
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

Aug 24, 2021 • 51min
Ep - 224 April Rinne
In this episode I speak with April Rinne, world renowned futurist and author of "FLUX: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change," whose wakeup calls included her parents influence both positive about exploring the world and negative from some of the family dynamics and also the death of both of her parents when she was 20. https://aprilrinne.com/

Aug 22, 2021 • 43min
Ep - 223 Steve Hoffman
In this episode I speak with Steve Hoffman, Captain and CEO of Founders Space, author of "Make Elephants Fly," and "Surviving a Startup," whose wakeup call was being very shy and introverted and standing up to a bully when he was young and realizing if he could do that, he could do anything. https://www.foundersspace.com/hoffman/

Aug 19, 2021 • 41min
Ep - 222 Oleg Konovalov
In this episode I speak to Oleg Konovalov, referred to as the da Vinci of Visionary Leadership and author of, "The Vision Code," whose wakeup call was frequently getting into trouble by letting his curiosity take him wherever it wanted him to go. https://www.olegkonovalov.com/

Aug 17, 2021 • 46min
Ep - 221 Daniel Liebeskind
In this episode I speak to Daniel Liebeskind, founder and CEO of Topia, a fully customizable spatial-based virtual gathering platform, whose wakeup call was realizing that creative people may be the last segment of the population not replaceable by AI and wanting to create a space for them to co-create. https://topia.io/

Aug 12, 2021 • 58min
Ep - 220 Jonathan Brill
In this episode I speak with Jonathan Brill, keynote speaker, former Global Futurist at Hewlett-Packard, Managing Director at Resilient Growth Partners and author of: "Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change," whose wakeup call was realizing that nearly everything we face in present or future we have already been through in the past and if we learn from those prior events and add new technological advancements we can do a better job of handling anything that comes our way. http://jonathanbrill.com.

Aug 10, 2021 • 56min
Ep - 219 Dave Stachowiak
In this episode I speak to Dave Stachowiak, host of a top rated leadership podcast, Coaching for Leaders and founder of Coaching for Leaders Academy whose wakeup call was allowing his boss at Dale Carnegie to talk him out of quitting, because his boss saw potential in him that he couldn't see. https://coachingforleaders.com/

Aug 8, 2021 • 55min
Ep - 218 Sean Entin
Sean Entin - "I can, I shall, I will," is the mantra of Sean Entin, Founder of http://strokehacker.com whose wakeup call was being told he would never walk or talk after suffering a stroke during training Navy Seal.

Aug 5, 2021 • 53min
Ep - 217 Tiffani Bova
IN this episode I speak with Tiffani Bova, global growth evangelist at Salesforce and author of the WSJ bestselling book, "GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that will Make or Break Your Business," whose wakeup call was realizing that her "superpower" is being able to think and see "outside the box" from "inside the box" at large companies. https://www.tiffanibova.com/

Aug 3, 2021 • 46min
Ep - 216 Gary Sanchez
In this episode I speak with Gary Sanchez, developer of the WHY Operating System whose wakeup call was feeling at a dead end in a successful dental practice until he sat down with Simon Sinek and discovered his WHY and now helps the world discover theirs. http://whyinstitute.com

Aug 1, 2021 • 58min
Ep - 215 Marty Nemko
In this episode I speak with prolific author, writer, top career coach and amazingly clear thinker Marty Nemko, whose wakeup call - near the end of the episode and not to be missed - came from a lesson he learned from his Holocaust survivor, father. https://www.martynemko.com/