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Life Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulFrom Behind Prison Bars to a Successful Entrepreneur - Jordan Lahy Explains How Mindset Can Conquer AllIn today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Jordan Lahy, owner of Inside Out Cleaning LLC. Six years ago Jordan's life was very different and on a very different path, he was finishing out a 9 year prison sentence in the Virginia State Prison System. Leah and Paul go into great detail with Lahy learning how he was able to completely transform his life through a positive mindset. Lahy explains that he learned his janitorial skills in prison through a program offering work to inmates who exemplify good behavior. While incarcerated Jordan read many books on self improvement and...2023-11-0639 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and Paul"Work Doesn't Have To Suck!" Chad Gono Tells Us How In today's episode Paul and Leah have a chat with Chad Gono, the CEO of Regal Plastics and he explains to us how "Work Doesn't Have to Suck." This is not only his LinkedIn tagline, but it is what he genuinely believes and uses as his leadership compass. Growing up Chad was not looking to work at his family's business because he wasn't interested in plastics and he had an entrepreneurial spirit and wanted to foster it. But after some time he decided to join the business from the bottom up. He found that it was just a job for...2023-07-1444 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and Paul3 Ways To Optimize Your Health with Health & Performance Coach Jorden PagelToday Paul and Leah talk with Health and Performance coach, Jorden Pagel. As our listeners know, we are very into the topic of health and fitness, so we bombarded Jorden with a ton of fitness related questions, ranging from diets, to workouts, sleep, to sustainability. If you are interested in the health field, or are looking to start your journey of health and fitness then you are going to love this episode.We asked Jorden what he thought the 3 most important things people should do to try and get more healthy. And he did not disappoint with his...2023-04-0447 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulGoing All In On Your Passion, Fantasy Football Hobby Into A Full-time Business with Mikey HenningerIn today's episode Paul and Leah chat with Mikey Henninger, a fantasy football enthusiast who found a way to make his hobby a full time business. This episode is high energy and full of laughs as they discuss Mikey's path from corporate sales and marketing to deciding to go all in on his fantasy football research hobby he had started on the side. They talk about the vital roll Mikey's wife played in pushing him to make the final decision and how she has continued to support and motivate him as a solopreneur.Henninger had started a fa...2023-03-0848 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and Paul3 Ideas To Help Drive Productive Change As a Leader with Alan ShoebridgeToday Paul and Leah chat with Alan Shoebridge, The Associate Vice President of National Communication at Providence, a multi-state comprehensive Health Care Organization based out of Portland, Oregon. Shoebridge discusses how their health care organization has continued to be proactive and progressive throughout the stresses of the Pandemic.We were very impressed with Shoebridge's abilities as a leader in such an ever-changing, stressful industry to continually try to put his employee's lives first. He tells us that as a leader in an industry that is so hands on and currently understaffed and over worked he tries to el...2023-02-2137 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulHow To Have a "Good Divorce" with Google's VP of Global Marketing Operations, Sarah ArmstrongToday Leah and Paul are talking with Sarah Armstrong, Google's Vice President of Global Marketing Operations and author of The mom's Guide To A Good Divorce: What To Think Through When Children Are Involved. Her book on how to have a "good divorce" was created from her own life experience, in an effort to help other mother's in the same situation. Sarah explains that 13 years ago she and her ex husband went through a divorce, when their child, Grace was seven years old. She and her ex husband were determined to make sure that their divorce had the l...2023-02-0748 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulStroke Survivor and Author Marcia Moran: Stroke ForwardToday we talk with Marcia Moran, a stroke survivor who fought to live a productive life post stroke. Hearing Marcia's long battle to recovery is a true inspiration! She shares with us how she continued to fight for her ability to walk and talk again even after the insurance companies had discontinued her coverage.Marcia walks us through her entire experience and the thoughts and mindset she adapted to persevere through until she was fully recovered and able to live the life she wanted. We discuss the numerous treatments she sought out and paid for herself to hel...2022-09-2929 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulFrom Small Business Owner Entrepreneur To Ohio's 7th District Congressional Candidate, Matthew DiemerIn today's episode we talk with Ohio's 7th District Congressional Candidate Matthew Diemer. Previous to running for office Diemer was and is an author of an educational book on Crypto, a small business owner of a Podcast Media company, as well as a Podcast Host. We discuss the changes, adjustments, and temporary sacrifices he had to choose to make in order to make this race the top priority in his life. The conversations are very much like a lot of other conversations we have with our guests on subjects such as communication skills, intentional thinking, and mindset. However, Matthew has a...2022-09-2035 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulAddressing the Mental Health Epidemic Through Cookies, Dirty Dough Owner Bennett Maxwell In today's episode we speak with Bennett Maxwell, the owner of Dirty Dough Cookie Company. Bennett bought Dirty Dough from a previous business and has successfully turned it into a thriving franchise in just 18 short months. Dirty Dough believes in being proactive with mental health. They started a program where all of their employees have access to life coaches, therapists, yoga instructors, and meditation courses for free. They also chose to start franchises to bring in more income to fund their goal of building Wellness Centers in Schools K-12 across America. They are using their cookie sales to help combat...2022-09-1349 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and Paul3 Ways To Live A Debt Free Life With Mikayla OckeyToday Leah and Paul talk with Mikayla Ockey, a co-founder of Centsei Financial, a company who helps empower couples to take control of their finances. Mikayla and her husband created Centsei to help other couples navigate financial freedom and debt free lifestyles after they themselves had learned the bumps in the road of paying off $20,000 of their own debt while in college. They started Centsei as a side hustle in 2019 and by 2022 they both were with Centsei full time and have had over 1000 clients.In this episode they dive into topics on the emotional and psychological side of...2022-09-0643 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulAbundance Mindset and Multiple Income Streams with Lydia Sophia WilmsenIn today's episode Paul and Leah chat with Lydia Wilmsen, an entrepreneur mindset coach and mentor. She shares with us a lot of incite on how to create an abundance mindset and how to change our inner conversations to align with abundance. She explains that most of the work she does to help entrepreneurs is more from working on inner work than it is about strategies. We learn about Lydia's passion on decentralized Finance trading and passive income. We talk about the importance of having multiple streams of income and having the right mindset around investing. She is a wea...2022-08-3032 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulHow To Put Your Life First While Planning a Wedding with Jenna and Paul ConleyToday Leah talks with Paul Conley and his new bride (Leah's sister) Jenna Starkey Conley about how to continue to focus on putting your life first while planning a wedding *or any major event). The newlyweds talk with us about the daunting process of wedding planning and how time consuming and at times stressful it can be, but also how they shifted their mindsets to be sure to enjoy the process. They also share with us some of their tips in the wedding planning process that they really enjoyed or in hind sight wished they had done.Je...2022-08-2349 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulAdapting Your Business Goals to Fit YOUR Life with The Cleveland Cookie GuyIn this episode Leah and Paul talk with their show sponsor, The Cleveland Cookie Guy, also known as Steve Zielaskiewicz. Not only do they discuss the makings of "the best cookie in the world", but they also discuss the importance of pivoting your business goals to fit into your current life.Steve Z shares with us that he and his wife recently had a new baby and how his business goals and timelines were altered to fit into their new life. We discuss the importance of meeting yourself where you and to grow your business at the ra...2022-08-0952 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and Paul3 Steps To Help Juggle It All In Life with Dustin DeVriesIn today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Dustin DeVries, the owner of Caffeine Interactive, a full service digital agency. Dustin talks shares with us how he left the corporate world to start web development company with his wife. Two children later and a thriving company DeVries has been working on ways to optimize his life and juggle it all.Dustin discusses many techniques he uses to keep life balanced and to be present. He discusses how he has implemented journaling into his every day, and to take it a step further, he has been analyzing and trac...2022-08-0244 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and Paul3 Steps To Go From Stuck To Unstuck with Tim PerreiraIn todays episode Leah and Paul talk with Tim Perreira, the founder of Per Wellness. A company that helps unfulfilled men build healthy life habits to regain self confidence and become more happy. Today Tim talks us through 3 steps to go from stuck to unstuck in life.Perreira talks us through some of the struggles he dealt with in his past when he was feeling unfulfilled and was on a journey to live a happier healthier life. We discuss the importance of listening to our gut and silencing our mind to find what really drives us. And in d...2022-07-2646 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulUncage Yourself From The Corporate Cage With Matt DoanIn today's conversation Leah and Paul talk with Transformation Coach and Podcaster Matt Doan. Matt shares with us his story of how he left his tech consulting job of long hours to how he became a full time coach.Matt lived his life the way many of us have been conditioned to believe we should be living our lives. Following the societal structure we've been told to follow. Go to school, work hard, find the right job, and pour our heart and soul into that job. And in the process he lost some of his most treasured items...2022-04-2246 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulBreak The "Work, Sleep, Repeat" Schedule, Because Being "Fine" is a Trap with Lauren LefkowitzIn today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Lauren Lefkowitz, Executive Leadership Coach and CEO of Lauren Lefkowitz Coaching about how to break the "Work, Sleep, and Repeat" schedule. She explains to them how saying you're "fine" is actually a trap. That just being "fine" is not good enough, and we all deserve to be "great", and truly happy and fulfilled. She shares with us her life experience that brought her to become a leadership coach and how she realized she thought she was happy because she was "fine" but not truly happy. She talks about how being...2022-04-1545 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulHow To Handle Life When a Loved One Has PTSD with Nicole BonfiglioIn today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Nicole Bonfiglio, wife of Brian Bonfiglio our guest from episode 39. In Brian's episode he spoke about his diagnoses of PTSD. Both Brian and Nicole felt it may be helpful to others in their situation to hear their story and how they are managing it. Nicole candidly shares with us some of her experiences with both Brian and her brother, who also has PTSD.We discuss how being able to hear other's stories who are in similar situations is helpful to not feel alone in the process. We did see t...2022-04-0834 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulHow To Overcome Losing It All, with Zac McCarthyIn this episode Paul and Leah talk with Zac McCarthy, a guy who "had it all" the multi million dollar businesses, the wife, the kids, the house, and then lost it all by over working and not being present. Zac shares with us his story of how working so hard "to support his family" caused him to lose everything. He was working so much with his long hours and work trips to bring home the money, that he lost sight of why he was bringing home the money in the first place. He was at work most of the time...2022-04-0543 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulPTSD, Deployments, Grief and Loss Management...The Story of Former Marine, Brian BonfiglioIn today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Brian Bonfiglio, a former Marine. Bonfiglio has been working as contracted private security to support the Dept of State and Dept of Defense for the past 20 years. In this time he has been involved in numerous attacks and shootings, and loss of friends due to battle. In this episode Brian shares with us his stories of being shot at and bombed while protecting our country, as well as how he has tried to manage it on a mental health stand point. Brian is very open and honest with us in th...2022-03-2549 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulThe Origin of the Phrase Life Work Balance and How It Became Our PassionIn today's episode Leah and Paul talk about how the phrase Life Work Balance was originated and it's importance in everyone's lives. We learn that they quickly embraced the phrase and thought it should be their main focus for the podcast. The concept has developed into more than they could have ever imagined and has become a true passion of theirs, And it has become their mission to help as many people as possible learn to put themselves and their lives first.Paul has adapted the concept to his coaching practice, Life Work Balance Business and...2022-03-1839 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulFailing Your Way To Success: with Entrepreneur Coach Lauren WidrickIn today's episode we chat with our new friend, Lauren Widrick. She is an Entrepreneur Coach, a Podcaster, a Public Speaker, and a YouTuber. She is very entertaining, hilarious, and down to earth. After listening to this episode you will most certainly want to follow her entertaining Podcast, Grab Life By The Goals (the name says it all, HILARIOUS!)Lauren Widrick shares with us her real life stories of mistakes and mishaps that helped her fail her way to the top. She is very transparent with how hard and jagged her road to success has been...2022-03-1153 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulJody Thompson with ROWE. How Changing Your Work Environment Can Improve Your Entire LifeIn today's episode we speak with Best Selling Author, Co-Founder, CEO, and work place expert, Jody Thompson. She is the co-founder and CEO of CultureRX and ROWE, which stands for Results Only Work Environment. She has been changing the workplace since 2003 and getting the corporate world to see things with a new light. Her innovated ways brings happiness and productivity to the work place, while allowing employees to live a happy and fulfilled life.Thompson teaches us the troubles of our engrained mindset of today's workplace of managing people and their time rather than managing their results. She...2022-03-0456 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulThe Journey to Success is Anything But Linear: Leah's JourneyIn this episode we switch things up a bit. Paul interviews Leah to get an update on her journey through entrepreneurship. When we started this Podcast we had a goal to share with everyone our journeys along the way. And here we are, holding true to that!Leah shares with us where she currently is, but she also pulls back the curtains on where she was that aimed her in this direction. She shares with us some of her great childhood and college years. But she also shares the more recent rocky roads that paved the way to wh...2022-02-2532 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulLeaving the Comfort of Your "9-5 Job" To Follow Your Purpose. with Jake StegerIn today's episode Leah and Paul talk with Jake Steger, a former COO of one of the largest YMCA's in the Country. He made the courageous choice to leave his 22 year career, comfortable salary, and guaranteed benefits to follow his calling and create his business, Rec Business Solutions.Steger took the time during the pandemic to do some soul searching and find where his passion was guiding him. And he followed that inner guidance without hesitation. In just 3 short months Steger's business is already seeing successful numbers and he is using the moment to propel him into his...2022-02-1742 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulThree Time Cancer Surviver, Zach Hunzinger. His Positivity Is Inspiring and Contagious!In today's episode we are joined by 3 time cancer surviver, 21 year old Zach Hunzinger. He shares with us his journey through cancer and his positive mentality to get through the tough times.Hunzinger's story is amazing, but his mentality is far more incredible! He has a "glass half full" outlook on everything in life. HIs ability to put his fears and struggles aside to think about others will be sure to remind you how much good is still in this world! We hope his story brings you as much inspiration as it has brought us. The Hunzi...2022-02-1152 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulInterested in Learning How to Flip Houses? With Real Estate Entrepreneur Reuben RodriguezIn this episode Leah and Paul have a very informative conversation with real estate entrepreneur, Reuben Rodriguez. Reuben has been in the real estate industry for many years before taking a leap of faith and investing in his first house to flip in 2017. Since then Reuben has been on the fast track to success with both rental properties and house flipping. Rodriguez shares with us the dos and dont's for those interested in both house flipping and investment rental properties.This is a do not miss episode for anyone with any kind of interest in investment real est...2022-02-0438 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulWhat are You Doing When No One Is Watching? What's Your Level of Self DisciplineIn this episode Leah and Paul discuss the importance of self discipline and putting in the work when no one is around. We (of course) talk about fitness, as well as discipline in other areas of our lives. They discuss the importance of having a fine balance between being rigidly discipline and not having and self discipline. The idea of creating a routine to establish habits is revisited in this episode.What are you doing when no one is watching? Are you putting in the work to create the results for when it matters? Or are you just...2022-01-2935 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulJarrod Williams on Social Isolation. Can Spending Too Much Time Alone Harm Your Mental Health Status?In this episode we talk with Executive Director of The Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, Jarrod Williams on the impact of Social Isolation in today's society. Jarrod has done hours of research on the topic of Social Isolation and the ramifications it is having on today's youth and elderly. His dedicated efforts to help find a solution on both the Governmental and individual levels are contagious. As you listen you too may soon learn that we still have so much to educate ourselves on in regards to this topic and it's negative effects.We search out and discuss cre...2022-01-2139 minLife Work Balance Podcast with Leah and PaulTips and Tricks to Keep Your New Year Goals and New Year's Resolutions On TrackAre your New Year's Resolutions and New Year's goals seeming less realistic now that it's half way through January? Did you give up on your New Year's resolution a few days or a week in because the real world set in and they just didn't seem worth it anymore? Well, we have a few tips and tricks for you to try to get those New Year's resolutions and goals back in action. Life is messy, life is hard, and life can be a lot sometimes which doesn't always leave a lot of time for us to focus on doing the...2022-01-1440 min