Frank Hanna is CEO of Hanna Capital LLC. He has been engaged in private equity and venture capital for over 27 years and is featured in the PBS documentary, The Call of the Entrepreneur. Mr. Hanna has advised and served on the boards of numerous think tanks and speaks frequently about macroeconomics, education, and philanthropy.

He is the author of two bestselling books, What Your Money Means: (And How to Use It Well), and A Graduate's Guide to Life. We discuss why understanding money and how to use it can afford us a deeper appreciation for what money can't by. And Frank also shares 3 things they don't teach us in college, including why wealth and success are not what we think it is and how a life of happiness is easier to attain than we imagine.

Tim Sanders is all about doing business with love or as he would call it “bizlove.” He’s a lovecat and wished to teach others how to become a lovecat. Now that might be sounding a bit weird but don't be deterred. This book is a little book of gold with surprising practical value to be had.

It’s not all about free love nor will the value benefit those only looking to improve in business. It is a book about relationships, compassion and personal growth. It is a book that will help improve the success you wish to achieve and a book that will raise your levels of happiness. And it starts with love.

My review of Love is The Killer App.

Happiness: The feeling of being alive. Marty Rubin

In this episode, I explore a mediation by Mark Nepo that I discovered in his book The Book of Awakening.

The meditation is to simply close your eyes and think about a few things that make you feel alive. And then reflect on the commonalities among them. They are likely things that we value most and should align our lives with accordingly. Enjoy this thought!

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Psychiatry and Radiology. She received an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for her research on emotion in the brain, and the 2018 APS Mentor Award For Lifetime Achievement.

In this episode, we discuss her new book, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, a book on how the brain constructs emotions — one that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind.

In this episode I wish to share with you an experience I had that, yes, believe it all not involved a lady with hairy legs. There are two thoughts that I hope you take away from this talk and they are why we must challenge our perspectives and be authentic.

The first is that it’s good to be authentic. We are so pretentious and consumed by pleasing and externally created definition of the Self. I think women and men both succumb to these pressures just in differing ways. The expectations we place on ourselves rob us of our authentic beauty. There is an attachment to an expectation that such behaviors will raise our level of self-worth yet when it doesn't this causes dissatisfaction in life.

The second is that it's healthy to challenge our conditioned perspectives. Initially, I was put-off when I saw this lady standing above me at the edge of the pool but when I paused to reflect I realized my perspectives were flawed and useless. I walked away feeling very positive and appreciating the beauty of this lady and her courage to be comfortable with her natural self.

Enjoy this thought!

In this episode I interview Dr. Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times bestselling author. We discuss her new book Insight.

What is the secret to happiness and success? You don’t need to fix yourself. But you definitely need to know yourself. Tasha delves into the connection between our self-awareness, what she calls the meta-skill of the twenty-first century, and our performance and success. Why self-delusion exists, the benefits in self-awareness and techniques to do so. Awesome value in this chat - enjoy!

“The choices that are most powerful in generating motivation, in other words, are decisions that do two things: They convince us we’re in control and they endow our actions with larger meaning.”

In this episode, I review Charles Duhigg's book Smarter, Better, Faster - His approach was to research the universal concepts that can help us improve our effectiveness, and in the process becoming smarter, faster and better and everything we do. Very cool read!

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.” Margaret Heffernan 

Are we all “yes” men? Do we agree with almost everything? The news we watch, the stories we hear from friends, the new direction our company is taking, the images we see, the lives we perceive people live, the politicians, our thoughts, conditioned perspectives, and beliefs. What happens if we challenged ourselves more to disagree?

That is the thought of the day!

Pamela Gold grew up on her family’s apple farm in upstate New York, graduated from Yale University, and then entered the business world in NYC where she was the point person on an IPO at the age of 24.

Leaving the workforce to start a family, she co-founded West Village Parents and went on to pursue her passion for fitness and wellness. It was through this pursuit that she discovered yoga, which connected her love of philosophy, science, psychology, and wellness and eventually led her to discover her life’s work - teaching inner peace.

That is this conversation we have a healthful chat about her work and her book Find More Strength: 5 Pillars to Unlock Unlimited Power and Happiness. Enjoy the value Pamela shares and increase the power and happiness in your life.

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.” John Ruskin

Most of us believe so strongly in our self-importance, including me, that we often become disillusioned by it. We can find ourselves thinking, saying and doing all that is not really necessary nor important as it comes to living a life with passion and purpose.

We try to create a sense of self-importance by validating our beliefs in behaviors through external recognition. This can pull us away from living with integrity and congruently with we value and our why.

We are important but perhaps not as important as we think. When we appreciate this we can start responding to life in an authentic manner. Humbly expressing ourselves more truly. We become more of positive value in others’ lives and in doing create more positive change in our own. This episode explores these thoughts. Enjoy!