108: Jamie Winship — How to Avoid an Identity Crisis and Discover Your True Calling

July 11, 2024 by Cal Walters

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Jamie Winship has decades of experience bringing peaceful solutions to areas of the world that experience the highest levels of conflict. After a distinguished career in law enforcement in the metro Washington DC area, Jamie had a unique opportunity to bring his identity-centric approach of transformation to the field of education.

He earned an MA in English and accepted a position at a university in Indonesia. Jamie developed a unique language acquisition program based on this premise: identity transformation is the key to acquiring new levels of learning in any field. His work drew the attention of Fulbright and other educational institutions which extended his work worldwide over the past several decades.

Jamie has worked with leaders in professional sports, business, education, law enforcement, government, non-profit and other sectors. Jamie and his wife, Donna, are co-founders of Identity Exchange, a training and consulting agency that helps individuals and teams discover new levels of creativity and resiliency within the framework of true identity.

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Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God

By Jamie Winship

Learn more about Identity Exchange: https://www.identityexchange.com/

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109: Julian Treasure — Top TED Speaker and Speaking Expert on How to Speak So People Want to Listen

July 10, 2024 by Cal Walters

Julian Treasure is a top-rated international speaker on sound and the critical communication skills of listening and speaking.

Collectively, Julian’s five TED Talks have been viewed over 150 million times. How to speak so that people want to listen is the sixth most-viewed TED talk of all time. In live or virtual keynotes, or in bite-sized appearances via ThinkersOne, Julian delivers engaging, entertaining and transformational content, and is equally potent and effective with live or virtual delivery.
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His talks enhance business effectiveness, particularly for those in sales or leadership roles, as well as enriching relationships at work and at home.

His presenting skills and innovative use of sound make his talks visceral and potent experiences that are always highly rated by delegates.In addition to keynote speeches, Julian can also arrange structured training or workshops for your company.

How to be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening (Communication Skills Book)

By Treasure, Julian

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107: Dr. Anna Lembke — Find Joy and Focus in a Dopamine-Overloaded World

May 22, 2024 by Cal Walters

Dr. Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.

In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop, which was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic. Dr. Lembke also appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, an instant New York Times Bestseller, explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world. Dr. Lembke explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain. Most important, she tells readers how to find the delicate balance between the two. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives.

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

By Lembke, Dr. Anna

The Official Dopamine Nation Workbook: Practical Guide to Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

By Lembke, Dr. Anna

On this episode, Dr. Anna Lemke discusses the paradox of modern life, where despite unprecedented wealth and technological progress, people seem to be unhappier and in more pain than ever before. She explains how our brains are not well-suited for the world we live in, which is filled with constant access to pleasurable substances and behaviors. This leads to a downregulation of feel-good neurotransmitters and a chronic dopamine deficit state. Dr. Lemke also highlights the rise of digital addictions and the importance of mindfulness in observing our thoughts and behaviors without judgment.

We also discuss the impact of digital devices and dopamine-inducing behaviors on our lives, the difference between shame and guilt, the role of community in addressing shame, and the importance of embracing boredom. They also explore the benefits of dopamine fasting, the impact of these behaviors on our ability to enjoy simple pleasures, and the recommended duration of dopamine fasting. Dr. Lembke shares commonalities she has observed in successful recovery and offers advice for parents navigating the modern world.

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106: Dr. Michael Norton — The Ritual Effect

April 15, 2024 by Cal Walters

Michael Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He has studied human behavior as it relates to love and inequality, time and money, and happiness and grief. He is the author of The Ritual Effect and the coauthor—with Elizabeth Dunn—of Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending.

In 2012, he was selected by Wired magazine as one of “50 People Who Will Change the World.” His TEDx talk, How to Buy Happiness, has been viewed nearly 5 million times. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Scientific American, and has made numerous television, radio, and podcast appearances.

Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending

By Dunn, Elizabeth, Norton, Dr Michael

The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions

By Norton, Dr Michael

In The Ritual Effect, Dr. Norton demonstrates the power of small acts—and how a subtle turning of habits into rituals can add purpose and pleasure to life.

Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to keep us on track—what we come to know as habits. Over time, these routines (for example, brushing your teeth or putting on your right sock first) tend to be performed automatically. But when we’re more mindful about these actions—when we focus on the precise way they are performed—they can instead become rituals. Shifting from a “habitual” mindset to a “ritual” mindset can convert ordinary acts from black and white to technicolor.

Think of the way you savor a certain beverage, the care you take with a particular outfit that gets worn only on special occasions, the unique way that your family gathers around the table during holidays, or the secret language you enjoy with your significant other. To some, these behaviors may seem quirky, but because rituals matter so deeply to us on a personal level, they imbue our lives with purpose and meaning. Drawing on a decade of original research, Norton shows that rituals play a role in healing communities experiencing a great loss, marking life’s major transitions, driving a stadium of sports fans to ecstasy, and helping us rise to challenges and realize opportunities.

Compelling, insightful, and practical, The Ritual Effect reminds us of the intention-filled acts that drive human behavior and create surprising satisfaction and enjoyment.

Take the Habit or Ritual Quiz

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105: Ryan Hawk and Brook Cupps — The Score That Matters

March 29, 2024 by Cal Walters

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Ryan Hawk is the creator and host of The Learning Leader Show, a top-rated leadership podcast that focuses on learning from the smartest, most creative leaders in the world. He speaks regularly to Fortune 500 companies, works with teams and players in the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NCAA, and facilitates Leadership Circles to offer structured guidance and collaborative feedback to new and experienced leaders. A sought-after professional speaker, he is the author of Welcome to Management and The Pursuit of Excellence, lauded by Forbes magazine as “the best leadership book of 2020” and “the most dynamic leadership book of 2022,” respectively.

Welcome to Management: How to Grow From Top Performer to Excellent Leader

By Hawk, Ryan

The Pursuit of Excellence: The Uncommon Behaviors of the World's Most Productive Achievers

By Ryan Hawk, Patrick Lencioni - foreword

Surrender The Outcome: The Path to an Impactful Life of Coaching, Leading, and Living

By Cupps, Brook

Brook Cupps has been a high school basketball coach for more than 20 years, earning several Coach of the Year awards. His teams have won numerous conference, district, and regional championships, as well as Centerville High School’s first-ever basketball state championship in 2021. In addition, he has spent the last eight years coaching grassroots basketball on the AAU circuits, and helped guide the North Coast (Ohio) Blue Chips to national championships in 2014 and 2019. He publishes weekly essays on leadership and coaching on his site, Blue Collar Grit, and is the author of Surrender the Outcome.

They are co-authors of their newest book, The Score That Matters: Growing Excellence in Yourself and Those You Lead.

The Score That Matters: Growing Excellence in Yourself and Those You Lead

By Hawk, Ryan, Cupps, Brook

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