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Today, our expert guest is Dan Miller, author of the New York Times bestselling book, “48 Days to the Work You Love.” He’s been a guest on CBS’ The Early Show, MSNBC’s Hardball, and Fox Business News with Dave Ramsay. His own weekly show is consistently ranked #1 in the Careers category on Apple Podcasts. He’s a frequent speaker at conferences and more than 140,000 people subscribe to his weekly newsletter. Everything Dan does aims to help people find or create the work that they love.   The message of 48 Days started at a low point in Dan’s life. He’s always been an entrepreneur, and during an economic downturn, he was put into a difficult position. He began teaching Sunday school classes to keep himself in service, surprising himself with how popular those classes became. He did not expect so many people to be unhappy with what they did for a living. In working himself out of a hole, he discovered that it was a near-universal need across industries.   If you’re in that place of not loving the work that you do, how do you start the process of 48 Days? Start from the inside. 85% of the process is looking inward, identifying your unique skills and abilities, your personality tendencies, your dreams and passions, and getting a clear focus on what’s special about you. Once you’ve identified those, you can start to focus on the application. What kind of work environment — whether it’s a job or a business you create — will integrate the things you now know about yourself?   Along with finding work that you love, you need to be aware of common career mistakes to avoid. Don’t get too comfortable with the status quo. People are constantly changing, growing you should allow your career to do the same.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway   “It’s never too late to have a new beginning. I talk to 27-year-old attorneys who say, “I never should have done that, I made a mistake.” And they imply now they just have to coast into the grave when you’re not old enough to ask the right questions, yet. You’ve got tons of time to reevaluate, redirect, realign. And then, somebody who’s 65 who’s been forced into retirement says, “Well, now I’m confined to 30 years of sitting on the front porch drooling on myself.” A lot of people at that point have the first real understanding of their greatest gifts and can turn that into the most productive two or three decades of their life. It’s never too late to have a new beginning.” --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: 48days.com Read: "48 Days to the Work (and Life) You Love" Listen: 48 Days Podcast The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Brenda Neckvatal, an award-winning HR professional who is often referred to as the “HR Force of Nature” by her clients. Not only does she help business leaders solve their most difficult people issues, but she is also a specialist in crisis management, government contracting, HR compliance, and mentor to women working in an HR department of one. She started as an HR sprout after fourteen years in retail management. She discovered that she really enjoyed helping people solve their unique problems and human resources offered her the ability to support her co-workers in a greater capacity. Having the benefit of working for five different Fortune 500 companies, she converted her experience into a series of focused best practices helping small businesses achieve their workforce goals. In her 30-year career in human resources and business, she has consulted with nearly 500 small businesses and C-suite leaders. She has optimized employee effectiveness and helped mitigate the high costs that are associated with making hasty employment-related decisions. As a student, her teachers knew that something was holding Brenda back but nobody knew what it was. After barely graduating high school and feeling down on herself, a coworker noticed she read something backward and asked her if she’d ever been tested for dyslexia. Once she discovered that, she felt justified. Brenda had to relearn how to read, but she went back to school and was able to graduate with honors. When the coronavirus hit the US, everything changed. Brenda was suddenly speaking to over 3,000 HR and business leaders who were all scrambling to figure out how to deal with the uncertainty the virus caused. She knew that during times like these, taking care of your employees was more important than ever. If you’re a leader or small business owner, here are some of the things you can do to help take care of your team: Be open to suggestions from your employees, because they are going to be full of ideas. Small business owners need to be vigilant about following hiring and labor laws, because the Department of Labor is paying closer attention than ever. You are not too small to be noticed. It’s times like these that taking care of employees falls to the wayside as business survival becomes the focus, but know that you will never survive in the long run if you don’t make your workplace somewhere that people love to work and feel taken care of.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “Transformation is not easy. Surviving something like this isn’t easy. My big takeaway is trust the process. Trust in yourself. Take time for yourself, think through what’s going on. Trust your process. You may not know what’s going to happen at the end of it but just trust it.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: brendathehrlady.com linkedin.com/in/neckvatal Instagram: @brendathehrlady   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today, J.V. Crum of Conscious Millionaire is turning the mic around on Dr. Richard Shuster, to celebrate 200 episodes of The Daily Helping. Just one month ago, Richard’s father, Dr. Allen Shuster, passed away. Nobody taught him more about being a husband, a parent, an entrepreneur, and an all-around human being than Allen. He always put his family first, was generous both with his time and money, and stood up for what he believed in. Allen taught Dr. Richard to show up every day doing something you genuinely love, a lesson that would impact his every decision as an entrepreneur. His father was old school, which also meant that he had a pretty clear path for success: go to school, get a degree, open a practice, see patients, and make a living. That made sense to him; but when Dr. Richard approached him about leaving the world of psychology to make a podcast — a term he’d never even heard of — Allen supported him fully. There are three things that Dr. Richard took from his father that will inform the rest of his life: Don’t compromise living life on your own terms. Spend time with the people you love. Be present every day. The biggest lesson here is this: Think of someone that you want to express your heart and soul to, and do it; because you never know what’s going to happen, and you don’t want to leave this world with regrets.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “Don’t take for granted that tomorrow is just going to come because you never know. I would urge everyone to, whether it’s their spouse or their mother, father, sibling, whoever it is, a mentor in their lives who meant a lot to you — call them today and, not only tell them how much they mean to you, but why. Because there’s just no guarantee that you’re going to get a chance to do that.” -- Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life. Resources: thedailyhelping.com Instagram: @thedailyhelpingpodcast   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Michael J. Gelb, the world’s leading authority on applying genius thinking to personal and organizational development. Michael is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, leadership, innovation, and executive coaching. He’s a senior fellow at the Center for Humanistic Management and a member of the Advisory Board for Leading People and Organizations at the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business. He was honored as “Brain of the Year” (1999) by the Brain Trust Charity, including other recipients such as Steven Hawking, Garry Kasparov, and Edward De Bono. His 17 books have been translated into 25 languages and have sold over one million copies. When he read Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” at 14 years old, Michael became inspired to find purpose in helping others find meaning in their lives. There was a lot of division and racial tension, and Michael was looking for solutions — both for the world and himself. Being a consultant for businesses was the farthest thing from his mind at first, but as he studied, it slowly dawned on him that business was the most powerful force in the world. And by focusing on that, he could make the most significant impact possible.   Michael felt his life intersect with Leonardo da Vinci in several ways. Earlier in his life, his grandmother, a painter herself, introduce him to da Vinci. Later, he and a colleague would talk about him at length. More and more, he began telling stories about da Vinci. After being invited to speak in Florence, he pitched the idea of speaking about how to think like Leonardo da Vinci. That gave him six months to figure it out before he had to speak! You can do this process with any figure you admire, whether that’s a historical figure or someone you know. One of the most effective ways to develop yourself is to study others. If you want to follow the same steps Michael did to think like da Vinci, you have to ask the magic question: What are they trying to teach us? In the case of Leonardo da Vinci, when Michael read his work with that question in mind, he came up with: Endless curiosity: To get endless energy as an adult, you have to awaken your childlike imagination, marry it with your adult logic, and revitalize your curiosity. Try the “100 Questions” exercise. Give yourself around an hour, take out some sheets of paper, and without stopping to think, write 100 questions out. The hardest part is building up the energy to have a constant creative output. Once you practice it, coming up with ideas isn’t that hard. What’s hard is putting them into action and communicating them with other people. Demonstrate through your own experience: You must be an original thinker. The biggest challenge to independent thinking today is an overabundance of information. The best way to do this is to learn to think through essential ideas from at least three perspectives. Sharpen your senses, learn to appreciate beauty, and learn to make life more beautiful. When we appreciate beauty, we inform our creative expression.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “There is a source of creativity, a source of genius. It is the source of our awareness. If everyone just, at this moment, contemplates their response to the simple question, ‘Are you aware?’ Obviously, immediately, you say, ‘Yeah, oh course.’ And I say, ‘How do you know?’ Where do you go to look to notice that you are aware? There’s no place you go. You just are. And learning to access that source of awareness, which is always present — so when we talk about connecting with genius, it sounds like something you have to go through years of training and do all this — no, it’s present right now. It’s there for everybody. And then yes, there are ways to make ourselves more attuned to it, like the hundred questions, like the Qigong exercises I teach, like everything that’s in all the books. But the main point is it’s not something you don’t have that you have to get. It’s something you already have, and you just need to wake up to it.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: michaelgelb.com healingleader.com lifeenergygenius.com Read: "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci" Read: "The Healing Organization"   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest Mark Victor Hansen returns for the second part of his interview. In his new book — “You Have a Book In You” — Mark shares his personal secrets for bringing your story to life and creating the next best-seller. In your journey to writing your book, Mark shared how you must start with a title that ignites you and outline your chapters early so that the content can begin flowing to you. But writing a book is just one part of the process. Once it’s written, people need to read it. And to get people to see it, you need to learn to market. In interviewing the 101 best fiction and nonfiction authors, Mark asked every one of them what they did to market their books. The first step is to visualize yourself making the best-sellers list. You won’t be able to get somewhere if you can’t see yourself there first. The next step is to not accept rejection. Even with a wildly impressive business plan, Mark still faced rejection a whopping 144 times before someone said yes. We can all be wildly more successful than we’ve ever dreamt of. And the world needs people to think bigger to solve the problems we face today! So, everyone needs to write so we can write ourselves out of this conundrum.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “I want to ask you to write a book, like I said a minute ago, to redefine yourself, to reinvent yourself, to reboot yourself, to re-energize yourself, to re-excite yourself. So your book is so well written, with such eclectic wisdom, that it ignites a lot of others and we have a pulsating wave go out that helps humanity to become absolutely, completely, one hundred percent economically and physically successful. It’s never been available before, but you and I now have the technology to do it. I’ll give you the software, the hardware — like podcasting, like documentaries — exists that all of us can do it, for the first time in humanity.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: markvictorhansen.com Instagram: @markvictorhansen Read: "You Have a Book In You" The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Mark Victor Hansen, inspirational and motivational speaker, trainer, and an author best known as the founder and co-creator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series. He also holds the Guinness World Record for most published books. And in his new book — “You Have a Book In You” — Mark shares his personal secrets for bringing your story to life and creating the next best-seller. When you choose to write a book, you are likely signing up to push yourself further than you’ve been pushed before. But where do you start? Mark says a great book starts with a galvanizing title. Your title has to be emotional, something that inspires you. The subtitle has to be logical in order to seal the deal. If you have those two things in place, you’re off to a great start. Once you have your title, you want to write out all of your chapter headings in your preferred order. Once you do that, information starts pouring into your head about those ideas. You begin to recognize things out in the world about those topics and things come together quickly. But what if you feel like you don’t have any time? Schedule out one 22-minute window where you can write completely uninterrupted. Once your mind is committed to being an author and creating this book, once you start actually writing for your future readers, the ideas will just flow to you and things will start coming together. In the second part of our interview, Marc continues to outline the power of writing your own book. Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: markvictorhansen.com Instagram: @markvictorhansen Read: "You Have a Book In You"   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Mark Monchek, an outstanding man with a powerful story. He’s the founder and Chief Opportunity Officer of the Opportunity Lab, a strategy consulting firm focused on conscious growth and the author of #1 Bestseller “Culture of Opportunity,” where his tools on how to grow during an age of disruption are more relevant today than ever before. Everybody finds their purpose in life at different points. Some people are born with it, but most people find it out through a crisis. Mark’s life trajectory was set, primarily, by three tragedies. His parents got divorced when he was very young, and from that point on, they never talked to each other about their two kids, which wound up being deeply traumatic for Mark. The second happened in 1981, when Mark and his wife bought their first house only to have an arsonist burn it down six days later. And the third happened in the 2008 recession, when an associate stole a large amount of money from his business, throwing Mark into a deep and dark depression. Luckily, he recognized the support he received during this dark period, and he was to find the opportunity in that tragedy to move forward. He realized that his purpose was to serve companies that wanted to grow consciously and because they deeply care about their customers, their employees, and the communities they serve. Building a conscious mindset within your company starts with compassion. Get into a conversation with whoever it is your serving, whether it’s a customer or an employee, and find out what really matters to them. Mark’s Culture of Opportunity process breaks down into these key parts: Define the results that you stand for and that give you pride. Make sure there is a balance between financially-driven and purpose-driven results. Find the team of people who are going to take you to this next level of sustainable growth. This team must be filled with a diverse set of people both inside and outside of the organization. Look for the ways that other companies are serving their customers or employees that you find exciting or innovative, whether they’re in your industry or not. We are all in this life together, and we don’t have to sacrifice that fundamental truth for business success. In fact, the best way to succeed is to create a culture of opportunity for all.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “One of the misbeliefs I had that led up to this depression was that I was alone in my dark feelings and in these painful thoughts. That kind of came from my childhood experience where, I think, my parents felt that they were alone. When I realized I wasn’t because of the people that supported me through that terrible period, and I began to understand the importance of interdependence. We do nothing in our lives alone. We don’t go to the bathroom alone. We don’t eat alone. People think that they are independent, but everything you do depends on someone else.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: markmonchek.com opplab.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markmonchek Read: “Culture of Opportunity”   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Joel Primus, the founder of and creative visionary behind Naked Boxer Brief. The pitch was simple — underwear so comfortable you can’t even feel them — but a lot of people saw it as a risky bet. Mr. Wonderful, one of the hosts of “Dragon’s Den,” the Canadian equivalent of “Shark Tank,” called Joel delusional. Now, fast forward 10 years: Joel helped raise more than $17M dollars in funding, established retail distribution with huge global partners, and lead a merger with Australian-based industry powerhouse Bendon before exiting in 2018. His most recent company is Kosan Travel, a clothing company that launched one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns for an apparel product, reaching nearly $1M in sales in 30 days. Part memoir and part entrepreneurial start-up manual, “Getting Naked: The Bare Necessities of Entrepreneurship and Start-ups” wants to take you through the process of scaling the business, building a team, raising money, and even when a founder needs to consider stepping down as CEO — and, at the same time, the book is going to ask questions that challenge you to interrogate yourself and your dream. One of the big problems for a lot of entrepreneurs is that they don’t know what questions to ask — they don’t know what they don’t know — and Joel hopes this book can help guide people to asking better questions so that they can start getting better answers, the answers that Joel wishes he had when he was starting this business from his apartment 12 years ago.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “If we don’t pick up the boulder in our lives all the time — that big, heavy, immovable object — then we don’t have to carry it. And to try to make sense of that, I looked at my life like what are the boulders in my life that I’m carrying that I don’t have to? That I’m trying to move that I don’t have to? These things that are completely strenuous, crushing me... what if I just didn’t pick it up?”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: Joelprimus.com Instagram: @joel.primus LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joelprimus “Getting Naked: The Bare Necessities of Entrepreneurship and Start-ups” by Joel Primus Raising Global Citizens   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Kim Chestney, author of “Radical Intuition: A Revolutionary Guide to Using Your Inner Power.” She’s a globally-recognized innovation leader and the founder of the Intuition Lab. Her work has been featured or supported by leading-edge organizations including SXSW Interactive, Carnegie Mellon University, Comcast, and Hewlett-Packard. Kim has been curious about intuition for as long as she can remember and predisposed to learning about it. She wanted to understand it and acknowledge that it is real. And she’s dedicated her life to learning everything she could about it. Intuition is our connection to information beyond our conscious mind. Intuition is often misunderstood as mysticism or spirituality without any substantial grounding in reality. But now, as we’ve gained more understanding around quantum physics and the way we understand our world. Kim likes to compare old school thinking to new school thinking. Old school thinking is like Neutonian physics: it’s reasonable, based on cause and effect. Intuition is more like quantum physics, which explores the things that seem impossible and don’t really make sense — but they still happen every day. "Radical Intuition" is meant to be a tool for people to begin developing their intuition on their own. It’s full of exercises that people can do every day to start integrating and drawing attention to their intuitive processes. The first thing that’s important in getting in touch with your intuition is learning to listen. We have to find a quiet place, focus on mindfulness, and slow down to give our intuition space to come through. Intuition is not a new term to most people, but our interpretations of it are wildly different. Kim works to reimagine intuition in a modern understanding of the word. Where the radical part comes in is the understanding that intuition is the complementary part of our mind to intellect. When you look at it that way and see the potential that is available to us if we learn to develop that part of ourselves, it opens up a whole new world of possibilities.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “We all have intuition. No matter where you are on the spectrum, whether you think you’re just awakening your intuition, whether you’re not sure you have intuition, or whether it’s something that you’ve been working with for years and you’re aware of  — wherever you are in your journey, your intuition, always, is waiting to take you to that step. Because we’re all sort of growing together and evolving together and there’s so much more when we align with our intuition. So, really, to remember to be true to yourself and to honor the truth within you and bring that truth out: that’s the greatest gift that you can give the world.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: kimchestney.com intuition-lab.com Read: "Radical Intuition" Instagram: @kim.chestney   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is John Lee Dumas, the founder and host of the award-winning podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire. With over 100 million listens across over 3000 episodes, Dumas has turned Entrepreneurs on Fire into a media empire that generates over a million listens every month and seven figures of net annual revenue eight years in a row. In his first traditionally-published book, “The Common Path to Uncommon Success,” John offers a roadmap to financial freedom and fulfillment that anyone can follow. In 2012, John Lee Dumas didn’t know anything about entrepreneurship or business. That’s why his first step was to interview people every single day: He wanted to learn more about what made people successful entrepreneurs. He interviewed over 3000 successful entrepreneurs — including Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Barbara Corcoran, Tim Ferriss, and many other amazing luminaries — and he’s learned from every single one of them. That enabled him to rapidly build a multi-million dollar business for eight years in a row, finding his own place among the group he used to covet. He realized that most people are being lied to, every single day, about success. They’re told that the path to success is hidden, tricky, secret. It’s not. There is a common, simple path to success — hard work — and it is a path that anyone can follow. And while it’s not a secret, you do need to know where to look, and that’s why John broke the path down into 17 steps, and he had to share it with the world. Like every journey, you have to start at step one. The first step is your big idea, the one that you are meant to create, the one that gets you excited and fired up. Because if you don’t have an idea worth pursuing, one that’s worth putting yourself through a lot of hardship, you’ll never make it to the finish line. Step 17 is what John calls “keep the money you make.” It is not hard to make money in this world, especially if you follow all of the previous steps. What’s tough is keeping it, instead of losing it all to poor decisions and bad investments. You need to be able to keep what you make so that you can truly experience financial freedom. Uncommon success is not necessarily about being a millionaire. It’s about being able to do what you love, being financially independent, and loving your life. Financial freedom and fulfillment is the promise JLD offers in “The Common Path to Uncommon Success,” and it’s a big one, but he delivers.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “Back in 2012, I was 32 years old, I was going nowhere, I had a bad track record of past career failures, and this quote reached out and virtually slapped me in the face: “Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.” And it was so clear to me that I was trying to be a person of success all of those past years and I wasn’t finding any success. And when I asked myself “What are you doing of value in this world?” and the answer was “Nothing,” and I decided to change that. And I changed that by releasing a daily podcast, interviewing entrepreneurs for free for 2000 days in a row, and that’s why I won. Because I became a person of value. So will you look in the mirror now and ask yourself, “How am I becoming a person of value”? And if you cannot answer that question to the best of your ability that excites you, then you need to figure out how to do just that.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: eofire.com uncommonsuccessbook.com Twitter: @johnleedumas Instagram: @johnleedumas Ep. 34: JLD: The Origin Story | with John Lee Dumas   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest, Mitzi Perdue, joins us for the second part of her interview. Mitzi is a science and health writer, businesswoman, author, and master storyteller. She holds degrees from Harvard and George Washington University, is a past president of the 35,000-member American Agri-Women group, and was one of the US delegates to the United Nations Conference on women in Nairobi. Her passion and mission is to combat human trafficking. In the first part of her interview, Mitzi shared the stories of her father and how he built an incredibly successful business during a period of, at the time, unparalleled financial upheaval and uncertainty. Today, we’re nearly a year into the coronavirus epidemic, and Mitzi published a book with Mark Victor Hansen called “How to be UP in Down Times.” It includes 40 tips to help people help themselves, and they are all both uplifting and scientifically accurate. We won’t be able to outline all 40 tips here, but these are some of Mitzi’s favorites: One of the most important things you can do when you’re under stress is giving yourself an hour to do something that is giving respite. That can be a movie, a game, a challenging puzzle, anything that gives your mind a break from the worries. Avoid negativity and news. Give yourself a hard limit of 15 minutes of news, just to make sure you’re staying informed, but news is inherently biased towards fear and violence. Similarly, anyone on social media that is constantly spreading fear and negativity, you can unfollow them or at least limit your interaction with them. Focus on good and good will come.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “Something that’s transformed my father’s life, my mother’s life, my late husband’s life, and my life: I recommend going back to the basics of Dale Carnegie’s ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People.’ Read it, read even a chapter of it, and it will be so enlightening, if you haven’t read it already, that you’ll want to read the rest.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: mitziperdue.com winthisfight.org Twitter: twitter.com/mitziperdue LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mitziperdue Read: “How to be UP in Down Times” Ep. 168: The Power of Asking Questions (Part 1) | with Mark Victor Hansen and Crystal Hansen Ep. 169: The Power of Asking Questions (Part 2) | with Mark Victor Hansen and Crystal Hansen   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Mitzi Perdue, a science and health writer, businesswoman, author, and master storyteller. She holds degrees from Harvard and George Washington University, is a past president of the 35,000-member American Agri-Women group, and was one of the US delegates to the United Nations Conference on women in Nairobi. Her passion and mission is to combat human trafficking. Mitzi combines the experience of three long-time family businesses: Her father, Ernest Henderson, co-founded the Sheraton Hotel chain; her late husband, Frank Perdue, was the second-generation in a poultry company that today operates in more than 50 countries; and she founded CERES Farms in 1974. Mitzi learned so much from her father. The Sheraton Hotel is called Sheraton, instead of Henderson, because one of the hotels he had bought had an expensive, beautiful neon sign that said Sheraton. He was too frugal to tear it down, so he named the rest of his hotels the same to match. He was also modest enough that he knew his name didn’t have a ring to it, and he did what was best for the company instead. When her father bought a hotel, he knew that employees would worry about losing their jobs. So, the first thing he would do is call everyone into the ballroom and assure them that he wanted them to keep their jobs, and that his job was to give them the resources and encouragement they needed to show the world how good they are. When refurbishing hotels, the first areas he would focus on were the ones that customers wouldn’t even see—the employee dining rooms, kitchens, showers, and lockers. He wanted the employees to feel valuable, and he knew that the success of the hotel depended on the happiness of the employees. He had to show them that he valued and believed in them. And her late husband, Frank Perdue, was always looking for ways to show the people he worked with how important they are to him. At Mitzi’s suggestion, they started inviting their associates—all 1,500 of them—over for dinner, one hundred at a time. At each dinner, Frank would wait on his employees and serve them. People skills did not come naturally to Mitzi’s father, but he knew that the most important skill in the world is the ability to get along with people. He made that his lifetime study to make sure what makes people tick—all in order to overcome his deficit. Even if you’re not naturally talented with human relations skills, they can still be learned. -- Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: mitziperdue.com Twitter: twitter.com/mitziperdue LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mitziperdue   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Dr. Fred Moss, a licensed psychiatrist known the world over who has served the medical health industry for nearly four decades. During that time, he has consulted patients, practitioners, medical facilities, non-profits, and community groups. He calls himself “a glorified childworker who picked up an MD along the way.” Fred dropped out of college multiple times before deciding he wasn’t going to go, so he got a job as a civil servant in Michigan. Before too long, he was working as a childcare worker. He looked at the ways that doctors were treating children and he realized he didn’t like it. When the childcare workers called the doctors, oftentimes, the doctors would appear, do a cursory interview, and then medicate the kids. That was so impersonal and left the kids feeling dazed. He realized the only way to make a difference was to become a doctor who cared. In 1987, biological psychiatry began to start up, and around that time, Prozac was introduced into the market; psychiatry began to shift from a field of listening to a field of diagnosing and medicating. Fred knew that this couldn’t be the best things could be. He began to start giving his patients a trial off of the medicine, and what he found was that many of his patients got better. He kept doing it, and he quickly became a non-diagnosing, non-medicating psychiatrist. What we’re seeing now is an industry of psychiatrists treating people before they’ve been fully diagnosed, and then choosing to give a diagnosis based on the way they respond to the medication. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle. So how do we make a dent and leave people empowered in who they are increase their capacity to function optimally in the world? We give people the benefit of the doubt and get them to understand that there is nothing inherently wrong with them. It’s amazing the level of healing that can arise from just that reframe. Dr. Fred Moss created a platform called Welcome to Humanity to help people walk themselves off of their medication and their diagnosis and get their life back.    The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “There is nothing inherently wrong with you. Period. I don’t care who you are, I don’t care what they’ve told you, and I don’t really care if you think there’s something wrong with you. It’s normal to know that there’s something wrong with you. We all know that there’s something wrong with us. And that, in fact, is a key component of what it means to be human, knowing that there’s something wrong with me. When you get the basic notion that there is nothing at all inherently wrong with you from a mental health perspective life takes on a whole new color.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: Learn more: welcometohumanity.net fredmossmd.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drfredmoss   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Barry Shore, the Ambassador of Joy, for the second part of his interview. He is transforming the world through joy, and in his newest book, “The Joy of Living,” he reveals 11 strategies for living in joy daily, no matter the circumstances. He’s a successful serial entrepreneur with two multi-million dollar exits and three issued patents, and after all that, he set out to build a platform to teach people to live in joy. Barry talked about how one of the most powerful tools for change is the act of getting uncomfortable. Our physiology is set up to be comfortable, to remain consistent in whatever it is we’re doing. So, by getting uncomfortable, you’re forcing the brain to start making changes. The most important speech you will ever hear is your own self-talk. You can’t help other people until you are able to help and take care of yourself first. When you understand that you are a soul experiencing life fully, teaching always love and kindness, when you begin with yourself and make yourself the best you possible, you create bridges of joy, happiness, peace, and love. Barry Shore is on a journey to make everyone smile. He began printing Keep Smiling cards and handing them out around the world. He ended up handing out over 10,000 cards in just six months and inspiring a global movement. His goal is to have 10 million in the world by 2030. Together, everyone achieves miracles. People around the world are influencing things for the better, contributing, getting involved, and spreading happiness.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “Be an ASKHOLE and thrive. ASKHOLE stands for ‘Always Seek Kindness, Helping Others Live Exuberantly.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: barryshore.com barryshore.com/free Instagram: @barryeshore Listen: The JOY of LIVING Podcast   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Barry Shore, the Ambassador of Joy. He is transforming the world through joy, and in his newest book, “The Joy of Living,” he reveals 11 strategies for living in joy daily, no matter the circumstances. He’s a successful serial entrepreneur with two multi-million dollar exits and three issued patents, and after all that, he set out to build a platform to teach people to live in joy. Over the years, he has founded the Keep Smiling Movement, which has distributed over two million “Keep Smiling” cards for free. His radio show and podcast, The Joy of Living, has been downloaded millions of times, and he’s been featured on Fox, ABC, CBS, Forbes, Jack Canfield, and Oprah Winfrey. But let’s go back a few years, to the morning of September 17, 2004. Barry Shore was able to stand up and walk the way he had almost every day of his life before then. But by the evening, he was in the hospital paralyzed from the neck down. He spent nearly half a year in the hospital, and two more years were spent in a hospital bed in his own home. Today, he is able to walk with the help of a walking wand, but he still manages to be positive, purposeful, and pleasant. Barry talks about the three fundamentals of life: Your life has purpose Making a difference Uncovering the secrets and power of everyday words and terms One of the biggest barriers in the way of feeling joy everyday is stress. It keeps you from being the best you can be. Barry offers eleven strategies to slay their stress willfully and gratefully, and one of the most powerful is also one of the most head-turning: Getting uncomfortable. Staying comfortable stops us from being able to pursue, and achieve, our dreams. So get comfortable with being uncomfortable and see your life change in so many joyful ways. Hear Barry’s Daily Helping in the second part of our interview.   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: barryshore.com Instagram: @barryeshore   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Genecia Alluora, a former beauty queen and the founder of Soul Rich Woman, South East Asia's leading network for female entrepreneurs connecting 12,000+ women and 200,000 subscribers across the region. Over the last 17 years, Genecia has coached celebrities, CEOs, and politicians on how to be seen as a leader on stage, and today, she mentors thousands of women on how to bring their business and leadership brand online through her books, podcasts, and membership programs. Genecia didn’t have a lot when she was growing up, having to work and support herself through school. Her mother made a sacrifice, selling all of her valuables, to help Genecia get certified to teach a few different types of classes. But she still hit a point where she realized she couldn’t do everything by herself. So she recruited a few other students as instructors and, bam, within an hour, she figured out how to make more with less — and this was her first taste of entrepreneurship. Being an entrepreneur transformed her life, and now her vision is to support 1,000,000 to own and love the F word — no, not that one — and she is already well on the way to smashing that goal.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “The sky is the limit and there’s no storm that you cannot conquer. Believe in yourself, step out of your comfort zone, and go towards the dreams that you’ve always wanted to achieve. Alone, you are strong. Together, we are unstoppable.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: Soul Rich Woman Instagram: @geneciaalluora Facebook: facebook.com/geneciaalluora Listen: For Women Who Love the F Word Listen: Soul Why? The Secrets Of The Soul Rich Woman Blueprint SRW Academy   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Dr. Allen Lycka, one of the leading cosmetic dermatologists in the world. A pioneer in cosmetic surgery, he helped to develop laser assisted tumescent liposuction, an advanced body sculpture technique, and Moh’s Micrographic Surgery, an advanced means of removing skin cancer with 99% success. But in 2003, Dr. Lycka was diagnosed with Lou Gherigs’ disease and given only six months to live, but he fought that diagnosis with courage and determination. He went through all of the stages of grief, and in his stage of denial, he went out searching for what was actually wrong with him. He found a doctor who was going through the same thing that he was. That doctor had been misdiagnosed with ALS and came to believe he had lyme disease from a tick bite. Once he started treatment with that assumption, he recovered rapidly. When Dr. Lycka met with this doctor and began treatment, he, too, started getting better. After this, he felt he had a second chance to help people even more than he once did. Using what he learned, he co-authored “The Secrets to Living a Fantastic Life” with Harriet Tinka, and he speaks to groups all over the world about how to transform lives. In “The Secrets to Living a Fantastic Life,” Dr. Allen goes over 13 Golden Pearls for Living a Fantastic Life: Love Inspiration Victory Vulnerability Purpose Non-Negotiables Forgiveness Attitude Thankfulness Tenaciousness Laughter Enthusiasm Empowerment   We’re all facing a lot of fear right now. It’s possible this could be a time for despair, but we can also choose to use this as a time to move forward and propel us into a greater time. We are not going to be complete at any one given time, but we have to keep moving forward.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “It’s not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens. I want you to take those words and really take them home, because those are truly the magic words that everybody could use.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: drallenlycka.com Text GOLDEN PEARLS to 1-819-717-2515 to get one golden pearl a week and reshape your life Instagram: @dr_allen_lycka Read: “The Secrets to Living a Fantastic Life”   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Dov Gordon of ProfitableRelationships.com. He helps consultants use backwards networking to reach their ideal clients consistently.Experienced consultants know that the best clients come from referrals and relationships, but conventional networking advice doesn't work for everyone. So, Dov offers a simple and practical alternative to the unpredictable world of networking that will allow you to become an under-the-radar leader in your industry. Many people today are being forced to create their own business right now, but they’ve never been trained in how to do that properly. If you want to get your presence known and you’re just starting out, you have to answer three simple questions in the minds of your ideal client: Why should I pay attention to this? Are you for real? Is what you recommend right for me? The only thing that’s going to get the interest of your ideal client is solving a problem they have and don’t want, or getting a result they want and don’t have. The key part in all of this is forging meaningful relationships. Over the years, Dov built what he calls an “alchemy network” of people who have similar values and similar audiences, and they support and promote each other. He realized that this is something anybody could do, but very few people actually were. Building a network like this can be a very powerful alternative to the common advice of becoming a “guru” on social media, which only works for a small handful of people. By creating a network of like-minded people who all have something to add, and making it easy for those people to have conversations, you can build up your customer base and authority without having to become an internet celebrity.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “Listen to your gut and then make your brain play along. If your gut says to do something and your brain is saying, ‘but, but, this could go wrong,’ and ‘that could go wrong,’ listen to your gut because your gut knows. And when it comes to business, your gut is going to lead you towards your big opportunities but they’re going to scare you. Your brain is going to come up with all sorts of reasons why you shouldn’t invest the money, you shouldn’t put in the time, why you’ve got to do other things first. Listen to your gut and then give your brain a better question. Ask your brain how you can make this work as opposed to how it could go wrong.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: profitablerelationships.com/dailyhelping LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dovgordon Twitter: twitter.com/DovGordon   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Laura DiBenedetto, the number one bestselling author of “The Six Habits,” TEDx speaker, and mastery coach who teaches people how to create the lives of their dreams without sacrificing what they love. She is the founder and CEO of the award-winning marketing company Vision Advertising, which she built up for 19 years to tremendous success before retiring from active involvement in 2018 at the age of 37. Over the years, Laura personally sold millions of dollars worth of ongoing contracts, was featured on FOX News, and was publicly recognized for her business accomplishments. She was named a 40 Under 40 award winner at the age of 23. At 32 years old, she was already beginning to feel the burnout of the “hustle and grind” lifestyle, so she began looking for an exit strategy. It took her a few years to figure out what she wanted to do, and her strategy was to get herself “lovingly fired” by selling off half of her stake in the company and allowing herself to be phased out. After stripping everything away except the core of herself, she realized that none of the accomplishments that came before had actually made her happy. She needed to find happiness for real, and that’s what led her to the discovery of The Six Habits. The Six Habits are: Kindness: Like a parent encouraging a child, you need your inner voice to be kind and encouraging towards you when you are facing hard times. Acceptance: How we feel about ourselves and unconditionally loving ourselves. Gratitude: The lens of appreciation through which you look at everything in your life, including the hard things that could be considered bad. Presence: Choosing to be in the moment you are in instead of wishing you were somewhere else. Even difficult moments can be made more pleasant if we just allow ourselves to be there and experience them. Goodness: Watch what is coming in, add in positive things, subtract the negative things. Intention: How you approach your desires and take action. Searching for clarity and movement whenever you can. These are all very basic concepts, but it’s the application that is tricky. After how many years of life on this planet, you’ve built up a habit of speaking to yourself a certain way.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “Your job in life is to love yourself, enjoy your life, and do the work. All the things you learned in this episode, or anywhere, are useless without application. Take whatever you learn and apply it to your life. That is where change comes from.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: thesixhabits.com The Six Habits of the Happiest People | Laura DiBenedetto | TEDxMcphs Instagram: @lauraldibenedetto Facebook: facebook.com/lauraldibenedetto   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media

Today our expert guest is Tony Guarnaccia, who’s helped thousands of businesses survive crisis—whether it was post-9/11, a massive recession, or amidst massive company acquisitions, he’s helped businesses navigate through uncertainty and emerge stronger on the other side. Over his 20-year career as an entrepreneur, business owner, and enterprise marketer, he’s worked with the best-in-class businesses in every industry, including Google, Microsoft, ADP, Ford, BMW, and Foster Grant, to name a few. He’s helped grow over ten thousand small businesses and a dozen Fortune 500 companies. Tony grew up within a small business family of bakers. His parents were fantastic bakers, but they didn’t know what they didn’t know about growing a business, and when he was 12 years old, they were essentially homeless. In college, he was on a mission to redeem himself. As part of his graduation plan, he wrote a business plan for an online bakery that transformed into a mail-order cake company that made gift cakes for promotional products. It was going amazing at first until Tony found out that he didn’t know what he didn’t know about running a business. Realizing he didn’t know how to run a business, he asked himself “Who does know?” That led him on a journey to work with the absolute best companies in the world. Even though his business had failed, he had done a lot of things right. He used the expertise he’d gained in leveraging search engine optimization (SEO) and got the first job that came up, because not many people had heard of SEO at the time. He went on to have some amazing opportunities by being in the right place at the right time and being prepared to take those opportunities. He was traveling a lot and wanted a more balanced lifestyle with his family, so he went on to start helping small businesses leverage the same tools, tactics, and strategies that these big businesses are using. Part of what they are lacking was the foundation of knowing their why and having a strategy, so he started a training and coaching company. Tony has learned to specialize in helping businesses make it through difficult times. His mom, at 9 months old, had contracted polio and could walk until she was 14. She taught him about resiliency and the power of breaking things down into taking small steps. How do you do that? You have to do these 3 things: Know what steps to take Know how to take those steps Actually take the steps It sounds simple, and it is, but implementation is what makes the difference. If you can lay the foundation, find out what you want, and take the steps to get there, small businesses—and individuals—can achieve the same results as big companies.   The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway “You have to slow down to speed up. So often we just want to jump right into things, but in business and life that costs time, effort, and money. A lot of bad decisions are made because we jump in without thinking it through.”   --   Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.   Resources: smallstepsgrowprofits.com Smallstepsmanifesto.com Instagram: @tony.g.guarnaccia Ep. 167: What to Fix Next in Your Business | with Mike Michalowicz   The Daily Helping is produced by Crate Media