The Conscious PIVOT Podcast

The quality of our lives equals to the quality of our decision-making and the quality of the choices that we've made. But how do we make choices to begin with? Investment advisor Robin DeSota makes decisions all the time on risk and reward and how to determine that proper balance of risk versus reward. Robin is the founder and CEO of Palisade Investments which ranks as the 34th fastest growing investment advisor in the US out of 30,000 other firms. He discusses the risk-reward matrix, financial literacy and investment learning, the similarities between making investment decisions and personal decisions, the fundamental pivots he’s made in his career and personal life, and more.   Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player.   Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Bridging technology and the arts, Max Stossel shows how two seemingly antithetical things work to create a massive change in our lives. Max is an award-winning poet and filmmaker named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. He is also the Head of Education for the Center for Humane Technology. Max shares his passion for poetry, and talks about the purpose of art and the power and impact of your words. He also gives insights on some of the challenges of technology and how it removes us from being present, and shares how we have it in us to move the world using technology that is thinking about human values. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player.   Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

The faces of entrepreneurs are changing day by day. While conventional thinking leads us to perceive them as clean and cut with their suits and ties, it is undeniable that there are some who hustle all day within the comforts of their sweats. Standing up for uncommon entrepreneurs is Jeffrey Shaw a.k.a the Lingo Guy. He is the host of the popular business podcast Creative Warriors, a nationally acclaimed keynote speaker, a business coach for entrepreneurs, and author. He defines what an uncommon entrepreneur is, taking us far into the pre-conceived notions of what a successful person has to look like. They are the creative warriors that market their talent, skill, and are their personal brand; breaking traditional rules and making a name for themselves. He then shares the need to speak the Lingo of your customers in order to attract them, bringing up as well some important pivots in our lives.   Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player.   Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Colin Nanka is Senior Director, Enablement for North American Sales and Leadership Development at the world’s leading Customer Relationship Management Company, Salesforce.com. He shares the wisdom gained from his expertise as a proven sales leader on the natural state of being: wellness. As business leaders, it has become difficult to keep up with the various aspects of life. Colin shows us otherwise how it is possible to succeed in both of our professional and personal spaces. He unravels the mystery of success as he talks about truth, enablement, transformation, and more. Ultimately, he embodies the recipe for resilience that has allowed him to help many people along the way. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

For anybody in business, entrepreneurs, or even for someone who has a job working for somebody else, marketing is such a big deal. Marketing strategist Dan Moyle prefers and promotes helpful, engaging marketing over interruptive advertising. Dan has had many iterations in his marketing experience and career, and he shares some of his pivots stories. Coming to marketing from the TV news business, he brings a wealth of knowledge from writing to video production to multimedia content creation. Dan says he would much rather help someone reach 50 ideal customers than 5,000 passive viewers. Known as The Inbound Evangelist, he spreads the word about helpful, integrated marketing to help businesses grow. Content marketing, social media marketing, email marketing, search engine results, video marketing, and podcast interview marketing all fall into Dan's inbound strategy, and he shares his insights about each of them. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Feeling good about sales is the foundation for success in business. Entrepreneur, keynote speaker, podcast host and author of the bestselling business book, It’s Time to Sell: Cultivating the Sales Mind-Set, Chris Spurvey helps turn business owners and new sales professionals into confident and effective sellers. Chris has sold over $300 million in consulting services and has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs and professionals in their efforts to close more business and create win-win relationships with their clients. He joins us to share how to have that sales mindset that can sell in a truly authentic way and not be the stereotypical salesperson. He also shares some tips on becoming really good at opening doors by tapping into some unique part of our own personalities and identities and leveraging those. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

The beautiful thing about being human is that we have the power to change not only our lives but others as well. Proving the value of that is Stewart Emery, an internationally acclaimed educator, author, world-class speaker, and in-demand expert on the psychology of greatness who has been named as one of the ten most influential people in the Human Potential Movement. Stewart walks us through his expertise on human potential and talks about how to think of our external circumstances in relation to what is within us. Contextualizing it in a world where we catastrophize a lot of things on a daily basis, he talks about media as well as his own experiences in the industry. Stewart stresses the importance of living with kindness, emphasizing how it begins by loving yourself. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

People are often told to achieve balance in life. However, for Dr. Ivan Misner, founder and Chief Visionary Officer of BNI and dubbed by CNN as the “Father of Modern Networking,” that is unachievable. Debunking that myth, he turns to the importance of harmony. Nobody is perfect. We can’t spin too many plates all at once. Dr. Ivan gives us the reasons why we should aim for harmony instead of balance. He shows the need for margins in life and to take some time for yourself apart from business. Sharing his own journey to success, he talks about how he incubated the idea where BNI came from. He then gives some great advice when it comes to thinking back to your why, the importance of resilience in business and life, and what it means to reinvent your identity. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Creating abundance of every kind, including in the area of money and business, is a really useful thing. Peta Kelly says sometimes it’s difficult to stay in balance but it’s really possible to create harmony in all these areas. Peta is a mother, an entrepreneur, a seven-figure earner, and author of the book, Earth Is Hiring, a playful guidebook for millennials about what Mother Earth is asking of us as individuals and a collective. With a dream to become a doctor by the time she was 25, Peta took the path that most people her age took. Six months into her Ph.D. scholarship, she started seeing signs in her body and that she was no longer on the right path. Peta took a leap of faith and left her Ph.D. and turned to entrepreneurship. Now, she is helping her generation understand what evolution has given us in our DNA that is so different and how to use our unique gifts to create abundance and be a more thriving collective. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Drawing on his engineering, corporate, and e-commerce inbound marketing experience, Tom Schwab is an expert on building online businesses. Tom is the author of Podcast Guest Profits: Grow your business with a targeted interview strategy, the founder of Interview Valet, and the category king of podcast interview marketing. He helps thought leaders, coaches, authors, speaker, and emerging brands get featured on leading podcasts their ideal prospects are already listening to, and then helps them to turn listeners into customers. Tom says the world is changing and that potential customers are using the internet more and more to find solutions to their problems. Tom speaks on how podcast interview marketing could be used much like guest blogs to reach targeted audiences and gain the know, like, and trust to convert their listeners into customers. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Pivot is about change. It's about evolution and innovation. Dave Kalama has been an innovator in sports. His story is larger than life and interesting in so many ways. He's a big wave surfer, tow-in surfer, stand up paddle (SUP) surfer and racer, surf and SUP board shaper, windsurfer, outrigger canoe racer, private adventure guide, and celebrity water sports enthusiast. As a pioneer in that space, Dave and a close friend, Laird Hamilton, have collaborated on some of the most incredible things for the goodwill of the sport. Dave claims he’s a normal dude doing normal things most of the time, and there’s no magic to doing a lot of grand adventures and feats like he’s done. It's committing to a lifestyle that is risky at times which may not be a prosperous life financially but one of the richest in terms of feeding your soul and the memories that you create over time. Dave shares his incredible journey as well as his recipe for pivoting and what the metaphor of simply following the bubble means. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Bad things can happen, even to people that are in a good place, but it's how we respond to it. Life and business strategist Chris Salem says the problem and the solution are in the same place, you just have to go within and understand the root cause behind the effects of limiting patterns in our business and personal lives. Chris adds we have to be able to resolve the root cause at the source, to truly forgive the source, and not only the source itself but also more importantly you. He explains that at that point when you truly release it from your system, you have the ability now to be looking through the same process of meditation and journaling to find the solution, find your purpose, and then adopt better habits and disciplines and a specific life and business strategy that takes you to where you want to go, what your true purpose and calling is, and whatever your duty is to serve others. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Alvin Toffler said, “The new brain, the new education, the new leader of tomorrow is the brain and super change that can pivot.” That's a brain that can learn much faster, unlearn faster, and relearn faster. We're in a constant going mode now more than ever where the pace of life, the pace of change, and the pace of everything going on is exponentially greater. It's a different environment to conduct business. It's a business-focused and a business-centric environment where people are not only able to collaborate and cooperate, but they're also acquiring new skillsets. Berny Dohrmann, economist, investment banker, and founder and chairman of Forbes.com’s #1 Must Attend Business Conference, wrote a book on the topic called Super Change, and shares the premise of that book and where it fits into a lot of the change in the form of disruption we're seeing in the world today. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Life throws us into some pretty unexpected places, but some aren’t just accidental. They are there for a reason and maybe one of those is for us to pivot our life towards something better. It's important to show up for those moments and tap into the present and allow them to transform you. Professional coach, speaker, and facilitator Johnny Blackburn believes that there is a definite connection between how we move our bodies and how we feel. Johnny thinks everything is connected, and he lets us in on his book, Presence. He teaches on tapping into presence where people find expressions more than the words can say. He also covers topics from our nervous system, resilience, technology, and authenticity. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!

Consciousness is the basis of reality. That’s what Mark Gober is asserting in his book called An End to Upside Down Thinking. Mark Gober is an author whose worldview was turned upside down in late 2016 when he learned of a world-changing science which suggests that contrary to the mainstream view, consciousness does not come from the brain. After researching extensively for nearly a year, he became convinced that a paradigm shift was in order: biology does not produce consciousness; rather, consciousness produces biology. Mark talks about his concept of consciousness and how it can affect our happiness and the way we live. He goes through his book where he recounts his journey, from exploring compelling scientific evidence from diverse spaces ranging from quantum physics to psychic phenomena to near-death experiences, and beyond. With his book, Mark aims to shift our view of the human potential and understand the true nature of reality. Enjoy more episodes of The Conscious PIVOT Podcast at AdamMarkel.com or download them on your favorite podcast player. Looking for more wisdom, resources and support for your own business or personal pivot? Join our incredible PIVOT community on Facebook at pivotFB.com and visit StartMyPIVOT.com to download your free Kickstart Guide!