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Season4 Episode #6 Nick Harris is coming from Portland, Oregon (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Nick via his website nickwharris.com and on Instagram @blakk_wylde

About our guest: Words to describe our guest: passionate, kind, loving, talented, positive, inspirational, full of hope, hard-working, giving, servant, mindful, and happy. Nick is a graduate of St. Mary’s College and the founder of NickWHarris.com. Nick’s area of expertise is in Entrepreneurship, Mindfulness, various Yoga techniques, inspirational speaking, and good old fashion ROCK n ROLL. Nick is the drummer in two bands and is currently traveling with the heavy metal band - Armed For Apocalypse.

If that was not enough, Nick also recently started a nonprofit organization called INTENSIONS and uses mindful movement, breathwork, and his larger than life personality and heart to create a space for people to enter as they come and to be loved for who they are. A second part of INTENSIONS is Nick and his team are reaching out to the unhoused population and spread love with food, breathwork, and mindfulness.

In his free time (haha) Nick is also the host of The Power of Positivity Podcast – available on all major platforms.

Nick, thanks for sharing your many gifts with the world, for being my good friend, for continuing to challenge yourself to be the best you can be, and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients… welcome to the show.

TOTD – “To put the world in order we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” Confucius

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Making one choice at a time to live your best life…tips for doing that? Tea, vegan, exercise, breathwork, friends, music, learning, pop…

You are part of a rare group people who possess a unique ability to help people play to their strengths… how did you develop that skill?

What got you into yoga?

Is it difficult being on the road and finding food that works for you?

Let’s talk ROCK n ROLL…Your current band started in 2007, how cool has it been to see it grow into what it is today?

What does it feel like to write a song, tighten it up, and then perform it…

Dealing with life’s adversity and coming out better for it… Internship clip…

Tattoo 1 or 1000

Camp Royal and the Crew…. What do you love about it…

Being where your hands are… the importance of being in the moment

Humbleness and Curiosity – how can they be the keys to unlock our passions?

Know you played one year of college football and four of rugby.. what is it you love about rugby?

The importance of self-awareness and self-love…

Finding fulfillment in life? How do you define fulfillment?

Great coaches and mentors…

What do you love about reading?

Books you recommend?

What is truth?

Values that define you?

Decision making – any tips for helping people not waste energy…

Receiving feedback from your body… how do you help your clients process that?

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Season 4 Episode #5 Dr. Reg Arthur Williams is coming from Ypsilanti, Michigan

To contact Dr. Reg reach out to rawill@umich.edu

About our guest: Dr. Reg Arthur Williams is a master teacher and professor emeritus at the School of Nursing and Psychiatry, Medical School at the University of Michigan. Dr. Reg received his bachelor of science in nursing in 1968 and then reported to activity duty in the U.S. Navy, stationed at the Naval Hospitals in Pensacola, Florida, and St. Albans, New York. After active duty, he received his master’s degree in psychosocial nursing from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1973 and then taught at the University of Washington School of Nursing in Psychosocial Nursing. He completed his PhD in higher education in 1980 and became chair of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing at University of Michigan, where he taught undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students.

He has conducted research on depression and was the principal investigator in research funded over a 15-year period by the Department of Defense, TriService Nursing Research Program, to examine stress and depression among young men and women in military service. He has written four books and authored more than 80 journal publications.

Dr. Reg, thanks for sharing your many gifts, for taking a leap way back when no one else was leaping into nursing as a male, and for dedicating your life to guiding people out of the depths of depression. Welcome to the Show!

TOTD – “The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.” Florence Nightingale

In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

What got you into the nursing profession?

Love the Stress Gym Internet Intervention Program you started… please tell the listeners about it.

Being where your hands are… the importance of being in the moment

The importance of self-awareness and self-care…

S/S of stress

S/S of depression

S/S of Bipolar

Asking for help?

Depression – what does history say? Numbers wise, impact on livelihood…

Teaching

Finding purpose in life...you are in your 70’s, have worked extremely hard, what is it inside you that drives your passion to continue to teach, to learn, to grow, to share…

Last book or books you recommend?

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Season 4 Episode #4 Ann Garcia is coming from Portland, OR (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Ann via her website howtopayforcollege.com

About our guest: Ann Garcia, aka The College Financial Lady, has helped thousands of families save millions of dollars on college. A fee-only Certified Financial Planner and managing partner of Independent Progressive Advisors, Ann specializes in helping families balance the desire to support their children’s dreams with the reality of funding their own lives.

Early in Ann’s career as a financial advisor, she heard the same two questions again and again from her clients. One group asked, “How can we possibly afford to save for college and retirement?” Another group asked, “How can I save for retirement when I’m paying so much on my student loans every month?” In working with families– including her own– to plan for college, Ann has learned that a good college plan is equal parts good parenting and good financial planning.

Ann has been featured in the New York Times, US News & World Report, CNN Money and countless other media outlets.

Ann, thanks for sharing your financial wisdom with the world, and for guiding people on an important and often overwhelming journey…paying for college. Ann, welcome to the show!

TOTD – “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.” Fred Rogers

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Guiding families with one of their biggest life decisions…when is the right time to start having the conversations…

Inflation and tuition increases…difference between net price and

529 plan and your child does not go to college – now what?

What do parents need to know about it…

Blog is incredible: FAFSA, thinking of transferring, saving tips, student loans, application process, financial aid, 529 plans, work study jobs,

Congrats on becoming an author, HOW TO PAY FOR COLLEGE… highlights…

Online course… tell the listeners about the benefits of that course…

Balance of saving for college and saving for retirement?

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Season 4 Episode #3 Susan Murphy is coming from the Charlotte, North Carolina area (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find via her website susanmurphyvosot.com. VOSOT voice over sound on tape

About our guest:

Working with young minds, hearts, and voices is Susan’s passion and life’s work. Spending more than 40 years on-air, in production, and as a college professor, Susan decided to share her wisdom and created VOSOT – coaching for broadcasters. Susan guides young broadcasters to find their voice – resulting in personal fulfillment and lifting their careers to new heights.

Susan considers it an honor to share what she has learned as a voice actor, traffic reporter, live host, radio personality, and news director. Susan is grateful for the opportunity to help others achieve similar professional success and career satisfaction.

Susan, thanks for sharing your many gifts and for helping countless individuals share theirs as well. Welcome to the show!

In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

The difference between your role as mother and your new role as grandmother

The power of LISTENING…

The ART of CONVERSATION

The process of your teaching methodology

4:1 ratio of telling ourselves some things we are doing well…. Our own worst critic…

What are the mechanics of speaking (basketball…). What exercises can we do to improve our voice?

Tone and Pitch – what are they and how can we improve both of them

What have you learned through all your years of helping people speak with confidence

Speaking with authenticity

Connecting to the words in which you are speaking

Professor at Hofstra (Long Island, NY), what did you most enjoy during that time of your life.

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Season 4 Episode #2 Darryl Rodgers is coming from Cary, North Carolina (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Darryl via his website thefamilyrecoverycoach.com

About our guest: Renewed Hope Family Recovery Coaching was established in 2018 and believes that every parent deserves to see their child grow up and be who they were created to be.

Darryl Rodgers is the founder who shares his wisdom as a speaker, author, and family recovery coach. Darryl specializes in working with parents of children struggling with a substance use disorder. Darryl also serves on the state advisory board of NC Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Darryl and his wife, Kim have been married for thirty-one years. They are the proud parents of two boys, Justin and Chase.

Darryl, thanks for sharing your gifts with the world and for having the courage to take your darkest day and use it as a source of light. Welcome to the show.

TOTD – “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Helen Keller

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

How vital is COMMUNICATION in the role of parent and child…

Building a Relationship of Empowerment with your child…

The influence of technology… and the balance of autonomy vs. parental checking in/control…

Discover – Grow – Let Go… on your website…

Renewed Hope Community – please tell the listeners …

A Life Half Lived – A True Story of Love, Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope – book written shortly after Chase’s death… over 40,000 downloads… unfiltered story of your pain…

Managing Emotions to create a life that brings you fulfillment

Free Masterclass for parents – Decide, Communicate, Create…

Online Course for Parents with Addicted Children…

The Secret Superpowers of Teenagers - book

The importance of self-awareness and self-love…

3 things to know…30 min masterclass… importance of boundaries…

Turning Pain into Purpose…

Legacy

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C4 Leaders – the ONLY nonprofit to utilize the pizza making process to create space for our companions to be seen, heard, and loved. We also write children’s books, host this podcast, and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other. Please check out PIZZADAYS.ORG to support our important work.

Season 4 Episode #1 Dr. Jann Freed is coming from Des Moines, Iowa (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Jann via her website jannfreed.com and via her podcast Becoming a Sage with Dr. Jann Freed

About our guest: Like a human GPS, Dr. Jann helps organizations and individuals get from where they are today to where they want to be. Dr. Jann is a leadership development consultant and speaker who helps organizations hire and improve employee engagement, navigate change management, and develop leaders at all ages and stages of their careers.

Dr. Jann has a keen interest in helping individuals in the later stages of their careers find meaning and purpose beyond their work and has authored her new book titled, "Breadcrumb Legacy: How Great Leaders Live a Life Worth Remembering." Dr. Jann’s book serves as a guide to leaving "a trail of meaning throughout your life and career." The book is full of inspirational and practical stories highlighting how to live a life worth remembering.

Dr. Jann, thanks for sharing you many gifts with the world and for continuing to leave breadcrumbs of insight, knowledge, and wisdom. Welcome to the show!

TOTD – “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ Carl Jung.”

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Show me the evidence…know you like to stay on top of the latest and greatest… what have you been learning lately?

Live like you are dying…great tedx talk…

What got you into coaching, leadership, podcasting…

What is engagement and how can business owners/leaders increase it?

How important is self awareness?

Finding ourselves, our purpose,…

Define Ego and how it can run our life?

What is leadership?

Humbleness and Curiosity – how can they be the keys to unlock our passions?

Actions we can take today to start leaving breadcrumbs for our legacy?

Last book or books you recommend?

Enhancing the skill of giving and receiving feedback… how do you do that for your clients

Legacy

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C4 Leaders – the ONLY nonprofit to utilize the pizza making process to create space for our companions to be seen, heard, and loved. We also write children’s books, host this podcast, and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other. Please check out PIZZADAYS.ORG to support our important work.

Season 3 Episode #37 Madeleine Weiss is coming from Washington, DC (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find via her website madelaineweiss.com

About our guest: Madelaine Claire Weiss is a Harvard trained Licensed Psychotherapist, Mindset Expert, and Board-Certified Executive, Career, & Life Coach who helps people master their minds so they can maintain and enjoy satisfaction and success in all areas of their lives.

Madelaine is a co-author of the Handbook of Stressful Transitions Across the Lifespan, and author of “Getting to G.R.E.A.T. a 5-Step Strategy for Work and Life.”

Madelaine is a former group mental health practice administrative director, a corporate chief organizational development officer, and associate director of the Anatomical Gift Program at Harvard Medical School.

In her role as corporate trainer, Madelaine designs and delivers programs for diverse organizations and has been featured on NBC, Bold TV, & FOX TV.

Madelaine, thanks for sharing your wisdom and many gifts with the world and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients. Welcome to the show!

TOTD – “As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.” Buddha

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Life as a process…

The Goldilocks Principle – action steps that are designed by the client and where they want to go in their lives… steps are not so big…but not so small that the brain is bored…(needs to be engaged, always moving forward, not too big, not too small, just right)…

Great website, blog, and 3 part online course for making decisions… via her website

What is PEAK PERFORMANCE DECISION MAKING?

Where do Emotions come in as far as making decisions?

Stress and the effect on us…

Legacy

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Season 3 Episode #36 Limor Bergman Gross is coming from Tel Aviv, Israel (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find via her website limorbergman.com

About our guest: With over 20 years of experience as a software engineer, engineering manager, and Director of engineering, Limor is well-versed in the challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated field. After spending nine years in the US, Limor returned to her homeland of Israel with the goal of reigniting her passion to empower women in the tech industry.

Limor wanted to share her voice and created a YouTube channel to discuss the unique challenges women face in tech leadership. Limor wanted to share her wisdom and offers one on one coaching, providing practical tips to guide women in advancement of their careers.

Limor is in her second season as podcast host of From a Woman to a Leader. Interviewing powerful woman from all over the world…sharing their knowledge and wisdom.

Limor, thanks for sharing your many gifts with the world, and for specifically focusing on empowering women. Welcome to the show!

TOTD – ““There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that someone else pulls.” Howard Thurman

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

The importance of family…

LinkedIn…how do you help your clients enhance their messaging on that platform…

What got you into coaching, leadership, podcasting…

What is leadership?

The importance of self-awareness and self-love…

Finding fulfillment in life? How do you define fulfillment?

Great coaches and mentors…

What do you love about reading?

Last book or books you recommend?

Values that define you?

Legacy