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Today we’re speaking with Jürgen Strauss (Founder and Chief Innovator at Innovabiz) about all-things-podcasting—from booking potential guests to building consistency to getting in the right headspace it to make it all happen. Whether you’re a veteran in the biz or just getting started, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss.

Jürgen Strauss is a transformational marketing strategist, podcaster and speaker. He’s the founder of Innovabiz – partnering with innovative, exceptional business coaches and consultants to enable them to acquire more leads and more business by reaching their target ideal audience with their message. His vision and philosophy is simple – make your marketing human again and make it about creating your client’s story, leading them on their exceptional journey with you as their guide.

As host of the InnovaBuzz Podcast, Jürgen has held meaningful conversations with hundreds of outstanding entrepreneurs from all around the world gaining insight into what makes them ‘tick’, what ‘lights them up’, why they do what they do and what inspiration and value they can add to the rest of the world.

After suffering from debilitating chronic inflammation, Talor Zamir realized he needed to make a full life change—from what he put into his body to the way he ran his business. Now as the founder of Peak Performance, Talor is on a mission to inspire us all to transform (and prioritize) our health. In today’s episode, he reveals what we can do to take charge of our eating habits and enrich our minds to achieve better health.

In 2013, Talor was wracked with intense, inexplicable pain and inflammation that was putting his health, his hope, and his family’s financial future in danger. 

He couldn’t type more than a couple sentences without feeling massive pain throughout his arms. Desperate for relief, or even an answer, he turned to multiple medical professionals, both mainstream and alternative, to no avail. He deteriorated to the point where he could no longer use a keyboard, and his anxiety about his ability to support his family escalated to panic.

Talor refused to give up, and with his family’s unwavering encouragement, he eventually came to the all-important realization that INflammation comes from INside of you. He realized that he was going about this all wrong. He was looking for solutions outside himself (pain relief creams, braces, chiropractors, and pain relief devices) but this problem of inflammation was originating from the inside.

This realization was an epiphany, and as he started to change what he put in his body and mind, a new understanding came, and everything began to change.

What began as a crucible he would never wish on his worst enemy became the adventure of a lifetime, a Hero’s Journey, if you will. He returned from his quest, victorious, having been led to the solutions he had all along been seeking. 

How he successfully put out the fire of pain and inflammation is why he created Peak Performance. He now has a new quest: to help others transform their health and life in the same way he did. If in 2013 he could have traveled forward in time to see the life he’s living and the person he’s become today, he wouldn’t have believed it.

Rusty Gaillard ditched his high-profile career at Apple to forge a new path that brought him more happiness and personal (and professional) satisfaction. Now, as a professional coach, he’s showing other people in tech how they can do it too. In today’s episode, Rusty reveals what we can do to upgrade our own paths and take our lives to the next level. We also dispel the myths behind overworking your way to success, and unveil exercises that will help anyone find the courage to seek something new.

Rusty Gaillard works at the intersection of high tech & Inner Tech, helping ambitious people achieve their next level of success by upgrading their Inner Technology.

From an engineering degree at Princeton, to his first job at GE under Jack Welch, to a Stanford MBA, to the Worldwide Director of Finance at Apple, Rusty has walked the traditional path of success. Along the way, he learned that traditional success is not the same as being successful in life. Discovering and building a successful life required upgrades to your Inner Tech – the beliefs, thoughts, and habits that create your life experience.

For Rusty, those operating system upgrades came through challenge and opportunity: a voluntary demotion to spend more time at home, a divorce, and leaving his 25-year corporate career to become a coach. Using a repeatable process to upgrade your InnerTech, Rusty now helps others define and achieve holistic success in life, on their terms.

To say that Jared Kleinert has hit super connector status would be an understatement. In fact, he’s one of the go-to sources on all-things-networking for everyone from Forbes to Time to Entrepreneur. On his second appearance on the podcast, Jared shares some of the insights from his newest book—How To Build a World-Class Network in Record Time­—revealing how to get better at networking by building deeper, more meaningful relationships quickly.

Jared Kleinert is the founder of Meeting of the Minds (motm.co), as well as a TED speaker, 2x award-winning author, and USA Today’s “Most Connected Millennial”.

As a highly-sought after keynote speaker and consultant on engaging Millennials in the workplace, Jared’s clients range from organizations like Facebook, Samsung, Bacardi, Estee Lauder, IBM, Cornell, Berkeley, AdAge, and the National Speakers Association. His insights on entrepreneurship and networking have been featured in major media such as Forbes, TIME, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, NPR, Entrepreneur, Mashable, Fox Business and more.

His invite-only mastermind community, Meeting of the Minds, curates top entrepreneurs, CEOs, and business owners for quarterly summits in places like Napa Valley, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, and Bermuda. Members of this network (typically operating 7-figure businesses with no outside investors) enjoy more predictable revenue, increased profitability, and sustainable growth for their companies in addition to new life-long friendships and long-term business partnerships.

Lizabeth Wesely-Casella knows a thing or two about teamwork. As the Founder and CEO of L-12 Services, she helps teams of all shapes and sizes overcome problems and learn to speak each other’s language. In today’s episode, Lizabeth reveals the real reasons teams fall apart and what you can to do stop it from happening. We also unveil how to attract high-caliber talent and explore how you can start building environments that promote trust, creativity, and clear expectations.

Lizabeth Wesely-Casella is an internal communications corporate trainer and process improvement specialist. Her firm specializes in internal communications plan design and executive virtual assistance for high impact entrepreneurs and teams.

In today’s episode, author and workplace wellness speaker Janice Litvin reveals how we can avoid burnout by taking better care of ourselves and reprograming the way we behave when we feel stressed. We also talk about how we can dig into our pasts to find problematic patterns, and start setting healthy boundaries.

Janice Litvin is on a mission to help leaders and teams banish burnout in their organizations, so their employees can come to work healthy, happy, and ready to work. She does this through her keynotes, workshops, and accountability groups.

Her new book, Banish Burnout Toolkit, takes teams through the journey of untangling their negative behavior patterns to effect real behavior change for life. What makes nice unique is her 20 years’ technology recruiting experience, 10 years’ IT experience, study of psychology, and her experience changing her own behavior.

Professional dancer, award-wining director, author of The Influential Voice—Tricia Brouk wears too many amazing hats to mention. Her current passion is helping professional speakers amplify their voices and share their stories on the big stage. Today she tells us how she does it. During our conversation, Tricia also reveals how everyone has a voice and important message to share—it all just comes down to expressing it in our own unique ways.

Tricia Brouk is an international award-winning director. She has worked in theater, film, and television for three decades. Her work includes the writing of two musicals, both produced in New York City, a one-woman show, and four documentaries, two eligible for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominations. She had an extensive career as a dancer performing all over the world. In addition to her work in the entertainment industry, Tricia applies her expertise to the art of public speaking. Tricia founded The Big Talk Academy where she certifies speakers in the art of public speaking. She was the executive producer of Speakers Who Dare and TEDxLincolnSquare and now The Big Talk Live.

She has shepherded more than fifty speakers onto more than fifteen TEDx stages in under three years. She is currently being featured in a new documentary called Big Stages, which highlights the transformation of her speakers. Tricia’s commitment and devotion to inclusion is a priority as all of her shows, events, and communities are diverse. She curates and hosts the Speaker Salon in NYC, The Big Talk, an award-winning podcast on iTunes and YouTube. She directed and produced The Big Talk Over Dinner: Race and Immigration that premiered at the Be Your Best Self Expo in 2020. She was awarded Top Director of 2019 by the International Association of Top Professional and is relentless about her vision of amplifying voices all over the world. Her book, The Influential Voice: Saying What You Mean For Lasting Legacy was #1 New Release on Amazon in December 2020. Tricia lives in New York City with her husband, Joe Ricci, and their two cats, Lola and Bella. Their building faces the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater where she gets to watch young dancers realize their dreams every single day.

If any of us want to make major moves in our lives and careers, we’re going to need some serious motivation—and Eli Marcus knows exactly how to get it. And, more importantly, he knows how to keep it going. He has dedicated his life to motivation and self-help, and today he’s sharing some of his secrets. During our conversation, Eli also breaks down what it means to be an extraverted introvert, and reveals how anyone can conquer their shyness.

Eli Marcus was born and raised in Queens, NY and now resides between NY and FL with his beautiful wife Elsie of 32 Years. He has a BA Degree in Psychology from Queens College, NY. Eli Marcus is the Executive Director of Davler Media Group, the publishers of New York City’s largest circulation Visitor Magazine, City Guide, where he spent five decades in the NYC hospitality industry, making him the senior most person in the entire industry. He is also one of the organizers of the prestigious Hotel Concierge Choice Awards. He is the Host of The Motivation Show Podcast where he interviews some of the foremost thought leaders of our times.  Eli is also the former CEO of The Seminar Center where he produced over 2,800 seminars & events with notables like Michael Jackson, Les Brown, Mark Victor Hansen, Judy Collins, Iyanla Vanzant, Davy Jones & hundreds more!

As a young man, Eli was painfully shy which prevented him from being noticed and going after his dreams. It was psychologically crippling for him where he lacked initiative and held on to his doubts, fears and low self-esteem. He knew he had to do something dramatic if that was ever to change. He went on to read, listen to and devour over 1,000 books and tapes on Self-Help / Motivation which helped him overcome his own challenges and be one of the foremost well-versed individuals on this topic. By studying those that were super successful, Eli realized there was an extroverted introvert that lived inside of him and that he did not have to live with the shyness label that so many callously called him, including himself. Only when he pulled that other hidden side out of himself, did he begin to flourish. The impossible started to turn into the possible. He decided to do the most difficult things that a shy kid could ever dream of and he became the lead Salesman everywhere he went, which depended on him transforming from Painfully Shy to top Sales Guy! Eli Marcus has devoted his life to helping others on the various principles of leading a balanced, healthy, successful, and happy life.

Eli Marcus now travels the world virtually and to live events helping men and women professionally and personally on how to get motivated daily, what pitfalls to avoid and what simple daily habits to follow so they can enjoy the wealth they build for themselves and their families. Eli Marcus shows them how to take the school of hard knocks to help them avoid spending decades in trial-and-error mazes and failures and lead a successful, thriving life without it being at the expense of their health.

In today’s archival episode, author and TEDx speaker Todd Cherches reveals how working for some seriously horrible Hollywood bosses led him to pursue a successful career in leadership development. During our conversation, Todd unpacks why storytelling should be at the heart of everything we do, and explains how visual thinking can make us all better managers and leaders.

Todd Cherches is the CEO and cofounder of BigBlueGumball, a NYC-based consulting firm specializing in leadership development, public speaking, and executive coaching. He is also a three-time award-winning Adjunct Professor of leadership in the Human Capital Management master’s program at NYU, and a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University. Todd is also a TEDx speaker (“The Power of Visual Thinking”), and the author of VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life.

In today’s episode, Next Steps Navigation co-founder Janet Neal reveals why crafting a path that honors who we are and what we believe in will lead to a more powerful, happy, and serene life. Then she shows us how we can start. During our conversation, Janet also unpacks how we can harness an explorer’s mindset when it comes to building relationships.

Janet M. Neal is a “Reformed Superwoman” who has learned how to lead a “should-free,” productive, joyful, and powerful life, and believes all women can do the same. In addition to her job working as a global client rep for 19 years at IBM, she founded IBM NJ’s first work/life balance initiative in 1995. In 2000 she left to follow this passion, addressing corporate work/life balance issues, through her company, Productivity Resource Group. In 2007 she added to her coaching and consulting work by founding “The Professional Women’s Center”, addressing the desire on the part of women to connect and having no facility designed to allow it. She has worked with entrepreneurs at The Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL) and at C3Workplace, and is currently the Founder and Queen Bee at The Superbwoman, Inc., whose mission is to provide women with the resources and opportunities to step into their innate power, for the betterment of all. And in 2020, Janet helped found Next Steps Navigation, a boutique coaching solution to help recent or soon-to-be college graduates get on their right path, taking their next steps into #adulting.

Janet is a corporate trainer and speaker and a Board Member of the NYC Chapter of the National Speaker Association. She is the author of Soul in Control: Reflections of a Reformed Superwoman and The Superbwoman: It’s All About the BE. Janet is a contributor to numerous business publications and hosts a web show called “Superbwoman Sundays at 7.” Ms. Neal holds a BS in Education from Central Michigan University and a MA in Spiritual Psychology from The University of Santa Monica. She holds ACC coaching accreditation, from IPEC coaching. Janet lives in NJ and is the mother of 3 superb young adults and 3 amazing granddaughters.