Alchemy For Life Podcast – Listen on itunes, Spotify
Podcasts are every Sunday and are either a 10 minute short article that can help you, or a 45 minute interview with someone who has done amazing things! Find them on iTunes, Tunein, podchaser, podbean, last.fm, spotify and google musi
Resolutions: Steering from afar
Did you make resulutions? I hope not. I tell people every year not to make resolutions. Not that there's anything wrong with resolutions, but if you don't make it a system rather than an orphaned goal nothing is going to happen. Beginning your year with a long term...
Look Forward / Look Back – One year
Don’t be confused by all the info – accomplishing the stuff you want works the same way it always has.
Twas The Night Before Christmas – a reading of the poem by Mark Bradford
The poem, The Night before Christmas (also known as Twas The Night Before Christmas) was originally published anonymously. It was later claimed as a work by both Clement Clarke Moore and Henry Livingston Jr. Here is my reading of this famous poem, I hope you enjoy it...
Charging a battery, filling a bucket and accomplishing a goal
Charging a battery We all own devices that run on batteries - iphones, androids, laptops, macbooks, ipads, apple watches, wireless headphones. Charging them sometimes becomes a sport in which we actually change our behaviour based on how much time we can get out of a...
The Zone – AFL Podcast
In The Zone Have you ever been "in the zone?" Have you ever heard someone say "I'm in the zone, don't bother me?" If you have then you know what I am talking about. If you've never really been in the zone then let me explain, because this is a really...
Absurdity Filter
The Absurdity Filter Do you have an absurdity filter? Of course you do. But are you using it correctly? Do you keep messing with the sensitivity depending on who you point it to? Of course you are. Does this have to do with status? Yep. Listen to gain an...
Too much positivity?
Can positivity be bad? Can positivity be as bad as negativity? How much is too much positivity? Why would there be a limit to how positive you can be? What happens? Listen to the latest AFL podcast for answers to these questions. The keyword to most of these...
Resources – Time, Energy and Resources revisited
Time, Energy and Resources This podcast started out as a podcast on Time, Energy and Resources - as a reflection of the Alchemy for Life coaching. So today we take a look back on how you spent last week expending your precious resources. What did you spend it...
Fall Back
Time It's Daylight Savings Time in most of the US (and some other countries). If that's true for you then you "fell back" this morning. You probably don't even realize you did it, as by design it happens at 2am. Homework and fun We talk about the "do over hour" you...
Doubt
As I said in the Dread podcast, I read a lot of articles on productivity, personal development and all that jazz. The result is invariably the same - there's a huge build up of hopes and expectations and then they are dashed on the rocks below. Great title, long...
Dread
I read a lot of articles on productivity, personal development and all that jazz. More accurately, I naively see a great title, start to read the article, and then find its the same thing over and over. I've learned that the more the title promises, the more the...
Resting and Tension
Cutting the grass and sump pump hoses My son came by for the weekend and like a good dad I put him to work. He cut the grass for me, and as he was cutting it I moved the sump pump hose out of the way into a position that was temporary. - temporary because thats not...
Attitude is… something something
If you're like me - and why wouldn't you be - then you have a healthy level of suspicion over really short phrases that are supposed to make all the difference in the world if you Just Do It. Life isn't that simple, because we have big giant complex brains, and...
Sirens of Self-Help
They are all wrong Are you one of them? Then you're going to be offended. You're going to say just how wrong I am, you're going to become very defensive and you're going to attempt to cite examples. Then you'll read further and your examples will mostly fall...
Stolen Validation
Stolen Validation In The Status Game II there's a whole chapter dedicated to validation - it is indeed a powerful thing. How powerful? Read the book and find out. Listen to the podcast to find out how we validate ourselves, how that helps us to complete tasks and...
The Tinder Trap
The Tinder Trap - Public Humiliation of Men I was recently made aware of a video called The Tinder Trap in which an Instagram model supposedly tricked hundreds of men on Tinder into meeting her at union square in New York. She and her crew did this by using cheap...
Future Tense AFL Podcast
You will? Oh, I'll wait. If you are connecting, interacting and responding on a business social media site such as LinkedIn, what tense do you operate in? What do I mean by that? Well, unlike my podcast on Why Do You Live Here, I'm not talking about reliving a...
Tsufit – MB podcast
Tsufit started out life as an attorney, then had four kids in four years, soon after she had what she calls a Peggy Lee moment. She went into music and started going to comedy clubs with her guitar. She had a dream of being an actress, comedian, and did indeed go on...
3:00am wakeup call – MB Podcast
Do you ever get a 3:00am wakeup call? Maybe it's at 3:30am, maybe it's at 4:00am, maybe it's at 2:30am. Regardless its really early in the morning when you get this call. Who is this call from? Why, your brain of course. This happened to you more than once, didn't...
The Status Game – afl podcast
The Status Game This podcast is normally about time, energy and resources as well as fascinating interviews with amazing people. I interrupt your regularly scheduled program to introduce you to two books, a card game and a concept that has been for the most part...
Daniel Gefen – AFL podcast interview
Daniel and I have a fun chat about running a business out of the business lounge of a hotel he wasn't actually staying in, being a parent, his grandfather, retiring at 31, stress and what it really means, trying to convince me that he's not a handsome guy, moving to...
Thanos and balance
Thanos and balance Anyone who knows me well knows two things about me: I'm a big Marvel fan, especially the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) I find the mad rush to make pop culture reference metaphors out of everything really annoying, so I never do that So, it's very...
Phil Gerbyshak – AFL Podcast interview
Today I have a wonderfully informative chat with Phil Gerbyshak, as part of my connectors series. Phil is a very involved Digital Selling Strategist who is not about buzzwords but instead is much more involved with his client and social media. He talks about...
Mario Lanzarotti – AFL Podcast Interview
Born and raised in Germany, Mario Lanzarotti took a plane to the US shortly after graduating - literally after just a few days. He met the founder of a shoe company at a trunk show. Ever the entrepreneur (and with an eye for shoes thanks to advice from his mom) he...
Mark Metry – AFL podcast interview
I'm joined by Mark Metry, host of the Humans 2.0 podcast, Mark chats with CEOs, entrepreneurs, authors, and many other inspiring individuals. In addition, he founded VU Dream a innovative virtual and augmented reality marketing & advertising agency based in...
Anastasia – AFL interview
Anastasia - who speaks three languages and reads an additional two - chats about how she teaches healers though a certification program she created. As a sort of healer business consultant she helps them to not only heal but to run a business. In addition she has...
Jonathan Pritchard Interview – AFL Podcast
Jonathan Pritchard, author of Think Like A Mind Reader who has worked with the likes of Chris Angel joins me for a very positive and high energy discussion. He's a mentalist who has learned to use this skill to help others. It's a lot of fun discussing his journey...
Cress – AFL Podcast interview
Cress has been working with children for over 25 years, with a focus on autism. She's a hands on person, and has a wonderful awareness of how things can give and take energy. As always you can listen and see the connections to previous podcasts and articles. By...
Stephanie Osborn – AFL Interview
This week I talk with Stephanie Osborn, International Woman of Mystery who resides in Huntsville Alabama. Stephanie is a former NASA Rocket Scientist turned prolific author with many many books under her belt, as well as science articles. While talking about time...
Bill Protzmann – AFL Podcast interview
Bill Protzmann is a piano virtuoso. He started playing piano at three years old and hasn't stopped. He's also runs tech company. Sound a little familiar? He's what I call a "dual brained" individual - his creative and logical side are equally active and fight it...
Mark Black – Podcast Interview
Today's interview is with Mark Black, a speaker who resides in Canada. Mark is a double lung and heart transplant recipient. That's right, double lung and heart. We chat about time, energy and resources, how he handled the transition, what he went through, how...
Three Things… AFL – Podcast
This podcast is three things in one. Nice! Me Time I recognize that of all the things you could be doing right now, you are listening to my podcast. Sure, you could be multitasking but you're still listening and you're 'here' with me. Thank you. More importantly...
Life’s ups and downs
Ups and Downs? You've heard that a million times - that life has its ups and downs. But that's not helpful. And people only tell you that when something bad is happening, right? No one ever reminds you that life has ups and downs when you're in the middle of an up....
Why are you here?
Why are you here? This question, not to be confused with Why Do You Live Here, an article and podcast about being stuck in the same moment in time, reliving it over and over again. No, this is about you being here with me. And, it's about asking a simple question:...
Order or Chaos? AFL Podcast
Order or Chaos? Which are you? Are you all for order, and organization and things being in neat predictable rows? Or do you like things to be all over the place, with no clear order? Spoiler alert, you are most certainly both. When we think of order or chaos, we...
Dark Matter on your calendar – AFL Podcast
Dark Matter Do you have dark matter on your calendar? Do you know what dark matter is? That's OK - no one actually does yet. See, we think that a good portion of the universe is made up of dark matter but we don't understand what it is exactly. We think it exists...