
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

Sep 16, 2021 • 54min
Ep - 234 Janice Litvin
In this episode I speak with Janice Litvin, author of "Banish Burnout Toolkit," whose wakeup call was the downturn in the economy in 2008 and her transitioning from tech recruiting to Zumba (zoom based yoga) instructor, but wanting to do something to alleviate the fear and pain in people who were burning out in their jobs. https://janicelitvin.com/

Sep 14, 2021 • 45min
Ep - 233 Rusty Gaillard
In this episode I speak with Rusty Gaillard, Stanford MBA/13 year Apple employee whose wakeup call came when he got divorced and realized he wasn't feeling fully alive and who then transitioned to being a successful speaker/transformational coach, founder of Silicon Valley Dreambuilders, who offers up a great description of his coaching process. https://www.svdreambuilders.com/

Sep 12, 2021 • 53min
Ep - 232 Adam Gilad
In this episode I speak with Adam Gilad, CEO and Founder of Kyyndr and the Kynndr Summit, whose wakeup call was recovering from a traumatic relationship breakup and realizing how he and the world were hungry for deeper and kinder relationships. http://kyyndr.com

Sep 9, 2021 • 50min
Ep - 231 Dr. Sam Qurashi
In this episode I speak with Dr. Sam Qurashi, who left the field of addiction medicine after seven years when he woke up to all the ways to help people heal from their mental and other issues that traditional medicine was missing. He shares his transformational thoughts and concept across social medial including more than 700,000 IG followers to help people who are. https://www.instagram.com/samqurashi/ https://www.youtube.com/c/samqurashi

Sep 7, 2021 • 41min
Ep - 230 Dr. Mena Mirhom
In this episode I speak to Mena Mirhom, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Columbia University Medical Center, co-author of, "Women's Pearls: A Focus on Women's Mental Health," advisory board member of Healthcorps and a partner to the NBA's Player Association re: mental health, whose wakeup call was noticing the lack of justice with regard to mental health care for women and minorities and want to correct that. https://www.healthcorps.org/staff/dr-mena-mirhom/

Sep 5, 2021 • 47min
Ep - 229 Howard Getson
In this episode I speak with Howard Getson, CEO of Capitalogix whose wakeup call was dialing the operator when he was two and a half to tell her that his nanny was physically abusing (and ended up killing) his nine month old brother. Since then his life as been one of taking charge and control and building a future and companies and helping the world make the most of what comes next. https://www.linkedin.com/in/hgetson/

Sep 2, 2021 • 56min
Ep - 228 Marshall Goldsmith
In this episode I speak to the world's #1 Executive Coach and WSJ multi-bestselling author, Marshall Goldsmith, whose wakeup call was realizing that leaders often needed to focus more on stopping negative behaviors to reach their full potential and also many years ago when he became a philosophical Buddhist, which he explains beautifully. http://marshallgoldsmith.com

Sep 1, 2021 • 44min
Ep - 227 Eliza VanCort
In this episode I speak with Eliza VanCort, women's empowerment leader and author of, "A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space," whose wakuep calls were being kidnapped at a young age by her schizophrenic mother and then more recently an accident that left her with a major head and brain injury that she needed to come back from. https://www.elizavancort.com/

Aug 29, 2021 • 43min
Ep - 226 Brandon T. Adams
In this episode I speak with Brandon T. Adams, an Emmy Award Winning Producer, entrepreneur, speaker coach and video marketing expert whose wakeup call was realizing that success was helping others to become the best version of themselves. https://www.brandontadams.com/

Aug 26, 2021 • 39min
Ep - 225 John Whyte, M.D
In this episode I speak with John Whyte, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at WebMd whose wakeup call was being inspired by his parents and his Faith to be of service to both individuals and the wider world through affecting healthcare policy. https://www.webmd.com/john-whyte