Work Life Play With Aaron Mchugh

  Podcast Highlights: Bike tires rely on spokes to keep them balanced and "true". An imbalanced career is like a bike tire that isn't "true"; it's imbalanced, unsafe, and keeps you from finishing well. Our careers change, which is why we need to evaluate our careers with each new season. It's better to fix an imbalanced career now and be delayed than to go a long time on an imbalanced career trajectory. There are five spokes that balance your career: The Work you do The Company you work The Compensation you earn The Team you work with The Relationship you have with your boss Take the time to grade each "spoke" of your career with a green light, yellow light, or red light. Get feedback from those closest to you to find where the balance is present or missing in your career.  

Highlights from 99 Ways to Live Your Best Life Set a specific directional bearing on the course you want to take in Work Life Play Topics have a wide range: managing money, marriage, pursuing fame, becoming a better boss, personal fitness. Hear two of the backstories behind 99 Ways: 10// Don't dip your quill in company ink 04// Don't neglect your relationships Understand how to master the art of living a sustainable work-life-play balance

Starting in April, my life was upside down and sideways. This is my story of my how I unplugged in order to recharge, hit the reset button, and started over. Podcast Highlights: Understand the importance of understanding whose life are you actually living How to get real honest about the current trajectory of your Work Life Play How to count the costs of success Why unplugging for months maybe the only way you can really get clarity How selling everything we owned liberated us to start dreaming again

Learn about the Joy-Use Ratio. Small bursts of Joy can happen regularly if you come prepare and anticipate them   

  How to stop listening to the voices of disqualification. Understand why it is important to move forward with your ideas without consideration for the outcome. Learn how being concerned about what other people might think, actually contributes to us doing a poor job. Offering our best is the best rebuttal to every excuse we can come up with

Highlights from Podcast #32: Acting Like a Pro Eight Minutes at a Time  The difference between acting like a pro and becoming a pro is not neglecting narrow windows of opportunity. Take the opportunity that's right in front of you. Small margin plus consistency over time equals accumulative benefit. The gap between the life, marriage, income, adventure, fitness level, or anything else we wish to have can be closed over time with even small, intentional investments. Show up, invest your time, be consistent, and enjoy the benefits of your investment.

  Quick Podcast Highlights from Miles: Understand the necessity of developing your EQ (emotional intelligence) to live, love, parent, and lead well. Hear how the doorway of pain has become one of Miles’s biggest gifts in life. How to develop harmony in the narrative of Who You Are and What You Do For a Living. Why creating new healing experiences can counteract life’s negative experiences. How the work of Donald Miller and Brene’ Brown will give you insights into how Onsite can help you live out the best version of your story. Why a subtle two-degree shift in our actions and beliefs can improve the trajectory of our life. What if we lead from the places that we formerly hid our shortcomings and flaws?

  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.