This week’s conversation features Rodolfo De Angeli, speaker, podcaster, and workshop/retreat facilitator.
Rodolfo De Angeli reunited with his parents at age 11 after having spent the previous years with foster parents. At the age of 12, he got sexually abused by a family member. He ended up in prison in his late 20s and was homeless in his early 30s while dealing with depression and anxiety for most of his life.
The turning point was when he seriously contemplated suicide in 2010 and started to put together the ultimate plan. After realizing that he needed help, he attended a weekend event where he met the life coach who helped him take the first steps to turn his life around.
After several challenges during this time, he learned to change his perspective of what happened in his past. He learned to extract the lessons within those situations and use them to help him move forward to bigger and better things.
Today he coaches people from around the world by inspiring them with his story. On this journey, he shares the tools and strategies that have helped him, so others too can unleash their true potential and live the life they deserve.
Tune in as we dive deep into owning our decisions, looking for lessons within our adversities, ways to work through depression and anxiety, developing inner GPS, finding freedom, serving others, and many other topics.
This week’s episode features Roman Roberts who grew up in foster care until the age of 9 when he was adopted, and moved into a family that was less than ideal. It was during that time he had experienced physical, mental, and emotional abuse.
Roman then joined the US Army where he became an interrogator and deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan, and travels the world.
After this time he had a challenging transition, but eventually got his BA and MBA from American Military University in Business Administration, and obtained various certification.
He now works helping businesses grow and prosper by placing a focus on leadership, process management, and quality.
He is husband to his amazing wife Michelle who is a teacher, and is just as passionate about foster care as him, and father to a 2-year-old son Jonah who loves dinosaurs. They live in San Antonio and as a family live by the mantras of “do great things” and “how can we help”.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
On Self: “I am who I am, but I am constantly growing …”
This week’s conversation features Ashley Williams, leading Millennial strategist, spokesperson, consultant, and global speaker for brands that want to reach Millennials.
She helps brands create the right content, craft the right messages, and produce events that bring brands and Millennials together.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
On Purpose: “We all have one person for being here …”
On Healing: What you reveal, you heal
On Experiences: All experiences shape who you are today
Tune in to this week’s conversation with Clay Smeltzer, father, husband, man, author, speaker, 7th grade math teacher, high school baseball coach, and founder of Purpose Infused Coaching.
The mission of “Purpose Infused Coaching” is to help schools, administrators, teachers, and men find/enhance their purpose and to infuse that purpose into everything they do.
In addition, Clay also wants to help men who are in life saying, "This isn't what it was supposed to be" define their purpose, so that they can wake up every day with excitement and the energy to live the life they were meant to live.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
On Shadow: “It’s all of the stuff that we put in the back of our minds …”
On Anger: How can I utilize it in a beneficial way?
On Motivation: What motivates you?
On Struggle: “Where there is a struggle, that’s where I step into it the most”
This week’s episode features Anthony Trucks, former NFL player, American Ninja Warrior, coach, consultant, author, speaker, husband, and father of 3 incredible kids.
He is the founder of “Own Your Shift”, which teaches people how to to take what life throws at them and use it to accelerate their success.
He has experienced over 20 life altering shifts in his life starting when he was given away to foster care at 3 years old and was thrust into a gruesome childhood. He has experienced starvation, beatings, and torture, just to name a few.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
On Service: Why do you choose to serve others?
On Self: “You are who you are when you’re not thinking about who you are”
On Being: “You are your actions”
On Identity: “I don’t think we’re searching for ourselves, I think we are searching for significance”
Tune in to this week’s episode as we discuss the importance of living your truth; self-awareness and how it relates to the type of choices we make in life; influential figures; and finding meaning within your daily life.
As you’ll be able to tell from hearing Olga speak, she loves people. She believes we are walking miracles and as such we all possess our own special gifts. She also believes that it is our responsibility, to share those gifts with the world. That is how we repay to the universe the investment it made in our creation. It’s the Law of Economics at its core as Napoleon Hill stresses in his book Think and Grow Rich written in 1937 - “you don’t get something for nothing.”
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
On Truth: Are you living your truth?
On Choices: “The types of choices you make are modeled by your current awareness”
On Influence: Who is the most influential person in your life?
On Life: “Life is full of breadcrumbs … you’ll find the good ones when you’re on your path”
Tune in as we discuss the importance of creating a life you want to live; key question behind “success”; impact of our environment; and different ways to sharpen your self-awareness.
He has worked with various startups including Pak’d, a healthy meal delivery kit for elementary/middle school lunches; Chowbus, a food delivery service delivering authentic Asian cuisine; and RXBAR, which was just acquired for $600 million by Kellogg’s.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
On Life: Learn to balance decisions that you make based on societal expectations and who you want to be
On Success: What does success mean to you?
On Environment: What type of impact does your environment have on you?
On Sharpening Self-Awareness: Get “COMFY” (Calm, Openness, Movement, Funny, You)
Over the last 6 years, Brian has interviewed world-class achievers such as Darren Hardy, Jack Canfield, and many more.
With the lessons he has learned from these achievers, and through his own experience, he seeks to educate, motivate, and inspire others to become a greater version of themselves.
He is the author of three books, including the newly released, "Success Profiles: Conversations With High Achievers."
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
On Community: Recognize who is supporting you and not
On Life: Are you giving yourself something to look forward to?
On Goals: Set goals in your life
On Gratitude: Create a list of things that you’re thankful for
