How'd it Happen?

In this episode, I talk about the walls we build around us that not only prevent you from leading the life you are capable of living, but they also obstruct your view of what's on the other side -- where your future is. 

I talk about how you can identify those walls so you can start chipping away at them and start to see what's out there -- behind the walls -- and become exactly what you want to become.

I hope you enjoy this episode that was published earlier last year!

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Sam Schmidt is the Co-Owner of Arrow McLaren SP, an Indycar racing team comprised of two determined racing entities, McLaren Racing and Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports. That ambition is shared and supported by title partner Arrow Electronics. 

Sam grew up working on race cars and in 1997 embarked on his racing career as an Indycar driver. Two years later he took his first win in Las Vegas and finished 5th in the 1999 championship. 

In January of the following year, during off-season testing at Walt Disney World Speedway in Orlando, Sam suffered a massive crash. After being airlifted to a nearby hospital he was later diagnosed as a quadriplegic due to a severe injury on the C-3 and C-4 levels of his spinal cord. 

Despite no longer being able to race himself, Sam showed immense courage as within 14 months of the accident he had created the Conquer Paralysis Now Foundation as well as Sam Schmidt Motorsports, now Arrow McLaren SP. 

Mike and Sam cover a ton of great stuff in this episode:

• how his father inspired his incredible work ethic, 
• the life-changing crash and self-described “hell-on-earth” experience of being on a ventilator and his transition off of it, 
• his no-excuses approach to being a quadriplegic and his high expectations for people with spinal cords injuries, 
• how Arrow Electronics team of engineers created a control system in his car so he could drive a car around Indianapolis Speedway at 150 mph, 
• racing his Arrow Electronics C7 Corvette up legendary and dangerous Pikes Peak, 
• his plans for voice activation controls in his new Arrow Electronics SAM C8 Corvette, 
• how he believes that type of control system and technology can be embedded in industrial applications to help disabled people get back to work, and 
• how the Conquer Paralysis Now Foundation is changing outcomes of people with spinal cord injuries, and much more. 

Learn more about Sam Schmidt at:
https://arrowmclarensp.com
https://twitter.com/samschmidtcpn
https://www.instagram.com/sam.schmidt_
https://www.conquerparalysisnow.org

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Welcome to a short but sweet episode of the How'd It Happen Podcast. 

I just wanted to sit down and talk to you guys about protecting your time, focus, and energy. This is going to be a super quick one, so tune in and learn how to protect yourself and your most valuable assets.

I hope you enjoy this episode that was first published earlier last year.

Show notes:
 [0:40] Would you mind leaving a review on my Apple podcast?
 [3:00] How to protect your time, focus, and energy? 
 [6:00] How Mike responds to complains
 [7:00] The advantages of becoming someone no one wants to complain to
 [7:58] Outro

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Trauma and disabilities should never be reasons to not succeed in life or reach your dreams. In this episode, Phillip Stutts shares that very same life lesson. He talks to us about his life growing up, his journey to his massively transformative purpose, and the work that he is doing for himself. He also walks us through his podcast and book—which are both worth looking into.

Phillip Stutts comes from the cut-throat world of political marketing. He has over 2 decades of experience working on campaigns with billions of dollars in political ad spend, and contributed to over 1,433 election victories, including 3 U.S. Presidential victories. Phillip plays the game of political and corporate marketing on the highest level, battling it out with fierce competition, multi-billion-dollar budgets, and a win-or-die mentality.

Phillip is the founder and CEO of Win BIG Media(a corporate marketing agency) and Founder/Executive Chairman of Go BIG Media (a political marketing ad firm). Phillip has spoken in front of 50 million+ people in his career, he’s repped by Vayner Speakers (Gary Vaynerchuk’s speaker bureau) and Keppler Speakers (largest speaker’s bureau in the U.S.) and made more than 350 national media appearances including ESPN, CBS, FOX BUSINESS, FOX NEWS, MSNBC, and CNN. Phillip has been interviewed by renowned business, entertainment and health leaders including: Anderson Cooper, Gary Vaynerchuk, Peter Diamandis, James Altucher, Michael Hyatt, Adam Carolla, Dr. Drew Pinsky, and Dr. Steven Gundry.

Phillip has written multiple best-sellers, including his latest book titled “The Undefeated Marketing System: How To Grow Your Business and Build Your Audience Using The Secret Formula That Elects Presidents” (which hit the top #65 out of 6 million titles on Amazon). FOX BUSINESS has lauded Phillip for creating “a marketing system that has generated record sales” for his clients and also described him as a “marketing genius.”
 
Learn more about Phillip: 

Personal Website: www.phillipstutts.com

Company Website: www.winbigmedia.com

Instagram: @phillipstutts

Facebook:@ceophillipstutts

LinkedIn: Phillip Stutts

Twitter: @phillipstutts

 Show notes:
 [3:22] How’d it happen for Phillip Stutts
 [6:57] Trauma and its dramatic impact
 [10:46] Being the abused to abuser
 [18:37] The “wanna-be” entrepreneur
 [20:06] On being ADD as a kid
 [23:35] The Undefeated Marketing Podcast—let’s dive deeper
 

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Have you ever wondered why the people who are proven to be the most successful tend to be more approachable? It is challenging to get the chance to interview people much more when they have so much on their plates. In this episode, I will share with you why I think successful people, who are supposed to be the busiest, are more responsive when asked for an interview for shows like this.

I hope you enjoy the episode!
 
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 Show notes:
 [3:14] They’re organized
 [4:17] They’re givers
 [5:26] They are learners
 [6:38] They’re opportunists
 [10:40] Owner Shift available on Amazon
 [11:08] Outro

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Chad Willardson, CFF, CRPC®, AWMA®, is the founder and president of Pacific Capital, a fiduciary wealth advisory firm serving entrepreneurs and families. He’s a 3-time best-selling author. His first book, Stress-Free Money, was featured in Forbes’s “21 Books to Read in 2021.” His second book, Smart, Not Spoiled: The 7 Money Skills Kids Must Master Before Leaving the Nest, deals with increasing financial literacy among young people across the country, and his latest book, Beyond the Money: 8 Lifestyle Shifts for Entrepreneurs with 8 Figures or More, doesn’t tell you what you want to hear; instead, it tells you to want you to need to hear to achieve fulfillment while increasing lifestyle freedom to do more of what you love.

Chad also invests a $450 million portfolio as the elected city treasurer in his community. Recognized as one of the top wealth management experts in the country, he’s been written about in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, US News & World Report, NBC News, Yahoo Finance, InvestmentNews, Entrepreneur, and Financial Advisor. 

Today’s episode is with Chad Willardson, a high-net-worth financial advisor with a mission to make kids smart about money. We talk about book reports, reading books rather than watching TV, his belief about learning and earning, the power of YES, the three tips for us all on how to find our work/life balance, and making money a comfortable conversation. Chad’s an all-star, and I hope you love this episode. Listen. Watch.  Enjoy!

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadwillardson
• Website: https://www.pacificcapital.com
• Twitter: PacificCap

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In this episode, I talk about my “Forbidden Phrases.” Nothing alarming, just some phrases that push my buttons.  They’re redundant. They’re often unclear. And they’re just not necessary.

I’m guilty of many of these myself. But once I made a point of adding them to my growing list of what causes my awareness antenna to rise, I realized how often I tend to rely on these fluffy phrases and make a sincere effort to use other words. Words that are not redundant, perhaps a phrase that’s a little clear and not superfluous.

To be honest, at the end of the day. 100%. 

Time to pivot!

I hope you’ll join me for this episode!  

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Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy is The Happiness Coach.  As the CEO of Embrace the Lead LLC, she is passionate about empowering business leaders and leaders of their own dreams to strive for inner fulfillment. Tarryn coaches business owners across the globe on self-empowerment, empowering their teams to ambassadors of their dreams, and how to redefine success to find happiness in work and, ultimately, their lives.

Tarryn is also an orthodontist and co-owner of Mbrace Orthodontics in Maine, having grown it from a scratch startup to the top 1% Invisalign provider in the country in 4 years. 

Tarryn hosts her own podcast called, “The Business of Happiness.” Her goal is to help her listeners find meaningful purpose in what they do so that they can feel inner fulfillment with who they are – because “when you feel good, you can do good!” [ Not too long ago, Mike had the pleasure of being a guest on the Business of Happiness Episode #97. ]

Tarry has a happiness quiz that she happily shares with anyone. Text “Happy” to 2076002699 to take the quiz and find out where you fall on her Happiness Scale, and learn how you can improve your happiness in work and in life.

She also has a course designed for physicians and dentists called "Radical Happiness for Practitioners.”  

Be prepared to be wowed by Tarryn!

To Learn more about Tarryn, please see the links below:

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

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-tarryn-maccarthy-2b401b123

Podcast Website: https://www.thebizofhappiness.com
Company Website: https://www.mbracesmiles.com

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In this episode, I talk about Quiet Quitting. We’ve heard a lot about people who are quiet-quitters, especially since the “end” of the Covid pandemic, around the time everyone started going back to their offices.  

But Quiet Quitting isn’t what I thought it was, and it certainly isn’t new. That’s what I go into on this podcast. 

I hope you’ll join me for this episode!  

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Scott Donnell is a visionary entrepreneur who has created many leading companies in the biotech, fintech, education, and entertainment industries. He is the founder of Apex Leadership Co., a school fundraiser; HeroMaker Studios, an NFT Comic Book Company; Hapbee Technologies, a biotech company in mental health; and GravyStack, a financial literacy bank account for kids. With over 600 employees, his companies serve tens of millions of customers annually. 

His expertise is creating new industries, recruiting the perfect team, and building self-multiplying companies. Scott has been featured in Bloomberg, Fox, NBC, The Wall Street Reporter, and the Entrepreneur Franchise 500.

He lives in Phoenix with his beautiful wife, Amy, and their three children.

To learn more about Scott Donnell, please see the links below:

Website:  https://www.GravyStack.com

Twitter: @ScottDonnell

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/donnell-scott

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