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Chris Marr, client communication expert and authority coach, shares powerful insights on establishing genuine authority by embracing authenticity rather than seeking approval. He explores how overcoming people-pleasing tendencies and speaking your truth creates stronger relationships, clearer boundaries, and more impactful communication both professionally and personally.

• Finding comfort in your own identity after years of feeling like "a square peg in a round hole"
• Distinguishing between authoritative communication and being an authoritarian
• How accidentally diminishing your authority through language and non-verbal cues prevents others from respecting you
• The inverse relationship: addressing difficult conversations directly strengthens relationships rather than damaging them
• Setting boundaries and becoming comfortable with saying "no" to things that don't align with your priorities
• Viewing confidence issues as skill issues—acquire the right skills to build confidence in any area
• Why external validation seeking prevents authentic connection and diminishes your impact

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Adam Schaeuble shares his journey from fitness entrepreneur to successful podcaster, revealing how he built a thriving online business from scratch after making just $37 in his first three years of podcasting. He breaks down his strategic transition process while maintaining two businesses simultaneously until his podcast generated enough income to become his full-time focus.

• Only worked for someone else for one month of his life, starting entrepreneurial ventures from early childhood
• Built a successful gym business with 35 employees and over 500 clients before discovering podcasting
• Recorded his first podcast episodes on GarageBand in 2015 without knowing how to publish them
• Struggled for three years making just $37 total from affiliate marketing on his podcast
• Created a breakthrough with a $37 fitness challenge that generated nearly $4,000 in revenue
• Implemented "electric fence" scheduling to manage both businesses until transitioning full-time to podcasting in 2019
• Uses a specific two-thirds content rule: position yourself as the expert through solo and coaching episodes
• Recommends strategic podcast naming that includes searchable keywords your ideal clients are using
• Advises focusing on solving other people's problems first, which naturally solves your financial problems
• Emphasizes that podcasting remains "fresh and fertile ground" with only 10% of launched podcasts staying active

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Foojan Zeine shares her transformative journey from trauma to creating Awareness Integration Theory (AIT), a groundbreaking framework that helps people move from merely surviving to genuinely thriving. Her personal path through childhood trauma, immigration, and business collapse reveals how unresolved past issues inevitably resurface until properly addressed through conscious integration of all parts of ourselves.

• World-renowned psychotherapist with over 20 published studies on AIT
• Created a six-phase model integrating thought processes, emotions, behaviors, and relationships
• Explains the crucial difference between surface-level coaching and deeper psychotherapy
• Demonstrates how unprocessed trauma leads to self-sabotage despite external success
• Emphasizes the importance of specific life skills development for relationships and communication
• Shows how AIT reduces depression by 75% and anxiety by 64% in clinical settings
• Has expanded AIT beyond therapy to education, including remarkable success with children
• Developed an app and AI chatbot for greater accessibility to mental wellness tools
• Teaches that being your "best self" means your unique definition, not matching someone else's ideal

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Dr. Debbi Silber shares her journey from personal betrayal to becoming a leading expert in post-betrayal syndrome, revealing the predictable path to healing that can transform pain into purpose. Her groundbreaking research identifies the specific physical, mental, and emotional symptoms that affect betrayal survivors, while providing a clear roadmap through five stages of recovery that anyone can follow.

• Defining betrayal as the breaking of spoken or unspoken rules in a relationship
• Physical symptoms of post-betrayal syndrome include low energy, sleep issues, and digestive problems
• Mental symptoms include feeling overwhelmed, inability to focus, and difficulty concentrating
• Emotional symptoms include extreme sadness, anger, and most significantly, an inability to trust
• Most people get stuck in stage three (survival mode) where they numb their pain and cling to their story
• Moving to stages four and five requires letting go of what no longer serves you
• Four powerful questions to ask yourself to begin healing: Are you numbing/avoiding? What are you pretending not to see? What happens if you continue this path? What could happen if you change?
• The choice between "hard now, easy later" versus "easy now, hard later"
• Transformation begins when you tell yourself the truth

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Anne Randall shares her journey from corporate America to owning three successful Orange Theory Fitness franchises and how she navigated the challenges of entrepreneurship with the right mindset shifts. Her inspiring story demonstrates how focusing on people first and maintaining resilience through difficult times leads to business success and personal fulfillment.

• Transitioning from a corporate career with an economics degree to fitness entrepreneurship after receiving an Orange Theory postcard
• Surviving the COVID-19 pandemic by maintaining a "failure is not an option" mindset and finding creative ways to serve members
• Shifting from leading out of fear to "leading to win" - focusing on changing lives rather than avoiding failure
• Creating a strong internal culture by focusing on team development first, then members, then community
• Expanding from one location to multiple studios by adjusting leadership approach and building strong management teams
• Learning to say yes to opportunities that align with your bigger life vision while avoiding burnout
• Using podcasting as both a giving platform and a way to access wisdom from others you wouldn't normally meet
• Living by Zig Ziglar's philosophy: "You can get everything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want"

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We all matter, and how we choose to show up makes a difference in our lives and the lives of others. Marci Axelrod shares her research on the three levels of showing up and how our presence creates ripples through others.

• The influence of health-focused parents who taught her that everyone matters
• How developing a stutter at age 6 sparked her interest in how people show up
• The three levels of showing up: barely there, just showing up, truly showing up
• How our brain chemistry changes based on our level of presence
• The three roles we always occupy: individual self, situational role, member of society
• The ripple effect of our presence—influencing people up to three degrees of separation
• How emotional intelligence relates to truly showing up for others
• Practical ways to practice moving up the show-up continuum daily

Choose how you show up. Get the book "How We Choose to Show Up" on Amazon and connect at choosetoshowup.com.

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Entrepreneur Jayla Siciliano shares her journey from Shark Tank to real estate success, offering insights on pivoting careers, raising capital, and aligning business with personal goals.

• Growing up with an entrepreneurial father who owned a land surveying company
• Developing a sense of adventure and love for trying new things
• Working at Burton Snowboards for seven years in product management
• Launching Bon Affair wine company in 2008 during recession
• Pitching on Shark Tank and securing a deal with Mark Cuban
• Learning that growing too fast without resources leads to burnout
• Transitioning to real estate investment during COVID-19
• Building a property management company with 30+ luxury rentals
• Starting the Seed Money Podcast to help entrepreneurs raise capital
• Understanding when to bootstrap versus when to seek outside funding
• Finding the courage to carve your own unique path to success

Connect with Jayla on LinkedIn or check out the Seed Money podcast on all major podcast platforms.

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Amanda Russo, known as the "breathing goddess," shares her transformative journey from struggling with weight to becoming a breathwork coach and mindset mentor who helps others reclaim their time through healing practices.

• Growing up as an only child with a single mom who didn't limit her food choices led to weight struggles
• Lost and maintained a 70-pound weight loss through internal and physical work
• Initially dismissed breathwork and meditation as something she was "too busy" for
• A breathwork session on her grandmother's death anniversary transformed her grief into gratitude
• Became certified as a breathwork facilitator after experiencing profound personal shifts
• Explains how different breathing techniques serve different purposes – from anxiety reduction to emotional processing
• Breathwork can be incorporated into daily routines through short, focused sessions
• Discusses how her gym habits became obsessive before finding balance through mindfulness
• Shares perspective-shifting techniques for handling challenges by asking "what is this trying to teach me?"
• Offers the powerful advice to imagine what you'd tell a loved one facing your current challenge

Be careful with your words, because anything you say might take you five seconds to say, but it could last in someone's ears for five years.

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