After listening to this episode, you will never think of donuts the same way again. 


My guest is Chad Austin, a personal trainer, speaker, and the owner of Priority Fitness in Overland Park, Kansas. Priority Fitness’s name was inspired by Chad’s best selling book, Make Fitness A Priority: How to win the fight against your excuses. Chad is passionate about helping people in all stages of life reach their fitness goals, and he is an expert at assisting his clients in making changes that lead to long term success, not just temporary success.

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What to do when faced with having an uncomfortable conversation with a customer, client, colleague, or friend. 

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Have you ever noticed that you can't feel unhappy and grateful at the same time?

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Susan James is a Self Discovery Trainer. In 2002 she and her partner co-founded the Self Discovery Group LLC. They and their Team of Licensed Self Discovery Trainers and Coaches train visionary and ambitious people who are committed to fulfilling their limitless potential.

The Self Discovery Life Mastery Process is a very simple yet highly effective strategy made up of experiential and practical techniques that support people to manage themselves in today’s fast-paced world and to develop the skills to live life more deliberately.

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What are you carrying every day during this time in history? What will you carry into the future?

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Practicing gratitude doesn't come easy for some people -- and sometimes it's really hard.

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Jim McCarthy is the co-founder and CEO of Stellar Tickets (www.stellartickets.com) and Goldstar (www.goldstar.com), a company that sells millions of live event tickets to millions of people on behalf of more than 5,000 venues and producers each year. An e-commerce veteran, Jim has spent his entire career in high-growth businesses and likes to share his knowledge and insight with others. He studied English at Harvard University and received an MBA at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Jim also has a black belt in Northern Eagle Claw Kung Fu.

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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.

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What if it really was possible to get more satisfaction out of life using gratitude?

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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.

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How works of art by Arthur Miller, Victor Hugo, and Billy Joel can help us make more sense of what’s happening right now.

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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.

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The entire world laughed when we saw the now infamous "BBC Dad" video back in 2017, a portent of what was to become reality for millions in 2020. That video is now a symbol of our new normal and a testament to how leadership is being reimagined, redefined, and reinvented every day.

Today's guest is no stranger to reinvention. When Michael Roderick went from high school teacher to Broadway producer in under two years people started to ask him how he managed it. Michael began his career as a high school English teacher before producing Off-Broadway and then on Broadway. This combination of experience in the arts and entrepreneurship led to Michael starting an arts incubator program to teach more artists about building and growing their own businesses (PLAE). Eventually, he decided to develop a workshop on networking which grew into a full-time consulting practice and that became Small Pond Enterprises.

Michael took a short break to work as the V.P. of Operations and as a Director of Business Development for an NYC Ed. Tech Startup which introduced him to the New York Startup community. Most recently, Michael founded The Connecting Connectors Conference (ConnectorCon).

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It's a really good day when all the links work and go where they're supposed to. 

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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.

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Today's episode kicks off another fantastic year of content here at the Play Your Position Podcast. I was inspired by Jenny Davis from ep. no. 315 who challenged me in December with the following question:

If 2020 were a person, what would you like to say to it?

I decided to write a letter which I share with you here.

Enjoy!

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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.

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