Episode 18: Dr. Robyn Benson - The Healthy Traveler, Self Care as a Way of Life
Release Date: 08/12/2015
Doctors, Healing and Focus on the Patient - Dr. Dan Witkowski
It's All About the Questions
Going to the doctor nowadays doesn't always mean leaving there with a good diagnosis or a feeling of being heard. Many doctors are overworked and have become highly specialized preventing them from looking at their patient as a whole rather than a particular set of symptoms. Insurance reimbursement can also impact the doctor/patient relationship. What can you do to change that and feel well again? Enter Dr. Dan Witkowski. Board certified OB/GYN and Lifestyle medicine as well as being a certified nutritionist. Dr. Dan recently changed his practice to one where he takes fewer patients while...
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Lessons Learned From A Life Spent Helping Others Grow Their Businesses - Clinton Gatewood
It's All About the Questions
Clinton Gatewood is my guest on this epsiode and it is an overdue interview. Clint has lived his life helping others grow their businesses as well as having founded and sold his own company. He has dedicated his life to serving others and helping them see how they can achieve their business goals. I know Clint from my tech days onward and every role he has ever held in any company he has worked for, or with, has seen the benefit of having him around. On this epsiode Clint shares what he learned growing a business from the ground up for himself and others, how he learned to "own the...
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5 Secrets to Lasting Love - John and Ana Mann
It's All About the Questions
John David Mann and Ana Gabriel Mann joined me to discuss their seminal work, The Go-Giver Marriage A Little Story About The 5 Secrets to Lasting Love. This is not your average book about relationships and marriage. Nor is this interview. Take a listen as I ask John and Ana about the foundation for the book, how their lives intertwined to create the book and how each of us can begin to improve relationships that matter to us. JOHN DAVID MANN is coauthor of more than thirty books, including four New York Times bestsellers and five national bestsellers, including The...
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Creating Joy as a Startup Founder - Hannah Thomson
It's All About the Questions
How does a woman nowhere close to retirement age create a company that is all about helping people ready to retire? Well Hannah Thomson will tell you all you have to do is know her granny. Inspiration is all around us. How we act on that separates the successful from the less successful. Hannah Thomson has learned to act on what she learns from the world around her and founded the highly successful retirement-focused company The Joy Club. Not your usual kind of startup, this one focuses on virtual AND live events to inspire retirees, or those who want a bit more fun in their lives, to grab...
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Brand Essence vs Brand Ego - Tucker Stine Part 2
It's All About the Questions
Do you know if you are focused on your brand essence or your brand ego? Do you know the difference between the two? How about story? Do you know how to use it for the right part of your brand? Tucker Stine and I pick up our conversation in part 2 of our discussion about your bsuiness and personal brands and how they best interact and how they should not. Tucker is a results-driven connector, personal and organizational brand architect, leadership coach and public speaker with over 25 years of success in building personal and professional brands, developing experiential marketing strategies,...
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How to Keep Hope, Healing and Strength with Dr. Laurie Nadel
It's All About the Questions
One of my most requested guests has come back on the show to talk how we can keep hope, have healing and know we have strength when it seems like none of that is possible. Dr. Laurie Nadel talks about terminal lethargy, what tasks we need to schedule and if the body and mind really learn to accept a new normal. Dr. Laurie Nadel is a psychologist who helps people recover from disasters, including the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. She continues to work with first responders who remain deeply affected by the event some 20 years later; she also directed a program...
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Business Reviews, Competing on Value and More - Kris Blackmon
It's All About the Questions
Do you check in with your customer? Ever? Too often what happens is focus shifts to getting new customers at the expense of the old. Think how annoyed we all get when Cable and Cellular companies offer bonuses or special pricing to new customers and existing just keep paying higher and higher prices. In a services industry you are probably missing out on increased revenue with increased customer satisfaction by doing regular business reviews with your clients. What do you do during those review and how often should you do them are just a few of the questions my guest Kris Blackmon, Chief...
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Amy Biddle Returns - Moving Your Life and Business Forward and a Bit of Marketing
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Listeners wanted her back for more of her wisdom and I agreed. On this part 2 of a conversation with Amy Biddle she shares three strategies she has used to create advances in her business and life year after year. We also talk about her upcoming book, Acquire, Convert, Repeat. And during this epsiode Amy shares how her goal and purpose changed and how that changed everything for her. Amy Biddle has been obsessed with digital and traditional marketing since 1999. "I was an English major," she confessed. "But when I discovered marketing, I finally had a reason to pay attention to numbers,...
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Biggest Downfall to Any Brand - Tucker Stine
It's All About the Questions
The biggest downfall to any brand is not what you think. It's not a failure in service or product delivery. It's not even a scandal. Tucker Stine has been helping brands of all sizes avoid and recover from what is the biggest downfall for many years and he shares the answer on this epsiode. We also talk about branding to different gernations, brand accelerators and how to use them and how changing the face of a brand, think Alex Trebek, doesn't have to signify the downfall of the company. There is a lot to unpack in this epsiode so have a notepad handy and share your take away. Tucker is a...
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You Don't Suck - Your Copy Does - Carline Anglade-Cole
It's All About the Questions
As if the title wasn't enough to suck you in there is more from this much requested repeat guest. Her latest book's title is You Don't Suck - Your Copy Does - 60 Kick-Butt Lessons on Copywriting, Business and Life and it definitely delivers. Be preprared for a high-energy listen as Carline talks about what makes an A-List copywriter, how to appreciate who you are and what you have, how to deal with bad things happening and not let them derail you and even a little bit about bras and the wisdom of finding the perfect one only to have it discontinued! CARLINE ANGLADE-COLE still wakes up...
info_outlineAre you ready to be energized no matter what time zone you travel to or from? Are you tired of feeling like you need a vacation from your vacation and not in the good way?
What if you could travel with health and vitality and return home to the same?
My guest on today's show is the author of the bestselling book, The Healthy Conscious Traveler: 8 Pathways to Smart and Effortless Travel, the founder of the Self Care Revolution and a 23 year veteran doctor treating over 80,000 patients.
We discuss, how self care is not an event but a way of life and the one thing you can do starting today to begin the path to optimal health. Dr. Benson all shares the 6 items in your traveler's first aid kit to always carry when you travel.
Dr. Robyn Benson is a pioneer of the Self-Care Revolution, which aims to transform lives and healthcare, one person at a time. This mission has been fueled by lessons she's learned and the wisdom and insights she has GAINED on her transformational journey as a doctor of Oriental Medicine which includes traveling to more than 70 countries to learn from indigenous people.
For the past 23 years, she's applied her considerable knowledge of acupuncture, herbs, IV therapies and cutting-edge energy medicine to help patients achieve optimal, radiant and sustainable health.
In 2005, Dr. Robyn founded Santa Fe Soul, an innivative healthcare center which now has a satff of 25 practioners. A mother, adventure enthusiast, world traveler, author and speaker, Dr. Robyn brings a decidely holistic approach to 21st-century medicine.