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
Dec 26, 2022 • 47min
Ep 444 - JJ Stenhouse
In this episode I speak with JJ Stenhouse, former long time journalist, known as the Practical Alchemist and host of "Alchemy 1.01," on UK Health Radio whose wakeup call was realizing that she had spent decades giving voice to others, but had not dared to share her own authentic voice and is now dedicated to doing that and helping others share theirs. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jj-stenhouse/
Dec 23, 2022 • 42min
Ep 443 - CJ Gross
In this episode I speak to CJ Gross is author of, "What's Your Zip Code Story? Understanding and Overcoming Class Bias in the Workplace," He is also a TEDx presenter, international speaker and the founder of Ascension Worldwide, a firm dedicated to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity training and consulting, whose wakeup call was how people's class in life could be as much of a factor in DEI as their race, gender and generation. https://cjgrosstalks.com/the-book/
Dec 22, 2022 • 37min
Ep 442 - Jimn Kyles
In this episode I speak to Jimn Kyles, the Lead Pastor at Anchor Bend Church in Richmond, Texas and author of, "Unstuck and Unstoppable," whose wakeup call was being at a very low point and having a convergence spontaneously happen in which he felt that God spoke to him and offered him a way to save his life. https://jimnkyles.com/
Dec 20, 2022 • 59min
Ep 441 - Sharon Melnick
In this episode I speak with Sharon Melnick, PhD, author of, "In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others," host, "Power Shift" podcast and Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coach whose wakeup call was discovering the difference between striving to be in power and in YOUR power. https://sharonmelnick.com/
Dec 19, 2022 • 54min
Ep 440 - David Magee
In this episode I speak with David Magee, bestselling author of the award-winning, "Dear William: A Father’s Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love and Loss" and creator and director of operations of the William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing at the University of Mississippi whose wakeup call was losing everything secondary to his addiction, losing his son William to a drug overdose and nearly losing his other son to addiction. https://www.daviddmagee.com/
Dec 16, 2022 • 35min
Ep 439 - Amanda Holmes
In this episode I speak with returning guest, Amanda Holmes, CEO of Chet Holmes International and co-author of the Revised and Updated classic book, "The Ultimate Sales Machine," whose wakeup call was finding a way to connect the old-school sales process with hybrid online and offline instant gratification short attention span of consumers and blending the values of caring about your people with profitability. https://chetholmes.com/
Dec 15, 2022 • 42min
Ep 438 - Amii Barnard Bahn
In this episode I speak with Amii Barnard-Bahn, creator of the "Promotability Index," former Fortune Global 50 executive, consultant to the C-Suite and leaders at global companies and recognized by Forbes as one of the top coaches for legal and compliance executives. She is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches. Her wakeup call was realizing how self-reliant she would need to be following her parents divorce and also how much value her business, legal experience and artistic background could add to her coaching. https://www.barnardbahn.com/
Dec 13, 2022 • 45min
Ep 437 - Billy Pittard
In this episode I speak to Billy Pittard, Professor of Media Arts at Middle Tennessee State University. and former founder of his own design company that was known for branding television networks and systems such as CBS, ABC, DirecTV, Food Network, and Showtime and more, whose through line has been an almost childlike curiosity about the world that immediately turned into an immense creative output. https://www.linkedin.com/in/billypittard/
Dec 12, 2022 • 51min
Ep 436 - Firouz Daneshgari
In this episode I speak with Firouz Daneshgari, M.D.,surgeon-scientist, educator, entrepreneur and author of: "Health Guardianship: The Remedy to the Sick Care System," whose wakeup call was realizing how broken and wasteful the healthcare system is at all levels and coming up with a common sense solution to fix it. https://www.amazon.com/Health-Guardianship-Remedy-Sick-System/dp/1957048662
Dec 9, 2022 • 50min
Ep 435 - Carl Pickhardt
In this episode I speak with educational psychologist, counselor, parenting expert and author of, "Holding On While Letting Go," Carl Pickhardt, PhD, whose wakeup call was facing an downturn in the economy and needing to pick a specialty to be known for and selecting adolescence and parenting because of his affinity for "coming of age" transformation. : http://www.carlpickhardt.com/
