50: "Your Life is a Metaphor for Life LOL" with Iain Gabriel
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Apr 09, 2021•2 hr 45 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Project Circle Up
Conceived out of the global crisis that is the state of our men's mental health, Project Circle Up exists to lift men out of the metaphorical basement. Addiction, inaction and purposelessness wreak havoc on our men's wellbeing and rob the world of their unique contribution and gifts. We are a group of leaders who're committed to empowering men globally in becoming self-sufficient, finding and living their purpose, and becoming the men they've always wanted to be.
Our goal: men no longer struggle in silence or just "man up" but instead are empowered to turn to community, to Circle Up!
Episodes
49: Becoming Self-Actualized with Adam Miceli
We flip the script on this episode of the CU Podcast by exploring the nature of consciousness, the mind, and spirituality. Personally, this conversation was stretching myself outside of my comfort zone and dove into many blind spots that I have about who I am and what is my purpose in life. Adam is a phenomenal communicator and I know you’ll enjoy insights on: What it means and looks like to live at your edge How to get beyond the basics needs of money, shelter and sex, onto your true purpose of...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 5Ep. 9
48: How To Be There with Jesse Lee Hayman
What up beautiful people! Today we connect with badass mental health leader and changemaker, Jesse Lee Haymen. I've had the honour of knowing and becoming friends with Jesse since meeting him at the Healthy Minds Canada Silver Dinner Gala back in 2017. Since then I've watched him and the team at jack.org change lives all around Canada and couldn't be more happy to support their work and share Jesse and the teams message. In this episode Jesse shares about: - how to turn frustrations...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 10
47: YOU VS YOU with Professional Hockey Player and Social Activist Kurtis Gabriel
While I’ve been enjoying my backpacking throughout North and Central America, from Mexico to the beaches of Costa Rica, I’ve been feeling a sense of doubt. A directionlessness that only finds me when I’ve taken too many steps off the path, and not enough in alignment with my purpose. Fortunately, I have men like Kurtis Gabriel in my life. This conversation came at the perfect time. It became, and continues to be as I return to it for a 3rd time, the perspective shift I needed to get back in the ...
Feb 20, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 5Ep. 1
46: Empathy Always Wins with Ally Salama
In one of our last episodes of season 5 of the Circle Up Podcast we interview the Middle Easts Mental Health Ambassador, Ally Salama. I’ve been lucky to get to know and befriend Ally over the last year as he’s both the founder of empower-mag.com, the first Mental Health Magazine in the Middle East, winning Harvard's Top 7 Most Impactful Social Initiatives in 2019 & earning recognition from the World Health Organization. As well as the host for Apple’s #1 Charting Youth Leadership Mental Heal...
Jan 04, 2021•57 min•Season 5Ep. 8
45: Ego is Killing Your Relationships with John Pereira
In this episode of the circle up podcast we’re proud to highlight one of our founding members, John Pereira. John has been instrumental in the original support and on-going leadership of our programming. And it’s obvious that we wouldn’t be nearly as successful if it wasn’t for him. In this episode he shares openly about: How his ego killed his first relationship (16 mins) Why he’s been so successful in his current marriage (29 mins) How come he’s so committed to the circle up community (48 mins...
Dec 06, 2020•53 min•Season 4Ep. 7
44: Crash and RISE with Mike Shoreman
This episode of the podcast features international inspiration and best selling author, Mike Shoreman! Best known for his 1st place win at Canada’s largest inspirational speaking contest, Speaker Slam. And for subsequently going viral on facebook with millions of views on his videos,... We couldn’t be more grateful that Mike paddled by to talk: What it feels like to lose your health, business and identity overnight - 15 mins How to reach out and ask for help when you’re struggling with your ment...
Nov 16, 2020•47 min•Season 4Ep. 6
43: Everyman Deserves a Safe Space for Vulnerability with Ryan Martin
In this episode of the Circle Up Podcast we answer a lot of the questions my younger self wishes he knew about process mental and emotional wellbeing. Our guest shares his personal experiences from being diagnosed with mental illness, deciding to ride his bike across Canada to raise money and awareness for mental health (and raising over $100,000!!!), and beginning to work full-time with Jack.org, Canada’s #1 Charity Revolutionizing the way young people and Canada talk think and feel about menta...
Oct 31, 2020•58 min•Season 4Ep. 6
42: Health and Business Were Meant to be Fun with Shane Tyler Milson
This special edition of the circle up Podcast was recorded over 6 months before its release. Why? Because originally this audio was forever lost in the void, never to be seen again! When businesses were closing down and millions of people lost their jobs, I was one of them. This podcast, along with half a dozen others, where located on a cloud server attached to my workplace. *Homer Simpson "Doh" moment for real! Fortunately, as you’ll hear in this recording, this ain’t Shane Tyler Milson’s firs...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 5
41: A Jerk's Guide To Leaving Women Better Than You Found Them with Johnny Loh
Welcome to the most brutally honest episode we've ever launched here at the Circle Up Podcast. In this show we brought back audience favourite for his 3/50 appearances to discuss: - Marketing that helped raise over $1,000,000 in crowdfunding and that will make your ideal customers cry and ultimately buy - How to stop lying to women and instead honour them so that you leave them, and yourself, better than you found each other - What a healthy committed relationship looks like and how to know if y...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 5
40: Michael Onabolu | Normalizing Mental Health and Empowering Masculinity
Mike is a powerful speaker , artist and mental health advocate who shares in journey and experience struggling with mental health in University. I'm so happy to bring you Mike's story, as he's a shining example for having hope when working and living with a medical diagnosis. In this episode Mike sheds insight into: The impact family and positive role models have on the man you become. How to take care of yourself and your loved one's when you're struggling with your mental health. And the...
Oct 01, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 4
39: Sam Demma | How to Find and Live Your Purpose
I saw and met Sam Demma for the first time when he blew away the audience and competition, in the Fall of 2018, at Canada’s largest inspirational speaking contest, Speaker Slam. Since then he’s gone on to give 2 Ted X Talks, initiate, grow, and make a massive difference with Social Enterprise Pick Waste - a charity changing our planet for the better, 1 piece of garbage at a time - and spoken to hundreds of schools and ten’s of thousands of students about how to find and live your purpose. ...
Sep 28, 2020•54 min•Season 4Ep. 3
38: Manuj Grover | Commitment vs Ego in Relationships and Business
Welcome to another Circle Up Leadership Spotlight! Today’s episode explores the story and background of Circle Up’s Second in Command, Manuj Grover. Grover is one of the dozens of men selflessly contributing his time and energy to helping the men who participate in our programs develop themselves personally and professionally. In our conversation we discuss: Picking your battles in relationships and business Why his ego was killing his marriage and how his men’s team helped him turn it all aroun...
Sep 15, 2020•57 min•Season 4Ep. 3
37: Daniel Martinovic | Student leadership and persisting through uncertainty
Excited to bring you OG Circle Up Participant, Daniel Martinovic, in this weeks episode of the podcast. If it weren’t for men like Martinovic, Circle Up wouldn’t exist. He’s a huge part of creating the safe environment we have of trust and confidentiality amongst men. In this episode he shares: The benefits he’s experiences by having a strong circle of men in his life Lessons from building one of Canada’s largest virtual tech conferences And when, not how, to rob a bank We hope you’re thoroughly...
Sep 10, 2020•51 min•Season 4Ep. 2
36: Steve Richmond | Are you qualified to be in a committed relationship?
In this episode of the Circle Up Podcast, we learn from one of the deepest reservoirs Canada has on how to be successful in committed relationships. I come out of most of my conversations with Steve Richmond completely convinced that I'm dramatically underqualified for a committed partnership. And have a long way to go before being self-sufficient and knowing my terms. He’s mentored me, and hundreds of other men and woman I know personally, and his results are so profound with his clients in, “T...
Sep 10, 2020•45 min•Season 4Ep. 1
35: Olympic Gold and Empowered Masculinity with Steve Anderson
Join me and olympic gold medal winning, Australian women’s beach volley ball coach, Steve Anderson, where we explore empowered masculinity, embracing your femininity, and the important of holding a strong context in business, in your relationships, and competing at the highest level of sport. Steve, thank you for generously sharing how we too can become the champions of our lives. Excited to see the impact created by the work you’ll do with Flashpoint Global. You help people...
Apr 10, 2020•2 hr 30 min•Season 4Ep. 35
34: Johnny Loh | Having and Living A Life of Purpose
Turns out we didn't need to wait till Burning Man to meet and do another episode! My friend Johnny Loh is an extremely impressive entrepreneur with both a 6 figure and a 7 figure kickstarter campaign, who believes that no amount of financial or material success can replace a life without purpose. In this episode we dive deep into what it means to be a self-sufficient man, how to cultivate discipline, and practical strategies you can implement today in order to accomplish lofty goals and become t...
Mar 30, 2020•58 min•Season 4Ep. 34
33: John Andrews | 3 Decades of Leadership
Tune in to this special edition episode of Gripped where we feature the men contributing to Circle Up, a men's mental health community striving to change the was we talk, feel and think about men's mental health. I would not be here today, if it weren't for this episode's guest. Literally, and figuratively. No person has shaped the course of my life direction as significantly as the man who gave me life and showed up every day with integrity, generosity, and energy. Pleas...
Mar 27, 2020•55 min•Season 4Ep. 33
Project Circle Up | A Call To Action
Circle Up exists because Globally, every minute a man dies by suicide 75% of suicides in Canada are men We’re conditioned to be strong and man up when we’re struggling instead of circling up and checking in with our men The probable almost certain future If we don’t do anything about it men are going to continue to struggle in silence They’ll sit in the basement thinking they need to confront their challenges alone We’ll keep losing good men to suicide On this show we're committed to changing th...
Mar 27, 2020•5 min
32: Mark Nguyen | Lessons Learned Living and Working Internationally
Why this podcast happened: - Mark books 15 day silent retreat in Russia - Mark quits lucrative job at one of Canada's fastest growing companies - Mark changes careers into the field of UX and Design - Mark moves to Berlin to live and work internationally With ambitions to make similar changes in my life, Mark and I sat down to chat the hilarious and hard learned lessons he's earned over the past 6 months living in Europe. Follow along as we learn how to take care o...
Jan 04, 2020•56 min•Season 3Ep. 32
31: SOLO | If You’re Not Growing You’re Dying
"The only thing worse than setting the wrong direction is having no direction" - Jim Rohn The most important thing being directionless has taught me is that not only do you not grow, you begin to regress. Jim said that if you're not growing you're dying. In this episode we talk about the importance of goal setting and set you up powerfully to set new years resolutions that will stick. Jonathan
Dec 08, 2019•9 min•Season 3Ep. 31
30: SOLO | How To Find Your Tipping Point and Start Taking Action
In this short episode we dive together into the tipping point. At a fundamental level, there are two forces that motivate us to do what we do: the desire to avoid pain or the desire to gain pleasure. Taking action and making a change isn't a matter of ability, it's a matter of motivation. When change is a should, most people won't make the change. If change is a must, it's another story! The tipping point makes taking action a must. Let's explore your tipping point together and get y...
Dec 05, 2019•13 min•Season 3Ep. 30
29: SOLO | Fluctuations and The Buddhist Law of Impermanence
"Fluctuations are an inherent fabric of life. The Buddhist law of impermanence states that because nothing is permanent, attachment to the ups leads to inevitable suffering. Conversely, aversion to the downs is illogical because those too shall pass". When I experience malaise or any sadness and difficulty, I only have to travel back to this night in 2017 to regain to footing. Use this podcast and the law of impermanence as your reminder that no matter what you're going through right now, ...
Dec 03, 2019•8 min•Season 3Ep. 29
28: SOLO | The Practicality of Positive Thinking
The mind and brain are extremely complex. My mentor George Zalucki, however, broke it down for me so that it is simple to explain. He said the mind is made up of two parts, the thinker and the prover. The thinker thinks. The prover proves. What does the prover prove? Simple, whatever the thinker thinks! This episode will teach you how to use your thinker to your advantage and begin to attract into your life all that your thinker can dream of. Jonathan ...
Nov 28, 2019•14 min•Season 3Ep. 28
27: SOLO | A Raw Reflection and Calling Out My Bullshit
In a world of Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook, where we obsessively check our social platforms all day long, where "entrepreneurship" and the "hustle" is romanticized, I've been working hard because I want more likes. I've been working to impress others. I've been trying to look good in front of people who's opinions shouldn't even matter to me. It's vain. The intention of this episode is to use me as a mirror for how you've been showing up this year. Have you been focused on what you ca...
Nov 26, 2019•12 min•Season 3Ep. 27
26: SOLO | That Time I Was Homeless
A mentor once told me that there are three types of people: wise, smart and stupid. Wise- these people have a huge advantage. They are the type of people who learn from other peoples mistakes. Smart- these people tend to get ahead. They are the type of people who learn from their own mistakes. Me- stupid people...well.... they just keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again. This podcast is an opportunity for you to be wise through the retelling of the stupidity that led to me be...
Nov 21, 2019•12 min•Season 3Ep. 26
25: SOLO | How To 4x The Speed To Your Goals
In 2017, my good friend Ryan and I implemented our first mastermind / accountability system. The results were more than we ever expected and here's a quick sneak peak into what happened, "what seemed unreasonable and even impossible with my busy schedule, quickly became a reality in every weekly accountability call with Ryan. With 9 speeches under my belt today and my final speech scheduled for Tuesday March 14th, I will officially have completed my goal with two weeks to spare!" Today after del...
Nov 19, 2019•17 min•Season 3Ep. 4
24: SOLO | Power of Accountability
Too often, the biggest gap in people's lives, is the gap between what you know you should be doing and what you take action on. This, I believe, is a result of people that are not being held accountable for their word. The American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) did a study on accountability and found that you have a 65% of completing a goal if you commit to someone. And if you have a specific accountability appointment with a person you’ve committed, you will increase your chance of...
Nov 12, 2019•15 min•Season 3Ep. 3
23: SOLO | 3 Pillars to Positive Life Change
I'm fortunate I decided to start writing in 2016. It was bad then and only mediocre now. Imagine if I'd waiting to now to start how much growth I'd have missed out on. Join me through a 2019 commentary of an early blog I wrote about 3 tools I used to help navigate me through the trials and tribulations of High School and depression. Choose which of the 3 will make the biggest immediate difference for you and implement the DO THIS tactics today. Looking forward to hearing your s...
Nov 10, 2019•20 min•Season 3Ep. 2
22: SOLO | Direction Over Destination
Thanks for taking the time to get to know me and where I've come from. If you're battling depression, know that the best thing you can do is to talk about it. Please reach out and let me know how I can be there for you. If you're nervous of judgement from friends and family through reaching out for help, know that you're much more likely to be met with empathy, compassion and an eagerness to support you. We all have mental health and deserve to feel well. Jonathan...
Nov 10, 2019•12 min•Season 3Ep. 1