From Self-Doubt to Success: How a Positivity Expert Don Sandel Launched his own Business

<p>Founder of GoPositiv</p> <p><a href="https://markgraban.com/mistake190">Show notes, video, transcript, and more</a></p> <p>My guest for Episode #190 of the <a href="http://myfavoritemistakepodcast.com/">My Favorite Mistake</a> podcast is <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/donsandel">Don Sandel</a>. He’s a former executive turned leadership coach and is the founder of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gopositiv.com/">GoPositiv</a>.</p> <p>He’s been leading talent development efforts for small and large organizations for the last few decades and has transitioned those skills and experiences into&nbsp;GoPositiv&nbsp;and now to books as well. He’s the author of the book <a href="https://amzn.to/3O61w1d"><em>Positive Mindshift: Making Good Things Happen in Life and Work</em></a><em>.</em></p> <p>He began studying the brain and its effect on learning about a decade ago, and discovered compelling and irrefutable research around positivity.</p> <p>In this episode, Don tells his favorite mistake story about a time when he was working for a large global company and he listened to self-doubt triggered by a comment from his boss. Why did he give the worst presentation of his life? And what did he learn from this experience in a way that inspired him to start studying positivity??</p> <p>We also talk about questions and topics including:</p> <ul> <li>What sorts of positive self talk would you say before giving a speech??</li> <li>How to aggressively battle the negative self talk and change that to positive self talk?</li> <li>What prompted you to study positivity? How did you study this?</li> <li>Not being a “Pollyanna”?</li> <li>John Saunders, who introduced us — <a href="https://www.markgraban.com/wall-street-sales-team-leader-john-saunders-tried-turning-employees-into-him/">his episode</a></li> <li>Does positivity lead to better medical outcomes if you have cancer or another serious ailment?</li> <li>Weight loss and motivation — talking about positive motivations instead of negative / barriers?</li> <li>Losing weight v