Ken Gorfinkle is a clinical psychologist with over 40 years of experience caring for adults and children with chronic medical illness, mood and anxiety disorders. 

We discuss:

• A huge financial step over the cliff [03:06]
• Jumping into entrepreneurship in two stages [04:36]
• How to turn the loss of colleague contacts into something good [05:52]
• What to pay attention to when you’ve lost your job [08:45]
• Basic steps to deal with emotions after a job loss [11:45]
• Self-assessment as a strategy against ageism [15:17]
• How to overcome the barriers to becoming a freelance consultant after being an employee for many years [16:28]
• How to step back on your feet and start bringing in income as quickly as possible [18:47]
• The real time to evaluate who we are and what matters [21:56]

With his wife, Doris Ullendorff, Ken owns Common Sense Therapy, a unique private psychotherapy practice in New York. After over 25 years working at the bedside of people receiving in-hospital care for cancer, organ transplant, diabetes, congenital birth defects and chronic pain conditions, Ken continues to provide care and support for those with ongoing needs after acute care is in the past. 

Ken and Doris have developed a broad referral network of psychiatric and medical providers in the New York metropolitan area; clinicians with whom they enjoy a collaborative treatment approach. They now offer remote video-based sessions to accommodate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn more about Ken at http://www.commonsensetherapy.com.

Mark Monchek is the Founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on conscious growth.  

We discuss: 

• A new way to think about disruption and opportunity [1:57] 
• How a non-unique company thrives during a pandemic [3:21] 
• The key frameworks necessary to build a culture of sustainability [5:56] 
• The wider lens of the collective intelligence [7:45] 
• A respectful back and forth between employees and employers [13:50] 
• Steps to do a better job of managing through disruptions [18:10] 
• The humility of interdependence [19:53] 

Mark has worked with leaders from Google, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Adorama, Feltsberg, The New York Times, Wharton School of Business, New York University, Columbia University, NBC, Time Warner, and the United Nations. He’s the author of the Amazon nonfiction bestseller Culture of Opportunity: How to Grow Your Business in an Age of Disruption. 

He’s been featured in Real Leaders, The Better Business Book, the Organization Development Review Journal, Lifetime Network, WPLJ, WCBS, Newsday, Working Women Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Learn more about Mark at https://opplab.com/ and YouTube. 

Cole spent two successful decades in Corporate America partnering with the world’s largest companies. She took the leap in March of 2019 and left at the top of her career. She launched Cool Audrey to change the corporate landscape by bringing mindfulness and kindness into business as strategic foundations.

We discuss:

• Jump then or jump never [1:40]
• Manifest the path and the possibilities are real [3:42]
• How to detox from the pace of Corporate America [5:45]
• The biggest surprise of day one on your own [8:00]
• How to honor the creative side of yourself [11:16]
• Change the pace of people so we can change the pace of business [12:40]
• Until you know how to bring people together, there’s no way that you can bring them forward [16:38]
• Serving leaders that have a particular set of governing values [18:17]
• The stones of an entrepreneurial path [20:10]
• How to cultivate the energy you need to start something on your own [21:51]

Learn more about Cole at www.coolaudrey.com and LinkedIn.

Geri Mazur is an award winning brand and marketing strategist. Before starting Geri Mazur Marketing, she was Executive Vice President, Director of Strategic Planning at Saatchi and Saatchi. 

We discuss:

• When the best marketing happens [2:00]
• The worst thing you can do in an economic downturn [5:30]
• How great disruptions breathe new opportunities [8:45]
• What awaits you at the end of the hell [11:50]
• The most important input in any communications campaign [13:30]
• How to figure out where to invest money in outside resources to gain the most right now [16:58]
• A trade-off between money and your own energy [20:52]

Over her career Geri worked with many Fortune 500 companies in many different product categories, ranging from Purdue Chickens, to Princess Cruises to Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Today Geri works exclusively with smaller companies helping them tackle today’s complicated marketing environment.

Learn more about Geri at www.gerimazurmarketing.com and LinkedIn.

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Free access to Introduction to Marketing webinar

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https://gerimazurmarketing.com/marketingintro

Justin Breen is CEO of the PR firm BrEpic Communications. 

We discuss:

• Cornerstones to measure whether entrepreneurship is a good fit for you [1:45]
• You can’t find the great things unless you experience the bottom [4:13]
• The two-year mark [6:47]
• Newsworthy stories for the best of the best [8:03]
• Why you should pivot all the things you don’t like to do [10:24]
• The mindset behind naming the year [12:41]
• Helpful techniques to find the right kind of mentors [14:21]
• The bare minimum: why people hate or are afraid to lose their jobs [15:35]
• It doesn’t matter what you do, it matters who you are [17:35]
• Where do you see yourself three hours from now? [18:55]

Justin is hard-wired to seek out and create viral, thought-provoking stories that the media craves. He finds the best stories when he networks with visionary entrepreneurs and executives who understand the value of investing in themselves and their businesses. Justin believes strongly in the power of introductions and creates important relationships through those introductions.

Learn more about Justin at www.BrEpicLLC.com and LinkedIn.

Jason helps thought leaders to reach a larger audience with their ideas, create new income streams from their expertise, and build business models that align with their values and goals. 

We discuss:

• The power to share your expertise and make good money out of it [2:51]
• Packaging people’s knowledge through online courses [8:24]
• Successful strategies for building stability when you’re a thought leader [9:50]
• Four pieces you need to put together a great offer [13:50]
• How to fortify yourself against ups and downs [18:57]
• How to get from a brand new idea to an online course in three weeks with a small list [20:28]
• The lean launch method as the lowest-risk, least-cost, fastest way to testing something out [24:10]

As a consultant, trainer, and strategist, Jason draws from more than fourteen years of researching top Internet influencers and experimenting with his own personal experience. His experience includes creating multiple successful brands, launching over 60 online courses, teaching more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, generating seven figures in online course sales, and 8 million downloads of his podcast. Jason’s mission is to help visionaries with impactful ideas to connect with the people they serve best and the problems they can most uniquely solve.

Learn more about Jason at www.jasonvanorden.com and https://linktr.ee/impactpodcast.

Brief Description of Gift

Case study about launching an online course quickly

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http://leanlaunchmethod.download

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Jürgen Strauss is Owner and Chief Innovator at Innovabiz. They partner with innovative, exceptional business coaches and consultants to enable them to increase visibility, build professional credibility and reaching their target ideal audience with their message. The result is more targeted leads and more business.

We discuss:

• Going local after years of international travelling [1:45]
• How to transition from a corporate mindset into a small-business mindset [4:44]
• The influence of a business coach for a small-business owner [6:38]
• How to know whether someone is just promoting themselves or is really providing a service [9:24]
• A journey from marketing to building websites back to marketing [11:20]
• How to get people into your training rooms in times of social isolation [13:32]
• Why coaching consultants should take the time to get on video [18:23]

Learn more about Jürgen at https://innovabiz.com.au.

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Marketing Master mini-class

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https://innovabiz.co/marketingmaster

Dr. Pierre-Nicolas Schwab is the founder of market research agency IntoTheMinds. He has carried out more than 100 assignments in various industries (retail, telecom, e- and m-commerce, media, IT, banking, etc.), combining his passion for data and qualitative methods to better understand customers’ behaviors.

We discuss:

• An engineer’s passion for marketing [2:12]
• The signs that show you whether a client is a good candidate for you [4:31]
• The discipline you need so that clients start coming to you [7:27]
• A long-term effort for turning content into the right kind of awareness [9:44]
• The things that Google likes you to do [11:47]
• The ways in which content can be beneficial to get through rough times [13:26]
• Why [and how] you should keep on investing time, effort or money in content creation during a tough period [15:54]
• It’s easier to navigate a smaller ship through bad weather [17:25]

Pierre-Nicolas was the manager in charge of Big Data for Belgium public broadcaster from 2015 until 2019. He served as Chairman of the Big Data Initiative (BDI) of the European Broadcasting Union from 2016 until 2019.

Pierre-Nicolas holds a MSc in material science, an MBA in strategy and a PhD in quantitative marketing.

Learn more about Pierre-Nicolas at www.intotheminds.com.

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Donna Fullerton has decades of experience in the worlds of advertising and research, where she developed a toolkit of skills (including innovative/traditional and communications effectiveness techniques, Creative Problem-Solving, Neurolinguistic Programming and Mindset Coaching).

Jane Hyun advises leaders and organizations on leveraging diversity and culture to drive high performance and innovation. 

We discuss:

• A key variable on how people are seen [3:00]
• The beauty of translating things in context [5:33]
• Vulnerable statements as a place of genuineness [8:34]
• A new element that needs to be part of the fabric of every company [11:00]
• Who’s missing from the table [15:34]
• The opportunity of small businesses to become personal [17:22]
• Why small businesses are more capable of making the necessary shift happen [20:46]
• An influencer’s role in making realistic changes in the areas of diversity and inclusion [23:18]
• Why we need to accept we are actually biased [26:09]
• Celebrating all of us as part of the society we’ve created [28:09]
• The barriers that prevent us from connecting with each other [29:47]

Donna applies her vast expertise to elicit underlying consumer motivation/insights and to help small business owners re-imagine their businesses by identifying promising opportunities and designing a strategic action plan to support business development. Donna has Advanced Degrees from Pace University, Executive Certifications in Strategic Marketing from University of Chicago, co-authored, “The Freedom Zone: Your Gateway to Love, Liberty and Happiness” and created “Food For The Soul,” an online source of daily inspiration. 

Learn more about Donna at http://dmfcominc.com, LinkedIn, http://foodforthesoul.us.   

Drawing on 25 years of experience navigating change in high-stakes business environments, Jane’s clients have included over 200 corporations, conferences and universities, including PepsiCo, eBay, and ESPN. Her insights appear in CNN, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR. She is a top 50 Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coach. Jane’s sessions and keynotes are known for creating “unexpected light bulb moments” that help us work better together. Jane is author of the national bestseller, Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, and co-author of FLEX/The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences. 

Learn more about Jane at http://www.hyunassociates.com/, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Milène Jardine is an innovative chocolatier and entrepreneur with a strong background in product development/sales.  

We discuss: 

• Putting a childhood passion to the test [2:24] 
• Touring kitchens to cook a sustainable business [5:16] 
• Why having a business coach is good when transitioning to entrepreneurship [7:55] 
• Going digital with a chocolate product [9:15] 
• Creative ways to even out the peaks and valleys [10:48] 
• Refining the customer profile as a Covid-19 business measure [13:20] 
• A mask cannot hide the happiness in the eyes [14:53] 
• The key to winning a marathon [18:10] 

After 12-years of creating brands for Macy*s, Milène’s position was eliminated in 2016, and she launched her own label Milène Jardine Chocolatier. Offering exotic confections inspired by her travels, the vision is to celebrate diversity through chocolate. Sold online, at boutiques, and for corporate gifting/pairing events, the chocolates have been featured at Christie’s Auction House and Le Cirque, approved by top chefs Marc Forgione and Dominique Crenn, and enjoyed by Warren Buffett and Sting. 

Learn more about Milene at https://milenejardine.com/, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Brief Description of Gift 

15% off purchase code 

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http://goingsolo.milenejardinechocolatier.com

Sherry Goldman is the president of Goldman Communications Group, an award-winning public relations/marketing communications agency, which she started 22 years ago, after holding senior management positions at several international PR agencies and working in print and broadcast media. 

We discuss:

• How to keep up with evolving relationships when the world reopens [4:16]
• The types of plans necessary for business continuity [9:13]
• The informative reassurance that people need in times of crisis [14:59]
• Responsive companies that meet reasonable expectations [17:40]
• How to adapt your messages so you resonate with, educate and help your clients [21:26]

Goldman Communications Group works with a range of companies (start-ups through Fortune 500 companies), brands, non-profit associations, and their executives, helping them tell their stories and create, communicate, and control their messages, reputations, and value propositions. The agency offers a wide suite of services including strategic counsel; messaging; media relations targeting traditional, social and online media; corporate communications/thought leadership programming; community/industry relations and engagement; reputation management and crisis communications, as well as new product launches. Sherry is also an adjunct professor in public relations at LIU/Post.

Learn more about Sherry at www.goldmanpr.net.

Brief Description of Gift

A 20-minute session of counsel on PR issues

URL for Free Gift

www.goldmanpr.net

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Mary K. Rogers has served as leadership staff of two Chambers of Commerce, the National Association of Women Business Owners, and the Small Business Administration’s Michigan Small Business Development Center. She sold her company, Marigold Women in Business to a division of Pepsi in 2009. She is now self-employed, hosting The Experience 50 Podcast for Midlife.

We discuss:

• How to stop tolerating intolerable things and start doing meaningful work [4:34]
• What is the verb and not the noun of what you enjoy? [8:02]
• Why you should talk to your second and beyond circle when starting a new business [11:19]
• Mary in the morning: you don’t need a job; you need a show [13:11]
• What is what you don’t know what you don’t know [16:45]
• How to get digital at the age of 50 [18:21]
• How to productize your service when you don’t have a sales background [21:02]

Learn more about Mary at http://www.experience50.com/.

Riva Greenberg is a health researcher and coach, author, advisor and inspirational speaker.

We discuss:

• Our history does not have to be our future [2:18]
• How having a supportive partner can be a game changer [6:20]
• From zero income to a hundred percent income [10:32]
• If it’s all about the money, you’re going to struggle [12:58]
• A wonderful asset in life to help you make decisions during hard times [16:05]
• How the current situation is changing the way we inspire people [18:30]

Riva has lived with type 1 diabetes for 48 years, and is helping people with diabetes and health professionals work collaboratively in a way that helps them both flourish. She is sharing this Flourishing Approach across the world. Riva has written three books and hundreds of articles, she’s spoken at the United Nations and is recognized for her humanistic work by professional associations and organizations.

Learn more about Riva at https://diabetesstories.com, https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001TNK2BE and https://www.huffpost.com/author/riva-509

Dennis Boyle has over 25 years of experience with large corporations such as E.I. DuPont, Dade Behring and Siemens AG as well as startup companies such as Exalenz Bioscience and MedTest Dx. 

We discuss:

• A daily habit to help you prepare for unexpected circumstances [2:12]
• The responsibility of delivering bad news that affects thousands of people [5:31]
• The opportunities that come with heartache [7:32]
• The ability to give yourself choices [10:12]
• How to make better decisions when feeling distressed [12:52]
• How to thrive as an outside business consultant when you’re not Apple [15:17]
• Helping companies grow revenue through outsourcing sales experts [18:41]

Dennis Boyle’s experience includes both sales and marketing and he has held multiple Senior Executive roles in Business Development, Corporate Accounts, Strategic Management, Corporate/Commercial Training and Development, Private Equity, and Operations. In his last role, Dennis served as President of Spectra 254.

In early 2017, he purchased a licensing agreement from Sales Xceleration. This agreement provides him with outsourced Vice President of Sales and CCO tools and programs for small to medium sized firms to outsource their sales and marketing leadership.

Dennis earned his BA in Economics from Middlebury College. He also holds a Master’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in Business Education from Southern New Hampshire University. He also received graduate certificates in Negotiation and Public Speaking from the Center for Management Research in Waltham, MA and a training certificate from the Emily Post Business Institute on Business Ethics and Etiquette.

Dennis Boyle is an adjunct professor, and teaches business and professional services courses at the University of New Hampshire in their Business in Practice (BiP) program.

Learn more about Dennis at LinkedIn.

For over 20 years, Ed Squire was a strategic business consultant for Fortune 500 and global companies in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

We discuss:

• There is a lot more to mental health than you think there is [2:15]
• The impact of the “What do you do?” question [6:51]
• Staying beyond the “Me too” part [8:21]
• A five-step process to recover from any type of trauma [10:56]
• How to give yourself a break from being money-focused while being unemployed [16:16]
• A methodology to apply your accumulated business skills to a passion of yours [18:32]
• The “requirements” for carving out your path to opportunities [21:00]

After suddenly losing his job in June 2018, Ed started a nonprofit called ‘Me Too, What Now’ that raises awareness about childhood sexual abuse and mental health. The organization focuses on ‘What Now?’ helping survivors to move beyond keeping a victim mentality. Ed is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse himself. This year he’s also starting a video and media production company.

Learn more about Ed at https://www.metoowhatnow.com andhttps://www.visiblekindness.com/.

What if you could determine who in your audience is your best client in 180 seconds? Juliet Clark is a dynamic and sought-after speaker and podcaster who has spent the last twenty years helping authors, coaches, speakers, and small businesses all over the world build expert platforms.

We discuss:

• Success principles for intentional audience [1:51]
• A great methodology for people selling expertise [4:32]
• How to bootstrap your way out of bankruptcy mentality [6:30]
• How to translate your audience’s feedback into effective marketing [9:53]
• Hints that tell you how you can serve your audience at a better level [10:57]
• Why some companies mark huge marketing success in times of crisis [12:48]
• Why publishing a book is probably not the reason your products and services will start to sell [15:36]
• An effective tool to measure a client’s commitment [17:47]
• How to gather a great amount of feedback with just one question [19:27]

Corporate companies, start-ups, and author/speaker incubators world-wide have benefited from Juliet’s unique and massively effective method of mastering lead generation and qualification for expert status. She created a platform-building tool that assesses audience obstacles, generates leads, and qualifies leads for businesses. This simple technology can be used on social media, from the stage, and at workshops to build email lists and create conversations that build long-term relationships with potential clients. Her podcast, Promote, Profit, Publish, helps entrepreneurs understand how to use great tools in the coaching and small business spaces.

Learn more about Juliet at http://www.superbrandpublishing.com and www.leadlogicquiz.com.

Brief Description of Gift

A free assessment of how your lead generation stands up

URL for Free Gift

www.leadlogicquiz.com

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Mac Prichard is the founder of Mac’s List, a job board and career hub in the Pacific Northwest with a mission to create more human hiring processes for all.  Mac is also the author of the book Land Your Dream Job Anywhere and host of the weekly career advice podcast Find Your Dream Job.

We discuss:

• Transferrable skills that make the light bulb go on [2:11]
• A situation where you can make a difference [7:20]
• Why you should not gamble all your chips on one color [9:27]
• The hidden dignity that comes with temporary work [12:08]
• New habits that virtual work requires [15:33]
• Why only having a perspective is not enough to get you through a severe recession [16:51]
• How to do hiring better for job hunters [17:51]
• The most successful way to run a job search [19:56]

Learn more about Mac at https://www.macslist.org/, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Robbie is the author of The Membership Economy, the groundbreaking book that changed everything. 

We discuss:

• The best way to do all the things you want to do as business leaders [2:28]
• The difference between a forever transaction and recurring revenue [3:09]
• How focusing on a forever promise would justify a customer making a forever transaction [5:07]
• The way you choose to package your value is how your customers will consume you [7:30]
• Why you should not lose sight of the customer’s mission while working on your product [10:54]
• Problem avoidance: defining the trigger features and hook features of your product [12:06]
• The package offering that you would give to your loved ones [14:53]
• The attributes that show why long-term clients are not always the best clients [16:59]
• The best table and finest champagne at a McDonald’s [21:01]

Robbie first coined the phrase Membership Economy over 10 years ago, and it is now part of the business lexicon used by organizations and journalists around the world. The Membership Economy was recently named a top 10 Marketing Book of all time by BookAuthority. Her clients have included Netflix, Microsoft, and The Wall Street Journal as well as several venture-backed private companies and associations. 

Over the course of her career, Robbie has worked in or consulted to clients in more than twenty industries. 

Learn more about Robbie at https://robbiekellmanbaxter.com/, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Brief Description of Gift

Sneak Peek at Chapter 8 of Robbie’s forthcoming book The Forever Transaction: How to Build a Subscription Business So Compelling Your Customers Will Never Want to Leave

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https://robbiekellmanbaxter.com/the-forever-transaction-chapter-8/

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Maiko Sakai, founder of Airtight Concepts, is a NYC-based business growth strategist a.k.a. secret weapon to her clients who are visionary entrepreneurs and CEOs with the desire to build a high-functioning, profit-generating machine of their dreams.

We discuss:

• Hidden nuggets in unconventional strategies [2:30]
• The right time to draw up a dream organizational chart [7:37]
• Identifying the gap between what you plan to do and what actually is needed [9:13]
• Why charging by the hour is doing a disservice to everybody [11:18]
• The beauty of value-based pricing [16:00]
• The psychology shift in one’s identity when transitioning from corporate life to entrepreneurship [17:27]
• How to get comfortable with your new identity and get over the drama that comes with change [21:10]

As a self-proclaimed Queen of Counterintuitive Strategies, Maiko provides effective but not-so-conventional strategies to boost sustainable profitability for her clients by utilizing both quantitative and qualitative assessments. Originally from Japan, Maiko loves ethnic foods of all kinds, and is a sucker for ultra-contemporary design and exotic houseplants. She earned her MBA from Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.

Learn more about Maiko at https://www.maikosakai.com/, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Brief Description of Gift

Access to a free training video

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www.maikosakai.com/smashing

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TedX speaker, author, Executive and Team Coach, and proud dog-dad of a three-legged Wheaten Terrier, Alan Samuel Cohen has been called The Team Wizard after leading the successful publicity launch of the Harry Potter series.  

We discuss:

• Necessity is the mother of invention [2:40]
• The silver lining of being laid off from a successful job [7:24]
• The role of a career coach for [un]employed people [9:32]
• Why now is a great time for innovation [11:20]
• Strategies for getting through a crisis for business owners whose business is turning upside down [15:12]
• The power of human connection in times of social isolation [18:33]

Alan Samuel Cohen, MBA, has been a professional coach for 15 years, and holds the PCC designation from The International Federation of Coaches. He has coached executives and teams at organizations including American Express, Tiffany’s, MetLife and Bloomberg, as well as countless non-profits and small businesses. He is the author of the book, “The Connection Challenge: How Executives Create Power and Possibility in the Age of Distraction” and “Those Difficult Talks for PR Pros.” He is certified in Emotional Intelligence, Myers Briggs, and the Energy Leadership System.

Learn more about Alan at http://www.alansamuelcohen.com, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Brief Description of Gift

Downloadable resources including Team MAGIC worksheet

URL for Free Gift

https://www.alansamuelcohen.com/subscribe

Michael OBrien is the Chief Shift Officer at Peloton Coaching and Consulting. He elevates successful corporate leaders by preventing bad moments from turning into bad days. He started going solo in 2014 at the age of 47 after a successful corporate career.

We discuss:

• A corporate shake-up and a last bad day [1:58]
• The freedom to honor the values you want to honor [4:22]
• How to stop fear getting the best of us [6:15]
• Breaking free with a 50% plan [7:46]
• How to start off a new business by building upon your network [9:48]
• The differences between working on your craft versus managing your business [13:01]
• How doing something incremental each year helps you reach stability [15:14]
• When you don’t have confidence but you have courage [17:06]
• Transparency [and abundance] as a way to create better leaders [20:29]

Learn more about Michael at http://www.michaelobrienshift.com, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Brief Description of Gift

Michael’s new book that will help you prevent bad moments from turning into bad days (you just have to pay shipping and handling)

URL for Free Gift

https://www.mylastbadday.com/get-your-copy

Entrepreneur and public speaker Dan Hoffman founded Circles Learning Labs as a means to foster meaningful connections across the world. He also believes that adult learning is the key to improving our lives and our businesses. Today he tells us why. Dan also opens up about his own struggles as an entrepreneur, talks about finding clarity, and shows us how to become self-directed learners.

Topics Include:

• The missing ingredients in our education system
• The problems facing adult learning today (and how to overcome them)
• Why leaders shouldn’t be afraid to embrace their lousiness
• The explosion of adult learning opportunities
• Fighting learner loneliness
• Why a peer group is a powerful learning structure

Dan Hoffman is an entrepreneur who failed twice, succeeded once, and is starting from the beginning again. From 2000-2014 he built and then sold M5 Networks, a pioneering Voice-over-IP cloud communications company serving businesses. After losing a battle to be CEO of the public Silicon Valley company that acquired M5, Dan retreated with his family to Barcelona for two years. During this time he was chosen as a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, a program that pushed him to work on the opportunity to improve education and learning. He recently returned to Brooklyn, NY, and a few months ago, started Circles Learning Labs, with a mission to connect the world deeply so people can learn and grow together.

Learn more about Dan at circl.es, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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If anyone understands the power of adventure, it’s Akshay Nanavati. As an entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and the author of Fearvana, Akshay helps people foster their fears and bring new meaning to their lives. He is also on a mission to run across every country in the world. In today’s episode, Akshay opens up about his troubled past, reveals what it really takes to turn your life around, and talks about using your fears to achieve the success you’ve always dreamed of.

We discuss…

• How to turn fear into something more productive and effective
• His daily and weekly routines and rituals (and why they work)
• Finding the right coach, mentor, mastermind group or peer group

Akshay Nanavati is a Marine Corps veteran, adventurer and entrepreneur. After overcoming drug addiction, a diagnosis of PTSD from the Iraq war, and a battle with alcohol that pushed him to the brink of suicide, Akshay has since explored the most hostile environments on the planet and built a global business helping people live limitless lifestyles. Combining years of research in neuroscience and psychology with his life experience, Akshay wrote the book Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear Into Health, Wealth and Happiness. His work funds his nonprofit, the Fearvana Foundation. It is the change-making arm of his lifelong mission to run across every country to create enduring peace, one community at a time.

Learn more about Akshay at fearvana.com, existing2living.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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