The Self Help Antidote

Send a text We are increasingly hearing from people that they’re feeling unable to keep up with what seems to be unrelenting demands in their life and work.  Can you relate to that?   If so, please join me and my amazing co-host Tiffanee Cook for this episode.  We talk about the critical subject of burnout.  What does it mean for your productivity as well as quality of life when you’re feeling con...

Send a text If you ask enough people what they want most in life, you’ll notice that many of them (perhaps yourself included) will say something like “I just want to be happy.”  Yet, with happiness being such a universal ambition, why does it seem to allude so many?  Why do so many people seem to be struggling emotionally, even though they claim that happiness is a priority?   These were the quest...

Send a text What would you do if your entire world fell apart?   If everything you thought you had, your marriage, work, even your identity was called into question?  This situation would be devastating for anyone.  Some people get knocked down so hard by unexpected tragedies that they struggle to get back up, if they ever do.  Others, despite the pain, initial disbelief, and anger, not only get b...

Send a text In this episode me and my co-host, Roll with the Punches’ Tiffanee cook, discuss a wide-range of topics critical to growth and development.  From how we choose to live in moments of chaos, emotional management, self-awareness, and reflection, to what role our emotions play in critical decision making?   Some of our conversations were a bit atypical from what we usually explore.  Such a...

Send a text This episode is co-hosted by one of my favorite humans, Tiffanee Cook, founder of Roll with the Punches!  Join us as we share some invaluable tips on how to create the outcomes you want in life and work, through play.   In today’s highly innovative, interconnected world, where there are more offerings, platforms and sources of access than at any other time in history, being good is not...

Send a text How well do you communicate?   As a presenter, one of the most common questions I am asked is some version of “what is the one thing…?"  Whether it’s the one book I should read, the one course I should take or the one skill that I can develop in order to… Most things have too much complexity to be diluted down to one critical success factor.  However, when pressed for an answer, I...

Send a text It’s arguable that wisdom is the result of experience and reflection.  My guest for this episode has had experiences most of us will never confront.  Luckily.  Yet, the perspective he has based on years of reflection in the most horrific circumstances, offer insights that all of us can benefit from enormously.   Just days before the end of his tour in Vietnam, Captain Charlie Plumb was...

Send a text Joana Meneses has been a friend of mine for years.  In this episode we discuss how the loss of her parents shaped her life and world view.  Her mother passed when she was young, her father over two decades later.  Although their deaths occurred at very different stages in Jo’s life, both times her grief was in many ways the catalyst for her own rebirth.   We talk about her journey thro...

Send a text My guest for this episode is Ron Karr, the former President of the National Speakers Association, renown keynote speaker and executive leadership consultant.  He is a best-selling author of The Titan Principle: The Number One Secret to Sales Success, and Lead, Sell or Get Out of the Way.   I brought him on to talk about his new book, The Velocity Mindset.  We talked the keys to success...

Send a text My guest for this episode wears the white hat.  I have had the pleasure of knowing Susan Sly for over a decade and a half.  In the beginning of the episode, I was joking with her that she’s a bit like a bond villain.   I said that because she’s an innovative creator, disruptor, and top performer in every arena she plays in.  So, I was playfully referring to her prolific genius.  She re...

Send a text Have you ever worked for a horrible boss?   Or worse, could you be one?   The late J. Paul Getty said that “The employer generally gets the employee he deserves.” As we are witnessing a phenomenon the media has coined “The Great Resignation” this assertion packs an emotive gut punch.   It’s not so much that people leave companies.  Especially when the core values and mission of the com...

Send a text If you’re feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or uncertain, and as a result you’re trying to mentally power through in response, you need to listen to this.   We all want to feel and perform at our best.  Yet, all of us have had moments where it seems that no matter how hard we try, we’re swimming upstream against life’s current.  Sometimes we feel as if we are struggling just to stay afloa...

Send a text I wanted to bring on a few co-founders (and close friends) of PTA Global to talk about what we learned from creating that company years ago.  I believe that the insights we gained from that company are critical to the success of any business whose success is based on continually bringing value, packaged in an engaging experience to their consumer.  Which is pretty much everyone.   In t...

Send a text In this episode I speak to three prominent, highly successful educators in the fitness industry.  Each of them brings decades of experience from a uniquely valuable perspective.   Mel Tempest is the CEO and the founder at Ignite Fitness Business Events, the host and founder of The Gym Owners Fitness Business Podcast and The Womens Leaders Fitness Business Podcast. She is a keynote spea...

Send a text This episode I get to bring back one of my favorite people, Tiffanee Cook.  She’s a great friend as well as an outstanding guest.  Besides being an accomplished fighter, business owner, speaker and podcaster, she’s witty, high energy, insightful, and curious.   In our conversation we talk about common illusions and biases many of us have around other people, behavior change, learning a...

Send a text If there was a single thread through which the tapestry of our lives are interwoven, it would arguably be our stories.  In the broader sense, the fabric of our society, collective beliefs and mores are knitted together through mythology.   Myths help us to understand the world.  More than that, they help us understand ourselves, and our place within it.   Myths have the capacity to bri...

Send a text Where in your life are you spontaneously disciplined and authentic?   The answer to that question has the potential to shatter the harmful misconceptions you’ve been taught about yourself, while leading you to discover one of the most liberating truths of your lifetime.  Your inner truth about who you are, what you find most meaningful, and what you are meant to do.  I’m not talking ab...

Send a text Navigating through the turbulent challenges we collectively face, where things can be as unpredictable as they are demanding, requires resilience.  More than that, it requires resourcefulness.  No matter what life has thrown at her, my guest for this episode has consistently demonstrated both.   Since opening the doors of her health club in Ballarat Australia nearly two decades ago, Me...

Send a text My guest for this episode is a speaker, consultant, rugby coach and educator in the fitness industry.  He is the author of Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple and Ageless Intensity, the subject of this episode.   As an established authority on exercise science, a former Exercise Physiologist for the American Council on Exercise and presenter for the National Academy o...

Send a text Wellbeing is not just about the state of our body, but the human being that resides within it.  If our beliefs and expectations can turn an inert treatment into healing, through the phenomenon of the placebo effect, what impact can our beliefs and emotions have on our general wellbeing?   Most people will readily acknowledge that exercise, nutrition, and sleep are critical to our wellb...

Send a text “Don’t believe everything you hear” sounds like sage advice, but it’s not as easy as it sounds.  Sometimes, despite being a complete fabrication, some things sound so plausible, even desirable, it’s hard to not be influenced by them.  When those beliefs are generally accepted by people you respect and surround yourself with they become even more enticing.  Worse, they're harder to...

Send a text Everyone wants to do better, be better and contribute beyond themselves.  Okay, mostly everyone.  But if you’re an avid podcast listener, odds are I am speaking to you.  The problem is that there’s so much information on self-help, transformation, personal and professional growth.  How can you tell the difference between the valid and useful stuff, from the fluff?   My returning guest...

Send a text My guest for this episode is a four-time Olympian, five-time best-selling author, with over one-hundred fortune 500 clients and he has presented over five hundred Major Keynotes around the world.  At twenty-one Ruben Gonzalez decided to become an Olympian.  Even more incredibly, he decided to compete in the Luge.  He not only succeeded but became a four-time Olympian in one of the most...

Send a text Most people would agree that being effective at public speaking is a critical way of separating yourself from the endless stream of communication people are exposed to and overwhelmed by.   Contrary to what we are taught, the last thing you want to do  is “try harder” to create emotional impact during a presentation.  This will only serve to bring about the exact result you don’t want....

Send a text This is episode gets quite deep at times.  It’s moving, inspiring and at the same time heart breaking.  It’s the story of how a top-level athlete and an extraordinary human being survived two battles with cancer, what he learned and who he became along the way.   Josh Komen was the top 800-meter runner in New Zealand.  He was a young confident athlete in his prime, with a bright future...