The Daily Helping

Today our expert guest is Dr. Allen Lycka, one of the leading cosmetic dermatologists in the world. A pioneer in cosmetic surgery, he helped to develop laser assisted tumescent liposuction, an advanced body sculpture technique, and Moh’s Micrographic Surgery, an advanced means of removing skin cancer with 99% success.

But in 2003, Dr. Lycka was diagnosed with Lou Gherigs’ disease and given only six months to live, but he fought that diagnosis with courage and determination. He went through all of the stages of grief, and in his stage of denial, he went out searching for what was actually wrong with him.

He found a doctor who was going through the same thing that he was. That doctor had been misdiagnosed with ALS and came to believe he had lyme disease from a tick bite. Once he started treatment with that assumption, he recovered rapidly. When Dr. Lycka met with this doctor and began treatment, he, too, started getting better. After this, he felt he had a second chance to help people even more than he once did.

Using what he learned, he co-authored “The Secrets to Living a Fantastic Life” with Harriet Tinka, and he speaks to groups all over the world about how to transform lives.

In “The Secrets to Living a Fantastic Life,” Dr. Allen goes over 13 Golden Pearls for Living a Fantastic Life:

• Love
• Inspiration
• Victory
• Vulnerability
• Purpose
• Non-Negotiables
• Forgiveness
• Attitude
• Thankfulness
• Tenaciousness
• Laughter
• Enthusiasm
• Empowerment

We’re all facing a lot of fear right now. It’s possible this could be a time for despair, but we can also choose to use this as a time to move forward and propel us into a greater time. We are not going to be complete at any one given time, but we have to keep moving forward.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“It’s not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens. I want you to take those words and really take them home, because those are truly the magic words that everybody could use.”

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Resources:

• drallenlycka.com
• Text GOLDEN PEARLS to 1-819-717-2515 to get one golden pearl a week and reshape your life
• Instagram: @dr_allen_lycka
• Read: “The Secrets to Living a Fantastic Life”

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Today our expert guest is Dov Gordon of ProfitableRelationships.com. He helps consultants use backwards networking to reach their ideal clients consistently.Experienced consultants know that the best clients come from referrals and relationships, but conventional networking advice doesn't work for everyone. So, Dov offers a simple and practical alternative to the unpredictable world of networking that will allow you to become an under-the-radar leader in your industry.

Many people today are being forced to create their own business right now, but they’ve never been trained in how to do that properly. If you want to get your presence known and you’re just starting out, you have to answer three simple questions in the minds of your ideal client:

1. Why should I pay attention to this?
2. Are you for real?
3. Is what you recommend right for me?

The only thing that’s going to get the interest of your ideal client is solving a problem they have and don’t want, or getting a result they want and don’t have.

The key part in all of this is forging meaningful relationships. Over the years, Dov built what he calls an “alchemy network” of people who have similar values and similar audiences, and they support and promote each other. He realized that this is something anybody could do, but very few people actually were.

Building a network like this can be a very powerful alternative to the common advice of becoming a “guru” on social media, which only works for a small handful of people. By creating a network of like-minded people who all have something to add, and making it easy for those people to have conversations, you can build up your customer base and authority without having to become an internet celebrity.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Listen to your gut and then make your brain play along. If your gut says to do something and your brain is saying, ‘but, but, this could go wrong,’ and ‘that could go wrong,’ listen to your gut because your gut knows. And when it comes to business, your gut is going to lead you towards your big opportunities but they’re going to scare you. Your brain is going to come up with all sorts of reasons why you shouldn’t invest the money, you shouldn’t put in the time, why you’ve got to do other things first. Listen to your gut and then give your brain a better question. Ask your brain how you can make this work as opposed to how it could go wrong.”

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Resources:

• profitablerelationships.com/dailyhelping
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dovgordon
• Twitter: twitter.com/DovGordon

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Today our expert guest is Laura DiBenedetto, the number one bestselling author of “The Six Habits,” TEDx speaker, and mastery coach who teaches people how to create the lives of their dreams without sacrificing what they love. She is the founder and CEO of the award-winning marketing company Vision Advertising, which she built up for 19 years to tremendous success before retiring from active involvement in 2018 at the age of 37.

Over the years, Laura personally sold millions of dollars worth of ongoing contracts, was featured on FOX News, and was publicly recognized for her business accomplishments. She was named a 40 Under 40 award winner at the age of 23.

At 32 years old, she was already beginning to feel the burnout of the “hustle and grind” lifestyle, so she began looking for an exit strategy. It took her a few years to figure out what she wanted to do, and her strategy was to get herself “lovingly fired” by selling off half of her stake in the company and allowing herself to be phased out.

After stripping everything away except the core of herself, she realized that none of the accomplishments that came before had actually made her happy. She needed to find happiness for real, and that’s what led her to the discovery of The Six Habits.

The Six Habits are:

• Kindness: Like a parent encouraging a child, you need your inner voice to be kind and encouraging towards you when you are facing hard times.
• Acceptance: How we feel about ourselves and unconditionally loving ourselves.
• Gratitude: The lens of appreciation through which you look at everything in your life, including the hard things that could be considered bad.
• Presence: Choosing to be in the moment you are in instead of wishing you were somewhere else. Even difficult moments can be made more pleasant if we just allow ourselves to be there and experience them.
• Goodness: Watch what is coming in, add in positive things, subtract the negative things.
• Intention: How you approach your desires and take action. Searching for clarity and movement whenever you can.

These are all very basic concepts, but it’s the application that is tricky. After how many years of life on this planet, you’ve built up a habit of speaking to yourself a certain way.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Your job in life is to love yourself, enjoy your life, and do the work. All the things you learned in this episode, or anywhere, are useless without application. Take whatever you learn and apply it to your life. That is where change comes from.”

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Resources:

• thesixhabits.com
• The Six Habits of the Happiest People | Laura DiBenedetto | TEDxMcphs
• Instagram: @lauraldibenedetto
• Facebook: facebook.com/lauraldibenedetto

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Today our expert guest is Tony Guarnaccia, who’s helped thousands of businesses survive crisis—whether it was post-9/11, a massive recession, or amidst massive company acquisitions, he’s helped businesses navigate through uncertainty and emerge stronger on the other side.

Over his 20-year career as an entrepreneur, business owner, and enterprise marketer, he’s worked with the best-in-class businesses in every industry, including Google, Microsoft, ADP, Ford, BMW, and Foster Grant, to name a few. He’s helped grow over ten thousand small businesses and a dozen Fortune 500 companies.

Tony grew up within a small business family of bakers. His parents were fantastic bakers, but they didn’t know what they didn’t know about growing a business, and when he was 12 years old, they were essentially homeless. In college, he was on a mission to redeem himself. As part of his graduation plan, he wrote a business plan for an online bakery that transformed into a mail-order cake company that made gift cakes for promotional products. It was going amazing at first until Tony found out that he didn’t know what he didn’t know about running a business.

Realizing he didn’t know how to run a business, he asked himself “Who does know?” That led him on a journey to work with the absolute best companies in the world. Even though his business had failed, he had done a lot of things right. He used the expertise he’d gained in leveraging search engine optimization (SEO) and got the first job that came up, because not many people had heard of SEO at the time. He went on to have some amazing opportunities by being in the right place at the right time and being prepared to take those opportunities.

He was traveling a lot and wanted a more balanced lifestyle with his family, so he went on to start helping small businesses leverage the same tools, tactics, and strategies that these big businesses are using. Part of what they are lacking was the foundation of knowing their why and having a strategy, so he started a training and coaching company.

Tony has learned to specialize in helping businesses make it through difficult times. His mom, at 9 months old, had contracted polio and could walk until she was 14. She taught him about resiliency and the power of breaking things down into taking small steps.

How do you do that? You have to do these 3 things:

• Know what steps to take
• Know how to take those steps
• Actually take the steps

It sounds simple, and it is, but implementation is what makes the difference.

If you can lay the foundation, find out what you want, and take the steps to get there, small businesses—and individuals—can achieve the same results as big companies.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You have to slow down to speed up. So often we just want to jump right into things, but in business and life that costs time, effort, and money. A lot of bad decisions are made because we jump in without thinking it through.”

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Resources:

• smallstepsgrowprofits.com
• Smallstepsmanifesto.com
• Instagram: @tony.g.guarnaccia
• Ep. 167: What to Fix Next in Your Business | with Mike Michalowicz

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Today our expert guest is Andy Storch, an author, consultant, coach, speaker, and facilitator on a mission to get the most out of life and inspire others to do the same. He is also the host of two podcasts — The Talent Development Hot Seat and The Andy Storch Show — and the author of “Own Your Career, Own Your Life,” which is designed to help professionals stop drifting and take control of their futures.

When Andy was on the show back in episode 115, just a little over one year ago, this book wasn’t really on his radar. But as he got more into personal development — by way of Hal Elrod, like myself — he realized that he already had a message he wanted to put out into the world. He just hadn’t put it all in one place yet.

A big part of Andy’s message is contrary to a lot of what you’ll see in the self-development space these days, which often emphasizes the personal freedom unlocked through entrepreneurship. And that’s true, to an extent, but being an entrepreneur isn’t for everyone — and it’s not necessary to live a happy and abundant life.

So Andy endeavored to create a resource that was applicable to anyone who has been told that you can’t have it all, or that you have to put your time in and then you can have a good life in retirement. This is a resource to help anyone put in the priorities, boundaries, and systems that will allow them to, as the title says, own their lives.

This may not be the right time to burn all the ships and charge forward with a grand new venture, this might not be the right time to tell your boss where to stick it. But there are still ways to take back control, and Andy has some practical strategies to help you do it.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I want you to think about where you’ve been drifting in your life, letting other people or society dictate how you live and what you do for work and in your career. Where can you really flip a switch and start to take ownership, start to take responsibility, stop playing the victim, and set a course and really start moving towards that. Stop putting things off, stop procrastinating.” 

Where can you take ownership today? Where can you really dive in and own your future?

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Resources:

• “Own Your Career, Own Your Life”
• Top 5 Career Mistakes
• andystorch.com
• Instagram: @andy_storch
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/andystorch
• “50. Elevating Consciousness, One Miracle Morning at a Time | with Hal Elrod”
• “93. The Rise of the Youpreneur | with Chris Ducker”
• “115. Taking Responsibility For Your Career & Personal Development | with Andy Storch”
• “127. The Two Decisions That Guarantee Success | with Hal Elrod”

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Today our expert guest is Hale Dwoskin, a New York Times bestselling author and author of “The Sedona Method.” He’s also been featured in the movie “Letting Go” and is one of the featured teachers in the book and movie phenomenon, “The Secret.” For over four decades, he’s dedicated his life to helping people eliminate their suffering and discover the truth of who they really are.

Hale had been organizing Theta seminars when he met Lester Levenson, who was attending as a guest. He seemed different from anyone else in the self-help or spiritual community; he was no longer seeking anything, he was just a living embodiment of peace and happiness. And his story was fascinating: 

Levenson had been very successful, but when he was told he was going to die, he started a process of self-inquiring. He found that he could let go of all of the craziness inside of himself, and as he did that, he felt better and better, and he ended up living another 42 years. Over time, his teachings were passed on to Hale, who helps pass these lessons onto others through “The Sedona Method.”

The idea behind the Sedona Method is the realization that your feelings and thoughts are not you, and you can let them go. Most of us live as though we are our feelings or our thoughts. But when you let go of these, you realize there’s a you that’s much bigger than that, and it’s this presence of awareness at the heart of every experience. And as you’re able to let go of the thoughts and feelings that aren’t serving you, you discover that limits drop away.

How do you follow the process of letting go? These are the steps:

• Allow yourself to think of something in your life that you’d like to change or improve: You want more money, better relationships, better health, or less tension and stress.
• Focus on how it feels for a moment.
• Allow that feeling and let it be here.
• Then, as best as you can, let it go.

You may have to do this several times, and it will get easier to do every time. It is deceptively simple, but it works.

Hale is currently re-releasing his five book series "Happiness Is Free" as a single package, which helps you realize that the happiness you seek outside you is already available within you, and you can access it whenever you want.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are already whole, complete, and perfect as you are. Not in all the struggles, but at your core. And that can become your living experience if you are just open to letting go of all the things that you are not and letting yourself discover that truth within yourself, that you have no limits except the ones that you cling to.”

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Resources:

• Learn more: sedona.com
• Watch: Letting Go: The Sedona Method Movie
• Read: “The Sedona Method”
• Read: "Happiness Is Free"
• Read: “The Secret”
• Pre-Order: "The Greatest Secret"

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In this special Veteran’s Day episode, our expert guest is Mark Divine. US Navy Seals are America’s toughest warriors. The training to become a Navy Seal is grueling, and less than 15% make it through the nine-month selection process called Basic Underwater Demolition Seal Training (BUDs), an unparalleled test of physical stamina, mental toughness, and emotional resilience. Mark not only made it through BUDs at 26, but he graduated as the honor man, the #1 honor rank in a class among 170. Even more striking, his entire original boat crew graduated with him that day—a one in a million occurrence that did not happen by accident. It was the first of many elite teams Mark went on to build.

Through Mark’s innovative SEAL Fit and Unbeatable Mind training systems, including the Hell Week Simulation Kokoro Crucible, he provides the physical, mental, and emotional tools to allow not 15% but 90% of his trainees to lead and succeed in the most demanding training in the world.

Mark’s family had groomed him to go into business, and he was working as a certified public accountant. But he was also an athlete and, while working, he was trying to maintain his physical training. He took up martial arts and found his first master, who began to train him in zen through martial arts. Through meditation, Mark found his purpose: to become a warrior and a leader, and to do this by becoming a Navy SEAL.

Mark picked up five critical skills through working with his mentor:

• Breath control
• Deep concentration
• Visualization
• Radical focus on micro-goals
• Focusing on helping others overcome their struggles

Mark Divine has founded the Courage Foundation to help vets recovering from depression and to prevent the staggering number of suicides every year. He works with them emotionally, therapeutically, and physically to help them recover from the traumas they’ve experienced.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Everything that you’re searching for in life lies within you, and the way to find that is to slow down, to take control of your conscious process of breathing, and then let the breath bridge between the physical outer world and then into your mind and then your spirit. Just follow the breath in, and then once you’re in there’s no going back. You’ll find your answers, you’ll find your answers about your purpose in life, why you’re here, and what you can do about it. And just take action.”

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Resources:

• feedcourage.org
• Visit seekyourpowers.com and use the code FEEDCOURAGE to give half of the proceeds to the Courage Foundation

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Today our expert guest is Tra Williams, a nationally recognized expert in entrepreneurship and business strategy. He’s horrified by the widening gap between entrepreneurship and employment, and he’s made it his mission to rescue 1 million entrepreneurs from traditional employment. In “Boss Brain,” he reveals a scientifically proven system that unlocks the reader's true potential and unleashes their entrepreneurial instincts so that they can leave traditional employment forever.

Since the 1940’s, entrepreneurship has almost entirely declined year over year. Despite the fact that around 70% of Americans would prefer to be self-employed, only 7% of Americans actually are. On top of that, workplace satisfaction is at an all-time low. Why is this happening?

In our heads, there’s a battle between instinctive optimism and our inherent need for certainty. The base of our hierarchy of needs has become relatively certain, and with that our need for certainty is conquering our genetic and hard-wired optimism.

We are all born with the instincts to become entrepreneurs, but we are taught to be employees. This is why so many people have the desire to be entrepreneurs—it’s in their blood. We just have to unlearn all the programming that taught us to be employees.

There are four instincts for being an entrepreneur:

• Belief (which is made up of optimism, self-efficacy, and action)
• Accountability
• Focus
• Creativity

One of the biggest points that gets would-be entrepreneurs hung up is taking action. Belief is reverse-engineered. It requires some evidence. Even if you don’t believe today that you could build a successful business, if you start taking micro-actions every day, you begin to build up that belief. In order to do this, you need to work on developing a growth mindset. Instead of focusing on the enormity of your goals, focus on being better tomorrow than you are today.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Comfort is the enemy of progress. The more predictable your life is, the more complacent you become and the less you take action. Unless you’re taking action today, you’re doing nothing to change your future tomorrow. If you want tomorrow, and the day after that and the week after that and the year after that to look exactly the same as today, then do as you’ve always done. The one thing that’s going to undermine your entrepreneurial spirit is to build walls around yourself and increase the level of comfort and safety that you feel.”

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Resources:

• trawilliams.com
• bossbrain.com/waitlist
• Read: "The Optimism Bias"

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Today our expert guest is Chris Tate, one of the first people to ever release a share trading book in Australia, and he has had an extraordinary impact on thousands of traders. The best selling author of “The Art of Trading” and “The Art of Options Trading in Australia,” his brutally honest approach and meticulous pursuit of excellence ensure that exceptional traders all around the world quote his market comments.

Chris Tate was a 6’4”, 230 pounds, and worked as a bouncer while he was in school. It almost felt like a natural fit. Chris, however, saw it as an interesting sociological experiment. He loved talking to people and observing the way various people behaved. He’d often wonder how people got to where they are in life. Through observing people’s behaviors, he realized he could map out the trajectory of their lives. You can get a sense of why people are the way they are, and that’s a skill he’s carried with him throughout his life.

How does this relate to trading? People view trading as a financial skill, but it’s really a psychological endeavor. People fail when they don’t have their psychological skills developed. In life, we generally boil down complex ideas into a reductionist viewpoint, and it ends up failing in practice because it ignores the human element.

If people want to start investing during this time, there are a few things you need to keep in mind. First, take a deep breath, pause, and wait. Too many decisions are made in the heat of the moment. Educate yourself. Second, do not take any financial advice out there. The majority of people giving advice have no idea what they’re doing, they don’t have the proper experience, and the only person who is taking a risk is you.

How do you trade successfully? Chris says there are only three things to know:

1. When the market is going up, you buy it
2. When the market is going down, you sell it
3. You do not bet the farm

That last one is the most important one. You should not make any decision that, if it goes wrong, will create immense financial grief. It’s the capacity to control our impulses that is the defining line between people who are successful and who are not.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Remember, we all want to be the hero of our own narrative, but very few people take the time and effort to look at what their narrative is and what sort of hero they want to be. If more people did that, their narrative would become clearer, calmer, and more peaceful.”

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Resources:

• tradinggame.com.au
• linkedin.com/in/christatetrader
• facebook.com/TradingGame
• twitter.com/game_trading

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Today our expert guest is Darryll Stinson, a thought leader on athletic transition, a dynamic TEDx speaker, pastor, and certified John Maxwell coach. He shares his life experience with addition, mental illness, and suicide and how those experiences impacted his life.

Darryll played defensive end at Central Michigan University from 2008-2011, where he helped his team win a MAC championship. He later went on to found Second Change Athletes, a holistic athletic transition company that gives athletes a second chance to succeed at life without the demands of sports.

While at Central as a freshman, Darryll was trying to impress the upperclassmen by squatting—which he was not supposed to be doing due to a back issue—and he felt a sharp pain go through his body. He knew that something was wrong. He kept up the tough guy act and didn’t find out for three months that he had pinched a nerve in his back, which resulted in emergency surgery.

After the surgery, he had the opportunity to focus on his education while still honoring his scholarship. Instead, because football was his whole life, he signed a liability waiver and joined up with the team again, and he put his body through two years of drug addiction and health care manipulation in order to numb himself enough to be able to play. The only way he could pay for all of this out of pocket was by selling drugs.

Senior year, the coaches noticed something was going on and they kicked him off the team. Darryll realized he wasn’t prepared for life after sports. The moment he was not a part of that team, his phone stopped ringing. It felt as if he didn’t matter at all. On top of that, his girlfriend of four years left him. This led to suicidal thoughts and an attempted overdose. It is only through the love of his family that he is still here today, and now he’s passing that support on to others who need a reminder about their self-worth.

From this experience, Darryll founded Second Chance Athletes. He went on a journey to discover meaning, and, through a lot of work, he came to a point where he realized that he loved his life, and he wouldn’t trade it for a multi-million dollar athletic contract because it was what he was supposed to be doing. When he looked around at his former athlete friends, he realized they still talked about the sport as if they were still playing it. Their lives were in the past. He analyzed how he got to the life that he loves and how he can apply that to others, and he came up with a five-step roadmap, the Athlete Transition Roadmap: 

1. Accept
2. Believe
3. Discover
4. Pursue
5. Persist

In his new book, “Who Am I After Sports?,” Darryll pours everything he has learned about developing a life you love and moving forward. It’s full of stories and best practices for identity sculpting and transformation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Everything you need you already have inside of you. You’re just developing it. Reading doesn’t give you something that you don’t have, it only develops what you already have inside of you. IF you have big dreams, big plans, great desires, and you think that you’re not good enough, pretty enough, smart enough, know that that is a lie, and the truth is that you have everything that you need to do everything that you’re called to do. So go do it.”

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Resources:

• darryllstinson.com
• secondchanceathletes.com
• Instagram: @stinsonspeaks | @secondchanceathletes

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