Unlock Your Potential with Jeff Lerner – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this episode of Unlock Your Potential, I sit down with the legendary Guy Kawasaki, renowned author, venture capitalist, and former Chief Evangelist at Apple.

We dive deep into the true essence of being a “Chief Evangelist,” the power of thinking remarkable, and the secrets behind writing 16 influential books. Guy shares his personal journey with Ikigai and reveals the key lessons he’s learned from some of the most remarkable people in his life.

From his early days at Apple in the '80s to his transformative role at Canva, Guy offers invaluable insights for aspiring founders and discusses the future of AI. Plus, he gives heartfelt advice for his kids and grandkids, shedding light on what truly matters in life and business.

🔥 Don’t miss out on this inspiring conversation! Catch the full episode and discover how to unlock your potential with Guy’s wisdom and experiences.

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💻  https://guykawasaki.com/ 

📖 Think Remarkable - https://guykawasaki.com/books/think-remarkable/ 

💡 Guy’s Substack - https://guykawasaki.substack.com/ 

🎙️Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People Podcast 👉 https://guykawasaki.com/remarkable-people/ 

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📲 IG 👉 https://www.instagram.com/guykawasaki/ Timestamps:

• (00:00) Introduction to Guy Kawasaki

• (02:15) Real meaning of “Chief Evangelist”

• (05:09) Think Remarkable 

• (06:49) The most remarkable people

• (08:19) Writing 16 books

• (10:09) Ikigai

• (13:01) Guy’s Ikigai

• (17:10) Who’s Guy learned the most from

• (18:08) Planning life

• (21:21) Experience in sales

• (25:22) Advice for Guy’s kids and grandkids

• (27:02) Apple in the 80’s

• (33:45) Getting into Canva

• (37:30) Canva is the last job

• (40:17) Advice for aspiring founders

• (42:04) AI

• (45:26) Where to connect with Guy

In this episode of Unlock Your Potential, I sit down with Ashley Stahl, a counterterrorism professional turned career coach, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author.

We dive into Ashley’s fascinating journey, from her work in counterterrorism to giving not one but two TEDx talks. Ashley shares her unique perspective on why following your passion might not be the best advice and what you should focus on instead. We also explore what it takes to create viral content, the most powerful human emotions, and how to craft stories that leave a lasting impact.

Together, we unpack the wisdom in words, the importance of finding your authentic voice, and how you can discover your own TED-worthy idea—even if you think you have nothing to say.

🔥 Don’t miss this insightful episode that blends career advice with powerful storytelling!

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💻  https://wisewhisperagency.com 

📖 You Turn - https://www.ashleystahl.com/you-turn/ 

💡 TEDX Power Pack - https://wisewhisperagency.com/powerpack 

🎙️You Turn Podcast 👉 https://wisewhisperagency.com/podcast-page/ 

📒 Blog 👉 https://wisewhisperagency.com/blog/ 

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⌨️ X (Twitter) 👉 https://twitter.com/ashleystahl 

📲 IG 👉 https://www.instagram.com/ashleystahl Timestamps:

• (00:00) Introduction to Ashley

• (01:20) Being a counterterrorism professional

• (04:00) Giving Two TEDx Talks

• (09:30) What People Don’t Know about TEDx

• (10:50) Why you shouldn’t do what you love

• (14:00) Going Viral and what to pay attention to

• (19:00) The most powerful human emotion

• (25:40) How to create an “Awe” story

• (32:00) Doing what you love vs. what you are

• (39:49) The wisdom in etymology

• (40:50) How To Find out “What’s my TED Talk?”

• (46:40) What if I don’t have anything to say?

• (50:30) Where to find Ashley

Join me in a powerhouse episode of Unlock Your Potential featuring five extraordinary guests: Anthony Trucks, Jim Loehr, Evan Carmichael, Dan Ariely, and James Altucher. This episode is packed with wisdom from leaders in their fields who will help you make better decisions and improve your life to create your destiny.

Anthony Trucks, a former NFL player turned transformational identity shift coach, shares insights on reinventing yourself and achieving peak performance. Jim Loehr, a world-renowned performance psychologist and author, delves into programming our minds to make wise decisions through a science-based approach.

Evan Carmichael, a motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and investor, offers inspiration and practical advice for staying motivated and driven. Dan Ariely, a renowned professor of psychology and behavioral economics, reveals the secrets of human behavior and decision-making. James Altucher, a hedge-fund manager, author, and entrepreneur, discusses the importance of resilience, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

In this episode, we explore:

• Anthony Trucks on identity shifts and personal transformation
• Jim Loehr on science-based strategies for wise decision-making
• Evan Carmichael on maintaining motivation and entrepreneurial success
• Dan Ariely on understanding and improving decision-making processes
• James Altucher on resilience, creativity, and entrepreneurship

Tune in to learn from these five experts and unlock your potential to create the life you desire. Don't miss this episode packed with actionable insights and transformative tips.

Timestamps:

• (00:00:00) Anthony Trucks: The ideal identity
• (00:05:20) The first identity shift
• (00:11:00) Excuses that stop you
• (00:14:30) Leaving football
• (00:19:00) Roots and fruits
• (00:23:00) Everyone’s greatest obstacle
• (00:26:20) Jim Loehr: Wise Decisions
• (00:28:30) Making decisions
• (00:35:50) 2 ways to make decisions
• (00:38:40) How we learn to make decisions
• (00:46:45) How to make GOOD decisions
• (00:51:00) Bad decisions
• (00:57:40) Evan Carmichael: The world's greatest problem
• (00:58:30) Complainers, Dreamers, Wannabes and Achievers 
• (00:59:30) The Key to Breakthrough
• (01:02:20) Evan’s message to complainers and dreamers
• (01:07:20) Learning to be the best you
• (01:12:55) Dan Ariely: Behavioral economics
• (01:16:43) Finding Life fulfillment 
• (01:19:50) Path of least resistance
• (01:23:40) Taking on risks
• (01:29:30) The half a beard
• (01:35:40) James Altucher: Being in the top 1% of your field
• (01:40:50) Mastering variety vs mastering one thing
• (01:45:40) Number 1 vs Number 15
• (01:53:35) Reaching your plateau 
• (01:54:45) Reaching your potential

In this episode, I chat with Larry Yatch, a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Navy SEALs, author, trainer, and coach, about turning your trauma into success.

Over the last 12 years, Larry reverse-engineered the elite processes, training, and mindsets used by Navy SEALs to develop a system that anyone can use to generate massive success in their lives.

Today, Larry's mission is to help entrepreneurs harness the power of the Navy SEALs to break through barriers in their businesses.

Throughout the episode, Larry talks about the effects of trauma in leadership.

Most people think they have never experienced trauma because they connect it to a big life event, such as rape, death, child molestation, etc.

We think that if we have never experienced those events, we haven't experienced trauma. However, trauma isn't connected to a major life event. It's a perceived loss of control.

The less in control you feel in a situation, the riskier the situation appears, increasing the trauma you experience. We believe that if we can't control something, we'll die.

However, we can actually use trauma to create success in our lives by using the lessons we learned during our trauma and applying them to our lives.

Thank you, Larry, for chatting with me today and helping the audience understand how to use trauma for their benefit.

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💻https://www.howleadershipactuallyworks.com/

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Timestamps:

• 00:00 Introduction to Larry Yatch
• 03:10 What do you do every day?
• 07:35 Business evolution
• 10:48 Highly value accomplishment
• 14:26 “Navy Seal” Brand
• 16:40 Individual vs Team performance
• 21:56 Structurally sound organization
• 28:29 Business Health assessment
• 39:12 Objective / Subjective
• 40:53 *Trauma and Growth*
• 49:39 *Trauma as a lesson*
• 53:19 First business after war
• 55:21 No-war traumas, Jeff’s example
• 01:03:03 Traumas & Disconnection
• 01:05:39 How to heal
• 01:08:55 Disconnection from self
• 01:13:51 Where to find Larry Yatch

In this episode, I talk about what goes into leading a team of 150+ people.

Instead of prepping for the standup like I normally do, I found myself pondering death and the impact each of us leaves on the earth. 

So, I decided to talk about the value of life and how it impacts our work, specifically ENTRE. 

I also bring up the importance of culture and how it affects an organization. 

What I hope you take away from this episode is that life is too short not to love your work.

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In this episode, I chat with Mitch Lowe, speaker, and co-founding executive of Netflix, about how he used a hard time in his life to propel his life forward and create success.

In the early 80s, Mitch became the President of Video Droid, a movie rental company similar to Blockbuster.

Eventually, Mitch became one of the co-founders of Netflix and worked as the Head of Business Development for five years.

However, in 2003, Reed Hastings, another Netflix co-founder, let Mitch go claiming he wasn't ready to lead a public company.

Despite feeling devastated at the loss of his job, Lowe used the loss as fuel to improve himself to prove Hastings wrong.

For the next eight years, Lowe worked at Redbox and McDonald's, eventually becoming the COO of Redbox.

Lowe spent his career being an innovator, helping companies increase their revenue and influence by implementing novel ideas.

Mitch leaves us with the idea that innovation and creating businesses are easier than ever with the internet.

Thank you, Mitch, for chatting with me today and showing the audience how to use difficult times to improve yourself and create an amazing life for yourself.

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💻https://www.mitchlowe.net/

📖 Watch and Learn - https://www.mitchlowe.net/book/

💡 Speaking Agent - https://www.bigspeak.com/

ℹ️ LinkedIn 👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchlowe/

⌨️Twitter 👉https://twitter.com/mitch__lowe

Timestamps:

• 00:00 Introduction to Mitch Lowe
• 03:05 Netflix origins
• 06:48 Mitch’s life journey to Netflix
• 12:55 High school dropout
• 16:29First Company and meeting Marc Randolph
• 20:23 Working in Netflix
• 21:12 Leaving Netflix
• 23:46 Learning how to operate in a public environment: McDonald's
• 32:39 Consumer experience
• 37:12 Speed and ease of transaction
• 40:32 Getting fired as a fuel
• 47:32 MoviePass
• 52:41 His book “Watch and Learn”
• 56:26 Having a big adversary
• 57:40 Where to find Mitch Lowe

What does it take to go from $0 to 1 million?

In this episode, I chat with Tanner Chidester, CEO of EliteCEOS.com, about his journey from broke to making 1 million dollars in one year.

Like many other successful business owners, Tanner took a job as a door-to-door salesman, working 12-hour days, six days a week.

This experience taught Tanner how to handle objections, talk to people, and sell.

Eventually, Tanner quit his door-to-door sales job and started an online fitness business that reached 1 million in revenue within the first year at the age of 25.

Throughout the episode, Tanner touches on the characteristics that made him successful such as hard work, perseverance, consistency, and discipline.

As the episode wrapped up, Tanner and I talked about the importance of surrounding yourself with people who are better than you.

We often surround ourselves with people who aren't aligned with our goals, leading us to fall into the same patterns as them.

That's why you must surround yourself with people who encourage and push you to become the best version of yourself.

The main takeaway from this episode is that you must be willing to make sacrifices and refuse to give up to become successful.

You will experience challenging times and uncomfortable situations, but the reward is far greater than those who never chase their dreams.

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💻https://www.eliteceos.com/

💻https://tannerchidester.com/

📖 Infinite Income - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08RN4F9KQ/

📒 Blog 👉https://tannerchidester.com/blog/

ℹ️ LinkedIn 👉https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanner-chidester-4bb646123/

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🖥️ FB 👉https://business.facebook.com/tannerchidesterfitness

⌨️ Twitter 👉https://twitter.com/tannerchidester

📲 IG 👉 https://www.instagram.com/tanner.chidester/

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction to Tanner Chidester

02:06 Elite CEO’s Event

03:41 Elite CEOs

04:40 How did you start?

08:10 First Million Dollars

11:12 Motivation and Growing Up

18:52 Where does being hard worker come from

22:47 Coaching others

29:24 The shift from depression

33:43 Tanner’s dark side

36:26 Competitive nature

38:34 Leadership

42:48 Building culture

45:23 Working post-pandemic

46:44 Infinite income

48:10 From door to door to a million a month

57:05 Final thoughts and where to find Tanner Chidester

In this episode, I chat with Robert Greene, author of the book 'The 48 Laws of Power' along with many others, about learning to use your power as an instrument for creating a fantastic life. 

We kick off the episode with Robert telling us his backstory and how we came into writing one of the most popular books on human nature. 

Throughout the episode, Greene reminds us that everyone has a source of power they can tap into to find their purpose.

It doesn't matter what our background is, what disabilities we may have, or what character flaws we possess; we all have something unique to give to the world.

The most powerful people in the world are the people who have accepted themselves for who they are and have figured out ways to leverage their gifts. 

The main takeaway Robert gives us is not to be like other people. If you try to become like other people, people will forget you and not know who you are.

The last thing Robert leaves with us is learning how to create pressure on ourselves to tap into our inner power and change our lives.

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📖 https://powerseductionandwar.com/books/ 

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🎵 TT 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@robertgreene

Timestamps:

• 12:10 Introduction to Robert Greene
• 1:57 Preparing for “48 Laws of Power”
• 04:09 What got you so focused on Power?
• 08:51 Worked in more than 80 jobs
• 15:37 Everybody can become a master
• 21:15 The best strategy
• 25:55 Conscious self & Unconscious self
• 26:50 The voice inside driving us
• 28:20 Robert’s “Daemon”
• 33:03 Parenting
• 41:24 About Robert’s weirdness
• 46:28 The real meaning of “weird”
• 54:48 Being Patient
• 58:01 Life Lesson #1
• 59:13 Power is a tool
• 1:02:50 The Death-Ground Strategy
• 1:08:27 Where to find Robert Greene
• 1:09:39 Final thoughts
• 1:10:32 Robert’s favorite Coltrane album

In this episode, I chat with Bruce Feiler, a 7x New York Times Best-Selling author, presenter of two prime-time series on PBS, and writer of the "This Life" column in the New York Times, about mastering life's transitions. 

According to Bruce, people have linear and nonlinear moments throughout their lives.

For example, up until the age of 40, Bruce had a pretty linear life.

It wasn't until his cancer diagnosis that his life became severely nonlinear.

This major event caused Bruce to begin collecting stories of people's nonlinear life experiences from all over the world.

Throughout these nonlinear events in life, Bruce discovered a skill we can use to overcome these events or "lifequakes" to avoid being overwhelmed by them.

This skill is called mastering life's transitions.

Many people suffer through life events thinking they need to endure the pain and then they can be happy.

However, Bruce introduces the concept of enjoying life during transitions to help you grow and renew yourself instead of suffering.

As a result, those life transitions reveal opportunities to transform the trajectory of our lives, leading us down new and exciting paths.

Thank you, Bruce, for sharing your story with me and the audience.

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💻 https://www.brucefeiler.com/ 

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Timestamps:

• 00:12 Introduction to Bruce Feiler
• 02:42 What’s the secret to your interesting life?
• 12:18 Family and non traditional work life
• 22:09 The life story project
• 23:33 Linearity is the aberration
• 28:29 How should we be teaching people about non linear existence?
• 29:10 3 dozen disruptors
• 34:24 Educational system
• 35:43 “Lifequakes”
• 44:22 Do the disruptions reveal the chaos?
• 53:23 Where can we find Bruce Feiler

Meet Dr. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, and author of Drug Dealer M.D. and Dopamine Nation. 

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Lembke about giving your brain a dopamine detox to take back control of your life.

In recent years, we've become so accustomed to dopamine that we heavily rely on it to make us feel normal.

Between phones, TV, computers, and online shopping, we experience so much pleasure that we can barely handle it when pain comes along.

However, by slowly replacing those dopamine addictions with doing hard things, we can avoid becoming dependent on dopamine to feel normal.

According to Dr. Lembke, doing hard things is actually paying for dopamine upfront because we choose pain first and are rewarded with dopamine later rather than choosing dopamine first.

For example, instead of choosing to watch TV all night, work on your skills or start a side hustle.

In the modern economy, we have the ability to create any life we want, yet we choose to fall into the dopamine trap.

So, I challenge you to endure a little pain once in a while to avoid falling into the trap of dopamine addiction.

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💻 https://www.annalembke.com/ 

📖 Dopamine Nation - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/152474672X?tag=randohouseinc7986-20

Timestamps:

• 0:12 Introduction to Dr. Anna Lembke
• 1:51 Getting into behavior Addiction
• 3:52 How many of us (USA) are addicted to something?
• 6:48 How do you define addiction?
• 8:39 The 4 C’s
• 11:07 How to identify our addictions.
• 12:55 Radical Honesty
• 14:53 The Timeline Fallback Method
• 16:09 Dopamine Fast
• 17:22 Dopamine and time
• 20:49 Dopamine fast and motivation
• 23:10 Dopamine differences
• 31:31 The pursuit of pleasure leads to pain
• 41:26 Intentionally inviting pain
• 44:35 Workaholism
• 45:20 What we should look for
• 48:15 The Dr.’s prescription for Jeff
• 52:27 Where to find Dr. Anna Lembke