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Jullien Gordon is an entrepreneur who is passionate about freeing people from their day jobs to live a life on their own terms. Jullien tells the story of his near death experience, and how that changed his outlook on success. We look at how each step he has taken in his career, has developed his ability to lead others. He relays the power of of Socratic introspection to self examine how we show up in the world and what lights us up. He also relays the really cool businesses he is in the process of building and how they all ladder up to his dream of empowering others to become entrepreneurs and do what they love. I really love Jullien’s energy, mission and his approach to building his business through building up others’ purpose led missions.

Jullien Gordon is the Founding Partner at New Higher, a high performance consultancy for organizations, individuals, and teams that want to increase employee performance, motivation, engagement, and retention. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Pepsi and PricewaterhouseCoopers and business schools such as Cornell, Michigan, and the University of Maryland.

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Jason Goldberg (JG) is a funny and fun loving author, speaker and entrepreneur who helps people find more joy to become more effective in life and business. He has overcome corporate shackles, inability to manage his anger and even the bank shutting his credit card down for too many fast food orders in a 24 hour period.

Jason relays his journey from a 332 lb. miserable IT executive carrying around anger, depression and sadness to his “prison break,” releasing those self limiting feelings, providing the platform for his mental, physical and entrepreneurial transformation.

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What does an award-winning entrepreneur, a TEDx Speaker, a bacon-atarian (thats a vegetarian who still eats bacon),a funky sock lover, a former rapper (who opened for the Wu-Tang Clan -YES, really!) and a previously 332lb man (who has since lost over 130lbs despite his affinity for bacon)have in common? They are all the same guy! Jason Goldberg (JG for short) is the King of Playful Sales, Success and Self-Leadership. He is a geek, turned entrepreneur, international speaker, Edu-tainer, creator of the 8-week, life-changing, joy-creating, business-transforming “Playful Prosperity”Program and author of the #1 International Best-Seller on SELF-Leadership: “Prison Break: Vanquish the Victim, Own Your Obstacles, and Lead Your Life.”

After spending nearly 15 years in technology, followed by co-founding an award-winning executive transportation company and then serving as CEO of a technology commercialization firm in partnership with NASA, JG decided that there was something more he could be doing to make an impact in people’s lives and businesses with his experience, his wit and his ability to simplify complex topics.He now blends his love of personal growth, comedy (and even rap music), with his speaking, training and workshops to help people open their minds, transform their lives, grow their businesses and pee their pants from laughter (…okay maybe not literally on that last one, but no judgment if it happens).

JG brings the Aha’s and the Haha’s to thousands of aspiring and inspiring leaders, entrepreneurs and groups every year to create the mindset and the skill set to become powerful Self-Leaders, be more prosperous, have more fun and create a bigger impact in the world!He has shared the stage with some of the world’s greatest thought-leaders and innovators in human potential and performance including Dr. Sean Stephenson (The 3 Foot Giant),Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements),Vishen Lakhiani (CEO of Mindvalley),Steven Kotler (Stealing Fire), Marisa Peer (the UK’s psychotherapist to the stars)and so many others that he hopes will impress if for some reason these other ones don’t!

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Jeremy Slate is the founder of the uber successful Create Your Own Life Podcast, which helps entrepreneurs live the life they know they are meant to. In this episode we dive into his near death experience, his mom’s near death experience, and his journey to podcast success. 

Jeremy is a former teacher who wanted to break free from the shackles of a “normal” life. Once his mom had a stroke, he realized how short life was and that he needed a change. This change led to multiple opportunities, that while not glamorous at the time, paved the way for his later success.

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Jeremy Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which helps entrepreneurs live the lives they know they were meant to.  He studied literature at Oxford University, Specializes in using podcasting and new media to create celebrity and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and Noteworthy and #26 in the business category. After his success in podcasting, Jeremy Slate and his wife, Brielle Slate, found Command Your Brand to help entrepreneurs get their message out by appearing as guests on podcasts.

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Zach Mercurio is a speaker, author, and purpose and meaningful work consultant. In his first job out of college, “selling air” for a radio station, Zach found himself disillusioned with the working world, just living for 2/7 of the week – the weekend. A powerful conversation with an inspired taxi driver at a park in D.C. led him to question everything. He then left his job, took massive action and started searching for answers. Leading him down a path of helping others to discover and enact purpose. 

Instead of the question, “What’s my purpose?” Zach encourages people to ask, “How can I best serve others?” It’s important to concentrate on what your skills and strengths are to figure out how you can best serve. In addition, it is important to develop a purpose-led mindset, developing the daily habits to live purposefully. After all,  purpose’s benefits come from practice, not just introspection.

In addition to personal purpose, Zach focuses on organizational purpose. Companies are often resistant to change, but if you help them experience purpose it’s hard to go back to the old way of doing things. After all, Zach shares that research finds the best leaders aren’t people, but are big other-centered purposes.

Zach Mercurio is one of the leading experts on the role of purpose and meaning in organizations, work, and life. Through speaking, consulting, and research, Zach has helped diverse organizations and individuals around the world understand how purpose and meaning unleashes human potential to create thriving organizations and lives. Zach is the author of “The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose” and is the founder and author of PurposeSpeaks.com, the popular blog on purposeful leadership. He is also a regular contributor on purpose for the Huffington Post and other international media outlets. Zach serves as a researcher and Adjunct Faculty at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado where he teaches courses on purposeful leadership and organizational development as he completes his PhD in Organizational Learning, Performance, & Change.

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Justin Cotler is a premier competitive CrossFit coach. He is also the most winning coach of the budding GRID league, a professional CrossFit spinoff sport. Justin owns and is head coach of CrossFit Dynamix, a CrossFit gym in Astoria Queens. There, he coaches both average joe’s and elite athletes to reach their best. In this episode, we discuss his start as an R&B singer, his transition to fitness coach, and his ascension to the top ranks of coaching in a sport he loves.

Justin has a passion for making a difference in people’s lives and believes if you can change your fitness, you can change your life. He learned that the hard way in 2008, finding himself in a hospital bed weighing only 120 lbs, after the best and worst year of his professional singing career. It was at this crossroads, Justin knew he needed to become healthier, so he gravitated to his love of fitness and tapped into his competitive nature.

In the past eight years, he has founded a CrossFit gym, assembled a team to compete and has placed at the top of national competitions. His success drew the interest of the GRID league, and he continued his coaching success, by coaching the DC Brawlers to two championships in the first and second year of the leagues existence.

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Logan Sullivan is a humanitarian aid worker who educates people about effectively making an impact. His focus is on optimizing and measuring the good we do in order to deliver the most efficient and beneficial outcomes. For over 8 years in 60 countries on 6 continents, he has investigated purpose, perspective, and how to most logically and effectively impact change. In this episode we talk about his podcast, IMPACTivism (Impact + Activism), his early travels that opened his eyes to the world, and the wide range of humanitarian work he has done. He explores how our intuition can lead us astray, our cognitive biases can steer us wrong, and provides actionable reccomendations for doing the most good.

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Mika Cali is a designer and artist based in New York, who uses her symbolic artwork to tell stories and  spread inspiration. She is a mother of two, and her children provide a continual drive to lead by example. As a divorcee, her experience and fresh start gave her the freedom to tap into her intuition and realize her dream of becoming an artist. In this episode we talk about her journey from the fashion industry to the art world, and her artistic process. By tapping into meditation, intuition and imagination, Mika Cali has created a symbolic visual language that is visually reminiscent of Keith Haring, and is rich in positive narrative.

Mika Cali started her career in art when she began attending NYC’s Art Students league at the age of 12. From there, she spent summers studying at Rhode Island School of Design, Central Saint Martins and the Fashion Institute of Technology until graduating from Parsons The New School for Design in 2006.  Mika’s current focus is painting, incorporating her favorite materials to work with including resin, found objects, weathered wood and rusted metal. Although her work has been influenced by many genres her symbols are unique. The meanings behind the symbols are almost always telling a story of strength, pushing boundaries, staying positive and maintaining balance. Her paintings started as messaging for herself – a hidden story in each piece that she could put on my walls as constant and encouraging reminders.

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Adam Stieglitz discovered his passion for culture and service through traveling the world. His passion led him to get a Masters in Public Administration with a focus in International development at The Middlebury Institute of International Studies. He then co-founded The Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development, based in the highlands of Peru. Adam and his organization’s mission is to harness collective intelligence to support community-led development. Programs they work include school and family greenhouse building, graduate student research programs and working with local governments to affect policy change.

What’s awesome about Adam’s story is the how he made the choice to follow his passions, question societal norms and in turn this has given him a purpose and perspective on life that is very inspiring. What’s also inspiring, is by bucking the regular non-profit funding model, his organization has the freedom to focus on sustainable empowerment over meeting short-term goals.

Adam is originally from South Florida and graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor’s of Business Management and Administration in 2004. He has extensive experience in international development, having worked in South Korea, Honduras, El Salvador, and Peru.  His passion for helping those who are less fortunate drove him to the Monterey Institute of International Studies (now the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey), where he obtained a Master’s degree in Public Administration with a specialization in International Development.  Adam is a co-founder of the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development and one of the original leaders of Team Peru.

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In this episode I speak with Arthur Woods, co-founder of Imperative. With a mission to enable everyone to uncover and apply their purpose drivers, Imperative sets out to help everyone realize their potential as employees and members of society. Currently two-thirds of the workforce is disengaged at work. This leads to high turnover and low job satisfaction. However, this can be upended, if people understand what their purpose drivers are, they can proactively change their situation. We discuss Arthur and Imperative’s approach to this challenge.

Arthur Wood’s story includes leaving a job at Google to answer his higher purpose, creating community and helping people realize their potential. While at Google he was unsatisfied with his position, so he worked nights and weekends, to create a philanthropic educational department at YouTube. He succeeded and that side job became full time. YouTube invested in his vision, but yet he still wasn’t satisfied. During this process of creating his job at YouTube, he realized so many other smart and talented people were in the exact same position he was in, unfulfilled, and wanted to find a solution to that problem.

He was introduced to Aaron Hurst, founder of  Taproot Foundation. Aaron introduced skill based volunteering to the market to take advantage of people’s talents at scale at Taproot. Both Aaron and Arthur felt like this volunteer work was important, but more important, was introducing this great sense of meaning people had volunteering and infusing that into their actual day jobs where they spent the majority of their time.

The interview traverses all aspects of purpose, including, how to define it, myths arounds it, and how you can realize what drives your purpose. Arthur relays how Imperative works with company from starting with a boot camp, purpose leadership development, to piloting programs in corporations with management training and hiring practices.

Arthur came from Google where he led operations for YouTube’s Education division and oversaw YouTube for Schools. Arthur co-founded Social Impact 360, the leading collegiate social enterprise education program and co-founded Out in Tech, the largest global LGBTQ technology community. Arthur studied Operations and information Management at Georgetown University and Project Management at Stanford University. He contributes to Fast Company’s Purposeful CEO series.

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