This is an incredible conversation with someone who is completely grounded and clear in her passion and her purpose. Jaclyn runs her own coaching business, hosts the Spark Your Light podcast, is a powerful speaker, and is zeroed in on the intersection of spirituality, manifestation, and psychology. Come along with me on this ride of an episode where we get to meet Jaclyn and get inspired by her inimitable perspective on life. KEY TAKEAWAYS- Start where you are: if you want to become a millionair...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 275
Join us for today’s guest, Bill Fairman, for a conversation about money, debt, and how you can make those things work for you instead of you working for it. Bill has had a long career in finance, having worked in the mortgage industry for over 30 years. His experiences being mostly self-employed for most of his adult life, and living through the 2008 crash and recession, has sharpened his focus and passion about helping people become financially independent. KEY TAKEAWAYS (When talking about Mas...
Jan 22, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 274
Mo was a riot to connect with. She is a public speaker and author of book “Pardon My Quirk”, and a TEDx speaker. She shares a bit of her journey with me, from being a queer woman joining the Air Force as a pilot, to finding her true purpose coaching others to find happiness in the everyday moments of life. Her motto in life is “laugh, learn, think”, which we do throughout this episode. I can’t wait to share it with you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Have confidence in your weaknesses (that’s what differentiates...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 273
This conversation with Tara Wyatt-Treslove is tender, emotional, and vulnerable in all the best ways. Tara shares with us how she had a self-defining moment in a swimming pool changeroom when she was a child, and how that moment set her on the path to being the body freedom advocate she is today. After years in the teaching field and then obtaining her personal training certification, she has put it all on the line to start her own personal training business. Through online workouts and a suppor...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 272
Christian has been on a full-time spiritual path for at least the past 30 years. He has a gentle, but incredibly focused energy about him – he knows that his mission is to reach people and help them along their own paths of transformation. He shares his story of coming into his own as a gay Cuban immigrant to the U.S., his unshakeable faith in an all-knowing and all-loving creator, and what he thinks is the destiny of every human on earth. KEY TAKEAWAYS - If you are constantly running away from ...
Jan 15, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 271
Amanda Barrientez was studying for a Ph.D. in Sociology when she listened to the little voice inside herself that told her she wasn’t living in full alignment with her goals. Her marriage had broken up, the next relationship she was in had also failed, and she was a parent who could barely afford rent. The study of sociology makes her highly attuned to how humans behaved, and that period of personal upheaval made her realize that she had several limiting beliefs about her worth, which then affec...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 270
Nikki Wetherell found her way to becoming a somatic sex and life coach after a life-defining moment in 2010. She was a young mother and wife, dealing with the effects of a repressed sexual trauma, which landed her in a hospital after admitting to suicidal tendencies. It was her fierce commitment to her own healing, as well as the healing of her family, that inspired her to want to share those lessons with the world to help others heal and move past their own trauma. Nikki is someone whose commit...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 269
John Lefebvre has got boundless energy and freedom for changing the world. Two of his most defining moments came after he was arrested: the first time, he was 17 and sold some LSD to a couple of undercover police officers who looked like hippies. The second was when he was arrested in his mid-50s for conspiring to transfer funds with the intent to promote illegal gambling through a money transfer company he co-founded.Throughout his life, he has experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of...
Jan 08, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 268
This was an incredibly moving and real conversation to have. Annette has survived some rocky moments in her life, and she shares how, when she was a child, her father’s sudden illness almost caused the family to lose their business and did cause them to lose their home. This potentially traumatic moment turned into one of Annette’s driving forces: she began to help around the business and noticed that her actions were making a difference. She knew from an early age that being someone else’s empl...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 267
In this episode, Jill Thiry explains to Mighty Pete about her eight steps to realizing her goals, and the process she uses with her coaching clients to get them to realize theirs. Considering Thiry’s passion for her work, you may think her methods would be strict, but one of the cornerstones of her philosophy is kindness and love, with the reasoning that more will grow out of a sense of nourishment. In her coaching practice she uses a combination of visualization, mantra, intention setting and a...
Dec 25, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 266
Elizabeth Batalla has a thoughtful approach to life which shapes and guides who she is today, and how she acts in the world. As a successful corporate star, she learned the tips of what makes people successful, and when she was ready, she made the transition to become a full-time mentor to other women through her own company. In her conversation with Mighty Pete, she shares with him and the audience the small and crucial interactions that changed her life and started her on this new path, her ex...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 265
Sit down and buckle in and get ready for an inspiring and energizing conversation between Mighty Pete and Alex Oliveira, business mentor, entrepreneur, father, husband, and jack of all trades. Alex has lived and experienced his share of tragedy. He’s seen some of his business ventures fail and has reinvented his path repeatedly. A lifelong learner and student of humanity, these days Alex consults and works with other businesses to help them grow through a process called “lead generation”. In thi...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 264
Settle in for a fascinating conversation with Jeff Smith, a person who seems to have done it all: he’s been a professional musician, a pilot, an author, an entrepreneur, a bestselling author. After being in the corporate world for several years, Jeff wanted to help other people with what he’d learned during his career: how setting clear, detailed goals can help others achieve the successes that had previously been outside of their reach. With focus and indefatigable energy, Jeff shares with Migh...
Dec 18, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 263
Join Mighty Pete for this vulnerable and honest discussion with the Liz Rutledge about mindfulness, success, and achieving one’s dreams. Liz is open about how she’s spent her entire life “following breadcrumbs” from one interest to another (for instance, when she was younger, she didn’t think she would have children, now she has three) but has built a purposeful life just the same. Having just turned 50, she thinks it’s been her best year yet in terms of self-knowledge and understanding. One of ...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 262
You will want to hear this conversation between Mighty Pete and the one and only Regina Huber: a woman who spent much of her professional life in corporate management, and who has transitioned into being a career coach for women who want to make bigger gains in their own professions. Regina is certified in various training methods, has created, and founded her own training courses, published a best-selling book, and has been the featured speaker at several conferences. Beyond achieving irrefutab...
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 261
Cyrina Bullard breaks all the rules and stereotypes. As a second-generation certified pharmacist, she has long been interested in helping other people manage their pain and live healthier lives. After two traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), she had to teach herself how to walk, talk, and function again. Then, post-initial recovery, she dealt with daily headaches and had to retire from practicing pharmacy. She describes her second career as a spiritual calling. One night, something compelled her to ...
Dec 11, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 260
Gail Rudolph has a unique, holistic view of personal power and how it changes the world. She tells Mighty Pete how little tricks of body language and understanding how to stay grounded during any situation can directly affect the outcome. KEY TAKEAWAYS Understanding how ‘power dynamics’ are a give-or-take scenario most of the time, and how you can achieve the outcome you want out of most situations by understanding when to exhibit your ‘active’ versus your ‘passive’ power. The “Scarcity Principl...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 259
Tara Chatzakis has always been a free spirit. Born in Yorkshire, she was married and raising a family in Greece when she had an epiphany: she could leave her dysfunctional marriage if she wanted and create a new life for herself. She relocated herself and her three daughters to the Isle of Wight, and shortly after, realized she wanted to help other women to empower themselves. She began to take accreditation to become a business coach and entrepreneur; due to her love of people and her extrovert...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 258
Scott Jeffrey Miller is a whirlwind: a whirlwind of energy, of focus and motivation, of passion. He sits down with Mighty Pete for an intimate conversation about what makes him tick, how he’s been able to become so successful in his professional career, and the moment in his life where everything changed. From Florida to Utah, from Disney to Franklin Covey, from project manager to author, Miller is the epitome of “if you fall down seven times, get up eight.’ He is not shy about discussing his fa...
Dec 04, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 257
Mighty Pete sits down with motivational speaker and author Phil Barth for a conversation about how, often, humans can fool themselves into believing they are invincible. Before 2015, Phil was a man addicted to stress. He worked 60-hour weeks, drank pots of coffee every day to keep going, and survived on very little sleep. Then he had a heart attack which landed him in the hospital. As part of his recovery, his doctors suggested that he take a week off work every three months. It was during one o...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 256
With passion and enthusiasm, business coach Joey Drolshagen shares with Mighty Pete how, after a successful 28-year career in the corporate sector, he finally had the courage to step into his dreams of helping others. In a catastrophically short amount of time, both of his parents died, his 19-year marriage ended, he was living apart from his son, and his retirement savings had been gutted due to the divorce. With literally nothing left to lose, Joey, always the entrepreneur, began to coach othe...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 255
Mighty Pete and Tyler Foley sit down to talk about talent and how to nurture it. Tyler has a very specific lived experience in that he’s been working as an actor from the age of six – and so has an important perspective on how to grow and improve the skills we have naturally. He humbly shares the setbacks he has gone through on the way to his current success, to show the Fire in the Belly listeners how “failures” are more often disguised gifts. KEY TAKEAWAYS Hone your talents and show up to make...
Nov 27, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 254
In this fascinating deep-dive conversation with one of the Western hemisphere’s leading spiritual teachers, Mighty Pete talks with Indra Rinzler about his extraordinary path to “enlightenment”. Full of laughter and light-heartedness, Rinzler shares how he began to study spirituality in his 20s, finding a particular resonance with Hindu teachings, and how that shaped the rest of his life. He has spent a lot of time in India and has travelled over 56 countries to embrace different cultures and mak...
Nov 24, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 253
In this one-on-one with Mighty Pete, Dr. Ian D. Brooks discusses how we can live with intention and purpose, by being our authentic selves one day, and one decision, at a time. Dr. Brooks’ career path, taking him through a Bachelor of Science and two graduate degrees in psychology, imbued him with intense curiosity and interest in how our thinking informs our actions. Over the past 25 years he has gone from being a practicing psychologist to helping leaders who are already successful in their ch...
Nov 20, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 252
In this episode, Mighty Pete sits down with Michelle Donnelly, the owner of the bakery Sweet Momma Simon, co-host of the After Hours show on Clubhouse, meditation coach, and professional photographer. They discuss her international move from the U.S. to Ireland 24 years ago, and how she’s built a life and a family there. She shares how she felt lost for many years, and through the process of finding herself, wants to light a fire under other people. KEY TAKEAWAYS Sometimes, even your family won’...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 251
This fascinating discussion takes us deep within the territory of mindfulness, trauma, and the slippery science of happiness. Cyrina Bullard and Liz Rutledge have run Sustainable Happiness Together since 2019 but have been friends and collaborators for much longer. Liz has taught mindfulness and meditation courses at the middle and high school levels, and Cyrina has had first-person experience using meditation to re-train her brain after two traumatic brain injuries meant she could not longer wo...
Nov 15, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 250
Gayle Berry is a certified baby massage and yoga practitioner, a business mentor to other women, the founder of a charity, and an all-around force of nature. Over the course of their conversation, she shares with Mighty Pete the strange path that took her from being a finance lawyer in London UK to becoming the founder and CEO of Blossom & Berry Baby Massage. Along the way she discusses passion and parenthood, how to find your driving force in life, and what the true definition of success mi...
Nov 13, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 249
Dorsey Ross shares with Mighty Pete and the Fire in the Belly audience about what it’s like to live with a visible birth defect and facial deformity. His parents’ miracle baby, born in 1977 -- 21 years after their first child and 16 years after their second – he was quickly diagnosed with Apert’s Syndrome. Rather than institutionalize him as was recommended, his parents brought him home and raised him like they would anyone else. He found community early on in church youth groups: in the church ...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 248
In this episode, Christina Vitagliano describes to Mighty Pete how certain “random” factors (having an abandoned building, needing to finance editing for a book she’d written) turned into the Monster Mini Golf franchise that she still runs over 20 years later. The book itself, while delayed until the COVID pandemic gave her space to publish it, is now out in the world and details, with harrowing honesty, the childhood sexual abuse she experienced in her family home. Christina shares with us her ...
Nov 08, 2021•58 min•Ep. 247
Brandon Tracy is a real estate agent and business owner who has lived through at least two major dark nights of the soul: both of which catalyzed him to re-evaluate his life and how he approached his goals. He talks to Mighty Pete and the Fire in the Belly audience about how he lost everything in the 2009 recession, and how that experience helped show him where, and how, he was standing in his own way. As he rebuilt his real estate business through a measured approach of being vulnerable and tra...
Nov 06, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 246
