S3E19: Mark Verstegen Founder and President of EXOS, NFL Performance Director, Creating Extraordinary Teams, Every Day is Game Day, and the Ultimate Morning Routine...

I am wrapping this season up earlier than I typically do and I wanted to share with you why. 

My family has the opportunity to go back to the US this summer and see our families for the first time in 3 and a half years!

We have a 3 year old baby girl who was born here in Shanghai that neither of our families have met. 

We will be spending the summer traveling around and visiting friends and family in different states and we could not be more excited!

Seeing as this is our first chance to travel outside of China in over 3 years I wanted to put a pause on the podcast until September to make sure that I am present with our families and enjoying a magical summer. 

As always, thank you for listening and keep engineering your success!

Dr. Rob Bell fell off an 80-foot cliff and it changed his life...

Dr. Rob Bell is a sport psychology coach, author, and speaker. He has spoken to the NSCA, PGA, NFL, Marriott, and Walgreens and has written seven books on Mental Toughness. 

Rob has worked with three different winners on the PGA Tour. In addition, he has served as the mental coach for the University of Notre Dame, Indy Eleven, an Indy 500 champion, Olympian medalists, and more.

He’s an ironman, completed several ultra-marathons and a 100-mile trail run. 

 And has been featured on ESPN, The Golf Channel, Runner’s World, NY Times, and Stack Magazine.

In this episode, Dr. Rob Bell
1. Defines mental toughness - (it's not what you think)
2. Explains how to train mental toughness to perform at elite levels
3. How to come back stronger after a setback
4. How to parent resilient, successful kids.

Check out his website at
drrobbell.com 

"I think a secret to life is figuring out where do you draw the balance? What do you maximize on? And what do you satisfy on? And I think that the universe of things that we should satisfy on is extraordinarily large and the universe of things we should maximize on is relatively small." Daniel Pink

Daniel H. Pink is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward which was named best book of 2022 by NPR, Amazon, Apple books and Financial Times.

His other books include the New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. 

Dan’s books have won multiple awards, have been translated into 42 languages, and have sold millions of copies around the world. He is also the host and co-executive producer of "Crowd Control" a National Geographic TV series on human behavior that aired in more than 100 countries. 

He has appeared multiple times on NPR, PBS, ABC, CNN and a bunch of other TV and radio networks.

You will not want to miss this as Daniel has an incredible, in-depth understanding of motivation and human behavior!

Website:
https://www.danpink.com/

Do you want to know the top 5 habits to improve your happiness everyday?

Do you want to know the top 5 mindsets that consistently happy people have that you don’t?

Professor Lord Richard Layard is a co-editor of the World Happiness Report and one of the first economists to work on happiness. He Has written multiple books on Happiness from Happiness Lessons from a New Science, to Thrive How we can secure a better deal for mental health, and his latest book Can we be Happier.

 He also started Action for Happiness an international movement to promote a happier way of living which over 300,000 people have been participating in to dramatically improve their happiness.

In this episode, we talk about:
1. Top 5 Daily actions to improve your happiness
2. Top 5 mindsets to adopt to increase your happiness
3. How to improve the mental health of the world through corporate and government policy change

And a lot more!

Resources:
https://www.richardlayard.com

Action for Happiness 6 Week Course
https://actionforhappiness.org/course

Do you want to know how COVID affected the happiness and mental health of the world?

It may not be what you think...

Dr. Lara Aknin a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University,  co-editor of the World Happiness Report and Chair of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Task Force of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission.

In this episode, we discuss how COVID affected the happiness and mental health of countries around the world, and the link between generosity and its affect on our happiness.

 Her work has been published in various academic journals, including Science, Nature, Human Behaviour, the Lancet Public Health, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and has been covered in international media outlets such as CBC, CNN, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

This is the second in our 3 Part series on happiness featuring the co-editors of the World Happiness Report.

Do you want to know what 6 factors contribute most to an individuals and country's happiness?

John Helliwell is the co- editor of The World Happiness Report, a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be that has been running for the last decade! He is also the Professor emeritus of Economics at University of British Columbia and a distinguished senior fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is one of the first economist to begin to research happiness and its effect on individuals, countries, and even GDP.

In this episode we talk about the 6 factors that consistently show the highest correlation to a nation's happiness along with how to measure dystopia, dropping wallets with money around cities, and the effects of COVID on world happiness and mental health!

I wanted to rerun this episode because today (March 20th) is World Happiness Day which was founded in part due to the efforts of John Helliwell among others.

I interviewed not one, but three of the editors (John Helliwell, Dr. Lara Aknin, Lord Richard Layard) of the World Happiness Report who will all give different perspectives on happiness based on their areas of expertise in the next three episodes.

I would highly recommend that you check out the World Happiness Report here!

It is an astounding amount of research over a decade with new additions into genetics and even social media as a indicator of the happiness of various regions. Fascinating!

"Looking at my business card and I realize that my entire life is a series of labels on a piece of paper..."

Mary Henderson is a transformational Leader and an internationally recognized Personal Branding & Online Business Specialist. She has 20+ years of experience building 7 & 8 figure businesses & building high-performance sales teams and 15 years delivering online solutions for large and small businesses.

Mary dove deeply into her pain, her past, and her trauma to uncover who she truly was underneath everything and leveraged her unique skills and strengths to create a software system that helps define a person at their truest self then create a brand that perfectly reflects that across all touchpoints!

Amazing conversation!

Resources:
She has tons of free masterclasses on her website from creating your own personal brand to dominating on LinkedIn (she has over 83K followers on LI) and so much more!
Free Masterclasses | Mary Henderson | Personal Branding (maryhendersoncoaching.com)
You can also schedule a free 45-minute coaching call with her directly!

How can changing our language change our worldview?

How can changing our posture change our state?

How can changing our thoughts change how we feel?

How can we align our behaviors with our identities?

Vin Infante covers all this and more in an episode packed with mindset frameworks, thought exercises, and tips for shifting our mental health and behavior by changing our thoughts and emotions.

 Vin has over a decade of experience in mental health, worked with thousands of people, former FDNY firefighter, and is currently a psychotherapist and master mindset coach. Vin was featured in International Business Times as “a top coach to follow in 2022”  and has been featured in Forbes, NY Weekly, Entrepreneur, and a lot of other places!

If you want to change your life through changing your mindset, listen to this episode!

You can follow Vin at:
IG: vin.infante
LI: Vin Infante

Download his scientifically- backed framework for creating a Mission Board that actually changes your life here!

Do you want to know the top 5 mobility exercises that everyone should be doing?

Do you want to know the top 5 supplements to support optimal health and wellness?

Do you want to have a framework to create a comprehensive workout program for maximal benefit in minimal time?

Ashleigh Gass has a long professional track record in the Strength and Conditioning Industry.  Her credentials and experience are extensive. She has a master’s degree in Human/Clinical Nutrition through The University of Bridgeport, is a Certified Sports Nutritionist through The International Society of Sports Nutrition (CISSN), in addition to being one of the few CSCSs in Florida (Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist), she also holds the CNS (Certified Nutrition Specialist) credential. She's been coaching, training and studying for 24 years and is now the co-owner of MOVE Gymnastics Inspired Strength Training in Clearwater, FL.

Get ready to take notes and potentially listen more than once because this episode has so many tips and strategies!

Website:
https://movegst.com/

IG: AshleighrGass
IG: move_training_calisthenics

MOVE calisthenics has online exercise coaching programs for those that want individualized assessment, program design and coaching.

Morgan Adams is a holistic sleep coach for women struggling with consistently getting a good night's sleep.  Morgan is an accredited health coach with multiple advanced certifications in sleep science. She’s a sought-after podcast guest and expert for websites like MindBodyGreen. 

Website:
https://www.morganadamswellness.com/

Social
https://www.instagram.com/morganadams.wellness/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/morganadamswellness/