Behind The Human with Marc Champagne

INvested Series: Michelle Duval is a business coach with over 20 years of experience in the field. She is the CEO and founder of Fingerprint for Success—a personal coaching tech startup that uses people analytics and AI to maximize the human potential of companies, teams, and individuals. TOPICS DISCUSSED How to achieve mental fortitude The power of well-being habits and rituals Stress and recover...

INvested Series: Paul Naphtali is the cofounder of Rampersand VC, an early-stage Australian tech fund established in 2013 to help address the funding gap for Aus/NZ founders. He returned to Australia after several years working in Silicon Valley and the UK as a senior marketing and strategic communications exec and consultant for a number of successful venture-backed tech companies. TOPICS DISCUSS...

Amilya Antonetti is one of the most sought-after Human Behavior and Strategic Advisor experts in the world. She has appeared as a regular business and behaviour expert on Oprah, The Steve Harvey Show and Dr. Phil. For more than 25 years, Amilya has dedicated her life to helping people and leaders through some of the most challenging and scariest parts of their lives. _____ Get your copy of Persona...

Joey Cofone is the Founder & CEO of Baronfig, an award-winning designer and entrepreneur, and author of The Laws of Creativity. Joey has designed and art-directed over 100 products from zero to launch. His work has been featured in Fast Company, Bloomberg, New York Magazine, Newsweek, Bon Appétit, Quartz, Mashable, Print, and more. Joey was named a New Visual Artist and, separately, Wunderkind des...

Diego Perez is a meditator and New York Times bestselling author who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name Yung Pueblo. Online he has an audience of over 2.2 million people. His writing focuses on the power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and the wisdom that comes when we truly work on knowing ourselves. His two books, Inward and Clari...

John Livesay , aka The Pitch Whisperer, is a sales keynote speaker, author, and storytelling expert. Make sure to catch John's TED Talk: Be The Lifeguard of Your Own Life! Grab your copy of John's latest book: The Sale is in the Tale _____ Get your copy of Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life   Connect with Marc >>>   Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter  Drop a review and let me k...

Today I’m speaking with writer, creator and instigator Kyle Creek , a.k.a, The Captain.   "As a kid, I wanted to be a cowboy. Then, my mom bought me a skateboard and I got on with my life. In college, I decided copywriting was the career move for me and, for the last decade, I’ve held a variety of creative positions both in-house and within agency settings. I’ve also published five books, spoken a...

Jess Ekstrom is the founder and CEO of Headbands of Hope , a company that donates headbands to kids with illnesses with every headband sold. Headbands of Hope has donated over 1 million headbands (1.3M at the time of recording), reaching every single children's hospital in America and 22 countries. After starting her company, she wanted to use her ups and her downs to help other women become value...

Steven Kotler , one of the world’s foremost experts on human peak performance and author of ten bestsellers (out of fourteen books), including The Art of Impossible, The Future is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, and Bold and Abundance to name but a few. He’s back with THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY, an action-packed cyberpunk novel that will also appeal to fans of climate ficti...

Brian Scudamore is the founder & CEO of O2E Brands: Home of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, and Shack Shine. He’s the author of #1 bestselling books 'WTF?! Willing To Fail' and ' BYOB: Build Your Own Business, Be Your Own Boss ’. And above all, Brian is a master “Imagine if” thinker!    _____ Get your copy of Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life   Connect with Marc >>>   Website |...

Joshua Dean Church is the co-creator of Edge Theory Labs (The Iceless Ice Bath), host of the Find The Others podcast and leads workshops, retreats and unique experiences designed to help people operate as happy, healthy and more successful human beings. _____ Get your copy of Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life   Connect with Marc >>>   Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter  Drop a...

Today I’m speaking with Eli Wehbe , endurance athlete, best-selling author and someone who previously lived in the white-hot center of Los Angeles as one of America’s nightclub greats. Eli’s debut book, Mask: My Race Through the Belly of Hollywood to Self-Discovery chronicles his ultimate odyssey from teen outcast to Hollywood mogul to extreme athletic achievement. _____ Get your copy of Personal...

Amanda Breckenridge launched Breckenridge Coaching & Advising after 15 years of servant leadership. Amanda is dedicated to partnering with executives at early-stage, high-growth startups to discover ways to lead with compassion, develop sustainable cultures that empower teams to win, and create scalable revenue engines for long-term success. This episode is part of the Founder Series where I explo...

Colin O’Brady is a ten-time world record-breaking explorer, speaker, entrepreneur, and mindset expert. His feats include the world’s first solo, unsupported, and fully human-powered crossing of Antarctica, speed records for the Explorers Grand Slam and the Seven Summits, and the first human-powered ocean row across the Drake Passage. His work has been featured by The New York Times, The Tonight Sh...

Katherine  Twellshas spent the last 33 years at The Coca-Cola Company in multiple leadership positions, currently the Senior Vice President of Customer Excellence.  She launched the Coca-Cola Compassion Lab to promote emotional agility and mental well-being in the workplace. She hosts The Compassion Lab Podcast to explore the power of conscious leadership and the interconnectivity of all things. S...

Elliott Bisnow is a co-founder of Summit Group , whose family of organizations includes Powder Mountain, Summit Series, Summit Junto, and Summit Impact. Elliott and his co-founders just published their first book — Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community . _____ Get your copy of Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life   Connect with Marc >>>  ...

As a sports and performance psychologist, Dr. Michael Gervais is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between the mind and elite performance. Over the course of a 20-year career working with world-class performers and organizations, Dr. Gervais has developed a framework for the mental skills and practices that allow athletes to thrive in pressure-packed environments. His clients...

Today, New York Times best-selling author, founder, investor, coach, and CEO of Practice , Julien Smith joins me. This episode is part of the Founder Series where I explore the mental fitness required for entrepreneurs and teams to thrive during the most demanding phases of building a business. Because when minds thrive, so do innovations, teams, and businesses. We all win.  _____ The Better Quest...

Chris Schembra is the bestselling author of "Gratitude and Pasta: The Secret Sauce for Human Connection". Forbes ranks his book as the #2 book of 2020 to create Human Connection, USA Today calls him their "Gratitude Guru". He is the Founder of the 7:47 Gratitude Experience — an evidence-based framework used to strengthen client and team relationships in profound ways. But above all, Chris is someo...

Today I’m speaking with Candice Mama whose work in forgiveness, reconciliation and trauma began after her story of forgiving her father’s murderer, Eugene De Kock, made international news. Her story has been listened to by the Dalai Lama, she’s been named one of Vogue Magazine’s top 33 most inspiring women in the world and recognized as one of the top 20 African Women by the African Union and Unit...

Eliah Werner : Brand director at Procter & Gamble by day and founder of Young Poets by night and weekends. Millennials’ wine brand Young Poets , was put on the watchlist of the 2022 most important wine personalities in Germany from Vinum. _____ Get your copy of Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life   Connect with Marc >>>   Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter  Drop a review and let...

Leah Smart : Editor and host of In the Arena, a podcast part of the LinkedIn News network. She is deeply passionate about connecting the mind and the soul. Her belief is that with deep knowledge and acceptance of both, we can live with more fulfillment, joy and openness to the mystery of life. _____ Get your copy of Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life   Connect with Marc >>>   Website...

Michael Brandt is the co-Founder & CEO of Health Via Modern Nutrition (@hvmn) building what's next in human nutrition. Prior to H.V.M.N., he was an adjunct professor of brand strategy at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, product manager at YouTube, and studied CS & design at Stanford. He’s also a sub-elite marathoner and lives with his family in LA. _____ The Better Questions Newsletter - https...

Mark Groves is a human connection specialist and founder of the incredibly popular Create The Love. He's a speaker, writer, motivator, creator, collaborator and flat-out awesome human!  _____ Download the Tony Robbins Personal Socrates style chapter/profile here - https://www.behindthehuman.com/newsletter   **** Get your copy of Personal Socrates: Better Questions, Better Life   Connect with Marc...

Alex Carter can help anyone negotiate better, and feel more confident doing it. Alex is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School. Her first book, Ask for More: Ten Questions to Negotiate Anything , was published May 5th by Simon & Schuster and became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller — the first negotiation book solo-authored by a woman to mak...