My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston
I’m Dr. Mark Goulston, and this is My Wakeup Call. Everybody has personal wakeup calls, but not everybody wakes up. In this podcast, we speak to people who did. In fact, they not only woke up, but their wakeup calls changed their lives, often helped them discover their purpose and then changed how they would spend the rest of their life. In most cases, the wakeup call was not pleasant, sought-after, and often shook people to the core of their being. But in every case, it made our guests more authentic, better at life, better in life and better human beings. I hope you will listen in and become as inspired as I am from every episode. I also hope it will help you persevere if you are going through a wakeup call and haven’t yet gotten through the pain of it, or landed in your future as the better person you’re meant to be, with the better life that you’re meant to have. DISCLAIMER: Any information or advice I give is purely based on my own experience. Comments made are as a coach- this is not medical or psychiatry advice. There is no guarantee as there are many variables that will impact outcomes. Everything stated should be taken as opinion.
Episodes
In this episode I speak with Robert Barton, University of Oregon professor emeritus in acting and former head of the acting program and author of many books including: "Acting: Onstage and Off," and "Acting Reframes: Using NLP to Make Better Decisions in and out of the Theatre and his “Many Right Ways” columns appear in each edition of The Voice and Speech Review. His wakeup call was coming from an unhappy childhood and seeing how ...
In this episode I interview returning guest Ron Carucci co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership. He brings up to date after the publication of, "To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice and P...
In this episode I speak with returning guest Johann Ilgenfritz, CEO of UK Health Radio, the #1 world's talk health radio, which my co-hosted show, "Hurt Less, Live More," about his vision for bringing the best healthcare information to the world and updates on that and how you can become involved. https://ukhealthradio.com/about/
In this episode I speak with Sani Abdul-Jabbar, Founder and CEO of VezTek, a Los Angeles-based emerging tech company specializing in cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain, author of "Makers: A Slender Knowledge," whose through line has always been a work ethic instilled by his parents but whose wakeup call was the birth of his first child in 2011. https://...
In this episode I interview Rand Selig an accomplished entrepreneur, coach, conservationist, and board member for various organizations and author of, "Thriving!" where he shares his extensive expertise in how to create a healthier, happier, and more prosperous life. His wakeup call or through line that he learned from his parents was being all about service and a major breakthrough was 15 years ago learning to finally accept his f...
In this episode I speak with returning guest and future superstar, Jennifer McCollum, CEO of Linkage, a SHRM company, where she oversees the strategic direction and global operations of this global leadership development firm. She is the author of, "In Her Own Voice: A Woman’s Rise to CEO," whose wakeup calls have been her being able to quiet her inner critic re: becoming a CEO and recently becoming an international speaker and aut...
In this episode I interview Jim Tselikis, co-founder of Cousins Maine Lobster a startup food truck business which has grown to over 50 units, including both gourmet food trucks and fast-casual restaurants whose wakeup call was coming up with the idea and keeping it secret with his co-founder cousin and former guest on this podcast until they could launch a single truck in Los Angeles. In...
In this episode I speak with Greg Williams, "The Master Negotiator and Body Language Expert," speaker, trainer and Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches member who wakeup call was noticing people's body language and that everyone is always negotiating from being a poor young child and also his desire to give back to the world because 95% of people he knew as a child were either in prison, drug addicts, prostitutes or dead. And also thinki...
In this episode I speak with Daniel Pinchbeck, Founder and Director of the Liminal Institute and author of "Breaking Open the Head," "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl," "How Soon is Now" and co-author of "When Plants Dream." and writes Daniel Pinchbeck's newsletter on Substack which I highly recommend. His wakeup call was possibly being raised in Manhattan and supported by divorced parents with a father, a literary writer/author an...
In this episode I speak with Ben Guttmann, marketing and communications expert and author of "Simply Put: Why Clear Messages Win — and How to Design Them". He’s an experienced marketing executive and educator on a mission to get leaders to more effectively connect by simplifying their message. His wakeup call or rather his underlying driving force was coming from a family of "make your own job" people who were supportive of his mak...
In this episode I speak with Derin McMains, former professional baseball player and manager, now Director of Mental Performance at ReliaQuest whose wakeup call was going from professional athlete to coach and realizing how vital to success is mindset and now his company and he are spreading that beyond the sports world. https://theorg.com/org/reliaquest/org-chart/derin-mcmains
In this episode I speak with William Vanderbloemen, author of, " Be the Unicorn: 12 Data-Driven Habits that Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest," leader of the Vanderbloemen Search Group, and former Senior Pastor at one of the largest Presbyterian Churches in the United States whose wakeup call was seeing how poor a job churches did at identifying and recruiting their pastors and other senior staff and whose through line still ...
In this episode I speak with return guest, Amy Morin, host of a top mental health podcast called "Mentally Stronger," and author of the upcoming book, "13 Things Mentally Strong Couples Don't Do," which if you pre-order you can get a month of therapy at BetterHelp for free. For details go to: https://amymorinlcsw.com/couples/Her wakeup call was having multiple tragic losses in her life and realizing it was easier to focus on not do...
In this episode I welcome back Cameron Herold, founder of the COO Alliance and the Invest In Your Leaders course, host of the "Second in Command" podcast, multi-best selling author, whose sure-to-be-a-best -seller recent book is "Second in Command: Unleash the Power of Your CEO," and whose wakeup call and through line is realizing that he has ADD and also a love for business and entrepreneurship seeing the world differently dating ...
In this episode, return guest Sam Horn, author of many books including her recent book, "Talking on Eggshells," where we spoke at length and had the most up close, personal and real conversation I have had in more than 560 episodes. Listen, relate and learn. https://samhorn.com/
In this episode I speak with returning guest, Nataly Kogan, a Russian refugee, author of "The Awesome Human Project" and her follow up book, "The Awesome Human Journal," whose wakeup call was becoming burned out after a highly successful career with McKinsey and Microsoft and founder or executive and five startups and tech companies. http://natalykogan.com
In this episode I speak with Eddie Turner, member of Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches, Principal Consultant and Executive Coach at Linkage, a SHRM company, author of, "140 Simple Messages to Guide Emerging Leaders," one of the Top 25 Thought Leaders in Leadership by Thinkers 360 whose wakeup calls have been many but most prominently the births of his two children recently as a dad in his late forties and his wanting to set them up ps...
In this episode I speak with Brad Deutser, visionary leader behind Deutser and the Deutser Clarity Institute and the author of, "Belonging Rules: Five Crucial Actions that Build Unity and Foster Performance," whose wakeup call was feeling like an outsider most of his life but completely loved and supported by his family which put him on a path to helping people belong through loving them into his life. https://deutser.com/
In this episode I speak with returning guest, Suneel Gupta, author of, "EVERYDAY DHARMA: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything," whose wakeup call was failing at two tech startups and becoming famous for that just as the movement of sharing and learning from failures caught on. In his wonderful book he interviews many successful people who also failed and what it taught them. https://www.suneelgupta.com/
In this episode I interview Ashley Campbell, mother of two and founder of Coral & Blue Paper Co. She created and patented a line of children's stationery that makes thank you notes simple for kids while inspiring important character qualities, human connection, gratitude, and happiness in our digital world. She's also co-founder of the non-profit, The Coral & Blue Project in Burundi, Africa where kids use Coral & Blue stationery fo...
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