Mike Vardy is the founder of Productivityist, and host of the Productivityist podcast. He is a 3 time author, whose book’s include The Front Nine: How to Start the Year You Want Anytime You Want, The Productivityist Workbook and Beyond Trying and regularly contributes to outlets such as LifeHacker and The Huffington Post     EPISODE  Mike Vardy is known as the Productivityist, a fitting name, because he doesn't treat productivity like a tactic, he treats it like a belief system. Mike believes in productivity as a way to not just get you doing more, but get you doing more of the stuff that you love. He's been studying it since his early career at Costco,  an environment where an efficient system is crucial. He studied the greats, did some testing of their systems on himself, refined them according to their flaws and strengths and added a few of his own brilliant ideas to create "Now Your Way", the productivity system of his own creation. This show is chock full of tips that will get anybody rethinking the way they organize their life. We discuss: • why most productivity tools don’t seem to work at first • the 'mode' system, and how it can easily get your brain in a state of flow • the strengths and weaknesses of famous productivity systems • how to work with your biology to produce more effective results   For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/mikevardy LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED Productivityist.com/optimizedgeek RPM, Tony Robbins The Covey Matrix Getting Things Done Pavlok Evernote The Information Diet TaskRabbit Virtual Staff Finder The Power of Intention SleepCycle Todoist Asana MindNode Zoom.us     GET OPTIMIZED! 1. Don’t be a slave to email – designate certain hours of the day, or even certain days a week, to handling your inbox. 2. Create a filing system within your email so everything gets out of the inbox and into a system that separates it into messages that require actions, messages that are for reading/informational, and archives. 3. Work with your body, and find the time of day when you are the most creative. If you are a night owl, don’t force yourself to be a morning person.     THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter | Facebook

  Carolyn Ketchum is the writer and creator of alldayidreamaboutfood.com, a popular blog dedicated to low-carb, gluten free recipes. She was the former VA for Stephan Spencer.   EPISODE  You might know Carolyn Ketchum for her highly popular food blog, All Day I Dream About Food, which receives over a million views per month. What you probably don't know her from is her past as my  rockstar virtual assistant. That's right, in this very special episode I'm baring all  and breaking down the secret entrepreneur technique of having a virtual assistant. Carolyn was an absolute rockstar VA, and we discuss how the entire process works in this little-seen role. If you've ever considered your own virtual assistant, or have hopes of working as a VA for a successful entrepreneur, this is a can't miss, because we are rattling off essential tips for an optimal entrepreneur/VA relationship. We cover: • the 3 lists of Freedom • how to find and screen the perfect VA • what a VA can do for your email and your calendar • how to onboard a new VA • why you deserve to outsource the things you don't want to do   For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/carolyn LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED AlldayIdreamaboutfood.com Elderhelpers.org TaskRabbit Upwork TimeDoctor Fantasia Call Recorder     GET OPTIMIZED! 1. Start looking for a VA - either through a VA service, or put up an ad on Craigslist. 2. Put a riddle in the job posting that applicants must answer - if they don't answer it, dump their application. 3. Get your VA to manage your email so your email doesn't manage you. Use folders to know exactly what is the highest priority when you access your email.   THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter | Facebook

  Mike Rohde is a designer, author, speaker, illustrator, and sketchnoter extraordinaire. He professionally designs with Gomoll Research + Design, illustrated the New York Times bestseller REWORK, and has spoken at SXSW.   EPISODE    Mike Rohde believes that the idea of saving all the things we need to remember and need to do solely within our mind is an ineffective way to retain and process different experiences, ideas, and conversations we come across in our lives. Instead, influenced by his background as a UX designer, Mike is able to remember and process things in a highly creative, highy effective way that I'm excited about sharing. They're called sketchnotes, and they take the concept of taking notest to another level, w  amplified with small pictures, differing fonts, and emphasis on important details. In this episode, Mike peels back the layers of how sketchnotes rewire the way you process and retain information, and explains that anyone, artistically inclined or challenged,  can benefit from taking stylized notes, even for personal use. We discuss: • why you don't need to be an artist to sketchnote • why writing notes by hand helps you process information better than by typing them • why journaling may not have worked for you, and how you can revamp it so it does • how sketchnoting can make you more creative and construct your ideas more clearly LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED Sketchnotearmy.com Rohdesign.com   GET OPTIMIZED! 1. Buy a small notebook and pen, and start carrying it wherever you go 2. Re-familiarize yourself with drawing shapes, doodles, and other elements besides text – you can use these to express your ideas 3. To begin, try sketchnoting in a situation where you take notes like a work meeting, a class, or a conference.   THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter | Facebook

  Tim Hodges, LMP has been pioneering an effort to expand the methodology of Strain Counterstrain to effectively restore function to fascial systems, and receive chronic pain almost instantly.   EPISODE  Tim Hodges is a leading expert in fascial counterstrain, a relatively recent therapy that brings in new and exciting knowledge about fascia, the tissue fibers beneath our skin that enclose and separate our muscles and organs. It was originally thought that body workers (massage therapists, physical therapists, etc.)were only affecting muscle. Now, however, we know that they affect our body's protective tissue, and have the ability to affect dysfunctions in our protective systems that directly affect our vital systems, such as the venal system, the lymphatic system, the cardiovascular system, etc. This sometimes means for those going through chronic pain, the relief can be instantaneous. He and his partner Brian Tuckey have been revolutionizing what we know about fascia, what it does to the body, and its potential for healing. Tim explains how our body's protection system and defense system sometimes malfunctions and can cause discomfort. However, utilizing new techniques to identify and treat dysfunctions in fascia, Tim can achieve amazing, and even miracle-like results for a huge variety of fascial maladies.  In this episode, we’ll delve into: how fascia protects our vital tissues from bodily harm how when our protective reflexes malfunction, they can cause long-term body discomfort and blockage how he learned of a technique that instantly corrects these blockages how the immune system sequesters disease and might actually make you feel sluggish because the disease is still affecting your immune system how he is healing patients that haven't been able to move joints for years   For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/timhodges LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED WestsideMT.com Jones Institute TuckeyPT.com   GET OPTIMIZED! 1. Understand that fascia is so much more than "body glue" - it is a protection system that the body employs. 2. Pain is not a problem on its own. It is only a side effect of a larger problem, so you need to get to the root instead of treating it as a symptom.  3. Do you have chronic problems with allergies? Get your fascia checked out. It might be an immune dysfunction that can be treated with fascia work.   THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter | Facebook

  Raul Villacis is a strategic consultant, motivational speaker, transformation leader, real estate expert, and a writer. He is the founder and CEO of The Next Level Experience.  EPISODE  Like me, Raul Villacis has gone through a radical transformation. He was in a job that was going nowhere, his body was in a constant pain that doctors couldn't figure out, and he found himself turning to alcohol to escape his reality. It wasn’t until he found the power of a morning ritual that he turned his life around. For such a simple practice, it is amazing the type of power it can have in revitalizing a life and career. He's now a successful coach running a sought-after mastermind group, and has learned to master his state in a way that keeps him in control of his emotions and his destiny. We discuss: how to open your mind to personal development creating a ritual that sticks the elements of a power statement that transform your subconscious the role that gratitude plays in your motivations   For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/raulvillacis LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED NextLevelExperience.com Unleash the Power Within Platinum Partnership   GET OPTIMIZED! Think about attending a Tony Robbins event if you find that you can't find more motivation in your life. Attend a mastermind to create a dramatic change and meet people who are ready to make the same kind of commitment to change as you. Recognize what your true, deepest fear is. What's the thing that you are afraid to admit?   THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter | Facebook

 Jay and Joy are co-founders of JingSlingers, a bi-coastal SuperFood powered optimum health and nutritional consulting company. Together they Educ8te, Illumin8te and Elev8te their students and clients, with Cutting-Edge Science and the Ancient Wisdom of SuperFoods and SuperHerbs, teaching them how to “Sling Jing” in the heart of their own homes, their kitchen. Their natural approach to SuperHero Health has them working with a number of Red Carpet celebrity clients all over the world in both the film & music industry.   EPISODE  Jay and Joy (a.k.a. The JingSlingers) are back again with another enlightening episode. This time, we focus not on what you put into your body, but what is already in it. It's all about checking in on the status of your body, seeing what needs work and attention, and healing ourselves with the proper techniques. Jay and Joy delve into what Jingslinging truly means, and how they can help return youthful energy to your body by treating it right and ridding it of toxins. Here are some of the amazing secrets they reveal: the brain training that gives you the benefits of years of meditation instantly why heavy metals might be in your body and making you sick genetics testing that tells you exactly what your body needs to target for optimal health how blue light is giving you insomnia the proper way to do a body cleanse   For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/jayandjoy2 LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED BioCybernaut 40yearsofzen.com Centerpointe Institute Cyberscan uBiome Cryohealthcare Cyrex Labs Immunolabs 1-800-Chemist Simplified Genetics Environmental Working Group   GET OPTIMIZED! Find a professional hydrotherapist to get a colonic to clean your system out before considering other detox programs. Get your body tested for genetic problems and problems with toxins. Check out the EWG report before you consume fish to make sure you aren't eating fish with a high concentration of heavy metals.   THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter | Facebook

  Luther Cowden is a certified Resistance Flexibility trainer based in Los Angeles, CA who travels internationally to offer Resistance Stretching classes, workshops, private assisted stretching, couples stretching, workplace stretching, and online training. He was originally trained by the founder, Bob Cooley.  EPISODE You probably don't know much about what Luther Cowden does, but it could improve your life for the better instantaneously. Luther is a resistance flexibility expert, which sounds like a niche specialty, but when is the last time we had the thought that "I'm just not a flexible person", or "I really lost the ability to touch my toes like I used to". We all have those things that we feel that we just can't do with our body. As it turns out, it goes a lot deeper than that. These flexibility problems we have are in majority attributed to dense fascia, a sort of build-up of hard scar tissue that prevents our muscles from doing what they should, and the effects of that can branch into difficulties with losing weight, anxiety problems, or constant pain. Luther, working from the teachings of Bob Cooley, has learned how to heal these problems permanently and instantaneously. We discuss how, along with:       the roles fascia has in our bodies       why a pain in your hip might really signal a problem in your hamstring       why you can pass 500 pounds through an elongated muscle       how resistance flexibility can identify why you aren't losing weight, and correct it instantly   For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/luthercowden   LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED   thegeniusofflexibility.com    GET OPTIMIZED!         Get a massage for relaxation purposes, but understand that it isn't going to remove that buildup of fascial tissue that is giving you the root of your trouble.     Understand that you aren't an "inflexible" person, you are simply being stopped by an impeded biomechanical structure right now.     Recognize the difference between true "flexibility" and range of motion. Just because you have a large range of motion, doesn't mean you aren't protecting yourself from strain.     THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter | Facebook

 Dr. Mark Goulston is Founder of Heal the World, One Conversation at a Time, #1 international best selling author of six books, UCLA professor of 20 years, clinical psychiatrist, and expert advisor to FBI hostage negotiators. EPISODE Mark Goulston has the worst parts and best parts of the human brain mapped and understood like a Rubik's cube master. He's been a UCLA professor for 20 years, trains FBI hostage negotiators, is a trained psychiatrist - the man is unstoppable. The reason is he understands that the majority of the difficult conversations we have take root with some other problem - and Mark knows how to get people to open up about those problems. We all have difficult and unpleasant conversations throughout our lives. However, there's never really been a roadmap for how to deal with them, you simply wince and do your best. Luckily, Mark gives us the key to not only making these conversations smoother, but help you communicate on a deeper level We discuss: the difference between noticing and listening how to de-escalate any argument by inviting people to point out your flaws how to self-manage your own anger   For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/markgoulston   LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED Goulston Group techedge Tony Robbins How to Avoid Bumping Heads Just Listen Amy Cuddy Ted Talk Talking to Crazy   GET OPTIMIZED! Don't get defensive - it'll disarm people and calm them down. Instead, invite them to hit you more, and get it all out at once. Redirect people’s emotions by asking to say both things they want you to continue to do but also things they want you to stop     THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan   STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter |

 Christ Gatchis is the founder of Axis Labs, one of the most reliable names in sports nutrition supplementation.   EPISODE  Chris Gatchis has been fascinated by the real effects that a properly balanced nutrition and fitness can have on your entire life since he was a teen. But when he started his own nutrition company, Axis Labs, he noticed something strangely off with his body. He was still following a fitness regimen he knew to work for him in the past, and was currently working for others, but found himself gaining weight, feeling sluggish, and just not feeling his prime. When he when to the doctor for a checkup as he and his wife were trying to conceive, the problem came to light. His testosterone levels were frighteningly low. Because he had the resources, he decided to do something about it himself, and find a way to help other men in the same situation. andropause - the natural reduction of testosterone levels that men experience (similar to the menopause that women have that reduces their estrogen levels) how Chris managed to improve his testosterone levels over tenfold without steroids 8 ways to heal your testosterone naturally why all men should get their testosterone levels tested   For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/chrisgatchis LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED Hypertest Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill  Myodrol/Myodex   GET OPTIMIZED! Feeling sluggish or don't have the sex drive you used to? Get your testosterone tested! Ask for a test at the doctor's office. Drop soy from your diet whenever you can. It is a phytoestrogen - not good for a man’s body Exercise regularly for a natural boost in testosterone because you're prompting protein synthesis.   THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter | Facebook

  Cristo D'Arcy is an alternative health expert who is a master in energy and healing. His objective is to free up individuals and companies from negative thoughts and experiences that are holding them back from achieving their potential.   EPISODE  Cristo D'Arcy can't tell you exactly what he does. He's been a healer and energy restorer for around 15 years, and he manages to be simultaneously astounded by what he does as well as his biggest skeptic. Cristo has always been aware that he had skills that bordered on the fantastical. When he realized that his life wasn't made for conventional schooling, he looked to alternative medicines to be able to use his gift with others. But to him, it perhaps wasn't far-reaching enough. Instead, he was introduced to a kungfu grandmaster who taught him about energy healing, and something finally felt right. Now, he's traveling across the country giving individualized healings and diagnostics of what is going on in the energy spectrum of the body. Our body is made of so much more than the physical that we know of it. Cristo is right there at the forefront realizing how energy has so much to do with our latent potential. Health has always been a huge priority in our lives; however we find so many people frustrated with the traditional path of wellbeing. Where traditional medicinal doctors are missing something, Cristo is cutting through the distractions to get at the real root of our problems, and getting faster results than he ever could have imagined. He generously reveals his insights on: how the subconscious knows more about our body than we ever could have dreamed how you can learn to muscle test others easily healing long-term pain instantly the speed of thought where conventional medicine just isn't cutting it finding your own truth  For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/Cristo LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED Contact Cristo: cristo.darcy@gmail.com   GET OPTIMIZED! 1. Contact Cristo at cristo.darcy@gmail.com 2. As Cristo recommends, come at whatever you are doing from a place of integrity and of heart. 3. Try muscle testing as a way to find out what your body really wants by learning to trust your energy.   THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter |