My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston

In this episode I speak to Ravishankar Gundlapalli, Founder and CEO of MentorCloud, about his wakeup call to move from a success career with a technical focus to changing the world through mentoring.

In this episode I speak with Katharine Manning, expert trainer and consultant on trauma and victimization in the workplace and author of, "The Empathetic Workplace: 5 Steps to a Compassionate, Calm and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job," about her wakeup call after having witnessed domestic violence in her childhood home. http://katharinemanning.com

In this episode I speak with Jeff Kavanaugh, co-author of "The Live Enterprise" and global head of the Infosys Knowledge Institute whose wakeup call was realizing an organization needs to function as if it is alive with all parts working together and tying that back to his farmer roots.

In this episode I speak with Alan Stein Jr. keynote speaker, best selling author of, "Raise Your Game," and basketball performance coach to NBA all stars including Steph Curry, Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant and whose wakeup call was going from a star basketball player in HS to sitting on the bench in college, becoming embittered and then turning his life around.

In this episode I speak with Blaine Bartlett whose name is synonymous with Compassionate Capitalism and whose wakeup call was discovering how compassion can lead to success and might just fix what's wrong with the world. Scheduling:

In this episode I speak with former prisoner with a 100 year sentence turned Harvard Fellow at their law school, Andre Norman, whose wakeup call was realizing that he was the "king of nothing" in prison and that he could choose to stop being a quitter to going to Harvard. https://andrenorman.com/

In this episode I speak with JeVon "JT"  McCormick, CEO of Scribe Media, whose wakeup call was taking charge of his life after an incredibly horrendous childhood.

In this episode I speak with Suneel Gupta, author of "Backable," about his wakeup call being inspired by his grandmother and daughter to be the best version of himself and how doing that can make all of us backable.

In this episode I speak with Sheel Bhuta who is a holistic health practitioner, trauma survivor and lives with Multiple Sclerosis whose wakeup call was how her illness freed her from depression.

In this episode I speak to Marcus "Bellringer" Bell, American music producer, songwriter, activist and entrepreneur and creator of the "Wealth and Impact Bootcamp" whose wakeup call was paying forward the love and encouragement he received and learned from his late mother who did so much for the world.

In this episode I speak with Erwin B Valencia, high performance and sports medicine specialist and the first Filipino, raised and educated in the Philippines to be hired full time on the medical staffs of a MLB and then a NBA team about his wakeup call when after first being rejected to work in NBA, he spent a birthday in Prague giving out 300 hugs and upon trusting the universe was offered five j...

In this episode I speak with Amanda Holmes, CEO and Chairman of Chet Holmes International was having to take over her dad's company at age 24 when he died and go from a singer songwriter to a corporate CEO and also her more recent awakening to the importance of spirituality in her life and to the companies she works with.

In this episode I speak with Vinnie Tortorich, speaker, podcaster and author of "Fitness Confidential: Adventures in the Weight-Loss Game," whose wakeup call was realizing how failure was his friend and best teacher.

On this episode, I'm excited to have my friend, television legend Larry King, on the show. Come along as Larry shares the wakeup calls in his life that inspired his curiosity about the world and people, and a love for making people laugh.

In this episode I speak with Avi Loeb, Harvard's former Chair of Astronomy, astrophysicist, and author of "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth," whose wakeup call was realizing that his personal commitment to science would need to override the pushback from the scientific community.

In this episode I speak with Emmy winning television journalist, entrepreneur and CEO of BiasSync, Michele Ruiz, about her waking up to seeing and experiencing discrimination and her calling to do something to overcome it. http://biassync.com

In this episode I speak with Elise Hu, the host of TED Talks Daily, the flagship podcast from TED that's downloaded a million times a day, around the world, and former host at large at NPR, about being insatiably curious and growing up being "otherized" as the only Asian in her community, which was not a positive connotation.

In this episode I speak with former Warren Buffett CEO and author of "The IGI Principles," Steve Rodgers about his wakeup call when a spiritual awakening saved him from alcoholism and how he then went on to bring that into the lives of his clients and companies he has worked with.

In this episode I speak with Rabbi Steve Leder about his new book, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift, and how his journey to wisdom "woke up" after the death of his father.

In this episode I speak with Fred Dust, author of "Making Conversation: Seven Essential Elements of Meaningful Communication," Senior Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation on Global Pandemic Prevention and Response and former Global Managing Director at IDEO, whose wakeup call was watching his mom who was one of the best listeners cope with a stroke at a young age to continue to try to do that.

In this episode I speak with Nankhonde Kasonde-van den Broek, development activist, entrepreneur and Marshall Goldsmith 50 Global Leading Coach on her wakeup call realizing that focusing on pure achievement was preventing her from personally growing. http://khondezambia.com  

In this episode I speak to Mitzi Perdue, environmentalist and syndicated columnist, human trafficking activist, wife of poultry magnate Frank Perdue, daughter of Ernest Henderson, co-founder of the Sheraton Hotel Chain, whose wakeup call was being inspired by these men to love people the way they did.  

In this episode I speak with Dr. Stephen Klasko, passionate advocate for the transformation of healthcare and higher education, President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health on his wakeup call of taking on all the naysayers who have told him that what he wants to do is impossible.

In this episode I speak with veteran hospitality executive and legend, Mike Leven, author of, "Can't Do It Yourself: How Commitment To Others Leads To Personal Prosperity," whose wakeup call was realizing he had a talent at seeing possibilities others couldn't see and empowering people to want to make them happen.