Behind The Human with Marc Champagne

We go deep on all things mental fitness and specifically what's possible when combining two of the biggest mental fitness practices—meditation and journaling.    Justine is a certified meditation teacher, magnetic marketing strategist and mentor to soulpreneurs growing their own businesses online. Joey Cofone is Co-Founder/CEO of Baronfig and an award-winning graphic designer based in New York Cit...

Elizabeth Martin, L.Ac is a licensed acupuncturist that focuses on the four pillars of Chinese medicine: acupuncture, manual therapy like cupping and massage, herbal medicine, and meditative modalities such as Qi Gong to treat emotional imbalances.   She specializes in treating woman's health, allergies, cancer, anxiety, and more. Elizabeth is the owner of  Hands On Acupuncture  in Long Island, NY...

Mandy is an inspirational writer, entrepreneur and speaker, whose body of work focuses on lifting the human spirit. She has been featured in TED, Forbes, and Inc Magazine.   During the 2020 corona-virus pandemic, she created, The Daily Uplift — a project authoring personalized notes and reflections to strangers to elevate mindsets and spirits and to help address its global mental health toll.    H...

Today I'm chatting with Sean Burke reviewing the CheckingIn App (not paid review). The app is a free and private tool to help you increase self-awareness and daily mindfulness through a simple two-step check-in process focused on one-word descriptors and an energy scale.   Learn more about CheckingIn —> www.checkingin.co Free download on iOS & Android   Bring CheckingIn to your business —> www.che...

One of the most inspiring, kind, humble, and brilliant humans I have ever interviewed.   Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur driven to solve grand global challenges through innovation. Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur driven to solve grand global challenges through innovation. Founder of Moon Express , Viome , Intelius, TalentWise, and InfoSpace   Just giving an idea of the scale Naveen is operating at...

Vladimir is an Entrepreneur and life-long learner. His quest to understand the world, and push himself to be better has taken him on journeys through the Himalayan mountains, into years of meditative, ritual, and psychedelic practice and most recently has led to the creation of FRWRD skincare. FRWRD Skincare is a USDA organic brand for those that wish to live in alignment with their greater self....

Hala started her career in radio production on “The Angie Martinez Show.” Later she focused on an entrepreneurial endeavour― the launch of an entertainment news blog site, “The Sorority of Hip Hop.” She led an all-female team of 50 bloggers, and together they ran the site, interviewed celebrities, produced radio shows, and hosted parties/concerts.  When the blog site boom slowed down in 2014, Hala...

Jen Gottlieb is the Co-Founder and Chief Mindset Officer at Super Connector Media . Jen’s plethora of experience in health and wellness coaching, 14-season run as co-host on VH1 and a Broadway national tour, has naturally led into her role as host of Unfair Advantage Live , the world’s premier publicity event connecting entrepreneurs to the media. Jen supports and works with entrepreneurs to eleva...

Chris Schembra is the bestselling author of " Gratitude and Pasta: The Secret Sauce for Human Connection ", chronicling his adventures as one of the most sought-after dinner hosts in the World. Forbes has just ranked his book as the #2 book of 2020 to create Human Connection and USA Today calls him the "Gratitude Guru". “I’m just a little guy with an apron, a fannie pack and a pasta sauce, anybody...

Today I’m speaking with John Fitch who dances between design, engineering and conversations.    John believes time off leads to better quality work and talks about this on his podcast and in latest book Time Off .   “I enjoy building technology through unlearning and the generous act of sonder.” 🙏 If you're enjoying the podcast - please leave a review! 🙏 Thanks as always for listening and have t...

Leysa Cerswell Kielburger, author of WE Well-being, is the co-founder of WE Well-being and a faculty member at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, where she develops mindfulness-based programs and trains health care practitioners and educators. Her Ph. D. dissertation in Clinical Psychology focused on mental health care for underserved and marginalized populations. Leysa has taught and practiced a...

Today I’m speaking with New York Times bestselling author James Clear . Author of the international bestselling book, Atomic Habits.  Creator of jamesclear.com and the popular 3-2-1 weekly newsletter. Speaker at major companies and events. Weightlifter and (former) athlete. Contributor to the Against Malaria Foundation where he donates 5% of all profit. Journaling Prompts: Am I climbing the right...

Mark Metry is on Amazon Prime's TV Docuseries "The Social Movement" season 2 attempting to solve some of the world's biggest problems. He is also the Host of the Global Top 100 podcast called Humans 2.0 featured by Forbes, NASDAQ, and Yahoo Finance as the "Top 21 Growing Podcasts you must listen to in 2019." Mark's show has been listened to over 10 million times and features the greatest leaders o...

Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including, Bring Your Whole Self to Work and We're All in This Together .  He's a former pro baseball player whose playing career ended due to an injury.  For the past 20 years, he's been a sought-after motivational speaker who delivers keynotes and seminars for some of the top companies in the world. He and his work have been featured in the New York Time...

David Sax is a writer, reporter, and speaker who specializes in business and culture. His previous book, The Revenge of Analog , was a #1 Washington Post bestseller, was selected as one of Michiko Kakutani’s Top Ten books of 2016 for the New York Times , and has been translated into six languages. He is the author of Save the Deli , which won a James Beard award, and The Tastemakers .  With all hi...

Emma Brooks is passionate about three things: branding, community building, and ideas. As Head of Marketing at Wattpad , she brings these passions together to create marketing strategies that tell Wattpad’s rich story to its millions of users around the world. Emma is also committed to building communities that give back. She volunteers for The Coaching Fellowship, a non-profit that provides massi...

Aditi Shah is a yoga teacher based in New York City teaching public and live broadcast classes for Peloton . She is also a co-creator of Mindful Morning, a pop-up meditation event in NYC, and a supporter of Exhale to Inhale. She has led lead class for over 2000 yogis in Times Square, for Good Morning America's "Tone in 20," had contributed to Well + Good's "Sweat Series," and has been named one of...

Jessica Goldberg is the Senior Producer at Ten Percent Happier . She produces docu-series on mental wellness and a daily live meditation show called TPH Live . Jessica is an Emmy award-winning producer who began her career in hard news and has written stories about people in over 110 different countries. Jessica has produced stories for mainstream media like ABC News and outsiders like Al Jazeera...

JT McCormick who was born the mixed-race son of a negligent, drug-dealing pimp father and a struggling single mother. He was raised in the slums of Dayton, Ohio, suffered incredible abuse, racism, and had multiple stints in the juvenile justice system. He barely graduated high school and has no college degree.  No one expected him to succeed. But he’s been President of two multimillion-dollar comp...

Nikki Sharp is a best selling author, speaker, healer and Youtuber that has also rocked a #1 ranking App and top 30 Podcast. Through her work as a health coach and wellness blogger, her mission is to spread the knowledge of healthy living for the mind, body and soul. This is part II with the amazing Nikki Sharp and if you want to hear how she shifted from working as an international model to pursu...

Hello awesome people! Welcome to a special edition of Behind The Human. I’m your host Marc Champagne and normally I’m unpacking the stories and mental fitness practices of top level humans but today I want to offer some guidance and journaling prompts to help mentally weather the COVID-19 storm. When it passes, we’ll be stronger, more resilient and our mind will be trained for anything life throws...

How was Ben Walters able to see other options when shutting down his company seemed to be the only path forward? We dive into the mental fitness practices that helped Ben through one of the most challenging times of his life. Ben was born and raised in Toronto and after graduating from McGill ventured into the corporate world trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. After a couple...

Today I'm jamming with Julian Guderley ! His podcast GreenPlanet BluePlanet was recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the "top 10  Podcasts that will help you grow in 2020". We dive into Julian's quest to identify, interview & collaboratively empower the key players in the regenerative movement and how our personal wellbeing is essential to this movement. Make sure to visit #PLANETARYPURPO...

Today I’m speaking with Jason & Caroline Zook . I can’t beat their bio so here’s who they are in their own words:   We’re creative business owners 🤓, best friends 👫, and oh yeah, as of March 2017, we’re also married or whatever 🥂. Since we got together in 2010, we’ve made things in a slew of different ways, both together and apart. Caroline was first employed by Jason’s crazy t-shirt marketing...

Today I’ve got Douglas Ferguson on the show who is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 20 years of experience. He is president of Voltage Control , an Austin-based workshop agency that specializes in Design Sprints and innovation workshops.   He recently published his first book, Beyond the Prototype , which offers a six-step plan for companies struggling with the shift from...