Time to Sing Your Song

When I started this podcast it was to showcase ordinary people who dreamed of a better life. 

For John Duffin that was escaping corporate to capitalize on a passion and talent that had been latent for many years. 

We will cover John’s story, as well as the specific things he did after leaving corporate. Like finding small parts of his job that he loved and could do full time. Or having conversations with dozens of people to share h...

For many years, Dan George thrived in corporate IT, but like many of us, he felt a growing disconnect between his work and what gave him deep fulfillment. He realized that what ignited his soul was helping others, and this realization sparked a desire for a career change in his 50s.

Burnout had taken its toll, but it also became the catalyst for Dan's transformation. He decided to take the plunge, leaving behind the stability of hi...

Mike was diagnosed with Leukemia when he was 10. After several surgeries, chemo, radiation, and two bone marrow transplants, he beat it. 

But radiation from the first bone marrow transplant left him with cancer in his jaw, which required a 12 hour surgery to reconstruct his jaw. After a follow-up procedure went wrong, he told his mom that he just wanted to die. Inspired by family and letters from his classmates, Mike once again bea...

Matt gave 25 years of his life serving our country.

He also spent 25 years in the corporate world.

These experiences gave him a unique perspective into the obstacles that veterans experience landing a meaningful job after their military time comes to an end.

When Matt entered the private sector there weren't any good transition models or approaches he could follow. So he created his own. Matt soon found himself sharing the ideas wi...

Michelle is like so many of us. From the outsider's perspective, she was living an incredible life. Michelle was an actress on some of the most well-known TV shows of our time, balancing it with a typical corporate job. But she wasn’t happy. The work had lost its meaning and the dream was no longer hers. 

Not knowing exactly what she wanted to do, she did what so many of us are scared to do. She took the leap. She needed to explore...

Kiran Anchan lost his ability to see the beauty around him when was a young boy. At the age of 9, he began having challenges seeing what his teacher was writing on the board. 

Living in the middle east 15 years ago made it difficult for Kiran to understand what was happening. He didn't have access to the information or the doctors to tell him what was going on.. 

Ultimately he was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease that over tim...

If you have children, your number one priority is their health and safety. There’s not even a close second. That was certainly the case for Sue Ann Grann.

After several years of trying to have kids, she gave birth to triplets, three boys. 

Although they were healthy out of the gate, one of her boys suffered intense stomach pains. 

The doctors placated Sue Ann. They told her there’s nothing really wrong, don’t overreact, just have h...

A strong identity is everything. It connects to your appearance, the work you do, what you stand for, and who you associate with. But shit gets real when it's taken from you. 

It can send you into dark places. 

It can challenge who you were all along. 

It can also push you out of your comfort zone to a beautiful place you didn’t think was possible.  

That was the case for Ryan Hopkins. 

Ryan was a man’s man. 

A rugby player who lov...

This is a messy conversation but in the most beautiful way. 

Over a 5 year period of time Katie was dealing with postpartum psychosis, bookended by two separate pregnancies, including twins in 2017. 

In Katie’s own words, she was bouncing along the bottom fighting through depression, hallucinations, and a victim mindset.  

Katie was given a rash of medications to help her get well. However, they seemed to exacerbate her situation. ...

It’s a beautiful day. The sun is out, you had an incredible weekend with your family, and you are feeling grand. 

You’re meeting your husband for dinner when you see him across the street. 

You walk into the crosswalk when a car turning into your direction doesn’t stop. 

The car runs over you not once, not twice, but three times.  

At that moment, your life flashes before you and you're pretty sure you’re going to die.  

This was t...

David is a leader at the largest professional services firm in the world. He also happens to be black. 

While his skin color doesn’t define him, he had to overcome a number of obstacles to get to where he is now. 

Here are a few mind-blowing statistics…

• Today, 1% of Fortune 500 CEOs are black 
• 7% of managers are black; better than CEOs, but still a long way to go 

You have brain cancer, we need to get you to the hospital right away.

No sympathy or cause for concern. Just the facts. Probably the scariest words one could ever imagine hearing.  

Unfortunately, that’s exactly the news Jennifer Dickenson received after an MRI in 2011.  

Pre-cancer, Jennifer lived a life that many of us do. Career first, long hours, not enough time with family and friends, very little sleep, some exercise, but no...

Can you imagine losing your job and your girlfriend over a weekend and then having your dad pass a year later? 

Sounds tragic. But sometimes life gives us what we need, when we need it. And in Seth’s case, that was space to spend the last year of his father’s life collaborating on a project that was meaningful to both of them, on many levels, and in different ways.

This one hits home for me. I lost my mom when I was 20. Without exp...

Walking, running, swimming, just standing up. Things most of us take for granted. But what if those luxuries were taken away from you? How would you respond, what would be your mindset, how would you live your life? Would you find purpose or would stew in misery as a victim of fate. 

For Joe Guintu these were the questions he had to answer as a young man after a beautiful day learning to surf. There was no spectacular accident, but...

In your gut, you know the marriage is over. But the two options before you equally suck. Stay miserable in a broken marriage or leave and tear every fiber of your family apart. What if there was a third option where you could create a better divorce experience? Something that got at the unique problems in your marriage. Kind of sounds like a fairy tale, but that’s exactly what Suzanne Vickberg did when her marriage came to an end. ...

So many people have a voice inside of their head that tells them that they can’t do it, they're not good enough, they don’t have the proper education, or didn't go to the right school. Or maybe the time’s just not right. 

These are the beliefs that dash so many dreams. But not for Destiny. During the height of COVID she went to cooking school and started two home chef businesses. And in less than 15 months she is kicking butt. Her ...

In the spirit of Christmas and a little introspection on my 51st birthday, I am sharing my 12 days of Christmas, but with a twist

I believe that in order to sing your song, you need to stop doing things that are holding you back. So today I'm sharing the 12 things to STOP doing now. 

This is just my list and there are numerous ones out there. But this is what I have learned from guests that I've had on Time to Sing Your Song + what...

Imagine yourself rolling down the streets of Tehran as a 10 year-old. Rioting, rocks being thrown in every direction, and your Dad telling you to put your head down and don’t come up. That was the reality for Niloo Bedrood who had a front-row seat to the Iranian Revolution in 1979. She soon began to experience a very different - and restrictive - life on every level. She was moved into a segregated girl’s-only school, had to cover ...

“Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” I love this quote by Oliver Wendell Homes Sr. Unfortunately it rang true to me for much of my life. So I've turned the tables where my good friend Jeff Raz grills me. Jeff has performed around the world, from Cirque du Soleil to Broadway, and is a communications consultant. Jeff has al...