When his 4 year old son was diagnosed with cancer, Kevin Hoover's life (http://www.kevinhoovercoaching.com)  was turned upside down, but he made it work and his business, and his son came through it!  Then the idea of their non-profit Hug Your People (http://www.hugyourpeople.org)  was born, so they took their lives on the road and have had the most amazing adventures!  Hear all about their years of discomfort, and how it has made them stronger, together!  (and wait until you hear the story of how Hug Your People was born.  Your heart will grow 3 sizes!)

We talk about

• How they ended up living in an RV and running around the country delivering wagons
• Starting a non profit
• Dealing with his son’s cancer and making something positive out of it.
• Giving himself grace to show up imperfectly when it was the best thing for his family
• How dancing in the discomfort zone becomes something you crave!
• How their son, now cancer free is continuing to make a positive impact

Kevin Hoover  is an Executive Life Coach, pediatric cancer activist & full-time RV dad. He hosts the Beyond Business Podcast & is a keynote speaker about leadership, life fulfillment & making a bigger impact in your world.

More about Kevin
Website http://www.kevinhoovercoaching.com

http://www.hugyourpeople.org

LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-hoover-coaching

Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/kevin.hoover.399

YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeOnPurpose/videos

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rvonpurpose

Human interactions can be very frustrating and difficult to understand.  Communication happens with our actions, not just our words, and sometimes what we feel people are communicating ISN'T very nice!  Well, use this tip to boost your emotional intelligence, get better results from your team, your co-workers, your employees, your boss, your significant other, your...humans!!

Want more information on Anne, or to have Anne come speak to your group?  https://YourChangeSpeaker.com (AnneBonney.ninja works too if you're feeling sassy!)

Disclaimer: If you don’t like poop talk, turn this off, but that poop talk is important to understanding your gut which is connected to health, mood, mental health, etc!  Uncomfortable?  Sure but good to know about.  So don't get grossed out.  We don't get too deep into it, (ew!) but it is mentioned.  (You've been warned!) 

What do I eat to maximize my energy, clarity, health and have a lean body I'm ok wearing a bikini in?  The ultimate question and so many people are peddling so many answers to sell so many products, it can make you crazy!  (and do crazy stuff!)  So I'm brought on Hally Brooke of Live Life Nourished (www.livenourishedcoaching.com)  to chat with us about food, what's good food for your body, and what should we be eating.  She gives us some fantastic answers, brought to you by study and testing!  She is a board certified Health and Wellness coach and a Functional medicine certified health coach.  She explains it a bit more in the episode, but basically, she's held to the same ethical standards as doctors in her certification.  In other words, her info is coming from scientific findings rather than commerce!  So it holds a little more weight with me anyway!

We talk about

• Exema?  Constipation, exhaustion, headaches and other unexplainable symptoms!  Tight gap junctions might be loose!
• Prebiotic vs probiotic...who knew!  (an apple a day!!)
• How making 2% shifts can make HUGE differences over time, and they are more likely to stick and keep working for you!
• How we're hurting ourselves with  the concept of “healthy vs unhealthy” when it comes to food.  

Hally Brooke is the Founder & CEO of Live Nourished, she is a Certified Functional Medicine Nutrition Counselor, Nationally Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Fox 21 Fitness & Nutrition Expert, and fierce industry advocate. Her life mission is to encourage, empower and free both men and women by teaching healing. Whether as clients, through speaking events, or personally with the people she encounters, she lives this mission day in and day out. 

When I met Christian Shauf, the Founder and CEO of Uncharted Supply Co (https://unchartedsupplyco.com/), I was with him and his band Catchpenny (the Armed Forces Entertainers of the year!) making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on a C130 flying over to Iraq.  Since then, he went on to provide morale and mental health relief to countless deserving soldiers overseas, then going on Shark Tank to get backing for Uncharted Supply Co. and their amazing line of emergency preparedness gear.  Athlete, adventurer and Entrepreneur, Christian talks to us today about 

• Getting uncomfortable and being comfortable there!  The value of discomfort training.
• His goal to help people prepare for huge changes they may not have the skills to deal with in this Nerfed up world.
• The journey of life and discovering what we don’t know and learning
• Our adventures in Iraq and on the San Francisco Marathon course.  

What is Christian Reading?   Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink (you can get that here. https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs/dp/1250067057)

Go check out Uncharted Supply Co.  https://unchartedsupplyco.com/

 As we re-enter the world after experiencing the weirdness that was the pandemic, many people are reinventing themselves, and intentionally looking at what they want to take back into life post-pandemic and what they don't, so I thought it would be great to bring on Sam Kabert, someone who made a big transition in his life to give us some insights on that experience.  

Sam Kabert is a successful serial entrepreneur turned spiritual seeker. He is known for his ability to put together teams to execute the vision. He is the Author of the #1 Bestselling book SOUL/Life Balance, Founder of SwagWorx & Clone Yourself University, and hosts the Soul Seekr Podcast. Despite all of Sam’s ventures and business success and being recognized as one of Silicon Valley’s “40 Under 40” at just age 31 years old and “Rising Star” in the promotional products industry, he soon recognized that something was missing. Sam realized that despite his success, he was unhappy. This understanding catapulted him on his most recent exploration of his life’s purpose.
 
He is on a mission to bridge the gap between the way we conduct ourselves in business, mindful practices, how we communicate with everyone, especially oneself, all through prioritizing psychological safety and mental health first.

Want more from Sam?  Here's the spots!
 Website: SamKabert.com
 Book: SoulLifeBalanceBook.com
 IG: instagram.com/samkabert
LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/kabert

In this episode we also talk about
Ask Your Guides by Sonia Choquette  https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Your-Guides-Calling-Everything/dp/140196138X/ref=asc_df_140196138X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=509271538023&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15136764975092538175&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9012131&hvtargid=pla-1177100968282&psc=1

Clone Yourself the Podcast, a guide to increasing your business with the help of Virtual Assistants: https://www.cloneyourselfuniversity.com/

When Jill's team reached out about being on Dancing in the Discomfort Zone Podcast, a bunch of the talking points made me uncomfortable, so I knew she was perfect!  

· Jill has been breaking down assumptions and healing rifts for more than 30 years. 

· Her first book was Whores and Other Feminists, (https://www.amazon.com/Whores-Other-Feminists-Jill-Nagle/dp/0415918227) a collection of writings by feminists in the sex industry. 

· She is active in a number of online communities and has been published or reviewed more than 150 times in places like American Book Review, Bust, Bitch, and The Women’s Review of Books.

For the last two years, she has been running workshops and training programs for white people to take greater leadership around ending racism, in many cases, starting with a conversation with another white person — a surprisingly hard step for most of us.

Jill speaks to these issues “from the inside out,” meaning that she uses a trauma-informed approach from her years as a somatic (body-based) counselor to help people engage these issues with their hearts and bodies, not just their heads. She sees this as the only way to make true change.

We also talked about a bunch of other resources.  Here are those links.

White Fragility book  https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414

Jacob Holdt “American Pictures”  http://www.american-pictures.com/gallery/

Marshall Rosenberg, “Nonviolent Communication”  https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-audiobook/dp/B00TKMBJKE/ref=sr_1_2?crid=32NSYZ46QZI2I&keywords=nonviolent+communication+rosenberg&qid=1658769084&s=audible&sprefix=nonviolent%2Caudible%2C91&sr=1-2

Jonathan Metzler “Dying of Whiteness”  https://www.amazon.com/Dying-of-Whiteness-audiobook/dp/B07PYLTPDF/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQjw_viWBhD8ARIsAH1mCd6JwYR6pR-hc0WCpv_e1xpZ8LejXhFyj7ZVD2jTxFwLQ7cFAUVffbEaAqdqEALw_wcB&hvadid=329721535873&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9012125&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1984828312528668286&hvtargid=kwd-656717422960&hydadcr=15522_10340746&keywords=the+dying+of+whiteness&qid=1658769064&sr=8-1

Pat Dwyer (https://patdwyerwastaken.com) is a funny, silly, goofy, brilliant improv comedian turned change management speaker and all around delightful human!  In this episode, we meander around all kinds of topics from the Peace Corps, to repeated bouts of dysentery, the fallacy of control, defining success career transitions, human interaction, building trust through laughter, living in a can with a bunch of little people, making people smile and flooding their brain with happy hormones, raising children, change, Improv comedy and life!

Find him on the social medias @IKnowPatDwyer 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Pat Dwyer is a Professional Speaker, Improvisor, Comedian, Facilitator, Emcee, Creative Consultant, Nimble Mindset Exemplar and Change Actioneer.  Heck, this guy is even a Junior Park Ranger at over 60 National Parks, Sites and Monuments around the United States. He’s a delight, he’s wonderful and he’s absolutely one of the most fun people I’ve ever had the pleasure to be around. I’d like to welcome Pat Dwyer to…Dancing in the Discomfort Zone Podcast.

Vegan MMA World Champion Phil Dunlap of White Rhino MMA & BJJ in Lexington VA joins us this week to chat about courage to face obstacles, and how to move through challenges and continue moving towards your goals.  I thought I was bringing him on to chat about nutrition, but the conversation very quickly and happily evolved into more about living a courageous life, and boy it's great that it did because Phil has some fabulous insights on that!

So find more about Phil and White Rhino at https://lexingtonbjj.com/

It's rare that I find someone who loves and values getting uncomfortable as much as I do, but for this week's episode, I do just that!

Sterling Hawkins is an author, speaker, investor, entrepreneur and founder of the #NoMatterWhat community.  He has just written a book called Hunting Discomfort talking about the importance of going out and seeking opportunities to get uncomfortable. (Go get yours here https://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Discomfort-Breakthrough-Results-Business/dp/1637560141) that releases TOMORROW!  (June 21, 2022 if you're not looking at this on episode launch day!)

So if you don't want to listen to me about dancing in the discomfort zone...listen to Sterling and let's go hunting!  

In this episode, we talk about

• How discomfort chose him.
• How discomfort acts as a gym for your resiliency.
• How he hunts discomfort
• The uncomfortable process of writing and publishing his book
• His encounter with a great white shark

It's a fun and fast moving conversation, so settle in, and decide what discomfort you're embracing next.

Oh, and BTW: My next #NoMatterWhat is to summit Kilimanjaro before the clock strikes 2023!

Want more of Sterling?  (don't we all?)
Go to his website: https://www.sterlinghawkins.com/
Go get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Discomfort-Breakthrough-Results-Business/dp/1637560141
Join the #NoMatterWhat community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenomatterwhatcommunity 

Are you getting enough sleep?  Maybe it's your bedtime routine or your mattress that's keeping you from catching all the Zs you'd like...and did you know, not getting enough sleep affects EVERY PART OF YOUR LIFE?  Holy cow!  Getting enough sleep is important!  So if you're ever asking "How can I fall asleep faster?" or "How do I sleep through the night?" you've got to listen to this episode.

Marten Carlson is the lead sleep reviewer for Mattress Clarity (https://www.mattressclarity.com/).  He has done a ton of research, and shares his fascinating findings with us!

In this episode we talk about

• Sleep Apnea and how so many people have it!
• The top things NOT to do before bed to get good sleep
• The right mattresses to look for based on your sleep position.
• How sleep accessories impact your sleep

Tons of places to find Marten and his merry band of sleep reviewers..
Website www.mattressclarity.com

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mattressclarity/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattressclarity

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mattressclarity

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/Mattressclarity 

Now go!  Sleep!

Marten Carlson is a mattress reviewer and sleep expert. He has been working in the sleep space for over 4 years. During that time, he has reviewed over 100 mattresses and has written numerous articles on the importance of healthy sleep. He spends his free time writing screenplays and practicing kung fu.