Lots of people love their pets, but few turn the loss oftheir dog into a life mission. But that's what Cindy Aronstam did after herbeloved English bulldog Winston passed away.
Cindy, a real estate agent in San Diego, hadalways been a dog lover. Her parents had a dog before she was born. She grew upwith them. When she got her first dog of her own, she picked an English bulldogwhom she named Winston.
Winston lived well beyond the 8–10-year lifespanof most bulldogs to almost 14 years old. His passing was so sorrowful to Cindythat she would take walks with her husband and stand behind him so that shewould be protected from seeing other people's pets.
Two days after her beloved bulldog Winston passed,Cindy spotted a golden retriever with a gray beard and soulful eyes. She pulledaway from her husband Jim and asked the owner if she could pet the animal. Asshe bent down to touch the dog, the owner told her, "This isWinston." And she knew that the loss of her pup wouldn't be in vain.
Fast forward and Cindy and Jim now have Harry, a"foster fail" that they were supposed to temporarily care for untilhe found a home. Turned out that Harry already was home, and Cindy foundrenewed purpose in helping not only her new pup, but all dogs.
Soon after, Cindy and Jim started The WinstonProject, which aims to raise funds for shelters and rescues so they can do thework of saving animals. She says, hopefully, one day, the need for shelterswill be eliminated altogether.
If you haven't heard the story of how my familygot our current dog, I share it in this week's episode of Chiseled. If you're adog lover, this episode with Cindy may well bring you to happy or sad tears,but it's a joyous and purposeful journey. 
Cindy and Jim's Winston Project, which is now officiallya 501 c(3) nonprofit, is having its first annual gala in San Diego on June 8,2023. If you can't make it, you can donate. And you'll probably feel the urgeafter hearing Cindy describe her relationship with Winston, the WinstonProject's goals, and her passion for saving animals.
You can find more about the gala and the WinstonProject on Cindy's website as well as on Facebook and Instagram. And if you're looking for Cindy for real estatein the San Diego market, you only need to look up "the bulldog realtor." Appropriate, don't you think?

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Noelle Banks knew when she was 12 years old the life she was going to lead. Attendinga non-denominational church for the first time in her family's adopted townoutside Atlanta, Ga., she found herself in a personal relationship with JesusChrist. From that point on, she found a relationship with Him as well as acommunity of people that would model her lifelong relationships.

It certainly came in handy years later, in 2017, when Noelle found herselffacing a breast cancer diagnosis, which resulted in a bilateral mastectomy andreconstruction.
"I've always been very intentional about who I surround myself withand I think it has made a huge difference in my life."
The people who stepped up for Noelle in her time of distress included notonly fellow congregants and friends but also strangers among the membership ofBuffini and Company, the coaching company for real estate agents that shejoined in 2004.
"We are designed to be around people and it's really important whoyou choose to surround yourself with on a consistent basis, which is one of thereasons why I so very much value our White Hat community in Buffini andCompany," she said.
Brian Buffini's podcast also ended up having a big role to play in her recovery.
In this week's episode of Chiseled, Noelle shares the storyof her evolution toward Jesus, her surprise diagnosis, and the support shereceived from the Buffini community. I'm proud to call myself a member of thisamazing group of real estate agents.

I couldn't be more excited to introduce you to this week's guest on Chiseled! 

If you have never heard of Bob Beaudine, you're in for some high-energy inspiration! The president and CEO of Eastman-Beaudine, Bob got started in brand management for Carnation (Nestlé) before joining his father in the executive search industry. 

Executive recruiting may be familiar to you now, but it was a new industry when Bob got started and he took it to a whole other level. How?
"(My dad) wanted to know where I was going, and I said, 'When I do a search for a president of a manufacturing company, at the end of the search I get a tour of the plant. If I did the head of marketing for the NBA, we'd get an All-Star weekend."

Bob's first executive placement was Bud Selig as commissioner of Major League Baseball. Since then, his hunt to find the one special person to fire up an executive team has led him to interview generals, U.S. presidents, college presidents, and of course, professional athletes, and team managers. 
Today, Bob is recognized as a pioneer in the professional sports industry, being the top recruiting firm in college sports, according to the Wall Street Journal. Sports Illustrated dubbed him "the most influential man in sports you've never heard of."  He has held private speaking engagements for the likes of Nike, AIG, Madison Square Garden, NBC, and the L.A. Lakers.

But Bob is more than just an executive recruiter. He is also an entrepreneur, an author, and a man of faith. He has published two amazing books that I love: "The Power of Who," which describes how to harness your friends and family to help you succeed in life, and "Two Chairs: The Secret That Changes Everything," which teaches readers how to have an out-loud conversation with God, who will give you the best advice you could ever want. 
In this week's episode of Chiseled, Bob describes how writing “Two Chairs” prepared him for the personal tragedy that laid ahead; he shares a conversation that business coach Tom Ziglar had sitting in one of those chairs; and he offers valuable lessons on finding the right job and relying on friends.

Andrew Paul grew up in a military family. His grandfather enlisted in World War II at age17 and flew B-17 bombers in Europe. Other family members were submariners,pilots, a master chief, and a vice commander. As a boy, Andrew remembers thefamily sitting in the living room watching military documentaries together andtelling stories about their own experiences.

"At a pretty young age, I got it in my headI was going to go in the military one day," he said.

Despite people trying to discourage Andrew, whowas 5'7" and 155 pounds, he was dead set on becoming a Navy SEAL. AtVanderbilt University, he joined ROTC, the reserve officers training program.He learned there that the SEALs only take 16 candidates each year. Determinedto become one, he won a slot to go to the Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado.

Then 9/11 happened.

"All of a sudden, the tone of everythingchanges. No longer was I like, 'This is going to be training. I'm going tobe a SEAL.' We knew that if we got through training we were going to war,"he said.
Andrew underwent rigorous training meant todiscourage and dissuade the heartiest of souls. It included physicalpreparation, dive training, small unit tactics, ambushes and raids, explosives,patrolling, sleep deprivation, mission planning, and finally SEALqualification training. Making his way through the whole program, he was thenassigned to a SEAL team.

"After all that, you're in a SEAL team andyou have zero experience," Andrew said.

Andrew was deployed several times and he hasfaced extreme challenges that I can't imagine. In this episode ofChiseled, he shares what it was like becoming a member of the SEALs,rising through the ranks, and deciding when and why it was time to leave.

Speaking of endurance training, Andrew went frombeing in the military at the start of America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq tobecoming a mortgage lender at the start of the 2008 housing crash. As expected,he hustled his way through the financial crisis and ended up on top. He nowhelps veterans and others become homeowners in his adopted state of California.

If you have questions about his experience orwant to talk about mortgage lending, you can reach Andrew at [email protected] or call him at619-964-9404. You can also find him at www. theveteranadvocate.com.

Kyle grew up in a small town. He never went to college, got into drugs at young age, "probably" so that he could make some money, and found himself hanging out with the wrong people at age 19.
Then he had a "significant emotional experience" that changed his life. Going clean, he opened a detail shop that turned into a service station. By age 26, the ambitious Kyle got a "God whisper" to leave town so he moved to Dallas, where he started attending sales seminars. Realizing he had a natural talent, he got out of his comfort zone and started cold calling people to attend his events.
Business began growing and after a few years, he was gathering 2,000 people at a time to his seminars. He called up the likes of personal growth gurus like Jim Rohn, Og Mandino, and Zig Ziglar to be his guest speakers.
"Rarely does a good idea interrupt you," he said. "Whatever possessed me, I did it, and I'm so glad I did."
He had great success with all, but he felt a special affinity for Rohn. In no time, Kyle had tripled Rohn's fees and increased Rohn's appearances from 20 dates to 110 per year. Kyle then made Rohn an offer he couldn't refuse. Rohn signed an exclusivity contract with Kyle and, as they say, the rest is history.
Kyle founded Jim Rohn International and together they helped Rohn become the godfather of personal growth and development.
Kyle has represented hundreds of big names since then, including Brian Tracy, Les Brown, Darren Hardy, Dennis Waitley, Mark Victor Hansen, even Def Leppard's Phil Colleen. He is the founder of Your Success Store, hosts the Success Habits of Super Achievers Podcast, and has published multiple books and 100s of hours of programming.
"My best advice is figure out how to bring value to the marketplace, and depending on who that provides value for, you attract people rather than pursue them," he said.
In this episode of Chiseled, Kyle shares his story about his youth to putting together eight-figure deals, why Jim Rohn was his favorite guru, and how he approaches coaching high achievers.

Kyle Wilson is giving everyone who listens to the Chiseled podcast a digital copy of his book, Success Habits of Super Achievers! Just send him an email at [email protected] and mention that you heard about his offer on Chiseled, and he'll send you the downloadable file, and not just for Success Habits for Super Achievers!

You will also receive Kyle's other books plus a two-hour interview with Darren Hardy that offers hard core business strategies you don't want to miss. Plus, download other interviews from Kyle with Brian Tracy, Glenn Morshower, and more!

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Email Kyle today!

Carole Souza is a top-ranked real estate agent from Omaha, Nebraska, a business coach, and a woman with a huge heart. She has a genuine love for "discovering how awesome people are" and her favorite part about coaching is helping people to "figure out how really cool they are and what greatness they have about them."

But Carole wasn't always forthcoming about how great she is, especially when as a young mother her husband divorced her and told her she would never amount to anything.

Carole took the admonishment as her marching orders and by age 27 she owned her first business. By age 30, she was president of a corporation. She eventually moved into the mortgage credit industry where she became a senior vice president at Fidelity Corporation before retiring and becoming a real estate agent.

Yet, it took Carole until her mother's death — when Carole was in her late 40s — to take the biggest shot of her life — announcing to her family that she is gay.

Funny thing is, her family already knew. They were just waiting for her to share her truth.

Whether gay or not, many of us feel like we are living two lives — a passion to do something and a fear about what other people will think. In this episode of Chiseled, Carole and I delve into living our best lives by doing the thing God wants us for us — being our true and authentic selves.

Heidi-Marie Ferren is a Los Angeles-based writer, producer, actress, and the last and longest-reigning Miss USO. She's also the product of a rape and a survivor of an abusive foster care experience.

But even when she was alone as a small child and uncertain of whether she would ever get to see her mom again, Heidi-Marie was comforted by her relationship with God and her love of helping others.

"That is the most alone that you could feel, to be a four-year-old child not knowing when you're going to come home again or if you can go home or what's going to happen tomorrow, or why you have no one," she said. "God is all you have, and I had that foundation even as a child in a very personal way."

From testifying in court against her father to feeling rejection from her mother's family because of the circumstances of her birth, Heidi-Marie found comfort in performance, storytelling, and empathy for others. She channeled her energy into becoming a child actress, a helper at her mom's non-profit, a rape crisis center volunteer, a scholarship-winning college student, and eventually Miss USO.

"Much like a Marvel character, your biggest scars can be your greatest superpowers," she said.

Now a storyteller and producer, Heidi-Marie is standing up for victims through the power of the written and spoken word. She also advocates for victims of sex-trafficking in the United States, 80 percent of whom have a history of being in the child welfare or foster care systems.

Mother of two and grandmother of four, Diane Halfman is a consultant, trainer, and host of the podcast Live Your SPAlife, which teaches people how to "seek power always."

She is also a former police officer who worked undercover as a prostitute to hunt down a serial killer. She found that the skills she learned from 10 years on the job, much of it "in character," translated into lessons she could share with business leaders looking to move through crises, manage boundaries, and not second-guess themselves.

"I learned, particularly undercover, about having to trust myself in stressful situations to be able to make quicker decisions, to really be able to move through stress no matter what's going on. These are the exact skills that our leaders need," she said.

Diane also found that her success in police work came from a strong habit of listening to the guidance God was giving her to go along with her police training.

"We've got to listen enough to where, you know, that intuition comes," she said. "That was really helpful in police work; that in trusting myself, I am trusting God that whatever happens I am going to make the right decision, that I am going to help people stay safe, I am going to keep myself safe, I'm going to come home to my two daughters."

Diane is a great example of gentle strength and I'm sure you will enjoy hearing her share some of her stories in this week's episode of Chiseled.

Bill Hampton is not from the south, but he got there as fast as he could. At age 24, while moving from Atlanta to Nashville to build his music management and concert promotion business, he tuned into a radio station and heard a "hillbilly" talking about money. And Bill understood every word he was saying.

As someone who was making money but never had any, when Bill arrived at his new apartment complex, he immediately went upstairs and called the show. And that's how he became a lifelong friend and a longtime business colleague of Dave Ramsey.

"I got through because he had no listeners back then. He was probably just happy to talk to somebody," Bill recalled.

Bill signed up for Dave's Financial Peace University class and started applying the principles. Three years later, Dave asked Bill to teach the class. From there, they built an empire.

During their 13 years together, Bill helped Dave sign book deals, build the marketing and digital business, design high school and college curricula, and launch a new radio show, one that today is heard by 4.5 million listeners each week on 500 stations.

Dave Ramsey's company rose from a $2 million to a $70 million business by the time Bill left. But Bill had to leave. Gobs of money, private jets, and living on his achievements left him in search of a new challenge.

In this week's episode of Chiseled Bill shares the journey from joining Dave Ramsey to founding Hampton Strategies, a consulting firm that helps businesses grow. He tells how he built a multimillion-dollar peach business from the back of a truck and engineered an Amish shed company, and he discusses the guiding principles and spiritual forces behind every decision along the way.

Josh Forster has a pretty good life. Married with three kids, he has been in real estate for more than 18 years. He owns his own company and lives in beautiful Ft. Collins, Colorado.

Josh has always been a champion of the underdog, but it wasn't until 2012 that he and his wife discovered their purpose in life. Sitting at a fundraising dinner for a Christian organization that helps stop human trafficking of children from Southeast Asia, Josh said he felt sheltered and shocked by what he heard. Hundreds of thousands of children are sold to or kidnapped by traffickers each year. The age of the average child who is trafficked for labor, sex, or organ harvesting is between 7 and 9 years old.

"You go home and you look at your little two and a half year old sleeping in bed and it's that personification of just how sick of an issue it is," he said.

Josh and his wife committed to supporting the organization in any way they could. So he tied his mission to his business and made it a motivating factor for almost everything he does. Through the "one home, one child" initiative, with every home he sells, Josh has donated the necessary funds to rescue one child.

So far, he has donated more than $200,000 to the nonprofit Life of the Innocent, where he is now a board member, and he has funded the rescue of more than 130 children. He has also set out to help others discover their purpose with his book, "Discovering Why."