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Sean Swarner on Beating Cancer Twice and Conquering the Natural World Mar 21, 2019

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Sean Swarner will make you rethink what is possible.

Sean was diagnosed with terminal cancer twice as a teenager. Despite facing those devastating diagnoses—and losing functionality in one of his lungs due to radiation treatment—he has become one of the most accomplished adventure sports figures on the planet. Sean has climbed the highest peak on all seven continents, completed an Iron Man Triathlon and reached both the North and South Poles. On this podcast episode, Sean sat down with host Robert Glazer to talk about how he beat cancer and went on to become one of Earth’s greatest adventurers.

Sean is the author of Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World, and is the subject of the documentary True North: The Sean Swarner Story

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On this remarkable episode, you’ll learn:

How Sean faced two separate cancer diagnoses
The way Sean’s family rallied to support him through two rounds of treatment
Why Sean decided to start his adventure sports career by climbing Mount Everest
Sean’s effort to dedicate his career to uplifting others affected by cancer
Why Sean believes human endurance is mental, more than physical
How Sean trained to overcome his physical limitations
What Sean plans to do next in his adventure sports career
A mistake Sean has made, and what he learned

Jordan Harbinger on Starting Over and the Secret to Podcasting Success Mar 14, 2019

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Jordan Harbinger joins this episode of Elevate to talk about his career in podcasting, his past as a lawyer, and the bold decision to bet on himself, leave his former podcasting company and launch The Jordan Harbinger Show.

Jordan is often referred to as “the Larry King of podcasting”. He started his career was a Wall Street attorney before launching a highly successful podcasting career. On the Jordan Harbinger show, Jordan interviews top performers to learn what makes them tick. Past guests include Jocko Willink, Simon Sinek and Mike Posner.

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Jordan’s early career as an attorney
How law school taught Jordan the limits of talent without hard work
What Imposter Syndrome is, and how to overcome it
How Jordan’s desire to learn how to network, led to a career in podcasting
The proper timing of when to pursue a side-hustle full time
How Jordan decided to strike out on his own and start the Jordan Harbinger Show
The secret to hosting a great podcast

Jayson Gaignard On Investing In Authentic Relationships Mar 12, 2019

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Jayson Gaignard is the founder of Mastermind Talks, one of the world's most exclusive, invite-only events for entrepreneurs. He’s also the author of Mastermind Dinners and host of the Community Made podcast.

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Why Jayson decided to start his first business.
The evolution of Jayson’s entrepreneurial journey and how it led him to start networking with other entrepreneurs.
The event that inspired Mastermind Talks (MMT).
How Jayson got Tim Ferriss to speak at his first Mastermind Talks Event.
Jayson’s approach to scaling the quality of MMT attendees.
Why MMT is known for being harder to get into than Harvard.
Jayson’s ambition for the future of MMT.

Aron Ain on Building a Workplace Employees Love Mar 05, 2019

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Aron Ain is the chief executive officer of Kronos and author of WorkInspired: How to Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to Work. His book chronicles the Kronos employee engagement journey and imparts lessons Ain has learned for senior leaders, HR professionals, and people managers to turn employee engagement into a strategic weapon.

Ain joined Kronos in 1979 and has played a role in nearly every functional department at the company, helping to build what is today a $1.3 billion global enterprise software powerhouse. Under Ain’s leadership, Kronos has achieved tremendous global growth, with operations and market leadership throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Show Notes

What Kronos was like when Aron started there in 1979.
How Aron was influenced as a manager and what they did to help him become a better manager and leader.
What Aron and his team did to create a more engaged culture.
What “My Time” is and how it was implemented at Kronos.
How a Manager Effectiveness Index is applied at Kronos.
How Kronos handles lower performing, less engaged employee.
The relationship between happy employees and business success.
What Aron sees as missing or lacking in workplaces today in terms of management and leadership and creating a place people really love to work.

Tiffani Bova on Thinking Smarter About Business Growth Mar 05, 2019

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Tiffani Bova is Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. Over the past two decades, she has led large revenue-producing divisions at businesses ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

She spent ten years at Gartner, the world’s leading IT research and advisory firm. Bova’s cutting-edge insights have helped Microsoft, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, SAP, VMWare, AT&T, Salesforce, Dell, Amazon-AWS and other prominent technology companies expand their market share and grow their revenues.

She’s also the author of Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business, a Wall Street Journal bestseller that reveals ten growth paths — from creating an inspiring customer experience to disrupting business as usual.

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How Tiffani came up with the concept of her book, Growth IQ.
What she saw happening that led her to realize that the process to growth had changed.
The Top Ten Paths to Growth: how she came up with these ten paths and what makes the framework actually work.
Path #7: Churn and the insights she learned from looking at companies like Blue Apron.
Thoughts about how Blockbuster could have pivoted to sustain their business.
The role company culture plays in sustainable business growth.
A personal or professional growth mistake Tiffani’s learned the most from.

James Clear on Writing and Changing Your Habits Mar 05, 2019

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James Clear is an American author, entrepreneur and photographer. On his personal website, JamesClear.com, he writes about habits and human potential. James is also the author of Atomic Habits. Show Notes

A formative accident in James’ life that set him on a new career path.
What he did to regain a sense of control over his life after the accident.
How James stumbled into writing and how that evolved into a business, led to his focus on habits and writing his book, Atomic Habits.
How James organically built his weekly newsletter subscriber list to over 400,000 people.
Habits James has developed to become a better writer.
The five core elements of Atomic Habits – what they are and how they guide readers to shape a new habit or break a bad one.

Alex Hutchinson on the Art and Science of Elevating Your Endurance Mar 05, 2019

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Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist. He writes mostly about science and endurance sports and is also currently a contributing editor at Outside, a columnist at the Globe and Mail, and a senior editor at Canadian Running. He was previously a Runner's World columnist and contributing editor at Popular Mechanics. His latest book, ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance is an exploration of the science (and mysteries) of endurance.

Alex is also an avid runner.

Show Notes

Alex’s start to running and favorite place to run.
Increasing endurance and what research shows is the way to do that.
The mental and physical components of resiliency.
The role the brain plays in physically limiting the body as well as helping it push limits.
How the 4-minute mile barrier is a great example of the mind-body paradigm.
Emotional endurance and how it transfers to physical endurance.
Why it’s so important to push yourself out of your comfort zone on a regular basis.
How Alex came to know and become friends with Malcolm Gladwell.

Garrett Gunderson on Family Legacy and Investment Education Mar 05, 2019

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Garrett Gunderson is the founder of Wealth Factory, a company that provides personal financial education, guidance and family legacy programs for entrepreneurs, professionals and small business owners.

He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity.

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Garrett’s upbringing and how that influenced his values around money and entrepreneurism.
Garrett’s first entrepreneurial endeavor.
Financial education versus financial advising or planning.
How the Rockefeller family approached their family legacy differently than the Vanderbilt’s.
The three aspects of building a family legacy.
How wealth-generation concepts can be passed on to future generations without entitlement.

Jay Baer on a Better Way to Convince and Convert Customers Mar 05, 2019

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Jay Baer is the founder and President of Convince & Convert. Jay has advised more than 700 brands since getting started in online marketing in 1993. He is also the New York Times best-selling author of five books, including his latest, Talk Triggers.

In addition to strategy consulting, the firm also runs Convince & Convert Media, a fast-growing education company that produces six podcasts, a digital magazine, email, webinars and white papers.

Jay’s Social Pros show was named Best Marketing Podcast in the 2015 Content Marketing Awards. In 2017, Jay was inducted into the Word-of-Mouth Marketing Hall of Fame by the Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association. And in 2018, he was enshrined in the Professional Speaking Hall of Fame, where there are just 187 living members.

Jay is the most retweeted person in the world among digital marketers and one of the top 3 most influential people online among CMOs and B2B Marketers. His is also an avid tequila collector and a certified BBQ judge. Show Notes

What Jay was doing (and really disliking) before joining an internet company.
What the online marketing landscape looked like when Jay got started in the industry.
Why Jay decided to build Convince and Convert differently from his past companies.
Why you’re better off telling one story about your company over and over in different, interesting ways versus telling six different stories.
Jay’s Christmas tree analogy to starting new businesses.

Yanik Silver on Catalyzing Catalysts and Rethinking Your Business Mar 01, 2019

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Yanik Silver is the founder of Maverick1000, a private, invitation-only global network of top entrepreneurs and industry leaders. This group periodically assembles for breakthrough retreats, rejuvenating experiences, and impact opportunities (to-date raising over $3M+) with participating icons such as Sir Richard Branson, Tony Hawk, Chris Blackwell, John Paul DeJoria, Tony Hsieh, Russell Simmons, Tim Ferriss, and many others.

Yanik serves on the Constellation board for Virgin Unite, the entrepreneurial foundation of the Virgin Group and Branson family. On this episode, Yanik talks about his lifetime goal of connecting and catalyzing visionary leaders and game changers to solve the world’s most impactful issues by the year 2100.

Show Notes

Yanik’s role in his family’s business and some important things he learned from that experience.
The family event that Yanik created to teach his and others’ kids about business and what he has them do to learn about selling.
How Yanik avoided having a “real” job most of his career.
How asking himself one question led Yanik to start Maverick 1000.
Yanik’s Ultimate Big Life List and some things that are on that, some things he’s taken off and a few big ones that have come to fruition.
How Yanik has connected with some of the greatest business icons of our time, including Richard Branson, Tim Ferriss and Tony Hsieh.

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