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"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" – Hippocrates

I love to eat!  What can I say?  Most days, I wake up thinking about what I'm going to eat the rest of the day and (quite possibly) tomorrow!

I'm really excited to share the interview with this episode's guest, Dr. Glenn Livingston.  Glenn shares his own journey with food addiction and binge eating and how you can get past that to never binge again!  I know you'll love Glenn as much as I did!

ENJOY!

More on Glenn...

Glenn Livingston, Ph.D. is a veteran psychologist and is the Author of the hugely successful book Never Binge Again, with over 600,000 Amazon Kindle downloads. Glenn hs incredible leadership experience, he was the long time CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting firm which has serviced several Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. Disillusioned by what traditional psychology had to offer overweight and/or food obsessed individuals, Dr. Livingston spent several decades researching the nature of bingeing and overeating via work with his own patients and a research program with more than 40,000 participants. This has transformed the lives of many individuals. He is not promoting a specific diet, rather helping people to develop a mindset that allows them to overcome what leads to overeating and avoid it! Having himself once been obese, this is a journey Glenn knows well. 

Glenn is has a daily bloggers post with Psychology Today and you've likely seen his work in many major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun Times, The Indiana Star Ledger, The NY Daily News, American Demographics, ABC, WGN, and/or CBS radio, or UPN TV and many more.

Connect with Glenn here:  http://www.NeverBingeAgain.com

 

 

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"Run Amok" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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 "Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”– Allen Ginsberg

Here we go!  Are you ready?  Did you know we're in the fourth year of the podcast? I learn a LOT from my guests...just like you do.  And, this episode is no different!

On this episode, I had the great privilege to talk with David Rendall.  He's the author of four books and, although we don't talk about just one in particular, he shares his philosophies that are intertwined in them all.  If you've been told to be something you're not, you have to listen to this episode.  Be you and shine!

ENJOY!

More on David...

During the last fifteen years, David Rendall has spoken to audiences on every inhabited continent. His clients include the US Air Force, Australian Government, and Fortune 50 companies such as Microsoft, AT&T, United Health Group, Fannie Mae, and State Farm.

Prior to becoming a speaker, he was a leadership professor and stand-up comedian. He also managed nonprofit enterprises that provided employment for people with disabilities. 

In between presentations, David competes in ultramarathons and Ironman triathlons.

David has a doctor of management degree in organizational leadership, as well as a graduate degree in psychology. 

He is the author of four books:

- The Four Factors of Effective Leadership

- The Freak Factor

- The Freak Factor for Kids

- Pink Goldfish

Connect with him....

David Rendall

+1 919 222 6295

dave@drendall.com

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"Run Amok" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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"Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one's fellow human beings." –Maya Angelou

WOWZA!  I love talking to people that stretch my brain and that's what happened on this episode.  It's not a surprise because our guest, Dr. Heidi Hanna, is one of the smartest people I know!

Heidi and I talk about some of the new research she is doing in the world of humor and the brain so grab something to write with and on....you're going to want to take notes!

We didn't talk about it on the show but Heidi has a special offer for those who sign up for her Stress Summit.  If you sign up and email her, she'll donate some money back to AATH and you'll also get a copy of the book, What's So Funny About Stress (which she co-authored with Karyn Buxman).  We'll have a link to sign up here later but you can reach the destination from her website listed at the bottom of the show notes.

ENJOY!

More on Heidi...

Dr. Heidi Hanna is the Chief Energy Officer of Synergy Brain Fitness, a company providing brain-based health and performance programs to individuals and organizations, a Founding Partner of the Academy for Brain Health and Performance and a Fellow and Advisory Board Member for the American Institute of Stress. She is a NY Times bestselling author who has written seven books, including The Sharp Solution, Stressaholic, Recharge and What’s So Funny About Stress?

Heidi has been featured at many global conferences including the Fortune Magazine Most Powerful Women in Business Summit, ESPN Leadership Summit and the Million Dollar Round Table. Her clients have included Google, Starbucks, Microsoft, Principal Insurance, Morgan Stanley, Ameriprise and WD40 as well as the PGA Tour and the National Football League. Heidi is also a National Board Member and Certified Humor Professional with the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor although she won’t admit she’s funny. 

Connect with her at: https://heidihanna.com/

 

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"Run Amok" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play." -Frederic Nietsche

First things first.....are you registered for the conference?  If not, WHY NOT!?  If not today, WHEN!?  Get it done!  You don't want to miss out on the opportunity to laugh, learn, and connect!

In this episode, I had the great pleasure to talk with Marcey Rader and discuss her book, Work Well, Play More!  She shares some great tips on integrating health, wellness and PLAY into your everyday life.  I know you'll like it!

ENJOY!

More on Marcey..

Marcey Rader is an Amazon best-selling author, sought-after productivity coach, accredited health and wellness expert, and renowned keynote speaker. As the founder of Marcey Rader Coaching and the Work Well. Play More!® Institute, she helps individuals and businesses kick their lifestyles back into balanced gear – without sacrificing health. Marcey knows first-hand that self-management is essential to success in life and business. 

After a case of high-stress, high-performance, corporate burnout triggered three autoimmune diseases, Marcey established her productivity coaching business. Her unique expertise has turned the spotlight on the intersection between business productivity and wellness, making better use of our most valuable asset – our health.

Working with a diverse range of businesses and individuals, she applies proven health and wellness principles to help clients find real balance, purpose, and success in work and life. As a high-impact speaker, she packs presentations with actionable advice and real-world wisdom. Her speaking roster's alive with engagements for Fortune 100 companies, startups, and everyone in between. From North Dakota to Dubai, manufacturing to biotech. Audiences learn to escalate their energy, conquer the calendar, master tasks, and extinguish email.

She is the author of Beyond Travel: A Road Warrior's Survival Guide and Hack the Mobile Lifestyle: 6 Steps to Work Well and Play More! Her latest book, Work Well. Play More! Productive, clutter-free, healthy living - one step at a time goes beyond the inspirational narrative to focus on simple, tangible tools and practical steps for gaining time and decluttering the body and mind.

To learn more about Marcey Rader, visit https://www.marceyrader.com/

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"Run Amok" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." - Stuart Seaton

One of my New Year's goals was to spend more time in the present.....but my brain keeps getting in the way!  How about you?  Do you want to be mindful, meditate or just calm the monkeys in your head?  If so, this episode will get you there!

This episode's guest is Ariel Garten.  She is the creator of a product called, Muse, and it can help YOU train your brain.  Ariel and I talk about Muse but we hit a lot of other reasons you should train your brain.  Take a listen...she's amazing!

ENJOY!

More on Ariel...

So the server asked me what I wanted and I said that I'd take a full order of happiness.  It's what is on today's menu!

On this episode, I had the great pleasure to talk with Sean Webb about his books on mind hacking happiness.  I won't bore you with my version of what we talked about because it PALES in comparison to the actual interview.  But....you can take this to the lavatory, it is pretty awesome.  He has done the research and we get to benefit from it!

ENJOY!

More on Sean...

As the author of a book that was used to influence millions of voters in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election through social media disinformation campaigns (without his knowledge), Sean Webb probably knows the human mind as well as anyone can. From his work in logically modeling human emotions for the world of Artificial Emotional Intelligence, to his real-world practice as an author, speaker and guide to helping individuals supercharge their minds and lives with the knowledge of how their mind works, Sean pushes the bleeding edge of mind sciences to the next level. 

Over the last 20 years, Sean has become one of the world’s leading experts in how the human mind works, particularly in the area of human emotions, the driving force and motivation of all human actions globally. His work is used by universities and engineering firms to teach emotional intelligence, the foundations of artificial emotional intelligence, and his discoveries have proved so effective, that his work is currently being turned into programs to address addiction management and the mitigation of PTSD after early amazing successes within those applications.

As an alumnus of Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technologies Development Center, Sean has spent years solving complex systems problems for cutting edge technology and supercomputing companies. His latest complex system solve is associated with the mind; how to model mind processes, how to manipulate mind output, and how to use those disciplines to our collective human advantage. His heart lies in this last portion of the project; teaching individuals about our minds so as to understand the thought processes that steal our happiness and block our ability to enjoy life. He loves sharing the practical neuroscience of how to hack the mind to generate happiness from within without any strings attached, and without changing any of life’s external conditions. He has indeed discovered a new door into the deep mind manipulation, where only practiced meditation and psychedelics have been able to take us before. 

Sean has spoken at Science of Consciousness, Science and Nonduality, UNC, UGA, ASU, Emory, Georgia Tech, for numerous multinational corporations, and at NASA. Check out Sean’s work at MindHackingHappiness.com.

Sean and his wife are licensed foster parents, and are active in numerous children’s and animal charities.

Check Sean out HERE!

 

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"Run Amok" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

“We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” —Joseph Campbell

We're back for season three and kicking it off strong!  New intro, new outro and a great line up of guests....starting off with Steve Wilson!

Steve and I have a great conversation about his journey from psychologist to Joyologist and what joyology is all about.  He shares some history about how far therapeutic humor has come and how far we have to go.  I know you'll dig it as much as I did!

Also, I must give a big SHOUT OUT to my brother, Pete Lutz, for re-doing the intro/outro for me.  He has his own podcast called the Narada Audio Radio Drama.  If you like old time radio shows, check it out on iTunes here!

ENJOY!

More on Steve...

World Laughter Tour, Inc., is the brainchild of psychologist and self-proclaimed “Joyologist” Steve Wilson, who describes his role as “Cheerman of The Bored.” The creation of World Laughter Tour was an idea that came to him during a 1998 lecture tour to India, after participating in the Juhu Beach Laughter Club at the Arabian seaside in Mumbai. In India, Laughter clubs were referred to as ‘Hasya Yoga’.

Nevertheless, for Steve Wilson, this first introduction was the spark to initiate a clear vision of bringing Laughter Clubs to the United States, of course with certain adaptations to suit the Western mentality. As he imagined, certain laughter and attitudinal practices could be systematized and taught as a means to influence health and peace, while promoting happiness and longevity. Hence, he sought out to connect with these gurus, recognizing the enormous potential that existed in applying a systematic approach to laughing without using jokes, under the guidance of a trained leader and motivator.

Struck by a noble impulse, Steve flew an Indian physician to the United States, whereupon he delivered a series of lectures and demonstrations. The reaction to a laughter exercise program in the U.S. was both startling and telling, growing instant curiosity and support from the participants and the media. With the encouragement of his wife, Pamela, the World Laughter Tour was officially launched in July of 1998.

It took about a year to put together the first laughter tour in the USA. Thanks to the generosity and sponsorship of Dr. Valeriana Moeller, president of Columbus State Community College, The World Laughter Tour had a very successful kickoff on May 27, 1999 in Columbus, Ohio. The tour traveled to 14 cities for the next 7 weeks, demonstrating the method to diverse audiences.

Since its inception, World Laughter Tour has been recognized as a significant global influence in the practical applications of laughter and humor for health and world peace. Steve Wilson is a very popular and talented Certified Speaking Professional, experienced educator of mental health professionals, member of key professional organizations such as Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH), International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS), and the American Humor Studies Association (AHSA), as well as having been the 2010 recipient of the Doug Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award, and Rire d’Or Golden Laughter Award in 2007 from the French School of Laughter and Well-Being.

He still maintains a very active presence in WLT and will often answer phone calls and inquiries, as well as making himself available to trainees, attendees, the media, or other interested parties who wish to speak with him personally.

Connect with him at:  www.worldlaughtertour.com

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"Run Amok" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
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"It is in games that many men discover their paradise."

- Robert Wilson Lynd

Here it is...our last episode of the season.  I take the summer off so I can play a bit more, which is AWESOME because we're hitting a bit of that in this episode.

In this episode, I had the great pleasure to talk with Mary Couzin.  Mary is a super cool person and has it going on.  She invented (yes, invented) the Chicago Toy and Game Fair and is a game developer herself.  We talk about her journey in the world of toys, games, and play as well as why it's such a passion for her.

I know you'll dig this episode as much as I did!  CHEERS!

More on the Toy and Game Fair...

Chicago Toy & Game Group
We promote play and innovation through events listed below (over 2 Billion media impressions in Nov); monthly e-newsletters reaching over 250,000 people - industry, consumers, educators, inventor, bloggers, Scouts, traditional and social media. www.chitag.com.

Join our Toy, Game & Play Innovators Network here on LinkedIn!

ChiTAG Events:

Chicago Toy & Game Fair
Largest public toy/game fair in North America. Meet your consumers! The biggest and most cost effective focus group anywhere. The traditional/social media and bloggers love this event - they attend to report what's hot for the holidays. Early open to media/trade. Emphasis on interactive/hands-on and meeting inventors at Navy Pier the weekend before Black Friday. www.chitag.com

Inventor & Innovation Conferences with top industry executives. Learn, network, pitch your ideas to dozens of companies. www.chitag.com/conferences

Toy & Game Innovation Awards Dinner, the TAGIEs, celebrating inventors www.chitag.com/tagies

PlayCHIC pairs haute couture fashion designers with toy and game brands to create media worthy playful runway looks. www.chitag.com/playchic

Educator Conference for teachers to incorporate play in the classroom. www.g4ed.com

Star Wars Character Breakfast

Young Inventor Challenge www.chitag.com/yic

ChiTAG year round activities include:

Hosting Pub Events/Get-Togethers around the world.
Play in Education, PIE, website, newsletter and conference www.playineducation.com
Specialties: Connecting people, helping toy and game inventors, promoting inventors and play to the public anywhere and everywhere we can, bringing play and games into the classroom and libraries, quality fundraising (www.gamesforfundraising.com)

“Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds.”
– Ana Claudia Antunes

Once in a while you get the opportunity to meet people whose joy is so genuine it can't help but inspire you.  That's how it was when I first met this week's guest, Shauna Bruce-Hamburger.

Shauna doesn't let anything in life hold her back.  She and I talk about overcoming life's challenges and how you can bounce back and live a life filled with real joy.  I had so much fun with Shauna that I didn't want the conversation to end...and neither will you.

ENJOY! 

“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.”

- Eckhart Tolle

Are you really busy?  Do you spend most of your time thinking you don't have enough time to do all the things you want to do?  Do you wish you could just take a moment to enjoy a moment when you have that moment? YOU'RE NOT ALONE!

We all live busy lives and it is becoming increasingly difficult to be present when you have the opportunity.  In this episode of Laughbox I had the opportunity to talk about all of life's distractions and how to get past them with mindful leadership expert, Daphne Scott.

Daphne is an incredible guest with great energy!  She shares some great strategies on how to be mindful, less stressed, and really connect with the team members around you.

I know you'll put this one at the top of your replay list.  CHEERS!

More on Daphne...

Dr. Daphne Scott brings two decades of real world coaching and corporate development experience to her work with organizations. She combines strong leadership abilities with highly-trained facilitation skills to bring individuals and teams into greater relationship, creativity, and ultimately, success.

Daphne is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), certified Hendricks Coach, a founding member of the Conscious Leadership Group, and a member of the International Coaching Federation. She has studied with top-level executive coaches, consciousness experts, and organizational psychologists. She also holds a Masters Degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate of Science in Physical Therapy from Andrews University. Daphne was previously the Director of Leadership Development at Athletico Physical Therapy and is the Chief Cultural Officer at Confluent Health.

Some of Daphne’s strongest skills come from her training with the Second City Improvisational Conservatory Program. She draws from her unique background in theater and physical therapy to bring engaging embodiment and team-building elements to her coaching.

Daphne is no stranger to the perceived daily challenges that stall teams and delay leaders. Responsible for team success herself, Daphne understands the fear that grips leaders, taking them into stagnation and stress. She enjoys working with clients who are committed to leaving old paradigms behind and who are willing to allow themselves to experience life as a journey for their highest learning. Daphne currently facilitates quarterly and monthly trainings for clients around the world and works closely with team leaders in various organizations.

Check her out at: http://daphne-scott.com/lhh