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Terry Tucker has reinvented himself a few times. He has worked in marketing, hospital administration, and customer service. He was a police officer and SWAT negotiator with the Cincinnati Police Department, started a security consulting business, and became a high school basketball coach. Each change meant new skills and new challenges. His greatest challenge came in 2012 when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Four years of Interferon injections followed, and the treatment almost killed him. The pain and suffering taught him that he had two choices - succumb to the debilitating discomfort and misery or learn to embrace it and use it to make himself a stronger and better human being. He chose the latter.  Terry started the Motivational Check blog to help inspire people to lead uncommon lives, even in uncommon and uncomfortable circumstances. He is still battling cancer and has had multiple surgeries, including the amputation of his left leg. Today we talk about motivation and how to keep going and stay positive about life even when it's really tough.  More about Terry and his work at: https://www.motivationalcheck.com/  

Dr. Jim Taylor earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Colorado and is an international authority on the psychology of sport and parenting. He has worked with the US and Japanese Ski Teams, the US Tennis Association, and with professional and world-class athletes in tennis, skiing, cycling, football, golf, baseball, and many other sports. He has published more than 1000 articles and given more than 1000 workshops and presentations around the world and is the author of 17 books including How to Survive and Thrive When Bad Things Happen. Jim is also a columnist for The Denver Post and writes about sports, parenting, education, technology, and popular culture, has appeared on major radio and television network shows around the U.S., and has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The London Times and many other major newspapers and magazines. His posts, articles, and interviews have been seen by millions of people around the world. He's a former alpine ski racer who competed internationally, a 2nd degree black belt and karate instructor, a marathon runner, and an Ironman triathlete. In this episode we talk about men and vulnerability, resiliency, parenting, sports, and more. More about Jim and his work at https://www.drjimtaylor.com/

My next guest is Magnus Walker. He grew up in Sheffield England and dropped out of school to come to the U.S. and try the American dream. It worked out pretty good for him. Almost by accident, he started Serious Clothing and his stuff was worn by the likes of Madonna, Bruce Willis, and Alice Cooper.   He has loved Porsche's since he was a kid and started collecting and restoring vintage Porsche 911s. He was in a short film, Urban Outlaw, that was a big hit at the 2012 Raindance Film Festival. His newfound fame led to Porsche asking him to work for them 35 years after he applied to work there when he was 10. Magnus also wrote an autobiography - Urban Outlaw: Dirt Don't Slow You Down, about his rise and fall in the fashion industry. His TEDx UCLA talk is great.   In this episode we talk about how to be adaptive in a complex world, be open to options, and master your perspective not your plan. And just a touch of outlaw cooking.   More about Magnus at magnuswalker911.com/.  

My next guest is Michael O'Neal. He spent 15 years as a designer and a branding guy, then he started doing social media and podcasting consulting, and in 2013, he started a Podcast called The Solopreneur Hour with the best tag line – Job Security for the Unemployable.  He's had over 10 million downloads to date. That's pretty good.   Through his show and his coaching work, he helps people find a path to business success on their own terms.  He can help you create a successful business you can run in our underwear, and with all that is going on in the world economy right now, that could come in pretty handy.    More about Michael and his work at: https://solohour.com

Dan Zeman is back for another chat. He is an exercise physiologist and has worked in the health, fitness and sports medicine fields for over 38 years. In his book, You're Too Old To Die Young, the topic of our first interview, he outlined the new and unique issues all boomer men will face in time.    In this episode we talk about COVID-19, the healthcare system, who is vulnerable, what this event means for your future, and what you can do to help yourself now and down the road. That's a lot!

My next guest is Dr. Glenn Livingston, and he says, "I’m a formerly obese guy with very poor cardiovascular genetics, a guy who almost ate himself to death despite a dozen warnings from doctors and other health professionals who wasted years of his life believing he had a mysterious disease which caused him to compulsively overeat." He has a PhD in clinical psychology and is the Author of the very successful book Never Binge Again, with over 1 million readers. And the book is FREE!   You may have seen his work in Psychology Today or The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun Times, or on national TV and radio. He used to do research and consulting for Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. And after a personal journey out of obesity, he spent decades researching the psychology behind overeating and binge eating. His unique approach to food choices will help you develop a normal, healthy weight and a much more lighthearted relationship with food.    He says you should not let farm animals tell you what to eat. He will help you deal with your inner pig.   Find out more about Glenn and download the book for free at  https://neverbingeagain.com/.  

After a rocky start in life, Tommy Breedlove spent 20 years with one of the largest financial consulting firms in the world, became a shareholder, the International Practice Leader, and was on the board of directors.   And at the top of his career, he walked away from all that. Chucked it and changed his life to follow his true calling.  Now he helps people discover a life of significance and live a Legendary life. Not legendary in the bigger than life sense, but legendary in the sense of becoming the person you've really always wanted to be.  Tommy is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author a business, relationship, and mindset coach and a regularly featured keynote speaker at global events. His new book Legendary might help you live a better life. If you realize you are not where you want to be, you have to participate in your own rescue.  Legendary is a guidebook or playbook of tools to help you change course and rescue yourself from a less-than life. More about Tommy at https://tommybreedlove.com Tommy's Free Gifts: To help people through the current health and economic crisis, Tommy wants to give you some of the book for free. Go to https://tommybreedlove.com/GIFTS/ to get the Legendary Life Plan and the Financial Freedom and Mastering Your Mindset chapters.   

Dr. Jason Giles graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology and received his medical degree from UC Davis. He completed his internship in General Surgery and his residency in Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine and became a cardiac anesthesiologist and pain specialist and was working over 100 hours a week at a Level One trauma center. He was a big deal. He had made it.    Then he became addicted to fentanyl and alcohol. Then he got caught, and life came crashing down. But he made it through detox and rehab and never went back to drugs. With a lot of help, he made it all the way back to being an anesthesiologist and then became an addiction medicine specialist. For the last 15 years he has been helping people break their lethal habits.   He is also the designer of VHAB, a new mobile app that is a non-medical tool and community for substance abuse habit change.   In this episode we talk about lethal habits and some new ideas on how to break them, how to become free of the prison of substance abuse.   More about Dr. Giles and his work at https://www.vhab.com/

Dr. Cam Caswell got her PhD from George Mason University in Developmental and Child Psychology and for over 15 years she's been on a mission to help us boomer types build stronger relationships with the millennials in our lives, at home and at work.    Dr. Cam's approach is simple but effective:  Identify WHAT behaviors cause friction.  Unpack WHY those behaviors exist.  Determine HOW to address these behaviors for long-term success. Dr. Cam's goal is to empower you with the skills and knowledge you need to handle whatever new situation or personality comes your way. She is also the parent of a teenager and manages numerous Millennials in the workplace, so she has been there and done that.    In this episode, we talk about the skills and knowledge you need to handle a different generation and whatever new situation or personality comes your way.    More about Dr. Cam at: https://drcamconsulting.com/

In this episode, I talk with Dr. John DeGarmo, an expert in Parenting and Foster Care.   John and his wife, Dr. Kelly DeGarmo, have been foster parents for 17 years and have had over 60 children come through their home while raising their own six children. They are the recipients of the Good Morning America Ultimate Hero Award, and the Up With People Every Day Hero Award.  The two also were honored with their city's Citizens of the Year Award.   He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Fostering Love: One Foster Parent's Journey and is a TEDx speaker. He writes regularly for many magazines, and is a regular contributor to several publications and newsletters, both in the United States and in Europe. He is also the founder of The Foster Care Institute. He has devoted his life to helping make the foster care system a better one, for all involved, and to help people become better parents.   We talk about adoption, foster care, and parenting in general.   More about Dr. John DeGarmo and his work at https://www.drjohndegarmofostercare.com/      

Mollie McGlocklin is the creator of Sleep Is A Skill. She helps people get better sleep through a unique blend of technology, accountability, and behavioral change. She can help you address the psychology, physiology, and environmental issues that mess up your sleep.   After a lifetime of poor sleep habits that culminated in a bout of insomnia that lasted for months, she dug deep into the psychology, physiology, and environmental issues that affect sleep. With a background in psychology & human behavior, she went down the rabbit hole to solve her own sleep disturbances without sleeping aids. What came out of that personal search was the realization that sleep is a skill that can be learned.   She began sharing what she discovered with other sleep sufferers and found that these skills really worked. Today, she has helped hundreds of people improve their sleep. She’s now spent the past three years traveling the world to test sleep quality in different environments across the globe and share what she has discovered, and sharing the forgotten skill set of sleep.   More about Mollie and her work at:   https://www.sleepisaskill.com/  

My next guest is Ralph Sutton. He is a long-time veteran of television and radio with a large and international fan base. For almost 20 years he hosted The Tour Bus, a rock radio show with a global reach of over 1 million listeners. In 2014 he started The SDR Show (that's Sex Drugs and Rock and roll), a podcast co-hosted with comedian Big Jay Oakerson, and within months – it reached the #1 spot in comedy on iTunes. As he says, it is not for the faint of heart. In 2016 he launched the GaS Digital Network which now has 21 shows and over 4 million listeners a month. That's pretty good.   He also co-hosts The Sherpa and the Schmuck podcast, which has a very different feel and focus than SDR. It's a weekly podcast with a lifelong friend where they try and unravel the mysteries of Life, Health, Wellness, and contemplate which one of them is the Sherpa and which one is the Schmuck. In this episode, we talk about all that and more.   More about Ralph and his shows at:  http://www.sherpaandtheschmuck.com/

My next guest is Chris Widener. He is a Member of the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame, one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers, was named one of the Top 50 Speakers in the World, and is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author (he has written 20 books). And he is a businessman, coach, and mentor. Chris is even a Washington State native and his brother was a firefighter in Eastern Washington for 39 years. I probably spilled beer on him somewhere along the line. In this episode, we talk about The Real Man Podcast which he hosts with another fascinating fellow - Larry Winget, current COVID events, values, optimism, leadership, and much more. I am grateful to have him on the show. Find out more about Chris, his personal coaching services, and The Real Man Podcast at: ChrisWidener.com RealManPodcast.com and on Twitter - @ChrisWidener

Old school therapy is "talk it out" therapy.   Phil DeLuca has been a relationship counselor for over 40 years. And he wants you to stop talking so much. After filling his wall with degrees focused on traditional therapy, he found a new approach that worked better.   It's a holistic brain chemistry-based way to communicate that he calls Untalk Therapy that can help couples navigate out of the dead zone and get their relationship back on course.    In this episode we untalk about: How your angry blow ups are incited by your brain chemistry How to stop your partner from perpetuating your anger When avoiding conflict is desirable What healthy communication looks like and how it makes you feel How your health is directly related to the health of your relationship   More about Phil and his work at:  https://gobeyondtalktherapy.com/

Harvey Deutschendorf is an Emotional Intelligence (EI) coach who has shown thousands of people how to relate emotional intelligence to everyday situations.    He has worked in the emotional intelligence field for more than 20 years and is known as the EI guy. He's a regular contributor to FAST COMPANY and writes a monthly column for HR PROFESSIONALS MAGAZINE and is the author of The Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success. He was recognized as one of the top 100 Thought Leaders by Trust Across America in 2015.   In this episode we talk about Emotional Intelligence and how to manage your emotions better. Especially during these difficult times.   More about Harvey and his work at: https://www.theotherkindofsmart.com/   and on Twitter @Theeiguy  

Did you know that the average person has about 40,000 negative thoughts a day? If you are awake for 16 hours a day my math says that's 2,500 an hour or 41 a minute. That's a lot of negativity. It might be more than that now with COVID-19 going on. A lot of people are feeling overwhelmed and distracted with the constant volley of messages and information and my next guest, Dr. Coyte Cooper, might be able to help us handle all that. He earned his Doctorate from Indiana University in 2007. He is a coach, author, and podcaster who helps people form powerful habits that can radically improve their lives. Today we are going to talk about his latest book, Flip the Script, and learn a simple process to flip the script on your barriers so you can live a better happier life. In this episode, Coyte outlines a blueprint on how to break free from your biggest barriers once and for all. Instead of 12.8 hours of negative thoughts dragging you down each day, you can learn to reallocate this wasted time, and use your energy and capacity to close the gap on your most meaningful goals. Instead of spending 4,672 hours a year on counterproductive beliefs and emotions, you can learn how to tap into your desire to create a life you absolutely love. More about Dr. Coyte Cooper at coytecooper.com

My next guest is Dr. Randy Paterson. He knows that life is inherently complex and challenging for all of us and that we can – and should – expect to run into situations and problems that seem confusing or difficult to navigate. The current Coronavirus pandemic is a classic example.   He is a psychologist and director of Changeways Clinic, a private psychotherapy service in Vancouver, BC Canada. He helps people find their unique strengths and talents so they can navigate unfamiliar or difficult territory and develop new knowledge, skills, and abilities to move forward. He also presents lectures and workshops around the world on mental health policy, cognitive behavioral therapy, depression and anxiety disorders, and the failure-to-launch phenomenon.    He is author of five books, and in this episode we talk about two of them today that focus on how we make ourselves miserable and what we can do about that.   For more information about Randy and his work and books please visit randypaterson.com.

My next guest is Aaron Schiller. Aaron is a life coach, counselor, and motivational speaker who helps people achieve positive, lasting change, at home and on the job. He helps his clients find ways to truly enjoy their lives. He has led global innovation programs on emotional intelligence and wellness for companies like Walmart, AT&T, and Toyota. He was trained as an Education Specialist at Sonoma State University and is also a coach and trainer for Yale University's Emotional Intelligence Lab. Good thing, because in this episode we talk about emotional intelligence - what it is and why it matters to you. More about Aaron at coachschiller.com/ and at museandthecatalyst.com/.  

Ryan West has been through the ringer. He was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa and joined the Navy right after high school. He was an aircraft carrier Flight Deck Director on the U.S.S Abraham Lincoln and while the Navy allowed him to see the world, it's also where his health battle would begin. He was diagnosed with a pituitary brain tumor. Then also diagnosed with Acromegaly, a very rare and debilitating hormone disorder. He managed to get through all this and now Ryan has started the Revealing Healing podcast and a blog where he shares his story and the stories of others who have endured incredibly difficult events and how they managed to get through them. In this episode, we talk about how adversity forces us to find strengths and talents we never knew we had, and more. 

In this episode I talk with Bill Ferguson, who started his journey as a Marine Corps Captain, then became a divorce lawyer, and is now a best-selling author and teacher. He was even featured on Oprah.    As a divorce attorney, he gained national attention for his ability to take the conflict out of a divorce. He focused on helping clients heal their relationship, one human being to another, and learned a lot about what creates and destroys love.   Since 1985 he has been helping people heal relationships and make their lives work. He has led over 2,000 Mastery of Life workshops and worked with thousands of people. He has also written 8 books and the first one, How To Heal A Painful Relationship, was featured on Oprah and became a national best-seller. He has written 7 other books and his work has also been recommended by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.    In this episode we talk about relationships and how to make them work better. This takes work.   More about Bill and his work at: MasteryofLife.com