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September 18, 2018
168: Robert Horsey – Gifted – Organ Donation as a Novel
What if in dying we could help someone else live? My guest today helps people every day do just that. He has spent his nursing career in the field of Organ and Tissue Donation as a coordinator and more.
What does that mean? It means he is the guy who approaches the family members when someone is declared brain dead and can possibly be an organ donor. At the worst moment in someone’s life he is there to help life happen for others.
During this interview, live on 9/11/18, he shares how he can hold it together when approaching the families. Why the field of organ donation is his passion and calling and why he wrote his beautiful first novel about it.
Organ donation is not a comfortable topic to discuss for most people yet for some reason Robert made it easy and even shared how you can easily become an organ donor to make it easier for your family to know your wishes.
Robert Horsey is a critical care registered nurse who has dedicated most of his nineteen-year career to the field of Organ Donation and Transplantation. He has held the positions of Interventional Organ Procurement Coordinator with Mid-America Transplant Services, located in St. Louis, Missouri; Clinical Transplant Coordinator with St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital’s Heart Transplant Program and Clinical Transplant Coordinator with Indiana University Health – University Hospital’s Liver Transplant Program, both located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Currently, Robert is on staff at the Indiana Donor Network as an Organ Recovery Coordinator.
Robert has held national certification as a Certified Procurement Transplant Coordinator (CPTC) and a Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator (CCTC), as awarded by The American Board for Transplant Certification. Robert received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (cum laude honors) from the University of Missouri – St. Louis, Barnes Hospital College of Nursing.
Robert grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and is the last (along with his twin brother, Charlie) in the lineup of nine children.
He currently resides in Carmel, Indiana with his wife, Courtney and her two boys, Michael and Ozzy. And, yes, he and most of his siblings are die-hard and loyal St. Louis Cardinal Baseball Fans!!
September 11, 2018
167: Christina Daves – PR for Anyone – Really!
PR, or public relations, is something so many people want for their businesses but most have no clue how to get. The old adage of any press is good press doesn’t really fly in this day and age. Just look at all the social media postings when airlines do something bad. That is NOT a good thing for their brand.
So how does the average person get PR that moves the needle forward on the dial of their business success?
My guest built her brand into a powerhouse and wrote a book about how you can do it too. She also coaches others and has some done for you products. But what she really does is show you how all it really takes to get positive, needle moving PR is just a few simple and consistent steps.
Christina Daves shares a three part formula and has a free 10 day challenge you can take that will get you started right away on getting PR for your business.
Christina Daves is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and run five successful companies over the past 20 years.
With no resources remaining when she launched her latest venture, CastMedic Designs, Christina taught herself everything she could about generating her own publicity, which basically provided her free advertising for her business.
Since launching in 2012, she has appeared in close to 1000 media outlets including national and local television and publications. As a result of this success, she launched PR for Anyone® to help other small business owners have similar success.
Together with her clients, Christina has generated over 8 figures in sales from free publicity.
Christina is also the author of the bestselling book, PR for Anyone
– 100+ Affordable Ways to Easily Create Buzz for Your Business.
September 3, 2018
166: TIffani Bova – Growth IQ – Get Smarter About the Choices That Will Make or Break Your Business
Growing a business takes more than setting a plan and following it. Plans need to be monitored and analyzed to slow or eliminate becoming stagnate. You need to be ahead of where your business and clients are going to anticipate the next phase of growth.
You don’t want to be behind the curve and have to react to a downturn or slowdown. It is much harder to recover when you are reacting to something that has already happened. Wouldn’t it be better if you could see the writing on the wall and possibly avoid it all together? Or better yet, create new markets or plumb the depths of your existing client base to exponentially grow your current market?
My guest today has been helping businesses anticipate trends, grow their client base and understand their business through metrics every business owner or executive MUST to survive in these turbulent times for over twenty years. And now she has finally written a book to share the wisdom she has gained from helping others.
On this episode Tiffani Bova shares the ten paths to growth and how you can combine and sequence them to keep your business moving forward and up.
TIFFANI BOVA is the author of GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business and Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. Previously she was VP, Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow, with Gartner. She has interviewed guests ranging from Dan Pink to Arianna Huffington on her “What’s Next!” podcast and her insights have helped companies—Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Dell, and Amazon-AWS among them—expand their market share and grow their revenues.
Tiffani is also a top Twitter influencer in customer experience, sales, AI, the future of work, cloud, and marketing with more than one million Twitter impressions per month, as well as over 150,000 LinkedIn views per month. She studied at The Wharton School and lives near Los Angeles.
August 23, 2018
165: Alex on Autos – The car review guy gets real on what you need to know
I found Alex Dykes, aka Alex on Autos while narrowing down choices for a new car. He has incredible video reviews of virtually every car real people would consider buying and explains the car in context of how we normal people actually use a car.
I just had to have him on the show and he said yes.
During this episode Alex talks about how he got started in the business of video car review for real people, what you should do before you buy a car, why tires really matter to noise and so much more.
Alex even shares what kind of person most cars are designed for and how you can adapt your favorite car to fit you if you are shorter like I am.
Alex L. Dykes hails from the left coast where he and his husband combine a love of Silicon Valley technology with a passion for cars on a 9-acre organic farm. In 2011 Alex started Alex On Autos as a way to provide useful information to new car shoppers. At the time most YouTube channels were focused on entertainment and antics but Alex decided it was time for someone to talk about child seats, third row headroom and guide shoppers to find the right vehicle for them.
Alex On Autos is part of a larger corporation that Alex and his husband own that provides materials engineering and failure analysis services to Silicon Valley industries with offices in San Jose, CA.
August 19, 2018
164: John David Mann – Mastering Fear A Navy Seal’s Guide Part 2
Mastering Fear . I never thought of fear as something to be mastered. I always felt you needed to just push past fear. Sort of pretend it doesn’t exist. I have a new appreciation for fear now and how we can truly change how we think about fear and how it can paralyze us.
Last episode I interviewed Brandon Webb. John David Mann is his co-author for their latest collaboration, and I think one of their most powerful for the greater world. But I have a tendency to say that about all their books because each one visibly shifts my life and invisibly shifts my thinking.
Take a listen as John shares with me his favorites concepts in the book and how they affected his life. His conversation around comfort zones and the Echo chamber are different then you have probably heard before.
He and Brandon Webb are a writing team for the ages. Dare I compare them to the team of Bob Burg and John David Mann? I’ve recommended this book to random strangers and friends and each person reaches out and comments on different parts of the book and how it has impacted them.
Take a listen and speak your fear so you can learn to master it.
John David Mann is coauthor of the bestselling classic The Go-Giver, which has sold more than half a million copies in more than two dozen languages. Winner of the Axiom Business Book Award’s Gold Medal in 2008, The Go-Giver has been hailed as “the most important parable about business?and life?of our time” by bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant; “a small book that packs a huge idea” by bestselling author Daniel Pink; “a good description of many of the most amazing people I’ve encountered” by Arianna Huffington; and “a must-read by anyone who wants to change the world” by talk show host Glenn Beck. Inc. magazine named it one of the 18 Most Motivational Books of All Time.
His other titles include the New York Times bestsellers Flash Foresight (with Daniel Burrus) and The Red Circle (with Brandon Webb), and the national bestsellers Among Heroes (with Brandon Webb), The Slight Edge (with Jeff Olson), and Real Leadership (with John Addison). His 2011 Take the Lead (with Betsy Myers) was named by Tom Peters and the Washington Post as Best Leadership Book of 2011 and his latest book, Mastering Fear: A Navy Seal’s Guide.
August 8, 2018
163: Brandon Webb – Mastering Fear – A Navy Seal’s Guide
Fear paralyzes. Mastering your fear can transform your life. But how do you even recognize your fear so that you can begin to master it? What if the fear shows up in a critical moment when you did not even know it was a situation you feared?
My guest today, Brandon Webb, has written a powerful new book with his co-author, John David Mann, on how to master any fear. A former Navy Seal Sniper and CEO of a $100 million company, Brandon lays out a Five Step process to help us all Master our fears and go beyond them so we can live our best lives.
Listen as Brandon Webb shares how we can win the battle in our minds and get to everything we want that really is just on the other side of fear. Brandon shares his daily mantra that keeps him focused on what really matters so he can move through fear quicker than ever before and lays out how you can to.
Brandon Webb is a former US Navy SEAL sniper, New York Times bestselling author, Experimental aircraft pilot, and entrepreneur. His proudest accomplishment in the military was working as 
the SEAL sniper course manager, a schoolhouse that has produced some of the deadliest snipers in US military history.
He’s the founder of the Hurricane Group, a U.S. based digital entertainment, news and e-commerce company. Brandon is a member of the New York YPO (Young Presidents Organization) chapter, and serves as a board member on the veteran’s advisory committee to the U.S. Small Business Administration. His latest book is Mastering Fear: A Navy Seal’s Guide with John David Mann.
Brandon is regularly featured in the media as a military and business subject matter expert. He has contributed to ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show, FOX news, CNN, the BBC, SIRIUS XM, MSNBC, and The New York Times.
He enjoys spending time with his tight circle of amazing family & friends, being outdoors, and flying his experimental aircraft upside-down. He splits his time between his residence in San Juan, PR and Manhattan, NY.
August 2, 2018
162: Kumari Mullin – Why We Sabotage Our Success and How We Can Overcome
Ever feel like you keep going in circles or keep hitting brick walls? Feel like you are your own worst enemy? I know I have felt that way at times. My guest today has been there, done that and not going back as the saying goes.
Kumari Mullin shares key questions you can ask yourself to know if you are blocking yourself, to discover ways to unblock yourself and to know how to leap past those blocks and begin creating a bigger future.
Stay tuned until the end as she has some great freebies for my listeners to help you along your way.
Kumari Mullin, internationally acclaimed intuitive coach, Reiki Master, best-selling author, spiritual evolutionary and animal mystic, Kumari’s deepest joy is empowering YOU to unwrap your innate intuitive, manifesting and healing gifts.
Kumari hosted “Co-Creation Activations” on World Puja Network, a leader in empowerment radio and “How to Heal Anything LIVE” an internet TV program. Her transformational work includes critically acclaimed courses on energy healing, animal communication and manifesting, through her groundbreaking “Quantum Creating” and “Divine Human” courses.
Kumari transmits a powerful loving energetic presence where healing shifts occur spontaneously and the Light and wisdom of the Soul is unveiled. She teaches with a practicality and playfulness that is disarmingly potent, fully anchored in the knowing that everyone can awaken to their divine nature and spiritual and intuitive healing gifts.
Visit www.KumariHealing.com
July 30, 2018
161: Kurt Wallach – A Holocaust Survivor and WWII Vet Speaks
Holocaust deniers are out there but the facts remain, it did happen. 13 million people were killed and tortured by the Nazis because of their faith or background. 6 million of them were Jewish.
My guest today escaped with his parents and siblings but 200 of the rest of his family perished in the extermination camps. He escaped at 11 and at 17 enlisted and served in the U.S. Navy in Okinawa in the WWII Pacific Theater.
He has spent his adult life writing and speaking about the Holocaust in addition to his daytime job. He has written numerous books about the Holocaust and helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
This is not my normal interview but it is one of the most important ones. It is important to never forgot so we can prevent those events from happening again.
Kurt Wallach is the Founder, Owner, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Kurtell Growth Industries. He escaped Germany at the age of 11 and he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
He has written two books on the Holocaust and regularly speaks about his experience escaping from Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust.
He is married to Marilyn (nee Oakes) and resides in Vero Beach with his son Mark. He has two daughters by a previous marriage. Mr. Wallach is a major contributor to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. and is determined to make sure the world does not forget.
July 19, 2018
160: Cheryl Leitschuh – Straight Talk for Smart Business Women
Most businesses fail within five years. My guest today has had her own business for over twenty-five and has no plans to end it anytime soon. She has weathered recessions and booms, detours and distractions and has come out even stronger than when she started her business. How does she do it? Believe it or not, with a lot of questions and her CALM method for building your business.
I met Cheryl Leitschuh via a friend and previous guest on the show Ursula Mentjes. We talked and immediately connected. Her wisdom learned from working with clients who are striving to build their own successful business is priceless and she has even compiled it into her recent book, Straight Talk for Smart Business Women: Critical Tools to Build and Grow Your Business lays out many of the lessons she has learned and taught to her clients.
The book, and this interview also reveals her CALM Method for business growth that will help you gain clarity, focus and leverage your “ONE thing” and measure your success or failure. If you want to know what the “One thing” is you will need to listen in!
If you are in business, starting a business, thinking of starting a business or working in corporate (which is not the dirty word so many people say it is), you’ll want to listen to this interview with pen and paper, or keyboard, so you can take notes.
Who is Cheryl Leitschuh? Mentor, guide and influencer. Many of Cheryl’s clients describe her as the “yoda” for woman owned small businesses and solopreneurs.Cheryl has had the pleasure of owning a successful, sustainable small business for over twenty five years. She has stumbled, regrouped, learned, succeeded and failed BUT remained committed to being an entrepreneur. Cheryl has also coached other women owned small businesses to enjoy the opportunities of being an entrepreneur. Her mission is to help woman owned small business to start, build and grow their own successful enterprise.
July 15, 2018
159: Stephanie Leach – From Texas BBQ Brisket to Vegan Juice Coach
How does a woman from the BBQ loving state of Texas make the move to not only becoming a vegan and avid juicer but also to switch careers and follow her calling to show others how they can improve their health one mouthful of nutritious foods at a time and convert her husband and son?
That is definitely a story I wanted to hear, so I asked Stephanie Leach to be on my show. I know from personal experience that trying to become healthy is not as easy as we might think. So many distractions along the way of embracing a new way of thinking, eating, living, healing. One of the hardest to move past, beyond the one in our own minds, is that of influences from the outside. Stephanie posed some interesting questions we can ask ourselves. One in particular really made me think about whether I am even allowing myself to think and believe that I can change what is happening for myself right now. You’ll have to listen to hear what happened.
I’ve struggled with weight and health issues for most of my life. It seems as if I have lost and gained the same 60 pounds for the last 20 years or more. I’ve been vegan and full blown meat eater. So what is the answer? I have not found it yet but what I do know is that adding more fruits and vegetables and less processed food into my daily eating plan does make me feel better. Stephanie hsa found the answer for herself and for many of her clients. Book after book, functional medicine doctor after functional medicine doctor tells us to go plant-based. Go organic.
If you have ever thought about migrating your way of eating to a plant based one or if you have tried and failed because it was just too overwhelming then take a listen to this interview because I love how Stephanie offered up easy to follow replacements you can readily use to change one meal a day or multiple and still get your BBQ on!
Stephanie shares how she was able to hold strong and achieve her health goals even with her family not being on-board at first. She also shares tips you can begin doing right now to add more plant based foods into your diet. One meal or one snack at a time.
As a Certified Health Coach and Certified Juice Therapist, Stephanie Leach helps busy people transform their health and reclaim their energy with the power of juicing and a whole food, plant-based lifestyle.
Website: https://stephanieleach.com
