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Play Create Forward PodcastSeven Pillars of Peak Performance with Shannon Doleac!Shannon is on to something really big. When you work with nutrition in the context of life and what creates WELL-th, it becomes transformational and sustainable. In this wild world we live in, understanding this is maybe more important than ever to finding and being in your well. Shannon was a gymnast - a really, really exceptional gymnast who was on the US National Team and one of few to be inducted into the University of Utah's Crimson Club Hall of Fame. In reaching that level of achievement and beyond, she tested all the waters of what...2020-06-2942 minPlay Create Forward PodcastMovement and headstands to get unstuck!? 5 Questions with Shannon Doleac.Shannon’s responses to our 5 questions are pure gold. Jill and I both signed up for headstand “classes” with her on the spot. Talk about getting unstuck! And today, I break our rule of only asking our 5 questions. Why? Because Shannon’s response to our creativity question is so good, I can’t resist exploring it even more.This is what it’s all about, you guys! Best thing about 5 questions? It’s power packed insight in just 10 minutes.Listen on Apple...2020-06-2508 minPlay Create Forward Podcast5 Profoundly Insightful Questions with Dr. Benjamin HardyWe LOVED Dr. Benjamin Hardy's answers to all 5 of our questions, and especially loved what surprises him most about where he's at today. He's gone from more certain and less clear to less clear yet more certain in his life. Woa. Think about that for a moment and then, listen in for just 10 minutes to learn what that's all about by picking your choice of listening method below. You can learn more about Dr. Benjamin Hardy at www.benjaminhardy.com and be sure to order Personality Isn't Permanent here. We highly, HIGHLY recommend you check this book...2020-06-1809 minPlay Create Forward PodcastDr. Benjamin Hardy: It's all About Creating Your Future Self“I prefer the future predicting my behavior rather than my past, I think that’s a more intentional way to live than being on autopilot.” - Dr. Benjamin HardyThere comes a time in every new podcasters life when you get that first “dream” guest… we have our first one TODAY, Dr. Benjamin Hardy!The first time I came across Benjamin's work I was struck by it, it resonated, held truth, and recognized the "human" in the process of growth and transformation and how that can work for us rather than...2020-06-1639 minPlay Create Forward PodcastVISUALIZATION: Transformation-creating Listening Skills (Exercise 5 of 5)DAY FIVE!!!! Whoop Whoop!This has been a really special adventure and I love what I'm hearing from you all about your experiences. I'm re-learning and learning so much about better, more transformational ways of listening as well, and am so very thankful to you all for this.Today, we explore tools to help us practice listening well in any context. It's easy to listen well when conditions make it easy, it's much harder when emotions are high. So what does it take to listen well, no matter what? How can we show up prepared t...2020-06-1218 minPlay Create Forward PodcastVISUALIZATION: Transformation-creating Listening Skills (Exercise 4 of 5)It's Day 4... let's dive deep into that filter that most gets in our way when we are listening. We tend to listen THRU the lens of ourselves. It's hard not to. And yet, that is often the very thing that gets in the way of listening well. Don Miguel Ruiz wrote one of my first life-changing books called the Four Agreements. One of those four agreements is "Don't Take Anything Personally." Today, we explore how we can let go of our own egos so we can listen to others well. I didn't know this was...2020-06-1119 minPlay Create Forward PodcastVISUALIZATION: Transformation-creating Listening Skills (Exercise 3 of 5)Day 3 of Listening...Days 1 and 2 we started "priming" our bodies and our beings to be better listeners to the world around us. We did that mostly from a place of observation, focused on deeply tuning into what we were observing/witnessing. Today we get to start exploring this thru engagement. Let's start practicing and exploring our experiences when we listen "bigger" as we engage with the people around us.2020-06-1006 minPlay Create Forward PodcastVISUALIZATION: Transformation-creating listening skills (Exercise 2 of 5)Our email yesterday had some formatting issues, apologies for that. Maybe that was a happy accident though... our communication didn't come thru as well as it could have because communication is so much more than just words. It's how they are formatted, the tone of them and everything else they are surrounded with. That's our focus for Day 2. Listening from all the places we hear from, not just our ears. Imagine if we all approached our listening a bit more like this puppy... ears open, eyes and body language intently focused on the person or people communicating...2020-06-0911 minPlay Create Forward PodcastVISUALIZATION: Transformation-creating listening skills (Exercise 1 of 5)Take a minute and think about this. How often - in your day to day life - are you REALLY TRULY listening? How often are you listening to understand versus listening to reply/respond? Listening to understand means that you aren’t thinking about what you are going to say, you’re not thinking about your next question or that thought they sparked, you are truly and deeply just listening to understand what they are saying with no other intention than that one.And how often do you, yourself, feel truly, deeply listened to and hear...2020-06-0812 minPlay Create Forward PodcastPlay with our food to find our peak? YES! Shannon Doleac leads the way.What if food and nutrition (and feeling awesome) could become a playground in your life rather than a source of stress, guilt and confusion? A place of nourishment and joy rather than fear and frustration? We've got just the person to guide the way! Shannon Doleac of Primal Peak is the master of bringing joy and flow to feeding and nourishing ourselves. Today, she invites us to let go of all the prescriptive and trendy approaches (how's that working for you? ;-). What's even better are the results she inspires thru play, creativity and exploration when it...2020-06-0128 minPlay Create Forward PodcastVISUALIZE: It’s time to fire up our imaginations!Today’s visualization is a fun one, the stuff of discovery and innovation. Walt Disney was so incredibly good at utilizing his imagination, so let’s check in with ours. Join us as we explore what it might feel like to trust that picture that shows up on your paper (a mouse?! ;-) and build it into so much more. And then, we imagine and discover what it is that might be wanting attention on your own piece of paper… Visualizing, using our imagination, is a powerful tool that helps us step outside of the lef...2020-05-2715 minPlay Create Forward Podcast5 Questions with Former MLB Player, Bill Severns!Bill Severns, former MLB’r, Author, Speaker and founder of Keeper’s Legacy and Keepers of the Sandlot, shares his wisdom thru our 5 questions.We are loving this new segment and hope you are too. Who knew 5 questions would evoke so much wisdom? What really stood out for me with Bill is his gratitude for the relationships he’s built. Bill is the kind of guy that has never met a stranger and while I’ve seen that in him (that’s how we became friends), I never thought about how intentional and grateful he is about it. You wa...2020-05-1909 minPlay Create Forward PodcastFrom donuts to diamonds with former MLB’er, Bill SevernsBill Severns LOVED baseball as a kid. He spent a lot of time at the sandlot, broke A LOT of windows at home. One of the bonuses of his paper route was the doughnuts he got daily for doing a doughnut run for the Police station (anyone see the humor in having the paper boy replenish the cops’ doughnut supply? ;-) It was a bonus until it contributed to his getting cut from the baseball team the first day of tryouts. In this week’s podcast, learn how Bill went from doughnuts to diamonds - he broke many records at U...2020-05-1824 minPlay Create Forward Podcast5 Questions with TedX Speaker, Gary HirschWe are playcreating and trying something new this week. We’re calling it 5 questions… And, dare I say, I’m thinking this is going to be an awesome new addition to what we’re already doing. My dear friend, Gary Hirsch, has willingly jumped in as our first to try this with us, and WOA, does he brings some wisdom. He even turns the tables on me! 😅Check it out here!Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on Google PodcastsListen on Spotify...2020-05-1511 minPlay Create Forward PodcastTurn the stuff of nightmares into joy with TedX speaker, Gary Hirsch.Gary Hirsch suffered from horrible nightmares as a kid and the growing fear was intense… until his dad did something magical. Gary was invited to draw the monsters that were eating him alive, and to talk about them over cinnamon toast in the middle of the night. It helped. And then one night, his dad invited him to do something new, and it changed everything. What Gary learned thru these experiences with his dad is one that has the power to help all of us transform what we fear into something we can work with, especially in ti...2020-05-1128 minPlay Create Forward PodcastBehold the power of gratitude at work…This one is good for work, life, anywhere, but we were so curious about Jill Shroyer’s input on the importance of gratitude at work in our last podcast that we wanted to dive in deeper. Often “gratitude” at work comes in the form of a program that offers gift cards or a bonus at the end of the year and maybe doesn’t even come with the words “thank you.” This isn’t about any of that, nor is it another talk on the power of the “compliment sandwich” that’s become so commonplace, people don’t feel it’s genuine at this p...2020-05-0431 minPlay Create Forward PodcastStaying human during quarantine with Jill ShroyerToday, we are so pleased to share Jill Shroyer of Expedition HR with you. One of Jill’s gifts is helping her clients approach HR challenges and opportunities holistically to create exceptional environments. Today we explore how employers, employees and the contractors that support them can show up to this time in a way that acknowledges and respects the humanity in human resources. How can we navigate these wild times in a way that acknowledges and respects the human emotion and challenges we face. Open communication, creativity, gratitude and so much more go a very long way. Listen in to...2020-04-2837 minPlay Create Forward PodcastApollo 13: What happened 50 years ago has NEVER been more relevant!50 years ago today, against all odds, Apollo 13 safely returned to earth. Splashing safely into the Pacific Ocean after a harrowing adventure into space that entailed one life-threatening crisis after another. I’ve been sharing this with a lot of people this week, only to learn that a lot of people don’t really know about Apollo 13 today, and or don’t really remember the story. The Apollo 13 story is one of overcoming massive crisis, against all odds. Whether you know the story or not, this is one for the ages, and one for each of us. It’s especi...2020-04-1718 minPlay Create Forward PodcastVISUALIZE - Engage the power of your heart & breath in just a few minutesIf there's anything that needs some attention right now, it might just be our breath and our hearts. This very short visualization packs a power punch. You know how important oxygen is to your being, and how important your heart is to creating flow in your body, but did you know the heart's magnetic field is 5,000 times stronger than the brain!!!? Incredible. This visualization breathes into our hearts, allowing us to step into our heart space in a powerful way. This visualization brings our breath to our whole being, allowing us to find our calm and openness, allowing us...2020-04-1513 minPlay Create Forward PodcastVISUALIZATION - Ground and Connect Yourself TodayThink of this visualization as the grounding wire to your wild, electrical self :-) The gamut of emotions and feelings people have right now is VAST. Some are feeling more at peace than ever - able to nest and just be on a level they’ve never been able to. Others are feeling more fear and uncertainty than ever before - many of whom are on the front lines of this. And many of us are feeling all of this at once or in waves of it at different times throughout our day. A really helpful tool is to ma...2020-04-0824 minPlay Create Forward PodcastVISUALIZATION: Sending Love to the Front LinesVISUALIZATION - Sending Love to the Front LinesIf this time has taught us anything, it’s how important and amazing the people on the front lines are - medical teams, grocery store teams, hardware store teams, teachers and so many more… How we can support them when the options are so limited? Take some action. This visualization is a powerful way to do that. It may sound crazy that a visualization (prayer, meditation… whatever you want to think of this as) can do anything, but we promise you that working with this visualization will make a differ...2020-04-0319 minPlay Create Forward PodcastCONTEXT: An amazing, but difficult, teacher.Seemingly overnight, the world changed. We are wishing all of you well, wishing the entire world well. Our little ski town has been hit hard. Wherever you live, this is touching us all in unexpected ways - health, finances, connection to loved ones, schooling, business, mentally and so much more. This is such a wild experience, where we are learning on such a massive global level, and yet, on such an individual level as well. Where we are "isolated" and yet, have such amazing opportunities to be connected. Context is an amazing teacher, bringing us opportunities to...2020-03-3111 minPlay Create Forward PodcastAn idea. A mouse. A movie. An empire. Disney's creative process.Whatever your feelings about the Disney company of today, you have to give creds to Walt for betting his last dimes on a mouse, which led to Steamboat Willey, which led to the dynasty we now know as Disney. What Disney does really, really well, is give creativity space to grow. We talk about the Dreamers who come up with the ideas, the Realists who make things happen and the Critics who evaluate and refine. How can we work with this process, and a few others, to create more effectively in our lives and work? Find out...2020-03-1218 minPlay Create Forward PodcastThe War of Art may be more important now than ever...explore Steven Pressfield's book with us.Steven Pressfield wrote The War of Art in 2002 but it may be more important now than ever. This podcast was recorded before the world changed. This recording is wildly interesting now - looking back at what we didn't know was coming. This time invites us to find and activate our creative selves more than maybe any other we've ever been in - as individuals and globally. This podcast and this book provides some powerful direction on how to step more fully into yours. Your form of creativity is uniquely yours, and the gift you bring to the...2020-03-0718 minPlay Create Forward PodcastVISUALIZE: Build your compassion. Fuel your creativity.Thank you February! Hello March. This month we shift our focus to CREATIVITY (the language of heart and soul). To celebrate, we wanted to share our first visualization/meditation podcast with you! This one's all about building your compassion - especially self compassion, which creativity needs a lot of. You’ve probably heard, visualization and meditation is all the rage these days ;-) This “rage” will probably stick around because it truly is so beneficial. We love it for how well it works to create space and balance of mind and heart - giving you what you need t...2020-03-0223 minPlay Create Forward PodcastIt's almost spring...time to let your creativity emerge!If there is any time of year where we are surrounded by the wonder and joy of creativity, it's spring. Let's use the inspiration around us to inspire the creativity within us.Creativity is a process, and while it's often a "messy" process, it almost always takes us to better places when we embrace it, explore it, and LET GO of controlling it. Post It notes, Velcro and so much more came from this embracing of the process over a predetermined outcome. Companies that create creative cultures tend to thrive. How can you embrace your creativity to...2020-02-2814 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#15: What to do when things go sideways…It’s the last week of February! As we finish off exploring our focus on LOVE this month, we dive into the role it plays when things go sideways. Whether it’s Mercury Retrograde, just a bad day, Murphy’s Law, something you created or whatever it might be we all have those times and experiences in our lives when things seem to go sideways. Fun fact - a quick google search shows there are 18,809 sets of lyrics with the words “bad day” in them… Well, maybe you didn’t know it, but Mercury is retrograde right now, and is fam...2020-02-2417 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#14: What makes you come ALIVE?As we continue to explore the heart this month, Jill and Kirsten kick off this episode with a favorite quote “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard ThurmanWe explore what this means including, how the heart is the compass to finding what makes you come alive, the importance of baby steps in finding it, and the difference you make when you start taking those steps - at work, at home, in rela...2020-02-1417 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#13: Creating Magnificent Love with TedX Speaker, Sam CullinaneWe're so thrilled to have our friend Sam Cullinane join us today with her refreshing authenticity and willingness to share her experiences and wisdom on love, marriage, life and anxiety. She and her husband, Patrick, authored BIGGER LOVE how to have the love of your life for the rest of your life, and the upcoming, MARRIAGE from miserable to magnificent. They facilitate couples workshops and retreats and also co-host The Not-So-Perfect Couple, which is an awesome podcast to tune into. Sam even has two TedX talks under her belt, openly tackling the importance of sex...2020-02-0938 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#12: Connect with Your Heart during this month of LOVEIt’s February, the month of LOVE.This podcast is a simple one. Our invitation to everyone this month is to focus in one of the last places many of us give attention - our own hearts.We introduce you to our free 14 day email series that includes all kinds of awesomeness to connect with your heart up until Valentine’s day.If you’re not on our email list, it’s time to get on it! This is the start of many months of awesome, free adventures.Email info@rockettrike.com to m...2020-02-0307 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#11: IT'S 2020! Eat herring, move in and focus on how you want to feelWe intentionally waited to welcome 2020 with you until a few weeks of "resolutions" had passed us by. This episode is all about other ways to welcome 2020 in - maybe letting go of the "fixing" of things (which resolutions often tend to be about), and shifting into creating (intention and action). We explore the power of Intention as an incredibly helpful tool, especially when it faces forward. What do you want to feel inside moving into this next decade? What happens when you let go of what it needs to look like and embrace what you want it t...2020-01-1723 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#9 Part 3: Pausing is so powerful, Robert Poynton wrote a book on itWe tend to think of a pause as a moment to do nothing… but in actuality not much "nothing" happens in a pause. A pause tends to be where the magic lives - where very much needed insight and clarity shows up. And yet, somehow, we’ve created this world where GO GO GO is the norm and pauses tend to be rare. As we finish out our epic conversation with Robert Poynton, we explore why a PAUSE justified an entire book dedicated to it and how it can make a meaningful difference in your work and life to inco...2020-01-0627 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#9 Part 2: Play in the face of uncertainty with the "master", Robert PoyntonWhat if Pause and Play are two keys to working with uncertainty and complexity? And what if they can actually help bring joy to what tends to be incredibly uncomfortable and often stressful situations? Our epic conversation with Robert Poynton continues into the power of pausing and the importance of play. Learn what we mean when we talk about "pausing" and when we talk about "play". Yes, we like to play Twister, but that's not what we're talking about here :-) One of my favorite parts of this episode - did you know your heart doesn’t ha...2020-01-0619 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#9 Part 1: Translating improv to business and life with "the master", Robert PoyntonIf anyone’s work and experience speaks volumes about the power of play, creativity and improvisation in life and especially in business, it’s today’s guest. We welcome Robert Poynton, author of Do Improvise and Do Pause, co-founder of On Your Feet, and Associate Fellow at not just one, but two of Oxford’s schools - the Said Business School, where he is faculty on the Strategic Leadership Program AND at Green Templeton College where he collaborates on the Oxford Praxis Program - a platform for experiments and innovation. And that doesn’t even begin to capture it all, but y...2020-01-0630 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#10: Our faves from Robert Poynton & the start of Hero's JourneyToday, we explore and expand on our favorites from our conversation with Robert Poynton - the importance of territory versus "the" path, embracing the box to get out of it, sensing and responding, the power of the "pause", constructivism to move beyond optimism/pessimism and much more. If you didn't get thru all three parts of our conversation with Rob, you'll hear about the things that really stuck with us in this episode. As always seems to happen with us, we find ourselves unexpectedly launching from there into our experiences going into the "cave" (tough times), the H...2019-12-0633 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#6: You - yes you - can play with time like Neo does (in The Matrix)This is a GOOD one. You know the movie "The Matrix" when people are able to almost pause time in the moment to get clarity around what's happening and what to do with it? YEA. Today we explore how to get there. This is that magical place where Notice More, Use Everything and Let Go all connect. This entire podcast is a really good one but if you only have time for that extra juicy stuff, it starts roughly 15 minutes in. Our podcast kicks off with that daily struggle between diligently crossing off your "to do's" for t...2019-11-3042 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#7: Activate Your Immense Power of ChoiceChoice is one of the most powerful things you can tap into to Create Forward. This episode is all about working with and activating the power of your choices - even when you feel you don't have a choice (spoiler alert - getting in touch with your "have to's" is a game changer). We explore the potholes of perfection and the "in between" (i.e. not making a choice) and how to shift from there to place of flow and forward momentum. Activate your power of choice in just 30 minutes with this podcast. :-) 2019-11-1431 minPlay Create Forward Podcast#8: Jill shares her EPA: Emotional Polluting Agents (Expectation, Perception and Assumption)How are your expectations, perceptions and assumptions working for you? These filters often get in the way of what's really right there in the moment, leading us to create unnecessary challenges and even miss the awesomeness that's right in front of us. Today, Jill shares her EPA model - Emotional Polluting Agents - and we explore how you can use this "notice more" tool to creatively use your mind in ways that fuel you rather than derail you. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1487707097Listen on Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.g...2019-11-1433 minPlay Create Forward PodcastPlay Create Forward Podcast #5: Time/Energy ManagementAh... time and energy. And the elusive idea of "managing" it. How can we play with time and energy to fuel us rather than feel the constant lack of it? How can we work with timing to make the most of things? How does slowing down, even pausing, help us actually maximize what we have to work with? And how do we block time to flow into what's most important to us? It's time to PlayCreate Forward more effectively with time on your side. 2019-10-2426 minPlay Create Forward PodcastPlay Create Forward Podcast #4: Use EverythingJoin us as we explore the third element of our launchpad - Use Everything - on today’s podcast. There are always more resources available to us than we might realize. How can we find and work with them to CreateForward with? Listen to find out ;-) 2019-10-2438 minPlay Create Forward PodcastPlay Create Forward Podcast #3: Noticing MoreWelcome to our 3rd podcast! Thank you for listening and all the positive feedback. This one is all about another core area of Rocket Trike's Launchpad: "Notice More". Why is "noticing more" so important? What sorts of magic happen in life and work when you "notice more"? (Spoiler alert: A lot of magic happens). What can you do to strengthen your ability to "notice more"? We explore it all today on our PlayCreate Podcast #3 :-)2019-10-2435 minPlay Create Forward PodcastPlayCreate Forward Podcast #2: Letting GoIn this podcast, Jill and Kirsten dive into one of the core elements of Rocket Trike's launchpad: LET GO. What, really, is letting go? How does it work? Why does it work so incredibly well when we learn to do it and continue to get better at it? We explore the powerful role of Let Go in life, work, play, parenting and more and why it's such an essential part of PlayCreating Forward. 2019-10-1435 minPlay Create Forward PodcastPlay Create Forward Podcast #1: Cheers to BeginningsJoin Kirsten Gunnerud and Jill Johnson as we realize one of many dreams and start our Play Create Podcast. This is the first, where we explore the power of creativity, play and improv to not only survive but THRIVE in today's world. We also share Rocket Trike's launchpad - a powerful foundation from which to PlayCreate Forward. Thank you for listening! 2019-10-1445 min