2020 was not the year any of us expected it to be. Let's say DEUCESSSSS to the year with a solo review by yours truly Randy Silver and what to look forward to for 2021.

Starting with a new Leap of Fate Youtube Channel to accompany the podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrmJ8rY4ivAKnN3zG0W-1_A

Check it out and subscribe! <3 

Thanks to everyone who has listened to LOF in 2020. To all loyal fans and new fans, I do this for you. You inspire me to create and be consistent week over week. Truly humbled and honored to have you on this journey!

#LOFGANG

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As the saying goes, "When one door closes, another one opens".

Jake Doherty, Founder of Deri Dari, epitomizes this.

When Covid locked down the world and halted tourism, Jake had to close his thriving tourism business in Bavaria, All Things Garmisch. 

He was offered to turn his tourism company into a virtual business, but it didn't feel authentic.  

However, the virtual concept made sense! He knew there was an opportunity in web and video-based learning becoming a new norm.

This is how the idea for Deri Dari was born! With Jake's business partners, they founded Deri Dari:  an interactive cooking experience with professional Chefs from around the country. 

When you book an experience, you’ll interact live with their Chefs throughout the entire experience. You cook from the comfort of your own home while being guided virtually step by step by one of their acclaimed chefs!

There are a range and variety of experiences for everyone; from the novice cook, to busy families, to meal-prepping for a training program, to specialty diets or treatment recovery. 

Pick the meal you want to cook! Pick the chef you want to cook with! Reserve the time!

Then most of all, enjoy the delicious dish you just cooked!

Jake's entrepreneurship mentality allowed him to not sulk in his sorrows. He pivoted and adapted to the times.

Jake enlightens LOF fans with business knowledge and advice from the ups and downs he has experienced through his multiple companies and Covid.  And of course the ins and outs of everything Deri Dari!

This is 1 of a kind pod this week! For anyone interested in entrepreneurship, business, travel, foodie, family fun, and an overall positive message, this is the pod for you! 

Check them out: https://www.deridari.com

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In this week's LOF, Taylor Holt is back to help us to help guide us through a conversation around Personal Wellness, specifically Mental and Physical Health.

We get so used to feeling exhausted and run down from the daily grind and lack of sleep. 
However, it shouldn't be this way.

It’s important to take care of yourself and get the most from life. Making simple changes to how you live doesn’t need to cost a fortune or take up loads of time. 

We share practical tips that will enable you to live a healthier life mentally and physically. These include:

1. Eating Well
2. Stress Management
3. Scheduling Breaks in your Day
4. Meditation
5. & More

These changes will provide you more energy in your day and an overall sense of harmony in your life. As a result, you will be more motivated, productive, and successful at your job and your personal life!

For anyone interested in health and wellness. This is the episode for you!

Check out Taylor's website for more info: http://wellnessbytaylor.com

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Continuing with our highly rated entrepreneurship series, the founder of Taylored Wellness, Taylor Holt, shares advice on starting her own business around empowering holistic health.

Taylor went from working a normal 9-5 job post-college to following her intuition to change her career to her passion. Through online schooling and coaching by a mentor, she turned herself into an entrepreneur and created her own business!

With the Elevated Energy Method, Taylor works with ambitious women so they can have confidence in their body, and have more energy to do the things they enjoy in life!

By using her 12- week created program with training modules, guides, and management tools, Taylor succeeds in:

1. Upgrading women's nutrition
2. Elevating their mindset
3. Managing their stress levels

In addition, she creates a community to share ideas and help others feel comfortable through her Facebook group of 800+ strong, Facebook Live events, IG, and hosted webinars.

For anyone interested in health, wellness, entrepreneurship, career change, or chasing your dreams, this is the episode for you!

Check out Taylor's website for more info: http://wellnessbytaylor.com

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Podcast host (me!) Randy Silver introduces the audience to most of my immediate family! My dad Dana, my mom Alana (who everyone met in pod 12 'Back to School'), and my little brother Sam.

We have a family roundtable discussion on family milestones, what everyone is currently doing in their lives, and how Covid has affected it. 

The fun family dynamic and banter provides a unique value this week by understanding the grander life lessons we haven't explored yet on LOF. This includes:

1. How to start financially preparing early in your marriage for your eventual children's college tuition
2. Milestones and decisions that impact children, especially around going to college
3. How covid has affected each person's lives and how they have had to adapt

Sam just finished his undergrad and his master's at the University of Washington. He now works for PWC in auditing and is completing his CPA! He goes over how because of covid he adapted in college and started his new job remotely.

Dana works for State Farm Insurance and speaks about how his fortune 50 company has transitioned to remote work and the challenges presented.

Alana is an elementary school special education teacher and speaks about how the fall semester has been with in-person and hybrid teaching. She dives into the rules set up, how kids are dealing with it, and the impact overall on the education system.

In addition, my parents speak about parenthood, letting your kids go to college to become young adults, and some wise wisdom overall!

A very Thanksgivingesqe warming episode for all to enjoy!

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What is the Leap of Fate Podcast about and what have people learned the past 6 months? These are great questions to explore as we just hit 2 milestones!

1. Officially hit 6 months of LOF with a new episode every week besides one week since LOF started.
2. Episode #25. 1/4 of the way to 100!

Host Randy Silver (me!) goes down memory lane of the first 24 episodes. I pull the top clips for each 30+ guest who has joined LOF.

I tie each episode and clip into the 4 key themes LOF explores: 

1. Entrepreneurship 
2. Society 
3. Career Progression 
4. Health and Wellness

Whether you have listened to no episodes, 1 episode, or all the episodes, this episode ties them all together. It reinforces the key learnings that should always be brought back up.

You’ll know what episodes you will want to go back to listen to the first time or re-listen!

Excited for what the next 25 episodes and more have in store!

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Buying a home can be challenging for a first-timer. 

After all, there are so many steps, tasks, and requirements. Plus,  you may be anxious about making an expensive mistake. 

LOF's guest this week Natalie Skeele joins us to demystify the process, finances, paperwork, and share all the details around the purchase of her first home in 2020!

In episode 14, we focused on investment properties and it was one of our most popular episodes! A follow up ask from LOF fans was diving deeper into buying your first home...

You ask, I deliver!

Natalie will provide insider information that will give you a rundown of what you need to consider before you buy and what you can expect from the buying process itself, plus tips to make life easier after you buy your first home.

For anyone interested in buying their first home, this is an episode for you to learn from someone who just went through the whole process!

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You’ve seen the hype around Van Life. You’ve seen the stunning photos on social media. 

Now you want to throw everything to the wind, quit your job, and live a carefree life of traveling in a van.

In addition with lockdowns and remote work/learning, there has been no better time to make Van Life a reality.

Join us this week as Shane Wright and Delaney Puhek share their summer 2020 story with their van, @el_bussalito.

Learn how they built out their van. All the ups, downs, finances, construction, engineering, and more that went into it!

Listen to the adventures they experienced traveling the whole west coast including 7 national parks and their engagement! <3

Adventure seekers everywhere. Learn, laugh, and love from this episode!

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In business and your personal life, self-confidence is a prerequisite for taking massive action. You need to be able to believe in yourself – your abilities, skills, and passions – to take the leap of fate into your future and any other aspiration. 

 Learning how to believe in yourself is critical to creating the life you desire. Adversities will come along that will knock you off your path. How you deal with and overcome these adversities to continue on the path towards your dream is essential.

This week's guest Tyler Simowitz shares how he overcame many setbacks to stay focused on his life goals.  

To get to where Tyler is at right now, Physician's Assistant School, Tyler has overcome a lot of setbacks. Poor grades in college, major surgery putting his life on hold, being fired from his job, + more.

Through it all, he never stopped believing in himself and his goals. As a result, he always picked himself up and figured out the next step to continue on the path towards his dreams.

In addition, Tyler used mentors to help guide him and provide sound advice. Using mentors is a great way to be pushed, challenged, and provided direction for free. They are there to help raise you up and push you to new limits!

Now that Tyler is in PA school, he is close to accomplishing his dreams and wants to inspire you to continue on your path through the good and bad times.

Tyler also shares what PA school is like and how the medical field is dealing with Covid19. A very jam-packed episode!

Enjoy this week's episode and be inspired to stay on your path... Don't ever stop believing in yourself! 

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In this week's LOF episode, Jessica Lask, Founder of Non-Profit Hope For Yourself Co. joins us to speak on her company which is dedicated to helping women and teens everywhere cultivate self-compassion and self-empowerment.

She dives into logistics of how to start a nonprofit / company, the marketing and branding behind user acquisition and engagement,  and of course her mission and what they have achieved!

Some of their goals: mentorships around academics, helping with the job process, clothing, and personal needs.

Hope for Yourself Co.'s mission believes that we’re not taught how to love themselves, we’re not taught to look out for ourselves, and we’re not taught how to take care of ourselves.. especially as women. 

Their theory is that the more we empower our women and children by showing the value of loving yourself, the more they will grow to be happy, healthy, kind, and compassionate. 

This is a tidbit of her mission statement, we dive much deeper into it in the pod!

For anyone interested in social activism, starting a company, marketing and branding, and an overall feel-good mission of making the world a better place, this is the episode for you!

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