Mike‘s Search For Meaning
 

Mike‘s Search For Meaning

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Mike‘s Search For Meaning is the intersection between philosophical and practical. How do leaders organize their inner world? What tools and tactics can we use to enhance our relationships and careers? Join host and life coach Mike Trugman as he seeks to unlock the keys to living a deeply fulfilling life.

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#113 - Lindsey Lewis: Clear Self vs. Clouded Self, & Discovering Meaningful Work Through Inner Listening

Sunday May 12, 2024

Sunday May 12, 2024

Lindsey Lewis is an international Life + Business coach with over a decade of experience helping women and a few good men across the world create more success and happiness. Her work has helped hundreds of women over the years. She has appeared on Roundhouse Radio, Breakfast Television, and the cover of WHERE Magazine. She’s been a featured speaker at numerous places including The University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, The Vancouver Business Network, and FuturPreneur Canada. She also: made only 8K her first year of business, has been deeply challenged by anxiety and at times depression, and is a mamma trying to make it all work. Can you relate? For more on Lindsey head over to imlindseylewis.com or find her on Instagram @imlindseylewis



Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Red Cross. Please take the time to donate at least $1. These contributions go a long way in supporting those who have been affected by disasters.




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#112 - Rosi Greenberg: Finding Freedom from our Negative Inner Voices

Sunday Apr 28, 2024

Sunday Apr 28, 2024

Rosi Greenberg, an Artist of Leadership Development, has spent 15 years fostering a more connected, humane, and creative organizational landscape. Rosi is the founder and CEO of Drawn to Lead, through which she offers bespoke workshops and retreats that empower thousands of leaders to unleash their narratives and find their inner strength. Her book, "Everyone Has a Sam: Meeting the Inner Critic and Re-Writing the Rules," tackles imposter syndrome through Rosi’s own vulnerable personal story, life-changing strategies, and tender, inspiring illustrations. Rosi specializes in supporting people to connect more deeply to themselves and others.



Rosi holds a Master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School with a certificate in Management, Leadership and Decision Sciences, and a BA in Anthropology from Brown University. Rosi weaves together her expertise in Adaptive Leadership, Public Narrative, Internal Family Systems, Immunity to Change, Shadow Work and the creative arts to offer individual and group healing with a systemic lens. Her clients include Mobilize Recovery, The Mission Continues, SAFE Project, Intrepid Philanthropy, MIT Sloan Business School, Harvard Medical School, McKinsey, Gensler Inc, Fidelity Investments, and more. Rosi has also been an Artist in Residence at Foundation House and the extremely selective Artist Residency Thailand. In addition to her transformational workshops and retreat facilitation, Rosi helps teams vision, see connections, and document gatherings through her stunning visual scribing. 



Rosi champions empathy as the paramount leadership skill for today's world. Her work bridges artistry and leadership, and nurtures profound professional connections. Originally from Philadelphia PA, Rosi now lives in the sunny foothills of Boulder Colorado.



Additionally, I donate to and raise awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode. This episode, we actually have TWO wonderful organizations: Recovery Advocacy Project and SAFE Project. Please take the time to donate at least $1. These are impactful causes that shift stigma around addiction, supporting recovery and mental health.



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#111 - Seth Godin: Dancing with Resistance, Becoming an Indispensable Linchpin, & Choosing to Do Hard Work

Sunday Apr 14, 2024

Sunday Apr 14, 2024

Seth Godin is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, speaker and most of all, a teacher.

In addition to launching one of the most popular blogs in the world, he has written 21 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, Tribes, and What To Do When It's Your Turn (And It's Always Your Turn). His book, This is Marketing, was an instant bestseller in countries around the world. 

 

His latest books are The Song of Significance and  The Practice, and creatives everywhere have made it a bestseller. Though renowned for his writing and speaking, Seth also founded two companies, Squidoo and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo!).

 

By focusing on everything from effective marketing and leadership, to the spread of ideas and changing everything, Seth has been able to motivate and inspire countless people around the world.

 

In 2013, Seth was one of just three professionals inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame. In an astonishing turn of events, in May 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame as well. He might be the only person in both.



Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Climate Central. Any and all donations make a difference!



You can connect with Seth on:

  • Website: https://www.sethgodin.com/

  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sethgodin/

  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sethgodin/

  • Podcast: https://www.akimbo.link/

  • Blog: https://seths.blog/


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#110 - Eric Nehrlich: You Have a Choice: Creating the Relationships & Career You Want, and Why We Get Stuck

Sunday Mar 31, 2024

Sunday Mar 31, 2024

Eric Nehrlich is an executive coach who helps leaders have more impact by drawing on his 25 years of experience in the tech industry. He loves to identify and challenge mindsets and habits that hold people back from their next level of leadership. 

 

Before becoming a coach, Eric spent ten years as an engineer and product manager across several startups before joining Google, eventually leading business strategy and operations for the Google Search Ads team for six years as Chief of Staff. He published his first book in 2023, You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work to Meaningful Impact, which he wrote to share the principles and mindsets that have helped him and his clients with a wider audience.

 

Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Year Up. Any and all donations make a difference!



You can connect with Eric on:

  • Website: https://www.toomanytrees.com/

  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nehrlich/

  • His Book, You Have a Choice: https://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Choice-Beyond-Meaningful/dp/B0CM8P1SVX


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#109 - Jim Marsden on Daring Bravely, The 3 C’s We Deeply Desire, the Wilderness as a Guide, and the Journey of Transformation

Sunday Mar 17, 2024

Sunday Mar 17, 2024

Intensely interested in the human experience, Jim guides individuals and organizations through transitions while stepping more fully into their lives. He’s keen to help entrepreneurs and start-up organizations discover their own authentic expression of leadership and the meaningful contributions that come from it. Jim has extensive cross-cultural experience and has worked in settings around the globe, including roughly 5 years in Italy helping to launch a business within Hewlett Packard.

As a speaker and workshop facilitator, he is engaging on topics of leadership, innovation, design thinking, and transformative change and has presented and led experiences in a variety of gatherings and venues including MIT, Yale University, Michigan State University, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a variety of community and professional settings.

 

Jim is a former core member of the  Presencing Institute, born from MIT’s Center for Organizational Learning and offering training and assistance in the application of Theory U – a methodology of transformative change. Along with coaching and leading team leadership and organizational development initiatives, Jim is also a wilderness guide.

For almost 20 years, Jim has been guiding programs in the wilderness that support human development and informing a very personal approach to living one’s authentic and fulfilling life. Now offered as the Reboot Quest, this program is a western contemporary approach following common structures of a “vision quest” experience and is annually offered and open to members of the startup community.

Jim is a husband, a dad to two wonderful daughters, under service to and providing plenty of love and outdoor time to his dog, Otis, and to a bird, Saphie, who thinks he’s a dog and adores Otis.

 

Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#108 - Lalita Shree Maa on Quieting Your Mind, Eliminating Suffering, Living in Peace and Joy, & Being a Spiritual Being in a Human Body

Sunday Mar 03, 2024

Sunday Mar 03, 2024

Lalita Shree Maa is a spiritual guide and healer who is guided by a deep passion to serve others in their journey to greater joy, inner freedom, and spiritual awakening. With a wealth of knowledge and experience in therapeutic, behavioral and spiritual practices for self-mastery, she guides others through a transformation of freeing themselves from the grip of destructive behaviors, and into a place where they can live in a state of inner calm, clarity and fulfillment in their lives.

 

Lalita met her guru, enlightened master Her Holiness Sai Maa in 2004, and since that time she has been a devoted disciple. Sai Maa’s teachings have shaped every aspect of her life and who she is today as well as informing and inspiring her work with students and clients.

 

In 2016 Lalita received initiation into Sai Maa’s monastic order, the Order of Sai Maa Brahmacharya, making manifest her profound devotion and commitment to the life of spirit.

 

Her devotion to spiritual growth and supporting others hasn’t gone unnoticed. In February 2019 she was initiated as Mahamandaleshwar into the Vishnu Swami lineage of India, a lineage that goes back over 2700 years. This acknowledgement signified her as an international spiritual leader.

 

Lalita Shree Maa has 2 decades of training and experience in working with the body, mind, and psychology to transform the root of where people feel stuck and carry past trauma, freeing them up to feel good about themselves every day so they can live a life of fulfillment and success.

 

She holds the following certifications: Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Soma Source Practitioner, Brain Spotting practitioner, Profound Healing Facilitator, and Neuroencoding Specialist.

 

As a teacher for Her Holiness Sai Maa for more than 13 years, Lalita Maa has taught programs all over the world and has coached people from all walks of Life.

 

She is also an artist, musician, and loves to dance and spend time in nature, particularly hiking and biking in the beautiful mountains of Colorado where she lives.

 

Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Light Legacy. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#107 - Jeff Lieberman on Human Flourishing, Learning Quantum Mechanics before Emotions, Well-Being in Young Adults, & the Intersection of Science and Spirituality

Sunday Feb 18, 2024

Sunday Feb 18, 2024

Jeff received four degrees at MIT (Physics, Math, Mech E and Robotics). He hosted “Time Warp” on the Discovery Channel about the wonders of science, and made large-scale art for 15 years.

 

By external measures, he was incredibly successful. But inside, something was missing. This disconnect led him to a deep depression in high school, and chronic pain for almost 20 years after that.

 

Jeff learned quantum mechanics before learning about his emotions. He marvels at the fact that we can measure the external universe to 10-decimal accuracy, but most of us don’t learn about our insides: our emotions, what leads to flourishing, how to take great care of ourselves. Years of personal exploration transformed him, leading to a determination to not have the road to joy be difficult for others to find.

 

He has spent the last 15 years training in meditation, personal development, and group dynamics for well being, facilitating high school students through a 3-week intensive and adults through an 18-month program. He speaks around the world on the topics of art, science, education, healing, and consciousness. See more of his work at bea.st.

 

Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Inside Circle. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#106 - Robbie Swale on The Rules of Life, Leading With Honor, and Creating Magic Through Coaching

Sunday Feb 04, 2024

Sunday Feb 04, 2024

Robbie Swale is a leadership coach, author and podcaster whose work focuses on creativity, leading with honour and the craft of coaching.

 

Alongside his direct client work, he has run coaching, training and facilitation for organisations including Deutsche Bank, 64 Million Artists, Moonpig and the University of Edinburgh.

 

He is the host of two podcasts – The Coach’s Journey Podcast and The 12-Minute Method Podcast – and the author of The 12-Minute Method series of books, including How to Start When You’re Stuck and How to Create the Conditions for Great Work.

 

Learn more about Robbie at www.robbieswale.com and www.thecoachsjourney.com.

 

Buy the 12-Minute Method Books at: https://geni.us/12minutemethodseries

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Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called GiveDirectly. Any and all donations make a difference!



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#105 - Dr. John Demartini on Living Your Genius & Meeting All Parts of Yourself with Love

Sunday Jan 21, 2024

Sunday Jan 21, 2024

Dr. John Demartini is a polymath and a world-renowned human behavior expert. His work has been described by students as the "most comprehensive body of work", "an extensive library of wisdom".

 

Dr. John Demartini's mission and vision is to share knowledge and wisdom that empowers you to become a master of your own life and destiny. He's an internationally published author, a global educator and the founder of the Demartini Method, a revolutionary tool in modern psychology.

 

His education curriculum ranges from personal growth seminars to corporate empowerment programs. His teachings are the synthesis of knowledge and wisdom from the greatest minds through history and his curriculum is designed to help you empower and inspire all 7 areas of your life.



You can connect with Dr. John on:

  • Website: https://drdemartini.com/

  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjohndemartini/

  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrDemartini

  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjohndemartini/

  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drjohndemartini/



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#104 - Shakiyla Smith on Death as a Portal to Vitality, Joy as a Spiritual Practice, and Life as Inquiry

Sunday Jan 07, 2024

Sunday Jan 07, 2024

Shakiyla Smith is a scholar-practitioner and action researcher whose primary question is how we develop the individual, relational, and collective capacity to meet the demands of the 21st century.  

 

She is currently the Vice-President of Organizational Culture at the Fetzer Institute where she leads efforts to create the conditions for a spiritually grounded, growth-oriented beloved community. She has a master's degree in public health and a doctorate in adult education with a focus on organization development.  

 

Prior to her current position, she worked in the areas of injury and violence prevention research, program development and evaluation, and research administration for more than 15 years both within academia and the federal government. She is also a proud tree hugger, trained yoga and meditation instructor, and energy medicine (reiki) practitioner.  

 

Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called Faith Matters Network. Any and all donations make a difference!



You can connect with Shakiyla on:

  • Coaches Rising Podcast: https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/adult-development-theory-today-with-valerie-livesay-shakiyla-smith-and-dana-carmen/

  • Fetzer Institute: https://fetzer.org/community/ssmith

  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shakiyla-smith-7486b1ba/



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