Noble Warrior with CK Lin

“The goal is how can we have a rich life and that's not measured in dollars. Dollars are nice, but it ain't the answer.” - Matt KurshMy next guest is Matt Kursh. He founded Clearview (later sold to Apple.) Then he founded eShop (later sold to Microsoft.) Then he ran MSN, the #4 largest website at the time. Today he is the CEO and the co-founder of Oji Life Lab.We talked about:Why the entrepreneur dream of selling to big companies is not a very good dreamThe paradox of business goal-settingWhy the concept he coined ‘optionFUL’ is especially important for people who must control all aspects of their livesHe gave a piece of tactical advice to deal with people who want you to project more certainty than realityWhy he continues to start companies after selling 2 to Microsoft and AppleWe talked about why emotional intelligence for working adults is important and the potential downfall for any organization if emotional contagions don’t have emotional intelligence. and the potential life-saving moments when people are equipped with these skills Oji Life Lab’s unique approach to mapping out the emotional landscape and give people the tools to get around from point A to point BThe 5 areas of emotional intelligence help you in concrete ways: decision making, attention memory learning, creativity performance, mental physical health, relationship qualityLastly, his straight feedback to fellow CEOs and founders who think their anxiety is the source of their edgePlease enjoy my conversation with the CEO of Oji Life Lab, Matt Kursh🔥 Be the first to get inspirational stories, mental models, and actionable tactics from multidimensional entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/3lVRhhN🔔 SUBSCRIBE to get the FULL EPISODE with spiritual rationalists. https://bit.ly/35cea8q​🔔 SUBSCRIBE to get the SHORT CLIPS with spiritual rationalists. https://bit.ly/3f0Nr3v​✍️ Detailed Blog post: https://noblewarrior.com/episode/interview-with-this-serial-entrepreneur-was-a-master-class-in-emotional-intelligence-at-the-workplace-matt-kursh/👪 Join other Noble Warriors: https://noblewarrior.com/group 

Susan Harrow is a renowned media coach at PRsecrets.com. She is the author of the best-selling book, Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul. She has media trained thousands of CEOs, celebrity chefs, start-ups, speakers, entrepreneurs, and authors for Oprah, CBS’ 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, etcWe talked about:How she coaches introverted CEOs who resist going on shows to shift their contextHow she coaches her clients to remained composed during even the toughest questions on tvThe 3 questions she asks herself whenever she isn’t sure if she should speak her mindHer methodology to finetune her clients’ target audience and messagingHow to connect with the audience whether they are on zoom or live in the studioHow to adjust your talk on the flyWe talked about her spiritual practices right before she gets on any showsPlease enjoy my conversation with a renowned media coach, Susan Harrow.🔥 Be the first to get inspirational stories, mental models, and actionable tactics from multidimensional entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/3lVRhhN🔔 SUBSCRIBE to get the FULL EPISODE with spiritual rationalists. https://bit.ly/35cea8q​🔔 SUBSCRIBE to get the SHORT CLIPS with spiritual rationalists. https://bit.ly/3f0Nr3v​✍️ Detailed Blog post: https://noblewarrior.com/episode/115-media-training-martial-arts-secrets-to-become-a-media-star-susan-harrow/👪 Join other Noble Warriors: https://noblewarrior.com/group 

My next guest is Ava Pipitone. Ava is an entrepreneur, adviser, and futurist. They assemble teams and design infrastructure to operationalize emergent intelligence, as our world integrates millions of new minds via technology. Currently a general partner with Permanence Capital and CEO of Suyana Technologies; following a life in public policy and government technology. Their expertise in business design, inner technology, and social equity has established them as a speaker, investor, and public intellectual throughout the Open Society Institute, Summit Series, TEDx, and other private ecosystems.We talked about: Their purpose - building that infrastructure for emergent consciousness to stabilize on our planet.Their mental model of honoring their purpose and making them fully alive and ecstaticThe importance of having someone doing exactly what they want to do and doing it in such a way that feels resonantThe importance of having mentors to affirm their decisions and the path they are onTheir autodidactic, following of their joy, finding their center and finding out a way to stabilize that. The importance of cultivating the feeling of ecstasis and how that sense of playful contribution is what most people yearn forHow the heart is a quantum computer and the mind is a linear computer and listening to the expansiveness of the heart allows for constructive decisionsWe discussed the latest inner technologies she found to productize our wetware and train our body to calibrate our nervous system for healthy interaction, with larger data sets. Lastly, we talked about her spiritual disciplines to induce neuroplasticity and within the right container heal trauma. Please enjoy my conversation with Ava Pipitone, the CEO of Suyana Technologies.🔥 Be the first to get inspirational stories, mental models, and actionable tactics from multidimensional entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/3lVRhhN🔔 SUBSCRIBE to get the FULL EPISODE with philosopher-entrepreneurs. https://bit.ly/35cea8q​🔔 SUBSCRIBE to get the SHORT CLIPS with philosopher-entrepreneurs. https://bit.ly/3f0Nr3v​✍️ Detailed Blog post: https://noblewarrior.com/episode/114-inner-technologies-for-the-emergent-future-ava-pipitone/👪 Join other Noble Warriors: https://noblewarrior.com/group 

Marques Anderson is a former NFL player. He is the founder of the World Education Foundation and Urban Matrix One. He is also the podcast co-host at Ancestralcyborg.com. He is a thought leader, keynote speaker, and cyborg-anthropologist. We talked aboutHow he uses his somatic wisdom to make congruent decisionsWhy the choice of leaving the NFL into the world of futurism wasn’t a difficult oneThe exact moment when his passion for the NFL left his bodyThe importance of being brave enough to lean into a new identityUsing breathwork to achieve desirable qualities instantlyHow to integrate both the intellectual and somatic life to be in flowHow to use precise language to create a powerful narrative to build his ideasThe 2 indigenous practices that are relevant to bring disparate cultures togetherHow to leverage technology to transform our fragility to naturally and subconsciously rebuild the earthMarque’s personal practice from visualization, movement, meditation to properly focus his lifeforce in harmony with the earth Please enjoy my conversation with Marques Anderson, the founder of AncestralCyborg.com🔥 Be the first to get inspirational stories, mental models, and actionable tactics from proven multidimensional entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/3lVRhhN

My next guest is Mitzi Perdue. She isThe daughter of the person who founded Sheraton Hotel ChainThe widow of Frank Perdue of perdue chickensFounder of Win This Fight, Stop Human Trafficking Now. If you want to follow up with her, text Mitzi @51555 with "WTF" We talked about:Why she is still working hard and dedicating her life at 80 years oldHow to use wrongness to attract attention for the right causeA counterintuitive and brilliant way to combat human trafficking ringsWhy storytelling is her weapon of choice for the impact she wants to make in the worldconcrete tactics national speakers association use to teach powerful storytelling skillsThe #1 skill of success the founder of Sheraton passed down to his daughterThe specific tactics the founder of the Sheraton hotel did to boost employee morale during the depression eraHow to cultivate grace as a mindset 🔥 Be the first to get inspirational stories, mental models, and actionable tactics from proven multidimensional entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/3lVRhhN

My next guest is Chris Voss, who is the CEO & Founder of The Black Swan Group Ltd+ Author of Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. (1 million copies sold)+ Most popular course instructor on masterclass.com+ Former lead International hostage negotiator at the FBIWe talked about:+ How he discovered tactical empathy as a superior negotiation method after dealing with cutthroat commodity dealers+ Why hammering his opponent with empathy got him better deals+ How his mindset around negotiation is fundamentally different than most people+ How he maintained positive even after dealing with terrorists for 25 years+ How tone is the single most overlooked superpower when it comes to negotiation+ How practice is the path to mastery even for something as esoteric as a cold read andtonality+ Chris’s morning rituals to setup his day for success+ And his project 120 to stay healthy at age 120🔥 Be the first to get inspirational stories, mental models, and actionable tactics from proven philosopher-entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/3lVRhhN

"Whatever you're dealing with, it's what makes you strong. Where you think you're weak, where you are anxious, fearful, nervous, because you don't understand you value because no one ever helped you have that value to understand that confidence and say, I. Am, Enough."My guest is Ken Dubner, a master hypnotherapist. He is a frequent lecturer at ucla school of dentistry and the American Hypnosis Association. He is the founder of the Life Formula Method to help people break free from the self-imposed prisons and step into their power.Ken talked about his superpower as a hypnotherapist involves his humor, involves his personality, involves his total openness about his history, which most therapists don’t do.He said: “I'm delightful, I'm engaging. I'm funny as fuck because I was a comic when I was in my twenties. So part of my superpower is my ability to make most people feel comfortable cause I'm so upfront and irreverent around my own struggle and because I'm free and they want to be free like that. He is unapologetically himself and he wants to teach everyone else to be that. That's his mission in life.We talked about:How he bulletproofs his mind where he gets excited on stage where someone else gets frightenedTransmitting your greatest weaknesses into your greatest strengthsThe 3 steps to fundamentally shift your belief systemHow to be unapologetically youHow to foster owning your accomplishmentsThe psychology of confidenceDifferent levels of depressionBeing adaptive and maladaptive in lifeThe comparison between martial arts and mental healthThe safety protocol he uses to put his people in psychological safety in minutesThe importance of reminding people of their heroic progress Please enjoy my conversation with Ken Dubner.🔥 Be the first to get the best actionable insights from proven philosopher-entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/3lVRhhN🔔 SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube Channel for future interviews about entrepreneurs sharing their journey from warrior to commander to king. https://bit.ly/35cea8q🔔 SUBSCRIBE to the Youtube Channel for short clips from these Noble Kings. https://bit.ly/3f0Nr3v✍️ Access all the wisdom clips: https://noblewarrior.com/episode/110-how-to-turn-your-greatest-weakness-into-your-greatest-strength-ken-dubner/👪 Join other Noble Warriors on the journey: https://noblewarrior.com/group

My next guest is Josh Brill. He is a music and mindfulness coach, artist, and entrepreneur.He is an acclaimed guitarist and producer, founder of Yoga of Guitar, Yoga of Ukulele, and a transformational guide with over 32 years of experience.With over 27 years of guitar teaching experience including a position teaching at Berklee College of Music, Josh combines his vast experience as a professional musician and as a master teacher to educate internationally on the power of music as a mindfulness practice.Josh's life and career as a professional musician further developed and evolved through his work and participation with Robert Fripp and the Guitar Craft/Guitar Circle and Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists courses and projects.LinksYoga of Guitar🔥 Be the first to get new trends and actionable tactics from proven philosopher-entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/3lVRhhN🔔 SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube Channel for future interviews about entrepreneurs sharing their journey from warrior to commander to king. https://bit.ly/35cea8q🔔 SUBSCRIBE to the Youtube Channel for short clips from these Noble Kings. https://bit.ly/3f0Nr3v✍️ Access all the wisdom clips: https://noblewarrior.com/episode/109-music-as-an-exponential-path-of-awareness-healing-lifes-mysteries-josh-brill/👪 Join other Noble Warriors on the journey: https://noblewarrior.com/group

My next guest is the international bestselling author and serial entrepreneur, Jay Samit:He has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, He has partnered with the whos who of our time: Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Steve Jobs, Reid Hoffman, David Geffen, Richard Branson, Paul Allen, and Pierre Omidyar.A former NASDAQ company CEO and Independent Vice Chairman of DeloitteThe author of Future Proofing You (Wiley 2021) where he made a case study of taking someone who was on welfare to a million dollars in revenue in 1 year. Jay dropped 30+ knowledge bombs, including:After you change the voice in your head, changing the world of business is easyHow will your past mistakes inform your future decisions is a better use of your mental cycles?When rejected, they are not saying I can't do it; they are saying they can't do it with me. It's their lossBeing happy creates the best conditions for success - your brain, mood, appearance, sales, decision-making, and creativity.A million a year is a mental 4-minute mile. Break it.Today can be better than yesterday and I have the power to make it so.The failure of our current education and economic system is that we failed, teach 90% of Americans how to get their piece of the American dreamThere is 2 axis to select a problem that is suitable for the soul-impact fit: 1) total addressable market for the possible impact. 2) the passion you have about the problem for your own fulfillment.By watching where the 800-pound gorillas are spending big, bucks, you'll see where the wave is being created.Find your niche by pairing the problem with the buzzword of the dayHis number 1 hack to get connected with the industry leaders who are impossible to connectFind a big company with the existing audience you want to reach; your can offer your product/service as a customer acquisition tool or value add or a way for them to be hip and cool againWhy he advocates for selling out early vs. holding out for a higher offer? And specifically why 50% cash / 50% equity is a wise choice.Here is my favorite: only a small % of your decisions are going to be home runs, so make more decisions.Go buy Future Proofing You...it's full of gems https://adbl.co/2NUpOAz

My next guest, JR Martinez, is an army vet, burn survivor, winner of Dancing with the Stars, a New York Times best-selling author, and the podcast host of the podcast “Rebirth.”He speaks all over the world to share his story and knowledge on overcoming life’s battles.We talked about:How he grew up with a single mother, struggled his identity, and felt alone in the world growing upHe talked about speaking with intention and the power of words and the consequences when he got away from thatHe talked about how he grapples with saying something vs. holding back; doing it with compassion vs. doing it with force whenever he sees a chance to remind others who they could be.Whether you can see the parallel in your own narratives and learn from his lessons, one thing is for certain, JR’s desire to help people have hope again, to have trust again, and to have self-love again is palpable. Feel his heart.Linksjrmartinez.com🔥 Be the first to get inspirational stories, mental models, and actionable tactics from proven philosopher-entrepreneurs: https://upbeat-originator-8740.ck.page/516c17f1d1🔔 SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube Channel for future interviews about entrepreneurs sharing their journey from warrior to commander to king. https://bit.ly/35cea8q🔔 SUBSCRIBE to the Youtube Channel for short clips from these Noble Kings. https://bit.ly/3f0Nr3v✍️ Access all the links and clips: https://www.noblewarrior.com/episode/how-to-manifest-surviving-burning-car-tv-acting-winning-dancing-with-the-stars-jr-martinez/👪 Join other Noble Warriors on the journey: https://noblewarrior.com/group