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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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Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
For the past twenty-eight years, sleep coach, consultant, speaker and author, Susan D’Addario, CSW, has been transforming the lives of thousands.
Susan has worked as a licensed psychotherapist for twenty-four years supporting people in her private practice to work through challenging issues to bring about their positive change and growth.
Four years ago, Susan pivoted and became a Certified Sleep Science Coach. She provides sleep coaching primarily to individuals – but also to couples and families - in her role as Independent Sleep Specialist with the Human Transformation and Coaching Company, BetterUp. Susan also provides sleep coaching in her private practice, Back-To-Sleep.
Susan has spoken on the topic of sleep to many companies and organizations including the NYC Women’s Bar Association and Peloton. She loves to provide information to as many people as possible to help them get great sleep and become their optimal selves!
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 ASPCA. Any and all donations make a difference!
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Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Jon Martin is a dear friend of mine who shares a similar life’s journey to mine. He began his career in corporate accounting, and after several years, realized he was lacking fulfillment and aliveness in his life.
After following a very traditional path, he began to explore what the life he truly wanted was. In this conversation, we explore the pain of misalignment, but also the beauty of finding yourself.
Jon has so much insight to share around optimal health, inner work, and so much more.
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 Internal Creations. Any and all donations make a difference!
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Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sarah’s bio is as follows:
I am Tangata Tiriti, with ancestry from Scotland and Cornwall, and I live in Kāpiti, just outside of Wellington, with my partner and three daughters. My children and partner whakapapa to
Ngāti Hine and Ngāti Manu.
I have been working as a coach and facilitator for sixteen years with a background in
leadership development, systems leadership, culture and change. I’m particularly interested
in helping people and organisations thrive in times of flux and adaptation, and in supporting
leaders to create lasting improvements, personally and organisationally.
I coach individuals and teams and am interested in important and challenging conversations.
I am known as a straight talker with an ability to see the core issues and enable groups and
individuals to work on these in a safe and meaningful way.
I have led teams across public, private, and not for profit sectors over the past 20 years,
from operations to People and Capability roles and make a point of taking on a contract
leadership role every few years to ensure that my understanding of leadership in action to
accurate and helpful to my clients.
A lot of the work I have done in recent years has drawn on an ongoing focus of connecting
leadership in place, and draws on key concepts of Te Aō Māori, including The Te Kore-Te Pō
– Te Wheiao – Te Ao Mārama as a frame for disruption and the phases we must work
through to lead effectively.
I have worked with leaders from very diverse backgrounds, serving a wide range of
stakeholder groups, and work with clients to make sense of their own culture within their
context and how this can be used to support them from a strengths-based perspective.
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 Just Speak. Any and all donations make a difference!
You can connect with Sarah on:
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Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Sunday Apr 02, 2023
Aaron Finbloom is a philosopher, artist and pedagogue. He is the co-founder of The School of Making Thinking (SMT) and the founder & director of The Deep Play Institute (DPI). His practice involves expanding transformative inquiry through games, performance art and structured play.
With training in Circling, Authentic Relating, and Psychodrama, he also facilitates experimental individual and group sessions inspired by these practices. Finbloom has presented works internationally at venues which include: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Gallery 151 (New York), Maschinenhaus Kulturbrauerei (Berlin), UNAM (Mexico City), and MainLine Theatre (Montreal).
He holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities & Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, and is currently teaching Philosophy at the City College of New York and The University of Portland.
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 Deep Play Institute. Any and all donations make a difference!
You can connect with Aaron on:
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Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Joel Monk is the co-founder of Coaches Rising and is very passionate about the role coaches can play in our turbulent times. He is also a coach and has worked with hundreds of executives, entrepreneurs and CEO’s from many different countries around the world.
He takes a cross paradigmatic approach to his coaching and is influenced by – developmental theory, Steve March & Aletheia coaching, Thomas Hübl, Circling, Doug Silsbee, Purpose Guiding, Somatics, Focusing, AEDP, and more.
He hosts the very popular Coaches Rising podcast where he interviews incredible people to explore how they work with others to facilitate transformation.
He lives in Amsterdam with his beautiful family.
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. Any and all donations make a difference!
You can connect with Joel on:
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Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Since launching Miss Excel in June of 2020, Kat Norton has grown a community of over 1 million people on TikTok & Instagram through viral Excel trick videos infused with creativity, music and dance. If you haven't seen her content before, picture freezing your Excel cells to "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice or creating a drop-down menu to "Drop it Like it's Hot" by Snoop Dogg. That is the type of energy she brings to her videos!
Kat was recently awarded the Microsoft MVP award and was named one of the Top 10 Social Media Influencers of 2021 by Forbes. Kat trains both individuals and companies in Microsoft Office and Google Products through fun On-Demand courses and live custom training sessions.
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 Pencils of Promise. Any and all donations make a difference!
You can connect with Kat on:
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Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Jess Crutchfield views health AS life and is dedicated to helping others achieve and sustain good health for a healthier human race and planet. She is a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness coach with functional medicine as a focus, Thai Bodywork instructor at Boulder Massage Therapy Institute and practitioner/teacher, Yoga & Breath facilitator, and Boulder Zouk High dance community organizer. Her belief is that we all innately have the capacity to heal ourselves if only given the chance, and accordingly she assists her clients and students in becoming more vital, embodied, and aware.
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 Young Yokes. Any and all donations make a difference!
You can connect with Jess on:
To connect with me:
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Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Shelby Robbins is the Co-Founder and CEO of Antelope Recovery, an online teen intensive outpatient program in Colorado. Shelby has put together a compassionate and fast growth team whose mission is redesigning teen mental healthcare to increase access and improve clinical quality of care. Her mission is to make behavioral healthcare healthier. Antelope Recovery is an organization that has a positive and transformative effect on the field of teen behavioral health and ultimately the entire healthcare ecosystem.
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 To Write Love On Her Arms. Any and all donations make a difference!
You can connect with Shelby on:
- Antelope Recovery Website
- Antelope Recovery - Blog, full of resources for Teens
- Personal Website
To connect with me:
- Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here.
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Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
By popular demand, I am back for another solo episode!
In this conversation, I discuss:
>What the most important lessons I’ve learned from podcasting are
>Misconceptions about self-compassion, and what it really means
>Why I want to fall in love with doing the dishes
>My relationship with my phone and technology
>....and more!
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 Internal Creations. Any and all donations make a difference!
To connect with me:
- Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here.
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Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Jenn Reilly is a mother, leadership development and parenting coach, facilitator, organizational designer, podcast host, artist, nature lover, and consciousness explorer. She is the founder of parenting education platform and community, Raising Wholeness, podcast host to Mystics Rising, and emergent visioning designer and consultant, and leadership development coach and associate with Bridge Partnerships.
By weaving in her own experiences working with vertical development, emergence, mindfulness, divine feminine and masculine, shadow work, and leadership development, Jenn brings her passions to life to help restore and celebrate wholeness. She works with parents and leaders to navigate shadows, childhood wounds, and unhealthy belief structures to reconnect to their true essence in her coaching work, and facilitates transformational workshops and online classes to help her clients build more self-awareness, and step into more authentic leadership and parenting.
Learn more about Jenn
IG: @jennereilly
Raising Wholeness is an online platform, community, and programs to help parents, aspiring parents, teachers, and caregivers to transform their childhood programming in service of stepping into a new way of nurturing wholeness children. They combine regulation, trauma education, executive functioning, vertical development, and healthy masculine and feminine into embodiment practices.
https://www.raisingwholeness.org/
IG: @Raisingwholeness
Mystics Rising is a podcast dedicated to illuminating, celebrating, and sharing practices of wholeness.
https://www.mystics-rising.com/
IG: @mysticsrising
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 Speak With Purpose. Any and all donations make a difference!
You can also connect with Jenn on:
To connect with me:
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