Mastering Midlife Podcast

Omar Pinto is a Life Transformation Coach, Addiction Recovery Specialist and Lifestyle Entrepreneur. He impacts and transforms people's lives daily through my podcast, thriving Facebook communities and coaching platforms.

Omar also a recovered alcoholic in long term sobriety, and as a recovering alcoholic, understands the challenges associated with maintaining sobriety.

Omar helps his clients in the following areas:

• Heal emotional wounds
• Build a strong foundation for sobriety
• Create strategies for maintaining lasting change
• Identify your gifts and talents
• Identify and remove the limiting beliefs holding you back from the life you deserve
• Bring confidence, fulfillment, success and happiness back into your life

He works side by side with you as you create the life you want! His coaching philosophy is that every person has a greater unexplored potential, and with the right motivation, education, support and coach ~ you can discover yours.

What happens when AA, NA or any of the 12 step programs (by themselves) don't work? It's not that they are deficient, but that they cannot be all things to all people. Omar talks the limits of the 12 step programs, how root cause issues drive addiction, and additional pathways to freedom.

"Addictions are often our method of soothing something unacceptable" – Omar Pinto

Today on Mastering Midlife:

• Addictions are often the symptom of the real problems.
• What happens when the emotional pain and distress that caused you to use gets triggered and you have the inability to cope?
• Alcohol and drugs are not the only addictive substances we can use
• What will motivate me if I don't beat myself up?
• There are four major emotional criteria people are going through (where emotional scaring comes into play)
  • Competence level
  • Body Issues
  • Identity
  • Relationship

Resources Mentioned and Connect with Omar:

• omarpinto.com
• The Recovery Revolution Podcast
• The Recovery Revolution Community

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Are you struggling with knowing what, when, and how to focus your efforts to get things done? As a long-time sufferer of severe ADD, I understand the struggle - and that's why I created the Only 10's system. This system has helped me and thousands of others clear the clutter and focus their energy on getting the right things done.

The Only 10's free online course is based on my proven system to help you focus your attention and maintain momentum around your day-to-day life.

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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 marketing people often use excerpts from the chapter called "fear" in "Only 10s – How to Use Distraction to Get the Right Things Done," because they are the most relatable and compelling. I reread this chapter for myself when I get stuck. In today's episode, I read from the chapter and talk about how and what fear costs me… and what to do about it.

"I am amazed at how much time and life fear has stolen from me." – Mark J. Silverman

Today on Mastering Midlife:

• You know you want to speak up, create, and dance…even if you lie to yourself about it.
• Courage is feeling the fear, and doing it anyway.
• Fear can mask as "I don't want to," confusion, procrastination or anger.
• Admitting it is fear is the first step to "choice."
• When something is a "9.5" (on a scale of 1-10) and fear is a "10," fear wins.
• Terror is easy to spot, it's the little fears that shape our behavior that are the long term danger.

Get FREE Access to the Only 10's Course

Are you struggling with knowing what, when, and how to focus your efforts to get things done? As a long-time sufferer of severe ADD, I understand the struggle - and that's why I created the Only 10's system. This system has helped me and thousands of others clear the clutter and focus their energy on getting the right things done.

The Only 10's free online course is based on my proven system to help you focus your attention and maintain momentum around your day-to-day life.

Sign up for the Only 10's free course today!

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.

Gerald DuBose is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, coach, poet, and artist. He is the COO and co-founder of The New Wealth Order—an organization dedicated to helping people become designers of their own destiny and better human beings—and the author of The Formula 4 Success. A visionary on a mission to change the world's consciousness, Gerald has built and advised several multi-million dollar businesses over the last two decades.

Gerald joins me today to discuss what it takes to bring an idea to life in the "pre-post-pandemic" world. He shares how he discovered the power of storytelling and reveals the one question that turned him into an entrepreneur. He explains why your "why" needs to be bigger than you and discusses the reason he's passionate about creating a strong company culture. Gerald also highlights the importance of being a steward of ideas and underscores how saying "no" can save you.

"When you show up with who you are—in your truth—and create an environment where people are allowed to be who they are, it allows a company to move forward faster." - Gerald DuBose

Today on Mastering Midlife:

• Gerald's origin story and how he began his journey into entrepreneurship
• What pushed Gerald to start his first business
• His passion for building culture in organizations
• What gives Gerald the confidence to get into fields and industries where he has no experience
• Letting ideas pay a toll and what it means to be a steward for ideas
• Differentiating opportunities, possible opportunities, and chances
• How the power of "no" can save you
• Birthing a dream in the "pre-post-pandemic" world
• Gerald's venture into the world of graphic novels

Resources Mentioned:

• Book: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
• Book: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. by Brene Brown

Connect with Gerald DuBose:

• The New Wealth Order
• Younaverse Comics
• Book: The Formula 4 Success: 4 Simple Steps to Achieving Anything You Want in Life
• The New Wealth Order on Facebook
• The New Wealth Order on Twitter
• The New Wealth Order on Pinterest
• The New Wealth Order on YouTube
• Gerald DuBose on LinkedIn
• Gerald DuBose on Twitter

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.

What a great word used by my friend, coach and accountability partner, Katie Nelson, with her clients.

A healthy business, like a healthy body, puts in the work to head off problems in the future.

Prehab is the extra work we put in to our lives.

"Prehab is forcing yourself to carve out the time to head off playing whack-a-mole with all the fires that break out." – Mark J. Silverman

• Prehab is training and developing your people
• Prehab is creating a culture of accountability
• Prehab is meditation and contemplation practices
• Prehab is building a network of good people

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.

Kendra Cunov is a Relational Coach and the Founder of The Collective, a global web of women devoted to embodied awareness. Over the past 15 years, Kendra has been studying, facilitating, and practicing authentic relating, embodiment practices, and deep intimacy. She also co-founded The Embodied Relationship Training Salon with John Wineland and pioneered some of the most cutting-edge relation work on the planet. Throughout her career, Kendra has worked with men, women, couples, leaders, and organizations who know that embodied presence, truth, connection, and integrity are our access points to success.

Kendra joins me today to discuss why being "in relationship" means being in the moment and continuously reconnecting with others and the world. She shares why relationships and human connections have become an essential part of her life's work. She describes how we can continue to be open to others who may have different perspectives and explains why we tend to talk past other people. Kendra also discusses the practice of delighting in our differences and underscores the role of boundaries in relationships.

"Delight in our differences. Allow people to change, check in, and continue to be curious about the other person and yourself." - Kendra Cunov

Today on Mastering Midlife:

• How relationships and human connections became the pillars of Kendra's work
• What it means to be "in relationship"
• Recognizing choice points to understand a different view or opinion
• Why we never lose the opportunity to connect with others
• Fighting about politics and how to put aside our need to be right
• Why we tend to talk past other people and the power of listening to understand
• Changing our language to take the responsibility of listening
• Weaving relationships and connections in spite of disagreements
• The importance of staying curious about our partners and ourselves
• The practice of delighting in our differences
• How to cultivate tolerance and acceptance and why boundaries are required to become more fluid in relationships

Resources Mentioned:

• Listening to Understand

Connect with Kendra Cunov:

• Kendra Cunov Website
• Beyond Boundaries
• Kendra Cunov on LinkedIn
• Kendra Cunov on Instagram
• Kendra Cunov on Facebook

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.

Beliefs and thoughts have been plaguing us for 1000s of years. They stop us from doing things we want to do; they distract us from the good in our lives and can make us believe the craziest things.

Is there a solution? Yes.

But it's going to take some practice.

"The jig is up when you get wise to the tricks of your mind." – Mark J. Silverman

Today on Mastering Midlife:

• Realize that the mind is "a drunk monkey stung by a scorpion"
• If you had a friend who talked to you like your head does, you'd get a restraining order
• Michael Singer "The Untethered Soul"
• Evolution kept us alive by scaring us. It's not as useful in the modern world
• Take a deep breath, interrupt the familiar pattern, get out of your head and into your body

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.

Steve Schlafman is the Founder of High Output, a boutique leadership development company, where he coaches to improve the habits, productivity, and energy management of high-performing entrepreneurs. A certified coach, Steve is also an angel investor, facilitator, and speaker, with a Bachelor's Degree in Business from Northeastern University. He has previously held a mix of operating and investor roles with companies including Primary Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, RRE Ventures, The Kraft Group / The New England Patriots, and Microsoft. Steve currently splits his time between Manhattan and the Catskills and enjoys spending time with his family, meditating, reading, cooking, and - of course - watching the Patriots.

In today's episode, Steve shares the moment he became aware he was not living life the way he felt it should be lived after reading Eckhart Tolle's most famous book, The Power of Now. He shares his journey of recovering from an addiction he had managed from his teenage years until his mid-thirties. Steve explains the process of acknowledging he was done with the corporate life and just how long it took to take the idea of coaching to become a fully qualified and experienced coach. He also reveals the aspects of coaching that many founders and high-performing leaders need and benefit from and shares his own unique experience of what working in those industries brings to his coaching.

"Energy Management is more important than Time Management." - Steve Schlafman

Today on Mastering Midlife:

• How reading The Power of Now was Steve's lightbulb moment
• Why 'energy management' is more important than time management
• How meditation was the gateway to Steve's self-discovery
• Why leaders find sharing their struggles difficult
• The difficult conversations new companies should have

Resources Mentioned:

• Book: The Power of Now

Connect with Steve Schlafman:

• High Output Website
• The Founder Library
• Steve Schlafman's Website
• Steve Schlafman on LinkedIn
• Steve Schlafman on Facebook
• Steve Schlafman on Twitter

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.

We all get it confused. We are searching for our reason for being here. I believe it is easier if we understand the difference between understanding "purpose" for being here, and creating our "mission", while we are here.

Contact Mark:

MarkJSilverman.com

Get FREE Access to the Only 10's Course

Are you struggling with knowing what, when, and how to focus your efforts to get things done? As a long-time sufferer of severe ADD, I understand the struggle - and that's why I created the Only 10's system. This system has help me and thousands of others clear the clutter and focus their energy on getting the right things done.

The Only 10's free online course is based on my proven system to help you focus your attention and maintain momentum around your day-to-day life.

Sign up for the Only 10's free course today!

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.

In addition to being a nationally syndicated radio host, award-winning speaker, author, and educator, Dr. Diane Hamilton is a thought leader in the fields of leadership, sales, marketing, management, engagement, personality, curiosity, and motivation. To help improve relationships in the workplace — and performance as a result — Dr. Hamilton draws on her decades of work experience in software, computers, corporate training, pharmaceuticals, real estate, mortgage lending, social media, education, and publishing.

A sought-after expert in emotional intelligence, Dr. Hamilton's research has been published widely in peer-reviewed journals. She is the creator of the Curiosity Code Index® and the author of four books sold worldwide: Cracking the Curiosity Code, The Online Student's User Manual, How to Reinvent Your Career, and It's Not You, It's Your Personality.

Dr. Hamilton joins me today to talk Emotional Intelligence and Curiosity, two ingredients to a more successful career and organization. As more generations work together than ever before, as AI starts to shift the workforce, Developing Emotional Intelligence is essential for a healthy work environment. In order to evolve, both at the personal level and the organizational level, we need to reignite the lost art of curiosity.

"Curiosity is essential in all aspects of our lives because it ignites our desire for new experiences." – Dr. Diane Hamilton

Today on Mastering Midlife:

• More generations work together than ever in the past.
• Emotional Intelligence helps foster empathy, interpersonal skills and self-awareness
• Four factors keep people from being curious – Fear, Assumptions, Technology, and Environment.
• Using the CCI (Curiosity Code Index) to develop engagement and critical thinking
• Developing curiosity is the key to developing the innovative mind
• Becoming more competitive in the market place
• Best way to learn something is to prepare to teach it.
• Curiosity is the spark to motivation and drive

Resources Mentioned and Connect with Dr. Hamilton:

• Diane Hamilton
• Cracking the Curiosity Code
• Take the Lead Radio Show
• Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman

Get FREE Access to the Only 10's Course

Are you struggling with knowing what, when, and how to focus your efforts to get things done? As a long-time sufferer of severe ADD, I understand the struggle - and that's why I created the Only 10's system. This system has help me and thousands of others clear the clutter and focus their energy on getting the right things done.

The Only 10's free online course is based on my proven system to help you focus your attention and maintain momentum around your day-to-day life.

Sign up for the Only 10's free course today!

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.

Get FREE Access to the Only 10's Course

Are you struggling with knowing what, when, and how to focus your efforts to get things done? As a long-time sufferer of severe ADD, I understand the struggle - and that's why I created the Only 10's system. This system has help me and thousands of others clear the clutter and focus their energy on getting the right things done.

The Only 10's free online course is based on my proven system to help you focus your attention and maintain momentum around your day-to-day life.

Sign up for the Only 10's free course today!

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.