RYL EP369: Yasi Amram - Spiritually Intelligent Leadership
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"Am I trying to do the right thing? Which has come from devotion to the truth and integrity, or am I trying to prove myself right, which comes from my ego?” Spiritual intelligence is less about beliefs and more about behavior. Purpose, humility, integrity, compassion, gratitude, and service only become meaningful when they are embodied in everyday life. True leadership is revealed in ordinary moments—during conflict, pressure, decision-making, and relationships. The episode explores the difference between having spiritual ideas and actually living them, while showing how ego, presence, and...
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EP368: Larry Kesslin - The Joy Molecule
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“The more you’re attached to your identity, the further you are away from joy.” Joy is not something earned through money, status, or achievement. It’s something already within us that gets buried under identity, expectations, and the constant need for validation. Real fulfillment comes from reconnecting with who we truly are beneath our thoughts, labels, and conditioning. The episode explores how attachment to identity creates suffering, while presence, gratitude, meaningful relationships, and self-awareness bring people back to a more joyful and connected way of living. Larry...
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EP367: Andrew Gauthier - From Disaster To Real Estate Multi-Millionaire
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“You could recover 1%. You could recover 100%. It’ll be based on how hard you work, how much you give towards this.” Success is often built long before the breakthrough arrives. Discipline, resilience, and the refusal to quit become the foundation that carries people through moments that would destroy most others. This episode explores what happens when life is stripped down to survival itself—and how purpose, gratitude, and relentless effort can rebuild a person from the ground up. It’s also a reminder that the simplest moments in life become extraordinary when viewed through the...
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EP366: Saul Bienenfeld – Defending Really Bad Guys
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“I’m not defending a person. I’m defending the U.S. Constitution.” Justice depends on more than verdicts. It requires a system where evidence is tested, rights are protected, and both sides are forced to meet a high standard. The strongest professionals often understand the game from multiple angles, and real expertise comes from knowing how outcomes are built, challenged, and changed. This episode explores why preparation, honesty, and due process matter most when the stakes are highest. Saul Bienenfeld explains why defending the accused is not about excusing wrongdoing, but...
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EP365: Tom Gegax - Get America Out Of Its Slump
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“We are human beings that are serving, rather than on a pedestal above everybody else” Business drifts into dysfunction when success is measured too narrowly. When profit becomes the dominant scoreboard, organizations begin to erode the very systems that sustain them—employee well-being, customer trust, and community impact. The deeper principle is balance: strong companies don’t just generate revenue, they operate with accountability across all stakeholders. Transparency becomes the corrective force. When leaders openly track not just financials, but how they treat people and...
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EP364: Orrin “Checkmate” Hudson - One Move at a Time
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“If you do good, good will follow you.” Success is rarely about making the perfect move—it’s about thinking before you act, staying patient under pressure, and focusing on what remains instead of what’s lost. The idea is simple but powerful: your first instinct is often wrong, and the best outcomes come from slowing down and thinking things through. Life, like chess, rewards those who plan ahead, adapt, and refuse to give up when things don’t go their way. Even after setbacks, progress is still possible if you stay focused on the long game. Orrin “Checkmate” Hudson shares how...
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EP363: Dr. Agi Keramidas - 88 Actionable Insights For Life
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“What I did the first part, let's say, of my life doesn't mean that I have to do it in the second part of my life, especially when I have found something that really I'm drawn to, which is what I do.” Real change doesn’t begin with a plan—it begins with a feeling that something is missing. Many people reach a point where external success no longer satisfies them, and that discomfort becomes the signal for transformation. The process is rarely clean or predictable. It involves uncertainty, identity shifts, and periods of fear. But growth comes from learning to trust internal signals,...
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EP362: Julie Condliffe - Unbreakable
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“Once I sat down with myself and became quiet enough to be able to hear… the answer then comes from within which was then my internal guide, my internal compass.” Resilience is not built when life is easy—it’s forged in the moments when everything falls apart. True transformation begins with acceptance, followed by a conscious decision to reinterpret adversity as direction rather than defeat. Growth requires turning inward, quieting external noise, and trusting an internal compass. From there, a new vision forms—one rooted in perspective, purpose, and the willingness to keep moving...
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EP361: Corbie Mitleid - Communicate with the Dead
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“All I know is that I get my ego out of the way and I’m the tool that spirit uses.” There’s a deeper question beneath curiosity about the unknown: how much of life is truly visible, and how much operates beyond what we can explain? This conversation explores the idea that intuition, purpose, and connection may not be as rare as we think—but rather skills that are developed, refined, and expressed differently in each person. It challenges the belief that answers must come from outside, suggesting instead that clarity often comes from learning how to listen—whether to your instincts,...
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EP360: Larry Easto – Experiential Learning
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“Experience is the best teacher but nobody really tells us how to learn from experience.” Real growth doesn’t come from information—it comes from reflection. The real advantage is learning how to extract value from everyday experiences instead of letting them pass unnoticed. By pausing, analyzing what happened, and asking how it applies elsewhere, ordinary moments become powerful tools for progress. This process turns setbacks into insight, removes emotional bias, and builds a repeatable system for better decisions in both business and life. Larry Easto explains that experiential...
info_outline“If you do good, good will follow you.”
Success is rarely about making the perfect move—it’s about thinking before you act, staying patient under pressure, and focusing on what remains instead of what’s lost. The idea is simple but powerful: your first instinct is often wrong, and the best outcomes come from slowing down and thinking things through. Life, like chess, rewards those who plan ahead, adapt, and refuse to give up when things don’t go their way. Even after setbacks, progress is still possible if you stay focused on the long game.
Orrin “Checkmate” Hudson shares how he uses chess to transform the lives of at-risk youth, teaching them discipline, patience, and strategic thinking. His philosophy—“brains before bullets”—turns decision-making into a life-saving skill. Through powerful stories, including a young man who went from facing serious charges to winning a state championship, Orrin shows how mindset shifts can completely redirect a life. His work has already impacted over 100,000 kids, with a mission to reach one million.
Orrin founded the nonprofit Be Someone in 2000, an organization that uses chess and other tools to build self-esteem, responsibility, and analytical thinking in underserved youth. His approach centers on character development—emphasizing love, honesty, respect, responsibility, and patience as essential traits for long-term success. Through the philosophy of “making every move count,” Orrin teaches practical life skills using the chessboard as a visual framework for overcoming obstacles. A former gang member turned Air Force veteran and state trooper, he has dedicated his life to helping young people realize their full potential and create a better future.
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You can find Orrin’s book, One Move at a Time: How to Play and Win at Chess ...and Life!
On Amazon: https://a.co/d/0j8wEABs
Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent’s Soul. Raymond’s latest, co-authored book is The AI Millionaire’s Path: Discover How ChatGPT‐Written Books Become Bestsellers and How They Can Make You a Millionaire Author!.