Million Dollar Mind

Marianne Schnall is one of the thought leaders leading the charge on economic gender parity, paving the way for women to advance as leaders in business, entrepreneurship and politics. Marianne shares how she went from from interviewing stars on the red carpet to teaming up with stars on stage to advance women’s issues, about her mindset shift that led to her become an activist and why asking for what you need is sometimes the hardest part of making social change. She has written several books, including What Will it Take to Make a Woman President? Conversations About Women, Leadership & Power, and is also an accomplished interviewer of Gloria Steinem, Madeleine Albright, Jane Fonda and Jane Goodall, among others.  Marianne is founder of the ground-breaking feminist.com and more recently she created the What Will it Take movement and co-founded the Women and Money: Making Money Moves that Matter conference. Find out about the women who are shaking things up and what to do about the obnoxious roommate in your head!  

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On most podcasts, we hear from people at the “top of the mountain” (they got funded! they built billion dollar companies! they sold their company!).

On MDM we like to hear from top of the mountain entrepreneurs and we also want to learn from leaders who are still making the climb. Leaders who have built inspiring and successful businesses through perseverance, reinvention, asking for help, and making big mindset shifts. 

David Schnurman is one of those leaders, and there’s a lot to learn from him and what he’s accomplished as CEO of Lawline, a multi-million dollar company based in New York City. He's also author of The Fast Forward Mindset: How to Be Fearless & Focused to Accelerate Your Success, and former president of the New York chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). David joins Julia Pimsleur to share how to take action with more confidence; what to do when you hit a huge wall in your business; the concept of “good thing, bad thing, who knows”; his three-step process for fast-forwarding your mindset; and, how one big shift he made around focusing on others instead of on himself changed everything.

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Just search Jason Flom on the internet. There's a lot to see. He’s a successful entrepreneur, and big-time music industry heavyweight who’s worked with many huge artists like Lorde, Tori Amos, Twisted Sister,Stone Temple Pilots, Matchbox 20, Kid Rock, and one of his biggest success stories, Katy Perry -- hundreds of millions of records. He’s also a philanthropist, children's book author (Lulu Is a Rhinoceros), and even a podcast host. He's also deeply focused on criminal justice reform and social activism. There have been very dark times for Jason; but its because of those dark times that he’s discovered a purpose that’s beyond professional accomplishment -- and instead about the amount of change he can make for others.

Jason joins Julia Pimsleur to share how he got himself out of a dark place while being in an industry where you're only as good as your last hit; how a finding a purpose in helpful others find justice contributed to a life-changing mindset shift; how you dig our way out when you’ve gone down the "rabbit hole" of despair, which can happen to anyone; what remarkable thing that happened when he met Deepak Chopra in the gym; insecurity in the face of extraordinary evidence to the contrary; putting some "gratitude in your attitude"; the idea that "trees don't grow straight to the sky"; why it helps to issue yourself a "non-moving violation"; and, the "lucky-unlucky test".

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How did the guests on "Million Dollar Mind" get their powerful mindsets? What kind of tools and techniques allowed them to have a "make it happen" million-dollar mind? Julia Pimsleur teaches you a simple technique called T-BEAR that maps out the steps to take in going from Thoughts to Results, so you can get more of what you want more of the time.

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Until you have done it, there is no way to know you how hard building a business from scratch really is. It’s all-consuming, and when your life is pretty much all about work, protecting yourself (finding time away from your email and the non-stop fires you have to put out as a founder) usually quickly drops to the very bottom of your list.

Maria Littlefield didn’t have a business background. In fact she was a psychology major.  Now she’s Co-Founder of Owl's Brew, a fast growing company offering tea infused with alcohol — or boozy tea — and her 5 year old company has already raised millions and grabbed several major distribution deals. But that great success hasn’t been without its challenges, both for the business and for herself. In front of a live audience at the Million Dollar Women Summit in New York City, Maria shares her journey with Julia Pimsleur, including how she and her business partner moved past the darkest moment in the company so far, when a huge investor pulled out at the last minute; why yoga was the essential ingredient to her sanity, strong mindset, and resilience; why it's OK to change and chart a new course; and, how one of the most important mindset shifts you can make is  learning to protect your greatest asset: you.

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When a painful ski accident turned a former investment banker to acupuncture— she not only found relief, she found a business. Michelle Larivee cofounded wthn. It’s acupuncture and organic herbs turned into more of a spa and less of medical experience. It's ancient healing for modern life, according to wthn. She has a big a  vision for making Eastern medicine more desirable and affordable in the US. Michelle joins host Julia Pimsleur to share her challenges getting  potential investors —  who had never tried acupuncture —  to understand her vision, how a mindset shift prompted her to turn to her network that she’d built around her for support, how acupuncture and herbs have been important tools for her in managing stress, and why building a business around something people don't know enough about, and are afraid of, takes a big mindset.

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If anyone had a right to be overwhelmed, it's Ari Meisel. 

At 23 years old — working in high stakes real estate and in debt to the tune of $3 Million -- he was finding himself so exhausted he could sometimes work as little as an hour a day. And then, he was informed (via voicemail) that he an autoimmune disease that could mean just two things — surgery or death.  Ari accepted neither. 

In fact, he created a third option - living better. By relentless research and testing he found a path to not only healing himself, but building out that process of hackling his own life into a structured program that has led him to a high level of success in coaching others via his his company “Less Doing “ -- leading others to hack their own lives for better personal and professional productivity.

Ari joins host Julia Pimsleur to share his story and how his mindset shift was the first step in moving to the next level of his business success, and shares thoughts on how being busy is not really a badge of honor, why to-do lists are ineffective, why being irreplaceable may not be as good thing, the reason he  won’t travel for the next year, how protection of the entrepreneurial team from the entrepreneurial mindset is paramount, and much more. 

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In most businesses that scale, the founder eventually transitions from doer to leader— how to make that transition without losing your identity and while staying true to the ethos of your business? For Sarah Larson Levey, founder of  Y7 Studio -  a growing multiple city chain of more than a dozen boutique yoga studios that’s not only received a $5M investment but has been recognized as one of Inc’s 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US— that transition from “doer” to “leader" has been about working with a coach, changing her communication style, and having the humility to learn a new set of skills. Sarah joins host Julia Pimsleur to share her story and how her mindset shift was the first step in moving to the next level of her business success.

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