Kyo Conversations

Jason Feifer is editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, and host of three podcasts: Pessimists Archive, a history show about why people resist new things; Hush Money, about all the ways money makes life awkward; and Problem Solvers, about how entrepreneurs solve unexpected problems in their business. * He has been an editor at Men's Health, Fast Company, Maxim, and Boston magazine, and has written about business and technology for the Washington Post, Slate, New York, and others. His novel Mr. Nice Guy, which he wrote with his wife, is currently being developed for television. Jason lives in Brooklyn. * Twitter: @heyfeifer Instagram: @heyfeifer LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jasonfeifer/ * Journaling Prompts : What am I missing? What is nobody else asking me to do? Where is the bigger opportunity? * For Mental Fitness Training with Marc >> mchampagne.com If you're enjoying the podcast - please leave a review!  Thanks as always for listening and have the best day yet!⠀ * Special props

Today we are rocking a joint show where I (your host - Marc Champagne) along with Kevin and Alan from the Hyper Conscious Podcast are jamming on all things Mental Fitness. I would categorize this episode as incredibly practical—loaded full of practices and prompts that you can immediately apply to your life and relationships. * The Hyper Conscious Podcast - Become the best version of yourself. When you change the way you think, you change the way you live. Make sure to take advantage of the free 30-minute calls being offered by Kevin (podcast coaching) and Alan (Peak Performance Business Coaching) * For Mental Fitness Training with Marc >> mchampagne.com If you're enjoying the podcast - please leave a review!  Thanks as always for listening and have the best day yet!⠀ * Special props

Quentin Allums (just Q) is a speaker, community builder; as well as the co-founder of Strange On Purpose Studies, a fast-growing startup based out of Milwaukee. He has amassed over 10 million views on LinkedIn content and was one of the first video creators on the platform. * Just Q on LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube just Q's Podcasts - Strange On Purpose & Humans That Game Video reference -  What do you struggle with? * Journaling Prompts : How does this connect to my end goal? Is this absolutely vital? Will I enjoy this? What makes you strange? What’s your overarching story? Who are your people? * For Mental Fitness Training with Marc >> mchampagne.com If you're enjoying the podcast - please leave a review!  Thanks as always for listening and have the best day yet!⠀ * Special props

We go deep on all things mental fitness and specifically what's possible when combining two of the biggest mental fitness practices—meditation and journaling.    Justine is a certified meditation teacher, magnetic marketing strategist and mentor to soulpreneurs growing their own businesses online. Joey Cofone is Co-Founder/CEO of Baronfig and an award-winning graphic designer based in New York City. * You can find the Bloome Meditation Journal at baronfig.com Justine on Instagram  >> https://www.instagram.com/justine.bloome/  Joey on Instagram >> https://www.instagram.com/joeycofone/ * Journaling Prompts (Joey) What could I have done better? What did I learn? How can I do it differently? What can I remove? Journaling Prompts (Justine) How do I want to feel today? How do I feel right now? What’s the one thing I can do today that would make everything else easier? How did I contribute to this situation? * For Mental Fitness Training with Marc >> mchampagne.com If you're enjoying the podcas

Elizabeth Martin, L.Ac is a licensed acupuncturist that focuses on the four pillars of Chinese medicine: acupuncture, manual therapy like cupping and massage, herbal medicine, and meditative modalities such as Qi Gong to treat emotional imbalances.   She specializes in treating woman's health, allergies, cancer, anxiety, and more. Elizabeth is the owner of Hands On Acupuncture in Long Island, NY.   Journaling Prompts: How can I best use my gifts to serve others? How can I be the most efficient with what I'm doing? What do I want my life to look like right now?   For Mental Fitness Training with Marc >> mchampagne.com   If you're enjoying the podcast - please leave a review!  Thanks as always for listening and have the best day yet!⠀   ++ Special props

Mandy is an inspirational writer, entrepreneur and speaker, whose body of work focuses on lifting the human spirit. She has been featured in TED, Forbes, and Inc Magazine.   During the 2020 corona-virus pandemic, she created, The Daily Uplift— a project authoring personalized notes and reflections to strangers to elevate mindsets and spirits and to help address its global mental health toll.    Her debut book, Up— releases in 2021. It is a book inspired by Mandy's personal story and recovery of two unexpected spinal surgeries in one year, where she lost her ability to look down ever again.   Mandy on Instagram & Twitter     Journaling Prompts: If I had a daughter someday-will she be proud of how this story ends? Do I like how this story ends? How do I want this chapter of my life to end?   For Mental Fitness Training with Marc >> mchampagne.com   If you're enjoying the podcast - please leave a review!  Thanks as always for listening and have the best day yet!⠀   ++ Special props

Today I'm chatting with Sean Burke reviewing the CheckingIn App (not paid review). The app is a free and private tool to help you increase self-awareness and daily mindfulness through a simple two-step check-in process focused on one-word descriptors and an energy scale.   Learn more about CheckingIn —> www.checkingin.co Free download on iOS & Android  Bring CheckingIn to your business —> www.checkingin.co/business/   * Mental Fitness Training with Marc >> mchampagne.com *   If you're enjoying the podcast - please leave a review!  Thanks as always for listening and have the best day yet!⠀   ++ Special props

One of the most inspiring, kind, humble, and brilliant humans I have ever interviewed.   Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur driven to solve grand global challenges through innovation. Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur driven to solve grand global challenges through innovation. Founder of Moon Express, Viome, Intelius, TalentWise, and InfoSpace   Just giving an idea of the scale Naveen is operating at

Vladimir is an Entrepreneur and life-long learner. His quest to understand the world, and push himself to be better has taken him on journeys through the Himalayan mountains, into years of meditative, ritual, and psychedelic practice and most recently has led to the creation of FRWRD skincare. FRWRD Skincare is a USDA organic brand for those that wish to live in alignment with their greater self. FRWRD seeks to help people create their best skin, self, and legacy by bringing the healing magic of nature and the power of self-actualization into their day.   Connect with Vladimir on LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram   Journaling Prompts: What am I grateful for today? What are a few things I’m proud of? What is the problem? How can I solve this?  

Hala started her career in radio production on “The Angie Martinez Show.” Later she focused on an entrepreneurial endeavour― the launch of an entertainment news blog site, “The Sorority of Hip Hop.” She led an all-female team of 50 bloggers, and together they ran the site, interviewed celebrities, produced radio shows, and hosted parties/concerts.  When the blog site boom slowed down in 2014, Hala took a temporary exit from the entertainment industry to get an MBA and now has over 8 years of corporate marketing experience.   Merging Hala’s passions for radio, entrepreneurship, business, and continued learning, she currently hosts the Young and Profiting Podcast and works at Disney Streaming Services putting together a best-in-class marketing tech stack. Bonus : Besides the awesome mental fitness practices Hala shared, she detailed a winning formula to crush it on LinkedIn.    Follow Hala  - LinkedIn & Instagram   Journaling Prompts What am I doing to improve myself? What am I doing to learn new things? H

Jen Gottlieb is the Co-Founder and Chief Mindset Officer at Super Connector Media. Jen’s plethora of experience in health and wellness coaching, 14-season run as co-host on VH1 and a Broadway national tour, has naturally led into her role as host of Unfair Advantage Live, the world’s premier publicity event connecting entrepreneurs to the media. Jen supports and works with entrepreneurs to elevate personal mindset into achieving goals beyond their expectations. Prior to Co-Founding Super Connector Media, Jen used the media to build a multi 6 figure coaching business in the health and wellness space. She currently lives and works in New York City with her life and business partner Chris Winfield and their three dogs.   “If I’m feeling helpless, I get helpful." Jen Gottlieb   Journaling Prompts What is true? What am I grateful for? How can I help?  

Chris Schembra is the bestselling author of "Gratitude and Pasta: The Secret Sauce for Human Connection", chronicling his adventures as one of the most sought-after dinner hosts in the World. Forbes has just ranked his book as the #2 book of 2020 to create Human Connection and USA Today calls him the "Gratitude Guru". “I’m just a little guy with an apron, a fannie pack and a pasta sauce, anybody can do it”   Journaling Prompts If you could give credit or thanks to one person in your life who you don’t give enough credit or thanks to, who would that be? Is this it? Or is this a bandaid? Do you love travel or the escape? How do you spend your time? What do those activities mean to you?   

Today I’m speaking with John Fitch who dances between design, engineering and conversations.    John believes time off leads to better quality work and talks about this on his podcast and in latest book Time Off.   “I enjoy building technology through unlearning and the generous act of sonder.”

Leysa Cerswell Kielburger, author of WE Well-being, is the co-founder of WE Well-being and a faculty member at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, where she develops mindfulness-based programs and trains health care practitioners and educators. Her Ph.D. dissertation in Clinical Psychology focused on mental health care for underserved and marginalized populations. Leysa has taught and practiced across North America, Asia and Africa. WE.org WE Well-being Podcast We Well-being Resources   Journaling Prompts What is one small thing that I’m doing right now to promote my own wellbeing? What is one thing I’m doing to promote the wellbeing of others? What is bringing me joy right now?  

Today I’m speaking with New York Times bestselling author James Clear. Author of the international bestselling book, Atomic Habits.  Creator of jamesclear.com and the popular 3-2-1 weekly newsletter. Speaker at major companies and events. Weightlifter and (former) athlete. Contributor to the Against Malaria Foundation where he donates 5% of all profit. Journaling Prompts: Am I climbing the right mountain? What are you optimizing for?   Who am I optimizing to become? Can my current habits carry me to my desired future? Am I being effective right now or just busy?  

Mark Metry is on Amazon Prime's TV Docuseries "The Social Movement" season 2 attempting to solve some of the world's biggest problems. He is also the Host of the Global Top 100 podcast called Humans 2.0 featured by Forbes, NASDAQ, and Yahoo Finance as the "Top 21 Growing Podcasts you must listen to in 2019." Mark's show has been listened to over 10 million times and features the greatest leaders of our time exploring today's dynamic of the human experience in modern technological times. Mark is also now a best selling author with his first book “Screw Being Shy : How to Eliminate Social Anxiety” which is currently exploding on Amazon! Check out episode #68 for our first conversation.  

Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including, Bring Your Whole Self to Work and We're All in This Together.  He's a former pro baseball player whose playing career ended due to an injury.  For the past 20 years, he's been a sought-after motivational speaker who delivers keynotes and seminars for some of the top companies in the world. He and his work have been featured in the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review, as well as on NPR and ABC News.  He’s a regular contributor to Forbes, hosts a weekly podcast, and his books have been translated into 15 different languages. And I would add, he’s a great human! Enjoy this conversation! The  socials - Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube   Journaling Prompts: What are you grateful for? What matters? Who matters? How can I serve? How can I be kind to myself and others?  

David Sax is a writer, reporter, and speaker who specializes in business and culture. His previous book, The Revenge of Analog, was a #1 Washington Post bestseller, was selected as one of Michiko Kakutani’s Top Ten books of 2016 for the New York Times, and has been translated into six languages. He is the author of Save the Deli, which won a James Beard award, and The Tastemakers.  With all his books, he has tapped into the reasons people go into business. His latest book, The Soul Of An Entrepreneur goes even deeper on this theme. Why does the entrepreneur matter, why do different types of entrepreneurs matter and why do they become an entrepreneur in the first place? “Starting your own business isn’t about becoming an instant billionaire. It’s about choosing the work and life you want for yourself, every day.” David Sax The Soul of an Entrepreneur - Work and life behind the startup myth   Journaling Prompts: Is this interesting to me? Is my heart in it? Am I pursuing the freedom I want?  

Emma Brooks is passionate about three things: branding, community building, and ideas. As Head of Marketing at Wattpad, she brings these passions together to create marketing strategies that tell Wattpad’s rich story to its millions of users around the world. Emma is also committed to building communities that give back. She volunteers for The Coaching Fellowship, a non-profit that provides massively discounted executive coaching for extraordinary young women leaders in roles of impact around the globe. She is the co-founder of Reset, an immersive digital detox camp experience for adults, that has run events annually since 2015. And she spent 7 years as an avid TEDster, working on and leading the Programming team for TEDxToronto. Emma on >> Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn   Journaling Prompts (marketing related): What is our unfair advantage? What is happening culturally? What are the other competitors doing? What is the monster we are fighting?  

Aditi Shah is a yoga teacher based in New York City teaching public and live broadcast classes for Peloton. She is also a co-creator of Mindful Morning, a pop-up meditation event in NYC, and a supporter of Exhale to Inhale. She has led lead class for over 2000 yogis in Times Square, for Good Morning America's "Tone in 20," had contributed to Well + Good's "Sweat Series," and has been named one of NYC's Best Teachers by Classpass.  To Aditi, yoga is a workout, a science and a worldview wrapped into a way of life.  Aditi on >> Instagram | Spotify | Facebook   Journaling Prompts: What does my heart truly desire? What makes me feel alive? Where is my happiness coming from?