The Next Level

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In life and in our attempts to be more spiritual we tend to fall into the trap of being too serious. Being more light-hearted and having fun with our pursuit to better oursleves is an essential shift to reducing friction and creating true understanding.

Sure, there are many ways under the sun to overcome life's challenges, and my guest today has created a sensational brand and video series that brings his uniques sense of humor to a broad scope of paradigms in the personal development space.

His videos and book are just straight up hilarious, and will make you think about your "stuff" in a brand new way... and have a good laugh in the process.

JP Sears is an emotional healing coach, YouTuber, author, international teacher, speaker at events, world traveler, and curious student of life. His work empowers people to live more meaningful lives. JP is the author of “How To Be Ultra Spiritual: 12 1/2 Step to Spiritual Superiority,” (Sounds True Publishing, release date of March 7th, 2017). He is very active with his online videos where he encourages healing and growth through his humorous and entertainingly informative videos, including his hit Ultra Spiritual comedy series, which has accumulated over 100 million views.

Today we'll unpack JP's new book and also dive into some key elements to heal emotionally.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Where JP found his inspiration for becoming an emotional healing coach.
• His views on the darker side of self-improvement, and how it can ultimately lead to self-rejection.
• Why getting overly serious and self-identified, is usually based on fear, and what that can cost us in our own self-discovery.
• How projection can distract us from getting in touch with our true selves.
• The benefit of asking yourself the question….. “what does this say about me”....?
• The importance of being playful, and not getting overly-offended.
• The important phases we go through as we walk our path of self-discovery.
• Why embracing discomfort will lead to more growth, meaning, and inner fulfillment.
• The beauty of being inspired to discover who you really are.
• and so much MORE...

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My guest today has compiled a body of work in his book, The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever, that maps out how to master the art of asking questions. If you are a coach, a leader, parent, or part of a team, The Coaching Habit is full of actionable tools to master the art of asking questions and help you become a cooperative leader and teammate. This book is sure to become a manual for a new style of leadership and go down in history as a coaching classic. Michael Bungay Stanier is the Senior Partner at Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work. He’s the author of several books, including The Coaching Habit and Do More Great Work. Michael has written for or been featured in numerous publications including Business Insider, Fast Company, Forbes, The Globe & Mail and The Huffington Post. Today we'll unpack The Coaching Habit and many more of Michael's findings in the areas of coaching, leadership, communication, and work. In this episode you'll learn

• The importance of moving from insight to action.
• Moving away from always wanting to give advice, to wanting to ask more questions, and how this can revolutionize your impact as a coach.
• The Magic of undivided attention, how to not be caught up in your own head while coaching, and the impact of having a genuine curiosity to really understand where someone is at.
• The difference between bad, good, and great work. And how to evaluate your life and make sure you are engaging in more great works.
• How to identify, test, and know when you are ready to go all in or move to the next step.
• How to dial in your focus, say no more clearly, and quickly find the people and projects that you should really be working with.
• The difference between the 2 types of coaching, And how to utilize both to have the most impact… Coaching for performance and coaching for development
• The power of beginning a question with the word “WHAT” and how it can open the door for more exploration.
• How adding the words “FOR YOU” at the end of a sentence, can make a question more personal instead of theoretical/abstract… This will tighten the focus, and help embed insight and learning into that person.
• How to use accountability when coaching, so you are not working as hard but having more impact in the process.
• The 3 P’s - Projects, People, and Patterns… How to use these 3 different lenses to explore, and get real about the challenges of your life.
• and so much MORE…

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My guest today is at the forefront of leadership, helping leaders understand what it takes to create a company culture that fosters the talents and skills of the entire team. Dov Baron has been speaking internationally for over 30 years, he’s the man with a finger on the pulse of the evolving world of NextGen leadership. One of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers to hire, Dov Baron is a master storyteller! Considered by many as the leading authority on Authentic Leadership, and the founder of Full Monty Leadership and The Authentic Speaker Academy for Leadership. Outside of his speaking and training Dov works with multi-disciplinary leaders and executive teams to build the bonds that create organizational cultures that become Fiercely Loyal. Dov is a bestselling author of several books. His latest book is Fiercely Loyal; How High Performing Companies Develop and Retain Top Talent. He also writes for and has been featured in many industry magazines including being featured on CNN, CBS Small Business Pulse, SHRM, Yahoo Finance, Boston Globe, Business in Vancouver, USA today, CEO, Entrepreneur and many more. In this episode you'll learn

• What the new face of leadership looks likeWhy you can't lead based on the old model of command and control
• Why you can't lead based on the old model of command and controlWhat it means to be a purpose driven individual and have a purpose driven company
• What it means to be a purpose driven individual and have a purpose driven company
• What makes leaders come up short in creating loyalty in their companiesDov's unlikely story that got him into the leadership space
• Dov's unlikely story that got him into the leadership spaceHow to show up as an authentic leader
• How to show up as an authentic leaderDov's big mistake and lesson learned about becoming and staying true to your own style of authentic leadership
• Dov's big mistake and lesson learned about becoming and staying true to your own style of authentic leadershipWhy the younger generations are demanding higher levels of authenticity and accountability
• Why the younger generations are demanding higher levels of authenticity and accountabilityHow leadership is more about the legacy you leave than the way you lead
• How leadership is more about the legacy you leave than the way you leadThe top characteristics that make up great leaders
• The top characteristics that make up great leadersThe surprising truth about what actually drives our default leadership style
• The surprising truth about what actually drives our default leadership styleand so much MORE…
• and so much MORE…

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The journey of self-discovery can often seem very focused on a single point, just us an individual. But, without looking at the bigger picture of where we got most of our beliefs and values from misses the picture. My guest today has a very intriguing and unique perspective on how longevity is culturally learned.

Dr. Martinez is a clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in how cultural beliefs affect health and longevity. He proposes, based on credible research evidence, that longevity is learned and the causes of health are inherited. He has studied healthy centenarians (100 years or older) worldwide and found that only 20 to 25% can be attributed to genetics - the rest is related to how they live and the cultural beliefs they share. In addition to longevity, he also explains why our immune system is not just a protector. Instead, it responds to the cultural premises we learn to perceive the world.

Today we'll unpack what biocognitive science is and do a deep dive into his most recent book, The MindBody Self: How Longevity is Culturally Learned and the Causes of Health are Inherited.

In this episode you'll learn…

• What biocognitive science is
• How our culture influences our health and longevity
• How our identity as described in our cultural context gets woven into our mindbody and how to understand it and create change
• The role we play as co-author in every relationship
• How illness and wellness are culturally defined
• Adopting a middle-way consciousness with the definition of illness and wellness
• How the immune system has morals and an ethical system that it assimilates from your culture
• How thoughts and emotions affect the nervous, immune, and endocrine system
• Finding enjoyment in all conditions between adversity and good fortune
• The difference between need and love
• and so much MORE...

For the full show notes, visit https://jeffagostinelli.com/074 My guest today was tested in the way no parent every wants to be or thinks they will. Mo Gawdat is the Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X]. At Google, his team is responsible for exploring “moonshot” dreams like the much-lauded self-driving car and providing global internet access by using sub-orbital balloons. For being at the top of a "dream team" though, Mo realized in 2001 that he was miserably unhappy and spirits were far from sailing above the clouds. So he did the one thing he knew how to do better than anything: he put his engineering experience to work and, by using data and research, he created an algorithm and “solved” happiness. Thirteen years later, Mo’s algorithm would be put to the ultimate test. After the sudden, senseless death of his son Ali, Mo and his family turned to his equation which saved them from depths of despair. With a new sense of purpose and a drive to honor his son's memory, he began the #10MillionHappy Mission designed to make at least that many people realize that happiness is within their control. Today we'll dive into the framework behind Solve for Happy and so much more. We dive into topics like

• Mo's "modern day warrior" journey that led him to Solve for Happy
• The 6 Grand Illusions, the 7 Blind Spots, and the 5 Ultimate Truths
• Understanding the true meaning of happiness in the modern world
• Happiness as your default setting
• How happiness is truly the absence of unhappiness
• The passing of Mo's son and how Mo dealt with the loss
• Reframing happiness as a state of peace
• How the modern world has confused happiness with what Mo calls "weapons of mass distraction"
• How to identify when you are engaging in distraction instead of true happiness
• It's not the events of life that make you unhappy, it's the way you think about the events of life that make you unhappy
• and so much MORE...

For the full show notes, visit http://jeffa.co/073 I’m constantly on the lookout for new and interesting approaches to health and healing. This medicine is much more traditional, and is starting to make it's way into the western world. I'm yet to personally experiment with Kambo medicine, and I invited Simon Scott on the show today to chat about this peculiar frog venom. Simon Scott grew up in England and studied Computer Science to Masters level. He moved to Asia in his mid-twenties to work in Post Production and was there for 5 years, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong. After being headhunted to the States to work in a Hollywood design company he won an Emmy for his work and used that as a catalyst to become an American citizen. After a decade of working for leading Hollywood film post-production companies Simon started Mac Guff, and boutique post-production company in Santa Monica CA. For five years Simon and his team produced many award winning TV Commercials for leading brands such as Hummer, Acura, DeBeers and Panasonic. It was during this time that Simon became stressed, overworked and had a hard time dealing with the riggers of running his company. After much soul-seeking, he decided to leave his career to find something more personally rewarding, something closer to his heart. Simon sought out answers in South America, in Colombia where he worked with Kambo Medicine and also drank the medicinal brew Ayahuasca over 50 times. It was during this period that he realized his deep desires to facilitate healing for others. As this desire grew stronger, people showed up for healing and Simon steadily grew a solid reputation as a practitioner of Kambo. Simon has worked with Kambo now for 7 years and has been proving the Kambo medicine to others for over 5 years. He has worked with 1000’s of people from all over the world and has a perfect safety record with the Kambo medicine. Simon is the creator of the website KamboCleanse.com, which is an authority on the Kambo medicine and which helps people to research Kambo before deciding to work with it. Simon currently lives in Sedona Arizona where he facilitates Kambo ceremonies. We dive into topics like     ⁃    Simon's journey to discover     ⁃    Kambo medicineistening to your soul's calling     ⁃    The power of more traditional plant medicines to open the heart     ⁃    Ayahuasca and DMT     ⁃    The difference between Ayahuasca and Kambo     ⁃    The power of Kambo to eliminate emotional toxins from the body     ⁃    The traditional uses of plant medicine and Kambo     ⁃    Simon's first experience with Kambo     ⁃    Why some of the plant medicines and Kambo are not so readily available here in the West     ⁃    Using discernment when it comes to natural medicines     ⁃    and so much more…

Lori Harder is a leading expert in the field of fitness, transformational work, mindfulness, and self-love. As a self-made millionaire, successful entrepreneur, network marketing professional, author, cover model, and three-time fitness world champion, she offers a carefully curated set of practical tools to promote sustainable health, spiritual well-being, and financial freedom. Through her books, unique coaching methods, and programs, she has helped countless people connect with their soul, transform their bodies, empower their minds, gain financial independence, and fall in love with themselves and their lives. Throughout her career, Lori has regularly appeared on the covers of and published articles for Oxygen Magazine, STRONG Fitness Magazine, Health & Fitness Magazine and Prosper Magazine. She has also been featured on NBC, Fox, and TLC networks. We dive into topics like, setting goals to overcome your fears, how to enjoy the journey on your way to your goals, how we form our identity by what we do, finding who you are outside of what you do, looking at the things that truly make you happy, what is self-love, how to find self-love and happiness, tapping into gratitude and self-love, taking 100% responsibility, how to think about life circumstances differently, exercising your own power of choice, understanding how the questions we ask ourself affect our results, cultivating your relationship with spirituality, having a beginners mind, the Bliss Habit, developing a gratitude practice, and so much more.

Joel Einhorn is the founder and CEO of HANAH, a lifestyle and wellness company that preserves and adapts ancient healing practices for the modern world. An avid entrepreneur and athlete, Joel started his first company at the age of 12 re-gripping golf clubs where he grew up in the South Side of Chicago. He studied finance at the University in Vienna and moved to the Czech Republic in 1997 to work on the first private placement in the newly formed country for the now Czech mega corporation AVG Technologies. While training for his second Ironman in Prague, he was in a serious bike accident, which led him to discover the ancient healing practice of Ayurveda. After recovering in record time, he went to Kerala, India, and worked alongside Dr. V.A. Venugopal to adapt a wellness recipe for modern Westerners. Thus HANAH was born. Joel is an active sportsman, snowboarding and competing in triathlon and mountain bike races around the world. Today we unpack Joe's journey and ultimately what led him to developing HANAH ONE. If you are into trying out unique products sourced with impeccability and backed with purpose and mission, you have got to pick up some HANAH ONE. We dive into topics like, Joel's accident which led him to eventually discover the ancient healing practice of Ayurveda, Joel's quick path of recovery, how Joel moved from a job as a means to an end into HANAH, the theory and recipe behind the HANAH formula, how the ingredients work synergistically, what makes HANAH unique, how not all herbs and superfoods are created equally, the difference between wildcrafted herbs via the ancient methods and organic, and so much more.

A generation ago, John Gray’s Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus helped couples communicate and deepen their intimacy and rejuvenate their love lives. Men and women, it revealed, communicate so differently we might as well be from different planets. In teaching couples to communicate, even speak each other’s language, John Gray became the best-known relationship expert in the world. A generation and several best sellers later, John has provided a 21st century update on the change in gender roles with his latest book, Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for Today’s Complex World. This book is so well researched and full of practical insight from John's 45 years working in the field of relationships. Like anything worth having, relationships can feel like work sometimes. But with the right tools, they can also be the most rewarding. This one is a must read AND practice if you want to have the supportive, fulfilling, evolving, loving... relationship you've always dreamed about. Today, we do a deep dive into Beyond Mars and Venus and John gives us practical tools, for both men and women, to start improving our relationships right away. We dive into topics like, how men and women tend to misinterpret each other, how to support our partners in coming back into balance, the goal of complaint-free relationships, shifting relationship roles in the modern world, some key phrases for men to say when they feel triggered by their partner, how men can create safety for women to feel what they feel, questions men can ask their woman to help lower their stress, what not to do if you want your man to feel less stressed and more masculine, the benefit of men having cave time, how men can be more in their peaceful, centered, calm place, and so much more.

Lauren Handel Zander is a life coach, university lecturer, and public speaker. As Co-Founder and Chairman of Handel Group, an international corporate consulting and private coaching company, she has coached countless private clients: professors, politicians, award-winning artists, and Fortune 500 CEOs. The Handel Method has been taught at MIT, Stanford Graduate School of Business, NYU, and in the New York City Public School System. Lauren has also led seminars and conferences all over the world and has contributed to The New York Times, Forbes, Self, Women's Health, Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle, and The Huffington Post. Lauren is the author of the new book, MAYBE IT’S YOU: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life, which has revolutionized the concept of traditional “self-help” through the idea of radical personal accountability, taking a deep-dive look at the patterns and history that are really holding you back. Whether readers want to find love, succeed at work, fix a fractured relationship, or get healthy, MAYBE IT’S YOU will offer a road map to finally get them there. Today we unpack her new book, MAYBE IT'S YOU and so much more. We dive into topics like how Lauren translated her one on one coaching format into her new book Maybe it's You, why most of us are hesitant to get real and do the work, the potential down side to positive psychology, how to address everything you don't want to face and how to do it with a sense of humor, the nature to overcompensate in one area of life to make up lacking in another, the danger of creating a vision for your life without addressing the pain, how to take all areas of your life into consideration, identifying your dream and vision for your life, what we pick up from our parents and how we model that in our relationships, how to dial out traits with honor instead of disgust, and so much more.