Live Your Best Life
with Liz Brunner
Teach. Motivate. Inspire. These are the themes that run through my conversations with people who are living their best lives.
Guests on “Live Your Best Life with Liz Brunner” are best-selling authors, international executives, public personalities, thought-leaders, health and fitness experts, award-winning chefs and role models who are recreating their lives in interesting, unique ways. They have taken all of their life experiences, the good and the bad, the successes and even the failures, and used that knowledge to not only create their “next chapters,” but to inspire others as well.
My grandmother was fond of saying, “no knowledge is ever wasted.” It’s so true. I have personally used all of my “knowledge” to “re-create” myself several times from High School music teacher, to working in retail, to a 28-year award-winning TV career, and now to entrepreneur. I call it “re-creation” because to me it’s about “connecting the dots” of all of our life experiences and skills, and using them to create our next chapter and to live our best, most authentic life. My guests are re-creating their lives in interesting, unique ways.
As a certified professional executive communications coach and motivational speaker, I not only work with Fortune 500 and C-suite executives on their communication/presentation skills, but I also help them learn the tools they need to become their best authentic selves and live their best lives. Join us for inspiration!
Aaron Knipp
By the time he was 19, Aaron Knipp weighed over 300 pounds and felt trapped in a cycle he thought he could never break. But a defining moment in college became the catalyst for an incredible transformation.
Erica Anderson Rooney
In a world where women are told they can “have it all,” Erica Anderson Rooney knows first-hand the experience of chasing success. For years, while raising two children, she climbed up the corporate ladder getting to the C-suite only to crash against a glass ceiling and deal with imposter syndrome.
Dayla Arabella
Dayla Arabella Santurri is an acclaimed event designer and the visionary behind Bella Adventures, a luxury travel company.Her passion for travel started while she was just a teenager during her first solo trip to Dublin. Now, decades later, Dayla has merged her passion for travel with her expertise in event coordination.
Brittany Lo
Brittany Lo is the innovative entrepreneur behind Beia Beauty and Beautini. Her journey from young beauty enthusiast to a founder in the competitive beauty industry is nothing short of inspiring. She built Beautini, a luxury bridal beauty brand, and Beia, a skincare line designed for intimacy, with a clear mission: to empower others through self-care, confidence, and beauty. Brittany opens up about her insights on the beauty industry and the challenges of entrepreneurship.
Ashley Hilmes
Ashley Hilmes is a former traveling nurse who made the leap into entrepreneurship by establishing Vega Vitality—a wellness center dedicated to holistic health and anti-aging.
Tessa Arnold
For 12 years, Tessa Arnold was navigating the structured world of global corporate banking, caring for her two small children and at the same time, trying to support her husband's business dream. He died unexpectedly, leading her to make a transformative shift in her own mindset.
Tim Storey
In this inspiring episode, I sit down with globally-renowned life coach, speaker, and author, Tim Storey, who has worked with business leaders and A-list celebrities like Robert Downey, Jr., Charlie Sheen, and Dyan Cannon. Tim shares powerful insights from his book The Miracle Mentality: Tap into the Source of Magical Transformation in Your Life, and offers practical guidance on how we can rediscover our childlike innocence and reignite our belief in miracles.
Frankie Russo
Frankie Russo is a serial entrepreneur specializing in merging innovation with authenticity to foster continuous growth. His work is deeply influenced by his upbringing in a family involved in running homeless shelters, overcoming addiction, and guiding others on their sobriety journeys.
Sydney Ryker
Sydney Ryker woke up one day and realized that despite her external success, she had lost touch with her true self. So she embarked on a journey of self discovery, leading her to become a transformational speaker and entrepreneur. Now, Sydney empowers audiences to view life through a holistic lens in order to achieve the things we all want in life.
Martha McSally
Retired Air Force Colonel Martha McSally made history as the first woman in the United States to become a Top Gun fighter pilot. In this episode, Martha shares her journey of overcoming trauma and adversity by rising above all of her fears, facing them head on, and proving the Air Force wrong. When she was told no she couldn’t be a fighter pilot because she was a woman, that ignited a fire in her belly to make it happen.
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Whether through her roles as a TV reporter or the former unofficial first lady of Canada, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau has met kings and queens, presidents, first ladies, major celebrities, all of whom, she says, have inspired her to become a passionate advocate for mental health.
Mike Lee
Mike Lee built an international basketball brand from his college apartment, working with elite players like Steph Curry and Joel Embiid, all while battling anxiety and depression. Today, instead of building basketball players, he's building leaders by sharing high performance leadership lessons from the hearts and minds of the NBA’s elite players.
Caroline Ceniza-Levine
Caroline Ceniza-Levine has worked in financial services management, consulting, media and HR and as an entrepreneur. One of her roles is as an executive coach specializing in career changes believing that you can make a great living and live your best life through intentional pivots at any age.
Light Watkins
Light Watkins has taken what he calls “a series of hops” that have all serendipitously led him from advertising to modeling to being a highly sought after yoga instructor to meditation teacher to enlightened thought-leader. He’s also the author of four best-selling books with hundreds of thousands of followers around the world. He is a spiritual minimalist, helping people cultivate fulfillment on the inside in order to experience peace on the outside.
Stephanie Cartin & Courtney Spritzer
The word "impossible" is simply not a part of Stephanie Cartin or Courtney Spritzer's vocabulary. With a "sky's the limit" mentality, these entrepreneurs walked away from their comfy corporate jobs, amid much skepticism from friends and family, and turned their side hustle into an award-winning business to find solutions to problems for other entrepreneurs.
Michael Anthony
Mindset is everything! That is the truth Michael Anthony lives by. He’s seen both the best and worst of life having suffered through some of the most harsh and vicious child abuse. Michael was homeless by age 10, a drug addict at 12, and by the age of 19, an alcoholic and morbidly obese. He says he spent his whole life in constant fear and chaos. Today, Michael is a trauma survivor, a trauma warrior and trauma mentor who is helping others break free from their brokenness.
Riaz Meghji
You are one conversation away from changing your life. That's exactly what happened to Riaz Meghji back in 2002, and he's never looked back. Riaz was headed towards becoming a financial investment banker, something everyone expected of him, until a friend challenged him to pursue a different path and follow his dream of becoming a broadcaster. Today he's created yet another new chapter for himself as a human connection expert, helping organizations and teams build high trust cultures through meaningful conversations.
Seth Mattison
In the age of machines, technology and AI, jobs are changing faster than people and the stakes have never been higher to get it right. For more than two decades, Seth Mattison has had his finger on the pulse of today's changing workforce. And he believes that putting love to work stands as our indomitable unique edge. He's an entrepreneur, keynote speaker and a “future of work” strategist.
Laura Pizzuti
Laura Pizzuti has worn many hats and had many different career chapters, some of them even simultaneously. Today, she is known as an affordable, everyday fashion influencer. With more than 66,000 followers on Instagram alone, how did she get there and become an influencer? She listened to her own heart and followed something inside of herself.
Michael Schlow
Professional baseball player, stand-up comic...equine veterinarian. These are just a few of the "misguided career chapters" Michael Schlow says he considered before finding his true passion and destiny. Today, he's a world-renowned, multiple award-winning chef and restaurateur, who says he's a forever student...but also a teacher.