595: "A Soldier Against All Odds" with LTC Jason Pike
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Release Date: 08/24/2023
639 | The Weight of Your Bitterness Shell
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In this episode, I share some thoughts on bitterness and how it can become a shell you never intended to build or create. The weight of bitterness will spill into everyone else and become a toxin that only further affects and impacts you in your life and how you show up. This was inspired by “The Mindshift” book by Erwin Raphael McMcanus |In today’s episode, we discuss: 1) Bitterness starts when we cling to anger and resentment and start holding a grudge. Instead of responding with forgiveness or love, we may let our negative emotions grow and treat others with...
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638 | Recovery Has A Wide Reach with Tanya Gioia
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In this episode, we are speaking with Theological Recovery Coach, Tanya Gioia. Tanya knows that for every addict, 5 people are impacted. Tanya has been through a lot of challenges you’re familiar with: striving for a career to make her whole; chasing a man to fulfill her; jumping unhealed into a second marriage; managing new babies and an addicted husband as well as her own codependency; and running her own business thinking enough money would “save” her. Finally, Tanya decided she deserved more in her life – from her life. She set out to learn everything, AA, Alanon,...
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637 | Trust That Failure Is Your Friend
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In this episode, I am sharing an answer to a question I was asked as a recent podcast guest on my friend Fallon’s podcast, Prosperity By Design, and she asked me a question that had me reflecting. She was a guest on my show back in 2021, a little over 400 episodes ago, crazy I know, and she said she was listening to a few recent episodes and wanted to share how much my confidence, and certainty in my voice have changed. She wanted to know what I had done differently. I wanted to share my thoughts and answers. In today’s episode, we discuss: 1) I actually think I have...
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636 | If You Want To Change Your Life, Change Your Story with Dave Albin
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In this episode, we speak with CEO, Founder, and Master Instructor, Dave Albin. Dave was born in 1954 at Queen of Angles Hospital in Hollywood, California to a single mother. He was adopted by his Aunt and uncle on his mother’s side at the age of 5. His adoptive parents told Dave they were not his parents at 11 years old. Later that year both his adoptive parents started drinking. This is where Dave’s life took a hard turn. Dave tried alcohol at the age of 12. By the time he was 14, he was experimenting with hard drugs. Grossly addicted to drugs and alcohol he joined AA some 20 years...
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635 | NLP in My Business Now vs Then
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In this episode, I am sharing the tools of NLP, subconscious reprogramming, and how these tools have changed how I operate in my life and business over the last 3 years. I don’t even recognize myself, and I smile when I see those old versions show up again. Now this is not a slam myself moment, because that is not productive at all. I wanted to share how these tools have made a huge difference in my life and business and maybe you will see yourself in my story. In today’s episode, we discuss: 1) NLP, neurolinguistic programming, came into my life around 10 years ago, although I had...
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634 | Where Do You Allow Yourself to Live?
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In this episode, I am sharing the tools of NLP, subconscious reprogramming, and understanding how your subconscious mind works. It literally doesn’t understand time, at the subconscious level, the mind remembers everything and it can travel time. Our subconscious mind is constantly trying to protect us, keep us safe, and prevent us from feeling pain. So you might hear that you have to stay present with your thoughts, yet sometimes that doesn’t feel possible. Here’s a permission slip to see your thoughts differently, give yourself some grace and know that your mind is trying...
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633 | Finding A Way Out Of Trafficking with Amanda Blackwood
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In this episode, we are speaking with Author, Artist, Speaker, and Survivor, Amanda Blackwood. Amanda is an accomplished artist and author, public speaker, podcast host, trauma recovery mentor, and a survivor of human trafficking. Amanda has spoken on a multitude of stages, international summits, and radio programs, and has published over a dozen books. She launched two podcasts - one that focuses on interviewing other authors of trauma, and the other that discusses the long-term consequences of trauma and how to fight back for a better life. A portion of every book sale goes to help fight...
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632 | Celebrating The 6-Year Anniversary Of When She Stopped Asking Why
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In this episode, I am celebrating and sharing that it has been 6 years since my 6x Bestselling Book release When She Stopped Asking Why. I am a completely different person since that book release and I am so grateful for this experience. I wanted to share some lessons that still ring true for me, some new lessons, the power of asking different questions, and how the dots always connect even when we don’t think they ever will make sense. In today’s episode, we discuss: 1) A number of lessons, takeaways, gratitudes, and a quick reading of an excerpt of When She Stopped Asking...
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631 What If Your Thoughts Were Clouds And Not Plants
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In this episode, I am leaning into the tools of NLP, subconscious reprogramming, and understanding the power of your thoughts, what if you thought of thoughts as clouds instead of plants? Clouds move, they come in and go, they never stay and they don’t anchor in place. Plants take up space, they grow roots, get stronger, take water, and nourishment, and gain life, and will eventually take over if you don’t take care of them. In today’s episode, we discuss: 1) Let’s back it up and look at what a belief is. A belief is simply a thought that you continue to...
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630 | There's Life And Hope After The Cult with Scott Homan
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In this episode, we speak with Director-Producer-Filmmaker-Podcaster-Writer-Cinematographer, Scott Homan. Scott was raised in the fiercely DIY "Northwoods" of Wisconsin deep in the wild of the Great Lakes region. His music community created Oh The Crib! records in a house in the forest as teenagers, where they recorded two albums while being influenced by a cult. He ran camera and sound for a local news station and then went to university for photography and digital media. Today he runs Banana Island Films, which was born in Hanoi, Vietnam during his five years there. He directed a...
info_outlineIn this episode we are speaking with Motivational Speaker/Author, Jason Pike. A decorated combat veteran with multiple deployments, LT. Col. Jason Pike, served 31 years in the US Army including nine years overseas in five countries. Jason earned over 30 service awards & badges and his diversity of Army jobs, assignments, and schools from age 17 to 48 sets this military memoir up differently than most. With a straightforward account of one man’s journey, he inspires audiences nationwide and shows how to be resilient and to persevere no matter what disadvantages and life struggles may happen
In this episode we discuss:
1) Some low points in Jason’s story, overcoming osteomyelitis, being identified as having a learning disability, many challenges during his 31 years in the army and how he continued to move forward, not quit, build his grit, perseverance and persistence.
2) The vulnerable experience of writing his book, sharing his story and what his body physically and physiologically experienced with releasing these stories and trauma that his body had held onto for years. It shows the power of our emotions and how sharing a vulnerable story is also a way to release them.
Connect with Jason
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-pike-7b6774137/overlay/background-image/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorjasonpike/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasonpike.org
Website: https://www.jasonpike.org
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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach
Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation.
Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life. She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others