The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo

“’How to Quit Working.’ isn’t about not doing anything…it’s about doing something you enjoy so much it’s not work.” – Jeff Steinmann The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #65 – Entrepreneur Jeff Steinmann Entrepreneur Jeff Steinmann Our next guest on episode #65 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo is a gentleman who went through a time in his life when he felt stuck and was having trouble getting out of it. He eventually was able to find a way, to make the leap, Mr. Jeff Steinmann. That leap led him to the creation of the popular website ‘How to Quit Working.’ Think about it, do we really want to quit working? Or do we want to do that thing we are passionate about and get paid for it? There is a way! There is an entire community and movement that have been created to help people make this dream come true. Let’s find out why Jeff calls himself a ‘Freedom Fanatic’ and is fiercely devoted to finding a better way to “do life”. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 2:25  Jeff takes us back to when he was on the same life course almost all of us have taken, going to high school, then college where you are some how supposed to figure out what it is you want to do for the next 45 years – when you have never even tried it. Jeff couldn’t figure out what he wanted to do and bounced around college for 13 years. He didn’t have anything he cared about enough to work towards. He settled into the computer tech business doing systems analysis and project management. It wasn’t where he wanted to be though; he wanted to be an entrepreneur. He knew he should run his own company. He went so far as to work up a great business idea and set up the meeting where he would tell his boss he quit – he chickened out. He decided he would just have to live with this decision and make the most of it. He moved through the corporate grind for 12 years, why not everybody has a life like this, right? 7:00  Jeff got to the point where he knew he had to find a way to do something different, and make it work. He started researching and realized that he had to get smarter about how to achieve his goal of becoming an entrepreneur. Jeff put himself in the position to make the transition, called another meeting with the boss and actually quit! 9:30  Is it really that people want to quit working? Jeff tells us, they want to live life on their terms, do something they are really passionate about. “’How to Quit Working.’ isn’t about not doing anything…it’s about doing something you enjoy so much it’s not work.” This lets you put the things that are really important to you in the center. Often the most important thing in our life is our family. The trick is, you take that and put it in the center of your life and build how you make money around that. The sad thing is we are taught to take the way we have to make money and put that in the center of our life. We then fit family, hobbies, passions and all of the things that are really important, around that. Unfortunately when we approach things that way, the things that are the most important to us are the first things to be dropped off the list. 12:30  Jeff points out that it is important to look at your life holistically. We need to figure out what is important in the long term, even after our children are grown and out on their own. 13:50  Jeff says they get people at different stages in their journey. “My goal with everything that we have is to move customers through a process that gets them closer and closer to that life of their dreams.” 22:00  Jeff’s biggest bucket list goal, his big dream is to create an environment where children can grow and learn the attitudes, habits and mindsets that make them happy and live the most successful lives they can. He wants to help people live their vision. 24:35  Jeff would like to leave us with this thought: “everything around you is the way it is, only because someone decided that was the way it was going to be. You have the power to change it. Question everything and keep your mind open.” That wraps up episode #65 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. And remember: “Happiness is not a destination. It’s a way of life.” Resources and Links from this episode: Website: http://howtoquitworking.com Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/HowToQuitWorking? Twitter: @quitworkingnow Google+: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/+Howtoquitworking/posts If you enjoyed this episode, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 21: Quit Your Job and Travel the World with Entrepreneur & Traveler Jake Lau 29: 5 Steps to Align with Your Highest Potential with Life Purpose Coach Shine Kelly

“For me wine is really just a metaphor for what life can be, of how we can join together… my bucket list item is really finding that sense of communion within myself and other people.” – Michael Hasler The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #63 – What We Love Winery  What We Love Winery In the studio, on this episode #64 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, we are honored to have three guests with us. Along with Kenyon, they were part of a delectable experience that took place at ‘What We Love The Winery’ (WWLW) in Boulder, CO. in February of this year. The winery opened its doors to 5 guests from The Bucket List Life as part of an opportunity for these wine enthusiasts to check off an item from their buckets lists, to learn what it’s like to make some of the most phenomenal wine on the planet. Two of today’s guests are the owners of What We Love The Winery, Carolee Corey and her husband Michael Hasler. The third guest is one of the members of The Bucket List Life who was one of the lucky five guests, Linnea Lewis. They will share this fascinating experience with us, with a special twist thrown in!. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:10  Michael shares with us how WWLW came to be. It all started with a passion for wine making. At age 14 Michael had a mate in Sydney Australia that used to make wine with a relative. Michael didn’t have a direction yet, but decided he wanted to try his own hand at making wine. His first batch was wine made from the Mulberries he picked off of a bush outside. That ignited his passion. He read and reread Hugh Johnson’s The World Atlas of Wine, and from that point on most of his life and schooling was based around wine and wine making 7:45  Carolee tells us the inspiration for the name of their business. We learn that she has found a place, in her, that supports Michael’s passion. It has been a challenge at times but it has brought their relationship to a higher level. 10:45  Michael talks about what it is like in the “backside” of the winery. It’s all about  meticulous hygiene, chemistry, tasting, slowly taking the wine in the direction he wants it to go, a lot more tasting, testing, moving from barrel to tank, bottling, and filtering. The pace is slow, “…slowly moving towards that one flavor that every flavor creationist is trying to do, bring their creation to the peak of perfection.” It’s a lot of time and hard work. 13:45  Kenyon asks Michael what his # 1 bucket list item is. “For me wine is really just a metaphor for what life can be, of how we can join together…for me my bucket list item is really finding that sense of communion within myself and other people.” Michael also seeks to find that sense of communion with himself as an individual, where life is celebrated at the peak, without props, “it’s a sense of living life, almost naked…there is no grandeur about it, more just sitting down in a chair and literally breaking bread and enjoying the moment.” 16:30   We learn about how TBLL member Matt introduces Kenyon to WWLW and the ‘TBLL Day With a Winemaker’ was created. Linnea was one of the five individuals invited to attend that day. She tells us how super exciting it was and how it filled her soul to share this experience with the others that felt the same way. “It was really special.” They shared an incredible lunch and Linnea was touched by a sense of family as they all united for fabulous wine, great food, stories and shared passion. The day concluded with an amazing party for 50 people with a joining of hands and hearts. Michael shares how The Bucket List Life has somehow brought something together for What We Love The Winery. 35:30  Michael lets us in on a grand surprise. That day they decided that WWLW is going to brew what they will call ‘The Bucket List Life Blend’! They will bring the original five attendees back and go through the entire process of developing a wine from tasting to bottling. This wine will be available for sale. Linnea was overwhelmed by the fact that a wine she will help develop, with her name on it, will be on shelves and sold to people who will make that wine part of their life experience. 39:20  Carolee tells us how incredible it is to watch someone when they are in their highest alignment with the gifts they have to bring forward. 41:45  Michael would like to leave us with this thought – “Wine is something alchemical. Relationships are essentially alchemical and What We Love The Winery is about serving the true alchemy we have as people, as a society and as human animals coming together and sharing our very best qualities with each other….The wine is simply the honey for the bees to come to us and then find that experience.” Thank you for joining us for episode #64 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. TBLL thought for the day “Don’t ever underestimate the impact that you may have on someone else’s life” Resources and Links from this episode: Website: https://whatwelove.com Location – Tasting Room: 1505 Lee Hill Road #14, Boulder , CO 80304 Facebook: https//m.facebook.com/WhatWeLoveTheWinery If you enjoyed this episode, you will love the following recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 53: Dedicating Yourself To Your Passion with Sommelier Jorn Kleinhans 28: Why Risk Plus Passion Brings You Ultimate Reward with Adventure Journalist Jim Clash

“I always kind of hope that those wings help him go straight to heaven”– Frank Shankwitz The Bucket List Life Podcast SPECIAL EDITION: Make-A-Wish Founder Frank Shankwitz Make-A-Wish Founder Frank Shankwitz On this, a Special Edition of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, We meet a person who changed a boy’s life. A boy named Chris, that more than anything wanted to be a Highway Patrol Motorcycle Officer. This gentleman was able to come in and make this wish come true. Our guest tells us how, with the help of many wonderful willing people, he was able to brighten this child’s life before the boy passed.  He, along with his wife Kitty and several others, founded The Make-A-Wish Foundation in November of 1980. What is truly phenomenal is 33 years later they are able to grant a wish, somewhere around the world, approximately every 38 minutes. He is here to share with us the story that started it all, the man who just wanted to make a difference and help others, Frank Shankwitz. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:00  Frank shares the touching story that started this preeminent organization. He takes us back to 1980 when Frank was an Arizona Highway Patrol Motorcycle Officer. They were just starting to gain popularity due to a TV show called “CHIPs”, which stands for ‘California HIghway Patrol’ about motorcycle highway patrol officers in California. Frank was contacted by another officer that said he had befriended a family that had a seven year old son named Chris, whose heroes were ‘Ponch and John’ from ‘CHIPs’. Chris was suffering from Leukemia and had no more than 2 – 3 weeks to live. They asked if there was anything special they could do for this little boy. The officers and commanders immediately jumped in and set up a special day for Chris, with the permission of his mother and doctors. They sent a helicopter to Chris’s hospital, picked him up and took him to headquarters. The officers were waiting for him with their motorcycles and were surprised when even though he was so ill, Chris jumps out of the helicopter and runs over, excited as can be, and introduces himself, in awe of Franks uniform and motorcycle. For those few hours he was just a typical happy seven years old with no thoughts of hospitals or IV’s. He was allowed to sit on a motorcycle and was given a Highway Patrol uniform hat and a real badge. He was able to go to the comfort of his own home that night. The doctor admitted he didn’t understand why but Chris’s vitals were good enough to allow him to do so. Deciding Chris needed a real uniform of his own, Frank went to the custom shop where they were made and two of the women that worked there stayed up all night making a uniform just for Chris. The next day Frank led a procession of motorcycle and patrol cars to Chris’s neighborhood, red lights and sirens going. They presented Chris with his uniform. Chris was thrilled but there was one other thing he had his eye on. As part of Franks uniform he wore a set of wings that designated he was a motorcycle officer. Chris wanted to know how he could get his wings. After explaining to Chris that he, Frank, had to take a test to see how well he could maneuver a motorcycle to get them, Chris took off and came back with his motorized mini-motorcycle of his own, ready to be tested. They set up a makeshift test right then and there and Chris passed with flying colors. He was told he earned his wings and could have them in a few days. They had to be custom-made by a jeweler and while Frank was there picking them up he received a call. Chris was in the hospital in a coma and wasn’t expected to make it through the day. Frank rushed to the hospital and as he entered the room he saw Chris and hanging beside him was his beloved uniform. As Frank pinned the wings to Chris’s uniform he came out of his coma and asked if he was a real motorcycle officer, Frank told him “Yes”. Chris giggled and smiled and rubbed the wings on his uniform as he showed his mom, as happy as he could be.  He passed a few hours later. “I always kind of hope that those wings helped him go straight to heaven”, Frank said. Chris was buried in his uniform. Chris was laid to rest in Illinois and Frank’s commander sent him and the other motorcycle officers to attend the funeral. They were joined by all of the area police officers from city to county. On the way back Frank kept thinking about how they were able to make Chris’s wish happen and was wondering why they couldn’t do this for other children. “Let them make a wish and we can make it happen.” This was when The Make-A-Wish Foundation was born. 63 chapters in the US, 34 chapters internationally, 350,000 wishes granted, all because of one special little boy. 12:30  Frank tells us that a couple of years earlier than 1980 he was in a high-speed pursuit “I was hit by a drunk driver and literally killed at the scene.” An off duty emergency room nurse performed CPR on him for 4 minutes and brought him back to life. He couldn’t help but wonder why he was spared. He now believes it was to meet Chris. 21:50  “An American Hero” – the name of the feature-length movie that is now in production about Franks life. Though the title makes him uncomfortable, to him heroes are our troops fighting for us around the world, he is very involved in the film. Filming should start in September/October of this year. 24:30  Frank has an interesting and informative website, wishman1.com where you can read about the book they are working on about his life and about his new foundation “The Ripple Effect Foundation.” This is a non-profit that creates and manages event media online benefits for all types of charities and individual causes.” Make-A-Wish is a well-funded, well run foundation. He wants to expand and help other up coming charities. “This is my mission and we are very excited about it.” That wraps up this Special Edition of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Today’s thought – “Always leave people better than you found them. Hug the hurt. Kiss the broken. Befriend the lost. Love the lonely.” Resources and Links from this episode: Website: http://wishman1.com Make-A-Wish Foundation Website: http://wish.org If you enjoyed this podcast, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 55: The Quest For Adventure Through Philanthropy with Author Jeff Rasley 43: Choosing Love with Doreen Katz MCF Founder Adam Katz

“…that’s what a bucket list does, it gives you a check list and says yes, I did this. I took control over that and I made it happen!” – April Capil The Bucket List Life Podcast #63 – Author/Speaker April Capil Author/Speaker April Capil Our next guest on episode #63 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, is a cancer survivor, an author and a YouTuber who used a bucket list to climb her way back to a new normal after being diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at the age of 35. Statistics told her that she had a 1 in 3 chance of not making it 5 years without a cancer reoccurrence. She made a list of 40 things she wanted to complete before she reached the age of 40 which included a road trip across the U.S., running a NY Marathon, and  perfecting her own chocolate chip cookie recipe. In five years she beat the odds, completed her list and found ways of helping others along the way. Let’s meet the inspirational April Capil. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:55  April takes us back to when she was diagnosed with stage 3 triple negative breast cancer in 2008. She had gone to multiple doctors that told her women often had lumps and she even got a negative reading on a mammogram. A doctor finally did a biopsy. When she woke she found out that she had stage 3 cancer. She was devastated because she had just moved to Hawaii to start a farm and had a small internet sales business – she had her life planned. She had to have chemotherapy while she watched her small business collapse. Her self-talk was defeating as she told herself she had missed her one shot at happiness. “I dug myself out of that hole by changing the story I was telling myself.” 6:55  April tells us “I built a sort of ladder.” She made a list of 40 things she wanted to do before she reached 40 because she was told there was a high chance of a reoccurrence. She told herself “If I have 5 years then I am going to ring in 40 with a bang!” She spent the next 5 years doing all the things she was saving for “later” and she did check them all off! 9:10  As motivation, every year, on the anniversary she was diagnosed with cancer, April would look at her bucket list to see how she had progressed and what she had left. As a way for us to continually spark our excitement to check off our own bucket list items she suggests we pick an ordinary date “Use what ever targeting date you want, Cinco de Mayo? Alright if I am doing 5 amazing things a year then on Cinco de Mayo I’m going to celebrate those 5. You have to give yourself credit and you have to celebrate your accomplishments.” 11:10  No one knows if they are going to have a tomorrow. Sometimes it takes people going through a frightening experience  to motivate them to reach for their dreams. Why do they wait? April sizes it up “I think that’s it’s scary to live in a world that’s unpredictable, so we tell ourselves that it is and we will always have time.” 14:15  April tells us about her books, ‘Recipe for Lemonade’ and ‘After Lemonade’. The first talks about how to keep yourself together when you are going through a crisis. The second  is how to put the pieces together “after Humpty Dumpty has fallen of the wall.” In her second book she asks you to think about these 3 thought-provoking  questions” What do I not want to leave this earth without doing? What do I notice I keep saying “I always wanted to do that.”? What are the dreams you thought got taken away from you and make a goal to get that back. 17:50  “If you are afraid of something, the way to face it is to turn it into a gift of service.” April’s fear was having people see her with no hair, eyebrows, eyelashes with bags under her eyes, while she was going through treatment. So she faced it head on, went on YouTube and made a video on how to do your make-up during chemotherapy. 21:00  April says that she thinks as human beings it’s hard to think we are alone and to feel like we have no control over something. When you are feeling like everything is falling apart and you have no control, she says to find one thing you can control “…that’s what a bucket list does, it gives you a check list and says yes, I did this. I took control over that and I made it happen. When you are in this world that’s uncontrollable and unpredictable and you feel helpless, having something that you can do makes all the difference.” 29:15  Kenyon asks April what are some of her goals for the coming year? She has a 9-5 job she loves and works with people who “bring their ‘A’ game every day” and it is so rewarding to work with them. She would also like to run a ½ marathon, make the ‘Leadville Glitter Crew’ happen for the Leadville Trail 100 MTB and train and participate in a biathlon which is a winter sport that includes cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. 32:05  What thought would April like to leave with us? “Pay attention to the story you are telling yourself.” You have more control than you think you do. You can write your own life. You don’t have to be at the mercy of the imaginary forces that are keeping you from living the bucket list life you want. That wraps up episode #63 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. And remember “Happiness is not a destination, it is a way of life.” Resources and Links for this episode: Website: http://aprilcapil.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/aprilcapil If you enjoyed this episode, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 56: Carpe Diem with Transformational Coach Victoria Melchor 31: Transitioning From Victim to Victory with Actress Spice Williams Crosby

“The simplest way to start feeling better is to serve your fellow man, serve your community.” – Wesley Chapman The Bucket List Life Podcast #62 – The Human Project Co-Founder, Wesley D. Chapman The Human Project Co-Founder Wesley D. Chapman On this, episode #62 of The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo, we meet a man who works with hundreds of youths and adults on a monthly basis helping them move from where they are now to where they want to be. At the age of 1 he was abandoned by his father, at the age of 6 ½ he was abandoned by his mother. He tried to commit suicide 12 times by his 16th birthday. Wesley Chapman is a survivor that suffered unimaginable abuse and is now on a mission to be of service to more than 25 million people. He was an entrepreneur at 8, self-sufficient by 16 and was consulting with the CEO’s of Fortune 500 Companies at the age of 19. Wesley founded ‘A Human Project’, a for-purpose 501(c)(3) with a mission to create a community of empowered youth. He is also the co-founder of ‘Super Human Life’, a program designed to ensure ultimate understanding of ones true potential. His life experiences have prepared him for what is now his greatest mission, creating a world of hope. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 4:00  Wesley warns us that in able to understand his outlook on his project ‘Super Human Life’, it may take a huge mind shift. He tells us if we don’t want to hate him before he has a chance to explain his beliefs, we should go to his website  superhuman.life and watch the introduction video. He says, “The entire mission of ‘Super Human Life’ is to help individuals to understand their core identity. Once you do, you understand why you have gone through things.” We find out why he tells us “I realized that every thing that happened to me was my fault.” Wesley explains, “When you understand who you are at the core, then going through your life’s trials…it’s not the same. It doesn’t have the same weight.” 8:40  Wesley explains how he helps people to ‘reframe’. No matter what they have gone through he can show them how to get from where they are to where they want to be in life. It’s a concept he calls H-cubed – Honest, Healing, Hope – a pathway to truly understand who you are (which is 100% free, everything you need is right there). Once you go through that, he introduces people to what he calls the ‘super human lifestyle’. It’s a new way of looking at every aspect of your day-to-day life and a new way to create success – a complete change. It’s nothing magical – everything we need is inside of us. This is not a profitable situation for Wesley because once you are shown, the teacher is no longer needed, it’s no longer profitable – but money is not his driving force. His passion is the world’s young people. 13:40  Depression. Wesley shares the best way he knows to start to deal with it. Get out of yourself. “The simplest way to start feeling better is to serve your fellow man, is to serve your community.” We have to work on the energy within ourselves and share that with our next generations, the 25 million youth that are suffering. 18:05  On Wesley’s journey he became bored with entrepreneurial space. He wasn’t fulfilled though he had all the money one could need. He went down a path of exploration, where he found the benefit of telling his story. He got a huge response the more he shared it, and it became a way for him to start helping others.  He found he would rather spend hours coaching and helping people than spend minutes in a board room. “When you touch someone it fuels you…” 23:55  “Being locked in a dog house and forced to eat dog food out of a dog dish and be laughed at by my step fathers brothers and themselves, had a collar around my neck and all the crazy things that happened to me, it makes complete sense now…” Wesley explains. “I understand with full clarity that I had power to overcome that situation.” Now, more importantly he feels he has a duty to share that concept and that way of thinking with as many people as he can. 25:55  “This has become an epidemic in our world.” Wesley tells us, and it needs to stop. We need to learn how to love and understand ourselves so we can go out and love and understand other people. “Sometimes the only way to really make a difference and really change something is you gotta shake it up. You gotta really shake it up.” 31:10  Wesley shares a sweet, and wonderfully inspirational story about two little girls he met recently, who were selling candy on a Miami boardwalk. 38:05  “When we look at why people don’t reach out, why people don’t share their stories, why people don’t live a life full of bucket list check marks is because we are all judging each other for absolutely no reason.” Wesley asks, not to get biblical, but didn’t somebody write 2,000 years ago something about casting the first stone? We don’t know what someone else is going through and all we can do is show love and compassion. If we get burned, we get burned. It’s not our job to judge, but to love. 41:20  Does Wesley have some bucket list items he wants to check off ? First he would like to create a reality TV show showing this process, making it fun and entertaining. Second, on a personal note, “I would like to go to every continent and experience the people, the nature, all of it. Just be able to see the world.” Thank you for sharing episode #62 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, with us today. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. And remember, “You were born with the ability to change someone’s life, don’t ever waste it.” Resources and Links from this episode: Websites: www.superhuman.life and http://www.ahumanproject.com/ Twitter: @wesleydchapman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wesleydchapman If you enjoyed this episode, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 52: Lessons Learned From Dying Three Times with Author Robert Kopecky 31: Transitioning From Victim to Victory with Actress Spice Williams Crosby

“…when you start helping others and you see them accelerate in their path and they progress in their path because of your direct efforts, it’s one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever experienced.”  – Geoff Woods The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #61 – Entrepreneur Geoff Woods Entrepreneur Geoff Woods Welcome to episode #61 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Our next guest has a story that will resonate with most of our listeners and is a testament to how who you surround yourself with has a dramatic influence on the trajectory of your life. Geoff Woods will assist us in learning how to find the ideal mentor(s) that will accelerate us on our right path. Geoff has a clear idea of what he wants in life and has a strong desire to teach each and every one of us how to accomplish the same thing. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:15  Geoff tells us what he has been working diligently on growing the audience for his podcast “The Mentee.” His main goal is trying to help other people. “…when you start helping others and you see them accelerate in their path and they progress in their path because of your direct efforts, it’s one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever experienced.” 3:45  Geoff explains that “The Mentee” Podcasts is his way of sharing his journey from ‘Employee to Entrepreneur’ and pressing record on the conversations with the mentors in his life. It all started while he was happily working in the medical devise sales business. Not only did he enjoy it but it provided an amazing life for his family. At the end of 2013, a 35 year old colleague of his suffered a stroke. It rocked him to his core and motivated him to take inventory of his life. The Universe then presented circumstances  that helped him decide to take the steps to start building a passive income. During this time of transition he heard Jim Rohn’s quote “you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.” Ask yourself, who are those 5 people? Are those 5 people living the type of life you want to be living?” 7:50   Don’t know what to actions to take next? Geoff shares the ‘5 specific steps he took to find the amazing mentors he now has in his life.. Step 1 – Get clarity and identify what you want. Step 2 – Talk about what you want, and talk about it, with everyone. Geoff guarantees that if you only do these first 2 steps things will come to you and the right people will come into your life. “80% of everything that you need is already within your circle of influence.” You just have to tap into it and the easiest way to do that is to talk about it. “It’s just that simple.” Step 3 – “You have to play where the players play.” Geoff shares some of the best ways he has found to do just this. Step 4 – “Be more interested than interesting.”  Geoff explains why master  networkers are genuinely interested in you. The elite ask what they can do to help you. Step 5 – Rinse and repeat – in other words, keep doing it. 19:20  Geoff tells us when you start interacting with these mentors, people that have already walked the path and can look back to where you are today and call you out when you need to be called out, you are exactly where you need to be. Geoff also said he was forcing everything and he realized what you need is the sole focus of connecting with intention each time you interact with  someone, it can allow amazing things to come to you. 23:25  Find out why Geoff tells us “Giving and receiving are the same thing.” 31:00  One of Geoff’s mentors, Jeff Hoffman of Priceline.com, told him “Entrepreneurialship is a privilege…it is the responsibility of a successful entrepreneur to reach back and grab a new aspiring entrepreneur and help pull him forward.” Geoff shares the secret of how to approach someone who is at the top of their field, who is super busy and how to distinguish yourself and get them to spend time with you. You have to be sincere. 37:05  On being a mentor, Geoff tells us ”No matter where you are there is somebody that is a few steps behind you.” The best way to accelerate your progress is by helping others. 38:00  Geoff tells us his bucket list goal is to get his passive income to the point where he and his family can just pick up and move from country to country. 40:20  What thought would Geoff like us to take away from today’s interview? Take action. Please, please, please take action. Listen, read, research. None of the valuable information you can gather will change the quality of your life until you take action. That concludes episode #61 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Today’s thought “Every moment of your life, including this one, is a fresh start!” Resources and Links from this episode: Website: http://menteepodcast.com Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/geoffreywoods If you enjoyed this podcast, you will love these other recommended episodes with The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 19: The Key Insight to Start-Up Success with Business Advisor Matt Rockwell 29: 5 Steps to Align with Your Highest Potential with Life Purpose Coach Shine Kelly

“I want to give people permission to choose things that they really want and not the things that the marketers, and advertisers, your friends, colleagues and well-meaning family members tell you to choose.” – Andy Hayes The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #60 – Founder of PlumDeluxe.com Andy Hayes PlumDeluxe.com Founder Andy Hayes Moments. Our next guest on this, episode #60 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, truly understands what it means to ‘Make Moments Matter’. Andy Hayes is the founder and creator of PlumDeluxe.com, which is a website that teaches us that life, happens moment by moment. He is a master tea blender, a published author and a public speaker. His company is based out of one of the countries most appealing cities, Portland Oregon. Let’s listen and learn why Andy tells us “… no matter what your circumstances, you can choose to create moments that matter, every day.” Highlights on their podcast conversation: 2:15  Kenyon starts by asking Andy to share a moment in recent history that stands out in his mind. Andy tells us that he arranged his busy schedule so he could take a long regenerative walk in the sun, along a meandering river. That may seem simple to some but he tells us that it’s “… a nice reminder that some of the things that feel best to us are not that complicated. So there is no excuse to not make time for that.” 6:35  Andy shares the “Plum Deluxe” story. He started out as a very successful, happy guy with a technology/IT background. He loved the huge projects until a couple of corporate acquisitions really soured him on his chosen career. He quit when it all became too toxic. He had no idea what he wanted to do next, none. He always felt his destiny was to be magazine related, and technology was progressing to the point to where it could all be done online. While Andy thought he would like the focus of his website to be“…exploring why people are better versions of themselves while on vacation” he received the news that his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Intriguingly, during the next 5 years that she battled cancer, she made them into some of the best years of her life. She went to dinner parties with her friends, worked out regularly, went to the spa, traveled more and laughed more. When she passed, soon after her trip to Paris, Andy realized that she had the same job her entire life, fought cancer for years and yet she was so happy. She had fun and knew what was important to her. “If she could do that than any of us can do that too.” That was his new focus, no matter what our circumstances may be we can have a good life and focus on what is most important. 13:10  Andy talks about focusing on moments, moments that matter. Moments are a way to break down our lives into portions we can have control over. The idea of living a great life are easier to approach in just moments. Allow yourself to take those moments and enjoy the now. 16:25  The addition of tea started just last year. Andy was seeking a product  that was in alignment with their mission. Tea stood out because “It is a beverage that really has a quality of slowness, of stillness and if the tea says it has to steep for 5 minutes you can’t rush it.” It also has a communal feel to it that is great to not only connect to yourself but to someone else. 18:50  Kenyon mentions that he finds it fascinating that the website is 8 years old and only a year ago it evolved into this extremely successful business selling tea. Plum Deluxe is really about getting people to slow down for a second and connect over conversation. 22:25  Andy points out how healthy tea is. He is not making any health claims but if you take a little time to do some research on your own you with find that there are studies that show that tea has healing properties. Tea is full of antioxidants. 27:30  In the next 6 to 12 months Andy would like to move to a bigger condo, a challenge in Portland’s healthy real estate market. And he would like to get his tea products “in a good place.” They have just come out with a line of Oregon themed teas. 34:15  What are some of the items on Andy’s bucket list?  He dreams of owning a cottage near the Oregon coast. He also intends to travel to Europe and someday hire a guide and take the path less traveled, in China. 38:00  What thoughts would Andy like to leave with us? “I want to give people permission to choose things that they really want and not the things that the marketers, and advertisers, your friends, colleagues and well-meaning family members tell you to choose. Don’t forget the simple things. Don’t feel like because you want things that are different, because you crave things that are a little out of the ordinary or go against the flow, you know, find the things that really work for you and choose them, enjoy them and be happy with your choices.” Thank you for joining is for episode# 60 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. And remember “Always trust your gut. It knows what your head hasn’t figured out yet.” Resources and Links from this episode: Website: http://www.plumdeluxe.com Twitter :@AndrewGHayes Andys’ Website: http://andyhayes.com/ If you enjoyed this podcast, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 51: Developing Habits of Happiness with Teacher/Author Mike Ferry 29: 5 Steps to Align with Your Highest Potential with Life Purpose Coach Shine Kelly

“I think the desire to leave the world better than you find it is as basic a drive as needing to eat, needing shelter, needing a job… I think it’s a basic human need.”  – Shel Horowitz The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #59 – Ethical Marketing Expert Shel Horowitz Ethical Marketing Expert Shel Horowitz Shel Horowitz , our next guest on episode #59 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, is a strategist for green and social conscience businesses. Currently he is working to show businesses how to profit by solving hunger, war, poverty, and catastrophic climate change. He has also given a TED Talk on this subject. He is a best-selling primary-author of ‘Guerilla Marketing Goes Green’ and has written seven other books, and he is currently working on his 9th. He has more than 40 years in the green/activist and business world. Let’s listen and find out why Shel is so enthusiastic about the vital work he has chosen to dedicate his life to. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 2:15   One of the most unique experiences in Shel’s life? Having the cover of his book ‘Guerilla Marketing Goes Green’ flashing across one of the 6 story electronic billboards in New York City’s Time Square! He admits the payoff was more in terms of creditability than it is in sales. But how many people are able to say this is something they have accomplished in their lives? 4:15   What exactly does Shel do? “I work on business profitability, especially for green businesses, for social change businesses, and for authors and publishers.”  He works with people to look for opportunities to do right by the world and in time make a nice profit. “And it’s really fun to do that” Shel thinks it’s exciting to be doing these type of things at this point in his life. He has been working in the green world and business world and has been able to braid them into something that he hopes will make a difference in the way we function in society.  5:10  Shel shares an example of a company that is doing exactly what he likes to help companies do. d.light makes affordable solar-powered home lighting solutions. The solar-powered lanterns are sold to people in very poor countries that are presently using dangerous, toxic fossil fuel lanterns that have to be refilled monthly, or are using nothing at all. Besides the environmental benefit and money in the family’s pocket by not having to buy fuel every month, they have a better quality light that lasts later into the night. 7:15  Shel tells us why businesses should, and will, be going green in the future. “The costs of going green typically are much lower than the savings of going green.” He also tells us which enormous companies are doing business green. The answer may surprise you. 10:10  Can you guess which iconic 1931 building initiated a “deep green energy retrofit” at a cost of 13 million dollars, of which they get back 4.4 million dollars in savings a year? 12:40  Another area Shel is utterly  fascinated with is bio-mimicry – “It is when you watch how nature solves a problem and you think how can humans engineer that?” Can we build something as strong as spider silk? Can we collect water as efficiently as a certain beetle in the African desert can? The possibilities are amazing and his new book will have an intriguing section on bio-mimicry.  28:15  Shel’s green home was built 1743 and it may be the oldest solar house in the country. It has a solar hot water system and a solar electric system. His neighbors also embrace the ‘green home’ life style. He calls his neighborhood an 18th Century Eco Village. 35:20  In the next 6 months Shel plans to finish his next book ‘Guerilla Marketing to Heal the World,’ complete his website ‘Impact with Profit’, push his career to where he can do more of this kind of work and get paid for it by helping companies decide where they can make a difference. “I think the desire to leave the world better than you find it is as basic a drive as needing to eat, needing shelter, needing a job… I think it’s a basic human need.”  He is going to be facilitating that. For example he will be holding 3 day marketing intensive in May of this year. With topics such as “Business for a Better World”, “Greening Your Business” and how to profit on opportunities for doing both of those things.  38:30  Something on Shel’s bucket list? Besides space travel, he wants to leave a legacy – he wants to be able to say, “I made a real difference in getting hunger and poverty turned into sufficiency, war and violence turned into peace and global climate catastrophe into regenerative planetary balance.” A most noble goal indeed. 39:10  Shel leaves us with these words of wisdom -“The big take away is you can make a difference. Don’t accept some one saying to you this is the way it’s always been and this is the way it always will be.”  That wraps up episode #59 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Our thought for the day? “Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect!”  Resources and Links from this episode:  Website: http://greenandprofitable.com/ Twitter: @shelhorowitz Facebook: http://facebook.com/shel.horowitz Email: Shel@greenandprofitable.com Phone: 413-586-2388 For more information on his upcoming Marketing Intensive: http://makinggreensexy.com If you enjoyed this podcast, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 55: The Quest For Adventure Through Philanthropy with Author Jeff Rasley 47: Seduced By The Wilderness with Adventure Author Michael Modzelewski

“One of the things that we saw again and again in third world countries… was community and joy, which is different from happiness.  You see people that have so much gratitude in their lives for the things that are really important.” – Gavin McClurg The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #58 – National Geographic Adventurer of The Year – Gavin McClurg National Geographic Adventurer Of The Year 2014 – Gavin McClurg Our next guest on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo episode #58 has lived at sea for 13 years and circumnavigate the globe almost twice!  Gavin McClurg was recognized with the prestigious award of National Geographic Adventurer Of The Year for a ground breaking Paragliding Expedition he did across the Canadian Rockies and currently holds the North American foot launch record for cross-country non-motorized paragliding for a total of 240 miles. Gavin has dreamed up and lived some impossible adventures, traveled to more than 90 countries and with no plans of slowing down, he wants to share those experiences with our audience today.   Highlights of their podcast conversation: 2:00 Gavin describes what it was like to be the first to fly his Paraglider across the sand dunes of Mozambique called Dune Du Pyla. 5:30  Most of the time when Gavin refers to “we” in his travels, he is talking about himself and his boat.  Gavin describes who else was in the picture of his adventure and travels for the past 13 years. He’s set up his company Offshore Odyssey with his wife, Jody Macdonald, and has been able to fund their travels and sailing around the globe with clients that become like family on their journey.  7:00  Gavin gives his parents the credit and talks about how his sense of adventure and exploration of the natural world was instilled in him at an early age as he was encouraged to get outside and fall down, scrape his knees, make mistakes and learn from them. 8:00  One of the most important lessons he learned earlier in his life was from the acquisition of a serious corporate job in Boise, Idaho where he was elevated into a high responsibility position very quickly for a 22-year-old. After weighing his pros and cons, he realized the importance of enjoying his life, seeking adventure and not settling into a career where the only positive gain was money. So he quit. The most incredible lesson of his life didn’t tell him what he wanted to do with his life, but it did tell him what he didn’t want to do. 14:45  Gavins’ life after the corporate world consisted of a lot of random experiences and seasonal work where he could save up enough to fund his next adventure and travels.  He was living the life of a God and really didn’t need that much money to have a good time.  The payoff for the types of adventures he’s had is exponentially higher than that of being a millionaire and it’s just the type of life that money can’t buy. “One of the things that we saw again and again in third world countries… was community and joy, which is different from happiness.  You see people who have so much gratitude in their lives for the things that are really important.” 22:45  Gavin talks about his first interview out of college where he was offered the American dream and an incredible opportunity with a growing and dynamic company to work 100 hours a week for 10 years and be a millionaire before he was 45. Gavin saw it as a trade of the best years of his life for money and definitely not worth it. 26:30  Gavin talks about some of the exciting film projects in the past couple years and his paragliding North American foot launch record, 7 hour 40 minute flight, 240 miles deep into Montana. 29:45  Gavin describes what it was like to receive the prestigious award of National Geographic Adventurer Of The Year in 2014. He talks about the support and all the people along the way that helped him get to where he is and receive that award. 35:00  Gavin talks about the first time he sailed across the Pacific Ocean in 2001 and then again 8 years later in 2009 and the profound, staggering and deplorable effect that the immense amount of trash and garbage in the ocean has had on the surrounding coral and environment.  The immense amount of garbage in the ocean is so much more than anyone could ever imagine to the point where you are splitting trash with your boat the entire time sailing 1,200 miles across the bottom of Sri Lanka. Gavin has put a lot of energy into making his boat, Discovery, more green, sustainable reduce the carbon impact of their travels. 42:45  Gavin shares with us what is left on his bucket list.  His big plans are to just keep doing what he’s been doing and keep living the life he’s been fortunate enough to live.  He is planning a couple big adventures coming up this year on the horizon. 45:30 Gavin leaves us with the final quote from Joseph Campbell – “If you can see your path laid out before you, you’re probably on the wrong path.” That wraps up episode #58 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Until next time, keep living your dreams and follow your passion. Reference and Links from this episode: Gavins’ Sailing Company Website: http://www.offshoreodysseys.com/ Gavins’ Flying Website: http://www.cloudbasemayhem.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GavinNMcClurg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gavinmcclurg/ If you liked this episode on Lifestyle Freedom, you will love these other suggested episodes on The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo: 36: Why You Should Say Yes More To Everything with Adventurer Dave Cornthwaite 45: The Long Haul To Freedom with Irish Adventurer & Storyteller Leon McCarron

“If I can get you to laugh but you still think I’m normal enough to borrow my lawnmower, I’m doing the right thing!” – Corbie Mitleid The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #57 – Psychic Medium Corbie Mitleid Psychic Medium Corbie Mitleid Our next guest on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo episode #57 has been dancing on the mystics path for over 40 years.  Corbie Mitleid is a full-time Psychic Medium, an inspirational speaker and teacher with an international clientele.  She has been featured in books, on radio talk shows and on television. She has done the “cancer dance” three times and has come through it all better off. Corbie loves to help people by giving them the tools they need to make informed decisions and show them how they can cross their own bridge from fear to fearlessness. Corbie is funny! She has an amazing energy, a way with words, a lot of insight and some powerful stories to share.  Highlights of their podcast conversation: 2:20 Corbie tells us all about her ‘travel channel’ life on the road and some of the mediumship readings and experiences she had at the Psychic Fair in Syracuse that she attended this past weekend. 4:45 Corbie explains some of the most common misnomers that she hears from others in reaction to hearing about what she does for a living.  She professes that never reads people that she was not invited to read. She does not believe in the ‘drive-by psychic reading.’  She is never going to tell you that you are cursed, you have bad luck or that your life is screwed up.  Corbie says that if anyone, claiming to be a psychic, tells you anything like that, leave.  She confirms that psychics are there to help you, present your opportunities and guide you to the best way to grab them. 7:00 Corbie tells us why she is very careful about who and when she shares her own personal stories with when giving readings. She is conscious about not giving advice or colouring others decisions based on her own life experiences. During a reading she makes sure to lay out exactly what she sees and let the client make their own decisions and life choices. “My job is to give them empowerment and inspiration and tell them “I believe in you, you got this!”” 10:30 Corbie shares that she has always had this psychic gift and tells the story of how she her successful and checkered career developed as a skilled Psychic Medium. 14:00 With all that Corbie has accomplished and experienced, she is currently enjoying a 90/100 resonation with life. Corbie describes what’s next and what’s left for her to feel 100% fulfilled in life. 15:45 Corbie opens up and shares with us her stories of “dancing with cancer” three times, and why she will never call herself a Cancer Survivor. She goes into detail about the radiation, surgeries, losing her breasts, ovaries, Dolly Parton figure and the valuable lessons she learned and took away from the experience. She now uses her cancer lessons as a teaching tool to help  other woman who are facing the dance. 21:00 Corbie talks about how she is helping and teaching others with her lectures and speeches.  One of her most popular lectures at the expos that she attends is called “Happiness is a Choice” about the options presented during the cancer dance. She also has a workshop and lecture series called “The Weaving of Your Lives” where she discusses pre-birth planning and the concept of Karma. 23:30 Corbie confesses that psychic mediums should not read for themselves or their own families, just like doctors should not treat themselves or their own family.  Their skill is much better utilized in helping other where their own energy and ego is not attached. 24:00 One of her closest spirit guides happens to be her own father who passed away a week before 9/11.  She shares the story of how she told him what it would be like after he passed and he didn’t believe her, until he showed up a week after in spirit and she said, “I told you!” Now he still shows up on occasion and assists with medical cases and analysis. 30:00 Corbie describes the type of scenario that led her to design the Psychic Bootcamp where she teaches how to have a good reading and how not to get taken by the scams. 34:30 What’s something on Corbies’ Bucket List?  Along with a lot more of what she’s doing,  more teaching, bigger workshops and more of putting herself out there. Corbie would love to be known as a combination of Wayne Dyer and Mystic Comedian Swami Beyondananda before she goes.  “I want more of putting myself out there, rode hard put away wet and wrinkled and so done that when God and I sit down with a beer and he asks, “What did you do?” he better have a lot of time to talk.” 35:45 Corbie leaves us with the final thought:  “I’m not special.  You can all do what I’ve done.  You want to do psychic work you can, you wanna kick up your intuition, you can. You wanna walk through a divorce or cancer and come out the other side whole, you can do this!” That wraps up episode #57 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Until next time, be amazing and be you and believe in yourself! Reference and Links from this episode: Corbies’ Website: http://firethroughspirit.com/ Corbies’ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/firethroughspirit The Option Institute:  www.option.org Happiness is a Choice, by Barry Neil Kaufman http://bit.ly/1Fl0t2y Your Souls’ Plan, by Robert Schwartz  http://bit.ly/1MNu4Hp Corbie on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/CorbieMitleid If you liked this episode on Lifestyle Freedom, you will love these other suggested episodes on The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo: 29: 5 Steps to Align with Your Highest Potential with Life Purpose Coach Shine Kelly 31: Transitioning From Victim to Victory with Actress Spice Williams Crosby

“I know that one person that I help is going to be a ripple of hope for another person and that other person will also be a ripple of hope.”– Victoria Melchor The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #56 – Victoria Melchor Transformational Coach Victoria Melchor Our next guest on episode #56 The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo is Victoria Melchor. After receiving bad medical news, Victoria looked inside for answers, which led her to what she calls “Living life from the inside out.” She has learned to take charge of her life and live a life that she loves. First she was determined she would have the perfect morning, which led to the perfect day and from there she learned she could have a perfect life. Victoria focuses on Transformational and Mindset coaching and helps others live the life they desire by connecting and removing the mental and emotional blocks that are holding them back. She is close to finishing her first book, an autobiography, about what she has learned through travel and introspection of her day-to-day life. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:30  We learn that Victoria’s mother and grandmother both had breast cancer. She doesn’t, but testing showed that she is genetically predisposed and has the gene. This means that there is a much, much higher risk of  her contracting this disease in her life time, than the average woman. It felt like a death sentence to Victoria. She was understandably devastated by this news and while visiting her oncologist she was told that what she had been given was not a death sentence but a life sentence. “That really changed a lot of things for me.” 7:35  Victoria admits that she was just going through the motions, not even alive, she was “just a zombie”. She would go to work, walk the dog, go home, watch TV and do it all again the next day. Being a “big neuro-coaching nerd” she attended a training session and one of the exercises asked “How do you live your perfect day?” She learned she had to take over and make it all happen herself. 10:45  Victoria tells us that many of us suffer from ‘Death Anxiety’. She tells us about watching a documentary about cancer patients and though they were dying “There can be a sense of peace and satisfaction knowing you are mortal.” Even if you don’t know when it’s going to happen you have to kinda ”Carpe Diem”, live your life now because you never know when this is going to happen and you have to make the most of every single moment.” 14:05  Victoria explains her definition of  “Living life from the inside out.” She asks herself why should she live by what everyone on the outside is telling her? She decides she should live by what “the me inside” is telling her. ‘Living life on the inside out’ “means to really develop a sense of who you are based on how you feel moment-to-moment and who you want to be…” Are you doing everything in your life because it is expected of you? We must realize that we can create what we want – happiness, joy, we are even creating our sadness and bad feelings about ourselves but we are letting the outside world dictate it. 16:35  In learning to define that “perfect morning”, Victoria finds that we need to be intentional about how we want to experience our lives. Part of being perfect is being imperfect and being OK with that. 19:25  Victoria never thought about being of service, then all of a sudden she felt like giving. She gets such incredible joy from helping. After a coaching call with one of her clients she said “I know that one person that I help is going to be a ripple of hope for another person and that other person will also be a ripple of hope.” 21:55  Why does Victoria say that our minds are like a computer which we give instructions to? Why do we have to be very purposeful regarding the kind of instruction we give it? 27:00  Victoria has always loved to write. When she decided to write her book she broke down what she needed to do, gave herself a timeline and sat down at the computer. She is currently at 40,000 words. 35:25  Being a constant planner Kenyon asks if she has her whole life planned out. “As much as you can make things like that happen…” Victoria shares with us. There is still an element of uncertainly that she is still learning to be more comfortable with. 36:55  What are some items on Victoria’s bucket list? She is looking forward to taking a trip to Peru with her boyfriend this year. Another item, “I want to see Orca whales in the wild.” Seeing these majestic animals in real life is a big goal for her. 37:50   What thought would Victoria like to leave with us? “I’d like to invite you to think about waking up. Going through life and going through the daily motions, I get it. All it takes is setting an intention…becoming a vessel for that intention…and actually do that.” The more you do the easier it becomes. Soon you will be experiencing what you want to be experiencing in your life. Thank you for joining us for episode #56 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Author Alex Elle tells us “We are not perfect, we are learning. That’s the beauty in our specific journey.” Links and Resources From This Episode: Victorias’ Website: http//victoriamelchor.com Victorias’ Twitter: @vmelchor Victorias’ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/numinosity If you enjoyed this episode on Mindset and Transformation, you will love these other episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 51: Developing Habits of Happiness with Teacher/Author Mike Ferry 33: Setting & Achieving SMARTER Goals with Business Consultant James Doyle

“To have a truly good life you have to take good care of yourself and you have to help others in need when you can.” – Jeff Rasley The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #55 – Philanthro-Trekker & Author Jeff Rasley Philanthro-Trekker & Author Jeff Rasley Jeff Rasley, our next guest on episode #55 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, made the leap from his career, a very successful 30 years as an attorney with his own practice, to a satisfying non-profit endeavor at age 55. He is the president of one foundation and serves on the board of five other nonprofit organizations. In his forties a midlife crisis started to rise to the surface and his very supportive wife suggested he go trekking in the Himalayas. As a result of the lessons learned from that journey, Jeff  has written 40+ articles and 8 books about combining adventure with philanthropy (he calls it ‘philanthro-trekking’) and what it takes to live a meaningful life. He also teaches classes on the culture of Nepal, living a meaningful life and philanthropy at Butler University. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 4:05  Jeff  practiced law for 30 years. He had a general practice because he wanted to be of assistance and do what ever his clients needed. There was a sense of fulfillment for a while as a legal crusader. He went into corporate law and opened his own law firm but he had believed from an early age “life should be an adventure.” 8:05  Jeff felt agitation and unhappiness. On the surface he had a great life but he felt internal discontent. At 40 his wife told him “to go take a hike on the other side of the world.” He had never done a trek in his life, adventure hiking but not this. 13:40  When Jeff made his trek in Nepal he found that he really became interested in the culture of Nepal and especially the high mountain village culture. “I realized I wanted to do more with that country and with those people than just enjoy the scenery.” Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, the average income per day is $1.50 Sir Edmund Hillary described the Sherpa people as “the strongest and kindest people he ever knew.”  Jeff agreed and wanted to help. 15:45  Jeff is on the board of various nonprofits that have to do with education. One is Scientech Foundations which provides scholarships for science stem education in the Midwest; the next is Phi Beta Kappa who provides scholarships for liberal arts studies; the others are clubs like the YMCA, Scientech Clubs and the nonprofit he started is called The Basa Village Foundation USA and The Basa Village Foundation Nepal. These foundations have been so successful they are expanding to help other villages in Nepal. 18:30  Jeff likes to fill his life with many endeavours. He has written eight books, lots of articles, helped newbie writers, and teaches a class on philanthropy. The last book he wrote is about developing a whole approach to life both as an individual and a member of communities. Jeff’s philosophy is “To have a truly good life you have to take good care of yourself and you have to help others in need when you can.” 23:00  We hear how Jeff programmatically went from successful attorney to writer, to adventurer to philanthropist and the steps he took to get there. 25:50  ‘Philanthro-trekking’ means “Combining travel with philanthropy” says Jeff. He hopes by the end of the year he will be able to step down from the presidency of The Basa Village Foundation. “I need to step back and let others take over leadership.” People have to be willing to give time, energy and money to keep a nonprofit going. “Everyday people have to be giving and what they are getting back is satisfaction.” 32:05  Jeffrey teaches classes at Butler University and says “Something I found is this millennial generation is that many of these young people have a real generous spirit.” According to him this generation is very kind, they have a broader more cosmopolitan accepting view of the world, with other cultures and other races and they have much more of an acceptance of differences. 33:45  What is something on Jeff’s bucket list? Though he feels really good about the travel and exploration he has done in his life thus far, a friend called and invited him to trek to Rawal, another part of Nepal, in the fall of 2016. He also intends to enrich his life by participating in what ever gives his life meaning as he gets older. 37:25  What food for thought would Jeff like to leave the listeners? He would like to encourage us to consider how we might develop further our own sense of living a good life – taking good care of ourselves, helping those that we encounter along the way and being generous, “then life itself becomes a philanthro-trek.” That completes episode #55 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Today’s thought – “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” Links and Resources From This Episode: Website for Basa Village Foundation USA: http://basavillagefoundationusa.org/ Jeffs’ Website: http://www.jeffreyrasley.com/ If you enjoyed this episode on Travel and Helping Others, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 41: Keys To Resetting Your Life With Experience Creator Jonathan Martin 35: The Adventure Catalyst Theory with British Explorer Toby Storie-Pugh

“You have to take 100% responsibility for your life…your attitude, your own personal attitude, is going to be the key to success or failure in your own life.” – Jesse LeBeau The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #54 – Jesse LeBeau Basketball Star & Motivational Speaker – Jesse LeBeau In this, episode #54 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, we meet the inspiring Jesse LeBeau. At an early age he became one of the premier basketball trick artists in the world. As his name grew he began appearing in commercials, TV shows and movies with some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment. His experiences led him to write a book “Among the Giants”, which hit the best sellers’ list. He is also known as “The Teen Coach”. He travels around the world inspiring kids and shares his underdog journey, growing up on a remote island in Alaska where basketball wasn’t the easy route to take. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 4:35  We learn that Jesse had a passion for basketball as a kid. He saw a movie about Pistol Pete Maravich and it inspired him. Not that pursuing basketball on a remote Alaskan island was easy when he had to take a boat to school everyday and it was usually dark, rainy and cold. It may have been out of the ordinary but it led him on a path to follow his dreams. 6:50  Jesse realizes that he is never going to be in the NBA and playing overseas didn’t pay much but he was not going to give up on his dreams. He decided he wanted to do commercials and movies. During an audition “I realized after I did a fancy [basketball] trick the director got excited, and they yelled on the sidelines.” He started learning Globetrotter style tricks. At the beginning he was awful but trained hard and found the thing that made him different. 9:35  We learn why Jesse says “At the end of the day what sports are meant to do is teach us how to be better people and how to win at the game of life.”  He tells us “The harder I work the luckier I get.” 10:45  Once Jesse is proficient at his new skills he auditions for Kobe Bryant. He isn’t exactly what they are looking for but he ends up impressing the director so much that they use him in commercials and movies. He doesn’t know what he is doing and stumbles forward on his new path and just went for it. He explains that there may be someone better than you at something but they may be afraid to take action. If you are willing to work and learn as you go it can make all the difference. 13:35  Jesse is a stunt performer in the movie ‘Thunderstruck’ with basketball star Kevin Durant. In one of the scenes the kid beats Kevin at a one-on-one basketball game. “It wasn’t a true one-on-one battle, talent vs. talent, but any way you can beat Kevin Durant, even if he has to let you win, I’ll take it!” 17:00  Jesse loves to give back and enjoys visiting schools around the country. He finds it exciting to share his story with young people. Jesse understands that it is harder now to be a kid with all the modern pressures they face and he gives them tips and advice on how to get and stay on the right track. He shares the struggles he faced as an underdog and tells us “I really believe every child is one caring adult away from being a success story.” 23:35  We learn that in Jesse’s book ‘Among the Giants’ he shares 30 Life Lessons. The key lesson is “You have to take 100% responsibility for your life…your attitude. Your own personal attitude is going to be the key to success or failure in your own life.” You have to face situations in your life that are beyond your control and you can see it as an obstacle or an opportunity. It’s all in the attitude. Without that, none of the other 29 keys matter. 31:00  Jesse tells us about his celebrity youth program “The Fab Four Take Over”. It’s all about spreading a positive message with kids and entertaining them with basketball. He and some of his celebrity friends put together a basketball show with a motivational message. The first show was telecast on Fox and the CW. He points out that as he navigates through life as long as he is making progress and keeps stumbling forward each goal gets closer and closer. 34:05  Something on Jesse’s bucket list? He wants to have his own TV show where he connects with kids and brings them back to LA where he partners them with a celebrity to learn and be inspired. “When you have that kind of exposure it allows you to reach more people and have an impact on more lives.” 36:15  What thought would Jesse like us to take away from this podcast? “The biggest obstacle you will face in your life is yourself.” Don’t be afraid to fall. He leaves us with this final quote “One man thought he could, the other man thought he couldn’t. They were both right.” Thanks for joining us for episode #54 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Our thought for the day – “I AM – Two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality.” Links and Resources From This Episode: Jesses’ Website: http://www.jesselebeau.com/ If you enjoyed this episode on Inspiration and Motivation, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo: 4: Achieving Balance in Your Life with Highliner Josh Beaudoin 8: Fighting Ego vs Spirit with UFC Fighter Kajan Johnson  

“If you don’t dedicate yourself full-time in anything that really interests you, you will likely not be able to fully dive into it and fully experience it…” – Joey Kleinhans The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #53 – Wine Sommelier Joey Kleinhans Sommelier – Jorn (Joey) Sommelier Our next guest on episode #53 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, launched The Wine Elite Sommelier Company in 2012. Jorn (Joey) Kleinhans is an international wine expert and pioneer in creating highly acclaimed sommelier guided wine tasting experiences for corporate events, top hotels and wine connoisseurs. He is a certified sommelier and wine judge and he and his team have provided event programs and consulting for Fortune 500 companies as well as thousands of casual and serious wine students. Joey is an expert contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Market Watch and The Robb Report. An investment manager turned wine expert, Joey chose an alternative life plan and followed his passion. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:25  Joey tells us why it is difficult to describe what he does for a living. “If you invent your own thing or perhaps launch your own industry or innovate, it is often not easy to define what you’re doing as evolving.” He gives us three descriptions “that make sense.” 7:25  Joey moved to the U.S. from Germany at the age of 25, as a Fulbright Scholar. He studied mathematics, worked as an investment manager and retired at 35. What does retirement mean to him in this instance? 10:10  “If you don’t dedicate yourself full-time in anything that really interests you, you will likely not be able to fully dive into it and fully experience it.” Joey tells us. “I realized if I have that type of a passion and I thought if I find it that’s very likely a once in a lifetime opportunity.” 13:50  Joey had studied philosophy and spent time thinking about one question “How to use my lifetime…it is literally the only resource that exists for people.” Joey goes on to explain that it is a limited resource and we already somewhat know the limitations of that resource. 15:15  Joey realizes that we need to decide “This year needs to be filled with meaning with enjoyment and certain levels of satisfaction.”  Joey tells us that every year counts and each year should offer something that adds to life. 19:45  Joey shares with us some motivation for making his career moves. As an employee your employer is your only client. You have the lower power and they the higher and you work on their agenda. On the other hand “Why have one client…why not have many different clients?” 23:45 Joey offers us an explanation of why he chose a wine related career. “I got very frustrated with the state of quality in this field I was interested in.” He wanted a better understanding of wine, a hobby he saw meaning and complexity in. 29:50  Kenyon asks Joey to describe one of his companies wine experiences. Though there is a wide variety available he describes an experience that is like many he gets requests for everyday. A client requests they create a high end wine/dinner experience at the Presidential Suite of a Ritz Carlton somewhere in the country. This client wants to taste some of the greatest wines in the world and reach the highest flavor experience that money can buy. Then they ask that they have one of the most fascinating and competent sommeliers be present to provide a narrative to create the right context to experience the most classic, iconic wines available. The Wine Elite doesn’t sell wine, Joey explains, they deliver an experience. “We are basically the description and the guide to their wine experience…Sensual experiences is what we allow you to have with higher clarity, from individuals with lower budgets to the very high end of the market.” 36:45  Joeys’ experience is, once you truly appreciate wine “there is no way back.” Many of his client’s lives often revolve around wine, from where they travel to the movies they watch to the people they meet. “It’s not a phase; it’s a life long lifestyle.” 40:50  What is something on Joeys’ bucket list? He wants to continue studying a certain type of Scandinavian heavy metal music that is highly defined. The field is complicated therefore it holds his attention. 41:50  What thought would Joey like to leave with us? “However you spend your time, if you can’t give it your full passion or you are not successful in it, you’ve got to start working very aggressively on coming up with a new plan.” That concludes episode #53 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Remember “The cost of not following your heart, is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.” Links and Resources From This Episode: Wine Elite Website: http://www.wineelite.org/about Joeys’ Email: Joey@WineElite.org If you enjoyed this episode on following your passion, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 13: Flying Through the Transitions of Life with Paragliding Instructor Danielle Kinch 28: Why Risk Plus Passion Brings You Ultimate Reward with Adventure Journalist Jim Clash

“…really important, really critical things can be happening in every moment of our life and we need to pay attention, we need to approach life with the kind of presence that will allow the importance of any given moment to take its rightful place…” – Robert Kopecky The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #52 – Author Robert Kopecky Author Robert Kopecky In this, episode #52 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, we meet the author of the book How to Survive Life and Death, A Guide to Happiness in This World and Beyond, Robert Kopecky. Robert has lived a fascinating life as a beach bum, martial artist, factory welder, monumental sculpture fabricator, an underground cartoonist, award-winning illustrator, Emmy nominated art director and animation designer for shows you have probably seen on the Cartoon Network and PBS Kids. His journeys around the world were punctuated not by one or two, but three “Near Death Experiences.” These led Robert to 10 years of study, meditation and service and to his unique transpersonal realizations about life and death. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 4:05  Robert shares the almost unbelievable course of his life that has led him to self-realization. 5:45  Robert tells us about his first Near Death Experience (NDE) in a single car accident. “I was completely disembodied, looking down at my body, seeing them loading my body in an ambulance.” 8:55  Robert tells us that he is not afraid of death.” He starts his book with a quote from Woody Allen, “I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” 11:00  We learn how Robert’s childhood in an alcoholic family environment somehow influences him to become an artist. How he took to nature, and enjoyed the isolation to write and draw. As a child Robert thought “I was on a planet I didn’t necessarily belong on.” 17:45  How did Robert’s meeting with the man who inspired Rutger Hauer’s character in ‘Blade Runner’ inspire him and his wife to take a year-long trip around the world? 20:00  Robert tells us another gripping story, this time about his second NDE. There wasn’t a major spiritual shift that took place but he remembers that, like his first experience, he felt a great deal of relief, warmth and comfort. He was living a wild self-destructive life and there was a kind of life review that took place. He couldn’t remember what was specifically discussed but he was able to absorb the fact that “really important, really critical things can be happening in every moment of our life and we need to pay attention, we need to approach life with the kind of presence that will allow the importance of any given moment to take its rightful place…” 24:40  Robert’s third NDE takes place when he is about 37 years old in a small town in Arizona. While using a payphone he is “assaulted by a large inebriated skinhead.” He ends up knocking his attacker out cold but doesn’t notice the van full of skinheads in the parking lot. The result is shocking, violent and Robert’s “least favorite way to go.” This time he wants to stay in the comfort and protective surroundings but they wouldn’t let him. He is made to realize that “We all have some authentic role that we need to discover and play. We have a function to perform, a purpose, each one of us.” Robert hadn’t found his yet. 28:55  One dark night Robert “found himself sitting in this house in Arizona with all the fragments of my life around me…” and is launched into a deep dark hopeless place. Robert finds himself in hell and he keeps on going. When he comes out the other side he finds he has new interests. He is compelled to be of more help to others, and he begins practicing meditation. This shift in his way of living brings synchronicity into his life. 33:00  Robert gets “the calling” to write about his spiritual journey. “There is this beautiful, remarkable, unimaginable, infinite kind of invisible machinery going on right under the surface of everything you do that’s really informing and animating all of this.” 36:20  Robert challenges us, the listeners, to “Try tomorrow all day long to be as radically kind-hearted as you can be to everybody and watch what happens. It will change your life.” 44:15  Robert wants to point out to people “We never really know exactly how this [death] is coming for us and there is no reason to be afraid of it because if you are anything like me you will probably experience it with surprise, amazement.” There is a quality of ease and beauty. “It’s awaiting us all but it is not a bad thing.” 45:25  When asked what is on his bucket list, Robert tells us he hopes to go to Tibet and experience one of the world’s centers of esoteric spirituality. 46:05  What thought would Robert like to leave with us? He’d like to let us know that his experience of life so far has been difficult and full of obstacles but the biggest obstacles are the ones we create ourselves. Where we stumble is where we need to dig for treasure. We need to clear away the obstacles to love. That wraps up episode #52 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on tunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. And remember, “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain Links and Resources From This Episode: Roberts’ Blog: http://robertkopecky.blogspot.ca/ Roberts’ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Robert-Kopecky-Author/475493015899155 Roberts’ Design Website: http://kopeckydesign.com/ If you enjoyed this episode on Life and Spirituality, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 29: Five Steps To Align with Your Highest Self with Life Purpose Coach Shine Kelly 47: Seduced By The Wilderness with Adventure Author Michael Modzelewski

“It’s important that we come into life with some habits and a perspective that is optimistic because that is what’s going to get us through the hard times and cultivate that happy outlook on life.” – Mike Ferry The Bucket List Life Episode #51 – Mike Ferry Teacher & Author Mike Ferry On this, episode #51, of The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo, we meet a middle school teacher, a coach and father of four children, who is focused on helping us develop the habits of happiness, Mike Ferry. Mike is the author of the book Teaching Happiness and Innovation. He believes that happiness will lead to a safer, more prosperous and more sustainable world. Researchers have found links between happiness, success and innovation. Let’s meet this bright, optimistic and creative guy. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:00  Mike tells us his book, Teaching Happiness and Innovation, came out in August. It was written to help us teach children, but this is what we want for ourselves as well. What he’s learned along the way is “we don’t have to wait for happiness to ascend magically from the heavens because we can actually go out and create happiness through our habits.” 4:00  Mike lets us know “It’s important that we come into life with some habits and a perspective that is optimistic because that is what’s going to get us through the hard times and cultivate that happy outlook on life.” 5:20  Mike realized that getting the message of achieving happiness out there was what he needed to be doing, to take his message to the classroom and to his own kids. This is the key to helping people have the life of their dreams. He has always been more on the optimistic side and as a teacher, author and writer he tries to be upbeat. His music is funny, quirky and appeals to middle school kids, and Mike reminds us that here is never a dull moment in a middle school classroom. 8:55  When it come to success, Mike says so many of us believe if we could just reach a certain plateau – get the right job, meet the right person, get the right car, win the World Series or the Super Bowl or whatever – then we would be happy. He lets us know that is not necessarily the truth. “Success does not always lead to happiness.” On the other hand, research tells us if we are happy to begin with we are more likely to find success. We need to form habits for happiness. 10:55  Mike shares one of the easiest ways we can practice happiness, focus on gratitude. Grateful people tend to be a lot happier and find more success in life. Over time this will become ingrained. 15:25  Perseverance is another aspect of learning to be happy. Mike shares a story that relates to the concept of perseverance. It shows us how a JV Basketball team that is down by 17 points at the half perseveres and what the outcome meant in their lives. Mike points out, “When we persevere whether on the basketball court or any other aspect of life we give ourselves the confidence that we can succeed in other domains.” 19:30  Mike lets us know that the next piece of the puzzle for happiness is an easy concept that people can take into their lives, being kind. The act of being kind stimulates the brain to produce a chemical, dopamine which is a neurotransmitter that makes us feel happy. The more time you spend being kind, the more dopamine is released in your system. This is a natural high and we can feel better anytime we want just by being kind! 20:55  Mike’s music is downloadable for free on his website. All you have to do is donate to any charity, perform any act of kindness or be of service to another person. And as we are learning, when you do things for others you make yourself happy in the process. 21:40  Creativity is another concept that is important to happiness. Being creative also produces dopamine. The more time we spend being creative, the more dopamine is released and the happier we are going to be. Listen to why Mike believes the future of our planet depends on cultivating creativity. 24:30  Mike teaches us that collaboration is another one of the ways be can learn to be happy.  People that have working relationships with others are happier. We need to focus on treating others the way we would like to be treated. Learn why Mike tells us, “Collaboration will make us happier and collaboration will solve a lot of the problems that we face as a nation and as a planet.” 30:25  When Kenyon asks Mike what is on his bucket list he admits that right now he is just so excited for the journey he is on, for the book and its message. He hopes to help change lives and loves the path he is on. 33:20  What thought would Mike like us to take away from his time with us? “Even if we are not naturally happy, creative or consider ourselves not to persevere innately, every aspect is something we can improve. We are all works in progress and we can always improve.” Thank you for spending some time with us enjoying episode #51 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. A thought for today – “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” –Arthur Ashe Links and Resources From This Episode: Mikes’ Website: happinessandinnovation.com Twitter: @mikeferry7 If you enjoyed this episode on Finding and Creating Happiness, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo: 20: Why You Should Never Settle in Life with Career Consultant Mike Spivey 14: Helping You Connect the Dots in Life with Success Coach Mark Sumpter

“You can’t publish something that was never written.”  Chris Kennedy The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #50 – Self-Publisher & Author Chris Kennedy  Self-Publisher & Author Chris Kennedy What has been a reoccurring bucket list item for many of our past podcast guests and is on so many others bucket lists? In this, episode #50 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, we meet the man who can teach all of us how to make one of our dreams come true, author and self publisher Chris Kennedy. He is a best-selling author of six Science Fiction/Fantasy books, with over 41,000 copies sold, and has written a ‘How to Book’ to help us all understand the self publishing process. He has helped 100’s of people get their books in print and in electronic form.  He also teaches us how to market our books and ourselves. We are thrilled he has taken the time to help us get this bucket list item checked off and to guide us through getting a book out of our heads and onto the shelves. Highlight of their podcast conversation: 3:15  Chris tells us about some of the bucket list items he has already been able to check off of his list. As a Naval Aviator, he has traveled all over the world but still wants to visit Australia. Find out why, even though he spent a lot of time in airplanes, he has never jumped out of one. 6:50  Chris shares an interesting statistic. 81% of Americans have a book they want to write, but he wasn’t one of them. After moving to Virginia Beach with his family he was not able to find a job for a year and his savings were almost depleted. While looking for a way to support his family, a story begins to develop in his mind and he wants to do something with it. We learn he has been told over and over that he is not the creative type and he almost dismisses the idea. He decides he has nothing to lose and just starts writing and the story just keeps coming. Find out how he sifts through the overwhelming amount of online advice on publishing a book and builds a successful plan to publish it himself. Find out what happens when Chris freezes up and is unable to push the “Save and Publish” button on Amazon’s self publishing site. 11:55  Chris’s fans express a desire to actually be in one of his books and he finds a way to include many of them in every one of his stories. 12:45  While attending the many conventions Chris likes to go to, he is asked over and over for advise on how to self publish a book. He recognizes the fear in these potential writers that he himself felt. “That’s why I put together the (publishing self-help) book. To try to help all theses people who really wanted to do the same thing that I had been very blessed to do…. It was kind of a way to give back and help the next ones coming through to reach their dreams and to get that out of their bucket list and be successful.” 14:10  What does Chris think is the hardest part of writing/publishing/marketing a book? “You’ve got to get it out and write it down”. The rest is relatively easy. “You can’t publish something that was never written.” And don’t get discouraged, “the first drafts all suck.” Don’t edit the first draft, just let it flow. 18:05  Find out the wide variety of people you need to help you become a successful author, why you come to the point where you need ‘fresh eyes’, and why you need to be open to help and to criticism. 24:15  Chris advises “The marketing process, to work, needs to start before the book comes out.” If you wait until the book comes out you’ve waited too long. 27:15  Chris attends a lot of events. He tells us it’s great for promotion and “it’s a great way to learn.”  He sits on panels and develops his craft while “getting his work out there.” 31:00  We find out that Chris has been compared to George R.R. Martin of ‘Game of Thrones’ fame because he is not afraid to kill off just about anybody in his stories. 34:20  Chris includes many of his fans names in his books. He received an email from a fan asking to be included. He tells Chris that he was in the army and is 100% disabled. He challenged Chris by saying the Iraqi’s couldn’t kill him, maybe he could. Taking up the challenge Chris writes him into the story as a cyborg that was given the option to continue to be 100% disabled or to become a cyborg to fight the enemy. The character kicks butt and goes out in a glorious death. 35:30  Find out what might happen if Chris writes Kenyon into one of his books. What do you think, hero or villain? 38:40  What is on Chris’s bucket list that he would like to check off in the next 2 years?  He would really like to take his kids over to visit his sister that lives in London. 40:25  Chris tells us “Don’t let other people define you.” He was very close to listening to other people when they told him he couldn’t do it. We need to push through the self-doubt. Thank you for joining us for episode # 50 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Hey bucket list lifer, “Don’t be afraid of being different, be afraid of being the same as everyone else.” Links and Resources From This Episode: Chris Kennedy Self-Publishing Website: http://chriskennedypublishing.com/ Chris Kennedy Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/chriskennedypublishing.biz Chris Kennedy Books on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Chris-Kennedy/e/B00E4MIJA8 If you enjoyed this episode on Writing and Publishing Your Own Book, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo: 6: The Story We Tell Ourselves Determines Our Lives with Giles Fabris 33: Setting & Achieving SMARTER Goals with Business Consultant James Doyle

“I can literally accomplish anything right now, as long as I take the risk and commit to the risk and the change that I want to take…”  – Yue Xu The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #49 – Singlefied.com Dating Coach Yue Xu Singlefied.com Dating Coach – Yue Xu In this, episode #49 of The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo, we meet the woman behind Singlefied.com, an informative and entertaining blog dedicated to bachelors. Yue Xu is also a dancer, choreographer, swimmer, kick boxer, actor, TV host (for The Gadget Show China), runner, and in her lifetime wants to change how Chinese Cuisine is viewed in the United States. She is bright, focused, enthusiastic and considers herself a “dating sociologist”. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 4:50  Yue tells us what a guy needs to think about when talking to a woman. Men are naturally focused and targeted, but when it comes to women they have to be aware if they want her because she is a good fit or are they trying to prove something to themselves? Take the time to reevaluate the situation. More on this later. 6:10  1986 – Yue was living in China with her parents. They have nothing but are happy. When everyone around you has what you have you don’t want anything more. “You don’t want anything more because there was no concept of anything more.” 8:40  1989 – Yue comes to the United States. She is eight and they move to East Lansing Michigan. She loved the mid-west and is grateful for her experience “because that was my true exposure to America.” 12:10  1999 – Interviewing for colleges Yue is told by one interviewer that she had become Americanized. It threw her off a little as she thought she had been assimilating. Has she been trying to be American? It was a time for self-reflection. 15:50  Yue decides to do a fascinating experiment. She is curious what factors will help get her hired. Yue sends out resumes with three different first names but uses the same body in the resume. What are the names she used, which name gets the most responses and why? 20:05  Singlefied.com? How did it start? In 2007 Yue’s boyfriend of 5 years proposes, her first response? “No.” She wonders why she spent 5 years with a man she was never going to marry in the first place. She wants to figure it all out, not just for her but for him. Yue reflects on expectations, relationships, how your family relationships affect your romantic relationships and so much more. She happens to talk with a guy in New York about their dating lives and he asks her if he can set up a business relationship where he can discuss dating issues with her and pay her for her time. Once she figures out this is not a shady deal she says yes, and thanks to word of mouth Singlefied.com is born and grows. 25:40  “It’s not so much how to get women, its how to keep relationships and how to pick the right women to be in a relationship with.” Yue’s advice is to focus. 27:35  Learn why Yue thinks there is “…no such thing as a platonic relationship.” 35:50  Yue tells us how everything she has learned has helped her. One of the most important lessons is “You must close the ‘ex files’ before you can move on with your next relationship.” Figure it out and disconnect. “Have your ‘exit interview’, take your learnings to your next relationship and delete your ex out of your life.” 40:55  Yue has learned “I can literally accomplish anything right now, as long as I take the risk and commit to the change that I want to take….Keep your heart and your mind open to things that could be leading you to a direction you never thought you would be going to.” 47:20  How does Yue want to give back? Educating middle school and high school aged children how to communicate and maintain relationships with everyone in their lives, things they may have never been taught as children. 50:20  “How a culture is perceived stems from how their cuisine is perceived.”  Yue dreams of a hip chain of restaurants that uses organic fresh ingredients like her grandmother did, has a tech focus and is somewhat high end that will bridge the gap between Chinese and American. 53:00  What are a few things on Yues’ bucket list? She has never had a pet and wants to adopt a dog and name him JZ. She wants to build her parents their dream house and really, really wants to meet Justin Timberlake. “Is that silly??” 55:50  Yue would like to leave us with this thought, “We can’t expect others to do what we would do ourselves.” Don’t place expectations on others the way we think we would handle a situation. It only ends in disappointment. That wraps up episode #49 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Dr Wayne Dyer tells us “The only limits you have are the limits you believe.” Links and Resources From This Episode: Yues’ Dating Coach Website: Singlefied.com Yues’ Website: http://www.yuexu.com/ Yues’ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yue.xu.9655 If you liked this episode on Dating and Relationships, you will love these other suggested episodes on The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo: 46: Appreciating the Simplicity of Relationships with GGP Co-Founder GillianPierce 25: The Key to Finding Love Online with Matchmaker Courteney Kay

“It’s always fun to travel with other people, especially people with other backgrounds because you not only see different things, you see things differently.” – Marty France The Bucket List Life Episode #48 – U.S. Air Force Veteran Marty France  U.S. Air Force Veteran – Marty France Our next guest on episode #48 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, is Marty France, a 34 year Veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Professor and Head of the Air Force Academy’s Department of Astronautics and a Rocket Scientist. He is fiercely committed to his family, he is a personal trainer, an avid book reader, he hikes 14ers, he cooks, he enjoys wine and craft beers and generally takes life and grabs it by the horns.  Marty loves sharing his experiences with others. He is passionate about educating others in humanities and social sciences. Marty is also an avid photographer and has taken over 100,000 photos of the 56 countries he has visited. He never slows down and gives to others when ever he can. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:40  Marty tells us about his love of photography. He has always been drawn to it. He remembers his fathers’ Leica camera in the late 50’s. When he was a cadet at the Air Force Academy he got his first Cannon AE1 camera. He didn’t get really serious about photography until the digital revolution, he was hooked. Now he doesn’t go anywhere without a camera. “I look at life like how I would compose a photo.” 7:35  Marty has a different approach to embracing life. “I embrace uncertainty. I think uncertainty bothers a lot of people and it bothers me, but I think I have done my best to overcome that anxiety…by just throwing myself into new things.” 8:45  Marty takes us back to when his father was a fighter pilot in the late 50’s. Marty was born in Germany and did a lot of traveling around the US and Canada growing up. He was chosen to be an Air Force Exchange Engineer which took him and his wife to France. They traveled “like fiends” when ever they could and developed into what Marty dubbed “Cultural Junkies”. His parents died young and, knowing life is short, he is determined to meet the challenge of checking off every entry on his bucket list. 12:05  During his time in the Air Force Marty had 12-13 assignments which meant him and is family moved a lot. His wife Becky is his biggest fan and biggest critic, and he appreciates that. Just to share special experiences with her is beautiful. 20.10  Marty talks about how the Air Force Academy has set aside funds for the cultural immersion of their Officer Trainees. The Academy understanding how important it is for these cadets to travel the world and interact with many different cultures they wouldn’t ordinarily get to do. In the future their careers will require them to be able to relate to people on many different levels. This immersion program allows them to organize trips and travel the world with their escort officers. 23:15   Marty admits that being a ”teacher by nature” means that traveling with the cadets “makes me feel good inside that I am helping the next generation be more globally focused, more in-tune and aware of what’s going on around the world.” He also tells us “It’s always fun to travel with other people, especially people with other backgrounds because you not only see different things but you see things differently.” 35:00  Marty is always with his camera and enjoyed taking photos of locals and cadets working on these huge projects. He has some “amazing shots” and loves sharing the beauty of everyday life. One of his favorites is a simple and beautiful picture of ducks paddling idly in scenic rice paddies. 47:45  We get to know more about our awesome guest when he answers the following ‘Laser Questions’ asked by Kenyon: -What is your favorite dish to cook? -What is your favorite place to have a glass of wine? -If you wrote a beginner’s guide to hiking a 14,000 footer which is the first one you think a beginner should hike? -You read 35 books in 2014. What are the 1 or 2 must reads from that group? 51:40  Marty shares a bucket list goal that has nothing to do with traveling, the Air Force or photography. “I want to write a book….I value a well written paragraph, an excellent phrase, a perfect choice of words…” 54:20  What thought would Marty like our listeners to take away from this podcast? “Don’t do too much planning. Look at your opportunities, seize the opportunities when they come along. Leave as many doors open in your life because you never know what will pay off in the end.” That concludes episode #48 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. And remember “You don’t have to be perfect to go places.” Links and Resources From This Episode: Marty’s Photography Website: http://martyfrance.zenfolio.com/ Marty’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/marty.france If you enjoyed this episode on Travel and Adventure, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo: 37: Discover The Leader Inside You With The Director Of The World Scout Foundation John Geoghegan 21: Quit Your Job and Travel the World with Entrepreneur & Traveler Jake Lau  

“It will seduce you with the beauty, Alaska will. And in the next minute it will try to kill you if you are not prepared.”– Michael Modzelewski The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #47 – Wilderness & Adventure Author Michael Modzelewski  Wilderness & Adventure Author Michael Modzelewski Our next guest on episode #47 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo, is the author of 4 books, a naturalist, a guest speaker for the Princess Cruise Lines in Alaska, a globe-trotter, an edge walker, an alligator wrestler and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show, twice. When Michael Modzelewski is not writing books, hosting Adventure Travel TV shows or giving motivational speeches around the world he is exploring the Alaskan fjords and guiding walking safaris in Tanzania. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 2:35  Michael tells us “I’ve probably been doing this crazy stuff for 40 years.” It all started when Michael’s mother would read him to sleep every night when he was 6 or 7. One of those books was ‘Call of the Wild’ by Jack London and it resonated with him. “The rest of my life I was in search of ‘wilderness’.” 4:35  In Michaels’ search for self he decided he wanted to take a retreat deep into nature to find out who he was before he could contribute to society, “We attract who we are.” 5:35  Michael says “There is no accidents in life.” We find out how the decision to help set up tents changes his entire life. 7:30  Michael didn’t realize it but he was a writer in search of his first book. In an off chance he meets Will who he immediately hits it off with. Will owns his own island and invites him to come and becomes the man who gives Michael what he has always searched for, “wilderness.” The Universe confirms he is on the right path, his fortune cookie at dinner tells him ‘You are going on a journey to an exotic land.’ 11:00  Michael shares his favorite place with us, a frozen heaven on earth – Tracy Arm Fjord. It is 50 miles south of Juno and is a glacier carved masterpiece. His description is heart felt, wonderfully visual and obviously comes from a person in love with this special place on earth. For him being there is a spiritual experience. Michael says it is life affirming, a harmony of opposites. 17:25  We hear about how Michael retreats to a frozen island and has a completely Zen experience – “You are doing one thing at a time, deliberately. Your breathing is slowing down. In fact when I would wake up on the island in that isolation, my breath, the ocean against the beach, the wind in the trees and the whales inhaling and exhaling, it was all one breath. You start your day that way, linked up, breathing with the world around you.” 18:25  Imagine that you are just trying to survive. The freezing rain is being whipped by the howling wind outside and inside your tiny cabin, the wind inverts and a tongue of fire shoots out of the heater and sets a chair on fire with you sitting in it. “You are under attack from the elements!” 20:00  Michael tells us “It will seduce you with its beauty, Alaska will. And in the next minute it will try to kill you if you are not prepared.” Michael didn’t see another human for 67 days when a boat was tossed up on shore and some native men come to his cabin. The group having no confidence in Michael’s ability to hold his own against nature is told “I’ll be back in the spring to collect your bones.” 25:05  Michael writes about his life changing experience in the Alaskan wilderness which is published by Harper Collins, and seen by Helen Gurley Brown, who puts him in Cosmopolitan Magazine in their most available bachelor series. With 5,000 women responding to the article Michael goes on an entirely new kind of ‘crazy’ journey, which turns into another well received book entitled “Wild Life”. The notoriety from this publication lands him on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Hear why Michael believes Oprah Winfrey is one of the most highly evolved spirits on our planet.” 39:15  We hear why Michael says “I think when you are living your passion you get outside the time space continuum and you really learn that there is no such thing as time. 40:50  Michael talks about his love for Tanzania. He loves this area because you can draw a line in a 100 mile circle and within that circle you have the Serengeti Plains, you’ve got Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Olduvai Gorge and the Ngorongoro Crater. 48:30  Michael describes his relation with his wife as “strength meeting strength”. He received her letter due to the article on Cosmo. Cosmopolitan has brought many of the best things he has experienced, into his life. He tells us “You know you are in love when the other persons happiness is essential to your own.” 53:40 What is one of Michaels’ goals on his bucket list? His book may very well be made into a movie. He wants to direct it. 56:00  Michael offers Kenyon unbelievable opportunities and Kenyon happily accepts with the condition that they include at least one other person in this once in a lifetime opportunity. Of course Michael says yes, “Lets take 10.” 56:40  Michael would like us to leave us with this thought – “Try to live each day that we have as your first and your last day on earth.” That wraps up episode # 47 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List Life Facebook Page and contribute to making the world a better place. Today’s thought  “I’m not giving up, I’m starting over.” Links and Resources From This Episode: Michaels’ Website: http://michaelmodzelewski.com Michaels’ Facebook Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/Michael.ModzelewskiFanPage Michaels’ Twitter:@mikemodzelewski Michaels’ Books on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Modzelewski/e/B000APW2OW If you enjoyed this episode on Adventure and Exploration, you will love these other recommended episodes on The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo: 10: Living a Life Less Ordinary with Adventurist Andrew Fraser 36: Why You Should Say ‘Yes’ More To Everything with Adventurer Dave Cornthwaite