Mind Over Habit

What if the best leaders aren't the ones who go first—but the ones who choose to serve first?

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‎In this inspiring episode of Mind Over Habit, host Moses Dada sits down with U.S. Marine Officer, author, father, and leadership mentor Olaolu Ogunyemi to explore the powerful concept of Leading Last.

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‎Drawing from his experiences in the military, fatherhood, and leadership development, Olaolu shares practical lessons on servant leadership, resilience, faith, parenting, emotional intelligence, and building the next generation of leaders. This conversation offers actionable insights for parents, professionals, educators, and anyone seeking to lead with greater purpose and impact.

‎What if faith was never meant to be a checklist, but a relationship?

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‎In this inspiring conversation, award-winning Christian author Marcia McFarland joins us to discuss her book Perfect Glory: 21 Spiritual Insights for the 21st Century and the extraordinary spiritual experiences that transformed her understanding of God.

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‎Marcia shares how encounters with the Divine reshaped her faith, challenged traditional religious assumptions, and led her toward a deeper, more personal relationship with Jesus.

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‎Together, we explore spiritual growth, purpose, God's calling, modern Christianity, overcoming religious barriers, and how people today can experience God's presence in meaningful and transformative ways.

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‎Whether you're deeply rooted in your faith, searching for spiritual clarity, or simply curious about personal experiences with the Divine, this conversation offers encouragement, wisdom, and practical insights for your spiritual journey.

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‎Topics include:

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‎• Personal encounters with God

‎• Moving beyond religious routine

‎• Discovering God's purpose for your life

‎• Spiritual growth in the modern world

‎• Faith and personal transformation

‎• Experiencing God's presence daily

‎• Biblical wisdom for contemporary life

‎• Purpose, passion, and calling

‎• Overcoming spiritual obstacles

‎• Living with greater faith and intentionPodcast Introduction

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What separates businesses that successfully scale from those that stay stuck in startup mode?

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‎According to today's guest, it's not more hustle, more hours, or more ideas.

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‎It's clarity.

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‎In this episode, we sit down with Kati Peterman, founder of Your FRX, former Chief of Staff, growth strategist, and operational leader who has helped scale multiple seven and eight-figure companies and whose team has collectively served more than 3,200 business owners.

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‎Kati is known for turning chaos into clarity and helping founders build the systems, structure, and operational discipline needed for sustainable growth.

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‎We discuss leadership, hiring, scaling, operational excellence, the founder-COO relationship, decision-making, and why "being clear is being kind" has become one of her most powerful leadership principles.

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‎Topics include:

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‎• Why companies fail

‎• How CEOs should spend their time

‎• The founder and COO relationship

‎• Scaling without chaos

‎• Hiring and recruiting trends

‎• Startup traps that keep businesses stuck

‎• Decision-making at scale

‎• The hidden costs of bad hires

‎• Building operational systems that work

‎• Leadership and accountability

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‎Learn more about Kati Peterman and Your FRX:

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‎If you're a founder, entrepreneur, executive, or business owner looking to scale smarter, this episode is packed with practical insights you can implement immediately.

‎Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way we work, lead, communicate, and make decisions. Yet despite widespread AI adoption, many organizations are struggling to achieve meaningful results.

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‎Why?

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‎According to today's guest, the problem isn't technology—it's people, leadership, and culture.

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‎In this episode, we're joined by Fahed Bizzari, keynote speaker, AI empowerment expert, author of AI Empowerment: Top Down, Inside Out, and Managing Partner of Bellamy Alden in Dubai.

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‎Fahed launched the world's first in-person ChatGPT training program in early 2023 and was later recognized among the top 0.1% of ChatGPT users globally. Through his consulting work, he helps organizations move beyond simply adopting AI and toward becoming genuinely empowered by it.

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‎In this conversation, we explore the difference between AI adoption and AI empowerment, the future of work, leadership in an AI-driven world, why many digital transformation efforts fail, and how businesses can leverage AI without losing the human element.

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‎Topics include:

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‎• AI adoption vs AI empowerment

‎• The future of work

‎• Human skills in an AI world

‎• Leadership and AI transformation

‎• AI governance and business strategy

‎• Why training alone doesn't work

‎• The rise of shadow AI

‎• Digital transformation lessons

‎• Middle management and organizational change

‎• Building an AI-ready culture

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‎Connect with Fahed Bizzari:

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‎Learn more about his work, speaking engagements, and AI Empowerment programs through his LinkedIn profile and Bellamy Alden resources.

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‎Whether you're a business leader, entrepreneur, professional, or simply curious about the future, this episode will help you move from AI uncertainty to AI confidence.

‎What happens when you spend a lifetime saying "yes" to adventure?

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‎In this inspiring episode, we sit down with Elisabeth Villiger Toufexis—Swiss-born author, international speaker, life coach, hypnotherapist, magazine editor, podcast host, and world traveler who has visited more than 100 countries across six continents.

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‎From leading tours around the world before the era of smartphones to interviewing remarkable guests through her internationally acclaimed podcast, Most Memorable Journeys, Elisabeth has collected not only unforgettable travel stories but also profound insights into happiness, resilience, fear, curiosity, and living life fully.

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‎We discuss the lessons she's learned from decades of travel, why worrying is often a waste of energy, how to overcome fear and step outside your comfort zone, and what it truly means when she says, "When you love life, life loves you back."

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‎Whether you're an avid traveler, someone seeking greater purpose, or simply looking for inspiration to embrace life's opportunities, this conversation will encourage you to live more courageously and collect more stories.

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‎In this episode, we discuss:

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‎• Lessons from visiting more than 100 countries

‎• The transformative power of travel

‎• Overcoming fear and uncertainty

‎• Building confidence through new experiences

‎• Stress, worry, and emotional wellbeing

‎• Staying curious throughout life

‎• Living with gratitude and purpose

‎• The importance of human connection

‎• The art of saying "yes" to opportunities

‎• Why the best souvenirs are the stories we collect

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‎Learn more about Elisabeth, her books, podcast, coaching, and resources at:

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‎The Soul Kit:

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‎You can also explore her internationally acclaimed podcast, Most Memorable Journeys, and her latest book 1 Suitcase, 1000 Stories.

What if the fastest path to higher profits isn't cutting costs, working harder, or implementing the latest business hack—but treating people with dignity?

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‎In this episode, we sit down with Todd Krause, CPA, TEDx speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Silversun Consulting. After spending two decades building and scaling businesses in corporate finance, Todd took a leap into entrepreneurship by purchasing a struggling cleaning company just days before the COVID shutdown.

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‎Instead of relying on traditional turnaround tactics, Todd focused on culture, leadership, and employee dignity. The result? The company grew from $1.6 million to more than $4 million in annual revenue while becoming an award-winning workplace.

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‎Todd shares practical lessons on leadership, culture, profitability, accountability, employee engagement, and how business owners can stop being the bottleneck in their own organizations.

What happens when life strips away the things you thought you could control?

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‎Today's guest, Bill Derrick, knows that question firsthand.

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‎As President of Derrick Companies, Bill spent more than 50 years helping lead a successful family business through economic uncertainty, industry disruption, and one of the most difficult periods in modern business history: the Great Recession.

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‎Just when it seemed the storm was finally passing, Bill faced another life-altering challenge—an incurable blood cancer diagnosis: multiple myeloma.

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‎In this inspiring conversation, Bill shares the lessons he learned through business adversity, personal suffering, faith, resilience, gratitude, and what it means to find purpose in the middle of life's unexpected storms.

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‎Drawing from his book, Restored by the Storm: Navigating Through Life's Unexpected Challenges, Bill offers practical wisdom for anyone facing uncertainty, loss, setbacks, health struggles, or seasons where life doesn't go according to plan.

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What if creativity isn't a talent reserved for artists—but a natural human ability you've simply forgotten how to access?

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‎In this episode, we sit down with Patrick Williams, founder of Satori Innovation, TEDx speaker, award-winning artist, educator, martial artist, and innovation consultant. With more than four decades of experience studying and teaching creativity, Patrick challenges the common belief that creativity fades with age.

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‎We explore why children seem naturally creative, how adults become disconnected from their creative instincts, and what Patrick calls "Creative Colonization," "Creative Collapse," and "Creative Metamorphosis."

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‎Whether you're an entrepreneur, artist, business leader, educator, inventor, or someone who feels creatively stuck, this conversation offers practical insights for reconnecting with your innate creative power and applying it to every area of life.

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‎Topics include:

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‎• Can creativity be taught?

‎• Why adults lose touch with creativity

‎• The difference between creativity and innovation

‎• Entrepreneurship and creative thinking

‎• The role of practice in excellence

‎• Martial arts and creativity

‎• Creative confidence and self-belief

‎• Innovation in business and life

‎• Restoring your creative superpower

‎• The future of human creativity in an AI-driven worldPodcast Introduction

What happens when social media becomes flooded with AI-generated content, bots, and synthetic interactions?

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‎Can we still trust what we see online—and who we're talking to?

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‎In this fascinating conversation, we sit down with Ross Thorpe, CEO of Rooverse, a social media platform built around a bold idea: creating a space where humans interact with humans and AI-generated content is blocked from being uploaded.

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‎Ross shares why he believes traditional social media is rapidly losing authenticity, how AI is reshaping online communication, the growing influence of bots, and why digital trust may become one of the most valuable assets of the future.

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‎We also explore AI ethics, data privacy, online identity, and whether technology can still serve humanity without replacing genuine human connection.

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‎In This Episode:

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‎The rise of AI-generated content online

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‎Why authenticity matters in social media

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‎The hidden impact of bots and fake engagement

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‎AI ethics and digital trust

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‎Building Rooverse from the ground up

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‎Human connection in an AI-driven world

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‎The future of online communities

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‎Privacy, transparency, and user ownership

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‎Why Rooverse is backed up in space

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‎The balance between innovation and authenticity

What happens when intuition becomes more than a feeling?

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‎In this fascinating episode, we sit down with Nancy Orlen Weber, known as the Soul Detective™, a former registered nurse turned psychic detective, medical intuitive, animal communicator, author, and spiritual teacher.

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‎Nancy shares her extraordinary journey from healthcare to helping law enforcement investigate crimes, finding missing people and pets, and teaching others how to strengthen their intuition. We explore near-death experiences, the connection between mind, body and spirit, working with skeptics, communicating with animals, and what she has learned after decades of exploring the mysteries of human consciousness.

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‎Whether you're curious about psychic phenomena or simply interested in developing greater trust in your inner guidance, this conversation will challenge assumptions and expand perspectives.