Jay Vogt is the founder of Peoplesworth, an organizational development practice that works with mission-driven organizations, which started in 1982. Jay has worked with nonprofits in healthcare, education, human services, arts, culture, the environment, and more. He has worked with fast-growth companies in the organic food world like Stonyfield Yogurt, and Applegate. Jay is a master facilitator of meetings and retreats and specializes in leading large group meetings of 35 to 350 participants. A published author, Jay’s TEDx talk on the art of facilitation, “Changing the Way the World Meets” has been viewed nearly 100,000 times.

Unlike most people who transition to an entrepreneurial career path, Jay made this move at a younger age, 27 years and he has never looked back. That’s not to say that it’s been a smooth, confident ride all these years. He made choices along the way as to how he would manage his practice, choosing to only engage local clients so that he could be home at the dinner table every night, calling it his “country doctor” model. This choice challenged him to redefine his concept of success and design a life that would make him feel more alive. This included, for example, taking several sabbaticals in which he chose experiences over income, risking the stability of his client relationships. Surprisingly, his clients found his choices appealing and engaging.

In this episode we discuss:

• The learning and growth journey Jay took to move from working at a university extension service to launching his own practice.
• Jay experienced significant mindset shifts that enabled him to embrace his most meaningful career path while also overcoming significant fears.
• The values that Jay adhered to and which helped him, including this quote: “chance favors a prepared mind.”
• The “mortgage money” work he did while he was building his practice.
• Jay’s fundamental operating principle, genuinely caring about the worth of people.
• The life hack Jay learned for accomplishing most of what he would like to do in life, without having to make huge life or career shifts.

Links:

• Jay Vogt on LinkedIn and Twitter.
• www.peoplesworth.com
• www.homesanmiguel.com
• www.essentialworth.com
• Jay’s TEDxTalk – The Art of Facilitation: Changing the Way the World Meets

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Gary Collins is a best selling Amazon author and creator of thesimplelifenow.com. Gary’s background includes service in military intelligence as a special agent for the US State Department Diplomatic Security Service, the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the US Food and Drug Administration. His expert knowledge brings a much-needed perspective to today's areas of simple living, health, nutrition, entrepreneurship, self-help, and being more self-reliant.

Gary was raised in the high desert at the basin of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in a rural part of California. He grew up poor with parents who did not emphasize education or anything particularly aspirational, yet he felt driven to achieve greater goals. He joined the military as a pathway to attend college and graduate school and later worked for the federal government in several capacities. Twenty years later, he left the highly structured world of government service and went the entrepreneurial route, starting his own health company. This led to many creative ideas resulting in his passion for life simplification. He now lives off the grid part of the year in a remote area of North East Washington State and spends the rest of the year exploring in his travel trailer with his trusty black lab Barney.

In this episode we discuss:

• Gary’s processes of learning through life.
• Many of the jobs Gary has done and the thread that ties them together.
• How his passion for helping others has been evident throughout his career.
• Gary’s experience in the army, leaving the army, and moving into health and life simplification.
• How Gary views his current life and career and why it works for him.
• Gary’s writing process and books.

Links:

• Gary Collins on LinkedIn and Twitter.
• www.thesimplelifenow.com



Books mentioned in this episode:

• “The Beginner’s Guide to Living Off The Grid” by Gary Collins
• “The Simple Life Guide to Decluttering Your Life: The How-To Book of Doing More with Less and Focusing on the Things That Matter” by Gary Collins
• “The Simple Life Guide to Financial Freedom: Free Yourself from the Chains of Debt and Find Financial Peace” by Gary Collins

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Archana Shetty is an executive leadership coach and mentor. Her expertise is in emotional intelligence and peak performance. She empowers leaders to become impactful, inspirational leaders of the next generation without burning out. She is the founder of Next-Gen Leadership, a model for transformational leadership based on evidence-based practices to develop emotional intelligence effectiveness and well being for impactful leadership. Archana is also the host of an online leadership summit, The Inspirational Leadership Summit, which will be aired November 5 to 7, 2019. She is an ICF certified coach and a certified coach and facilitator with Daniel Goldman’s emotional intelligence program.

Archana has a rich and deep career history beginning in her college years where she aspired to become a doctor, but she did not get into medical school even though she was an excellent student. Instead, she studied for 6 years and became an Ayurvedic doctor. She maintained a practice until she married and moved to Qatar where she was not licensed to practice. Undaunted, she dove in and studied computer science, business, and leadership. From there she worked in IT systems and project management in the radio and TV media industry and later in financial services. She experienced layoffs and many career transitions. Today she is an executive leadership coach and mentor with her own practice.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Archana was raised in India, with both of her parents having to work hard to make ends meet and how that taught her that there is no substitute for hard work.
• One of her most heartbreaking experiences and the huge life and career transition that came from that.
• How Archana always wanted to be an entrepreneur, to do something that would make a difference in people’s lives. But how she was scared because she was taught that a 9 to 5 was safe.
• Archana began to think about leadership and how she wanted to lead after learning how NOT to lead.
• The common thread Archana sees between being a doctor and being a leader.
• How she views building a support system.
• The Inspirational Leadership Summit that Archana is hosting, November 5-7, 2019.



Links:

• Archana Shetty on LinkedIn and Twitter.
• www.archanashetty.com
• The FREE Inspirational Leadership Summit – November 5-7, 2019 being presented by Archana.

Other Resources:

• Learn more about Daniel Goleman.

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Fei Wu is a bilingual podcaster, English, and Mandarin Chinese. She's also the creator and host of Feisworld podcast and Feisworld docuseries. Fei left her job in marketing and advertising to build a company of her own called Feisworld LLC. With a mission to help small businesses and people tell better stories, find more customers and create new revenue streams. She leads an international mastermind group, which I am a proud member of, and creates courses for podcasters. Her story has been featured by Dorie Clark, in her best selling book called “Entrepreneurial You”, as well as the Harvard Business Review.

Fei grew up on an army base in Beijing, China. At the age of 16, she moved to the US to go to high school in Maine and never looked back. She knew she wanted to be on a creative career path and that the Chinese system of education would not support her in pursuing the kinds of areas she envisioned herself engaged in for making a living. You could say she was a teenaged visionary as she knew what she wanted from a young age onward. Fei worked in the professional consulting, marketing, and advertising fields for 10 years until she started her own firm where she provides digital marketing and branding services to small businesses and entrepreneurs.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Fei was born on an army base in Beijing, China and lived there until she came to the United States by herself at 16.
• One of the happiest memories of her life, when her parents worked together to create a mural on her school’s playground wall.
• What the transition from China to the United States was like and how Fei created a professional path to stay in the US after college.
• Fei’s different jobs including Business Analyst, Associate Project Manager, Project Manager, and then Entrepreneur.
• The value she places on making friends at work and taking the time to develop meaningful, and helpful relationships.
• How Fei started her docuseries and where she is going next.

Links:

• Fei Wu on LinkedIn and Twitter.
• Fei’s Instagram.
• Fei’s YouTube Channel.
• www.feisworld.com
• Fei’s Podcast
• Fei’s Docuseries



Other Resources:

• “Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive” by Dorie Clark
• Fei’s interview with me.

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Robbie Samuels is a coach, speaker, podcast host and author with a wealth of experience in event planning, networking, fundraising, and grassroots organizing. His podcast, On The Schmooze, highlights untold stories of leadership and his book, Bagels vs. Croissants, helps readers overcome the obstacles of engaging productively at conferences and other large group networking functions. Robbie is a professional speaker, coach, and consultant based in the Greater Boston area.

Robbie started his career with a Master’s in Social Work and wasn’t really sure exactly where it would take him. Yet, he quickly figured out that he enjoyed bringing groups of people together to build connections toward common visions and causes. He calls himself an extroverted, extrovert and speaks to associations and other professional groups about how to make meaningful connections to develop productive relationships. For over ten years, Robbie was an event planner and fundraising professional in the Boston area. Five years ago, he decided to start his own speaking and coaching business.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Robbie got his first perfect job when he was 30 years old.
• Robbie’s journey to Boston after living on Long Island all the way through his Master’s Degree.
• His different career transitions and the thread that ties them all together.
• How Robbie sees relationships as the most important business and personal connection.
• Robbie’s methods for thinking of authentic networking as an insurance policy.

Links:

• Robbie Samuels on LinkedIn and Twitter
• www.robbiesamuels.com
• Robbie’s Podcast: On the Schmooze
• Robbie’s Free Gift: 10 Tips for Conference Connections

Other Resources:

• “Croissants vs. Bagels: Strategic, Effective, and Inclusive Networking at Conferences” by Robbie Samuels
• “Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It” by Dorie Clark
• “The Connector’s Advantage: 7 Mindsets to Grow Your Influence and Impact” by Michelle Tillis Lederman
• Learn more about Sue Hyde.
• Learn more about Malcolm Gladwell.

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