Get A Grip On Life

The truckers aren't hauling beef to Ottawa right now, but we have some Hot Beef for ya. Beefing up the Freedom Convoy in Canada!

There's the obvious pandemic, and then there's this one. More Hot Beef than Tin Hat.

Have there ever been refugees FROM Canada? Puttin' on my Tin Hat today and saying - there are now!

We're not saying you shouldn't wear a mask.  But, ya know.

George is based in Central Florida, where he relocated in 2011 from Toronto, Canada. He is active on the local music scene with The Fire Jazz Trio, and with Swing Boutique, a quartet that specializes in “jazz with a French accent”, playing gypsy jazz and French standards. Maybe in the future we can do a jazz podcast, but this one is about the state of America.  George is almost as passionate about freedom as he is about Jazz.  Michael and George cover a lot of territory in this one.

Rahul Samuel is co-owner of security and health care provider Orion Security in the city of Brampton. He is also a life and fitness coach. Rahul and Michael discuss legal immigration, Covid 19, Trudeau and the aftermath of the election. They also review Rahul's strategy as candidate for the People's Party of Canada.

Colonialism has a long history.  Probably a lot older than the word itself.  I decided to put my tin hat on and hot beef it up.  Here's what you get. 

Britain used subterfuge, manipulation, and deception to drag The United States into the Second World War. No one would argue it happens still.  And with modern surveillance technology, how much more effective is it?

Daniel is the Central Ontario Regional Coordinator for The People's Party of Canada. Daniel and Michael discuss urgent topics that Canadians face in this election - some you already know about and some no one else will talk about. Give this podcast a listen, then on September 20th, you might put your X where you never have before!

René is your Markham-Stouffville candidate for the People's Party of Canada.  Michael and René discuss the various topics that so urgently need addressing in this election.  If you've been questioning the status quo, René and leader Maxim Bernier have the answers!    Connect with René: https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/rene_de_vries https://twitter.com/Rene_devries https://www.facebook.com/PPCMarkhamStouffville/    

Christian has been a coach since 2003...logging over 15,000 hours of 1-1 coaching. His quest to heal led him to personally used over three dozen different alternative modalities. He is an author, speaker, and educator, and has built one of the most holistic fitness-and-wellness business ever seen.   Christian joins Michael and Spenser to discuss free speech, personal choice and the present state of the vaccine roll out.   Connect With Our Guest:  • Website: https://www.truewholehuman.com/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truehealthandwholeness/ • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/truechristianelliot/

This episode’s topics range from racist vaccine trials to cleanliness of masks to crimes against humanity.

Michael and Spencer Miles talk about the societal effects of Covid 19. Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website: https://getagriponlife.com/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetAGripOnLife/ • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetAGripPodcast • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getagriponlife/ Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetaGripMichael • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getagripmichael/ • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-c-64380016/

A few quick thoughts on local restaurant policy. Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website: https://getagriponlife.com/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetAGripOnLife/ • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetAGripPodcast • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getagriponlife/ Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetaGripMichael • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getagripmichael/ • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-c-64380016/

The current pandemic has cast a pall over our guests life, and it works its way through the conversation between rocker Kirk Reed and Michael.    Kirk has been trying to release an album for the entire duration of this pandemic, and his album may have prefigured the current social climate; a mix of nostalgia, anger, and storytelling. Though Kirk doesn’t want to take full ownership of what any one song might mean, there’s room for the listener to own it as well.    Kirk lost his brother (who is also a bandmate) recently, and he’s still recovering from that in a lot of ways, he and Michael explore what it’s like to lose someone now and offer some fond memories as well.   There are a lot of parallels between 2021 and 1921, here’s hoping the next decade does have some roar in it.   *Note: this episode features frank discussion of suicide and addiction   Connect With Our Guest:  Website Facebook Twitter YouTube Soundcloud   Connect With Get A Grip On Life:  Website Facebook Twitter Instagram   Connect With Michael Colligan:  Twitter Instagram  LinkedIn

Sylvester Boyd returns as we discuss his first book, The Road from Money and the ideas that emerge from that reading. Sylvester will return once we’ve had a chance to read more his books. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Facebook• LinkedIn Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

This episode Michael spoke with Milton Campis of The Jiu Jitsu Dummies to talk about starting a conversational podcast from the perspective of a middle ranked martial artist. There’s a lot of MMA and BJJ talk before the two discuss his day job in marketing and how that relates to creating and selling content.   On more personal topics; Milton shares the story of recovering from a heart attack, his new charity work and his thoughts on childhood bullying.   Connect With Our Guest: • Website • Facebook • Twitter • YouTube• LinkedIn The Foundation • Facebook • Website   Connect With Get A Grip On Life:• Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan:• Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

This week we are joined by Tahnee Wolf and Allen David Reed, co-creators of the ten terrains of consciousness. They delve into what their methods mean, how they matter and how this can add perspective to your life. There’s a lot to unpack involving assumptions, processes, personal development, diction, past lives, society and government as well as the role of gender and psychedelics in personal improvement. This is a wild one, please enjoy. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• YouTube Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

A thought struck Michael in the car, and the problems we have have less to with power generators than those in power.   Connect With Get A Grip On Life:• Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan:• Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Sylvester Boyd Jr. is a geographer, historian and truth seeker. This conversation with Michael goes deep into questions of perspective, demythologizing America, leadership in non-monolithic societies, and overcoming resentment. Sylvester helps Michael dissect race relations from a longer perspective, asking questions about the loss of community after integration, wealth inequality, personal responsibility, the train of progress going off the rails, and whether we’ve been sold a bad bill of goods on higher education. Sylvester will return once we’ve had a chance to read his books. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Facebook• LinkedIn Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

As the election process continues, Michael had an idea to share about the nature of political discourse and the volatility of protest this year. Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Antwan Jenkins is working in youth choirs with a twist; some members of the choir need preaching to. We discuss the dynamics of leading a group of non-saved and faithful, and how that changes the congregation. Michael has a past with Evangelicals, which leads to a discussion of the value in ritual and the power of music in a service. Antwan shares his experience leading services in different racial groups and how he tries to hold music-focussed events that cross subgenres of gospel music. The church needs a bigger body, and the only way to do that is cross divides. Antwan also shares experience hearing God, the nature of the devil, the meaning of victory and how you can wear a story. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• YouTube• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Norman McCombs turned a period of grief and reflection into a therapeutic exercise as he wrote about his family history after losing his wife. Before the story of his historical work, he explains his understanding of true love and the nature of faith. Michael asks about finding reasons to be, reasons to write, and reasons to be irrational from time to time. On the topic of history, both Michael and Norman have family connections on either side of the American Revolution as well as the War of 1812, which leads to a discussion of Canada-US relations over time and the direction of America now. Norman also offers his insights into teaching engineers, the nature of compromise and starting a second book. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• His Book• UB Commencement Speech Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Anton Hyginus is back and he has had some time to develop his business and build on ideas that Michael offered him during his last session. Their conversation moves wildly from reaching people with his new album, collaborating in virtual offices, golf, trust, politics, addiction, christianity, learning, statistics and fate. This one is a genuine ride of chat, please enjoy. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• LinkedIn Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

You know a great band name when you see one, David Sprague of Psychopath Etiquette doesn’t have much of a story to tell about coming up with the name, but he does have some other ideas to share.   Michael asks him about his thoughts on professionalizing his family band, how the creative process works between himself and his brother and what he finds fulfilling about music.   David opens up about how his relationships have led to songs, how he fell in love with the idea of something and being hurt by the reality of it. He talks about vulnerability and honesty in art.   Beyond that, the two discuss Bob Dylan getting booed, creative pivots as business decisions, the fight against non-sense lyrics, setting goals, independence, and some ideas on podcasting.   Connect With Our Guest: • SoundCloud• Instagram • Facebook   Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Eric Jackson has been a pastor for more than ten years, but has now begun a journey of redefining his approach to faith - he calls it a feral christianity, something that he defines as an uncompromising, loving, listening church. It may not be what broader civilization wants it to be, but it’s what makes sense to do.   After getting some definitions out of the way, Michael asks about erosions of character, manipulations of the zeitgeist and other flaws he sees among practicing christians. Eric explains how he feels Christians should be acting right now, how faith should be informing anyone’s political actions, and how he pulls down fences non-believers might have.   They also ponder the nature of evil, how to embody Christ given current social upheavals, and the value of reading parables.   Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Instagram • Facebook   Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

The world of ‘Message Films’ and ‘Moral Media’ needs some shaking up, our latest guest Spencer T Folmar aims to do just that with his movie making. Sitting down with Michael he shares his journey from cynicism in PA to faith in LA, studying Job and JRR Tolkien and American culture and how that feeds into his filmmaking. As they discussed his two most recent films they also touched on contemporary politics, dealing with integrity, going further and doing more with their ideas and a whole range of subjects in between. This episode contains frank discussion of drug abuse and suicide. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Instagram• Twitter• LinkedIn• Facebook• Youtube Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Lawyer, prospective parliamentary candidate, and political blogger Jason Cherniak joins Michal to discuss the current climate of Canadian federal politics.   The two work through each of Trudeau's scandals while in office; from face-painted pasts, private islands, traditional garb gaffes, and the recent sole-sourced conflict of interest with the Kielburgers.   They also share the erosion of persuasion in politics at the leadership and news levels, critiques of Bill Morneau and Jason own changing attitudes as a Liberal.    Connect With Our Guest:  Website Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Facebook   Connect With Get A Grip On Life:  Website Facebook Twitter Instagram   Connect With Michael Colligan:  Twitter Instagram  LinkedIn

Liz Lewinson is an author, speaker, teacher, feminist advocate for meditation from California. Michael and to start by asking her how she defines feminism, which leads to a discussion of feminine power in change and fluidity. Meditation enters as she describes how to create balance in your own energies. Michael brings the talk back down to discussions of women in history and role models for women.   We also delve into psychic phenomena and how it impacts relationships, especially sexual ones.   What the two leave on is a call for change; we need more respect and appreciation for what makes us powerful; we need benevolence and wisdom.   Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Instagram• Twitter• LinkedIn• Facebook• YouTube   Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram   Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Billy Ray Rock is an artist of many styles and genres, so Michael had to ask him about his influences. That question turns autobiographical as shares stories about living in a one radio station town to how he builds playlists when he’s driving with his kids.   When it comes to connecting with an audience he shares two secrets; first is that it only takes one song to connect - and second, it only has to connect with the coolest person in a peer-group.   Beyond that, the two discuss the cycles of racial divides in the music industry, RNB dance going on the wane and the nature of telling the truth.   Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Instagram• Twitter• LinkedIn• Facebook• Soundcloud   Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram   Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Daniel Torchia is professionally, a communicator and personally, a man of faith. Right now he’s trying to maintain his sense of optimism as economies and people are suffering deeply. He shares with Michael what he’s been doing with his time at home; working to be a witness, to work within providence, and letting go of his illusions.   Beyond the pandemic, he also shares how to be a good citizen and speaker when social upheavals occur. Avoid knee-jerk reactions before endorsing any group, even though you might think their cause is in the right place. Find or build bridges for people to share.   They also delve into social media sins, the failings of some capitalisms, consumerism, and learning to appreciate words by spending time mute.   Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram   Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

While he advises young people, the fundamentals of money management is a lesson everyone seems to need. Robert Farrington is the founder and CEO of The College Investor and he joined Michael to talk about the two entangled crises of paying for an education: runaway costs at for-profit institutions, and the debt people are willing to carry an education they're ‘supposed’ to have.   This episode delves into a number of ideas about how to approach training, setting realistic goals, non-education alternatives, and the tangential benefits of going out of town for school.   They move beyond paying for education, and into bigger ideas about how debt can function like an addiction, the way we write and speak about millennials, the monthly payment mentality, and using your taxes like a report card. Connect With Our Guest:• Website• Instagram• Twitter• LinkedIn• Facebook• Youtube Connect With Get A Grip On Life:• Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan:• Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Paz Ellis and her family have lived a life and a half. She and Michael spoke about her journey toward writing, rediscovering her family through letters, how to honour three cultures as a 2nd generation American, and growing up under a cloud of depression. In terms of her writing career, she shares her process, her issues editors, and how to read bad reviews. Our conversation had to end early, but I hope we can do another one after her next book is out. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Instagram• Twitter• LinkedIn• Facebook Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Izzie paused his caravan to chat about the blues, his inspiration, how to tell stories and how to record imperfectly as he comes close to releasing his new record. He and Michael also talked about his career as a philosopher, and a teacher. Discussing favourite authors and how bad education can be. Jumping back into music, they consider musical lineages, copyright reforms, and how social media for musicians pushes fame more than creativity. This one travels pretty far, but it’s a good journey. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Instagram• YouTube Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

The Mayor took action on his own over the weekend, and then had to apologize for botching it. Our thoughts on this and other COVID events in the area. Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Michael took some time to reflect, and emerged with some thoughts on masks, leadership, evil and current times. He asked Greg from Get a Grip on Lighting to expand on all this. Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

JR Harber is an author of dystopian fiction, and like many in that genre looked at the world and wrote to his concerns about current events. Joining Michael for a chat leads to more talk about society than the actual book, running through the tradeoffs in how we live, reacting to modern leadership, moral solutions to social science problems, paranoia, carrot and stick legislation and culture as narrative. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Twitter Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Jed Jurchenko is an author, and family and marriage counselor. He joined Michael for a chat about stress, conflicts between couples and how to reconnect after a spat. Their discussion ranges from types of communication, emotional needs as physical needs, addiction, finding perspective in the middle of an argument, the demon of procrastination, the ambiguity of intentions, the nature of forgiveness, and anger as a check engine light. Whether it’s writing habits or communication habits there’s something to learn here. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• LinkedIn• Youtube Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Vincent Bowe is an entrepreneur, author, and fitness expert. Michael dives into his background as a young athlete and the culture and attitudes in competitive athleticism, before discussing building good gym habits and Vincent’s mindset as a trainer. As an author, the two discuss the trip to the circus inspiration behind his fantasy series The Elite Way and how he was encouraged to start with a simple novel, over trying to sell a screenplay or launch a web series. Vincent really believes in the message and ideas that motivated his story and it carries through across the web conference. Beyond trying to self-publish the novel, he’s working to take what he’s learned in the process and creating a business that helps others navigate publishing as well, this leads to a conversation about entrepreneurship and building businesses as its own reward. This a dynamic and varied conversation, thanks to Vincent for joining us. Connect With Our Guest: • Website• Facebook• Twitter • Instagram• Online Bookshop Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Kathleen O'Brien joins us to explain her techniques in stress reduction through stuff reduction. She tells Michael about her SPACE System of sorting, purging, assigning a home, containerizing and then equalizing the physical, digital, and emotional piles in your workspace. Kathleen is unique in the field of organizers in that she works with corporate clients, rather than individuals. She explains how bad habits tend to form from the top down and can be hard to break until there’s enough pain, struggle, and financial loss to force a drastic change. Growing enterprises may need organization officers as well as planners and operations managers. The pair also get into how Kathleen became a Professional Organizer, how she deals with clients' feelings of shame and guilt, and needs to keep secrets as part of her job. Connect With Our Guest: • Webpage • Facebook  • Instagram • LinkedIn  Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

While most of China's aggressions against its own people have been shows of dominance and suppressions of any non-state authority, would they be willing to harm their own people as a show of cultural superiority? Michael hops on a call with Greg and Scott to lay out a little what if scenario. Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website  • Facebook • Twitter • Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter • Instagram • LinkedIn

Michael has been doing some reading, a little research and is checking that against his recollections from December and has a few questions and concerns about Toronto's COVID-19 Situation. He invited Greg for Get a Grip on Lighting to share some ideas. Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website  • Facebook • Twitter • Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter • Instagram • LinkedIn

Guest, Heather Petersen says she’s ditched heels, but after speaking with her it’s more like she’s always kept one foot in a work boot, while the other was in something flashier. She’s started up a women-only mentoring and workshop facility on a working farm in rural Minnesota. Before Michael can even get to that, he and Heather talk about the need to balance your own energies and spaces, they don’t have to be equal, but they need to be in sync somehow. They do pause to contemplate how some of these things may sound to the skeptical ear, but the truth is that it works. Corporate life is a rough space for us all, and when unbalanced, unsupported people walk into leadership roles it’s just chaos feeding chaos. I am Not Alone podcast series https://iamnotalone.ca/stories/topics/i-am-not-alone-podcasts/ Connect With Our Guest: • Webpage: https://www.thefemmefarm.com/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheFemmeFarm/ • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/femmefarmfounder • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-petersen-1537484/ Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website: https://getagriponlife.com/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetAGripOnLife/ • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetAGripPodcast • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getagriponlife/ Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetaGripMichael • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getagripmichael/ • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-c-64380016/

Darren Boyd has been using work on his latest album as means of recovering from a car crash, literally Lifting the Curse he’s been under. In his chat with Michael he explores ideas about the end of the rock scene, movements and counter-movements in the arts, showing off talent as opposed to exercising creativity and other social media woes for musicians. They also discuss performing as operating a music business, producers as creative directors and performers as employees, and how to create personal material that’s open for the audience to interpret. Albums still matter because they’re slices of time for the creator and the world they’re creating for, check out Darren’s. Connect With Our Guest: • Website: https://darrenboyd.com/home • BandCamp: https://darrenmichaelboyd.bandcamp.com/ • Instagram: https://instagram.com/darren.michael.boyd • Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/THEwHORRORcanada Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website: https://getagriponlife.com/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetAGripOnLife/ • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetAGripPodcast • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getagriponlife/ Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetaGripMichael • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getagripmichael/ • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-c-64380016/

Michael took an interesting trip to his local community centre / library the other day, which led to a confrontation on policy with a librarian. This conversation between two people that don’t encounter quotidian sexism much, gets into the phenomena of ‘mansplaining’, and the unified jerk theory of human interaction. Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Michael has a patent and a few trademarks hanging in the office, but they may have been more trouble than they were worth. Devin Miller, IP lawyer for the small business world helps him out by explaining when and how you should seek out patents, why he prefers to work with small and medium firms, as well as the ins and outs of licensing and enforcement action. They also diverge into changes in fee structuring that may be coming down, the fun parts of law, and elder entrepreneurs as mentor investors. Connect With Our Guest:• Webpage• Facebook• LinkedIn Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website • Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter • Instagram• LinkedIn

Kim Diamond is a certified professional organizer, specialized in chronic disorganization. In this episode of the show she explains the difference between chronic clutter and hoarding behaviours; as well as how both can act as a symptom for a deeper condition. Over the course of her conversation with Michael, she gets into her principal that clutter is always clutter, regardless of how organized it might be; as well as how she confronts the fear of junking objects, coordinates with therapists, navigates family dynamics, the troubles with books and the key points between breaking a habit and shifting a behaviour. The two also unpack how hard it is to admit to being disorganized, how attachment doesn’t always mean value, and whether or disorganization in the digital realm is a real problem. The chat closes out with some banter about professional training and associations as career and education pathways.  Connect With Our Guest: • Webpage• Facebook• Youtube • Pintrest• Instagram• LinkedIn Connect With Get A Grip On Life:• Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan:• Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Brooke Write takes a holistic approach to coaching young entrepreneurs, focusing on spiritual, mental and physical well being as much strategy. In her conversation with Michael she explains her understanding of entrepreneurship, and from there they talk about sole proprietors getting trapped in working all the time in every department, the nature of ownership, and building systems instead of support teams. The pair get into the particular risks of being an entrepreneur and the sheer number of bad actors there are out there. Brooke’s methods start with healing. To manage your own business you have to manage your own life. Acknowledge the harms that have been done to you as objectively as you can, accept them, and overcome them; leave all your baggage, shame, and guilt behind. This is real work, and you have to want to go through the process of healing, not merely having been healed. Mental health and motivation also comes up as Michael gets into how you have to balance how your ego drives you to build, without letting it drive you to destruction. Turning to physical health, good habits are great to cultivate, but you may be better off eliminating your bad habits first - change your relationship with your vices. When it comes to working with millennials, the most labelled and diminished age demographic since Boomers circa the late 60s, Brooke started coaching with them in mind as a form of niche marketing, but there’s something to how this work and life balancing method that resonates more with young people. Connect With Our Guest: • Webpage• Facebook• Twitter• Pintrest• Instagram• LinkedIn Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

After a rough start Danny Collins is now a father, a coach and serial entrepreneur, and our conversation with him starts with fatherhood - both Michael and he are parenting four children and they’re having trouble with modern childhood - it feels like there are more vices available at an earlier age, devices don’t seem to be helping that much. What it really comes down to is shifting the bad statistics a person at a time.  Which leads into Danny’s coaching style, both as a sports coach for his children and for his clients, he tries to empower people to make better choices and be better versions of yourself. From there the pair delve into entrepreneurship as building systems anyone can use versus building support networks for star employees, the role of salesmanship in business building, and how to work like you plan on leaving. They also talk about masculinity, elephants, yardwork, and how womanizing changes as men age. Connect With Our Guest: • Webpage• Twitter• Facebook• Instagram Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn

Professional Hockey in North America is having a moment of consequence, with some of the toxic behaviour of some coaches, players, and broadcasters being brought to light.   Michael pulls in recurring guest, Luke Sellars to offer his perspective as a former professional player and current spiritual coach. They delve into all-male spaces, sports culture, soul selling and how coach-manager-owner hierarchies reinforce bad behaviours. And this is starting younger and younger as youth hockey become more commercial and competitive.   The chat turns philosophical as they discuss how the shape of arenas can enhance violent behaviours, the camaraderie of insults being built on sensitive ground, before they go back to the concrete with Don Cherry’s dismissal from Coach’s Corner. There’s a difference between judging and passing judgement and what we all need to continue to participate in the public sphere is more compassion, a culture that takes time to teach those who make errors, and more willingness to vulnerable.   Being yourself is the key to being better, own your experiences. We weren’t expecting the direction of the conversation to turn to the themes of Luke’s other episodes, but here we are.   This episode does contain frank discussion of sexual abuse and rape.   Connect With Luke: Webpage Instagram Youtube Connect With Get A Grip On Life:  Website  Facebook Twitter Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan:  Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

You wouldn’t expect a discussion with a university professor who moonlights as a paid tabletop roleplaying game master would start with a discussion of fatherhood, but in a way it really comes around to being part of the tone. Dr Ian Slater returned to his hobby of running Dungeons & Dragons because his son asked him to play with his other friends; this eventually turned into a side-business charging to facilitate one-shot games and full-length campaigns for parties, afterschool programs and corporate team building events. He and Michael get into the difference between acting and roleplaying, how the hobby can be a place to experiment with new headspaces and habits, a team builder and a conflict resolution engine and how that can apply to business. Role playing games can do so much in the guise of play - their flexible structure leaves players to examine all aspects of a problem and work out on their own, and casting yourself into another set of shoes can really build empathy. These sorts of habits can crossover into real life, and entrepreneurship is as much a role of the dice as casting magic missile. This conversation moves around a lot and gets into all sorts of interesting corners about pool problems, twitter, overcoming trauma, working as a post-secondary educator and how children interact. Connect With Our Guest: • Webpage• Twitter Connect With Get A Grip On Life: • Website• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram Connect With Michael Colligan: • Twitter• Instagram• LinkedIn