100 Inspiring Voices with Chris Bordoni

In Season 2 of Reinvented, we explored how to design a better life - one that makes you happier, healthier, and more fulfilled. I hope you enjoyed this season, and stay tuned to learn more about Season 3! Get in touch Newsletter: chrisbordoni.com/newsletterLinkedIn: cbordoniWeb: chrisbordoni.com

In this conversation, I speak with Dr. Marisa G. Franco, a friendship expert, about what healthy relationships look like, how friendships help us to know ourselves better, and how to start making better connections.

Join me as I speak to Carrie Stiers about the role intuition plays in our lives, how crises can open us up to new ideas, and how she found the courage to design her own life.

I speak with Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author of Learning to Pray, about the power of prayer and how anyone can get started.

What's it like to experience burnout as a professional working in a high-stress environment? How can mindfulness training, yoga, and other activities improve the quality of your life? I speak with Dr. Phil Pierorazio of Johns Hopkins to learn more.

Heather Darwall-Smith, author of The Science of Sleep, joins the show to explain what good sleep looks like and how to get more of it.

We all know that diets don't work, but is there a (finally) a better way? In this episode, I speak with Josh Hillis, author of Lean and Strong, about how eating guidelines and eating skills can help reset your relationship with food.

What if we're not meant to get old? What if we're meant to feel good and move well for our entire lives? To learn more, I speak with Tim Anderson, founder of Original Strength, about the movement he started to help people remember how to move well and live better lives.

Are you part of the 2% of people that take the stairs instead of using the escalator? If not, what might you gain from adding a bit of discomfort back into your life?

Is there value in committing when everyone else is trying to keep their options open? What does it take to overcome FOMO?

To kick-off Season 2, I speak with my friend and founder of The New Happy, Stephanie Harrison, about the science of finding true happiness in life.

In Season 2 of Reinvented, we're exploring how to design a better life - one that makes you happier, healthier, and more fulfilled.

To conclude Season 1, I share my personal story of facing adversity and what I've learned along the way.

Do we learn more from our failures than our successes? What's the relationship between failing, learning, and growth? And what might we learn from a fellow millennial whose done and seen it all?

What's it like to battle addiction? Why is it so hard to get sober? And what's on the other side of recovery? To find out, I speak with Erica C. Barnett, author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery.

In Season 1 of Reinvented, we're exploring what happens when adversity strikes - from finding new sources of strength to rethinking your identity, and beyond.

Overview Welcome to Reinvented, a podcast about the art and science of transformation. Highlights In this brief introductory episode, I share a bit about: The premise and format of the showA few reasons why it's worth your time to listen each weekWhat to do next! Get in touch Newsletter: chrisbordoni.com/newsletterInstagram: @chrisbordoniLinkedIn: cbordoniWeb: chrisbordoni.com

At some point, we're all called to act. This week's guest decided to heed the call. Her action - which seemed impossibly small at the time time - has snowballed into a full-fledged movement.

What's the difference between receiving care, extending care, and developing self care? Why are all three essential, and how might our lives be better if we learned to balance all three?

Every community has people that are changing the world for better. Maria Kim, President & CEO of Cara, is one of those people. I speak with Maria about what makes her organization unique, how Cara helps people get back on their feet, and what's next for Maria.

Overview Megan-Claire Chase loves to talk. But after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Megs found that her anxiety made it hard to speak up. So what'd she do? She started a blog. Today Megs - also known as "Warrior Megsie" in the cancer world - is a voice for change and hope, writing about chronic pain, infertility, anger, race, and much more. In this conversation, I speak with Megs about why she started writing, what keeps her going, why she doesn't want to be labeled as a black cancer survivor, and what she's found most rewarding. Highlights 7:15 - "It's all for me. I think that's what's so authentic because I don't write for clicks or likes or retweets." 8:15 - "A lot of times people see as one way. I have a very big personality... but I'm actually really, really serious at times. And I hurt a lot but I don't always show that. I tell people I'm winning Oscars every day because you never really know how I'm feeling until I write it out." 9:15 - "I've unfortunately dealt with so much that's been difficult that the only way I can really release that stress and that negativity or that worry and frustration is through writing it." 10:30 - "I think as I've gotten older I don't care, really, what other people think. I'm not worried someone's going to be like 'Oh my god, this is horrible!' I'm not writing for that. It's literally just to release these emotions. Whether it's happy, whether it's sad, who knows what I'm going to come up with. But it's me at the end of the day." 12:30 - "I had to do what I had to do so I wouldn't go crazy, and it just happened to be writing." 14:15 - "I just feel it's so unfair to have that pressure to be positive in front of everyone, so when I wrote those particular pieces I was helping another person make space for that." 16:15 - "What a lot of people don't realize within the cancer world is a lot of times it can cause chronic pain." 19:30 - "Yeah I'm angry because this body is alien to me. I don't know it." 26:15 - "Just because you survived doesn't mean you're totally okay, and I felt it was important that people could see that." 28:30 - "When I look in the mirror, I see all the other stuff that's mixed in with me... so I get really upset when people see me as one thing. I feel like in the cancer world I do not want to be labeled the black cancer survivor." 31:30 - "Stop making all these assumptions and just ask the question." 32:15 - "I just don't like the idea of a lot of organizations trying to make me a token." Resources A few of my favorite posts from Megs' blog, Life on the Cancer Train:"And I Rise Up""Mixed Fragility""The Problem with Words""Decade of Job Growth Comes to an End, Undone by a Pandemic" in the New York Times Get in touch Newsletter: chrisbordoni.com/newsletterTwitter: @ChrisBordoniInstagram: @chrisbordoniLinkedIn: cbordoniWeb: chrisbordoni.com Thanks so much for listening!

What does it mean to have a gift? What if that gift isn't easily explained or accepted? And if it was you, would you have the courage to use your gift to help and heal others?

What is it about comedy that speaks to so many people who've had difficult childhoods? For Jimmy Carrane, improv saved his life.

If you put good people in a bad situation, who wins? To find out, I spoke with Dr. Philip Zimbardo, creator of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment.

When do you feel out of place? Is there anything too serious to be joked about? What are you willing to fight for and why? In this conversation, I speak with Michael Tennant, Founder of Curiosity Lab and the creator of Actually Curious, a hugely successful card game that's designed to spread empathy.

I speak with Dave Fuehrer, 2X cancer survivor and CEO of GRYT Health, about losing one's identity, turning inward, and the upside of adversity.

After an attack on the U.S. Capitol, months of protesting, and nearly a year in quarantine, it's time to start talking about rebuilding community in America. In this conversation, I speak with Shaylyn Romney Garrett about the future of American society, her latest book with Robert Putnam, and her personal quest to finding belonging in her own life.

High-highs and low-lows. Lou Carlozo has seen his share of both. I speak with Lou about life as a musician and rockstar journalist, as well as some of the tougher things he's had to overcome in li

What can we learn about resilience from 9/11, Fukushima, and Hurricane Katrina? What do experts believe enables post-traumatic growth? And how might this change how we raise our kids? To find out, I speak with superstar psychologist, Dr. Rony Berger.

Finding your tribe. Being there for others. Laughing at things that aren't that funny. I speak with Andrea Sieminski, a young breast cancer survivor, about friendships forged through disease.

Despite being attacked in one of the vilest ways imaginable, Carmen Tarleton's story is one of forgiveness, incredible resilience, and of finding meaning and purpose in the bleakest of circumstances.

How many of us are living a life of fear? How often do we miss out on life's great joys because we're afraid to step forward? This conversation is about learning to say "yes" to the things that scare you.

What if we're not meant to get old? What if we're meant to feel good and move well for our entire lives? To learn more, I speak with Tim Anderson, founder of Original Strength, about the movement he started to help people remember how to move well and live better lives.

Can an extended period of time away from work transform your life? To find out, I speak with DJ DiDonna, founder of the Sabbatical Project, about his research, his personal experiences, and the movement that he's building.

In this interview, I speak with Stephanie Harrison, founder of The New Happy, about the Old Happy, why it doesn't work, and how to start living your New Happy.

What would it be like to find out that your child has a serious genetic disorder? To find out, I speak with Allison Pullins about her son's diagnosis with Marfan syndrome and how the experience changed her life for the better.

Erika Taubner Gold was born in 1932 in Budapest, Hungary, 4 months before Adolph Hitler came to power. As a girl, Erika watched Hitler's rise, culminating in Hitler's eventual invasion of Hungary in 1944. In Erika's words: "In order to survive, you had to be at the right place at the right time, you and to be the right age, you had to have somebody helping you, and you had to be very lucky. That's the only way any of us survived." This is Erika's story.

We're off this week, but we have some amazing episodes coming up! Be sure to check out who's joining the show and let me know if you have ideas for future guests. See you soon!

As a young man, Rudy Corpuz Jr. was a high school drop-out, gang member, and drug dealer. Today, Rudy is the Executive Director of United Playaz, a youth-led violence prevention program based in San Francisco. This is his story of turning pain into hope.

In this conversation, I speak with Zach Osborne, a former Army Ranger, about dealing with uncertainty, how his faith provided hope during challenging times, and why being wounded in Afghanistan was ultimately a gift.

"There were some lessons I was supposed to take from that day and I needed something like a cardiac arrest to get me thinking in the right way."

How can businesses create more benefit and do less harm? I speak with John Montgomery, executive producer of Awakening a Force for Good, about his upcoming film.

Rahm Emanuel famously said "never let a good crisis go to waste." In this conversation, I speak with another Illinoisan, Julie Hile, who has spent the last 30 years helping transform organizations in heavy industry who have encountered "near misses" or catastrophic safety events.

Isn't it amazing how a single event can change your life forever? Join me as I speak with Derick Carter about his journey and ultimately learning how to live from the heart.

Why is it so hard for governments to learn from failure? I speak with Josh Sorin from the Centre for Public Impact about ways local governments can re-think failure and unleash civic innovation.

How do professionals think about adversity, trauma, and resilience? To find out, we speak with Michelle Palmer, the Executive Director of the Wendt Center for Loss & Healing in Washington, DC.

Ever dream about quitting your job and doing something completely different? We speak with Sailini Lohia about leaving Corporate America to start the Fiore Montessori School.

By age 16, Bob Berschinski had been kicked out of high school, disowned by his family, and had lost his dream of becoming a Marine. We talk about his involvement in the civil rights movement, protesting against the Vietnam war, and serving a purpose bigger than yourself.

Just five weeks into his first deployment, Dan Berschinski stepped on an IED, leaving him severely wounded and facing a long road to recovery. We speak with Dan about his time in the Army, losing one's identity, sources of resilience, and what it's like to rehab with other soldiers.

What inspired a podcast about adversity, resilience, reinvention, and rebirth? Learn more about Chris' personal and professional experiences in this brief introductory episode.