My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston
602 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 163 ratingsI’m Dr. Mark Goulston, and this is My Wakeup Call. Everybody has personal wakeup calls, but not everybody wakes up. In this podcast, we speak to people who did. In fact, they not only woke up, but their wakeup calls changed their lives, often helped them discover their purpose and then changed how they would spend the rest of their life. In most cases, the wakeup call was not pleasant, sought-after, and often shook people to the core of their being. But in every case, it made our guests more authentic, better at life, better in life and better human beings. I hope you will listen in and become as inspired as I am from every episode. I also hope it will help you persevere if you are going through a wakeup call and haven’t yet gotten through the pain of it, or landed in your future as the better person you’re meant to be, with the better life that you’re meant to have.
DISCLAIMER: Any information or advice I give is purely based on my own experience. Comments made are as a coach- this is not medical or psychiatry advice. There is no guarantee as there are many variables that will impact outcomes. Everything stated should be taken as opinion.
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Episodes
Ep 524 - Alicia Dunams
July 17, 2023 17:32 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBIn this episode I speak to Alicia Dunams, author of, "How to Talk to Your Enemies: 101+ Ways to Turn Hostility into Peace," mediator, executive coach, and owner of, "Best Seller in a Weekend," whose wakeup call was learning to be a peacemaker between her multi-racial parents. https://www.aliciadunams.com/
Ep 523 - Laura Gassner Otting
July 14, 2023 14:06 - 55 minutes - 44.1 MBIn this episode I speak with Laura Gassner Otting, Author of three books, "Wonderhell," "Limitless," and "Mission-Driven." Laura’s 30-year resume is defined by her entrepreneurial edge. She served as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, helping shape AmeriCorps. A recent and near devastating wakeup call was coming down with a severe autoimmune illness during Covid and her coming back from it. https://www.lauragassnerotting.com/
Ep 522 - J.C. Lapierre
July 12, 2023 16:43 - 57 minutes - 45.7 MBIn this episode I speak with J.C. Lapierre who serves as Chief Strategy and Communications Officer for PwC, who is a visionary leader and helped launch PwC’s Trust Leadership Institute and helped create and guide PwC’s CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion. Her origin story was being completely inspired by her grandfather to be of service and earn your success everyday. Her wakeup call was learning she couldn't have children, getting divorced and going on a long journey to discover her purpos...
Ep 521 - Terri Cole
July 10, 2023 12:55 - 53 minutes - 43 MBIn this remarkable episode, Terri Cole, author of, "Boundary Boss-The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen and (Finally) Live Free," gives the equivalent of a mastery class in explaining and setting up boundaries. This is a not-to-miss episode. Her wakeup call was was learning the cost of not setting up boundaries which helped her to overcome alcoholism because she hadn't been. https://www.terricole.com
Ep 520 - Michael Beckwith
July 07, 2023 14:09 - 51 minutes - 41.3 MBIn this episode I speak with Michael Bernard Beckwith, Founder and CEO of Agape International Spiritual Center, Author of Life Visioning, Spiritual Liberation, The Answer Is You, Transcendence Expanded and the originator of the Life VisioningTM Process whose wakeup call was becoming aware that the universe was calling out to him to help the world spiritually. https://michaelbeckwith.com/
Ep 519 - Paul H Smith, PhD, (ret) Major, US Army
July 05, 2023 14:03 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBIn this episode I speak with Paul H. Smith, Phd, (ret) Major US Army, who served for seven years in the U.S. government’s remote viewing program at Fort Meade, Maryland, author of, "The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing," President/Chief InstructorPresident/Chief Instructor Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc., whose wakeup call was after being fascinated by science fiction and ESP as a child and then growing skeptical of it, discovering a division of the US Army that utilized it in r...
Ep 518 - Steven Kotler
July 03, 2023 12:58 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBIn this episode I speak with returning guest, Steven Kotler, multiple NY Times best selling author with his most recent book being, "Gnar Country: Growing Old, Staying Rad." He is an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective and his wakeup call was drilling into how flow and peak performance into aging can revolutionize the concept of getting older. https://www.stevenkotler.com/
Ep 517 - Vitaliy Katsenelson
June 30, 2023 12:45 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBIn this episode I speak with Vitaliy Katsenelson, CEO of IMA USA, financial writer, value investor, author of two financial books and his recent book, "Soul in the Game," and whose wakeup call was wanting to write a more personal book that he could give to his three children to pass on what he has learned from life. http://investor.fm
Ep 516 - Donna Bond
June 28, 2023 18:00 - 51 minutes - 41.1 MBIn this episode I speak with Donna Bond, spiritual life and business coach, author, and thought leader. After a 28-year long run as a corporate marketing executive who “had it all”, had a wakeup call and decided to change course and get a master’s in Spiritual Psychology. Donna helps people to live with reverence by activating their entelechy - the fullest realized expression of who they came here to be, from the inside out. https://donnabond.com/
Ep 515 - Ken Blanchard
June 26, 2023 21:28 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBIn this episode, I spoke with returning guest and beloved guru, Ken Blanchard, Co-Founder and Chief Spiritual Officer of Ken Blanchard Companies, to mine his mind for collected wisdom from his career. I love this guy and you will quickly understand why. https://www.kenblanchard.com/About-Us/Meet-the-Team/Ken-Blanchard
Ep 514 - Harry Nelson
June 23, 2023 22:15 - 56 minutes - 45.6 MBIn this episode I speak with Harry Nelson, one of the leading healthcare lawyers in America, Founding Partner of Nelson Hardiman Healthcare Lawyers, author of, "Obamacare to Trumpcare: Why You Should Care," and "The United States of Opioids: A Prediction for Liberating a Nation in Pain," whose origin story and wakeup calls was being a Rabbi's kid, but deciding to go into law instead of becoming a Rabbi. https://www.nelsonhardiman.com/attorney/harry-nelson/
Ep 513 - Mindy Sterling
June 21, 2023 21:46 - 45 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this episode I speak with Mindy Sterling, American actress, two time Emmy nominee for her work in "Con Man" and "Secs and Execs," who also played the iconic Frau Farbissina in all three Austin Powers whose through line has been always making people laugh and whose wakeup call was adopting her son Max and discovering that he is on Spectrum and her devoting her life to giving him the best life possible... Max also joins us for a little bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindy_Sterling
Ep 512 - John Baldoni
June 18, 2023 21:36 - 53 minutes - 42.6 MBIn this episode I interview returning guest, John Baldoni, thought leader and top executive and Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coach, author of 14 books including, "Grace Under Pressure: Leading Through Change and Crisis," whose wakeup call was seeing how "grace" is now needed from their leaders given how much the world is hurting. http://johnbaldoni.com
Ep 511- Sheryl Utal Layna Dakin
June 16, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBIn this episode I speak with Sheryl Utal, CEO and co-founder, and Lanya Dakin, COO and co-founder, of Japa Health whose wakeup calls were seeing how a wholistic, spiritual and mindful approach to health could treat and cure many conditions that conventional medicine had not been helpful with. http://japahealth.com
Ep 510 - Michael Greger, M.D.
June 14, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes - 37.4 MBIn this episode I speak with Michael Greger, M.D., physician and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, founder of his nonprofit, NutritionFacts.org and author "How Not to Die" and "How Not to Diet." His wakeup call was seeing his mother live 36 years after being told she had a terminal illness by changing her diet and being an early client at the Pritikin Longevity Center. https://drgreger.org/
Ep 509- Luke Russert
June 12, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes - 44.9 MBIn this episode I speak with Luke Russert, author of, "Look For Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself," an exploration of finding oneself and one’s place in the world in the face of crushing expectations and grief. He is an author and an Emmy Award winning journalist who served as an NBC News correspondent from 2008 to 2016. Primarily covering American politics, he was seen on popular outlets such as NBC Nightly News, Today, NBCNews.com, and MSNBC. He is the son of the late Tim Russ...
Ep 508-Tiffani Bova
June 09, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes - 32.2 MBIn this episode I speak with returning guest, Tiffani Bova, author of, "The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth," and the Wall Street Journal bestselling book, "Growth IQ." She is also the global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce whose wakeup call was transitioning from being a practitioner to an analyst and now thought leader. https://www.tiffanibova.com/
Ep 507- Sam Horn
June 07, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBIn this episode I speak with returning guest, Sam Horn, CEO of the Intrigue Agency, author of 10 books with her latest book, "Talking on Eggshells," a not-to-be-missed extension of her incredibly smart, wise AND "doable by you," insights and ideas, and whose wakeup call has been her continued noticing, being astonished and then telling and teaching the world what she's learned. https://samhorn.com/
Ep 506- Melissa Bernstein
June 05, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBIn this episode I interview Melissa Bernstein, co-founder of Melissa and Doug , author of, LifeLines: An Inspirational Journey from Profound Darkness to Radiant Light and co-founder of Lifelines whose wakeup call was discovering that her lifelong battle with depression and anxiety could be alleviated by her "search for meaning" and taking an existential approach to life.
Ep 505- Lilly Tam
June 02, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBIn this episode I speak to Dr. Lilly Tam, who helps organizations improve their company culture and employee engagement with her 6-session SISPEP Method program which teaches her clients to achieve 6 dimensions of well-being through a process that includes stopping all the lies they tell themselves and whose wakeup call was coming from a deeply traumatic childhood and realizing how lying to herself to cope with it nearly destroyed her. https://lillytam.com/
Ep 504- Allyn Evans
May 31, 2023 14:41 - 53 minutes - 42.8 MBIn this episode I speak with Allyn Evans, CEO of the Monroe Institute, a non-profit research, and teaching organization dedicated to improving people’s lives through the advanced study and practice of expanded consciousness, and whose wakeup call was being a naturally empathic and intuitive person and discovering how the Monroe Institute and its programs, teachings and products could dramatically accelerate and deepen those skills through the scientifically proven approaches or Robert Monroe...
Ep 503- Clint Ober
May 29, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes - 45.4 MBIn this episode I speak with Clint Ober, CEO of Earth FX Inc, creator of Earthing and Ground Therapy, co-author of "Earthing (2nd Edition): The Most Important Health Discovery Ever!" and Founder of the Earthing Institute, whose wakeup call was discovering how grounding ourselves can dramatically reduce inflammation and improve a wide range of physical and mental maladies. http://earthing.com
Ep 502- Chris Pavlak
May 26, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes - 48 MBIn this episode I speak with Chris Pavlak, author of: author of: "From Lawyer to Warrior: Failing the Bar, Becoming a Marine, and Finding Meaning," member of the Marine Corps Reserves, and a faculty member at National Intelligence University, whose wakeup call was failing the bar exam to practice as a lawyer and joining the Marines to deal with his sense of failure. http://lawyertowarrior.com
Ep 501- Danny Dreyer
May 24, 2023 13:44 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBIn this episode I speak with Danny Dreyer, walking and running coach, ultramarathon runner, lecturer and co-founder of Chi Living. He is the coauthor, with Katherine Dreyer, of, "ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless," "Injury-Free Running," "ChiWalking: Fitness Walking for Lifelong Health and Energy," and "Chi Marathon: The Breakthrough Natural Running Program for a Pain-Free Half Marathon and Marathon." His wakeup call was feeling intellectually challenged by a lack of parent...
Ep 500- Jon Yarian
May 22, 2023 16:23 - 1 hour - 49.1 MBIn this episode I speak with Jon Yarian, writer, speaker, serial entrepreneur, and performance coach, Senior Vice President of Operations and Strategy at Sovereign and co-author with Chris Mettler, Founder and Chairman of Sovereign of, "Spark: 24 Concepts to Start, Unstick or Superpower Your Work Life," whose wakeup call was moving from trying to fit it as the youngest of three brothers to learning to ask questions which changed how he would approach life. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonyarian
Ep 499- Connor Beaton
May 19, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes - 47.3 MBIn this episode I speak with Connor Beaton, the founder of ManTalks, an international organization focused on men’s wellness, success, and fulfillment and author of, "Men's Work: A Practical Guide to Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, and Find Freedom," whose wakeup call was coming from a divorced family from which his parents formed new families neither of which he belonged to and making sense of all the polarities in life and finding out where he belonged and going to help others do t...
Ep 498- David Noble Carol Kauffman
May 17, 2023 15:14 - 58 minutes - 46.6 MBIn this episode I speak with David Noble and Carol Kauffman, co-authors of: "Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High," among the world's top executive coaches with long extinguished careers who wakeup call was partnering with each other from complementary and synergistic skillsets and learning that 1 + 1 = 11. This is one of the most cogent episodes we have had in 500 episodes. http://carolkauffman.com and https://instituteofcoaching.org/david-noble
Ep 497- Sabin Lomac
May 15, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes - 41.3 MBIn this episode I interview Sabin Lomac who along with his cousin Jim Tselikis co-founded Cousins Maine Lobster and have grown it into 50 units including gourmet food trucks, fast-casual restaurants and an overnight mail order business from Maine to your door and whose wakeup call was visiting his cousin in Los Angeles and getting the idea for bringing the affordable luxury of lobster rolls, etc. into the food truck industry which exploded after a successful appearance on Shark Tank. http://...
Ep 496- David Dennis
May 11, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBIn this episode I speak with David Dennis, author of, "Gameness: Land on Your Feet, Not on Your Feelings," and Chief Executive Officer of Eckerd Connects, one of the nation’s largest nonprofits providing workforce development, Job Corps, juvenile justice and child welfare services across the country, whose wakeup call was being confused and lost and discovering the power of his Faith to give him hope, direction and a gameness to help the lost among our youth. https://gamenessleadership.com/...
Ep 495- Doug Dane
May 09, 2023 17:27 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBIn this episode I speak with Doug Dane, author of, "Mistaken Identity: A Guide To Letting Go Of A Past That’s Holding You Back," whose wakeup call was realizing that blocking out and pushing away his past horrendous traumas was connected to his failing at life even though he was successful in business. https://www.dougdane.com/mistakenidentity
Ep 494- Heather E. McGowan
May 04, 2023 15:56 - 55 minutes - 44.5 MBIn this episode I speak with Heather E. McGowan, author of, "The Empathy Advantage" and future-of-work strategist, thought leader, researcher, and one of the leading voices on the Future of Work whose wakeup call and through line has been a lifelong curiosity about why people behave the way they do and innovation and making stuff. http://heathermcgowan.com
Ep 493- Kim "KC" Campbell
May 02, 2023 15:55 - 1 hour - 53 MBIn this episode I speak with Colonel Kim "KC" Campbell, former Air Force fighter pilot, military leader and author of: "Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot's Lessons on Leading with Courage," whose wakeup calls were watching the Challenger disaster as a child, wanting to become an astronaut, becoming an Air Force fight pilot and surviving a near crash on a mission over Baghdad. https://kim-kc-campbell.com/
Ep 492- Emily Bashah
April 27, 2023 15:41 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBIn this episode I speak with Emily Bashah, a licensed psychologist and co-author with Paul Johnson, of "Addictive Ideologies," whose parents made a harrowing escape from Iraq before she was born, and whose wakeup call was to fight against the ideologies that traumatize and kill innocent populations like her parents and hers by digging down into what drives people to become addicted to them. https://www.bashahpsychological.com/
Ep 491- Robert Glazer
April 25, 2023 16:33 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBIn this episode I speak with Robert Glazer, Global Chairman of Acceleration Partners and author of: "ELEVATE YOUR TEAM: Empower Your Team To Reach Their Full Potential and Build A Business That Builds Leaders," whose wakeup call was the need to truly elevate and empower your people if you're wanting to attract and retain the best talent in these challenging times. https://robertglazer.com/
Ep 490- Heather Younger
April 20, 2023 16:13 - 44 minutes - 35.8 MBIn this episode I speak with Heather Younger, Founder and CEO of http://employeefanatix.com and author of, "The Art of Active Listening: How People at Work Feel Heard, Valued, and Understood," whose wakeup call was being born to inter-faith, inter-race parents and how after feeling different from everyone fueled her to achieve and make the world more caring.
Ep 489- Pavel Stuchlik also known as NOA/AON
April 18, 2023 14:19 - 55 minutes - 44.8 MBIn this episode I speak to Pavel Stuchlik, also known as NOA/AON, an expert in self-realization techniques, biohacking, and breathwork whose mission is to bring people back to their center in union with others through his movement, #noamovement, and whose wakeup call was learning to stop focusing outwardly and begin focusing inwardly to find his center and his purpose. https://noaaon.com/
Ep 488- Joe Polish
April 13, 2023 17:13 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBIn this very long form episode I interview Joe Polish, author of: "What's in It for Them? 9 Genius Networking Principles to Get What You Want by Helping Others Get What They Want." He is the founder of Genius Network® and GeniusX®, President of Piranha Marketing Inc., Creator of the Genius Network® Interview Series, Co-founder of 10XTalk.com and ILoveMarketing.com, and Founder of GeniusNetwork.com and hosts 3 highly popular free podcasts on iTunes. His wakeup call was surviving childhood sex...
Ep 487- Morra Aarons-Mele
April 11, 2023 14:18 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBIn this episode I speak with Morra Arrons-Mele, author of, "THE ANXIOUS ACHIEVER: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower," and host of, "The Anxious Achiever," a top-10 management podcast that helps people rethink the relationship between their mental health and their leadership whose wakeup call was and continues to be a lifelong struggle with anxiety and turning that into a strength. https://hbr.org/2019/09/podcast-the-anxious-achiever
Ep 486 - Aarash Darroodi
April 06, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutes - 37.9 MBIn this episode I interview Aarash Darroodi, General Counsel at Fender, the iconic guitar manufacturer and President of the Fender Play Foundation™, the brand's 501(c)(3) public charitable organization whose wakeup call was being separated from his parents from infancy to age seven and stranded in Iran and what that taught him about resilience, adaptability and patience. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarashdarroodi/
Ep 485 - Randall Bell
April 04, 2023 17:02 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBIn this episode I speak with Dr. Randall Bell, socio-economist, leading authority on disasters an author of "Post-Traumatic Striving: The Art, Science & Stories of Resilience," whose wakeup call was realizing he had been traumatized by a health condition as a child and also digging into the personal stories of people who survived and thrived after being traumatized. http://drbell.com
Ep 484 - Adeel Khan
March 30, 2023 15:59 - 46 minutes - 36.9 MBIn this episode I speak with leading regenerative medicine MD, Dr. Adeel Khan, who treats people around the world including royalty, athletes and celebrities whose wakeup call was the death of his younger sister at age 25, a near breakdown in his medical training and having that push him to find meaning in how he would help the world. https://www.instagram.com/dr.akhan/
Ep 483 -Julia Boorstin
March 28, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBCNBC’s Senior Media & Tech Correspondent based at the network’s Los Angeles Bureau, whose through line has been always asking questions as a way to learn, connect and as a shield and whose wakeup call was realizing there were many amazing women leaders that could teach women AND men many things about leadership. https://juliaboorstin.com/
Ep 482 -Jeff Dewing
March 23, 2023 14:36 - 57 minutes - 45.8 MBIn this episode I speak with Jeff Dewing, best-selling business author of "Doing the Opposite," podcast host of "Business Disruptors: Doing the Opposite" and founder of Cloudfm & Mindsett whose wakeup call was losing everything and rebuilding from that and also showing vulnerability to his recent company during the pandemic and having all his people step up and come up with solutions he never could. https://www.jeffdewing.co.uk/
Ep 481 - Sam White
March 21, 2023 14:24 - 38 minutes - 31 MBIn this episode I speak with Sam White, CEO of Freedom Services, an ever-expanding insurance business and who cares passionately about diversity, equality, innovation and above all, making business human. Motivated by a desire to change the insurance industry for the better, Sam is a vocal advocate for leveling the playing field for women and championing female leaders within the industry after her wakeup call of seeing how overly male it is. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-white-093b9b22/
Ep 480 - Dan Pink
March 16, 2023 14:10 - 43 minutes - 35 MBIn this episode I speak to multi-NY Times best selling author, Daniel Pink, whose latest book is, including his latest, "The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward," whose wakeup call was realizing that what he was doing on the side, i.e. always writing, was something he should shift his life to doing as his main focus. https://www.danpink.com/
Ep 479 - Charryse Johnson
March 14, 2023 14:32 - 59 minutes - 47.9 MBIn this episode I speak with Dr. Charryse Johnson, Founder of Jade Integrative Counseling and Wellness, psychotherapist and mindfulness practitioner whose wakeup call was surviving a tumultuous childhood and then the trauma of giving birth to her second child several rooms away from her dying mother, who had been her rock. http://drcharryse.com
Ep 478 - Sally Helgesen
March 09, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBIn this episode I speak to Sally Helgesen, the world's foremost authority on women leadership and author of: "Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace," whose wakeup call was realizing that both women AND men are looking for practical/tactical way to accomplish this. http://sallyhelgesen.com
Ep 477 - Mikke Pierson
March 07, 2023 15:13 - 53 minutes - 42.6 MBIn this episode I speak with entrepreneur, coach and former Mayor of Malibu, CA, Mikke Pierson, whose wakeup call was pushing through whatever fears were holding him back when he was younger. https://mikkepierson.focalpointcoaching.com/
Ep 476 - Ann Christensen
March 02, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutes - 43.4 MBIn this episode I speak with Ann Christensen, President and CEO of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation whose through line has always been to help people and whose missionary work to Mongolia woke her up to the utter humanity of the world and caused her to double down in finding ways to help even more. https://www.christenseninstitute.org/about/#about-ann-christensen
Ep 475 - Miklos Dietz
February 28, 2023 11:00 - 49 minutes - 39.9 MBIn this episode I speak with Miklos Dietz, Senior Partner at McKinsey and co-author with Vekat Atluri of "THE ECOSYSTEM ECONOMY: How to Lead in the New Age of Sectors Without Borders," whose wakeup call was realizing that the world is much to siloed and needs to view itself as part of something much larger and much more cooperative in order to thrive and even survive. https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/miklos-dietz