In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews Bobby Dutton, a professional pilot, speaker, and events creator.
In this episode, Bobby discusses the importance of keeping calm during turbulent times in life and how the pilot philosophy when navigating chaos translates well in everyday life. He walks us through the steps a pilot takes when troubleshooting problems in the air and how to apply that to life.
Bobby Dutton is a professional speaker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He's also a licensed commercial pilot and flight instructor -- for fun.
Thriving at the intersection of engineering and art, Dutton created GrooveBoston in 2004, built on the statement "Music is No Longer a Spectator Sport." His team (now called GBM6) is about making people happy, through legendary events.
Bobby's pioneering work on event design has won him awards internationally, and he was voted one of the "Top 25 Young Event Pros to Watch" by Special Events Magazine.
A creative leader and relentless optimist, Dutton has also served on the SEARCH Foundation Board of Directors, and on the Board of Governors for the International Live Events Association.
In this episode, Erick Rheam interviews Melanie Curtis, a world-record professional skydiver and professional speaker.
In this episode, Melanie shares the incredible story of how a failed first attempt at skydiving at just 16 years old almost kept her grounded for good. But instead of giving in to fear, Melanie made a bold decision at 18 that changed the course of her life – leading to over 12,000 jumps around the globe.
Join us as Melanie takes us through her transformative journey of self-discovery, revealing the mindset that helped her face her fears head-on and pursue her passion for skydiving, no matter the obstacles. Whether you’re looking for inspiration to overcome your own fears or curious about the life of a professional skydiver, this episode is packed with motivation and life lessons that will leave you ready to take the leap.
Melanie Curtis is a former investment banker turned stunt-woman world-record pro skydiver, turned keynote speaker, life coach, author, activist and entrepreneur.
he has jumped out of an airplane over 12,000 times, competed at the highest levels, and has traveled the globe as a headlining professional athlete coaching thousands of people over the last 30 years.
Melanie has worked with Weird Al Yankovic, Megan Rapinoe, the RedBull Air Force and more. She has spoken on the same TED-Ed stage as Gloria Steinem. She has emceed ahead of Jameela Jamil and in front of 20,000 in the Angel City FC stadium.
Melanie has also landed a parachute in that stadium, as well as Dodger Stadium, Lumen Field in Seattle, and the Great Pyramids in Egypt. Melanie has spoken at Athleta, PNC, NatGeo, Cornell University, Middlebury College (her alma mater), and more.
Melanie has been tapped as an expert on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, NBC Know Your Value, Forbes, Entrepreneurs on Fire, Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman the Founder of LinkedIn, and more. Melanie has authored 3 books, including How to Fly: Life Lessons From a Professional Skydiver.
Melanie co-founded Highlight, an all-female parachute demonstration team, using skydiving as a vehicle to champion equality. She also received the first-ever Mentorship Award for the entire Parachute Industry Association. Melanie co-founded the Trust the Journey podcast, where she and guests share in depth about their deep healing as a crucial part of accessing the true expanse of our human potential.
In this episode, Erick Rheam discusses how to manage your chaos.
Erick discusses three primary techniques to manage chaos and also introduces three tools to consider to help manage the daily grind caused by chaos.
In this episode, Erick Rheam, reviews the book, Good Energy, by Casey Means M.D and Calley Means.
Erick highlights the revealing nature of this book and how it focuses on our cellular health, the fallacy of the American Medical system and how to correct course. He highlights the four primary areas to increase our good energy and heal our cellular health and outlines what he plans to follow from the book.
In this episode, Erick Rheam discusses the importance of finding your “Why” and the importance it places as your foundation for your significant life.
Erick discusses the two major components of your why and how to turn that into a why statement and then how to turn your why into a purpose for your life
In this episode, Erick Rheam discusses the critical importance of a team and how it contributes to your significance journey.
Erick discusses the five principles of effective team building. He also describes four types of team members and how each type plays an important role in your life.
In this episode, Erick Rheam, reviews the book, The Anatomy of Peace by the Arbinger Institute.
Erick highlights the primary tenets of the book around our behaviors and how the acts of betrayal on everyday things leads our hearts down the wrong path and its impact on others.
He describes how the book impacted him and how he approaches the key relationships in his life and the four steps to resolving a heart of conflict.
In this episode, Erick Rheam discusses his most recent annual retreat and what he learned from it and shares his daily schedule during the retreat.
Erick recounts what he did each day of the retreat, the theme for each day and how focused on each day to gain clarity on what he might do going into the new year.
He shows how he leveraged various tools and mechanisms to build a plan going into the new year and how you can do the same in your own annual retreat.
In this episode, Erick Rheam discusses the importance of starting your new year with the simple act of clarifying what a meaningful life looks like for you.
Erick recounts the profound impact of writing down what a meaningful life looked like for him and how it impacted his decision making and life choices moving forward.
He discusses the three primary areas of life that must be clarified in order to pursue a meaningful life and what that looks like for him.
Finally, he challenges you to go through the meaningful life exercise so that you can start off the new year with tremendous clarity and hope for a fantastic year!
In this episode, Erick Rheam, reviews the book, Leadership and Self Deception by the Arbinger Institute.
Erick unpacks some of the highlights that stuck out to him from the book, Leadership and Self-Deception. Erick provides a broad stroke on what the book teaches and highlights one area he liked in the book, which focused on the idea self betrayal and its influence in how we see others and how the book describes the impact it has on relationships. He unpacks the seven things he learned from the book and how it matters in our relationships.