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The Paradise fires have been devastating. And now we are in the aftermath having to cleanup, rebuild and wrestle with what has happened. People directly affected by the fires still need a lot of support. So while the media isn’t
This episode explains nonviolent communication The term “nonviolent communication” may sounds a a little weird.If if there’s nonviolent communication, what does that make the rest of communication? This episode digs in and explores this idea of nonviolent communication, and it’s
At Thanksgiving time, we are supposed to be thankful. Sometimes we gloss over the thankfulness.We say, “Ok, I”m thankful, now please pass the turkey.” Other times, when things aren’t really going well, we can’t imagine being thankful. In this episode
Sheltering in place might be pretty stressful for a lot of us. This episode talks about how to deal with stressful situations, whether it’s sheltering in place, loss of income or other.
Crises happen. Often we can feel at a loss for what to do. Fear takes hold and sometimes we think our world is going to end. Others want to help which is noble. This episode uses the Paradise fires as
There is a lot of blaming going onThis blaming is fueling anger and discontentmentBlaming happens in our relationships… in our families… in our workplaces… in our communities… and in our country Yet blaming doesn’t fix the problem. Rather it hinders
Fear can be debilitating. It can also be healthy. Sometimes fear is warning us of danger, and other times it’s a reaction to something where there is no danger at all. This episode’s topic is all about fear, what to
Parenting is hard. Unfortunately our “stuff” can come up in the middle of our parenting, and it affects our ability to parent well. This episode shares some of this “stuff” that can come up, how change these unhelpful patterns, and
This episode explores some of the lessons taught at the Unchained Men event. We talk about our masks, the meaning we assign to things, and your calling among other things.
We aren’t taught how to feel feelings. Emotions come up, and we try to hide them, pretend they don’t exist, or we let them make our decisions for us. Maybe our emotions invite us to just react without thinking. This
Sometimes we don’t really think about the power of community. Community can be there to support us through life’s ups and downs as well as be a place of connection. This episode highlights a guest, Tara (my sister), who had
Whether your are religious or not, there is a sense that we are called. Each of us is called to be the best version of us that we can be. We are called to a higher purpose, perhaps to achieve
When events happen in our life, we often are left with big blanks – huge holes of missing information. We are left wondering why did that person do or say that. Our mind can’t stand not knowing. So we fill
Authenticity and influence are related. At the higher levels of influence, our influence goes up the more authentic we are with people. We are taught to appear like we’ve got it all together, otherwise people won’t follow us, but the
We often get so caught up in our own world view, that it’s nearly impossible to see a different perspective. Our perceptions are colored by our beliefs. Our beliefs are colored by our perceptions. And sometimes it’s like we are
There are things we go after in our life where we put in a halfhearted effort. We just the minimum. And then there are other things in our life that we go after with a no holds barred, “whatever it
Making change in your life can be challenging and uncomfortable. Sometimes things are really complex and it’s difficult to determine who to make the change. And often, we’d like other change, and that is even more challenging. Listen to hear
We all have a conditioning that tells us we need to appear a certain way to be loved, accepted, respected, and admired. So we show up with a need to: be right appear perfect be powerful appear like we’ve got
Often times we are so caught up in trying to be heard, that we miss out on affirming other people. Others then feel like they’ve not been heard and start pushing hard to be heard as well. We end up
While it may seem like our life is already laid out for us by circumstances or other folks, we really do have a lot of say in what we do with our life. If you were to plan and design
Is leadership inborn? Can it be learned? Is leadership what you do, or is it who you are? What is leadership? Leadership is influence. And many of us want more influence. We want more influence over our kids, our co-workers,
There are good leaders and bad leaders. Sometimes the real leader isn’t even the person in the front of the room. What kind of leader are you? What is leadership? Is it inborn, or can it be taught? How do
Leaving a Legacy is the “stuff” you leave behind- a pile of money, your possessions, your estate- maybe it’s leaving a library in your nameLiving a Legacy is not just what you do, it’s who you are. Ideally you’ll do
Many of you folks have talked about wanting to write a book. It’s been a back burner project for you for years. Well, now is your chance to get started on your book. Today we are talking about all the
Stories are powerful. People remember stories. Telling your stories is a great way to pass on the wisdom you’ve learned over the years. And there is an art to telling stories. Today we are talking about how to tell your
We’ve all heard that we should set goals. So we set goals, but we’re not even sure why we’re setting them other than someone said we should. Without goals, our life is busy filled with activity but there’s no clear
We all desire a certain level of influence over our world. We desire to raise and influence our kids so that they live productive lives. We want influence in our workplace, to make a contribution. And we would like to
What we believe and how we interpret the world directs our whole life. It influences where we work, where we live, who we marry, how we feel on a regular basis, and more. Today we are talking about the mindsets
We often want our success to flow easier. We want to be better parents spouses. We want success to come easily at work and in our business. Our success often depends on how well others cooperate with us. People seem
There’s a lot of angst about what’s going on out there. Our thoughts as we read the news and social media are “He’s doing what? They’re doing that? That’s so messed up!” We feel outraged. We are right and they
Being able to be vulnerable is a big first step to breaking through, well .. just about anything. Today listen to Raul Lopez, Jr and I as we talk about why it’s important to be vulnerable. We will talk about
On this weeks episode of The Impact Hour: Passion and Purpose with Rena and Deidre. Today learn from two women, Rena and Deidre, who are each following their passion and their purpose to make a difference in peoples lives. We
On this week on The Impact Hour: Relationship Essentials with Michael Baggett Meet Michael Baggett, host of Money 105.5’s “Relationship Essentials” show. Michael counsels couples and will provide great tips for improving all kinds of relationships. Listen live: on the
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour. Recommitting to Your Goals. It’s not too late to rock your goals in 2018. Maybe you got started and kind of stopped working on a goal. Or maybe you meant to get
Meet Kim McLaughlin. Kim empowers people to end emotional eating. She’ll be providing tips on how to stop struggling with food and enjoy a peaceful satisfying relationship with food instead. This isn’t about dieting because diets don’t create long-term change.
When growing up, men were often told that strong emotions are too much. Anger is not ok. Exuberance is too loud. They learn they need to be strong and tough. So men learn to put on a persona. They project
Did you know that cultivating compassion is beneficial for you? It will help you to have a better experience of yourself, of other people and of life in general. Learn from Christine deGuzman how to develop more compassion for yourself
Parenting is so important and as parents, we want to do a great job. Parents’ impact on their child is huge and it lasts for life. So we will explore how to make that the most positive impact possible. Listen
Today on The Impact Hour: Seek First to Understand. Everyone wants to be understood, so you will be greatly appreciated when you seek to understand. Today you’ll learn some tips and tools to understand people better. Improving this skill will
Today on The Impact Hour: Unchained Men As men, we are often left to figure out life on our own. We learn that we need to be tough, self-reliant, and strong. We get backward ideas about what it means to
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour: How to Be More Influential. How would you like to be more influential? As a parent? Friend? Spouse or significant other? Employee or business owner? You can be the kind of person
Today on The Impact Hour: Take Back the Power. We’ll enjoy more freedom and power when we see how we are contributing to our circumstances and choose to see and create the many options that are available to us. Life
On The Impact Hour: Awesome Holiday Visits. Are you going to be visiting with people for the holidays? We will explore some great ways you can connect with family and friends, build relationships and enjoy your time together. If your
Today, Wednesday at 2 PM on The Impact Hour: Go for It! We are super excited to talk about how you can reach your goals. What do you really want in life? What’s really important to you? What do you
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Masks We might not be aware, but we often wear a mask. We received messages early in our lives that told us we needed to be–or at least appear–a certain way in
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Getting, Giving, Taking, and Forcing Giving and receiving are supposed to be a good experience, but often that good experience gets ruined by the way things are done. In this episode we
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Communication with Dolores Davis Meet Dolores Davis, communication coach. She will share her wisdom and experience and tips regarding communication so you can communicate better with family coworkers and more. As Dolores
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Failure and Success. Our views on success and failure can hold us back or move us forward. Listen today to expand your thinking so you can have more in your life. You
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Your Life’s Work. We will explore how powerful and rewarding it is to have a specific life’s work. This will be something significant that will live on beyond you and will positively
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, The Same Old Problem. Are you plagued by a problem that keeps happening in your life, over and over? No matter what you do it seems to happen again and again. Maybe
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Your Impact Affects You, Too. How other people experience you very much influences how they respond to you. So if you’re not thrilled with what you’re getting back from other people, let’s
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Creative to the Core with Deidre Trudeau. Creative expression gives voice to your soul. When you access your creativity you will experience many benefits such as more success, better problem-solving, richer relationships,
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, How to Have More of a Positive Impact. You can have more of a positive impact in your life. It starts with being truly present with yourself and with other people, then
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, How to be More Hearable. Do you ever feel like people don’t hear you? Perhaps you can be more “hearable” so people will be more receptive to what you say. We will
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Happy birthday to The Impact Hour! We started the show a year ago, so it’s time to celebrate! We’ll take a look at this past year and what it takes to make
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Moneywise with Susan Willson. Meet Susan Willson of MoneyWise Advisors. She is passionate about helping you to thrive rather than just survive. She has lots of great tips and strategies to help
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, The Experience You Create. How you think and how you choose to respond powerfully creates your experience of life. Furthermore, you help shape other people’s experiences, too. Learn how to create better
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Paint Outside the Lines. Life is like a coloring book, and you get to pick how to fill it in. We encourage you to express your uniqueness and your awesomeness to have
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Leadership. You are a leader, or at least you can be. Learn four essential things about good leadership and expand your idea of what it means to lead. You’ve got what it
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Strengths with Brandon Miller. Meet Brandon Miller of 34 Strong Coaching and Consulting. Brandon is helping people discover and utilize their strengths. Whether you are a CEO, stay-at-home mom, sales person, or
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Mindfulness with Christine de Guzman. Meet Christine de Guzman of Here Now Mindfulness Coaching. You will learn about the practice of mindfulness where you can be more compassionately present with yourself and
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Healing from Corporate. Employers have a huge impact on their employees. Whether it’s a for-profit corporation, nonprofit organization or government job, some of us have had pretty crummy experiences that affect our
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Freedom. We enjoy a lot of freedom here in the U.S. We’ll celebrate our various freedoms. We’ll also examine where we may be limiting our own freedom and see what we can
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Defending the Cause. Meet Tiffany Loeffler of Defending the Cause Regional Alliance. DCRA is doing amazing work coordinating between agencies to strengthen families and protect children in the Sacramento area. You’ll learn
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, You Get What You Focus On. Be careful where you let your thoughts go. Do you want problems or solutions? Do you want possibilities or limitations? Do you want positive or negative?
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Thriving through Curiosity. Sometimes we judge people without meaning to. But just accepting can be hard. Try this on for size: get curious and really seek to understand the other person. You
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Hijacked by Emotions. Does it seem like your emotions have a life of their own? Do anger, fear and sadness make you uncomfortable? Learn how to be with your feelings and the
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Affirmations. Check out the benefits and how-to’s of affirmations so you can get more of what you want in your life. Replace old messages and ways of thinking that are holding you
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, What People Need. If there’s something you really want to do, yet you’re not doing it, maybe you have a more pressing need you need to take care of first. We will
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Wrestling with Passions. Making a difference you’re passionate about is a beautiful thing. And sometimes it doesn’t come easily. Here we share our journey to combine both of our passions to benefit
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Mercy Multiplied. Meet Kerri Phillips of Mercy Multiplied. This organization is helping free people from life-controlling things like sex trafficking, drug addiction and alcoholism, eating disorders and depression. Learn what it’s like
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Visible or Hiding Out. Being visible–letting people see the real you–has tremendous benefits. Hiding out has costs. What does it look like to be visible or hide out? How can you be
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, How You’re Being Matters. People respond to you based on the way you are “being.” How you are being influences if people want to be around you, if they like you, if
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, What Love Looks Like. Learn how to express love on a deeper level in serving people and in interpersonal relationships. You can express love in a way other people perceive and that
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Natural Medicine with Dr. Lanzarotta. Your health affects not only your quality of life but also your capacity to have a positive impact on other people. Dr. Lanzarotta has over 30 years
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Self Care. Taking good care of yourself will allow you to have more of a positive impact. We will explore some great topics like taking care of your body, setting boundaries with
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, The Art of Reframing. Reframing gives us a new perspective on problems. Learn how to reframe all kinds of things to give yourself a more positive and expansive experience in life. You
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, Other People’s Perspectives. Taking someone else’s perspective can be highly beneficial for us and for other people. It helps us to be more kind and to get better results in our relationships.
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, The Journey with Tonya Tyus Parker. Making a significant difference in the lives of other people is a journey. Tonya richly shares her experience building women up, from her experience as a
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, what lights you up? For some people the light has gone out of their eyes, like they’ve lost their joy for life. Maybe you can relate. Maybe you used to love your
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, redeem your tough experiences. Learn how you can make something good come from your difficult life experiences. Life can bring us many hardships: abuse, loss, medical problems and more. But we can
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, life lessons from the Oroville Dam. There are some really great lessons to be learned from the recent crisis regarding Oroville Dam’s spillway. We apply some principles we observed from that situation
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, how to have more meaningful connections with people. We all long to be seen, heard and understood. Then we feel like people get us. That’s how we can create more meaningful connections
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, the Burrito Principle for powerful problem solving. Learn a powerful tool to come up with great solutions to some of life’s most challenging problems. When you can’t seem to find a solution
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, don’t just take a stand, BE a stand. There’s a big difference between taking a stand for something (once or occasionally) and BEING a stand for something you care about deeply. When
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, what’s fake and what’s real? Click here to listen. What’s real and what’s fake these days? There’s fake news and fake food. We can even have fake–or at least shallow–impact and connections
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, how do you measure your life? We will explore different criteria you can use to define what it means to have a life that’s well-lived. It’s better to ask this question now
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, learn how to set great goals. ‘Tis the season for goal setting. But not all goals are created equal. Learn how to set — and achieve — really great goals that support
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, we share great mindsets to move you forward in making a positive impact. You will learn new ways of thinking that will help you create more positive change in your own life
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, learn what you can do to make it a great Christmas. Sometimes spending time with family over the holidays can be… challenging. We’ll give you some great tips for enjoying better interactions
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, you will learn how you can get unstuck so you can make the amazing difference you were meant to make. You are capable of greatness! However, there are some common reasons why
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, we’re taking a close look at mindsets that’ll move you forward in making an impact. We will explore mindsets that are essential for making a big difference in the lives of other
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, we explore how you are affecting other people. Do you know your impact on other people? Really? We have found that people consistently overestimate their positive impact and underestimate their negative impact.
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, we dive deep into the benefits of being thankful. Thankfulness isn’t just for Thanksgiving. We should practice it year-round. We will examine how what we choose to focus on shapes our life
There are many opportunities around us to help people by fixing their circumstances. But if you want to create some serious change, you’re going to need to go deeper. In this show we’ll examine what it takes to fix root
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, learn how to find your life’s purpose. Your life’s purpose is a beautiful blend of both discovery and choice. We’ll explore the process of getting the clarity you desire: thoroughly explore your
Does making your own unique, positive impact sound great, but you’re just too busy for it? Learn how you can have more time for what’s really important to you. This conversation will go deeper than just time management. We’ll explore
In this episode, we talk about getting to the highest version of you so you can hold the highest good for others. To make the deepest impact we can, we must become the highest version of ourselves so we can hold
It’s not a matter of “if” but “when” you will experience a difficult event. In this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, we interview Faydra Koenig, America’s Crisis Coach. Faydra is an example what it can look like to follow
On this week’s episode of The Impact Hour: “What Does THAT Mean???” People say and do things that leave a lot of room for interpretation. What do you make those things mean? Find out how to choose new meanings that
In this week’s episode of The Impact Hour, we learn what it takes to become an expert at making the difference you want to make. You’ve got what it takes to seriously change lives for the better. What differentiates you
This week’s show is all about sharing your message with the world. You have something valuable to share with people. Maybe it’s a life lesson you’ve learned that other people need to hear. If you could share a message with
We are rockin’ our fourth episode of the The Impact Hour talking about your passions. We talk about why it’s so important to connect to passions when living a legacy. Topics include: The need to get out of our comfort zone
On this episode of The Impact Hour, we talk about what it takes to change the person – level 6 on the Impact Ruler. Topics: Changing the person is better than changing their circumstances What changing the person changes We
On this episode of The Impact Hour, we talk about what it takes to live intentionally. Topics: Get clear Make a decision Set goals Don’t jump to solutions Raise your commitment Get other people involved The tyranny of the urgent
Our first episode, whoohoo! Topics: What do we mean by the word, “impact” John’s Story Rena’s Story How do you measure your life – the Impact Ruler