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 474 - Alex Brueckmann
February 24, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBIn this episode I interview Alex Brueckmann, author of, "Secrets of Next-Level Entrepreneurs," strategy facilitator and speaker who has impacted thousands of business leaders and whose wakeup call was realizing how non-human the technical side of business was and becoming dedicated to changing that. https://www.brueckmann.ca/
Ep 473 - Garry Ridge
February 22, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes - 29.9 MBIn this episode I welcome back Garry Ridge, former CEO at WD40, who gives a mini-masterclass in leadership and shows us what it's like to "refire" rather than "retire." https://thelearningmoment.net/
EP 472 - Kathy Eldon.
February 20, 2023 15:09 - 40 minutes - 32.4 MBIn this episode I speak with Kathy Eldon, author of, "Hope Rising, A Musing," Founder of Creative Visions, inspired by the wakeup call from the loss of her son, Dan Eldon, an activist photography killed in Somalia. http://kathyeldon.com
Ep 471 - Quan Huynh
February 17, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes - 27.3 MBIn this episode I speak with Quan Huynh who as been described as a mighty warrior a magician, and a mountain of goodness. He is the bestselling author of "Sparrow in the Razor Wire: Finding Freedom from Within While Serving a Life Sentence," Executive Director of https://www.defyventures.org/our-community/defy-socal and whose wakeup call was realizing in the middle of a life prison term that he had the opportunity to improve himself vs. seeing prison as a dead end. https://quanxhuynh.com/
Ep 470 - Elliot Kallen
February 15, 2023 14:32 - 47 minutes - 38.2 MBIn this episode I spoke to Elliot Kallen, highly successful Financial Planner and Advisor, whose wakeup call was the suicide of his college student, and great athlete son, Jake, and the shock and grief that threw him into and caused him to create: https://abrighterday.info/
Ep 469 - Johann Ilgenfritz
February 13, 2023 15:32 - 43 minutes - 35.2 MBIn this episode I speak to Johann Ilgenfritz, fashion photographer turned founder of: http://ukhealthradio.com whose wakeup calls were a heart attack and two bouts of cancer, with the second bout being called terminal by conventional treatment and his clear thought in his mind, "I'm going to live!"
Ep 468 - Tom Hardison
February 10, 2023 15:36 - 53 minutes - 42.9 MBIn this episode I speak with Tom Hardison, Founder of the https://generativeleadershipgroup.com/ whose wakeup call was realizing that he needed to expand beyond his needing to be right engineer mind and get in touch with who he was and in touch with how to bring out the best in others as a leader.
Ep 467 - Soren Kaplan
February 08, 2023 16:49 - 49 minutes - 39.5 MBIn this episode I speak with Soren Kaplan, PhD, affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and author of, "EXPERIENTIAL INTELLIGENCE: Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs," whose wakeup call was having a tumultuous childhood with a mother with mental illness and his realizing he couldn't depend on her to be in touch with reality. https://www.sorenkaplan.com/
Ep 466 - Bruce Hutchison
February 06, 2023 11:00 - 45 minutes - 36.6 MBIn this episode I speak with Dr. Bruce Hutchison, retired Canadian psychologist and author of, "Emotions Don’t Think: Emotional Contagion in a Time of Turmoil," whose wakeup calls after being bullied as a child was being curious about why people do what they do and realizing how much emotions drive behavior. https://www.drbrucehutch.com/
Ep 465 -Matt Mayberry
February 03, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes - 38.1 MBIn this episode I speak with Matt Mayberry, author of, "Culture is the Way: How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact and Excellence," leading global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance and former NFL player whose wakeup call was turning his life around after extensive drug use in high school and being inspired by his football coach at Indiana University. http://mattmayberryonline.com
Ep 464 - Tom D'Eri
February 01, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes - 37.3 MBIn this episode I speak with Tom D'Eri, Co-Founder and COO of Rising Tide Car Wash, an organization that employs over 90 individuals with autism in a successful car wash business. Tom is a Forbes 30 Under 30 social entrepreneur and is the author of "The Power of Potential: How a Non-Traditional Workforce Can Lead You to Run Your Business Better." His wakeup call was having a brother with autism and an amazing father who was determined to create a business to give people with autism a job and...
Ep 463 - Jeff Burnside
January 30, 2023 16:03 - 44 minutes - 35.9 MBIn this episode I speak with Jeff Burnside, multi- award winning journalist, former tv news investigative reporter and co-author of, "Cashup Davis: The Inspiring Life of a Secret Mentor," whose wakeup call was watching his dad be so engaged in reading and watching news that Jeff realized he wanted to be journalist/reporter. https://www.jeffburnside.com/
Ep 462 - Rebecca Silence
January 27, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes - 42.8 MBIn this episode I speak with Rebeccah Silence, global advocate and leading coach in emotional healing and relationships, author of, "Coming Back to Life," host of the "Healing IS Possible Experience" and the "Tougher Together Breakthrough" podcasts, and the creator of the on-demand "The Emotional Survival Kit course," whose wakeup up call was surviving domestic abuse and then coming down with Stage 3 cancer while pregnant with her second child. https://www.rebeccahsilence.com/
Ep 461 - Cameron Herold
January 25, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutes - 41.6 MBIn this return appearance, Cameron Herold, author of, "The Second In Command - Unleash the Power of Your COO," founder of the COO Alliance, the World's Leading Network for Seconds in Command, he’s also the host of "the Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief" podcast whose through line has been seeing how COO's can be instrumental to the success of their CEO's and companies. https://cooalliance.com/
Ep 460 - Alex Mont-Ros
January 23, 2023 11:00 - 49 minutes - 39.3 MBIn this episode I speak to Alex Mont-Ros, author of the "Family Meeting Planner" and co-founder of the "Step Up Method" whose wakeup call after a tumultuous childhood and being a father at a young age, was the need to help families improve following similar principles to what makes businesses succeed. https://www.familymeetingplanner.com/
Ep 459 - Patricia Cori
January 20, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBIn this episode I speak with Patricia Cori, author of, "HACKING THE GOD CODE: The Conspiracy to Steal the Human Soul," system buster, freedom fighter, warrior for truth, justice and the liberation of humanity whose wakeup call was realizing the dangers of sharing your most precious gift, you DNA, with companies that are misusing your information. http://patriciacori.com
Ep 458 - Jan Patterson
January 19, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 32.6 MBIn this episode I speak with Jan Patterson, co-author of, "Breath for the Soul: Self-Care Steps to Wellness," integrative medicine and infectious diseases physician who has practiced and taught medicine for more than 30 years and whose wakeup call was how integrative medicine can help many disease states and how it especially helped her cope with and move on after the death of her son by suicide. https://www.drjanpatterson.com/
Ep 457 - Jeff Lerner
January 17, 2023 14:20 - 38 minutes - 31.2 MBIn this episode I speak with Jeff Lerner, Founder of the ENTRE Institute and author of, "Unlock Your Potential," whose wakeup call was realizing that the only way for him to succeed, and maybe even survive, was to be true to himself vs. conforming to a world he never fit into. https://jefflernerofficial.com/
Ep 456 - Bob Cousins
January 16, 2023 16:47 - 57 minutes - 45.9 MBOn this episode I speak to Bob Cousins, co-founder of Novasolix and has worked with startups in both energy and computing for more than 35 years. Bob has served as CTO and/or Engineering VP of multiple technology companies from New York to California. He was selected as Inventor of the Year, 2020 by the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association and has also written three novels, "Pipov," "Miller's Trials" and "Boxed In." His wakeup call was being compelled to go deep inside things...
Ep 455 - Beth Hendler-Grunt
January 13, 2023 14:18 - 43 minutes - 34.6 MBIn this episode I speak with Beth Hendler-Grunt, Founder and President of https://nextgreatstep.com/ , super successful corporate sales person turned parent college student empowerment expert and author of, "The Next Great Step: The Parent's Guide to Launching Your New Grad Into a Career," whose wakeup call was seeing how college grads were NOT getting the jobs or starting the careers they wanted.
Ep 454 - Chris Do
January 12, 2023 18:04 - 48 minutes - 38.8 MBIn this episode I speak with Chris Do, Founder and CEO of https://blind.com/studio/people/chris-do/ whose wakeup call was noticing certain teachers who were the exception at inspiring their students and wanting to follow in their tracks.
Ep 453 - Abby Davisson
January 10, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBn this episode I speak with Abby Davisson, co-author of, "Money and Love: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions" and former corporate executive and president of the GAP foundation, whose wakeup call was being inspired by her teacher, mentor, former Stanford professor and now co-author, Myra Strober, on how to approach the most difficult decisions in life with a clear multi-step process. https://www.abbydavisson.com
Ep 452 - Aren Bahia
January 09, 2023 17:43 - 55 minutes - 44.7 MBIn this episode I speak with Aren Bahia, former gang member and drug addict/dealer, entrepreneur coach, whose wakeup call was having a motorcycle accident and being humbled by all the people who spontaneously stepped in to help him which turned is mind and life into "learn and serve" which he has now been doing around the world. https://arenbahia.com/
Ep 451 - Alex Wills
January 06, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes - 33.9 MBIn this episode I speak to Alex Wills, M.D., Board Certified Psychiatrist, author of, "Give a F*ck," and creator of Radical Emotional Acceptance and whose wakeup call was realizing that feeling your emotions and accepting them, but not acting on them was more effective than not giving a f*ck. https://independentdocsid.com/alex-wills-md/
Ep 450 - Leslie Reyes
January 05, 2023 17:06 - 53 minutes - 43.1 MBIn this episode I speak with Leslie Reyes, author of, "The Zen of Learning to Ride a Motorcycle," psychiatric and chemical dependency nurse, yoga teacher and motorcycle enthusiast whose wakeup call was facing her fears and developing a calm mindfulness and learning many other practical lessons while learning to ride a motorcycle. https://www.lesliereyesauthor.com/
Ep 449 - Jason Feifer
January 03, 2023 18:04 - 39 minutes - 31.9 MBIn this episode I speak with Jason Feifer, Editor in Chief, "Entrepreneur Magazine," author of, "Build for Tomorrow," and host, "Build for Tomorrow" podcast whose wakeup call was realizing that after many years of reports on others that he had ideas of his own to share and needed a platform to do it. https://www.jasonfeifer.com/
Ep 448 - Alexandra Wyman
January 02, 2023 17:08 - 53 minutes - 42.6 MBIn this episode I speak with Alexandra Wyman, advocate and public speaker for resources in the aftermath of suicide and author, "The Suicide Club: What To Do When Someone You Love Chooses Death," After she lost her husband to suicide in August of 2020, Alexandra found a need to change the rhetoric around suicide. https://www.forwardtojoy.com/
Ep 447 - Michael Clinton
December 30, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBIn this episode I speak with Michael Clinton, author of, "ROAR into the second half of you life," who is a former senior media advisor to the CEO of Hearst, president of marketing and publishing director of Hearst Magazines and a member of the board of directors of Hearst Corporation whose wakeup call was being inspired by loving working class parents who introduced he and his five siblings to the world of words and books and caused him to become positive, optimistic and have a love of learn...
Ep 446 - Michael McFall
December 29, 2022 11:00 - 49 minutes - 40 MBIn this episode I speak to Michael McFall, co-CEO of BIGGBY COFFEE and author of, "Grind: A No-bullsh*t Approach to Take Your Business from Concept to Cash Flow," whose wakeup call was seeing and then seizing the opportunity to create and give the best quality coffee to the common man - and woman - as opposed to only upscale coffee houses. https://biggby.com/b-involved/
Ep 445 - Jeremy Delk
December 28, 2022 00:29 - 52 minutes - 42.1 MBIn this episode I interview Jeremy Delk, author of, "Without a Plan: A Memoir of Unbound Action and Failing My Way to Success," serial entrepreneur with a passion for disrupting industries. Born and raised in a small-town, blue-collar household, he jumped into entrepreneurial ventures with the naivety of a child and the tenacity of a tycoon and whose wakeup call was realizing that as long as you keep picking yourself up and moving forward, you don't need to a plan to succeed. https://jeremyd...
Ep 444 - JJ Stenhouse
December 26, 2022 17:45 - 47 minutes - 38 MBIn this episode I speak with JJ Stenhouse, former long time journalist, known as the Practical Alchemist and host of "Alchemy 1.01," on UK Health Radio whose wakeup call was realizing that she had spent decades giving voice to others, but had not dared to share her own authentic voice and is now dedicated to doing that and helping others share theirs. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jj-stenhouse/
Ep 443 - CJ Gross
December 23, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this episode I speak to CJ Gross is author of, "What's Your Zip Code Story? Understanding and Overcoming Class Bias in the Workplace," He is also a TEDx presenter, international speaker and the founder of Ascension Worldwide, a firm dedicated to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity training and consulting, whose wakeup call was how people's class in life could be as much of a factor in DEI as their race, gender and generation. https://cjgrosstalks.com/the-book/
Ep 442 - Jimn Kyles
December 22, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 29.9 MBIn this episode I speak to Jimn Kyles, the Lead Pastor at Anchor Bend Church in Richmond, Texas and author of, "Unstuck and Unstoppable," whose wakeup call was being at a very low point and having a convergence spontaneously happen in which he felt that God spoke to him and offered him a way to save his life. https://jimnkyles.com/
Ep 441 - Sharon Melnick
December 20, 2022 11:00 - 58 minutes - 47 MBIn this episode I speak with Sharon Melnick, PhD, author of, "In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others," host, "Power Shift" podcast and Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coach whose wakeup call was discovering the difference between striving to be in power and in YOUR power. https://sharonmelnick.com/
Ep 440 - David Magee
December 19, 2022 16:26 - 54 minutes - 43.6 MBIn this episode I speak with David Magee, bestselling author of the award-winning, "Dear William: A Father’s Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love and Loss" and creator and director of operations of the William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing at the University of Mississippi whose wakeup call was losing everything secondary to his addiction, losing his son William to a drug overdose and nearly losing his other son to addiction. https://www.daviddmagee.com/
Ep 439 - Amanda Holmes
December 16, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes - 27.7 MBIn this episode I speak with returning guest, Amanda Holmes, CEO of Chet Holmes International and co-author of the Revised and Updated classic book, "The Ultimate Sales Machine," whose wakeup call was finding a way to connect the old-school sales process with hybrid online and offline instant gratification short attention span of consumers and blending the values of caring about your people with profitability. https://chetholmes.com/
Ep 438 - Amii Barnard Bahn
December 15, 2022 17:21 - 42 minutes - 34 MBIn this episode I speak with Amii Barnard-Bahn, creator of the "Promotability Index," former Fortune Global 50 executive, consultant to the C-Suite and leaders at global companies and recognized by Forbes as one of the top coaches for legal and compliance executives. She is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches. Her wakeup call was realizing how self-reliant she would need to be following her parents divorce and also how much value her business, legal experience and artistic backgroun...
Ep 437 - Billy Pittard
December 13, 2022 16:14 - 44 minutes - 35.8 MBIn this episode I speak to Billy Pittard, Professor of Media Arts at Middle Tennessee State University. and former founder of his own design company that was known for branding television networks and systems such as CBS, ABC, DirecTV, Food Network, and Showtime and more, whose through line has been an almost childlike curiosity about the world that immediately turned into an immense creative output. https://www.linkedin.com/in/billypittard/
Ep 436 - Firouz Daneshgari
December 12, 2022 16:31 - 51 minutes - 40.9 MBIn this episode I speak with Firouz Daneshgari, M.D.,surgeon-scientist, educator, entrepreneur and author of: "Health Guardianship: The Remedy to the Sick Care System," whose wakeup call was realizing how broken and wasteful the healthcare system is at all levels and coming up with a common sense solution to fix it. https://www.amazon.com/Health-Guardianship-Remedy-Sick-System/dp/1957048662
Ep 435 - Carl Pickhardt
December 09, 2022 13:46 - 50 minutes - 40.4 MBIn this episode I speak with educational psychologist, counselor, parenting expert and author of, "Holding On While Letting Go," Carl Pickhardt, PhD, whose wakeup call was facing an downturn in the economy and needing to pick a specialty to be known for and selecting adolescence and parenting because of his affinity for "coming of age" transformation. : http://www.carlpickhardt.com/
Ep 434 - Srikumar Rao
December 08, 2022 16:26 - 41 minutes - 33.2 MBIn this episode I speak with Srikumar Rao, author of "Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers’ Guide to Unstoppable Success," elite coach, former teacher at Columbia University of their students' favorite course whose wakeup call was letting go of personal ambition and discovering freedom and peace. https://theraoinstitute.com/about-srikumar/
Ep 433 - Ayse Birsel
December 06, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 25.3 MBIn this episode I speak with Ayse Birsel, author of "Design the Life You Love" an "Design the LONG LIFE you love," whose wakeup call was spontaneously coming up with her personal mission in a meeting with fellow designers which was, "I want to design the life I love" and waiting until a downturn in the economy to make it her life's purpose. https://www.aysebirsel.com/ and https://www.amazon.com/Design-Long-Life-Step-Step/dp/0762481153/
Ep 432 Jane Velez-Mitchell
December 05, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 34.2 MBIn this episode I speak with Jane Velez-Mitchell, former TV news anchor and reporter, Founder/President of http://unchainedtv.com whose wakeup call(s) involved accepting and coming out as gay, an alcoholic and vegan. https://unchainedtv.com/about-us/jane-velez-mitchell-2/
Ep 431 - Allen Clark
December 02, 2022 18:20 - 59 minutes - 47.9 MBIn this interview I speak with Retired Captain Honorable Allen B. Clark, author of "Soldiers’ Blood and Bloodied Money and the Ruling Elites," Silver Star and Purple Heart recipient, PTSD survivor whose wakeup call was discovering his Faith to help him recover from trauma and also researching the causes of four of the main wars America has been involved in. http://www.combatfaith.com/AllenClarkBio.html
Ep 430 - Dimple Thakrar
December 01, 2022 19:37 - 41 minutes - 33.2 MBIn this episode I speak with Dimple Thakrar, a Tony Robbins Platinum Partner, author of "Roadmap to Purpose," and media contributor working with the Top 1% of executives to increase their output in the most important areas of their lives whose wakeup call was having Tony Robbins break through to the loving part of her underneath the anger that was blinding her to it. https://dimpleglobal.com/
Ep 429 - Peter Coleman
November 29, 2022 17:05 - 53 minutes - 43.2 MBIn this episode I speak with Peter Coleman, professor of psychology and education at Columbia, a renowned expert on constructive conflict resolution and author of, "The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization," whose wakeup call was working one on one with in patient troubled violent teens and youth, who would leave and be readmitted and realizing that the problems underlying their problems and intractable conflict were much more multifactorial. https://www.thewayoutofpolarization.com/ab...
Ep 428 - Georgette Bennett and Jerry White
November 28, 2022 16:56 - 47 minutes - 38.1 MBIn this episode I speak with Georgette Bennett and Jerry White, co-authors of, "Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence." Georgette founded the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding to combat religious prejudice, Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees and co-founded Global Covenant Partners. Jerry leads the United Religions Initiative (uri.org) – the world’s largest grassroots interfaith network promoting peace and shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize awarded ...
Ep 427 - Dave Asprey
November 25, 2022 15:58 - 38 minutes - 31 MBIn this episode I speak with Dave Asprey, founder of Bulletproof 360, creator of Bulletproof Coffee and 4x New York Times bestselling author, and the "Father of Biohacking," whose wakeup up call was being overweight, overworked, and unhealthy and finding himself with a dire decision to make - get a healthy mind, body, and spirit, or live a much shorter life span. https://daveasprey.com/
Ep 426 - Stephen Shapiro
November 24, 2022 16:48 - 41 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this episode I speak with Stephen Shapiro, international speaker on innovation, creator of the innovation practice at Accenture and author of, "Invisible Solutions,," and saxophonist whose wakeup call was realizing his love for performing and focusing on giving his audiences what they want and need to make their lives better. https://stephenshapiro.com/
Ep 425 - Joshua Page
November 22, 2022 17:10 - 30 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this episode I interview Joshua Page who is a husband, father, electrician, entrepreneur and TEDx Speaker and author of, "What Does Your Daddy Do?" whose wakeup call is realizing that you don't have to go to college to have a decent and successful life by going into the trades. https://tinyurl.com/2uehh2xu