The Conscious PIVOT Podcast

Today's podcast features Natalie Ledwell, the brilliant co-founder of the revolutionary Personal Development company “Mind Movies”. Natalie and I discuss the importance of redefining failure, as well as the critical role identity and taking responsibility play in stepping into the next version of who you want to be. I'm excited to introduce you to Natalie and her incredible work, including her mission to empower 10 million adults and kids all over the world to lead lives fulfilled with joy, happiness and passion – the lives they were destined to live. In addition to her successful company, Natalie is an authentic and internationally renowned motivational speaker, the best-selling author of the book "Never In Your Wildest Dreams", Law of Attraction guru, and host of “The Inspiration Show” and “Wake Up TV!”. Natalie is working on her new transformational TV program for women, as well as a groundbreaking program entitled "PD for Kids", a powerful children’s curriculum designed to help them establish a strong foundation for the rest of their lives. Learn more at www.mindmovies.com. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

In this podcast, I share with you an incredibly inspirational person that I am honored to work with, learn from, and call my friend - Mr. Rodney Flowers. Join us as we discuss Rodney's own personal "pivots", from star football player to paraplegic to his tenacious pursuit and achievement of walking again and living wheelchair-free. Rodney is a dynamic, charismatic and sought after Transformational Speaker whose own personal story is the epitome of inspiration, courage, and faith. Rodney is also a three-time International Bestselling Author, including the book "Get Up! I Can’t. I Will. I Did...Here’s How!" in which he shares his success principles that will help you not only manage adversity, but also overcome it. Rodney is incredibly dedicated, tenacious, and fully committed to being a change agent for overcoming life’s adversities and maximizing individual achievement and success. You can learn more about Rodney at http://bit.ly/4PrinciplesofSuccess. --- As always, enjoy more Conscious PIVOT podcasts at AdamMarkel.com or subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play.  Join our incredible PIVOT community at www.StartMyPIVOT.com, where you can download your free Kickstart Guide to pivoting into a business and life you LOVE.

In this podcast, I share with you an incredibly inspirational person that I am honored to work with, learn from, and call my friend - Mr. Rodney Flowers. Join us as we discuss Rodney's own personal "pivots", from star football player to paraplegic to his tenacious pursuit and achievement of walking again and living wheelchair-free. Rodney is a dynamic, charismatic and sought after Transformational Speaker whose own personal story is the epitome of inspiration, courage, and faith. Rodney is also a three-time International Bestselling Author, including the book "Get Up! I Can’t. I Will. I Did...Here’s How!" in which he shares his success principles that will help you not only manage adversity, but also overcome it. Rodney is incredibly dedicated, tenacious, and fully committed to being a change agent for overcoming life’s adversities and maximizing individual achievement and success. You can learn more about Rodney at http://bit.ly/4PrinciplesofSuccess. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

The Science of Purpose & More with Brandon Peele

Those of you that are familiar with the PIVOT process know just how important discovering purpose is to any transformation, whether in your business or personal life. That's why I invited Brandon Peele onto the show to discuss the concept of purpose and to bring a level of "tangibility" to what can be considered an amorphous topic. Brandon help professionals and executive teams awaken their purpose-driven leadership and create profitable, high-impact businesses. He also delivers keynotes and workshops at large corporations like Morgan Stanley and startups like Net Driven. Through his talks and online courses, Brandon has guided more than 2,000 people from over 50 countries to find, live and lead with their life's purpose. In this episode, Brandon shares with us his own pivot into purpose story: that of pivoting from Wall Street MBA to being a purpose guide. A researcher and evangelist of the science of purpose, Brandon discusses why purpose is "the door that we must all walk through" in order to be successful. You can learn more about Brandon at his website BrandonPeele.com and via some of his endeavors such as scienceofpurpose.org and globalpurposeexpedition.com. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Conquering the #1 Success Factor with George Bryant

I continue to be blessed with the most incredible people in my life. I'm thrilled (as usual) to introduce you to yet another powerful individual who's made it their life mission to help others: George Bryant. George is so many things that he's hard to describe with the typical bio. Yes, he's the New York Times best-selling author of Paleo Kitchen. And, yes, he's created the #4 app in the world, Caveman Feast 3.0. And yes, he's an online powerhouse. Yet, he calls these "superficial achievements". George's most important achievements are his own PIVOTs which led him to thriving as a bonus dad, loving father, an amazing husband to an amazing wife, and a person committed to many things. Not the least of his commitments is helping people and organizations put the heart back into their businesses. George helps them connect with what it means to BE in business and how to carry their ethos and vision INTO the business so that everyone they touch get that they matter in every step of the journey. George and I discuss these pivots and how he's successfully utilized change to create an incredible life. One of the most fundamental success factors is how you think about yourself and your own sense of worthiness. George shares that, despite all of his "superficial" success, true success came only when he tackled the life-long work of worthiness, his own trampled by a tough childhood, almost losing both legs as a marine of 12 years, and his 12-year fight with bulimia. Whether it be food, fitness, mindset or business, George's mission is to put the heart back in all of it and truly connect. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Mastering Your Superpowers & More w/ Tonya Dawn Recla

I'm excited to introduce you to a person with real-life super powers, Tonya Dawn Recla. I loved our conversation, including how we all have superpowers and finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. As the Executive Director of Super Power Experts®, Tonya spends her days convincing people superpowers are real and recruiting other powerful mutants. During her career as a government Special Agent, she explored the human psyche, honed her superpowers, and cracked the code of enlightened self-actualization. Tonya continues as a lifelong student of energy manipulation, transmutation, clair senses, intentional molecular creation, etc. She believes everyone has the power to create a multidimensional existence and master the human experience. Learn more about Tonya and her organization at superpowerexperts.com. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Kristine is the author of the amazing book "Heart Broken Open", as well as the author of several books in the "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" book series. She is also the wife of the late Richard Carlson, author of the original "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" book. In our podcast, Kristine shares how she pivoted through loss and learned to become present by the process she calls "allowing". In this spiritually uplifting and insightful interview, Kristine and I discuss, among other things, how people are addicted to activity as a way of feeling more secure, and how to escape that trap by loving life even more. Kristine Carlson is a writer, a speaker, and a catalyst of change. Her hope is to be a guide and an inspiration to you as you navigate your way through the challenges life presents. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" series. To learn more about the anniversary celebration, visit www.KristineCarlson.com. Enjoy more podcasts at www.AdamMarkel.com.

Kristine is the author of the amazing book "Heart Broken Open", as well as the author of several books in the "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" book series. She is also the wife of the late Richard Carlson, author of the original "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" book. In our podcast, Kristine shares how she pivoted through loss and learned to become present by the process she calls "allowing". In this spiritually uplifting and insightful interview, Kristine and I discuss, among other things, how people are addicted to activity as a way of feeling more secure, and how to escape that trap by loving life even more. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

I'm so proud to share another powerful interview with another incredible person: Sandra Joseph. Sandra was the longest running lead actress in the longest running Broadway show, Phantom of the Opera. Sandra played Christine in more than 1,000 shows over the course of 10+ years. Despite her success, it wasn't always like that for her. Sandra spent years as, in her words, a "scared kid from Detroit" that lacked confidence and experienced setback after setback. Her "PIVOT" to a confident, composed leading lady, singer, and keynote speaker is truly inspirational and chock full of learning! Sandra is also the co-author of "Your Creative Soul: Expressing Your Authentic Voice" with Caroline Myss. Learn more from Sandra at http://sandrajoseph.com/free-resources/. --- I woke up with this wonderful feeling of anticipation for incredible conversation. I'm assuming that everybody also loves great conversation, especially when other people's conversation translates into some opportunity for transformation for ourselves. I'm thrilled to be with somebody that has an incredible story. More than a story, she has a very inspiring life. It's just something that every time I've been in her presence, I've felt more conscious. I've felt happier. I'm trying to be present to what's come up for me in those situations. I feel joy in this person's presence. When it comes to these podcasts, our audience, our communities come to expect this from me. I don't do introductions anymore. To mean me they seem canned. They're always like, "Here are the great things this person did." I've been introduced and it's been a joy to be introduced all over the world, to speak, train and share things. When I get on the stage, I've always started by saying, "It's so great to hear all those wonderful things about myself. If you ask me who I am, I will say, first and foremost I'm a daddy, I'm a husband," and then I'll talk about my wife. The most important things always bubble to the surface, and those things are not about the fact that I practice law or ran a company or any of it, even though those are important things because they are credibility for sure to know that the person in front of you has some experience in what it is they're talking about. For sure, the most important things are life experiences and how it is that we navigate life in a way that is productive for ourselves and for the people that we get to serve. You are an elegant expression of that not just physically because you're absolutely beautiful, but more than how you physically appear and show up. I feel like there's an ease and a grace and a joy about your presence. That's a product of life experience and also of God too.

I'm so proud to share another powerful interview with another incredible person: Sandra Joseph. Sandra was the longest running lead actress in the longest running Broadway show, Phantom of the Opera. Sandra played Christine in more than 1,000 shows over the course of 10+ years. Despite her success, it wasn't always like that for her. Sandra spent years as, in her words, a "scared kid from Detroit" that lacked confidence and experienced setback after setback. Her "PIVOT" to a confident, composed leading lady, singer, and keynote speaker is truly inspirational and chock full of learning! Sandra is also the co-author of "Your Creative Soul: Expressing Your Authentic Voice" with Caroline Myss. Learn more from Sandra at http://sandrajoseph.com/free-resources/. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

I have the honor of interviewing Daniel Schmachtenberger, the Director of Research and Development and a co-founder at the Neurohacker Collective. There, Daniel is focused on developing processes and technologies for advancing medicine and human optimization. He is particularly focused on personalized medicine, adequate approaches to complex illness, and deepening our knowledge of how the human regulatory systems function, how they break down, and how they can be supported to function with greater resilience. I'm so inspired to share this hour-plus podcast with you as resilience is a core principle of the PIVOT process. Daniel is a fascinating expert on this and so much more. So, fasten your seat belts because this hour-long plus podcast is filled with incredibly special and thought-provoking conversation about everything from sleep, to memory, to genetics, to performance and recovery, to the dynamics of longevity and even the definition of life! To learn more about Daniel's and the collective's work, visit neurohacker.com. Also, in the podcast a reference a Harvard Business Review study that can be found here.

I have the honor of interviewing Daniel Schmachtenberger, the Director of Research and Development and a co-founder at the Neurohacker Collective. There, Daniel is focused on developing processes and technologies for advancing medicine and human optimization. He is particularly focused on personalized medicine, adequate approaches to complex illness, and deepening our knowledge of how the human regulatory systems function, how they break down, and how they can be supported to function with greater resilience. I'm so inspired to share this hour-plus podcast with you as resilience is a core principle of the PIVOT process. Daniel is a fascinating expert on this and so much more. So, fasten your seat belts because this hour-long plus podcast is filled with incredibly special and thought-provoking conversation about everything from sleep, to memory, to genetics, to performance and recovery, to the dynamics of longevity and even the definition of life! Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!