GROWTHSWAG Podcast

Derek Teel, owner and founder of Dialedhealth.com joins me this episode to have a broad ranging and fun conversation about his business journey and pivot to online in the face of Covid, as well as about riding bikes, sports specific strength and conditioning, and injury prevention. I am a member and huge fan of Dialedhealth and have been using his service to guide and motivate me to get stronger OFF the bike in order to make me a better rider overall and have more fun ON the bike. Not only am I a proud member of the #Dialedfam, I am just a huge fan of Derek's - he is a great guy and source of inspiration for me and many. You can find derek on IG at: @dialedhealth and online at Dialedhealth.com.

This week my dear old friend and highly accomplished sales leader, Mark Fleming joins me to discuss the art of setting Big, Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG), and how to create a leadership style and personal brand around leading teams to accomplish bigger things than they ever thought they could do. Mark breaks this down and also speaks to how align and frame goals in a way that is in sync with the unique personalities and motivations of the team. If you would like to learn more about BHAGs, look here. I hope you enjoy this one! -Adam

In this episode I have Dr. Mindy Pelz join me for a fun discussion about Fasting and how it can be used to increase your wellness and turn on your body's self-healing switch. Dr. Mindy is a thought leader on the topic of fasting, and runs a successful wellness practice. She is also the best selling author of "The Reset Factor" and I love her youtube channel and get all my info on the science behind fasting there! I hope you enjoy this one, and let me know if you have any questions!

This week my friend Craig Walker joins me to discuss taking risks, and his growth journey which includes founding and selling multiple successful businesses leading up to his current success at Dialpad. But perhaps most timely, we discuss his perspective on how to rise above fear and lead teams and organizations in the uncertain times we are currently operating in. Craig is currently founder and CEO at Dialpad, a cloud-based platform for enterprise communications that works across all devices. Dialpad has over 380 employees spread across 10 offices around the globe and over 65,000 customers. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did! -Adam

A short message as we all try to do our best during this global crisis. In fact, it's a huge opportunity to grow if you can look at it through that lens. In this episode I discuss this topic, and talk about how times like these test us, but also present incredible opportunities for growth. How can you use this time to be there for your family, your team, your customers, and your community? We will get past this, but someday we will look back on this time and reflect on whether we rose to the occasion...or failed to do so. Much love, Adam.

Adam Welcome...marathoner, author, public speaker, education innovator...and the original inspiration for this podcast. This week Adam joins me to celebrate my tenth podcast milestone and tell his story about how he chased his passion and developed a side hustle that ultimately became his main hustle. We discuss this, as well as how chasing your passion and figuring out what special gifts of yours you can share with the world can break up the monotony in your life, create new connections, and lead to incredible and unknown places...not to mention make the world a better place.

In this episode I discuss fear, and share my own story of fear and how I have been learning to manage it, overcome it, and ultimately harness it.

This week I explore some thoughts on the importance of solitude for better thinking, personal restoration, productivity and balance. We discuss why solitude is important, and how the modern world's constant notifications and interruptions are actually destroying your ability to do long form thinking. We also discuss productivity/procrastination hacks for creating solitude such as the Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo. Finally we discuss how a morning practice can be a great way to carve out time to be alone and think, pray, meditate or whatever in order to set a daily foundation. I hope you enjoy it and hit me up with questions, feedback or ideas for future topics! - Adam

In this third installment of "lessons learned from having a heart attack at 40", I explore the least tangible (but perhaps the most profound) of the many takeaways I was blessed with after having this experience: Love. Fear. Connection and people. Service and community...and BALANCE. Since this experience I have spent a significant amount of time thinking about these things and working to get better at ALL of them. My dear friend Damian McKenna, who had his own near-death experience, joins me and we have a fun discussion about these things, why they are so crucial, and what we do to try and better ourselves in these areas. I hope enjoy it - Adam.

In this second installment of lessons learned from having a heart attack at 40, I explore the life changing shifts I have made in nutrition and movement (fancy speak for diet and exercise) with my guest and best selling author, Vanessa Rogers. We explore my before and after, the changes I have made and the amazing results. I hope this inspires you to explore these things so you don't have to have your own "Oh Shit moment". PS - I was having some issues with my mic that I will fix going forward but its such a great conversation that I posted it as is. I hope you find it inspiring and interesting. -Adam

This is part one of "things I have learned and changed in the wake of a heart attack at the age of 40". In this episode I explore the topic of mindfulness and meditation. We discuss what it is, how it works, and why I have found it to be a critical part of my recovery and lifestyle. More episodes in this series on the way, with the next one focusing on exercise and nutrition. I hope you enjoy it, and please let me know if you have any questions or feedback! -Adam

This episode is a bit of a departure from leadership. In episode #4 I give a detailed account of what it was like to be blindsided by having a major heart attack at 40, but more importantly a little bit about why it has ultimately been a blessing, and the abundance of lessons I have taken away from the experience that I want to share. This is the first episode of a multi-part series, with follow-ups coming that with delve into some of the areas where I have made major changes after having this experience; exercise and nutrition, mindfulness, finding balance, and love/connection. I hope you enjoy this deeply personal one - I am so grateful to share it with you. Adam

Do you consider yourself an empathetic leader? In this episode, executive coach and leadership communications expert, Maria Iams joins me to explore what it means to truly lead with empathy and why its an imperative skill to develop in order to effectively lead top performing teams. If you want to contact Maria, she can be contacted at maria@lange-international.com.

In my second episode, I delve into core values, both personal and for organizations. I discuss how to develop them, and how to use them to live and lead teams in deep alignment.

Adam Massey's first podcast! Here I introduce myself and share some thoughts on my journey learning to manage and lead teams, and how the philosophy of servant leadership had huge impact for me and enabled me to build amazing, high performance and happy teams. I hope you like it. -Adam