Mastering Midlife Podcast

Skills to Accelerate Your and Your Employees’ Careers with Mark Herschberg

Naomi Judd - This One Hit Hard

Living with Inspired Action with Alex Dumas

How You Create Your Own Overwhelm and How to Fix It!

Part 2: Marijuana and the Elephant in the Room

Part 1: Ayahuasca, Psychedelics And Healing Our Deepest Wounds

Building the Pillars of a Sustainable Business to Get the Life You Want with Jeffery Shaw

Creating the You - You Want to Be

Building a Community, Serving Your People, and Keeping Your Passion with Paige Buscema

Mens Helpline: Supporting Men After a Miscarriage with Daniel Landau

Daniel Landau is the Founder and Executive Director of Mens Helpline, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting men seeking emotional support after losing a child due to a miscarriage, still birth, and infertility. Following a successful career as the head of various organizations’ fundraising, sales, and business development departments, Daniel and his wife experienced the emotional trauma of losing a child due to a miscarriage. After realizing there were many resources available for wo...

Three Forms of Self Inquiry: Your Keys to Freedom

For me, freedom has come almost entirely from getting free of my thoughts and beliefs, rather than people or situations. Self Inquiry is as old as philosophy and religion. Today we are blessed with many forms and structures to the practice. Join me today as I touch on 3 favorites. Check out the links in the show notes to go deeper. "When you argue with reality, you only lose 100% of the time.” – Byron Katie This week on Mastering Overwhelm: Self Inquiry is the way to freedom. Fix your thoughts, ...

Make That Doctor’s Appointment

As we grow older, we start talking about the maladies bothering us. We men, however, are also tough guys who tend to “forget” to make those appointments. Instead of taking the time out of our day, we struggle and fight through those maladies. Men, read this carefully: make that doctor’s appointment. When I suddenly couldn’t read the nameplates of my CEO-guests at a workshop I hosted, I had a tiny breakdown and went to the eye doctor for the first time in six years. It turns out I have cataracts....

Discovering and Living Your Passion with Debra Cooper

Debra Olshan-Cooper is the Founder of Your Career Design Lab, a career coaching firm dedicated to curating people’s career goals. Debra is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience serving as the CEO of two successful public relations and marketing firms, Real Life Communications & Marketing and FreshConnect Solutions. As Founder of Your Career Design Lab, Debra leads her clients on a journey of self-discovery while turning their passions into a paycheck. Debra joins me today to...

Imposter Syndrome and the Ark of the Covenant.

An ancient rabbi from the time of Socrates taught that we humans are like the Ark of the Covenant. The most sacred relic of the Israelites, the Ark was a wooden chest covered in pure gold with an elaborate lid called the Mercy Seat. Relating humanity to a gold-covered wooden box may be confusing, but if we examine the dynamic between how we present ourselves to the world and what we perceive to be our shortcomings, we may understand our true value underneath the wood. In this episode, I discuss ...

The Journey from Start-Up to Grown-Up with Alisa Cohn

Alisa Cohn is an executive coach. She has worked with C-suite executives at prominent start-ups such as Venmo, Etsy, and DraftKings, as well as Fortune 500 companies, including Dell, IBM, and Google. A highly-regarded and sought-after speaker, Alisa was named by Inc. as one of the top 100 leadership speakers and was recognized as the Top StartUp Coach in the World at the Thinkers50/Marshall Goldsmith Global Awards. She is also the author of From Start-Up to Grown-Up, a book sharing her insights ...

The Heart of a Servant-Leader with Garry Ridge

Garry Ridge is the Chairman and CEO of the WD-40 Company. Garry has been working with the WD-40 Company for nearly 40 years and, as its CEO, is responsible for driving the company’s culture and values. In addition to his role at the WD-40 Company, Garry shares his experience and insights as an executive coach, consultant, and speaker through his platform, the Living Moment. He has been instrumental in re-igniting excitement and cultivating cultures that foster breakthrough innovations in organiz...

Self Esteem VS Self Worth with Valari Jackson

Valari Jackson is a speaker, life coach, business strategy advisor, and the founder of Fierce Focus Strategies , a company that provides professional coaching to business owners as well as individuals who are looking to take control of their life and move forward from where they are. Valari is also a Myers-Briggs Certified Practitioner, and she works with large organizations in improving communication, collaboration, and understanding. She believes she works best during one-on-one coaching sessi...

Reinventing You: Marc Jay to Mark J. Silverman

Having been a people pleaser, I used to be all things to all people. I wore my intelligence, confidence, and energy as a badge of honor. But ever since I woke up to the fact that I am free to choose how I spend my time and attention, freedom has been at the forefront of what I do and what I’m trying to impart to the world. Part of that freedom is the power to create and recreate ourselves—and, as an act of reinventing myself, I changed my name. In this episode, I discuss how I changed my name fr...

Redefining Entrepreneurial Success with Jeff Hoffman

Jeff Hoffman is an award-winning entrepreneur, the CEO of several startups including Priceline and Booking.com, a motivational speaker and producer. Jeff is best known for his many business achievements, but his most impactful work is done as CEO of Driving Force Enterprises, performing philanthropic work worldwide. After years of achieving commercial success, Jeff felt ready to leave the hustle and grind behind in favor of using the skills and resources he had accumulated to give back. He now t...

Where Overwhelm Actually Lives

When you encounter the word “overwhelm,” what are the things that immediately come to your mind? Your kids? Work? Or the stream of news about COVID-19? What if I told you that overwhelm isn’t caused by something external to you? You see, as a recovering people-pleaser, I used to get overwhelmed whenever someone made a request; I didn’t have the fortitude to say no. But once I understood that I could decline, agree, or renegotiate a request, I realized that it wasn’t these people asking for my ti...

How An Exciting Personal Life Adds Rocket Fuel to Your Career with Uneeb Khan

Uneeb Khan is an Electrical Engineer with one of the most prominent engineering companies in the nation. He was presented The Propel Leadership award in 2016 and a teaching award in 2017. Uneeb's expertise has allowed him to work on high-profile projects such as the World Trade Center (Freedom Tower), several United Nations Buildings, and many other notable institutions. Uneeb craftily executes the work-life balance. He has backpacked to over 30 countries, most notably, climbing Mount Kilimanjar...

What To Do With Grief with Diana Bonnici

Life brings grief in all flavors. Yes, death and loss of loved ones, but also in job loss, fading youth and vitality, heck – even losing your phone. Diana Bonnici helps us understand how grief presents itself (it’s not always how we think), how to process and ultimately move through to find the gifts and deeper experiences. Having just lost my mother and my dog in the last few days, every word she offered has been spot on. For a better understanding of the Grief Wheel, please download a copy at:...

Mastering Midlife is Becoming Mastering Overwhelm

Thank you for 3 years, here’s what's next.

Climbing Ladders: Leaving Corporate America to Start a Gutter-Cleaning Business with Andy Brennan

Andy Brennan is the Founder and Co-owner of the Cape Cod Gutter Monkeys and its parent company, the American Gutter Monkeys, which are both gutter cleaning and installation companies. Alongside his college roommate, Dennis Siggins, Andy founded the company in 2014 after a 35-year stint in the corporate world. Since then, the American Gutter Monkeys has grown and expanded with two locations in the South Shore and South Coast of Massachusetts. In addition to its dedication to delivering excellent ...

Becoming Your Own Muse with Katie DePaola

Katie DePaola is the Founder of Inner Glow Circle, a company dedicated to helping women become certified life coaches and build profitable personal brands. She is the author of the book, At Least You Look Good, in which she reflects on her life’s challenges and shares her advice on how people can “glow through what you go through.” A staunch advocate for mental health, Katie has been featured on TIME, Entrepreneur, Forbes, and over 50 podcasts. Katie also serves on the board of Bo’s Effort, a fo...

Dude! You Too?

My son called the other day. “Dad, Dad, Dad… I can’t wait to tell you what happened.” In this episode we find out what happened when four 20-something young men got together and shared some things they thought only they dealt with. "We are only as sick as our secrets.” – AA Saying Are you a busy, overwhelmed business leader? Through my work as an author and executive coach, I’ve discovered the 10 lies we all tell ourselves that keep us away from true productivity and creativity. If constant fire...

Men - Be Your Best at Any Age with Dr. Jean-Luc Le Provost

Originally from Nevada, Dr. Le Provost moved to Arizona to attend the University of Arizona where he received his Bachelor of Science in Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences. He received additional training in homeopathy, botanical medicine, acupuncture, hormone replacement therapy, Chelation, IV nutrient therapy and nutrition to complement his medical training. Prior to medical school, Dr. Le Provost was the manager and owner of successful personal training and nutritional guidance practice in Tu...

How Are Those New Years Resolutions Going?

I know you made some New Years Resolutions. We all have. But a week in, how you doing? Today’s show will help you get back on track with those promises you made to yourself… at least the ones you really mean. "You probably bit off more than you can chew…..” – Mark J. Silverman New behaviors are hard to establish Are you committed to the items on your list? Is your “why” strong enough or is it a should? How do we know if this is a “10?” Are you a busy, overwhelmed business leader? Through my work...

Advocating for Women’s Midlife Health with Vanessa Ford

Vanessa Ford is an author and menopause/perimenopause expert, as well as the Co-founder of the women’s health company, MenoLabs. Backed by two decades of research, MenoLabs delivers an ecosystem of support to help women in their menopause journey. Before co-founding MenoLabs, Vanessa served as the Chief Marketing Officer of Magnitude Management Services and the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Humane Society of Southern Arizona. As the Co-founder of MenoLabs, Vanessa is focused o...

Tea and Leadership Series - Listening to Improve Influence

My friend, Helen Appleby and I recorded a series of conversations for LinkedIn last year discussing the challenges our clients face in their Senior Leadership positions. We received so much great feedback that I decided to release them as podcast episodes for you to experience. In life and business, we spend a lot of time trying to get people to see things our way. In today’s show, we explore how listening, really listening, can help improve your impact. "Often the first level argument, isn’t wh...