The Mindful Wealth Podcast

The conclusion of our 2021 recap.

One year ago, the Mindful Wealth Podcast was born. Author of the book Mindful Money, Jonathan DeYoe and I started the show out of frustration. We didn't like our respective industries' focus on financial metrics to the exclusion of all else. We wanted to understand what makes us feel truly fulfilled. The podcast is our investigation into “true wealth”. By speaking to experts from different fields, we've tried understand a kind of success that accounts for happiness and well-being.  

One year ago, the Mindful Wealth Podcast was born. Author of the book Mindful Money, Jonathan DeYoe and I started the show out of frustration. We didn't like our respective industries' focus on financial metrics to the exclusion of all else. We wanted to understand what makes us feel truly fulfilled. The podcast is our investigation into “true wealth”. By speaking to experts from different fields, we've tried understand a kind of success that accounts for happiness and well-being.  

Gary Ray spent 10 years in IT before he launched Black Diamond Games – a hobby game store (think board games, Dungeons & Dragons, and Magic The Gathering; not video games) in Concord, CA. For Gary, True Wealth is a time & money issue. You have to have enough money to enable you to spend your time the way you want.

 

Today, we have the pleasure of speaking with Bob Burg who co-authored The Go-Giver with John David Mann.

The Go-Giver, a Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek Bestseller, has sold over a million copies. In the book he shares a subtle shift in focus that makes business more fulfilling AND, as a side benefit, as a lucky offshoot, also makes it more profitable.

For 30 years he’s helped companies and people more effectively communicate their value and grow their businesses based on Referrals.

He is on all kinds of “Best of” lists and has been named to the 30 Most Influential Leaders list by The American Management Association.

Bob believes that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve.

In this episode we talk to Adrian Schauer, CEO of Alaycare, a home healthcare software.

Adrian tries his best to be a mindful tech entrepreneur. His goal: to rise to his full potential by contributing to the world to the best of his ability, through running an organization that builds good homecare software. 

When Jonathan and I started The Mindful Wealth show, we wanted to understand the link (if there is one) between personal achievement and the well-being of our communities. We had a hunch that when a person works on themselves, it leads to a better world, but we couldn't put our fingers on how.

 

Of all our guests to date, rock climber and student of Warrior's Way Arno Ilgner best articulates a possible link between personal growth and a greater harmony. 

What if “Investor Capitalism” – where the wizards of Wall Street control large sections of the economy – is bad for average North Americans? What if our obsession with shareholder value at all cost is actually culturally based and not somehow created by the “invisible hand” of markets?

Karen Ho, professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota,  asks us to consider these questions in the latest episode of the Mindful Wealth Podcast. 

Mac Lackey is a serial entrepreneur who has launched and scaled 6 companies to meaningful exits. Now he is all about helping entrepreneurs think about, prepare for, and be ready to exit through his company exitdna.com

To answer this question, we spoke with Mark Blyth, renowned economist from Browne University and author of the recent bestseller Angrynomics. Blyth's book tackles the rise of angry populism, which he argues is rooted in systemic economic and geopolitical bugs in the capitalist software.

In Episode 10 of the Mindful Wealth Podcast we hosted Michael Pompian, the author of 5 books on behavioral finance including his latest book focused on the individual investor, Behavioral Finance and Your Portfolio.