Ep 409 Unlocking Joy: The Power of Daily Gratitude with Sohale Sizar
Richer Soul, Living A Life on Purpose!
Release Date: 09/12/2024
Richer Soul, Living A Life on Purpose!
He Almost Hit His Biggest Goal. Then Felt Nothing. Mike Brcic built a mountain bike adventure company toward a goal of operating in a hundred and fifty countries, and got close enough to see himself crossing the finish line. Then he felt nothing. What came after: selling the company, sitting with a therapist, and building a new career that takes entrepreneurs into the wilderness to meet the parts of themselves they have spent years avoiding. Most people who build something real eventually hit a version of Mike's morning: the goal in sight, the champagne imagined, and an emptiness nobody...
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He was lying in a hospital bed as one of the most senior executives at a public company, wealthy by any measure, when the first thought that crossed his mind was whether he could survive on food bank groceries. Art Blanchford had already built a fortune, lost it, and built it again. The fear never checked his bank statement before it showed up. Art grew up inside a religious cult where love and safety were conditional on performance. That belief followed him into a corporate career where he ran multibillion-dollar divisions of a global company, and it was still running the show even after he...
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Dr. Michael Glock spent seventy years earning the right to say something simple. Twenty-eight startups. Two marriages. A doctorate in depth psychology. Talks at Yale, Princeton, and the University of London. And the thing he keeps coming back to with clients is not a strategy. It's a sentence a client said to him days before this recording: standing on a beautiful plot of land, deciding what to build next. Most people chasing the next milestone assume it will finally quiet a low-grade unease they stopped noticing years ago, because it's been there so long it feels like personality....
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I'm Still Here: Told Six Months to Live, Three Times Tom LeNoble has been given six months to live three separate times. He has lived with metastatic cancer for fourteen years. In this conversation, he explains why none of that made him slow down, and why the real work after a crisis is not recovery. It is deciding what you are going to do with whatever time is left. If you have ever scome through a hard stretch and gone right back to operating exactly the way you did before it, this conversation names why that happens and what it costs. What was covered: Why Tom's father kept...
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He Made the NFL. He Always Saved His Dad a Seat in the Stands Every game Corey Parchman played, in any city, he got to the stadium early and found a seat in the stands. That's where his father was sitting, in his mind. His dad died of a heart attack at thirty nine, when Corey was ten. Corey has spent his career proving he can figure things out alone: five seasons in the NFL after going undrafted, a real estate portfolio he built by never over-leveraging, and now a business acquisition company built to buy small-town companies from retiring owners before they disappear. This...
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What an 83-Year-Old's Daily Habits Reveal About Aging Most people assume chronic disease is just a normal part of getting older. Michael Dorfman, an 83 year old health and nutrition coach, has spent the last 18 years proving otherwise, and he's still playing competitive pickleball to show for it. If you've ever wondered whether it's too late to change your trajectory, or whether the version of aging you've been told to expect is the only one available, this episode will reframe the question entirely. In This Episode: Why chronic disease usually starts decades before it's...
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Why Your Business Won’t Let You Go - Letting Others Take Ownership You have hired good people. You have tried to step back. And yet, every time something important goes sideways, it still lands on your desk. Jason Henneberry says that is not a people problem or a systems problem. It is a dependency problem, and it has a specific structural cause. Jason is the founder of Dependency Design, a senior partner in a national Canadian mortgage brokerage with more than 600 professionals, and the author of "Why Your Business Won't Let You Go," which you can download free at...
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Why Your Best People Want You to Leave Them Alone There is a pattern Nathan Jamail has seen across hundreds of organizations, in every industry, at every level. Ask employees what their professional goal is, and most will eventually tell you: to be so good their boss leaves them alone. That is not apathy. That is a signal about how leadership is being experienced. In this episode, Nathan and Rocky go deep on why coaching cultures fail not because leaders lack intention, but because they spend their attention on exactly the wrong people. In This Episode: Why 90% of employees at...
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Why High Achievers Hit Invisible Ceilings For five consecutive years, Paul Salter ran a successful coaching business, worked more each year, and landed within $10,000 of the same annual income. The ceiling was real, but it was invisible. It was not his pricing, his marketing, or his effort. It was a belief he had formed as a teenager watching his father fill out a college financial aid form, a belief that said outearning his parents was disrespectful. Once he found it, he was able to move past it. This episode is about how to find the ones you have not found yet. Why this conversation matters...
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The Wealth Nobody Sees: Why Frugal Always Beats Flashy For years, Earl Yaokasin drove a 20-year-old Honda Civic to his kids' private school and parked it as far from the entrance as possible. He did not want anyone to see the car. The lot was full of Bentleys. He felt the embarrassment. Then he started talking to those families. Most had almost no savings. Some were on scholarship. The image of wealth and the reality of wealth were completely different balance sheets. Earl, who had been eating half a $5 Subway footlong for lunch since his first years in America, was the one with...
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- Gratitude practices can have profound impacts on mental and physical health, including improved sleep, cardiovascular health, and pain tolerance.
- Developing self-awareness and examining our internal narratives is crucial for personal growth and overcoming limiting beliefs.
- The words we use shape our thoughts and attitudes - being mindful of negative language patterns can help shift to a more positive mindset.
- Experimenting with different paths and careers early in life can help uncover one's unique skills and passions.
- Simple habit formation techniques, like reducing friction through text message reminders, can make practicing gratitude more sustainable.
- Viewing gratitude through a spiritual lens can reveal one's inherent abundance and connection to a greater source.
- Compassion for oneself is a key component of happiness that many people struggle with but is essential for overall wellbeing.