It's All About the Questions

What's in a name? According to my guest today, every thing. The name you were given at birth, a nickname you were given or took on, and even a new last name at marriage, is the key to your future. Sharon Lynn Wyeth has spent most of her life studying people. First as a teacher and then as the Founder of Neimology. The science of interpreting names is an old one. Going back to ancient times,first n...

The movie Top Gun has fascinated millions of people around the world so much so that a sequel is finally being planned. Movies about U.S. Navy Fighter Pilots regularly hit top box office numbers. What is it about Navy fighter pilots that piques our interest? What is it that has us wondering how they do what they do and how we can get some of their confidence for ourselves? I've seen the Blue Angel...

I like to think I am good at self care but I have realized I am not. I too often in my life have waited until I was in bad shape before I reached out for help. Inconsistency in self care over the years and the amount of stress have played havoc on my body and my mind. Which is why doing this episode was so important to me. My guest, Cheri Abrams has been taking care of others and helping them get...

This is an interesting episode in that we had some issues getting James on the line so I started out talking about how we learn to be flexible and roll with things. Then James Rollins is able to call in and I get to ask him lots of questions about his latest book, his creative process and we get into a deep discussion about how AI, Artificial Intelligence is not just a character in his latest book...

What does it take to write a NY Times bestselling book year after year and still love what you writing? How do you keep your readers wanting more and stay up late unable to put your latest book down? How do you weave current events into the books way before they seem to be current events? What about fact versus fiction? National security details that you know but cannot expose?  What kind of mind...

If you are not scared every time you go online to do anything then you are not living in the real world. Every transaction you make in the world today is tracked online even if you do not think it is. As a result, all your personal data is available to malicious individuals to use in ways that may cause you financial or other harm. So how do you protect yourself? Can you protect yourself? There is...

No this episode is not about keynote speaking or how to be a better stage speaker. What it is about is smart speaker devices that seem to be everywhere now that answer your every question or whim. I am talking about the Amazon Echo (Alexa), Google Home, Facebook Portal and other devices that are springing up faster than you can say "Alexa, what time is it?". What I never realized is how you can us...

The last couple of years I have definitely not felt like I was thriving. It was a life filled with one hit after the other. At least that is what it has felt like to me. Thriving was a distant thought. Surviving the latest health or emotional hit was the job of the day. I started thinking, what makes some people thrive in spite of everything that is going on in their lives and what is going on all...

Living an authentic life is not always easy. People conspire to keep those who have light down. To keep them in a box that conforms to how others look, dress, act and achieve. So how do you live your authentic life with grace, love, kindness and achievement when there is pressure to stay small and conform? Enter my guest and friend Michelle McBain. I asked her to be the guest on my Christmas show...

How do you get access to the expert advice you need when you need it at a price that you can afford? What if you do not even know what kind of advice you need you just know you need help of some sort for you business or life questions? Enter wiseher.com and Founder Kathryn Rose. A resilient entrepreneur who has had multiple high profile and successful careers and now has figured to a way to give e...

The man that bought my tech services company several years ago, and several others over the years speaks openly and completely about the perils and pitfalls, the highs and the lows of growing your company through mergers and acquisitions. He talks about: The most important things to look out for when buying another company. What to know and understand before selling your company. Why you might wan...

 All in. What does that really mean? Can you be all in one aspect of your life or business or does it only apply if you are all in with all aspects of your being?  At various times in my life I have felt all in with everything. When I am all in, magic seems to flow out of my every being and positivity  is the outcome. The last ten years or so not so much. I have had moments of all in but to be hon...

Gone are the days when one bad review only went as far as the person next door. Now one bad review can go viral and destroy your company's reputation in an instant without the reviewer even leaving their home. What can you do to change a bad review to a good one on the Internet? Nothing. Once a review is posted on the web it is rare you can ever get it removed. So what do you do? Enter Ron Howard...

I quote Think and Grow Rich in my book, What Would a Wise Woman Do? and its ideas still hold true yet the world has changed significantly since Napoleon Hill researched and wrote his groundbreaking book. how does one improve upon perfection? They research 400 successful and not so successful people from all walks of life and write a new book that shows you how you can increase your personal master...

What would you do if you were told you should be dead already because of the rare heart condition you never knew you had that reared its head and went undiagnosed for over eleven months? Well my guest chose to create a business raising awareness through handbags, of the #1 killer of women in the world, heart disease. Did you know 1 in 3 women die from heart disease that is 80% preventable versus 1...

Did you know that if each woman in America spent $20/month at a woman owned business that would put $37.7 billion into the hands of women-owned business? That amount is more than all the venture capital given to women-owned businesses in 2017. Crazy isn't it?! My guest is making it easier for you to spend that $20/month. She has created MAIA.community. A directory website with profiles of currentl...

Live in the now. Be present. Don't borrow worry from tomorrow. Don't dwell in the past. We've heard those phrases over and over for most of our lives. Easy to say . Not so easy to always do. Our reactions to the way ideas are presented can vary by who we hear them from and even when we hear them. When Kevin Murphy was introduced to me and I read his book I knew I had to have him on the show. He pr...

10-2-18 episode Most of us want to have a legacy and be known for something that lasts beyond physical lives. Yet in this day and age of social media, viral videos, short attention spans and continual distractions, how do we insure that we are living our something consistently? How do we define and track what we are known for and course correct if our perception and reality are different about our...

9/25/18 show - Books have been a part of my life from way before I could read. I love reading so much I even walked out of school in first grade because I thought they weren't going to teach me how to read.  You'll have to read my book for the details though. Today I want to focus on my guest and how she is helping increase literacy around the world. Without literacy you would not be reading this...

SOB. If you heard it in reference to a person what is the first thing that comes to mind? Yup! And that is not Dr. Gayle Carson. She is known as the Spunky Old Broad. At 80 years of age she is going stronger then ever. Mentally and physically. And she even has her own radio station and helps women over 50 become SOBs as well. I don't have even half the energy Dr. Gayle has and I am 25 years younge...

What if in dying we could help someone else live? My guest today helps people every day do just that. He has spent his nursing career in the field of Organ and Tissue Donation as a coordinator and more. What does that mean? It means he is the guy who approaches the family members when someone is declared brain dead and can possibly be an organ donor. At the worst moment in someone's life he is the...

PR, or public relations, is something so many people want for their businesses but most have no clue how to get. The old adage of any press is good press doesn't really fly in this day and age. Just look at all the social media postings when airlines do something bad. That is NOT a good thing for their brand. So how does the average person get PR that moves the needle forward on the dial of their...

Growing a business takes more than setting a plan and following it. Plans need to be monitored and analyzed to slow or eliminate becoming stagnate. You need to be ahead of where your business and clients are going to anticipate the next phase of growth. You don't want to be behind the curve and have to react to a downturn or slowdown. It is much harder to recover when you are reacting to something...

I found Alex Dykes, aka Alex on Autos while narrowing down choices for a new car. He has incredible video reviews of virtually every car real people would consider buying and explains the car in context of how we normal people actually use a car. I just had to have him on the show and he said yes. During this episode Alex talks about how he got started in the  business of video car review for real...

Mastering Fear . I never thought of fear as something to be mastered. I always felt you needed to just push past fear. Sort of pretend it doesn't exist. I have a new appreciation for fear now and how we can truly change how we think about fear and how it can paralyze us. Last episode I interviewed Brandon Webb. John David Mann is his co-author for their latest collaboration, and I think one of the...