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
Jun 2, 2019 • 35min
Ep. 28 - Lori Gottlieb
On this week’s My Wakeup Call, hear Lori Gottlieb, NYT Best Selling author of "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone", describe the wakeup calls that caused her to talk about her experience as a patient.
May 26, 2019 • 43min
Ep. 27 - Esther Wojcicki
Join me as I speak with Esther Wojcicki - mother of Susan (CEO of Youtube), Anne (co-founder of 23andMe), and Janet (Fulbright winning anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics), whose wakeup call was about how helicopter parents can hurt their children’s future, and how she did the opposite.
May 19, 2019 • 47min
Ep. 26 - Jann & Shari Simmons
Join me and and a remarkable mother/daughter duo, Jann and Shari Simmons, as we hear about a lifetime of wakeup calls that inspired the daughter to become a therapist to help free her mom of haunting abuse, which she then chronicled in her book, "Which Way? One Woman’s Traumatic Journey and Her Daughter’s Explanation of How to Turn Pain Into Power."
May 12, 2019 • 40min
Ep. 25 - Will Henshall
Join me as I interview former British pop star, Will Henshall, about a TRUE wakeup call that happened when he came back to life after flatlining and being dead for twenty minutes.
May 6, 2019 • 48min
Ep. 24 - Kristin Walker
Listen to my conversation with Kristin Sunanta Walker, CEO of Mental Health News Radio Network, as she talks about her lifelong journey to recover from childhood sexual abuse, and the wakeup calls along the way that have helped her to cope and heal.
Apr 28, 2019 • 36min
Ep. 23 - Taylor Smith
Listen to Taylor Smith talk about the dramatic wakeup call that enabled him to go from doing what he thought he should, to doing what he knew was his true calling.
Apr 21, 2019 • 38min
Ep. 22 - Mike Critelli
Listen to my chat with MIke Critelli, former CEO Pitney Bowes, and featured in the iconic book "Good to Great", about the wakeup calls that turned him step by step into one of the best leaders of our time.
Apr 15, 2019 • 42min
Ep. 21 - Frank King
Join me as I speak with Frank King, the mental health comedian who woke me up and blew me away when he spoke about having chronic suicidality, and how knowing you can always kill yourself can keep you from doing it.
Apr 7, 2019 • 36min
Ep. 20 - Bruce Keenan
Join me as I speak with Bruce Keenan, who talks about the wakeup call that took him from a successful career in corporate America, to helping orphaned, abandoned and disadvantaged children in Nepal discover education and hope, with his Himalayan Children's Charities.
Mar 31, 2019 • 53min
Ep. 19 - Ellie Krug
Listen in as I speak with Ellie Krug, transgender lawyer and activist, as she talks about the wakeup calls that led her to transition male to female in 2009, and all the wakeup calls since. https://elliekrug.com/about/
