Tag: The Dream Architect Life

How To Take Risks With Confidence (Ep.22)

How To Take Risks With Confidence (Ep.22)

Now that Bryan and Brittany have discussed why confidence is key, it’s time to learn how you can implement it into your professional and retired life to achieve your goals.

In this episode, Bryan Sweet and Brittany Anderson explain how you can find the confidence you need to take the necessary steps to create value and passion in what you put out into the world. They also share why creating a healthy amount of confidence during your career will help you find your purpose and meaning during your retired years.

Bryan and Brittany discuss: 

  • How you can incorporate confidence when you are taking any type of risk
  • How boosting your confidence can affect your potential and ability to achieve greater success
  • Why you shouldn’t just formulate a retirement plan, but a post-retirement plan
  • Why you should incorporate more self-care into your routine and how it can enhance your confidence 
  • And more

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Confidence Is Key (Ep.21)

Confidence Is Key (Ep.21)

You’ve heard the saying that “confidence is key”, but there is so much more to it than that!

In this episode, Bryan Sweet and Brittany Anderson go into depth about the influence of confidence on both your personal and professional lives. They also provide advice about how you can maximize the confidence you have in everyday life.

Bryan and Brittany discuss: 

  • Bryan’s newly published book “Dream Architecture: Build a Retirement Beyond What’s Possible”
  • The relationship between confidence and success
  • Finding the right people to help you find the right courses of action
  • The slippery slope of comparing your retirement to someone else’s
  • And more

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Navigating Uncertainty and Adversity In The Current Age (Ep.20)

Navigating Uncertainty and Adversity In The Current Age (Ep.20)

It can feel impossible to escape the constant stream of media in today’s day and age.

How can you disconnect and free yourself from overwhelming content?

In this episode, Bryan Sweet and Brittany Anderson discuss how you can navigate the uncertainty and adversity you are constantly being fed on media platforms and how you should find an outlet to free your mind from the constant “hustle culture” in society.

Brittany and Bryan discuss: 

  • Eliminating the effects of fear and uncertainty in your life
  • The role of the news when trying to gain a new perspective on the world
  • How you can better understand what you can and cannot control
  • Finding your outlet – finding a new book series, going outside, or finding a new spot to relax
  • And more

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Adding Value 2 Life With Robert Peterson (Ep.19)

Adding Value 2 Life With Robert Peterson (Ep.19)

Adding value to other people’s lives every day, helps us to impact their life in some way.

In this episode, Robert Peterson, co-founder and president of AV2L Consulting (Add Value 2 Life) will share how your understanding of money and dreams can impact lives. He also teaches you how you can shift your negative mindset. 

Robert discusses: 

  • The path that led him to where he is today
  • One area of life people get stuck in the most
  • Why he started his podcast
  • How you can shift yourself out of a negative mindset
  • And more

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About Our Guest:

Robert Peterson is the co-founder and president of AV2L Consulting llc. He and his partner founded AV2L because they believe that human beings were created to take care of each other. They believe they were meant to, “encourage one another and build each other up.”

He helps entrepreneurs make great connections and build meaningful relationships.

He has a lifelong passion of serving and helping people. He has taught and coached leaders in dozens of countries and has a unique ability to connect, excite and impact my audiences.

His coaching and training helps leaders focus on strategy, leadership, influence, communication, relationships and accountability while connecting their passion and faith to tangible results.

Robert is passionate about seeing his clients believe in themselves and achieve results they never believed possible.



When You Connect, You Can Thrive With Lou Diamond (Ep.18)

When You Connect, You Can Thrive With Lou Diamond (Ep.18)

What is it that driven entrepreneurs have that makes them thrive?

In this episode, Brittany Anderson talks with Lou Diamond, chief executive officer at Thrive to discuss what he has accomplished and how he masters his own mindset. He also shares how he helps people overcome things in their lives that might be related to limited mindsets. 

Lou discusses: 

  • How his work inspires people within their passion and makes them thrive
  • The impact of selfishness on professional and personal relationships
  • One of the biggest challenge he has faced in his business career and the mindset that got him through it
  • The influence of fear in your professional life and how you can overcome its overwhelming effects
  • The art of a great professional conversation
  • And more

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About Our Guest:

Lou is an energetic, humorous and inspirational speaker, business development strategist and performance mentor. For over 25 years he has delivered winning tactics that have increased results of leading performers from companies all over the world.

He is the CEO of THRIVE, a company focused on helping brands become even more amazing through the power of connecting.

When he isn’t speaking or working on his top-rated Thrive LOUD podcast, he is watching his kids grow up too fast, obsessing over how bad his sports teams are, listening to country music…and playing some ‘not-so-great’ golf.

If you or your organization are trying to find the right way to make the connections essential to achieve your business goals, Lou Diamond is the man to help you make it happen.

Bringing Value to Each Aspect of Your Life With Warren Barry (Ep.17)

Bringing Value to Each Aspect of Your Life With Warren Barry (Ep.17)

It is possible to bring value to not only those around you, but everything you commit your time to. 

In this episode, Brittany Anderson talks with Warren Barry, a speaker for TEC Canada and Vistage International to share some personal stories and advice for bringing value to each aspect of your life.

Warren discusses: 

  • How “The Pondcast” showcases his vast skill set in human resources
  • His desire to “better the pond” and his plan to bring value to those around him
  • How The Kolbe Assessment measures your skills and what value it can bring to your team at work
  • Why the reinvention of yourself is crucial to achieving personal growth
  • And more

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About Our Guest:

Warren Barry is a highly-regarded Resource Speaker with TEC Canada and Vistage International and delivers presentations and workshops across the continent for organizations that come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. A Saskatchewan native who is true to his prairie roots, Warren can also be found wearing a mask and pads while tending goal for his beer-league hockey team; attempting to be a latter-day version of boyhood idols like Tony Esposito and Gerry Cheevers. Unlike the other players on any hockey team, the goaltender is often considered to be the odd one out of the bunch in terms of quirks and behaviors, but nobody will ever question their value to a team.



Combatting Doubt Within Your Career With Steve Ody (Ep.15)

Combatting Doubt Within Your Career With Steve Ody (Ep.15)

The way you perceive success can heavily influence how you find fulfillment in your work.

How can you find fulfillment when pursuing your passions?

In this episode, Brittany Anderson talks with Steve Ody, host of the Traveling Optimist podcast, to talk about creating “the dream life” and how you can pursue it within your career.

Steve discusses: 

  • The inspiration behind his show and how he communicates his passion to listeners
  • The journey to creating the Traveling Optimist podcast and how it helped him pivot his business mindset during the pandemic
  • His inspiration perspective on success and how to find fulfillment in what you put out into the world
  • How to approach the feeling of doubt to take a chance within your career 
  • And more

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About Our Guest:

Steve Ody is an entrepreneur and is passionate about making a difference and building relationships for the long term.

He is results-driven and customer-focused, with a proven track record in developing and driving sales and marketing initiatives (off and online) to deliver sales, profit, and service targets in intensely competitive commercial environments. He is a first-class communicator, expert in developing and sustaining working relationships (internal and external) at senior levels across different sectors. He is also the host of the podcast series called the Traveling Optimist!



How To Change Your “How’s” Into “Whos” (Ep.12)

How To Change Your “How’s” Into “Whos” (Ep.12)

When approaching big life decisions, people often look to the logistics of “how” can I achieve this end result rather than “who” can help me get there. 

This mindset shift can transform the way you approach change, widening your scope and allowing you to take a step back and realize that you do not always have to be an expert in everything you do. 

In this episode, Bryan and Brittany focus on how seeking help from experts outside of your position in every aspect of your life can help in ways you never imagined, so that you can get back to doing what you love most. 

Bryan and Brittany discuss:

  • The concept of who rather than how
  • How asking for help can be an empowering step to achieving your goals
  • How you can create the right mindset to achieve your goals without your expectations weighing you down
  • The importance of allocating time to what makes you happy to create your dream lifestyle
  • And more

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Achieving the Life You Deserve (Ep.11)

Achieving the Life You Deserve (Ep.11)

Sometimes it can feel like you are one of the biggest obstacles in the way when pursuing your personal goals. So how can you change your thinking and become your biggest supporter?

This episode is all about self-belief and supporting yourself when pursuing personal, financial, or career-related goals.

Bryan and Brittany also share the importance of self-reflection and how it contributes to obtaining personal desires without feeling guilty about acquiring them, even when you have worked extremely hard to achieve them.

Bryan and Brittany discuss:

  • Imposter syndrome–what it is and how to overcome it
  • The power of self-belief and how you should look at your future with two words– You. Deserve.
  • The guilt factor when rewarding yourself for hard work and how the right people will celebrate with you
  • Strategies for moving closer to what you want in life
  • And more

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Creating an Environment You Can’t Wait to Wake Up To, Part Two (Ep.10)

Creating an Environment You Can’t Wait to Wake Up To, Part Two (Ep.10)

Deciding whether or not someone adds value to your life is not at all meant to be a judgmental process. 

This process is meant to evaluate how these people make you feel and whether or not they support you when making positive decisions to better your life.

In this part-two episode, Bryan and Brittany focus deeply on curating healthy relationships and learning about how they can influence your ability to achieve immense personal growth.

Bryan and Brittany discuss:

  • The influence of key relationships in your life and how they affect your overall path in life
  • Dealing with guilt when eliminating negative people from your life
  • How to have those tough conversations with the people who negatively influence you
  • How to discover whether or not the people around you are limiting your growth
  • And more

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