• How language perpetuates stigmas about mental healthy
• Why mental disorders and physical diseases are similar and can lead to the same outcome
• Why sharing and communicating experiences of mental diseases empowers those suffering from mental illnesses
• Jacob's groundbreaking organization, NoStigmas.org
• The importance of listening to and supporting those in need of help

Background:

This week, we are joined by filmmaker, public speaker, and founder of NoStigmas.org-- a social movement for mental health equality, Jacob Moore.

Imagine for a minute that you manage a staff of professionals. One day you get an email from an important member of your team who says that they won’t be in today because their feeling anxious or depressed.

What would you say?

That’s why I reached out to today’s guest – Jacob Moore. About 5 years ago Jacob started an amazing non-profit called NoStigmas which is committed to building a network of compassionate, educated and inspired individuals that share a common goal of eliminating stigmas about mental health. 

We had an open and honest conversation about mental health the challenges it causes millions of people around the world. More importantly – Jacob provides us with some great insight into what we can do to help eradicate this stigma in our schools and workplace.

Connect with Jacob Website | Facebook | Twitter

NoStigmas Website

• Why intelligent people spend unwisely and fall into debt
• Why stability and a gigantic lifestyle are inconsistent
• Why “working hard” does not justify making unwise spending decisions
• The importance of facing up to the challenge of creating a budget
• The difference between a minimalist and a cheap-skate
• Getting out of debt and celebrating tiny victories

This week as we are joined by the “Socrates of Financial Planning,” Pete Dunn--better known as Pete the Planner.

Over the years, I’ve found that in life learning something is easy – using what you’ve learned to make a positive impact in the lives of others – that’s completely different.

That’s what makes Pete so much different from every other financial expert in the marketplace – he doesn’t simply teach you the concepts – what he does is far more important – he inspires you to change your behavior.

In today’s podcast we talk about an important issue that many people overlook – the wealthy talented professional who is drowning in debt despite their big salary.

I’ve seen this happen over and over again with my clients – you build up a lifestyle because you think you deserve it – then you keep adding and adding to it. Eventually the only satisfaction in life comes from getting something new or earning a big recognition.

It’s never enough.

Pete helps us understand why this happens and what you can do to change this behavior and repair your financial situation.

Author of dozens of books that teach audiences how to better engage in financial planning (six of which were featured in a nationwide launch at Barnes & Nobles stores), Pete the Planner has made it his life’s mission to teach people proper money skills.

Not one to restrict himself, Pete is the host of the popular radio show The Pete the Planner Show on 93 WIBC FM and is a columnist for the Indy Star and his very own blog, the The Pete the Planner® Blog.

Pete is also a regular on CNN Headline News, Fox News, Fox Business.

Checkout Pete's Website

Pete the Planner® Ideal Budget 

Connect with Pete Facebook | Twitter

Books by Pete 

Million  Dollar Plan Podcast

IndyStar

Tao Te Ching

Laozi

Socrates

• How to push through the headtrash of being in business
• Finding happiness through the parable of John D. Rockefellar
• The variables that determine happiness as well as the true happiness threshold for humans.
• Why our underlying insecurities aren't satiated by material and money and how to ID if you're on this mousewheel
• How to exhibit change in your life and the two ways that change can be facilitated
• The role that spirituality plays in your life

Dr. Greg Sipes' has held many roles in his career as a clinical psychologist. From being a hostage negotiator for the city police department to working with professional athletes on improving their psyche, Dr. Sipes has carved a spot as one of the most highly respected senior clinical psychologists and philanthropists in Indiana..

Along with having written numerous publications and the book, “Lead to Live, Live to Lead,” Dr. Sipes also has a weekly WXIN/FOX59 segment that you can catch called, “Straight Talk with Dr. Sipes.”

• How having faith and submitting to the unknown can provide for better mental health
• Steps that you can take to control your anxiety
• Daily practices you can add to your routine to “retrain your brain” and build habits
• How retaining deep relationships can improve mental health
• The need for stillness in your daily practice

On today’s show you’re going to be treated to a conversation with Barry Pearman – who is committed to help people with mental illness find hope and recovery through what he calls “spiritual formation”.

In addition to writing about mental health related issues on his website, ‘Turning the Page,’  Barry has also worked as a support worker in his field and as a chaplain/pastor. Barry’s unique perspective marries faith and self-awareness as tools for healing addiction, personality disorders, anxiety and depression.

I found this conversation to provide valuable insight into how faith should always be the starting point in dealing with any anxiety and depression.

In a lot of ways, this was a therapy session for me as we covered the challenge that making meaningful changes takes time, how to retrain your brain to adopt better habits, and when to find peace and quiet to calm your nerves.

Connect with Barry on  Twitter | Facebook | Website

Connecting By Larry Crab 

Out of the Darkness [eBook] By Barry Pearman

BBC The Human Mind Professor with Robert Winston

Tao Te Ching 

The Bible 

Rob Bell Podcast

Steven Covey

Larry Crabb

Richard Rohr 

Rob Bell 

David Benner

• Jack's Rule of 5
• Why quitting is not an option for your passions
• The significance of meditation in Canfield’s life
• Jack’s use of the Holistic Model
• Dangerous trends in life coaching
• Why reading actively makes you a leader

Join us today for a conversation with New York Times bestselling author and coach, Jack Canfield. Jack’s inspiring genre of Chicken Soup for the Soul® series has proven to be one the world’s most successful book series while his acclaimed success principles are outlined in his most recent bestseller, “The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.”

In addition to writing, Jack is also the founder and former CEO of the Canfield Training Group which helps professionals accelarate the achievement of their goals and Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises® which is a billion dollar empire consisting of licensing and merchandising around the world.

You also find Jack as a featured guest on television, with many of his features being repeats on shows such as Oprah, Montel, Larry King Live, 20/20, Inside Edition, The Today Show, Fox and Friends, The CBS Evening News, The NBC Nightly News, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live!, PBS, QVC and many others.

Links from the Show:

• Connect with Jack Website | Facebook | Twitter
• The Passion Test
• The Holistic Model
• Think and Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill
• "The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History"
• The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief By Nick Ortner
• Shoe Dog By Phil Knight
• The One Thing By Gary Keller
• The Compound Effect By Darren Hardy

Those Mentioned:

• Vince Lombardi
• Mel Brooks

• Why we're thinking of the word "failure" all wrong
• Preparing kids for executive functions such as time management, prioritization, creative problem solving, and goal-setting
• Methods to create intrinsic motivation to be a better student
• A better way to think about child-rearing as a long-haul job, rather than an end goal
• Why dedicating a child to an activity he/she hates can be a waste of time for the child

Please join us today as we speak with the New York Times bestselling author of the book, “The Gift of Failure”, Jessica Lahey.

If you're a parent then you'll agree that raising children is one of the most difficult things we embark on as adults. Our nature is to do what we think is best for them even if our methods can seem "over-the-top". In our discussion today, we talk with Jessica about her discoveries as it relates to her two little boys. Why she decided it was time for them to start failing, and what awesome results the experiment produced. 

In addition to writing the popular book on rethinking parenting trends, Lahey is also a teacher, a law school graduate, writer for the New York Times, Atlantic, NPR, HarperCollins, and a renown speaker. 

One final note, this show is not exclusively for those with children. The ideas we discuss are related to children, but the methods are just as effective for adults to implement into their lives as well.

• Connect with Jessica Website | Twitter | Facebook
• “The Gift of Failure”  By Jessica Lahey
• “Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail”
• Wendy Grolnick Articles
• “Cheating Lessons” By James M. Lang
• Free Range Kids
• Grown And Flown
• “How to Raise and Adult” By Julie Lythcott-Haims
• Intrinsic Motivation
• Executive Functions
• Stinky and Dirty Show

• Edward Deci
• Wendy Grolnick

“When you stay focused on the problem that drives you, not the money, you are unstoppable.” -Jeff Hoffman

In this week’s episode, we dive into the world of entrepreneurship with Jeff Hoffman for a discussion on innovation, best practices in efficiency and the concept of “info-sponging.”

Jeff is the co-founder and CEO of Priceline.com, a major travel search engine that allows consumers to bid for hotel prices and airline tickets in a reverse auction online format.

Jeff is also the author of the best selling book-- Scale:  Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life and works on President Obama’s National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship. You can even catch Jeff on TV as he regularly features as a business expert on major network media outlets like Fox News and CNBC.

• Jeff’s background and what motivated him to start his first company in college
• How focusing on solving problems rather than revnenue will help you to reach your goal
• The importance of having a 5th grader's curiosity
• How studying innovative ideas from other industries-Info-sponging
• Giving back and mentorship being a catalyst his own career
• Future predictions we can make about tech, creatives, and healthcare

• Connect with Jeff | Twitter 
• Scale By Jeff Hoffman
• Jeff’s Ted Talk
• The Color Jar
• Priceline.com
• Crowdsourcing
• Art of War By Sun Tzu
• The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho
• The Overachievers By Alexandra Robbins
• National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Jay Walker

• His recommended books to improving your leadership skills
• The scientific approach to understanding great leadership found in The Leadership Challenge
• What leaders are doing when they're at their best
• The most frequently asked questions among execs looking to improve their team's engagement
• Word tricks that you can use everyday to improve your leadership skills

When you ask if someone is a great leader, it's often difficult to put into quantitative terms what that really means. Usually, it's a "gut-feeling" that gives a thumbs up or down on whether you admire that person's leadership qualities. 

Our guest this week, Jim Kouzes, has authored over a dozen books providing concrete statistical data on what qualities ACTUALLY make people the best leaders for their organization.

His first book, The Leadership Challenge, has sold more than 2 million copies in 20 languages for a reason. It offers the most thorough and in depth analysis on the topic of leadership that has ever been compiled.

Jim was labeled by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best executive educators in the US, and currently serves as the Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Short on time? Here's a two-minute takeaway summary from the interview

• Connect with Jim on Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
• Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner | Website
• Learning Leadership by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner 
• Leadership Practices Inventory
• Six Sigma Process
• Humans Are Underrated By Geoff Colvin
• Grit By Angela Duckworth
• Peak By Anders Ericsson
• Originals By Adam Grant

• Barry Posner
• Geoff Colvin
• Angela Duckworth
• Anders Ericsson
• Adam Grant

• How he treated headaches successfully using Autogenic Training
• The non-conventional concept of holistic health
• Tips to practice mindfulness on the go
• How to jump into meditation and make it stick

Sometimes our crazy, hectic schedule needs a pause to allow for opportunities to refresh and recharge. We often need to take a step back from our problems and look at the things from a 40,000 foot point of view. This pause can be a few moments of quiet, turning the radio down in the car while driving, or simply picking up a hobby that lets you practice a few moments of peace.

The health benefits of mindfulness are huge. Each morning, I have a fifteen-minute time slot strictly to meditate. No exceptions.

As ambitious, busy professionals, we need a teacher like Jin to remind us to slow down our universe. We think too much about the future, become overly obsessed with the wrong things, and get bent out of shape when our plans don't go accordingly. Jin's focus is to teach people that there's another way. In fact, he's dedicated his life to this subject.

Based out of Phoenix Arizona, Jin is a world renown mindfulness coach and host to one of the best podcasts on meditation and mindfulness out there.

His daily, morning show, “Morning Mindfulness- Two Positive Minutes to Start Your Day” is a refreshing reminder that meditation can be practiced with only a few minutes each day.

In addition to this podcast, Jin also produces the “Holistic Positive Lifestyle Podcast” as well as MindfulScope TV on Periscope, and runs the community for HPLN.com (that is Holistic Positive Lifestyle Network).

I like to include 10-15 minutes of uninterrupted meditation into my morning routine, so it is exciting to have an expert on the show to explore this subject and the many styles, variations, and benefits it can provide.

• Follow Jin on Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
• Mindful Scope
• Morning Mindfulness Podcast - 2 Minutes of Daily Meditation
• Holistic Postive Lifestyle Podcast
• Holistic Positive Lifestyle Network
• Autogenic Training
• Yoga
• Tao Te Ching By Lao Tzu
• Taoism
• Buddhism
• Zen Buddhism
• Zazen Meditation
• Martial Arts
• Qigong Meditation
• "Slight Edge" By Jeff Olson
• InsightTimer iOS | Android
• Zen Clock iOS

• Don LaFontaine
• Lao Tzu
• Jeff Olson
• John Maxwell

“ It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” – Seneca

Having a conversation with Cheri Huber (@cherihuber) is kind of like having a conversation with your best friend. She has this unique skill of making you feel at peace with yourself as you talk to her, so it's no wonder that her life has led to her being an expert on helping others become at peace with themselves.

With so many professionals finding themselves looking for different approaches to cope with the stresses of being an overachiever, we thought that Cheri had an extremely important message to offer. 

If you're unfamiliar with her work, Cheri is a meditation instructor and has been student of the spiritual practice Zen for over 35 years. She was brought up in the San Francisco Bay area and studied Zen under the direction of Jay DuPont. After this period, she sought to have an impact on more people's lives and then opened the Mountain View Zen Center in 1983.

As an author, she's been extremely busy. With 20 books to her name, including There Is Nothing Wrong With You: Going Beyond Self Hate, The Fear Book: Facing Fear Once and For All, and Be The Person You Want To Find: Relationship and Self-Discovery, Cheri writes on the subjects of Zen, overcoming fear, and living with self-awareness.

Cheri also has her own weekly internet radio show, Open Air, where she openly discusses the practice of conscious, compassionate awareness.

Her latest book, The Big Bamboozle, reveals why we stay in dissatisfaction and obstacles that keep us from being happy and being joyful. The book is based off of Buddha’s teachings, and gives you answers to everyday questions you think about in your own life and your happiness.

• Her discovery of Zen through D.T. Suzuki in the midst of severe depression
• Strategies to cope with and reduce onslaughts of anxiety and stress
• The traits that keep overachievers from reaching their full potential
• Steps to take if you're interested in Zen
• Accepting dissatisfaction as a process
• The fast-track to turning your life around through Recording and Listening

• Connect with Cheri via Twitter
• Check out Cheri's Practice Blog
• Open Air with Cheri Huber Listen to The Podcast
• The Big Bamboozle By Cheri Huber
• What You Practice is What You Have By Cheri Huber
• Living Compassion Foundation
• Africa Vulnerable Children's Project
• Zen Monastery Peace Center
• There's Nothing Wrong With You Retreat
• What is Zen? By D.T. Suzuki
• Recording and Listening

• D.T. Suzuki