Dare to Be Great, Dare to Be You Hosted by Shawn Langwell

Practical Wisdom to Live an Extraordinary Life "If you're not willing to fail, you're never going to succeed." The continuation Reading from Today's the Day Starting with "If Only..." That needs no introduction because we all struggle from what if and if only in the negative sense. What if we flipped the script to what if we succeed rather than what if we don't. This entire book and most of what I...

Practical Wisdom to Live an Extraordinary Life "If you're not willing to fail, you're never going to succeed." This is the third in a series of episodes based on my recent personal growth book, Today's the Day. In this episode, I discuss the mindset behind the book and how I implement what I teach others about on a daily basis. Specifically, I cover issues of self-esteem, belief, self-confidence;...

Happy Father's Day!   Folks, This is one of the hardest episodes I've ever recorded. It's a retelling of a story from my memoir Beyond Recovery: A Journey of Grace, Love, And Forgiveness. It's a story about healing my relationship with my dad. It's also about finding the courage to get and stay sober. This episode is me reading a 10 minute play contest for a short story I adapted from Beyond Recov...

Today's the Day: Practical Wisdom to Live an Extraordinary Life This is the second in a series of episodes based on my recent personal growth book, Today's the Day. In this episode, we cover the following topics: Worry, Procrastination, Never Enough, Someday I'll.   The Download: After completing the audiobook of Ten Seconds of Boldness, I woke up one morning and had what I call a God shot. The do...

  Today's the Day: Practical Wisdom to Live an Extraordinary Life   This is the first in a series of episodes based on my recent personal growth book, Today's the Day. Rather than spending thousands of dollars on a professional audiobook, I'm reading sections of the entire book over the next few months — and sprinkling in episodes about my own experience with this material and my process for creat...

Embracing the Joy of Life without the Ankle Weights of Shame or Guilt   Join me for another honest, open and vulnerable conversation about business, life and emotional sobriety with my friend who's got a heart for service.   About Anthony: Anthony Amunategui is the Founder of CDO Group, a National Commercial Construction firm he started almost 25 years ago with a small group in his basement. Today...

24 seasons. 20,000 fans. One unforgettable voice. And a story you never saw coming. If you've ever been inside Chase Center when the Warriors take the floor, you've heard Franco Finn before you ever saw him. That voice — electric, commanding, unmistakably Bay Area — has been the heartbeat of Dub Nation for 24 seasons. And full disclosure? I'm one of those fans. I love this team. I love the sport a...

Grit, guts, tenacity, and humble boldness. These are a few words I would use to describe Raven Divito. She's a self taught photographer who broke the gender barriers starting in little league. She went on to become a union electrician in a male dominated industry, and was a key player leading the Sir Francis Drake High School (Now Archie Williams) Womens Basketball team to a state Championship in...

Grief isn't Bad We all experience grief, loss, and the emtional pain of change. But many of us do not have the tools necessary to process it in healthy ways that heal. Dr. Korie Leigh is a keynote speaker, thanatologist, and child life specialist with more than two decades of experience helping people navigate grief, loss, and major life transitions. She teaches healthcare professionals, educators...

Burning Flame Sculpture, College of Marin, CA Harkin Lucero Jr. — Sculptor of Monuments, Keeper of Memory A Navajo-descent master sculptor who has spent decades carving history into stone and bronze — from Alcatraz Island to the halls of justice in Colorado. Career span 41+ yrs Largest work 72,000 lb Reach Worldwide   About Harkin It’s not every day you sit down with a gifted artist and sculptor o...

AUTHOR, YOGA TEACHER AND SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR, MARYELLEN WHITTON Join us for another unscripted conversation about serving those in recovery at Pura Vida who need rides to and from meetings and appointment, and a transportation model that can be expanded across the country.   MaryEllen moved from New York to Northern California to attend San Francisco State University. She received a Bachelor of Sc...

What's Bringing You Joy? Join me and Natalie as we discuss her process of writing her inspiring memoir. She talks about how she nagivated her way through a disabling illness to transform pain into a rich and vibrant life and is now offering workshops to help others live more sustainably and with greater purpose.   Natalie Gould is a coach, storyteller, and retreat leader who guides people and orga...

Love. Resilience. Undeniable Wit.  And a Heart for Service. Join me and Chris as we discuss his Memoir Touched by Hannah: A man with cancer. His one pound newborn. And their fight for life.     About Chris: Chris Hennessy is an award-winning filmmaker, author, and speaker. A Rice University graduate, he spent 28 years producing over 1,500 films for major clients including Google, eBay, and the SF...

A Bold Spanish Conquistador with a Heart for People. The Adventures of Cabeza de Va ca is an adventure unlike any other and one worth telling in history classes around the world. Karl Kadie bucks the trend of most conquest stories of finding gold and riches of land to discover a new, more fruitful path—one with a much deeper meaning in the landcape of life—winning heart of native americans who liv...

Join me for a series of impactful workshops to guide you through the minefields of doubt to close your mindset gap and begin feeling like you're winning again. This is a promo for a series of virtual workshops I'll be presenting over the next few months specifically designed to help you identify what you really want and to give you precise tools you can start using immediately to manifest the mean...

Michelle and Trevor Leopold (Michelle Leopold / Fox News) One Tough Momma   No words can ease the pain of a mother who's lost her son.  I know what this is like having lost my brother in 1999. Please join me and Michelle in this hopeful heartache of a story that has given her a new purpose worth fighting for: Love and Life Michelle shares about her beloved son honestly and completely, to prevent o...

For the love of dogs! From my first conversation with Lauren as a client, to this podcast, I knew Lauren had something profound to share. Writing though our grief is one of the most cathartic things we can do whether we wish to be published poets, memoirists, or just want to use writing as a tool to process deep emotions. If you love dogs and poetry and writing/journalling, or have recently expien...

  From Lonliness to Connection John Crowley builds community wherever he goes. As founder of Aqus Café and the Aqus Community in Petaluma, he creates spaces where neighbors meet, talk, collaborate, and belong. He leads initiatives like Cool Petaluma, the Joiners movement, social crawls, mixers, and community dinners—each designed to strengthen local connection and resilience. John focuses on pract...

Mindi Levine is a winner!   Recently Mindi Levine of Mindi in the Morning won the Best Radio DJ in the 2025 North Bay Bohemian Music Awards and “Best Media Personality: Radio/Print/TV” 2016 by readers of The Bohemian. Join us as she gets to be in the guest seat for a change, on this Podcast!  We talk about her early years as a relationship marketing guru, what drove her to become a DJ, and her hum...

What a delightful human and living example of resilience! Join me and Natalie in this inspiring episode where we discuss her challenges of a three-year journey from severe cognitive and physical disability to recovered health.  She is living proof that subtle shifts—mentally, phsyically, emotionally, and spirtually—can have a profound impact on our health and well-being.  She shares her insights o...

80 million downloads and humble enough to have a real conversation with me. There is a great sense of joy and accomplishment when we make a decision and take a bold step forward to face our fears. I did that 10 years ago when I started following Kevin Miller on the Ziglar Show- yes that Ziglar. He had conversations with best-selling authors and thought leaders from a broad spectrum of back grounds...

Is your life out of control? Tired of feeling stressed out and burned out of trying to hold it all together only to still feel like you're not good enough? I know what that’s like and it sucks. I've spent most of my adult life striving for perfection, trying to live up to the expectations of others. Trying to be the man I thought my dad should've been when he left me, my mom, and two younger broth...

Helping Middle-Age Women Move from Who and Where They Are to Who and Where They Want to Be   Sometimes the best gems happen after we open up, let our guards down, and become a little more vulnerable. As we become bold enough to step into our fears, reflect on our past, and become willing to want to make a few changes, that's when the magic happens... When Mel and I start talking about processing g...

All I Want for Christmas is a New Liver So I Can Live There are best-selling guided journals out there like "Bro, tell me your story."  But those are guides, this is the raw, unedited real deal from my brother Kelly talking about his downfall with alcohol and the "Christmas Miracle" five years ago when he was literally given a liver transplant that saved his life.  This is our heartfelt, real conv...

Why Heart Matters and Creative Writing is a Great Elixir for Exploration and Healing Join me and Curtis as we talk about writing, family dysfunction,   how he turned three screenplays into an evocative new book, Lost and Found: Coming of Age. Coming Clean.   Synopsis: An eighteen year old leaves his home in Philadelphia to get away from a drug- addicted mother and her abusive partner—and to track...