Live Your Best Life

Dreaming of your next vacation? Meet Tiffany Dowd, global luxury hotel expert and social media influencer. A former luxury hotel inspector, Tiffany entered the social media realm and launched her own business, managing social media for luxury hotel brands. Her goal is to inspire peoples travel. “Time is your greatest luxury,” Tiffany says, adding that luxury is also “about the details and the emot...

Proving to us again that you can go from burned out to pursuing a career that brings your life joy and balance is Jenny Blake. Jenny left the hustle of a high level job at Google to pursue her own creative business ideas and, now 10 years later, has continued to grow, pivot, and succeed. “One of my greatest joys is tinkering in my business behind the scenes, and really figuring out how do we strea...

From tracking criminals online and launching startups to academia and ballroom dancing, Mark Herschberg is living his best life, having created his path from many arenas. During his time with MIT, Mark helped to create the university’s “career success accelerator,” giving students the skills they need to succeed and move upwards in their careers. Want to learn to manage your manager? To network? T...

“Turnaround Mastermind.”  Just one of the many titles Lisa Gable holds.  For 30-years, she has been saving companies from ruin by solving their most complex problems that others hadn't, or couldn't, solve. Lisa’s interests and career path have taken her from visiting battlefields with her dad, to being the youngest appointee in the Reagan administration, to having a front row seat at significant i...

What’s more important than brushing your teeth, shining your shoes or even combing your hair?  Life coach and author Dan Brule says it’s the breath.  Brule is a world renowned expert in the art and science of breathing.  So much so, he’s been called the Yoda, the Bruce Lee and even the Godfather of breathing. Brule’s career path from x-ray technician in New England to Navy Deep Sea Diver on Specia...

Your wardrobe is a “business strategy” and it's in your control. That’s the philosophy of Toi Sweeney, an award winning fashion stylist for both men and women, a brand strategist and author of “Secrets of a Well Dressed Brand.” Toi says “when you look good, you feel good. When you feel good, you are confident. When you are confident, the world is yours.” In this episode of “Live Your Best Life wit...

“Always be ready because you never know when your big moment is going to come.” Candy O’Terry was working at Magic 106.7 when that moment came. The evening disc jockey was laid off and Candy had her first night on air - the start of a 25 year career in radio. She now has three podcasts, a radio network, is a published author, and is an executive communications coach at Brunner Communications. Tune...

When Ruthann Bowen had her first child, she decided to take a break from her successful career in PR to maximize time with her children when they were young. However, a lot changed in the PR world over 15 years, leaving her looking at a foreign landscape when she was ready to return. Evidence to us all that it is possible to reinvent yourself, Ruthann happened into the world of web design and has...

“You can’t live your best life, I don’t think, if you’re not in alignment with your calling. If you don’t take the time to investigate, to listen for your soul ... as well as just how you’re meant to serve, then you could spend a long, long time heading down the wrong path.” Meet Mark Divine, Navy SEAL, founder of SEALFIT, and author, whose leadership focuses not just on the physical, but on the m...

“Lia, you are shining.  You are sparkling.  I see it,” said her mother as she gave her a pair of earrings. “...These earrings will represent the beautiful light and sparkle and greatness inside of you.” Lia Valencia grew up in poverty, but worked from a young age to build a new path for herself. Attending college against all odds, she earned a Masters degree in education and obtained a job as a te...

When an injury ended his professional football career, Ta'u Pupu'a committed to pursuing his love of music. Moving to New York without a firm plan, Ta’u formed a connection with renowned opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa that led him to Julliard and a career that has taken him around the world. The hardest part of his journey, recreating his life and career, he says, was “Letting one go. Because in orde...

“How do you know you’re good enough to do the thing that you are desiring?” Dr. Pooja Goel asked. She was told that “if there’s even the tiniest voice inside telling you to do it, just know that that voice, it won’t lead you astray, and to start to listen to it, nourish it.” Even as competing interests called to her, Pooja Goel stuck to her long sought “expected” plan to become a doctor. However,...

Armed with degrees from two prestigious universities, Emily Groden was ready to take on the corporate legal world, just as she’d always dreamed. But in the midst of mergers and acquisitions, another interest filled her downtime – food. Always the cautious lawyer, Emily took small steps toward her dream, before going all in and launching her own frozen waffle company just as the COVID-19 pandemic b...

“Just take one step. Just one step. That’s all you need to do” says Retired Master Sergeant Cedric King. He’s used that philosophy to finish five Boston Marathons, two New York City Marathons, several half-Ironman triathlons, and many other challenges… all as a double amputee. King lost his legs in 2012 after stepping on an IED in Afghanistan. That could have been his breaking point, but, he says,...

She turned 50 – “halftime” as Stephanie Carter likes to think of it – and a turning point in her life. Stephanie left a successful 25 year career in private growth equity to launch a startup. The Verse Media brought her back to the basics, learning the systems upon which her business would thrive. Now at its one year anniversary, The Verse Media provides content tailored to others in their “next h...

From Boston news anchor to ordained minister, Reverend Liz Walker has followed “the breadcrumbs of the universe,” as she puts it, which have led her through the chapters of her life. Drawn to humanitarianism while traveling with an aid group in Sudan, Liz attended the Harvard Divinity School, choosing to become a minister. Joining the COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group in Boston at the request of Gov...

The phone rang and rang. The same number was calling again! Finally, Kim answered and that call not only saved her life, but set her on an unexpected path. Meet Kim Gedney, psychic medium, who believes that we all have something to give to the world. “Spirit often reminds me,” Kim says, “that two halves make a whole. Unless we have felt sadness and grief and sorrow and pain, we wouldn't experience...

“Don’t listen to yourself; talk to yourself,” says Jon Dorenbos, who believes that what you tell yourself makes a difference. Faced with unimaginable tragedy at the age of 12, Jon found a freedom in magic that has stayed with him, through 14 seasons in the NFL and to the speaking career beyond that.“I’m proud to stand on that stage and talk to my 12-year-old self and make it cool. Make being nice...

Do you want to be happier? Who doesn’t! This year has taken a toll on all of us, causing us to alter our habits and limit our social connections, but those changes don’t need to inhibit our personal happiness. Marci Shimoff, best-selling author and happiness expert, says that happiness doesn’t have to depend on your circumstances. As a young adult, Marci thought that achieving her goals would brin...

“Listen to your body… there’s like a lightness now that I know it’s really and truly the right fit. I’ve learned that I just cannot hide who I am, I have to be me…” Rachel Solomon had a career plan – to be an accomplished divorce lawyer. She achieved it. But then imposter syndrome crept in. In her words, Rachel felt like she was “faking it.” She left the legal world and after maneuvering through s...

Dr Sheri Prentiss followed her dreams to become a physician, but then, 16 years into her career, a breast cancer diagnosis threw that dream off course. While she beat cancer, one disease morphed into another, preventing her from returning to work as a doctor. Faced with uncertainty, L-I-V-E became her new mantra. Sheri recreated herself and dedicated her life to service through her non profit, pod...

Faced with family tragedy, Kate Curran reassessed her life’s direction. Taking a year off to travel the world, Kate went on to found School the World, which has built 107 schools to date and served more than 10,000 children. More than supplies and facilities, School the World is dedicated to empowering those it serves. “I think that empowerment is critically important to any kind of poverty-solvin...

A true “rags to riches” story. On this episode of “Live Your Best Life with Liz Brunner,” you’ll meet Brian Tracy, a man from humble beginnings who learned to set goals and take on obstacles, eventually becoming a self-made multimillionaire. Now a motivational speaker and self-development author, Brian works to help others “...step on the accelerator of their own success…” With more than 70 books...

“You don’t have to be perfect to help people. You just have to be real,” says Trent Shelton, former NFL wide receiver turned influential speaker. Growing up and through his time in the NFL, Trent tied his identity to football, but the death of a close friend became the reality check that started him down a new path. Turning a negative situation into something positive, Trent began to speak his tru...

Meet Petra Kolber, self-proclaimed recovering perfectionist. When debilitating panic attacks overtook this internationally known fitness expert, Petra made space for them and, in so doing, took back control. Now a certified positive mindset coach, Petra says: “‘What you don’t own will own you.’ So if you try and condense anything -- fear, anxiety, whatever -- it actually gives it more power.” List...