The High Perfomance Life

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The High Perfomance Life

As High-Performers, we’re all after three things: to do it all, have it all, and feel good about it, too. Some will say, “it’s all about “balance”, but I’ve got a different story to share with you…. This podcast is going to take you into the minds of some of the world’s Top Performers in Business, Relationships, Health, and Mindset, and give you hands-on methods to move from feeling you’re merely managing your High Performance Life, to MASTERING it.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    The American Dream Isn't Dead... It Has Just Changed | Pejman Ghadimi

    On this week’s episode, I am joined by Pejman Ghadimi! Pejman is a self-made entrepreneur, philosopher, and author of the best-selling books “Third Circle Theory” & “RADIUS”. Pejman is a true “come up from nothing” story. He and his mother escaped as refugees from Iran to Paris when he was a young child, before making their way to America around the age of 12. Over the last 20 years, Pegman has built a multitude of businesses ranging from investment firms to a series of online education businesses! Pejman is the perfect example of how resourcefulness, hard work, and self-education are the most powerful keys to the life you want! Key Points • The evolution of the American dream. • High earning skills vs. high wages. • Insights on self-awareness and business growth • Financial education vs. outdated systems • Mindset shifts in education.   Best Quotes 02:41 - 02:48 • "So, you know, the turning point was really nothing more than just realizing that there's work and there isn't work elsewhere." 04:13 - 04:22 • "And unfortunately, you may not have the necessary skills to actually start working on your dreams." 07:34 - 07:41 • "Wealthy people don't want their children to do the exact same thing that they did. They want them to start from a new point." 11:33 - 11:48 • "So, you know, I would say that, you know, today I feel really bad for those people, but I think that just like, I found a way to kind of make ends meet during those times until I was able to receive a green card, until I was able to basically have a normal path going through the process, which did take eight years or so." 12:36 - 12:42 • "So, you know, I I think it's one of these things where there isn't a one size fits all, you know, that where, where there's a solution to this." 48:26 - 48:40 • "And then finally when I became conscious, I looked back again at the entire journey and basically filled in the gap by creating data choice, which was how language is basically the missing component of consciousness that people aren't talking about."

    55 min

  2. NOV 12

    Crush The Negative Inner Voice In Your Head & Start Living Life | Lauren Zander

    In this week’s episode, I am joined by Lauren Zander! Lauren created the Handel Method, founded the Handel Group, and has been coaching and leading the world to Human Better for over 20 years. Lauren is also the creator of Inner.U: Learn to Human Better®, the online coaching course that teaches the entirety of The Handel Method, a method that has been used by dozens of celebrities, CEOs, and entrepreneurs since 2004 and is endorsed by Conscious Capitalism as its learning platform of choice for its members and leaders. Lauren is also the author of Maybe It’s You (Published by Hachette Book Group, April 2017), a no-nonsense, practical manual that helps readers figure out not just what they want out of life, but how to actually get there. Lauren has spent over 20 years coaching thousands of private clients: entrepreneurs, couples, families, professors, politicians, Emmy, Peabody and Academy Award-winning artists, Grammy-winning musicians, and Fortune 500 CEOs. Her corporate clients have included executives from Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Sony BMG, The New York Times, News Corp, J. Walter Thompson Agency, Citibank, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Uniworld, The Gap Inc., BASF, NYU Langone Medical Center, and Vogue. She has fixed corporate business relationships, mediated contract negotiations, reconciled marriages, and helped resolve complex family issues. In the early 2000s, Lauren created a groundbreaking methodology, The Handel Method®, which is supported by top educators and psychologists, and has been developed and taught in over 50 major universities and institutes of learning across the country, including MIT, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Medical School, NYU, Columbia, Yale School of Drama, Wesleyan, Fordham, Rutgers, Middlebury College, Scripps Research. Key Points • Discover your dreams in life's 12 areas • Unleash creativity alongside professional life • Use music as a powerful healing tool • Shift from knowing to actively doing • Building relationships with authenticity   Best Quotes 02:11 - 02:23 • "I even call it like, I didn't, I, well, first of all, I wasn't an artist till much later in life about 10 or 12 years ago when my kids were, I, they didn't need me anymore that way." 03:26 - 03:36 • "That's really one of the ways I roll, right? Like the, the mystery of what our own higher self would answer if we actually asked it on a regular basis." 04:33 - 04:42 • "Yeah. And, and the reason I set it up for eight hours straight, eight, you know, seven days a week was, it would have to be something you would love to do." 40:45 - 41:01 • "I think our parents didn't have the same, don't shoot me for saying this everyone, but I think our parents had no choice but to have children at a much younger age that it was like get, you couldn't get laid unless you got pinned." 51:38 - 51:49 • "I don't coach my children though. My youngest definitely asked for coaching and, and calls me when she needs, like I get called when they need it actually, which is beautiful."

    1 hr

  3. NOV 5

    From Homelessness To Business Owner: This Is What I Learned About Life | Lia Valencia Key

    In this week’s episode I am joined by Lia Valencia Key! Lia’s story of homelessness to launching a jewelry brand in over 100 million homes is one of deep inspiration, perserverance, faith, and love! Lia created Valencia Key Jewelry company which was launched on QVC! Valencia Key Jewelry has also been featured in Oprah Magazine 2020 Favorite Things Issue, Mel Robbins Show, and Speak on the Stage with Brendon Burchard, Ed Mylett, and Tony Robbins! Lia reaches back to where she comes from donating and educating women in homeless shelters on the “Keys to Light” and how to rise out of rough environments! Lia is a living example that all things are possible by rooting into the power of choosing joy, believing, and radiating light! Lia’s mantra is: “If I can, YOU Definitley Can”! Key Points • Trajectory of change from homeless to leader • Crafting positivity and energy in every communication • Power of choice changes lives. • Trauma can seed transformation. • Love fuels the quest for better. • Dreams and millimeter movements Best Quotes  05:52 - 06:04 • "There's a divine whisper, there's a inner light, there's a destiny inside of you, and all you have to do is choose to lead your life towards your destiny." 06:47 - 06:56 • "But you have the choice to decide, do I love myself enough and do I understand the love of God enough to listen to something that is unseen?" 07:35 - 07:48 • "No matter what, like when I'm failing, when my business is in struggle, how am I gonna show up? Am I gonna show up in sorrow and negativity and anger?" 08:15 - 08:23 • "It's the power of the curiosity of wondering why we failed at something, what we could do differently, how we can learn." 11:19 - 11:24 • "We love permission. And that gave me permission to listen to my truth." 31:26 - 31:31 • "Love is not a pushover. Actually. Love stands up for the things that are Right."

    1h 6m

  4. NOV 1

    The Election Results Won't Matter If We All Realize THIS!

    I recently had a podcast where the conversation was all political... If you know me, you know that isn't my general conversation of choice. However, it did get me thinking about some things, such as: Being curious, not judgmental, is important in political discussions. Understanding different perspectives and the reasons behind them is crucial. There is a gap between ideology and execution. Hatred and extreme opinions hinder progress and unity. Building each other up and finding common ground is essential for moving forward Here are my thoughts!

    19 min

  5. OCT 29

    Master Your Mindset, Overcome Self-Deception, Change your Life | Victoria Trammel

    In this week’s episode, I am joined by Victoria Trammel! Victoria Trammel is a seasoned facilitator and leadership consultant who brings almost two decades of experience supporting the Intelligence Community to her work with Arbinger Institute, a world leader in mindset change.   Through training, consulting, coaching, and implementation programs, Arbinger enables individuals, teams, and organizations to change from the default self-focus of an inward mindset to the impact-focus of an outward mindset.   Victoria began her career in joint counterterrorism operations, igniting a love of instructional design and facilitation while supporting partners around the globe. She has indispensable hands on, real-world experience of creating organizational culture change through the Outward mindset.   She now thrilled to be sharing word about the new and revised 4th Edition of Arbinger’s book Leadership and Self Deception: The Secret to Transforming Relationships and Unleashing Results. Victoria has a beautiful, blended family of 6 that enjoys planning vacations around experiencing different cultures through the power of food.   Key Points • Self-deception’s effect on marriages • Curiosity: A High-Performer's Superpower • Impact of little efforts on loved ones • Self-deception can blind us • Get curious to understand others' perspectives. • Leadership evolves with empathy   Best Quotes 09:51 - 09:58 • "Well, and I think that curiosity is key, right? Because it's very easy for me as a leader to get up here and pontificate, right? I'm communicating." 11:19 - 11:23 • "It's, it's often when the other person paints you as something you're not." 14:34 - 14:39 • "And I think that's what, like, it's a great way to almost practice, right? Because it is a skill." 41:41 - 41:51 • "I think a lot of what we talk about at home is, is our kids, you know, we, we don't talk about necessarily inward versus outward, but we talk about understanding your impact on others, right?"

    52 min

  6. OCT 22

    Understanding THIS About Mindset Will Change Your Life! | Jason Drees

    In this weeks episode, I am joined by Jason Drees! Jason Drees is an entrepreneur, alignment coach, author, husband, and father of four boys based in Austin, Texas. With more than 10,000 hours of coaching sessions delivered in his career, Jason catapults those he works with into success by disrupting old narratives and normalcy to partner with his clients to conquer limiting beliefs, remove resistance, upgrade their stories, and unlock unprecedented results. He developed a proven 5-step framework to empower his clients to do the impossible in their lives. His creation of alignment coaching teaches others how to align with success at the level of their full potential rather than endlessly chasing results at the level of their problems. He has mastered the process of helping clients into alignment to push high-performers - like Brandon Turner - to their limits and past their comfort zones to see accelerated growth, impact, and influence in everything they do. No other coach can help clients annihilate “average” at its deepest level, and act as a catalyst of transformation to help them live and execute at their full potential like Jason Drees.   Key Points • Change your mindset, change your reality • From managing to mastering high performance • Evolving beyond transactions to relationships • Understanding the concept of alignment • Transformative power of stillness and alignment   Best Quotes 05:17 - 05:23 • "So what I, that, that was actually the beginning of understanding what alignment is because prior to that, I thought you grind your way to success." 05:55 - 06:00 • "And then what actually happened in 2020 is I discovered there's a level above mindset called frame." 06:01 - 06:08 • "And by understanding that mindset, I started coaching at the, at the frame level versus the mindset level. And it started to shift anything." 06:10 - 06:14 • "Success doesn't come from hard work. Success comes from alignment with success." 22:51 - 22:58 • "The framework itself is five steps. The first one is what is alignment? And once you understand that process of alignment, we apply it in four different places."

    46 min

  7. OCT 18

    You Are The Energy That You Put Out Into The World

    A recent conversation I had got me thinking about energy, or in other words, the way you show up to the rest of the world. Energy is a crucial part of my life and one of the key pillars of The High Performance LIFE! So I thought it would be valuable to share this message with you!

    13 min

  8. OCT 15

    The KEY SKILLS You Should Learn To Get Ahead In Life | Kelly Siegel

    In this week’s episode, I am joined by Kelly Siegel! Kelly Siegel is the CEO of National Technology Management (NTM). He has an educational background in criminal justice and sociology from Western Michigan University. Kelly has been delivering results since running his first paper route as a twelve-year-old. Besides his goal to make NTM the gold standard of the IT industry, his mission in life is to leave a legacy, or in Kelly’s words, “make a dent.” His relentless drive to better himself is breaking his family’s cycle of abuse, addiction, and poverty. Kelly takes personal progress to the next level by continuously improving his physical, emotional, and mental health and performance by working out daily, reading voraciously, and practicing mindfulness. You’ll find him feeding people at spontaneous cookouts in his backyard, volunteering his time for causes close to his heart, and mentoring the next generation of leaders.  Key Points • Transforming childhood trauma into strength • Achieving high performance through EQ • Surrender is key to life's cheat code. • Principles of surrender and gratitude in life • Approaching politics with curiosity, not judgment Best Quotes 03:17 - 03:27 • "It was probably on one of my podcasts when I had to do the final edits when they sent me the final manuscript and I cried like a baby." 04:17 - 04:25 • "And then after I, they said, and they were right. So we, right now, I think this morning we're number 12 in the country at self-improvement for harder than life." 06:07 - 06:18 • "I lived in the gap for most of my life. And the challenge is when you live in the gap is when you actually attain something you were working for, it's empty and you don't understand why." 07:51 - 08:10 • "Was that where you decided, was that the event where you decided to surrender because that's really what you're, what the moment you realize that you're not in control of this and you can surrender to whatever you call it, you're a Christian or Catholic, so you, it's God, it could be energy, it could be source, it could be anything" 12:26 - 12:32 • "So I would tell you that yes, you gotta fricking do the work, but you also have to detach from the outcome." 12:51 - 12:56 • "Marry the process, divorce the outcome, that's it. Get better every day and keep freaking grinding." 34:33 - 34:41 • "As I said, man, my positivity has got more infinite than your negativity or pessimism ever will." 01:00:03 - 01:00:08 • "Love everybody and tell the truth. And if we all did that, this would be a better place."

    1h 2m
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As High-Performers, we’re all after three things: to do it all, have it all, and feel good about it, too. Some will say, “it’s all about “balance”, but I’ve got a different story to share with you…. This podcast is going to take you into the minds of some of the world’s Top Performers in Business, Relationships, Health, and Mindset, and give you hands-on methods to move from feeling you’re merely managing your High Performance Life, to MASTERING it.

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