Destin Gerek is a transformational empowerment coach who specializes in helping you tap deep into your masculine core, awaken your sexual energy, and harness this newfound power to passionately manifest your biggest visions, and create the life of your dreams.

Referred to by the press as Tantra meets Tony Robbins, Destin Gerek is an internationally recognized leading voice in masculinity, sexuality, consciousness, and personal empowerment. Recognizing the need for new role models for men in these changing times, he is dedicated to redefining masculinity for the 21st century.

The greatest power of Destin’s transformational work is that he embodies it. He has taken all that he’s learned, studied, and explored, and integrated it fully into his being, such that he really walks his talk. All avenues spoken for, Destin has reached people with his message on at least six continents (we’re not sure about Antartica!), empowering individuals, couples, and groups worldwide.

Leo Babauta is a former journalist and creator of the popular Zen Habits blog. He is also the author of numerous books and courses on habits, simplicity and mindfulness.

In 2005, Leo was living on Guam and was a smoker, overweight, sedentary, addicted to junk food, deeply in debt with lots of clutter, a procrastinator, overworked with no time for his wife and kids. In November 2005, he started to turn his life around: he finally quit smoking, then started running, changed his diet, started getting out of debt, decluttering, simplifying and more.

A year later, he had lost 30 lbs. and ran his first marathon, was a vegetarian and on his way to becoming debt-free and a minimalist.

Zen Habits He started Zen Habits in January 2007 to share what he was learning about changing his life, and has been writing the blog ever since.

The blog grew to 26,000 readers by the end of 2007 (and now has over a million readers) and was named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 10 blogs for a few years. It’s one of the largest single-author blogs in the world.

These days, Leo is a vegan, lives a fairly healthy life in California, and focuses on helping people who are struggling.

Sam Ovens is the CEO and founder of Consulting.com, an E-Learning platform that helps everyday people start and grow wildly profitable consulting businesses. He started completely broke working out of his parents garage in New Zealand and in 5 short years started a consulting business, moved to Manhattan and made over $20 Million dollars.

Sam is the leading expert when it comes to starting and growing consulting businesses and he turned many of the industries unknown gray areas into predictable exact science.

He started out by providing the services himself then he transitioned to advising and now his methods, strategies, and tactics have been compiled together and turned into an E-Learning platform called Consulting.com which others can use to start and grow consulting businesses of their own.

Consulting.com

Consulting.com's training programs are the leading programs in the consulting industry and have created more successful case studies than anything else the industry has ever seen.

Since 2012, Sam has:

• Started completely broke in his parents garage in New Zealand, moved to Manhattan and made over $20,000,000
• Created 21 Millionaire Consultants from his trainings
• Created 451 6-Figure Consultants from his trainings
• Helped thousands of people all over the world quit their 9-5 jobs, start consulting businesses and live lives of freedom

Sam has total conviction that the traditional advice and common sense in this world is dead wrong and if you follow it you will end up living a life just like everybody else. Sam’s contrarian philosophy, methods and views are savagely effective.

He truly believes that anybody can start their own consulting business and live a life much more meaningful with significantly improved income and freedom.

Mark Silverman is a sales leader who generated over $90 million in revenue at some of the world’s fastest growing companies like NetApp, VMWare, EMC and Service Now.

Having succeeded at the highest levels in business, he realized, through his own experience and that of his contemporaries, that motivations that drive success for many people in their 20s and 30s, are often unsustainable into their 40s and 50s. Perspective, increased responsibilities, and pressures call for new skills and mindsets in order to perform and thrive at peak levels.

Mark is also the author of the bestselling book, "Only 10s, Using Distraction to Get the Right Things Done”, which explores the exponential results available when you cultivate a mindset of internal leadership.

Khe Hy is a writer, speaker, coach, and entrepreneur. He was also a Hedge Fund investor at Blackrock. Khe is Quartz’s first Entrepreneur in Residence where he writes about meaning, productivity, and self-discovery and advise on various special projects.

RadReads Khe is the creator of RadReads. It is a weekly newsletter and blog read by over 15,000 leaders, investors, academics and change makers. It as a weekly practice of looking within, quieting the mind, and unlocking compassion. RadReads has an engaged IRL community, with monthly meet-ups in New York City and has already began expanding into SF and London.

Last year, his work was picked by a few major outlets, notably Bloomberg (The Wall Street Guru) and CNN (The Oprah for the Millennials). RadReads has expanded to include keynotes, executive coaching, and writing, primarily for Quartz.

Also, Khe had spoken at Northwestern Mutual, Knight Capital, IEX, and Yale University and also gave a TEDx talk in London.

Jiro Taylor is an entrepreneur, investor and the founder of The Flowstate Collective™ and host of the Flowstate Performance Podcast. He runs the Flowstate Collective, a peak performance & culture transformation consultancy.

The Flowstate Collective™

Flowstate runs workshops, private coaching and adventure retreats designed to guide people toward re-connection with themselves and the natural world. He is the founder of Flowstate Adventure – a coaching and retreat business focused on the intersection of mind training, outdoor adventure and full potential living. He innovates & facilitates the Collective Flow Project.

Jiro now teaches flow and meditation as a means of helping high performing individuals enhance their performance, happiness, and full experience of life.

Adam Quiney is an executive mentor who works exclusively with the smartest people in the room. People whose intelligence has enabled them to create vast success, solve life's thorniest problems, and create companies and teams that are changing the world. And that brilliance is now the the very thing that is holding them back.

Adam specializes in developing genius leadership. His clients don’t simply change; they transform their lives and the way they show up in the world, creating massive impact in their relationships, companies, and families. He develops leaders through deep, transformative coaching, supporting them to create lives where they own both their leadership and their genius as a quality and a place to come from.

He brings the concision, skills and brilliance that he honed in his previous careers as a project manager and a lawyer. His clients include corporations, lawyers, doctors, executives, world-class designers, olympic athletes, financial professionals, and CEOs across North America and Europe.

Graham Barnes is Shine’s Senior Trainer and coordinates the DVFREE workplace project. Trained as a teacher, Graham has a BSW, and has worked to stop domestic violence for 30 years. In Aotearoa/NZ, he set up the first men’s stopping violence programmes, then worked on a national inter-agency pilot in Hamilton, based on the world-leading Duluth model. Moving to Minnesota in 2001, he worked in Duluth, then in Auckland with Shine, developing a workplace domestic violence project. In May 2016 he returned from 13 years of national technical assistance work for the Battered Women’s Justice Project in US.

About Shine

Shine was founded in 1990, and since then it has grown to become the largest domestic abuse prevention service that is registered as a charitable trust in New Zealand.

Shine is an acronym that stands for Safer Homes in New Zealand Everyday.“The name of the organisation is hopeful, optimistic and positive, reflecting its values, objectives and services. It conveys the attitude of the people who work in the organisation and what it achieved. These are tough times and family violence is a grim issue – on both counts, the country needs to feel that a light is shining on a terrible problem and that some brightness is coming.”

For most of Doug's life, he was a victim of my his thinking. Being diagnosed with multiple learning disabilities as a child, he thought he had a good excuse. He was told he wasn't stupid, he just didn't learn like the other kids.

As a result, Doug puts 100% of his focus on basketball. He had a great high school career but struggled in college due to, well, excuses. That all changed when he crossed paths with Sarah (his academic advisor) who disrupted his pattern and caused him to take a deeper look at himself and what he was capable of. That semester, he went from a 1.4 to a 3.4 and never looked back.

He have dedicated his life to giving others the same gift Sarah gave him.

In 2014, his wife and him founded Kendall Douglas LLC. The company gives them the ability to Speak, Coach and train people to realize their best self.

In 2015, Doug became a certified Dale Carnegie instructor and facilitate the Skills for Success course in the Raleigh/Durham market. Dale Carnegie Training has been instrumental in his personal development and it is an honor to watch people's life change as they interact with the course.

In 2016, he was honored to give his 1st TEDx Talk in Raleigh, NC. Having the opportunity to share his personal story of mentorship has made him even more intentional as he pursue his mission. Doug is also the Director of Training for MEGA Group USA & curator of The MEGA Business Academy. With over 1700 retail members, MEGA is dedicated to helping independent retailers in the Furniture, Appliance and Bedding industry thrive.

Doug's Website: http://dougstewart919.com/

Snapchat: @DougStewart919

Nige Atkinson, author of the forthcoming book Odd Man Out: Breaking The Vow of Male Silence, firmly believes that every man is whole and has the right to feel and express all of his emotions, despite the toxic vow of silence that men everywhere are living under today.

Nige has over 20 years’ experience of breaking the vow of male silence in his own life and in that time he has become a skilled and experienced facilitator of support groups and workshops. Nige is also a champion natural bodybuilder, a keen method actor and an enthusiastic fish keeper. He lives in Sussex, England, with his wife Elloa and their rescue West Highland White Terrier, Molly Miracle.

An article you might want to check out which he wrote for Good Men Project: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/wife-told-wants-cheat-heres-feel-gmp/

If you haven't seen the Netflix documentary The Mask You Live In, it's a great synopsis of the issues men face, although we didn't feel it provided much of a solution.

All show notes can be found at nathanseaward.com