Steve Donofrio, keynote speaker and trainer, joins me for a discussion on improving confidence and why it's so important.

My Top 3 Takeaways:

1. The obstacles that stand in the way of improving confidence
2. How leaders can help to improve the confidence of those they lead
3. The story of Mohini the tiger and its lesson for improving well-being

Links from the episode:
Steve's Website: http://boostconfidencenow.com/
Steve's LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/steve-donofrio-801534121 
 

I sit down with Bri Harrington, Founder of Seek United, to learn how companies benefit from helping their employees thrive.

My Top 3 Takeaways:

• Hyper consumption and its impact on the well-being of Americans
• The role of businesses in supporting the well-being of their employees
• Doing activities that promote well-being for joy of doing them, not just for the benefits

Bri's Blog Posts:
How to Start a Meditation Practice
How to Improve Your Stress Resiliency at Work
How to Build a Capsule Wardrobe
10 Tips to a Thriving Corporate Wellness Program
33 things I Learned From a Week-Long Declutter With My Mother

Links to Seek United:
Seek United's Workshops
Seek United's Website
Seek United on Facebook
Seek United On Instagram
Seek United on LinkedIn

I sit down with Candice Guertin to learn more about integrative medicine and her work as a marriage and family therapist.

My top three takeaways:

• Candice's journey to finding integrative medicine and experience working with a naturopathic doctor
• How Candice's passion blossomed into starting the MPLS Integrative Medicine group
• How Candice works with others as a marriage and family therapist

Links from the episode:
Candice's LinkedIn Profile
@candicewellness on Instagram
Candice's Personal Website

I learn more about Shuang Sundquist's company, Beihu Chinese Institute and her mission to help adults learn Chinese.

My Favorite Takeaways:

• Shuang's experience with American culture as a Chinese native
• How Shuang harnessed her experience from starting a non-profit in China to start a business in Minnesota
• How language can give you a view into someone else's world

Links from the Episode:

Beihu Chinese Institute Website
Twitter: @ChineseBeihu
Facebook: Beihu Chinese Institute

Special Offer From Shuang:

1. Use “beihupromo” to get 50% off for all our modules of Self-study Chinese Curriculum.
2. In 3 months, Self-study Chinese book can be purchased in hard copy, with hand-made ancient Chinese Ming-Dynasty and thread binding style.
3. Shuang is offering a free 2-hour consultation to whomever is interested in Chinese studies.

I sit down with Amanda Arnold to learn more about her business, Soul Fit. Soul Fit works to enhance the well-being of the mind, body, and soul. Amanda focuses specifically on residential apartment buildings and helps to make physical fitness easily attainable for residents.

My takeaways from Ep. #068:

• Amanda's focus on incorporating other elements of well-being into her training
• The importance of testing in creating workout programs that are ideal for your unique body type
• Amanda's entrepreneurial spirit and desire to grow a business that bolsters the well-being of others

Links from the Episode:

Soul Fit Health and Wellness Website
Soul Fit Minnesota Website
Soul Fit Facebook Page
Instagram: @SoulFitResidentialHW and @SoulFitMN
Soul Fit LinkedIn

I dive deep into Portages™, a total well-being solution, with its creators, Dr. L Read Sulik and Dr. Michael Bloomquist. 

More about Portages™:

Portages™ is a whole-person, science-based, personalized mental health and wellbeing improvement program designed to overcome stress, anxiety and depression and build resiliency through guided transformation of health behaviors and habits. To portage literally means to carry your vessel and your gear on a path from one body of water to the next to continue your journey. Similarly, improving mental health and wellbeing requires intentionally moving your mind and body through multiple paths of change and growth to continue the journey to become your best self and feel happy, healthy and fulfilled. Portages provides individuals with an unparalleled self-assessment that generates an immediate personalized step-by-step plan for change where it is needed most. Individuals can use Portages independently or collaboratively with a practitioner who guides them through their own Portages Journey.

Portages is accessed on a user-friendly web platform and a full spectrum of virtually-accessible Coaching, Therapy and Psychiatry is available through Praestan Health. Our solution is dynamic, continuously adaptive and precisely responsive to each individual’s unique change journey providing ongoing guidance and support to achieve ideal results. Our data analytics and the development of machine learning algorithms assures that the more Portages is used, the better it will be in personalizing the best plan matched to each individual’s unique needs.

My takeaways from Ep. #067:

• Realizing the depth of scientific research that went into the creation of Portages™ and how the research is being used to improve lives
• How the application of Portages™ could improve healthcare and help people to thrive
• How the individualized report not only shows results, but also provides infrastructure to improve well-being

Links from the Show:

Praestan Health
Portages™
Portages™ Facebook
Portages™ on LinkedIn

Greg Bancroft is a writer and speaker with a passion for baseball—and helping others overcome shame. He has spent a lifetime writing, speaking, teaching in roles as diverse as an Episcopal priest, pastoral counselor, adjunct professor, Navy Chaplain, corporate trainer, community engagement leader, as well as in sales and marketing positions within Fortune 500 companies. 

In a world where so many people are carrying the weight of shame, Greg brings desperately needed affirmation and encouragement. Be inspired to trade your negative self-talk for the motivation to show up and claim the success you've always wanted for your life.

“You can stay stuck, you can choose to be a victim or you can swing. You can decide ‘I'm going to get into the game of life and I'm going to swing and the easiest thing to do is to just show up’.”
- Greg Bancroft

Timestamps

05:15 - Problems that society faces nowadays

07:28 - The feeling of shame and why is it the norm these days

09:21 - What is positive affirmation

11:31 -  How to create a supportive environment around you

14:07 -  Why he used baseball in parallel to the message he sets out in most of his books

18:46 -  Showing up, Digging in and Sucking less.

21:01 -  Changing mindsets and pulling yourself up from the feeling of shame

23:02 -  The contagious effect of positive affirmation

26:02 -  Recognition and awards received for his published books

34:21 -  How to maintain a work-life balance

37:24 -  On uncovering other people's giftedness

42:26 -  What it's like for three-generation families living together under one roof

49:08 -  What well-being means to Greg

Key Takeaways:

“And you know, getting that one extra hit doesn’t sound like a lot, but it doesn't take much to move from 250 or 300, so, progress, not perfection. And I think people resonate with those kinds of messages and they realize that you know what, I do seem to have a lot more failures than I do have successes. I'm not perfect and I do matter. I'm more important than something or an object. I really do matter.” - Greg Bancroft

“And so relationships are the same way. Families are the same way. You've got to show up, you gotta be there and it's not about you, it's about us. And you gotta do your part. You gotta dig in, you gotta swing and that sucks less. We're not going to be perfect, but we'll get better when we practice.” - Greg Bancroft

 Connect With Greg Bancroft

• Ggregorybancroft.com
• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• YouTube

Connect with Alex Morrall

• The Twin Cities Wellness Collective™
• Youtube -The Twin Cities Wellness Collective
• Linkedin

Charlie Mayne is the owner and founder of a full-service agency called Mayne Sales and Media. They have worked with clients ranging from your local food truck all the way up to clients like State Farm. They take an approach to online marketing that is intentionally designed to generate both profits from the campaigns as well as long-term brand awareness. 

Listen in as Charlie shares how he helps transform and create innovative design experiences that make a global impact for clients' brands. Also, Charlie shares value-packed business ideas . Hear how he integrates work and life as well. His work-life balance is just worth emulating for.

“ I think realistically you have to take a step back in order to take a step forward and really give yourself a break from that daily grind to assess where the business should be headed. Start with your passion, but ultimately, make sure that you take a step back from the daily grind in order to take a step forward and really progress.”
 - Charlie Mayne 

Timestamps

02:10 - A backstory of how he got into the business

03:16 - What his business niche is all about

04:53 - Discover, dive, develop and drive

07:15 - Driving sales and not just driving impressions

09:10 - What is a brand-centric content

11:07 - How to get your traction as a start-up in marketing and sale

13:40 - Going after something you are passionate about

14:37 - On shutting off and taking vacations

18:46 - Why have teams work from home

20:33 - How was he able to manage his team well

21:31 - The challenge of going on your own, starting your own business and how he overcame it

28:18 - What does his daily wellbeing routine look like

31:03 - What wellbeing is to him

Key Takeaways:

“You don't always just envision sitting in the office, 24 hours a day. Eventually, you envision yourself stepping out and going on a vacation or spending time with your family or having the ability to leave work and go to a recital or something for your kids without having to like request time off.” - Charlie Mayne

“The whole point of starting your own businesses is to build some type of life for yourself that you've always foreseen. And if you're burning out, if you're not thinking about your wellbeing, to at least some extent along the way, it's going to get old really quick.” - Charlie Mayne 

“Wellbeing comes from a state of happiness within. If someone says that you know they're in a state of wellbeing, I think it has to do with a sense of being happy and content with where you're at in your life and what's going on around you.” - Charlie Mayne

Connect With Charlie Mayne

• maynesalesandmedia.com
• Instagram
• Email: [email protected]

Connect with Alex Morrall

• The Twin Cities Wellness Collective™
• Youtube -The Twin Cities Wellness Collective
• Linkedin

Dr. Scott Schreiber has been in practice since 2004. He is double Board Certified in Rehabilitation and Clinical Nutrition. He specializes in manipulation, rehabilitation, nutrition, and lifestyle changes. Combined with years of experience, this allows him to see a wide variety of patients, including tough cases where other treatments have failed.

Listen in to this episode to have a 10,000 ft. view of the chiropractic side of medicine and how Dr. Scott gives premium care catered to every patient’s need to help them move better, feel better, and live better. 

“You got to lay out a plan to get there. It's not going be a straight line. You're going to have bumps in the road and that's okay, but you just got to slowly work your way to that end. But like I said, also need those professionals in your corner to help you, guide you and coach you in the right direction.”

 - Scott Schreiber

Timestamps

03:36 - Story of how he got into chiropractic practice

04:54 - Talking about the uniqueness of his practice

06:28 - Mobility problems in patients and how to treat them

07:40 - Different patients require different treatments

09:25 - Treatment based on the patient's assessment 

10:27 - How he integrates nutrition into his work

11:42 - How he provides support and on-going monitoring of the patient's well-being

17:04 - Patient success stories

19:52 - Problem-based system against wellness-based system

21:55 - Compensating with unhealthy for healthy

24:52 - Sharing his thoughts on being an owner and the challenges and rewards that come with it

28:06 - His views on work life integration

29:51 - Habits and practices that contribute to his own personal wellbeing

32:34 What's well being for him: "It's your spiritual side, your physical side, your emotional side, all those, you know, need to work in congruence with each other and be optimum."

Key Takeaways

“ Some patients are attached to their pain. You know, they don't want to let it go but they want relief.” - Scott Schreiber

“I don't have all the answers. I know what I know and I don't know a lot more than what I know. I think it’s all about the patient. If I can help them, great. But if I can't, I will at least want to push them in a direction where I think this other provider or another professional can take care of them.” - Scott Schreiber

Connect With Scott Schreiber

• mnspineandsport.com   
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Pinterest

Connect with Alex Morrall

• The Twin Cities Wellness Collective™
• Youtube -The Twin Cities Wellness Collective
• Linkedin

Senia Mae Tuominen is the owner of Healing InSight Acupuncture and Holistic Medicine, where she and her team of practitioners help people of all ages feel great, lose weight and look younger. She loves helping other business owners restore their optimal health and energy so they can make their business dreams come true. 

Senia is the Holistic Health Expert on Twin Cities Live and has been featured in Minnesota Monthly, Pioneer Press, Star Tribune, Women’s Health, FM107, and the cover of Saint Paul Magazine. She loves taking the woo-woo factor out of acupuncture and making it approachable for everyday people, as well as sharing holistic remedies to take the guesswork out of self-care. 

In this episode, Senia brings us into the world of Chinese medicine and highlights its contribution to one’s optimal well-being.

“Finding time to just be alone and be by myself is really key...whether that's going on a retreat by myself or taking a weekend away to really reset. Those I think are really key for helping unravel some of the stress that we deal with.”
- Senia Mae 

Live clips on holistic healing: https://healinginsightonline.com/category/videos/ 

Timestamps

05:58 - Chinese medicine versus western and traditional medicine

12:13 - The support provided to help patients

13:24 - The health benefits of acupuncture

18:15 -  Why eating warm food serves us better

19:59 -  The two phases of healing within Chinese medicine

23:25 -  What a holistic approach Chinese medicine looks like

24:36 -  the need for an expert when you have health issues or just feel stuck

26:44 -  Thoughts on getting experts to help you run your business

31:03 -  the need to maintain a healthy routine

33:01 -  Finding out what really gives you energy and hiring out what stresses you out

36:53 -  TV as a medium for promoting your business

38:46 - Talking about her work-life balance and having a structure in your daily schedule

48:12 Her definition of well-being: “That you have optimal health in all areas of your life so that you can do the great work that you were put on this earth to do. And when we feel our best, we're able to really use our gifts in the greatest way possible to help the world as much as we possibly can.”

Key Takeaways

“We continue to take good care of ourselves because when we feel better then we're able to do all the things that we're meant to do We're not being held back by something in our bodies. So I think that makes a big difference.” - Senia Mae 

“I think if people are feeling really stuck and they don't know what to do for themselves at that point, I think it's really great to bring in an expert.” - Senia Mae 

Connect with Senia Mae Tuominen

• Healing Insight Acupuncture and Holistic Medicine website: www.healinginsightonline.com 
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HealingInSightAcu/
• Instagram
• LinkedIn