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Submitted by Douglas Newsom on 17 May 2021

Inspire Possibility Show with Mark Susnow

Show Host:

Genesis

I am naturally curious—curious about how i can make my experience of life more fulfilling and more interesting which has led me down many roads. New destinations, new realities, some amazing people—masters of their game—all preparing me for this moment.

We’ve heard the adage that we teach what we want to learn. I wondered if there were possibilities in my life that I wasn’t yet exploring. With that in mind at the turn of the new millennium I made a leap of faith…from successful trial lawyer to life coach and strategist and InspirePossibility.com was created. That was 19 years ago.

The Inspire Possibility Show was the next step. Each week I have conversations with various cutting-edge thought leaders who inspire, enlighten and entertain us. They inspire us to get out of our comfort zones and to explore possibilities that are out there waiting for us. I invite you to join in.

A Few More Things More About Me.

Being a musician has been and still is a lifelong exploration. Being the author of Dancing on the River: Navigating Life’s Changes and the Soul of Uncertainty, A Fable for our Times, has inspired me to look deeper. Playing sports, since I’ve been a kid has been a mainstay of my life. Through it all being a dad has been most fulfilling.

"Mark's coaching, presence and spirit, helps him give others a gentle nudge (and sometimes hard push) toward whatever their future path may hold. As a friend, mentor and spiritual guide, Mark has helped me, quite simply, start to do something that resonates with my soul and spirit."
Warren J. Strudwick, Jr. M.D., - Team Physician, Oakland Raiders

"Intuitive and insightful, Mark worked with me to discover sustainable strategies in overcoming self-limiting behaviors that had become a norm in both my business and personal life."
Danika Davis, PHR, - CEO - Northern California HR Association

"Success doesn't have to be a struggle. Mark knows how to bring out superior performance in his clients. He is masterful."
Raz Ingrasci, - President of the Hoffman Institute

"Mark's recent presentation to the Commonwealth Club inspired our members to see the changes in their lives as opportunities and possibilities rather than as something to avoid."
George Hammond, Chair — Humanities Forum, Commonwealth Club of California

"Mark's recent communication program to our Peernet Organization of all CEO’s taught us the power of communication and how it can positively transform the dynamics of our organizations."
Jay Nathanson, Chairman, Peernet Group

Talk Show Program Archives for Podcasting

Inspire Possibility Show , February 3, 2019 Listen to Xanet Pailet, author of Living an Orgasmic Life
Inspire Possibility Show , January 27, 2019 Do you find that relationships are confusing? Listen as Mark interviews Dr Mark Borg, the author of Relationship Sanity
Inspire Possibility Show , January 13, 2019 Mark interviews Dr Warren Farrell, co-author of the Boy Crisis. In 2015, GQ magazine called him the Martin Luther King
Inspire Possibility Show , January 6, 2019 Mark interviews the visionary Lynn Andrews who shares her life’s work and her sacred wisdom.
Inspire Possibility Show , December 30, 2018 Mark interviews Dean Radin, Chief Scientist of Noetic Sciences
Inspire Possibility Show , December 23, 2018 Guest, Douglas Newsom - cofounder of BBS Radio and the Paradise Fires - WHAT REALLY MATTERS
Inspire Possibility Show , December 16, 2018 Mark interviews, Beth Greer, bestselling author of Super Natural Home - Home Toxins
Inspire Possibility Show , December 9, 2018 David Kudler, managing editor of the the Joseph Campbell foundation, discusses the Hero’s Journey
Inspire Possibility Show , November 4, 2018 Bruce Solheim, author of Timeless: A Paranormal Personal History
Inspire Possibility Show , October 28, 2018 Guest, Karen Kingsbury, NY Times bestselling author, explores the pitfalls of social media
Inspire Possibility Show , October 21, 2018 Emma J Bell, a retired Judge from Scotland, shares her story of beginning the Global Resilience Project
Inspire Possibility Show , October 14, 2018 Guest, HERB FREED, Author of Love, Faith and a Pair of Pants
Inspire Possibility Show , October 7, 2018 Rev Mary Shelton, Author of Guidance from the Darkness
Inspire Possibility Show , September 30, 2018 Guest, Leah Lamb: Master Storyteller
Inspire Possibility Show , September 23, 2018 SCOTT FORD, AUTHOR OF WELCOME TO THE ZONE
Inspire Possibility Show , September 16, 2018 Dr Steven Curley, MD, Author of In My Hands
Inspire Possibility Show , September 9, 2018 Guest, Dr Dean Ornish, M.D. author of Reversing Heart Disease
Inspire Possibility Show , September 2, 2018 Guest, ​Dr Mike Spino, author of Beyond Jogging - the Inner Spaces of Running
Inspire Possibility Show , August 26, 2018 Thomas Moore, Author of Care of the Soul
Inspire Possibility Show , August 19, 2018 Guest, Ralph Marston, publisher of the Daily Motivator
Mark T. Susnow
Marin County
KauaiUS
Other Websites:
Occupation:
Life Coach, Motivational Speaker, Author, Musician and Talk Show Host
Biography:

Mark's Story of Life's Changes

Mark has learned firsthand, what it takes to dare to look at one's life, to look inward as well as outward, and to make changes to live the life of your dreams.

His life is full of years spent with people whose lives were devastated by their choices and inability to move beyond tough situations. He has also been inspired by the strength of amazing people to overcome adversity and move through changes to a better life.

He learned and lived what he now calls his iGPS: 8 Points and Principles for Change in creating the life one dreams. His Dancing on the River, Navigating Change book offers, in a workbook style, uniquely piercing and insightful questions he used to transform his own life. But it was not always so...

Change of View - and A View of Change

In the 1960s, times they were a'changin.

Newly minted criminal attorney and president of the San Francisco Young Democrats, Mark was part of social change shifting the face of America. Because of the social impact and high profile of his legal cases, Rolling Stone Magazine wrote about him in three different articles, in less than 18 months. During this time, the young attorney had a life-transforming experience.

He found himself in the company of a woman with a presence and depth of inner quiet and peace he had not before encountered. He realized that for all the 'worldly success' and accomplishments he enjoyed, it takes more for one to realize true equanimity and happiness. In subsequent years, Mark began his 30+ year lifelong commitment to make meditation and yoga part of his daily life.

Today, many corporate employees are finding themselves beginning mindfulness and meditation practices, as part of another social wave - a 'New Competitive Edge' moving through corporate America. And like them, Mark started and kept up his daily practice along with a busy social life, a successful law practice, a family to care for - which came to include 3 children - homes to care for in both Marin, California and in Kauai, Hawaii. He even found 'spare time' for hiking the trails of Hawaii and Marin and for his lifelong passion for playing music.
 

Riding the River of Change

Mark's life has been dedicated to helping people make changes to better their lives. On the large stage that has meant taking stands, even risky ones, for social change. He started helping those at very high risk as a criminal defense attorney.

Time after time he saw extreme examples of how a person's ability to make changes could have a positive or devastating impact in their lives. He spent years advising and counseling clients on how to turn their lives around, for the better and learned about the many kinds of obstacles that can keep one stuck on a downward spiral.

Eventually, he realized that he needed to work with those who have different challenges, yet more ability to make positive changes. This led to his first major career change, to representing clients suffering from physical injuries. He studied his injured clients and observed how some became stuck in damaged lives.

He also saw how others moved through their changed life circumstances, refusing to be limited in spirit or accomplishments. Again, Mark realized that the quality of life is directed by one's capacity to meet the unexpected changes that are part of daily living. Navigating changes, such as injury, can become a valuable life skill.

Changing Direction

In 2000, unable to ignore his own inner voice any longer, Mark took the year to consider making another career change to become an Executive Life Coach and Life Discovery Guide. He came to see that he had unconsciously been a Change Agent and Advocate his entire life and that it is the fabric of his own nature.

Mark really does know change; social changes. criminal justice system changes. quality of life changes. Indeed, this is what Mark had been creating for himself, iteration after iteration, through the blend of:

  1. Listening to his inner self.
  2. Working in a 'worldly life' as the field for inner skill development
  3. Facing the need to make changes
  4. Taking the steps to make it through the changes, to the other side-the positive side of change.

Conscious Change

Finally answering that inner call, to help others directly with living life to the fullest as a Life Coach and Life Discovery Guide, Mark made his career change in 2001. The lessons, insight, and reader work-pages with piercing, unique questions, are provided for you, in his book Dancing on the River: Navigating Life's Changes.

Fourteen years later, Mark is happier than ever living the life he dreamed. He continues his work to reach and inspire more people through radio interviews, blogs, a new book on Leadership, corporate training, keynote speeches -- and of course his passion - one-to-one life coaching and discovery.

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