In today's episode, we dive into Stephanie's romantic relationship with her boyfriend, Michael Stravers. Even though the story is about love and friendship, there is the ultimate element of loss within this episode. Stephanie will discuss what it takes to push through the hardest time in her life with Michael and what he has done to continue to encourage her now that the couple are unable to see each other anymore.

Shannon finishes his conversation with Amy Morin where they continue a discussion on controlling the stories we tell ourselves and how to cope with the grieving process when someone leaves you vs. dies.

Then we dive into a discussion with professional calendar model and dirt bike racer, Stephanie Pietz. Today she talks about your ambition to do anything you want to do even if you don't have the advantages in your life.

Shannon speaks with comedian and podcast host, Jimmie Whisman, about attaining your goals and what it takes to reach your dreams. Shannon also speaks with licensed clinical social worker, Amy Morin, about Emotional Intelligence and why it's important to understand how we feel so that we achieve the mental strength we deserve when things get difficult.

Comedy is one of the hardest professions on the planet. Mainly because your audience is judging you and expecting you to be funny. But support from other comedians can get catty and competitive. That was when Jimmie Whisman, comedian and podcaster, decided that it was time to realize his dream by starting a podcast and sharing it with the world.

Jimmie discusses how he and his partner, James, saw a supportive community in podcasting which now garners nearly 1 million total downloads.

This last week I learned that my hosting service, Soundcloud, would be shutting down in the next 50 days. This means I have to take action ASAP to deliver this podcast. As you might understand, this is one of life's unexpected events that I can't control, but you'll learn more in this announcement. I will be delaying the delivery of the podcast this week as I sort out the hosting issue and migrate all of the current podcasts over to the new service. I apologize for the delay in the delivery of the podcast. If you do want to listen to the next episode, I do have them available on www.theshanman.com in my membership area, Behind The Experience. Listen today with a 7 day free trial and 80% off your first month of membership. You will gain access to more hours of extended interviews and pre-releases as they become available. Use offer code: FREE717 at checkout. Offer expires: July 28, 2017 Visit: https://www.theshanman.com/store/TGm2excn

Finding success isn't something that is happenstance. Digital Summer frontman, Kyle Winterstein, believes that his success as a musician and father is connected to something greater than himself.

In this episode, Kyle talks about creating the ultimate fan experience when he's out on the road and online and what it means to him and those fans. Kyle also points out what it means to be grounded that leads to larger opportunities.

Putting your life in check with fitness, nutrition, interpersonal relationships, finances and self all take work. But how do you go about finding that success.

In today's episode licensed clinical psychologist and former BMX champion, Jason Richardson, examines the mindset of a winner and how you can have the exact same mindset through his methods that have been proven successful.

I have always been fascinated with the inner workings of musical artists and actors. My fascination is all based around how far they have come when it came to success and what it took to reach their level of success. So you'll learn that I try to ask Phil Labonte [All That Remains] questions about him and his own belief systems. ALL YOU CAN OFFER IS WHO YOU ARE RIGHT NOW. WORK TO BE BETTER.

In last week's episode, we talked about achieving your dreams and becoming the experience, right? Zoltan Bathory justified why you should use the resources you have to create the beginning of your own dream. This week, we will finish off our conversation with Zoltan and I ask him what keeps him inspired to continue being in a band. He describes the desire we have as children and talks about the "cycle of fulfilment" and the magic you can create every single day. TO GET THIS EPISODE COMMERCIAL-FREE AND MORE EPISODES NOT LISTED HERE. VISIT WWW.THESHANMAN.COM FOR YOUR 7 DAY FREE TRIAL. Then, I will take you down a path of your past and how you were fearless at one point in your life. When we were young, we used to take so many chances without understanding any of the consequences. Now that we are older, have rent/mortgages, bills, family obligations, we become fearful of losing the things that are valuable. We will then talk with one of my favorite people in the world, Gelie Akhenblit of the website, Networking Phoenix. Gelie has fun for a living as a professional networker and talks with me regarding her upbringing as a Jewish refugee from the former Soviet Union and how being an immigrant has no bearing on her success as a CEO. But we continue on this theme about "happiness" and what makes Gelie happy. TO GET THIS EPISODE COMMERCIAL-FREE AND MORE EPISODES NOT LISTED HERE. VISIT WWW.THESHANMAN.COM FOR YOUR 7 DAY FREE TRIAL. Too often we worry about what other people think of us in order to find our ultimate happiness. We worry too much that other people's perception of us is what will make us happy, but we probably face more rejection of the false reality that we have created in our head. Then we continue to create a false reality for ourselves based on all of the distractions that are around us. We see a false reality in having an abundance of money without putting the work into the effort; we see a false reality based on someone else's physical well-being; we see a false reality based around other people's relationships. We should be focusing on ourselves to create our own positive reality--and through that work we will see flourishing relationships and abundance that we have never seen before. I can't explain it, but it happens. TO GET THIS EPISODE COMMERCIAL-FREE AND MORE EPISODES NOT LISTED HERE. VISIT WWW.THESHANMAN.COM FOR YOUR 7 DAY FREE TRIAL.

Zoltan Bathory never felt that he deserved his success when he came to America. When he decided to form Five Finger Death Punch, there was no "master plan" to see the band succeed to the levels they see today.

But Zoltan never settled to just be in a normal rock and roll band. He found strength within himself to take advantage of the resources that are all around us and apply them to his personal and musical life.