In this episode I speak with Jay Abraham, one of the world’s foremost nonlinear strategic/critical thinkers who has increased the bottom lines of more than 10,000 clients in more than 1000 industries whose wakeup call was realizing he had an insatiable curiosity about all things business and beyond and an uncanny ability to connect dots that turned into huge returns for companies. http://abraham.com
In this episode I speak with Ruth Gotian, Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine, Thinkers50 Radar List awardee and author of the upcoming book, “The Success Factor,” whose wakeup call was noticing the commonalities that highly successful people have ranging from Nobel laureates to astronauts to MD/PhDs that she worked closely and her wanting to make those attributes available to anyone who wants to succeed. https://www.ruthgotian.com/about
In this episode I speak with Janice Litvin, author of “Banish Burnout Toolkit,” whose wakeup call was the downturn in the economy in 2008 and her transitioning from tech recruiting to Zumba (zoom based yoga) instructor, but wanting to do something to alleviate the fear and pain in people who were burning out in their jobs. https://janicelitvin.com/
I sit down with Laurel Braitman – well, she is actually phoning in from the Alaskan wilderness! What an amazing human. Laurel Braitman PhD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and anthropologist of science. She is the first Writer-in-Residence and the Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Medicine & the Muse Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine where she is helping medical students and physicians communicate more meaningfully–for themselves and their patients. She holds a PhD in Science, Technology and Society from MIT, is a Senior TED Fellow and a 2019 National Geographic Explorer. Her last book, Animal Madness, was a NYT bestseller and has been translated into eight languages. Her next book House of the Heart, (forthcoming, Simon & Schuster) is about growing up, mortality and how we might live with the perspective of a terminal disease without the dire prognosis. Her work has been featured on the BBC, NPR, Good Morning America and Al Jazeera. Her stories have appeared in The Guardian, on Radiolab, in The Wall Street Journal, Wired, National Geographic and other publications.
Laurel and I connected easily and instantly. Listen in as we talk about her work and soon to be published book about growing up with a father facing a dire prognosis and how this shaped the way she lives her life.
In this episode I speak with Rusty Gaillard, Stanford MBA/13 year Apple employee whose wakeup call came when he got divorced and realized he wasn’t feeling fully alive and who then transitioned to being a successful speaker/transformational coach, founder of Silicon Valley Dreambuilders, who offers up a great description of his coaching process. https://www.svdreambuilders.com/
In this episode I speak with Adam Gilad, CEO and Founder of Kyyndr and the Kynndr Summit, whose wakeup call was recovering from a traumatic relationship breakup and realizing how he and the world were hungry for deeper and kinder relationships. http://kyyndr.ocm
In this episode I speak with Dr. Sam Qurashi, who left the field of addiction medicine after seven years when he woke up to all the ways to help people heal from their mental and other issues that traditional medicine was missing. He shares his transformational thoughts and concept across social medial including more than 700,000 IG followers to help people who are.
In this episode I speak to Mena Mirhom, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Columbia University Medical Center, co-author of, “Women’s Pearls: A Focus on Women’s Mental Health,” advisory board member of Healthcorps and a partner to the NBA’s Player Association re: mental health, whose wakeup call was noticing the lack of justice with regard to mental health care for women and minorities and want to correct that. https://www.healthcorps.org/staff/dr-mena-mirhom/
In this episode I speak with Howard Getson, CEO of Capitalogix whose wakeup call was dialing the operator when he was two and a half to tell her that his nanny was physically abusing (and ended up killing) his nine month old brother. Since then his life as been one of taking charge and control and building a future and companies and helping the world make the most of what comes next. https://www.linkedin.com/in/hgetson/
In this episode I speak to the world’s #1 Executive Coach and WSJ multi-bestselling author, Marshall Goldsmith, whose wakeup call was realizing that leaders often needed to focus more on stopping negative behaviors to reach their full potential and also many years ago when he became a philosophical Buddhist, which he explains beautifully. http://marshallgoldsmith.com
