The Eric Schleien Podcast

#008: Mollie McGlocklin on Biohacking Sleep

In today's episode, Eric Schleien sits down with guest Mollie McGlocklin, the creator of the company Sleep Is A Skill. They'll be talking everything about sleep, the parts of a modern-day lifestyle that damage sleep, and all the natural contributing elements of our body that help understand our accountability to our own sleeping behavior, and plenty more.

 

By learning how to solve her own problems with sleep, Mollie talks about one facet of the approach needed for better sleep that includes our glucose levels, manners of eating and sleeping, and the sun that, unknown to many, affects our body's circadian rhythms. Circadian rhythm is the sleep-wake cycle and repeats on each rotation of the Earth roughly every 24 hours.

 

As you tune in deeper, listen to what Mollie explains about chronobiology, blue and red light exposure, sleep technologies, the ample amount of accessible resources from her Sleep Is A Skill site, and the easy as cake habit changes that she suggests everyone try in order to better address sleep deprivation with little to zero cost and effort.

 

About Mollie McGlocklin:

 

Mollie McGlocklin is the creator of Sleep Is A Skill, a company that optimizes people's sleep through a unique blend of technology, accountability, and behavioral change. The company was born from "scratching her own itch" after a lifetime of poor sleep habits culminated into a mega-challenging bout of insomnia for months without end.

 

With a background in behavioral change, she went down the rabbit hole to solve her sleep disturbances without sleeping aids. She became fascinated with chronobiology, and by extension, its practical applications to restore a state of homeostasis not only to her sleep but also to her life as a whole. Knowing the difference between a life with sleep and without, she's now dedicated her life to sharing the forgotten skill set of sleep.

 

Outline of the episode: 

• [04:59] "It started by solving my own problem."
• [06:53] On Mollie's Monday Obsession and the process of approaching her sleep issue.
• [10:02] Glucose and its circadian rhythm.
• [13:38] It's weird – what is mouth taping?
• [22:42] Blue light amount from common day devices.
• [23:26] On the other hand, Red light…
• [26:26] The cue of the sun and its temperature to you and your sleep.
• [29:33] Sleep 2020: Bright days, dark nights.
• [31:55] A 2016 study by the WHO important in understanding sleep patterns.
• [33:28] Basic takeaways for better sleep.

 

Resources:

 

Website | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube        

Skype:             mollie.mcglocklin

Email:              mollie@sleepisaskill.com

Cell:                 917-613-6841

 

Check out The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast with Mollie McGlocklin on these platforms:

Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | Breaker | Deezer | Radio Public | Stitcher | Simplecast | Simplecast Feed | Tune In 

 

 

Visit Mollie's Linktree for more exciting and useful information:

 

Join the waiting list for The Sleep Reset – A 45-Day Online

Experience Designed to Change the Way You Sleep Forever:

 

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art Book by James Nestor:

 

How Our Ancestors Formed Full Faces and Straight Teeth by Weston Price

 

The Circadian Code - Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy,

and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight Book by Satchin Panda Ph.D.:

 

Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life Book by

Suhas Kshirsagar, Michelle D. Seaton, Deepak Chopra:

 

Photon Infrared Therapy Light from Sauna Space

 

The better you sleep, the better you. – Oura Ring

 

 

About Eric Schleien:

 

Over the past decade, Eric has trained thousands of individuals, including board members of public companies as well as several Fortune 500 CEOs. Eric specializes in organizational culture and has become a leading authority on organizational culture in the investment industry.

 

Eric has been investing for 15 years and has been using breakthrough coaching methodologies for over a decade. Eric had the insight to combine proven coaching methodologies with shareholder activism techniques to create an entirely new model for shareholder activism that was more reliable and created greater sustainable results in a rapid period of time. On average, Tribal Leadership produces a 3-5x increase in profits of culturally troubled companies within an average of 24 months or less.

 

Eric currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.

 

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#007: Eric Schleien & Kyra King Discussing Strategic Triading

Join Eric Schleien with his guest Kyra King as they talk about building chained links with people and the essence of triading that has something similar to chess. To successfully initiate a triad, it is oftentimes more about what you should not do than what you need to do. 

In this discussion, Kyra highlights the practice that gets one to reach an organic approach to triading, with Eric agreeing and complementing the idea with what we can learn from the saying, “play the game, then learn the rules.” 

Make sure to tune in and catch more of what Kyra and Eric have to say about triading in this discussion.

 

About Kyra King:

Kyra is an AADP board-certified health and wellness expert, performing artist, fashion model, and the current Miss Arizona for America 2021. She is committed to creating equity in education through her non-profit work as VP of Outreach and Chair of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee for Scottsdale Parent Council.

Vibe Healthy is her Wellness and Lifestyle coaching program, helping individuals and groups live healthier, more fulfilled lives through fitness, nutrition, mindfulness, and daily practices.

She is a professional modern dancer and choreographer, recipient of the Fellowship Scholarship with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater School. She has performed at countless venues, including the City Center in NYC.

 

Outline of the episode:

• [01:10] The Chess-like Dynamics to Triadic Relationships
• [03:13] How to connect people with other people.
• [03:55] You can’t learn triading without doing it.
• [04:27] “We’re so used to being so transactional.”
• [05:16] There is synergy in natural connections.
• [05:32] What some people don’t know what to do when making connections.
• [05:55] Your connection is not…
• [06:33] How Triading Gets You Ahead.
• [07:33] Triadic Superhero.
• [08:30] The indirect but good thing with Triading.

 

Resources:

Website | Instagram | Instagram

 

About Eric Schleien:

Over the past decade, Eric has trained thousands of individuals, including board members of public companies as well as several Fortune 500 CEOs. Eric specializes in organizational culture and has become a leading authority on organizational culture in the investment industry.

Eric has been investing for 15 years and has been using breakthrough coaching methodologies for over a decade. Eric had the insight to combine proven coaching methodologies with shareholder activism techniques to create an entirely new model for shareholder activism that was more reliable and created greater sustainable results in a rapid period of time. On average, Tribal Leadership produces a 3-5x increase in profits of culturally troubled companies within an average of 24 months or less.

Eric currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.

Connect with Eric Schleien on:

Website | Podbean | YouTube

 

#005: Former Landmark Forum Leader Scott Forgey on Ontological Coaching, Agile, and Why Many Business Coaches Suck

In today’s episode of The Eric Schleien Podcast, I sit down with Scott Forgey, the Principal Consultant of Being Un, as we talk about Ontological Coaching and the mistakes most business coaches make. Scott launched Un in 2006, based in Silicon Valley, with a current team of 8 talented and brilliant individuals working with companies under 300 to impact business, process, and cultural transformations internationally – including executive, management, team coaching, and Agile/Scrum processes. 

Be Un offers many great offerings, such as workshops, coaching, and seminars that you can find on their website. One of the incredible Be Un team leaders, Heejin Baik, leads their 2-10 session webinars centered on Shadow Work.  Whereas, Discover your Genius, 10 sessions guided by Scott and the team, is about discovering your own genius, unique process, and documenting your expertise to achieve greater success. In addition, they provide a business accelerator service called the Money: Power of Business and Entrepreneurship, 3 months of intense work, promises, results, and coaching in distinctions from Lean Startup and Scaling Lean Metrics.

He also shares with us in the episode the importance of shadow work, agile coaching, recognizing your reactions, sequence of steps, different strategies for every company, and so on! To find out more about these life-changing offers, watch the episode now and get in contact with Scott Forgey!

 

About Scott Forgey:

Scott has had the honor of leading transformational programs all over the world, touching over 100,000 people. He is likewise an expert in the application of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean methodologies as applied to tech and other businesses. 

His coaching clients have been award-winning architects and designers, athletes from the NBA, NFL, and Formula One, tech startup geniuses, renowned chefs, Oscar, Tony, and Grammy Award winners, and top executives. Organizations that partner with him to lead internal transformation include LinkedIn, Google, PayPal, Lululemon, as well as thriving startups like Plenty, FaustLevito, SteelCraft, and Orchid. 

His commitment to every client is that they have a breakthrough in expressing their passion and expertise in the business world, leaving them with power, freedom, and the job/business and life of their dreams. He helps teams have breakthroughs in working together more effectively and collaboratively, fulfilling their shared horizon. 

 

Outline of the episode:

• [00:02:29] Helping people perform inside and outside of businesses.
• [00:04:04] All about shadow work and the processes they do.
• [00:08:19] Your shadow starts with an excited utterance.
• [00:10:06] Don’t do everything analytically, look at how the world occurs around you. 
• [00:12:28] The common things that happen in businesses.
• [00:15:21] Different factors why people choose to not do shadow work.
• [00:20:29] The four realms of the business model.
• [00:23:23] Importance of having a process and metal model.
• [00:26:01] It’s less about having conversations about expertise.
• [00:29:44] Stimulus-response, impotence, and the sequence of steps. 
• [00:33:34] Shifting the context rather than responding to craziness.
• [00:35:18] Recognition and awareness of your reactions.
• [00:38:39] Combination of the processes with the consciousness work
• [00:40:34] All about the agile world and factors to consider for it to work.
• [00:44:08] Big or small, every company should have a coaching team.
• [00:48:02] Three models in the agile world why it fails. 
• [00:50:45] You have to have the right people in the right seats. 
• [00:52:51] Every company is unique and has different strategies.
• [00:54:31] Having too many KPIs and checklists.
• [00:56:36] Different terms, but the same ways and meanings.
• [01:00:03] Their favorite bottles of tequila.
• [01:03:55] Recent breakthroughs and realization Scott had.

Resources:

• Scott Forgey’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottforgey/ 
• Linkedin Company Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/being-un/ 
• Company Website:  https://www.be-un.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/being.un/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottforgey1 
• Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Un-146796186002026/ 
• Email: scott@be-un.com 
• Be Un Sangha: https://be-un.mn.co/
  • An enlightened and intentional community of Creatives and Business people committed to sharing their genius to create a world that works for everyone, with nothing and no one left out -   Invite only, no Facebook overload, ads, completely secure and dangerous to the unthinking and uncaring mind.

Some of Un’s Partnerships and Projects:

• Cutclass - Business 101 Training Company in London and LA with our Leslie Levito
• Creating Authentic Brand Communities, Artists - https://www.earnest.agency/ 
• C4C -  Counsel for creators 
  • A brilliant legal program subscription and curated info. for the creative firms, artists, and entertainment industry at $99 per month.

• Recent mention for contribution to book and business community:
  • Author Charles Vogl - Building Brand Communities

 

You can find The Eric Schleien Podcast on…

• Podbean: https://www.ericschleienpodcast.com/ 
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EricSchleien1/featured 
• Personal Website: https://ericschleien.com/

#004: Mike Likier on Multicultural Counseling, Social Justice, and Core Principles of The White Racial Identity Model

Mike Likier, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in private practice and is certified by the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (ACT) as a diplomate in Cognitive Therapy and completed advanced training in Complicated Grief Therapy at the Center of Complicated Grief at Columbia University.

He earned a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Temple University, and a dual degree (M.A. & Ed.M.) in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University, Teachers College. His experience of taking a Racial Identity and Mental Health course taught by Robert Carter, Ph.D. at Teachers College was a catalyst for his racial justice activism.

With 25 years of experience working within a variety of clinical, corporate, and educational settings, he has worked with individuals of different age, race, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. He has provided short-term and long-term individual and group psychotherapy, to treat anxiety and depressive disorders, addiction, insomnia, grief and issues related to other life transitions.

Mike has also provided multicultural consultation and training to organizations and other mental health professionals. He has taught many psychology courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.  Since 2016, he has been a facilitator of the White People Confronting Racism workshop held in Philadelphia 3-4 times annually.

#003: Sara Howanski on Process Development, Why Most Leadership Programs Suck, and the Philosophy of 'Vanilla People'

Summary

I sit down with the wonderful and talented Sara Howanski who is the CEO & Founder of White Label Consulting. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.

Show Notes

1:33 - #75hard

3:17 - The trap of personal growth

7:11 - Why most leadership programs suck

11:13 - Management vs Leadership

11:46 - The art of leadership

12:40 - Can you be a good manager without being a good leader?

13:22 - Power vs force

13:28 - "Management is granted by authority, Leadership is granted by permission"

20:10 - Bringing out the best in others

22:00 - Process development

22:37 - "I started off in the career world in hair and makeup."

23:20 - What is business development?

25:39 - Transforming the coaching industry

26:49 - "you have to learn how to create an inquiry."

28:09 - Sara's morning routine

31:24 - Sara's love life

32:41 - The philosophy of self-described 'vanilla people'

34:57 - Crazy vs Psycho Crazy

36:33 - Social feedback loops re: 'emotional expression'

39:28 - Authentically expressing masculine and feminine energy

42:21 - The hot/crazy matrix and why comedians are so important in our PC culture

53:42 - Why giving advice is a horrible way to change disempowering behavior

58:22 - 'mastery is the letting go of techniques and tactics'

1:06:45 - Tony Robbins, Landmark Forum, Discomfort vs The Box Of Awareness

1:20:42 - Nit-picking what you don't like to avoid responsibility

 

 

#002: Heather Parillo on Mental Toughness, SEALFIT, The Unbeatable Mind, Dissociating From Pain, Tapping Into Your Intuition, and Communication Without Responsibility

Heather Parillo is the Founder/CEO of IFLY Integrative Leadership. Bringing more than 20 years of experience in the Service, Fitness and Hospitality industries, she is a multifaceted visionary senior executive, integrator, coach, trainer, facilitator, relationship expert and turnaround artist with a solid track record of leading individuals, teams and companies to their stated goals.

She is seasoned at leading transformation through a range of personal and business experiences as well as facilitating at the Middle East Leadership Academy (MELA) and Central Eurasia Leadership Academy (CELA), and Society Of International Fellows Leadership Academy (SIBFLA). Heather is known to lead by example by not only implementing the practices she coaches in her personal life but also in her professional life.

She is a firm believer that a master leads the way for others by living a life of consistent practices, aligned with one's core values and commitments, not by merely sharing theory and principles of how to achieve desired results. One must personally break through to the realms of self actualization and self transcendence to guide others on their own personal and professional journey to fulfillment.

Ms. Parillo held previous positions as Chief Experience Officer of The Live Well Brand, a vacation rental, concierge service and lifestyle brand with headquarters in Florida. Prior to her move to Florida, she was the Chief People Officer for a restaurant group in Texas for nearly a decade. The core of her work is centered around identifying and championing brand values and culture, leadership development, stakeholder relations, streamlining operations, reducing costs and maximizing profits by communicating a consistent vision, producing a high performance culture and developing strong teams and individuals based on trust, communication and meaningful relationships.

• Watch this Podcast on YouTube

 

Show Notes

01:39 - The Unbeatable Mind Program

02:49 - SEALFIT

10:33 - Morning Rituals

12:36 - Five Mountain Training

15:19 - Dissociating From Pain

18:19 - Dealing With Injuries

19:58 - Navy SEAL Training

21:57 - Accessing Flow

24:07 - Family Life

26:35 - The SEAL Community

27:49 - Mental Toughness

28:11 - The Box Breathing Technique

29:09 - Visualization Practices

30:10 - Tapping Into Your Intuition

32:28 - The Three P's

32:48 - An Empowering Context for Boundary Setting

34:35 - Mentally Unhealthy Boundary Setting

39:42 - Communication Without Responsibility

40:46 - The Misuse of Texting & Email

43:13 - Managing The Psychological Expectations Of Others

47:26 - The Disempowering Cultural Conversation Around Comfort

48:28 - Transcending Temporary Dopamine Hits

49:33 - Safe Spaces

57:54 - Psychologically Sustainable Structures

58:57 - The Bullshit of "I'm glad it works for you."

1:01:29 - Veganism

1:03:35 - Fake Olive Oil

1:06:30 - The Connection We Have With Our Pets

1:10:36 - Integrated Training Facilities

1:11:51 - Incorporating Adventure Into Your Work

1:12:29 - Why Most Life Coaches Are Garbage

 

#001: Jeff Willmore, Former Landmark Forum Leader, The Entrepreneurship, Accomplishment & Autonomy Course, Discussing Ontology & Phenomenology, Business as a Self-Expression, Uncommon Knowledge

 

I sit down with Jeff Willmore who has led transformational programs for over 23 years to over 80,000 people all over the world. He's worked with Olympic and professional athletes, Navy Seal and Special Forces members, top executives from all fields, Oscar winning actors, Grammy Award winning musicians – he's trained with the best and worked with the best! He owes much of his development, abilities and skills to the extensive training and development he got in transformational methodologies at Landmark Worldwide – very likely the top, personal transformational coaching faculty in the world.

He was lucky enough to be born into a life where he was destined to live a life where he had a fair amount of success and achievement (close family, college degree, successful entrepreneur and getting “more” successful, etc.) and yet he fell into the trap that the “Time = Money” worldview and illusion creates for all of us: he worked too much, he didn’t take time for his family and friends (and other values that were important to him), and seemed to spend a lot of his energy and life fighting to overcome his own limitations (the belief that I’m not a ‘people’ person, self-doubt, I don’t need anyone, a deep fear of speaking in front of people, wanting to be liked, and so on). He realized how much he sacrificed in order to have “success.”

In his own transformative process and journey, he discovered for himself great achievement and accomplishment and how to help others attain it as well. Not just in one area – but in a life. He knows how to teach and coach others to accomplish their professional dreams, their vision, their business goals while at the same time really living – travel, building wealth, family-time, taking care of your health, and living a life of contribution.

He helps extraordinary people who are already performers or top performers leap to the next level and fulfill their vision by learning to see themselves, the marketplace and the world differently. They learn to act as a leader in the marketplace and in their life.

He has worked on the principles behind The Entrepreneurship, Accomplishment & Autonomy Course for the last 10 years. He designed the course using the latest research in cognitive science (How do we know what we know? How do we learn?), behavioral economics and biology. The unique structure and methodology deliberately steps away from the “tips and techniques” kind of education that betrays top performance and adulthood and instead, allows you to embody the advanced knowledge of a market leader and allows you to design leading edge practices based on your own original thinking.

You can watch this episode of The Eric Schleien Podcast on YouTube.

 

Topics

00:02:42: On empowering business leaders to thrive while being authentic

00:03:15: Jeff's Background

00:05:33: How the Montessori Method has become bastardized

00:07:30: Buddhism, The Landmark Forum, Transformation

00:08:23: The EST Training

00:10:10: Becoming a Landmark Forum Leader

00:15:33: Melding the ontological and phenomenological work at Landmark into a program for Business Leaders

00:18:11: Shyness within the context of ontology and phenomenology

00:22:34: Leaving the Landmark Forum Leader body

00:31:25: Principles around the evolution of organisms

00:36:33: Doing business without sacrificing life commitments

00:38:52: Psychological traps of success

00:43:35: Self-handicapping & transforming our relationship to failure

00:50:56: The experience of aliveness

00:52:25: The experience of purpose

00:55:24: Goals vs Outcomes

00:56:07: The unworkability around the predominant intellectual & philosophical frameworks taught in business schools

00:59:40: Uncommon knowledge

01:06:39: What does it mean to be a human being?

01:07:42: Interpretations 

01:08:38: Ontology vs Psychology

01:09:15: Using psychology inauthentically

01:13:00: The Landmark Forum & Buddhist Monks

01:13:55: Being the biggest asshole in the room

01:14:33: The #75hard challenge

01:20:55: Cold Showers

01:25:31: Psychological compliance

01:30:07: Plant Medicine