The Uncommon Minds Experience

Lauren Fay believes we're all one courageous decision away from changing the trajectory of our lives. That belief was forged through experience. Before becoming an award-winning author, keynote speaker, and life strategist, Lauren was a collegiate athlete, fitness instructor, and high achiever who looked like she had it all together. Beneath the surface, she spent more than a decade negotiating wi...

Jennifer "Jenny" White is a retired Registered Nurse with over 30 years of frontline experience in ICUs, trauma units, surgical floors, Public Health, and Long-Term Care . She served as a Director of Care and Director of Nursing Services, overseeing multiple nursing homes and large healthcare teams. She holds a BSc and a Master's Degree in Healthcare Administration . After retiring, Jenny survived...

Kristan Swan, M.Ed. is a former business coach turned life and spiritual guide devoted to helping people come home to themselves . After years spent guiding entrepreneurs and leaders to build successful businesses, she now uses that same strategic insight to help people build lives that feel deeply aligned with who they are . Kristan's work invites you to explore your deepest truths, question the...

Sonia Couto is a Canadian technology founder, business leader, and champion for women in technology. As Managing Director of Konverge Digital Solutions, a Toronto-based software development company with more than 30 years of experience, she leads the delivery of custom software, AI, and digital transformation solutions that help organizations solve complex business challenges . She is also the fou...

Larry Bilotta is a relationship and marriage expert, author, and speaker specializing in midlife crisis, and the creator of a series of successful programs designed to help bring couples back from the brink of divorce—and come back stronger than before . He is the author of Softhearted Woman Hard World and This Is Not the Woman I Married . After suffering through 27 years of hell in his own marria...

Gert Mellak is an SEO consultant and the founder of SEOLeverage and PlatformLeverage . He is a straight-shooting SEO and digital marketing pro known for simplifying complex strategies . Author of Fix Your Online Reputation and creator of the ERICA framework, Gert brings practical, battle-tested approaches to online visibility . He is fluent in English, Spanish, and German and has become the digita...

Today's conversation is about one of the hardest transitions many of us will eventually face: watching the people who raised us grow older and realizing that love sometimes means learning how to let go. Ingrid Hanson-Popp knows this journey personally. After walking alongside her mother through the final years of her life, Ingrid began hearing the same stories from other caregivers—overwhelm, fami...

Merit Kahn is the powerhouse behind Optimistic Personality Disorder — as playwright, producer, and performer . Her one-woman show is part TED Talk, part stand-up, and part therapy (if therapy came with a side of tequila) . It's a hilarious, heart-splattered rollercoaster through childhood quirks, divorce drama, single parent dating, career chaos, and cancer — because when life piles it on, Merit f...

Dr. Delali Hevi, MD, DABOM, is a double board-certified physician in Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine, a Certified Health and Wellness Coach, and the founder of Zenith Health Institute in Sun City West, Arizona . He earned his medical degree from the University of Ghana Medical School and completed his residency at Huron Hospital through the Cleveland Clinic Health System . Before he helped...

Lane Kawaoka is a former civil engineer turned real estate powerhouse, bestselling author, and founder of The Wealth Elevator . After earning his BS in Industrial Engineering and MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington, Lane spent years managing over $250 million in capital construction projects before realizing the traditional path wasn't delivering the financial freedom he want...

Crystal Bean is an international keynote speaker, breakthrough strategist, and bestselling author who helps high-achieving leaders, teams, and organizations break through burnout, self-doubt, and what's keeping them stuck . She is the creator of the proprietary U.N.L.E.A.S.H.E.D.™ Framework, a nine-step methodology designed to create breakthrough moments that lead to lasting change, confidence, cl...

Carolyn Sherrow is an author, speaker, trauma survivor, and former physician assistant who practiced medicine for twenty-three years . After enduring ritual abuse and mind control in her early life, Carolyn experienced profound healing through God's relentless love, compassionate counseling, and divine guidance . Her journey through a dissociative disorder became the foundation for a powerful test...

Dr. Maria Van Der Maaten is a sociologist of food and agriculture and a community development expert. She is also a United Methodist layperson, clergy spouse, and mother of two, and currently serves as the coordinator for the Iowa chapter of MFSA (Methodists for Social Action) . Her work sits at the intersection of wellness, community, belonging, and collective empowerment. She has been involved w...

Michaell Magrutsche is an Austrian-Californian multimedia artist, strategist, creativity-awareness educator, speaker, and author who works on raising awareness of our limitless human potential . His dyslexia and dysgraphia forced him to develop an awareness of seeing the world purely from a human perspective — creating art became his salvation, helping him feel human instead of like an outcast . M...

Clayton R. Johnson helps people perform at their best when the pressure is on. After years of observing a simple but powerful principle used by elite athletes, he developed the Walk-Up Protocol—a practical framework that uses music to help people shift their mental and emotional state before life's biggest moments. Whether it's a high-stakes presentation, a difficult conversation, a sales call, or...

Bradley L. Gabbert is the author of The Agreeable Child: A Yogic Journey from Tragedy to Triumph, a deeply personal memoir about healing a lifetime of silence through breath, embodiment, and self-compassion . At just two years old, Bradley was struck by a car and spent two weeks in a coma. He returned home having lost the ability to walk and speak . Although he eventually recovered physically, the...

Amanda Cassar is a highly respected Australian financial adviser, author, and educator with a Master of Financial Planning and over 25 years of experience . She is the creator of the internationally recognized Financial Abuse Specialist™ certification, delivered through Standards International, which trains financial professionals to recognize and respond to financial abuse . Her work sits at the...

J.F. Monroe is the author of The Legacy of the Four trilogy, a lifelong lover of fantasy, and a passionate advocate for the power of storytelling . Her work explores themes of love, sacrifice, identity, and the magic of human connection within a richly imagined universe. She believes the most powerful stories aren't really about magic—they're about people navigating fear, loyalty, betrayal, courag...

Mary Rothwell is a licensed therapist with more than 35 years of experience in the mental health field, a certified forest therapy practitioner, and a master gardener who spent 15 years cultivating her connection to the natural world . She is the host of No More Shrinking Violets, a podcast ranked in the top 10% of all podcasts globally, where she explores what it truly means for women to take up...

Mr. Whiskey is a U.S. Navy veteran, nuclear operator turned podcaster, author, preacher, comedian, speaker, and addiction recovery coach . Still in his 20s, he has already served his country, experienced the highs and lows of military life, and walked through the darkness of trauma, addiction, and loss . He is the founder and host of Couple O' Nukes, a self-improvement podcast that tackles dark su...

Today's conversation is about something I think a lot of people experience but don't always have language for. That moment when you're living your life. Everything might look fine from the outside. But something inside you starts saying, "This isn't it." What happens when the life you've built no longer feels like the life you're meant to live? My guest today is Jazzmyn Lauff, host of the When the...

My guest today is Warren Williams. He's a performance strategist and creator of Energetic Alchemy® who helps high-performing and neurodivergent leaders transform scattered focus into structured flow . He works with high achievers who've been told their whole lives that their brain works "wrong"—and helps them see that their so-called weaknesses might actually be their greatest strategic advantage...

Welcome back to The Uncommon Minds Experience. Today's conversation is about high performance, ambition, and the hidden cost of constantly being "on." But it's also about something deeper. What happens when someone becomes so good at performing that they lose touch with why they're performing in the first place? My guest today is Rebecca Wilson. She's an award-winning executive coach and certified...

What if some of the things you believe about yourself, reality, consciousness, and even spirituality aren't necessarily facts—but simply ideas you've inherited? In this episode of The Uncommon Minds Experience, I sit down with Doug Red Hail Pineda, founder of The Church of Psychedelics, for a deep exploration of consciousness, belief systems, personal transformation, and what it truly means to bec...

We spend so much time rushing toward the future that we often forget to look back. But historian and educator Barbara Ann Mojica believes that if you don't know your history, you don't really know what you're talking about. In this episode of The Uncommon Minds Experience, we explore why history isn't just a school subject—it's a tool for understanding people, recognizing patterns, questioning sou...