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Highlights from Podcast #32: Acting Like a Pro Eight Minutes at a Time  The difference between acting like a pro and becoming a pro is not neglecting narrow windows of opportunity. Take the opportunity that's right in front of you. Small margin plus consistency over time equals accumulative benefit. The gap between the life, marriage, income, adventure, fitness level, or anything else we wish to h...

  Quick Podcast Highlights from Miles: Understand the necessity of developing your EQ (emotional intelligence) to live, love, parent, and lead well. Hear how the  doorway of pain  has become one of Miles's biggest gifts in life. How to develop harmony in the narrative of  Who You Are and What You Do For a Living . Why creating new healing experiences can counteract life's negative experiences. How...

  Understand how adventure gives us greater confidence to tackle life's challenges Learn why special, difficult-to-reach places in wilderness help us gain perspective on our life back at home Appreciate how adventure helps us lose control and "be out on a limb" Accept that adventure is a choice and is available outside our front door everyday Receive practical ideas on how to take your kids on you...

Podcast Highlights: Carl's very personal story of loosing his   home and facing financial ruin Learn how small financial misalignments with couples can become roots for divorce later Hear how Carl and I met over a financial transaction on the border of Colorado and Utah Learn how Carl started taking complex money ideas and translating those concepts using a sharpie marker on a napkin Carl tells th...

Podcast Highlights: Hear how Tripp juggles his roles as a Director, Writer, Actor and On Stage Host The backstory on how Tripp and Tyler came up with the idea for their YouTube sketch Where Tripp and Tyler met and how they decided to start working together Working to find the right sponsorship partners is a key to Tripp's YouTube success Risk taking is part of Tripp's DNA Tripp offers advice on pa...

Podcast Highlights: The Business Case For Why We Need a Two-Week Vacation  American's do not take two-week vacations. Organizational culture, the volume of work and email compound by our addiction to busyness keeps us tied to one week vacations. In this podcast, I make the case for why we need to take two week vacations and the restorative benefits for our relationships, our work and ultimately ou...

Podcast Highlights with Seth Godin: How the Industrial Revolution turned factory workers into alcoholics Why we deem it of paramount importance to us to know if an idea is going to work  What was it like to be an entrepreneur in 1986 How the connection economy works and what drives it What did Seth's dad do for a living when he was growing up Why does it matter who cares (and who doesn't care) abo...

Podcast Highlights: The History of IRONMAN Why the IRONMAN finish line should be on your Life List How Mike Reilly got his start calling IRONMAN athletes across the finish line How IRONMAN is a Human experience, not just a triathlon  

In today's podcast interview with Andrew you will hear about the glory stories of being an adventure journalist.  Like any great story, there is another version that adventure magazines don't publish: How arduous the writing process can be How challenging it can be to balance doing what you love and making a living at the same time When you're twenty it's much easier to jump a plane to India, but...

  Podcast Highlights Learn how Martin's father grew him up as a footwear designer Hear how Martin actually invented the Locus Seat even before he started KEEN Footwear Understand how creativity, health, balance and productivity are derived from how we feel while working

  Find out how a box of donuts changed his life forever What were the most outlandish thing people agreed to? If you open yourself up to the world, the world will open itself up to you How to get out of your own way? Share your story with Jia about your quest for rejection resilience.  Email Jia Jiang

Making sense of your Body of Work Pamela Slim's new book,  Body of Work , will help you find the thread that ties your career story together. In this podcast interview with Pam she will help you define and understand the subtext of your seemingly disjointed career.

Gary is an entrepreneur, a doodler and an improvisation artist. He loves making incomplete stories.   He's comfortable with the tension of the unknown and the awkwardness of the unrehearsed.  He teaches improvisation stage techniques to improve communication between business people.

Podcast Highlights How Rich is bringing humanity back to business The winning strategy of hiring humans and not polished resume's How the biggest risk Rich faced was doing the same thing The business value of Joy How to empower employees to become evangelists Why they don't allow headphones or earbuds at work  

Author Laurence Gonzales  Deep Survival  was the first scientific book on survival. In this interview we talk about the art and science of survival and the process of thriving post traumatic events. 

  Podcast Highlights: What Dean's wife said when he announced his desire to resign from his job? What race is he most proud of completing? How the classroom of running has translated to lessons for life and business? How you can join Dean for a run at a North Face Endurance Challenge? What races did he not finish the first two times? Why he wanted you to come join him during his 50 Marathons, 50 S...

  Podcast highlights: What does it mean to be remarkable in an ordinary world? How Tess's life was forever changed when she delivered a thirty-five minute speech. How this journey has forced her to decouple the intertwined elements of her identity as a person being tied to her job. What it's been like for Tess to leave her job that she loved. "You jumped now you can't even tell people what you wan...

  Podcast highlights: •    You have to read her Letter to CEO's, COO's, CIO's •    You have to do work that lights you up •    If you meet her at an event why you should start talking about yourself quickly? •    What is a Less Experienced Equal? •    How Pam could kick your xxxx if your ran into her in a dark alley? •    How Pam started developing her voice picturing an imaginary thought bubble?...

  We are not machines and the creative process cannot be treated like one Being creative is not limited to only artists Learn how Todd started the Accidental Creative on accident Hear how being healthy should be apart of every plan Insights into Todd's newest book  Die Empty  set for September 2013 release What causes people to end up in the place of mediocrity? Learn what Todd does for fun How to...

In today's podcast you will hear my interview with  Gabriella Calicchio , CEO of the  Walt Disney Family Museum . The museum is absolutely amazing. It is located in the Presidio in San Francisco. You will hear me describe a magical day that my family and I had riding tandem bikes from downtown to the museum and then across the Golden Gate Bridge. Highlights: Learn how the Walt Disney Family Founda...

In this podcast I provide some of the back story to writing my recently released ebook,  Don't Quit Your Job. Fire Your Boss . I started writing it over the course of last year.  I underestimated the amount of time and energy it would take. I understand now why writers say that once they are finished with a project they are long since "over it". I almost quit numerous times. I felt like maybe it w...

Walk-n-Talk meetings How Nilofer started walking meetings instead of coffee sit-downs. As a result how she is logging between 20 and 30 miles per week. You will want to read her Harvard Business Review article about how today  Sitting is the smoking of our generation . And check out the  Los Angeles Times Article  on her TED 2013 talk. Recommendation:  Don't be sitting while you read her article....

  This is not your traditional "How to" podcast. We discuss topics ranging from what iPhone application to use for tracking calories to how fitness can be used as medication covering up deeper questions in your life. If you are a  competitive athlete  or a  couch potato wanting to get started , there is a nugget of wisdom for you. In this podcast episode,  Jon Dale  and I discuss how we have navig...

  How Mario started IdeaMensch after moving from Germany to the US at age 16. Why he packed up with three friends and  drove to all 48 states holding IdeaMensch  meet-ups so entrepreneurs could share their ideas together. Why failing and giving up are not the same thing. Some of the most inspiring interviews have been from a  rickshaw driver  and a  college student from Penn State  .  

  In today's show  Jon Dale  and I have a discussion about living the truest version of your instead of trying to figure out what people want. There are pitfalls to this: What if no one likes what you create ? What will people think if you are authentic instead of entirely polished? How do you know when to mix topics e.g. Business, Sport, Family? Do you pay attention to metrics or follow your hear...