Author Laurence Gonzales Deep Survival was the first scientific book on survival. In this interview we talk about the art and science of survival and the process of thriving post traumatic events. 

Podcast Highlights:

• What Dean’s wife said when he announced his desire to resign from his job?
• What race is he most proud of completing?
• How the classroom of running has translated to lessons for life and business?
• How you can join Dean for a run at a North Face Endurance Challenge?
• What races did he not finish the first two times?
• Why he wanted you to come join him during his 50 Marathons, 50 States in 50 Days?

Podcast highlights:

• What does it mean to be remarkable in an ordinary world?
• How Tess’s life was forever changed when she delivered a thirty-five minute speech.
• How this journey has forced her to decouple the intertwined elements of her identity as a person being tied to her job.
• What it’s been like for Tess to leave her job that she loved.
• “You jumped now you can’t even tell people what you want to do”.

Podcast highlights:

•   You have to read her Letter to CEO's, COO's, CIO's

•   You have to do work that lights you up

•   If you meet her at an event why you should start talking about yourself quickly?

•   What is a Less Experienced Equal?

•   How Pam could kick your xxxx if your ran into her in a dark alley?

•   How Pam started developing her voice picturing an imaginary thought bubble?

Keep going...

• We are not machines and the creative process cannot be treated like one
• Being creative is not limited to only artists
• Learn how Todd started the Accidental Creative on accident
• Hear how being healthy should be apart of every plan
• Insights into Todd’s newest book Die Empty set for September 2013 release
• What causes people to end up in the place of mediocrity?
• Learn what Todd does for fun
• How to not run out of your creative juices by age 30
• Ask yourself what are you disproportionately good at?

Buy Todd's book-The Accidental Creative.  I've been listening to it from Audible.com

The museum is absolutely amazing.

It is located in the Presidio in San Francisco. You will hear me describe a magical day that my family and I had riding tandem bikes from downtown to the museum and then across the Golden Gate Bridge.

Highlights:

• Learn how the Walt Disney Family Foundation created the museum
• How Walt took $40 and a cardboard suitcase to began Walt Disney Studios
• How Mickey Mouse was named
• How Walt's life can inspire you to do more in your life
• How Walt Disney started tinkering in the garage
• How the merchandising of Mickey Mouse was as important as the animation
• How no one believed that a full length animated movie would be successful

In this podcast I provide some of the back story to writing my recently released ebook, Don't Quit Your Job. Fire Your Boss.

I started writing it over the course of last year.  I underestimated the amount of time and energy it would take.

I understand now why writers say that once they are finished with a project they are long since "over it".

     I almost quit numerous times.  

I felt like maybe it was just important that I write it down for myself, but did not need to go through the exercise and investment to make it a market-ready released book.

In some ways the love of the story lessened as I neared the end.

If I had to guess, I would say I invested 150 hours into the writing, editing, and revising process.

My creative team easily put in another 100+ hours as well.

I am really proud of the yield, the end result.

     Read what Seth Godin and Jeff Goins wrote about my ebook.  

In today's Podcast:

• Hear additional storyline to a couple of key sections of the ebook.
• What it took for me to break the chains of indentured servitude.
• Learn how the character Jerry Maguire fed the original vision of this manifesto.
• I read a few selections and provide additional commentary.

Below are sample sections from the ebook.  For a full free copy download here.

Dedication

This mission statement is for artists, entrepreneurs, liberators, innovators, heretics, and, most especially, for forty-hour-Monday-through-Friday-work-week employees.

This is an invitation to unravel what the world has taught you about your work, your career, and your future.

Introduction

I am not telling you how to get rich quick. I am not selling you some tuition program or training course I have created.

Rather, I’m offering my experience and my story to you purely for your own enrichment and encouragement. I’m offering my pain, my joy, and my discovery freely in hopes that you, too, will find a new rhythm for your career.

I love to work.

I don’t work because I am a workaholic but because I love the invention and creativity that happens in my career.

When I fired my boss, my career transitioned to an entirely new plane of enjoyment for me.

You, too, can discover a new way to approach your work.

You, too, can have a brand new job starting tomorrow.

Indentured servants: Forty years of hard labor

In medieval times, indentured servants worked the land of a king for a fixed number of years until their debt was paid in full. The king owned the field, the crop and the harvest yield. He got rich, he ate and drank as much as he liked, and the servants learned to live on the crumbs from his table.

Kings love servants and minions.

Does this sound familiar to you?

For many people work can be a place where they feel like indentured servants. It can be a place where they feel obligated and stuck.

Many companies and leadership teams have this same ancient mentality. They believe that their employees are lucky to work for them. They believe that each worker is a replaceable cog. They are looking for compliant workers and employees, under the weight of needing to meet their own financial obligations, settle in for forty years of hard labor for the benefit of the company.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Why approach your workday with this kind of obligation? 

I was an indentured servant

I realized that I was looking for a partnership, not an obligation. I dreamed of being in a business arrangement where the company and I were equally investing in each other.

Believe it or not, it is possible. I found that part of the problem was that I was acting like a factory worker or an indentured servant. In fact, I was training other workers around me to relate to me as a replaceable cog.

Once I could name and describe this arrangement I could begin to navigate and craft a new arrangement. I stopped thinking and acting like an indentured servant and I started being a skilled craftsman instead.

Walk-n-Talk meetings

How Nilofer started walking meetings instead of coffee sit-downs.
As a result how she is logging between 20 and 30 miles per week.
You will want to read her Harvard Business Review article about how today Sitting is the smoking of our generation.

And check out the Los Angeles Times Article on her TED 2013 talk.

Recommendation: Don’t be sitting while you read her article.

This is not your traditional “How to” podcast.

We discuss topics ranging from what iPhone application to use for tracking calories to how fitness can be used as medication covering up deeper questions in your life.

If you are a competitive athlete or a couch potato wanting to get started, there is a nugget of wisdom for you.

In this podcast episode, Jon Dale and I discuss how we have navigated our fitness journeys.

In today's show Jon Dale and I have a discussion about living the truest version of your instead of trying to figure out what people want.

There are pitfalls to this:

• What if no one likes what you create?
• What will people think if you are authentic instead of entirely polished?
• How do you know when to mix topics e.g. Business, Sport, Family?
• Do you pay attention to metrics or follow your heart's leading?

Highlights:

• 24 HR digital fast -How & Why?
• How to compete with the 160M other bloggers.
• As you live the truest version of yourself other people will be liberated to do the same.
• How to start ignoring graphs and charts and increase your impact.

Podcast Summary

Mike Field-Sport. Life. Art.

In this interview you will enjoy Mike's humble almost bashful view of his story.

But don't be fooled.  He lives in a beautiful story of wealth.

Not necessarily of worldly monetary wealth but one of passion and art and friendship.

• Why we believe we need to consume more in order to be happy.
• How to live a simple lifestyle.
• How billionaires want to get back Life-Sport-Art