Living The Sweet Life

We don't fix. We work with what we have. That is the line that changed everything for this week's guest, Dr. Lamia Katbi, a pediatrician, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author who spent almost 30 years in medicine before burnout forced her to rebuild her life from the inside out. In this episode, we talk about what burnout really feels like, the day she was diagnosed as a disruptive physici...

Happy Mindset Monday! What if you have more capacity, agency and possibility than you’ve allowed yourself to believe? Dr. Stephanie Rimka joins me for a conversation about the nervous system, identity, belonging, anxiety, human connection and what it means to feel fully alive. I also share part of my own experience with anxiety and what changed when I stopped trying to hide what I was feeling. But...

Happy Mindset Monday! You can have the best intentions in the world and still create an impact you never meant to have. That is not an indictment of your character. It is part of being human. The question is whether we are willing to become aware of it. Charlotte Brenner and I went deep into that on this episode of Living The Sweet Life . Charlotte is the co-founder and Head of Growth and Strategi...

Sometimes the things we believe are protecting us are actually the things keeping us stuck. That is one of the ideas that stayed with me after my conversation with Corey Schonhorst. Corey and I met about a year ago in St. Louis, and from the beginning there was one of those connections that did not really make logical sense. We just knew there was something worth staying connected to. That became...

Happy Mindset Monday! Jobert Abueva says January 1st might be the worst time to become a new person. We've stripped the reflection out of the new year and replaced it with resolutions that fail by February. Jobert is a global marketing executive, TEDx speaker, and author of The Janus Plan, named after the two-faced Roman god who looks to the past and the future at once. His message is about th...

Happy Mindset Monday! Have you ever had somebody try so hard to sell you something that you stopped listening before they were even finished? Most of us have. That is part of what Cam Tolman and I talk about in this episode of Living The Sweet Life . Cam is the founder of PitchDown and calls himself the non-sales sales coach. His belief is simple: everyone is in sales, but you do not have to act l...

Happy Mindset Monday! What do you do when life changes in a way you never could have prepared for? That is the question underneath this conversation with Wes Bruns. On Christmas Day in 1992, Wes survived a carbon monoxide poisoning that took the lives of his mother, stepfather, and two older brothers and left him in a coma for five days. He later learned that his survival itself was extraordinary....

What if you accomplish everything you are working for and lose yourself getting there? That is not meant to make you afraid of success. I want you to be successful. I want you to achieve the things that matter to you. I want you to perform at your highest level. I just do not believe you should have to lose your health, your relationships, your purpose, or your connection to yourself to get there....

What if social media worked better when we stopped treating people like prospects and started treating them like people? That's where my friendship with Michelle Berman-Mikel began. Michelle initially reached out to me from a business perspective. But the message didn't feel cold. It didn't feel transactional. It felt personal. One message became a conversation. The conversation became...

What is your highest value? Not ten things you care about. The one thing that should become your true north when life gets difficult and decisions become complicated. My conversation with Assaf Raz made me ask myself that question differently. Assaf is an entrepreneur, author and devoted father whose life changed when he began thinking more seriously about responsibility, purpose and the world his...

What story are you still living, even though that chapter of your life is already over? Amanda Johnson, known as The Story Oracle, joined me for a conversation that started with storytelling and writing books and became something much deeper. We talked about the stories we inherit. The ones other people tell us about ourselves. The stories we create to survive something difficult. And eventually,...

What happens when you're doing everything "right" but still don't feel like yourself? Jennifer Woodward joins me for an honest conversation about peptides, GLP-1s, hormones, midlife health and something much bigger than weight loss: feeling at home in your own body again. Jennifer is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, hormone health educator and host of the Peptides...

Happy Mindset Monday! Jerrid Sebesta told me something I can't stop thinking about. Most people who feel stuck try to fix it with more. More hustle. More discipline. Another goal. Another strategy. He says the problem is usually four layers down. Jerrid is a keynote speaker, Amazon bestselling author of Life-Undeferred, and what he calls a performance reprogrammer. He walks people through four...

Happy Mindset Monday! Who are you beyond your job title, achievements, relationships, responsibilities, and the expectations other people placed on you? In this episode of Living The Sweet Life , TJ Sweet sits down with author, speaker, podcast host, coach, and corporate leader Tetika Buchheit for an honest conversation about identity, healing, survival, strength, and human connection. Tetika came...

Happy Mindset Monday! Your voice is shaping every relationship you have. It affects how people experience your confidence, credibility, warmth, and intention. Yet most of us have never taken the time to listen to our own voice or understand how it is being received. In this episode of Living The Sweet Life , TJ Sweet sits down with John Di Domenico, an award-winning entertainer, corporate emcee, i...

At 18, I went back to a learning center to learn how to read. Books terrified me. Becoming an author was never in the stars. Then I wrote Grateful Leadership with these two. Alex Demczak and Will Severns met as summer camp counselors and built ShareYourStory.com, a story-to-stage pipeline that's helped over 250 authors get their message out. But the book was just the outcome. The journey was t...

Happy Mindset Monday! This episode is about what happens when health becomes more than a diet. I sat down with Samantha Lander , founder of See Fit Living , Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, recovery advocate, DJ, community builder, and someone who knows what it means to rebuild from the inside out. Sam shares her story of addiction, recovery, relapse, and how her own health struggles led her in...

Happy Mindset Monday! I thought my heart was open. Five days with Pearly Montague taught me it wasn't. Pearly is a TEDx speaker and healer who works with people around the world. After a near-death experience, she developed what she describes as a rare form of synesthesia, the ability to see trauma held in the body in colors and structures. She's collaborated with doctors like Zach Bush an...

Happy Mindset Monday! Some stories don’t just inspire you. They challenge you to look at what you’re still carrying. In this episode of Living The Sweet Life , I sit down with Quincy Moore , also known as Mr. Resilience , for a conversation about fatherlessness, forgiveness, faith, and the kind of freedom that comes when you stop waiting for an apology to heal. Quincy’s work is built around helpin...

Happy Mindset Monday! This is the second time Deb Drummond and I recorded this episode. The first time, the tech failed. Deb just said: "It wasn't meant to be out then. This one is." That's who Deb is. She's built seven international companies. Spoken to audiences of 20,000. Worked with over 30,000 clients. And she owns the Women's Channel. Her message is simple but power...

Happy Mindset Monday! High achievement can look successful and still feel empty. In this episode, I sit down with Angelica Ventrice , TEDx speaker and high performance coach, to talk about what really happens when your worth gets attached to productivity, and why reinvention is often the price of alignment. You’ll hear: How high achievers lose themselves, and how to come back to the real you Why b...

Happy Mindset Monday! In this episode of Living The Sweet Life , TJ Sweet sits down with repeat guest Jeff Robbins to unpack the experience economy and why loyalty is built through presence, not just performance. Jeff shares a simple but powerful framework through coffee: commodity, product, service, and then experience, where people decide based on the senses and how they feel in the moment. In t...

Happy Mindset Monday! Success that looks good on paper isn’t enough. It has to feel fulfilling. In this episode of Living The Sweet Life , TJ Sweet sits down with executive coach and keynote speaker Jeff Koziatek to unpack what really drives high performers: worth, identity, and the pressure to prove yourself. Jeff shares how his life changed when a coach gave him judgment-free, solution-free spac...

Happy Mindset Monday! Dr. Mamta Bhatt changed how I think about joy. She was a Harvard-trained scientist living the high-flying life. Private planes. Boardrooms with Rockefellers. The youngest person in the room. Then one day, she couldn't get up from bed. That's how debilitating the fatigue became. She went to live in a monastery. And one morning, she saw a sunrise. Inside her, a voice ye...

Happy Mindset Monday! Kim Becking changed my life. She talks about the so muchness . That overwhelmed, exhausted, can't catch your breath feeling. The 247 world we're in where our bodies and brains aren't made for it. And you are allowed . Permission to feel both sides. Frustrated and grateful. Overwhelmed and hopeful. Scared and excited. Kim was diagnosed with breast cancer at 30. Her...