Passion & Prosperity Podcast

Welcome to the Passion & Prosperity podcast.  I created this podcast out of a love of speaking with people who have leveraged their passion to create something interesting and extraordinary. Whether it’s a business, a brand or even a hobby, I’m truly enamored when people combine vision and determination to generate prosperity in their lives.  It is my hope these stories will inspire you to consider what illuminates your soul and perhaps provide some guidance on how to create more abundance in your life.  I would love to hear your feedback via an iTunes review or on my website at passionandprosperity.me.

PP004 | David Welch: In Episode #4 of Passion & Prosperity, I speak with David Welch about his livelong love of food.  In fact, David's passion started with harvesting vegetables as a child and making tasty picante sauce with his father, a chemist, and the rest of his family.  After coming of age and ridding himself of a lot of excess material possessions, David found the time and freedom to get creative in the kitchen and Picante Sauce Weekend was born.  I hope you enjoy!

Show Notes: Sriracha is the documentary David mentioned during the podcast and it can be viewed here.  The Picante Sauce Weekend website can be found here and the product can be purchased here.

Welcome to the Passion & Prosperity podcast.  I created this podcast out of a love of speaking with people who have leveraged their passion to create something interesting and extraordinary. Whether it’s a business, a brand or even a hobby, I’m truly enamored when people combine vision and determination to generate prosperity in their lives.  It is my hope these stories will inspire you to consider what illuminates your soul and perhaps provide some guidance on how to create more abundance in your life.  I would love to hear your feedback via an iTunes review or on my website at passionandprosperity.me.

PP003 | Greg Ganske: In Episode #3 of Passion & Prosperity, I speak with Greg Ganske about his role as an entrepreneurial coach who helps people to wake up to the possibilities in their life.  As a life-long entrepreneur and real-estate guru, Greg's talks about tapping into his passion to create more space for his wife as she works to overcome some health challenges.  It's another inspiring story from the Passiong & Prosperity podcast.  I hope you enjoy!

Welcome to the Passion & Prosperity podcast.  I created this podcast out of a love of speaking with people who have leveraged their passion to create something interesting and extraordinary. Whether it’s a business, a brand or even a hobby, I’m truly enamored when people combine vision and determination to generate prosperity in their lives.  It is my hope these stories will inspire you to consider what illuminates your soul and perhaps provide some guidance on how to create more abundance in your life.  I would love to hear your feedback via an iTunes review or on my website at passionandprosperity.me.

PP002 | Karen Rooff: In Episode #2 of Passion & Prosperity, I speak with Karen Rooff about her love of running and how it led her away from the travel-induced lifestyle of a Art & Architectural History major to a Wellness & Fitness Coach who has still figured out some fun ways to see the world.  Karen talks about knowing what she's good at, and not so good at, and how she's been able to evolve her business from in-person training to online coaching and beyond.  Karen's story is another great example of leveraging passion to create prosperity in your life.  I hope you enjoy!

 

Karen Completing Comrades (Ultra) Marathon in South Africa in Back-to-Back Years

Welcome to the Passion & Prosperity podcast!  I created this podcast out of a love of speaking with people who have leveraged their passion to create something interesting and extraordinary. Whether it’s a business, a brand or even a hobby, I’m truly enamored when people combine vision and determination to generate prosperity in their lives.  It is my hope these stories will inspire people to consider what illuminates their soul and perhaps provide some guidance on how they can create more abundance in their lives.  Finally, I would love to hear your feedback via an iTunes review or via my website at passionandprosperity.me

PP001 | Matt Butterfield: In this, the first episode of Passion & Prosperity, my guest, Matt Butterfield, brings a unique and interesting perspective on his pursuit of prosperity as he talks about defining the type of life he wanted to live long before he examined his strengths and passion(s).  In fact, during a solo camping trip in the mountains, Matt created a life guide which helped him define what was important to him and he continues to lean on the guide to this day.  Matt talks about his passion in creating processes which lead to greater efficiencies in his life and work and his desire to work with people he enjoys and the importance of adventure in helping himself maintain balance and focus. Lastly, he talks about the challenges along the path and acknowledges that it was definitely was not easy pursuing his bliss, however, it made the journey that much more enjoyable.

You can see some of beautiful custom homes that Matt's company builds at Butterfield Custom Homes and you can learn more about the interior design company Matt is involved with at Butter Lutz Interiors.  Matt was also kind enough to share a copy of his life guide which can be viewed below.

Hi Everyone, welcome to Passion & Prosperity.  My name is Paul T. Shafer and I gotta admit, I’m giddy as a school-boy to be here.  You see I love speaking with people who have figured out a way to tap into their passion to create prosperity in their lives.  And for the next several months … maybe even a little longer ... I’m going to be interviewing people right here on the Passion & Prosperity podcast to talk about how they leveraged their passion to create something interesting and extraordinary.   

So who am I … who’s Paul T. Shafer?  You got it.  For starters, I’m a husband, a father, a brother, a businessman, a daydreamer, a serial entrepreneur and … as of today … a podcaster.  I’ve worked for big companies like Dell Computer and British Airways, some small companies you’ve probably never heard of, some good companies and most certainly some bad companies.  One of things I’ve been doing for as long as I can remember, is talking to successful people about how they did what what they did to get where they got.  Why, I’d even say it’s become a passion of mine.

What else am I passionate about?  I absolutely adore my family … my wife … our kids and our puppy Izzy.  I’m also passionate about experiential learning.  In fact, you can find our family blog at shaferpower.com and you can see a bunch of interviews we’ve done with local entrepreneurs here in Austin and a bunch of other interesting folks from around the world.  I should note the blog is pretty much the impetus behind Passion & Prosperity.  I’m also super passionate about using my body to stay in shape … so running, biking, hiking, yoga … you name it...I love it all.  Finally, my secret passion is the Green Bay Packers.  I say secret because - well, thanks to my parents - it’s been with me my whole life and it makes me do some really silly things on Sunday afternoon -- like yelling at the TV set.  So I guess it’s not really secret, per se, but I’d rather nobody know that I'm still getting all uptight about a silly football game.  So there’s that.  

I created this podcast because I believe that all of us have something special inside that really illuminates our soul. I say this because I’ve interviewed so many people and heard so many soul-bearing stories that I just believe.  Plain and simple.  But I think the fun part of the passion equation is figuring out a way to create prosperity.  So we’re going to talk to a lot of people about that in the podcast -- on what I refer to as the path to prosperity.

Finally, I'm super committed to the cause so if you know anyone interesting I should be interviewing for the podcast, please drop me a note via my website which can be found at passionandprosperity.me.  Lastly, I'd love your feedback on iTunes as it's what keeps the lights on around here.  Or something like that.  That's all I got.  Peace, Passion and Prosperity!