Life = Choices; Choices = Life

In this episode, I interview Kimberly Hambrick, a leadership development and growth coach working with the new leader up to the C-suite. Kimberly is an Executive Director with the John Maxwell Leadership Team and serves on the President’s Advisory Committee. She believes in value-based, servant leadership and growing people, including herself. This was a conversation I enjoyed immensely. List...

In this episode, I interview my friend and marketer of @revenue about leadership. We talk about unimaginable loss and the club, of which we are both members, we never wanted to belong to. Marie talks about choices as her best tools for success, as well as the hardest choice she had to make in her life. The pandemic seriously changed things for Marie. She began homeschooling her daughter at th...

 In this episode, I interview Dr. Shaniqua Jones, an extremely passionate woman from humble beginnings. This interview was such a breath of fresh air. Dr, Jones, or Dr. J, as she likes to be called, is a truly incredible woman. She was born a PK (preacher's kid) and did her share of rebelling as a teenager, which saw her on the streets, coping with many things teenagers are ill-equipped...

In this episode, I interview Dr. Patricia Robey about her role as an educational leader and supervisor of counselors in the field. Dr. Robey has been working in various capacities at Governors State University and a role she loves is supervising counselors. One of the tools she expertly utilizes is self-evaluation with co-verification. This is a skill few leaders possess. Most know how to pro...

In this episode, I interview Elisabeth Stitt, named Coach's Foundation's 2021 Coach of the Year and the founder of Joyful Parenting Coaching. Lisabeth taught school students for 25 years, then she worked with parents and students in the school and eventually became a parenting coach. She is also a parent to her daughter, Julie. She shares a lot of information about how she came to be a recognized...

In this episode, I interview Dr. Cheryl Woodson who is a doctor that sees many older women with some form of dementia and their caregivers. She knows medically, as well as personally, the enormity of this job. Her own mother suffered with dementia and Dr. Cheryl was her primary caregiver. She goes against conventional wisdom by saying there is no role reversal. That person is still your parent, ev...

In this episode, I interview Regina Fike, parent extraordinaire. Regina and her husband Rick are parents to eight children, grandparents to 15 and have foster parented medically fragile children for 16 years. To say she is committed to the welfare of children doesn't do her justice. She has even parlayed her experience into a career as an excellent, impassioned speaker and Parent Educator. Sh...

In this episode, I interview parenting expert Claire Lerner about setting boundaries with children so the parent remains in charge. The child has two choices, both of which are framed with neutrality and the child is left to choose the one they think is best. The parent is able to remove the power struggle by offering two good choices where they will get what they need and the child knows they wil...

In this episode, I talk about how anyone can learn Mental Freedom® in just six sessions. One of the things I have discovered in over 30 years of working with people on improving their mindsets, overcoming their obstacles and accomplishing their goals is that we each are experts at creating chaos and pain in our lives that we think are caused by external events. We then tend to blame those eve...

In this episode, I speak with counselor, instructor, my colleague and friend, Bruce Davenport. Bruce was one of the first people to volunteer to try out my beta version of Mental Freedom® in a group coaching setting. As a Choice Theory enthusiast himself, Bruce was curious about my new program. In this interview, he discusses the many ways he has applied the principles of Mental Fre...

In today's episode, I speak with a man who has had some interesting life experiences, one of which was being incarcerated for 11 years at the age of 16. Tony Kitchens didn't let that stop him from living the life he wanted, though. Instead, he took that experience and is dedicating his life to transforming the  reentry  experience to a community  reintegration  one. Tony unders...

In this episode, I am so honored to get to speak with my friend, Sylvester Baugh, about his transplant journey to health and how he used Mental Freedom to help him navigate the process. Sylvester shares how important Mental Freedom® was in his health journey while waiting for a kidney transplant. Along the way, there were many obstacles to overcome, but overcome them he did! Friends and family, in...

In this episode, I have the pleasure of talking with teacher, Evan Lent, who went on a self-discovery journal and took a student along with him. Evan was a new teacher working with a middle schooler who struggled a lot with math and resisted Evan's efforts to "teach" him. It wasn't until Evan read Bob Sullo's book,  Activating the Desire to Learn , that Evan completely changed his thinking. H...

In this episode I interview an amazing teacher turned coach, Gretchen Cary. We talked about her early influences and the people who have influenced her perspectives on her education mindset and her current work coaching other educators. We also discussed lessons learned during Covid that have impacted her work in education. Gretchen also spoke of her renewed interest in Choice Theory in the c...

In this episode, I interview Jan White, soon to be Dr. Jan White, an administrator at one of the Glasser Quality Schools, located in Norfolk, VA. She has been working there for the past 17 years, since the year it opened and she offers a unique perspective about what it means to become a Glasser Quality School, what it's like to work in one and the benefits that can be reaped when an administrator...

In this episode, I interview Bryan Zeman about his vast experience and knowledge putting Choice Theory to work in a school that was divided on their approach. He was able to find the balance between the strict, rule-bound approach and the permission, anything goes approach to education, while helping students not only learn their academic curriculum but also learn important life skills about respo...

In this episode, I interview Dr. Don Parker, talking about his experiences as a principal setting up need-satisfying school cultures for both students and teachers. We also touched on some things he does for self-care so he can give others in his environment what they need and some of his ideas to reduce teacher attrition. If you'd like to know about him, attend his next speaking engagement o...

In this episode, I talk with counselor Vicki Lannerholm about her personal experiences and lessons learned after jumping into the dating arena after a 10-year absence. We discuss the fear, fun, obstacles, and of course, that all-important communication. Listen in to hear about how to turn the fear into fun and just lean into the process without expectations.

It's hard to give away what you don't possess. In this episode, I discuss the importance of self-love, the things that get in a way of loving yourself, and the model I use in my book,  Choosing Me Now , for taking a lifelong journey toward becoming a need-satisfying person to yourself. This allows you to create a healthy, loving relationship with yourself. Once you have authentic self-love, y...

In this episode, I talk about the many different relationship statuses you may find yourself in and discuss best practices for each. You won't find any gimmicky formulas in this about how to "get" the guy or girl. I don't find relationships to be a contest to be won. However, there are best-practices I have discovered during my decades of helping people with their relationships. Whether you're sin...

In this episode, I interview Rob Maurer and Conry Davidson about their 6-year marriage and 8-year relationship. They are quite candid about the challenges they've overcome on their way to a happy marriage. This is the second marriage for them both and their first ones weren't nearly as satisfying. What makes the difference? They talk about several things: taking time off after their last relations...

In this episode, I interview Dr. Tim Pedigo about mindfulness. We discuss what exactly mindfulness is and its relevance to our lives, the difference between acting and responding and whether you learn to be mindful or you're born with it (Hint: it's a bit of both). Tim shares how mindfulness is related to personal and the role shadow work plays in one's personal growth. It you would like to talk w...

In this episode, I interview Teresa Greco, Canada's Happiness Coach. Teresa coaches people to access happiness any time in any situation. You can hear the happiness in her voice as I conduct this interview. She shares her own personal happiness journey (Hint: it wasn't always happy). She talks about the misconceptions people have about happiness and shares some of the principles and practices that...

In this episode, I speak with Marcus "Dr. Respect" Gentry about his new GPS system for self-discovery. We talk about what is needed for authentic self-discovery, what may be a barrier and how education can help. Marcus shares his own self-discovery during the past two years, especially around the death of his father. Marcus has a wide range of talents. Not only is he an excellent speaker, but he i...

Marci has quite a story. She came into this world with some existential angst, got all five of her goals and was still unhappy. So what did she do? She researched happiness and interviewed people who were unconditionally happy and started to do what they did. In doing so, Marci not only wrote her bestselling,  Happy for No Reason , but she also found happiness within herself. And if that's no...