The Art of Authenticity

Note: The best of series continues with the best 5 guests to come on The Art of Authenticity this year. Enjoy! Best selling author of the Art of Work , blogger, and host of the podcast Portfolio Life . Ever had that gnawing sense that there is something else out there for you, but you just can't put your finger on it? Jeff was in marketing, making a good living, but he had an "itch" that he couldn...

Note: The best of series continues with the 5 best guests to appear on The Art of Authenticity this year. Enjoy! Dr. Shefali - best-selling author featured on Oprah, clinical psychologist and international speaker - talks about Conscious Parenting: learn to be an enlightened parent, find higher success for your children while giving them a deeper sense of self.   

Note: The best episodes week continues with the 5 best guests to come on Art of Authenticity! Quantum Physics? Quantum Love?!? NYT best-selling author, relationship expert, and host of In The Bedroom on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), Dr. Laura Berman reveals how science can be used to have a better love life. Sound like a dream? It’s not. All this and more in this episode!  

Several emails have recently come in asking if I offer coaching and the answer is, yes I do. Want help figuring out what success means to you? Or is answering the question, "what do I want?" really frustrating. Or do you have momentum, but the stress is kicking in and you need help with priorities, balance, or list management? That's what I help with. How to build a life that is successful and mea...

PSA: This is an older episode, reuploaded to celebrate 100,000 downloads! I've selected 5 of the best Art of Authenticity episodes to release this week. Enjoy :) In this episode, learn about Krishnamurti and freedom of the mind. How can you live your life free from the limitations of the mind? Anxiety, jealousy, fear, are all emotions we get used to. We are used to the discomfort. But we don't hav...

PSA: This is an older episode, reuploaded to celebrate 100,000 downloads! I've selected 5 of the best Art of Authenticity episodes to release this week. Enjoy :) Ready to feel more energy? Ready to stop wasted time and emotional energy? Follow this one step to reclaim your precious daily mental energy. Tune in for the solution.

PSA: This is an older episode, reuploaded to celebrate 100,000 downloads! I've selected 5 of the best Art of Authenticity episodes to release this week. Enjoy :) Ready to find more time every day? Most of us feel like there is never enough time in the day to get everything on our lists done. With each accomplishment, we do not celebrate - we only see the next task. Enough. Take back your schedule...

PSA: This is an older episode, reuploaded to celebrate 100,000 downloads! I've selected 5 of the best Art of Authenticity episodes to release this week. Enjoy :) Tonglen Part 2. Master you emotional life part one was downloaded thousands of times, so I decided to add part two! Here is more on how to reduce anxiety in moments, feel more connected to others, and release the anger that weighs you dow...

PSA: This is an older episode, reuploaded to celebrate 100,000 downloads! I've selected 5 of the best Art of Authenticity episodes to release this week. Enjoy :) Tonglen: the best way to reduce stress. Our basic instinct is to want to push away what doesn’t feel good. We want it out of our bodies, out of our minds.  The crushing sense of anxiety in my chest isn’t something I want to make spac...

Mathias is somebody who is an executive coach, but he also used to do digital work for The New York Times, Bloomberg, Google, Coca-Cola; all sorts of companies, and working with startup CEO’s and corporate executives. He also has a platform called Think Clearly, but what he really wanted to get across was less about where you worked and what you were doing, and much more about the mindset behind i...

Sitting here in Chicago at my desk, it's kind of a dreary, cloudy day and it's about 55 degrees outside. We're transitioning into winter, which in Chicago can be so brutal. I woke up this morning, I knew I had a few recordings that I was going to do with the podcast, and I just wasn't feeling it. Do you ever have those days? You just don't know why. You feel like you slept enough, you had enough w...

Today we’ve got Bridgette Mayer joining us. Bridgette owns an art gallery in Pennsylvania and she is the author of a new book, The Art Cure: A Memoir of Abuse and Fortune. This episode really blew me away. Bridgette spent decades of her life cultivating her passion for art, artist, clients and she advises people all over the world on art. It didn’t start like that. Her childhood started in a...

Today I wanted to talk to you about something that happened last week, and it just blew my mind. A client asked me what it means if you're getting a lot of stuff done, but you feel calm, relaxed, and in flow. Does it mean you're losing your edge?

Meredith is a speaker and a coach, and she runs a company called Think Human. She has worked with companies like Spotify, Goldman Sax, Soul Cycle. She’s been featured in media outlets like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, CNN, and Forbes.

Today we're going to talk a little bit about the power of delegation and the myth that I believe most of us have about delegation.

Ted Gonder is a member of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans and the co-founding CEO of Moneythink . Ted was named a Bluhm-Helfand Social Innovation Fellow by Chicago Ideas Week. And in 2015, Ted was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list as the youngest in Finance.   

Hey, it's me in a rare moment to say thank you and let you know some new information about the podcast.

Dr. Chavez is a naturopath and she works at a center here in Chicago at a center called the Raby Center and I’ve had the good fortune of being her patient. If meditation, sleep, mindfulness, coaching all don't work, you could benefit from an ND. My work is centered around getting your mind in shape, but sometime it's not just about your mind - sometimes it goes deeper and requires an ND to help.&n...

In the second part of "Everything that I learned in the business community and how to apply it to your personal life", we dive into the art and tactics behind achieving goals.

Ari Meisel is the author of multiple books, a speaker, business owner, and father. How does he do it all? His business, Less Doing, is all about answering that question — both for himself, and for the hundreds of business owners and entrepreneurs that use his services.

Effective communication is both easy and hard at the same time. It's hard because we often make so many simple mistakes that lead to large issues over time. It's easy because communicating well can be as simple as remembering to be human when you're speaking with someone. In this episode, I share communication lessons learned while running the company I co-founded and sold to a Fortune 500 company...

Felicia’s a leadership coach who helps ambitious, professional women focus on what matters and eliminate and delegate what doesn’t to move towards bigger goals without burning out. And to find productivity systems that work so that you can stay consistent and motivated. She works with people who are project managers, lawyers, doctors, marketing, she works with all of them, you can have kids, marri...

Have you ever wondered in the back of your mind, "Do I deserve this?" You can fill in "this" with anything. Do I deserve that ice cream? Did I work out enough today, do I deserve it? Do I deserve a promotion? Have I worked really hard at my job and have I been overlooked or I got a promotion, did I deserve it? Have you asked yourself if you deserve to find love in your life?

Jonathan is the author of the upcoming book Good Authority and the owner of Refound, an advisory firm that offers accountability skills training programs for owners, executives, and managers. He is the former CEO and Chief Brand Officer of EMyth, where he led the transformation of a global coaching brand and has worked in tech, clean tech, and the nonprofit world after graduating law school i...

We all must constantly negotiate with other people in our lives — co-workers, family, significant others. Yet we often avoid these difficult discussions because we dread the seemingly inevitable conflict that arises. But is there a way to really avoid conflict without avoiding the necessary negotiation?