Humanly Possible

Benedict Hadley is a Prolific Polymath, Film Maker, Artist, Risk Taker and founder of The Hadley Broadcasting Company. His work focuses on the human spirit, the creator and interactive media projects, films and experiences that engage and enhance the community through equity and the broadcasting of created media on large scale walls via interactive video projection.

Benedict has always felt his connection to the Creator. Listening to 'that' voice became an internal compass, creating and leading him to walk the paths of his life.

In This Episode:

• Wanting to be a film maker from a very young age
• Walking his path
• Learning to harness his risk taker voice
• The block hack: charging up a block with art
• Listening to that voice that gives him direction from the Creator
• Creating work in and for the community
• Media-enhanced immersive storytelling using art

Jeff Pulver helped change the way the world communicates. The passing of The Pulver Order by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2004 helped set the stage for a world, where today consumers can communicate openly and freely.

Lonely at 9 years old and looking for a way to make friends, Jeff was introduced to amateur (ham) radio by his uncle. This changed his life and led to one of his lifetime achievements of helping to change the way the world communicates.

In this episode:

• The afternoon at 9 years old that changed Jeff’s life
• Phone patching
• Creating the first phone network that ran on the internet
• Early exposure to entrepreneurship
• Learning to have fun in different ways
• Appreciating the magic of life
• Lessons from dad, his biggest fan
• Find ways to appreciate and increase serendipity and synchronicity
• Forming the VON Coalition 
• The passing of The Pulver Order by the FCC in 2004
• Finding grounding under a clear, unpolluted night sky
• Continuing his interest in making connections with passion-based marketing

David Goldsmith is President and Co-founder of the Goldsmith Organization (New York and Hong Kong), a consulting firm solving big challenges for executive clients worldwide in commerce, nonprofits, governments, militaries, and education; and Co-founder of Buzd, LLC (San Francisco), a firm in which he is a patent holder for technological applications and products related to artificial intelligence, cell phone applications, battery technologies, and consumer products.

In this thought-provoking interview, David shares a revolutionary approach to leadership - experiences, insight, and examples - that will transform your mind, organization, career and life.

In This Episode:

• Some of the small pieces of life that have been integrated into today
• Stopping pre-med and starting his first business
• Going back to university to finish the requirements for a degree
• Living in and getting to know the culture of global places where he worked
• The TEDx Luxembourg City Talk: How Great Leaders Inspire Happiness at Work and in Life
• The construct that 80% of the results come from the systems and structure, and 20% from the people
• Looking at productivity in a different way
• Theoretical jumps
• Being a leadership salesperson

An innovative leader with world-class digital and experiential capabilities, Stuart Foster transforms global brands and businesses to achieve revenue, profit, and market share growth.

Impacted by an early networking lesson from his father and the examples set by good bosses, Stuart has taken his leadership roles very seriously over the years and learned to appreciate the little differences between locales and cultures.

In This Episode:

• A modest gift from his grandmother that sparked a new interest
• The story behind how Stuart got into the wine business
• How a networking lesson from his father helped Stuart land his first job as a college senior
• Working his way up through the marketing ranks with brands like L’Oreal and Hennessy
• The impact of having good leaders and bosses as role models
• A pivotal moment that shifted Stuart’s mindset on how he thinks about leadership
• Appreciating the little differences between locales and cultures
• The marketing/branding business project Stuart is most proud of
• The next phase: working with Chief Outsiders as a Fractional CMO

Lyz Kelley is a speaker, creative, and award-winning USA Today bestselling authorpreneur of everyday heroes who want more than just the ordinary.

Once Lyz deconstructed and figured out what her fear was, she committed to learning the craft of writing a book and shares her journey with us in this interview.

In This Episode:

• Reflecting on turning 40 and examining the fear behind a very important question asked by her husband 
• Living with dyslexia and wanting to write a book
• Learning the craft: how to write a book and how to do story structure
• Aligning with other authors who helped with her journey
• Persevering through redlines and rejections to become a published author
• Setting up her own publishing company
• Learning how to market to the readers she needed to connect with
• The epic fantasy novel that will be written
• Lyz’s writing process
• Traditional publishing vs. self-publishing

Uwe Dockhorn is known as the Lifestyle Liberator and has delivered over 15,000 coaching sessions worldwide in the last 12 years.  He is the founder of The AIM System™: A simple 3-step life-changing experience for in-demand professionals who want to get back their family mojo, double their financial security, and live in abundance in all areas of their life without feeling guilty or constantly questioning themselves.

Finding himself broken as a young man after the death of his uncle and father, Uwe could find no reason for being in this world anymore, until a small light inside brought him back from the edge and put him on a transformational path to help himself and others.

In This Episode:

• Carrying the weight of being sexually abused as a young boy
• Feeling something inside for the first time since his father died that prevented a suicide attempt
• Understanding the importance of letting go and letting in
• Identifying and facing your core elephant thinking
• Cracking the code of your own transformation
• What an individual evaluation session with Uwe may be like
• Discovering our own independence and respecting it in others
• The internal transformation and personal growth that led to developing the AIM System™

*Trigger Warning: In this episode we talk about child sexual abuse and surviving a suicide attempt which may be alarming to some listeners. If you're having thoughts of suicide, please end this podcast and call 1-800-SUICIDE or visit https://www.imalive.org to chat with someone online.

Ken Mossman is an executive and personal coach who’s specialized in working with men for almost two decades.  He works with an international clientele from such diverse industries as finance, higher education, law, entertainment, medicine, venture capital, technology, entrepreneurship and the arts.  Ken helps men develop and master their emotional literacy, fluency and flexibility so they can connect and communicate with the people around them more powerfully.

After high school, Ken pursued various educational and career interests before being referred to a CTI course by a client where he found a home and eventually his calling to work with men.

In This Episode:

• A vivid memory from a very young age
• Pursuing a passion for work that he wanted to do in ‘real life’
• Lessons learned about himself and other people while working in the food industry
• First leap as an entrepreneur – co-creating an in-home personal fitness training business with his sister
• The major shift that happened when he attended the initial CTI Fundamentals course
• Stepping away from his CTI leadership role to answer the calling to work with men 
• Developing the IAM program – Integrated Adult Man

Lisa Dadd spent 15 years in the competitive industry of corporate healthcare, mastering strategic sales, marketing and management skills, with the world's largest pharmaceutical company.  In addition to the success, climbing the corporate ladder revealed a deep sense her greatest potential was yet to be realized.  It took eight years as an independent consultant, and an intense training in leadership development and social emotional learning, to uncover an innate way to access that potential.

After a complimentary Reiki session where Lisa realized she had been closing herself off to experiences and opportunities, she let go of past attachments, started listening to her life and following the signs that were popping up for her.

In This Episode:

• Walking away from a successful corporate career
• Experiencing different healing modalities for the first time
• Becoming unattached to knowing an answer or understanding something
• Driving cross country with her dog – 12 times
• Figuring out her purpose
• A coming back together – using her business background in a different way
• Soul Sales: teaching people to understand who they are and their natural approach to things in a sales situation
• The seven different archetypes in soul language
• Digging deeper into energy spectrums

Mark S. Babbitt is a speaker, author, blogger, culture architect, executive coach, and career mentor. He serves as President of WorqIQ and CEO and Founder of YouTern. His new book, written with S. Chris Edmonds, is titled Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck.

Finding himself a single father of four overnight, learn how Mark became a good father, successful entrepreneur, and discovered his purpose to make the workplace a better place.

In This Episode:

• A life lesson learned from being raised in a small town
• Coaching baseball for 35 years: fostering family and creating a culture
• Sense of urgency vs. sense of outrage
• Finding himself a single father of four
• Realizing he could be a good father AND an entrepreneur
• Leaving Silicon Valley and moving to the mountains
• Setting a precedent to be a family-oriented business
• Fulfilling his purpose to make the workplace a better place
• The writing and titling of “Good Comes First”

Vern Smith is a nationally lauded expert in Medicaid, Medicare, state budgets, and trends in the healthcare marketplace. He has authored numerous reports on current issues in Medicaid and state strategies for containing health care costs and improving quality.

In this intimate interview, Bryan’s father-in-law Vern shares incredible stories of what he calls "the little things" that happened throughout his years that contributed to him living a life he never could have imagined.

In This Episode:

• The shaping of self-image at an early age
• The impactful examples set by his parents
• The importance of travel to a person’s education
• Growing up and experimenting in a different era
• Ten cans of Spam
• Changing college majors 5 times
• An unexpected medical diagnosis that actually opened the door to his lifelong career
• Serving the public as a health economist and Medicaid Director
• Continuing his service in a consulting role after retirement
• The significance of the words on a plaque that used to hang in his father’s office
• The little shift that led to Vern meeting his wife of 55 years, Paula