The Big Leap

“There's nothing better than a remarkable person who writes a remarkable book that can affect you in remarkable ways.” Welcome to Part Two of The Books that Changed our Lives. This time, Mike and Gay are focusing on different types of books than they did in Part One. Some may surprise you, including Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Poetry, and Fiction, that can take you to a completely different world. And...

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” ― Charlie Tremendous Jones Are you a big reader? Is there a book or two that, after reading, completely changed your entire life? That’s what today’s episode is all about. The books that changed Mike and Gay's lives. Gay and Mike are both BIG fans of books (and have written quite a f...

Today, Gay and Mike are getting really raw and diving into a heavy subject… Taking Responsibility for Your Own Life. They talk about how to get a teenager to take responsibility, and their own personal struggles with family members experiencing Dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. They'll also get into the internal struggles they have when they know they're not taking responsibility, lyi...

Some of Mike and Gay's most POPULAR Big Leap episodes have to do with operating and staying in your Genius Zone, which of course came from Gay’s book, The Big Leap . But Mike believes that today’s podcast is the BEST one they've ever done. If you've ever wanted to find a way to spend all your time doing the thing you LOVE to do, the thing you're BEST at, the thing that makes you lose all track of...

Should You Write One Too? Should you write a memoir or why should you write a memoir? Gay just finished writing his memoir, which is coming out very soon. It's called “Loving Life. Tales of My Wondrous Journey.” In today’s episode, Gay and Mike are talking about four of Gay’s most interesting chapters, including: His secret birthday wish Adventures in non-ordinary consciousness (which involves som...

You Probably Have More Life Ahead of You Than You Think Today Gay and Mike are interviewing one of their heroes. Someone whose wisdom they have great respect for, so needless to say, they've been looking forward to this one for a while. His name is Chip Conley. He’s a New York Times bestselling author and the hospitality maverick who helped Airbnb's founders turn their fast-growing tech start-up i...

The guest today is lifelong entrepreneur, Bill Moses, the co-founder of Kevita and CEO and Founder of Flying Embers. Today he’s going to share some of his Big Leaps, including the one that saved Kevita when everyone else wanted to throw in the towel because it looked like they might lose it all. He’ll tell Mike and Gay about his ideas for creating alignment, building trust, and aligning values and...

Today we’re talking with Kyle Cease, a New York Times Best Selling author who has the unique gift of being able to merge comedy and personal transformation . He’s what would happen if Eckhart Tolle and Jim Carrey had a baby! Kyle believes that “for us to really grow, we almost have to let go of everything—and that less effort equals more magic.” In other words, if we surrender a little more and ta...

Today, Mike and Gay are answering a great question that Gay came up with several years ago: How to Come Up with Your Top Five Life Goals   These are arguably some of the most powerful questions you could ever ask yourself that ended up being in a book that Gay wrote called, “Five Wishes.” The process is super simple and can be done no matter what stage of life you're in.  Once you answer them, you...

Mike and Gay take The Beatles: Get Back documentary and dive into it. The documentary was produced and directed by Peter Jackson, and it is an absolute masterpiece. Both Mike and Gay learned a ton about creativity and collaboration during it.  Their goal is just to pick it apart and talk about their favorite spots that had the most impact on them. They also open a great discussion about what you c...

Some of the things discussed here you have not heard before. Mike and Gay will be talking with Jim Selman, a living legend in the coaching industry. Jim is the person who coined the ideas of corporate coaching and executive coaching (and first used the term in print). But this is not only a history lesson.  We will disclose some unique tactics and concepts that will change how you see the world an...

Mike has been married to Vivian for 21 years. Gay has been married to Katie for 42 years. Both couples have built successful and fulfilling relationships, tested by time. For both, their marriage has been their priority, the key to their success, and the primary source of happiness. So backed up by that experience, Mike and Gay will dive deep into the mechanics of love. You will learn how Gay and...

In this episode, Mike and Gay interview Stephen M.R. Covey about his new book Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others, as well as his leadership legacy, vision, and current projects. The world has changed all around us in all the ways we know. And yet our style of leadership hasn't kept pace with the changing world. We're still too rooted in the old model, what we mi...

Gay & Mike meet Kirsten Vangsness, the Criminal Minds star, and actress, who talks about creativity, trying new things, as well as some of her exciting personal projects. Gay loves mystery shows! With his wife, he started to avidly watch Criminal Minds. And rather immediately, this one character kind of jumped out at them — Penelope Garcia (portrayed by Kirsten). They ended up watching the sho...

What are your limiting beliefs, behaviors, or habits that cause you… To fear… To not take action… To be Unwilling to receive? In this episode, Gay unlocks some of his deepest thinking around this topic and Mike gets to be his real-life guinea pig.  Today you’ll learn how to look at your life as an unfolding series of opportunities and go beyond your upper limits. You’ll figure out the fears that a...

For Gay and Mike, the last 2 years have been the most profound times of growth and learning in their lives. In this episode of The Big Leap, they're going to time travel through their own personal Big Leaps from 2021, and some of the Big Leaps they expect for 2022.  More importantly, they invite YOU to reflect on what your Biggest Leaps were in 2021, and what you're up for in the next year.  Mike...

Do you remember the Bozo the clown toy? No matter how many times he got punched in the face, he bounced right back up. That’s Entrepreneurship in a nutshell. If you’re an Entrepreneur you NEED to expect that you're going to hit turbulence now and again but knowing how to recover is KEY. Our guest, Dave Colina, founder of O2 Water, is very familiar with this concept. He has the grit, the guts, the...

Hey look… SQUIRREL!!  Did you look?! Mike knows he would have. He has major ADHD and is easily distracted. You? It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do or how successful you are.  It happens to the best of us. The important thing is not what distracts you, but how quickly you can recover from those distractions to get sh*t done. We all know how easy it is to waste a lot of time with distraction...

Our guest, Laura DiFrancesco is a REAL renaissance woman . She’s a true Polymath who’s had a great deal of successes and taken a lot of incremental risks along the way. Most importantly, she's got a POWERFUL commitment to learning. Today’s episode is all about learning how to think and behave like a Polymath by studying the questions she asks herself.  You’ll learn the value of covering a lot of t...

You know how you watch your favorite movies and TV shows over and over again because they’re SO GOOD? That’s the idea with today’s REWIND episode! It’s one of the most downloaded episodes of all time and Mike and Gay thought you might want to revisit it this week. How well do you read your body to know what’s really going on? How much time do you feel you stay in your Superpower zone? What % of yo...

Mike and Gay's guest, Troy Lavinia, says there is a lot of work we can do to help people see the intersection between entrepreneurship and spirituality. The world is changing and growing really quickly. We’ve never been more inundated with information or more stressed . Yet SO MANY of us have an incredible desire to do something creative or entrepreneurial AND are super open-minded to spirituality...

We have a special treat for you this week! We’re REWINDING one of our most popular episodes of all time. We know you’re going to love revisiting this very special episode. ENJOY! Do you ever wonder… what’s the point? Why am I here? What am I really meant to do? What’s my PURPOSE?! Maybe you’ve been there, done that, know it’s time to reinvent yourself but you don’t know how to start, where to begi...

Imagine being able to solve ANY problem or challenge that comes your way, effortlessly. Entrepreneurs LOVE to express themselves creatively and invent new things. One of the best ways of doing this is with Collaborative Experiences. Today, Mike and Gay will show you how to use the power of shared consciousness to make miracles happen with ease and clarity. They'll talk about collaborating and how...

Imagine being able to open your consciousness so that your deepest fears recede into the background, allowing you to contact your creative essence. Would that ability CHANGE your business, your relationships, your LIFE forever? When it comes to your fears… the problem is never what you think it is. When you open up to your feelings and find a place of clarity and “pure consciousness”, suddenly eve...

What if you could grow your business by having a BLAST connecting with like minded entrepreneurs? Imagine coming away from a fun, life-enriching event with multi-million dollar deals. That’s exactly what happened for a few of the folks at an event Mike recently hosted . Mike's wife, Vivian, called it “Fishy Business” (You’ll understand why in a moment.) This is a MASTERMIND, but on steroids … In t...