My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston

In this episode I interview returning guest, Jevon McCormick, CEO of Scribe Media, and author of "Modern Leader," whose wakeup call was realizing that leaders don't follow a playbook, they create a new playbook that must fit with the modern world of rapid change, hybrid teams and needing to be both agile and centered as a leader and to work with your people towards success. https://jevonmccormick....

In this episode I speak with L. David Marquet, former nuclear submarine commander, author of, "Turn the Ship Around" and "Language is Leadership," whose wakeup call was realizing that a top down and command and control approach to leadership was not working. https://intentbasedleadership.com

In this episode I speak with Simon Alexander Ong, keynote speaker, entrepreneur and author of, "Energize: Make the Most of Every Moment," whose wakeup call was having his structured life come to a crashing halt when after working at Lehman Bros for a short while the financial crisis hit and he needed to reevaluate everything. https://getenergizebook.com/

In this episode I speak with Satya Doyle Byock, author of, "Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood," Director of The Salome Institute of Jungian Studies and licensed psychotherapist whose through line and wakeup call was realizing how people ages 16 - 36 have been underserved and essentially abandoned to deal with an overwhelming and at times traumatizing world. https://satyabyock.com...

In this mesmerizing episode I speak with Darryl Stickel, founder of Trust Unlimited and author of: "Building Trust: Exceptional Leadership in an Uncertain World," whose through line was coming from a small community in Canada where everyone trusted and cooperated with each other and discovering how absent that was in the wider world. https://www.trustunlimited.com/

In this episode I speak with Claudia Clark, author of, "Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel," whose through line has been a lifelong dedication to social activism in the face of being an extreme introvert. https://www.claudiaclarkauthor.com/

In this episode I speak with transformational business consultant and coach, creator of his "Publish and Profit" system, Mentor Advisor Partner program and cancer survivor, Mike Koenigs, whose wakeup call was to become completely authentic without the concern about what people thought of him. https://www.mikekoenigs.com/about/

In this episode I speak with B. Joseph "Joe" Pine III, author of "The Experience Economy," whose through line has been to describe what he saw and then prescribe actions you can take to help people and organizations overcome what was holding them back. https://strategichorizons.com/pine-and-gilmore/joe-pine/

In this episode I speak with Michael Stickler, popular Christian author, publisher at Leadership Books, whose through line has been his loyalty to others as he believes God has been loyal to him and whose wakeup calls include the loss of his wife to cancer and his time going to prison. https://leadershipbooks.com/collections/michael-stickler

In this episode I speak with Amy Gallo, author of "Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) and Contributing Editor at Harvard Business Review whose wakeup call and through line was coming from a divorced parents as a child and learning to see the positive aspects of conflict as a way to learn and grow. http://www.amyegallo.com/  https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Along-Anyone-Di...

In this episode I speak with Steve Fortunato, Founder and CEO of Hospitality Brands, whose through line has been managing the dynamic between the vicious cycle of entitlement and the virtuous cycle of generosity in his approach to his business and life and whose wakeup call was getting past a childhood of being ostracized. And get this, this was Steve's first ever podcast appearance. I thought he...

In this episode I speak with Bill George, former Chairman and CEO of Medtronic and co-author of "True North: Emerging Leader Edition," whose wakeup call was realizing you need to care about your people to succeed as a leader by helping them succeed and you need to discover and develop yourself before you can do that. https://www.billgeorge.org/

In this episode I speak with Brent Jackson, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Mercy General Hospital about his through line of achievement and service and whose wakeup call was learning to be of support and believe in others that he learned from his grandfather. https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjacksonmd/

In this episode I speak to former Silicon Valley start up marketing firm founder turned novelist, Tom Hogan, whose recent book is the current thriller: "The Empty Confessional,' and whose wakeup call was witnessing the abuse within the Catholic Church and his living out a retaliating revenge fantasy in his current book. https://tom-hogan.com/

In this episode I speak with Gerry Riskin , Founder and Chairman of: https://www.edge.ai/people/gerry-riskin/ whose wakeup call was standing up for his mom regarding a damaged product when he was 14 and seeing the power that lawyers could have in doing that for people who couldn't stand up for themselves. To me, he is one of the best representatives of what and how lawyers could be.

In this episode I speak with David Meltzer, Co-Founder of Sports1 Marketing whose wakeup call was the suicide of one of his daughter's close friends and which caused him to pivot to a mission of empowering OVER 1 BILLION people to be happy! https://dmeltzer.com/ @Davidmeltzer

In this episode I speak with yogic monk and author of: "Consciousness: The Final Frontier," Dada Gunamuktananda whose wakeup call was dropping out of medical school to begin a lifelong journey to discover and experience consciousness and oneness with the cosmos. http://consciousfrontier.org

  In this episode I speak with Judy Gaman, author of, "Love, Life and Lucille," and CEO of Executive Medicine of Texas whose through line has been always caring about people and making their lives better and whose wakeup call was realizing there's a better way to practice medicine that puts patients above red tape. https://www.judygaman.com/

In this episode I speak with Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidate, Hugh McTavish, inventor of Jury Democracy whose wakeup call was seeing the damage done by the long term pandemic lockdown which has spawned more morbidity (1 in 5 teens feeling depressed and hopeless) than Covid. https://www.mctavish4mn.org/

In this episode I welcome back return guest, Simon Leslie, Founder and CEO of Ink Global and author of, "Equanimity: Diary of a CEO in Crsis," whose wakeup call was having his $150 million business supplying inflight magazines to most of the airlines go away in light of the pandemic when nobody want to touch contaminated magazines and how he survived that and turned it around. https://www.amazon.c...

In this episode I speak with Chris Voss, author of "Never Split the Difference," top Masterclass course instructor and CEO and Founder of the Black Swan Group whose through line has been always wanting to fix things and just figure out what works to improve any negotiations people have. https://www.blackswanltd.com/ and watch this episode on video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCBnToEl2cE  

In this episode I interview my partners in our suicide prevention documentary, "Stay Alive," including Golden Gate Bridge suicide attempt survivor, Kevin Hines; suicide prevention advocate and Japanese pop singer, Rayko; executive producer and co-creator, Frank Kilpatrick and co-creator/moderator, Mark Goulston. We share how suicide prevention has come to be so important to each of us and give tip...

In this episode I speak with Christie Hunter Arscott, Rhodes Scholar and author of "Begin Boldly: How Women Can Reimagine Risk, Embrace Uncertainty, and Launch A Brilliant Career," whose wakeup call was having confidence when she was younger and losing it when she became a consultant for a big company in New York and her determination to get her courage back. https://christiehunterarscott.com/

In this episode I speak with Wendy Smith, co-author of "BOTH/AND THINKING: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems" and Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management and faculty director of the Women's Leadership Initiative at the Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware whose through line and wakeup call was growing up in Montreal when there was so much polit...

In this episode I speak with Michelle Segar, NIH-funded researcher at University of Michigan and author of, "The Joy Choice: How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise," whose wakeup call was seeing how many people were failing to take care of themselves by following conventional - and wrong - wisdom. https://michellesegar.com/