The Pursue Whole Podcast

Our guest today is Paul Javid, whose career highlights include having started 3 companies (including Cody,  acquired by Alo Yoga and rebranded as their Alo Moves platform, and his latest venture, Oseh ).  He's lived in half a dozen countries and is passionate about helping others (people and businesses) achieve their dreams. In this episode, you'll hear: Leadership lessons about building...

One of our core beliefs at Pursue Whole is that "pain is the pathway to growth." Andy addresses this core belief today, breaks it down, and shares why great leaders spend their time, energy, and resources allowing pain to transform them rather than working hard to avoid it.  In this episode, you'll hear: -Why pain is inevitable, and why trying to outpace it isn't an effective t...

Jonathan Keyser is the founder of Keyser, one of the country's most innovative and trustworthy technology-enabled occupier services commercial real estate firms. In this candid episode, Jonathan shares the slow erosion of his core values in pursuing wealth and his radical transformation to putting morals, ethics, and customers first in a cutthroat industry, consequently becoming unexpectedly...

Dr. Jay Wiles is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Hanu Health .  Dr. Wiles has an extensive history of working with top-performing athletes in the PGA, MLS, and MLB.  Hanu Health is a venture-backed health technology company dedicated to the enhancement of lives and well-being of individuals who are looking to become more resilient to stress and elevate their mental game. In today&ap...

In this episode, Charity Maurer, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Pursue Whole, shares her framework for crafting and integrating convicting mission statements and core values within your company. She shares her unique perspective on the importance of leading with clarity and focus within your business and how to translate that into messaging and communication that can become a north star...

Today's episode is with Dan O'Brien, the 1996 Olympic decathlon champion, TV personality, motivational speaker, author, and coach. Having experienced the highest highs, and the lowest lows, Dan's life tells a story that the road to success is not easy, and failure, being the ultimate price to pay, can lead to major successes in the long run. In this inspiring conversation, you'...

Julia Carter is the founder and CEO of Flaire. She spent the past 15 years growing technology companies, split between working at Google and building and selling startups alongside serial entrepreneur Tripp Rackley. In this episode, you'll hear reflections from Julia's journey as a startup founder and how she's intentionally sought to cultivate confidence in her leadership ability,...

In today's episode, we are re-airing an episode initially recorded for the Athlete CEO Podcast with Athlete Wealth Management. This original conversation between Andy and Erik aired in 2021. Their pertinent discussion remains relevant today, and we invite you to experience this original recording on the Pursue Whole Podcast. Original episode recap (provided by Athlete CEO Podcast): It's...

Today's episode is with Max Hansen, CEO & Co-Founder of Y Scouts . He is a hiring process strategist who partners with CEOs, Presidents, and other executive hiring champions to grow their businesses by hiring purpose-aligned and performance-proven leaders. In this conversation, you'll hear how Max finds and prioritizes key relationships in his life that help him live out who he wants...

Today's episode is with Erik Korem, a high-performance thought leader and founder of AIM7 . AIM7 seeks to solve the data and action gap that exists in wearable technology today. Before founding AIM7, Erik spent over 15 years as a sports scientist and a high-performance director in collegiate and professional football. In this episode, Erik shares what the best high-performers in the world hav...

Roughly 90% of our clients at Pursue Whole continue coaching after their initial six-month program. This statistic has been true for the last two years. However, without fail, the very same leaders that remain in the program are initially hesitant to begin. Why does this gap exist? Change will always be disruptive, and the path of least resistance is always easier. But pursuing the things that are...

Today's episode is with Trish Robinson, Executive Director at Eastmark with Cohere , an innovative market leader providing a distinct approach to community design and management driven by intentional connection and partnership. Trish has developed her leadership over the last 20 years and shares her experience exploring her strengths and the unavoidable shadow sides to those traits. "Per...

In today's episode, Erik Averill, Co-Founder and Partner at  AWM Wealth Management , rejoins the podcast to share his personal story as a professional athlete facing the unexpected.  It's a story of heartbreak, redemption, and finding purpose and growth amidst adversity. In this episode, you'll hear:   Erik's story as a professional athlete facing the unexpected Common relation...

We are currently hearing weekly news about inflation, market crashes, VC funding drying up, and more. Leaders are doing more now than ever to stay afloat in these uncertain times. The question is, what are you going to do in this time of uncertainty? Are you going to pull back in fear or press forward with courage? In this episode, you'll hear: The three key leadership traits Andy believes ev...

In today's episode, Andrew Dettelbach, co-founder of Whealth , brings his expertise as a mobility expert to this discussion with Andy on the integration between mental health and physical mobility.  In this episode, you'll hear:   Andrew's personal journey managing chronic pain Small, actionable tips to manage stress and anxiety from a mobility (Andrew) and mental health (Andy) pers...

In today's episode, Alex Vailas shares her story of resilience amidst the pain she's endured throughout her life. From divorce to old childhood wounds resurfacing as she was at the peak of her success, she talks about what's most important to her now as she leads as SVP of Brand Marketing at Dyper and as a parent and a leader. Life can take an unexpected turn, but as you'll hea...

In this episode, Andy interviews Marco Shepherd about his experience working as SVP of Production and Development at Centropolis Entertainment . Marco shares his journey as a resilient leader, how he approaches navigating compassion and candor with his team, and shares his contagious passion for storytelling and its greater purpose in speaking to the human experience. Marco's story is an insp...

Being present is crucial because it allows us to live life rather than observe it from a distance. One of the biggest regrets Andy hears from leaders is that they spent so much time in future-thinking that they forgot to enjoy the family right in front of them. Leaders who experience the most tremendous peace and rest are those leaders who have cultivated the ability to be present in the present....

Research consistently shows that having 1-2 close friends enhances every aspect of health and increases longevity and happiness, yet so much of life isn't set up to naturally foster rich friendship. The Leaders we coach often describe their relationships as a mile wide and an inch deep. They know a lot of people but don’t feel that those relationships are as close as they'd like them to...

When work is too much of your life, your relationships - the most significant components of your life - will inevitably suffer. How do we continue to be successful leaders while maintaining balance with the things and relationships that are known to create the most meaning in life? In this episode, Andy and Kim address this topic and share 5 easy techniques you can implement to cultivate more bala...

One area that our coaches often see disrupting wholeness and peace in the life of our leaders is the inability to find proper rest. Leaders crave to find those moments or windows of rest, but once they have the opportunity, they usually resort to checking out instead of finding proper self-care and refueling their tank. In today's episode, our coaches, Andy and Kim, break down how to pursue r...

Today, Andy is joined by Embark Behavioral Health CEO Alex Stavros. Alex’s appearance last year on cultivating connection with your children was our most downloaded episode of 2021 so we invited him on for a second time to share his insight on developing a sense of grit & resiliency in children that leads to true joy.  In this episode, you’ll hear: How joy is distinctly different than happines...

Many clients we coach at Pursue Whole tell us they want a life with depth and meaning. The problem is that trying to access depth is rarely achieved through activity or strategy. So how does a leader cultivate a life that will lead to the joy and connection they want most in life? In today’s episode, you’ll hear: 👉 Why slowing down is hard for leaders 👉 5 powerful exercises to practice being mor...

Today's podcast is with A.W. Simmons, Operating Partner at Saturn Five. Prior to joining Saturn Five, A.W. had the privilege of leading America's best as both a Ranger-qualified infantry and Green Beret officer, commanding highly-enabled teams worldwide from Afghanistan to the Pacific Rim and Eastern Europe.  Given A.W.'s extensive 10 year career in the military, he offers a raw, pr...

Over the last 4 weeks, Andy and Kim have been exploring different patterns in relationships that ultimately lead to dysfunction. So far, they've reviewed three patterns that they named The Stagnation, The Void, and The Pinch. If you missed any episodes in this series, you to listen to them here . Today, Andy & Kim are finishing out this series by discussing what they define as The Whole R...