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Success Systems

How do we define success? 

And how do we implement repeatable systems to ensure sustained success in every area of our lives? 

I'm your host, Michael Bauman, and I interview everyone from multi-millionaire CEOs to world-leading neuroscientists, psychologists, and researchers. 

We break down frameworks and systems for creating meaning and impact, optimizing health and mindset, and forming deep, fulfilling relationships both personally and organizationally.

Previous guests include:
Daniel Pink (author of Drive, To Sell is Human)
Lord Richard Layard (co-editor of the World Happiness Report)
Kelly Starrett ( sports performance expert), 
Jessica Joelle Alexander (author of Danish Way of Parenting), 
Richard Schiff (actor: Toby Zeigler West Wing, Dr. Glassman, The Good Doctor) 



Episodes

S5E19 Damian Browne: 3000mile Atlantic SOLO ROW, 257K Sahara ultra-marathon, 5 of 7 highest mountain in the world summitted...

63 days. 6 hours. 25min. That's how long it took Damian Browne to solo row the Atlantic Ocean. Over two months of being utterly alone with "the monster of the ocean trying to kick the S**t out of you" Can you imagine? Can you imagine the mental and physical preparation it takes to solo row the Atlantic? To run a six day 257K marathon through the Sahara? To scale the highest summits in the world? Damian Browne can. He shares the incredibly powerful mental framework he uses to prepa...

May 23, 202251 minSeason 5Ep. 19

S5E18 Jamie Kullman: 20K+ Days, Being Resourceful, and Living your Purpose...

Jamie Kullman was named one of the top business coaches to follow in 2022 and is the host of Aligned with Purpose in Life and Leadership, ranked top 1% of all podcasts globally. She is passionate about people discovering and living her vision and her unique story highlights that success can be through many paths and branches. From making over 100K selling slightly used hubcaps (nickname the Hubcap Queen) to getting out of $50,000 of credit card debt, to growing on of the top podcasts in the worl...

May 16, 202238 minSeason 5Ep. 18

S5E17 Dennis Hogan: World Champion Contender Boxer: Ultimate Mindset of Success, and Always Believing in Yourself...

Dennis "Hurricane" Hogan is a professional boxer with 30 wins, and only 4 losses, 1 draw (three of his losses came in World Title fights against World #1). He has won 6 continental titles and has challenged for world championships in two weight classes ; the WBO light-middleweight and WBC middleweight titles. This is someone who knows full well what it takes to not only perform at the top, but maintain peak performance physically and mentally! In this conversation we talked about the i...

May 09, 202240 minSeason 5Ep. 17

S5E16 Hans Van Weerd: Behind the Scenes of Managing a Zoo, and Art that Captures the Fleeting Moments...

Hans van Weerd is a biologist who spent years managing zoos all over the world. Originally from the Netherlands but immigrated to Australia and decided he wanted to pursue his passion for art. He now creates beautiful works in charcoal, oil, watercolors with an emphasis on people, faces, physiques, postures. Hans is intrigued by capturing the fleeting moments and what makes people unique. Website: Artonyourwall IG: @hansvanweerd Download your Success Engineering Blueprint Ebook at www.successeng...

Apr 25, 202243 minSeason 5Ep. 16

S5E15: How to feel Enough as an Entrepreneur...

Do you sometimes feel that no matter how much you achieve and how you much you do that you still never seem to feel enough? What if I told you its because you have been using a faulty measurement of success for years? What if you could start and end every day feeling enough? In this episode I give 4 specific tools to help you feel enough in every area of your life... Download your Success Engineering Blueprint Ebook at www.successengineering.org Follow me at: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/i...

Apr 18, 202228 minSeason 5Ep. 15

S5E14 Dr. Kirk Parsley Former Navy Seal and Renowned Sleep Doctor on How Sleep is far more Important than you know...

I have Dr. Kirk Parsley on the show today. He joined the Navy seals at 17 where he served for 10 years. After the Seals the got his medical degree from Bethesda and served as the medical officer for the Naval Special Warfare Group, did his residency in Hyperbarics and Diving Medicine, and now lectures worldwide on sleep, wellness, hormonal optimization, and longevity from the Dr. Oz show, to CBS, Tedx talks, and consulting with multiple corporations, professional athletes and teams. This convers...

Apr 11, 20221 hr 7 minSeason 5Ep. 14

S5E13 Carl Gould: How to build multiple multi-million dollar businesses...

Carl Gould is a worldwide leading authority on business and entrepreneurship. He built three multi-million-dollar businesses before 40. His company, 7 Stage Advisors, has helped over 100,000 businesses around the world. He's helped companies like Allstate, American Idol, USA Olympic Track, IBM, McGraw-Hill and the US Army. Carl created the farthest-reaching business mentoring organization in the world, and has trained and certified over 7,000 business coaches in over 35 countries. He has wr...

Apr 04, 202249 minSeason 5Ep. 13

S5E12 Cory Chadwick: On Living your 10, Morning Routines, and Mental Fitness...

Cory Chadwick is an elite mindset coach and founder of The Mental Gym. His motto is just like we work out our bodies, we also need to work out our minds. Cory's an unwavering optimist who's passionate about helping people and organizations become the best versions of themselves through optimal mental fitness and consistent personal growth. In this conversation, we cover the Essentials for living a purposeful, fulfilled life, the power of objective optimism, and the resilience it takes ...

Mar 28, 202259 minSeason 5Ep. 12

S5 E11 Andre Henry on Non-Violent Anti-racism, Dragging a 100lb boulder for 6 months, and the pursuit of Black Joy!

Andre Henry is an award-winning musician, writer, and activist. He is the host of the podcast “Hope and Hard Pills.” and his new book "All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep" will be launching March 22nd. He is a student of the incredible power of nonviolent struggle, having organized protests in Los Angeles, where he lives, and studied under international movement leaders through the Harvard Kennedy School. His work in pursuit of racial justice has been featured in The New Yorker,...

Mar 21, 20221 hr 1 minSeason 5Ep. 11

S5E10 Mark Butler: Real talk on Mental Health, Burnout, and Suicide and what we can do about it...

What do we do if we are not ok? What do we do if we are one strand of frayed rope away from burning out? Mark Butler is a clinical specialist and strategist in mental health in the workplace.He has a unique blend of over 15 years’ clinical psychotherapy experience paired with 25 years’ commercial experience leading companies at an executive level. This unique combination has earned Mark a reputation for creating the conditions necesssary to deliver peak performance. He helps organizations tackle...

Mar 14, 20221 hr 5 minSeason 5Ep. 10

S5E9 Mick Spiers: Founder of the Leadership Project, on the Platinum Rule of Leadership, Deep Listening, and Overcoming Impostor Syndrome...

Mick is the Founder of The Leadership Project and Host of The Leadership Project podcast. He is the author of the recently released book "You're a leader, Now What?" He spent years as an executive in urban mobility and transportation management of cities on a global level before shifting his passion to developing extraordinary leaders! If you are wanting to become a better leader you will find practical, step-by-step ways to do that in this episode! W ebsite: www.mickspiers.com Se...

Mar 04, 202242 minSeason 5Ep. 9

S5E8 Beqa Goletiani: Red Bull Athlete Manager (Middle East), How Red Bull recruits top talent and takes an Idea to Execution...

Beqa Goletiani is the Regional Manager for Redbull athletes in the Middle East. This is everything from base jumping, to skydiving, Formula 1 athletes, bikers and skaters and so more. He was raised in war-torn Georgia and through tremendous determination and work ethic landed the amazing position he has today! This is his story... Socials: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beqa-goletiani-64629a68 https://www.instagram.com/bgoletiani/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/beqa.goletiani/ https://www.tiktok.co...

Feb 28, 202243 minSeason 5Ep. 8

S5E7 Tim Ash Forbes Top 10 Online Marketer: Masterclass on Neuroscience and Unleashing your Primal Brain

Tim Ash is a sought-after international keynote speaker best-selling author of Unleash your Primal Brain and Landing Page Optimization, which has sold over 50,000 copies. He has been mentioned by Forbes as a Top 10 Online Marketing Expert and Entrepreneur magazine as an online marketing influencer to watch. he was the co-founder and CEO of Site Tuners, a digital optimization agency for 19 years and has helped his clients create over $1.2 billion in value in companies like Google, Expedia, eHarmo...

Feb 21, 202243 minSeason 5Ep. 7

S5E6 Happy Valentines Day! My personal thoughts on Love, Relationships and Communication...

Happy Valentines Day! I know Valentines Day can be an interesting time with some people loving it and using it as an opportunity to share their appreciation and love of their spouses, partners, and relationships while other people dislike the overcommerialization and may feel alone and left out. Regardless of your views on Valentines Day itself, I thought it would be a good opportunity to share some of my insights and thoughts on love, relationships, and communication that I have gained from 8 y...

Feb 14, 202239 minSeason 5Ep. 6

S5E5 Meghan Crutchley: Founder of HabitQueer, on how being Queer is actually a Superpower!

Meghan Crutchley is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, and health coach who specializes in working with the queer community. Along with their private coaching practice and the habitqueer community they founded, Meghan is a queer health advocate working to make fitness more inclusive by educating fitness professionals, coaches, and businesses on issues around queer health, and helping businesses create more inclusive environments and policies. I love sharing stories from people with perspectives an...

Feb 07, 202252 minSeason 5Ep. 5

S5E4 Dr. Dana Crawford, Founder of Crawford Bias Reduction Therapy, on Racism, the Difference between Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging...

Everyone NEEDS to listen to this episode! It will change everything from how you view yourself, to how you view others, to how you view the world! Dr. Dana E. Crawford is a pediatric and clinical psychologist who developed the Crawford Bias Reduction Theory & Training (CBRT), a systematic approach to reducing bias, prejudice, and racism. She has tons of degrees in everything from counseling, and pyschology, to African American studies, to certifications in medical hypnosis and biofeedback. S...

Jan 31, 202259 minSeason 5Ep. 4

S5E3 William Pullen: Founder of Dynamic Running Therapy: On Combining Movement and Mental Health...

William Pullen is a psychotherapist and founder of Dynamic Running Therapy. This reimagines the traditional talk therapy model of a client sitting on a couch talking with a therapist to incorporate movement, nature, and the outdoors into the healing process. He is the author of "Run for Your Life (UK)/Running with Mindfulness (USA)" and has developed an app also called Dynamic Running Therapy that you can check out wherever you are in the world. He is a TEDx speaker who has worked with...

Jan 24, 202251 minSeason 5Ep. 3

S5E2 Simon Severino: CEO of Strategy Sprints, Europe's Leading Growth Advisory, How to Double your Revenue in 90 Days while still enjoying life...

Simon Severino is the CEO of Strategy Sprints, Europe’s leading remote Growth Advisory. His global team of Certified Strategy Sprint coaches does only one thing: Double the revenue of businesses in 90 days. He has spent over 2 decades traveling all over the world presenting and consulting with some of the top companies in the world including Google, Crayon, Consilience Ventures, and so many more! Simon hosts the Strategy Sprints podcast along with being a Forbes Business Council Member and Contr...

Jan 17, 202238 minSeason 5Ep. 2

S5E1 Lachie Stuart: The Man that Can! From Drugs, Alcohol and Rock Bottom, to Overcoming Limiting Beliefs and Success!

Lachie Stuart is an internationally renowned men’s performance coach for high achievers the founder and podcast host of The Man That Can Project. After placing his whole identity in sports and rugby he went through a very dark period fulls of drugs, alcohol, partying until he found himself arrested at rock bottom. This was the catalyst that turned his life around and now he influences thousands of men's lives! Website: https://themanthatcanproject.com Instagram: @lachlanstuart...

Jan 10, 202242 minSeason 5Ep. 1

100th EPISODE! The Why behind Success Engineering...

Wow! 100 episodes! I started the podcast January of 2020 when the world fell apart and we are still going! All the way from the start when I was laying out frameworks and systems from impactful books that I had read, through to the end of Season 4 interviewing a former billion dollar Wall Street portfolio manager! In this episode, I share the origin story behind Success Engineering what it stands for. I also share my personal views and frameworks on success and how we can begin to explore what i...

Jan 03, 202218 min

Best of Season 4: Craziest Adventures, Top Tips, and Practical Insights from Season 4...

We are wrapping up the year with the Best of Season 4! We have had some amazing guests on the show from Hollywood actors with uncanny memories (Marilu Henner) to the Former Director of the CIA for Europe and Eurasia (Marc Polymeropolous), Former Wall Street Billion dollar portfolio manager (Laura Rotter). This episode provides a teaser from each guest in case you missed them so you can go back and enjoy the incredible things they have to say! 1:52 Marilu Henner (Hollywood actor, Incredible Memor...

Dec 20, 20211 hrSeason 4Ep. 25

S4E24 Laura Rotter: On Wall Street, Managing over a Billion dollars, More doesn't Make Meaning, and Creating your Life Portfolio...

Laura Rotter spent almost 3 decades managing institutional investment portfolios on Wall Street in the 100's of millions of dollars to even over a billion dollars for firms including Citicorp and Para Advisors. She left that world after some changes in the industry and losing her spark to found True Abundance Advisors . This is a company which is centered around how you can manage your money and portfolio to support your life rather than the other way around. I loved this conversation! This...

Dec 12, 202151 minSeason 4Ep. 24

S4E23 Erik Seversen: Guns in Africa, Indigenous Tribes in the Amazon, Hells Angels, and Frozen Mountains in Russia...

Erik Seversen has hitchhiked from London to Central Africa, driven his motorbike hundreds of thousands of miles on 6 continents, lived with a remote indigenous tribe in the Amazon, had guns stuck in his face in Nigeria, been trained in martial arts by Bruce Lee's best friend, managed and grown multiple multi-million dollar companies, summited the highest peaks of 15 countries and 17 different states. Published 8 best-selling books and that's just the tips of the iceberg! This episode i...

Dec 06, 202158 minSeason 4Ep. 23

S4E22 Dr. Chad Hoggan: on Identity Formation, Disorienting Dilemmas, and the Whole World as our Tribe...

Dr. Chad Hoggan is an Associate Professor of Adult Education at North Carolina State University and Co-editor of the Journal of Transformative Education. Dr. Hoggan's research is human transformation and learning. We all grow up and form a certain identity for ourselves and how we see the world. Then, oftentimes we have, as Dr. Hoggan would describe them, disorienting dilemmas where our assumptions of the world are challenged for whatever reason. This could be a traumatic life-changing expe...

Nov 29, 202136 minSeason 4Ep. 22

My Personal Thoughts on Thankfulness and Thanksgiving; They are probably not what you think...

Hello everyone! This episode is different than the others in that I just wanted to share some of my personal thoughts on Thanksgiving and the holiday season with you. On one hand, it can be a beautiful, wonderful time of laughter, great food and good memories, but on the other it can also be very sad and lonely and stressful. I just wanted to talk through some of what I am feeling around it here in China where they are not celebrated and share some of my thoughts for where you might be at as wel...

Nov 22, 20217 minSeason 4Ep. 21

S4E20 David Shriner Cahn: Host of Smashing the Plateau Podcast, Expert in Career Transitions on Mitigating Risk, Scenario Planning and Losing your Identity...

David Shriner-Cahn is the Host of the Smashing the Plateau and Going solo podcasts, he builds thriving online communities and is an expert at helping people navigating career loss and transitions into starting and growing their own business. This is why I wanted to have him on the show as COVID has caused a lot of unexpected career losses and transitions. Entrepreneurship, job loss, and transitions can be very difficult and lonely. David walks through everything from how you can prepare in advan...

Nov 15, 202144 minSeason 4Ep. 20

S4E19 Dr. Rebecca Hershberg: Psychologist and Parenting Coach, Tantrum Survival Guide, Magic 30%, and the Importance of Rupture and Repair...

Dr. Rebecca Hershberg is a clinical psychologist who specializes in early childhood social-emotional development and mental health, She is the founder of Little House Calls Psychological Services and author of Tantrum Survival Guide. She has been featured in NYT, Parents.com, TODAY PARENTS, Washington Post and so much more. I love it when you have a conversation and there are practical tips you can take from it. This is one of those conversations. If you are a parent you will be encouraged about...

Nov 08, 202142 minSeason 4Ep. 19

S4E18 Jessica Robson: Founder of Runtalkrun, How to Run (or walk) your Way through Depression, Anxiety, and Bulimia...

Jessica Robson is the founder of Runtalkrun. After having struggled with depression, anxiety and bulimia she made the connection that running helped her to be able to better express her feelings along with finding a sense of belonging within a community. This spurred her to start Runtalkrun which is a group of people running together to support one another without any pressure to compete, perform, or even pretend that they are ok. This has grown to over 170 different locations around the world a...

Nov 01, 202145 minSeason 4Ep. 18

S4E17 Marc Polymeropoulos: Former CIA Director of Europe and Eurasia on Clarity in Crisis, Costly Mistakes, and Humility...

Marc Polymeropoulos is one of CIA's most highly decorated field officers of this generation. He is an expert in counterterrorism, covert action, and human intelligence collection and recently retired from the CIA in 2019 after serving for 26 years in some of the most dangerous field operations and leadership assignments in the world. He helped the CIA neutralize High Value targets of Al-Qaida, Taliban, ISIS, and ended his CIA career overseeing operations across all of Europe and Eurasia. Th...

Oct 25, 202145 minSeason 4Ep. 17

S4E16 Zack Arnold Hollywood TV and film editor on the Devastating Words, "Why doesn't Daddy love us?" and completely Transforming your Life...

Zack Arnold is an award-winning Hollywood film and television editor having done work on Glee, Empire, Burn Notice, and most recently Cobra Kai. He is the creator of the Optimize Yourself program and host of the Optimize Yourself podcast which is about intentionally prioritizing work-life balance while optimizing creativity and productivity. When he is not doing that he is running Tough Mudders, Spartan Races, and training to be a contestant on America Ninja Warrior on top of being a loving dad ...

Oct 18, 202152 minSeason 4Ep. 16