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Today, our expert guests are Jim and Jamie Sheils, who help busy professionals create deeper, more connected, more meaningful relationships with their families so they can have the life they’ve always imagined.

As successful entrepreneurs with a household of six, Jim and Jamie speak all over the world, guiding others in igniting their family life and their business life in tandem. Through their best-selling book “The Family Board Meeting” and their entrepreneurial family-support organization, 18 Summers, Jim and Jamie are helping transform families and show them how to make the most of their limited time together.

The Sheils are a blended family, and Jim’s desire to connect with Jamie’s boys after they united led to the formation of The Family Board Meeting. After they began sharing their rhythm and lives with one another, things were so good between them that people started asking how they could achieve the same for their families. Their book holds the answer.

Jim took the ideas and concepts he wished his family used during his childhood and pieced them together to form The Family Board Meeting. One of those ideas was one-on-one time. It’s important to focus the family in this way, as it strengthens the whole group. It’s easy to make it happen; you just need to make finding the time a priority.

Obviously, the pandemic this past year has made everyone’s home situation more stressful, but The Family Board Meeting structure helped the Sheils retain some sense of normalcy. You never know where a child’s head may be, but when you make space to allow everyone in the family to share their thoughts and make a point of asking questions or opening honest discussions, a lot of real healing happens.

A study found that the average person will spend 85% of all the quality time they will ever have with their child by the end of their 18th summer together. After that, they fly the nest and become independent adults. This inspired 18 Summers to push entrepreneurs to get the most out of that precious time with their children.

If you’re ready to start your own Family Board Meeting, here are some tips:

• Don’t change a million things at once. Start with one or two changes that really matter to you.
• Implement some simple rhythms throughout the day, such as a two hour tech-fast.
• Take the pressure of perfectionism off the table. There is no such thing as perfect, so just do what works for your family and try to bridge those gaps of imperfection to the extent that feels comfortable.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There is no substitute for quality time, but you have to start somewhere so make the most of whatever time it is that you do have. We’re 18 Summers, so we have that natural math equation built in. But just make the most of whatever you do have. If you have five years, if you have 18 years, whatever it is, make the most of the time you have. 

Whether you’re a single mom working 10-hour days and you just get two hours at the end of the day, or whatever it may be, whatever your life looks like, start somewhere. Think of that difference between quality time, that differentiation of what is quality time, and just start wherever you can.”

“Be quick to apologize. Entrepreneurs out there, we wear our pride on our sleeve and we try to justify or give immunity to ourselves since we’re working hard or doing this, you know, for being impatient, for being short, not keeping a promise. 

We’ll almost try to override the responsibility of a sincere apology, and what I’ve learned is: when I apologize quick and sincerely, it takes a ten minute problem to a ten minute problem instead of a four day problem.”

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Resources:

• 18summers.com
• Instagram: @18summerstribe
• Read: “The Family Board Meeting”

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Today’s expert guest, Yanik Silver, has been called a cosmic catalyst, a maverick mischief-maker, and a galactic goofball. He’s redefining how business is conducted in the 21st century at the intersection of evolutionary growth, impact, and fun.

Yanik is the creator of the Cosmic Journal, author of “Evolved Enterprise,” and the founder of Maverick1000, a global network of top entrepreneurs and visionary entrepreneurs making a big difference in the world without taking themselves too seriously. It’s not unusual to find him dressed as a lemur, a showgirl, or even in matching mermaid tails with Sir Richard Branson.

Yanik grew into the person he is today thanks to the deep influence of his parents. His father was an entrepreneur. Growing up in that environment made all the difference to Yanik’s perspective on the world. He loved studying the techniques of old-school copywriters who found success even when it took so much more effort to get people to take action, let alone make a purchase. He learned all about direct response marketing, which helped grow his dad’s business on a national scale.

When Yanik created his first million-dollar product, his inbox filled with people asking him how he did it. So, he launched a new career out of helping people productise their knowledge and experience. When he heard the sound of, what he calls, the cosmic alarm clock — he questioned whether or not he would be happy doing what he was doing, ten years from now, and realized it was time to make another change. That led to Maverick1000, a group that emphasises growth, impact, and fun.

If you’re still trying to figure out what you’re meant to do, it’s time to start asking yourself the right questions and challenging yourself to find truth in the answers. If you’re writing to a journal prompt, write out twenty answers. The last few are probably going to be the most interesting. You can also tap into different parts of your brain by writing with your non-dominant hand.

This time in the world is one of the most significant opportunities to hear your Cosmic Alarm Clock go off and to wake up to what it’s telling you.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You don’t need to see the full path, just the next step, then the next one, and the next one will open up to you. Each step moves you closer to your center even if you feel upside down and turned around. Maybe you feel like you are walking in circles further away from your goal. Keep moving. Keep going. One step forward. One step onwards. Until you see the next turn. The next twist in the road. It’s all within sight until you shift again. This time you come home again to yourself fully.”

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Resources:

• yaniksilver.com
• 20 Predictions for the Transformative 2020s
• cosmicjournal.com
• Instagram: @yaniksilver
• Read: “Evolved Enterprise”
• Sinking Ships, Mermaid tails and Lessons from the Deep with Sir Richard Branson

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Today, our expert guest is Simone Milasas, an innovative business leader, author, and a leading Facilitator with Access Consciousness, a set of life-changing techniques and tools practiced all over the world. As the Worldwide Business Development coordinator for Access Consciousness, she has been instrumental in its growth from four countries to more than one-hundred and seventy-five. Her unique and consistently successful approach to business led to her founding the Joy Of Business, a program empowering entrepreneurs to embrace their own unique leadership and business skills.

Renowned for her refreshingly honest, vulnerable, and dynamic approach, Simone regularly features in the media, such as Fox News, Forbes, GQ, and Mind Body Green, and is the author of “Joy of Business” and best-sellers “Getting Out Of Debt Joyfully” and “Relationship. Are You Sure You Want One?” co-authored with Brendon Watt. She also hosts a weekly podcast, The Choice, Change, and Action Podcast.

Simone grew up knowing that business owners had an opportunity to change the world. Even without knowing what it was going to be, she knew she wanted to start a business from a young age. She’s always been driven by that gut feeling. She started Good Vibes For You based purely on the energy that she wanted to create in the world.

While attending the MindBodySpirit festival, Simone met Gary Douglas, founder of Access Consciousness. She was angry about the recent, unexpected death of a friend and he gave her some advice she wasn’t expecting. He said, “You’d be much better off if you were open to receiving.” Within six months, she found herself in Houston doing a facilitator’s class for Access Consciousness.

One of Simone’s best-selling books is “Getting Out Of Debt Joyfully.” At one point in her life, Simone was a financial mess, spending far more than she was making, and landed $187,000 in debt. She had heard about all of the money management tools in Access Consciousness but was resistant to put them into action. Still, what she was doing wasn’t working, so she started using the tools — and within two weeks she noticed something was starting to change.

You can start applying the same tools she used, right now. One rule she hated at first but made a big impact was this: Put 10% of everything you earn away as a tithe just for you. It’s not to repay debt or buy things. It just needs to sit. When you look at it three months later, you will suddenly have a different energy and outlook on money, that you can have it and not spend it. It will completely change your life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If all of you listening took a breath and tapped into you, and your body, and the Earth… cause we’re living here on planet Earth. I see so many people who are disconnected from it. What if it was time that we start walking with the Earth — not just on top of it? I know there have been a lot of stories and a lot of awareness after 2020; the whole planet started to change. What if we could start to ask every single day, ‘Earth, what can I contribute to you?’ and ‘Earth, what can you contribute to me?’ We’re not here to destroy it. We’re here to be with it.”

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Resources:

• accessconsciousness.com
• simonemilasas.com
• Instagram: @simonemilasas
• Listen: The Choice, Change and Action Podcast
• Read: “Joy of Business”
• Read: “Getting Out Of Debt Joyfully”
• Read: “Relationship. Are You Sure You Want One?”

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Today, our expert guest is Naz Beheshti, the author of “Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being.” This book is the culmination of her more than 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, firsthand learning from luminaries ranging from Steve Jobs to the Dalai Lama, and consulting and coaching work she’s done with international business leaders, entrepreneurs, startups, universities, and major global organizations.

She’s an executive wellness coach, speaker, Forbes contributor, and CEO and founder of Prananaz, a corporate wellness company improving leadership effectiveness, employee engagement, well-being, company culture, and business outcomes. She also co-founded Rise2Shine, a non-profit organization committed to helping alleviate the suffering of young children in Haiti.

Naz’s first job out of college was as the executive assistant to Steve Jobs himself. For over a decade, she was really stressed and lived without the tools to manage it or build the resilience needed to reach high performance. Then, she went to school to become a holistic health coach and transformation coach to help people like her.

In her book, Naz shares her simple “MAP” method for improving your life:

• M-aster mindfulness
• A-pply better choices to manage stress and build resilience
• P-romote yourself to the CEO of your wellbeing

When you implement the “MAP” method, you can live your best life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You have the power and the choice to be the CEO of your well-being and take charge of all areas of your life so you can live your best life. It’s all up to you and you can start today.”

Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

• nazbeheshti.com
• prananaz.com
• Instagram: @nazbeheshti
• Read: “Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being”

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Today, our expert guest is Dan Miller, author of the New York Times bestselling book, “48 Days to the Work You Love.” He’s been a guest on CBS’ The Early Show, MSNBC’s Hardball, and Fox Business News with Dave Ramsay. His own weekly show is consistently ranked #1 in the Careers category on Apple Podcasts. He’s a frequent speaker at conferences and more than 140,000 people subscribe to his weekly newsletter. Everything Dan does aims to help people find or create the work that they love.

The message of 48 Days started at a low point in Dan’s life. He’s always been an entrepreneur, and during an economic downturn, he was put into a difficult position. He began teaching Sunday school classes to keep himself in service, surprising himself with how popular those classes became. He did not expect so many people to be unhappy with what they did for a living. In working himself out of a hole, he discovered that it was a near-universal need across industries.

If you’re in that place of not loving the work that you do, how do you start the process of 48 Days?

• Start from the inside. 85% of the process is looking inward, identifying your unique skills and abilities, your personality tendencies, your dreams and passions, and getting a clear focus on what’s special about you.
• Once you’ve identified those, you can start to focus on the application. What kind of work environment — whether it’s a job or a business you create — will integrate the things you now know about yourself?

Along with finding work that you love, you need to be aware of common career mistakes to avoid. Don’t get too comfortable with the status quo. People are constantly changing, growing you should allow your career to do the same.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It’s never too late to have a new beginning. I talk to 27-year-old attorneys who say, “I never should have done that, I made a mistake.” And they imply now they just have to coast into the grave when you’re not old enough to ask the right questions, yet. You’ve got tons of time to reevaluate, redirect, realign. And then, somebody who’s 65 who’s been forced into retirement says, “Well, now I’m confined to 30 years of sitting on the front porch drooling on myself.” A lot of people at that point have the first real understanding of their greatest gifts and can turn that into the most productive two or three decades of their life. It’s never too late to have a new beginning.”

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Resources:

• 48days.com
• Read: "48 Days to the Work (and Life) You Love"
• Listen: 48 Days Podcast

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Today our expert guest is Brenda Neckvatal, an award-winning HR professional who is often referred to as the “HR Force of Nature” by her clients. Not only does she help business leaders solve their most difficult people issues, but she is also a specialist in crisis management, government contracting, HR compliance, and mentor to women working in an HR department of one.

She started as an HR sprout after fourteen years in retail management. She discovered that she really enjoyed helping people solve their unique problems and human resources offered her the ability to support her co-workers in a greater capacity. Having the benefit of working for five different Fortune 500 companies, she converted her experience into a series of focused best practices helping small businesses achieve their workforce goals.

In her 30-year career in human resources and business, she has consulted with nearly 500 small businesses and C-suite leaders. She has optimized employee effectiveness and helped mitigate the high costs that are associated with making hasty employment-related decisions.

As a student, her teachers knew that something was holding Brenda back but nobody knew what it was. After barely graduating high school and feeling down on herself, a coworker noticed she read something backward and asked her if she’d ever been tested for dyslexia. Once she discovered that, she felt justified. Brenda had to relearn how to read, but she went back to school and was able to graduate with honors.

When the coronavirus hit the US, everything changed. Brenda was suddenly speaking to over 3,000 HR and business leaders who were all scrambling to figure out how to deal with the uncertainty the virus caused. She knew that during times like these, taking care of your employees was more important than ever.

If you’re a leader or small business owner, here are some of the things you can do to help take care of your team:

• Be open to suggestions from your employees, because they are going to be full of ideas.
• Small business owners need to be vigilant about following hiring and labor laws, because the Department of Labor is paying closer attention than ever. You are not too small to be noticed.

It’s times like these that taking care of employees falls to the wayside as business survival becomes the focus, but know that you will never survive in the long run if you don’t make your workplace somewhere that people love to work and feel taken care of.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Transformation is not easy. Surviving something like this isn’t easy. My big takeaway is trust the process. Trust in yourself. Take time for yourself, think through what’s going on. Trust your process. You may not know what’s going to happen at the end of it but just trust it.”

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Resources:

• brendathehrlady.com
• linkedin.com/in/neckvatal
• Instagram: @brendathehrlady

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Today, J.V. Crum of Conscious Millionaire is turning the mic around on Dr. Richard Shuster, to celebrate 200 episodes of The Daily Helping.

Just one month ago, Richard’s father, Dr. Allen Shuster, passed away. Nobody taught him more about being a husband, a parent, an entrepreneur, and an all-around human being than Allen. He always put his family first, was generous both with his time and money, and stood up for what he believed in.

Allen taught Dr. Richard to show up every day doing something you genuinely love, a lesson that would impact his every decision as an entrepreneur. His father was old school, which also meant that he had a pretty clear path for success: go to school, get a degree, open a practice, see patients, and make a living. That made sense to him; but when Dr. Richard approached him about leaving the world of psychology to make a podcast — a term he’d never even heard of — Allen supported him fully.

There are three things that Dr. Richard took from his father that will inform the rest of his life:

1. Don’t compromise living life on your own terms.
2. Spend time with the people you love.
3. Be present every day.

The biggest lesson here is this: Think of someone that you want to express your heart and soul to, and do it; because you never know what’s going to happen, and you don’t want to leave this world with regrets.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Don’t take for granted that tomorrow is just going to come because you never know. I would urge everyone to, whether it’s their spouse or their mother, father, sibling, whoever it is, a mentor in their lives who meant a lot to you — call them today and, not only tell them how much they mean to you, but why. Because there’s just no guarantee that you’re going to get a chance to do that.”

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Resources:

• thedailyhelping.com
• Instagram: @thedailyhelpingpodcast

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Today our expert guest is Michael J. Gelb, the world’s leading authority on applying genius thinking to personal and organizational development. Michael is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, leadership, innovation, and executive coaching. He’s a senior fellow at the Center for Humanistic Management and a member of the Advisory Board for Leading People and Organizations at the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business. He was honored as “Brain of the Year” (1999) by the Brain Trust Charity, including other recipients such as Steven Hawking, Garry Kasparov, and Edward De Bono. His 17 books have been translated into 25 languages and have sold over one million copies.

When he read Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” at 14 years old, Michael became inspired to find purpose in helping others find meaning in their lives. There was a lot of division and racial tension, and Michael was looking for solutions — both for the world and himself. Being a consultant for businesses was the farthest thing from his mind at first, but as he studied, it slowly dawned on him that business was the most powerful force in the world. And by focusing on that, he could make the most significant impact possible.

Michael felt his life intersect with Leonardo da Vinci in several ways. Earlier in his life, his grandmother, a painter herself, introduce him to da Vinci. Later, he and a colleague would talk about him at length. More and more, he began telling stories about da Vinci. After being invited to speak in Florence, he pitched the idea of speaking about how to think like Leonardo da Vinci. That gave him six months to figure it out before he had to speak!

You can do this process with any figure you admire, whether that’s a historical figure or someone you know. One of the most effective ways to develop yourself is to study others. If you want to follow the same steps Michael did to think like da Vinci, you have to ask the magic question: What are they trying to teach us?

In the case of Leonardo da Vinci, when Michael read his work with that question in mind, he came up with:

• Endless curiosity: To get endless energy as an adult, you have to awaken your childlike imagination, marry it with your adult logic, and revitalize your curiosity. Try the “100 Questions” exercise. Give yourself around an hour, take out some sheets of paper, and without stopping to think, write 100 questions out. The hardest part is building up the energy to have a constant creative output. Once you practice it, coming up with ideas isn’t that hard. What’s hard is putting them into action and communicating them with other people.
• Demonstrate through your own experience: You must be an original thinker. The biggest challenge to independent thinking today is an overabundance of information. The best way to do this is to learn to think through essential ideas from at least three perspectives.
• Sharpen your senses, learn to appreciate beauty, and learn to make life more beautiful. When we appreciate beauty, we inform our creative expression.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“There is a source of creativity, a source of genius. It is the source of our awareness. If everyone just, at this moment, contemplates their response to the simple question, ‘Are you aware?’ Obviously, immediately, you say, ‘Yeah, oh course.’ And I say, ‘How do you know?’ Where do you go to look to notice that you are aware? There’s no place you go. You just are. And learning to access that source of awareness, which is always present — so when we talk about connecting with genius, it sounds like something you have to go through years of training and do all this — no, it’s present right now. It’s there for everybody. And then yes, there are ways to make ourselves more attuned to it, like the hundred questions, like the Qigong exercises I teach, like everything that’s in all the books. But the main point is it’s not something you don’t have that you have to get. It’s something you already have, and you just need to wake up to it.”

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Resources:

• michaelgelb.com
• healingleader.com
• lifeenergygenius.com
• Read: "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci"
• Read: "The Healing Organization"

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Today our expert guest Mark Victor Hansen returns for the second part of his interview. In his new book — “You Have a Book In You” — Mark shares his personal secrets for bringing your story to life and creating the next best-seller.

In your journey to writing your book, Mark shared how you must start with a title that ignites you and outline your chapters early so that the content can begin flowing to you. But writing a book is just one part of the process. Once it’s written, people need to read it. And to get people to see it, you need to learn to market.

In interviewing the 101 best fiction and nonfiction authors, Mark asked every one of them what they did to market their books. The first step is to visualize yourself making the best-sellers list. You won’t be able to get somewhere if you can’t see yourself there first. The next step is to not accept rejection. Even with a wildly impressive business plan, Mark still faced rejection a whopping 144 times before someone said yes.

We can all be wildly more successful than we’ve ever dreamt of. And the world needs people to think bigger to solve the problems we face today! So, everyone needs to write so we can write ourselves out of this conundrum.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want to ask you to write a book, like I said a minute ago, to redefine yourself, to reinvent yourself, to reboot yourself, to re-energize yourself, to re-excite yourself. So your book is so well written, with such eclectic wisdom, that it ignites a lot of others and we have a pulsating wave go out that helps humanity to become absolutely, completely, one hundred percent economically and physically successful. It’s never been available before, but you and I now have the technology to do it. I’ll give you the software, the hardware — like podcasting, like documentaries — exists that all of us can do it, for the first time in humanity.”

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Resources:

• markvictorhansen.com
• Instagram: @markvictorhansen
• Read: "You Have a Book In You"

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Today our expert guest is Mark Victor Hansen, inspirational and motivational speaker, trainer, and an author best known as the founder and co-creator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series. He also holds the Guinness World Record for most published books. And in his new book — “You Have a Book In You” — Mark shares his personal secrets for bringing your story to life and creating the next best-seller.

When you choose to write a book, you are likely signing up to push yourself further than you’ve been pushed before. But where do you start? Mark says a great book starts with a galvanizing title. Your title has to be emotional, something that inspires you. The subtitle has to be logical in order to seal the deal. If you have those two things in place, you’re off to a great start.

Once you have your title, you want to write out all of your chapter headings in your preferred order. Once you do that, information starts pouring into your head about those ideas. You begin to recognize things out in the world about those topics and things come together quickly.

But what if you feel like you don’t have any time? Schedule out one 22-minute window where you can write completely uninterrupted. Once your mind is committed to being an author and creating this book, once you start actually writing for your future readers, the ideas will just flow to you and things will start coming together.

In the second part of our interview, Marc continues to outline the power of writing your own book.

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Resources:

• markvictorhansen.com
• Instagram: @markvictorhansen
• Read: "You Have a Book In You"

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