We like to think that life is a fair game and things will go well for us if we keep it together. But what happens when one day nature strikes, and you find out that you have Multiple Myeloma or some other potentially very dangerous disease?  Nicholaos “Coach Nick” Papadopoulos is an author, speaker, executive coach, facilitator, consultant and disruptor who’s committed to inspiring leaders, teams and people to live life purposefully and to transform the world. An energetic and charismatic speaker, Coach Nick has been a keynote speaker nationally on the topics of transformation, men, inclusion, culture engagement and leadership.He has been documenting his journey to recovery and health. We had a big chat about what matters in life and how do you reframe the unthinkable.

We romanticize criminality and the Mafia a lot.  Endless movies stand as proof of our fascination. But only a few us know what we are really talking about. I reached out to an expert who does know a lot about both the Mafia and the Cartel. Aldo Civico is ranked as one of the Top30 Leadership global experts by Global Gurus (#13). For the past 30 years he has been helping leaders in politics and business, as well as communities and organizations to find and connect with their purpose. During his tenure as director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, Aldo has been facilitating peace talks and Peacebuilding efforts in different parts of the world, especially in Colombia. He is a columnist for Spanish speaking newspapers in the United States and throughout Latin America.

Why is poetry such an important aspect of life? Why some people have such intimate connection with it while others struggle? Why do some men find it hard to connect with poetry and was it always this way? Nick LeForce, known as the “Transformational Poet,” believes poetry can touch hearts and transform lives. Nick integrates poetry into his work as a life-coach and in trainings in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy, and Coaching that he has conducted (prepandemic) across the US and around the world in China, Japan, Malaysia, England, Greece, Ireland, Spain and elsewhere. He uses poetry as a medium to inspire people to live authentic lives, bring out the inner qualities of a person, find their own path in life, overcome challenges and achieve their dreams.

We need to talk about the dark side of our society and masculinity, to be more aware and to take action. This time my guests are Alan Smyth who serves as the Executive Director for Saving Innocence, an anti-human trafficking, community based organization focused on the recovery and restoration of child victims of sex trafficking and Jessica Midkiff, a true “lived experience expert.” She has survived ten years of commercial, sexual exploitation as well as having spent over ten years of advocacy work helping victims escape and recover.They have co-authored a new book: Men! Fight For Me, The Role of Authentic Masculinity in Ending Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking. Jessica was instrumental in piloting many of the programs still used today which help trafficking survivors exit the life. In 2015, she was recognized as “Woman of the Year” in Los Angeles County for her extraordinary work in the field. “Fight For Me” are words they heard directly from a survivor of sex trafficking.

In this episode you will learn how John E. Marriott, who is one of the world's premier professional wildlife photographers built a career around his passion and purpose. We discuss what he has learned as a men, father and citizen from the bears and wolfs and other wild animals he has been photographing. His success is spanning two decades and his images are published worldwide by National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Canadian Geographic, McLean's, and Reader’s Digest.  He is an Associate Fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Canon Ambassador, a Fjällräven Guide, and the co-founder of the EXPOSED Wildlife Conservancy environmental non-profit. John has produced seven coffee table books, including What Bears Teach Us (2020), Tall Tales, Long Lenses: My Adventures in Photography (2017), The Pipestone Wolves: The Rise and Fall of a Wolf Family (2016), and the international bestseller, Banff & Lake Louise: Images of Banff National Park (2007). He has one upcoming book in 2021, The Kootenay Wolves: Five Years Following a Wild Wolf Pack.

In this episode you will learn about the power of the unconscious mind and how our brains work. We discuss how to build new habits and why humans still react as if we were still living in the desert. My guest is Joel Weinberger, Ph.D., is author of The Unconscious: Theory, Research and Clinical Implications. His blogs on the unconscious appear in Psychology Today. He received the Ulf Kragh Award (University of Lundh, Sweden) for his work on unconscious processes.Dr. Weinberger completed Postdoctoral training in human motivation at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Association for Psychological Science. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. He is Professor, with expertise in clinical, personality and motivation psychology at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University. He is the author of about 100 published articles and chapters. He has co-edited books on personality change and on the art and science of psychotherapy. His political and business commentaries have appeared in various venues in the media. Dr. Weinberger is also a practicing clinical psychologist.

This is a bonus session for Hungarian speakers only. 

In this episode you will learn about what’s addictive about war zones and why some of our brave fellow citizen journalists risk their life covering events everyone else just wants to run away from. We also explore what’s wrong with our approach to veterans and why would someone start a grizzly bear lodge in the Canadian wilderness. This time my guest is Julius Strauss, who was a long-serving correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and specialized in covering wars and other foreign stories. As well as Bosnia and Kosovo, Strauss has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Chechnya, as well as revolutions, uprisings and coups. Later he became Moscow bureau chief for the Telegraph, where he worked for four years, covering Russia under Vladimir Putin and writing about notorious terrorist attacks in the early 2000s. Strauss worked with the US Marines in southern Afghanistan as a political officer during the Afghan war.

In this episode you will learn about the power of meditation and how it can effect your mental health. You will also learn a lot about the importance of our dreams and how to make sense of them. This time my guest is Michael Katz psychologist, artist, and author with a doctoral degree in psychology from New York University. He is a long time student of Tibetan Buddhism and has studied with many of the great masters of this age. He is the co-author and editor of the book “Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light” with Chogyal Namkhai Norbu . He is also the author of the book “Tibetan Dream Yoga the Royal Road to Enlightenment “as well as the fictional novel “The White Dolphin.”

My guest is Marc Altheim is a yoga instructor and owner of a Yoga studio, Know Yoga Know Bliss, in Manhasset on Long Island, NY. He was formerly a real estate developer (co-founder of Atlantic Development Group) and founder of Beach Tennis USA, a company that introduced the sport of beach tennis to the USA and Canada. At Know Yoga Know Bliss all students, beginners and experts, are welcome, The studio is zen-like and well appointed. Marc specializes in teaching a Men's-only yoga class in order to attract guys who would otherwise not be amenable to trying yoga. The class emphasizes checking egos at the door and teaches the guys to accept the architecture and pliability (or non-pliability!) of their bodies. The class has been a resounding success as the men feel more secure in this environment.