Loretta is Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She was teacher of management and had studied phycology for a long time and in her research she kept reading references to brain chemicals and the way they affect animals. While the dots were not connected for her she realized that we share our brain chemicals with animals and it are these chemicals that affect their behavior in very significant ways.

In this episode we discuss our happy chemicals. The habits of a happy brain, how we can influence our levels of happiness on our journey to living with greater passion and purpose and much more. 

“You may say you’re against status, but if you filled a room with people who said they were anti-status, a hierarchy would soon form based on how anti-status they are.”

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Time: How to become the master of your time in 5 simple steps. 

“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” Peter Drucker

We all have the same amount of hours in a week and rather than trying to manage time we are better off managing what we do within the time we have and where we put our focus. 

In this episode I share with you 5 simple areas to focus on to assist you in getting more out of your time. They include: awareness; prioritise; maximise; discipline and purpose. They are simple ideas that have assisted me in becoming more productive in this busy life. 

I hope you get something out of it and like always please leave me your comments and thoughts below and reach out to me if I can assist in any other way. 

Thanks again! Peace, passion and purpose. 

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Summary

“If its not going to kill you than whats stopping you? What’s the worse case scenario?”

Guthrie is the founder of venture consulting group in which he helps businesses and families help them become more profitable. More recently he has launched a passion project, Wisdom-Trek, which is a website and podcast called where he shares his wisdom and aims to make impact on the world and help create larger living legacies for those that choose to join in.

We discuss work-life integration, facing challenge, and leading a life with greater significance.  He now is very pumped and passionate about his lifestyle business that gives him and his wife the ability to work from anywhere while also helping people propel forward in their lives. 

“Lead a life of significance and not just success.”

I hope you enjoy this episode as Guthrie shares his journey, lessons, wisdom and thoughts and get some great take-outs in the process. Until next time, peace, passion and purpose.

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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

“I want you to forget everything you have learned in your whole life. This is the beginning of a new understanding, a new dream.”

This little book is insightful and full of Toltec wisdom. In my understanding Toltec stems from Native American culture and really prescribes techniques used to prevent the disintegration of the self and in doing so changing our perspectives and perception in life.

So right or wrong the four agreements that Don shares in this book are simply that, ways to change our perceptions to allow us to hold strength in one-self and in doing so harnessing more free and happy lives.

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How much of what you do day to day are you actually aware you are doing?

It is said that for many of us what we do daily is actually 95% done on a subconscious level that means for only 5% of our day are we conscious about what we do.

If this is true than how much of what we do day in and day out is actually purposeful?  

“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.” Sigmund Freud

Please have a listen and leave me your thoughts, I’d love to know what you think.

Jonathan Levi currently lives in Tel Aviv in Israel where he has taken all that he knows to set up and run his entrepreneurial life. H created several successful courses, coaching, podcasting and writing he certainly has created a live of contribution and significance. 

We discuss in this interview many cool things including why, in his opinion, when starting a business from an idea you are likely to fail. If however you start a business from a problem you will have a higher chance of success. He shares his experience in both business failures and successes. Discover the problem that speaks to you personally, what is your super hero origin story.

We also discuss finding your why, sleep, language, learning, fitness and other madness.

“A body in motion wants to stay in motion a body at rest wants to stay in rest, be the body in motion.”

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A life without regret: 8 Ways to get yourself out of the FUNK

In this episode I share with you 8 ways to get yourself out of the funk and start living life to its fullest. We have one life and its important for me not to get to the end with any regrets. 

The top regret of the dying is that they wish they had the courage to live a life true to themselves, not a life that others expected of them.

Make it a choice to live a life of your desires. Take the courage to do all that it is you truly want to do. Make is your mission to live a rich, abundant life with great passion and purpose and one that is without regret.

This is your life! This is your why!

The 8 areas to help reignite life, help you get untuck that I share in this episode are: (more…)

Daniel is a long time friend and joins me in the studio to share his passions. He is a graphic designer and freelancer and I would also consider him a master in communication and why is that? Well being associated to the marketing world how you communicate is essential and certainly he understands this thoroughly.

What I really love about Daniel is his passion to discover more about life. He is phenomenal at bio hacking and really experimenting on himself in order to make himself the healthiest he can be in order to live a long and energetic life. Ultimately he wants to treat his body as best as possible to reach peak performance. He does this by experimenting with diet, questioning the status quo and pushing the boundaries to live his life with as much potential as possible.

“How is your mindset and relationship with food, is it serving you?”

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Bird-by-Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

This is a great book sharing insights into a life of a writer and this life of Anne Lamott. Who is she? Well it doesn’t really matter does it? Who am I? This also doesn’t matter and is not the reason I write. A writer writes to feel more, to release more, to better understand life and themselves and to really tell a story.

Starting out in our careers and our mission to success it all seems to be around chasing money and material possessions, which is fine and not a bad place to start but what does it all mean?

I started here and many of the people I speak with and interview have also started out with this intention yet along the journey the meaning and purpose behind having material possessions becomes blurred and you discover a greater truth to life. To be happy, live with purpose, and to do what you enjoy. (more…)

Jeff is the host of the 5am miracle podcast, which is currently ranked number one in iTunes in the self-help and business categories. It has been nominated for two 2015 podcast awards and has exceeded 1.5 million downloads.

Among other things Jeff is a 10-time marathon runner, personal improvement junky and a passionate raw vegan. He is also a productivity author and coaches, specialising in helping others dominate their day before breakfast.

In this Episode we discuss what it means to find your passion, becoming more productive and managing your time better and how to start your day off to help you reach peak performance.

“Dominate your day before breakfast.”

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