UltraGrowth

Dr Jo Mitchell is a clinical and coaching psychologist and Co-Founder of The Mind Room, an innovative and creative psychology community in Collingwood, Victoria. Jo works with individuals and organisations to manage mental illness and build wellbeing. Her current focus is on wellbeing design and immersive cultural experiences that promote mental health beyond the therapy room. Jo has an applied an...

Her life is all about Gold: a kind of modern-day ‘Alchemist’: from studying geology of gold, to a Paralympic gold medal and explorer of both the inner world as much as the outer. Karen started her working life as a geologist in the Bolivian Andes, researching gold, but a life-changing accident left her paralysed from the chest down. She moved away from being a ‘rock-doctor’ to exploring both outsi...

Welcome to episode 4! We have a special guest, a psychotherapist and relationship coach, Bede Draper. You may remember when he first appeared on the podcast back in episode 20. Bede Draper is a New Zealander who has a MSc and has been formally trained in Western methods of psychotherapy and Western philosophy. He spent 14 months studying under Swami Dayananda in India. He has an avid interest in V...

Early in her career, Sonia was told that “while you could learn to manage, you could not learn to lead.” She told herself “you’re either born a leader or not.” Years later she realised that leaders are actually developed over time through direct experience, passion, and resilience. Leadership isn’t about who has the loudest voice or even how much you know. Regardless of your title, your background...

Admiral Sandy Stosz started out in the US Coast Guard as an ensign serving on polar icebreakers, conducting national security missions from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Her forty-year career is filled with leadership lessons gleaned while breaking ice and breaking glass as the first woman to command an icebreaker on the Great Lakes and to lead a US armed forces service academy. Along the way, Sand...

“Addiction nearly killed me, but on that fateful day in October, I received a gift. Call it what you will: a perspective shift, an awakening, or simply dumb luck — that’s not important – what matters, is that it completely changed the course of my life.” This week on the show we are joined by Brian Pennie, he is an author, speaker, PhD candidate, and university lecturer. His used to be very differ...

“I feel privileged to help people stand in their story and courageously take concrete action steps that can have a lasting impact. I’m here to help you and or your family get moving on a path towards wellness.” Thomas has been a licensed therapist since 2002, when he graduated from NYU with his Master’s in Social Work. Since then, he has been providing therapy & coaching services to children, teen...

A thick fog of disruption has rolled into your life. Maybe your entire industry just went into freefall. Or your business is struggling mightily. Perhaps your career path has been upended. Whatever your situation, the world as you know it has changed. You may feel despair, fear, even anger. You have no idea what to do next. Is there a way through this? YES. That’s the answer executive and entrepre...

If you’re like most people, chances are you’re feeling the daily grind of go-go-go, do-do-do. And maybe that’s starting to wear on you but you’re not quite sure what to do, since those platitudes of “just slow down, learn to meditate” aren’t resonating. The good news is that you have an intrinsic toolkit you can apply to rest and rejuvenate all your key body systems. It’s called the Downstate, and...

Medically and militarily Jed has relied on grace and hard work to ground him and help him excel. These principles helped him score in the top 2% on his national emergency medicine exam, go straight through US Army Ranger School and earn Honor Graduate in the Army’s Airborne and the Special Forces Dive Medical Tech courses. Outside of Medicine, Jed is passionate about service and fitness. He is an...

Mark Bowden is a world-renowned body language expert, keynote speaker, and bestselling author. Voted Global Gurus’ #1 Body Language Professional in the world, Mark’s unique GesturePlane™ system of nonverbal communication helps audiences maximize the power of using their own body language to stand out, win trust, and gain credibility every time they communicate. Founder of communication training co...

Vernon based, BC born and raised, Leah Goldstein challenges all who hear her message to push themselves past their perceived boundaries and live lives without limits. As a little girl, Leah wanted to be Bruce Lee and became the World Kickboxing champion at 17. Leah then set her sights on the Israeli Defence Force and became the first female Elite Commando instructor in a male-dominated climate, wh...

RJ Singh is a corporate and ultra-endurance athlete, family man and is dedicated to the pursuit of self-mastery. His mission is to lead by example and share the Ultrahabits needed to achieve ultra-performance in all areas of your life. His own journey involved chronic dysfunction which included violence, crime, youth detention, jails, and chronic addiction. With the support of mentors and framewor...

Learn how to have a growth mindset from an Ironman, executive athlete, and super mom of five! Joy McAdams lived and learned that there is no such thing as balance. It’s all about collaboration. True success is finishing with it all, not sacrificing one to have the other. It’s all about your mindset and creating ways to grow that mindset to accomplish your goals. It’s the ability to lead others whi...

This is the second time we’ve had on Jack Daly! Jack Daly is a leading sales speaker and trainer with over 30 years of sales and executive experience. Jack’s track record is a testament to his real-world knowledge and extensive expertise in sales and sales management. He started his professional journey at CPA firm Arthur Andersen and rose to the CEO level of several corporations, building six com...

Jon Macaskill is a retired Navy SEAL Commander turned consultant and mindfulness and meditation teacher. He was born in South Africa but grew up in Ruston, Louisiana. After graduating high school, he served briefly as an enlisted sailor in the US Navy before receiving an appointment to the US Naval Academy and graduating from there with a BS in mathematics 4 years later. Jon served in Iraq, Afghan...

Héctor Colón is the President and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan (LSS). Under Colón’s visionary and innovative leadership, LSS has adapted new models and business strategies to increase relevancy and operational efficiency. Before the start of Colón’s tenure in 2017, the organization had not met its budget for four consecutive years. Since that time, LSS has genera...

Turning the worst day of your life into your best is no easy feat, but sometimes there is simply no other option. In Brett Connellan’s case, this day included the moment every surfer’s worst nightmare became his reality when he was attacked by a Great White Shark. As the light was fading at Bombo Beach on the evening of the 30th of March, 2016, Brett was inches from death. He had lost three-quarte...

Tom Hardin previously spent much of his career as a financial analyst in the U.S. In 2008, as part of a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Tom assisted the U.S. government in understanding how insider trading occurred in the financial services industry. Known as “Tipper X,” Tom became one of the most prolific informants in securities fraud history, helping to build over 20...

Craig Siegel is a Performance Coach, Keynote Speaker, Entrepreneur, Online brand exploder, Host of the record-breaking podcast, The CLS Experience, and rising thought leader, as featured in Entrepreneur and endorsed by some of the world’s most well-known celebrities. When the pandemic happened, Craig left his lucrative and stable job on Wall Street and went all-in with his passion and purpose to h...

Liz Kislik is a management consultant and executive coach, and a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Her TEDx “Why There’s So Much Conflict at Work and What You Can Do to Fix It” has received more than a quarter of a million views. She specializes in developing high performing leaders and workforces, and for 30 years has helped family-run businesses, national nonprofits, an...

Jason Caldwell is a world-class athlete, a leadership and high-performance coach, and keynote speaker. For the past nine years Jason has used the lessons learned from the sports arena to teach what it takes to be a leader in a competitive business environment. As an endurance and adventure athlete, Jason has accumulated world records from the oceans to the Namib Desert. Upon graduating college he...

At the age of 17, Dale was lost in life without purpose or direction, an only child of a broken home, and living in his grandmother’s attic. While being stitched up following a bloody street fight, he agreed to attend a week-long bootcamp hosted by the American Legion---run by U.S. Marines. This set Dale on a life-long path in leadership and high performance. Following an honorable enlistment, vet...

Mike is a guy who loves supporting and helping entrepreneurs bring their dreams to fruition, breakthrough barriers, and achieve massive success. He’s lived in their shoes since he was 26 and has been through - and is still on - the roller coaster they are. He’s someone you can count on who has experienced the excitement, pain, grit, and mistakes that come with every entrepreneurial journey. Mike i...

Joshua Frank (JT) is a proud veteran and first responder. He started his career in the United States Air Force and has spent the last 23 years protecting and serving his country as a civilian federal employee. Through his extensive time in the military and as a first responder, he has become intimately familiar with both the positive and negative lifestyle and habits associated with these career f...