Win The Day With James Whittaker

Episode 48: Changing the Game with Pictionary® founder Rob Angel “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs Rob Angel was in his mid-twenties and working in Seattle as a waiter, earning $2/hour plus tips. With no business experience, plan, or money, Rob created the phenomenally successful and iconic board game Pictionary®. Within four years, and with only two employees, Pictionary became the biggest selling board game in the world. For the next 15 years, Rob shepherded Pictionary to worldwide sales of more than 38 million games in over 60 countries and 45 languages. It had also appeared in blockbuster films like When Harry Met Sally and TV shows like Friends, not to mention the countless licensing deals with brands such as The Simpsons and Austin Powers. After an incredible ride, Rob said goodbye to his baby, selling the phenomenally successful Pictionary to toy giant Mattel. Rob just released Game Changer, which is a Wall Street Journal bestselling book that reveals th

Episode 47: The Heart of Humanity with NFL Legend Nick Lowery “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart.” – Native American proverb Nick Lowery is a philanthropist and Hall of Fame athlete, but his entry into the NFL was anything but smooth. Nick was released or rejected 11 times by eight NFL teams before finally given a chance by the Chiefs who, as history proves, made a hell of a return on their investment. Retiring after 18 seasons in the NFL, Nick is widely regarded as the most valuable kicker of all time, achieving records for most field goals in NFL history, most accurate field-goal kicker in NFL history, and all-time leading point scorer for the Chiefs. But Nick is far from the athlete stereotype you might imagine. He attended Harvard University where he graduated with a Masters degree from the Kennedy School of Government. Among his extraordinary list of accomplishments, Nick has: served three US Presidents as an advisor on youth and drug policy in the White House;

Episode 46: Travel, Truth and Transformation with Laura Latimer “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”— Helen Keller Laura Latimer is an international speaker, a leader in healthcare tech, and a pioneer in the no-code / low-code movement of entrepreneurship. Her heart beats for empowering women and improving the lives of travel healthcare workers.  Laura started her company, Nomadicare, without the usual resources people have. She had barely any experience, no training, and certainly no external funding. But the one thing she did have was a lot of heart. And if you’ve read any of my books, you’ll know that the right attitude makes all the difference. While working in the healthcare industry, Laura experienced a problem firsthand and said to herself, “You know what? I’m going to be the one to fix this!” In that pivotal moment, her mission to revolutionize travel healthcare was born.  Today, Laura is part of the 2% of women entrepreneurs who generate over USD $1 million of annual reven

Episode 45: Pain, Passion and Profit with Dr. Steve Sudell “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” – Benjamin Franklin We've got an entrepreneurial superstar joining us on the show today! Our guest will reveal his secrets to: Creating products that people love Raising $1+ million through crowdfunding, and Generating multiple 7-figure exits. That's right, he's done a LOT, despite still only being in his 30s.  Dr. Steve Sudell received his doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2009, and in an accomplished career he’s made it his mission to find non-invasive solutions to get people back to doing what they love. In 2015, he co-founded StretchLab, a revolutionary assisted-stretching facility that helps individuals improve their overall flexibility and well-being through stretching. Steve created the full range of stretching protocols that are still in use today, and also trained hundreds of practitioners – known as “flexologists” – in the process. With Steve’s expertise, StretchLab went from one l

Episode 44: Sleep Your Way to the Top with Dr. Michael Breus  “No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.” — Carrie Snow Today, we sit down with the world’s foremost authority on sleep. Dr Michael Breus is a 3x bestselling author, clinical psychologist, and sleep educator. He has appeared all over television, including Oprah, The Today Show, and on The Dr Oz show more than 40 times. Dr Breus is also a regular contributor to major publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. When he’s not doing media appearances, Dr Breus works with some of the most successful individuals on the planet who want to perform at their peak with as little sleep as possible. We spend about 30% of our time asleep, which adds up to almost 3,000 hours each year on a single activity, yet when we think about peak performance, we rarely think about ‘sleep’ as an urgent priority to fix. In this interview, we’ll go through: A five-point plan to improve your sleep right now The latest

Episode 43: How to Live, Love and Lead with Gabby Reece “No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Welcome to Win the Day with James Whittaker! If this is your first time here, we sit down with some of the world’s true legends to help YOU take ownership of your financial, physical and mental health. And our guest today is the perfect intersection of those three areas. Gabby Reece is a fitness icon, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, mum, wife, host of The Gabby Reece Show, and a New York Times bestselling author. She’s been featured on Dr Oz, The Today Show, and the Joe Rogan podcast, and was the first female spokeswoman for Nike. In September 2020, Gabby and her husband — big wave surfer Laird Hamilton — listed their plant-based food company Laird Superfood on the New York Stock Exchange, just five years after they launched it. Gabby and Laird are also the founders of Extreme Performance Training (known as XPT), designed to stimulate growth in ALL aspects of human perf

Episode 42: Fight for Every Breath with Marcus Smith “The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.” – Norman Schwarzkopf On this show I like to bring you the real mindset masters, and today we’ve got an absolute superstar, Marcus Smith, who’s been through more wars than most. Marcus is an entrepreneur, an extreme athlete, and a performance coach. Based in Dubai, he’s the founder of InnerFight, which helps everyone – from kids to corporate clients – unlock their peak performance, as well as owner of Smith St Paleo, which provides paleo food offerings to help people make better nutrition decisions. Marcus is fit, and I mean FIT. At age 18, he started playing professional rugby, making it to the 2009 Rugby Sevens World Cup. Since then, he’s completed pretty much anything with “ultra” in its name, including: the Marathon des Sables, a six-day ultramarathon through the Sahara Desert known as “the toughest foot race on Earth”; a 230km (143 mile) self-supported ultramarathon across Kenya; and a footrace o

Episode 41: How to Make 2021 Your Best Year Yet “It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” — Benjamin E. Mays Do you know why most people fail each year, despite the best of intentions?

Episode 40: Putting the Profit in Purpose with Mike Michalowicz “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde Today, we sit down with one of the world’s leading entrepreneurs, Mike Michalowicz. If you’re treading water in your career (or simply have lofty goals), or you’re thinking of going down the entrepreneurial route, this is the episode for you. By his 35th birthday Mike had founded and sold two multi-million-dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became a small business angel investor – but then proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Mike has devoted his life to the research and delivery of innovative, impactful strategies to help business owners succeed. He is the creator of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe to drive profit. Mike is also a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a business makeover specialist on MSNBC, an

Episode 39: The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide for 2020 “When things change inside you, things change around you.” – Buddha (This will be the last episode for 2020, but if you’re new to the show there’s 30+ other episodes for you to check out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you listen to podcasts. For exclusive video content to make 2021 your best year yet, remember to subscribe on YouTube.) Welcome to my 3rd annual holiday gift guide! Each year, I outline the items that have made the biggest impact in my life throughout the year, and I know they’ll do the same for you. This holiday season – rather than squandering money on gifts with little long-term value – consider giving something practical, like a life-changing book that gets the recipient excited about taking ownership of their future. Filling your mind with the knowledge you need is the best way to transcend your circumstances so you can achieve whatever you want in life, regardless of what’s happened in your past. Every book I have read has chan

Episode 38: Winning the Wealth Game with Adam Carroll “Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” – P.T. Barnum Ready to master the money game!? In this episode, we chat with one of the world’s foremost personal finance experts, Adam Carroll. Adam has spent 15+ years helping people do more with the money they make.  He is an internationally recognized financial literacy expert, a 3x bestselling author, host of the Build a Bigger Life podcast, and a 2x TED Talk speaker with 10+ million views online. He is also the creator of the documentary Broke, Busted and Disgusted, which aired on CNBC and is shown in hundreds of high schools and colleges across the country. In this episode, we’re going to be talking about how you can achieve financial freedom. We’ll also go through: How parents set their kids up for financial failure; How to get out of debt, no matter what age you are; What you can to do to raise strong children in the digital world; and How a simple (and I mean simple) action got Ad

Episode 37: The Road to Resilience with Dr Sonja Stribling “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." - Helen Keller Before we begin, I want to make something very clear: how you respond to adversity when it inevitably strikes is what separates ordinary people from extraordinary achievers. That’s right, none of us are immune to adversity – and, in fact, the most successful people use the adversity they’ve faced as fuel to move forward stronger and more resilient than ever before. Today we sit down with Dr Sonja Stribling who has faced enormous adversity her entire life. She was born into a family as the youngest of 12 children, to parents who only had a second-grade education. At age 15, she gave birth to her first child. And just two years later, at 17 years old, she was raped and left for dead. Sonja went on to college, but just prior to graduating, she joined the US Army for what would become a 21-year career, including combat tours in war-torn countries like Iraq and reaching t

Episode 36: Lose Yourself to Find Yourself with Bruce Kirkby “My biggest fear is that when I die the person I am meets the person I could have become.” – Author Unknown Our guest today is a truly extraordinary individual and one of the world’s leading wilderness experts.  Bruce Kirkby grew up in Toronto as an engineering physicist by trade, but he had that itch that there was more to life than simply going through the same boring motions each day.  Despite almost failing English in high school, Bruce became a wilderness writer and adventure photographer, and today he’s visited 80+ countries and is renowned for connecting wild places with contemporary issues.  Some of his most notable accomplishments include the first modern crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter by camel, a descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft, a sea kayak traverse of Borneo’s northern coast, and a coast-to-coast Icelandic trek. Bruce is the author of three bestselling books, winner of multiple National Magazine Awards, an

Episode 35: The Power of Now with Brandon T. Adams “I’m in a battle every single day. A war. People who succeed have the burning desire to win, and the persistence to get up and fight every day.” - Brandon T. Adams Today we're stepping it up! For the first time EVER, the Win the Day show has been filmed in a professional recording studio in Los Angeles, California. Check it out here

Episode 34: 5 Ways to Stay Productive During a Pandemic “We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.” – Archilochus Is it possible to stay productive, happy and healthy during a pandemic? Absolutely! You just need the right plan.  In this episode, I'm going to share with you the five changes I've made during the pandemic to help me succeed in life and business. The most important is how I've changed my morning routine, because we win the day based on what we do in the morning. I’ll also share with you a story that I’ve never mentioned before about a particularly challenging day earlier this year.  These are the exact changes I’ve made in the last few months that have enabled me to fill my cup at a time when I really needed it, and hopefully they work for you too. _ YouTube version: https://youtube.com/c/JamesWhittaker1/videos Blog version: https://jameswhitt.com/newsletters/ _ Show links:

Episode 33: Reprogramming Your Brain with John Assaraf “Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate, and none of what you hate.” – John Assaraf Today, we’ve got one of the leading mindset and behavior experts on the planet, John Assaraf. You probably know John from the 2006 film ‘The Secret’. Since then, John has built a billion-dollar company, numerous multimillion-dollar companies, written two New York Times bestselling books, and been featured in eight movies, including 'The Secret' and 'Quest for Success' alongside Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama.  But his journey to success was anything but smooth. Growing up with a fixed mindset, John was expecting to follow a similar path to his father who lived paycheck to paycheck as a taxi driver with a bad gambling habit. John left high school after Grade 10 and eventually found work in a warehouse, but he was hanging out with some unsavory people which left him with two career horizons: jail or the morgue.  It was only at 19 years old, through

Episode 32: From Solitary to Service with Coss Marte “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill At 11 years old, Coss Marte began using drugs. At 13, he was selling crack on the streets to make ends meet. With a lack of positive role models, and an environment riddled with crime, there were few legitimate avenues available to him. Yet, despite regularly witnessing extreme acts of violence, Coss survived as he inched his way up the food chain. At 19, he found himself at the helm of one of the largest drug delivery services in New York City. Through a team of more than two dozen couriers, dispatchers and street soldiers, Coss distributed vast quantities of cocaine and marijuana to all segments of society – from public housing residents to cops, judges and doctors, but especially Wall Street executives who had the salaries to match their insatiable appetite for his product. At its peak, the business was earning more than $5 million a year. Coss’ dru

Episode 31: Becoming Unstoppable with Kerwin Rae “Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda Kerwin Rae is one of the world's foremost business growth experts. In an extraordinary career, he’s helped 100,000 businesses in 150+ different industries, in more than a dozen countries, to achieve better results.   But Kerwin certainly had to attend the school of hard knocks to get where he is today. At 7 years old, he was diagnosed with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning difficulties. At 15, he had the first of seven near-death experiences. And at 19, he became addicted to drugs.  It looked like the stars simply wouldn’t align for his life, and he hadn’t even read a book in full until he was 23 – which is coincidentally the same year he started his first business.  Then, a series of transformational moments occurred that made Kerwin realize he had FAR more potential than he ever thought possible. At that point, he realized that his rollercoaster journey – through difficult lessons and significant hardshi

Episode 30: How to Create Life-Changing Relationships with Keith Ferrazzi “Success in any field, but especially in business, is about working with people, not against them.” – Keith Ferrazzi Keith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of books like 'Never Eat Alone,' 'Who’s Got Your Back' and the brand new 'Leading Without Authority.' Keith leads executive teams of some of the most well-known companies in the world, including Delta Airlines, General Motors and Verizon. He’s also been featured regularly in Harvard Business Review, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, and is often cited as the modern-day Dale Carnegie. Keith has chalked up some massive wins in his acclaimed career. When he was just a summer intern at Deloitte, one of the biggest accounting firms in the world, Keith used the power of relationships to become the youngest CMO of a Fortune 500 company and the youngest partner in Deloitte history, all before he turned 30. In addition to relationships and networking, Keith is recognized as the w

Episode 29: How to Stress Less and Accomplish More with Emily Fletcher — The World Leader in Meditation for High Performance “What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi Wherever you are in the world, there’s a strong chance that you’ve been feeling a great deal of stress lately. And 2020 certainly seems like a year of transition for all of us. So how bad is it? Well, Harvard suggests that up to 80% of doctor’s visits are caused by stress, and that was before all of this hit. This made it the perfect time to have Emily Fletcher, who is regarded as the leading expert in meditation for high performance, on the Win the Day podcast. What Emily teaches is extremely practical and eliminates the shortfalls that I’ve personally experienced from other types of meditation. Every session also ties in directly to goal-setting and manifestation, which is one of the attributes I love most about it. But don’t just take my word for it! Emily has worked with Navy SEALs, NBA players, Academy Award winners, and globally recognized CE