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502: Learning to Get Past Your Past with Jason VanRuler

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Today’s guest and I seem to have a lot in common, and I’m so glad I was given the chance to meet him and interview him about his book. I think it’s one you definitely need to read for yourself.

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His name is Jason VanRuler, and his book is called Get Past Your Past: How Facing the Broken Places Leads to True Connection.

Your brokenness, Jason Says, is not the end of the story. It’s time to heal.

Any of us can get stuck in our struggle. Jesus came to set us free and give us life–abundant life–but while we believe it for everyone else, it’s hard to accept his forgiveness and grace for ourselves. We continue in our old ways, living as one with no hope because we’re afraid of failing if we try to get better.

But what if brokenness–the array of behaviors and symptoms that show us that all is not as it should be with us–isn’t all there is? What if we can change?

As a licensed therapist and a man who’s dealt with his own problems–including childhood trauma, alcohol abuse, drug use, and bouts of depression–Jason VanRuler understands what you’re going through. In Get Past Your Past, he offers empathy, grace, and a hand to hold as he shares from his own places of brokenness and his professional knowledge

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489: How to Work with (Almost) Anyone with Michael Bungay Stanier

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This week’s guest wrote a book that is considered to be the best coaching book of the century. He and I spoke about that book here several years ago.

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His latest book is another winner in my view. His name is Michael Bungay Stanier and the book is How to Work with (Almost) Anyone.

The hard truth, Michael says, is most of us leave many of our relationships to chance. Few of us approach them with any amount of intentionality.

Relationships always get a little broken, or a little stale, or a little worse. C’est la vie, c’est la guerre. Carry on.

But it doesn’t have to be like this. Every working relationship can be better.

Michael’s book shows you how to build the best possible relationship.

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488: Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past with Dan Miller

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One of my favorite guests of all time, and one of my favorite humans in general, is joining me again for this episode. His fourth visit thus far.

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I’m talking, of course, about New York Times bestselling author, Dan Miller.

His latest book, unconventional in that he made all the “wrong” choices during its creation, is called An Understanding Heart.

Some of those choices include:

  • A simulated leather book
  • 406 pages
  • 84 vignettes in all
  • Color pages
  • A satin bookmark
  • A gift box with key quotations
  • A bonus medallion
  • And more.

It’s about as excited as I’ve ever seen Dan about one of his projects. It’s the kind of book you can dive into for a few pages, put it down, and then come back to it later, without the guilt typically associated with approaching a book in that way.

For this reason and many others, it makes a fantastic gift! I loved it, and I think you will too.

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475: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most with Adam Alter

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You may recall that in the first episode of 2023, I spelled out the six books I was most looking forward to in the first half of this year.

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Today, I’m thrilled to be able to feature the fourth of those six books. That book is Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most.

Adam has spent the past two decades studying how people become stuck and how they free themselves to thrive. Here he reveals the formula he and other researchers have uncovered. The solution rests on a process that he calls a friction audit—a systematic procedure that uncovers why a person or organization is stuck, and then suggests a path to progress.

The friction audit states that people and organizations get unstuck when they overcome three sources of friction: HEART (unhelpful emotions); HEAD (unhelpful patterns of thought); and HABIT (unhelpful behaviors).

Despite the ubiquity of friction, there are many great “unstickers” hidden in plain sight among us and Alter shines a light on some exceptional stories to share their valuable lessons with us. Getting stuck, Adam says, is a feature rather than a glitch on the road to thriving, but with the right tweaks and corrections we can reach even our loftiest targets.

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462: Make More Sales, Build Loyal Relationships, and Make More Money with Jen Gitomer

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I have my friend Honorée Corder to thank again for this week’s guest. She’s always helping to introduce me to new and interesting people.

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The latest person on that list is Jen Gitomer. In 2019, she published the book we’re focusing on today.

It’s called Sales in a New York Minute: Make More Sales, Build Loyal Relationships, and Make More Money.

You’ve heard the term ”…in a New York minute,” and you have your own ideas of what it means. Jennifer defines it as ”fast, clear, direct, and successful.” That’s the way of New York, and it’s the way sales are made (or lost) in New York City, and everywhere else on the planet.

She grew up in a successful book manufacturing family business run by her parents. Their dinner table conversations were a MBA real-world business education years before she graduated from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jennifer is a speaker, trainer, writer, blogger, Facebooker, Instagrammer, Tweeter, podcaster and YouTuber. She is online and on the money, and her mission is to teach you how to make it anywhere.

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