Dare to Be Great, Dare to Be You Hosted by Shawn Langwell

Grief isn't Bad We all experience grief, loss, and the emtional pain of change. But many of us do not have the tools necessary to process it in healthy ways that heal. Dr. Korie Leigh is a keynote speaker, thanatologist, and child life specialist with more than two decades of experience helping people navigate grief, loss, and major life transitions. She teaches healthcare professionals, educators...

Burning Flame Sculpture, College of Marin, CA Harkin Lucero Jr. — Sculptor of Monuments, Keeper of Memory A Navajo-descent master sculptor who has spent decades carving history into stone and bronze — from Alcatraz Island to the halls of justice in Colorado. Career span 41+ yrs Largest work 72,000 lb Reach Worldwide   About Harkin It’s not every day you sit down with a gifted artist and sculptor o...

AUTHOR, YOGA TEACHER AND SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR, MARYELLEN WHITTON Join us for another unscripted conversation about serving those in recovery at Pura Vida who need rides to and from meetings and appointment, and a transportation model that can be expanded across the country.   MaryEllen moved from New York to Northern California to attend San Francisco State University. She received a Bachelor of Sc...

What's Bringing You Joy? Join me and Natalie as we discuss her process of writing her inspiring memoir. She talks about how she nagivated her way through a disabling illness to transform pain into a rich and vibrant life and is now offering workshops to help others live more sustainably and with greater purpose.   Natalie Gould is a coach, storyteller, and retreat leader who guides people and orga...

Love. Resilience. Undeniable Wit.  And a Heart for Service. Join me and Chris as we discuss his Memoir Touched by Hannah: A man with cancer. His one pound newborn. And their fight for life.     About Chris: Chris Hennessy is an award-winning filmmaker, author, and speaker. A Rice University graduate, he spent 28 years producing over 1,500 films for major clients including Google, eBay, and the SF...

A Bold Spanish Conquistador with a Heart for People. The Adventures of Cabeza de Va ca is an adventure unlike any other and one worth telling in history classes around the world. Karl Kadie bucks the trend of most conquest stories of finding gold and riches of land to discover a new, more fruitful path—one with a much deeper meaning in the landcape of life—winning heart of native americans who liv...

Join me for a series of impactful workshops to guide you through the minefields of doubt to close your mindset gap and begin feeling like you're winning again. This is a promo for a series of virtual workshops I'll be presenting over the next few months specifically designed to help you identify what you really want and to give you precise tools you can start using immediately to manifest the mean...

Michelle and Trevor Leopold (Michelle Leopold / Fox News) One Tough Momma   No words can ease the pain of a mother who's lost her son.  I know what this is like having lost my brother in 1999. Please join me and Michelle in this hopeful heartache of a story that has given her a new purpose worth fighting for: Love and Life Michelle shares about her beloved son honestly and completely, to prevent o...

For the love of dogs! From my first conversation with Lauren as a client, to this podcast, I knew Lauren had something profound to share. Writing though our grief is one of the most cathartic things we can do whether we wish to be published poets, memoirists, or just want to use writing as a tool to process deep emotions. If you love dogs and poetry and writing/journalling, or have recently expien...

  From Lonliness to Connection John Crowley builds community wherever he goes. As founder of Aqus Café and the Aqus Community in Petaluma, he creates spaces where neighbors meet, talk, collaborate, and belong. He leads initiatives like Cool Petaluma, the Joiners movement, social crawls, mixers, and community dinners—each designed to strengthen local connection and resilience. John focuses on pract...

Mindi Levine is a winner!   Recently Mindi Levine of Mindi in the Morning won the Best Radio DJ in the 2025 North Bay Bohemian Music Awards and “Best Media Personality: Radio/Print/TV” 2016 by readers of The Bohemian. Join us as she gets to be in the guest seat for a change, on this Podcast!  We talk about her early years as a relationship marketing guru, what drove her to become a DJ, and her hum...

What a delightful human and living example of resilience! Join me and Natalie in this inspiring episode where we discuss her challenges of a three-year journey from severe cognitive and physical disability to recovered health.  She is living proof that subtle shifts—mentally, phsyically, emotionally, and spirtually—can have a profound impact on our health and well-being.  She shares her insights o...

80 million downloads and humble enough to have a real conversation with me. There is a great sense of joy and accomplishment when we make a decision and take a bold step forward to face our fears. I did that 10 years ago when I started following Kevin Miller on the Ziglar Show- yes that Ziglar. He had conversations with best-selling authors and thought leaders from a broad spectrum of back grounds...

Is your life out of control? Tired of feeling stressed out and burned out of trying to hold it all together only to still feel like you're not good enough? I know what that’s like and it sucks. I've spent most of my adult life striving for perfection, trying to live up to the expectations of others. Trying to be the man I thought my dad should've been when he left me, my mom, and two younger broth...

Helping Middle-Age Women Move from Who and Where They Are to Who and Where They Want to Be   Sometimes the best gems happen after we open up, let our guards down, and become a little more vulnerable. As we become bold enough to step into our fears, reflect on our past, and become willing to want to make a few changes, that's when the magic happens... When Mel and I start talking about processing g...

All I Want for Christmas is a New Liver So I Can Live There are best-selling guided journals out there like "Bro, tell me your story."  But those are guides, this is the raw, unedited real deal from my brother Kelly talking about his downfall with alcohol and the "Christmas Miracle" five years ago when he was literally given a liver transplant that saved his life.  This is our heartfelt, real conv...

Why Heart Matters and Creative Writing is a Great Elixir for Exploration and Healing Join me and Curtis as we talk about writing, family dysfunction,   how he turned three screenplays into an evocative new book, Lost and Found: Coming of Age. Coming Clean.   Synopsis: An eighteen year old leaves his home in Philadelphia to get away from a drug- addicted mother and her abusive partner—and to track...

How to Increase Efficiency for Small Family Businesses Join me and Consultant, Jonathan Mahrt for an Open Conversation About Making Meaningful Upgrades to Systems, Processes, Operations   About Jonathan: Jonathan Mahrt is the founder of Flywheel Consulting, a boutique business consulting firm focused on digital transformation and business process improvement. Growing up and working on his family’s...

Creating a "Can-Do" Mindset  for Older Aspiring Authors, regardless of skill Join me and Tommie in an encouarging conversation about writing at any level or age. More specifically, using his latest novel, The Bar Pilot as a framework, we talk about how to have fun with characters, themes, and start writing the novel you've often dreamed of. About Tommie: After graduating from UCLA in his still bel...

  In January 2021, Leaning into Light founder Jessica Rios was diagnosed with a massive brain tumor. During a 9-hour brain surgery, she had a near death experience (NDE) that catapulted her greatest passion — illuminating the beauty of the human spirit by loving humanity into remembering the truth of who we are. Join us for a candid conversation about  trusting and surrendering to the divinity wit...

This is a special treat to hear Crissi's story about Overcoming Compulsive Overeating, Sugar Addiction, and Body Image Issues. Join us for a vulnerable and inspiring conversation about real  struggles with food and sugar addiction and her struggle to accept the concept of a higher power. A power, program, and new way of thinking and relating to food that has helped her make the positive mental, ph...

Challenging systems takes courage and tenaciity as well as humble curiosity and a willingness to look in the mirror to connect with who we really are. Join me and Tanya in this unedited and real conversation about working for the State of California under Governor Gavin Newsom, and how she has leveraged social advocacy through goodtroubleforchange.com and her coaching practice to help people ident...

Taking Audio Book Production to new heights!   Join me for an insightful and enaging conversation with Audiobook producer, Ralph Scott   ABOUT RALPH  He's an award-winning producer with a get-it-done (with a smile) attitude, Ralph Scott produces audiobooks, audio theatre, scripted entertainment, commercial spots, or pretty much anything within the live or recorded audio arena.   The characters Ral...

  Author of 18 Books While Working a Full-Time Job Crissi Langwell is a romance author who writes heartfelt stories filled with humor, emotion, and a heavy dose of angst. She has been publishing books for over a decade, including her beachy Sunset Bay romance series, and now her steamy small town romance series, Lahoma Springs. When she’s not writing, Crissi stays busy as president of her local wr...

"I didn't know what I didn't know," said MaryEllen when making the decision to write her first book, Lean Into Your Light   What started as a way to connect to her young adult daughter as an act of love and support, became somethng magical and much bigger.   Join us as we "Lean Into Our Light" with her first ever podcast episode talking  about her process and her first book, an award-winnng gem th...