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Bunny Young - Stuntwoman turned businesswoman is the best way to start a bio. After being diagnosed with a heart condition at an early age and depending on a service dog for a higher quality of life, Bunny focuses on using each day to fully deliver our purpose within the world. Bunny founded her company, A Better Place Consulting to empower and educate businesses and organizations about the impact of work-life alignment. If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his happiness lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Get Expert Growth Advice For Designers. See video at Happyprogress.com/AndyV About Andy Vitale He is the VP of Product Design and Content at Quicken Loans, where he instills the importance of design and a human-centered approach to transform the mortgage lending experience. He has solved problems for organizations ranging from startups to Fortune-ranked companies. HIs is a relentless user experience evangelist, with a passion for cognitive thinking and making technology more human. He's driven by a passion to inspire and empower teams to do their best work. Aside from my primary role at Quicken Loans, Andy Vitale is an adjunct professor for Kent State University’s User Experience Design graduate program, speaks at industry conferences and events, and serves on the advisory board for multiple professional organizations and educational institutions. If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his happiness lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com   

See The Common Path to Uncommon Success at Happyprogress.com/JLD About John Lee Dumas John Lee Dumas is the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, an award-winning podcast where he interviews inspiring Entrepreneurs who are truly ON FIRE. With over 2000 episodes, 1 million + listens a month, and seven-figures of annual revenue, JLD is just getting started. JLD is also the author of The Common Path to Uncommon Success, Mastery Journal, Podcast Journal, and more.  If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his happiness lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

See how you can Understand How To Use The Fearless Factor. Learn more at Happyprogress.com/JWales About Jacqueline Wales  Jacqueline Wales is a Leadership Coach Champion for Fearlessness.  For more than 35 years, Jacqueline Wales has explored human behavior and asked tough questions to discover hard truths. She believes in the power of fearlessness to create the career and life you want. As a motivational speaker, professional coach, author of The Fearless Factor and other books, Jacqueline has helped countless people become more empowered, confident, and resilient. Her work focuses on leaders who will dig into self-discovery, take accountability for their actions, and responsibility for their decisions. She challenges herself daily to be better and challenges her clients to do the same—pushing boundaries and breaking through excuses to achieve results. If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his happiness lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

You may ask yourself what can a comedy sword-fighting stuntman do for you? see more at Happyprogress.com/JohnDavis Do you want to awaken the "inner action hero" in your audience so they will be empowered to achieve more both personally and professionally?  If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his happiness lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Advice for High Achievers to use Mediation for Personal Growth with Sandy Vo. See more at https://happyprogress.com/SandyVo About Sandy Vo: ✔ Combining the wisdom of Yoga Science, Eastern Philosophy with Modern Day Science, I help high performers enhance their lifestyle, become more efficient, and feel more fulfilled. ✔ Offering Prosperous: School of Self-Realization, a foundational 90-day integrative leadership program to rewire your mind for healing, harmony & prosperity while deeply connecting to your life's purpose. The tools are simple, practical yet highly effective. Discover true freedom by awakening new levels of Consciousness. Sandy supports conscious leaders in redesigning the unconscious mind that drives habits, patterns, and behaviors. Sandy combines the wisdom of Yoga Science, Eastern Philosophy, Ayurveda with modern science to support high performers enhance their lifestyle, become more efficient, and feel more fulfilled in mind, body, and spirit. She's worked with CEO's, entrepreneurs, executives, healers, authors, dancers, creatives, and more. Utilizing proven methods, we empower women leaders to explore their highest potential, to learn how to optimize their energy through grounded techniques that fit their lifestyle, relate to their most authentic self, embrace their spirituality & ultimately master their reality. If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his happiness lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

C-Roc is a motivator, facilitator, dynamic podcast host, public speaker, fierce friend, and coach. See more at happyprogress.com/mikecroc At his core, he’s a grinder – just a guy who had a fire lit in him at an early age. That fire has led him to inspire others to see the greatness inside of themselves using past life events to fuel their fire. Mike is an executive manager at Nations Lending, a residential mortgage company. He and his three best friends have built one of the most profitable divisions within Nations Lending from the ground up. His passion is truly helping others. Whether it’s his employees, partners, real estate agents, or anyone else looking to better their business, personal life, or mental game, C-Roc always is up for the challenge. He has spoken in front of thousands of real estate agents, showing them how to grow their business not only via traditional marketing methods but also by using outside-the-box digital and social media marketing. On his podcast, "What Are You Made Of?" He dives deep into his past to show how you can feed off good and bad experiences. His forthcoming book is titled, “What Are You Made Of?” C-Roc lives in Ocean City, MD with his wife Jennifer and their two children, Nicolas and Sophia  If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his happiness lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Searching for health, Debbie Emick wrote the book, The Other Side of Perfect. Learn more at happyprogress.com/debbieemick Debbie Emick is a survivor of multiple chronic illnesses/autoimmune diseases that took the long road to learn her path to healing was through accessing the mind-body connection to disease and health. Through addressing and releasing repressed emotions and past trauma, she’s been able to experience a life of greater health, ease, and fulfillment by living out my authentic purpose. She has a unique, first-hand perspective in discussing:  The trauma and perceived helplessness of diagnoses of rare and serious diseases with poor prognosis.  Trial and error navigating the more superficial aspects of healing--advice from medical experts, pharmaceutical interventions, etc.    Coming to a more holistic approach toward healing (nutrition, exercise, etc.) that finally led to an internal search for mental/emotional health (meditation, energy/somatic work, calming my nervous system, etc.), ultimately creating less physical illness and pain.    Learning to move beyond the coping mechanisms and personality traits (like perfectionism and people-pleasing) she’d attached to for survival that no longer served me or my health.    Living a less fearful life from a place of power that allows me to create the life she desires today, regardless of diagnoses, because none of us have a guarantee of tomorrow   If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his happiness lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

7 Benefits of Journaling for Focus and Productivity (As Told by Science). More at Happy Progress. Improve Brain Function Boost Emotional Well-Being Increase Self-Efficacy Reduce Stress and Quiet Your Mind Unleash Creativity   Hone in On What’s Important  Create Healthy Habits How Will You Use Journaling to Your Advantage? If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Master the Art of Public Speaking with MasterTalk - Brenden Kumarasamy Brenden is passionate about helping others achieve rocket level success, whether it's helping others overcome their fear of public speaking, helping startups with their pitch decks to raise capital or his current role at IBM, helping clients transition to better technology HR solutions to help them do business better. If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Coming January 15!  This book was written after Leslie Davis realized she had learned a lot of lessons and done a lot of mental and emotional work on her journey to lose weight.  She was telling a friend about it and she commented she should write a book.  You Can't Eat Love is that book.   If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Dustin Reichman has many businesses including Fire Creek Snacks, Engaged Digital Solutions and Engaged Marriage.  Building on a background of 18 years of engineering consulting, Dustin now consults with ambitious online and local (St. Louis area) business owners to grow their sales through smart digital marketing at EngagedDigitalSolutions.com. Dustin used these same strategies to build several online businesses of my own, including EngagedMarriage.com where my wife and he educate and encourage other busy couples to live their dream marriage and FireCreekSnacks.com where they sell The Best Snacks in the World. If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Angela Choi is an International Life Purpose and Career Coach. She helps driven professionals who feel stuck and unfulfilled to discover their purpose so that they can have both the impact and income that they want. Previously, she’s served as a Career Coach for 9/11 & military families, worked at a behavioral healthcare startup, and hosted monthly workshops for professionals working at Rockefeller Center to engage in various discussions and exercises pertaining to personal and professional development. Angela graduated cum laude from Yale University with a degree in psychology. "I dealt with a very heavy case of Imposter Syndrome. So, I went to Yale, and I just never felt like I was enough there. I constantly felt like I was surrounded by people who were smarter than me and that it didn't take people's effort to do things. So I dealt with Imposter Syndrome my entire time there, and even after Yale. And so, I have worked through a lot of that, and because I know what it feels like to actually live through that, I think that's why I'm able to coach people cause I understand how people feel cause I've had that lived experience." - Angela Choi If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Today, I want to walk you through my top tips for uncovering what’s really holding you back. I’m going to teach you how to create a personal feedback loop, so you can optimize your success to attain the results you’re truly after. My favorite way to describe life is as one big experiment. None of us are born knowing what will make us successful or what we need to do to grow as human beings. Rather, we live life by trial and error. We hypothesize what will get us the best results, then execute and learn from our performance.  This is where the concept of a feedback loop comes in. A feedback loop is a process in which the outputs of a system are funneled back and used as inputs. Since the dawn of time, creatures have used feedback loops to maintain homeostasis and thrive. Positive feedback, such as finding the fruits of your labor, will amplify the feedback loop so change occurs more quickly.  We use the same concept of feedback loops in marketing and web design. Here, a feedback loop refers to the process of harnessing customer or employee feedback — the output of the business — to create an improved product or service.  Throughout my work in web design and optimization, I consistently use a feedback loop to help entrepreneurs perform successfully. Inputs like client reviews or how the site ranks on search engines like Google inform my next move. Now, I’ve learned to use the same feedback loop process to gain momentum — so I can be laser-focused and reach goals faster. How Do You Control Your Inputs for Growth? How Do You Maximize Your Output for Success? To achieve compound growth, your feedback loop should be rich in return-on-investment (ROI) focused outputs, such as content creation, client work, and most importantly, journaling. Journaling goes hand-in-hand with positive self-dialogue — it’s a chance to write growth and success into fruition. However, there’s a ton more to my journaling process than simply willing success into existence. Each day, I break down my desires into three pillars of success: intrinsic, extrinsic, and foundational goals I can actively work towards. Intrinsic Goals are personally rewarding, like receiving accolades from a boss. Extrinsic Goals are professionally or socially rewarding, like receiving a raise. Foundational Goals are what keep my mind and body strong, like working on my health and wellness. Each morning, I write out at least one goal for each pillar to accomplish throughout the day. Each night, I finish my day with a final journal entry. This is my time to clear my mind, detail what I’ve learned, and plan how I will live better tomorrow. Plus, I can take note of which goals I was able to make headway on. Find the Culprit Halting Your Success Locate and Eliminate Roadblocks to Success Today In life, the quicker you’re able to learn more about yourself and apply purposeful intent directly to your goals, the quicker you will accelerate your results. The feedback loop I’ve outlined will help you channel your energy into the right places, so you can begin optimizing for success. If you’re curious about how I harness the power of journaling and personal feedback, be sure to check out my free Growth Playbook — it’s packed with helpful insights to get you started.  If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Greg Rollett is the founder of Ambitious, Emmy Winner, and Branding / Product Expert. He also coaches small business owners to create their own videos by being their Virtual Video Producer.  More about Greg Rollett: Greg Rollett is an Emmy® Award-Winning Producer, Best-Selling Author and media expert who works with financial advisors and small business owners from all over the world to create personality-driven TV shows that drive their business. He is the host of Ambitious Adventures, a travel reality show for entrepreneurs that can be seen on Entrepreneur.com as well as Facebook Watch. Rollett is the founder of Ambitious.com, a media network that is known as “the voice of small business.” Through Ambitious.com and the Ambitious TV Network, they have been able to create hundreds of episodes for their clients that are now seen across the globe on Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Smart TV’s, iOS and Android devices, and many other online and offline outlets. This gives small business owners the opportunity to be seen and heard by the people that they can best help. He also coaches small business owners to create their own videos by being their Virtual Video Producer.  If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his lab today... Visit happyprogress.com or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Meet Chris Out - Growth Hacking Expert and Public Speaker. Chris Out helps businesses spot growth opportunities that instantly generate. He calls these growth levers 1% opportunities that generate over 50% of the impact. More at happyprogress.com/chrisout He provides Interim Head of Growth Consulting, where I help companies set up a growth team, implement the latest growth strategies, tools, and frameworks. Chris worked with hundreds of companies. In July 2020, I sold my growth hacking agency, and now consulting companies worldwide. Companies that have hired me in the past: Cisco, ING, Rabobank, KPMG, DPG Media, Singularity University, Talpa, ABN AMRO, Helloprint, Startupbootcamp, and many more. What Chris loves to do: - Setting up go-to-market strategies and scale products/services quickly - Quickly spotting opportunities - Increase the growth rate increase Customer Life Time Value - Decrease customer acquisition costs After a career in auditing, Chris moved to entrepreneurship. His first company Addiscount failed miserably as I  made all the mistakes that a first-time entrepreneur makes. With his second company, RockBoost was recognized as 1 of the top growth hacking agencies worldwide. We won multiple awards in E-Commerce, Digital Transformation, and Branding. In July 2020, I sold my stake to start my new portfolio of ventures. Visit happyprogress.com, dm me @happyprogress, or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Everything I’ve learned about growth and success I’ve learned from skateboarding. That’s right, skateboarding. Who would have thought my number one passion when I was just 13-years-old would make such a profound impact on my life? Well, my mom might’ve had a clue. She must have known I was totally hooked when I skipped school to skate at the mall in elementary school. I was suspended (and kicked out of the gifted program), but my time spent in the principal’s office that day is permanently ingrained in my memory. That moment was a testament to how much skating meant to me. I can still remember my first board vividly — a Fred Smith Punk Size, a true OG. In fact, I remember all of my early decks, and I rode them as they were meant to be ridden: with rails, tail covers, nose guards, and slime balls. You see, skating in the late 80s and 90s wasn’t just a fun after-school activity (or during school, in my case). It was an entire lifestyle. From Steve Caballero and the Bones Brigade to watching “The Search for Animal Chin” and idolizing Tony Hawk, I was neck-deep in skateboarding culture and wouldn’t have had it any other way. Today, I can say with full confidence that everything I’ve learned about success, growth, and particularly failure, was learned through a lifetime of skateboarding. Today I cover: Life Lesson #1: Never Be Deterred by Failure Life Lesson #2: Abide by Trial and Error Life Lesson #3: Explore Alternate Creative Ventures Life Lesson #4: Break Out of Your Comfort Zone Life Lesson #5: Learn Your Momentum Now It’s Time for You to Drop-In While I still love to skate, I’m the first to admit I’m not as adventurous on a board as I used to be — breaking a wrist at 40 is a lot more physically and financially time-consuming than it was a kid. But if you like skating, I urge you to reach out to me. There’s a skate park right down the street and I’d love to connect with you. Until then, you can find me at alex@happyprogress.com or on the Happy Progress Podcast. Visit happyprogress.com, dm me @happyprogress, or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

Growth isn't easy. Hear how this successful startup had amazing growth while building a happy team. More at http://happyprogress.com/convert Here are some of the highlights from Dennis from Convert: Does progress happiness to you? It feels like. I feel happy when things are moving forward. I don't believe in an end goal to get somewhere, happiness is doing just a little bit every day. Introduction to HolacracyHolacracy is often appealing for early-stage startups. They hear about the sophisticated and nuanced processes for organizing and reorganizing their work. ... They say Holacracy empowers people by taking people out of the organization systems, doing away with managers so people work on the organization not each other. Was your end goal to become an Optimizely or Omniture (Adobe Marketing Cloud)?Yes, in many ways Dennis wanted to raise money and become a lot larger. Then Dennis discovered that may not be the right path for him. Discuss the Intrapreneurs' JourneyBeing an intrapreneur provides you with the opportunity to see if entrepreneurship is the right fit for you without the risks of leaving your job, investing your own money, and starting from the ground up. You can test the waters with a safety net while having access to more resources and a larger platform. Limiting Belief - Are You Worth Your Value?  Dennis was very reluctant to pay himself so his startup would grow. Even though his startup was growing and had the money was in the bank, Dennis was struggling and was always worried about paying his mortgage. Mentions: Paras Chopra - VWO / Wingify - Founder & Chairman Paras started Wingify in early 2009 to enable businesses to design and deploy great customer experiences for their websites and apps. Peep Laja - Founder of CXL and Copytesting Created the best blog for conversion Peep is a former champion of experimentation and optimization turned business builder. Now he grows a portfolio of startup companies. Simo Ahava - Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics Expert He is a Google Developer Expert for Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. This is a blog all about web analytics development. Optimizely Optimizely is an American company that makes progressive delivery and experimentation optimization software for other companies. The Optimizely platform technology provides A/B testing and multivariate testing tools, website personalization, and feature toggle capabilities. Omniture / Adobe Target & Adobe Analytics  Omniture was an online marketing and web analytics business unit acquired by Adobe Systems in 2009. Now known as Adobe Marketing Cloud. Learn more about Dennis Van Der Heijden founder of Convert.com A/B Testing & Personalization Tool Dennis founded Convert.com in 2009 which is a conversion rate optimisation software (A/B Testing and personalization - ABM - a tool similar to Optimizely, AB Tasty, and VWO also focused on privacy GDPR / CCPA compliance, CRO agencies, and in-house teams. Convert Saas software structure their accounts and payment plans so that agencies can easily use our software across multiple accounts without having to pay for a new license for each client they use it for. Convert saas startup offer tons of value for an affordable price and a free trial. Visit happyprogress.com, dm me @happyprogress, or email me at alex@happyprogress.com 

R U living inspired? Do you want it more than everyone else? Me too.  Meet Eddie, he motivated me and he will motivate you too. This podcast interviews a creative genius making a huge difference in the world through masterpiece storytelling. His YouTube channel has over 234,000 subscribers and 34 million views. We discuss emotional storytelling, breaking through your limitations, creating a successful YouTube channel, and tips to think differently about growth.  More at HappyProgress.com/eddie  Here are the questions I asked Eddie Pinero from Your World Within:  Does Progress Equal Happiness to Eddie Pinero What is the one unique thing you are bringing to the world?  Do you believe you’re one creation away from a totally different life?  People don’t remember what u say, remember how you feel?  How do you set worthwhile goals with uncertain results?  Why do people stay average?  How can you change your Identity?  About Eddie Pinero: Eddie is a TEDx speaker, entrepreneur & author. He is the founder of Your World Within, a global leader in motivation, with +65 million streams on YouTube & Spotify worldwide Eddie is also a co-founder of the top-rated podcast, Your Voice to the World.  Visit happyprogress.com, dm me @happyprogress, or email me at alex@happyprogress.com  Mentions of Viktor Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning, how to improve your YouTube channel, creating emotional content and storytelling that is going to make an impact. Music mentions RATM / Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, Nirvana, and A Tribe Called Quest.

Hear my 10 Lessons to Succeed in Podcasting.  These important topics could translate into almost any area of your business, content marketing, entrepreneurship, or general career goals.   Happyprogress.com/10lessons  Get a break down of the Top 10 Lessons to Succeed in Podcasting:  Listeners Care About the Information You Have to Offer, Not You  Never Doubt What You Have to Offer  Remove Stop Words and Self-Doubt  Never Stop Learning  Don’t Be Limited By Your Day Job  Ignore the Misconceptions  Network, Network, Network  Find Your Crowd  Create Shareable Content  Encourage Positive Actions  Podcasting has opened countless doors for me, both personally and professionally.  If you’ve checked out my previous podcast project, How Podcasting Helped Me Overcome Self-Doubt, you’ll know that podcasting was my segue into believing in myself and my message. It was also how I left literal decades of social anxiety and insecurity in the past.  Today, I want to share with you how this first-time-podcaster-turned-growth-expert grew into his own behind the microphone.   If this resonates with you, please share your thoughts with Alex Harris aka AlexDesigns in his lab project today...  Visit happyprogress.com, dm me @happyprogress, or email me at alex@happyprogress.com  Mentions of John Lee Dumas from Entrepreneur on Fire / EOFire, Kate Erickson from Kate's Take, UltraLearning, BJ Fogg Tiny Habits, and the Podcast Conference and Networking opportunity, Podcast Movement.