Karen Goldfinger Baker is a powerful Executive Coach with a demonstrated history of working with inspired leaders to be extraordinary. Significant experience, knowledge, and skills in Business, Nonprofit Organizations, Coaching, and Team Building. Strong, direct, networked professional with certification from Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. It doesn’t matter your accomplishments (a Super bowl Ring), or your title, shame and worthiness are part of the equation...
Sep 13, 2021•23 min
Sep 10, 2021•7 min
Sam Morris is a partner at the Human Kind Holistic Consulting Firm and the founder of Zen Warrior Training, an embodied wisdom coaching program dedicated to helping high performers achieve self-mastery. After enduring a spinal cord injury in 1999, Sam dove deep into the somatic healing arts, depth psychology, wisdom traditions, and the innate intelligence of the human body. Today, Sam is dedicated to helping his clients live from an awakened state of presence in their businesses and lives throug...
Sep 06, 2021•48 min
We all make mistakes. They can riddle us with regret. But that don’t have to. Join me today as we explore how to shift perspective on our mistakes. "I wouldn’t go back and tell my 18 or 25 year old a thing if it would change anything about my life today.”– Mark J. Silverman I have made health, financial, relationship mistakes, and I have few regrets Mistakes look like mistakes at the time, but eventually, the gold may reveal itself The scars I have make me who I am Dedication and commitment to m...
Sep 03, 2021•8 min
Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint Inc., the leading brand of unsweetened flavored water. She is the author of Undaunted: Overcoming Doubt and Doubters, a Wall Street Journal best-selling book about the doubts, fears, and challenges she faced as she built her own company. Before founding Hint, Kara had worked in many companies across various industries, such as Time, CNN, and Aol. The Huffington Post listed Kara as one of six disruptors in business—alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerber...
Aug 30, 2021•38 min
How do we combat imposter syndrome? We check the facts. The question comes up, “Who am I to do X? "Have you turned down something cool because you thought you weren’t qualified?” – Mark J. Silverman Answer the question: “Who I Am Is…” List your accomplishments, your grit, your creativity If you are stretching for something beyond your norm, internal resistance will show up What’s in your world that you want to try…. That may be outside your current expertise? Make sure you have a Posse’ who remi...
Aug 27, 2021•7 min
Brad Demuzio is “The Middle-Aged Survivor.” Brad was a former trader who was supposed to be put in a white-collar prison. Instead, he was mixed with people incarcerated for crimes related to violence. However, looking back, he realized that it was for the best. While in federal prison, he learned about himself, people, and life. Today, Brad is making the most out of his second chance, teaching others the mental and physical skills he learned in prison to survive and thrive in life. Brad joins me...
Aug 23, 2021•40 min
Dr. Neil Fiore in his incredible book, “The Now Habit,” asserts that fear is the cause of most procrastination. He suggests focusing on starting rather than finishing as a goal. Today I discuss how starting leads to momentum and ultimately a product of that effort. It all begins with that first word, step or call. "Once you start, the ideas and creativity come.” – Mark J. Silverman D.D. and the fear of the fog The first 10 Podcast episodes to number three hundred and twenty-eight Starting a writ...
Aug 20, 2021•8 min
Isabelle Tierney, M.A., LMFT, is a licensed therapist, stress management specialist, transformational teacher, and coach. She is the CEO of Choice Point, a company dedicated to providing tools and services that help people reduce stress in their lives and choose wellbeing. Under Choice Point, Isabelle created the “Feel Good Life” and “Stress Reset” methodologies to equip her clients with stress management tools for home and work. Her flagship course, The Feel Good Life Foundational Course, empow...
Aug 16, 2021•40 min
Helen is an Executive Coach, based in New York and New Jersey. She is the Author of the forthcoming book, “The Unwritten Rules of Women’s Leadership.” Her clients are high potential women, CEOs and senior leaders around the world and she helps them to design their careers and deliver powerful results. She understands firsthand, “The loneliness of leadership” and she tells the truth to those who often struggle to find anyone that will. She helps leaders with career planning, career purpose, aut...
Aug 13, 2021•21 min
Devin McDermott is a porn recovery coach and author of the e-book, Cheap Dopamine. Devin was once a porn user and dopamine addict himself. Despite having massive ambitions to become successful, Devin found himself struggling to get his desired results. He soon discovered how porn and supernormal stimuli held him back and made it his number one goal to cut porn and reclaim his life. After freeing himself from the chains of dopamine addiction, Devin wrote Cheap Dopamine to guide others to greater ...
Aug 09, 2021•33 min
A few months after my 50th birthday, I was standing on a platform, 50 feet in the air, sweating and breathing fast, clinging to the pole for dear life. This episode explores my experience facing my fear of heights on a zipline to the uncertainty and risks of Midlife. "The scariest part of sky diving, is standing in the door of the plane.” – Will Smith 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 t...
Aug 06, 2021•8 min
Deborah Lansdowne is the Co-Founder and Principal of A Pinch of Time, LLC, a concierge and lifestyle management services company dedicated to helping busy executives. With over 39 years of experience in executive management, sales, and marketing, Deb positions A Pinch of Time as an innovative, full-service lifestyle management company by providing her leadership, marketing, and business development skills. Deborah was also the Founder, President, and CEO of an IT company that received Verizon’s ...
Aug 02, 2021•28 min
Brian Roberts is the CEO Advisor and CEO Peer Group Leader at Vistage , a company that provides private advisory boards for business owners, senior executives, and CEOs. He is also what they call a Vistage Chair, a highly regarded and trusted representative of the company’s established ways of executive coaching and group facilitation. Brian regularly works with executives and their teams, transforming them from being good leaders to great leaders. Brian joins me today to discuss the benefits of...
Jul 30, 2021•34 min
Pat Hedley is an investor, advisor, and the Founder and CEO of The Path Ahead , where she identifies and invests in high-growth companies. She is also the author of the book, Meet 100 People , where she shares her insights on proactively meeting people. Drawing from the lessons she learned from the thousands of people she has met and interacted with over her career, Pat helps people cultivate their network by providing practical advice and actionable insight. Pat regularly speaks to college stud...
Jul 26, 2021•32 min
This episode is inspired by Sadhguru’s incredible book, “Inner Engineering.” We spend most of our time, imagining a future that hasn’t happened or ruminating over a past, that we don’t even remember accurately. Most of our stress comes from the catastrophes we make up or reliving a painful event, that happened once, over and over again. "The trick to getting some peace, is to understand, when we are obsessing about the past or future…. Get present.” – Mark J. Silverman Are you a busy, overwhelme...
Jul 23, 2021•8 min
Mike Harris is an adventurer, performance mastery coach, and host of the In This Moment podcast. Prior to becoming a coach, Mike was a high-stakes professional poker player, champion pool player, and corporate finance leader. Each of these experiences have allowed him to study the intersection of risk, resilience, peak performance, and spirituality—shaping how he supports top executives, founders, professional athletes, and performing artists to be at their highest level of performance. His firs...
Jul 19, 2021•39 min
I hear too often, “I will be/feel good when X happens.” We think something outside ourselves is going to change our experience. And it may, for a moment. I think that is ass backwards. In this episode, we discuss a better way. "How do we need to be, in order to do what we need to do, to have what we say we want.” – Mark J. Silverman 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 fr...
Jul 16, 2021•8 min
Pete Mroz is a businessman and musician from Nashville, Tennessee best known for his appearance on The Voice. Pete is originally from Indiana but found himself drawn to music early on. After years of pursuing music in Nashville, Pete was invited to audition for the television show The Voice, where he quickly became a fan-favorite for his laid-back and authentic manner. Pete continues to produce music, play with his band, Super Honk, and work as a sales representative in the golf industry. In tod...
Jul 12, 2021•47 min
It is all too easy to find ourselves in a negative situation and wonder how we got here. Bad Relationship Financial Challenge Overweight. Unfortunately, it is all to easy to fall into a victim mindset about this situation. In today’s episode, we will discuss a more empowering and actionable mindset that will actually help you shift the situation. "There is a critical difference between taking blame for something and taking responsibility for it.” – Mark J. Silverman Are you a busy, overwhelmed b...
Jul 09, 2021•9 min
Jay Samit is a dynamic entrepreneur and intrepreneur, keynote speaker, and the internationally bestselling author of Disrupt Yourself and Future Proofing You. He is recognized as a leading expert on disruption and innovation and self-identifies as a Serial Disrupter. Jay also advises Fortune 500 firms, raises millions of dollars for startups, and is a trusted consultant to leading corporations and government institutions. Jay’s work encourages entrepreneurs to use their histories and challenges ...
Jul 05, 2021•53 min
A few years ago, I read a book called “The Paradox of Choice” by Barry Schwartz, and it got me thinking about the inexhaustible barrage of voices coming at us about nutrition, exercise, spirituality, how to be a real man, or a real woman, and even what constitutes “truth” in the political arena. In this episode, I will focus on experts. Those people who are telling us THE RIGHT WAY TO DO EVERYTHING! "Learning to choose is heard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a...
Jul 02, 2021•10 min
David Katz is a TEDx speaker, humanitarian and the founder and CEO of Plastic Bank. Plastic Bank is an internationally recognized solution to the ocean plastic problem by turning plastic waste into currency for less privileged communities. David’s humanitarian work has earned him international recognition, including features in Forbes, Time Magazine, Businessweek and National Geographic. He was named one of the world’s most compassionate entrepreneurs by Salt magazine and was the recipient of th...
Jun 28, 2021•37 min
In my line of work and in because I care about having deep conversations with anyone and everyone, I run across people who admit to stress, anxiety and depression. And it is heartbreaking. The Coach and Helper in me wants to fix it for them. I know I can’t. And I know everyone has their own journey. Doesn’t take away my desire. I also know many who have been helped with the right combination of medicine. Tremendously helped. This podcast is not against meds in any way. And… it is a discussion of...
Jun 25, 2021•10 min
John Lee Dumas is the host and founder of the podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire, boasting over 1 million listeners per month. John learned how to build a brand by embracing the “hustle and grind” culture, producing his podcast seven days a week and learning as much as possible from other podcasters and entrepreneurs. Over the years, he has taken what he’s learned about business and himself to become a 7-figure NET worth author, speaker and award-winning podcaster. His first book, The Common Path to ...
Jun 21, 2021•18 min
In my “Mastering Midlife” keynote, I use Michael Jordan and Barbra Streisand as examples of creative career longevity. Each, in their own way, worked with their changing physical abilities the evolving environment of their industry’s to not only survive, but to reach higher and higher levels of success. My son, Zack Silverman, a baseball expert shared another story of another elite athlete who’s evolution as he aged, had him become more successful as his career progressed. Join us for this brief...
Jun 18, 2021•13 min
Anthony Trucks is a former NFL superstar, author, an American Ninja Warrior, and Founder of Modifidentity . Modifidentity is a coaching company that aims to help individuals find their real purpose in life and become who they want to be by employing identity modifications. He credits who he is today to the kind of rough upbringing he had experienced, particularly when he was given away when he was just three years old. Anthony joins me today to share his story, his experiences growing up, and wh...
Jun 14, 2021•37 min
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 Self Inquiry is the way to freedom. Fix your thoughts, change your life Byron Katie: The ...
Jun 11, 2021•10 min
Walt Hampton is a leadership coach, consultant, best-selling author and outdoor enthusiast. Walt graduated from Cornell Law School and practiced law for over thirty years before transitioning to his current role as Founder and CEO of Summit Success International, a personal and professional development firm. Walt’s experience as a single father and managing partner of a law firm inspired him to find balance in his life and create space for personal growth and wellness. He has taken that experien...
Jun 07, 2021•40 min
What do you do when you are triggered, and you still need to be professional? In this episode, I talk myself through 2 real time resentments so I can get to a more neutral state. And none of is right. We may be closer or further from the truth… but in this day and age, if we don’t want to cut people out of our lives, we have to learn to listen. "For the best possible outcome, I need to do my own work before I address the issue.” – Mark J. Silverman It’s messy and hard to clean up a relationship ...
Jun 04, 2021•13 min
