"The committed heart when fast with a challenge will find a solution. The uncommitted heart will seek an escape."

Siphiwe Baleka is the founder of Fitness Trucking, LLC and serves as the Driver Health and Fitness Coach at Prime Inc., one of America’s largest trucking companies. His innovative, on-the-go wellness program has helped thousands of truck drivers lose weight and reclaim their health. The trucking industry is the least healthy of any industry in the US with 69% of truck drivers being obese.

His premise is that anyone with 4 minutes can get fit. What works for truckers can work for any sedentary person! After being raised in Chicago by a single dad, he graduated from Yale University and is the first African American ever named to the First Team All-Ivy League Swim Team. He missed qualifying for the 1992 Olympic Swimming Trials in the 100 freestyle by just 0.8 seconds!

He is the author of 4-Minute Fit. In this episode we get a perspective on health from a different angle that attempts to inspire greater health among others.

"The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don't." Marcus Aurelius

Philosophy is an attitude and a guiding principle of behaviour in life. In many ways philosophy is about asking questions, seeking truth so to live as best we can with greater ease. Principles that can improve wisdom, perseverance and the art of living. This book by Ryan Holiday is awesomely insightful- full review here at The Hidden Why.

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” Buddha Our Thoughts are Our Reality! Reduce the suffering, increase your happiness, focus on your thoughts. Positive thoughts bring rise to positive behaviours and positive realities – negative do the reverse. … Continue reading 337: Leigh Martinuzzi | 3 Minute Thought: Our Thoughts are Our Reality

Jeffrey is a Best-Selling Author, International Speaker, Philanthropist, Thought Leader, Social Entrepreneur and Producer. He provides the next wave of visionary leaders with the connections, tools, platforms, consultations, trainings, knowledge and resources to accelerate their visions and businesses, as vehicles to bring humanity together.

This is round two with Jeff, we first talked back in episode 99 on The Hidden Why Podcast.

In this episode we have a great chat about awakening entrepreneurs. An individualistic attitude in life about making business to purely profit is a dying existence. It is about making business to impact positive change in this world.

What if we thought of life like a holiday? What if we lived life like a holiday? How would life be different? How would that change our perspective on things? How would we think and act differently? What if...?

I can hear the questions and doubt already. “Yeah right! How?” “It’s a nice idea but some of us have to work.” “Easy said than done.” For whatever the excuse, reason or doubt I would suggest it is exactly for those reasons that we must seek to approach life more like a holiday.

Here is my thought on just that @ The Hidden Why

Summary “Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, and does it improve the silence?” A brilliant conversation I had with Gayle Hardie, founder of the Global Leadership Foundation and expert in transformational health. In this conversation we discuss all things on leadership, change, emotional health, why environment is paramount, practices including meditation, competition vs. abundance, why … Continue reading 334: Gayle Hardie | The Power To Make Change Resides Within- Take Responsibility & Transform

“With mindfulness, we can be with the experience in more immediate way. When we find ourselves flooded with an emotion that's come after the judgement, we've often missed the very judgment that triggered the emotion.” Mark Coleman

Work from a place of kindness, compassion, understanding and love within and we just may find this exerts its way into the progression of our lives. Mindfulness creates wisdom and a wise person is committed to understanding themselves as they relate to the world and books like this help us do that. Good work Mark!

“It is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.” Jim Collins Here is a formula for meaningful work – Complexity + Effort + Reward = Meaningful work. If you have trouble finding meaning in your work perhaps it … Continue reading 332: Leigh Martinuzzi | 3 Minute Thought: A Formula For Meaningful Work

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” Winston Churchill.

Hailed by a New York Times reporter as "someone who has quietly become one of the most influential people in America," Andy Andrews is the author of the New York Times bestsellers How Do You Kill 11 Million People?, The Noticer, The Traveler's Gift, and recently The Little Things. He is also an in-demand speaker for the world's largest organizations.

Zig Ziglar said, "Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen."

In this episode Andy shares his wisdom to help inspire each of us to live a more meaningful life. We discuss his book, The Little Things, which is all about why we should sweet the small stuff as it these little things that can make BIG difference in our lives.

“Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self mastery is the hardest job you’ll ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one at the time both your best friend and greatest enemy by stepping in front of a mirror.” Napoleon Hill … Continue reading 330: Leigh Martinuzzi | Self-Control, Discipline, Consistency, Leadership & Mastery