My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston

In this episode I spoke with Steve Mosko, CEO of Village Roadshow Entertainment (VREG), who brought us "Joker" and "The Matrix Resurrections," whose wakeup calls included being told he should go to trade school in high school, being hacked while at Sony Entertainment and keeping VREG viable through the pandemic. https://vreg.com/senior-management/

In this episode I speak with Liz Wiseman, multi-NY Times best selling author of her recent book: "Impact Players," focused on identifying and growing your best people and whose wakeup call was being able to separate people's intent from their behavior and using that to avoid conflicts with some of the most challenging leaders in the corporate world and to maximize HER impact. https://thewisemangro...

In this episode I speak with Lisa Earle McLeod, author of "Selling with Noble Purpose," whose wakeup call came when she heard the tributes to her school teach mother at her funeral, when Lisa was 29 and pregnant and was moved to ask herself what her own purpose might be. https://www.mcleodandmore.com/

In this episode I speak with Marilyn Gist , author of "The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility," and the importance of respecting people's dignity, whose wakeup call was discovering that a former subordinate became much more productive and successful after being praised and supported than being criticized which Marilyn had done. https://www.marilyngist.com/

In this episode I speak with Deborah Westphal, former CEO of Toffler Associates, and author of "Convergence," whose wakeup call was coming from an engineering background and realizing the importance of considering people in planning for the future. https://deborahwestphal.com/  

In this episode I speak with Rob Nail , former CEO Singularity University, advisor, mentor and coach whose wakeup call was realizing his special talent to build bridges and companies and how important that was to visionaries to get their vision into the world. https://www.linkedin.com/in/robnail/

In this episode I speak with Lilli Bewley , host of the "Attract Health Build Wealth? podcast and developer of her "Align into Authenticity" program for women whose wakeup call was a suicidal moment with a gun in hand when she realized she wanted to live but would need to change her life path and mission. https://www.attracthealthbuildwealth.com/

In this episode I speak with Brendan Kane , one of the pioneers in influencers as a marketing vehicle, author of "Hook Point" and "One Million Followers" whose wakeup call was being smacked by his dad and told to think before he spoke and also how he outthought a bully by leveraging an influencer group. Listen and be in for a treat with someone who is so clear and articulate it almost hurts. https...

In this episode I speak with recognized and internationally awarded leadership speaker, coach, author of 15 books including, "GRACE: A Leader's Guide to a Better Us," whose wakeup call was being angered by all in incivility in the world and his wanting to instead highlight what is good and how grace can be something we can all strive for. https:// johnbaldoni. com/  

  In this episode I speak with Rick Jordan, Founder & CEO of ReachOut Technology, best-selling author and host of "All In Podcast," whose wakeup call or more his through line is looking for the unifying truth in the world. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-rick-jordan/id1450998120  

In this episode I speak with Maria Hvorostovsky, CEO of HVO Search and organizer of Women Who Win Lunch whose wakeup call was being an only child and then needing to be largely responsible for her younger twin siblings who were born when she was 14 and been on the "be responsible" wheel ever since. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariahvor/

  In this episode I speak with Kevin Edwards , Director of Digital Operations and host of the Real Leaders Podcast, whose wakeup call was learning to subordinate his own personal passions to support the vision and team around him that are growing Real Leaders. https://real-leaders.com/author/kevin-edwards/

In this episode I speak to return guest Scott Jeffrey Miller, host of "On Leadership with Scott Miller," and author of "Master Mentors: 30 Transformational Insights from Our Greatest Minds," whose wakeup call was moving from transactional to transformational and loving the wisdom from his amazing contributors. https://www.scottjeffreymiller.com/

  In this episode I speak with Jay Abraham , one of the world's foremost nonlinear strategic/critical thinkers who has increased the bottom lines of more than 10,000 clients in more than 1000 industries whose wakeup call was realizing he had an insatiable curiosity about all things business and beyond and an uncanny ability to connect dots that turned into huge returns for companies. http://abraha...

In this episode I speak with Ruth Gotian , Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine, Thinkers50 Radar List awardee and author of the upcoming book, "The Success Factor," whose wakeup call was noticing the commonalities that highly successful people h...

In this episode I speak with Janice Litvin , author of "Banish Burnout Toolkit," whose wakeup call was the downturn in the economy in 2008 and her transitioning from tech recruiting to Zumba (zoom based yoga) instructor, but wanting to do something to alleviate the fear and pain in people who were burning out in their jobs. https://janicelitvin.com/

In this episode I speak with Rusty Gaillard , Stanford MBA/13 year Apple employee whose wakeup call came when he got divorced and realized he wasn't feeling fully alive and who then transitioned to being a successful speaker/transformational coach, founder of Silicon Valley Dreambuilders, who offers up a great description of his coaching process. https://www.svdreambuilders.com/

In this episode I speak with Adam Gilad, CEO and Founder of Kyyndr and the Kynndr Summit, whose wakeup call was recovering from a traumatic relationship breakup and realizing how he and the world were hungry for deeper and kinder relationships. http://kyyndr.com

In this episode I speak with Dr. Sam Qurashi, who left the field of addiction medicine after seven years when he woke up to all the ways to help people heal from their mental and other issues that traditional medicine was missing. He shares his transformational thoughts and concept across social medial including more than 700,000 IG followers to help people who are. https://www.instagram.com/samqu...

In this episode I speak to Mena Mirhom , M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Columbia University Medical Center, co-author of, "Women's Pearls: A Focus on Women's Mental Health," advisory board member of Healthcorps and a partner to the NBA's Player Association re: mental health, whose wakeup call was noticing the lack of justice with regard to mental health care for women and minorities a...

In this episode I speak with Howard Getson , CEO of Capitalogix whose wakeup call was dialing the operator when he was two and a half to tell her that his nanny was physically abusing (and ended up killing) his nine month old brother. Since then his life as been one of taking charge and control and building a future and companies and helping the world make the most of what comes next. https://www....

In this episode I speak to the world's #1 Executive Coach and WSJ multi-bestselling author, Marshall Goldsmith, whose wakeup call was realizing that leaders often needed to focus more on stopping negative behaviors to reach their full potential and also many years ago when he became a philosophical Buddhist, which he explains beautifully. http://marshallgoldsmith.com

In this episode I speak with Eliza VanCort , women's empowerment leader and author of, "A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space," whose wakuep calls were being kidnapped at a young age by her schizophrenic mother and then more recently an accident that left her with a major head and brain injury that she needed to come back from. https://www.elizavancort.com/

In this episode I speak with Brandon T. Adams , an Emmy Award Winning Producer, entrepreneur, speaker coach and video marketing expert whose wakeup call was realizing that success was helping others to become the best version of themselves. https://www.brandontadams.com/

In this episode I speak with John Whyte, M.D. , Chief Medical Officer at WebMd whose wakeup call was being inspired by his parents and his Faith to be of service to both individuals and the wider world through affecting healthcare policy. https://www.webmd.com/john-whyte