Radio Enso

Join me Monday, April 15th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guest will be Jonathan Mead, the founder and Chief Troublemaker behind Paid to Exist.   Mead describes Paid to Exist as a community for people who want more out of life. “We live in silent suffering everyday just waiting for a reason to break free. This is our declaration of independence from the status quo.”    About: Jonathan Mead is a day-job elimination coach that helps people create businesses they can conduct from anywhere. He’s passionate about helping people saysayonara to dead-end work and start creating lives of freedom while serving the world with their true talents.   Jonathan worked for years at what he termed “survival jobs” while building his own business that would eventually support his freedom. Because of his first-hand experience in the corporate grind, he’s intimately familiar with the frustration and despair that many face in similar circumstances.   He’s been featured as an expert in many publications, including Forbes, Business Insider, Copyblogger, Zen Habits, and Fast Company. He’s a martial artist, trailrunner and lives with his wife Ev’Yan in Portland, Oregon.   For more about Paid to Exist, visit http://paidtoexist.com/.      

Join me Monday, March 25th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guest will be writer, teacher of transformation, and energy alchemist Hiro Boga.   About: Hiro describes her work as: “I’m an intuitive business strategist, teacher of transformational programs for entrepreneurs, and an energy alchemist. I help creative people unfold the miracle of their lives and businesses.”   My spiritual curiosity and deep desire for freedom have taken me on adventures around the world — through many different experiences, academic programs and leadership roles.   I have created and taught transformational programs and retreats for over thirty-five years.   I hold degrees in psychology and creative writing, and have taught in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.   I founded and directed The Spiritual Awareness Centre in British Columbia — a teaching and research facility for seekers of every faith & perspective.   I’ve been a Writer-in-Residence for CBC Radio, Canada’s national broadcaster.   My published work includes a bestselling novel and a collection of poetry, as well as essays, fiction and poetry in anthologies, newspapers and literary journals.   I was born and raised in India, where I lived until I was 21 years old. For the past 42 years, my home has been in the Pacific Northwest.   For more about Hiro, visit http://hiroboga.com/.  

Join me Monday, March 18th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guest will be philosopher-adventurer Drew Jacob, the Rogue Priest.   Drew returns to the show to talk about the Heroic Life, his ongoing quest to "meet the Gods," and his Indiegogo campaign to start Magic to the People, an open-door workspace to provide magic ceremonies for those who need them.   About Rogue Priest: I’m Drew, your philosopher-adventurer. I’m on a journey to put everything I believe to the test. My goal is to meet the gods. If they don’t exist, then the adventure is its own goal. For more about Drew, visit http://roguepriest.net.   About Magic to the People: I believe that we can change ourselves and, through ourselves, change the world.   Magic is the art of using ceremony to provoke real, lasting changes in your life. I've practiced magic for 15 years and have used traditional ceremonies to help people of all backgrounds. But many people can't afford to hire a magician. In New Orleans, magic is woven into local culture and history - but is often out of reach.   I'm creating an open-door workspace to provide spells to whoever needs them, at no fixed cost. Together we can outfit the space to serve the community with positive, life-changing magic ceremonies.   For more info, visit http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/magic-to-the-people.

Join me Monday, March 11th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guests will be Farnoosh Brock of Prolific Living, Sandi Amorim of Deva Coaching, and Sarah Cornsnake, who will join me for a Green Juicing Roundtable and discuss Farnoosh‘s new book The Healthy Juicer’s Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long!   About: Free radical-fighting blueberries, nutrient-rich kale, or protein-packed spinach–every fruit and vegetable you can think of pairs up in this juice bible for devoted followers of the juice craze that’s sweeping the nation.   A passionate green juicer for over five years, author Farnoosh Brock shares her knowledge, discoveries, best tips, and lessons learned from her years of green juicing! She gives you the good, the bad, and the ugly so you can make smart and informed decisions as you learn how to heal your body and return it to harmony using healthy plants from your farmer’s market, garden, or produce aisle.   Uncertain how your body will react to green juicing with a sensitive stomach? Wondering how to stay motivated after the initial excitement wears off?   Farnoosh talks you through all of those situations, and gives you tips on how to manage each as you move forward in this journey. She also includes nutritional information and details on the benefits of juicing for life!   For more about Green Juicing with Farnoosh, visit http://prolificjuicing.com/blog/.

Join me Monday, March 4th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guests will be Warren and Betsy Talbot of the blog Married with Luggage. We’ll talk about their new book Dream Save Do and MUCH more!   About: The world is changing, and so is the idea of the American Dream. Before, you could work hard, climb the career ladder, buy a nice home, start your family, and then work until your golden years, where you could then travel and enjoy the life you worked so hard to build.   That may have been true for your grandparents – maybe even your parents – but it is no longer a guarantee for you. You don’t want to wait until you are a senior citizen to enjoy a good life, and you know from the headlines around the world that you cannot really count on that anyway.   Enter Warren and Betsy Talbot, who spent 25 months amassing enough cash to fund a 5-year trip around the world. They went from corporate worker bees to backpacking vagabonds, curiously earning the envy and admiration of everyone around them as they bucked the system, chose a different path, and set off to explore their dreams 20 years ahead of retirement schedule.   They write about creating the life you want from the life you already have on Married with Luggage, and they advocate regularly trying new things through their weekly newsletter. They have been very open about the money side of big life changes, penning the books, Dream Save Do and Getting Rid of It: Eliminate the Clutter in Your Life.   For more info, visit http://www.marriedwithluggage.com.

Join me Monday, February 25th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guest will Buddhist teacher Susan Piver,  founder of The Open Heart Project.   In this in-depth and inspirational conversation, we’ll discuss meditation (what IS meditation?, misconceptions about it, etc.), Buddhism, dharma, The Open Heart Project, and Susan’s life journey from a young girl who was always seeking to her life as a teacher, author, and lifelong spiritual practitioner.   About: Susan Piver is a Buddhist teacher and the New York Times bestselling author of six books, including The Hard Questions (Tarcher) and the award-­-winning How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life (St. Martin’s Press). Her latest book is entitled The Wisdom of a Broken Heart (Free Press).   Piver has been a student of Buddhism since 1995, attended a Buddhist seminary in 2004 and was authorized to teach meditation in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage in 2005. She teaches workshops and speaks all over the world on meditation, spirituality, communication styles, relationships and creativity.   She wrote the relationships column for body + soul magazine, is the meditation expert and contributor at drweil.com, and is a frequent guest on network television, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today, CNN, and The Tyra Banks Show. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, TIME, Parade, Money, and others.   For more about Susan, visit http://susanpiver.com/.

Join me Monday, February 18th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guest will be filmmaker, author, blogger, radio host, and mom Betsy Chasse.   Betsy was the co creator of What The Bleep Do We Know?!, the 5th highest grossing documentary in US history and a seminal film for me at Radio Enso. We'll be discussing her upcoming film Killing Buddha, her work with Intention Media to get meaningful films out to the world, her book Metanoia-A Tranformational Change of Heart, along with a little Bleep, and more!   About Killing Buddha: When life is in chaos, we are forced to change, a lesson successful film producer Sara Wells reluctantly learns when her seemingly perfect life comes crashing down. Desperate for work, she takes on a documentary project about finding God in the New Age. Will “Killing Buddha” mark her triumphant return to the riches she thinks her life once contained? Or will she and her mismatched crew of seekers, believers and cynics find that ultimately it’s not what you have and what you believe in, but who you ultimately become that counts?”   The film is a reminder that everything we seek can be found within ourselves. Hence the title which prompts us to let go of all of our attachments to the people, things, and events in our lives that we put on pedestals thinking they can bring us happiness instead of finding happiness within.   For more about Betsy, visit http://www.betsychasse.net.

Join me Monday, February 11th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guest will be entrepreneur Shane Mac. Shane is the author of the best-selling business book Stop the BS.   “This book is for anyone who wants a new career. If you love your career, get this for a friend who doesn’t. It’s a collection of stories and thoughts inspired by 20 years of notes I had kept, written entirely on a train ride from Seattle to San Francisco and back!”   About Shane: Shane Mac is the Director of Product at Zaarly, a local marketplace to hire amazing people for just about anything. Since launching in 2011, Zaarly has been featured on the cover of Entrepreneurmagazine and was ranked one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2012.   He’s been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, U.S. News and World and many other press publications discussing new and disruptive ways to get hired.   Shane spearheaded marketing for Seattle based Gist which sold to BlackBerry. He’s the founder ofHello There, an author, a professional musician voted best wedding band in 2009, and is obsessed with creating technology that can connect people and change the world for the better.   He spends his spare time speaking to college students across the country about disruptive ways to get hired. He can also be found writing articles or interviewing business leaders on a number of different blogs.   For more about Shane and his many projects, visit http://www.shanemac.me.

Join me Monday, February 4th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso for the return of another favorite past guest: personal trainer and writer Amy Clover.   Amy was on the show early in 2012 talking about her work empowering people through fitness and positive action and her blog Strong Inside Out. Now she’s taking things to the next level with an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to fund her upcoming 30×30 Project.   She says, “To celebrate the 30th birthday I almost didn’t have, I’ll be touring across the US and Canada teaching 30 donation-based bootcamps in 30 different cities to raise money for the non-profit movement called To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA).”   Help near-suicide survivor, Amy Clover, show the struggling that hope is real. A tour of bootcamps across North America to benefit charity. This is not just a workout. This is not just a tour. This is a movement.   To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. I’m doing this for TWLOHA because their efforts offer the support I wish I’d had when I didn’t know how to ask for help.   For more about Amy, visit http://stronginsideout.com.  

Join me Monday, January 28th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern for the return of Radio Enso’s very first guest! In July 2011, Dave Ursillo helped launch Radio Enso when he joined us to talk about his book Lead Without Followers. Now, 68 episodes later, Dave will return to discuss writing, creativity, the Literati (his new community of writers), his latest book of spiritual poetry entitled God Whispers on the Wind, and the crucial importance of putting your creative work out into the world!   About Dave: I’m an author and entrepreneur who inspires change-makers for a living. I am a communicator, a connector, a conduit and a life-explorer. But beyond all else, I’m a writer. I believe that written word is the most profound and powerful art of all arts. I write to inspire, to explore, to learn, to create change — and especially to understand.   When I’m not falling down a wormhole of rockstar daydreams and childhood superhero memories, you’ll find me reading the poetry of Hafiz and Ralph Waldo Emerson, exploring the teachings of the Dalai Lama or the latest findings on behavioral change from the Positive Psychology movement.   In between rocking out at the nearest Shinedown or Red Hot Chili Peppers concert, I’m probably in between ashtanga sun salutations, meditating, or finding a new coffee shop on the streets of New York City.   When I’m not on stage speaking about the plight of modern leadership, I’m kicking back with friends over local craft beers.   For more about Dave, visit http://www.daveursillo.com.

Join me Monday, January 21st at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guest will be author, entrepreneur, “Digital Dad”, and motivator C.C. Chapman. We’ll discuss C.C.’s new book Amazing Things Will Happen: A Real-World Guide on Achieving Success and Happiness, his guide to living a happy and fulfilling life.   About C.C. Chapman: C.C. Chapman is an author, speaker, consultant, and professional creative. He is the co-author of the best selling book Content Rules (Wiley 2010),the Founder of Digital Dads, and the creator of Passion Hit TV. As a consultant, C.C. helps a variety of clients embrace all forms of media and online marketing to take their campaigns to the next level.   C.C. was also one of the first professional podcasters and continues to share his knowledge and insights on the popular Managing the Gray. He is also one of the hosts of both Media Hacks and Cast of Dads. He is a graduate of Bentley University and lives outside of Boston with his loving wife and family.   About the book: Amazing Things Will Happen offers straight forward advice that can be put into action to improve your life. Through personal anecdotes from the author’s life, and interviews of successful individuals across several industries, this book demonstrates how to achieve success, in all aspects of life, through hard work and acts of kindness.   Each of us has different goals in life, but everyone wants to succeed, and have as much fun as possible along the way. Amazing Things Will Happen shows how to get on this path.   For more about C.C., visit http://www.cc-chapman.com/.

Join me Monday, January 14th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guest will be life coach, teacher, writer, and Connection Catalyst Tamarisk Saunders-Davies. We'll talk about her work, her life, and her upcoming book on dealing with cancer in her family.   About: “My Super-Power is being a connection catalyst. Connection :: a person who aids another in achieving a goal. Catalyst :: a change maker who is not consumed by the change process. My philosophy is that the quality of our lives is judged by the quality of our connections with the people in our lives and I provide women with the tools, strategies and camaraderie they need to have relationships with everyone in their live that make their hearts sing.   Smushing it all up, I am the sum total of two things in particular: A) All that I have learned and studied – both the formal and the informal. A psychology degree,a counselling and psychotherapy degree and coaching qualifications from three different institutes. But I love to learn because it makes me a better teacher for you. B) All that I have lived through – finding out I’m very high risk for breast cancer, deciding to have a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy, moving countries three times, being an expat kid, death, divorce, being in the wrong job, striving to find the right job, making bad decisions, learning how to make good decisions…   The grand sum of A and B is something that now allows me to live a happy, full life. It also permits me to help you live a happy, full, joy-filled life.   For more information about Tamarisk, visit http://tamarisksd.com. 

Join me Monday, January 7th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guest will be storyteller, writer, and designer Sarah Kathleen Peck of It Starts With.   "I am a storyteller, writer and designer. My work dances at at the intersection of architecture, technology, urbanism, psychology and creative design inspiration. I am interested in designing environments that enable people to be and live at their best. In the world I imagine, people live meaningful, deliberate, sustainable lives, full of serendipity, spontaneity and joy."   About: Sarah Kathleen Peck is a writer, designer, and mover. She is the founder of the award-winning Landscape Urbanism website and leads the communications team for SWA Group, an international landscape architecture and urban design firm. Prior to entering the design world, Sarah’s research and writing in psychology focused on the relationships between design, environment and behavior.   Based in San Francisco, Sarah finds herself constantly moving: she is a 20-time NCAA All-American swimmer who has successfully swam from Alcatraz 9 times, most recently raising $32,398 for Charity: Water and swimming from Alcatraz in her “birthday suit” as part of the campaign. She muses about ethos, motivation and psychology on her blog It Starts With, where she chronicles her never-ending philosophical questions and adventures.   For more about Sarah, visit http://itstartswith.com or http://www.sarahkathleenpeck.com.

Join me Monday, December 31st at 6pm Pacific/9 Eastern for a special New Year's Eve hour of Past Favorites conversations on Radio Enso. I'll be airing back to back 30-minute interviews from the archives with two of my all-time favorite guests: Brené Brown, Ph.D., who talks about her amazing book Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead and Michael Bungay Stanier, the Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, who discusses Great Work and how YOU can do more of that in the year ahead.   About: Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. Brené is a nationally renowned speaker and has won numerous teaching. Her groundbreaking work has been featured on PBS, NPR, CNN, The Washington Post & many others.   For more about Dr. Brown, visit http://www.brenebrown.com   About Michael: "Michael Bungay Stanier is the Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work. He’s written a number of books including Do More Great Work, created a series of short internet videos that have been seen by millions and designed a wide range of training programs that are being used around the world.   For more about Michael, visit: www.boxofcrayons.biz/about-box-of-crayons/michael-bungay-stanier/

Join me Monday, December 17th at 6 p.m. Pacific/9 Eastern on Radio Enso. My guest will be fear-shattering, risk taking, author and courage coach Tess Marshall of The Bold Life. We’ll talk about her work, her life, and how you can make 2013 your best year yet!   About The Bold Life: The Bold Life is a delicious and juicy mix of inspiration, spirituality, and personal development. I’m here to inspire you to follow your heart, unearth your bold, and create a meaning and love-filled life. If I helped you be more courageous and step beyond your fears today, I have done my job.   If I made a difference in your world today, I have done my job. I believe we’re here on planet earth to grow in kindness and love. In order to do so we need to let go of fear and take bold action. Doing so will impact every area of your life in a positive way.   About Tess: I’m a wife, mom, author, speaker, spiritually-based, fear shattering, calculated risk taker, witty, loving, passionate, runner, traveler, and ADHD hyper human being.   I have a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology. But my real knowledge has come from experiencing life with my heart wide open. My biggest teachers are my husband, my four adult daughters and their families. They challenge me to love unconditionally.   For more about Tess and her work, visit http://theboldlife.com.