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In today's episode, Dr. Park and Clint discuss how overworking can lead to major health problems and even death.

The Big Idea—A new global study published on May 17th, 2021, by the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization says that working more than 55 hours per week is now the leading occupational hazard—and significantly increases the chances of early death.

An article on Pencavel's analysis was subsequently published in The Economist entitled, "Proof that you should get a life."

Here is a quote from that article:

"Reducing hours, say, from 55 to 50 hours a week, would have had only small effects on output. The results are even starker when we are talking about very long working hours. Output at 70 hours of work differed little from output at 56 hours. That extra 14 hours was a waste of time."If you are working more than 50 hours per week, it's worth stopping to identify what your personal reasons may be.

(1) Do you live on a budget and control your personal spending habits?
(2) Do you long for the office to escape problems in your personal life?
(3) How much of your identity is tied to status, position, career, or how much you earn?Take Action Now - Here are some steps you can take now to utilize your new knowledge:

1. Set clear and healthy company policies.
2. Model and encourage healthy work hours and vacation use.
3. Get your needs for significance met in other areas of life.
4. Help your kids find ways through college that don't involve massive student loans that leave them working hard and struggling for the next 30 years.
5. Be careful with the size of your mortgage.
6. Do a budget.
7. Aim for 35 to 40 hours as a personal goal.

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What do astronauts, Olympic champions, and Nobel laureates do differently that allows them to achieve at such a high level?High achievers share the same four attributes: intrinsic motivation, perseverance, strong foundation, constantly learning through informal means. The key to their success is that they do all four of these things at the same time.

Dr. Ruth Gotian: Chief Learning Officer, Weill Cornell Medicine, Contributor, Forbes & Psychology Today, Thinkers50 Radar, Former Assistant Dean, Mentoring & Executive Director, Mentoring Academy, Global Speaker, Author, and Coach.

She has been recognized by the journal Nature and Columbia University as a leadership expert focusing on professional ascension. Thinkers50 also recognized her as one of the world's top management thinkers in 2021. Her invited global lectures published articles in such journals as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Nature, Academic Medicine, Psychology Today, and Scientific American, national awards, and educational activities all underscore her ability to aid professionals in strengthening their career development acumen. She draws excellent strength from helping others succeed, find, and develop their passion.

She recently wrote, The Success Factor - Developing the Mindset & Skillset for Peak Business Performance.

Top 3 Books Recommended by Dr. Ruth:

(1) A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to Stockholm by Dr. Bob Lefkowitz
(2) The Long Game by Dorie Clark
(3) Think Again by Adam Grant

To access the resources shared in this episode, visit: www.ruthgotian.com

If you wish to Follow Dr. Ruth Gotian:
Twitter: @RuthGotian
Instagram: @RuthGotian

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There are seasons of life where nothing is happening, and nothing is growing—these are desert seasons. No matter how hard we try, we don't see any progress. Maybe you are in a season like that now.

There are years of parenting when it feels like no matter what you do, your child is lost. There are years of marriage when external forces press in so hard you don't know how you will make it. There are seasons of work where you may feel like your boss doesn't appreciate you, and all your hard work is not paying off. There are seasons of health where the best you can do is survive another day.

While these times in life require extreme effort with seemingly no results, they often produce the inner "fruit" of grit, persistence, faithfulness, loyalty, discipline, love, and selflessness.

In today's episode, Dr. Park and Clint discuss how to learn from life's lessons and the impact that it can have on who you become.

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HappySaturday! In this week's #PodcastEpisode, we have a little bit of a different topic for all of you. We talk a lot about goal setting and accomplishing things. But, one of the things that Dr. Parker Houston and Clint talk a lot about is parenting and how to become better at it.

So today, we have the pleasure of speaking with Clayton Cranford with Cyber Safety Cop. Clayton is a retired Sergeant from the Orange County Sheriff's Department and founder of Cyber Safety Cop. Clayton is one of the nation's leading law enforcement educators on social media, child safety, and behavioral threat assessments. Clayton is the author of the definitive book on cyber safety for families, "Parenting in the Digital World."

He teaches parents and students how to avoid online threats, such as cyberbullying, online predators, pornography, and social media addiction.

He has served as a member of the Orange County School Threat Assessment Team, School Resource Officer, and Crisis Negotiation Team. He also supervised Orange County's drug abuse education program that has reached thousands of students in hundreds of schools throughout Southern California.

Clayton shared, "The average teenager is online six to eight hours a day. However, that number was before COVID and the lockdown. Now we have children and teens who are online more than they are asleep. There are too many challenges that they have to face online. And, those pressures in those lead to severe problems. I travel all over the United States talking to parents, students, community leaders, and more. And what's crazy is that I may be the only person who talks about these topics within internet safety. People tend to shy away from it, but I have dealt with many families with children who were exposed at a very young age, and it's radically changed their lives. It's led to addiction, perceptions about sexuality, and health issues damaging for children. I have seen teen after teen that it has impacted their future and future relationships. There are some real issues there. It's a drug. It stimulates their brains in the same way street drugs do."

Top Book Recommended by Clayton:
(1) A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century by Bret Weinstein

Get in touch with Clayton:
Book: Parenting In The Digital World
Website: Cyber Safety Cop
Instagram:Cyber Safety Cop

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"Some people live 80 years, but most people live one year 80 times." - Zig Ziglar

In today's episode, Dr. Houston and Clint discuss "Checking the Dashboard of Life."

The new year is a great time to look back on 2021 at what you did, your successes, your mistakes. And it's an opportunity right now to take the new year as an excellent marker to say, where can I course correct? Where can I be more intentional, proactive about where I want to go with my life, and not neglect these indicator lights. So if you've got something that's trying to get your attention, don't ignore it.

One great way you can take stock of how your year has gone is to do a quick check of your life dashboard. Consider the following life accounts (add your own accounts if you want), and rank each of them from 1-10 for how satisfied you are with each area of your life (10 being the best). Then write down one or two things that would cause that account to improve. For example, if your health account is low, you might write, "lose 10 pounds."

✨ Life Accounts
✨ Health
✨ Marriage
✨ Parenting
✨ Work
✨ Finances
✨ Personal Growth
✨ Spiritual Life
✨ Fun
✨ Friendships

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Christy Wright is the #1 bestselling author, personal growth expert, and host of The Christy Wright Show. She's also the founder of Business Boutique, which equips women to make money doing what they love. Regardless of where you are today, Christy will help you build confidence in yourself, strengthen your faith, and become the person God created you to be.

In today's episode, Christy shared her journey of writing her newest book, "Take Back Your Time."

Christy Wright said, "The black hole of insecurity cannot be solved by doing more."

"What if balance isn't so much something you do. How you balance it all perfectly. What if it's something you become where you could be balanced and still be busy, where you could become a balanced person in an out-of-balance world where balance looks more like peace, being confident in your choices, being proud of how you spend your time. Actually enjoying your life. I think that's what we're really after when we say we want balance, and it turns out the path to that is not productivity. It's not doing more waking up earlier, having a better time management app being more efficient, productive, multitasking. That's not what leads to the thing that we really want. And so I wanted to dig to the deeper issue below the issue, the deeper desires we have going on in us. When we talk about time, we talk about balance and say, Hey, let's talk about what's really going on and what really gets in the way. And let's fix it there. And then that, of course, will affect our calendar and the practical side of things. And so, in this book, I really set out to redefine this word, reclaim it and redefine it. And so the way that the thesis of the whole book is life balance is not doing everything for an equal amount of time. It's about doing the right things at the right time. And when you do the right things at the right time, You will actually feel that sense of balance you've been looking for, but here's the great news you get to decide what's right for you." - Christy Wright

Patrick Lencioni said, "If everything's important, nothing is."

Christy shared five action steps detailed in her latest book because we can not grow when we stay comfortable, and so you're going to have to get uncomfortable to grow.

(1) Figure out what matters.
(2) Stop doing what doesn't matter.
(3) Create a calendar that reflects what matters.
(4) Protect what matters with boundaries and say no.
(5) Be present for what matters, be where your feet are, whenever you are there.

Top 3 Books Recommended by Christy:

(1) Ruthless Elimination by John Mark Homer
(2) Get Out of Your Head by Jenny Allen
(3) Surrendered Yes by Rebecca Lyons

Get in touch with Christy:
Website: Christy Wright
Instagram: Christy Wright

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Sometimes the people can look at their mind, body issues from not only really exploring their insight and their emotions but even looking at it from a spiritual perspective. What is life teaching you? What is God teaching you? How is God trying to get your attention through what you're experiencing?

In today's episode, Dr. Houston and Clint do something slightly different. They both sit down for a "fireside chat" - Reflecting on 2021 & Setting Goals for 2022.

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Dr. Michelle K. Johnston is a management professor, executive coach, and leadership expert helping leaders achieve results through meaningful connections. She is an award-winning professor studying leadership and business communication, and her research has shown a clear link between a team's effective communication and its positive financial performance.

Michelle is a celebrated keynote speaker presenting at conferences and events nationwide. She received her Ph.D. in Communication from Louisiana State University, and she was named to the prestigious 100 Coaches group, which consists of the top executive coaches around the world.

Michelle serves as the Gaston Chair of Business at Loyola University New Orleans, where she teaches in the graduate and undergraduate programs in the College of Business. Michelle's first book, The Seismic Shift in Leadership, is available for pre-order starting November 2021, and her podcast, Seismic Shift, launches in spring 2022.

In this episode, Clint talks with Michelle about achieving results through meaningful connections. Michelle explains how today's leaders need more than power and control to get the best from their teams; they need to connect.

"Connection with yourself is the foundation of leadership success. It must start with you!" - Michelle Johnston

Top 2 Books Recommended by Michelle:

1. Digital Body Langue - Erica Dhawan
2. The Long Game - Dorie Clark

Get in touch with Michelle - https://michellekjohnston.com/

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In today's episode, Clint Herndon and Dr. Parker Houston ask the question, "Are you overly gripping the wheel of life?"

Too much focus on planning the future can fuel unhealthy needs for control and cause us to live most of our lives in a projected mental future—that may or may not ever occur.

It robs us of the joy found only in the present moment and the serendipity of watching life unfold with events we could never have predicted or planned.

To dig a little bit deeper on this topic, check out Dr. Houston's most recent blog: Are You Over Gripping the Wheel of Life?

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Rusty Fulling serves as founder and CEO of Fulling Management & Accounting, Inc. in Olathe, KS. Since April 2000, Fulling Management & Accounting has been focused on helping business leaders make sense of their numbers, grow their profits, and gain peace of mind. Over the years, Rusty has been selected to participate in strategic leadership programs, including Kauffman's Entrepreneurs' Boardroom and HEMP (Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program). He has served on business advisory boards with local Kansas City universities and is an active board member at his local church. Rusty and his wife, Pam, have been Olathe residents since 1989 and recently celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary.

In this episode, Clint chats with Rusty about team building and commitment to service. Rusty shared the acronym, G.R.A.C.E., which he uses within his business, and what makes Fulling Management what it is today.

G: Growth, personal and professional growth.

R: Representing our clients.

A: Accountability.

C: Champion Attitude.

E: Eternal Impact.

Clint discusses and asks Rusty, "How would you describe your current leadership style, and how has that evolved from 21 years ago?"

Rusty shares, "I think top-down leadership, where you're acting more as the boss, is where I grew up in that mentality. I think evolving into more of a team lead leadership and tapping into the people you have around you has been just, that's been the catalyst of, I think, our growth and, so I would say, team-driven leadership, making sure it's team-driven from a culture standpoint. Yes. There's somebody at the helm driving it but and making sure that the ones you have around you, yeah. You're just leaning into them. So that's been huge."

Top 3 Books Recommended by Rusty:

1. I'd Choose You - John Trent
2. Wolves Can't Fly - Dan Meers (Mascot of the Kansas City Chiefs)
3. The Mulligan: A Parable of Second Chances - Kenneth Blanchard

Get in touch with Rusty Fulling - www.rustyfulling.com

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In today's episode, Clint Herndon and Dr. Parker Houston discuss finding value in suffering, which is a tough topic, depending on the type of suffering you've been through. I want to acknowledge they're all different kinds.

Dr. Victor Frankl, author of a Man's Seach for Meaning, said, "What is to give light must endure burning." - Dr. Victor Frankl

As a leader, how you respond to suffering is essential. Learning how you help your team navigate suffering or tough seasons and how you help team members walk through devastating times in their life is a crucial part of leadership.

Action Steps:
(1) Do not be in denial.
(2) Make sure to look for possible meaning in what you're going through.
(3) Is life or God, if you're a person of faith, asking you to change something about yourself? Because in general, people often don't change without pain.
(4) Spend time around suffering.
(5) Fasting is a way to intentionally induce a small amount of suffering, whether you restrict food, social media, any screens. This can help you see how your body, mind, and spirit react to suffering and remind you that there are people who might be suffering more than you currently are.

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This week, we had the pleasure of Ken Coleman to join us to discuss his latest book, From Paycheck to Purpose, which has just been released.

Ken Coleman is the #1 nationally bestselling author of The Proximity Principle and nationally syndicated host of The Ken Coleman Show. Pulling from his own personal struggles, missed opportunities, and career successes, Ken helps people discover what they were born to do and provides practical steps to make their dream job a reality. The Ken Coleman Show is a caller-driven career show that helps listeners who are stuck in a job they hate or searching for something more out of their career.

Ken will take you through the seven stages from paycheck to purchase.

(1) Get Clear
(2) Get Qualified
(3) Get Connected
(4) Get Started
(5) Get Promoted
(6) Get The Dream Job
(7) Give Yourself Away

Now you're no longer working for income. It's about impact.

Where can people start? There are three indicators that every human being comes into this world with they're inside of us.

(1) Talent
(2)Passion
(3) Mission

When we get the answers in those three buckets, we have everything we need to write a purpose statement and a purpose statement sounds like this.

I was created to use what I do ______________________. To do work that I love _______________________. To produce results that matter deeply to me _______________________.When someone knows those three things and can write a purpose statement, now that purpose statement becomes a compass. Which points them in the direction they're supposed to go, and out there in that direction are multiple jobs, career paths, and even dream jobs that will allow you to live and work on purpose.

"When you're clear, you are confident. And when you are confident, you can be courageous to finish the journey." - Ken Coleman

Top 3 Books Recommended by Ken:

(1) Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty by Harvey Mackay
(2) Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
(3) The Inklings by C.S. Lewis

Get in touch with Ken Coleman - https://www.ramseysolutions.com/ken-coleman

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In today's episode, Clint Herndon and Dr. Parker Houston talk about how to become a true expert. In fact, you can learn quickly and become an expert sometimes rather quickly if your mindset is in the right place and if you have the right kind of posture, psychological posture towards whatever you're trying to learn or grow in.

Socrates said, "I neither know nor think that I know."

Dr. Houston discusses the Dunning Kruger Effect which says "Unskilled and unaware of it. How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessment."

1. Incorrect self-assessment of competence derives from the person's ignorance of a given activity's standard of performance. One of our action steps is to know the standards of any particular area that you're in.
2. Without the self-awareness of metacognition [It's just higher thinking, like being able to watch your own mental process], people cannot objectively evaluate their own level of competence.

Self-Awareness is a vital part of being a great leader. It's a top skill. You can't get better at something unless you're very highly self-aware and you can see where you need to improve.

Action Steps:

1. Radically accept your brain's desire for certainty and routine.
2. Ask for feedback. Overcome your ego.
3. Find out about the current best practices in your field.
4. Talk to people who don't share the same views.
5. Stay open & stay curious.
6. Consider looking for these kinds of open and curious learners when hiring.

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On this week's podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Darrin Gray. Darrin serves professional athletes, coaches & alumni, and business leaders who support the worldwide sports ministry with Godly Leadership. The platform of sports leadership training provides pathways into boardrooms, classrooms, and sports locker rooms worldwide.

He currently serves on the executive leadership team of Athletes in Action, Lions Lead, and Center for Serving Leadership at the Sagamore Institute ~ an action-oriented Think Tank.

As Darrin says, "My ministry moves at the speed of relationship. And so those relationships are what I believe, define who I am."

Clint and Darrin will discuss:

1. How he transitioned from a sports journalist to a sports minister and leadership teacher.
2. How his relationship came about with Tony Dungy and what impact it had on his life.
3. How do the NFL and other sport support their players with mentoring and character development as they enter their careers?
4. Why anyone, athlete or layperson must find a great mentor, or how do they become one?
5. Darrin also shares his favorite story of a pro athlete and how he has seen him grow and overcome challenges to become a solid, inspiring man.

Darrin's calling was in the ministry of availability. Being present for other men so that they can ultimately get a clearer vision of who they are, what their purpose is, and how they can accomplish their goals. As Darrin stated, "The relationships, the people you surround yourself with will more often than not, determine your outcomes in life, and you tend to reflect the communities you're connected to.

Top 3 Books Recommended by Darrin:

1. Celebration of Discipline
2. Catcher In The Rye
3. The Bible

Chuck Noll once said, "Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else."

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When you're happy at work, you can feel more motivated and productive. It's important to be happy with your job. On this week's episode, Clint and Parker discuss "10 Tips to Finding a Job You Love."

(1) Once your income is good enough, don't keep using it as the only standard for taking jobs. Just because you increase your income doesn't mean that it will also increase your happiness. Cal Newport, a computer science professor at Georgetown University who is also a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including "So Good They Can't Ignore You," stated, "Sometimes you have to turn down promotions to maintain control." That has been some of the most useful advice.

(2) Find out about potential bosses before you take a job. Leadership expert John Maxwell says you have two choices if you are already working for a difficult boss—find a way to support them—or leave.

(3) Meet your future team before taking a job. Jim Rohn also famously said— "You are the average of the top five people you spend the most time with." And we spend an awful lot of time with our coworkers.

(4) Find ways to apply your life purpose and values to your work. You may only need to change your perspective and not necessarily change your job. Dr. Wayne Dyer said, "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

(5) Know your strengths and how you can apply them. According to Dr. Tom Stanley, who spent his life researching millionaires, you are also much more likely to increase your income when you do something you love. People who love what they do will naturally persist longer and harder than those who hate what they do.

(6) Maybe you need to change your mindset instead of changing jobs. Yale psychologist, Amy Wrzesniewski, found that people view their work as a job, a career, or a calling. And this can have a huge influence on how you feel about your work.

(7) Does the job take you where you want to go in the long run? Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward. Look ahead to what you want your life to look like in 10, 15, 20 years.

(8) Ask your boss to change part of the job to match your interests. This is a common organizational term called job crafting.

(9) Stop looking for the perfect job. Everything has its trade-offs. You're always going to have pros and cons. So maybe you need to look for an 80% good enough job and stick with that and not keep searching.

(10) Don't be a victim, be the author of your life. It can be easy to blame your boss or organization, but the fact is, you are making a choice to be where you are.

To learn more about this topic, check out Dr. Parker Houston's blog on "Happy at Work - 10 Tips For Finding a Job You Love."

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This week, Justin McGuire, Owner of California Pools and host of DIY Network's Pool Kings, joins Clint to discuss the challenges of managing people within a growing business.

Clint and Justin discuss the following key points on management:

(1) Encourage and help your employee, you are leading, to grow.
(2) Don't overmanage.
(3) Learn to manage your people at 'THEIR' level and not at you're level. You can not manage everyone the same way. It doesn't work. Manage each person based on their personality type and not based on you're personality type. Every personality has its own needs and nuances.
(4) Don't allow your business to become transactional or a commodity. Instead, focus on building relationships.
(5) Learn from your mistakes. Don't regret them, but allow them to help you grow as a person and a leader.
(6) Appreciating every person on your team and what they have to contribute.

"Being a good leader isn't always what is best for YOU, but what is best for THEM." - Justin McGuire.

Top 3 Books Recommended by Justin:
(1) Profit First - By Mike Michalowicz
(2) Turn The Ship Around! - By L. David Marguet

Top Podcasts Recommended by Justin:
(1) Founders Journal
(2) Business Wars

Until next week, keep climbing your next peak!

Connect with Justin McGuire on Instagram or his website. Watch Pool Kings on DIY Network.

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Perfectionists often postpone big things in an attempt to avoid mistakes or embarrassment, but this strategy can often be very detrimental.

Not everything in every area or every decision has to be an A+. In some areas of life, C's are okay. When we are struggling with perfectionism, we tend to let that infiltrate all areas of our life. We often think that everything we do has to be perfect. It creates pressure on our life that not only does our work have to be perfect, but our kids have to be perfect. Our marriage has to be perfect. Our yard has to be perfect. Our house has to be perfect and so on. It seeps into every area of life. However, in all honesty, no one can obtain that. It's not possible. None of us are perfect. We don't have enough resources or enough time. We are not God.

Done is better than perfect! Here are six steps to help you complete your tasks without being perfect:

(1) Just start. Build up the positive momentum.
(2) Your first version is never going to be your best work.
(3) Not everything in every area or every decision has to be an A-plus.
(4) Perfect doesn't even exist.
(5) Get feedback as early as possible.
(6) You gain confidence and self-respect when you finish things. Confidence and self-respect come from completing something.

The idea is that whatever your theory is, whatever your work is, it is imperfect. It may get expanded upon, but you're laying a foundation.

Finish something this week or month that you have been working on too long. Nothing takes up mental bandwidth and causes distress, like an unfinished project you keep working on. Give yourself the gift of completion! Dr. Parker Houston wrote a similar blog called "Perfectionism, The Secret Theif of Dreams."

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Until next week, keep climbing your next peak.

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In this episode, Clint talks to nationally recognized high school Coach Desmond Dunham. Coach Dez just launched his book "Running Against The Odds" and shares how he overcame the odds on and off the track.

He reveals how running got him through the tough times at home, dyslexia in school, the lack of confidence, and the lack of clarity he had in life when his emotions were pulling him into a dark hole. Running taught him to persevere, through uncertainty, through depression, through relationship challenges.

Coach Dez says, "There are going to be some times where you trip and fall. You're going to fail and have some tough times. But that is a test of who you are. We are very resilient. We were made to be resilient. We were made to adapt. As Martin Luther King, Jr. says, 'The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in times of comfort and convenience, but where they stand in times of challenge and controversy."

Connect with Coach Dez on Instagram or his website. Purchase "Running Against The Odds" on amazon.

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We've all heard the expression— "money can't buy happiness." That may not be entirely true. Psychological science suggests that how we spend can significantly impact how happy we are with our lives.

Research shows that spending your money in specific ways is much more likely to improve your level of happiness and life satisfaction. Today, we will learn what those things are.

1. Purchase experiences, not things.
2. Spend your money on others.
3. Align your spending with your values.
4. Schedule things to look forward to.
5. Live within your means.
6. Buyback time with your money.
7. Invest in yourself.
8. Get rid of stuff and make more room for what truly matters.
9. Remember, oftentimes the best things in life are free.

Action Items:

• Take 15 minutes this week to identify one area you want to change above. Then experiment with a new way of spending right away. Write down what you experience.
• Use this list at your next family budget meeting to see how your spending habits line up!

Suggested Resources:

• The Hedonic Treadmill Blog Post
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley
• The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
• Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

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Your future depends on the foundation that you are laying today. The higher you want to go, the more critical your foundation is. In this week's episode, Clint goes solo and shares why building a solid foundation is essential. 

You're either laying a good foundation, or you're laying a lousy foundation. If you have bad habits in your life, you're still laying a foundation, and it's going to fall apart at some point under stress.

The areas we are focusing on building a solid foundation for today are: 

• Career
• Finances.
• Relationships
• Spiritual Life
• Parenting

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What leadership and life lessons can you learn from one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded? In today's episode, Dr. Parker Houston and Clint Herndonbreak down the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton, who attempted to be the first expedition to cross the continent of Antarctica in 1914. If you want to know what to do when you face challenges and ongoing crises over a long period of time, and very dark circumstances, take some leadership principles from Shackleton:

• Fight To Stay Optimistic
• Keep Hope Alive
• Be Decisive In Decisions
• Adopt Radical Acceptance
• Celebrate No Matter What

“Often the leader sees the vision more clearly and long before the team does” -John Maxwell

How to maintain optimism:

1. Feed your mind positive things
2. Look for what the gifts are

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

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Dijana LLugolli, or “D” for short, is a Success & Business Coach, Podcaster & Speaker, 3C Addict, and 3X Mama. On today’s podcast, she and Clint talk about overcoming fear, building a support group around you, and overcoming adversity. Growth happens outside of your comfort zone; to grow, you have to face your fears. Coming as an underdog with a tough childhood from a migrant family, D had to endure and grow from a lot of adversity and setbacks. During her journey, she set out to help others launch their own businesses and overcome their fears.

Connect with Dijana on her Podcast, Website, or Instagram

Dijana’s favorite books:

• The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
• Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
• Now Is Your Chance by Niyc Pidgeon

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Wes knew in the 8th grade that he wanted to fly a fighter jet. Now he's spent eight years in the airforce as an F15 fighter pilot. He's learned a lot about leadership on the way and just how valuable our attention is. It's easy to lead when things are going well. But in a crisis, the actual colors of leadership start to come out. Leaders lose when they don't steward their attention and focus on the people they're leading.

Time is the resource you'll never get back, but attention is the resource you can scale.

Wes's Book Recommendations

1. The Bible
2. Atomic Habits
3. Mindset

Action Item:

• At the beginning of every morning, ask yourself: "What do I need to pay attention to today, specifically?"

Connect with Wes on his website or LinkedIn

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Practicing gratitude regularly helps leaders to grow themselves, their team, their productivity, and their profit. But there are two main opponents of gratitude blocking most people, and those are laziness and perfectionism.

We all know that people who feel unappreciated leave their job, and leaders who don’t express gratitude experience high turnover and premature burnout. So it should be obvious why gratitude is so important not only for ourselves but also for our leadership because:

1. Leaders who express gratitude towards their team members can produce 50% better results.
2. Employee appreciation is one of the nine factors in making it into the top 100 best places to work in the nation.
3. Employee recognition is one of the top five factors for a psychologically healthy workplace.

One of the biggest blockers to gratitude is going too fast, hurrying, having too much to do, and never slowing down. If we can change our mindset, slow down, and regularly practice gratitude in our leadership, we could:

• Increase employee productivity
• Increase employee wellbeing
• Multiply and spread gratitude in our organization
• Increase job satisfaction and engagement
• Decrease burnout and exhaustion
• Reduce absences and turnover
• Eliminate gossip and cynicism

Action Steps:

1. Make it a daily practice to thank someone for something specific.
2. Create the longest gratitude list you possibly can.
3. Start your day by focusing on three things you are grateful for.
4. Choose to focus on the best attributes in your spouse.

Resources Mentioned:
Personality Isn't Permanent
Evidence-based best practices for writing a gratitude journal

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Rachel Cruzeis a two-time #1 national best-selling author, financial expert, and host of The Rachel Cruze Show. She has appeared on Good Morning America, TODAY Show, and Live! With Kelly & Ryan, among others. Since 2010, Rachel has served at Ramsey Solutions, where she teaches people to avoid debt, save money, budget, and how to win with money at any stage in life. Growing up as Dave Ramsey's daughter, Rachel hated budgeting for years until she experienced the freedom of budgeting for herself. Rachel now shares fun, practical ways to take control of your money and create a life you love.

In this episode, Clint interviews Rachel Cruze. They talk about careers, life, marriage and finance, and daily habits. There is value in being intentional with your life, whether it's your early mornings, the work you're doing, parenting, marriage, or money. When you do stuff with a plan and purpose, your life creates so much better value than just floating through. We all have seasons where we can kind of float. But when you have something that you're working towards, there's a greater value in life when you're intentional with it.

Rachels Book Recommendations:

• Voice of the Heart by Dr. Chip Dodd
• Ideal Team Player by Patrick M. Lencioni
• Discerning the Voice of God by Priscilla Shirer

Follow Rachel on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube or online at rachelcruze.com.

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It's midday, and you are left with a list of supplies to gather and told me to meet in front of the house in an hour. A helicopter picks you up, and you spend the next 36 hours on a mission, with automatic weapons, repelling, car chases, shootouts, kidnapping, explosions, fires, and a hostage situation. You see blood and smell smoke, and in the back of your head, you know it's not real, but it feels real. That experience, the hyper-realistic mission, was Cam Johnston's dream. After Cam completed his career with the Navy Seals and had a run-in with the film industry’s leading personnel, his dream came to life. Cam created Greystone to immerse his guests inside an adrenaline-packed world that quickly becomes a reality.

In this episode, Clint interviews Cam Johnston. They talk about how our comfort zone holds us back, how we can explore the impossible, and why intense scenarios cause us to reevaluate our priorities.    

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According to research, the human brain tries to solve most of life’s problems by adding solutions. But let us let you in on a little secret; it takes less time and energy to solve problems not by adding more but by subtracting, eliminating, and minimizing.

In today's episode, Clint Herndon and Dr. Parker Houston talk about how to solve problems by subtraction, less is more, quality over quantity, and then dive into practical steps to help you solve problems by subtraction.

Take action now, solve your problems by minimizing your:

1. Goals. Many high achievers mistakenly assume that more goals are always better. However, fewer goals may increase our efficiency and likelihood of achieving that goal by focusing on the few most important goals.
2. Finances. Most people are looking for ways to make more money. But for most of us, the best solution is spending less instead of constantly looking for ways to make more.
3. Commitments. There is virtually no limit to the number of things you can commit to. But every single thing we allow into our lives fights for our time. Try cutting back on your relationships or commitments. Focus on depth over breadth.
4. Work. If you are a leader, don’t overwhelm your employees with new initiatives or set a ton of meetings. Try eliminating meetings and stacking only the most important meetings on one day of the week. Don’t be afraid to cancel or eliminate meetings that have no clear purpose or benefit. You can always restart meetings if you discover you really need them.
5. Possessions. Nearly everything we accumulate requires storage, maintenance, cleaning, or insurance. Think twice before you accumulate that next thing. It’s a slow death by a thousand cuts.
6. Clothing. Maybe it’s time to thin out your wardrobe and pick a few outfits you love. It might even save you the 20 minutes every day you look at yourself in the mirror.

People Systematically Overlook Subtractive Changes

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Jeff Cochran is a leadership coach, author of Next Level Leader, speaker, and pastor who loves helping people live out their dreams and experience living their best lives. From entrepreneurs to CEOs and businesses to churches, Jeff wants to help you navigate the challenges you face and step into your full potential.

Next level leadership requires asking questions and getting to know people. First, you have to listen and then ask: "Is this the right decision to make?" then let other people in on the issue. After getting their opinion, then you can make a decision.

One small thing you can do to listen to your team is by asking: "What's one practical thing I can do that would make it easier for you to lead in your role?"

Leaders don't listen because they are insecure. You can't be insecure and lead. If you don't create a culture of safety, where we reward people for telling the truth, then eventually, they're not going to.

Many leaders stay away from conflict because they don't know the difference between tension and conflict. Healthy conflict is tension. Next-level leaders have to manage conflict without resolving tension.

Connect with Jeff at Jeffcochran.online

Jeff's Book Recommendations:

• Go-Giver by Bob Burg
• Multipliers by Liz Wiseman
• Sun Stand Still by Steven Furtick

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Today Clint and Dr. Parker sit back and enjoy a conversation on what they are learning right now and how unplugging can benefit us spiritually, mentally, physically, and relationally.  Unplugging and taking a break can be especially hard for high achievers but the results of being always on have very detrimental effects on our bodies, minds, and relationship. 

Tips to unplug:

• Be intentionally present with your family
• Don’t check your work email
• Hire the right people
• Try something new
• Try something that scares you a little bit
• Meaningful memories are created during downtime

Something Clint is learning right now:

• Freedom is a learned skill
• Want is not the same thing as intent, intent requires action.

Something Parker is learning right now:

• There’s a paradox between planning and being present
• Hold your plans with a loose grip to be fully present in your life today

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Today Clint is joined by New York Times Bestselling author Kimberly Foss, CFP®, CPWA®. Kimberly is the founder and President of Empyrion Wealth Management and the author of Wealthy By Design: A 5-Step Plan for Financial Security. Kimberly brings both technical expertise and a real passion to her work with her clients. She shows how it’s possible to seize control of one’s own financial destiny. She is committed to helping her clients make wise investment choices while avoiding costly mistakes in building wealth. In today's episode, she shares:

• How to build wealth smartly
• How to push through resistance when building a business
• Good stock advice and portfolio building techniques

Kimberly's Book Recommendations

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street
• Atomic Habits
• The Bible

Connect with Kimberly on her:
Website
LinkedIn
Instagram

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Today Clint is joined by Dr. Parker, and they discuss how to create a psychologically healthy workplace. Sometimes you create culture, sometimes you influence and change culture, but identifying the unhealthy aspects of company culture is the first step to any change. In today's episode, we lay our five research-based improvements that can help to create a healthy workplace.

1. Create a psychologically and physically safe environment. In general, most employees are afraid of their bosses. The best thing you can do as a leader is learning to be a great listener.
2. Create team member involvement. People are more likely to get behind an idea that they helped create.
3. Encourage work-life balance. Create an experience for your team where they're not burned out and overworked
4. Invest in team member growth and development. Top performers want to feel like they're growing and developing to become the best in their field.
5. Develop a consistent method of appreciation. Recognize that if your team is unappreciated, they are very likely to leave their job. People lose a lot of motivation when they don't feel like they’re being seen for their contribution in the workplace. If you receive more criticism than praise, then you’re out of balance.

To brainstorm applications from today's episode, grab your journal and write out an answer to each of these questions:

• How do you provide more growth opportunities?
• What systems could you use to get more ideas and input from your team?
• How could you regularly recognize and appreciate people?
• What evidence do you have that you model a healthy work-life balance in your own life, and how do you reward employees that do this?
• How could you improve your physical or psychological safety in your workplace?

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Today Mollie Eliasof joins Clint to talk about how to get unstuck, the difference between being and achieving, and how to confront negative self-talk.

Mollie Eliasof is a psychotherapist and private consultant that helps the world's most influential people get unstuck and unlock life's missing pieces. Mollie is also a successful entrepreneur, public speaker, and host of the More With Mollie Podcast. Her expert advice has been featured in national publications including NBC, Forbes, Forbes Women, Thrive Global, and more.

Three steps to getting unstuck:

1. Figure out where you want to go
2. Identify barriers that get in the way
3. Break it down to a small step that you can take forward

How to stop negative self-talk:

• Identify when and where it’s happening: How often does it happen, how long does it last, what does it sound like?
• Understand where negative self-talk has infiltrated your mind.
• Dispel the negative thoughts by talking to a friend about them.

Connect with Mollie on Instagram

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You don’t have to be a runner to learn some valuable life lessons from running. This week Clint and Dr. Parker talk about the lessons learned from running and discuss how to apply them to your life.

The five life lessons learned from running are:

1. Start slow: If you try to go too far too fast, you will burn out. So instead, learn to pace yourself and make incremental improvements.
2. Don’s stop on hills: Embrace the suck. Complete the task you set out to without stopping when you encounter resistance.
3. Metrics are great, but they don’t tell the whole story: Chase and celebrate incremental improvements but give yourself grace for the season of life you’re in.
4. Run your own race: Control the things you can control
5. It can be fun if you let it be: Be present; you don’t have to go through life being miserable.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Designing Your Life Book
• Winning by Jack Welch Book
• God and Money Book
• Talent Code by Dan Coyle Book

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Why would you leave your promising job to enter into uncertainty, uncomfortability, and potential insecurity? What are the six stages of relationships? How should you differentiate between complacency and contentment? What is the best salsa? These are perfect questions to listen in on, in a friendly engaging, encouraging, and thought-provoking conversation between Clint and Alex Judd the founder of Path For Growth.

Connect with Alex at www.pathforgrowth.com and check out the podcast

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What Stage Of Change Are You In?Today Clint Herndon and Dr. Parker Houston talk about the predictable stages of change.
There are six stages of change, and you typically can’t skip stages; identifying where you are and where others are will help you lead change in yourself and others. The six stages are:

1. Pre-contemplation: no intention to change, living in denial.
2. Contemplation: aware of the problem without a significant effort to change
3. Preparation: intending to take action
4. Action: active attempts at changing behavior
5. Maintenance: serious about change, behaviors showing the change
6. Relapse: making exceptions, not as serious about sticking to the intended change

For most people relapsing back into old behaviors is a normal part of changing anything in your life. The goal of acknowledging relapse as a stage is to take advantage of admitting it and make it a short period of time.

Application:

• Identify the stage of change that you’re in
• Mentally place an employee in a stage of change
• Adjust how to approach the change in yourself or your employee
• Leverage strategies and energy appropriate to the stage of change
• Invest more time into people who are willing to change
• Give assignments as tests to identify what stage someone is in
• Demonstrate behaviors associated with a high stage of change
• Give yourself grace, and extend grace to those around you

Book Recommendations:
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward

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Today Dina Cataldo joins Clint to discuss how to embrace discomfort and still enjoy your life! Dina is the host of Be A Better Lawer Podcast and runs a coaching practice that teaches lawyers how to build their practice and life with less overwhelm and more fun!

Connect with Dina on her:
Instagram
Website
LinkedIn

Dina's Book Recommendations:
Big Leap
The War Of Art
Turning Pro

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Dr. Parker joins Clint to discuss how to be a professional and make a good impression. Whether you have been in the workforce for a while and are making a change, or you are stepping in for the first time, these tips are guaranteed to set you apart from the crowd.  

1. Be punctual and manage your time well.
2. Become a brand ambassador for your organization.
3. Manage your social media, post purposefully.
4. Dress for success; your attire represents you.
5. Bring solutions, not just complaints.
6. Admit when you’re wrong and apologize.
7. Develop emotional intelligence.
8. Continue to grow as a professional.
9. Always do the right thing.

Resources mentioned:
The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired
The Magic of Thinking Big

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak.

Do you want to win with money? Are you worried that you could be heading down the wrong path? You're not alone! Many people fail to realize that financial problems are the root cause of stress and anxiety in their lives. Listen to Clint and Jay discuss common-sense principles that unfortunately aren't commonly practiced.

You cannot have anything in life without talking about personal finances but in order to have successful financial goals you have to define your WHY which has be:

• Something you’re passionate about
• Something you can sell others on
• Personal to you and not borrowed from others
• In alignment with your stated values

Connect with Jay on his:

Instagram

Website

LinkedIn

Jay’s book recommendations:

15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

Boundaries

The 360 Degree Leader
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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak.

In today’s episode, Clint and Dr. Parker discuss the importance of marriage and why it's worth investing in. There are plenty of stressors in marriage; financial stress, illness in a family member, aging parents, communication problems, and behavioral problems with your kids, those things in addition to day to day life in 2021 can quickly take a toll on your marriage which is why we need to invest in our marriage because an unhappy marriage can :

• Increase your chance of getting sick by 35%
• Take four to eight years off your life
• Elevate stress hormones levels in your kids
• Prevent financial success and freedom

Dr. John Gottman, the country's foremost relationship expert, lays out 4 sure signs to help identify problems in a marriage:

1. Criticism: accusations, attacking character, using the terms "always" and "never."
2. Contempt: an extreme version of criticism contempt is the single greatest predictor of divorce.
3. Defensiveness: reacting quickly to protect yourself, shifting blame, or avoiding responsibility for your actions.
4. Stonewalling: shutting down and escaping.

Action steps:

1. Never stop getting to know each other. Friendship is the most important connection that a husband and wife can have. It's not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship, that causes marriages to fail.
2. Invest very heavily in positive experiences with your partner. Build and nurture fondness and admiration.
3. Habitually turned toward each other. Take 15 minutes during the day to check in with your partner.
4. Let your partner influence you. The strongest couples listen to each other's opinions for important decision-making and seek common ground.
5. Develop a habit of resolving conflict. Create a process for having hard conversations.
6. Clearly identify the big problems. If there's something that you cannot overlook, you've got to bring it to the surface.
7. Develop a shared vision. Most arguments stem from a conflict in dreams.

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by Dr. John Gottman
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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak. 

Growing up in foster care and struggling through college while playing football was not easy. But Avery White managed to pick out the positive and learn from it no matter what situation he found himself in. 

In today’s episode, Clint is joined by Avery White, a Fire Fighter and Fitness Coach who has an amazing story and encouraging outlook on life. 

Connect with Avery on his Instagram

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Everything starts with getting the right people on your bus. In today's episode, Clint joins Dr. Parker to talk all about hiring and how to avoid the common pitfalls.

“If you have the right people on your bus, the problem of how to motivate people largely goes away. The right people don’t need to be tightly managed or fired up: they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great… And if you have the wrong people, it doesn’t matter whether you discover the right direction; you still won’t have a great company. Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” - Jim Collins

Benefits of a great hiring process

• A great team naturally attracts other superstars.
• Hiring the right people makes it easy to change directions
• Talented people want to work around other talented people
• The loss of productivity and turnover is the highest preventable costs in business

It is better to take your time upfront and be slow, methodical, and careful in your hiring process, than waste time filling a position, retraining, and dealing with legal issues.

When looking for a new hire look for an Ideal Team Playe- someone who is humble, hungry, and people smart

What can you do to improve the hiring process?

1. Make hiring & onboarding your top priority
2. Hire smart and hire slow, respond don’t react to the urgent
3. Look for people that are humble, hungry, and people-smart
4. Off-board people properly, don’t wait until it’s too late.
5. Use behavior interview questions, ask questions about what they have done not what they will do
6. Don’t delegate the hiring process
7. Read chapter one of Good to Great by Jim Collins

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Killer Teams Made Simple

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak.

What do faith and fitness and cycling and pastoring have in common? In today's episode, you will find out because Joe Alvarado joins Clint Herndon to discuss:

• The difference between trying and training
• Why accountability is necessary
• How to live a more integrated life
• Why consistency and stewarding influence are so important

Joe is the Pastor of Eternal Rock Church, a Group Fitness Instructor, a Stages Master Educator, and has his M.A. in Biblical Theology and another M.A. in Strategic Leadership.

Paul said to the Ephesians that we're to train our minds. Joe defines training as doing what you can do today so that you can do even more tomorrow. Joe encourages us to use the phrase training instead of trying. Training involves metrics and goals. If we change our mindset and adopt the training mentality, it adds a layer of accountability.

Connect with Joe on his Instagram and find all the other ways to connect with him on his website

Use code NextPeak for 20% off boldfaithandfitness.com

Joe’s book recommendations:

• The Grace of God by Andy Stanley
• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Winning the War in Your Mind by Craig Groeschel

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak.

Today Marielle Schurig joins Clint Herndon to help redefine how we see finances and wealth management. Marielle is a Wealth Advisor, Speaker, and Educator and featured in Bloomberg, USA Today, On Wall Street, and more. She is the also the Vice President of Wealth Management at UBS Financial Services. Marielle's top 3 tips to redefine success for yourself financially are:

1. Understand your money story
   • What are your money beliefs, and how do they play out in your life?
   • Are your money beliefs helping, hurting, or holding you back?
2. Set specific goals
   • What do you want for your future?
   • What does your perfect life look like?
   • How does money play a role in that?
   • Write down your goals, make a plan.
   • Build habits that will support your desired future.
3. Want to learn. Surround yourself with people who are motivated and encourage your growth.
   • Knowledge is a lifetime pursuit.
   • You need to be growing to develop yourself.
   • Your net worth will not exceed your personal development.

Connect with Marielle on LinkedIn
Marielle's book recommendations:

• Rich Dad Poor Dad
• Power Of Now

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak.

Today Jose Vargas joins Clint Herndon as we dig into Jose’s past and learn how he turned his obstacles into opportunities. It wasn’t easy, and there were many setbacks, but through it all, Jose learned some practical steps to help lead others in responding to their life in what he calls the Lead Through Method. Jose Vargas is an author, teacher, speaker, founder, and CEO of Reaching Higher Now, a podcast host, and a former Secret Service member.

The Lead Through Method:

1. Locate

2. Dissect

3. Dream

4. Forsee

5. Plan

6. Overcome

7. Make it right

Connect with Jose on his:

Podcast

Instagram

Facebook

Youtube

Resources Mentioned:

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God

Three Feet from Gold: Turn Your Obstacles into Opportunities!

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak.

Today Bud Lamb joins Dr. Parker Houston to talk about why friendship, community, and mentors are needed for men in order to thrive. Bud Lamb has been an ordained pastor for almost 20 years. He is an author, a writer, a long-distance runner, and he mentors men and encourages younger pastors. He works one-on-one and with groups over the phone or video conferencing across the United States to help men discover or recover their spiritual passion, envisioning a plan for their lives to help them overcome current circumstances and move forward in positive ways. His goal is to help them become better men, husbands, spiritual leaders, and influencers of their culture. What drives Bud’s passion and purpose is to know and enjoy God, to love as Jesus does, and to inspire others to do the same. Some of the discussion centers on:

• Reconciling relationships between fathers and sons
• Building a healthy community of men
• How loneliness is destroying us
• Why men retreat into work as a source of identity

How to build a healthy community:

1. If you don’t have an honest friendship, practice being an honest friend
2. Don’t wait, take initiative
3. If you never ask the answer is always no
4. Go to church, a 12 step meeting, join a runners club
5. Dial back your hours at the office
6. If you don’t make the space for friendship, it can’t grow

Pick up Bud’s Book CHASING THE SAGE: What Men Want: Finding Purpose and Passion at Every Stage of Life

Connect with Bud Lamb on his:

• Podcast
• LinkedIn
• Website
• Facebook
• Instagram

Resources Mentioned:

Prodigal Father Wayward Son: A Roadmap to Reconciliation

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak.

Most of us think about leadership, and we only think about the team that we lead, but that is a very short-sighted view of leadership. Most leaders are in middle management; they still have a boss and often lead a team. They have peers that are other managers and can influence them and their boss by learning how to lead up.

In today's episode, Dr. Parker Houston gives us nine tips to LEAD UP. These tips will help our team and us to expand our influence and lead up in our organization.

1. The most difficult person you ever will lead is yourself. So lead yourself exceptionally.
2. Learn your boss's likes and dislikes. Write them down.
3. Manage your mood because your mood follows you into the workplace, and it affects your career.
4. Be prepared every time you take your boss's time. Learn how to get to the point in the conversation by writing it down and being succinct and clear.
5. Identify solutions, not problems. Bring three possible solutions to your boss or your leader.
6. Never bash your boss. Refuse to gossip or receive gossip.
7. Lighten your leader's load. Taking things off their plate will gain influence and rapport.
8. Become a go-to player; finding a way to deliver results consistently will ever get you noticed faster.
9. Never stop growing yourself. Having experience is not something that will automatically gain skill. You've got to keep stretching yourself.

Tips for getting along with a challenging boss:

• Find ways to compensate for their weaknesses. Don't say anything about it, but if they're disorganized, help them be organized.
• Affirm them publicly for things you genuinely think they do well.
• Commit to serving them, no matter what.
• Identify their strengths and what they do well.
• Learn their likes and dislikes.
• Invest in your relationship, make reoccurring deposits
• Refuse to gossip.

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life.

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you to redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories that will help you climb your next peak.

Today Clint interviews Scott Hanson, the Co-Founder and Senior Partner at Allworth Financial. Scott has been listed as one of the top 100 independent wealth advisors and one of the top 25 most influential people in the financial services industry. He's also the co-host of a money matters show, which he's been doing for over 20 years. In this episode, Scott recalls the lessons he has learned in his career and gives some tips so we can learn from some mistakes he made early on. Some of the key points are:

• Make sure you have proper alignment with all team members
• Nail down your pricing structure
• Don’t wait for an A+. Perfection is the enemy of progress
• Find a mentor to learn from
• Delegate tasks you’re not skilled in
• Create space in your schedule for rest and creativity
• Hire capable leaders and let them do their job
• Don't quit when things get tough; learn to find joy in the hard times
• Don’t take life too seriously; try to enjoy every moment
• Focus on the things you can control

Scott's Book Recommendations:
Think and Grow Rich
The E-Myth

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you to redefine what success looks like for you, and share strategies, tools, and stories that will help you climb your next peak.

Today we are going to be talking about the wisdom of the trail; what mountain biking has taught us about life and work. Dr. Parker Houston and BCIP Mountain Bike Instructor Kelly Payne explore the metaphor of the trail as life. In Today’s episode, we're going to be applying a lot of principles from performance psychology that will help you with personal and family leadership, in addition to career and business pursuits.

The fundamentals of mountain biking focus on 3 things:

1. Stability
2. Balance
3. Control

Three principles for mountain biking and life:

1. Focus on fundamentals in order to develop a strong foundation.
   • Mastering the fundamentals drastically increases your stability, balance, and control.
   • If you have a good foundation you can build on it, if you have a weak foundation you won’t progress.
2. Keep your vision up, constantly scan and look out for what is coming up.
   • Don’t get distracted when you get exhausted.
   • If you know what is up ahead, you know how to prepare
3. Be present, maintain connection with where you are.
   • Balance long term vision and investments in the present
   • Don’t lose connection with what is right in front of you

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Parker, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life.

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak. 

Today Clint is joined by Dr. Chip Dodd, and they discuss the eight primary feelings:  Hurt, Loneliness, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Shame, Guilt, and Gladness and how we can view those as an indicator of something that needs to be addressed. 

Top five pitfalls of leaders:

1. Work becomes confused with worth.
2. Performance begins to be valued more than presence.
3. To be an example to others, the true self is isolated.
4. Secrets sap the leader’s passion and purpose.
5. People become things.

Three ways to use feelings to teach, learn and grow: 

1. Identify: What am I feeling?
2. Explore: Where is this feeling is coming from?
3. Express: Who do you need to tell?

Resources:
Five Common Pitfalls
Dr. Chip Dodd’s website
The Voice of the Heart by Dr. Chip Dodd
Parenting with Heart by Dr. Chip Dodd

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Today Clint and Dr. Parker talk about grit, why it’s important, and how to get more of it. 

The smartest people don’t always win. Instead, the persistent people who have guts, determination, and perseverance stick it out to the end. Grit will help in your marriage, parenting, finances, physical fitness, long-term goals, and just about any other area of life. If you’re looking for quick fixes, there’s a lot of other advice out there to tickle your ears, but if you want compounding change, you’ve got to get some grit. 

Without grit you:

• Give up easily
• Avoid things that are hard, meaningful, and rewarding
• Stunt your growth
• Never finish what you start
• Take on too many things at once
• Only invest in shallow relationships
• Get easily offended
• Make finding good friends more difficult
• Devalue yourself
• Limit your impact on the world

Dr. Angela Duckworth defines grit as passion and perseverance for long-term, meaningful goals

5 ways to get more grit: 

1. Pursuing goals with a higher purpose
2. Change your internal story, make hard things good
3. Stay growth-oriented and never stop growing
4. Surround yourself with other gritty people
5. Make it a priority to teach grit in your children

Resources Mentioned: 

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

Grit Scale

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Today Clint is joined by woodworker Mike Coffey of Coffey Custom Builds. Mike has his own shop and has grown the online following of his woodwork to almost 50 thousand followers. In today’s episode, we discuss the difference between a hobby and a business. You can enjoy something that you’re not good at, that’s called a hobby, and hobbies are healthy as long as you don’t invest in a new one every year. But there’s a sweet spot where your passion aligns with your hobby, and it serves a need; that’s right where Mike found himself. 

Find Mike on his Website,  Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or any social media @CoffeyCustomBuilds

One of Mike’s favorite books recently: 

Building A StoryBrand 

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Today Clint and Dr. Parker talk about the top 5 regrets people have on their deathbed and why you shouldn’t wait until you die to regret how you have lived your life. 

We’re all gonna die but as a culture death has become a taboo subject. As a result, a lot of people pay a huge price by pushing the end of our lives out of their conscious awareness and are plagued with regret in their last moments. If you don’t want to live with regret you have to think through how you will feel laying on your deathbed. Don’t wait until you die to think about your regrets, start eliminating potential regrets now. 

Here are the top five regrets people have: 

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Resources Mentioned: 

Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you to redefine what success looks like and share strategies, tools, and stories that will help you climb your next peak. 

Today Dr. John Delony joins Clint to discuss how chasing achievement can lead to anxiety. 

Dr. John Delony is an author and the host of the Dr. John Delony radio show; He's also a consistent guest on Dave Ramsey's daily show and podcast. In his book Redefining Anxiety he addresses the fact that some things are going on in our mind and body that we need to pay attention to. 

Achievements aren’t bad, but they shouldn’t be used to measure how valuable you are as a person. Your value comes from something much higher than what you achieve. But so often, high achievers place so much emphasis on achieving that it comes at the expense of their being. 

You can connect with Dr. John Delony on Instagram or his website: www.johndelony.com

John’s top 3 book recommendations:

1. Lost Connections by Johann Hari
2. The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke Harris M.D.
3. I Don't Want to Talk About It by Terrence Real

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like and share strategies that will help you climb your next peak.

Today Dr. Parker joins Clint to discuss the dark side of perfectionism.

Having high standards is important, but it's equally if not more important to be aware of how your perfectionism harms yourself and others, steals your happiness, causes you to compare, and how perfectionists tend to live out of an internal state of fear and tension.

Everyone is a perfectionist to a degree. Some people are aware and have strategies to deal with it, and others react to the damage they have caused. Today's episode will help prevent the latter and give you some tools and strategies to overcome perfectionism's dark side.

The Problem:

1. Perfectionists procrastinate, waiting for something to be perfect
2. It's hard to enjoy victories when you're a perfectionist, you're still looking for the things you did wrong
3. Perfectionists can put impossible standards on themselves and others
4. Perfectionists can begin developing performance-based standards for relationships
5. Perfectionism is driven by fear
6. Perfectionism causes a lack of contentment
7. Perfectionism is responsible for an internal state of unease and tension that manifests in various physical issues
8. Perfection leads to judgment and/or comparison
9. Perfectionism destroys happiness

The Solution:

1. Go for good enough
2. Recount two wins per night
3. Try to do something messy
4. Limit your upgrades
5. Enjoy what you have
6. Know what situations in life are worth deliberating on
7. Give away some control
8. Get about 80% of your plan together and then launch

Resources Mentioned:

The Paradox of Choice, by Barry Schwartz - TED talk

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help people to redefine what success looks like, and share strategies that will help you climb your next peak.

Today Clint interviews Amber Williams who is a master brand strategist, a details-obsessed copywriter, and the proud momma of two high-energy toddlers. Her work at AmberWilliams.Co is dedicated to teaching savvy CEOs how to build their brands and write words that sell, without sounding like everyone else. Today Amber and Clint talk about why words matter, how listening is 75% of marketing, why sharing you values as a brand is important, and how strong messaging is the result of strong values.

You can connect with Amber on Instagram or on her website: www.amberwilliams.co

Amber's top 3 book recommendations:

1. The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
2. Big Magic  by Elizabeth Gilbert
3. Between The World And Me byTa-Nehisi Coates

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Are you a high achiever that wants to make the world a better place? Do you also suffer from back or neck pain, migraines, stomach problems, or chronic health issues that affect your life and work? If so, you will not want to miss this episode. Millions of people are suffering from a very real, but curable illness. Listen as Parker tells his incredible story about the doctor who saved his life. If you have questions about this condition, please reach out to Parker at parkershrink@gmail.com and Parker can point you to more resources.

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"Hank", our favorite former Navy Seal is back by popular demand to share 4 pillars to winning and leading in any environment. If you'd like to connect with him for coaching or speaking engagement., Hank's email is growthcoach@highgroundlife.com

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In this episode, we answer three important questions: 1) What is a mentor? 2) How do I identify and connect with one?, and 3) what is the best way to leverage that relationship?

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Founder of Fostering Success & Signficance, Doug Barnett, shares how he has poured into the foster community and why it is critical to our whole society.  If you're interested in getting involved or donating, call Doug at  916-813-1229.

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Willpower isn't a long-term success strategy. Listen in for the strategies to maximize your success by paying attention to your environment. For more insight, visit leadyoufirst.com

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ReisUP LLC founder and CEO shares her story of humble beginnings, early tragedy, and the perseverance that led her to being a Yale graduate, a Wall Street success, and now leading a company focused on financial literacy. You can find Tara on several news outlets, YouTube, or websites… https://www.reisupllc.com/ and https://www.tarafalcone.com/

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Is happiness subjective? Not according to research! Dr. Houston and Clint share the science and practical application behind what really drives a happy and fulfilling life in a two part series. To connect with Dr. Houston, visit his coaching website www.leadyoufirst.com. To follow the podcast, check out www.nextpeakpodcast.com

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How you see the world changes everything. Taro Arai from Mikuni Restaurants shares how he frames life experiences to stay happy no matter what is going on.  

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Is happiness subjective? Not according to research! Dr. Houston and Clint share the science and practical application behind what really drives a happy and fulfilling life in a two part series. To connect with Dr. Houston, visit his coaching website www.leadyoufirst.com. To follow the podcast, check out www.nextpeakpodcast.com

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Part two to episode 25. Former Navy Seal, "Hank" shares keys to success that he learned through his time in the military. He shares experiences that caused him to grow in every aspect of life.

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Ever wondered what sets experts apart from everyone else? In this episode Dr. Houston and Clint talk about what it takes to step up to mastery in life, business, sports, parenting, and relationships. To connect with Dr. Houston for speaking, coaching, or to read his blog, check out www.leadyoufirst.com. To find out what's coming up on the podcast, visit our website, www.nextpeakpodcast.com. 

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Former Navy Seal, "Hank" shares keys to success that he learned through his time in the military. He shares experiences that caused him to grow in every aspect of life. Don't miss this two part series that starts here and wraps up in Episode 27. 

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We have a lot of detractors and distractors in life... some of them are external and some are internal. In this episode, Dr. Houston and Clint share the idea of identifying and taming your inner saboteurs in order to hear what the wiser version of you truly has to say. The saboteur test mentioned in this episode can be found at www.positiveintelligence.com/assessments. Dr. Houston also has a few blog posts on this subject at www.leadyoufirst.com

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Got an idea of what you want to do and now just need a plan?Put on your seatbelt because Coach V is about to rock you with some energy, motivation, and practical takeaways... including the Coach V "6 All's." This dude is the real deal and we were so blessed to get the time with him. For more information on Coach V, check out his website, https://coach-v.com

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What's holding you back from reaching your next peak? It's likely a internal hurdle rather than an external one. The fear of failure can be intimidating and paralyzing. In this episode, Dr. Houston and Clint talk about the importance of not only having the courage to try and fail, but to embrace failure as possibly the best tool for growth. This mindset shift will change your personal and professional life and the lives of those around you! For more info check out www.leadyoufirst.com and www.nextpeakpodcast.com

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Doctor of Psychology, Life Coach, and Founder of AG Thrive joins Clint to talk about the power of legacy and how changing your thinking can propel you to new heights.  https://ag-thrive.com

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If you want to effectively lead your organization, your family, and yourself, developing skills with money is crucial. In this episode, Dr. Houston and Clint talk about how money management works and how succeeding with money translates to wins in other parts of your life. If you want more info, check out Dr. Houston’s blog on this topic https://leadyoufirst.com/money-is-a-leadership-skill/ or email Clint at clint@nextpeakcpa.com

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Clint talks with Monika Larson about her journey of why she left her career in research to take care of important life priorities and the path that led her to become a successful social media manager. Be sure to listen to the end for a few tips on how to use social media marketing to improve your business. Check out her website http://monikalarson.com 

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Have you wondered how people live a life of purpose and impact? It starts with the daily decisions that are easy to do and easy not to do. Dr. Houston and Clint discuss habits that can lead to the legacy you want to leave.  Please rate, review and share.

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Alex Judd founder of Path For Growth and former host of the Entreleadership Podcast, joins Clint to share his personal journey and the things that keep him on track. Check out Alex's new venture at pathforgrowth.com

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Clint and Dr. Houston discuss one key ingredient to success that often gets overlooked. Find margin in finances, relationships, work, and all things in life in order to truly live a fulfilled life. 

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Stephan Hogan, Nashville musician and songwriter, joins Clint to share his journey in music. He talks about the importance of laying the groundwork before "going for it" and opens up about the challenges he overcomes to reach his goals. Stephan even shares his latest song! You can catch up with Stephan at www.stephanhogan.com 

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Part 2 which began on episode 12. The foundation for life change and success starts with a plan. Clint and Dr. Houston share the why’s and how’s of life planning in the first episode of a two part series. The second part of the series will be released in two weeks as episode 14. If you would like more resources, please visit www.leadyoufirst.com.

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Chris Hogan is a speaker, teacher, Ramsey Personality, and bestselling author of Retire Inspired and Everyday Millionaires joins Clint to share a bit of his story and how he's learned to overcome challenges. To find out more about Chris or check out his books, visit www.chrishogan360.com

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The foundation for life change and success starts with a plan. Clint and Dr. Houston share the why’s and how’s of life planning in the first episode of a two part series. The second part of the series will be released in two weeks as episode 14. If you would like more resources, please visit www.leadyoufirst.com.

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Change is hard. Growth doesn't come naturally. Globally recognized Executive & Leadership Coach and CEO of See Strategies, Michelle Payne, joins us to illuminate the path to defining core values, creating healthy habits, and achieving meaningful success. Michelle teaches in the Executive Coaching program at UC Davis and has offered our listeners the opportunity to sign up for free coaching through the UC Davis program here... https://cpe.ucdavis.edu/coaching-client-application. If you're interested in receiving the Values List that Michelle references in Episode 11, email clint@nextpeakcpa.com and he'll get you a copy.  

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Season 2 starts next week for us here at The Next Peak Podcast. A few changes for the episodes and format.

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For many of us, we live in a very strange and uncertain time right now. With everything going on in the world with the outbreak of COVID-19 we wanted to make this episode special and full of hope. I had the wonderful experience of talking with Pastor Brian Hopkins from Bayside Church which is located here in Northern California. Brian and I talk about his experiences with his children, giving to others and taking this opportunity with social distancing to connect with those in your life in way you may not normally do.

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This week was a fun episode for myself and Dr. Parker Houston. I decided to flip the conversation and have him interview me. He did a great job hosting the episode and leading the conversation. I hope all of you enjoy getting to know myself a little more in this episode and hearing the various paths I took to get to this place.

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This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Phil Darke. As always, we discuss the various paths Phil went down and how he landed on the passions that fuel him today. Make sure to check out his podcast Think Orphan, https://thinkorphan.com/

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I had the great and unique opportunity to sit down with Ken Coleman from Ramsey Solutions and The Ken Coleman Podcast. He has helped thousands of individuals with his inspirational voice and leadership. We discuss everything from taking chances, where Ken got his start, what's next for him and some of his favorite books.

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This week I sit down with Dr. Brittny Howell where we talk about life, practicing medicine and trying to make the world a better place.

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This week on the podcast I sat down with Dr. Parker Houston and we discuss the value of self leadership. Dr. Houston shares his growth as a leader within his career and working with various staff.

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Rick Cogil shares his story of being able to help fundraise for charity organizations, working in various industries and being able to take the leap into a new career.

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I had a wonderful conversation with Victoria Flower for episode 3 of the podcast. She shares her story that is filled with dedication and focus in the various paths she has taken in life. She shares the ups and downs to the various career choices she has made over years and what has brought her to this current path.

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For the second episode of the podcast, I had the privilege to sit down with musician Jon Augustine. He shares the pivotal descions he made at a young age that lead him down a different and more fulfilling path.

There is a small audio issue for the first 30 minutes of the podcast but please don't let the discourage you from listening. Jon brought his guitar and gives a great live performance.

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Welcome to the first episode of The Next Peak Podcast! In this series of conversations I sit down with various guests to discuss what success means to them and how to redefine goals. Life has a way of pulling you in various directions. Sometimes those paths open opportunities that can fill your mind full of uncertainty. 

John Mcilreevy is a long time friend and my first guest. Please rate, review and subscribe!

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