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.

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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!

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Jamie Hess

In her early 20s, Jamie Hess was a PR hotshot climbing the ladder of success and living the glamorous high life in New York City. To the outside world, it looked like she had it all together. But on the inside, fearing she could never live up to her perfect trailblazing television mom, Joan Lunden, she held a secret. She was a high functioning cocaine addict, barely able to keep her head above water.

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Anthony Bourke

Anthony Bourke is a winemaker, an F-16 fighter pilot and a successful business entrepreneur. And that's just the shortlist of his accomplishments. Today he's taking all of those experiences and helping others discover how not only to live their best life, but to do it at peak performance.

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Wendy Tamis Robbins

For almost 40 years, Wendy Tamis Robbins’ life on the outside appeared to be perfect. An all-star athlete, Ivy League graduate, successful attorney, but on the inside, she was unraveling every single day, suffering with nearly debilitating anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive behaviors, bouts of depression, eating disorders, and even thoughts of suicide. Today, she has transformed her anxiety into her superpower, and she is helping others do the same.

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Matt Emerzian

Being human is tricky because we all want to feel loved, to feel like we matter. And yet we're looking in all the wrong places. Matt Emerzian speaks from his own personal experience. He had a dream job in the music industry, working with some of the biggest stars like U-2, Usher, and Avril Lavigne. But it all came crashing down after a complete mental breakdown and in that brokenness, he discovered that none of that mattered. Today, he's helping millions of people discover how much they matter.

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