Posts in category: Overcome Outloud

This week I had the opportunity to sit down with author and news anchor, Courtney Friel. Courtney has been sober for 12 years after battling for years with her alcohol and substance abuse addictions. She courageously shares her journey with us to help others overcome out loud too.

In Courtney’s book, Tonight at 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News, she gives her tell-all account of everything from paying off cops in Mexico after a cocaine bust to sober sexcapades to, ultimately, adventures in holistic healing to achieve deep inner peace. At every detour along the way, her sobering story stays packed with irreverent humor and hard-won optimism. What emerges is a front-line report on living life to the fullest, #KeepingItFriel and celebrating your inner party girl – even in sobriety.

Courtney also hosted the podcast, Keepin’ It Friel: Conversations on Recovery, where she has candid conversations with celebrities and media personalities about their recovery from addiction. Courtney hopes to inspire others struggling with addictions and show that recovery is possible, and that life can still be fun and rewarding without drugs or alcohol.

Listen at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…

This week’s episode with my good friend and mentor, Brian Cain, is one you don’t want to miss. Brian is a number one international best-selling author and one of the world’s foremost authorities on mental performance. His mental performance training strategies have been used by thousands of elite performers and top athletes worldwide, including industry-leading companies like Burton Snowboards and Fuddruckers, UFC World Champions, multiple NCAA National Champions, and hundreds of athletes in the UFC, NBA, PGA, NFL, NHL, and MLB.

Mental Performance is the key to unlocking unshakeable confidence, forging unbreakable mental toughness, and gaining an (almost) unfair edge over the competition.

Learn more at https://briancain.com/

In this week’s episode I had the opportunity to sit down with Trake Carpenter, a golf performance coach as well as personal coach. Trake shares his journey through playing golf in high school and earning a Division I scholarship at Ball State. He struggled with self-talk, mindset and performance. After hiring a coach and changing his habits, he ended his college golf career as team captain with a tournament win on his resume.

Trake became a graduate assistant at Ball State for a season and then pursued other business ventures. Listen as he shares how he went from bankruptcy to finding his way back to the true passion of his life, all things golf. Trake is on a mission to help others leverage golf to open doors and create opportunities to achieve their dreams.

Trake also hosts the podcast GPS Podcast – Golf Performance Show. This Golf Performance Show is designed to help you get from where you are to where you want to be in your journey with golf. Trake brings in guests each week who can inspire and motivate you to take your next step in golf.

You can connect with Trake on Instagram and Twitter @trakecarpenter. Learn more his podcast at https://anchor.fm/GPS-Pod

This week I had the pleasure to sit down with a dear friend of mine, Aly B. Aly is a health, fitness and mindset coach. She shares her story of dreaming to become a professional athlete in the olympics, being addicted to physical fitness and suffering extensive injuries to becoming a coach and helping others find their way to the podium.

Aly guides mothers to live actively and bravely with inner certainty to create the life they want and deserve. She helps exhausted and overwhelmed moms get their life on the trajectory of vivid health and happiness through planning, accountability, and encouragement. Aly has lived through the struggle and has overcome challenges and adversity. With years of professional and personal experience, she’s here to help you realize your dreams, and provide you with the tools to conquer your goals!

Learn more at https://www.alybcoaching.com/

In this podcast I had the incredible opportunity to speak with Ruth Mary Allan, High Performance and Brain Health Coach. Ruth shares her journey through extreme depression, performance anxiety, and family loss. After triumphantly overcoming her obstacles she now coaches others from where they are to where they want to be.

High Performance Coaching is a process created to help you level up and reach heightened and sustained levels of performance and potential in your life. As a Certified Coach Ruth will work with you to look at your high performance habits so that you can develop mastery in these areas and feel more fulfilled.

Brain Health Coaching is a process created to help you identify your unique brain type and learn how to optimise your brain health so that you can better manage your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Learn more at https://www.ruthmaryallan.com/

In this episode I sit down with Amy Logan, an exmormon and current life coach. Amy discusses her faith crisis leaving the Mormon church after being a devout member for over 30 years. Amy describes how studying Mormon history prompted her to leave after she discovered the truth. By experiencing the fallout due to leaving a high demand faith she now helps others struggling with their grief and anger after leaving their religion through life coaching.

Religious trauma is a real thing and unless you have been through it, you have no idea how hard that journey can be. Getting to the other side of mormonism, when mormonism has been your whole identity can feel like an uphill climb. But, Amy believe sto be true is, you are worth it, and you always have been.

To help others overcome outloud and let them know they aren’t alone Amy hosts the podcast Exmormonology. Learn more at https://www.amyloganlife.com/

This week I had to opportunity to sit down again with author, speaker, and Co-Founder & President of Prison Consulting Solutions, Andrew McKenna, who went from a federal prosecutor to a federal prisoner.

Andrew served five years in federal prison for robbing six banks and two supermarkets in five counties to pay for his addiction to heroin.

Learn more in his memoir, Sheer Madness: From Federal Prosecutor to Federal Prison. Available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PEXZT1S/…

This week I had to opportunity to speak with author, speaker, and Co-Founder & President of Prison Consulting Solutions, Andrew McKenna, who went from a federal prosecutor to a federal prisoner.

“It will change you. You will never be the same.”

At just 16 years of age, when a grizzled Californian drug dealer spoke those words of warning, there was no way Andrew McKenna could know that a few decades later, while embroiled in a losing custody battle, heroin would become the most seductive and destructive force in his life.

Raised in Schenectady, New York, Andrew’s upbringing sounds familiar—Little League baseball, scraps with boys from the neighborhood, parties, road trips. But below the surface, Andrew always felt different—detached, somehow, and constantly wondering how he fit in the bigger picture, always just steps from the mire of existential crisis.

Then, at the urging of one of his older brothers, he joins the military. Next is law school, followed by training with the Marines, and before he knows what’s hit him, this once aimless boy from modest roots is rapidly rising through the ranks as an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department. But years of untreated emotional distress, combined with the physical toll of the military, eventually lead him down a dark path, one riddled with prescription medication, alcohol, divorce, the loss of contact with his sons, and, ultimately, crime.

In this episode I sit down with one of my podcast producers, Chaz and discuss the significance that beliefs and behaviors play in our lives. Learn more about improving our core beliefs, thought planning and taking small simple step to get from where you are to where you want to be and much more.