Why Have Shirzad Chamine on Your Podcast?

Change Your Audience's Life

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Awaken your audience to the hidden impact of their own self-sabotage

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Captivate them with breakthrough research on both cause and cure

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Equip them with memorable 10-second exercises to shift from self-sabotage to self-mastery

  • Simple, concrete, pragmatic, and incredibly effective.
    Jim Lanzone CEO, Yahoo Inc.

What’s Unique About Shirzad Chamine’s Work?

Shirzad is the New York Times Bestselling Author of Positive Intelligence, a Stanford Lecturer, and coach to hundreds of CEOs.

His breakthrough root-cause factor-analysis research involved more than 500,000 participants. It revealed 10 “Saboteurs” that cause self-sabotage and 5 “Sage” powers that enable self-mastery.

  • 2,000,000+ have completed Shirzad’s Saboteur Assessment
  • 100,000+ coaches have completed his Positive Intelligence training
  • 50%+ of Fortune 100 companies employ Positive Intelligence tools to optimize performance & wellbeing

Saboteurs vs Sage

 

The Saboteurs

Why is Now the Time for Your Audience to Meet Shirzad?

Stress fuels Saboteurs and Saboteurs generate more stress, causing a vicious cycle. The breathtaking pace of change is causing an epidemic of stress-induced self-sabotage.

Under stress, the Controller becomes more controlling, the Avoider avoids even more, the Judge judges with greater intensity, and so on. Most people are stuck in this stress-induced vortex of self-sabotage and don’t know the way out.

Positive Intelligence breakthrough research offers concrete solutions and lasting change:

 

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Treat Root Cause, Not Symptoms

You treat the problem at the root level: 10 Saboteurs that sabotage us. 5 Sage powers that empower us.

Shirzad shows your audience how to identify their top Saboteurs and how to unleash their Sage Powers.

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Build Mental Muscle, Not Just Insight

Ever wonder why after most “life-changing” workshops, books, and experiences, we revert to our old habits? Lasting positive change requires 20% insight and 80% mental muscle building to convert those insights into new habits.

Shirzad illuminates your audience with the neuroscience of positive habit formation.

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Use Joy, Not Hard Work to Sustain Change

Change initiatives that require hard work and discipline soon fade as we tire. Positive Intelligence research has identified 10-second techniques to shift brain activation from Saboteur to Sage and release dopamine to ensure habit formation. You build your mental muscles 10 seconds at a time, and you’ll keep going because it’s fun to keep going.

Breakthrough Results Within 6 Weeks of Practice

  • Improved Well-Being

    Improve Wellbeing
    • 85%

      Increase Happiness

    • 91%

      Manage Stress Better

    • 83%

      Improve Self-Confidence

Shirzad Tailors the Discussion to Your Audience

The Positive Intelligence research has identified the root causes that optimize or sabotage wellbeing, performance, and relationships. Shirzad can engage your audience in exactly the application that would be most important to them.

Because of the root-cause research approach, Shirzad will demonstrate that the Saboteur to Sage shift transforms every important aspect of our lives:

Wellbeing

  • How to manage stress
  • How to improve sleep
  • How to sustain diet or exercise regimes
  • How to feel happier and more at peace

Performance

  • How to be resilient and thrive in the face of adversity
  • How to maximize productivity
  • How to master the art of selling and persuasion
  • How to lead in a way that maximizes both wellbeing and performance
  • How to lead an organization through disruptive change

Relationships

  • How to harness the power of healthy conflict
  • How to cultivate thriving relationships
  • Most change initiatives fizzle. Shirzad gives us the tools to create positive change that lasts.
    Dean Morton COO, Hewlett Packard

Suggested Questions

Podcast Host

  • Based on my Saboteur Assessment, how am I getting in my own way?
  • What 10-second brain-shifting technique would be most helpful for me?

Research

  • Where do Saboteurs come from?
  • What’s the science behind this work?
  • How do you know people live 10 years longer with this practice?
  • What are the 5 Sage superpowers to counter the Saboteurs?

Origin Story

  • What led you to this body of research?
  • What is the humiliating Stanford experience that inspired this work?
  • You were clinically depressed since a traumatic childhood. What role did your Saboteurs play?

Leadership

  • How do Saboteurs derail careers, leaders, teams, and organizations?
  • What are the most common Saboteurs for leaders?
  • How can a team shift from Saboteur to Sage contagion?

Mental Fitness

  • Why do you call this mental fitness? What are mental muscles?
  • What’s the evidence for brain rewiring?
  • You say “no pain, no gain” is a Saboteur lie. How?
  • Why did the Stanford students call this “Jedi Mind Training?”

Popular Topics

  • How have elite athletes used these tools to “get into the zone?”
  • How could you say Saboteurs cause our stress? Isn’t life stressful?
  • Don’t I need my Saboteurs to protect myself and get things done?
  • How is this different from toxic positivity?
  • Why is meditation and mindfulness not enough?
Just a Few of the Brands That Have Entrusted Their Audiences to Shirzad

An Episode Your Audience Will Love

Your podcast audience already knows and trusts you. If you are willing, Shirzad can help you to deepen that trust even more.

You can take the 5-minute Saboteur Assessment prior to the recording. Shirzad could then coach you about your top Saboteurs during the podcast.

Your willingness to engage in this conversation would be illuminating and inspiring to your audience. It normalizes the fact that we all have Saboteurs and we all could improve. And it deepens the trust and connection with your audience.

If you choose to, you can then gift the Saboteur Assessment to your audience (no charge), so they benefit from the same. Most report lasting benefits.

(If this is not of interest, no worries. It’s optional).

Frequently Asked Questions

Shirzad Chamine is the New York Times bestselling author of Positive Intelligence, Stanford University lecturer, and pioneer in mental fitness. Shirzad’s groundbreaking work integrates neuroscience, cognitive behavioral psychology, positive psychology, and performance science into practical applications that have transformed millions of lives across the globe.