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 3, 2021 • 47min
Ep - 165 Erwin Valencia
In this episode I speak with Erwin B Valencia, high performance and sports medicine specialist and the first Filipino, raised and educated in the Philippines to be hired full time on the medical staffs of a MLB and then a NBA team about his wakeup call when after first being rejected to work in NBA, he spent a birthday in Prague giving out 300 hugs and upon trusting the universe was offered five jobs with NBA teams without sending out any resumes. https://erwinvalencia.com/
Jan 31, 2021 • 38min
Ep - 164 Amanda Holmes
In this episode I speak with Amanda Holmes, CEO and Chairman of Chet Holmes International was having to take over her dad's company at age 24 when he died and go from a singer songwriter to a corporate CEO and also her more recent awakening to the importance of spirituality in her life and to the companies she works with.
Jan 27, 2021 • 1h 3min
Ep - 163 Vinnie Tortorich
In this episode I speak with Vinnie Tortorich, speaker, podcaster and author of "Fitness Confidential: Adventures in the Weight-Loss Game," whose wakeup call was realizing how failure was his friend and best teacher.
Jan 24, 2021 • 37min
Tribute to Larry King
Jan 24, 2021 • 35min
Ep. 2 - Larry King
On this episode, I’m excited to have my friend, television legend Larry King, on the show. Come along as Larry shares the wakeup calls in his life that inspired his curiosity about the world and people, and a love for making people laugh.
Jan 20, 2021 • 45min
Ep - 162 Avi Loeb
In this episode I speak with Avi Loeb, Harvard’s former Chair of Astronomy, astrophysicist, and author of "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth," whose wakeup call was realizing that his personal commitment to science would need to override the pushback from the scientific community.
Jan 17, 2021 • 46min
Ep - 161 Michele Ruiz
In this episode I speak with Emmy winning television journalist, entrepreneur and CEO of BiasSync, Michele Ruiz, about her waking up to seeing and experiencing discrimination and her calling to do something to overcome it. http://biassync.com
Jan 13, 2021 • 53min
Ep - 160 Elise Hu -
In this episode I speak with Elise Hu, the host of TED Talks Daily, the flagship podcast from TED that's downloaded a million times a day, around the world, and former host at large at NPR, about being insatiably curious and growing up being "otherized" as the only Asian in her community, which was not a positive connotation.
Jan 10, 2021 • 57min
Ep - 159 Steve Rodgers
In this episode I speak with former Warren Buffett CEO and author of "The IGI Principles," Steve Rodgers about his wakeup call when a spiritual awakening saved him from alcoholism and how he then went on to bring that into the lives of his clients and companies he has worked with.
Jan 3, 2021 • 47min
Ep - 158 Rabbi Steve Leder
In this episode I speak with Rabbi Steve Leder about his new book, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift, and how his journey to wisdom "woke up" after the death of his father.
