Long Shot Leaders with Michael Stein

How Amanda Lynn Mayhew became the world's top female outdoor celebrity Amanda Lynn Mayhew is not like most people. Her energy seems to know no bounds. Between her company Just Hunt, TV show, running the Women's Hunting Association, being the official ambassador and host of the Great Outdoors Stage for the Toronto Sportsmen's Show, and her Range Day and Take Me Outreach Programs, she credits her athletic training for giving her the well-being and energy to stay so busy. Mayhew hasn't always been the hunter-athlete she is today. Her humble beginnings, a health scare in her 20s, and the challenges of being a single mom have given her the grit, determination, and experience that sets her apart as a hunter. From Necessity to Passion The story of how Mayhew became an ambassador for women in the hunting industry starts with her family. Growing up, her parents had to hunt and fish to put food on the table. Her parents set an example for her as people who looked to the great outdoors as a resource, not just recreation. "My parents would fish as much as they could to make sure our family had protein to eat," Mayhew said. "For my dad, hunting a moose or bear would feed the family for a year with me, my mom, and my sister." Hunting was an essential part of her upbringing that continues with her three sons. "Hunting is about the meat and food it provides. It always has been," she said. "When I go on a hunt now, I come back and take the meat to my kids, who all have their own apartments, and share it with my dad, who is retired now." The shift from hunting as a necessity to becoming an outdoor superstar happened unexpectedly. Amanda Lynn and Dad grouse hunting in 1976 "I never rolled out of bed and said, 'I'm going to be on TV,'" Mayhew said. "A lot of people look at me and think that I came from money, or that I have a lot of money now. The reality is that I grew up in a trailer park, and I'm proud of where I came from." Mayhew was a single mother in the late 90s with three boys to feed, so like her parents before her, she used hunting to provide high-quality meat for her family. Then in 1998, Mayhew was diagnosed with Graves disease. This auto-immune disorder wreaks havoc with your thyroid and can cause extreme exhaustion and weight management disorders, among other things. After trying medication and treatments to control the disease, Mayhew turned to fitness after undergoing radiation treatment. Seeing a commercial for the Total Gym featuring friend Chuck Norris, she decided to buy one and start exercising. Mayhew is stronger than ever thanks to the Total Gym. "I would work out 4-5 hours a day," Mayhew said. Soon after, she moved back to northern Ontario. People noticed a change. "Here were people who had seen me as a girl, and as a single mother, and now I was ripped. I became really involved in the fitness community," Mayhew said Two years after receiving her diagnosis, Mayhew had become a personal trainer and started her own fitness magazine. "I got tired of looking at magazines at the gym that were nothing but ads. So, I started a fitness magazine that focused on stories about how fitness was used to treat rare diseases and to bring awareness to rare diseases, like mine. No one had seen anything like it," she said. Throughout this time, she still went hunting to feed her growing boys. Her publication soon got the attention of executives in the outdoor sporting industry. "I made friends with an editor of a magazine in Canada and was asked to be part of a women's panel at the Outdoor Show in Toronto, Ontario in 2011. From that day, it snowballed into what I do today," she said. Mayhew became a representative for Bass Pro Shops, which lead to another role as Cabela's Ambassador for Canada. She simultaneously hosted a radio show called "Nothing but Outdoors" and was a co-host on a country music station. She would bounce back and forth between hosting country music events and hunting, all while holding a full-time day job with the provincial government. "Country artists are authentic hunters," she said. "They talk about being in the outdoors and family. It is about involvement and family and friends. It's just pure fun."

How to build a rock n roll brand and working with rock stars with Drew Plotkin A New Jersey native (and lifelong Springsteen fan and devoted stalker, as seen on 60 Minutes), Drew graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State, which led him on a successful stint as an Emmy-nominated TV news producer for various networks. With an insatiable desire to find a bigger 'megaphone', Drew headed to Los Angeles where he founded a creative agency full of misfits like himself called Launch DRTV. A natural storyteller at heart, Drew is a fresh voice who brings a fiery passion to every aspect of sharing human truths.

How to accomplish physical feats of endurance that many people have not with world leading ultra runner Adam Kiimble Adam Kimble is a professional ultra-trail runner, running coach, race director, motivational speaker, and amateur survivalist from Truckee, CA. He played Division-1 baseball at Bradley University prior to developing his passion for ultrarunning, and after graduation in the summer of 2009, he ran his first-ever 5k race near his hometown of Minooka, IL. The race resulted in terrible cramps and a lot of pain, but fortunately, it also came with a second-place age group finish! Once the pain subsided, Adam decided his racing days weren't done, and he trained to complete his first half marathon in 2011. After completing his first ultramarathon (50k) in 2014, the question became "what else is my body and mind capable of?" Following the Fastest Known Time (FKT) ever on the 171-mile Tahoe Rim Trail, a 60-day transcontinental crossing of the USA (2,500 miles), 60 days alone in the wilderness to become the winner of Discovery Channel's "The Wheel", seven podium finishes in 100-mile races, and a 31-day self-supported FKT across Great Britain (John o' Groats to Lands End + The Three Peaks), the limits are nowhere close to being reached.

How to turn your setbacks into your strength with author and coach Sara Schulting Kranz In her words: I'm a proud mom to 3 wonderful young men, a business owner, a mountain and ocean adventurer, an artist, and a former teacher. At my core, I am not much different than any of you. What and who I have become is a resilient woman and person, who survived and thrived from multiple traumas, now finding herself in this space. And this is exactly where I was meant to be. Nearly nine years ago, I was at the lowest point in my life. Suffering from relational and betrayal trauma and complex-PTSD, I was debilitated by the unknown as my marriage and life collapsed, living as a single mom. Emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically unraveling, I found myself at a precipice: I could lose my life through all of this, or find a new me. My resilient self chose the latter. I made a point everyday of getting outside, navigating through anger, pain, and grief while hiking 14,000 ft mountains and paddling 4-miles out to sea with whales and dolphins. I somatically healed my heart, mind, and body through nature while practicing the art of resiliency and forgiveness. As a result, I began finding that new me. A version of me with a larger smile, a longer laugh, and a love for her present life. The gift of my trauma was finding my most important relationship: the one within myself. My trauma became my purpose: to help others embrace their resiliency. Using those experiences and understanding my purpose, I became a keynote speaker, author, TEDx speaker, retreat organizer/facilitator for transformational experiences.

How to get direction for what you want and cut the bull shit out of your life with leadership coach Adrian Koehler Adrian Koehler is a leadership engagement expert and founder of the executive coaching firm, Take New Ground. He coaches passionate and frustrated founders in new ways to get what they want in their professional and personal lives. Inventing, and reinventing, effective relationships is his passion.

How a skate punk built a furniture empire with Edgar Blazona Edgar Blazona is a modernist American furniture designer and founder of wildly popular DTC sofa brand BenchMade Modern. A high school dropout, turned graffiti artist, turned serial entrepreneur, Edgar got his start in the furniture industry because of need: he was young and broke, and his first apartment didn't have any furniture. And, necessity became invention. Along with starting several (!) of his own companies, including Modular Dwellings – a prefab backyard shelter company, Edgar also sharpened his skills in the corporate world at Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware. As he saw customers accustomed to waiting three months (and more!) for sofas and sectionals that realistically take only a few weeks to make, he realized there must be a better way and founded BenchMade Modern in 2015 to disrupt this norm. BenchMade Modern offers sofas and sectionals in 5" increments and custom configurations, depths, fabrics and more. Custom furniture arrives at your doorstep within weeks, not months.

HOW TO BE AN OVERALL BADASS NAVY SEAL, ENTREPRENEUR & BESTSELLING AUTHOR BRANDON WEBB Brandon Webb is a combat-decorated Navy SEAL sniper turned entrepreneur. During his last tour as a U.S. Navy chief, he was head instructor at the SEAL sniper school, which produced some of America's most legendary snipers. Brandon is a multiple New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and Harvard Business School alumni. After leaving home at 16 Brandon joined the US Navy to become a Navy SEAL. His first assignment was as a helicopter Search & Rescue swimmer with HS-6. In 1997 his SEAL training package was approved; he joined over 200 students in BUD/S class 215 and went on to graduate as one of 23 originals that made the cut. He served with SEAL Team 3, Naval Special Warfare Group One Training Detachment sniper cell, and the Naval Special Warfare Center west coast sniper course manager. Over his navy career he completed four deployments to the Middle East and one to Afghanistan. He deployed to Iraq in 2006–7 as a contractor in support of the US intelligence community. An accomplished and proven leader, he was meritoriously promoted to the rank of E6 when ranked #1 at the training command sniper cell. Shortly after he was promoted to Chief Petty Officer while serving as the sniper course manager. Brandon has received numerous distinguished service awards, including Top Frog at Team 3 for best combat diver, the Presidential Unit Citation, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation medal with "V" device for valor in combat. He ended his navy career early to spend more time with his family and to focus on entrepreneurship and writing. As an Entrepreneur Brandon crashed and burned his first start up in 2009, then went on to and create two brands: SOFREP Media (SOFREP.com) and Crate Club. He bootstrapped these to eight-figure revenue and successfully exited the Crate Club in 2020. He continues to oversee SOFREP Media as its founder. SOFREP is a Military Culture, Defense & Foreign Policy News site read by millions monthly. Webb is multiple New York Times bestselling author of nonfiction. In 2020 Brandon and his long-time writing partner, and award winning author, John David Mann, released their first collaborative work of fiction, STEEL FEAR. This has now turned into the Finn series with Random House which includes Cold Fear, and Blind Fear (2023 release). Brandon studied at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School's 2-year Owner President program. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization, and has served as an appointed member on the veterans advisory committee to the Small Business Administration (SBA). He enjoys spending time with his tight circle of amazing kids, family and friends.

Michael Stein talks about how to change your emotions and patterns ...personal development week.

Michael Stein talks about "Human Needs Psychology" Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs The needs as described by Maslow were divided into three groups: Our Basic needs Psychological needs: The needs for survival ie., food, shelter, water etc. Safety Needs: These include our need for personal, emotional and financial security as well as physical wellbeing. Our Psychological needs Social Belonging: Our ability to belong, to connect with others. These can be large or small groups. It can be family. This need can be very strong ie., those in abusive relationships, that stay in them(although this is quite complex). Self Esteem: This is about the need most humans have to be respected. Our Self-Fulfilment needs Self Actualisation: This refers to the realization of our full potential Transcendence: Giving ourselves to something beyond ourselves. Although there has been some challenge to these needs, they still hold true. A few years ago I listened to a variation of these needs. An adaptation that looked at how these needs drove behavior. Anthony Robbins, a behavioral influencer, spoke about the 6 human needs. Understanding human needs, allows us to understand what drives others towards their behavior and more importantly, what drives us in our own behaviors. That understanding allows us to control our responses. It allows us to not let others 'push our buttons', it allows us to understand why we have the visceral response we do. Why is this important? Burnout, psychological disease, and suicide are a part of our society and a part of our workplace, unfortunately. Suicide is the one cause of death that continues to increase. We all respond differently to situations and it's that response that determines how we feel about things. It's not what people say or do to us, that's important, its how we interpret and react to it. It is our heart attack, our dissatisfaction in our workplace and it is our stress that we can potentially control with an understanding of this. I'm not saying that its okay for people to behave badly, it's definitely not and should not be tolerated. However, we may not be able to acutely control their behavior, but we can control our own if we understand where that behavior comes from. What are the 6 Human Needs and How do they Work? These needs control our behavior. We all have the same human needs, however, the importance we place on each of the needs dictates, together with our beliefs, values, and the rules we've set for our lives how we respond behaviourally. Let's look at each of the 6 needs and how they can affect behavior. They are: Certainty We all have a need for certainty. This relates back to Maslow's basic needs of food and shelter and safety but goes beyond this to the emotion that certainty provides. An example is; "Have you ever watched a movie more than one? Why?" Because we are certain of the way it makes us feel. Uncertainty or Variety This relates to a need we have for variety. if we knew exactly what was to happen, when etc., life would be unbearable. Who might value this need highly? Think of entrepreneurs, thrill-seekers, etc. Significance This relates to Maslow's 'Esteem'. It's about our need to feel important, to feel respected, to feel that we have something of value to contribute. We all value this need. One of peoples' greatest fears, is that they are not enough. Connection +/- Love This relates back to Maslow's 'love and belonging'. Our ability to belong or connect with others. We may not have love, we can just have a connection. Growth The ability for us to grow, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. The lack of growth or progress can rob us of fulfillment. It relates back to Maslow's need for us to reach our full potential. Contribution This is our way of making a difference, of contributing to something outside ourselves. They are the 6 needs, based on Maslow's needs.

The seven levels of consciousness with Michael Stein