Learn From My Life Blog
Sep 4
Podcast With Lisa Witter of The She Spot
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The political debate is heating up across the United States, so there is no better time to share this great podcast with Lisa Witter, co-author of She Spot. Witter discusses her book which focuses on how to reach women as not a niche market, but THE market for social change. In the podcast, Witter introduces the 4 C’s of connecting with women to create social change and marketing to women in both the for-profit and non-profit environments.
Have a listen and pass along.
Aug 29
Janet Esposito Podcast Helps You Improve Your Public Speaking
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Janet Esposito, author of In The Spotlight, joins Learn From My Life for a free podcast about overcoming public speaking fears, becoming a master of storytelling and creating presentations with focus.
Aug 29
Maggie Jackson Podcast About The Erosion of Attention
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Maggie Jackson joins Learn From My Life to discuss the erosion of attention and what to do about it. In this free podcast, Jackson talks about how to overcome the current state of being overwhelmed by tasks, priorities and projects. Throughout the course of this insightful podcast, Jackson discusses how to overcome these challenges in creating a more productive organization, keeping children attentive, and knowing how to truly create priorities to keep you on course.
Aug 29
Podcast with Awakening Coach Arjuna Ardagh
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Leading spiritual awakening coach Arjuna Ardagh joins us at Learn From My Life to discuss releasing all blame, turning crisis situations into awakenings, and how to begin to implement the key ideas of Ardagh’s books into their own lives. Moe Abdou hosts this short podcast to help you to begin your journey towards a greater awakening.
Aug 27
Short Talk with Fitness Expert Yuri Elkaim
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Fitness expert Yuri Elkaim spends time with Learn From My Life to discuss making fitness a key part of your life. In the conversation Elkaim discusses the biggest fitness mistakes people are making today and eating for energy.
Have a listen and then keep the ideas moving by passing along.
Aug 27
Innovation Games Podcast with Luke Hohmann
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Luke Hohman, author of Innovation Games, discusses using innovation to create breakthrough products through collaborative play. In the podcast Hohmann discusses what led to writing the book, how to use online games to drive innovation and why true innovation is a competitive advantage for those who pull it off.
Have a listen and pass it along…
Aug 26
Omar Khan Podcast
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Omar Khan, author of Liberating Passion and owner of Sensei International, discusses passion as a key driver of successful leadership and organizational growth. Educated at Oxford and Stanford Universities and having lived in countries throughout the world, Khan’s business perspective is both global and universal. In this short podcast Khan discussed how passion can drive organizational growth and how enabling and liberating passion is one of the most important jobs of a leader.
Aug 26
Alexandra Levit Reminds Us To Live From Our Passions
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It’s taken us a while to get this posted but we certainly are excited to share a recording of our teleconversation with Alexandra Levit, author and career & HR expert. Known as one of the leading career experts of her generation, Alexandra’s words of inspiration were mixed with wonderful and pragmatic advice that left members of our audience refreshed and energized to build a career from their passions.
Some of things discussed during the teleconversation include:
- Creating life balance
- Determining your “passion profile” and finding a career that matches that profile to lead to greater fulfillment and success
- Creating a personal brand
- Finding a mentor
- Retaining and developing talent
- And much more….
So….
1) Have a listen
2) Buy her book/s if you haven’t already done so
3) Keep her ideas moving by passing along along the recording of this teleconversation to friends, family and colleagues…
Aug 26
Who Do You Want To Be
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We had another inspired teleconversation recently with wonderful thought leader Daryn Kagan and we can’t seem to get it out of our heads. A long time news anchor for the likes of CNN, Daryn Kagan’s career was, by nearly all measures, a resounding success. Yet, one day a couple years ago she was told by CNN that her contract wasn’t going to be renewed. So, what did she do? Well, like anybody, she took the time to reflect. But, then, unlike many she asked a simple question that’s often times anything but simple to answer…”Who do you want to be?”
For those of you who missed Daryn’s teleconversation, take some time to listen to the recording as her message is both timely and timeless. There are many things to pass along but that one piece of the talk just can’t get out of our heads around here.
Who do you want to be? It’s a simple question really but it’s not very easy to answer. We are trained to instead answer a whole host of other questions:
- What do you want to do for a living
- What do you want to do for your next job
- Etc…
But answering those questions before you answer who you want to be will always lead down the wrong path. So,
- What do you stand for?
- What do you believe in?
- How do you want to be remembered?
- What impact do you want to have on the world?
They aren’t simple questions and are certainly more difficult than answering what you want to do for a living. But, if you really want to be fulfilled, to push yourself and your career to a new level, to explore new heights that you haven’t yet touched, these questions are the only place to start.
For Daryn Kagan, answering that question led her to re-invent her career and innovate media through www.darynkagan.com. She now is doing things she never dreamed of only a couple of years ago. She is now an entrepreneur and mini media mogul despite not knowing much about starting a business or launching a website a couple of years ago. You see, answering what you want to be is tough but it makes answering “what do you want to do” a little easier and makes the roadblocks that get in your way seem smaller.
Aug 14
The Truth Behind Happiness
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There are a lot of happiness experts out there, but what is the reality behind happiness? It’s an interesting question and one which Learn From My Life expert Sonja Lyubomirksy has tackled as a happiness researcher for her entire career. A professor with a PHD from Stanford, Lyubomirsky points out a few facts about happiness that are based in science:
From her book The How of Happiness, Lyubomirsky points out:
- Different cultures have different beliefs about the importance of happiness. People in some cultures, like Russia, are less likely to believe that happiness is a reasonable, desirable, or attainable goal to pursue.
- Most of us aren’t flourishing. Nationally representative samples of U.S. adults indicate that slightly more than half of us (54%) are “moderately mentally healthy yet not flourishing - that is, we lack great enthusiasm for life and are not actively and productively engaged with the world.
- Studies show that 50% of individual differences in happiness are determined by genes, 10% by life circumstances, and 40% by our intentional activities.
- Rich people aren’t as happy as we’d expect. The richest Americans, those earning more than 10 million dollars annually, report levels of personal happiness only slightly greater than the office staffs and blue-collar workers they employ.
- Happy people accrue more money. One example of such a “happiness benefit” is that those who are happy as college freshmen have higher salaries 16 years later (when they are in their mid-30s) without an initial wealth advantage.
- Overthinking (i.e., rumination) ushers in a host of adverse consequences: It sustains or worsens sadness, fosters negatively-biased thinking, impairs a person’s ability to solve problems, saps motivation, and interferes with concentration and initiative.
- Hugs make people happier. Students at Penn State who were instructed to give or receive a minimum of five hugs per day over the course of four weeks and to record the details became much happier. Students who merely recorded their reading activity showed no changes.
- Exercise lifts depression just as well as medication. Four months of aerobic exercise has been found to be just as effective at treating depression as four months of Zoloft, or as a combination of exercise and Zoloft.
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