Johnny Amiri leads the #1 team of a top tech company in North America for employee engagement. He began at an entry level position and has been promoted six times to his current role. The techniques and strategies he’s learned has brought him and his team success in building a tight knit, high performing culture.
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In today’s episode, James interviews Kate Horsman. Kate is a Counsellor, Nutritionist and Mindfulness Leader in Vancouver BC. Her training through both professional counseling and nutrition, provide a bridge between the mind-body connection which lends greatly to her specialization in Eating Disorders and Mental Illness. As a holistic counsellor, Kate utilizes tools of all mediums, towards the possibility for change.
Purpose Over Perfection Lita Lewis is a Health Coach, Creator of Thick Athletics and Self-Love Advocate. Born in Los Angeles, California, raised in Sydney, Australia, returned to the United States and made Brooklyn, NY home for 10 years before moving back to her birth city of Los Angeles. She has traveled the world motivating people […]
Today on the show, Dr. Jeremy Goldberg makes an appearance. Jeremy is a Mentor, Author, Podcast Host, TED X Speaker, Spoken word poet and a behavioral scientist. His mission is to make kindness cool, empathy popular and compassion commonplace. He leads an online tribe of 55,000 badass humans and helps them live more of their truth.
Today’s guest is Bryan Jackson AKA BJack. He is a NIKE Master Trainer, Creator of The Jordan Brand Master Trainer and Director of his own company Ascend Performance Global. James and Bryan talk about what he has learned along his journey of innovation and impact.
Lauren is a 2018 US Olympic medalist in the sport of bobsled. She accomplished this goal just three and half years after leaving her lucrative corporate sales management career in 2014, to try bobsled for the first time. With an undergraduate degree from Brown University in Entrepreneurship and an Executive MBA from Pepperdine University, Lauren has found a way to satisfy her passion for corporate level coaching, training and consulting while continuing to train for the 2022 Olympics through public speaking. In addition to having been invited to give a TEDx talk, Lauren has been requested to speak by a number of organizations in a variety of different industries about the parallels of achieving success in business and elite level athletics, handling adversity in high pressure situations and the many facets of improving leadership and organizational culture.
Today on the episode James talks with his wife Amanda on what morning habits they have started doing recently that has made a huge difference in their productivity and quality of life.
In this episode, James gets interviewed by Nichole Sylvester on her podcast The Harmonious Hustle, a podcast designed to interview impactful leaders changing the world. They talk about the 61 mile walk James did around Las Vegas and why he intentionally chooses to challenge himself.
In today’s episode, James talks about the lessons he learned while training and finishing the IRONMAN 70.3 in Santa Cruz on September 8, 2019.
Client and friend Natasha Leas is the owner of Studio360, a dance studio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She was working two jobs for years, keeping the the security of a 9-5 while growing her dream of owning her own studio on the side. Then came the moment where she decided to go all in. Since then, she never looked back and her business has continued to grow exponentially. Listen to her journey and let it be a reminder that whatever your dream is, it can become a reality.
