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079: Your Journey, Your Way with Your Strengths Leading Your Way with Andrea Riggs Feb 27, 2017

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Today we talk about actually doing what most entrepreneurs dream of... moving to a tropical island and working remotely. Andrea B. Riggs is a mother of 3 adventurous children, is married to her soul mate, Charles and in fall of 2016 moved with her family from Southern Utah to Puerto Rico. She enjoys yoga, traveling, creating, fitness, nutrition, healing and exploring with family.

Andrea is a motivational movement expert and works closely conference orchestrators to make magic at conferences. By moving people physically, Andrea prepares participants to be moved emotionally. Andrea trains clients in healing the Body, Mind, and Spirit. She cultivates Yoga inspired by Baptiste Yoga, Zumba Fitness, Kettlebells, TRX, Barre, her own total body HIIT workout, "Raw, and online fitness programs. He also began a gut healing online business, The Cultured Collective with her husband Charles.

Andrea believes in living your greatest adventure and so she is currently writing Gypsy Living, how to unleash your Gypsy Spirit and live an adventurous and extraordinary life. She has 3 more on the way! Andrea believes in educating our own children and guiding the next generation towards more creativity and connectivity. She helped her daughter Ava begin a dream of designing her own stuffed lambs. AvaMariaLambs.com is just the beginning to of this journey.

Andrea has trained with Baron Baptiste, ACE and AFAA, CPT (NASM), CFNS (Nutrition specialist), Level 1 Baptiste Yoga, Fermentation Specialist, Wings Energy Practitioner Level 1 and 2, and currently training in Zoneology.

Find her at:

www.gypsyfam.com

andreariggs.zumba.com

078: Convert Your In-Person Business Into a Powerful Online Biz Using Your Strengths with Jeff McMahon Feb 20, 2017

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Today, our guest is Jeff McMahon. Jeff is the owner of Total Body Construction. He's been a trainer for almost a decade now helping over 700 people reach their health and fitness goals. His degree is in pre-med/pre-pharm and dual certified in exercise science and sports medicine. He loves helping people and through that he has brought his in-person training to the online world. His strengths have allowed him to center himself and know what he can do to achieve my business success.

Find him at TBD.fit

077: Find Your True Why And Take Control of Your Life Using Strengths with Shawn Stevenson Feb 13, 2017

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Shawn Stevenson is a bestselling author and creator of The Model Health Show, which is featured as the #1 Health podcast on iTunes with millions of listener downloads each year. A graduate of The University of Missouri – St. Louis, Shawn studied business, biology, and kinesiology, and went on to be the founder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, a company that provides wellness services for individuals and organizations worldwide. Shawn has been featured in Entrepreneur magazine, Men's Health magazine, ESPN, FOX News, and many other major media outlets. He is also a frequent keynote speaker for numerous organizations, universities, and conferences. his website is TheModelHealthShow.com

At age 20, Shawn was diagnosed with an "incurable" spinal condition known as degenerative disc disease. He spent 2 years believing that there was nothing he could do but manage his disc disease. Why, because the doctors he trusted told him so.

But then there was a shift. And we'll talk about what that was and how it transformed his whole life today.

Shawn's mission is to help people become the strongest, healthiest, happiest version of themselves.

I think this is my favorite part about Shawn: He believes that we all are AMAZING people being exactly the way we are right now. And he believes that there is a "greater" version of us that can be accessed through the right nutrition, exercise, and transformational mindset.

Shawn's Top 5 StrengthsFinder Themes are Learner, Relator, Strategic, Responsibility, and Command.

076: Bullet Journal Your Way with Kara Benz Feb 06, 2017

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Today, we're talking about the power and strategy of journaling. Specifically, bullet-journaling

Kara Benz is our guest! She is a 34-year-old military spouse and a mother to a beautiful daughter based in central New Jersey. After more than 16 years employed in the bar and restaurant industry, Kara woke up one day eager to expand her horizons.

The Boho Berry Blog started off as a way for Kara to showcase her Bohemian-style jewelry back in April of 2015. She soon began writing about the topics near and dear to her heart: mindfulness, meditation, goal-setting, and personal development.

Boho Berry soon took on a life of its own and has quickly become a hub for creatives seeking to improve their lives through planning, goal setting, and motivation.

Kara now runs a successful Etsy shop, and is preparing to launch her first signature handwriting course online this Spring.

Find her at bohoberry.com

075: Easing Stress and Anxiety Through Mindfulness Using Your Strengths with Julianna Raye Jan 30, 2017

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To manage stress, anxiety, and a "busy brain", everyone says meditation helps. You should meditate. You need to calm your brain and center. But how?

Julianna Raye has been training individuals and groups in mindfulness for over 17 years. Currently, Julianna is preparing to launch the official teacher training for Unified Mindfulness - at unifiedmindfulness.com/core. She is also a founding member of the mindfulness app, Brightmind which will be available in the spring of 2017. In addition to her work for Unified Mindfulness and Brightmind, she creates onsite and online mindfulness training for enterprise clients through the Flourishing Leadership Institute. She also privately coaches executives in sales and leadership, celebrities, entrepreneurs and group trains company leaders interested in preventative health care and improving the work environment, through mindfulness meditation. Julianna delivers specific mindfulness strategies most relevant to the individual or company's needs.

Julianna was drawn to mindfulness over 20 years ago to manage severe anxiety and depression as well as the dramatic emotional ups and downs of life as a professional entertainer. With over 100 weeks of immersive silent retreat training in both mindfulness and zen, Julianna has racked up 12,000 plus hours of formal practice time, rewiring her brain and creating a new normal for herself. In a recent study at UCLA comparing long-term meditators' brains with non-meditators, the results of Julianna's MRI led to interviews on ABC, Globo and Reuters news outlets, about the benefits of Mindfulness practice. Unified Mindfulness, has been used in research at Harvard Medical Center (with breakthrough results) and other major research centers. In fact Julianna has just completed a mindfulness workplace research study with noted researcher David Creswell, through Carnegie Mellon. This study was a rare opportunity to design and implement a training program for a mid-size company (Fathom Digital Marketing) while having the results rigorously studied by Creswell's lab. Very little research on mindfulness has been done in the workplace, so the amount of data collected for this study is unprecedented. Stay tuned for the results analysis which will be completed by March of 2017.

074: Find Courage to Tackle Hard Things Jan 23, 2017

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In September, 2016, Alissa knew it was time to begin writing a book. She knew it would be a challenge, but didn't know it would be the most difficult thing she's tackled to date.

In a reverse format episode, Alissa is the guest and Cari Twitchell, from Custom Content Solutions, LLC interviews Alissa on her process, her struggles and challenges, and if it was all worth it in the end.

073: Need a Superhero to Save You? Use Your Strengths Jan 16, 2017

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In 2014, Elisa's body was hit by an 18-wheeler truck. She was propelled 90 feet through the air. Her life should have ended that night, but it didn't.

And in the weeks and months that followed, Elisa not only survived but is thriving. She leans into her Strengths every day to continue to succeed. She is a speaker, consultant, and coach, and inspires organizations and audiences internationally how to lead lives of real impact.

Connect with her at ElisaHays.com

072: Take Back Control From Chronic Pain & Illness Through Strengths Jan 09, 2017

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You can live your life fully and intentionally even if you are challenged with chronic illness and pain.

Brianna Greenspan, co-author of The Miracle Morning: Art of Affirmations Coloring Book, joins us today to share her journey with a life-long excruciating and debilitating chronic illness.

To live life to its fullest every single day, she makes a daily choice, backed with tactics you can use too. She leans into her strengths to gather the courage to do it, and you can to.

Find Brianna at BriannaGreenspan.com

071: Reaching and Sustaining Your Health Goals with Julie Hansen Jan 02, 2017

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How many times have you made a New Year's resolution to lose weight, eat healthier, meet an activity goal, etc only to be fail to meet it or slip back in to old habits and not prioritize your health?

Today we talk about using your Strengths to turn those New Year's resolutions around you health into achievements.

Our guest today is Julie Hansen who is a certified personal trainer and nutrition therapy practitioner. She helps her clients not only in the gym but also via Skype, to meet their physical AND nutritional goals. She strives to help her clients reach their fitness goals in a truly enjoyable way.

You can find her at:

www.Fitnessloungemn.com

www.facebook.com/fitnessloungemn

070: All about Woo with Lisa Cummings Dec 29, 2016

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The Strength Theme of Woo isn't what it initially sounds like! It's actually an acronym for 'winning others over'. People exceptionally talent in the Woo theme love the challenge of meeting new people and winning them over. They derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection with someone or even a room full of someones!

We're joined by the awesome Lisa Cummings, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and CEO of Lead Through Strengths.

Find her on her website: leadthroughstrengths.com and listen to her podcast, Lead Through Strengths on iTunes, Stitcher, or SoundCloud.

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