Mastering Midlife Podcast

Valari Jackson is a speaker, life coach, business strategy advisor, and the founder of Fierce Focus Strategies, a company that provides professional coaching to business owners as well as individuals who are looking to take control of their life and move forward from where they are. Valari is also a Myers-Briggs Certified Practitioner, and she works with large organizations in improving communication, collaboration, and understanding. She believes she works best during one-on-one coaching sessions as she digs deep into her client's persona and provides individualized ways to help them. Valari joins me today to share how she found her passion for helping others get the best version of themselves. She discusses what her career was like before she became a life coach and the moment that made her pursue this type of career. Valari also explains the difference between self-esteem and self-worth and why setbacks and procrastination are part of the growth process.

"Procrastination is merely the pursuit of perfection. Once we let go of that, we can move forward." - Valari Jackson

Today on Mastering Overwhelm:

• What she has to offer her customers and audience.
• Why it's important to know what you're pretending not to know.
• Defining the difference between self-esteem and self-value.
• My self-reflection regarding what society told me as a child.
• What the last four years of Valari's life looked like.
• How a bracelet helped change her mindset to what it is today.
• Helping clients switch from beating themselves up to knowing their value.
• Viewing setbacks as opportunities to correct your path.

Valari Jackson's Words of Wisdom:

• People show up in your life to support and confirm that you're on the right track.
• Don't be afraid to make a mistake. Just move, and life will take care of the rest.

Resources Mentioned

• Book: Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott

Connect with Valari Jackson:

• Fierce Focus Strategies
• LinkedIn
• Phone: (202) 920-7299

Mastering Overwhelm - Set Yourself Free to Enjoy Your Success

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Jeff Hoffman is an award-winning entrepreneur, the CEO of several startups including Priceline and Booking.com, a motivational speaker and producer. Jeff is best known for his many business achievements, but his most impactful work is done as CEO of Driving Force Enterprises, performing philanthropic work worldwide. After years of achieving commercial success, Jeff felt ready to leave the hustle and grind behind in favor of using the skills and resources he had accumulated to give back. He now travels worldwide teaching innovation strategies to small businesses and entrepreneurs. He is also a frequent keynote speaker and a featured business expert in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Forbes.

On today's show, Jeff shares how he went from growing up with a single mom to becoming the mastermind entrepreneur behind many successful startups. He shares stories of encounters he's had over the years that influenced his mindset and inspired him to start giving back. Jeff offers some advice about entrepreneurship and how to be successful without sacrificing your happiness and relationships. We also discuss how traveling and working worldwide led him to realize that people everywhere want the same things and inspired him to be a catalyst for change in small and underserved communities.

"Entrepreneurship is not a job. It's a mindset." - Jeff Hoffman

Today on Mastering Overwhelm:

• How his humble upbringing inspired him to find creative ways to travel and engage with the world
• Why it's imperative to go beyond your local community to experience new places and cultures
• The power of living your life for today, not tomorrow
• How a conversation with the Dalai Lama inspired him to begin working with underserved youth
• His philosophy about business, financial achievement and the vicious cycle so many get caught in
• Vital experiences he's had that created a profound impact on his life choices
• Why striving for more financial success doesn't appeal to Jeff and how he quit when he felt ready to give back
• The positive change that his humanitarian and philanthropic work has brought to his life and why leaving an impact is more important than accumulating wealth.
• Why trying and failing is just as important as being successful

Resources Mentioned:

• A Series of Talks by Jeff Hoffman

Connect with Jeff Hoffman:

• Jeff Hoffman Website
• World Youth Horizons
• Jeff Hoffman on LinkedIn
• Jeff Hoffman on Instagram
• Jeff Hoffman on Facebook
• Jeff Hoffman on Twitter

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Uneeb Khan is an Electrical Engineer with one of the most prominent engineering companies in the nation. He was presented The Propel Leadership award in 2016 and a teaching award in 2017. Uneeb's expertise has allowed him to work on high-profile projects such as the World Trade Center (Freedom Tower), several United Nations Buildings, and many other notable institutions. Uneeb craftily executes the work-life balance. He has backpacked to over 30 countries, most notably, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and swimming with sharks, running with the bulls, traveling to Antarctica, and volunteers monthly at a suicide prevention hotline. He is certified in Mental Health First Aid and Suicide Intervention. He has organized training boot camps for entry-level employees and hosted national pre-construction conferences. He is a strong believer in work-life balance and has been dedicated to sharing that message and helping people obtain that way of life.

When Uneeb's friend, Chad, asked him to go on an adventure - a hike or take a day off to enjoy life - Uneeb's answer was almost always "No. I have to work." Chad was a lover of life and Uneeb had an immigrant's commitment to work ethic and success. He felt he had to always "hit it hard" in order to succeed. Chad's sudden and untimely death changed all that. Join our conversation where Uneeb shows us how embracing a full, rich personal life has made him more successful (and happy) than ever.

"When you have an emotional attachment to a goal, procrastination can't win." – Uneeb Khan

Today on Mastering Overwhelm:

• How the sudden death of a friend will change your perspective forever
• Instrumental grief – turning your grief into something useful
• Going from "numb" to feeling alive
• When an emotional attachment to a goal fuels motivation – procrastination can't win.
• How embracing his personal life fueled his career and made him a better leader
• How having a rich personal life made him a more effective leader
• Why fear is literally a superpower

Chad's List: Something "doable," in each category each year.

• Do something that inspires fear.
• Do something that involves learning.
• Do something that involves charity or helping people.
• Do something the "eight-year old you" would be proud of.
• Travel to another country or another part of town.

Connect with Uneeb Khan

• Uneeb's LinkedIn Page

Mastering Overwhelm - Set Yourself Free to Enjoy Your Success

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Having been a people pleaser, I used to be all things to all people. I wore my intelligence, confidence, and energy as a badge of honor. But ever since I woke up to the fact that I am free to choose how I spend my time and attention, freedom has been at the forefront of what I do and what I'm trying to impart to the world. Part of that freedom is the power to create and recreate ourselves—and, as an act of reinventing myself, I changed my name.

In this episode, I discuss how I changed my name from 'Marc' to Mark J. Silverman. I reveal the reason I rebranded the Mastering Midlife Podcast. I describe our capacity to recreate ourselves every day. I also outline the steps I take every morning to recreate myself and explain why we're all frauds—and why it's a good thing.

"You can be a different person this afternoon. You get to be a different person this morning. It's all about deliberate effort—a deliberate choice. Going against your conditioning isn't easy, but it's possible." - Mark J. Silverman

This week on Mastering Overwhelm:

• Why I rebranded the Mastering Midlife Podcast to Mastering Overwhelm
• The first time I reinvented myself after getting sober in 1989
• The reason I changed my name
• Our capacity to recreate ourselves every day
• The steps I take to constantly reinvent myself

Resources Mentioned:

• Book: Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be by Steve Chandler
• Book: The Alter Ego Effect: Defeat the Enemy, Unlock Your Heroic Self, and Start Kicking Ass by Todd Herman
• Book: Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less by Alan Cohen
• Book: The Ultimate Coach by Amy Hardison and Alan Thompson

Mastering Overwhelm - Set Yourself Free to Enjoy Your Success

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Andy Brennan is the Founder and Co-owner of the Cape Cod Gutter Monkeys and its parent company, the American Gutter Monkeys, which are both gutter cleaning and installation companies. Alongside his college roommate, Dennis Siggins, Andy founded the company in 2014 after a 35-year stint in the corporate world. Since then, the American Gutter Monkeys has grown and expanded with two locations in the South Shore and South Coast of Massachusetts. In addition to its dedication to delivering excellent customer service, the company hopes to help individuals shift their careers by offering franchise opportunities.

Andy joins us today to share what he has learned from running his own company after working 35 years in corporate America. He discusses his decision to start a business and explains how having a business partner helped him navigate entrepreneurship. He also describes how starting his own business changed him and offers advice to people who want to shift from corporate work to self-employment.

"When you start a small business, you won't make a lot of money in the first year. Budget properly, work hard, and take as many jobs as you can." - Andy Brennan

Today on Mastering Midlife:

• Andy's background and his first job out of college
• What made Andy think about starting his own business after 35 years in corporate America
• Translating corporate skills into self-employment
• Why Andy and his business partner decided to start a gutter cleaning business
• How long it took for Andy and his co-founder to prepare and plan for their company
• The importance of feeding your business
• Gutter Monkeys' customer base and how they generate peripheral business from gutter cleaning
• The value of over-delivering in entrepreneurship
• How Gutter Monkeys' business and gutter-cleaning processes have improved over the years
• Their marketing strategy and why Gutter Monkeys shifted from creating infomercials to funny ads
• How entrepreneurship has changed Andy

Connect with Andy Brennan:

• American Gutter Monkeys
• American Gutter Monkeys on LinkedIn
• Andy Brennan on LinkedIn

Mastering Midlife...Together!

Thanks for tuning into today's episode of the Mastering Midlife Podcast: How to Thrive When the World Asks the Most of You with Mark Silverman. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review.

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Katie DePaola is the Founder of Inner Glow Circle, a company dedicated to helping women become certified life coaches and build profitable personal brands. She is the author of the book, At Least You Look Good, in which she reflects on her life's challenges and shares her advice on how people can "glow through what you go through." A staunch advocate for mental health, Katie has been featured on TIME, Entrepreneur, Forbes, and over 50 podcasts. Katie also serves on the board of Bo's Effort, a foundation in memory of her late brother, Bo.

Katie joins me today to discuss resiliency, shifting our perspective, and creating a world we want to see. She shares what led her to become a professional life coach and the realizations she had while working in her first business. She describes the "trifecta" of life challenges she went through right after becoming a coach and discusses how her business kept her going. Katie also underscores the beauty of embracing our imperfections and highlights the possibility of creating a world of our own choosing.

"Be your own muse; create the thing you wish existed in the world. If there's something you wish the world had, perhaps your life's purpose is to be the one who creates it." - Katie DePaola

Today on Mastering Midlife:

• Rethinking vulnerability and keeping your footing while being authentic
• What led Katie to become a coach
• What Katie realized about herself while working in the first business she started
• The rocky roads she went through after she started her coaching career
• What kept Katie showing up every day despite her life's challenges
• Transforming pain into something beautiful
• Embracing our imperfections and how we can get ourselves unstuck from overanalyzing who we want to be

Connect with Katie DePaola:

• Inner Glow Circle
• Book: At Least You Look Good: Learning to Glow Through What You Go Through
• Inner Glow Circle on LinkedIn
• Inner Glow Circle on Instagram
• Inner Glow Circle on Facebook
• Katie DePaola on LinkedIn
• Katie DePaola on Instagram

Mastering Midlife...Together!

Thanks for tuning into today's episode of the Mastering Midlife Podcast: How to Thrive When the World Asks the Most of You with Mark Silverman. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review.

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My son called the other day. "Dad, Dad, Dad… I can't wait to tell you what happened."

In this episode we find out what happened when four 20-something young men got together and shared some things they thought only they dealt with.

"We are only as sick as our secrets." – AA Saying

Are you a busy, overwhelmed business leader?

Through my work as an author and executive coach, I've discovered the 10 lies we all tell ourselves that keep us away from true productivity and creativity.

If constant firefighting is part of your daily grind, I have a free gift for you. My "10 Uncomfortable Truths" about overwhelm, from "Only 10s, Confront Your To-Do List – Transform Your Life."

Go to www.markjsilverman.com, click on the red banner and receive your 10 videos (one minute, one per day) as well as the first chapter of the book.

While you are there, check out some of the other ways I may be able to help you on the journey.

Mastering Midlife...Together!

Thanks for tuning into today's episode of the Mastering Midlife Podcast: How to Thrive When the World Asks the Most of You with Mark Silverman. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review.

Be sure to visit our website and connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube and don't forget to share your favorite episodes on social media.

Originally from Nevada, Dr. Le Provost moved to Arizona to attend the University of Arizona where he received his Bachelor of Science in Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences. He received additional training in homeopathy, botanical medicine, acupuncture, hormone replacement therapy, Chelation, IV nutrient therapy and nutrition to complement his medical training. Prior to medical school, Dr. Le Provost was the manager and owner of successful personal training and nutritional guidance practice in Tucson, Arizona. It was through the close relationships he developed with his clientele that he was inspired to delve into wellness further in the study of holistic health.

His goal is to improve your quality of life and help you live your life to its fullest potential.

Dr. Le Provost is my doctor. And he changed my life.

As a man in my fifties, growing a business, traveling the world speaking to business leaders, I need the energy of a 30-year-old. And I didn't have it. I have passion. I am healthy. I love what I do. But damn, it took it out of me. Diet, exercise, and a strong spiritual program just wasn't enough. If you, like me, want to be creative, impactful and energetic well past society's expiration date… Listen to this conversation.

"If you are 45 and your doctor says 'that's just the way it is,' you need to find a new doctor." – Dr. Jean-Luc Le Provost

Today on Mastering Midlife:

• It's not just about erectile disfunction
• Why we are sick and still not getting help from conventional doctors
• How Dr. Le Provost completely transformed my energy in 3 weeks
• When to go see a Men's Health Specialist
• Thyroid effects everything

Connect with Dr. Le Provost:

• Phoenix Men's Health Center

Mastering Midlife...Together!

Thanks for tuning into today's episode of the Mastering Midlife Podcast: How to Thrive When the World Asks the Most of You with Mark Silverman. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review.

Be sure to visit our website and connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube and don't forget to share your favorite episodes on social media.

I know you made some New Years Resolutions. We all have. But a week in, how you doing?

Today's show will help you get back on track with those promises you made to yourself… at least the ones you really mean.

"You probably bit off more than you can chew….." – Mark J. Silverman

• New behaviors are hard to establish
• Are you committed to the items on your list?
• Is your "why" strong enough or is it a should?
• How do we know if this is a "10?"

Are you a busy, overwhelmed business leader?

Through my work as an author and executive coach, I've discovered the 10 lies we all tell ourselves that keep us away from true productivity and creativity.

If constant firefighting is part of your daily grind, I have a free gift for you. My "10 Uncomfortable Truths" about overwhelm, from "Only 10s, Confront Your To-Do List – Transform Your Life."

Go to www.markjsilverman.com, click on the red banner and receive your 10 videos (one minute, one per day) as well as the first chapter of the book.

While you are there, check out some of the other ways I may be able to help you on the journey.

Mastering Midlife...Together!

Thanks for tuning into today's episode of the Mastering Midlife Podcast: How to Thrive When the World Asks the Most of You with Mark Silverman. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review.

Be sure to visit our website and connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube and don't forget to share your favorite episodes on social media.