The Irreplaceable Man Podcast

Many men mistake passion for purpose. But Dov Baron argues that passion is about what you get, while purpose is about what you give. In fact, he believes that your purpose exists in your pain—in healing the people suffering from the very thing you need to heal in yourself.

Dov is an international speaker with 30-plus years of experience presenting at the World Business Conference, the State Department and The United Nations, among many other venues. A leading authority on authentic leadership, he is one of Inc. magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers to hire. Dov is also the founder of Full Monty Leadership and The Authentic Speaker Academy for Leadership and host of Dov Baron’s Leadership and Loyalty Show and Pursuing Deep Greatness with Dov Baron on ROKU TV.

Today, Dov joins Emerald to share the experiences that helped him define his own purpose and explain how to cultivate courage by way of a purpose greater than you. He describes how he uses his purpose as a gauge for making decisions about what opportunities to pursue. Dov also addresses the significance of packaging your offering in the familiar and the reason why you can’t shame people into raising their hand for your service. Listen in to understand Dov’s fake-it-until-you-feel-it approach to celebrating success and learn how to uncover your purpose by examining your pain.

How MLK’s death informed Dov’s desire to make an impact

The free climbing accident that forced Dov to find his purpose

Dov’s insight around the subjectivity of courage

How to cultivate courage with a purpose greater than you

How Dov decides what to pursue based on his purpose

The distinction between passion and purpose

Why you have to examine your pain to find your purpose

The significance of packaging your offering in the familiar

Why you can’t shame people into putting their hand up

Dov’s fake-it-until-you-feel-it approach to celebrating success

Full Monty Leadership

Leadership and Loyalty Podcast

Fiercely Loyal by Dov Baron

One Red Thread: Discovering the Purpose Already Woven into Your Life by Dov Baron

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In a world that perpetuates collective fear, how do we choose to move forward in love? Despite our cultural conditioning to surrender power to outside forces, we can set personal boundaries around the information that we consume. We can devote our energy to taking action that empowers us. We can choose to live freely, with love as our guiding force.

Scott Sabile is a screenwriter, author and love activist with an engaged following of 350K Facebook fans. In addition to his inspirational social media posts and videos, Scott has written a number of books, including Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart. He is also a sought-after speaker, known for the empowerment workshops he runs both nationally and internationally.

Today, Scott joins Emerald to share his introduction to the metaphysical world and explain how it informed his decision to make love the guiding force in his life. He describes how his Facebook page grew into the book Big Love and how he exercises courage by learning to move forward with fear. Scott also offers insight on giving time and energy to the things that fuel you, monitoring your intake of information, and taking action when you feel hopeless or disempowered. Listen in to understand how to gain clarity by listening to your body and make freeing choices that are aligned with your heart.

Scott’s introduction to the metaphysical world

Scott’s decision to make love the guiding force in his life

How Scott’s Facebook page grew into the book Big Love

Scott’s resolve to make writing about love his life’s work

How to gain courage by shifting your relationship with fear

The value in giving time/energy to the things that fuel you

Scott’s advice around monitoring your information intake

How to take action when you feel hopeless/disempowered

Why setting boundaries is the most respectful thing to do

Scott’s strategy of gaining clarity by listening to his body

How to make choices that are aligned with your heart

Scott’s Website

Scott on Facebook

Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart by Scott Stabile

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The Oogieloves in the BIG Balloon Adventure

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The divine truth is, you are enough. You are whole, worthy and loved. Yet many of us have endured trauma or been shaped by culture to believe that we are not deserving, that we are not enough. And that disconnect often manifests in the form of health challenges. In order to truly be and live well, you must come back home to your soul.

Soul Medicine Man Jerome Braggs is a highly-gifted intuitive, inspirational speaker and conscious business mentor. In 2005, Jerome was diagnosed with AIDS and his kidneys were failing. He was given only 48 hours to live. On his deathbed, Jerome received a message—the key to true healing and wellbeing—to come back home to your soul. Today, he teaches people around the spiritual principles and mindset patterns that allowed him to heal his body and transform his life. 

Today, Jerome joins Emerald to share his near-death experience and discuss how it inspired him to uncover what it takes to live well. He explains what it means to come back home to your soul, describing the daily diligence required to hold divine truth in your consciousness. Listen in for Jerome’s insight around the connection between your outer reality and your inner reality—and learn to make choices based on how you want to feel.

The message Jerome received from his near-death experience

Jerome’s mission to learn what it takes to be and live well

Jerome’s calling to teach others to come back home to the soul

What it means to come back home to your soul

• Bring personal and divine truth in alignment
• Bring energy of soul into body

How Jerome’s illness was a reflection of past trauma

The daily diligence it takes to hold truth in your consciousness

How Jerome learned to say NO and set healthy boundaries

How Jerome draws courage from wanting to live well

How asking how you want to feel each day informs your choices

The connection between your outer reality and inner reality

Jerome’s Website

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Early in your career as an entrepreneur, it is tempting to take on every opportunity that comes your way. But onboarding clients who aren’t the right fit doesn’t serve either one of you. Jim Padilla contends that collaboration is about two people achieving at their greatest together, elevating each other to the best version of themselves. So, how do you get clear on who your ideal clients are? And how do you commit to saying NO when the partnership isn’t ideal?

Jim Padilla is the CEO of Gain the Edge, a dynamic leadership training system for coaches, consultants and executives. His top-flight sales team is the leading service provider for the personal growth, business coaching and direct response marketing industries. Known as the King of Collaboration, Jim and his wife Cyndi help clients generate seven-figure launches and sustainable sales conversion strategies. 

Today, Jim sits down with Emerald to explain how his upbringing in an abusive environment informs his work today. He describes his role as a leader behind-the-scenes, supporting people to make changes in their own best interests. Jim also discusses the value in owning your circumstances, replicating the things you are doing right, and choosing clients that bring out the best version of yourself—and vice versa. Listen in for Jim’s insight on communicating boundaries and expectations and learn how his success is fueled by making people feel comfortable and then delivering value.

How Jim’s abusive upbringing informs his work today

Jim’s role in leading leaders from behind

Jim’s insight around owning your outcomes

How Jim focuses on replicating what he does right

Jim’s insight around life as a team sport

The value in getting clear on who you serve best

How to choose clients that bring out your best self

The importance of communicating boundaries

Jim’s definition of collaboration as achieving together

Jim’s willingness to introduce prospects to someone else

Jim’s strength in making people feel comfortable and safe

The Gain the Edge sales philosophy

1. Provide breakthrough experience
2. Sell product if right fit

Gain the Edge

Jim’s 7 Keys to Selling in a Crowd

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Email: [email protected]

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Men on Purpose who are driven to achieve sometimes neglect their own health and wellness. We know the value of eating well, getting enough sleep, staying active and managing stress—but how do you consistently follow through on realizing those behaviors as busy adults? Is there a SEAMLESS Method for achieving work-life balance?

Recalibration Expert Allen Vaysberg is a Senior Professional in Human Resources and Certified Corporate Wellness Expert who facilitates the transition from unfulfilled and stressed to doing what you love and being at peace. A sought-after speaker on life purpose, career change and work-life balance, Allen is the creator of the SEAMLESS Method and the bestselling author of The New Love Triangle: Your Practical Guide to a Love-Filled Life.

Today, Allen sits down with Emerald to discuss the freedom he felt after aligning with his essence and saying YES to his calling. He explains how he overcame laziness to go from dreamer to talker to doer, balancing what feels right in the moment with the hard work of planning and action. Allen also shares his approach to staying committed by focusing on others and his take on coaching as a way to amplify your abilities. Listen in to understand the eight elements of Allen’s SEAMLESS Method for achieving wellness and learn how his Love Triangle framework serves as a practical guide to work-life balance.

The inner voice that inspired Allen to say YES to his calling

The freedom Allen felt once he aligned with his essence

How Allen overcame his laziness to go from dreamer to doer

How to balance what feels right with planning and action

Allen’s take on creativity as energy in a spiritual environment

How Allen stays committed by focusing on inspiring others

The eight elements of Allen’s SEAMLESS Method

1. Sleep
2. Eat/drink
3. Active
4. Meditation
5. Love
6. Expansion/growth
7. Stress management
8. Sunshine/fresh air

Allen’s framework for loving yourself, others and your day

How Allen’s book serves as a guide to work-life balance

How Allen leverages coaching to amplify his intuitive abilities

How Allen’s book and trainings have changed people’s lives

Allen’s Website

Resources

The New Love Triangle: Your Practical Guide to a Love-Filled Life by Allen Vaysberg

Jaden Sterling

Amanda Hinman

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How does a man with little risk tolerance turn down four job offers and start his own digital marketing agency? According to AJ Wilcox, it was a combination of expertise and faith that gave him the courage to move forward with his big idea and pursue entrepreneurship.

AJ is the founder of B2Linked, a marketing agency that specializes in account management and consulting for LinkedIn Ads. As Certified LinkedIn Partners, AJ’s team manages some the world’s largest and most sophisticated accounts. Prior to pursuing entrepreneurship in 2012, AJ spent four years honing his digital marketing skills with Big Fish Automation, Five Star Franchising and Domo, Inc.

Today, AJ joins Emerald to explain how he discovered LinkedIn ads as a viable marketing channel and how his faith helped him make the decision to pursue entrepreneurship. He describes his ‘stepping stone’ process for taking inspired action and discusses how his strengths as a natural networker help him market B2Linked. AJ also shares his simple management philosophy and his challenges around learning to delegate. Listen in for AJ’s insight on how LinkedIn ads target specific professionals and learn whether your business is a good fit for the services offered at B2Linked.

AJ’s early interest in digital marketing and SEO

How AJ discovered LinkedIn ads as a viable marketing channel

AJ’s success running the world’s largest LinkedIn ad account

How AJ leveraged prayer to decide on entrepreneurship

How expertise and faith gave AJ the courage to start a business

AJ’s process around taking inspired action to create

How AJ’s natural networking ability helped him market B2Linked

How learning to delegate transformed AJ’s company

AJ’s simple management philosophy

The circle of consultants who help AJ navigate challenges

How LinkedIn ads target specific professionals (e.g.: HR directors)

The businesses that are a good fit for AJ’s B2Linked services

How AJ celebrates milestones by investing in experiences

AJ’s advice on working for someone else while you develop skills

B2Linked

AJ on Twitter

LinkedIn Ads

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Emerald’s Website

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Email: [email protected]

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The key to becoming a successful entrepreneur is all about mindset. Surrounding yourself with people who are where you want to be will program the way you think and support you in developing the ethos of an entrepreneur. So, where do you go to find the right mentors and Meetup groups?

Tom Nardone is the Millionaire Mailman, mail carrier turned real estate investor who started buying homes on his route back in the 1980’s. After 25 years in the business, he has purchased 250-plus properties and created courses for several real estate information products. Tom is also the co-author of Secrets of the Real Estate Millionaires, and he has appeared on Good Morning America and CNBC’s Power Lunch.

Today, Tom sits down with Emerald to share his evolution to become the Millionaire Mailman, explaining how he leveraged his work delivering mail to find real estate deals. He discusses how he developed the mindset of an entrepreneur, the unique way he financed his first property, and how he utilized mentors early in his investing career. Tom also shares the three best ways to approach the real estate business and his mission to give back by coaching aspiring investors to their first check. Listen in for Tom’s insight on surrounding yourself with the right people and developing the thought patterns necessary to be a successful real estate entrepreneur.

The moment Tom realized he was trapped in a government job

How Tom leveraged his work delivering mail to find properties

How Tom developed the mindset of an entrepreneur

The unique way Tom financed his first real estate deal

Tom’s top three approaches to the real estate business

1. Wholesale
2. Fix and flip
3. Buy and hold

The difference between true mentorship and info marketing

How Tom utilized mentors early in his real estate career

How Tom has supported 600 students in the last five years

The value in learning to sell yourself through presentations

Tom’s three- to six-month coaching process

How Tom celebrates wins with tax-deductible vacations

Tom’s advice on surrounding yourself with the right people

Millionaire Mailman

Secrets of Real Estate Millionaires by Tom Nardone, John Assaraf and Dustin Mathews

New Media Summit

Zig Ziglar

Meetup

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It takes a great deal of courage to leave a lucrative role as a corporate IT director and become an entrepreneur. And if you happen to be a member of a minority, you are likely to encounter even more negativity and judgement for taking a chance on your big vision. Where can you go to find a mentor or mastermind that will help you side step the skeptics to build and scale the business of your dreams?

Visionary entrepreneur Albert J. Williams is the President and CEO of Best Deal Private Car Service. Under his leadership, the company has grown from a fleet of 19 owner-operated cars to nearly 270 and expanded to add non-emergency medical transportation to their line of services. Today, Albert is helping young minority entrepreneurs learn to grow a business by way of his mastermind coaching venture, Plan Build Become.  

On this episode of Men on Purpose, Albert sits down with Emerald to explain how he evaluates opportunities and share the impetus for his new undertaking to coach aspiring minority entrepreneurs. He offers insight around the tremendous value of mentoring, describing the upward trajectory of his business once he found the right coach. He also shares his practice of self-competition to stay committed to the creative process and his focus on service to attract business—rather than having to chase it. Listen in to understand how Albert uses negativity as fuel and learn how a mastermind group can challenge you in the constructive cycle of growth and learning.

How Albert’s mother inspired him to be strong and level-headed

How Albert evaluates opportunities based on the value-add

The exponential growth of Albert’s transportation service

Albert’s new venture for aspiring minority entrepreneurs

Albert’s insight regarding the tremendous value of a mentor

How finding a coach put Albert’s business on an upward trajectory

Albert’s advice around betting on yourself

Albert’s courage to leave the corporate world for entrepreneurship

How Albert holds himself accountable through self-competition

How Albert uses negativity and judgement as fuel/energy

Why service is the first step in attracting business

How Albert’s mastermind group challenges him to grow

Albert on LinkedIn

Aaron Walker

Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind

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Addiction recovery tends to focus on the addict alone. But the truth is, the addict functions within the larger context of their family, yet the vast majority of recovery programs don’t address the trauma experienced by family members. It is also more difficult for the addict to stay in recovery when their environment remains stagnant. So, what if we took a holistic approach to addiction recovery, designing a method that includes the entire family?

Jeff Jones is an addiction counselor, therapist, interventionist and family recovery coach. His online platform, The Family Recovery Solution, offers a three-phase program that empowers families to safeguard their loved one in an addictive cycle or recovery, while they engage in a process to end the addiction cycle in this generation. Jeff is passionate about connecting families of addiction with resources and expertise and providing a collaborative approach to healing that transforms the whole family.

Today, Jeff joins Emerald to share his personal experience in a family plagued by addiction and offer insight around the intergenerational transmission of the accompanying grief and pain. Jeff explains his inspiration for developing resources for families with addiction and how he leveraged the model of invitational intervention to get closer to the family dynamics involved. He also describes the three programs offered through Family Recovery Solutions and shares the case study of a doctor who leveraged Jeff’s program to address her son’s addiction. Listen in to understand the significance of including the addict’s environment in the recovery process and learn how family members are impacted by the trauma of addiction.

Jeff’s personal experience in a family plagued by addiction

Jeff’s insight around intergenerational transmission

How addiction functions within a larger family context

The value of including the environment in the recovery process

What inspired Jeff to develop resources for families with addiction

How Jeff leveraged the model of invitational intervention

How families tend to ‘orient around addiction’

The three programs Jeff’s Family Recovery Solution offers

How a doctor addressed her son’s addiction with Jeff’s program

The slow, gradual and progressive nature of Jeff’s success

How Jeff celebrates by connecting with the natural world

The Family Recovery Solution

New Media Summit

Jeff’s Spotlight Diagram

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Emerald’s Website

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Email: [email protected]

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Men in our culture are socialized to connect money and self-worth, and Dave Blanchard was no different. He WAS his Ferrari, his Rolex, his ski lodge. But what happens if you lose it all? Who are you then?

How do you build your worth back, find purpose in the suffering and heal your soul? How do you get connected to a power greater than you and meet your true, magnificent self?

Dave is the CEO of The Og Mandino Group, a company dedicated to helping individuals and organizations apply positive thought processes for success and higher achievement in business and relationships. He is also the bestselling author of many books, including Today I Begin a New Life, and the creator of the Habit Finder profile, a proprietary application that measures a person’s habits of thinking. More than 100K individuals have completed the Habit Finder profile, and Dave has personally debriefed 6.5K profiles and coached over 4K clients.

Today, Dave sits down with Emerald to share his calling to bring Og Mandino’s principles to the 21st century. He describes the dark night that inspired his mission to help others, explaining how losing his proud heart helped him see what matters most. Dave also offers insight around using adversity as a resource to understand what someone else is going through and filling the void in your soul via empathy for others. Listen in to understand the value in recognizing your habits of thinking—and learn to shut off self-sabotaging dialogue and embrace your natural gifts!

Dave’s calling to bring Og Mandino’s principles to the 21st century

The dark night that inspired Dave’s mission to help others

Dave’s insight around what really matters in life

How Dave found himself by losing himself in service of others

How to build your self-worth by using adversity as a resource

How helping others feel understood fills the void in your soul

How to leverage passion-driven action to embrace your genius

What Dave’s Habit Finder reveals about your strengths/challenges

Why Dave views self-sabotaging dialogue as Enemy #1

How to shut off the noise and embrace your natural gifts

Dave’s create-celebrate process for igniting your passion daily

Habit Finder

Og Mandino

Today I Begin a New Life: Og Mandino for the 21st Century by Dave Blanchard

Books by Dave Blanchard

The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino

Books by Og Mandino

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