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The Bold Life Movement with Kimberly Rich

The Bold Life Movement is all about empowering people to be their best, boldest, and happiest self. Each week we'll bring you true stories from inspiring people who prove that it's possible to live a passion-filled, rich life. Whether your goal is to build a business and travel the world, or cultivate better relationships, and a healthier lifestyle, The Bold Life Movement has you covered. Hear from successful entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, and other inspiring individuals, and learn how you can harness your own inner boldness to create your best life.
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Now displaying: November, 2016
Nov 23, 2016

Get ready for an extremely powerful and emotional episode of The Bold Life Movement. Today’s guest is Geoff Woods, host of The Mentee podcast, General Manager of the Publishing Division at Keller Williams Realty, Inc., and currently building a business with Jay Papasan at The1Thing.com.

Geoff worked in medical device sales for five years. He made a good living selling a device that actually saved lives, but he knew he was meant for more. He knew he wanted to own a business that made a massive impact and provided financial security for his family, but he didn’t have a compelling reason to make a change.

“I didn’t have a compelling reason to make change. There wasn’t enough pain in my life that forced me to make change.”

In one week, things changed dramatically. One of his colleagues suffered a stroke at 35, and then his income was slashed by 40 percent. Geoff was compelled to move forward, and that’s when he heard the Jim Rohn quote, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

None of Geoff’s five closest people were doing what he wanted to do – owning a business that made an impact in the world and provided financial security – and he realized that he could either take the easy road or the hard road to level up his five.

  • The Hard Road – Setting a goal, settling a plan and figuring out how to get it done. You’re waking up every day and guessing.
  • The Easy Road – Establish what you want, meet the people who already do it and let them tell you what to do.

“I can take the easy road or the hard road. Most people are offered this choice everyday, and they don’t realize they’re choosing the hard road.”

How did Geoff connect with the mentors that inspired him along the way? He started by gaining clarity on what it was that he wanted and identifying the people who inspired him. Then, when given the opportunity to speak with his ideal mentors, he dropped his ego and made himself vulnerable. There’s two ways to make the initial connection with your ideal mentors:

  • The Six Degrees of Separation – The idea that you can be connected to anyone in the world through six connections.
  • Be a Connector – Go out of your way to add value to the people around you. “If you become a person who goes out of their way to add value, people will go out of their way to be in a relationship with you.”

“Extraordinary results are not hard.”

Every time I talk to Geoff he blows my mind. I really wanted to share his powerful story because it demonstrates that we can choose to make our lives more Bold, and we can all have a massive impact on the world. Learn more about Geoff and his businesses by listening to The Mentee podcast or heading over to The1Thing.com.

 

SOME QUESTIONS I ASK:

  • Did Geoff know at the time that being a business owner was something he aspired to, or necessary for the life he aspired to have?
  • When Geoff first launched The Mentee, what did the podcast look like?
  • How did Geoff connect with his mentors?
  • For people who don’t know what it is they’re looking for, what types of mentors should they be surrounding themselves with?
  • How do people get that mentor-mentee relationship kicked off?
  • What is one thing that has surprised Geoff during his journey?

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:

  • How Geoff went from employee to entrepreneur in just 10 months
  • How to surround yourself with five people who inspire you
  • How to be a connector
  • How to start a mentor-mentee relationship
  • Plus much more…

DON’T STOP HERE…

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Production & Development for The Bold Life Movement Podcast by Podcast Masters

Nov 16, 2016

I’m excited to have Lori Darley back on the show today. She is a leadership coach, trainer and CEO Founder of Conscious Leaders, LLC, which aims to train and develop leaders to practice conscious capitalism. Lori published her first book, Dancing Naked: Claiming Your Power as a Conscious Leader, in September.

If you didn’t hear my first interview with Lori, she’s great and I highly recommend listening to it. We discussed the concept of a Conscious Leader, which is being clear in the way we think, creating a space for ourselves where we give ourselves permission to wake up to our own biases and assumptions, and how that actually impacts the decisions that we make so that we’re actually freer and more intentional about the way in which we lead.

“We don’t necessarily have a choice about how our brains are thinking, so we have to understand that there is an automatic nature to the brain.”

Dancing Naked contains empowering messages that people can use to take back control of their lives and realize that we have the ability to reprogram ourselves, and reprogram our reality, whether or not you are in a leadership or management role.

The first half of the book is titled, “Claiming My Power,” and it’s made up of stories that illustrate the automatic nature of how we are programmed as a child, as well as some of Lori’s experiences as a dancer.

“I know there are not that many dancers in the world, and yet the way in which I experience life is much like everybody else’s. I call it the human condition.”

Lori believes the term “dancing naked” encapsulates the experience of tapping into our own wisdom and expressing it in the world in a way that gives our gifts to the people we impact. People often approach self-improvement through a series of prescribed steps, but Dancing Naked suggests that the human condition is not linear.

“Dancing Naked is a metaphor that really points to a willingness to be fully self-expressed and vulnerable to giving the world your gift.”

Dancing Naked approaches self-improvement through The Clearing Process, which includes the Four C’s of Clearing. These aren’t steps, they’re conversational spaces.

  • Clarity – The clearing for self-acceptance.
  • Completion – The clearing for your relationship to the past.
  • Creation – “Every moment is the opportunity to create one’s life.”
  • Capacity – Once we have a clarity around where it is that we are going and we are free from the past, then we get to consider the level of impact we want from our life.

Lori is afraid of the consequences of people not working to create a sense of self-awareness and intentional action, because then we aren’t living our purpose in life – we’re living our life based on what other people’s expectations are. Never learning to “dance naked” is like living a life with your ego on autopilot.

“Achievement is an extraordinary thing to experience, but sometimes we lose ourselves as we step onto that path.”

Thanks for coming back on the show, Lori. I was really excited to talk about Dancing Naked, and I’m proud that you made it through this incredible journey. Head to consciousleaders.us and sign up for their email list to receive a bunch of free resources, including a series of worksheets that will help people expereice The Clearing on their own, and to pick up your own copy of Dancing Naked: Claiming Your Power as a Conscious Leader.

 
 

SOME QUESTIONS I ASK:

  • For people who might not be in a leadership or management role, what takeaways can they extract from the book (Dancing Naked) and apply in their day-to-day life?
  • Why did Lori choose the title Dancing Naked?
  • What are the consequences for people or leaders that don’t implement what Lori is teaching in the book?
  • Can Lori speak to any of the results she’s seen in people’s lives after performing what she calls The Clearing Process?
  • The Four C’s of the Clearing are described as conversational spaces as opposed to steps. Can Lori tell us what the Four C’s are and why it’s significant to use that terminology?
  • What was the hardest part of the book-writing process?

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:

  • How Dancing Naked can empower anyone to take back control over their lives
  • What “dancing naked” means
  • The consequences of not becoming more fully self-expressed
  • The Four C’s of Clearing
  • Plus much more…

DON’T STOP HERE…

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

 

Production & Development for The Bold Life Movement Podcast by Podcast Masters

Nov 9, 2016

Today’s guest, Mark Manson, is a bestselling author, blogger, and internet entrepreneur who writes about “personal development that doesn’t suck.” He recently published his second book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, and he regularly writes articles on a blog with over two million monthly readers.

“The first book was actually extremely easy … this one was a total bitch.”

When Mark started writing his first book, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty, he had already been blogging about relationships for years. It was just a matter of sitting down and getting it all out. When he started writing his second book the pages didn’t pour out of him. He started and threw away two drafts.

“When you talk about failures in past-tense it never really feels like a failure, because everybody knows you turned out alright.”

When Mark started his third attempt at a second book, he only had a vague idea of the concepts he wanted to cover and he didn’t have an overall vision or theme. Mark thought he was going to self-publish his second book, but he started losing confidence. It took months and months of writing – tens of thousands of words – just to get to the point where Mark had nailed down the theme he wanted to work with.

“I realized that maybe I need some help with this.”

Mark hit a turning point with his book when he published an article, also titled The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, that received over seven million page views. He signed on with book publisher HarperOne and they helped him pick the title and focus his writing. They told him some of what he wrote was good and some of it sucked.

“It hurt to hear that, but it’s what I needed to hear.”

Mark writes about self-improvement and advice, but he does it in a very contrarian manner. For example, Mark touches on the subject of affirmation in the book, which is a popular autosuggestion technique intended to guide one’s own thoughts, feelings and behavior. He sees benefits to the technique, but he believes the benefits are blown out of proportion. His philosophy doesn’t prescribe specific techniques, because different processes work for different people. His self-help philosophy is to provide principles that can be applied to anyone’s life, in nearly any situation.

“The book is principle-driven, it’s about discovering new ways of looking at things in life. The way to implement that into your life isn’t doing specific things, it’s simply applying these principles to things you’re already doing.”

It was awesome talking to Mark and exploring his unique perspective on the self-improvement and advice industry. He’s hilarious and insightful, and you owe it to yourself to check out some of his writing if you haven’t already. Mark’s new book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is available now – even in the Barnes & Noble on 5th Avenue!

 

SOME QUESTIONS I ASK:

  • What are some challenges you face when writing a book (compared to other forms of writing)?
  • Did Mark approach a book agent once he had figured out the theme for his book, or did they come to him?
  • Mark’s book is in the self-improvement / advice category, but it’s very contrarian. Who does he look up to in that space?
  • What are Mark’s thoughts on autosuggestion and the science behind things like affirmations?
  • When did Mark first consider himself a writer?
  • In the book Mark writes about picking your problems. What are some of the problems and some of the pains that Mark has actively chosen to come with being a NYTimes bestseller?

SOME OF YOUR QUESTIONS:

  • Dan Morris - Does Mark have any tips for embedding some of these habits or values into your life? How can he make them actionable so he doesn’t forget?
  • What is one of the biggest decisions that Mark’s made that he was really uncertain of the outcome?

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:

  • Why Mark ran into more challenges writing his second book than he did writing his first book
  • Why Mark is a contrarian in the self-help and advice industry
  • Why Mark implemented a subscription service on his website
  • How to take the principles in The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and apply them to your own life
  • Plus much more…

DON’T STOP HERE…

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

 

Production & Development for The Bold Life Movement Podcast by Podcast Masters

Nov 2, 2016

“Being bold is having the courage to listen to your inner voice and live in a way that makes you light up despite what other people think.”

 

Jake Heilbrunn is an author, blogger and speaker who, at the age of 20, is already living a pretty bold life. He dropped out of college after his first semester, backpacked around South America alone (without a phone!) and then wrote a memoir about what he learned. Off the Beaten Trail is a coming-of-age pilgrimage that led Jake to realize there are unlimited ways to live and that people can create their own destinies when they trust their intuition and take action.

 

“When we take a leap of faith based on our gut, based on our intuition, things tend to work out and we find the happiness in the pursuit of what we’re doing.”

 

By the end of his first semester of college, Jake was unhappy and unhealthy. He had a passion for traveling, but he was afraid of the unknown. Then a career counselor asked Jake two questions that changed his life:

  1. What is the worst thing that can happen?
  2. What is the best thing that can happen?
 

“I realized that I was living a life based on the expectations of others. The life I was living and the life I wanted to be living were not in alignment.”

 

Two months later, Jake was on a plane to Guatemala with a backpack, no cellphone and very little Spanish. He spent four months backpacking through Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica so he could explore other ways of life and disconnect from a society dominated by social media.

As Jake learned to find happiness in the journey, he became a more process-oriented person. He adopted an intense morning routine, inspired by Tony Robbins, that helped him write 100,000 words in three months:

  • Wake up at 5:30 AM.
  • Take a cold shower.
    • “It’s the analogy of doing something uncomfortable to start your day because you get in the mindset of doing other uncomfortable things and just do it.”
  • 10-minute guided mindfulness meditation.
  • Make tea or coffee.
  • Put on Hans Zimmer and write.
  • Take a break to work out or do yoga.
  • Go back to writing.
  • At the end of the day, Jake would visualize jumping out of bed to start writing the next morning.
 

“With or without writing a book, writing is a very powerful way to process what you experience.”

 

Jake demonstrates the power of visualization to manifest a better (and bolder) life. By visualizing the future he wanted and taking bold action to achieve it, he manifested book endorsements from two awesome influencers that he really looks up to – Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Success Principles, and Chris Guillebeau, NYT Bestselling Author of The $100 Startup and The Happiness of Pursuit. Like a GPS system, visualization can keep you in route when you are heading towards a goal.

 

“Because I’ve been visualizing it, it’s like I set this GPS in my head … If you take conscious action that’s guided by vision there’s less re-routing.”

 

You can pick up a FREE Kindle version of Jake’s book on Nov. 2nd & Nov. 3rd by going to Amazon and searching for “Off the Beaten Trail: A Young Man's Soul-Searching Journey Through Central America

It’s really awesome to see someone as young as Jake setting such a good example for people of all ages. He shows that life experience isn’t necessarily tied to how many years you’ve been here, but how intentional you’ve been with the time you have had. Pick up a copy of Off the Beaten Trail (Kindle version is free Nov. 2-3, 2016) and get inspired.

 
 

SOME QUESTIONS I ASK:

  • What are some of the fears Jake had to overcome to get on the plane, and why didn’t he bring a cellphone?
  • How did Jake become exposed to the mindfulness practices and people like Tony Robbins that helped him become confident enough to write a book at 18-years-old?
  • How has Jake’s life changed since coming home? What does he do differently on a social level?
  • What strategies can listeners employ to connect with influencers or mentors that they look up to?
  • How can Jake advise people to start trusting their gut or their intuition, if they don’t know how it feels?
  • What is feedback Jake has gotten from people who have read his book or heard him speak, and what actions have they taken that he inspired them to make?

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:

  • A powerful story about self-reflection, self-growth and bold action
  • How mindfulness practices helped Jake structure an effective morning routine
  • How to listen to your intuition
  • Strategies for connecting with influencers and mentors that you look up to
  • Plus much more…

DON’T STOP HERE…

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

 

Production & Development for The Bold Life Movement Podcast by Podcast Masters

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