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  • 146. Tapping into the Power of a Mastermind | with Leo Hefner

    Today our expert guest is Leo Hefner, an ethical business expert and co-founder of Mastermind Association. He has recently been featured in the national bestselling book Wealth Made Easy with Dr. Greg Reed. Though his background is in real estate, his talks center around inspiring people to create not only loads of business wealth but community and social impact as well. He can dive deep into mindset, self-dialogue, and the power of intention.

    When Leo was younger he had the opportunity to go on a walkabout. His mom died when he was young, and he was living alone in a little fishing village trading work for rent and fishing for his own food.

    From that experience, he developed a sense of self-confidence and shed the need for approval from others. As a result, he wasn’t a very good fit for the corporate world, as he tended to be too blunt and said everything on his mind. But his independence and work ethic primed him to be an entrepreneur.

    More recently, Leo has tapped into a resource that has the potential to help others like him go further than anyone can go alone, and do it faster to boot: mastermind groups.

    The idea of a mastermind is to tap into the “third mind,” which is tapping into the knowledge that’s locked in an individual’s mind but can be of great use to someone else. What’s common knowledge to one person may not be common knowledge to the person down the street. By sharing our experiences, we can help people move to the next level.

    The Mastermind Association is all about teaching people how to create and run a mastermind in a set format that makes it a true mastermind. It’s possible for masterminds to become one-way seminars, but when you become a certified mastermind leader, you learn how to facilitate a more powerful group experience.

    However, knowledge won’t change anything by itself, even if it’s exactly what you need to know to grow your business or improve your life — you have to take action. If you don’t have a predisposition to take action on the knowledge you are picking up, it is going to waste.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “Do something today that you’ve been afraid to do. Version one is better than version zero, because version zero you can’t fix. Version one you can. If you’ve been sitting on a project or trying to get a website done or trying to do something, just do it. Nothing is final, everything is fluid. You can always make changes on the fly.”

     

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    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leohefner
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    • https://mastermindassociation.com/

     

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    33 min
  • 145. The Leadership of You | with Sabina Nawaz

    Today our expert guest is Sabina Nawaz, a global CEO coach, leadership keynote speaker, and writer working in over 26 countries. She advises C-level executives in Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions. Sabina also teaches faculty at Northeastern University and facilitates the faculty fellowship development program at Drexel University as well. Previously, she spent over 14 years at Microsoft where she led the companies executive development and succession planning efforts for over 11,000 managers and 700 executives.

    In addition, Sabina has spoken at hundreds of seminars, events, and conferences including TEDx. Currently, she sits on the board of Power & Systems, a leadership development institute. Sabina believes the greatest privilege of working with leaders is bearing witness to their acts of courage.

    Nine years into her career at Microsoft, Sabina was offered an 8-week sabbatical. She left five of those weeks completely unscheduled, and what happened is that she had several insights and realizations — one of which being that it was not a matter of if, but when, she could become a corporate vice president at the company — and once she saw the path to getting there, she became completely disinterested in getting there.

    This forced her to step back and examine: What was she supposed to be doing? What was it that she got joy out of doing? What did other people enjoy about her?

    She had received a lot of feedback from people that she was the best manager they had ever had, and she realized she had good people skills, so maybe she should put that to use. She discovered there was a group at Microsoft that invested in developing employees, and she went to them and told them that she wanted to make a change in her career. She did this for six years at Microsoft before moving on to run her own business.

    During her time at Microsoft, and in her exposure to organizations across the globe, Sabina has learned things that are common to acts of leadership in organizational culture and things that are different — the most common things that people love about their bosses and the most common things that get in the way of business results.

    Leadership is about how you take charge of your life and the impact of your life on the world. This can be broken down into a few parts:

    • Just being. Indulging in white space, doing nothing. Take a couple hours a week unplugged and sit with your thinking.
    • The knowing. Once you can be, you get these insights. You start connecting dots.
    • The asking. You may know what you want, but you may not know how to get there. Don’t be afraid to ask for help.

    Leadership is about taking charge of your life, whether you are the leader of others or not. It is your responsibility to move forward.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “When you look at the leadership of you, realize the danger of a single story. Most often when we get stuck we make up a story and we consider that story the truth, and the more righteous we are, the more stuck we feel, the more we need to break down that story and create multiple stories. As human beings, we are meaning-making machines. Indulge in that. Make up multiple versions of the stories.”

     

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    • Learn more: http://www.sabinanawaz.com
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabina-nawaz-41a25b5

     

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    31 min
  • 144. Resiliency, Believing in Yourself, & Overcoming the Odds | with Oleg Lougheed

    Today our expert guest is Oleg Lougheed, and he is a renowned TedX speaker. He is helping individuals overcome odds and restore a sense of community and belonging. He helps to provide a safe place to develop one’s individual voice and connect to others via their life’s circumstances. He’s doing that through his life-changing website, OvercomingOdds.today.

    Oleg’s story starts in Russia, where he had a relatively normal upbringing for the first few years of his life, but when he was around the age of 4 his mother became an alcoholic and changed their family dynamic completely when his sister ended up becoming his legal guardian. At 9 years old, he found out what an orphanage was, and he believed that would be a better option than what he was currently facing. He took his sister before a city council and had her rights relinquished as his guardian.

    He lived in the orphanage for 3 years, and it was a very different experience. He faced many instances of physical and mental abuse. When he was 12, he was finally able to be adopted, and he went to a family in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the second phase of his life began. He moved to the United States without speaking the language, not knowing anything about that part of the world, but having the drive and determination to figure it out.

    We all have resiliency inside of us to a degree, but some of us turn to alcohol and others will turn to a sense of belief. Everyone has the capacity to believe in themselves, but it’s one of those things that we underestimate.

    Oleg made the decision to make his platform, Overcoming Odds, as part of a business accelerator program. A few weeks into the program he realized there was more to his story than he was tapping into. He asked himself why he was put through these various challenges and obstacles, and what lessons he was supposed to learn from each of them.

    When he came to this point, he just sat down and wrote out his story. He put a very simple call to action at the end: “If my message speaks to you, please join me in sharing your story.” Within 3 days, he had received over a hundred messages from people all over the world asking where they could share their stories. He needed to create a space for foster children and adoptees to share their experiences, not just the highlights but all of them. Other people began reaching out — immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ people — and he knew this had to be a platform for people to understand other people.

    Overcoming Odds has become much more than just a space to share stories, and has extended to all of the other platforms that impacted Oleg’s life: Podcasts, events, and weekly calls. Everything boils down to the connection that Oleg has with himself and with other people.

    This is a community where people have gone through very difficult circumstances, but they have found a way through it. And those who are currently working their way through it will find a way through it. By normalizing challenges, people become encouraged to move past them.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “I was struggling with a math problem, and I asked my dad for help. What I really wanted was him to solve it for me. What he said was, ‘Son, I won’t solve it for you, but we can solve it together.’ During that time, he said ‘Never say you can’t do something in life. There’s always a way. It may not be the way you envision, but there is always a way.’ 14 years later I look back on that moment and choose to live by that principle every day.”

     

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    • Learn more: https://www.overcomingodds.today/
    • Podcast: https://www.overcomingodds.today/podcast-1
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Overcoming-Odds-111928076030141/
    • Instagram: http://instagram.com/overcomingodds
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/_overcomingodds

     

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    31 min
  • 143. Tapping Into Your Creative Potential to Make an Impact | with Emerald GreenForest

    Today our expert guest is Emerald GreenForest, the founder and lead visionary of Creative Age Consulting Group. She is an internationally known speaker, transformation artist, Be The Change Movement “To Watch” award winner and one of America’s premier experts. She is the executive producer of the Apple top 100 ranked Men On Purpose Podcast and the Apple top 75 ranked Wickedly Smart Women Podcast and is hired to consult with high-achieving leaders who are called to be the vanguards of the creative age.

    Up until 2001, Emerald was in the real-estate business as the national chairperson of her trade association, until some personal trauma led to her taking up yoga and having a spiritual awakening. In 2016, there was a massive rupture in her family when her son, who had become addicted to heroin, locked her in the basement and threatened her. She made it out and her son was arrested, and she was then left to deal with the remnants of her life. Looking back on this, she sees this period as a rite of passage.

    After her initial spiritual awakening, she left real-estate and opened an art gallery and healing arts center. She had been very analytical and left-brained until this moment, and she felt all these latent parts of herself emerge. She started working online to help other people awaken and organize their creative output in ways that allowed them to create an impact as well as wealth.

    How do you pull out your creative potential? There are 3 primary steps:

    1. Start with listening. The first thing you have to do is get clear about what’s not working and walk away from that. So many of us are looking for a quick fix when that fix rarely gets to the root cause of the issue.
    2. Once you walk away from what’s not working, you need to evaluate what you really want. You need to allow yourself to be you and to contribute what you want.
    3. After you become clear on what you want, you need to align your compass to your most efficient course of action. Take steps on a daily or moment-to-moment basis to get yourself back on track.

     

    Unlocking your creative potential is more important than ever now because we are currently at the dawn of the Creative Age. We have transitioned from the industrial age into the information age and beyond, but we still have so many preconceptions about what is of value based on those times. We need to value our own calling and creative power to create an entirely new landscape.

    In this day and age, it has never been easier to have a message, but it has also never been more difficult to be heard. If your own purpose is so important, how can we cut through the noise as a creator? You have to be authentic to your own creation. The industrial age was about copying and pasting information, but the creative age is about being authentic and original. And you have to be exceptionally clear. You do not want to be seen by everyone. You only want to be seen by the people who are a perfect fit for what you are delivering.

    If you are interested in creating a wealthy life that’s a work of art, you can visit quiz.wealthylifementor.com to find out if you are ready for a wealthy life.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “Clarity is divinity. If you’re feeling like you’re lost in the clouds of confusion, get yourself clear, and do it with help.”

     

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    Resources:

    • Learn more: www.wealthylifementor.com
    • Men on Purpose Podcast: https://www.emeraldgreenforest.com/podcast
    • Wickedly Smart Women: https://www.emeraldpgreenforest.com/wickedly-smart-women
    • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedlysmartwomenpodcast
    • LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/emeraldgreenforest
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    33 min
  • 142. How to Deal With Conflict Instead of Avoiding It | with Liz Kislik

    Today our expert guest is Liz Kislik, a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. She consults for clients such as American Express, Orvis, the Girl Scouts, Comcast, Jansen Pharmaceuticals, and Highlights for Children. Her specialty is developing high-performing leaders and workforces. She has taught at Hofstra University and New York University. Her TED Talk, Why There’s So Much Conflict at Work and What You Can Do to Fix It has been viewed over 150 thousand times.

    She got into conflict at work as a specialty accidentally. She always wanted to make things work better, and conflict is a part of life, so if you want things to work better you have to deal with it at some point.

    The conflict at work hasn’t changed much over the last 10 years, except that we are now dealing with more and different channels of communication. It is harder to read tone in email, text, or on social media. You are best off avoiding conflict on social media as much as possible, despite seeing a lot of it on there.

    One thing we are seeing play a role in the workplace conflict is confirmation bias or echo chambers. This means that you are surrounding yourself with like-minded people and only emphasizing what is already in your head, and strengthening your rejection of outside ideas.

    Here are just a few things you can do to manage conflict in your life:

    • Conflict in business is part of your job. It’s your job to figure out what happened and how to work through it. Don’t ignore it, and don’t issue threats. If an employee is not willing to work through conflict appropriately, they can do major harm to your business.
    • Start in an open-minded way and find out how you got to where you are.
    • Assume the person is not the problem.
    • Be self-aware.
    • Ask permission to bring up difficult topics.

     

    If you visit Liz’s office, there is a free ebook on how to resolve interpersonal conflict at work.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “There is almost always something you can do. We are rarely as trapped as we feel we are, even when there are structural problems. Taking the moment to be self-aware, to self-regulate, and then to think, “What is the best thing I can do now?” There is almost always something, even if it’s deciding that you have to wait for a better opportunity. We are rarely powerless.”

     

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    Resources:

    • Learn more: lizkislik.com
    • TEDx Talk: Why There’s So Much Conflict at Work and What You Can Do to Fix It
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizkislik/
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/LizKislik

     

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    29 min
  • 141. Becoming a Legend in the Sales Industry, Pt. 2 | with Ben Gay III

    Today our expert guest is Ben Gay III. He has been called a living legend in the sales world. After 50+ years in professional selling, he has been the #1 salesperson in every organization in which he’s worked. At the age of 25, he was the president of what was then the largest direct sales and network marketing company, having personally been trained by other sales legends such as J. Douglas Edwards, Dr. Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, William Penn Patrick, Zig Ziglar, and many other sales giants.

    Ben has been the king of sales for decades, and he has seen the impact of technology coming into your world and change everything. Given all of the noise that’s out there, it is more difficult than ever to capture someone’s attention.

    Nothing has changed in selling as far as the fundamentals. The technology we have today allows us to continue doing the same things that have always worked, but faster. People will always want to know how your product or service will benefit them personally, and that is still the same. We simply have the technology to get that message out in front of more people.

    Ben Gay is launching a new platform called “The Last Protege.” Dr. Hill had an enormous impact on Ben in the two and a half years they worked together before he tragically passed away. At a seminar Ben was at, he was connected with a man, Mark Harris, who was living encyclopedia of information about Dr. Hill.

    Dr. Hill had said, before he died, that his greatest mistake was not mentoring anyone. With Ben providing the personal aspects and Mark providing the technical aspects, they were able to document everything that Dr. Hill wrote and taught in language that you can understand today.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “People always asked what it was like to know all these legendary figures. They figured we all sat around in white bathrobes, cross-legged on the floor, saying profound things to each other. They were all just trying to sell their books or records back then, and trying to get more speaking engagements. They were just regular people trying to make a better living.”

     

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    • Learn more: https://www.bfg3.com
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengayiii
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ben.i.gay.1
    • The Last Protege: http://thelastprotege.com

     

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    26 min
  • 140. Becoming a Legend in the Sales Industry, Pt. 1 - with Ben Gay III

    Today our expert guest is Ben Gay III. He has been called a living legend in the sales world. After 50+ years in professional selling, he has been the #1 salesperson in every organization in which he’s worked. At the age of 25, he was the president of what was then the largest direct sales and network marketing company, having personally been trained by other sales legends such as J. Douglas Edwards, Dr. Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, William Penn Patrick, Zig Ziglar, and many other sales giants.

    In part one of our interview, Ben talks about how he got started in sales, and what it was like being around some of the most influential and successful people in marketing and sales.

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    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengayiii
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ben.i.gay.1

     

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    29 min
  • Ep. 139: Master Your Message: How Controlled Messaging Can Change the World | with Ralph Brogden

    Today our expert guest is Ralph Brogden, who helps smart people like you master your message, showing you how to package and promote your ideas for maximum impact, influence, and income.

    Ralph is a best-selling author, publisher, and strategic communication consultant specializing in marketing and media. His clients have been featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, USA Today, The Huffington Post, and hundreds of nationally syndicated television, newspaper, and magazine outlets. He is a producer for Business Innovators Radio Network and the host of Rebelpreneur Radio for WCKG 102.3 FM in Chicago. He is also a former copywriter and marketing strategist for a digital media agency in New York.

    Ralph had always been fascinated with the ways communication played a role in our world. We communicate to get people to buy products, to vote for certain politicians, and to try and change their habits and behaviors. That led him into a field called strategic communication, where he began to study how to influence the beliefs and behaviors of massive populations of people.

    He wants to encourage people to use that power for good, but we are already seeing it being used in ways that are not very good. Kids are using these tools for cyberbullying, harming one another instead of helping them. It has become a professional and academic interest for Ralph to figure out how we can master our message to change the world and make a difference.

    One of the key tenets of strategic communication that hold true across cultures is the power of storytelling, or narrative persuasion. We associate meaning through stories. It is something so native to humans that it is almost as if it’s in our DNA.

    An example of this is with negative self talk. We tell ourselves stories about why we aren’t happy, why someone else is more successful. We could just as easily create a new story that empowers us instead of weakens us, and encourage others as well.

    Everyone’s story is different, but there is still a process of 3 rules of communication that they all follow:

    1. Have something worth say
    2. Say it well
    3. Say it often

    There is also a 4-step process to follow when crafting your message:

    1. Visual: People make judgements in a microsecond based on the way something looks (a web page, book cover, clothing, etc.)
    2. Voice: Not just what you say, but how you say it. The language and voice that you use. This needs to be authentic to you instead of an imitation of someone else.
    3. Vibe: How do you make people feel? People make decisions depending on whether it is emotionally relevant to them.
    4. Value: No matter how great the other 3 factors, people want to know what it is worth to them. You need to solve a problem or deliver a result.

    These four factors maximize the effect of communicating to people that you can solve their problem and create a result. And if you can’t, then you say that you can’t and move on. By bringing that level of authenticity to the conversation, everyone involved is going to feel better about the situation.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “If you master your message, everything else falls into place. You don’t have to struggle with marketing. You don’t have to struggle with a lack of self-confidence. You don’t have to struggle to attract customers, or clients, or whatever it is that you want to accomplish. If you master your message, it becomes magnetic. People are attracted to you, they want to do business with you, and it seems almost magical. Master your message, and your marketing will take care of itself.”

     

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    • Learn more at: https://www.ralphbrogden.com
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralphbrogden
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    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RalphBrogden
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    36 min
  • Ep. 138: How Your Metabolism Affects Your Weight Loss & Fitness Goals | with Angelo Poli

    Today our expert guest is Angelo Poli, an internationally recognized expert in fitness and nutrition. He’s the founder of MetPro, an evaluation-based health coaching program specializing in transformations. Using a process called metabolic profiling, MetPro analyzes your metabolism and provides an individualized approach to obtaining your health goals.

    In 20 years of educating the masses and challenging generalized health guidance, Angelo has become one of the most celebrated and desired body transformation experts in the world. His high profile client list ranges from olympic athletes, NFL MVPs, physique models, and business leaders. Those fortunate enough to receive coaching from Angelo consistently achieve exceptional results, regardless of their demanding schedules, significant injuries, or crippled metabolisms. He is also a writer and featured speaker at conferences, a consultant for corporations, universities, and hospitals around the country, and has been featured in media outlets such as Men’s Health, Sports Illustrated, and The Wall Street Journal.

    In his early 20’s, Angelo suffered a debilitating back injury, but he didn’t want to get out of the wellness and fitness industry. He decided he was going to push forward and discover everything he could about the human body and how it works in order to repair his own injuries, and find ways to stay relevant and still be able to contribute in the industry. The area he found the most relevance in was metabolism.

    Transformations all hinge on understanding a persons’ individual metabolism. While Angelo continued on this journey, he continued to learn more about how it works, and he discovered that there is very little consistency in what the medical and fitness community understand metabolism to be.

    Metabolism is confusing because it is so unique to each individual. Our bodies range so dramatically in how they react to the foods we eat. Before we know whether a certain diet or exercise is going to be effect, we need to understand more about how your individual metabolism works.

    Every time we eat, we are conditioning our metabolism. The job of our metabolism is to adapt to our environment to keep us alive. This is the reason we will start to plateau after a diet or exercise change, because our body is adapting to change.

    There are five areas that we have to understand in order to know what has to change in order to know what has to change to reach your goals:

    -Your body type and goal

    -Lifestyle

    -Strategic approach

    -Metabolic approach

    -Baseline testing

    Once you understand these five things, you will have a much clearer understanding of your metabolism, and will be able to point you in a positive direction.

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “Keep learning. The way I’ve been able to accumulate the knowledge I have is by always being open to learning. Every single client that I’ve worked with, I’ve learned something new from. If you approach life that way, whatever your endeavors are, when people come into your life that you can learn from, take advantage of that.”

     

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    Resources:

    -Visit metpro.co/tdh for a free consultation

    -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metproco

    -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetabolicProfiling

    -Twitter: https://twitter.com/metprosystem

     

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    34 min
  • Ep. 137: How to Find Your Cloud Nine Moment | with Jordan Gross

    Today our expert guest is Jordan Gross, a Northwestern and Kellogg School of Management graduate, a two time startup founder, TedX speaker, and #1 best-selling author. His newest book, The Journey to Cloud Nine, provides a new approach to the personal development world by using fictional storytelling to reveal some of life's most meaningful principles. Jordan has interviewed thought leaders and influencers all over the world regarding how they live their lives on cloud nine, and he’s happy to share that information with everyone.

    Jordan was someone who was going through the motions in school. He based his decision-making on what others were doing or what they told him to do. He studied economics to become an investment banker before he realized he didn’t want to do that, and eventually was told he should get his masters degree.

    After doing more self-exploration, he started hearing that you should “follow your passion.” At the time he thought his passion was in the food and restaurant industry. He got a job in a management role, and everything looked great on paper, but very quickly he realized that this was not making the impact that he wanted to make.

    He quit that job, and knew he had to find something that was impact driven, that helped people, and adds value to people’s lives. This led to him writing his first book, Getting Comfy: Your Guide to Daily Happiness. In writing that book, he heard from his friends that they didn’t read his book. They didn’t like self-help books because they were too authoritative.

    That’s why he wrote The Journey to Cloud Nine the way that he did: He wanted to share these fundamental concepts in a way that his friends would read. So he wrote a story, with characters, and plot, and twists, but weaved with all the principles he had learned.

    While working on this book, he interviewed people all over the world to learn from their success and place different lessons in his stories. Each story is one cloud and one key concept based on what futures could have been.

    Through all of this, Jordan learned that he needed to follow and accentuate his best traits and aspirations in order to succeed. He focused on all of his key characteristics to find something of value. He took those and applied them to his passion.

    Finding your passion is easier said than done, though. How do you know what your passion is? Jordan does have one question you can ask yourself to help you discover it:

    “If someone gave you a 30 minute impromptu assessment, and your only task was to talk about one thing for 30 minutes straight, what would that one thing be?” Start to think about what you can talk about, and why that thing is interesting to you. 

     

    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

    “Somebody once told me the definition of hell. On my last day on this earth, the person I became will meet the person who I could have become, and those two people are complete strangers. Someone also once told me the definition of heaven. On my last day on this earth, the person I became will meet the person who I could have become, and those two are identical twins.”

    -Ed Mylett

     

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

     

    Resources:

    -Learn more at: https://www.journeytocloudnine.com

    -Read: Getting Comfy: Your Morning Guide to Daily Happiness

    -LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-gross-8271905b

    -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getting_comfy

     

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