Work Life Play With Aaron Mchugh

  Understand how adventure gives us greater confidence to tackle life’s challenges Learn why special, difficult-to-reach places in wilderness help us gain perspective on our life back at home Appreciate how adventure helps us lose control and “be out on a limb” Accept that adventure is a choice and is available outside our front door everyday Receive practical ideas on how to take your kids on your own adventures

Podcast Highlights: Carl's very personal story of loosing his home and facing financial ruin Learn how small financial misalignments with couples can become roots for divorce later Hear how Carl and I met over a financial transaction on the border of Colorado and Utah Learn how Carl started taking complex money ideas and translating those concepts using a sharpie marker on a napkin Carl tells the story about how the New York Times called him out of the blue to write his column Carl and I share stories about being raised by single-mothers and how that shaped our financial beliefs

Podcast Highlights: Hear how Tripp juggles his roles as a Director, Writer, Actor and On Stage Host The backstory on how Tripp and Tyler came up with the idea for their YouTube sketch Where Tripp and Tyler met and how they decided to start working together Working to find the right sponsorship partners is a key to Tripp's YouTube success Risk taking is part of Tripp's DNA Tripp offers advice on partnerships and navigating them well His story about boldly borrowing money from friends and family in college Find out why the Lines Between Play and Work are very blurry for Tripp Hear about his mantra "If I haven't failed at enough risks, but if I am not succeeding"

Podcast Highlights: The Business Case For Why We Need a Two-Week Vacation  American's do not take two-week vacations. Organizational culture, the volume of work and email compound by our addiction to busyness keeps us tied to one week vacations. In this podcast, I make the case for why we need to take two week vacations and the restorative benefits for our relationships, our work and ultimately ourselves.   I include tips and suggestions on how to get approval at work, gain the support of your peers and unplug while you are away.

Podcast Highlights with Seth Godin: How the Industrial Revolution turned factory workers into alcoholics Why we deem it of paramount importance to us to know if an idea is going to work  What was it like to be an entrepreneur in 1986 How the connection economy works and what drives it What did Seth’s dad do for a living when he was growing up Why does it matter who cares (and who doesn't care) about our economy today? Why making Art is rewarded more than the cheapest, fastest product. What does Seth do for play and fun    

Podcast Highlights: The History of IRONMAN Why the IRONMAN finish line should be on your Life List How Mike Reilly got his start calling IRONMAN athletes across the finish line How IRONMAN is a Human experience, not just a triathlon  

In today's podcast interview with Andrew you will hear about the glory stories of being an adventure journalist.  Like any great story, there is another version that adventure magazines don't publish: How arduous the writing process can be How challenging it can be to balance doing what you love and making a living at the same time When you're twenty it's much easier to jump a plane to India, but when you have a family you choose differently  

  Podcast Highlights Learn how Martin's father grew him up as a footwear designer Hear how Martin actually invented the Locus Seat even before he started KEEN Footwear Understand how creativity, health, balance and productivity are derived from how we feel while working

  Find out how a box of donuts changed his life forever What were the most outlandish thing people agreed to? If you open yourself up to the world, the world will open itself up to you How to get out of your own way? Share your story with Jia about your quest for rejection resilience.  Email Jia Jiang

Making sense of your Body of Work Pamela Slim’s new book, Body of Work, will help you find the thread that ties your career story together. In this podcast interview with Pam she will help you define and understand the subtext of your seemingly disjointed career.

Gary is an entrepreneur, a doodler and an improvisation artist. He loves making incomplete stories.  He’s comfortable with the tension of the unknown and the awkwardness of the unrehearsed. He teaches improvisation stage techniques to improve communication between business people.

Podcast Highlights How Rich is bringing humanity back to business The winning strategy of hiring humans and not polished resume's How the biggest risk Rich faced was doing the same thing The business value of Joy How to empower employees to become evangelists Why they don't allow headphones or earbuds at work  

Author Laurence Gonzales Deep Survival was the first scientific book on survival. In this interview we talk about the art and science of survival and the process of thriving post traumatic events. 

  Podcast Highlights: What Dean’s wife said when he announced his desire to resign from his job? What race is he most proud of completing? How the classroom of running has translated to lessons for life and business? How you can join Dean for a run at a North Face Endurance Challenge? What races did he not finish the first two times? Why he wanted you to come join him during his 50 Marathons, 50 States in 50 Days?

  Podcast highlights: What does it mean to be remarkable in an ordinary world? How Tess’s life was forever changed when she delivered a thirty-five minute speech. How this journey has forced her to decouple the intertwined elements of her identity as a person being tied to her job. What it’s been like for Tess to leave her job that she loved. “You jumped now you can’t even tell people what you want to do”.

  Podcast highlights: •   You have to read her Letter to CEO's, COO's, CIO's •   You have to do work that lights you up •   If you meet her at an event why you should start talking about yourself quickly? •   What is a Less Experienced Equal? •   How Pam could kick your xxxx if your ran into her in a dark alley? •   How Pam started developing her voice picturing an imaginary thought bubble? Keep going...  

  We are not machines and the creative process cannot be treated like one Being creative is not limited to only artists Learn how Todd started the Accidental Creative on accident Hear how being healthy should be apart of every plan Insights into Todd’s newest book Die Empty set for September 2013 release What causes people to end up in the place of mediocrity? Learn what Todd does for fun How to not run out of your creative juices by age 30 Ask yourself what are you disproportionately good at? Buy Todd's book-The Accidental Creative.  I've been listening to it from Audible.com  

In today’s podcast you will hear my interview with Gabriella Calicchio, CEO of the Walt Disney Family Museum. The museum is absolutely amazing. It is located in the Presidio in San Francisco. You will hear me describe a magical day that my family and I had riding tandem bikes from downtown to the museum and then across the Golden Gate Bridge. Highlights: Learn how the Walt Disney Family Foundation created the museum How Walt took $40 and a cardboard suitcase to began Walt Disney Studios How Mickey Mouse was named How Walt's life can inspire you to do more in your life How Walt Disney started tinkering in the garage How the merchandising of Mickey Mouse was as important as the animation How no one believed that a full length animated movie would be successful  

In this podcast I provide some of the back story to writing my recently released ebook, Don't Quit Your Job. Fire Your Boss. I started writing it over the course of last year.  I underestimated the amount of time and energy it would take. I understand now why writers say that once they are finished with a project they are long since "over it". I almost quit numerous times. I felt like maybe it was just important that I write it down for myself, but did not need to go through the exercise and investment to make it a market-ready released book. In some ways the love of the story lessened as I neared the end. If I had to guess, I would say I invested 150 hours into the writing, editing, and revising process. My creative team easily put in another 100+ hours as well. I am really proud of the yield, the end result. Read what Seth Godin and Jeff Goins wrote about my ebook.   In today's Podcast: Hear additional storyline to a couple of key sections of the ebook. What it took for me to break th

Walk-n-Talk meetings How Nilofer started walking meetings instead of coffee sit-downs. As a result how she is logging between 20 and 30 miles per week. You will want to read her Harvard Business Review article about how today Sitting is the smoking of our generation. And check out the Los Angeles Times Article on her TED 2013 talk. Recommendation: Don’t be sitting while you read her article.