In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews Dr. Peggy DeLong.
Peggy describes the tragedy she experienced with the loss of her fiance and father and how she learned the power of gratitude and how to leverage it to help her cope with her loss and find a meaningful and joyful life on the other side of it.
She outlines five gratitude steps to take to experience tremendous transformation and manage a chaotic life:
Finally, Peggy invites everyone to take her Five Day Gratitude Challenge.
Dr. Peggy DeLong is a professional speaker, psychologist, and author, known as The Gratitude Psychologist.
She teaches people how to harness the power of gratitude to build resilience and cultivate joy to live their best lives, especially through difficult times.
She does this through keynote speeches, psychotherapy, on-line courses, books, and bracelets.
Peggy is the author of:
She is also the owner of LOVE in a Bracelet, where she designs bracelets for coping with grief and loss, mental health, and inspiration.
She hosts women’s weekly wellness walks and hiking events for connection, spiritual growth, and the healing power of nature.
She is the mother of three young adults, all in college, and the wife of an Air Force Veteran and 6th grade science teacher. When she’s not focused on her businesses, you’ll find Peggy in the mountains, downhill or telemark skiing, kayaking, hiking, or mountain biking.
In this episode, Erick Rheam discusses why it’s critical to work within your natural rhythms and why it’s the best way to ensure you move the needle in your pursuit of significance while taming the Beast.
In his book, Rise Above Chaos, Erick outlines the seven elements of the perfect day. These elements are a set of daily habits that, when applied, will provide a vehicle to significance and a natural insulation from the influences of the Beast.
Element #2, Manage Your Energy prescribes six principles of managing your energy on a daily basis to match the energy of The Beast. One of those principles is working with your natural rhythms. Erick describes three ways to do it so that you may be intentional on how you approach each day that ensures success.
In this episode, Erick Rheam the importance of being intentional with your self care during your various phases of life.
As you navigate life’s daily challenges, it’s important to be intentional with critical resources needed to tame the Beast and remain aligned in body, mind and spirit.
This is why Erick unpacks his thoughts on how to manage life in a very healthy way by having these seven elements in what he calls his “Go Bag” for life.
In this episode, Erick Rheam discusses how to manage your comfort zone in times of change.
Whenever something changes in your life, stress can attack your comfort zone causing you to go into survival mode and maybe act out of character or navigate your world in an unhealthy way.
Erick unpacks three activities you can do to help you navigate change in your life in a much healthier way so that you can grow your comfort zone and retain healthy relationships as well.
In this episode, Erick Rheam discusses the need to pivot when something is not working or you’ve grown beyond it.
Change is our constant companion. Life demands that we evolve and change as things change around us; however, it can be hard to change and it’s not always clear when it’s time to pivot away from something that’s just not working.
Erick unpacks three things to consider that will help you make the necessary pivot and what to do when you decide to pivot from a key area in your life.
In this episode, Erick Rheam probes the issues with being a perfectionist in your life.
Many times we’re held back by our expectations of what success should look like in our lives. How many times have you abandoned a dream or a project, because you didn’t feel good about it or you didn’t feel ready? Could you be a perfectionist?
Erick unpacks the problem with perfectionism and explores why all of us have some degree of perfectionism in our lives and why it’s important to overcome up so that we may rise above the chaos.
In this episode, Erick Rheam challenges you to live your story.
We’re taught to live a certain story and often we do everything that’s expected of us only to find out we’ve been living someone else’s story and others' expectations of us. Erick debunks that way of thinking by sharing his four key pillars to living our own story:
In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews Rise Above Chaos student Ken McCoy about his experience with the RAC system and how it motivated him to leave his job and start his own business.
Ken describes his experience going through RAC workshop and the vision exercise that planted the seed that would ultimately lead to the decision to leave his job two years later and embark on his new journey owning his own cybersecurity.
Ken shares the role his wife, Tepi, played during the process and what life is like now for him as he starts this new phase.
Ken McCoy is the founder of Confiance Cybersecurity, a Colorado-based consulting company that believes a strong cybersecurity posture isn’t just for large corporations with unlimited budgets and large teams of IT professionals.
Confiance Cybersecurity offers a variety of cybersecurity services such as Cyber Resiliency Assessments, customized training, program and policy development, and third-party/supply chain risk assessments. Ken spent 32 years in the Information Technology field before starting Confiance Cybersecurity.
Ken and his wife Tepi live in Northern Colorado where they have raised four daughters. They love spending time in the mountains, camping, fly fishing, traveling, and generally spending time outdoors. Ken is an avid fly fisherman and spends time volunteering for Platte Rivers Veterans Fly Fishing, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Veterans through the sport of fly fishing.
In this episode, Erick Rheam, reviews the book, Mindset Shift by Erwin Raphael McManus.
Leaders are readers. It’s important to have a consistent reading habit so you can evolve in your thinking and expand your paradigm of the world.
Erick unpacks some of the highlights that stuck out to him from Erwin Raphael’s book, Mindset Shift. Erick provides a broad stroke on what the book teaches and highlights one area he liked in the book. He covers three of the twelve mindset shifts in the book:
In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews philanthropist Tony Anderson about the power of giving to support others.
Tony is the founder of Cooperative Family Fund, a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to supporting the children of fallen rural electric cooperative employees. Tony describes how he connected with rural communities over four decades that spanned his career serving five separate electric cooperatives.
Tony shares how he started the charitable organization and how it’s helped over 50 children monetarily and emotionally and his plans for the future of this organization.
Tony Anderson took over as General Manager of Cherryland Electric Cooperative in March of 2003 and retired on June 15, 2023. Anderson has been in the electric cooperative business for 40 years and previously managed cooperatives in Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Tony has been married to his last prom date, Mary, for nearly 40 years. They have 3 children and 5 grandchildren
Anderson is President of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Community activities include recipient of the 2018 Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award, 2012 Governor’s Service Awards Michigan Volunteer of the Year, founder of Marathon4Kids, a charitable fundraiser for BBBS and President of the board of the Cooperative Family Fund.
Hobbies include Green Bay Packers football, writing and running. Tony has completed 51 marathons in 50 states plus D.C., while raising over $900,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of NW Michigan.