The Meaning Movement: Rediscover your Passion, Avoid Burnout, and Do Work You Love.

Corey Frey is a multi-disciplinary artist, poet, art educator, husband and father of two children. He and his wife currently live in Frederick, Maryland where he works at a local non-profit Art Center and leads The Well Collaborative — a community dedicated to recognizing the creative potential in the people they share their lives with.  In his artwork, Corey finds inspiration in nature and the in...

Vanessa van edwards is a recovering awkward person and introvert who is on a mission to help everyone learn how to engage, interact, and lead with authenticity and genuine engagement. What that means is that she's teaching people how to interpret and use the many verbal and non-verbal cues that often go unnoticed so you can feel more at ease and in control of how you show up. It's really fun stuff...

Nick Gray has scaled and sold multiple businesses. He's the founder of Museum Hack, which started as a fun way to engage with art and artifacts and then grew much bigger than he ever imagined. He was also an important part of growing and selling a business his father started. Today he does a lot of things. He's always sharing his adventures and experiences online and in his newsletter, which I per...

Mark Sieverkropp is a friend, business coach, and the author of "Find Your 20: The Six-Figure Business Owner's Guide to More Focus, Greater Results and More Time." His passion is simply helping people as much as possible—especially entrepreneurs. He has worked with industry leaders such as Michael Hyatt, Ray Edwards, Lewis Howes, Jeff Goins, Claire Diaz-Ortiz, Shark Tank's Kevin Harrington, yours...

Joanne Homestead is an email-copywriter, strategist and former-educator. She is on a mission to help passionate female entrepreneurs and coaches who are growing businesses in the wellness, well-being and mindset space. With her expertise, tools and creativity, Joanne breathes new life into businesses via copywriting. She loves helping create unique voices ands storyline that are relatable and pers...

Chris Reynolds is a lifestyle entrepreneur & podcaster who has interviewed over 400 of the world's top entrepreneurs and high-performers. He currently runs a private community of high-net worth entrepreneurs called M3. While traveling the world, he built a business that helps entrepreneurs optimize their lives and performance through neuroscience, brain scanning and proven productivity methods.  E...

Christan Hiscock is on a personal mission to transform the conversations happening in the business world — from chasing success to focusing on fulfillment. He is the co-founder and CEO of Kardia — a financial services company — and 14 other successful companies! He has successfully built a heart-centered business approach instead of a traditional, dry and formal one.  Christan believes that any wo...

Super Smack is on a rapping, dancing, music-making journey to uplift and inspire anyone who has ever felt underrepresented. He writes thoughtful lyrics that reflect on his experiences and refers to his music as underdog pop. His career path has spanned everything from cyber security and project management to Broadway and recording and releasing hip hop albums. Inspired by an eclectic combination o...

Juliane Godfrey is a Broadway performer and an art educator. She likes to call herself a "heart-ist", essentially someone pursuing art with heart. She defines that as something that gives back to the world in some way. She loves inspiring young people to make art with meaning and purpose. She was the dance captain and female swing in Broadway's Tony award-winning "SpongeBob Squarepants the Musical...

Ronsley Vaz is a man of many talents. His work has been diverse - from being a software engineer to financial advisor to a chef. Now he primarily helps entrepreneurs by guiding them to use their voice — something we care a lot about around here. As you'll hear in this interview, his journey with finding and embracing his voice goes back to his childhood, which is true for many of us as we search f...

April Johnson has been working with the United States Postal Services (USPS) for the past 34 years. Add to that, she is also a realtor who got her license in 2020 by breaking through her fear and passing the test with flying colors. Amidst Covid, she found the courage to pursue what she loves and is currently working in her two roles with so much gratification! This was such a fun conversation. I...

Emil is a medical doctor turned coach, turned entrepreneur, and investor. What began as a scripted path into medicine took a turn as he realized that practicing medicine wasn't solving patients' health problems as thoroughly as he would like. He embarked on a personal and professional journey to redefine his work. Today Emil spends his time across a few of his ventures, as well as traveling, train...

Scott Aasman is an artist, illustrator and, until recently, a carpenter working out of Hamilton, Ontario where he lives with his wife Michelle and their two children. I had a great time exploring Scott's work, his identity, and his approach to both his creative process and his career. I left this interview feeling inspired. And I think you will too. In this episode you'll learn: What Scott does Ho...

I met Stephen Somers a few months back and immediately resonated with his story and his work. He is the CEO and co-founder of Marketplace Superheroes. As you'll hear in his story, what started as a curiosity and desire to self educate around online business turned into an informal externship, then partnership, and finally multiple new endeavors in online business. He's so much fun to talk to and I...

Mark Zhang tried a lot of things before starting his current company, Manta Sleep. As I reflect on this interview that you're about to hear, I'm most impressed by our conversation about his trial and error approach to entrepreneurship. There's an important lesson for all of us in this. We rarely get it right the first time. Our first thing is rarely our one thing. And even if it is, it may only be...

I needed today's conversation so much. Both this interview and the last one we release came while I was in a bit of an inflection point professionally with one of my other projects. As many of you know, I have run a few businesses. One of which was in a bit of turmoil. I'm happy to say now, that we came out the other side very well. If you want to know more about my other project, subscribe over a...

There's an old saying: when the student is ready, the teacher appears. I looked this up, trying to find where it came from. It's pretty unclear. But it's a truth that you know when you experience it. When you're ready to level up and learn something, related things hit you differently. Certain interactions carry more weight and penetrate you deeper than they might have in other times. Both today's...

Melanie is a digital marketer turned Realtor who has landed in Austin, TX after years living as a nomad and traveling around the world. She runs a global real estate team, and works hard in and out of her real estate business to help as many people live happy, healthy and meaningful lives. In this interview all kinds of areas related to how you navigate career choices — especially how Melanie has...

So many of us have multiple passions that compete for time, attention, and resources — especially when it comes to our careers and work. So often we feel the need to choose one thing and leave behind all the rest in order to excel and succeed. But what if you don't actually have to choose? What if you can be successful at more than one pursuit at that same time? This is a question I often ask myse...

Jeff Strietzel always wanted to help others — a value he learned from how his parents raised him. That desire guided him to pursue ministry, which then lead him to higher education. Now a professor of leadership, Jeff's found a space that he enjoys and a future that feels wide open. I really enjoyed my time with Jeff. He's thought long and deep about things like vocation, work, and identity. He's...

Hani Cheng is a transformational coach. What does that mean? She helps people embrace change in all forms. I love the holistic approach she takes — incorporating meditation, mindset, and (to use her words) magic into her process. It was a blast to connect with Hani. We got to go places in our conversation that I don't often go with guests, digging into ideas around intuition, the inner voice, and...

Samantha Alvarez spent the last 15 months in hospitals and ER's as a front line worker helping fight the COVID pandemic. We discussed that experience in length in the last episode of the show. Today, I get the chance to jump back in with her and explore the many facets of her work and life. In this conversation we explore Samantha's three tiered approach to work and projects and how she decides wh...

Samantha Alvarez has done a lot of different work over the course of her career. By her count, she's had 65 jobs. She also finds herself now pursuing two parallel tracks professional —nursing and sales — along with a few more passion projects that she takes very seriously. I intended to get into all of that. But this conversation went a surprising and unexpected direction. Samantha has spent the l...

Ray Blakney was haunted by a question: If they wrote a book about your life would anyone want to read it? His answer was no. So he stepped outside his comfort zone, quit his job, and had an adventure. That decision lead him down a path that has taken him to a place he could never have imagined. He's now an entrepreneur and lives in Mexico, living a life that is much different from his day job year...

When you decide to make a career change, how do you choose your new path? While you can't know exactly where the road will lead, but you can know at least the general direction that the path will take you. This is exactly what Ben McAdam decided to do. With a background in music, he wanted to learn business. He followed that thread and it lead to some surprising places — and ultimately to what he'...