Aim to Win Podcast

Darcy Luoma, author of Thoughtfully Fit ®, is a Master Certified Coach, dynamic facilitator, and inspiring motivational speaker. She has worked as director for a U.S. Senator, deputy transition director for a governor, and on the national advance team for two U.S. presidential campaigns. As the owner and CEO of Darcy Luoma Coaching & Consulting, she’s worked in forty-eight industries with more than five hundred organizations to create high-performing people and teams. The media has named Darcy the region’s favorite executive-and-life coach four times. Darcy balances her thriving business with raising her two energetic teenage daughters, adventure travel, and competing in triathlons.  Links  Website: http://www.darcyluoma.com/ Blog: https://darcyluoma.com/blog/feed Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darcyluoma/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/DarcyLuoma/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darcyluomacoaching/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darcyluoma/ LinkedIn Company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/darcy-luoma-coaching-&-consulting-llc Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/darcyluoma/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaMLTzKl2YO5olR6V23aaXA

Collin Jewett hated school growing up. He was rejected at job fairs, failed tests, often felt stupid, and even cried in front of his guidance counselor. But once he discovered how to take charge of his own learning, he joined the Dean's list, landed a senior engineering position out of college, and went on to become the director of coaching for a 7 figure eLearning company. Since then, he has written two books on the joys of accelerated learning, helped executives, psychologists, and nuclear engineers become learning experts, married the love of his life, and embraced life in the mountains of Colorado. He is on a mission to share the love and joy of learning with as many people as possible and ultimately transform the education system.Links:https://www.linkedin.com/in/collinjewett/www.curiosityjump.comwww.maven.com/curiosityjump/superlearner

Kurian Mathew Tharakan is the founder of the sales and marketing strategy firm StrategyPeak Sales & Marketing Advisors and a 27-year veteran of the sales and marketing industry. Mr. Tharakan is also the author of the Amazon Bestseller, "The 7 Essential Stories Charismatic Leaders Tell," which details how anyone can move people and mountains with the power of story.Links:Book: The 7 Essential Stories Charismatic Leaders Tell 7 Stories Infographic https://strategypeak.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuriantharakan/@KurianTharakankurian@strategypeak.comPodMatch Profile

Dr. James V. Hardt is the Founder of The Biocybernaut Institute and an expert in training with biofeedback. He has worked with the likes of Tony Robbins and other high-powered executives to elevate states of intelligence and consciousness for over 40-years.Links:biocybernaut.combiocybernaut.com/bonus

Nicole Coustier is a veteran Silicon Valley consultant and former VP of operations at a med tech consultancy. She now heads up her own leadership development and executive performance coaching firm, specializing in teaching achievers how to break down barriers to next-level status, using their own talents rather than trying to change who they are.Links aureliancoaching.com  linkedin.com/in/nicolecoustier  FB, Twitter IG @aureliancoach 

 Catherine Mattiske, referred to as "the maestro of changing behavior", is a globally recognized training expert and the inventor of the globally acclaimed instructional design process ID9 Intelligent Design: an inventive, research-based system to create corporate training that delivers results. ID9 Intelligent Design dynamically powers many of the internal training programs for the world’s leading brands with over 5 million participants worldwide. Catherine founded her company, TPC, in 1994. There, she serves clients worldwide with offices in Sydney, Los Angeles, New York, Singapore, Basel (Switzerland) and London. TPC's impressive client list is comprised of Fortune 100 companies and organizations led by the world’s most innovative masterminds. Links https://www.id9intelligentdesign.com/ http://innergeniusnow.com/

 In 2016, Jay founded Performance Excellence & Recovery Consulting (PERC) - a consulting firm dedicated to providing developing athletes the tools necessary to elevate their mental game and perform in the face of stress, pressure, and adversity.  Before PERC, Jay spent several years at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs spending hundreds of sessions working with the world's best athletes to elevate their performance. His work at the USOTC led to a realization that it wasn't just athletes at the highest level that needed high performance psychology training - it was all athletes that stood to benefit.  Jay has helped thousands of athletes, performances, corporate executives, and business owners achieve their goals by elevating their ability to mentally perform so they can show up as the best versions of themselves in those moments that matter most to them.  trainwithperc.com/freeguide  instagram.com/trainwithperc 

 Tara Halliday is a specialist in imposter syndrome. Tara has a PhD in engineering and over 20 years’ experience as a holistic therapist, coach and neurofeedback trainer. She is the author of Amazon #1 bestseller ‘Unmasking: The Coach’s Guide to Impostor Syndrome’.  Tara runs Inner Success, an 8-week, one-to-one intensive training and coaching programme for C-level executives to eliminate impostor syndrome for good.  And she runs a 12-week Certification in Imposter Syndrome coaching for experienced coaches. Links www.completesuccess.co.uk  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tara-halliday-phd/ https://twitter.com/tarahalliday1 

John is an Executive Coach who helps leaders find greater clarity, confidence, and calm.He is a former Senior Consultant at Accenture for Fortune 100 companies and has more than 25 years of executive and leadership experience across multiple industries.Who is John Chilkotowsky? John started off his career as a consultant working with Fortune 500 corporations all over America. He loved the fact that he was always learning and helping people make a greater impact, but after a few years John wanted to change things up and became a non-profit leader.One of the major turning points in John’s career as a coach was after he had his first panic attack. A friend connected John with an executive coach who helped him understand that he was caught in a lot of older patterns mindset-wise. John had been disregarding self-care so he could do more at work, wasn’t handling stress well, and ignoring signals that his relationships were unhealthy. It was clear he couldn’t work his way out of his dilemma, and instead needed to take a deep dive into who he was. Within a few short weeks, he got so much from his coach that he decided he wanted to help other people in the same way.Links:northstar-coaching.com

Irvine Nugent, Ph.D., helps people harness the power of their emotions so they can have deeper connections, make better decisions, and increase their influence. He is an internationally recognized trainer and top-rated keynote speaker and is one of the few worldwide certified FACS coders, who are experts in reading facial emotions. A gifted storyteller, his programs are infused with passion, dynamism, and of course his natural Irish humor. He is the author of Leadership Lessons From The Pub.Linkshttps://irvinenugent.com/ https://irvinenugent.com/gift https://www.linkedin.com/in/irvinenugent/ https://twitter.com/irvinenugent https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvooOd2tJ2LR1xWkKyxwr4A?view_as=subscriberhttps://www.instagram.com/irvine.nugent/ https://www.facebook.com/irvinespeaks 

 Matt Aponte is a Personal Empowerment Coach, Published Author, Veteran Entrepreneur, Certified NLP Practitioner & Master Certified Real Leadership Coach.  Matt helps people of all backgrounds, shapes and sizes, live a limitless life by providing them with the tools needed to take back control of their automatic success mechanism and program it with their own carefully crafted version of success so that success then becomes automatic.  As a consciousness expert, Matt also shows them how to use and enter any one of the 5 states of consciousness at will to achieve high levels of productivity, laser like focus, insane creativity, boss level sleep, and unlimited learning potential.  Matt is the Founder of ISO-Sync Labs LLC which is a cutting edge brainwave entrainment technology company that allows anyone to be able to take advantage of higher levels of consciousness, sleep their best sleep, eliminate stress & anxiety, attain unshakable focus, and create their own limitless self all simply by pressing play.  Links  https://instagram.com/themattaponte  https://themattaponte.com  https://isosynclabs.com (14 day free trial) 

Emily Marquis is a Clinical Health and Wellness Coach, board certified NBC-HWC. She is an RYT200 Yoga Instructor and Mindfulness Consultant. Emily works with individuals and groups in support of creating healthy habits for sustainable lifestyle change. Drawing from her professional training and personal health challenges; she has experience in preventing, reducing, and managing chronic illness from stress to sleep to weight loss to work life balance. With her combined coaching and corporate HR background, Emily works with organizations in creating cultures of wellness and is NAHU certified. Emily also works with clinics and fellow practitioners to create a village for clients to best support their well-being. She is an Instructor at Emory University in their graduate Coaching certificate program. Emily lives in Colorado, USA with her family and loves the balance between a good TV show and an outdoor adventure.Links:www.emilymarquis.comFREE HEALTH QUIZ: https://emilymarquis.com/free-health-quiz/

 Michelle’s Short Bio: Michelle E. Dickinson is a Wellbeing Strategist and passionate mental health advocate. She is also a TEDx speaker and a published author of a memoir entitled Breaking Into My Life . Michelle goes first and sees herself as the bridge that helps people get comfortable with their mental health so that they reach out and get the support they need before they hit a crisis. She makes it ok to not be ok and thrives on making a real difference in the lives of others – especially around their wellbeing. After years of playing the role of child caregiver to her bipolar mother, Michelle embarked on her own healing journey of self-discovery. She went on to spend years working to eradicate the mental health stigma within her own workplace by elevating empathy and compassion, causing more open conversations, and leading real change in how mental illness is understood. She was instrumental in building the largest and fasted growing employee mental health employee resource group while at her fortune 50 company.  She also knows first-hand what it feels like to struggle with a mental illness after experiencing my own depression due to her divorce. This has provided her with a rich perspective. Michelle is out to do her part to eliminate the stigma by normalizing the mental wellbeing conversation within the workplace and beyond. She partners with innovative leaders to bring them her Psychological Resilience programs and mental health strategies to recenter employees and cultivate cultures of compassion. Her signature Resilience webinar has made a positive impact on thousands of employees during COVID-19.  Links Instagram: @michelledickinson71 Twitter- @mdickinson13 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/michelle.dickinson.146?ref=bookmarks Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-e-dickinson-7882013 Free Chapter of my Book: http://breakingintomylife.com/excerpt/

Eric Pilon-Bignell is a best selling author, speaker, and pragmatic futurist. Eric grew up just south of Toronto, Canada. His recent book, Surfing Rogue Waves released on May 25th. The book presents a gripping and insightful framework on how to pick up a board and surf the rogue waves of the 21st century. Eric’s love of being active and outdoors led him to use the parallels between life and surfing as a metaphor for how we can deal with the changes happening around us. Eric is a pragmatic futurist focused on addressing disruption by increasing the creative capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations to ignite change, innovation, and foster continuous growth. Eric has an undergraduate degree in engineering, an MBA in Information Systems, and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership. His doctoral work primarily explored complexity sciences centered on executive cognition and their use of intuitive improvisation, decision-making, artificial intelligence, and data-based decision models. Eric founded PROJECT7, an initiative to raise awareness and money for research on brain-related illnesses. When he is not working with clients, researching, or writing, he can be found in the mountains or on the water. Eric is currently working and living with his wife and dog in Chicago, Illinois.  Links  http://ericpb.me/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpilonbignell/  https://www.instagram.com/ericpb.me/  https://twitter.com/EricPBme  https://www.facebook.com/EricPB.me 

For almost two decades, Thomas Gelmi has been an executive coach, facilitator, and sparring partner supporting leaders and teams in their development at various levels and innumerous industries. He focuses on developing personal and interpersonal competence in leadership, teamwork, and customer contact.Based in Switzerland, with a home near Zurich, Thomas works with people all across Europe and regularly in North America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. His clients include global corporations as well as SMEs and private individuals.Links:Dare To Lead by Brené Brownhttps://www.facebook.com/thomas.gelmihttp://ch.linkedin.com/in/thomasgelmihttps://www.xing.com/profile/Thomas_Gelmi

On today’s Aim to Win podcast, we have Michael Ventura, founder and CEO of SubRosa as a guest.  SubRosa is a strategy and design company that helps businesses solve problems using applied empathy as a tool. It was largely focused on digital work until 2008  when they implemented an approach to work on strategic and experiential assignments as well to make sure that what the brand said online was also true in the real world. Ventura shares with us some important lessons about success, like what being successful really is, or the fact that what is considered a failure by some can actually be a triumph. 

Matthew Ferry, is a Spiritual Teacher, Songwriter and Best-Selling Author. For the last 26 years, Matthew Ferry has coached thousands of top performers to achieve Enlightened Prosperity™. His books, videos, audios, songs, meditations and seminars all utilize his street tested methodology called The Rapid Enlightenment Process™. Among his many projects, Ferry manages a blog, hosts the podcast "Daily Enlightenment with Matthew Ferry," spearheads The Ignite Mastermind, and teaches his unique process via Muscle Testing School. Matthew Ferry is also the author of Quiet Mind Epic Life, an Amazon Self Help and Spirituality best-seller in the US, Canada, Australia and Japan. Matthew and his family live in Southern California. For more information visit https://matthewferry.com 

Nancy built a formidable career at several of the most influential ad agencies in NY, Chicago, and LA and for more than a decade has been the Founder/CEO of Play Big Inc., a strategic inspiration company. Her current work dives deeply into the emerging intersection of tech, business and society.Nancy has a rich history of advising and learning with some of the top companies in the world, including Nestle, Brinker International, The Coca Cola Company, Sprint and Acumen. More recently, she has helped build the team for an artificial intelligence start-up, produced a conference on the seven most disruptive technologies for enterprise, is board member for a non-profit trade organization focused on the future of retail, and is working with a leading fintech/martech provider to ensure the survival of community banks and credit unions nationwide. She is also helping usher in the world of distributed applications and computing by championing emergent cryptographic technologies Holochain + Holo.Links:https://nancygiordano.com/https://leadering.us/

Dr. Garrett Goggans is an Entrepreneur, Speaker, and Mindset Coach. He refers to his coaching as mindset engineering and his passion for it has come from numerous life experiences that have brought him to the realization that our thoughts are the single most contributing factor to achieving success. Over the years he has heard people state that throughout their attempts to achieve goals, and obtain success, they always felt like they were going against the flow, or like they were moving upstream without a paddle. He has made it his mission in life to help others see that with the proper mindset they can propel themselves up that stream in such a manner that a paddle would never be needed. Through positivity, encouragement, and an overwhelming sense of faith he has helped others look past their current situations and find success in any endeavor.Links garrettgoggans.comhttps://www.facebook.com/DrGarrettGogganshttps://www.instagram.com/drgarrettgogganshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/drgarrettgoggans

Merrick Rosenberg co-founded Team Builders Plus in 1991 and Take Flight Learning in 2012. He is the author of Personality Wins, The Chameleon and Taking Flight, three books about personality. Under Merrick’s leadership as CEO of Take Flight Learning, his company has been selected as the New Jersey Business of the Year and named one of the Fastest Growing Companies and Best Places to Work in the Philadelphia area. Merrick received his MBA from Drexel University who recognized him as the Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year. Merrick has worked with more than half of the Fortune 100 companies in the US and around the world.Links:takeflightlearning.comThe Chameleon