persistence, the last apostle, lifestyle, world travel

Episode Title: The Life that Persistence Built - Dennis Brooke

URL: http://julieannsullivan.com/life-persistence-built-dennis-brooke

Are you looking for a better way to get to where you would like to go in life? Have you perhaps had difficulty in attaining your goals, or would you like to develop the tenacity to "go the distance" with a lengthy project? If so, gain some valuable insight from today's guest, Dennis Brooke, author of the novel "The Last Apostle".

Dennis is a former Air Force officer and IT project manager and executive. He's now retired and he and his wife spend their days traveling abroad, "houseless, but not homeless". Become inspired by his experience as a pilgrim, walking the Camino de Santiago. Listen in as he talks about persistence being his SUPERPOWER. Take note of his tips, strategies and wonderful quotes which can all help you in reaching your goals.

Dennis' Bio: Dennis Brooke is the author of the novel The Last Apostle which is based on the idea that John, the last apostle, is still alive and lives in Seattle. He is a former Air Force officer and IT project manager and executive. He and his wife sold their home, retired from corporate life, and now live a houseless, but not homeless lifestyle abroad. They completed the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in May of 2016.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• How persistence been essential in his attaining success.
• Some wonderful stories to illustrate the importance of having persistence.
• The one thing that most authors have in common.
• The things he learned after he had written his book and joined a local writer's group.
• How he "adapted to discouragement" and found success.
• About his marvelous mentors.
• What he learned from his day job about how taking smaller steps, then adapting, often works better than taking one big step.
• How he and his wife practiced and prepared to walk the Camino.
• The importance of developing relationships with people who have already done what you would like to do.
• The necessity of being really ready for anything you intend to do.
• How you can become more persistent.
• A bit about his novel.

Interview Links & Other Resources

www.TheLastApostle.com

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communication, relationships, People Advantage, People Experts

Episode Title: Learn It, Then Live It - Betsy Allen-Manning and Tonya Spencer

URL: http://julieannsullivan.com/learn-live-betsy-allen-manning-tonya-spencer

Do you experience too much stress and conflict in your life? Would you like to communicate more easily and effectively with everybody, consistently? If so, listen in to Julie Ann interviewing Betsy Allen-Manning and Tonya Spencer, as they explain how we can "learn it, then live it" on this episode of Mere Mortals Unite.

Known as "The People Experts", Smart and sassy Texans, Betsy and Tonya are known for their unparalleled and amusing 'dual keynotes' and training. They assist organizations with improving their relationship development and communication. They are the co-authors of The People Advantage.

Betsy and Tonya's Bio: The People Experts, Betsy Allen-Manning and Tonya Spence, are and authors of "The People Advantage", and are known for their unique and entertaining 'dual keynotes' and training; helping organizations improve their communication and relationship development.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• The Super Power that they have to share.
• The benefits of using this Super Power.
• How their method can help you to be less stressful.
• Their four unspoken communication secrets.
• How they themselves stay focused on their path.
• How not delegating can cause stress.
• What they see conflict to actually be.
• How many people don't notice what's going on in communication.
• The question you can ask to eliminate 90% of stress and conflict while communicating with someone.
• Their Platinum Rule.
• What causes the 'disconnect' in communication.
• How their interactive book can help you.
• 4 areas that cause the most stress and conflict in most people's lives:

1. Pacing- Some people are fast, some slow.
2. Information needs- Some people have general information needs i.e. they want to cut to the chase and others have specific information needs i.e. they need details.
3. Social interaction- There are outgoing people and there are reserved people.
4. Some are task focused people, others are relationship-focused people

Interview Links & Other Resources

www.ThePeopleExperts.net

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Tags: thinking, actions, business, c-suite

Episode Title: Big Thinking Leads to Big Actions - Jeffrey Hayzlett

URL: http://julieannsullivan.com/big-thinking-big-actions-jeffrey-hayzlett

Have you ever felt like you needed to "up your game", but you don't exactly know how? Sometimes we think the big league players got there by a stroke of luck or having some sort of connection that we could never have. The truth may surprise you! In this episode we find out that leveling up can start with a Google search for an organization you have no contacts in. Take comfort knowing we all level up with the same actions. Thinking bigger will lead to taking bigger actions and bigger risk - for a bigger reward!

"When you make it to the top, you have to send the elevator back down for everyone else." - Kevin Spacey

Today's guest is the King of thinking big. Jeffrey Hayzlett is a name that may be familiar to you! He's open and approachable and he will be the first to tell you he doesn't know everything. He's here today to talk about what he does to both think and act big!

Jeffrey''s Bio: Jeffrey Hayzlett is the primetime television host of C-Suite with Jeffrey Hayzlett and Executive Perspectives on C-Suite TV and is the host of the award winning All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on the CBS on-demand podcast network Play.It. Hayzlett is a global business celebrity, Hall of Fame speaker, best-selling author, and Chairman of C-Suite Network, home of the world's most trusted network of C-Suite leaders.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• Jeffrey's superpower? He's a cowboy
• How he's used business to fulfill his cowboy dreams
• How he stopped being stupid and you can too
• Why he was able to sponsor The Celebrity Apprentice
• How one conversation turned into multiple contacts that led to numerous business deals
• It's ok if you don't know something. Find out and educate yourself for next time
• Why Jeffrey considered himself a shy person, but in retrospect, probably wasn't
• His first realization that he was a big guy
• Why he hasn't made his biggest mistake yet
• Why he hasn't had his biggest success yet
• The one thing Jeffrey is addicted to
• Do the things you are doing today let you focus on your highest priority tasks?
• When you need to ignore your inner voice

Interview Links & Other Resources

www.c-suitenetwork.com

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Jeffrey's Book: Think Big, Act Bigger

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mindset, positivity, mental state, outlook

Episode Title: Mindset Matters - Sonia Satra

URL: http://julieannsullivan.com/mindset-matters-sonia-satra

Do you need a "mindset reset"? Do you need a little push to find your true power and hear your inner voice? My guest today can help!

Sonia Satra is a former TV star on the soap operas, Guiding Light and One Life to Live. She loves to act, but her true love is the connection between mind and body. She wants to help others recognize this connection and use it to bring more success and joy. Get ready for a mindset reset NOW!

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

Sonia's Bio: Sonia Satra is a certified life coach, motivational speaker, and the founder of Moticise, the revolutionary new lifestyle & fitness company that transforms businesses and individuals by combining mindset tools and movement. Sonia currently hosts her award-winning fitness classes, nutrition workshops, and lifestyle adventures in New York City and surrounding areas.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• Sonia's Superpower? The ability to help people get to a mindset reset to discover their core power
• Why mindset matters on individual and universal scales
• How a client shifted her mindset to mend a broken relationship
• Why people are afraid to uncover their truth in business
• Authenticity vs Fakeness
• Choosing disengagement so you can hear your own voice
• Your CORE POWER
• How Sonia's husband learned to tune in to himself
• Tapping into your senses
• How physical movement helps bring brain (and mindset) changes
• Sonia's everyday rituals: exercise and movement with intentions
• Baby steps to take NOW to find your true power, beginning with disengagement
• Come from a place of fullness vs a place of lack
• Sonia's upcoming role as Gloria Steinem in a mini-series about Hugh Hefner

Interview Links & Other Resources

www.moticise.com

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adulting, humor, laughter, enthusiasm

Episode Title: Find the Lighter Side of Life - Jason Kotecki

URL: http://julieannsullivan.com/find-lighter-side-life-jason-kotecki/

Do you need more child-like play and curiosity in your life? Do you fall into the trap of taking life much too seriously? (We're calling it "adult-itis.")

Jason Kotecki is a professional reminder-er and permission-granter who moonlights as a speaker, author, and artist. He loves reminding people how to fight "adult-itis" and to find the lighter side of life. Doesn't that sound enlightening? Join us!

Jason's Bio: Jason Kotecki is a professional reminder-er and permission granter who moonlights as an artist, author and speaker. He enjoys Star Wars, soft t-shirts, and brand new tubes of paint. He and his wife Kim (a former kindergarten teacher) have made it their mission in life to help people break free from Adultitis to build better lives, businesses and teams. Jason works with organizations to beat burnout and become more innovative by breaking rules that don't exist.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• Jason's super power: tinkering
• What tinkering is and how it can transform your life
• How tinkering uncovers unexpected paths and amazing things
• Drawbacks to a business plan
• How tinkering fosters child-like curiosity and wonder
• Stories of tinkering
• Jason's year-long Tinker Project for 2016: 100 new pieces of artwork
• Small steps you can take to make changes NOW! (Jason shares examples!)
• Permission to stretch yourself without fear
• Jason's work as professional reminder-er and permission granter

Interview Links & Other Resources

www.escapeadulthood.com

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Cure Adultitis with Jason's Newsletter - It's Free!

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passion, enthusiasm, motivation, passionate

Episode Title: How to Build Passionate Enthusiasm - Pegine Echevarria

URL: http://julieannsullivan.com/build-passionate-enthusiasm-pegine-echevarria

How is your enthusiasm? Is it passionate and powerful? Listen in today as Pegine Echevarria gives tips on building your own enthusiasm and giving it to the world; you'll leave feeling refreshed and renewed.

Pegine is a motivational speaker, coach, consultant, and author. And, let's be real--don't we all need more passionate enthusiasm in our lives? While it may be cool to be unenthusiastic and apathetic, it's absolutely refreshing to see passionate enthusiasm on display. Join us to learn how!

Pegine's Bio: Pegine Echevarria, MSW, CSP is a business woman and keynote speaker on leadership, business and success. She is quoted in Forbes Magazine, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Her company Team Pegine was named the #3 of the 50 Fastest Growing Privately Owned Companies. Macy's and Minority Business Enterprise Magazine named her one of 3 women who rock in business in the US. She is the only Latina and of 8 women inducted in the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame. Her books include "Sometimes You Need to Kick Your Own Butt".

What you'll hear in this episode:

• Pegine's super power: passionate enthusiasm
• How her super power makes a difference in influence, engagement, and success
• How we are always influencing our relationships
• How passionate enthusiasm affects networking
• Why passionate enthusiasm is like a wave that goes out and comes back
• Own your power—whatever it is
• Cherishing your gift
• How to handle tough times with passionate enthusiasm
• How to use daily rituals to be ready
• Pegine's daily rituals
• How to use chants and songs for motivation
• Small steps YOU can take TODAY to increase your passionate enthusiasm

Interview Links & Other Resources

www.Pegine.com

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Sometimes You Need to Kick Your Own Butt - Pegine's Book

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Pigeon's Power Poem

Team Pegine: Women's Executive Leadership

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message, communication, messaging, simplification

Episode Title: Simplify Your Message for Successful Communication - David Friedman

URL: http://julieannsullivan.com/simplify-message-successful-communication-david-friedman

Have you given much thought to the way we communicate? If what we say or write isn't understood, then what does it accomplish? My guest today can help!

David Friedman is the author of Fundamentally Different. He runs High Performing Culture, which helps CEO's be more intentional in their communication and simplification skills. He's here to teach us about communication skills and how simplification might just be the key to getting your message across. Join us for this exciting episode! You won't want to miss it!

David's Bio: David Friedman is the Founder and CEO of High Performing Culture, LLC (HPC). His company helps organizations to create, drive, and maintain high performing cultures, with a proven system that's straightforward, practical, and easy to use. In the last 4 years alone, he's led more than 200 workshops for more than 2500 CEOs. He also serves as a consultant to dozens of companies around the country.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• David's superpower: the ability to simplify complex topics so people can understand and use them
• Why do we communicate? To be understood
• How David tries to make things simple
• How to be better at simplification:
• • Look at the world from another perspective
  • Give information and explain how to "file" it
• The curse of knowledge (from Lee LeFever's book)
• Taking the big picture view
• Rituals that can increase our simplification
• Why you need an intense awareness of how you communicate through writing and speaking
• How to use clear communication to build trust and increase sales

Interview Links & Other Resources

www.highperformingculture.com

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Fundamentally Different - David's Book

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David's Article on Culture By Design

David Recommends: The Art of Explanation

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humor, funny, comedy, humorist

Episode Title: Seeing Funny or Being Funny, It's Your Choice - Karyn Buxman

URL: http://julieannsullivan.com/seeing-funny-being-funny-choice-karyn-buxman

Are you a humorous person? Do you see the world through the lens of humor? My guest today explains why "seeing funny" is more important than "being funny."

I'm thrilled to introduce you to my good friend and mentor, Karyn Buxman. She's an international speaker, author, and neuro-humorist who enhances the lives of leaders of many industries with her education, entertainment, and inspiration. She has over 25 years' experience in researching the effects of humor on physical and mental health. Perhaps most importantly, she never fails to make me smile! Join us!

Karyn's Bio: Karyn Buxman, CSP, CPAE is a highly successful speaker, author and neurohumorist (find out what the heck that means!). While her classmates were dissecting frogs, Karyn was dissecting humor. Her mission in life is to improve global health and business through laughter and to heal the humor impaired.

You'll discover:

• Karyn's superpower? (Did you guess it?) HUMOR!
• How humor helps with resilience, communication, and engagement
• Why few people are strategic and proactive about humor
• Physiological and psychological benefits of humor
• Prominent researchers and their findings about humor's effect on the immune system and the cardiovascular system
• How humor in business increases likability, trust, and leadership
• Why humor can be a tool or a weapon
• Misconceptions about using humor
• Why humor is much more than laughing and telling jokes
• Negative ways that people use humor—like bullying
• Positive, proactive, and constructive humor
• Your sense of humor CAN be developed—Learn to use it!
• How humor helped with Karyn's personal experience with her son's illness
• The consistency of humor on a daily basis
• Do you have a "humor buddy"?

Interview Links & Other Resources

Levity Works

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Lead with Levity - Karen's Book

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Karyn's best posts on LInkedIn

Karyn Recommends: Anatomy of an Illness

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Sully, miracle on the hudson, focus, results, outcomes, accomplishment

Episode Title: Focus Gets You What You Want - Dave Sanderson

URL: http://julieannsullivan.com/focus-want-dave-sanderson

Have you seen the movie Sully? If you haven't, perhaps you're familiar with the story of The Miracle on the Hudson from January 15, 2009. It's the unique story of an airbus landing safely on the Hudson River with no fatalities, thanks to the quick-thinking determination of the plane's crew.

My guest today is Dave Sanderson, who was a firsthand witness to this amazing story. He was one of the last passengers to evacuate the plane as it stayed afloat in the icy river. Dave's super power is what allowed him to have laser vision on the outcome he was looking for in this challenge that could have ended very differently. You don't want to miss this conversation with Dave!

Dave's Bio: He was a top sales producer in every company he worked for and on January 15th 2009 was on a business trip he had made hundreds of times before. Like all of us when we travel, especially on business, things are often routine and we take things for granted. Then out of the blue something happens that changes what was once routine to a day that changes your life. When a bird strike hit US Airways Flight 1549, there was no choice for the crew but to ditch the plane into the Hudson River. Thinking only of helping others in the crisis, our speaker became the last person off of the back of the plane that day, and was largely responsible for making sure so many others made it out safely. In what has become known as "The Miracle on the Hudson," he shares the lessons of that day with audiences around the world and shows you how leadership, resourcefulness and managing your mind in a crisis, anyone can step up and overcome their own "personal plane crash."

You'll discover:

• Dave's super power: FOCUS
• How Dave's 30-year sales career evolved into entrepreneurship
• From Dave's work with Tony Robbins, how to manage your state of mind
• Reliving the FOCUS of The Miracle on the Hudson
• The benefits of associating and disassociating quickly
• Dave's daily activities to improve focus: working out and reading
• Actionable steps to improve focus:
• • Move your body
  • Learn the power of disassociating
  • Focus on the MOMENT
• The myth of multitasking
• The benefits of compartmentalizing
• "Get back on the horse!"
• The movie: Sully
• Dave's book, Moments Matter, and how it came to be

Interview Links & Other Resources

davesandersonspeaks.com

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Moments Matter - Dave's Book

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Dave's blog post about Podcast Movement

Dave's Article about the movie Sully

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adventure, cubicle, experiences

Episode Title: Ditching the Cubicle for Adventure in the Great Outdoors - Jody Maberry

URL: http://julieannsullivan.com/ditching-cubicle-adventures-great-outdoors-jody-maberry

Curiosity is a trait that many children possess naturally, but as we grow up and become self-conscious or even insecure, our sense of curiosity can be diminished. Being curious is a healthy way to become a life-long learner. Curiosity has led today's guest from cubicle captivity as a financial analyst to becoming a park ranger! His curiosity kicked in to get him into the podcasting world, and today he works on several different shows. He's here today to talk about his super power!

My guest today is Jody Maberry, who co-hosts the Creating Disney Magic podcast with Lee Cockerell. He also hosts the Park Leaders Show, where he talks about his "outside perspective." Jody's journey has led him from financial manager to park ranger to podcaster/business and marketing consultant. From his wide experiences, Jody has great wisdom and inspiration to make your life better and to spur you to take the next trail on your journey. Join us!

Jody's Bio: Jody Maberry is a former Park Ranger who uses a ranger's knack for storytelling and interpretation to help businesses and personal brands find their voice and tell a powerful story. Jody is the host of several podcasts including The Park Leaders Show, Creating Disney Magic, and the cleverly named Jody Maberry Show.

You'll discover:

• Jody's superpower: CURIOSITY
• The benefits to being more curious
• How curiosity has shown up for Jody over the years
• Why being a park ranger was the perfect job for Jody for several years
• Jody's partnership with Lee Cockerell and Creating Disney Magic
• How curiosity can help you find out what's possible
• Daily routines that encourage curiosity
• Why you should ask a lot of questions!
• How to train your brain to be more curious:
• • Find an opportunity you're curious about and read about it
  • Learn more and you will have more questions
  • Find someone to talk to about that topic
  • Keep a notebook of ideas and write them down as questions

Interview Links & Other Resources

Jodymaberry.com

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The Jody Maberry Show

Creating Disney Magic Podcast

Park Leaders Show

Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney

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