Shock Your Potential

Can making better choices improve your life, both personally and professionally? Absolutely! And our guest today has just what we need to know to do that every day. Kim Olver has studied Choice Theory over 30 years and in this episode she shares valuable insight on how we are motivated and how we can use that knowledge personally and professionally. She also reminds us that our children are not re...

Have you ever felt like you were working so hard that your hair was on fire? Have you felt the building pressure of burnout? If so, our guest today can help. Barb Garrison is a Career & Money Breakthrough Coach and “Job-You-Love” expert at Internal Groove. She helps burned out, success-driven professionals who are just going through the motions to design a career, based on their TRUTH, that makes...

What would it be like to work in an environment where you were truly valued and heard? Our guest today has seen it first-hand and knows what the best companies, and the best leadership styles, have focused on to achieve it. Dan Edds has been a practicing management consultant for over 25 years, working primarily with state & local government, healthcare, K-12 education, higher education, and nonpr...

If you’ve ever made a life choice that you felt you had to defend to others, this is the episode for you. Our guest today is Susan Eckstein, an empowerment expert, coach, speaker, and creator of the You Do You Program. Susan leads women who are ready to break the chains of conformity find the courage and confidence to be true to themselves and live life unapologetically. She helps her clients reco...

Do you know what your Divine Purpose is? Our guest today certainly does, but it wasn’t an easy journey on the way to finding it. Jacqueline Maddison is the owner and Editor in Chief of Beverly Hills Magazine, CEO and Executive Producer of Tigress Films, and Founder of the God Foundation. Originally from South Africa, born-again Christian entrepreneur, Jacqueline lost everything and rebuilt her lif...

If you have ever felt empty inside, uncertain of your purpose in life, then our guest today will not only resonate with you but will inspire you to find pleasure. Bracha Goetz is a Harvard-educated wellness expert who is the author of 38 books that help children’s souls shine and Searching for God in the Garbage , https://amzn.to/34iCfLz , a candid memoir for adults about overcoming food addiction...

  Are you positively connected to the masculine and feminine energies inside you? If not, our guest today can help you! Fidel Beauhill, aka The Modern Man Coach, and author of Divorce, A Modern Man’s Guide  https://amzn.to/3mnabN9 , is a life and relationship coach.  He enjoys helping clients empower themselves by understand their masculine and feminine energies and specializes in working with men...

Have you ever wondered what your pet is thinking? Our guest today might just be able to help you with that! Mark Hernandez is the owner and founder of People and Pets Energetics.  He is an intuitive healer and coach that helps pets and pet parents with their health and well-being so that they are happier and healthier naturally.  He uses non-invasive energy-medicine modalities and tools to help hi...

Do you know the price of over-giving? Of giving so much of yourself that your body actually breaks down on you. Our next guest knows first-hand, and the outcome was a total shift in the way she loves and cares for herself. After a 35- year career in the IT industry, Pat Alva-Kraker was faced with a series of challenges that altered her professional life forever. She was let-go from a major technol...

What do you think you are capable of? What is your capacity to achieve more? Our guest today will help you find answers to those questions, and more, that are getting in the way of your success. Lisa Fabrega is a leadership coach who helps ambitious people expand their capacity to handle more growth, wealth & success. For more than ten years, she has helped entrepreneurs, corporate executives, Aca...

How is Happiness impacting your business and your life? Our guest today knows the answer. With over 15 years’ experience as being a trainer and coach Vernon L. Brown is the Happiness and Success coach who shows entrepreneurs how to leverage happiness to become more successful, strategic, and influential both personally and professionally.  In today’s episode we talk about finding the gift in suffe...

If you’ve ever struggled to find balance and happiness in your personal AND professional life, our guest today will motivate you to find “empowerment.” Ishwarya Lakshmi K is a Super Mom and a Power Success Coach. After struggling with postpartum depression, she knew she had to make a change in her approach to life. In this episode we discuss her international best-selling book D.A.T.E W.I.T.H F.A....

Our guest today empowers people to deliberately choose abundance. It might not always be the easiest choice, but the choice is always available. After receiving a late diagnosis of Asperger’s and experiencing what can only be described as life-shattering trauma at the age of just 20, Daniel Mangena spent the next seven years struggling to keep these revelations and events from spilling into every...

What is your health worth? Our guest today knows that it is worth everything, and more. It took a complete health crash to lead Kristen Bowen to create Living the Good Life Naturally in 2002. Autoimmune issues and a series of failed surgeries left Kristen bedridden and depressed, with daily seizures. Through research and looking for outside the box solutions, she discovered that to regain her heal...

Have you ever wanted to fire your inner critic? Have you ever let that critic influence you in a way that didn’t serve you? Then our guest today will help you hand that critic a pink slip. Barbara Kaplan founded BSK Strategies, a business development consultancy, in 2005.  Her practice focuses on two distinct areas: Personal Branding - Working with women to help them: Stand tall with a new level o...

Our guest today took a giant leap of faith with her business, to strategically narrow the focus of her client base. For many this may seem a risk, but for Diana Fryc and her business partner at Retail Voodoo , the payoff was worth the risk. Diana believes that business should be a force for good and uses her networking superpowers to drive change in the food, beverage and wellness industries, spec...

What is the Difference Between Passion and Purpose in our Work? Our guest today knows the answer, and helps you to recognize that aligning to your purpose will help you to outperform your peers and your competition. Elizabeth Lotardo is a consultant, researcher, and co-author of Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud. https://amzn.to/321U8wT . In today’s...

Are you really doing what you love? Are you fulfilling your soul purpose? Our next guest found out her soul purpose, thankfully before it was too late! Rebekah Louisa Smith was earning her PhD, headed to the life of an academic. She had a plan completely mapped out until one day at a conference someone gushed about life as an academic and suddenly she realized, it wasn’t her passion. She didn’t gu...

Until someone gives you a dollar for what you know, it doesn’t matter. That is one mantra of many from our guest today, and a great reminder that success takes effort. Jason Treu is a Chief People Officer and leadership and teamwork expert. He helps executives, managers, and HR departments develop unstoppable leaders, talent, and employee experiences. He spent 15+ years in leadership positions wor...

Our guest today began sweeping floors in the family business at age 3, earning $25 cents a week, which allowed him great candy purchasing ability every Friday.  He later served as an independent president of sales and training for companies of Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes, and Russ Whitney, where his efforts generated over 500 million dollars in sales. Today Doug Brown helps companies with $5M+ in sa...

Would you like to get out of firefighting mode in your business or career and spend more time working towards your ultimate goals? Our guest today can help! Crista Grasso is a lean business consultant who helps growing businesses achieve more by doing less through a combination of strategic planning and lean business practices. Known as the "Business Optimizer", Crista has the ability to quickly c...

Would you like to know how to generate double, triple or even quadruple the number of business referrals you receive each year, without having to ask (or beg) for them? Our next guest helps her clients do just that. Stacey Brown Randall is the multiple award-winning author of Generating Business Referrals Without Asking (https://amzn.to/2H9C78M), host of the Roadmap to Grow Your Business podcast,...

How do we learn how to nurture the fire within each of us? Our guest today has the answer. Nick Jankel is a thought leader whose ideas, tools and research are designed to take the pain out of transformation, blast through the barriers that block creativity and innovation and unleash conscious changes in leadership and life that bring less suffering and more thriving into the spaces we touch. In to...

A chance invitation to a marketing presentation in college changed the career trajectory of today’s guest and put him on a life-long mission to investigate leadership effectiveness. Tim Spiker is the author of the book “The Only Leaders Worth* Following” ( https://amzn.to/3no2h7f ), after interviewing hundreds of leaders. In today’s episode we learn about critical research that shows that ¾ of you...

Do you ever feel tired, sluggish, and bloated? If so, our guest today may have a solution for you. After suffering from multiple health issues, including rectal bleeding, two separate skin issues, chronic acid indigestion and surgery to remove one of his organs due to serious digestive issues, Tim James knew something had to change. But it was only after watching his closest ones die of cancer and...