Life's Essential Ingredients

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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 work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER.  We also write children’s books 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 6 Episode #2 Ann Pells is coming from Manti, Utah (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Ann via her website annsplan.com or lifegiverlegacy.com

About our guest: Empowering families to create financial freedom through simple, proven strategies. Ann helps people pay off their homes in just 5 to 7 years without reducing their expenses or increasing their income. With two phone calls, you can discover how to grow wealth while you sleep and create a life filled with hope, freedom, and legacy.

Ann is a seasoned expert in real estate investing and business ownership with over 25 years of experience. She’s passionate about helping others unlock the secrets to financial freedom by teaching them how to buy existing, professionally managed businesses and real estate assets that generate consistent passive income. Ann shows her clients exactly how to secure funding for these opportunities—up to $250K at 0% interest for 12 months—in just 30 days. 

With a proven track record of success, Ann specializes in business acquisitions that make $10K a month with just one hour of work per week and real estate investments that yield a 60% ROI annually. Her approach is both strategic and empowering. Ann also shares the power of daily mindset practices that can help individuals 10x their results in just 10 minutes a day, helping them achieve financial goals faster than they thought possible. Whether it’s funding, business acquisition, or real estate, Ann’s expertise guides individuals toward sustainable wealth with a roadmap that’s simple to follow and easy to execute.

Ann, thanks for sharing your many gifts and talents and for helping people achieve financial freedom.   Welcome to the show!

TOTD – “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”                                                  Emily Dickinson

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Larry and Ann started Life Giver Legacy…

Loves chocolate and reading about happy memories…

Recipes that work

Ingredients of a successful recipe

Emergency fund…how much should people be putting away…

Balance of paying off debt vs. still having enough left over to buy some chocolate…

Have lived in 15 houses…total interest adds up

Automation, systems, and a team to guide you on owning and managing your own business

Let’s talk about your financial journey to freedom… and providing opportunity for others to do the same

20 year old

30

40

50

60 – retirement

What was the big take away from what you learned from 2008?

What if vs. I can’t…

Books you recommend?

Legacy 

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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 work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER.  We also write children’s books 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 6 Episode #1 Mitch Weisburgh is coming from Larchmont, New York (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Mitch via his website https://www.mindshiftingwithmitch.com

About our guest: For over four decades, Mitch has been at the intersection of education, technology, and learning transformation, helping individuals, educators, and organizations rethink how we learn, teach, and grow. 

Mitch is the creator of the Mind Shifting Method — a neuroscience-backed system helping high-achievers, coaches, and transformational leaders move beyond mindset alone to rewire their emotional operating systems for sustainable resilience, clarity, and self-trust.  Mitch works at the root level, so resilience, creativity, and powerful leadership become automatic, not exhausting. When individuals stop fighting their own brain, growth stops feeling like survival — and starts feeling like freedom.

Mitch has authored several books with his most recent release this past November - Conflict and Collaboration.  A review of Mitch’s book said the following – “Reading this book is like immersing yourself in a practical and deeply human guide on how to transform conflicts into opportunities for growth and collaboration.  It’s a work that challenges us to rethink our reactions and always seek the constructive side of human encounters and disagreements.” 

Mitch, thanks for sharing your many gifts with people all over the world, thanks for continuing to challenge yourself to learn, grow and teach.   Thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – Welcome BACK to the Show!

TOTD – “You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. “ 

Anton Checkov

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In this episode:

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Mindshifting Mondays with Mitch – congrats on your podcast…

Assertiveness without aggressiveness is a superpower (from your book)

5 styles of Conflict Resolution – Compete, Avoid, Accommodate, Collaborate, Compromise

The 5 sage powers of being not doing – Empathy, Exploration, Innovation, Navigation, Focused Action

4 ways to approach situations – Simple Issue, Chaotic Issue, Complicated Issue, Complex Issue

Motivational Interviewing

Goals – reaching 5 million people with resourcefulness, resilience and collaboration…

Mindshifting – Stop Your Brain From Sabotaging Your Happiness and Success – congrats on your book…

Books you recommend?

Legacy 

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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 work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER.  We also write children’s books and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other.   Please check out c4leaders.org to support our important work. 

Season 5 Episode #26 Dr. Fawad Mian is coming from Denville, New Jersey (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Dr. Mian via his website prolohealing.com or advocareneurowellnessmd.com

About our guest: Dr. Mian is not just a physician—he is someone who’s lived the very pain he now helps others overcome.  Dr. Mian is a board-certified neurologist and regenerative medicine specialist, working with active adults 55+ who are tired of being told that pills, surgery, or “just living with it” are their only options. 

After years of dealing with chronic pain and facing a future of invasive procedures, he chose a different path—and discovered what traditional medicine often misses: that the body can heal, when given the right tools and support.  Dr. Mian’s expertise is in helping high-performing individuals reclaim their strength, mobility, and freedom through precision diagnostics, regenerative therapies like PRP and stem cells, and custom movement protocols. 

Dr. Mian’s approach is deeply personal, because he knows what it’s like to be dismissed, misdiagnosed, and stuck. That’s why he treats the whole person—not just the symptom—and guides his patients with the same care he’d offer his own family.

One motto at Dr. Mian’s clinic is, we don’t just mask pain—we resolve it. Because healing isn’t a hope. It’s a plan.

Dr. Mian, thanks for sharing your many gifts and talents with people all over the world, thank you for seeking alternatives that help people who live with chronic pain, thank you for having the courage to write your book (Getting to Pain Free…#1 best seller on Amazon) and thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients, welcome to the show.

TOTD – “At the end of life, most of us will find that we have felt most filled up by the challenges and successful struggles for mastery, creativity, and full expression of our dharma in the world.   Fulfillment happens not in retreat from the world, but in advance – and profound engagement.”                                                                                                                       Stephen Cope

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Neurologist by trade…NYU for residency and Emory University for your neurophysiology/sleep medicine fellowship

Stress

Exercise

Sleep

PRP after injury

Different treatments for joint stiffness/pain

Chronic pain relief and IV therapy

Sustained Energy and Focus – any supplements or even better natural ways to stay on top of your game

Stem Cell Therapy

Good fat vs. bad fat

Skin Care 

Insulin Resistance and what is it

Intermittent Fasting

Electronic devices – light exposure 

Congrats on your book – Getting to Pain Free #1 best seller on Amazon

Books you recommend?

Legacy 

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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 work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER.  We also write children’s books 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 5 Episode #25 Brandi Acevedo is coming from Los Angeles, Ca (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Brandi via Instagram @zola_x_b

About our guest: Brandi is a proud graduate of UC Davis and USC with degrees in Biological Sciences and a Doctorate of Pharmacology from USC.  In her pharmacist role, Brandi is a strategic and results-driven Clinical Manager with over 15 years of experience in hospital pharmacy, clinical program development, and cost containment.  Brandi is a master of building cross-functional relationships with hospital leadership and clinical teams that drive innovation, compliance, and operational excellence. 

Brandi’s expertise extends to many aspects of life including personal training, nutrition, mindfulness, resiliency work, discipline, and overall mental, physical and spiritual well-being.  

Brandi, thanks for sharing your many gifts with people and patients, thanks for continuing to be a positive role model in the fitness and nutrition space and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – welcome to the show!

TOTD – “I am rooted, but I flow.”  Virginia Woolf

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Polypharmacy

The body follows where the mind leads

Resilience and Discipline beat motivation

Every rep starts in your head

Athlete

Mindset

Reign Warrior

Health

Fitness

Nutrition

Polypharmacy

AI in your world..

ISSA Certified Personal Trainer

Legacy 

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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 work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER.  We also write children’s books 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 5 Episode #24 Jessica Danel is coming from Bakersfield, Ca (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Jessica via her website jesssaying.net

About our guest: Jessica Danel is an animated, bold, and unapologetically honest storyteller, entrepreneur, and podcast host. As the creator of the Jess Saying podcast, she’s known for mixing heart, humor, and raw truth in ways that resonate with audiences from all walks of life.

Jessica built a million-dollar preschool business from her living room while raising three children, two of whom have special needs. Choosing to step away from it all to prioritize her family was a turning point that led to her memoir, Bucket List from a Redneck Girl. The book pulls no punches, chronicling her small-town upbringing, the chaos and beauty of motherhood, and the journey to reclaim her voice after life’s toughest hits.

Through her writing and her podcast, Jessica creates space for real conversations about family, marriage, identity, and starting over, offering stories that are messy, funny, heartfelt, and deeply relatable.

Jessica, thanks for having the courage to keep telling your story, for creating space for others to tell theirs and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients…welcome to the show!

TOTD – “Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.”   Malcom Gladwell

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Congrats on the book – Bucket List from a Redneck Girl…fighting, bullying…

Family – raising three children – two special needs…joys and challenges

Identity

Fresh Starts

Mindset

Growing through tragedy

Finding your voice

Transformational vs. Transactional stories/leadership/families/interactions

Last book or books you recommend?

Legacy 

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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 work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER.  We also write children’s books 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 5 Episode #23 Dr. Kate Lund is coming from Edmonds, Washington (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find via her website katelundspeaks.com

About our guest: Growing up with Hydrocephalus took the ordinary out of her childhood. Numerous surgeries, countless doctor visits and relentless recovery periods had become the norm for Kate.  But through it all, she found one thing that kept her thriving – the power of resilience in extraordinary circumstances. Building her life around finding incredible possibility on the other side of challenge kept her driven and ultimately helped Kate find her true calling.

Today, Kate is a licensed clinical psychologist of 15 years, peak performance coach, best-selling author and TEDx speaker. Her specialized training in medical psychology includes world-renowned Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, all of which are affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Kate uses a strengths-based approached to help her clients improve their confidence in school, sports and life while helping them to become more resilient and reach their full potential at all levels.

Thanks for sharing your many gifts, for putting your courage, thoughts, experience, and insight on paper (three times) and for guiding all people to see life’s adversities as opportunities for growth and understanding.   Welcome to the show!

TOTD – “Your actions are your only true belongings.”  Thich Nhat Hanh

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

What is Resilience

The power of managing our emotions – RULER…

Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, Self-Management, 

Practical tools to use to help maintain homeostasis…

Mantra…

Friendship

Social Demands of being human

Books you recommend

Legacy 

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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 work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER.  We also write children’s books 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 5 Episode #22 Heather Colley is coming from London, England  (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Heather via her website heathercolleyauthor.com

About our guest: Heather Colley is a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Oxford (Regents Park College). Her current research is focused on late 19th and early 20th century jazz and blues aesthetics in transatlantic modernist literature, with a particular emphasis on the impacts of musical forms and tropes on literary experimentation and cultural development. Heather completed her Master’s in Modern and Contemporary Literature with Distinction at St Andrews, where she studied lyric and form in the work of mid-twentieth century African American women novelists. She received her Bachelor’s in English Literature/Creative Writing and Sociology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Heather’s writing won The Oxford Review of Books Short Fiction Prize, the Hopwood Award, and inclusion in the Desperate Literature anthology. The Gilded Butterfly Effect is Heather’s debut novel. 

Thanks for sharing your many gifts and creativity with the world, having the courage to take your gift and put it on paper and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients…welcome to the show.

TOTD – “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”  Maya Angelou

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

What was your inspiration to study literature?  And to go abroad…

50k students to use health services…what are some of the challenges that college students face in finding someone to talk to…

The importance of connection and where fraternities and sororities attempt to fill that gap…

The writing process…what is yours and how do you overcome the challenges and joys that come with it…

How great did it feel to finish your book and to receive the author’s copy…

October 21st…released your first book…Beautiful book cover…

Stella, Penny, Millie, Leah…Thoughts on substances to help with mental health challenges…

Study drugs that help enhance focus… what are your thoughts on the rewiring of our brain leading to needing drugs to help us focus, leading to emotional uncertainty…

What characteristics do college students need to be successful?  What characteristics do colleges need to create success for their students?

What is the main takeaway you want the reader to take from your book?  How do you want to be perceived as a writer?

Plans for book 2 and so on… dealing with the pressure or excited to get to writing…

Book you recommend?

Legacy 

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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 work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER.  We also write children’s books 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 5 Episode #21 Mitch Weisburgh is coming from Larchmont, New York (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Mitchell via his website https://www.mindshiftingwithmitch.com

About our guest: For over four decades, Mitch has been at the intersection of education, technology, and learning transformation, helping individuals, educators, and organizations rethink how we learn, teach, and grow.  Recently Mitch authored Mind Shifting: Stop Your Brain from Sabotaging Your Happiness and Success.

Mitch is the creator of the Mind Shifting Method — a neuroscience-backed system helping high-achievers, coaches, and transformational leaders move beyond mindset alone to rewire their emotional operating systems for sustainable resilience, clarity, and self-trust.  Mitch works at the root level, so resilience, creativity, and powerful leadership become automatic, not exhausting. When individuals stop fighting their own brain, growth stops feeling like survival — and starts feeling like freedom.

Mitch, thanks for sharing your many gifts with people all over the world, thanks for continuing to challenge yourself to learn, grow and teach.   Thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – Welcome to the Show!

TOTD – “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”                                                    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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 In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

What is Happiness and what is Success

Self-Awareness/Metacognition…

Self-Regulation…leading to general well-being and wellness…

Creating Harmony with Technology and Mindfulness…

Expectations vs. Standards… dealing with not meeting expectations or setting self up for failure…

Using Mindshift to transform life’s experiences that aren’t what we thought?

Igniting Human Potential

Rising Together… to embrace complexity…

Goals – reaching 5 million people with resourcefulness, resilience and collaboration…

What to do with Feedback…

Decision Making Process and what your brain is telling you…

Positive Self- Talk…

Mindshifting – Stop Your Brain From Sabotaging Your Happiness and Success – congrats on your book…

BOOKS - Conflict and Collaboration coming out in November…

Motivational Interviewing…

Styles of Conflict Resolution…

Books you recommend?

Legacy 

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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 work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER.  We also write children’s books 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 5 Episode #20 Joshua Fineman is coming from the North London area (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Josh via his website https://bemoremensch.com

About our guest: Josh is the founder of Mensch—a community helping men reconnect to purpose, presence, and a deeper sense of belonging. Josh’s methodology is through one on one coaching, men’s circles, and modern rites of passage.  The technique isn’t the focus, Josh’s focus is on providing nourishment to men’s hearts and souls.  Based in North London, Josh’s work blends nature, adventure, and honest conversation to support men in moving from simply functioning to living life with intention, meaning, and purpose.

Thanks for guiding men to develop their best versions of their current selves and therefore, building strong family, community, and social bonds.   Your work is so needed, so valuable, and essential in moving us forward as a people. Josh, welcome to the show.

TOTD – “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”                                              Brene Brown

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Father of three children, husband, coach, facilitator…

Providing NOURISHMENT

The importance of TOUCH…

Tell us about Mensch and let’s start with telling the listeners what it means?  Yiddish translation is to be a person of integrity and honor…How did it start?

What does it mean to take the ARMOUR off… what does that mean, why do men wear it and how do you help your clients learn how to take it off…

Nursing….SELF CARE… often so hard to care for ourselves over caring for others…

Life is a CARGO SHIP… explain…

The power of NO…

How important is commitment to building trust and comradery……

Reframing, reprogramming…what being a man means…

The POWER of a tribe… community- specifically the power of sharing…

One on one coaching…

Courage, Generosity, Fellowship, Presence

Living life with intention

Packs, Quests, Guides, Community Gatherings…

Books you recommend?

Legacy 

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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 work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER.  We also write children’s books 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 5 Episode #19 Jon Engelson and Joe Holtzberg coming from Brooklyn, New York 

You can find Jon and Joe via their website joburgmeats.com.  Please go to the website for a 15% discount and enter Jeff15 as the code.  Enjoy!

About our guest: For over 30 years, Jon worked as an entrepreneur, business consultant, and holistic health coach. Jon founded You Are What You Eat, Inc., which earned a spot on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies.  Jon currently serves as the Chief Strategic Officer for Joburg Meats. 

In addition to his work with Joburg Meats, Jon has supported food and snack start-ups with a 21-point checklist that helps ensure successful launches. Jon has also led seminars and private coaching sessions on holistic health and healing, helping individuals and businesses create strategies for growth and well-being. 

Jon, thanks for sharing your many gifts with countless individuals and businesses.  Thanks for caring about our world and for developing processes and methodologies that result in efficiency, holistic health, and overall well-being.  Thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients - Welcome to the show!

TOTD – “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”                                                                                                              Dumbledore

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

What is the best part of your relationship?

Where does the business name Joburg come from?

What does Kosher mean in relation to the meat you produce? 

Metabolic Syndrome (increase risk of stroke, heart disease, type 2…)

Yuda is a energy healer…less than a year old…and son was choking…then became an EMT….

SHOW ME THE MONEY… CHEAPENING THE MARKET TO MAKE MORE MONEY..

Sustainability about your product

Grass raised or grass finished…

Pasture raised vs grain fed beef…

Regenerative farming = nutrient dense foods…

Legacy