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JD Gershbein has been at the forefront of the LinkedIn conversation. He took a risk by being one of the first people in the world to enter the field of LinkedIn training. A traditional marketer, he established himself as a specialist when others approached social media from a generalist perspective. He empowers driven individuals who seek to stand out in the digital era. After realizing that he was not cut out to be a physician, JD discovered LinkedIn and it gave him a creative outlet for all of his versatility.

LinkedIn is continuously evolving and adapting, which makes it hard to give cookie-cutter advice on how to use the platform better. One thing JD can say that everyone should be doing on the platform, especially as we enter what he calls “the next frontier,” is to build your own space on LinkedIn and carve out what works for you. Use what works for you, ignore what doesn’t, and don’t follow any playbook but your own.

Your goal with your LinkedIn profile is to sell yourself — and the best way to sell is to show the value of something, to prove that you can and will be able to solve problems. If you’re designing your own playbook, you want to present the information that you want people to know about you. That’s the biggest challenge: Looking inside yourself and pulling out the information about yourself that’s going to resonate with people.

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“Individuate yourself. Don’t do what other people are doing just because you think that’s the way to go. Become yourself on the platform. Become yourself in real life. Revel in your uniqueness. Don’t just embrace it, revel in it. It’s cool, in fact it’s desirable, to be an outlier. Because when you’re going the way of everyone else, there leaves little room for differentiation. And if we’re going to succeed and scale and grow in the business world, we have to professionalize ourselves by doing what’s right for us. Having great character, having a sense of style, and again, meeting people where they are, not where you are or would want them to be.”

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Resources:

• jdgershbein.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jdgershbein

Dr. Michelle K. Johnston is a management professor, executive coach, and leadership expert helping leaders get the results they need through meaningfully connecting with their people. Michelle’s first book, The Seismic Shift in Leadership, is an Amazon bestseller and details the need for leaders to shift from a command and control leadership style to one that focuses on connection because that’s what drives long-lasting results.

As part of the research process for the book, Dr. Michelle interviewed 18 world-class leaders. She realized that the reason many leaders were getting pushed out of organizations is that they were gunning for results but lacked connection with the people they worked with. Connection drives results, well-being, productivity, innovation, and financial performance.

If you want to be successful, it’s all about connection — but how do you get started? Connection starts with yourself. You have to own your story, your journey, and the events that made you who you are today. And you can’t hide any of it. Misguided leaders try and appear perfect, but that only leads to them putting up a wall around parts of themselves and severing any chance at connection. Perfection doesn’t work, it creates cultures of fear. We need cultures of connection

If you’re a business owner or feel disconnected in your work or personal life, here are some tangible steps to enhance that connection:

• Connection starts with yourself. Get to know yourself before you connect with others
• Embed time to make personal connections with people and get to know them
• Own your calendar and determine how you should be spending your time
• Create rituals and traditions to look forward to

Now is the time to reinvent leadership with a focus on connection. Because if you don’t do it now, you’re going to get left behind.

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“It starts with you. We want to show up as the best version of ourselves. In order to do that, really figure out what brings you joy, how you can be super healthy, and in the right space to bring that energy to work every day. It's kind of counterintuitive because here I am talking about meaningful connection with others. First, connect with yourself. Figure out what it’s going to take for you to be healthy, how you can exercise, and be good to yourself so that you have that mental energy and you can bring the best version of yourself to work every day. Then you can connect with others and then you can connect with an organization.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at michellekjohnston.com
• Read: The Seismic Shift in Leadership
• Connect with Michelle on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michelle-johnston-0264b5b

Tina Welling is the author of several bestselling novels including Cowboys Never Cry, Fairy Tale Blues, and Crybaby Ranch. In her newest nonfiction book, Journaling with Inmates, Tina shares the experiences she had running a journaling workshop at a local county jail, what she taught the inmates, and what they inevitably taught her.

Tina recognized that incarcerated people don’t get recognition in our society. While reading about Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey,” the near-universal framework for telling stories of change that can be found in myths and legends dating back thousands of years, Tina had a revelation. One phase of the Hero’s Journey is called “the belly of the whale,” which is that place where everything around you is different and unfamiliar. To Tina, that seemed to match up perfectly with the experience of incarceration. In those situations, just like in the Hero’s Journey, the only option is to go inward.

Tina always had an interest in journaling and the positive benefits of doing it regularly. She had the idea to begin teaching journaling to inmates as that method of going inward. Inmates are often at a place in their lives where they are ready to embrace change — and invariably, they find it in Tina’s journaling workshops.

There’s so much power in writing with your hand on paper, asking yourself a question, and just seeing where your mind takes you. Most of us have the answers within us, we just need to do a little digging to find it. And journaling is our shovel.

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Give everyone a chance to, first of all, you know, look deeply into yourself, realize that you’re okay, that you have goodness, that you’re doing your best, that in your way you’re a survivor, and so is everyone else. Everyone else that you meet on the streets. And don’t be afraid to consider volunteering in your county jail. It’s a wonderful experience.

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Resources:

• Learn more: tinawelling.com
• Read: Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned from Teaching Journaling to Inmates

Today's expert guest is David Drebin. A graduate of Parsons School of Design in NYC, David is a multidisciplinary artist who works with various art forms producing limited edition works including Photographs, Lightboxes, Neon Light Installations, Diamond Dust works, and more. His work combines voyeuristic and psychological viewpoints in a unique manner, offering the viewer a dramatic insight into the kinds of emotions and experiences many of us have felt at some point in our lives.

Nothing upsets David more than wasted talent. Everybody has a talent, you just have to dig deep to find out what that it. If you’re struggling to find your purpose, you have to try new things. You have to know what you’re bad at so you know what you can be good at. And don’t be afraid to, as David puts it, “flirt with danger.” Which means don’t play it safe, and don’t be afraid to take risks in pursuit of your passion.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I think it’s a world of people who think about what other people think before they think. But I think true uniqueness is to have your own thoughts and to be yourself. So the greatest advice I could give to anybody, including myself, is to be yourself because everybody else is taken. So don’t look at what everyone else is doing, go deep within yourself and just go be you. Be you. That’s it.”

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Resources:

• daviddrebin.com
• Instagram: @daviddrebin

Jeffrey Harris has been after a plant-centered diet since he was 14 years old. When he realized there were no ubiquitous vegan fast food options around, he decided to chase that dream even when he felt like he didn’t know what he was doing. 

• Jeffrey shares advice about why a vegan lifestyle can be good for our brains, bodies, minds, and even the environment.
• We hear about the struggles Jeffrey faced when he had a dream, but no clear path—and how he carved out a way with the help of talented partners.
• We get some sage life advice encouraging us to find our centered source of love and to follow our dreams.

Now, as one of the founders of Plant Power Fast Food, he is creating that dream every day alongside an excellent team—and he’s facing his sails toward the “next vegan sensation” stop next!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Be unlimited. It doesn't mean you're always going to succeed. Behind the success of Plant Power [Fast Food] there were two or three attempts to do this, and then this finally happened. So, understand that you could do anything that you want to do. Set off on the journey, believe in yourself.”

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Resources:

• Follow @PlantPowerFastFood 
• Find out more about the next vegan sensation at PlantPowerFastFood.com

Dr. Stefan Chmelik is a man of many talents. He’s a physician, philosopher, writer, teacher, and technology creator. He’s the co-founder of BioSelf Technology, and his mission is to positively impact the lives of 100 million people by 2025. He’s achieving this through exploring and furthering the understanding of sound processing in the body. He’s one of the only experts in the world with a combination of clinical experience in stress and trauma as well as direct experience of meditation, sound healing, music, and breath training.

Sound is incredibly powerful. It’s the one sense we can’t cut off—we’re always hearing and processing sound. Sound healing has been practiced for centuries, and there are still places to go where you can experience this for yourself today. Humming and singing, from an evolutionary standpoint, are immediately calming and nurturing.

Sound can also be an incredibly powerful tool in dealing with anxiety, which is a natural part of being human. As collective anxiety has gone up with the introduction of technology, Dr. Stefan thought it would be fitting to find a technological solution to that anxiety. He became the UK representative for a soundbed technology developed to treat PTSD in US soldiers which had an incredibly 96% success rate. But while using and studying the technology, he realized that they could get rid of the need for that big, bulky hardware by turning the body into the hardware. That makes this incredible technology harnessing the power of sound accessible to more people than ever before.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Getting outside, not just in a gym, being outside in nature, walking—and therefore breathing—is the most important thing any of us can do. Get out there and walk. If you can’t walk, move in some other way, but we need to walk and we need to breathe, that is an essential human function.”

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Resources:

• Visit GetSensate.com and use coupon code SENSATETDH for $25 off a Sensate
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stefan-chmelik-msc-4539611a

Napoleon Hill only gives us half the secret to success in his famous book, Think & Grow Rich—John Mitchell is here to give us the full secret. John is a serial entrepreneur who has created the top application in the world of the top success book in the world through a simple 12-minute a day exercise. He teaches the “Science Of Success" at the University of Texas.

He’d always had two goals in his life: One, to be financially successful enough that he wouldn’t have to work and to find the woman of his dreams. At 50, he was falling short of both of those goals. He decided he was going to take the best book in the world on success and apply it—word for word—to his life. But when he read it, he realized it only gave him half the secret. He immersed himself in that book for over two months and developed the second half to that secret, along with a 12-minute a day technique to apply it.

His technique rewires your autopilot, leverages your greatest self through science, improves your discipline, and gives you more control over your life.

Napoleon Hill teaches that everything starts with a thought. Your success is determined by the cumulative effect of your daily actions, and 95% of your daily actions are unconscious. But it doesn’t explain how to take control of your unconscious actions, which makes us feel out of control. The second half of that secret that John Mitchell uncovered is that whatever you envision in detail with emotion on a daily basis is what shows up in your life. 

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Just think about, in your life, if 95% of your daily actions are unconscious, isn’t that the key to having a higher level of success by gaining control of those daily actions? Pretty simple.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at thinkitbeit.com
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Marcia Martin is one of the most prolific influencers in the thought leadership space of the last 40 years. She’s renowned as one of the top transformational trainers on the planet, and she has coached and consulted executives and life coaches worldwide, including the likes of Jack Canfield and Robert Kiyasaki.

One of Marcia’s specialties is helping people live their dream life. One of the greatest ways to do that is through alignment. Most people disconnect from their inner power—the access point to the universe. They look at their circumstances to decide what can happen. If you’re not getting what you want in life, you’re not truly aligned with who you really are. And to reach alignment we need to find stillness, whether that’s through meditation, silence, walks, or being out in nature.

Marcia has published her life’s work online for the world to access. At marciamartinclub.com, you can get access to nearly all of her workshops, seminars, podcasts, speaking engagements, and more. 

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“So when you’re triggered, upset, off center, not open, not present, not connected, unhappy, we call that off center. Get centered first before you act. Because then when you act, it’s a response to something, it’s not a reaction. And you choose your responses, whereas your reactions are automatic.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at marciamartin.com
• Join the club: marciamartinclub.com
• YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCHr-PlltJso3IWc1SfxdcTg

Today we’re welcoming back one of the most incredible guests we’ve had on the show, Tim Rhode. He’s the co-founder of GoBundance and co-founder and president of 1Life Fully Lived, a nonprofit that helps at-risk youth and adults emerge from hardship create a roadmap to their dreams, and ultimately lead their best lives. We’ve shared his story before, so if you missed that be sure to revisit Episode 89: 1Life Fully Lived: The Roadmap for an Abundant & Fulfilling Life with Tim Rhode to hear his whole journey. He’s also the co-author of Tribe of Millionaires: What If One Choice Could Change Everything? and The Quitter's Manifesto: Quit a Job You Hate for the Work You Love, which we’re going to be talking about today.

We’re in the midst of two radical moments when it comes to work and finding our place in it: What people are calling “the great resignation” and the phenomenon known as “quiet quitting.” Long before either of those were on the lips of pundits everywhere, Tim had designed a framework for understanding how badly your current job or life situation is draining your life which he calls the “soul-sucking meter.” On a scale of 1-10, if you’re in the 8-10 range you’re doing something that serves you. But if you’re a six or lower, you need to take a good look at your situation. Here are some of the things to look at:

• Compensation: Are you being paid what you are worth?
• Respect: Does leadership treat you as an integral part of the team?
• Fit: Do you like who you work with?
• Growth: Do you have the opportunity to grow within the company?
• Feel: How do you feel every day when you wake up?

Before you get to the bottom of that meter, start early and look at the places where you aren’t feeling right and see what you can do to push those metrics up. And if it’s time to quit, we recognize that making that life change isn’t easy. What Tim recommends is building a “quit team” or people who will support you during this transition and who are affected by it, getting your finances in order as early as possible, and slowly moving forward without dropping your current obligations. It can be a difficult process, but it’s one that’s so important to get right.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Getting quiet and finding your geist, if you will, just your way of getting quiet and thinking about what’s most important to me. And I implore you to do that today.”

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Resources:

• Learn more: 1lifefullylived.org
• gobundance.com
• Read: The Quitter's Manifesto: Quit a Job You Hate for the Work You Love
• Read: Tribe of Millionaires: What If One Choice Could Change Everything?
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-rhode-42660210
• Ep. 89: 1Life Fully Lived: The Roadmap for an Abundant & Fulfilling Life with Tim Rhode

Joel Green is a former professional basketball player who, after retiring from his career, founded Pro Level Training, which grew into a seven-figure company. In addition, he’s the national director of Nike’s Sports Camps, an accomplished motivational speaker, and TEDx presenter.

Joel’s older brother put him on the path to basketball. He was already heading towards success, but he wasn’t as focused as he could have been. After the tragic and unexpected passing of his brother, Joel mademad a promise to take it all on himself and do as much as he could to be the best.

While Joel’s basketball career is impressive, it’s what he did after that defines him. He didn’t quit playing the game, like most athletes, because of an injury or because he was too old to keep up. Instead, he met a kid who would constantly ask him to work out with him. Joel kept declining, but he told the kid he could rebound for him. The kid was so appreciative, and Joel saw the impact this small gesture had on him, so he stepped away from the sport to get his business license.

Joel developed a concept calls “the three steps to achieve anything,” which he speaks on regularly:

1. Have a childlike imagination and don’t limit your thinking
2. Need your wants. The language you use impacts the way you act, so convince yourself you need what you want.
3. Focus on the journey. If you’re focused on the end result, you overlook everything it takes to get to there.

In his new book “Filtering: The Way to Extract Strength from The Struggle,” he takes everything he has learned through his career and life to help people train their minds to deal with challenges, whether that’s loss, adversity, or striving for excellence.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t be afraid of the dark. I would say that, and what I mean by that is life happens to all of us. Let’s not act like the dark moments didn’t happen. I daresay, the most successful people lean into those dark moments. They draw from those dark moments and use those things for motivation for themselves to make life that much brighter. But we can’t ignore those dark moments and sweep them under the rug and act like they didn’t happen. I would say lean into those dark moments that may have happened and don’t run from them. That’s when you’ll really see that there’s light within darkness.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at joelbgreen.com
• Instagram: @jaygreenplt
• Read: Filtering: The Way to Extract Strength from The Struggle