Aaron Doughty took the leap that most say they want to take, but few persevere through. We talk with Aaron about what Doug calls the sin of the feminine: Control. Aaron grew up with a controlling, narcissistic step-mother, which led to a pattern of this type of female figure always controlling a part of his life. Noticing these patterns, and sick of living in the monotony of his 9-5 job selling women's shoes, Aaron's curiosity led him down a path of self-discovery and sharing what he learned on Youtube. His channel quickly grew to over 1M subscribers, and now he focuses on his passion for spreading self-love and spirituality with his growing online audience. You can find Aaron's videos on YouTube and his self-titled podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Mike Koenigs has always challenged at least the pace of the status quo. As a leader of his current company, he helps people see what they do best, but he still wrestles with his Driven fear-fueled scarcity. Mike shares with us how he hustled his way through life, finishing high school then moving away to go to technical school. He kept his head down, until he was forced to look up when his wife changed all the locks on their house. We talk with Mike about relationships, his journey to a successful career in media, and beating a bleak cancer diagnosis in his forties. Mike's story is one about comebacks. You can find his book, Cancerpreneur, on Amazon.

A self-titled former 'frogifier of men', Alison Armstrong's curiosity has led her to pursue a better understanding of men. We dig into the difference in mentalities of men and women with Alison, how they process situations differently and communicate differently. Our interactions with the opposite sex can get pretty complex considering every person's tendency to project wounds and to assume the other sex thinks, processes, and communicates like they do. We're different down to the simplest forms of our biology, and in this episode we study and celebrate those differences. Check out all of Alison’s amazing online resources for understanding men, women, and intimacy at https://www.alisonarmstrong.com/

Michael Holt grew up in Philadelphia and knew as a young man he needed to remove himself from the environment to stop his self-sabotage, after a handful of run-ins with the law. Michael moved to California to forge his own path, studying under previous podcast guest, Paul Chek, to become a holistic health practitioner. We talk with Michael about the critical balance of being a savage and being a saint--that you can be both the most dangerous guy in the room, and the most loving. Michael's relatability to men led him to start a men's community for self-mastery. You can find information on that at tribemenscommunity.com and sign up for his newsletter.

This week we take some time on the podcast to review my top 10 recommended reads for those who have recently been introduced to this work. If you’ve read Dr. Doug’s book and relate to being Driven, it’s probably spurred A LOT of new questions and curiosities. These are some of the books Dr. Doug recommended to me in our early days working together, and some others I’ve really appreciated in my own journey. I break it down into 3 categories: Books for Greater Understanding, Books for Deeper Knowing, and Books for Taking Action. Get those Amazon carts queued up.

Tucker Max, New York Times Bestselling Author and founder of Scribe, and Veronica Max, a Nurse Practitioner, and entrepreneur herself, have been in a Driven marriage now for over a decade. In raising 4 kids, they’ve found a balance of organized chaos that works for them both, although that doesn’t mean it’s never a point of friction. The drive for self-sufficiency can cause turmoil in a relationship between Driven individuals because that then brings the other to ask, “Well what do you need me here for then?” Vulnerability is key in any relationship but Tucker & Veronica highlight how it’s imperative in a Driven relationship.

Tim Corcoran is the founder of Purpose Mountain, where he offers Nature-Based Purpose Guidance to support people with a love for wild nature who feel a deep yearning to discover their purpose. Tim also serves as co-Director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School, an organization he co-founded with his wife, Jeannine Tidwell, in Sandpoint, Idaho in 2005 dedicated to facilitating deep nature connection mentoring, cultural restoration, and inner tracking. A leader of vision quests, holistic rites of passage, and men’s groups, Tim has been facilitating spiritual initiations in the wilderness since 1999. Healing the cultural rift between the mainstream and indigenous cultures, transformational consciousness work, the spiritual journey, ancestral work, deep nature connection, family and health are all deep commitments in his life.

Steven Sisler is a behavioral analyst and axiologist who grew up in Boston as the son of a preacher. He went to seminary and his curiosity ended up pushing him out of the profession. Steven shares that life is a three-dimensional system and people who have their priorities of those dimensions in check are the most successful. Steven shares stories about how he has used axiology to read clients and understand them better than those who have known them their whole lives. Check out Steven's new book Axiology. Also visit behavioralresourcegroup.com or aristoaxiologygroup.com for more resources to look under the hood of your business or your own life.

Rick Ricart is the president of a family-owned group of car and motorcycle dealerships in Ohio, originally founded by his grandfather. Rick shares with us the 'full-speed' pursuit of success engrained during his upbringing, surrounded and supported by Driven individuals. We talk about the dark side of drive, and Rick's travels to the depths of addiction, as well as the rituals and practices he has put in place to maintain sobriety for the last 11 years. We talk about humility, aggressive patience, and gratitude for the people in our lives that help us stay grounded.

Jason Fowler is a physician's assistant in an Emergency Room as well as the Owner of Lake Effect Hockey, a fast-growing youth hockey organization. Jason’s first job as a forensic pathologist assistant opened doors for him to teach pathology at a university which led him to want to go back to school to become a PA. Following his graduation with a 4.0 and testing in the top 2% on his boards. Eject buttons kept rerouting his life into different avenues so he then ran with his childrens’ passion for hockey and his entrepreneurial spirit took over. Jason also shared about managing his driven son in both his sport and his school work.