There was every reason to believe that today's interview wasn't going to happen. Technology issues for both of us might have prevented us from recording. But where there is a will, there is a way, and higher conversations just need to be born into the world. Today I chat with Transformation Coach April Mata, who helps women transition from their corporate careers into their dream businesses by overcoming financial blocks and fear of making the big leap. There is so much irony in today's conversa...
Nov 30, 2023•21 min•Season 4Ep. 193
Nicole Holland helps people move through their greatest fears, transcend doubt, and live their most authentic, joy filled lives. For the past four decades she has counseled countless individuals of all ages and walks of life through their darkest days with unwavering love and acceptance. Nicole compassionately supports growth without judgment or condemnation. You don’t have to face your demons alone — even if the one you're most afraid of is yourself. During this conversation we go deep - as we ...
Nov 23, 2023•55 min•Season 4Ep. 192
R& R – Rest and Relaxation AND Rock & Roll – both have vibrational energy. How do each of those R’s cause you to FEEL? Today’s guest Denise Gaber shares her journey with both R&R platforms. Denise is a Resilience Coach, a Sound Healer, and a Musician, who shares her wisdom and her coaching to help others discover their soul’s blueprint and passion. Listen in to this conversation where we talk about how vibrational energy – in whatever form – will help us with any identity crises we encounter thr...
Nov 16, 2023•52 min•Season 4Ep. 191
W. Coby Milne is the co-founder of Roman 3, a company named for the play on the Roman numeral 3. Their approach, like their name, draws on the process of INSPIRING change, fostering INNOVATION, and managing IMPLEMENTATION. I "met" Coby through a random LinkedIn invitation, and we immediately hit it off. So much so that we are partnering to help a client measure results from intangibles like culture and leadership. Listen in as Coby explains how he is using his project management skills to create...
Nov 09, 2023•52 min•Season 4Ep. 190
Today's podcast interview was so much fun! Joey Torkildson and I have been friends for several years, even though we've never met in person. Our relationship is a perfect example of how energy is non-geographic and how allowing conversations to emerge uncovers synchronicities and possibilities we might not otherwise recognize. Joey is the owner and co-founder of Voila, a real estate company in the Twin Cities. Joey and his team are disrupting the real estate industry by building their company on...
Nov 02, 2023•51 min•Season 4Ep. 189
Despite what many people might believe, it is possible to create a career doing something you love. Today's guest, Jonah Lantto, is living that belief as he's making a career of podcasting. Jonah is the co-founder, host, and producer of the Midwest Murder Podcast, and has come to this career through discovering what he loved about the jobs he had before becoming an entrepreneur and making a living from podcasting. Listen in and hear how confidence (not arrogance), humility, and possibility creat...
Oct 26, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 188
Katie Gross considers herself a "chaser of mystical and spiritual experiences" and she does that in her profession as a spiritual health nurse and cannabis nurse navigator. As a patient and a nurse, she has witnessed the gaps in the current “healthcare” model, so she decided to do something about it. Her organization is called Your Higher Path Healing, and during this conversation we talked about many things including letting go of trauma by reconnecting the spirit to the body. The many, many ch...
Oct 19, 2023•45 min•Season 4Ep. 187
Dean McMurray is known as the Military Medium because of his accidental ability to connect with people who have crossed over. Dean is an internationally acclaimed psychic, medium, healer, dowser and ordained minister who lives in my hometown of Fargo, North Dakota. Dean always considered himself the "king of the logicians," as his military training would have him believe that if you can't shoot it, eat it, drive it, or do a form on it, it couldn't possibly be real. Imagine his shock when his dec...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Many people see Post Traumatic Stress as a disorder mostly experienced by combat veterans. But today's guest, Scott Geiselhart, sheds new light on this subject from his perspective as a volunteer firefighter. Scott spent more than 20 years as a small-town fire fighter, and didn't realize the toll his experiences rescuing and saving - and sometimes losing - people he actually knew would take on him. In this interview, Scott shares his story that took him down a very dark path until he discovered ...
Oct 04, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 185
Jon Walters used a new term (to me) during this conversation: The Reality of Fatality. We talked about a lot of things, not the least of which included Jon's recent belief that, at 34 years old, he truly believed he had peaked, and his best days were behind him. Through a series of twists and turns, both personally and professionally, Jon shares his story, including the emotions and feelings that, as a man, he was trained and conditioned not only not to express, but also not to feel. While Jon's...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 184
Cody Pettengill is a wedding videographer who knows what it means to be real. In fact, it's his primary value. So as a person whose career is set to help couples capture one of the most significant days in their lives, he wants to make sure his clients get a product that will take them back to that day over and over. Cody is creative at heart, and whether he is making music, painting a canvas, or shooting and editing a video, he's using what he's learned from his life experience to be authentic,...
Sep 21, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 183
Dan Tinquist is the founder of ConfiDAD, a coaching and training platform that supports parents in seeing, hearing, and really knowing their children. In this interview, Dan and I talk about his journey with a career he loved, which took him away from his wife and four sons. When he realized that there just might be a way to combine those loves, he created ConfiDAD to help parents build deeper and more joyous bonds with their kids. ConfiDAD offers a monthly masterclass, a course called More Than...
Sep 11, 2023•46 min
Whoever said that law was stuffy and scary never met Tom Kading. Tom is the founder of Fargo Patent & Business Law, and he is working to change the perspective of his field, professionally and culturally. Tom's pre-law studies were in engineering, and he enjoys putting the pieces of an idea or a concept together, which serves him very well as a business and patent attorney. In this interview, you will learn how Tom's mission and vision are attracting employees, partners, and clients who share hi...
Aug 29, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 181
When you are willing to do what it takes to achieve or experience your true desires, even when the emotion you said it in wears off, you're committed to that future. In this conversation, Melissa Simanek and I talk about how her life has shifted since she made that decision. She shows that once you make a decision, the universe conspires on your behalf. A life of your own design proves that first you make the decision, and then the decision makes you. It's not what happens to you, it's who you b...
Aug 21, 2023•41 min
The Beach Boys were on to something all those years ago with their beachy summertime music. But there's more to it than a great beat. What are we doing to keep our vibe high? Do we even know what that means? Today I talk about a lot of resources including Spiral Dynamics (I listened to the audio version of Spiral Dynamics Integral, but you can find lots of info about this concept in various locations), Esther and Jerry Hicks's book "Ask and It Is Given," David Hawkins book "Power vs. Force," and...
Aug 09, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 179
Today I'm going LIVE without an agenda ... kinda like tightrope walking without a net. I took some prompts from Rick Rubin's book "The Creative Act," but didn't need too much help when friends showed up and added their comments. Thank you to Kelly, Andrea, Dawn, & Melissa for the conversation! If you'd like more information about the REAL Me course, head over to https://getrealcircle.com and take a look. What you are seeking is also seeking you!...
Jul 28, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 178
Today's conversation was a true example of what can happen when two people who don't even know each other very well get together and allow the Master Mind to be present. Matthew Cooksey is a therapist, coach, truth seeker, and speaker who is on a mission to help people embrace their human-mess - so we can all lead our best lives. He reached out to me after hearing my podcast interview with Ian Williams, and we created the space for this very spontaneous and unscripted conversation where we talke...
Jul 17, 2023•59 min•Season 4Ep. 177
Today's episode is kind of an accidental recording. Anthony reached out and wanted to connect, but I wasn't sure it was going to be a podcast episode, so I was recording in my car. But I'm glad I did! Anthony Hamilton is the author of Mind, Time & Power, and was a guest on this pocast a few episodes ago. In this conversation he shares his recent experience on a trip to England where he experienced yet again, the power of synchronicities. You'll hear how Anthony actually created, in his vision, a...
Jul 10, 2023•51 min
Josh Hoper is truly a renaissance man. He started his career in finance and technology, and his own personal evolution has led him into an entrepreneurial venture called Torchlight AE where he works with clients as a coach, consultant, and facilitator to help them first identify their own light and then use it to light the way for their own customers and associates. When humans can begin to tap into their own authenticity, their businesses will follow suit. In this conversation Josh and I discov...
Jul 05, 2023•50 min
Andrea Hensrud is a licensed occupational therapist & certified health and life coach who is on fire to change the way the world experiences infertility. While that process really impacted Andrea's identity in what might be called a negative way, during this conversation, we unpack what it means to shift from an old belief system to one that, while different, doesn't have to be negative. Andrea hosts a podcast called Diagnosis: Infertility, where she hosts conversations about infertility, sure, ...
Jun 26, 2023•41 min•Season 4Ep. 174
We all know what social media is, right? It's for showing your cat photos and your vacation videos and letting people know what you had for lunch. Yes ... AND ... there is a lot more to learn and to implement if we want to get social media to work for us as we build our businesses. Today in studio I chatted with social media expert Kaitlin Morales and her client, real estate professional Jenn Bergen. We unpacked a lot of reasons social media is crucial to building a relationship, not just a tran...
Jun 13, 2023•35 min
Transformation is part of the nature of creativity and aliveness. Just look out your window and see how nature does it. It's not an easy process ... but it can be simple. So says today's guest Ian C. Williams, author of the Amazon bestseller Soil & Spirit: Seeds of Purpose, Nature's Insight & the Deep Work of Transformational Change . In this conversation, Ian shares his personal journey, which informs his corporate work. If we are to experience a world at work or outside of work that revives ci...
Jun 05, 2023•51 min
Bria Dimke is a remarkable woman. She is living the life many people only dream of because she is not afraid to take risks. In this conversation, I learn from Bria how she has found herself, in her early 30s, living a life by her own design. Bria follows her intuition and takes action others may wish they, too, could take, but don't because of practicalities that are probably not even true. By following her joy, Bria has attracted connections that have led her to a sabbatical in Malaysia which l...
May 30, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 171
I got hacked on Friday night. Someone broke into my Facebook account and got access to my phone number, shut down my account, and sent a text wanting a $200 ransom to get my account back. That isn't the way I wanted to spend a Friday night, but I refuse to give in to cynicism. If you want to learn more about the Enlightened Leadership Lab, visit www.enlightenedleadershiplab.com/invite .
May 23, 2023•24 min•Season 3Ep. 170
Some people have really good ideas, but never do anything with them. That's not today's guest, Kyle Olson. Kyle has really good ideas and takes action. Three years ago Kyle started the Longest Open House, a fundraising event to honor his father who died from Alzheimer's Disease. His idea was that he could combine his work as a Real Estate Agent with The Longest Day, a national event put on by the Alzheimer's Association. His idea was the Longest Open House. So for the past three years, Kyle's ev...
May 17, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 169
Randy Jones is a name-dropper. And that's perfectly acceptable because, as the host of his podcast called Jones.Show: Jonesing For Good, he's had some pretty impressive guests, many of whom have become friends because of his uncanny ability to make authentic connections. Among the guests we talk about on this episode are Pat Benetar, Erin Brockovich, Melissa Rivers, and the woman who provided the original voice for Siri, Susan C. Bennett. In addition to his talent for putting people at ease as a...
May 10, 2023•1 hr
Want to witness a REAL conversation without a clear-cut end in mind? Then you will love this conversation with Nick Reinke, CEO of HabiTerre, an advanced science and technology company that delivers actionable insights to improve Ag productivity, efficiency, and environmental outcomes. During this conversation, Nick and I talk about growing up in the same rural North Dakota town one generation apart, and what that experience gave to each of us in similar and distinct ways. You'll learn about Nic...
May 05, 2023•53 min•Season 3Ep. 167
Author and Entrepreneur Brad Szollose and I have a lot in common. We've both been on a personal development journey most of our lives. But we also have differing ways of putting our learning into the world. Brad is an author, and his book Liquid Leadership tells some of what he's learned about generational understanding and how that can affect companies. He took his fourth company, a tech company, public and ended up selling it, and used much of what he learned from that experience to help other...
Apr 26, 2023•57 min•Season 3Ep. 166
Today's episode is an accidental continuation (as in, I didn't plan it this way) of last week's inquiry into Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy's "The Gap and the Gain." If learning remains only theory, it's never as effective as it might be. Today I talk about some of my own insights and invite others in the Facebook Live chat to join me as we decipher and put into practice the ideas from Gain Thinking.
Apr 20, 2023•18 min•Season 3Ep. 165
Today's episode is a result of Jodee's ponderings regarding Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy's book "The Gap and the Gain," along with other thinking prompts from the week. Included in those is the question "What is your utopia?"
Apr 14, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 164
