Do you know what you’re capable of? At first, it seems like an easy question to answer, but the more you think about it the harder it becomes. What are you capable of? For an even harder question you can ask yourself what is my team or company capable of? Well if you ever decide that you want to find out if you are working at your full potential our next guest specializes in providing the tools to make sure you and your team are maximizing your performance.

Matt Drinkhahn is a Coach with ProAdvisor, a business coaching and consulting company. They specialize in empowering individuals which allows teams and companies to perform at high levels.

Parenting can be tough! Take the kids to school, make sure they have lunch, pick them up, then to soccer practice… That schedule would be a lot for any parent, even more so if your child is having trouble with their behavior. All that pressure and stress can be enough to drive a parent crazy.

New parents aren’t given a manual on how to take care of their children, and even experienced parents run into issues. It’s also important to remember that no one has given your child a manual on how to be the most well behaved kid in the world. We’re all doing our best, but sometimes we could use a little help. Our next guest might just be the helping hand you’ve been looking for. Michelle Tolison of Dandelion Family Counseling specializes in helping children understand and correct their behavior issues.

When you donate to charity how does it make you feel? Probably pretty good! Donating money to help someone or contributing to make changes that matters to us will naturally make us feel good. However when you donate to a charity, especially a big one, you may not actually know where your money is going. You still get a good feeling from your donation, but the actual impact of that donation will most likely never make it back to you. Our next guest is out to change that reality.

Today we are joined by Madison Toal from Mite. Madison is half of the father daughter duo at the center of providing transparency for individuals that are hoping to give back to their communities both locally and globally. Mite is here to let you know exactly how your donations are impacting our world.

When you think of the company you work for, what thoughts come to mind? We are sure the company would hope words like, “fair, effective, agile, hardworking, and efficient” pop up first. However, that may not be the case for all of you listening. For those of you that come up with a list of less flattering words to describe your company it is important to know that just like you, your managers are relying on their training. Effective leadership is not something that just happens. Our next guest has made it her mission to make it happen!

Esther Weinberg is joining us today from The Ready Zone. The Ready Zone creates work environments that are more effective and efficient by helping employers value and effectively create relationships with their most important assets… YOU and the other people on your team.

Your doctor tells you that you have cancer… What do you do now? Very few of us can really imagine what it’s like to have our world completely turned upside down like this. Even fewer would know the correct steps to take after such a diagnosis. That was the predicament our next guest Vince Todd Jr and his family faced when he was diagnosed at just 26yrs old. Not only do you have to deal with the physical effects of cancer and treatment, but there is also the emotional toll. What do you do?

Vince and his wife made it through that uncertainty and have made it their mission to help other cancer patients and their families navigate what it means to have cancer and the next steps that they should take.

The game is 2-1, and everything is riding on these last penalty kicks from your opponent. You’re the goalie, the only one that can stop this attempt and secure the win for your team. Otherwise you go home with a tie and no one wants that. Just imagine it, can you feel the pressure? Our next guest on the podcast is very familiar with that pressure and is providing goalies with the training and equipment to make those moments just a little more bearable.

Welcome to the podcast Brandon Miller, founder and owner of Prime Focus Goalkeeping. Brandon and Prime Focus Goalkeeping have made it their mission to instill confidence in goalies on and off the field. Time to dive in and learn more about this soccer star turned entrepreneur.

Dogs are man’s best friend. They live with us, sleep with us, eat with us, work out with us, and if you get a dog today you’ll be shocked how fast they become part of the family. It’s as though they have a sixth sense that helps them get in our heads. But what if we could get into their heads for a day?

Well with our next guest, getting into the mind of your dog might be more than just science fiction. Today we are joined by Sara Ondrako, a Certified Canine Behavior Consultant with over 20 years of experience working with dogs and educating their owners. Fear, anxiety, aggression, and disobedience from your dog will become a thing of the past once Sara helps you understand why your pet is doing what they are doing. It really is, like getting into your pet’s head.

“Sweetie was a typical child until she became sick and didn’t know why. After being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, Sweetie learns how to manage the disease while continuing to enjoy all the things she has always loved. Sweetie’s friends and family learn to help her not just survive but thrive within her new circumstance. Sweetie does not let type 1 diabetes hold her back from living a full and wonderful life!”

Joining us today is the author of Sweetie, Laura Self. Her fiction lets readers see the life of a child dealing with diabetes. It brings a great perspective for everyone to see that life won’t end when the challenge seems too difficult to handle; especially for a child. Instead, this challenge allowed this one little girl to see the good in everything and not hold herself back from enjoying the best things that life has yet to offer her.

Do you remember riding bikes as a kid? The wind in your hair, maybe your mom or dad yelling behind you to “slow down”? Riding a bike may have been your first real taste of freedom as a child and it probably felt amazing, like you could keep riding to edge of the world.

Some of you listening are probably thinking, “What do they mean, ‘as a kid?’ I still feel like that a few times a week when I get out there on the road!” We can probably all agree that be exposed to biking at a young age is not only fun, and a practical means of transportation but could be transformative for your life.

This week our podcast guests could not agree more! We are joined today by Brandon Grant from Trips for Kids Charlotte and the Charlotte Re-Cyclery.

We try to plan for everything. Even those of us that don’t like to plan for things still have a vague plan of how things in their day, week, or even life might unfold. These plans make us feel safe and give us the ability to respond quickly to different things that might happen even if they fall just outside the plan. For parents that might mean taking time off from work to be with a sick child or for a business owner it might mean shifting work schedules for an employee that calls in sick.

Most of us are pretty good at handling those small scale improvisations, but what happens when we are confronted by something completely out of the plan. What do you do if a tornado rips up the community, or a hurricane floods everything for 50mi? Today on the podcast we have one of the few people that actually has the answer. Brock Long is joining us today from Hagerty Consulting, a firm that, “Spends all of their time helping communities on their worst day.”