Bits of Gold

What You Will Learn:

• The power of incremental change
• How to get out of your own way
• How to think about your needs and wants
• How to incorporate fun and cool things as you focus on your goals

Bio:

Elliot Aronow is a professional life coach and creative consultant and has supported artists and brands including GQ, The Strokes, RCRD LBL, Noah, and The FADER. His specialities include creative coaching, men’s work and empath coaching.

Important Links:

• Elliot's coaching website: https://www.coachingwithelz.com/
• Elliot's communications consultancy: https://www.studioelz.com/
• Elliot's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachingwithelz/

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What You Will Learn:

• When it's the right time to jump?
• What is the jump curve?
• How to navigate not feeling fulfilled in your dream job?
• How to navigate doing the right adventure, but at the wrong time?
• How to jump at your dreams?

Mike Lewis' Bio:

Mike is a member of the Sustainable Finance Group at Goldman Sachs, where he focuses on impact investing and helps lead global climate partnerships. Earlier in his career, Mike was a venture and growth equity investor at Bain Capital Ventures and was the founder of When to Jump, a media and reskilling platform and community for working professionals globally. He is the author of "When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want", published worldwide and distributed in over fifty countries in six languages following its release.

Important Links:

whentojump.com/book

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlewis1/

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What You Will Learn:

• How thinking about death can be motivating?
• How a traumatic experience can translate to growth?
• How to truly feel alive.
• The power of death awareness
• How a deathbed mediation can help you in decision paralysis

Kate Manser's Bio:

Kate Manser is a spiritual leader whose work is to help people live more alive in their everyday life. She is an inspiring author, artist, and the creator of the YOU MIGHT DIE TOMORROW movement. Most of all, she is just so grateful to be alive.

Important Links:

You Might Die Tomorrow

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1952018005

The Alive Workbook

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1952018048

www.youtube.com/c/katemanser

www.instagram.com/thealivekate

www.facebook.com/youmightdietomorrow

www.tiktok.com/@thealivekate

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What You Will Learn:

• How to prioritize you
• The importance of putting yourself first
• How to balance pursuing both your passion and what you are good at
• How to life your perfect day

Mark Samuel's Bio:

Today, my guest is serial entrepreneur, and the Founder and CEO of IWON Organics, Mark Samuel. Mark has 17 years of startup experience, and currently is building a plant based food company that makes bold, flavor infused snacks and cereal made from plant proteins like peas, beans and brown rice and their mission is to help others with their health and nutrition journey. `

Important Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markalansamuel/

https://iwonorganics.com/

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What You Will Learn:

• How to find your purpose
• The importance of working with people you enjoy
• Why starting is more important than perfection
• How to put aside security in pursuit of your dreams
• How Doug built Halo Top to $300M+ in sales

Doug Bouton's Bio:

Today, my guest is Doug Bouton. Doug is the co-founder of Halo Top ice cream. In just a few short years, he and his team grew the ice cream brand to $300M in sales becoming the #1 selling ice cream in the US… outselling the likes of Ben and Jerrys, Haagen-Dazs and Breyers. Halo Top sold its business in September 2019, after which Doug spun out Halo Top’s international operations into Halo Top International where he currently serves as CEO. In 2021, Doug and other original Halo Top team members founded Gatsby Chocolate, the first-ever and only low-calorie chocolate brand that’s positioned to disrupt the chocolate category much like Halo Top disrupted the ice cream category.

Important Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-bouton-b1205a59/

www.gatsbychocolate.com

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When each of us wake up, we have a choice to make.

Are you currently living today on your terms? If so, amazing! If not, do you want to live today doing the things you are about to?

I believe our life is the result of the choices that we make.

Over time, you can align your life to do more and more of the things that you want and less and less of the things that you don’t want.

I know it’s not as simple as simply snapping your fingers and I know it's not realistic to never do anything that you don't want, but I am confident that the result of our life is the result of the decision and choices that we make.

You can be intentional with how and where you spend your time and start to live more and more the life you want. 

You really can… and that’s exactly what we are talking about in this episode.

Today, my guest is Miki Agrawal. Miki is a serial entrepreneur and founder of THINX, Hello Tushy an innovative bidet brand, WILD - a gluten free pizzeria and Author of Disrupt Her - A manifesto for the Modern Woman and Do Cool Shit: Quit your Day Job, Start Your Own Business and Live Happily Ever After.

Collectively, her companies are valued at over $150M dollars. 

But life wasn’t always this way for her.

At 22 years she was working in investment banking and she had a wake up call following 9/11. Days after, everything changed… she felt her mortality and needed to live each day like it was her last. She had to follow her passions and not waste another day not fully living so she wrote down three things she wanted to do with her life… and pursued them one by one…

Todays Bits of Gold is that it's truly possible to live life on your terms, to embrace and harness your limited time on earth, and to live fully alive, doing the cool shit you want!

To Follow Miki: https://mikiagrawal.com/

For Miki's Books:

Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After

Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman

To Clean Your Bum:

https://hellotushy.com/

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Imagine waking up and living life on your terms. Waking up each day… Doing what you want to do, when you want to do it, with who you want to do it with…

On todays, episode that is exactly what we are talking about.

• How to live your life with tremendous intention.
• How to have the self-awareness to decide what you want
• How to make the change in your life so you can wake up and live your dream life every day.  

Today my guest is Justin Welsh. Justin is an entrepreneur who previously helped build two companies to $50M+ ARR, he managed teams of 150+ people, and those companies collectively raised over $300M in venture capital. Now he's building a portfolio of one-person businesses to $5M in revenue. 

My Bits of Gold from the Episode: To me, the Bits of Gold in Justin's story is that you can rewrite your life at any point. Just because things are going great in an area… it’s never too late to make change and there is never a perfect time to start making lasting change. On paper, Justin had it all. An amazing executive role at a fast growing startup… but he eventually reached an unhealthy point in his life and he had the self-awareness to completely rewrite his life script. 

He became hyper intentional about the life he wanted to live, the changes he wanted to manifest, and basically created an entirely new life little by little. He and his wife flew to Nashville, bought the first house they saw, drove across the country and began their new lives. 

Today, he very much lives doing what he wants, when he wants, with who he wants. He is building a diversified portfolio of internet companies and he runs a boutique advisory firm for entrepreneurs and creates digital products for creators. He has a tremendous following on LinkedIn of over 250k followers and has a huge platform to help others build their life with more intention. 

Links:

justinwelsh.me

https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinwelsh/

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Todays episode is all about pulling each other forward in life and the lasting impact you can have by simply lifting those around you. I truly believe that your words and your actions have the ability to change the world. They have the ability to create a lasting impact in a persons life… So being intentional and thoughtful with your words and actions is so important.

Today my guests are Dave Clark and Doug Cornfield. While in the 3rd grade, Dave Clark’s gym teacher’s actions and words would forever positively impact and shape Dave’s life. As an infant, Dave contracted polio that stunted his growth and left him without the full use of his legs. But despite that, and perhaps because of it, he was driven to excel in physical competition against so-called able-bodied people. He pursued his dreams and became a professional baseball player playing in the minors. He was the only professional baseball player to pitch from crutches. He has also coached in the majors, was a scout for the Baltimore Orioles and a radio analyst for the Florida Everblades.

Doug Cornfield connected with Dave Clark after his son was born with neither arm developed and one leg shorter than the other. Doug convinced Dave to partner and promote his amazing life’s story. 

They’ve since launched the Dave Clark Foundation which hosts the D3 Event. The D3 event happens through out the year and is a pro style practice with professional players at stadiums across the country where participants have the opportunity to hit, throw, catch and run the bases with instruction from the best regardless of anyone's limitations.

In addition they are the author of A Pound of Kindness a children's book that captures the childhood of Dave Clark, the only professional baseball player to pitch from crutches.

Important Links:

https://apoundofkindness.com/

https://pullingeachotheralong.com/

https://www.d3day.com/

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Have you ever felt burned out at work and or in life?

To put it bluntly… feeling burnt out sucks. 

It sucks to wake up in the morning without energy or a real desire to attack the day. It sucks to not wake up with that feeling of “oh… I’m excited for today.” 

On the contrary… it feels amazing to wake up with energy, with excitement, and so excited that it’s hard to sleep because you are feeling so energized with what’s to come! 

Now obviously, not every day will feel that way… but when you are in a flow state… you certainly have more days waking up with that sort of amazing, unstoppable force type of energy. 

Today my guest is Scott Anderson… Scott is a serial entrepreneur who has built and sold numerous businesses and today he is the CEO of of Doubledare Executive Coaching where he helps people who’ve hit a plateau… he helps people get out of their own way, recover and fully live their unique talent, passion and purpose.

In this episode, Scott drops many bits of gold around how to navigate through burnout and how to live with purpose. With that enjoy the show! 

Follow Scott on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottandersonms/

Join Scott's Burnout webinar: https://watch.burnoutbreakthrough.com/s/aInmIb

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Have you ever been at a point in your life where you were unhappy with your career? You wanted more… more purpose, more of a reason, more intentionality behind your work? I know I’ve been there multiple times in my career and at different points in my life… what once was a dream career, became a past dream and new dreams were formed and created… I know navigating those changes and navigating your career choices can be tricky… it can be tough, overwhelming, anxiety inducing, and at times feel impossible… 

In this episode of the Bits of Gold podcast, I sit down with Katie O’Malley founder of (en)Courage coaching and consulting. She specializes in executive leadership and career development. Katie uses the rare combination of counseling and coaching, to help her clients grow their leadership capacity while designing authentic and courageous lives. 

You can learn more about Katie on her website: Encouragecoaching.org

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