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The Living for Monday Show Episode 024 featuring Mike "Ambassador" Bruny What if you had a one page life-guide from each of the best thinkers in the world? Back in college, my business school would host events at least once per week where they would bring distinguished alumni back to give sage words of advice and field questions from the students. I would dutifully attend as many of the events as possible, and I even tried my best to prep by researching the speaker ahead of time. When I arrived I grabbed a safe seat -- not too close to the speaker, but close enough that she would know I was listening. I can remember one particular instance when a speaker finished up and I tracked him down outside the presentation room. He worked in an industry I was interested in (or at least thought I was), so I wanted to be sure to introduce myself personally. He was one of the rare speakers who did his best to do more than just tell his life story. Instead, he tried to share business lessons and sage advice as we were all beginning to plan our first career search. When I finally got a chance to speak to him, I remember being a bit tongue tied. I managed to hold my own in conversation, but I walked away knowing that I wanted to learn more. The problem was that I simply didn't have enough time or the right questions prepared to get his best pieces of advice out of him. At that moment I really would have killed to have a one pager that summarized his life and business lessons. Something that I could refer back to when making a big decision or thinking about the next product we want to create at Living for Monday. In fact, it would be incredible if every speaker I've ever heard give a talk would have handed me a one pager to summarize his worldview, life lessons, or point of the talk. Imagine having an entire Evernote folder of your speaker notes with one page infographics attached, featuring the best stuff possible from Jim Collins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Seth Godin, Malcom Gladwell,  and more (if you don't know them, check 'em out). If you know that feeling of wanting to recall the lessons from your favorite speakers, thinkers, authors, and bloggers, then you can imagine my excitement when I found Mike Bruny's The Ambassador's Creed. Why Mike Bruny is today's guest on the show I first learned about Mike "Ambassador" Bruny at World Domination Summit 2012, when he gave an awesome short-form talk on the main stage at the conference. He used rhymes and crafty wording to

The Living for Monday Show Episode 016 Shane Rasnak is changing the world. He is the talent manager and director of marketing at ReWork, a company devoted to helping people find work they love. At a high level, ReWork helps growing businesses address urgent global issues by equipping them with the most talented and excited work force possible. To borrow from their vision statement: We believe that organizations working day and night to improve people’s lives deserve the most talented, committed, and passionate professionals out there to support their efforts. And we believe to our core that the world would be a better place if the best thinkers and doers of each generation based their success not on the pay or prestige of their jobs, but on how big of an impact their work had on other people’s lives. Shane's work with ReWork has certainly been its own adventure, but he's been on plenty of others. Having taught English in Venezuela for two years after graduating from Cornell, Shane decided to further pursue his passions for social enterprise and making the world a better place. He is the author of an eBook entitled "Four Steps to Meaningful Work". Check out the 4 Steps to Meaningful work and let Shane know what action you're going to take based on the book. Listen in to episode 016 to hear Shane's story and take heart, as he explains, "You don't need to know where your headed on day 1." It's wonderful to know what you can do with a  singular focus.   Download the episode (and subscribe to the show) on iTunes here.   Da Notes: 1. Who is Shane Rasnak? What are you up to? 1:10 2. Why did you go to Venezuela to teach English? 3:15 3. Why did you write "4 Steps for Meaningful Work"? 9:15 4. Click on the link above to get your hand s on the "4 Steps to Meaningful Work" eBook. 12:00 5. What's the first step to finding unique work coming right out of school? 12:45 6. How do people grow out of the apathy stage? What is the a-ha moment that pushes people to want more? 14:06 7. Where in your story did "exploration" happen? When did get excited about finding awesome work? 15:44 8. When did you find" clarity" in what you wanted to do? When did you know what impact you wanted to make? 16:45 9. What's the last step in finding meaningful work? How do you find "alignment"? 20:00 10. What are some of the triggers that make people move from each step on to the next? 21:00 11. What is the most important tip for finding meaningful work? What is the

What's up L4M community! We're back with another episode of The Living for Monday Show. I've spent all day agonizing over what to do with this episode. Due to my own fault, the audio quality is crap, while the content quality is gold thanks to our guest. In fact, my internet connection was so bad when I recorded this episode that the first 12 minutes of conversation were completely corrupted and unrecoverable. So, despite the user and technical errors, I've decided that the 23 minutes we did capture are too valuable not to post, despite the hiccups in audio quality. With that said, I am pumped to welcome a special guest onto the show for episode 15. Chris Ducker is a very successful entrepreneur who blogs at ChrisDucker.com about the transition to the new economy and it's affects on entrepreneurs like him. After building his business into a demanding job in 2009, Chris decided things had to change so he could make more room in his life for the things that really mattered to him. Since the In episode 15, Chris waxes on personal branding, running a successful business, learning about the new economy, and so much more. Here are the questions we cover, starting up top with the question you won't hear, but the answer you will. At one point, you reached this situation where you were supposed to be living the good life, but your business had taken over everything and wasn't allowing you to spend time doing the things you wanted. How did you respond? You've completely changed the way you work now -- 6-7 hour days and no Fridays. Is this possible in a conventional work environment? We are big fans of creating personal brands, whether it's somebody like you with Chrisducker.com, or one of our coaching clients that has a 9-5 job. We believe it conveys expertise and provides a real safety net. What are your best tips for creating an outstanding personal brand? You have build quite the expertise in the realm of thriving in the "new economy" What is this new economy and how does that apply to people getting ready to start a new career or change careers? What should they know? What was your motivation for learning so much about your area of expertise? Most people would look at what you have built and get tired just thinking about it. What keeps you going? What are you most excited about right now? Where can our listeners find you online? I hope you enjoy this conversation with Chris as much as I did. If so, be sure to check Chris out at ChrisDucker.com