Your Brain Is Wired for Transcendence” | Spiritual Intelligence and the Science of Awakening with Dawson Church

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:00:43 +0000

In this episode, we welcome back Dawson Church, bestselling science writer and researcher whose work has helped bridge the gap between neuroscience and human transformation. With more than 100 peer-reviewed studies to his name and collaborations with leading institutions, Dawson joins us to explore ideas from his latest book, Spiritual Intelligence, which maps what actually happens in the brain during elevated states of consciousness.

Our conversation centers on a powerful reframe: transcendent experiences are not rare or reserved for monks. They are built into our biology. Dawson shares how neuroscience now shows consistent brain patterns behind compassion, awe, and self-transcendence, regardless of belief system. Even brief, accessible practices like meditation and conscious breathing can quiet the brain’s stress centers, activate compassion, and lead to measurable changes in emotional regulation, creativity, and resilience.

We also explore why inner states matter so much for outer change. As spiritual intelligence develops, it becomes a leverage point that influences how we relate to our bodies, our relationships, and the world around us, offering a grounded, science-backed path toward calm, clarity, and kindness.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Focus on your breath”

Resources:

Watch our previous episode with Dawson Church here
Spiritual Intelligence by Dawson Church
Pre Meditations (including immunity-focused meditation)

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449. “You Have More Control Than You Think” | Reclaiming Brain Health and Longevity with Dr. Ryan Williamson

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:30:20 +0000

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Ryan Williamson, a board-certified neurologist, Navy veteran, and founder of Transcend Health. With a background spanning clinical neurology, military performance medicine, and executive longevity coaching, Dr. Williamson brings a rare perspective on what it truly takes to protect the brain and extend healthspan. His work centers on prevention over reaction, helping people stay sharp, resilient, and fully engaged long before illness ever enters the picture.

Our conversation explores a simple but confronting truth: modern life is quietly undermining brain health. Dr. Williamson explains how evolutionary biology collides with today’s sedentary, overstimulated environment, and why cognitive decline is often shaped more by habits than by fate. He introduces practical, evidence-based principles that restore balance, from breathwork and sleep to movement, nutrition, and human connection. None are extreme, and all are accessible.

What resonates most is the sense of agency. This episode reframes cognitive health as something we actively build day by day, not something we passively inherit. Small, consistent choices compound into sharper thinking, greater presence, and a longer, more capable life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I really think it's that you as an individual have far more control than you think over your life, over your health, and over any health-related outcome.”

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448. “You Are Not Alone in This” | Parenting, Sobriety, and the Truth About Recovery with Sarah Benton

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:30:14 +0000

In this episode, we sit down with Sarah Benton, a licensed mental health counselor, alcohol and drug counselor, and the author of Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic and Parents in Recovery. Sarah brings both clinical expertise and lived experience to the conversation, sharing her own journey of recovery and the clarity it gave her as a therapist, parent, and advocate. Her work has been featured in major media outlets, yet her perspective remains grounded in compassion and practicality.

Our conversation explores what it really means to build a sober life as a parent, not by simply removing substances, but by reshaping daily rhythms, boundaries, and identity. Sarah challenges the myth that recovery is a single decision rather than a lifestyle, and she speaks candidly about why honest conversations with children matter more than silence shaped by stigma. We also examine the modern pressures parents face, from digital overload to social drinking norms, and how self-awareness can interrupt cycles before they take root.

This episode is an invitation to replace shame with curiosity, and isolation with connection, for anyone questioning their relationship with substances or supporting someone who is.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There are 23 million Americans in recovery. You are not alone.”

Resources:

Parents in Recovery: Navigating a Sober Family Lifestyle by Sarah Benton
Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic by Sarah Benton
Follow Sarah on Facebook
Join Parents in Recovery Support Group on Facebook
Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn
Follow Sarah on Instagram: @parentsinrecovery
Visit her Website Benton Behavioral Health Consulting
Waterview Behavioral Health Website
Sarah’s Psychology Today blog (with many Holiday Sober Survival blogs)

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447. “My Team Feared Me” | Redefining Leadership and Purpose with Kyle McDowell

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:30:03 +0000

Kyle McDowell joins us for a deeply honest conversation about leadership, apathy, and the moment success stopped feeling meaningful. After nearly three decades leading massive teams inside Fortune 10 organizations, Kyle hit a wall that forced him to confront the culture he had helped create—and the leader he had become. That reckoning led to the creation of the Ten “We’s,” a set of principle-based behaviors that would eventually form the foundation of his bestselling book, Begin With We.

We explore how fear-based, command-and-control leadership erodes trust, silences truth, and fuels disengagement. Kyle shares the pivotal experiences that taught him the power of embracing challenge, setting clear standards, and letting go of ego so others can step forward. Through stories ranging from executive boardrooms to a single shopping cart in a grocery store parking lot, he shows how integrity is built in small, observable moments.

What emerges is a compelling case for a better way to lead—and to live—one grounded in accountability, shared ownership, and the human obligation to leave people better than we found them.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There is a better way. You don’t have to be on the hamster wheel.”

Resources:

Kyle McDowell’s Website: https://www.kylemcdowellinc.com
Begin With We (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QG8F5P2?tag=theda0b020-20
Follow Kyle McDowell on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylemcdowellincd

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446. “Mind Is Not Produced by the Brain” | Pure Unlimited Love, Part 2 with Dr. Stephen G. Post

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:30:19 +0000

This is Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Stephen G. Post, renowned researcher, author, and one of the world’s leading voices on altruism, compassion, and the science of love. As the founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University, Dr. Post has spent decades exploring how love, meaning, and generosity shape human flourishing.

In this episode, we move deeper into the philosophical and spiritual foundations of his book, *Pure Unlimited Love*. Dr. Post introduces the idea of “the one mind,” sharing powerful stories and scientific perspectives that challenge the belief that consciousness is produced solely by the brain. We explore how creativity, intuition, and insight emerge when people access deeper states of awareness—and why chronic fear, stress, and disconnection keep us from doing so.

We also discuss freedom as a spiritual quality rather than a purely material one, the healing role of nature and social prescribing, and why serving others is essential to restoring dignity, meaning, and joy in our lives.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I’m a believer that we need to have identifiable constituencies to which we apply our kindness and our callings.”

Resources:

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445. “Science Can’t Measure Love” | Pure Unlimited Love with Dr. Stephen G. Post, Part 1

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:30:33 +0000

In a time marked by social tension and cultural fragmentation, we welcomed Dr. Stephen G. Post—founding president of the Institute for Research on Pure Unlimited Love and director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine. With more than forty years of work exploring compassion at the intersection of science and spirituality, Dr. Post helps us move beyond reductionist ideas of altruism and into a richer understanding of what it means to truly care for others. This episode is Part 1 of a two-part conversation.

We explore why empathy alone isn’t sufficient without moral direction, how different forms of helping shape our inner lives, and what research reveals about the emotional and psychological benefits of volunteering—especially during seasons of grief and loss. Dr. Post also invites us to reflect on what’s lost as human connection becomes increasingly mediated by screens, and why presence and intentional love matter now more than ever.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The security and well-being of others [is] as real or meaningful to us as our own, and sometimes more so”

Resources:

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444. “United not by blood, but by story.” | Rewriting Identity & Finding Connection Through Food with John T. Edge

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:30:29 +0000

Writer, historian, and Emmy Award–winning host John T. Edge joins us for a powerful conversation about identity, inherited stories, and the emotional resonance of food. Best known for True South and his acclaimed books—including House of Smoke, the focus of our discussion—John T. shares how growing up in a home steeped in Confederate mythology shaped his early worldview, and how his adult life became an intentional act of rewriting those narratives.

As John T. explains, food is never just food—it’s memory, migration, and the emotional weight of history. He helps us understand how Southern cuisine is deeply rooted in West African traditions, why food becomes a meeting place for shared humanity, and how acknowledging its origins allows us to approach it with honesty and connection. He also opens up about grief, loss, and how emotional reckoning transformed his relationships and his trajectory as a writer and cultural leader.

John T. discusses the rise and collapse of his work with the Southern Foodways Alliance, sharing the humbling lesson of recognizing one’s own power, the pitfalls of hubris, and how accountability and reinvention shaped who he is today. His reflections on resilience—including two life-altering car wrecks—offer a grounded reminder that what matters most is how we choose to act on the other side of adversity.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t save the word love for the people who are your blood kin. Tell your friends you love them—and why. And mean it.”

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443. “Rituals are routines with soul.” | Transforming Habits Into Meaningful Change with Dr. Danielle McGeough

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:30:21 +0000

Professor, speaker, and transformation strategist Dr. Danielle McGeough joins us to explore a powerful reframe that can reshape the way we plan, work, and show up in our lives. Known for her Rise Ritual Method and her podcast “Plan Goal Plan”, Danielle helps high performers reconnect with their core identities, navigate transitions with clarity, and build intentional practices that support real, sustained growth.

Danielle shares how she spent years building the career she thought she wanted—earning her PhD, securing her dream job, and achieving tenure—only to feel unexpectedly flat and disconnected once she arrived. That realization led her to revisit the research she’d been teaching for years on identity and ritual. By infusing her daily life with intentional sensory-driven rituals rather than automated habits, she rediscovered presence, joy, and meaning in the everyday moments.

She breaks down the full Rise Ritual Method:Reflect, Intentionally Plan, Sensory Activation, and Embody the Story—showing us how to use rituals to enter the states we want to inhabit, whether that’s calm, focus, creativity, or presence with our families. Danielle also shares common pitfalls, the importance of designing multiple “versions” of a ritual, and why flexibility and curiosity matter more than perfection.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“What is your current state and what’s your desired state—and what is one small thing you could do, ideally through sensory activation, to move you closer to that desired state?

Resources:

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442. “Gratitude is the mindset that saved my life.” | From Addiction to Authenticity with Gary “Nerdrotic” Buechler

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:30:50 +0000

Pop culture commentator and YouTube creator Gary “Nerdrotic” Buechler joins us for one of the most candid conversations he’s ever shared publicly. Known for his massive presence on YouTube and Rumble, with millions tuning in for his unapologetic takes on fandom and culture. Gary opens up about the long, painful road that came before Nerdrotic. In his new book, Waiting for a Nerdrotic, he traces his story through early addiction, homelessness, crime, and a prison sentence that ultimately reshaped his understanding of freedom.

Gary describes growing up adopted, discovering alcohol and drugs before age 13, and spiraling into burglary to fuel his addiction. Multiple arrests and jail stints eventually led to prison, where recovery began to “seep in.” He shares the moment everything changed, realizing his kids might grow up without a father—and how gratitude, consistency, and rigorous honesty became the pillars of his lasting sobriety.

What began as a hobby podcast recorded in a San Francisco Starbucks grew into Nerdrotic, one of the most influential fandom channels online. Gary explains why authenticity resonated with viewers, how cultural polarization seeped into entertainment, and why he believes fans needed someone to speak up about it. Yet through every challenge—personal or cultural—gratitude remains the mindset that keeps him grounded.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

"What am I grateful for today? … It’s a mindset, and it works. That’s the thing that clicked for me in recovery that made it work to this very day by the grace of God."

Resources:

Read Waiting for Nerdrotic by Gary Buechler
Watch Gary’s YouTube channel: Nerdrotic
Follow Gary on Twitter: @nerdrotics
Follow Gary on Instagram: @nerdrotic

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441. “Speaking up is how we become known.” | Building Emotional Intimacy Without Losing Yourself with Tonya Lester

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:30:42 +0000

Licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and author Tonya Lester joins us to explore one of the most pervasive issues she sees in her practice: what happens when people stay silent for too long. Known for her Modern Love essay in The New York Times and her popular Psychology Today blog, Staying Sane Inside Insanity, Tonya has spent years helping individuals and couples navigate communication, conflict, and the fear of speaking their truth.

In our conversation, we dig into the patterns that inspired her new book, Push Back: Live, Love, and Work with Others Without Losing Yourself. Tonya describes the all-too-common dynamic where one partner quietly struggles while the other believes things are "fine"---until the relationship reaches a breaking point. She shares how clarity around values, direct communication, and what she calls "mutual empathy" can transform not only romantic relationships but workplace dynamics as well.

Tonya also offers practical guidance for anyone feeling lonely, unseen, or disconnected from their own needs. Whether through journaling prompts, identifying the next small step toward living your values, or learning to slow down heated conversations, she reminds us that emotional intimacy is built by honesty, not harmony at all costs.

The Biggest Helping: Today's Most Important Takeaway

"Speaking up and being clear about your needs and desires and being open to hearing that of the person sitting across from you is the pathway to emotional intimacy and a fulfilling life."

Resources:

Read Push Back: Live, Love, and Work with Others Without Losing Yourself by Tonya Lester
Visit Tonya's website
Follow Tonya on Instagram
Read her Psychology Today blog "Staying Sane Inside Insanity"
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440. “Nobody cares more about your career than you.” | Owning Your Brand & Future with Andy Storch

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:30:17 +0000

Award-winning keynote speaker, author, and career development expert Andy Storch returns to The Daily Helping to share transformative insights from his newest book, Own Your Brand, Own Your Career. Andy has spent years helping professionals step out of “reaction mode” and take ownership of how they show up in the world. In this conversation, he explains why personal branding is no longer optional—every one of us already has a brand, and the question is whether we’re being intentional about it.

We explore Andy’s journey from drifting through his early career to discovering a framework for purpose, alignment, and growth. He shares how companies have shifted from resisting employee personal brands to embracing them, recognizing the impact on culture, recruitment, and performance. Andy also offers a simple but powerful starting point: define who you are today, decide what you want to be known for, and evaluate whether your daily actions reflect those values. As he reminds us, people remember how we make them feel—and the leaders who empower and develop others leave the deepest legacy.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You have a career, and you have a brand—whether you’re intentional about it or not. Nobody cares more about your career or your brand than you do. So you’ve got to own it. Get clear on what you want, set your intentions, and show up in alignment with that every day.”

Resources:

Read Own Your Brand, Own Your Career by Andy Storch & Mike Kim: Amazon
Download the free workbook: ownyourbrandbook.com
Follow Andy on LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile

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439. “Success isn’t luck—it’s math.” | Changing the Odds with Kyle Austin Young

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:30:32 +0000

Award-winning strategy consultant and Harvard Business Review contributor Kyle Austin Young joins us to reveal the surprising math behind every success story. His new book, Success Is a Numbers Game: Achieve Bigger Goals by Changing the Odds, challenges the way we think about goals, risk, and achievement—showing that success is less about luck and more about probability.

Kyle shares how being laid off twice during an adoption journey pushed him to diversify his career and build a thriving consulting practice. Over a decade of helping entrepreneurs and leaders achieve ambitious outcomes, he discovered that every goal has two hidden numbers: a probability of success and a probability of failure. The key, he argues, is learning to “hack” those odds—by identifying potential bad outcomes and systematically reducing their likelihood. From business ventures to personal growth, his framework helps us shift from wishful thinking to strategic action.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

There’s real power in asking “what if.” Thinking through what could go wrong isn’t negativity—it’s strategy. When you remove the barriers that make success less likely, you change your odds and make your goals achievable.

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Resources:

Read Success Is a Numbers Game: Achieve Bigger Goals by Changing the Odds by Kyle Austin Young: Amazon
Visit KyleAustinYoung.com
Follow Kyle on LinkedIn

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438. “It’s not longevity—it’s who you know.” | Adapting to Workplace Changes with Dr. Sharon Livingston

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:30:03 +0000

Dr. Sharon Livingston, best-selling author, speaker, and thought leader in qualitative research and career psychology, joins us to unpack how power and influence have evolved in the modern workplace. With over 30 years of experience interviewing more than 64,000 people---including executives at Fortune 100 companies---Dr. Livingston brings an unparalleled understanding of human behavior at work. Her latest book, Power Dynamics: How to Master the Hidden Forces That Shape Your Career, explores how relationships, not résumés, increasingly drive success.

In our conversation, we trace the shift from the "company-as-family" era to today's fluid, network-driven workplace---where visibility, empathy, and adaptability matter more than tenure. Dr. Livingston reveals how remote work and AI are rewriting the rules of influence and shares practical ways to build authentic relationships in a hybrid world. Her insights remind us that confidence isn't just spoken---it's embodied in how we listen, pause, and connect. Above all, she urges us to see this uncertain time not as a threat, but as an opportunity to reinvent how we thrive together.

The Biggest Helping: Today's Most Important Takeaway

Things are changing, and the most important thing is to stay flexible. Allow yourself to evolve in ways that are good for you and for those around you---seeing life as a shared adventure makes it a win-win for everyone.

Resources:

Read Power Dynamics: How to Master the Hidden Forces That Shape Your Career by Dr. Sharon Livingston

Visit Dr. Livingston's website

Visit Dr. Livingston's Substack: careerpowerdynamics.substack.com

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437. “You don’t have to shrink to belong” | Be Yourself at Work with Claude Silver

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:30:04 +0000

Claude Silver, the world’s first Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX, joins us to share how leading with empathy transforms teams and culture. Partnering with Gary Vaynerchuk for 11+ years, Claude has scaled “the honey empire”—kindness first, results second—and now distills her approach in her new book, Be Yourself at Work, out tomorrow.

We explore Claude’s journey from struggling student to 93 days in the wilderness, where a guide’s challenge—“get another song in your head”—helped her shift from external to internal locus of control. That moment became the cornerstone of her people-first leadership. Claude later built teams across VaynerX and reimagined hiring from “culture fit” to “culture addition,” even removing degree requirements to widen the door for talent.

Her book guides us through three arcs: know yourself (“You are the CEO of you”), know how you show up on teams (radiator or drain), and lead culture every day—with practical tools like a personal roadmap and her L.I.E. exercise to tackle impostor syndrome. It’s a pragmatic playbook for bringing more humanity, tenderness, and emotional intelligence to work—one intentional choice at a time.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Remember everyone is carrying something—and most people’s intentions are good. Lead with that assumption.

Resources:

Learn more at claudesilver.com
Read Be Yourself at Work by Claude Silver
Connect with Claude on LinkedIn
Follow Claude on Instagram: @claudesilver

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436. “What are you willing to live for?” | Rebuilding Purpose with Corporal Todd Nicely

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:30:08 +0000

Corporal Todd Nicely of the U.S. Marine Corps is one of the few modern veterans to survive catastrophic blast injuries that cost him both hands and both legs. Six months into his second deployment, an IED changed his life on March 26, 2010. Todd lets us in on what came next—first the grit of rehab fueled by a mission mindset, then the hard truth that life after the hospital brought isolation, grief he hadn’t processed, and a suicide attempt in 2016. What ultimately turned him around was a question he encountered at Focus Marines Foundation: “You knew what you were willing to die for—do you know what you’re willing to live for?”

Today, Todd is a mentor with Focus Marines and a devoted husband and father who’s learned to build structure, set boundaries, and ask for help. We explore how living for yourself first equips you to serve others, why purpose must be rebuilt—not remembered—and how paying it forward restores dignity. A forthcoming book will share more of his story, and donations to Focus Marines (focusmarines.org) help put other veterans in that lifesaving seat.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Never give up—and always pay it forward. When we focus on doing good for others, the good in our own lives grows and the darkness loses its hold.

Resources:

Focus Marines Foundation
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/todd-nicely

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435. “Give an inch, get one inch closer” | Crafting Better Conversations with Joe Pardavila

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:30:03 +0000

We sit down with Joe Pardavila—radio veteran with more than 10,000 hours behind the mic on New York’s 95.5 PLJ’s Scott & Todd Morning Show and author of the bestseller Good Listen: Creating Memorable Conversations in Business and Life. Now a creator and producer of entrepreneur-focused podcasts, Joe brings a storyteller’s toolkit to modern communication: curiosity, humility, and genuine care for the person across from us.

Joe shows us why great conversations start with comfort, not ego. He shares how a misstep with a superstar guest taught him the cardinal rule: it’s not about the host—it’s about making the other person feel at home. We explore simple, repeatable moves—open with a short, relevant story of our own to let guests breathe; listen for the human behind the résumé; and use “boomerasking” (asking about something we also have experience with) to reveal real, two-way dialogue. In a selfie-first culture, Joe reminds us that everyone has a story worth hearing—and our job is to help them tell it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Give everyone grace. When we “give an inch,” it doesn’t mean they’ll take a mile—it can bring us one inch closer to each other, especially across differences.

Resources:

Learn more at joepardavila.com
Read Good Listen: Creating Memorable Conversations in Business and Life by Joe Pardavila
Follow Joe on Instagram: @joepardavila
Connect with Joe on LinkedIn: Joe Pardavila

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434. “Your life is a precious, priceless gift.” | Saying Yes to Being Used for Good with John O’Leary

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:30:35 +0000

John O’Leary returns to The Daily Helping with a timely reminder born from extraordinary adversity. Burned across 100% of his body at age nine and given less than a 1% chance to live, John has since inspired millions as a keynote speaker and the bestselling author of On Fire and In Awe. Now, his story reaches the big screen in Soul on Fire, a feature film shot in the very St. Louis places where his life unfolded—starring Joel Courtney, John Corbett, and William H. Macy.

We explore how John’s recovery was never a solo act: it was powered by everyday heroes—family, broadcasters, nurses, custodians—whose ordinary courage changed everything. John challenges us to “say yes to being used for good,” to vote for hope with our attention and our dollars, and to recognize our own agency in a cynical age. What’s new here is the cinematic proof: real locations, real people, and a real throughline that our small, faithful actions matter. As he honors his late father’s example, John models humble leadership, grateful living, and a contagious belief that our best is still ahead.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

This too shall pass—both the mountaintops and the valleys. Stay grounded, choose to be used for good in this moment, and trust that the best is yet to come.

Resources:

Learn more at johnolearyinspires.com
Read On Fire: The 7 Choices That Will Ignite a Radically Inspired Life
Read In Awe: Rediscover Your Childlike Wonder to Unleash Inspiration, Meaning, and Joy
Watch: SoulOnFireMovie.com
Listen: Live Inspired Podcast by John O’Leary
Follow John on Instagram: @johnoleary.inspires

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433. “Do the work” | Healing, Redemption, and Second Chances with Ranae Van Roekel

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:30:49 +0000

Ranae Van Roekel never imagined the word felon would be part of her identity. Yet after serving 36 months in federal prison for mail fraud, she refused to let that label define her. Instead, she used it as a turning point. A mother, grandmother, wife, and dog lover, Ranae is also the founder of Connecting to Cope, a platform designed to empower individuals with the tools, community, and support they need to heal from trauma and grow—no matter what’s in their past. Through her coaching, speaking, and advocacy for justice reform, Ranae has become a powerful voice for second chances.

Her journey to incarceration began long before the courtroom. When the weight of her choices became unbearable, Ranae reached a breaking point where she contemplated suicide. Instead, she chose to turn herself in, beginning a path toward accountability and healing.

Prison, rather than breaking her, became the place where Ranae finally confronted the pain she had buried for so long. With the help of therapy and a new dedication to self-care, she came to understand that everything in life is a choice—and that choosing to face trauma is the only way forward. Today, she channels those hard-won lessons into Connecting to Cope, encouraging others to uncover the roots of their pain and take small, consistent steps toward recovery.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I think the biggest thing that I tell people when I'm speaking to them, and I guess I'm speaking to all your listeners today, right, is that do the work. Find what is causing you pain in your world, whether that be trauma, sexual abuse, drug addictions, spousal abuse. There's so many things in our world today…that can cause PTSD and trauma for so many people in our country. Do the work. Go out, find out what's wrong with you, get help, whether it's by calling somebody like me on my platform and having me help you find the people who can help you, or if I can help you, I'd be glad to help you. But we do both avenues. And again, do the work, put the work in, make yourself healthier, find some good coping skills, and dedicate some time to self-care.”

Resources:

Follow Ranae Van Roekel on Instagram: @connectingtocope

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432. “Intentions don’t matter—behaviors do” | Managing Yourself to Lead Others with Margaret Andrews

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:30:15 +0000

Margaret Andrews—leadership expert and longtime Harvard instructor—joins us to share the MYLO framework: Manage Yourself to Lead Others. Her executive program has run for years with a loyal waitlist, and she’s distilled those lessons into her book, Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding. We explore her journey from hard feedback about “self-awareness” to building a practical approach leaders can apply immediately.

At the heart of Margaret’s work is a simple truth: before we can lead anyone, we have to understand ourselves—our values, emotions, and the gap between our intentions and our impact. She offers six deep-dive reflection questions to surface what shaped us, what success really means, and which behaviors need to change. We also discuss her “best boss” exercise, where participants consistently prioritize interpersonal behaviors over IQ or technical skill—evidence that trust, clear communication (especially listening), and growth-minded feedback are what people remember and follow.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

We judge ourselves by intentions, but others judge us by behaviors—so align the two by building self-understanding and managing how you show up.

Resources:

Learn more at margaretandrews.com
Read Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding by Margaret Andrews
Connect with Margaret on LinkedIn
Follow Margaret on Instagram: @themargaretandrews

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431. “Mission isn’t enough.” | Creating Daily Impact with Wes Adams & Tamara Myles

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:30:48 +0000

We sit down with Wes Adams—CEO of SV Consulting Group and positive psychology researcher at UPenn—and Tamara Myles—speaker, author, professor, and researcher at UPenn—to unpack their new book, Meaningful Work. Together, they argue that what makes work feel worthwhile isn’t a lofty mission on a wall; it’s the daily experience we create. Their research shows leaders and environments account for nearly half of our sense of meaning at work, and they translate that into a practical playbook we can use right away.

We explore their three sources of meaning—community, contribution, and challenge—and how small actions compound. Ask about life outside of work and remember the answers to build real community. Tell impact stories so every teammate can see how their efforts help others. Pair stretch assignments with high support to create growth without burnout. And don’t overlook gratitude: a sincere “thank you” once a week can dramatically cut disengagement and burnout. This episode is a reminder that when we design for meaningful moments, performance follows.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Meaning isn’t abstract—it lives in small, repeatable moments: connect with someone, notice the impact of your work, and seek growth; then amplify it with specific, weekly gratitude that tells people why their work matters.

Resources:

Learn more at meaningfulwork.com
Read Meaningful Work
Connect with Tamara Myles on LinkedIn
Connect with Wes Adams on LinkedIn

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430. “Don’t put everything in one basket.” | Pivoting, Healing & Heart-Led Leadership with Valerie J. Walsh

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:30:19 +0000

Valerie J. Walsh is a bestselling author, sought-after speaker, and transformational leader whose work turns personal tragedy into a mission to help others rise. Through her memoir Shattered to the Core and her follow-up, CoreAgeous, she invites us into the real work of healing—naming trauma, telling the truth, and leading from the heart. We explore her journey from fitness professional to aviation leader and mental health advocate, and how journaling her way through loss and cancer recovery became the foundation for her books.

What resonated most was Valerie’s CORE philosophy of authentic leadership and the practical courage it takes to let go, say no, and pivot. We talk about moving from “work hard, play hard” to sober, intentional living; why language matters (she says “died by suicide” to reduce stigma); and how trauma shows up differently for everyone. Her stories remind us that our self-worth can’t live in any single role, relationship, or result—and that small daily actions change everything.

We left this conversation believing that reinvention isn’t a grand gesture; it’s a repeatable habit. If you’ve been waiting for permission to start over, this is it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

It’s never too late to pivot. Begin with one small step every day toward who you want to become—and keep going.

Resources:

Learn more at valeriejwalsh.com
Read Shattered to the Core by Valerie J. Walsh
Read CoreAgeous by Valerie J. Walsh
Follow Valerie J. Walsh on Instagram: @valeriejwalshauthor
Connect with Valerie J. Walsh on LinkedIn

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429. “Failure is a lesson, not a setback.” | Being a Self-Made Maverick with Dr. Reza Zahedi

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:30:32 +0000

We sit down with Dr. Reza Zahedi—civil engineer, international real estate leader, and author of Self-Made Maverick—whose story begins as a child refugee from Iran and evolves into a career built from scratch across Europe. What struck us wasn’t the highlight reel, but the mindset shift he credits for everything: believing he could build something from nothing and change his destiny despite the doubters.

Dr. Reza challenges the Instagram myth of overnight success. He reframes failure as a daily teacher, not a verdict, and calls out five persistent myths that stall founders—from “you need rich parents” to “money is the most important thing.” We also explore how a clear why and a durable brand make sacrifices bearable, and why today’s entrepreneurs can’t hide behind screens: real-world reps, relationships, and proof of work matter more than ever. The throughline is gritty, values-driven execution—showing up when no one’s clapping so impact outlasts image.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Never give up—treat failure as part of the path, keep showing up, and let persistence do the compounding.

Resources:

Learn more at DrRezaZahedi.com
Read Self-Made Maverick by Dr. Reza Zahedi
Connect with Dr. Reza on LinkedIn
Follow Dr. Reza on Instagram: @drrezazahedii

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428. “You’re not defined by tragedy.” | Courage in the Face of Fear with Collier Landry, Pt. 2

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:30:08 +0000

Content Warning: This episode contains detailed accounts of domestic violence, emotional abuse, and the murder of a parent. It may be distressing or triggering for some listeners. Please use discretion and take care of yourself while listening.

In part two of our conversation with filmmaker, podcaster, and speaker Collier Landry, we continue the extraordinary story that began when he was just 11 years old. After testifying against his father for the murder of his mother, Collier was left without family support, navigating foster care and the painful isolation of being defined by tragedy. Yet rather than succumbing to the weight of trauma, he forged a path of resilience, action, and self-determination.

Collier reflects on testifying in court, confronting his father, and ultimately learning the power of forgiveness—not as a gift to the man who hurt him, but as a way to reclaim his own life. He also shares how he turned his pain into purpose, first as the subject of the acclaimed documentary A Murder in Mansfield and now through his podcast The Collier Landry Show, where he explores resilience, healing, and moving forward. His journey shows us that while violence leaves deep scars, it can also illuminate the strength of the human spirit.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You have the power to construct your own narrative. No matter what happens to you, you are not defined by tragedy—you have the choice to move forward and build a life on your terms.

Resources:

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427. “I knew then she was gone.” | Courage in the Face of Fear with Collier Landry, Pt. 1

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:30:02 +0000

At just 11 years old, Collier Landry’s life was upended when his father murdered his mother. Refusing to remain silent, he gathered evidence, testified against his father, and became the key witness in a case that would change his life forever. Abandoned by much of his family, Collier learned resilience and self-reliance at an age when most kids are thinking about school and friends—not survival.

Now a filmmaker, podcaster, and speaker, Collier uses his story to inspire conversations about perseverance, self-determination, and healing. His acclaimed documentary A Murder in Mansfield, directed by Oscar winner Barbara Kopple, and his podcasts The Collier Landry Show and Finding Mom’s Killer explore the journey of overcoming trauma and reclaiming personal power.

In this gripping first of a two-part conversation, Collier takes us back to 1989, walking us through the events leading up to his mother’s disappearance and the harrowing days that followed—days in which an 11-year-old boy had to choose between silence and the truth.

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426. “Leaders Can Make or Break You” | Biohacking Leadership with Dr. Scott Hutcheson

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:30:09 +0000

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Scott Hutcheson, a biosocial scientist and senior lecturer at Purdue University, whose work with hundreds of organizations has redefined how we understand leadership. Dr. Hutcheson’s new book, Biohacking Leadership, takes a unique look at how leadership is rooted in biology and behavior—demonstrating that how we feel at work is shaped less by the job itself and more by the signals sent by our leaders.

Dr. Hutcheson shares how his background in theater led to his innovative approach, showing that effective leadership is all about behavioral signals—what he calls “biomarkers”—clustered into warmth, competence, and gravitas. Instead of fixed rules, he encourages leaders to experiment and refine their approach, learning from every interaction. By dialing into the neurobiology of connection, story, and conversation, we can shift team chemistry and drive meaningful performance, regardless of role or generation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You learn to be a leader through experimentation and refinement. Every leadership interaction is an opportunity to try new approaches, observe the results, and adjust your signals—growing through trial, error, and adaptation.

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425. “Not All Work Is Good Work” | Building Better Workplaces with Melissa Swift

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:30:55 +0000

In this episode, we sit down with Melissa Swift, an innovative organizational consultant and the author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace. Having worked with global giants like Mercer and Deloitte, Melissa brings a data-driven yet deeply human perspective to understanding what’s broken about modern work—and how we can actually fix it. Her book unpacks the three types of “broken work” and introduces the “work anxiety monster,” but what truly sets Melissa apart is her focus on actionable strategies. She challenges us to rethink everything from the pace of our to-do lists to how many people really need to be in that next meeting, revealing just how much of our stress is self-inflicted by outdated systems and unexamined routines.

We dive into the surprising truth that pouring billions into technology often creates more headaches than solutions, and Melissa makes a compelling case for “couples counseling” between humans and their tech. Our conversation explores why genuine progress at work is less about grand gestures and more about attending to the day-to-day basics: how we collaborate, communicate, and set boundaries. It’s a hopeful, practical look at what it will take to shape a future of work that’s healthier, more productive, and actually human.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Melissa urges us to challenge the belief that “the work is the work.” It’s not only okay, but necessary, to step back and evaluate which activities are meaningful and which are not. That simple mindset shift, she says, can change everything.

Resources:

Connect with Melissa Swift on LinkedIn
Learn more at Anthrome Insight
Read Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace

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424. “You can’t change the world until you change yourself” | Doing the Inner Work with Susanne Madsen

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:30:55 +0000

In this episode, we’re joined by Susanne Madsen, a globally recognized executive coach, award-winning author, and specialist in transformational leadership for complex organizations. With nearly 30 years of experience working with global leaders at companies like JP Morgan, Citigroup, and Lego, Susanne has dedicated her career to helping people rethink how they lead—and, more importantly, how they show up for themselves. Her latest book, How to Do the Inner Work, explores why genuine transformation starts with self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and the courage to look inward, even when it’s uncomfortable.

Susanne guides us through the journey of doing the inner work, beginning with self-compassion and small acts of kindness toward ourselves. She shares how foundational practices—like reflection, breathwork, and meditation—help us regulate our emotions and make space for growth. Drawing from her own story and years of coaching, she emphasizes that real change doesn’t require dramatic life overhauls. Instead, it’s about identifying our core values, finding overlaps in our passions, and making small, meaningful tweaks that align our inner and outer worlds. When we stop seeking solutions outside ourselves and focus on our own mindset and actions, the world often meets us differently.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Be kind to yourself. When we extend kindness inward, it becomes much easier to offer it to others—and that’s where true change begins.

Resources:

Learn more at SusanneMadsen.co.uk
Read How to Do the Inner Work by Susanne Madsen
Read The Power of Project Leadership by Susanne Madsen
Read The Project Management Coaching Workbook by Susanne Madsen
Follow Susanne on Instagram: @susannemadsen1

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423. “If you’re not at peace, get curious” | Mental Health Advocacy with Alexandra Miles

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:30:05 +0000

In this powerful episode, we sit down with Alexandra Miles, founder and CEO of Project Blackbird, a nonprofit organization that champions mental health awareness and access in Washington, D.C., and beyond. Alexandra brings a wealth of experience, from her dual degrees in business and fine arts to her leadership in producing impactful mental health programming and films. Her work, which includes screenings at global events such as Sundance and Cannes, focuses on reducing stigma and connecting youth—especially those from underrepresented communities—with free therapy and practical resources.

Our conversation uncovers Alexandra’s deeply personal journey with an eating disorder, highlighting how shame and silence once kept her from healing. By openly sharing her own struggles, Alexandra has found strength and purpose in creating spaces for vulnerability, honesty, and support. We explore how Project Blackbird’s innovative programming pairs powerful storytelling, lived experiences from public figures, and immediate access to care. Together, we reflect on the importance of daily self-check-ins, community-driven resource fairs, and fostering real connections. Alexandra’s approach is a reminder that addressing mental health is not about fitting into a diagnosis but about seeing the human behind every struggle—and making it safe for others to seek help.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

If you’re not the most peaceful and happiest version of yourself right now, don’t rush to diagnose or label—just get curious. By honestly sharing what you’re going through, you make it safer for others to open up too.

Resources:

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422. “Asking for help is also a gift.” | Thriving in Radical Disruption with Mark Monchek

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:30:27 +0000

In this episode, we reconnect with Mark Monchek, founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of the Opportunity Lab, whose clients include global leaders like Google, Apple, GE, and the United Nations. Mark’s journey sits at the crossroads of business, art, and psychology, and his latest book, Opportunity Intelligence: How to Thrive in an Age of Radical Disruption, is both timely and personal—shaped by a legacy of resilience from a family that endured some of the 20th century’s most profound upheavals.

Mark’s central message is that opportunity isn’t inherently good or bad; it’s simply reality. Our response, mindset, and the stories we tell ourselves are what shape outcomes. He breaks down a powerful framework: start with an “opportunity mindset,” see challenges with fresh eyes, and focus on cultivating networks rooted in abundance, generosity, and collaboration. Through personal anecdotes—like rebuilding his vandalized home through community support—Mark illustrates that resilience comes from recognizing underused resources, embracing uncertainty, and fostering genuine connections. His work is a call to move beyond competition and scarcity thinking, inviting us to create more by supporting each other, both in business and in life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Ask for help when you need it—and recognize that asking is a gift to others. When we ask and offer support, we heal, connect, and bring the world closer together.

Resources:

Read Opportunity Intelligence: How to Thrive in an Age of Radical Disruption by Mark Monchek
Read Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption by Mark Monchek
Listen: Episode 196: Creating a Culture of Opportunity | with Mark Monchek
Visit Opportunity Lab to learn more about Mark’s consulting and events
Follow Mark Monchek on LinkedIn
UnConference NYC
Support Asheville Rising

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421. “There’s more that binds us together than tears us apart.” | The Humanity Behind Bars with Diane Kahn

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:30:44 +0000

For this episode, we’re honored to welcome Diane Kahn, founding member and executive director of Humans of San Quentin. Diane’s journey began with a simple curiosity that blossomed into a life-changing mission: helping incarcerated people share their stories with the world. Over seven years volunteering at San Quentin, she’s been deeply moved by the vulnerability and emotional intelligence of the men she works with—seeing firsthand how storytelling, art, and letter writing can bridge the gap between those inside and outside the prison walls.

Throughout our conversation, Diane challenges the stigmas and assumptions so many people have about those who are incarcerated. She shares powerful stories that reveal hope, redemption, and an eagerness among incarcerated individuals to give back and make amends. What’s most striking is the transformative power of being heard—how simply listening and sharing a memory can spark profound growth and emotional insight. Diane reminds us that, in many ways, we all crave connection, understanding, and a chance to be seen for who we really are.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t judge. Listen to someone. Look inside of them. Try to erase the judgment.”

Resources:

Learn more at Humans of San Quentin Website
Follow HoSQ on Instagram: @humansofsanquentin
Connect with HoSQ on LinkedIn
Humans of San Quentin Podcast

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420. “Stress is the silent killer” | The Science of Healing Stress Without Drugs with Jim Poole

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:30:55 +0000

In this episode, we sit down with Jim Poole, CEO of NuCalm, a leader in neuroscience-based wellness and performance. Jim’s journey is rooted in a family dedicated to helping others, shaped by parents who were both psychotherapists and a mother who was a true force of nature. Today, he channels that legacy into pioneering technology that allows people to manage their mental state on demand—without drugs or side effects. NuCalm, once a $6,000 FDA-regulated device used in dental surgeries, has evolved into a user-friendly mobile app designed to bring powerful, science-backed brainwave management to anyone, anywhere.

Jim helps us unpack why so many of us are overwhelmed by stress, especially in a post-pandemic world. He breaks down the clash between our “reptile brain” (the amygdala) and our more evolved prefrontal cortex, revealing how chronic stress robs us of the presence and patience we need to thrive. As a society, we’re becoming more aware of our mental health needs, but the proliferation of “silver bullet” wellness apps often falls short. What sets NuCalm apart is decades of research, rigorous FDA approval, and real-world results—helping users tap into healing brainwave states at the press of a button. We come away with a deeper understanding of how practical neuroscience can empower us to take control of our stress and well-being, even amidst life’s chaos.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Take care of yourself. Just because you can’t see, smell, taste, or touch stress doesn’t mean it isn’t impacting you every single day. Do something—anything—to manage your stress, because if you don’t, you won’t like the consequences of stress managing you.

Resources:

Learn more about NuCalm and try a free 7-day trial at NuCalm.com
Use the coupon code DRRICHARD at checkout for 15% off any NuCalm subscription

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419. “Do you want to live?” | Redemption, Rock, and Real Talk with Thomas G. Waites

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 03:00:06 +0000

In this episode, we’re joined by Thomas G. Waites—acclaimed actor, playwright, musician, and star of the raw and riveting one-man show Lucky Man, A Warrior’s Journey, currently playing in New York and produced by Emmy and Golden Globe winner John Goodman. With a storied career spanning film, television, and stage—including cult classics like The Warriors and The Thing—Tom pulls back the curtain on his rollercoaster life, sharing openly about both meteoric highs and hard-won lessons in redemption.

We journey with Tom through his early struggles, the car accident that changed his trajectory, and the drive that led him from the wrong side of the tracks to Juilliard and beyond. But fame wasn’t the final destination—instead, it was his battles with addiction and eventual recovery that truly reshaped his life. Tom’s story is a testament to the messy, nonlinear path of transformation, showing how setbacks, loss, and even self-destruction can become fertile ground for reinvention. Today, he channels his hard-earned wisdom into his art, his teaching, and his commitment to service—reminding us that real success is about who we become and how we help others along the way.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Love others into being and you will be.”

Resources:

Learn more about Thomas’ work at thomasgwaites.com
Follow Thomas’ band on Instagram: @heartbreakwaites

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418. “It Only Takes Six Moments” | The Neuroscience of Fulfillment with Dr. Paul J. Zak

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Dr. Paul J. Zak, acclaimed neuroscientist and bestselling author of The Little Book of Happiness, returns to The Daily Helping to share groundbreaking insights on how connection and fulfillment truly shape our well-being. As a professor and pioneer in behavioral neuroscience, Dr. Zak has spent decades studying what it takes for people to thrive, developing tools that help us measure and build more meaningful lives.

In this episode, Dr. Zak discusses his innovative SIX app, which uses data from everyday smartwatches to track our most valuable, emotionally resonant moments. His research shows that fulfillment isn’t about minimizing stress or chasing endless self-improvement—it’s about being present, nurturing relationships, and making small, positive impacts on those around us.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Make a point to add love to the world. Strive to make every interaction “love plus”—bringing kindness and care to those around you, even if they aren’t always able to do the same. The simple act of connecting with and helping others is at the core of lasting happiness.

Resources:

Read The Little Book of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Living Better by Paul J. Zak
Immersion Neuroscience: immersionneuro.com
SIX App: your6.com
Follow Dr. Paul J. Zak on LinkedIn
Listen: Ep. 1: Love, The Moral Molecule & Trust | with Paul J. Zak (AKA Dr. Love)

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417. “Fear Sells, Optimism Builds” | Lessons on American Strength with Paul Johnson & Larry Aldrich

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:30:00 +0000

On this episode of The Daily Helping, we’re joined by Paul Johnson and Larry Aldrich, two accomplished leaders who have spent decades shaping policy and championing individual rights. Paul, former mayor of Phoenix and host of The Optimistic American podcast, brings deep experience from his roles in business, politics, and international development. Larry, a federal antitrust prosecutor and newspaper CEO, has long defended First Amendment rights and innovation in media. Together, they bring a unique, bipartisan lens to the question: Is America’s future as bright as its past?

As we reflect on their conversation, it’s clear how much negativity and fear dominate the news and our feeds, making it harder for people to feel empowered or hopeful about the future. Paul and Larry remind us that the founders built this country on the power and responsibility of individuals, not institutions, and that our national fabric is woven from courage, imagination, grit, generosity, and optimism. Through stories like Rosa Parks’s compassion and lessons from history, they show us that when we focus on agency and human connection, we not only enrich our own lives but also strengthen our communities.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Paul Johnson:

The differences we had writing this book forced us to communicate, and there’s real joy in that. If you want to find purpose, it’s very hard to do that if you start from a pessimistic point of view. The goal is to find agency, and the good news is, you live in the greatest nation in history. Whatever you do, don’t exclude people from your life just because they don’t think like you. That’s a huge mistake.

Larry Aldrich:

The story of America wasn’t written by institutions—it was written by individuals. Look around your community and find places where you see courage, grit, generosity, and joy every day, because that’s where America shines and where its future lies.

Resources:

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416. “Leadership is for everyone.” | We All Have a Role to Play with Ken Banta

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Ken Banta, founder and CEO of the Vanguard Network, is a recognized expert in leadership and organizational change. With a rich background as a journalist—covering pivotal events like the Eastern European revolutions for Time magazine—Ken transitioned into corporate leadership, helping guide major turnarounds at companies such as Pharmacia and Bausch & Lomb. His latest book, Seeing Around Corners, gathers lessons from top leaders and is designed to inspire everyone, from emerging professionals to global executives.

Ken’s perspective on leadership is shaped by witnessing ordinary people drive extraordinary change, often guided by unexpected leaders like Vaclav Havel. These experiences reinforced his belief that leadership isn’t just for those at the top; anyone, regardless of background or title, can play a vital role. True leaders are consistent in their purpose, adaptable, and agile—qualities that matter as much in everyday life as in the boardroom.

Ken’s key takeaway is simple: leadership is for everyone. Whether you’re leading a team or contributing as an individual, you can make an impact by being clear on your purpose, staying flexible in your approach, and staying connected to those around you. Embrace your own ability to lead and remember—often, the most lasting change comes from ordinary people stepping up in extraordinary ways.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Leadership is really for everybody. The idea that leaders sit at the top of a pyramid with everyone else below them is simply wrong. Not everyone can be the head of a large team, but within any team, everyone can play a leadership role—whether that's leading sideways with colleagues or leading upwards by influencing those at the top.

Resources:

Read Seeing Around Corners by Ken Banta
The Vanguard Network website: thevanguardnetwork.com
Connect with Ken on LinkedIn

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415. “Give thanks to others, help yourself” | Finding Joy Through Gratitude with Joel Zuckerman

Mon, 26 May 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Joel Zuckerman may have made a name for himself as a golf writer, but it’s gratitude—not golf—that transformed his life. With over 300 handwritten letters under his belt, Joel has shifted from penning sports columns to advocating for expressive gratitude as a path to greater well-being. In this episode of The Daily Helping, Dr. Richard sits down with Joel to unpack his latest book, Gratitude Tiger, and the powerful personal journey that inspired it.

Joel’s story begins with a single letter written in 2013, inspired by a two-page chapter in Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff. What started as an intellectual exercise quickly became an emotional revelation, and Joel found himself writing dozens, then hundreds, of gratitude letters to people who had shaped his life. Some recipients responded. Many didn’t. But that wasn’t the point. As Joel says, “Every time I write a letter, it makes me feel good.” His letters have become a practice not just in gratitude, but in personal healing and joy.

Gratitude Tiger offers a framework that’s part inspiration, part instruction manual. Joel shares how even a simple seven-word message—like “You are the cog in the machine”—can have a profound impact. And in one of the book’s most moving chapters, he explores how people facing unthinkable hardship—ALS, cancer, the loss of a child—still manage to find purpose and, yes, gratitude. Joel reminds us that we don’t need to be saints to be grateful. We just need to start.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You write letters of gratitude for yourself. I am not Mother Teresa. I'm not an altruist. The reason I've gone to the computer 280 times over 11 years is that every time I write a letter, it makes me feel good. Yes, the person who receives it will receive what I call collateral joy and be shocked and pleased and taken aback and surprised. But every letter I write is to make myself feel better.”

Resources:

Learn more at gratitudetiger.com
Read Gratitude Tiger: Creating Joy Through the Art of Impactful Letters by Joel Zuckerman
Read Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff... and It’s All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
Follow Joel on Instagram: @gratitude_tiger

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414. “Live a Balanced Life” | Designing Your Best Life with Bill Zujewski

Mon, 19 May 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Bill Zujewski—better known as Bill Z—is the founder of Good Life LLC, creator of the Life by Design system, the ZenScore app, and the Good Life platform. After a long and successful career in enterprise software with companies like Oracle and Tulip, Bill co-founded the Green Business Bureau, which was successfully acquired in 2023. He’s now the author of What’s Your Life Score?, a book and system designed to help people bring intentionality and balance into their everyday lives.

Bill’s journey toward intentional living began while still in the corporate world. After years of climbing the ladder and working with high-tech startups, he experienced a shift: he wanted to do something that had a deeper purpose. What began as a personal spreadsheet to evaluate his year across different life categories eventually became a comprehensive tool for self-assessment. First used with his four children and later expanded into a larger framework, this tool evolved into the Life Score system—a way to measure not just success, but fulfillment across eight key life areas.

The heart of Bill’s approach lies in the acronym HELP GROW: Health, Environment, Leisure, Purpose, Growth, Relationships, Occupation, and Wealth. Each category is scored to assess how balanced and intentional your life is. Whether you’re questioning your purpose, feeling stuck, or just want to improve your habits, Bill emphasizes the power of regular self-check-ins. His takeaway? The happiest people invest time in all areas of life—not just work—and live with purpose and balance. His tools and insights offer a roadmap to get there.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Live a balanced life, and do it intentionally. And balance is not just work and everything else. Manage all eight buckets. Invest in your relationships, invest in leisure, invest in your physical health and go to the gym. There's a playbook for life that is anchored in having a balanced life if you pay attention to all those areas.

Resources:

Learn more at goodliife.com
Read: What’s Your Life Score: A Playbook for Designing Your Best Life
Connect with Bill Zujewski on LinkedIn

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413. “You’re Not Broken” | A Roadmap to Unmasked Self-Discovery with Sol Smith

Mon, 12 May 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Sol Smith is a certified autism specialist, author of The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery, and former college professor who is also autistic, dyslexic, and has ADHD. After spending over twenty years in academia, Sol transitioned into coaching and advocacy, building a large online following and offering guidance to neurodivergent individuals around the world. His work aims to help people better understand themselves and build autonomy—especially those who have felt left behind by systems that weren’t designed with them in mind.

Sol’s personal journey mirrors that of many late-identified autistics. Though he always sensed he was different, it wasn’t until much later that he fully understood his neurotype. Growing up, his family viewed those differences positively, but it wasn’t until creating a podcast during the pandemic that he realized how deeply he had internalized the need to mask his traits. That podcast became the foundation for his book, offering both a critique of traditional education and a guide for navigating life through an autistic lens.

The book serves as a roadmap for unmasking and rebuilding—helping autistic individuals reconnect with themselves after years of performing to meet neurotypical expectations. Sol talks about the emotional toll of masking, the challenge of expressing needs, and how burnout often leads people to seek diagnosis in the first place. He also offers practical tools for identifying what you truly want out of life, communicating with loved ones, and managing stress and rumination. Above all, his message is one of self-acceptance: you're not broken—and you deserve to live as your full, authentic self.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You're not broken. Trust that you're a unique person and you're not defined by your neurotype. You are unique even within that neurotype. Start where you are and accept yourself. You're going to be able to overcome the challenges that you're facing and live a happy life.”

Resources:

Learn more at ProfessorSol.com
Check out NeuroSpicyCommunity.com
Read The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery

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412. “Helping Others Helps You” | Beating Depression and Rewiring Your Mind for Joy with Todd Patkin

Mon, 05 May 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Todd Patkin is a successful entrepreneur turned happiness advocate whose life story took a sharp turn after selling his family business. A Tufts University graduate, Todd spent nearly two decades building that business before it was acquired by Advanced Auto Parts. With his time and energy newly freed, he turned toward philanthropy and mental health advocacy—particularly drawing from his personal battles with depression and anxiety. He went on to write Finding Happiness: One Man’s Quest to Beat Depression and Anxiety and Finally Let the Sunshine In, as well as develop a 12-week happiness program that blends lived experience with psychological insights.

From an early age, Todd had a drive to help people, but his own journey wasn’t easy. He experienced two major breakdowns that left him feeling hopeless and suicidal. Those painful chapters gave him a deep empathy for others struggling with mental health. After running the Boston Marathon to “stay busy” post-sale, he began authoring books and programs to share what helped him find peace—including plenty of humorous, humbling stories that highlight his core message: we’re all human, and we all make mistakes.

Todd’s 12-week program begins with one simple but powerful principle: exercise. It’s the fastest way to change your brain chemistry and spark motivation. But beyond that, his program walks people through the work of reprogramming their inner dialogue, identifying their strengths, setting boundaries with toxic people, and finding joy through gratitude, community, and service. As Todd reminds us, “The happiest people are those that help others”—and that happiness, no matter your starting point, is something you can actively build.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I always tell people who are feeling awful to go to the gym. It's the quickest way to feel better. Go to the gym and feel stronger and more powerful, but start off easy so you don't get turned off.

Resources:

Learn more at toddpatkin.com
Read Finding Happiness: One Man’s Quest to Beat Depression and Anxiety and–Finally–Let the Sunshine In
Listen: Tony Robbins – Personal Power II
Read: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Read: The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
Connect with Todd on LinkedIn

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411. “You’ve Got to Kick the Doors In” | The Untold Story of America’s First Black Tycoon with Butch Meily

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Butch Meily has lived a remarkable life bridging cultures between the United States and the Philippines, carving out a career that spans public relations, corporate communications, and journalism. With stints at top PR firms and as VP of Communications for TLC Beatrice International, Meily’s storytelling prowess has graced publications like The Wall Street Journal and Black Enterprise. But perhaps his most defining chapter is the one he shares in his memoir, From Manila to Wall Street, chronicling his journey alongside trailblazing business magnate Reginald Lewis.

Meily’s story begins as an immigrant arriving in America in 1977, escaping the confines of a strict Catholic upbringing to embrace the freedoms of a new world. It was a time of transformation—personally and professionally—that led him to a serendipitous encounter with Lewis. From a windowless PR office to the boardrooms of billion-dollar deals, Meily found himself in the orbit of a man he describes as “the sun”—charismatic, commanding, and determined to leave his mark on history. Lewis was not only the first African American to own a global conglomerate, but he was also a mentor who exposed Meily to the realities of race, success, and sacrifice in America.

Through their journey, Meily gleaned hard-won lessons: success demands relentless effort, perceived limits must be challenged, and even the most powerful achievements mean little without connection. As he reflects now, it’s not the billion-dollar takeovers or champagne-filled boardrooms that define a life well lived—it’s family, love, and showing up for the people who matter. Meily’s tribute to Lewis reminds us that legacy is not just what we build, but who we bring along with us.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The most important thing in your life is being with your family and staying close to your loved ones. Because you're going to regret it if you don't talk to your kid, go to the movie with them, or watch their ball games. You're going to regret it someday. Stay close to the people you love because in the end, that's all you're going to have.

Resources:

Learn more at butchmeily.com
Pre-order From Manila to Wall Street: An Immigrant Story of America’s First Black Tycoon

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410. “Don’t forget to SMILE” | Creating Philanthrotainment with Barry Shore

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Barry Shore is known as the “Ambassador of Joy,” and for good reason. A successful entrepreneur with multiple patents and a top-ranked podcast, Barry has turned immense personal adversity into a global movement of giving. After a rare disease suddenly rendered him a quadriplegic, Barry rebuilt his life from the ground up. Today, he swims two miles a day, six days a week, and has reached millions through his Keep Smiling cards, his podcast The Joy of Living, and now, through a groundbreaking platform: Einstein Cares.

Barry’s journey is one of deep transformation. At the peak of his career, he went from healthy and thriving to completely paralyzed overnight. That experience became the catalyst for his most impactful work. As he lay in bed unable to move, his wife asked him if they could donate to a charity providing wheelchairs to those in need. That moment sparked an idea: a platform where shopping could fuel giving, automatically and without extra cost to the consumer. It took 15 years for the technology to catch up to Barry’s vision, but the result was worth the wait.

Einstein Cares is Barry’s bold answer to democratizing philanthropy. Through a simple, secure platform, users can link their credit cards, shop as they normally would at over 20,000 participating merchants—including Amazon, Nike, Home Depot, and thousands of local restaurants—and automatically earn cash back while donating an equal amount to the charity of their choice. Barry calls it “philanthrotainment”—an ecosystem of good that makes giving fun, effortless, and woven into everyday life. His biggest helping? “Learn to live in joy daily.” And with Einstein Cares, he’s making that joy contagious.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Learn to live in joy daily. And the best way to do that is to utilize that which you enjoy doing, which is to smile, and understand that SMILE stands for Seeing Miracles In Life Everyday. You are a good-looking person because you're always looking for and finding the good in life.

Resources:

Learn more at barryshore.com
Instagram: @barryeshore
Ep. 188: Find the Joy of Living, Pt. 1 | with Barry Shore
Ep. 189: Find the Joy of Living, Pt. 2 | with Barry Shore

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409. “AI Won’t Kill Us—It Could Make Us More Human” | Leadership in the Age of AI with Marissa Afton

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Marissa Afton is a partner and Head of Global Accounts at Potential Project, a global leadership development firm focused on building more human workplaces. With over 20 years of experience in workplace well-being and performance, Marissa helps leaders drive cultural excellence, innovation, and resilience. She’s also the co-author of More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead, and her work appears in outlets like Forbes and Harvard Business Review.

Her passion for human-centered leadership began with her father, a corporate attorney who discovered mindfulness to bring balance to his fast-paced life. That practice deeply influenced Marissa’s career and continues to shape her work today. At Potential Project, she’s spent the past decade helping organizations create mindful, connected, and compassionate work environments.

In our conversation, Marissa challenges the common fear that AI will dehumanize us. Instead, she argues that when used intentionally, AI can actually enhance our humanity. Whether it’s helping leaders free up time for meaningful conversations or serving as a mirror for self-reflection, AI has the potential to support—not replace—our most human qualities. The key is making sure we’re still in the driver’s seat. For Marissa, the future of leadership is not about competing with machines—it’s about leading with heart.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

In our world today, we have lost a lot of the humanness in our day-to-day interactions. Hopefully, we're still staying human in our communities and in our families. But in our workplaces and in our lives, I think we're just going at such a fast pace. We have abdicated a lot of our humanness to other people's perspectives and technology. And really, to be able to keep coming back to our human connection will really, I think, help us in the long run for all of us.

Resources:

Learn more at www.potentialproject.com
Read More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead
Connect with Marissa on LinkedIn

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408. “Emptiness is the only real fulfillment.” | The Radical Art of Lessening with Billy Wynne

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Billy Wynne has been a devoted student of Buddhism and mindfulness for over 30 years, trained under renowned teachers like Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and quoted in outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. But his latest work, The Empty Path: Finding Fulfillment Through the Radical Art of Lessening, is more than just another book on mindfulness—it’s a vulnerable exploration of his personal journey through addiction, burnout, and spiritual rediscovery. With a deep understanding of Buddhist principles and real-world experience navigating life’s messiness, Billy invites readers to radically reimagine how they pursue peace and purpose.

Billy’s turning point came not during a retreat or in silent meditation, but behind the wheel of a car after closing his alcohol-free bar. That moment—where he found himself numb to the idea of dying—forced him to confront the truth: his pursuit of “more” was quietly breaking him. From childhood trauma to years of alcohol abuse masked by outward success, Billy’s path led him through real emotional reckoning. It was only through embracing the Buddhist idea of “emptiness”—a concept often misunderstood as nihilism—that he found true clarity and fulfillment.

What Billy teaches isn’t about renouncing your life or abandoning your responsibilities. Instead, it’s about relating to them differently. Lessening, in his words, isn’t subtraction for the sake of scarcity—it’s a way of clearing space so that what matters most can flourish. You don’t have to leave your job or family. You just have to meet them with more presence, more patience, and a deeper sense of who you really are. And that self? It’s already complete. As Billy says, the path isn’t somewhere far off—it’s right beneath your feet.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The empty path is not something that is on a hillside in Tibet. It's not in the clouds. It's not in your mind. It is right here under your feet. You are already on it. You are walking it every day with every breath.

Resources:

Learn more at BillyWynne.com
Read The Empty Path: Finding Fulfillment Through the Radical Art of Lessening

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407. “Peace Has to Begin Within” | Cultivating Inner Peace and Transformation with Reema Datta

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Reema Datta, renowned yoga and Ayurveda instructor and author of The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind, has shared her wisdom across five continents, helping countless students, including celebrities like Sting and Paul Simon, discover profound inner peace and transformation. Her journey blends traditional Indian heritage with modern struggles and discoveries, offering a unique approach to ancient practices.

Reema's story is a powerful illustration of how life's challenges can become gateways to deeper self-understanding. After initially pursuing medicine and economics and working with the United Nations, the events of 9/11 served as a pivotal moment, steering her towards embracing yoga fully. Later, facing personal turmoil from a difficult separation, Reema reconnected with ancient teachings on consciousness and emotional resilience, profoundly reshaping her practice and perspective.

The heart of Reema's teachings revolves around understanding our minds and emotions through the framework of yoga and Ayurveda. She emphasizes that genuine transformation occurs when we address the mental afflictions—or kleshas—such as anger, fear, attachment, and anxiety, using practical wisdom that has stood the test of millennia. By recognizing our innate constitutions and the elemental imbalances within, we can proactively heal ourselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Reema encourages a daily, structured practice that fosters new neural pathways, nurturing a resilient mind capable of sustained inner peace.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Whatever you've been through, it is possible to move through those emotions and free ourselves of the grip that they can have on us. And we can absolutely cultivate inner peace. And that will ripple outward in our surroundings. And it will make a difference. Know that if you are suffering in your mind, there are beautiful ways to heal ourselves and free ourselves.

Resources:

Read The Yogi’s Way: Transform Your Mind by Reema Datta
Reema Datta’s Website
Reema Datta on Instagram

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406. "Find Your Inner Warrior" | Overcoming Adversity with Wayne Forrest

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:30:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we’re joined by Wayne Forrest, a transformational coach, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author of The Inner Warrior: The Power Within. Wayne’s story is one of resilience, reinvention, and the unwavering power of the human spirit.

At 25, Wayne’s life changed in an instant when a rugby injury left him paralyzed. A fiercely independent farmer and athlete, he suddenly found himself unable to move, facing an uncertain future. The weight of that reality was overwhelming, but deep within, he heard a voice—a calling to pursue what he loved. That voice became his guiding force, leading him to rebuild his life, return to farming, and ultimately step into his purpose as a coach and mentor.

Wayne’s journey isn’t just about overcoming physical limitations; it’s about unlocking the potential within. He shares how our internal programming, shaped by past experiences and fears, can keep us stuck. But by embracing what he calls the “inner warrior,” we can break free, take control, and create lives we truly love. His book offers a roadmap for stepping into this power, particularly for men who struggle with vulnerability and self-worth.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Understand that you have intuition. You have an inner sense, a quiet knowing. Recognize that there’s something within you that already has the answers. It’s intelligence. It’s instinct. It’s your intuition. Start listening to it. Build a relationship with it. And then, take a simple but powerful step: create a vision of what you would love. Tune in to the longing and the discontent within you—those feelings are signposts pointing you toward what matters most. Ask yourself, What would I love to create? Then begin taking the steps you can from exactly where you are. It’s not complicated. The real challenge is recognizing your old human patterning and choosing something different. When you feel stuck—when you catch yourself thinking, I just want to lie on the couch, zone out, do nothing—notice it. That’s not who you are. That’s just programming. You have the power to choose. You can step out of that and into your inner warrior, taking even one small step toward the life you truly want.

Resources:

Learn more about Wayne Forrest: WayneForrest.com
Read: The Inner Warrior: The Power Within

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405. “Invest in people.” | Giftology and Honoring John Ruhlin’s Legacy with Sara Hardwick

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:30:00 +0000

In this heartfelt episode of The Daily Helping, we pay tribute to the legacy of John Ruhlin, a visionary in the art of radical generosity and the founder of Giftology. Joining us is Sara Hardwick, the community relationship strategist at Giftology, who is continuing John’s mission of fostering authentic and meaningful connections.

John's philosophy was simple yet transformative: relationships should be at the heart of everything we do. He revolutionized business networking and client relationships by teaching the power of thoughtful giving—not as a transactional tool, but as a foundation for true connection. His work continues to inspire people to move beyond traditional business tactics and invest in relationships in ways that matter. With the upcoming release of Beyond Giftology, Sara shares how John’s teachings are being carried forward and how we can all integrate generosity into our personal and professional lives.

One of the key takeaways from this episode is the concept of return on relationships (ROR)—a philosophy that prioritizes meaningful connections over short-term gains. Sara introduces practical strategies, such as "tap meetings" and "clarity conversations," that help ensure relationships don’t fall through the cracks. Whether in business or in life, investing in people leads to deeper trust, loyalty, and success. As John often said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive"—a sentiment that remains at the core of Giftology’s mission today.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Do one thing today to add value to a relationship, give more, and look at the world through a generous lens. It is more blessed to give than it is to receive.”

Resources:

Learn more about John Ruhlin’s work and Giftology at giftologygroup.com
Connect with Sara Hardwick on LinkedIn
Get your copy of Beyond Giftology

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404. "Stop Believing Your Own Lies" | Leadership, Communication, and Growth with Sabina Nawaz

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:30:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we welcome back elite executive coach Sabina Nawaz, nearly five years to the day since her last appearance. Sabina is a trusted advisor to C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions worldwide. A former Microsoft leader who managed executive development for over 11,000 managers—including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer—Sabina has since dedicated her career to helping leaders navigate high-pressure environments while fostering growth and resilience. She’s been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and many more. Today, she joins us to discuss her new book, You're the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be and Others Need.

Sabina shares her deeply personal leadership journey, revealing how she went from being a celebrated manager to an overwhelmed leader who lost touch with her team—only to turn things around through self-awareness and intentional change. She breaks down key insights from her book, including the concept of "communication fault lines," the dangers of the "sole provider" mindset, and the critical importance of developing what she calls the "shut-up muscle." With over 12,000 pages of leadership feedback gathered from her coaching career, she provides data-backed strategies for creating a thriving workplace culture.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Sabina urges us to stop believing our own limiting narratives and challenge the “yeah, but” excuses we tell ourselves. Instead, she encourages adopting an improv-inspired yes, and mindset—expanding our perspectives and opening ourselves up to new possibilities. Whether you’re a manager, a parent, or just someone navigating life’s pressures, this episode is packed with invaluable leadership lessons.

Resources:

Sabina Nawaz’s Website: sabinanawaz.com
Sabina Nawaz on LinkedIn: LinkedIn
Sabina Nawaz on Instagram: @SabinaCoaching
Read: You're the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be and Others Need

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403. “You Don’t Have to Go to India to Find God” | The Power of Kindness with Leon Logothetis

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000

Leon Logothetis is a global adventurer, philanthropist, and best-selling author best known for his hit Netflix series The Kindness Diaries. He has circumnavigated the world on a vintage yellow motorbike, relying solely on the generosity of strangers. Whether he’s giving life-changing gifts to those who show him kindness or inspiring audiences as a motivational speaker, Leon’s mission is clear: to highlight the power of human connection and restore faith in our shared humanity. His newest film, The Kindness Within: A Journey to Freedom, documents his search for inner peace and purpose in the spiritual heartland of India.

Leon’s quest for purpose was born out of a deeply personal place. Despite finding international success and recognition, Leon felt trapped in a cycle of depression and emptiness. He reached a breaking point while working a corporate job and, after watching The Motorcycle Diaries, left it all behind to travel the globe and meet people on a heart level. Yet, even journeying around the world couldn’t fully quiet the internal battles he faced. In a moment of desperation, Leon decided to travel to India to confront his pain head-on, immersing himself in the teachings of spiritual leaders and a culture where presence and self-reflection take center stage.

His biggest realization—and the central theme of his transformative experiences—is that true change begins with a single step. For Leon, it was picking up The Autobiography of a Yogi and boarding a flight to India. But for you, it could be calling a friend, starting therapy, or simply silencing your smartphone for an hour. As Leon puts it, awareness is the key. Each small, mindful action helps us uncover the peace within ourselves, reminding us that the greatest journey we’ll ever take is the one we embark on inside our own hearts.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You don't have to quit your job and start traveling the world on kindness. You don't have to go to India to find God. All you have to do is take one step. One step on your journey of freedom and spirituality. If that step is calling a therapist, call a therapist. If that step is calling a friend and telling the friend your pain, call the friend. If the step is going to a bookshop and buying a book on hope or depression, buy a book on hope and depression. My journey was out of the box, but it was my journey. Your journey can be one single step. That's where it begins.

Resources:

Learn more at leonlogothetis.com
Follow Leon on Instagram: @thekindnessguy
Watch The Kindness Within on Amazon Prime

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402. “You’re only seeing half of the full picture” | Look Beyond the Headlines with Jeffrey Sanow

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we’re joined by Jeffrey Sanow, a veteran CIA intelligence officer and security expert whose career has been shaped by high-stakes decision-making, risk management, and global operations. With years spent navigating the complexities of international intelligence, Jeffrey has developed a keen understanding of leadership, communication, and adaptability—skills that translate beyond the intelligence field into everyday life and work. He now shares these insights in his new book, Humint for Humanity: The Road Less Traveled.

Jeffrey’s journey to the CIA was anything but conventional. Growing up in a difficult household, he sought both adventure and purpose, leading him to join the Peace Corps, where he worked on farm machinery in North and Central Africa. His time abroad helped him develop an ability to assimilate into vastly different cultures, learn new languages, and navigate unfamiliar terrains—experiences that ultimately paved the way for his career in intelligence. His work in the CIA took him to some of the world's most volatile regions, where he learned firsthand the importance of taking care of his people and making tough decisions under pressure.

One of the most profound lessons Jeffrey shares is the necessity of empowering people to fail. As a leader, he understood that if his team wasn’t allowed to take risks, they wouldn’t be able to innovate or succeed. He recounts a pivotal moment when an intelligence analyst hesitated on a lead about weapons of mass destruction, fearing that it might be too late to act. His response? "You swing at every pitch." That mindset ultimately led to intercepting and stopping a critical shipment. Whether in intelligence, business, or personal life, Jeffrey’s insights remind us that failure isn’t the enemy—it’s part of the process of growth, learning, and leadership.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Everybody should be empowered to fail. If you don't empower your staff, your employees, whatever the relationship is, if you don't empower them to fail, they are not going to try their hardest to succeed. Failure is part of life.”

Resources:

Connect with Jeffrey on LinkedIn
Learn more: jeffreyssanow.com

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401. "You can dream bigger" | Manifestation and Personal Growth with Kathleen Cameron

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we sit down with Kathleen Cameron, one of the world’s leading manifestation mentors and the founder of Diamond Academy. Kathleen has transformed thousands of lives through her innovative approach to personal growth, generating over $30 million in under four years. She is the author of two international bestsellers, Becoming the One and The Best of Yourself, and the host of The Manifested Podcast.

Kathleen’s journey to success wasn’t always paved with ease. Just five years ago, she was living a very different life as a registered nurse in Canada, working long hours and constantly striving for more. Despite an impressive career, she found herself stuck in a cycle of exhaustion and unfulfillment, even experiencing frequent fainting spells from extreme dieting and stress. This wake-up call led her to study mindset and manifestation, shifting her focus from professional development to deep personal growth. She realized that true transformation starts from within—by changing her beliefs about herself, she unlocked an extraordinary life she once thought was out of reach.

Through her signature approach, The Art of Expansion, Kathleen teaches that growth should be the primary driver in life. She shares how the key to manifestation lies in aligning your inner world with your desired reality, rather than chasing external validation. Her philosophy includes eliminating negativity by refusing to gossip, vent, or complain, using imagination to embody confidence and success, and consistently holding onto the vision of what you want—no matter how long it takes to materialize.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The life that you live today doesn't have to be your final destination. Any and all things are possible. If you're willing to really go within and ask yourself those questions about who am I, how do I see myself, what kind of difference can I make in the world? When you do that, you’ll be able to experience whatever it is you want outside of you.”

Resources:

Learn more at kathleencameronofficial.com
Listen to The Manifested Podcast
Follow Kathleen on Instagram: @kathleencameronmanifests
Listen to Episode 50: Elevating Consciousness, One Miracle Morning at a Time with Hal Elrod

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400. “Money doesn’t have to define you.” | Redefining Wealth with Elizabeth Husserl

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0000

Elizabeth Husserl is a financial advisor and co-founder of Peak 360 Wealth Management. With a BA in economics from Tulane and a master’s in east-west psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, she bridges financial literacy and emotional well-being. She’s led workshops for Airbnb, Unity, and Google, and now shares her expertise in her new book, The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money.

Raised by financially stable parents—a doctor and a therapist—Elizabeth still felt a deep sense of scarcity growing up. This, she discovered, was tied to her family’s history of fleeing Europe during World War II. Her perspective shifted further while working with indigenous women in Oaxaca, Mexico, where she saw communities rich in connection and purpose despite limited material wealth.

In The Power of Enough, Elizabeth redefines wealth beyond just financial stability. She introduces practices like the “satiation practice,” encouraging people to identify daily moments of fulfillment, both with and without money. By shifting focus from scarcity to satisfaction, Elizabeth shows that true wealth comes from recognizing that we are already enough.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Do not feel crazy because you feel scarcity. We are wired to feel scarcity. But what you also have is the ability to develop this new muscle around satiation and fulfillment. We are wired to seek. We need to practice fulfillment to offset that desire to seek.

Resources:

Learn more at elizabethhusserl.com
Read: The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money
Follow Elizabeth on Instagram: @elizabethhusserl

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399. “Your communication is broken. Here’s how to fix it.” | The Pause Principle with Cynthia Kane

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0000

Most of us don’t realize how much our communication habits shape our relationships—until they start causing problems. Whether it’s shutting down, reacting defensively, or struggling to express ourselves clearly, these patterns can hold us back. But what if we could change the way we communicate?

Cynthia Kane, best-selling author and founder of the Kane Intentional Communication Institute, has helped over 70,000 people do just that. After the sudden loss of her first love, she discovered the Buddhist principles of right speech—truthfulness, non-exaggeration, helpful language, and avoiding gossip—which transformed how she spoke to herself and others.

In The Pause Principle, Cynthia introduces the SOFTEN technique, a method for managing reactivity by creating space between stimulus and response. Whether at work or home, this practice helps us stay calm, reduce conflict, and strengthen our relationships. Her message is simple: with practice, we can all learn to communicate with greater clarity, kindness, and intention.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You can change the way that you communicate. I think that most of the time, we don't think it's possibl,e and it really is a learned practice. It is something that you can shift and change and start learning new practices to start interacting in a way that feels really, really good to you.”

Resources:

Learn more at cynthiakane.com
Follow Cynthia on Instagram: @cykane1
Watch Cynthia’s videos on YouTube
Read The Pause Principle
Read How to Meditate Like a Buddhist
Read How to Communicate Like a Buddhist

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398. "You Can Do Tough Things" | Building Resilience and Empowerment with Allison Guilbault

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0000

In this insightful episode of The Daily Helping, we welcome Allison Guilbault, a licensed therapist and the visionary behind Mindful Mental Health. Known for her expertise in anxiety, trauma, and intimacy, Allison also coaches women and hosts her own podcast, Becoming Unstoppable. With appearances in major outlets like Psychology Today and Medium, she brings a wealth of knowledge and passion for helping others unlock their inner strength.

Allison’s personal story began with her own struggles with anxiety, stretching back to high school. She recounts her first panic attack at 15, a moment that left her searching for answers and support in a time when mental health resources were far less accessible. This personal journey of navigating anxiety and seeking better mental health inspired her to become a therapist. She’s now committed to creating a safe space for others to explore their emotions, empowering them to find clarity and take charge of their lives.

A central takeaway from Allison’s work is the transformative power of mindset. She emphasizes the importance of flexibility, creativity, and patience when navigating life’s challenges. Using her own experience of leaving a high-powered, yet unfulfilling career as a private investigator, she highlights the value of small, creative steps toward a more authentic and fulfilling life. Whether it’s practicing somatic techniques, adopting empowering mantras, or seeking objective support, Allison reminds us that transformation begins within. As she says, “You can do it. Just keep reminding yourself.”

For those feeling stuck or overwhelmed, Allison’s advice provides a roadmap for reclaiming joy and purpose. Tune in to learn more about how to cultivate resilience and take the first steps toward becoming the best version of yourself.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You can do it. Just keep reminding yourself that you can do it. That has shifted my entire life, just constantly repeating, you can do it, you can do tough things. It is a game changer. It opens up a whole world.

Resources:

Learn more at learnfromyourtherapist.com
Follow Allison Guilbault on Instagram: @anotefromyourtherapist
Listen to Becoming Unstoppable on Apple Podcasts

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397. "Unlock life’s highest truths" | Spiritual Awakening and Energy Healing with Eva Müller

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0000

Eva Müller, a spiritual teacher and energy healer, has transformed countless lives with her unique approach to unlocking personal potential. Her work combines high vibrational divine energy transmissions with profound insights into consciousness, guiding people toward their true nature. Known for her ability to simplify complex spiritual ideas, Eva has become a trusted guide for those seeking to heal and grow.

Eva’s spiritual journey began with a deep longing for fulfillment. Despite academic and career achievements, she felt incomplete until discovering meditation. This transformative practice revealed profound states of silence and freedom, inspiring her to explore energy healing and consciousness. Over time, Eva developed her ability to clear emotional blockages and raise vibrations, helping others find clarity and joy.

Through her work, Eva empowers individuals to release limiting beliefs and embrace their highest truths. Her methods offer a blend of ancient wisdom and modern spirituality, creating pathways to joy, intuition, and authenticity. Her work serves as an invitation to embrace life’s possibilities with openness and surrender.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Have openness. There are other possibilities out there you might not have known about yet. Look into them and give them a try. We experience very intense times on Earth and collectively and individually. And we have these tools now available, and they are helping us. It is such a great opportunity if you’re open to it.

Resources:

Learn more at em-healing.com
Next Elevations: nextelevations.com
Subscribe to Eva’s YouTube Channel
Follow Eva on Instagram: @_em_healing_

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396. "You’re Doing Community All Wrong" | Community-Building Insights from Maayan Gordon’s Billion-View Journey

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0000

Maayan Gordon is a renowned community-building expert with over a billion video views and millions of followers. Her journey from personal challenges to entrepreneurial success has made her a sought-after authority on creating thriving communities. Maayan specializes in helping individuals and businesses foster meaningful connections that drive engagement, loyalty, and success.

Maayan emphasizes the importance of purpose in building communities that truly matter. She explains how intentionality and understanding your audience’s needs are key to creating spaces where members feel a sense of belonging and can contribute meaningfully. Whether for personal growth or business success, communities play a vital role in energizing and empowering individuals to take action.

Maayan’s advice is simple yet profound: dedicate at least five minutes daily to reconnect with your meaning and purpose. This small but powerful habit helps align your actions with your values and keeps you motivated to tackle life’s challenges. As Maayan reminds us, life is hard, but staying connected to what truly matters can be transformative.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

No matter how busy you are, set aside a minimum of five minutes to just reconnect with your meaning and your purpose every single day. Making this a part of your day every single day to keep you aligned and oriented is so powerful.

Resources:

Learn more at maayangordon.com
Connect with Maayan on LinkedIn
Follow Maayan on Instagram: @maayangordonmedia

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395.“Ayahuasca Will Always Give You What You Need” | Psychedelic Healing with Melissa Osorio

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0000

In this transformative episode, Dr. Richard sits down with Melissa Osorio, bestselling author and transformational speaker, to discuss her powerful journey from childhood trauma to self-discovery and healing. Melissa opens up about her past, including a tumultuous childhood in Venezuela and the profound impact of her father's murder. After years of struggling to fit societal norms, she found healing through plant medicine, specifically ayahuasca.

Melissa shares the science behind ayahuasca, how it helps unlock repressed trauma, and the importance of integrating these insights into daily life. Her book, Hidden Memories: How to Discover What’s Blocking You from Life and Love, serves as a guide for anyone seeking to overcome emotional roadblocks. Melissa’s story is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power of self-awareness.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Become more aware of your actions and emotions– not to just live life on autopilot, but question yourself. And if you find things that don't fit, I encourage you to really look for the answers, however you want to, relentlessly.

Resources:

Read “Hidden Memories: Discover What's Blocking You from Life and Love” by Melissa Osorio
Follow Melissa Osorio on Instagram: @Melissa_Osorio_Remembers
Learn more at Melissa-Osorio.com

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394. “Pray for the Bear” | Slaying What Holds You Back with Carly Fauth

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:30:00 +0000

In this episode, Carly Fauth, fitness instructor and founder of FitFun Carly, shares her incredible journey of overcoming triple-negative breast cancer.

Carly discusses how movement and fitness became her lifeline during treatment, helping her build both mental and physical resilience. She offers insights from her book, Pray for the Bear: An Ordinary Person's Guide to Unlocking Extraordinary Personal Strength, including the importance of naming your challenges—like her tumor “Belinda”—to make them less daunting.

Carly also emphasizes the power of community, urging listeners to surround themselves with people who uplift and support them. Her practical advice on staying present, building strength, and maintaining hope in adversity is sure to inspire anyone facing life’s toughest battles.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Don't lose hope. Always look for that bright light. Keep your eye on the horizon and believe in yourself. You are always stronger than you think you are.

Resources:

Read Carly Fauth’s book “Pray for the Bear: An Ordinary Person's Guide to Unlocking Extraordinary Personal Strength”
Listen to Carly Fauth’s podcast “Chemo Coffee Talk”
Learn more at FitFunCarly.com
Follow Carly Fauth on Instagram: @FitFunCarly

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393. “Powerless on the Bathroom Floor” | Reclaim Your Radiance with Becca Powers

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Becca Powers, a high-achieving Fortune 500 sales executive, found herself facing an emotional collapse despite her outward success. Known for her leadership and accolades, including generating $500 million in annual revenue, Becca’s defining moment came not in the boardroom but on her bathroom floor. Her story reminds us that true success starts within.

Becca’s journey to becoming a Kundalini Yoga teacher and author wasn’t glamorous or immediate. She returned to work the day after her breakdown, learning to rebuild her life step by step. From setting boundaries to reconnecting with childhood joys like writing and creativity, she transformed not only her career but also her health and relationships. Becca's story emphasizes that small, intentional changes can lead to profound shifts in life.

Her advice? Take time to rediscover what once lit you up. Whether it’s a childhood hobby or a long-forgotten passion, integrating these elements into your life can reignite your radiance. “Time is an excuse,” Becca says. Even 18 minutes a day can create a meaningful impact over time.

Becca’s books, Harness Your Inner CEO and A Return to Radiance, offer practical strategies for embracing your full potential. Her message is clear: You deserve to live a life that is alive.

Let Becca’s journey inspire you to start your own path toward a radiant and fulfilling life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You deserve to live a life that is alive. You deserve to return to your radiance and experience the gifts that are in it.

Resources:

Learn more at BeccaPowers.com
Read “A Return to Radiance” by Becca Powers
Read “Harness Your Inner CEO” by Becca Powers
Check out “The Workplace Burnout Workbook” by Becca Powers
Follow Becca Powers on Instagram: @BeccaPowers1313

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392. “You Are The Problem” | Being the Problem and the Solution with Kayla Logue

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:30:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, Dr. Richard Shuster is joined by Kayla Logue, a trailblazer committed to empowering individuals to redefine their paths and take charge of their destinies. A bestselling author and founder of the nonprofit Move Into Words, Kayla shares her inspiring journey of self-discovery and transformation.

Kayla opens up about her pivotal moment during the COVID-19 pandemic when she realized she was living a life dictated by societal norms rather than her true desires. With only $900, she decided to start over, redefining success and embracing radical accountability. Through her nonprofit’s initiative, Operation One Million Journals, Kayla aims to bring clarity and purpose to countless young professionals by fostering journaling as a tool for growth.

Her latest book, Always Squeezing Lemons, takes readers on a journey of resilience, self-forgiveness, and the pursuit of purpose. In this conversation, Kayla breaks down her “3 Ds” framework—Dream It, Define It, Do It—offering actionable advice for creating a life of meaning and contribution.

Tune in to discover how journaling became the cornerstone of Kayla’s transformation, why redefining your inner circle matters, and how a shift from consumption to contribution can ignite passion and purpose in your life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

When you realize you can be the cause, problem, and solution for everything in your life, your world changes. That's a simple mindset shift that things out of our control give us a lot of anxiety, whether we realize it or not. But if we can really reframe anything that's bothering us, what control do we have in that moment? And what can we do to release distress or take that away from us? But at the end of the day, we are the only ones in control of our actions and our responses. And when we can really live life that way, it's interesting how your perspective starts to change.

Resources:

Learn more about Kayla Logue’s Move Into Words nonprofit and its Operation One Million Journals initiative
Read “Always Squeezing Lemons” by Kayla Logue
Check out Kayla’s website: KaylaLogue.com
Follow Kayla on Instagram: @KaylaLogue

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391. Stop Trying to Be So Happy | Achievable Contentment with Paul Ollinger

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:30:00 +0000

In this uplifting episode of The Daily Helping, Dr. Richard Shuster welcomes Paul Ollinger, a nationally touring comedian, writer, and host of the Reasonably Happy podcast. With a career that spans opening for stars like Chelsea Handler and LL Cool J to being an early employee at Facebook, Paul shares his remarkable journey of self-discovery, creativity, and personal fulfillment.

Paul opens up about leaving a high-powered corporate role to chase his dream of comedy and the identity crisis that followed. He delves into the nuanced relationship between money, happiness, and purpose, which became the foundation for his latest book, Reasonably Happy: Essays on Money, Work, and Other Things That Piss Me Off. Through humor, storytelling, and reflections on Stoic philosophy, Paul reveals how finding "reasonable happiness" can lead to a more content and balanced life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Take the time to be grateful and be specific.

Resources:

Find all things Paul Ollinger at PaulOllinger.com
Read Ryan Holiday’s books on Stoicism
Read “How Good Do We Have To Be?”
Read “Good Enough Parent”
Read “Option B”

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390. Feel Waves of Bliss All the Time | Affirmation and Enlightenment with Michele Blood

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:30:00 +0000

In this powerful and inspiring episode, Dr. Richard Schuster welcomes Michele Blood, an internationally celebrated songwriter, speaker, and transformational teacher. Michele shares her extraordinary journey from being a successful rock singer in Australia to a life-changing accident that led her down the path of self-discovery and enlightenment.

Michele opens up about her recovery process and how affirmations became a cornerstone of her healing. She turned her affirmations into songs, creating a genre that harmonizes music with positive transformation. Throughout her journey, Michele collaborated with iconic figures like Bob Proctor, Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Jack Canfield, all while developing tools and programs to help others uncover their inner light.

Tune in to learn how decluttering your environment can shift your energy, why living in the moment is transformative, and how embracing meditation can unlock a heart glow that propels you toward joy and fulfillment. Plus, hear Michele’s practical advice on embracing your uniqueness to serve others and find happiness.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Please know that you are so loved and you are not just a human being. You are a powerful spirit. You are immortal consciousness. And God, whatever you choose to call God, literally wants you to have everything that will give you happiness. Because once you have that happiness, you start to have more compassion for others and you don't wanna see suffering. You don't have to suffer. You're never alone. You've come to Dr. Richard because he is a soul who cares and knows that about you. So know that you may, if you ever feel alone, know that you are not. You are never, ever alone and you are loved.

Resources:

Learn more at MicheleBlood.com/DailyHelping
Read “The Magic Of Affirmation Power” by Michele Blood
Read “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill

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389. Beef Up Your Intuition “Muscle” | Unlock Your Power with Happy Ali

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000

What if you could tap into a deeper, intuitive understanding of yourself and the world? That’s exactly what Happy Ali, author of The Intuition Bible: How and When to Tap Into Your Inner Wisdom, teaches us. A master NLP practitioner and clinical hypnotherapist, Happy’s journey began with an extraordinary life event—a self-induced near-death experience that changed his perspective forever. Emerging from despair with newfound clarity, he legally adopted the name Happy to reflect his commitment to joy and positivity.

Happy’s story is a testament to the power of intuition and perspective. His journey has not been without hardship—losing a son at a young age being one of his greatest challenges—but his ability to reframe and access inner wisdom has allowed him to thrive and help others. For Happy, the secret to happiness lies in perspective: “Life offers two pools—muddy or clear water—and the choice of where to swim is yours.”

If you’re seeking practical ways to enhance your intuition, Happy suggests starting small. Try this: ask yourself a question with a clear “yes” or “no” answer and focus on the sensations in your body. Over time, you’ll learn to trust your inner compass. As Happy says, “Your intuition is like a whisper—it’s quiet but powerful, guiding you to a more fulfilling life.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Don't look at life as something fixed and don't look at yourself as something that's trapped in a box of your own judgment and other people's beliefs. There is so much more to this world and the only way to access the best version of you is to release these preconceived notions of who you think you are and who others are. Just play in this world, be more curious, bring back the child within you that didn't care about results and just played because there is so much more to this world. And you're never alone. There's always lots of, whether it's your subconscious or your spirit guides or God or angels, you always have eternal support and it only can be accessed when you open your mind up to it and allow that information to come through. Because life is hard enough to do it on your own. So let's not do it on our own.

Resources:

Read “The Intuition Bible”
Listen to the Happy Insights podcast
Follow Happy Ali on Instagram: @HappyInsightsOfficial
Check out Happy’s Linktree

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388. These Universal Laws will Change Your Life | Quantum Philosophy with Victoria Rader

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, host Dr. Richard Shuster sits down with Dr. Victoria Rader, a renowned possibility coach and founder of YU2Shine, whose pioneering work in quantum personal development is transforming lives worldwide. With her expertise in blending quantum techniques and spiritual wisdom, Victoria empowers individuals to break free from limitations and embrace their fullest potential. She has authored best-selling books, developed transformative tools like the Empower-mE apps, and her teachings have been featured across prominent media outlets.

Victoria shares her inspiring journey, starting with her early experiences of deep intuition and personal challenges growing up in the Soviet Union, which led her to a profound understanding of internal freedom. From her “quantum pioneer” perspective, Victoria explains how quantum science opens doors to infinite possibilities and sheds light on the “law of receiving and giving.” This revolutionary law challenges conventional wisdom on abundance by emphasizing that genuine prosperity flows when we first receive fully, allowing us to give unconditionally.

This conversation dives deep into how self-sabotage and hidden beliefs can limit us, and Victoria offers actionable insights for breaking these patterns. She highlights the importance of embracing our unique differences and provides a free resource on overcoming self-sabotaging behaviors to help listeners take meaningful steps toward a life of purpose and abundance.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

If this infinite universe had a better way to fill in the place and time that you currently occupy, it would have done so. But it has not. So you, as you are, are an exact, intricate, beautiful, powerful, magnificent piece of the puzzle. Remember that and start releasing everything that's unworthy of that.

Resources:

Grab Your Free Quantum Leap Guide Today at MyGiftOffer.com
Learn more at YU2SHINE.com

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387. Combat Veteran Tells the Truth about Empathy | Crisis Response with Joe Smarro

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000

In this powerful Veterans Day episode of The Daily Helping, Dr. Richard Shuster speaks with Marine combat veteran and mental health advocate Joe Smarro. Joe, a former police officer and crisis intervention leader, shares his deeply personal journey from a troubled childhood to military service and ultimately to his work as the CEO of SolutionPoint+, where he focuses on eradicating suicide among first responders.

Joe opens up about his past struggles with trauma and his mission to bring empathy and compassion into policing. His story, featured in the Emmy-winning documentary Ernie and Joe: Crisis Cops, underscores the importance of connection over authority when serving communities. Joe shares his unique "connection before correction" approach and discusses how empathy can transform crisis response, ultimately helping both first responders and the communities they serve.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Not only are you loved– and I know that's like, oh, you just say that– man, woman, it doesn't matter to me. When we can understand that love is just like empathy, it's our superpower. I love you all. I love you, Dr. Richard, I just met you. Why? Because you're a person on your journey, trying to do good for other people and that's worthy and deserving. And I just wish all people would understand that you deserve to be loved, regardless of the thoughts you've had, the choices you've made, the mistakes you've made, the people you've hurt, the wrong you've done, regardless of all of it, you deserve to be loved. And you have to start by accepting that and acknowledging that and understanding that for yourself. Because when you accept your own truth of “I am worthy and I am lovable,” it makes it so much easier to connect with other people and love them as well.

Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

Learn more at JoeSmarro.com
Check out SolutionPointPlus.com
Read “Unarmed: De-Escalation Techniques to Cultivate Courage, Compassion, & Connection”
Connect with Joe Smarro on Instagram: @joesmarro
Find Joe Smarro on LinkedIn
Friend Joe Smarro on Facebook

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386. What the Media Isn’t Telling You about Ukraine | Frontline Reporting with Chris Herlinger

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, Dr. Richard Shuster sits down with award-winning journalist and international correspondent Chris Herlinger, who shares powerful stories of his humanitarian reporting, particularly from his recent coverage of Ukraine. Chris, a correspondent for Global Sisters Report and a long-time journalist on humanitarian efforts, discusses his new book, Solidarity and Mercy, which sheds light on the resilience and dignity of those caught in conflict, especially through the work of Catholic sisters in war zones.

From covering global conflicts to witnessing the faith-based efforts of religious communities, Chris brings a unique perspective to how humanitarian workers are affirming the dignity and humanity of those in need. Whether you're religious or not, the conversation is deeply moving, exploring not only the struggles of war but also the small, compassionate acts that restore hope.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The war in Ukraine is a great tragedy. I mean any war is tragic, I think, but certainly this is particularly tragic because I don't think it was at all necessary and not justified. You know, this is an imperialist land grab on the part of Russia. I think something that Russia has been committed to is to sort of reimpose a Russian reality on Ukraine. The Ukrainians are very, very nationalistic. They're very patriotic. It's just a tragedy all around.

And yet, and yet in the midst of this tragedy, there's been a global, this of course was more at the beginning of the war than it is right now, but there was a global response that I think was remarkable and helped Ukrainians get to safer places. And I think that kind of global commitment is not only necessary, but I think it says something very, very good about humanity and what humanity can do. I think the work of the sisters and the work of the church continues, and the church, whatever you may feel about organized religion, whatever you may feel about the Catholic church in particular– the Catholic Church is in the world, and in Ukraine, of course, it's a minority church. The Orthodox Church is the predominant church in Ukraine, but the Catholic Church is rooted throughout the world. I think the Catholic Church does help and affirm the dignity of people in these awful situations. I think that that's a remarkable story.

And as I said earlier, it goes back to thousands of years rooted in the gospel. I think that thread that binds the current day to the past and to the gospel story is really fascinating and moving and a beautiful thing,

Resources:

Read “Solidarity and Mercy: The Power of Christian Humanitarian Efforts in Ukraine”
Learn more at the Global Sisters Report
Read "Witnessing in a war zone: Stories of Christian humanitarians in Ukraine"

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385. What it Takes to be a Rich B$tch | Becoming the Energetic Match to Wealth with Kyera Kacey

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Content warning: Sexual assault and self harm

In this energizing episode of The Daily Helping, Dr. Richard Shuster is joined by intuitive business mentor and author Kyera Kacey. Known for her candid approach to life and business, Kyera shares her journey of overcoming trauma and creating a thriving business through personal development and manifestation. With raw honesty, Kyera opens up about pivotal moments in her life, including overcoming self-harm and sexual assault, and how these experiences led her to dedicate herself to the work of transformation.

Kyera offers profound insights into the importance of personal responsibility in healing and growth, discussing how forgiveness and self-love play crucial roles in moving forward. She talks about her unique "self-love rituals" and how embracing authenticity in business has led to her success. Kyera also teases her upcoming live event, LiberateHER, and her plans for expanding her impact through retreats and speaking engagements.

Whether you’re looking to break free from your past or striving to elevate your business, Kyra’s wisdom on manifestation, conscious creation, and intuitive business strategies will inspire you to take action toward your goals.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Your experience of life is your responsibility. If you don't like what you're currently seeing, you have the power to change it.

Resources:

Learn more at KyeraKacey.com
Read “Rich B$tch Money Goals”
Follow Kyera on Instagram: @KyeraKacey
Connect with Kyera on Facebook
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384. Feel, Heal, and Let That Sh*t Go with Rachel Kaplan

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Content warning: Suicide

When Rachel Kaplan was 14 years old, her first true love ended his life. Ever since then, she has pursued how to emotionally heal. Now, she has combined what she learned in a book, “Feel, Heal, and Let That Sh*t Go.” Rachel joins us on the show today.

Rachel’s book is deeply based in research and theory, but her explanations are clear enough that a child could understand. She calls her approach “emotional potty training,” where, just like poop, we need to let emotions move through our bodies and then exit in a healthy way.

We talk about numbing emotions, core wounds, sensitivity, and shame. Rachel has an incredible knack for weaving together science, spirituality, and plain-speaking. Don’t miss this episode!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You have the power within you. Like you don't necessarily even need a therapist. What you need is to cultivate this relationship between these parts of you and that it's really about being willing to turn toward the pain that you're carrying and just let yourself have it, let yourself clear it. And that is the single most important / only way to feel better is to feel how you actually feel.

Resources:

Read “Feel, Heal, and Let That Sh*t Go”
Listen to the “Feeling Healing Sh*t Show”
Follow Rachel on Instagram
Subscribe to Rachel’s YouTube Channel “The Feelings Movement with Rachel Kaplan”
Follow Rachel on TikTok @thefeelingsmovement

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383. Standing Out in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Pascal Bornet

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +0000

According to Pascal Bornet, Artificial Intelligence is already mastering the skills needed to be a medical doctor, lawyer, coder, etc. So what skills should humans develop to keep up and stay relevant in today’s and tomorrow’s market? Pascal joins the show today to tell us.

Pascal Bornet is an award-winning expert author and keynote speaker on artificial intelligence and automation. He developed his expertise through 20 years of working with AI as a senior executive at McKenzie and EY where he created and led their intelligent automation practices and implemented AI initiatives for hundreds of organizations around the world.

He explains there are three competencies every human needs to have moving forward: They need to be change-ready, AI-ready, and human-ready. He also dives into the three “Humics,” or abilities that humans will be better at that technology: genuine creativity, critical thinking, and social authenticity.

Tune in for an incredible conversation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You shouldn't wait. You shouldn't wait to build the three skills of the three competencies of the future. This is what is most important for us, for our kids, for our team members, for our organizations. That's the most important thing we can do.

Resources:

Read “Irreplaceable: The Art of Standing Out in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
Join the Irreplaceable Academy
Read “Intelligent Automation”

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382. Rare Connections with Alex Brito

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:30:00 +0000

When Alex first noticed it, she was 12 years old. She thought she had something in her eye, and then suddenly she couldn’t see out of it. A few months later, she was playing softball and felt like she pulled a muscle in her neck that sent pain across her body. It took five years of misdiagnoses, with progressive blindness and paralysis, for Alex to finally be properly diagnosed. She had a rare disease called Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD).

Alex joins us on the show today to share her journey with a rare disease and encourage others who are facing medical uncertainty. Today, she is the first blind woman ever to earn a yellow belt in Krav Maga and she’s a successful power lifter.

Take a listen and be sure to check out her video with Alexion Pharmaceuticals, “Rare Connections.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Have your voice heard. Really get out there and connect. Because you're not alone, there are others that are going through the journey. And just being able to share my story here with Alexion, with the movie, has been so helpful for me to be able to connect with others and grow friendships.

Resources:

Watch “Rare Connections with NMSOD”

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381. Getting Better: A Doctor's Story of Resilience, Recovery and Renewal with Dr. Andrew Kadar

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Dr. Andrew Kadar was a former UCLA gymnast, he ran 10ks, he had never smoked or been overweight. So when he suddenly had chest pain when exercising, he had no idea the health journey he was about to go on. Dr. Kadar is our guest on the show today and author of the new book, “Getting Better: A Doctor's Story of Resilience, Recovery and Renewal.”

Dr. Kadar recounts the most important lessons he learned throughout his ordeal, starting with the call to his primary care doctor’s office, through his major surgery, to the active lifestyle he enjoys again today

As Dr. Kadar points out, when you have a major illness, you have to expect the unexpected. However, thanks to his new book, now you can be at least a little more prepared.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

If you're having symptoms, the best way to deal with them is to take it away from yourself. And there are twin dangers there. One is denial, which is you disregard something that's important. The other is becoming a hypochondriac and thinking everything is horrible. And by taking it away from yourself, you're likely to be more realistic. You're not gonna interpret a headache as a brain tumor. And you're not gonna disregard chest pain that comes up with exercise and goes away with rest. So I think that's one thing that I would like people to remember is that if they're having some symptoms, think about how you would advise your best friend or anybody else who came to you with the same set of symptoms and what you think they should do. as the wise scores of action.

Resources:

Read “Getting Better: A Doctor's Story of Resilience, Recovery and Renewal”
Learn more at GettingBetterDoc.com

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380. Tactical Harmony with Rebecca Fitzsimmons

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Rebecca Fitzsimmons is a former NCIS agent, founder of Tactical Harmony holistic leadership and mindset coaching, and author of the new book “Unleashed,” which is about leadership insights we can derive from our canine companions. She is a fascinating person and a fearless teacher. We’re thrilled to have her on the podcast today.

Rebecca walks us through what a “victory mindset” is and its four components: discipline, integrity, taking inspired action, and grace. We talk about mindfulness, introspection, and feedback.

If you have felt busy, but not productive or fulfilled, this episode is for you. Rebecca is an expert on getting your mind, body, and soul aligned.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Humans are so incredibly powerful and capable of absolutely anything. The only limit is the limit that you place on yourself. And so having a victory mindset, right? Have the discipline, the integrity, the inspired action, and the grace. If you start to infuse these in your life, however slight, you're going to see change within yourself and everything around you, which is a crystallization of who you are. And that is what I would want all of your amazing listeners to really tap in to is that victory mindset. And you are capable of anything. And I mean anything that you put your mind to.

Resources:

Learn more at TacticalHarmony.com
Listen to the Tactical Harmony podcast

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379. Spiritual Millionaire with Preston Smiles

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Today, Preston Smiles owns four houses, nice cars, big toys, and has a beautiful wife and four kids. But his life wasn’t always like this. At age 11, Preston was in a gang, smoking weed, and living inside a dysfunctional, impoverished family. Preston joins the show today to explain how he transformed his life and how others can do the same.

Preston is an abundance and personal freedom coach. His latest book is “Spiritual Millionaire: Master the Seven Inner Laws for Abundance and Money.” On the show today, he shares with us how to align body, mind, and soul to manifest wealth.

If you’re interested in changing your approach to prosperity, this is the episode for you.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You can't have what you want, but you may experience what you have. So make sure that on a day to day basis, you're actually operating from enough gratitude or you have the blinders off and you see what's really going on. Because we can all be bamboozled into the weapon of mass distraction, into consumerism, into chasing the next high. But the work is to get high on your own supply. Because from that space you get to have everything. It's all frequency. And so when I'm operating from the frequency of love and gratitude, it's easy.

Resources:

Read “Spiritual Millionaire: Master the Seven Inner Laws for Abundance and Money”
Follow Preston Smiles on Instagram: @prestonsmiles
Subscribe to Preston Smiles’ YouTube Channel: @prestonsmilesabundance

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378. Walking Well with Bruce Fertman

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Bruce Fertman considers himself a “physiologian.” He studies the relationship between physical grace and spiritual graces. In this latest book, “Walking Well,” he shares what he has learned with his readers. Bruce is our guest on the show today.

For 60 years, Bruce has trained in gymnastics, modern dance, ballet, contact improvisation, the Alexander technique, Tai Chi, Akido, Chanoyu, Argentine Tango, and Kyudo. He has learned how humans can feel better, physically and spiritually, through how they use their bodies.

Bruce takes us through his newest book, “Walking Well.” Starting with the feet, the book teaches readers how to move better. He discusses proprioception, physical interaction with our environments, and how to achieve a sense of vitality.

If you want to start feeling better, check out this episode!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

At my age, I consider myself a young elder. And because my teachers taught into their 90s and even some into their hundreds. So I'm pretty young at 73. But I'm very ambitious for other people. I'm not very ambitious for myself. I've lived a really full life. I've had a wonderful career. So now I'm doing work. A lot of younger people are helping me in my work. I am so ambitious for them. I want them to do well. So I had a rabbi I studied with, Zalman Shachter, he wrote a book called From Aging to Saging. And I think elders need to make sure that they pass on what's valuable. And I think that's my main way of serving right now. The other thing that is important is this book, because I know- Michael and I know- so much about human movement in relation to the quality of life, that we wanna give that away as a present to people. And so that's another way that we're trying to serve.

Resources:

Listen to Episode 199: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci | with Michael J. Gelb
Read “Zen in the Art of Archery”
Read “House Made of Dawn”
Read “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”
Read “From Age-ing to Sage-ing”
Learn more at BruceFertman.com
Learn more at MichaelGelb.com
Learn more at WalkingWell.com

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377. Charitable Impact with John Bromley

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 09:30:00 +0000

The best donors are those who are the most proactive about pursuing causes that they really care about. John Bromley’s mission in life is to help charities by helping donors reach this level of emotional investment. John is the co-founder and CEO of Charitable Impact, and he is our guest on the podcast today.

Charitable Impact is a donor advised fund. It helps connect people with causes they care about. Rather than reacting to whatever charitable campaign pops up in their lives, they can proactively invest in making the change they want to see in the world.

John has helped guide over $1.2 billion in donations, not only changing the world for the better, but improving the lives of the donors themselves. As all the listeners of The Daily Helping know, in helping others, we help ourselves.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Everyone listening to this podcast cares about something changing, and I really want to encourage everyone listening just to take some time and think about what that is. Identify a short list of what that is and push yourself as to whether or not it's truly genuine. And then just take some small steps to do something about creating some change for that. And when you do, you're going to feel great about yourself and you're going to see some impact around you. You're going to meet some new friends. You're going to have some fun with life. And when you're thinking about a tool to help you get through that journey, if this is a charitable thing that we're talking about, really I encourage you to take a look at the Donor Advice Fund because it is a tool that's built for you, as the donor.

Resources:

Learn more at CharitableImpact.com
Follow Charitable Impact on Instagram
Connect with Charitable Impact on Facebook
Link up with Charitable Impact on LinkedIn
Follow Charitable Impact on X

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376. Overcoming Adversity with Cheryl Hunter

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of kidnapping and sexual violence.

From growing up on an idyllic Colorado horse farm to being violently kidnapped in France, Cheryl Hunter has always shown a fierce will to live her best life and help others do the same. Cheryl joins us today to tell her amazing life story, and why she does what she does today.

Cheryl has been an elite, global model and TV producer for major networks including HBO, CBS, and NBC, but nothing has fit her as well as her current vocation. Today she helps people who help people. She helps healers get their message out to the whole world through major media.

Cheryl’s story is inspirational and fascinating. Prepare yourself and you will come away with a deeper understanding of life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Look at your own life and consider that everything you've previously believed is wrong with you is actually what makes you magnificent, is actually that which comprises the building blocks of your superpower.

Resources:

Read “Man's Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl
Learn more at CherylHunter.com
Connect with Cheryl on LinkedIn
Follow Cheryl on X
Stay in touch with Cheryl on Instagram
Follow Cheryl on Facebook

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375. In Remembrance: Radical Generosity with John Ruhlin

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:30:00 +0000

This episode is a rebroadcast of an interview with John Ruhlin. John unexpectedly passed away recently. He leaves behind a wife and four young children. We’re rebroadcasting this episode to both remind us of the beautiful legacy John created, and to encourage listeners to consider donating to his children’s education fund.

John truly cared about helping people and making the world better. His “Biggest Helping” advice was to give more than is reasonable. I hope you’ll join me in following his lead as we support his family during this heartbreaking time.

The GoFundMe link is in the Resources section below.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You'll never regret giving more than is reasonable in most situations. People hold back five or ten percent in relationships. We don't want to be taken advantage of. We're afraid of getting hurt. Paul lived his life the exact opposite. He would he always asked himself, what's the most I can do in the situation? And when you live life like that you show up at a huge show up at pizza shop and he'd be like what's the most I can do here I can pick up the tab for the entire restaurant it's gonna cost 800 bucks but all the I love 90% of these people I know and I love and he would just do it that's just who he was and so I picked up that mentality and do I do it perfectly? No. Sometimes I suck sometimes my wife you know thinks I'm a jerk like I'm not perfect in it but the idea of giving more than is reasonable and going all in on people like that's where you separate yourself and give that, you know, everybody says go the extra mile, give 110%. But I don't think they actually actually live it. And they're willing to do that with their time and with their pocketbook. When you do that with whatever level you're at, people notice it shocks and awes them. You become memorable in their mind. And so I would say that give more than is reasonable is the thing that I've tried to live my life around and build my life on and it's it's paid back huge dividends and it's just fun.

Resources:

Donate on the “Upholding John's Legacy: Supporting His Family” GoFundMe page.
Read “Giftology: The Art and Science of Using Gifts to Cut Through the Noise, Increase Referrals, and Strengthen Retention” by John Ruhlin
Check out John’s free gift-giving guide
Learn more at GiftologyGroup.com

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374. The 15 Minute Method with Sam Bennett

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Sam Bennett is a writer, speaker, actor, instructor, and productivity specialist. In her words, she has followed a trail of “sparkling breadcrumbs” to build a fulfilling life for herself. If you wish that could be you, don’t worry it can. Sam explains how in her “The 15 Minute Method” book, and as a guest on our podcast today.

The key for Sam is experimentation. Set aside 15 minutes to just do a little bit of what you want to do. Schedule it in your calendar to make sure you actually do it. See if you like what you’ve chosen to do. See if you don’t. Observe how the act of doing it changed you. Yes, even tasks like cleaning out your garage can follow this method. Break down overwhelming tasks into doable pieces.

This interview with Sam is a delight. Be sure to check out all her books, follow her on her socials, and maybe even keep an eye out for her in reruns of the Drew Carey Show and Modern Family!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

I have an acute awareness that we are not here for very long. We do not have an unlimited amount of time in which to make our contributions to the world, in which to do the things that we love to do. And we don't know how long it is. So if there is something that is on your heart to do, this is it. Start now. Start today.

Resources:

Read “The 15-Minute Method: The Surprisingly Simple Art of Getting It Done” by Sam Bennett
Learn more at TheRealSamBennett.com
Check out Sam’s Daily Practicum
Follow Sam on Instagram: @TheRealSamBennett
Follow Sam on Twitter/X: @RealSamBennett
Follow Sam on Pinterest: @TheRealSamBennett
Follow Sam on Facebook: @TheRealSamBennett
Read “Delivering Happiness” by Tony Hsieh
Read “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey
Read “The Compound Effect” by Darren Hardy

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373. The Art of Routine with Dr. Angel Iscovich

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:30:00 +0000

From his time as a psychiatrist and emergency physician, to his experience in corporate healthcare C-suites, Dr. Angel Iscovich’s wealth of knowledge about the human condition has led him to an important finding: Humans thrive with routine.

Dr. Iscovich, or “Dr. I” is our guest on the program today and author of “The Art of Routine.” He explains that routines are found throughout human physiology: Circadian rhythms, postprandial tides, the gastro-colic reflex, etc. He points out that the power of routine also appears in longevity studies and in cultures across the globe.

Dr. Iscovich then brings us to our daily lives today, especially around technology. He warns that technological innovations shouldn’t just disrupt industries, but strengthen routine-making for users. Rather than increase distractions, technology should be designed to help us stay focused on healthy routines.

If you’re looking for one man’s incredible life story and incisive insights into human nature, look no further. Dr. Angel Iscovich brings all that and more in today’s episode.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Continuous striving to just change the things you do is not necessarily what your body and your mind really need, but rather routine.

Resources:

Read “The Art of Routine” by Dr. Angel Iscovich
Learn more at AngelIscovich.com
Read “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey
Read “High Performance Habits” by Brendon Buchard

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372. Deep, Joyful Connections with Holly Swenson

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Holly Swenson is a registered nurse, an award winning author, a wellness blogger, mother to four incredible sons, and a perpetual student of life. She's on a mission to raise the bar for parents and infuse more joy, intention, balance, and wellness into parenting and beyond.

Holly joins the show today to discuss her book, “Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow: Forming Deeper and More Joyful Connections with Yourself and Your Children.” She breaks down each easy-to-remember step: Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow. She also explains her “5 Rights of Parenting” based on her nurse training of “5 Rights of Medication Administration.”

Holly packs a lot of wisdom and practical advice into this episode. Even if you aren’t a parent, you’ll learn a lot about creating deeper, more joyful connections in your life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Activate your unique gifts and then share them with the world. I wrote “Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow” to be of service to parents everywhere. And what I found is that in being of service to others, it has really changed my life from the ground up. And, you know, for me, one of my gifts is promoting wellness and intentional living for parents and children alike and, you know, becoming an author has open doors that never would have opened had I not been brave enough to put pen to paper, you know? And so I think to share with your listeners that, you know, The world needs more people to turn on their individual light and to live their truth in a way that makes a difference for humanity. And that's your gift. They're going to vary. Everyone has different gifts. And so, you know, don't blindly follow in the footsteps of others, but be brave enough to leave your own mark. You know, I think that we can change the world one person at a time. And I believe the biggest way to start making an impact is to activate your own wellness and your own internal knowing and then start sharing your heartfelt wisdom with others.

Resources:

Read “Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow: Forming Deeper and More Joyful Connections with Yourself and Your Children”
Learn more at liveyourglow.live
Follow Holly Swenson on Instagram: @HollySwenson_LiveYourGlow

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371. Stories Sell with Matthew Dicks

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Have you ever noticed how some people are great storytellers and some aren’t? Matthew Dicks joins the show today to explain how storytelling is a skill anyone can learn and improve upon. He also shares his newest book with us, “Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand.”

Matthew is an international best-selling novelist, comic book writer, and humor columnist. He is a 61-time Moth StorySLAM winner and acts as a consultant for major businesses to help them tell their stories.

He shares the secret sauce with us: Figure out what the story is, pick an excellent beginning, focus on actions and thoughts, and know when to stop talking. Above all, lean into the listener’s imagination.

And yes, he tells us some good stories during the episode. Don’t miss it!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

I think the most important thing is that people see stories as big sort of momentous occasions in their lives. They watch movies and they see plane crashes and people jumping from building to building and bank robberies and epic romances. And I think what they fail to see is that tiny moments like the one I just described to you, where your son says something to you and it just reframes your thinking, I actually think those are the most important stories to tell. I'm a person who has died twice and been brought back to life via CPR both times. And those are not my favorite stories to tell. I would much rather tell you the story about Charlie reminding me that ice cream on a shirt is called childhood. Because I think those are the stories that relate to people the most, they're the stories people understand the most. And they're the ones that if we don't pay attention to and hold onto, it's like sand through our fingers. They just, they disappear forever. And then suddenly our son is 27 years old and we don't know where the time went. But if we recognize those moments, we hold onto them and we tell those stories, like the one I just told you, then they become permanent markers in the life of me and my son, Charlie. And suddenly it's not sand through my fingers anymore, but it's something I get to share with other human beings and remember myself. So be paying attention to the tiniest of moments because they can have the biggest meaning.

Resources:

Read “Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand” by Matthew Dix
Listen to Episode 269. Making Someday Today with Matthew Dicks

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370. The Faith Code with Rusty Rueff

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Rusty Rueff has built an incredibly successful career in tech, and today he invests in and advises startups. That is why it is no surprise that he thinks about life in tech terms, even spirituality. Rusty joins the show today to tell us about his new book, “The Faith Code: A Future-Proof Framework for a Life of Meaning and Impact.”

He explains that Biblical teachings can act as the source code on which you build your life. You and your circumstances might change– your apps may update– but your source code can continue to be your foundation for an intentional life.

Tune in to hear Rusty’s incredible career journey and his perspective on modern spiritual living.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

We pay a lot of attention in our jobs and the world around us on mind and body. Right? The corporations now for the last 45 years have helped us with our body. That's why we have corporate gyms and memberships. And all those things to take care of our body. And in the last 15 to 20 years, we've started to talk about our mind. You know, with mental health. And now you can, it's a wonderful thing. You can be expressive about your mental health that you couldn't when, you know, when I was going into the workplace. Which is fantastic. And now we have tools and things, enablers to help us. But what we haven't done is we're not paying enough attention to the spirit. And in a healthy life. In my estimation. It is an isosceles triangle. It is balanced. Mind, body, and spirit. So whatever and however you define spirit. Pursue it. Pursue it. It's the one thing actually in our lives that can get stronger while we age. Our minds will go. And our bodies will go. We can fight it. As much as we want to. But they will go. But our spirit can increase and increase and increase. And we may well be the strongest point in our spirit in the last days of our lives. So find it. Pursue it. And hold on to it. And life will be better.

Resources:

Read “The Faith Code: A Future-Proof Framework for a Life of Meaning and Impact”
Learn more at RustyRueff.com

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369. Body, Mind, Soul Connection with Robert Brace

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Robert Brace has been an elite ballet dancer, a Harlem minister, and creator of the 28-day challenge for six pack abs. As you can imagine, he has deep insights into how physical, mental, and spiritual wellness are all connected. We are thrilled to have Robert on the show today.

Robert walks us through his incredible personal journey and how that has led him to create The Brace Life community. This wellness community guides people in improving their physical movement, spiritual fulfillment, and mental acuity. We talk about neurotransmitters, community, and “soul level qualities.”

There’s a reason Robert has been selected by VeryWell.com as one of the Top 100 Voices in Wellness. He is a force for good. Enjoy our conversation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The most important thing is remembering that the body as a temple. Yes, the outer shell and that can include your body, that can include what we achieve, the things we have and things we buy. But the most important thing is what's inside that temple, is the soul that is within every single person listening to this podcast. Within that soul, there is a spirit of goodness because people at some point in their lives has done something good for other people, some cause or whatever. There's a spirit of greatness because everybody has some gifts, some talent, something that they do better than anybody else, whether it's big or small. And there was a giving spirit within everybody, right? Uh, we've sacrificed at some point, we've given of ourselves to some point. And that goodness, that greatness and that giving spirit is what resides in your soul and whatever you do, you want that to be steamed by the world. Because if that's the place you're living from, you're happier, you're fulfilling your purpose, you're changing the world in a way that you were, that you're supposed to change the world, and you'll find whatever you need to do that gives you a life purpose, right? That goodness, that greatness, and that giving spirit. And so, do whatever you can in your life, whether it's taking care of your physicality, whether it's taking care of your environment, whether it's taking care of the career that you're in. to give yourself the opportunity for that goodness, that greatness, and that giving spirit to thrive. Because that's where you'll find your true purpose and your true happiness.

Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

Learn more at BraceLifeStudios.com
Check out Robert’s online platform: TheBraceLife.com

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368. Zero Limits Living with Dr. Joe Vitale

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Dr. Joe Vitale has written 90 books. He’s made appearances on CNN, CNBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, Fox and Friends, Extra, etc. He’s one of the top 50 inspirational speakers in the world. He is known globally for his role in the movie, “The Secret.” But it wasn’t until his latest book, “Zero Limits Living,” that Dr. Joe Vitale put everything together.

We’re thrilled to have Dr. Joe Vitale as a guest on the show today. He’s here to explain how “Zero Limits Living” is a synthesis of all his work, combining everything that needs to be put in place for success. He organizes it into three pillars: mindset, inspired action, and mysticism.

How he describes each one may surprise you. So tune in and check out why Dr. Joe Vitale is considered the guru he that he is.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The message I really want people to get is that you are loved by this invisible spiritual force. You are loved by this invisible spiritual force, this cosmic consciousness, this infinite intelligence. And the more you can feel that and sense that, the happier you'll be, the more relaxed you'll be, the more in the flow you will be. the more life will work out in a co-created, moment-by-moment sense of the miraculous. You are loved.

Resources:

Read “Zero Limits Living: The Three Essential Pillars to Achieving All Your Life's Goals” by Dr. Joe Vitale
All 90 of Dr. Joe Vitale’s books can be found here on Amazon
Learn more at MrFire.com
Follow Dr. Joe Vitale on Facebook
Follow Dr. Joe Vitale on X
Watch Dr. Joe Vitale’s videos on YouTube

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367. Technology to Uncover “Silent” Heart Disease with Dr. James Min

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:30:00 +0000

The methods we’ve traditionally used to tell if you have heart disease aren’t very accurate. Only 40% of people who have a heart attack experience any warning signs like chest pain of shortness of breath. Cholesterol levels, inflammation levels, diabetes status, blood pressure, etc. are only indirect markers– highly unreliable in identifying who has heart disease and who's at risk of a heart attack.

Our guest on the show today is here to tell us about a better way to identify heart disease and save lives. Dr. James Min is a board certified cardiologist and professor of radiology and medicine at Cornell. He’s also the founder of Cleerly, a company that provides 3D images of the coronary system so that doctors can see exactly what’s going on and what exactly a specific patient needs.

Dr. James Min is on a mission to create a world without heart attacks. What he has to say is fascinating.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Heart disease remains, is, was, and remains the number one public health epidemic in the world. There's somebody who suffers a heart attack in the US every 40 seconds. It's a preventable phenomenon. We have a heavy toolbox of tools. We just need to identify people at an early stage where we can get to them, treat them effectively and prevent all of these catastrophic events from occurring. It's a new paradigm, a new clinical paradigm, but I think it is the one that has been demonstrated in many other fields to be successful. And I think what we need to do is really introduce or transition our field into an era of precision heart care or personalized medicine. So easy to be proactive. It's harder to be reactive because an adverse event has already occurred.

Resources:

Find a Cleerly-integrated scan site near you
Learn more at CleerlyHealth.com

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366. Buddhism and Confidence with Ethan Nichtern

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:30:00 +0000

For most folks, confidence and Buddhism probably don’t really seem to have much to do with each other. But for Ethan Nichtern, who grew up in a modern Buddhist community in New York City and has been studying it his whole life, it makes complete sense. Ethan joins us today to tell us about his book, “Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds.”

Ethan explains what Buddhism’s eight world winds are: Pleasure and pain, praise and criticism, fame and infamy, success and failure. Holding your seat during these winds, or in other words, keeping your confidence, is achievable through practice.

The second half of Ethan’s book and the second half of our interview is focused on this practice. We dive into what mindfulness truly means and how it's the foundation of Ethan’s confidence-building techniques.

If you’ve ever struggled with confidence, and most of us have, check out this episode!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The struggle with confidence is very human. It's universal. If somebody claims not to struggle with it I think they're probably lying at least a little bit. If we can view showing up and trusting ourselves as a practice rather than an outcome It will help tremendously.

Resources:

Learn more at EthanNichtern.com
Check out Ethan’s yearlong program on Buddhist philosophy and psychology at DharmaMoon.com.
Listen to Ethan’s podcast, “The Road Home”
Read “Confidence: Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds”

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365. Personalized AI with Joe Apfelbaum

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Joe Apfelbaum is the CEO of one of the fastest growing digital marketing agencies in the US, wrote five books in five years, and lost 100 pounds. There is nothing he can’t do. Today Joe joins us to tell us about his newest venture, evyAI,

evyAI is an AI assistant that drafts LinkedIn post responses, DMs, and more to help you save time making important networking connections. What used to take you 100 minutes, can now just take you 10. And most importantly, evyAI is personalized to reflect your voice.

As the author of High Energy Networking, Joe knows how vital it is to make meaningful connections. Take a listen to this episode and learn how you can utilize an AI strategy to build those connections today.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The right strategy will save you a decade. Remember that energy without strategy is a waste of time. So if you want to grow your business, if you want to grow your life, if you want to be able to help other people and take your life to the next level, remember there's a strategy. Success leaves clues. There's a way to get to your goal by looking at somebody that's already done it, like Dr. Richard. And so follow their footsteps, listen to their podcasts, buy their books, get into their courses, join their communities, get more involved with people that have what you want and you're going to get their strategies, and you don't have to reinvent the wheel. You can literally do R&D– it's rip off and duplicate. You can literally just copy somebody else's strategy. Find the coach that has done what you wanna get to do and go out and just copy their strategy. When I tell somebody, hey, you know, I can help you with LinkedIn, just copy my strategy. Join my community and just copy my strategy. Do what I do.

Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

To join Joe’s community, text “community” to Joe’s AI at 973-841-8868
To watch a demo video of evyAI, text “demo” to Joe’s AI at 973-841-8868
Watch a free video on funnel strategy at AjaxUnion.com
Read High Energy Networking

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364. Unlocking Holistic Healing with Dr. Gladys McGarey

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Meet Dr. Gladys McGarey, a trailblazer who has dedicated over a century to transforming healthcare through holistic medicine. Known as the mother of holistic medicine, her approach emphasizes love, understanding, and a profound connection with the patient's inner physician. Dr. McGarey's pioneering work focuses on understanding the deeper lessons behind diseases rather than merely treating symptoms.

Born in India to medical missionary parents, Dr. McGarey knew from a young age that she was destined to be a physician, despite challenges like dyslexia. Her resilience led her to co-found the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978. She believes in the body's ability to heal itself by paying attention to its signals and working in harmony with our inner selves.

Dr. McGarey's wisdom offers invaluable insights for enhancing well-being through holistic practices. By connecting with our inner physician and embracing the five L's, we can lead healthier, happier lives.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Live your life with life and love. If you can do that, other things are attracted to you. They become fun. They become joy. But if you don't love the trees and the birds and the people around you, you learn to lose love. And the beat goes on.”

Resources:

Learn more at gladysmcgarey.com
Read The Well-Lived Life by Dr. Gladys McGarey
Follow Dr. Gladys on Instagram: @begladmd

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363. Building a Two-Career Home with Tiffany Sauder

Mon, 27 May 2024 09:30:00 +0000

There are a ton of resources out there about how to intentionally build your business culture, structure, and capacity, but almost none when it comes to doing the same for your family. Our guest on the show today, Tiffany Sauder, is here to fill that gap.

Tiffany is a successful CEO, married to another professionally driven person, and is mother to four kids. A few years ago, her marriage and her family were at a breaking point. Everyone was stressed and frustrated. That’s when it hit Tiffany: She needed to run her family like she did her business.

Today she teaches other families to do the same: Establish a mission and vision; do an honest, detailed evaluation where everyone in your family is at; and make concrete plans on how to function and be accountable.

If you’ve been looking for concrete, realistic ways for your marriage and family to be better for everyone, be sure to tune in.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Choose your hard. Being a grownup is hard, life is hard, every path is hard. Getting up at 5 a.m. to work out is hard, not feeling comfortable in your skin is hard. Being on a budget is hard, being broke is hard. Staying married is hard, getting divorced is hard. Owning your own business is hard, working for somebody else is hard. The point is not for this to be frustrating. The point is to accept life is hard. And I think as soon as that's our expectation, we can say, I'm gonna choose the hard that aligns with the life I want, with where I want to go, with the relationships I want to have, with the impact I want to have on the world. And when you choose that hard, then it's not hard because it's in service to who you're becoming and the impact you're gonna have on the world.

Resources:

Check out Tiffany’s Life of And Academy
Listen to Tiffany’s podcast Scared Confident
Follow Tiffany Sauder on Instagram: @TiffanySauder

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362. Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics with Paul Cheek

Mon, 20 May 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Paul Cheek was MIT’s first Hacker in Residence. No, he didn’t sit in a basement and try to steal nuclear codes or anything like that. He used his software developer skills to help entrepreneurs create what they needed for their businesses. Over the years, Paul worked with more and more entrepreneurs, not only helping them hack their technical problems, but overcome their business ones as well.

Based on this experience, Paul has written a new book called “Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics.” In it, he gives 15 tactics across four foundations: goal setting, marketing testing, product development, and resource acquisition. The mission of the book is to help entrepreneurs take action to turn their business plans into businesses.

Paul joins us in today’s episode to share highlights from his book and encouragement for anyone considering the path entrepreneurship. Listening to this episode might just be your first step.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Entrepreneurship is for everybody. It doesn't matter whether you're going to start a company. We need more entrepreneurs in this world and we need more entrepreneurial leaders in this world, regardless of whether you're gonna be a startup founder, you're gonna go join a company, you work in a larger organization today, you lead a team within a larger organization today. There are things about the entrepreneurial process that you will find useful, that you will be able to deploy with your team, with your business. And I would encourage you to do the hardest part. The hardest part of entrepreneurship is just getting started. Take the opportunity right here, right now today to go and take that first step.

Resources:

Read “Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics”
Learn more at PaulCheek.com
Check out Oceanworks.co
Connect with Paul on LinkedIn

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361. How Catherine Nikkel Helps People Write Their Own Books

Mon, 13 May 2024 09:30:00 +0000

After 15 years as a social worker, Catherine Nikkel knew it was time to make a career change. She thought she was going to become an insurance agent, but suddenly the ground fell out from under her: She became paralyzed from the waist down. What got her through her time in the hospital was people telling her stories.

Today, not only has Catherine learned to walk again, but she has helped fifteen people tell their stories by ghostwriting bestselling books with them. She has also helped dozens more tell their story through her book coaching.

Catherine joins the show to explain what it means to be a ghostwriter and book coach. She also has tips for people who are thinking about writing a book. Her bottom line: “Get your voice out there because it deserves to be heard.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Please use your voice to make an impact, whether it be in your life, someone else's life, your communities. And the biggest thing for me is get your voice out there because it deserves to be heard.

Resources:

Learn more at CatherineNikkel.com

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360. Human Creativity and AI with Craig Detweiler

Mon, 06 May 2024 09:30:00 +0000

As a professor, Dr. Craig Detweiler saw that his arts and media students were becoming anxious about AI replacing them in the job market. That’s why he decided to write a book about what he hopes will be the future of human creativity and AI.

Dr. Detweiler’s book, “Honest Creativity: The Foundation of Boundless, Good, and Inspired Innovation,” lays out the case that AI will help humans in their creative efforts, not replace them. Humans are good at analogies, embodiment, and empathy, while generative AI is good at lowering the traditional barriers to creative undertakings like legal work, studio tools, and more.

He lays out the three step process that students, and all of us, should take in order to succeed, hand-in-hand with AI. He draws on his experience as president and CEO of Wedgewood Circle, a philanthropic investment collective that funds creative projects of meaning.

It’s not everyday that you get to hear directly from Variety’s Mentor of the Year, so be sure to tune in and give a listen.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Fear not. The machines aren't coming to get you. The machines, hopefully, are coming to help and to serve you. And so have confidence in your HI: In your human intelligence, your human imagination, and your human ingenuity to create inspired innovation.

Resources:

Read “Honest Creativity: The Foundation of Boundless, Good, and Inspired Innovation.”
Follow Craig Detweiler on Instagram: @CraigDet

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359. Food and Freedom with Sue Van Raes

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Sue Van Raes would like for us all to befriend our biochemistry. Today she joins the show to teach us how. Sue is a functional nutritionist and food psychology specialist. She is also the author of a new book, “Food and Freedom: Discover your Personal Recipe to Eat, Think and Live Well.”

Our willpower is tied to our blood sugar levels. The health of our relationships is tied to understanding our rates of cellular oxidation. Expressing the full range of our emotions changes what we put in our bodies. Sue Van Raes explains the intersection of our inner biochemistry and our lived experiences.

Everyone has their own individual ratio of how much of the three macronutrients they need: protein, fat, and carbohydrates. Through both blood tests and developing better internal sensation observation, we can learn to eat to feel how we want to feel. And that is freedom.

Join us on today’s episode to learn more!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

If we could, and can, tend to our relationship to food and self the same way we would tend to another important primary relationship in our life– by showing up, by listening, by prioritizing, by tending to– there is incredible healing that is possible. And this relationship with food and self is the most primary and profound relationship we can start with because from there, everything else, every other relationship in our lives improves. The ripple effect is incredible. And I think it's also the relationship that we forget about the most. So it's my reminder to turn to ourselves and take care of ourselves because we need to be our number ones.

Resources:

Read: Food and Freedom: Discover your Personal Recipe to Eat, Think and Live Well
Learn more: BoulderNutrition.com
Follow Sue on Instagram: @BoulderNutrition

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358. Technocapitalism: The New Robber Barons with Loretta Napoleoni

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Loretta Napoleoni’s career as a journalist and author began when she discovered her childhood best friend had joined a terrorist organization. Since then she has dedicated herself to analyzing the intersection of economics, politics, and violence. We’re excited to have Loretta on the show today.

Loretta’s newest book is called “Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good.” In it, she identifies the dangers of only a handful of people controlling the most powerful, newest technology. She advocates for more government oversight.

Don’t let the title fool you. Loretta doesn’t mind capitalism and she likes technology. She just believes that the common good, as determined by a democratically elected government, should be the guiding light in how we regulate them.

Loetta’s perspective has been shaped through her Fulbright Scholarship to Johns Hopkins, her Rotary Scholarship to London School of Economics degree, and her work at the National Bank of Hungary in the early 1980s. She’ll give you a lot to think about in this episode!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

We have the power to understand technology. Do not be afraid. I mean, all we need is to study, understand, investigate, and then take control of it, because it's a very, very positive thing for humanity.

Resources:

Read Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good
Learn more at LorettaNapoleoni.com

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357. Writing as Healing with Meredith Heller

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:30:00 +0000

When she was about 12 years old, Meredith Heller left her troubled home and survived in the woods along the Potomac river. What saved her life was writing poetry and noticing how nature took care of her. Meredith has now spent over 30 years helping students and incarcerated women tap into that same power of noticing and writing. Her newest book, “Writing by Heart,” invites all of us into the practice.

In this episode, we dive into Meredith’s book. “Writing by Heart'' walks you through gathering information from your body, experience, psyche, and imagination. That way you can write about what you’re deeply experiencing, not just what you are thinking. The book also helps you notice things around you that spark something within you– joy, curiosity, learning. Through this practice, you teach yourself that the world is a place that feeds what moves you deeply.

Meredith describes writing as a way to make room within yourself to notice and fully experience the good and bad of life. This, she says, is the true path to healing.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Writing is a path home to self, to love, to life. It helps us fall in love with ourselves. It helps us come into deep friendship with ourselves. And from here, everything is possible. Pick up your pen, grab your journal, write a gratitude list, write a sparkle list, dive into the invitations in my book, come to workshops, such a warm, beautiful community, and start writing. Open up your inner world to yourself.

Resources:

Learn more at MeredithHeller.com
Follow Meredith on Instagram: @MeredithHellerPoetry

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356. Manifestation Methods with Chloe Panta

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Growing up in West Detroit, Chloe Panta knew there had to be a better life for her. She just didn’t know how to get it. Through relentless curiosity and pursuit of knowledge, Chloe learned about manifesting a better life and achieved it herself. Now she shares what she has learned in her new book, “Untapped Magic: Manifestation Methods for Living a Limitless Life.”

In today’s episode, we dive into her book. First, Chloe gives concrete, actionable steps to unblocking whatever thought patterns are holding you back. Then she walks us through creating new neural pathways through positive affirmations, calling in ease and flow, and using her “creative imaginings” audio recordings. The final part of the book, she explains, has aligned, actionable steps to help you actually take actions to manifest what you want in life.

In this interview, it becomes clear why Chloe is a highly sought after mindset expert and transformational coach: She uses an evidence-based, proven system with scientific data to help people overcome obstacles that are keeping them stuck in life.

We’re lucky to have Chloe on the show today. Be sure to tune in!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

I want people to tap into their untapped magic. We all have that. That's our mind. Simply tap into your mind and that's how you can actually cultivate a limitless life.

Resources:

Learn more at ChloePanta.co
Follow Chloe on Instagram: @ChloePanta
Read: Untapped Magic: Manifestation Methods for Living a Limitless Life

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355. The Physics of Intuition | Quantum Intelligence with Kim Chestney

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Multiverses, remote viewing, and the movie “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” We cover it all in today’s episode with Kim Chestney.

Kim is the founder of the Intuition Lab and the Create Festival. Her work raises awareness about the importance of insight into the evolution of individual and world consciousness. Working for nearly 20 years in the tech sector, Kim has led initiatives with some of the top thought leaders, technology companies, and universities in the world. She’s here today to tell us about her most recent book, “The Illumination Code.”

Diving into quantum physics, Kim explains that we’re living in the eternal here and now– that part of you already knows everything. Her book has seven “labs” with which you can experiment with this perception. A quick example: Remote sensing. The CIA spent a lot of resources on this kind of intuition, and according to Kim, it worked.

We cover Einstein along with the Akashic Records in this unique and thought-provoking interview. Enjoy!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

For me, I think that's really understanding that your intuition is really this master key to your life that can unlock this world of magic and wonder that we've all forgotten about. We walk around every day like we understand this world, but we really live in this world of mystery where anything's possible. And we have this huge potential that's within us that's still untapped. So I just wanna encourage everybody to trust themselves and listen to that guiding inner voice and learn to live by it every day because magic is out there. And the more you use it, the more you're going to find it.

Resources:

Learn more at KimChestney.com
Check out IntuitionLab.com
Read “Illumination Code: 7 Keys to Unlocking Your Quantum Intelligence”
Listen: Episode 194: Tapping into Intuition & Trusting Your Inner Guidance | with Kim Chestney

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354. Unlocking the Story within You | Meaning-Making with Dr. Johnny Parker

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Dr. Johnny Parker is an executive coach and consultant to pro and college sports teams athletes and C-suite leaders. He's got a 25 year track record of helping organizations to know, align, and master their story so they win at work and thrive in life. He's been everywhere in the national media– places like CNN, NBC News, Viewpoint, BET, Washington Post, among others. On top of everything, Dr. Johnny has just released a new book, “Turn the Page: Unlocking the Story within You.”

Today, Dr. Johnny shares his book’s five main themes: Clarify Your Quest; Demand Bold Truth; Champion Generosity; Engage Community; Pursue Continual Renewal. Of course we make sure to throw in some Star Wars references, along with some references to top psycho-social research studies.

This episode is a feast of information and anecdotes of lessons learned. Tune in to learn how to tap into your story and lead the life you desire.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Consider taking your name– your first name or your last name and create an acrostic and craft your core values. So we've done that as a family our last name Parker we added S for Parkers and ours is P the acrostic of P stands for pleasing God; A stands for accepting one another. The R stands for respect. The K, keeping short accounts. The E, encourage 1 another. The R, renewal. And the S is service.

So the reason that that's important, Ritz-Carlton does a stand-up meeting every day. They have 24 core values and every day they talk about 1 of their core values and it's their way of saying this is our story. They affirm the core value with a story. What happened last night in Tucson, Ritz-Carlton. What you're doing when you do that as a leader, as a family, you are actually staying more tethered to your authenticity, tethered to what really matters most.

And research shows that when leaders lead from their core values, their effectiveness is about 110% greater when they're not leading from that place of core center and authenticity.

Resources:

Learn more at JohnnyParker.com
Read “Turn the Page: Unlocking the Story Within You”
Connect with Dr. Johnny Parker on LinkedIn

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353. Taking Responsibility, Taking Control | How to Succeed with Steve Nudelberg

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:30:00 +0000

Steve Nudelberg is a bestselling author, expert sales trainer, business development guru, keynote speaker, and serial entrepreneur. His core philosophy is to ignite individuals and teams by enhancing their awareness about small yet powerful changes they can make to instantly sharpen individual performance centered around process, the art of building relationships, and pipeline development. We are lucky to have him on the show today.

Steve is the grandson and son of shoe business owners. His own sons have taken over his company, a training and development company called “On the Ball.” You could say entrepreneurship is in his blood. But Steve would be the first to tell you it is about discipline, controlling the little things you can: How much you sleep, how much you eat, how much water you drink, you know, all of the things that you can control in mind, body, spirits, energy, and daily behaviors.

Steve has failed many times, but he has always had the confidence to get back up and try again. He has something called “tolerance for ambiguity” - a willingness to take risks. Tune in to learn how he has developed this confidence in himself and how you can too.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The world has changed. Many, many years ago when my company was involved in sports and sports marketing, I had the opportunity to work with Pat Riley and he said something to me then which stayed with me: The only thing in life you can count on is change so you better learn to embrace it. And the biggest shift in the business world, although there's many, is that you are the product, you are the brand. And we now have tools to allow you to market you. One of the questions I ask people is, when was the last time you bought or entertained an opportunity with somebody you didn't like? If you and I met and we didn't like each other, there's no shot I'm on this show. So the challenge in this new economy is to market yourself. You're responsible for creating your own awareness. And if you learn how to do that, your life will change and everybody around you will know.

Resources:

Tune into the Nudelberg Daily Huddle
Learn more at On the Ball.co
Connect with Steve on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram

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352. Healing with Love | Committing to Yourself with Lisa Manyon

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:30:00 +0000

When Lisa Manyon was a child, she didn’t just watch cartoons, she’d critique the commercials that ran between them. She was always thoughtful, curious, and analytical. Today, Lisa brings the same thoughtfulness and curiosity to her new book, Spiritual Sugar: The Divine Ingredients to Heal Yourself With Love.

When Lisa was coming up in the marketing world, she quickly identified how much the industry relied on pressing people’s pain points. She was not going to follow that path. She blazed a trail in marketing with integrity, focusing on people’s passion points instead of pain points. She founded Write On Creative and now has a podcast, “Your Message Matters.”

In 2017, when Lisa was diagnosed with cancer she approached it with the same curiosity and thoughtfulness as she approached everything. She learned about all the ways you can heal yourself with love. Then she wrote a book about it: Spiritual Sugar. Her book covers meditation, connecting with nature, and other healing modalities. Her message, above all: “You can heal with love.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

I want all of our listeners to know that they matter, that they can heal with love, and it is time to commit to you.

Resources:

Learn more about Lisa’s marketing strategy company at writeoncreative.com
Read Spiritual Sugar: The Divine Ingredients to Heal Yourself With Love

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351. Diving into Inner Stillness | Transpersonal Psychology with Dr. Steve Taylor

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Dr. Steve Taylor has authored numerous bestselling books and is now releasing his newest book, “The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening.” He’s a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and the chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. Steve’s articles and essays have been published in over 100 academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. You may have seen his work in Scientific American or Psychology Today.

Steve’s field of study, transpersonal psychology, examines spiritual experiences in which we transcend our normal limited ego identity. It studies spiritual transformation, spiritual development. In fact, it could simply be called spiritual psychology. To be clear, when Steve discusses spirituality, he doesn’t mean religion. He’s talking about exploring your inner being, expanding your identity, connecting more deeply with other human beings and with the universe itself.

In his newest book, “The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening,” Steve lays out a very practical, doable path for anyone seeking to grow in their spiritual development. It covers steps like disidentification from the ego, gratitude, awareness, stillness, and altruism. According to Steve, spiritual awakening isn’t something extraordinary and unattainable, it’s accessible to everyone.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Just in the same way that the surface of the ocean can sometimes be turbulent but there's always still a deep stillness beneath it. A diver knows– a diver moves from the surface of the ocean into a deep stillness beneath the waves and in the same way within our being our minds can sometimes be turbulent and restless even full of discord but there's always a deep stillness in our deep being. So I like to remind people that deep stillness is always accessible. It's always there just below the surface of your mind and you're always free to dive into it.”

Resources:

Learn more at StevenMTaylor.com
Read “The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening”

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350. Achieving Time Freedom | Delegation Infrastructure with Mike Abramowitz

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:30:00 +0000

We’re thrilled to have Mike Abramowitz on the show with us today. Mike has 20 years of direct sales experience, training 5,000 plus sales reps with $17 million in sales. He has nine books in the self-help space, a podcast called “The Better than Rich Show,” and a community named “Automate, Delegate, and Systematize.” Plus, he’s founded a nonprofit, “PB&J for Tampa Bay.” Mike has scaled numerous six-figure businesses and a nonprofit to be run without him so he can experience the time freedom that he desires. Now he focuses on helping other busy entrepreneurs implement systems in their businesses by leveraging automation and delegation.

Growing up, Mike watched his father grind hard every day as a plumber in order to provide for his family but miss out on a lot of family time because of it. Mike also fell into this pattern– as a top salesman at Cutco for over 20 years, he worked long hours. As he started his author and speaker career on top of everything, his personal relationships and health started to break down. So Mike decided to shift his mindset and his work: He decided to buy back his time. He put infrastructure in place so his company and nonprofit could run without depending on him too much. He pivoted to using offshore virtual assistants, artificial intelligence, and creating FAQ libraries and other tools to “replace” him.

This structure was tested when his son was born prematurely and had to spend 8 months in the NICU. It worked. Mike could spend time with his family without his business suffering. His son is now healthy and thriving, and Mike has the time freedom he always wanted. When he does log hours, it is to help other business operators become business owners and truly experience the financial and time freedom that drew them to entrepreneurship in the first place.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Get clear on exactly the type of things that you want in your life or don't want and pursue the things that you want and let go of the things that you don't want with intentionality. And if there's any way that we could support with our team with Better Than Rich to support that, I would love to do, I would do a free delegation plan with any of your listeners if they wanna reach out. I would do a 90 day delegation plan of how to let go of anything it is that they wanna let go of and get off their plate. It's something that we love doing for anybody that would enjoy having that conversation.

Resources:

Learn more at VA.BetterThanRich.com
Listen to the Better Than Rich Show
Read Dan Martell’s book Buy Back Your Time

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349. Cracking the Communication Code | Relational Intelligence with Steve Cockram

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Our guest today is Steve Cockram. He's the co-founder of Giant, a world leader in relational intelligence, trusted by Google, Microsoft, Delta, Pfizer, the US military, and leaders across the world. Steve is here today to talk about his latest book, "The Communication Code," which was the number one new release on Amazon in all categories when released, and currently the number one book in business and management on Amazon.

The impetus for the book was Steve’s observation that maintaining healthy long term relationships is the exception, not the norm today. When he looked at root causes, he saw that communication failures were at the heart of the breakdowns. He noticed that many times people don’t receive and respond to information in the manner which it was intended.

That’s why he came up with the 5 Communication Codes. Communication Codes help the receiver/respondent understand the intent and desired response of the messenger. The 5 codes are: Critique, collaboration, clarify, care, and celebrate. He gives the example that his wife might tell him something she is struggling with, letting him know that she is communicating in the code “care.” That lets him know she isn’t looking for him to solve a problem, but to just be emotionally present with her.

Steve tells us of marriages and business relationships saved by this Communication Codes concept. He encourages everyone to give it a try, even if they’re feeling like their relationship is on the brink of failure. A simple communication code could change everything.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Communication can be made to work in any relationship. And actually, with the tools, you have a real chance, but without you don't. Intent is not enough for communication in a relationship. You actually need some tools if you are wired differently. If you're the same as someone else, we just get on and we're fine. But I think for me is where people have given up hope or where people have almost reached a point where they're not sure this relationship is gonna last, I would say give it one last spin because the communication code has the ability to begin creating hope in people's lives, in the relationships they were most loved to see life happening.”

Resources:

Read the book: “The Communication Code: Unlock Every Relationship, One Conversation at a Time”
Visit: GiantWorldwide.com
Take Giant’s free communication assessment: GiantUniversity.com/5-voices-overview
Connect with Steve on LinkedIn

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348. Why Your Life Has no Purpose | Creating Beliefs by Design with Dr. Greg Pursley

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Dr. Greg Pursley, affectionately known as Dr. G, is an expert in personal growth and transformation who has dedicated his career to helping individuals navigate through life's challenges by changing their core beliefs. His journey, marked by personal challenges including his son's health issues, has inspired him to develop methodologies that encourage individuals to live beyond their fears and anxieties.

Dr. G's approach revolves around the concept of the five A's: Aware, Acknowledge, Accept, Action Plan, and Attack. These steps, coupled with his focus on the five pillars of life - Relationships, Finances, Health, Career/Business, and Belief/Faith - provide a comprehensive framework for personal development. Through his Fix Your BS Academy and the bestselling book "Fix Your BS," Dr. G offers practical tools and strategies for individuals to confront and reshape their limiting beliefs.

One of the most impactful takeaways from the episode is the emphasis on emotional intelligence and resilience. Dr. G highlights how developing a positive mindset, cultivating emotional intelligence, and practicing gratitude can significantly influence our happiness and success. He shares inspiring success stories of individuals who have transformed their lives by applying these principles, demonstrating the transformative power of adopting a gratitude-driven approach to life.

Dr. G encourages us to reflect on their belief systems and consider how a shift in perspective could lead to profound personal and professional growth. His message is clear: by confronting and changing our deepest beliefs, we unlock the potential to lead more fulfilled and impactful lives.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Know yourself, look inside, figure out who you really are and what you really want in life and then you can start working toward developing it, but you have to know it first.”

Resources:

Learn more at fixyourbs.net
Read the Book: Fix Your BS
Follow Dr. G on Instagram: @drgregpursley

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347. Legal Wisdom for Entrepreneurs: Heather Pearce Campbell's Guide to Navigating Business Law

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Heather Pearce Campbell, a warrior mom, nature enthusiast, and an accomplished attorney and legal coach, is revolutionizing the way entrepreneurs approach legal matters. Based in Seattle, Heather has fused her passions and expertise into two dynamic ventures: Pierce Law, PLLC, and the Legal Website Warrior. Her journey, inspired by personal challenges and an entrepreneurial spirit instilled from childhood, has led her to become a guiding force for information entrepreneurs globally.

Heather's story is not just about professional success; it’s deeply rooted in personal experiences. The passing of her mother to glioblastoma significantly shifted her perspective on life and career, driving her to start her own legal practice immediately after law school. This journey was further shaped by the 9/11 aftermath, challenging Heather to innovate and adapt. Her transition to supporting entrepreneurs stemmed from a keen awareness of the legal void in this sector, prompting her to create accessible, efficient legal solutions.

Heather's primary message to entrepreneurs is clear: Legal support is not a luxury but a cornerstone of business success. She warns against common entrepreneurial pitfalls, such as neglecting legal protections and inadequate contract practices. Heather advocates for a proactive legal stance, emphasizing the importance of safeguarding online businesses and intellectual properties. Her practical advice encompasses establishing legal entities, customizing contracts, and nurturing a legally sound business environment. Heather's voice resonates with clarity and authority, urging entrepreneurs to embrace legal challenges as integral to their growth and success.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don't be afraid of legal support. Don't imagine what's in the box. Just understand that when it comes to legal support done right, there's a major toolbox available to you if you're looking in the right places. It’s just about picking up one tool at a time”

Resources:

Learn more at legalwebsitewarrior.com
Listen to the Guts, Grit & Great Business podcast
Connect with Heather on LinkedIn

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346. Embracing the Wild: How Shelby Stanger's Adventures Inspire Personal Growth and Fearlessness

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Shelby Stanger has carved a unique niche through her explorations and storytelling. Her journey is a testament to the power of embracing the wild, both in nature and within oneself. As a journalist-turned-podcaster, Shelby created "Wild Ideas Worth Living," where she interviews various adventurers, sharing her own extensive surfing and outdoor experiences.

Shelby's path was shaped by early life challenges, including the loss of her father. This personal tragedy highlighted the brevity of life and steered her towards surfing and nature, which she found to be healing and meditative. These experiences underscore her philosophy: that adventure is not just an activity, but a crucial element for mental well-being and personal growth.

Her book "Will to Wild" delves into the mindset necessary for adventures, the challenges faced, and the transformative effects of such experiences. It's a blend of personal anecdotes and interviews, providing practical guidance for those looking to embark on their own adventures. A key theme in Shelby's narrative is the role of fear. She discusses how facing fears in the wilderness can empower individuals to confront life's broader challenges, offering tactics like focusing on the present to manage fear.

Shelby's message resonates beyond the realm of adventurers. She advocates for the importance of starting - in adventures and life - emphasizing action over extensive planning. In a world that often feels overwhelming, Shelby Stanger's philosophy offers a refreshing perspective on the interplay between nature, fear, kindness, and self-discovery.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There's two things. One, go outside in nature as often as you can and breathe. And the second is be kind. Kindness is a game-changer. It'll get you out of a jam. It'll help you on your way. It'll bring you trail magic. And that's not just being kind to other people and kind to animals and trees but being kind to yourself. We can all be really hard on ourselves and you have to laugh at yourself on the way. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to others. Get outside and have fun.”

Resources:

Learn more at ShelbyStanger.com
Listen: Wild Ideas Worth Living
Read: Will to Wild
Follow Shelby on Instagram: @shelbystanger
Watch: TEDx | Will to Wild

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345. Quantum Thinking: Revolutionizing Your Worldview with Dianne Collins

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Today’s expert guest is Dianne Collins, a renowned author and the creator of Quantum Think. Collins, with her groundbreaking book "Do You Quantum Think?: New Thinking That Will Rock Your World," has embarked on a mission to reshape how we perceive our thoughts and reality.

A pivotal aspect of Quantum Think is the concept of "Observer Created Reality." This principle, rooted in quantum science, highlights how our perceptions and thoughts significantly shape our experiences. It's an empowering reminder of our ability to influence our own reality through mindful intent. Collins elucidates how this approach can lead to rapid personal transformations, emphasizing the interconnectedness of the universe and the importance of living a purpose-driven life.

Collins' insights provide a fresh perspective on personal growth and self-awareness. Her message is clear: by understanding and mastering our thought patterns, we can not only transform our own lives but also contribute positively to the world around us. Her teachings offer a path to discovering joy and fulfillment through purposeful living, making her a truly inspiring figure in the realm of modern thought leadership.

Listeners are encouraged to explore further and dive into the world of Quantum Think, a journey that promises not just personal growth, but a revolutionary shift in how we view and interact with the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Everything in this divinely intelligent mysterious universe has a purpose, every one of us has a purpose, you come in with a purpose. And one of the greatest joys in living is to know that first of all and to discover what that is and you discover it through looking at what you're drawn to, what are your gifts, what are your proclivities, what are you attracted to, what are you not attracted to, and it's like a mystery adventure of your life discovering your purpose, experiencing your purpose, knowing that all the different ways that you can express your purpose is your greatest contribution to your own joy and to the joy of others.”

Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

Learn more at diannecollins.com
Read: Do You QuantumThink?
Follow Dianne on Instagram: @quantumthinkdiva

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344. Flexibility and Resilience in Times of Crisis with James Burstall

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Today’s expert guest is James Burstall, the CEO of the international production group Argonon. With a rich background in journalism and executive roles in TV production, Burstall brings a unique perspective on leadership, particularly in navigating challenging times.

At the heart of Burstall's philosophy is his people-first approach. Whether it's adapting television productions like "The Masked Singer" during the COVID-19 pandemic or prioritizing employee wellbeing, his strategies are grounded in empathy and inclusivity. This focus extends beyond the walls of his company, as demonstrated by Argonon's commitment to diversity, inclusivity, and climate action. These efforts were redoubled in response to the pandemic and societal events like the George Floyd incident, reflecting Burstall's belief in upholding company values even amidst adversity.

Burstall's book, "The Flexible Method," is a testament to his approach. It offers 16 lessons on surviving crises, drawn from varied experiences across industries. These lessons emphasize adaptability, effective communication, and the importance of learning from both success and failure. Burstall's method underscores the need for leaders to be emotionally intelligent and proactive in supporting mental health, both within their teams and personally.

For Burstall, leadership in times of crisis isn't just about weathering the storm; it's about emerging stronger and more connected. His advice to leaders is clear: rest, reward, and review. By taking the time to reflect on experiences, celebrate achievements, and learn from challenges, leaders can foster a culture of continuous improvement and resilience.

James Burstall's journey is a masterclass in navigating turbulent waters with grace and strength. His insights offer invaluable lessons for anyone looking to lead effectively, especially in uncertain times. His call to action is simple yet profound: perform daily acts of kindness and engage in continuous learning, for in collaboration and feedback lies the key to growth and improvement.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Try to perform one random act of kindness every single day. And the trick is it can be somebody you know or somebody you don't know, but they must know that you've done it.”

Resources:

Learn more at argonon.com
Read The Flexible Method
Connect with James on LinkedIn

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343. Empowering Change Through Emotional Mastery and Economic Engines with Dame Doria Cordova

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Dame Doria Cordova is a visionary in the world of entrepreneurial education. As the CEO and owner of Accelerated Business Schools and the Money in You program, Doria has made significant contributions to uplifting humanity's consciousness through socially responsible businesses.

Her journey into the world of human potential began with an enlightenment experience that shifted her career path dramatically. At 26, working as a court reporter, she felt a calling that changed her life. This calling led her to the EST program and eventually to meeting Buckminster Fuller, whose ideas on sufficiency and global resources deeply influenced her.

Doria's entrepreneurial spirit is not just about building businesses but about creating economic engines that align with personal values and purposes. She emphasizes the significance of emotional intelligence and self-mastery, stating that mastering one's emotions is crucial for making sound decisions. Her approach to business is holistic, combining financial literacy with a commitment to social responsibility. By focusing on creating businesses that solve global problems, she believes one can achieve both wealth and fulfillment.

One of the most powerful takeaways from Doria’s message is the concept of sufficiency. In a world often seen through the lens of scarcity, she encourages us to recognize the abundance of resources and opportunities available. She urges us to focus on being of service as a pathway to wealth and happiness. This aligns with Buckminster Fuller's philosophy of making the world work for everyone through cooperation.

Doria Cordova's story is a testament to the power of aligning one’s career with a deeper purpose. Her approach offers a roadmap for anyone seeking to transform their professional life into a meaningful journey that contributes positively to the world. Her message is clear: by mastering our emotions, aligning our business with our values, and focusing on service, we can create not just successful careers, but also a more fulfilling and impactful life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Being of service is truly the key to happiness and joy. So one of the questions that Buckminster Fuller left the world with that we follow as much as we can is how can we make the world work for 100% of humanity through spontaneous cooperation in the shortest possible time without any ecological offense nor the disadvantage of anyone? So when you create a product or service that answers that question, the chances of you being wealthy and happy have just exponentially grown. So just remember being of service is key to being wealthy and being happy and go out there and get them.”

Resources:

fridayswithdoria.com
moneyandyou.com
Read: "Access to Cash"
Connect with Doria Cordova on LinkedIn
Follow Doria Cordova on Instagram: @damedccordova

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342. Unlocking Your Intuitive Power in Health and Life with Dr. Veronica Anderson

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Dr. Veronica Anderson's journey from a traditional eye surgeon to an intuitive healer represents a bold integration of scientific rigor with holistic intuition. Her transition from conventional medicine to embracing her innate intuitive abilities marks a significant turn in her career, offering a more comprehensive approach to health and wellness.

Initially hesitant, Dr. Anderson's personal challenges, including a struggle with depression and a knee injury, prompted her to explore her psychic skills. This exploration led to a profound realization: health transcends physical boundaries, intertwining deeply with our emotional and spiritual well-being. Dr. Anderson's intuitive insights complement her medical expertise, creating a unique holistic practice that addresses the complexities of human health.

Her innovative method, the "Respect Method," detailed in her book "Get the Respect You Deserve," is a testament to her commitment to holistic healing. This systematic approach empowers individuals to be seen and heard, both in their personal lives and professional spheres. The method's components - Reflect, Evaluate, Surrender, Pause, Elevate, Commit, and Trust - serve as pillars for self-improvement and empowerment.

Dr. Anderson's work with human design further enhances her holistic approach. By understanding one's spiritual DNA, individuals can embark on a journey of self-discovery and align their lives more closely with their true selves. This approach has been transformative for many, offering a new perspective on personal growth and fulfillment.

Dr. Anderson's story is a beacon for those seeking a more integrated approach to health, encouraging us to trust our intuition and embrace our innate abilities. Her journey underscores the potential within each of us to foster a more balanced, healthier life by tapping into our intuitive powers and understanding our deeper selves.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Learn to trust your gut – then trust it.”

Resources:

Learn more at drveronica.com
Read: "Get the Respect You Deserve"
Follow Dr. Veronica on Instagram: @drveronica

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341. A Modern Approach to Ayurvedic Wellness with Tessa Arnold

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Tessa Arnold, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Snapback Energy, is redefining the landscape of health and wellness. Transitioning from a career in commercial banking to becoming a renowned Ayurvedic health and wellness lifestyle coach, Arnold's journey is nothing short of transformative. Her story, rooted in personal challenges and a quest for deeper fulfillment, resonates with those seeking a more meaningful approach to health.

Arnold's story is one of introspection and courage. Faced with her own life's discontents and her husband's health challenges, she embarked on a path that led her to Ayurveda, an ancient holistic science. Her experience is a testament to the power of self-care and finding one’s personal rhythm. Arnold's journey was not just about changing careers; it was a profound journey of self-discovery and healing, a reminder of the resilience and adaptability inherent in all of us.

What sets Arnold apart is her pragmatic yet passionate approach to Ayurveda. She demystifies this ancient science, making it accessible and relevant to modern lifestyles. She emphasizes the six pillars of health - movement, sleep, breathing exercises, nutrition, emotional well-being, and meditation - as the cornerstone of holistic living. Her approach is not about one-size-fits-all solutions but understanding individual needs and constitutions. Arnold advocates for a personalized wellness plan, grounded in the understanding of one's body and mind, paving the way for sustainable health and well-being.

Tessa Arnold’s insights offer more than just health tips; they are an invitation to embrace a life of balance and harmony. Her journey encourages us to seek wellness practices that resonate personally, reminding us that the path to health is as unique as our individual stories.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When you love your body, it's going to love you back. The six pillars are health are nothing that you need to go out and buy. There are things you already have at hand. It's a beautiful gift when you step back and look at your life and realize that you have agency over it.”

Resources:

Learn more at balanceofyou.com
Check out SnapBack Energy
Follow Tessa Arnold on Instagram: @tess_elizabeth1
Connect with Tessa Arnold on LinkedIn

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340. Transforming Health and Entrepreneurship with Mike Fata

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Mike Fata's story is one of transformation, resilience, and entrepreneurial spirit. Once a high school dropout who weighed 300 pounds, Fata turned his life around by embracing health and fitness. His journey led him to co-found a successful company that pioneered the introduction of hemp foods to the market. Fata's entrepreneurial ventures stem from his deep passion for natural, healthy foods, a passion that resonates throughout his professional endeavors.

Fata's transformation was not just physical but also mental and professional. Growing up in a challenging environment, he realized at the age of 18 that a change was necessary for his health and future. He replaced his fast-food diet with nutritious, whole foods and discovered the benefits of hemp seeds, which sparked his entrepreneurial journey. This transition was a stepping stone to his later successes in the health and wellness industry.

The essence of Fata's philosophy is captured in his book, "Grow: 12 Unconventional Lessons to Becoming an Unstoppable Entrepreneur." Here, he shares invaluable insights into aligning personal passions with professional goals. The book is a testament to his belief that anyone can achieve entrepreneurial success with the right mindset and dedication. One of the key lessons Fata emphasizes is the importance of understanding one's "best day ever" and striving towards making every day as fulfilling.

A crucial aspect of Fata's journey is his emphasis on community building and legacy. He advocates for giving back and supporting others, a principle he actively practices through volunteering and involvement in nonprofit organizations. Fata believes in creating a purposeful impact that extends beyond personal achievements, a legacy that makes a lasting difference in the world.

Mike Fata's journey is a powerful reminder of the potential within each of us to transform our lives and make a significant impact in our communities and industries. His story teaches us that growth, in all its forms, is not just possible but essential for a fulfilling and impactful life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We have to grow. You can’t sit status quo. It doesn’t work. I’d encourage everyone to think about what’s your next step of personal and professional growth.”

Resources:

Learn more at mikefata.ca
Listen: Founder to Mentor Podcast
Read: Grow: 12 Unconventional Lessons to Becoming an Unstoppable Entrepreneur
Follow Mike on Instagram: @themikefata

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339. Embracing Leadership in the Age of Continuous Learning with Damon Lembi

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:30:00 +0000

In a rapidly evolving business landscape, the essence of effective leadership is continuously transforming. Damon Lembi, CEO of Learn It and author of "The Learn It All Leader," embodies this dynamic approach to leadership. His journey, from the sports fields of Pepperdine University to the boardrooms of corporate training, offers a fascinating perspective on adapting and thriving in an ever-changing environment.

Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area as the eldest of four siblings, Lembi's early life was steeped in sports. His prowess on the field led to an opportunity to join the Atlanta Braves, but he chose academia over athletics, a decision that set him on an uncharted path. Post-college, he faced the daunting task of finding his career direction. This journey led him back to his family's roots at Learn It, a company his father established. Starting as a receptionist, he climbed the ranks to become CEO, reshaping the organization's focus on corporate training and skill development.

Lembi's book, "The Learn It All Leader," is not just a reflection of his professional journey but a tribute to the influence of his family, especially his father. It encapsulates his leadership philosophy, emphasizing humility, curiosity, integrity, and courage. These traits, according to Lembi, are the cornerstones of successful leadership, essential in an era where adaptability and continuous learning are paramount.

Damon Lembi's key message to leaders and aspiring professionals is clear: the journey of learning and self-improvement never ends. In an era defined by rapid technological advancements and shifting workplace dynamics, embracing continuous learning is not just a strategy but a necessity. Lembi's insights offer a roadmap for navigating these changes with confidence and integrity, ensuring that we not only adapt to the future but shape it in our vision.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Keep learning. If you feel like you've come to a point where you know everything or you got all figured out, challenge yourself on that. Keep learning, keep evolving, and I think it's not only fun but there's a lot of value in it.”

Resources:

Learn more at learnit.com
Connect with Damon on LinkedIn
Read: The Learn It All Leader

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338. Reversing the Clock with Debra Poneman: Age-Defying Secrets for a Youthful Life

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Today’s expert guest is Debra Poneman, a renowned expert in the fields of personal development and anti-aging. Founder of Yes to Success Inc., Poneman shares her journey from meditation teacher to creator of the transformative "Ageless" program, which focuses on reversing the aging process.

Debra's transition into anti-aging was sparked by her audience's curiosity about her youthful appearance at age 70. Collaborating with mind-body researcher Ronnie Newman, she developed a holistic approach to aging, combining lifestyle choices, diet, stress management, and exercise. Her method is not just about looking younger but living a life filled with vitality and emotional well-being.

Poneman's key insights include the importance of a balanced diet free from high glycemic foods and processed meats, regular stress-reducing practices like meditation, and specific exercises such as HIIT for cellular rejuvenation. She also emphasizes the role of quality sleep and the dangers of blue light exposure. Poneman's advice is simple: adopt these practices gradually and with self-compassion to lead a healthier, more youthful life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You don’t have to go whole hog. Be gentle with yourself. But if you want to turn back the hands of time, go with what I’ve shared today.”

Resources:

Learn more at yestosuccess.com
Learn more about Ageless: yestosuccess.com/ageless
Connect with Debra on LinkedIn

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337. Transforming Lives with Feng Shui: Unveiling the Secrets with Marie Diamond

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Today’s expert guest is Marie Diamond, a globally celebrated transformational leader, speaker, and author. Diamond, renowned for her unique blend of the law of attraction, quantum physics, meditation, and feng shui, has guided the paths of billionaires, celebrities, and corporate giants toward unprecedented success.

In her book, "Feng Shui Your Life," Marie Diamond offers a beginner-friendly guide to harnessing the power of feng shui. The book provides practical steps to align one's environment with their personal energy number – a unique identifier based on one's birthday. This personalization ensures that every individual can apply these principles effectively in their own life.

In our everyday lives, we are constantly interacting with our environment, yet we rarely pause to consider its impact on our well-being and success. Marie Diamond's principles of feng shui bring this critical element to the forefront. By aligning our physical spaces with our personal aspirations, we open ourselves to a world of possibilities.

One of the key takeaways from Diamond's teachings is the concept of the 'three-dimensional vision board.' Our homes and offices are not just physical structures; they are reflections of our inner world. The clutter in our spaces can lead to mental chaos, while a well-organized and thoughtfully arranged environment can enhance clarity, focus, and positive energy flow.

As we navigate our own paths, let us take a leaf out of Marie Diamond's book and look around. Our environment is not just a backdrop to our lives; it is a canvas waiting to be painted with our deepest desires and highest aspirations.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want you to really go into your home and become aware of how your home feels and if your home is the vision of what you really want in your life. If it's clutter, create harmony. If it's the wrong images, put some other things around you. So just become aware how your home has been affecting you in the past, right now, and how you can change it to create a magnificent future.”

Resources:

Learn more at mariediamond.com
Read Feng Shui Your Life
Follow Marie on Instagram: @mariediamondofficial

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336. Embracing Positivity: Anthony Iannarino's Journey of Transformation

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Anthony Iannarino, a renowned author and expert in sales and leadership, recently shared his profound journey and insights on "The Daily Helping" podcast. His story is not just about professional success; it's a testament to the power of positivity and resilience in the face of adversity.

Raised by a single mother, Anthony's early life was marked by challenges. His pursuit of rock and roll during his teenage years was abruptly halted by a health scare - a grand mal seizure, which led to the diagnosis of an arteriovenous malformation. This experience was a turning point, shifting his focus toward academic and professional pursuits. He graduated summa cum laude, attended Harvard Business School, and later, transitioned to building a family business, writing, and public speaking.

Anthony's latest work, "The Negativity Fast," is rooted in his personal transformation. The book emphasizes the importance of eliminating negativity, including avoiding negative media and influences. This approach isn't just philosophical; it's backed by science. Anthony cites studies demonstrating the myriad benefits of gratitude on physical and mental health, including reduced stress and enhanced immune function. He practices and recommends Martin Seligman's "three blessings" exercise, reflecting on positive events daily to foster a healthier, more optimistic mindset.

Handling negative influences, especially in unavoidable situations, is a challenge many face. Anthony's advice? Avoid divisive topics and focus on positive interactions. He stresses the significance of shifting our attention from self-oriented to other-oriented actions. His personal anecdotes about helping animals and the homeless underline the psychological benefits of altruism, often referred to as "Helper's High."

Anthony's message is clear: practicing gratitude and helping others are not just noble acts; they are pathways to personal growth and happiness. He encourages everyone to start small, either by practicing gratitude or by helping those in need. These actions have a ripple effect, benefiting not just the individual but society as a whole.

In a world often clouded by negativity and divisiveness, Anthony Iannarino's insights offer a beacon of hope and a practical roadmap to a more positive, fulfilling life. His story and advice resonate with anyone looking to overcome negativity and embrace a journey of growth and transformation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Do one of two things: Start the three blessings exercise, that will help you feel a whole lot better. But at the same time, if you can go help somebody else, that will be a great contribution.”

Resources:

Learn more at thesalesblog.com
Read: "The Negativity Fast"
Follow Anthony Iannarino on Instagram: @iannarino
Connect with Anthony on LinkedIn

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335. Finding Strength in Brotherhood: Jarrad Turner's Mission to Uplift Veterans

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:30:00 +0000

In today’s Veterans Day episode of The Daily Helping, our expert guest is Jarrad Turner, a combat veteran whose service to his country has transitioned into a service for his fellow veterans. Turner's military background is not just a testament to his courage but also to his commitment to camaraderie and brotherhood—a theme that defines both his personal struggles and his post-service mission.

Turner's story is one of valor and vulnerability. His return from combat was not just a physical journey back home but a mental and emotional odyssey. He candidly shares the yearning to return to the front lines, not driven by the adrenaline of war but by the bond with his brothers in arms. This profound sense of belonging and purpose often goes missing when service members trade their uniforms for civilian clothes, and Jarrad was no exception. His battle scars were not only the ones visible to the eye but also the cognitive and psychological challenges that followed him long after the battles ended.

Turner's insights offer actionable advice for veterans and civilians alike: healing is a communal effort. It requires the support of those who understand the unspoken language of shared experiences. For veterans, Turner's story is a beacon of hope, showing that the path to recovery, though winding, is lined with the support of fellow soldiers turned lifelong friends.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When you transitioned into the military, no matter what branch of service it was, you didn't do it by yourself. There was a multitude of people that helped you as you transitioned into service. So what we ask you is, don't try to do this by yourself. You had a team when you went into the military, you have a team when you're separated from the military. We are part of that team. So if you need help, if you have questions, all I ask you to do is reach out and give us a try. Call us, send us an email, send us a text message, but do not try to do this by yourself. Transition is hard at multiple levels. And even if you transition or separated from the military 20 years ago, it doesn't mean you had a successful transition. We are here to help you. Don't do this by yourself. You want to do it on a battlefield by yourself. Don't try to do it on this new, different arena. Don't try to do it by yourself.”

Resources:

Learn more at thewarrioralliance.org and please consider making a donation
Follow The Warrior Alliance on Instagram: @thewarrioralliance

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334. Embracing Your Unique Tune: A Guide to Authentic Communication with Chris Ullman

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Chris Ullman is not your ordinary communicator. As a four-time national and international whistling champion and communications maestro, his life's work goes beyond mere words. It encompasses a melody that resonates with the hearts of those he reaches. With a career spanning strategic communication counsel and inspirational speaking, Ullman’s unique blend of talents serves as a testament to the power of authenticity and passion in creating a meaningful impact.

Chris Ullman's message is as clear as his whistling—everyone has a unique gift, a "whistle," that can resonate and make a difference. As a champion whistler and communications expert, Ullman's life exemplifies the profound impact of embracing and sharing one's talents. His book, "Find Your Whistle," encourages us to uncover and utilize our innate abilities to enrich the world around us.

Finding your whistle starts with introspection. Ullman believes in identifying what truly stirs the soul and pursuing it with conviction. This journey may be fraught with challenges, but it's through overcoming these hurdles that one’s purpose becomes evident. Ullman's own path demonstrates that even the simplest skills, like whistling, can bring joy and connection to others.

In the digital age, where authentic connection is often scarce, Ullman's approach to communication stands out. He stresses the importance of genuine interactions, whether it’s through public speaking or one-on-one mentorship. Active listening and sincerity are the cornerstones of his strategy, fostering deeper connections and understanding.

The takeaway from Ullman's philosophy is straightforward: Discover your unique voice, and let it be heard. It's not about complexity or grandeur, but about the honesty and joy that a simple act can convey. Ullman's journey isn’t just about his success but about the inspiration he spreads through his simple yet profound talent.

As Ullman continues to share his melody, he challenges us to explore and express our own. Whatever your whistle may be, it holds the potential to inspire, connect, and transform. So, find that simple gift within you, and let it sing to the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Be grateful. Gratitude is critical. One of the founders of Carlyle was in an interview with a reporter and he was recounting growing up with a single mom and how they struggled. And he works hard and gets a great education, eventually becomes a billionaire. He says he levitates out of bed every day with gratitude for his blessings. That is the most important lesson in the book, to be grateful for what you've got. That doesn't mean you don't suffer, but we must focus on the positive. And that emphasis can actually be a momentum that helps you get over the negative as well.”

Resources:

Learn more at chrisullman.com
Read "Find Your Whistle"
Read "Four Billionaires and a Parking Attendant"
Follow Chris on Instagram: @chrisullman

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333. Embracing Self-Worth and Love with Scott Stabile

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Scott Stabile, author of "Enough As You Are" and "Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide Open Heart", is no stranger to the transformative power of love. Through his books, personal empowerment workshops, and transformational breath work journeys, he has been a beacon of hope for many, guiding them towards a life filled with love and self-acceptance.

Growing up, Stabile experienced various events and situations that shaped his outlook on life. However, it was during his early twenties when he began to recognize the profound impact of the choices we make in our lives. He observed that when he chose to act out of love, aligning himself with its energy, his life seemed to fall into place. This realization was not just about romantic love but about an encompassing energy of love that exists both within and around us. This energy, he believes, plays a pivotal role in how we approach life, others, and most importantly, ourselves.

Diving deeper into the essence of self-worth, Stabile's book, "Enough As You Are", comes at a time when the world is riddled with unrealistic expectations and beauty standards. Through a compilation of writings that reflect on self-love and self-acceptance, he introduces readers to the concept of inherent worth. According to him, our worth is not determined by our career, looks, or any societal benchmark. Instead, we are all born with it, and it remains with us throughout our lives. It is this inherent worth that dictates how we interact with the world. When we embrace our worth, we move through life with an openness that invites positive interactions. On the other hand, those who haven't recognized their worth tend to be more closed off, guarded, and hesitant.

However, recognizing one's worth is just the beginning. True self-acceptance, as Stabile points out, involves not only accepting every part of ourselves but also accepting the parts of us that struggle with this acceptance. In a society where we are constantly bombarded with messages about what is deemed 'beautiful' or 'successful', it's easy to fall into the trap of self-judgment. But instead of berating ourselves for these judgments, Stabile invites us to understand the root of such thoughts and make room for them. By shining love even on the parts of us we find hard to like, we pave the way for a healthier relationship with ourselves.

Scott Stabile's insights into love and self-worth are not just teachings but life philosophies that have the power to transform lives. As we navigate the complexities of modern life, it's essential to remember that we are enough as we are.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are enough as you are. You are worthy as you are. Trust that, believe that, and even the places within you that you have the hardest time liking, understand that you can still shine love on them. And when you do, your entire relationship with yourself is going to change.”

Resources:

Learn more at scottstabile.com
Read: You Are Enough
Follow Scott on Substack: scottstabile.substack.com

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332. The Revolutionary Approach to Health: Dr. Philip Ovadia’s Insights on Metabolic Surgery

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Dr. Philip Ovadia is not just a cardiothoracic surgeon; he is a testament to the transformative power of metabolic surgery. Having once been morbidly obese himself, Dr. Ovadia embarked on a journey that led him to the forefront of metabolic health and surgery. His expertise, combined with his personal experience, makes him uniquely equipped to discuss the profound impact of these procedures on overall health.

For many, the term "metabolic surgery" might conjure images of drastic weight loss procedures reserved for the extremely obese. However, Dr. Ovadia's story challenges these preconceived notions. His transformation was not just about shedding pounds but about gaining a deeper understanding of metabolic health. Through his journey, he realized the potential of metabolic surgeries to address the root causes of many chronic diseases, rather than merely treating their symptoms.

One key takeaway from Dr. Ovadia's insights is the importance of viewing metabolic surgery as a tool, not a cure. While these procedures can lead to significant weight loss and improvement in conditions like diabetes and hypertension, the real success lies in the post-operative journey. Nutrition, lifestyle choices, and individualized care play crucial roles in ensuring long-term health benefits. In his book, "Stay off My Operating Table", Dr. Ovadia delves deeper into these concepts, offering readers a comprehensive guide to metabolic health.

For anyone grappling with metabolic health issues or considering metabolic surgery, Dr. Ovadia's message is clear: stay informed, prioritize individual needs, and always strive for overall health optimization. After all, it's not just about the weight we lose but the health and vitality we gain.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want people to understand that they are in charge of their health, they are empowered, and they can make these changes to avoid my operating table and to really feel their best every day. Don't be sitting back waiting for your doctor to do this for you. Don't think that the government is going to do this for you. It is up to you to take charge of your health, empower yourself, educate yourself, and figure out how you can get yourself to optimal health.”

Resources:

Take the free quiz at ifixhearts.com
Read: Stay Off My Operating Table
Follow Dr. Philip Ovadia on Instagram: @ovadia_heart_health

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331. Understanding AI as a Storytelling with Roy Vella

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Is AI going to take over the world like in Terminator? Roy Vella knows the answer to that question and a few more advanced questions too. Roy is a digital strategy expert, AI expert, professional speaker, independent, non-exec director, advisor, and consultant to enterprises large and small. As a resourceful Stanford, JD, MBA, and US UK citizen, Roy has proven complex problem-solving skills and global execution, delivering high growth, digitally driven teams. He runs a management consultancy, providing strategic advice and commercial services to digital leaders worldwide, particularly as an expert in deep tech, FinTech, and smart home industries.

Roy tells us what AI is good at right now, and what it is not good at…. yet. He uses ChatGPT as an example. ChatGPT is good at figuring out what words tend to appear together, in what order, and in what context. That is because it has been trained on massive datasets called large language models (LLM). That makes iChatGPT good at storytelling. However, ChatGPT is not good at accuracy. So it may tell a great story, but it doesn’t know if that story has any accuracy or not. Therein lies the biggest danger, according to Roy.

Roy emphasizes that in a world with increasingly capable AI, our focus should be on critical thinking. We should be teaching students how to think through what are the best prompts or questions so they can pull the best output from AI. Because the amount of computation power that is coming our way will blow our collective human minds.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Storytelling came through in our conversation about the risks of AI storytelling, but the flip side is also true. We are story telling and digesting creatures. I tell folks all the time, no matter what your job is, no matter what you're doing, knowing how to tell a good story is crucial to success. For all my advanced education, it's improv training that was probably some of the most valuable stuff I learned.

And the problem is we don't practice it anymore. We used to, you know, the sun went down, the lights went out and we sat around a fire and told stories to each other.

And we don't do that anymore. But the most successful people tell the best stories.

I mean, it's as simple as that– whether they're a politician or a CEO or leader of a church or whatever, right? It is the ability to tell stories and the practice of doing that.

You can't just read about telling stories, you gotta practice it. When I'm talking to entrepreneurs, which I do a lot, I'm saying you got to practice the story. You got to tighten that up. You got to tell me why I should believe that and how it's going to work.

Storytelling is almost the crux of all success, in my opinion.

Resources:

Connect with Roy Vella on LinkedIn, Twitter, and at royvella@gmail.com.
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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330. Unlocking the Future with XR: A Dive into the Digital Realm with Alan Smithson

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Alan Smithson is no stranger to innovation. As the CEO of MetaVRse, a trailblazing XR (Extended Reality) consulting and product development company, he has positioned himself as a vanguard in the realm of VR, AR, and MR. With predictions pointing to XR becoming a $1 trillion industry by 2030, Alan's expertise and vision are more crucial than ever. But beyond the numbers, it's his passion for the transformative power of this technology that truly stands out.

Alan's journey into the world of XR might seem unorthodox at first glance. From the beats of his DJ company to the digital landscapes of VR, his path was shaped by a serendipitous encounter at a tech conference. This pivotal moment made him realize the boundless potential of XR – not just as a novel entertainment medium, but as a tool that could reshape industries, redefine education, and revolutionize our interaction with the digital world.

But what does this all mean for us? For Alan, the answer is clear: education and training. He envisions a world where students can step into the heart of ancient Rome, feel the pulse of a bustling 20th-century metropolis, or explore the depths of space – all from the safety of a classroom. This immersive learning, he believes, is the key to a more engaged, informed, and inspired generation. XR also has the potential to give people access to training on complex devices in safe environments that would normally take months to train on. And with the rapid advancements in haptic technology and the rollout of 5G networks, this vision is closer to reality than we might think.

So, as we stand on the brink of this digital frontier, let's take a moment to appreciate that the future isn't just something that happens; it's something we create. With XR, we have the tools. Now, all we need is the imagination to unlock their potential.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain. I think that’s the best advice I have, because it allows you to focus on the positives in your life, not the negatives. And that’s where the real magic happens.”

Resources:

Connect with Alan Smithson on LinkedIn
Learn more about MetaVRse at metavrse.com
Learn more about TheMall at themall.io

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329. Climbing the Ladder of Success with Eric Lofholm

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Imagine the journey from flipping burgers at McDonald's to becoming the CEO of your own company, and a top real estate producer at that. What if we told you that success is a learned skill? Today, we're joined by Eric Lofholm, CEO of the Being Movement LLC, who made this amazing transition and is here to explain how he did it. He attributes much of his success to his mentor, Dr. Donald Boyne, who showed him the necessity of self-belief and the importance of challenging our self-perceptions. Eric's powerful story serves as an inspiring reminder that greatness can be unlocked, and it's often just a mindset shift away.

Venture with us as Eric highlights the transformative power of emotional states in making conscious decisions. Hear about his personal experience of choosing love over anger during a challenging situation with his daughter. I sincerely hope this conversation with Eric sparks a profound shift in your life, just as it did in his.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Have accurate thinking about your greatness. When you think about yourself, what are your natural gifts and talents? What skill sets have you developed that you've been trained in? What are the things that you've accomplished that you can really acknowledge yourself on? Have accurate thinking about your greatness.”

Resources:

Learn more at ericlofholm.com
Read Eric’s books
YouTube: youtube.com/saleschampion1
Follow Eric on Instagram: @eric.lofholm

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328. The Power of Acknowledgment: A Journey to Enlightenment with Jonathan Robinson

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Our guest today is Jonathan Robinson, a beacon of positivity and a staunch advocate for embracing life's countless blessings. His insights resonated deeply, reminding us of the countless moments of beauty, joy, and wonder that we often overlook in our daily hustle.

Jonathan's journey is a testament to the transformative power of gratitude. He emphasizes that while life showers us with endless moments of happiness, joy, and love, many of us fail to acknowledge them. It's not the grand celebrations or significant milestones alone; it's also the fleeting smiles, the spontaneous laughs, the unexpected moments of kindness, and the simple yet profound beauty of the everyday.

Robinson's message is clear and potent: Take a moment, pause, and say 'thank you.' This simple act can work wonders, anchoring us in the present and allowing us to tap into a deeper sense of bliss and contentment. As we navigate our paths, let's make it a point to cherish the beauty around us, to express our gratitude, and to truly live in the moment. After all, the journey to the best version of ourselves starts with a heart full of gratitude.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There's so many good things in life, but if we're not like acknowledging them by saying thank you for this life, in little moments, just feeling our heart and saying thank you, we miss it. So by just opening up to all the blessings that we have moment by moment during our day, we can start to feel more peaceful, more loving.”

Resources:

Learn more at findinghappiness.com
Read: “The Enlightenment Project” and sign up to get 5 quick ways to tap into inner peace
Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn

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327. Blooming in Adversity with Carrington Smith

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Today, we are joined by Carrington Smith, the acclaimed author of “Blooming: Finding Gifts in the Shit of Life.” Carrington's journey, celebrated in platforms like Forbes and Fast Company, is a testimony to the indomitable spirit of human resilience. Born into the illustrious legacy of the founders of the International Paper Company, one might assume a life of privilege and ease awaited her. Yet, as family fortunes dwindled over generations, so did familial unity, leaving in its wake an undercurrent of resentment and an overbearing pressure to uphold revered family standards.

While her family’s history boasts of prestigious alma maters like Miss Porter School in Farmington for her grandmother, mother, and sister, Carrington’s own educational journey was markedly different. She attended public schools and pursued higher studies at Washington State University. It was here that she faced one of the darkest episodes of her life, a harrowing sexual assault. This traumatic experience remained a silent burden for six years, until the corridors of law school gave her the sanctuary she needed to find her voice.

Carrington's path to healing began when she broke her silence. She found a beacon of hope in “The Gift of Fear” by Gavin de Becker, realizing that trauma could be worn not as a chain, but as a medal of courage. This wasn’t a tale of mere survival but of turning pain into power. Carrington's life philosophy, poignantly reflected in her book title, encourages embracing challenges as opportunities for growth. Her candid message emphasizes the importance of owning one’s story, processing every emotion - from anger and grief to euphoria, and especially amplifying the voices of women, who often navigate a world trying to mute them. For Carrington, life's adversities are not about recounting losses but about recognizing the gains that come with them—like the allure of starting afresh and the freedom to carve out a new narrative.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“With adversity comes opportunity. That little piece of sage advice has been such an important piece of wisdom that absolutely has transformed my life. I people can just walk away with that and know that how they view an event is going to determine the outcome, and if they can always be on the lookout for growth and opportunity, they're gonna live a much happier life.”

Resources:

Learn more at carrington-smith.com
Read: "Blooming: Finding Gifts in the Shit of Life"
Follow Carrington on Instagram: @carringtonatx

326. Finding Life-Enhancing Benefits in Anxiety with Dr. Kirk J. Schneider

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Today we welcome Dr. Kirk J. Schneider to the show. He is a towering figure in the field of psychology, specializing in existential humanistic and existential integrative psychology. Not only is he an adjunct faculty member at some of the most prestigious institutions like Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University, but he also co-founded and currently presides over the award-winning Existential Humanistic Institute. His new book, "Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World,” promises to be a game-changer and is now available everywhere.

Dr. Kirk J. Schneider's journey into the world of psychology began at a young age. When he was just two and a half years old, he lost his seven-year-old brother, a tragedy that threw him into a whirlpool of emotions and led him to early psychoanalytic therapy. Far from being a crutch, this therapy experience transitioned him from a state of paralyzing fear to one of boundless curiosity and wonder. Influenced by his father, a humanistic educator, and captivated by classic shows like "Outer Limits" and "The Twilight Zone," Kirk developed a multi-dimensional worldview that eventually led him to dig deep into existential humanistic psychology.

Some might question what they think to be a contradiction in the title of Kirk’s new book: How can anxiety be life-enhancing? Well, it turns out that there is something called 'Eustress,' which Dr. Schneider describes as a positive form of anxiety that can be energizing and life-affirming. If you're struggling with the weight of existence, he recommends setting aside undistracted time for practices like diaphragmatic breathing and mindfulness. And if that seems too overwhelming, it might be a sign to consider therapy for a deeper dive.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“My latest life enhancing anxiety is this YouTube channel that I'm developing called Corps of Depth Healers. It's an attempt to gather resources for people, especially for people who have some training, some serious ability to go out there in the world and translate these principles of depth-oriented practice that we've been talking about, helping people cultivate presence, namely, but to translate those principles to addressing social crisis in the world.”

Resources:

Learn more at kirkjschneider.com
Read: "Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World”
Connect with Dr. Kirk J. Schneider on LinkedIn
YouTube Channel: Corps of Depth Healers

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325. Transform Your Life in Just Three Minutes a Day with Dr. Richard Dixey

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Our guest today is not your typical meditation teacher; he's a bridge between the worlds of hard science and deep spirituality. Meet Dr. Richard Dixey, a senior faculty member at Dharma College in Berkeley, California. With advanced degrees in biophysics and the history of philosophy science, Dr. Dixey formerly directed a bioelectronic research unit in London and served as the CEO of his own biotech company. Now, he dedicates his life to teaching meditation and runs the Light of Buddha Dharma Foundation in India. He’s the author of "Three Minutes a Day, a 14-week course to learn meditation and transform your life."

Dr. Dixey is on a mission to blend the lines between science and spirituality. His unique background allows him to question the limitations of scientific materialism, citing historical perspectives from the Greeks and key figures like Galileo.

For those struggling to find time for meditation, Dr. Dixey has a practical solution. His book "Three Minutes a Day" offers a condensed yet effective approach to meditation, perfect for today's fast-paced lifestyle. He underscores that the ultimate guide in meditation is one's experience, not just third-party scientific validation. The program provides 14 different exercises that gradually build up your focus and self-awareness, aiming to move you from a state of brittle, adverted attention to engaged attention. Dr. Dixey outlines the concept of "six gates" through which we experience the world—our five senses plus the mind—and how we can channel our focus through them one at a time.

Dr. Dixey seeks to democratize meditation, breaking down barriers that might deter people from practicing it. His "three-minute" format serves as both an introduction and a foundation, hoping to lead practitioners to longer sessions eventually. He insists that achieving a balance between technological advancements and personal growth is not just a desire but a pressing need, for the sake of both individual well-being and collective wisdom.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Meditation is a path to genuine freedom. You can be as rich as you like. You can have as many cars and boats and watches and girlfriends and all the rest of it as you like. But if you are just reactive, you are not free. In fact, a beggar on a street corner might be freer than you. And freedom is what we all want. We want that feeling of, man, I am in control of my life. That's what meditation can offer.”

Resources:

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324. Wired for Success: The Essence of Being Wired Differently with Todd Saylor

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 09:30:00 +0000

A highly esteemed functional business coach, Todd Saylor is the powerhouse behind the internationally renowned brand "Wired Differently" and the inspirational Tiki Hut Business Retreat. Not just an entrepreneur, but a serial one, Todd boasts the successful inception and management of 14 prosperous businesses. His expertise and innovative approach have landed him coveted spots on esteemed platforms such as CBS, Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, and MarketWatch.

Beyond his business acumen, Todd is an accomplished author with a compelling series, “Wired Differently”. He is also diving into the world of film with his upcoming movie, "The Tiger in Us", a heart-wrenching homage to his father's enduring legacy.

The "Wired Differently" series begins with Todd's first book, "Wired Differently." This explores what fuels certain individuals with an unwavering drive, setting them apart from the masses. The narrative is deeply interwoven with the relentless spirit of his father. The second book in the series, "Wired Differently: DriftAgain," delves deep into the fabric of those who stand out. The third book, "Wired Again: Your Will Be Done," ventures into the philosophical realm, navigating the intricate dance between free will and divine destiny. In this book, Todd illuminates the three pivotal phases of being "Wired Differently." The Creation Stage delves into the neural intricacies we’re born with. The Learning Stage harnesses the subconscious for personal growth. Lastly, the Actualization Phase channels positive affirmations while staving off the perilous "ANTS" (Automatic Negative Thoughts).

Resources:

Learn more at toddsaylor.com
Read “Wired Differently: Your Will Be Done”
Watch the trailer at TheTigerInUs.com
Connect with Todd on LinkedIn

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323. The Power of Rhythms in Family & in Life with Jim Sheils

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Jim Sheils is not just your average entrepreneur; alongside his wife Jamie, this dynamic duo has embarked on a mission to help busy professionals find deeper, richer connections with their families. Rewind to episode 206, and you'll remember their heartfelt insights. But today, they're back to delve even deeper.

Being successful real estate investors, Jim and Jamie weren't unfamiliar with the demands of a busy life. Yet, it's their Wall Street Journal bestselling book, "The Family Board Meeting," and their commitment to the "18 Summers" entrepreneur family organization, that showcases their unique expertise.

What drove them to pen "The Family Board Meeting"? It's the realization that while professionals are often armed with resources for business success, the toolkit for familial success is often sparse. Enter rhythms. Not habits, mind you, but rhythms—a term that resonates with intentionality and harmony. These rhythms aren’t just fluff; they’re the heartbeat of lasting familial bonds.

One such rhythm is the "Date Night with a Question." A time carved out weekly for couples to escape the mundane and rediscover each other. Then there's the titular "Family Board Meeting Strategy," a transformative routine ensuring individual bonding time with each child. Imagine a world where parents dedicate a half-day every quarter to understanding their child's evolving world, from princess parties to fishing trips. Jim's own tales shed light on the undeniable impact of such dedicated time. And let's not forget the "Family Adventure," where memories are forged in the crucible of fun and collaboration.

However, starting with these rhythms isn't about overhauling your life overnight. It's about introducing simplicity, starting perhaps with just two or three rhythms. Commit to these pockets of time, and you'll witness harmony weaving its way into your home.

Above all, it's the profound conversations, the open-ended questions on date nights, that pull couples away from the brink of ambivalence and towards the warm embrace of understanding. In a world constantly pulling us in a myriad of directions, Jim and Jamie's message is clear: Your family deserves intentional time. And with rhythms, that's possible.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Remember: There is no perfect family. If you're aiming for perfection, you're probably setting yourself up for the impossible. You're putting a lot of pressure on your spouse and your kids. It's not about perfection, it's about bridging our imperfection.”

Resources:

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322. Hold On, Possibilities Exist: The Battle Against Bullying with Tom Murphy and Rick Yarosh

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 09:30:00 +0000

From the ruthless arena of mixed martial arts to mission homes aiding the homeless, Tom Murphy, former contender from Spike TV’s Ultimate Fighter Season 2, has seen it all. His wrestling days in upstate New York, subsequent MMA training in Montreal, and the platform of TV stardom paved his path to "Sweethearts and Heroes," where he's been addressing youth about leadership, goal-setting, and motivation.

But Murphy isn't alone in this mission. Alongside him is Rick Yarosh, a retired US Army Sergeant, whose life changed dramatically in combat when he lost limbs and suffered burns over 60% of his body. From sports and outdoor activities as a child to the devastating injuries in 2004, Rick’s story is a testament to resilience and reevaluating life's purpose. Embracing public speaking, he zeroes in on hope and its transformative power.

Both found a shared purpose in "Sweethearts and Heroes," reaching over 2 million students, highlighting the often overlooked historical connotation of "bully" as "sweetheart." They illuminate the role of "16th-century bullies," or the sweethearts, pivotal in pushing through tough times. Their approach? Teach empathy as a muscle, which, when flexed, builds a more compassionate world. With actionable drills and a mission to empower student-led intervention, they target the silent witnesses of bullying and instill belief in better tomorrows.

Their upcoming project, the "Hope Classroom," launching end of the month, is set to be a trove of resources designed for students, educators, and parents alike. Their message? "Hold On, Possibilities Exist."

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Rick: “You all have the opportunity, the possibility, to change and save lives and you may not believe that. You can tell me that you won't give hope to other people. I will buy that, you cannot tell me that you can't give hope to other people. You just have to recognize what you're capable of and then when you recognize what you're capable of and you give that hope to other people you receive the reward that it comes from giving that hope to others. That feeling that you get that is contagious and you'll want to keep giving it over and over and over again.”

Tom: “Nothing changes in this world unless we actually make a sacrifice, and I think everyone's calling is different. I think the biggest piece of advice I could give would be to listen more. I don't think we do enough of that. I think it takes a tremendous amount of courage to stand up and act and to help people that are different than you and me. You have to be extremely brave. When I think of the word brave, I think about courageous endurance. I think it takes a lot of practice to become brave and to sit and listen to people. That's a really, really hard thing to do. But I do know if you look at the science of empathy, that's how it begins. It's a three-step process and perspective taking, listening to people, and putting yourself in their shoes is the beginning of the growth of empathy in humans. And the only reason we are where we are today is because of empathy. It's allowed us to get along and to share resources and to cooperate. And our world needs it more and more.”

Resources:

Sweethearts and Heroes: Outreach program. Dive deeper at sweetheartsandheroes.com and find them on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.
The Hope Series: Introducing the "Hope Classroom," this series offers resources for students, educators, and parents alike. Launching end of the month. Stay tuned!

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321. Unmasking Identity, Challenging Stereotypes, and Leading Inclusion in Baseball with Billy Bean

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:30:00 +0000

In this very special episode of The Daily Helping, we sit down with Billy Bean, the former major league baseball outfielder who played six exciting seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the San Diego Padres. Now serving as Vice President and Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Billy's roles extend beyond the field as an advisor on LGBTQ and mental health and wellness issues. His memoir, "Going the Other Way," encapsulates his journey as a gay man in professional baseball.

Billy's story begins in Southern California, where he was raised in a strict Catholic household and discovered his talent for sports at a young age. His rise to major league baseball was meteoric, but it was not without personal struggles. Coming to terms with his sexual orientation and the fear of public exposure weighed heavily on Billy, leading to challenges in his personal life and on the field. The loss of his partner, Sam, to HIV, and the fear of facing rejection from his father further affected his performance.

Starting a new chapter, Billy moved to Miami after the '95 season, where he found companionship in his Jack Russell Terrier, Paco. The ensuing years were a period of personal discovery and growth, as Billy learned to embrace diversity and support his community. Coming out as gay brought its own set of challenges, but with the acceptance and love of his family, he found peace.

Billy also shares his journey back to baseball, but in a new and pivotal role overseeing all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) efforts for the sport. His perspective on self-confidence, self-esteem, and trust, combined with his genuine love and inclusivity, has allowed him to make a significant impact on the game.

Billy Bean’s story is not only a tale of a remarkable career but also a deep exploration of personal transformation, acceptance, and the significance of his journey in his current role in baseball.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We’re living in a time of it’s very, very difficult to feel self-confident and have self-esteem. And, you know, if you are a person that has purpose, loves what they do, is kind to others, you’re going to find your voice and you’re gonna be happy. It just takes a minute.”

Resources:

Learn more at BillyBean.com
Read: “Going the Other Way”
Follow Billy on Twitter: @billybeanball

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320. Meditation Meets Tech: A Journey Inside Muse with Ariel Garten

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we're honored to welcome Ariel Garten, co-founder of Muse, a leading player in the field of consumer neurotechnology and meditation. With her remarkable background blending neuroscience, psychotherapy, and art, Ariel has found a unique way to bridge the gap between technology and mindfulness.

As well as providing an innovative aid to meditation, Ariel delves into the nuanced difference between a meditative state and a flow state. She describes meditation as observing one's mind and body to learn about our physiology and thoughts and then shifting them. A flow state, on the other hand, is marked by high creativity, engagement, and a sense of passionate oneness with the task at hand.

The work of Muse doesn't stop at meditation and sleep. They're currently working on a project for women experiencing menopause and have conducted various studies with Mayo Clinic, demonstrating positive impacts across numerous applications. The company is also expanding to address specific user issues like pain and sleep difficulties.

Ariel's vision for her work's legacy is a world where individuals have the power to escape the "prisons of their own minds." She encourages listeners to harness the power of meditation and change the conversation in their heads, leading to reduced stress levels and improved quality of life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are a capable, powerful human being, and nothing that your mind is telling you should take you away from that. By engaging a simple practice like meditation, you can learn to shift your relationship with your thoughts and be the person that you really are and feel the person that you really are and accomplish all that you actually can.”

Resources:

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Follow Muse on Instagram: @choosemuse
Follow Muse on Twitter: @ChooseMuse

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319. Clarity & Harmony: The New Mantras of Success with Clara Capano

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Our special guest today is Clara Capano, a prominent international speaker, best-selling author, and the Chief Harmony Officer of Capano Speaking and Training. Clara is a multi-faceted personality and juggles multiple roles with enthusiasm, including being the host of the Working Woman's Channel and Living Real TV.

Clara’s latest book, "The Mother of All Success Manuals: How to Control Your Days, Lose the Guilt, and Find Harmony between Work and Life,” was designed with working moms in mind. The book is a mirror reflecting Clara's personal journey of achieving the delicate balance between motherhood and professional life.

At the age of 37, Clara experienced a professional burnout that served as the catalyst for the creation of the strategies discussed in her book. A pivotal moment in Clara's life was when her young son accused her of not being attentive to him. This incident sparked a moment of introspection and realization, causing her to reevaluate her life choices.

The cornerstone of Clara's work is her Clarity Success Method. This unique model follows a mnemonic based on her name, each letter signifying a vital business strategy to enhance productivity while maintaining work-life harmony:

C - Clarity of their vision
L - Leveraging time
A - Action on the vital few things
R - Rest and reflection
A - Articulating value
T - Tracking and measuring
Y - Celebrate the wins regularly

Clara firmly believes that self-care is not selfish, but a necessity to deliver value to others. She stresses the need to find joy in everyday life and dedicate at least 15 minutes each day to it. Clara's joyful moments range from practicing gratitude, having a morning cup of coffee, sneaking a midday nap, to scrolling through TikTok.

Clara emphasizes that we can't – and shouldn't – try to do it all. She urges everyone to simplify, delegate purposefully, and focus on staying in their zone of genius.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Get clear on defining what you want your life to look like. Get clear on what does success mean to you. Own it. Your why is your why. Use that vision to drive you, to allow you to stay connected, and to be that rocket fuel inside your soul that lights you up every day.”

Resources:

Learn more at claracapano.com
Read: The Mother of All Success Manuals
Follow Clara on Instagram: @claracapano
Connect with Clara on LinkedIn

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318. Overcoming Overwhelm and Thriving in Life, Business, and Relationships with Mark J. Silverman

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Our guest for today's episode is Mark J. Silverman, a successful tech industry figure, bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has transformed $90 million ideas into tech startup triumphs. He also hosts an insightful podcast, Mastering Overwhelm: How to Thrive in Business, Relationships and Life.

In 1989, Mark's life was anything but successful. Homeless and grappling with issues related to drugs, alcohol, and sex, he found himself living in his truck. After being lent a lifeline by his brother — on condition of attending AA and NA, enrolling in community college, and hitting the gym — Mark made the brave choice to leave his old life behind.

Mark's internal transformation led him from homelessness to becoming a college graduate, discovering a talent for sales, and earning a millionaire status. Despite external success, however, his internal self-image remained at odds, colored by unaddressed trauma. Amid panic attacks, health issues, and a failing marriage, Mark found himself fearing death in a one-bedroom apartment. It was then he made the firm decision to leave a legacy for his children.

Motivated by this goal, Mark set out to run the Marine Corps Marathon, make a million dollars for his ex-wife and children, and donate $60,000 to charity. He leaned heavily on meditation, journaling, and reading numerous self-help and spiritual books, one of which — "Relax Into Wealth" by Alan Cohen — became a guiding light in his journey towards realizing his self-worth.

Despite being diagnosed with severe ADD, Mark found a way to thrive. Drawing from his struggles, he wrote a best-selling book, "Only Tens 2.0", offering a fresh perspective on confronting overwhelming to-do lists and transforming lives. It became an unexpected hit, striking a chord with others facing similar struggles.

A key part of Mark's strategy is understanding that we are not victims. We have choices. This perspective shift allowed him to view tasks differently, identifying the rewards sought, or the consequences avoided. He introduced the concept of '10s', tasks that are absolutely essential, further streamlining productivity.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The most important thing that I want anybody to know is that they're loved, they’re lovable, they are good just the way they are. And that the constant hamster wheel of trying to be enough is just not... it's not real. It's not worth it. I'm 60 years old, right? So I talk to a lot of 30 and 40 year olds. And in hindsight, the cliche of what's really important, your relationships, your health, your well-being, and enjoying life. Like I have two adult sons. You're alive. Please enjoy. Please.”

Resources:

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317. Working Through the Dark with Asante Cleveland

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we welcome the extraordinary Asante Cleveland, a former NFL tight end known for his tenure with the 49ers, Patriots, and Chargers. Asante now steps into the spotlight for a different reason: to share his deeply personal journey, as chronicled in his recent book, "Walking Through the Dark."

Despite Asante's triumphant sports career, he had to navigate a challenging upbringing to get there—an upbringing marred by an abusive household. He details his father's intervention, a former NFL player himself, and the life-changing assistance of his friend’s mother. In this powerful recounting, Asante discusses his shift from a volatile home to a stable environment under his father's guidance, where his passion for sports truly blossomed.

From soccer to basketball to football—his ultimate path—Asante’s athletic career began to take shape somewhat unexpectedly when he received an offer to play football in high school. His story continued at the University of Miami, setting the stage for his future NFL career.

The undercurrent of this conversation is resilience. Throughout his story, Asante unpacks the deeply ingrained effects of his childhood abuse, a trauma that remained present even as he made significant strides on the football field.

The release of "Walking Through the Dark" during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns resonated with those facing their own adversity and hardship, particularly those in abusive situations. Asante's intention with the book is clear: to inspire those in similar situations, illuminate the power of resilience, and encourage forgiveness.

Through introspection and self-discovery, Asante found his true calling: aiding athletes, particularly during their transition periods. Leveraging his own experiences and his platform, he seeks to promote mental health and personal understanding within the athletic community. He plans to write more books focusing on mental health challenges that athletes face during transitions, to continue aiding young athletes, and to use his unique voice to advocate for resilience and recovery from trauma. Asante's journey highlights the therapeutic power of sharing our stories and confronting the past.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Do your best. That is the most important thing that I've learned. When I was a kid playing basketball, this kid kicked my butt up and down the court. It was bizarre to me because I was a good soccer player and this was my first time playing basketball. So I figured since I'm good at soccer, of course I'm good at basketball too. And I was humbled. On the ride home, as I'm pouting in the car, my dad stops at this high school that has these outdoor basketball courts near our house. He stops the car and says, ‘Asante, I'm gonna walk down to that far baseline. And when I turn around, if you're not standing at the free throw line, I'm just gonna walk back to the car and we'll never talk about it again. But if you wanna be great, you will meet me at the free throw line.’ So he gets out and just walks. I eventually follow him. But once we finally meet, he gives me a big hug and says, ‘That kid wasn't better than you, but he has put in more work than you have.’ So whatever you wanna be great at, it takes work. It's not just gonna happen. You have to be committed and dedicated to it.”

Resources:

Learn more at asantecleveland.com
Read: Working Through the Dark
Follow Guest Name on Instagram: @asantecleveland

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315. Breaking the Status Quo: Jeremy Delk's Journey from Stock Broker to Multi-Industry Magnate

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:30:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we welcome a titan of entrepreneurship, Jeremy Delk. From a humble background in Bardstown, Kentucky to the helm of a multi-industry empire, Jeremy's journey is marked by resilience, ingenuity, and a relentless drive to innovate.

As the brains behind Stellic Enterprises, Jeremy Delk's diverse portfolio reaches across sectors such as biotech, healthcare, consumer brands, technology, building materials, and real estate development. His disruptive approach to business and creation of high-paying jobs has solidified his place among the most successful entrepreneurs.

Jeremy takes us through his intriguing origin story, which begins with a heart-rending loss and an inheritance of $30,000. Self-teaching about stock trading, he impressively turned this modest sum into $2 million, only to see it evaporate with the dot-com bubble burst. Undeterred by this setback, he leveraged his financial prowess to earn a position as a stock broker at Fidelity Investments—a testament to his unwavering resilience.

In his enlightening book, "Without a Plan," Jeremy intertwines memoir with entrepreneurial insight, crafting a narrative that inspires budding business owners to leap into their dreams, undeterred by the specter of failure. In fact, Jeremy views failure as nothing more than a stepping stone toward greater success. His personal stories of financial loss and triumphant rebound serve as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Throughout the episode, Jeremy dismantles the rose-colored perception of entrepreneurship, exposing the grit and tenacity required to overcome its inherent challenges. Drawing from his time at Fidelity Investments, Jeremy notes the pitfalls of corporatism, highlighting how creative disruption often collides with the corporate pursuit of maintaining the status quo.

As Jeremy shares his insights on the journey of entrepreneurship, one thing becomes clear: fear and complacency are the real enemies of success. As long as you’re continually learning and focused on the problems that you’re passionate about solving, you’re on the right path.

Jeremy’s advice is clear: Don't fear failure, and never stop moving forward.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Just get started. Just get started in whatever it is. If you got a full-time job and you want to be an entrepreneur, just get started. It doesn't mean you need to resign and mortgage your house and go all in on something. But build a website, do a focus group on Facebook, just do something for yourself and set this little pass-fail ratio. Like, "Hey, I'm going to go and spend $1,000 on this. I'm going to spend $2,000 on my idea." And then get there, and then predetermine what failure and success looks like. If, "Hey, I get 100 people that like it, then maybe I go and spend $2,000 here." But just get started. Life's too short, man, and tomorrow isn't promised.

“

Resources:

Learn more at jeremydelk.com
Read: "Without a Plan"
Follow Jeremy on Instagram: @jeremysdelk
Connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeremy-delk-82a57a37

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314. Finding Common Ground in the Gun Safety Debate with Kris Brown and Liz Dunning

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:30:00 +0000

In today's episode, we are privileged to host not one but two expert guests: Liz Dunning and Kris Brown, two strong advocates for gun safety and control in America.

Liz Dunning is the current Vice President of Development at Team Brady. She has devoted her 20-year career to public education policy, philanthropic sectors, and nonprofit management strategy. In addition to her impressive professional career, Liz is also a survivor of gun violence, an experience that has deeply influenced her work at Brady. In 2003, her mother was tragically murdered, an event which eventually spurred her commitment to Brady. Liz’s resilience is inspiring - her courage has even propelled her to run a marathon in honor of her mother, raising nearly $30,000 for the cause.

Joining Liz, we have Kris Brown, the accomplished President of Brady. Known for her lifelong background in policy law and grassroots activism, Kris has been a guiding light in the fight for Common Ground. A noted speaker and media commentator, Kris' influential work on gun violence was featured in Time Magazine's November 2018 cover article, "Guns in America." She's dedicated to advancing the conversation on gun violence beyond the usual polarizing politics, advocating for understanding and effective action.

The organization they represent, Brady, was formerly known as the Brady Foundation. Its namesake, Jim and Sarah Brady, championed for the Brady Law after Jim, Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, was injured during an assassination attempt on the President. This law mandated background checks for all federally licensed firearm sales, though Kris and Liz will delve into the current gaps in the system.

In our conversation, we also discuss Brady's "End Family Fire" campaign and the impactful Ask campaign. Through these initiatives, Brady has been influencing gun owners and the general public to safely store firearms, drastically reducing the risk of accidental injuries or death, especially among children. The results of these campaigns are promising, indicating a significant increase in safety awareness and behavioral change regarding firearm storage.

Today, we aren't talking about abolishing the Second Amendment, but rather advocating for a historically accurate understanding of it, coupled with public safety measures to prevent unnecessary deaths from gun violence. We invite you to listen, learn, and join the conversation. Together, we can make a difference.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Everyone has a sphere of influence in their life. Some people really love going and sitting in a hearing room and wearing the shirt and holding elected officials to account. We love when people love that. But it's okay if you don't. You can also get involved in the gun violence prevention movement with Brady by making calls, by sending emails. If you have five minutes in your day, you can make a difference.”

Resources:

Learn more at bradyunited.org
Connect with Kris on LinkedIn
runlizzierun.com

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313. Exploring the Unseen: Psychic Insights and Spiritual Hygiene with Bill Philipps

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Today’s expert guest is renowned psychic medium and author, Bill Philipps. Known for his inspiring works, including "Expect the Unexpected: Bringing Peace, Healing, and Hope from the Other Side" and his latest empowering journey, "Soul Searching, Tune in to Spirit and Awaken Your Inner Wisdom."

Philipps' lifelong journey revolves around helping those grieving over their lost loved ones. With his psychic abilities, he offers comforting messages from the spirit realm, bridging the gap between this world and the next. He is recognized for his individual and group readings and has made a significant impact through appearances on high-profile platforms like Dr. Phil and Access Hollywood.

Philipps takes us back to his childhood, unraveling the moment when a traumatic event unlocked his psychic capabilities more vividly. It started with ethereal encounters at the tender age of four, seeing disembodied faces and eyes—glimpses of a realm unseen.

Despite his early experiences, it took a profound experience in a metaphysical bookshop, connecting with a spirit who had tragically passed, for Philipps to fully embrace his gifts. Navigating through societal pressures and personal challenges as a teenager, he faced struggles many can relate to, especially those touched by psychic experiences early on.

"Soul Searching," Philipps' latest work, emerged during the global pandemic's fearful height, serving as a beacon to uplift spirits, broaden personal awareness, and guide readers towards a stronger spiritual connection. In it, Philipps shares practical strategies for finding inner calm amidst worldly turmoil, underlining the necessity of spiritual hygiene for emotional and mental wellness.

Philipps leaves us with a powerful takeaway: the spiritual world resides within us. He suggests that through changing the language we use with ourselves, and living with intention, we can profoundly influence our environment and rekindle our innate way of connecting.

We each can work towards understanding our own energy, redirecting thoughts for goal attainment, and recognizing the value of spiritual hygiene through daily intention resets and meditation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Gratitude is, I believe, the biggest helping because gratitude is something that we're all capable of doing. We have to do it throughout our day when we say thank you for something. It might be going to the grocery store and thinking the clerk who helped us. But when we take that power back into our own hands, and we give it out to the universe, give it out to God, to Spirit, it automatically changes our perception and it automatically takes us out of more of this rational, fear-based way of thinking. It pulls our awareness and allows us to be more unlimited with our thinking and with our belief system. So, and it's free and anybody can do it and it's simple. So, I would say if you can just spend a couple moments a day of just focusing on your thank yous, there's a lot of potential for your life to be changed as a result of just that.”

Resources:

Learn more at billphilipps.com
Follow Bill on Instagram and Facebook
Read: Soul Searching: Tune In to Spirit and Awaken Your Inner Wisdom
Read: Signs from the Other Side: Opening to the Spirit World
Read: Expect the Unexpected: Bringing Peace, Healing, and Hope from the Other Side

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312. Start Ugly, Finish Strong: Embracing Calculated Risks with Angie Morgan Witkowski

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Meet Angie Morgan Witkowski, a bestselling author, seasoned business coach, and multi-time entrepreneur with an impressive journey spanning from a small rural community in northern Michigan to the Marine Corps and into the heart of the entrepreneurial scene. Her experiences in the Marines and later with Pfizer in Beverly Hills inspired her to co-found Lead Star, a successful coaching and consulting business, and pen her game-changing book, "Bet On You," a manifesto for embracing calculated risks.

Angie's new venture into podcasting continues to share her insightful lessons and inspiration. Her discussions revolve around the importance of immediate action, despite current circumstances, and the benefits of testing potential paths before committing fully to them. Chris Kermitsos's "Start Ugly" concept complements this ethos, advocating for proactive steps towards goals without waiting for a "perfect moment."

Angie encourages people to face their fears and focus on the potential positives rather than the negatives. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is highlighted as a powerful tool for mitigating irrational fears. Above all, Angie stresses the importance of enjoying the journey, aligning personal pursuits with passions, and taking a balanced approach to life. Her discussions underscore the idea that, when viewed from a wider perspective, taking a calculated risk may indeed be the safest choice one could make.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I would love people to think about the dreams that they have for themselves, these grand visions, and the times that you look outside of yourself and see all the cool things that other people are doing, and just really ask yourself, why not you? Why can't you do that? If other people are doing it and they're showing you it can be done, why not you? It's not that they have privilege, it's not that they have access to more capital, maybe they do, but that's not the reason that's holding you back. Your fears, your worries, your concerns, your self-doubts, those are probably bigger barriers than any other barrier out there. So just really ask yourself: Why not you?”

Resources:

Learn more at angiewitkowski.com
Read: Bet On You
Connect with Angie on LinkedIn
Follow Angie on Instagram: @angiewitkowski

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311. Elevating the Game: Empowering Women in Football with Odessa Jenkins

Mon, 29 May 2023 09:30:00 +0000

In this Athletes Voice series on The Daily Helping Podcast, listen in on an inspiring conversation with the visionary Odessa Jenkins. A Hall of Fame running back, two-time national champion, USA football team captain, and two-time gold medalist, Jenkins wears many hats, including that of the founder and CEO of the Women's National Football Conference (WNFC).

Raised in South Central LA, Jenkins was always drawn to sports, with football leading her to become the first in her family to graduate college. She's transforming the landscape of women's football, by challenging the limited visibility and access traditionally afforded to women in this sport, through her trailblazing work with the WNFC.

In addition to sharing her personal journey, Jenkins offers insightful advice on creating change and standing up for what you believe in. Her tireless advocacy work through the Got Her Back charity, supporting girls who play on boys' teams, serves as a testament to her relentless pursuit of leveling the playing field.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Do the impossible, do the possible, just do it. Start now. Don't wait until it's over to appreciate your legacy and to appreciate what you're trying to change. 'Cause sometimes trying is enough. Trying can change the whole world. So don't wait till the battle's over. Shout now, 'cause in the end, you're gonna win.”

Resources:

Learn more at odessajenkins.com
wnfcfootball.com
Connect with Odessa on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/odessajenkins
Follow Odessa on on Instagram: @ojthejuice03

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310. Travel Hacking 101: Using Points to Broaden Your World with Eli 'The Travel Guy' Facenda

Mon, 22 May 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Welcome to another exciting episode of The Daily Helping podcast. Today, we're joined by Eli "The Travel Guy" Facenda, an entrepreneur who has turned his love for travel into a thriving business. Eli is the founder of Freedom Travel Systems, a company that assists travel enthusiasts in maximizing luxury travel on points, eliminating the headaches of trying to figure it out on your own.

Eli's travel journey began with an international trip to the Dominican Republic that sparked his curiosity and interest. He then embarked on a career path that saw him start an international sports tour company and discover the power of maximizing credit card points.

In today's episode, Eli demystifies the concept of "travel hacking." He shares how he leverages credit card points, airline miles, and hotel points to enjoy around $100,000 worth of luxury travel a year, visiting over 40 countries in just five years. Eli draws on his wealth of experience to provide valuable tips for boosting credit scores and understanding the complex ecosystem of banks, airlines, and credit card companies.

Finally, Eli leaves us with some wise words on the transformative power of travel and the strategic use of the credit card and banking system to make it all possible. So, whether you're a seasoned traveler or just starting to explore the world, this episode is sure to inspire your next adventure.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Travel really has the ability and the power, if done right, to be a massive tool for transformation in your life. Because what it will do, if you really go in with the right perspective, is it will remove you from your everyday activities, all of these environmental triggers where you kind of normally have the same feedback loop and routine. It's almost like you become sleeping awake if you live in the same routine for so long. It pulls you completely out of that, puts you into a new environment. And what that does is it allows you to have a totally different perspective on your life, your business, your job, your family, relationships, whatever it is, and you can come back with such a fresh energy and fresh outlook on life. That's why I'm a huge proponent of just travel as a whole. And I think that if you want to travel for those benefits, for personal enjoyment, or for the experience, there's a way that you can tap into this amazing credit card and banking system specifically here in the US to be able to do it in way better style, get way more of it and do it completely for free or at the most, maybe 5% of what the retail cost would be. I think people should be traveling more, but I don't think should be paying more for it. I think she should be getting it for free.”

Resources:

Learn more at freedomtravelsystems.com
Follow Eli on on Instagram: @elitravelguy

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309. Unmasking Pain: Jake Kauffman's Journey from Trauma to Triumph

Mon, 15 May 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Jake Kauffman, a life coach, international best-selling author, and inspiring spiritual mentor, is our esteemed guest in this episode of The Daily Helping podcast. Jake's life mission has revolved around guiding individuals to lead purpose-driven lives and aiding entrepreneurs in personal growth and leadership, with a keen focus on helping men heal and transform to reach their full potential.

In our discussion, Jake pulls back the curtain on his personal journey of triumph over physical and sexual abuse he experienced during his early years. His journey through the darkness began at a summer camp around the age of 12 or 13, where he suffered sexual abuse in the presence of his friends, who shockingly failed to intervene. This traumatic event led to a period where Jake hid behind metaphorical masks, striving to distract from his pain through overachievement. His pursuit of accomplishment led him to excel in both sports and academics and eventually co-found a healthcare startup in the early 2000s, which has grown into one of the largest healthcare technology SaaS companies in the U.S. Despite these external achievements, Jake battled an internal war marked by unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and anxiety, leading him to sabotage his success and resist love and intimacy.

The turning point came at 29 when a heartfelt conversation with his mother, who confessed she no longer recognized him, set him on a path of self-revelation. This led him to therapy and the brave decision to confront the abuse he experienced as a child, a journey that spanned several years but resulted in profound changes both externally (financial prosperity, improved relationships) and internally (enhanced self-confidence, peace, and fulfillment).

The inception of his newest book, "Let Love In," came after sharing his story on social media in 2019. The overwhelming response and connection he received led to a nervous system breakdown, which he processed through journaling. These journal entries formed the foundation of his inspirational book, designed as a guide for others who have experienced trauma, showing them how to embark on their own healing journey.

Jake explains that everyone has a comfort level for what they feel safe to receive, be it love, financial abundance, or opportunities, and exceeding this threshold can lead to self-sabotage. However, working through past pain can expand this threshold, allowing more love and positivity into our lives.

Addressing what's holding you back is the first step in progress, even if that means confronting past pain. Jake's approach to simplifying complex topics makes them relatable and understandable, a highlight appreciated by the host and listeners alike.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Ask yourself: If my greatest strength is a compensating strategy, what is my greatest strength for?”

Resources:

Learn more at jacobkauffman.com
Read: “Let Love In”
Follow Jake on on Instagram: @iamjakekauffman

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308. Mental Models for Successful Long-Term Investing with John Jennings

Mon, 08 May 2023 09:30:00 +0000

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we're joined by John Jennings, chief strategist of a $15 billion firm, as he shares invaluable insights on investing and how to improve your decision-making process. John emphasizes that the stock market is not a direct reflection of the economy and sheds light on the pitfalls of obsessing over metrics and data points.

Discover why inactivity is key to successful investing, as evidenced by a study showing that single women who traded less outperformed single men, married men, and married women. Learn how an average investor can achieve similar returns to sophisticated university endowments by investing in a mix of index funds and bonds, and why discipline is crucial to sticking with this simple approach.

Throughout the podcast, John shares mental models that can help investors make better decisions, such as the importance of inactivity and the idea that the stock market is not the economy. The main takeaway? There's no secret sauce to investing success. Instead, investors should focus on their own behavior and accept the inherent uncertainty in the economy and the investment world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There is no secret sauce. There is nobody out there that can deftly predict the future and weave in and out. It's gonna come down to your own behavior and just accepting the inherent uncertainty that exists in the economy and the investment world.”

Resources:

Learn more: johnmjennings.com
Read: The Uncertainty Solution
Connect with John on LinkedIn

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307. The Power of Curiosity & Mindfulness with Marc Lesser

Mon, 01 May 2023 09:30:00 +0000

We are joined by business leader and author, Marc Lesser, whose latest book, "Finding Clarity: The Power of a Mindful Life," delves into the importance of curiosity and mindfulness in our daily lives.

Marc opens up about the significance of curiosity in both personal and professional settings and underscores the role of mindfulness and meditation in managing stress and anxiety. He touches upon our evolutionary instinct to scan for threats and how technology plays a part in triggering negative emotions.

To foster curiosity without feeling overwhelmed, Marc suggests incorporating a meditation practice or engaging in other mindfulness activities such as journaling or spending time in nature. These practices can create a much-needed space in our lives, allowing us to avoid getting consumed by busyness and intensity.

The conversation then turns to storytelling and the way our brains are naturally wired to create narratives. Marc offers an exercise in which individuals can journal or create a timeline of their successes and failures to gain insight into their life stories. He emphasizes the importance of acknowledging both the pain and the possibilities in our lives and leaning into both for optimal growth and experience.

Moreover, Marc discusses the value of listening for understanding and how it contributes to improved communication and stronger relationships. He shares an exercise where individuals practice listening without problem-solving, which can lead to enhanced connection and understanding.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Way of being is to live a very ordinary life and effective life, and at the same time realize that everything we do is also sacred. I like the word sacred. There's actually some interesting science happening now about studying the importance of having a sacred experience. And again, sacred to me I think is one way to think of it is that to rise to rise above and beyond the ordinary stories that we get caught in and to see from a much larger perspective, the sense of acceptance, joy, beauty, right in the midst of the day-to-day world of paying the bills and taking care of our children and working, bringing us to, that they're like two sides of the same coin, ordinary and the sacred.”

Resources:

Learn more at marclesser.net
Read: "Finding Clarity"
Follow Marc Lesser on Instagram: @marclesser
Connect with Marc on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marc-lesser-zba

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306. The Journey from Who You Are to Who You’re Becoming with Laura Gassner Otting

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Join us on an inspiring journey with Laura, the author of "Wonderhell," as she shares her personal experiences of embracing uncertainty and the powerful impact of surrounding herself with the right people. Laura's story begins when she made the bold decision to leave law school, taking unexpected turns that ultimately led her to write "Wonderhell," a book about living in the question and finding one's unique path.

As we follow Laura's story, we learn the importance of living in a state of "doubtable" and embracing uncertain situations. By relying on resilience and adaptability, Laura discovered that uncertainty is essential for growth and being open to new experiences can lead to self-discovery and new opportunities.

The tale takes a deeper turn as we discuss the significance of having the right people around us while navigating uncertainties and challenges. Although we mention the famous Jim Rohn quote about being the average of the five people you spend the most time with, we clarify that there's no direct scientific evidence to support it. Instead, we delve into the concept of mirror neurons, which scan our environment for sameness and influence us subconsciously. This neurological basis highlights the importance of surrounding ourselves with people who support and encourage our journey.

Laura's story also emphasizes the idea that the people who were with us during one phase of our lives may not be the right ones to accompany us in the next. It's not about discarding people, but being intentional about the advice we seek and the voices we listen to. Through personal experiences about well-intentioned family members not fully understanding decisions and career paths, we learn that being mindful of who we seek advice from and having a supportive cheering section can make a significant difference in both our personal and professional lives.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The only people who are visited by Wonderhell are the ones who think are worthy of it. You don't see a bigger, higher, better, different potential for you if you don't have the intelligence and the creativity and the wherewithal to get yourself there.”

Resources:

Learn more: lauragassnerotting.com
Follow Laura on Instagram: @heylgo
Read: Wonderhell
Ep. 99: Get Unstuck, Find Your Purpose, #BeLimitless | with Laura Gassner Otting

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305. Mastering the Seven Seeker Treasures with Dr. John D. Martini: Empower Your Life Journey

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Dr. John Dimartini, a world-renowned behavior specialist researcher, best-selling author, educator, and founder of the Dimartini Method, joins us to discuss his book, The Seven Seeker Treasures: A Transformation Blueprint for a Well-Lived Life. With expertise spanning multiple disciplines, Dr. Dimartini's work focuses on human values, aiming to empower individuals to become the best version of themselves.

The Seven Seeker Treasures delves into seven key areas: business pursuits, wealth pursuits, relationship stability, leadership, and social influence, health and well-being, inspired mission, and waking up genius. Dr. Dimartini passionately speaks about mental pursuits, highlighting his method of engaging both teachers and students in linking their values, leading to increased academic success.

With 40 years of experience in teaching genius awakening and supporting struggling students, Dr. Dimartini shares an inspiring story of a hyperactive child who found focus and engagement through a creative, interdisciplinary approach to learning.

Dr. Dimartini also explores the concept of awakening to one's own immortality and its connection to the layers of the brain. By identifying personal values and taking high-priority actions, individuals can increase their self-worth and develop resilience in the face of life's challenges.

Finally, Dr. Dimartini introduces his latest book, The Resilient Mind, which offers insights on managing anxiety, depression, uncertainty, and distractions. Addressing the phenomenon of "trophy case presentation" on social media, he emphasizes the importance of personal accountability and prioritization in order to live an extraordinary life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Identify what your life truly demonstrates is most important to your life. And if you hear whispering, “I should do this,” “I ought to do this,” “I need to do this,” “I must do this,” just know that's not you. That's an outer authority whispering as a superego in your consciousness and infiltrating your mind and clouding the clarity of what you feel is important. If it brings a tear of gratitude to your eyes, you feel inspired by it, it awakens a vision inside you, you would absolutely love doing it, you feel grateful for the opportunity to do it, you're enthusiastically wanting to work on it, you're certain about it and you're present with it: That's the sign it's authenticity. I call those the six transcendentals. And taking the time to discern that state daily and mastering the art of prioritizing and really sticking to what's really truly meaningful to you because to pursue anything less than what's most important in your life is just going to devalue you. And it's going to keep you from doing something extraordinary. And you won't build incremental momentum and expand this space and time horizons to create immortal legacies. We go around and say we're immortal souls of theology, but nobody sends immortal goals hardly. So it's a contradiction. And I believe that the second you get authentic, your mind expands and you start giving yourself permission to, hey, I can do, I can make a difference on the planet.”

Resources:

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304. Changing the Game: Embracing Your Differences for Positive Change with Tajay Ashmeade

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Our guest today is Tajay "TJ" Ashmeade, a former Division One Olympic and professional basketball player. Despite a challenging youth, TJ is now a public speaker, coach, and tech entrepreneur, and she's on a mission to help athletes succeed beyond sports.

TJ's journey to success was not easy. After getting involved with the wrong crowd she ended up getting shot, but that didn’t change her path. It wasn’t until she realized her younger brother was following in her footsteps, and once he was shot, she needed to shift her life and began to pursue sports.

She was placed in special education and was called stupid, but she changed the narrative of the word STUPID to Strength, Toughness, Understanding, Persistence, Identity, and Determination. TJ's hard work and determination paid off when she became the number one rebounder in the Big East Conference.

After her playing career ended, TJ had a plan and was already working on her first master's degree from the University of Phoenix. She emphasizes the importance of having a plan when transitioning from professional sports and encourages athletes to take notes from mentors, even if they are not physical people in their life.

TJ's passion for helping athletes led her to create a sports technology company called Nurture SPRT. The company provides a job board for athletes, access to sports psychologists, and resources for high school athletes to find the right college for them. TJ also has a sports leadership consultancy that helps athletes directly.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Move with intention. Move with intent every single day.”

Resources:

Learn more at tajayashmeade.com
Follow TJ on Instagram: @tajayashmeade
Follow Nurture SPRT on Instagram: @nurturesprt

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303. Building Digital Villages to Support Children with Special Needs with Dr. Crystal Morrison

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Are you a parent or guardian of a child with special needs? Do you struggle to communicate and collaborate with the various providers involved in your child's care? Dr. Crystal Morrison, executive advisor, strategist, leader, scientist, and tech entrepreneur, has a solution for you. She's the founder of Meerkat Village, a digital platform dedicated to improving outcomes for children with special needs by building collaboration and communication among adults providing care.

Dr. Morrison's personal experience parenting a child with special needs and her own struggles with mental health inspired her to create Meerkat Village. The platform allows parents to invite their child's treatment providers, extended family members, and community leaders into a digital village to communicate, create strategies, and track the child's response over time.

The success stories of parents who have used Meerkat Village are inspiring. One parent got her child's entire treatment team in the digital village within an hour, while another is using it to help her adult son stay focused on his schoolwork. Meerkat Village is currently involved in two studies with the University of Pittsburgh and a county in Western Pennsylvania.

Dr. Morrison's ultimate goal is to empower teams and foster village-driven care so that people can receive the care they need at any stage in life. She believes that status quo is a bigger risk than the unknown, and wishes for people to take that away from the conversation. Meerkat Village provides resources for parents, guardians, and treatment teams, as the number of people with a child with autism or learning differences is growing exponentially.

If you're a parent or guardian of a child with special needs, don't miss this episode. Listen in as Dr. Morrison shares her inspiring journey and provides actionable advice on how to improve outcomes for your child. Learn how to leverage technology to build collaboration and communication among adults providing care, and discover how Meerkat Village is transforming the way we care for children with special needs.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The status quo is a bigger risk than the unknown. That's something that I I live by. It's a very big risk for me to step out and do the work that I'm doing today, but it's a bigger risk to not do anything and to accept the status quo and the system for the way it is today.”

Resources:

Learn more at meerkatvillage.com
Follow Meerkat Village on Instagram: @meerkatvillage
Connect with Dr. Crystal Morrison on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drcrystalmorrison

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302. Overcoming Adversity: Lessons from Adversitology with Frank McKinney

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Are you feeling defeated by life's challenges? Meet Frank McKinney - a real estate artist, bestselling author, and philanthropist who has triumphed over adversity. Despite graduating high school with a 1.8 GPA and only having a one-way plane ticket to South Florida, Frank persevered by working hard, flipping houses, and eventually developing ocean front mansions.

But, his journey didn't stop there. Frank realized that he was missing something spiritually and started the Carryinghouse Project Foundation to provide housing to those in need. In his newest book, Adversitology, he shares his personal experience with chronic myeloid leukemia and outlines the importance of accepting and disidentifying from adversity.

Frank emphasizes the power of collaborating with experts and being a philanthropic capitalist. He combines the best of philanthropy and capitalism to fund his charity work in Haiti, where he builds self-sustaining villages.

Don't let adversity keep you down. Frank's story shows that anything is possible with hard work and determination. Remember to accept and disidentify from your challenges, collaborate with experts, and combine the best of philanthropy and capitalism to make a difference in the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

In life, you've got to learn to exercise your risk tolerance like a muscle. Eventually, it will become stronger and able to withstand greater pressure. The feeling of fear is nothing more than the thought. We experience fear when we think about taking a risk. Once we take the risk, the fear goes away. Don't let the sensation of fear that sets in once you think about taking a risk stop you.

Resources:

Learn more at frank-mckinney.com
Read Adversitology by Bestselling Author Frank McKinney
Follow Frank on Instagram: @thefrankmckinney

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301. The Power of Purpose: How to Find Clarity and Create Lasting Change with Ian Lobas

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Are you a man struggling with balancing success and personal fulfillment? On this episode, our guest Ian Lobas shares how he helps men find their purpose and achieve their goals through his program, Men On Purpose. Through Men On Purpose, Ian guides men through a series of exercises and questions that help them discover their purpose and align themselves with their true selves. The program is action-oriented and formulaic, with a focus on eliminating what's not working and calibrating what is.

Ian has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and has successfully built and sold several businesses. However, he found himself feeling unfulfilled and realized that he was not living his true purpose. This realization led him to create Men On Purpose, a program that empowers men to free themselves from internal restrictions and constraints and live a life full of purpose. Ian believes that the mental health piece is addressed when individuals start to understand how their past, programming, and traumas have influenced their lives. By slowing down, facing their past, and aligning themselves with their true purpose, individuals can leave a legacy that's worth leaving.

If you're a man struggling to find balance and purpose in your life, this episode is for you. Ian's actionable tips and formulas can help you eliminate what's not working and calibrate what is, giving you the tools to live a life full of purpose. Don't wait to start living the life you were meant to live.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You gotta slow down. You gotta slow down. And you've got to face whatever monster you think is chasing you. It's probably you. It's probably your past. Probably something your mom said to you when you were six or eight. If you slow down enough, just for a little bit, to focus yourself up and really understand the path that you should be on, you're destined to be on, and you can align yourself with that path using formulas and systems with structure and support from somebody like me or you that can actually guide you down that dark path. You don't have to be scared of it anymore and you can actually change so much of your life and you can leave a legacy that's worth leaving.”

Resources:

Learn more at menonpurpose.net
Listen: The Irreplaceable Man Podcast
Follow Ian on Instagram: @iamianlobas

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300. The Science of Inter-Transformation Unity: Insights from Reverend Michael Beckwith

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Reverend Michael Beckwith is the founder and CEO of Agape International Spiritual Center, a trans-denominational community in LA that teaches the science of inter-transformation unity through meditation, affirmative prayer, and life-visioning. He is a sought-after meditation teacher, conference speaker, and seminar leader on the life-visioning process. As a co-founder and president of the Association of Global New Thought, he has hosted conferences featuring operators of world peace, including his holiness the Dalai Lama, and had the distinguished honor of presenting to Nelson Mandela the Gandhi King Award.

Beckwith’s personal journey of spiritual awakening began in the 70s when he was a psychobiology major at USC. He describes having inner experiences that he initially labeled as pathological until a lucid dream experience led him to discover the intrinsic wholeness that we are as unique expressions of the divine. This experience compelled him to explore different paths to awakening, leading him to become a licensed spiritual practitioner and minister. Beckwith's story is a powerful testament to the transformative power of spiritual practice and the importance of staying true to oneself.

Beckwith provides valuable advice on how to approach healing and the power of mindset. He encourages individuals to not hold onto the prognosis of a diagnosis and instead focus on their agreement with the universe and spiritual practice. Physical healing has an emotional and mental component — that healing is a revealing of the intrinsic wholeness that we are as unique expressions of the divine. His advice offers listeners powerful tools for achieving conscious living and unlocking their true potential.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I believe that I want people to know that they have an unlimited capacity for wellness, well-being, joy, and harmonizing prosperity, and that that is not determined by their genetic codes, not determined by what's going on in society, that they could have access to that with intention and a little bit of spiritual practice. That they're not limited in any way. They're not limited by who their parents were. They're not limited by what's going on in the world. They are unlimited beings, but they have to have a little bit of focus, a little bit of an intention, and then inertia becomes momentum and emergence takes place.”

Resources:

Learn more: michaelbeckwith.com
agapelive.com
Follow Michael on Instagram: @michaelbbeckwith
Follow Michael on Facebook: facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith

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299. Unleashing the Potential of Youth with Patrick Willis

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:14:00 +0000

We are on location at Athlete’s Voices with retired NFL player Patrick Willis. During his entire eight-year career in the NFL, Patrick Willis demonstrated exceptional performance as a member of the San Francisco 49ers. He received an impressive seven Pro Bowl nominations, was named the NFL Defense of Rookie of the Year in 2007, and led the NFL in tackles twice. Prior to his professional career, Willis played college football at Ole Miss, where he was recognized as an All-American and the 2006 SEC Defensive Player of the Year.

Currently, Patrick Willis dedicates his focus to the Whinkers Mind Youth Fund, a foundation aimed at empowering communities by harnessing the potential of young people. Through the Whinkers Mind Youth Fund, Patrick helps young individuals develop their mental, physical, and spiritual strength, fostering growth and resilience for the future.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“As long as you're breathing, there's still opportunity to do the things that you want to do, and there are many ways to do that. So when you get discouraged, you just know that as long as you're breathing, there's still opportunity.”

Resources:

Learn more at thewhinkersmind.com
Instagram: @thewhinkersmind

298. You Are the Matrix with Leo Treadwell

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:30:00 +0000

We have a brilliant and incredible guest to share with you today. His name is Leo Treadwell. And he's the founder of I Am the Matrix and inventor of the revolutionary mind-hacking technology, Autobiographical Feedback.

After a challenging upbringing, feeling like he didn't belong in his family and always trying to please others, Leo turned to rebellion and a life of crime to gain attention, which eventually led to his arrest for stealing an airplane. Despite achieving success in his career, Leo discovered a tumor in his back that he realized was caused by his inability to connect with others in a meaningful way. Before he took his life on another dark turn, a friend urged him to address his deeper issues and explore spirituality. This led him to a vision quest and a near-death experience, ultimately realizing he was a good person who didn't need to constantly achieve to be fulfilled and that love was always available to him.

Autobiographical feedback is like writing a story about your life, but instead of writing about your past, you write about your future. This helps you think about who you want to be and what you want to achieve. Sometimes, we get stuck repeating the same things over and over again because of our past experiences. To break out of this cycle, we need to imagine a new story for our future. This helps us focus on what we want to achieve instead of just repeating the same patterns from our past.

Resources:

Visit his website: iamthematrix.com

297. The Courage To Move Through Fear: Learning Audacity with Isabelle Mercier

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Isabelle Mercier is the co-founder and CEO of Leap Zone Strategies and renowned branding, marketing, and customer experience speaker. Isabelle’s parents instilled in her the importance of creating win-win-win scenarios and positioning herself to make life better for others. She emphasizes the difference between knowing and owning one's strengths, and how crafting an architecture that aligns with your values is crucial for success. Isabelle also highlights the significance of having the audacity to express oneself, even if it means being unpopular.

Isabelle reflects on her 31-year relationship with Margarita, an introverted yet powerful individual who has taught her the importance of audacity. She believes that courage involves moving through fear and finding a personal way of expressing oneself in alignment with one's values. Success requires an architecture of intentional and flexible rituals that limit opportunities for failure. Isabelle believes strongly in treating oneself as one would treat their most important client.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Treat yourself like you would a really important million dollar client. Really look at all the things that you are and you do for others. And even if you took 10% of that and did that for yourself, I'm sure it would be an improvement. One of the principles as at LeapZone Strategies is be and stay your own very best client.”

Resources:

Website: LeapZoneStrategies.com
FREE MASTERCLASS, HELPFULNESS IS THE NEW HUSTLE: How To Leverage Your Team To Rapidly Grow Your Impact And Influence In Any Economy; By Serving Not Selling
TEDx: How to Increase Your Units of Happiness
TEDx: The Power of Zero Tolerance
Dare to Brand: https://leapzonestrategies.com/portfolio/dare-to-brand-documentary/
Twitter: @LeapZone
Facebook: facebook.com/LeapZone
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/leapzoneleader

296. Finding Purpose in Mentoring with Marcus Allen

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:30:00 +0000

In this episode continuing our Athlete's Voice series, we welcome Marcus Allen. He's a former athlete turned charismatic public servant dedicated to making the world a better place. With over 20 years of experience as a CEO, Marcus has been a visionary leader in improving the lives of those in need. He's a sought-after speaker, known for his passion, and has even been inducted into a college sports hall of fame.

Marcus had a short NBA career, but he never took his success for granted. Even during his playing days, he kept his feet on solid ground and avoided getting caught up in the fame. When he retired, he experienced a void and went through a period of depression, searching for something that would fulfill him. Eventually, he found his passion in helping young people through mentorship programs like Big Brothers Big Sisters, which he has been the CEO of for nearly 20 years. By connecting them with caring, compassionate adults, he helps kids discover their own purpose and gives them the support to achieve it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“None of us are perfect. We live in a world that we're so quick to cancel folks or to criticize. It's so easy to write people off for the smallest of things. Our young people need people to believe in them in spite of. We have to give them grace, the same grace that was given to us. If it came to light our worst day, if it came to light to the whole world, we would be embarrassed. And a lot of people wouldn't mess with us because they saw something that we did in our past. And I'm asking, I'm hoping that we don't let ourselves shrink to the least of ourselves, meaning it's so easy to criticize folks and to disown them and try to bring people down. I want people to build people up. Let's think about how we are redemptive, that all of us deserve the second chance and some of us deserve a third, fourth, and fifth chance. And I think that is something that I hope resonates with people because otherwise, I don't know how we are going to get ourselves out of these challenges that we're facing today.”

Resources:

Learn more at independencebigs.org
Connect with Marcus Allen on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marcus-allen-a4860231

295. You Are Not Your Thoughts: Breaking Free from Mental Chatter with Dr. Srikumar Rao

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Dr. Srikumar Rao is a sought-after coach for entrepreneurs, professionals, and senior executives. He works with a select group of highly successful individuals to help them have an even greater impact on the world. With millions of views on his TED Talk and workshops attended globally, his mission is to improve people's lives in an exponential way.

Dr. Rao received his PhD from Columbia Business School and started his career in corporate America, where he had some success and became the head of corporate research for a communications company. He later became burnt out by corporate politics and moved to academia, where he felt stuck. Channeling his passion for reading spiritual and mystical works, he decided to adapt the teachings of the world's great masters, stripping them of religious and cultural connotations, and created a course that spread organically and was written about in major business publications. He now coaches entrepreneurs who are successful and have a spiritual quest. He specializes in telling his clients that their business success is their spiritual path.

Dr. Srikumar reads widely in various wisdom traditions and focuses on the essence of their teachings, which all point to the idea that problems stem from one's mental chatter. He believes that an individual's thoughts drive them away from their true self and that recognizing this can lead to significant improvements in their life.

Dr. Srikumar emphasizes that becoming aware of and detaching from one's mental chatter is a lifelong commitment. However, the individual can expect to see significant improvement in their life experience in just a matter of weeks if they consciously practice watching their mind. Mental chatter is not a problem in itself, but it becomes problematic when an individual identifies with it. This identification is a habit that is developed through repeated exposure, but it can be broken by observing mental chatter instead of becoming it. The starting exercise in all of Dr. Srikumar's programs is for the individual to observe their chatter and label their emotions as they arise. With continued practice, it will become easier for the individual to remain a witness to their emotions instead of being controlled by them, leading to a place of calm from which they can make decisions without being influenced by passing emotions. Though it may not be easy, the process is achievable.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You do not live in a real world. You think you live in a real world, but you don't — you live in a construct. You created it with your mental chatter and your mental models. It's like we're all living in the matrix, but this is not a matrix created by an alien civilization out to enslave us. It's a matrix that we created with our mental model and our mental chatter. And having created it, we experience it exactly as we have created it. This is actually a highly liberating notion because if you live in a real world and you don't like it, you’re screwed — grin and bear it. But if you don't like it and you're living in a construct, you can deconstruct the parts of it that are not working for you and build it up again. And you can do this over and over again, it's a rest of your life process. That's hugely liberating.”

Resources:

Learn more: theraoinstitute.com
Read: Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots
Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness | TED Talk

294. Running as Prayer and Making an Impact in Tribal Communities with Dillon Shije

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Welcome to another episode in our Athlete’s Voice series, where today we get to learn from Dillon Shije. Dillon is a professional runner and CEO of The Native Runner, providing motivational speaking, workshops, training, and community wellness. He is also a respected tribal councilman at Pueblo of Zia and a successful business partner at Zia Impact. He is dedicated to serving his community and promoting economic development through sustainable and responsible business practices. With a deep understanding of the unique cultural and economic issues facing Native American tribes, Dillon is a powerful advocate for his people and a valuable asset to the team at Zia Impact.

Dillon Shije grew up in the Zia Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico in a traditional household. He was raised with a deep understanding of his culture and participated in indigenous religious ceremonies, including daily prayers at sacred sites and cleansing himself in the river. This instilled in him a strong connection to his culture and the importance of prayer, which also translated into his passion for running as a sacred act. Through hard work and dedication, he became a successful competitive runner, despite not seeing many people who looked like him in Division 1 sports or at elite levels. His motivation to excel led him to attend college and become a student-athlete, eventually earning a spot on the University of Colorado Boulder's prestigious running team. Throughout his journey, prayer remained a foundation for him, guiding him to become a professional runner.

Dillon believes that his history of running both competitively and spiritually has informed the work he does today in helping his community. He has learned valuable lessons of resiliency and perseverance, and uses this experience to balance the need to push for resources and progress with the need to rest and not burn out. He also recognizes the importance of being strategic in advocating for marginalized communities, as being too passionate can sometimes lead to doors being closed. He therefore works to maintain his voice in high-level spaces while not over-exaggerating his passion.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Wherever you may reside, reach out to some of the tribal nations, learn about the tribes that are in your area, and help them with resources. We all need guidance, especially our tribal nations who don't have as much capacity. I think that’s a good way to create that positive dialogue and learn about where people are living who have been there for hundreds of years, thousands of years.”

Resources:

Follow Dillon on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dillonshije
Follow Dillon on Instagram: @thenativerunner

293. Designing the (Long) Life You Love with Ayse Birsel

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Ayse Birsel is an award-winning industrial designer, design thinker, and design educator. She is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, a design and consulting studio, and the author of Design the Life You Love: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Meaningful Future. Ayse has been designing for more than two decades, working with brands like Herman Miller, Brooklyn Museum, and Vitra. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the iF Design Award, the Red Dot Design Award, and the Core77 Design Award. She is passionate about helping people design the lives they love through her work. She has been a design educator at institutions such as MIT, Parsons, and the Pratt Institute. She is also a sought-after speaker for conferences and events. Ayse’s mission is to “empower people to create meaningful lives and meaningful products through the power of design.”

People today are living longer and healthier lives than ever before, but when we think of aging and the span of our lives, we rarely think of those older years and what we want our lives to look like. Ayse Birsel wrote "Design the Long Life You Love" to encourage people to reframe their approach to problems in life and to inspire individuals and businesses to embrace the opportunities of aging. Through her year-long research, she found that older people were thrilled to be alive and wanted to share this enthusiasm with the world. By writing this book, she hopes to spread awareness of the advantages of aging and to provide a step-by-step process for people to design their own lives.

Ayse Birsel's advice for designing a life you love is to start by giving yourself permission to do so. She emphasizes the importance of being true to yourself and creating a life that is based on your values and that looks and feels like you. Birsel then suggests deconstructing your life and breaking it into its parts and pieces in order to get clarity on what matters to you and to understand the connections that you assume are between things. Finally, she encourages people to not attempt to put their lives back together the same way it was before but to instead create something new.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Think of a hero of yours, somebody who inspires you. This could be somebody you know, family or friends, or somebody you know of. What qualities of theirs do you admire? Those are your values. This is what you design with. This is how you make choices.”

Resources:

Sign up for Ayse’s newsletter: aysebirsel.com/newsletter
Instagram: @designthelifeyoulove
Read: Design The Long Life You Love
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292. Soul Care, Mindful Movement, and Joyful Recovery with Steven Washington

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Steven Washington is an author and former professional dancer. After performing on Broadway in The Lion King, he found a new passion in the form of Chigong and Pilates and has since become a highly acclaimed teacher in both disciplines. His book, Recovering You: Soul Care and Mindful Movement for Overcoming Addiction, is the result of his love of movement and his dedication to helping others. Steven enjoys a life of joyful recovery and is passionate about helping others heal and grow. He hosts a monthly Heart/Mind Moments YouTube series, which has been viewed by over a million people. His videos focus on physical, emotional, and spiritual health and are designed to inspire, motivate, and bring joy to viewers.

Washington's journey began at age 15 when he had his first drink, which made him feel suddenly okay in the world. He chased this feeling for 20 years until it no longer worked and he had reached rock bottom. It was then that a friend in recovery showed him the way to sobriety. After many years of drinking and doing drugs, Washington eventually made his way to Broadway to perform in the Lion King, which he had seen as a kid and envisioned himself in. In 2014, Washington was introduced to Chigong and found it was a great tool to help manage his recovery and life in general. This led him to create an online course and eventually write a book, Recovering You. Washington's book details the use of Chigong and other practices such as journaling, compassionate inquiry, and building a social support network to help with recovery. All of these tools combined tend to the health and well-being of the body, mind, and spirit.

Steven’s advice is to practice self-care as an important foundation for addiction recovery. He suggests taking time to connect with the breath, practicing self-massage, meditating, and doing breath prayers. Breath prayers involve combining physical breathing with intention, such as breathing in peace and breathing out fear, worry, and anxiety. Doing this for five minutes can help shift the mind and create faith, optimism, and peace.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I would love for people to know that they’re not alone. That no matter what their challenges are, there are people that understand them and care for them and love them just as they are in this moment that feels very imperfect and very challenging. They’re not alone.”

Resources:

Learn more at stevenwashingtonexperience.com
Read: Recovering You: Soul Care and Mindful Movement for Overcoming Addiction
Watch: Steven Washington Experience on YouTube

291. Balancing Your Inner Warrior & Sage with Satyen Raja

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Satyen Raja is known as the private transformational mentor, advisor, and confidant to the powerful and influential. He’s a living synthesis of Eastern wisdom and Western practicality, combining the power of the warrior and the wisdom of the sage to inspire audiences and leaders worldwide into their highest impact and personal fulfillment. He’s the leading authority on expanding success while serving the greater good without sacrificing the joys of personal life.

At a young age, Satyen didn’t feel connected to the paths most people walked in life. He began studying kung fu as a boy and it felt like home to him. In kung fu, students are taught the importance of balancing the warrior and the sage — the indomitable spirit and the inner wisdom within us — and how awakening both creates a heightened state.

Every person has a warrior and a sage within them. To start identifying your own inner warrior and sage, ask yourself: “What must I do today to live, to love, and to die completely without regret?” Do that, and answer honestly, and you will find the direction you are looking for.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Whether we’re a company, an organization, whether our organization is our own family and that’s the size of our organization, or you’re running a multi-billion dollar organization, multi-national organization: We’re all leaders. And we’re all being called to the next stage of our evolution in leadership. Let’s not shirk from that responsibility. Let’s tell the universe and ourselves, let’s confront our fears and our smallness, and tell ourselves: I am ready for my next stage of leadership and I own it and I claim it. Come on universe, bring it on. I welcome myself to how you wish me to lead. Let’s go with that spirit, that spirit of ourselves, to throw ourselves into what’s next for us. And you watch how the universe will respond so beautifully.”

Resources:

warriorsage.com
Connect with Sayten on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/satyenraja

290. Helping to Give a Voice to the Deaf Community with Jennifer Southall

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 10:30:00 +0000

We’re continuing our series at the Athlete’s Voices event which highlights exceptional athletes doing extraordinary things in the world. Today’s guest is Jen Southall, a certified hockey coach for the Portland Winterhawks and a disabled representative for the Junior Hockey Association and several other sports associations. She has more than 25 years of experience playing hockey and advocating for the accessibility of the deaf community.

Playing sports as a deaf person came with its challenges. Jen was always the only deaf person on her team. She started playing at a young age, but she didn’t have full access to people who could help her communicate until high school. She had to rely on her teammates to look out for her. She mostly stopped playing hockey after high school, but when her son wanted to start playing hockey — and wanted his mom to coach him — she started looking into how she could make access for that. It wasn’t until she entered that world that she realized how little advocacy there is for the deaf community.

The challenges the deaf community face are many, and most of them are invisible to us. Jennifer asks us to imagine a family gathering with people around the dinner table, everyone’s laughing, but nobody has taken the time to share what they’re laughing about. It can be very isolating. And finding environments that accommodate the deaf experience is difficult.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Respect the deaf community. Respect our language. Respect our culture. And give us the platform, not you running a platform for us, because it’s not your place. Let deaf people have our place.”

Resources:

Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jennifer-southall
Jennifer Southall: My Hands Are My Voice

289. Giving Women a Choice & a Voice with Kawser Amine

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 10:30:00 +0000

We’re live at the Athletes’ Voice event in Atlanta, Georgia with Kawser Amine, the founder and CEO of WSPL (Women's Solidarity for Peace and Leadership). She was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan, and is a former member of the female Afghan national soccer team. She’s working to change the world through soccer.

Kawser dreamed and hoped for something that should have been impossible in a country like Afghanistan, and she made it happen. She started playing soccer at seven years old, and went on the national path at nine and a half years old. She wanted to change her life path from the girl who was always dreaming of something to making it a reality. Kawser went on to study political science at the University of Afghanistan and starting a women’s leadership club, spreading the message that girls can get more engaged support through soccer. Soccer was so important to her personal development, and she wants to world to change so that girls realize there is room for them in the sport of soccer.

Through her non-profit organization, Kawser helps girls believe in themselves — both that they can play soccer and seek an education. While all parts of the world still don’t support those beliefs, Kawser believes that with enough support it will be possible.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Never give up. Nothing is impossible in this world. Dreaming big is not your fault, but getting to your dream, turning your vision to reality, the most key words which is plain ‘never give up.’”

Resources:

Learn more at wsplglobal.org
Connect with Kawser on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kawser-amine-859415222

288. Powerful Tools to Manifest Your Dream Life with Natalie Ledwell

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 10:30:00 +0000

Today’s expert guest is Natalie Ledwell, a bestselling author, host of the podcast Not Over, Just Different, co-host of the cable TV show Wake Up, and the founder of Mind Movies, a revolutionary online visualization tool reaching over 10 million people and helping them achieve their goals.

The law of attraction can be incredibly divisive, but authorities have been talking about concepts like it since the 1930s. And today, there’s more research than ever into the power that visualization has — whether you believe in vibrations or not.

Mind Movies is a software that makes it easy to find clarity on what you want and turn that into a moving vision board, complete with music, to put you in the prime emotional state to manifest that vision into reality. But vision boards are not magical — it is a prompt for daily action.

You want to describe:

What it is you want
What life looks like once you get it
Why you want it
What actions you need to add to your daily routine
How you need to change your thoughts to reach this new outcome

When you take all of this into account, and take steps towards achieving your vision, you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I have created and manifested some amazing stuff in my life that far exceeded anything that I thought was possible for a small-town girl from Australia. And the formula is pretty easy. If we know what we want and we’re taking action, we can see ourselves and feel ourselves already being there, you have no idea what you can create. And actually, you can create anything that you want, and I’m living proof of that. And that’s what I want for everybody else as well.”

Resources:

287. Using the Power of Your Mind to Design Your Life with Tim Shurr

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:30:00 +0000

Tim Shurr is the world’s best unconscious beliefs specialist and the foremost expert in freeing people from anxiety, past trauma, PTSD, and bad habits. He’s the creator of the revolutionary One Belief Away method, developed through facilitating over fifteen thousand individual hypnosis sessions and hundreds of group training experiences over the past 35 years.

After his dad was involved in a devastating electrical accident leading him to have severe third-degree burns all over his body, Tim adopted a belief — unconsciously — that he was not safe in this world and that something could happen to him at any time. That shifted his behavior towards playing life on defense. It wasn’t until he discovered the power of psychology that he learned how to overcome those limiting beliefs, and now he helps others do the same.

We have all experienced trauma, whether it’s something big like being shot at, or something less severe like being rejected when asking someone out. Regardless, these experiences force us to find meaning, and sometimes the conclusions we come to aren’t helpful or true about the world we live in.

So how do we fix these beliefs? Tim’s One Belief Away method starts by finding a person’s deepest core belief and upgrading that — from a story of “I’m not enough” to “I’m more than enough.” Then you have to work on releasing toxic emotions: the kinds of emotions that you get stuck into a cycle of.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are already enough. You’re already good, you have nothing to prove. You’re already worthy of love, happiness, prosperity, and all of the love that you want. You’ve just got to decide that you are worthy of that. Because we think that the world decides that for us, and truly that’s not the case. We think we need it from our parents, we need it from other people in our life to tell us that we’re worthy and that we’re enough, and after taking thousands of people through this journey, the only one that has the real power to help you feel like you’re enough, that you’re worthy of whatever you want, is you. And you can decide that today, you don’t have to wait around for other people to do the right thing because often they’re so wounded they’re not gonna. So take your power back. You don’t have to wait for others to do the right thing, you do the right thing by giving yourself what you need, by loving yourself. And if it feels weird or uncomfortable or false, fake it till you become it, do it anyway, and find a way to upgrade those beliefs. And when you do that, your life will start to improve significantly.”

Resources:

286. How to Present Your Best Self on LinkedIn with JD Gershbein

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 10:30:00 +0000

JD Gershbein has been at the forefront of the LinkedIn conversation. He took a risk by being one of the first people in the world to enter the field of LinkedIn training. A traditional marketer, he established himself as a specialist when others approached social media from a generalist perspective. He empowers driven individuals who seek to stand out in the digital era. After realizing that he was not cut out to be a physician, JD discovered LinkedIn and it gave him a creative outlet for all of his versatility.

LinkedIn is continuously evolving and adapting, which makes it hard to give cookie-cutter advice on how to use the platform better. One thing JD can say that everyone should be doing on the platform, especially as we enter what he calls “the next frontier,” is to build your own space on LinkedIn and carve out what works for you. Use what works for you, ignore what doesn’t, and don’t follow any playbook but your own.

Your goal with your LinkedIn profile is to sell yourself — and the best way to sell is to show the value of something, to prove that you can and will be able to solve problems. If you’re designing your own playbook, you want to present the information that you want people to know about you. That’s the biggest challenge: Looking inside yourself and pulling out the information about yourself that’s going to resonate with people.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Individuate yourself. Don’t do what other people are doing just because you think that’s the way to go. Become yourself on the platform. Become yourself in real life. Revel in your uniqueness. Don’t just embrace it, revel in it. It’s cool, in fact it’s desirable, to be an outlier. Because when you’re going the way of everyone else, there leaves little room for differentiation. And if we’re going to succeed and scale and grow in the business world, we have to professionalize ourselves by doing what’s right for us. Having great character, having a sense of style, and again, meeting people where they are, not where you are or would want them to be.”

Resources:

jdgershbein.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jdgershbein

285. The Leaders of the Future Create Connection with Dr. Michelle K. Johnston

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:30:00 +0000

Dr. Michelle K. Johnston is a management professor, executive coach, and leadership expert helping leaders get the results they need through meaningfully connecting with their people. Michelle’s first book, The Seismic Shift in Leadership, is an Amazon bestseller and details the need for leaders to shift from a command and control leadership style to one that focuses on connection because that’s what drives long-lasting results.

As part of the research process for the book, Dr. Michelle interviewed 18 world-class leaders. She realized that the reason many leaders were getting pushed out of organizations is that they were gunning for results but lacked connection with the people they worked with. Connection drives results, well-being, productivity, innovation, and financial performance.

If you want to be successful, it’s all about connection — but how do you get started? Connection starts with yourself. You have to own your story, your journey, and the events that made you who you are today. And you can’t hide any of it. Misguided leaders try and appear perfect, but that only leads to them putting up a wall around parts of themselves and severing any chance at connection. Perfection doesn’t work, it creates cultures of fear. We need cultures of connection

If you’re a business owner or feel disconnected in your work or personal life, here are some tangible steps to enhance that connection:

Connection starts with yourself. Get to know yourself before you connect with others
Embed time to make personal connections with people and get to know them
Own your calendar and determine how you should be spending your time
Create rituals and traditions to look forward to

Now is the time to reinvent leadership with a focus on connection. Because if you don’t do it now, you’re going to get left behind.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It starts with you. We want to show up as the best version of ourselves. In order to do that, really figure out what brings you joy, how you can be super healthy, and in the right space to bring that energy to work every day. It's kind of counterintuitive because here I am talking about meaningful connection with others. First, connect with yourself. Figure out what it’s going to take for you to be healthy, how you can exercise, and be good to yourself so that you have that mental energy and you can bring the best version of yourself to work every day. Then you can connect with others and then you can connect with an organization.”

Resources:

Learn more at michellekjohnston.com
Read: The Seismic Shift in Leadership
Connect with Michelle on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michelle-johnston-0264b5b

284. Lessons Learned from Journaling with Inmates with Tina Welling

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:30:00 +0000

Tina Welling is the author of several bestselling novels including Cowboys Never Cry, Fairy Tale Blues, and Crybaby Ranch. In her newest nonfiction book, Journaling with Inmates, Tina shares the experiences she had running a journaling workshop at a local county jail, what she taught the inmates, and what they inevitably taught her.

Tina recognized that incarcerated people don’t get recognition in our society. While reading about Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey,” the near-universal framework for telling stories of change that can be found in myths and legends dating back thousands of years, Tina had a revelation. One phase of the Hero’s Journey is called “the belly of the whale,” which is that place where everything around you is different and unfamiliar. To Tina, that seemed to match up perfectly with the experience of incarceration. In those situations, just like in the Hero’s Journey, the only option is to go inward.

Tina always had an interest in journaling and the positive benefits of doing it regularly. She had the idea to begin teaching journaling to inmates as that method of going inward. Inmates are often at a place in their lives where they are ready to embrace change — and invariably, they find it in Tina’s journaling workshops.

There’s so much power in writing with your hand on paper, asking yourself a question, and just seeing where your mind takes you. Most of us have the answers within us, we just need to do a little digging to find it. And journaling is our shovel.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Give everyone a chance to, first of all, you know, look deeply into yourself, realize that you’re okay, that you have goodness, that you’re doing your best, that in your way you’re a survivor, and so is everyone else. Everyone else that you meet on the streets. And don’t be afraid to consider volunteering in your county jail. It’s a wonderful experience.

Resources:

Learn more: tinawelling.com
Read: Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned from Teaching Journaling to Inmates

283. Don’t Waste Your Talent with David Drebin

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:30:00 +0000

Today's expert guest is David Drebin. A graduate of Parsons School of Design in NYC, David is a multidisciplinary artist who works with various art forms producing limited edition works including Photographs, Lightboxes, Neon Light Installations, Diamond Dust works, and more. His work combines voyeuristic and psychological viewpoints in a unique manner, offering the viewer a dramatic insight into the kinds of emotions and experiences many of us have felt at some point in our lives.

Nothing upsets David more than wasted talent. Everybody has a talent, you just have to dig deep to find out what that it. If you’re struggling to find your purpose, you have to try new things. You have to know what you’re bad at so you know what you can be good at. And don’t be afraid to, as David puts it, “flirt with danger.” Which means don’t play it safe, and don’t be afraid to take risks in pursuit of your passion.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I think it’s a world of people who think about what other people think before they think. But I think true uniqueness is to have your own thoughts and to be yourself. So the greatest advice I could give to anybody, including myself, is to be yourself because everybody else is taken. So don’t look at what everyone else is doing, go deep within yourself and just go be you. Be you. That’s it.”

Resources:

daviddrebin.com
Instagram: @daviddrebin

282. Creating the Global “Vegan McDonald’s” with Jeffrey Harris

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Jeffrey Harris has been after a plant-centered diet since he was 14 years old. When he realized there were no ubiquitous vegan fast food options around, he decided to chase that dream even when he felt like he didn’t know what he was doing.

Jeffrey shares advice about why a vegan lifestyle can be good for our brains, bodies, minds, and even the environment.
We hear about the struggles Jeffrey faced when he had a dream, but no clear path—and how he carved out a way with the help of talented partners.
We get some sage life advice encouraging us to find our centered source of love and to follow our dreams.

Now, as one of the founders of Plant Power Fast Food, he is creating that dream every day alongside an excellent team—and he’s facing his sails toward the “next vegan sensation” stop next!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Be unlimited. It doesn't mean you're always going to succeed. Behind the success of Plant Power [Fast Food] there were two or three attempts to do this, and then this finally happened. So, understand that you could do anything that you want to do. Set off on the journey, believe in yourself.”

Resources:

Follow @PlantPowerFastFood
Find out more about the next vegan sensation at PlantPowerFastFood.com

281. Harnessing the Healing Power of Sound with Dr. Stefan Chmelik

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:30:00 +0000

Dr. Stefan Chmelik is a man of many talents. He’s a physician, philosopher, writer, teacher, and technology creator. He’s the co-founder of BioSelf Technology, and his mission is to positively impact the lives of 100 million people by 2025. He’s achieving this through exploring and furthering the understanding of sound processing in the body. He’s one of the only experts in the world with a combination of clinical experience in stress and trauma as well as direct experience of meditation, sound healing, music, and breath training.

Sound is incredibly powerful. It’s the one sense we can’t cut off—we’re always hearing and processing sound. Sound healing has been practiced for centuries, and there are still places to go where you can experience this for yourself today. Humming and singing, from an evolutionary standpoint, are immediately calming and nurturing.

Sound can also be an incredibly powerful tool in dealing with anxiety, which is a natural part of being human. As collective anxiety has gone up with the introduction of technology, Dr. Stefan thought it would be fitting to find a technological solution to that anxiety. He became the UK representative for a soundbed technology developed to treat PTSD in US soldiers which had an incredibly 96% success rate. But while using and studying the technology, he realized that they could get rid of the need for that big, bulky hardware by turning the body into the hardware. That makes this incredible technology harnessing the power of sound accessible to more people than ever before.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Getting outside, not just in a gym, being outside in nature, walking—and therefore breathing—is the most important thing any of us can do. Get out there and walk. If you can’t walk, move in some other way, but we need to walk and we need to breathe, that is an essential human function.”

Resources:

Visit GetSensate.com and use coupon code SENSATETDH for $25 off a Sensate
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stefan-chmelik-msc-4539611a

280. Beyond Think & Grow Rich: What Napoleon Hill Doesn’t Tell Us about Success with John Mitchell

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:30:00 +0000

Napoleon Hill only gives us half the secret to success in his famous book, Think & Grow Rich—John Mitchell is here to give us the full secret. John is a serial entrepreneur who has created the top application in the world of the top success book in the world through a simple 12-minute a day exercise. He teaches the “Science Of Success" at the University of Texas.

He’d always had two goals in his life: One, to be financially successful enough that he wouldn’t have to work and to find the woman of his dreams. At 50, he was falling short of both of those goals. He decided he was going to take the best book in the world on success and apply it—word for word—to his life. But when he read it, he realized it only gave him half the secret. He immersed himself in that book for over two months and developed the second half to that secret, along with a 12-minute a day technique to apply it.

His technique rewires your autopilot, leverages your greatest self through science, improves your discipline, and gives you more control over your life.

Napoleon Hill teaches that everything starts with a thought. Your success is determined by the cumulative effect of your daily actions, and 95% of your daily actions are unconscious. But it doesn’t explain how to take control of your unconscious actions, which makes us feel out of control. The second half of that secret that John Mitchell uncovered is that whatever you envision in detail with emotion on a daily basis is what shows up in your life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Just think about, in your life, if 95% of your daily actions are unconscious, isn’t that the key to having a higher level of success by gaining control of those daily actions? Pretty simple.”

Resources:

279. Finding Your Center & Creating Possibilities with Marcia Martin

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Marcia Martin is one of the most prolific influencers in the thought leadership space of the last 40 years. She’s renowned as one of the top transformational trainers on the planet, and she has coached and consulted executives and life coaches worldwide, including the likes of Jack Canfield and Robert Kiyasaki.

One of Marcia’s specialties is helping people live their dream life. One of the greatest ways to do that is through alignment. Most people disconnect from their inner power—the access point to the universe. They look at their circumstances to decide what can happen. If you’re not getting what you want in life, you’re not truly aligned with who you really are. And to reach alignment we need to find stillness, whether that’s through meditation, silence, walks, or being out in nature.

Marcia has published her life’s work online for the world to access. At marciamartinclub.com, you can get access to nearly all of her workshops, seminars, podcasts, speaking engagements, and more.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“So when you’re triggered, upset, off center, not open, not present, not connected, unhappy, we call that off center. Get centered first before you act. Because then when you act, it’s a response to something, it’s not a reaction. And you choose your responses, whereas your reactions are automatic.”

Resources:

Learn more at marciamartin.com
Join the club: marciamartinclub.com
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCHr-PlltJso3IWc1SfxdcTg

278. Quitting Loud: How to Redefine Your Life & Find Work You Love with Tim Rhode

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Today we’re welcoming back one of the most incredible guests we’ve had on the show, Tim Rhode. He’s the co-founder of GoBundance and co-founder and president of 1Life Fully Lived, a nonprofit that helps at-risk youth and adults emerge from hardship create a roadmap to their dreams, and ultimately lead their best lives. We’ve shared his story before, so if you missed that be sure to revisit Episode 89: 1Life Fully Lived: The Roadmap for an Abundant & Fulfilling Life with Tim Rhode to hear his whole journey. He’s also the co-author of Tribe of Millionaires: What If One Choice Could Change Everything? and The Quitter's Manifesto: Quit a Job You Hate for the Work You Love, which we’re going to be talking about today.

We’re in the midst of two radical moments when it comes to work and finding our place in it: What people are calling “the great resignation” and the phenomenon known as “quiet quitting.” Long before either of those were on the lips of pundits everywhere, Tim had designed a framework for understanding how badly your current job or life situation is draining your life which he calls the “soul-sucking meter.” On a scale of 1-10, if you’re in the 8-10 range you’re doing something that serves you. But if you’re a six or lower, you need to take a good look at your situation. Here are some of the things to look at:

Compensation: Are you being paid what you are worth?
Respect: Does leadership treat you as an integral part of the team?
Fit: Do you like who you work with?
Growth: Do you have the opportunity to grow within the company?
Feel: How do you feel every day when you wake up?

Before you get to the bottom of that meter, start early and look at the places where you aren’t feeling right and see what you can do to push those metrics up. And if it’s time to quit, we recognize that making that life change isn’t easy. What Tim recommends is building a “quit team” or people who will support you during this transition and who are affected by it, getting your finances in order as early as possible, and slowly moving forward without dropping your current obligations. It can be a difficult process, but it’s one that’s so important to get right.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Getting quiet and finding your geist, if you will, just your way of getting quiet and thinking about what’s most important to me. And I implore you to do that today.”

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277. The Three Steps to Achieve Anything You Want with Joel Green

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Joel Green is a former professional basketball player who, after retiring from his career, founded Pro Level Training, which grew into a seven-figure company. In addition, he’s the national director of Nike’s Sports Camps, an accomplished motivational speaker, and TEDx presenter.

Joel’s older brother put him on the path to basketball. He was already heading towards success, but he wasn’t as focused as he could have been. After the tragic and unexpected passing of his brother, Joel mademad a promise to take it all on himself and do as much as he could to be the best.

While Joel’s basketball career is impressive, it’s what he did after that defines him. He didn’t quit playing the game, like most athletes, because of an injury or because he was too old to keep up. Instead, he met a kid who would constantly ask him to work out with him. Joel kept declining, but he told the kid he could rebound for him. The kid was so appreciative, and Joel saw the impact this small gesture had on him, so he stepped away from the sport to get his business license.

Joel developed a concept calls “the three steps to achieve anything,” which he speaks on regularly:

Have a childlike imagination and don’t limit your thinking
Need your wants. The language you use impacts the way you act, so convince yourself you need what you want.
Focus on the journey. If you’re focused on the end result, you overlook everything it takes to get to there.

In his new book “Filtering: The Way to Extract Strength from The Struggle,” he takes everything he has learned through his career and life to help people train their minds to deal with challenges, whether that’s loss, adversity, or striving for excellence.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t be afraid of the dark. I would say that, and what I mean by that is life happens to all of us. Let’s not act like the dark moments didn’t happen. I daresay, the most successful people lean into those dark moments. They draw from those dark moments and use those things for motivation for themselves to make life that much brighter. But we can’t ignore those dark moments and sweep them under the rug and act like they didn’t happen. I would say lean into those dark moments that may have happened and don’t run from them. That’s when you’ll really see that there’s light within darkness.”

Resources:

Learn more at joelbgreen.com
Instagram: @jaygreenplt
Read: Filtering: The Way to Extract Strength from The Struggle

276. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It with Jesse Todisco

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:00:45 +0000

Jesse Todisco, better known as Jesse Tee, is the founder of 46 & 2 Wealth Partners and his business ethos is rooted in showing others how to become free and create happy wealth. He’s also the host of The Jesse Tee Show, a mindset-focused podcast that teaches anyone hunting greatness in business, health, wellness, and relationships the secrets to success.

Jesse grew up in a life filled with adversity—food scarcity, a narcissistic mom, a drug-addict father, and an overall lack of money—he learned to hustle early on in life. Through this upbringing of scarcity, he wanted to create prosperity. He managed to do that, all without sacrificing his values.

If you’re trying to get started creating a new life for yourself you need three things:

Love
Gratitude
Presence

We’re not taught to love ourselves or to show love for ourselves, and self-love is a requirement for safety. And if you can be grateful for something every day and lean into it as a practice, it will change your life. Even if it doesn’t feel like you have anything to be grateful for, you’re here today, and that can be a great place to start. And lastly, being present in the moment. It reduces anxiety and allows you to experience life as it’s happening.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Love yourself like your life depends on it. If you knew that you could live the life that you want to live, impact other people, be impacted by other people, have a beautiful journey on this earth, and live life fully, just by being powerfully present, grateful, and loving yourself, that’s the magic.”

Resources:

275. You Have a Voice, Use It with Joanne Pasternack

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:00:49 +0000

Joanne Pasternack is a dynamic and visionary philanthropic impact strategist who over the past two decades has galvanized community engagement with internationally-recognized brands including the Golden State Warriors, San Francisco 49ers, City of Mountainview, and the Special Olympics. As the President and Chief Impact Officer of Oliver+Rose, she works with professional athletes, legends, entertainers, philanthropists, corporate executives, and high-net-worth individuals who amplify their impact to inspire change.

After a few years in city government, where Joanne saw the connective power of community engagement, she took an opportunity to join the San Francisco 49ers where she built out their community relations department. She realized there’s no better place or platform to make a difference than sports.

One thing that Joanne stresses to athletes—as well as everyone else—is that you are a role model whether you want to be or not. People are watching what you are doing, and they will replicate what you are doing. That’s a tremendous amount of power to wield, and we all need to be willing to wield it responsibly.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When I was growing up, the thing that I hated most about myself is the exact thing that makes me memorable, unique, and stand out in a crowd. And it’s so interesting because as a middle school girl you’re so self-conscious. You walk around going like I don’t look like everybody, I don’t sound like everybody, there’s something different about me. And when you lean into that, that’s exactly the thing that will make you who you’re meant to be.”

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274. How to Love Selling Without Selling Your Soul with Jason Marc Campbell

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:00:11 +0000

Jason Marc Campbell is the author of Selling with Love: Earn with Integrity and Expand Your Impact. He’s on a mission to inspire small business owners with sales reluctance to embrace it as a beautiful activity that transforms lives. As the host of the Selling With Love podcast he’s interviewed over 300 people and reached millions in the process. His mission is all about teaching companies to care more.

When Jason thought about the contributions he wanted to make in the world, one that seemed both impactful and possible was to help create a world where people aren’t taken advantage of by marketers and snake oil salesmen. But we can’t just get rid of sales altogether—whether you like it or not, you’re going to find yourself in the sales process throughout your life.

If you’re looking to sell a product, you can’t start with a love of the idea. So many people fall in love with their product that they lose sight of what they’re hoping the product actually does. Jason Marc Campbell describes the five loves, in order:

Love your impact
Love your client
Love the product
Love the process of selling
Love the self

Some people love the process of selling but they don’t care about anything else—those are the sleazy salesmen that make your skin crawl when you think about selling. When you’re selling, you can show up with love or you can show up with fear.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Be more caring about how you buy and how you expect to be treated when you buy. Make decisions and ask questions in a purchase process, especially if it’s a big purchase. If a sales person comes to you, try to see how you can use the model I teach about sales on how to buy. Get an understanding of things like ‘Why are you in sales? Why do you think this company is the best thing? What difference do you think it makes in my life? How much do you understand me and my needs? What is the product? Is it the best in the marketplace? Would you refer it to your friends and family?’ Can we be a bit more leveled up and experienced in the way that we buy, so that the market responds and the companies will start to realize that ‘Hey, we need to change the way we do our culture in sales to demand more to a better client.’ And that way we’re going to see a lot less douchebag practices and marketing practices be actually succeeding.”

Resources:

Learn more at jasonmarccampbell.com
Read: Selling with Love
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jasonmarccampbell
Instagram: @jasonmarccampbell
Listen: Selling with Love

273. Creating a Global Ecosystem of Trust with Virginia Salas Kastilio

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:00:53 +0000

Virginia Salas Kastilio is a New Earth ecosystems builder, blockchain advisor, and serial entrepreneur who was named one of Inc. Magazine’s “Top 27 Women to Change the World.” She’s also an internationally-acclaimed speaker, marketer, activist, the founder of Humans I Trust and the co-founder of The Human Trust Foundation. She’s a crypto and NFT innovator who believes in using the blockchain for good.

Virginia was massively successful while working for Apple and later Oracle, which is where she had her entrepreneurial awakening. Before launching another product into the world, though, she spent a year traveling the world and researching happiness to find out what we really needed. Through her research, she learned:

The key to happiness is gratitude.
Our thoughts and our mindset create our life.
We are deeply disconnected and it is robbing us of happiness.

Knowing how important trust is to our overall happiness, Virginia is building what she calls “the trust ecosystem.” It is a global ecosystem of nonprofit organizations and businesses that are coming together to build a better Earth and have regeneration built into their business models.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Really allow yourself to tune into your alignment. No matter where you currently are at your level of success, if you’ve had billion-dollar exits, if you’re just starting out, if you just bought a new website that you’re excited about, just really allowing yourself to orientate to what is my biggest “yes” and what is the life that I want to live, what does my every day want to be and is this really in alignment with my highest calling and what I truly desire and love, or does this feel like it’s going to be profitable or other people said that this is a good business model? So at any time we can reset and realign and just trust yourself in that alignment that, when you do focus on what you really and truly care about, it’s just going to fall into place so effortlessly.”

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272. Discover Your Strengths & Lean Into Them with Megan Reuwer

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:00:41 +0000

Megan Reuwen is a seasoned entrepreneur who has built and led a team of women that have achieved over $13 million in annual sales. She’s been a top earner, top sales leader, and top recruiter in the direct sales industry, and has mentored and coached individuals to work from home and achieve six-figure incomes.

Megan is a mother of four, with three of her children being special needs or medically complex. Fifteen years age Megan was a hair stylist. She chose to run a salon out of her home in order to be present for her son, and that led to her second career of coaching women to work from home.

One of Megan’s superpowers is helping people see who they are clearly so they can apply their gifts and see success. When you know what your strengths are and lean into them, your weaknesses become less important because they tend to improve in time. If you don’t know what your gifts are, you can start by taking personality tests like the Enneagram or the StrengthsFinder test, which will give you verbiage to explain who you are. You can also tap into who you are when you explore and define what your values are.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You can thrive in adversity and in stress. The more you know yourself, the more you’ll be able to continue to make those gains in life.”

Resources:

meganrosecoaching.com
Instagram: @sparkleshinemegan

271. Finding Greater Success in Stillness with Ken Kladouris

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:00:43 +0000

Ken Kladouris is an esteemed and well-known wealth advisor and a leader internationally known in the self-mastery movement. He recently developed a system—Stillness to Success—to help people who are truly ready to make changes in their lives cut the noise, find their stillness, and create the success they want.

He reached a point in his life where he achieved everything he thought he’d wanted in life but was feeling completely unfulfilled. Then suddenly while on vacation, Ken had a moment of pureness where all of his beliefs of what he could achieve washed away, and he realized that he could accomplish so much more. It was the stillness that woke him up. Once he returned from vacation to the real world, he sought out how to return to that place of stillness on demand.

To start tuning out the noise, you can change your relationship with the way that you hear and interpret them. Most of what you believe you have to do is because of a conversation that’s occurring in your head—and meditation allows you to eavesdrop on that conversation.

If you’re struggling to get into meditation, start first with just practicing focused and present attention. Whether you’re going for a walk or doing dishes, the act of bringing your attention to the present moment will allow you to start building up mental fortitude and push out unwanted noise.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I believe, no matter your circumstance or what you’re going through, if you find your stillness you can change your life for the better. And I truly think that, at the end of the day, that’s what it is. Just find your stillness and everything else will work out.”

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270. Mentoring Others to LEAP to Their Highest Potential with Dr. Bill Dorfman

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Dr. Bill Dorfman is a celebrity cosmetic dentist, which sounds odd, but he’s had an unparalleled career when it comes to the practice of dentistry. He’s transformed the smiles of celebrities such as Katy Perry, Usher, Anthony Hopkins, Fergie, Hugh Jackman, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Longoria, and more. He’s been featured regularly on Extreme Makeover and The Doctors, as well as appearing on Larry King, Oprah, Access Hollywood, E!, Extra, and Entertainment Tonight.

At three years old, a young Bill fell and knocked out all of his baby teeth. It was visiting their family dentist and learning what they had to do to fix him up that made him want to become a dentist. Most kids probably would’ve been traumatized by the whole event, but it left him fascinated and wanting to fix people the same way.

In addition to his dentistry practice and TV appearances, Dr. Dorfman does a number of things—including running the Leadership Excellence Accelerating Potential (LEAP) Foundation. The LEAP foundation is a foundation that focuses on guiding youth onto the right path in life, whether that be in academic, professional, or personal endeavors. In working with so many kids and mentors, Dr. Dorfman has learned two important lessons: One, that one of the best ways to find success is to look at what’s working for others and do it better. And two, that there’s no real “secret” to success that doesn’t involve working hard.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I grew up with eight grandparents—that’s a whole different story. And one of my grandparents, my Grandma Dorthy, was the sweetest, sweetest thing. And I could never figure out what her religion was, cause we have a lot of them floating around. And so one day I just asked her, and she said ‘Dahling, it’s just three words: just be kind.’ And that’s it. If everybody in the world would just follow Grandma Dorthy’s religion, we would live in such a beautiful world.”

Resources:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbilldorfman
Listen: Meet the Mentor
Learn more: drbilldorfman.com
leapfoundation.com
buzzballs.com

269. Making Someday Today with Matthew Dicks

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 10:00:12 +0000

Matthew Dicks is a best-selling novelist, nationally recognized storyteller, and the author of Someday is Today as well as nine other books. He’s also an award-winning elementary school teacher. He teaches storytelling and communication at universities, corporate workshops, organizations, and within communities. He’s won multiple Moth GrandSLAM story competitions and, together with his wife, created the organization Speak Up to help others share their stories.

After talks, Matthew would always get people asking him how he does everything that he does. Invariably, he doesn’t have time to answer that question to the level of detail it deserves—how he constructed his life to get everything that he wants to accomplish done while also being the kind of person he wants to be in all areas of life. Rather than answering that question during a talk, he decided to answer it in a book, Someday is Today.

When people make decisions, they are either only thinking of the moment they are in and not future ramifications, or, even worse, not consciously making a decision at all. And this results in people not ultimately achieving the dreams and results they desire. Matthew's theory, when making decisions, is not to rely on what he wants to do in that moment, but on what his future self would have wanted him to have done.

If you’re looking to make “someday” today, here are some tips Matthew has for making the most of the time you have. First, don’t assume you need large chunks of time to achieve your goals. You can write a book one sentence at a time, you don’t need an hour of time sitting at Starbucks. And second, take a look at your sleep habits. It’s important to get enough sleep, but how much of your sleep is actually sleep? Does it take you an hour to wind down and fall asleep? Do you hit snooze or stay in bed for 30 minutes after you wake up? Dialing in your sleep habits and getting good, restful sleep will help you feel better throughout the day and rescue so much unused time.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“People need to afford themselves the right to think about themselves. I think we spend an enormous amount of time in our lives thinking about our spouses and partners and children and colleagues and customers and parents and neighbors. Most of us really spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about other people and we almost never think of ourselves. Thinking of yourself in terms of, sit down on the couch and ask yourself: ‘Who am I? How did I end up here? Where am I going? How am I feeling? What is the thing that I want to say to people tomorrow?’ I don’t think we do that very often. And so I’m always telling people, spend ten minutes every single day, tell your children to go outside, tell your partner to go sit in the car, tell your cats to be gone, and just sit down and ask yourself ‘Who am I and what am I doing and where do I want to go and what do I want to say next to someone I love?’ I think that when we do that we find stories that we don’t know we have, stories that have been hiding, and we start to see patterns in our lives that we didn’t know existed, we can take credit for things that we’ve been ignoring, we can see problems that we have that perhaps we haven’t noticed, all of those things. I think if we all spent a little more time being a little more self-centered, frankly, just a little bit, like in a positive way, think we would lead better lives and I think we would head in directions that make us happier.”

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268. The Essential Skills That Will Revolutionize Your Career Outcomes with Mark Herschberg

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 10:00:43 +0000

Mark Herschberg is the author of The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. Educated at MIT, Mark spent his career launching and fixing new ventures at startups, Fortune 500 companies, and academic institutions. He’s developed new software languages, online marketplaces, new authentication systems, and tracked criminals and terrorists on the dark web—and that only scratches the surface of the many accomplishments he’s had over his career.

Mark always grew up with a fascination for STEM and technology, but when he started his career he realized he also loved the people side of business as well as the technical side. He came to find that there are several skills beyond the ones specific to your job that you need to master in order to have a successful career. Some of those skills include:

Leadership
Networking
Negotiating
Communication
Ethics
Clear direction
Working effectively

Whether you are working at a company at the top or bottom of the ladder, or whether you’re an entrepreneur running your own business, these skills will help you on your way. If you want to work on these things, you can create a career toolkit development guide to build peer learning groups and help develop these skills.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It can seem intimidating to say ‘how am I gonna become a great leader, a great networker, a great negotiator.’ But as we saw with that negotiating example, it’s not about being the best in the world, it’s just about getting a little bit better. And if you can get that few percent better in each of these skills, you’re going to have a fantastic, successful career. So don’t be intimidated, start today, and just focus on getting a little bit better.”

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267. Reaching for Food Independence & Abundance with Jim Gale

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:00:52 +0000

Jim Gale is a four-time All-American and National Championship wrestler who created a mortgage company that reached 1.3 billion in sales in only three years. This allowed Jim to retire early and live one of his life goals: He bought a boat, lived on the ocean for a year, and moved to Costa Rica to build eco-villages. It was there that he discovered permaculture, and this life-changing experience led him to realize that he needed to bring this to every household in the world. He started Food Forest Abundance to do just that.

Jim had never been one to set goals, but when his wrestling coach in high school gave him an ultimatum—write out your goals and hand them to me by Friday or you won’t wrestle—he knew he had to do it. But during that process, something in him changed, and he set some outlandish goals. And yet, by setting out to be the kind of person who embodies those goals, he was able to achieve them.

When his two daughters were born, Jim began to think more long-term and he looked at what he thought the world would look like for his children and grandchildren. It was then that he learned about permaculture and became certain that we are destroying our planet with our current food infrastructure. And he realized that the best path forward was to bring permaculture into everyone’s homes.

We all have the ability to take control of our own food, whether we have a huge yard or live in a tiny apartment. You may not be able to fully sustain yourself, but you can grow your own food in a gallon bucket of soil and start the process of gaining food independence.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The future of humanity starts in your mind, in your heart, and in your hands. It’s not somebody else’s job to save my life, right? It’s my duty—and it’s a joyful duty—to affect how I respond to the world in these crises that are upon us. And how do I do that best? It’s by a lot of meditation, a lot of prayer, a lot of silent time with an intention of asking for guidance, and then, from some magical place, the ideas come. And when they’re inspired ideas, they motivate. Follow your bliss, as Joseph Campbell said, and use inspired action and start becoming self-reliant, and then teach our friends and family and our neighbors and our community how we do it because it’s joyful. And that, my friends, is the solution right there.

Resources:

foodforestabundance.com
Instagram: @foodforestabundance

266. Finding Happiness in Your Career with Minda Zetlin

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:00:12 +0000

Minda Zetlin is an author, speaker, journalist, and contributing editor at Inc. where she writes the Laid Back Leader column. Her articles and workshops provide research-backed advice to help ambitious people get the most out of their careers and their lives.

In her newest book, Career Self-Care: Find Your Happiness, Success, and Fulfillment at Work, she lays out concrete examples of how to improve the quality of your work life no matter what career you’re in. This has come to the forefront of our attention over the last few years for obvious reasons.

Employee satisfaction was at a record low even before the pandemic. As the economy starts to shift, it remains to be seen whether or not employers continue to give employee wellness the attention it deserves or begin cutting costs. But people who are happy and comfortable at work and at home do better work, and so it behooves us all to keep pushing for a better quality of life.

Whether you’re working from home or still in an office, the line between work and home is continuing to blur—you likely have a smartphone with you at work or a desk at home where you do some work away from the office. It’s vital that when we’re working, no matter where it is, we need to set up practices that create clear boundaries and delineations between our work life and our home life.

The book is full of exercises to move towards your goals, increase your happiness at work, and improve your mindfulness, but Minda offers us one very clear piece of advice: If you are unhappy at work, don’t sit around and do nothing about it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It’s your job to make yourself happy. And I mean that really seriously. Not just in the sense that you’ve got to make yourself happy because no one else will, although that’s actually true. Even the people who love you the best can’t really figure out how to make you happy, you’re the one who knows that. But also because it’s your responsibility, if you can, to the world and to the people around you, to be as happy as you can be. My ASJA colleague Gretchen Rubin has all kinds of research showing that happy people not only work better, but they’re also more likely to volunteer, they’re more likely to contribute to charity, and they are better members of society in every possible way. In every possible way, if you are happier, everyone is happier and you are better in the world. So it’s your job to figure out how to be happy and go make it happen.”

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265. Get Unstuck & Live Your Best Life with Shira Miller

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:00:32 +0000

Shira Miller is a two-time TEDx speaker who shares her expertise in the field of well-being on Medium, LinkedIn, Thrive Global, and more, and she is passionate about helping people get unstuck and activate their greatest potential. She discusses the importance of well-being at work and in the home, prioritizing self-care, and creating wellness-based cultures. Her story and opinions have been recognized in Shape, Health, First for Women, Quick & Simple, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Emory Magazine, and the bestselling business books The Power of Nice and Trust Your Gut: How the Power of Intuition Can Grow Your Business.

Shira is no stranger to the experience of getting stuck in life. It started over 30 years ago when she had a healthy weight loss that first put her on the path of a healthier lifestyle, and over the years she had even more: A divorce which led to a new, happier marriage; A business failure during the recession; And getting Crohn’s disease after the stress of that situation. After each of those moments, she came back better and stronger than before. In fact, her life of purpose was only crafted through the process of getting stuck and finding out a way to get unstuck.

Shira defines being stuck as when your life circumstances don’t match the life you want to lead. She has a seven-step process for getting unstuck, and one step, in particular, is shifting from pessimism to optimism. Some ways you can do this are by cognitive reframing or looking for the upside in a situation or leaning into gratitude. Our minds often find what they are looking for, and if we are focusing on the negative we are only going to find more of it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want people to realize that no matter how you’re stuck, whatever your age is, you can always get unstuck. You can overcome obstacles. It’s about following a process, having patience, love for yourself, practicing self-care, and then you can make all the changes that you need in your life.”

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264. Reach the Level After Next with Katie Barnett

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 10:00:17 +0000

Katie Barnett has been named one of the top 20 female disruptors in 2021. She runs a very successful online business, but even more impressive is her personal story.

Like so many of us, Katie didn’t recognize the pivotal moments in her life until she looked back on them from where she is now. She had her master's degree and had plans of teaching in college, but after having three kids and working as a full-time parent, she started a business on the side just to help her family out. But that experience unlocked something in her and she knew this was the path for her.

We all dream big, and then as we grow up, reality starts to set in—we have to pay bills, we have to pay off our loans, we have to support a family—and naturally, our focus turns away from ourselves and to how we’re going to meet these obligations and we forget how to dream. But we have to remember that we can change that at any time and relearn what it means to light our own fires.

If you’re not feeling that fire in your own life, Katie recommends starting with service. It’s impossible to feel like a failure when you’re helping others. By being of service to others, you’re going to gain confidence and find what really lights you up. And if you’re really feeling low, unmotivated, or in a rut, start finding the smallest ways of taking care of your physical and mental health, whether that’s through diet, exercise, mindfulness, intentional rest, or any number of tactics. It can even start with just drinking more water.

There’s a lot in the world to be scared of, but we can put our own dent in that by going out there and putting a smile on people’s faces. We can make this world a better place one person at a time, and that’s what Katie is doing, and encourages others to do as well.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Your vibe is everything. And if you feel like you’re at a low, it’s worth stepping into something bigger to attract something bigger, and that can be in your relationships, in your friendships, in your business, in your life, in everything. It’s about becoming what you want to be surrounded with. Because, as cliché as it sounds, your vibe truly attracts your tribe, what you put out into the universe is going to come back in abundance.”

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263. Educating & Inspiring Young Women Before & After Breast Cancer with Maimah Karmo

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 10:00:27 +0000

Maimah Karmo is the founder and CEO of The Tigerlily Foundation and a fifteen-year survivor of breast cancer. She’s appeared in major media including USA Today, US News, Cosmopolitan, CBS, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and so much more. She’s a sought-after speaker by the media and for policy events and a prominent philanthropist. Under her leadership, the Tigerlily Foundation has launched national and global health initiatives focused on ending disparities through the #inclusion pledge, participating with global stakeholders with a call to action to recognize health disparities as a social justice issue, and working to end disparities for Black women in our lifetime. She’s a global health advocate dedicated to justice and equity for all.

Maimah was born and raised in Liberia, West Africa until she was fifteen years old, and in that time she experienced three wars. Each time they escaped, and many times they returned—in large part because Maimah’s parents believed in philanthropy and helping those who did not have the privilege to escape themselves.

After escaping to America and starting a new life, Maimah worked to build up her own dream life. Just as it felt like it was starting to come to fruition, she found a lump in her breast. After fighting to get it examined—all of the doctors said she was too young to have breast cancer—she was finally diagnosed and treated for cancer.

Women, people of color, and especially the intersection of those two are at a higher risk of being overlooked by the medical community. Most women are not taught to fight and to advocate for themselves the way Maimah was. That’s why she feels responsible for advocating for those who cannot do so themselves.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I live by a lot of quotes, and there’s a quote by Dan Millman, it says ‘Love is a warrior’s sword, everywhere it cuts, it gives life, not death.’ And that’s something that I think, if you’re here, you’re a spirit in this body, in this vessel, for this time. What you’re here to do is to love yourself and honor and love life. And how do you do that? You honor your temple. Not just your body but your mind, your spirit. And when you’re given much and you’re able to breathe, then you have to give to others.”

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262. Finding a Higher Purpose in Your Business with Jasan Julius

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:00:16 +0000

Jasan Julius has built some incredible brands, including Coffee Junkiez and Pizza Junkiez, and won multiple “business of the year” awards. He also has a marketing company that has allowed him to take his businesses nationally. Jasan is also generous, wanting to connect with people and share what he’s learned to help other small business owners grow.

He started his career as a hands-on blue collar worker. He worked for Chrysler for many years, where he eventually decided he wanted to work with his mind as well and became a union representative. But after achieving his dream job—just thirty days later—his son was diagnosed with cancer. It was the hardest time of his life, and after three long years, his son, unfortunately, lost that battle.

Stricken with grief and looking for something to occupy his mind, Jasan threw himself fully into entrepreneurship, where he saw his business as part of his son’s legacy. That strong link pulled him through the hardest parts of entrepreneurship more than the money ever could have. When it comes to growing your business, you have to make sure you embed strong motivations far beyond the money you might make, because that won’t be enough.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Pay more attention to the moment. We all do monotonous things in life, so you gloss over them and you just do it and you get it done. I look back on my life and every different stage of my life was applicable to where I am today, and I wish that I had paid more attention in the moment. Even doing the things you didn’t want to do or you didn’t find overly fulfilling or enjoyable, there’s lessons to be learned. And the only way you learn those lessons is if you are highly conscious of how and what you are doing in the moment in general.”

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261. Finding the Wealth in Your Network with Vincent Pugliese

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:00:17 +0000

Vincent Pugliese is the author ofThe Wealth of ConnectionsandFreelance to Freedom, as well as the owner of the Total Life Freedom mastermind community, which helps entrepreneurs and small business owners build a life of time, money, and location freedom. He’s also the host of the Total Life Freedom podcast and, most importantly, a husband and father of three sons.In episode 86 of the podcast, Vince joined us to share his journey as a photojournalist and his roadmap to freedom that he is living today.

As the host of his podcast, Vince talks to entrepreneurs struggling with building a business and creating a life of freedom. He kept noticing people approaching things from the wrong direction. They start a podcast, write a book, create a product, and launch it out into the world—and nothing happens. They give up, thinking entrepreneurship is too hard. But they’re just doing things backwards.

Vince looked at what made people successful, and he traced it to these five points:

Curiosity
Character
Connection
Collaboration
Create

For each of these, there are specific strategies to improve upon them in your life. To improve your connection, you need to shift from focusing on what you want to get and start reaching out to people and finding out what they want and helping them get it. When you do that, and you start improving your character, everything else will just become so much easier.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I really think it is setting those generous goals and those selfish goals. I think if you can start with that as the foundation, if you’re struggling, it really gets you out of your own head of what you need, it gets you out of desperation mode. Because generally when you’re struggling, you’re desperate, you’ll do things probably not the way you want to do it if you weren’t desperate. But if you really think, how do I flip the switch, stop worrying about what I need, and go in this direction in terms of being helpful, because helpful people want to help helpful people. They don’t want to help selfish people. So I know it feels like I need this stuff, go the opposite direction. Do with less for a little while, be that person that other people want to be around, and I’m telling you, if you go from there and you start with character and you go on down the road, it’s going to work out for you.”

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260. Owning Who You Are & Stepping Into Your Presence with Liz Brunner

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:00:14 +0000

Liz Brunner is a bestselling author, executive communications coach, lauded speaker, podcast host, and Emmy award-winning journalist. Recognized as one of the world’s most accomplished journalists, Liz conducted exclusive one-on-one interviews with prominent figures over a 28-year career ranging from professional athletes to global political leaders, including President Barrack Obama.Interviewing such truly remarkable people over the years, Liz learned some incredibly valuable lessons. But regardless of how big or how famous a person was, the best stories came from people who went through personal transformation and resilience.

In 2013, Liz embarked on the next chapter of her journey as the CEO and founder of Brunner Communications and launched Brunner Academy, both dedicated to helping people find their authentic voices, tell their stories, and lead with presence. She had to dig deep and identify her true skillset and translate that into language that made sense for the corporate world.

Part of helping people find their presence and tell their story is recognizing that people are just as much a brand as any corporation, and teaching people to take advantage of that fact. If you’re looking to establish your own presence, you must first recognize where you are with your comfort level in owning your brand and find others who you believe are embodying their presence well. When you see what others are doing you can begin to identify the qualities you admire in yourself or find ways to enhance them.

Hearing people’s stories of transformation can show you what’s possible in your own life. It’s what led to Liz’s own transformation, and it’s what she now helps others realize themselves.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Number one: If I can make these transitions in my life, anyone can. And number two: Discover who you are. Give yourself permission to own who you are. And if you do, it will take you into your next chapters and ensure that you are living your best life. It doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy, it doesn’t mean that you’re not going to have challenges. Life throws us challenges all the time. A quote from my mother: ‘The goal of living is to absorb all of the pain of life and lose none of the joy.’ That’s the takeaway.”

Resources:

lizbrunner.com
Instagram: @lizbrunner
Read: Dare to Own You
Listen: Live Your Best Life with Liz Brunner

259. Giving Hope to Those Who Serve & Protect Us with Robin Kelleher

Mon, 30 May 2022 10:00:19 +0000

Robin Kelleher is the President and CEO of Hope For The Warriors, an organization she co-founded in 2006 as a grassroots organization that has now grown to national heights, having raised over $53 million for impacting the wounded and fallen military members, their families, and their communities. She's responsible for developing and implementing the strategic direction of the organization, providing budgetary and mission-focused guidance to their growing staff.

Robin’s husband is a member of the military, and as a family they moved to a military community in 2002. The next year, her husband’s best friend was severely wounded. Through that, Robin realized that the wounds extend beyond just the service member—the whole family unit and even the community is damaged.

The trauma that military members and veterans face is hard to fathom, but the effects are far-reaching. Hope for the Warriors finds creative solutions to bring resources together and help solve problems. They don’t believe in “no.” When tornados ravaged communities in Kentucky, Hope for the Warriors collaborated with a group of partners from local grocery chains to Frito-Lay to truck company Forward Air, the armed forces, and the YMCA, all to address food insecurity in those areas hit the hardest.

Hope for the Warriors is primarily donation driven, and they are a great investment. All money donated goes directly to the people who are being impacted.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want the American people to see the value and the importance of military families, and that while they're still at war at home, when you look at who's your best bet as an employee, who is going to be the leader of your boy scout troop, and who's going to be the coach of the baseball team, the first ones to raise their hands are going to be the military families. They're strong and resilient, but they still need support and just because we're not at war abroad, many families here are still at war at home.”

Resources:

hopeforthewarriors.org
Instagram: @hope4warriors

The Daily Helping is produced and published by Crate Media.

258. How Men (and Women) Can Find Purpose with Aaron Velky

Mon, 23 May 2022 10:00:30 +0000

We’re coming to you again live from the GoBundance event, where there are so many amazing people – including today’s guest, Aaron Velky. He's an entrepreneur, writer, high-performance coach, speaker, and author from Baltimore, Maryland.Aaron is also the CEO of Money Club, an organization dedicated to helping growth-minded people achieve whole-life wealth. He’s also the principal and personal performance coach with Men on Purpose, an organization that helps men find purpose and create a life of intention. They host a podcast, a community, an online mastermind program, and retreats which help people clarify their vision to find their purpose and discover their mission.

Aaron realized that so many people, no matter how successful they seem, don’t know what they want in life – what their purpose is. That’s why he and his business partner started Men on Purpose: to help individuals spotlight the things that matter most and the legacy they will leave. Start by making sure you have enough money to provide your basic needs, but once you’re beyond that, start thinking bigger: What do you care about? What matters to your soul? What is going to satisfy and fulfill you? You need to start digging into these questions to begin finding real purpose.

There is nothing as fulfilling as having an impact. What you may discover as you dig is that your purpose extends well beyond what you do for a living, and it may even spur you to change what you do. But if the end result is more people living in their purpose, the world will be a better place.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Learn to witness positivity and celebrate it. When you see it, celebrate it – in your life, in someone else's life, around you. Lifting up someone else has been the most significant thing I've ever done. And now it's my lifestyle. Just simple things will tune you into what's around you. When you see positivity, celebrate it.”

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257. Innovative Fundraising & Making an Impact with Javier La Fianza

Mon, 16 May 2022 10:00:10 +0000

We are live again from the GoBundance event with an incredible guest, Javier La Fianza. He’s the founder and CEO of Valiente Philanthropic Strategies, a consulting firm that helps create greater philanthropic impact for nonprofit organizations, corporate foundations, and high net worth individuals through effective strategic planning, fundraising, capacity building, and organizational development.There’s a stigma when it comes to the nonprofit sector, specifically when it comes to making a living. The common understanding is that, to make a difference, you have to sacrifice making an income. But Javier says that’s not true. If you have the skills to run a business, and you know what you’re doing, you can make a good living in this space.

If you’re looking to make a difference in the world and thinking about starting a nonprofit yourself, Javier says: don’t – at least not right away. There are so many organizations out there, likely many doing what you would like to do. Rather than competing with each other for resources, your best bet at making a difference could be finding a nonprofit that aligns with your goals and working with them directly.

There are so many ways to make an impact in this world beyond just giving money. Reach out to the nonprofits that are doing what excites you and find out what they need the most. Offer your time or your services. And if it turns out that organization isn’t the one for you, there are many more out there to choose from.

Ultimately, it is up to you to decide what change you want to make in the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“One of the most important things in my life is trying to live a life based on gratitude and trying to stay in gratitude and be grateful and do acts of service. When I'm living my life in gratitude, that drowns out those negative voices in my head sometimes. You can't live in resentment when you're being grateful.”

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valiente.group
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/javier-lafianza-0480935

256. Work From Anywhere & Live Your Life by Design with Jon Huber

Mon, 09 May 2022 10:00:17 +0000

We are coming to you live from the GoBundance event with Jon Huber, a traveling businessman with an impressive resume and a real estate portfolio of 126 units from Florida to California. He has become an expert on the considerations of working remotely. With how relevant that is in our world today, he’s sharing with us what he’s learned about how to manage your work away from the office.Jon became passionate about remote work when his children were born. He didn’t want to be that working father who saw his kids for two hours a day before bed. Work and life are never fully in balance, but Jon is constantly striving to adjust to what feels best in the moment with his family as his guiding compass.

Some of the tools for working successfully at home:

Block time for however long you can focus
Become beholden to your calendar
Put a team in place so that you aren’t the bottleneck in your business

When you know what you want to accomplish – in your business and in your life – it makes it so much easier to begin working backward from that goal. From there, you can set up systems and procedures to allow you to make the money you need while having the time, freedom, and flexibility to live the life you want.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Live your life by design. Find out the life that you want and then work yourself backwards. What do I need to do to become that person? If I want to be that person that does whatever I wanted to do, what job do I need to have? What skills do I need to have? What team do I need around me? What systems do I need in place? And then work on that.”

Resources:

Instagram: @jonthetravelinginvestor
TikTok: @jonthetravelinginvestor

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255. Making Big Happen at Work and at Home with Mark Moses

Mon, 02 May 2022 10:00:49 +0000

We are once again live from the GoBundance event in Park City, Utah, this time with Mark Moses. He’s a world-renowned keynote speaker and CEO coach who shares what he has learned working with over 875 companies with a combined annual revenue stream of $50 billion. He’s also the best-selling author of Make Big Happen and Making Big Happen.

In his last year of high school, Mark’s dad lost his job, leaving the family bankrupt. Mark was forced to fend for himself if he wanted to go to college, and so he started painting houses on the side. Eventually, he realized the scaling potential of his painting business and set out to become an entrepreneur instead. By 26, the business had grown. It now had 250 locations and 3,000 staff, so Mark sold it.

That was the first success of many, leaving Mark convinced that he needed to write a book. He needed to share how you can get the life, and build the business that you want. It’s all about four simple questions:

What do you want?
How do you get it?
What’s going to stand in the way?
How do you hold yourself accountable?

If you don’t know what you want, you’re never going to achieve it. But if you can clearly define your goal, you can start moving towards it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I believe there are three kinds of people: those that make big happen, those that let things happen, and those that ask what happened? I believe you can build any life that you want to build. If you can define it, you can now start walking towards that step. Don't let anybody tell you with life you can or can't have, that's up to you. Success comes in a can, not a can't.”

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254. Changing Our Definition of Disability with Chris Waddell

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:00:42 +0000

We are live from the GoBundance event with Chris Waddell, 12-time paralympic medal winner and the most decorated mono skier in history. He entered the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Paralympics Hall of Fame in 2010. A skiing accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, which he describes as the most traumatic and most powerful experience to happen in his life.By aiming to prove himself, not as a disabled person, but simply as a person, Chris was able to achieve some truly incredible things, including a climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. His nonprofit, One Revolution, sets out to redefine the way we look at disability.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Our lives are going to take twists and turns. We will have a plan and most likely that plan doesn't work out the way that we thought it would. Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the greatest gift of all. If I can remove the emotional part of that… Oh, I failed in my plan – to recognize that… Hey, this might be an opportunity I had not had my eyes open to. That, to me, is my greatest helping.”

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253. Putting Family Before Your Work with Adam Broussard

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 10:00:32 +0000

We are live from the GoBundance event with Adam Broussard, a husband, father of two, and host of the podcast and mastermind group for high-achieving physician fathers called Dads Before Doctors. He’s dialed into making a difference in the lives of others through his various works.Doctors, or any other high achieving profession, tend to work so hard to provide for their families that they forget to actually spend quality time with them. If you’re a parent in survival mode, here are some things you can do to step back and make connections:

Put aside time for yourself and your mental health on your calendar
Schedule date nights with your partner or kids before other work commitments
Try not to fight it when you kids are making demands of your time, eventually they won’t want to spend any time with you

Being a parent is such a precious time. It is difficult and stressful but it doesn’t last forever. It’s important that we do our best to enjoy the good parts of parenting that we’ll never get back.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The biggest thing is just being present and intentional, being able to create the life you want, and be present with your kids, with your wife, with yourself even, so that once you put it down, that you accomplish it, and not get stuck in the day-to-day.”

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252. Honor Your Network & Make Your Asks Matter with Chris Tuff

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:00:26 +0000

Chris Tuff is the partner of the advertising firm 22squared where he has helped them grow into a 400-plus employee digital powerhouse, over 90% millennials and Gen Z. He’s also the author of the best-selling bookThe Millennial Whispererwhere he shares lessons on empathy and genuine connection. In his newest book,Save Your Asks, he talks about becoming a better networker and salesperson using the same principles set up in The Millennial Whisperer.One of his favorite tips for making an ask that’s impossible to ignore is called “masking your ask in your dream.” If you share your dream with someone, whatever it is, they are almost guaranteed to do anything within their power to help you achieve it.Building a new relationship is easy, but sustaining one is hard. And making too many asks is one easy way to drive a relationship into the ground. So save your asks, and start building up genuine connections with people.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Start saving your asks. Curiosity is the difference between connecting and networking. If you take a genuine curiosity to the person sitting next to you and stop selling to them and start asking them some of these important questions of what drives them as humans, you're going to find not only more successful in your job. It's going to make your connections a lot more fulfilling. And so I encourage everyone to start saving their asks and take action towards more genuine connection.”

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251. Using Sports to Build a World Without Racism with Dr. Andrew Mac Intosh

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 10:00:10 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Dr. Andrew Mac Intosh, the Vice President of Curriculum at RISE. He leads RISE's mission to educate and empower the sports community with the understanding and knowledge to effectively promote social justice across fan bases and communities alike.He has spent time working in Detroit, assisting with the development of evaluation systems for youth sports programs, and aiding in the design and facilitation of training programs for coaches and mentors. He is passionate about understanding and enhancing the role that coaches can play as mentors for the youth with whom they engage.

RISE is a national nonprofit organization that empowers athletes, sports fans, coaches, and staff at all levels of sports to tackle racism. It’s bold vision is a world without racism or discrimination, and the arena of sports is their first vehicle to address that. To do so, they have an experiential curriculum to guide and facilitate conversations with people of all ages.

We are living in a time of deep division, politically and socially. That means that bringing people together from different backgrounds to have difficult conversations is more challenging – and more important – than ever before. RISE helps to facilitate these conversations and create more empathy across divisions, building a stronger community every step of the way.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“For me, it's about respect. It's about inclusion, and recognizing that we all can make a difference in this conversation – for us to think about the perspectives that we come from, and to truly open our hearts and minds to the perspective that others hold. If we all approach life in that way, we'd be a much stronger society.”

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250. Making the Impossible Happen with Mick Ebeling

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:00:18 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Mick Ebeling, founder and CEO of Not Impossible Labs. Mick has seeded a movement of pragmatic, inspirational innovation as a career producer, filmmaker, and inventor. He’s been named by Fortune Magazine as one of the Top 50 World's Greatest Leaders and is the only person to be honored twice as TIME Magazine’s Inventor of the Year. He's also the recipient of The Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award and listed as one of the World's 50 Most Influential Creative People by Ad Age.Like most good origin stories, a series of coincidences led Mick to his main inspiration for Not Impossible Labs.

A friend convinced him to go to a gallery event; he begrudgingly went. It turned out to be a fundraising event for a graffiti artist, Tony “TEMPT ONE” Kwan, who had ALS. Mick ended up talking to Tony’s family, where he realized the event was to help raise money for Tony’s hospital bills. Only knowing the imagery of Stephen Hawking when it came to ALS, Mick was surprised to find out how difficult communicating was for Tony, and he promised to himself and Tony’s family that he would find a way to get him a communication device.

Better yet, he committed to finding a way to let Tony create art again. With some of the smartest people he knew, they invented an $80 device that allowed Tony to do just that.

It was through that experience that Mick realized what change was possible and within his grasp. He set out to create Not Impossible Labs to start changing the world and inspiring others to do the same. Now, he helps others do what he did – find one person, change their life, and change the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Go out and change your world – and the world. That's the first thing, right? Just make a decision, find an absurdity, and go out and change that absurdity and help one person. Full stop. Case closed. Shut the door. Shut the computer. Podcast over.”

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249. Create a Roadmap for Your Life with Carolyn Colleen

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:49:40 +0000

Today we are live from Park City, Utah at the GoBundance event with our expert guest, Carolyn Colleen. She is a fierce mother of three children, author, international speaker, entrepreneur, and business strategist focused on helping others achieve their goals.

She's the founder of Fierce Academy, an online program that helps women create life strategies that enable them to have the life they dream of without sacrificing their families, careers, or lifestyles. She's the owner of Acton Midwest private schools where the philosophy is clear thinking leads to good decisions, good decisions lead to the right habits, the right habits lead to character, and character becomes destiny.

Carolyn faced unbelievable hardships as a child. Living with a mother who struggled with untreated mental illness and being subject to sexual abuse repeatedly from both men and women. The stress of it all caused her to attempt to take her own life at the age of 16. Seeing how angry her little sister was when she came back from the hospital, she knew that she was meant for something more.

Through her trauma, she ended up seeking out abusive relationships. It wasn’t until she was rocking her two-month-old daughter to sleep that she asked the universe for a sign. She knew her daughter deserved a better life, and through creating that better life Carolyn learned to love herself as well. It was through that journey that led to the world of 1Life Fully Lived, where she eventually became the executive director.

1Life Fully Lived gives people the tools to create a roadmap for their life. It was through their help that Carolyn was able to carve a new life for herself. As she strived to make the best life for her children, she discovered Acton Academy. There wasn’t a school near her, so instead of moving to Texas to join one she applied to open a school of her own – and she was accepted.

Anyone has the power to create a roadmap for their life. And, more importantly, everyone has the power to follow it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Other people see things in us that we might not see. Sometimes you have to borrow the light that another person sees in you until your light ignites – leaning into that light so that you can be exactly what you deserve.”

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248. Using Genetics to Personalize Health Optimization

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:00:13 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Kashif Khan, CEO and founder of The DNA Company, where personalized medicine is being pioneered through unique insights into the human genome. They’ve done the largest study of its kind globally and developed a functional approach to genomic interpretation, overlaying environment, nutrition, and lifestyle on the genetic blueprint to create personalized and deterministic health outcomes. His company measures its success not in dollars earned but in lives improved.Like most people who end up in functional medicine, Kashif’s story starts with his own health. He had a number of health issues, from eczema to psoriasis, acid reflux, depression, and more – and the traditional healthcare system had failed him in their treatment. As his health was declining, he met with a friend in the healthcare field who dove deeper into his genetics and learned that all of these problems had a root cause.

Your genes act as a set of instructions for your body, but some of those instructions can be wrong. Typically, a geneticist will only study those who are unhealthy. Kashif set out to look at those who have the same genetic disposition as people with an illness, but who are healthy. What he learned was that your environment, nutrition, and lifestyle habits act as variables in whether or not those predisposed for illness actually get sick. It’s endlessly fascinating stuff.

If we can stop treating illness as something that applies to everyone the same way, and start looking at how our personalized genetics are determining our health outcomes, the world could soon be free of chronic illness.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The understanding of why disease happens is completely off. Chronic disease is a choice. It's not – My family has heart disease. My family has breast cancer – and then you wait to see. What your family had was risk. And then they had wrong environment, nutrition, and lifestyle loads that caused the risk to manifest. So if you understand what those things are, then all of a sudden disease becomes optional.”

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247. Fighting Addiction & Poverty Through Financial Education with Sterling Shrout

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 11:00:35 +0000

Today, we are once again live on location in Park City, Utah at the GoBundance event with our expert guest, Sterling Shrout. He's a father of two, avid adventurer, small business owner, and real estate investor.Sterling’s upbringing was not an easy one. Growing up in extreme poverty, he was selling drugs at the age of 15 and was placed in the criminal justice system, alternating between jail and probation. At 18 he had his door kicked in by the Ace Combined Task Force for trafficking drugs, possession of dynamite, and running a drug ring. He ended up spending three years in prison.

Getting released right before his 23rd birthday, Sterling had the odds stacked against him. He was a felon, he didn’t have a degree and hadn’t developed any skills beyond selling drugs. He tried to reenter society responsibly but he couldn’t find any work and ended up back in the same circles he was before.

He spent a few years homeless, committing petty crimes just to get by, until he ended up in Florida at The Salvation Army for rehab. It was there that he was first exposed to the idea that things could get better.

It was still a few years until things really started to turn around. After the birth of his child and a subsequent relapse and overdose, things started to click. He began doing odd jobs, miscellaneous labor, and started saving up some money. Eventually, he stumbled upon podcasts that introduced him to the concepts of entrepreneurship.

All the work he’s done on the personal side of his life has led to the nonprofit organization that he now works with, 1Life Fully Lived, which helps people plan visions for their futures to get out of poverty. They taught him to set a vision for what his life would look like at 100-years old, and that was the first time he started to care about his future self.

If you want to do this exercise at home, find a quiet spot, close your eyes, and picture yourself at one hundred years old…

Where are you?
What does it look like?
What does it feel like?
Who is with you?

Put yourself in that situation and allow yourself to really feel it. The more vivid you can make this picture in your mind, the better the technique will work. With this, you can actually begin to care for and think about how you will become that future self.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Let yourself dream big. Don't keep yourself boxed into some small, you know… I only deserve this. Or, that's too much. Set your goals high. Aim high, and really go after whatever you're passionate about.”

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246. Leaving a Legacy of Love with Ken Wimberly

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:14:45 +0000

Today, we’re joining you live on location in Park City, Utah at the GoBundance event with our expert guest, Ken Wimberly. He’s the founder and visionary behind Legacy of Love Inc., the founder and CVO of KW Net Lease Advisors, co-founder of Laundry Luv, and an investor and founding operating principal – as well as franchise owner – of Keller Williams Realty in Abilene, Texas.

Ken’s entire business philosophy is about creating a legacy of love. From the launch of Legacy Journal, an app that makes capturing and cataloging the moments that matter most in a child’s life easy, to Laundry Luv, which partners with the Laundry Literacy Foundation to give books to people in the community every month, Ken strives to give back in every aspect of his businesses.

Leaving a legacy that’s going to be meaningful doesn’t have to take a lot of time, either. When Ken’s mother passed away, he found three letters that were addressed to his mother from her brother. Those three letters were some of the most important possessions he’s ever had. By being intentional about this process, it’s possible to create incredibly impactful memories and moments to leave our children with.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Write that first story. Just sit down and write the first story. It doesn't have to be big. It can be a paragraph, a few sentences, right there. Take a photo of something you've done with your child recently and write a few sentences about why that meant something important to you. Keep that, give it to your child. You don't have to wait until sometime in the future. Print it out – give it to them right there. Let them share that moment right there and know how much you value them. Because none of us, you know, none of us knows what tomorrow holds.”

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245. Climbing the Stairway of Selves, Pt. 2 with Steve D’Annunzio

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 11:00:21 +0000

Today, we’re continuing our interview with Steve D’Annunzio, the founder of Mission Driven Advisor and Soul Purpose Institute. Steve designed a mental mechanism to explain growth of personal consciousness that he calls the Stairway of Selves. It offers 12 steps that depict key points where people can experience a breakthrough and move to a “higher self.” Tune in to learn how to take the steps from the lower levels to higher levels of consciousness.Victim
Fear
Desire
Anger
Entitlement
Pride
Courage
Reason
Acceptance
Wisdom
Love
Unconditional love

If you’re looking to move up the ladder, yourself, that starts with self-inquiry. Start by asking yourself: Who am I? When you decide who you are, you start telling yourself the truth. Then you ask yourself: Why am I here? Identify what you bring to the world. We all have our own unique talents we bring. And the final question is: How do I serve and who do I serve? Once you know why you are here, your unique talents, you need to look at how you are bringing them to the world, and to whom.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“How do you serve? Who do you serve? When you know who you are, when you know why you're here, when you know you bring that, why you're here to people, the means with which you're delivering that value and unique ability, and you know the people that you want to bring it to, I promise you things are going to roll for you.”

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244. Climbing the Stairway of Selves, Pt. 1 with Steve D’Annunzio

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 10:49:23 +0000

Today our expert guest is Steve D’Annunzio, and he is committed to improving the welfare of humanity. He is an author and co-creator of many books, businesses, and artistic projects. Steve is the founder of Mission Driven Advisor and Soul Purpose Institute. While he’s worked with leaders of Fortune 500 companies and professional athletes, Steve is passionate about helping individuals from CEOs to students and everyone in between to identify their higher purpose and evolve their services into a business that’s powerful, purposeful, and profitable.As a teenager, Steve faced a lot of troubles in his home life. He got in some legal trouble for selling drugs, and that led him down a path of early soul searching. Without pressure from any religious institution, he began exploring self-guided prayer and meditation. He eventually met a spiritual teacher from India that invited him to inquire about his life, who he was, and why he was here.

Steve designed something to explain why people are the way they are that he calls the Stairway of Selves. It offers 12 steps that each show key points where people can experience a breakthrough and move to a “higher self.” It shows you how to take the steps from our lower levels of consciousness to the higher levels of consciousness:

Victim
Fear
Desire
Anger
Entitlement
Pride
Courage
Reason
Acceptance
Wisdom
Love
Unconditional love

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

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243. Learning How To Thrive On Life with CJ Finley

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:00:37 +0000

Today, our expert guest is CJ Finley, founder of ThriveOnLife, the ever-evolving and expanding personal mindset blog, podcast, and lifestyle brand. We connect over a shared mission as he describes his unconventional path to intentional living, how he’s helped others get there through launching his business, and what he’s working on lately.

CJ exudes inspiration as he describes how he lept from a predictable, but toxic, life path to an engineering career into one where he still solves problems, just without needing to involve IT systems. At the root of this great motivation were confusing and painful health issues, physical and emotional. He knew he had to make big changes for himself, and did. His success in doing so opened his mind to the idea of helping others do the same, for the rest of his life.

As he tells it, the story of his brand starts in an unexpected place. Inspired by a tragic and sudden death, his business and marriage are a great example of turning darkness into light.

CJ is now focused on his podcast, also named ThriveOnLife, and its ability to amplify voices that share our mission to help others get more out of their lives. It was great to connect with a kindred soul in this world and hear about the passion in his work.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you're driving to a job that you don't like, or in a relationship that you don't like, or working on a project that isn't fulfilling to you – you don't got time. Everyone says, “Oh, you have time to figure it out or time to do all these other things.” But the reality is, if you start acting like you don't have time, you're going to start being able to say no to that job that doesn't fulfill you, to that person that's toxic in your life, to those projects that seem to be taking away from you doing what you really love. The moment that you decide you don't have time for any of that is the moment that you're truly going to thrive on life.”

Resources:

Instagram: @cj.finley
Instagram: @thriveonlife
Linkedin: CJ Finley
ThriveOnLife: website
ThriveOnLife: podcast

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242. Making Your Moonshots a Reality with Jared Yellin

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 11:00:59 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Jared Yellin, co-founder of 10X Incubator. Jared found a way to scale his original tech company with $0 invested to serve over 40,000 paying users around the world. He declared a moonshot that he would build, scale, and sell 10,000 tech companies in 10 years. It’s a claim so large that some of the most influential people in the tech industry are yearning to play a role. 10X Incubator is going to democratize the tech industry and create a level playing field for all.In his early twenties, Jared knew that someday he would become a dad. This led to reflecting on his own childhood. His parents had a loud, intense divorce when he was just five. He realized that, at his age, he could start making decisions that would allow him to be the dad that he wanted to be to his future kids.

When he thought about what that meant for him, one word came to mind: Freedom.

He started breaking down what freedom meant for him and he wrote down twelve different areas of freedom in life and what it would mean in each of them. But as he read all of that back, he realized that no one he knew had that kind of lifestyle. In order to achieve it, he would have to do things that nobody else he knew had done before.

Fast forward to today, Jared is thirty-seven, a father of two, and has earned the freedom that he always wanted.

In that gap, things didn’t always go smoothly. Around the same time Jared began starting the company that would go on to be his first big success, he started dating the woman who would become his wife. After a late night at the office, she told him that she felt like she was an inconvenience in his life. He knew at that moment that he had his priorities backwards and that he had to put systems in place to ensure the most important things in his life were prioritized as such.

In order to make moonshot ideas happen, all while living a life of priority, you have to do a couple of things right. First, you have to have a clear and narrow focus. You also have to be willing to take maniacal action, which means people observing you might think you’re crazy because you’re taking so much action. Through it all, you must set boundaries around what’s important. Lastly, you need to talk about what you’re doing relentlessly. When you do that, you will attention that sticks.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The majority of potential resides in the graveyard. People die with their greatness inside because they were told they were not smart enough, or not pretty enough, or they were disadvantaged and they just believed in all of that. They have all this potential that exists within them and they don't know where to go with it. They're too afraid to put it out into the world because, what if it's not well received? Instead, they play it safe, which is actually the opposite. It's so much riskier to keep your potential within. My challenge for all of you is to execute on your potential. Just do it. Get after it.”

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241. Bringing Opportunity (and Affordable Technology) to Africa with Dozy Mmobuosi

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:00:06 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Dozy Mmobuosi, author, entrepreneur, and founder of Tingo Mobile PLC, Africa’s first mobile device manufacturer and IOT (internet of things) business. He also founded Tingo Mobile UK, Tingo Mobile USA, Tingo Remit, and Tingo Airlines. His expertise cuts across technology banking, energy, and telecommunications. He has led Tingo's growth to more than $600 million in annual revenue and holds a PhD in rural advancement from UPM Malaysia.Dozy started thinking like a businessperson at the age of 16 when he began selling used clothes and Legos for extra money. In University, he became a show promoter, and that short time got him in touch with several multinational businesses. After being exposed to those companies, he knew that he wanted to start a business of his own.

After starting out in online publishing and building a social networking platform in Nigeria, Dozy saw a new opportunity coming. Wireless internet and cellphone service platforms were first coming to Nigeria and he knew that it was going to change everything. He jumped at the chance to be a part of it. He started off by selling ringtones, but that wasn’t meant to last forever. While working in that industry he noticed how expensive the cost of mobile phones were and he knew that there would be a massive market for cheap mobile phones there.

Part of Dozy’s motivation behind starting these companies was that, when he looked around, he saw that big companies outside of Nigeria were interested only in the big cities where people made a lot of money. But there were people all over the country who were being left behind because technology that could provide opportunities was out of reach.

After seeing so much success in business, Dozy recently launched the Dozy Mmobuosi Foundation to give back to the people of Africa that he owes so much to. He knows what it is like to go hungry and to not have access to resources in life, and so he strives in both his business work and his philanthropy to address those issues.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When you are creating, create something that solves a problem. Let's not just create for the sake of it. Let's remember that there are billions of people, possibly, who need solutions, who have problems that need solving.”

Resources:

singleinc.com
dozymmobuosifoundation.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dozy-mmobuosi-93ab9512b

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240. The Search for a Good Life with Dan Millman

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Dan Millman, who teaches the Peaceful Warrior Way all over the world. He’s the author of eighteen books, published in twenty-nine languages, a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor. His bestselling book, “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” was adapted into a feature film starring Nick Nolte. His latest book, “Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit,” is now available everywhere.

As a kid, Dan discovered an old trampoline and he just loved jumping up and down on it, trying different flips. He kept jumping and improving until the practice brought him a world championship on the trampoline, entry into the new world of gymnastics, and a college scholarship. These feats and experiences seeded his curiosity of talent and how a person acquires it. In his own research, he discovered that talent is about 20% innate, while the other 80% could be developed.

He then turned to examining how being talented as an athlete might be able to help a person in other aspects of life. Being a good gymnast didn’t help him with dating, financial challenges, or career decisions, after all.

He asked, how can we create a talent, not just for sport, but for living? His work lead to a list of the twelve areas of life that constitute personal development:

Discovering our worth
Reclaiming our will
Energizing our body
Managing our money
Taming our mind
Trusting our intuition
Accepting our emotions
Facing our fears
Illuminating our shadow
Embracing our sexuality
Awakening our heart
Serving our world

In his new book, “Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit,” Dan distills the teachings he’s learned over twenty years, and from four mentors, in his own life. He takes what he went through and applies it to what’s most practical in our daily lives. He reminds us that every person’s story can be powerful, and he hopes that his will bring about positive change in the lives of many others.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I hope readers will take away, and I hope your listeners will take away, a sense of the value of trusting themselves, trusting their own lives unfolding as they are. Not as they could be or should be, but embracing their life as it is. Let's stop comparing ourselves to other people. It's a profound form of disrespect for our own self, our own process. We need to trust our process, our way of learning, and come to know who we are and accept who we are. This sense of self-acceptance and self-trust is key.”

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239. Become Unstoppable by Turning Setbacks into Rocket Fuel with Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco. He’s the Co-Founder of the innovative tech platform, blooprinted, the creative powerhouse behind the "What Are You Made Of?" podcast, and the bestselling author of “ROCKET FUEL: Convert Setbacks. Become Unstoppable.”

When Mike was just eight, his mom was moving onto her third marriage. Volatility ensued between his living with either parent. After being told he’d end up on the streets, Mike took the insult as a challenge and let it fuel him for years to come. That’s where the idea behind his book, “ROCKET FUEL” came from.

Performance coach, author, dynamic public speaker, tech visionary and thought leader, C-Roc has been featured by Yahoo! Finance as one of the Top Business Leaders to Follow. He is consumed with a passion to help people break free from the confines of complacency and propel themselves to untapped levels of success.

One of his favorite principles from the book is the “3 C’s of Success,” which he shares:

Clarity: Start imagining your ideal life, without judgment. Get it out of your head and onto paper.
Commitment: Do what you need to do to achieve that life, all the time, easy or hard.
Consistency: Do it over and over again, practice, to see sustained success.

Mark’s latest venture is blooprinted, an online marketplace of business blueprints that offers step-by-step processes to succeed in a variety of industries. You can be a fantastic coach or consultant, but without knowing what you’re supposed to do with those skills, you can waste countless years trying to figure it out on your own. Blooprinted lets you search for creators who have been where you want to go and helps you learn the exact route to get there.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“My favorite thing is the word inexorable. Inexorable means: Unyielding and unable to be stopped. Every morning I wake up, I talk to myself about being inexorable… Be inexorable today. You are inexorable. If you approach life that way, you will get anything you want and more, and you’ll be able to help more people than you can imagine.”

Resources:

mikecroc.com
blooprinted.com
If you’re a creator or expert in your field, visit blooprinted.com/vip
Instagram: @mikeycroc
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michael-ciorrocco

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238. How Practicing Radical Self-Care Can Create a Better World for All with Shelly Tygielski

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Shelly Tygielski, the author of Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World and Founder of the global grassroots organization, Pandemic of Love. A trauma mindfulness teacher and a Garrison Institute fellow, she’s one of the twelve most powerful women of the mindfulness movement, as named by Mindful.org, and she teaches self-care and resilience at organizations around the world.

Shelly’s journey to mindfulness has taken multiple paths. Her interest was sparked early on in life when, as a traditionally-raised Orthodox Jew, she met a Buddhist couple during an internship and realized that their morning meditations left them feeling so much more present than her own morning rituals did.

Later in her life, she was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition that left her completely blind. These moving experiences, plus her ingrained contemplative practice, led her to create a rigorous self-care plan that would seed an entire supportive community.

Shelly has a lot of good advice when it comes to creating a personalized self-care plan, which she thinks of as a piece of paper that outlines the actions you can take on a regular basis to make sure you’re feeling your best. When you’re not feeling great, you tend to reach for the things that make you feel better in the moment, but that in the long run, only make things worse: processed food, alcohol, and other vices. Having better options written down can go a long way towards making sure you make the right decisions as often as possible.

One of the most important things that Shelly recommends is getting into a habit of meditation. It’s been told time and time again how important meditation and mindfulness is for your mental health. Her perspective on it only emphasizes that point further. If you haven’t incorporated a mindfulness routine into your day, now is the time.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The best version of the world starts with the best version of you. If you can extrapolate that out in a very formal and tangible way, commit yourself to putting together a self-care plan, and share it with at least one other person, that will begin the journey to the best version of yourself.”

Resources:

Learn more at shellytygielski.com
pandemicoflove.com
Follow Shelly on Instagram: @mindfulskatergirl
Read: Sit Down to Rise Up

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237. Run Your Service Like an Entrepreneur with Dr. Shawn Dill & Dr. Lacey Book

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guests are Dr. Shawn Dill and Dr. Lacey Book. They are both chiropractors by profession but have transitioned into doing some amazing things in the world by running the Black Diamond Club, a group of over 600 professionals with a desire to reach more people and make a bigger impact in the world – all while creating and living the lifestyle they deserve. Their work is driven by relationships, collaboration, and a mission where health and success are seen as fundamental truths rather than fundamental pursuits.

Dr. Shawn was passionate about chiropractic work at a young age and knew he wanted to change the world. As he entered into his 30s, he compared his strenuous workload to his global impact and realized how limited his scope for change was. He knew that, at the pace he was moving, he would not accomplish all of his goals.

Dr. Lacey, on the other hand, never thought she would be a chiropractor. The profession chose her. She was working at a bank when someone recruited her and she fell in love with the field. She soon realized that all service providers struggle with the same issues: marketing, sales, and mindset.

Service providers are endlessly passionate about giving their services to people. They want to help, which makes it hard to balance the business and service halves of the equation. The Black Diamond Club formed as a way to help service providers be more successful in managing that blend, so that they had more to give.

Seeing that most service providers were struggling to treat their business like a business, Dr. Shawn Dill and Dr. Lacey Book came together to write “None of Your Business.” They embrace the concepts of entrepreneurship and help people feel excited about becoming a businessperson, in addition to a service provider.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I have one line that I live my life by: Done is better than perfect. So many people out there strive for perfection. They worry about even getting online, doing a live video, taking a photo, or putting themselves out there, because they’re worried about this perfection that needs to be portrayed. Done is better than perfect. If you just do, you will go so much farther.”

“History remembers people who have had a conviction stronger than their desire to please. Every historical figure, good and bad, who we remember, they were convicted in something and they did not let the world shape that conviction. They stood for something. Go out and stand for something and you can make a massive impact.”

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236. Improve Your Relationships & Upgrade Your Communication Skills with Lauren Reitsema & Joneen Mackenzie

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guests are Lauren Reitsema and Joneen Mackenzie. Lauren serves on the executive leadership team at The Center for Relationship Education and is the author of In Their Shoes. She’s well-known for her keynote presentations across all audiences, engaging with youth, adults, and corporate teams.

The Center for Relationship Education was founded by Joneen Mackenzie, registered nurse and former first lieutenant in the US Air Force Nurse Corps. She founded CRE, which has certified over 15,000 educators in REAL Essentials curriculum, and she participates in national public health standards policy.

At the beginning of her journey, Joneen was shocked to learn that literature and established research on successful relationships even existed. After twenty years and four children, her marriage had fallen apart. If she had known these skills, she believes she could have prevented such a massive disruption to her family.

Her daughter took that experience to college and entered into an interpersonal communications class, freshman year. She realized, then and there, that her life goal was not going to be tied to what she did with her life, but how she changed the legacy of relational health.

Some of the most common relationship advice you hear is to communicate better, but talking isn’t enough. Communication is complex. Joneen and Lauren have developed the “Three C’s” to check that you are communicating effectively:

Content: Truly understand the message you want to convey.
Context: The setting you’re in impacts the communication.
Connection: If you’re not connecting, you are failing at communicating.

Relationships can be challenging. We shouldn’t be expected to get it right without tools, practice, and knowledge. Those tools are out there, it’s up to us to use them.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The key to health and happiness is the quality of your relationships.”

“We’re all in this together. Every one of us has seasons of relationships that are fantastic, and the very next minute you’re in a rut and wondering, How did I get here? If you have the right tools then when things go south, you just go get the tools and you fix it. Nothing’s going to happen magically without getting your hands on those tools.”

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235. Build Your Brand Through Podcasting with Erik Cabral

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Erik Cabral, Founder of the media agency, On Air Brands, the innovative networking and podcasting event PodMAX, and real estate investment company, Mindado Investment Group. He’s also the host, co-host, and/or producer on multiple shows, himself: Entrepreneurs Circle, Capital Hacking, On Air Brands LIVE, Cashflow Ninja, the Hidden Entrepreneur, and True MultiFamily. With multiple businesses, partnerships, and podcasts, Erik is the quintessential “serial entrepreneur” who spends much of his time helping others grow their businesses, brands, and reputations.

Erik spent twenty years grinding in corporate America. The second time he was laid off, despite many high-paying offers on the table, Erik decided to step back and examine why he was so unhappy and unfulfilled in his life. He stumbled upon the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and it changed everything for him.

We’re in a renaissance age with respect to the industry he’s found himself in. Several years ago, everyone realized they needed to have a website for their business. Now, everyone is starting to realize that it is critical to have a podcast if you have a business. You can podcast for many different reasons, but if you’re running a business, people want to know the people behind that business. They want to know the story behind the logo.

Why should you start a podcast? Whether you have a job and want to start a podcast on the side, or you’re in the early stages of building a business, you can approach it in many different ways. You can start a podcast now in order to document your journey – which people love – and they can even go back and listen to your earlier episodes to recognize and appreciate your growth.

Whatever you do, don’t start a podcast as a vehicle to sell. If you do, your show won’t last. People can smell salesmanship through their earbuds – and they won’t like it. If you genuinely think you can help someone, just talk about what you do. If it’s of interest people will come to you. Don’t get hung up on the equipment or the technicality of it all. Just start.

Anyone can start a podcast. Don’t let perfectionism get in the way. Empower yourself, give yourself the space to discover and grow, and you may find a whole new channel for expressing yourself while also growing your business and authority.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I really, truly feel, especially in this day and age when there’s so much divide, that people have to understand that we are more alike than we are different. We can come to the table by learning about each other and honoring and celebrating each other and our differences. And, you can do that by just reaching out to people and having empathy for people so that you understand where they’re coming from. Everyone has reasons why they think or do, but we’re all human. We’re all here to help each other and love on each other and that’s truly the message that I’m trying to put out there and really summed up through my mission in life and my company’s mission, which is changing the world, making the world a better place, one mic at a time, and that’s really the driving force behind what I do.”

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234. Energy Shopping to Transform Your Life with Emily Russell

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Emily Evans Russell, an Access Consciousness facilitator, mindset coach, and best-selling author. She has helped thousands of people all over the world transform and improve their lives.

Once a burned out ex-teacher, a stressed out mom, and an unhappily married partner, Emily discovered and began using the tools of Access Consciousness and transformed her life, now a gladly divorced six-figure business owner.

Access Consciousness is essentially a toolbox, many of them in the form of questions, that helps you change your point of view and your perspective. It has many things in common with cognitive behavioral therapy, so there are scientific grounds for its effectiveness.

Emily is a proponent of what she calls “Energy Shopping.” She describes it as creating your life by “shopping” the qualities of life you see around you while focusing deeply on the energy of those things rather than the expectation of what you should want.

If you want to go to energy shopping in your life, start by looking at a tough choice that you have to make. When faced with a decision, rather than going to the worst possible scenario or weighing the pros and cons, you want to start asking yourself some questions. For example, “What would my life be like in five years?” Then you look at the other side of things, “What would my life be like if I didn’t choose this?” When you ask those questions, you’ll feel that one choice seems lighter or more expansive, while the other feels heavier and more limiting. You want to go with the light, expansive choice, even if it seems strange or hard.

With just a few questions, you can completely transform your life beyond what you thought was possible.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I’d love for people to walk away with this idea of looking at choices based not so much on your mind but starting to follow and trust yourself and follow the energy in your life. Treat it like a game and see if things get a little bit easier or a little bit more fun for you when you look at heavy or light when you’re choosing things. Have fun with it and see if it can create something greater than what your mind has figured out for you.”

Resources:

emilyevansrussell.com
Instagram: @emilyevansrussell

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233. How to Survive a Startup with Steve Hoffman

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Steve Hoffman, also known as Captain Hoff. He’s the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the number one incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur magazine. He’s also a venture investor, serial entrepreneur, and author of several award-winning books including his latest, Surviving a Startup.

Steve is a self-described avid gamer. Through high school he made over one hundred games, including board games, role playing games, and computer games. He was also very interested in making movies. He had proficiency both in the creative arts and in the technical skills necessary to pull these off, a mix that he attributes this to his genes. His mother was an artist and his father was a rocket scientist.

Following his father’s advice to study computers, Steve went to college for electrical computer engineering, but as soon as he graduated, he realized that the other half of him was missing – so he applied to the top two film schools in the country and studied film and television at USC for graduate school.

With the dawn of the internet, he launched three web-based companies before finally feeling it was time to take a break. So, he began helping his friends who were entrepreneurs, keeping the wisdom archived on his blog. He called that blog, Founder Space.

Steve wrote Surviving a Startup to package his decades of knowledge and experience into a book that could benefit other entrepreneurs. He shares that one of the biggest mistakes an entrepreneur can make is thinking they know more than they do. Beyond that, he also offers other helpful signposts for budding entrepreneurs:

Make sure you’re starting your business for the right reasons.
Get to your customers as early as possible.
Bring the right people onto your team as soon as possible.

Entrepreneurship is hard enough as it is, so don’t make it any harder on yourself. Learning from the lessons of those who’ve gone before you can greatly accelerate your success.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Understand who you are. What will really make you happy? Is it just money in the bank? Is it your relationship with your family? You have to invest in all of them. If you just invest in your business, at the expense of all your other relationships, you’re probably not going to be happy because those things will wither and die. Also, who are you? It’s okay to have a dream of being an entrepreneur, but can you handle stress well, are you very flexible? If you aren’t flexible, if you can’t handle stress, you might be better at a job that’s more routine or supporting an entrepreneur, like joining a startup a little later. This self knowledge, take the time to do this, because it will benefit you much more than almost anything else you do in life.”

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232. Making a Big Impact with a Small Audience with Robbie Samuels

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Robbie Samuels, a professional speaker, business growth strategy coach, virtual event design consultant, executive Zoom producer, podcast host, author, and much more. He’s recognized as a marketing expert by Harvard Business Review Ascend, Forbes, Lifehacker, and Inc., and as an “industry expert in the field of digital event design” by JDC Events.

Robbie has always loved people and relationships – gathering, meeting, and connecting people. His path started years ago when he ran a successful Meetup group, and part of that success came from his talent in teaching members how to make real connections, both within the group and with others outside of it. At the start of the pandemic, when hand shakes and eye contact were no longer topics people needed to know about, Robbie reinvented himself by getting into the virtual event space and bringing his expertise in human connection to Zoom.

He grew that business from zero to six figures in eight months and has now published a book on how he did it – and how others can replicate his success.

For people feeling ready to make the leap from working for somebody else to working for themselves, Robbie’s hope is that his book can help make the transition less painful. He outlines the common mistakes people make when starting a business and how to avoid them.

For instance, many people think they need a massive email list in order to start a successful business or to sell their products and offerings, but that’s not the case. If you co-create your offer with your audience, you will see much more success.

Rather than having a fully formed idea of what you want to offer set in stone, try starting with a lightly held idea that you are open to changing as you get feedback. Then, rather than digging in and pitching that idea, start asking questions to people in your market. Your job is to dig deep and find the problems they have but can’t see.

The process should look like this:

Find 20-25 people in your industry to act as a focus group
Set up a call with each person and interview them to find out what their needs are
Create a pilot program based on the problems they presented
Invite that base group into the pilot program and get their testimonials

It’s your job to educate people on what their real problem is, but you can’t reach a solution before you find out how it impacts them.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“80% of the people you need to know to be successful, you’ve already met. It’s time to wake up your network.”

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231. Creating a Bliss Brain with Dawson Church

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Dawson Church, an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. The Genie in Your Genes was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression. Mind to Matter showed that the brain creates much of what we think of as objective reality. His latest, Bliss Brain, demonstrates that peak mental states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness. His familiarity with our deepest neurological complexities is truly world class.

Dawson has conducted dozens of clinical trials, and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to promote groundbreaking new treatments. Its largest program, the Veterans Stress Project, has offered free treatment to over 20,000 veterans with PTSD over the past decade. Dawson shares how to apply these health and performance breakthroughs through EFT Universe, one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web.

Bliss Brain was inspired by epigenetics – the study of how genes can be turned on by factors outside of the body – and by a deeply meaningful personal experience. When Dawson reached a point in his life where he was absolutely miserable, he made a decision that changed everything, to meditate every single day without fail.

He posits on the phenomenon of the downward spiral, describing how, the more we focus on the negative, the more we notice it in our lives. And that the flip side is also true. If you are paying attention to love, compassion, kindness, and gratitude, you create the opposite effect and amplify those thoughts and feelings in your life.

Church cites studies that showed monks who put themselves into a state of compassion through meditation measured a 700% increase in gamma brain waves. That means you can make yourself seven times as happy, compassionate, and grateful as you are today just through the power of meditation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Love yourself. Love and accept yourself the way you are. So much of our attempt to change and improve ourselves is based on self-criticism... You should lose weight, you should quit smoking, you should earn more money, you should work harder, you should spend more time with your kids, you should blah blah blah blah blah... We have this inner coach and critic just criticizing us all the time, and that voice is incredibly unhelpful. It’s located right between our eyebrows and it’s called the mid prefrontal cortex. You want to learn to shut down that voice.”

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230. The Art of Human Connection in Leadership with Jordan Montgomery

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Jordan Montgomery, a small-town guy from Iowa with a big city drive to be a dominant force and voice in the performance coaching industry. He succeeded with flying colors, frequently traveling the country, speaking and coaching executives at Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, and salespeople, alongside managing top-performing sales teams in the financial services industry.

Like many superheroes, it was a setback that paved the way for his jet-fueled success today. After getting fired from his job, and losing his sense of self-worth and value, he embarked on a personal mission to find his personal and professional superpower. He came to a life-defining realization: he was here to meet people in their brokenness and guide them from pain to purpose.

Fast forward to now, Jordan leveraged his purpose to build one of the top consulting firms in the country. His unique leadership journey has framed his consulting style, which spotlights human connection over competition. For Jordan, leadership is not directed by swanky titles or a corner office but from humility, trust, and a burning desire to learn from everyone around you.

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that we crave the need to be seen and celebrated. How does that work in a digital-forward era where more and more of our everyday interactions are on screens, and society’s attention span is dwindling faster by the day? In a world driven by selfies and self-promotion, Jordan gets us to step back, take pause, and ask stimulating, open-ended questions to people instead of talking about ourselves. Only when you take the lead and understand what’s going on around you can you be understood.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

"In today's world, influence and leadership is all about personal power." This isn't a commodity up for grabs in a promotion. Instead, it's an active investment from top professionals to encourage an upwardly mobile, "lead up" workforce where everyone, from assistant to CEO, will learn from one another.

Resources:

montgomerycompanies.com
Instagram: @jordanmmontgomery

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229. The Power of Being Your True Self with Dr. Dain Heer

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Dain Heer. He’s a joy-seeking, reality-bending author, motivational speaker, and change-maker. He’s renowned globally for his views on life, consciousness, and creation. For more than two decades he’s traveled the world sharing his unique insights into relationships, money, bodywork, happiness, and consciousness. Dain is also the co-creator of Access Consciousness, a personal development modality practiced in over 170 countries.

Dr. Dain grew up in a difficult environment. Despite experiencing abuse, he was always the one looking for possibilities, but as an adult, having what everyone else thought was a perfect life, he was deeply depressed and unhappy – to the point of losing all hope. He discovered an ad for Access Consciousness, and while its promise was deeply triggering, he knew that if he hated it that much, there was probably something there for him. After one session, his life was completely changed, and he has been sharing this life-changing modality ever since.

As part of going through this journey, Dr. Dain realized that the missing piece for fulfillment when it came to success in most people’s lives was truly being themselves. He then started searching for a way to take individuals on a journey to discover and create a sense of themselves.

So what can you do to start making these changes in your life? The first thing is to get over having a fixed point of view. For every judgment, decision, or conclusion that we have, no reality outside of that can ever show up for us. We’re going to draw in the information that validates our conclusion, and that is only going to make it inevitable. Rather than coming to a set conclusion, ask yourself an open-ended question. What else is possible that you’ve never considered? What if this weren’t true? What’s right about this situation that I’m not seeing? When we ask questions, our brains start creatively working on those questions and give us a boost.

In Dain’s newest book, Body Whispering: A New Way of Seeing, Being & Healing, he shares the secrets behind the gift of our body that so many of us ignore. What if we could have our body become a part of our life? When you find more connection with your physical self, more peace in your skin, everything else in your life changes as well. One thing you can do is to start asking your body to reveal everything that concerns it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Your difference is a gift. You are not wrong for the different, bizarre, weird, quirky points of view you have about the world. You are not alone. And that difference is a gift and if you embrace it will not only make your world awesome, but if you truly be you and embrace it, you become the gift, the change, and the possibility this world requires.”

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228. Be Honest: How Much Do You Trust Your Leaders? with Ron Carucci

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is the returning Ron Carucci, a two-time TedX speaker, bestselling author of nine books (including his most recent, To Be Honest), and a popular contributor at Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

Ron Carucci is also the co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership.

In addition to his regular contributions at Harvard Business Review and Forbes, Ron has also been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Business Insider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and Thought Leaders. We feel incredibly lucky to have him here with us today, teaching us unbelievably valuable and inspiring ways to succeed in leadership.

In the last few years, our trust in leaders has been in freefall. Whether in the corporate, nonprofit, or political space, we’re all starved for truth and honesty in the people that lead us. We’re growing increasingly dissatisfied with dishonesty – and the explanations given when that dishonesty is uncovered. How can we do better?

Ron set out to study and see if we can predict under what conditions people would tell the truth, behave fairly, and serve the greater good, and what conditions would lead to people lying, cheating, and serving their own interests. If we can predict that, we can create environments where people can be their true selves, thrive, and do their best work. And he found that we can.

There are four predictors within an organization that will accurately predict whether or not people will behave:

Honesty in your identity: Are you who you say you are? We all make statements about ourselves, and if those statements match our actions and remain consistent, then those around us are up to three times more likely to tell the truth and behave honestly. If there’s a mismatch, or the statements are just words but don’t seem to be reflected in reality, then you are three times more likely to have people lie, cheat, and serve their own interests first.
Accountability: If your accountability systems are grounded in justice and dignity, you are up to four times more likely to have people tell the truth or behave fairly. But if your workplace feels demeaning, degrading, or categorically unfair, you are four times as likely to see people lie and cheat.
Decision-Making: If there is transparency about the information and data that’s being presented to the company, trust that it is honest, and that all voices are welcome, then you are three and a half times as likely to see people behaving honestly. If it is more about collusion or orchestrative theater to get people to agree with a specific idea, then you are three and a half times more likely to see people lie.
Border Wars: If, at the seams of your organization, there is a great relationship of collaboration and healthy conflict resolution and collaboration, you are six times more likely to see people tell the truth and behave fairly. If there are unresolved border wars where people are pointing fingers, where there are unresolved conflicts, you are fragmenting the truth of the organization and are six times as likely to have people lie and cheat.

Establishing trust within an organization is paramount to its success. It starts with the leader and it goes down to the individual employees. Each of these predictors can create a halo effect which boosts the others, so start by figuring out where you stand, sit down with your mission statement, and ask yourself and your employees “How can we live this better?” When you do that, you’re on your way to creating the right culture.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Honesty is not a character trait. Honesty is a muscle. And if you want to be good at it you have to work at it. It’s no different than going to a gym and bench pressing 500. You don’t start with that, you bench press 50 first. If you want to be known as somebody people should trust, somebody that people can rely on, if you want to be somebody people want to follow and emulate, you have to work at that every day, so build the muscle of honesty, and keep building it to keep it strong.”

Resources:

navalent.com
tobehonest.net
Find all of Ron’s books HERE
Twitter: @RonCarucci
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/navalent
Ep. 68: Succeeding In Power | with Ron Carucci

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227. Finding Balance & Success at Work, at Home & In Life with JM Ryerson

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is JM Ryerson. JM is an author, mindset coach, and host of Let’s Go Win podcast who has been building companies and leading sales teams for over 20 years. JM is the co-founder and CEO of Let's Go Win, whose mission is to increase leadership, enhance culture, and help teams achieve peak performance.

After working with multiple companies to build teams in the financial services industry, JM realized that, while he wasn’t passionate about finance, he loved working with teams and thinking about leadership. He started writing his first book to teach his kids the lessons he’d learned so they wouldn’t have to make the same mistakes. That’s where the company Let’s Go Win started.

There is one simple thing that anyone can do to make your life better, even amidst a global pandemic: pay attention to what you’re feeding your brain. Are you waking up, turning on the news, and browsing social media? That is going to skew your mindset towards the negative. Those two things are not inherently bad, but you have to consume them on your own terms and carefully filter what you are taking in. You want your agenda to serve whatever you’re trying to accomplish.

What do you do when some of that input is coming from friends and family members? That’s where setting boundaries becomes important. This can be hard to do, especially with loved ones. It is important to clarify that you respect them and their choice, but that it isn’t the right choice for you. And, unfortunately, if the problem just isn’t being resolved or people are not respecting those boundaries, your solution is to start drifting away. Either the person in question will reach out, and you can explain what’s happening, and they will either change their ways to bring you back into their life or stay the same and you continue to drift. This is not easy, but when someone is having a net negative impact on your life it is always for the best.

Another technique that can improve your life is journaling. Write down your thoughts without fear of judgment. You will get the thoughts out of your head and they will start to make sense when you see them on paper. Either a problem will suddenly seem smaller, or an idea will stand out as something to explore further. Either way, getting it out of your brain allows you the space to explore it objectively.

Life is going to throw challenges our way. But when you look back, the biggest moments of growth always come from those challenging moments. If we can learn to embrace the suck, stop being surprised when adversity strikes, and take the opportunity to learn from it, we can transform our lives.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The most important thing is to be you. To be authentic. To be vulnerable and know who you are because trying to be someone you’re not takes a lot of energy. Everyone has a gift inside of them – I truly believe that. And if you allow it to shine through, those people that we want to lift us up, you will attract them if you bring your true, authentic self out. So take the mask off. That’s for a party; that’s not for living. Be you – and those that want to be around you, they are going to lift you up, they are going to embrace who you are, and allow your beautiful self to just flourish, help so many people around the world, instead of trying to look or act a certain way. And that would be the biggest helping I can give, is just be you. Because it is amazing. The world deserves to see it, and you deserve to show it.”

Resources:

letsgowin.com
Listen: Let's Go Win Podcast
Instagram: @letsgowin365
Twitter: @letsgowin365
Facebook: facebook.com/letsgowin365
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/letsgowin365

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226. Letting Go of Nothing with Peter Russell

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Peter Russell, author of Letting Go of Nothing and From Science to God. He has degrees in theoretical physics, psychology, and computer science at the University of Cambridge. He has both expertise and experience with meditation and Eastern philosophy as well as research in the neurophysiology of meditation. He also coined the term Global Brain with his bestselling book of the same name.

Peter became fascinated with the idea of consciousness. He was very adept at physics, but there was nothing about the world of physics that could explain why we have experiences. The only people who really explored consciousness were the yogis, monks, and spiritual adepts that looked inside themselves to find consciousness. That drew Peter into meditation, which he began studying in India. Originally growing up rejecting religion, Peter began to see that there was something to them beyond the surface-level stories that spoke to some deeper truth.

There’s been much discussion about the importance of letting go, but Peter believes that the way we view letting go is all wrong. According to him, we are not letting go of people or things, but our attachment to them – the way we see them. So when we let go, we are actually letting go of nothing.

A big part of letting go is forgiveness. When we forgive someone, we are letting go of something inside of ourselves. They may not ever know one way or the other, but by letting go of our grievance within ourselves we are able to come back to a more balanced state.

Letting go of our ego is another part. The ego is not a thing that can be overcome, but a mode of thinking that we will revisit again and again. When we let our ego drive us, we can take things that we interpret as attacks and allow them to color our relationships by driving us to be bitter or resentful . But by letting go of our egoic thoughts and realize that we all want the same thing deep down, and be on guard against those attacking thoughts to act intentionally to make others feel good.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Take time to pause in your daily life between doing two tasks – between doing your emails and going and making a cup of coffee. We’ve already paused what we’re doing. Pause your thinking just to notice where your mind is. It may be on to the next thing you’ve got to do. And notice how it feels to pause your thinking. When we do there’s usually a sense of ease, relief, and we start noticing the present moment. Oh, there’s the sound of the wind in the trees I hadn’t noticed or the traffic noise I hadn’t noticed. By just doing that we come back to the present because our thinking is always taking us into the past or the future. If we just pause – just for a few seconds – we’re both coming back to being in the present moment, and we’re feeling better for it. We’re feeling easier.”

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225. The Truth About Philanthropy with Bob Hopkins

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Bob Hopkins. He’s spent the last 30 years in business heading non-profit organizations and publishing the magazine Philanthropy World. Bob is one of the most well-known people in philanthropy anywhere. After retiring from the magazine in 2007, Bob went on to teach communications at The University of Texas and to teach in other roles around the world.

Known for his robust desire to make a difference in the community as well as his passion for philanthropy, he has received the Hero of Humanity Award from The Art of Living Foundation, and he has been a fundraising executive for the last 30 years, having served the Association of Fundraising Executives.

In all of his philanthropic work, Bob has realized that it is often misunderstood – leading to his book, Philanthropy Misunderstood. Most people believe that philanthropy is simply giving money to a cause, but the fact is that philanthropy has nothing to do with money. It is about how you express a love of mankind. It wasn’t until we needed a name for those people who wrote out big checks that we changed that definition. Philanthropy is giving a wallet back that you found on the floor. It’s acknowledging someone that is homeless and possibly hurt or in danger when others try to ignore them. Philanthropy can mean any number of things outside of simply giving money to a cause.

The truth is that people give because of what it does for them. It makes those who give have a better life and there’s nothing wrong with that. If everyone did more good – knowing that they are actually the biggest beneficiaries of that good – the world would be a better place.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Everybody can be a changemaker. Everybody can change the life of somebody positively – only if they’re empathic. And so I tell my college students that today is the first day of the rest of your life. Giving is a habit – it’s habit formation – and, so, I’m empowering everybody who’s listening to me today that – even if you think you’re a giver – go, do something specifically that you didn’t think of before. Call up somebody next door, go knock on the door and find out how you can help them – and it’s an amazing thing that the first person next door probably needs your help – mentally, physically, or whatever.”

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224. Rethinking Your Relationship to Diets with JJ Virgin

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is JJ Virgin, a prominent TV and media personality whose credits include co-host of TLC’s Freaky Eaters, two years as the on-camera nutritionist for weight loss challenges on Dr. Phil, and numerous appearances on PBS, Dr. Oz, Rachel Ray, Access Hollywood, and The Today Show. She is also the author of four New York Times bestsellers.

JJ’s mother was a true Midwestern parent, serving up a diet of tuna casserole with potato chips for dinner and Pop Tarts for breakfast. At age 12, JJ started studying nutrition and did a complete U-turn with her diet. She went to college on a theater scholarship and started teaching aerobics at the same time. By the time she graduated from college she had built up a personal training business.

If you’re looking to improve your wellness and fitness, how do you get started? There’s so much information and misinformation out there to wade through today. You have to rethink your approach to dieting. A diet is not something you start and stop. You can use diets therapeutically to – in the short term – balance your blood sugar, lose belly fat, or heal your gut. Take what worked and incorporate it into your everyday life.

JJ recommends a cycling process: imagine, implement, and integrate.

The imagine part involves picturing where you want to go and visualizing it. Become your future self, feel those emotions, and see how it impacts your life. This is an important step but it’s one most people miss.
Now you need to implement that imagined path through a program. Do some research into who has had the results that you want to see. What aligns most with your imagined self? Even if the program doesn’t end up being perfect, you’re going to learn more about yourself in the process. It’s important to pick a program that is focused on just one thing.
Once you’re on the program, you pay attention to what you are going to be able to integrate into your everyday life. What makes you feel the best? What seems most sustainable? Track everything, and then bring what works into your personal life.

The most misunderstood aspect of this entire journey is the emotional aspect of making change. Emotional factors and mindset make up the biggest barriers to making any serious, lasting change. Examine your mindset deeply, look at the people around you, and make sure everything truly aligns with your goals. Follow these steps, then you will start to see real success.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“One of the things that came out of Warrior Mom was something that my mentor said to me years before and I thought, You know, what she taught me twenty years earlier changed the trajectory of my life. And this little saying that’s so simple and so huge: ‘Don’t wish it was easier. Make yourself stronger.’”

Resources:

JJVirgin.com
Listen to JJ’s podcast
Read all of New York Times Bestselling Author JJ Virgin’s books HERE
JJ Virgin on Facebook
JJ Virgin on Twitter: @jjvirgin
JJ Virgin on Instagram: @jj.virgin
JJ Virgin on Pinterest
JJ Virgin on YouTube
Ep. 74: “The Warrior Mom Who Lived a Miracle with JJ Virgin”

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223. Find Your New 20/20 Vision with Taylor Rochestie

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Taylor Rochestie, the bestselling author of A New 20/20 Vision, where he shares a unique perspective on the uncertainty of tomorrow, and an active vision for the future. As a professional athlete who has traveled the world playing basketball, Taylor’s message is a humble roadmap to design a new reality, reprogram your thoughts, and define your life through authenticity.

Taylor knew he wanted to be a professional basketball player from the age of five. He had an underdog mentality. His high school wasn’t well-known for recruiting players, and, when his school was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, his team was moved to Texas A&M, where he tore his knee. When he found out he was returning to his school next year, he opted for a change and went out to Washington State instead.

When his wife was pregnant with his daughter, he began writing her letters to read when she graduated high school. He wanted her to see what her father’s hopes, dreams, and aspirations were for her when she was born. He hoped that this would help her to shape her approach to the world from the interior instead of exterior – by not letting social media and outside influences tell her what to do.

Taylor doesn’t take a specifically scientific approach to this line of thinking. He recognized that we all pick up a lot of bad habits along the way or the ways that we accept less than we deserve. He has developed a few techniques to help reprogram your mind and your day. One of those techniques is his morning intake, which forces you to start focusing your day internally instead of letting external factors decide what you want for yourself.

One quick way to put you on the right path towards happiness is to realize that it starts with all of the small choices we make on a daily basis. When you play basketball, you start to gravitate towards other people that play basketball. It’s that simple. So when you’re always learning and always broadening your experiences, you are humble, you reach out to new people, and you try different things that generate excitement and optimism.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I think that so many people are looking for motivation, looking for inspiration, looking to cultivate joy for themselves, looking to figure out their own path – and I think the best thing that you can do is you can be a light, you can be an example. I have two kids. They’re sponges, so what are they picking up when they see me? And, so, I want to be the best version of myself, and I want to constantly be learning and finding out what that best version is, and I want to fail so many times on my quest to figure out the best version of myself because it is a choice, and I’m going to wake up every day and say Today is going to be the best day of my life.’”

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222. Giving Yourself Permission to Be Authentically You with Regina Louise

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Regina Louise, the author of Permission Granted. Her best-selling memoirs, Somebody’s Someone and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, were made into the award-winning Lifetime movie I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story which was nominated for the 2020 NAACP Award for Best Director.

A summa cum laude graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies with a master’s degree, Regina is a Hoffman Process teacher, workshop, facilitator, and has been featured in outlets such as NPR’s All Things Considered, Good Morning America, The CBS Show, The BBC, and more.

Regina managed to survive 30 foster home placements as a child, spending the greater part of her adolescence in solitary confinement. At the time, those experiences were not interpreted as trauma, but, looking back, it’s easy to see how traumatic those events were. To her, those traumatic events actually brought out a deep sense of intuition that helped her survive.

Regina had to move through the trauma, and she did so through imaginative play. She began to investigate the concept of “home,” the concept of “character,” and whether it was something that could be obtained. She came to recognize that she could create a home wherever she was.

When you give yourself permission to go on an inner journey, you give yourself an opportunity to meet yourself. You can step into your license to exist on your own terms. This is what her book, Permission Granted, is all about. One of the techniques she offers to discover self-love is to stand in your dignity. If you can fully accept who you are, and just show up as a spirit having a human experience, you can embrace your worth.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Wherever you are, love is. I dare you to step into your own courage, your own definition of dignity, and invite love in; get acquainted with it on your terms.”

Resources:

iamreginalouise.com
Instagram: @therealreginalouise
Read: Permission Granted
Read: Someone Has Led This Child to Believe
Read: Somebody’s Someone

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221. Becoming a Champion in the Game of Life with Rodney Flowers

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Rodney Flowers, bestselling author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, thought leader, and resilience trainer. He leverages his unique life experiences and business acumen to help individuals, teams, and companies cultivate resilience, crush their goals, and achieve peak performance.

At 15 years old, Rodney loved playing football. In the first game of his sophomore season, he suffered a serious injury. He was rushed to the emergency room, where, after extensive testing, he was told he had a 92% chance of remaining paralyzed for the rest of his life. He gave up on living for over a year, where the only thing that prevented him from taking his life was the thought of the upset it would cause for others.

Eventually, he realized that the position that he was in was an opportunity. He shifted his mindset and his perception about what was happening, and started to look at the emotional pain he was feeling. He realized that his emotional pain was not because of the injury, but because his dreams had been taken away and he hadn’t found anything to replace them. So he started asking himself some questions. They all led back to one major question: “What if I could walk again?” And that became his dream, which is when things began to change. 18 years later, he was able to leave his crutches behind and walk on his own once more.

Rodney has refined a process for overcoming those obstacles. First, view challenges as opportunities. When we recognize what the challenge is exposing, therein lies the opportunity to improve. Next, start seeking out challenges – specifically selected ones that won’t hold you back, but will instead allow you to move forward. Finally, focus on your dream. Make it as real as possible. When you can envision your dream and imagine yourself there, it will make pushing through the hard times easier.

Rodney’s story is one of overcoming extreme adversity, and it’s proof that anyone can put in the effort. Even if Rodney had never walked, he would have been so much further having made the effort to do so, and that mindset shift is available to all of us. It will push us further than we could ever imagine.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“My philosophy is this: if you’re alive and breathing, you’re on the field of adversity in the game of life. It’s something that we can’t escape. Every one of us are going to feel some level of opposition and adversity in life, and perhaps you’re feeling it right now. You’re not alone, OK? It’s a privilege and a responsibility. If there’s one thing that you want to take away from this, it is that you attack that – that’s your privilege. You get to play on this field and it’s a lot of fun. Sometimes it’s painful, but yet it’s a lot of fun if you are on the attack, if you can just get out of the defense mode. It’s not fun playing defense all the time, it’s not. So play a little offense, create some things, innovate, produce, push back on the opposition, and see what you can come up with, see how far you can progress, see how much you can score, and once you find out you can score, continue that process, become a star in your own game, and eventually a champion in the game of life.”

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220. Living in Your Zone of Genius, Pt. 2 with Gay Hendricks

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today is the second part of our interview with expert guest, Gay Hendricks, one of the most influential people in the personal development space. He’s been a leader in the field of relationship transformation and body-mind transformation for more than 45 years. After earning his PhD from Stanford in ‘74, Gay served as Professor of Counseling Psychology at The University of Colorado for 21 years. He’s written more than 40 books, including bestsellers such as Five Wishes, The Big Leap, and Conscious Loving. His new book, Conscious Luck, reveals eight ways to change your fortunes through the power of intention.

In the first part of this interview, Gay explored how to find our genius zone, but once it’s found… how do you stay there? His new book, The Genius Zone, is about two big ideas: how to spot genius moments and how to stay in the genius zone longer.

Every day, people get opportunity after opportunity to jump into their genius zone, or otherwise increase their stake there. Most people miss the vast majority of them. Once you’ve made a commitment to bringing forth your genius, you have to learn to “spot the drift and make the shift.” You must get very good at noticing when you are drifting off course and start to make adjustments to keep yourself on the right track. Any time you are not operating in your genius zone, you are actually running into your upper limit problem.

We all have the opportunity to find that genius part of ourselves, and if you can find the thing that you most love to do and that brings the most value to the world and you work to stay in that zone every day, you can make massive change in the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I promise you, I guarantee you, that you get moments every day to break through to your genius. The big takeaway: watch for those moments. Watch for those moments. Especially watch for moments, even when you feel like you’re getting stuck, where you’re not feeling on center in your body, where you’re feeling off center. Come to be a one-person awareness machine of those kind of things that are going on inside of you. I promise you, down in the depths of the most beautiful part of yourself is that part I’m calling genius, which is that part of you that can do something every day that you love to do that makes a huge contribution to the world around you.”

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219. Living in Your Zone of Genius with Gay Hendricks

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Gay Hendricks, one of the most influential people in the personal development space and one of our most popular previous guests. He’s been a leader in the field of relationship transformation and body-mind transformation for more than 45 years. After earning his PhD from Stanford in ‘74, Gay served as Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Colorado for 21 years. He’s written more than 40 books, including bestsellers such as Five Wishes, The Big Leap, and Conscious Loving. His new book, Conscious Luck, reveals eight ways to change your fortunes through the power of intention.

Ever since writing The Big Leap, Gay had continued to work with people, developing the two big ideas presented in that book: how to get out from your upper limit problem, and how to get into your genius zone. But once you’ve found your genius zone, what do you do in your day-to-day life to stay there? That’s what his new book, The Genius Zone, is about: living in your genius zone.

Most of us spend our time living in one of three zones, with very few spending time in the fourth. That first zone is where we spend a lot of time doing things we’re not good at and don’t enjoy. There are also many things we spend time on that somebody else could do just as well. The zone of excellence can be the trickiest, because it feels like what we should be doing, but it keeps us from that fourth zone: the genius zone. That is when you are doing what you most love and what makes the biggest contribution to the world.

Once we’ve discovered our genius zone, how do we stay there? Commitment is the first step. If you want to spend more time in your genius zone, you have to commit to doing whatever it takes to live there every day. You can’t operate with a divided mind. Once you know what you really want in your life, it will likely be simpler than you’d imagined.

In the second part of this interview, Gay discusses the things we can do to stay in our zone of genius and truly live a life of purpose.

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218. Your Network Is Your Greatest Asset with Dr. Ivan Misner

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 15:20:34 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Ivan Misner, the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization. Founded in 1985, the organization now has over ten thousand chapters worldwide. Last year alone, BNI generated 11.5 million referrals resulting in 16.3 billion dollars worth of business for its members.

Called “the father of networking” by both Forbes and CNN, Dr. Ivan is considered one of the world’s leading experts on business networking, and has been a keynote speaker for major corporations across the world. He’s been featured in the LA Times, Wallstreet Journal, New York Times, CNN, BBC, Today Show, and more.

Dr. Ivan wasn’t always drawn to this line of work – in fact, it didn’t come very naturally to him. In junior high school, Ivan had run for student council two years in a row and lost soundly each time. As a freshman in high school, his class was picking a student council representative and not a single person volunteered. So the teacher looked around the room and picked Ivan. The entire room groaned and, despite how hurt he felt, he knew at that moment that he would have to change people’s opinions about him. It was the point when he realized that he could be a leader, that the best way to lead is to pour into people, and that when you do, great things happen.

When Dr. Ivan and his friends needed referrals for their businesses, he put together a referral group among them where he only allowed one person per profession. When someone approached him whose profession was already spoken for, they asked him to help them set up their own group. Things snowballed from there, and within a year, one group had turned into 20.

In his recent book, Who's in Your Room?, Ivan explored the true importance of your network. Imagine that your mind is a room with only one door, and that door only opens one way. When someone enters, they can’t leave. When you think of it that way, wouldn’t you want to be more selective about the people who you let enter? When you start being more intentional about who you let in, you are much more likely to curate the life that you want.

So how does that process begin?

Start by hiring a “doorman.” This is your subconscious mind. If you don’t let this guard your mind, then anyone can come in.
Know your values. If you don’t know what you value, you can’t evaluate who you let into your life.
Identify your deal breakers: the behaviors you absolutely will not allow into your room.
If someone is in your room already, you can’t kick them out, but you can stop fueling them. If they like to stir up drama, just don’t feed it by giving it attention.

Who you let into your world – your room – defines who you are and who you become. It’s time to start being more intentional about our networks and how they shape us.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I think it’s really important for people to understand their network. Their personal network is a beacon of hope in a sea of fear. It is where you go to for support. The people in your network are the people you go to for help, for guidance, for emotional support, for referrals – obviously, in BNI, but for so much more. And people either get frozen by fear or focused by fear, and I think your network helps you get focused by the fear that is out there.”

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217. How to Go Big in Your Life with Julia Pimsleur

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Julia Pimsleur, the author of Go Big Now and Million Dollar Women. She’s a master practitioner and coach of neurolinguistic programming and the founder of the Million Dollar Women social venture. She also grew the number-one language teaching company for kids, Little Pim, into a multi-million dollar business.

Julia has always had a passion for bringing things that were once only accessible to the few to the many. She was frustrated to see that it was often only the 1% that could afford to teach their kids a foreign language. They had enough head starts, and she wanted to make language-learning accessible to more people. Now, with her coaching, she is helping women get access to more money and more freedom.

A few years into the business, and seeing a decent amount of success, Julia started feeling stuck. The business wasn’t growing anymore. She was the primary breadwinner in her family and she needed this to grow in order to continue. She had almost thrown in the towel until she got access to coaching and mentorship which led to her developing a “Go Big Vision” that turned it into a million dollar business.

When she wrote Million Dollar Women, she shared the story of how she built Little Pim into a thriving financial success. During that process, she interviewed several women across the country who also built multi-million dollar businesses. She found that you only need three things to “go big”:

The right mindset
The right skillset
The right network

Of these three things, people struggled most with the mindset. That’s when she knew what her next focus was going to be, and she became trained as a mindset coach to train women in business. If you don’t nail your mindset, it’s going to be difficult to find success in any area of your life. She set out to write the essential guide of where to start on the journey of establishing a strong mindset. She took the top mindset teaching and boiled it down to eight essential practices.

One of the biggest things holding people back are their limiting beliefs. Tackling that requires two things: learning to identify that limiting belief and the technique to overcome it. When you look at your life – at what you don’t have but that you want – there is always going to be a limiting belief around that thing. Once you’ve identified a limiting belief, there is a four step process to tackle them:

Identify the limiting belief and say it out loud.
Write it down.
Come up with a positive opposite.
Come up with ten action steps that will take you closer to the positive belief.

To achieve things you’ve never had before, you have to do things you’ve never done before. If you can shift your mindset around accomplishing your goals, the impossible suddenly becomes possible.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want people to think about, What do I want to change in my life in order to get to my Go Big Dream, Go Big Goal, as I teach you in my book to identify a go big goal and go for it. But the quote that always comes back for me is ‘If you want something you’ve never had, you’ll need to do something you’ve never done.’ And that, to me, is the ticket. Because all of the coaches I’ve worked with were people who embraced the idea that a coach is someone who makes you do the things you don’t want to do so you can become the person you want to become, and that usually means trying some things you’ve never tried before. So, if someone listening is about to embark on a big, crazy dream or just really go for it, this is the time. You’ve decided, I’m going to make it happen. Maybe write that down on a post-it or put it up in your kitchen and think about, Yeah, some of this is gonna be hard and it’s because I want something I’ve never had so I’m going to do something I’ve never done.”

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216. Start a Nonprofit & Make a Difference with Christian LeFer

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Christian LeFer, the CEO and founder of InstantNonprofit, a turnkey service for turning your desire to make a difference into an IRS-approved 501(c)3 nonprofit at a fraction of the usual cost.

His mission is to help founders stay on mission and raise funds by providing the path to form and grow a nonprofit according to their vision and calling. He’s been interviewed by some of the top business podcasts in the world, a consultant and trainer for top nonprofit executives, and he’s done it all in the nonprofit space.

Christian never expected to start a nonprofit to help other people launch their own nonprofit – mainly because there’s a lot of paperwork involved, and he hated paperwork. His sister was developmentally disabled, and he found himself being amazed at how many events there were for her to take part in. Around 2010 he had the opportunity to help some friends start a nonprofit, and when he called the IRS, it became clear how many obstacles there are standing in the way of people who just want to do something good. He started digging into what would make the bureaucrats at the IRS happy, and he curated a process called “a love letter to a bureaucrat.” He got approval just sixty days after that, and quickly discovered he was onto something there was demand for.

Like Christian, many people’s passion for starting a nonprofit begins in childhood. Starting a business can be a great way to find meaning and solve problems in the world, but sometimes the problem you want to solve isn’t a good match for business and can’t be neatly monetized. That’s where nonprofits can provide a great level of meaning in your life, far beyond what a business could.

Despite how much negativity is out there in the news and the world, there is so much good happening too. Charitable donations are on the rise, and people are more invested in making an impact than ever before. There are bright spots out there. The old model is over.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There are a lot of reasons not to start a nonprofit or not to start anything. We are busy, we’re frazzled, we have lots of things demanding our attention, and this is not necessarily a logic based decision, right, to get involved in a cause. It’s kind of like falling in love, it’s kind of like meeting a new person. It’s not about finding the right person and speed dating. It’s about finding and just spending a little bit of time with your own heart and deciding what is going to be that thing that I want on my epitaph, that I have people say about me? What would I like to be known for if there are no other constraints? And if the answer is to give back to the community in some way, and there isn’t an avenue, if there is an avenue, by all means go help that nonprofit and join that cause and push it forward. But if it’s not being addressed in a way that you believe is important, then there is an avenue to express that.”

Resources:

instantnonprofit.com/podcastfan

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215. Finding the Solution to Addiction with Dr. Robb Kelly

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Robb Kelly, a renowned addiction consultant that believes in treating the problems and causes of addiction, not the symptoms. He’s worked for over 20 years to help addicts and alcoholics recover their lives from the disease of chemical dependence. He holds a PhD from The University of Oxford, and shares his personal, very powerful story of how addiction took hold of his life.

Dr. Robb has lectured on the subjects of addiction at high profile universities, national conferences, business organizations, hospitals, and more. He’s appeared on TV shows such as The Doctors and USA Today, and his no-nonsense, candid approach to addiction has earned him the nickname “the Gordon Ramsay of the addiction world.”

Even if you aren’t battling addiction in your own life, statistically speaking, it will touch your life in some way, at some point. The more you can learn about how to deal with it, the better equipped you’ll be.

Robb started drinking at the age of nine. When he drank, his body and mind completely changed and he stopped thinking like other people. After university, he became intrigued by why he couldn’t bring himself to quit drinking. Alcohol cost him everything: his wife left him, he was evicted, he lost contact with his children, and he ended up living on the streets for 14 months. In his darkest moment, he asked God for help, and he immediately ran into a man seeking to help. That was the start of his recovery process.

There’s a reason the traditional methods of treating alcoholism haven’t worked: they were developed at a time when people didn’t understand what alcoholism was. Everyone thinks that an alcoholic relapses once he picks up a drink, but that’s not true. It’s something that happens a week or two earlier, when his body and attitude starts to alter.

What Dr. Robb discovered about addiction changed everything. It revolves around how the brain reacts to trauma. The hypothalamus of an alcoholic tells them to drink alcohol and the only way to change that is to look at the neural pathways in order to rewrite our subconscious, core beliefs.

This constitutes Dr. Robb’s program:

Change the neural pathways
Store good thoughts in the subconscious brain
Change your behavior
Be nice to people
Do the right thing every day and don’t be selfish

When you run all of these together in the right way, it becomes impossible to drink. You can push on and move through this.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you’re sat at home, guys, and you don’t think you’re worthy, and you don’t think you’re good enough, and you don’t think you’re going to get out of depression, I want to apologize to you. Somebody put that there. We are born with million dollar minds. Stop hanging around two cent minds. Get with your clique that push you forward. If people are not pushing you forward, and applauding, and backing you up when you want to go further, they’re not your crew. Find your own crew, guys.”

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214. How to Be a Creative Rebel with Rebecca Hulse

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Rebecca Hulse, an author, speaker, and creative rebel at heart. She’s shown up in places like Thrive Global, Women’s Weekly, and Small Business Daily. She’s a business coach on a mission to help creatives be successful without being exceedingly serious and aiding entrepreneurs in bringing their ideas to life by giving them the tools that fit their purpose.

As someone who revels in shaking up the realities and limiting paradigms of her clients, Rebecca thrives in situations where the impossible transitions to possible. A former recording artist and one of the voices for millennials, she is the personification of her motto, “Impossible is temporary.”

Rebecca’s parents were personal development junkies, which gave her a strong foundation to stand on – but at the end of the day, she had to be the one to take action for her life. From early on, she was sure that she wanted to be a dancer, but dancers don’t make much money. When her path to dancing professionally became a little too easy, she decided to start a business on the side.

Rebecca wrote “Rebellious Rituals” for the former version of herself – for “the yogi who drinks wine.” When she was 18, working on her dance career and business at the same time, she realized that the tools she had weren’t working for her. She was high-strung and over-stressed and meditation just wasn’t working for her. She looked for more tools and eventually uncovered the Access Consciousness movement – and the concepts stuck. She started creating her own processes and rituals based on everything she could find that worked, and it all went into her book.

Being an introverted businessperson can be difficult. The assumption is that, if you’re an entrepreneur, you’re an out there, people person. But that’s not always the case. It’s OK to want to get away from people sometimes. That’s one of the first acts of rebellion: acknowledging your own thoughts and feelings and not pushing them away and telling yourself that they’re wrong.

However you choose to rebel, Rebecca wants you to recognize that it’s alright to do so. We are all unique, and our best chance at success is leaning into that energy to make it what we will. The strongest version of you is the one that’s the most “you.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Every energy you come across or create, it’s OK. It’s just an energy. And if you know it, you can change it. You truly are the source for every single thing that shows up in your life and you should be proud of it. You’ve gotten this far. What are you going to do next?”

Thank you for joining us on “The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster.” Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

rebeccahulse.com
Instagram: @rebeccahulse_legacy
Facebook: facebook.com/rebecca.hulse.coach
Read: “Rebellious Rituals”

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213. Build Your Business & Exit Rich with Sharon Lechter

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Sharon Lechter, an internationally recognized financial literacy expert, keynote speaker, and business mentor. She’s a New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and has enjoyed a 35-year career as a licensed CPA, in which she’s advised two US Presidents on the topic of financial literacy. She co-authored the international bestseller “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” and 14 other books in the “Rich Dad” series.

Her newest title, “Exit Rich,” is designed to support entrepreneurs as they build value and scalability in their businesses and position them to generate the greatest potential.

Sharon grew up in an entrepreneurial home, but she swore she would never become an entrepreneur, herself. She wanted to be a professional, but at 25, she realized that professional life was not all it was cracked up to be. She accepted an invitation from a client to get into the entrepreneurial world, and that became her turning point. She never looked back.

She went on to start a women’s magazine and the world’s first talking, children’s book. She thought she’d taught her son about money, but when he returned from college with credit card debt, she dedicated the rest of her career to financial literacy and entrepreneurial education.

For anyone who feels like they’re only just getting by on their current earnings, acknowledge that knowing where you are financially is the first step. Even if the picture is bleak, you’ll know your starting position. Then you can start taking action to improve it, one step at a time: reduce your expenses, increase your income, and create additional revenue. It’s a recipe to erase negative feelings surrounding your financial outlook.

When you’re building up financial systems, you have to start with a strong foundation. That’s what “Exit Rich” is all about: providing the roadmap to building a successful business. Even if you’re just starting and haven’t even considered leaving, you want to build in an exit route so that you have the option down the road.

There are six ‘P’s to check against any business to see how they stack up:

People
The business can’t revolve around you. When someone is looking to buy a business, they are also looking at who comes with it.
Product
What are you selling?
Processes
You want to have the processes in place so that your business can scale.
Proprietary
What makes you unique? What gives you a competitive advantage?
Patrons
Who are your customers? And do you nurture them?
Profit
This is self-explanatory and it should come as a given when you take care of the other five.

Whether you’re planning to exit or not, it’s important to keep the option on the table. A single phone call could change your life and the trajectory of your business forever.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are the CEO of your own life. We are all where we are today because of the choices we made before today. You want something different? You want something better? Start making different choices today.”

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212. How to Become Iconic with Jamie Mustard

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Jamie Mustard. He’s a strategic multimedia consultant, artist, designer, and product futurist. He has codified the primal laws of what causes anything to stand out and take hold in the human mind, regardless of medium. His breakout work, “The Iconist: The Art and Science of Standing Out,” won the 2019 Outstanding Works of Literature Award. Jamie is a resident staff writer at Forbes, and Rich Karlgaard, Forbes’ publisher, says he has cracked the code when it comes to magnetizing attention.

He has worked with some of the most incredible, well-known companies in the world such as Nike, Cisco, Intel, Adidas, Semantic, and TEDx and, today, we’re going to talk about his passion for understanding the art and the science behind noticeability.

The early part of Jamie’s life was very difficult. A child of extreme poverty and neglect, and with parents in and out of his life, Jamie was only semi-literate through most of his teens. Desperate to turn things around, he moved to live with a relative so that he could attend school, took remedial classes in community college, and five and half years later, graduated from the London School of Economics. Now, his life is almost the opposite of where he started: teaching some of the most successful artists, brands, and CEOs how to stand out in a world of overload.

After living a life of invisibility, Jamie realized that through all of the noise of this world, we’re all experiencing the same thing. Growing up, he learned to recognize the primal laws that explain why we pay attention to some things and discard others, and he managed to write them down to share with others. Now he helps people apply these primal laws to anything from music to social change.

Everyone experiences content bombardment and we’re all harder to see in this day and age. It’s nearly impossible to get the attention of those we desire. In the 1950s, you would be subject to around 250 pieces of advertising a day. By 1970 that was up to 500. By the late ’90s, the average person was being bombarded with five to seven thousand and, today, that number is even higher, still: between ten and fifteen thousand.

Jamie calls one of his primal laws “The Block.” When you put a toy block in front of a baby, it freezes. This happens for a few reasons: the block is comparatively large to them, there are intricacies to it, and it’s unusual. Anything big and complex makes us stop and look. A block is a monolithic, simple thing that you can duplicate over and over again. Forget fifty years; it’s possible to make it iconic within five minutes.

Today, Jamie is working on something entirely different. So many people have experienced trauma in their lives and trauma is relative. Jamie is no stranger to trauma, himself, and while working with a doctor, he learned that post-traumatic stress disorder isn’t actually a disorder at all: it’s an injury. He’s making a film to explore this topic and find a way we can fix this epidemic.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Curiosity. As we get older we lose our curiosity. Curiosity is a discipline and – despite whatever we’ve been through – focusing on what we have: human connection and relationships – which are our true net worth, not money. What we have in terms of wealth is our net assets; it’s not our worth. Our worth is our meaning and our relationships. Do we work in a life of meaning and do we have good relationships? That’s our net worth. That’s driven by curiosity and gratitude – finding what to be grateful for. Our minds – because of our evolutionary biology – are psychologically hardwired to be velcro for the bad and teflon for the good, so when you’re curious and you focus on reframing things towards gratitude – no matter what bad happens – you get more good and you have a more positive outlook on life.”

Resources:

theiconist.org
Twitter: @thejamiemustard

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211. The Universal Laws of Success with Dr. John Demartini

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. John Demartini, a world-renowned specialist in human behavior, researcher, author, polymath, and global educator. He’s the author of 40 books published in 39 different languages ranging from personal development, wealth, education, and business. He’s shared the stage with some of the world’s most influential people including Sir Richard Branson, Stephen Covey, Steve Wozniak, Robert Kiyosaki, Tony Fernandez, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, and many more.

Dr. Demartini has presented to crowds of thousands and worked with entrepreneurs, board members, CEOs, managers, teams, and employees at companies including IBM, Shell, Merrill Lynch, and Maserati Ferrari. He’s also been featured in media outlets such as “O,” “Larry King Live,” “Huffington Post,” Mindvalley, “Sky News,” News.com.au, and more.

As a child, John had a speech impediment. He was told he would never be able to read, write, or learn effectively. He dropped out of school and lived as a drifter from 13 to 18. He fell in love with surfing, and managed to make his way to Hawaii where he lived under bridges, tents, and anywhere he could find a place to sleep. He surfed every day, but at 17 he almost died. A lady found him and took him to a health food store to get him some food. There, John saw a flier for a speaker, and something intuitively told him he had to go and listen. The speaker was a man named Paul C. Bryan and his speech moved John so much that he believed he could overcome his learning problems.

He returned home and began studying to try and go back to school. At first, he failed and almost gave up, but his mother saw him crying on the living room floor and told him something only a mother could: “Whether you become a great teacher and philosopher, return to Hawaii to ride the waves, or return to the streets and panhandle as a bum, your father and I will love you no matter what.” With that unconditional love, John gathered the determination to do whatever it took to master his learning disabilities.

He’s now on a mission to learn the universal principles across all disciplines that help people become the best version of themselves. There’s one principle that stands steady called “The Law of the One and the Many.” This has thousands of applications, even down to our neurology. The laws of nature are always trying to bring us back to balance.

If you prioritize your life and give yourself permission to shine – not shrink – you will be a master of your own destiny; not a victim of history.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Everybody has a set of priorities, a set of values that they live their life by. And all of those are revolving. At any moment they’re filtering how you perceive, decide, and act. Whatever’s highest on that value list, you’re spontaneously inspired to act on that. It’s the most fulfilling. Your ontological identity revolves around it, your piscological pursuit of knowledge revolves around it, and your teleological purpose revolves around it. If you give yourself permission to prioritize your day and do the highest priority actions and fulfill what is most deeply meaningful, you will awaken your executive function which will bring you an inspired vision, help you strategically plan a pathway, make you execute the plan spontaneously, and allow you to self-govern the amygdala from its impulses and instincts that distract. If you prioritize your life and fill your day with high-priority actions that inspire you, your life won’t fill up with low-priority distractions that don’t.”

Resources:

drdemartini.com
Instagram: @drjohndemartini
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drjohndemartini

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210. Give Yourself a Full Spirit Workout with Kate Eckman

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Kate Eckman, author of “The Full Spirit Workout,” a Columbia certified executive leadership coach, with experience as a well-known communications, performance, and mindfulness expert. An accomplished entrepreneur and an elite athlete, she leverages her wealth of knowledge to equip business leaders with the tools, methodology, and energy they need to excel. Her work is rooted in neuroscience, positive psychology, and whole-person coaching techniques.

Passionate about mindfulness techniques for both brain and body, Kate is a meditation teacher and course creator in the world’s #1 free meditation app. Her book has been endorsed by some of the top athletes and most successful people on the planet.

Kate was a competitive swimmer for 17 years. Athletics were her life. As she worked her very front-facing, public career as a TV host and journalist, she was struggling – like most people. She was well aware of what it took to train your physical muscles to compete at a high level, but what about your mental, emotional, and spiritual muscles? After the loss of two loved ones to suicide, Kate created The Full Spirit Workout while coping with her grief.

The Full Spirit Workout is a 10-step system designed to shed your self-doubt, strengthen your spiritual core, and create a fun, fulfilling life. Just like any physical workout, it starts with a stretch – but instead of muscles, you’re stretching your comfort zone. That’s when you have to expand, grow, and become the kind of person who can achieve their goals.

There are three exercises you can do to get started today:

Sit and stare: spend five minutes a day in a quiet room, alone, with no distractions. It may sound horrifying, but if it does then you need this practice more than anyone. It’s a chance to get in touch with yourself, reflect, and process.
Gratitude visit: think of someone who has helped you that you have never thanked. Write that person a 300-word letter explaining how they helped you and what they mean to you. If possible, call them up and tell them you want to visit without explaining why then read them this letter. This will improve your wellbeing for weeks, if not months, to come.
Reframing: instead of getting stuck thinking something is awful, use two words to get yourself out of that situation: “what if?” What if this didn’t suck? What if this was easy? What if this was fun? It makes things instantly feel so much better.

We all understand the importance of taking care of our bodies. It’s time we start taking care of our mind and spirit, the same way.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Remember how powerful you are and take that knowledge from your brain, from your head, move it down into your heart, to your body, let it breathe into your bones. Know that, in your bones, that you are powerful. Not because of what you have, what you do, but because of who you are and nobody can ever take that from you. And just know that you can do whatever you decide is important enough, so decide. Get clear on what’s important to you and know that you can have it if you are just willing to show up and do your best.”

Thank you for joining us on “The Daily Helping” with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

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209. Becoming a Wildatarian with Teri Cochrane

Mon, 31 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Teri Cochrane, the founder of the Global Sustainable Health Institute and an international thought leader in longevity. Through her decades of clinical work, Teri has developed “The Cochrane Method,” a future-facing, multi-system wellness model that examines the intersection of genetic tendencies, energy, and her client’s current state of health.

Teri specializes in solutions to complex health problems and serves world-class athletes. She’s also the author of “The Wildatarian Diet: Living as Nature Intended,” which looks into how there is no one-size-fits-all prescription for diet and how pathogens, stress, and the environment can influence our genes and, therefore, our health.

Prior to her pioneering work in nutrition and wellness, Teri worked in the world of institutional finance and risk management. When her first child turned three years old, doctors told her to prepare to raise a broken child. Over the next several years, he was in and out of the hospital. As a Cuban refugee, there was a voice in Teri’s head that told her, “What if it doesn’t have to be this way?” She applied her risk management skills to find an alternative plan for him. An epiphone came when she realized that it was the foods he was eating that made him so sick. After removing just a few select foods, within five days, he was breathing better and growing more. From that point on, she became a keen observer of alternative modalities.

Her learning continued when her daughter became critically ill from a botched wisdom tooth extraction which knocked her hormones completely out of balance. When Teri was able to match her genetic blueprint to her current state of health—and eat and supplement to her genetic tendencies—she got better.

How do we determine what our genetic blueprint is and whether or not it’s good for a particular diet or food? That’s where The Cochrane Method comes into play. In her practice, they perform a genetic analysis to determine how your genes interplay between you and your symptomatology. The Wildatarian diet is based on the four tenets of protein, fat, sulfur, and oxalate metabolism impairment. When you know which of these impairments you have, you can tailor your diet and tune your body to run at it’s best.

It’s almost impossible to completely avoid some of the things that are harmful to us—especially pesticides, which are used on so much of what we eat. Teri knows that it’s hard to completely eliminate, so her advice is: “Don’t tip the scales.” That means do what you can with what’s available to you. Buy organic when possible, because while it’s not completely clean, it is better. Don’t spray Roundup on your lawns or in your home and support the areas of your body that handle detoxification.

We’re not all meant to eat the same things. Learn more about the way your body reacts to foods and eat in the way that serves it best.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The biggest firestarter is our thinking. If we have thoughts that are negative—thinking thoughts such as scarcity or fear or consternation or things that help us not be our best self—we actually turn on the signal to the gene by thought alone. The thought creates the thing. Studies show that when we have negative thought patterns, it lowers our secretary IGA—which is our immune function—by up to 50% for up to five hours. A 50% reduction in potential immune function for up to five hours by negative thinking. And, so, what I invite your audience to do is catch yourself in whatever thought you’re having. “Is it contractive in my field? Do I feel yucky when I think about this?” Or, “Do I feel expansive?” And say, “I interrupt this thinking and I’m going to a higher thinking mode.” And I call it—just like a firefighter—stop, drop, and roll. Stop that thinking—that thinking or that emotion—drop it through moving energy by doing a dance, shouting, singing, going for a run, and then roll into a higher frequency emotion of gratitude or peace or joy by inciting a memory that gave us that emotion. And it literally, in real time, will support immune function.”

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208. How Asking the Right Questions Can Explode Your Business with Ryan Levesque

Mon, 24 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Ryan Levesque, the CEO of The ASK Method® Company and author of the #1 national best-selling book, “ASK,” featured in Inc. Magazine as their #1 Marketing Book of the Year and by Entrepreneur Magazine as their #2 Must-Read Book. Over 250,000 entrepreneurs subscribe to his email newsletter to hear his advice.

Ryan was very successful in the corporate world, but he decided to leave it behind in order to help entrepreneurs make changes to their lives. In the midst of a quarter-life crisis, Ryan wrote a long letter addressed to his mother — but actually intended for himself — trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. In 2008, he walked away from everything because he wanted to take control of his life and income. With an initial goal of earning $10k a month, Ryan had his first 10 million dollar year, just 10 years later. Whether your goal is to make $10k a month, $10 million a year, or somewhere in between, Ryan can teach you the tools to apply to your life and business to make it happen.

More important than Ryan’s desires were what he didn’t want to do: he didn’t want to manage a team and he didn’t want to be constantly traveling for work. The goal was just a simple business that he could use to provide for his family, and he found that simple business in a tiny niche: teaching people how to make jewelry using Scrabble tiles. While, ultimately, that turned out to be a fad, he was able to use what he learned to examine the market and explore a new niche - this time, one that was tried and tested with no chance of fizzling out: gardening. With no aspirations of becoming a marketing guru, he was simply trying to build a business to provide for his family.

Along the way, Ryan discovered that tailoring your approach to each individual customer showed much better business results. Getting to know your clientele and customizing your product and marketing specifically towards them creates a personal resonance and a happier, more profitable, business, as a result. This was the inspiration for Ryan to invent the technique he calls “quiz funnels.”

There are three reasons why quiz funnels work so well:

They tap into the power of self-discovery to offer incredibly cheap traffic
They customize copy to your customer, offering incredibly high conversion rates
They offer their results incredibly quickly. People love to share quizzes with their friends, so they’re primed to recommend you

As long as you find the right quiz for your business, you can start talking to customers in a way that feels personal and unique.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Remember: you don’t have to get it perfect; you just have to get it going, and the best time to get it going is right here, right now, today. And if you are a high performer, if you’re highly educated, if you’re a smart person - which I know you are; you’re listening to this right now - we tend to, people like us, tend to struggle with perfection paralysis. We think things have to be perfect before we release them. Well, with a quiz funnel, the name of the game is getting your first version out the door as quickly as possible, iterating, and improving. So, remember, you don’t have to get it perfect; you just have to get it going, and the best first step is to start brainstorming what type of quiz makes sense for your business: type, killer, or score.”

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207. The Prescription for a Healthy Soul with Dr. Bernie Siegel

Mon, 17 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Bernie Siegel, a sought-after speaker, media presence, and author of many best-selling books, including “Love, Medicine & Miracles” and “365 Prescriptions for the Soul,” which have sold millions of copies, worldwide. He’s been named one of the top 20 spiritually influential living people on the planet as he’s impacted countless lives all over the world with his wisdom, and now he’s here to share with all of us.

When Bernie went to a conference he believed was for doctors to help cancer patients, he realized he was the only doctor in the room — everyone else was a patient. One of his patients sat with him, and when he asked why she came, she said “I feel better when I’m in the office with you, but I can’t take you home with me. I need to know how to live between office visits.” When you help people to exist, they can surpass their life expectancy, even if it came as part of a diagnosis.

His work has transcended helping cancer patients, now helping people in all areas of life. His first book, “Love, Medicine & Miracles,” recognized what led people to overcome the predictions of their doctors. There is a personality that improves your lifespan. Your internal chemistry is altered by your thoughts and feelings, so changing your attitude can realistically change your outcome. He became the coach that teaches people how to be a survivor.

In his book “365 Prescriptions for the Soul,” Bernie wanted to help people live life. He offered bite-sized inspirations, combining his unique blend of heart, humor, and wisdom. This is the prescription for busy people who want to create a sense of well-being on the go.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“No matter what you’ve heard from parents, school teachers or other authorities, you are divine. You are a child of God. You are divine.Know that and respect that about yourself so that you can find self-love, respect, and love yourself. Make time for yourself to send love to your body and fill your heart with love and pump it out to your body.”

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206. Maximizing the 18 Summers Before Your Kids Grow Up with Jim & Jamie Sheils

Mon, 10 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guests are Jim and Jamie Sheils, who help busy professionals create deeper, more connected, more meaningful relationships with their families so they can have the life they’ve always imagined.

As successful entrepreneurs with a household of six, Jim and Jamie speak all over the world, guiding others in igniting their family life and their business life in tandem. Through their best-selling book “The Family Board Meeting” and their entrepreneurial family-support organization, 18 Summers, Jim and Jamie are helping transform families and show them how to make the most of their limited time together.

The Sheils are a blended family, and Jim’s desire to connect with Jamie’s boys after they united led to the formation of The Family Board Meeting. After they began sharing their rhythm and lives with one another, things were so good between them that people started asking how they could achieve the same for their families. Their book holds the answer.

Jim took the ideas and concepts he wished his family used during his childhood and pieced them together to form The Family Board Meeting. One of those ideas was one-on-one time. It’s important to focus the family in this way, as it strengthens the whole group. It’s easy to make it happen; you just need to make finding the time a priority.

Obviously, the pandemic this past year has made everyone’s home situation more stressful, but The Family Board Meeting structure helped the Sheils retain some sense of normalcy. You never know where a child’s head may be, but when you make space to allow everyone in the family to share their thoughts and make a point of asking questions or opening honest discussions, a lot of real healing happens.

A study found that the average person will spend 85% of all the quality time they will ever have with their child by the end of their 18th summer together. After that, they fly the nest and become independent adults. This inspired 18 Summers to push entrepreneurs to get the most out of that precious time with their children.

If you’re ready to start your own Family Board Meeting, here are some tips:

Don’t change a million things at once. Start with one or two changes that really matter to you.
Implement some simple rhythms throughout the day, such as a two hour tech-fast.
Take the pressure of perfectionism off the table. There is no such thing as perfect, so just do what works for your family and try to bridge those gaps of imperfection to the extent that feels comfortable.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There is no substitute for quality time, but you have to start somewhere so make the most of whatever time it is that you do have. We’re 18 Summers, so we have that natural math equation built in. But just make the most of whatever you do have. If you have five years, if you have 18 years, whatever it is, make the most of the time you have.

Whether you’re a single mom working 10-hour days and you just get two hours at the end of the day, or whatever it may be, whatever your life looks like, start somewhere. Think of that difference between quality time, that differentiation of what is quality time, and just start wherever you can.”

“Be quick to apologize. Entrepreneurs out there, we wear our pride on our sleeve and we try to justify or give immunity to ourselves since we’re working hard or doing this, you know, for being impatient, for being short, not keeping a promise.

We’ll almost try to override the responsibility of a sincere apology, and what I’ve learned is: when I apologize quick and sincerely, it takes a ten minute problem to a ten minute problem instead of a four day problem.”

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205. Answering Your Cosmic Alarm Clock with Yanik Silver

Mon, 03 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today’s expert guest, Yanik Silver, has been called a cosmic catalyst, a maverick mischief-maker, and a galactic goofball. He’s redefining how business is conducted in the 21st century at the intersection of evolutionary growth, impact, and fun.

Yanik is the creator of the Cosmic Journal, author of “Evolved Enterprise,” and the founder of Maverick1000, a global network of top entrepreneurs and visionary entrepreneurs making a big difference in the world without taking themselves too seriously. It’s not unusual to find him dressed as a lemur, a showgirl, or even in matching mermaid tails with Sir Richard Branson.

Yanik grew into the person he is today thanks to the deep influence of his parents. His father was an entrepreneur. Growing up in that environment made all the difference to Yanik’s perspective on the world. He loved studying the techniques of old-school copywriters who found success even when it took so much more effort to get people to take action, let alone make a purchase. He learned all about direct response marketing, which helped grow his dad’s business on a national scale.

When Yanik created his first million-dollar product, his inbox filled with people asking him how he did it. So, he launched a new career out of helping people productise their knowledge and experience. When he heard the sound of, what he calls, the cosmic alarm clock — he questioned whether or not he would be happy doing what he was doing, ten years from now, and realized it was time to make another change. That led to Maverick1000, a group that emphasises growth, impact, and fun.

If you’re still trying to figure out what you’re meant to do, it’s time to start asking yourself the right questions and challenging yourself to find truth in the answers. If you’re writing to a journal prompt, write out twenty answers. The last few are probably going to be the most interesting. You can also tap into different parts of your brain by writing with your non-dominant hand.

This time in the world is one of the most significant opportunities to hear your Cosmic Alarm Clock go off and to wake up to what it’s telling you.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You don’t need to see the full path, just the next step, then the next one, and the next one will open up to you. Each step moves you closer to your center even if you feel upside down and turned around. Maybe you feel like you are walking in circles further away from your goal. Keep moving. Keep going. One step forward. One step onwards. Until you see the next turn. The next twist in the road. It’s all within sight until you shift again. This time you come home again to yourself fully.”

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204. How to Access Your Consciousness & Get Out of Debt Joyfully with Simone Milasas

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Simone Milasas, an innovative business leader, author, and a leading Facilitator with Access Consciousness, a set of life-changing techniques and tools practiced all over the world. As the Worldwide Business Development coordinator for Access Consciousness, she has been instrumental in its growth from four countries to more than one-hundred and seventy-five. Her unique and consistently successful approach to business led to her founding the Joy Of Business, a program empowering entrepreneurs to embrace their own unique leadership and business skills.

Renowned for her refreshingly honest, vulnerable, and dynamic approach, Simone regularly features in the media, such as Fox News, Forbes, GQ, and Mind Body Green, and is the author of “Joy of Business” and best-sellers “Getting Out Of Debt Joyfully” and “Relationship. Are You Sure You Want One?” co-authored with Brendon Watt. She also hosts a weekly podcast, The Choice, Change, and Action Podcast.

Simone grew up knowing that business owners had an opportunity to change the world. Even without knowing what it was going to be, she knew she wanted to start a business from a young age. She’s always been driven by that gut feeling. She started Good Vibes For You based purely on the energy that she wanted to create in the world.

While attending the MindBodySpirit festival, Simone met Gary Douglas, founder of Access Consciousness. She was angry about the recent, unexpected death of a friend and he gave her some advice she wasn’t expecting. He said, “You’d be much better off if you were open to receiving.” Within six months, she found herself in Houston doing a facilitator’s class for Access Consciousness.

One of Simone’s best-selling books is “Getting Out Of Debt Joyfully.” At one point in her life, Simone was a financial mess, spending far more than she was making, and landed $187,000 in debt. She had heard about all of the money management tools in Access Consciousness but was resistant to put them into action. Still, what she was doing wasn’t working, so she started using the tools — and within two weeks she noticed something was starting to change.

You can start applying the same tools she used, right now. One rule she hated at first but made a big impact was this: Put 10% of everything you earn away as a tithe just for you. It’s not to repay debt or buy things. It just needs to sit. When you look at it three months later, you will suddenly have a different energy and outlook on money, that you can have it and not spend it. It will completely change your life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If all of you listening took a breath and tapped into you, and your body, and the Earth… cause we’re living here on planet Earth. I see so many people who are disconnected from it. What if it was time that we start walking with the Earth — not just on top of it? I know there have been a lot of stories and a lot of awareness after 2020; the whole planet started to change. What if we could start to ask every single day, ‘Earth, what can I contribute to you?’ and ‘Earth, what can you contribute to me?’ We’re not here to destroy it. We’re here to be with it.”

Resources:

accessconsciousness.com
simonemilasas.com
Instagram: @simonemilasas
Listen: The Choice, Change and Action Podcast
Read: “Joy of Business”
Read: “Getting Out Of Debt Joyfully”
Read: “Relationship. Are You Sure You Want One?”

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203. Become the CEO of Your Well-Being with Naz Beheshti

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Naz Beheshti, the author of “Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being.” This book is the culmination of her more than 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, firsthand learning from luminaries ranging from Steve Jobs to the Dalai Lama, and consulting and coaching work she’s done with international business leaders, entrepreneurs, startups, universities, and major global organizations.

She’s an executive wellness coach, speaker, Forbes contributor, and CEO and founder of Prananaz, a corporate wellness company improving leadership effectiveness, employee engagement, well-being, company culture, and business outcomes. She also co-founded Rise2Shine, a non-profit organization committed to helping alleviate the suffering of young children in Haiti.

Naz’s first job out of college was as the executive assistant to Steve Jobs himself. For over a decade, she was really stressed and lived without the tools to manage it or build the resilience needed to reach high performance. Then, she went to school to become a holistic health coach and transformation coach to help people like her.

In her book, Naz shares her simple “MAP” method for improving your life:

M-aster mindfulness
A-pply better choices to manage stress and build resilience
P-romote yourself to the CEO of your wellbeing

When you implement the “MAP” method, you can live your best life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You have the power and the choice to be the CEO of your well-being and take charge of all areas of your life so you can live your best life. It’s all up to you and you can start today.”

Resources:

nazbeheshti.com
prananaz.com
Instagram: @nazbeheshti
Read: “Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being”

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202. Creating the Work and Life That You Love, with Dan Miller

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, our expert guest is Dan Miller, author of the New York Times bestselling book, “48 Days to the Work You Love.” He’s been a guest on CBS’ The Early Show, MSNBC’s Hardball, and Fox Business News with Dave Ramsay. His own weekly show is consistently ranked #1 in the Careers category on Apple Podcasts. He’s a frequent speaker at conferences and more than 140,000 people subscribe to his weekly newsletter. Everything Dan does aims to help people find or create the work that they love.

The message of 48 Days started at a low point in Dan’s life. He’s always been an entrepreneur, and during an economic downturn, he was put into a difficult position. He began teaching Sunday school classes to keep himself in service, surprising himself with how popular those classes became. He did not expect so many people to be unhappy with what they did for a living. In working himself out of a hole, he discovered that it was a near-universal need across industries.

If you’re in that place of not loving the work that you do, how do you start the process of 48 Days?

Start from the inside. 85% of the process is looking inward, identifying your unique skills and abilities, your personality tendencies, your dreams and passions, and getting a clear focus on what’s special about you.
Once you’ve identified those, you can start to focus on the application. What kind of work environment — whether it’s a job or a business you create — will integrate the things you now know about yourself?

Along with finding work that you love, you need to be aware of common career mistakes to avoid. Don’t get too comfortable with the status quo. People are constantly changing, growing you should allow your career to do the same.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It’s never too late to have a new beginning. I talk to 27-year-old attorneys who say, “I never should have done that, I made a mistake.” And they imply now they just have to coast into the grave when you’re not old enough to ask the right questions, yet. You’ve got tons of time to reevaluate, redirect, realign. And then, somebody who’s 65 who’s been forced into retirement says, “Well, now I’m confined to 30 years of sitting on the front porch drooling on myself.” A lot of people at that point have the first real understanding of their greatest gifts and can turn that into the most productive two or three decades of their life. It’s never too late to have a new beginning.”

Resources:

48days.com
Read: "48 Days to the Work (and Life) You Love"
Listen: 48 Days Podcast

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201. Remembering the Human Side of HR, with Brenda Neckvatal

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Brenda Neckvatal, an award-winning HR professional who is often referred to as the “HR Force of Nature” by her clients. Not only does she help business leaders solve their most difficult people issues, but she is also a specialist in crisis management, government contracting, HR compliance, and mentor to women working in an HR department of one.

She started as an HR sprout after fourteen years in retail management. She discovered that she really enjoyed helping people solve their unique problems and human resources offered her the ability to support her co-workers in a greater capacity. Having the benefit of working for five different Fortune 500 companies, she converted her experience into a series of focused best practices helping small businesses achieve their workforce goals.

In her 30-year career in human resources and business, she has consulted with nearly 500 small businesses and C-suite leaders. She has optimized employee effectiveness and helped mitigate the high costs that are associated with making hasty employment-related decisions.

As a student, her teachers knew that something was holding Brenda back but nobody knew what it was. After barely graduating high school and feeling down on herself, a coworker noticed she read something backward and asked her if she’d ever been tested for dyslexia. Once she discovered that, she felt justified. Brenda had to relearn how to read, but she went back to school and was able to graduate with honors.

When the coronavirus hit the US, everything changed. Brenda was suddenly speaking to over 3,000 HR and business leaders who were all scrambling to figure out how to deal with the uncertainty the virus caused. She knew that during times like these, taking care of your employees was more important than ever.

If you’re a leader or small business owner, here are some of the things you can do to help take care of your team:

Be open to suggestions from your employees, because they are going to be full of ideas.
Small business owners need to be vigilant about following hiring and labor laws, because the Department of Labor is paying closer attention than ever. You are not too small to be noticed.

It’s times like these that taking care of employees falls to the wayside as business survival becomes the focus, but know that you will never survive in the long run if you don’t make your workplace somewhere that people love to work and feel taken care of.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Transformation is not easy. Surviving something like this isn’t easy. My big takeaway is trust the process. Trust in yourself. Take time for yourself, think through what’s going on. Trust your process. You may not know what’s going to happen at the end of it but just trust it.”

Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

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200. Lessons Learned from My Father, with Dr. Richard Shuster

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today, J.V. Crum of Conscious Millionaire is turning the mic around on Dr. Richard Shuster, to celebrate 200 episodes of The Daily Helping.

Just one month ago, Richard’s father, Dr. Allen Shuster, passed away. Nobody taught him more about being a husband, a parent, an entrepreneur, and an all-around human being than Allen. He always put his family first, was generous both with his time and money, and stood up for what he believed in.

Allen taught Dr. Richard to show up every day doing something you genuinely love, a lesson that would impact his every decision as an entrepreneur. His father was old school, which also meant that he had a pretty clear path for success: go to school, get a degree, open a practice, see patients, and make a living. That made sense to him; but when Dr. Richard approached him about leaving the world of psychology to make a podcast — a term he’d never even heard of — Allen supported him fully.

There are three things that Dr. Richard took from his father that will inform the rest of his life:

Don’t compromise living life on your own terms.
Spend time with the people you love.
Be present every day.

The biggest lesson here is this: Think of someone that you want to express your heart and soul to, and do it; because you never know what’s going to happen, and you don’t want to leave this world with regrets.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t take for granted that tomorrow is just going to come because you never know. I would urge everyone to, whether it’s their spouse or their mother, father, sibling, whoever it is, a mentor in their lives who meant a lot to you — call them today and, not only tell them how much they mean to you, but why. Because there’s just no guarantee that you’re going to get a chance to do that.”

Resources:

thedailyhelping.com
Instagram: @thedailyhelpingpodcast

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Ep. 199: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci | with Michael J. Gelb

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Michael J. Gelb, the world’s leading authority on applying genius thinking to personal and organizational development. Michael is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, leadership, innovation, and executive coaching. He’s a senior fellow at the Center for Humanistic Management and a member of the Advisory Board for Leading People and Organizations at the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business. He was honored as “Brain of the Year” (1999) by the Brain Trust Charity, including other recipients such as Steven Hawking, Garry Kasparov, and Edward De Bono. His 17 books have been translated into 25 languages and have sold over one million copies.

When he read Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” at 14 years old, Michael became inspired to find purpose in helping others find meaning in their lives. There was a lot of division and racial tension, and Michael was looking for solutions — both for the world and himself. Being a consultant for businesses was the farthest thing from his mind at first, but as he studied, it slowly dawned on him that business was the most powerful force in the world. And by focusing on that, he could make the most significant impact possible.

Michael felt his life intersect with Leonardo da Vinci in several ways. Earlier in his life, his grandmother, a painter herself, introduce him to da Vinci. Later, he and a colleague would talk about him at length. More and more, he began telling stories about da Vinci. After being invited to speak in Florence, he pitched the idea of speaking about how to think like Leonardo da Vinci. That gave him six months to figure it out before he had to speak!

You can do this process with any figure you admire, whether that’s a historical figure or someone you know. One of the most effective ways to develop yourself is to study others. If you want to follow the same steps Michael did to think like da Vinci, you have to ask the magic question: What are they trying to teach us?

In the case of Leonardo da Vinci, when Michael read his work with that question in mind, he came up with:

Endless curiosity: To get endless energy as an adult, you have to awaken your childlike imagination, marry it with your adult logic, and revitalize your curiosity. Try the “100 Questions” exercise. Give yourself around an hour, take out some sheets of paper, and without stopping to think, write 100 questions out. The hardest part is building up the energy to have a constant creative output. Once you practice it, coming up with ideas isn’t that hard. What’s hard is putting them into action and communicating them with other people.
Demonstrate through your own experience: You must be an original thinker. The biggest challenge to independent thinking today is an overabundance of information. The best way to do this is to learn to think through essential ideas from at least three perspectives.
Sharpen your senses, learn to appreciate beauty, and learn to make life more beautiful. When we appreciate beauty, we inform our creative expression.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There is a source of creativity, a source of genius. It is the source of our awareness. If everyone just, at this moment, contemplates their response to the simple question, ‘Are you aware?’ Obviously, immediately, you say, ‘Yeah, oh course.’ And I say, ‘How do you know?’ Where do you go to look to notice that you are aware? There’s no place you go. You just are. And learning to access that source of awareness, which is always present — so when we talk about connecting with genius, it sounds like something you have to go through years of training and do all this — no, it’s present right now. It’s there for everybody. And then yes, there are ways to make ourselves more attuned to it, like the hundred questions, like the Qigong exercises I teach, like everything that’s in all the books. But the main point is it’s not something you don’t have that you have to get. It’s something you already have, and you just need to wake up to it.”

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Ep. 198: Finding the Book Inside of You (Pt. 2) | with Mark Victor Hansen

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest Mark Victor Hansen returns for the second part of his interview. In his new book — “You Have a Book In You” — Mark shares his personal secrets for bringing your story to life and creating the next best-seller.

In your journey to writing your book, Mark shared how you must start with a title that ignites you and outline your chapters early so that the content can begin flowing to you. But writing a book is just one part of the process. Once it’s written, people need to read it. And to get people to see it, you need to learn to market.

In interviewing the 101 best fiction and nonfiction authors, Mark asked every one of them what they did to market their books. The first step is to visualize yourself making the best-sellers list. You won’t be able to get somewhere if you can’t see yourself there first. The next step is to not accept rejection. Even with a wildly impressive business plan, Mark still faced rejection a whopping 144 times before someone said yes.

We can all be wildly more successful than we’ve ever dreamt of. And the world needs people to think bigger to solve the problems we face today! So, everyone needs to write so we can write ourselves out of this conundrum.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want to ask you to write a book, like I said a minute ago, to redefine yourself, to reinvent yourself, to reboot yourself, to re-energize yourself, to re-excite yourself. So your book is so well written, with such eclectic wisdom, that it ignites a lot of others and we have a pulsating wave go out that helps humanity to become absolutely, completely, one hundred percent economically and physically successful. It’s never been available before, but you and I now have the technology to do it. I’ll give you the software, the hardware — like podcasting, like documentaries — exists that all of us can do it, for the first time in humanity.”

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Ep. 197: Finding the Book Inside of You (Pt. 1) | with Mark Victor Hansen

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Mark Victor Hansen, inspirational and motivational speaker, trainer, and an author best known as the founder and co-creator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series. He also holds the Guinness World Record for most published books. And in his new book — “You Have a Book In You” — Mark shares his personal secrets for bringing your story to life and creating the next best-seller.

When you choose to write a book, you are likely signing up to push yourself further than you’ve been pushed before. But where do you start? Mark says a great book starts with a galvanizing title. Your title has to be emotional, something that inspires you. The subtitle has to be logical in order to seal the deal. If you have those two things in place, you’re off to a great start.

Once you have your title, you want to write out all of your chapter headings in your preferred order. Once you do that, information starts pouring into your head about those ideas. You begin to recognize things out in the world about those topics and things come together quickly.

But what if you feel like you don’t have any time? Schedule out one 22-minute window where you can write completely uninterrupted. Once your mind is committed to being an author and creating this book, once you start actually writing for your future readers, the ideas will just flow to you and things will start coming together.

In the second part of our interview, Marc continues to outline the power of writing your own book.

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Ep. 196: Creating a Culture of Opportunity | with Mark Monchek

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Mark Monchek, an outstanding man with a powerful story. He’s the founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of the Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on conscious growth and the author of #1 Bestseller “Culture of Opportunity,” where his tools on how to grow during an age of disruption are more relevant today than ever before.

Everybody finds their purpose in life at different points. Some people are born with it, but most people find it out through a crisis. Mark’s life trajectory was set, primarily, by three tragedies. His parents got divorced when he was very young, and from that point on, they never talked to each other about their two kids, which wound up being deeply traumatic for Mark. The second happened in 1981, when Mark and his wife bought their first house only to have an arsonist burn it down six days later. And the third happened in the 2008 recession, when an associate stole a large amount of money from his business, throwing Mark into a deep and dark depression. Luckily, he recognized the support he received during this dark period, and he was to find the opportunity in that tragedy to move forward. He realized that his purpose was to serve companies that wanted to grow consciously and because they deeply care about their customers, their employees, and the communities they serve.

Building a conscious mindset within your company starts with compassion. Get into a conversation with whoever it is your serving, whether it’s a customer or an employee, and find out what really matters to them.

Mark’s Culture of Opportunity process breaks down into these key parts:

Define the results that you stand for and that give you pride. Make sure there is a balance between financially-driven and purpose-driven results.
Find the team of people who are going to take you to this next level of sustainable growth. This team must be filled with a diverse set of people both inside and outside of the organization.
Look for the ways that other companies are serving their customers or employees that you find exciting or innovative, whether they’re in your industry or not.

We are all in this life together, and we don’t have to sacrifice that fundamental truth for business success. In fact, the best way to succeed is to create a culture of opportunity for all.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“One of the misbeliefs I had that led up to this depression was that I was alone in my dark feelings and in these painful thoughts. That kind of came from my childhood experience where, I think, my parents felt that they were alone. When I realized I wasn’t because of the people that supported me through that terrible period, and I began to understand the importance of interdependence. We do nothing in our lives alone. We don’t go to the bathroom alone. We don’t eat alone. People think that they are independent, but everything you do depends on someone else.”

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Ep. 195: Getting Naked & Listening | with Joel Primus

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Joel Primus, the founder of and creative visionary behind Naked Boxer Brief. The pitch was simple — underwear so comfortable you can’t even feel them — but a lot of people saw it as a risky bet. Mr. Wonderful, one of the hosts of “Dragon’s Den,” the Canadian equivalent of “Shark Tank,” called Joel delusional.

Now, fast forward 10 years: Joel helped raise more than $17M dollars in funding, established retail distribution with huge global partners, and lead a merger with Australian-based industry powerhouse Bendon before exiting in 2018. His most recent company is Kosan Travel, a clothing company that launched one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns for an apparel product, reaching nearly $1M in sales in 30 days.

Part memoir and part entrepreneurial start-up manual, “Getting Naked: The Bare Necessities of Entrepreneurship and Start-ups” wants to take you through the process of scaling the business, building a team, raising money, and even when a founder needs to consider stepping down as CEO — and, at the same time, the book is going to ask questions that challenge you to interrogate yourself and your dream.

One of the big problems for a lot of entrepreneurs is that they don’t know what questions to ask — they don’t know what they don’t know — and Joel hopes this book can help guide people to asking better questions so that they can start getting better answers, the answers that Joel wishes he had when he was starting this business from his apartment 12 years ago.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If we don’t pick up the boulder in our lives all the time — that big, heavy, immovable object — then we don’t have to carry it. And to try to make sense of that, I looked at my life like what are the boulders in my life that I’m carrying that I don’t have to? That I’m trying to move that I don’t have to? These things that are completely strenuous, crushing me... what if I just didn’t pick it up?”

Resources:

Joelprimus.com
Instagram: @joel.primus
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joelprimus
“Getting Naked: The Bare Necessities of Entrepreneurship and Start-ups” by Joel Primus
Raising Global Citizens

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Ep. 194: Tapping into Intuition & Trusting Your Inner Guidance | with Kim Chestney

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Kim Chestney, author of “Radical Intuition: A Revolutionary Guide to Using Your Inner Power.” She’s a globally-recognized innovation leader and the founder of the Intuition Lab. Her work has been featured or supported by leading-edge organizations including SXSW Interactive, Carnegie Mellon University, Comcast, and Hewlett-Packard.

Kim has been curious about intuition for as long as she can remember and predisposed to learning about it. She wanted to understand it and acknowledge that it is real. And she’s dedicated her life to learning everything she could about it.

Intuition is our connection to information beyond our conscious mind. Intuition is often misunderstood as mysticism or spirituality without any substantial grounding in reality. But now, as we’ve gained more understanding around quantum physics and the way we understand our world. Kim likes to compare old school thinking to new school thinking. Old school thinking is like Neutonian physics: it’s reasonable, based on cause and effect. Intuition is more like quantum physics, which explores the things that seem impossible and don’t really make sense — but they still happen every day.

"Radical Intuition" is meant to be a tool for people to begin developing their intuition on their own. It’s full of exercises that people can do every day to start integrating and drawing attention to their intuitive processes. The first thing that’s important in getting in touch with your intuition is learning to listen. We have to find a quiet place, focus on mindfulness, and slow down to give our intuition space to come through.

Intuition is not a new term to most people, but our interpretations of it are wildly different. Kim works to reimagine intuition in a modern understanding of the word. Where the radical part comes in is the understanding that intuition is the complementary part of our mind to intellect. When you look at it that way and see the potential that is available to us if we learn to develop that part of ourselves, it opens up a whole new world of possibilities.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We all have intuition. No matter where you are on the spectrum, whether you think you’re just awakening your intuition, whether you’re not sure you have intuition, or whether it’s something that you’ve been working with for years and you’re aware of — wherever you are in your journey, your intuition, always, is waiting to take you to that step. Because we’re all sort of growing together and evolving together and there’s so much more when we align with our intuition. So, really, to remember to be true to yourself and to honor the truth within you and bring that truth out: that’s the greatest gift that you can give the world.”

Resources:

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Ep. 193: Finding the Common Path to Uncommon Success | with John Lee Dumas

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is John Lee Dumas, the founder and host of the award-winning podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire. With over 100 million listens across over 3000 episodes, Dumas has turned Entrepreneurs on Fire into a media empire that generates over a million listens every month and seven figures of net annual revenue eight years in a row.

In his first traditionally-published book, “The Common Path to Uncommon Success,” John offers a roadmap to financial freedom and fulfillment that anyone can follow.

In 2012, John Lee Dumas didn’t know anything about entrepreneurship or business. That’s why his first step was to interview people every single day: He wanted to learn more about what made people successful entrepreneurs. He interviewed over 3000 successful entrepreneurs — including Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Barbara Corcoran, Tim Ferriss, and many other amazing luminaries — and he’s learned from every single one of them. That enabled him to rapidly build a multi-million dollar business for eight years in a row, finding his own place among the group he used to covet.

He realized that most people are being lied to, every single day, about success. They’re told that the path to success is hidden, tricky, secret. It’s not. There is a common, simple path to success — hard work — and it is a path that anyone can follow. And while it’s not a secret, you do need to know where to look, and that’s why John broke the path down into 17 steps, and he had to share it with the world.

Like every journey, you have to start at step one. The first step is your big idea, the one that you are meant to create, the one that gets you excited and fired up. Because if you don’t have an idea worth pursuing, one that’s worth putting yourself through a lot of hardship, you’ll never make it to the finish line.

Step 17 is what John calls “keep the money you make.” It is not hard to make money in this world, especially if you follow all of the previous steps. What’s tough is keeping it, instead of losing it all to poor decisions and bad investments. You need to be able to keep what you make so that you can truly experience financial freedom.

Uncommon success is not necessarily about being a millionaire. It’s about being able to do what you love, being financially independent, and loving your life. Financial freedom and fulfillment is the promise JLD offers in “The Common Path to Uncommon Success,” and it’s a big one, but he delivers.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Back in 2012, I was 32 years old, I was going nowhere, I had a bad track record of past career failures, and this quote reached out and virtually slapped me in the face: “Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.” And it was so clear to me that I was trying to be a person of success all of those past years and I wasn’t finding any success. And when I asked myself “What are you doing of value in this world?” and the answer was “Nothing,” and I decided to change that. And I changed that by releasing a daily podcast, interviewing entrepreneurs for free for 2000 days in a row, and that’s why I won. Because I became a person of value. So will you look in the mirror now and ask yourself, “How am I becoming a person of value”? And if you cannot answer that question to the best of your ability that excites you, then you need to figure out how to do just that.”

Resources:

eofire.com
uncommonsuccessbook.com
Twitter: @johnleedumas
Instagram: @johnleedumas
Ep. 34: JLD: The Origin Story | with John Lee Dumas

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Ep. 192: Remaining UP During Down Times | with Mitzi Perdue

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest, Mitzi Perdue, joins us for the second part of her interview. Mitzi is a science and health writer, businesswoman, author, and master storyteller. She holds degrees from Harvard and George Washington University, is a past president of the 35,000-member American Agri-Women group, and was one of the US delegates to the United Nations Conference on women in Nairobi. Her passion and mission is to combat human trafficking.

In the first part of her interview, Mitzi shared the stories of her father and how he built an incredibly successful business during a period of, at the time, unparalleled financial upheaval and uncertainty. Today, we’re nearly a year into the coronavirus epidemic, and Mitzi published a book with Mark Victor Hansen called “How to be UP in Down Times.” It includes 40 tips to help people help themselves, and they are all both uplifting and scientifically accurate.

We won’t be able to outline all 40 tips here, but these are some of Mitzi’s favorites:

One of the most important things you can do when you’re under stress is giving yourself an hour to do something that is giving respite. That can be a movie, a game, a challenging puzzle, anything that gives your mind a break from the worries.
Avoid negativity and news. Give yourself a hard limit of 15 minutes of news, just to make sure you’re staying informed, but news is inherently biased towards fear and violence. Similarly, anyone on social media that is constantly spreading fear and negativity, you can unfollow them or at least limit your interaction with them. Focus on good and good will come.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Something that’s transformed my father’s life, my mother’s life, my late husband’s life, and my life: I recommend going back to the basics of Dale Carnegie’s ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People.’ Read it, read even a chapter of it, and it will be so enlightening, if you haven’t read it already, that you’ll want to read the rest.”

Resources:

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Ep. 191: The Importance of Valuing Your Employees | with Mitzi Perdue

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Mitzi Perdue, a science and health writer, businesswoman, author, and master storyteller. She holds degrees from Harvard and George Washington University, is a past president of the 35,000-member American Agri-Women group, and was one of the US delegates to the United Nations Conference on women in Nairobi. Her passion and mission is to combat human trafficking.

Mitzi combines the experience of three long-time family businesses: Her father, Ernest Henderson, co-founded the Sheraton Hotel chain; her late husband, Frank Perdue, was the second-generation in a poultry company that today operates in more than 50 countries; and she founded CERES Farms in 1974.

Mitzi learned so much from her father. The Sheraton Hotel is called Sheraton, instead of Henderson, because one of the hotels he had bought had an expensive, beautiful neon sign that said Sheraton. He was too frugal to tear it down, so he named the rest of his hotels the same to match. He was also modest enough that he knew his name didn’t have a ring to it, and he did what was best for the company instead.

When her father bought a hotel, he knew that employees would worry about losing their jobs. So, the first thing he would do is call everyone into the ballroom and assure them that he wanted them to keep their jobs, and that his job was to give them the resources and encouragement they needed to show the world how good they are. When refurbishing hotels, the first areas he would focus on were the ones that customers wouldn’t even see—the employee dining rooms, kitchens, showers, and lockers. He wanted the employees to feel valuable, and he knew that the success of the hotel depended on the happiness of the employees. He had to show them that he valued and believed in them.

And her late husband, Frank Perdue, was always looking for ways to show the people he worked with how important they are to him. At Mitzi’s suggestion, they started inviting their associates—all 1,500 of them—over for dinner, one hundred at a time. At each dinner, Frank would wait on his employees and serve them.

People skills did not come naturally to Mitzi’s father, but he knew that the most important skill in the world is the ability to get along with people. He made that his lifetime study to make sure what makes people tick—all in order to overcome his deficit. Even if you’re not naturally talented with human relations skills, they can still be learned.

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Ep. 190: Mental Health Beyond Medication | with Dr. Fred Moss

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Fred Moss, a licensed psychiatrist known the world over who has served the medical health industry for nearly four decades. During that time, he has consulted patients, practitioners, medical facilities, non-profits, and community groups. He calls himself “a glorified childworker who picked up an MD along the way.”

Fred dropped out of college multiple times before deciding he wasn’t going to go, so he got a job as a civil servant in Michigan. Before too long, he was working as a childcare worker. He looked at the ways that doctors were treating children and he realized he didn’t like it. When the childcare workers called the doctors, oftentimes, the doctors would appear, do a cursory interview, and then medicate the kids. That was so impersonal and left the kids feeling dazed. He realized the only way to make a difference was to become a doctor who cared.

In 1987, biological psychiatry began to start up, and around that time, Prozac was introduced into the market; psychiatry began to shift from a field of listening to a field of diagnosing and medicating. Fred knew that this couldn’t be the best things could be. He began to start giving his patients a trial off of the medicine, and what he found was that many of his patients got better. He kept doing it, and he quickly became a non-diagnosing, non-medicating psychiatrist.

What we’re seeing now is an industry of psychiatrists treating people before they’ve been fully diagnosed, and then choosing to give a diagnosis based on the way they respond to the medication. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle. So how do we make a dent and leave people empowered in who they are increase their capacity to function optimally in the world? We give people the benefit of the doubt and get them to understand that there is nothing inherently wrong with them. It’s amazing the level of healing that can arise from just that reframe.

Dr. Fred Moss created a platform called Welcome to Humanity to help people walk themselves off of their medication and their diagnosis and get their life back.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There is nothing inherently wrong with you. Period. I don’t care who you are, I don’t care what they’ve told you, and I don’t really care if you think there’s something wrong with you. It’s normal to know that there’s something wrong with you. We all know that there’s something wrong with us. And that, in fact, is a key component of what it means to be human, knowing that there’s something wrong with me. When you get the basic notion that there is nothing at all inherently wrong with you from a mental health perspective life takes on a whole new color.”

Resources:

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Ep. 189: Find the Joy of Living, Pt. 2 | with Barry Shore

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Barry Shore, the Ambassador of Joy, for the second part of his interview. He is transforming the world through joy, and in his newest book, “The Joy of Living,” he reveals 11 strategies for living in joy daily, no matter the circumstances. He’s a successful serial entrepreneur with two multi-million dollar exits and three issued patents, and after all that, he set out to build a platform to teach people to live in joy.

Barry talked about how one of the most powerful tools for change is the act of getting uncomfortable. Our physiology is set up to be comfortable, to remain consistent in whatever it is we’re doing. So, by getting uncomfortable, you’re forcing the brain to start making changes.

The most important speech you will ever hear is your own self-talk. You can’t help other people until you are able to help and take care of yourself first. When you understand that you are a soul experiencing life fully, teaching always love and kindness, when you begin with yourself and make yourself the best you possible, you create bridges of joy, happiness, peace, and love.

Barry Shore is on a journey to make everyone smile. He began printing Keep Smiling cards and handing them out around the world. He ended up handing out over 10,000 cards in just six months and inspiring a global movement. His goal is to have 10 million in the world by 2030.

Together, everyone achieves miracles. People around the world are influencing things for the better, contributing, getting involved, and spreading happiness.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Be an ASKHOLE and thrive. ASKHOLE stands for ‘Always Seek Kindness, Helping Others Live Exuberantly.”

Resources:

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Ep. 188: Find the Joy of Living, Pt. 1 | with Barry Shore

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Barry Shore, the Ambassador of Joy. He is transforming the world through joy, and in his newest book, “The Joy of Living,” he reveals 11 strategies for living in joy daily, no matter the circumstances. He’s a successful serial entrepreneur with two multi-million dollar exits and three issued patents, and after all that, he set out to build a platform to teach people to live in joy.

Over the years, he has founded the Keep Smiling Movement, which has distributed over two million “Keep Smiling” cards for free. His radio show and podcast, The Joy of Living, has been downloaded millions of times, and he’s been featured on Fox, ABC, CBS, Forbes, Jack Canfield, and Oprah Winfrey.

But let’s go back a few years, to the morning of September 17, 2004. Barry Shore was able to stand up and walk the way he had almost every day of his life before then. But by the evening, he was in the hospital paralyzed from the neck down. He spent nearly half a year in the hospital, and two more years were spent in a hospital bed in his own home. Today, he is able to walk with the help of a walking wand, but he still manages to be positive, purposeful, and pleasant.

Barry talks about the three fundamentals of life:

Your life has purpose
Making a difference
Uncovering the secrets and power of everyday words and terms

One of the biggest barriers in the way of feeling joy everyday is stress. It keeps you from being the best you can be. Barry offers eleven strategies to slay their stress willfully and gratefully, and one of the most powerful is also one of the most head-turning: Getting uncomfortable. Staying comfortable stops us from being able to pursue, and achieve, our dreams. So get comfortable with being uncomfortable and see your life change in so many joyful ways.

Hear Barry’s Daily Helping in the second part of our interview.

Resources:

barryshore.com
Instagram: @barryeshore

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Ep. 187: You Don’t Have to be Perfect to Show the World Who You Are | with Genecia Alluora

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Genecia Alluora, a former beauty queen and the founder of Soul Rich Woman, South East Asia's leading network for female entrepreneurs connecting 12,000+ women and 200,000 subscribers across the region.

Over the last 17 years, Genecia has coached celebrities, CEOs, and politicians on how to be seen as a leader on stage, and today, she mentors thousands of women on how to bring their business and leadership brand online through her books, podcasts, and membership programs.

Genecia didn’t have a lot when she was growing up, having to work and support herself through school. Her mother made a sacrifice, selling all of her valuables, to help Genecia get certified to teach a few different types of classes. But she still hit a point where she realized she couldn’t do everything by herself. So she recruited a few other students as instructors and, bam, within an hour, she figured out how to make more with less — and this was her first taste of entrepreneurship.

Being an entrepreneur transformed her life, and now her vision is to support 1,000,000 to own and love the F word — no, not that one — and she is already well on the way to smashing that goal.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The sky is the limit and there’s no storm that you cannot conquer. Believe in yourself, step out of your comfort zone, and go towards the dreams that you’ve always wanted to achieve. Alone, you are strong. Together, we are unstoppable.”

Resources:

Soul Rich Woman
Instagram: @geneciaalluora
Facebook: facebook.com/geneciaalluora
Listen: For Women Who Love the F Word
Listen: Soul Why? The Secrets Of The Soul Rich Woman Blueprint
SRW Academy

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Ep. 186: Building a Fantastic Life | with Dr. Allen Lycka

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Allen Lycka, one of the leading cosmetic dermatologists in the world. A pioneer in cosmetic surgery, he helped to develop laser assisted tumescent liposuction, an advanced body sculpture technique, and Moh’s Micrographic Surgery, an advanced means of removing skin cancer with 99% success.

But in 2003, Dr. Lycka was diagnosed with Lou Gherigs’ disease and given only six months to live, but he fought that diagnosis with courage and determination. He went through all of the stages of grief, and in his stage of denial, he went out searching for what was actually wrong with him.

He found a doctor who was going through the same thing that he was. That doctor had been misdiagnosed with ALS and came to believe he had lyme disease from a tick bite. Once he started treatment with that assumption, he recovered rapidly. When Dr. Lycka met with this doctor and began treatment, he, too, started getting better. After this, he felt he had a second chance to help people even more than he once did.

Using what he learned, he co-authored “The Secrets to Living a Fantastic Life” with Harriet Tinka, and he speaks to groups all over the world about how to transform lives.

In “The Secrets to Living a Fantastic Life,” Dr. Allen goes over 13 Golden Pearls for Living a Fantastic Life:

Love
Inspiration
Victory
Vulnerability
Purpose
Non-Negotiables
Forgiveness
Attitude
Thankfulness
Tenaciousness
Laughter
Enthusiasm
Empowerment

We’re all facing a lot of fear right now. It’s possible this could be a time for despair, but we can also choose to use this as a time to move forward and propel us into a greater time. We are not going to be complete at any one given time, but we have to keep moving forward.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It’s not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens. I want you to take those words and really take them home, because those are truly the magic words that everybody could use.”

Resources:

drallenlycka.com
Text GOLDEN PEARLS to 1-819-717-2515 to get one golden pearl a week and reshape your life
Instagram: @dr_allen_lycka
Read: “The Secrets to Living a Fantastic Life”

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Ep. 185: Using Backwards Networking to Reach Ideal Clients | with Dov Gordon

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dov Gordon of ProfitableRelationships.com. He helps consultants use backwards networking to reach their ideal clients consistently.Experienced consultants know that the best clients come from referrals and relationships, but conventional networking advice doesn't work for everyone. So, Dov offers a simple and practical alternative to the unpredictable world of networking that will allow you to become an under-the-radar leader in your industry.

Many people today are being forced to create their own business right now, but they’ve never been trained in how to do that properly. If you want to get your presence known and you’re just starting out, you have to answer three simple questions in the minds of your ideal client:

Why should I pay attention to this?
Are you for real?
Is what you recommend right for me?

The only thing that’s going to get the interest of your ideal client is solving a problem they have and don’t want, or getting a result they want and don’t have.

The key part in all of this is forging meaningful relationships. Over the years, Dov built what he calls an “alchemy network” of people who have similar values and similar audiences, and they support and promote each other. He realized that this is something anybody could do, but very few people actually were.

Building a network like this can be a very powerful alternative to the common advice of becoming a “guru” on social media, which only works for a small handful of people. By creating a network of like-minded people who all have something to add, and making it easy for those people to have conversations, you can build up your customer base and authority without having to become an internet celebrity.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Listen to your gut and then make your brain play along. If your gut says to do something and your brain is saying, ‘but, but, this could go wrong,’ and ‘that could go wrong,’ listen to your gut because your gut knows. And when it comes to business, your gut is going to lead you towards your big opportunities but they’re going to scare you. Your brain is going to come up with all sorts of reasons why you shouldn’t invest the money, you shouldn’t put in the time, why you’ve got to do other things first. Listen to your gut and then give your brain a better question. Ask your brain how you can make this work as opposed to how it could go wrong.”

Resources:

profitablerelationships.com/dailyhelping
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dovgordon
Twitter: twitter.com/DovGordon

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Ep. 184: The 6 Habits: How to Live Like the Happiest People on Earth | with Laura DiBenedetto

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Laura DiBenedetto, the number one bestselling author of “The Six Habits,” TEDx speaker, and mastery coach who teaches people how to create the lives of their dreams without sacrificing what they love. She is the founder and CEO of the award-winning marketing company Vision Advertising, which she built up for 19 years to tremendous success before retiring from active involvement in 2018 at the age of 37.

Over the years, Laura personally sold millions of dollars worth of ongoing contracts, was featured on FOX News, and was publicly recognized for her business accomplishments. She was named a 40 Under 40 award winner at the age of 23.

At 32 years old, she was already beginning to feel the burnout of the “hustle and grind” lifestyle, so she began looking for an exit strategy. It took her a few years to figure out what she wanted to do, and her strategy was to get herself “lovingly fired” by selling off half of her stake in the company and allowing herself to be phased out.

After stripping everything away except the core of herself, she realized that none of the accomplishments that came before had actually made her happy. She needed to find happiness for real, and that’s what led her to the discovery of The Six Habits.

The Six Habits are:

Kindness: Like a parent encouraging a child, you need your inner voice to be kind and encouraging towards you when you are facing hard times.
Acceptance: How we feel about ourselves and unconditionally loving ourselves.
Gratitude: The lens of appreciation through which you look at everything in your life, including the hard things that could be considered bad.
Presence: Choosing to be in the moment you are in instead of wishing you were somewhere else. Even difficult moments can be made more pleasant if we just allow ourselves to be there and experience them.
Goodness: Watch what is coming in, add in positive things, subtract the negative things.
Intention: How you approach your desires and take action. Searching for clarity and movement whenever you can.

These are all very basic concepts, but it’s the application that is tricky. After how many years of life on this planet, you’ve built up a habit of speaking to yourself a certain way.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Your job in life is to love yourself, enjoy your life, and do the work. All the things you learned in this episode, or anywhere, are useless without application. Take whatever you learn and apply it to your life. That is where change comes from.”

Resources:

thesixhabits.com
The Six Habits of the Happiest People | Laura DiBenedetto | TEDxMcphs
Instagram: @lauraldibenedetto
Facebook: facebook.com/lauraldibenedetto

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Ep. 183: Taking Small Steps to Big Profits | with Tony Guarnaccia

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Tony Guarnaccia, who’s helped thousands of businesses survive crisis—whether it was post-9/11, a massive recession, or amidst massive company acquisitions, he’s helped businesses navigate through uncertainty and emerge stronger on the other side.

Over his 20-year career as an entrepreneur, business owner, and enterprise marketer, he’s worked with the best-in-class businesses in every industry, including Google, Microsoft, ADP, Ford, BMW, and Foster Grant, to name a few. He’s helped grow over ten thousand small businesses and a dozen Fortune 500 companies.

Tony grew up within a small business family of bakers. His parents were fantastic bakers, but they didn’t know what they didn’t know about growing a business, and when he was 12 years old, they were essentially homeless. In college, he was on a mission to redeem himself. As part of his graduation plan, he wrote a business plan for an online bakery that transformed into a mail-order cake company that made gift cakes for promotional products. It was going amazing at first until Tony found out that he didn’t know what he didn’t know about running a business.

Realizing he didn’t know how to run a business, he asked himself “Who does know?” That led him on a journey to work with the absolute best companies in the world. Even though his business had failed, he had done a lot of things right. He used the expertise he’d gained in leveraging search engine optimization (SEO) and got the first job that came up, because not many people had heard of SEO at the time. He went on to have some amazing opportunities by being in the right place at the right time and being prepared to take those opportunities.

He was traveling a lot and wanted a more balanced lifestyle with his family, so he went on to start helping small businesses leverage the same tools, tactics, and strategies that these big businesses are using. Part of what they are lacking was the foundation of knowing their why and having a strategy, so he started a training and coaching company.

Tony has learned to specialize in helping businesses make it through difficult times. His mom, at 9 months old, had contracted polio and could walk until she was 14. She taught him about resiliency and the power of breaking things down into taking small steps.

How do you do that? You have to do these 3 things:

Know what steps to take
Know how to take those steps
Actually take the steps

It sounds simple, and it is, but implementation is what makes the difference.

If you can lay the foundation, find out what you want, and take the steps to get there, small businesses—and individuals—can achieve the same results as big companies.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You have to slow down to speed up. So often we just want to jump right into things, but in business and life that costs time, effort, and money. A lot of bad decisions are made because we jump in without thinking it through.”

Resources:

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Ep. 182: Stop Drifting & Take Control of Your Future: Own Your Career, Own Your Life | with Andy Storch

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Andy Storch, an author, consultant, coach, speaker, and facilitator on a mission to get the most out of life and inspire others to do the same. He is also the host of two podcasts — The Talent Development Hot Seat and The Andy Storch Show — and the author of “Own Your Career, Own Your Life,” which is designed to help professionals stop drifting and take control of their futures.

When Andy was on the show back in episode 115, just a little over one year ago, this book wasn’t really on his radar. But as he got more into personal development — by way of Hal Elrod, like myself — he realized that he already had a message he wanted to put out into the world. He just hadn’t put it all in one place yet.

A big part of Andy’s message is contrary to a lot of what you’ll see in the self-development space these days, which often emphasizes the personal freedom unlocked through entrepreneurship. And that’s true, to an extent, but being an entrepreneur isn’t for everyone — and it’s not necessary to live a happy and abundant life.

So Andy endeavored to create a resource that was applicable to anyone who has been told that you can’t have it all, or that you have to put your time in and then you can have a good life in retirement. This is a resource to help anyone put in the priorities, boundaries, and systems that will allow them to, as the title says, own their lives.

This may not be the right time to burn all the ships and charge forward with a grand new venture, this might not be the right time to tell your boss where to stick it. But there are still ways to take back control, and Andy has some practical strategies to help you do it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want you to think about where you’ve been drifting in your life, letting other people or society dictate how you live and what you do for work and in your career. Where can you really flip a switch and start to take ownership, start to take responsibility, stop playing the victim, and set a course and really start moving towards that. Stop putting things off, stop procrastinating.”

Where can you take ownership today? Where can you really dive in and own your future?

Resources:

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Ep. 181: The Art of Letting Go | with Hale Dwoskin

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Hale Dwoskin, a New York Times bestselling author and author of “The Sedona Method.” He’s also been featured in the movie “Letting Go” and is one of the featured teachers in the book and movie phenomenon, “The Secret.” For over four decades, he’s dedicated his life to helping people eliminate their suffering and discover the truth of who they really are.

Hale had been organizing Theta seminars when he met Lester Levenson, who was attending as a guest. He seemed different from anyone else in the self-help or spiritual community; he was no longer seeking anything, he was just a living embodiment of peace and happiness. And his story was fascinating:

Levenson had been very successful, but when he was told he was going to die, he started a process of self-inquiring. He found that he could let go of all of the craziness inside of himself, and as he did that, he felt better and better, and he ended up living another 42 years. Over time, his teachings were passed on to Hale, who helps pass these lessons onto others through “The Sedona Method.”

The idea behind the Sedona Method is the realization that your feelings and thoughts are not you, and you can let them go. Most of us live as though we are our feelings or our thoughts. But when you let go of these, you realize there’s a you that’s much bigger than that, and it’s this presence of awareness at the heart of every experience. And as you’re able to let go of the thoughts and feelings that aren’t serving you, you discover that limits drop away.

How do you follow the process of letting go? These are the steps:

Allow yourself to think of something in your life that you’d like to change or improve: You want more money, better relationships, better health, or less tension and stress.
Focus on how it feels for a moment.
Allow that feeling and let it be here.
Then, as best as you can, let it go.

You may have to do this several times, and it will get easier to do every time. It is deceptively simple, but it works.

Hale is currently re-releasing his five book series "Happiness Is Free" as a single package, which helps you realize that the happiness you seek outside you is already available within you, and you can access it whenever you want.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are already whole, complete, and perfect as you are. Not in all the struggles, but at your core. And that can become your living experience if you are just open to letting go of all the things that you are not and letting yourself discover that truth within yourself, that you have no limits except the ones that you cling to.”

Resources:

Learn more: sedona.com
Watch: Letting Go: The Sedona Method Movie
Read: “The Sedona Method”
Read: "Happiness Is Free"
Read: “The Secret”
Pre-Order: "The Greatest Secret"

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Ep. 180: Veteran’s Day Special: Creating an Unbeatable Mind | with Mark Divine

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

In this special Veteran’s Day episode, our expert guest is Mark Divine. US Navy Seals are America’s toughest warriors. The training to become a Navy Seal is grueling, and less than 15% make it through the nine-month selection process called Basic Underwater Demolition Seal Training (BUDs), an unparalleled test of physical stamina, mental toughness, and emotional resilience. Mark not only made it through BUDs at 26, but he graduated as the honor man, the #1 honor rank in a class among 170. Even more striking, his entire original boat crew graduated with him that day—a one in a million occurrence that did not happen by accident. It was the first of many elite teams Mark went on to build.

Through Mark’s innovative SEAL Fit and Unbeatable Mind training systems, including the Hell Week Simulation Kokoro Crucible, he provides the physical, mental, and emotional tools to allow not 15% but 90% of his trainees to lead and succeed in the most demanding training in the world.

Mark’s family had groomed him to go into business, and he was working as a certified public accountant. But he was also an athlete and, while working, he was trying to maintain his physical training. He took up martial arts and found his first master, who began to train him in zen through martial arts. Through meditation, Mark found his purpose: to become a warrior and a leader, and to do this by becoming a Navy SEAL.

Mark picked up five critical skills through working with his mentor:

Breath control
Deep concentration
Visualization
Radical focus on micro-goals
Focusing on helping others overcome their struggles

Mark Divine has founded the Courage Foundation to help vets recovering from depression and to prevent the staggering number of suicides every year. He works with them emotionally, therapeutically, and physically to help them recover from the traumas they’ve experienced.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Everything that you’re searching for in life lies within you, and the way to find that is to slow down, to take control of your conscious process of breathing, and then let the breath bridge between the physical outer world and then into your mind and then your spirit. Just follow the breath in, and then once you’re in there’s no going back. You’ll find your answers, you’ll find your answers about your purpose in life, why you’re here, and what you can do about it. And just take action.”

Resources:

feedcourage.org
Visit seekyourpowers.com and use the code FEEDCOURAGE to give half of the proceeds to the Courage Foundation

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Ep. 179: 4 Entrepreneurial Instincts & How to Unlock Them | with Tra Williams

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Tra Williams, a nationally recognized expert in entrepreneurship and business strategy. He’s horrified by the widening gap between entrepreneurship and employment, and he’s made it his mission to rescue 1 million entrepreneurs from traditional employment. In “Boss Brain,” he reveals a scientifically proven system that unlocks the reader's true potential and unleashes their entrepreneurial instincts so that they can leave traditional employment forever.

Since the 1940’s, entrepreneurship has almost entirely declined year over year. Despite the fact that around 70% of Americans would prefer to be self-employed, only 7% of Americans actually are. On top of that, workplace satisfaction is at an all-time low. Why is this happening?

In our heads, there’s a battle between instinctive optimism and our inherent need for certainty. The base of our hierarchy of needs has become relatively certain, and with that our need for certainty is conquering our genetic and hard-wired optimism.

We are all born with the instincts to become entrepreneurs, but we are taught to be employees. This is why so many people have the desire to be entrepreneurs—it’s in their blood. We just have to unlearn all the programming that taught us to be employees.

There are four instincts for being an entrepreneur:

Belief (which is made up of optimism, self-efficacy, and action)
Accountability
Focus
Creativity

One of the biggest points that gets would-be entrepreneurs hung up is taking action. Belief is reverse-engineered. It requires some evidence. Even if you don’t believe today that you could build a successful business, if you start taking micro-actions every day, you begin to build up that belief. In order to do this, you need to work on developing a growth mindset. Instead of focusing on the enormity of your goals, focus on being better tomorrow than you are today.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Comfort is the enemy of progress. The more predictable your life is, the more complacent you become and the less you take action. Unless you’re taking action today, you’re doing nothing to change your future tomorrow. If you want tomorrow, and the day after that and the week after that and the year after that to look exactly the same as today, then do as you’ve always done. The one thing that’s going to undermine your entrepreneurial spirit is to build walls around yourself and increase the level of comfort and safety that you feel.”

Resources:

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Ep. 178: The Psychology of Trading | with Chris Tate

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Chris Tate, one of the first people to ever release a share trading book in Australia, and he has had an extraordinary impact on thousands of traders. The best selling author of “The Art of Trading” and “The Art of Options Trading in Australia,” his brutally honest approach and meticulous pursuit of excellence ensure that exceptional traders all around the world quote his market comments.

Chris Tate was a 6’4”, 230 pounds, and worked as a bouncer while he was in school. It almost felt like a natural fit. Chris, however, saw it as an interesting sociological experiment. He loved talking to people and observing the way various people behaved. He’d often wonder how people got to where they are in life. Through observing people’s behaviors, he realized he could map out the trajectory of their lives. You can get a sense of why people are the way they are, and that’s a skill he’s carried with him throughout his life.

How does this relate to trading? People view trading as a financial skill, but it’s really a psychological endeavor. People fail when they don’t have their psychological skills developed. In life, we generally boil down complex ideas into a reductionist viewpoint, and it ends up failing in practice because it ignores the human element.

If people want to start investing during this time, there are a few things you need to keep in mind. First, take a deep breath, pause, and wait. Too many decisions are made in the heat of the moment. Educate yourself. Second, do not take any financial advice out there. The majority of people giving advice have no idea what they’re doing, they don’t have the proper experience, and the only person who is taking a risk is you.

How do you trade successfully? Chris says there are only three things to know:

When the market is going up, you buy it
When the market is going down, you sell it
You do not bet the farm

That last one is the most important one. You should not make any decision that, if it goes wrong, will create immense financial grief. It’s the capacity to control our impulses that is the defining line between people who are successful and who are not.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Remember, we all want to be the hero of our own narrative, but very few people take the time and effort to look at what their narrative is and what sort of hero they want to be. If more people did that, their narrative would become clearer, calmer, and more peaceful.”

Resources:

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Ep. 177: Giving Athletes a Second Chance at Life | with Darryll Stinson

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Darryll Stinson, a thought leader on athletic transition, a dynamic TEDx speaker, pastor, and certified John Maxwell coach. He shares his life experience with addition, mental illness, and suicide and how those experiences impacted his life.

Darryll played defensive end at Central Michigan University from 2008-2011, where he helped his team win a MAC championship. He later went on to found Second Change Athletes, a holistic athletic transition company that gives athletes a second chance to succeed at life without the demands of sports.

While at Central as a freshman, Darryll was trying to impress the upperclassmen by squatting—which he was not supposed to be doing due to a back issue—and he felt a sharp pain go through his body. He knew that something was wrong. He kept up the tough guy act and didn’t find out for three months that he had pinched a nerve in his back, which resulted in emergency surgery.

After the surgery, he had the opportunity to focus on his education while still honoring his scholarship. Instead, because football was his whole life, he signed a liability waiver and joined up with the team again, and he put his body through two years of drug addiction and health care manipulation in order to numb himself enough to be able to play. The only way he could pay for all of this out of pocket was by selling drugs.

Senior year, the coaches noticed something was going on and they kicked him off the team. Darryll realized he wasn’t prepared for life after sports. The moment he was not a part of that team, his phone stopped ringing. It felt as if he didn’t matter at all. On top of that, his girlfriend of four years left him. This led to suicidal thoughts and an attempted overdose. It is only through the love of his family that he is still here today, and now he’s passing that support on to others who need a reminder about their self-worth.

From this experience, Darryll founded Second Chance Athletes. He went on a journey to discover meaning, and, through a lot of work, he came to a point where he realized that he loved his life, and he wouldn’t trade it for a multi-million dollar athletic contract because it was what he was supposed to be doing. When he looked around at his former athlete friends, he realized they still talked about the sport as if they were still playing it. Their lives were in the past. He analyzed how he got to the life that he loves and how he can apply that to others, and he came up with a five-step roadmap, the Athlete Transition Roadmap:

Accept
Believe
Discover
Pursue
Persist

In his new book, “Who Am I After Sports?,” Darryll pours everything he has learned about developing a life you love and moving forward. It’s full of stories and best practices for identity sculpting and transformation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Everything you need you already have inside of you. You’re just developing it. Reading doesn’t give you something that you don’t have, it only develops what you already have inside of you. IF you have big dreams, big plans, great desires, and you think that you’re not good enough, pretty enough, smart enough, know that that is a lie, and the truth is that you have everything that you need to do everything that you’re called to do. So go do it.”

Resources:

darryllstinson.com
secondchanceathletes.com
Instagram: @stinsonspeaks | @secondchanceathletes

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Ep. 176: How Good Guys Can Be Better Allies to Women | with Brad Johnson & David Smith

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guests are Brad Johnson and David Smith, co-authors of the forthcoming book “Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies For Women In The Workplace.”

David Smith, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the National Security Affairs Department at the United States Naval War College. A former Navy pilot, Dr. Smith led diverse organizations of women and men culminating in command of a squadron in combat and flew more than 3,000 hours over 30 years, including combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a sociologist trained in military sociology and social psychology, he focuses his research in gender, work, and family issues including bias in performance evaluations, retention of women, dual career families, military families, and women in the military.

Brad Johnson, PhD, is professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the United States Naval Academy, and a faculty associate in the Graduate School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. A clinical psychologist and former commissioned officer in the Navy’s Medical Service Corps, Dr. Johnson served as a psychologist at Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Medical Clinic at Pearl Harbor where he was the division head for psychology. He is an award-winning mentor with distinguished mentor awards from the National Institutes of Health and the American Psychological Association.

Through Brad’s career researching mentorship, he noticed that women get less mentoring, lower quality mentoring, and less sponsorship. He was always interested in why men were reluctant to mentor women. Dave was also focused on women in the workplace and the dynamic presented there. Together, they collaborated on figuring out how to get men to come to the table as better mentors for women, what men need to know, and what women would like them to know. That led to their first book, "Athena Rising." But they kept getting pulled into discussions around allyship and how men aren’t playing a role in resolving gender inequities, which led to their new project.

There are two major parts to allyship, both in how women and men who experienced it describe it. The first is the interpersonal relationships and how we show up every day, either as formal mentors or professional relationships or as friends and peers. The second part is the systemic part, which is holding others and the organizations you are a part of accountable. If we see bias, we have to be willing to call it out and work to find a solution.

When talking to men who were identified as good allies to women in the workplace, Brad and David identified three key aspects:

They were comfortable talking about diversity and gender.
They were comfortable owning up to their mistakes.
They were also very transparent about what they were doing and why.

So how do we make changes and improvements in this regard? One thing you can do is get comfortable with talking to and mentoring women. We also need to be thinking about policies that are good for everyone, including women, that will benefit the entire workplace. “Good Guys” offers several ways we can all start being better allies.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t try to solve women’s problems. Just listen. Find out about their experiences, what they want. Just listen.

Allyship is a journey, and we’re all in different places on that journey. We don’t have all the answers and we have to learn along the way. We have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable so we can make the change to the status quo.”

Resources:

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Ep. 175: The Subconscious Advantage: Understanding Subconscious Bias | with Leslie Zane

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Leslie Zane, nicknamed “Miss Question” by her business school classmates. Leslie Zane’s endless intellectual curiosity fueled her search for the elusive key to changing customer behavior. Working in brand management for blue-chip companies, she found success to be remarkably “hit or miss.” So she struck out on her own and founded Triggers to help companies create consistent success. Over the past 25 years, the company has developed a track record in accelerating growth through its unique expertise in changing instinctive brand purchase.

Leslie had been working in brand management for top companies like Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson, and while she learned a lot, she always felt like we could be doing better in marketing. Half of all marketing initiatives were hits, while the other half were misses. There had to be a better way. She felt that the key had something to do with the customer’s gut instincts about a product.

Our conscious mind is resistant and skeptical of the marketing we see in our daily lives. It knows it’s being sold to and it pushes back. But only 5% of our decisions are made with our conscious mind, and the other 95% is made by our subconscious minds. This is where brand associations form in the first place. So it stands to reason that this should be where we focus our marketing efforts. And the great news is, it takes far fewer resources than traditional marketing.

How do you go about marketing to your customers at a subconscious level? There are two simple rules for growing brands:

Your brand has to have the largest physical footprint in the brain.
You need to have more positive than negative associations.

There are also subconscious cues you can establish in your marketing that help you connect with your audience. The old world of marketing thought the best way to grow was to stand out. While that’s partially true, our brains are hardwired to recognize the familiar first. What gets us to stop is recognizing something familiar in a product. So the first rule toward building a large footprint in the mind is to build off of things that already exist. This will help your brand stay relevant and branch out in the brain quickly.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t be like everybody else. Don’t go against the conscious mind to persuade people and convince them, that’s going to take you a very long time to achieve. Instead, go through the subconscious. Connect with things that people already believe and already have in their memories and gain the subconscious advantage. That’s how you can really make some inroads faster than all of your competition. If you do that, you’re going to see your growth accelerate, because the truth is that every brand and every company has untapped growth potential.”

Resources:

triggers.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lesliepicotzane
Twitter: twitter.com/Leslie_Zane

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Ep. 174: Life-Long Passion & Sexual Intimacy | with Susan Bratton

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Susan Bratton, an intimacy wellness expert and a champion and advocate for those who desire intimacy and passion their whole life long. She’s the best-selling author and publisher of lovemaking techniques, bedroom communication skills, and sexual vitality advice including “Sexual Soulmates,” "Relationship Magic," “Hormone Balancing,” and more.

Susan had a very successful career in marketing, advertising, and sales before she ran into intimacy issues in her marriage, sending her towards divorce. Through a combination of therapy and sex workshops, they realized that the only thing that had happened to their marraige was a lack of knowledge, a lack of skills, and a lack of communication. Once they learned more about sex, their sex life became fantastic.

How do you transform sex into making love? And what exactly does that mean? Anyone can figure out how basic procreation works, that’s built into our biology. But there’s a deeply emotional, spiritual sex that is much harder to achieve. Along the way, you can reach a higher level of awareness, which is focusing on mutual pleasure rather than the individual pleasure you experience during sex, but a lot of people get stuck there. The third level is two people completely, ruthlessly sexually self-expressed in mutual, conjoined pleasure.

With everything going on in the world, many people are feeling stressed out. How can we focus on passionate sex with everything that’s on our minds? If you are lucky enough to have a partner, the single best things that you can do is to hold each other. In her book “Sexual Soulmates,” Susan spent over a decade trying to help people have really great sex, and she details the six fundamentals to making your sex life better that she learned in the process. One of those is becoming more embodied: slowing down, touching, connecting to each other's eyes. When we get stressed we tend to pull ourselves back and away, we stop cuddling, and we forget what we really need.

Susan has created a holding technique—the best foreplay hug in the world—called the soulmate embrace. It teaches men to hold a woman in the way that she’s always longed to be held but that she’s never thought to ask. You want to hold her until she’s relaxed, and then she has to say what’s on her mind to become more relaxed. And then you have to hold her even closer, and stroke her body from top to bottom to get her out of her head into feeling her body. And then she’ll likely want to go to the next step, which is kissing and touching and more. This is the kind of connection that we need in times of stress like this.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Your sexuality is a precious gift. It’s a gift of your humanity. It’s a gift of pleasure and connection. It’s more beautiful than the most delicious meal. And it’s as important as your health and your family, but it doesn’t happen without you putting attention on it. There are so many techniques you can learn, so much pleasure that can be available to you. Keep making new trysts with your own sexuality and moving toward more pleasure, whether it’s solo pleasure or pleasure with a partner.”

Resources:

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Ep. 173: Leading With Intent | with Kevin Kruse

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Kevin Kruse, the founder and CEO of LEADx, whose mission is to spark the next 100 million leaders through the use of AI-powered leadership coaching. He’s also the host of the LEADx Leadership Podcast, a Forbes columnist, and New York Times best-selling author of nine books, including “15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management” and his latest, “Great Leaders Have No Rules.”

When he was a teenager, Kevin saw his father try to be an entrepreneur and almost lose everything, but rather than scaring him away from that path, it solidified his desire to have a hand in his own future.

Kevin’s latest book “Great Leaders Have No Rules” is, contrary to the title, not about breaking the rules or being a rebel—it’s about the problems with rules in general. Every time we bump into a rule, it takes away an opportunity to make a choice. And every time we have a choice taken away from us, we feel less engaged, less a part of the company we work for. Instead of forcing rules onto people, we can get them to buy into the shared values of the company and feel like they are contributing to the team.

He started several companies from the age of 22 on, and his first few companies crashed and burned. He didn’t understand how to manage his time. He didn’t understand leadership. Eventually, he realized that, if you want to do great things, you need a talented team of people and you need to lead them effectively. The less time he spent working on the company and the more he spent on leadership and culture, the better his companies did.

After seeing a huge advance in artificial intelligence, and noticing that it was now being used for cognitive behavioral therapy, Kevin asked himself: why couldn’t it be used to coach people for leadership? That’s the premise behind his new company, LEADx. You can download the app directly from Google or Apple right now. The goal is not to mimic a coaching conversation, but imitating the process. In behavior change studies, there have been increases in employee engagement and productivity while also seeing reductions of stress. It’s very early, but the progress is encouraging.

If you can afford a human coach, you can and should still get a human coach. But for a fraction of the price, you can get a coach-like experience that will give you progress in the areas that you want to focus on. Coaching should be accessible to everyone, and LEADx is aiming to lead the charge in creating that future.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Leadership isn’t a choice. You are a leader whether you want to be or not. Leadership boils down to influence, and what we know from behavioral psychology is that we are influencing people all the time, whether we want to or not. Whether you are at home or at work, you are leading your family, you are leading your team members, you are leading people out in the world. Don’t take your actions for granted. When you speak up, you’re influencing people. When you choose to stay silent, you’re influencing people. When you’re taking action, you’re influencing people, and when you’re a bystander, that’s influencing people. You’re always influencing people. Be mindful of your power and lead with intent.”

Resources:

Learn more: leadx.org
Instagram: @kevinauthor
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kevinkruse67
Read: “Great Leaders Have No Rules”
Read: “15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management”

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Ep. 172: Find Your Voice & Start Your Personal Brand | with Jeremy Segal

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Jeremy Segal, the host of one of the top influencer podcasts in the world, Why Influence, where he interviews the world's most influential people to share their hidden knowledge and wisdom. You wouldn't guess it from this episode, but Jeremy used to struggle to share in groups and online and had a difficult time connecting with people. But this inspired him to create his podcast and become an influencer himself.

It all started with giving himself permission to put himself out there and take risks. He had always wanted to be an entrepreneur, so he chose his college degrees to help him on that path. After landing a CFO position at the age of 25, he gave himself permission to be an entrepreneur. The second time was when he gave himself permission to have a voice and help people overcome the barriers they were facing in their business.

Jeremy has plenty of experience building brands, but he would always edit himself out of clips. He didn’t want to be in the front stage. But once that brand had been sold and moved on, he had to start from scratch. By building a personal brand, he’d be able to carry that with him for his whole life.

If you haven’t started out building your own personal brand, here’s where you can start:

Find your Why. Why are you trying to start a business? What kind of impact do you want to have? Why do you want to share? If you can discover a Why, even if you want to change it later, you can find the power to push through roadblocks.
Choose the platform that’s right for you. What kind of people are you trying to impact and why? Who do you want to connect with? By answering these questions, you can probably find the right platform for you. And just start with the one that your audience will be using.

The biggest pitfall when it comes to starting a personal brand is not starting soon enough. Nobody who’s started this work looks back and doesn’t wish they had started earlier. You can make an impact in so many lives with the knowledge you have inside of yourself, so don’t hold back and keep it to yourself. Share that knowledge with the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Your voice matters. You’ve got hidden wisdom inside you that other people need to hear. Just start sharing that with people and seeing that that has value, and once you start seeing that it has value just think about how many people are out there that don’t have that or aren’t hearing that. It’s really important to find something that helps people and makes and impact and start sharing it.”

Resources:

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Ep. 171: Nurturing a Happy, Healthy, High-Performing Brain | with Sarah McKay

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Sarah McKay, a neuroscientist and science communicator who specializes in translating brain science research into simple, actionable strategies for peak performance, creativity, health, and wellbeing. She sums up her research with three words: Nature, Nurture, and Neuroplasticity. She also authored the popular science book “The Women’s Brain Book: The Neuroscience of Health, Hormones, and Happiness,” which explores women’s health “from womb to tomb” through the lens of neurobiology.

After her first year of university, she read the classic book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks and, from that moment, became gripped by the idea of brain science. She switched universities to start studying neuroscience, and she discovered it to be a rich and diverse subject. She had a clear idea of what interested her and she followed through with it.

Sarah is an expert on mind and body health, and she believes in approaching brain health from three different dimensions:

From the bottom up: how can we nurture our body and biology to keep our brains happy and healthy?
From the outside in: The outside world is fundamental to who we are and how our brain has evolved.
From the top down: Our mindset, our thoughts, and our emotional regulation.

She recommends starting from the bottom up: focus on sleep (one of your innate superpowers), get your nutrition in check, and make sure you are moving your bodies regularly. This reminds us that we have agency and that we have choices in how we move. If you get these things down, you will have a really solid foundation for your brain health.

From the outside in is all about connecting to nature. We are meant to be natural creatures and spend time outside. We are also social creatures, and we need other people and community to nurture our mental health.

The hardest one to manage is the top down approach to brain health: What can we do to promote our brain health when looking at our thoughts, our mindset, and our emotions? Our brains need intellectual stimulation and growth. We need to look at how we can remain cognitively challenged throughout our lifespan.

With everything that’s going on in the world, we need to be thinking about our mental health more than ever. These tips will help you approach it from three directions to optimize your brain for happiness and performance.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Without even one good night’s sleep, everything else starts to fall apart. It’s harder to exercise, it’s harder to be emotionally regulated, it’s harder to connect socially, we’re not going to eat as well, we’re not going to want to run or connect with the world. Finding ways to honor the fact that we are these biological organisms that evolved to function best in a light dark cycle, that’s the best way we can help ourselves. And it’s a lovely way to pass time.”

Resources:

drsarahmckay.com/toolkit
Instagram: @drsarahmckay
Read: “The Women’s Brain Book"
Read: "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"

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Ep. 170: Crowd Sourcing Miracles | with Michelle Patterson

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Michelle Patterson, the founder of the Global Women Foundation, one of the world’s leading foundations for gender equality and human rights. She’s the CEO of the California Women’s Conference, the nation’s largest and longest-running conference for women in North America. She has spearheaded numerous projects, including Groupon getaways with 200,000 attendees nationwide, and is a sought-after media commentator for the Huffington Post, CNBC, Fox Business News, and Bloomberg as well as hundreds of TV and radio stations. She was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by President Barack Obama.

In April of 2019, Michelle was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer and given 90 days to live. When the surgeon was telling her all of the places the cancer had spread to, Michelle did what she always did in stressful situations—she made a joke: “So you think I’ve got a chance?” Her sister scolded her and said this isn’t the best time to be making jokes, but Michelle disagreed. That was the best time to be making jokes, and she realized at that moment the power of deciding what is best for you.

Michelle was told that she wasn’t a candidate for surgery, but instead of moping, she created a healthy option for herself—a playground that she could play on. There are several stories of the healing power of positivity, and Michelle knew that, by believing she would be okay, she could overcome this. That doesn’t mean she sat around doing nothing but believing, though: She knew there were better treatment options than the ones being provided to her, and she started taking a cannabis protocol that started producing results.

She built up a group of doctors that shared what they knew, created video testimonials, and started what she calls the Wellness Team Family. Along with those doctors, they began to explore the healing modalities that are available to all of us and seeing what is working for real people across the world. They began to collect all of this information, not to sell anything but to share what was actually working for real people. As she puts it, “We are crowd sourcing miracles.”

This grew into The Real Share, where Michelle has created a global tribe that shares in the benefits of the geniuses of the world as they share everything they know. In her quest to survive breast cancer, Michelle learned what it means to thrive in life—and now she is sharing that with the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Check out The Real Share. We’re celebrating having an all-access pass to The Real Share. If you want to have the assessment and can’t afford it, I want to crowdsource that miracle to have you not only afford the assessment but have access to the Made With Love directory as well as all the different resources we have available for The Real Share. It’s available out there for you, whether you are having issues with your wellness or creating wealth. Find out what it is that you need and go for it. Don’t settle for anything less than 100% joy in your life.”

Resources:

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Ep. 169: The Power of Asking Questions (Part 2) | with Mark Victor Hansen and Crystal Hansen

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today expert guests Mark and Crystal Hansen return for part two of our conversation about the power of asking questions.

In our last episode, we talked about what kinds of questions to ask yourself, and how finding the right ones can lead to incredible answers. I recommend going back back to check out part one if you haven’t yet.

But with so many people uncomfortable asking questions, how do we overcome the self-consciousness that keeps us from doing so?

There are seven roadblocks to asking, and nearly everyone encounters at least one of them regularly:

Unworthiness
Naivete
Doubt
Excuses
Fear
Pattern paralysis
Disconnection

Each one of these roadblocks is worth exploring, and in “Ask,” there are stories of people overcoming all of them. This is a powerful tool for learning because, when we hear someone else’s story, we recognize the patterns in someone’s life and are able to apply the information more deeply to our own lives.

And while this may sound more spiritual than anything, there is plenty of empirical science to back it up as well. In studies conducted about asking, people who ask often think they will be perceived as pushy, obnoxious, or uninformed. But the truth of the matter was that by asking the question you are 80% more likely to get your request granted. There have also been several studies on the beauty of curiosity. Sitting with people and asking questions opens up so many opportunities in business and your personal life, and people who ask good questions on a first date are far more likely to go on a second date.

Mark and Crystal have a bold ask for you as well: Buy their book “Ask” and discover the power of questions, and how you can use them to elevate your potential.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Crystal: “Remember that your life is created from the inside out. So go inside, spend time with yourself, ask yourself the questions that you need to ask, and create the architecture for your own life.”

Mark: “Once you get on this asking journey, ask yourself how you’re going to be 100% successful to take care of yourself, then your spouse, then your family, then your city, then your state, then your country, then the world. We need people to become visionary leaders, and the only way to do that is to be a good self leader by asking the right question. Only then can you lead others.”

Resources:

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Ep. 168: The Power of Asking Questions (Part 1) | with Mark Victor Hansen and Crystal Hansen

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guests are Mark and Crystal Hansen. Mark is probably best known as the co-author for the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series, which set world records for book sales with over 500 million copies sold. He’s a prolific writer with 307 books authored and co-authored, including “The Aladdin Factor,” “The Power of Focus,” “The Richest Kids in America,” “The Miracles in You,” “You Have a Book in You,” and “The One Minute Millionaire” series. Crystal is a business strategist, successful entrepreneur, speaker, and author in both the US and China. She’s known as *the* celebrity coach, a certified life coach, and wellness nutrition expert whose personal coaching, speaking, CDs, video programs, books, and articles have helped people all over the world. She’s also the author of “Skinny Life: The Secret to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Fitness.”

Mark got into the personal development field after the worst moment in his life — going bankrupt. He had found an audiotape that inspired him to become a speaker, and when he was looking around for someone to talk to, he found a real estate speaker who showed him how he could get into speaking. He was extremely successful, giving one thousand talks a year for the first three years, followed by publishing a book on how to win at public speaking. That’s what started it all.

Crystal found that high school was easy for her and she graduated early, marrying her boyfriend at the time, who was five years older than her. Five years later, she was in a city by herself with a baby on her hip, divorced, and no idea how to support herself. She applied for food stamps, but the day she went to pick them up, she told herself, “This won’t be my future.” She started asking herself questions that she didn’t know the answers to, but as she asked them, she started to see the answers come to her. After taking some temp jobs, she learned that she liked sales and she liked people, so she worked to put herself through real estate school. Then she met an old friend who had lost a lot of weight and quit smoking with the help of hypnosis. Crystal was so intrigued that she decided to go to school for natural therapies and became certified in life coaching and clinical hypnotherapy, too.

In their new book, “Ask,” Mark and Crystal explore the thing that helped both of them come back from rock bottom — the power of asking questions.

Questions like: How do I start making money today? What am I best at? What is my potential? Where do I want to go with my life? When asking these questions, there are three channels through which you need to ask: Ask yourself, ask others, and ask God. All three are equally important.

The power of asking questions has no end to what it can achieve. In Part 2 of this interview, we will explore how to ask the right questions and what they can do for you.

Resources:

Learn more: markvictorhansen.com
Learn more: crystalvisionlife.com
Read: “Ask”
Read: “The Aladdin Factor”
Read: “The Power of Focus”
Read: “The Richest Kids in America”
Read: “The Miracles in You”
Read: “You Have a Book in You”
Read: “The One Minute Millionaire”
Read: “Skinny Life: The Secret to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Fitness”

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Ep. 167: What to Fix Next in Your Business | with Mike Michalowicz

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Mike Michalowicz, who by the age of 35 had founded and sold two multi-million dollar businesses. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became a small business angel investor, where he proceeded to lose his entire fortune—but then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy and strong companies. He’s devoted his life to the research and delivery of innovative, impactful, and entrepreneurial strategies to you.

He created the Profit First framework, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the world to drive profit, and the creator of Clockwork, a powerful method to make any business run automatically. His latest, and possibly most impactful tool, is “Fix This Next,” the book where he details the strategies businesses can use to determine what to do and in what order to ensure healthy, fast, permanent growth.

The idea for this latest book came about from a technical error. He sent an email out to his readership and asked them about the biggest challenges they are facing this year—but he accidentally sent the same email out three times. And in several instances, the same person answered the same question multiple times with different answers. It became clear that the biggest challenge that entrepreneurs face is knowing what their biggest challenge is.

It was that feedback, that entrepreneurs are feeling constantly burnt out because everything feels like a fire that needs to be put out, that led to him writing a book on finding out the most impactful thing to do to move the business forward, and the sequence instead of always addressing every apparent issue.

When you look at humanity, 99.5% of our genetic makeup is identical. When you look at business, we like to think every business is so different, but like with humanity, there are so many identical needs that are consistent across all businesses, and that boils down to five levels of needs:

Sales: If you have no sales, you have no business. This is the oxygen for the business. But sales without considering the other levels of the needs leads to hyperventilation.
Profitability: This is the stability of the organization—the absorption of oxygen into the bloodstream. Any business that focuses on sales but not profit will go out of business at the smallest hiccup.
Order: This is the creation of efficiency. This moves a businesses growth beyond the need for the owner to work longer and harder.
Impact: Creating a transformation for clients and customers.
Legacy: Creation of business permanence that’s designed to live on in perpetuity.

Once you know these levels, start at the bottom and find out whether or not your business is satisfying those needs. If yes, move up. If not, you need to look closer and find out how you can address this level of need. There are five core needs for every level of need, a total of 25 for each business.

The method used to figure out HOW to fix what needs fixing can be found using the acronym OMEN:

Objective: What are you trying to fix?
Measurements: What do you need to get from your objective?
Evaluation frequency: How often you evaluate your progress on a specific measurement and objective.
Nurture: Give yourself the ability to modify the objective, measurements, and evaluation frequency based on the needs and knowledge of the time.

To realize our vision for our organization we need to follow a sequence of steps in a specific direction. Most businesses, instead of moving in one direction, keep moving in a circuitous pattern. Find out where you want to go, map out the path to getting there, and take one step forward at a time.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Know your purpose, be true to your purpose. I don’t know if it’s self-given or God-given, I think that’s our choice, but I had a purpose to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty. What I found by that purpose is that it’s the ultimate driver. The biggest determinate of success is how determined you are to have success, and the biggest driver is purpose.”

Resources:

Learn more: mikemichalowicz.com
Read: “Fix This Next”
Read: "Clockwork"
Read: "Profit First"
Facebook: facebook.com/MikeMichalowiczFanPage
Instagram: instagram.com/mikemichalowicz
Twitter: twitter.com/MikeMichalowicz

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Ep. 166: Create Freedom Through Passive Income | with Rachel Richards

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Rachel Richards, a 27-year old former financial advisor who’s made a name for herself in the personal finance realm when she quit her job in 2019 and retired with over $10,000 a month in passive income. She’s the best-selling author of “Money Honey” and “Passive Income, Aggressive Retirement.” She’s been featured on The Penny Hoarder and the New York Times and has been contracted to speak at several colleges. Her money lessons have helped thousands of millennials work their way out of financial despair. She’s done the impossible—making the topic of money management fun, entertaining, and simple.

Being financially responsible from a young age, Rachel and her husband were able to buy a duplex in Kentucky after graduating from college debt-free. They saved up enough money for a downpayment in a few years and began their real estate journey. In that same year, Rachel also published her first book, “Money Honey,” which became another valuable income stream. By last year, they had 35 rental units and two books making significant amounts of money and allowing Rachel to retire. Now, she wants to help others duplicate what she’s done.

Everyone’s situations are going to be different, and your path likely won’t be exactly the same as Rachel’s, but she does have some advice for getting started. The first thing you need to do, before you start thinking about passive income, is to make sure everything else is in order financially—that your high-interest debts are paid off, you have money in emergency savings, and that you’re prepared for when there is a recession. The next step is to start thinking of how you can diversify your income. If one piece of your income dries up, you still have other income streams coming in. And that’s where you start thinking of passive income.

When you’re first starting out with passive income, the first question to ask yourself is: Do you have more time or more money? If your answer is neither, ask yourself which you can free up more of, because you will need one or the other to create passive income. If you’re trying to free up money there are two main approaches: Spending less or making more. Reducing your expenses is important but there’s a hard limit to how much you can do there. The flip side of that is increasing your income, which has unlimited potential.

Rachel’s main avenues for passive income were through real estate and book royalties, but those are far from the only options. In her book, “Passive Income, Aggressive Retirement,” Rachel outlines 28 different passive income models—there is something out there for everyone, and you only need to find the one or two that work for you. Coin-operated vending machines and laundromats are two popular models of passive income. If you have a skill that you are knowledgeable in you can create an online course and generate income through that. There are so many options, and there is something for everyone.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Anybody can do this. I am no more special or smart or hardworking than anybody else out there. Anyone at any age and on any income can absolutely achieve financial independence.”

Resources:

Learn more: moneyhoneyrachel.com
Passive Income Bonus Kit: moneyhoneyrachel.com/bonus
Read: “Money Honey”
Read: “Passive Income, Aggressive Retirement”
Instagram: instagram.com/moneyhoneyrachel
Facebook: facebook.com/moneyhoneyrachel

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Ep. 165: Create an Intimate Relationship With Yourself | with Allana Pratt

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is intimacy expert Allana Pratt, a global media personality and the go-to authority for those who’ve suffered heartbreak and are ready to live apologetically and attract an open-hearted, ideal relationship. Her vulnerability and courage landed her a featured weekly column on the Good Men Project, and she’s been featured as a guest expert at the Huffington Post, People Magazine, Forbes, CBS, Fox, and the Jenny McCarthy Show.

She is also the author of six books and hosts the edgy podcast Intimate Conversations, where listeners learn to find the relationship they deserve.

Allana got into the work she does today to take care of herself. She was a self-proclaimed people pleaser and always striving for approval and appreciation to fill this void inside of her—which she thought had to come from the outside in, not the inside out. After two divorces and a custody battle, she started to look at the common factor in both relationships—herself—and what her blind spots might be. The blind spot, she found, was that she did not have an intimate relationship with herself.

When you create an intimate relationship with yourself, it can save your marriage, help you find the right partner, make you peaceful in your skin, make sex better, and even bring in more money. It completely up-levels your life.

Creating an intimate relationship with yourself requires embracing the light as well as the dark. Most of us are addicted to something that keeps us from feeling: Facebook, porn, ice cream at 3 A.M. And since we’ve never been taught to feel, or that feelings are bad, we keep going back to these behaviors that won’t allow us to rest and be present and feel safe in our own body.

When you start to take a look at your inner self, keep this in mind:

Stop resisting the parts of yourself that you’re judging and come into acceptance of that side of yourself.
Assign labels or names to aspects of your identity without negative connotations. It helps identify which emotion is calling for our attention. By labeling them and acknowledging them, you can balance them within yourself and take on the positive aspects of those feelings.
Give yourself permission to play, slow down, or create unique experiences. Some things might sound silly, gross, or illogical, but if you have the urge inside of you, decide if you can give yourself permission to do it.

Most people think their self-worth is earned from the outside in. They think that if people outside of them, or circumstances outside of their control, just behaved in a certain way, then they would feel okay on the inside. But that doesn’t work. You need to integrate the feelings within yourself and earn that self-worth from the inside.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Do you have a thriving, intimate relationship with yourself? Do you even check in? So a simple practice you can do at the beginning of every day and the end of every day, you can have one hand on your heart and one hand on your belly and go, ‘Hey sweet thing.’ And breathe. ‘What is it that I haven’t slowed down enough to hear you say? I’m listening.’ If you begin to do this very simple, 30 seconds of your whole life at the beginning of the day and the end of the day, your inner self will go, ‘I matter. I belong. I’m enough.’ Because you care about you. And that fundamental practice will spill into all areas of your life.”

Resources:

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Ep. 164: My Health Scare, Recovery, & Lessons Learned | from The Daily Huddle

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

This is a very special episode because, instead of our usual expert guests, I am going to share with you a story of something I never imagined would happen in my life—

A few weeks ago, I suffered a stroke. I never imagined this would happen to me, so today’s episode is a little different — I want to share my experience, what I learned, and my advice to help you avoid something like this happening to you.

Here’s the story: In the middle of the night, I woke up feeling extremely restless and anxious. I grabbed the pillow out from under my wife’s head, apologized to her, and went back to sleep (which, in hindsight, is incredibly dangerous to do). Three hours later, our dog woke me up and I got dressed to go get him. I felt unsteady and groggy, but I had attributed that to my allergy medication. When I woke up in the morning, I opened my mouth and I noticed my speech was slurred, but I still blamed it on the medication. However, when we got downstairs and I tried to get the dog outside, I realized that I couldn’t figure out how to use the flashlight on my phone—and it all clicked together. I had had a stroke.

When you break your arm, you are able to roughly get a grasp on what the next few weeks of your recovery are going to look like, what modifications you are going to have to make, and when you get to return to normal. When you have a stroke, it is very different. I didn’t know if I’d ever be able to return to work, to keep doing this podcast, and there’s no way to know at that moment.

The day after going to the hospital and confirming that I had a stroke, they began performing some cognitive and physical therapy tests on me, and I passed. Steps have been taken that should prevent this from happening ever again, and my recovery is going well.

This experience left me with some things that are really important for me to share:

Like many others, I have been incredibly fearful of hospitals since the coronavirus. The precautions they were taking within the hospital, however, made me feel incredibly safe, possibly more than I would be grocery shopping. If there’s anything going on medically with you, please don’t avoid going to the hospital.
I felt that I was in the best shape of my life when this happened, but I had continually been working after just five hours of sleep, telling myself that if I loved what I do it’s not really work. But everything takes a toll, so make sure to take breaks and recharge yourself.

It’s hard to imagine this happening to you—I sure didn’t. But I was remarkably lucky. The stress we’re under now is extreme, and it’s important to do whatever we can to mitigate our risks. Because this could happen to anyone, and hopefully with some of this advice it won’t happen to you.

The most important thing right now is to focus on balance. And balancing all areas of your life, be it relationships, be it work, be it your side hustle, whatever you’re doing in your life. You need to control the time and control the energy spent around that so that you can be well.

Resources:

Listen to The Daily Huddle: www.therealshare.com
www.seekyourpowers.com
www.glassdoor.com/blog/how-to-handle-mental-health-issues-in-the-workplace/
www.therealshare.com/

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Ep. 163: Optimizing Your Stress Response & Resilience | with Wade Lightheart

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Wade Lightheart, three-time Canadian national all-natural body-building champion who competed as a vegetarian and host of the Awesome Health Podcast. He’s one of the world's premier authorities on natural nutrition and training methods. Having majored in sports science at the University of New Brunswick, he’s authored numerous books on health, nutrition, and exercise that are sold in over 80 countries. He also serves as an advisor to the American Anti-Cancer Institute and is the co-founder and President at BiOptimizers, a digestive and health optimization company.

With the way the world has responded to the coronavirus pandemic, there has been massive economic drawbacks and disruptions to people’s daily lives—which leads to a stress response in the body. We tend to look at stress as a bad thing, but if you had no stress in your life, you would die. So how much stress is enough, and how much is too much?

The idea behind BiOptimizers is to optimize your biology. When looking at people in the military, there was a clear divide between people who came out of the experience fine and others who experienced PTSD or other ailments. The big difference between the two was the biological difference to responses to fear or danger. When we are faced with information, displaced from the physiological activation of movement, we don’t break down and eliminate the stress chemicals in our body.

So, how do we increase our resilience to stress and balance “good stress” while avoiding “bad stress?”

Remove artificial stressors from your life: Stop watching news or seeking out things on social media that produce fear and stress.
Stop using screens or blue light devices 1-3 hours before bed, or at least start using blue light-blocking glasses.
Maintain a form of exercise in your life.
Get in the sunshine and reset your circadian rhythm.

Stress in life is not only unavoidable, but necessary for survival. What we can and should do is optimize the stressors that we allow into our lives as much as possible and avoid those that are wholly unnecessary.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are bigger than the challenges that come to your life. Crisis is oftentimes an invitation from divinity for you to find the superself that lies within. You can overcome anything.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://bioptimizers.com/
http://www.wadelightheart.net
Awesome Health Podcast: https://bioptimizers.com/category/podcast/
Get 10% off with code DAILYHELPING: https://bioptimizers.com/dailyhelping
Take the FREE Awesome Health Course: https://bioptimizers.com/TDH
Ep. 103: The Golden Age of Digestive Health | with Wade Lightheart

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162. The Importance of Creative Thinking in Business & Life | with Geoff Thatcher

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Geoff Thatcher, the founder and CCO at Creative Principles. He’s had a long career creating brand experiences, vision centers, museums, theme parks, and live events before he launched his own experience design firm in 2017. His eclectic background always delivers a fresh perspective and his experience includes everything from the grand opening of the Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi to the renovated American Airlines Museum in Texas.

Geoff is also a writer and teacher. He’s ghostwritten books, blogs, and even facilitated a communication workshop for the CIA, and his new book “The CEO’s Time Machine” is a fictionalized story inspired by real-world events and business lessons.

How do you be creative? Creativity is about making connections. Part of making connections is filling your life with the stimuli and inputs that will allow you to make those connections. The more you read, watch, and experience, the more you have to draw your inspiration from and make connections between things that are less obvious.

You also need to know what style of creative you are: a hermit creative or a studio creative. Hermit creatives thrive on solitude and need to be alone to create, while studio creatives need to be able to bounce ideas off of others and collaborate. Even though Geoff is an extrovert, he still is at his most creative when he is by himself.

The lesson to be gleaned from “The CEO’s Time Machine” is that a business’s decisions rely as much on the past as they do the future. Even if you know what happened in the past, and even if you could see into the future, you would still have to make the decision to make a decision today. Too many companies ignore their past instead of learning and growing from it. And at any company, the future of that company is already there if you look for it — the people and voices that are already there.

To avoid making those mistakes, it’s important to listen to a mantra from Bruce Weindruch of the History Factory: “Start with the future and work back.” Think of where you want to be, and then look back into your past and look at the milestones that inform where you actually want to go in the future.

Ultimately, the future is ours to create. If we can use our creativity to see the connections between the possibilities of the past and the future, we can make it happen.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t be afraid to share your idea. Don’t be afraid. People will laugh, people will giggle, that’s okay. Don’t be afraid to share your ideas because one of those ideas just might change the world.”

Resources:

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161. Following the Success Principles, Pt. 2 | with Jack Canfield

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Returning for the second part of our interview, our expert guest is Jack Canfield, known as America’s #1 success coach and co-author of more than 200 books, including “The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be,” “The Success Principles Workbook,” and the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, which includes more than 40 New York Times best-sellers.

If you don’t know what your breakthrough goal is, how do you cut through the noise and define that? Jack believes that everyone is born with a purpose — something that brings them immense amounts of joy to do. Whatever that purpose is, you then have to find a way to monetize it. Find out what people need that you can deliver that makes people come alive. If you don’t know right away, hold on to the question and meditate on it. The answer will come to you, but you have to get out of fear and lean into creativity.

In Jack’s latest book is “The Success Principles Workbook,” but he actually doesn’t want people to *read* this book — he wants you to *do* the book. The book does have enough information on why to do the things he’s asking you to do, but the bulk is about how to take action. There are exercises, worksheets, and interactive questions to help you get clear about what steps to take.

The sequencing of events in the book is also critically important: Take 100% responsibility for your life, getting clear about your life purpose, getting clear about the vision that will fulfill that purpose, turning that vision into specific goals, getting clear about the beliefs you will have to hold, using visualization and affirmations,

Jack Canfield wants to leave a legacy of making the world realize that everyone can be as successful as they want. His goal is to have a million people teaching the Success Principles in school, chuches, businesses, and more.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want people to know that you have everything in you that you need to achieve anything that you want. You may have to learn something you’ve never learned before, you may have to partner up with people you’ve never met before, you may have to get some certifications that you don’t have, but you are never given a dream without being given the capacity, the ability, the mindset, the skills, the talents. You may have to develop the skills but the talents are in you. So if you have a dream, know that you have the capacity to make that dream come true. I would just add to that that there is a science of success. We talk about neuroscience, we talk about physical science, there is a science of success. And if you study that science and you do things in the right way, in the right order, at the right time, you can achieve anything that you want.”

Resources:

Learn more: www.jackcanfield.com
Read: “The Success Principles"
Read: “The Success Principles Workbook”
www.chickensoup.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/JackCanfieldFan
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jackcanfield_official
Twitter: www.twitter.com/JackCanfield

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160. Following the Success Principles, Pt. 1 | with Jack Canfield

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Jack Canfield, known as America’s #1 success coach and co-author of more than 200 books, including “The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be,” “The Success Principles Workbook,” and the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, which includes more than 40 New York Times best-sellers.

Jack had always wanted to make a difference, but when he was just starting out, he had no idea what kind of reach and impact he would have today. He would have been thrilled with one best-selling book, but it has gone far beyond that. At the end of the first book, he asked for people to send in their stories in case they decided to make another book, and the outpouring of support they received was astounding.

Jack recently released “The Success Principles Workbook” as a companion guide to “The Success Principles." Most people read the book, get really inspired, and then put the book on their shelf and don’t follow through with it. The people going through his coaching programs and seminars were doing really well, and he wanted to find a way to put a coaching program in a book.

What is it that some of the world’s most successful people are doing?

Take 100% responsibility for your life and your results.
Look around for the opportunities available. Even in difficult times, that just means people are in more need than ever before. Meet those needs.
If you want something in life, you have to ask. Don’t be afraid of hearing no. If you do, you didn’t lose anything. You’re right where you always were. Asking is a numbers game, so keep asking until you hear a yes.

This is just the first part of the incredible interview with Jack Canfield. In part two, we’ll hear more success principles, as well as Jack’s “Daily Helping.”

Resources:

Learn more: www.jackcanfield.com
Read: “The Success Principles"
Read: “The Success Principles Workbook”
www.chickensoup.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/JackCanfieldFan
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jackcanfield_official
Twitter: www.twitter.com/JackCanfield

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

159. Your Personality isn’t Permanent | with Benjamin Hardy

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Benjamin Hardy, an organizational psychologist, successful entrepreneur, and the best-selling author of “Willpower Doesn’t Work”. He’s known for helping people break free from the shackles of what they perceive to be a permanent personality, a mindset shift that can completely transform the way you view your world and your potential.

Benjamin grew up in a traumatic situation: His parents divorced when he was 11 years old and his father became a drug addict from that age on. Benjamin went on a church mission for two years and saw an extreme change within himself, and he later saw his father overcome addiction. He started studying psychology and realized he was interested in human change because he had witnessed so much.

With so much addiction in his life, Benjamin wrote the book “Willpower Doesn’t Work” to illustrate that, no matter how much willpower you have, you won’t make room for any change unless you change your environment. It’s about engineering situations and focusing on the context instead of the individual.

Benjamin’s latest book, “Personality Isn’t Permanent,” came from the idea that unresolved trauma is typically a strong indicator of why someone would be in addiction. He learned that personality is often shaped by former trauma as well. The book is not about trauma, but what he learned was that trauma is capable of freezing your personality — you stop being able to develop as a person. He had studied change and he knew it was possible, so he wanted to find out how we could break free of our pasts.

The moment someone loses a sense of purpose in their future, the present becomes completely unmanageable. The goal for anyone struggling with their past is that they have to find a future that gives them a sense of purpose so they can begin to reshape themselves. There are four “personality levers” that drive personality more than anything:

Unresolved trauma
Your identity narrative
Subconscious patterns
Environment

There are ways that we can impact all of these levers in order to affect our personality. The work isn’t going to be easy; we have been trained to attach ourselves strongly to our personality. But if you want to change and you believe your future self can be a different person, it’s absolutely necessary to steer the direction you move forward in.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The reason people get stuck in patterns is because of a lack of emotional flexibility. If you have suppressed pain from the past, you need to talk about it with people in your life or journal about it. The same is true of your future self. You need to put yourself in situations of uncertainty where you can start to handle situations of the unknown. It does take courage, but courage is the thing that starts shifting the subconscious in the right direction.”

Resources:

Learn more: benjaminhardy.com
Read: “Personality Isn’t Permanent”
Read: “Willpower Doesn’t Work”
Facebook: facebook.com/benjaminhardy88
Instagram: instagram.com/benjamin_hardy_phd

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158. Turning Your Diagnosis into a Superpower | with Marisa Imôn

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Marisa Imôn, a best-selling author, musician, voice actor, and motivational speaker. As the owner of Marisa Imôn LLC, an audio production and meditation company, she has created hundreds of meditations and meditative musical compositions for businesses and apps all over the world in addition to those on her own podcast, Incandescent: An Unconventional Meditation Podcast. In 2019, she wrote and published the international best-selling book "Super Intense" about her journey using mindfulness to live well with multiple mental illness diagnoses including bipolar disorder and ADHD.

From when she was just an infant, the very first word people would use to describe Marisa was “intense.” At the age of ten, she suffered from a long-lasting clinical depression. Most of the advice she was given was to smile, act like she was happy, and eventually, she would feel fine — well-meaning but ultimately harmful advice. She never got to the point where her feelings went away, but she became better at hiding them from others, and ended up doing several harmful things to keep herself from looking at those emotions.

Eventually, she had a breaking point. In college, her friend found her wandering around with no idea where she was. It turned out that she was experiencing a manic episode, which all made sense looking back on her life. Now that she is aware of her condition, instead of trying to run away from the intensity, she has learned to work with it and embrace it — and it has become a superpower.

After following a strict medicine regimen for several years, she started to believe that this would be the rest of her life. If she missed one dose she would have several negative side-effects within an hour, which severely impacted her work and life. She was either at the mercy of her pills or at the mercy of her emotions, but she knew there had to be another way.

This was when she discovered meditation. With her diagnosis of ADHD, she really didn’t believe that she could sit in stillness, but she started listening to guided meditations everywhere. Over time she started to notice herself connecting to her breath in the moment more often and being more present, and once that started happening she started sitting in stillness. It was then that she realized that she was not her diagnosis, she was something greater than the sum of her life.

If you want to get started with meditation, it’s first important to understand what it is not. Meditation is not completely emptying your mind, it is not something that only gurus can do. There are several different styles of meditation, and it is important to find a style that works well for you. Any time you allow yourself to focus in on the present moment is a meditation — whether you’re washing the dishes or having a conversation or staring at a candle.

When you start meditating regularly, you can find yourself taking time to meditate throughout the day. You see the benefits of renewed focus, relaxation, and resilience for anxiety and stress. Marisa’s podcast, Incandescent, calls itself an “unconventional meditation podcast.” What makes it unconventional is that it is meant to fit into the times in your life when you are doing something else with your body. If you’re ready, try out meditation and see the benefits of it for yourself.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Always honor your emotions. As I mentioned, for so long in my life I ignored any emotion below neutral and acted like it was bad or something I had to hide from or avoid but instead when I realized all those feelings were essentially just wounded parts of me wishing I would turn around and give them love that’s when everything changed. So whenever you’re feeling an emotion that feels uncomfortable, instead of doing something to avoid it, just look at it and be like, ‘Hey, hey there fear. Come to the table. I love you. I welcome you in. What do you have to teach me?’”

Resources:

Learn more: www.marisaImon.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/marisaImonmusicandmiracles
Read: "Super Intense"
Listen: www.incandescentmeditations.com

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157. Why You Should Forgive | with Derek Stone

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Derek Stone. After working to support his family as a struggling artist, he chose to reevaluate his life and his way of thinking. In three short years, he grew a small one-man show into a multi-million-dollar company.

When Derek’s business first hit seven figures, he tried to identify what the turning point could have been. He traced back his incredible transformation to the decision to forgive his father. He left the path of blame and began traveling down the path of forgiveness, which led him to live his best life. He is now on a mission to empower others to make similar transformations by helping them take charge of their own lives.

Derek’s childhood involved several traumas. He was sexually abused by his step-father, he didn’t know where his next meals would come from, and they often lost power or hot water due to unpaid bills. He blamed his dad because he believed it was his responsibility to protect Derek from these things.

He lived with a facade that everything was alright, but inside he was increasingly bitter. He carried that anger until he was 19, when he attended a conference called Stomping Out the Darkness, based on the book “Stomping Out the Darkness” by Neil T. Anderson and Dave Park. It was there that he confronted the idea of forgiving his dad.

David began to forgive everyone in his life that had wronged him as they came to his mind — his father, his mother, his abuser. When he was done, he didn’t feel a need to hide behind his facade anymore. He rekindled his relationship with his father, and he felt a burden lifted from him.

In 2014, David’s construction business began taking off. He found it hard to balance that work, family events, and his passion for touring as a musician. He made the decision to walk away from touring. This led to some serious depression — not because he wasn’t touring, but because he lost the platform for his message. Eventually, it came to him that he could share the message in a book: “Why Should I Forgive?”

The process of forgiveness is not easy, but it is so important to your development as a person.

Outline the vision of where you want your life to go and what kind of person you want to be.
Cleanse your surroundings of toxic, negative people. You want to emulate positive, healthy people.
Figure out how to make healthy decisions.
Take responsibility for your own life.
Deal with the self-critic and the cost of bitterness.

Even when someone has done you real harm, forgiveness is an act you do for you. It is not a justification for what they did to you but giving yourself permission to stop holding on. It is a gift you give yourself.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You’re not a victim. When you play the victim, you give the person who harmed you power over you. You have to get to the point where you say ‘No more. I am not a victim.’ For claiming that will disarm the power your offender has over you. You are enough. You have what it takes. I believe in you. You must believe in you. There is greatness within you and within all of us because we were created by perfection in his image. You have to participate in your own rescue, as my friend Tommy Breedlove says. Phillippians 1:6 says ‘And I am sure of this that he who began a good work will bring it to completion.’ So go. If you still have breath in your lungs, go. Go and change the world. You are going to help create the world that my kids grow up in, and their kids, and I want to leave it better than I found it. Together you and me, armed with the power that forgiveness brings to set others free, we can do this. You can do this. For whatever is your why, choose to forgive.”

Resources:

Learn more: www.derekstone.online
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Derekstone28
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/derek-stone-b342ab125
Read: “Why Should I Forgive?”
Read: “Stomping Out the Darkness” by Neil T. Anderson & Dave Park

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156. Harnessing The Connection of Mind, Body, & Spirit | with Laura Powers

Mon, 25 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Laura Powers, an entertainer, celebrity psychic, actress, model, host, singer, writer, and speaker. She’s the host of the popular television show Behind the Scenes with Laura Powers and the top 100 podcast Healing Powers Podcast, the author of seven books, and has been featured on several national television channels and networks including Buzzfeed, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, The CW, Jetset, and more.

Growing up, Laura knew there was something different about her — she could see dead people. Other people didn’t see what she did, so she grew up trying to ignore what she was sensing and not tell anyone about it. As she grew older, her abilities only got stronger, to the point where she could no longer block it out.

In college, a family friend described a ghost that Laura had seen but never told anyone about. This confirmed to her that what she was seeing was real, and she then had to start deciding what she was going to do with this ability. She learned that, as she had been blocking out her abilities, she was also blocking out her intuition. She started taking classes to develop her psychic abilities and tapped into her creative work more, and eventually transitioned her business and lifestyle into being a psychic.

During this global pandemic we’re all facing, everyone is being expected to go within and sit with ourselves. Looking within ourselves and using mindfulness practices such as meditation to check in on what thoughts we are thinking is important to keep down stress levels.

When Laura recognized how deeply connected the mind, body, and spirit are, she wanted to learn more about that connection and share it with the world. In her podcast, Healing Powers Podcast, Laura talks about the ways different parts of our body, spirit, and mind all interplay and affect each other.

If you are facing challenges in one area of your life, don’t focus on just that one area. Your mental state affects your physical state, which affects your spiritual state. They are all connected, and in order to see truly effective and lasting change, you need to address them all. And that lasting change is possible if you just look beyond the individual problems you are trying to face and start aiming even higher.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are way more powerful than you think, and you can have more. For me, what happened during the recession was everything that was taken away from me — my marriage, my house, the way I made my living, my state of health at the time — I perceived to be a bad thing when I was going into it, but everything that was taken away was because there was something better for me. Sometimes I think we don’t even realize how great we can have it. We’re aiming here when we need to aim way up here. Miraculous transformations are possible for whatever you’re feeling, whether it’s health issues or economic challenges or maybe you want to be a singer or do whatever you want to do. Don’t feel like it’s too late.”

Resources:

Learn more: www.healingpowers.net
Podcast: www.healingpowers.net/podcast
Instagram: www.instagram.com/laurapowers44
Read: "An End to Upside Down Thinking"

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155. Finding Your Purpose During a Crisis | with Corey Blake

Mon, 18 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Corey Blake, the founder and CEO of Round Table Companies, publisher of Conscious Capitalism Press, as well as a speaker, artist, and storyteller. He’s won 15 independent publishing awards and has been featured on the cover of The Wallstreet Journal as well as inside The New York Times, USA Today, Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and Wired.

Corey’s work has always been about helping people — and now the world needs that help more than ever. Since 2018, he has been working with PayActive to solve the paycheck-to-paycheck crisis that is hitting America. When the coronavirus started to hit the US, many people who were already living paycheck-to-paycheck were getting hours reduced or losing their jobs. When he saw how this was impacting the world, he knew that this was an area that he needed to contribute to more.

Talking with people during the crisis, he started to notice some themes that have rippled through the different communities he interacts with. Amongst younger entrepreneurs, there was a quick reflex to save themselves: lay off employees quickly and mercilessly in order to stay afloat. Meanwhile, in the conscious capitalism community (in which Corey is a pillar member), there has been a tremendous amount of compassion for the workers.

When Corey was still in the space of not knowing how to be of service to the community, he took part in a call for a leadership academy and it finally clicked. He started offering vulnerability art installations at conferences and events that were all about taking people from isolation to connection, and they worked. When you look at one of these vulnerability walls, all the anxiety about how different people are melts away; we realize we are all fragile individuals who are dealing with problems.

Almost nobody alive has ever lived through something like this in their lifetime, and we don’t know when it’s going to end or what life will look like on the other side of it. That often forces us to sit with our thoughts, think about who we are today, and rediscover our identity. Corey offers some strategies people can use to purposefully find their new identity and make sense of their place in this:

Finding your purpose is usually done over a longer period of time. It requires constant investigation, a relentless state of inquiry, and awareness is essential for picking out that purpose. Watching ourselves from the outside throughout this crisis is incredibly helpful. If you can watch yourself as an observer, it’s easier to extend some grace.
Ask different questions: Who is that version of me that’s showing up? What else is available? What is the universe saying to me?
List all of the things your company does or owns and decide if the world needs those differently than how you usually utilize them.

If you want to take action but you don’t know what to do, this is the work that has to be done. Sit with yourself and ask good questions. And if you find something that you can do, you need to start putting it into action right away. The world needs what you can provide.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Extend ourselves some grace right now. Be kind to ourselves. We’re all having experiences we’ve never had before, probably at a compounding ratio that can be so overwhelming. We can be unkind in moments. We can be super judgemental in moments. We can want to come to blows with our spouse or our kids or our animals as we’re all cooped up together. Ultimately, the more we can extend kindness and grace to ourselves as we go through this, the more we will do so outwardly.”

Resources:

Learn more: roundtablecompanies.com
Purpose Worksheet: roundtablecompanies.com/purpose
Art Installation: unitedbycovid.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/coblake

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154. Living Life in Awe, Pt. 2 | with John O'Leary

Mon, 11 May 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Today we continue our conversation with expert guest John O’Leary. As a reminder, he is an international best-selling author and host of the top-10 podcast Live Inspired. John helps people live amazing, inspired lives, and what he has to say is so timely during this period of time. There is so much pain, fear, and uncertainty in the world right now, but with John’s help, we’ll be better able to work through those feelings.

Last week we touched on three of the five senses we have as children but lose as adults, as explained in John’s book, In Awe. Those three are wonder, expectancy, and immersion. The final two senses are:

Belonging: Kids say things that are seemingly inappropriate, but they will connect authentically afterward. They cut through the arbitrary things that divide us and remind us that we are one.
Freedom: If you don’t feel like you are enough, and you don’t feel like you are worthy, then you’re not free to give back to the world the gifts that you’ve been given.

As little ones, most of us have perfect eyesight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell — but as we age, we begin to lose those senses. We also lose the senses of wonder, expectancy, immersion, belonging, and freedom. And although we can’t stop the toll of time on our physical sense, we don’t have to lose any of these other senses — we can return to each and every one of them. In Awe is not only a reminder of what it felt like to have those senses but a blueprint for returning to them.

In the time we are facing now, don’t refuse the lessons you are being taught. This too shall pass. We’re all enduring this storm, every country in the world. As the world begins to return to normal, don’t allow the lessons that we have learned to disappear as well.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The coronavirus will shake us, it will scare us. It might erase some of our life savings, and it might change what some of us do professionally. But it can also wake us up to see life as this interconnected piece that we all move through life as one. Enter into your day with a sense of awe.”

Resources:

Learn more: johnolearyinspires.com
Read: In Awe
Listen: Live Inspired
John O’Leary on Facebook
John O’Leary on LinkedIn
John O’Leary on Twitter: @JOLearyInspires
John O’Leary on Instagram: @johnoleary.inspires
John O’Leary on Pinterest
John O’Leary on YouTube
Ep. 75: A Life Lit From Within | with John O’Leary

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153. Living Life in Awe, Pt. 1 | with John O'Leary

Mon, 04 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is John O’Leary, international best-selling author and host of the top-10 podcast Live Inspired. John helps people live amazing, inspired lives, and what he has to say is so timely during this period of time. There is so much pain, fear, and uncertainty in the world right now, but with John’s help, we’ll be better able to work through those feelings.

While John was sharing his story across the country, he noticed some extreme differences between speaking to adults and speaking to children. With adults, he would ask a question and get one or two hands up to answer. With kids, he would get every hand in the room. Kids are unabashedly willing to ask questions, but as adults, we stop asking questions. As he dropped his own kids off at school and saw them sprint into the school building, he wondered — “When was the last time I ran anywhere?”

Kids run into life — and. as adults, we lose that.

In his new book, In Awe, John unpacks the five senses that we used to have as children but that most of us lose as adults. The first of those senses are:

Wonder: Kids ask questions all the time, but as we get older we get told to stop asking questions and to just follow orders.
Expectancy: Every experience a kid has for the first time is amazing. We can live life with the expectation that things are going to be awesome, and they will be.
Immersion: Whatever kids do, they are hyper-focused on that activity, while adults are focused on multitasking.

There is so much more to this that we can’t cover all of it here, but John will be back next week to go over the last two of the senses we lose and, most importantly, what we can do to help reclaim them.

Resources:

Learn more: johnolearyinspires.com
Read: In Awe
Listen: Live Inspired
John O’Leary on Facebook
John O’Leary on LinkedIn
John O’Leary on Twitter: @JOLearyInspires
John O’Leary on Instagram: @johnoleary.inspires
John O’Leary on Pinterest
John O’Leary on YouTube
Ep. 75: A Life Lit From Within | with John O’Leary

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152. We Are Not Doomed: How Millennials Are Moving the World | with Jared Kleinert

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Jared Kleinert, a serial entrepreneur, TED speaker, and award-winning author who USA Today named the “most connected Millennial.” He’s also the author of 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World. His work profiles seemingly superhuman young people who have founded companies collectively worth billions of dollars, such as WordPress, Duolingo, General Assembly, and more.

He is also a social media influencer with followings in the tens of millions, featuring film producers and leaders across diverse industries ranging from virtual reality to lunar settlements. As a highly sought-after keynote speaker and consultant, his clients include Facebook, Samsung, IBM, Cornell, Berkely, Adage, and more. His insights on entrepreneurship and networking have been featured in major media publications such as Forbes, Time, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Fox Business, and more. He is committed to building the world’s top Millennial-led network of super connectors and subject matter experts.

Early in his career, Jared learned from some of the world’s top experts on networking and relationship building. At a company called 15Five, he was mentored by “the most connected man you don’t know in Silicon Valley,” according to Forbes. After that, he started a marketing consulting firm where his first client was Keith Ferrazzi, author of the modern-day networking classic Never Eat Alone. Between those two mentors and his work interviewing some of the world’s smartest, most talented Millennials, he became someone who was very well connected — and that became his differentiated skillset in the marketplace.

As someone who has dedicated his career to researching successful Millennials, Jared has a clear grasp of how they tend to be different in the workplace. He has noticed, at a high level, a 3-step process they have followed to achieve success in record time.

These are the three things most successful Millennial entrepreneurs are doing:

Putting themselves in a position to be exponentially successful by experimenting.
Building their own distribution network or following to give direct access to the people you want to serve.
Out-collaborate the competition. By working with others, you extend your reach to share innovative ideas with as many people as possible.

We are facing more problems today than ever before and they are growing exponentially in severity. As individuals, we have access to technology and platforms that give us abilities equal to what only governments, massive corporations, or the wealthiest individuals would have had 100 years ago. If we can come together and take advantage of the tools and technologies available to us, we can achieve incredible things and change the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We all have the power now that only governments, corporations, and the uber-wealthy had just a few generations ago. If you’re listening to this and you’re wondering how to navigate through trying times and this difficult period we’re all faced with right now, then think about how you yourself can level up, upskills, whatever the phrase is you want to use. Find your passions and explore those. After you do that, then think about where you can experiment and innovate, whether that’s launching a new business, doing a different business model with your current business, now is the perfect time to experiment. If the playbook was out the window before, now we have institutions that are really hurting and we’re looking for creative solutions to all sorts of problems right now. Now is a great time to experiment, build your own network, build your own following so that if and when you stumble on something important and meaningful you have people to share those ideas with, and be open to collaborating with others because that’s where these true breakthroughs are going to come from. And if we can catalyze as many of these meetings of the minds as possible, I think we’ll all survive.”

Resources:

Meeting of the Minds: motm.co
Read: 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World
TED Talk: Why millennials today hold more power than ever before
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaredkleinert
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jared.kleinert
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaredkleinert

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151. The Four Pillars of High-Performing Teams | with Mike Robbins

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Mike Robbins, the author of five books including his newest title, We’re All in This Together: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging. For the past 20 years, he’s been a sought-after speaker and consultant who delivers keynotes and seminars for some of the top organizations in the world.

Mike grew up playing baseball as a kid and was drafted by the Kansas City Royals. He was working his way up through the minor leagues before he tore a ligament in his elbow that signaled the end of his career. While this was personally devastating, Mike came to notice two things during that time: It wasn’t always the most talented people that were the most successful and it wasn’t always the most successful people that were the happiest or most fulfilled. He erroneously thought that it was a sports thing until he entered the world of business.

Mike started his consulting business 20 years ago with an obsession — wondering what it takes for us to turn our talent into success, then our success into fulfillment, and then, collectively, how we can come together as a group and achieve something extraordinary. That’s been the subject of his past books, all culminating in the release of his latest title, We’re All in This Together.

There are four pillars that contribute to strong teams working together:

Psychological Safety. Trusting the group and knowing that you have the opportunity to speak up or make mistakes without being shamed or kicked out.
Inclusion and Belonging. Belonging isn’t just a feel-good thing. It’s a fundamental human need. We need to create an environment where team members feel like they belong.
Having Sweaty-Palm Conversations. If you lean into uncomfortable conversations, they are going to make it easier to connect, collaborate, and grow trust.
Care About and Challenge Each Other. If we don’t care about each other, we can’t push each other and challenge each other. If we push without caring, people get defensive. If we care without pushing, we won’t do anything extraordinary. You need both at the same time.

If your team can embody these four pillars, you can learn to work together, trust each other, and achieve extraordinary things. In times like this, now more than ever, we need to learn to work together and do something incredible.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You’re living your life as if you’re trying to survive it. Nobody ever has. Stop trying to protect yourself, stop trying to not fail, stop trying to not be comfortable, stop trying to just survive. Your job is to lean into this experience as fully as you can and see what happens. It’s okay if we get scared, it’s okay if we get uncomfortable, but our job isn’t to get through life unscathed.”

Resources:

Learn more: mike-robbins.com
Read: We’re All in This Together: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging
Facebook: facebook.com/mikerobbinspage
Instagram: instagram.com/mikedrobbins
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mrobbins
Twitter: twitter.com/mikedrobbins

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150. Simplicity is the New Sexy: How to Be Understood & Get Attention | with Brant Pinvidic

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Brant Pinvidic, an award-winning film director, veteran television producer, #1 best-selling author, C-level sales and presentation coach, keynote speaker, top-rated podcast host, and columnist for Forbes. He’s been named to the Hollywood Reporters 30 most powerful reality TV sellers and is widely recognized as one of the great creative sales leaders in Hollywood.

In his #1 best-selling book The 3-Minute Rule, Brant has taken the life, business, and storytelling lessons he’s developed during his Hollywood career and used them to uniquely bridge the entertainment industry and the business community. He specializes in helping others simplify their message, and his endless energy, quest for adventure, and The 3-Minute Rule have helped make him one of the most sought-after C-level consultants in the USA and abroad.

Brant grew up as an entrepreneur in Canada and he struggled to get his ideas going. Raising money for businesses in Canada was so trying that Brant had developed the important skill of being able to convince people and pitch his ideas without sounding desperate. Eventually, Brant became known for his ability to sell ideas and he transitioned into helping companies with their pitches. He saw the frustration in people who believed in their message so strongly but didn’t know how to communicate that properly, and that’s where the idea for the book The 3-Minute Rule came in.

The 3-minute rule says that everything about your business, product, or service must be conveyed clearly, concisely, and accurately in three minutes or less. You have to be able to capture and maintain your audience’s attention and you have to illustrate value. After that, your opportunity will absolutely plummet. You need to build a story like a Hollywood screenwriter so you can lead your audience through their decision to show interest or shut it down.

One of the breakthrough ideas from the book is what Brant calls the WHAC method:

What is it? Be literal.
How does it work? The function of it.
Are you sure? Use facts, figures, and logic to back that up.
Can you do it? Talk about costs, next steps, and time frames.

These four questions line up with the natural order that humans make decisions. When you match your pitch to this natural process it becomes obvious to the audience what they want. People crave clarity and, when you can give your pitch in a clear and concise manner, they will be drawn to it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The simplification of what you need to convey is the most important thing in the market today. The more words you use, the less effective you’ll be.”

Resources:

Learn more: www.brantpinvidic.com
The 3-Minute Rule
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thebrantpinvidic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/brantpinvidic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/brantpinvidic
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/brantpinvidic

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149. The 3 Secrets to Becoming a Strong Leader | with Alain Hunkins

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Alain Hunkins, author of Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders, is a sought-after speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach. Over his 20-year career, he has led over 2000 groups in 25 countries, with clients such as Walmart, CitiGroup, State Farm, Microsoft, and more.

Alain has designed and facilitated seminars on numerous leadership topics, including team-building, conflict management, communication, peak performance, engagement, and change. He also served on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education and has published over 400 articles on leadership.

Understanding why people do what they do has always driven Alain for as long as he can remember. He was raised by a single mom and his grandmother who were both holocaust survivors. Their view of the world was profoundly changed through that experience and it impacted how they raised Alain and his brother. He realized how different his life and experience at home was compared to that of school or his friends, and he was drawn to understanding people in order to make sense of his own experiences. Leadership is all about people, so this path inevitably led to Alain studying and deconstructing leadership of all types.

There are certain patterns of behavior that show up with successful and mediocre leaders. No leader intends to be mediocre — they’re just using an outdated playbook from the beginning of the industrial revolution. The difference between leaders that flounder and the ones that thrive is a shift in mindset. As Alain puts it, “Do you think that your job is to be in charge or do you see your job as to serve the people who are in your charge?”

Alain had been blogging on the topic of leadership for a few years until suddenly he had hundreds of posts. He looked back on them and started to notice the common themes, and those eventually became the chapters for his book. That book was Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders, and those three secrets are Connection, Communication, and Collaboration:

Connection: Empathy is a primary leadership skill, helping people understand that you see their perspective and know how they feel. At its core, leadership is a relationship between leader and follower, and we need to take the time to cultivate that relationship.
Communication: The greatest challenge with communication is that we have the illusion that it has taken place. We unconsciously assume that others have the same thoughts that we do. The goal of communication is to create understanding, and a great way to do that is to ask for a receipt — that is, ask for them to repeat back what they think they heard.
Collaboration: As leaders, we can’t force people to be motivated. What we can instead do is create conditions or environments where motivation is more likely to occur. One simple thing we can do to help keep up energy is to give breaks during extended meetings. We need to change it up or we can’t possibly focus, even if we want to.

Leadership is constantly shifting. We need to recognize that leadership as a practice is moving on from the role of micromanaging and control and moving into the role of facilitating and helping others.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you want to grow as a leader, find people that will give you honest feedback about how you show up. There is nothing that will accelerate your leadership growth more than honest, timely feedback from someone else. That is if you take it and act on it. Seek out feedback, because if we’re not growing we’re not advancing, and feedback is the catalyst to growth.

Resources:

Learn more: www.alainhunkins.com
Read: www.crackingtheleadershipcode.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alainhunkins

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148. Becoming Legendary | with Tommy Breedlove

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Tommy Breedlove, best-selling author of the book Legendary and an internationally-recognized business, relationship, and mindset coach. Tommy started his 20-year corporate career at one of the largest financial consulting firms in the world and eventually became a shareholder, the International Practice Leader, and a member of the board of directors for one of the largest public accounting and financial firms in the southeast U.S.

At the top of his career, Tommy experienced a transformational moment inspiring him to walk away from the corporate world to change his life and follow his true calling. Now Tommy serves clients and audiences everywhere by empowering them to build and live legendary lives.

Tommy grew up in a small town in south Atlanta where he intended to be the first person in his family to graduate from college. He grew up around a lot of violence — both inside and outside the home — and this led to him, unfortunately, becoming the violence he hoped to escape. At the age of 18, with scholarships lined up, he committed a violent crime and was, instead of four years of college, looking at seven years in prison. He ended up sentenced to two years and met the first mentor he ever had while serving that sentence.

With the guidance of that mentor, he was able to get a job at a nuclear waste container factory while putting himself through community college at night, eventually graduating from the University of Georgia and getting a job at Deloitte, one of the largest financial consulting firms in the country. Fast forward to 36-years-old at a different firm, Tommy looked like he had it all. But on the inside, he was crumbling. He woke up in the streets of downtown Atlanta wondering where his car and half of his clothes were.

This led to a journey of self-discovery, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically. Through that process, he discovered who he was, what he stood for, and where he was going. By taking off all of the masks he had been hiding behind — tough guy, important guy, cool guy — and just being Tommy, the most remarkable things happened in his career and his life. His marriage became the best it ever was, his network increased exponentially, his friendships became stronger, the negative people in his life started falling away, and he advanced professionally remarkably fast. When he finally got to the top of the game, he knew there was still something bigger for him, so he decided to teach what he had learned over the last few years and channel that into mindset, relationship, business, and money coaching.

For somebody who feels like they have it all but isn’t fulfilled, how do you figure out how to find that thing that inspires you? You need to do some deep, deep work to discover your purpose and investing fully into yourself. Now is the time to start developing certain skills:

Establish financial competence and credit card management
Build your mind and heart muscles with gratitude, meditation, surrounding yourself with positive people
Life-long learning through books, podcasts, and courses.

Tommy’s book, Legendary, was a three-year fistfight of trying to figure out the best way to share the message he wanted to spread to the world. And finally, it hit him: Write the playbook of simple stories and simple tactics that people can put into their life and will make a difference within 30 days of implementing in their life. It’s the same strategies that he deployed in his own life. If you can find a way to take your God-given talents and make use of them every day to make this world a better place, you will never feel like you work a day in your life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Are you ready to stop living your story and start living your life? If you’re not happy with where your life is now you can write the end to your story by stepping in and leaning up. It’s time to participate in your own rescue.”

Resources:

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147. How to Stay Safe and Sane During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today’s episode is a special one all about the coronavirus. We’re not going to spend too much time talking about facts, figures, and statistics, but we’re going to focus on specific strategies you can use to stay healthy and sane during these tough times.

There is so much out there in the media, but this is a time where you don’t need to be constantly watching the news — it will drive you crazy. If you need to check the news, check it once a day, but there are not going to be minute-by-minute as it relates to this virus and all it will do is keep you in a perpetual state of anxiety. Social media is going to be the same, reinforcing everything that you hear on the news.

During this time, many of us are going to be indoors and mostly sedentary. You have to stay active. Do some push-ups, look up fitness videos on YouTube, do some yoga. Make sure you are staying hydrated and getting good sleep. These are the things you can do to lower your stress, keep your immune system up, and stay healthy.

There are other things to consider as well: Washing your hands for at least 20 seconds, avoiding touching your face. We all touch our faces 15-20 times an hour without noticing it, so we have to start training ourselves to stop touching them. One tip: Set up a reminder on your smartphone to tell you not to touch your face as often as you can tolerate the messages.

In addition to staying healthy, staying calm is incredibly important. To do this, there’s a psychological technique known as cognitive reframing that can be used to reshape the way you focus information. In the case of the coronavirus, reframe the word to think of it more as the flu. While there are differences, for most of us the risks would be similar, and thinking of it that way could lower your anxiety around it.

We also need to recognize our locus of control: realizing that we have the ability to control how we think, how we act, how we feel, and how we react. When we realize we have control over these things it makes us feel calmer and lowers our heart rates. One way to help your locus of control is through meditation.

Set healthy boundaries with those who are acting irrational or negative. For many of us, those are friends and family, so don’t cut them out forever, but take a break for a few days or even hours.

This is a finite situation and everything is going to get back to normal. These are unprecedented times and we are all in this together. There are opportunities to collaborate, opportunities to feel like we are in control, and opportunities to take control of our health. Stay safe and be well.

Resources:

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146. Tapping into the Power of a Mastermind | with Leo Hefner

Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Leo Hefner, an ethical business expert and co-founder of Mastermind Association. He has recently been featured in the national bestselling book Wealth Made Easy with Dr. Greg Reed. Though his background is in real estate, his talks center around inspiring people to create not only loads of business wealth but community and social impact as well. He can dive deep into mindset, self-dialogue, and the power of intention.

When Leo was younger he had the opportunity to go on a walkabout. His mom died when he was young, and he was living alone in a little fishing village trading work for rent and fishing for his own food.

From that experience, he developed a sense of self-confidence and shed the need for approval from others. As a result, he wasn’t a very good fit for the corporate world, as he tended to be too blunt and said everything on his mind. But his independence and work ethic primed him to be an entrepreneur.

More recently, Leo has tapped into a resource that has the potential to help others like him go further than anyone can go alone, and do it faster to boot: mastermind groups.

The idea of a mastermind is to tap into the “third mind,” which is tapping into the knowledge that’s locked in an individual’s mind but can be of great use to someone else. What’s common knowledge to one person may not be common knowledge to the person down the street. By sharing our experiences, we can help people move to the next level.

The Mastermind Association is all about teaching people how to create and run a mastermind in a set format that makes it a true mastermind. It’s possible for masterminds to become one-way seminars, but when you become a certified mastermind leader, you learn how to facilitate a more powerful group experience.

However, knowledge won’t change anything by itself, even if it’s exactly what you need to know to grow your business or improve your life — you have to take action. If you don’t have a predisposition to take action on the knowledge you are picking up, it is going to waste.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Do something today that you’ve been afraid to do. Version one is better than version zero, because version zero you can’t fix. Version one you can. If you’ve been sitting on a project or trying to get a website done or trying to do something, just do it. Nothing is final, everything is fluid. You can always make changes on the fly.”

Resources:

Learn more: http://leohefner.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leohefner
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leohefner
Twitter: https://twitter.com/leohefner
http://www.southbend7.com
https://mastermindassociation.com/

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145. The Leadership of You | with Sabina Nawaz

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Sabina Nawaz, a global CEO coach, leadership keynote speaker, and writer working in over 26 countries. She advises C-level executives in Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions. Sabina also teaches faculty at Northeastern University and facilitates the faculty fellowship development program at Drexel University as well. Previously, she spent over 14 years at Microsoft where she led the companies executive development and succession planning efforts for over 11,000 managers and 700 executives.

In addition, Sabina has spoken at hundreds of seminars, events, and conferences including TEDx. Currently, she sits on the board of Power & Systems, a leadership development institute. Sabina believes the greatest privilege of working with leaders is bearing witness to their acts of courage.

Nine years into her career at Microsoft, Sabina was offered an 8-week sabbatical. She left five of those weeks completely unscheduled, and what happened is that she had several insights and realizations — one of which being that it was not a matter of if, but when, she could become a corporate vice president at the company — and once she saw the path to getting there, she became completely disinterested in getting there.

This forced her to step back and examine: What was she supposed to be doing? What was it that she got joy out of doing? What did other people enjoy about her?

She had received a lot of feedback from people that she was the best manager they had ever had, and she realized she had good people skills, so maybe she should put that to use. She discovered there was a group at Microsoft that invested in developing employees, and she went to them and told them that she wanted to make a change in her career. She did this for six years at Microsoft before moving on to run her own business.

During her time at Microsoft, and in her exposure to organizations across the globe, Sabina has learned things that are common to acts of leadership in organizational culture and things that are different — the most common things that people love about their bosses and the most common things that get in the way of business results.

Leadership is about how you take charge of your life and the impact of your life on the world. This can be broken down into a few parts:

Just being. Indulging in white space, doing nothing. Take a couple hours a week unplugged and sit with your thinking.
The knowing. Once you can be, you get these insights. You start connecting dots.
The asking. You may know what you want, but you may not know how to get there. Don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Leadership is about taking charge of your life, whether you are the leader of others or not. It is your responsibility to move forward.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When you look at the leadership of you, realize the danger of a single story. Most often when we get stuck we make up a story and we consider that story the truth, and the more righteous we are, the more stuck we feel, the more we need to break down that story and create multiple stories. As human beings, we are meaning-making machines. Indulge in that. Make up multiple versions of the stories.”

Resources:

Learn more: http://www.sabinanawaz.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabina-nawaz-41a25b5

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144. Resiliency, Believing in Yourself, & Overcoming the Odds | with Oleg Lougheed

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Oleg Lougheed, and he is a renowned TedX speaker. He is helping individuals overcome odds and restore a sense of community and belonging. He helps to provide a safe place to develop one’s individual voice and connect to others via their life’s circumstances. He’s doing that through his life-changing website, OvercomingOdds.today.

Oleg’s story starts in Russia, where he had a relatively normal upbringing for the first few years of his life, but when he was around the age of 4 his mother became an alcoholic and changed their family dynamic completely when his sister ended up becoming his legal guardian. At 9 years old, he found out what an orphanage was, and he believed that would be a better option than what he was currently facing. He took his sister before a city council and had her rights relinquished as his guardian.

He lived in the orphanage for 3 years, and it was a very different experience. He faced many instances of physical and mental abuse. When he was 12, he was finally able to be adopted, and he went to a family in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the second phase of his life began. He moved to the United States without speaking the language, not knowing anything about that part of the world, but having the drive and determination to figure it out.

We all have resiliency inside of us to a degree, but some of us turn to alcohol and others will turn to a sense of belief. Everyone has the capacity to believe in themselves, but it’s one of those things that we underestimate.

Oleg made the decision to make his platform, Overcoming Odds, as part of a business accelerator program. A few weeks into the program he realized there was more to his story than he was tapping into. He asked himself why he was put through these various challenges and obstacles, and what lessons he was supposed to learn from each of them.

When he came to this point, he just sat down and wrote out his story. He put a very simple call to action at the end: “If my message speaks to you, please join me in sharing your story.” Within 3 days, he had received over a hundred messages from people all over the world asking where they could share their stories. He needed to create a space for foster children and adoptees to share their experiences, not just the highlights but all of them. Other people began reaching out — immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ people — and he knew this had to be a platform for people to understand other people.

Overcoming Odds has become much more than just a space to share stories, and has extended to all of the other platforms that impacted Oleg’s life: Podcasts, events, and weekly calls. Everything boils down to the connection that Oleg has with himself and with other people.

This is a community where people have gone through very difficult circumstances, but they have found a way through it. And those who are currently working their way through it will find a way through it. By normalizing challenges, people become encouraged to move past them.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I was struggling with a math problem, and I asked my dad for help. What I really wanted was him to solve it for me. What he said was, ‘Son, I won’t solve it for you, but we can solve it together.’ During that time, he said ‘Never say you can’t do something in life. There’s always a way. It may not be the way you envision, but there is always a way.’ 14 years later I look back on that moment and choose to live by that principle every day.”

Resources:

Learn more: https://www.overcomingodds.today/
Podcast: https://www.overcomingodds.today/podcast-1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Overcoming-Odds-111928076030141/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/overcomingodds
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_overcomingodds

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143. Tapping Into Your Creative Potential to Make an Impact | with Emerald GreenForest

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Emerald GreenForest, the founder and lead visionary of Creative Age Consulting Group. She is an internationally known speaker, transformation artist, Be The Change Movement “To Watch” award winner and one of America’s premier experts. She is the executive producer of the Apple top 100 ranked Men On Purpose Podcast and the Apple top 75 ranked Wickedly Smart Women Podcast and is hired to consult with high-achieving leaders who are called to be the vanguards of the creative age.

Up until 2001, Emerald was in the real-estate business as the national chairperson of her trade association, until some personal trauma led to her taking up yoga and having a spiritual awakening. In 2016, there was a massive rupture in her family when her son, who had become addicted to heroin, locked her in the basement and threatened her. She made it out and her son was arrested, and she was then left to deal with the remnants of her life. Looking back on this, she sees this period as a rite of passage.

After her initial spiritual awakening, she left real-estate and opened an art gallery and healing arts center. She had been very analytical and left-brained until this moment, and she felt all these latent parts of herself emerge. She started working online to help other people awaken and organize their creative output in ways that allowed them to create an impact as well as wealth.

How do you pull out your creative potential? There are 3 primary steps:

Start with listening. The first thing you have to do is get clear about what’s not working and walk away from that. So many of us are looking for a quick fix when that fix rarely gets to the root cause of the issue.
Once you walk away from what’s not working, you need to evaluate what you really want. You need to allow yourself to be you and to contribute what you want.
After you become clear on what you want, you need to align your compass to your most efficient course of action. Take steps on a daily or moment-to-moment basis to get yourself back on track.

Unlocking your creative potential is more important than ever now because we are currently at the dawn of the Creative Age. We have transitioned from the industrial age into the information age and beyond, but we still have so many preconceptions about what is of value based on those times. We need to value our own calling and creative power to create an entirely new landscape.

In this day and age, it has never been easier to have a message, but it has also never been more difficult to be heard. If your own purpose is so important, how can we cut through the noise as a creator? You have to be authentic to your own creation. The industrial age was about copying and pasting information, but the creative age is about being authentic and original. And you have to be exceptionally clear. You do not want to be seen by everyone. You only want to be seen by the people who are a perfect fit for what you are delivering.

If you are interested in creating a wealthy life that’s a work of art, you can visit quiz.wealthylifementor.com to find out if you are ready for a wealthy life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Clarity is divinity. If you’re feeling like you’re lost in the clouds of confusion, get yourself clear, and do it with help.”

Resources:

Learn more: www.wealthylifementor.com
Men on Purpose Podcast: https://www.emeraldgreenforest.com/podcast
Wickedly Smart Women: https://www.emeraldpgreenforest.com/wickedly-smart-women
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedlysmartwomenpodcast
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/emeraldgreenforest
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WickedlySmartWomen

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142. How to Deal With Conflict Instead of Avoiding It | with Liz Kislik

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Liz Kislik, a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. She consults for clients such as American Express, Orvis, the Girl Scouts, Comcast, Jansen Pharmaceuticals, and Highlights for Children. Her specialty is developing high-performing leaders and workforces. She has taught at Hofstra University and New York University. Her TED Talk, Why There’s So Much Conflict at Work and What You Can Do to Fix It has been viewed over 150 thousand times.

She got into conflict at work as a specialty accidentally. She always wanted to make things work better, and conflict is a part of life, so if you want things to work better you have to deal with it at some point.

The conflict at work hasn’t changed much over the last 10 years, except that we are now dealing with more and different channels of communication. It is harder to read tone in email, text, or on social media. You are best off avoiding conflict on social media as much as possible, despite seeing a lot of it on there.

One thing we are seeing play a role in the workplace conflict is confirmation bias or echo chambers. This means that you are surrounding yourself with like-minded people and only emphasizing what is already in your head, and strengthening your rejection of outside ideas.

Here are just a few things you can do to manage conflict in your life:

Conflict in business is part of your job. It’s your job to figure out what happened and how to work through it. Don’t ignore it, and don’t issue threats. If an employee is not willing to work through conflict appropriately, they can do major harm to your business.
Start in an open-minded way and find out how you got to where you are.
Assume the person is not the problem.
Be self-aware.
Ask permission to bring up difficult topics.

If you visit Liz’s office, there is a free ebook on how to resolve interpersonal conflict at work.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There is almost always something you can do. We are rarely as trapped as we feel we are, even when there are structural problems. Taking the moment to be self-aware, to self-regulate, and then to think, “What is the best thing I can do now?” There is almost always something, even if it’s deciding that you have to wait for a better opportunity. We are rarely powerless.”

Resources:

Learn more: lizkislik.com
TEDx Talk: Why There’s So Much Conflict at Work and What You Can Do to Fix It
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizkislik/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LizKislik

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141. Becoming a Legend in the Sales Industry, Pt. 2 | with Ben Gay III

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Ben Gay III. He has been called a living legend in the sales world. After 50+ years in professional selling, he has been the #1 salesperson in every organization in which he’s worked. At the age of 25, he was the president of what was then the largest direct sales and network marketing company, having personally been trained by other sales legends such as J. Douglas Edwards, Dr. Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, William Penn Patrick, Zig Ziglar, and many other sales giants.

Ben has been the king of sales for decades, and he has seen the impact of technology coming into your world and change everything. Given all of the noise that’s out there, it is more difficult than ever to capture someone’s attention.

Nothing has changed in selling as far as the fundamentals. The technology we have today allows us to continue doing the same things that have always worked, but faster. People will always want to know how your product or service will benefit them personally, and that is still the same. We simply have the technology to get that message out in front of more people.

Ben Gay is launching a new platform called “The Last Protege.” Dr. Hill had an enormous impact on Ben in the two and a half years they worked together before he tragically passed away. At a seminar Ben was at, he was connected with a man, Mark Harris, who was living encyclopedia of information about Dr. Hill.

Dr. Hill had said, before he died, that his greatest mistake was not mentoring anyone. With Ben providing the personal aspects and Mark providing the technical aspects, they were able to document everything that Dr. Hill wrote and taught in language that you can understand today.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“People always asked what it was like to know all these legendary figures. They figured we all sat around in white bathrobes, cross-legged on the floor, saying profound things to each other. They were all just trying to sell their books or records back then, and trying to get more speaking engagements. They were just regular people trying to make a better living.”

Resources:

Learn more: https://www.bfg3.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengayiii
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ben.i.gay.1
The Last Protege: http://thelastprotege.com

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140. Becoming a Legend in the Sales Industry, Pt. 1 - with Ben Gay III

Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000

In part one of our interview, Ben talks about how he got started in sales, and what it was like being around some of the most influential and successful people in marketing and sales.

Resources:

Learn more: https://www.bfg3.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengayiii
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ben.i.gay.1

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Ep. 139: Master Your Message: How Controlled Messaging Can Change the World | with Ralph Brogden

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Ralph Brogden, who helps smart people like you master your message, showing you how to package and promote your ideas for maximum impact, influence, and income.

Ralph is a best-selling author, publisher, and strategic communication consultant specializing in marketing and media. His clients have been featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, USA Today, The Huffington Post, and hundreds of nationally syndicated television, newspaper, and magazine outlets. He is a producer for Business Innovators Radio Network and the host of Rebelpreneur Radio for WCKG 102.3 FM in Chicago. He is also a former copywriter and marketing strategist for a digital media agency in New York.

Ralph had always been fascinated with the ways communication played a role in our world. We communicate to get people to buy products, to vote for certain politicians, and to try and change their habits and behaviors. That led him into a field called strategic communication, where he began to study how to influence the beliefs and behaviors of massive populations of people.

He wants to encourage people to use that power for good, but we are already seeing it being used in ways that are not very good. Kids are using these tools for cyberbullying, harming one another instead of helping them. It has become a professional and academic interest for Ralph to figure out how we can master our message to change the world and make a difference.

One of the key tenets of strategic communication that hold true across cultures is the power of storytelling, or narrative persuasion. We associate meaning through stories. It is something so native to humans that it is almost as if it’s in our DNA.

An example of this is with negative self talk. We tell ourselves stories about why we aren’t happy, why someone else is more successful. We could just as easily create a new story that empowers us instead of weakens us, and encourage others as well.

Everyone’s story is different, but there is still a process of 3 rules of communication that they all follow:

Have something worth say
Say it well
Say it often

There is also a 4-step process to follow when crafting your message:

Visual: People make judgements in a microsecond based on the way something looks (a web page, book cover, clothing, etc.)
Voice: Not just what you say, but how you say it. The language and voice that you use. This needs to be authentic to you instead of an imitation of someone else.
Vibe: How do you make people feel? People make decisions depending on whether it is emotionally relevant to them.
Value: No matter how great the other 3 factors, people want to know what it is worth to them. You need to solve a problem or deliver a result.

These four factors maximize the effect of communicating to people that you can solve their problem and create a result. And if you can’t, then you say that you can’t and move on. By bringing that level of authenticity to the conversation, everyone involved is going to feel better about the situation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you master your message, everything else falls into place. You don’t have to struggle with marketing. You don’t have to struggle with a lack of self-confidence. You don’t have to struggle to attract customers, or clients, or whatever it is that you want to accomplish. If you master your message, it becomes magnetic. People are attracted to you, they want to do business with you, and it seems almost magical. Master your message, and your marketing will take care of itself.”

Resources:

Learn more at: https://www.ralphbrogden.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralphbrogden
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RalphBrogden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RalphBrogden
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ralphbrogden

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Ep. 138: How Your Metabolism Affects Your Weight Loss & Fitness Goals | with Angelo Poli

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Angelo Poli, an internationally recognized expert in fitness and nutrition. He’s the founder of MetPro, an evaluation-based health coaching program specializing in transformations. Using a process called metabolic profiling, MetPro analyzes your metabolism and provides an individualized approach to obtaining your health goals.

In 20 years of educating the masses and challenging generalized health guidance, Angelo has become one of the most celebrated and desired body transformation experts in the world. His high profile client list ranges from olympic athletes, NFL MVPs, physique models, and business leaders. Those fortunate enough to receive coaching from Angelo consistently achieve exceptional results, regardless of their demanding schedules, significant injuries, or crippled metabolisms. He is also a writer and featured speaker at conferences, a consultant for corporations, universities, and hospitals around the country, and has been featured in media outlets such as Men’s Health, Sports Illustrated, and The Wall Street Journal.

In his early 20’s, Angelo suffered a debilitating back injury, but he didn’t want to get out of the wellness and fitness industry. He decided he was going to push forward and discover everything he could about the human body and how it works in order to repair his own injuries, and find ways to stay relevant and still be able to contribute in the industry. The area he found the most relevance in was metabolism.

Transformations all hinge on understanding a persons’ individual metabolism. While Angelo continued on this journey, he continued to learn more about how it works, and he discovered that there is very little consistency in what the medical and fitness community understand metabolism to be.

Metabolism is confusing because it is so unique to each individual. Our bodies range so dramatically in how they react to the foods we eat. Before we know whether a certain diet or exercise is going to be effect, we need to understand more about how your individual metabolism works.

Every time we eat, we are conditioning our metabolism. The job of our metabolism is to adapt to our environment to keep us alive. This is the reason we will start to plateau after a diet or exercise change, because our body is adapting to change.

There are five areas that we have to understand in order to know what has to change in order to know what has to change to reach your goals:

-Your body type and goal

-Lifestyle

-Strategic approach

-Metabolic approach

-Baseline testing

Once you understand these five things, you will have a much clearer understanding of your metabolism, and will be able to point you in a positive direction.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Keep learning. The way I’ve been able to accumulate the knowledge I have is by always being open to learning. Every single client that I’ve worked with, I’ve learned something new from. If you approach life that way, whatever your endeavors are, when people come into your life that you can learn from, take advantage of that.”

Resources:

-Visit metpro.co/tdh for a free consultation

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metproco

-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetabolicProfiling

-Twitter: https://twitter.com/metprosystem

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 137: How to Find Your Cloud Nine Moment | with Jordan Gross

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Jordan Gross, a Northwestern and Kellogg School of Management graduate, a two time startup founder, TedX speaker, and #1 best-selling author. His newest book, The Journey to Cloud Nine, provides a new approach to the personal development world by using fictional storytelling to reveal some of life's most meaningful principles. Jordan has interviewed thought leaders and influencers all over the world regarding how they live their lives on cloud nine, and he’s happy to share that information with everyone.

Jordan was someone who was going through the motions in school. He based his decision-making on what others were doing or what they told him to do. He studied economics to become an investment banker before he realized he didn’t want to do that, and eventually was told he should get his masters degree.

After doing more self-exploration, he started hearing that you should “follow your passion.” At the time he thought his passion was in the food and restaurant industry. He got a job in a management role, and everything looked great on paper, but very quickly he realized that this was not making the impact that he wanted to make.

He quit that job, and knew he had to find something that was impact driven, that helped people, and adds value to people’s lives. This led to him writing his first book, Getting Comfy: Your Guide to Daily Happiness. In writing that book, he heard from his friends that they didn’t read his book. They didn’t like self-help books because they were too authoritative.

That’s why he wrote The Journey to Cloud Nine the way that he did: He wanted to share these fundamental concepts in a way that his friends would read. So he wrote a story, with characters, and plot, and twists, but weaved with all the principles he had learned.

While working on this book, he interviewed people all over the world to learn from their success and place different lessons in his stories. Each story is one cloud and one key concept based on what futures could have been.

Through all of this, Jordan learned that he needed to follow and accentuate his best traits and aspirations in order to succeed. He focused on all of his key characteristics to find something of value. He took those and applied them to his passion.

Finding your passion is easier said than done, though. How do you know what your passion is? Jordan does have one question you can ask yourself to help you discover it:

“If someone gave you a 30 minute impromptu assessment, and your only task was to talk about one thing for 30 minutes straight, what would that one thing be?” Start to think about what you can talk about, and why that thing is interesting to you.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Somebody once told me the definition of hell. On my last day on this earth, the person I became will meet the person who I could have become, and those two people are complete strangers. Someone also once told me the definition of heaven. On my last day on this earth, the person I became will meet the person who I could have become, and those two are identical twins.”

-Ed Mylett

Resources:

-Learn more at: https://www.journeytocloudnine.com

-Read: Getting Comfy: Your Morning Guide to Daily Happiness

-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-gross-8271905b

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getting_comfy

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 136: How to Lead With the Heart | with Stephen & Mara Klemich

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guests are Stephen Klemich, leadership consultant, speaker, and CEO of Heartstyles, and Dr. Mara Klemich, a consulting psychologist with degrees in clinical psychology and neuropsychology and co-founder of Heartstyles.

Stephen has worked with teams across the globe, and is an avid mountain climber. He’s incorporated some of the lessons he’s learned from these mountains into what he’s doing with the Heartstyles program. Mara Klemich has over 10 years of clinical neuropsychological experience working with patients including neurosurgery, alcohol related brain damage, psychiatry, pain management, and trauma consulting.

Over 30 years ago, they were using personality profiles while working with people to typecast them. These were helpful, but they didn’t capture the things that really led to people making change and become more effective in whatever it was they were doing. Those changes came from their character strength: From their heart.

As they worked with these people, they started to look for a way of helping people understand their character and what drives their behavior. The process of designing this framework took them 18 years to build, as well as the language to talk about it.

In this framework, there are two ways of operating in life: confident in ourselves and secure in who we are (above the line), or not very secure and filled with anxiety (below the line). Both of these are very normal, because people can switch between operations depending on the circumstance.

When we are operating above the line, we can show humility and love and still drive results. But when we are below the line, we are driving with our ego, pride, and fear. We need to learn to recognize these behaviors so we can begin to shift our behaviors to be more above the line.

When we talk about making that shift, the goal is to strengthen our character. To do that, we need to start finding more self love and self belief within us. Most of the time we focus on our shortcomings, our wounds, instead of noticing what we are bringing to work and to life, all of our goals and aspirations.

Stephen and Mara’s book, Above the Line: Living and Leading With Heart, includes a personal development guide to aid in this understanding. With that, you can learn to take all the steps you need to push your thoughts and behaviors above the line.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Understand why we do what we do, why we behave the way we behave, based on the attitude of our heart.

“Know that all of us are capable of moving outside of our behavior patterns. When we know why we behave the way we do, we don’t have to live that way. We are all capable of making that choice.”

Resources:

-Learn more at: https://www.heartstyles.com

-Read: https://www.heartstyles.com/book

-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heartstyles

-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartstylesindicator

-Twitter: https://twitter.com/heartstylesind

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 135: How to Find Your Why and Gain Clarity | with Gary Sanchez

Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Gary Sanchez, a dentist, inventor, author, or speaker who is always in search of a better way. Struggling to stand out in the crowded dental marketplace led him on his quest to learn about the power of why. Many experts talk about the need to know your why, but none helped him discover his. His obsession with why led him to discovering his own why, as well as the process for helping others help theirs.

Applying his why to his dental practice took his practice from just getting by to having abundance, and the development of the Why Institute to help other businesses have a bigger impact. They have now worked with over 40,000 individuals, as well as 500 companies, from small yoga studios to Fortune 500 companies, helping them get clear, stand out, and play big. His podcast, Beyond Your Why, has over 1.2 million listeners.

After putting so much time, energy, and effort into his practice, he wondered how this could have happened to him. It just wasn’t growing like he expected. Wandering around a bookstore, Gary noticed a book called The Answer by John Assaraf. He read through that book, and ended up hiring John as his coach.

Gary learned from John all the methods for getting his message out into the world. The only question was, what was he going to say that separates him from everyone else? He stayed quiet until he discovered Simon Sinek, and he became obsessed with finding his why. He finally figured out that his why was to find a better way, and then share it.

He took what he learned from John Assaraf and Simon Sinek and applied it all to his practice. Instead of talking about what he does, he talked about why he does it. And his practice took off.

Knowing about the concept of why is important, but where it really gets powerful is when you know about your own why. So how can you discover your own why?

During Gary’s obsessive search for his own why, he discovered that there are only 9 types of why. From finding this, he was able to build a software program to help people determine what their why is.

These are the 9 different types of why:

-Contribute to a greater cause

-Trust

-Make sense

-Better Way

-Right Way

-Challenge

-Mastery

-Clarify

-Simplify

Knowing your why is essentially to understanding who you are and what you believe. And when you share your beliefs, you attract others who believe the same things you do.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“So many of life's challenges are called challenges because they are hard to figure out until you know your why. Knowing your why is that essential and critical first step, and if you don’t have that, you’re starting at the wrong level. And when you do have that, it makes all of the rest of those decisions and choices so much easier.”

Resources:

-Learn more at: http://www.whyinstitute.com

-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whyInstitute

-Twitter: https://twitter.com/whyinstitute

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 134: Becoming the Best Version of Ourselves | with Larry Levine

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Larry Levine, the international best-selling author of the book Selling From The Heart and co-host of the Selling From The Heart podcast. He knows what it takes to be a successful sales professional.

Larry now coaches and inspires sales leaders and their teams to do what he did. Since 2016, Larry has coached sales professionals from across the world, from tenured reps to millennials entering the workforce. They all appreciate the practical, relevant, and street savvy nature of his coaching.

Larry spent over 28 years in the copier industry, with over 20 years at a single company, working his way up within the ranks. One day, he read the book Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, and he couldn’t get past one: absence of trust. It was then that he knew he had to create an exit plan and move on.

Within a year at a new company, he was able to rise from the #18 employee to #2, just by being able to articulate the value he could bring to them and share a great story. He eventually left that company to set out on his own and spread his story.

The story he wanted to tell was that regardless of what you are doing, if you want to succeed, you have to become the best version of yourself. That is what became Selling From The Heart. 20 years ago, he was talking with the CFO of one of his dream accounts, and 10 minutes into their meeting the CFO called it short and made it clear he wouldn’t be purchasing from them. Larry was about to shut his book and go home, but instead he decided to turn it into a learning moment, and he let the CFO school him for 45 minutes about all the things he was doing wrong.

He knew that the lessons he learned in that moment, and the learning moments that it led to, were worth sharing with the world.

-Focus on the concerns of your client and their company, not your own needs and concerns.

-Really learn who you are. Self-reflect who you are and why you exist to become the best version of yourself.

-Be true to yourself in your interactions with others, and allow yourself to be honest and vulnerable. You can’t hide behind a facade.

-Be consistent with your growth and the actions you have to do. When you are consistent, great things happen.

-Create content that sparks conversations. Make content that is educating, engaging, and exciting people into a conversation. Be yourself in your communication.

The key to your growth is how well you create and drive more meaningful relationships. You have to be proactive to build those relationships.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want people to be sincere with how they open up and build relationships with people, I want them to bring substance to the table, and I want them to bring their heart to the forefront. If you can do that, I promise it will set you apart. But we have to really look inward and say ‘What is sincerity? What is substance?’ We’ve got to be kind, we’ve got to be genuine, we’ve got to be real, and we’ve got to bring the goods. That’s what people are expecting and if you can sprinkle your heart on top of this, great things will happen.”

Resources:

-Learn more at: http://www.sellingfromtheheart.net

-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrylevine1992

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sellingfromtheheart

-Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/sellfromtheheart

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 133: Five Steps to Being Seen as a Thought Leader | with Mitchell Levy

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Mitchell Levy, a global credibility expert, TedX speaker, and international bestselling author of over 60 books. He helps extract the genius from your head in order to ghostwrite your book, publish it, distribute it, and make you an Amazon bestseller in just 4 months.

Why should we care about being a thought leader or credibility? Just 20 years ago, thought leaders were brought to us by the industry to tell us who the experts were in that field. Now, because of the democratization of technology, everyone has the opportunity to grow a following. And when you have a following, you can get to know them and learn from them and give them what they want.

Do you want to be that thought leader in your field? You have to be credible. You need to find out the people who you are trying to serve, and you need to find the problem that you can solve for them. The absolute quickest way to establish credibility is to find clients, solve their problems, and get a testimonial from them.

You can really jump start your credibility by following one key piece of advice: When you show up, show up fully. What does that mean, exactly?

Make sure you are showing up on time, or even early.
Do research ahead of time.
Speak with your heart.

Credibility is just one (incredibly vital) part of thought leadership. But Mitchell also has for us five steps to becoming a thought leader:

Show up well. What shows up when someone Google’s your name?
Consistently share good, compelling content. Pay attention to what’s happening in your space.
You need a book written for your audience/clients.
Create your own channel for sharing your own content, or on another credible platform.
Create a best-of list

With how important a book is to being thought of as a thought leader, but how time intensive the process is, hiring a ghostwriter is something to consider! A solid 120 page book will take around 120 hours to write, and to do all of the things a publishing company can do will take around 200 additional hours. That’s all time away from your business.

Being a thought leader today is less about being a household name, and more about being known within a specific community or for your skillset. It’s about being recognized as a trustworthy person. And it is one of the biggest ways to transform your career, business, and life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When you show up, make it a point to show up. In this world where we’re multitasking, mutli-threading, and always looking at our phone, I’m just going to encourage you to, for the time that you’ve allocated to be with another human, be with that person. And prepare ahead of time.”

Resources:

-Learn more at: http://www.mitchelllevy360.com

-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchelllevy

-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/happyabout

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mitchell.levy

-TedX Talk: https://mitchelllevy.com/tedtalk

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 132: The Importance of Community in Business & Life | with Marissa Levin

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Marissa Levin, a 25-year entrepreneur, speaker, and globally-recognized growth strategist. Her lifetime legacy mission is to educate, equip, and empower a hundred million entrepreneurs and leaders with the skill sets and mindsets they need to reach their greatest potential.

She wrote the #1 best-selling book Built to Scale: How Companies Create Breakthrough Growth Through Exceptional Advisory Boards. Using her model, her organization has helped CEOs select and implement highly effective advisory boards, which is essential for any business looking to grow exponentially. She is also the author of My Company Rocks: 8 Secrets to a Growth-Driven Culture and a contributor to You at Work: Unlocking Human Potential at the Workplace. She is also a leadership columnist for Inc. Magazine.

Inspired to start her company because she worked for someone who didn’t value her. She wasn’t going to make any more money working for the company she was with, and she knew she was worth so much more, so she decided she needed to start her own company.

Marissa’s masters degree was in Human Resources and Organizational Development. The company she built had to pivot multiple times in order to stay relevant. When she launched the company, the only place that people were learning were in classrooms. She took that online by developing user guides, online help systems, and materials for instructor-led material.

John Chamber, the CEO at the time at CISCO, announced that e-learning would be the “killer application” of the internet, and Marissa had to change her business overnight. In order to become what the market needed, but still be true to who they were, they had to become a web-based training company. That required her to bring on a lot of creative talent and allow them to expand their offerings into different fields.

When social media really started to take a foothold, Marissa knew that it was going to change everything. Where traditionally the CEO of a company controlled all messaging, once everyone in the company could make a LinkedIn or Facebook page, it began to flatten organizations because everyone in the company had a voice.

Why is building community in organizations and in life so critical? One of the most important factors for a successful life is to belong to multiple communities. It creates a feeling of belonging. One of the ways this gets applied to the corporate world is to build an advisory board made up of people from different communities.

Marissa eventually wrote a book, Built to Scale, around the power of advisory boards. In that book, she introduced the SCALE Model, which stands for Select, Compensate, Associate, Leverage, and Evaluate, Evolve & Exit. It’s a 5-phase model that leads a business owner through the process of how to strategically and intentionally select the advisors around them based on the holes and goals of their organization.

This is what each phase looks like:

-Select: Analyze your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats as it relates to your advisory board. Be intentional about who you are bringing in to fill in those holes and reach those goals.

-Compensate: You need to show your advisors that you value what they do and are willing to make an investment, whether that’s cash, trade, or stock.

-Associate: How you associate with your advisors, including legally (non-compete, NDA, etc.) and process of integration.

-Leverage: This is all the different ways you can take advantage of your advisory board. There are over 70 of these in the book, and there are even more than that if you can get creative.

-Evaluate, Evolve, and Exit: Arrange to revisit each advisors involvement, evolve your board as your company grows, and if you find you’ve outgrown an advisor, make sure to give them a gracious and grateful exit.

Just like communities are important to us as individuals, advisory boards act as a place for diverse opinions from different communities to come together and improve upon each other. Use the SCALE model above, as well as the tips in her book, to build the advisory board that can blow up your business growth.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“For leaders, never underestimate the influence you have on the people who work for you. And for employees, know that you have a voice in your future and your outcome, and always take responsibility for that.”

Resources:

-Learn more at: http://builttoscale.info

-Successful Culture International: https://www.successfulculture.com

-The Culture Podcast: https://www.successfulculture.com/podcast

-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SuccessfulCulture

-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5071793

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marissalevin1

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 131: Looking To Music As Self Care | with Bill Protzmann

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Bill Protzmann, whose volunteer work includes board positions with Guitars for Vets and the San Diego Veterans Coalition. He has been instrumental in connecting thousands of military service members and veterans with honor tickets to the largest healing organization involving music. You can read his articles online in places like Fox News and Psychology Today. For his foundational work establishing music as self care, he received an Inspiring Hope Award of Excellence from the National Council for Behavioral Health.

Bill’s behavioral healthcare began when he started playing music. His mom started him off with piano lessons very early, and he found that he was giving himself a place of peace and being okay with emotions from that day.

The ethos of bringing music to people in unusual situations opened him up to the idea that music could help people who are dealing with behavioral issues.

Sound and rhythm are fundamental to who we are. We are all set up to respond well to sound, and it’s an amazing skill that we have to trigger certain functions. Sound and music can activate our lizard brains and really reach us in a way that our cerebral cortex won’t allow.

How are we supposed to apply this into our own lives? Use music for a purpose. Do you have a song that makes you feel grateful? The feeling that’s triggered by that music is often the missing component from saying “thank you” and meaning it.

If you can find a song for each of the major four emotions: fear, anger, joy, and sadness and attribute the energy from those songs to those emotions, you can let the music help you make sense of those feelings.

In Bill’s latest book, More Than Human: The Value of Cultivating the Human Spirit in Your Organization, he talks about taking these musical therapy into a corporate setting. It is a good practice to have gratitude and appreciation in business now, and they are things that are innate to us as humans. The book is an attempt to soften the hard edge of business in a way that is evidence based and intrinsic to us.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Remove the connotation of negative or positive emotions. Emotions are just guard rails on our road. At the basic core of them, they’re just brain chemistry. If you’re too angry, keep your game face on, but that emotion is there for a reason. If, like me, you stuff those for 30 years, it’s not a good practice. Music gives us a safe way of experiencing it. Take a moment that fully lets you feel angry, experience it, and it will flow away from you if you allow it to.”

Resources:

-Learn more at: www.billprotzmann.com

-Quest: quest.musiccare.net

-Facebook: facebook.com/pages/Bill-Protzmann/31362093115

-Twitter: www.twitter.com/billprotzmann

-LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/billprotzmann

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 130: The Importance of Community in a Digital Era | with Chris Krimitsos

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Chris Krimitsos. He is the organizer of Podfest Expo, one of the top podcast conferences in the world. He has created a podcast documentary called The Messengers, and author of the recently released book Start Ugly, which encourages people to get over their perfectionism.

Chris grew up in a large, supportive family, and his next door neighbor was a firefighter. He had the model of helping people all around him throughout his life. When he came of age, he wanted to do really well in business so he could help people.

In his late 20’s, he would ask himself, “What would I want my life to be if you take money out of the equation?” His answer was, “Help people.” Then he had to figure out through what vehicles he would be able to help people, and that ended up being by creating facilitated environments and communities.

When he made this decision, we were just in the middle of transitioning from living our lives in the physical world to creating more community in the digital world. We are shifting a bit more to going to yearly events as opposed to local communities. The incredible thing about these is that because of their reach and importance, they are all incredibly niche. People travel from all over to get that in-person interaction they crave with other like-minded people.

If you are trying to start a community, whether it’s online or in person, here are some tactics you can use:

-Forget about numbers. Worry about making an impact for the people that do show up, and more will come.

-You might think a big speaker will draw, but a local expert within your niche might draw much better.

-Let the keynote be as long or short as it needs to be for the content to be shared effectively. Don’t put an arbitrary time constraint on it.

In Chris’ new book, Start Ugly, he talks about wanting to give people the permission to get started without guilt or perfectionism. He believes that if everyone stopped worrying about getting everything right and just start working towards their goals, we could all accomplish incredible things.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When I was a young kid growing up in Long Island, New York, Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was buried a mile from my house and I would go and visit his gravestone. There was an inscription there that was, “Keep your feet on the ground and your eyes on the stars.”

I believe if we can keep our feet on the ground, take it step by step, with our eyes on the stars, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish. I believe that anyone that’s listening to this is able to start ugly and do great things with their lives, they’ve just got to take it one step at a time.”

Resources:

-Learn more: chriskrimitsos.com

-Buy Start Ugly: juststartugly.com

-Facebook: facebook.com/chriskrimitsos

-Twitter: twitter.com/chriskrimitsos

-LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chriskrimitsos

-Instagram: instagram.com/chriskrimitsos

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 129: Hiring the Right Freelancers to Build Your Business | with Nathan Hirsch

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Nathan Hirsch, a 30 year entrepreneur of 10 years and an expert in remote hiring and ecommerce. He started his first ecommerce business out of his dorm room, and now he’s the cofounder of FreeeUp.com, a marketplace that connects businesses with pre-vetted virtual assistants, freelancers, and agencies in ecommerce, digital marketing and much more. He regularly appears on leading podcasts such as Entrepreneur on Fire, and speaks at live events about online hiring tactics.

Nathan’s parents were both teachers, so he grew up with the mentality that he would go to school, get good grades, graduate from college, get a good job and then retire in 30 years. They raised him with a sense of good work ethic, so from the age he could legally work he had a full time job.

He learned a lot about business, marketing and customer service, which was great. But he also quickly realized that he hated working for other people. When he got to college, he saw this as his chance to start his own business before entering the real world.

Nathan had an experience many college students know well: you buy brand new text books for hundreds of dollars, and sell them back at the end of the semester for a small fraction of that. He thought, “I can do this better.” He started buying people’s textbooks and reselling them on other platforms (including Amazon.com). This took off so well that he eventually received a cease and desist letter from his college.

He didn’t want to get kicked out of school, so he pivoted. He was excited about what he had already managed to build, so he just had to figure out what else he could sell. He experimented with a ton of different products he was interested in but nothing else was gaining traction. It wasn’t until he branched out and found the baby product industry that he started to see some success.

Nathan started to get job offers, and he was faced with making a decision: do you take the safe bet and accept a job with stable pay and benefits, or do you take the risk of entrepreneurship? Eventually he came to the conclusion that he was young, and those jobs wouldn’t suddenly disappear. If he was going to take this leap, this was the best opportunity to do that.

He was spending a lot of time hiring people through other freelancer platforms like Fiverr and UpWork, but he thought he could build a better platform that worked better for people like him. As Amazon drop-shipping got more competitive, sales began to stagnate, so Nathan built up FreeeUp on the side. Eventually that brought in more money than his Amazon business, and he decided to take it full time.

Freelancing is going to be a huge part of our workplace in the future, and whether you’re a business owner or an employee, you are going to need to learn to adapt to that. When you’re looking for people to work with, you need to make sure you know what you need:

-Do you have the systems in place that you need people to operate in? You need a follower, someone who can follow that process.

-Do you need some work done that you’re not an expert in? Hire a specialist, like a graphic designer or a bookkeeper, to do tasks that you’re not as good at.

-Do you need someone to establish a process for you, strategize, and consult? Then you need an expert.

Once you’ve figured out what you need, you can hire the right person for the task.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Diversify across hiring. I see so many entrepreneurs who make a bunch of bad hires, and then they finally find somebody they like and they just load that person up with everything, and they don’t realize how risky that makes your business. Just like you would diversify your revenue streams and diversify your suppliers, make sure you’re diversifying your hires as well.”

Resources:

-Learn more: FreeeUp.com

-Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/outsourcingmasters

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 128: Solving the Underlying Problems with Veteran Suicides | with Conrad Jeffries

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Content Warning: This episode discusses thoughts of suicide in detail. The Suicide Prevention Hotline is located in the resources below.

This is our third annual Veteran’s Day special, where we highlight a courageous veteran who is doing something extraordinary to make a difference in the lives of the people who served for the armed forces.

Today our expert guest is Conrad Jeffries, former coast guard who worked with the marine security strike team and counter-terrorism. He also served as a combat engineer for the national guard where he logged nearly 350 missions as part of a joint special ops personal security detachment team.

Everything changed for Conrad after being discharged following a DUI, which began a downward spiral for his life and ultimately led to him finding a new purpose.

Conrad grew up in a small farm town in Idaho in a strong working class community. He was very proud of the work ethic that comes out of these communities. However, he struggled with confidence in his teenage years, and when he took his first drink of alcohol at the age of 14, he found confidence in it. Slowly over time, alcohol crept into his life in other ways to deal with other emotions.

He joined the coast guard in 2001, and had managed to refrain from drinking and clean himself up. When he was surrounded by that, it elevated him as a person. But when he got out and moved home to Idaho, he started drinking again.

Conrad needed to make some money, so he joined up with the National Guard. He found more confidence in himself again, but the drinking never went away. He was performing great in the army, but when he got a DUI, all of that was thrown away.

After that, he had to accept where his life was headed. His marriage was starting to fail. He wanted to become sober and get his life back on track. He went to a rehabilitation center and started working really hard on his sobriety.

While he was there, he started the early stages for the Shot at Dawn Project. He didn’t know at the time that it was a suicide facility, but he knew there were some issues in the way discharge was handled that could be done better. It wasn’t until his own brush with suicide, after his wife had left him and his confidence issues reached an all-time low, that he saw the direction this ultimately had to take.

That is how the Shot at Dawn Project was formed. Conrad wanted to make a facility that would combat all the issues that veterans face after being discharged. They flag people early, and they try to find the underlying problems besides the substance and attacking the problems logically.

It was through his own struggles, and those he witnessed in others, that Conrad took it upon himself to create something that veterans desperately needed. He may not have wanted or expected to see this project through, but now he hopes to be an inspiration for others going through their own struggles.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I didn’t want to own this project. I believed in the work in it so much that when people looked at it they would just get it done. I thought I could hide behind who I really was. But this journey has broken me so many times, that I’m going to finish this project. I’m going to set a standard for every veteran. You can be convicted of a crime, you can be left by the person you love, you can lose it all financially, and you can come back. So now I own this project and who I am in my past, and I know that by doing that I’m going to help guys become better.”

Resources:

-Learn more: https://www.shotatdawnproject.org/

-Crisis Hotline: Call 800-273-8255 or text 838255 to get help immediately

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Ep. 127: The Two Decisions That Guarantee Success | with Hal Elrod

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Hal Elrod, the best-selling author of The Miracle Morning, who is on a mission to elevate the consciousness of humanity one person at a time.

He’s here today to talk about his new book, The Miracle Equation, the next step in his mission to take your life to the next level.

Hal has had not one but two near death experiences in his life. We went into depth with his first one, where his car was hit by a drunk driver at 20 years old, in episode 50 of The Daily Helping. That was enough of an experience for most people, but that wasn’t all Hal had dealt with.

3 years ago, Hal was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of cancer. He was rushed to the hospital with several organs failing, and told he only had a 20-30% chance of survival. After being diagnosed, Hal was quick to come to the decision that this was the best thing that ever happened to him.

He was 100% confident that he would beat the odds, and it was because of the miracle equation, that he had been living since he was 20. It was how he had overcome his car accident and recovery, and accomplished incredible goals that he never thought he would before. And he did beat the cancer.

Was this a miracle? Hal defines a miracle as “any meaningful outcome beyond what you believe is probable for you.” Not what’s possible, but anything that feels outside of the realm of what you’ve done before.

So what is the Miracle Equation? It’s the two decisions that the most successful people in the world make when they approach a goal: Unwavering faith and extraordinary effort.

The most successful people in the world establish the faith in themselves that they can accomplish something they have never accomplished before, and they maintain that faith for as long as it takes until they achieve the outcome they are working towards.

Once you establish the faith, you must put forth extraordinary effort until the outcome is realized. This doesn’t mean just working 60-80 hours a week, but putting in consistent effort that moves you in the direction of that outcome.

If you maintain those two decisions, your success moves from possible, to probable, to inevitable. You will eventually get there if you maintain those two decisions.

The idea is deceptively simple, but obviously much more complicated. There are so many things holding us back from making and sustaining these two decisions. The first, most glaring complication is one that all of us face: Fear.

Fear often shows up for us in the form of self-doubt. When we set a big goal or dream, we often look back at our history to come up with evidence for how plausible this dream actually is. And when we don’t come up with enough, we stop ourselves right there.

How do you move beyond fear? You move beyond fear with faith in yourself. Instead of living your life based on your past, you have to live based on your potential.

But even then, we don’t pursue goals that we think are possible, we pursue those we think are probable. To move yourself from possible to probable, you establish unwavering faith in writing. When that’s in writing, and you read it every day, you reprogram your unconscious mind to move from a place of fear to a place of faith.

From there, you give yourself the fuel to step into that second decision, extraordinary effort. And what that really means is consistency over an extended period of time. If you extend those decisions for as long as it takes to achieve your outcome, you will get there.

Human beings want what we want right now. We’re very impatient. When you finally get to the place in your life that you’ve been working for, you look back, and you realize that you would never have wished for it to happen to you anytime sooner.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I believe to experience love in each moment is what we’re after. Why do we work hard to achieve a goal or a dream? It’s because we think that will bring us joy. We go through our entire life pursuing that which we believe will bring us joy, or love, or peace, or God. And I’m here to tell you, it’s not in the future. It’s not in the thing. It’s available to you right now in every single moment, including this one.”

Resources:

-Learn more: https://halelrod.com/

-Read: The Miracle Equation: The Two Decisions That Move Your Biggest Goals from Possible, to Probable, to Inevitable

-Episode 50: https://www.thedailyhelping.com/ep-50-elevating-consciousness-one-miracle-morning-at-a-time-with-hal-elrod/

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Ep. 126: Building a Company Culture That Succeeds | with Bill Higgs

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Bill Higgs, the founder of Mustang Engineering. He is known as the King of Culture, and he is a Forbes contributor and author. He brought his company revenue to over a billion dollars by differentiating their culture from the market.

Bill’s upcoming new book, Culture Code Champions, outlines his process for building a successful company that thrives based on its positive culture.

Bill started being what he calls “other oriented” when he was 9 years old. He noticed that adults often seemed pretty gloomy, so he just started smiling at adults. He figured they couldn’t help but smile back at a smiling kid, and at least then they’d be smiling for 30 seconds out of their day.

He went into the army service, and once he was out, he continued to realize that people just weren’t bonding with each other. He went into the oil industry during the oil boom, but two years after that, the boom turned into a bust. People were being let go constantly, there was no stability, and because of that there was no loyalty between companies and employees.

After receiving a 30% pay cut, Bill got with two friends and said, “We need to start our own firm and change this industry and this culture.” That’s when he started Mustang Engineering.

They sat down together and started a list of all the things they didn’t like in their engineering firm when they were employees. They vowed to look at that list every quarter to decide if they were becoming what they hated.

What steps can one take to start building and scaling their organization’s culture? In his book, Bill outlines 7 steps to rebuilding company culture:

Open up communication top-to-bottom. Bust down silos so people across teams can communicate effectively and get things right the first time.
Create a sense of team and bonding.
Create a repeatable process and system.
Hard copy communication. Using signs to give a different feel in your physical location.
Selling while the shop is full. Don’t wait until you are out of work before you start looking for your next job.
Continuously recruit top talent.
Give back.

Bill decided to write Culture Code Champions because of his kids. They both ended up starting their own companies, and they came to him and said, “You need to share all these gold nuggets that you taught us growing up with the world.” They had created that same culture in their own companies, and they knew how life-changing it could be.

You can find out more about Culture Code Champions through their podcast, where you learn more about the upcoming book and what Bill is working on.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Be aware of incrementing to a bad place. Every 12 year old never imagines that they’re going to be an out of shape 40-year old or a smoker or a drinker. You increment to these negative places. Organizations increment to a place they don’t want to be, but you have to be conscious of it. Think about what you’re doing in your personal life, in your business life, and make sure that you’re not incrementing to a place that you wouldn’t want to be. Set those goals and then work towards them.”

Resources:

Culture Code Champions Podcast: https://culturecodechampionspodcast.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mustanghiggs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MustangTheStory
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MustangHiggs

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Ep. 125: Having a Happy, Healthy, Legendary Marriage | with Lance & Brandy Salazar

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guests are Lance & Brandy Salazar. They are on a mission to help people reconnect with each other and stay deeply in love, and they did this while raising their daughters.

They created Legendary Couples With Kids, because they know first-hand how challenging it is to keep your marriage a priority while juggling a career and being parents. They now know it is possible to be more in love than ever before.

Their story starts the same as many couples. Those first few years of marriage things are really care-free, you can do whatever you want, and then you have kids. For them, parenthood was a big slap in the face. Having kids caused them to deprioritize their marriage, and it threw a wedge between the two of them.

In 2014, they made the decision to call it quits. They realized that they would be better parents to their daughters by not being together. They wanted their kids to witness what a good marriage really could be, and that wasn’t what they had.

Rather than completely separating, they decided to take a time-out to focus on themselves individually. They took care of their kids, but they didn’t focus on the intimacy of their relationship.

It was during this time-out that they both discovered The Miracle Morning (for those interested, see episode 50 with Hal Elrod). As the began growing on their own again, they got to a place where they realize they both still really liked each other, and they wanted to focus on how they could make their relationship work again.

Eventually, people started to notice that their relationship was improving. The results were that dramatic! They started to ask them, “What did you do?” They started to break down all the things they did, and they realized things broke down pretty neatly into these four elements:

The “You” element, own personal self-development
The “Partners” element, the business side of the relationship
The “Friends” element, wanting to feel like you are both friends again
The “Lovers” element, and wanting to be intimate again

This journey inspired their book, The Miracle Morning for Couples. The Miracle Morning was really important to both of them, and they decided they wanted to spend more time with each other together. They found a way to incorporate the four elements into their everyday lives in a way that moves the needles forward

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“What you give your time to matters.”

“A lot of couples think that their relationship is fixed with a big grand gesture, but the foundation of your relationship is not built in the grand gestures, it’s built in the small moments. It’s built in the everyday little deposits that you make.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://legendarycouples.com/
Relationship planning guide: https://legendarycouples.clickfunnels.com/optin21723031
Read The Miracle Morning for Couples
Instagram: https://instagram.com/legendary.couples

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Ep. 124: 4 Essential Steps for Getting Your Relationship Back on Track | with John Gray

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today we jump into part 2 with our expert guest John Gray. If you missed part 1, make sure you go back and listen to last week’s episode.

Last week, John talked about how environmental additives impact us hormonally and affect men and women’s relationships, but these aren’t the only things adding complexity to the modern relationship. Personal technology, such as cell phones, as well as the platforms we access through them, have begun to impact relationships in a huge way.

Life is speeding up. We are constantly overstimulated. Our brains are wired to be seeking out new and different stimuli. Our motivations have changed from just the fulfillment that comes from personal interaction, which is creating an unconscious loneliness inside of us.

If you have high dopamine stimulation, the neurons in the brain will begin to disappear. You start to rely on high stimulation just to feel normal. All the things that used to provide pleasure, personal interaction, affection, sharing, connection, now they feel flat and boring.

The same problem applies to men and online pornography. When a man fantasizes about a woman online, he gets a huge rush of dopamine, which is actually higher than real, intimate sex, where there are several other hormones involved. This makes the thought of sex less exciting.

When abstaining from ejaculation for just a week, the testosterone in a man’s system will double. Too often, the body is deprived of hormones and nutrients it needs. Sex is a very big part of a long term relationship, but if your hormones are out of balance, it will be hard to experience the fulfillment of that.

So, with all of these complexities in modern society and relationships, how can we get these relationships back on track? There are 4 essential steps that are absolutely necessary:

Stop trying to change your partner. Don’t blame each other for the way you are. If you aren’t happy with the way you are, then what you are doing isn’t working. You need to start from there, and stop sabotaging your relationship.
Take responsibility for your own happiness. Regardless of what your partner does or doesn’t do, find your happiness. Become self-reliant.
Understand what your partner’s primary emotional needs are. Now that you have taken the time to focus more on yourself, you can give more to your partner from a place of fullness.
You get more in return when you start giving more. But if you aren’t getting what you need, simply ask. Do not give with the expectation of things in return, but know that your needs are important as well.

There is clearly a lot of nuance to these, particularly in the different ways that men and women need to communicate and have their needs met. The book, Beyond Mars and Venus, goes into detail on all of these differences, and how to follow these steps in various situations.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Men, if you’re finding you are getting angry, stop talking. If you can listen more, that’s better, but you might have to take a time out. It only gets worse if you talk when you’re angry because it throws your hormones out of balance. What you can give to women is to ask more questions, listen more before speaking (because when you talk you make it worse), and keep your words short and simple. Don’t try to change her.

“For women, it’s such an automatic thing when you’re feeling stressed out to give orders, complaints, point out things. Recognize if it’s a big issue, talk about it, if it’s a little issue, overlook it, talk to a girlfriend. Let him be your hero. Take time to appreciate him.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://www.marsvenus.com/
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Read: Beyond Mars and Venus
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mars.Venus.John.Gray
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/JohnGrayMarsVenus
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marsvenus

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Ep. 123: Modern Relationship Skills for Today’s Complex World | with John Gray

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is John Gray, the author of the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. USA Today listed his book as one of the top 10 most influential books in the last quarter century.

John helps men and women better understand and respect their differences in both personal and professional relationships. His approach combines specific communication techniques with healthy nutritional choices that create the brain and body chemistry for lasting health, happiness, and romance.

In his career in marriage counseling, he had some very counter-culture ideas around relationships. The culture wanted men and women to be treated equal, and that meant treating them as if they were exactly the same. But there are a lot of differences between men and women.

When we expect others to act and think exactly as we do, there is a lot of room for misinterpretation. Approaching his counseling sessions with the ten most common misinterpretations between men and women in relationships, he found that all his clients got better very quickly.

After 9 years following this approach, John put these thoughts into his first book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. The book was perfect for getting very quick results because it pointed out some of the most obvious flaws in our relationships and how to approach them.

Today, there is more gender confusion than ever before. We have so many hormones and pesticides in our food that causes the hormones of both men and women to become out of balance. Once again, we think everyone should be exactly the same, and we’re not. This was the idea behind Beyond Mars and Venus.

When the meat you eat has hormones added to it, what that does for a man is lower testosterone. Testosterone is the primary hormone that creates positive mood in men. When women get hormones from their food, it lowers their estrogen supply.

Our coping mechanisms for stress are very different for men and women. Women find more value in talking about their problems and getting them out in the open. Men tend to cope better by ignoring or temporarily forgetting about their problems.

The world has changed, and we need to change with it. Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus was written over 25 years ago to help us understand where we are coming from and misunderstanding each other. Beyond Mars And Venus is teaching us where we need to go, because as a society we are becoming out of balance.

Resources:

Learn more at https://www.marsvenus.com/
Read: Beyond Mars and Venus
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mars.Venus.John.Gray
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/JohnGrayMarsVenus
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marsvenus

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Ep. 122: Overcoming Your Obstacles & Becoming Beyond Average | with Robert Owens

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Robert Owens, radio and TV personality, mountain climber, keynote speaker, minister, philanthropist, triathlete, and father of five, to name a few of his exploits. He is also the fittest 66 year old in the world. For more than 25 years, Robert has been speaking before audiences as large as 50,000, from San Diego to Moscow, on motivational and leadership topics, with past clients including Navy Seals, the New York Jets, Baltimore Ravens, South-African Parliament, the Vietnamese Department of Foreign Affairs, and many others. He continues to routinely take on challenge and see others what can be achieved in their own lives.

Robert Owens was adopted as a kid. He had flat feet and knocked knees, and had to wear corrective shoes to counter it, but he couldn’t run and play with the other kids. He always wanted to fit into something, and eventually he started swimming on the water polo team in high school.

His head coach ended up being the US Olympic swim coach, so he was very strict with his swimmers. Robert always thought he was just an average swimmer-- everyone else on his team had been swimming for longer, and they were all incredibly talented. But his coach told him that hard work can beat better talent, and he taught him to work in smarter ways to tackle things that should have been impossible.

This line of thinking eventually got him into the US Air Force as a Special Ops repair rescueman. After he left the military, he started smuggling literature in and out of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, all while going to school for a degree in theology.

Robert never wanted to be laughed at again, he didn’t want kids to pass him up on their team, and this drove him to be an overachiever. He wanted to do things that people said you couldn’t possibly do.

How can some people take action to live this kind of life? You have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, because everything you’re dreaming of is on the other side of discomfort. You have to change the people you spend time with. Look at your five closest friends: They will give you a hint at where you’re headed. And you have to work with mentors, teachers, or coaches to bring out the potential inside of you. You cannot tap into it yourself.

One thing that holds people back in their journey is anxiety. Navy Seals deal with this regularly, and Robert has a couple of tactics that they use to get through their anxiety and keep acting:

Breath control: your emotions are attached to your breathing. If you can control your breathing, you can control your emotions. Taking a deep breath in for four seconds, breathing out for four seconds, and repeating that 3 times will get your mind out of “fight or flight” mode instantly.
Positive self talk out loud: Tell yourself positive affirmations, such as “I can do this.”
Micro-goals: Can I do this for the next 30 seconds? After a minute or two, that emotion will have ceased, and you can refocus.

In Robert’s new book, Beyond Average, he breaks down the craft and the skills that he developed to build a better life from an average childhood, to live beyond average. It’s about teaching people how to overcome, and encouraging them to let someone bring out of them what they would like to have brought out.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“They need to find people who will see them for who they really are and help them break out of the rut that they’re in. That their best days are ahead, but their decisions are determining their destiny. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. You’ve got to break out and ask for help, whether it’s eating, drinking, education, raising kids, you’ve got to find someone that can encourage you and help you go to the next level.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://www.roberthamiltonowens.com/

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Ep. 121: Finding Your Maximum Potential | with Cathy Christen

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Cathy Christen, serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker and facilitator, as well as a best selling author, dedicated to helping others live a life they love. She brings profound awareness to the extraordinary possibilities within everyone she meets, and provides businesses and personal coaching tools to help individuals and organizations elevate to their highest potential. She really just helps people to live a life they love.

Cathy grew up in a low-income family, but at a young age she noticed that her dad was always so happy, and her mom wasn’t quite as happy, but she didn’t really understand why at first.

Her dad loved giving and serving others. He asked Cathy regularly about what wanted to do with her life and who she wanted to be. In her college years, she realized that her mom had all these talents and goals that she never got a chance to pursue, but her father was a simple man and he just wanted to get married and have kids, so he was already living his fullest life.

Being aligned and knowing what you want for your life, and living that out, makes all the difference.

In college, Cathy was talking with a counselor who asked her what her dream title was. She said “I want to be a maximum potential finder.” Her counselor may have laughed it off, but she gets so much joy from seeing the possibilities in others and sharing that with them.

So many people don’t see the potential right in front of them, because they didn’t grow up thinking possibilities were an option. They just had to get by with what they have. And even if you were striving for something more, it showed that you were not appreciative of what you have in life.

How do you reconcile that conflict? First, you have to be aware of your motive for wanting more. Wanting more allows you to give more, so if your desire for more is to be able to give more, you shouldn’t feel bad about that. And realize that you can’t help others if you aren’t helping yourself first.

Cathy has been coaching people in business for 17 years, and she realized how much just that training has helped people to step into their potential. While she worked in sales and entrepreneurship, she felt like she was a life coach. It was this revelation that led to her writing her best-selling book, Life as a Masterpiece: Design and Live a Life You Love Today.

Whatever you’re doing, you have a vehicle to get where you want. Where you are now is not your destination, it is a vehicle. You just have to identify where you’re going to go.

What are the steps you can take to start moving from identifying your destination to getting the engine going?

You have to have a master plan
Break the goal down into bite-sized pieces
Pick what you’re going to focus on in what order

When you break things down into manageable pieces, you see how what looked like an insurmountable challenge becomes entirely possible. When you see it like that, you realize you can do this.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Take time to identify what you want. And know that you can create anything that you want. So don’t feel stuck. Know that anything is possible. I think if you hold on to that and really know that you can create, you can design, amazing things can happen.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://www.cathychristen.com/
Read Life as a Masterpiece: Design and Live a Life You Love Today
Instagram: http://instagram.com/cathyvchristen
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cathyvchristen
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CathyChristen

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Ep. 120: Overcoming Adversity When You’re the Underdog | with Scott Kujak

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Scott Kujak, host of the Underdog Podcast and author of Underdog: True Stories of Overcoming Adversity. He speaks to organizations, corporations, churches, and at events, inspiring those who fight against adversity one punch at a time.

Scott began his podcast after witnessing his best friend battle stage 4 colon cancer, and now he interviews people who have overcome tremendous odds, from famous athletes to amputee war veterans.

When Scott’s friend Phil was diagnosed with cancer around the same time Scott had a relationship end abruptly, he witnessed the difference in the ways they handled adversity: Scott faced his with doubt, hopelessness, anger and depression, but Phil responded with positivity, optimism, and hope. This inspired Scott to respond to adversity even when life didn’t make sense.

Scott wanted to capture Phil’s story in depth in an interview and inspire others. After that, he decided to interview others who have overcome a spectrum of different circumstances so he could share that knowledge with others.

Phil sadly passed away in 2018, but Scott wanted to honor his legacy and his story. He was already halfway through writing his book based on his podcast, where Phil was the last story told, and he knew he had to kick into high gear to get it finished and honor his friend.

Over the course of his interviews, Scott pulled out a few common strategies people have used to overcome adversity:

Forgiveness makes change about yourself and not the other person. It opens your heart and changes your perspective.
Looking at taking life on day by day. When faced with incredible adversity, it can be hard to look at the next 5 years of your life, but if you can just tackle the next day, week, month, you will get there.
What is your motivation? If you have a strong enough reason to keep going on, you can find the strength to go on.

Today, Scott has found several ways to make his own impact in the world. He’s taken up boxing, where he is the two time golden glove super-heavyweight champion of Austin, Texas, which helps him with stress relief and exercise, but also serves as a powerful metaphor for the fights others have to go through. He even incorporates this into his speaking engagements.

Scott is serving in mentorship programs locally, partnering up one on one with kids and offering support. He is also involved in Big Love Cancer Care, providing much-needed assistance, items, and support to cancer patients and their families.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Above anything else, the most important thing in life to be successful is to love others with every single thing that you have in your body. It’s not enough to make a ton of money, it’s not enough to be there for a friend in times of need. You have to be there for everybody, whether they want it or not, whether they like you or not, you like them or not. If you show love to other people, that’s how the world changes.”

Resources:

Learn more at scottkujak.com
Read Underdog: True Stories of Overcoming Adversity
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/underdogpodcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/underdog_podcast
B.I.G. Love Cancer Care: https://biglovecancercare.org

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Ep. 119: Taking a Big Leap and Embracing Your True Genius | with Gay Hendricks

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Gay Hendricks, a leader in the fields of relationship and body/mind transformation for more than 45 years. After earning his Phd from Stanford in 1974, Gay served as professor of counseling psychology at the University of Colorado for 25 years. He has written more than 40 books, including best sellers such as Five Wishes, The Big Leap, Conscious Loving, and Conscious Loving Ever After.

Gay had wanted to become a creative writer and had no interest in psychology, but when he went to meet with a friend of his at the University of New Hampshire, he ended up sitting in on a counseling class and he was so amazed at what he saw that he knew then what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.

After that, he signed up for the counseling program, got his masters degree in counseling, went on to get his doctorate at Stanford in counseling psychology, and ended up teaching counseling psychology. So he really stayed true to his decision.

Gay came across this idea he called the Upper Limit Problem, which is a governer of how good we can feel, and that was the original glimmer that led him to write The Big Leap.

The “upper limit problem” is a response to a fear. Once you understand what those basic fears are, you can begin to understand what is happening when it’s happening.

Which fears are you operating under? The fear of outshining and taking away from other people we perceive as more deserving, the fear that you are fundamentally flawed or broken in some way, or the fear of being disloyal to the people in your past? The more you look at them and feel them in your body, it becomes easy to identify which one you are operating under. The more you can open up, the easier it becomes to balance your life.

Another idea evolved from The Big Leap is the “zone of genius.” There are 4 zones: the zone of incompetence, the zone of competence, the zone of excellence, and the zone of genius.

The zone of incompetence is when you spend time focusing on tasks you are not good at, and many people get stuck spending too much time there. The zone of competence is when you are good at something, but other people could likely do those tasks just as well. The zone of excellence is where you’re doing the things you’re really good at, but if you stay there for too long you start to stagnate. And finally, you end up in “the genius spiral,” which is a constant upleveling of your life as you grow and improve.

The way you move from the zone of excellence to the genius spiral is to keep asking yourself questions, which Gay calls “wonder questions,” that keep leading you into magnificent new dimensions.

Some good wonder questions to ask yourself are:

What activities put me into a timeless space? What makes me lose track of time?
What do I do that produces the greatest amount of contribution for time spent?
What is my true genius?

Don’t focus on the answers, just plant the questions in yourself. That will start liberating ideas.

In Gay’s newest book, The Joy of Genius, was made to give you something that you can do on a regular moment by moment basis that will unlock more creativity and gradually eliminate negative thinking.

Just find one negative thought and change it, and watch what happens as a result of that. Change one “can not” to a “can.” Once you start tweaking your mind in this way, your mind will light up, and you find that positive thinking is much more fun and productive than negative thinking.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“At our trainings, we have this wristband that says ‘Breath, Move, Love.’

“Anytime you’re feeling stuck, just take a moment to take a few easy breaths. Or even when you’re feeling good, take a few easy breaths to amplify that feeling in your body. After you take that breath, then move your body around, open up to that natural flow of energy. And the third thing is love. Love as much as you can from wherever you are. You are not always going to feel loveable towards yourself, but you can always love yourself for not being able to love yourself. And in that moment you become very different.”

Resources:

Learn more: hendricks.com
Workshops: heartsinharmony.com
Read: https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Genius-Next-Step-Beyond/dp/1947637649
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=gay+hendricks&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_13
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/relationshipadvice
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hearts_harmony
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/hendricksinstitute

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Ep. 118: Raising Kids Through Strengths-Based Parenting | with Analyn & Brandon Miller

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guests are Analyn & Brandon Miller, successful business owners and the parents of seven children. Brandon is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and CEO of 34 Strong, and Analyn owns and operates the Analyn Miller Group, part of Keller Williams Realty.

They are passionate about seeing families engage in a strengths-based parenting approach that honors the uniqueness in every child and empowers positive parent-child relationship through every stage of life. Their recently published book, Play to Their Strengths: A New Approach to Parenting, offers an incredibly fresh take on parenting.

The idea for the book came about when Analyn and Brandon both had a desire to work together on something, and one thing they both had a passion for and wanted to share the message of was parenting. They had been implementing this strategy themselves for around 10 years, and it dawned on them that they needed to start sharing this with the world. So they started writing.

So, what is strengths-based parenting? It starts with the belief that every child is born great, and learning to identify what their natural strengths and tendencies are to encourage the momentum of their innate talent.

The strengths based development is relatively new in it’s formal understanding, and there had been some very clinical, research-driven books around the topic of parenting, but they wanted to write the handbook for real life. What does it sound and feel like with seven children, sorting through all those different personalities and making it work?

In school, kids are often brought up being told what their deficient at, what they need to improve and do better at. It can go against our natural tendencies to focus so heavily on their strengths instead of trying to counterbalance against weaknesses.

Here are some simple ways you can implement strengths-based parenting in your home:

5-to-1 Ratio: To push them in the direction of their strengths, for every one thing they need to work on, identify and focus on five things that are nurturing them into their potential.
5 E’s: Start evaluating what your childs’ strengths are based on what they look forward to (Enthusiasm), what comes natural to them (Easy), what it is that third party observers notice they are above-average at (Excellence), what gives them Energy, and what they Enjoy so much that they don’t want to give up.
When faced with something that is one of your children’s weaknesses, let them do something that will fill them up with energy first instead of withholding it. This will give them the reserve energy to get this done.
Leave comparison at the door: Strengths-based parenting starts with the parents. Instead of looking at the way others parent their children and trying to identify where you don’t measure up, focus on what your parenting strengths are. Get to know who you are and embrace the areas where you are strong.

Since implementing this, Analyn and Brandon have noticed their children (and even themselves) looking at people and identifying the strengths in them before jumping to conclusions and assuming what is wrong. It creates an environment that is much more forgiving.

“There is just something so incredibly rewarding about watching children grow into the best version of who they are, instead of what we think is best.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“This book is not an event, it’s a journey. It’s okay to spend a couple of months on a chapter. The whole idea is that this book isn’t just something you read once and stick it on a shelf. We wrote it to be a field manual because we felt like that was what was missing for us, and so we wanted to give it to the world.”

“It’s never too late for a do-over. At any age or stage your child is at, you’re still their mom, you’re still their dad, it’s never too late to start looking at them through this perspective of ‘what’s right with your son/daughter, and how can I be that parent that supports them along the way?’ It’s never too late for a do-over.

Resources:

Learn more at https://www.analynbrandon.com
Read: Play to Their Strengths: A New Approach to Parenting
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnalynBrandon
Instagram: http://instagram.com/playtotheirstrengths
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-miller-873a6bb

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 117: Finding Your Purpose: Creating Ripples Across Generations | with Dov Baron

Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dov Baron, twice cited as one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers to hire, the Meeting & Event Professionals Guide to the Top 100 Motivational Speakers, and named as one of the top 30 global leadership gurus.

He is a best-selling author and host of the #1 podcast for Fortune 500 executives, Leadership and Loyalty. He has interviewed and worked with leaders, and has been featured on Oprah, Ellen, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CBS, Huffington Post, Larry King, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and many other top-rated media outlets.

Dov didn’t fit in when he was a kid. Born in a ghetto in northern England, he was surrounded by alcohol, addiction, and violence. He left his home at 21 years old to begin to study around the world, and then in 1984 he became a public speaker.

Then, in 1990, something happened. Dov was an adrenaline junkie, and his friend and him decided to go free climbing. At about 120 feet up, a rock dislodged and he fell 12 stories down onto the rocks below.

That fall wasn’t the moment where everything changed, though. Dov just buried himself deeper into his own ego. It wasn’t until he reached his “choice point,” where he started to face that denial, and went through nine months of grinding against that before he truly saw a transformation.

Until we’re looking at our pain, you don’t really find your purpose.

Most of us don’t want to deal with pain, but your pain is not something to be afraid of. It’s a guidance system, not only physically but psychologically. It tells you what matters to you.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want you to ask yourself a set of questions:

What has bothered me for as long as I can remember?
What is it about owning my power that scares me?
Who will suffer if I choose not to fulfill my purpose?

Somebody will suffer if you choose not to step and not play into your greatness. I see you, I believe in your greatness. I believe you were born with deep greatness. You did not come to this planet without a reason. You did not get your dreams by accident. They are your heart and soul crying out for expression.

Answer those three questions. Sit with those three questions. Meditate on those three questions. When you get the answers, go deeper, and deeper, and deeper, and you will reveal to yourself your soul’s quest.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://fullmontyleadership.com/
All At Once Course: https://authentic-leadership-academy.teachable.com/p/all-at-once
Read: One Red Thread
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DovBaronLeadership/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDovBaron
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dov-baron/0/b69/132
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTVH_F-eqUGGLD4ap-rJE-A
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dovbaronleadership/

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 116: Telling Your Own Third Story | with Flip Flippen

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Flip Flippen. He is a New York Times best-seller and is recognized as one of the top leadership thought leaders in America, a prominent global keynote speaker, and founder of the Flippen Group, one of the fastest growing educator training, corporate talent, and team development companies in the United States.

From his early career working with kids in gangs to his later work in boardrooms and classrooms, Flippen has dedicated himself to helping people write a new story.

His newest book, Your Third Story: Author the Life You’re Meant to Live, shows us there’s more to life than what’s written and empowers us with tools and inspirations to write our third story on our own terms.

Flip had a very different career track than most people. When he got out of graduate school, he started working with kids in gangs in a free non-profit clinic. He saw all these kids with so much potential, and he just knew he had to find a way to tap into that in some way.

These young kids were solving problems most of us don’t have to even think of. How to get home safe, how do I get to the store without getting robbed, how do I keep my siblings from being hurt?

But when it came to school or business, they had no idea how to approach it. They told themselves reasons they couldn’t do these things, and they believed those stories, and the people around them believed those stories.

Once you begin to penetrate those stories, and get to challenge their own thinking, a whole new world opens up for them.

With the way Flip was impacting kids’ lives, the school administration began to notice, and in Texas the Governor called and asked if he would start putting this program and work into the public school system. Flip took the tools he knew to get into kids’ heads, and started teaching those in the schools.

Flip knew from his work with kids that he could improve their levels of engagement, and these same principles apply the same from kids in gangs to employees on Wall Street. And if you have higher levels of engagement, you also get higher levels of performance.

From his work in the non-profit, education, and the corporate world, Flip knew the power that story, specifically the stories we tell ourselves, play in our lives.

There’s a story behind everything in our life, and we often don’t take the time to gauge whether or not they are true.

Our first story is the story we were born into: “I was born here, I grew up here, I went to school.” You didn’t write that story, you were born into that story.

Our second story begins usually in adolescence. We start to tell ourselves things to make ourselves feel okay. Why you did or didn’t do certain things, and the story behind that. It’s not always going to be true, but it’s the stories we tell to make everything make sense.

Eventually, something is going to happen in your life that makes you realize “I think what I believe is not really true.” You have to have to urge to look at your life and examine what is and isn’t true.

So what is the third story? We need to find the courage to look at our stories and say, “What could be true?” If you have an emotionally compelling reason to look at your life, you will find the truth and lies in your story.

Once you’ve challenged your stories and your beliefs, you have to dream about what there could be.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There’s so much more than what you ever dreamed of. You’ve got more potential than you could ever imagine.

It doesn’t matter where you are today, there is more. Challenge where you are. Challenge what you think. Challenge what you love. Stop and say, what else could I do with my life? What are the stories I’m telling myself?

Once you find those, and break through those, there’s a world out there so large you couldn’t imagine.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://flippengroup.com
Read: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Third-Story-Author-Meant/dp/1532078013
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FlipFlippen
Twitter: https://twitter.com/flipflippen

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Ep. 115: Taking Responsibility For Your Career & Personal Development | with Andy Storch

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Andy Storch, a talent development consultant, coach, connector, speaker, and host of two world-renowned podcasts: The Talent Development Hot Seat and The Andy Storch Show.

Andy has been committed to getting people inspired to live their best life, but he didn’t always know that growing up. He grew up not really knowing where he was going through high school, he just knew that he wanted to get into college and get a good job, and he’s been figuring it out as he went.

He first got into personal development around 3 years ago, when he heard Hal Elrod on a podcast, and that launched him into a journey of personal development and investing into his own development and learning.

Personal development is investing in yourself and learning how to get better, but most big companies have departments responsible for talent development, helping employees to get better at their job through technical or soft skills.

We’re starting to see some major shifts in the way people think about work. People want to connect more with a purpose in their job and they want to know where they are going with their careers.

We are seeing a big push in the “gig economy,” where people are contracted to do work for other companies. This doesn’t necessarily mean everyone is going to end up being an Uber driver, but there will be a focus on more project-based work instead of hiring for one specific role.

As the future of work changes, everyone is going to have to start paying more attention to their personal brand. That phrase can turn people off sometimes, but it’s really just another way of saying you need to control your reputation.

Here are some ways you can shape your personal brand:

People have thoughts about you, whether you are trying to control it or not. Be intentional about the things you are known for and showcasing your strengths.
Connect with the people who are doing the things that you want to be doing.
Leveraging social media to share and build your brand, even just sharing articles that are relevant and add value to others.

Andy’s two podcasts are both motivated by helping people in talent and personal development. Fear holds so many people back, and The Andy Storch Show is all about helping people get over that fear and follow their dreams. And The Talent Development Hot Seat podcast is for anyone interested in corporate talent development, developing people, and becoming a better manager.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Take full responsibility for everything going on in your life. If there are some things you want to get better at, things where you could or should be spending more time, think about what your priorities are, try to align those with the way you are living your schedule, and take full responsibility for everything going on in your life.

Don’t worry about what other people are doing. Don’t be a victim to what society is doing or telling you. Take full responsibility. Live life intentionally. Set big goals, connect with your purpose, and go out and have a great life.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://www.andystorch.com/
The Talent Development Hot Seat: https://www.advantageperformance.com/talent-development-hotseat/
Talent Development Think Tank: https://talentdevelopmentthinktank.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andystorch/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andy_storch/

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 114: Give Yourself the Dad’s Edge: Becoming a Better Husband & Father | with Larry Hagner

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Larry Hagner. He is the founder of the Good Dad Project and host of the Dad Edge podcast, the number one podcast for dads on iTunes.

Larry is the father of 4 boys, and he’s been married for 14 years to his incredible wife Jessica. He breaks down strategies for men to be the best version of themselves and help men navigate through life through creating a band of brothers. He also helps men with mental toughness, emotional resilience, financial stress, relationships and work-life integration.

His book, The Dad’s Edge is a #1 Amazon best seller, and he is also the host of the Dad Edge Alliance mastermind with hundreds of members.

Larry grew up for the first four years of his life not having a father. It never really bothered him at the time, he didn’t know what it was like having one. His mom eventually remarried, but unfortunately his step-father had a drinking problem that led to his parents getting divorced at the age of 10.

At 12, he ran into his biological father and started to develop a relationship with him. They spent time together for a few months, until his dad decided that this wasn’t the right time to have him in his life.

This was incredibly hard for Larry, and he was struggling to deal with it. He began over-eating, he gave up on school and failed the 8th grade, and in high school he didn’t really have any directions.

Larry turned his life around his junior year of high school. He lost a bunch of weight, graduated high school, and put himself through college where he graduated with a degree in health management, and got married to his wife who he is still with today.

From the time Larry had his first son, he knew he didn’t want to screw it up, but for the first 6 years he admits he was doing it wrong. He was living isolated, emotionally and mentally, and he didn’t know how to be a good husband. He just didn’t have good men in his life to help him along the way.

Dad Edge came about when Larry hit a low, dark place. He was struggling with his marriage, with his kids. Larry was putting all of his time into his work. After an incident where he lost his temper and spanked his son hard, he felt so ashamed, he ran to his office to escape. On social media, tears in his eyes, he saw the “create a page” button and the words “Good Dad Project” just rolled off his mind.

Larry decided to devote himself every day to learning something new about being a better husband and father. In 2013 he started the blog, Good Dad Project, and in 2015 the podcast launched and he wrote his first book. In his book, he covers the five dimensions that we aren’t taught how to handle in school: finances, marriage, kids, health, and career.

Here are 5 actionable things you can start doing immediately to see results against these 5 dimensions:

Finances: Use the YNAB budgeting software to give every dollar a job.
Marriage: 4 elements to a legendary marriage -- self-care, partnership, friendship, and lovers.
Kids & Health: Take care of your mental health so you have the patience and energy to serve your kids better.
Career: Ask yourself, “What is the work that makes you come alive, and how can you do more of it?” Don’t run away from your 9-5, find what you love and chase that.

Larry wanted to write something to solidify what we could actually do as fathers. He wondered, “what is the simplest thing that I can do?” So he wrote in a way as if he was sharing with his friend all the things he did wrong, so they don’t repeat those mistakes. Having other men in your life, taking care of yourself, having connections with your kids through experiences, and constantly dating your wife are just some of the things you can learn about.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The biggest helping and the thing that feels the best is when you simply let go of your ego. You don’t have to know it all, and you don’t have to figure this all out on your when it comes to fatherhood, when it comes to your kids, when it comes to being married.

Being constantly curious. As much time, effort, and training that you put into your job and productivity, you can take that same approach to being a husband and father. Be constantly curious, be a student.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://www.gooddadproject.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedadedge/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGoodDadProject/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/GoodDadProjct
Dad Edge Alliance: http://www.gooddadproject.com/alliance
Money management software: http://ynab.com/dads

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 113: Releasing Expectations & Judgement to Live a Meaningful Life | with Phoebe Mroczek

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Phoebe Mroczek, a podcaster, coach and marketing strategist who helps online entrepreneurs create a profitable business that is an honest reflection of who they are and what they want the most. She is the host of the Unbecoming Podcast, a show that helps entrepreneurs release judgements, beliefs and past conditioning that holds them back from living a more meaningful life.

Over the past few years, she’s built an online marketing business that has helped established entrepreneurs refine their paid ad and launch strategies, created a podcast she co-hosted with over 900,000 downloads, and organized various in-person events, masterminds and online communities.

Phoebe grew up as one of six kids, using athletics to get attention and stand out from her other siblings. She ended up going to college, playing division one college soccer, and was hitting all her childhood dreams. She thought life was great.

Then, in her freshman year of college, her father passed away very suddenly. In that moment, Phoebe had the realization that she wasn’t living the life she really wanted to believe. Later on in her late 20s, she realized she had built a business, again, based around what everyone else told her she should be doing.

Her “why” today is to connect people, to get them to live the life that they want, that they design for themselves.

If somebody has spent the bulk of their career, or even their own business, based on the expectations of others around them, where do you start the process of finding out who you are?

Keep in mind it’s not an overnight flip; it’s a daily practice.
Give yourself permission to go as deep as you need to go.
Commit to growth and to own who you are.
Audit your life, figure out where you are supposed to be.
Reverse-engineer your habits to get you to the place you want to be, focus on the habits, not the outcome.

Unbecoming is the process of releasing expectations and judgement, getting rid of the things you aren’t to discover who you are. There are seasons of purpose in life, and instead of putting so much pressure about having to do this one thing, we can enjoy our life, live a meaningful life, and impact more people.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Give yourself permission to go deeper on finding out who you are, because everything comes back to who you are. When you know who you are and you know why you want the things that you want, give yourself permission to go for it. We can’t be playing small. Give yourself permission to play big, permission to dream bigger than you’ve ever dreamt, and permission to ask for help.”

Resources:

Learn more: https://unbecomingpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phoebemroczek/
Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/198459357223812
Twitter: https://twitter.com/phoebemroczek/

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 112: Turn Your Flaws Into Strengths & Failures Into Opportunities | with Sophie Morrison

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Sophie Morrison, the best-selling author of Brain Judo and host of the EPIC/FAIL Podcast. Her content focuses on how entrepreneurs can turn weaknesses into strengths and find opportunity in failure.

Sophie has always liked breaking rules. When she was 5 or 6, she saw a bunch of bottles of shampoo on a housekeeping cart. She thought, “well these are free, so I bet I could sell these.” She went through her dad’s rolodex, calling everyone in his company, and asking them “Do you want to buy shampoo for $5?”

This was just one creative entrepreneurial scheme where she didn’t quite realize what was inappropriate about them. In high school, she lived a double life. She was a really good kid, she had high grades and AP classes, but at night she would sneak out of the house, mostly just for the rush of it. When she graduated from high school, she found an opportunity at a journalism school where she started associating with kids who were doing drugs, and those drugs started to give her the thrill she used to get from sneaking out.

She was arrested for a felony shortly after starting school there. Everyone was telling her, “You’re going to go to jail for 7 years,” and she believed her life was already over so she got into drugs even more and ended up over-dosing. In the ambulance, believing she was actually going to die, she couldn’t think of anything but how much she regretted that her parents wouldn’t know how much she didn’t want to live her life like this. She borrowed the love that everyone else had for her and used it to motivate herself to get her life together.

Going back to school after getting out of the hospital, Sophie started to completely re-evaluate her life. She had always believed there were only two paths: you are either going to college, get your MBA, and get a great career, or you are going to be a bum. But when she got a job at Cutco, being around a bunch of people who were all working hard, making really great choices, and she realized there’s a third path, which was actually an unlimited number of other opportunities.

As Sophie got to know these highly driven people, she started to notice four main traits in common with everyone there that led to both their troubled pasts and their current success:

High risk tolerance
Hunger for variety
Disregard for authority
Obsessive thought

As she researched these traits over the next few years, she found that each of these traits are neutral tools that can be a weakness or a unique superpower. She learned the ways you can leverage these behaviors as entrepreneurial strengths, and turn what were thought to be weaknesses of character into something that gives you a leg up.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There’s nothing wrong with you. There might be with stuff you do, but there’s nothing wrong with you. Everything about you is an opportunity to be a strength. It’s all about finding the right context, the right set of habits, and something that just lights your heart on fire that you can apply all of those personality traits to.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://itssophiemorrison.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegratitudegal/
EPIC/FAIL Podcast: https://itssophiemorrison.com/podcast
Read: Brain Judo

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 111: Making Education Affordable & Accessible For Everyone | with Grant Aldrich

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Grant Aldrich. He’s the founder of OnlineDegree.com. He has a purpose-driven mission to make higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone. He’s been a board member and a donor on a number of nonprofits and an advisor to many publicly-traded companies, a guest speaker at seminars and graduate school courses all over the country, and he’s graduated with honors from the University of California Irvine in Economics.

About 3 years ago, Grant almost drowned, which galvanized his mission today. Since that moment, he has taken a very distinct path. Before that, he had always wanted to be an entrepreneur. He started and exited two startup companies, and he had this idea that he was destined to go even bigger, to create an even bigger company.

While traveling with his family, he was swimming at the coast of northern California during a surf advisory and he got pulled into the currents and almost drowned. It wasn’t quite as cliche as having an epiphany immediately in that near-death moment, but staying in the hospital for a couple of days, plus the birth of his son shortly after, gave him the time for introspection.

Grant realized he had been living a very selfish life in hindsight. He thought all these things he had achieved with his startups were important, but that isn’t the person he is or what he really wanted. He was never interested in money, he pursued entrepreneurship for freedom, but he realized he had become a slave to his daily routine.

He began to transition his everyday life to make him happy, and he decided to get into education and tackle the problem of making college affordable to everyone.

Education was always very important Grant’s family, but his experience leaving school with student loan left him feeling let down by the whole system. All the work and time and money that it really costs. He talked with his wife about it and she talked about how it’s such a shame that stay at home moms find it so difficult to go back to school. Grant agreed, but he realized it applied to all working adults. The psychological and financial barriers that are preventing them from taking the first step, he knew that he could solve that problem.

Grant started OnlineDegree.com, where you can register for free, take as many courses as you like at institutions across the country, and there are instant tuition discounts that you can unlock towards your degree.

With OnlineDegree.com’s model, they have created a student-centric model where you can find the classes that are best for you, and you can take any classes from any university for whatever fits best.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“My favorite quote is “know thyself.” It was enscribed on the Temple of Apollo, which was the temple of wisdom. The belief was how could you obtain true wisdom or happiness if you didn’t know yourself, the one thing you should be able to know better than anything else? One you go through that exercise to really understand and know yourself, it becomes easy to be happy.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://www.onlinedegree.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/onlinedegree/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onlinedegree/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onlinedegreecom/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/onlinedegreecom

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 110: Turning Adversity Into Generosity | with Marcus Aurelius Anderson

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Marcus Aurelius Anderson, author of the book The Gift of Adversity, TEDx speaker, keynote speaker, U.S. army veteran, and high performance mindset coach, who works with corporations, leaders, CEOs and entrepreneurs. He speaks, writes, inspires, and coaches others to overcome their own adversities and actualize their own personal definition of success in every life area.

Marcus joined the military out of a need of service. His great uncle, who was in the Special Forces in Vietnam, was one of his biggest role models. At his funeral, Marcus realized the gravity of his uncle’s influence on the country’s establishment. He had always made excuses to not join the military, but he always had an excuse not to. Recently divorced, no kids, he decided to put his education on hold to serve in the military.

At 38 years old, he talked to the recruiter. The age limit was 35, but as he was turning to walk out, the recruiter asked him to tell him about his story. He ended up taking an entry level course, took a PT test, and the recruiter told him he’s exactly what the army is looking for. Despite having the option to work in any job they had, he chose to serve in the infantry.

Preparing for deployment, the training started to ramp up quickly. They pushed deployment back, but if they have more time, they continue to increase the intensity. In the midst of that, Marcus suffered a severe spinal injury that left him paralyzed from the neck down.

From all of the training, attrition and compression, a disc in his neck had ruptured, and when that happened, it exploded into his spinal cord. He was rushed in for an emergency operation. They were planning to remove the debris, but it became clear that even with that, recovery was not likely to happen. The doctor did not want to promise that he would ever walk again.

Marcus moved on from denial to anger very quickly. Taking away his physicality was the worst thing that could happen to him. At 40 years old, he felt like he had nothing. He wanted to take his own life, but he couldn’t even physically do it. He decided, there had to be something within this, some lessons to pull from this.

It took 3 months of anger before Marcus woke up and realized his anger was not serving him. In fact, it was holding back his ability to heal, to move on. It came back to gratitude. Acting in a grateful manner, being thankful.

Marcus thought whether there was anyone who had benefited from his injury. He decided that his injury was inevitable, and if it had happened overseas, it would have put dozens of people’s lives in harm's way. And when he realized that, he was genuinely grateful.

A week after Marcus had that genuine, radical gratitude, feeling started to return to his left hand.

Marcus doubled down on his gratitude, he started to get feeling back in the rest of his body, and over a year and a half of physical rehabilitation, he was able to recover. The hard part was after, trying to decide how to share the message.

Getting back into martial arts helped Marcus get the rest of his physicality back. He had a private student who he was teaching martial arts to, and his student said to him “I’m getting more value from you than I am from my business coach.” After making a joke about writing him a check, he had his first client for 6 months of training.

Feeling stuck? Marcus recommends asking yourself this question: If you woke up paralyzed from the neck down, what would you wish you had accomplished with your life? Really sit with that, and let it be your call to action to be concerned about the things that really matter to you.

Learn to put your adversity into perspective. There is a lot of hardship in life. One way to be objective about it is to write it down on a piece of paper. It takes the emotion away from it and makes us look at things very logically. When you rate being stuck in a traffic jam as a 3, you realize it’s not so bad compared to most things.

We only have around 30,000 really good hours available to us. If you allow those to go by you, it is going to be difficult to have any sort of impact in your life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“People say you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. That’s not true. Everybody knows what they have, they just assume they will always have it. If there’s something you want to get done, do it now. Stop waiting, stop hesitating, stop compromising, and start taking action on it.”

Resources:

Learn more at http://www.marcusaureliusanderson.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcusaureliusanderson/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-aurelius-anderson/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marcusaureliusanderson/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/the1realmarcus

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Ep.109: Finding Your Why to Become a Conscious Millionaire | with JV Crum III

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is JV Crum III. He created his first million dollars at the age of 25, he hosts the Conscious Millionaire Podcast & Radio Network which was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the top 13 business shows. He’s a number-one best-selling author, speaker, and serial entrepreneur. He is a high performance business coach to entrepreneurs who want to scale to their first million, or double their 7-figure business. Conscious Millionaire provides accelerator masterminds to help entrepreneurs accelerate in just 30 days.

I’m sure to want to know more about that first million. At 5 years old, JV had already trained himself not to ask for candy bars at the store because his family couldn’t afford them. He decided the best way to be able to afford those candy bars was to grow up to become a millionaire. He believed it whole-heartedly believed in it. He was on track to go to medical school, but realized it just didn’t feel right so he decided against it. He ended up with a masters degree in clinical psychology.

His dad’s regional trucking line was on the verge of going bankrupt, and his dad had asked him to come home and work with him, so he decided to do so for 6 months. It was there that he realized he was tuned for business, only realizing the signs in his childhood in hindsight.

JV’s mission is to help a million entrepreneurs become conscious millionaires, financial millionaires who made their money by making a positive impact. He became aware of this purpose when, at 25 years old, he was looking out at the view from his new four-story home. There were palm trees blowing in the wind, people sailing out on the bay, and yet he had a breakdown. He realized he was very deeply miserable.

To solve his problem, JV started to focus on his purpose. The money didn’t make him miserable, it was his lack of direction and purpose that was. The money gave him options, so he started to focus on what he wanted to do with that money and what his goal was. Finding his why was the core of what became the Conscious Millionaire.

When working with a business and focusing in on the conscious millionaire philosophy, JV always ask them 3 why’s:

Why are you choosing this impact to make? Business is impact-driven, solving a specific problem. But you are at the center of that, so it has to come out of you.
Why are you doing this in terms of how much money you want to make?
Why am I doing this particular business, following this particular journey?

When you are aligned with your purpose, not only do you feel fulfillment, but your customers will want to spend money with you when you actually care.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I’m going to go back to why. I think a lot of times “why” gets viewed as kind of fluffy, but I think it’s the core reason for the impact you choose to be making with your business. The core reason for deciding how much money you want to make and what you’re going to do with it. The core reason for deciding “what do I want out of this?””

Resources:

Learn more at consciousmillionaire.com
The 7-Figure Formula: consciousmillionaire.com/7figureformula
Podcast: consciousmillionaire.com/podcast/

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Ep. 108: From Auto Mechanic to All-Star to Author | with Mark Eaton

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Mark Eaton, successful motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and best-selling author of The Four Commitments of a Winning Team, as well as a 7’4” NBA all-star who played for the Utah Jazz. He’s spoken to numerous world-class organizations including IBM, FedEx, Phillips 66, T-Mobile, and LG. He’s been featured in print and online publications such as Forbes.com, Sports Illustrated, and Entrepreneur.com.

Despite being tall, Mark didn’t expect to go anywhere with sports. He was at the end of the bench in high school and wasn’t playing very well, so at the age of 18 he decided to put it behind him. A friend of his was going to trade school in Arizona and convinced him to go with him.

Mark ended up working at a tire shop in California, and a college coach came in and started talking to him about playing basketball. After many visits, he convinced him to go out on the court with him and he taught him some techniques that were intriguing enough to get him to continue practicing and eventually go to junior college. Two years later he was being recruited by several schools, and he ended up at UCLA, where he sat on the bench for the better part of two years.

After junior year there, Mark was starting to consider transferring. He was going to the gym every morning, and in the afternoon he’d play some practice games. Everybody in LA that was a player showed up at this gym, Magic Johnson, Norm Nixon, and several players from the Lakers. He was struggling to keep up, the players were all so much faster than him. One day, he felt this big hand come down on his shoulder: it belonged to Wilt Chamberlain.

Wilt grabbed Mark and he told him, “your job is not to catch these smaller, faster players.” He took Mark out on the court, put him right in front of the basket, and told him that his job is to stop players from getting there. It was this short comment, but it was life changing.

That one conversation turned into a five year career in the NBA. It didn’t get any better his senior year, but his coach told him “we’re not planning for next year, we’re planning for 3-4 years down the road.” He gave Mark a game plan, and he focused on it.

Mark wasn’t drafted, but he started trying out for teams. He looked at all the worst teams in the NBA, and he knew they’d need the most help. With the Utah Jazz, they had just come off a horrible season, so he called them on the phone, sent in a tape, but it didn’t go anywhere right away. He paid his own way to play at some free agent try-out camps, some NBA scouts saw him, and got word back to the coach of the Utah Jazz who decided to give him a shot.

By February of that year, Mark was the starting center of the Utah Jazz.

After 12 years with the Jazz, Mark began to transition away from the NBA. It was a struggle to reinvent himself, as he wasn’t sure what he was going to do. He got involved in the restaurant business which was successful, and then did some broadcasting news programs, but hadn’t come across anything that really struck him.

People were always asking Mark to tell his crazy story of going from an auto mechanic to an all-star, and 10 years ago he started his motivational speaking career. Over a period of two years of speaking, he kept honing his speech to solve business problems. He started to think about what to do next, and with all of the ideas in his presentation he decided to put it in a book.

What are the Four Commitments of a Winning Team?:

Know your job. Double down on your character traits and who you already are. What can I do with the skills I already possess? What else can I do with it?
Do what you’re asked to do. Do you know what your customers really want from you? When was the last time you asked them?
Make other people look good. Stop competing with each other and start cooperating, and your individual accolades will start to show up.
Protect other people. Are you really there for your teammates? That is the key to trust and long-term loyalty.

Outside of his speaking career, Mark is also involved with Tribe of Kyngs, a group dedicated to helping men create better relationships with other men and working to abolish domestic abuse, and a Veteran’s group called Pay It Forward which takes veteran’s out on hunting trips. Up next, he’s working on a series of kids books based on the four commitments.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Consider that your success is directly related to the success of people around you.”

“Be coachable, be willing to listen, and be willing to help someone else next to you, and you will have a much higher quality of life and a much higher degree of satisfaction.”

Resources:

Learn more: 7ft4.com
Read: The Four Commitments of a Winning Team
Tribe of Kyngs: tribeofkyngs.com/
Operation Pay it Forward: opif4ourvets.org/

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Ep. 107: Achieving Your Financial Goals & Making Money Simple | with Peter Lazaroff

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Peter Lazaroff, chief investment officer at Plancorp which manages over $4 billion for its clients and author of the book Making Money Simple. He’s here to share complex issues and make them manageable to just about anyone.

At a young age, Peter knew he had a future in investing. On his 12th birthday, he received a single Nike stock from his grandma. While it seemed disappointing at first, he was impressed by these $1 checks he received in the mail every quarter. He continued to receive stocks for companies he was familiar with each birthday up until age 18.

Peter had a great mentor, who taught him that he had to learn something new every day. He started taking notes at every meeting, and at one meeting he ended up being asked to send his notes to the president of his company, and then eventually he was sending them out to everyone in the company. He used his writing, which naturally led to his book

This was the book that Peter had in him, and he wrote it in the evenings, outlining his philosophy on building wealth, and the system he uses.

How do you make money simple?

Try to focus on the endgame: What are your goals? The neural patterns in our brain view saving money the same as giving it away to someone you don’t know. Find meaningful goals and prioritize them.
Budget in reverse: automate your savings once you know what your financial goals are.
If investment seems overwhelming, don’t be afraid to hire a professional. They will find things that you might miss, but you will also be buying back time.
Make sure you’re asking an advisor the correction questions.

Getting your finances under control doesn’t have to be difficult or overwhelming. Peter’s best piece of advice is to just start. Small actions can make a big difference, so discover your financial goals and work backwards to start achieving them.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The most important thing is to start now. There is something that everybody can do to improve their finances, even if it’s small. One of the things we don’t respect is the power of compounding. Small habits compound over time, and if you start today, I assure you there is something that can change the rest of your life in your finances.

There is probably something that you’re thinking about that you’ve been putting off. Whatever that thing is, go home and block some time off on your calendar and do it.”

Resources:

Learn more: peterlazaroff.com
Read: Making Money Simple
Worksheets: peterlazaroff.com/resources
Find a CFP: letsmakeaplan.org/choose-a-cfp-professional/find-a-cfp-professional
Broker Check: brokercheck.finra.org
Smart Money Quiz: smartmoneyquiz.com
Twitter: twitter.com/PeterLazaroff
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/peterlazaroff

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Ep. 106: Bring About Meaningful Change Through Music | with Roger Nierenberg

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Conductor Roger Nierenberg, creator of The Music Paradigm. He has conducted for the London Philharmonic, The New Zealand Symphony, and the National Symphony, among countless others, and performed over 100 orchestras around the globe.

Roger developed the Music Paradigm after studying why American audiences weren’t receptive to classical music, and discovering that his experiments had applications for business. Over the years, Roger has presented to hundreds of organizations, from civic groups to Fortune 500 companies in over two dozen countries.

The Music Paradigm is a powerful learning experience that uses symphonic music to illustrate compelling insights about people at work. Participants are seated directly amongst the orchestra musicians where they gain fresh understandings about the opportunities and challenges faced by their own organizations.

At the age of 9, Roger heard something in the music and he knew that was what he wanted to devote his life to. He wanted to write music, so he studied composition in high school and college, but when it came time to pursue a career he realized it was conducting that he enjoyed the most.

At some point in the 90’s, Roger began to wonder why the American audience was so unsupportive of classical music. He studied the block that people have that keeps people from experiencing and being enriched by the music. So he started doing experiments, and they were incredibly successful. He realized this was something that could be very powerful for businesses as well.

Music unfolds very fast. In a minute of music, a lot happens, whereas in life not much happens. Because it is so compact, it is easier to connect the dots. The behaviors with the orchestra leads to results almost immediately.

Being put inside an orchestra makes them vulnerable from the very beginning, but in a good way. The environment is friendly and inviting, but by not being familiar with the setting, they are open to change and experience.

The goal of the Music Paradigm is to leave people feeling:

Inspired about the possibilities they could accomplish
More conscious about their own power to affect results
That they have more tools for getting things done and working with other people

The way that orchestras interact to create moving music acts as a lens to view the behaviors of each person within an organization, and to instantly see the effects of those behaviors. And when people have this level of awareness, creating positive change is much simpler.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Within what lies in front of us, on our desk, in the people we’re surrounded with in our lives, there lies a potential which we cannot see. It’s right in front of us, and yet we can’t see it because of the way we think of things. One of the greatest things that could happen is realizing you have the capability of making things better.”

Resources:

Learn more at http://www.musicparadigm.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/themusicparadigm
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rogernierenberg

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Ep. 105: Be Smart, Daring, & Different: Provide Benefits, Not Hobbies | with Ron Klein

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Ron Klein, a problem solver known as the grandfather of possibilities. He is the inventor of several ideas that have changed the world, such as the magnetic strip on credit cards, the credit card validity checking system, computerized systems for the real estate MLS listing service system, the voice response for the banking industry, and the bond quotation and trade information on the New York Stock Exchange. He’s a strategic advisor, consultant, mentor, and public speaker.

How does one become an inventor? Ron’s grandfather was a famous inventor and he was always involved in interesting things. He was his idol, and got him started on the path of inventing.

After being drafted in the Korean War, he was able to get an education as an electronic engineer and mathematician, which solidified his future as an inventor.

Ron’s philosophy is simplicity. When you turn a problem into a challenge, you have an opportunity to solve it. What is the given in a challenge, and what is the solution I’m looking for?

Humbly, Ron calls the invention of the mag strip on the credit card “the simplest challenge I ever had in my life.” When a major department store came to him in 1964 with a problem, he looked at that problem and said “this is very simple.” Anyone in his same position would have arrived at the same solution.

At 35 years old, he took his company public and sold the company. Essentially retired, after 3 weeks of sitting out on a boat fishing, he wanted to get back to his purpose in life. That’s when he started General Associates, without really knowing what he wanted to do. He just didn’t want a big company, a building, or a lot of employees.

In his pattern of turning problems into challenges into opportunities, Ron was able to turn a liability from a poorly thought out purchase into actual gold. Thousands of teletype machines that were scattered across the united states were able to be junked and have the gold-coated components separated out and sold.

Three months after starting General Associates, Ron got a call from the New York Stock Exchange to buy his remaining teletype. He sets up a contract to sell the machines with a maintenance contract.

While spending time on the floor at the Stock Exchange, Ron noticed how manual the process of trading was. Instead of running around with pieces of paper, he could automate the whole process. There was a lot of resistance, but he befriended the leading bond trading manager and gave him his prototype automation box.

Suddenly, people were calling to find out how he was buying up all the bonds before anyone else even had a chance! Soon, he had 1500 automation boxes on the floor, for $300/month, for the next 26 years.

Considering his incredible role in shaping the technologies of our past and present, Ron brings some insight into the technology of the future. Artificial intelligence will be all positive. “Fall in love with that electronic leash you carry around,” referring to the cell phones that have become such a huge part of our lives.

After a life of innovating, Ron isn’t done yet. He is currently working on a project called Project Eli which covers several of his future projects centered around the technology we all carry around in our pockets.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Simplicity.”

“If it’s not a benefit, it’s a hobby.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://thegrandfatherofpossibilities.com/
Learn more at https://envisioneli.com/
Read The Grandfather of Possibilities: An Inspirational Biography About Ron Klein

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Ep. 104: Breaking Through the Gender Bias | with Andie Kramer and Al Harris

Mon, 27 May 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guests are Andie Kramer and Al Harris. They have been mentoring women in speaking and writing about gender communication for more than 30 years, are frequent keynote speakers, conduct workshops for multinational organizations to better understand the world of gender bias, and are authors of the book Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work. They also have an upcoming book titled It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias That Built It.

When Andie got out of law school, she didn’t imagine that women could be perceived or treated differently in the workplace. It wasn’t until she left Al’s smaller law firm and went to work for a larger firm that she found that stereotypes and biases influence the ways in which people interact with you, treat you, and judge your skillset.

Al was convinced that he was a good person who didn’t suffer from bias himself, and that his own firm would be fair to everyone. When Andie left, he looked around and realized that we weren’t doing any better getting senior women into their leaderships than anyone else. That’s when he realized that people can believe they are bias free, and yet still find unconscious ways to hold women back.

During the time that Andie had left Al’s law firm, the two continued to have conversations surrounding these issues, and they committed themselves to work together and do everything they can to end gender bias.

We like to work with people that are like us, so when men are running organizations, they often reach out to and bring up other men because those are who they are comfortable with. So we see a pattern of men mentoring, supporting, and advocating for other men, and the women being ignored.

So how do we tackle biases upfront? Here are some possible solutions:

We need to provide education – because information is power! If people understand how biases work and how it’s not intention or pointing fingers, that’s step one.
Policies and procedures need to be implemented that take discretion out of the process of evaluating other people. Standards, objectives, and job descriptions are a good starting point.
Find ways to slow down when making decisions: When evaluating things, don’t use open-ended questions and, instead, set out core competencies that you’d expect a person at this level to accomplish. Don’t let people make these decisions in a vacuum by themselves, and have people explain their decision process to others before making up their mind.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Andie: “Perfection is overrated. If we strive for perfection instead of as good as we can get, then we will never give ourselves the opportunity to succeed.”

Al: “We need to be better readers of other people. We need to understand how to understand what other people are thinking about us, and to adjust our behavior, our communication, so that we can better shape that impression so that it matches the one we want them to have of us.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://andieandal.com
Read: Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work
Preorder: It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias That Built It
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breakingthroughbias/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndieandAl
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaskramer/

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Ep. 103: The Golden Age of Digestive Health | with Wade Lightheart

Mon, 20 May 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Wade Lightheart, a 3-time All Natural National Bodybuilding Champion, Advisor to the American Anti-Cancer Institute, and Director of Education at BiOptimizers Nutrition, one of the world’s most innovative nutritional supplement companies

He is also the author of several books and host of The Awesome Health podcast, which helps him accomplish his mission to help others fix their digestion and transform their health with the daily practice of positive principles, rituals, and optimizers.

Wade was mortified into action when he learned that 12 percent of emergency hospital visits are due to gastrointestinal conditions and over 95 million Americans suffer from some form of digestive distress – and if things keep going the way they are, the problem is only getting worse!

So, for starters, where do things start going wrong in our digestion?

We’re the only species on the planet that cooks our food. There are some advantages to that, but it also means we’re destroying all of the enzymes in our food. As a result, our bodies have to manufacture more enzymes, which comes with an energetic or metabolic cost.
Especially when we get older, our bodies will stop breaking down certain enzymes, which can lead to low energy, feeling bloated after meals, or skin problems. Beyond that, Wade says that 25 percent of our population is actually suffering from depression because they’re not breaking down their proteins correctly.
By the time most of us are 30-40, we don’t produce enough hydrochloric acid. This is what disinfects our food; our first line of defense in our immune system. So as it diminishes, we start experiencing digestive problems and/or sick.

The Golden Age of Digestive Health

Luckily, Wade says we’re entering The Golden Age of Digestive Health!

So, while health issues rooted in the gut are rampant, our ability to diagnose and treat these problems through holistic solutions, as well as our general understanding that there is a problem, is also increasingly greatly.

But instead of sharing the supplements and tests that someone might take to improve or identify gut problems, we have a different call to action: hire an expert that can help!

It will cost a little bit more money up front, but it will save you much more money in the long run because you will select the right products for you, at that particular time, and it will reduce your healthcare costs in the future.

Wade is also generous enough to share the FREE Awesome Health Course with Daily Helping listeners!

It will help you learn more about your health and find the right experts to support you. You can get started for free at https://bioptimizers.com/TDH.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Take action on your health now, before you run into serious problems.

“In today’s world, it’s very easy to be busy, it’s very easy to be dialed into the digital work, it’s very easy to put off those little things that we know we need to address... But when your body is giving you a message that something is not working, you need to pay attention.

“When your body is giving you a message that something is not working, you need to pay attention.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://bioptimizers.com/
Awesome Health Podcast: https://bioptimizers.com/category/podcast/
Take the FREE Awesome Health Course: https://bioptimizers.com/TDH

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Ep. 102: Everyone Deserves a Great Place to Work & Any Workplace Can Be Great | with Darren Virassammy

Mon, 13 May 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Darren Virassammy, the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of 34 Strong, an organization that believes everyone deserves a great place to work and that any workplace can be great. A leading expert in the global employee engagement community, the 34 Strong team leverages a strength-based approach to human development to create massive shifts within organization, both culturally and on the bottom line.

Darren and his team have created sustainable organizational change in small micro businesses all the way to large organizations like the FBA, Bank of America, and California Department of Public Health.

If you’ve listened to this show before, then you know that I’m fascinated by people’s Why – and Darren discovered his Why in an incredibly powerful moment of compassion, sadness, and realization.

Darren and his wife were taking their first vacation with their baby. They were on the big island of Hawaii, sitting on their hotel balcony and overlooking a thunderstorm on the Pacific together. Darren was eating a papaya when his daughter looked up at him and laughed out loud for the first time. It was one of the most amazing – and terrifying – moments of his life.

Because, when Darren looked into his daughter’s eyes, he saw all of her potential and felt excited about getting to be her partner in growing up... but then he also saw who he was being as a father. At the time, he was gone for work more often than he was at home, and he knew he wasn’t make his family a priority.

So, Darren asked himself, who is the dad I want to be? What is the impact I want to have on the world? And what’s the message I’m going to leave behind?

Shortly after Darren started looking at his life with this new perspective, he met 34 Strong co-founder Brandon Miller. They shared a vision of changing organizational culture, and they both knew it was so important because people spend so much time at work.

But, getting back to the moment Darren discovered his Why, it’s not just about making work more enjoyable. What do you think happens when someone gets to show up to work as their best self, and they’re valued for being valuable? What happens when they go home? How are they showing up as a spouse, as a parent, as a member of their community?

The positive effects of organizational change then compound on each other throughout families and society, hopefully resulting in a legacy of cultural change for all of us and a better life for future generations.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Darren shares two quotes with us at the end of the episode.

First, after Michelangelo sculpted David, he was asked how he created it from a box of marble. Michelangelo responded, “David was always in there. I just revealed him.” And there is a David, there’s a level of brilliance, inside of all of us – but we have to do the work to reveal it.

Darren’s second quote is from jazz bassist Marcus Miller: “In life and in music, at some point, you just have to find your own voice. Because, at the end of the day, there’s nobody who can do you better than you can do you.” So take the time to invest in discovering you.

How can you afford not to live the life that you were put here to live?

Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

Learn more at https://34strong.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/strengthsfinder
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dvirassammy
Grind. Greatness. Genius.: https://www.34strong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GeniusZone.pdf
Strengthsfinder: https://www.34strong.com/shop/product/basic-package/

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Ep. 101: Radical Generosity: How to Make Gratitude & Generosity Your Competitive Advantage | with John Ruhlin

Mon, 06 May 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is John Ruhlin, the world’s leading authority in maximizing customer loyalty through radical generosity, the founder of Giftology, and the author of Giftology: The Art and Science of Using Gifts to Cut Through the Noise, Increase Referrals, and Strengthen Retention.

John stumbled onto the idea that grew into Giftology while he was a salesman at Cutco. John asked his girlfriend’s dad to buy pocket knives that he could give away to clients who love hunting and fishing, but he didn’t want pocket knives – he wanted paring knives.

Why? John wondered, why would you give a kitchen tool to the CEO of a multi-million dollar company?

That’s when John received a piece of advice that would change his life: If you take care of the family, in business, everything else takes care of itself; that’s the key to referrals, access, deal flow, and retention.

As John started presenting this idea to others, he realized that no one was using gratitude, gifts, and generosity as their competitive advantage. So, after developing a system of using generosity to gain access to elite clients and generate thousands of referrals, John became the best seller in the history of Cutco, while he was still in college.

John and his firm now help automate this process for individuals and organizations like UBS, Raymond James, DR Horton, Keller Williams, the Chicago Cubs, and Caesar’s Palace, teaching how anyone can turn their clients into a personal sales force that drives exponential growth.

In an increasingly digital world, we crave human-to-human experiences, we crave being treated like an individual, “we crave realness!” As human beings, we all want to be known, acknowledged, and appreciated.

And, although there is a lot of lip service given to the idea that relationships are the most important thing, in business and in our personal lives, not a lot of people are actually walking that talk. “Everyone says relationships are their most valuable assets. Well, show me what you invest your money in and show me your calendar. That determines what you prioritize.”

So, take a look into your own calendar and look at where most of your money is going – are you acting like you put a premium on relationships?

Whether you’re already doing great or just realized you have some work to do, John has some great advice for scaling and improving your relationships through acknowledgements, appreciation, and personalization:

Invest as much as you can in relationships. At Giftology, they recommend reinvesting anywhere from 5% - 15% of your net profits.
If you have, for example, $5,000 to invest, don’t then try to invest it in 5,000 people by sending out calendars or other cheap, branded trinkets. Instead, take your top 20 relationships and invest $250, so that each of those people feels acknowledged and appreciated.
Most people don’t need more stuff, so focus on one best-in-class or world-class gift that is personalized and that the recipient will treasure. Personalization is a BIG deal.
Don’t forget the family! 80% of the gifting that John does includes the spouse, kids, pets, and/or inner circle because those people are usually neglected in business relationships.
It’s not about spending the most money – it’s about making the people who you invest in raving fans. “If you want somebody who is actively loyal to you, you have to show them that you’re different than anybody else, you have to inspire them to act on your behalf, and that doesn’t happen on accident – that happens because of you loving on them so much that they can’t help but want to reciprocate!”
The three times that people usually send gifts are after a deal is done, after a referral is closed, and at Christmas – and those are the three worst times to send a gift! At Giftology, they call this, “No ABC gifting.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You’ll never regret giving more than is reasonable... That’s where you separate yourself. When you do that, with whatever level you’re at, people notice.”

Of course, John also has a gift for all of you: a list of the 10 gifts you should avoid giving to clients!

Resources:

Read: Giftology: The Art and Science of Using Gifts to Cut Through the Noise, Increase Referrals, and Strengthen Retention
John’s gift-giving guide: http://thegiversedge.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnruhlinjr
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ruhlin
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ruhlin-0b04b01/

The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Ep. 100: An American Dream: Becoming an NFL Legend, Motivator, & Philanthropist | with Morten Andersen

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Morten Andersen, a living personification of the American Dream. Morten came to America as a foreign exchange student when he was 17, and during his first week in the USA, he discovered a talent that changed his life forever.

Morten went on to have a remarkable career in the NFL, during which he achieved a number of impressive feats: he’s the only player to hold statistical franchise records for two teams, the Falcons and the Saints; he played an all-time NFL record of 382 games throughout his career; and in 2006, he became the all-time leading scorer in the NFL (a title he held onto for 12 years).

These days, Morten is a speaker and philanthropist who draws on stories from his 25-year NFL career to deliver speeches on teamwork, leadership, and achieving goals that will motivate and inspire the audience.

Morten actually came to the U.S. as a soccer player, but his high school didn’t have a soccer team. They did, however, have a very good football team, which happens to have exactly one position that perfectly fits someone who is good at kicking: the placekicker, or kicker.

He did extremely well in his first year. So well, in fact, that Michigan State University offered him a scholarship. He went from playing in front of 1,000 to 100,000 people, but the intensity didnt’ say his resolve. Morten set records, was named an All-American, and earned himself a spot with the New Orleans Saints.

But even then, Morten didn’t exactly think of the NFL as a career. He was still, really, just putting one foot in front of the other. “I wasn’t trying to project how many years. I was just trying to, literally, make the next game.” And, unfortunately, Morten also had a “dismal” pre-season, followed by an injury on his very first kick in a season game.

Luckily, the NFL player strike that year gave Morten an opportunity to fully heal, while his replacement kicker coached him on how to finesse the field goal. Then, Morten has a breakout ‘83 season, and he realized that he had an opportunity to do something special in the NFL.

Morten learned a number of important lessons during these years, and they’re lessons that we can all benefit from learning and applying to our own lives:

If you want to be a high-performer, that doesn’t mean coasting on talent. You have to do your homework own your work bench.
You also have to identify your work bench. For Morten, that was very simple: it’s the little area where the ball is put down. Then, you have to train through repetition; when you start developing good habits and training good habits, they become dominant, and that’s the secret sauce to success in high-performance situations.
Unconscious competency is the highest level of learning (also called muscle memory), and as a high performer, that’s where you want to get to.
High-pressure situations only exist if you aren’t prepared. “Pressure happens when your skillset doesn’t match the task.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It’s one simple word – Will – and the will to do the distasteful. It’s not when your hands are in the air that you improve the most. It’s not when everybody is applauding you and clapping on your shoulders and saying attaboy. It’s when your back’s against the wall. It’s when the world is suck. It’s in that moment when you realize that you have to go and recruit some traits that, perhaps, are not pretty, but are necessary in order to get through something.

“And within those traits is a very small word that’s so important – it’s will. The will to do the distasteful. The will to go places others may not want to go. But because you have the will to go there, you will be able to absolutely fly into that rarified air of personal excellence.”

Resources:

Learn more at http://www.mortenandersen.com/
Support the Morten Andersen Family Foundation: http://www.mortenandersen.com/index.php/family-foundation/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kickermortenandersen/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreatDane2544
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greatdane2544/

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 99: Get Unstuck, Find Your Purpose, #BeLimitless | with Laura Gassner Otting

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Laura Gassner Otting, an instigator, motivator, and provocateur who has never met a revolution she didn’t like. She is lit up by The Big Idea and encourages people to think audaciously, motivating them to dream boldly and then act decisively; she has a knack for seeing the greatness in others and reflecting it back on them in ways that help them get unstuck.

Laura collaborates with entrepreneurs and investors to push past the doubt and indecision that consigns great ideas to limbo, delivering strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and catalytic perspective informed by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, and philanthropic landscapes. Laura has empowered thousands of people through her speaking and writing, and she’s sure to empower thousands more with her new book, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life.

Laura didn’t make it her life goal to be a motivational speaker or author, and she didn’t plan a career path to bring her to this exact moment – but looking back, she can see that what excited her, whether she was doing executive search or working in the White House, was finding out other people’s Why.

Her superpower, Laura says, is being able to look at somebody and see their greatness, even if they have never seen it or believed in it before. But the real superpower, I think, is her willingness and ability to breathe life into another person’s greatness, helping them capitalize on it and live a life of purpose.

The biggest obstacle to living a life of purpose, however, is what everyone else is saying. There’s this idea that living a life of purpose means sacrificing yourself; you have to be Mother Teresa feeding the lepers. But that’s not what purpose is – purpose is just the reason for which something is done!

“Purpose is not just service and service is not just sacrifice – so we can all have purpose in our work!” And the only purpose that matters is your purpose, so we have to stop worrying about everyone else saying our purpose is worthy, or what society says, which is why the first part of Laura’s book is “how to ignore everybody else.”

And it all starts when you stop trying to keep up with the Joneses; when you stop assigning value to what other people say is valuable.

Ready to learn the rest of the equation so that you can truly #BeLimitless? Then order your copy of Limitless and start listening to the episode on loop until it arrives! (Or maybe just listen to it once and then check out the awesome resources at http://limitlessassessment.com while you wait).

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

We hear a lot of stories about the biggest regrets people have when they’re dying, and top of the list is almost always ‘I wish I could have lived the life I wanted instead of the life people expected of me.’

“And this book is meant to help people understand that the best way that you can serve the people around you and the causes that you love is to find your very best, most fundamental state of leadership: who you are when you’re at your very, very best... And if that sounds like ambition, to go and to strive and be the biggest version of yourself, I would say that doing that and showing up more in the lives of the people you love and the causes you hold dear helps them do better. It’s not just your ambition, it’s your responsibility.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://lauragassnerotting.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heylgo
Twitter: https://twitter.com/heylgo
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heylgo/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauragassnerotting/
Read: Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life
Read: Mission-Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 98: So, You’re Addicted to Sugar: How it Happened & How to Quit | with Erin Wathen

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Erin Wathen, a holistic health coach, food abuse counselor, and the inspiring author of Why Can’t I Stick to My Diet?: How To End The Food Drama. Her philosophy is, simply put, that health isn’t a number on the scale or how often we exercise, but how we live our lives as a whole.

As a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and a Food Addiction Counselor, Erin was well versed in the science behind health. As a Certified Spinning® Instructor, Vinyasa Yoga instructor, and Classical Pilates instructor, she understood the mechanics of health and fitness as well. But, still, she was not at peace with her body for many years. She had all of this knowledge and was always on a diet, yet she never reached her goal weight.

However, through a lot of trial and error, Erin found true nutrition to be the missing piece of the puzzle. It was then that Erin started her last diet, which ultimately became her food plan and the basis of her health coaching program and her book.

Erin realized that what she was taught was okay to eat was, well... not okay! Growing up in the 90s, people would demonize fat with the drop of a hat, but no one questioned Diet Coke as a staple in your diet. Obviously, the pendulum has shifted a little in the nutritional world today, but there’s still a mass normalization of sugar in our society – and it’s hurting us.

“Sugar affects our mood, affects our health, and affects our body in all of these amazingly negative ways – it’s just completely normalized in our society,” Erin says.

The truth is that most of us are addicted to sugar. So many of us wake up and immediately go to sugary coffee drinks, then we snack on sugary treats throughout the day, and in the evening, we drink beer or wine. It’s so easy and so accepted that most of us don’t even realize we’ve become addicted.

So how do you know if you have a sugar addiction? Well, if you don’t consume any of those things, anything with added sugar, how do you feel? Chances are you feel pretty crappy.

So, what can we do about this addiction?

Take stock of what you’re drinking – high fructose corn syrup is the easiest way to get more sugar into your diet.
Stay away from the middle aisles in the grocery store.
Don’t add extra sugar to your drinks, meals, or snacks.
Avoid fake sugars; they trick your body into thinking it’s had sugar, which has its own negative impacts.
Don’t go on a diet – embrace a lifestyle change!

One of the biggest reasons that people can’t stick to their diets, Erin says, is the mindset they adopt when they start. They’re doing the diet with the intent to stop eventually, instead of adopting healthy lifestyle changes that will make them healthier in the long-run. It’s a juice cleanse today so that you can go back to eating things that are bad for you tomorrow.

On top of that, we don’t address the emotional component of why we have unhealthy eating habits in the first place; the why behind our sugar addiction or other bad habits.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Just be very aware of how important food is in our life versus the people in your life – because this isn’t that big of a deal. It’s just food! And when we put food in front of everyone else, we’re missing out on an opportunity to connect with others, to make good memories, and to really find out what’s going on with ourselves.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://erinwathenwellness.com/

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 97: Psychophysiology 101 & 7 Ways That We Are Unintentionally Destroying Our Health, Happiness, and Productivity | with Kyle Ferroly

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Kyle “Mind Brain Dude” Ferroly, and he’s going to talk about the brain in ways that you’ve probably never thought about. Kyle completed his Doctoral training in Psychophysiology, which we discuss at great length in this episode, in addition to doing advanced EEG training with some of the top professionals in the field, who are making incredible advances in brain research.

So, what in the world is Psychophysiology?

Psychophysiology is the blending of three disciplines: psychology, physiology, and neurology – or, in other words, it’s the holistic study of the mind, body, and brain.

“So, in a nutshell, when someone is in our office, we don’t just talk to them and try to have them work through things; we have them hooked up to assessment objective equipment, and we can see when their brain, mind, and body are making changes based on what they’re thinking.”

You might be wondering, then, what’s the difference between the mind and the brain?

The brain is a physical organ that we have. The mind is our conceptual ability to think, act, and feel. We can’t prove we have a mind – philosophy has been trying to do it for who knows how many years – but we know that we can think, act, and feel. So there has to be something that gives us the ability to do that, and that is our brain.

So, although our mind can seem like more of a philosophical concept than a core part of ourselves, practitioners in the field of Psychophysiology can help us see what our mind, brain, and body are doing through scientifically verified assessments. Because this ephemeral part of us is critically important to living happy and fulfilled lives, and too many of us are being crippled by stress.

People may be motivated to change, but until you’re able to show them evidence that something is wrong, it’s hard to show them that there is a problem. And for many of us, that problem is the effects of overstressed lives.

Whether you’re being chased by a bear or you imagine you’re being chased by a bear, your body is going to respond in a similar way – and in that equally powerful response, we can begin to understand how the mind, brain, and body are all interconnected.

“How do we communicate in our daily life, with our friends and our family and our coworkers, if our impulse control is out the window, we’re not empathetic, we’re not communicating well, and we’re just worrying about ourselves? That sounds like a lot of people that I know... because they live in stress!”

We need to get to the root of the problem and stop chasing symptoms – and that’s why Kyle wrote his upcoming book, Check Your Blindspot: 7 Ways That We Are Unintentionally Destroying Our Health, Happiness, and Productivity.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Albert Einstein once said that problems cannot be solved with the mindset that created them. We all have a certain mindset or a current frame of mind for how we are going to get through our problem. We need new information, we need new tools, and we need to get in front of the problem – and that’s what I feel the field of Psychophysiology will do. It will give you a new frame of reference for what’s happening inside of you.

“And there’s always hope when you look in the right places.”

Resources:

Learn more: mindbrainbalance.com | kyleferroly.com

Pre-order: Check Your Blindspot: 7 Ways That We Are Unintentionally Destroying Our Health, Happiness, and Productivity

Biofeedback Certification International Alliance: https://www.bcia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindbraindude/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mindbraindude
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-s-ferroly-b6037726/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXCFAxpiUbXe2X6OIDLvaYA

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 96: Getaway2Give: Transforming the Worlds of Fundraising & Vacationing | with Adam Capes

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Adam Capes, the co-founder and President of Getaway2Give. Adam is a social entrepreneur helping people create amazing vacation experiences, while changing the world of fundraising as we know it.

Adam has been passionate about raising money to help people since was in first grade, when he had a backyard fair to support individuals diagnosed with Leukemia. That experience gave him a high he had never experienced before, and it inadvertently taught him that the act of giving is actually as psychologically gratifying (if not moreso) than the act of receiving.

What Adam found is that one of the most effective strategies for fundraising is providing unmatched, memorable vacations. So, at Getaway2Give, they give people a white-glove concierge experience – a personal Guest Experience Manager helps plan the details, then a Destination Manager greets guests on site and makes certain everything goes as planned throughout the entire experience – in return for a charitable contribution that supports others who really need help.

Although this style of fundraising has typically only been part of charity fundraisers, Getaway2Give offers packages to anyone looking to go on a great vacation, without doing all of the work that’s often involved with going out of town.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Start with why. Figure out what your why is, what your bigger purpose is, what you’re passionate about, what drives you, and follow that. They say when the Why is strong enough, the How is easy.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://www.getaway2give.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getaway2give
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getaway2give/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Getaway2Give
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKv-aW_DFO1A_6o7CYCkw9A

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 95: Spiritual Fitness: Envisioning, Embodying, & Actualizing Your Perfect Day (Every Single Day) | with Patricia Moreno

Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Patricia Moreno, the trailblazing founder of spiritual fitness, a methodology that borrows many of the lessons from cognitive behavioral therapy. She is leading a conversation about the importance of each and every one of us making a vow to wake up and be a positive and effective part of the raising of the consciousness of the planet.

Although Patricia has achieved a very high level of success, it certainly didn’t happen overnight. Things didn’t go as well as she expected in her early career ventures, reaching a head when she started using crystal meth, and this is in large part due to the baggage she was carrying from childhood.

Patricia grew up as one of the 9th of 11 children. She was raised with the idea that a woman’s self-worth and is inherently tied to her looks, and she and her seven sisters adopted the value that looking great and being thin were paramount. As a result, they inherited a lot of their mother’s fears and self-doubts.

A defining moment in Patricia’s life was when, at eight years old, her mother put her on a diet. She can remember standing on a scale, with both of her parents looking down at her as if something was wrong with her and her body. “My worth was my weight, and my body was my social currency.”

Then she discovered exercise. Exercise felt like a medicine that helped her break free; she felt like she could use her body, and she could activate these feelings of strength and joy. However, behind the scenes, she was getting more stressed out, more subconscious, more depressed, and her eating disorder kicked into full gear. She was considered one of the best in the fitness world, but it was unsustainable. “I was abusing every aspect of my body and mind to try and fulfill one goal.”

This really came to a head after she got her dream job hosting a live workout show. About a year into the show, a producer said she had gained to much weight – and the shame spiral was beyond anything she’d ever experienced. As a result, she turned to crystal meth as her new diet.

Thankfully, she had a moment of grace and clarity. “I thought, what am I doing? Here I am, someone who has so much and so much success, and now I’m going to become a drug addict? For who? And for what? Is this really the way that I want my life to go?”

She realized that it wasn’t her that was broken, unable to keep off weight with just diet and exercise – the recipe was wrong.

So she started working for a cause and a mission: to help people break free from this identity that our body is our social currency, and to help people achieve their goals in a more holistic and loving way. And for almost two decades now, Patricia has been spreading this message and changing lives.

After years of training and studying with personal optimization experts, mindset scholars, and spiritual teachers, Patricia created her own practices to integrate spiritual fitness into the lives of hundreds of thousands worldwide. Her signature movement method, intenSati, has been changing lives for over 15 years, and this embodiment of positive states through movement is still an integral part of her work.

In an effort to give everyone access to unlocking their highest potential, she created a year-long digital program that combines a powerful guided morning practice with unwavering daily accountability and consistency called Sati365. In just two years, the program has seen astounding results by simply empowering members to envision, embody, and actualize their perfect day, every single day.

Patricia also has a FREE gift for the Daily Helping audience: http://patriciamoreno.com/confidence

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You have got to prioritize your morning towards what’s most important to you. You have to create that space in your day where you actually embody the person that you truly want to be. There’s actually no other way for us to get conscious and intentional about the life we want to create without creating time in our day to actually do that consistently.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://patriciamoreno.com/
Get your FREE gift: http://patriciamoreno.com/confidence
Intensati: https://patriciamoreno.com/intensati/
Sati365: https://patriciamoreno.com/sati365waitlist
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PatriciaMorenoLive/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patriciamoreno33/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PatriciaMorenoLive
Twitter: https://twitter.com/intensati
Listen: Ep. 50: Elevating Consciousness, One Miracle Morning at a Time | with Hal Elrod

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 94: From Prison to Purpose: Beating Addiction & Limiting Beliefs | with Mark Crandall

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Mark Crandall, LMSW, LCDC. He is a transformational life and business coach, a workshop facilitator, a Keynote Speaker, the author of Eulogy of Childhood Memories, and the host of Purpose Chasers Podcast.

Mark went from a lost boy with countless traumatic experiences to drug addiction, prison, and an undying self-hatred to building multiple six-figure coaching practices and leading life changing workshops where he empowers others to break free from their limiting beliefs towards creating the lives of their dreams.

Many people who go through what Mark has gone through end up with their lives totally derailed, forever – but Mark is now out there making a difference in the world, every single day, and that isn’t because he’s special or different. It’s because he was lucky and exposed to healthy ideas, and now he wants to help others do the same.

“I knew that something was wrong with me, but I didn’t understand what... and I just longed for the moment that it would all come together.”

While incarcerated, Mark was scared because he knew he didn’t have the skills to actually change the way that he thought or acted. He couldn’t even stay sober inside of prison. How could he do it out in the world?

The ah-ha moment came 22 months into his two-year sentence. He woke up, full of fear. He just got his acceptance letter saying he would be released, but his experience showed him that he didn’t do well in the real world. “My heart spoke to me, and my heart said... Go to the one place in the library that you’ve never been.”

He didn’t know what that meant, at first, but he listened – and he ended up in the spirituality and self-help section. A book by the Dalai Lama stuck out to him, and later that day, he tried his first attempt at practicing a mindfulness technique.

Mark didn’t know what he was seeking, but he found it.

He also found that, “unlike drugs and alcohol, the effects of spiritual practices, the effects of transformational work, the effects of introspective work, it doesn’t wear off – and I don’t get arrested.”

That isn’t to say that, immediately, his whole life changed and he suddenly loved himself. That would be a lie. But his life did start to change, bit by bit.

Mark made another big step forward when he found Metta meditation, a loving-kindness meditation practice that really started to shift the way he felt about himself. “Once I learned to start to love other people and forgive other people, that’s when I started to reap the benefits of learning how to love myself and forgive myself.” Self-hatred will reap hatred, and self-compassion will reap compassion.

Mark re-wrote the story of his life, and now, he dedicates his life to empowering others to accomplish the same.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are not your thoughts. Your thoughts are not your feelings... there is no such thing as feeling outside of attachment to thoughts. So you’re not your thoughts. You can achieve anything in this life that you put your mind to.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://markcrandall.net/
Listen: Purpose Chasers Podcast
Read: Eulogy of Childhood Memories
Learn more about Metta Meditation: https://www.mettainstitute.org/mettameditation.html

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 93: The Rise of the Youpreneur | with Chris Ducker

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Chris Ducker, a serial entrepreneur, author of the bestsellers Virtual Freedom and Rise of the Youpreneur, and the self-proclaimed 'Proudest Brit' doing business online!

He's also a trusted international business mentor, keynote speaker, podcaster, blogger, and the founder of Youpreneur.com – the leading personal brand business education company in the world.

I absolutely love Virtual Freedom and reading it had a profound impact on the way I run The Daily Helping. It can easily be considered the bible of remote team building, and it was written to address a glaring gap in the marketplace.

Because our world changed years and years ago – we’ve been living in a virtual world for at least a decade. However, there wasn’t anything out there to help entrepreneurs understand the importance of delegation or the sheer advantage of delegating remotely. “You don’t need to hire people in your backyard to get stuff done,” Chris says. “In fact, geographic location should have absolutely nothing to do with who you are hiring.”

I think a lot of us, especially entrepreneurs, understand the appeal of hiring remote teams and outsourcing work... but that doesn’t mean we all do it right. Chris identifies two cardinal errors that people make over, and over, and over again:

First, they hire one person and then expect that person to do three or four people’s jobs. Chris says you have to hire for the role, not for the task. He acknowledges that this can be difficult for a small business that can’t afford three people, but ultimately, it just won’t work out. I mean you wouldn’t ask your plumber to wire your lights, would you?

Second, they expect outsourcing work to be a magic pill that they take once then all of their problems go away. Your new virtual assistant won’t work perfectly from day one, there is no magic pill, and there will always be new problems. Your employee is only going to be as good as the employer, so you have to put work into training both their skillset and mindset (people tend to forget this second bit).

Chris’s newest book, The Rise of the Youpreneur, was also written to fill a gap in the market: people wanted to build personal brands, but they didn’t know how. So this is the definitive guide to building the business of you, whether you’re a content creator, author, speaker, blogger, or podcaster.

Anyone building a business based around themselves, their expertise, their personality, and ultimately, the people they want to serve – this book is for you.

If you want to learn more about building your personal brand from Chris and his world-class panel of speakers, check out the Youpreneur Mid-Year Mastermind (May 18, 2019): youpreneur.com/mid-year-mastermind.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Going back to Chris’s mentor, Zig Ziglar: “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”

Resources:

Learn more at https://youpreneur.com
Listen: YouPreneur.FM
Read: The Rise of the Youpreneur
Read: Virtual Freedom
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChrisDuckerDotCom/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisducker
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/chrisducker
Youpreneur Mid-Year Mastermind (May 18, 2019): https://youpreneur.com/mid-year-mastermind/
Check out http://virtualstafffinder.com

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Ep. 92: The Difference Between Success & Fulfillment | with Dr. Nii Darko

Mon, 04 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Nii Darko, a Board-certified General Surgeon who is pushing past the limits of the status quo. He hosts Docs Outside the Box, a podcast in which he highlights stories of doctors doing extraordinary things outside of medicine to inspire other doctors to think outside the box.

Since Dr. Darko was young, he single-mindedly pursued being a doctor. Role models like Doctor Huxtable and Doogie Howser showed him a vision of the future he wanted, so he went after it.

But after getting all the credentials and all the qualifications, after achieving his dream, Dr. Darko realized that he missed a lot: funerals, weddings, and ten years of his parents’ lives. He knew he was going to be a successful surgeon – but he wasn’t fulfilled.

The good news, however, is that Dr. Darko had this awakening in his 30s. When you have your head down and you’re working in a demanding career, it’s easy for decades to go by and then look back with regret.

So today, Dr. Darko is helping other doctors break out of this box, explore their other talents, and change the world. “And the best way I can help people see the light is not anything revolutionary, but just literally telling stories of other doctors who feel the same way or have gone through the same things.”

Doctors who do medical humanitarian work in war-torn places of the world, run their own businesses, contribute to medical journalism, and so many other extraordinary things – and sharing these stories to help others see the light will be Dr. Darko’s legacy.

“Doctors can do more than just help one patient at a time, in a hospital or a clinic. We can literally affect society as a whole.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Just start. Whatever it is that you’re really concerned about, whatever it is that you want to do, any dream that you want to do. Oftentimes, we let fear get in the way, or we let procrastination or insecurity get in the way of us dreaming or taking that first step.

“So what I say now is, whenever I get nervous about something, I acknowledge it and I just start. It doesn't matter. It doesn’t have to be perfect... If there’s something that you’ve always wanted to do, just do it!”

Resources:

Learn more at https://www.drniidarko.com/
Docs Outside the Box: https://www.drniidarko.com/podcast/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNiiDarko/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/drniidarko
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drniidarko/

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Ep. 91: The Origins of a Modern Storyteller: Creating Comics, Video Games, & New Media | with Paul Jenkins

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Paul Jenkins, a veteran of 25 years in the graphic novel, film and video game industries. Over the last two decades Paul has been instrumental in the creation and implementation of literally hundreds of world-renowned, recognizable entertainment icons. From his employment with the creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to his preeminent status as an IP creator, Paul has provided entertainment to the world through hundreds of print publications, films, video games, and new media.

Raised by a single mother in the West Country of the United Kingdom, Paul grew up in two worlds: going to school with the children of rich families and living on a farm in poverty. He was “a gypsy kid hidden in an affluent society,” and this paradigm has influenced a lot of his work, from the novel Curioddity to the first issue of Wolverine: Origin.

And while Paul enjoys writing all of the characters he’s been able to give life to, the one he identifies most with is your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man; a successful brand with a secret identity, but an identity that made him who he is.

When Paul was 22, he only had about 50 quid left to his name and he heard about an opportunity to come work in America for the summer – but he never did go back to the U.K. He started working with the creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and he helped negotiate many of their early licensing deals.

Paul worked in production for a few years before he had a chat with comics luminary Alan Moore, which inspired him to start writing. Starting with a five year stint in Hellblazer, Paul went on to write comics like Inhumans (for which he earned an Eisner Award), The Incredible Hulk, The Sentry, Wolverine, and of course Spider-Man.

Then Paul set his eyes on the video game industry. Video games were seen as “dumb entertainment for dumb children,” and even the video game industry seemed to think that at times – but Paul very much disagreed. If we treat video games as an artform, they will be.

Today, Paul does a little bit of everything. He still works on comics and games, but he also works across multiple media and new media, presenting stories in both new and familiar ways.

Sometimes people will look at Paul and say he’s a guru, a storyteller, a writer... I could never be such a thing. And those people are wrong. “We are all storytellers. All of us are, and we all have the ability to do it. We think it’s the kind of thing that we cannot do sometimes. How could I possibly be a storyteller? But the truth is that storytelling is ingrained. It’s something that we do with our children. To a certain extent, telling a little white lie is storytelling... When you go to the end of your day and you fall asleep, you fall asleep to the story of the day.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There’s often a maxim that people talk about: that writers write. The concept being that if you’re a writer, just go out and do it. Go get writing and that will make you a writer, and I cry foul on that. I don’t believe it. I think writers finish things.

“If I could say anything to anyone, it would be that talent does not exist. It is simply potential. And if you add hard work to it, and a form of social maturity, that’s when you have talent.”

Resources:

Follow Paul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mypauljenkins
Check out Paul’s written work

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Ep. 90: Visual Intelligence & The Art of Perception | with Amy Herman

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Amy Herman, a lawyer and art historian who uses works of art to symmetrically sharpen observation, analysis, and communication skills. By showing people how to look closely at painting, sculpture, and photography, she helps them hone their visual intelligence to help them recognize the most pertinent and useful information, as well as biases that impede decision making.

She originally developed her Art of Perception seminar in 2000 to improve medical student’s observation and communication skills with their patients, but she has since adapted the program to train a wide variety of individuals, including: the FBI, NYPD, Department of Homeland Security, Navy SEALs, Peace Corps, Georgetown University Hospital, MetLife, Johnson & Johnson, Planned Parenthood, Seventh Day Adventist Church, and New York City doormen.

How do we see what matters?

Amy’s catchphrase is, “How do we see what matters?”

In a world where we are barraged with information, where we have a non-stop, 24-hour stream of digital information available at your fingertips, how do we separate what’s important from what’s just noise? We see so much and our brain can’t take all of that in, so how do we distill the information that we need to live our lives with purpose and do our jobs as effectively as we can?

Amy suggests that it’s through the development of visual intelligence, which “means not only looking up from your screens and engaging the world around you, but filtering out a lot of that noise and a lot of that information to see what matters.”

Art just happens to be the vehicle that Amy chooses to teach this because it’s a novel set of data for the people that she works with. If you’re used to running a successful business, for example, looking at works of art gives your left brain a rest, engages your right brain, and forces you to think about communicating what you see. Then, when you go back to work, you have a different template or lens through which to see business operations and communicate what you see to others.

Communication is actually a significant part of this program. “Communication is a two-way street,” Amy says. “It’s not just how you say it. You have to be mindful of who’s listening to you and how your message is being heard. Because if it’s not being heard, your message doesn’t matter.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“This a rule in my house and I share it with people because it’s a small thing and we can all do it: look up from your screens for 15 minutes a day. If my 16 year old can do it, I promise you can do it... Do anything. Go talk to a colleague. Go talk to your husband. Go talk to your wife. Have a glass of wine. Read a book. Make dinner. Take a walk.

“And it’s not a punishment... But I believe that when we look up from our screens for 15 minutes a day, we think differently, we communicate differently, and we prioritize our lives differently.”

Resources:

Learn more at http://www.artfulperception.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amyhermanaop
Read: Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life
Watch: “Amy Herman: A lesson on looking | TED Talk - TED.com”
Get your Personal Helping at thedailyhelping.com/personal-helping

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Ep. 89: 1Life Fully Lived: The Roadmap for an Abundant & Fulfilling Life | with Tim Rhode

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Tim Rhode, co-founder of both 1Life Fully Lived and GoBundance. We talk about what those organizations are, how they’re changing lives, and why Tim is inspired to help others develop their own life plan to create a world of abundance and balance.

Although Tim is tremendously successful today, he had a bit of a rough start to life. A turbulent home life led to him barely graduating high school, and at 25, he was a part-time grocery clerk who had to go door-to-door painting addresses to pay the bills.

He developed a poverty mindset early in life – and it wasn’t until developing an interest in real estate, and seeing how it could create new opportunities for him, that Tim started to shake that mindset.

1Life Fully Lived

1Life Fully Lived is a nonprofit organization started that gives people of all ages and backgrounds the tools to achieve life mastery. By leveraging the knowledge and support of their community, they provide life-planning tools and training in goal setting, finance, relationships, and wellness so that anyone can create and live their best life.

All of their core teachings help people answer these critical questions:

Who the heck am I at my core?
What’s my dream?
What’s my plan? How will I fund this dream?
How will I be healthy in my mind, body, and spirit to pull it off?
And who’s in my tribe to help me achieve this magnificent life that I was blessed to live?

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Tim encourages everyone to live multiple incarnations in their life; different chapters of your life story.

“If you’re 25 to 44 and you’re listening to this and you’re like, there’s something I want to do and I’m just not there yet, go towards it. Just fail forward towards that, while you’re juggling these balls.”

Resources:

https://1lifefullylived.org
https://www.gobundance.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-rhode-42660210/
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Ep. 088: Transformative Storytelling & Sexy Vulnerability | with Corey Blake

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest, Corey Blake, shares two unique but powerful tools for both personal and business development: storytelling and vulnerability. Corey is the Publisher of Conscious Capitalism Press and the founder & CEO of Round Table Companies, where he has spent over a decade helping business leaders use storytelling to transform themselves and their organizations.

Corey spent a past life as an actor, acting in everything from commercials to movies to TV. But after he became disillusioned with acting, he started to shift to more behind-the-scenes roles and getting into the storytelling aspect of entertainment.

However, he felt the need to do something a little more predictable or “normal,” so he started pursuing writing jobs. And when people started approaching him looking for help writing their books, “suddenly, this thing that was very practical became creative.” One of the first books he worked on was Robert Renteria’s From the Barrio to the Board Room, and seeing the way that book inspired people to change their lives solidified Corey’s new focus: using stories to connect people and help them reshape their own identity.

Today, Corey primarily helps businesses tell their stories. “Everyone who starts or leads a business is an artist, and they’re using that business as a canvas, essentially painting a version of the world that they want to see,” Corey says. “That’s a story worth telling. That’s a story worth sharing.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Leadership is a lifetime lifestyle commitment... We get the companies we deserve; businesses that we build are a reflection of who we are. If we want to have more impact in the world, we have to start with ourselves. So committing to doing our own personal work on this journey expands our capabilities, as business people, immensely, and it is a lifestyle commitment.”

Resources:

Articulate Your Purpose: https://www.roundtablecompanies.com/purpose
Conscious Capitalism: https://www.consciouscapitalism.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoreyBlake9000
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coblake/
Watch: “Vulnerability is Sexy | Corey Blake | TEDxSalisbury”
Corey’s Vulnerability Challenge: https://roundtablecompanies.com/vulnerability
Get your Personal Helping at thedailyhelping.com/personal-helping

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Ep. 087: The Unshakeable Value Of Knowing Your Worth | with Byron Van Pelt

Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

I love today’s guest, and I know you will as well.

Byron Van Pelt is a business strategist, coach, and consultant who focuses on helping entrepreneurs grow lucrative businesses, from a place of transparency and authenticity.

At the age of 23, he found himself thrust into a business culture where sales strategies and tactics were manipulative, and focused on convincing customers to hand over their hard-earned money. While he was successful at it, Byron slowly found himself spiritually bankrupt.

With the support of mentors and colleagues, he shifted direction, committed to serving from truth, owning his value to others, and with no online presence he experienced a major breakthrough in enrolling high-paying clients, which led to a $25,000 per month revenue stream. Since then, everything began to change.

In today’s episode, Byron shares some absolute gems regarding connection, authenticity, and knowing your value.

“If there’s anything that we didn’t get as children, what if we took that frustration and transformed it into a gift, and it became the bedrock of our message?”

Byron’s Breakout Ideas:

Be in command of your value
Develop a strong message that speaks to your goal market
Find a means of marketing yourself that’s in alignment with your gifts
Scale your business

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The most important thing to me is the capacity to connect.

I think an inauthentic connection with ourselves stems from trying to prove, validate, or show that we’re capable, loved, or special. A real connection with ourselves starts with being radically authentic and radically honest, and asking, “what really drives me? What actually lights my soul on fire? What actually fires me up? What am I scared of in this moment of my life?” People can connect to us much more readily when we’re more raw and vulnerable.

The other half of that is learning to connect with others. Learn to speak from an authentic place. Whether or not this person will help me out, or boost my status or my popularity, what is the truth that I need to deliver to this person? What is the message that they need to hear?

Learning how to better connect with ourselves and how to better connect with others are the biggest ways we can help each other out in our lives.”

Resources:

www.byronvanpelt.com
Read Byron’s book, Unshakable Swagger: The Man's Guide to Being Confident Any Time, Any Place...Period
Byron Van Pelt on Twitter: @coachbyronvp
Byron Van Pelt on Facebook
Byron Van Pelt on LinkedIn
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Ep. 086: A Snapshot Of Freedom | with Vincent Pugliese

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

I can’t wait for you to hear today’s guest’s stories and his wisdom.

Vincent Pugliese is, first and foremost, a husband to his beautiful wife Elizabeth and the proud dad of their three boys, Andrew, Nolan and Dylan.

Vincent has been a professional photographer for more than twenty three years and an international award winning sports and documentary photographer. He’s photographed just about every subject imaginable, including three U.S. Presidents, the Dalai Lama, Muhammad Ali’s seventieth birthday party, Superbowls, the World Series, NHL finals, the Kentucky Derby, and even Wrestlemania.

Vincent and his wife Elizabeth own and run Elizabeth Vincent Photography, which specializes in documentary wedding and corporate photography. When he's not with his family or shooting, Vincent also coaches freelancers on how live a life of financial, time and life freedom, specifically through the world of self-employment. Vincent teaches those looking for time and money freedom through mastermind groups, The Freelance Tribe membership community, and through one-on-one coaching.

“You can consistently reinvent yourself. It doesn’t matter if you’re 22 or 62. I truly believe that.”

Vincent’s tips to optimize your business:

The Golden Day Rule - ask for the rates you truly deserve; don’t settle. Choose one day a year to raise your rates up to your ideal amount. See what happens.

Know your F.R.U.I.T. (Food, Residence, Utilities, House, Transportation). Write out the total amount needed to pay for each of those things in your life. Most people underestimate that amount.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When I’m struggling with overwhelm, I tell myself: ‘just be better than yesterday.’ I don’t need to worry about the next three weeks, I don’t need to worry about what’s going to happen next year. If I just do one thing better than yesterday, if I keep on improving my mistakes, things are gonna keep getting better.”

Resources:

www.totallifefreedom.com
Read Vincent’s Book, From Freelance To Freedom
Vincent Pugliese on Twitter: @intotheuncommon
Vincent Pugliese on LinkedIn
Get your Personal Helping at thedailyhelping.com/personal-helping

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Ep. 85: Steering The Mind In The Right Direction | with Kam Knight

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

We have a brilliant guest today, and I think you’re going to love everything he has to share.

Kam Knight is the founder of Mindlily.com and author of several bestselling books on learning, memory, and productivity. Over the past fifteen years, he has dedicated his life to uncovering the secrets of the mind and how to optimize its performance.

When Kam is not writing, teaching, or speaking, he is globetrotting, having traveled to nearly 100 countries around the world. His adventures include diving with hammerhead sharks in the Galapagos, swimming with a whale shark in Honduras, biking the Death Road in Bolivia, hiking the tallest mountain range in Africa, sleeping in the world's oldest rainforest in Malaysia, and climbing over a dozen active volcanoes.

His books and teachings have helped over 100,000 people learn to do more, in less time, and with more fun.

“I was able to use self-talk and affirmations to steer my mind in the right direction.”

Kam’s tips to improve memory, productivity, and brain function:

Do a daily review.

At the end of the day, spend five minutes thinking chronologically, in great detail, about everything that occurred that day. The more we do this, the more the brain learns that it will need to work harder throughout the day to recall information later that evening.

Utilize visualization.
Dogs’ primary sense is smell. For bats, it’s sound. Humans remember pictures, faces, and places far better than any other information. Visualize the information that you want to remember.
Use all three of learning styles - not just your dominant style

Explore memorization utilizing auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles.

Remember: multitasking is a myth.

Remove distractions; the body’s need to remain in motion will lead to an increase in productivity.

Practice affirming self-talk

Kam’s go-to phrases: “I’m a do-it-now person, I do things now, I get things done right away,” and “I accomplish everything quickly, easily, and effortlessly.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Western societies have become societies of consumption. I don’t mean products; what I mean is content. There’s just so much content readily available to us - shows, podcasts, YouTube channels, self-publishing. It’s easy to get into the habit of consuming content and not actually taking action on it.

It’s all about doing. It’s not about necessarily gaining the knowledge, because knowledge helps us learn, but doing is what’s going to help us grow.

Resources:

www.MindLily.com
Read Kam Knight’s Books
MindLily on Twitter: @mindlily
MindLily on Facebook
MindLily on LinkedIn
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Ep. 084: Creating Confidence As A Boss In Heels | with Heather Monahan

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

We have an extraordinary guest to share with you today. Heather Monahan is a bestselling author, keynote speaker with the Harry Walker Agency, entrepreneur, and founder of Boss In Heels. After successfully climbed the corporate ladder for many years, Heather Monahan is one of the few women to break through the glass ceiling and claim her spot in the C-suite.

As a Chief Revenue Officer in Media, Heather Monahan is a Glass Ceiling Award winner, was named one of the most Influential Women in Radio in 2017, and in 2018 was named a Limit Breaking Female Founder by Thrive Global. Heather’s new book Confidence Creator shot to #1 on Amazon’s Business Biographies and Business Motivation lists the first week it debuted. Heather is a confidence expert and is currently working with Fortune 500 companies and professional sports teams to develop confidence in the workplace and on the court. She’s also a member of Florida International University’s Advisory Council to further serve as a mentor and leader in the South Florida Community. Heather and her son Dylan reside in Miami, Florida.

“When you don’t have negative people trying to pull you down, you accelerate in your life so much more rapidly than you ever thought was possible. ”

Heather’s tips for building confidence:

Cultivate a gratitude journal
Fire the villains in your life
Create a new dialogue within your mind

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Confidence is created, it is not given. In every moment, you are either building your confidence or you are chipping away at it; the choice is yours.”

Resources:

www.heathermonahan.com
Read Heather’s book, Confidence Creator
Heather Monahan on Facebook
Heather Monahan on Instagram: @heathermonahan
Heather Monahan on LinkedIn
Heather Monahan on Twitter: @_heathermonahan
Heather Monahan on YouTube
Get your Personal Helping at thedailyhelping.com/personal-helping

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Ep. 83: Thinking Bigger | with Karen Walker

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000

We have an extraordinary guest to share with you today.

Karen Walker is a consultant, author, and advisor to CEOs and senior leaders. She helps her clients grow their companies, with successful outcomes which include IPOs, acquisitions, market share increases, and significant leadership development.

Her clients include Inc. 500 start-ups and Fortune 500 firms. Her work helps senior leaders create internal strategies to support their organization’s external growth. She is also the author of the recent book, No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide For CEOs On Organizational Growth.

Prior to launching her consultancy, Karen was employee #104 at Compaq Computer, then the fastest growing company in America. In her fourteen years as VP of operating services, she helped spur the creation of more than $15 billion in value. She resides in Jupiter, Florida, although she can most often be found aloft in seat 2C.

“We don’t know how to get from bad team to good team, but we know the difference when we’re in one.”

Karen’s tips to avoid “dumbing down” within your company:

1) Alignment:

Create and sustain internal alignment within your company

2) Accountability:

Hold yourself accountable, your team accountable, and guide your team to hold themselves accountable.

3) Blind Spots:

Identify and resolve your blind spots.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Find a way to connect to something. Find it as early as you can in your career. Connect to something outside yourself - something bigger than your small self. That will lead you to what I think is most important: thinking bigger: thinking bigger about the impact you can have, and thinking bigger about what’s possible for you and your organization. In order to do that, you have to really work on getting rid of your blind spots, understanding your strengths, and really connecting with what’s outside yourself.”

Resources:

www.karenwalker.us
Read Karen Walker’s Book, book, No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide For CEOs On Organizational Growth
Listen to Karen’s podcast, No Dumbing Down
Karen Walker on Instagram: @karenwalkerus
Karen Walker on LinkedIn
Karen Walker on Twitter: @karenwalkerus

Silicon Cowboys on Netflix

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Ep. 082: Live More | with Nikki Moore

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Now that it’s officially the holidays, I want to share a special story with you.

Nikki Moore’s story is one of courage, but hopefully one that you find inspirational as well.

Nikki and her husband Matt were cruising along in successful, happy lives - until tragedy struck. They chose to turn their terrible situation into a beautiful message that will continue to positively affect thousands of lives well into the future.

“This is a beautiful life. Live it to the fullest.”

The Live Moore Challenge:

Do something nice for someone else,

- or -

Catch someone else doing something kind, and honor that.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Today is your biggest gift. If you were to die tomorrow, really assess: what did your life look like for you? Were you able to live in the present and be connected to those you love? Were you able to engage in acts of kindness? Were you able to receive those acts of kindness from other people? In what ways were you able to live more?”

Resources:

www.LiveMooreCo.com
Live Moore on Twitter: @LiveMooreCo
Live Moore on Facebook
Live Moore on Instagram: @LiveMooreCo
Live Moore on Pinterest
Get your Personal Helping at thedailyhelping.com/personal-helping

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Ep. 081: Passionately Generous | with Carey Smolensky

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000

I am delighted to welcome Carey Smolensky back to the show. Carey is a dynamic businessman, event producer, entertainer, entrepreneur, and the author of Living Life with Passion and Helping Others.

Carey began his family of companies four decades ago, while in high school, and is constantly challenging himself to make a difference in the lives of others. He believes that change is the key to innovation, and is constantly evolving both personally and professionally to continue to live his life with passion.

His next endeavor is the second annual Passion Summit, which will take place May 6-7, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. This event will be the next logical step in Carey’s journey to share the ability to live life passionately while helping others.

Carey has a goal of creating a community where people can support each other while thriving personally and helping others achieve their dreams.

“So many of us are stuck in our phones and tablets, and living a virtual life, communicating with friends that we may never see. I think that if you are fully aware of your surroundings, then there will be more opportunities for you to make a difference in other people’s lives. ”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I really think that to be the best version of yourself is extremely important, and to be aware, and to be present. Those types of things can make a difference. We’re living in a world where you never know what can happen next. Your own awareness of yourself and your surroundings will not only help you but those around you. Be present, and enjoy every moment.”

Resources:

www.CareySmolensky.com
The Passion Summit: May 6-7, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

(Use special code “dailyhelping” for a $450 discount off admission price!)

A Warmer Winter: www.awarmerwinter.com
Reach out to Carey directly: carey@cspworldwide.com
Angel Wings International in Jacmel, Haiti
Front Row Foundation
Carey Smolensky on Facebook
Carey Smolensky on Twitter: @CareySmolensky
Carey Smolensky on YouTube
Carey Smolensky on Instagram: @careysmolensky
Read Carey’s book: Living Life With Passion And Helping Others
Listen to Carey’s previous appearance here on The Daily Helping: Episode 14, Live Life With Passion & Help Others
Get your Personal Helping at thedailyhelping.com/personal-helping

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Ep. 080: Finding Your Entrepreneurial Freedom | with Kate Erickson

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Kate Erickson is the implenter over at Entrepreneurs On Fire, an award-winning podcast where John Lee Dumas interviews inspiring entrepreneurs every Monday and drops value-bombs every Thursday.

She’s also the host of the Podcast Kate’s Take, and the coauthor of The Podcast Journal: Idea to Launch In 50 Days.

Kate is passionate about helping entrepreneurs create freedom in their business and life through developing systems and processes that can help businesses scale and grow.

This is a very special episode, and I can’t wait for you to join us.

“I know that other entrepreneurs don’t want to be stuck in the weeds like I am, so i find that writing this stuff out and sharing it is super helpful for them.”

Kate’s top tips for new entrepreneurs:

1) Take inventory.
Understand what it is you’re spending your time on - in clear, specific terms. Decide which elements of your business could benefit from a system or process.
2) Focus on one thing.
Write out the steps that you take every time you do that things. This will yield a usable checklist in the future - and open your eyes to ways you can simplify your work.
3) Automate, delegate, or batch.
Utilize software, delegate steps to other team members, or complete a big chunk of work in one batch (as opposed to over a period of many days).

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Trust your gut. There are so many doubts and so many questions and so many fears that all of us have - as human beings, as individuals trying to start, run, grow a business. For me, whenever I’m at one of those points, I take a step back and remember: one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received is to trust your gut.”

Resources:

www.eofire.com: Entrepeneurs On Fire Podcast with Kate Erickson and her husband John Lee Dumas
Kate’s personal podcast, Kate’s Take
Read Kate Erickson’s book, The Fire Path

The Podcast Journal: Idea to Launch In 50 Days

www.themasteryjournal.com
Kate Erickson on Twitter: @katelerickson
Kate Erickson on LinkedIn
Kate Erickson on Instagram: @katelerickson
Get your Personal Helping at thedailyhelping.com/personal-helping

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Ep. 79: Adversity: The Path To A Super Rad Life | with Dr. James Kelley

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000

We have a phenomenal guest today. Dr. James Kelley is the author of The Crucible’s Gift: Five Lessons From Authentic Leaders Who Thrive In Adversity. The book is based on his interviews from over 140 executives, ranging from Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurs to everything in between. The Crucible’s Gift unpacks the journey a leader takes to become a more authentic leader, starting with their crucible moments.

In addition to writing, James speaks and conducts seminars on authentic leadership, and teaches at the United Arab Emirates University. He completed his Ph. D. in international marketing at the University of Western Australia, and ascended to higher education to work in Philadelphia.

James has led an incredible life all over the world, and I can’t wait for you to hear his story.

“It was in their moments of adversity where they learned the most about themselves, how they dealt with other people, what they needed, and what they could give to other people. Without that adversity, they weren’t able to see the light of those possibilities.”

Dr. James’ tips on cultivating Self Awareness:

Cultivate mindfulness.

Even 1 minute per day of quiet breathing per day
Body scan in the morning

Ask for feedback: “what do you love, and what would you love to see?”

You won’t know your own blind spots until something big (negative or positive) occurs

Investigate your own adversity moments
Adversity forces you to create awareness.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t let fear conquer you; conquer fear. Often, we let our emotional fear make the decisions for us. I think it’s really important that we acknowledge the fear, embrace the fear, but also make the harder choice that’ll make us a better human being.”

Resources:

www.DrJamesKelley.com
Check out Dr. James Kelley’s podcast Executives After Hours on iTunes
Read Dr. James Kelley’s book, The Crucible’s Gift
Dr. James Kelley on Twitter: @kelleyjamesb
Dr. James Kelley on LinkedIn
Dr. James Kelley on Instagram: @drjamesk
Dr. James Kelley on Soundcloud
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Ep. 78: Victim vs. Victor | with Nick Santonastasso

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Nick Santonastasso is a medical miracle and a truly wonderful human. He is one of four people alive with the rare genetic condition, Hanhart Syndrome, and has overcome incredible odds to not only survive but thrive. Nick has gone on to become an inspirational keynote speaker, an internationally known bodybuilder, and a fitness model – despite missing both his legs and one arm since birth.

In today’s episode of the Daily Helping, this high-energy youth shares his amazing story, showing people that anyone can thrive if they have the determination and willpower to go after what they want.

He has made cameos on TV shows like “The Walking Dead” and has become a social media sensation, gaining more than 1 million followers on “Vine” in less than a year.

Now, Nick is sharing his experience with people all over the world as a keynote speaker at schools, universities, nonprofits as well as Fortune 500 companies. He is using his challenges to inspire others to push beyond their suffering and live a life that has NO LIMITS. Nick has already helped to inspire such giants as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Tony Robbins, and Gary Vaynerchuk.

Nick’s book, Victim to Victor: How to Overcome the Victim Mentality To Live The Life You Love includes twelve personal stories from Nick’s journey, each followed with actionable strategies to consider and apply to your life.

“Your authentic self is the sexiest, most beautiful thing you can be.”

Nick’s thoughts on the power of reframing:

In your life, are you going to be the victim in each situation, or will you be the victor?
It’s up to you to decide how each event affects you and how you react.
Consider that things are happening for you, not to you.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

People need to do more things that they love. They need to do more things that make them feel good, and they need to realize: success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure. You can have all the money in the world, but if you aren’t doing something that fulfills you and makes you feel good, there will always be an emptiness there.

Life is all about perspective, and the more perspective you can gain, the more easy and simple your life is. The things that we complain about on a day to day basis - in the grand scheme of life, they aren’t problems or challenges.

Resources:

www.BookNickSanto.com
Read Nick’s book, Victim to Victor: How to Overcome the Victim Mentality To Live The Life You Love
Nick Santonastasso on Twitter: @nicksanto534
Nick Santonastasso on YouTube
Nick Santonastasso on Instagram: @nicksantonastasso
Nick Santonastasso on Facebook

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Ep. 77: Stepping Into Your Full Potential | with Rock Thomas

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Rock Thomas is a rising global phenomenon, impacting millions of lives. He has inspired 72 million people to take action. He’s a successful serial entrepreneur, a Tony Robbins mastery-level trainer, and he created the global, “#iam” movement.

He is the make-it-happen expert, and he’s here to talk to you about transforming your life.

“Once I started feeling more capable of receiving love, felt better about myself, and stopped that inner narrative of beating myself up so much, I realized, ‘jeez, maybe I’d better help some other people do this too.’”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Most people are struggling because they don’t know what they don’t know. If you’re not getting the fulfilling experience you want from your life, if you’re not happy, not feeling like you’re making a difference, not feeling purposeful or just not feeling like you’re having a meaningful life, then you need to be curious and find something else out. Just keep on grabbing other books, going to different events, talking to new people. I see far too many people settle. Just because they’re a fish, they think that water is the only way to live. Well, there are also animals who live in the desert, birds who fly in the air. A fish doesn’t go, “oh man, that bird’s life sucks.” He doesn’t even know the bird is flying around. So I’m willing to bet that if you’re not where you want to be, there’s something you don’t know. Keep on searching. There’s an answer and a purpose and a meaningful life out there for you.”

Resources:

www.RockThomas.com
Join the M1 Community: www.gom1.com
Read Rock’s book, The Power Of Your Identity
Read Rock’s latest book, Your Epic Life Blueprint
Resource on Facebook
Resource on Twitter: @rockthomas
Resource on YouTube
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Ep. 76: Horses Healing Veterans | with Amanda Held

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Welcome to our second annual Veterans Day special, where we feature a really amazing Veteran with an incredible story - and a nonprofit as well, where we can help veterans who may be in crisis.

Amanda E. Held is an equine specialist facilitator, lifelong equestrian, and veteran with seventeen combined years of service in the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard.

She is passionate about helping people shift their perception to live a life of radical appreciation. Amanda’s seeks to travel and teach her process to heal those who are suffering from PTSD (post traumatic stress syndrome). Her work benefits clients on both personal and professional levels, and allows them to create a life of passion, purpose, and inspiration for themselves.

Amanda is the founder of H.O.O.V.E.S. (Healing of Our Veterans through Equine Assisted Services). H.O.O.V.E.S. believes that Experiential Training makes a difference for veterans, and that Equine Assisted Learning can greatly impact our service men and women. Through transformational workshops, our team works tirelessly to provide this much needed support to our service men and women.

“Our small, nonverbal body language is attached to our subconscious. Horses have the ability to read those traits and display them back to you. So you’re going to get a clear read on what you put out to the world, with an opportunity to make real-time shifts and change that.”

The three pillars of H.O.O.V.E.S (Healing of Our Veterans through Equine Assisted Services):

The Initial Three-Day Retreat: Veterans have a chance to leave their current environment to spend three days among fellow veterans and rescued horses to work through trauma and create a personal mission statement to take with them out into the world.
Community: Every month, veterans complete a service project
Ongoing Support: Veterans return monthly to continue the process.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you feel like you’re the only one going through this, you’re not. I promise you’re not. The first step to healing is accepting where you’re at, and understanding that you’re not alone and you can not get through it alone. Nobody can get through this alone. I encourage everyone to get a mentor, get a coach, get a therapist, whatever you need; there’s always going to be someone just a little further along than you who can help you get there.”

Resources:

H.O.O.V.E.S. (Healing of Our Veterans through Equine Services)
H.O.O.V.E.S. on Facebook
H.O.O.V.E.S. on Twitter: @hoovesforvets
Amanda Held on LinkedIn
Dr. John DeMartini, Behavioral Specialist

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Ep. 75: A Life Lit From Within | with John O’Leary

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0000

I’m really grateful for all of the guests that come on our show, but the individual that you’re about to hear today is somebody that I have been really excited about, and trying to get on this show for over two years. I’m so honored to have him with us today.

John O’Leary is a #1 national bestselling author and speaker. He inspires over 75,000 people at over 100 events each year. He speaks to companies and organizations across industries such as sales, healthcare, business safety, marketing, financial services, faith, education, and insurance.

One of the things that John has also done is created his first book, On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life. This was an instant #1 bestseller. Over 120,000 copies have been sold, and it’s been translated into twelve languages. His Live Inspired podcast ranks in the top 20 on iTunes, and his online community is over 200,000 strong.

You’ll notice that I didn’t mention anything about John’s background within this introduction; that’s because his story is so powerful that I can’t wait for you to hear it yourself from him.

“Discover what your life is ultimately about, and what really matters, and then you encourage and guide and shepherd as many other people as possible to climb, to rise, and to cross that bridge with you.”

John’s major tip to radically improve your life: shift from being a victim to being a victor.

Ask yourself this question every morning: “why me?” Instead of asking it as a victim to the circumstance, ask it as a victor over it, and it will influence the way you view your life . It will transform what you think, how you feel, the actions you take, and the results you get.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

You are worthy. Your life, your profession, your retirement - you are worthy. Start there. Act like it. You have a future that is even bigger and better than you can fathom right now. Open your eyes, your mind, and your heart a little bit more to that possibility. Have a little bit of faith. Children have it naturally, and we start to lose it. Grab onto that possibility that is robustly and vibrantly still present within you and in front of you. Be intentional. Ask questions like, “why me,” in the morning, before you start your day. Ask a question like, “what more can I do,” at the end of each day to make tomorrow even better than today. Lastly: have a mission that guides you forward toward something bigger than yourself. With a compelling enough “why,” not only can you move through fire, but you can climb mountains, you can overcome the insurmountable, and you can free countless individuals to do likewise in their own lives.

Resources:

www.JohnOLearyInspires.com
Listen to John’s Top 20 podcast, Live Inspired
Read John’s bestselling book, On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life
John O'Leary on Facebook
John O'Leary on LinkedIn
John O'Leary on Twitter: @JOLearyInspires
John O'Leary on Instagram: @johnoleary.inspires
John O'Leary on Pinterest
John O'Leary on YouTube

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Ep. 74: The Warrior Mom Who Lived A Miracle | with JJ Virgin

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Celebrity nutrition and fitness expert JJ Virgin teaches clients how to lose weight and master their mindset so they can lead bigger, better lives.

Ms. Virgin is a four-time NY Times bestselling author whose work usually focuses on nutrition and fitness but recently took a turn for the personal: her newest release, Warrior Mom, chronicles the strength, positivity, and growth that JJ experienced after her son Grant was the victim of a brutal hit-and-run accident.

JJ hosts the popular JJ Virgin Lifestyle Show podcast and regularly writes for Huffington Post, Rodale Wellness, Mind Body Green, and other major blogs and magazines.

In addition to her work with nutrition and fitness, JJ is also a business coach and founded the premier health entrepreneur event and community, The Mindshare Summit.

JJ’s published works include: Miracle Mindset, The Virgin Diet, The Sugar Impact Diet, The Virgin Diet Cookbook, The Sugar Impact Diet Cookbook, One Pot Meals, JJ Virgin’s Easy, Low-Sugar, Allergy-Free Smoothies, Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy, and Warrior Mom: 7 Secrets to Bold, Brave Resilience. She also co-authored the immensely popular The Bulletproof Diet: Lose up to a Pound a Day, Reclaim Energy and Focus, Upgrade Your Life with Dave Asprey.

“I realized: the only way I’m gonna be able to pull this off, and handle this level of stress, is to put my health and self-care before everything else.”

But how can we make the time to follow through on those important health changes?

“If you don’t have the time, find it.”
Look at it like a series of habit shifts (don’t try to change too many things at once).
Hire a coach. Commit with your time and your wallet.
Surround yourself with a supportive community of people who are positive, focused, and healthy.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

So often, we’ll look at challenging situations and wish they weren’t happening, or wish they were easier, not realizing that it is that journey and how you show up that is going to define who you are and make you an even better version of yourself. Don’t wish it was easier; make yourself stronger. You are stronger than you think.

Resources:

www.JJVirgin.com
Listen to JJ’s podcast
Read all of New York Times Bestselling Author JJ Virgin’s books HERE
JJ Virgin on Facebook
JJ Virgin on Twitter: @jjvirgin
JJ Virgin on Instagram: @jj.virgin
JJ Virgin on Pinterest
JJ Virgin on YouTube

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 073: Maximize Your Wealth | with Rocky Lalvani

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today we’re talking with Rocky Lalvani. He is a wealth coach, he has his MBA, and is an enrolled agent at the IRS. He helps people who have financial success utilize their money to live a life of abundance, but not in the typical ways that you would expect from your run of the mill financial planner.

He is the millionaire-next-door. He started out with basically nothing when his parents came to the United States, when he was two years old and his dad was forty-two. It was his parents’ second big move in their lives; they were starting over to create that American Dream.

Rocky talks to people all over the world about helping them achieve their success faster than they could have otherwise. His viewpoint on financial success is so interesting. I can’t wait to share him with you.

“You have to be intentional throughout your whole life, saying “what do I want,” “how do I finance this,” and “how does my money support the life I want to live?””

In today’s episode, Rocky discusses a few important elements of true financial success:

Find your purpose. Very often, we don’t know what we’re an expert in, because it’s so natural to us that we don’t even think twice about it. Explore this with the people around you; what do THEY see as your expertise?
Intentionally manage your TIME, MONEY, and HEALTH. Without health, nothing else matters.
Build great relationships; utilize advice from those who have gone before you.
Maintain some kind of connection to the universe, whatever that means for you.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Leap with a parachute. What I mean by that is, go try something new, but don’t go do something that’s going to cause disaster in the rest of your life. And whatever that is, just take small steps, every day, to take a leap forward. Maybe it’s a meeting with someone to learn about a new area that you’re interested in. Maybe it’s going to a conference that is in a topic that you’d like to learn more about. Maybe it’s reading a book. Maybe it’s learning a new skill. Constantly leap, try new things, but minimize the risk. Don’t go out and buy a big apartment building when you’re just breaking into real estate, mortgaging your house and your entire future. Do things in small steps, and prevent the risks so that you can constantly move forward. Overcome your fears, and as you build up your muscles in doing things, the fear goes away, and you get confidence, and confidence in one area of your life crosses over to every other area of your life.”

Resources:

www.richersoul.com
Rocky Lalvani on Twitter: @rockylalvani
Richer Soul on Facebook

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Ep. 72: The Value Of Offense | with Simone & Malcolm Collins

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

A viral marriage proposal on Reddit, multiple successful companies, and international travel - and that’s only the beginning.

Originally a neuroscientist focused on brain-computer interface and the evolution of human cognition, whose work is on display at the Smithsonian, Malcolm Collins earned an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. There he met Simone, his wife and co-author, who at the time was director of Marketing at HubPages.com, managing a team of 20,000 freelancers.

Together they co-founded the art commission marketplace ArtCorgi.com, after which Malcolm became Director of Strategy at South Korea's most desired source of early-stage capital, Simone earned her graduate degree from Cambridge while working in venture capital. The couple now runs a number of travel companies (with a focus on Travelmax), splitting their time between North American headquarters in Miami, FL and South American offices in Lima, Peru.

In their new book, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life, Malcolm and Simone Collins encourage the use of applied pragmatic thought--a framework for systematically constructing your own beliefs about the world, leveraging those beliefs to decide who you want to be as a person, and creating the person you want to be.

“Be open-minded. Actively look for signs that you may be wrong.”

Simone’s and Malcolm’s Steps For Self Improvement:

1) Form a game-plan. Choose the thing you want to maximize in your life. Decide what matters to you.
2) Develop our internal character. What sort of internal character would best execute this game plan, to maximize the thing you think matters most?
3) Develop your public figure. Remain open to the discomfort of feeling offended. Grow yourself out of this stage, and this costume, and away from the cast of characters that remind you of who you are now, so that you have the freedom to redesign yourself.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

David:

The emotion of offense is a red flag that you need to pay attention to that and you need to delve into that with a genuinely open mind; they may be correct in this thing that is offending you, or there may be elements of their worldview that can positively augment your own. I think it’s a really important message in our world today, where on college campuses it has become very common to say “this could be offensive to someone, so you’re not allowed to say it. You’re not allowed to share this information.” In reality, if something is offensive that means it needs to be shared a thousand times more than any other piece of information because it means that it’s challenging the way somebody sees the world.

Simone:

To add to that, if you are proven wrong about something, and you change your mind, it’s not a bad thing. You’re not a flip-flopper, you’re not weak-willed. You’re now a better person because you have better information. You’re stronger. And you’re flexible enough to improve, whereas other people just are broken and they can’t. So - get offended, get excited about being offended, and if it turns out you’ve been wrong for years, well that’s fantastic, because now you have better information and you won’t make the same mistakes!

Resources:

www.CollinsFamilyVentures.com
Simone Collins on Twitter: @SimoneHCollins
Malcolm Collins on Twitter: @CollinsMalcolm
TravelMax on Twitter: @TravelMax
ArtCorgi on Twitter: @ArtCorgi
Click here to order The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life by Malcolm and Simone Collins

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Ep. 71: How To Be Awesome At Your Job | with Pete Mockaitis

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Pete Mockaitis is an award-winning trainer and coach who helps professionals perform optimally at work. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, and Ink. He’s delivered one-on-one coaching to over 700 leaders hailing from organizations all over the world - fifty countries, to be exact. Some of these organizations include Google, FedEx, Amazon, Apple, Anheuser-Busch, and The United Nations.

Pete began his career at Bain & Company, and currently hosts the How To Be Awesome At Your Job podcast. His show has been downloaded over three million times, and consistently ranks as a top business show on iTunes. Pete lives with his wife and baby boy in Chicago, Illinois - but today, we’re lucky enough to have him with us.

“When you’re not awesome at your job, people suffer, whether they’re your patients, clients, customers, or coworkers.”

Here are some tips from Pete to improve your career performance right now:

Communication Skills:
- Get some video of you communicating (either in a formal presentation, or just participating in a meeting). You’ll probably be shocked at some of the things that you see.

- Make sure you’re involving some vocal variety in your speaking voice (pitch, pace, and volume).

Decision-Making Skills:
- Check out your Amazon order history. Each item represents a decision that you’ve made. Reflect on them. Which do you still feel good about? Which were a mistake?
Presence/Self Care:
- Get enough sleep! It’s truly a game-changer.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Have a conversation with your boss or manager, and think through some of these big, juicy, meaty, engaging questions like: ‘what’s the biggest headache that you’re dealing with right now, and what can I do to help you out with that? What’s the one thing that you think is so critical that we really do an amazing job with this year? What does quality work mean to you? What are the top things that make you think something is great or disappointing? What are some things I do that upset or annoy you?’ Zero in on your top priorities, and how you’re relating and engaging with your manager; I think it can just open things wide in terms of the opportunities and possibilities that can flow from that. And suddenly, lo and behold, you’re that person’s favorite employee, and new opportunities and fun can emerge from that.”

Resources:

www.AwesomeAtYourJob.com
Pete Mockaitis on Twitter: @PeteAwe
Pete Mockaitis on Facebook
Pete Mockaitis on LinkedIn

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 70: Good Enough Now | with Jessica Pettitt

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Jessica Pettitt is a diversity trainer and motivational speaker committed to leading listeners down the path to understanding they are good enough to make the changes they seek.

She believes that if we notice our own behavior patterns, then we can keep the ones that we like, and focus on the ones that we want to change. Jessica guides audiences through this process through a lens of compassion, inclusivity, and kindness.

“What if what you currently have now is actually enough? Might not be perfect, but what if it’s enough?”

Jessica suggests that each of us possesses qualities related to the following three major archetypal figures: Ghandi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King Jr. At any given time, we may exhibit traits from one of the three more heavily.

Ghandi -
- action oriented (not exercise, but simply the doing of things)
- can be very egocentric and difficult to work with
- doesn’t play well with others, doesn’t like to collaborate
- his biggest initial stumbling block: at first, his work wasn’t connected to anything larger
Mother Teresa -
- head (detail oriented) / heart (connected to a larger idea) oriented
- constantly questioning the will of God
- slower to make decisions
- her breakthrough came when she realized that she had (and began utilizing) the resources to build a school
Martin Luther King Jr. -
- heart (connected to a larger idea) oriented; literally had a dream, not a plan
- dependent upon a network of supportive figures carrying out the logistics
- his biggest initial stumbling block: he needed to find a way to connect with a tangible system, rather than ethereal ideas, to get his revolution going.

I truly can’t wait for you to experience my conversation with Jessica.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Do the best you can with what you already have, some of the time, and it’ll make all the difference in the world. “

Freebies from Jessica’s website:

Resources:

www.goodenoughnow.com
Freebies from Jessica’s website: www.goodenoughnow.com/freebies
Click here to purchase Jessica’s book, Good Enough Now
Jessica Pettitt on Facebook
Jessica Pettitt on Twitter: @jesspettitt
Jessica Pettitt on YouTube
Jessica Pettitt on LinkedIn

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 69: You Are Enough | with Megan Fenyoe

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today’s guest is on a mission to inspire healthy living around the world while embracing the strength it took to get her to where she is today.

Megan Fenyoe, is a Veteran, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Transformational Mindset Coach, Professional Speaker and Author. She is also the CEO of Mission Strength.

A few years ago, Megan experienced enormously taxing personal trauma, forcing her to develop and utilize skills in the moment to navigate the tough moments with grace and strength. In today’s episode, she passes them on to you.

“You are enough, just as you are, in whatever season you’re in, and the more you celebrate and focus on that, the more you will live in your strength.”

Megan’s Steps to Believing You’re Enough:

Step 1: discovering yourself. Dive deep into discovering who you are and what you want.

Step 2: visualizing your passion and purpose. Visualize the details and specifics of the life you want.
Step 3: grounding yourself. Learn coping skills in order to ground yourself from the negative thoughts, feelings, and limiting self-beliefs that are keeping you stuck.

Step 4: developing your strength plan. Create a routine, utilizing time management, self-care, and goal planning. Write it down.
Step 5: strengthening your healthy habits. Sometimes you’ll get complacent; remind yourself of all of the beneficial tools you’ve gained in steps one through four. Remain focused.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are enough, just as you are, in whatever season you’re in, and the more you celebrate and focus on that, the more you will live in your strength.”

Resources:

Mission Strength
Mission Strength on Twitter: @missionstrongSD
Megan Fenyoe on Instagram: @megan.fenyoe
Megan Fenyoe on LinkedIn
Click HERE for Megan’s book, You Are Enough

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 68: Succeeding In Power | with Ron Carucci

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today’s guest, Ron Carucci, is a two-time TedX speaker, the bestselling author of eight books, and a popular contributor at Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Ron led a ten year longitudinal study on executive transition to find out why more than fifty percent of leaders fail within their first eighteen months of appointment. During this study, Ron uncovered four differentiating capabilities that set leaders apart, and these findings are highlighted in his groundbreaking, Amazon #1 bestselling book, Rising to Power, co authored with Eric Hansen.

Ron Carucci is also the cofounder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership.

In addition to his regular contributions at Harvard Business Review and Forbes, Ron has also been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Business Insider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and Thought Leaders. We feel incredibly lucky to have him here with us today, teaching us unbelievably valuable and inspiring ways to succeed in leadership.

“Hiding behind anything is not only not safe, it’s one of the most dangerous places to be in a community, because it means you’re alone. The most powerful place you can be is exposed, is vulnerable, is out in the open, where people can see you for all your goodness and all your flaws, because that’s where people give you the greatest amount of support, that’s where people will trust you, that’s where people will come and have your back when you need them.”

Ron’s Four Biggest Leadership Tips:

1: Context - look around you and be aware of what’s actually happening. Be curious. Understand that your environment has as much to change in you as you have to change in it. When you enter the story, the story has a history before you; study it. Be curious. Adapt accordingly.
2: Breadth - As organizations and communities get bigger, people pull apart further into their own camps. In order to have any kind of lasting impact, you have to create cohesion, you have to stitch the seams that naturally appear between people.
3: Connection - Prioritize your network, not based on who you can get something from, but who you can help succeed. Our greatest connections happen when people believe that we have their back.
4: Choice - So often in life, we’re so interested in pleasing people and making sure that other people like us, that we dole out way too many “yes”es. Entrepreneurs especially know how hard it is to say “no.” But too many yeses means that you’ve diluted the focus of a community, you’ve diluted resources, you’ve confused people, you’ve created competing priorities. Don’t be afraid to narrow the focus.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

My mentor said to me many, many years ago as I began my career: “nothing in life is irrevocable except death.” At a time in our careers and in our lives where we spend too much time wondering, second-guessing fear and failure, worrying about skinning our knees, apprehensive and second-guessing our own ambitions and desires ... I wish I had not done that. I wish I had been more courageous and less anxious about trying things.

She always says to her students, “your career is not about a linear path. Your career is not some predictable upward climb on a ladder. Your career is about going through open doors when they’re open. And if you never go through the open door, you’ll never know. And if you go through the open door and it winds up being not what you thought, find another open door. But you’ve got to stay open to the world around you, and try, and not worry so much about skinning your knees.

Life gives you do-overs. There are some very critical things for which there really is only one shot, but those are far more rare than we think they are. If we allow ourselves those do-overs, we’ll try things more courageously and more joyfully.”

Resources:

Ron Carucci on Twitter: @RonCarucci
Ron Carucci on LinkedIn
Get Ron Carucci’s entire catalogue of books HERE
Ron Carucci’s Contributor Page on Forbes
Ron’s Ted Talk 2017: How to Be More Powerful Than Powerless
Ron’s Ted Talk 2018: The Secret to Having Influence
Navelent on Twitter: @Navalent

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Ep. 66: The Joys Of Habitual Gratitude | with John Israel

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000

John Israel, AKA Mr. Thank You, is on a mission to elevate the level of gratitude on the planet, inspiring 74 million thank-you cards written all over the world.

This all started one morning back in October of 2016, when John woke up to realize that he was, in his own words, “a gratitude salesman who wasn’t very grateful.” John decided to do everything within his power to live a more authentic life, and explore his capacity to experience and express gratitude.

So John writing 5 thank-you cards a day, every day, for a year. The mission transformed his life, family, community, and businesses. His story has been featured on ABC News, Fox News, Popsugar, MarthaStewart.com, and Good Morning America.

Professionally, John is a corporate gifting consultant, where he helps companies and businesses retain clients and appreciate referral partners through high-quality gifts.

John now speaks at business and organizational conferences where he shares his story and inspires people to make gratitude a habit in their lives.

Most recently, John launched his book, The Mr. Thank You Project: A Journey To Elevate The Level Of Gratitude On The Planet, One Card At A Time.

“When do I not want to be grateful, and how can I bring gratitude to that experience?”

In today’s episode, John will expand upon the following thoughts:

Do all you can to work on your ability to be present in the moment; this makes it possible to notice the gifts right in front of you.
Gratitude can help you learn to deal with and process your emotions more quickly and effectively, so you can move into a state where you can be your best self.
If you can say thank you to someone, do it right away. Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed; tell them today.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“About a month after beginning the Mr. Thank You project, I got a call from my best friend. We had known each other for years, and his parents were practically like my parents. Unfortunately, my friend was calling to tell me that his father had passed away. Not good news, right? No one likes to hear that. What made it worse, though, was that on my desk, sitting in front of me while my friend had called me was a thank-you card that I had written to his dad but had failed to send because i had gotten “too busy.” It was such a powerful experience, and while I’m not happy that it happened, I’m grateful to have had the experience early on in the Thank You project because what I saw was an urgency to let people know what they mean to me. An urgency to tell people how much they matter. An urgency to forgive people, to ask for forgiveness, to heal relationships, because at the end of someone’s life, one of the most common things that is expressed as a regret is what wasn’t said, conversations they wish they’d had, someone they wish they had forgiven, or what they wish they had expressed.

“By making something like this project a habit, making gratitude a habit, sharing with people what you love about them, you don’t have to have that regret at the end of your life, because you’ve said everything that you need to say.

“And people ask, ‘what’s the biggest takeaway for this experience for you?’ And my answer is: ‘I said it. I’ve said what I need to say to people. I have no regrets in any of my relationships because I got to complete them. And that is immeasurably valuable.’

If you can say thank you to someone, you should do it. Not tomorrow, but today.”

Resources:

Connect with John online at www.MrThankYou.com
Read his new book, The Mr. Thank You Project
Hear more about John’s story at his blog: www.JohnIzzy.com
Twitter: @themrthankyou
Experience John’s Ted Talk

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Ep. 65 - Design Your Business to Run Itself | with Mike Michalowicz

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Mike Michalowicz, the author of Profit First, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan, and his most recent book Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself.

You’ve likely heard someone ask the question, “if you had all the money in the world, what would you do?” It’s an interesting question, but it assumes that the only way to achieve that is to have all the money in the world.

Mike likes to pose a complementary question: If you had no money in the world, what would you do?

And when the answer aligns to both of those questions – what you would do with financial freedom and what your vocation is – you’ve found something special.

So today we discuss how you can create a business that is your vocation, designing it to run by itself by optimizing task delegation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I challenge everyone listening today to schedule a four-week consecutive vacation. Not tomorrow, not next month, but maybe 1.5 to 2 years out. That’s the limit.

“Why? If you have a full physical and physical digital disconnect for four consecutive weeks, that’s the ultimate test for a business that can run itself ... So declare that four-week vacation, be courageous, and you’ll feel a mindshift happen immediately.”

You can join Operation Vacation at clockwork.life

Resources:

Become part of Operation Vacation at clockwork.life

Learn more at mikemichalowicz.com
Instagram: @mikemichalowicz
Twitter: @mikemichalowicz
Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself

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Ep. 64: The Cultural Code: How to Understand Cultural Differences in Any Situation | with Andy Molinsky

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Andy Molinsky, a Professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology and the author of Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence.

Andy’s work blends social psychology, organizational behavior, and cross-cultural communication to help people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important (but challenging) tasks in work and life.

“Cultural differences are really important – but what’s even more important is that it’s really hard to take that knowledge about cultural differences and put it into action.”

So Andy developed The Cultural Code, a concept that will help you understand cultural differences in any situation or culture.

To help you pinpoint the challenges you might run into in any given situation, you can look at it through six different lenses:

Directness
Enthusiasm
Formality
Assertiveness
Self-promotion
Personal disclosure

By looking at what’s expected in those situations, you can find the gap between what’s comfortable and what’s expected – and then, with awareness around your actions, step outside of your cultural comfort zone to make things happen, if necessary.

And as technology breaks down the physical barriers between countries, businesses are also increasingly virtual and interconnected. So how can we use this understanding to create great virtual teams?

In his book Global Dexterity, Andy explains that there are three core challenges to adapting and adjusting your behavior across cultures:

Authenticity - You may not feel yourself
Competence - You may even feel that people think you’re bad at what you’re doing
Resentment - You know the old adage, “When in Rome,” but now that you’re actually in Rome, you may be questioning why, exactly, you have to do as they do.

Logically, you need to adapt – but psychologically, it can be quite frustrating.

Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all version of adapting and adjusting your behaviors across cultures. You have to arm yourself with knowledge, in each situation.

“You need to find a place in that culture where you can be appropriate and effective, which is of course important if you want to achieve your goals, but without losing who you are in the process – and the way you do that is by customizing, tweaking, and finding your version!”

If you want somewhere easy to start, though, you can also check out Andy’s free 10 Cultural Codes From Around the World Cheat Sheet.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Take action. We can be in our heads, we can think of all the sorts of ways we might want to do something or ambitions that we might have for ourselves, but I really think there is something to taking that leap.

And I don’t think you should go blind – but I do think that strategically, thoughtfully taking action and taking that leap can really be life changing.

Resources:

Learn more at andymolinsky.com
Connect with Andy: Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter
Download Andy’s FREE 10 Cultural Codes From Around the World Cheat Sheet
Read: Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence
Read: Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process

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Ep. 63: Building Authority, Finding an Audience, Scaling a Business, & Making an Impact | with Joe Sanok

Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Joe Sanok, a TEDx speaker, the host of Practice of The Practice, and a private practice owner.

He helps healthcare professionals start, grow, and scale their practices by increasing income, influence, and impact on the world. And one way Joe accomplishes this is through Slow Down School, a conference for high-achieving therapists who want to slow down, skip stones on the beach, and work on their businesses.

In the same year that Joe launched his blog and podcast, his family experienced numerous medical emergencies that forced him to reflect on a simple question: What is the best use of my time? Is being a therapist really the best use of my time?

Joe chose to delegate the things that weren’t the best use of his time – like bringing in group practitioners to help run Mental Wellness Counseling or hiring someone to create the art for his podcast – and start focusing on the things that only he could do.

And Joe is able to help a lot more people by focusing his efforts on the practitioners themselves, as opposed to patients. Joe is really good at building up and marketing businesses online, and frankly that’s a weak point for many private practice owners (and, really, business owners in general).

By teaching others how to build their authority and find an audience online, Joe has a larger impact on the world than he ever could have by solely focusing on patient care.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When you say no to one thing, you say yes to something else... So I think setting more boundaries around what you choose to do gives you so much freedom and happiness.”

Resources:

Learn more at practiceofthepractice.com
Listen: Practice of the Practice
Watch: “Fostering Aha Moments Through Slowing Down | Joseph Sanok | TEDxTraverseCity”
Connect with Joe: Twitter | LinkedIn
Get involved with microfinance: Kiva.org

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Ep. 62: Greatness in the Moment: Selling Knives & Changing Lives | with Dan Casetta

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dan Casetta, who helps build a dynamic culture of synergy and growth in sales teams, mastermind groups, and among his own family and friends. As a respected and trusted business leader, Dan has had a profound impact on thousands of people over the past 25 years.

During Dan’s career with Cutco, he became the most successful and influential field manager in the company’s nearly 70-year history. Not only that, his programs for leading and developing teams were integral in sparking the company’s rapid growth.

Plus, Dan is the mentor of two previous guests: Jon Berghoff and Hal Elrod.

Dan is a spectacular coach and mentor in large part because he has always loved sharing great ideas with other people. Even while at Cutco, his teachings didn’t have much to do with selling knives – it was all about being a better person, setting goals, having a better attitude, thinking more productively, creating influence, and then sustaining all of that.

Creating and sustaining long term influence is the key to finding success and creating an impact in many endeavors, especially in today’s increasingly entrepreneurial and online world. But how do we do that?

One of the first things that creates influence is the ability to connect with other people, at a personal level; they have to be able to tell you have their best interest in mind.
What we saw and how we talk is a simple but incredibly important aspect of influence. Jon wrote a chapter on this topic in Jon Berghoff’s book, Cutting Edge Sales.
Your body language affects others’ impression of you, and that feeling will affect your ability to influence them. Your words and actions have to be congruent so that others feel that you truly believe what you’re saying.
The best way to lead others is through example – if you want a team to work hard, you have to show a willingness to work hard and do whatever it takes.

Dan (along with Jack Canfield) is also one of 24 authors who contributed a chapter to Success Starts Today.

As you might expect, this book covers a pretty wide variety of topics, but Dan’s chapter (titled “Selling Knives and Changing Lives”) is about creating culture in an organization – and not just in a work organization, but in a family or team as well.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Most of the emotions and most of the states of mind that we experience in our life are based on choice... It’s so important that we recognize that we have a choice over our emotions and our states of mind at all moments, throughout every single day, and catch ourselves in the moments where we’re choosing a poor response and learn to choose a better, more constructive response – something that leads to the emotions we want, something that leads to the actions we want, and ultimately, helps us create the results that we want in our life.”

Resources:

Cutting Edge Sales: Confessions of Success, Influence & Self-Fulfillment from the World's Finest Knife Dealers by Jon Berghoff
Get your Personal Helping at thedailyhelping.com/personal-helping

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Ep. 61 - A Reinvented Life: Sharing the Roadmap to Transformation | with Damion Lupo

Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Damion Lupo, whose mission is to free one million people from financial bondage through his Financial Freedom Blueprint, his books, and Transformation Nation podcast.

But before Damion found his mission, he built up a sizeable fortune in the real estate market… and lost it all. “I didn’t know who the heck I was because, for 10 years, my self-worth and net worth were the same thing.”

So when Damion’s net worth became negative $5 million, he was driven to teach; to step up and do something more important than just consuming.

When Being a billionaire used to mean having a billions dollars in the bank – “but today, the way I look at being a billionaire is a billion people impacted.”

After Damion made that dramatic shift, he wrote the book Reinvented Life to share the stories of transformation and offer others a roadmap of sorts to their truth.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Be incredibly careful – probably the most important thing is the influencers that you have around you: people like us talking, who you are hearing, and the people who are around you.

“I’m conscious about the impact of the people who are around and I always have somebody that’s really close who is giving me feedback on the truth and am making sure that the people who are around me… have the values that I want, that are important to me. Because if they have something that I don’t like, the wrong values or the wrong kind of person, I’m going to become that.”

Resources:

Learn more at damionlupo.com
Get your copy of Reinvented Life
Connect with Damion: Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn

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Ep. 60: AWAKE: Using Yoga + Mindfulness to Rehumanize | with Chelsey Korus

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Chelsey Korus, an Adidas athlete, Wanderlust TV teacher, and one of today’s foremost yoga teachers.

Chelsey grew up in Small Town, Minnesota, where she rebelled the way most young teenagers do: sneaking into the city to practice yoga. It may seem strange to many of us now, but yoga was not looked kindly upon in this small religious town back then.

Chelsey was immediately enthralled and captivated by the whole yoga scene – but at the time, she never thought she would teach it. However, the people around her didn’t take no as an answer… they saw that it was part of her and, eventually, she also heard the calling to teach.

A decade of learning and teaching around the world has led her to design AWAKE with Chelsey Korus, a total package lifestyle built on three pillars: soul, spirit, and environment.

“AWAKE has been a driving force for me my entire life – I never wanted to be the person who didn’t have the eyes to see the beauty around me!”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Keep on your radar the energy or the habits or the thoughts or the people who bring about stagnancy, who bring about this non-participating in the moment – this energy that would cause you to play small, cause you to go numb, cause you be like ‘I don’t matter and I’m not even going to try.’”

Keep that on your radar and notice when you’re just being your rehearsed self… and start seeking out those who are different from you so you can destabilize that rehearsed self so that you can get a good vision, a new vision, for the world.”

Resources:

Learn more at chelseykorus.com
Connect on Instagram: @chelseykorus
Join Chelsey’s FB Group: Now It’s Like This with Chelsey Korus

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Ep. 59: Managing in an Intergenerational Workforce & The Boomerang Principle | with Lee Caraher

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Lee Caraher, the founder and CEO of Double Forte, a national public relations and digital media agency that works with beloved consumer, technology, and wine brands.

Lee is also the author of two books: Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work and The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from Your Employees. The former is inspired by Lee’s own experience epicly failing and then succeeding at retaining millennials in her business and the latter is a pragmatic and actionable guide to creating high-performing work cultures that are ready for the future.

Lee is an expert when it comes to managing intergenerational workforces, so for this discussion it’s important to understand what exactly the five different generations in the workforce are. Lee uses the Pew Research Center’s definitions:

Silent and Greatest generations - Born 1945 or earlier; ages 73 and older
Baby Boom generation - Born 1946 to 1964; Ages 54 to 72
Generation X - Born 1965 to 1980; Ages 38 to 53
Millennial generation (sometimes called Gen-Y - Born 1981 to 1996; Ages 22 to 37
Post-Millennial generation (sometimes called Gen-Z) - Born 1997 to today; ages 16 to 20 are in the workforce

This is the first time so many generations are all working at the same time, although that’s a trend that will likely continue into the future. While each generation has its quirks, it’s impossible to generalize “All millennials are like _____” or “all Baby Boomers want is _____.”

But there is still a lot of talk about the “culture clash” being caused by this intergenerational workforce… so what’s that about?

One of the big differences is that the younger generations have an expectation for work-life integration, as opposed to work-life balance. When you talk about balance, you’re generally talking about a compartmentalized and even split of two different parts of your life… and that doesn’t really work that well, in practice.

Work-life integration is constant: from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep, you can get through both your work responsibilities and personal responsibilities and optimize them however makes sense.

It’s a concept that sort of flies in the face of a typical 9-to-5 mindset. It’s different, but not bad. In fact, it has distinct benefits for everyone in the workforce – like being able to leverage the times of day you are most productive for your most important work – but previous generations didn’t necessarily realize they could ask for it.

Lee believes a lot of the “culture clash” can be solved through effective communication, particularly setting clear expectations up front (or asking for clear expectations if they are not provided).

“Don’t assume anything. You have to absolutely set your own expectations for what the values and what the behaviors are in your own organization.” This is useful for any generation, not just Millennials.

As is The Boomerang Principle, or the belief that those organizations that allow and encourage their former employees to return to them as employees have a strategic advantage over those that don’t.

This can be a point of contention between older and younger employees. Historically, the train of thought has been you left the company so you somehow betrayed it. But paying employees doesn’t create loyalty – it’s a transactional relationship.

On top of that, continual improvements in health and technology mean that people will be able to work longer. A 45+ year career just isn’t realistic.

Today’s young adults will likely have 60-70 year careers, so it makes sense that they’ll want to try a few different roles and functions in that time.

If we can keep people we want in our organizations for one more year, Lee says, we are improving our process, improving our profit, and improving our culture – and that’s what sustainability will be in the future, as we think about longer careers and many careers for people over time.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Define your own success. If you can define what you think is successful, you can chart your life the way you want it. That includes a great career and a great, interesting personal life, so as we live to 105, we’re not regretting that time.”

Resources:

Learn more at leecaraher.com
Connect with Lee: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work
The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from Your Employees

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Ep. 58 - You Have Permission to Raise a Business & Nurture Your Family (at the Same Time!) | with Dana “Boss Mom” Malstaff

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dana Malstaff, the Founder of Boss Mom and the author of Boss Mom: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Business & Nurturing Your Family Like a Pro. She is a mother, author, speaker, business strategist, podcaster, blind spot reducer, and movement maker.

Dana published her book and started the Boss Mom brand in 2015, quickly growing into a six-figure business that includes an empowering community, transformative courses, and entertaining podcast.

Now Dana has over 10,000 students enrolled in her courses, helping women all over the world raise their businesses and babies at the same time. She believes that pursuing our passions and building our dreams – while including our children in the process – is the best way to build thriving businesses and families.

And ultimately we need to show our children that doing what we love can be financially viable

There are a few key steps in becoming a Boss Mom, and they can be applied to anyone who wants to simultaneously pursue running a business and living a life they’re passionate about:

You need decision confidence. When you aren’t confident, that’s where guilt starts to creep into your life. But if you make a conscious assessment of what your priorities are, you can make any decision with confidence.

To maintain confidence in those decisions, you also need healthy boundaries, which Dana says can be particularly difficult for women. There are many people who would rather be helpful than profitable, and that can make it challenging to successfully run a business.

But you can’t set effective boundaries and assess your priorities without first knowing your WHY. Dana breaks your why down to three categories: financial, environmental, and emotional. A lot of people talk about knowing the purpose behind your business and surrounding yourself with the right people and things to make it happen, but there aren’t a lot of people who focus on the emotional part of your why. However, it’s a critically important question: How do you want to FEEL, and what does that mean about the business and life that you’re building?

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway:

“You have permission – you have permission!”

You are the only person who can give yourself permission to do whatever it is you want and to be whoever you want, and we spend so much time asking other people for permission that we don’t live the fullness that we could be living.”

Resources:

Boss Mom: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Business & Nurturing Your Family Like a Pro
Learn more at boss-mom.com
Listen: The Boss Mom Podcast
Connect with Dana: Instagram | Facebook
Listen to me on The Boss Dad Podcast: Episode 4: How to Build a Business That Makes the World Around You a Better Place with Dr. Richard Shuster

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Ep. 57: Finding Hope in Addiction & Smashing Your Comfort Zone | with Jesse Harless

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Jesse Harless, an inspirational entrepreneur in long-term recovery who is passionate about helping people overcome bad habits, go all in on their recovery, and live their best life. Jesse is also the Founder of Entrepreneurs in Recovery, a movement to empower people in recovery through facilitation, personal development, and entrepreneurship.

You may be thinking “this episode’s not for me” because you don’t have a substance abuse problem, but the reality is that addiction affects almost everybody, in one way or another.

Things like the opioid crisis in the U.S. is sparking a bigger conversation about the problem of addiction. But it doesn’t need to be as extreme as an opioid dependency – “I think in some ways, everyone has their own addictions and so just to learn more about it can be useful for everyone.”

Jesse’s personal journey with addiction began when he was very young. As an eight-year-old boy, he was still sucking his thumb to cope with emotional pain. Shame caused him to stop, but that didn’t ease the emotional pain.

As a pre-teen at the dawn of high-speed internet, Jesse dove head first into the world wide web. It started with hours of online games, eventually shifting to an obsession with pornography. That’s when Jesse really started to see the effects of addiction, even if he didn’t quite know that’s what it was yet.

In college, Jesse fell further into addiction as he discovered marijuana and alcohol. Eventually, this grew into cocaine and heroin. Then when his connection for hard drugs was arrested, he leaned on prescription pills and heavy alcohol use.

He told himself that the pills weren’t as bad, and this went on for months… until he was arrested. In court, he saw how his actions affected his family, and that’s when he had a critical realization:

“I thought that because I was a functioning alcoholic and someone in addiction that I wasn’t affecting anyone – but the reality is I was affecting everyone.”

Ultimately, this is when Jesse started recovery. And a few years later, he started combing personal development with recovery.

One of the first personal development strategies that Jesse implemented was the daily practice of taking cold showers and starting that challenge actually inspired his first book, Smash Your Comfort Zone with Cold Showers: How to Overcome Your Habits, Defeat Your Anxiety, and Boost Your Energy Using the Power of Cold Showers.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Number one: write down your goals, make them specific, and I challenge you to put a date to when you’ll have that goal completed by. And look at it every day. Second, do something that scares you every single day. Do something every day that’s going to get yourself out of your comfort zone.”

Resources:

Check out jesseharless.com
Learn more about Entreprenuers in Recovery
If you want to learn more about appreciative inquiry, go back and check out episode 36 of the show: “Attracting & Cultivating Relationships with Mentors | with Jon Berghoff”

Ep. 56: Live, Learn, Grow, & Be Happy on Purpose | with Brannon Beliso

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Brannon Beliso, the owner of One Martial Arts and the creator of One Merit Badges and Excellent Kids, two internationally distributed children’s life skills education systems. Brannon is dedicated to helping people live their best life and reach their full potential through learning, living, and growing.

Brannon was first introduced to martial arts by his father back in 1967, when he was only five years old, and that decision has had a profound impact on his life. “I was exposed to Eastern philosophies of self-discipline and the balance of mind, body, and spirit at a very early age, and all of that has shaped and served me throughout my lifelong journey of self-discovery to be a better version of myself.”

Brannon shares this journey in his book, Live Learn Grow: Lessons of a Reluctant Tiger, and as you’ll hear in this episode, there were a lot of ups and downs: Growing up poor, child abuse, foster care, becoming a martial arts champion, living as a rockstar in the Philippines, and how he ultimately found happiness.

By reading the book and learning more about his raw and tumultuous story, Brannon hopes others will learn how to find their happiness on purpose, too.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are not what everybody tells you that you are. Every one of us is born perfect.”

“With all humility and gratitude, embrace that you are perfect the way you are, warts and all, imperfections and all. Be okay with who you are and you’ll be okay with the world!”

Resources:

Learn more at brannonbeliso.com
Connect with Brannon: Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
Read: Live Learn Grow: Lessons of a Reluctant Tiger
Watch: “Happy on Purpose | Brannon Beliso | TEDxMillsHighSchool”

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Ep. 55: Why You Must Write a Book | with Honoree Corder

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Honoree Corder, an “authorpreneur” who coaches business professionals, writers, and aspiring non-fiction authors who want to publish their books to bestseller status, create a platform, and develop multiple streams of income. But really, that doesn’t even scratch the surface of everything she does, and her badassery is legendary!

Honoree is, incredibly, the author of over 50 books, including You Must Write a Book, the Prosperous Writer series, and most recently, Write, Publish, and Market Like a Boss: The Complete Series. She is also previous guest Hal Elrod’s partner in the Miracle Morning book series.

So how does writing a book help someone develop multiple streams of income?

First, of course, book sales can generate money, if you write it in a way that it is readable, it adds value, you publish it professionally, and you market it until you die.

But after that, a book can birth multiple streams of income: speaking, consulting, coaching, group coaching, events, and anything else you can do to repurpose the content of your book.

The 5 people that should be on your book business bench:

A professional editor
Proofreader
Book cover designer
Formatter
Copywriter

Self-Publishing VS Traditional Publishing

The traditional publishing route isn’t for everyone. It’s full of gatekeepers, and frankly you’re not actually likely to make very much money – Honoree is working with a six-time New York Times bestseller who teaches writing classes to pay her bills.

But when you self-publish, you have complete control. You get to choose what to write about, when to publish it, where to distribute it, and for how much.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You have to have a belief in yourself in order to make anything happen. You can want something, you can wish for something, but if you don’t believe that you can have it or that you deserve it, then you won’t actually go for it. You can achieve anything that you believe you deserve to achieve, and you should believe that you deserve anything you want.”

Resources:

Learn more at honoreecorder.com
Connect with Honoree: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
Read: You Must Write a Book
Read: Write, Publish, and Market Like a Boss: The Complete Series
Get your Personal Helping: thedailyhelping.com/personal-helping

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Ep. 54: STRIVE: An Honest & Holistic Methodology for Success | with Scott Amyx

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Scott Amyx, a TEDx speaker, thought leader, and author on the Internet of Things and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In his book Strive, Scott shows that the secret to outstanding and lasting achievement is not passion or talent, but getting comfortable with discomfort by embracing and enjoying new challenges – what he appropriately calls “strive.”

Scott knows that how smart you are, what kind of background you have, how old you are, or where you are in life does not predict or indicate your chances of success because he was born with absolutely no advantages in life, “and everything that I have accomplished is because of the principles of Strive.”

Scott was born just South of the DMZ border between North and South Korea, both physically and emotionally close to the Korean War. Scott immigrated to the United States, ultimately becoming a ward of the state. He had no network, no support, nothing.

“I learned early on that if you want to succeed in life, no one is going to give you anything – you have to do the things that are uncomfortable to stretch yourself and to reach for it.”

So he wrote the book to share his story, inspire others, and demonstrate that there are a lot of myths and misconceptions surrounding the idea of success.

For example, we are told that if you do what you love, success will follow. However, passion does not always equate to success. We’re also told that putting in more hours will result in more success, but the reality is that most people who spend years and years playing a sport or an instrument will not be able to make that a career.

So let’s break down the STRIVE Methodology:

Set a goal. Before you can forge ahead, you have to know where you’re going.
Think about how to get there and plan for success. The gap between those who realize success and those who have big dreams is closed through execution; you have to know the steps that will get you where you want to go.
Risk. It’s not easy to do, but you have to embrace risk and reframe challenges as opportunities for growth. “It’s only when you stretch yourself that you begin to make huge gains.”
Insights. What did you learn from that uncomfortable change? It’s important for us to be intentional about self-examination.
Verify progress. How do you know that you’re going the right direction, a few months down the road? We have to have something to measure progress that is quantifiable.
Enhance yourself mentally and physically. Scott used to work until he collapsed, but he realized that the journey to success has to be holistic; it’s not good enough that you acquire new knowledge and expertise, you also have to consider your physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

To get started on your personal journey to success, Scott wants to share something helpful: the Strive VIP Sneak Preview! All you have to do is email press@scottamyx.com to get your free copy.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You were designed for a purpose. But in order for you to realize your full potential, you have to be used. So I challenge you to become the best person that you can – it’s very much within your grasp, and the methodology that I lay out is for you and for everyone.”

Resources:

Connect with Scott: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
Get your Strive VIP Sneak Preview by emailing press@scottamyx.com
Read: Strive: How Doing The Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success
Watch: “Strive: How Doing the Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success | Scott Amyx | TEDxRutgers”

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 53: Contextual Intelligence: Leveraging the Synergy of Other People to Get More Done | with Matt Kutz

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Matt Kutz, PhD, a Fulbright Scholar, award‐winning professor, award‐winning author, entrepreneur, and TEDx speaker. Matt is passionate about helping others achieve high‐level leadership and outstanding organizational performance, and his desire is to equip people to lead well in whatever context they are called.

Before we get into Matt’s work, I want to reflect on an important experience in his past.

As a child, in a moment of frustration, Matt said something disrespectful to his mother… but unbeknownst to Matt, his father was home and that moment of frustration swiftly became a moment of discipline.

Matt’s dad grabbed him in a Vulcan death grip and told him, “Don’t you ever talk to my wife like that again.”

Not “your mom” but “my wife.” That’s when Matt realized that his mom wasn’t just his mom – she was also a wife, daughter, sister, cousin, and friend.

It was the genesis of Contextual Intelligence. “If you can understand the context that people bring to the environment where you’re interacting with them, and how that influences who they are and what they are, you can actually act intelligently with them, and probably get done way more than you ever imagined you could get done.”

In practice, Contextual Intelligence is about doing more than you could ever do alone, and it is the basis of how Matt helps others reach the highest levels of organizational performance and facilitate all facets of leadership and change initiatives.

“We can do way more than we think we can do – our problem is we think we can do it on our own. If we begin to leverage the synergy of other people through Contextual Intelligence, I think we can change not only our own lives and our own situations but the whole world, our communities, and our organizations.”

Learning how to practice Contextual Intelligence is pretty easy, too!

If you pick up the book, of course titled Contextual Intelligence, Matt offers a structured framework for critical thinking and decision making that shows how to use hindsight, insight, and foresight – or 3D Thinking – to navigate through complexity.

Matt is also hosting the Contextual Intelligence Leadership Conference! Matt has been doing Contextual Intelligence workshops and seminars for a few years, but this is the first time the training is available to anyone!

What: Contextual Intelligence Leadership Conference
When: Friday, June 08, 2018
Where: Cherry Street's Life Revitalization Center, 1501 Monroe Street, Toledo, OH, 43604
How: matthewkutz.com/registration

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t compartmentalize your life. Navigating complexity successfully requires reframing our identity to include what you love. So often, we create identities for ourselves that exclude what we love… So if you want to be successful, if you want to go where you’ve never gone before and accomplish things you’ve never accomplished before, don’t compartmentalize your life – it’s too hard… What you love to do can be incorporated into your work, into your family, etc.”

Resources:

Register for the Contextual Intelligence Leadership Conference: matthewkutz.com/registration
Connect with Matt: Facebook | Twitter
Contextual Intelligence by Matt Kutz
Watch Matt: matthewkutz.com/videos

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 52: You Can Disable Your Disability | with Tony Jacobsen

Mon, 28 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Tony Jacobsen, a personal trainer and the author of Disable Your Disability: Live The Healthy Life You Deserve! Tony was born with a rare bone disorder (Osteogenesis Imperfecta) that makes his bone brittle, and after years of being held back because of it and being extremely unhealthy, he flipped the switch and learned to embrace it.

Now, at the age of 46, he is living a healthy, high-powered, and happy life – and his mission is to help others do the same.

Growing up, Tony was told to be careful. “For a while, I felt like my name was Tony Becareful because that’s all I heard, so I grew up with that in my mind.”

As Tony grew up, he still held onto “be careful,” and it prevented him from living his life. “It kept me from fully expressing myself during those years.”

By the time Tony was 42, he was in the worst shape of his life. He was in pain every day, and he had no strength. When he went to the doctor, he learned that he had had a heart attack.

“It was at that point, when that happened, that I knew something had to change … I knew I had to do something, and that’s when I flipped the switch. That’s when I realized I needed to do something that was the complete opposite of what my disability had been telling me my entire life; I knew that I couldn’t be careful anymore.”

Tony realized he had to push himself and do something that scared him, so he went all-in and hired a personal trainer. He needed help, and he wanted someone to guide him – something he now does for others.

He got stronger physically, but more importantly, he got stronger mentally and emotionally.

A lot of times, Tony says, people with disabilities have trouble asking for help – and I think this is something that we all experience, at some point or another. We feel like it is showing a sign of weakness, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

“With guidance, we achieve goals faster, we learn more, and you can get things done faster in life by doing that.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t be afraid to look for and identify where you might be broken in life, or where you might be held back. Because once you can identify it, once you can see where you might be held back, then you have something to work with and you can actually embrace these adversities, embrace the things that are holding you back. That’s where the power comes to overcome, to health, and to really replace the negative with positive.”

Resources:

Learn more at tonyjacobsen.com
Watch Tony on YouTube
Connect with Tony on Facebook
Disable Your Disability: Live The Healthy Life You Deserve!

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 51: The ONE Thing: How You Can Have More by Doing Less | with Geoff Woods

Mon, 21 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Geoff Woods, the Vice President of The ONE Thing, whose mission is to teach people how to live a life of focus so that they can have more by doing less.

But this wasn’t always Geoff’s mission. He used to be working hard in medical device sales, experiencing a lot of success and providing an amazing lifestyle for his family… but it felt like something was missing.

Then, in quick succession, Geoff’s young co-worker died and his pay was cut 40 percent. He started hemorrhaging cash, and it was a huge wake-up call.

That’s when Geoff saw a Jim Rohn quote that changed his life: "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." After hearing that, he set out on a mission to surround himself with high-level CEOs and successful entrepreneurs.

Fast forward just 10 months, Geoff went from employee to entrepreneur, launching a company with the co-authors of the bestselling book The ONE Thing, Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. It’s here that Geoff found clarity around his new mission, and fulfillment.

How can we have more by doing less?

The ONE Thing is all about “the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results,” which ultimately comes down to how you use and invest your time.

Because, every morning, there are innumerable things you COULD do – but there are really a very small number of things you SHOULD do to create results, in any area of your life.

Most people waste a tremendous amount of time, every single day, and then feel like they don’t have enough time to do what they want to do. The truth is that we all have the time to do what’s most important to us, but we’re not all investing it correctly.

To figure out what you should be doing, The ONE Thing teaches readers to use a focusing question: What’s the one thing you can do, such that by doing it, would make everything else easier or unnecessary?

Not a list of things – ONE thing.

Time Blocking

But after you have that figured out, you’re not done. You still have to do your ONE thing, every day. Meaning you have to protect time for it, every day.

That’s when time blocking comes in, or the practice of actively scheduling time on your calendar to do your most important work (while saying no to everything else).

Until your ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Think BIG in terms of your vision, think BIG in terms of your goals, think BIG in terms of your standards for yourself, and then go really small. The mistake people make is that they think big and then they try to act big; they set big goals, and then they try to do a million different things.

“Instead of casting a big vision, casting big goals, and then going really small by identifying the ONE thing that they can do, such that by doing it, will make achieving that big goal easier or unnecessary. And it’s not that they only do that one thing – it’s that they do it FIRST.

“Because if doing the most important thing is the most important thing, why would you do anything else?”

Resources:

Learn more at the1thing.com
Listen: The ONE Thing Podcast
Read: The ONE Thing by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
Download your FREE 66-Day Calendar
Text ACCOUNTABILITY to 33444 for an awesome resource that will help you stay accountable

Ep. 50: Elevating Consciousness, One Miracle Morning at a Time | with Hal Elrod

Mon, 14 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Hal Elrod, the bestselling author of The Miracle Morning and the host of Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod. I’m so happy to celebrate 50 episodes by sharing this conversation with Hal because this podcast would probably not exist without him, and I have tremendous gratitude and appreciation for everything that he does.

Hal wrote what is largely considered one of the most life-changing books ever written, became a Hall of Fame business achiever before the age of 25, and ran a 52-mile ultra marathon – but what’s truly remarkable is that, before all of that, at the age of 20, Hal actually died for six minutes.

Hal was the victim of a car accident, breaking 11 bones and suffering brain damage. After being resuscitated, he spent six days in a coma and flatlined two more times. He woke up, but he was told that he would never walk again.

The doctors believed he was in denial because he wasn’t depressed, but Hal just had a different perspective: he accepted that he might not walk again, but he wasn’t going to put any of his energy towards being upset about it.

“I cannot change that I was in a car accident. I cannot change that my bones were broken… So I can be the happiest and most grateful I’ve ever been, going through the most difficult time in my life – or possibly, I might walk again, and that’s where all my energy is going.”

If we accept the worst-case scenario might happen, it has no power over us; we can make peace with it, and then there is no fear. But accepting the worst-case scenario doesn't mean accepting that it is the only possible scenario.

Reaching Level 10 Success & The Miracle Morning

Hal had a few years of great success, transitioning from CutCo to his career as a success coach. However, after the global economic crash, Hal found himself in another precarious situation.

He lost half of his clients, and his income with them. He found himself, for the first time in his life, sinking into depression.

Then, with the assistance of Jim Rohn, Hal had an important realization: he wasn’t committing enough time or energy to personal development.

If he wanted to become a level 10 person, enabling him to reach level 10 in every area of his life, he had to dedicate time, every single day, to personal development.

He went about creating the ultimate personal development ritual, and the results felt like a miracle. After just two months, he more than doubled his income, went from the worst shape to the best shape in his life, and felt unstoppable. He had share this with people, so he wrote The Miracle Morning.

So what is The Miracle Morning ritual that has changed so many lives? It is comprised of the six Life SAVERS:

Silence (for meditation or prayer)
Affirmations
Visualization
Exercise
Reading
Scribing (or “a fancy word for writing”)

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you go back to the quote from Jim Rohn – ‘Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development’ – that quote changed my life. It changed my life faster than I ever thought possible because that’s what led to me committing to a daily personal development routine.

“Dedicate time, every day, to becoming the level 10 person that you need to be, that can easily, virtually effortlessly, create and sustain level 10 success in every single area of your life. You deserve nothing less – but it doesn’t happen automatically.”

Resources:

Learn more at HalElrod.com
Connect with Hal: Twitter | Facebook
Listen to Dr. Shuster on Hal’s podcast: “205: Facing Fear & Finding Your Mission with Dr. Richard Shuster”
Join The Miracle Morning Community on Facebook
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) by Hal Elrod
Listen: “The 4 Questions That Will Change Your Life”

Ep. 49: How to Reinvent Yourself, Stand Out, & Monetize Your Expertise | with Dorie Clark

Mon, 07 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dorie Clark, a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and author who has been described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” Dorie is the author of three books: Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out.

Dorie’s journey with reinvention began shortly after college, when she didn’t get into any of the graduate programs she applied to. “That kind of forced my first recalibration, my first reinvention.”

Ultimately, that first “forced recalibration” led Dorie to writing her first book, Reinventing You, which is all about the process of transitioning into the job or career that you want to have, although these same principles can be applied to a personal reinvention, too.

Broadly speaking, Dorie identifies three steps in a professional transition:

Getting a sense of your current brand. “A big part of reinvention is about your brand; how you are perceived by other people.” What do others think of you?
Getting clarity on your future destination. Where do you want to be and, more specifically, what is the gap between now and the future? What are the activities that you can do to make that transition?
Living your brand. Finally, on a day-to-day basis, you’re manifesting your new identity. “The truth is that reinvention isn’t a one time-thing – it’s an ongoing thing because people are constantly forming their opinions of you.”

But you’re unlikely to have a successful reinvention if you don’t learn how to tell your story, or your transition narrative – most people aren’t used to doing this, and as a result, they end up communicating their story poorly.

“I used to do this and now I do that” probably isn’t going to cut it at a job interview, or even as an aspiring entrepreneur trying to convince their family that starting a business is the right move.

This is because there is often a big gap between the past and the future, and if you don’t connect the dots for other people, if you don’t make it really explicit how the thing you did in the past connects to, and adds value to, the thing you’re aiming to do now, other people are going to view it as completely random.

You have to guide and shepard the understanding of your transition.

And after you reinvent yourself, after you make a big career transition, maybe even after you leave corporate life to become an entrepreneur, you will likely run into a new challenge: it’s hard to stand out!

Naturally, this is the main focus of Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It. The top thought leaders, in almost every industry, have capitalized on some unique perspective or knowledge, then inspired others to take action. It’s not enough to just keep your head down and do the hard work.

But how do you get the idea?

A lot of people assume that they have to come to the table with an idea fully formed, but you don’t start with an idea – “You start with an interest in a subject, or in a question, and you just start mucking around in it.”
Through that process, and only through that process, you achieve enough in-depth knowledge of the subject to identify where there is an opportunity for you to make a contribution. “Then the path becomes clear.”

Now you have an idea – how do you build a following? There are three steps:

Build your network - Your internal group of advisors, or your “mentor board of directors.” People who can help you hone, shape, and amplify your ideas.
Build your audience - This is when you start to share your ideas more publicly.
Build your community - This is the tipping point where you go from one-way communication, creating content and disseminating it to your audience, to creating a forum where they can connect and talk to each other.

All of this culminates in Dorie’s third book, Entrepreneurial You. “If Reinventing You is about how you transition to the job or career you want, if Stand Out is about how you get recognized as an expert in that field, then Entrepreneurial You is about how you make a living – hopefully a great living – in that field.”

It may seem like, if you’re recognized as an expert in a field, then you should be able to make money in that field... but that’s not necessarily true, and how you go about doing it isn’t necessarily obvious.

You have to learn about how to earn money, and for today’s entrepreneurial world, Dorie advocates embracing the concept of multiple income streams and a portfolio career. This hedges you against risk and allows you to harness new opportunities.

If you want a little guidance along the way, download Dorie’s FREE Entrepreneurial You self-assessment workbook.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If we want to be able to be nimble and flexible in the modern economy, we do need to think about having portfolio careers. The question we need to ask ourselves is how we can create at least one or two side income streams, to hedge against uncertainty and as a way to capture upsides.

“The question I’d have you think about is, ‘What are people already coming to you for?’ … That shows that people are interested in the topic and they view you as an expert, and that is something that you can build on to create a side income stream. That can really hasten your entrepreneurial journey and give you some powerful tools to be able to create a little more freedom and flexibility in your professional life.”

Resources:

Learn more at dorieclark.com
Connect with Dorie: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
Download Dorie’s FREE Entrepreneurial You self-assessment workbook
Entrepreneurial You by Dorie Clark
Reinventing You by Dorie Clark

Stand Out by Dorie Clark

Ep. 48: Designing the Blueprint of Your Life | with David Osborn

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is David Osborn, co-owner of one of the top real estate brokerages in the world and the author of the New York Times best seller Wealth Can't Wait: Avoid the 7 Wealth Traps, Implement the 7 Business Pillars, and Complete a Life Audit Today!

David is also on a mission to give away over $100 million to charity in his lifetime – Wow! Most people would probably consider that an impossible goal, but David has a powerful and purposeful mindset that allows him to overcome limiting thoughts. (If you want to work with David to change lives for the better, reach out to him at davidosborn.com/contact.)

But how did David develop this mindset?

David spent most of his formative years bouncing around Europe, followed by an adventurous youth hitchhiking around the world, visiting over 70 countries. He came back to the U.S. 26 and broke, but that experience showed him that there were other ways of being and other ways of thinking that we don’t often discuss in the U.S.

As a result, he didn’t receive a cultural imprint about what was possible or what life should look like.

“What we perceive in the world is really something we can change – and as you change your perceptions, you change your results.”

Wealth Can’t Wait

One of the big mindset shifts for David was when he fell in love with learning – and this definitely changed his results. In school, learning was prescribed. However, in business, learning had tangible, positive impacts.

Over the years, David built an empire on the wisdom he accrued. And when his father passed away, it was a wake-up call: he had to pass that wisdom on if he wanted to leave an impactful legacy.

So David started working on his book, Wealth Can’t Wait. “I felt like I had built a pretty solid foundation on how to succeed in life and how to succeed, economically, in business, and I wanted to transfer that to a book and leave it behind for my kids.”

It all starts with a BIG choice: you have to choose to be wealthy.

“You don’t get to be a victim. You don’t get to complain. If it’s truly you building a business, it doesn’t matter how many good excuses you have – the only thing that will change the outcome is action.”

After you have the right mindset, you have to establish the right habits and use the right business models to, ultimately, create momentum.

GoBundance

For people who want to take things to the next level, and for his own personal development, David created GoBundance. They’re men who get together and hold each other accountable to their visions.

GoBundance is built on six pillars:

Genuine contribution
Age-defying health
Authentic relationships
Extreme accountability
Financial freedom
Bucket list adventures

You can join the community at gobundance.com.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Be purposeful! I found my salvation. I was a rebel without a clue, a lost kid doing things I shouldn’t do, things I wish I hadn’t done in hindset – and what saved me from that was being purposeful.”

Resources:

Ep. 47: Live a Life On Purpose & Create Your Miracle Life | with Vince Kramer

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Vince Kramer, an airline pilot and military veteran who brings a unique experience to the world of self-improvement and purpose-driven growth. His past experience in a stereotypically “macho” field gives him a more integrative perspective to the “softer” field of personal growth, in a way that is not often seen.

Growing up, Vince was taught what and how a man is “supposed to be,” which was then reinforced through his military and corporate career. He did what he was supposed to, put in his time… and then United Airlines went bankrupt and he lost everything he’d been working towards.

It was 2003 and Jack was lost, trying to figure out what he was supposed to be after his definition of being a man was destroyed.

He started building things back up, but something was still missing – “Back at five years old, I really knew what my two passions in life were going to be: flying airplanes and helping people.” Vince had forgotten about helping people.

Today, Vince passionately believes that everyone is unique and the creator of their own life, and he founded Imagine Miracles with his wife to help men, women, organizations, and families find success and happiness by designing and creating a life fueled by their desires.

Vince also wrote and produced the Your Miracle Life series of online programs and workshops based on his C.R.E.A.T.E. Model & Your Unique Purpose Formula, and contributed a chapter on Creating a Miracle Life to Jack Canfield’s bestselling book, Mastering the Art of Success, in which he explores the four things that prevent people from getting what they want.

Your Unique Purpose Formula

“Your Unique Purpose is the quintessence of you; the energy that you put out, without even knowing you’re doing it; the gift that you have to share with the world.” And the formula consists of five questions designed to help find your purpose.

Where am I?
Who am I?
What do I have to offer?
Why am I here?
How do I live my purpose?

“You are the creator of your reality. No one else can create what is in front of you, and you’re the only one who knows your answers.”

The 4 Things That Prevent People From Getting What They Want

You don’t know what you want.
You don’t know how to get it.
You don’t know what’s going to get in the way.
You don’t know how to move beyond what gets in the way.

Get Your FREE Copy of Creating a Miracle Life + The Miracle Life Blueprint

Vince is offering Daily Helping listeners his chapter in Mastering the Art of Success + The Miracle Life Blueprint (which will walk you through the six steps of the C.R.E.A.T.E. model).

You can download these incredible resources at VinceKramer.net/dailyhelping.

Do you want to talk to Vince or his wife about Your Miracle Life?

Vince’s generosity doesn’t stop there! He is offering five people the opportunity to sit down with him or his wife to go through a “Your Life, Your Way Breakthrough Session,” in which you will discuss what your miracle life will look like and how you can get beyond the one big obstacle in your way.

The first five people who qualify and contact Vince through the image at VinceKramer.net/dailyhelping will receive this $500 value for free. Wow!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You created the life that you have right now, and it’s your birthright to take advantage of it and live the life that you’re supposed to live … It’s your birthright to have abundance, it’s your birthright to be healthy, it’s your birthright to enjoy life, and I just want everybody to find that.”

Resources:

Learn more at imaginemiracles.com
Connect with Vince: VinceKramer.net | Facebook | Twitter

The Daily Helping is produced by Podcast Masters

Ep. 46: You Can Be an Entrepreneur (& Make a Difference) at Any Age | with Marc Guberti

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Marc Guberti, a digital marketing expert, author, and speaker who self-published 19 books as a teenager. Marc also hosts Breakthrough Success, a podcast that teaches entrepreneurs how to achieve their breakthrough in business and life.

Marc first saw the potential of what he could do as an entrepreneur when he was only 11 years old. Marc grew up as a New Yorker and a Red Sox fan – a rare and isolating combination – so he started a Red Sox blog. He connected with other fans as a hobby and, in the process, fell in love with marketing, content creation, and brand development.

In high school, Marc’s blogging evolved into writing books – a lot of books. He tasked himself with writing 1,000 words daily, a habit he continues to this day.

One of Marc’s recent books is also his biggest: Content Marketing Secrets: How To Create, Promote, And Optimize Your Content For Growth And Revenue. “I literally just took all of the knowledge about content marketing that I had and literally flushed it out into one work.”

Today, Marc’s age serves as a benefit, but in high school, people equated it with inexperience. People tried to use it to discredit his work, and as a result, Marc had to work even harder to earn respect and prove himself.

But Marc sees young entrepreneurs as key to a better future; “If we have more teens, and even younger people, who see that they can pursue their dreams at a young age because of the opportunities that the internet and all of these amazing new inventions have given us, I believe that we’ll make the world a much better place.”

If you want even more Marc (and who could blame you?), we flip the tables and he interviews me in this episode of Unstoppable Success: E60: Become The Best Version Of Yourself With Dr. Richard Shuster.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We make the world a better and help others when we improve ourselves… Everything that you’re doing, day in and day out, impacts future actions that humanity is going to do. If you want to make the world a better place, start by improving on yourself and helping others to improve. That’s just going to make everything better and allow more powerful ideas to spread.”

Resources:

Learn more at MarcGuberti.com
Connect with Marc: Twitter | LinkedIn
Listen: Breakthrough Success

Read: Content Marketing Secrets: How To Create, Promote, And Optimize Your Content For Growth And Revenue

Ep. 45: Live Life with Passion & Help Others | with Carey Smolensky

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Carey Smolensky, a dynamic businessman, event producer, entertainer, entrepreneur, and the author of Living Life with Passion and Helping Others.

Carey began his family of companies four decades ago, while in high school, and is constantly challenging himself to make a difference in the lives of others. Carey truly lives this every day, and he’s clearly role modeling that value for his children.

In 1998, on the way home from a Chicago Bulls game, Carey and his family drove through an area of the city where people less fortunate were living. From that moment, his children stepped up to help.

What started with getting some friends together to make sandwiches and collect clothing grew into an annual event: A Warmer Winter. On the third Saturday in December, volunteers “caravan into the city of Chicago seeking out the homeless population, and distribute food, clothing, basic essentials, and, just as important, HUGS!”

A Passionate Journey

Carey wrote his book, Living Life with Passion and Helping Others, because he realized that his powerful journey is of no use to anyone else – unless it’s shared. “My book is my vehicle to share my journey, share my experiences, and inspire other people to look at life in a different lens, to make ripples that go further beyond their immediate circle.”

The Passion Summit is the evolution of the book, bringing his message about living life with passion and helping others to life in a two-day experience. Carey is drawing on his decades of experience creating events to design an experience unlike anything else he’s ever done.

In addition to motivating and inspiring the people who attend, Carey aims to create a global community of like-minded people who want to support each other and give back as a tribe. As a result, summit participants will be able to join an annual Giving Back Trip. This year, they will travel to Puerto Rico to assist in reconstruction efforts.

Care is also generous enough to offer Daily Helping listeners a $350 discount on tickets to the conference by using the code DAILYHELPING when you register.

Register for The Passion Summit:

When: May 7 - 8, 2018
Where: Hyatt Regency in Schaumburg, IL (near Chicago, IL)
How: Get $350 off your ticket using the code DAILYHELPING at https://thepassionsummit.ticketspice.com/thepassionsummit

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Whatever you want to do in life, do it now. 50% of people live their lives thinking they’re too young to do something. The other 50% think they’re too old to do something. What ends up happening is they live their lives in quiet desperation, and at the end of the day, the one thing you don’t want to have is regret… It’s not a question of not having time to do it. It’s a question of not making time to do it.”

Resources:

Learn more at careysmolensky.com
Connect with Carey: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Register for The Passion Summit: thepassionsummit.com (use code DAILYHELPING for a $350 discount)
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Ep. 44: Do the Right Thing: What One Survivor Learned from The Miracle on the Hudson | with Dave Sanderson

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dave Sanderson, the last passenger to leave US Airways Flight 1549 after it crashed into the Hudson River on January 15, 2009 – an event that became known as “The Miracle on the Hudson.”

Dave wasn’t even supposed to be on US Airways Flight 1549. He was scheduled to come back at a 5 PM flight on the 15th, but his business trip ended early so he traded a first class seat for a spot in the back of an earlier flight. “I took an earlier flight just to get home early and be with my family.”

He boarded the plane, walked to the back, and fell into his routine. Then, about 60 seconds after taking off, Dave heard a pair of explosions – birds flew into two engines of the plane, simultaneously.

A few minutes later, after barely clearing the George Washington Bridge, the pilot came over the loudspeaker and said his famous words: “This is your captain. Brace for impact.”

As the plane filled with water, Dave knew he was exactly where he was supposed to be. Dave braved the frigid waters to help other passengers, all of whom made it off the plane, and he emerged from the wreckage with a mission: to encourage others to do the right thing.

Dave has been spreading his message and encouraging others through interviews, speaking engagements, and his book, Moments Matter: How One Defining Moment Can Create a Lifetime of Purpose.

Dave is also generous enough to offer Daily Helping listeners a sneak peak at his upcoming course, “Overcoming Adversity in Challenging Times.” Just Text “BRACE4IMPACT” to 797979 to access this gift.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves me.”

Resources:

Check out DaveSandersonSpeaks.com
Connect with Dave: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
Text “BRACE4IMPACT” to 797979 to get a sneak peak at Dave’s upcoming course

Read: Moments Matter: How One Defining Moment Can Create a Lifetime of Purpose

Watch: “Bouncing Back: An Experience with Post-Traumatic Growth Syndrome | Dave Sanderson | TEDxQueensU”

Ep. 43: Dysfunctional Relationships, Love, & Writing | with Thomas G. Fiffer

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Thomas G. Fiffer, the Senior Editor of Ethics at The Good Men Project, where his articles have received more than five million views (and articles he’s edited have received more than 15 million views). He is a professional writer, speaker, and storyteller with a focus on diagnosing and healing dysfunctional relationships.

Thomas is also a frequent contributor to Weston Magazine, a professional book editor and ghostwriter, and the author of two books on relationships – Why It Can't Work: Detaching From Dysfunctional Relationships to Make Room for True Love and What Is Love? A Guide for the Perplexed to Matters of the Heart.

Thomas has an impressive writing career, pursuing his dream to create works as impactful as the literature he voraciously consumed as a child. However, there was also a time when Thomas put his dreams on hold.

He got a job in publishing out of college, fearing that he would not be able to make a career out of writing but still wanting to remain close to it – and, for Thomas, this was a frustrating business.

Thomas transitioned to a database publishing company responsible for creating directories of contact information for leaders. He planned to do it for a few years, learn the business side of the industry, make some money, and then get out… but he ended up working there for 20 years.

And after 20 years, as the whole publishing industry started to decline, he was let go. This was the perfect opportunity to pursue his dreams of writing, and it just so happened that an editorial position at The Good Men Project opened up, where he had been contributing for about a year.

This is also when Thomas started finding his niche in the relationship space, mining his own experiences in a dysfunctional relationship to help others. He started to solidify his voice with a blog post titled “Situational Dysfunction,” in which he touches on the nagging, subconscious feeling that something is just “off” in a relationship.

So what makes a relationship dysfunctional?

Dysfunctional relationships are characterized by fighting, dismissal, emotional withholding, abuse, or other unhealthy dynamics. Things like this happen occasionally in many relationships, and that’s fine – but when there is a consistent pattern of dysfunction, that is a problem.

And what can you do when you become aware of a dysfunctional relationship?

First, try to evaluate your own contribution to the dynamic. Are you triggering it in some way? Are any of your actions, even unwittingly or unknowingly, setting off this cycle of abuse? Are you triggering that conflict (knowingly or unknowingly) because you get something out of it? To break the cycle, you have to understand what’s triggering it.

We can’t necessarily diagnose or solve a problem immediately after a conflict because our brains get flooded or overloaded, and we are incapable of handling the situation in any logical way. You cannot engage in a conflict when someone feels flooded because it will play out the same way over and over again.

You need to put your own oxygen mask on first; start looking at and fixing your own healthy behaviors first, as opposed to trying to fix (or blame) your partner. Your partner will either start to gravitate towards this healthier way of engaging, or they won’t – if they can’t (or won’t) overcome the pattern of dysfunction, you will have to make a decision about whether you want to stay in that or leave.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Make conscious choices.”

Resources:

Learn more at ThomasGFiffer.com
Check out The Good Men Project

Connect with Thomas: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn

Ep. 42: How The Starling Project is Making an Impact & Lighting up the World | with Sterling McDavid

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Sterling McDavid. Inspired by her time volunteering with UNICEF in 2013, Sterling left a career as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs to become an entrepreneur and focus on social good and design. Sterling is now CEO & Founder of The Starling Project, a charitable home candle line that helps provide solar energy to impoverished communities around the world.

Sterling first volunteered for a two-week trip to Vietnam. As soon as she got back, she put in her two weeks’ notice. “I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do, but I knew that I had to take the leap now.”

While volunteering, she saw solar technology being used in ways that she did not know was possible, like a solar panel powering the distribution of clean water. She was fascinated by this, so she pursued a job with the architecture firm Projectiles in Paris, France, where she was then exposed to the world of fragrance.

These two experiences catalyzed a new idea: light for light. What if every one of these boutique, relatively expensive candles helped provide clean energy for someone in need?

The first initiative that The Starling Project funded with UNICEF was for a small community in Chad. They had to trek three to five miles in one direction to get water, and the water wasn’t even necessarily clean (which led to preventable diseases in children, like cholera, and stole a lot of valuable time).

They installed solar panels to power pipes that pump clean water directly to the center of the community, and it’s been a game changer for the people who live there: no one is spending the bulk of their day retrieving water, fewer children are sick, students can spend more time in school, and parents can spend more time working.

In creating The Starling Project, Sterling wanted to demonstrate the impact that just one person can make. It may feel intimidating, but a single person can move the needle.

In less than two years, The Starling Project has donated more than $150,000 to UNICEF and impacted the lives of over 5,000 people, and they’re currently in the middle of another project in Rwandan hospitals that will affect tens of thousands of people.

And today, you can head over to starlingproject.org/shop and purchase a candle that will, guaranteed, improve at least one other person’s life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Sterling always goes back to the same Ghandi quote: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

“I believe that it’s possible. If you envision the change, go for it,” she says. “You can be the person to make a difference and make a change in this world. At the end of the day, when you leave this world, it’s important to be able to know that I helped change people’s lives, and that it’s actually possible to do.

Resources:

Learn more at starlingproject.org
Connect with Sterling: Instagram | Facebook

Connect with The Starling Project: Instagram | Facebook

Ep. 41: Be the Hero in Your Story | with Andy Janning

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Andy Janning, a speaker, visual storyteller, and the author of Heroes, Villains, and Drunk Old Men: A Love Story for Real Life. Andy describes himself as “the most accidental of entrepreneurs,” and he’s had a lot of success over the past six years, but prior to that, he spent over two decades in corporate America.

When Andy left his corporate job, he started to blend his passion for talent development with his passion for stories, visual storytelling in particular. And in the process, Andy has created a unique model of talent development that helps people live out their best story and serve others.

Heroes, Villains, and Drunk Old Men isn’t your typical nonfiction book for working adults – there is a narrative thread running throughout, enhanced by Andy’s knack for visual storytelling.

And although Andy’s name is on the front cover, he is not the star of this particular story; “I am blessed to know an amazing number of everyday heroes, and they are the people that I want to lift up.” The end result is intimate and powerful, and the lessons it has to offer were tested in the real world by these real people.

Andy is the first person to tell you that none of the stories or people in his book are perfect, however. It is designed to help people take inventory of their own scars and blemishes, appreciate where they came from, and have a better sense of where their life is currently aiming them.

“Failure is a great teacher, but success is a great wind in our sails – and I want to capture both of those.”

Andy also identifies eight questions that every hero should answer in the process of transforming. They are designed to short circuit our pattern and habit to forget, and help us see the nuance and richness in our stories

What do you really want?
Who is going to be your mentor?
How are you going to fail?
How are you going to succeed?
What are you going to fight for and against?
What will victory (or success) look like?
What are you going to give away?
Where are you going to go next?

You can (and probably should) ask these questions at any point in your life, and they will help you cross the right finish line for the right reasons. (In 8 Questions for Every Hero: The Story of Your Journey, these questions are expanded on and accompanied by the gorgeous art of acclaimed illustrator Jingo de la Rosa.)

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you don’t want to be the villain in your own story, have someone in your life who will hold you accountable, knows you better than yourself, and can pull the good things out of you… And you need to mentor others. If you’re under mentorship, and you mentor others, that’s what creates a real sense of community.

“Heroes know that they’re trying to create more heroes – villains are trying to create more followers. When you create more heroes, you create community, but when you create more followers, you just create a cult. And this world has enough of that.”

Resources:

Learn more at AndyJanning.com
Heroes, Villains, and Drunk Old Men: A Love Story for Real Life
Send a copy of your receipt to book [at] andyjanning.com and you will receive three free gifts!
8 Questions for Every Hero: The Story of Your Journey

Ep. 40: The Science, Trends, Technology, and Data of Modern Dating | with Clarissa Silva

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Clarissa Silva, a Behavioral Scientist, Researcher, and Relationship Coach with 17 years of experience in mental health, behavioral science, and public health. Using research and data-driven techniques, she helps provide evidence-based solutions to relationship-based problems, for both organizations and individuals.

Clarissa also writes a very tongue-in-cheek relationship wellness blog, “YOU’RE JUST A DUMBASS,” to help people select and maintain healthy relationships (and avoid suboptimal ones). “I really wanted to remove the clinical barriers and provide any reader with true, public science.”

I love this approach to relationships because a lot of people don’t think about relationships in terms of optimal vs. suboptimal. We often get caught up labeling different behaviors as negative or positive, but it’s all so personal and subjective – what’s optimal for one couple may be suboptimal for another.

The Dating Paradox

We’re in an interesting era of dating: in just one generation, we shifted from young people reluctantly using online dating to young people almost exclusively using online dating.

Because our data and understanding of online dating is still so young, Clarissa works to better understand dating behavioral trends and its impact on self-esteem, self-awareness, and decision-making.

“The current dating market is creating what I call The Dating Paradox: it’s giving off the illusion of many choices, while making it harder to find viable options.” There’s also an illusion of more social engagement and social capital, while simultaneously masking one’s true persona.

We end up treating people like items on our social media streams. The first shiny object is what we stop at, and then we move onto the next shiny object. But that person – that shiny object – is still waiting to have their outcome fulfilled; they were looking for a date with a decent person!

The Happiness Hypothesis

Clarissa was curious about what impact these behaviors have on dating, so she conducted in-depth interviews with men and women ranging from ages 28 to 73, which she published as The Happiness Hypothesis Study.

There were quite a number of interesting findings:

People dating online make decisions about whether or not to date someone in less time (just a few seconds), and use fewer elements of data to determine their selection.
Because we’re interfacing digitally more than personally, it becomes easier to emotionally manipulate others or project an overly-positive persona. “I call this Vanity Validation – you’re seeking validation through electronic likes instead of life”
80% reported it being easier to ghost, bench, gaslight or breadcrumb because of the lack of communication and face-to-face interaction – and 80% of millennials reported having experienced ghosting, benching, gaslighting or breadcrumbing firsthand.
60% of people using social media, who are also active online dating users, reported that social media impacted their self-esteem in a negative way.
50% of people using social media, who are also in relationships, reported social media having negative effects on their relationship.
80% of people reported that it was easier to deceive others through their social posting.

So in light of these findings, are we living through the lens of social media instead of life? Or are we looking through the lens of life and trying to streamline it differently for social media?

Either way, the intersection of social media and relationships is having internal effects on our self-esteem, self-awareness, and decision-making.

Now Clarissa is turning her findings into tools (called Your Happiness Hypothesis: Your Personal Love Algorithm) that you can use to take a more data-driven approach to dating. There is simply so much useful data – so much – that individuals can mine from their online dating experiences.

The first Happiness Hypothesis tool is “How to Spot Red Flags,” which you can learn more about on clarissasilva.com.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“My biggest wish is that I’d love to see a movement form around not accepting suboptimal outcomes, and a more empowered approach to getting your desired outcome.”

Resources:

Learn more at clarissasilva.com
Connect with Clarissa on Twitter

Check out “Your Happiness Hypothesis: How to Spot Red Flags”

Ep. 39: Changing the World, One Lipstick at a Time | with Alexis Farah

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Alexis Farah, Founder of RandomActsofLipstick.com. Her goal is to raise awareness about beauty brands, influencers, and organizations working tirelessly to make the world a more beautiful place, while also sharing tangible steps for how you can get involved.

“Simply put, we want to change the world one lipstick at a time.”

You may be surprised to discover that I absolutely love her unique approach to transforming our world through random acts of kindness, making it more beautiful both literally and figuratively.

Alexis originally founded Random Acts of Lipstick because she saw a hole in the market. No one was curating content to raise awareness about the brands that are truly trying to make a difference; organizations with things like community outreach programs, significant donations, or a culture of volunteering.

The average person isn’t necessarily aware of which organizations are giving back, and which products they can buy that will actually produce a positive impact on the world – but they should be, and Alexis is leading the awareness vanguard!

These are some of the brands, organizations, and individuals that are most meaningful to Alexis:

Credo curates safe and healthy cosmetics on their online boutique and in their physical stores, and they donate 1% of every purchase to Lipstick Angels.
Golden Door is a spa with a skincare product line, and they donate 100% of the proceeds from their skincare products to children’s charities.
Thrive Causemetics has a one for one model, so they will donate one of every product that is purchased to a woman undergoing cancer treatment or domestic violence.
PHLUR is a high-end fragrance company that does a lot to ensure their practices are eco-friendly, and they are recognized by 1% For The Planet because they donate 1% of their annual net revenue worldwide.
Bren Gomez, founder of Beauty Piñata, is sending care packages to strangers in need.
Elan Bongiorno, makeup artist for Eva Longoria, is partnering with the Beauty Bus Foundation.
John Paul Mitchell Systems has a culture of giving, supporting 150 different charities.

Did Alexis inspire you to give back as much as she inspired me? If so, consider donating to one of Alexis’ favorite charities:

New Alternatives for Children - nackidscan.org - NAC operates in NYC, founded on the belief that every child deserves a safe, nurturing home and a bright future.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It is so important to find a cause that you feel passionate about because that’s what will get you excited about doing it, and probably help you commit to the program long-term… A lot of people are intimidated by finding the organizations that are a fit with them, but there are so many nonprofits now that really let you customize a volunteer opportunity, donation opportunity, or a way you can get your whole company to do a day of volunteer work."

“I encourage you to get on Google and see what kind of larger nonprofits offer customized experiences, because there is something for everybody."

“If we all do our part to make the world a better place… well, gosh, wouldn’t that be wonderful?”

Resources:

Learn more at RandomActsofLipstick.com
Connect with Alexis: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
Golden - find and manage volunteer opportunities with this app

Ep. 38: You Have the Power to Write a New Chapter in Your Life | with Sean Douglas

Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is the awesome and inspirational Sean Douglas, a U.S. Air Force veteran, Master Resilience Implementer, TEDx speaker, international radio show host, performance enhancement specialist, and the author of Decisions: The Power To Overcome Self-Defeating Behaviors.

Sean teaches others mental, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual resiliency skills that empower them to withstand, recover, and grow through life’s changing demands. In the process, Sean equips people with the tools they need to live EPIC lives, and leaves them better equipped to manage change effectively.

Today, Sean is successful and fulfilled – but getting there was a difficult and decades-long journey.

Growing up in Detroit, Sean lived in 11 different houses and attended eight different schools. It wasn’t a good way to grow up, and he tried to suppress the problems with alcohol – which, ultimately, only lead to more problems.

Eventually, Sean had all but given up. He had a bottle of whiskey and a handgun – and then he received a call.

Ten years ago, Sean went to see a chaplain and gave himself one more chance. This time, things started to change because he found something he had been missing: a purpose.

Sean’s purpose is to share his experience as a suicide survivor globally, so that he can inspire others to hope, succeed, and grow, even through the worst seasons of their life.

To do that, Sean believes you need three tools:

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude. #CountingBlessings
Create values-based goals. Sean calls this “Living Your Brand.”
Develop a personal board of directors. “If every major company has board meetings to talk about growth and sales, why are we not doing that for our life?”

Sean expands on these tools, and his story, in his book. If you want more guidance and inspiration, I highly recommend picking up a copy.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You have the power to turn the page and write a new chapter. You have the brain power. You have the internal motivation, Whether you believe it or not, you have the internal motivation, passion, and purpose to say, ‘This is not how my story ends.’ Everybody has that ability, whether you believe it or not.

“I’m telling you that you do because I was on the floor, with a gun in my hand, ready to end my life. Ten years later, my dream came true of having my own TEDxTalk. It’s not going to happen overnight, but you have the power to turn the chapter and write a new one. Just turn the page.”

There is always hope. If you are in a place of crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.

Resources:

Learn more at TheSuccessCorps.com
Connect with Sean: Facebook | LinkedIn
Read: Decisions: The Power To Overcome Self-Defeating Behaviors
Watch: “Hack Your Brain For Success Sean Douglas TEDxWilmingtonSalon”

Ep. 37: 5 Minute Success | with Karen Briscoe

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Karen Briscoe, the creator of the 5 Minute Success concept, which she generously shares with others through her books, speaking engagements, and podcast.

The concept, inspired by ideas from Hal Elrod’s Miracle Morning, is simple: if you read Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day for five minutes every morning, and apply one concept every day, you will build a habit that slowly transforms your behaviors and business results.

However, Success in 5 Minutes a Day isn’t just another business book, and it doesn’t just apply to real estate. Anyone in business, especially entrepreneurs, can leverage this book to build a habit that sets them up for success.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“My mission is to help women achieve a higher level of success. When I was an at-home mother, I felt like I was still missing something. As I have achieved success I have much greater self-confidence and the means to do things that our family wasn’t in a position to do before. I see that when women achieve a higher level of success, everyone else’s lives around them improve… You have so much to offer, and you can start today! Then you too can achieve a higher level of success.”

Resources:

Learn more at 5minutesuccess.com
Connect with Karen: Facebook | Twitter
Listen to the 5 Minute Success podcast
Read: Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day

Ep. 36: Attracting & Cultivating Relationships with Mentors | with Jon Berghoff

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Jon Berghoff, a world-renowned experiential trainer and Co-Founder of the Flourishing Leadership Institute. I had the pleasure of meeting Jon at the Best Year Ever Blueprint Event – which he hosts with his close friend Hal Elrod, creator of The Miracle Morning – and I’m extremely grateful because both Jon and Hal have been influential in my own transformation.

Jon is featured in many episodes of the Achieve Your Goals Podcast (including this excellent episode on achieving your goals in 2018, which I highly recommend checking out), but in this conversation Jon shares his journey, and the many unexpected turns he took along the way, in a way that you’ve never heard before.

Many of us are familiar with Jon’s work at Vitamix (managing U.S. sales during their growth from $40 million to $175 million) and what he’s doing today with the Flourishing Leadership Institute, so we go back to find out what made him who he is today.

One of the most eye-opening parts of this conversation is when Jon shares his personal strategy for attracting and cultivating relationships with the mentors that he has had.

Cultivating mentors is something that we all need to actually take some ownership over, instead of just hoping that one stumbles into our lives – so we have to proactively create the conditions that will allow, and encourage, mentorship.

Jon’s formula can be broken down to three simple questions that you have to ask yourself:

What mission am I on?
What purpose is driving me?
Who are the individuals that are ahead of me?

Finding a mentor isn’t all about you and what you get out of it – when you can align your mission with your mentor’s mission, and use your skills to further that mission, “it’s amazing what can happen.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I think it would be an encouragement, an encouragement for people to find a way to push pause. And when I say find a way to push pause, this comes from system science... if you push pause on a machine in what’s called a simple system, it stops working. What we know about a human system, or an individual, is when we push pause, it actually starts working.”

"I’d encourage everybody to push pause, with the hope that in that space maybe you can become open to seeing things differently, open to appreciating people in a different way, and then ultimately open to the possibility and the potential that each of us can actually shape the future as it emerges. So, that would be my encouragement. Push Pause.”

Resources:

Learn more about the Flourishing Leadership Institute
Connect with Jon on Facebook
Listen: “My Top 3 Tips for Achieving Your Goals in 2018”

Ep. 35 | Heroic Imagination: Inspiring Ordinary People to be Everyday Heroes | with Dr. Philip Zimbardo

Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Founder of the Heroic Imagination Project, a nonprofit organization that translates the extensive findings of social psychology and related fields into meaningful insights and tools that individuals can use in their everyday lives to transform negative situations and create positive change.

Dr. Zimbardo spent much of his academic life at Stanford studying how good people turn evil, including research on deindividualization that was featured in the Stanford Prison Experiment.

He presented this research in 2007 at a TED Conference in a talk titled “The Psychology of Evil,” offering that we can make the majority of people do bad things using basic social psychological principles – but then he flipped the script and asked a different question:

How can ordinary people be inspired and trained to be ordinary heroes?

In the Heroic Imagination Program, they have created a core program of modules called “Understanding Human Nature.”

These modules engage people through provocative videos that promote awareness and understanding of issues such as the Bystander Effect, a phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are around.

Then, instead of a teacher lecturing, participants are broken up into groups (called Hero Squads) to share their ideas and do hands-on activities.

These modules include Combatting the Bystander Effect; Developing a Growth Mindset; and, soon, Combating Stereotype, Prejudice, and Discrimination. Each of the modules builds upon the others to inspire and train ordinary heroes, with the hope that they can then inspire, train, and improve their communities.

We all have the opportunity to outgrow our limiting mindsets, join the human social community, become everyday superheroes, and save the world. Go to HeroicImagination.org to start today.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Make someone else feel special. Make someone else you meet or know smile. Move out of your comfort zone of focusing on yourself in an egocentric way and move into the world of promoting sociocentrism.

“Those are the biggest things, and people don’t do that only because it feels awkward… but once you do it, you change the world.”

Resources:

Learn more at HeroicImagination.org
Watch: “The Psychology of Evil”

Ep. 34: JLD: The Origin Story | with John Lee Dumas

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is John Lee Dumas, the founder & host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, an award-winning podcast that interviews successful entrepreneurs seven days a week (and has been for over five years).

Most of you are probably familiar with John and the podcast, so today we dig into how John Lee Dumas became JLD – with no podcast experience and zero online presence.

John was an officer in the U.S. Army for 8 years right out of college, including a 13-month tour of duty in Iraq. This experience helped him develop discipline, a skill that he believes many entrepreneurs lack.

And John, ultimately, needed that discipline to succeed as an entrepreneur (and successfully produce a daily podcast without giving up or burning out).

“As an officer, I learned to be a disciple to a plan of action, establish that plan of action, and then execute it in a very focused and thoughtful manner.”

After leaving the Army, John trudged through a few passionless jobs. He started voraciously consuming content so that he could learn more and do more as an entrepreneur, and this search led him to podcasts.

He was able to learn from world-class entrepreneurs – and not just from their successes, but also their mistakes.

John wanted to listen to a show interviewing successful entrepreneurs every single day… but it didn’t exist! John saw an opportunity.

Two episodes into Entrepreneurs on Fire, JLD was in love.

Five years and 1900+ episodes later, JLD is still in love

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you want to be, do – it’s a very simple phrase, but within simplicity lies brilliance. Whatever it is you want to be in this world, do that thing.”

Resources:

Learn more & listen at eofire.com
Check out EOFire’s FREE Courses: eofire.com/resources
The Freedom Journal
The Mastery Journal

Ep. 33 | Blue Mind: The Intersection of Physiology, Psychology, & Water | with Dr. Wallace J. Nichols

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Wallace “J” Nichols, an innovative marine biologist, entrepreneur, wild water advocate, bestselling author, and fun-loving Dad. He has been dubbed “Keeper of the Sea" by GQ Magazine, was awarded the Champion of Change Award at the World Oceans Festival, and likes turtles (a lot).

Like many marine biologists, J fell in love with the water at an early age and sought a career that would let him stay connected to it – but he also has a passion for and curiosity about human biology, driven by childhood health issues and his own adoption.

The Blue Mind

Wallace combines his two passions into an idea he calls Blue Mind; a state of being, and the place where physiology, psychology, and the ocean meet.

J first started down this path because he wanted to understand what compels people to care about our water, and marine life. He went looking for a book about the subject… but he couldn’t find one, and he couldn’t find anyone else to write it. It was up to him.

In Blue Mind, J combines cutting-edge neuroscience with compelling personal stories from top athletes, leading scientists, military veterans, and gifted artists to show how proximity to water can improve performance, increase calm, diminish anxiety, and increase professional success.

It illustrates the importance of our connection to water – and provides a “paradigm-shifting ‘blueprint’ for a better life on this Blue Marble we call home.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Get. In. The. Water. Just figure that out for you – I’m sure you’re not getting in the water enough. Even if it’s just a candle and the sound of the ocean on a speaker in a bath. Plan your next trip around some really good water time. Take your kids, take your family, take your friends and loved ones. GET IN THE WATER. Prioritize it, and it will make your life just a little bit better.”

Resources:

Learn more at WallaceJNichols.org
Connect with J: Facebook | Twitter
Read: Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
Join The Blue Mind Fund: bluemindfund.org

Ep. 32: Mastering the Art of Just in Time Learning | with Kylon Gienger

Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Kylon Gienger, an educational and social thought leader, serial entrepreneur, and the host of The Successful Dropout Podcast.

Kylon grew up in a mountain cabin, homeschooled with his siblings. He had a lot of curiosity, and the freedom to pursue it. Then, after graduating, he felt the pressure to go to college – it just felt like what people do.

A few months into his Freshman year, in the middle of a marketing class, Kylon decided to drop out.

Over the next few years, Kylon worked as a youth pastor, construction worker, Navy serviceman, and musician, and started three different businesses.

Kylon is still working on a wide variety of projects, including The Successful Dropout, because he truly values freedom with his time and lifestyle – he is a self-described 100% autonomous human being.

There’s a concept that Kylon discusses a lot on his show, and he believes it is the one common factor between all of his successful guests: they have mastered the art of “just in time” learning.

Formal schooling, for the most part, is “just in case” learning. You get a well-rounded education that theoretically prepares you for anything, but many people end up graduating prepared for nothing.

Just in time learning means learning in the context of taking action and taking steps forward – in that way, you’re always learning in the context of doing, and in the context of something that you’re curious about. This creates an incredible retention, and you’ll save time and money in the process.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“One of the biggest mistakes that you can make is just to accept the norms of your time, whatever that looks like, and not accepting the norm is the secret to really big success and changing the world.”

Resources:

Learn more at SuccessfulDropout.com
Connect with Kylon: Twitter | Instagram
Join the Successful Dropout Facebook Group

Ep. 31: Redefining Impossible: Climbing the 7 summits, trekking to the South & North Poles, and completing the Hawaii Ironman (with one lung) | with Sean Swarner

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Sean Swarner, an inspirational speaker, author, and adventurer – and the only person who has been diagnosed with both Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Askin Sarcoma.

Sean’s life really began when he was 13-years-old and received his first cancer diagnosis: advanced fourth stage Hodgkin's Lymphoma and only three months to live. Then, when Sean was 16, he was diagnosed with Askin Sarcoma, and told he only had 14 days to live.

However, as you can probably tell, Sean is still alive many years later (although he’s down one lung and doesn’t remember much of being 16).

Medical science certainly helped, but Sean believes that mindset is what really made the difference: “You pretty much get what you’re focused on. If you’re focused on not dying, then you’re going to die. If you’re focused on living, you’re going to live.”

With support and the right mindset, Sean has managed to make a habit out of redefining possibility; he climbed the highest mountain on every continent, trekked to the South and North Poles, and completed the Hawaii Ironman – all with one lung.

The 7 Summits of Success

“When somebody tells me I can’t do something, it’s almost like adding fuel to the fire.” –Sean Swarner

Sean is sharing his journey to accomplish what was once considered impossible in a seven-part eBook series called The 7 Summits of Success.

In book one, EVEREST: Being Unstoppable, Sean shares the proven tips and tools he used to go from the hospital bed to the top of the world – Mt. Everest. You can download EVEREST for FREE by going to seanswarner.com/books-products.

Paying it Forward

Sean founded the CancerClimber Association in 2001, and they’ve been offering hope through inspiration ever since. Their mission is helping those touched by cancer by focusing on living an active, healthy lifestyle.

Every year, Sean brings a cancer survivor to Africa to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro (another one of the seven summits, and he hopes to build an Adventure Mobile Camp that he can tour to children’s hospitals around the world.

You can help support Sean and the CancerClimber Association at CancerClimber.org.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We’re human beings, not human doings. Be someone who helps someone else, and be yourself.”

Resources:

Learn more at SeanSwarner.com

True North: The Sean Swarner Story
Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World by Sean Warner & Rusty Fischer

Ep. 30: How You Can Be Part of The Love Revolution | with Patch Adams

Mon, 25 Dec 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Hunter Doherty “Patch” Adams, who is best known for his work as a medical doctor and a clown – however, he is also a social activist who has devoted over 40 years of his life to changing America’s healthcare system.

Patch believes that laughter, joy, and creativity are integral parts of the healing process and, with the help of friends, he founded The Gesundheit! Institute in 1971 in order to address problems with the country’s health care model.

Patch’s life changed when he saw a “Whites Only” sign on a water fountain. It confounded him that society allowed it, and he struggled against society for his teen years because he couldn’t be silent.

After being present for Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering the “I have a dream…” speech, Patch realized that he could make revolution.

“I did not have to develop into a person to make revolution – I was that person. I just had to decide what I was going to do.” Patch decided to do two things:

Be a free doctor.
As a political act, he decided to never have another bad day. Instead, he lives six qualities: happy, loving, funny, cooperative, creative, and thoughtful.

The Love Revolution & The Gesundheit Institute

Patch’s revolution is built on a simple concept: When you care, it is an act of love – and, ideally, a healthy person loves all people.

He did not, however, see any place for that compassion in American hospitals.

“Medicine felt like a business, and I knew if I was going to be a doctor I could never do it in an American hospital – I had to make my own hospital.”

When Patch signed contracts for the 1998 Robin Williams movie, he was told they’d build a hospital building in return – to this day, there is still no hospital. However, Patch is still striving towards this mission every day.

You can support the hospital project by donating to The Gesundheit Institute or purchasing Patch’s book, Gesundheit!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Make love our values. Stop your troubles, become proactive for love, and help change the world.”

Resources:

Donate to The Gesundheit Institute
Connect with The Gesundheit Institute: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube
Read: Gesundheit!

Ep. 29: Building Briiidge: A Digital Platform for Giving & Receiving Help | with Debbie Gray

Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Debbie Gray, COO of both STRIVR, Inc. and Briiidge. We’re really excited to share her story, and how her apps are giving users the opportunity to both ask for help and help others – without the social constructs that make asking for help difficult. These apps are currently being used on college campuses and in businesses throughout the country.

Everything Debbie has done throughout her career has been about figuring out how to put the pieces of a puzzle together; finding the right person or tool to solve a difficult problem. She continues to help people solve problems today, but on a much greater level, by giving organizations and communities these digital platforms they can use to help each other.

The unfortunate reality is that, at some point, everybody needs help with something… but asking for help doesn’t make you feel good. On the other hand, giving help makes you feel great on a physiological level. In fact, when we give, we receive all of the positive benefits of receiving.

Debbie’s first experiment with a help request app revealed some interesting results:

In 2010, the beta of STRIVR was launched for the students at Lehigh University. It was only for iPhone, and 70% of students with iPhones were using it.
Over six semesters, a remarkable 90% of requests on the platform were fulfilled!
It did not seem to matter who was requesting help; people across many different communities and social groups were willing to help each other when given the opportunity.
Users were given the ability to form private groups or be anonymous, but very few people used these options. Over 90% of requests were public and went to the entire community.
People wanted to help, but there was originally no way to offer help without a request, so the users started offering help through a request for help. They added an offer feature, and that made up 10-15% of total activity in the beta.
By the end of Spring 2016, there were over 100,000 requests and offers for help on the app – and the offers to help outweigh the requests 2:1.

After the beta test, STRIVR started focusing their resources on an enterprise product. The end result is Briiidge.

How does Briiidge impact organizations?

The app encourages Organizational Citizenship Behavior, or when a person voluntarily helps someone within an organization in a way that is outside of their normal job description. This behavior increases trust, productivity, and profit within an organization.
Employees waste nearly 23 hours per week searching for the people, information, and data they need to perform their job. Briiidge cuts that time down by using matchmaking algorithms that connect employees who have questions with the right people at the right time with the right information.
In “The Neuroscience of Trust,” former guest Paul J. Zak writes about the positive effects of building trust within an organization.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You really don’t know what the impact of your behavior is on another person... You don’t understand the power that you have when you give to someone, and the impact it can have. It really changes our environment, our towns, our companies, and our families. It’s a really well-kept secret that we’d like to start shouting from the rooftops.”

Resources:

Learn more about Briiidge: thebriiidge.com | Facebook | Twitter
“The Neuroscience of Trust”

Ep. 28: Just Say Yes & Go For It: Create Your Dream Business & Lifestyle | with Jim Palmer

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Jim Palmer, a serial entrepreneur, a marketing expert, and the host of both Dream Business Coach TV and the Dream Business Radio Podcast. Jim is also the acclaimed author of Just Say Yes: Create Your Dream Business and Live Your Dream Lifestyle, as well as a number of other books.

Today, Jim is living happily with his wife on a boat just off of the coast of New England… but he wasn’t always loving life. He ran up against some big obstacles along his journey.

When Jim was 40-years-old, he fulfilled a goal when he became VP of Marketing at a training company – when he was 41, the position was eliminated, which turned into 15 months of unemployment (the first since he was 15-years-old). 12 months into his 15-month period of unemployment, Jim was diagnosed with Melanoma (a form of skin cancer).

For three weeks, Jim didn’t know what stage of Melanoma he had. There was a good chance that he would not be alive for more than five years – “That really gives you a lot of perspective.”

When we have an experience where we may die, or we think we may die, it really puts one in a position to evaluate what matters.

Jim was ultimately diagnosed with Stage 2 cancer and, at the moment, is cancer-free. However, ever since that experience, he has had an hourglass on his desk. “I look at it every day and it reminds me that the sand is running out. You can’t stop it and you can’t slow it down, and eventually the sand does run out for everybody.”

Since then, Jim has just said yes.

Just Say Yes: Create Your Dream Business and Live Your Dream Lifestyle

If you want to do something big in your life, you have to overcome the What Ifs – you have to just say yes, and figure it out as you go along.

Just Say Yes is a business book, but it’s also very personal – and his stories can serve as an inspiration that helps you overcome the fear of an unknown future.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You want to become a generous and cheerful giver, and you want to give without expecting anything in return… It’s not just a good life strategy. It’s really good for business, too.”

Resources:

Learn more at GetJimPalmer.com
Follow Jim’s boating adventures at OurFloatingHome.com
Read: Just Say Yes: Create Your Dream Business and Live Your Dream Lifestyle

Ep. 27: Creating a Corporate Platform for Innovation & Change | with Rich Kylberg

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Rich Kylberg, a dynamic, charismatic, innovative and transformative C-level corporate marketer, communicator, and entrepreneurial CEO. He has been referred to as "the 'ultimate change agent' within corporate America today,” and he’s currently a Senior Vice President at Arrow Electronics.

Growing up, Rich’s mother told him that she didn’t care what he accomplished in life – the measure of him as a person, in her mind, would be what he did for others. “I’ve kind of carried that with me through my entire life, for better or for worse.”

Before working at Arrow, Rich spent nearly 20 years as an entrepreneur in the world of broadcast communication. He had a mission to use the tools of communication to make the world a better place, but eventually changes in technology ushered him out of the industry.

There aren’t a lot of people who go from entrepreneur to corporate executive, and it might even seem like working at Arrow is counter intuitive to his mission to provide solutions to the world’s problem and help other people, but the reality is that ours jobs are just platforms for what we make out of them – “They’re not inherently good or evil. They’re just platforms.”

Before Rich joined Arrow, they were a multi-billion dollar company… but they were relatively anonymous. It was his job to help make Arrow favorably stand out in the world.

He helped Arrow stand out with the B.I.G. three:

Brand - What is your message? You have to figure this out first. “It wasn’t about what we do, but what we believe. We put together messaging for the corporation that articulates our belief system far more than what we specifically do.”
Intranet - An internal distribution channel. Once you figure out what your message is, you have to distribute it.
Global Marketing Services - The last thing you need is people and assets who can help disseminate your message. “That’s just scalability.”

By aligning all of the employees at Arrow with this message, Rich is able to facilitate a platform of innovation and change that leverages the full force of a $24 billion technology company.

“When you combine a tremendous amount of information with really smart people, you get wisdom. It doesn’t help to be really smart and it doesn’t help to just have data – you have to have both.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Do good. Actively do good.”

Resources:

Connect with Rich: Twitter | LinkedIn

Ep. 26: Changing the World (One Dream at a Time) | with Kingsley Grant

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Kingsley Grant, a motivational speaker, corporate trainer, licensed marriage and family therapist, career transition coach, online radio podcaster, and sherpa. He is also the President of Helping Families Improve, Inc., a company driven to improve communication within relationships, and the author of The Midlife Launch.

Kingsley is a self-described late bloomer, as he hints at in the title of his book. He came to the U.S. from Jamaica when he was young and, for many years, had little guidance – and he feels that the years he spent trying to fit in cost him dearly, financially and otherwise.

Eventually, Kingsley learned from his mistakes and wanted to make a change, but he had a lot of ground to cover after all of those “wasted years.” One of the biggest shifts he experienced, and most valuable lessons he learned, was the lesson of forgiveness. He didn’t want to travel through life carrying his pain anymore.

This experience led to writing the book 2 Steps To ForGIFTness: Learning How To Forgive When Your Mind Says Yes But Your Heart Says No.

Helping Others Follow Their Dreams & Be S.M.O.O.T.H.

Another challenge pushed Kingsley to make another major change. In 2008, shortly after quitting the job he had worked for 20 years, Kingsley had a heart attack and, ultimately, a quadruple bypass surgery.

Kingsley has learned not to let these challenging experiences hold him back – and he uses these experiences to inspire and encourage others in their life's journey.

Kingsley’s passion is driven by a simple belief: “You have a life experience. You have learned something along the way ... You have something that somebody is waiting for, and only you can deliver that.”

He helps people understand this using the S.M.O.O.T.H. Framework:

Script the right Story
Map the Mission
Obstacles to Overcome (real or perceived)
Open the Options
Trim the Time
Hole-in-one (i.e. cut out all of the unnecessary strokes)

Everyone has the potential to change the world, one dream at a time and one person at a time. “If I’m doing what I’m called to do and you’re doing what you’re called to do, collectively we can make a difference.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Pursue your dream. Don’t let the graveyard become richer because your dream was not lived out. Don’t live your life holding back that which is within you. The world is holding its breath waiting for you to bring your dream to it. Let’s go do it today!”

Resources:

Learn more at KingsleyGrant.com
Read: The Midlife Launch

Ep. 25: How to Get Unstuck if You’re Unfulfilled + a Crash Course on Real Estate Investing | with Joe Fairless

Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Joe Fairless, a full-time real estate investor who controls over $175 million worth of real estate and host of the longest-running daily real estate podcast, Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever.

Joe took an unexpected route into the real estate world – he started his career working with toddlers, as a preschool teacher, daycare staff, and “manny.” Of course, this naturally segued into a full-time advertising job on Madison Avenue.

Even as New York’s most eligible manny and a project manager at Chiat/Day, making ends meet in the big city was hard. It was imperative that Joe honed his financial mindset.

Joe started by reading, of course, Investing For Dummies. He quickly read more books and immersed himself in the real estate community – this was the key to his financial freedom.

Getting Unstuck

Like many of us, Joe felt stuck in a job that was, ultimately, unfulfilling – he wasn’t contributing anything meaningful as an advertiser.

If you feel stuck in your job, or just at this point in your life, Joe suggests sampling new life experiences. Take an improv class, volunteer, teach, play sports, etc. Just try to identify where your focus should be in this next phrase of your life.

Crash Course on Investing

Before you get into investing, or anything, you should do some research. Listen to podcasts, read books, and talk to people. Good places to start:
Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever podcast

Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Real Estate Investing for Dummies
Send an email to info@joefairless.com for a free single-family home guide.

Buy for cash flow – not appreciation.
Mitigate the risk
Make sure you have cash reserves set aside for your purchase.
Get a loan that isn’t a “balloon payment” that comes due in a short period of time. Instead, get a 30-year loan (note that this applies if you are purchasing single-family homes, not commercial real estate).

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you feel stuck, then start sampling life experiences. If you feel stuck, then get unstuck – go test some things out, go on Groupon, go to a class, go on eventbrite, go attend a meetup, go to a networking event. If you feel stuck and you feel like you want to evolve into something else, or at least see different things, then those are all resources that I recommend … In order to evolve, you need to have some context for what else is out there.”

Resources:

Learn more at JoeFairless.com
Listen to Joe’s podcast: Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever
Want to invest in single-family homes? Send an email to info@joefairless.com for a free single-family home guide.
Read:
Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever (Volume 1)
Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever (Volume 2)

Ep. 24: Veteran’s Day Special: Combat Veterans & PTSD | with Dr. William B. Lawson & Sgt. (Ret) De’Andre B. Wells

Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Today we have a very special Veteran’s Day episode, and we’re going to hear from two outstanding guests: Dr. William B. Lawson & De’Andre B. Wells.

Dr. Lawson, Associate Dean for Health Disparities at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, teaches us about PTSD from the standpoint of diagnoses and treatment.

De’Andre shares a powerful and personal story about his battle with post-traumatic stress after serving in the middle east, and what he’s doing today to help other veterans keep battling as President of AGX Group And Management Services. De’Andre served as a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army’s 5th Special Forces Group, where he completed three tours of combat duty during the global war on terrorism.

What is PTSD?

Whether you know someone who personally served in the military or not, PTSD is an issue that impacts nearly 25,000,000 people in the United States, or roughly the population of the entire state of Texas.
When a person is exposed to an extremely traumatic experience, they don’t just forget about it and walk away.
This is more than anxiety, and the symptoms can be very disruptive. People with PTSD may see the world differently, have trouble sleeping, struggle relating to others, and experience autonomic reactivity.
The symptoms also persist for months or years.
PTSD isn’t specific to war trauma, but PTSD caused by warfare tends to be more treatment-resistant and persistent.

How YOU Can Help Others & Find Support

AGX Group and Management Services - agxgroup.org - AGX is a privately held, federally certified health and wellness service provider founded by De’Andre. “Since 2009, AGX has proven its leadership and innovation as a single source provider of person-centered health care and trauma solutions that are informed by scientific evidence and use all appropriate preventative and therapeutic approaches.”

Veterans Crisis Line - veteranscrisisline.net or 800-273-8255 - “The Veterans Crisis Line connects Veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs responders through a confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text. Veterans and their loved ones can call 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1, chat online, or send a text message to 838255 to receive confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.”

Catch a Lift Fund - catchaliftfund.org - “The Catch A Lift Fund enables post 9/11 combat wounded veterans all over the U.S. to recover and rehabilitate both physically and mentally through physical fitness, motivation, and support.”

Tinina Q. Cade Foundation (Cade Foundation) - cadefoundation.org - The Cade Foundation was launched to help need and infertile families overcome their infertility. They are also focused on equipping active duty and veteran service people with information about different ways to become a parent after infertility, as well as financial support through grants for fertility treatment.

Purdue Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities - krannert.purdue.edu/military/ebv - “The EBV program represents a unique opportunity for those men and women who have sacrificed for our freedom, to take an important step toward realizing their own freedom – economic freedom – through entrepreneurship.”

Vital Alternatives for Healthy Minds - vitalalternatives.org - “VAMP utilizes drama therapy and creative expression to foster interpersonal growth and healthy lifestyles to address social and emotional development and unproductive behaviors. ... The program’s goal is not only to place participants on the path to personal growth, career development, behavioral and attitudinal change but to give participants the encouragement as well as the empowerment to believe in themselves, to discuss their hopes, fears, and dreams.”

I created this episode because, over the summer, I was asked to talk about combat veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to help raise awareness about the issue. If there’s anything you’d like to hear on the podcast in the future, reach out to me at TheDailyHelping.com/contact.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaways

“We need to treat the individual’s biopsychosocial needs – not dwell on what led to where the person is, although that’s important information, but deal with the person’s needs as they are, so that they can move towards a place of recovery.” – Dr. William B. Lawson

“You can’t do it alone. We are prone to human connection. Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, know one thing: true belonging belongs to you first. It’s discovered within, and it’s established by your own decrees. You write the constitution of your belonging, and then you allow others in. … Open your heart, be vulnerable, and connect with other people.” – De’Andre B. Wells

Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Richard. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

Connect with De’Andre: agxgroup.org/founder
Connect with Dr. Lawson: dellmed.utexas.edu/team-profile/william-lawson

Ep. 23: #ActToPLAN: You have the Power to Lead, Assess, & Navigate (a Profitable Business) | with Jessica Dewell

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 11:00:00 +0000

What do a nun, a cowboy, and a racecar driver have in common?

Those are the things that today’s expert guest, Jessica Dewell, wanted to be when she grew up. She is not currently any of those things (although there’s still time!), but she’s just as non-traditional.

Jessica is a business advocate and nationally-recognized business development tactician who grows businesses by helping others develop better decision-making and problem-solving skills. With over 20 years of advising and consulting experience, including four of her own businesses, her views are both unexpected and practical.

Jessica has a unique approach to business development: she looks at businesses like a doctor looks at their patient. Using this approach, individual business problems can be seen as symptoms of a bigger issue – a disease in your business.

#ActToPLAN

Even if you identify a real problem and make a plan, you’ll never solve it if you don’t make a decision and take action. Your vision is tested through your actions; you will only find more clarity after taking the first step.

So when you #ActToPLAN, you are harnessing your Power to Lead, Assess, & Navigate a profitable business.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“What we do and what we say models for ourselves, first, and other people, second, what is acceptable in our lives … the four steps of problem solving are the biggest takeaway that can be applied anywhere, any time.”

Four steps of problem solving:

Recognize there’s a problem
Collect the data
Understand what the solutions are & evaluate them
Make a choice

Resources:

Learn more at RedDirection.com
Listen to Jessica’s podcast: TheVoiceofBoldBusiness.com
Connect with Jessica: Facebook | Twitter

Ep. 22: The Winning Well Model: How Leaders Increase Influence & Achieve Lasting Results | with Karin Hurt and David Dye

Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guests are Karin Hurt and David Dye, the award-winning authors of Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results - Without Losing Your Soul. They’re also the dynamic duo behind Let’s Grow Leaders, where they work with managers at every level to build the confidence and competence necessary to achieve lasting results and increased influence.

Karin and David’s partnership almost seems inevitable. They knew of each other, but hadn’t talked, for many years before attending the same book writing lab with the National Speaker’s Association.

During the lab, they realized that they were essentially writing the same book. Although they were technically business competitors, they decided to collaborate on the book and everything went really well – and then they fell in love.

The Winning Well Model

When they started collaborating, Karin’s key message was about confidence and humility and David’s was focused on results and relationships – They put that together to create the Winning Well model.

A leader’s internal values should be focused on Confidence and Humility.

The Confidence to know what you’re good at and bring that to the table; to stand up for what matters and speak the truth. “We say rock your role and ditch the diaper genie… that’s confidence!”
Humility is about focusing on knowing your vulnerabilities, knowing you’re not perfect, surrounding yourself with people who will challenge you, and admitting your mistakes.

As we look at the external world, we want to focus on Results and Relationships. Most managers tend to focus on one or the other, but you’ll get better results if you focus on both.

Focusing on Results means knowing what matters mosts, being clear about your Most Important Thing, and practicing accountability.
Focusing on Relationships means investing in your team, treating them with dignity, and collaborating. In every interaction you have with another human being, how can you both build healthy professional relationships and achieve the business results your team is there to achieve?

“When you combine internal focus on confidence and humility and focus externally on results and relationships, that’s when you start to achieve those breakthrough results that really last.” –David Dye

Giving Back with Winning Wells

Karin and David are also dedicated to giving back to the world. Their philanthropic campaign, Winning Wells, provides local villages in Southeast Asia with an ample supply of clean water.

When you work with Karin and David, a Winning Well will be built in your name, in Cambodia. You won’t just transform your leadership and results. You will also help transform the lives of people who have never had clean drinking water.

They do this because, whether you’re a frontline leader, business owner, or executive, leadership is more than just whatever product you make or service you deliver – it’s ultimately about the legacy that you’re leaving in the world.

You can learn more about Winning Wells at letsgrowleaders.com/giving-back.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Pick one thing that you want to do differently. If you read Winning Well, there’s hundreds of tools in there and it’s easy to be overwhelmed. So start with one thing, invest in doing it well, and then move on to the next thing.

If even that seems difficult, go back a step further and answer this question: Where are you trying to go?

If you’re struggling in life, get super clear about where you want to go and figure out what success looks like?

Resources:

Learn more at LetsGrowLeaders.com
Connect with Karin: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
Connect with David: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results - Without Losing Your Soul

Ep. 21: Emotional Eating? Find Out What REALLY Makes You Full | with Julie Reisler

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Author and Life Designer® Julie Reisler, the founder and CEO of Empowered Living, a Life Design and personal development company.

Although Julie has a Master's Degree in Coaching and more than 12 certifications in health and well-being, her Masters could have been, as she says, “in people pleasing and crappy self esteem.”

Julie turned herself into a research project and did a complete 180 in mindset and health, and in the process she found her passion and purpose: helping you design a life that you’re crazy about.

In her book Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery, Julie shares the extensive personal-growth wisdom that came from her own struggles with body image, relationships, and feeling "not enough.”

Julie hopes readers will walk away from the book with a good sense of who they are, what lights them up, how they want to make an impact in the world, who they want to be, who they want to show up as in the world, and how they can do that.

Julie also created the short film Hungry For More, inspired by a section of her book, where she shares openly about her journey with emotional overeating and finding out what really makes you full. Now Julie wants to help others through that journey, so she’s launching an online course called Hungry for More that will be launching later in 2017. Click here to sign up for the wait list (and get a FREE 30-minute meditation).

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We are all wired to have everything we need to know. All of the intuition and wisdom and knowing that we need to know from within, and each person who has tuned in is a sacred, wise, incredibly powerful being who has things to do on this planet … The best thing in the world you can do is to honor, cherish, and love yourself so that you can give that out to the world, and then go be your best self. Design it, be it, and really add to the well-being of this planet.”

Resources:

Learn more at JulieReisler.com
Connect with Julie: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn
Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery

Ep. 20: Helping ALL Kinds of Kids Be Everything They Can Be | with Temple Grandin

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Temple Grandin, who is a prominent author and speaker on both autism and animal behavior. In 2010, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people, under the “Heroes” category. Her life story was also adapted into the Emmy award-winning HBO movie Temple Grandin.

The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds

“I’m interested in helping individuals be everything they can be.” –Temple Grandin

1 in 68 U.S. children has been identified with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

ASD is a very broad label that most people don’t understand very well, and that does a disservice to those diagnosed. This one label can apply to a Silicon Valley computer programmer, an artist, a college professor, or someone unable to dress themselves… and that’s a real problem.

In Dr. Grandin’s book, The Autistic Brain, she attempts to expand that label and uses neuroimaging to illustrate the different ways that people think:

The artistic, visual mind (like Dr. Grandin)
The mathematical, pattern-oriented mind
The word-oriented, verbal mind

Dr. Grandin’s TED Lecture, "The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds," shares her unique ability to “think in pictures,” and how that ability helps her solve problems differently. In the process, she makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids.

A caring mother, good teachers, and great mentors offered Dr. Grandin opportunities to learn valuable skills and develop her visual mind. Unfortunately, many individuals on the spectrum aren’t given these opportunities, so Dr. Grandin continues to advocate for better education that focuses on a child’s strengths and encourages their potential contributions.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Take a kid’s strengths, build on that strength, and turn it into a career that the individual is going to enjoy as an adult … I just want to see kids that are different get out and become everything that they can be, and have a satisfying career.”

Resources:

Learn more about autism at TempleGrandin.com
Watch: "The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds"
Read Dr. Grandin’s books:

Ep. 19: The Hidden Problem of Child Homelessness (and How You Can Help) | with Marc Bell

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Marc Bell, whose fascinating entrepreneurial journey has led to an incredibly powerful mission: bringing attention to the issue of child homelessness that exists in our own backyard.

Although Marc’s dad said there was no future in computers, Marc’s first entrepreneurial venture, in 1989, was Chairman and CEO of of the Globix Corporation, an early internet infrastructure company with over 28,000 miles of fiber and 1 million square feet of Data Center Space. They were at the forefront of technology; they were one of the first companies to do live video on the internet.

Marc later moved into venture capital work, investing in everything from the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Jersey Boys to pizza restaurants to FriendFinder Networks.

Fostering 70 Kids After Hurricane Irma

Although Marc has been busy as a venture capitalist, you may be more familiar with him from making headlines earlier in 2017:

Marc always tried to give back, but now he’s investing most of his time into the SOS Children’s Village.

The individuals participating in Children’s Village take care of kids whose parents are deceased, incarcerated, or incapable of being with their children. They house them, feed them, clothe them, and help them pursue education – they even have a 100% high school graduation rate and a 100% acceptance rate into college or vocational school.

After Hurricane Irma, Marc put out a call to action and encouraged others to come help. Over 150 people came to help, and he has been able to raise about $150,000 so far.

How You Can Help Make a Difference:

Volunteer at SOS Children’s Village or any other foster care organization around the country.
Talk to your elected officials and keep reminding them that child homelessness is an issue that needs to be addressed, because these kids don’t have a voice in politics.
Donate at SOSFlorida.com or gofundme.com/SOSIrma.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If everyone were to just be nice and help one person a day, the world would just be a much more phenomenal place.”

Resources:

Help make a difference by donating:
SOSFlorida.com
gofundme.com/SOSIrma
Connect with Marc: MarcBell.com | Twitter | LinkedIn

Ep. 18: How to Find Your Awesome & Work-Life Harmony | with Alissa Daire-Nelson

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is… Super Woman? No, it’s Alissa Daire-Nelson! But it’s an easy mistake to make - and she believes that you have superpowers too.

Alissa is an accomplished Success Coach, Speaker, host of the Maximize Your Strengths podcast, and the author of the new book From Frustrated to Frickin' Awesome: 4 Steps to Achieve the Success You're Wired For.

Above all, Alissa is an exceedingly proud wife and mother of two who loves helping others discover how to make their relationships and businesses thrive in harmony.

StrengthsFinder

Alissa’s journey began when she discovered StrengthsFinder, a psychometric tool that Dr. Donald Clifton created through 40 years of research. He comes from the field of positive psychology and, basically, thought people could live happier lives if they focused on what was right with them, as opposed to what was “wrong” with them.

The assessment is a tool for identifying your innate talents, but it is only a tool - it won’t have a significant impact on your life unless you know how to use it. These talents don’t become your strengths until you are using them in a way that gives you energy and serves other people.

Learning how to use the tool by yourself can be difficult, though... and hiring a coach can be prohibitively expensive. That’s why Alissa started the Maximize Your Strengths podcast: she wanted to provide a resource that helps people more easily use this new tool.

You’re awesome, I’m awesome, and we can be even more awesome together.

As StrengthsFinder users gain more insight about themselves, they’re also better able to relate to others. Alissa really wants to help people understand that you shining bright doesn't diminish anyone else’s light.

“You shining bright does not have to detract from anyone else shining bright”

There’s a common fallacy that we should strive to be well-rounded individuals, but we can’t be good at everything - it’s just not possible. When we let go of that idea, we can work together to maximize everyone’s brightness.

From Frustrated to Frickin' Awesome: 4 Steps to Achieve the Success You're Wired For

“When you feel good about you, you’re able to provide more honor and grace to those around you.”

The 4 Steps:

Know thyself. Understand where you thrive, where you don’t, and internalize how awesome you are.
Create a plan. Now that you know yourself, create a plan around that.
Carry out that plan.
Reflect on what worked, what didn’t work, and what you learned about yourself. Rinse and repeat.

If you continually repeat those four steps you will continue to improve, and the best part is that you’ll never be done learning about yourself.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are unique, and you’re uniquely awesome - that in and of itself should make you stand taller and live brighter. Spend some time figuring out what those things are because you’re worth it, and you didn’t end up on this planet by accident.”

Daily Helping listeners can get From Frustrated to Frickin' Awesome for FREE right here.

Resources:

Learn more about Alissa at Daire2Succeed.com
Connect with Alissa: Facebook |
TwitterLearn more about StrengthsFinder

Ep. 17: Cooking at the Intersection of Science, Art, & Passion | with J. Kenji López-Alt

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is J. Kenji López-Alt, who truly followed his passion to create something wonderful and share it with the world. He is the managing culinary director of SeriousEats.com and the author of the James Beard-nominated column The Food Lab, in which he unravels the science of home cooking.

Kenji also wrote the New York Times bestselling book The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, which received a James Beard award and was named Cookbook of the Year in 2015 by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

Kenji has achieved and done so much in the culinary world, but he didn’t necessarily set out to do that – he originally went to MIT to pursue a career in biology.

However, the field of biology is too slow for Kenji’s taste, and he didn’t want to spend the next 10 years as a research assistant. He took a summer off, looked for a waiting job, and walked into a restaurant that was down one prep cook. He was offered the job and started on the spot.

Kenji had never really cooked before in his life, but he loved it.

After undergrad, Kenji started working at restaurants full-time… and he had a lot of questions. Why do we double fry fries? Why do we cook pasta in such large volumes of water? Eventually, he found the answer to these questions, and he’s just kept asking questions ever since… except now he gets paid to answer them.

As managing editor of Serious Eats, Kenji sees first-hand how the internet is changing cooking culture. The average person is exposed to different kinds of cooking, and just more cooking, that inspire them to do more in their own kitchen, on a daily basis.

This universal familiarity with food – the ingredients and the tools – makes the science of food tangible for the average person (more so than, say, biology), and understanding the science of food also helps people elevate the artful side of their cooking.

“Understanding science is really empowering. It really frees you in the kitchen to be more expressive.” –J. Kenji López-Alt

Keep your eyes peeled to kenjilopezalt.com for news about Kenji’s upcoming book, The Food Lab Volume II.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If you make your passion your work, then it doesn’t feel like work… and when you start making your passion your work, you’ll find that a lot more opportunities open up because you spend a lot more time doing the things you love; you spend a lot more time involved with the community; and you’ll find that a lot more good opportunities come your way when you’re really passionate about what you do.”

Resources:

Connect with Kenji: kenjilopezalt.com | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Read Kenji’s column: The Food Lab
Pick up your copy: The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

Ep. 16: Celebrate Your Unique Gifts & Other Lessons Learned from Peak Performers | with Molly Fletcher

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Molly Fletcher, who was hailed as the “female Jerry Maguire” by CNN. Molly inspires audiences around the world as a keynote speaker, drawing on success stories from her former life as a sports agent and sharing lessons that she learned from those at the top of their game.

One of the most important lessons that Molly learned from working with peak performers is that they lean into discomfort – they embrace it, and they recognize that on the other side of discomfort is growth.

When Molly first became a sports agent, she was the only female sports agent… so there were a number of obstacles between her and the incredible success she achieved (she successfully negotiated over $500 million in contracts).

It’s all about how you think about the obstacles along your journey – are they actually obstacles, or are they opportunities?

Molly had to shift her mindset, look at things differently, and celebrate the fact that she was different. It was a gift that athletes remembered her when they were on the range; it was a gift that they had her back when she was behind the dugout; it was a gift that she was able to connect with and serve not only the men she represented, but also their wives.

Want to maximize your influence and unleash your potential like Molly? Check out her new podcast, Game Changers with Molly Fletcher. Each episode, she’ll take you behind the scenes with peak performers to learn what makes them tick and discover how you can apply their lessons to your life.

You can dig even deeper into Molly’s incredible insight and experiences in her newest book, Fearless at Work: Achieve Your Potential by Transforming Small Moments into Big Outcomes.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Stay curious. The more curious we can stay, the more opportunities there are for people to influence us in a positive way, every day, all around us.”

Listen to podcasts, read books, and be a lifelong learner!

Resources:

Learn more at MollyFletcher.com
Listen to Game Changers with Molly Fletcher
Connect with Molly: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube
Read Molly’s books:
Fearless at Work: Achieve Your Potential by Transforming Small Moments into Big Outcomes

Ep. 15: Strengthen Your Posture & Improve Your Health | with Steven Weiniger

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Steven Weiniger, an internationally-renowned posture expert. He literally wrote the book on posture: Stand Taller~Live Longer. In addition to a busy speaking calendar, he is a prolific writer and serves as managing partner of BodyZone.com, an online health resource and referral directory.

Most recently, Dr. Weiniger developed PostureZone, a free app that encourages people to assess their own posture and offers tips for postural improvement.

What is a posture specialist?

A posture specialist can help you become aware of your posture, assess what you do with your body, and then teach you how to strengthen your posture.

Your posture isn’t inherently good or bad. Different bodies are shaped differently, and posture is a very personal thing. Improving your posture is about accurately connecting with your body and moving it in a way that’s better adapted for the world.

What effect does posture have on your health?

Most obviously, there’s back pain and neck pain, which are epidemic.
People lose height as they get older. However, a 20-year study looking at men's height observed that the people who lost the most height were 64% more likely to die during the study. They concluded that hunching over negatively affects your health because it compresses your chest and you can’t breathe as deeply.
Another study looking at the head posture of women over 60 observed that participants who could not lay on their back and keep their head level had a 1.44x greater risk of dying during the 4.2 year study.

What are strategies for strengthening your posture?

The way we use smart devices, particularly phones and tablets, is changing our posture. Obviously, you can’t quit your phone cold turkey, but you can make the choices to live intelligently in the world we live in:

Instead of putting your head down to your phone, on your shoulder, lift your phone up to your head and look straight forward.
At the same time, stabilize your torso by pulling your shoulders back and down, putting your elbows into your sides, and then lifting your hand up so your phone is in front of your face.

If you often work at a desk, which can’t be avoided, you can optimize your work environment so that you don’t have to be constantly mindful of maintaining good posture.

Use an adjustable sit and stand desk. The body is designed to move, so being able to adjust the desk is important.
If you have to take a phone call, try using a headset and taking a walk while you do it.
Take frequent, short breaks to move a little bit and, ideally, do mini posture exercises. This strategy also works well for frequent flyers.

ACE your posture:

Awareness - There’s always a path towards improvement, but you have to be aware of where you are now if you want to improve.
Control - It only takes a few minutes or a couple proactive choices to improve your posture on a daily basis.
Environment - Changing your environment will promote good habits that allow you to maintain stronger posture.

PostureZone

PostureZone is a free app that will show the user, using a picture of them, where their body is in space. It’s a simple and useful tool for postural awareness.

Your posture is what you are doing, when you’re not thinking about it, to balance your body. At all times, you’re balancing these key posture zones:

Head over torso
Torso over pelvis
Pelvis over where you’re standing

The app brackets those masses, calculates the center of those masses, and offers a numerical observation that shows the angle of deviation from straight vertical.

Many people think that they can stand tall when they want to, but they’re wrong. People who use the app are sometimes blown away by the difference between their perception of where their body is and the photographic reality.

Dr. Weiniger isn't trying to promote perfect posture – the app gives you a benchmark of how you’re standing when you think you’re standing tall so you can measure improvement over time.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

First, become aware of your posture and connect with what it feels like to stand tall.

Afterwards, try to strengthen that by improving your balance. The first exercise that Dr. Weiniger teaches people is called Stork: stand tall and lift one leg up to your thighs, 90 degrees from the ground, and take five slow breaths.

If you can’t balance without support, that’s fine. The goal isn’t balancing – the goal is standing tall.

Resources:

Learn more: BodyZone.com | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
Download the app: PostureZone
Pick up your copy of Stand Taller~Live Longer: An Anti-Aging Strategy
Watch Amy Cuddy’s TEDTalk: “Your body language may shape who you are”
PostureMonth.org

Ep. 14: The Go-Giver Way | with Bob Burg

Mon, 04 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Can a subtle shift in focus really make much of a difference in your business and your income?

Today our expert guest is Bob Burg, and he says the answer to the above question is YES! Bob is a firm advocate, supporter, and defender of the Free Enterprise System; he believes that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve.

Bob is also the author of a number of books on marketing, sales, and influence, including co-authoring The Go-Giver.

If you’re not familiar, the basic premise of The Go-Giver is to shift the reader’s focus from getting to giving. In this context, Giving means “constantly and consistently providing value to others,” whether that’s in your personal or professional life.

This isn’t just a pleasant way to live life – it attracts success, and not just financial success.

Success can be financial, physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, social, or relational… but when people are focused on giving value to others, they tend to be happier, healthier, wealthier, and successful in all of those ways that success can be measured.

The 5 (Somewhat Counter-Intuitive) Laws of Stratospheric Success

In The Go-Giver, Bob and John David Mann write about the 5 Laws of Stratospheric Success. They found that ANY sustainably profitable business is using all of these five things:

Value – Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payout.
Compensation – Your income is determined by how many people you serve, and how well you serve them.
Influence – Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place others’ interests first.
Authenticity – The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.
Receptivity – The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving; we both breathe and we breathe in.

How do you add value (without losing money)?

Bob has found that there are 5 Elements of Value:

Excellence – Both doing your core competency really well & how you make other people feel. “The single greatest people skill is a highly developed and authentic interest in the other person.”
Consistency – “You are as you are, day in and day out.”
Attention – Attention to detail, and attention to people as human beings. What are they saying, how are they feeling, and what are they not saying?
Empathy – “Communicating empathy doesn’t necessarily mean you know how they feel. It means you communicate that you understand they’re feeling something, and this something is distressful to them, but you’re there to help them through it.” It’s possibly the most important skill, and it’s a skill because not everyone is born with it but anyone can learn it.
Appreciation – Notice the things that other people do or say that make a difference, big or small, and point them out. Don’t just say thank you – mean it.

When you can honestly communicate all of these five elements, you will attract an army of personal ambassadors who want to share your message.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

A mentor once told Bob, “If you want to make a lot of money in sales, don’t have making money as your target – your target is serving others…. Never forget that the money is simply the reward for hitting the target; it’s not the target itself. Your target is serving others.”

Resources:

Connect with Bob: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | YouTube
Learn more at TheGoGiver.com
Pick up your copy of The Go-Giver
Listen to The Go-Giver Podcast

Ep. 13: Accept the Call to Entrepreneurial Adventure | with Ande Lyons

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Ande Lyons, Founder & Chief Possibility Officer of Possibility Partners. She mentors startup and early-stage entrepreneurs, while providing tools and resources to help them launch, brand, and build their businesses.

We discuss what the entrepreneurial “call to adventure” is, how she empowers entrepreneurs, and how you can build a business that succeeds.

Bring Back Desire

Before Possibility Partners, Ande launched three businesses, one of which was Bring Back Desire: “A tasteful, playful website sharing tips, tools and resources for women who want more intimacy, sensuality and sexual excitement in their lives.”

After 3½ years of success, she didn’t hear a calling from the business anymore, and she was always driven by passion and purpose. Eventually, she heard a new call...

Guiding Entrepreneurial Adventurers

“Every event brings you a deeper relationship with your beloved self and your beloved life, and this is especially true for the courageous, entrepreneurial adventurer.“

Ande’s core value has always been shining a spotlight and enhancing others, so she fits very naturally in the startup world. She’s able use her business to serve people, and help them be more positive, by bringing out their unique gifts and guiding them on the path to adventure.

You can find tips for entrepreneurs in Ande’s new video series: Ask Ande Startup Solutions

Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

“You have to build those ‘comfortable being uncomfortable’ muscles.”

Risk and opportunity are inseparable, so being risk averse can prevent entrepreneurs from taking full advantage of their skills and opportunities. However, with help, you can learn how to stay focused on what you need to accomplish despite feelings of uncertainty.

The Brand Promise

“You have to build your brand from the heart.”

The entrepreneurial space is crowded, so you will be confronted with thousands of other people doing something similar to what you do. The only way entrepreneurs can differentiate themselves is through their brand promise, or the emotional connection between you and your audience.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Life happens for you – not to you. Every event brings you a deeper relationship with your beloved self and your beloved life, and this is especially true for the courageous, entrepreneurial adventurer.”

Resources:

Connect with Ande: AndeLyons.com | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Watch Ande’s new video series: Ask Ande Startup Solutions
Read Ande’s favorite business books:
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works by Ash Maurya
Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business by Chris Ducker

Ep. 12: Learning to Allow Your Magnificence | with Susan Winter

Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Susan Winter, a bestselling author and relationship expert specializing in higher thinking for an evolving world. She writes, speaks, and coaches on cutting-edge partnership models, as well as traditional relationship challenges, from a platform that fosters self-esteem and personal empowerment.

Susan’s first book, Older Women/Younger Men, opened the hearts and minds of readers worldwide to the validity of this type of age-gap love. Susan’s second book, Allowing Magnificence, completely reframes how we view life’s challenges, empowering the reader to reconnect with the limitless power they already possess.

Susan continues to write about relationships and love as a contributing writer for The Huffington Post and The Good Men Project.

Older Women/Younger Men

“When our authenticity collides with what we are doing, we make a choice that is right for us… and it may not be the choice that others endorse.”

Susan wrote her first book after one of her relationships caused a literal witch hunt: she had a TV show called Higher Ground throughout the North East, and a petition was sent to local outlets claiming she was a witch and a prostitute (and a lesbian).

She can laugh at it now, but at the time it was very hurtful. They couldn’t just be in love; she had to have him under a spell, and there had to be something perverted about it.

Allowing Magnificence

“The things that we call challenges can actually be reframed.”

Susan’s second book is, thematically, radically different.

Throughout most of her life, Susan doubted her take on the world; her internal answer was always so different from her parents and everybody else around her.

Through a series of dating mishaps and research, Susan started to trust herself – and she gave herself permission to live a life driven by her own understanding of the world. Life is guiding us, and most challenges can be reframed as something trying to reroute you to a new path.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

In today’s modern world, with all of our shifting technology and social media, nothing beats character, and nothing you do is more beats who you are when you do it.

Resources:

Connect with Susan: Website | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | LinkedIn

Ep. 11: Living with Purpose at the Intersection of Life & Leadership | with Alli Polin

Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Alli Polin, a former senior executive with deep experience in leadership, change management, and organization development who is driven to help others create a full life and achieve professional success. We discuss how people can achieve success through Personal Leadership, and how parents can foster leadership in their kids.

Alli’s award-winning blog, Break the Frame, draws on leadership lessons from daily life as a catalyst for breakthrough change and inspires people to engage more purposefully at the intersection of life and leadership.

She also wrote one of the 16 stories in Energize Your Leadership: Discover, Ignite, Break Through, a book that helps people discover new ways to get energized, ignite energy in others, and ignite their workplace to break through and create a dynamic future.

What is the difference between Organizational Leadership & Personal Leadership?

“We’re all leaders of our lives. We’re all theoretically able to take control and make decisions for ourselves, and that’s not based on where we work.” –Alli Polin

Organizational leadership is typically based on hierarchy, and the people have accountability and responsibility based on their position.

Personal Leadership has very little to do with your level. It’s really about being true to living with your values, living with integrity, and leading your life.

How does someone develop Personal Leadership skills?

There are three elements of personal leadership that you have to develop: Confidence, Competence, and Creativity.

The Confidence to speak up and stand up for what you believe in, and for others (whether it’s a personal relationship or an organizational setting).
Competence is continuing to grow yourself, invest in yourself, and learn more about yourself.
Creativity is about intentionally stretching yourself and challenging yourself to get out of the rut of daily life, and to bring a spark of change. Creativity isn’t about being an artist – it’s about finding new pathways that diverge from the old.

Everyday Leadership

Everyday Leadership is an idea very closely connected to Personal Leadership, and the central conceit is simple: leadership doesn’t only belong in a board room.

When you go out of your way to offer small acts of kindness, help people feel less alone, and generally acknowledging other people’s humanity, you are practicing Everyday Leadership.

The Parent’s Guide to Leadership

One of Alli’s passions is fostering leadership in children, which led her to co-authoring the Parent’s Guide to Leadership.

Alli and her co-author share personal stories, the lessons that those stories taught them, and what they then taught their children about being leaders.

They also include activities, book recommendations, conversation starters, coloring pages, and more ways to engage with your child on the topic of leadership.

The best part? The book is free! Click here to sign up for updates about the publication of the upcoming children’s picture book, I’m Not a Leader, and get immediate access to the Parent’s Guide to Leadership.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

A cornerstone of Personal Leadership is taking responsibility for your choices. “Don’t shoot for a busy life with bragging rights. Create a full life that’s filled with more than one dimension and, whatever it is you value … don’t wait until you retire to honor those values – do it now.”

Resources:

Learn more at Break The Frame
Connect with Alli on Twitter: @AlliPolin
Parent’s Guide to Leadership
Energize Your Leadership: Discover, Ignite, Break Through

Ep. 10: Be an Opportunity Maker | with Kare Anderson

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Kare Anderson, an Emmy-winning former NBC and Wall Street Journal reporter, now connective behavior speaker and columnist for Forbes and Huffington Post.

In Kare’s TEDTalk, The Web of Humanity: Becoming an Opportunity Maker, she mentions being a phobically shy, stuttering young girl. However, a couple influential teachers and mentors gave her opportunities to find greater motivation.

“It’s hard to overcome something. It’s easier to supplant something with a greater motivation.”

One of these mentors helped her realize that was insatiably curious with a talent for asking questions, and that was the greatest thing he taught her: “the capacity to tell someone about a talent they have, that they’re unaware of, is wonderful.”

It’s vital that we learn more about ourselves because, until we know how we’re wired, we are living life reactively.

These experiences were incredibly influential in Kare’s life, and they led her to studying and speaking about connective human behavior.

Communicating to Connect

One of the behaviors she’s studied is how people can communicate to connect.

The key, she believes, is specificity. Once we get specific, we gain greater self-clarification and people listen sooner – so specificity not only increases clarity, but also credibility and memorability.
Incorporate Triangle Talk: address someone else’s interest, confirm that is of interest to them, and suggest a way your interests coincide.
Speak with AIR: make your communications Actionable, Interesting, and Relevant.

Opportunity Makers

It’s increasingly important that we connect with others because the world needs more opportunity makers: people can see an opportunities or problems and then forge the right team to solve a problem or seize an opportunity, better and faster than others.

An important skill for solving problems, especially in our politically polarized climate, is fostering mutuality: the ability to draw people away from conflict by creating or offering a better and mutually-appreciated action.

Kare believes that, if we want a more meaningful life that’s more adventurous, we should embrace the opportunity to bring the right people together to support an action that matters to them – and we should take any opportunity to support others by highlighting their positive aspects, even if they’re not aware of it themselves.

By being mindful of others in this way, and supporting them, we can connect others and help them find mutuality.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Specificity is key to almost anything in life, so Kare wants you to think about two things:

What is your highest mission in life? Describe it in a way that is so concrete that other people understand what you mean.
What are the 2-3 hot buttons that cause you to be most reactionary?

By getting clear about those things, you’ll have a better understanding of what you might want to do differently in your daily life, and who you might want to bring into it.

Resources:

Learn more at SayItBetter.com
TEDTalk: The Web of Humanity: Becoming an Opportunity Maker
Pick up Kare’s books:
Mutuality Matters: How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
Moving From Me to We

Ep. 9: Leadership Empowerment: How to Lead from Where You Are | with Terri Klass

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:52:41 +0000

Today our expert guest is Terri Klass, a leadership training consultant and speaker who partners with organizations to create cultures of empowerment and develop future leadership. She believes that, regardless of your position or title, anyone can be a leader.

Terri delivers highly successful leadership workshops, writes a weekly blog on the challenges leaders face daily, and co-authored the book Energize Your Leadership: Discover, Ignite, Break Through.

What does leadership empowerment mean?

Terri defines Empowerment as “the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one’s life and claiming one’s rights.”

Leadership empowerment takes it to the next level because we really need to take initiative to make something better in our personal or professional lives. To become more confident, stronger, and gain more control over our lives, we need to take action by leveraging our unique gifts and talents.

Leadership empowerment also involves taking responsibility and holding ourselves accountable for our own actions.

We all need control over our own lives, or to steer the boat of our own life’s direction.

However, sometimes something happens and we feel out of control. That’s when we need to locate our unique strengths and figure out how we can use them to take the control back.

We can discover our unique gifts by…

Paying attention to why other people come to us for help. What are the specific things people turn to you for?
Asking people that you trust, and feel confident with, what they perceive as our strengths.

Lead from where you are. You don’t need a title or a crown – you can lead from any position.

“The only thing we need to do, if we want to lead, is take action, take responsibility, and make a difference.” –Terri Klass

As long as we do our best and try to add value, we are leading, and through that we will keep growing.

You can’t empower everyone within an organization to lead from where they are if you don’t, first, create a culture of accountability.

Accountability is when everybody feels like they are part of something – a team and a vision. If they feel like they belong, and they feel like their contributions are appreciated, then everyone starts to perform at their peak.

What happens when there’s conflict, and people don’t feel empowered?

The most important part of dealing with conflict is listening. If you keep an open mind and an open heart, you can really hear how another person is feeling and understand their perspective.

Often, at the heart of conflict is a difference in perspective. If we talk about our different perspectives and come to a mutual understanding of how they’re different, we can figure out ways to blend those perspectives together.

The big thing we DON’T want to do is blame someone else when there is conflict – that’s the opposite of being accountable.

Energize Your Leadership shares stories from 16 different leaders about how each of them became exhausted and overwhelmed by conflict, and how they overcame those obstacles. It’s not a textbook – it’s all human stories that we can relate to.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We all can lead from wherever we are, regardless of our title; regardless of our position. No matter where we are in life, we can be leaders. We don’t need to wait for someone to ask us to step up – we can step up ourselves and make the first move to help others, and in helping others actually help grow ourselves”

Resources:

Learn more at TerriKlassConsulting.com
Connect with Terri: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn

Ep. 8: Discipline, Passion & The Riddle of Iron | with Greg Schop

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Greg Schop. He is a former teenage bodybuilding competitor, a certified personal trainer, an English professor, and a published author.

His latest book, Huge in High School: Fitness for Life, has started a grassroots movement to help parents and students build a framework that establishes the foundation for long-term success.

Greg started weight lifting when he was 12 years old, and (inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger) he continued to practice bodybuilding throughout high school. This practice created the foundation for Greg’s future goals and lifestyle.

Juggling body building and typical high school life requires a rigid schedule – wake up, go to school, work out, do homework, eat, go to bed, repeat. The discipline stuck with Greg, and it still helps him get things done.

Greg’s experience highlights something important: the things we do in our formative years stick with us, for better or for worse, and they can lead us to our passions. You are building a foundation for your life as you enter adulthood, and laying a structured foundation can help you in the long term.

Do you want to join the #HugeInHighschool movement? If you’re in high school (or you know somebody who is), share something that you do and you are passionate about on social media using the hashtag. It doesn’t have to be related to fitness – It’s all about developing the discipline and courage it takes to live a big life that is right for YOU.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaways

Live to lift another day. You have a long life ahead of you – take your time, don’t take shortcuts, and be safe.
While you’re in high school, find your passions… and follow them for your entire life.

Resources:

Connect with Greg: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter
Check out www.TheSchop.com for Greg’s blog posts, poetry, and books
Huge in High School: Fitness for Life by G. C. Schop

Ep. 7: Growing Friendships: How Parents Can Help Their Children Make & Keep Friends | with Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Mon, 17 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, an internationally published author, psychologist, and speaker. Her newest book is Growing Friendships: A Kid’s Guide to Making and Keeping Friends.

She is also a professor for The Great Courses, blogger for Psychology Today, an expert contributor to PBS Parents, and the author of two books for parents, Smart Parenting for Smart Kids and The Unwritten Rules of Friendship and What About Me? 12 Ways to Get Your Parents’ Attention Without Hitting Your Sister.

Friendship is Fundamental

“If you want kids to be happier, help them make friends. If you want them to be more engaged in school, help them make friends. If you want them to be less likely to be bullied, friends… it’s kind of the answer to everything.”

As a clinical psychologist, Eileen has seen how important friendship is for kids. Every parent has seen their child struggle with friend relationships, and these can be very painful for children.

The good news is that there’s a lot that parents can do to ease the rough spots and help kids get along with other people.

How do Kids Make Friends?

Before you can help your children get along with other people, it’s good to understand how children think of other people and make friends at the different stages of their life.

These are the stages of friendship established by Robert Selman, which relate to children’s developing awareness of themselves and others:

Ages 3-6 – The “I want it might way” stage. Kids assume that their friends think the same way that they do. They love the idea of having friends, but they aren’t very good at being friends.
Ages 7-12 – The “two-way fairweather / by the rules” stage. Kids are very concerned about fairness, and they think about it in a quid pro quo way. They also tend to be very judgemental about themselves and others, and they can be very jealous. This is also the age where kids tend to make secret clubs.
Ages 8-15 – The “caring is sharing” stage. Kids help each other solve problems, confide thoughts and feelings, and are able to compromise.
Ages 12+ - The “mature friendship” stage. Kids place a high value on emotional closeness, can accept and appreciate differences between themselves and friends, and start to emphasize trust and support. They also want to stay close over time, even when they’re separated.

Warning Signs?

If you’re a parent, ask yourself these two questions:

Does your child have at least one relationship in which they like and are liked by another child?
Do they have someone to hang out with at lunch or recess?

Everybody has bad days, but there are signs that your child might need help navigating their relationships. It’s important to pay attention to the level of distress and how long it lasts. If your child stays stuck feeling down or thinking nobody likes them, then you might want to consider talking to a psychologist.

Non-voluntary isolation is also concerning. If they don’t have someone who likes them back, they are at greater risk for bullying, depression, and negative self thought.

There’s also times where you shouldn’t worry. Some kids are just introverts who need quiet alone time to recharge, and they tend to be loners. If they can interact when they want to, it’s okay.

The Ingredients of Good Friendships

Kids have to show an openness to friendship. To do this, they have to greet people that they know or reach out in small ways (e.g. compliments, small kindnesses) to show they like people. Kind children are usually well-liked by their peers.
Parents can help children with this by role playing greetings and teaching them to communicate with nonverbal signals.
Kids start to believe the “magnet theory” of friendship, where they will attract people to them through being great, but friendships are two-way relationships between equals.
Similarity. Kids are more likely to be friends with people are similar to them, particularly in interests and personality.One of the most helpful things parents can do for their kids is arrange one-on-one play dates because that’s what allows friendships to deepen.
Shared fun. Kids make friends by doing stuff together.

Dr. Friendtastic

Eileen has a website for children called DrFriendtastic.com that includes friendship questions, quizzes, cute animals, and advice (with a strong dose of silliness). It’s a playful and fun way for children to discover the information they need to learn about getting along.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Kindness is the key to friendship.

It’s that simple and that complicated. There are a lot of criteria that our kids may or may not meet, but kindness is something that every child (and adult!) can achieve – and they can do it multiple times every day.

Resources:

Connect with Eileen: Website | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
Dr. Friendtastic - a website for kids
Read Eileen’s blog: Growing Friendships on Psychology Today
Growing Friendships: A Kid’s Guide to Making and Keeping Friends by Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Ep. 6: Loss, Love, & Courageous Change | with Debra Oakland

Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is the international bestselling author Debra Oakland, who is an advocate for prioritizing joy and living your most courageous, authentic life. She is the Founder of Living in Courage Online, a spiritual oasis for overcoming life’s biggest challenges.

In Change Your Movie, Change Your Life: 7 Reel Concepts for Courageous Change, Debra goes into the core concepts that have helped guide her through adversity and shares ideas you can use to manifest your best life.

Loss & Love

Over the course of just four years, Debra experienced unimaginable loss: two brothers, two children, and her father all passed away.

Debra asked herself a simple question: What would they want from me?

The people who love us want us to be happy – so Debra decided she would honor the people who have passed by living a happy life, living her joy, and sharing the power of living in courage.

Change Your Movie, Change Your Life: 7 Reel Concepts for Courageous Change

“Everything you need is inside of you. Tap into that... You’ll find the answers.”

Debra’s book introduces readers to the seven concepts that form her belief system:

Conscious Choice
Wisdom
Love
Purity
Concentrated Illumination
Peace
Rhythm

After going over each concept, Debra shares a personal storyboard and offers a blank one for the reader to fill out. She also includes a movie treatment telling the same story two different ways, with two different endings, showing how your conscious choices affect the outcome of your life.

You’re the writer, director, editor, and producer of your life’s movie – if you don’t like something, change the script.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s (Two) Most Important Takeaway

You are not alone. If you need help, ask for it – and if you love someone, lend a helping hand. We all go through challenges in this life and no one escapes them.
Gratitude is the most important thing that you can hold onto. Remind yourself, every day, what you are grateful for.

Resources:

Connect with Debra: DebraOakland.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Change Your Movie, Change Your Life: 7 Reel Concepts for Courageous Change by Debra Oakland

Ep. 5: Secrets of a Strong Mind | with LaRae Quy

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is LaRae Quy, who was an undercover counterintelligence FBI agent for 24 years. As a former U.S. agent, LaRae speaks and consults on no-nonsense FBI practices that help people develop the mental toughness they need to manage their emotions, behavior, and thinking so they can set themselves up for success.

LaRae is also the author of Mental Toughness for Women Leaders and Secrets of a Strong Mind.

Secrets of a Strong Mind

After retiring from the FBI, LaRae started writing Secrets of a Strong Mind.

Using her own life experience as an example – from her first pony Socks to Quantico to her time as a spokesperson – she reveals the six core components needed to move through barriers so we can lead our life from a place of personal strength.

“Every one of us, inside, has a story that will create a strong mind.”

We all have a story from our past, maybe a failure, that we can use to connect our passion to willpower and keep moving through any obstacle.

If you don’t know what that story is, you need to look inward. The most important person you will ever get to know is yourself.

Mental Toughness

The pillars of mental toughness:

You can’t have mental toughness without emotional intelligence – understanding yourself and understanding others; the ability to communicate with others – and emotional competency. Do you understand how you present yourself to people and develop relationships?
If you are resilient and you hit a roadblock, you will be confident that you can keep going. To be confident, you need to know how you will respond when you’re faced with the unknown – you can’t simply react or hope you will respond in the correct way.
You need the willpower to push past your comfort zone and limits. When times are tough and you’re looking for an answer, are you persistent? Can you set goals that drive you to improve without disheartening you?
The toughest people have a champion’s mindset: they can think harder about positive information to counter their bias towards negative information. For every negative thought in your brain, it takes five positive thoughts to counteract it.

The biggest obstacles to mental toughness are your own limiting beliefs. Although these beliefs are often seeded by other people, only you can make the beliefs true.

Overcoming those beliefs, again, comes back to confidence. Too many people are afraid to revisit their own failures or negative experiences, but that’s how we learn more about ourselves; that’s how we mine the significance of our own stories.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Mental toughness is believing that you will prevail in your circumstances, rather than believing that your circumstances will change. You have what it takes in order to prevail in your circumstances.”

Resources:

Connect with LaRae Quy: LaRaeQuy.com | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
Mental Toughness for Women Leaders: 52 Tips To Recognize and Utilize Your Greatest Strengths by LaRae Quy
Secrets of a Strong Mind: What My Years As An FBI Counterintelligence Agent Taught Me About Leadership and Empowerment—And How To Make It Work For You by LaRae Quy

Ep. 4: How to Master Your Emotional Response to Stress & Develop a Stress-Proof Brain | with Melanie Greenberg

Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our guest expert is Dr. Melanie Greenberg, who specializes in managing stress, love, and relationships using proven techniques from neuroscience, mindfulness, and positive psychology. She uses these techniques to educate, support, heal, and inspire people so that they can overcome emotional barriers to fulfilling their potential.

In Dr. Greenberg’s bestselling book, The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity, she examines health through the lens of the biopsychosocial model. Basically, she looks at mental health and health as the combined effects of your mind, body, and spirit.

How does the biopsychosocial approach work in practice?

For example, someone may comes into Dr. Greenberg’s practice with chronic pain. This pain makes them feel helpless and depressed, and this puts a strain on their social relationships. All of that can make the objective experience of the pain worse.

In treating this person, Dr. Greenberg would try to move them away from strictly using medicine to cure their pain, explain how stress can worsen physical pain, help them see how their thoughts and feelings affect the pain (so that they might feel less helpless), and coach them to interact with social relationships in a way that would empower the theoretical patient.

Everything interacts.

Exploring The Stress-Proof Brain

Dr. Greenberg describes stress as an automatic response that can trigger you into a state of flight or fight, in which you fall into an automatic response pattern. In the book, she offers readers tools they can use to manage that response and, instead, leverage its positive aspects.

By taking advantage of neuroplasticity, or your brain’s ability to change through experience, you can rewire your brain to shift from responses that promote stress to healthier responses. This is important on many levels.

On a biological level, stress can literally be a killer – it creates inflammation, changes blood pressure, depress the immune system, and more. In the short-term, this isn’t terribly harmful.

In the long term, continued stress can erode your immune system, develop into significant inflammation in the pathways going to your heart, and affect your glucose production. The negative results of stress can also compound other health problems, or other symptoms of stress.

On a social level, stress can make people angry, argumentative, and more likely to saying things they regret. It can get in the way of relationships and drive people away.

On top of all that, we often have unhealthy responses to stress. Sometimes we drink to excess, over eat, stop exercising, and generally stop taking care of ourselves. Those unhealthy cycles just add to the feedback loop.

One powerful tool for lessening or relieving stress is mindfulness. Mindfulness is meditation, but it’s also much more – it’s an attitude.

“Mindfulness is an open, compassionate attitude towards your own inner experience.”

–Dr. Melanie Greenberg

Mindfulness will teach you to see your judging thoughts, negativity, reactivity, and fear, and then create some distance between you and those responses so that you understand that those thoughts don’t define you.

If make that a regular practice then, over time, you can learn the difference between your direct experience in the body and the judging thoughts that you cling to. As a result, you will be able to decrease the power of negative thoughts over your life.

As you develop familiarity with mindfulness, you can employ it to change your life at work, online, and in relationships.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Stress is a natural part of life. It doesn’t have to own you – it doesn’t have to get in the way of your health and happiness. If you learn to manage your brain’s automatic fight or flight response then you can put an end to unhealthy responses to stress, become more mindful, and develop greater compassion.

You can start the rewiring process by beginning a mindfulness practice today, even if it’s just five minutes a day. The most important part of the practice is consistency.

You can begin to learn mindfulness through a specific type of meditation:

Focus on your breath as an anchor and watch it go in and out
During this process, your breath will naturally slow down
As you’re trying to watch your breath, your mind will likely wander to a judging thought (e.g. this isn’t working, I’m not doing this properly)
In the moment that you can catch that thought, notice that you’re having it and bring your attention back to the breath
You now have a little bit more power over how you focus your attention and a little bit more self-awareness

Resources:

The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity by Melanie Greenberg, PhD
Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) by Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn

Ep. 3: Creating Brain-Controlled Medical Devices & Their Potential Applications | with Dr. Nicholas Opie

Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. Nicholas Opie. He is a biomedical engineer with experience in neural prosthesis, co-head of the Vascular Bionics Laboratory, and Founder of pioneering endovascular bionics company Synchron, Inc.

Vascular bionics combine biology and medical electronics in the bloodstream. Devices like stents and pacemakers are currently using blood vessels, and Dr. Opie sees these as an opportunity to access the brain without open brain surgery.

These bionics have potential applications for individuals who suffer from paralysis, traumatic brain injuries, and degenerative diseases.

Making Technology Applicable

Too often, engineers and researchers create something fantastic that never reaches clinical use. Synchron is devoted to making these technological breakthroughs medically applicable.

They’re currently developing STENTRODE™, the world’s first endovascular electrode array. It is a minimally invasive implantable device designed to interpret signals from the brain, and Synchron is currently preparing for a pilot clinical trial of the device.

They plan to evaluate the safety and feasibility of the device to enable patient-directed brain control over mobility assist devices. He’s confident people will be able to control wheel chairs and computers using the device, and his ambitious goal is that the technology will also allow people to control prosthetic limbs.

In just the United States, there are about 6.9 million people who are paralyzed. “If we can help even a small fraction of those, then everything we’re doing is worthwhile.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

If you enjoy what you do, then it’s not working.

“That’s what I like to live by. Everything I do is because it’s something I enjoy and it’s something I want to do. I think if everyone can take that bit of advice and do what they are passionate about, then their lives will be a lot happier and they’ll have a great time doing it.”

Resources:

Learn More: Vascular Bionics Laboratory | Synchron, Inc.
Read through Dr. Opie’s Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) on brain-controlled devices and neural implants

Ep. 2: How to Understand Body Language & Communicate Positivity | with Dr. John Paul Garrison

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Dr. John Paul Garrison. He is a licensed psychologist, published author, and an expert in nonverbal communication and detecting deception. He received specialized training from the Paul Ekman Group and achieved expert-level status in micro expressions, subtle face expression, and law enforcement.

John developed the ARC Analysis system, a methodology originally used to teach law enforcement to identify and react to nonverbal behaviors they observe in potential suspects. He’s since adapted the system to help business leaders increase their interpersonal intuition, and he shares how anyone can benefit from a better understanding of nonverbal communication.

Nonverbal communication is what the brain recognizes unconsciously; it’s what an individual’s body movements suggest. These involuntary movements are a manifestation of your emotions, which are controlled by the limbic system of your brain. For example...

When someone doesn’t move their arms while they’re walking, they’re trying to hide.
When someone crosses their arms, they are looking for defense or comfort.
When someone is seated and locks their feet together, they’re trying not to say something.
When someone stands with their legs apart, the farther apart they are, the more dominant and defensive they are trying to be (typical ‘alpha male’ behavior).

John teaches people to recognize and understand these unconscious behaviors so that they can better communicate, without speaking. This is where the ARC Analysis system comes into play.

ARC = Action, Reason, Concern

An action is a behavior you see.
The reason is the context of why an individual engages in a specific action.
The concern is, as you might expect, the reaction you feel associated with the observed behavior.

ARC was originally designed to identify deception, but it’s since been expanded to help users develop their intuition and emotional intelligence. John defines emotional intelligence as an individual's capacity to recognize their own emotions, as well as other people’s emotions, and experience empathy.

If you aren’t in law enforcement, counter terrorism, or a Fortune 500 company, understanding nonverbal communication can still be incredibly useful! When you understand how your own unconscious behaviors are related to your limbic system, and your feelings, you can start to control the nonverbal messages you send and the way you are perceived.

John is currently adapting the ARC Analysis system for couples, who have some of the most exaggerated and strongest nonverbal language. Understanding each other, nonverbally, can make a world of difference.

We need to train in reading nonverbal communication because contextualizing behavior – ascribing reason to a particular action – is very nuanced. Some behaviors aren’t consistently the result of a specific feeling, and some behaviors don’t indicate the feeling you might expect. We need to understand the science to understand the context.

Shaky hands can have a lot of meanings (e.g. cold, poor blood flow, nervous), but if someone’s hands start shaking in the middle of a conversation then that person had a strong adrenaline rush.
Flaring nostrils doesn’t necessarily mean someone is angry; it means someone is trying to oxidate the body, and greater oxidation means someone is preparing for action.
People squint, sometimes called eye blocking or shielding, after hearing something they don’t like.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We are always communicating with each other. Always.”

You really need to learn what your body is saying to other people, and what people are silently saying to you. When you can do that, you can adapt your behaviors and make other people feel better.

If you know what to look for when people are feeling defensive, then you know what to do to make yourself open… and if you can make yourself open, as uncomfortable as it might be, you will receive a better reaction from other people.

Resources:

Learn more at DrJPGarrison.com
Subscribe to Dr. Garrison’s YouTube Channel: What The Psych
Watch John’s short YouTube series: “How to spot lying using hidden body language with Dr. John Garrison”

Ep. 1: Love, The Moral Molecule & Trust | with Paul J. Zak (AKA Dr. Love)

Mon, 05 Jun 2017 10:00:00 +0000

Today our expert guest is Paul J. Zak. He is on a quest to understand the neuroscience of human connection, human happiness, and effective teamwork. His latest book, Trust Factor, uses neuroscience to measure and manage organizational cultures to inspire teamwork and accelerate business outcomes.

His quest has taken him from the Pentagon to Fortune 50 boardrooms to the rainforest of New Guinea and, finally, to The Daily Helping.

The Moral Molecule & Humanity

In The Moral Molecule, Paul recounts his unlikely discovery that the neurochemical oxytocin is the key driver in trust, love, and morality that distinguishes our humanity.

All animals make oxytocin, but humans seem to thrive on it. About 200,000 years ago, humans started living in groups more often, and individuals with more oxytocin receptors in their brain produced more offspring. Now, our species has far more oxytocin receptors than our closest genetic relatives.

Psychologically, oxytocin increases our sense of empathy for others. Empathy is an incredibly adaptive tool because it helps us understand other people's emotions and why they perform certain actions.

Oxytocin & Human Development

Are we born with all of our oxytocin receptors and innate social skills, or are we built?

The answer is both (as it often is with nature vs nurture discussions), but there are genetic variations in the number and function of oxytocin receptors in humans.
Bad News: You have to have nature and nurture for a system to flourish. Because nature is very conservative with resources, children who are neglected simply don’t develop all parts of the system. About half of the people who are sexually abused or abandoned as children don’t have functionally intact oxytocin connection systems in their brain.
Good News: Because oxytocin is so evolutionarily old, the receptors are connected in most people who do not face severe neglect, abuse, or abandonment. It’s very difficult to kill all of the receptors. Additionally, it is likely possible that sufficient social support later in life can help individuals regain functionality in their oxytocin connection systems.

Applying Our Knowledge: Tactics for Improving Your Relationships

Tactic #1: Embrace your emotional nature. If you focus on the emotions you see in others, you will gain a lot of valuable information.

When you say hello to someone, take a moment to look at them, feel the emotion on their face, and start a more intimate conversation. Don’t just say hello. Say, “Hello, you look ______.” You will learn more about how that person is doing, connect better to the individuals around you, and make them feel more valued.

Tactic #2: Acceptance. You don’t always need to fix things. Sometimes it’s just about listening and acceptance. This is especially true for parents! Focus on seeing other people for who they are, and don’t try to force them into the box you want them to be in.

Trust Factor: Enhancing Trust in the Workplace

In Trust Factor, Paul details the eight building blocks of trust and identifies ways that organization leaders can create a culture of trust in which people are empowered to control their lives, and are held accountable for what they’re doing.

Paul also explains why trust is good for business. Compared to businesses in the lowest quartile of organizational trust, employees working for businesses in the highest quartile of trust...

have 100% more energy at work.
are 76% more engaged at work.
are 50% more productive.
are 50% less likely to leave.
enjoy their jobs 60% more.
feel 66% closer to their colleagues.
take 13% fewer sick days.

On top of all that, employees working in a trusting culture are substantially more satisfied with their lives outside of work.

You can find a number of useful resources, including Paul’s free organizational trust tool, at www.ofactor.com.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Use the word LOVE a little more often. The more you say love, the more you practice love, the more you’re going to get love.”

Love is a real, physiologic phenomenon in the brain. It is not a “squishy” term – it is something that our brain is designed to give and receive. Understanding that love is facilitated by the brain’s production of oxytocin is necessary for improving your relationships with pets, children, friendships, colleagues, and family.

Resources:

You can connect with Paul and find free resources at www.pauljzak.com
Pick up a great book: Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies
The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity
Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy

The Daily Helping

459. “You Hurt Everybody Who Knows You” | Tom Hardin on Temptation, Integrity, and Redemption

458. “You are responsible for you.” | Mastering Mindset & Business with Andy Weins

457. “Life Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint” | Lessons from the Dugout with Dr. Harley Rotbart & Ken Davidoff

456. “People Follow Leaders They Want To” | Leadership Insights with Dr. Ben Granger

455. “Your True Nature Is Good” | Reimagining Leadership with MaryCay Durrant

454. “Every Notification Feels Like a Threat” | Stress and Sleep with Justin Hai

453. “The Gap Is Where Life Happens” | Living Fully and Fearlessly with David Schnurman

452. “We’re All Chasing the Same Brain State” | Decoding Flow and Focus with Dr. Izzy Justice

451. “Meetings Are a Lazy Substitute for Real Thinking” | Designing Work That Actually Gets Done with Rebecca Hinds

450. “Your Brain Is Wired for Transcendence” | Spiritual Intelligence and the Science of Awakening with Dawson Church

449. “﻿You Have More Control Than You Think” | Reclaiming Brain Health and Longevity with Dr. Ryan Williamson

448. “You Are Not Alone in This” | Parenting, Sobriety, and the Truth About Recovery with Sarah Benton

447. “My Team Feared Me” | Redefining Leadership and Purpose with Kyle McDowell

446. “Mind Is Not Produced by the Brain” | Pure Unlimited Love, Part 2 with Dr. Stephen G. Post

445. “Science Can’t Measure Love” | Pure Unlimited Love with Dr. Stephen G. Post, Part 1

444. “United not by blood, but by story.” | Rewriting Identity & Finding Connection Through Food with John T. Edge

443. “Rituals are routines with soul.” | Transforming Habits Into Meaningful Change with Dr. Danielle McGeough

442. “Gratitude is the mindset that saved my life.” | From Addiction to Authenticity with Gary “Nerdrotic” Buechler

441. “Speaking up is how we become known.” | Building Emotional Intimacy Without Losing Yourself with Tonya Lester

440. “Nobody cares more about your career than you.” | Owning Your Brand & Future with Andy Storch

439. “Success isn’t luck—it’s math.” | Changing the Odds with Kyle Austin Young

438. “It’s not longevity—it’s who you know.” | Adapting to Workplace Changes with Dr. Sharon Livingston

437. “You don’t have to shrink to belong” | Be Yourself at Work with Claude Silver

436. “What are you willing to live for?” | Rebuilding Purpose with Corporal Todd Nicely

435. “Give an inch, get one inch closer” | Crafting Better Conversations with Joe Pardavila

434. “Your life is a precious, priceless gift.” | Saying Yes to Being Used for Good with John O’Leary

433. “Do the work” | Healing, Redemption, and Second Chances with Ranae Van Roekel

432. “Intentions don’t matter—behaviors do” | Managing Yourself to Lead Others with Margaret Andrews

431. “Mission isn’t enough.” | Creating Daily Impact with Wes Adams & Tamara Myles

430. “Don’t put everything in one basket.” | Pivoting, Healing & Heart-Led Leadership with Valerie J. Walsh

429. “Failure is a lesson, not a setback.” | Being a Self-Made Maverick with Dr. Reza Zahedi

428. “You’re not defined by tragedy.” | Courage in the Face of Fear with Collier Landry, Pt. 2

427. “I knew then she was gone.” | Courage in the Face of Fear with Collier Landry, Pt. 1

426. “Leaders Can Make or Break You” | Biohacking Leadership with Dr. Scott Hutcheson

425. “Not All Work Is Good Work” | Building Better Workplaces with Melissa Swift

424. “You can’t change the world until you change yourself” | Doing the Inner Work with Susanne Madsen

423. “If you’re not at peace, get curious” | Mental Health Advocacy with Alexandra Miles

422. “Asking for help is also a gift.” | Thriving in Radical Disruption with Mark Monchek

421. “There’s more that binds us together than tears us apart.” | The Humanity Behind Bars with Diane Kahn

420. “Stress is the silent killer” | The Science of Healing Stress Without Drugs with Jim Poole

419. “Do you want to live?” | Redemption, Rock, and Real Talk with Thomas G. Waites

418. “It Only Takes Six Moments” | The Neuroscience of Fulfillment with Dr. Paul J. Zak

417. “Fear Sells, Optimism Builds” | Lessons on American Strength with Paul Johnson & Larry Aldrich

416. “Leadership is for everyone.” | We All Have a Role to Play with Ken Banta

415. “Give thanks to others, help yourself” | Finding Joy Through Gratitude with Joel Zuckerman

414. “Live a Balanced Life” | Designing Your Best Life with Bill Zujewski

413. “You’re Not Broken” | A Roadmap to Unmasked Self-Discovery with Sol Smith

412. “Helping Others Helps You” | Beating Depression and Rewiring Your Mind for Joy with Todd Patkin

411. “You’ve Got to Kick the Doors In” | The Untold Story of America’s First Black Tycoon with Butch Meily

410. “Don’t forget to SMILE” | Creating Philanthrotainment with Barry Shore

409. “AI Won’t Kill Us—It Could Make Us More Human” | Leadership in the Age of AI with Marissa Afton

408. “Emptiness is the only real fulfillment.” | The Radical Art of Lessening with Billy Wynne

407. “Peace Has to Begin Within” | Cultivating Inner Peace and Transformation with Reema Datta

406. "Find Your Inner Warrior" | Overcoming Adversity with Wayne Forrest

405. “Invest in people.” | Giftology and Honoring John Ruhlin’s Legacy with Sara Hardwick

404. "Stop Believing Your Own Lies" | Leadership, Communication, and Growth with Sabina Nawaz

403. “You Don’t Have to Go to India to Find God” | The Power of Kindness with Leon Logothetis

402. “You’re only seeing half of the full picture” | Look Beyond the Headlines with Jeffrey Sanow

401. "You can dream bigger" | Manifestation and Personal Growth with Kathleen Cameron

400. “Money doesn’t have to define you.” | Redefining Wealth with Elizabeth Husserl

399. “Your communication is broken. Here’s how to fix it.” | The Pause Principle with Cynthia Kane

398. "You Can Do Tough Things" | Building Resilience and Empowerment with Allison Guilbault

397. "Unlock life’s highest truths" | Spiritual Awakening and Energy Healing with Eva Müller

396. "You’re Doing Community All Wrong" | Community-Building Insights from Maayan Gordon’s Billion-View Journey

395.“Ayahuasca Will Always Give You What You Need” | Psychedelic Healing with Melissa Osorio

394. “Pray for the Bear” | Slaying What Holds You Back with Carly Fauth

393. “Powerless on the Bathroom Floor” | Reclaim Your Radiance with Becca Powers

392. “You Are The Problem” | Being the Problem and the Solution with Kayla Logue

391. Stop Trying to Be So Happy | Achievable Contentment with Paul Ollinger

390. Feel Waves of Bliss All the Time | Affirmation and Enlightenment with Michele Blood

389. Beef Up Your Intuition “Muscle” | Unlock Your Power with Happy Ali

388. These Universal Laws will Change Your Life | Quantum Philosophy with Victoria Rader

387. Combat Veteran Tells the Truth about Empathy | Crisis Response with Joe Smarro

386. What the Media Isn’t Telling You about Ukraine | Frontline Reporting with Chris Herlinger

385. What it Takes to be a Rich B$tch | Becoming the Energetic Match to Wealth with Kyera Kacey

384. Feel, Heal, and Let That Sh*t Go with Rachel Kaplan

383. Standing Out in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Pascal Bornet

382. Rare Connections with Alex Brito

381. Getting Better: A Doctor's Story of Resilience, Recovery and Renewal with Dr. Andrew Kadar

449. “You Have More Control Than You Think” | Reclaiming Brain Health and Longevity with Dr. Ryan Williamson

373. The Art of Routine with Dr. Angel Iscovich