Leigh Martinuzzi

Authenticity Today's featured guest is Monica Berg. The Topic is Authenticity. Let the show begin. Guest bio. Monica Berg is a CHANGE JUNKIE and she wants to challenge the way you think about EVERYTHING. In her first book, FEAR IS NOT AN OPTION, she challenged readers to eradicate fear from their lives. In her latest book, RETHINK LOVE, she uses years of personal experience teaching and counselling to eradicate false belief systems around love and relationships. Monica is a mother, wife, sister, teacher and friend, who integrates all that she is into her mission and as Chief Communications Officer of The Kabbalah Centre, she integrates her personal mission with this ancient wisdom.

High Expectations With Leigh Martinuzzi This is a short mash-up of a few recent motivational rants shared live on my Facebook and Instagram channels. In this series of short rants, I discuss how high expectations can have an impact on life and how to manage these. If you'd like to join me live on Facebook or Instagram please do.

Utopia for Realists with Rutger Bregman In this conversation, we discuss the idea of a Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. And more. It sounds too good to be true but as Rutger explains perhaps it's not. Rutger is a thought leader challenging the way we think about key issues and challenging us in how we can build an ideal world today. Guest bio. Rutger Bregman (1988) is a historian and author. He has published five books on history, philosophy, and economics. His book Utopia for Realists was a New York Times Bestseller and has been translated in 32 languages. Bregman has twice been nominated for the prestigious European Press Prize for his work at The Correspondent. His new book, Humankind, will be published in June 2020. Rutger lives in Holland.

Disruption Today's featured guest is Chris Field. The Topic is DISRUPTION. Let the show begin. Guest bio. Chris Field has been challenging complacency and disrupting the status quo most of his life. His most important disruption is Mercy Project, the non-profit he started to rescue children from human trafficking in Ghana, Africa. Its innovative approach has drawn international attention and earned the prestigious Norman Borlaug Humanitarian Award. To date, Mercy Project has rescued more than 150 children, returned them to their families, and provided them with education that will transform their future for generations to come. Field lives in College Station, Texas with his wife Stacey and their four young children.

Putting Philosophy Into Practice Greg Sadler is the president of ReasonIO a company dedicated to helping others put philosophy into practice. Greg is well educated across many facets of philosophy and takes resources from complex and often difficult philosophical texts and thinkers, and makes them accessible to non-philosophers. Transforming ideas into useful tools for application, reflection, decision-making, and action. In this conversation we have a discuss philosophy and how it can be used a to help when put to practice, many aspects of one's life. Guest Bio Greg Sadler is the president of ReasonIO, a company established to put philosophy into practice, providing tutorial, coaching, and philosophical counselling services, and producing educational resources. He teaches at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, edits Stoicism Today, and has created over 1,500 videos on philosophy in his popular YouTube channel.

ACTION Today's featured guest is Romney Nelson. The Topic is ACTION. Let the show begin. Guest bio. Romney commenced his career as a teacher in 1997 and was Head of Faculty in some of Australia’s leading independent schools including positions in Oxford and Wimbledon, UK. In 2009, Romney joined the largest global provider of Outside School Hours Care for schools and progressed to a National role and a member of the senior leadership team. During his tenure, Romney was awarded the ‘Directors Award’ from 2,500 employees and was pivotal in building the family business in the role of National Contracts Manager eventually being sold for over $400 million to a private US investment group. Romney has represented his country and state across multiple sport disciplines and in 2008, authored his first educational text book in partnership with McMillan Publishing.

Success with Eric Barker In this episode I chat with Eric about his book, Barking Up The Wrong Tree. We discuss how to define success in order to live with purpose. With the view that the advice we’ve been given about success and achieving it is logical, earnest and wrong. Eric reveals the science behind actual success and how anyone can achieve it. We also talk on productivity, balance and other thought on living life that matters. Guest Bio Eric Barker's humorous, practical blog, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree", presents science-based answers and expert insight on how to be awesome at life. Over 320,000 people subscribe to his weekly newsletter and his content is syndicated by Time Magazine, The Week, and Business Insider. He has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and the Financial Times. Eric is also a sought-after speaker and interview subject, and has given talks at MIT, Yale, Google, United States Military Central Command (CENTCOM), NASDAQ, and the Olympic T

Clarity Today's featured guest is Leigh Martinuzzi. The Topic is CLARITY. Let the show begin. Guest bio. Leigh Martinuzzi is the author of The Ultimate Life Map and founder of The Hidden Why. He is a philosopher, thought leader, mentor, author, speaker, researcher and student of psychology, neuroscience and human behaviour. He is passionate about creating meaningful lifestyles – lives that dissolve suffering and regret in favour of liberation, fulfilment and happiness. As an expert in lifestyle design, leadership, productivity and self-awareness he inspires, educates and assists other via speaking, mentoring, writing, and podcasting. He has a background in marketing, management, human behaviour, executive leadership, sales, teaching and hospitality. He lives on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. You can visit him online at thehiddenwhy.com or leighmartinuzzi.com.

The Power of Discipline By Brian Tracy This book flection is written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi Brian Tracy has spent a lifetime training and developing organisations and individuals to help them achieve their business and personal goals faster and easier. One of his more popular books, Eat That Frog, outlines why tackling the biggest, hardest and most important task first each day is key to overall effectiveness. In this book, Tracy focuses on the power of discipline, not only why the most successful people are highly disciplined individuals but more importantly how we can all develop a more disciplined approach to all aspects of our lives.

Sensible Living with Dan Ariely In this episode, I share with you my interview with one of my favourite authors and economist, Dan Ariely. Having read a few of his books and other work I was stocked to have him accept my invitation to come on the podcast. We discuss resolutions, goal setting and the techniques and strategies to improve. We also talk about his book Dollar and Sense, a conversation about how we can think and use the money better. Guest Bio Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He is dedicated to answering questions to help people live more sensible – if not rational – lives. His interests span a wide range of behaviours, and his sometimes unusual experiments are consistently interesting, amusing and informative, demonstrating profound ideas that fly in the face of common wisdom. He is a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight, co-creator of the film documentary (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies, and a three-time New Y

Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope By Mark Mason Written and narrated by Leigh Martinuzzi Mark Mason is a blogger, author and entrepreneur. Having not read any of his previous work and only hearing him speak here and there I was a little sceptical about the contents of this book. The tittle I thought may have just been a hook into a time warp of purposeless information. I was wrong! I thoroughly enjoyed reading about how Everything Is Fucked and our desperate search for hope. Hope - a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen. It seems like hope is much aligned with desire. We hope that we will earn more money, be more successful, fitter, attract better-looking mates, win the loto, get the weekend to enjoy with family, find a gold coin under the pier and so on. There is an almost always underlying feeling of hope. Is it desperation? Perhaps not always, often hope is mild and muffled by our constant busyness. If things are dire, hope may be more prominent. In day to day l

Ownership With Leigh Martinuzzi This is a short mash-up of a few recent motivational rants shared live on my Facebook and Instagram channels. In this series of short rants I discuss ownership and why taking ownership is the key to living a great life. “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own . . .” If you'd like to join me live on Facebook or Instagram please do.

Conquest Today's featured guest is Aaron Gendle. The Topic is Conquest. Let the show begin. Guest Bio Aaron Gendle is the founder of writeabookuniveristy.com, where he helps others write books, self-publish, and leave their legacy. Aaron also hosts the Daily Authors Podcast, where he interviews brilliant new authors daily. He a finisher of the super difficult, Ultra Beast Spartan race and lives in the beautiful emerald coast of Florida with his wife and four children.

Future Proof with Diana Wu David Has your work has become an inescapable treadmill of personal sacrifice? Does having the career we want to require us to lose ourselves? We all desire meaningful, sustainable, secure and happy work but how can we have it? Perhaps we can all have a career packed with meaning, joy, and purpose. Enter Diana Wu David. In this interview with Diana, she tells how her own career-focused existence shifted after the suicide of a friend, prompting her to realize there was a better way to work. Drawing on real-life stories, arguing for being truly present in life, she shows you how you can use innovation in your career and life—including experimentation, collaboration, reinvention, and recalibrating success—to make your career more resilient, relevant, competitive, and enjoyable in an ever-changing global landscape. Guest Bio Diana Wu David is the author of Future Proof: Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration, a book and online companion course about how to adopt more agile minds

Vision With Leigh Martinuzzi This is a short mash-up of a few recent motivational rants shared live on my Facebook and Instagram channels. Today I am sharing a series of rants discussing Vision. I talk on vision and how it relates to our passions, goals, why internal expectation is more important than external expectations, how to stay focused on the process over outcome, and finding joy in the journey. If you'd like to join me live on Facebook or Instagram please do.

CHANGE Today's featured guest is Jason Leenaarts. The Topic is CHANGE. Let the show begin. Guest Bio. Combining 16 years of experience in the fitness industry, Jason Leenaarts opened Revolution Fitness and Therapy in the spring of 2009. The first location was opened in Hudson, Ohio while Jason worked to create a program that could benefit those looking to lose weight and gain lean muscle. The program has been tremendously successful targeting demographics as young as 12 to those young-at-heart and well into their 70’s. His passion for nutritional counselling and the constant drive to modify the program to fit an individual’s needs has been the force guiding “RevFit” further. An ISSA Elite I Trainer, Jason is committed to helping his members be in the best shape they’re willing and able to be in.

No Ego! with Cy Wakeman In this episode, I share with you again one of my favourite interviews of the past. I loved chatting with Cy about the ego and the implications it has in leadership but also as it relates to the leadership of our personal lives. She has a kick-ass book - No Ego, that I also thoroughly enjoyed. Have a listen and please let me know what you think. Guest Bio Cy Wakeman is a dynamic international keynote speaker, business consultant, New York Times bestselling author, and global thought leader with over 25 years experience cultivating a revolutionary new approach to leadership. Grounded in reality, Wakeman’s philosophy has helped organizations and individuals all over the world learn to ditch the drama and turn excuses into results.

The Power Segment. This year I am bringing back "The Power Segment" on The Hidden Why and I'd love it if you'd join me. Each week in this segment I will speak to a guest expert for 20 to 30 minutes on a particular topic of their choice. A topic that they are passionate about and knowledgable on. In doing so I hope we can all take away some value and even practical tips and advice that will assist us in living a life with greater freedom, fulfilment and happiness. My passion is about helping others create lifestyles that dissolve suffering and regret while moving them towards living a life of meaning. In this episode, on top of discussing the reintroduction of the power segment, I chat briefly on the topic of happiness. I hope you enjoy and looking forward to you joining me in future episodes.

How Emotions Are Made: Round 2 In this interview, I speak again with Lisa about her book, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, a book on how the brain constructs emotions — one that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. Guest Bio Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Psychiatry and Radiology. She received an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for her research on emotion in the brain, and the 2018 APS Mentor Award For Lifetime Achievement.

How Emotions Are Made In this interview, I speak with Lisa about her book, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, a book on how the brain constructs emotions — one that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. There is also a part 2 - found here. Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Psychiatry and Radiology. She received an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for her research on emotion in the brain, and the 2018 APS Mentor Award For Lifetime Achievement. To get the full show notes from our original interview please use the link below.