Proadvisor Coach Podcast

Evaluate your values! "My identity... I did a complete evaluation," says 19 year-old foreign-exchange- and crypto-currency- trader and investor Alex Cledaras , after a knee surgery and 4 concussions forced him to remove himself from soccer, a sport he loved dearly. Now Alex, who is of Austrian and Greek descent, travels the world frequently because that's what he truly enjoys doing. Alex tells us...

We have days where the fire rages and days where it gets reduced to a light flicker. That’s life. We all have ups and downs because others are living their lives in our vicinity – it’s not possible to control all our circumstances. Our responsibility is to manage the fire when it’s raging by staying within our means… and compassionately tending to the embers when circumstances overwhelm us. This w...

Massive action is the cure-all! " Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm " is a great quote from Winston Churchill that embodies our conversation with #truthseekers guest Tim Dodd . "I learned lots of ways not to build a company," says Tim. It's a principle we've heard over and over again. You need information to become successful. How do you get information...

This week's #truthseekers guest Peep Laja is a former champion of optimization and experimentation turned business builder. Peep is building a portfolio of companies, using the profits from existing businesses to build new ones - you could call him his own angel investor! Among other things, we asked Peep, a successful founder of 3 companies, why he does what he does. We look at what he has built...

What does it take to build real wealth? If this question grabs your attention, you'll love this week's #truthseekers guest Marco Capaldi , aka Marcus Aurelius of the Special Sauce Podcast. Coach Jon and I enjoyed our conversation with Marco about going beyond "left brain business", aka crunching numbers, understanding financial goals, calculating assets, etc. Generational wealth and longevity appe...

     Goal-oriented individuals succeed more frequently because they know where they’re going. It’s that simple.      Sean first heard this concept on an audio book called The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale. Widely recognized as one of the greatest motivational books of all time, this audiobook would serve as the inspiration for Sean to establ...

Our discussion focuses on how to find your peak state - a resourceful state of mind where you can take on the day's tasks and live a meaningful, fulfilling life. So often throughout our day, we carry around the burden of the day's negative occurrences. Since we know we can only focus on one thing at a time , we could be missing opportunities to have powerful and positive experiences! We talk about...

What happens when you live every moment of your life in a state of gratitude?  Is this even possible?  Could your "bad" be "good"? #truthseekers was honored to welcome Bree Pittman aka the Queen of Gratitude as she is known in her circles. Bree's default state of mind was tested with the tragic passing of her sister.  Wait till you hear how she handled this situation and chooses to...

Massive action is the cure-all! Want to change how you feel?  Want to change your income?  Want to change ANYTHING about your current situation?  Take action. Nick Zotos shares a stream of consciousness that details his progression overcoming doubts to go out on his own.  Once a tax lawyer, Nick is now a real estate entrepreneur, inspired by completing a housing project in orde...

Imagine facing 1 fear every single day for a full year. That's exactly what #truthseekers guest Lynda Sunshine West did - 365 fears for 365 days in a row! Having 49 jobs over a span of 36 years will do that to you.  Lynda woke up one day and realized all these years that she had been running away from what she DIDN'T want, instead of running TOWARDS what she did... and after 49 jobs she did n...

Editor and writing coach Beth Crosby joins #truthseekers this week to share the power of storytelling! We are all made up of experiences that shape the lens through which we see the world.  A lot of times we can be ashamed or embarrassed about our experiences, but not Beth!  She has learned to embrace everything about herself, even her "bad", to help her achieve "good". Beth shares a ref...

What good is a plan if we don't take action?! We find out a lot about ourselves when we intend to make a big life change or take a leap.  Our fear, guilt, and shame throw up warning signals and tell us to throw on the brakes. Kareema Riddick joins #truthseekers to discuss how she navigated procrastination and self-doubt to found her own tea company, called "Yes Darling".  After much self...

You may be familiar with boxer Mike Tyson's famous quote in the title of this podcast.  But what happens when we don't even start with a plan?! Career Coach Erin Moody joins #truthseekers to talk about the power of questions when it comes to making a plan.  "What do I want" has to be answered before "how do I get there". Perhaps the most effective way to get what we want is to first iden...

How much of our lives are conditioned? A heck of a lot more than I realized after discussing this week's topic with our guest John Griveas! Think about our daily routines, the number of times we check our phone, how we react to the same stimuli every single day. This is conditioning!  Becoming aware is the first step.  The next step is understanding whether or not our conditioning is ser...

Life comes at us fast! Text messages, phone calls, emails, family members, friends, commitments bombard us every single day - the list goes on and on. So how do we combat The Tyranny of the Urgent?  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2nnApywUFQ&t=2s) What defense mechanisms do we have to stay in control of our lives? This week's guest, Jon Massey, talks about meditation, intention-setting,...

What if we could live 95% of our lives in a place of passion? What if our Internal Desires matched our External World - all the people, places, and experiences delivered amazing feelings and we loved our lives to the fullest?! This episode, we hear from Rich Campe, CEO of ProAdvisorCoach, and someone long on the journey of living the most fulfilling life possible.  Hear how he has manifested...

We all know a leader when we see one. But what is it about that person that qualifies him/her as a leader?  How does a person earn this tag? A leader forges through the murky waters of uncertainty.  Decisive action is difficult to take for most people during uncertain times because they don't want to be wrong.  The secret to being a leader is to be ok with being wrong. The decisiven...

Business - a word we all use a lot.  What do you associate with it? Is it about commoditizing relationships?  Is it the way the world goes around? #truthseekers welcome Chris Davies, brother of co-host Nick Davies, to discuss what it means to him:  FREEDOM! ...to be able to play the game he wants to play... to be in charge of his time... to make decisions the way he wants to make de...

Communication. What?  I said, COMMUNICATION! 7% of our communication is the words we use. The other 93% is tonality and physiology... which is why you should take a peak at our #truthseekers youtube channel!  Exclamation marks can only do so much... Our communication is only as affective as the extent to which our message resonates with another.  If we are not reading the non-verbal...

More about our guest,  Justin Ervin:  Justin is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Habitual Roots and its lead contact in Charlotte, N.C. Habitual Roots is a nonprofit community based out of Charlotte, NC, promoting positive habits of self-care through means of mindfulness and emotional intelligence. Justin has spent 5+ years managing projects within the financial, nuclear, and service...

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?   If you could accomplish anything you want, no holds barred, what would it be?  A conclusion we can come to about accomplishing a monumental goal is that we must start moving in its direction.  Any action is better than no action.  For some reason, any specific action never feels perfect.  We wait around for it to...

There’s a lot of noise in the world scrambling our entire nervous system with too much data, meetings, people, emails, texts, social media, projects, and stuff attacking us day in and day out.  We have a terrible habit of filling our days to our absolute maximum capacity.  Even when we find empty space in our busy schedules, we find a way to fill it up!  No wonder we burn out every...

Intention means purposefully applying your attention.   Attention can’t really be turned off.  It comes down to what direction you focus it in… and how much you turn it up or down.  You can be aloof practicing Muay Thai… you can be totally focused on watching a movie.     When we tap into our “why”, like our guest Giles Wiley talks about, our intention becomes very po...

You may have heard the best way to learn a new language is to immerse yourself in that respective culture.  You want to learn Spanish?  Move to Spain.  Do you want to learn Italian?  Move to Italy.  Polish?  Poland.   The same is true if you want to change your “normal”.  If you want to create a New Normal, immerse yourself in an environment where the normal...

Ahh, the paradox of control.   When we give up trying to control things, we actually get more control over our situation.  “Giving up control doesn’t mean you’re giving up control” according to our guest Drew Lewis.     When we focus on the things we have control over within our Circle of Influence, the things we don’t have control over melt away from our consciousness. &n...