Practical momentum for sustainable success.
Live Greatly is a polished personal growth and workplace performance show built around practical momentum. Its interviews and short motivational episodes focus on procrastination, confidence, decision-making, habits, leadership, and redefining success beyond achievement alone.
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Live Greatly is a personal productivity and leadership show with a strong wellness spine. It is polished, encouraging, and practical. The episodes return again and again to a central question: how can people perform well without losing sight of health, meaning, and emotional steadiness? Recent conversations make that balance concrete. John Acuff talks about procrastination through the lens of permission, personal responsibility, goals, and mindset. Paul Epstein brings the language of momentum, Monday motivation, confidence, leadership, and faster decisions. Corey Kogan connects The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People to proactivity, win-win thinking, and less reactive behavior. Dominique Dawes reframes success through the experience of Olympic achievement, pressure, parenting, healing, and fulfillment. The founders of Lola Blankets add a business story rooted in family loss, community, product purpose, and charitable support. Short 2 Minutes of Motivation episodes compress the same worldview into quick prompts. One segment recommends settling the nervous system before making a decision. Another frames confidence as posture, intentional choices, repetition, perspective, and lightness. A growth mindset episode emphasizes releasing perfection, trying positive discomfort, learning from setbacks, and practicing self-compassion. The show is not abrasive or contrarian. Its register is upbeat and direct, with a steady preference for frameworks, questions, and next steps. It suits listeners who like self-improvement that can move between the office, the gym, family conversations, and private reflection. The business material is approachable rather than technical. The wellness material is pragmatic rather than mystical. Across interviews and short episodes, Live Greatly argues for a version of ambition that is active, reflective, and emotionally sustainable.
Made for: Live Greatly is for professionals, leaders, founders, parents, and growth-minded listeners who want stronger habits without burnout. It especially suits people drawn to confidence-building, decision-making, resilience, and purpose-driven achievement.
What sets it apart: The show combines brisk motivational mini-episodes with longer interviews that connect performance advice to real stories of pressure, grief, leadership, athletics, and entrepreneurship. Its strength is making high-performance language feel grounded in daily choices.
The Live Greatly Podcast with Kristel Bauer supports listeners in creating sustainable success, meaningful growth, and lasting well-being — professionally and personally.Hosted by Kristel Bauer, a highly regarded keynote speaker, corporate wellness and performance expert, Integrative Medicine Fellow, and author of Work-Life Tango: Finding Happiness, Harmony, and Peak Performance Wherever You Work, this podcast shares insightful conversations and practical strategies to help you thrive without burnout.Each week, Kristel speaks with leading experts, authors, and thought leaders on topics including peak performance, leadership development, resilience, mindset, employee engagement, and modern wo…
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This episode features Paul Epstein discussing how to overcome indecision, build momentum through his Win Monday community, and achieve more happiness and success in career and life.
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This episode features an interview with Olympic champion Dominique Dawes discussing how her definition of success has evolved, her gymnastics journey, healing from trauma, and advice for parents on children's athletics.
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