Global natural or man-made disasters happen yearly which results in millions of people having to show resilience by rebuilding their lives.

A disaster recovery (DR) plan is a formal document created by an organization that contains detailed instructions on how to respond to these disasters and strategies on minimizing their effects.

Disruptions can lead to the lost revenue of businesses, cultural damage, and permanent relocation. The global Covid-19 pandemic is a perfect example.

David Dodd is the perfect guest for the Leap of Fate to talk about personal and community resilience. As the head of the globally recognized International Sustainable Resilience Center, Inc (ISRC), and having dealt with two near-death experiences, David has a unique take on resilience at both the macro and micro scale

David has helped and leads recovery efforts for multiple natural disasters including the USA for Hurricane Katrina, Japan after the Fukushima Tsunami, and more global events. 

With over 30 years of global experience, David's expertise and experiences enlightens LOF fans on what it is like to be at events firsthand and how we can prepare better for the future.

Our world is facing unprecedented challenges. This pod educates us on the disasters around the world and how we can work to prepare to minimize their impacts.

0:00 Intro
1:00 David and International Sustainable Resilience Center, Inc (ISRC) Intro
8:30: Working recovery at Hurricane Katrina, Japan after the Fukushima Tsunami, and more global events
 21:00 Resilience in global events and personal life
23:00 Working with the United Nations
27: Developing Nations Responding to Disasters
36:00 David having his left leg amputated when working Porto Rico's natural disaster
42:00  Covid-19s global  economic, social, environmental, and personal impact
50:00 key takeaways and ending

How to find David:
Yahoo Finance article
International Sustainable Resilience Center, Inc (ISRC
David Dodd 

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LOF Fans we have a treat for you this week! World-famous American DJs and Producers Autograf are on the show this week!

Louis Kha and Mikul Wing come on to speak about their humble beginnings and rise to fame as Autograf. They have performed at venues all around the world, including major music festivals like Coachella, EDC, Ultra, and more. 

Louis and Mikul give us a rare behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to get to the point of worldwide tours and the preparation behind it. As a fan, we normally only see what happens on stage. We don't see the grind and long hours it takes to put on an unbelievable live performance on stage.  

We speak on:

1. When and how Louis and Mikul got into music, met, and started DJing together
2. How they started at small shows, built their brand up, and gradually started performing at bigger venues
3. Producing vs DJing. What it takes for both and how they do it
4. Their favorite festivals and locations they have performed at
5. What it has been like to not be able to perform through the pandemic
6.  The "behind the scene" work that went into their live performance at Coachella and The DoLaB!
7.  What it is like to have made their dreams come true
8.  Advice for following your dreams!

Louis and Mikul personify hard work and dedication. They persevered to make their dreams happen and now are reaping the benefits. Their story and message are relatable to anyone who is chasing their dreams!

Enjoy this pod and check Autograf at a city near you soon!

How to find and listen to Autograf:
Youtube
Instagram
Soundcloud
Website

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Learning how to budget and save money is a necessary personal finance skill everyone needs to know to not just protect themselves from debt but also accumulate wealth. Budgeting is the personal finance tool for taking control of your money and saving money. Leap of Fate Pod explores personal finances this week so you learn and understand how to budget, save money, and growing your wealth!

A budget is a written plan for how you will spend your money. It allows you to make financial decisions ahead of time, which makes it easier to cover all your expenses along with paying off debt, saving for the future, and being able to afford fun expenses. Budgeting consistently can help you turn your finances around and start the process of building wealth.

Why Budgeting Is Important in Personal Finance? A budget is a powerful tool because it allows you to determine how and where you want to spend your money. When you master budgeting, you make sure that every dollar is being used how you want it, and can track your spending to determine whether it matches your priorities.

Our guest this week Cameron Ross comes on to speak about all this and more in his personal life! He had no one to teach him so he had to teach himself how to leave the bad habits of poor budgeting and personal finances to save money.

What he realized like many others, often when people start budgeting they are surprised to see how much money is going to things that are not important to them, like eating out, mindless online shopping, or high-interest payments on credit cards.

Budgeting allows you to monitor your progress on financial goals and stick to your financial plan. Eventually, it creates opportunities to eliminate debt and build wealth.

Using a budget allows you to understand your financial situation and manage your money. It puts you in control, rather than allowing your money to control you.

Enjoy this fun and engaging podcast! Go save and grow that money!

0:00 Intro into Pod
1:00 Who is Cameron Ross?
3:30 Personal Finance and Budgeting - how to learn?
5:20 Tips for saving money and budgeting
11:00 Budgeting tools and influencers to follow who can help
14:00 Reinvesting money to make you money!
19:00 Crypto talk and how to be safe
24:00 Reflection on key points and ending

Follow Cameron Ross at:
Instagram
TikTok
LinkedIn

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Victoria Wieck is a world-renowned jewelry designer. Victoria started with humble beginnings as she moved from South Korea to California in the early 1970s.  Her family moved to The United States when she was young with the pursuit of The American Dream and a better life.

Victoria Wieck learned English and studied hard. She started her business with no money, mentors, or inside connections and grew it to $500+ million in sales. Victoria had her own show on HSN for 19 straight years with her jewelry designs and is currently on Shop HQ (formerly known as ShopNBC).

Victoria took a leap of fate and began her entrepreneurship journey to spend more time with her children. She didn't miss their firsts, like the first day of school, recitals, soccer games, school plays, etc. 

By putting her audience first and through blood, sweat, and tears, Victoria built the Victoria Wieck empire with her jewelry selling on continents worldwide. Victoria has traveled the world and impact so many people's lives through her business and entrepreneurship adventures.

Now she actively gives back to help others with her podcast the Million-Dollar Hobbies and multiple books she has written.

For anyone interested in jewelry, jewelry design, entrepreneurship, business advice, and more, Victoria gives a masterclass education... this is the podcast for you!

0:00 Intro
0:10 Who is Victoria Wieck?
2:15 Victoria and her family immigrating to America
7:20 Growing up in America while her parents worked 2 jobs each
14:00 How Victoria got into the jewelry industry
18:00 Getting her first boutique and department store customers
36:00 Starting on HSN (Home Shopping Network) and selling on HSN for 19 years
46:45 Advice for Entrepreneurs [Major KEY!!]
55:00 Customer Acquisition and Marketing
1:05:00 Reflection on key points and ending

Follow Victoria Wieck at:
https://www.instagram.com/victoriawieckjewelr
https://victoriawieck.com
https://www.facebook.com/VWJewelry
https://www.pinterest.com/vwieck/

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Having equilibrium in your mind, body, and soul will lead to a healthy and happier life. This can feel daunting to achieve with so many stresses in the world today from work, the pandemic, life, and so on... Taking an Integrated Wellness approach is a great way to work towards that equilibrium.

Here at Leap at Fate, we preach taking care of your mind, body, and soul! Leap of Fate's guest this week, Denise Ropp, lives and teaches this message daily. Denise is a former registered nurse, founder of  White Cedar Clinic, and a health and wellness consultant. Her expertise and years of experience have helped transform countless lives through Integrated Wellness.

We have really engaging dialogue around:

1. What is Integrated Wellness?
2. How the pandemic has created so much stress in people's lives
3. Being open with your mental health vs keeping it private
4. Integrated Wellness techniques you can practice 
5. Mindfulness and meditation !!
6. How to enact Integrated Wellness into your daily life

This pod is for you! Use our conversation to enact practices that work for you in your life to live a healthier and happier life!

What is Integrated?
Integrated Wellness is a practice and theoretical basis for the application of healing modalities, using a wide variety of techniques to address the physical, biochemical, social, and spiritual dimensions of humanity. Integrated Wellness, among other health care philosophies, rests on that of innate intelligence, that healing comes from within, harmonizing with other techniques applied from the external world.

Integrated Wellness seeks to empower individuals to be accountable for their own lives, thereby enhancing health, well-being, and the ability to achieve one’s life purpose. Ultimately, Integrative Wellness is a lifestyle practice, that supports the whole person to engage purposefully, to participate in his or her own health care so that the individual may participate in the greater good of humanity and nature.

Links:
White Cedar Clinic Website
Denise's Instagram

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As the world opens back up, live events are starting to come back. This can range from big music festivals and sporting events to your neighborhood bar and clubs welcoming patrons back with live music again!

For performers and artists, the pandemic has interrupted their life and forced them to have to find new avenues to still perform and support themselves. Their dream of performing live in front of audiences has been on an indefinite hiatus.

Leap of Fate brings on recording artist Kaite Louise this week to speak on chasing her dream of being a professional recording artist!

Katie is an amazing singer, songwriter, and pianist. Her voice is so soothing and beautiful to listen to! Listen here: 

Katie shares:

1. How she took the 'Leap of Fate' on herself at 18 to pursue becoming a recording artist
2. Touring the US and performing on stage!
3. "The Struggling artist"- How her family (her husband and her) support themselves and their young baby!
4. What it has been like to not be able to perform through the pandemic
5.  The grind and work ethic it takes to be a recording artist
6.  The nerves and excitement with live performances coming back 
7.  Advice for following your dreams!

Katie's message of chasing your dreams epitomizes Leap of Fate's weekly message. I really enjoyed this podcast with Katie. I think we are going to be seeing and hearing her  on tv and the radio very soon!

Enjoy this pod and check Katie out! She is amazing! Enjoy :)

 How to find Katie:
 Patreon
Youtube
Instagram
Website

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In this week's pod, LOF's guest is my good friend Lindsey Locke, host of the Get Psyched Podcast.

Lindsey is here to Get Psyched on the human experience. With a background and career in Holistic Counseling Psychology, Lindsey invites listeners to get curious about their lives and what it means to be one's authentic self.

We explore a wide range of topics on this week's pod that includes:

1. Podcasting
2. What it is like being a Therapist
3. Get Psyched Podcast
4. Living Your Life as your Authentic Self
5. Growth Mindset

Believe in yourself. When you put the work in and put yourself outside your comfort zone, good things will happen!

Enjoy this fun and engaging podcast!

Follow Lindsey at:
@lindseytaylorlocke (IG)
Get Psyched on Apple and Spotify

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Understanding insurance can be tricky. What type of insurance to get? What plan do I need? How do the conditions, deductibles, payments, and more work?

In this episode, we dive back into our "adulting 101" series with a look into the 4 major insurance plans you should have:

1. Auto
2. Life
3. Health 
4. Home / Rental

Unforeseen tragedies such as illness, injury or permanent disability, even death – can leave you and your family facing tremendous emotional stress, and even grief. 

With insurance in place, you or your family's financial stress will be reduced, and you can focus on recovery and rebuilding your lives.

My loving dad, Dana Silver is our guest this week! He has 25+ years in the insurance industry as an analyst and consultant. He breaks down everything you need to know in easy to comprehend examples!

By having insurance, you are protecting yourself, your assets, and your family from out-of-pocket expenses that can be exponentially more expensive.

People always stress on how much money they need to pay upfront for the insurance product, instead of looking at the big picture. Safeguard your life with insurance and realize its benefits.

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LOF Fam! It feels like it's been a while since I have talked to you directly. I miss it! For this week's pod, I have some exciting news to share!

I took the message of 'leap of fate' and practiced it myself. I made something big happen...

I got a new job! I have left Cisco [bittersweet] and accepted an offer as a Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at an early-stage e-commerce company called Neat A/B testing.

I made this happen on the app Clubhouse! I networked and pitched my way to meeting the CEO of Neat A/B. After going through the interview process and receiving an offer, it was too good of an opportunity to pass up!

The overall story is crazy and shows the power of social media and networking. Guest moderator and best friend of the pod Sean Levitan helps guide us through the convo.

You'll learn how I made this happen, the power of taking 'the leap of fate' and more.

Enjoy :)

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Women in leadership aren't something new, but as a society, there is still so much advancement to be gained. We see even fewer numbers of women CEOs. So for Leap of Fate Pod #41, I asked the question, what is it like being a woman CEO?

I bring on Karen Lebsanft who is the CEO and Co-Founding Director of The Kurrajong Kitchen Group. As a woman in leadership who is an inspiring leader for others, Karen is keen to share the lessons she has faced en route to building what is now an iconic manufacturing stablemate.

Kurrajong Kitchen Group, a family-owned Australian food manufacturer, based in Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia.

Karen will speak on what is it like being a woman in leadership. How to get yourself into a leadership position? What is it like being a woman CEO? How does she make decisions? How does she run a business? How do you keep your employees happy and working through a pandemic? How does she deal with prejudice and stigmas as a woman CEO? And Much more!

What is Kurrajong Kitchen Group?
They have been baking Lavosh flatbread for home entertainers and chefs across Australia since 1993, beginning in a restaurant in Kurrajong.

From a team of 2, and thirty packets per week, to a team of 30 and over 750,000 pieces per day, we still proudly deliver the home-baked characteristics as if we’d baked in our restaurant over two decades ago.

As a woman CEO, Karen uses the learnings from building this company and successfully integrating and scaling the three arms of manufacturing, distribution and brand building, she now share the journey of the challenges, wins and resilience that it takes to build and stay an Australian manufacturer and brand owner.

Karen inspires people to take the next step in their journey of success through #selfcare #teamcare and #businesscare.

Karen Lebsanft:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-lebsanft-ba37a065/
Personal Website: https://karenlebsanft.com/
Company Website: https://www.kurrajongkitchen.com.au/

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