By Scott Danner
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In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr. Matt Chalmers! Dr. Matt Chalmers is a health and wellness expert, author and speaker who specializes in the areas of long-term wellness, nutrition, women’s health, weight loss, athlete wellness and holistic healing.
With a client list that includes professional athletes, business executives, politicians and celebrities, Dr. Chalmers takes a holistic-based approach with patients to identify and treat the source of their issues.
Medical doctors regularly refer patients to Dr. Chalmers when traditional medications and treatments are not working with their patients.
Dr. Chalmers works with patients to identify, treat and manage a wide variety of issues, including weight loss/gain, digestive problems, chronic fatigue, pain, injuries, celiac disease, chiropractic problems, fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome and plantar fasciitis.
He also provides patients with hormone therapy guidance and treatment. Dr. Chalmers is the author of the bestselling book “Pillars of Wellness”, which helps readers cut through the information overload about wellness, exercise and diet to figure out the actions they can take that will have the greatest impact. Key Points
• Chemistry, not calories, fuels our body
• Testosterone as a healing hormone
• Sleep quality is key for muscle repair
• Cannabis to potentially replace opioids
• Real-life impact of hormone balance
Best Quotes04:04 - 04:08
• "You can have anything you want if you're willing to work for it. That's the thing I learned from sports."
05:42 - 05:59
• "And it's teaching him all these ways to be aware and to be out in front and to learn that at 14, 15 years old versus waiting until you're 27 and your $20 million contract depends upon whether or not your hamstrings running or not is so valuable." 10:08 - 10:15
• "if I can teach you how to be healthy, you parents, you can teach your kids how to be healthy. And now we've started changing the whole, the whole dynamic."
10:16 - 10:22
• "we don't need the drugs, we don't need the labels of a DD, we don't need those things. We just need to get the body chemically healthier the way it was designed to be."
22:57 - 23:05
• "Knowledge should, like the more you know the, the, the difference you, you should have. Like I quit drinking, I quit drinking last year for the, for the bodybuilding thing."
41:46 - 41:49
• "The vast majority of men are primary or secondary love language is physical touch."
On this week’s episode, I am joined by Pejman Ghadimi! Pejman is a self-made entrepreneur, philosopher, and author of the best-selling books “Third Circle Theory” & “RADIUS”. Pejman is a true “come up from nothing” story. He and his mother escaped as refugees from Iran to Paris when he was a young child, before making their way to America around the age of 12. Over the last 20 years, Pegman has built a multitude of businesses ranging from investment firms to a series of online education businesses! Pejman is the perfect example of how resourcefulness, hard work, and self-education are the most powerful keys to the life you want!
Key Points• The evolution of the American dream.
• High earning skills vs. high wages.
• Insights on self-awareness and business growth
• Financial education vs. outdated systems
• Mindset shifts in education.
Best Quotes
02:41 - 02:48
• "So, you know, the turning point was really nothing more than just realizing that there's work and there isn't work elsewhere."
04:13 - 04:22
• "And unfortunately, you may not have the necessary skills to actually start working on your dreams." 07:34 - 07:41
• "Wealthy people don't want their children to do the exact same thing that they did. They want them to start from a new point."
11:33 - 11:48
• "So, you know, I would say that, you know, today I feel really bad for those people, but I think that just like, I found a way to kind of make ends meet during those times until I was able to receive a green card, until I was able to basically have a normal path going through the process, which did take eight years or so."
12:36 - 12:42
• "So, you know, I I think it's one of these things where there isn't a one size fits all, you know, that where, where there's a solution to this."
48:26 - 48:40
• "And then finally when I became conscious, I looked back again at the entire journey and basically filled in the gap by creating data choice, which was how language is basically the missing component of consciousness that people aren't talking about."
In this week’s episode, I am joined by Lauren Zander!
Lauren created the Handel Method, founded the Handel Group, and has been coaching and leading the world to Human Better for over 20 years.
Lauren is also the creator of Inner.U: Learn to Human Better®, the online coaching course that teaches the entirety of The Handel Method, a method that has been used by dozens of celebrities, CEOs, and entrepreneurs since 2004 and is endorsed by Conscious Capitalism as its learning platform of choice for its members and leaders.
Lauren is also the author of Maybe It’s You (Published by Hachette Book Group, April 2017), a no-nonsense, practical manual that helps readers figure out not just what they want out of life, but how to actually get there.
Lauren has spent over 20 years coaching thousands of private clients: entrepreneurs, couples, families, professors, politicians, Emmy, Peabody and Academy Award-winning artists, Grammy-winning musicians, and Fortune 500 CEOs.
Her corporate clients have included executives from Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Sony BMG, The New York Times, News Corp, J. Walter Thompson Agency, Citibank, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Uniworld, The Gap Inc., BASF, NYU Langone Medical Center, and Vogue.
She has fixed corporate business relationships, mediated contract negotiations, reconciled marriages, and helped resolve complex family issues.
In the early 2000s, Lauren created a groundbreaking methodology, The Handel Method®, which is supported by top educators and psychologists, and has been developed and taught in over 50 major universities and institutes of learning across the country, including MIT, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Medical School, NYU, Columbia, Yale School of Drama, Wesleyan, Fordham, Rutgers, Middlebury College, Scripps Research.
Key Points
• Discover your dreams in life's 12 areas
• Unleash creativity alongside professional life
• Use music as a powerful healing tool
• Shift from knowing to actively doing
• Building relationships with authenticity
Best Quotes
02:11 - 02:23
• "I even call it like, I didn't, I, well, first of all, I wasn't an artist till much later in life about 10 or 12 years ago when my kids were, I, they didn't need me anymore that way."
03:26 - 03:36
• "That's really one of the ways I roll, right? Like the, the mystery of what our own higher self would answer if we actually asked it on a regular basis." 04:33 - 04:42
• "Yeah. And, and the reason I set it up for eight hours straight, eight, you know, seven days a week was, it would have to be something you would love to do."
40:45 - 41:01
• "I think our parents didn't have the same, don't shoot me for saying this everyone, but I think our parents had no choice but to have children at a much younger age that it was like get, you couldn't get laid unless you got pinned."
51:38 - 51:49
• "I don't coach my children though. My youngest definitely asked for coaching and, and calls me when she needs, like I get called when they need it actually, which is beautiful."
In this week’s episode I am joined by Lia Valencia Key! Lia’s story of homelessness to launching a jewelry brand in over 100 million homes is one of deep inspiration, perserverance, faith, and love! Lia created Valencia Key Jewelry company which was launched on QVC! Valencia Key Jewelry has also been featured in Oprah Magazine 2020 Favorite Things Issue, Mel Robbins Show, and Speak on the Stage with Brendon Burchard, Ed Mylett, and Tony Robbins! Lia reaches back to where she comes from donating and educating women in homeless shelters on the “Keys to Light” and how to rise out of rough environments! Lia is a living example that all things are possible by rooting into the power of choosing joy, believing, and radiating light! Lia’s mantra is: “If I can, YOU Definitley Can”! Key Points
• Trajectory of change from homeless to leader
• Crafting positivity and energy in every communication
• Power of choice changes lives.
• Trauma can seed transformation.
• Love fuels the quest for better.
• Dreams and millimeter movements
Best Quotes 05:52 - 06:04
• "There's a divine whisper, there's a inner light, there's a destiny inside of you, and all you have to do is choose to lead your life towards your destiny." 06:47 - 06:56
• "But you have the choice to decide, do I love myself enough and do I understand the love of God enough to listen to something that is unseen?" 07:35 - 07:48
• "No matter what, like when I'm failing, when my business is in struggle, how am I gonna show up? Am I gonna show up in sorrow and negativity and anger?"
08:15 - 08:23
• "It's the power of the curiosity of wondering why we failed at something, what we could do differently, how we can learn."
11:19 - 11:24
• "We love permission. And that gave me permission to listen to my truth."
31:26 - 31:31
• "Love is not a pushover. Actually. Love stands up for the things that are Right."
I recently had a podcast where the conversation was all political... If you know me, you know that isn't my general conversation of choice. However, it did get me thinking about some things, such as:
Here are my thoughts!
In this week’s episode, I am joined by Victoria Trammel! Victoria Trammel is a seasoned facilitator and leadership consultant who brings almost two decades of experience supporting the Intelligence Community to her work with Arbinger Institute, a world leader in mindset change.
Through training, consulting, coaching, and implementation programs, Arbinger enables individuals, teams, and organizations to change from the default self-focus of an inward mindset to the impact-focus of an outward mindset.
Victoria began her career in joint counterterrorism operations, igniting a love of instructional design and facilitation while supporting partners around the globe. She has indispensable hands on, real-world experience of creating organizational culture change through the Outward mindset.
She now thrilled to be sharing word about the new and revised 4th Edition of Arbinger’s book Leadership and Self Deception: The Secret to Transforming Relationships and Unleashing Results. Victoria has a beautiful, blended family of 6 that enjoys planning vacations around experiencing different cultures through the power of food.
Key Points
• Self-deception’s effect on marriages
• Curiosity: A High-Performer's Superpower
• Impact of little efforts on loved ones
• Self-deception can blind us
• Get curious to understand others' perspectives.
• Leadership evolves with empathy
Best Quotes
09:51 - 09:58
• "Well, and I think that curiosity is key, right? Because it's very easy for me as a leader to get up here and pontificate, right? I'm communicating."
11:19 - 11:23
• "It's, it's often when the other person paints you as something you're not."
14:34 - 14:39
• "And I think that's what, like, it's a great way to almost practice, right? Because it is a skill."
41:41 - 41:51
• "I think a lot of what we talk about at home is, is our kids, you know, we, we don't talk about necessarily inward versus outward, but we talk about understanding your impact on others, right?"
In this weeks episode, I am joined by Jason Drees!
Jason Drees is an entrepreneur, alignment coach, author, husband, and father of four boys based in Austin, Texas.
With more than 10,000 hours of coaching sessions delivered in his career, Jason catapults those he works with into success by disrupting old narratives and normalcy to partner with his clients to conquer limiting beliefs, remove resistance, upgrade their stories, and unlock unprecedented results.
He developed a proven 5-step framework to empower his clients to do the impossible in their lives. His creation of alignment coaching teaches others how to align with success at the level of their full potential rather than endlessly chasing results at the level of their problems.
He has mastered the process of helping clients into alignment to push high-performers - like Brandon Turner - to their limits and past their comfort zones to see accelerated growth, impact, and influence in everything they do.
No other coach can help clients annihilate “average” at its deepest level, and act as a catalyst of transformation to help them live and execute at their full potential like Jason Drees.
Key Points
• Change your mindset, change your reality
• From managing to mastering high performance
• Evolving beyond transactions to relationships
• Understanding the concept of alignment
• Transformative power of stillness and alignment
Best Quotes
05:17 - 05:23
• "So what I, that, that was actually the beginning of understanding what alignment is because prior to that, I thought you grind your way to success." 05:55 - 06:00 • "And then what actually happened in 2020 is I discovered there's a level above mindset called frame."
06:01 - 06:08
• "And by understanding that mindset, I started coaching at the, at the frame level versus the mindset level. And it started to shift anything."
06:10 - 06:14
• "Success doesn't come from hard work. Success comes from alignment with success."
22:51 - 22:58
• "The framework itself is five steps. The first one is what is alignment? And once you understand that process of alignment, we apply it in four different places."
A recent conversation I had got me thinking about energy, or in other words, the way you show up to the rest of the world. Energy is a crucial part of my life and one of the key pillars of The High Performance LIFE! So I thought it would be valuable to share this message with you!
In this week’s episode, I am joined by Kelly Siegel!
Kelly Siegel is the CEO of National Technology Management (NTM). He has an educational background in criminal justice and sociology from Western Michigan University.
Kelly has been delivering results since running his first paper route as a twelve-year-old. Besides his goal to make NTM the gold standard of the IT industry, his mission in life is to leave a legacy, or in Kelly’s words, “make a dent.”
His relentless drive to better himself is breaking his family’s cycle of abuse, addiction, and poverty. Kelly takes personal progress to the next level by continuously improving his physical, emotional, and mental health and performance by working out daily, reading voraciously, and practicing mindfulness.
You’ll find him feeding people at spontaneous cookouts in his backyard, volunteering his time for causes close to his heart, and mentoring the next generation of leaders. Key Points
• Transforming childhood trauma into strength
• Achieving high performance through EQ
• Surrender is key to life's cheat code.
• Principles of surrender and gratitude in life
• Approaching politics with curiosity, not judgment
Best Quotes 03:17 - 03:27
• "It was probably on one of my podcasts when I had to do the final edits when they sent me the final manuscript and I cried like a baby."
04:17 - 04:25
• "And then after I, they said, and they were right. So we, right now, I think this morning we're number 12 in the country at self-improvement for harder than life."
06:07 - 06:18
• "I lived in the gap for most of my life. And the challenge is when you live in the gap is when you actually attain something you were working for, it's empty and you don't understand why."
07:51 - 08:10
• "Was that where you decided, was that the event where you decided to surrender because that's really what you're, what the moment you realize that you're not in control of this and you can surrender to whatever you call it, you're a Christian or Catholic, so you, it's God, it could be energy, it could be source, it could be anything"
12:26 - 12:32
• "So I would tell you that yes, you gotta fricking do the work, but you also have to detach from the outcome."
12:51 - 12:56
• "Marry the process, divorce the outcome, that's it. Get better every day and keep freaking grinding."
34:33 - 34:41
• "As I said, man, my positivity has got more infinite than your negativity or pessimism ever will."
01:00:03 - 01:00:08
• "Love everybody and tell the truth. And if we all did that, this would be a better place."
In this week’s episode, I am joined by Christina Rasmussen!
In 2010, four years after her thirty-five-year-old spouse passed away from Stage 4 colon cancer, she created the Life Reentry process, which launched her on a mission to bring compassion, grace and validation to thousands, while simultaneously establishing an exit from what she termed the “Waiting Room”.
Christina holds a master’s degree in guidance and counseling (University of Durham). She is currently finishing her master of fine arts degree in painting and drawing (Academy of Art). Her grief work has been featured on ABC News, The Guardian, Women’s World, the Washington Post, and the White House Blog.
In her latest book, Christina advocates for what she calls “invisible losses”. Those moments of feeling misunderstood by your partner, left out of a friend group, or sad over a lackluster performance review, arguing that these moments are worthy of both emotion and recognition.
In her spare time, she is learning to play the piano and planning her first trip to the edge of space. She works and lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Eric, and their two dogs. Key Points
• Transform tragedy into life's purpose
• Embracing the journey, not just the goal
• Shifting perception of self after loss
• Discover "invisible loss" and personal impact
• Defining life's path amidst imperfection
• Choosing joy amidst everyday grief
Best Quotes
04:51 - 05:00
• "We live in a world where we are doing things for a purpose, for a reason, for a mission for someone else, for people pleasing, for all those things."
06:19 - 06:35
• "I think the, I think the closer we get to who we really are. So the beauty of getting older is, is wisdom. And the closer we get to who we really are, sometimes when we find ourselves going through the motions, we're, it's, it's much easier to identify it quicker."
10:10 - 10:27
• "We start out in this life, Scott, and people experience this mom, I call the moments of impact happen to us. And we abandon that original, that true self, that authenticity of ourselves to please the world that lives outside of us."
11:15 - 11:22
• "It's millions of people. And most of us die there. And we don't even know. We were not living our life. We, were not living the life. We're here to live."
16:46 - 16:56
• "It was an invisible experience that we couldn't even know for ourselves. So it wasn't just invisible to others that we were experiencing this, this sadness, this anxiety."
23:37 - 23:45
• "It's about not living your life numb. It's about truly awakening and opening up yourself, yourself."
27:16 - 27:25
• "Because in the beginning it is important to go out, metaphorically speaking, and stay out as long as we can come back, rest, go back out again."
The podcast currently has 97 episodes available.