This conversation is with Founder, Best-selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Executive coach, Mom and limitless inspiration, Laura Gassner Otting.

In this wide-ranging conversation we talk about:
- Her perspective on a rich life and the richness of life.
- Her ritual each year - she picks one word to represent and focus on for that year.
- The importance of having people in your life who will tell you the truth and provide a mirror to you as you pursue your goals.
- Navigating major family transition moments.
- The power of what she calls the “family meeting”.
- The most surprising attributes of successful people (For her last book she interviewed over 100 people ranging from gold medal Olympians to business Titans and there were some things that stuck out).
- How to the renegotiate your relationship with difficult and mixed emotions as you pursue your goals your dreams.
- The relationship between introversion, extroversion and luck.
- How to engineer luck.
- How to get closer to the truth of who you are your true self.

And so much more. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and please share it if anyone you know needs to hear it or could be served by it!

Laura Gassner Otting is a founder, keynote speaker (including her Ted talk from last year that has almost 2 million views). She helps audiences by inspiring people to push past the doubt and indecision. She helps people to think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their current limited scope of belief.
Laura dropped out of law school and became a presidential appointee in Bill Clinton's White House where she helped shape AmeriCorps. She then went on to become the youngest VP of a leading global search firm until years later she realized that her values were not aligned anymore with that firm and founded one of the fastest growing search firms in the country. Years later she ultimately she sold that company to the same team she started it.

Since then she has appeared regularly on Good Morning America and The Today show. Her writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and HR magazine. She's a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of three books, including her most recent Wonderhell: How Success Doesn't Feel Like It Should and What To Do About It.

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Today's conversation is about risk. Risk is ever present in our lives. Every decision we make involves risk and the outcomes that we create all are in relationship to the amount of risk that we're willing to take and how we manage that risk.

Bryan Bottarelli is an expert in teaching people to have a healthy relationship with risk. He is the Head Trade Tactician and Founder of Monument Traders Alliance and runs a trading room called the War Room, which is a live, interactive trading room.

But his fascination with risk started young and never stopped.

Whether it was selling the Star Wars figures he collected as a little boy for 50 times their value or using $125 of grass-cutting money to buy a Michael Jordan rookie card that he later sold for $1,500, it was clear Bryan Bottarelli was a born trader – possessing the unique ability to identify opportunities and leverage those investments.

Graduating with a business degree from the highly rated Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Bryan got his first job out of college trading stock options on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). There he was mentored by one of the country’s top floor traders in the heart of the technology boom from 1999 to 2000 – trading in the crowded and lively Apple computer pit. Executing his trades in real time, Bryan learned to identify and implement some of his most powerful trading secrets… secrets that rarely make their way outside the CBOE to individual traders.

Today, he instructs hundreds of thousands of readers and followers to embrace and use risk to create extraordinary outcomes in life.

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Show links:
Trade of the Day
The War Room
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Zurich Axioms Book
CBOE

Show Notes;

Smart speculation [7:29]
Risk of inaction [10:59]
Zurich Axioms [15:38]
Early exposure to risk [20:40]
Asymmetric Risk [25:33]
Overweighting the downside [29:27]
The danger of playing it safe [32:03]
Losses are inevitable [35:24]
How to begin embracing risk [37:51]
Appreciating the role of risk [40:29]
Working on the CBOE [41:43]
Lessons from the world's elite traders [52:25]
Uncovering opportuntiy [57:03]
Bryan gives his top trades [59:05]
Following Bryan [1:03:52]

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This week I sat down with Shannon Graham, the first person I've ever known who has a ticket to go into space. He's also the Founder of a space company. Astranaut is the first company ever created to take visionaries to space to experience The Overview Effect and help them integrate their subsequent vision for humanity into action.

For the last 20 years, Shannon has been a success mentor to visionary founders running incredible companies and changing the world. He's the founder of a multi-year, peak performance coaching program he calls Legacy, where he works with founders to fully establish and live out the full potential of their business, of their leadership, and of their impact.

Shannon is the author of a book called The Expanded Leader. According the Graham, "The expanded leader is one who leads from wholeness and overflow rather than emptiness and sacrifice. The result is an organization built as a function of the leader's wholeness potential and full expression.

From the depth of these founding elements comes the creation of a culture that leads to even more richness, innovation and creativity. The resultant shift transcends the organization to have global impact, transforming competition into collaboration and helping leaders realize the fulfillment that comes from having amazing experiences in and of their own lives.

Leadership is not intended to be a restrictive box that imprisons you. It is intended to be a framework for expansion for both the leader and the organization."

If you are a leader or you aspire to be a leader in your own life or a leader in your business, Shannon shares the gives insights, tools and frameworks he uses to coach and support the luminaries that he serves.

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Show links:
www.shannongraham.com
Instagram
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Show Notes:

Astranaut the space company [4:23]
The Overview Effect [6:00]
Shannon's first business [16:07]
Coaching beginnings and motivation [21:05]
Changing undesirable behaviors [24:05]
The coaching industry [33:05]
Qualities of a great coach [40:42]
What to look for in a coach [44:36]
Elements of a Rich Life [51:25]
Daily habits that fuel peak performance [59:18]
Shifting away from negative self talk [1:02:34]

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Scott Harrison is the founder of Charity: Water, a nonprofit organization that's focused on providing clean water to people and places that don't have it.

Scott was also recognized in Fortune Magazine's 40 under 40 list, Forbes magazine's Impact 30 List, and he was named number 10 in Fast Company's hundred most creative people in business. He is also a World Economic Forum young global leader. In addition to all of this, he recounted his journey in vivid detail in his NYT bestselling book Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World.

Scott has lived an incredible hero's journey filled with life lessons for us all. He spent his twenties as one of the top club promoters in New York City, indulging his darkest vices, and he hit a point where he realized that he had hit spiritual, moral and emotional bankruptcy.

He decided to change his life and went on to spend two years on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia, and he saw the effects of dirty water.

He's gone on to use the entrepreneurial talents that helped him become a top club promoter in New York, to build a remarkable, innovative non-profit, using a business model based in transparent giving and a 100% donation promise.

Thanks to the help of 1 million donors in the last 16 years, Charity: Water has raised over 740 million and funded over 120,000 water projects in 29 countries. When these projects are completed, they will provide 16.8 million people with clean, safe drinking water.

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Show links:
https://www.charitywater.org/
The Spring: A Charity Water Video
Thirst: The Book
Scott Harrison Wikipedia

SHOW NOTES:
Charity: Water Today [5:42]
Gas poisoning as a child [11:51]
Becoming a club promotor [18:53]
Filler versus image promotor [21:47]
Entrepreneurial instinct [24:34]
Growing discontent and waking up [28:09]
Tithing time in Liberia [32:03]
What is and isn’t “rich” [34:45]
Holding onto hope and building the Nike of charities [44:53]
The importance of clean water [52:31]
Transparency model [1:01:18]
Building a well [1:05:17]
1 million lives [1:07:50]
Finding inspiration for change [1:14:22]
One message to make the world a better place [1:18:06]

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Imagine having to leave college unexpectedly and starting a business out of necessity early in life.

Imagine years later owning a thriving, conscious company that is deeply embedded in the community and is driven by the higher purpose of saving lives every day. Imagine having the teenagers who you employed in your business return years later as adults, wanting to work for you because you made such a profound impact on who they were and on their lives.

Today's guest is Mirin Oca, an inspiring, heart-centered entrepreneur, conscious capitalist and founder of Ocaquatics – A thriving swim school in south Florida.

In this episode we talk about her early beginnings, the resourceful tactics she used to build her business from the ground up and how Ocaquatics has gone on to become a staple in the community. Miren shares the values she lives by and has used to build a successful, sustainable, business which enriches the lives of its employees, customers and community. She also describes how she overcame the challenge of navigating COVID as an indoor swim school!

Ocaquatics is a certified B-Corp and an award winning swim school that prioritizes all of it's stakeholders equally including a passion for a sustainable environment. They partner with Carbon Neutral and 1% for the Planet.

Miren's work and mission and team are all interconnected. They literally save lives every day by teaching children how to swim.

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Links:
https://www.ocaquatics.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miren-oca-80561261/
https://www.consciouscapitalism.org/
https://onepercentfortheplanet.org/

Episode Website:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1969968/12780655

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Today's conversation is with Tony Schwartz. He's the New York Times best-selling author who's written 6 books and the Founder and CEO of The Energy Project. A firm that helps individuals and companies skillfully manage their energy in a world of relentlessly rising demand and complexity.

Tony started his career as a journalist, and the first book he wrote was "The Art of the Deal" which he co-authored with Donald Trump. The decision to write that book is something that Tony went on to deeply regret. That experience prompted him to take an entirely different path in his life.

It led to a lifelong investigation of the factors that shape our beliefs and identity, the influence of our early caregivers and the ways that we can heal and grow by accepting and acknowledging both the best and worst in ourselves.

Tony has a an amazing body of work that we talk about at great length. including how energy relates to our own transformation, how, by understanding the different sources and types of energy inside us, we can better manage our relationships and how much we accomplish in life.

We talk about the danger of looking for value from the outside world rather than inside ourselves.

We talk about how his childhood and upbringing led to so much of what he came to discover about the human condition. But ultimately what he came to describe as defenders that develop inside each of us and are on aspect of the parts of ourselves we tend not to like.

We also talk about the three different selves that make up our personality and why understanding Those different parts of our personality is a path to a very rich life indeed.

This was one of my all-time favorite conversations. It is exceedingly rare to find someone as insightful about the human condition as Tony Schwartz.

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Links:
https://www.tonyschwartz.com/
https://theenergyproject.com/

Episode Website:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1969968/12734376

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Marc Lichtenfeld, Chief Income Strategist for the Oxford Club and author of the best seller "Get Rich With Dividends: A Proven System for Double Digit Returns" shares his tips for dividend beginners and experts alike.

As a young man, he became very focused on the power of dividend stocks to create wealth. He current helps over 500,000 readers each week to build wealth and unlock the power of finding the very best dividend stocks.

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To your richest possible life!

Nathan

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www.wealthyretirement.com
https://twitter.com/stocksnboxing
www.oxfordclub.com



Show Notes:

Marc's financial background and upbringing [7:48]
Marc explains his deeply held financial values [13:14]
The closest thing to a guaranteed wealthy retirement [17:11]
How long it takes to start seeing results from a dividend portfolio [21:41]
When to add to more to your investments [24:12]
How much to save and invest [26:00]
Why he wrote a third edition of Get Rich with Dividends [34:48]
Dividend Aristocrat Explained [37:00]
How many dividend stocks in a starter portfolio [42:51]
How to start with a tiny amount of investable assets [45:12]
Why bear markets can be a good thing if you own dividend stocks [46:05]
Marc explains his 10-11-12 system for investing [51:51]
When and how to use faster-paced trading [56:28]
Getting induced into the Florida boxing hall of fame and how he got his first gig years ago [1:00:07]
How to create and cultivate passions throughout life [1:03:09]
Marc's advice on expressing more creativity in work and in life [1:07:02]
Why making space for your passions fuels everything else [1:10:24]
Marc discusses his work to help with financial literacy [1:13:52]

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Marion Tupy is the founder and editor of www.human progress.org and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He's also co-author of the Simon Abundance Index.

He specializes in globalization and global wellbeing and is co-author of a recent book called "Superabundance, the Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet. His articles have been published in The Financial Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and many more. And he's appeared on the BBC, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News and many other channels.

Marion's research and conclusions run counter to most of what we hear in the news about the direction of our planet and the direction of our civilization. He and his partner studied 200 years of data to show the actual facts about the progress of humanity and the level of flourishing and abundance we currently have.

We discuss a concept for measuring abundance which he calls "time price" and also talk about whether the planet can sustain the current population at its growth rate. We discuss As you'll see, Marion's data says a lot about the richness of life that we currently have and may be looking to have in the future. I hope you enjoy this conversation because it's certainly helped to shape my perspective.

Show links:
www.human progress.org
Superabundance Book
The Lancet

Show Notes:

[6:37] What creates the overwhelmingly negative narrative about the state of the world.
[14:35] The core thesis of Marian's book Superabundance
[20:16] Marian explains why using time to measure price increases over time is optimal.
[26:52] How much the cost of things has changed in the last 200 years.
[30:26] Happiness statistics.
[35: 38] Individual abundance versus global abundance measurements.
[38:16] What level of population can the world sustain.
[42:47] Why Marian believes we won't ever run out of oil.
[55:34] The importance of a clean abundant natural world and why it's not as bad as some say.
[59:50] The difference between optimism and complacency.
[1:04:46] Does money lead to happiness?
[1:11:39] The greatest risks for future abundance.

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