It’s time to meet Jen Piceno. (pronounced Pee-say-no) She’s an intuitive business and success coach, energy medicine specialist, and badass coach with 30+ years of expertise in the healing arts. Through personalized ceremony, generational healing, and light language, she’ll help you bust through restrictions so you can solidify your purpose and begin the transformation you’ve been craving in all areas of life.
Get ready to align with everything you were meant to be in ways you’ve never experienced before.
Chris Salem is a highly authentic person who for over four years has had a special passion for empowering and serving business leaders, entrepreneurs in various industries, sales executives, coaches, authors, speakers, and others, taking their business and life to another level. For many years, Chris has seen people aspiring to make changes and grow but struggled at different phases of their career and life. He is just like you, a regular person that has faced similar struggles. Chris shares from experience what has worked successfully through hard work and dedication to help in your challenges.
DJ Addam definitely takes the award for the person I have known the longest before getting him onto the show. I met him way back when I was running Phoenix Games and he was a DJ for the Haven Goth club which I was a regular at.
In this podcast we have spoken with quite a few people who are very successful financially, but DJ Addam has been successful along another axis.
DJ Addam has had a tremendously diverse career. He has performed for the Muppet masters of Jim Henson Productions, the Phantom of the Opera cast at the Wang Center, for the Witches of Salem on Halloween and Alex Grey at CoSM. He’s dj’ed in-boutique events with Kat Von D at Sephora in Times Sq, on Newbury St for Puma’s Marathon Monday, on Fashion’s Night Out for Steve Madden’s flagship store & with Clinton Kelly for Macy’s Herald Sq.
In his first 5 years as a professional dj (1995 – 2000), Addam performed at over 1000 mobile and nightclub events, and was recognized as “DJ of the year” at Premier Talent Group. He is also known for his work as an underground club dj, remixer, and music producer. His clients have included MIT, Harvard Law, Hasty Pudding Club, EnerNOC, and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, and fashion brands including Calvin Klein, LOFT, Guess, GQ and H&M. He has trained dozens of successful djs, helped hundreds of happy couples, and headlined at world class venues and clubs across the US, on cruise lines and internationally.
Yellow Cat is quite alert to dangers in her own imagination.
We have a new dog in our house: a 103 pound Great Pyrenees. Our 19 pound orange cat is not pleased by this.
The cat, Yellow Cat, has hidden under the bed and barely eaten for a week.
You are probably thinking that this is because Rain, the new dog, will not let her, but that is not the case.
Great Pyrenees are herd dogs. They are bred to manage herds and bark at predators. Yellow Cat is not her herd and is not a predator, and thus is about as interesting to her as a kitchen cabinet.
Yellow Cat, on the other hand, has decided that Rain is a post apocalyptic monster. When we have tried to introduce them, Rain is quite uninterested except for the fact that our hand on the cat could be better put to use scratching her ear.
While Rain looks bored, Yellow pins her ears back, opens her eyes wide, hisses and spits.
You see, Yellow has concocted and entire narrative about this dog in her head which is completely separate from reality. She believes the she has to hide, that she is in danger, that she cannot eat.
Rain is quite uninterested in the small orange animal in the house.
But there is only one thing in the house preventing Yellow Cat from going about her day: Yellow Cat.
Yellow Cat has never been a particularly smart cat. That’s why she is only named Yellow Cat.
However, I have seen very smart humans do much the same thing.
We invent monsters to be afraid of.
We create insurmountable obstacles to stop us.
We hold ourselves back from our best lives because of narratives we create in our own imaginations.
Events are not good or bad but what we make them. The dog entering the house is far more of an impact on Yellow Cat’s mindset than on the actual facts of her life.
The same is true if we lose a job, move, end a relationship, get a promotion, graduate school, or anything else.
Every event creates a new set of circumstances which we can deal with in any number of ways. Too often, like Yellow Cat, we interpret the events in such a way as to limit our own choices far more than circumstances do while failing to recognize the opportunities.
This big fluffy dog is lonely when we’re not around, and Yellow Cat is as well (although probably not as worried about it). She could have a buddy if she could see past the terror she has imagined.
What could you have if you could see past the monsters you have created in your own imagination?
David has been managing Google Ads since 2004. He is an avid skier, and races gokarts and sailboats for fun. Owning Webrageous has allowed him to live and work in several countries including Argentina, Colombia , and Italy. He’s been kicked out of Costa Rica and nearly drowned 3 times in 1 day.
David Baer is a veteran direct response marketer who started his career selling classical music subscriptions online at the dawn of email marketing. He has served as the marketing director for three wine importers, and has consulted with 20+ wineries on their marketing efforts.
In 2010, David started his own Facebook Advertising Agency, where he served clients in industries ranging from the Arts to Wine to Professional Services to Coaching and Wellness. Along the way, he’s developed more than a dozen online course, conducted live workshops, and taught on countless webinars, all aimed at helping small business owners and entrepreneurs position and promote their business more effectively and profitably.
As Creative Partner with The Prepared Group, David uses sound, time-tested marketing principals (not the latest trendy social platform), leverages smart and powerful online tools, and focus his attention on getting his clients’ message in front of their ideal audience. David has authored several books, including “Systematic Advisor Marketing: How Financial Advisors Can Strategically Attract, Convert, & Retain More Clients” (co-authored with Ken Cook).
David is a native New Yorker, who relocated to Portland, Oregon in 2008. Today, he enjoys Portland’s thriving food, wine, and arts scenes with his wife and daughter, making as much time as possible to explore the region with his family. Certified as a Wine Educator, David also enjoys introducing visitors and locals to area wineries through his role as a part-time wine country tour guide.
Mike Jaczewski (Ya-chef-ski), affectionately known as Ski, is the President & CEO of Toltec. // Brand Protection and a Licensed Private Investigator for over 19 years. He specializes in Intellectual Property Rights Investigations, Corporate Fraud, & Other Complex Case Matters. Approaching 20 years in the business, Ski has handles sensitive investigative work for individuals, entrepreneurs, attorneys, celebrities, athletes, and numerous Fortune 500 companies. With encouragement and spiritual support from family and friends, Mike launched Toltec Investigations and has since become the go-to person for countless clients who have come to rely on his efficiency, expertise, and experience. Ski has built an extensive network of professional partners and during his career, has investigated and managed case files in all 50 states and over 70 countries.
Elizabeth Pampalone can work with a client to create 12 months of content in 1 day, and that’s only the beginning of her superpowers.
Elizabeth is an Author, International Speaker, Podcaster, Successful Entrepreneur, and Expert Marketer with over 20 years of experience.
Her innovative approach helps overwhelmed business owners and burnt-out nonprofit directors to achieve success and freedom through the power of Absolute Marketing™.
Be sure to listen to find out why I coined the term a Pampalone Day.
Elizabeth has a community called the Absolute Marketing Club where she shares great tips, tools, and strategies. I encourage you to check it out.
“If $10,000 would solve all of your problems, you don’t have any problems.”
A very successful insurance salesman at a company I worked at said this to me many years ago. I understood the truth in it, but not how to act on it.
It is like understanding that airplanes fly because of pressure differential across the wings, but not knowing how to build a wing that creates the differential.
The one thing that all successful people have in common is that they have failed… a lot! Like a whole lot.
Michael Jordan puts it this way:
Success only comes from one thing: trying. You will never succeed more times than you try. You will usually not succeed as many times as you try. Those times that you don’t succeed could be called failures.
It’s simple math. To succeed more, you must try more, and the byproduct of that is failing more.
This is one of the places where traditional education lets us down the most. In traditional education, you are taught a thing, given a test on it, and that is your grade: pass or fail. That’s it. Move on to the next thing.
Fail the test? Guess you’re a loser. On to the next thing. Try not to suck so much next time.
When you look at a college transcript, nothing on it tells you how hard the courses were that you took or how you stretched out of your comfort zone. All that it has is that GPA.
I graduated cum laude by taking easy courses. My transcript looks great. I was totally unprepared for real life because I had learned to avoid failure.
Since then, I have learned that failure does not matter. Failure is the background. It is like white on a canvas. Success is all that matters. Success is the paint on the canvas.
Try and try and try. Only the successes make the score board.
The clock keeps running whether you try or you hide. If you try and fail, you learn. If you don’t try, you just lose.
