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What internal story have you been telling yourself?How can you use your internal story externally?Meet Chris Cannon!Chris is a Creator of Story Selling School, Bestselling Author and Business Coach Helping Purpose Driven Entrepreneurs Turn Stories Into The Life They Love.He has delivered 500+ public speaking appearances, a bestselling author, and the visionary behind Wealthversity™. The ultimate community that helps purpose driven entrepreneurs accelerate their influence, income, and impact using the power of storytelling.Blending NLP-inspired strategies, deep psychological insight, and hands-on business expertise, Chris has pioneered a powerful storytelling approach that stands in a league of its own. Driven by a passion for both entrepreneurship and the intricacies of human behavior, he's on a mission to empower entrepreneurs to overcome self-sabotage and unlock freedom, finances, and fulfillment at the highest level.Connect with Chris:Website: https://compellingstorytelling.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4U3QuVsn44FBNrURL2LOll?si=T_NdXhPJS0avyt9OG-xRKAApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-we-tell-ourselves-internal-vs-external-w-chris/id1614151066?i=1000705256409YouTube: https://youtu.be/KmDCNrQgHsI?si=jS_93yLjcAmNIklM

Join the conversation in our community at https://butjesusdrankwine.com/community.  Today, we sit down with Chris Janssen, MA, BCC, a board-certified results coach, author, and expert in performance and mindset. Chris shares her deeply personal journey with alcohol, from growing up in a non-drinking household to battling a secretive drinking habit in adulthood. She first got sober in 2007 but went back to alcohol during the pandemic, an experience that brought her to a deeper understanding of grace, community, and personal transformation. Chris discusses the themes of her book, Grace Yourself: How to Show Up for the Sober Life You Want, highlighting the role of self-compassion in recovery, how to navigate perfectionism, and why so many high achievers struggle with alcohol. She also offers practical tools for handling cravings, shifting toxic narratives, and finding a supportive community. Whether you're on your own sobriety journey or supporting a loved one, this episode offers encouragement and actionable steps for embracing a life of freedom and grace. What You'll Learn in This Episode: The importance of grace and self-compassion in the freedom from alcohol journey How to break free from perfectionism and self-sabotage Why high achievers are often drawn to alcohol and unhealthy coping mechanisms Practical tools for handling cravings and shifting negative narratives Connect with Chris: Website: www.chrisjanssencoaching.com Book: Grace Yourself: How to Show Up for the Sober Life You Want Order Christy's book now available! Love Life Sober, A 40 Day Alcohol Fast To Rediscover Your Joy, Improve Your Health and Renew Your Mind  https://a.co/d/fTvdTw6 Learn More about Coaching with Christy https://www.lovelifesober.co.uk/   Learn More about Coaching with Meade https://meadehollandshirley.com/   Connect with us on Instagram! @imnotsoberimfree @lovelifesoberwithchristy @butjesusdrankwine   You can find this episode on YouTube HERE.   The creators, hosts, and producers of the But Jesus Drank Wine podcast are not healthcare practitioners and therefore do not give medical, psychological or professional advice nor do they intend for the podcast, any communication on behalf of BJDW or otherwise to be a substitute for such. Additionally, the views and opinions expressed in any mention of and/or linked resources are those of the authors/owners of those resources and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the But Jesus Drank Wine podcast team or guests of the show.  

Self Intelligence? What is that. Well, listen to my conversation this time with Chris Knight to see and discover for yourself. Chris is from Australia where he has lived his whole life. As he was growing up he began encountering some medical issues such as what his doctors diagnosed as chronic pain. He was told he would have to learn to “manage the pain”.   After most of his school education he discovered that he was good at working with and helping people. He worked for an agency helping people to overcome life trauma for example. Eventually, he realized he needed to look further at how he wanted to live his life with pain and he decided he wanted to explore how better to help those around him.   As you will hear, not only did Chris study and find ways to help others, but he also learned how to help himself. He has been totally pain free for many years. He now has his own business working as what some might call a spiritual life coach.   He and I talk about what he calls your lower self and how it tries to take control over your life. He helps us understand how we can connect with our inner self to bring out and live through our higher self. We talk about fear and suffering and how we all can learn not to let those things control who we are.   Chris offers a great deal of good life advice that we all can use. As he tells us at the end of our time together, he works with people throughout the world and he is available to consult with you should you wish it.       About the Guest:   For the past 15 years, Chris Knight, founder of Self Intelligence, has dedicated his career to helping individuals transform their lives from the inside out. His approach focuses on addressing the underlying emotional and psychological patterns that shape people's behaviors, beliefs, and identities. Through a combination of powerful awareness practices and healing processes, Chris helps clients and students confront and heal the root causes of limiting beliefs, childhood conditioning, and emotional wounds. His approach is rooted in the idea that by understanding and releasing the deep-seated trauma and conditioning that often hold us back, people can step into a more authentic and empowered way of living.   Chris's work goes beyond traditional coaching or therapy. He specializes in guiding people through self-discovery and emotional healing by helping them access parts of themselves that are often hidden beneath layers of defense mechanisms and unconscious programming. His clients include people from all walks of life—whether they're struggling with anxiety, self-doubt, or relationship challenges, or addiction Chris techniques help them uncover the core issues that create these difficulties. His methods emphasize self-awareness, emotional resilience, and the ability to break free from the patterns of thought and behavior that no longer serve them. This holistic approach has earned him a reputation as a transformative leader in the field of personal development.   As the founder of Self Intelligence, Chris has not only worked one-on-one with countless students and clients but also developed programs and workshops that allow individuals to take control of their healing journeys. His work empowers people to reclaim their personal power by reconnecting with their true selves, free from the constraints of societal expectations and past conditioning. Over the past decade and a half, Chris has helped people from around the world make profound shifts in their lives, guiding them toward greater emotional freedom, self-acceptance, and the ability to live in alignment with their highest potential.   Ways to connect with Chris:   Website https://chrisknight.com.au/ https://selfintelligence.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/chrisknight_selfintelligence/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynX0a9cJdcX9KTnggSxs8A Facebook https://www.facebook.com/chrisknightselfintelligence   About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, I really want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here. I'm glad Ashley set this up, and we'll have some fun. And as you know, this is all about having a conversation, and that's what makes it really fun. So looking forward to conversing   Chris Knight ** 01:38 Absolutely. Yeah, I'm more than happy to unpack an unstoppable, unstoppable mindset is certainly resonates with the work that I'm offering, and it feels like a really good alignment. So yeah, I'm looking forward to this. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 01:55 why don't we start? I love to start this way, because it's kind of fun and it always lays the groundwork. Tell us something about the early Chris, growing up and all that sort of stuff.   Chris Knight ** 02:06 Well, I mean, that's where all this begins. Well, it does. It absolutely does. My the work that I am offering to the world is something that I personally was supported by from my early 20s. I'm in my very early 40s now. So 20 years ago, I was in a pretty terrible space. I think a lot of people refer to it as like a dark night of the soul. I had a relationship breakdown, I had toxic debt, career dissatisfaction, chronic pain, there was a whole whirlpool of issues that were going on at that time, and I had no idea how to get out of it. I was seeking many different practitioners at that time in the conventional kind of Western approach, but also in the eastern as well to support with the symptoms I was experiencing, as well as mental health with depression, and I wasn't getting any long term results from from a lot of the things that I was I was doing at that time, I was told I was going to have chronic pain for the rest of my life, and I would have to manage that pain because I'd had it for about six years, and they couldn't quite work it out. I think they'd probably call it something like fibromyalgia now, or some other thing, but it was basically this diagnosis of managing a really poor way of living, and I just felt like that wasn't going to be how I was going to live for the rest of my life. Something deep inside me was it was saying, No, this is not for me. So that's when I started looking at myself in a way that I didn't even know was possible, and it certainly wasn't conditioned at school to do this, to go inside and become aware of what's happening behind the eyes. Often we're very aware of what's happening in front of the eyes and everything that's happening, or we become aware of everything outside through our senses, but what's going on in terms of our thoughts, our emotional states, the things that we become identified inside of ourselves, that is a large part of creating our lives, was something I was starting to look at so that, that kicked off this journey. Michael, and I'm imagining a lot of people were listening into this, this podcast with you, an unstoppable mindset would be also in some way, doing this, something like that. And. Of course, there are many different approaches to that, to that investigation and that discovery, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 05:07 sure, absolutely no question about that. Did you go to college?   Chris Knight ** 05:15 Yes, I, well, I, I got almost kicked out of what we call college, I think you would call High School. Still, we're in Australia, it's a bit different. We go to year 10, and then we go to college, which is year 11 and 12, and that prepares you for university. University. Yeah, I didn't go to uni till six, or could have been eight years after college where I did my degree in musculoskeletal therapy, and that's where I that was a major shifting point for me. I quit my very well paying job in the public service, which had a very promising pathway for me, what were you doing? I was a government housing manager. Okay, so I was working with very challenged people in society to look after their tendencies. And it was, it was the first time I realized I had a gift at working with people and helping them deal with their stuff. These people had major challenges, mental health, domestic violence, you know, drug abuse, everything you can really imagine at that a very severe level. And I had a very unique gift with working with these people. So that's where I just I decided I was going to take it further and combine my also experience with chronic physical back pain to go into muscular musculoskeletal therapy. So I moved from Canberra to Brisbane to do that, and that set me on a completely different path. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 06:58 So tell me more about that, what the degree was and how that kind of influenced where you went.   Chris Knight ** 07:05 Well, it I wasn't interested in the paths that felt to me were really isolating and mechanical in their approach to healing. So I went to a holistic School of Natural Medicine, and it was saying that their approach was holistic, essentially, right, which is what appealed to me, because that's how I healed what was going on for me. But I discovered that even though that's what it was stating to be, and certainly in terms of approaching body and body pain, it was holistic in that it would look at the whole body, but it didn't look at the stresses, for example, the internal issues that everybody faces that contributes to our symptoms. Right? So the body mind connection was not a subject, even in this arena, which was holistic medicine. And so that led me to study psychosomatic therapy. I'm not sure if you're aware of those terms. So yes, that oftentimes when people go to doctors, and the doctor will say, you know, this is a psychosomatic issue. This is not a real issue, that what they're saying is that it's all in your mind. So yeah, that's not what this is referring to. Psychosomatic therapy was recognizing the irrefutable body mind connection that has been well documented and just experienced by human beings, that the body and mind are connected is a very obvious thing, for example, if someone's about to go on a podcast, and they might feel a little bit nervous about it, so their body mind connection will report that as far as it might be the heart rate's increasing a little bit, there might be a bit sweaty palms. Who knows these kinds of things will be happening, the body's experiencing what the mind is thinking and believing and all of that is happening. We experience this every single day. And so you can look at that to the degree of how symptoms come about, right? So how do we experience pain and tension or posture and all sorts of things? So that's I had this wealth of knowledge of the body, and then I got the wealth of knowledge of the body mind connection. That was what led there. And then I was a body worker and emotional release facilitator and many different things in that therapeutic journey. For many years, I actually ran my own courses in emotional anatomy, which was very powerful. And then from there, I discovered that there was a missing piece of vital, missing piece in the practical day to day how to work with these things, so not relying on. Therapist to do the inner work. That's where That's where it essentially started to go. Everyone was getting major shifts and changes and discoveries, but not necessarily integrating that in their daily life as a lifestyle. And that's what I became interested in. How does this become a lifestyle, no different to exercise, no different to good eating habits or sleeping habits, many different habits that we know shape and form our lives. I feel as though inner work, which is what I call self intelligence, is what that is. It's a lifestyle choice that is a cornerstone of what generates health, happiness, fulfillment, joy, everything that we basically want in life. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 10:50 did you get the body mind knowledge from the university? Or how did you acquire that?   Chris Knight ** 10:58 It was through Herman Mueller, he ran an institute privately, but it was, it was certified. It was government certified. Actually, it wasn't a university. Universities don't do that kind of thing yet, but he was trying to get it into universities. That's, he's actually passed away. He was around 80 years old at that time, but he was approaching that because, yeah, that's, that's kind of the trajectory that was going at that time. But no, it wasn't at uni. It was, it was a course outside that was government certified, which to me, actually doesn't mean a whole lot. But yeah, yeah, the psychosomatic   Michael Hingson ** 11:42 part of it came from university, but then you expanded on it, obviously,   Chris Knight ** 11:48 yeah, no, this the musculoskeletal therapy was uni, and the psychosomatic was from Herman. Oh, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 11:56 okay, yeah. And well, and what's interesting is that you still found, even after Herman, as I understand, that there was some things lacking in terms of really dealing with the total emotional and mental aspect of it. And obviously it, it was an evolutionary process for you to get to the point of recognizing all of that. But you did, yeah, and what? What I find interesting, and I hear this often. We've had a number of people on the podcast who talked about their own challenges and talked about their the challenges they face with other people. And I'm fascinated and actually quite pleased to hear how many of those people will say that Western medicine really doesn't deal with it, and that Eastern medicine has to become involved. And you obviously took it even to a little bit higher level, but that Eastern medicine is a significant part of it, which really does deal more with the mental and spiritual aspect of a person's psyche and makeup.   Chris Knight ** 13:02 Yeah, well, see, I went to acupuncturist, I went to Ayurvedic medicine practitioners, I went to kinesiologists, I went to energy healers, like I went to I went, I've been around the block. Do you know what I mean? I went to her all around and in every one of those cases, I didn't get the work that I'm speaking to, which is directly dealing with my at the level of identity, where things really take place. And we're going to get into that. And I really delved into that more with my Buddhist practices in meditation. And meditation is widely known to be supportive to all sorts of issues, as many studies on this now it was the closest thing to a lifestyle practice that dealt with these things. What I find is, and I, and I experienced this for myself as well, is a lot of the time when we experience health issues or problems in our lives, often we don't want to take that level of responsibility for it. It's it's preferable to somehow be fixed by someone you know, like, have some kind of therapy intervention, whether it's Eastern or Western, whether it sounds esoteric or whether it sounds like a drug, whatever it is, it doesn't really matter. It's I just want that thing to fix me, and I don't really I'm so confused about what's going on inside me, I don't really understand it, or maybe I'm afraid to look at it because it's often referred to as Shadow Work, which is confronting. That's there's a there's a hesitancy to go into those places. And I but I find that that's where the core of the the issues are, in the dark places. There. Uh, that require, yeah, putting the light on. So I think you're   Michael Hingson ** 15:04 absolutely right. We, we in general, seem to be creatures that love, especially today, a quick fix to fix, and it's got to fix everything, and we don't take the time to analyze and look at ourselves very much. We don't get taught that. No one teaches us that, and fortunately, some people are learning it, but not nearly as much, or as often as it as it should be. I believe in doing a lot of self analysis, self analytical thinking, and I take time at the end of each day to look at what went on today. Why did it go on the way it did? What? What am I afraid of, or what was, what was I afraid of? And I, and I do, find that the more of it I do, and the more I think about all of it over time, the less fearful I become. And it isn't to say I'm not afraid, or it isn't it isn't to say I don't fear, but rather, I learn how to deal with it. We wrote a book about it that actually got published in August of 2024 called Live like a guide dog. And it's all about learning to control fear, and it's lessons I've learned from dogs, from my eight guy dogs and my wife's service dog. You know, for example, one of the my favorite examples, is that dogs don't do what ifs and we What if everything to death, which is what's so unfortunate, rather than worrying about just the things over which we really can have an influence in control. We worry about everything, and it just drives us crazy.   Chris Knight ** 16:47 Yeah, yeah, I completely agree, and I'd like to, because I I've noticed there's a there's a resistance to the word analysis for a lot of people, or anything that's mental when it comes to healing. I you know, because we're questioning our mind, we're questioning our thoughts, we're questioning our insides. We're looking at our insides. And it's important to view this as awareness work, not not mental work. Mental work is below the awareness in which we are looking at it. And from that perspective, it's a totally different vibration, right? And and so what it does do, exactly what you said, is it brings up awareness around things like, how many, what if thoughts have, I let dictate my decisions today, or dictate my emotional state today that I believed and became embodied with, right? And the question is, okay, I have these, what if thoughts? How then do I dis identify from those thoughts so they're not driving my behavior, my choices, which essentially is creating the reality that I'm experiencing. That is a really important question, and it takes disidentification, which is not mental work. Mental cannot disidentify. Mental can only create more mental so I just wanted to make sure that that was something understood in the approach. Because for the you know, for example, with with emotional anatomy and Psychosomatics, the notion was that the emotions are held in the body. You know, the emotions are stored in the body, because we have the fight flight process. And that that when you have fear like what you spoke about, you engage the fight flight process, the survival mechanism, yeah, and then that puts a charge in the body to be expressed in terms of, you know, fighting something running away from something freezing, pleasing. There's a whole range of different things that happen, and so that gets stored in the body, because often we suppress these expressions, and then it's like, okay, in order to heal from that, we have to release it from the body. Okay? So that's the current consensus for a lot of people. So when they hear about analysis, it's like, how does that release emotion from the body? You see that becomes a contentious point for some people.   Michael Hingson ** 19:28 Change it to introspection, then, yeah. I mean,   Chris Knight ** 19:32 I just noticed this. Like, yeah, introspection is a really good term. I also love using that term. But the point is, is that the body will not hold energy when the mind's not perceiving, particularly in the unconscious, that there's a threat as soon as the as soon as there's not a threat in the in the unconscious, there's no threat in the body, the body will not hold anything the. Body is neutral, actually. And I noticed that in my work, trying to, I was doing a lot of emotional release body work, which was hugely powerful, and still is powerful, particularly when it shifts the unconscious. But it would, there would be this reliance, again, on someone doing this thing to me that releases the emotions out of my body, and it's like, Look, you are way more powerful than this. You have the power for yourself to release or detach from the very thoughts and patterns that generate this in your body, but you would then have to do that work yourself, in a sense, right, which often involves support by a practitioner, a coach. I do this every day of the week, or in connection with the community that does this kind of thing, right? Yeah, but it's a different level of responsibility in the attitude of approaching it that way. And I'm, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, that's, that's, I'm finished with that.   Michael Hingson ** 21:08 But one of the things that I've learned, especially over the last year, I used to to always say, when I listen to my speeches, I like to record speeches and listen to them. And I always used to say, I do that because I'm my own worst critic. And I've you know, if, if I'm being critical, that's the really most important thing. And I've learned over the last year that's not the right thing to say I heard, and one I don't even remember now exactly where, but that nobody can teach you anything. You are the one who has to teach yourself. Other people can present you with information, they can give you the information that you need to learn, but you're the one that has to teach you. And I thought about that, and I realized that is so true, I'm not my own worst critic, I'm my own best teacher. And then that makes a complete positive shift to everything, because now I I approach things in a much more positive way. I don't approach things as well. This is potentially negative, and I've got to pick on me to fix it. No, I hear this, or I see this, and I can now look at it and go, Why am I reacting to it? And an animal. Well, instead of analyzing out and think about you, use the   Chris Knight ** 22:25 word you want to use, either one works   Michael Hingson ** 22:29 or think about it. But I I study it, and I go, all right, what? What can I learn from this? And that's what's really important. And I think that is, is so important that people need to do another thing that I learned from working with a lot of Guide Dogs and so on, is that while dogs love unconditionally, they don't trust unconditionally, but what they do is they're unless something has just totally damaged their psyche. They're open to trust, and they want to trust, and they want to be connecting with us, and they want us to be the team leader. They want to know what the rules are that we expect in a positive way, but they want to develop that relationship. And working with guide dogs, it's all about trust and teamwork right from the beginning. And the fact is that when you establish a trusting relationship, and you learn to trust the dog, and the dog learns to trust you, and you each recognize you have a job to do. Namely, the dog's job is to make sure that I walk safely, but my job is to know where to go and how to get there, and I have to communicate that to the dog with directions. And if I do that in a firm way, then we work together as a team. And the whole concept of being open to trust is so important. Yeah, there are going to be people within the agendas. They're going to be people whose trust you're not going to earn, and that's that is understandable, but be open to trust, and don't let a negative trusting experience destroy you or or cause you to not want to trust. Recognize that's only one individual. Most people are really good, and they do want to establish trusting relationships. I think, well,   Chris Knight ** 24:24 I mean, trust is one of the most important things, and one of the areas I'm working with all the time, particularly with relationships. Relationships is a is a major subject. I have people come to me because they have challenges, triggers going on in their relationships that continue to create a bit of a toxic cycle, or distance or withdrawing and so on. And it all comes back to trust at the end of the day. That's where it ends up, and it's the important question that is rarely asked. And or understood is, how is trust lost at the subtle levels we understand how trust is lost in more gross experiences, meaning, like denser expressions, like you know, whether it's physical violence or emotional abuse, or whether it's like cheating or just not doing what you say, there's all sorts of things there that will create mistrust. But actually mistrust is is is created on much more subtle levels than that. And if we don't understand our minds and the projections of our minds, like, for example, what we think we're entitled to and deserve, and what, yeah, what we feel is within our space of control and ownership, all of those projections go on To the other person and become a form of mistrust, yeah, but that is so unconscious. This is the thing it's I didn't know. For example, I didn't know that my unconscious insecurities, right, that were creating a certain type of expectation in the relationship was actually creating a mistrust between us that was then creating a barrier and a withdrawing for example, because whenever those things are happening, it's repulsive, like it has a repulsive, energetic about it, and then we all of a sudden see that there's something wrong, there's a distance happening. But how do I how do I navigate to this? Because I cannot see that my actions are really warranted in creating this issue. Okay, so this is, this is what's happening for a lot of people, and this is where this work becomes absolutely critical, because it's those little things, it's those subtler background issues right that all stem in insecurity, that come from the lower self, that really erode relationships and erode trust. And then it amounts to over time, big issues essentially just to represent what's going on inside, and it becomes like this, you know, destructive manifestation in people's lives. And then you know that there's all sorts of wounding and shame and guilt and everything that comes with with that, but we can catch these things way early on. But like you said, we're not taught at school, like we're not taught at school, we're not taught at school or at home. That by nature of being a human being, you have insecurities you're unaware of that are going to manifest in your life, particularly in relationships, but also in your work and various other areas, that unless you deal with them, they're going to cause you all sorts of problems. They're going to cause you, cause you suffering, right? And it and by achieving things like success or status and various other external things, these don't deal with those underlying insecurities. They don't, they don't actually solve the issue. And we are believing that they do based on our conditioning. We're told that if we are normal and if we meet the criteria that that feels like this is a life that's, you know, I could be proud of, then I will feel secure. And it's not true. It's just fundamentally not true, and yet, because we don't know any different, we just keep trying the same thing, expecting a different result, and that's really frustrating. I think for a lot of people, it is   Michael Hingson ** 28:59 we don't learn to connect with ourselves, and we also don't learn to, oftentimes, be open enough to say to someone else, you know, there's a distance between us. And I'm, I don't really like that. Tell me what you think. Tell me why that is, is what? What do I need to do? What can we do together to fix this, and that's it is an issue that we just don't learn to connect, which is too bad, because, again, I think that it's all about communications. Well, tell me more about this whole concept of self intelligence, where did that come from? And what is it? And so on.   Chris Knight ** 29:37 Well, that's what that exactly what we're speaking about is what it is so. So, for example, when I have a couple in front of me, and they've got these things going on, and they've got that distance happening, and maybe they did acknowledge it, right? And then they did have a conversation about it, like you suggested. They said, like, what are we going to what are we going to do? And they both find out very quickly that they they don't know. What the issue is, it's like I just can't understand why I'm feeling these really strong feelings over things that certainly don't match up. I'm I think I'll just try to be a better person, and maybe that will work. And this is what people try to do. They try to be a better person. They try to be a good person, and then it doesn't make a difference, because that's not that's not how these things work. Being a good person won't deal with things like insecurity, and then they find themselves in the same pattern, in the same cycle, and we still, we're going through the same thing again. So I'm going to ask someone else now how to deal with this now, unfortunately, for a lot of people, they still don't get this type of information with counselors and psychologists, although some do. Thankfully, some are really great, but most don't have this knowledge either, and that's what I saw. I saw this huge gap where, okay, let's boil down what's really happening here. We work it blow by blow in terms of unpacking the what I call the lower self. So we don't, for example, self intelligence is really the journey from the lower self to the higher self. Okay, that's how you could consider it. So what is the lower self. The lower self is often referred to as your shadow self, or your ego. Sometimes you can refer to it as your unconscious mind. This is the kind of place that we operate from that often holds the energetic of survival mode. So often, if you think of lower self, you'd almost think of the lower brain stem, which holds the survival aspects of our impulses, right, right? And when we're living from the lower self, which we all are, like everybody's living from this lower self. Firstly, everything's external, everything that's happening is out there, and it's happening to me, and that could be good or that could be bad, and there's a range of protection mechanisms for the lower self, like judgment and fear that cause it whole bunch of issues. Okay? It also has needs. The lower self has needs that are called ego needs that also cause it a whole bunch of drama, right, like the need to win, the need to know, the need to be right, the need to be supported, the need. There's all these needs, okay, and those needs create us a fundamental sense of lack in the person inside who is living this life. So this is all unaware of that's going on. Yeah, yeah. And so self intelligence is the intelligence of understanding, putting the light on that dark space that's in us that is running everything. Okay? People know this is happening when they they could make a decision. When we make decisions, we often go, God, why did I make that decision? Like, say it was a job or something like that. I was like, I knew in myself that wasn't the job for me. I don't know why I said yes, but it ended up turning out to be really misaligned with me. That's the lower self. That's the lower self kicking in and taking over. And this happens with people experiencing addiction. It happens when people don't feel like they're living their purpose. It happens for a whole range of reasons. It's like, so what's what's then making my choices like, if I know better, somewhere deep inside of me, what? What is taking over? And this is the lower self. This is what self intelligence is about. Is one becoming aware of the lower self, becoming just very clear about it. And I have a, I have a step by step, blow by blow, process that illuminates the lower self in clear view. It can it has no wriggle room to hide, because the lower self is the best hider that you can imagine. It loves hiding and running the show. It just it goes into any subject matter. It doesn't matter what it is, it will find a place to hide and then run the whole show. That's what it does. It's like, I'm going to hide over here and then call all the shots. Forget.   Michael Hingson ** 34:31 It gets back. It gets back to connecting and really connecting with yourself, which is what we don't generally tend to learn to do.   Chris Knight ** 34:39 Yeah, and connecting with yourself to the degree that you become aware, yes, of the drivers. For example, when you said, what if? What if is a is one of the lower self's favorite words, right? So when you become, oh, I just got that, what if, thought I'm aware of it now, right? Now? I have a choice. Whereas before, when I wasn't aware of that, what if thought I didn't really have a choice other than to react to that thought, whereas now that I'm aware of that thought, well, I can either take another look and see if this is a real danger that I'm dealing with and respond appropriately, or I can realize that that's a, you know, an illusory thought that I can dis identify with. So this is just one example sure that of how that works. So self intelligence is that, but it's also the process of discovering your higher self and your higher self is also known as your natural state. So this is your state, that is who you are, before you became conditioned with a whole range of beliefs, and before you became identified with a whole bunch of things in your life. There is no fundamental issue with conditioning or identity. You gotta be the one to discern whether those things cause you suffering like whether they're serving you or not. That's the That's the important thing, but, but, but beyond all of those things, you existed prior to, for example, your name. Like everybody was given a name at birth, you existed prior to your name, true or not, so you were in the boom, true you you were there before a name came, and then a name came after. Now what happens is we identify with that name, and then we associate that name with who we are, right? Yes, the identification process is the lower self, the part of you that realizes that you're not your name, but the name is connected to this body, mind, which is very important to practical reality, right? That's your higher self. It's the witnessing presence, the observer behind everything that's taking place. And self intelligence is the is the art of empowering yourself to live through your higher self. That that that that that consciousness that you are. So why would you want to live from that place? Because it is freedom, like if we take a a very honest look at our lives, the most the suffering that we're experiencing is coming from inside of us, like someone right now could be sitting here listening to this podcast with a whole bunch of problems in their life, like relationship, finances, all sorts of things, but in this present moment, the problem don't exist in the way that the mind is threatened by all of these things that are going on. These are real issues. The these are real they're not. It's not saying that those are real issues, but suffering them is what happens with the mind. And so if you want, if anyone wants to free themselves from the inside, they have to understand what's happening inside themselves in order to do that, yeah, and so that that's, that's literally what self intelligence is. And there's many forms of this on the planet, in different variations with different names. This is just one term to describe that, that pathway, yeah, well,   Michael Hingson ** 38:39 you know, it's it's interesting. Again, we worry about so many things. We're afraid of so many things, or we fear so many things, and well over 90% of them will never happen. And they're also things over which we really don't have any control, but, but we worry about them because rather than paying attention to the things over which we really do have some influence and control, we worry about everything else. It's so much easier to do, at least we think it is. But in reality, I think that focusing on the things that we really can have an effect on, I think is extremely important to do. I remember when I was running from tower two in the World Trade Center at one point, I thought, God, I can't believe that you got us out of a building just to have it fall on us. And then immediately I heard, as clearly as you hear me now, a voice that said, don't worry about what you can't control. Focus on running, in this case, with my guide dog, Roselle, and the rest will take care of itself. And I've had that as kind of a mantra ever since that day. Don't worry about the things that you can't control. Focus on the things that you can, because the rest of it isn't going to really be anything that you have any control over. Anyway, it was so easy, and I know people who did, who were just afraid. As we went down the stairs in the World Trade Center, the building was going to collapse. It's going to fall off. We're going to die. And in fact, some people said that. From my perspective, I will tell you that I was listening for any creaking groan in the building in case something happened. But I didn't let that worry me, because I knew that what I needed to do was to keep myself and my guide dog focused, especially keeping my guide dog focused, because Roselle would have and dogs do tend to have higher senses on a lot of levels than we do, and so if suddenly Roselle started to behave in a way that I didn't expect, then I could look at that and deal with it and figure out what was happening, which was my job, but if I worried about everything else, I couldn't focus on her and tell her she's doing a good job. Keep going. What a good dog and all that. And that's what I needed to do, and that's what I learned to do. Because what I did was to learn all I could about the World Trade Center, which created a mindset. And I didn't even realize it, but it created a mindset that said, if there's an emergency in the World Trade Center, you know what to do to deal with it. And that's exactly what happened to me. And so I was able to to deal with it and not worry about all the stuff that I had no control over, and I'll tell you, I have a very vivid imagination. I'm a science fiction lover. I've read lots of horror books and all that. So I imagine things that were probably a whole lot worse even than happened. But by the same token, I didn't let that overwhelm me, because I had something more important to do, and that is to keep me and a puppy dog focused.   Chris Knight ** 41:46 Yeah, that's you know, that I often find that disasters bring out the best in a lot of people, not everyone, but I do tend to find that all of a sudden there's this ability to prioritize things and really be the kind of people that we want to be in with each other. And like I said, That's not all the time, but there is a pattern in humanity that when we're in crisis, all of a sudden this this part of us comes out that seems to be like what we'd love to see in each other's lives all the time. What I tend to find is the discernment of what we're in control of and what we're not in control of is less there when we're not in crisis, when we're in an ordinary life, and when we're getting irritations by, you know, the people that we're working with or our partners, and the expectations that we hold for them, and the judgments that we have about them and ourselves, and our fears about what other people think, and all of that kind of thing is, is just the discernments not there. And so what happens is the reaction patterns that come from that start to play out, and then you get a certain, a certain kind of low level to high level anxiety depression, which is really just experiences a certain kind of I'm not feeling right in myself, like I don't feel comfortable in my own skin somehow, like something doesn't ever feel like I feel content. There's just this slight irritation in the system kind of going on.   Michael Hingson ** 43:31 Survival Mode kicks in, and it creates this whole negative environment where I've got to just do what I'm used to doing to survive, and we don't allow ourselves to stretch and grow,   Chris Knight ** 43:45 yeah, yeah, yeah. Because everybody has a calling inside of them, I feel that everybody has this knowing that they're here to learn and grow and to express a part of themselves that's very unique, but there's a fear that it won't be acceptable, it won't be received, it will be rejected, and maybe it has been in the past, by parents, by siblings, by, you know, people in the schoolyard, whatever the case. And it's a real shame, because that light inside of us becomes dim through through conditioning and through accepting that, and through the survival mode that you're talking about. And the work that I'm offering is for those people who know that that's there inside of them and want to know how to get out of their own way so that can come through, so that their their natural gifts and talents, their capacity to love, their capacity for connection, as you've been saying. Saying can actually be experienced in this life, right? Because there's a feeling like my my experience is so limited by this person inside of me who is controlling everything or needs control in the way that you're talking about, and I'm in my own way. And how do I get out of it? How do I get out of my own way? To have these experiences, to have this growth, right to to take this absolutely miracle of experience, like the scientists that they just cannot believe, like for someone to be bought, for you to be born is an absolute miracle. The odds of you being born, the way that it happens through billions of sperm, and you know, this whole process that takes place with with birth is like you're you're an absolute miracle, right? And we all know this intuitively, and there's a lot of shame in the system when we don't feel like we're giving this life our fullest because we're in our own way. You know, there's, there's a lot of shame that builds up with that. And yeah, and I feel like I'm I felt that way myself, that I'm speaking to my my lower self. That's I, that's what I experienced, was that, and fortunately, I was guided towards the ways in which to unlock that inner potential. Yeah. And   Michael Hingson ** 46:33 your chronic pain went away along the way.   Chris Knight ** 46:35 Yeah, yeah. It went away very quickly. Actually, it was one of the things that really shifted very fast, I just lowered back pain. Yeah, that was one of the, one of the many things that came into alignment amongst many other things, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 46:54 So in a sense, you were, you were, if you will, causing your own pain. Oh, absolutely,   Chris Knight ** 46:59 yeah, absolutely, yeah. Because sometimes it's not like that. Sometimes it's a, it's an ergonomic thing. It's a, you know, it's an injury kind of thing, like this and that that is the case. It's not always like psychosomatic, if you want to call it, that body mind. But this was because of the chronic nature of it. I tell people, when it comes to this work, you're looking for patterns. You're looking for things that keep showing up and they're not shifting, they're not healing. So what that's saying is, there's something that's not been addressed inside that has to be looked at, you know, and so that that's I've worked with a lot of people with weight issues. I over overweight, and they're doing all the right things, they're eating the right food, they're exercising, and they're like, the weights not shifting. It's like, look, there's something else going on internally that that says that due to your perceptions, your beliefs, your experiences, that you have to continue to protect yourself in a certain way that's holding that weight. And until you address that, your weight is going to be very hard to shift. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 48:03 I know I used to be a lot more overweight than I am now, and I made the conscious decision to deal with it. And one of the things that I did was changed eating habits a little bit, but yeah, mostly it was again, a mindset, and since I began losing weight, I have lost about 85 pounds in the last five years. And so I'm very happy with that, and I'm not going to let it come back. And that's the way it ought to be. But, but I also know that it was a lot of me connecting with myself and recognizing that I had to make some changes, both in mindset and in food, but yes, also Yeah, but especially in mindset,   Chris Knight ** 48:56 yeah, yeah. I I felt the same way, like all the therapies that were trying to support my symptoms started to become way more effective when I was dealing with my internal so they all have their place. Everything has its place. Diet has its place. Therapies have their place. Drugs have their place. Everything has its place. It's up to us to understand how to discern when and where and how much of those things are necessary in our lives. You know? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's the thing. And that decide I use this word discernment quite a bit, because discernment is the is the major aspect of self intelligence that as society and as human beings, that I feel as though we require development of. You know, we know this with children like they children have an adult in their life, because the adult can discern what's dangerous, what's not dangerous. The adult can discern if there's a boogie man under the bed or not. You know, where a child's mind will go off into all sorts of. Places, you know, and the adult can kind of ground them back to something that's safe and understandable. But we have to be that adult to ourselves. We have to be that adult to our own inner child so that we can discern what's happening, and the child inside, it does what the child does when it feels uncomfortable and so on. It just goes to the parent to get some kind of whatever it is, to get the boob, to get the dummy, to get the comfort, the relief of some kind they're not responsible for what's happening it's the adult who's responsible. And many people are living their lives internally as a child and the feeling completely overwhelmed by life, because the child like mind is not supposed to be taking on those kinds of responsibilities, and yet it's trying to, and it's suffering, and in order to cope with the overwhelm, it will employ things like distractions, addictions, to to to basically deal with the the uncomfortable sensation of that overwhelming stress and the amount of man, the amount of distractions that we can employ these days, and it will be experienced as procrastination, you know, it'll be experienced as perfectionism. It'll be experienced as sabotaging behaviors. It'll be experienced as energetically prostituting ourselves in situations that don't necessarily serve us. It shows up in all these different facets, and what that's saying is that that discernment and that that that adults like quality hasn't been yet developed to the point where you can trust yourself, and it's still then looking outside for the answers, where the the answers inside. And this is, this is a major shift. I feel it's taking place on the planet right now, because the more that technology develops as well. Our discernment is more and more necessary. What can we trust? What can't we trust? What information can we rely on or not? Becomes harder and harder as technology increases, so discernment is even more and more important. And I found it interesting that as artificial intelligence birth itself, so did self intelligence in like unison with that, which is actually a really beautiful compliment when they come together in the right way. But without that, they it could be, you know, it's likely to be another kind of tool that weaponizes against itself. So what   Michael Hingson ** 52:38 kind of practices can we employ to learn to live better through our higher selves?   Chris Knight ** 52:45 There are three primary practices that I'm most interested in that I feel get the best results, and I see get the best results, and they're tried and tested to get the best results in this particular area that we're speaking to. The first is self inquiry. And self inquiry is the is the questioning which it's an awareness practice. I just want to repeat that it's not a mental practice. It's it's a line of questioning that allows you to become aware of the unconscious programming and belief systems and traumas and wounding that are driving your actions and behavior and choices, that are creating your reality. So this, this is extremely important to become aware of those things and not to assume that you're aware of them. If you're seeing symptoms in your life, like I had to come to terms with this myself, right? Because everyone thinks they know themselves. Everyone believes they know themselves. I know who I am, right? Everyone has this strong conviction. I know who I am. It takes life to cause a fair bit of pain to go you know what? Maybe I don't know myself as well as I thought I did, right? And maybe there's some room for growth, and maybe there's some room to learn some things about myself. So you have to have that degree of attitude, which unfortunately, usually takes people a lot of pain, even like a dark night, to even get to that point. But that's the first step. Is to have a very clear, simple line of inquiry to illuminate that stuff, and to also have the line of inquiry, which is all in the one package of self inquiry to dis identify with limiting beliefs and negative emotional states that aren't serving you, right? So that's the first step. So self inquiry does that. The second step is to be in the vibration of your higher self on a daily basis. No different to exercising on a daily basis or other habits that serve there are many habits brushing your teeth on a daily basis, whatever it is to actually just be in the full experience of your. Higher Self, which is a guided meditation kind of process, and to do that daily. And what that does is that creates the space internally to be able to see those thoughts. Because if you don't have that space, you just are the thoughts. There's no there's no distinction there. And if the viewers listening to this tried meditation didn't work for me, that type of thing. Do not think about it like strict versions of meditation that that that was like I was trying to stop my mind, or this type of thing. It's not like that. I call these self recognition practices. So this the second step is self recognition. Recognize, recognize that you are the witnessing consciousness of everything that includes everything externally and everything internally. And just sit with that, sit with that recognition. And what happens is your vibration goes up naturally. You start to feel calm, peace, joy, creative, all of these natural things, inspired, enthusiastic. There's all this natural energy there, and you don't do and you're not making it up. You're not creating it. You're not trying to will yourself into those states. It's just what happens when you do this. So that's the second step. The third step I call self regulation, which is the physical body's way of coming out of the survival mode. So I teach that through body tremor, through body release and through breath work. So when the nervous system is kicked off, this could be anything. It could be like some stressful thing at work, or some jealousy issue in your relationship, or some because it's bring up some trauma. It's like, look, I'm going to take a few moments. I'm going to get myself regulated before I have a conversation, for example, or before I go on with this task, or whatever I'm going to do. It could be that I'm procrastinating. Procrastination is a survival mechanism. So it's like, I can do some breath work, and then all of a sudden I'm freed up. It's like, all of a sudden I'm good to go like that procrastination, that barrier, That invisible barrier of taking action, is no longer there anymore, and so it's another it's the physical version of coming out of that lower state of the lower self. And that's it. Those three practices are plenty enough to implement. Now the second practice, self recognition, that's a daily practice, self inquiry, often is something people use when they get triggered by things you know, like something happens, someone says something, a situation occurs, and you're not accepting reality. You're you're you're not okay with what's happening, and therefore certain perceptions, beliefs and thoughts have triggered off there to inquire, to come out of that state, because at the end of the day, it's a fear based vibration that you're in, and nothing you do in the fear vibration is going to serve anything per like useful so similar to if you were going into a rip in the ocean, panicking is never going to be the best thing to do. So it's just recognizing that nothing I do on the from the state of fear and judgment and ego based needs are going to like create as a result that I actually want, but we think that it will right? So we react to things all the time, we project things all the time, and think it's going to get us what we want, and it doesn't do that. It gets us actually the opposite of what we want. And so that's something we have to come to terms with. So that happens a lot of the time. Yeah, when we get triggered, if you're feeling really insecure about something, if you're noticing certain negative judgments, there's, there's all the different triggers for self inquiry. But it's more on a case by case basis that that's happening, and that could be like a 10 minute process, 510 minute process. And same with the that's the same with the self regulation, that that's also a five to 10 minute process to come out of that state. And it's it, what? What is it all saying? It's saying I'm prepared to look after my vibration. I know that in a higher vibration, things work out. Things go into flow, things seem to synchronize. Things seem to look after me in a way that's more serving and natural when I'm in the lower state. It's like the world's against me. It's like everything's like pushing shit uphill. It's just difficult, it's hard work. It's like the world's against me somehow. And it's like, I don't want to live from that state. I don't want to be make. Decisions from that state. I don't want to be relating in my relationships and my kids and everything else from that state, because it just creates more and more problems. So yeah, those are the those are the three processes, self recognition, self inquiry and self regulation. Yeah. So   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:17 basically, are you a life coach? Yeah?   Chris Knight ** 1:00:21 Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'd be sort of known as a spiritual life coach, because, only because I deal at the level of identity, which is where people usually use the word spiritual. I don't use the word spiritual because it has too many it's too much of a loaded word,   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:38 even though that's what it is, yeah,   Chris Knight ** 1:00:39 that is what it is, because we're just dealing with disidentification semantics, yeah, yeah, exactly. So, yeah, there's no limit to the kind of issues that I work with in people's lives. I tend to find that I work with certain themes more than others, like the people in my community at the moment, and the clients that I have is very it's a very diverse thing, like it could be jealousy and relationship for one person, another person's coming out overcoming an eating disorder or body dysmorphia. Someone else is dealing with a sexual abuse trauma. Someone else has got dad wounds from childhood that have caused them to be narcissist in their work life, and it's causing them all sorts of problems. So they're dealing with narcissistic issues. So it's so to the core of what's going on for us that it's very holistic in that way.   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:37 Yeah. So what is your business called?   Chris Knight ** 1:01:41 My name, it's, it's self intelligence is the method, is the the teaching. And my name is Chris Knight, and I'm the founder of that. So that's, that's essentially what that is. So people say, go see Chris if they recognize a certain problem. And he's like, I think he'll be able to help you out with that particular thing. There   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:01 you go. Have you written any books yet?   Chris Knight ** 1:02:05 I've, I haven't published a book. I've written a textbook in emotional anatomy, and I've got a podcast, a self intelligence podcast, where I do live sessions with people, which is pretty amazing for people to do that, to do live sessions, and I definitely intend to write various books, but yeah, at the moment, I'm just continuing to refine the self intelligence program. The it has gone through many updates to keep it as simple and as user friendly to people as possible, given that it's a lifestyle approach. And yeah, that's that's where it's at at the moment. So   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:54 if people want to reach out to you, how do they do that? Yeah,   Chris Knight ** 1:02:58 so they look up Chris knight.com.au, and you'll find everything there. The two offerings I have is one, I do one on one coaching with people on everything that we just spoke about today, and I often have a discovery call with people, just to make sure that they feel like I'm the right fit for them, for what they're dealing with. And two, I have a community, because everything that I'm doing is lifestyle based. So the meditation, the self inquiry and the self regulation, these are intended to become habits in our life, like exercise and other things. So it's like going to the gym. Actually, you can go to the gym and get an instructor, right? That's like the one on one coach. You can get an instructor and they support you through it. Or you can just be a member at the gym and then go whenever you like. Yeah, so we just come off the back of a 30 day self inquiry commitment, which involved four different practices, like four different inquiry processes, and we do challenges like that all throughout the year. We meet on a weekly basis to do integration, because integration is often what's lacking for a lot of people in the self development space, where they have a big explosive like heart opening experience for, you know, in a conference or a workshop or something like that. But then they go back to their old habits when they get back into their daily life, and it's like, how do you integrate that vibration that I know, I now know, is possible in my daily life? That's what integration these integration sessions are for, and they're weekly. So that's what that that community is all about. So, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 1:04:42 So again, it's Chris Knight, C, H, R, I S, K, N, I, G, H, t.com/a, u.com.com, dot A, U, sorry, yeah,   Chris Knight ** 1:04:51 yeah. I think if you just, if, I think if you just Google Chris Knight on its own, I think I'm the top are you on LinkedIn as well? Well, ah, no, no, no, no, I'm not okay, no, no, but I think on top of the search, but it might depend on where you're at in the world.   Michael Hingson ** 1:05:10 Now I know how to find you. Chris, Chris Knight, now that's that's no problem,   Chris Knight ** 1:05:14 or search, or search, self intelligence.com, self   Michael Hingson ** 1:05:18 intelligence.com, which makes sense as well. Yeah, so   Chris Knight ** 1:05:21 you'll get there. You'll get there to me as well. And you know this is for people who want, who know in their hearts, they know that looking after your internal world is important, as to looking after your body in and to just have a small amount of time per day to do that as a lifestyle, but also when you feel like you're in the trenches, or you feel like you really require someone to hold your hand, in a sense, to get through some stuff, that's where the one on one sessions are there. And I work with people in America. I work with people all over the world, because we can do this right? And this is fortunately for what I offer. This works perfectly. It is not a barrier or an issue at all. In person is not necessary. It works great. So,   Michael Hingson ** 1:06:12 yeah, well, I want to thank you for taking the time to be here and talk about all this. It has been fun. And every time i i hear the kinds of things that you're talking about, that also tend to validate a lot of my thoughts. I like that as well, but I learn a lot, and as I as I love to tell people, if I'm not learning at least as much as anybody else on this podcast, I'm not doing my job very well. So I really appreciate you being here, and I have learned a lot today. So I want to thank you for that, and I want to thank you all for listening. So wherever you're listening, please, we'd love to hear from you. You can reach me at Michael h i at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, I, B, e.com, or go to our podcast page, www, dot Michael hingson.com/podcast, Michael Hinkson is m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, s, o, n.com/podcast, we'd love to hear from you, and please, wherever you're listening, give us a five star review. We value your reviews. We value your thoughts, and we especially do love those, those great reviews, so please keep them coming. We are very joyous to get those and we feel very blessed. If you know anyone who you think ought to be a guest on our podcast, Chris, that includes you. If you know anyone you think we ought to be chatting with, please let us know we're always looking to meet new people and make new friends. And as I've told Chris and I tell everyone who comes on the podcast, the only rule about being on the podcast is you gotta have fun. Otherwise, where is this engine doing it right? Exactly, exactly. So once, once more, I want to thank you, Chris for being here. This has been absolutely fun. So thank you very much. Thank   Chris Knight ** 1:07:50 you so much as well. I appreciate all your your effort and just your life story and the fact that you were just a living inspiration to anyone who feels that they have victimized by life, you have shown that you can thrive in this world beyond that whole narrative, and that's what this is all about.   Michael Hingson ** 1:08:14   You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we a

Today, we'll acquire something more from Chris Kolquist's over 20 years of experience in the freight industry! Chris explains the importance of operational expertise in evaluating companies, building partnerships over mere capital investment, the necessity for business owners to have clarity on their capital needs, and the value of thorough vetting of potential partners and creative partnership approaches in an overcrowded market!   About Chris Kolquist Throughout his career, senior executive and strategic leader Chris Kolquist has been a catalyst in driving commercial growth, positive financial results, and maximum shareholder value in challenging and hyper-competitive markets. He has built a noteworthy reputation for understanding investments, delivering ROI objectives, managing massive change, and building highly effective cultures. In 2021, Chris launched Koliway LLC, an investment and advisory firm specializing in investments, M&A transactions, board service, and advisory executive logistics work. Chris began his career with Arthur Andersen, where he served as Senior Auditor from 1998 to 2001, conducting audits, M&A transaction support, and financial due diligence for buy-side and sell-side clients. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1998 and obtained his CPA license in 2001 (now inactive).   Connect with Chris Website: https://koliway.com/  Email: ckolquist@koliway.com  

Today is going to be a great episode. I recently met today's guest at the end of last year through a mutual connection. We had the opportunity to hop on a zoom call and get to know each other and learn more about what we were up to in business. We both quickly realized that we knew a lot of the same people, and had both done some pretty incredible things in the digital marketing agency space. Finding people like today's guest in the marketing space is hard to come by; because so many people are faking it; he is not. It's a breathe of fresh air meeting people like him.Today's guest is Chris Martinez. He is the Founder & CEO of Bloom. They help agencies maximum value, unlock potential, and achieve an 8-figure exit.Chris' Bio:Chris Martinez knows what it's like to face challenges head-on—and win. As the CEO and Founder of Bloom, he has built a company from zero to millions in revenue, earning national recognition, including a Stevie Award in 2021 for Minority-Owned Business of the Year and a Silver Medal for Most Innovative Company Under 100 Employees. With over a decade of experience helping marketing agencies scale profitably, Chris has become a trusted advisor to agency owners looking to eliminate chaos, boost profits, and build businesses they can confidently sell.Chris's unique journey fuels his passion for helping others succeed. Born to a Chinese mother and a Mexican father, he learned early on how to navigate adversity and turn obstacles into opportunities. After losing his father to pancreatic cancer in 2007, Chris experienced dark years but found his way back through counseling, mentorship, and a commitment to giving back. This resilience is at the heart of his work with agency owners, as he helps them tackle their toughest challenges and build thriving, sustainable businesses.At Bloom, Chris is more than just a CEO—he's a problem-solver who rolls up his sleeves and works alongside agency owners to implement the systems, strategies, and accountability they need to scale effectively. Whether it's streamlining operations, creating profit-driven plans, or building leadership teams, Chris is focused on delivering results that empower clients to take control of their businesses and their futures.Beyond his business success, Chris is the author of four books, including It's Not JUST a Website, a six-time Amazon Bestseller read by thousands. His latest book Facts Not Feelings is considered to be one of the greatest books on scaling a marketing agency of all-time. He also hosts the popular podcast Operation Agency Freedom, where he shares real-world insights and stories to inspire entrepreneurs.When Chris isn't helping agencies scale, you'll find him playing soccer, training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, traveling with his wife, or spending time with his dogs.Connect with Chris:Website: https://bloompartners.io/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.martinez.5454 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisfrombloom/ Builders of Authority:FREE Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/7685392924809322 BOA Mastermind: https://buildauthority.co/order-form-mastermind GoHighLevel Extended 30-day Free Trial w/TONS of Personal Branding Bonuses: http://gohighlevel.com/adammcchesney

In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, host Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev, interviews Chris Burres, a visionary scientist and founder of My Vital C. Chris talks about the groundbreaking ESS60 molecule, famous for extending the lifespan of lab rats by 90%. The discussion covers the molecule's potential health benefits, including improved mental focus, energy, and sleep, as well as its theoretical anti-aging mechanisms. Chris also touches on safety, recommended dosages, and ongoing human studies.  Want to watch this episode on YouTube? Click here. Subscribe if you'd like to catch all new episodes live and participate with our guests directly. Join FDN and the team at the BiohackerExpo in beautiful Miami, Florida! Go to BiohackerExpo.com and use code "HDP" at checkout to get 50% off your tickets. Want to learn more about becoming an FDN? Go to fdntraining.com/resources to get our best free workshops and mini-courses! Where to find Chris: Website: https://www.myvitalc.com/ Book: Live Longer and Better Instagram: @myvitalc TikTok: @myvitalc YouTube: MyVitalC

Chris Kirkpatrick is a money strategist, author, and Founder of LIFE180, an award-winning company dedicated to helping individuals achieve financial freedom and live intentionally.  A former top-100 international poker player and Fortune 500 executive, Chris combines unique life experiences with innovative financial strategies like infinite banking to empower entrepreneurs, real estate investors, and everyday individuals. As the author of Cashflow Hacking, he shows how to achieve financial independence in just a decade. Guided by his Five F's philosophy—faith, family, fitness, finance, and freedom—Chris inspires others to align their money with their values and build purposeful lives. More of Chris: Website: www.life180.com/ Linkedin: @ckirkpatrick13 Instagram: @realchriskirkpatrick

Today I'm welcoming back my amazing client and friend, Chris Hunt Skelley MBE and owner of 2 Olympic medals. Chris, for anyone who doesn't know him, is a Judo champion who won a gold medal in Tokyo, and a bronze medal in Paris. This year has been a particularly traumatic one for Chris, who has had a lot of struggles with his mental health, leading up to taking part in his third Paralympics. I know you'll be equally as shocked as I was when you hear why.  On more than one occasion this year, he was questioned about his condition. Even though the competition organisers had already received information about Chris' ocular albinism, they asked for more, which brought back memories of his teenage years when he was admitted to a psychiatric ward because the doctors thought he was making things up in his own head! This sent Chris in a downward spiral with his mental health.Chris also talks about how much support he gets from his lovely wife Louise Hunt Skelley, his coaches, family and friends too. He also talks about the highly emotional interview that Louise did with him in Paris after he'd just won his bronze medal.We talk about the important job his sponsors do, and how they help athletes to access the training they need.Having recently been diagnosed with Coeliac disease, Chris explains how this can mean that when travelling outside of the UK, he has to pack food to take with him, to keep him healthy. And, when they have a weight restriction, this doesn't help! If Chris' attitude to life doesn't impress you, nothing will!To contact Chris:Website: https://chrishuntskelley.co.uk/media/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christopher.skelley/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christopher.skelley.3LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-hunt-skelley-mbe-ply-73014212b/ X: https://x.com/ChristopherSke2If you would like to contact me, you can visit my www.Scottmedia.uk or join my free Facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/prtribe

Meet Dr. Chris Fuzie, a law enforcement professional turned consultant and educator. Today on Legendary Leaders, Cathleen sits down with Chris to learn about his transformative journey and his commitment to self-education and personal growth. With experience ranging from homicide investigations to hostage negotiation, Chris delivers us a vivid look into leadership dynamics within law enforcement. As you listen, you'll discover Chris's approach to overcoming career setbacks, the importance of stepping out of comfort zones in learning, and the invaluable role of followership. Whether you're keen on leadership theories, fascinated by law enforcement, or want to explore new ways to elevate your career, this episode packs a wealth of wisdom and actionable advice. Episode Timeline:  08:21 Chris on becoming a police leadership instructor. 15:38 Law enforcement emphasises empathy in action. 20:36 Open-minded police see that people are fundamentally similar. 24:08 Unexpected prison advice on body language effectiveness. 31:20 Leading and following simultaneously in transitional space. 34:23 Leadership is about actions, not titles. 48:12 Teaching young proper policing behaviour and discipline. 59:57 Concerns about workplace contention and authority imbalance. 01:04:20 Organisational culture and cohesion are essential.   Key Takeaways:  Chris introduces the concept of "liminal leadership," which emphasises the fluid interplay between leading and following. He argues that effective leadership isn't solely about hierarchy or position, but understanding when to lead and when to follow.  The discussion highlights the importance of focusing on specific desirable behaviours rather than formal titles in creating effective leaders and followers. Chris's approach suggests that nurturing these traits is more impactful than traditional mission statements. Chris's personal journey highlights the importance of persistence and resilience in professional development. Despite facing multiple setbacks and rejections, he has maintained a focus on growth and personal improvement which actually advanced his career.   ABOUT Dr. Chris Fuzie  Dr. Chris Fuzie, Ed.D., is an expert in leadership and followership with a distinct focus on behavior-based approaches to personal and professional development. He is an author, educator, and consultant known for his work in reshaping traditional leadership paradigms through his innovative concepts and models. Dr. Fuziee's professional contributions are particularly influential in areas where leading and following are seen as interconnected and dynamic processes.​ Professionally, Dr. Fuziee is dedicated to reshaping traditional leadership paradigms, blending academic insights with practical, behavior-based approaches. His books, like "Liminal Space: Reshaping Leadership and Followership," reflect his commitment to helping individuals and organizations navigate complex interpersonal landscapes. ​As a trainer and mentor, Dr. Fuziee is known for his engaging and approachable style. He is direct yet empathetic, combining deep theoretical knowledge with practical applications. His background in education and real-world experience equips him to connect with diverse audiences, making complex concepts accessible and actionable. Connect with Chris : Website: https://www.cmfleadership.com/  Social Media Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-chris-Fuziee-ed-d-m-a-ol-37587934/  X (Twitter): https://x.com/CMFLeadership  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090255232861  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisFuziee/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/cmfleadership/  Connect: 
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How can one relationship completely redefine a career, a mission, and even impact millions?   In this thought-provoking episode, Kevin speaks with Chris Vaughan, founder of Sequence Consulting. They discuss the foundational role of associations in society and how Chris and his team have dedicated their lives to transforming these organizations. Chris shares personal stories of pivotal relationships,and explores the importance of integrity, the unique value associations bring, and how powerful, purpose-driven relationships can truly make the world a better place.     [00:01 - 05:53] Defining Purpose Through Associations Structure and support for various industries and interests The transformative power of associations to enhance modern life Sequence Consulting's mission is to grow and empower these organizations   [05:54 - 10:12] The Mentor Who Made All the Difference Chris's first consulting opportunity guided by mentor Bob Bob's advice to "be yourself" and maintain integrity What propelled Chris's career and shaped Sequence Consulting's values   [10:13 - 15:44] Building Success on Integrity Chris learned that honesty and authenticity foster long-term success Bob's journey to start his own business after the dot-com crash inspired Chris Why Chris decided to start Sequence Consulting and follow his mission   [15:45 - 21:26] Turning Around a Legacy Organization How Chris revitalized a declining medical association through transparency Chris explains the importance of truthfully assessing member needs How Chris tripled the association's growth rate and improved brand perception   [21:27 - 27:27] Lessons from the Association World Look to associations for lessons on loyalty and belonging Associations' focus on relationship-building is valuable to the for-profit world The transformative power of communities united by purpose       Key Quotes:   "Associations make the world possible, and by making them better, we are making the world a better place." - Chris Vaughan   "Don't lie. Be yourself. Say what you mean, do what you say, and the world will create a path for you." - Chris Vaughan       Connect with Chris:   Website: https://www.sequenceconsulting.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvaughanphd       Thanks for tuning in!   If you liked my show, please LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, and subscribe!    Find me on the following streaming platforms:   Apple Spotify Google Podcasts IHeart Radio Stitcher

In this powerful episode of the PREP Athletics Podcast, we sit down with Chris Herren, former NBA player and recovery advocate, to discuss the critical issues of substance abuse and addiction among young athletes. Chris shares his personal journey, offers invaluable advice for parents and players, and provides insights into current trends in youth substance use. This episode is a must-listen for anyone involved in youth sports or concerned about addiction prevention.

Menopause is this phase of life that brings about significant physical, emotional, and psychological changes, from hormonal shifts, and body composition changes, to sleepless nights and brain fog, and evolving family and work dynamics. Feeling overwhelmed or disconnected is easy, but mindfulness offers practical tools to help you regain balance, stay grounded, and navigate these changes with greater awareness and compassion. Mindfulness also supports women in prioritizing their self-care- you can't help others unless you put on your oxygen mask first. In this episode, we explore simple mindfulness strategies that can fit into your busy day, helping you stay present and reduce anxiety through mindful breathing, body awareness, or cultivating self-compassion. The goal is to empower you to approach midlife challenges with calmness and clarity, rather than stress and reactivity. Your mindfulness equation, which is a personalized approach, is what will be sustainable for you as you move beyond menopause. By the end of this episode, you'll have a toolkit of mindfulness strategies that will improve your well-being today and foster resilience and vitality for the years ahead. My guest today is Chris Vasiliadis, a fellow NBCHWC, who has her Master's in Education. She is the author of Ignition, A Professional Women's Guide To Energized, Burn-Out Proof Living. I've just finished reading her book and learned so many new strategies to support my mindfulness practice in a way that feels good to me. She has some amazing stories to share, filled with examples of how mindfulness can fit it and support your longevity goals, including her own.Chris founded Priority Wellness in 2008. She has helped countless individuals energize their health, avoid burnout, and improve their performance. Choosing to prioritize her wellness after her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2005, Chris has been relapse-free for over 12 years. Medical Disclaimer:By listening to this podcast, you agree not to use this podcast as medical advice or to make any lifestyle changes to treat any medical condition in yourself or others. Consult your own physician for any medical issues that you may be having. This entire disclaimer also applies to any of my guests on my podcast.Learn more about Chris:Website: https://prioritywellness.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisvasiliadis/Stay Connected with Jill Foos Wellness:Watch on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jillfooswellness/videosFollow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jillfooswellness/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jillfooswellnessGrab discounts on my favorite biohacking products: https://www.jillfooswellness.com/health-productsEnjoy 20% savings and free shipping at Fullscript for your favorite supplements by leading brands:https://us.fullscript.com/welcome/jillfooswellnessSubscribe to the JFW newsletter at www.jillfooswellness.com and receive your FREE Guide on How To Increase Your Protein in 5 Easy Steps and your free Protein Powder Recipe Ebook. Schedule your complimentary 30-minute Zoom consultation here:https://calendly.com/jillfooswellness/30-minute-zoom-consultations

Christopher Marquis believes that purposeful company stewardship is required more than ever. He is the Sinyi Professor at the University of Cambridge Judge School of Business. He writes a regular column for Forbes and his work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Fortune, TIME, Foreign Policy, and Harvard Business Review. His previous books, Better Business: How the B Corp is Remaking Capitalism and Mao and Markets, a Financial Times “Best Book of 2022,” were published by Yale University Press. Episode Insight: It's time for leaders to rethink our current economic system and envision a more equitable and sustainable future, leading with purposeful company stewardship. Background: In this week's episode of Reflect Forward, I interview Christopher Marquis, a business professor at the University of Cambridge and author of 'The Profiteers.' Chris shares his journey and focus on corporate social responsibility and purposeful company stewardship, discussing the challenges of aligning profit motives with social goals. We highlight the importance of purpose-driven leadership, sustainability, and addressing systemic environmental issues. Chris offers insights into teaching ESG concepts, the role of strategic governance, and innovative companies like Grove Collaborative. We also cover corporate gaslighting in industries like fossil fuels and plastic and the need for upstream thinking to tackle the root causes of systemic problems. How to find Chris: Website: https://chrismarquis.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-marquis/ Books: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Business-Movement-Remaking-Capitalism/dp/030024715X https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Business-Privatizes-Profits-Socializes/dp/1541703529 Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christophermarquis/#6fdf8e2e67dc Timestamp for Episode 00:00 Welcome and Introduction 00:00 Meet Christopher Marquis 01:11 Journey into Academia 02:51 Teaching Impactful Business 05:02 Challenges in Sustainable Business 06:31 Innovative Business Practices 09:02 Leadership and Purpose 11:30 Elon Musk: A Case Study 13:46 Corporate Gaslighting: Shifting Blame to Consumers 14:48 Fossil Fuels and Carbon Emissions: The Hidden Truth 16:03 Plastic Recycling Myths: The Reality Behind the Ads 17:21 Upstream Thinking: Addressing Root Causes 19:11 Corporate Social Responsibility: A Deeper Dive 25:08 Reflect Forward: Influencing Future Leaders 26:20 Conclusion and Final Thoughts Please consider ordering my book, The Ownership Mindset, on Amazon or Barnes and Noble Follow me on Instagram or LinkedIn. Subscribe to my podcast Reflect Forward on iTunes Or check out my new YouTube Channel, where you can watch full-length episodes of Advice From a CEO! And if you are looking for a keynote speaker or a podcast guest, click here to book a meeting with me to discuss what you are looking for!

Enjoy this re-release of one my top listened to episodes with my guest, Chris Winter,Today, we're diving deep into the intricacies of sleep with renowned sleep expert and neurologist, Chris Winter. With over 10,000 patients under his care, including elite athletes, Chris has transformed lives through improved sleep. We'll explore fascinating topics such as the role of adenosine in sleepiness, the impact of caffeine, and the controversial concept of sleep debt. Chris will share practical advice on maintaining a consistent wake-up routine, optimizing your sleep environment, and debunking common sleep myths. Whether you're a college student, a high-powered professional, or just someone seeking better sleep, you'll find actionable insights in this episode. Plus, we'll touch on the cognitive effects of sleep deprivation, the significance of circadian rhythms, and how genetics play into our sleep needs. [06:29] The Glymphatic System and its Impact on Alzheimer's Disease: How Sleep Can Help Delay the Onset of the Disease.[10:26] Sleep Deprivation: The Connection Between Sleep Deprivation, Brain Fog, and Increased Risk for Accidents and Dementia.[25:53] Finding Your Optimal Sleep Duration: The Minimum Hours of Sleep Required for Optimal Health and Productivity.[36:13] The Drive Reduction Theory: How Your Body Forces You to Get Better Sleep.[41:26] The Science Behind Sleep: Homeostasis, Circadian Rhythm, Adenosine, Melatonin, and Caffeine.[46:11] The Truth About Caffeine: How Caffeine Tolerance Affects Your Brain and Sleep? [51:12] Understanding Sleep Debt: Can We Really Make Up for Lost Sleep?[56:11] Expert Insights: The Importance of Consistent Wake-Up Times for Better Sleep.[01:01:25] Optimizing Your Sleep: The Importance of Sleep Hygiene and Creating Your Hibernation Lair.[01:13:06] The Power of a Bedtime Routine: Tips for a Consistent and Healthy Sleep Schedule.Resources:Connect with Chris:Website: wchriswinter.com/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepUnpluggedPodcastInstagram: instagram.com/drchriswintervTwitter: https://twitter.com/drchriswinterPodcast: Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleep-unplugged-with-dr-chris-winter/id1631914841Books by Dr. Chris Winter:The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix ItThe Rested Child: Why Your Tired, Wired or Irritable Child May have a Sleep Disorder -- and How to HelpBooks Mentioned in the Podcast:Book by Samuel Shem: The House of GodBook by Joseph Heller: Catch-22

Join us as we engage in a transformative conversation with Dr. Chris Fuzie, who brings a unique perspective on leadership and followership from his journey from the Modesto Police Force to leadership education. Dr. Chris challenges conventional wisdom with the intriguing concept of liminal space, redefining the dynamic relationships between leaders and followers. Through his compelling stories, listeners gain insight into the importance of continuous learning, adaptability, and the nuanced interplay between leadership roles that transcend traditional hierarchies.Listeners will uncover the critical themes of groupthink, decision-making, and the balance of purpose, values, and courage in high-pressure environments. Dr. Chris shares gripping real-world experiences, emphasizing the importance of critical thinking and challenging stereotypes. With a focus on emotional and cognitive aspects, he illustrates how empathy and reflection influence decision-making. By highlighting scenarios from law enforcement to academia, this episode explores how practice informs research, offering valuable lessons for those seeking to navigate complex leadership landscapes.Finally, we explore how leadership and followership behaviors can be reshaped by focusing on actions rather than positions. Through sports analogies and real-life examples, we highlight the significance of resilience, responsibility, and adaptability in fostering team cohesion and a collaborative culture. Dr. Chris shares insights from his recent book, "Liminal Space," and previews an upcoming solo cast, inviting listeners to engage with content across platforms. This episode is an engaging exploration of the evolving paradigms of leadership and followership, promising thought-provoking insights for everyone eager to redefine their understanding of these roles.

In this episode, I sit down with Rev. Chris Lee, also known as “the internet's favorite vicar,” to dive into his latest book, Know You Are Beloved. Chris shares his incredible journey—from feeling lost in his faith to discovering the love of Christ during his mission work in Tanzania. His story reminds us that no matter where we are or what we've done, God's love is constant and unwavering. Chris opens up about balancing a thriving online ministry with his role as a husband, father, and priest in London. We explore how social media can distract us from our walk with God, and Chris offers practical tips for creating intentional moments of stillness to rest in God's love. This episode is packed with encouragement, especially if you're struggling with mental health, feelings of unworthiness, or just the busyness of life. Chris reminds us that our identity is secure in Christ, and we don't have to strive to earn His love—we're already loved beyond measure. Whether you're battling anxiety, depression, or just the pressures of daily life, this conversation will leave you feeling seen, known, and deeply loved by God. Bio: Rev. Chris Lee is the vicar of a growing church in London, England. He is passionate about prayer and helping people discover their identity in God. Lee founded a new monastic movement called Young Franciscans, which explored the concept of a rule of life within a residential and online community. Lee, who has also been called “the internet's favorite vicar” by This Morning's Holly Willoughby, is best known as an Influencer who started delivering inspirational 60 second sermons on social media several years ago. Surprisingly to Rev. Lee, his sermons quickly went viral, connecting him to Christians and those searching for more, all over the world. Today, Lee reaches an active international audience of 171K Instagram followers @revchris7 who have viewed his inspirational 60-second sermons millions of times. His videos have also been downloaded on YouTube over 350 million times. Lee speaks at various conferences and on his podcast, Come Read with Me. He is also a contributor to the BBC radio show, Pause for Thought. Rev. Chris Lee and his wife Jenny Lee, are also co-authoring a children's book, You Are Beloved, a heart-warming reminder of God's eternal love for kids ages 4–8. The book will be released in January, 2025. Anchor Verses: Psalm 26 Psalm 46:10 John's Gospel Ephesians Connect with Chris: Website: https://revchris.org IG: https://www.instagram.com/revchris7 LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/revchris7 ***We love hearing from our listeners! Sharing your thoughts through reviews is a fantastic way to be a part of our podcast family and contribute to the conversation. If you've enjoyed our podcast, leaving a review is quick and easy! Just head to Apple podcasts or wherever you are tuning in and share your thoughts. Your feedback makes a big difference!***

Has your client tasked you with designing a home gym? Have you considered the importance of lighting, temperature, flooring, and how high the ceiling is? Today's guest, Chris Howell, is the founder and owner of SPX Gym Design. He has lots of great insight on creating bespoke wellness environments for high-end homes and hospitality groups. Stay tuned! Chris is the founder and owner of SPX Gym Design, a company that has been transforming spaces since 2017. SPX Gym Design fuses interior design with custom gym equipment, creating bespoke wellness environments for high-end homes and hospitality groups. SPX has collaborated with prestigious brands such as Soho House Gyms, 1Hotel, Gurney's Resorts, Proper Hotels, and C4 Energy. His innovative approach to gym and wellness design has positioned SPX Gym Design as a leader in the space. ***

Meet Chris Ardolina - a multi-award-winning teaching professional at Cove Cay Golf Club in Clearwater, Florida. Chris became a scratch golfer at - wait for it - the age of 14. After deciding not to pursue professional golf, he decided to give teaching a go. He immediately fell in love with it and the rest is history. In today's episode, you'll learn: How to identify the root cause of your struggles AND develop an effective practice plan to overcome them. How to infuse both intention and purpose into your practice sessions to accelerate results.  How to approach the mental and physical aspects of your warm-up and what differes compared to when you practice. The three-step accelerated improvement framework Chris uses with all of his clients to meet them where they're at and get them to where they want to be - fast.  Plus, Chris shared the top priority to focus on when you're trying to break 90, break 80, and shoot scratch. Get your pencils ready and start listening.  More About Chris Chris grew up in central New Jersey and started playing golf at the age of 12. By age 14, he started shooting "par" at his local public course and earned recognition as one of the top junior golfers in the area. Throughout high school, Chris played 4 years of varsity golf, and his 9-hole score of 3 under par 33 remains tied for the lowest in school history. Chris's pursuit of a golf-focused career led him to Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina where he majored in Business Administration with a concentration in Professional Golf Management. After graduating, he embarked on a journey with the Jim McLean Golf Schools in Miami, Florida, where his passion for teaching blossomed.  He now owns and operates the Chris Ardolina Golf Academy out of Cove Cay Golf Club located in Clearwater, Florida.  Beyond golf, Chris finds joy in playing ice hockey, tennis, yoga and biking along the scenic Tampa/Clearwater trails.  Teaching Accolades:  2021-24 Golf Digest Best Young Teachers In America  2024 NFPGA West Central Chapter Youth Player Development Awar 2022-23 GRAA Top 100 Growth of the Game Teaching Professional 2023 NFPGA West Central Chapter Teacher of the Year  Connect with Chris: Website: www.chrisardolinagolf.com Instagram: @ardogolf  Youtube: @christopherardolina7330 Key Takeaways: Identify the root causes of your struggles in golf to develop effective practice plans. Practice with intention and purpose, starting with small drills and gradually progressing to more challenging exercises. Create a focused warm-up routine to bring confidence and clarity to the first tee. Follow a three-step process for improvement: understand the current state, identify areas for improvement, and implement changes. As you progress in golf, shift your focus to more specific aspects of the game. Consistency is key for golfers looking to break 100. Eliminating big numbers and focusing on reducing penalty shots can lead to significant improvement. To break 90, golfers should work on their approach shots and aim for consistent distance control. Being able to get close to the green and give themselves a chance to make par or bogey is crucial. Breaking 80 requires hitting more greens and having a solid short game. Golfers should aim to make more pars and reduce the number of putts. Becoming a scratch golfer involves paying attention to the details and making good decisions on the course. Strategy and course management become more important at this level. Playing in tournaments requires practicing under pressure and being familiar with the rules. Many golfers struggle in tournaments because they are not used to playing with the same level of pressure and adherence to rules. Key Quotes: "You can go from hip high to shoulder to full swing all within that singular practice session" "I want you to take one to two practice swings for every ball that you hit" "The biggest thing that can help them create consistency and help them lose less golf balls or take less penalty shots." "Breaking 90 comes down to a lot of approach shots and consistent distance control." "To break 80, you need to hit more greens and have a solid short game." Subscribe to the More Pars Than Bogeys Newsletter. This newsletter helps double-digit golfers overcome the emotional and mental hazards of their minds so that they can shoot more pars than bogeys.  Each week, I'll provide insights, principles, and strategies to help you deter distractions, find your focus, manage your emotions, and cultivate boundless confidence so that you can play to your potential. Subscribe now. Use Hypnosis to Shoot Lower Scores: Are you curious to learn how hypnosis can help you shoot lower scores? Snag my free hypnosis audio recording today to help you play your best round tomorrow. Download it here. For all things 1:1 Mental Game Coaching, Group Mental Game Coaching, and Speaking, visit me here: www.golfmindsetcoaching.com. For feedback, questions, or to take me out for a round of golf, shoot me an email or connect with me on social media: Instagram: @scratchgolfermindset  Twitter: @parsoverbogeys LinkedIn: Paul Salter Coaching Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction and Background 03:21: Working with Adults in Golf 06:30: Developing Effective Practice Plans 09:38: Creating a Focused Warm-Up Routine 13:17: The Power of Positive Thinking 19:34: The Three Steps to Improvement 22:41: Progressing in Golf 22:50: Breaking 100: Consistency and Penalty Shots 24:17: Breaking 90: Approach Shots and Distance Control 27:20: Breaking 80: Hitting Greens and Short Game 31:53: Becoming a Scratch Golfer: Strategy and Course Management 35:47: Playing in Tournaments: Practicing Under Pressure and Playing by the Rules

In this episode Chris Pienkowski, a seasoned leadership coach who focuses on developing high-impact leaders, shares his career journey, starting from Boy Scouts to leading company turnarounds and now focusing on leadership development. Listen in as Deb and Chris discuss empowering others, performance review improvements, and the principles of high-impact leadership. They have an insightful conversation about the essence of leadership, the importance of regular feedback, and the criticality of two-way service conversations. Chris also highlights his content on leadership development through his podcast and social media platforms.   Episode Highlights: 02:20  From Boy Scouts to Business Turnarounds 04:46 The Role of a Turnaround Leader 10:31 The Importance of Leadership Development 13:49 Effective Performance Reviews: A New Approach 26:57 High Impact Leadership Principles   After a successful career starting, running, and advising companies, Chris Pienkowski turned his focus to his true passion: coaching CEOs and senior executives across the US and Canada. Recognizing the leadership gap in small and mid-sized businesses, Chris founded Straight Arrow Coaching to bridge it. His mission is to bring proven leadership frameworks to these businesses, helping them unlock their full potential. With a Wharton education, a love for classic cars, Jiu Jitsu, and the outdoors, Chris lives with his family in suburban Philadelphia, committed to empowering the leaders of tomorrow.   Connect with Chris: Website: https://www.straightarrowcoaching.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrispienkowski/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrispienkowski/ For more insights: Follow me on my YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/47GgMdn  Sign up for my Weekly Newsletter:  https://bit.ly/3T09kVc Sign up for my LinkedIn Newsletter: https://bit.ly/49SmRV3See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Chelsae Zirna Podcast, I have the pleasure of sitting down with Chris Bale, a thought leader renowned for his deep insights into the dynamics of the feminine and masculine, conscious relationships, and sexuality. Chris, whose work has long been a personal favorite of mine, shares his wisdom on the distinct experiences of men and women in relationships, the stages of personal development, and the critical role of selflessness and service in cultivating deeper intimacy and personal growth.   We dive into how sexual energy evolves within relationships over time, challenging the conventional belief that women should always stay in their magnetism and sexual energy. Chris offers a refreshing perspective on how true growth and intimacy often emerge from embracing life's challenges and discomforts.   Chris also introduces his transformative model of human development, detailing three key stages: being driven by traumas and external influences, turning inward for self-healing, and ultimately progressing into selflessness and service to others. Our conversation explores the importance of moving beyond self-focus to attain true freedom and fulfillment.   Additionally, we examine the nuanced relationship between sexuality and spirituality. Chris shares his views on practices like semen retention, advocating for a more natural and relaxed approach to sexual energy.   Throughout the episode, Chris emphasizes the profound importance of love, compassion, and selflessness on our spiritual journeys. His insights have left a lasting impact on me, and I'm confident they will inspire and resonate with you as well.  Join us for a deep dive into human consciousness, relationships, and the path to true fulfillment. Key Topics Discussed: The importance of conscious relationships Insights on sexuality and personal growth The stages of personal development and consciousness The importance of selflessness and service in personal growth The nuances of masculine and feminine energy Practical advice on maintaining polarity and magnetism in long-term relationships The impact of societal conditioning on our understanding of relationships and sexuality More about Chris Bale: Chris is an internationally renowned Spiritual/Intimacy Mentor and seasoned Energy Worker with a wealth of experience spanning over a decade. He has facilitated profound transformations in the lives of thousands of individuals from diverse backgrounds, including coaches, therapists, doctors, celebrities, CEOs, as well as construction workers, bodybuilders, dancers, gardeners, and scientists. Despite the variety in his clientele, Chris focuses on the shared human experience, offering support that transcends professional and personal boundaries.   His expertise is built on an extensive education in multiple modalities of energy work, including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, QiGong, Medical QiGong, Reiki, Pranic Healing, and Sexual Alchemy. Chris has developed a deep understanding of the interplay between masculine (yang) and feminine (yin) energies, using this knowledge to guide others toward greater consciousness and embodiment.   Chris offers potent mentoring for men, helping them tap into their deeper selves, while also providing transformative energy work sessions for women, focusing on their unique energetic needs. His work is characterized by a powerful and transformative energetic frequency that is palpable in his presence. This energy, combined with his compassionate patience and unwavering commitment to delivering consciousness and truth in their rawest forms, enables him to address the core of collective trauma and conditioning that resides within each individual.   Through his mentoring and energy work, Chris serves as an ignitor and illuminator, reminding people of what is real and guiding them to rediscover what has been forgotten. His work is not just about healing but about awakening a deeper understanding and embodiment of one's true self. Connect with Chris: Website- https://www.awakenedintent.com/about Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/chrisbaleawakened/ Email- chris@awakenedintent.com ------------------------------------------------------------   Embark on a transformative journey like no other with our "Metamorphosis Program" - a profound rite of passage through the 7 stages of transformation. Step into the chrysalis and witness your own metamorphosis unfold.   To learn more and secure your place, visit https://chrysalisspace.com/metamorphosis/ Follow on IG: https://www.instagram.com/chrysalisspace/

Want more insights into building a successful transportation business and navigating challenging markets? Then, listen to this episode with Chris Brewer! Chris emphasizes the vital role of customer acquisition, the significance of establishing purpose and direction, and the effectiveness of personal engagement in sales through face-to-face interactions. Additionally, he talks about selecting financial partners and factoring companies, stressing the need for new brokerages to build credit relationships. More to expect from this live episode, so tune in!   About Chris Brewer Chris is the Founder and President of River City Logistics, leading the entire operation. He graduated from Clarke University in Dubuque, IA in 2013, playing baseball and getting his business degree. Chris has a dynamic mix of experience in transportation, working on the carrier side of transportation as a Fleet Manager, a West Coast Operations Manager, and in the brokerage space as a Sales Executive for a top brokerage before founding RCL. When asked about his favorite part of working at RCL, Chris said, “I enjoy giving people the platform and tools to provide exceptional service to our customers and carriers.” Chris enjoys spending his free time with his wife, Liz, and their three kids. He enjoys golfing and traveling.   Connect with Chris Website: https://rclogistics.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-brewer-88710a52/  

Chris Bale is an internationally known Energy Worker, Qi Gong Teacher and Intimacy Mentor. In his work, Chris supports and activates deep transformations in the lives of men and women and has been doing so for over a decade. By now Chris has worked with thousands of individuals from all over the planet from many different walks of life. As he says, he didn't choose this work but rather he was drafted into it.. His love for the „spiritual“ began rather early when he was drawn to study the energetic arts at the ripe age of 16. Once he left School in Ireland, he pursued an extensive education in many different modalities of healing including traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, medical qigong, reiki and sexual alchemy. Alongside that, Chris has spent many years dedicated to his own internal work, unravelling many of his own inner workings and conditionings. This eventually led him to turn his attention towards assisting others with this same process. His deep experiential understandings of energetics and how humans orient themselves on a deeper level, forms the foundation of what he offers today. The conversation that we had was refreshingly raw and I appreciated Chris's balance between being unapologetic while simultaneously deeply compassionate. Having applied his simple, yet very direct teachings into my life, I've learned to appreciate Chris's directness and his capacity to speak to things boldly, all while serving a greater purpose such as truth, love and responsibility. In my conversation with Chris we lay out the challenges that he sees among men at our current times, speaking to the importance of being connected to our emotionality as men while not being carried away by it. We as well have a fascinating conversation around this idea of the "Mother Wound", how women can support their men on their journey of growth including some of the pitfalls that Chris sees, among various other topics. To close it off all I'll say buckle up for this conversation everybody and be ready to have your mind blown... Connect with Chris: Website: https://www.awakenedintent.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisbaleawakened/?hl=en Read Chris's Blog Post that we addressed on the show: https://www.awakenedintent.com/blog/spiritual-bullshit Connect with Alex: Website: https://www.alexlehmann.co/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexlehmann_/?hl=en Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@HeartofManPodcast/featured Interested in working with me 1:1? Apply here and book a free discovery call with me (1 one more spot available at present time): https://www.alexlehmann.co/11-coaching

Life in the Great White North can be cold and hard at times, but that makes the warmer seasons all the sweeter, from Maple Syrup Season to Sumac Gathering and so much more.  The power of nature is reflected in daily life, and living close helps us see the metaphors and parallels that we echo in our own human cultural patterns. Join Chris Gilmour and I as we explore forest educator training, youth adventure, stories of beaver ponds and much more in this episode.  Chris shares powerful lessons that draw from over twenty years as an outdoor professional, leading groups, apprenticeships and foraging programs, with his experience in wilderness survival, bushcraft, nature awareness and earth living skills too.    It was really interesting to hear his perspective on the value of the 'Soft Skills' that are often misunderstood or underutilized in many traditional wilderness programs, and how they are shaping his training and students in powerful, beneficial ways. ------- Connect with Chris: Website:   https://www.chrisoutdoors.ca/ Wild Muskoka Botanicals Website:   https://wildmuskoka.com/ Instagram:    https://www.instagram.com/chrisoutdoorson/ Wild Muskoka Botanicals Instagram:   https://www.instagram.com/wildmuskoka/ YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/c/ChangingWorldProjectChrisOutdoors LinkedIn:    https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisoutdoors/?trk=public_profile_recommendations&originalSubdomain=ca Email:    Chris@chrisoutdoors.ca Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/chrisoutdoorsmentoring TikTok:   https://www.tiktok.com/@chrisoutdoorson?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0zB5lj6iB9vK8Eg5n4X2Yesa0zvz2pHJC4IhqVpe3Hd_MmBSrEiyRK2qQ_aem_R2l6Dd2Vh8liJszokrSGsA Forest Educator Bonus Content Page: http://foresteducator.com/bonuscontent Join the Forest Educator Patreon! https://patreon.com/ForestEducatorPodcast Connect with Ricardo: https://www.foresteducator.com/ https://www.theforestboxforkids.com/ https://www.hawkcircle.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-sierra-5980931/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_forest_educator_podcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RicardohawkSierra

Episode #123 Joe DeFranco Longevity Training Mythbusting   Sign Up for August CPPS: https://cppscoaches.com/schedule/june-2024-cpps-level-1-certification-aug-2024-gamechanger/ Sign Up for New Longevity Seminar! https://cppscoaches.com/schedule/longevity-training-seminar/   Watch on Youtube!

Sign Up for August CPPS: https://cppscoaches.com/schedule/june-2024-cpps-level-1-certification-aug-2024-gamechanger/ Sign Up for New Longevity Seminar! https://cppscoaches.com/schedule/longevity-training-seminar/   Overview: Chris Alto, with over a decade of experience in marketing and business growth, and as the founder of "Join Zipper" software designed to help users grow their businesses, brings a wealth of knowledge to this episode. He shares his journey from tech sales to becoming a passionate advocate for small businesses in the health and wellness sector. Chris delves into the essentials of brand building and the importance of authenticity in marketing, emphasizing the need to provide value to your target audience and maintain consistency in your content creation efforts.   Highlighting the crucial role of email newsletters in marketing, Chris recommends starting with platforms like MailChimp and HubSpot. He stresses the importance of being customer-obsessed and strategically outsourcing tasks that aren't worth your time. Throughout the conversation, Chris offers invaluable insights on establishing a robust online presence and avoiding common social media pitfalls.   He advocates for starting small, staying consistent, and continually testing content to gauge audience engagement. Understanding your ideal customer and their preferred social media platforms is key, according to Chris. He also encourages seeking audience feedback and being adaptable to their preferences. Above all, Chris champions the principles of authenticity, genuineness, and a client-focused approach in marketing, ensuring your brand stands out and resonates with your target audience.   Watch on Youtube!

Acquire tons of knowledge in technology utilization from today's episode with Chris Torrence! Chris joins the show to cover the importance of maintaining a neutral mindset in the freight industry, the role of AI in automation and augmentation, the significance of human-to-human interaction, Optum's focus on optimization, and the challenges in technology adoption, data fragmentation, and standardization. There's more to learn from our conversation, so don't miss out!    About Chris Torrence A Visionary Leader in Transportation and Logistics Technology, Chris Torrence serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Optym, Inc. Torrence possesses over 20 years of vast and equally diverse experience within the commercial logistics, transportation, and supply chain solutions industry. From the US military to industry-leading incumbents and hyper-growth start-ups, he has worn virtually every functional hat imaginable within the space. He fundamentally believes the ability to harmonize human capital with advanced technology is paramount for success in the modern day freight ecosystem. Prior to joining Optym, Chris proudly served in the United States Air Force with three wartime tours of duty under his belt. While on active-duty, he was charged with overseeing logistics readiness, joint task force operations, and installation deployment planning for the Department of Defense. Following his military service, Chris spent over a decade at global 3PL behemoth, C.H. Robinson, primarily with the TMC division whereby he was selected to work onsite managing the complex logistical needs for multinational Fortune 100 shippers. This unique exposure equipped him with the ability to truly understand the intricacies of enterprise supply chains from multiple vantage points.  Chris was later tapped to help orchestrate the launching of Uber Freight, to include the autonomous truck program as part of Uber's Advanced Technologies Group. He subsequently led global expansion efforts at premier SaaS visibility provider, FourKites, Inc., before becoming a senior executive at Arrive Logistics, one of the fastest growing freight brokerages in the United States. Most recently, Chris led strategic sales and go-to-market strategy for Optimal Dynamics, a Princeton University spinoff specializing in advanced AI and sequential decision analytics within the trucking sector. During his three year tenure at OD, Chris personally generated over 80% of the organization's total revenue (ARR/TCV). He was also a critical piece in securing north of $56 million in VC funding.  Chris Torrence's combination of industry knowledge, leadership success, strategic vision, and passion for innovation makes him a compelling and influential speaker for transportation and logistics media and events. His insights into the intersection of technology, AI, and logistics are invaluable for audiences keen on navigating the complexities of the modern-day freight ecosystem.   Connect with Chris Website: https://optym.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-torrence-0ab7923b/  

In this episode of the Self-Care Goddess Podcast, Chris Rackliffe delves into his personal journey of overcoming anxious attachment styles through trauma healing and coaching. We explore the four main attachment styles in relationships, highlighting the significance of communication, respect, and emotional diversification in maintaining healthy connections. The conversation emphasizes the power of self-awareness in personal growth, offering insights into healing from trauma and fostering self-worth through Self-Care practices. Chris shares practical tips for setting boundaries, building emotional permanence and engaging in consistent Self-Care habits tailored to mental wellness. Additionally, he also provides free resources and coaching services for individuals seeking to navigate and heal from anxious attachment patterns. In this insightful podcast episode we discuss:  ✅ Attachment Styles & Their Impact On Relationships  ✅ Deep Dive Into The Anxious Attachment Style & Its Signs  ✅ Healing Anxiety & Building Self-Worth Through Self-Care Practices  ✅ Building Emotional Permanence & Developing Self-Worth  ✅ Healing Trauma & Emotional Pain Through Self-Care & Regulation  ✅ Self-Care Practices For Anxious Attachment Style  ✅ And so much more. 

Learn About How YOU Can Grow Your Start Up-Chris Houghtaling In today's episode of Diversified Game we hear the game from Chris Houghtaling. From his beginnings to the current day where he is the CEO and co-founder of Raiselink. •Chris talks about his early interests in start ups •How you can maximise the potential of your own start up by answering a series of simple questions •Chris also shares insights on the operations of Fortune 200 companies •His time living in Austria and working in his business •How he learnt to support other younger, less experienced entrepreneurs Connect with Chris: Website: https://raiselink.co/ Linkedin:  / chrishoughtaling   Email: hello@raiselink.com Buy Courses at https://bit.ly/Prepareforyourfirsttri... Support Us On Patreon:   / gamediversified   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/diversifiedgame/message

Episode Summary Chris Salem empowers business leaders and organizations with an emotional intelligence foundation to elevate both business and sales success. With expertise in business and sales acceleration, Chris delves into proven strategies which apply public speaking skills and other proven revenue and profit strategies for boosting business and sales effectiveness. Chris focuses on crafting influential presentations and crafting valuable customer experience strategies that resonate with audiences and drive sales. Additionally, he shares invaluable communication strategies that effectively seal deals. His insightful, action-oriented session to revolutionize your sales approach. Who's your ideal client and what's the biggest challenge they face? What are the common mistakes people make when trying to solve that problem? What is one valuable free action that our audience can implement that will help with that issue? What is one valuable free resource that you can direct people to that will help with that issue? What's the one question I should have asked you that would be of great value to our audience? When was the last time you experienced Goosebumps with your family and why? How to leverage guest podcasts to grow your business Get in touch with Chris: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram Learn more about how Uwe helps in-demand professionals and their VIPs to enjoy Unshakeable Two-getherness in their relationship (plus more free time and zero guilt). Or when you feel you'd be interested in working together you can Book A Chat With Uwe

Joining us in this episode of Profit First for REI podcast is Chris Johnsen. He is a lawyer in the real estate space and worked primarily for commercial real estate.In this episode, Chris talks about the common pitfalls people go through in real estate and when you need a lawyer in your business.Listen as he explains why you should hire a lawyer for your business contracts. Enjoy the show!Key Takeaways:[01:03] Introducing Chris Johnsen[04:34] Getting into a specific niche as a lawyer[09:03] Education as an investment[14:52] The Golden Handcuffs[17:21] Most common questions he gets as a lawyer[23:20] Operating Agreement[26:48] At what point should people get a lawyer?[30:47] Connect with Chris JohnsenQuotes:[02:43] "I saw two things in lawyers. I saw that they provide value that is needed and are expensive."[09:03] "You should look at your education as an investment in yourself."[23:20] "Operating agreement is a contract between the company's owners on how to run the company... there are so many pitfalls."Connect with Chris:Website: https://www.johnsenlaw.com/ Tired of living deal to deal? If you are a real estate investor or business owner who is tired of living deal to deal and want to double your profits, head over here to book your no-obligation discovery call with me. Either myself or someone from my team will hop on a short call with you to get clear on your business goals, remove any obstacles holding you back, and map out a game plan to help you finally start keeping more of the money you work so hard to make. - David

Have you ever wondered how a simple book can catapult your online business to new heights?  In this episode of the More Than Social podcast, I'm joined by Chris Benetti, an expert in leveraging online book sales for lead generation and business growth.  We discuss Chris's journey from the mining industry to digital entrepreneurship, sharing his experiences with sales funnels, conversion rate optimization, and book funnels. Chris gives us insights into different book funnel strategies, including free and paid funnels, order bumps, upsells, and downsells.  We also discuss effective Facebook advertising strategies for book funnels, targeting both cold and broad audiences, and continuous ad creative testing. Chris Benetti owns Smart Author® Media and is an expert in book marketing. To date, Chris has helped his clients collectively generate over $20,000,000 in sales from their books and digital offers, and in 2023, Chris sold over 19,000 books for his clients. Chris' mission is to make marketing and selling books easy for business owners by educating them on fundamental marketing strategies with a no-BS approach. We talk about:  00:00 Intro 02:35 Chris's Journey into Digital Marketing 05:04 The Power of Book Funnels in Business 05:21 The Transition from Trades to Digital Entrepreneurship 06:56 The Evolution of Digital Marketing Strategies 08:24 Maximizing Facebook for Business Growth 10:21 Deep Dive into Book Funnels: Strategies and Insights 13:09 The Mechanics of Paid Book Funnels 16:02 Advanced Funnel Strategies: Upsells and Downsells 16:48 Exploring Pricing Strategies for Maximum Conversion 22:01 Mastering Facebook and Instagram Ads for Book Funnels 30:43 Balancing Business and Family Life   Resources Spotlight Theory: https://spotlighttheory.lisaanne.ca/ Chat with Chris: https://smartauthormedia.com/chat (free 30 min consulting session worth $1,000)   Connect with Chris Website - https://smartauthormedia.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/itsbenetti Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/itsbenetti LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/smartauthor/ Podcast - https://smartauthormedia.com/podcast Connect with me Lisa's Website - https://www.lisaanne.ca   Agency Website - https://www.stockmedia.ca Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/LisaAnneCoaching Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LisaAnneCoaching YouTube - http://www.YouTube.com/LisaAnneCoaching  LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/LisaAnneCoaching

Today we have Christopher Larsen, the dynamic founder and Principal of Next-Level Income. Chris, who transitioned from an 18-year career in the medical device industry to a successful investor and educator, shares his journey towards financial independence and his passion for helping others achieve the same. Over the years, Chris has diversified his investment portfolio to include development projects, private lending, distressed debt, and commercial properties. Since 2016, he has been syndicating commercial real estate deals and has been involved in over $1 billion worth of real estate acquisitions. In our enlightening conversation, Chris Larsen shared several key insights that are crucial for anyone aspiring to achieve financial independence. Chris's experience spans various sectors, including development projects, private lending, distressed debt, and commercial properties, demonstrating how a well-rounded approach can lead to substantial growth. Another significant insight Chris provided was the power of education and strategic networking. He underscored the necessity of continuous learning and staying informed about market trends and investment opportunities.  In this episode, we talked about: Finding purpose and resilience through experiencing hardships and overcoming challenges The role of education and continuous learning in achieving financial independence His personal experience in real estate investing and his investing thesis Tips for aspiring investors on taking the first steps toward financial independence   Connect with Chris: Website: https://nextlevelincome.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nextlevelincomeshow Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nextlevelincome/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenextlevelincomeshow/ Contact: 828-768-8700   Connect with Pantheon Investments:  Join the Pantheon Investor Club: https://pantheoninvest.com/investor-signup/   Website: www.pantheoninvest.com   Podcast: www.pantheoninvest.com/podcast   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PantheonInvest   Instagram: www.instagram.com/pantheoninvest   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pantheon-invest   Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pantheon_Invest    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8EsPFlwQUpMXgRMvrmbAfQ   Holistic Wealth Strategy Book: https://www.amazon.com/Holistic-Wealth-Strategy-Framework-Extraordinary-ebook/dp/B0BX4SDMS7/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=holistic+wealth+strategy&qid=1681472301&sprefix=holistic+wealth%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-1   Email: info@pantheoninvest.com     Get your FREE copy of the book here: https://holisticwealthstrategy.com/ 

Ever wondered how a kid selling coloring books door-to-door could end up co-founding one of the hottest plant-based protein drink brands? In this Raw and Real Entrepreneurship episode, Susan Sly sits down with Chris Hunter, the unstoppable force behind KOIA. From hustling coloring book pictures in Youngstown, Ohio, to navigating the chaos of Four Loko, to breaking into major retailers like Starbucks with KOIA, Chris's journey is nothing short of extraordinary. Chris opens up about his early entrepreneurial sparks, the financial hurdles he faced, and the resilience it took to turn his side hustles into full-blown successes. We dive deep into his innovative approach to parenting, raising kids who are already budding entrepreneurs, and the critical role of mentorship and sustainable business practices in his journey. But it's not all smooth sailing. Chris shares his raw and real experiences of dealing with regulatory crackdowns, managing towering debts, and the therapeutic process of writing his book. This episode is packed with insights on authenticity, perseverance, and learning from every misstep. Whether you're an established entrepreneur or just dipping your toes into the business world, Chris Hunter's story is a powerful reminder that with grit, hustle, and a bit of chaos management, you can turn your wildest dreams into reality. Tune in for a dose of real-talk entrepreneurship that's as inspiring as it is enlightening. About Chris: Chris Hunter is a powerhouse in the beverage industry, known for his innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. He's the mastermind behind several hit beverage brands, including Four Loko, Koia, and Not Your Father's Root Beer. As the co-founder of Koia, Chris has driven the company to $100M in annual sales, securing spots in Whole Foods, Sprouts, 7-Eleven, and Starbucks. His memoir, Blackout Punch, reveals the gripping story of his journey and the lessons he's learned along the way. Connect with Chris: Website https://drinkkoia.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-hunter-890a2315/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/koia/ About Susan: Susan Sly is the maven behind Raw and Real Entrepreneurship. An award-winning AI entrepreneur and MIT Sloan alumna, Susan has carved out a niche at the forefront of the AI revolution, earning accolades as a top AI innovator in 2023 and a key figure in real-time AI advancements for 2024. With a storied career that blends rigorous academic insight with astute market strategies, Susan has emerged as a formidable founder, a discerning angel investor, sought after speaker, and a venerated voice in the business world. Her insights have graced platforms from CNN to CNBC and been quoted in leading publications like Forbes and MarketWatch. At the helm of the Raw and Real Entrepreneurship podcast, Susan delivers unvarnished wisdom and strategies, empowering aspiring entrepreneurs and seasoned business veterans alike to navigate the challenges of the entrepreneurial landscape with confidence. Dive deep into the essence of success with Susan Sly, and redefine your entrepreneurial journey. Connect With Susan X @Susanslylive LinkedIn @susansly Website https://susansly.com/ Website https://thepause.ai/

In this episode of The Daily Mastermind, host George Wright III invites guest Chris Marino, a senior marketing director and partner at ToroPoint with over 15 years of experience in wealth advising and life insurance brokerage, to discuss wealth management, financial planning for high net worth individuals and businesses. Marino shares insights into the importance of a wealth mindset, strategies for financial planning, and the pivotal role of insurance as a dual-purpose investment tool for financial protection and wealth accumulation. The discussion covers the value of having a financial plan from early stages, the advantages of various insurance policy types like indexed universal life policies, and the significance of working with independent insurance advisors. The conversation aims to provide listeners with knowledge on building a solid financial plan incorporating insurance as a key component for wealth growth, asset protection, and legacy building. Topics Covered 00:25 Chris Marino's Background and Expertise 01:38 The Importance of a Wealth Mindset 01:45 Strategies for Financial Planning and Wealth Management 06:03 The Role of Insurance in Wealth Building 11:57 Case Studies: Real-world Applications of Insurance Strategies 15:05 Getting Started with Insurance and Financial Planning 17:58 Connecting with Chris Marino for Expert Advice You have Greatness inside you.  I know you can Learn, Grow and Accomplish anything you put your mind toward.  I appreciate you listening today.  See you tomorrow. George Wright III   FREE Daily Mastermind Resources: CONNECT with George & Access Tons of Resources Get access to Proven Strategies and Time-Test Principles for Success. Plus, download and access tons of FREE resources and online events by joining our Exclusive Community of Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, and High Achievers like YOU. Join FREE at www.JoinTheEvolution.com   Mentoring or Marketing Resources: If you are interested in taking your Life or Business to the Next Level… If you are having trouble Scaling your Operations or Creating More Growth… If you need someone to help you Create More Vision, Clarity, Mental Discipline… Mentoring might be the Perfect Option for you.  Email me and I will see what options might best fit your needs.  We have several options like The Academy Mastermind Group, CEO Mentoring or Marketing Consulting for your business.  George@G3worldwide.com.  This is my personal email.   About Chris Marino: Chris Marino is Toropoint's Senior Managing Director and Partner. He is a seasoned wealth advisor with 15 years of expertise as a life insurance agent and life settlement broker. Chris began his career by acquiring insurance assets and longevity-based investments for prominent banks. He's notched up an impressive record, closing over $1 billion in life insurance deals before joining the Toropoint team.   Connect with Chris: Website https://www.toropoint.com/our-team LinkedIn URL https://www.linkedin.com/in/chmarino Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/chrismarino12 YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/@Toropoint  

In this episode of The Daily Mastermind, host George Wright III invites guest Chris Marino, a senior marketing director and partner at ToroPoint with over 15 years of experience in wealth advising and life insurance brokerage, to discuss wealth management, financial planning for high net worth individuals and businesses. Marino shares insights into the importance of a wealth mindset, strategies for financial planning, and the pivotal role of insurance as a dual-purpose investment tool for financial protection and wealth accumulation. The discussion covers the value of having a financial plan from early stages, the advantages of various insurance policy types like indexed universal life policies, and the significance of working with independent insurance advisors. The conversation aims to provide listeners with knowledge on building a solid financial plan incorporating insurance as a key component for wealth growth, asset protection, and legacy building. Topics Covered 00:25 Chris Marino's Background and Expertise 01:38 The Importance of a Wealth Mindset 01:45 Strategies for Financial Planning and Wealth Management 06:03 The Role of Insurance in Wealth Building 11:57 Case Studies: Real-world Applications of Insurance Strategies 15:05 Getting Started with Insurance and Financial Planning 17:58 Connecting with Chris Marino for Expert Advice You have Greatness inside you.  I know you can Learn, Grow and Accomplish anything you put your mind toward.  I appreciate you listening today.  See you tomorrow. George Wright III   FREE Daily Mastermind Resources: CONNECT with George & Access Tons of Resources Get access to Proven Strategies and Time-Test Principles for Success. Plus, download and access tons of FREE resources and online events by joining our Exclusive Community of Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, and High Achievers like YOU. Join FREE at www.JoinTheEvolution.com   Mentoring or Marketing Resources: If you are interested in taking your Life or Business to the Next Level… If you are having trouble Scaling your Operations or Creating More Growth… If you need someone to help you Create More Vision, Clarity, Mental Discipline… Mentoring might be the Perfect Option for you.  Email me and I will see what options might best fit your needs.  We have several options like The Academy Mastermind Group, CEO Mentoring or Marketing Consulting for your business.  George@G3worldwide.com.  This is my personal email.   About Chris Marino: Chris Marino is Toropoint's Senior Managing Director and Partner. He is a seasoned wealth advisor with 15 years of expertise as a life insurance agent and life settlement broker. Chris began his career by acquiring insurance assets and longevity-based investments for prominent banks. He's notched up an impressive record, closing over $1 billion in life insurance deals before joining the Toropoint team.   Connect with Chris: Website https://www.toropoint.com/our-team LinkedIn URL https://www.linkedin.com/in/chmarino Facebook URL https://www.facebook.com/chrismarino12 YouTube URL https://www.youtube.com/@Toropoint  

Did you know that over 785 million people don't have access to clean water? And over one BILLION people have never heard the Good News about Jesus? In this episode, Jordan interviews Christopher Beth about his journey from business consultant to founder of The Bucket Ministry, a nonprofit providing clean water and spreading the Gospel worldwide.  In this interview, Chris shares his journey from businessman to full-time mininstry, what led him to these causes specifically, how he approaches goal setting with such huge goals in mind, and why it's so important for business leaders to use their knowledge, influences, and resources to serve others. 

"Get profitable and pay yourself first."If you want to become smarter financially and know where your money is going, we have a perfect guest! In this episode of Profit First for REI podcast, we have Chris Miles. Listen as he talks about the thought process of people around money. He also shares some tips on how you can pay yourself twice in your business and utilize passive income in your business to get the freedom you want. Enjoy the show!Key Takeaways:[00:45] Introducing Chris Miles[02:35] The Ultra Penny Pincher[06:20] Retiring at the age of 28[08:12] Jumping into real estate investing[11:19] Life Before Profit First[13:32] Follow your gut[16:32] Paying yourself twice[26:45] Business as your number one investment[27:42] His advice for real estate investors[28:41] Connect with Chris MilesQuotes:[05:49] "You can make better cash flow and income with real estate even if you are on the passive side."[13:32] "Follow your gut... If something doesn't feel right, don't go for it just because you can get a lot of money."[28:08] "Just get to the point where your business is an actual business. They can operate even without you, and you can get enough passive income that you don't need it either; to me, that's the true definition of freedom."Connect with Chris:Website: https://moneyripples.com/ Tired of living deal to deal? If you are a real estate investor or business owner who is tired of living deal to deal and want to double your profits, head over here to book your no-obligation discovery call with me. Either myself or someone from my team will hop on a short call with you to get clear on your business goals, remove any obstacles holding you back, and map out a game plan to help you finally start keeping more of the money you work so hard to make. - David

Show Highlights: Get a high-level delineation of teams vs. workgroups. [00:10:11] Purpose-derived premises for team or group creation. [00:18:07] Unlock the framework and traits of a healthy team. [00:20:48] The leadership position of teams and groups clarified. [00:27:12] Uncover the keys to maximizing team productivity. [00:31:00] How team-model histories create future value. [00:35:01] Change-management tips for teams under leadership transitions or M&As. [00:38:23] The art of intervening as a leader in team storming. [00:42:06] The power of intentionality in leadership training. [00:46:57] Get in touch with Chris: Website: https://fusionconsults.com Email: Drcmfischer@gmail.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/drchristopherfischer/ If you are interested in connecting with Joe, go to LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemosher/, or schedule a call at www.moshercg.com.

If you're selling digital products, you want to know what's working for others! This is a bonus episode packed full of great learnings and ideas you can try for yourself from UX Playbook founder Chris Nguyen. Chris started UX Playbook less than two years ago and has already grown his audience to over 50k combined. In the last 6 months alone, he's MORE THAN DOUBLED his revenue primarily selling digital products. Wondering how he does it? It's surprisingly simple tweaks! Tune in to hear how he built his audience, where revenue is coming from and what works to drive sales. You'll love this episode if: You need fresh test ideas for your digital products You're wondering about naming and pricing your products You love a good success story Follow along with the Canva board we're looking at throughout this episode: https://lowenergyleads.com/p/which-revenue-stream-are-you-really-good-at Mentioned in this episode Senior Designer Bundle: https://uxplaybook.org/senior Portfolio Critique: https://uxplaybook.org/critique Coaching Workshop: https://uxplaybook.org/coaching Austin Church's pricing book: https://www.austinlchurch.com/free-money-book Connect with Chris Website: https://uxplaybook.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/uxchrisnguyen/ Freebies: https://uxplaybook.org/freebies Connect with Lex Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lexroman.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://read.lowenergyleads.com ⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexroman ⁠⁠⁠⁠Toolkit: ⁠⁠⁠https://lexroman.com/toolkit⁠⁠⁠ Buy Me a Coffee: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lexroman ⁠⁠⁠⁠Sponsor the show Get in touch to trade promo or become a show sponsor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.passionfroot.me/lex-roman⁠⁠⁠⁠ Credits Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!) | License code: CYHCUU5DLPVC8OTQ  Thank you for being part of the Low Energy Leads community! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lex-roman/message

Welcome to Episode 116 - Bio-hacking and Epigenetics with Chris Barnes   Do you struggle with low energy, weight gain (or loss), brain fog, pain, stress, bad sleep or even mental health challenges? Maybe you've tried clean and healthy living, strict dieting, daily exercise, more sleep, less alcohol and drugs – but you don't seem to be feeling better? And like me… do you feel older than you really are, but you want to feel younger?    If you answered YES to some of these, then the answer may lie in epigenetics and bio-hacking. This week I sit down with holistic epigenetic coach Chris Barnes from Chris Barnes Wellness. Chris brings a wealth of knowledge and insight into men's health, having lived and breathed the industry for over 15 years. He'll talk us through what epigenetics and bio-hacking is – and how it can benefit us to improve our health and wellbeing and turn back the aging clock.    Key points   In this episode Chris shares:  -       Life as a father and the importance of nature for our health -       How the loss of his father prompted him to take control of his health and wellbeing -       Chronological age vs biological or epigenetic age -       What exactly epigenetics and bio-hacking is -       Why its important for men to improve their health and wellbeing -       How to model and educate our kids on eating and treating our body well  -       How he specifically helps people explore epigenetics and bio-hacking   Quotes   "We have the potential to thrive right up until our last days.”   "It's so easy to get trapped into sitting on the couch and vegging out and missing out on everything that's out there.”   “Your genes are definitely not your destiny.”   "If you're aging for every chronological year more biologically, it's a big risk factor for a lot of chronic disease."   Connect with Chris: Website: www.chrisbarneswellness.com.au Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chrisbarneswellness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisbarneswellness/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGpK0-WpfKjJ1eVMU9wgl4Q   Amplified Wellness Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3myUxXekaAL0XYWCdAfnPv   Connect with Mindful Men Website at www.mindful-men.com.au Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2050441875316594 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindful.men.aus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindful.men.aus/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-rinne-246207247/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mindful.men.aus Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbXBNQmbj4ZQj3rzFAZALTA   ***If anything triggers you from today's episode, please reach out to your support networks or seek professional help***   Stay Mindful, Simon --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mindfulmen/message

What does inspiring, empowering leadership look like today? Host Denis Gianoutsos explores this question with Chris Miles, a successful entrepreneur, podcaster, and speaker on achieving financial freedom. Chris shares insights from breaking out of his shy shell to leading a thriving business. With candor and wit, he discusses leadership in the modern workplace, where vulnerability, flexibility, and shared values are prized. Chris offers wisdom on finding your talents, creating a ripple effect of service, and structuring your life and company so you can occasionally unplug worry-free.Get ready for a thought-provoking conversation on how the best leaders stay grounded in purpose while empowering teams. Chris provides leadership lessons for inspiring change drawn from his diverse experience as a Cashflow Expert and Anti-Financial Advisor.In This Episode:Chris explained that as a leader, he feels a real sense of duty to serve and bless more lives as he prospers and grows.Denis emphasized that leaders need to be mindful of what they say and how they say it since it can impact many people for good or bad.Chris articulated that as a leader, you don't just lead from the front but from all directions to inspire people to have better lives.Denis advised that leaders should think about possibly going against the grain sometimes rather than just following the status quo.Chris commented that leaders today are looking for heart, purpose and a clear vision focused on others, not just themselves.Denis highlighted the importance of leaders surrounding themselves with great people to help them get where they need to go.Chris described how employees today want flexibility, work-life balance, culture alignment, and empowerment with clear direction.Main Takeaways:True leadership involves having a sense of duty to serve and help others.Leaders must be conscious of their impact through their words and actions.Effective leadership requires inspiration and influence from all directions.Leaders should be willing to challenge the status quo when needed.Vision, purpose and care for others are vital leadership qualities today.Surrounding yourself with great talent is crucial for leadership success.Employees desire flexibility, alignment, empowerment, and direction from leaders.Quotes:“Attitude follows leadership” - Chris Miles "The whole point of leadership is, 'How do you become the best version of yourself?'" - Chris Miles"Take those talents, take what you have, and turn up the volume. This way, you can enhance your strengths and make them even more formidable." - Chris Miles"Find that core piece of who you are and that's what you use. Don't try to become another leader that you're not like, because the truth is you can never replicate another leader." - Chris Miles"How do you lead and inspire? You don't just lead from the front, you lead from the side, you lead from the rear, you lead from all directions in a way to try to inspire people to have better lives." - Chris MilesConnect with Chris: Website: https://moneyripples.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriscmiles/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moneyripples Instagram:

In a world that races towards the future with each digital advancement, the challenge for emerging leaders is profound: How to anchor oneself in timeless values while navigating the relentless waves of change? Tune in to the latest episode that offers a deep dive into the art of leadership in the digital age, with Denis and Chris at the helm, guiding listeners through a maze of modern dilemmas and ancient wisdom. As they unravel the complexities of staying authentic in an era of constant flux, the conversation spans from the essence of self-leadership and the sanctity of self-care to the lessons drawn from leaders of yesteryears. This episode is not just a discussion; it's a journey into the heart of leading with flexibility, without losing sight of one's core principles.In This Episode:Chris shares the journey of his book's evolution from a personal memoir for his daughters into a broader narrative.Denis inquires about Chris's most admired leader, sparking an insightful conversation.The guest highlights Margaret Thatcher as his choice, praising her for shattering gender barriers and her leadership during tumultuous times.Chris reflects on life as a series of lessons in self-leadership, evident across business, sports, family, and religion.They emphasize the necessity for leadership to evolve while steadfastly holding onto core values.Chris advocates for leaders to take moments of pause amidst the relentless flow of digital communication.The guest speaker examines the significant effects of technology and the internet on social skills and interpersonal connections.Main Takeaways:Write a memoir to share life lessons and cherished stories with your loved ones.Seek inspiration from historical figures who exemplified strong, authentic leadership during transformative times.Prioritize the development of self-leadership skills that are applicable across all facets of life.Evolve your leadership approach to align with changing times and cultural shifts, while ensuring core values remain unwavering.Dedicate time for pause and reflection, even amidst today's hectic pace. Avoid letting constant busyness compromise your well-being.As an employer, show care, flexibility, and adaptability to respond to the evolving needs of your workforce effectively.Exercise caution and discretion in your language as a leader, especially considering how social media can amplify any missteps.Quotes:"I think it's crucial for leaders to take time out for balance and energy, and to avoid self-sabotaging by opting not to take that pause." - Chris Taylor“Life is self-leadership” - Chris Taylor"As leaders, we sometimes lead, and at other times, we choose to step back and serve others as well." - Denis Gianoutsos"I think it's really important that we, as leaders, are developing ourselves all the time and learning from others too." - Chris Taylor"Risk is a risk, but it shouldn't stop us from doing things" - Denis GianoutsosConnect with Chris:Website: https://coachingchristaylor.com/Website: https://avoidingpropellerblades.com/LinkedIn:

In this episode, Chris Price, CEO and Co-Founder of Red Fox Multifamily, shares his journey from being a passive investor to an active capital raiser in the real estate industry. He emphasizes the importance of taking action and investing in self-education to accelerate growth.  Chris highlights key strategies for success, including leveraging relationships, investing in self-education programs and utilizing social media and email marketing to build a personal brand and attract investors. He also discusses overcoming imposter syndrome and navigating potential challenges from his W2 employer.  Tune in for actionable advice on building wealth through real estate investing and effective capital raising strategies.    Key takeaways: Take action and invest in self-education to accelerate growth Leverage relationships with operators and mentors for guidance Utilize social media and email marketing to build a personal brand and attract investors Overcome imposter syndrome by focusing on authenticity and gratitude Consider a fund of funds model for scalability   More about Chris: Chris Price, MBA, Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt, boasts over 20 years of corporate and pharmaceutical leadership. As CEO and Co-Founder of Red Fox Multifamily, he offers real estate investment opportunities to life science professionals, aiming to secure their retirements. With extensive experience in real estate syndications, single-family, and land investments, Chris has amassed over $32.5M in Assets Under Management (AUM) across various states. His educational background includes a Bachelors in Communications & Public Relations, an MBA in Healthcare Management, and certifications in Lean Six Sigma and Applied Project Management. Beyond his career, Chris cherishes his family and is dedicated to helping others build wealth through passive real estate investments.   Ways to connect with Chris:  Website: https://www.redfoxmultifamily.com/ Free Webinar: https://www.redfoxmultifamily.com/webinar/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherpricemba/   Useful links and resources:  Yakov Smart's new book is now on Amazon https://findmoreinvestors.com/form   Join our new capital raising community group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/capitalraisingtalkwithcapitalraisingprosgroup   Free Trainings on “How To Raise More Capital & Find High Net-Worth Investors on Auto-Pilot”: findmoreinvestors.com/capital   Enter our monthly raffle by leaving a 5-star review and emailing a screenshot to: reviews@findmoreinvestors.com   Connect with Yakov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yakovsavitskiy/ https://www.facebook.com/yakov.smart3   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Positive Fat Bass Intro Loop by WinnieTheMoog Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/6093-positive-fat-bass-intro-loop License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://linktr.ee/taigasoundprod   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Just Keep Going (Loopable) by chilledmusic Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/7245-just-keep-going-loopable License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Business Of Dreams by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/9392-business-of-dreams License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://cemmusicproject.wixsite.com/musiclibraryfiles   #realestateinvesting #capitalraising #realestate #passiveinvesting   

From the allure of short-form video content to the finesse of building not just an audience, but a true community, Chris Russo has the lowdown on what it takes to go viral while creating genuine brand impact. His company, Russo Strategic Partners, has helped clients go from zero followers to hundreds of thousands, that's led to corporate partnerships, national television appearances and real money for creators.Are you struggling to break through the tough shell of Instagram and its reel game or feel like you're late to the party on TikTok? Or perhaps you're a Pinterest enthusiast itching to boost your SEO or a professional navigating LinkedIn's new frontier of video content? We're peeling back the layers on it all, and Chris is here with strategies guaranteed to push your digital presence from being unnoticed to unforgettable.Subscribe to the NEXT Nuggets Newsletter for a transcript and the lessons from this interview: https://thenextbestthingact.com/Join The NEXT Best Thing community on IG/TikTok @nextbestthingpod Stay In Touch with Chris:Website:https://www.russostrategicpartners.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherrussobc/

This podcast was filmed November 1st, 2023 at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference in London, England. In today's episode, we're joined by Billboard Chris, a devoted father of two girls who has taken a bold stance against gender ideology. He advocates for the belief that children should embrace their true selves without being swayed by the notion that they were born in the wrong body. Highlighting the controversial use of puberty blockers as a preliminary step in a medical process brings more harm than good, he sheds light on the misinformation surrounding these drugs and the subsequent cross-sex hormones. Drawing attention to a significant ruling by the High Court in England, he emphasizes that children are incapable of giving informed consent to these life-changing medications. Faced with a lack of action from politicians and a silence from the media, he has taken it upon himself to spark dialogue across North America, one conversation at a time, striving to make a difference in how society approaches this delicate subject. Join us as we delve into his journey, the challenges he's faced, and the message he's determined to spread.   Find more from Chris: Website: www.billboardchris.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BillboardChris X: https://twitter.com/BillboardChris Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/billboardchris/   Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tammypetersonpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TammyPetersonPodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tammypetersonpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tammy1Peterson Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TammyPetersonPodcast

Get Your Brand to Stand Out with Chris Do Hosted by: James Patrick On the podcast today is Chris Do. He's a branding coach and branding strategist and the recent cover of our issue of Icon Refined Magazine.  “You're either selling or being sold to.” IN THIS EPISODE How Chris started in branding.  Why entrepreneurs struggle to understand how their brands work in the marketplace.  The importance of getting on the other side of the lens.  Who will be the future millionaires and billionaires.  Value created and value added.  The power of storytelling.  Asking better questions.  Letting your customers tell the story.  What's more important than quality nowadays.  Connect with James  Website: jamespatrick.com Instagram: @jpatrickphoto Connect with Chris  Website: thefutur.com Instagram: @thechrisdo Share this podcast with a friend and remember to leave a 5-star review!  For more, visit jamespatrick.com

How can leaders navigate the challenges of being 'asleep at the wheel' and transform their organizations into thriving, purpose-driven entities? In this insightful episode, host Natalie Born engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Chris Green, a managing partner at Arch and Tower. They delve into the intricacies of leadership, the art of transforming organizations, and the significance of employee and customer experiences. Green shares his journey from a generalist background to a pivotal role in organizational development, offering valuable insights into the psychological aspects of leadership and the importance of aligning organizational strategy with human motivation. Chris Green is a founder and Managing Partner of Arch + Tower, a Business Transformation team, operating in the Advisory Group of Frazier & Deeter. Arch + Tower focuses on serving clients who are looking to transform their organizations to achieve goals within Customer Experience, Employee Experience, Operational Excellence, or Digital Transformation...almost anything that helps an organization predictably get where they want to go.  (00:01:00 - 00:05:59) The Journey of a Generalist  The value of diverse experiences in shaping leadership skills. Importance of adaptability and learning in different roles. How a generalist approach can lead to innovative problem-solving. (00:06:00 - 00:10:59) Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Fatigue  The role of vision in guiding organizational change. Addressing and managing organizational and project fatigue. Empowering leaders to pursue their vision amidst overwhelming priorities. (00:11:00 - 00:15:59) Organizational Transformation Barriers  The impact of leadership styles on organizational change. Strategies for CEOs to align their teams with transformation goals. Understanding the psychological barriers to change.  (00:16:00 - 00:20:59) Tools for Clarity and Decision Making Utilizing Maslow's hierarchy in organizational decision-making. Importance of addressing foundational issues for effective change. Techniques for leaders to gain clarity and direction. (00:21:00 - 00:25:59) Cultivating a Purpose-Driven Life and Career  Strategies for personal and professional growth. Balancing work, life, and personal values. The importance of setting intentional goals for life and career. Quotes: "Every organization has survival and security needs just like human beings." - Chris Green "If you don't know where you're going, how do you know how you're going to get there?" - Chris Green Connect with Chris: Website: https://www.archandtower.com/ LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone empower their businesses through collaboration, innovation, and transformation by sharing this episode or clicking here to listen to our previous episodes. Check Natalie's new book, SET IT ON FIRE: The Art of Innovation, available now at setitonfire.co These are proven solutions to advance your leadership and innovation process. Check out our website innovationmeetsleadership.com, or connect with me on Linkedin, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a 5-star review. Let's go transform something! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/natalie-born/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/natalie-born/support

Negotiating anything in life can make even the most socially robust entrepreneurs break out in cold sweats. Many of us are not born with negotiation skills but have to learn how to persuade our audience to be on our side. Learning excellent negotiation skills can take your career to the next level by negotiating a significant raise at your annual performance review. Negotiating a raise is so much easier than negotiating hostage situations like our next guest has while working with the FBI. In this episode, we talk to Chris Voss, also known as “The Master Negotiator.” Chris retired as the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI, is the CEO of the Black Swan Group, and is the author of the national bestseller Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It, which was one of Darius's favorite books.   Drawing on his FBI experiences where the stakes are high, Chris Voss's company, The Black Swan Group, specializes in solving business communication problems using hostage negotiation solutions. Their negotiation methodology focuses on discovering the “black swans,” small pieces of information that have a huge effect on an outcome. The biggest surprise is learning the tactics behind negotiating a business deal are very similar to negotiating with a barricaded gunman for the lives of hostages.   Don't miss this thrilling episode! What Darius discusses with Chris Voss: How to be an effective negotiator for anything How information gathering can give you an edge in the negotiation game What it takes to subtly convince someone to have it your way What small things make the biggest impact in negotiations How to diffuse a situation by calling out the negative How emotions drive human behavior, not logic The Black Swan Rule: Treat others not the way you want to be treated but the way they want to be treated Common mistakes in negotiating Why you are 31% smarter with a positive mindset Why curiosity is a superpower.  How to make the gunman feel empathy for you Chris talks about his book Never Split the Difference And other topics... Connect with Chris: Website: https://www.blackswanltd.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophervoss/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefbinegotiator/?hl=en  Book: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062407805  Connect with Darius: Website: https://therealdarius.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmirshahzadeh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whoompdarius/ YouTube: https://therealdarius.com/youtube Book: The Core Value Equation https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you leaving money on the table with your real estate investments? Join us in unlocking the secrets of Three-Payday Real Estate Strategies with Chris Prefontaine, the founder of Smart Real Estate Coach. Chris Prefontaine, a four-time best-selling author with over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry, shares his wealth of knowledge and expertise. He's on a mission to empower individuals with the tools and strategies needed to build a legacy and achieve financial independence. In this captivating episode, Chris unveils the power of creative real estate investing, a method that doesn't rely on banks, cash, or credit. He discusses the revolutionary "Three Paydays" system, which allows investors to receive multiple streams of income from each deal. Learn how to control properties, generate consistent cash flow, and build a portfolio that stands the test of time. Discover the importance of commitment and mindset in the world of entrepreneurship and real estate. Chris shares invaluable insights on how to transition from a traditional job to becoming a successful real estate investor, all while mitigating risks and securing your financial future. Ready to take control of your financial future and explore creative real estate investing?  Grab a free copy of Chris's best-selling book at wickedsmartbooks.com/exitstrategies (Just pay shipping) Join Chris's free masterclass at smartrealestatecoach.com/mastersclass to dive deeper into creative real estate investing and gain a comprehensive understanding of the industry. Key Takeaways:  2:51- Creative real estate strategies with Chris Prefontaine.  7:40- Creating a real estate investment system with three paydays.  12:04- Real estate investing and mindset.  14:53- Real estate investing and commitment. 20:00- Real estate investing strategies and risk management.  24:52- Entrepreneurship and real estate investing.  Connect with Chris@: Website: smartrealestatecoach.com  Email: chris@smartrealestatecoach.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CHRISPRE/ Connect with Corwyn@: Contact Number: 843-619-3005 Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/exitstrategiesradioshow/⁠ FB Page:⁠ https://www.facebook.com/exitstrategiessc/⁠ Youtube:⁠ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxoSuynJd5c4qQ_eDXLJaZA⁠ Website:⁠ https://www.exitstrategiesradioshow.com⁠ Linkedin:⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmelette/⁠ Email @: corwyn@corwynmelette.com Shoutout to our Sponsor: MEME EUBANKS Do you want something more? More Meaningful Moments opportunities, deeper relationships and memorable experiences? Do you want to make a difference? If you say YES, a career and real estate could be the opportunity you're looking for guiding people to one of the most important decisions they ever made, the purchase or sale of their home can be both rewarding and lucrative.  Exit Realty has a revolutionary compensation model training and technology that provides you with the tools you need to start and build your successful real estate career. Call me today MEME EUBANKS Your Country REALTOR at 843-730-3327 that's 843-730-3327 or visit exitlowcountry.com/joinexit and make your EXIT today. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/corwyn-j-melette/support

This episode of the Habits & Hustle podcast explores the fascinating journey of Chris Matthews, a.k.a the 'lethal shooter'. Despite not making it to the NBA, Chris's unrelenting passion for basketball led him to become one of the most sought-after shooting coaches globally. Rather than seeing it as a failure, he used it as a stepping stone to greater things. Chris's passion for basketball took him to places and provided him with opportunities he never thought possible. His story serves as a testament to the power of perseverance, consistent practice, and hard work. Chris Matthews, also known as “Lethal Shooter”, is the most sought-after shooting coach in the world. Chris has had the privilege of working with numerous NBA and WNBA athletes to perfect their shot. Prior to becoming a professional shooting coach, Lethal Shooter played basketball internationally in Canada, Russia, and China. Matthews has set countless shooting records throughout his career, which is how he got the nickname “Lethal Shooter”. Thank you to our sponsors:  Ritual: Visit ritual.com/HABITS for 20% off your order  Shopify: Go to shopify.com/hustle to take your business to the next level Find more from Jen: Website: https://www.jennifercohen.com/ Instagram: @therealjencohen  Books: https://www.jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://www.jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagements Find more from Chris: Website: https://www.lethalshooter.com Instagram: @lethalshooter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLethalShooter  What we discuss:  (0:00:01) - Chris Matthews explains the importance of not letting failure define you and using your skills to create opportunities. (0:08:12) - Matthews discusses his rigorous training regime and the importance of hard work and consistent practice in improving performance. (0:13:23) - He shares advice about pursuing a career in the NBA, emphasizing the importance of patience, maintaining a balanced approach to achieving success, and learning from mistakes. (0:23:33) - Matthews talks about the role of trainers in professional basketball, the pressures that athletes face, and the importance of failure in the journey to success. (0:33:07) - He shares his experiences of training celebrities and the importance of hard work and consistency in achieving success. (0:39:15) - Matthews highlights the importance of shooting form, footwork, and overall physical conditioning in basketball. (0:48:46) - He talks about creating a personal brand, signing deals with major companies, and the importance of thinking outside the box to seize new opportunities. (0:59:26) - Matthews shares his journey in the entertainment industry and the importance of creating a motivational brand to help others discover their potential. (1:02:38) - He reflects on his success in both basketball and entertainment, highlighting the importance of having a voice and creating opportunities for others. (1:10:59) - Matthews discusses his platform and content, emphasizing the importance of hard work, consistency, and creating a personal brand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices