The MindShift Lab hosted by Mike Lee

Today we are diving in with Cliff Smith, a US Army veteran former diplomat and intelligence officer. Cliff serves as EY's foremost advisor on mindfulness and is an internationally recognized leader for bringing mindfulness into the corporate world. He brings over 25 years of experience leading through high pressure situations into his teachings and demonstrates the value of adopting mindfulness as a fundamental part of our personal and professional. Lionel lives following his passion for developing others. He built EY's mindful leadership program developing practical training and delivering it to over 60,000 EY and client personnel across the globe. Cliffs upcoming book Mindfulness Without the Bells and Beads is available for pre-order now and hits the shelves April 2021.

I’m super excited to dive in today with our guest Josh Linkner. Josh is a creative troublemaker. He passionately believes that all human beings have incredible capacity and he’s on a mission to unlock inventive thinking and creative problem solving to help leaders, individuals, and communities soar. He has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies which sold for a combined value of over 200 million dollars and is the author of four books including the New York Times best seller’s Discipline Dreaming and the Road to Reinvention. He has invested in and/or mentored over a hundred startups and is the founding partner of Detroit Venture Partners. Today Josh serves as chairman and cofounder of Platypus Labs, an innovation research training consulting firm. He has twice been named the Ernst & Young entrepreneur of the year and is the recipient of the United States Presidential Champion of Change award. Josh is also a passionate Detroiter, the father of four, a professional level jazz guitarist, and has a slightly odd obsession for greasy pizza. His upcoming book, Big Little Breakthroughs will hit the shelves April 20th.

I’m super excited to dive in today with our guest Josh Linkner. Josh is a creative troublemaker. He passionately believes that all human beings have incredible capacity and he’s on a mission to unlock inventive thinking and creative problem solving to help leaders, individuals, and communities soar. He has been the founder and CEO of five tech companies which sold for a combined value of over 200 million dollars and is the author of four books including the New York Times best seller’s Discipline Dreaming and the Road to Reinvention. He has invested in and/or mentored over a hundred startups and is the founding partner of Detroit Venture Partners. Today Josh serves as chairman and cofounder of Platypus Labs, an innovation research training consulting firm. He has twice been named the Ernst & Young entrepreneur of the year and is the recipient of the United States Presidential Champion of Change award. Josh is also a passionate Detroiter, the father of four, a professional level jazz guitarist, and has a slightly odd obsession for greasy pizza. His upcoming book, Big Little Breakthroughs will hit the shelves April 20th.

I am honored to dive in with our guest today, Patrick Kozakiewics. Patrick is an agile thought leader, enterprise design thinking coach and mindfulness teacher who enjoys teaching and learning about attention, awareness, and engagement. He believes strongly in the power of the mind, presence, and building new connections. Patrick leads programs, design courses, and teaches mindfulness with for hundreds of thousands of people across the globe in each spectrum within the sport corporate and education sectors. He’s a program leader from my police at IBM, has created a mindfulness training course in partnership with the University of Oxford, and an expert in mindful leadership. So today we are obviously going to be diving into all things mindfulness.

Today we're diving in with JP Clark a Florida native, JP played collegiate basketball at Flagler College for his father Bob Clark who coached at Flagler for 31 seasons. Throughout his coaching career JP has focused on player development helping players maximize their talents and develop their potential. He has worked with a number of NBA All-Stars and Hall of Fame players from Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, JJ Redick, Jamal Crawford, Kawaii Leonard, Paul George, Pattrick Beverly, Kevin Garnett, Rajon Rondo, and Paul Pierce.

Today I have with me John Paul Crimi. John Paul is one of the worlds most sought after breath work and meditation teachers; which is a form of active meditation. What makes him stand apart is his East Coast no nonsense approach which I can definitely attest to. Both companies and corporations are filling his calendar. CEOs and the FORBEs set have found themselves in his classes and have hired him to teach all their employees to decrease stress, conquer limiting beliefs, and be the most authentic version of themselves. JP has appeared on good morning America and has been featured in the Huffington post and the Hollywood reporter. John Paul believes there is no one who can't benefit from this practice and he has Olympians and Oscar Emmy and Grammy winners to prove it.

On todays show we got artist entrepreneur, Greg Spero. We talk about the importance of scheduling mental and physical creative space, in a world of chaos and distractions. We chat about the lessons he's learned as an artist that he's used to drive his entrepreneurial adventures and how to create intention around your creativity as a CEO and entrepreneur or anyone who needs to be innovative in business.

On today's show I'm joined by Grant Mattos. We talk about his journey of achieving a childhood dream of playing in the NFL to now teaching yoga and meditation across North America. The lessons of peak performance he learned on his journey, and a performance principle derived from yoga, that Kobe Bryant embodied, and how we can apply it to our own lives.

On today's show we chat with Rainer Meisterjahn. Rainer shares the steps to introduce mindfulness and meditation as a high performance tool, what auditory and visual cues you can use to refocus your attention on the present moment, and what a positive touch is and how you can use this to level up your leadership.

On today's show we have Paul Epstein. We dive into how he took the Los Angeles Clippers from the bottom of the league in revenue, to number two in just one season. A strategy to uncover your own personal purpose and why a key to organizational performance is helping your people uncover theirs.