Sitting here in Chicago at my desk, it's kind of a dreary, cloudy day and it's about 55 degrees outside. We're transitioning into winter, which in Chicago can be so brutal. I woke up this morning, I knew I had a few recordings that I was going to do with the podcast, and I just wasn't feeling it. Do you ever have those days? You just don't know why. You feel like you slept enough, you had enough water, I did a nice yoga practice yesterday, and I just don't feel on my game. I don't feel like I'm ...
Nov 10, 2016•5 min
Today we’ve got Bridgette Mayer joining us. Bridgette owns an art gallery in Pennsylvania and she is the author of a new book, The Art Cure: A Memoir of Abuse and Fortune. This episode really blew me away. Bridgette spent decades of her life cultivating her passion for art, artist, clients and she advises people all over the world on art. It didn’t start like that. Her childhood started in a very abusive environment. It landed her in foster care homes and on the street, starving, actually gettin...
Nov 08, 2016•45 min
Today I wanted to talk to you about something that happened last week, and it just blew my mind. A client asked me what it means if you're getting a lot of stuff done, but you feel calm, relaxed, and in flow. Does it mean you're losing your edge?
Nov 03, 2016•7 min
Meredith is a speaker and a coach, and she runs a company called Think Human. She has worked with companies like Spotify, Goldman Sax, Soul Cycle. She’s been featured in media outlets like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, CNN, and Forbes.
Nov 01, 2016•44 min
Today we're going to talk a little bit about the power of delegation and the myth that I believe most of us have about delegation.
Oct 27, 2016•9 min
Ted Gonder is a member of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans and the co-founding CEO of Moneythink . Ted was named a Bluhm-Helfand Social Innovation Fellow by Chicago Ideas Week. And in 2015, Ted was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list as the youngest in Finance.
Oct 25, 2016•30 min
Hey, it's me in a rare moment to say thank you and let you know some new information about the podcast.
Oct 20, 2016•5 min
Dr. Chavez is a naturopath and she works at a center here in Chicago at a center called the Raby Center and I’ve had the good fortune of being her patient. If meditation, sleep, mindfulness, coaching all don't work, you could benefit from an ND. My work is centered around getting your mind in shape, but sometime it's not just about your mind - sometimes it goes deeper and requires an ND to help.
Oct 18, 2016•42 min
In the second part of "Everything that I learned in the business community and how to apply it to your personal life", we dive into the art and tactics behind achieving goals.
Oct 13, 2016•7 min
Ari Meisel is the author of multiple books, a speaker, business owner, and father. How does he do it all? His business, Less Doing, is all about answering that question — both for himself, and for the hundreds of business owners and entrepreneurs that use his services.
Oct 11, 2016•29 min
Effective communication is both easy and hard at the same time. It's hard because we often make so many simple mistakes that lead to large issues over time. It's easy because communicating well can be as simple as remembering to be human when you're speaking with someone. In this episode, I share communication lessons learned while running the company I co-founded and sold to a Fortune 500 company after 15 years.
Oct 06, 2016•9 min
Felicia’s a leadership coach who helps ambitious, professional women focus on what matters and eliminate and delegate what doesn’t to move towards bigger goals without burning out. And to find productivity systems that work so that you can stay consistent and motivated. She works with people who are project managers, lawyers, doctors, marketing, she works with all of them, you can have kids, married, not married, she’s just working with people who, women specifically, who want to do their best a...
Oct 04, 2016•47 min
Have you ever wondered in the back of your mind, "Do I deserve this?" You can fill in "this" with anything. Do I deserve that ice cream? Did I work out enough today, do I deserve it? Do I deserve a promotion? Have I worked really hard at my job and have I been overlooked or I got a promotion, did I deserve it? Have you asked yourself if you deserve to find love in your life?
Sep 29, 2016•7 min
Jonathan is the author of the upcoming book Good Authority and the owner of Refound, an advisory firm that offers accountability skills training programs for owners, executives, and managers. He is the former CEO and Chief Brand Officer of EMyth, where he led the transformation of a global coaching brand and has worked in tech, clean tech, and the nonprofit world after graduating law school in 1998. After twenty years of not being able to decide whether he was a business development guy or a per...
Sep 27, 2016•33 min
We all must constantly negotiate with other people in our lives — co-workers, family, significant others. Yet we often avoid these difficult discussions because we dread the seemingly inevitable conflict that arises. But is there a way to really avoid conflict without avoiding the necessary negotiation?
Sep 22, 2016•9 min
James Clear, author and blogger on behavioral psychology, habit formation, and performance improvement. His site has been visited by over 1 million people per month and he has over a quarter million subscribers.
Sep 20, 2016•42 min
Today's episode features selections from my interview with Dr. Shefali on child rearing and conscious parenting. It was such an honor to have her on the show and I wanted to bring up the point that I thought was just so powerful, so meaningful, it has blown me away. It's something I’ve been thinking about ever since we talked. She says that we - to survive - abandon our true selves. These projected images that our parents put on us (or we put on our children) unintentionally causes us to never d...
Sep 15, 2016•12 min
Zach Obront is the co-founder of Book in a Box, a new type of publishing company focused on allowing busy experts with important messages to share their book without the usual barriers. Writing a book can be almost impossible for people who are really busy so Book in a Box helps by transcribing the book for the expert, they grew from zero to 300 authors in a very short period.
Sep 13, 2016•34 min
Today, I’m going to answer a question that actually has been asked so many times. I’ve probably gotten this question 10, 20, 30 times. I haven’t kept track. The question is: “Why did you do a podcast on the Art of Authenticity? Why not the Art of Happiness?” People ask me that question in a variety of ways. They ask, “Why are you interested in authenticity and not happiness?” or they'll say that they are interested in happiness but don’t really understand authenticity. Well, there's a very good ...
Sep 08, 2016•8 min
Today we have Ashley Turner joining us. Ashley is not only an M.A., MFTI yoga meditation instructor, she is a marriage and family psychotherapy intern, writer, and I know it’s out there, but she’s also an ordained priestess. I wasn’t totally sure what that entailed but she explains it in this episode. She goes into how to blend eastern-western yoga techniques, meditation, philosophy and traditional western psychotherapy into building a life that is deeply authentic and meaningful....
Sep 06, 2016•33 min
Here's how to feel better when faced with anxiety and overwhelm. When we feel anxious, we attempt to control the world outside of us which temporarily squelches the anxiety, but doesn't ultimately help us feel better in the long run.
Sep 01, 2016•6 min
Today we have Kute Blackson joining us, I am so honored to have him on the show as the author of the bestselling novel, You. Are. The. One . He is also a transformational leader, he offers a different approach that he created, a process that liberates the individual and the true self at the core and then pushes those gifts outward into the universe. He realized that the “outside-in approach” doesn’t work for personal development and replaced it with an “inside-out approach”. This helps the indiv...
Aug 30, 2016•41 min
Struggling to figure out what you really want? The first step to start that process in today's episode.
Aug 25, 2016•7 min
Brian Kurtz was Director of Marketing at Boardroom Inc. where he helped grow the company to $150 million in sales at it’s height, actually reaching over a billion people. Now, he runs Titan’s Marketing where he offers educational materials, coaching consulting.
Aug 23, 2016•53 min
Do you want to take a risk? Are you playing it safe and wondering if it is the right choice? What if there are no right or wrong choices. Tune in to hear about how playing it safe isn't right or wrong and about Tony Robbins 6 human needs
Aug 18, 2016•7 min
Aaron Anastasi is a So Cal native who graduated with a master’s from Princeton. He’s the founder of the internationally recognized, Superior Singing Method , an online singing program grossing 7-figures annually. Aaron is also a prominent life coach and just published his book, The Voice of Your Dreams , an Amazon Best Seller.
Aug 16, 2016•37 min
Best selling author of the Art of Work , blogger, and host of the podcast Portfolio Life . Ever had that gnawing sense that there is something else out there for you, but you just can't put your finger on it? Jeff was in marketing, making a good living, but he had an "itch" that he couldn't ignore. He followed his heart and made a play as a writer and it has paid off personally and financially.
Aug 09, 2016•59 min
Everyone talks about grit - how to follow through and stay the course - but no one is sure why some achieve success and others quit. Research shows that grit correlates to being living an authentic life. Listen in for tips on staying the course - an authentic course.
Aug 04, 2016•5 min
A former US Air Force Captain turned Author / Coach / Speaker, Bryan Reeves has triumphed through multiple dark nights of the soul after hurling himself into the transformational fires of intimate relationship over and over again.
Aug 02, 2016•52 min
I love pleasurable things: ice cream, new clothes, an amazing dinner. But I also get that these things by nature are fleeting. Get that and you can find the deeper emotion of joy - that long lasting sense of peace and contentment many of us crave.
Jul 28, 2016•10 min
