Unstoppable Mindset

When you read about our guest this time, Lisa Kohn, the first thing you read is “The best seats Lisa ever had at Madison Square Garden were at her mother’s wedding, and the best cocaine she ever had was from her father’s friend, the judge.” Lisa’s mother’s wedding was a group affair with 4,000 marriages taking place. It wasn’t nearly as romantic as one might think as you will discover. You will al...

Tapping? EFT? What are they? In our episode this time Brad Yates will tell us all about these incredible tools and how they can benefit each of us. Brad grew up thinking he wanted to be an actor. He attended the University of California at Irvine, my alma mater. He majored in Drama.   After college he began working to create and grow an acting career. Along the way he met a woman and married her....

As you will hear, Mary Beth Schrudder, our guest this time, took her first drink of alcohol at the age of 11. As she tells us, she liked it and continued drinking for over 30 years. She was, she says, a pretty happy drunk, but it took time for her to realize that after the drinking the coming down process was not so good. Even so, she continued to drink   During her life she has learned about many...

She is indeed a book whisperer and a great storyteller. Our guest this time is Bridget Cook-Birch. Bridget grew up, as she says, being a tom boy. However, she also had an insatiable appetite for reading as much as she could even from an early age. She will tell us about her growing up years and So I will leave that for her.   She had a near death experience that showed her that she had a greater p...

Armando Contreras is the National president and CEO of United Cerebral Palsy Inc. The organization has 55 affiliates, 53 of which are here in the United States and two are in Canada. Armando grew up in East Los Angeles and then attended college at the University of Southern California where he obtained a degree in Business Administration. Later he secured a Master’s degree in Divinity from the Uni...

Our guest this time is Dale Young. Other than ten years in Australia, Dale has spent his entire life in Texas. Mostly he worked in the IT world starting right out of college. Even in college in 1972 he was attracted to computers. He worked in the computer world for more than 30 years. As Dale will describe, he experienced a life-changing event that occurred to him in 1992 that changed the entire d...

What a combination, but true for our guest Moustafa Hamwi. Moustafa grew up in the Middle East and then worked for companies such as Nokia as a major force in Marketing and PR.   In the 2010 timeframe Moustafa decided that his life was not being fulfilled with his career and left his job and purchased a one-way ticket to India where he decided to explore what he really wanted to do with his life....

As Unstoppable Mindset regular listeners know I have been a keynote public speaker for 22 and a half years. I love it when I get to have a conversation with coaches and experts whose specialty is to help all of us communicate and converse better. Tina Bakehouse, our guest this time, takes communication coaching to a whole new level. As she says, her process is a holistic one.   Even as a child in...

On Unstoppable Mindset I have rarely met someone who is as outgoing and, yes, as confident as our guest this time, DW Starr. DW’s childhood was by no means normal. Within his first six years of life, he suffered a broken leg as well as two traumatic brain injuries that came from automobile-related accidents. He even encountered a third traumatic brain injury at the age of forty, again from being h...

I have had the opportunity to meet with many coaches and leadership experts on Unstoppable Mindset. Tünde Erdös in some ways takes these kinds of discussions to a new level. She coaches, but she also has conducted scientific research on some of the aspects of coaching such as Presence. She describes herself as a “scholar and practitioner”.   During our time in this episode Tünde discusses presence...

In 2014 Elizabeth Kipp started her own business to help people recover from stress and its associated pain, addiction and chronic pain. Elizabeth tells us at the outset how she became a victim of Chronic pain and suffered with it for forty years. Did you know that %25 of Americans experience Chronic pain.   On our episode you will learn about chronic pain, physical pain and the differences between...

Hearing Dr. Ron Stewart talk about his life and what lead him to undertake a career in service especially at nonprofit organizations is fascinating and spellbinding. Ron grew up on a rural farm in Ohio and, as he describes, neighbors did and had to help each other. As he says, the nearest grocery store was an hour away.   Ron tells us about his college life including working during the day as an i...

What a combination eh? Well, true. Lindsey Brown is the Senior Social Media Manager for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and she also models from time to time. Lindsey was born in the UK to a German mother and a costa Rican father. When she was born her father was serving in the U.S. military based in the UK. As Lindsey explains she now has both German and U.S. citizenships.   Lindsey wi...

Chris Jamroz is the CEO and chair of the board of Roadrunner, a less than truck load, (LTL) trucking company. You get to learn, as I did, all about this industry as described by a fascinating man who clearly understands leadership and how to build companies as he did with Roadrunner and other companies before his current one. Chris was born in Polland. Throughout his life he also has lived in Fran...

Stephanie Cawthon grew up deaf. She tells us her story of how for her childhood she was quite isolated due to not having good methods of communicating with those around her. It wasn’t until college and the advent of the Americans With Disabilities Act that she began to learn to advocate for herself. Through self advocacy and some good teaching she finally learned American Sign Language, (ASL) and...

Meet our guest for this episode, Danny Creed. Danny grew up on a Kansas farm in what can only be called a very rural area. Even so, he clearly grew up with lots of drive and imagination. After high school, he entered radio broadcasting where he remained for 20 years. Like many in the industry he bounced around from station to station doing broadcasts, selling and whatever else that was asked of hi...

Leo Simpson II is a community college teacher in Texas. He also is a speaker, entrepreneur and author among other things. He is also known as The Wellness Professor. Leo’s life has always been one of service as he tells us. His grandfather was the pasture of a church which helps explain why Leo comes by an attitude of service honestly. Even from a young age Leo was taught to serve others. As you w...

A few months ago, I was invited to be a guest on a podcast hosted by my guest this time, Will Polston. I told Will at the time, of course, that I would be happy to appear, but that I also wanted to have him as a guest on Unstoppable Mindset. And here we are. Will started his career as a broker. Actually, he always wanted to make lots of money. As a child, long before he became a broker, he was liv...

Over the lifetime of Unstoppable Mindset, I have met many of our guests on LinkedIn. My guest this time, Wallace Pond, is by far one of the most fascinating and engaging people I have had the honor to talk with. Dr. Pond was born into a military family based at the time in Alabama. I do tease him about his not having an Alabama accent and he acknowledges that living on a military base is largely w...

Chris Blum is the executive director of the Heartland Cancer Foundation in Lincoln Nebraska. Chris joined the foundation after a 25-year career as a professional in the Boy Scouts organization and then working three years for the Nebraska Safety Council. Chris tells us that he is strictly Nebraska born and bred.   During his time as a Boy Scout professional, he did work elsewhere, but all roads ev...

So what exactly is a “spiritual business coach”? Jon Zieve, our guest this time, will tell us and he will explain the value he provides to his clients. Jon grew up on the outskirts of Chicago and chose, at least at first, to follow in his father’s footsteps and go into business. However, he always had a nagging feeling that business wasn’t what he really wanted to do. Jon will tell us about shadow...

In the education world “IEP” stands for Individualized Education Plan. IEP also stands for the Inclusive Education Project. In the latter case, the IEP is a boutique law firm started by two women, Amanda Selogie and Vickie Brett, who decided to devote their lives to helping parents of children with disabilities and the children themselves to get the best possible education. While there are special...

This episode of Unstoppable Mindset is for me a special one. It has been three years in the making. It is a celebration by any standard. At the beginning of the pandemic, I began realizing that while I had talked for years about escaping from the World Trade Center I had not begun teaching people to control fear: something I did successfully on September 11. So, I began working toward writing a bo...

In this episode we meet a very interesting and fascinating woman, Maartje van Krieken. Maartje was born and grew up in the Netherlands. While a child she began to dream about traveling and seeing other parts of the world outside Holland. Her first major lone travel experience came while in high school when she participated in a student exchange program in Parris.   After college she took a positio...

Abigail, (Abby), Stason is all that. Abby grew up in New Jersey and eventually served in a 20-year career with Wall Street firms including Meryl Lynch. She was a sales leader and worked to train and supervise brokers.   Eventually, she decided to leave the financial world and begin her own company, Abigail Stason LLC., to teach people about skill building and authenticity. Today she works with ind...