
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

May 31, 2023 • 53min
Ep 504- Allyn Evans
In this episode I speak with Allyn Evans, CEO of the Monroe Institute, a non-profit research, and teaching organization dedicated to improving people’s lives through the advanced study and practice of expanded consciousness, and whose wakeup call was being a naturally empathic and intuitive person and discovering how the Monroe Institute and its programs, teachings and products could dramatically accelerate and deepen those skills through the scientifically proven approaches or Robert Monroe, M.D. http://monroeinstitute.org

May 29, 2023 • 57min
Ep 503- Clint Ober
In this episode I speak with Clint Ober, CEO of Earth FX Inc, creator of Earthing and Ground Therapy, co-author of "Earthing (2nd Edition): The Most Important Health Discovery Ever!" and Founder of the Earthing Institute, whose wakeup call was discovering how grounding ourselves can dramatically reduce inflammation and improve a wide range of physical and mental maladies. http://earthing.com

May 26, 2023 • 60min
Ep 502- Chris Pavlak
In this episode I speak with Chris Pavlak, author of: author of: "From Lawyer to Warrior: Failing the Bar, Becoming a Marine, and Finding Meaning," member of the Marine Corps Reserves, and a faculty member at National Intelligence University, whose wakeup call was failing the bar exam to practice as a lawyer and joining the Marines to deal with his sense of failure. http://lawyertowarrior.com

May 24, 2023 • 1h 9min
Ep 501- Danny Dreyer
In this episode I speak with Danny Dreyer, walking and running coach, ultramarathon runner, lecturer and co-founder of Chi Living. He is the coauthor, with Katherine Dreyer, of, "ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless," "Injury-Free Running," "ChiWalking: Fitness Walking for Lifelong Health and Energy," and "Chi Marathon: The Breakthrough Natural Running Program for a Pain-Free Half Marathon and Marathon." His wakeup call was feeling intellectually challenged by a lack of parenting, dropping out of college, but then discovering a series of talents and careers culminating in marathon running and discovering how Chi could increase his and other people's mastery of it and many other things. https://chiliving.com/company/about-us/

May 22, 2023 • 1h 1min
Ep 500- Jon Yarian
In this episode I speak with Jon Yarian, writer, speaker, serial entrepreneur, and performance coach, Senior Vice President of Operations and Strategy at Sovereign and co-author with Chris Mettler, Founder and Chairman of Sovereign of, "Spark: 24 Concepts to Start, Unstick or Superpower Your Work Life," whose wakeup call was moving from trying to fit it as the youngest of three brothers to learning to ask questions which changed how he would approach life. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonyarian

May 19, 2023 • 59min
Ep 499- Connor Beaton
In this episode I speak with Connor Beaton, the founder of ManTalks, an international organization focused on men’s wellness, success, and fulfillment and author of, "Men's Work: A Practical Guide to Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, and Find Freedom," whose wakeup call was coming from a divorced family from which his parents formed new families neither of which he belonged to and making sense of all the polarities in life and finding out where he belonged and going to help others do the same. http://mantalks.com

May 17, 2023 • 58min
Ep 498- David Noble Carol Kauffman
In this episode I speak with David Noble and Carol Kauffman, co-authors of: "Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High," among the world's top executive coaches with long extinguished careers who wakeup call was partnering with each other from complementary and synergistic skillsets and learning that 1 + 1 = 11. This is one of the most cogent episodes we have had in 500 episodes. http://carolkauffman.com and https://instituteofcoaching.org/david-noble

May 15, 2023 • 52min
Ep 497- Sabin Lomac
In this episode I interview Sabin Lomac who along with his cousin Jim Tselikis co-founded Cousins Maine Lobster and have grown it into 50 units including gourmet food trucks, fast-casual restaurants and an overnight mail order business from Maine to your door and whose wakeup call was visiting his cousin in Los Angeles and getting the idea for bringing the affordable luxury of lobster rolls, etc. into the food truck industry which exploded after a successful appearance on Shark Tank. http://cousinsmainelobster.com

May 11, 2023 • 1h 15min
Ep 496- David Dennis
In this episode I speak with David Dennis, author of, "Gameness: Land on Your Feet, Not on Your Feelings," and Chief Executive Officer of Eckerd Connects, one of the nation’s largest nonprofits providing workforce development, Job Corps, juvenile justice and child welfare services across the country, whose wakeup call was being confused and lost and discovering the power of his Faith to give him hope, direction and a gameness to help the lost among our youth. https://gamenessleadership.com/#author

May 9, 2023 • 1h 6min
Ep 495- Doug Dane
In this episode I speak with Doug Dane, author of, "Mistaken Identity: A Guide To Letting Go Of A Past That’s Holding You Back," whose wakeup call was realizing that blocking out and pushing away his past horrendous traumas was connected to his failing at life even though he was successful in business. https://www.dougdane.com/mistakenidentity