The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo

“’How to Quit Working.’ isn’t about not doing anything…it’s about doing something you enjoy so much it’s not work.” – Jeff Steinmann The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #65 - Entrepreneur Jeff Steinmann Our next guest on episode #65 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo is a gentleman who went through a time in his life when he felt stuck and was having trouble getting out of it. He eventually was able to find a way, to make the leap, Mr. Jeff Steinmann. That leap led him to the creation of the popular website ‘How to Quit Working.’ Think about it, do we really want to quit working? Or do we want to do that thing we are passionate about and get paid for it? There is a way! There is an entire community and movement that have been created to help people make this dream come true. Let’s find out why Jeff calls himself a ‘Freedom Fanatic’ and is fiercely devoted to finding a better way to “do life”. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 2:25  Jeff takes us back to when he was on the same life course almost all of us have taken, going to high school, then college where you are some how supposed to figure out what it is you want to do for the next 45 years – when you have never even tried it. Jeff couldn’t figure out what he wanted to do and bounced around college for 13 years. He didn’t have anything he cared about enough to work towards. He settled into the computer tech business doing systems analysis and project management. It wasn’t where he wanted to be though; he wanted to be an entrepreneur. He knew he should run his own company. He went so far as to work up a great business idea and set up the meeting where he would tell his boss he quit – he chickened out. He decided he would just have to live with this decision and make the most of it. He moved through the corporate grind for 12 years, why not everybody has a life like this, right? 7:00  Jeff got to the point where he knew he had to find a way to do something different, and make it work. He started researching and realized that he had to get smarter about how to achieve his goal of becoming an entrepreneur. Jeff put himself in the position to make the transition, called another meeting with the boss and actually quit! 9:30  Is it really that people want to quit working? Jeff tells us, they want to live life on their terms, do something they are really passionate about. “’How to Quit Working.’ isn’t about not doing anything…it’s about doing something you enjoy so much it’s not work.” This lets you put the things that are really important to you in the center. Often the most important thing in our life is our family. The trick is, you take that and put it in the center of your life and build how you make money around that. The sad thing is we are taught to take the way we have to make money and put that in the center of our life. We then fit family, hobbies, passions and all of the things that are really important, around that. Unfortunately when we approach things that way, the things that are the most important to us are the first things to be dropped off the list. 12:30  Jeff points out that it is important to look at your life holistically. We need to figure out what is important in the long term, even after our children are grown and out on their own. 13:50  Jeff says they get people at different stages in their journey. “My goal with everything that we have is to move customers through a process that gets them closer and closer to that life of their dreams.” 22:00  Jeff’s biggest bucket list goal, his big dream is to create an environment where children can grow and learn the attitudes, habits and mindsets that make them happy and live the most successful lives they can. He wants to help people live their vision. 24:35  Jeff would like to leave us with this thought: "everything around you is the way it is, only because someone decided that was the way it was going to be. You have the power to change it.

“For me wine is really just a metaphor for what life can be, of how we can join together… my bucket list item is really finding that sense of communion within myself and other people.” – Michael Hasler The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #63 - What We Love Winery  In the studio, on this episode #64 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, we are honored to have three guests with us. Along with Kenyon, they were part of a delectable experience that took place at ‘What We Love The Winery’ (WWLW) in Boulder, CO. in February of this year. The winery opened its doors to 5 guests from The Bucket List Life as part of an opportunity for these wine enthusiasts to check off an item from their buckets lists, to learn what it’s like to make some of the most phenomenal wine on the planet. Two of today’s guests are the owners of What We Love The Winery, Carolee Corey and her husband Michael Hasler. The third guest is one of the members of The Bucket List Life who was one of the lucky five guests, Linnea Lewis. They will share this fascinating experience with us, with a special twist thrown in!. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:10  Michael shares with us how WWLW came to be. It all started with a passion for wine making. At age 14 Michael had a mate in Sydney Australia that used to make wine with a relative. Michael didn’t have a direction yet, but decided he wanted to try his own hand at making wine. His first batch was wine made from the Mulberries he picked off of a bush outside. That ignited his passion. He read and reread Hugh Johnson’s The World Atlas of Wine, and from that point on most of his life and schooling was based around wine and wine making 7:45  Carolee tells us the inspiration for the name of their business. We learn that she has found a place, in her, that supports Michael’s passion. It has been a challenge at times but it has brought their relationship to a higher level. 10:45  Michael talks about what it is like in the “backside” of the winery. It’s all about  meticulous hygiene, chemistry, tasting, slowly taking the wine in the direction he wants it to go, a lot more tasting, testing, moving from barrel to tank, bottling, and filtering. The pace is slow, “…slowly moving towards that one flavor that every flavor creationist is trying to do, bring their creation to the peak of perfection.” It’s a lot of time and hard work. 13:45  Kenyon asks Michael what his # 1 bucket list item is. “For me wine is really just a metaphor for what life can be, of how we can join together…for me my bucket list item is really finding that sense of communion within myself and other people.” Michael also seeks to find that sense of communion with himself as an individual, where life is celebrated at the peak, without props, “it’s a sense of living life, almost naked…there is no grandeur about it, more just sitting down in a chair and literally breaking bread and enjoying the moment.” 16:30   We learn about how TBLL member Matt introduces Kenyon to WWLW and the ‘TBLL Day With a Winemaker’ was created. Linnea was one of the five individuals invited to attend that day. She tells us how super exciting it was and how it filled her soul to share this experience with the others that felt the same way. “It was really special.” They shared an incredible lunch and Linnea was touched by a sense of family as they all united for fabulous wine, great food, stories and shared passion. The day concluded with an amazing party for 50 people with a joining of hands and hearts. Michael shares how The Bucket List Life has somehow brought something together for What We Love The Winery. 35:30  Michael lets us in on a grand surprise. That day they decided that WWLW is going to brew what they will call ‘The Bucket List Life Blend’! They will bring the original five attendees back and go through the entire process of developing a wine from tasting to bottling. This wine will be available for sale.

“I always kind of hope that those wings help him go straight to heaven”– Frank Shankwitz The Bucket List Life Podcast SPECIAL EDITION: Make-A-Wish Founder Frank Shankwitz On this, a Special Edition of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, We meet a person who changed a boy’s life. A boy named Chris, that more than anything wanted to be a Highway Patrol Motorcycle Officer. This gentleman was able to come in and make this wish come true. Our guest tells us how, with the help of many wonderful willing people, he was able to brighten this child’s life before the boy passed.  He, along with his wife Kitty and several others, founded The Make-A-Wish Foundation in November of 1980. What is truly phenomenal is 33 years later they are able to grant a wish, somewhere around the world, approximately every 38 minutes. He is here to share with us the story that started it all, the man who just wanted to make a difference and help others, Frank Shankwitz. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:00  Frank shares the touching story that started this preeminent organization. He takes us back to 1980 when Frank was an Arizona Highway Patrol Motorcycle Officer. They were just starting to gain popularity due to a TV show called “CHIPs”, which stands for ‘California HIghway Patrol’ about motorcycle highway patrol officers in California. Frank was contacted by another officer that said he had befriended a family that had a seven year old son named Chris, whose heroes were ‘Ponch and John’ from ‘CHIPs’. Chris was suffering from Leukemia and had no more than 2 – 3 weeks to live. They asked if there was anything special they could do for this little boy. The officers and commanders immediately jumped in and set up a special day for Chris, with the permission of his mother and doctors. They sent a helicopter to Chris’s hospital, picked him up and took him to headquarters. The officers were waiting for him with their motorcycles and were surprised when even though he was so ill, Chris jumps out of the helicopter and runs over, excited as can be, and introduces himself, in awe of Franks uniform and motorcycle. For those few hours he was just a typical happy seven years old with no thoughts of hospitals or IV’s. He was allowed to sit on a motorcycle and was given a Highway Patrol uniform hat and a real badge. He was able to go to the comfort of his own home that night. The doctor admitted he didn’t understand why but Chris’s vitals were good enough to allow him to do so. Deciding Chris needed a real uniform of his own, Frank went to the custom shop where they were made and two of the women that worked there stayed up all night making a uniform just for Chris. The next day Frank led a procession of motorcycle and patrol cars to Chris’s neighborhood, red lights and sirens going. They presented Chris with his uniform. Chris was thrilled but there was one other thing he had his eye on. As part of Franks uniform he wore a set of wings that designated he was a motorcycle officer. Chris wanted to know how he could get his wings. After explaining to Chris that he, Frank, had to take a test to see how well he could maneuver a motorcycle to get them, Chris took off and came back with his motorized mini-motorcycle of his own, ready to be tested. They set up a makeshift test right then and there and Chris passed with flying colors. He was told he earned his wings and could have them in a few days. They had to be custom-made by a jeweler and while Frank was there picking them up he received a call. Chris was in the hospital in a coma and wasn’t expected to make it through the day. Frank rushed to the hospital and as he entered the room he saw Chris and hanging beside him was his beloved uniform. As Frank pinned the wings to Chris’s uniform he came out of his coma and asked if he was a real motorcycle officer, Frank told him “Yes”. Chris giggled and smiled and rubbed the wings on his uniform as he showed his mom, as happy as he could be.

“…that’s what a bucket list does, it gives you a check list and says yes, I did this. I took control over that and I made it happen!” – April Capil The Bucket List Life Podcast #63 - Author/Speaker April Capil Our next guest on episode #63 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, is a cancer survivor, an author and a YouTuber who used a bucket list to climb her way back to a new normal after being diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at the age of 35. Statistics told her that she had a 1 in 3 chance of not making it 5 years without a cancer reoccurrence. She made a list of 40 things she wanted to complete before she reached the age of 40 which included a road trip across the U.S., running a NY Marathon, and  perfecting her own chocolate chip cookie recipe. In five years she beat the odds, completed her list and found ways of helping others along the way. Let’s meet the inspirational April Capil. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:55  April takes us back to when she was diagnosed with stage 3 triple negative breast cancer in 2008. She had gone to multiple doctors that told her women often had lumps and she even got a negative reading on a mammogram. A doctor finally did a biopsy. When she woke she found out that she had stage 3 cancer. She was devastated because she had just moved to Hawaii to start a farm and had a small internet sales business - she had her life planned. She had to have chemotherapy while she watched her small business collapse. Her self-talk was defeating as she told herself she had missed her one shot at happiness. “I dug myself out of that hole by changing the story I was telling myself.” 6:55  April tells us “I built a sort of ladder.” She made a list of 40 things she wanted to do before she reached 40 because she was told there was a high chance of a reoccurrence. She told herself “If I have 5 years then I am going to ring in 40 with a bang!” She spent the next 5 years doing all the things she was saving for “later” and she did check them all off! 9:10  As motivation, every year, on the anniversary she was diagnosed with cancer, April would look at her bucket list to see how she had progressed and what she had left. As a way for us to continually spark our excitement to check off our own bucket list items she suggests we pick an ordinary date “Use what ever targeting date you want, Cinco de Mayo? Alright if I am doing 5 amazing things a year then on Cinco de Mayo I’m going to celebrate those 5. You have to give yourself credit and you have to celebrate your accomplishments.” 11:10  No one knows if they are going to have a tomorrow. Sometimes it takes people going through a frightening experience  to motivate them to reach for their dreams. Why do they wait? April sizes it up “I think that’s it’s scary to live in a world that’s unpredictable, so we tell ourselves that it is and we will always have time.” 14:15  April tells us about her books, ‘Recipe for Lemonade’ and ‘After Lemonade’. The first talks about how to keep yourself together when you are going through a crisis. The second  is how to put the pieces together “after Humpty Dumpty has fallen of the wall.” In her second book she asks you to think about these 3 thought-provoking  questions” * What do I not want to leave this earth without doing? * What do I notice I keep saying “I always wanted to do that.”? * What are the dreams you thought got taken away from you and make a goal to get that back. 17:50  “If you are afraid of something, the way to face it is to turn it into a gift of service.” April’s fear was having people see her with no hair, eyebrows, eyelashes with bags under her eyes, while she was going through treatment. So she faced it head on, went on YouTube and made a video on how to do your make-up during chemotherapy. 21:00  April says that she thinks as human beings it’s hard to think we are alone and to feel like we have no control over something.

“The simplest way to start feeling better is to serve your fellow man, serve your community.” – Wesley Chapman The Bucket List Life Podcast #62 - The Human Project Co-Founder, Wesley D. Chapman On this, episode #62 of The Bucket List Life with Ke...

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“I think the desire to leave the world better than you find it is as basic a drive as needing to eat, needing shelter, needing a job... I think it’s a basic human need.”  - Shel Horowitz The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #59 - Ethical Marketing Expert Shel Horowitz Shel Horowitz , our next guest on episode #59 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, is a strategist for green and social conscience businesses. Currently he is working to show businesses how to profit by solving hunger, war, poverty, and catastrophic climate change. He has also given a TED Talk on this subject. He is a best-selling primary-author of ‘Guerilla Marketing Goes Green’ and has written seven other books, and he is currently working on his 9th. He has more than 40 years in the green/activist and business world. Let’s listen and find out why Shel is so enthusiastic about the vital work he has chosen to dedicate his life to. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 2:15   One of the most unique experiences in Shel’s life? Having the cover of his book ‘Guerilla Marketing Goes Green’ flashing across one of the 6 story electronic billboards in New York City’s Time Square! He admits the payoff was more in terms of creditability than it is in sales. But how many people are able to say this is something they have accomplished in their lives? 4:15   What exactly does Shel do? “I work on business profitability, especially for green businesses, for social change businesses, and for authors and publishers.”  He works with people to look for opportunities to do right by the world and in time make a nice profit. “And it’s really fun to do that” Shel thinks it’s exciting to be doing these type of things at this point in his life. He has been working in the green world and business world and has been able to braid them into something that he hopes will make a difference in the way we function in society.  5:10  Shel shares an example of a company that is doing exactly what he likes to help companies do. d.light makes affordable solar-powered home lighting solutions. The solar-powered lanterns are sold to people in very poor countries that are presently using dangerous, toxic fossil fuel lanterns that have to be refilled monthly, or are using nothing at all. Besides the environmental benefit and money in the family’s pocket by not having to buy fuel every month, they have a better quality light that lasts later into the night. 7:15  Shel tells us why businesses should, and will, be going green in the future. “The costs of going green typically are much lower than the savings of going green.” He also tells us which enormous companies are doing business green. The answer may surprise you. 10:10  Can you guess which iconic 1931 building initiated a “deep green energy retrofit” at a cost of 13 million dollars, of which they get back 4.4 million dollars in savings a year? 12:40  Another area Shel is utterly  fascinated with is bio-mimicry – “It is when you watch how nature solves a problem and you think how can humans engineer that?” Can we build something as strong as spider silk? Can we collect water as efficiently as a certain beetle in the African desert can? The possibilities are amazing and his new book will have an intriguing section on bio-mimicry.  28:15  Shel’s green home was built 1743 and it may be the oldest solar house in the country. It has a solar hot water system and a solar electric system. His neighbors also embrace the ‘green home’ life style. He calls his neighborhood an 18th Century Eco Village. 35:20  In the next 6 months Shel plans to finish his next book ‘Guerilla Marketing to Heal the World,’ complete his website ‘Impact with Profit’, push his career to where he can do more of this kind of work and get paid for it by helping companies decide where they can make a difference. “I think the desire to leave the world better than you find it is as basic a drive as needing to eat, needing shelter, needing a job...

"One of the things that we saw again and again in third world countries... was community and joy, which is different from happiness.  You see people that have so much gratitude in their lives for the things that are really important." - Gavin McClurg The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #58 – National Geographic Adventurer of The Year - Gavin McClurg Our next guest on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo episode #58 has lived at sea for 13 years and circumnavigate the globe almost twice!  Gavin McClurg was recognized with the prestigious award of National Geographic Adventurer Of The Year for a ground breaking Paragliding Expedition he did across the Canadian Rockies and currently holds the North American foot launch record for cross-country non-motorized paragliding for a total of 240 miles. Gavin has dreamed up and lived some impossible adventures, traveled to more than 90 countries and with no plans of slowing down, he wants to share those experiences with our audience today.   Highlights of their podcast conversation: 2:00 Gavin describes what it was like to be the first to fly his Paraglider across the sand dunes of Mozambique called Dune Du Pyla. 5:30  Most of the time when Gavin refers to "we" in his travels, he is talking about himself and his boat.  Gavin describes who else was in the picture of his adventure and travels for the past 13 years. He's set up his company Offshore Odyssey with his wife, Jody Macdonald, and has been able to fund their travels and sailing around the globe with clients that become like family on their journey.  7:00  Gavin gives his parents the credit and talks about how his sense of adventure and exploration of the natural world was instilled in him at an early age as he was encouraged to get outside and fall down, scrape his knees, make mistakes and learn from them. 8:00  One of the most important lessons he learned earlier in his life was from the acquisition of a serious corporate job in Boise, Idaho where he was elevated into a high responsibility position very quickly for a 22-year-old. After weighing his pros and cons, he realized the importance of enjoying his life, seeking adventure and not settling into a career where the only positive gain was money. So he quit. The most incredible lesson of his life didn't tell him what he wanted to do with his life, but it did tell him what he didn't want to do. 14:45  Gavins' life after the corporate world consisted of a lot of random experiences and seasonal work where he could save up enough to fund his next adventure and travels.  He was living the life of a God and really didn't need that much money to have a good time.  The payoff for the types of adventures he's had is exponentially higher than that of being a millionaire and it's just the type of life that money can't buy. "One of the things that we saw again and again in third world countries... was community and joy, which is different from happiness.  You see people who have so much gratitude in their lives for the things that are really important." 22:45  Gavin talks about his first interview out of college where he was offered the American dream and an incredible opportunity with a growing and dynamic company to work 100 hours a week for 10 years and be a millionaire before he was 45. Gavin saw it as a trade of the best years of his life for money and definitely not worth it. 26:30  Gavin talks about some of the exciting film projects in the past couple years and his paragliding North American foot launch record, 7 hour 40 minute flight, 240 miles deep into Montana. 29:45  Gavin describes what it was like to receive the prestigious award of National Geographic Adventurer Of The Year in 2014. He talks about the support and all the people along the way that helped him get to where he is and receive that award. 35:00  Gavin talks about the first time he sailed across the Pacific Ocean in 2001 and then again 8 years later in 2009 and the profound,

“If I can get you to laugh but you still think I’m normal enough to borrow my lawnmower, I’m doing the right thing!” - Corbie Mitleid The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #57 - Psychic Medium Corbie Mitleid Our next guest on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo episode #57 has been dancing on the mystics path for over 40 years.  Corbie Mitleid is a full-time Psychic Medium, an inspirational speaker and teacher with an international clientele.  She has been featured in books, on radio talk shows and on television. She has done the "cancer dance" three times and has come through it all better off. Corbie loves to help people by giving them the tools they need to make informed decisions and show them how they can cross their own bridge from fear to fearlessness. Corbie is funny! She has an amazing energy, a way with words, a lot of insight and some powerful stories to share.  Highlights of their podcast conversation: 2:20 Corbie tells us all about her ‘travel channel’ life on the road and some of the mediumship readings and experiences she had at the Psychic Fair in Syracuse that she attended this past weekend. 4:45 Corbie explains some of the most common misnomers that she hears from others in reaction to hearing about what she does for a living.  She professes that never reads people that she was not invited to read. She does not believe in the ‘drive-by psychic reading.’  She is never going to tell you that you are cursed, you have bad luck or that your life is screwed up.  Corbie says that if anyone, claiming to be a psychic, tells you anything like that, leave.  She confirms that psychics are there to help you, present your opportunities and guide you to the best way to grab them. 7:00 Corbie tells us why she is very careful about who and when she shares her own personal stories with when giving readings. She is conscious about not giving advice or colouring others decisions based on her own life experiences. During a reading she makes sure to lay out exactly what she sees and let the client make their own decisions and life choices. “My job is to give them empowerment and inspiration and tell them “I believe in you, you got this!”” 10:30 Corbie shares that she has always had this psychic gift and tells the story of how she her successful and checkered career developed as a skilled Psychic Medium. 14:00 With all that Corbie has accomplished and experienced, she is currently enjoying a 90/100 resonation with life. Corbie describes what’s next and what’s left for her to feel 100% fulfilled in life. 15:45 Corbie opens up and shares with us her stories of “dancing with cancer” three times, and why she will never call herself a Cancer Survivor. She goes into detail about the radiation, surgeries, losing her breasts, ovaries, Dolly Parton figure and the valuable lessons she learned and took away from the experience. She now uses her cancer lessons as a teaching tool to help  other woman who are facing the dance. 21:00 Corbie talks about how she is helping and teaching others with her lectures and speeches.  One of her most popular lectures at the expos that she attends is called “Happiness is a Choice” (http://bit.ly/1Fl0t2y) about the options presented during the cancer dance. She also has a workshop and lecture series called “The Weaving of Your Lives” where she discusses pre-birth planning and the concept of Karma. 23:30 Corbie confesses that psychic mediums should not read for themselves or their own families, just like doctors should not treat themselves or their own family.  Their skill is much better utilized in helping other where their own energy and ego is not attached. 24:00 One of her closest spirit guides happens to be her own father who passed away a week before 9/11.  She shares the story of how she told him what it would be like after he passed and he didn’t believe her, until he showed up a week after in spirit and she said, “I told you!

“I know that one person that I help is going to be a ripple of hope for another person and that other person will also be a ripple of hope.”– Victoria Melchor The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #56 - Victoria Melchor Our next guest on episode #56 The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo is Victoria Melchor. After receiving bad medical news, Victoria looked inside for answers, which led her to what she calls “Living life from the inside out.” She has learned to take charge of her life and live a life that she loves. First she was determined she would have the perfect morning, which led to the perfect day and from there she learned she could have a perfect life. Victoria focuses on Transformational and Mindset coaching and helps others live the life they desire by connecting and removing the mental and emotional blocks that are holding them back. She is close to finishing her first book, an autobiography, about what she has learned through travel and introspection of her day-to-day life. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:30  We learn that Victoria’s mother and grandmother both had breast cancer. She doesn’t, but testing showed that she is genetically predisposed and has the gene. This means that there is a much, much higher risk of  her contracting this disease in her life time, than the average woman. It felt like a death sentence to Victoria. She was understandably devastated by this news and while visiting her oncologist she was told that what she had been given was not a death sentence but a life sentence. “That really changed a lot of things for me.” 7:35  Victoria admits that she was just going through the motions, not even alive, she was “just a zombie”. She would go to work, walk the dog, go home, watch TV and do it all again the next day. Being a “big neuro-coaching nerd” she attended a training session and one of the exercises asked “How do you live your perfect day?” She learned she had to take over and make it all happen herself. 10:45  Victoria tells us that many of us suffer from ‘Death Anxiety’. She tells us about watching a documentary about cancer patients and though they were dying “There can be a sense of peace and satisfaction knowing you are mortal.” Even if you don’t know when it’s going to happen you have to kinda ”Carpe Diem”, live your life now because you never know when this is going to happen and you have to make the most of every single moment.” 14:05  Victoria explains her definition of  “Living life from the inside out.” She asks herself why should she live by what everyone on the outside is telling her? She decides she should live by what “the me inside” is telling her. ‘Living life on the inside out’ “means to really develop a sense of who you are based on how you feel moment-to-moment and who you want to be…” Are you doing everything in your life because it is expected of you? We must realize that we can create what we want – happiness, joy, we are even creating our sadness and bad feelings about ourselves but we are letting the outside world dictate it. 16:35  In learning to define that “perfect morning”, Victoria finds that we need to be intentional about how we want to experience our lives. Part of being perfect is being imperfect and being OK with that. 19:25  Victoria never thought about being of service, then all of a sudden she felt like giving. She gets such incredible joy from helping. After a coaching call with one of her clients she said “I know that one person that I help is going to be a ripple of hope for another person and that other person will also be a ripple of hope.” 21:55  Why does Victoria say that our minds are like a computer which we give instructions to? Why do we have to be very purposeful regarding the kind of instruction we give it? 27:00  Victoria has always loved to write. When she decided to write her book she broke down what she needed to do, gave herself a timeline and sat down at the computer. She is currently at 40,000 words.

“To have a truly good life you have to take good care of yourself and you have to help others in need when you can.” – Jeff Rasley The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #55 - Philanthro-Trekker & Author Jeff Rasley Jeff Rasley, our next guest on e...

“You have to take 100% responsibility for your life…your attitude, your own personal attitude, is going to be the key to success or failure in your own life.” – Jesse LeBeau The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #54 - Jesse LeBeau In this, episode #54 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, we meet the inspiring Jesse LeBeau. At an early age he became one of the premier basketball trick artists in the world. As his name grew he began appearing in commercials, TV shows and movies with some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment. His experiences led him to write a book “Among the Giants”, which hit the best sellers' list. He is also known as “The Teen Coach”. He travels around the world inspiring kids and shares his underdog journey, growing up on a remote island in Alaska where basketball wasn’t the easy route to take. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 4:35  We learn that Jesse had a passion for basketball as a kid. He saw a movie about Pistol Pete Maravich and it inspired him. Not that pursuing basketball on a remote Alaskan island was easy when he had to take a boat to school everyday and it was usually dark, rainy and cold. It may have been out of the ordinary but it led him on a path to follow his dreams. 6:50  Jesse realizes that he is never going to be in the NBA and playing overseas didn’t pay much but he was not going to give up on his dreams. He decided he wanted to do commercials and movies. During an audition “I realized after I did a fancy [basketball] trick the director got excited, and they yelled on the sidelines.” He started learning Globetrotter style tricks. At the beginning he was awful but trained hard and found the thing that made him different. 9:35  We learn why Jesse says “At the end of the day what sports are meant to do is teach us how to be better people and how to win at the game of life.”  He tells us “The harder I work the luckier I get.” 10:45  Once Jesse is proficient at his new skills he auditions for Kobe Bryant. He isn’t exactly what they are looking for but he ends up impressing the director so much that they use him in commercials and movies. He doesn’t know what he is doing and stumbles forward on his new path and just went for it. He explains that there may be someone better than you at something but they may be afraid to take action. If you are willing to work and learn as you go it can make all the difference. 13:35  Jesse is a stunt performer in the movie ‘Thunderstruck’ with basketball star Kevin Durant. In one of the scenes the kid beats Kevin at a one-on-one basketball game. “It wasn’t a true one-on-one battle, talent vs. talent, but any way you can beat Kevin Durant, even if he has to let you win, I’ll take it!” 17:00  Jesse loves to give back and enjoys visiting schools around the country. He finds it exciting to share his story with young people. Jesse understands that it is harder now to be a kid with all the modern pressures they face and he gives them tips and advice on how to get and stay on the right track. He shares the struggles he faced as an underdog and tells us “I really believe every child is one caring adult away from being a success story.” 23:35  We learn that in Jesse’s book ‘Among the Giants’ he shares 30 Life Lessons. The key lesson is “You have to take 100% responsibility for your life…your attitude. Your own personal attitude is going to be the key to success or failure in your own life.” You have to face situations in your life that are beyond your control and you can see it as an obstacle or an opportunity. It’s all in the attitude. Without that, none of the other 29 keys matter. 31:00  Jesse tells us about his celebrity youth program “The Fab Four Take Over”. It’s all about spreading a positive message with kids and entertaining them with basketball. He and some of his celebrity friends put together a basketball show with a motivational message. The first show was telecast on Fox and the CW.

“If you don’t dedicate yourself full-time in anything that really interests you, you will likely not be able to fully dive into it and fully experience it…” – Joey Kleinhans The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #53 - Wine Sommelier Joey Kleinhans ...

“...really important, really critical things can be happening in every moment of our life and we need to pay attention, we need to approach life with the kind of presence that will allow the importance of any given moment to take its rightful place…” –...