Small Changes Big Shifts

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar

In this episode of Small Changes Big Shifts with Dr. Michelle Robin, her guest, Bob Burg, is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today's business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President.

Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann, itself has sold over 850,000 copies and it has been translated into 28 languages.

His and John's newest parable in The Go-Giver Series is The Go-Giver Influencer.

Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic, and is a past member of the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption, Clinic & Ranch in his town of Jupiter, Florida.

As you tune in to this week's episode, Bob explains:

• The desire we have to be part of something that's bigger than ourselves and make a difference in this world with others.
• How The Go-Giver's message has been taught in families, schools, churches, sports teams and local communities.
• Why everyone has something that they can bring to the table and give value to other people.
• The power of mentorship between the mentor and the mentee.

Discover and grow as you learn:

• How to find and reach out to a mentor who can help guide your goals and ambitions.
• The first steps we can begin today to help and serve others.
• Why you can accept a compliment or an act of kindness without feeling guilty.
• A new perspective of viewing receiving as a powerful, not shameful, act because it allows the other person to give.

In addition to a deep discussion about The Go-Giver, Dr. Michelle and Bob also dive into The Five Laws of Stratospheric Success:

1. The Law of Value: Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.
2. The Law of Compensation: Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.
3. The Law of Influence: Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.
4. The Law of Authenticity: The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.
5. The Law of Receptivity: The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it. - Sandra Bullock

Win a copy of The Go-Giver by reaching out to Dr. Michelle via either email or any of our social media channels!

Look for the helpers. - Fred Rogers

With what we see on social media, hear in the news, and witness in everyday life interactions, does the world seem harsher to you these days?

Maybe you feel a little hopeless but there is something you can do and guest, Angela Santomero, explains how in this Small Changes Big Shifts podcast episode.

Not only is Angela helping empower kids and parents through her Emmy award winning kids' shows, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and Blue's Clues plus her book, Preschool Clues, but she is also on a mission for a kindness revolution through her latest book, Radical Kindness: The Life Changing Power of Giving and Receiving.

Find out how you can make the world a better place through radical kindness.

See Angela Santomero speak in person at this year's LIV: Living in Vitality Conference in Kansas City

Tune in as Dr. Michelle and Angela discuss:

• How to help your children's transition on the first day of school easier
• What life lessons her TV shows are teaching both children and adults
• How they've applied the kindness curriculum to the TV shows
• The book, MicroShifts: Transforming Your Life One Step at a Time by Gary Jansen
• First steps to noticing the good in the world to fuel you and others with positive energy
• Our gut's connection to not only the brain but the heart as well
• The differences between being nice and being kind.

Listen and discover the importance of warmth, kindness, and really being present with not only other people but yourself too.

It's not too late to get the physical health and emotional well-being you desire.

Owner of Rise and Shine Wellness, Wendy Basch, joins Dr. Michelle Robin to share her mission to provide a safe place of belonging and support in which individuals gain the courage, clarity, and purpose needed to achieve their best physical health and emotional well-being.

As you listen, you'll learn all about:

• Her start to the health and wellness world.
• The importance of educating and coaching people on how to live life well.
• Why she loves wellness programming and working with people one-on-one.
• How she launched her own pilates business, Rise and Shine Wellness
• About the foundation, Jill's Hope, that she started with her friend to help those with cancer.

Listen and find out about Dr. Michelle and Wendy's new movement, The SHIFT Experience with Win for KC will help you create a tight wellness tribe, learn more about and apply the Four Quadrants of Wellbeing to your life, and connect with health professionals in the local Kansas City community.

Click here to attend the SHIFT events: https://www.facebook.com/events/380233285842659/

When you're aware, you're halfway there.

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

Jessica Blublaugh has spent 15 years in the non-profit sector, specifically in events and marketing. After four years at the KC Sports Commission, she moved on to the Women's Sports Foundation in New York and then Atlanta. In her time there, Jessica had the opportunity to work with sports greats like Billie Jean King, Michelle Kwan, Aimee Mullins, Julie Foudy and Jessica Mendoza, managing the organization's major fundraisers and community events.

Jessica returned to the Kansas City Sports Commission in September of 2018 as the Director of the Women's Intersport Network for Kansas City after 11 years, having started her career with WIN in 2003 as an intern and then the Program and Media Relations Coordinator.

Tune in as her and Dr. Michelle discuss:

• Her love of sports and how she's able to apply that in both a professional space and inspire other women and young girls.
• The benefits of helping young girls become involved in sports at a young age.
• Specific statistics on the correlation between women in C-Suite positions and playing sports competitively and for fun.
• The importance of reaching out and connecting with people of all different backgrounds.
• WIN for KC's annual luncheon fundraiser that Dr. Michelle attends every year.
• How WIN for KC supports the local community including Camp WIN each summer.
• All Women's triathlon and duathlon that they put on very year in the Kansas City area.
• The importance of taking the time to find play throughout your day.

Listen and learn all about their upcoming Shift - Win Through Mindfulness & Movement this September 14th.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. - Deepak Chopra

Lisa Adams, an experienced nurse and health & wellness coach, and author of her first book, America's Real Healthcare Crisis, helps overwhelmed professionals and health care providers recognize and manage the effects of chronic stress—the leading cause of disease, poor work performance and life dissatisfaction. Lisa provides simple, life-long and practical tools to help employees understand how the body functions; how to recognize and address chronic stress; and finally, how to facilitate healing and create lasting change.

A former renal care unit nurse, Lisa knows first-hand the emotional, physical and mental toll of unmanaged, chronic stress on the well-being of physicians, nurses and first responders. This debilitating stress is crippling the healthcare industry resulting in lost productivity, high turnover, caregiver burn-out and medical mistakes. Through an integrated Whole Person approach, she helps health care organizations recover their greatest asset — employees and care providers who are engaged and feel valued, healthy and empowered.

Learn more about Lisa, her educational workshops, corporate wellness programs and individual coaching services at www.spiritofnamaste.com

America's Real Health Care Crisis Book Signing and Talk with Lisa Adams

• When: Wednesday, September 4th 2019
• Time: 6:00 pm
• Where: Your Wellness Connection

Tune in as she shares:

• Her mission to help people learn about preventive care.
• Getting to the root of why someone isn't well.
• How to become your own advocate and create big shifts in your health.
• What we need to know about every day stress on our health.
• Addressing our chronic stress for long-term change; especially for healthcare workers.
• The power of breathwork and taking longer, fuller breaths to instantly relax.
• Her own experience with chronic stress and burnout.

Listen and learn how to do the Stop, Drop, and Breathe exercise for better wellness.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.- Desmond Tutu

"Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius

In this episode of the Small Changes Big Shifts podcast, we are joined by board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist and yoga teacher, Dr. Ellen Vora who has also authored the chapter on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Psychiatry in the textbook Mount Sinai Expert Guides: Psychiatry.

Dr. Vora takes a functional medicine approach to mental health, considering the whole person and addressing the problem at the root, rather than reflexively prescribing medication to suppress symptoms.

She also takes the whole person into consideration, focusing on everything from physical health, sleep, nutrition, digestion, thought patterns, relationships and community to our connection with nature and creativity, and the ways we find meaning in life.

Ash she sits down with Dr. Michelle, we learn what drew Dr. Vora to learn more about holistic approach and other trainings to heal the human body such as Chinese medicine, movement, nutrition, and acupuncture.

Listen and discover:

• The fact that most commonly medications and antidepressants such as for anxiety, depression, and OCD don't have great solid evidence that they actually work.
• Her advice on trying out a couple of holistic approaches before taking prescribed medicine.
• Our current mental health epidemic throughout the world with the number of cases increasing
• The difference between an episodic depression and chronic depression
• Why feeling out alignment with your work and daily life is actually a good call to action for you to change something.
• The vital importance of building a community in a comfortable environment with lower standards and avoiding isolation.

Specifically for expecting and young mothers, Dr. Vora explains:

• How to get your body ready for and after a baby with a good diet or nutritious, whole foods.
• Combating postpartum depression by focusing first on nutrition.
• Her top parenting tip: None of us is perfect, just show up the best you can for them as an authentic human.

"In fact, it's not an exaggeration to say that the history of science has been the history of most people being wrong about most things most of the time. The willingness to challenge even our most deeply-held assumptions and the humility to admit when we've been wrong are essential to good science." - Chris Kresser

Tune in and find out what small changes you can make today for big shifts tomorrow with your wellbeing, community, and family.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. - Hippocrates

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at Premier Integrative Health, Dr. Bradley Dyer, knew that there was more to helping others than just the misguided healthcare system he was working in.

As a hospitalist, he was expected to practice in a very protocol driven way, which can be life-saving in acute settings, however, the majority of his patients were admitted for complications associated with chronic disease. He realized that the protocols primarily addressed the symptoms, not the root cause, and did very little to change the trajectory of the disease process itself.

Seeing patients like this over and over again, Dr. Dyer decided to change course and learn more about addressing chronic illness at Dr. Weil's Fellowship in Integrative Medicine. From there he went on to become certified in Functional Medicine and his life, and approach to his patients, has never been the same.

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom. - Jim Rohn

Tune in and find out all about:

• Today's misguided healthcare system and how he's helping to combat chronic disease through functional medicine.
• The differences between Western medicine and functional medicine plus how to combine the two to look at health from more of a holistic and root cause viewpoint.
• Why we need to be paying closer attention to our gut health for overall wellness.
• What is weakening our gut and causing great amounts of health issues from diet to antibiotics to pesticides to easy over the counter medicine like Tylenol.
• His favorite health and wellness tips from gratitude to nutrition to movement.
• The growing movement of more and more people realizing that they can be their own health advocate.

Listen and find out what impact he wants to make including utilizing more health coaches in the healthcare system and improving the physician education system to focus more on nutrition and prevention.

For what it's worth... it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you've never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you're not, I hope you have the courage to start over again. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.- Albert Einstein

A Los Angeles native, Kelly Noonan - Gores, started her career in front of the camera, acting and hosting over a span of 20 years and considers her latest project, the documentary feature, HEAL, which is now on Netflix, her greatest passion and life's work.

Before releasing HEAL, she started Elevative Entertainment in 2012 and then transitioned into writing and producing. She is a seeker of truth and has practiced both yoga and meditation for 15 years.

In this Small Changes Big Shifts episode, she joins Dr. Michelle Robin to share what lessons she learned during the filming of HEAL, her goal to inform and help people become their own health advocates, and how we can all feel empowered by all of the holistic possibilities out there to heal.

Listen and learn why even though our brains are hard-wired for fear, there are small changes we can make to evolve our consciousness and know that we have the choice not to be sucked into a fight or flight response based on fear and instead trust in love, a higher power, and the universe.

Life is for us, God is for us, the universe is for us; trust that. We can either come from a place of fear or a place of love and trust. That is what spiritual practice is no matter what you believe. - Kelly Noonan - Gores

Tune in and learn:

• Why focusing on the emotional, spiritual, and mental factors are important to help one effectively heal from chronic illness.
• How we can look at our whole health through holistic and alternative medicine as well as the Four Quadrants of Wellbeing.
• About Kelly's mission to inform people that there are other alternatives before deciding if Western medicine and surgery are right for them.
• Differences between the subconscious and conscious mind plus how to let go of old thoughts, behaviors, and habits.
• Kelly's own practices for stressful moments to help her re-balance, focus, and be present.
• Earthing: what it is and what Kelly does to help her connect with herself and nature.
• Why breath is our most powerful tool for re-centering, detoxing, and cleansing the mind.

If you knew what I knew, you'd do what I do. - Dr. Michelle Robin

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.- Jimmy Johnson

A native of suburban Philadelphia and Chicago, Joel Goldberg has worked as part of the Royals' broadcast team for FOX Sports Kansas City since 2008 and serves as the television play-by-play voice for the ECHL Kansas City Mavericks.

In his career so far, he has spent nearly 25 years in television, developing and maintaining relationships with professional athletes, coaches, and team management. He became and continues to be an integral part of the Royals' broadcast team and the overall Kansas City community.

With his experience, he has become a powerful public speaker and presenter, talking with groups about the networking principles he's learned from his experiences of interviewing successful icons. Joel drives home a strong message of personal perseverance tailored to each and every audience and focuses on delivery impact for growth.

There's a slippery slope between tradition and irrelevance. - Jeff Jones, CEO of H&R Block

In this Small Changes Big Shifts Podcast episode, Joel joins Dr. Michelle to discuss:

• Our current mental wellbeing epidemic especially among men, police officers, and professional athletes.
• How social media is affecting the mindset and stress levels of young generations and professional athletes in their 20s.
• The launch of his career and why communication, building relationships, and perseverance were vital then and now.
• Why connecting on social media is just a social media connection; it's not a relationship.
• The fact that we all have something in common with each other but the only way of finding out is by asking.
• How to find time to be present for your family and close relationships.

Tune in as Joel shares the importance of self-care and his favorite tips for taking the time to put yourself.

Chance favors the prepared mind.-Matt Morris

Shoot for the moon and you will land among the stars.

What comes to mind when you hear the words, 'chiropractic medicine'?

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts, we are joined by Chiropractor, Dr. Ann-Marie Barter of Alternative Family Medicine & Chiropractic, who was very skeptical about her now profession until she experienced the treatment first hand. It was like magic to her; she felt new and light...like a better version of herself.

So, she immersed herself in school at the University of Western States in Portland, Oregon, learning not only the art and science of chiropractic modalities but also functional blood chemistry analysis, nutrition, applied kinesiology, and natural remedies.

She now specializes in difficult functional medicine cases, helping people with issues concerning their thyroid, blood sugar, gut health, and hormone dysfunction as well as other metabolic conditions.

Tune in as Dr. Robin and Dr. Barter discuss:

• Her various health problems from acne and bloating to her feet and neck and how a first-time visit to a chiropractor changed her life completely.
• Why physical pain can sometimes be connected to other parts of the body such as our gut health.
• How you can look at your standard blood work in a new light through functional medicine.
• Why babies and young children can benefit from chiropractic care too.
• The gut-brain connection and why some people may be feeling depressed or hopeless if it's off.

Discover why Dr. Barter suggests that all of the patients she sees:

1. Take part in a short-term elimination diet.
2. Review how much exercise they're doing and whether or not it's too much or too little.
3. End their use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco.

Listen and discover how chiropractic medicine is a whole-body approach to the Four Quadrants of Wellbeing.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. - Eleanor Roosevelt