The Michael Davidson Podcast

Dr. Barrett C. Brown is a global expert on how to develop leaders to successfully navigate complex challenges and rapid change.  Barrett works across six continents with C-suite executives and teams from Fortune 500 companies and international non-profits. He has lived in The Netherlands, Brazil and throughout the US, and has worked and traveled in nearly 40 countries.

Barrett is a regular advisor and senior faculty for a $185B tech company as well as the largest environmental NGO in the world. With them, he focuses on how leaders can better manage complexity and drive transformational change. He also serves as the executive coach for a select group of senior leaders. He has delivered dozens of keynotes and leadership programs for 5000+ CEOs, organizational leaders, and government officials. He has co-designed and delivered executive development, team development and/or strategic alignment programs for some of the largest technology, engineering, sportswear, and consumer goods companies in the world - as well as for major environmental and social NGOs.

Barrett holds a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems and also has over a decade experience advising on and leading strategic visioning, execution, and change initiatives for US, Dutch, British, and Brazilian companies and institutions. 

Barrett’s award-winning research on the future of leadership is used in executive education programs worldwide, including the Yale MBA. He produced an award-winning business case study on a large-scale market transformation program he helped lead - in partnership with Unilever and Rainforest Alliance - that is used in business schools globally. 

Barrett’s writings on leadership and sustainability have been translated into 6 languages, are used in the United Nations system, and have been included in half a dozen mainstream leadership books. 

Barrett is on the selection committee of the Katerva Awards - considered the Nobel Prize for sustainability - and has held consultancy status to the United Nations. He has delivered leadership briefings and presentations at global tech companies, the Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit, the Society for Organizational Learning European Summit, Esalen Institute, the National Bioneers Conference, the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, the US Department of State, the Inter-American Development Bank and UNDP headquarters.

Originally from the Green Mountains of Vermont, Barrett lives with his wife and daughter on the flanks of a volcanic crater in Hawaii.

Topics:
Barrett's Journey 
Development
Early Childhood Trauma
Therapies - LENS, EMDR, MDA, Psylocybin
Integral Theory
Morals Kohlberg Development
Spiral Dynamics

References:
Peter Levine Somatic Experiencing
Neurofeedback Training
Book: Brief history of everything by Ken Wilber
Apheno.com

This week's guest is Mark Allen. ESPN voted Mark as the #1 Endurance Athlete of all time! Mark has won 6 IronMan world championships. He won the inaugural Olympic distance triathlon world championships in Avignon, France.  He was undefeated in 10 Nice International Championships.  In 1988 to 1990 he had a winning streak of 21 races.
He was named Triathlete of the Year six times by Triathlete magazine, dubbed The World's Fittest Man by Outside Magazine,  the #1 triathlete of all time by 220triathlon magazine, he was inducted into the Ironman Triathlon Hall of Fame, the USAT Hall of Fame and the ITU Hall of Fame. It was a great honour to speak to Mark, I hope you enjoy this week's episode!

Topics:
When did the triathlon bug bite you?
Sacred Ceremonies
The mental game
What was the famous "IronWar" race?
The visions that made Mark stronger and stronger
Near death experience - internal bleeding at the end of a race
Winning his last world championship race at 37 years old
What would training look like to do a full iron man, how long would it take?
How was transitioning out of racing into retirement

Website:
www.markallencoaching.com
www.shamanism.com

This week's guest is Adel Jawhary. He is the founder and CEO of Rydel Roofing. Adel is running a roofing empire with over $6 million dollars of revenue annually. I hopped on the phone with him to learn about the sacrifices he had to make to become a multi millionaire in his twenties.  Adel is also the owner of a luxury spa and has a growing real estate portfolio. I hope you enjoy this week's episode.

Topics:
How Rydel Roofing started
Student Works Painting
Struggles of the business early on
How he scaled the business

Links:
https://rydelroofing.ca/ 
Personality Test: www.understandmyself.com

Kyle is the founder of Jim Rohn International, YourSuccessStore, and KyleWilson.com.

He’s worked with the top names in the personal development industry including his 18 year biz partner, friend and mentor Jim Rohn, as well as Brian Tracy, Les Brown, Darren Hardy, Denis Waitley, Mark Victor Hansen and many others.

 Kyle is the host of the Success Habits of Super Achievers podcast and recently published the book with the same title with stories and lessons from long time friend and iconic thought leaders including Les Brown, Denis Waitley, Darren Hardy, John Assaraf, Phil Collen of Def Leppard, Brian Tracy, Mark Victor Hansen and many others.

 Kyle is the author of 52 Lessons I Learned from Jim Rohn and Other Great Legends I Promoted! and partnered with Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield on Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul. 

 Kyle has filled huge seminar rooms, launched and published multiple personal development publications and has produced/published over 100+ hours of programs.

Brian Tracy said Kyle has made him Millions of dollars, Darren Hardy says Kyle is his Go To person for any marketing solution, Les Brown said Kyle is a Legend in the industry, Tom Ziglar said in 20 years Kyle is the only guy he and his dad worked with that everytime underpromised and over delievered and Jim Rohn said Kyle is his trusted partner and friend.

Links:
https://kylewilson.com/ 

This week's guest is Liviu Chis. Liviu is a digital nomad who travels the world while working from his laptop. I thought it would be great idea to have him on the podcast to talk about his experience in case some of you dream of getting paid handsomely to travel the world. Warning this episode may give you the travel bug.

Leaving the corporate world
Traveling during Covid-19
Liviu's dream of having his own Hostel
Mindblowing views at Angkor Wat temple
Teaching children english abroad 
Sponsor a child
Stories through a 2 month Vietnam Trip
Registering companies
Banking abroad
Travel advice
Tips on using internet abroad

Links
Thewanderingcubicle.com
Vagabonding Rolf Potts

This weeks guest is Dr Silvia Odorcic, Silvia is a two time board certified physician in ophthalmology and lifestyle medicine. She's a Harvard trained medical doctor and is certified from Cornell university in plant medicine nutrition. We covered a wide range of topics about health, nutrition and biohacking. I hope you enjoy this week's episode!

Topics:

• How we met through Jesse Itzler's coaching program
• Silvia's educational background
• Why large peer reviewed research may not be the health advice
• Mcdonalds vs whole foods
• Health panels
• LDL and HDL cholesterol 
• Impotence
• Why less people in Africa have heart attacks
• Canada's health care system and the "normal ranges"
• Genetic marker testing and predispositions
• Forming and removing habits
• Maple syrup vs. white sugar. 
• Continuous glucose monitor
• Gut-Brain Axis and microbiome
• Ketogenic diet
• insulin resistance for a year on a proper diet
• Losing 18lbs in 18 days on the Ketogenic diet
• Man not eating food for 382 days. See link below
• Why I disapprove of body building
• What optimized health looks like, an opinion
• Epigenetics
• Aging, strength and cognitive function
• Mention: Neuroracer in Nature Magazine. See link
• Latest research on age reversal 
• What medical school is like?
• Stories from her residence
• GMO foods
• Where to find Silvia

Links

• @dr.silvia.md on Instagram
• Drsilviamd.com
• https://www.sciencealert.com/the-true-story-of-a-man-who-survived-without-any-food-for-382-days
• https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12486

This week's guest is Ron Glozman. Ron is the CEO of Chisel.Ai an AI solution for the global insurance industry. Ron got into AI at a young age when he thought there must be a better way to learn than to read thousand page textbooks during his undergrad. He created a machine learning program to give him 1 page summaries of chapters and did well in school. He put it on the app store and it won global awards as one of the all time best apps for students. Ron is co-author of The AI Book, the first globally crowdsourced book on the applications of AI across financial services, and he is the host of the AI Wisdom - Talking Insurance Innovation podcast. 

Show notes:
Inspirations for his student textbook reading app 1:07
How he does pricing 6:02
The first business at 14 years old 7:17
Future of technology 16:56
Backing up the brain and AI 27:47
X Prize 58:52
Programing language 1:09:08
Ron's idea 1:11:50
Perseverance 1:23:37

links:
Smartmoneytricks.com
Chisel.ai
Instagram @Smartmoneypod

This week's guest is Anita Nowak. Anita is a subject matter expert in empathy and social entrepreneurship. She holds a doctorate degree in Philosophy from McGill University. She also happens to be a two time TedX speaker. Anita has worked in profit and non for profit organizations for over 20 years and has served as a volunteer/locally and internationally over that time period. I hope you enjoy this episode.

Topics:

• What is empathy?
• Does everyone deserve empathy (4:20)
• How to increase empathy (11:13)
• Why does Anita study empathy (16:55)
• Economic benefits of purposeful technology (32:20)
• JEDI (33:27)
• Equity vs opportunity (39:00)
• Empathic vs empath (42:57)
• Correlation between moral development and empathy (52:48)
• Anita's experience in Rwanda (1:05:53)
• Purposeful Empathy (youtube)
• First book (1:12:38)

Links:

Anitanowak.com

This week's guest is Jamal Hejazi. Jamal is an expert in the area of economics. He holds a PHD in that field and has been a professor at many Universities across Canada. Jamal is currently a senior member at Gowlings helping organizations optimize their global tax positions. He also is a successful investor with over 20 rental units and ownership in other businesses. I hope you enjoy this week's episode.

Topics:

1. Jamal's career progression
2. The economy
3. Bank of Canada - Stimulus
4. What is driving up prices?
5. When will things go back to normal?
6. What happened in the 2009 crash related to stimulus?
7. Inflation
8. Jamal's prediction on interest rates
9. Does Jamal trust the Bank of Canada?
10. Is fiat Dollars better than gold standard
11. Crypto currency
12. Why there's a lack of opportunity for some
13. Will we ever get to the perfect world?
14. Universal basic income - good idea or terrible idea?
15. Free-market vs. Communism
16. North American vs China's work ethic
17. Asia's power
18. Canada's taxes - are we overtaxed?
19. Jamal's investment strategy in real estate 

Links:

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/dr-jamal-hejazi-phd-88aa367

This week's guest is Shawn Cruise. Shawn has been selling Software  in High tech for over twenty years. Starting as an individual contributor and moving up to executive positions like CEO. We talk about his journey of a lifetime in sales and uncover some incredible stories. I hope you enjoy this week's episode 

Topics:
Shawn's work history
What is "the crack check"?
Sales comission gates
Wild West Sales in the 1990's
How to become a legend in Vegas at a Sales Conference
"No one is left behind"
Last person standing gets the promotion
Setting expectations on work vs. personal relationships early
How to let people go gracefully
Getting poached and getting fired
Non compete clauses in Canada
Massive RFP win story
Importance of relationships in sales
How to throw a corporation sponsored party
Be patient to excel in your career

Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-cruise-5199803/?originalSubdomain=ca