The Art of Authenticity

Come say hello to Laura on her new show, Soul School. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soul-school/id1680423580   In this final episode of Art of Authenticity, Laura Coe is interviewed by friend, Kevin Kaiser. Laura reflects on 236 episodes and 7 years of stories. Listen as Laura reflects and revels over the beautiful conversations she will be sad to say goodbye to.   Excitingly, listeners can look to future hellos. Laura and Kevin are proud to introduce a new podcast, Soul School. Come check it out as Laura begins a new journey diving deeper into authenticity. 

In this episode, Danielle LaPorte, best-selling author, joins us again to talk about; what love is, her path to mysticism, and balancing the experience of being genuinely happy alongside the fear and emotions of the world. In our conversation, everything comes back to love. Danielle LaPorte is the creator of the Heart-Centered Membership and the Heart Centered Leadership Program with 400+ leaders in 30 countries hosting conversation circles, retreats, and workshops in all kinds of communities and businesses. This most recent book, How To Be Loving…when your heart is breaking open and the world is waking up, is also an Audiobook + ebook, with a companion Journal. Danielle is also the author of The Fire Starter Sessions, White Hot Truth, and The Desire Map, and producer of dozens of meditation kits and online programs for spiritual support.

In this episode, Rupert Spira, teacher, spiritual leader, and writer, teaches us about the nature of reality and the source of lasting peace and happiness. He explains the direct path and non-dual philosophy. As well as, elaborating on his latest book, You Are The Happiness You Seek.  After spending twenty years immersed in the teachings of classical Advaita Vedanta, he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, who introduced him to the Direct Path approach whereby one may recognise the source of peace and happiness in oneself. Rupert has written several books and holds regular meetings and retreats online, as well as in Europe and the United States. He is also a noted potter, trained in the British Studio Pottery school, with work in public and private collections. www.rupertspira.com

Josh Trent is the Founder of Wellness Force Media and host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast. Josh has spent the past 19+ years as a trainer, researcher, and facilitator discovering the physical and emotional intelligence for humans to thrive in our modern world. The Wellness Force Media Mission is to help humans heal mental, emotional and physical health through podcasts, programs, and a global community that believe in optimizing our potential to live life well. After publishing over 400 high-level interviews with some of the most respected minds in the health, wellness, and self-help industries, Josh has been spotlighted in major wellness media outlets such as Onnit, Spartan, SEALFIT, and Paleo f(x). Josh holds a C.E.S certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and is the creator of the BREATHE | Breath & Wellness Program. 

An ordained minister with a gift for weaving together the mystical and material, Lola Wright served for many years as the CEO of Bodhi Center, an organization committed to personal transformation, collective awakening, conscious activism and community-building. Her work has taken her to stages around the world as a speaker and vocalist, including Agape International Spiritual Center, TEDx, Chicago Ideas, and the Havana Jazz Festival. Her path has included stops at some of the world's leading global financial institutions and technology startups, training in several well-respected coaching methodologies, and experience as an entrepreneur – all culminating in her desire to challenge people to live fully alive.

On the show today is Cal Callahan, a retired trader, who also hosts The Great Unlearn podcast and runs Unlearn Ventures — an investment fund and incubator for forward-thinking projects. Through The Great Unlearn Podcast, Cal shares conversations with some of the world's leading experts & performers to help men and women unlearn their way into a new way of being. You can find him at www.thegreatunlearn.com

In this episode, Annmarie Chereso comes on the show to talk about taking out the fear in conscious parenting. For almost two decades Annmarie has taught and spoken at schools and universities, facilitated workshops and trainings for teachers and coached adults and young people. In 2015, she co-hosted Chicago's first Conscious Parenting Summit featuring international speaker Dr. Shefali Tsabary and Conscious Leadership Group co-founder Jim Dethmer. In 2019, Annmarie published her first children's book and is currently working on her newest book. You can find her at annmariechereso.me

Kevin Kaiser—a good friend—joins us on the show to talk about how to unlock, discover, and uncover your purpose. For 25 years, Kevin's worked with some of the world's top-leading perfomers—from New York Times bestselling authors to Grammy award winning musicians—and yet, despite their external success, he realized they all struggle internally. Now, using a blend of psychology, somatic practices, and rites of passage, he helps people deepen their relationship to themselves, and live their truest, most soul-infused lives. You can find him at kevinkaiser.co

Laura Coe is interviewed (yup that's me) on her story over the last 4 years on love, her new book series, and her latest passion, the Akashic Records. She shares her story through a reverse interview with good friend, Kevin Keiser, on how she discovered a deep connection to spirituality, more authenticity, and more of what she loves! 

Kute joins us to discuss his newest book, The Magic of Surrender. Learn why surrendering brings more into your life, not less. Why surrendering can open doors, not close them. And how surrendering can bring about a life that you could never have believed possible. It is a topic that I love, practice, and have found essential to my growth! 

Bryan Reeves, relationship ninja, with 30 Million Readers has released his second book, Choose Her Every Day or (Leave Her), comes on the show to talk about relationships. We go over a few of the essays in his new book, which includes 7 years of articles from his experiences, to help you learn how to improve your relationships. In 2010, at age 36, while going through yet another agonizing breakup, Bryan had an epiphany: He knew nothing useful about how to do intimate relationship well. In that moment of painful realization he vowed to never suck at intimacy again. Thus began an extraordinary journey into the realms of love, sex, relationship. In summer 2015, with already legions of readers all over the world following his adventures, his essay “Choose Her Every Day (Or Leave Her)” went viral, exploding to over a million readers daily. This book (which includes that essay) is Bryan's anthology of stories, insights, practical tools, and secrets (that should never be secrets!) to help guide you on your own journey to thriving in love and intimacy. His Mission: To Serve the World one Awakened Man, one Illuminated Woman, one Thriving Relationship at a Time.

Marci Shimoff is a #1 NY Times bestselling author, a world-renowned transformational teacher, and an expert on happiness, success and unconditional love. Her NY Times bestselling books Happy for No Reason, Love for No Reason and six titles in the Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul series have sold more than 16 million copies and are translated in 33 languages.  She's also a featured teacher in The Secret and narrator of the award-winning movie, Happy.  She currently co-leads a global online program called Your Year of Miracles to help people live more miraculous lives. 

B. Jeffrey Madoff is a director, photographer, writer, and professor in New York City. He joins us to talk about his new book Creative Careers, How to Make Living with Your Ideas.  He is the founder and CEO of Madoff Productions, a film production company that creates award-winning branded content. Madoff is a sought after speaker and has lectured at NYU Steinhardt, F.I.T., Google Next, Wharton School, NC State & SXSW in Brazil, Verizon and Barclay's RISE. In addition to his film and public speaking engagements, Madoff's articles are widely distributed and have appeared online in Huffington Post and other major publications. He has written and is the Executive Producer of a play about Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Legend Lloyd Price which premiers in May of 2021 at People's Light Theater. Madoff has been a featured speaker at Wharton School, NYU Steinhardt, North Carolina State, SXSW Brazil, Vision Summit, Rise: Barclay's Bank Accelerator, XRB Labs, Mastermind Group, Google Next and many others.  

DR. MARGARET PAUL is a bestselling author, popular MindBodyGreen writer and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding® self-healing process, and the related SelfQuest® self-healing online program - recommended by author Marci Shimoff, actress Lindsay Wagner and singer Alanis Morissette. Margaret has worked with thousands of people to help them heal through her inner bonding system, and she has even appeared on Oprah. I have practiced the inner bonding system and found it to be a game-changer in my life. If you struggle with quieting those internal dialogs, repeating patterns that don't result in the life you wish for, or find you have a lot of anxieties or depression that therapy and other modalities haven't solved then check out this episode.  

Love is a state. It is an offering of the self at the highest level. We ask back from love and we are disappointed. We love. We give our love. Love comes back because someone loves and gives love. The desire to take love back and get love creates tension.  Give love. And receive it when it is offered. Separate the gift of love from the offering of love. Give love as much as you can. It doesn't run dry. Receive love when it is offered.  You offer your love. Someone doesn't use it or value it or care for it. It is no longer yours when you give it to someone else. It is now theirs. The love is exhaled into the world and new love is always returned. Whoever inhaled the love you released is now the owner of that love, but it is like counting molecules in the air and claiming which ones belong to you and which ones belong to another. They all belong to the divine. Air is infinite, and so is love. They may not treat the love they received with joy or value, but that reflects their own relationship to love. It is not a reflection of the love you offered to them, just a reflection on how they experience love. If they love themselves a little, they will accept the love you offer a little. If they don't love themselves at all, well then, they will throw away “your love,” but know it is not yours. Love belongs to the universe. It is within us; it is us; and it will always be. It is not my love and your love; it is simply love.   

All of us have a guided intuition.    It comes in the sense of “I need to call a friend” or “I need to make a change”—and really, we can just feel it.     But most of us, most of the time, are disconnected from that sense. It's there, it's inside us, and it's always been inside us—but sometimes, it's hard to stay connected to it, because life is busy, we aren't paying attention, and even when we do listen, it's elusive.    And most of the time, it can be hard to know what the next steps are—and how, exactly, we can live a deeply authentic life.   But for those of us that are committed to living an authentic life (meaning—a life that's filled with joy, a life that's lived from our truths, and a life that aligns with who we are), I've been really lucky to discover something.   And that discovery, simply, is the Akashic Records—a way to systematically listen to your truth. 

In this episode of the Art of Authenticity, we are joined by the wonderful Jacqueline Sinclair! Jacqueline is the Artist Director at Joel Hall Dancers in Chicago and has pursued a life in dance as long as she can remember. We chat all about her journey to this point and the decisions she made along the way that have defined her. We also talk about finding the passion for dance in high school and her early and instinctual attraction to jazz. Jacqueline repeatedly says that from that age she ‘just knew' that dance is what she wanted to do and had to find a way to make this a reality. This ‘knowing' that she refers to is difficult to pinpoint but is also something ever-present in her life. She does identify the intuitive feeling and the influence that the act of dancing had on this intuition and she had serious epiphanies while actually dancing, accessing trance-like states and what she calls her sweaty realizations. For a tremendously inspiring conversation, be sure to join us!

In this episode of the Art of Authenticity, we are joined by Paul Jarvis, the author of the new book, Company of One. Paul has worked for himself and by himself for the last twenty years and is a strong believer that smaller businesses are the way of the future. His writing has been talked about by everyone from Ashton Kutcher to Arianna Huffington. He's worked with clients, such as Microsoft, Danielle LaPorte, Mercedes-Benz, Marie Forleo and Warner Music. His ideas and words have been featured in WIRED, Fast Company, Vice, USA Today and more.

Today we have a really special show in store for you! We welcome relationship coach Silvy Khoucasian to share her expertise and personal work with relationships. Silvy has her masters degree in psychology and is particularly interested and specializes in attachment and boundaries and how codependency arises in relationships. She helps clients to show up and stay authentic with their partners, a balance that most people will find to be a constant challenge, even with the best intentions. 

Leadership Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author, Positive Psychology Researcher. Neil Pasricha helps people live happy lives. He is a top-rated leadership keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and positive psychology researcher focused on the relationship between happiness and leadership in business. His work has been featured in hundreds of outlets including CNN, BBC, The Today Show, The Early Show, The Oprah Winfrey Network, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Fortune, and Forbes

On today's podcast, we welcome international speaker, author and executive coach, Dominick Quartuccio. He exchanged his 15-year corporate career in financial services for his passion, which is helping people to design futures that they can be excited about! In this episode, Dominick gets candid about his past struggles with sexual addiction, describing how repressed emotions as a young boy eventually created a fracture in his identity, causing conflict between his public and private life. He talks about the terrifying experience of vulnerability when someone sees beyond that which is protected to the outside world and the role that genuine acceptance has played in helping him to remain authentic. We pivot to a discussion about the dangers of drifting, how to recognize when you are stuck in this state and what to do to get yourself back in alignment with your authentic self and living the life of your conscious choosing. For more on all these facets of self-development, check out his podcast Man Amongst Men and be sure to join us for this conversation!

Today we have a really special show in store for you! We welcome relationship coach Silvy Khoucasian to share her expertise and personal work with relationships. Silvy has her masters degree in psychology and is particularly interested and specializes in attachment and boundaries and how codependency arises in relationships. She helps clients to show up and stay authentic with their partners, a balance that most people will find to be a constant challenge, even with the best intentions. 

Hamilton has spent the better part of the last twenty years traveling inward and outward, exploring the Amazon and his and the greater consciousness and spirit. His tour company, Blue Morpho, offers spiritual journeys by way of plant medicines and is situated deep in the jungles of Peru. In our conversation, we cover all things shamanic, mystic and spiritual and Hamilton deftly articulates the sensitive and particular components of these concepts and his work. From assisting with addiction and depression to communicating with guides and energies, we cover it all! 

Michelle Lederman has just released her new book The Connector's Advantage: 7 Mindsets to Grow Your Influence and Impact. Named by Forbes as one of the 25 networking experts to watch. She's a former NYU professor who has since made her mark as an accomplished speaker, trainer, coach and, of course, esteemed author. Her passion is really to help individuals and organizations build better relationships and achieve greater results through her company, Executive Essentials. Michelle has worked with an array of big-name organizations of all kinds, has been featured in The New York Times, and she's here today to advise us on implementing the most important networking skills that she has learned over the years. Michelle shares with us what it means to be a connector, the different type of connectors, how we are to approach our networks and the mindsets that are required to become better at relationships on all levels. This thought-provoking conversation is guaranteed to pique your interest, so don't miss out on this one!

Today we are so lucky and happy to have an old friend on the show, Cal Callahan! Cal is here to talk about his authentic life and the journey that he has been on. He has worked on Wall Street, coached and owned an athletic team, and left it all to explore spirituality. Cal will be the first to admit that he has been through trials and tribulations on his life's path, but wouldn't have it any other way. We speak a lot about following your truth and intuition and becoming a spiritual warrior in the fight for authenticity. He has such a beautiful story and his honesty and openness will simply blow you away.

In this episode, we are tackling the subject of self mastery and this means we are talking about getting down to knowing the authentic you, under all the guises and personas we have in society. Knowing your authentic self means understanding your self worth and knowing your truth and this in turn can lead to mastery of the things that you authentically want and need. What are you currently mastering in your internal dialogue? You could be mastering the hero and the victim, or fear. Are you mastering the art of feeling like an imposter? All too many of us are on a journey where we are mastering things that are not in alignment with our truth, success, and fulfillment. We need to get to a point where we can see under the mask to the ever present force within us, only then will we be able to make decisions and take actions that serve this real part of each of us. For this and more thoughts on the matter, tune in!

On the show today we are joined by Dr. Frankie Bashan, psychologist, matchmaker and relationship guru! She has over 20 years of experience working with couples and individuals and has managed to find her calling and passion in a life devoted to helping others to find love. Her company, Little Gay Book, serves the lesbian and bisexual community but you better believe that the ideas she shares on the show are applicable to everyone! Dr. Frankie is so honest and hilarious as she tells us about her early pull towards matchmaking and how she found her father a new partner when she was just 14-years-old! In our conversation we dive into online dating, setting up her business, balance, vulnerability and she offers a strong message about the powers of hope and love. For this beautiful and inspiring chat, be sure to join us!

In this episode of the Art of Authenticity we are joined by the wonderful Jacqueline Sinclair! Jacqueline is the Artist Director at Joel Hall Dancers in Chicago and has pursued a life in dance as long as she can remember. We chat all about her journey to this point and the decisions she made along the way that have defined her. We also talk about finding the passion for dance in high school and her early and instinctual attraction to jazz. Jacqueline repeatedly says that from that age she ‘just knew' that dance is what she wanted to do and had to find a way to make this a reality. This ‘knowing' that she refers to is difficult to pinpoint but is also something ever present in her life. She does identify the intuitive feeling and the influence that the act of dancing had on this intuition and she had serious epiphanies while actually dancing, accessing trance-like states and what she calls her sweaty realizations. For a tremendously inspiring conversation, be sure to join us!  

Leadership Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author, Positive Psychology Researcher. Neil Pasricha helps people live happy lives. He is a top-rated leadership keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and positive psychology researcher focused on the relationship between happiness and leadership in business. His work has been featured in hundreds of outlets including CNN, BBC, The Today Show, The Early Show, The Oprah Winfrey Network, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Fortune, and Forbes

In this episode of the Art of Authenticity, we are joined by Paul Jarvis, the author of the new book, Company of One. Paul has worked for himself and by himself for the last twenty years and is a strong believer that smaller businesses are the way of the future. His writing has been talked about by everyone from Ashton Kutcher to Arianna Huffington. He's worked with clients, such as Microsoft, Danielle LaPorte, Mercedes-Benz, Marie Forleo and Warner Music. His ideas and words have been featured in WIRED, Fast Company, Vice, USA Today and more.

Join me in an experiment to find your authentic truth and begin the New Year more honestly, more aligned with your deeper desires, and on the path towards a life that is both successful and authentic! 

Today on the show we are joined by Nadja Pinnavaia, founder of Euphebe Healthcare. She is here to talk to us about how we can really change our lives by the way we eat. Prior to founding Euphebe, Nadja was an undergraduate student in Chemistry from King's London College. She gained her Ph.D in Quantum Chemistry from Saint Catherine's College in Cambridge, and then went on to become managing director at Goldman Sachs. Nadja has certainly got the education, the background, and a ton of amazing accomplishments under her belt. However, because of a personal experience dealing with cancer in her family, Nadja decided to switch her focus to food; why it matters, why it can really change your life, and how it impacts our health and wellness.

On today's show, we have Kate Swoboda joining us. In this episode, we are going to talk about courage, how to accept your fears, release the past, and live your most courageous life. A lot of people want to step forward and live a more authentic life, and Kate shares with us how courage plays a very large role in that experience. She lays it out in incredible detail, with a four-part process that she believes will help you step into the life that feels right for you. Kate has been featured in MindBodyGreen, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Forbes, and many other publications. 

Most of us want to live an authentic life. But while the idea feels appealing, the realities of finding such a life can be quite elusive. Tune in to hear Mike Bundrant discuss the VAK model and how it can help you practice living more authentically. 

In a few minutes a day, you can dramatically change you life. Learn how from one of Chicago's premier yoga teachers. 

Amy is a mother of three, a birth doula, a retreat leader, a yoga instructor at Yoga View in Chicago City, and has been practicing meditation since the ripe year of 1986. In this episode we discuss what meditation is, the benefits of meditation and what exactly happens to our mind when we do it. Amy explains the difference between the head brain and the heart brain and how meditation aims to strengthen the heart brain, which is growing progressively weaker with the demands of busy western life. Amy also shares one of her favorite mantra's and invites us to try out one of her favorite simple meditations that you can start doing today.

Shawn Achor, positive psychologist and author of, The Happiness Advantage, researched the science behind happiness. Why are some people happier? Today, I breakdown the top misconceptions on how to feel happier. With this understanding, you can start to approach happiness from a different angle and find the contentment and joy you desire.  

Do you feel that communication breaks down in your relationships and you aren't certain why? Perhaps you have falled into the Death Gap. Listen in to hear how to close the gap, improve communication, and get back to enjoying the one you love. 

Learn about my favorite word, surrender. I battled it out with this word for years. I thought it meant I was giving up, letting go of my goals, even being weak. Nothing could be further from the truth. Check out this eposide to learn more about surrender and how it actually can be the most empowering word in your life!

Everyone wants to feel more happy, but the ways in which we seek happiness are the reason we never find it. Tune in to learn a simple shift in perspective and have that inner calm you seek. 

Welcome Back! 2018. After some time off, we have re-imagined the podcast in reply to comments from you. This year will be all about taking authentic living to the next level. More expert advice - all about how to make the changes you seek in your daily lives! tune in to hear more...

Today on the show, we welcome Dr. Sharad Paul. Dr. Paul is a world-renowned geneticist and thought leader on the topic of genetics. Dr. Paul has discovered how to tap into genes to figure out who we really are, what makes us tick and how we can hack our own genetic codes to become the best version of ourselves. He is also the author of The Genetics Of Health, a book he wrote to help us take charge of our health by understanding the connection between our evolutionary past and our future wellbeing.

Today on the show we are joined by Jake Eagle. Jake is actually a licensed Psychotherapist for 25 years and now he coaches and mentors individuals and couples. He and his wife, Hannah, have created books, online courses, retreats, and programs. Hannah practiced classical Homeopathy for twenty years in New Mexico and now she provides alternative health consultations. Jake and Hannah have been happily married since 1993 and both love how easy their relationship has become. This is all due to the communication and relating skills they use on a day-to-day basis from the practice of Live Conscious.

Welcome to this week's episode of the Art of Authenticity, Thank you once again for tuning in. All right guys, I dove back in. I haven't done it in a long time, but for those of you who are fans of Eckhart Tolle, I know you know what I'm talking about. He's one of those books that it's so worth reading but it's a little tough to get through, it's really heavy, it's really filled with great ideas, page over page.

Today we welcome Michelle Tillis Lederman. She is named one of Forbes top 25 networking experts, is the author of three books including The 11 Laws Of Likability and her latest, Nail The Interview, Land The Job. Michelle is the CEO of Executive Essentials, which provides custom communication leadership training and coaching programs. She has appeared on NBC, CBS, FOX, Skill King, PR, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Working Mother, US News and World Report and US Today, just to name just a few! In this episode, we walk through two of the 11 Laws Of Likability and believe it or not, the very first law is all around authenticity. If you are struggling to make authentic connections or getting people to respond well to you or build the likability that you are looking for in your life, Michelle has very clear practical ways of thinking about authenticity in terms of likability. Today we touch on self-reflection, giving without expectation, and reframing what you feel you “have” to do.

Today we're going to talk about something that comes up with my clients over and over, and over. I know every single person out there listening has had this experience. You have a conversation with somebody, it doesn't go well. You're working in an office setting and there's internal politics or there's a disagreement about what to do, you're out about in the world and somebody does something that annoys you and boom. It clicks off that narrative. You know, that conversation you had, the one that's like — it's going back and forth as you continue to drive to work as you're in the commute when you're in the shower. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, that conversation, that discussion about what just transpired is ping-ponging in your head for the rest of the day. You're going through all the arguments you want to make, what that other person said, you're getting yourself all pissed off, worked up over a conversation that isn't happening. Right?

On today's show we welcome Marcus Aurelius Anderson, Coach, Speaker and Author of The Gift of Adversity. While preparing to deploy with the U.S. Army, Marcus suffered a severe spinal injury that left him paralyzed from the neck down. His life was turned upside down, and after dying twice on the operating table, he was told he would never be able to walk or use his hands again. Days quickly turned into months, and he was forced into life changing soul searching. He discovered he was left with two choices, he could either be a victim, or he change his mindset. Having no other option, he began looking for any lessons to be learned from his injury, and soon discovered that his Adversity was a gift.

If you've been checking out the Riff's lately, you may have noticed that Mike Bondurant has been joining me a bunch of times. He is from the INLP center where I've decided to take a bunch of classes in neurolinguistics programming, which is a type of coaching psychology that's been around for quite a while. I think it's super cool, you could check it out, check out his school there. But one of the things that has come to my attention in doing this program is this really cool conversation that I think belongs right at the heart of my coaching, about authenticity and I just wanted to chat with you about that today. Many people who have come on the show, many people who have come talk to me about coaching have a very specific conversation and I've talked about it in terms of a nagging sensation. Something isn't right in their life. They don't know what it is, they can't put their finger on it. They know that they want something more but they don't know what that is. In the midst of taking this school, it came to my attention that there's a very simple way of talking about it and neurolinguistics programming does just that. In the development in our life there are six stages and in those six stages, we move through them one after the next. We of course, at the beginning are basically dealing with food and shelter and clothing, right? Making sure that we have the basic necessities of life.

On today's show we welcome Kute Blackson, Transformational Life Coach and author of the book You Are The One. This guy just brings it. I really encourage you to check out this episode if you're looking for a spiritual guided message, deeply engaged in this idea of authenticity. We discussed everything from why it is that multimillionaires, billionaires don't feel happy, the wounds that need to heal before you can find what you love, what you need to be to be loved and what gets in the way. I mean, we just hit on all sorts of amazing topics and Kute speaks to each and every one of them, from a heartfelt, vulnerable and deeply passionate place. Keep listening!

Today I wanted to take a moment to reply to a guy named Jim Howard who reached out, he listens to the show. Hey Jim, if you're out there, thank you very much for not only reaching out but for following up and giving me the opportunity to speak about your comments in this show. I had done an episode, if you guys didn't check it out, it was about whether or not authenticity, finding your true self can be seen as being self-absorbed, right? Am I just being selfish and self- absorbed and asking all these questions about myself and who I am and what I want? A lot of my clients struggle with that. They ask themselves that question, they sometimes feel as if it's too much to ask or something like that. So Jim wrote me in reply to that and his thoughts were so beautiful and thought-provoking that I wanted to share a few of them with you and reply to them. So here we go.

Today on the show we welcome Daniel Jordi. Daniel is the Managing Director of leadersbridge.org, which is a company that connects leaders, CEO's, entrepreneurs organizations and partners to come together so that they can build and create new things. It took Daniel many years to realize that he was much more than a networker – that he was a connector. Based on trust, intuition and leading an authentic life – Daniel has developed a unique and creative business model that builds meaningful relationships. In today's episode, Daniel shares, in the most honest way possible, his personal journey.