Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. Billy and Brian talk to endurance athlete, personal trainer, and owner of Performance Running Gym Aaron Boike. We discuss: Aaron's transition from powerlifter to endurance athlete. Why people approaching midlife need to continue prioritizing their health, especially strength training What gets in the way of people putting their healthiest foot forward What a pre-screening and consultat...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. This is the second half of our two-part interview with Kolin Purcell and Anna Schlegel. Did you miss Part 1? Go back an episode and get caught up! Then join us for this episode! Billy and Brian talk to yogis, breathwork specialists, yogis, and retreat leaders Kolin Purcell and Anna Schlegel about the breathwork seminar the two of them led while Billy was at the NGor Island Surf Camp in...
Mar 09, 2022•44 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. Billy and Brian talk to yogis, breathwork specialists, yogis, and retreat leaders Kolin Purcell and Anna Schlegel about the breathwork seminar the two of them led while Billy was at the NGor Island Surf Camp in Dakar. Kolin and Anna discuss: Why do you breathe? Why is becoming aware of the breath important? * breath awareness meditation * Autonomic nervous system branches Chest vs. bel...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian ask pediatric operating room nurse and trauma-informed yoga instructor Marie Nutter: --A lot of our season has focused on reinventing ourselves after facing tragedy or trauma, and your story follows that same script. Can you share with us your journey to healing and reinvention after the death of your twin brother? --From that experience came the...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. Discretion advised. If you or someone you know is struggling with depression or suicidal ideation, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) In this week's episode, Billy and Brian ask Michael Mosher: --We met through Lecia Fox’s Gentlemen’s Guide to Inner Work, and I distinctly...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. While Brian celebrates with his colleagues, Billy talks to cancer survivor and host of the Dose of Joy podcast Joy Huber about: --Her journey as a cancer survivor --Learning to "live with joy" while still battling cancer --How she has reinvented her life or shifted her perspective on life now that she's faced her own mortality? Like what you heard from Joy Huber? Contact her at: Patreo...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 22 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian talk to equity consultant Jodi Pfarr about: --The four components of societal systems: individual, organizational, communities, and policies. --How societal systems get in the way of our potential. --The 18 Normalized and Non-Normalized Societal Systems --How looking at our own normalizations impact how we view our experiences and how others may ...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. Billy and Brian talk to transformational coach and FINE Is a Four-Letter Word podcast host Lori Saitz about: What values and beliefs were instilled in her growing up and how those evolved into coaching people to say 'f*ck being fine' The moment in her life that made her say 'f*ck being fine'? The Trilogy of Success within her 'F*ck Being Fine' program. The power of gratitude What her e...
Jan 26, 2022•48 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. Billy and Brian talk to the hosts of the Trash the Checklist podcast Dr. Yolanda Holloway and Tiffany Byrd. We discuss: What they mean by "trash the checklist" How they both came to realize that their lives had become too much about crossing off tasks from a "life checklist" The role their professions in education played in pushing them through tasks unconsciously Their take on "gender...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian talk to The Mindful Male podcast host Greg Scheinman. Greg helps men maximize middle age and achieve a better quality of life. He’s the host of The Midlife Male podcast & newsletter as well as a performance coach, author, speaker, advisor and investor to brands that help men live better and healthier. A former entrepreneur greg was founder an...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. Welcome to Season 4! In this week's episode, Billy and Brian talk to Wendy Battles. As the host of the Reinvention Rebels podcast , Wendy interviews bold and unapologetic women, 50-90, who have reinvented themselves later in life to see new possibilities. From traveling solo around the world with a carry-on bag at 60, to penning and publishing a first novel at 62 to launching a modelin...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. Billy is back from Europe (and Africa!) and wants to share the life lessons he learned during his travels! Hear more about: --why surfers are total bad asses --why only speaking English is a privilege and a curse --how social media is still addicting even when you're traveling --how to recognize the travel tractor beam --why tapas are the best food ever --what "saudade" means --whether...
Dec 01, 2021•58 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. While Billy still soaks up the sun under the bluest skies he's ever seen in Portugal and beyond, the guys reflect on the first year of the podcast before making a big announcement for our devoted listeners! As a bonus, Billy shares his one-on-one conversation with spiritual health coach Lecia Fox from her summer course The Gentlemen's Guide to Inner Work. Billy shares how this course h...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In today's episode, Billy and Brian reflect on the amazing insights shared by our Season 3 guests with their best good pal, the always entertaining Matt Hazard! The guys: --discuss why Matt Hazard found this season to be "pretty, pretty woo woo" at times --try to make sense of why those messages landed differently when it came from a different person --reflect on how those messages lan...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 30 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. Billy and Brian sit down with teacher, writer, psychologist, and consultant Dr. Yvette Erasmus to discuss: --how she feels about her daughter's change of plans to forego college and live with her for another year--her recent trip to Alexandria, Egypt, in which she closed a chapter in her life --her recent trip to Ireland to support a friend through adventure --the difference between th...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian sit down with author, presenter, and professional wise-cracker Tom Cody--co-founder of Top 20 Strategies, to discuss: --how we can become the best version of ourselves through Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, Responsible Decision Making --the importance of social-emotional intelligence and why we need to sto...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian talk to mindfulness coach Brett Hill about: --how he learned at an early age that what we can achieve and the quality of our life hinges on our ability to communicate well with others --how understanding the somatic experience of emotion can lead to better communication, awareness, and self-regulation --what mindful communication looks like --how...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian talk to Global Inclusion and Diversity Business Leader Ericka Jones about: --what inclusion, diversity, and equity training looks like and how it makes us more aware of our blind spots --how we NEED to use our privilege to ensure people have equitable experiences --how conversations around inclusion, diversity, and equity have evolved over the co...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 21 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian talk to Teresa Sande, author of Find Your Fierce: Interrupt Impostor Syndrome and Own Your Success , about: --what exactly impostor syndrome is --her experiences, observations, and research on how people experience impostor syndrome through her time as an HR executive in Fortune 500 companies --some of the symptoms and self-limiting thoughts peop...
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian talk to John Wessinger, author of Ride the Wave: How to Embrace Change and Create a Powerful New Relationship with Risk , about: --how a surfing vacation gone extremely wrong led understanding the importance of embracing the conditions regardless of prior preparation --how that surfing experience prepared him for an unexpected realization in his ...
Sep 08, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian talk to Scott Welle--author, speaker, and founder of Outperform the Norm, a global movement that helps people achieve peak performance in their personal and professional lives--about: --how he got started running marathons and doing Ironman triathlons --the pivotal moments in his life that helped him reach optimal peak performance --how self-limi...
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian talk to certified professional co-active life coach, registered yoga teacher, and yoga studio owner Jill Dahler about: --her transition from Corporate America to life coach and yoga studio owner; --what she means by being "unapologetically you" --the healing she needed to do in order to love herself enough to discover her inner awesome --what a l...
Aug 25, 2021•55 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian talk to career coach Dr. Dawn Graham about: --why people in their midlife years switch careers --the career-switch process (and how damn frustrating it can be!) --how job-hunting has changed over the years --how we need to rebrand ourselves during the job search (especially if we're a non-traditional applicant) --the importance of networking (and...
Aug 18, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian interview energy mastery expert Kristen Brown about how we can unblock our best self. Kristen is a "corporate hippie" who has worked with some of the biggest brands on the planet. She is also a best-selling author, podcast host, energy mastery expert, work/life futurist, widowed mom, and a world-wide speaker. Today's discussion topics include: --...
Aug 11, 2021•58 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In this week's episode, Billy and Brian try to remember what it's like to talk to each other without having a guest on the show; get older (but better); share their successes from Seasons 1 and 2 (and encourage you to do the same!); run down the list of outstanding Season 3 guests (with links included to their websites below!); outline their goals for the upcoming year; and make a BIG ...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In today's episode, Billy and Brian sit down with Lisa Barnholdt to discuss navigating life in a blended family. If you want to learn more about how to foster a loving blended family, check out the books referenced by Lisa in today's episode: -- The Smart Step-Family by Ron Deal -- Becoming a Step-Family: Patterns of Development in Remarried Families by Patricia L. Papernow Thank you f...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In today's episode, Billy and Brian sit down with Shannon Essler-Petty to discuss how raising a child with special needs has been a blessing, has shaped her work as an educator who prepares teachers for their classroom experiences, has turned her into a strong advocate for children with special needs, and an all-around bad ass! You can follow her daughter Quinn's adventures on Instagra...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In today's episode, Brian forgets to show up to our interview, so Billy has to retreat to his home recording fort for our second conversation with mental health advocate Tandra Rutledge from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Tandra shares how she helps her son unlock his ADHD superpowers! There's even a surprise guest at the end of this episode! Thank you for listening to...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In today's episode, Billy and Brian talk to mental health advocate Tandra Rutledge about how we can normalize and prioritize conversations around mental health with our children so we can kick stigma's butt! If you or someone you know is struggling with depression or suicidal ideation, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) or Text "HOME" to 741...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email billy@mindfulmidlifecrisis.com. In today's episode, Billy and Brian talk to their best good pal, the always entertaining Matt Hazard! Matt shares what has resonated the most with him throughout Season 2 of The Mindful Midlife Crisis, including: our guests expertise and vulnerability, how this season of episodes has challenged him to be a better father and husband, and how amazing Dr. Yvette Erasmus is. We made it ano...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 25 min
