Ostrolenk speaks with Dan Dominguez, Chief Growth Officer at the WHY Institute. Dan discusses his career path prior to the WHY Institute, his desire to spend time with his family and to serve others, and how those experiences led him to find his WHY in life. Discovering your WHY in life, Dominguez details, is the first step in self-awareness. Knowing the WHY of family, friends, and co-workers can also help facilitate an environment of greater collaboration and understanding. After discovering your WHY, the WHY Institute can help you further discover your HOW and WHAT, to put your WHY into action. To learn more about the WHY Institute, and learn your WHY in five minutes, visit https://www.whyinstitute.com.

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Ostrolenk speaks with Johnathan Lang, an Iraq War Veteran and Natural Movement Coach who loves helping folks find more meaning, health, and wholeness in their lives.

Lang details the life events that led him to the path of coaching, including his service in Iraq, though which experiences with both death and love taught him the importance of living a life that constrains evil and harnesses good. His journeys through Colombia, New York, and China then influenced his development of his mindful movement practice. Lang has been coaching for over 10 years, and he holds certifications in a variety of body-mind disciplines, including MovNat (https://www.movnat.com/), Animal Flow, and Movement Origins. He is now living and working outside of Medellin, Colombia, and he shares his experience in collaborating with Colombian professional soccer players on MovNat, and his work in creating a dedicated retreat and research center for the integration of Natural Movement with permaculture, ancestral medicine, and other transformational psycho-technologies.

To learn more about Johnathan Lang and his work, you can find him on Instagram @ thereconjohn, and you can reach him for Holistic Lifestyle Coaching, or any other purpose, at [email protected].

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Ostrolenk speaks with Hans Skulstad, a Sports Performance Coach and licensed therapist. Skulstad discusses the path that took him to a career in sports performance and how he has integrated skills and concepts from traditional sports psychology, EMDR, Neurofeedback, Heart Rate Variability Training, and systemic concepts into his practice. He details methods to shift out of negative body and mind sets and practices in arousal control, which leads to increased focus and can even result in more positive personal relationships. Skulstad is the owner of the Center for Sports and The Mind, which provides sports psychology tools to athletes at every level. He has also developed Mental Strength training cards that provide important knowledge, tips for effective self-talk, and daily drills to develop and strengthen the relationship between mind and body.

You can learn more about his work by going to centerforsportsandmind.com and visiting his youtube channel by searching his name. You can also follow him on twitter @ 2ChallengeMind. He also is the owner of Foundations Counseling Services and continues to work with clients who need help overcoming the challenges that life inevitably brings including grief and loss, trauma, and relationship issues.

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Ostrolenk speaks to Martin Ucik, author of "Integral Relationships: A Manual for Men” and “Sex Purpose Love.” Ucik details how he discovered Integral Philosophy, and his journey to discover meaningful relationships, sex, love, and passion. Discovering the three things that lead to happiness - healthy relationships, healthy body and mind, and purpose – has inspired his work in teaching and writing. Ucik discusses his own purpose: the drive to help others cultivate healthy relationships. In doing such, one must appreciate the complexity of people and that they bring to the table different value systems; key to cultivating healthy relationships, Ucik argues, is a shared purpose.

To learn more about Martin Ucik, visit www.integralrelationship.com

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Ostrolenk speaks with Mark Divine, a retired Navy SEAL Commander, founder of SEALFIT, Unbeatable Mind Academy, and Kokoro Yoga. Drawing from Divine’s newest book, Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams, Ostrolenk and Divine discuss leadership during VUCA environments. Divine details the seven core principles of leadership including Trust, Courage, Respect, Growth, Excellence, Resiliency, and Alignment. He also discusses how emotional leadership is a prevalent gap in leadership, and its absence leads to a lack of authenticity and trust. Humility is a key characteristic required among leaders seeking to foster natural emotional leadership and team building.

To learn more about Mark Divine’s work, visit www.markdivine.com, as well as www.sealfit.com and www.unbeatablemind.com for integrated leadership and intense training on mental clarity, increased focus, physical fitness, and increased awareness. Find his newest book “Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams,” available wherever books are sold.

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Ostrolenk speaks with Andrew Lautz who is a Policy and Government Affairs Manager with National Taxpayers Union. They discuss NTU’s new paper entitled “Reforming the OCO Account: A Better Deal for Taxpayers, Watchdogs, and the Military.” (https://www.ntu.org/publications/detail/reforming-the-oco-account-a-better-deal-for-taxpayers-watchdogs-and-the-military)

The paper includes Ten OCO Reform Options;

Low-Hanging Fruit: OCO Reforms for the FY 2021 NDAA

1. Re-establish the Wartime Contracting Commission:

2. Ensure that OMB and DoD finish work on revised criteria for DoD’s OCO budget

3. Require DoD to give Congress and OMB a plan for transitioning all existing enduring costs funded through OCO to the base budget:

4. Require DoD budgets to break out enduring costs funded through OCO:

5. Require five-year projections of all OCO costs:

6. Prohibit OCO/GWOT spending on base activities in the State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill:

Turning the Corner on OCO: Long-Term Reforms

7. Enforce the existing definition of “contingency operation”:

8. Institute more aggressive caps on OCO funding, with a declining cap year to year until OCO is nominal or zero:

9. Require DoD to establish an OCO reserve, funded through Congressional appropriations year to year, for use on actual contingency operations:

10. Remove the OCO/GWOT designation, forcing Congress to instead fund operations through supplemental appropriations and/or “emergency” designations:

You can follow NTU on twitter @NTU and Andrew Lautz @andrew_lautz

Ostrolenk speaks with Owen Marcus, author of A Man’s Guide to Masculine Emotional Intelligence, has developed programs that bring together mindfulness, somatic psychotherapy, and the science of emotional physiology. Marcus’ work focuses on men’s emotional intelligence and its connection to the physiology of the body. He further details the benefits to stress reduction and creating fulfilling relationships and purposeful lives.

To learn more about Owen Marcus and his work, visit EVRYMAN’s website: https://www.evryman.com.

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Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Anita Sanchez, author of the international award- winning book, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times, Simon & Schuster. Dr. Sanchez is a visionary woman of Mexican American and indigenous Aztec heritage, a consultant, trainer and speaker who guides journeys into the Amazon rainforest to support business, families, and indigenous cultures.

Dr. Sanchez begins by detailing her own life journey, and the role that forgiveness, spirituality, science, and gratitude have all played. She also discusses the importance of unity, noting how the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting this more than ever. Drawing upon the lessons of her elders, Dr. Sanchez discusses listening and how it is key to healing. Dr. Sanchez concludes with advice on routines that the audience might use to start and conclude their days, focusing on gratitude.

To learn more about Dr. Sanchez’s work and find her book, visit https://foursacredgifts.com/.

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Ostrolenk speaks with Josette and Ba Luvmour, educators who have started several holistic education schools, a holistic learning center for families and children, and many whole-family immersion programs. They also work as Adjunct Faculty at Antioch University, in the IMA program in Social Sciences, Concentration in Transformative Learning. Josette and Ba begin by discussing how their work revolves around focusing on how children organize the world, describing the broad stages of childhood development. Josette and Ba further note that the providing a nourishing environment for a child can also nourish a parent’s environment growth and development, providing parents with greater purpose, meaning, and strength. They further discuss the long-term values of this approach, including the fact that when children feel valued – as their approach teaches – they are more likely to step into social justice roles.

To learn more about Josette and Ba Luvmour and their work (https://luvmourconsulting.com/), listen to their podcast Meetings with Remarkable Educators (https://www.remarkable-educators.com/) and read their books (https://www.amazon.com/Ba-Luvmour/e/B001K8E2E6/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1).

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Ostrolenk speaks with Jan Winhall, MSW, a psychotherapist in private practice and Director of Focusing on Borden (http://www.focusingonborden.com/), a center for teaching focusing and focus-oriented therapy. Jan discusses what brought her to the work that she does, her experience with knowing how to listen, and her use of the Felt Sense, the internal bodily awareness that functions as a connection between the mind and body. She also discusses a Polyvagal informed model for treating addiction (https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/addiction-from-the-bottom-up-a-felt-sense-polyvagal-model-of-addiction/) she created and the six keys of her clinician model (https://www.focusingonborden.com/model): addicted, chaos, rigidity, play, integrated, stillness.

Winhall is also the author of Understanding and Treating Addition with a Felt Sense Experience Model and In Emerging Practice In Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Innovative Theory and Applications (https://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Practice-Focusing-Oriented-Psychotherapy-Applications-ebook/dp/B00J2EA0Q4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=jan+winhall&qid=1589750025&sr=8-1). To learn more about Jan Winhall, visit her website (https://www.focusingtherapy.org/for-clients/find-therapist/ms-jan-winhall/).

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