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http://www.alainguillot.com/alex-soojung-kim-pan/ Alex Soojung-Kim Pan is the author of four books, including Shorter: Redesign your Workday and Reinvent Your Life; Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less; and The Distraction Addiction. We spoke about His work as a futurist How to avoid distraction addition, How we can be more productive by working less How super-productive people use deliberate rest when taking a break from work How the subconscious mind continuous working even when you are resting How companies can redefine their schedule so that people can work only four days a week.    

http://www.alainguillot.com/aline-bekerejian/ Aline Bekerejian is a notary in Montreal. She was referred to me by my friend Jamie Benizri. I needed a new notary because I was selling a property and the last time I used a notary, I felt that the service was not that great. Luckily, I was very happy with the service I got from Aline, so happy that I decided to interview her. Aline wanted to work in the legal field since she was very young. In particular, she was always trying to be a defender of people whenever she saw injustice around her. She went to law school. In Quebec, notaries have to go to law school, and in fact, their education is no different than the education of an attorney. While going to law school Aline noticed that she was not attached to any branch of law. However, when she discovered notary, she knew that's what she wanted to do. Aline engages in all aspects of notary work. Her service includes real estate transactions, estate and protection of asses, marriage contracts, incorporation, and ge

http://www.alainguillot.com/jennifer-brown-2/ This is the second time that Jennifer Brown comes to the Alain Guillot Podcast. Please check out our previous conversation on episode #066 to find out more about Jennifer's background story of how she became an Inclusive Leader. Jeniffer owns a consulting firm that works on diversity,  equity and inclusion strategies for large companies. She is also a speaker and author. Jennifer is a member of the LGBTQ community which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. She has been out for 25 years. For many years she was not bringing her full personality to work. She didn't want to disclose that she was a lesbian because of fear of being rejected or even losing her job. Her case was not unique. She finds that in one way or another, all of us are not bringing our full personalities to work for the same fears and insecurities that she had. Having inclusion and diversity is crucial for the survival of today's businesses. Talent comes for all groups, and clie

http://www.alainguillot.com/bobbi-bidochka/ Bobby Bidochka is a woman on the move. Over her life she has had over 40 different jobs in different industries, she has lived in eight different cities, and moves without any effort from business to technology, to networking. As if her mind is not occupied enough, she is set to write a book about Sex and Business. The #Metoo movement has gone too far She was triggered by the second-order consequences initiated by the #MeToo movement to write a book about sex and business. In this book, Bobby covers topics such as gender, feminism, women's issues, in-fighting within feminism, the aftereffects of the #Metoo movement, mentorship, identity, etc. Yes, the #Metoo movement has brought justice to women who have suffered sexual harassment and sexual assaults and the perpetrators need to be brought to justice. But there are many situations which are in a gray zone, in a zone where there is sexuality involved, but it's not harassment nor assaults and it's not an undesirable a

Melissa Dinwiddie is the founder of Creative Sandbox Solutions™, a creative consultancy that helps organizations build cultures of creativity and innovation through the strategic use of play. She delivers workshops and keynotes to corporations, conferences, high schools, and colleges; hosts creativity retreats; runs an online community for women; and is the author of The Creative Sandbox Way™: Your Path to a Full-Color Life. She shares her writings, artwork, and music on her blog, Living A Creative Life. The interesting thing about his interview, it that melissa always taught of herself as a noncreative person, always thinking that her art wasn't good enough when compared to other's people art. Then through a series of events, she discovered her artistic abilities. She was so successful at her craft, that she made a business out of her art. Her business grew so much that she didn't have time to do art for art's sake. At a given moment, she decided that she needed a sandbox to create art without a commercial p

For the last decade, we have seen an explosion of interest in sleep. Scientists have found that sleep is crucial, and most of us aren't getting enough. In today's 24/7 society, natural sleep patterns are under threat. Many of us don't realize that our daily routines interfere with our natural sleeping patterns, and this to a great detriment to our health, happiness, and productivity. On the other hand, if we can optimize our sleeping patterns,  we can improve our performance, health, and wellbeing. Dr. Sophie Bostock, as a scientist and founder of The Sleep Scientist, aims to make the latest sleep science more accessible. When she is not sleeping, eating, climbing, swimming or windsurfing, she is giving talks at Tedx and Talks@Google, and many other corporations or government agencies. What happens when we sleep? There are four stages of sleep: Non-REM (NREM) sleep (Stages 1, 2 & 3) and REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. Periods of wakefulness occur before and intermittently throughout the various sleep

http://www.alainguillot.com/celebration-of-100-episodes/ My podcasting journey I started podcasting in January of 2018, almost 2 years now. I started without knowing what to do and how to do it. I have learned a lot, but the biggest lesson is that I still have much more to learn. The two major things I have learned has been to build relationships and to become a better communicator. The main drawback of podcasting is that it takes a lot of time. To be honest, I think about podcasting almost every day and each episode takes me about 12 hours to produce, from the initial email I send to the person I want to interview, to finally hitting the "publish" button and sharing it in social media. The celebration I find that often in life, we accomplish big milestones in our lives, and because we don't do anything to highlight those milestones, they are simply forgotten, put away in the mixture of other regular days in our lives. And because we don't do anything to highlights those special moments, they are often forgot

Tom Coley, the author of Rich Habits,  is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Financial Planner, he has a master's degree in taxation. He runs an accounting firm and a financial planning practice. One day, while running his accounting business, a customer came to him in despair. He didn't have money to cover payroll. The banks have stopped his line of credit and didn't enough liquidity to pay his employees. Tom told me that he couldn't help him get cash in such a short time period. So the distraught asked to share with him what is that his successful clients were doing. Why was he failing? Tom decided to do some research to figure out why most of his clients were successful business people. What is it that they were doing that could explain their success. Tom started his research by interviewing his successful clients. Then he expanded his research to interviewing 233 millionaires about how they obtained their wealth. The interview consisted of 144 questions. Tom also use the same 144 questions t

http://www.alainguillot.com/michael-eskenazi/ This is the story of how Michael Ezkenzi created Felix & Norton. In the early 1960s in the home kitchen at the age of eight, Michael Eskenazi was already wearing a chef’s hat, cooking up lavish 5-course meals for his family, always finished off with a lavish chocolatey dessert.  Yummy chocolate was already his passion, all day long and even in his dreams. Growing up, he had aspirations of becoming a great chef, but it remained simply a hobby while he worked for a variety of clothing retailers. The inspiration to follow his dreams came during a trip to Manhattan where he discovered gourmet cookie boutiques on every corner, which was followed just days later by an incredible stroke of fortune - his employer fired him from his job.  It was time to do what he was meant to do- Make people smile by baking the best cookies in the world! Back from New York, and supported by his wife and a close friend, Michael began the most important challenge, creating the cookie re

http://www.alainguillot.com/stephan-guyenet/ Dr. Stephan J. Guyenet has a BS in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in neuroscience. He studied the neuroscience of obesity and eating disorder as a postdoctoral fellow. He spent 12 years in the neuroscience research world studying neurodegenerative disease and the neuroscience of body fatness. His publications in scientific journals have been cited more than 2,100 times. Dr. Guyenet lives in the Seattle area, where he grows much of his own food, uses his bicycle to get around, and brews a mean hard cider. The Hungry Brain No one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end up with a high risk of diabetes or heart disease– yet two-thirds of Americans do precisely that. In his book The Hungry Brain, Dr. Guyenet argues that the problem is not necessarily a lack of willpower or an incorrect understanding of what to eat. Rather, our appetites and food choices are led astray by ancient, instinctive brain circuits that play by th

http://www.alainguillot.com/mona-andrei/   Mona wears many hats at home. She is a writer, a copywriter, a blogger, she writes content for different corporations and she helps them develop a voice so that they can better communicate with their clients. Mona has always been a writer. Since she was a little girl, she has been filling the drawers in her house with stories. At a given moment she started submitting articles to different magazines which were accepted. Eventually, she discovered the world of copywriting, which led her to the work she does now. How does one become a writer for a magazine? The first thing is to read the magazine. You want to know what's the tone of the magazine. Who is the audience? Who are the advertisers? Read back issues to figure out what has been discussed and what could be lacking. Try to come up with a unique idea, or bring back an already mentioned idea, but from a different angle. The pitch the idea to the editor. Should a writer write for free, to make themselves known? Yes

http://www.alainguillot.com/howard-berg/ For the past 30 years, Howard Berg has been teaching people how to increase their reading speed along with comprehension, but more importantly how to develop a total learning solution in their life. Howard helps professionals, associations, companies, colleges, and universities, students and people of all walks of life and ages maximize their ability to learn faster, comprehend better, and retain more in their information-rich world. He's considered the fastest reader in the world. He was in the Guinness world record in 1990. Howard Stephen Berg is recognized as the world's fastest reader. He is listed in the 1990 Guinness Book of World Records for reading more than 25,000 words a minute and writing more than 100 words a minute Howard offers courses and training on: speed reading Eliminate writer's block Creative blockbusting Infinite memory Mind math Accelerated studying Passing certification licenses and exams

Benoit Chalifoux is the Deputy Director of International Affairs at UQAM (Universite de Quebec a Montreal) and a speaker about Soft Skills Benoit became a Soft Skill speaker almost by accident. His supervisor was organizing an event and one of the speakers had to cancel because he had difficulty with his visa. The supervisor asked Benoit to do the speech and Benoit accepted. After the speech, Benoit had lots of positive feedback and he was hooked on public speaking. Today, Benoit travels all over Canada, Europe, and Africa speaking about Emotional Intelligence and Soft Skills.

How can you master difficult skills more quickly? Accelerate your career? Be more productive and live a better life? Since 2006, Scott H Young has been trying to find answers to these questions. He hasn't figured out all the answers, but he provides a great place to start. Scott has been blogging for about 13 years. One of the topics he writes about is learning, which has served as the base for his new book called "Ultralearning." The book gives us guidance on how we can learn more effectively, how can we spend less time, and/or less money to learn the things we want to learn. Scott became known after he completed the MIT Challenge: "In the fall of 2011, the idea was to learn the curriculum of MIT's four-year computer science undergrad, evaluate myself by trying to pass the final exams, complete the programming projects and finish in one year. In simple terms, the project was a success."

http://www.alainguillot.com/lee-weishar/ The 2019 Canadian federal election is scheduled to take place on October 21, 2019. I meet Lee Weishar at a Toastmasters meeting two years ago. He was always promoting personal development and self-education. A few weeks ago, I saw that he became a candidate for the People's Party of Canada (PPC) in Pierrefonds-Dollard in the 2019 federal election. Lee portraits PPC as the anti-corruption party. The party that's doesn't steal form a citizen to give to another. The PPC is against crony capitalism. Subsidizing economic sectors or private companies, end supply management for agricultural products.

http://www.alainguillot.com/chris-mamula/ Chris Mamula achieved Financial Independence at age 41. Now he's helping others achieve the same goal with the publication of his book "Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence." He's also the author of the blog Can I Retire Yet.

http://www.alainguillot.com/cameron-huddleston/   Cameron Huddleston is an award-winning journalist with more than 17 years of experience writing about personal finance. Her work has appeared in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Business Insider, Chicago Tribune, Fortune, Huffington Post, Money, MSN, USA Today and many more print and online publications. At this moment she is the Life + Money columnist for GOBankingRates. In the interview Schools don't teach personal finance to young students. People have to figure it out as they go along. There is a taboo around the topic of money. Friends don't like to talk about money and many many parents don't like to talk about money with their children. People buy status symbols to give the impression that they have lots of money. Wealthy people, au contraire, don't like to display that they have lots of money. The Book: Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk  10 years ago, Cameron's mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. They had never spoken about her finances. When Cam

http://www.alainguillot.com/karim-aktouf/ Karim Aktouf is the founder if Puncteo, a creativity consulting firm. He was trained as a software engineer, he spent 20 years in the corporate world, but at a given moment he felt he was suffocating. After he was laid off from his job, he saw that as an opportunity to embark on a totally different career. He decided to enroll in Fine Arts classes. Karim has the courage to pivot because his kids became an adult, so he felt he could take more risks. Also, he realized he could die any day, so there was no time to waste. What hinders creativity? Fear What's the biggest fear people express? Fear of being vulnerable Final point: Fall in love with learning for the sake of learning, with no other end in mind, love the process. Learn to learn. Where to find Karim? LinkedIn Portfolio

http://www.alainguillot.com/brian-j-dixon/   Today we have a conversation with Brian J. Dixon, author, speaker, coach, father, and husband.  And we speak about his recently released book called "Start With Your People" about how, by taking care of your people first, you can achieve practically any goal you set your mind to, whether that goal is personal or professional. Brian believes that you were made for a purpose. By clarifying your calling, discovering your audience, and creating your products, you can navigate a clear path to impact and income. Brian helps authors, speakers, and aspiring messengers create a sustainable business through growing their platform and creating compelling online courses.