How to Succeed in Spite of Yourself

Brian Alexander

We interview your favorite leaders and business owners where we talk about all things life, leadership, self-awareness, and stories of how they used failure as a catalyst to success.

Episodes

  1. 09/09/2020

    Ep. 5: Dr. Ryan Debell- Founder @ Movement Fix

    Dr. Ryan DeBell, founder of The Movement Fix, is an educational website that teaches us how to master our body through better movement.  Since he was young, he had a deep passion for two things: Health/Fitness & Technology. Movement Fix is a blend of these two areas.  Dr. Ryan has a drawn out way to manage wellness and makes an incredible showing assisting individuals continue with longer and extra beneficial lives. Resources and Links: https://themovementfix.com/ Movement Fix Youtube channel Dr. Ryan Instagram

    1h 16m
  2. Ep. 4: Rex Sikes – Founder and Creator – Mind Design™

    23/07/2020

    Ep. 4: Rex Sikes – Founder and Creator – Mind Design™

    Rex Steven Sikes, thought leader, founded IDEA Seminars, and is the creator of Mind Design™, the Attitude Activator™, and Directed Questions™. He's dedicated four decades to helping countless thousands of people globally transform their minds and lives. Rex is an authority on Abundance and the Law of Attraction, the Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill, Whole-Brained and Accelerated Learning, Meditation and more. Sikes uses ancient wisdom and leading-edge methods to facilitate amazing life-changes and transformation! He conducts live public seminars, corporate presentations and has online training programs available. He is a licensed and certified B.A.N.K.Code Trainer, a Master Trainer of NLP/DHE, and a Master Hpynotherapist and Hypnotist. Sikes is an actor, director and producer. He consults for film productions and business. He is an acting coach, on-set and off, helping guide actors create their roles and work on camera. He is a professional speaker's mentor guiding them to present polished keynotes and on-camera appearances. Resources and Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rexsikes/ https://ideaseminars.mykajabi.com/ https://www.facebook.com/rexsikes

    1h 13m
  3. Ep. 3: Nir Eyal - Author, Speaker, and Investor

    23/07/2020

    Ep. 3: Nir Eyal - Author, Speaker, and Investor

    Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, "The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology." He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Indistractable received critical acclaim, winning the Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award as well as being named one of the Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon and one of the Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible. The Globe and Mail called Indistractable, "the best business book of 2019." In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today. Nir is also an active investor in habit-forming technologies. Some of his past investments include Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Kahoot! (KAHOOT-ME.OL), Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Product Hunt, Marco Polo, Presence Learning, 7 Cups, Pana, Byte Foods, FocusMate, and Shadow. Resources and Links:  NirAndFar.com/Indistractable the schedule maker tool Nir mentioned: https://nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/ Summary article: https://www.nirandfar.com/skill-of-the-future/ And distraction guide here: https://www.nirandfar.com/distractions/ Habits vs routines article here: https://www.nirandfar.com/habits/

    45 min
  4. Ep. 2: Joe Hehn – Author of Meditation for Beginners

    22/07/2020

    Ep. 2: Joe Hehn – Author of Meditation for Beginners

    Joe Hehn helps people to live more peaceful, abundant, and joyful lives through some mindfulness techniques which have completely changed his own life. Through thousands of hours of meditation, ingesting hundreds of spiritual books, traveling all over the world, and volunteering in many capacities, Joe was able to discover successful mindfulness techniques as to live a life of Peace, Purpose, Joy and most importantly of Self –Love he wants to teach how to live this very same way. Resources and Links: https://www.youtube.com/user/joehehn?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.youtube.com/user/joehehn https://twitter.com/Joe_Hehn https://www.instagram.com/joe.hehn/ Amazon Meditation Guide: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JHKB8DR/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

    1h 4m
  5. Ep. 1: Claude Silver - Chief Heart Officer - Vaynermedia

    17/07/2020

    Ep. 1: Claude Silver - Chief Heart Officer - Vaynermedia

    I had an amazing time talking with Claude Silver about all things life and leadership in this episode! As VaynerMedia’s first-ever Chief Heart Officer, Claude Silver unlocks employees' full potential by forging human-to-human connections, creating cultures of belonging, empowers teams to be purpose-driven, efficient, and strong, and infuses the agency with empathy, humanity, and optimism.  From 2002-2005 Claude founded and ran an outdoor adventure & surf company in San Francisco where she was in the cold Pacific Ocean coaching people as they rode waves 275 days a year. This, alongside her many years in leadership positions at major advertising agencies and training in Positive Psychology, has given her a unique perspective in servant leadership and team-building along with leadership development, performance coaching, talent management, and people operations. You can follow Claude and her amazing insights here! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/claudesilver/?hl=en Website - https://www.claudesilver.com/  Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/3fAXOkGMiGKuYmsrJfrX5m

    56 min
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We interview your favorite leaders and business owners where we talk about all things life, leadership, self-awareness, and stories of how they used failure as a catalyst to success.

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