Welcome to the 100th podcast episode of Leap of Fate! Such an achievement! You know we had to do it big for the 100th pod and do we have a big one for you! Only took 9 months of waiting...

At 30 years old, transparently feeling unfulfilled in my career as it wasn’t my passion, I made a tough but right decision to Quit My Job to Chase My Childhood Dream of Sports Broadcasting. I decided to leave  Oyster HR and go back to school to pursue sportscasting at  Full Sail University's Dan Patrick's School of Sportscasting.

In this podcast, one of my best friends,  AfterSkool 's Mark Wooding and I dive into the decision to uproot my life and move from San Diego, CA to Orlando, FL.  If you want to watch the podcast on my YouTube channel, click this link.

Topics:

00:00 Intro

1:30  @AfterSkool and  @BeforeSkool overview

5:00 Meaning and accomplishment of the 100th pod being released! 

9:15 What is  Full Sail University and the Sports Broadcasting program?

14:10 The decision to quit my job and chase my childhood dream 

23:00 The power of sports in today's society

31:00 Being comfortable with the unknown that comes with a major life change 

40:45 Ending Thoughts

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In Leap of Fate Pod 99, we go over LinkedIn Personal Branding with Dr. Angela Mulrooney! LinkedIn isn't just a website to place your resume. It can be a valuable source of growing your brand and creating networking and sales opportunities.

This is why it's important to ensure you are following the right practices to get the best out of your LinkedIn Personal Brand! With Angela, we go over:

1. How to set up your LinkedIn profile
2. The regular cadences to share content on LinkedIn
3. The type of content to share on LinkedIn
4. The power of networking and organic reach on LinkedIn
5. All these lead to how you can grow your desired goal with LinkedIn

Angel is the founder and CEO of Unleashing Influence. At Unleashing Influence, she helps individuals transform their LinkedIn and hone their messaging to attract people's ideal clients. She is the perfect guest to help you grow your personal brand! 

Use this podcast to enable your success to achieve your goals using LinkedIn!


Links:
Angela's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelamulrooney/
[email protected]
The Unleashing Influence Community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9179691/

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00:00 Intro, overview, and introduction of Angela
03:50 Why Building a Personal Brand is Essential
10:00 Hyperpersonal post on LinkedIn Success
12:30 Cadences, schedule, and type of content for posting on LinkedIn
21:30 How to Make your LinkedIn Profile stand out
27:30 Brand Archotyping to build your niche
34:35 Recap and Ending

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We are back for Part 2 with NFL and D1 College Football Coach Evan Burk this week on Lap of Fate Pod 98. Part 1 was the first part of Evan's Career with SMU and The Miami Dolphins. In part 2, we dive into his time coaching at UCLA and his post-coaching life of being a speaker, podcaster, and author!

Part 1: https://youtu.be/E2XECj9vClo (highly recommend watching first!)

Evan Burk is not your typical football coach. Despite not playing football beyond high school and having no network in the coaching profession, Evan's unlikely football journey began as a 4th-grade coach, where he quickly worked his way to the NFL in just 6 years and included coaching for teams such as the Miami Dolphins, UCLA, and SMU. Positions he coached were quarterbacks, running backs, defensive backs, special teams, and more!

After spending fifteen-plus years working with the highest-performing athletes, coaches, and teams on the planet, Coach Burk uses his unique football coaching background to teach people how to utilize the same strategies in business and life that elite players and teams use to perform at a world-class level.

Coach Burk enlightens Leap of Fate Pod this week with lessons learned and amazing stories from his career.  For any sports fans, this is the perfect podcast for you!

Links:
Evan's website: https://www.coachevanburk.com/
Evan's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ebombndhc/featured
Evan's podcast: "The Highest Level"
 https://www.coachevanburk.com/podcast
Evan's IG: https://www.instagram.com/coachevanburk/
Sean's book- Finding Intangibles: How to Uncover the Hidden Traits that Drive Elite Performers and Championship Teams : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SJ2N7BJ?ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_BK3C7Z1EN59PWPHFQJDT&tag=kpembed-20&linkCode=kpe
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00:00 Intro and review of Evan Burk
2:45 Coaching Football at UCLA
11:40 Evaluating Talent as a Football Coach
23:00 Transitioning away from Coaching to Speaking and Writing a Book
30:00 Using Football Learnings and Coaching Techniques to Enable Business World
55:00 Final Thoughts and Recap

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This week on Lap of Fate Pod 97, we bring on former NFL and D1 College Football Coach Evan Burk. Coach Burk is also a speaker, and podcast host who uses the sports world as his backdrop to engage audiences with thought-provoking lessons of leadership, team-building, and creating championship cultures.

Evan Burk is not your typical football coach. Despite not playing football beyond high school and no network in the coaching profession, Evan's unlikely football journey began as a 4th-grade coach, where he quickly worked his way to the NFL in just 6 years and included coaching for teams such as the Miami Dolphins, UCLA, and SMU. Positions he coached were quarterbacks, running backs, defensive backs, special teams, and more!

After spending fifteen-plus years working with the highest-performing athletes, coaches, and teams on the planet, Coach Burk uses his unique football coaching background to teach people how to utilize the same strategies in business and life that elite players and teams use to perform at a world-class level.

Coach Burk enlightens Leap of Fate Pod this week with lessons learned and amazing stories from his career.  For any sports fans, this is the perfect podcast for you!

PS- We had such a great time talking we are recording a part 2 to finish the podcast. Been on the lookout
 for it next week :) 

Links:
Evan's website: https://www.coachevanburk.com/
Evan's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ebombndhc/featured
Evan's podcast: "The Highest Level"
 https://www.coachevanburk.com/podcast
Evan's IG: https://www.instagram.com/coachevanburk/
Sean's book- Finding Intangibles: How to Uncover the Hidden Traits that Drive Elite Performers and Championship Teams : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SJ2N7BJ?ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_BK3C7Z1EN59PWPHFQJDT&tag=kpembed-20&linkCode=kpe
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00:00 Intro and overview of Evan Burk
3:45 Evan starting with his upbringing and starting to coach
7:30 How Evan obtained his first D1 College Football program job from writing a letter!
13:20 Video Assistant, master's degree, and Coaching at SMU
27:35 How moved from D1 College Football program SMU to Miami Dolphins
31:25 Miami Dolphins What it was like working as a video coordinator and then NFL Special Teams Coach
39:15 What it was like being in an NFL locker room daily, working with world-class athletes, and the mental health toll of the job
49:15 Recap, final thoughts, ending into Part 2 next week!

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In Leap of Fate Pod 96, I bring on James Woodall, CEO, and Founder of Woodall Wealth Management. We dive into everything Stocks and the Bear Market of 2022. Our 2022 Stock Market Mid-Year Recap and Future Predictions include:

1. Inflation, Interest Rates, and Bear Market
2. Global Macro and Micro Issues
3. Supply Chain Issues
4. Cryptocurrency Correlation
5. Historical Stockmarket trends and review to analyze what the rest of 2022 and beyond has in store

Context:
The Stock Market in 2022 is off to a terrible start, with the S&P 500 down bouncing between above and below 20% (bear market), officially in a Bear Market now (June 2022). Investors in Big Tech are growing more concerned about the economic growth outlook and are pulling back from risky parts of the market that are sensitive to inflation and rising interest rates. This is a recipe for a troubled macroeconomic environment. While stock market volatility is normal in the short term, a market weakness so far in 2022 has investors worried about further downward movement.

For anyone interested in economics and your personal finances, this is the right podcast for you. Thanks to James for coming on and educating Leap of Fate! Stay safe and protect yourself!


Links:
Woodall Wealth Management
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00:00 Intro and overview of Today's pod on Stock Market 2022
02:20 Overview of 2022 Stock Market
04:45 Interest Rates are rising, what does that mean for me?
5:35 Inflation in today's market? how, why, cause
8:10 How global macro issues (Russia, Ukraine conflict) affect us here in the USA
10:10 Crypto Market vs Stock Market
12:50 Woodwall Wealth Management advice to clients
17:50 Advice for retail investors who are new to the market in the past couple of years
19:30 Outlook for the rest of 2022 and beyond
27:40 Recap and Ending

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Have you wondered how to start an AirBNB business? To start an Airbnb business does not call for you to be a real estate expert. It can take time to find a property and turn it into a guest-ready vacation rental. However, the rewarding experience will make all the required groundwork completely worth it.

To help with this, on Leap of Fate Pod 95,  @John Bianchi , "The AirBnB Data Guy" comes on to share all the information needed, tips, and tricks to start your own AirBnB business!

Here are the key things we talk about to educate you and enable your success!

1. The 3 Different Options to Start an AirBnB Business (Rental Arbitrage, Property Management, and owning your property)
2. What goes into the day to day of running AirBnB(s)
3. The price to get started based on each option and expected revenue and profit
4. Tools used to Manage AirBnBs property
5. Top Zipcodes and areas for you to start your Airbnb Business!


Thanks to John for coming on! His expertise educates the Leap of Fate Fans on how to start a successful AirBnB from scratch! For any questions, please reach out to  @John Bianchi !


Links:
John's AirBnB Data Report
John's YouTube: @John Bianchi
John's Website:
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00:00 Intro, overview, and recap of last week's pod
03:40 How John got started in the AirBnB business
09:05 The 3 Different Options to Start an AirBnB Business (Rental Arbitrage, Property Management, and owning your property)
20:50 What goes into the day to day of running AirBnB(s)
28:30 Using Data to find the best places to start an AirBnB
34:30 Top Zipcodes and areas for you to start your Airbnb Business!
41:45 Recap and Ending

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What is DEI Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to creating and maintaining a successful workplace; one founded on the principle that all people can thrive personally and professionally.  It’s important to fully understand each component, both individually and how they work together.

Diversity is the presence of differences that may include race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, language, (dis)ability, age, religious commitment, or political perspective.  Populations that have been-and remain- underrepresented among practitioners in the field and marginalized in the broader society.

Equity is promoting justice, impartiality, and fairness within the procedures, processes, and distribution of resources by institutions or systems.  Tackling equity issues requires an understanding of the root causes of outcome disparities within our society.

Inclusion is an outcome to ensure those that are diverse actually feel and/or are welcome.  Inclusion outcomes are met when you, your institution, and your program are truly inviting to all. 

On Leap of Fate Pod 94, our guest this week, Kellie Wagner, is the founder and CEO of Collective DEI Lab. Collective DEI Lab works with high-growth, millennial-driven brands and organizations to build cultures that attract, engage, and retain underrepresented talent so that all employees can thrive. Whether companies are just starting out on their diversity, equity, and inclusion journey or simply need some help fine-tuning their company initiatives, Collective DEI Lab will provide consulting, training, and workshops.

Kellie educates Leap of Fate fans on DEI, how she started Collective, a DEI Lab as a minority founder as a woman of color, and the success Collective DEI Lab has had.

For anyone interested in DEI and entrepreneurship, this is the perfect podcast for you!

Enjoy :)

Links:
Collective DEI Website
Collective DEI Instagram

00:00 Intro- What is DEI, Kellie Wagner and Collective DEI Lab
2:00 How Kellie Wagner became interested in DEI
8:20 Unconscious Bias Training in corporate environments
14:15 How Kelly Started Collective DEI Lab- a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Firm
18:10 Key Initial Business Learnings and how Collective changed to meet customer needs
23:35 Example where Collective made an impact at a customer company from their DEI work
28:20 As a women minority founder, advice to other women and/or minority founders
32:00 what does the future of DEI look like?
34:10 Key takeaways and ending

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Have you ever wondered why word meanings change over time? Or why do people say words differently based on where they live? This is called Linguistic Evolution and we dive into this on Leap of Fate pod 93 with Valerie Fridland, who has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and teaches at the University of Nevada Reno.

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.  Linguists (experts in linguistics) work on specific languages, but their primary goal is to understand the nature of language in general and how they are related or have changed over time. The main goal of linguistics, like all other intellectual disciplines, is to increase our knowledge and understanding of the world.

Valerie educates Leap of Fate this week through how words change over time. Our engaging conversation ranges from her research studying words to understanding how words such as "woke", "redskin", "cap, and no cap" and more have come to be and changed over time.

Use this podcast to learn how words evolve over time as it's important to be cognizant of the words you choose to say.  There may be hidden or historical meaning you aren't aware of that can create distress for others.

Enjoy :)

Links:
Valarie's Website
Valarie's LinkedIn

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In Leap of Fate Pod 92, Charles Vogl, an award-winning author of the Nautilus Silver Book Award in the Business and Leadership Category, comes on to speak about how we can build a strong community in our local community and as a global community. His first book, "The Art of Community" is used around the world to help organizations build a stronger internal and external community.

Charles and I have a vibrant and open conversation about building community at the local and global levels. Topics covered include:

1. Charles's time in Peace Corps: His Peace Corps Experience, Impact, and Learnings
2. Writing his three books, especially the Art of Community and the impact it has made on a global scale
3. One of today's biggest challenges, is loneliness. Why this is such a challenge and how we all can work to overcome this


Charles's book, The Art of Community, teachings have been shared with millions of people. Businesses and individuals use the teachings to foster community in their own communities. He shares how "strong cultures help people support one another, share their passions, and achieve big goals. And such cultures of belonging aren't just happy accidents - they can be purposefully cultivated, whether they're in a company, a faith institution, or among friends and enthusiasts. Drawing on 3,000 years of history and his personal experience, Charles Vogl lays out seven time-tested principles for growing enduring, effective, and connected communities. He provides hands-on tools for creatively adapting these principles to any group—formal or informal, mission-driven or social, physical or virtual. This book is a guide for leaders seeking to build a vibrant, living culture that will enrich lives."

Use this podcast to learn how you can make an impact on any level to build a better community. Enjoy :)

Links:
Charles's Website
Charles's Books
Charles's LinkedIn

00:00 Intro
1:00 Charles Vogl and the Art of Community Intro
2:20 Peace Corps Experience, Impact, and Learnings
28:30 The Art of Community - Writing book, reception, impact
40:00 How People can make an impact in their own community
45:00 Key takeaways and ending

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The Future Of Work Has Arrived. Now What? I just returned from Las Vegas for HR Transform 2022. It was the first conference I worked since the pandemic started. I represented my company Oyster working our booth speaking on how Oyster can help companies hire international employees!

It was such a fun and amazing experience to be back at a conference and also meet my coworkers for the first time since we are a 100% remote company. In addition to the conference, we went to sponsored happy hours and parties at Marquee Night Club, Dreis Night Club seeing Ludacris, and more events throughout the Cosmo Hotel.

In Leap of Fate Pod 91, I share pictures and videos from throughout the week, my thoughts on what it was like to be back at a conference, key learnings from HR Transform 2022, what the future of work looks like, and how businesses are handling employees returning to work.

PS- There will be a full vlog video that comes out in the next weeks of the week in Vegas :) 
To all my colleagues and connections/new friends I made at HR Transform, thanks for the conversations and memories. I can't wait until we are back together again!

Enjoy yall!

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