Today’s guest insists that the people around him live their best lives. Earl’s stand as a role model shines through in his work as an insurance agent for Farmers Insurance Agency, in his relationships with his family members, and among the students he trains in group fitness classes in the Bay Area.

Earl believes that as humans, we are responsible for how we connect with the other humans around us.

Today’s show is the second part of a two-part interview with Bill Schuffenhauer.

As we concluded last week’s interview with Bill Schuffenhauer, we ended on a high note. An Olympic athlete with a silver medal, Bill was on top of the world. With all his accomplishments, the biggest challenges of his life still laid ahead of him.

Today’s show is the first part in a two-part interview with Bill Schuffenhauer.

Bill Schuffenhaer grew up on the streets of Salt Lake City, surrounded by drugs and crime, bouncing from foster home to foster home. Against all odds, he managed to “change his stars”—he became a 3-Time Olympian and Olympic Silver Medalist.

Peter Fiekowsky is a leader in multiple climate initiatives, including the Foundation for Climate Restoration, of which he Co-Founder and Chairman.

An MIT-trained physicist and entrepreneur with twenty-seven patents, Peter is driven by a personal mission: “to leave a world we're proud of for our children.” More than a lofty aspiration, Peter has operationalized his mission with a life goal of bringing atmospheric CO2 down to 300 parts per million and restoring Arctic ice by 2050.

Today’s guest is Robert Field, founder and Chancellor of Resonance School of Homeopathy. Robert discovered the miracle of homeopathic medicine in 1992 and his life was never the same. On today’s episode, Dr. Fred explores this fascinating and often misunderstood healing practice.

On today's show, Dr. Fred sits down with Mark Victor Hansen, the founder and co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, with more than 500 million books sold.

Mark is widely known as an American inspirational and motivational speaker, trainer, author, serial entrepreneur, and member of multiple board of directors.

Tim David is an ex-magician turned author who writes about the science of human connection. His first book, Magic Words – The Science and Secrets Behind Seven Words that Motivate, Engage, and Influence exposes the influential impact of words that are often overlooked. His second book, FLIP: The Four Levels of Influencing People revealed that true influence comes from true human connection. His newest book is The 7-Day Digital Diet: How to Use Your Phone Less and Live More explores the biggest threat to human connection that the world has ever seen - and how to overcome it.

Beatrice Birch is the Founder and Executive Director of Inner Fire, a proactive healing community in Brattleboro, Vermont. Inner Fire offers adults a safe place to recover from debilitating and traumatic life challenges without the use of psychotropic medications.

Chloé Lauer fell in love with travel at 18 years old. Since then, she’s travelled to sixty-two countries. Chloé distilled her knowledge and wisdom into a Transformational Travel online course and coaching program. After a two year adventure of building and running those programs, she recently returned to her professional roots of urban planning, focusing on the San Diego area.

“Lack of purpose is holding us back as a species,” claims today’s guest, Brandon Peele.

It’s no accident that Dr. Fred chose to invite self-proclaimed “cheerleader” and “carnival barker” for purpose, Brandon Peele to join the show and discuss about all-things-purpose. A trained “purpose guide,” Brandon now works with organizations to unlock their purpose and to help employees align their purpose with the purpose of the collective.

On today’s episode, Dr. Fred is joined by his friend Sanyika “The Firestarter” Street. Sanyika is a speaker and coach dedicated to helping others perform at their highest level of contribution.

Writer and host of What Matters Most podcast joins Dr. Fred for a delightful conversation about the things that matter most to Paul Dolman. Paul is the author of several books, including Hitchhiking With Larry David, based on a true story of the day Paul found that the driver who slowed down to pick him up in Martha’s Vineyard was none other than Larry David himself.

With a burgeoning career as a touring rapper and a contractor to major record labels in the music industry, Geraldine Convento was riding high and certain she would “make it” as a performing artist. Then she found herself highly medicated in a mental hospital, and then subsequently confined to bed rest for an extended period. Her career came crashing down.

After moving from China to the United States and beginning a career in biotech, Spring Cheng felt a desire to reconnect to her native cultural roots and began studying Traditional Chinese Medicine. Eventually studying Taoism, she reimagined it as a modern leadership development tool, which led to the birth of the Resonance Path Institute, and the publishing of her gorgeous book, The Resonance Code.

Dennis Sandow was completely unprepared for what he encountered when as a college student in the 1970s he visited a state institution for people with developmental disabilities. Shaken and shocked by the experience, Dennis made an oath to dedicate his life’s work to closing such institutions. He then worked as a scientist-practitioner in the liberation movement of people with developmental disabilities, providing evidence that they could live outside institutions and within communities. This led to a cascade of inspiring experiences in defense of humanity.

A healer, a famous juggler, and a creativity expert. While it sounds like the set-up for another “walks-into-a-bar” joke, this combination only scratches the surface of what we find when we encounter a man named Michael Gelb. We can add to the list 5th-degree black belt in Akido, colleague of Tony Buzan (creator of the mind map), and Alexander Technique practitioner.

Kurt Krueger wants to stop the “separation demon,” that tendency divide ourselves by accentuating our differences and casting us into siloed categories. Born an identical twin, Kurt shares how that experience shaped his life. Along the way, Kurt shares numerous remarkable highlights from his life--from surviving a hijacked plane, to studying yoga under two famous gurus, travelling to India, and witnessing extraordinary feats of strength and healing that demonstrate that limitations are just a mental construct.

Entrepreneur, programmer, web developer, and social psychologist Bo Bennett is the author of over a dozen books related to critical thinking and reason. In this stimulating interview, Bo shares with Dr. Fred about how our lives are shaped by our fellow humans—more than we realize.