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C4 Leaders – the ONLY nonprofit to utilize the pizza making process to create space for our companions to be seen, heard, and loved.   We also write children’s books, host this podcast, and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other.   Please check out PIZZADAYS.ORG to support our important work. 

Season 3 Episode #26 Dai Manuel is coming from Vancouver, British Columbia 

You can find via his website daimanuel.com

About our guest: Dai - the ultimate super dad, husband extraordinaire, and all-around life enthusiast! Dai is on a mission to inspire and positively impact one million role models across the globe, encouraging them to lead a FUN-ctionally healthy life through education, community, and a whole lot of encouragement.

As an award-winning digital thought leader and author, Dai has mastered the art of leading by example, always staying true to his values of Fitness, Family, Faith, Finances, and FUN. He knows firsthand how challenging it can be to juggle life's responsibilities while prioritizing health and happiness.

But don't let his impressive resume fool you - Dai's infectious personality and contagious enthusiasm truly set him apart. He's a sought-after lifestyle mentor, executive performance coach, and keynote speaker who will leave you feeling inspired, motivated, and ready to take on the world.

Dai, thanks for sharing your many gifts with the world and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – Welcome to the show!

TOTD – “Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”

                                                                                                                       Brene Brown
In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

What do you love about British Columbia?

The Moose is Loose.. tell me about that nickname…

Pushing your body both mentally and physically beyond what you think is possible… how do you help your clients get into that space

Blog – lots of great advice… sleep, health profession, love the article on nurses and the 10 tips… funny the last one you mentioned is HUGE – compression socks…use to be called TED HOSE…

Tedx – Why Vulnerability is a Human Thing… congrats – great talk and important message

Mentorship Mondays…Empathy, Compassion,…one of the hardest things… to go first… sharing what is important in your life…biggest takeaways….

I know you love being out in nature… what do you love and how have you incorporated that space into what you do to help people play to their strengths?

Congrats on your book – Dai Manuel’s Whole Life Fitness Manifesto

Let’s talk about STRESS and the effect it has on the body both physically and mentally…

What tips do you offer to your clients to limit their stress

Finding fulfillment in life?  How do you define fulfillment?

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Season 3 Episode #25 Nancy Pickard is coming from Aspen, Colorado 

You can find Nancy via her website nancypickardlifecoach.com

About our guest:

She lives by example. In 2017, she traveled alone in Thailand and Vietnam and undertook her biggest challenge, climbing Kilimanjaro at the age of 61. Coaching others to step out of fear and into bigger versions of themselves is her passion.

Nancy Pickard is a Certified Integrative Coach through The Ford Institute for Transformational Training. She is certified as a Breakthrough Shadow Coach, Empowered Parent Coach, Courage Coach, Healing Your Heart Coach, Leadership Coach, Holistic Lifestyle Coach and Bigger Better Braver Coach. She is the author of - Bigger Better Braver: Conquer your fears, Embrace your courage, Transform your life. 

Nancy, thanks for sharing your gifts with the world, for helping thousands of people find their way, overcome fear, and live Bigger, Better, and Braver!  Welcome to the show.

TOTD –“ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” Amelia Earhart                                                                                      

In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

The importance of family!

Congrats on becoming an author – what has been the an unexpected result of your books success? 

What got you into coaching?

Please share a success story that just fills your heart with love!

Let’s talk about overcoming fear and a fairly recent trip you had on the Hells Canyon trip with your son (great blog post).  

What is the balance as we get older with living a life with passion and living a life with balance of risk vs. reward…

Process of growth and development?

Hells Canyon trip with your son…loved the blog

I know you have lived a full life – is there any one part that you felt totally changed the trajectory of it!

The voice in our head that doesn’t allow us to be/develop our best self..

The key to life – SIMPLICITY…

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Season 3 Episode #22 Jessica Speer is coming from Colorado 

You can find Jessica via her website jessicaspeer.com

About our guest: Jessica Speer is the highly acclaimed author of BFF or NRF (Not Really Friends)? A Girls Guide to Happy Friendships and Middle School - Safety Goggles Advised. On August 8th – you release The Phone Book as well – congrats!

 A review from BFF or NRF “This book is an excellent guide to friendship for "tweens." It is super engaging with the quizzes and "fill-in-the-blank" sections; the cute graphics make it really fun and accessible; AND it provides really great info that resonates with tween girls, without ever seeming "preachy." 

Jessica’s interactive books engage and entertain readers by combining the stories of preteens and teens with fun activities and practical insights. She has a master’s degree in social sciences and explores topics in ways that connect with kids.

Jessica, thanks for sharing your gifts with the world and for choosing to guide our youth and families in their quests to develop their best selves.   Welcome to the show!

TOTD – "Family should be the place where you can be your most complete self. Where you're accepted and appreciated, seen and valued, even in moments of disagreement. It should be your soft place to fall, the place where you're reminded that no matter what happens to you, in the face of your deepest challenges, you are loved."   Oprah Winfrey                                                                                                          

In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

The importance of family!

Congrats on your work as an author – three books, plans for more…

Why children’s books?

What can we/parents/teachers do to help children with healthy digital habits?

Middle School – Safety Goggles Advised… What did the research tell you?

How can we best help youth during that difficult transition?

What is the best thing parents can do to support their child?

BFF or NRF – what did you learn in writing that book?

How do you define friendship?

Post Pandemic Friendships… how has the pandemic changed friendships for children?

What is the Friendship Pyramid?

Was bullying covered in the book?

What is I POWER?

The YODA WAY?  What is it?

Helping youth work through difficult emotions – what tips do you provide?

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Season 3 Episode #21 Jeremy Doran  is coming from Rhode Island 

You can find Jeremy via his website thelittlekids.us, jeremydoranspeaks.com and listen to his podcast – How to Talk to Weirdos!

About our guest: With degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Psychology, Jeremy brings a unique perspective to leadership for people in technical fields. 

 Having overcome the same communication challenges that many engineers face, Jeremy is able to engage, enlighten and entertain his audience. Jeremy delivers strategies for communicating with different audiences in different ways.

His work experience includes Process Re-engineering at Pratt & Whitney, Global strategy for APC (now Schneider Electric), owning a franchise business and coaching hundreds of engineers on their journey to becoming great leaders.

 Jeremy, thanks for sharing your gifts with the world and for helping people be better communicators.   Life’s Essential Ingredients welcomes you to the show.

TOTD – “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said” – Peter Drucker                                                                                                                     

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 In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

What do you love about Rhode Island?

Triathlons, flying trapeze,… pretty adventurous…also lived in Italy

Congrats on becoming an author – The Little Kids – youngest of 10

Finding your way in the family

Playing to your strengths and overcoming weaknesses

What got you into coaching?

What is leadership?

What is the difference between managing vs. leading?

Evaluating Culture

Communication techniques and styles…

Team Dynamics and how to improve them

Helping all people feel seen and heard

Appreciating diversity

Root cause of miscommunication

Enhancing the skill of giving and receiving feedback… how do you do that for your clients

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Season 3 Episode #20 Amanda Kate is coming from Melbourne, Australia 

You can find Amanda via her website amandakate.com.au

About our guest: Through the process of becoming a Kinesiologist, Amanda has dedicated her life to continually learning about holistic health and related topics by uncovering her own limiting beliefs and negative behavior patterns, and continuing her personal growth and expansion. 

Amanda helps clients through physical, mental, emotional and spiritual malaise, including PTSD, complex trauma, ending abuse cycles and assisting people through grief. In addition to trauma, Amanda also works with people to improve their life, achieve their goals and navigate transitional situations with as much ease and grace as possible.

Amanda is the author of two books – Divine, Messy, Human – Spiritual Guide to Prioritizing Internal Truth over External Influence and The Anxiety Relief Handbook.  If that wasn’t enough, Amanda is also the host of her own podcast - the Hello, Divine, Messy Humans.

Amanda, thanks for sharing your many gifts with the world and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – Welcome to the show!

TOTD – “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” — Rick Warren

In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

The importance of self-awareness and self-love…

Self-Care and Self Love

Finding fulfillment in life?  How do you define fulfillment?

Working through trauma

Forgiveness

Healthy Relationships

Living with Intention

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Season 3 Episode #19 Branch Isole is coming from Arkansas

You can find Branch via his website branchisole.com

About our guest: Author of 22 books Branch writes and speaks about how choice and consequence support personal growth.  Branch is a storyteller who harnesses the power of truth in reducing daily stress, struggles and conflicts.  Branch is also a poet who has identified essential keys to establish balance for life-work relationships.

Known worldwide for his short stories, Branch has also had successful careers in teaching, corporate sales/marketing, and entrepreneurship.

Branch, thanks for sharing your gift with the world and thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients.   Welcome to the Show!

TOTD – “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”               Victor Frankl

 In this episode:

First of all, great name…is that your given name and what’s the story?

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Congrats on writing 22 books… what got you started and do you have a favorite?

What do you love about Arkansas?

What does a healthy relationship look like? 4 cornerstones

Growth… measured between the time/thought and the action

The importance of family…

What got you into writing, leadership…

When did you find God and was there something significant that led you to Him

Spending time validating our decisions – is that good or bad for us?

5 steps in moving forward in life

Visualizing your destiny…the importance of vision

Fear of loss in daily life…forces people to move to action (in not a healthy way)

We all have insecurities, 

What is Truth?

What is leadership?

Being where your hands are… the importance of being in the moment 

The importance of self-awareness and self-love…

Books you recommend?

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Season 3 Episode #18 Nicky Billou is coming from Toronto, Canada 

You can find via his website ecircleacademy.com and TheThoughtLeaderRevolution.com

About our guest: Nicky Billou is Christian immigrant from the Middle East and is an international best selling author of 7 published books.  Nicky is the host of 2 podcasts: The Thought Leader Revolution and The Sovereign Man. 

Nicky is also the founder of eCircle Academy where he runs a yearlong Mastermind & Educational program working with Coaches, Consultants, Corporate Trainers, Clinic Owners, Realtors, Mortgage Brokers and other service-based Entrepreneurs, positioning them as authorities in their niche. 

Nicky has used his expertise in helping 11 men and women add 7-9 figures to their businesses and 70+ men and women add $100,000 — $500,000 to their businesses.  Nicky loves helping entrepreneurs win big and loves helping people make the difference they were born to make.  

Nicky, thanks for sharing your many gifts and thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – Welcome to the show!

TOTD – “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”  Gandhi

 In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

What is Freedom and why is it so important

The positive influence your father has made in your life…

Finding fulfillment in life?  How do you define fulfillment?

The importance of serving others and truly seeing other people… people are buying their way out of a problem…

Grow Your business, Avoid Burnout, Build Your Authority 

Define Success

Define Leadership

Define Clarity

Do you have any particular decision making models you teach to your clients?

Messaging and using it as a way to differentiate 

Qualities of successful people – decisive, commitment, personal development, resourceful

Just finished a leadership camp with 80 youth… what advice would you give them for being an entrepreneur?

Developing your message

Motivation…

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Season 3 Episode #17 Lynne Bowman is coming from Pescadero, CA (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find via her website lynnebowman.com

About our guest:  Lynne is living proof you can cook, eat, sleep, laugh, and walk your way out of type 2 diabetes, along with other chronic ailments. Her latest best-selling book, “Brownies for Breakfast, A Cookbook for Diabetics and the People Who Love Them," is a cool, fun, beautiful, guidebook for anybody who wants to reverse chronic disease and eat healthy. 

Lynne’s book has rave reviews and because she's a grandma, readers enjoy stories, advice recipes, interior/exterior design guidance, beauty tips, style secrets, hormone insight,  parenting tips, and the one thing most of us get totally wrong with our first couple of marriages.

 Lynne has three grown children, two grandchildren, and is president of The Pescadero Community Foundation. She and her husband have a small farm on the coast of Northern California.

 Lynne, thanks for sharing your many gifts and thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – Welcome to the show!

 TOTD – “Growing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn’t have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.”― Victoria Moran – author of Younger by the Day

 In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Congrats on becoming an author…Inspiration behind writing your books?

What is the one thing most people get wrong in their first couple of marriages?

I know your mother died when you were 18, must have been tough…how did her death influence your life?

Feed The Starter Challenge and bringing the family to the table…

The importance of family…3 adult children with one daughter who is a nurse practitioner 

When did you make the choice to go plant based?

Reading labels and the importance of staying away from SUGAR…

The importance of self-awareness and self-love…

Finding fulfillment in life?  How do you define fulfillment?

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Season 3 Episode #23 Brandle Easter is coming from Wichita, Kansas 

You can find Brandle via his website gccoachconsultant.com

About our guest: Brandle is the founder and CEO of GoalCast – a coaching and consulting company.  Brandle’s focus is like the triple threat – Basketball Skill Development, Personal Coaching, and Consulting.

 With over forty years of training, playing, and coaching basketball and nearly three decades of pastoral fieldwork, Brandle continues to expand and shape his coaching style.  Every individual's experience is unique; Brandle methodically searches for the right program and routine for clients. Resulting in a winning and welcoming approach as he and his clients travel through their transformational journey.

Brandle, thanks for sharing you many gifts and talents with the world, for being a guest on the show, and most importantly, a friend to me and my family.  Brandle, Welcome to the show!

TOTD –“Without ambition, one starts nothing.  Without hard work, one finishing nothing.  The prize will not be sent to you.  You need to win it!”                                         Ralph Waldo Emerson                                                                                                

In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

The importance of family!

Congrats on your new business – what was the most exciting part of getting it up and running? 

What do you love about the game?

Coach Harvey Tahara and Coach Bob Burton… 

People who have helped you along your journey…

The people in your circle and the influence they have in your life… 

The importance of self awareness and when did you develop it and how do you help your clients develop it?

ROLES – finding our way…

The POWER OF STORY…

What is LOVE and how can we experience it more…

I know you have lived a full life – is there any one part that you felt totally changed the trajectory of it!

Skills we need as people, dealing with life, change, love, relationships…

Trauma… resolving it, learning from it, growing thru it…

Learning how to forgive

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Season 3 Episode #16 Michaell Magrutsche is coming from Laguna Beach, CA (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find via his website michaellm.com 

About our guest: Michaell Magrutsche is an author, podcaster, speaker, creativity-awareness educator, and a neurodiverse artist. Michaell is a self-taught individual who feels strongly that creativity saved his life.  

Michaell never felt like he fit in…whether it was his dyslexia or dysgraphia or systems put in place that did not line up with the direction he was going… Michaell created his own path… now the author of 5 books, a successful podcaster, and living a life he feels allows him to be and create his best self.

 Michaell, thanks for the important work you do, for continuing to create and share your gifts, and most importantly, for being a guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients.   Welcome to the show!

 TOTD –“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.  And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”              R.D. Laing

In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

The importance of self-awareness

What got you into art and creativity…

Books

Superpowers

Adaptability

Humbleness and Curiosity – how can they be the keys to unlock our passions?

Systems of life…Material items… confusing and comes with a price tag…

Finding fulfillment in life?  How do you define fulfillment?

Steps the listeners can take to enhance their creativity

What is truth?

Values that define you?

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