My Wakeup Call with Dr. Mark Goulston
I’m Dr. Mark Goulston, and this is My Wakeup Call. Everybody has personal wakeup calls, but not everybody wakes up. In this podcast, we speak to people who did. In fact, they not only woke up, but their wakeup calls changed their lives, often helped them discover their purpose and then changed how they would spend the rest of their life. In most cases, the wakeup call was not pleasant, sought-after, and often shook people to the core of their being. But in every case, it made our guests more authentic, better at life, better in life and better human beings. I hope you will listen in and become as inspired as I am from every episode. I also hope it will help you persevere if you are going through a wakeup call and haven’t yet gotten through the pain of it, or landed in your future as the better person you’re meant to be, with the better life that you’re meant to have.
DISCLAIMER: Any information or advice I give is purely based on my own experience. Comments made are as a coach- this is not medical or psychiatry advice. There is no guarantee as there are many variables that will impact outcomes. Everything stated should be taken as opinion.
Latest episodes
Feb 24, 2023 • 1h 1min
Ep 474 - Alex Brueckmann
In this episode I interview Alex Brueckmann, author of, "Secrets of Next-Level Entrepreneurs," strategy facilitator and speaker who has impacted thousands of business leaders and whose wakeup call was realizing how non-human the technical side of business was and becoming dedicated to changing that. https://www.brueckmann.ca/
Feb 22, 2023 • 37min
Ep 473 - Garry Ridge
In this episode I welcome back Garry Ridge, former CEO at WD40, who gives a mini-masterclass in leadership and shows us what it's like to "refire" rather than "retire." https://thelearningmoment.net/
Feb 20, 2023 • 40min
EP 472 - Kathy Eldon.
In this episode I speak with Kathy Eldon, author of, "Hope Rising, A Musing," Founder of Creative Visions, inspired by the wakeup call from the loss of her son, Dan Eldon, an activist photography killed in Somalia. http://kathyeldon.com
Feb 17, 2023 • 34min
Ep 471 - Quan Huynh
In this episode I speak with Quan Huynh who as been described as a mighty warrior a magician, and a mountain of goodness. He is the bestselling author of "Sparrow in the Razor Wire: Finding Freedom from Within While Serving a Life Sentence," Executive Director of https://www.defyventures.org/our-community/defy-socal and whose wakeup call was realizing in the middle of a life prison term that he had the opportunity to improve himself vs. seeing prison as a dead end. https://quanxhuynh.com/
Feb 15, 2023 • 48min
Ep 470 - Elliot Kallen
In this episode I spoke to Elliot Kallen, highly successful Financial Planner and Advisor, whose wakeup call was the suicide of his college student, and great athlete son, Jake, and the shock and grief that threw him into and caused him to create: https://abrighterday.info/
Feb 13, 2023 • 44min
Ep 469 - Johann Ilgenfritz
In this episode I speak to Johann Ilgenfritz, fashion photographer turned founder of: http://ukhealthradio.com whose wakeup calls were a heart attack and two bouts of cancer, with the second bout being called terminal by conventional treatment and his clear thought in his mind, "I'm going to live!"
Feb 10, 2023 • 54min
Ep 468 - Tom Hardison
In this episode I speak with Tom Hardison, Founder of the https://generativeleadershipgroup.com/ whose wakeup call was realizing that he needed to expand beyond his needing to be right engineer mind and get in touch with who he was and in touch with how to bring out the best in others as a leader.
Feb 8, 2023 • 49min
Ep 467 - Soren Kaplan
In this episode I speak with Soren Kaplan, PhD, affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and author of, "EXPERIENTIAL INTELLIGENCE: Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs," whose wakeup call was having a tumultuous childhood with a mother with mental illness and his realizing he couldn't depend on her to be in touch with reality. https://www.sorenkaplan.com/
Feb 6, 2023 • 46min
Ep 466 - Bruce Hutchison
In this episode I speak with Dr. Bruce Hutchison, retired Canadian psychologist and author of, "Emotions Don’t Think: Emotional Contagion in a Time of Turmoil," whose wakeup calls after being bullied as a child was being curious about why people do what they do and realizing how much emotions drive behavior. https://www.drbrucehutch.com/
Feb 3, 2023 • 48min
Ep 465 -Matt Mayberry
In this episode I speak with Matt Mayberry, author of, "Culture is the Way: How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact and Excellence," leading global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance and former NFL player whose wakeup call was turning his life around after extensive drug use in high school and being inspired by his football coach at Indiana University. http://mattmayberryonline.com
