After some more serious episodes, in honor of hitting episode 20, this week's Leap of Fate episode is a  light-hearted and fun episode.

Sit back and enjoy this week's episode of Leap of Fate with this week's guest The King of Karaoke,  also known as "The Jedi Experience", Mr. Jedd Miles!

Jedd graces us with his musical talent to takes us on an adventure through decades of rock music.  Starting with the 50s going all the way up to today, Jedd takes us through the evolution of rock music.

Jedd sings songs, I try to guess them and even join in! Play along and see how many songs you know! And of course, sing along!

Relax, decompress, and enjoy the next 30 mins of pure entertainment!

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Who doesn't want to get paid to travel for work for a living? In this week's episode of Leap of Fate, Emma Ulrey, my good friend, and colleague at Cisco Umbrella comes on to speak about her role as a Field Marketing & Programs Manager.
 
For Cisco, Emma has traveled to 3 continents, 30+ states. Some of the cities all expenses paid for work: Barcelona, Cancun, New York, Austin, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, the list goes on…

At each city, Emma has enjoyed its world-renown culture, all with the purpose of engaging Cisco's customers!
 
Does this sound like something you would want to do, all on Cisco's dime...!
 
If this is you, then Field Marketing is the perfect job for you! The idea is simple: it involves selling a product, distributing promotional information, and personally connecting with target buyers.

Field marketing can take many forms, and in the B2B world, you’re likely supporting sales, teaching a class, leading a workshop at a conference, or hosting a demo at an event. 

If you’ve ever been to a conference with an exhibitor table, that’s field marketing. If you’ve ever been to a company-sponsored meetup or live digital event, that’s field marketing too.

However, with Covid19, the shifts from being in the field and traveling to digital marketing and online events have presented a unique challenge for field marketers to come up with innovative and new ways to communicate and track their field marketing initiatives.
 
Yes, it sounds fun, but there is a lot of coordination, pressure, and logistics that goes on behind the scenes Emma will detail for you!
 
Get ready to learn about what marketing is, specifically Field Marketing, and how you can 

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By popular ask from Leap of Fate fans, LOF focuses this week on career development.

Career development is the process of choosing a career, improving your skills, and advancing along a career path. It's a lifelong process of learning and decision-making that brings you closer to your ideal job, skillset, and lifestyle.

In this week's episode, I dive solo into how to stand out and optimize your career growth! This includes best practices for crushing interviews and follow-ups (key!), how to format your resume and LinkedIn, what to put on your resume and LinkedIn, and how to ask the right questions to get noticed for the right opportunities.

Why solo? I have managed multiple global sales team for Cisco for years now. The people I manage are located on 3 continents. I have moved up the career ladder at Cisco to get to where I am at today. 

In this process, I have reviewed 100s of resumes and LinkedIn profiles in my career. I have interviewed, hired, and promoted dozens of people. I have worked with all areas of business and know what people are looking for.

I want to share my experiences with you as a hiring manager to let you know what we are looking for!

This hour-long episode is all around me sharing the best practices for your own use to go be successful! For anyone looking to grow their career, this is the episode for you.

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Sometimes it can feel like maintaining a healthy lifestyle is an overwhelming challenge that doesn’t fit within the realities of daily life. It’s tough to hold down a job, eat well, workout daily, and make time for yourself.

Of course, healthy living can incorporate all of these things (if you want it to), but it doesn’t have to be defined by grandiose displays of health and fitness.

In this week's episode, my guest Kylie Vinther and I dive into how to live a "Healthy Lifestyle". We talk about fitness, dietary changes, pros/cons elimination diets and juice cleanses, and overcoming bad habits.

Kylie turned her life around by cutting unhealthy living habits and food from her life, especially since she has some genetic conditions that make an unhealthy life worse.

This lead to her losing a significant amount of weight and now leading a very clean healthy life. This transformation took baby steps but it has to lead to her completing transforming her life.

She wasn't a fan of the gym or sports so she found yoga as her outlet. Now, Kylie is a certified yoga teacher at CorePower Yoga who has found a way to work a full-time job, lead yoga classes nightly, and eat very clean.

Whatever your interest is: gym, sports, yoga, hiking, running, etc. As long as you are active, do what suits you best. This will provide you with feeling better mentally and physically daily.

And of course, make sure you are eating healthily. The energy (food) you put into your body will directly result in how you feel and how much energy you have throughout the day.

This episode is for all people! Your body is your temple and you need to treat it right! 

Listen in to learn tips, tricks, and best practices to optimize your mind, body, and soul! 

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For this week's episode, we explore a very tough subject: Substance Abuse and Addictive Personalities. You may know somebody who was or is currently going through these issues... or this person could be you.

Through this episode, I want to educate you on how you or someone you know dealing with these issues can receive professional help and what resources are available.

Substance abuse and addictive personality issues affect not just the person with the issue, it affects all their relationships: family, friends, and work.

To help guide in this conversation, Roscoe comes on to speak about his long battle with substance abuse. He's courageous by sharing his story publicly about how he was able to overcome his addiction and stay sober.

In addition, I speak on how this is near to me as I have a close family member going through the struggle to get sober currently.

Substance abuse can simply be defined as a pattern of harmful use of any substance for mood-altering purposes. "Substances" can include alcohol and other drugs (illegal or not) as well as some substances that are not drugs at all.

An addictive personality is a personality that is more likely to become addicted to something. This can include someone becoming extremely passionate about something and developing an obsession or fixation.

The underlying factors for getting carried away and overindulging in video games, food, sex, or drugs and stem from hidden anxiety, depression, and poor impulse control.

If you or someone you know needs help, please listen to this episode to understand you are not alone and there are resources to help.

If you or someone you know needs help, please go here to start: https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline

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Continuing with our highly rated entrepreneurship series, the founder and CEO of LIVV Natural Health Dr. Jason Phan ND (Naturopathic Doctor) shares advice on starting your own business.

Dr. Jay enlightens on using mentors to guide you, SEO techniques, how to manage HR, Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, office buildings and more for your own business!

Dr. Jay turned his idea in medical school into a thriving business employing dozens of employees in the heart of downtown San Diego in Little Italy.

LIVV Natural Health & IV Lounge provides cures for all types of sickness. Some of their services include IV Hydration Drip Therapy, PRP Injections, Wellness Vitamin Shots, and more.

Through these services, LIVV can help cure common sickness, joint pain, hair loss, and other genetic conditions.

Licensed naturopathic physicians earn a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (ND) degree, which includes over 4,100 hours of total instruction with 1,200 hours of hands-on clinical training.

For anyone interested in the medical field, entrepreneurship, or chasing your dreams, this is the episode for you!

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By popular demand, Leap of Fate continues our “Learning 101” series by diving into Real Estate investing this week!

Real estate investing for the beginner can really be as conceptually simple as playing Monopoly once you understand the basic factors of the investment, economics, and risk. To win, you buy properties, avoid bankruptcy, and generate rent so that you can buy even more properties.

But before you can make informed decisions about whether or not to invest in real estate, and which of the many types of real estate might make the most sense for you, you first need to understand real estate investing basics. 

Real estate investing offers several possible benefits generally not associated with other types of investments. 

They include lower risk then the stock market, good cash flow, big tax deductions, and good long-term return on investment.

Real Estate agent Alexio Barbara and recent first time property buyer Reed Camball guide us this week on Leap of Fate.

Alexio educates us on all the terms, knowledge, and tips you need to know in real estate while Reed shares his experiences and best practices as a first time property buyer.

For anyone interested in learning about real estate investments and the overall market, this is the episode for you!

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In this week's episode, we explore the practice of mindfulness and meditation. Mindfulness and meditation improves your well- being, physical and mental health, and dedicates time to you by blocking out all the sensory overload in our lives.

To help facilitate this discussion, Sean Levitan of Awear Apparel comes back on Leap of Fate to discuss the role of mindfulness and meditation in our lives and his company.  Sean also gives us an update on Awear Apparel and an exclusive "you heard it here first" of his new line!

At the end of the episode (24:20 min start), Sean guides us in a 15-minute meditation! If you haven't practiced meditation before, Sean gears it towards beginners so this is the perfect time to try!

Harvard Health states mindfulness and meditation has many benefits to improve your life.

1. Mindfulness improves well-being. Increasing your capacity for mindfulness supports many attitudes that contribute to a satisfying life. By focusing on the here and now, many people who practice mindfulness find that they are less likely to get caught up in worries about the future or regrets over the past, are less preoccupied with concerns about success and self-esteem, and are better able to form deep connections with others.

2. Mindfulness improves physical health.  Mindfulness can: help relieve stress, treat heart disease, lower blood pressure, reduce chronic pain, improve sleep, and alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties.

3. Mindfulness improves mental health.  Mindfulness meditation as an important element in the treatment of a number of problems, including depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, couples’ conflicts, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

This episode is for everyone! Please take the time to listen and give back to yourself!

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As families and policymakers make decisions about their children returning to school, it is important to consider the full spectrum of benefits and risks of both in-person and virtual learning options.  

Parents are understandably concerned about the safety of their children at school in the wake of COVID-19.  

At the same time, the harms attributed to closed schools on the social, emotional, and academic achievement of children cannot be overstated.

Further, the lack of in-person educational options disproportionately harms low-income and minority children and those living with disabilities.  

In this week's episode, 2 teachers discuss what it was like to lead virtual teaching in the spring and what their district's plan is for Fall's reopening.

Dan Jang teaches middle school in DC and Alana Silver, my mom!, is an elementary school special education teacher in CA.

Through these honest assessments, we engage in a thought-provoking discussion on the pros and cons of all options. 

Even if you don't have children, it is important for all of us to know what is going on. The ultimate decisions and results will have important ramifications for generations! 

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Who remembers Will Smith's movie Hitch when he was a dating coach guru? 

This week we have a real-life modern-day Hitch, Lloyd Dixon, of TheSingleGuy channel.

Lloyd's mission with his channel TheSingleGuy is to empower men to have confidence in their dating life.

Dating Apps help- Check.

‘Talking head' videos sharing advice- Check. 

In-person consultation sessions- Check.

Lloyd does it all through TheSingleGuy channel which has allowed him to amass close to 100,000 subscribers between his Youtube and Instagram channels.

This is a fun episode that teaches all how to overcome your insecurities and especially men, how to have confidence in your dating life!

For anyone interested in entrepreneurship, dating, or relationships, this is the episode for you!

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