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C4 Leaders – the ONLY nonprofit to utilize the pizza making process to create space for our companions to be seen, heard, and loved. We also write children’s books and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other. Please check out PIZZADAYS.ORG to support our important work.

Season 5 Episode #14 Michael Pereira is coming from Miami, Florida (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Michael via his website theautismvoyage.com

About our guest: After a successful career in Corporate America and after suffering through and surviving a personal encounter with COVID, Michael knew life had something different instore for him. But he still couldn’t put his finger on it. Then, in 2022, Michael’s son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and from then on, Michael began to look at life through a different lens.

That pivotal experience shifted Michael’s priorities from corporate achievements to creating a secure future for his family, sparking the inception of The Autism Voyage®. Michael decided to embark on a mission to share specialized knowledge of financial planning and support for special needs families. Driven by his firsthand understanding of planning for the future - financially, Michael is all in on using his talents to aid families and their unique challenges with raising and caring for a special needs child.

Michael, thanks for sharing your many talents, for being an advocate for autism, for providing valuable resources to help families with special needs children, and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – welcome to the show!

TOTD – “All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.” Samantha Power

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

I know you have traveled throughout your career… what do you love about traveling…

What life lessons did you take away from your travels/life experiences…

How has having a child with special needs affected your family and friends?

Has it been difficult balancing your time, care, love, energy with your daughter who is not a special needs child.

Asperger’s Syndrome – insights into indicators?

Aphantasia and Autism and distinct ways they intersect

Group Homes for special needs adults…

Planning for a special needs future

Special Needs siblings

The financial side of raising a child with special needs..

Food texture sensitivity… tips to help?

Challenges and balance of raising a special needs family…

Books or other resources you recommend?

Best resources you have found for your family?

The Autism Voyage…blog, website with resources for families of special needs children…

Long Term Care…

Legacy

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C4 Leaders – the ONLY nonprofit to utilize the pizza making process to create space for our companions to be seen, heard, and loved. We also write children’s books and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other. Please check out PIZZADAYS.ORG to support our important work.

Season 5 Episode #13 Ted Santos is coming from New Jersey (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Ted via his website turnaroundip.com (investment partners)

About our guest: Who is Ted Santos? Ted Santos is The Leadership Disruptor Who Turns Chaos into Breakthroughs. Ted is not your typical business strategist—he challenges the status quo through training and developing CEOs, executives, and entrepreneurs to create problems instead of solving them. This strategy ignites the greatness in Ted’s clients that in return, provides the fuel for transformative and breakthrough growth.

Ted’s expertise extends beyond boardrooms—Ted’s groundbreaking book, "Here’s Why You Can’t Find Love," reveals how personal struggles, like broken relationships, cost U.S. businesses over $300 billion annually and provides tools for leaders to fix the hidden leaks that sabotage success.

Ted doesn’t just talk about breakthroughs—he creates them. Whether it’s scaling during rapid growth, transforming culture, or leading through chaos, Ted brings game-changing insights that resonate deeply with high-achievers looking to think bigger, act bolder, and dominate their industries.

Thanks for sharing your many gifts with people all over the world, for continuing to push yourself in the service of others and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients. Welcome to the show!

TOTD – “The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” R.D. Laing

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Change – using it as an asset..

Meeting the needs of employees and the consumer…

Corporate culture…how do you develop it?

You created the Disruptive Leadership Model…what is it…

Define success personally and for a business you are consulting for?

You frequently mentioned BREAKTHROUGH initiatives and how most fail…why?

If you were in charge of our education system…what would be some of the first changes your would implement.

Dealing with disruptive employees?

Helping employees play to their strengths? When do you say, enough is enough when an employee is not performing…

EMBRACING CHAOS and engineering transformations so big, they feel impossible…until they happen…love that…

In your article, you mentioned that in two short years up to 75% of S&P companies will be replaced…let’s explore that statement.

Congrats on your book – Here’s Why You Can’t Find Love…let’s talk about it…300 billion a year of hidden leaks draining productivity, focus, and innovation.

Helping businesses REIMAGINE what their business could look like…

Legacy

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C4 Leaders – the ONLY nonprofit to utilize the pizza making process to create space for our companions to be seen, heard, and loved. We also write children’s books, host this podcast, and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other. Please check out PIZZADAYS.ORG to support our important work.

Season 5 Episode #12 Bern Mendez is coming from Austin, Texas (inform, inspire, & transform)

You can find Bern via his website bernmendez.com

About our guest: For over 30 years Bern Mendez has been on a path dedicated to helping others. Bern’s journey into coaching began at one of the lowest points of his life. He was struggling with depression until a mentor stepped in and guided him out of the darkness. Experiencing such a profound shift, especially after nothing else had worked, ignited something deep and lasting within Bern. In that moment, he knew he had to devote his life to helping others experience that same freedom.

Bern had no idea his path would lead specifically into relationship and intimacy coaching. For the past 14 years Bern’s expertise has been focused on helping smart women to attract conscious, devotionally committed partners in record time, by guiding them to become the most radiant, authentic, and emotionally grounded version of themselves. Bern has been featured on CNN, Univision, Shine, Huff Post Live and his You Tube videos have been seen by more than 30 million people.

Bern thanks for sharing your many gifts with the world, for helping thousands of people find love, and for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients. Welcome to the Show!

TOTD – “Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person.” Anonymous

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In this episode:

What was life like growing up?

What are your life’s essential ingredients?

Secret sauce…what is yours?

5% Principle from your site…what is it?

Subconscious emotional barriers that inhibit deeply committed partnerships…

Skill that is not necessarily taught…Getting reps of learning how to

Listening

Communicating

Trusting

Intimacy

Love

The importance of clarity in seeking what you want…

Becoming the person you want to become and attracting the person you want to become…

Filling a void…

If you want to be in a relationship, be in a relationship… get reps and work on your relationship skills or values or essential ingredients…

What is radiance and how do you develop it?

Attracting a partner

Quiz on Hidden Attraction Blindspot (website)

“sisters in growth” from your website… what is it?

Developing confidence… how do you help your clients develop it…

Legacy