Exploring Possibility

Yolandi is the managing director for the NeuroCoach institute. Yolandi has extensive training, skills & development experience and is an accredited SETA & TETA assessor & moderator. She is also a qualified Occupationally Directed- Education, Training & Development Practitioner with a bunch of certifications and years of experience. 

She also describes herself as a mother, a wife, an educator, a coach, a mentor, and loving it all. She truly believes in coaching as it is the process of assisting people to think about things differently. This is something very foundational to the mission of Exploring Possibility. 

• What do you mean by fears and fixations and how does that relate to fulfillment?
• Why do some people pop quick fix pills instead of using the tools readily available from the body?
• How do we distinguish between sympathetic and parasympathetic systems?
  

Key takeaways

• With our inner world, we need to explore ways of how to get our inner world back.
• Reframing is about looking at ourselves from the 3rd person and is a 3-step process: acknowledge, observe, and create a new story.
• The moment we feel stuck, that is the moment that the sympathetic system goes into overdrive.  
• Balanced breathing: inhale for 6sec, hold for 6sec, exhale for 6sec. We’re balancing the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.
  

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Jane Kise is a writer, education consultant, and corporate trainer. Her 25 books range from finding meaning to teambuilding to resources for educators.

She is a past president of the Association for Psychological Type International, an organization dedicated to constructive use of differences.

Her deep knowledge into the field of personality and work makes her the perfect fit to discuss how we can navigate our way towards a fulfilling future, one that involves using our strengths and matching our work with our core needs.

• Do we find our fit by asking what makes us unique? (12:54)
• How deeply should we study our personality? (17:49)
• Should we all be lifelong learners? (33:31) 
• How do different personalities go about finding their fit? (44:12)
  

Key takeaways

• Personality doesn’t determine what you will do but it shows the patterns that people like you have found fulfilling. 
• Once you understand your motivation, you don’t necessarily have to change careers. 
• Match your core motivators to your current work to increase fulfillment. 
• Schooling around the world has us only testing talents in a very few areas.
  

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Nicky Abdinor is an exceptional person. Nicky was born without arms and shortened legs, a physical disability that had no medical explanation.

She believes supportive parents, a determined personality and inclusion in mainstream education were key factors in overcoming her physical limitations.

She still maintains a bigger smile than most people we see today.

Her talks are packed with positive psychology, childlike joy and lots of humour.

• When did your model of the world change? (9:42)
• What does the process of reframing look like for you? (12:41)
• How does growth mindset integrate with positive psychology? (24:24)
• What is the first step to get back to childlike curiosity? (31:52)
  

Key takeaways

• We can always find a story of somebody who’s got similar circumstances and has overcome it. 
• We are hardwired to focus on the things we can’t do. 
• Our uniqueness is our greatest strength. 
• To be childlike requires that we play again and be vulnerable.
  

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Gavin has been working as an Executive Coach, Facilitator and Mediator since 2004. His coaching practice integrates Leadership coaching, team coaching, group coaching and international telephonic coaching. 

He is an admitted Attorney of the High court of South Africa, has a Diploma in Life and Business Coaching through the Coaching Centre, is an accredited Time to Think Coach among many other things. Gavin designs and delivers coaching interventions as well as supervising and training coaches.

Gavin is most effective in supporting people to think for themselves; to manage their stress levels and create more balance in their lives; to be clear, purposeful and action orientated.

• How do we approach uncertainty and increase bandwidth? (14:15)
• How do we respond if we’re in an uncertain place? (26:05)
• Do we need endurance in our life? (43:32)
• How do we build endurance into our life? (43:32)
  

Key takeaways

• Those who have been going to the mental gym will have a little bit more bandwidth to navigate. 
• Ask yourself, is this happening TO me or FOR me? If so, am I allowing it to happen? 
• When you’re grateful, you can’t be afraid at the same time. It’s physiologically not possible. 
• Do you have the intent and commitment to build yourself day by day? 
• The things that numb and medicate you takes you away from your real experience.
  

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Amrit Sandhu is an international speaker, coach, podcast host and founder of The Inspired Evolution.

A Teacher Certified by Eckhart Tolle’s School of Awakening, he is also Mindvalley’s Master Certified Trainer for both Australia and for India. Amrit travels the world delivering keynotes, talks, seminars, and workshops for the Inspired Evolution and Mindvalley throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.

His gift for sharing impactful ideas & insights with unrivaled enthusiasm enables him to engage audiences from all over the world featuring a wide range of demographics, from corporate environments, universities and so much more.

• What does Inspired Evolution mean?
• What is purpose and how can we define it? 
• How do we step into our purpose?
• What is mindfulness and how can we utilize it?
  

Key takeaways

• Purpose is the conversation around fulfillment. Purpose is directly aligned with your health.
• If you’re neglecting to express that which fulfills you then you’re actually suppressing who you are. Suppressing is the opposite expression.
• Symptoms of flow (STER): spaciousness, timelessness, effortless & richness.
• Your space already informs and is already representing to you your curiosities.
• Always hustle yes, but don’t forget alignment comes first.
  

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Simphiwe Petros is the co-founder of the SBK leadership academy. He is also a radio personality, TV presenter, speaker and teacher.

The purpose of this academy is to develop servant leaders that meet the needs of the community around them.

SBKs young leaders are being cultivated to be the solution to tomorrow’s problems.

• What are the leadership qualities that all leaders should have today? (17:17)
• How can your regular average Joe also be a leader in their own environment? (20:36)
• How do we live a life that is unplugged and in charge? (23:45)
  

Key takeaways

• The premise of leadership is to create other leaders, not followers.
• Popularity commands attention, influence inspires action in others.
• Leadership is not about yourself. It’s about being the example and inspiring others through integrity.
• Foresight is one of the key leadership principles in servant leadership.
  
  

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John Sanei is a best-selling author, Singularity University faculty member, global speaker and trend specialist.

His unlimited fascination with the future has seen him become Africa’s first faculty member at Singularity University in San Francisco, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education in Johannesburg, and a Partner Associate at the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies in Denmark.

Author of best-sellers What’s Your Moonshot, Magnetize and FOREsight, John is also the Co-founder and Chief Exponential Officer at Future Self Academy, an author-led, online platform that connects the curious to leading thinkers.

• What is the quantum world? (14:57)
• How can we become exponential thinkers? (18:57)
• Where is the balance in future-thinking? (25:04)
• How can we prepare for the future? (29:22)
  

Key takeaways

• You will never be gifted or celebrated when you stay in your comfort zone.
• The only way to be exponential is to be unique in the skillset and the value you add into the world. Thinking exponentially puts too much pressure on us.
• Allow your heart and your curiosity to make decisions.
• The dreamer of the dream creates the reality.
• 90% of the world is addicted to anxiety and worry.
  

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Harris Fanaroff is a former Lehigh University baseball player who now helps businesses, leaders, and athletes have difficult conversations. Conversations which are necessary for growth and optimal performance.

As a leadership and business development coach, Harris has a gift for helping people uncover the deep issues that hold them back from excellence in business and in life.

Through his own journey we’re able to digest his decision making framework and see how he has had to make his way through seemingly tough decisions and moments within his sport career. He had to adapt his story to become who he is today and to share that in a way that helps others go forward.

• What are the limitations and dangers of getting attached to an identity? (8:39)
• How do we approach a flexible identity? (10:38)
• What can we do to build our confidence to perform more optimally? (14:18)
• How do we get into a flow state? (20:04)
• How do you deal with failure? (24:59)
  

Key takeaways

• Approach identity from a wider perspective and spread out what the ‘label’ or title means to you so that you can experience less of a drop during a transition period.
• You need to be prepared enough to not think while performing.
• When you can control and choose your self talk then you immediately take control of your performance.
• Control controllables and let uncontrollables go. You get to decide how you react and show up with the provided data.
• Nothing big has truly ever been accomplished without a huge failure next to it.
  

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Jim Cathcart is an American entrepreneur, speaker and author. He is also a leadership development expert, mentor, strategic advisor, motivational expert, sales consultant, entertainer & author of 20 books including The Acorn Principle and Relationship Selling, international bestsellers.

As a TEDx speaker he made it into the Top 1% of most watched videos (over 1.9 million views). 

He’s been conducting immersive training experiences for people who want to transcend their current limits and expand their life. 

• How do we become extraordinary? (32:20)
• What is success velocity and how do we use it? (37:09)
• What is the acorn principle for success? (43:00)
• Commitment. Why is it vital for our success? (45:11)
  

Key takeaways

• Structure your life to make it a perfect fit for the qualities that you bring to the world.
• A motive without an action is just a wish. An action without a motive with just random behavior.
• Focus on your nobler motives. Focus on the desirable and the helpful motives.
• The first step in activating your nobler motives occurs within the power minute. The power minute is the opportunity gap between thinking or feeling and doing something about it.
  

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As an Empowerment Strategist, Jennifer works with practitioners and clients who are feeling stuck and overwhelmed by typical, mainstream modalities.

Over the past several years, Jennifer has studied the life-long effects of trauma and abuse and she has discovered several tools and techniques that work well for overcoming these effects that often hold us back in life.

Jennifer uses all of these tools and techniques to help he clients explore the depths of themselves in order to effect change in their lives.

• How do we renegotiate the nervous system? (9:02)
• Do our emotions get affected by the outer or inner world? (22:09)
• How do we discern emotions? (29:42)
• What is trauma and how do we work through it? (46:44)
  

Key takeaways

• In your first 7 years of your life, you are in a brain wave state that creates much of who you are.
• If you are the common element in a repeating pattern then it’s worth looking at yourself as the obstacle.
• Just because you have the right to be (add emotion - eg. angry), does not mean you should let (emotion) dictate your words or actions.
• If there is no space between stimulus and response, we automatically go into reaction.
  

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Bennie is a qualified NLP, HNLP coach, practitioner and certified hypnotherapist. He provides an opportunity for change and motivation to succeed. Bennie has a passion for motivating people to breakthrough limiting beliefs.

Bennie has more than 10 years experience in coaching with a background in human resources, working with a number of corporate companies and clients on an individual and group basis throughout his career, with sound and proven systems, programs and interventions to create success.

• What is the subconscious mind? (6:27)
• Where does someone start if they want to change their subconscious? (11:40)
• How can we use mental rehearsal to improve performance? (25:34)

Key takeaways

• Majority of your programming has already been placed on you before the age of 7.
• The way we retrain our mind is with emotions.
• Theta state is the most optimal state to make suggestions to your subconscious.
• The subconscious mind can’t distinguish between what is real and what is imaginary.
• If you are not getting uncomfortable then you are not learning.

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Manuj is a start up coach who empowers entrepreneurs to maximize their potential, take their results to the next level and turn their visions into reality.

He grew up in a small town in India. His home was a troubled one and he therefore withdrew into his shell, becoming aloof and angry. At age 15, He started working in a factory where he labored 12 hours/day with only $2 as a daily salary.

• What did you do initially to get out of poverty? (09:29)
• What is the biggest difference between those who fail and those who succeed? (16:20)
• What is spirituality? (20:00)
• How do you balance doing versus being? (34:13)

• Knowing what you want is the first step towards moving away from where you are.
• Your life purpose always changes. It’s dynamic and evolving all the time.
• We are spiritual beings having a physical experience.
• Don’t be afraid of challenges because those are the learning opportunities and growth opportunities.

G. Brian Benson is an award-winning and #1 best-selling self-improvement and children’s book author, actor, filmmaker, coach and TEDx speaker.

As a 4x Ironman triathlete and cross-country bicyclist, Brian knows the value of hard work and never giving up on his dreams, a message he shares with audiences through each of his creative expressions.

• What is your advice to introverts to also win in this world? (9:46)
• How to get inspired to do what we need to do? (14:14)
• How do you get and express intuition? (22:38)
• How do we set up goals for success? (36:04)
  

• As an introvert, being an observer is an immense power.
• The more that you learn to love and accept yourself, the easier others things become.
• Giving and being of service is one way of finding happiness.
• We have so much abundance in our life that other people would die for.
• Being intentional guides you to your vision.
  

Sebastian Little - NCAA Division I football player, leadership speaker, and mental performance coach. Having learned, implemented, studied, and taught mental performance strategies, Sebastian retains an authentic first-hand connection between theory and application. 

He frequently works with individual athletes, teams, and schools to drive results at all levels of the organization.

His mission: To build a world where leaders, teams, and organizations show up and perform at their best every single day. 

• What is the mental game? (10:10)
• How important is it to work on the mental game? (11:47)
• What are the actual rewards for high performance? (21:07)
• How can we improve our mental capacity? (29:11)
  

• Through pain comes a lot of resilience.
• Most of our mental game is structured around routine. 
• As you move up higher into performance, what becomes more and more important is how you execute the fundamentals. 
• Growth = stress + rest. If you’re not pushing the envelope close to failure, you’re not going to reap the benefits of doing so. 
• One of the biggest ways we can all learn is to distill down the information and share it with others. 
• You don’t control winning. You control the factors and preparation that allow you to perform at your best.
  

Gilan is a global authority on influence. He has presented for international companies, business organisations and government agencies in 30 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia and America, and is the author of the bestselling book Persuasion Games.

With two decades' experience as a professional mentalist, Gilan creates unique learning experiences that help people unleash their influence. He teaches how to apply a working knowledge of influence and persuasion to real-life practical situations, to be able to lead, sell, negotiate, market and inspire on a new level.

He says that the techniques that he uses are as accessible to anyone as the ability to breathe, all you need to do is learn how to apply them. POWERFUL!

• Which skills and philosophies are under mentalism? (09:11)
• What is influence and how necessary is it to develop influence as a skill? (29:29)
• What is the Rapid Influence Formula? (34:10)
  

• Question-storming: Rather than thinking about ideas, it’s about thinking about questions. 
• The mind, speech and body are all interlinked. Everything that we experience and think is in our field of consciousness. 
• Body language is a more reliable source of information than what somebody is saying because it’s easy to change what we want to say.
• Our reality is the sum of everything that has come before it to make that moment what it is.
  

Phillip Andrew is TV Producer and Youth Motivational Speaker. Phillip is dedicated to inspiring, motivating, encouraging, and empowering students, teachers, and educators to reach for their best selves.

Phillip Andrew is also an Emmy-Nominated Los Angeles-based television producer who has been asked to speak around the country educating and encouraging High School and College Students through high energy entertainment and unforgettable storytelling.

• How do we change our thinking and direct our focus towards solutions? (17:18)
• Why is it important for us to take ownership of our character? (27:04)
• What about the people who think they’re too old to work on character? (33:48)
  

• You need to face what’s going on. Your challenge might not be something like alcohol but your inability to grieve and cope with life.
• One of the great educators is exposure.
• Our own, unique stories are amazing because it helps us relate to other people.
• Your character is you when you strip opinions and reputations away.
  

James is a high performance coach, speaker, entrepreneur, dad and more.

He is also the founder of Reignite Enterprises. It is the culmination of his life’s work and it aims to bring quality, conscious education to the world and help more people live their truth. It allows people to transcend extremely outdated learning models and step into a more empowered, fulfilled life.

• What is freedom and how do we get there? (09:16)
• Does purpose drive productivity? (23:48)
• What does it mean to reignite? (27:01)
• How much of our education should be conscious based? (43:10)
  

• Potential is not about achieving it, it’s about expanding it.
• 3 P’s to live life more successfully:

1. Purpose: find meaning in what you do.
2. Passion: What lights you up.
3. Presence: Being aware of how you live.

• Sometimes the greatest risks, in terms of following our passion, bring the greatest rewards.
• The only way that we’re going to acknowledge that we grow and get better is when we reflect and celebrate the things we have done.
• Future education: providing people with the space to self-discover.
  

Anneme Coetzee, the owner of Accelerated Excellence, is passionate about helping individuals to understand themselves so that they can achieve personal excellence.

As an International Neuro Linguistics Trainer, she provides support to enhance the skills, resources and creativity that her clients already have – and challenges assumptions and thoughts that are blocking or disabling them from moving forward. She is here to heal and empower the world by unleashing human potential!

• What is NLP? (7:00)
• What is a belief system and how does it drive our entire life? (16:54)
• Could a simple shift in how we view the world change our trajectory of our life? (27:55)

• Your words don’t describe the world that you live in, it determines the world you live in.
• The voids in your life create your values.
• We upgrade ourselves every year; why don’t we upgrade ourselves?
• You don’t need to know how a car was built to drive one.
• All our challenges in our past has molded us into who people see today.
• Our perception guides us and it will project out into the world.

Annette is an experienced and inspired entrepreneur within the technology and finance industry. She previously founded DOTNXT, one of South Africa’s first Innovation Consultancy’s. In 2014, Annette was recognised by Forbes as one of the ‘top 10 female tech founders to watch In Africa’.

She is a sought after international speaker, where her work continues to inspire people and companies all around the world to do things differently.

• Is digital nomadism for everyone? (09:06)
• Why should we learn to earn? (22:57)
• How can people adapt and thrive in this new culture of work? (27:22)
• Who is the I-gen generation and what can we learn from them? (34:41)
  

• Exposure opens up new pathways in your brain. You are literally opening up your brain while seeing and experiencing new places and people gives you serotonin.
• The true meaning of freedom: the ability to choose.
• One of the key attributes underneath self-learning is curiosity.

Dr. Al, is (as he calls himself) a Child of God, Father, Chiropractor, Health & Human Performance Coach, Host of the Rise Up! Radio Podcast, 2x OCR World Championship Athlete (18’,19’), and in a Heavy Metal Band (@KeptAliveBand).

He has worked with Pro Athletes, Olympic Gold Medalists, World Series winners, IronMan winners & finishers, CEO’s, Upper Management, Entrepreneurs, Stay-At-Home Moms and thousands of other amazing people to help them transform their lives.

He is in a constant state of self-improvement and I will help anyone who wants or needs his help!

• What is the manifestation equation? (11:24)
• What could the X be in one word? (28:30)
• Is gratitude and self love the ultimate state of being? (30:35)
• Why does this equation work in changing lives? (33:08)
  

• Our RAS (Reticular Activating System) helps us see things by drawing from what we focus on.
• If there is a big bang then there must be a big banger.
• Your purpose is already inside of you and you are already living it. 
• Your brain is a purpose seeking organ, it will see things that you or others can't see. It knows. 

An acclaimed marketer, entrepreneur and award-winning author with two multi-million dollar agencies under her belt, Stacey Ruth has been acknowledged as among the Top 50 Entrepreneurs in Atlanta, and twice as one of the Top 100 “IT” Agencies by Experiential Marketer Magazine.

As an impassioned brand advocate Stacey believes that without exception, every organization can be unstoppable. Stacey is a certified ROI professional, licensed spiritual practitioner and author of Truth and Dare: Inside Out Marketing.

• How can we start elevating consciousness? (9:47)
• What would the outcome of conscious business be for us? (18:12)
• What does it mean to be unstoppable and to embody it? (20:39)
• What is intuition and how do we cultivate it? (31:46)
  

• At its foundation, all business is spiritual in nature.
• Businesses are the extensions of who the leaders are.
• Owning what it is that’s driving you forward is what it means to be unstoppable.
• Intuition is the knowing without going from point a to point b, we leap right over.
• Only about 10% of our decision process is rational and linear, the other 90% is emotional and subconscious.

As a young motivational speaker David has spoken in 36 states and Canada to over 350,000 students, inspiring them to look at people and things in a different way.  His Facebook videos, created by Goalcast, have received over 80 million views. He speaks with passion and conviction and through his humility, leaves his audience with so much to think about in their formative years as they move into their future.

• Why are we losing real connection among people? (10:53)
• What have you learned from Justin, your child with autism? (19:24)
• How can I see me when I look at you? (31:16)
• What is one action we can do to create more connection? (39:44)

Key takeaways

• If you can’t remember someone’s name, remember something about them.
• See yourself in others and ask how can I make this moment better for them.
• Our phones have taken away our face-to-face interaction and are contributing to deteriorating coping skills.
• Sharing your problems with someone cuts them in half.
• Inspiration is just like food; you don’t live on what you ate weeks ago, you live on what you ate in the last couple of days.

Ann is a certified coach and consultant that specializes in defining your strengths and accounting for your blind spots.  She is also an MBTI Master Practitioner with a subspecialty in interpreting the MBTI Step III, a highly personalized roadmap in personality development.

Ann has also studied the brain for over 35 years, first as a speech pathologist and now as an International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified coach.

• Are all personality types equally strong and do they each have the same potential? (08:40) 
• How valuable is it that we know and understand our personality and our strengths? (10:55) 
• How do we define self-awareness? (20:48) 
• Is there a way to measure self-awareness? (26:37) 
• Is there a ‘success’ ratio between thinking, doing and being? (36:48)

• Becoming an entrepreneur will expose the things that you need to pay attention to that you normally wouldn’t.
• Self awareness is not a one way thing. It can also be referred to as other-awareness.
• The more self aware you are, the more other-aware you are.
  

Pablo has a B.A. in Psychology and completed over 100 hours at the official coaching training school of Tony Robbins. He is also a certified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Practitioner. 

He specializes in working with men looking to live a more complete and extraordinary life. 

• If we struggle with personal relationships, does that affect our professional relationships? (22:02)
• Where do we find quality relationships, personal and professional? (26:10)
• What are the general blindspots in relationships? (36:00)
• How does body language affect our approach? (42:37)
• Do we have our own unique strengths when it comes to energy and relationships? (43:41)

• To become better at relationships, you have to become a better version of yourself.
• It takes incredible bravery and courage to say ‘I am not feeling strong today’ or ‘I am scared’.
• Define success on your own terms. This includes defining what a relationship means to you.
• The key to having a successful relationship is communication.
• The reason we stray away from communication is because we don’t know how to do it.

Mimi Kalinda is originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda and raised in South Africa and she is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Africommunications Group (ACG). 

She is an expert in storytelling and is excellent at what she does. Presidents of nations call her to help to rebrand their countries. Her vision is to change the African narrative and change what Africans think about themselves. 

• Your superpower is storytelling. Where does that come from? (10:04)
• What do you mean when you refer to the African narrative? (15:13)
• Why should we raise our standards? (20:00)
• How can we shift our perception about past experiences? (27:35)
• How can we use storytelling to move ourselves and the world forward? (30:17)
  

• Someone’s superpower is not only what they do well but what speaks to them, their mission.
• On the surface we can shift behavior, but it won’t be sustainable unless you shift perception.
• If you are told a story over and over again, not only do you start to believe the story, but you start to behave according to the characteristics which that story assigns you.
• You become the person people say you are, if you allow yourself to buy into that.
• Focus on being excellent. It will shift how people see you, engage with you and how they need you in their space.
• Building your personal brand equity will have ripple effects in your life.
• You are, to a large extent, in charge of how you show up in the world and how people experience you from a reputation standpoint.
  

Tim is the author of the non-fiction book called How To Ikigai. He’s also a speaker, singer and seeker of wonder.

He is also the former host of a nightly national jazz program called Tonic on CBC Radio 2. At the end of a decade as a radio host, Tim felt the desire to pursue deeper meaning in his life's work (I can relate - I also had this existential moment). He left CBC to study positive psychology and Ikigai (life's worth) with a year long "Ikigai year".

He has learned that his personal Ikigai is "to delight" and he now offer keynotes, workshops and music performances to share his Ikigai.

Ultimately, he was also asked to speak at TedxYYC and his presentation was on how to Ikigai! Today we’ll find out more about this concept, what it means and how it can be very valuable to us!

• Do you wish you found your Ikigai earlier in life? (5:50)
• What is Ikigai? (7:36)
• Does you Ikigai change throughout life? (10:40)
• Are the limits of the educational contributing to the problem of no Ikigai? (20:01)
• Why aren’t all people seeking their Ikigai? (30:04)
• What is the biggest takeaway from positive psychology? (34:46)
  

• Purpose is an individual pursuit
• Zero in on what you are passionate about and what you love about life
• You weren’t born to do a job, you were born to be more of you
  

Tristan defines himself as a business sherpa and he is based in Melbourne with a background in leadership coaching and applied business. Unlike many coaches and consultants, however, Tristan has actually built a business – from an ad-hoc startup in his 3 square-meter kitchen to a 7-figure operation with staff and suppliers around the globe.

In doing so, He’s acquired first-hand experience in everything related to business. He has survived the personal aspects of entrepreneurship as well. He’s let the allure of success (and fear of failure) consume every waking minute, and learned the hard lessons seldom taught by anyone.

• How did you get awareness of and eliminate your mental health issues? (10:52)
• What is the shiny object syndrome and how do we escape it? (19:40)
• How do we find clarity? (20:27)
• How do we deal with perfectionism in business? (25:15)
• How do we deal with not having energy or enough time for our business / life? (27:32)
• What is one habit people benefit from to improve their business and life drastically? (34:29)
  

• As difficult as it is, you need to share what you are feeling.
• Break things down into bite-size chunks and deal with it piece by piece.
• It’s part of life to feel pain. It also shows that we are human.
• The number one step in business coaching is mindset coaching, it underpins everything else.
• Start with the end in mind when you are thinking of goals and your vision.

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristandwright
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evolvetogrow/
• Website: https://www.evolvetogrow.com.au/
  

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Bridget is the founder of shift 1 degree which helps people grow their business. She hosts workshops and coaching for professionals or businesses looking to reach their goals. She has tried and tested many avenues of life to come to where she is now and her path is one we can definitely learn from.

Bridget’s passion is to help people bring business ideas to life, and open doors of opportunity. She takes people to another level - no matter where you are in your business, personal finances, personal relationships or well-being.

Her belief is: the more you develop yourself, the more successful you will be and I truly resonate and confirm on that because it’s been personal for me as well.

This begs the question: Without developing yourself how is it possible to create, develop, operate and grow a successful business and stay in love with your career? I can even branch this question out to all other facets of life. If you’re not developing yourself then what version of you are you providing to your family, friends, your spouse, etc.

• How vital is health to life & business? (18:45)
• Biggest takeaway from a decade in the fitness industry? (22:02)
• How do strengths impact business? (38:08)
• How do we find out what we’re good at? (40:26)
• What makes you a believer in all things possible? (43:08)

• Starve your fears and get mentally strong
• Create your purpose and be the purple cow
• Our strengths are what makes us absolutely unique
• Focus on the things you are really good at and outsource the rest
  

Jeremy is a parenting coach, best selling author, Kung Fu master and Pan-American champion. He is also certified in hypnotherapy and NLP. He was abused as a child at 5 and 6, lived in anger for 20 years and now wants to teach children how to find their own voice!

Jeremy Roadruck is a catalyst on a mission to empower children so that they never feel as if they can't speak up for themselves. He works with families to empower children to speak up and own their voices! With this episode we dive in and see what we can learn from Jeremy as adults! 

• How do we spot fear and how do we deal with it? (17:57)
• How did you deal with 20 years of anger? (25:01)
• How does sport contribute to our personal development? (30:00)
• What is NLP and how do we use it to our advantage? (45:52)
  

• You were born a winner. You had to learn to become a loser. 
• You have got to get up and move. It helps you internalize information. 
• The way we talk reveals how we store things in our brain.
• Adults think they are better at lying and rationalizing but the body can’t lie.
• Your pretend will become your reality.  
• God doesn’t make junk. Go out there and light the world.
  

Jack Murray is in the business of helping coaches, consultants and mentors monetize and scale their business. Most of his strategies that he teaches goes beyond business and is interwoven with life and personal development.

In 2012, Jack started a coaching school in Australia called the Australian Institute of coaching and sold it in 2015. It’s still remains one of the most successful life coaching schools in Australia.

His journey started with a Tony Robbins event so have a listen through to listen to his exciting story, background and insights!

• Why start with life first and then business? (10:42)
• What has been your biggest challenge in the marketplace and how did you overcome it? (19:04)
• Is their value in mentorship for someone who wants to grow? (22:35)
• What is the best way to stretch our thinking? (24:38)
• What is a spiritual contract? (29:20)
• How do you break through fear and use it to our advantage? (38:41)
  

• Curiosity is the start of the process when finding your passion.
• The reason you care what other people think is because you are misaligned.
• Those who are finding incongruencies in you are actually just finding incongruencies in themselves. We just act as mirrors.
• The toughest challenge is being able to be you and not listen to everyone else.
• You should never put a mentor on a pedestal, they are human just like you. Once you put them on a pedestal, you’ll start to see insecurities and incongruencies.

Paul Nyamuda is known widely as an expert in leadership and emotional intelligence.  Paul is an Organisational Psychologist who has researched extensively on the subject of leadership development and personal success. His passion is unlocking greatness in individuals, teams and organisations. He has a very dynamic gift for targeting real issues and providing practical solutions.

“Transform Your Thinking” is a phrase he firmly believes in and lives out daily in his life and that is what I questioned him about in this episode. He also inspires leaders across the globe to think beyond their limitations and overcome challenges that seem impossible, a mission that resonates very deeply with me and an objective which is embedded into this show as many of you know who are listening.

• Why transform our thinking? (09:15)
• How do we put our vision into practical steps? (15:56)
• What is a leader and why should we be working on our leadership skills? (21:11)
• What is emotional intelligence and how does it affects us and those around us? (35:48)
• What are the cornerstone traits for leaders? (48:28)
• How do we empower ourselves when stuck in our programming? (1:00:37)
  

• Don’t give someone else’s weakness power over your emotional state.
• As leaders we play a role in helping people to see themselves differently.
• Reciprocal nature of power: I empower you to empower me to empower you.
• Not making a decision is a decision in itself.
• If you want to be a leader, you must speak out what everyone else is whispering.

Dennis Sumlin was born with Glaucoma in one eye and at the age of 11 he lost the sight in his eyes. He is a communication and self development coach and public speaker. He is from New York and typically helps young men in his valley to communicate better and live their purpose.

Dennis has been a podcaster since 2003 and is the founder of Core Confidence Life. Core Confidence Life (CCL) is a Talent Promotion and Coaching service that helps authors, voice artists and podcasters to communicate effectively, strengthen their confidence, polish their brand, and reach a wider audience. He works with people who have a personal development, social conscious, or educational focus to their message.

Through his courses, network, internet radio station, and other resources, he is able to work with you at any stage of your professional development. From aspiring artists who need to build confidence, communication skills and branding, to those with a project that needs more exposure/publicity.

• How do we connect our strength to an occupation? (18:00)
• Are we born with confidence or not? (23:40)
• How do we move from mind to body? TAKE ACTION? (29:34) 
• Why do we compare ourselves to others and not focus on our own journey and strengths? (34:30)
• Has being blind added any meaning to your life? (41:25)
• What is your advice to people who get labeled or stereotyped all the time? (45:14)
  

• Businesses & HR highly value the skill of public speaking and entrepreneurs can truly benefit from improving their skills on communication.
• We are all performing in our strengths, we’re just not aware of it.
• Confidence is the BELIEF that you can do something.
• You do not have to take on somebody else's identity or thought of you.
• The important part is to recenter yourself.
• You ALWAYS have the final say.

Erik Kruger is a keynote speaker, author, and mental performance coach and originally started his career as a physiotherapist. He also hosts the Coached which is loaded with advice on how to approach with higher performance. He works with leaders and organizations to help them improve thinking and behavior in the context of high-performance, mental toughness, and assertiveness. He is the founder of The Mental Performance Lab and author of Acta Non Verba.

The way that Erik describes and frames things really helped me to understand concepts better and to make them practical. Erik is very good at articulating ideas and solutions. He is highly focused and passionate on the notion of making people dangerous again. If you want to know what he means by that, just click play!

• What does our inner game mean? (9:11)
• Why is it important to develop our inner game? (11:20)
• Why do we get stuck in our head? (17:02)
• Do we need to shift our identity to create more success in our life? (19:20)
• How do we extract our best thinking and get the most out of our current mindset? (22:33)
• What is the currency of high performance? (37:25)
  

• Introspection is a valuable tool but it lacks input from others. You need to use different sets of feedback to uncover your blind spots.
• Identity is extremely closely related to how we show up in the world.
• One of the biggest reasons people don’t move is because of the uncertainty.
• Self-awareness is internal and external. Getting feedback from inside and also from the people and the world.

Gaven Sinclair is an extreme athlete and motivational speaker. He describes himself as a professional adventurer. He is a brand ambassador for Falke SA & Garmin and his recent physical endurance adventures include:

– A solo, unsupported cycle through the length of Africa‚ from Cape Town to Cairo (Egypt)‚ covering more than 10,000 km over 261 days as an ambassador for the Missing Children South Africa (MCSA) charity.

– A solo, unsupported run across four African countries, a total of 4000 km’s in just under 230 days.

He also received the Purple Hearts of South Africa award for his humanitarian and charity work over the past few years.

He is described as an expert at motivation‚ inspiration‚ team building and overcoming challenges. His life coaching style encompasses a number of principles‚ but strictly focuses on health and wellness‚ and the integration of a healthy lifestyle with diet and exercise.

• Does a healthy lifestyle help you achieve peak performance? (11:03
• How did you come across the philosophy of growth? (20:50)
• What do you do on the days that you don’t want to get up for your day? (22:33)
• What is your why? (24:55)
  

• Nature has an incredible healing process and power. We recover and recharge when we celebrate our wins!
• You need to train your mind to be stronger than your feelings otherwise you’ll lose yourself
• You attract that which you are.
• Stay true to who you are, life is much easier personally. Find out who you are and be that person.

Sometimes we are not sure how to navigate ourselves in life and then the simple answer to the confusion is to ask for help. In this episode I spoke to Warren Munitz, Executive Coach, Integration Therapist, Master NLP Coach & Trainer, Hypnotherapist & Founder of Integrative Coaching.

Warren has been in the field of personal development and self-mastery for over 20 years.  In this time, he studied many different forms of meditation, yoga, philosophy, empowerment, psychotherapies and esoteric paths. 

Some questions I asked:

• Typical week for personal development & executive coaches? (3:32)
• Why did you become a coach? (5:14)
• Do we go at life together or go alone? (9:30)
• Do we need goals? (13:50)
• Why do lose motivation or encouragement towards goal achievement? (24:49)
• Do beliefs control our life?  (38:33)
• Do we have infinite potential? (53:21)
  

Key takeaways:

• You can only reach as high as the team you have around you.
• The journey is not one or the other approach. It’s an integrative approach.
• Wisdom is the ability to hold two opposing perspectives at the same time and not judging either
• Be consistent when you want to create and achieve goals
• In the process of innovation you need to delay premature closure. The longer you delay closure, the more innovation you can get.
• You need to tear down the beliefs that have been shielding ultimate reality from you.
  

Reach out to Warren:

Martelize woke up one morning with pain in her legs. Doctors suspected a virus, infection or inflammation in her spinal cord and this left her paralyzed. This all happened by the age of 14. Martelize has been in a wheelchair for over 20 years due to this illness she experienced as a teen. Through her seemingly discomforting situation, she felt complete freedom and joy and chose to look at life through the lens of optimism. In 2012 she started the Pink Penguin project in support of charities that challenge her outside of her comfort zone. Via this channel she’s undertaken a number of extreme adventures including kayaking to Robben Island and visiting the forests of Rwanda to see gorillas, all without the use of her legs and that is what inspires me. 

Some questions I asked:

• How can we get beyond our life restrictions? (10:36)
• What does it mean to have war on comfort zones? (18:36)
• Why do people think and behave the way they do? (24:38)
• What are your fears? (28:38)
• Has restrictions on your life helped you and is it helpful? (31:35)
• How do you deal with indecisiveness? (35:15)
• Actionable advice to change our perspective on life? (43:09)

Key takeaways:

• Go through troublesome times one step at a time
• Use stubbornness to your advantage and move forward in life 
• Say yes to opportunities without knowing how you will get it done 
• The secret to happiness has to do with the war on comfort zones 
• You absolutely need to challenge yourself outside of your comfort zone to grow 
• Take the necessary steps, although they might be scary, or be unhappy for the rest of your life
• STRUGGLE is one of the best character builders in the world
  

Reach out to Martelize:

Today I had a chat with Thabang Madiba and he is such a humble and inspirational guy. Through hard work, dedication, and passion, he has won the South African Trail Running Championships multiple times and was the first black South African to represent the country in trail running. He is the Two Oceans Marathon Trail Race Champion, Skyrim African Champ & Racing Madagascar Champion.

Some questions I asked:

• How do you define success? (14:26)
  
• How do you prepare yourself mentally? (15:48)
  
• What fears do you have? (18:44)
  
• Who inspires you? (20:25)
  
• How can running make you a better person? (23:24)

Key takeaways:

• Trail running requires an exceptional amount of mental toughness to endure such long distances especially at a fast pace
  
• It’s a blessing when you are disadvantaged or come from a struggling background as it forces you to dream big!
  
• Focusing and working constantly towards a big goal helps you silence your excuses and make you forget your current problems or situation.
  
• Envision yourself with the top class players or participants. It could very much help you endure what you are doing.
  
• It is not always about winning. It is about enjoying the journey on your way there.
  
• To be a great runner, or any type of athlete for that matter, takes a lot of hard work and discipline. It takes discipline and also builds discipline
  
  

Reach out to Thabang:

Nershen Pillay is a Demartini Method Facilitator for Dr. John Demartini and a human behavior specialist who researches quantum physics, cell biology, neurology, brain chemistry and more, all in the pursuit of understanding which laws govern us. In this episode we discuss how and why we should live a life according to our highest values.

Some questions I asked:

• How to empower someone who is stuck in 9-5? (14:36)
  
• How are we causing our suffering through positivity? (26:53)
  
• Do we need to view both the positive and the negative side of things? (33:57)
  
• How do we stay in balance? (39:02)
  
• How can we break a habit? (42:43)
  

Key takeaways:

• Cells are more responsive to energy and our thinking than to the actual material in the body. With medicine, only 10% of the receptors on your cells respond to chemicals.
  
• Your genetics get triggered by an outside influence, it’s called epigenetics. It is far more influential than your genes than your physiology than your actual genes.
  
• The key to inspiration at work: look at the job traits or tasks that you physically do and link them to what’s most important to you in your life, your priorities or values.
  
• There lies massive power in gratitude
  
• You get what you are, not what you want. If you are lacking, you get more lack.
  
• The quality of life is based on the quality of questions you ask yourself
  

Reach out to Nershen:

Andrew Patterson dedicated himself to a larger cause after being retrenched from his seemingly specialized job. He climbed Table mountain every day for an entire year and donated all the money raised to charity. We discuss why he did it, what we can learn from it and how people can commit themselves to something bigger to achieve better results.

Some questions I asked:

• Do people need to experience pain before changing their lives? (26:05)
• What does the word Ubuntu mean? (30:00)
• Advice for people to listen to their inner voice? (34:03)
• How to stay consistent and persist with your endeavors? (40:05)
• What can people do to broaden their perspectives? (59:46)

Key takeaways:

• People procrastinate because they lack clarity on what they want to do or if they do know what to do then they procrastinate because they don’t know how to get there
• If you do not have a purpose then it’s easy to hit the snooze button in the morning when you actually need to get up early
• The pain in which you are living now needs to be greater than the pain of trying to get to where you want to go in order to make a big change in your life
• Just because you are not responsible for someone else’s suffering does not mean you can’t be part of the solution
• Do the things that put your soul on fire!
• Ideas come from within. Ideas come to you with a specific purpose and you should act on them. All you need to know is that you have all the resources within you to ACT on the idea.
• It’s not that we don’t listen to our inner voice but rather that we get caught up in other people’s opinions. People don’t see the full puzzle, they only see a piece of the puzzle. 

Reach out to Andrew: 

Welcome to my first episode of Exploring Possibility, a show built on the premise that our perceptions create our perspective of the world and this can either make or break us.

I bring together purposeful entrepreneurs, high performing athletes, influential celebrities and unsung heroes among us to discuss and share insights, advice and wisdom to elevate our personal growth and achieve success.

In this introductory episode I briefly elaborate on who I am, why I started this show and the mission of the show.