The Life Design Podcast

What would change for you if you decided to live your life as a great story? This was one of the many things that Carlos & Susanne discussed with Alex Shootman.

Shootman is a husband, dad, and CEO of Alkami and he shared his perspective on living your best life in this episode of The Life Design Podcast. He shares his own story and what he has learned along the way about being the best version of himself.

Shootman encourages us all to live a great story, to not look in the mirror and see a scorecard, discusses peace versus contentment and why you should focus on being who you want to become 51% of the time.

In order to live a full life, you need to be healthy in mind, body, and spirit. However, this can be easier said than done. For others, they find this for themselves and then make it their mission to help others find the same. Such is the story of Pilar Gerasimo.

Gerasimo is the Founding Editor of Experience Life Magazine, author, podcast host, and international speaker. In this episode of The Life Design Podcast, Pilar shares her journey to health, her wake-up call moment when she literally broke herself, and what it means to be a ”healthy deviant” and her desire for everyone to become one.

Tiffany Krumins was awarded $50,000 on the PILOT episode of Shark Tank. Tiffany’s brainchild was inspired by a sweet-natured boy with Down syndrome who struggled to take medication. As his nanny, Tiffany tried her best to soothe his anxiety. With lightning creativity, she combined fabric, sponges, and a medicine dropper, and breathed life into her creation by embedding a recordable sound chip from a greeting card. Ava the Elephant ® was born and is now one of Shark Tank’s most well-known and beloved successes.

In this last episode before the summer break of The LIfe Design Podcast Tiffany joined to share her Life Design Insights, talk about the power of saying no, feeling peace, and dealing with trauma.

As a husband, dad, and marketing executive, Jesse Noyes shared this outlook and others including his outlook on managing work stress, why it is necessary to have brutal honesty in your marriage, why it is beneficial to see work as a part of your life, and why it’s important to give yourself a break and just do the best that you can.

Most often you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your response to it and what you make of your circumstances. So instead of waiting for life to happen, Kel and her husband made the decision to create a life for themselves that was more in flow.

This included leaving New York City, changing careers, and making more space for the things that she loves. 

In this episode of The Life Desing Podcast, Haney discusses what led to the decisions she made, how relationships should be a place of expansion, the value in finding calm within yourself, and why you should follow those things that fuel you.

”Imagine If” has been the ethos for Rachel Downey for the last number of years starting the with the premature birth of her daughter. in this episode of The Life Design Podcast, Downey shared her approach to Life Design how Imaging If has led her to create a successful business, be the mom of three kids and have a vibrant marriage.

Downey shares how she seeks to be intentional in all areas of her life, the approach she takes to define boundaries, why you do not need a Plan B, and the power we can all have if we allow ourselves to ”Imagine If”.

For Alan Thomas, there was a day not that long ago when time stood still. He was 55 and as he looked down at the scale the number 304 lbs looked back at him. As he looked down at the scale, there were three thoughts he had - he could not recall ever meeting a 65-year-old man that was more than 100 pounds overweight, meaning that he likely had less than 10 years to live.  He would likely be known as his wife’s first husband, since he would probably be dead in less than 10 years and all of his dreams would be cut short by his obesity.

This experience led Thomas to commit to change and in November of 2017, he publically stated his commitment on his Facebook page and that was to lose 129 lbs in 252 days. Not only did Thomas reach his goal, but he also reached it five days ahead of schedule.

In this episode of The Life Design Podcast, Smookler talks about the power of mindfulness, how we can learn to be more aware of ourselves, and what it means to be present. She shares insight on us being our own best friends, how life is a banquet table, and the value of asking ourselves if what we are doing is nourishing or depleting?

Many take the normal everyday things in life for granted. However, when our health impacts our quality of life, it provides a new perspective and provides us a chance to savor the normal and puts a higher value on things like a simple meal or a conversation with a loved one.

This is the experience of Lee Odden. Lee is a CEO and agency co-founder and four years ago he was diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN), a chronic nerve pain condition. In this episode of The Life Design Podcast, Lee shares his journey through this disease, and how during this time he has transformed himself by losing 65lbs and adding regular exercise to his lifestyle.

Author, CEO, and burnout prevention expert, David Ginter has made it her mission to help companies and their employees avoid burnout and shared her thoughts on this episode of The Life Design Podcast. 

Davida talks about the power of setting boundaries, why organizations need to see the whole person, how burnout is not the same for everyone, and why practicing empathy for ourselves is so powerful.