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Today, our expert guests are Lauren Reitsema and Joneen Mackenzie. Lauren serves on the executive leadership team at The Center for Relationship Education and is the author of In Their Shoes. She’s well-known for her keynote presentations across all audiences, engaging with youth, adults, and corporate teams.
The Center for Relationship Education was founded by Joneen Mackenzie, registered nurse and former first lieutenant in the US Air Force Nurse Corps. She founded CRE, which has certified over 15,000 educators in REAL Essentials curriculum, and she participates in national public health standards policy.
At the beginning of her journey, Joneen was shocked to learn that literature and established research on successful relationships even existed. After twenty years and four children, her marriage had fallen apart. If she had known these skills, she believes she could have prevented such a massive disruption to her family.
Her daughter took that experience to college and entered into an interpersonal communications class, freshman year. She realized, then and there, that her life goal was not going to be tied to what she did with her life, but how she changed the legacy of relational health.
Some of the most common relationship advice you hear is to communicate better, but talking isn’t enough. Communication is complex. Joneen and Lauren have developed the “Three C’s” to check that you are communicating effectively:
Relationships can be challenging. We shouldn’t be expected to get it right without tools, practice, and knowledge. Those tools are out there, it’s up to us to use them.
The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway
“The key to health and happiness is the quality of your relationships.”
“We’re all in this together. Every one of us has seasons of relationships that are fantastic, and the very next minute you’re in a rut and wondering, How did I get here? If you have the right tools then when things go south, you just go get the tools and you fix it. Nothing’s going to happen magically without getting your hands on those tools.”
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Today, our expert guest is Erik Cabral, Founder of the media agency, On Air Brands, the innovative networking and podcasting event PodMAX, and real estate investment company, Mindado Investment Group. He’s also the host, co-host, and/or producer on multiple shows, himself: Entrepreneurs Circle, Capital Hacking, On Air Brands LIVE, Cashflow Ninja, the Hidden Entrepreneur, and True MultiFamily. With multiple businesses, partnerships, and podcasts, Erik is the quintessential “serial entrepreneur” who spends much of his time helping others grow their businesses, brands, and reputations.
Erik spent twenty years grinding in corporate America. The second time he was laid off, despite many high-paying offers on the table, Erik decided to step back and examine why he was so unhappy and unfulfilled in his life. He stumbled upon the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and it changed everything for him.
We’re in a renaissance age with respect to the industry he’s found himself in. Several years ago, everyone realized they needed to have a website for their business. Now, everyone is starting to realize that it is critical to have a podcast if you have a business. You can podcast for many different reasons, but if you’re running a business, people want to know the people behind that business. They want to know the story behind the logo.
Why should you start a podcast? Whether you have a job and want to start a podcast on the side, or you’re in the early stages of building a business, you can approach it in many different ways. You can start a podcast now in order to document your journey – which people love – and they can even go back and listen to your earlier episodes to recognize and appreciate your growth.
Whatever you do, don’t start a podcast as a vehicle to sell. If you do, your show won’t last. People can smell salesmanship through their earbuds – and they won’t like it. If you genuinely think you can help someone, just talk about what you do. If it’s of interest people will come to you. Don’t get hung up on the equipment or the technicality of it all. Just start.
Anyone can start a podcast. Don’t let perfectionism get in the way. Empower yourself, give yourself the space to discover and grow, and you may find a whole new channel for expressing yourself while also growing your business and authority.
The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway
“I really, truly feel, especially in this day and age when there’s so much divide, that people have to understand that we are more alike than we are different. We can come to the table by learning about each other and honoring and celebrating each other and our differences. And, you can do that by just reaching out to people and having empathy for people so that you understand where they’re coming from. Everyone has reasons why they think or do, but we’re all human. We’re all here to help each other and love on each other and that’s truly the message that I’m trying to put out there and really summed up through my mission in life and my company’s mission, which is changing the world, making the world a better place, one mic at a time, and that’s really the driving force behind what I do.”
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Today, our expert guest is Emily Evans Russell, an Access Consciousness facilitator, mindset coach, and best-selling author. She has helped thousands of people all over the world transform and improve their lives.
Once a burned out ex-teacher, a stressed out mom, and an unhappily married partner, Emily discovered and began using the tools of Access Consciousness and transformed her life, now a gladly divorced six-figure business owner.
Access Consciousness is essentially a toolbox, many of them in the form of questions, that helps you change your point of view and your perspective. It has many things in common with cognitive behavioral therapy, so there are scientific grounds for its effectiveness.
Emily is a proponent of what she calls “Energy Shopping.” She describes it as creating your life by “shopping” the qualities of life you see around you while focusing deeply on the energy of those things rather than the expectation of what you should want.
If you want to go to energy shopping in your life, start by looking at a tough choice that you have to make. When faced with a decision, rather than going to the worst possible scenario or weighing the pros and cons, you want to start asking yourself some questions. For example, “What would my life be like in five years?” Then you look at the other side of things, “What would my life be like if I didn’t choose this?” When you ask those questions, you’ll feel that one choice seems lighter or more expansive, while the other feels heavier and more limiting. You want to go with the light, expansive choice, even if it seems strange or hard.
With just a few questions, you can completely transform your life beyond what you thought was possible.
The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway
“I’d love for people to walk away with this idea of looking at choices based not so much on your mind but starting to follow and trust yourself and follow the energy in your life. Treat it like a game and see if things get a little bit easier or a little bit more fun for you when you look at heavy or light when you’re choosing things. Have fun with it and see if it can create something greater than what your mind has figured out for you.”
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Today, our expert guest is Steve Hoffman, also known as Captain Hoff. He’s the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the number one incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur magazine. He’s also a venture investor, serial entrepreneur, and author of several award-winning books including his latest, Surviving a Startup.
Steve is a self-described avid gamer. Through high school he made over one hundred games, including board games, role playing games, and computer games. He was also very interested in making movies. He had proficiency both in the creative arts and in the technical skills necessary to pull these off, a mix that he attributes this to his genes. His mother was an artist and his father was a rocket scientist.
Following his father’s advice to study computers, Steve went to college for electrical computer engineering, but as soon as he graduated, he realized that the other half of him was missing – so he applied to the top two film schools in the country and studied film and television at USC for graduate school.
With the dawn of the internet, he launched three web-based companies before finally feeling it was time to take a break. So, he began helping his friends who were entrepreneurs, keeping the wisdom archived on his blog. He called that blog, Founder Space.
Steve wrote Surviving a Startup to package his decades of knowledge and experience into a book that could benefit other entrepreneurs. He shares that one of the biggest mistakes an entrepreneur can make is thinking they know more than they do. Beyond that, he also offers other helpful signposts for budding entrepreneurs:
Entrepreneurship is hard enough as it is, so don’t make it any harder on yourself. Learning from the lessons of those who’ve gone before you can greatly accelerate your success.
The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway
“Understand who you are. What will really make you happy? Is it just money in the bank? Is it your relationship with your family? You have to invest in all of them. If you just invest in your business, at the expense of all your other relationships, you’re probably not going to be happy because those things will wither and die. Also, who are you? It’s okay to have a dream of being an entrepreneur, but can you handle stress well, are you very flexible? If you aren’t flexible, if you can’t handle stress, you might be better at a job that’s more routine or supporting an entrepreneur, like joining a startup a little later. This self knowledge, take the time to do this, because it will benefit you much more than almost anything else you do in life.”
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Today, our expert guest is Robbie Samuels, a professional speaker, business growth strategy coach, virtual event design consultant, executive Zoom producer, podcast host, author, and much more. He’s recognized as a marketing expert by Harvard Business Review Ascend, Forbes, Lifehacker, and Inc., and as an “industry expert in the field of digital event design” by JDC Events.
Robbie has always loved people and relationships – gathering, meeting, and connecting people. His path started years ago when he ran a successful Meetup group, and part of that success came from his talent in teaching members how to make real connections, both within the group and with others outside of it. At the start of the pandemic, when hand shakes and eye contact were no longer topics people needed to know about, Robbie reinvented himself by getting into the virtual event space and bringing his expertise in human connection to Zoom.
He grew that business from zero to six figures in eight months and has now published a book on how he did it – and how others can replicate his success.
For people feeling ready to make the leap from working for somebody else to working for themselves, Robbie’s hope is that his book can help make the transition less painful. He outlines the common mistakes people make when starting a business and how to avoid them.
For instance, many people think they need a massive email list in order to start a successful business or to sell their products and offerings, but that’s not the case. If you co-create your offer with your audience, you will see much more success.
Rather than having a fully formed idea of what you want to offer set in stone, try starting with a lightly held idea that you are open to changing as you get feedback. Then, rather than digging in and pitching that idea, start asking questions to people in your market. Your job is to dig deep and find the problems they have but can’t see.
The process should look like this:
It’s your job to educate people on what their real problem is, but you can’t reach a solution before you find out how it impacts them.
The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway
“80% of the people you need to know to be successful, you’ve already met. It’s time to wake up your network.”
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Today, our expert guest is Dawson Church, an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. The Genie in Your Genes was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression. Mind to Matter showed that the brain creates much of what we think of as objective reality. His latest, Bliss Brain, demonstrates that peak mental states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness. His familiarity with our deepest neurological complexities is truly world class.
Dawson has conducted dozens of clinical trials, and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to promote groundbreaking new treatments. Its largest program, the Veterans Stress Project, has offered free treatment to over 20,000 veterans with PTSD over the past decade. Dawson shares how to apply these health and performance breakthroughs through EFT Universe, one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web.
Bliss Brain was inspired by epigenetics – the study of how genes can be turned on by factors outside of the body – and by a deeply meaningful personal experience. When Dawson reached a point in his life where he was absolutely miserable, he made a decision that changed everything, to meditate every single day without fail.
He posits on the phenomenon of the downward spiral, describing how, the more we focus on the negative, the more we notice it in our lives. And that the flip side is also true. If you are paying attention to love, compassion, kindness, and gratitude, you create the opposite effect and amplify those thoughts and feelings in your life.
Church cites studies that showed monks who put themselves into a state of compassion through meditation measured a 700% increase in gamma brain waves. That means you can make yourself seven times as happy, compassionate, and grateful as you are today just through the power of meditation.
The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway
“Love yourself. Love and accept yourself the way you are. So much of our attempt to change and improve ourselves is based on self-criticism... You should lose weight, you should quit smoking, you should earn more money, you should work harder, you should spend more time with your kids, you should blah blah blah blah blah... We have this inner coach and critic just criticizing us all the time, and that voice is incredibly unhelpful. It’s located right between our eyebrows and it’s called the mid prefrontal cortex. You want to learn to shut down that voice.”
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Today, our expert guest is Jordan Montgomery, a small-town guy from Iowa with a big city drive to be a dominant force and voice in the performance coaching industry. He succeeded with flying colors, frequently traveling the country, speaking and coaching executives at Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, and salespeople, alongside managing top-performing sales teams in the financial services industry.
Like many superheroes, it was a setback that paved the way for his jet-fueled success today. After getting fired from his job, and losing his sense of self-worth and value, he embarked on a personal mission to find his personal and professional superpower. He came to a life-defining realization: he was here to meet people in their brokenness and guide them from pain to purpose.
Fast forward to now, Jordan leveraged his purpose to build one of the top consulting firms in the country. His unique leadership journey has framed his consulting style, which spotlights human connection over competition. For Jordan, leadership is not directed by swanky titles or a corner office but from humility, trust, and a burning desire to learn from everyone around you.
If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that we crave the need to be seen and celebrated. How does that work in a digital-forward era where more and more of our everyday interactions are on screens, and society’s attention span is dwindling faster by the day? In a world driven by selfies and self-promotion, Jordan gets us to step back, take pause, and ask stimulating, open-ended questions to people instead of talking about ourselves. Only when you take the lead and understand what’s going on around you can you be understood.
The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway
"In today's world, influence and leadership is all about personal power." This isn't a commodity up for grabs in a promotion. Instead, it's an active investment from top professionals to encourage an upwardly mobile, "lead up" workforce where everyone, from assistant to CEO, will learn from one another.
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Today our expert guest is Dr. Dain Heer. He’s a joy-seeking, reality-bending author, motivational speaker, and change-maker. He’s renowned globally for his views on life, consciousness, and creation. For more than two decades he’s traveled the world sharing his unique insights into relationships, money, bodywork, happiness, and consciousness. Dain is also the co-creator of Access Consciousness, a personal development modality practiced in over 170 countries.
Dr. Dain grew up in a difficult environment. Despite experiencing abuse, he was always the one looking for possibilities, but as an adult, having what everyone else thought was a perfect life, he was deeply depressed and unhappy – to the point of losing all hope. He discovered an ad for Access Consciousness, and while its promise was deeply triggering, he knew that if he hated it that much, there was probably something there for him. After one session, his life was completely changed, and he has been sharing this life-changing modality ever since.
As part of going through this journey, Dr. Dain realized that the missing piece for fulfillment when it came to success in most people’s lives was truly being themselves. He then started searching for a way to take individuals on a journey to discover and create a sense of themselves.
So what can you do to start making these changes in your life? The first thing is to get over having a fixed point of view. For every judgment, decision, or conclusion that we have, no reality outside of that can ever show up for us. We’re going to draw in the information that validates our conclusion, and that is only going to make it inevitable. Rather than coming to a set conclusion, ask yourself an open-ended question. What else is possible that you’ve never considered? What if this weren’t true? What’s right about this situation that I’m not seeing? When we ask questions, our brains start creatively working on those questions and give us a boost.
In Dain’s newest book, Body Whispering: A New Way of Seeing, Being & Healing, he shares the secrets behind the gift of our body that so many of us ignore. What if we could have our body become a part of our life? When you find more connection with your physical self, more peace in your skin, everything else in your life changes as well. One thing you can do is to start asking your body to reveal everything that concerns it.
The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway
“Your difference is a gift. You are not wrong for the different, bizarre, weird, quirky points of view you have about the world. You are not alone. And that difference is a gift and if you embrace it will not only make your world awesome, but if you truly be you and embrace it, you become the gift, the change, and the possibility this world requires.”
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Today, our expert guest is the returning Ron Carucci, a two-time TedX speaker, bestselling author of nine books (including his most recent, To Be Honest), and a popular contributor at Harvard Business Review and Forbes.
Ron Carucci is also the co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership.
In addition to his regular contributions at Harvard Business Review and Forbes, Ron has also been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Business Insider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and Thought Leaders. We feel incredibly lucky to have him here with us today, teaching us unbelievably valuable and inspiring ways to succeed in leadership.
In the last few years, our trust in leaders has been in freefall. Whether in the corporate, nonprofit, or political space, we’re all starved for truth and honesty in the people that lead us. We’re growing increasingly dissatisfied with dishonesty – and the explanations given when that dishonesty is uncovered. How can we do better?
Ron set out to study and see if we can predict under what conditions people would tell the truth, behave fairly, and serve the greater good, and what conditions would lead to people lying, cheating, and serving their own interests. If we can predict that, we can create environments where people can be their true selves, thrive, and do their best work. And he found that we can.
There are four predictors within an organization that will accurately predict whether or not people will behave:
Establishing trust within an organization is paramount to its success. It starts with the leader and it goes down to the individual employees. Each of these predictors can create a halo effect which boosts the others, so start by figuring out where you stand, sit down with your mission statement, and ask yourself and your employees “How can we live this better?” When you do that, you’re on your way to creating the right culture.
The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway
“Honesty is not a character trait. Honesty is a muscle. And if you want to be good at it you have to work at it. It’s no different than going to a gym and bench pressing 500. You don’t start with that, you bench press 50 first. If you want to be known as somebody people should trust, somebody that people can rely on, if you want to be somebody people want to follow and emulate, you have to work at that every day, so build the muscle of honesty, and keep building it to keep it strong.”
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Today our expert guest is JM Ryerson. JM is an author, mindset coach, and host of Let’s Go Win podcast who has been building companies and leading sales teams for over 20 years. JM is the co-founder and CEO of Let's Go Win, whose mission is to increase leadership, enhance culture, and help teams achieve peak performance.
After working with multiple companies to build teams in the financial services industry, JM realized that, while he wasn’t passionate about finance, he loved working with teams and thinking about leadership. He started writing his first book to teach his kids the lessons he’d learned so they wouldn’t have to make the same mistakes. That’s where the company Let’s Go Win started.
There is one simple thing that anyone can do to make your life better, even amidst a global pandemic: pay attention to what you’re feeding your brain. Are you waking up, turning on the news, and browsing social media? That is going to skew your mindset towards the negative. Those two things are not inherently bad, but you have to consume them on your own terms and carefully filter what you are taking in. You want your agenda to serve whatever you’re trying to accomplish.
What do you do when some of that input is coming from friends and family members? That’s where setting boundaries becomes important. This can be hard to do, especially with loved ones. It is important to clarify that you respect them and their choice, but that it isn’t the right choice for you. And, unfortunately, if the problem just isn’t being resolved or people are not respecting those boundaries, your solution is to start drifting away. Either the person in question will reach out, and you can explain what’s happening, and they will either change their ways to bring you back into their life or stay the same and you continue to drift. This is not easy, but when someone is having a net negative impact on your life it is always for the best.
Another technique that can improve your life is journaling. Write down your thoughts without fear of judgment. You will get the thoughts out of your head and they will start to make sense when you see them on paper. Either a problem will suddenly seem smaller, or an idea will stand out as something to explore further. Either way, getting it out of your brain allows you the space to explore it objectively.
Life is going to throw challenges our way. But when you look back, the biggest moments of growth always come from those challenging moments. If we can learn to embrace the suck, stop being surprised when adversity strikes, and take the opportunity to learn from it, we can transform our lives.
The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway
“The most important thing is to be you. To be authentic. To be vulnerable and know who you are because trying to be someone you’re not takes a lot of energy. Everyone has a gift inside of them – I truly believe that. And if you allow it to shine through, those people that we want to lift us up, you will attract them if you bring your true, authentic self out. So take the mask off. That’s for a party; that’s not for living. Be you – and those that want to be around you, they are going to lift you up, they are going to embrace who you are, and allow your beautiful self to just flourish, help so many people around the world, instead of trying to look or act a certain way. And that would be the biggest helping I can give, is just be you. Because it is amazing. The world deserves to see it, and you deserve to show it.”
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The show’s mission is simple: To help you become the best version of yourself possible and in doing so make the world a better place. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, and whatever you do,…