#173 Today I’m here with the wonderful Marcus Pearce. Marc is a speaker, writer, and former radio and television producer. During our conversation today, we discuss the concept of an exceptional life. How can you make your life exceptional? What does that even mean? We talk about the consequences of mediocrity, its differences with simplicity, and why you could be playing your life on safe mode.

If you think you need to make a change in the way you live and elevate yourself, then this episode is for you.

“We own the responsibility to write our exceptional life.”

About Marcus: Marcus Pearce is a former smoking, binge-drinking journalist, radio and television producer, Marcus’s media career included time at Leader newspapers, Sport 927 and SEN 1116 before concluding at Channel Nine and The AFL Footy Show in 2006. After meeting his now-wife Sarah in 2005, he slowly switched from sports media to health, wellness, and personal growth media. Sarah, a chiropractor, was the catalyst of Marcus’s health transformation from a Red Bull-guzzling, meat-eating smoker to a ginger-tea sipping teetotalling vegan, to somewhere back in the middle. 
 
In 2013 Marcus and Damian Kristof began the podcast 100 Not Out: Mastering the Art of Ageing Well. In that same year, Marcus joined The Wellness Couch podcast network as the Executive Producer of events including The Wellness Summit. Since its inception, 100 Not Out has recorded more than 400 episodes and conversations with some of the planet’s most graceful agers, high achievers and interesting people. 100 Not Out has received almost one million downloads, whilst The Wellness Couch network surpassed 11 million listens in 2020.  
In 2014 Marcus and his family moved to northern New South Wales. With Sarah now a stay-at-home mum, the time had arrived for Marcus to create the Exceptional Life Blueprint framework. He created an online program and began sharing his insights and trainings both digitally and in-person. 
 
Since then, Marcus’s online courses have been consumed by over 20,000 people in 155 countries and he has delivered keynote presentations and trainings to companies as big as NAB all the way down to local communities. Sectors including banking, health, wellness and real estate trust Marcus to help their teams perform to exceptional standards.

Marcus' Website: 
marcuspearce.com.au

Marcus’s Book:
mp.marcuspearce.com.au/order-form1600644372017

Key points with time stamp:

• Writing Your Exceptional Life (00:06)
• What creates an exceptional life? (06:46)
• A simple life vs a mediocre one. What’s the difference? (10:36)
• Why do many of us settle for mediocrity? (13:37)
• Are there consequences to mediocrity? (17:13)
• What does it mean to be an Exceptional? (19:24)
• The story of Dr. Sanduk Ruit, the God of Sight (22:28)
• Is living through a crisis necessary for making change? (26:32)
• Are you being too safe? Can you get away with that? (29:40)
• Stop waiting for that wakeup call! (32:59)
• What is the Exceptional Life blueprint? (34:15)
• The power of simplicity (39:21)
• A low point that later became a blessing for Marcus (42:10)
• Allow free time to exist (46:31)
• Marcus’s morning routine (50:15)
• An Exceptional Marcus would have dinner with (52:03)
• Make the rest of your life, the best of your life (55:16)

Mentioned in this episode:

• Currumbin
• Your Exceptional Life: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life, 2021. Marcus’s book
• Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-lived Peoples, 2006. A book by John Robbins
• Stuart Wilde, British writer
• Affirmations, 1986. A book by Stuart Wilde
• Hamilton
• The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying, 2011. A book by Bronnie Ware
• Paul Rose, Australian sports coach
• The MindBody Code, 2014. A book by Mario Martinez
• Dr. Sanduk Ruit, a Nepalese ophthalmologist
• Fred Hollows
• Tony Robbins
• John Demartini
• Victor Hugo
• Les Miserables
• The Novel of the Century, 2017. A book by David Bellos

About me:

My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en
My website:
www.guylawrence.com.au
www.liveinflow.co