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The Top 1% with Trevor Blattner featured me today: "Finding Your Initiative with Joshua Spodek." Here are the episode notes: What makes it so hard for most people to take initiative? Today I've got TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author, and host of the award-winning Leadership and the Environment podcast Joshua Spodek back on the show to answer that question and more. Listen in as he sheds light on the importance of initiative and how to harness it to get started achieving your goals. You'll learn why so many people fail to take initiative, the key to uncovering your passions in life, and how Joshua aims to give people the tools they need to make a difference in their own lives, and in the lives of…

I've been hearing from Phil's fans about this episode that they liked our conversation. The podcast is Conversations with Phil Gerbyshak - Aligning your mindset, skill set and tool set for peak performance. Phil is a speaker, sales expert, corporate sales trainer and small business coach. Phil trains his clients on the power of connection, leveraging the reach of social media, combined with the deeply personal work of nurturing 1:1 relationships, growing profitable long-term clients, transforming businesses and boosting revenue. Here's our conversation: Here are the notes from the podcast page: In this conversation, Josh explains what initiative is, why it matters, and how you can take more of it. Initiative leads you to start doing something. To specifically work not just try or go…

Steve Shallenberger brought me back to the Becoming Your Best podcast. We spoke about Initiative, going into more depth on the specific exercises in my book than usual. Steve has high energy, so it was a fast, upbeat conversation. His son, a fighter jet pilot, also interviewed and profiled me in his upcoming book, and I met him in person in San Diego last fall, so we're becoming family friends. Click to go to the site or listen through the player here:

I spoke at length on the concept I consider at the root of most major issues of our time: "Tastes Good" versus "Want More." I explored the distinction in my post five years ago "Want to eat more" and "tastes good" aren't the same feeling. When you get the "want more" concept, you see it everywhere. I see the industrial revolution as creating labor-saving devices. Teams of mechanical, electrical, and related engineers engineered ways to save labor, for example with cars, locomotives, and washing machines. Today's revolution is in creating and satisfying "want more" -- that is, craving. Teams of psychological engineers find ways to create craving and to satisfy it. Hence Americans averaging 5 hours of TV per day, social media making people miserable,…

Jeff Shaw hosted me on the Creative Warrior podcast. We last recorded together nearly two years ago. We spoke on initiative and passion. Listen to the conversation. From Jeff's page: A lot of us Creative Warriors have lots of passion but no initiative. We have a dream and a talent, but we often don't know where to put our energy. We can't tell the difference between passing fancies and things that are worth doing. Fear can also hold us back from putting all of our energy into something because we're scared that we'll get stuck on the wrong path. If taking the first step to allow opportunity to unfold is difficult, know that baby steps are a great way to start. It's like a pianist…

My friend David Shriner-Cahn brought me back to his Smashing the Plateau podcast. We talked initiative in business, both my book Initiative and the concept. Listen to our conversation. I'm honored and flattered that he used "groundbreaking" to describe my book and work. Since we've known each other so long and hosted each other on our podcasts, the conversation was friendly and allowed me to share some from behind the scenes of making writing the book. Smashing the Plateau helps solopreneur expert business owners do meaningful work for maximum value - scaling success through consistent, recurring revenue. Listen to our conversation. About David, from his About page: David Shriner-Cahn hosts Smashing the Plateau and Co-Founded the BestNetwork, which guides expertise-driven solopreneur business owners to save time…

My friend and leadership guru Dov Baron, founder of Full Monty Leadership, hosted me on his podcast. He got me talking about the core of nearly all of what I do. He brings out passions in people. He brings just as much passion, maybe more. Click to listen to the conversation, "Initiative: Bring Your Passions to Life." What type of person is Dov? Is he just another podcaster, author, and coach? Just for starters . . . You may also recognize Dov from being a guest on my podcast. More than hearing him on my podcast, he ranks among the guests I speak of most because of the passion he brought to the experience. Not everyone starts off prioritizing the environment. Dov didn't ignore it,…