David Vanderveen Podcasts

Season 5, Epsiode 8: Grabbing the Bag, an Unusual Discussion with Rob Bell About Money, Our Mindsets about It and How it Shapes Our Lives “Who are you and why are you here?” Is one of the most important and fundamental questions each person has to answer each day. Our relationships and mindsets around money tell a lot about us and how we live our v…

Money fuels much of our ability to function. It fuels many of our dreams. In this episode, David Vanderveen, presents a summary overview of the importance of having a financial plan, which doesn’t have to be complicated, that provides a budget, ways to get out of debt and how to prioritize resources to build the future we want. Following are links …

Jason Tartick was a senior vice president in banking when he realized that despite career success, he was headed down the wrong path. After giving up his career to pursue reality television on The Bachelorette, Jason realized that he didn’t have to accept a corporate path to create the life he really wanted. In this podcast, Jason talks about his n…

Season 5, Episode 5: How an Obsession with Ketogenic Snacking Led Manuel Zeller to Start a Business that Created the Best Tasting Protein Bar on Earth. Manuel Zeller is an Austrian entrepreneur who built a business around his passions for eliminating sugar from modern Western diets while still satisfying his sweet-tooth cravings and snacking habits…

Dai Manuel didn’t have to hit rock bottom to know that he needed to make a change in his life. What he didn’t know was that making one significant change would lead to personal transformation, like a string unwinding a sweater he didn’t want to wear anymore. If we assume that change is certain, then Dai believes that perhaps we ought to be champion…

The concrete world outside our bodies is concrete, results are easy to measure and we can see, touch, smell and taste it. We often hear how the interior work inside us unleashes extraordinary exterior results, but where is this elusive and abstract “inside?” Sabrina Scheuerling shares her remarkable story about escaping the good life, where she had…

Jake Fox is a semi professional mountain biker who was on a trajectory to making his dreams real when disaster struck and was paralysed in an accident. A year later, Jake is riding and skiing again in the mountains of British Columbia but has had to rebuild his dreams, his skills and his life. Rather than embracing self pity or remorse for what cou…

Sometimes we need to take a little time off, reset, reload and restart to hit our goals. Sometimes a not-to-do list is essential in order to focus, to prioritize on what matters most. In the inaugural episode of Season 5, David Vanderveen explores his own sabbatical from podcasting during a strategic shift in work, moves from California to Florida …

Brian Bent actively and deliberately creates the world he wants to inhabit. Like filmmakers who are "auteurs" because of how they impact every element of a story told on film, Brian is an auteur for how he has crafted his personal brand story told in real life (including film). From his midcentury modern home that he recreated, to the hotrods he bu…

Welcome to 2021 and hopefully a year that allows us to take advantage of everything we learned in 2020. It has been a year of dramatic changes, difficult lessons and, hopefully, personal transformation. Hopefully this year has been full of learnings for you. One big question I had to revisit was something my younger son, Willem asked me recently, "…

Reis Paluso is a breath instructor who helps people breathe better and get more control of their bodies and minds through active breathing practices. This year, Reis has pivoted from operating a creative digital agency he co-founded to working full time leading Our Breath Collective (www.ourbreathcollective.com) and doing group and individual breat…

Nobel Gibbens has a long history of success in the military, as an entrepreneur and with his family, but something snapped last year. He and his wife, Kathy learned to see, map and understand their own emotional lives which has helped them manage their own trauma, behave differently and be in better, healthier relationships. Since February, Noble a…

Chris Mauro is back for round two!!! He has spent his life entwined with surfing and adventure sports as a top professional athlete, selling the brands, managing surf shops, shaping, writing, editing, filming and producing for the sport as a journalist and an executive within the World Surf League. Life is long, and Chris continues to figure out ho…

Adam Mundy graduated from Boston University in May 2020 and decided to start a side hustle with his brother while waiting for his international relations career to begin...then COVID hit. Adam and his brother Andrew co-founded CharlieTodd Goods, where they create fine handmade leather wallets and other goods as well as a remarkable blog and lifesty…

Lindsey Davidson was laid off in March due to COVID and decided to start an apparel business, pursuing her love of fashion in a field where she had experience both selling and creating. Her brand, LENNY has taken off in a sustainable and scaleable way, leveraging social media, personal connections and manageable capsules that both generate revenue …

Kelly James Clark has a PhD from Notre Dame and is an international advocate for interfaith cooperation, focusing on the Abrahamic religions. He is project director for “Abrahamic Reflections on Science and Religion” which brings together 36 scholars from 14 countries to reconcile issues in the fields of science and religion. In this podcast, we di…

This week is an audio monologue that stemmed from a number of conversations and feedback about how important perspective can be to help us be aware of others and not just our own needs.At the end of this podcast, I read an excerpt from David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water," a commencement address he gave at Kenyon College in 2005 that was publishe…

This week we get a bit more technical about entrepreneurship with two under-30 founders, John Sherwin and Jai Kim, about how they’ve been able to create one of the fastest growing hydration start-ups via a direct-to-consumer model that is now getting pulled into strong retail partnerships. John and Jai, came together to solve the problem of dehydra…

Aaron James holds a PhD from Harvard and is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Assholes: A Theory, Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump, and Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy and numerous academic articles. He was awarded a Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of L…

Pete Holmes is a creator and comedian who has brought joy to the world through his stand up, podcast (You Made It Weird), television shows (Crashing on HBO), specials and his latest book: Comedy Sex God (that’s a list and not a descriptor of Pete, although many people are saying he is those things). He has a current stand up tour “Silly Silly Fun B…

Jim DeCicco is the oldest of three twenty-something brothers who created Kitu Super Coffee. Jim serves as the CEO for the business and is a part of the RX3 Ventures family (a fund that I’m involved with). This podcast is among my favorites to date for listeners who are interested in figuring out how to launch an idea, and when it might make sense t…

Dr. Joe VanderMeer is a West Michigan head and neck surgeon, ENT specialist, graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, head of his physician group and my brother-in-law. https://www.lakeshorehealthpartners.com/ear-nose-throat-dr-joseph-vandermeer Joe joins the Kickasspirational Podcast to give us an update on the COVID-19 virus from his POV in …

Who doesn’t want a Kickasspirational Easter Egg? Jon Freeman hosts SURFER Magazine’s Ultra Core Surf Hourhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2vTdkld_H0 and has managed to wait until his 40’s to navigate social media surf stardom. The production team voted and decided that we’d push out one of our most entertaining episodes over the Passover/Easter hol…

It’s unclear what the total impact of COVID-19 will be, how long the quarantines will last and what will become the new normal. What we do know is that right now we must behave differently to not only survive the pandemic but to thrive and grow ourselves, our families, our communities and our livelihoods during this difficult period. Brent Willis d…

This COVID-19 crisis is awful. Let’s start there. Given that, what will we do? Aubrey Marcus is a pioneer of what he calls Total Human Optimization. He has been breaking through the thin veneers of civilization, the constructs that hold many of us back and has written, podcasted and created a $70 million lifestyle company based on his philosophy th…

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This week’s Kickasspirational Podcast with Knute Keeling is all about simple, quick, daily habits that can transform how you feel, your body shape and lead to a better you...just give it a listen, I promise it’s fun! Who wants to get ahead of the holidays and put some momentum into your New Year’s resolutions? (Hint: Doesn’t mean you cant get festi…

Episode 32. Season 2, Episode 32: Dr. Eric Nelson on accidentally creating a business and how he has built a life in the process."By David Vanderveen

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