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Here on The Life Work Balance Podcast we believe in putting LIFE first before our jobs. We genuinely feel that no one should hate their job, feel trapped in a career, or work long hours week after week. We believe that living happy, fulfilled, and balanced lives can bring better results while at work.We discuss topics on Personal Development, Inspiration, Careers, and health as we feel all these topics have to coexist in order to find a balance.We intermix our episodes with a variety of guests who can help educate us on these topics, as well as share our journeys in the process. We are just 2 people trying to find the balance in this wonderful life and are here to share our experience with you all. Our hope is that you all can gain some knowledge to better your life, either from our guests or by learning from our mistakes.Our goal is to help as many people as possible put their Life first! Come join THE LIFE WORK BALANCE NATION as we navigate our ups and downs to the most fulfilled and happy lives possible.
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In today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Jordan Lahy, owner of Inside Out Cleaning LLC. Six years ago Jordan's life was very different and on a very different path, he was finishing out a 9 year prison sentence in the Virginia State Prison System. Leah and Paul go into great detail with Lahy learning how he was able to completely transform his life through a positive mindset. Lahy explains that he learned his janitorial skills in prison through a program offering work to i...
In today's episode Paul and Leah have a chat with Chad Gono, the CEO of Regal Plastics and he explains to us how "Work Doesn't Have to Suck." This is not only his LinkedIn tagline, but it is what he genuinely believes and uses as his leadership compass. Growing up Chad was not looking to work at his family's business because he wasn't interested in plastics and he had an entrepreneurial spirit and wanted to foster it. But after some time he decided to joi...
Today Paul and Leah talk with Health and Performance coach, Jorden Pagel. As our listeners know, we are very into the topic of health and fitness, so we bombarded Jorden with a ton of fitness related questions, ranging from diets, to workouts, sleep, to sustainability. If you are interested in the health field, or are looking to start your journey of health and fitness then you are going to love this episode.We asked Jorden what he thought the 3 most important things people should...
In today's episode Paul and Leah chat with Mikey Henninger, a fantasy football enthusiast who found a way to make his hobby a full time business. This episode is high energy and full of laughs as they discuss Mikey's path from corporate sales and marketing to deciding to go all in on his fantasy football research hobby he had started on the side. They talk about the vital roll Mikey's wife played in pushing him to make the final decision and how she has continued to support and mo...
Today Paul and Leah chat with Alan Shoebridge, The Associate Vice President of National Communication at Providence, a multi-state comprehensive Health Care Organization based out of Portland, Oregon. Shoebridge discusses how their health care organization has continued to be proactive and progressive throughout the stresses of the Pandemic.We were very impressed with Shoebridge's abilities as a leader in such an ever-changing, stressful industry to continually try to put his employee's...
Today Leah and Paul are talking with Sarah Armstrong, Google's Vice President of Global Marketing Operations and author of The mom's Guide To A Good Divorce: What To Think Through When Children Are Involved. Her book on how to have a "good divorce" was created from her own life experience, in an effort to help other mother's in the same situation. Sarah explains that 13 years ago she and her ex husband went through a divorce, when their child, Grace was seven years old...
Today we talk with Marcia Moran, a stroke survivor who fought to live a productive life post stroke. Hearing Marcia's long battle to recovery is a true inspiration! She shares with us how she continued to fight for her ability to walk and talk again even after the insurance companies had discontinued her coverage.Marcia walks us through her entire experience and the thoughts and mindset she adapted to persevere through until she was fully recovered and able to live the life she wa...
In today's episode we talk with Ohio's 7th District Congressional Candidate Matthew Diemer. Previous to running for office Diemer was and is an author of an educational book on Crypto, a small business owner of a Podcast Media company, as well as a Podcast Host. We discuss the changes, adjustments, and temporary sacrifices he had to choose to make in order to make this race the top priority in his life. The conversations are very much like a lot of other conversations...
In today's episode we speak with Bennett Maxwell, the owner of Dirty Dough Cookie Company. Bennett bought Dirty Dough from a previous business and has successfully turned it into a thriving franchise in just 18 short months. Dirty Dough believes in being proactive with mental health. They started a program where all of their employees have access to life coaches, therapists, yoga instructors, and meditation courses for free. They also chose to start franchises t...
Today Leah and Paul talk with Mikayla Ockey, a co-founder of Centsei Financial, a company who helps empower couples to take control of their finances. Mikayla and her husband created Centsei to help other couples navigate financial freedom and debt free lifestyles after they themselves had learned the bumps in the road of paying off $20,000 of their own debt while in college. They started Centsei as a side hustle in 2019 and by 2022 they both were with Centsei full time and have h...
In today's episode Paul and Leah chat with Lydia Wilmsen, an entrepreneur mindset coach and mentor. She shares with us a lot of incite on how to create an abundance mindset and how to change our inner conversations to align with abundance. She explains that most of the work she does to help entrepreneurs is more from working on inner work than it is about strategies. We learn about Lydia's passion on decentralized Finance trading and passive income. We talk about the i...
Today Leah talks with Paul Conley and his new bride (Leah's sister) Jenna Starkey Conley about how to continue to focus on putting your life first while planning a wedding *or any major event). The newlyweds talk with us about the daunting process of wedding planning and how time consuming and at times stressful it can be, but also how they shifted their mindsets to be sure to enjoy the process. They also share with us some of their tips in the wedding planning process that they r...
In this episode Leah and Paul talk with their show sponsor, The Cleveland Cookie Guy, also known as Steve Zielaskiewicz. Not only do they discuss the makings of "the best cookie in the world", but they also discuss the importance of pivoting your business goals to fit into your current life.Steve Z shares with us that he and his wife recently had a new baby and how his business goals and timelines were altered to fit into their new life. We discuss the importance of meeting yourse...
In today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Dustin DeVries, the owner of Caffeine Interactive, a full service digital agency. Dustin talks shares with us how he left the corporate world to start web development company with his wife. Two children later and a thriving company DeVries has been working on ways to optimize his life and juggle it all.Dustin discusses many techniques he uses to keep life balanced and to be present. He discusses how he has implemented journal...
In todays episode Leah and Paul talk with Tim Perreira, the founder of Per Wellness. A company that helps unfulfilled men build healthy life habits to regain self confidence and become more happy. Today Tim talks us through 3 steps to go from stuck to unstuck in life.Perreira talks us through some of the struggles he dealt with in his past when he was feeling unfulfilled and was on a journey to live a happier healthier life. We discuss the importance of listening to our gut ...
In today's conversation Leah and Paul talk with Transformation Coach and Podcaster Matt Doan. Matt shares with us his story of how he left his tech consulting job of long hours to how he became a full time coach.Matt lived his life the way many of us have been conditioned to believe we should be living our lives. Following the societal structure we've been told to follow. Go to school, work hard, find the right job, and pour our heart and soul into that job. And ...
In today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Lauren Lefkowitz, Executive Leadership Coach and CEO of Lauren Lefkowitz Coaching about how to break the "Work, Sleep, and Repeat" schedule. She explains to them how saying you're "fine" is actually a trap. That just being "fine" is not good enough, and we all deserve to be "great", and truly happy and fulfilled. She shares with us her life experience that brought her to become a leadership coach and how she realized she thoug...
In today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Nicole Bonfiglio, wife of Brian Bonfiglio our guest from episode 39. In Brian's episode he spoke about his diagnoses of PTSD. Both Brian and Nicole felt it may be helpful to others in their situation to hear their story and how they are managing it. Nicole candidly shares with us some of her experiences with both Brian and her brother, who also has PTSD.We discuss how being able to hear other's stories who are in similar situa...
In this episode Paul and Leah talk with Zac McCarthy, a guy who "had it all" the multi million dollar businesses, the wife, the kids, the house, and then lost it all by over working and not being present. Zac shares with us his story of how working so hard "to support his family" caused him to lose everything. He was working so much with his long hours and work trips to bring home the money, that he lost sight of why he was bringing home the money in the first place. H...
In today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Brian Bonfiglio, a former Marine. Bonfiglio has been working as contracted private security to support the Dept of State and Dept of Defense for the past 20 years. In this time he has been involved in numerous attacks and shootings, and loss of friends due to battle. In this episode Brian shares with us his stories of being shot at and bombed while protecting our country, as well as how he has tried to manage it on a mental he...
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