Get Yourself Optimized®

Get Yourself Optimized®

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Episodes

January 15, 2026 51 mins

What if you could give yourself an extra week every year?

That's exactly what my guest, Sam Richter, did by automating just ONE repetitive task in his business.

Sam, a keynote speaker and AI-powered sales intelligence pioneer, discovered that by creating a custom AI assistant for his presentation slides, he reduced his prep time from 25 minutes to 5 minutes per presentation. Across 100 present...

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Ever feel like you're fighting battles that aren't truly yours?

You probably are.

Emunah Love just explained in Get Yourself Optimized that most of us carry cellular imprints from ancestors, past lives, and childhood trauma that create invisible ceilings—and we don't even know they're there.

Traditional therapy helps you manage these patterns. Emunah clears them at the root.

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What if your best marketing decisions came from a place beyond data and analytics?

In this week's episode of Get Yourself Optimized, I sit down with Ava Carmichael, a digital marketing strategist who reveals how she combines intuition, data, and experience to create breakthrough marketing strategies for her clients.

Ava shares the turning point when she realized she was splitting her energy be...

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In the "wisdom economy," ideas aren't the bottleneck. Engagement is.

In Get Yourself Optimized, I sit down with Matt Church (Sydney-based leadership thinker, creator of the Pink Sheet Process, author of Rise Up: An Evolution in Leadership) to unpack a practical framework for turning messy thinking into clear, high-impact communication.

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The sources of your biggest pain are also your greatest teachers.

In this episode of Get Yourself Optimized, I sat down with Matt Diggity, a well-known SEO entrepreneur who's now on a profound journey of inner exploration.

We dive deep into why anxiety creeps up so gradually that you don't recognize it, how IFS therapy rewrites the emotional impact of past trauma, and the power of resonant bre...

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The "success lie" nearly destroyed this award-winning entrepreneur's life—until a blackout on an airplane forced her to face the truth.

Janelle Bruland had it all: a thriving multi-state business, three daughters, and the appearance of having life "figured out." But when she lost time during a flight and underwent a brain scan, doctors discovered classic PTSD symptoms—her amygdala was "lit up like New York...

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Most people don't realize they enter trance states multiple times every day.

Ever drive home and can't remember the journey? Get so absorbed in work that you don't hear someone calling your name? That's your subconscious mind taking over—and it's the same state hypnotherapists use to create lasting change.

In this Get Yourself Optimized episode, my wife, Orion Talmay, reveals how she helps cli...

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November 27, 2025 66 mins

What if your biggest failure was actually a trampoline?

In this episode of Get Yourself Optimized, I sat down with Sagi Shrieber—UI/UX designer turned 7-figure entrepreneur—who went from being two weeks away from not being able to feed his family to building multiple successful businesses.

Sagi shares how he: 

✓ Hired a coach with money he didn't have (and turned his business arou...

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Sometimes the worst disruptions lead to the best innovations.

When COVID hit, Chas Gessner had built a thriving concierge medical clinic doing in-home hormone optimization across Southern California. Overnight, everything changed.

Instead of folding, he pivoted to a completely virtual telemedicine model—and scaled his impact beyond what he ever thought possible.

But here's what I ...

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Are you using AI as a yes-man or as an interface to infinite intelligence?

In my latest solo episode of Get Yourself Optimized, I reveal why most people are getting mediocre results from ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI platforms—and how to transform your AI sessions into channels for genuine intuitive insights.

Here's what's costing you breakthrough ideas: 

❌ Treating AI as a conver...

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Most people think manifestation comes AFTER desire. But what if you already have everything you want—just in a different realm?

In this episode of Get Yourself Optimized, my wife, Orion Talmay, and I discuss the Kabbalistic principle: The desire wouldn't exist in you if you hadn't already received its fulfillment in the upper worlds. You've already achieved it. Now it's just manifesting here.

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PayPal. A Fortune 500 company. 13 years. 8 different CMOs. One brand strategist.

How does a 25-person firm retain a client like that? Sasha Strauss says it comes down to one thing: treating every single touchpoint as a brand experience.

From the way his team answers emails to how they structure invoices, everything is intentional. Even for billion-dollar clients, they include language like "we...

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Worried AI will replace your job? Alexander Zheltov thinks it's our chance to become more human.

As founder of Flylane, he's helped 10,000+ students across 35 countries through personalized learning. But his story began with one question at age 10: "Can I study at that UK boarding school?"

Everyone said it would cost a million dollars. He proved them wrong—and changed his future in 60 seconds.

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Dr. John Demartini's "Breakthrough Experience" has transformed lives across the globe. In this episode, we uncover how to turn pain into purpose using his neuroscience-backed methodologies.

💼 Transformative for leaders seeking clarity, healing, and higher performance.

The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at getyourselfoptimized.com/535.

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✨ He Had Millions. A Platform. A Perfect Persona. Then One Molecule Blew It All Up.

After 14 years in ministry and building a top-tier marketing agency, Nicholas Kusmich walked away from it all—not for a bigger business, but for a deeper truth. One therapeutic psychedelic experience cracked open his identity, his faith, and his life's meaning. What followed was a complete unraveling… and the beginning of e...

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What if your calendar could predict your mental health?

Meet Chris Dancy – once dubbed "The World's Most Connected Human" – who didn't just track his steps and calories. He tracked his soul. From mood mapping and ambient data to organizing his apps by values instead of function, Chris built a system to actually understand himself.

But here's the twist: it's not about more data. It's about bett...

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What if the key to breakthrough business growth isn't working harder, but finding the right mentors at the right time?

Greg Merrilees went from a struggling t-shirt designer drowning in $100K debt to running a thriving AI-powered design agency - all because he learned to seek mentors and act on divine guidance. His bold move of creating a free logo for podcast hosts Ezra Firestone and James Schramko opened...

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The entrepreneur who built a 9-year podcast interviewing spiritual luminaries started with ONE person in his living room.

Amrit Sandhu's journey from struggling engineering student to interviewing guests like Marianne Williamson and being personally coached by Eckhart Tolle proves that authentic growth compounds exponentially.

His secret? What he calls "sacred curiosities" - the genuine intere...

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September 11, 2025 59 mins

The CEO, who learned to read at the age of seven and earned his GED at 21, has just shared the spiritual practice that changed everything in this week's Get Yourself Optimized episode.

Calvin Bagley's journey from educational isolation to healthcare entrepreneur (serving 60,000+ clients) reveals how becoming "the observer" of your thoughts—rather than fighting them—unlocks both personal transformation and ...

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Most entrepreneurs waste years trying to write "the perfect book." Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby (sold for $22M), has a better approach.

Instead of thinking book first, start with individual blog posts. One idea per post. After 50-80 posts, you've already written your book - just compile them.

His "Hell Yeah or No" decision-making framework helped him build and sell one of the most successf...

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