Prosperity & Something Greater

How do you define prosperity? What can trip you up on your journey?  What tools or strategies do you use to stay focused and moving forward?

This is the final episode of Season 1. In this episode, I share my thoughts about what I’ve learned, and hopefully, you have learned on this journey.

Why might someone convince themselves to be the best in the world for what they do? And yes, I did say, the best in the world.

Jay Henderson has spent years helping business owners create a team of Superstars so they can achieve more. Jay's Performance Management Coaching and 7 Steps to Hiring Only Superstars systems take away the headaches and stress from hiring and people management. His programs quickly identify whether a candidate can do the job, will do the job and even if they will succeed specifically for you.

Jay is a Master Consultant using a unique predictive science he puts to work for you, because as Jay likes to say, "Some problems can't be managed."

Prior to starting Real Talent Hiring, Jay worked with Stephen R. Covey and the Covey Leadership Center. He taught the well-known 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First and Principle Centered Leadership programs in Fortune 500 companies. With his engaging, and fun personality, Jay connects with his audiences immediately and delivers content that they can immediately use when they get back to their office.

Recommended Books:
The Ultimate Small Business Guide To Hiring Super-Stars

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The 4-Hour Workweek

Think and Grow Rich

How Champions Think

Is success a process and not a status? Is prosperity also a process and not a status?  Are you living the exact life that, at one time, you only dreamt of? And do you have an obsessive passion to achieve those dreams?

Dr. John Guiliana is a nationally recognized speaker and author on topics pertaining to medical practice management. He holds a Master’s in Health Care Management and Economics and is the author of 31 1/2 Essentials to Running Your Medical Practice (Greenbranch Publishers). He currently serves as a Medical Director of Podiatry for Modernizing Medicine's award-winning technology.

Recommended Books:

Psycho-Cybernetics

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business 

Podiatry Prosperity - How to Market, Manage, and Love Your Practice

How to Win Friend and Influence People

In Search of Excellence

Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

If asked would you say you are voluntarily interdependent or co-dependent with others in your life? Can you choose who you work with or serve? How clear are you about what you truly want?

Dave Frees is an attorney, author, and speaker who has lived a fascinating life that took him across the globe and exposed him to master communicators, persuaders, and negotiators in hundreds of nations and across many cultures.

Steve Forbes, the Editor-In-Chief of Forbes Media has called him a “Grand Master” of communications skills and Elite Books has called him “One of the fifty most influential business thinkers today.” 

He is a master of teaching the skills of enhanced communication and how to go from being persuasive to truly influential.

He has been called to teach leadership, sales and marketing, interrogation, and negotiation to audiences ranging from computer hackers turned good guys to navy seals, CEO’s and to the students, administrators and/or faculty of colleges and universities including Harvard, Yale, The University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and many, many more.  He has also spoken to Travellers, GE, AstraZeneca, Comcast, and hundreds of corporations and professional associations.

He has appeared on NPR, PBS, Fox News, and on over 120 radio and television programs and has authored several books related to persuasion, influence, and business and co-authored Einstein’s Business with M. Scott Peck, Steven Covey, and many other voices of the success and personal development movement.

Recommended Books:

7 Steps to Freedom

The Coaching Habit

How do we open up our minds to allow all forms of information to come in? How can we open up our hearts in order to understand at a visceral level what life is about at any given moment? How do we open up our will to allow future possibilities to emerge?

Dr. Gould has more than 50 years of in-depth experience in the educational field, in which he has specialized on issues surrounding systemic change, leadership development, curriculum innovation, and the effective implementation of new technologies in learning environs. His studies and work in these areas are a natural outgrowth of his advanced degrees in education, including both an M.S. from Duquesne University and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Presently, Dr. Gould is a Clinical Professor at Drexel University’ School of Education and the Program Director for Educational Administration Program.

His work and research are informed by a first-hand familiarity with organizational issues, having worked as a superintendent, assistant superintendent, and in other leadership positions within Pennsylvania school districts. Some specifics of this work include: restructuring the organization of schools featuring elementary multi-age grouping and interdisciplinary grouping at the secondary level; creating strong business/school partnerships to help students develop the application of their learning to real-world experiences; experiences with overseeing and developing cyber-charter schools; and led the innovative planning processes in many school districts. 

At Drexel he was a co-designer of the Educational Doctorate Program in Educational Leadership and Change which has been in existence for the past 10 years. The program recently received the 2019 Program of the Year from the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate.

Dr. Gould has penned many articles on school innovation and sustainability. Throughout his career, he presented workshops at the local, state, and national levels focused on rethinking the design of schools. He also has served as the project manager in charge of crafting a "shared vision and action plan" for former Governor Tom Ridge's Pennsylvania Education Network (PEN). 

Dr. Gould is grounded in “systems thinking” and has a strong commitment to the concept of  “learning organizations.” The essential question he asks all to consider is: given the rapid changes in social media, medicine, nanotechnology, the environment, and globalization, how do we cope with the need to innovate new learning environs for creating a sustainable future for our children?

Recommended Books:
The Regenerative Life

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Have you ever tried to meditate? You might have found it easy, but it’s more likely that you found it challenging, at least at first. There are deep gifts in stillness and those gifts can help you on your journey to prosperity. They can help you a lot.

Brian Beckcom is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Mr. Beckcom has gained national and international recognition for his work on complex, high profile legal cases. He has been a Texas Super Lawyer every year eligible. Brian is widely considered to be one of the leading trial lawyers and thinkers of his generation.

Brian has successfully prosecuted many high profile cases. His work on behalf of his clients has been featured in the national and international media, including Good Morning America and Nightline.

Brian accepts cases for people and families from all walks of life. Brian handles cases across the United States and beyond, and accepts clients who have been injured due to negligence, misconduct, fraud, or any other malicious or improper behavior.

He has published 9 books and hundreds of articles on legal topics, self-improvement, and success strategies, which he freely shares with anyone who can benefit from them.

Brian has been married since 2000 to Cara Beckcom. He has three kids, Gus, Henry, and Addison. When he is not winning cases for his clients, Brian enjoys coaching his kids' sports teams, golfing, photography, and fly fishing.

Recommended Books:

The Razor's Edge

10% Happier

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

What does the word “freedom” mean to you? The ability to direct the course of your life, answering to no one but yourself? Maybe making the choice of who's on your team that you work with? Or when you take time off, when and how long?

John Leardi is a healthcare attorney at Buttaci Leardi & Werner LLC. He also sits on the Board of Directors of and serves as General Counsel to NEMO Capital Partners.

Mr. Leardi has published numerous articles on healthcare compliance and healthcare reimbursement-related issues, routinely lectures to physicians, residents, and students on medical practice management, is a Fellow and regular contributor to the American Academy of Podiatric Practice Management (AAPPM), was named a “Rising Star” in Health Law by New Jersey Monthly in 2013, 2014, and 2015, and a “Super Lawyer” in Health Law in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

Recommended Book:
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Can we think of prosperity as a rope? Intertwining how we evaluate life and life’s satisfactions? How we experience life and our purpose - that is putting being able to put our gifts to work? Does happiness have a genetic component?

In this episode, I interview Dan Buettner. Da is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and founder of Blue Zones. He’s also the New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way and The Blue Zones Solution.

He has discovered five places in the world ­– dubbed blue zones – where people live the longest and are healthiest: Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece, and Loma Linda, California.

Dan’s adventure – and all that he learned – is chronicled in his book The Blue Zones, as well as the follow-up The Blue Zones Solution. The books became New York Times best-sellers and drew worldwide media attention. Dan has appeared as a longevity expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, ABC World News, CBS’s The Early Show, and CNN. The subsequent best-sellers Thrive and Blue Zones of Happiness takes a Blue Zones approach to solve another mystery: Why are the world’s happiest places the happiest?

Recommended Books:
The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People

Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way

The Journey to the East

Have you ever wished you could travel the world, teach others in the process, and live your authentic life? I know I have. My guest in this interview has been doing this for decades.

G. Dock Dockery, DPM, FACFAS, who likes to be called “Dock”, graduated from the Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, as Valedictorian, and performed a surgical residency in foot and ankle surgery at the Waldo Podiatric Surgical Residency Program in Seattle. He is a Fellow and Past Board of Directors of the American College of Foot & Ankle Surgeons. He is a Fellow and Past Board of Directors of the American Society of Foot & Ankle Dermatology, the American College of Podiatric Medicine and the American College of Foot and Ankle Pediatrics.
Dr. Dockery is Board Certified in Foot and Ankle Surgery by the American Board of Foot & Ankle Surgery and is Board Certified in Podiatric Orthopedics by the American Board of Podiatric Medicine.  He is a Distinguished Practitioner in the Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Division of the National Academies of Practice.  He was voted “One of America’s 175 Most Influential Podiatrist” of 2006: voted as “Movers and Shakers: America’s Most Influential Podiatrists” in 2012; Inducted into the Hall of Fame, Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine, Independence, Ohio, May 2016 and voted into “Top DPMs” in 2017, by the Podiatry Management Magazine Editors & Advisors. He received the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, PM Magazine, Hall of Fame inductee.
He is the Executive Editor of the Foot and Ankle Online Journal (FAOJ.Org). He has published more than 151 scientific articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and textbook chapters and is the author of, Color Atlas and Text of Forefoot Surgery, Mosby Publishers, 1992; Cutaneous Disorders of the Lower Extremities, W.B. Saunders Publisher, 1997; Color Atlas of Foot & Ankle Dermatology, Lippincott-Raven, 1999; Lower Extremity Soft Tissue & Cutaneous Plastic Surgery, Elsevier Sciences, 2006; and, the Lower Extremity Soft Tissue & Cutaneous Plastic Surgery, 2nd edition, Elsevier Sciences, 2012; He is also the Founder, Chairman of the Board and Director of Scientific Affairs of the International Foot & Ankle Foundation for Education and Research; Everett, Washington.

Recommended Books:

Podiatry Prosperity - How to Market, Manage, and Love Your Practice

The Podiatry Practice Business Solution: Everything You Need to Know to Flourish in Your Podiatry Business

The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ

Have you ever found yourself thinking about something negative and not even know you've been doing it for several minutes or longer? Maybe you’ve been rehearsing a difficult conversation with someone multiple times in your head without planning to do it. It’s not congruent with a prosperous mindset, is it?

In this episode, I interviewed Tina Del Buono, who is my friend and my business partner. She's a Practice Management Consultant from Sonoma County, California, and is the Director of our Virtual Practice Management Institute. She guides our members’ staff to help them really transform into the A-team they can become as they work together. Tina shares her perspective, experience, and thoughts on prosperity and something greater.

Recommended Book:
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch