Jon Macaskill is a retired Navy SEAL Commander turned consultant and mindfulness and meditation teacher. He was born in South Africa but grew up in Ruston, Louisiana. After graduating high school, he served briefly as an enlisted sailor in the US Navy before receiving an appointment to the US Naval Academy and graduating from there with a BS in mathematics 4 years later. Jon served in Iraq, Afghanistan, off the coast of Somalia, and in Panama. After retiring, he served briefly as the Deputy Exec...
Mar 29, 2022•54 min
Héctor Colón is the President and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan (LSS). Under Colón’s visionary and innovative leadership, LSS has adapted new models and business strategies to increase relevancy and operational efficiency. Before the start of Colón’s tenure in 2017, the organization had not met its budget for four consecutive years. Since that time, LSS has generated multi-million dollar surpluses with a gain of $2.4 million in 2019. He recently was named the No...
Mar 22, 2022•46 min
Turning the worst day of your life into your best is no easy feat, but sometimes there is simply no other option. In Brett Connellan’s case, this day included the moment every surfer’s worst nightmare became his reality when he was attacked by a Great White Shark. As the light was fading at Bombo Beach on the evening of the 30th of March, 2016, Brett was inches from death. He had lost three-quarters of his left quad, and emergency responders on the scene were sure Brett would not make it. Fortun...
Mar 15, 2022•55 min
Tom Hardin previously spent much of his career as a financial analyst in the U.S. In 2008, as part of a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Tom assisted the U.S. government in understanding how insider trading occurred in the financial services industry. Known as “Tipper X,” Tom became one of the most prolific informants in securities fraud history, helping to build over 20 of the 80+ individual criminal cases in “Operation Perfect Hedge,” a Wall Street house cleaning camp...
Mar 08, 2022•41 min
Craig Siegel is a Performance Coach, Keynote Speaker, Entrepreneur, Online brand exploder, Host of the record-breaking podcast, The CLS Experience, and rising thought leader, as featured in Entrepreneur and endorsed by some of the world’s most well-known celebrities. When the pandemic happened, Craig left his lucrative and stable job on Wall Street and went all-in with his passion and purpose to help people revamp their mindset and alter their perspective. He combined that with his Entrepreneuri...
Mar 01, 2022•37 min
Liz Kislik is a management consultant and executive coach, and a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Her TEDx “Why There’s So Much Conflict at Work and What You Can Do to Fix It” has received more than a quarter of a million views. She specializes in developing high performing leaders and workforces, and for 30 years has helped family-run businesses, national nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies like American Express, Girl Scouts, Staples, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and Hi...
Feb 22, 2022•56 min
Jason Caldwell is a world-class athlete, a leadership and high-performance coach, and keynote speaker. For the past nine years Jason has used the lessons learned from the sports arena to teach what it takes to be a leader in a competitive business environment. As an endurance and adventure athlete, Jason has accumulated world records from the oceans to the Namib Desert. Upon graduating college he was invited to row for Vesper Boat Club’s elite rowing team in Philadelphia where he won two gold me...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 5 min
At the age of 17, Dale was lost in life without purpose or direction, an only child of a broken home, and living in his grandmother’s attic. While being stitched up following a bloody street fight, he agreed to attend a week-long bootcamp hosted by the American Legion---run by U.S. Marines. This set Dale on a life-long path in leadership and high performance. Following an honorable enlistment, veteran Marine Sergeant Walls returned to his small-town home where he founded an IT Service Company (C...
Jan 19, 2022•54 min
Mike is a guy who loves supporting and helping entrepreneurs bring their dreams to fruition, breakthrough barriers, and achieve massive success. He’s lived in their shoes since he was 26 and has been through - and is still on - the roller coaster they are. He’s someone you can count on who has experienced the excitement, pain, grit, and mistakes that come with every entrepreneurial journey. Mike is an entrepreneur who has helped start, grow, and sell two amazingly successful waste management com...
Jan 12, 2022•54 min
Joshua Frank (JT) is a proud veteran and first responder. He started his career in the United States Air Force and has spent the last 23 years protecting and serving his country as a civilian federal employee. Through his extensive time in the military and as a first responder, he has become intimately familiar with both the positive and negative lifestyle and habits associated with these career fields. Unfortunately for JT, the negative habits progressively played a larger role in his life. Thr...
Jan 05, 2022•58 min
Christina had been in hr, recruitment, consulting, training, and executive leadership and what she knew for sure was we were missing an opportunity to engage and equip people and in return, increase business performance. In her career, she has seen people step into growth, achieve the unexpected and succeed together. I am, therefore, a firm believer that people can unlock their purpose, joy, development and Performance. I also believe organisations can achieve success and high performing culture...
Dec 29, 2021•52 min
Gregory Robinson has been specialising in senior international executive appointments for over 18 years. Sector experience is broad and includes consumer retail, natural resources, infrastructure, industrial, manufacturing, telecommunications, technology, financial services, health and sport. Gregory has acted as an adviser to many of Australia’s leading corporations on Board performance, capability and succession. He is a member of the Board, CEO and CFO Practices. Prior to establishing Blenhei...
Dec 22, 2021•50 min
Preston spent 30 years in the field of Adventure Education leading expeditions on all seven continents. These journeys became the catalyst for a lifelong academic investigation on how humans learn to interact with uncertainty. This research has resulted in a Masters of Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education on risk and uncertainty, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education on the training and education of Mission Cri...
Dec 15, 2021•48 min
“Years ago, I was struggling with the competing pressures of work, parenting, relationships and the expectations I put on myself. I often felt isolated in this experience, like no one else would or could understand, even though I had an active social life and solid friendship base. This ultimately led me to seek support and discover new ways of being. After “getting everything, I wanted and then seeing it all fall apart”, I undertook a journey of self-discovery and transformation with the same v...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 8 min
From growing up with learning and reading disabilities, to barely passing public high school, to multiple suicide attempts, to living on the streets and on welfare—Darren Jacklin was fated for failure. Throughout his upbringing, he was repeatedly told that his abilities would forever keep him from amounting to anything. For years he accepted this destiny and even succumbed to its weight several times until someone believed in him. This pivotal moment completely reshaped his life, giving him the ...
Dec 01, 2021•59 min
This Marine shows us how his battle with a rare disease helped him level up and become stronger. To be able to bounce back from adversity is a skill. It takes practice and experience to get back up when life punches us in the face. That’s why you need to know about Jeff Harris. On Dec 25, 2018, Jeff collapsed from exhaustion and dehydration. Within hours he was admitted to the hospital for aspiration pneumonia and eventually diagnosed with Esophageal Achalasia. Achalasia is a very rare disease (...
Nov 24, 2021•53 min
The absolute extremes; why some are compelled to push beyond the edge and what can hyper-driven business people learn from these folks? There’s the neuroscientist continuously violating his brain to override his disgust response. The hardcore wrestler turning natural-born agitation into curated ultraviolence. The architect hanging from hooks in her flesh at weekends, to better get out of her head. The ultrarunner who draws parallels between his current pursuit and his former life smoking crack. ...
Nov 17, 2021•44 min
How we can be better allies for women Men need to fully appreciate just how crucial their support of promising junior women can be in helping them to persist, promote, and thrive in their vocations and organisations. As women succeed, lean in, and assume leading roles in any organization or work context, that culture will become more egalitarian, effective, and prone to retaining top talent. That’s why you need to listen to David Smith, PhD. A former Navy pilot, Dr. Smith led diverse organisatio...
Nov 10, 2021•53 min
Honesty and integrity or dishonesty and toxicity, you need to choose. OR ELSE you will lose your employees and customers. It comes down to four factors: Clear Identity, Accountability, Governance and Cross-Functional Relationships. And when executed, your team will tell the truth, behave fairly and active with purpose at work. Who’s the mastermind behind all of this? His name is Ron Carucci, a best-selling author, a 2x TEDx speaker, a regular Forbes and HBR contributor and so much more. Ron also...
Nov 03, 2021•34 min
How will you prepare your organisation to profit from radical change? Well this former HP global futurist shows how you can future-proof your business. So you can identify “Rogue Waves” that can destroy your business. Who’s the mastermind behind all of this? Jonathan Brill is an expert on resilient growth, innovation, and decision-making during uncertainty. He was a senior leader and the Global Futurist at Hewlett Packard, where he directed long-term strategy programs, a creative director at fro...
Oct 27, 2021•38 min
In 2012, Craig made a choice. He exploited the warranty policy of one of the world's largest tech companies for his financial gain. He was arrested by the FBI on 10/1/13 and eventually sentenced to 2 years of Federal Prison. He lost his wife, his homes, cars, career, and identity. He was suicidal. He wanted nothing more than to die. A well-timed visit from his best friend, followed by a visit from his Mum and Aunt, turned it all around. It was from here that he reinvented his life from scratch. ...
Oct 19, 2021•39 min
When you’re in the leadership trenches dealing with day-to-day challenges, it can be difficult to connect your leadership work with the results your people produce. Oftentimes, you know you’re not being the best leader you can be, but there’s no blueprint on how to do it differently. This Wall-Street Journal Best-Selling author outlines his proven leadership principles in a clear, direct way. He sweeps away the mystical fog surrounding leadership today and lays out the essential steps for succes...
Oct 13, 2021•50 min
Jaquie Scammell is obsessed with Service: helping people first serve themselves so they can better serve others. Referred to as Australia's leading customer service expert, she is the Founder/CEO of ServiceQ and the creator of the Service Habits Program. Jaquie devotes her time to organisations, leaders, teams and individuals who are seeking growth emotionally, relationally and spiritually so that their service interactions leave people better than when they found them. With a vision to change t...
Oct 06, 2021•50 min
What if I told you, there’s a better way of dealing with it. That’s because traditional conflict management has failed you. This guy was a former Canadian federal government lawyer and an experienced conflict management consultant. His book, The Collaborative Path introduces a collaborative model to replace the debate format used for generating decisions and solutions, and even for having conversations. To have both better solutions to situations and stronger relationships among participants, ...
Sep 29, 2021•43 min
Pat has broken world records and created some of his own. In 2016, Pat ran 4417km in 65 days in his Spirit of India run from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, to raise awareness of the beauty of India and its people and to raise funds for the Nanhi Kali foundation, supporting the education of the Indian girl child. Pat has been awarded the high honour of the Order of Australia for his contribution to ultramarathon running, politics and charitable works. He was winner of “Achiever of the Year” (2000), awar...
Sep 22, 2021•44 min
Jack Daly is an experienced and inspirational sales trainer and sales coaching expert, who inspires audiences to take action in the areas of sales management, corporate culture, and sales training. He brings 30 plus years of field-proven experience from a starting base with CPA firm Arthur Andersen to the CEO level of several national companies. Jack is a proven CEO/Entrepreneur, having built 6 companies into national firms, two of which he has subsequently sold to the Wall Street firms of Solom...
Sep 15, 2021•51 min
Named by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits. Among his many accomplishments, he has run 50 marathons, in all 50 US states, in 50 consecutive days. He’s run across Death Valley in the middle of summer, and he’s run a marathon to the South Pole. On ten separate occasions, he’s run a 200-mile relay race solo, racing alongside teams of twelve. His list of competitive achievements includes winning ...
Sep 08, 2021•45 min
Bede Draper is a New Zealander who has a MSc and has been formally trained in Western methods of psychotherapy and Western philosophy. He spent 14 months studying under Swami Dayananda in India. He has an avid interest in Vedic psychology as unfolded by Swami Dayananda and now uses this psychology as a foundation for his psychotherapy and life coaching practice. As a young man he was in a Roman Catholic religious order studying to be a priest. In this episode: What does it mean to be free while ...
Jun 25, 2021•1 hr 21 min
Oscar Trimboli is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. He is passionate about using the gift of listening to bring positive change in homes, workplaces and cultures around the world. Through his work with chairs, boards of directors and executive teams in local, regional and global organisations, Oscar has experienced firsthand the transformational impact leaders and organisations can have when they listen beyond the words. He beli...
Jun 17, 2021•57 min
Joel “Thor” Neeb sits on the board of several national organizations and is the co-founder of a military support corporation. As Afterburner’s CEO, he leads a team of more than 70 elite military professionals. He has helped achieve strategic objectives and foster elite teams for Fortune 100 companies within the tech industry, pharmaceuticals, finance, medical devices, retail apparel and several NFL teams. Before being a CEO, Joel was a former F-15 mission commander with more than 2,500 missions ...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 2 min
