When life falls apart, mental fitness becomes your greatest ally. In this powerful episode, guest Howie Clare opens up about the emotional turmoil of his marriage breakdown and the transformative journey that followed.

Discover how cultivating mental fitness can turn pain into growth, offering profound lessons and unexpected gifts. We dive into two key areas impacted by mental fitness: understanding how others perceive us and the courage to ask for help.

Highlights:

• Howie’s raw and inspiring story of resilience

• Key insights on self-awareness and seeking support

• Memorable quotes:

• “If you think hiring a professional is expensive, try using an amateur.”

• “This year will be a great year when I achieve the following…”

• Book recommendation: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Connect with Howie: Reach out at [email protected]

Why Listen? This episode is a must for anyone navigating challenges or seeking to strengthen their mental resilience. Tune in for actionable insights and an uplifting story of transformation.

In this episode, Mikal Nielsen, author of bestselling book Time Management: A Complete Waste of Time, dismantles the myth that traditional time management is the key to productivity, efficiency, and work-life balance.

Discover why conventional approaches fall short and explore Mikal’s transformative alternative to achieve success in business and beyond.

Plus, get access to a free Action Guide—a practical template to kickstart your journey toward a more effective and fulfilling life.

Download your Action Guide here: https://mikal.nz/actionguide

Learn more about the book and where to get it: https://mikal.nz/time-management-book

Connect with Mikal on LinkedIn for articles and regular updates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikalnielsen/

In this compelling episode, finance expert Josh Allan reveals how stress silently infiltrated his life and kept him from being his best professionally and in his personal life.

With raw honesty, Josh walks us through his journey from confusion to clarity, sharing how he transformed his life to achieve remarkable work-life balance.

He offers practical tools that fueled his turnaround and introduces his unique “Compost and Daisies” practice—a powerful approach to mental resilience.

Tune in to discover actionable strategies for conquering stress and unlocking your potential.

You can connect with and learn more about Josh here on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-allan-cfa-58611b155/

If you want to learn more about the breathing techniques Josh is talking about, email me at [email protected]

An unexpected and in the moment sharing while my face is blown up and I'm in pain, both physically and mentally.

This new podcast is about sharing real life stories of how Mental Fitness affects how we deal with real life challenges, personally and professionally.

I’m this episode I use my current painful situation to share how my mental fitness level has influenced how I am managing.

Would you like to come on my podcast as a guest, go https://mikal.nz/podcast and fill in the Guest Application Form or email me at [email protected]

In this episode, our guest, Russell Clark, owner and manager of one of the most successful renovation businesses in New Zealand, Licensed Renovations, shares a powerful story on how he ended up in serious trouble because of a lack of mental fitness.

He also shares with us, that despite having had many sports and business coaches over the decades, it was only when he got himself a mind coach that things really started to improve, both in his personal life and in his business. In short, it was when he started growing his mental fitness.

He talks to us about some of the ways he did that, and how he learned to say no to empower both himself and his staff.

You can check out his business here: https://www.licensedrenovations.co.nz/

What is Mental Fitness?

Is there a definition?

Is it really the gateway to success?

The answer to all of that is in this episode.

I also mention my detailed - and free - Mental Fitness Guide to Enhance Performance.

Download it here: https://mikal.nz/mental-fitness-guide

Questions? Email me to [email protected]

In this first episode of Mental Fitness - the Gateway to Success, the host, Mikal Nielsen, shares why he created this podcast.

He covers the Why, the Who, the What and the When and Where as a model for starting something new, like a product, a service, a business, etc.

For more info on Mikal, go to www.mikal.nz or connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at [email protected]