Heart of Dad Podcast

Esmond is a transformational life coach and entrepreneur. Having spent more than a decade working in finance, he now bases himself in Bali where he is co-creating a psychedelic mental health start-up, and where he works as a transformational coach.

He works especially with privileged and successful men between 35-55 years old, facilitating insight and clarity through a subtractive process of seeing through resistant and unrecognised thinking that may be in the way of realising dreams, and a fully emotional experience of life.

Esmond is passionate about supporting his clients to realising the truth of who they are, to a deeper connection with themselves, their women, their children, and lives fully lived.

Esmond is a father of one.

In this episode we discuss:

• His move to Bali and starting 3 different businesses out there
• His early life assumption that he'd be a salary man working in finance all his life
• His transformational life experience in 2016 that started his journey to awakening
• His boarding school experience that changed everything
• Recognising the cycle of anxiety, shame, depression in his life
• His relationship with his dad and the assumptions about his future
• The trappings of wealth
• Turning his back on golf
• The conception of his daughter as the threshold for healing
• Co-parenting his daughter
• Exploring psychedelics for mental health
• When things fell apart in 2019
• The powerful Acacia Tree Ceremony that set him on new path of growth
• His daughter's sensitivity to his depression
• Finding full commitment to healing
• Finding the glimmer of light in depression and suicidal thinking

You can find out more about Esmond at www.esmondbaring.com
Insta - @esmondbaring
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LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/esmondbaring/

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In the lead up to the heart of dad summit which starts on 30th November 2020, I’m releasing some short episodes of the podcast. Today’s is a brief interview I did with Dr Dicken Bettinger where we discuss the power of presence.

If you want to join us for this and other powerful conversations about fatherhood at the summit You can sign for the free at www.heartofdad.com/summit

Marc works as Executive Coach & Agile Strategy Facilitator.
He dedicates his passion and energy to enable companies to accelerate their strategic growth, leveraging agile frameworks to create a collective-learning culture.
He is a former Senior Executive, investor, and a disruptive thinker, and he has mentored and trained teams around the globe; focusing mainly on deploying strategies in a disruptive way and training teams to develop a growth-mindset culture.
The result is the creation of self-autonomous high-performance teams that drive innovative leadership capabilities to accelerate growth.
Marc is a dad of 1.
In this episode, we discuss:

• Quitting the corporate world and building his own business
• Making a choice to stay in Finland to be close to his daughter after his relationship ended
• Having a values crisis that led him away from the corporate world
• Writing your own funeral speech as a way of creating his vision
• Focusing on what kind of father he wants to be
• His burnout experience at 30
• The turning point, when he realised he couldn't be the dad he wanted to
• Redesigning his life from scratch ​
• The bigger the struggle, the more glorious the triumph
• Being present with his daughter and others in his life
• The Dead Sea and the Gallilean Sea story - allowing the river of thought to flow to stay present
• The oneness he felt with his daughter and his choice to stay in Finland after divorce
• The grounding effect of being a Mediterranean man living in the north
• Seeing his dad speaking when he was child as a key moment of inspiration for how we can influence others for the good
• The positive impact of his grandparents on his life view and carrying his ancestors' legacy into the world
• Deeper connection with oneness as the source of all creativity and inner peace
• Drawing out his life plan, aged 7 - never doubting that he would be ok, inspite of the fear of the friction that our egos create in life
• Exploring the nature of life with his daughter
• Focusing on what really matters in your life - juggling rubber balls vs crystal balls

You can find more about him at https://www.themindsetstrategist.com/
You can follow his podcast called Coaching Talks Podcast in all major platforms like iTunes (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/coaching-talks-podcast-with-marc-siles/id1437812789) or Spotify (https://spoti.fi/2wf0p8m.)
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David Schnurman is the CEO of Lawline, the leading provider of online Continuing Legal Education (CLE) in the US.

The company recently celebrated serving over 130,000 attorneys with over 3,000,000 courses completed. David is also the past president of Entrepreneurs Organization New York.

David is the author of the book “The Fast Forward Mindset: How to Be More Fearless & Focused to Accelerate Your Success." This book shares a very simple formula to consistently break through your walls and fast forward your entrepreneurial success and happiness.

He recently gave a TEDxYouth talk to high school students to inspire them to reach their full potential in life.David is a frequent speaker to business organizations, colleges, and high schools on topics ranging from entrepreneurship, mindset, leadership, and culture, and has published articles on these topics in Forbes.

His success has been recognized by his peers in entrepreneurship and the legal industry, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur.com, Crain’s NY, the New York Post, and Law.com

Lastly, David has a love for adventure and discovery. He has run several marathons. He has hiked the mountains of Patagonia, paraglided in the Colorado mountains, gone skydiving, and taken flying lessons. He currently lives in Spain with his wife Kelli and three beautiful children.

We discuss:

• Life under quarantine in Spain
• Rating yourself as a way of living up to the life design you've created
• Finding a balance between routine and spontaneity
• The attention span of parenting: bailing vs digging in
• The joy of creativity, our own and our children's
• Living life with no regrets
• Lessons learned in building a successful business and how Covid-19 has changed the culture
• Being a self-help addict and the moment he decided to become an entrepreneur
• Navigating his relationship with his father and knowing his own mind
• What you do when you hit a wall
• Perfect = the enemy of good enough

You can find out more about David at https://www.ffwdmindset.com and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidschnurman/

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In this episode I interview Rob Ashton.

Rob is the founder of Emphasis, which he started in a 10x10 ft square cage more than 20 years ago and has since grown to become a world leader in text-based communication training. At the last count, his company was working in 32 countries around the globe.

He says words and their effects on us fascinate him, claiming that getting them wrong lies at the heart of a huge number of misunderstandings, conflicts and failures in relationships – at work and at home. Yet so much of what passes for communication advice seems to be based on little more than pseudoscience and wishful thinking.

He lives in Brighton with his wife and two teenage children.

In this episode we discuss:

• How we overlook the power and pervasiveness of written communication in all aspects of professional and personal life
• The big misunderstanding most of us have about written communication
• The big shift that happens when your child is born
• The conflict of being present as a dad vs driving the business to provide for the family
• The pressure of the boss in your head
• The impossibility of compartmentalising family and business
• Taking business on holiday and the nightmare scenario that brought a key shift in his approach to taking breaks
• How taking our business really personally doesn't serve
• The pros and cons of involving kids in the business and the joy of car conversations
• Navigating the compulsion to work and personal mission vs family mission
• The pros and cons of being and staying connected
• How being maxed out reduces your emotional resilience
• The challenge of nurturing friendships while having kids and running a business
• How having a mission makes most problems recede

Find out more about Rob here:
www.writing-skills.com
www.robashton.com

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