The Jason Wright Show

Episode 102 Pete Havel

We are living in weird times. Everyone has to watch their back in a way never seen before. What’s ok today isn’t tomorrow. What was ok 20 years ago isn’t ok twenty minutes from now. Navigating the waters of corporate America has never been more challenging.

Companies big and small are going to have to step up and decide what kind of a culture they want to have. They have to be willing to stand up and address problem employees and right a ship with a culture of wrong doing. Pete Havel experienced first hand a toxic person as well as a company who allowed their behavior to go on for years. This is a great conversation for anyone working in a organization with co-workers.

The Arsonist in the Office is your survival guide for enduring the toxic workplace (and toxic people) and a call to action for a bold new approach to addressing tough issues. If you have ever led an organization or participated on a team and felt completely frustrated by the sabotage of another colleague, leader, or even client, this book is for you. Leaders, colleagues and organizations across the world have adopted this new movement – to not just “create” a great culture but to protect it. Building a great culture is always a worthy goal but fireproofing it – is just as important. The book provides detailed practical tools and tactics you need to know how to fireproof yourself and your culture from your organization’s arsonists! Pete Havel is an innovative voice in the world of corporate transformation, and his book teaches top leaders at all levels how to effectively stop toxic movements and eliminate the arsonist lurking within an organization or team. This is a book that will ignite and empower everyone who reads it!

Episode 101-Eric Peyton and Carey Crist of The In Vivo Project

Eric Peyton, founder and owner of In Vivo, is an experienced interventionist, recovery coach and wellness specialist based in Dallas, Texas.  Eric holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Texas at Tyler.  Prior to launching In Vivo, Eric worked as a Wellness & Recreation Counselor at Caron Treatment Centers helping patients tackle their addictions by improving their physical wellness through innovative fitness training, adventure-based team building exercises and equine assisted therapy.  Eric also has over a decade of experience as a certified personal trainer delivering high quality fitness instruction and nutritional guidance to executives, professionals and high performance athletes.  As a recovery coach with a background in fitness and nutrition, Eric has a unique understanding of the interrelationship between wellness and recovery.  He believes that successful recovery is dependent on physical, mental and spiritual well-being.  During post-treatment recovery, Eric integrates The Seven Dimensions of Wellness to help clients build on their strengths and shore up their weaknesses so that they may embrace their sobriety, avoid relapse and reach their personal goals.

TREATMENT PLANNING

A comprehensive assessment is the first step in understanding each client’s unique needs. However, there is a flood of treatment providers and navigating these options can be a convoluted and difficult process. In Vivo simplifies treatment planning by collaborating with acclaimed psychologists, psychiatrists and other trusted professionals. Together, we create a custom recovery plan constructed to ensure personalized service every step of the way.

INTERVENTIONS

A professional intervention presents a unique opportunity – a definitive moment of change – to address complex family issues and take action in a safe environment. Interventions are planned meticulously, and require a complex effort that may require two or three meeting prior in order to develop a comprehensive family plan.  In Vivo prepares families through didactic training on addiction and a collaborative treatment plan meant to identify how to best support the client’s sustained recovery.

SOBER TRANSPORT

Sober transportation typically follows an intervention and is useful once clients decide to pursue residential treatment. In Vivo‘s sober transport service provides the client with safe and efficient transportation by a recovery coach who can help ease anxiety and provide encouragement along the client’s journey to residential treatment.

AFTERCARE SOBER COMPANIONSHIP

For individuals suffering from substance abuse disorders, the first 90 days following in-patient treatment are the most critical.  Studies show that relapse rates are as high as 75% during that 90 day period.  However, individuals with outpatient support are more likely to maintain their sobriety in the first year following treatment.  In Vivo protects your investment in treatment through 24-hour-a-day companionship during transition from the highly structured treatment environment to post-treatment daily life.

RECOVERY COACHING

Recovery Coaching is designed to help transition clients into everyday life.  A recovery coach partners with the client to identify the unique barriers hindering their full recovery and offers mentorship – in real time – to successfully overcome challenges. As a client progresses and implements positive lifestyle changes, In Vivo provides ongoing support to promote long-term recovery an...

Episode 100-Mark Lehman, Author of ‘The Shoebox Chronicles’

Wow! Episode 100! I can’t believe it. Thank you so much for tuning into the show over the past 2.5 years. Here’s to another 100.

We all rush from one daily activity to another without ever stopping to realize we are actually living our own history.

The attic discovery of a shoebox stuffed with old letters reveals a rich, sometimes humorous, and occasionally shocking glimpse into one family’s heritage.

Every family is living their own unique story. But the wisdom, mistakes, and traditions of our past will be lost forever if our experiences are not saved and passed to the next generation. Understanding our current realities while building a foundation for the future can only be done through documenting the historic ties connecting our journey.

The Shoebox Chronicles offers an insightful guidepost for everyone to chronicle and preserve their own treasured legacy.

This was such a fun conversation with my dear friend turned author. This is a book we need right now. It’s fun. It’s heartwarming. It shows a family’s history in their own words. Any family can relate to Mark’s.

With the advent of social media and all forms of communication going digital we run the risk of losing much of our history. This book will inspire you to do something few do any more-write.

I know you will enjoy this very special episode 100 of The Jason Wright Show!

Mike Boykin, Founder and CEO of Bespoke Sports Marketing

Where is college football headed? How will the small schools compete with the Power 5 schools? Will all that money corrupt the student athletes? What will “name and likeness” rules do to change player interaction? We discuss it all on this special college football edition of The Jason Wright Show!

Mike continues his distinguished career in sports and entertainment as co-founder and CEO of Bespoke Sports & Entertainment. Mike has spent nearly 40 years leading brand strategy, consultation, property negotiation, event marketing, account team management and activation platforms across the sports landscape. At Bespoke he has overseen the development of a global award-winning marketing agency and maintains deep, high-level relationships with brands, properties, agencies and media companies. In a short time, Mike has led Bespoke in delivering award-winning campaigns for its brand clients, though he is most proud that Bespoke has been recognized by Inc. Magazine and Charlotte Business Journal as Best Places to Work. Prior to founding Bespoke, Mike spent 16 years building GMR Marketing’s sports marketing practice as Executive Vice President. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and the Ohio University Sports Administration program. Mike is an active contributor to the community including the founding of the Charlotte Sports+Business networking group. He is a recipient of the Charles R. Higgins Distinguished Alumni Award from Ohio University and was named one of Charlotte’s Most Admired CEOs. 

About Vip:

Besides having a really cool name, Vip Vipperman is a cool guy with a great story. This conversation would have fit will within the “Iron Sharpening Iron” series because I definitely came away sharper. Enjoy the conversation!

Vip Vipperman is an investment professional and relationship manager who has developed a global network of entrepreneurs, funds, incubators, accelerators, and family offices to build deal flow and catalyze investments. He hosts pitch competitions, keynote events and training sessions for thousands of investors and entrepreneurs annually, and his teams have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for investment projects. He spent 9 years living in Asia and speaks Mandarin Chinese. He is the co-founder of The Lion’s Den DFW.

Phil Burks, Author “How to Eat a Failure Sandwich”

This is a special episode for me. Phil Burks is a friend and mentor. I cannot be more proud to call him friend. In this third visit to the show Phil discusses his new autobiography “How to Eat a Failure Sandwich.” This is a great account of Phil’s entrepreneurial hero’s journey. It’s not just a book about a business well built but a life well lived.

“How do you eat an elephant?” the old joke goes. Answer? “One bite at a time.” How do you get through failure and pain? It’s the same way you eat an elephant or a New York deli sandwich—one bite, one day at a time. These raw stories of what went wrong on Phil’s way to success serve as a reminder not to rush your way through the sloppy parts of life. They’ll challenge you to slow down and learn all you can from the whole messy process. When life serves up a Failure Sandwich, do you refuse to take a bite? Insist this is not what you ordered? It’s never what you want, but failure and disappointment happen to everyone. This book shows how to tuck your napkin under your chin, take a big bite, and start making your way through it all the way to the end.

f you’re a businessman and you’re feeling the tug to stand up taller in your business life, drop an email to me. I’d like to share more with you. You might also like to visit the Promise Keepers website. Additionally, there is a great site that offers daily, devotionals to enrich your daily walk with our Best Friend. Don Emmitte writes these daily 5 minute devotionals: Grace Restoration. It so happens that we attend a fabulous church here in Tyler — Green Acres Baptist Church. Bobbie is a family counselor with close ties to Green Acres and is founder of 413 Center For Change. I’m really involved in the worship and music ministry. To God Be The Glory!

In Him Who Controls All Bits…Phil

Buy “How to Eat a Failure Sandwich” at Amazon

Dr. Aly Cohen

About Dr. Aly CohenDr. Aly Cohen is a board certified rheumatologist and integrative medicine specialist, as well as an environmental health expert in Princeton, New Jersey. She has collaborated with the Environmental Working Group, Cancer Schmancer, and other disease- prevention or­ganizations, and is coeditor of the textbook, Integrative Environmental Medicine, part of the Oxford University Press/Weil Integrative Medicine, Academic Series. In 2015, she created TheSmartHuman.com to share environ­mental health, disease prevention, and wellness information with the public. She lectures nationally on environmental health topics for el­ementary/ high schools, colleges/ universities, medical schools, and physician- training programs, and she is a regular expert guest for tele­vision, print, and podcasts. She has been the recipient of countless awards, including Top Docs NJ in rheumatology from 2016-2021, the NJ Healthcare Heroes Award in Education for The Smart Human educational platform in 2015, and the 2016 Burton L. Eichler Award for humanitarianism.  Dr. Cohen is working to educate and empower the next generation to make safer, smarter lifestyle choices through the creation of en­vironmental health and prevention curricula for schools nationally. Her TEDx talk, “How to Protect Your Kids from Toxic Chemicals”, can be found on YouTube, and you can follow her health and wellness tips and recommendations on Facebook at The Smart Human, Twitter, and Instagram: @thesmarthuman. Sign up for The Smart Human newsletter, read her latest posts at TheSmartHuman.com, and listen to her podcast The Smart Human. Dr. Cohen lives on a farm in New Jersey with her husband, two sons, and lots of furry friends.

Megan Lubbers Episode 96

So I used to be the guy who turned his nose up at organic. I thought it was just overpriced food for elitist foodies with too much money and not enough to worry about. I’ve done a 180. For those I judged, I’m sorry. We are seeing more illness, diagnoses of Type 2 diabetes, Autism, allergies, girls with unregulated minstrel cycles. There’s something going on, and I have to believe it has to do with what’s in our food.

Here’s the thing though. Going organic can be overwhelming. Mrs. Wright and I are NOT 100% organic. It’s not something that happens overnight. Is it a little more expensive? Sometimes, but not by as much as you think. Like so many other things, when the market demands something competition arises. When competition arises prices fall. This is the case with organic products.

In this episode, Megan Lubbers and I talk organic, biohacking and other things to make for an overall healthier home for you and your family. She taught me so much, and I know you will gain some valuable insight from this conversation.

From Megan: Living a life as the typical American, taking cycling classes daily and eating fast food and boxed hamburger helper until then 3 year old daughter got sick. Double wammy with impending type 1 or type 2 diabetes diagnosis, coupled with apnea in her sleep and severe rhinitis that impaired her ability to breath out of her nose at all. Megan was studying for her bachelors of nursing and did what she knew best! Dive deep and bury herself into research of food and environmental toxin that she believed were the crux of her daughters health crises. Megan was a migraine sufferer from the age of 8 and struggled with endometriosis as well. 

Changing her life to fully organic regenerative living and riding her home of toxins from cleaners to kitchen cookware and more she saved her daughter from a diabetes diagnoses, heard her migraines and endometriosis. 

She spent 7 years as a cardiothoracic ICU nurse before hanging up her hat to homeschool and travel INSPIRING YOU TO CREATE YOUR ORGANIC HOME and life she SHAREs WITH YOU HOW TO TRULY THRIVE AND BE FREE,  WITH THE TOOLS THAT GOT her THERE.

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So let me define “The Matrix” as I see it. The Matrix is the physical world we inhabit. It’s like a flowing river where decisions we make are almost made automatically. We like certain things because…well, why do we like those things? Why is one thing better than an another? How do we define our happiness? Is it based on our idea of happiness or what others have told us happy is? I think the ad executives on Madison Avenue, social media influencers, professors and the like have created the Matrix. They create want. We make the want a need. And before we know it we’ve lost sight of what we actually know to be real. We get lost in a plastic world.

Can we make different decision contrary to what the Matrix says? I’ve become a big fan of the content being produced by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus. They are better known as “The Minimalists.” I first noticed them on their Netflix documentary ‘Minimalism.’ I highly recommend it. These two guys have become famous not for their willingness to live without but for their determination to decide to live a life of MORE of what really matters. They ask the question, “What is essential?” I think their message and lifestyle best describes what I’m talking about.

We live in a material world. That’s what Madonna told us a long time ago, right? So who determines which material we should curate our lives with? Did you choose the clothes you’re wearing or did someone else? Seems like a simple question right? Well, maybe it’s not so simple. I give you the following video from the movie ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ as exhibit “A.”

“That sweater was chosen for you.”

So much of what we accept as our “normal” is the result of societal influences. What if you stopped for a moment, stepped out of “The Matrix” and looked at it from the outside? What if you started to question things like why we need such a big house? Why do so many of the luxury items purchased all look the same? Why do we accept education the way it is?

What if there really is a supernatural world separate from the distraction of the Matrix? This is not some anti-materialism, anti-capitalism religious rant I assure you. I hope this episode leaves you with more questions than answers. I certainly don’t have it all figured out, but I’m searching. I want to get to a place of essentialism. I want to reduce the clutter of life to leave wide open space for the things that matter most. I hope you enjoy this first installment.

Simone Hanlen is a bit of a contradiction. She is an ultra-marathoner, a tennis coach, a fellow Peloton member and a veracious consumer of some of New York’s greatest culinary delights. Because she’s always on the run, you aren’t going to see a picture on Instagram of Simone dining on foie gras at some trendy Manhattan bistro.

Instead you’re most likely going to see her in her running shoes posing with a huge slice of “Momma’s TOO!” Pizza at 2750 Broadway (this is her favorite pizza joint by the way).

As reported many, many, maybe too many times on this program Mrs. Wright and I love New York. While doing a search once I came across @NYCMuncher on Instagram. It was this girl posting amazing food. Not only that, it wasn’t unusual for her to be eating and working out at the same time. I once saw her eating cake with a fork strapped to a barbell.

Since then I have followed Simone through the five burrows of New York learning about some of the coolest little eateries. If you are ever heading to NYC, I highly recommend you checkout her Instagram and start following.

In this episode we discuss daily habits for success, combining passion and work and finding unique ways to standout in the ever-crowded world of social media.

This conversation was every bit as much fun as I had anticipated. I know you, too will enjoy it!