The Kickass Life Podcast with David Wood

1. Certainty Certainty gives us a sense of security. When things are certain or predictable, we feel more secure and at ease. It reduces our need to be in the “fight or flight” mode. A cohesive family unit, a peaceful community and predictable weather all provide us with certainty. On the other hand, wars, natural disasters, corruptions and unconventional behaviors all make us feel insecure because of their uncertainty. 2. Variety However, even as we appreciate certainty, we also crave for varieties. When things are too predictable, we become bored. So we seek varieties in our life. We pursue new challenges, set new goals and explore new frontiers. 3. Significance We also have the need to feel special. We want to be unique, one of a kind, and we want others to appreciate our uniqueness. 4. Connection or Love We have the need to be accepted, included and loved. We need to feel connected to humanity and life as a whole. 5. Growth When the first four basic needs of the ego are met to our satisfaction, we recognize the new need to grow, to transform and become better than what we are. We strive for self improvement and personal transformation. 6. Contribution We also have the altruistic need to contribute to society and humanity, or to borrow a term from Abraham Maslow, to actualize. - See more at: http://mindscience101.com/2007/08/six-basic-human-needs/#sthash.yFme2Uar.dpuf

David shares his journey from rags to riches and how he was able to reprogram his mind and begin to see himself, the world, opportunity, success and wealth differently. He shares how his environment (E) lead to his Perceptions (P) to how he Thought (T), which lead to how he Felt (F), which lead to his Actions (A) and ultimately to his Results (R) E – P – T – F – A – R So, once David got that his Results sucked, he went back and looked at his environment, how he had been programmed, and how his perceptions were in fact keeping him broke and unhappy. David also shares how he has been able to create multiple streams of Residual and Passive Income. Remember, you can watch John Assaraf’s FREE webinar, “Winning the Money Game” at http://www.thekickasslife.com/winning Special Event THIS Weekend Only: The Kickass Financial Life: Redefining Your Personal Wealth Code David invites you to join him this weekend at the Hotel Saskatchewan.  March 2, 2013.  10am - 4 pm. Only $49.  Register at http://wealthcode.eventbrite.com Look forward to seeing you there!  

Best-selling author, and star of “The Secret” John Assaraf is back on The Kickass Life show to talk about an important subject.  Your finances.  John is a serial entrepreneur, brain researcher, and CEO of PraxisNow, a brain-research company that creates some of the most powerful evidence-based brain retraining tools and programs in the world. A relentless explorer of consciousness and human behavior, John’s passion is discovering and teaching people how to release the mental blockages that hold them back from achieving their fullest potential. Are you sabotaging your own financial success? Do you catch yourself doing things that don’t serve you? Are you looking for a breakthrough in your financial life? One thing I know for sure is that there is no feeling like it...the feeling of breaking through old patterns, modifying ways of thinking and breaking habits that unconsciously held me back. If you’re ready for a breakthrough in your life, then today’s show is one that you may want to listen to multiple times. Johns vision is to help millions of people believe in, and utilize their innate abilities to provide them with the environment and resources to acquire the confidence, certainty and personal power to achieve their life’s purpose and goals. In this episode, here’s what we’ll cover: How we’re wired around money What specific steps you can take to win the money game How to take action to serve your financial success today How to do the right things, in the right order to ensure that you create wealth and success What is “innercise”? How to re-train your brain for financial success How to get John’s FREE 70 Minute training on Financial Success

David shares about the inspiration he felt when two of the people who joined him and climbed Kilimanjaro both said YES just a few days before they had to leave to go to Africa. Most people use considerations before saying yes, which often leads to a NO or to never making a decision at all. When we say YES first, and then look at the considerations, it wraps the decision with a whole new energy. What we find when we say YES, and THEN look at the considerations: Begin with a YES in mind, and you will actually find solutions to one of the two major default modes:  “I cant afford it”, &  “I don’t have the time”. David also looks at how “NO’s” can be much more powerful when we don’t wrap them in little white lies or justifications. So, choose YES, and THEN look at the considerations, and use NO with clean, truthful, and considerate power, and you will take a huge leap in living a Kickass Life. LINKS FREE Mindset Training Download: http://www.thekickasslife.com/free Link to Share on your Facebook wall:  http://www.thekickasslife.com/pod Link to TKL Facebook Page:  http://www.davidonfacebook.com

CLICK HERE FOR BOUNDLESS BLISS: A BREAKTHROUGH BALI EXPERIENCE Kute Blackson is an utterly unique visionary in the world of human potential. Unlike those who promise to simply help people “get” what they want, Kute's life work instead reveals to people what they have to give, by liberating who they are most truly and deeply. The focus: Freedom. Kute's own background and experience lay out the blueprint for his approach to liberating others, setting their gifts and greatness free. Born in Ghana, West Africa, his multicultural upbringing as the child of a Japanese mother and Ghanaian father, raised in London, and on 4 different continents defies all stereotype. The son of a revered spiritual leader, Kute was speaking to his fatherʼs congregations, in more than 300 churches, by the age of 8. At the age of 14, he was ordained into his fatherʼs ministry and groomed to carry on the familyʼs spiritual legacy. But his heartʼs truth drew him to separate from his fatherʼs ministry and come to Los Angeles in 1995. Kute courageously and daringly, came to America with two suitcases, and a dream seeking out many of the spiritual and self-help icons who inspired him when he was still a boy. He quickly learned that the outside- in approach had to become an inside-out approach. So he decided to create his own process—a process that liberates the individual at the core. This process helps the individual get in touch with who they really. It is a process of breaking free, so that each person can live, give, and share the truest expression of his or her self. This is what he calls “Liberated Living.” According to Kute, once freed of the conditioned responses scripted by family, society, institutions and the media, people are no longer limited to pre-programmed interactions in the course of living. In fact, life becomes an expansive, jazzy improvisation, that he calls “Freefall.” Today, the venue for his message may be one-on-one, a vast stadium setting, a corporate seminar or anything in-between. His electrifying presentations are especially sought after by major companies, such as American Financial Group, REMAX and TCG, that are seeking to redefine their paradigm of success and inspire greatness. Kute uses a variety of modalities to help people break out of old patterns, including the high frequency messages in his newly released Love Now CD and Love Now music video thatʼs being watched by people around the world. His book is set for release in 2012, and he is currently developing a television talk-show for national distribution. Kute is a global authority in "Transformational Immersion Journeys". He is known worldwide for creating the unique and revolutionary “Liberation Experience,” where he travels with an individual client, one-on-one, across India, for 14 days, as well as the creator of the group process "Boundless Bliss—The Bali Breakthrough Experience". “On the Liberation Experience, I am with the participant 24- hours a day. Not only do they have no idea where they are going, they carry no money, and have no immediate identity, since I also hold their passport. A single change of clothes is their only tenuous thread to the life they left behind. It is an experience guaranteed to shatter every paradigm.” Kute has helped and is in high demand among people from all walks of life. “Having had the opportunity to work with everyone ranging from: entrepreneurs, business moguls, moms, rock stars, salespeople, celebrities, politicians, children, plumbers, plastic surgeons, and circus performers, it is such bliss for me to assist people in transforming their lives. I feel honored to be able to serve people in remembering who they really are, and live lives that are works of art. My vision is to assist people in living the wild freefall that is life, with arms wide open, living each moment completely fresh, and alive. To dare you to pick up the instrument that is your heart and play it fully.”

David’s first day back from Africa and summiting Kilimanjaro (19,370 feet) with 50% Oxygen and -19 Degrees, (brrrrrrrr) shares how he and his team used 7 strategies to conquer their inner mountain and conversely conquer Mt Kilimanjaro. David shares how he met and overcame his own inner demons and his private encounter with the reality of facing high altitude as he lead his team past a body of someone who never made the trip back home, passing away just one hour from the summit.   FREE Mindset Training Download: http://www.thekickasslife.com/free Link to Share on your Facebook wall:  http://www.thekickasslife.com/pod Link to TKL Facebook Page:  http://www.davidonfacebook.com  

Michael O’Neal, in for David Wood, talks about connecting with people, and shares two tricks to establish rapport with anyone, including the F.O.R.M. method: F - Family O - Occupation R - Recreation M - Motivation 4 things people love to talk about!  Remember to ask open questions, smile, and keep your heart open and pointed at them! Links:   FREE Mindset Training Download: http://www.thekickasslife.com/free   Link to Share on your Facebook wall:  http://www.thekickasslife.com/pod   Link to TKL Facebook Page:  http://www.davidonfacebook.com  

Happy Valentines Day! In this Episode, Kickass Life Michael O’Neal shares how The Kickass Life Podcast came to be, and what the plans are for 2013.  He also shares some insights about Valentines Day, and the one thing you can do to make yourself more appealing in love, and in business. Links: FREE Mindset Training Download: http://www.thekickasslife.com/free Link to Share on your Facebook wall:  http://www.thekickasslife.com/pod Link to TKL Facebook Page:  http://www.davidonfacebook.com TED Talks:  http://www.ted.com The New "Start Here" Section: http://www.thekickasslife.com/start 025 – Les Brown unwraps your infinite greatness! - Maybe the funniest interview we’ve ever had. He talks about cancer, hot flashes, diabetes, and teaches how to respond to adversity.

This wonderful show with Gloria Loring looks at the story of her life from recording artist, actress, author and philanthropist and how she came to understand that the coincidences in her life were truly “God’s way of remaining anonymous” that led her to discovering and falling in love with her authentic self. Gloria is the recording artist of the #1 hit song Friends and Lovers; co-composer of television theme songs Diff’rent Strokes and Facts Of Life; an audience favorite as “Liz Chandler” on Days Of Our Lives; spokesperson for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; the author of five books benefitting people with diabetes;a keynote speaker for corporations and non-profits; and one of few artists to sing two nominated songs on the Academy Awards. The depth and diversity of Gloria’s talents and skills are impressive. As a performer, she toggles from classic rock to standards, from Broadway to pop, in clubs, performing arts centers, symphonies, and casinos. She’s starred in movies of the week, television specials, and theatrical productions, including a national tour of Anything Goes. She is a certified yoga instructor and an articulate champion of biomedical research. Gloria’s new musical show TV Tunez, a celebration of television’s best theme songs that earned standing ovations, is in development for a Las Vegas run. She is currently in the studio with producer Ted Perlman and songwriting legends Burt Bacharach and Desmond Child. Standing ovations greeted Gloria’s recent concerts with The Palm Beach Pops Symphony in tribute to the Streisand Songbook. The Palm Beach Daily News raved, “Loring commanded the stage from Note One... First and foremost, the lady came to sing — and sing she did — bringing the right combination of pipes and acting chops to give the evening’s tall order its due.” After her four-year-old son was diagnosed with diabetes, she created and self-published two volumes of the Days Of Our Lives Celebrity Cookbook which raised more than $1 million for diabetes research. She has also written Kids, Food and Diabetes, Parenting a Child with Diabetes, The Kids, Food & Diabetes Family Cookbook, and Living With Type 2 Diabetes: Moving Past the Fear. Gloria’s newest book, a spiritual autobiography titled Coincidence Is God's Way of Remaining Anonymous, details a series of extraordinary coincidences that transformed her life and provides insight into how each of us can use coincidence for good. It is represented by William Gladstone of Waterside Productions whose clients include Neale Donald Walsh and Eckhart Tolle. She has shared the stage with the Pointer Sisters, the Supremes, Billy Crystal, Bill Cosby, and Bob Hope, and performed on numerous award shows, including the Emmy Awards, Academy Awards, and Golden Globes. In the beginning of her career, Gloria was profiled in an hour-long documentary, "Two Singers," with the legendary Aretha Franklin. Gloria is featured on saxophone hottie Jimmy Sommers’ CD, Time Stands Still, singing the Peggy Lee classic, Fever. In an intriguing twist, her newest CD, A Playlist, features her R&B sensation son, Robin Thicke, on two tracks, and days after its release, jazz guitarist Gil Parris invited her to record Robin’s mega-hit Lost Without You with him. Gloria was honored by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation with the Lifetime Commitment Awardand the Founders Award from the National Disease Research Interchange. The Miss America Organization gave her the Woman of Achievement Award, an honor she shares with past recipients Barbara Bush, Roslyn Carter, and Hillary Clinton. She is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who of American Women. Video - Friends & Lovers http://youtu.be/MtfipeRNOrg http://www.glorialoring.com

On today’s show: Mechanic 2 Millionaire Dave Mac Arthur talks about the process of learning something new, and how it makes most people uncomfortable.  Learning is a lifelong process that successful people never stop doing. Have you gotten your free Mindset training yet?  

On today’s show: Star of the hit movie The Secret, and bestselling author John Assaraf discusses the power of setting your vision, developing the right strategies, developing the mindset of personal excellence, and removing excuses from your vocabulary. He also shares how to really live a Kickass Life and how to become your very best version of yourself! Learn more info on John at http://johnassaraf.com

Dr. Judy is “America’s Favorite Talk Show Guest”.  She’s had innumerable appearances on Larry King, The Today Show, Sally, Ricki, CNN, and hundreds of other shows worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.drjudy.com We also talk about a new affiliate to TKL Podcast Network, and a VERY special guest on Thursday. For pics of the new studio and Kilimanjaro pictures, visit our Facebook page at http://davidonfacebook.com  

Special guest Erik Coover gives today’s 10 minute kick in the bum, and tells a story about he and David in Costa Rica and how a family there completely changed his perspective.  Have a listen!  To get your free download, just go to http://thekickasslife.com/free

Amy E. Smith runs Joy Junkie Enterprises, a personal and couples life-coaching business.  Her calling is to radically impact the lives of her clients.  She spent 10 years as a makeup artist until one day (literally) she decided, with the help of her husband, to become a life coach and follow her passion.  Joy Junkie has impacted so many lives, and she has three “Badass Programs”: Relationship RX, 30 Days to a Kick-Ass Relationship and BadAss 101 She also has “The Badass Dare” (10-day Virtual Coaching Challenge) For information on her coaching programs, go to http://www.thejoyjunkie.com/badassprograms/ She’s also got a FREE ebook: 15 Tips for a KICK-ASS Relationship. Go to http://www.thejoyjunkie.com for information. Things mentioned on the show: Zoom H4n Handy Portable Digital Recorder (amazon affiliate link - Thank you!) The Kickass Life Facebook Page:  http://davidonfacebook.com

David’s in Africa! This episode features Social Media Guru Mari Smith. (http://www.marismith.com) Mari Smith shares with David the secrets of the world of social media and the importance of relationship marketing. People have always done business with people that they know, like, and trust. However, so many people are not aware of what it takes to be known, liked and trusted in this high tech world. In her book, “The New Relationship Marketing” she decodes and shares both the soft skills, and the technical skills that you will need to be a force in the 21st century. Find Mari: Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/marismith Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/marismith Get the book: