Matthew Sklar is a two-time Tony, Emmy, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated composer.

He was most recently represented on Broadway with the critically-acclaimed original musical comedy, The Prom, nominated for seven Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Original Score; winner of the 2019 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical.

The feature film adaptation of The Prom, starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Kerry Washington received a Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Motion Picture  - Musical or Comedy.  

Works also include the Broadway musicals Elf, based on the beloved holiday classic; and The Wedding Singer, which was nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

Connect with Matthew at www.matthewsklar.com or on Instagram @sklarbar73. 

Lu Chekowsky is an Emmy Award winning writer, editor, and creative director. You've seen her work in Details Magazine, Time Out New York, MTV, Comedy Central, Nike and other major brands.

She shares her story of losing her own creative voice after the death of her mother and how an ad in The Onion catapulted her into an hugely successful career in advertising.

Lu is currently doing a fundraiser for Tupelo Press, an independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers. She is writing 30 poems a day in the for the month of November. If you'd like to donate, check out:
https://www.tupelopress.org/the-30-30-project-november-2022/

To see more of Lu's past work, awards, and upcoming projects, check out 
www.luchekowsky.com. 

Jill Coleman is an entrepreneur and business coach who has helped thousands of fit pros grow and scale their online businesses.  She is the creator of Moderation365, a nutrition program and certification, and host of The Best Life Podcast and FitBizU which have over 1.5 million downloads. 

Connect with her on instagram @jillfit and at jillfit.com. 

Why having too many choices not only makes choosing more challenging, but how it can ultimately make us less happy in the long run. Fret not! It can get better. 

Book: The Paradox of Choice by Dr. Barry Schwartz

This episode is all about reframing the way you think about your goals. We are often so focused on the outcome, and the linear path to get there, that any variant feels like failure. 

What if the pursuit of your goals, dreams, and aspirations could be an experiment? 

• How would that change the way you work? 
• How would that change the way you view outcomes? 
• How would that change your thought process and the emotions that come along with pursuing a goal? 

LINKS:
Ness Labs Article
Think Again by Adam Grant
Covering Ground Happy Hour 6/8
One-on-One Coaching with Wheels

In this episode, Wheels shares her struggles with productivity anxiety, what it is, and how she has come to try to manage it. 

If you need help with anxiety or any other mental health issue, please check out:

• Headway for accessible therapy options
• The New York State Psychiatric Institute Resident's Clinic for access to therapists and psychiatrists
• Headspace for guided meditations.

Wheels has no affiliation with those resources outside of being a patient/customer. 

In this minisode, Wheels shares her planning fallacy and how she has to respond to the calls of multiple projects at once, including ones she doesn't necessarily want to do but needs to. 

Music: Joyride by Skandinavianz

Wheels sits down with writer, speaker, anti-racism and DEI coach, Chrissy King, to talk about her new and upcoming book, The Body Liberation Project. They discuss what the body positivity movement really is, what it's like leaving a full time job to become an entrepreneur, and the very unromantic process of writing a book.   

Connect with Chrissy on instagram, and check out her DEI trainings at www.chrissyking.com.

Music: Joyride by Skandinavianz

In this Tread sesh, Wheels asks the question, are you ready, willing and able? 

Follow Wheels on instagram: Personal | Covering Ground

Music: Joyride by Skandinavianz