Jun 14, 2021
#173 Today I’m here with the wonderful Marcus Pearce. Marc is a
speaker, writer, and former radio and television producer. During
our conversation today, we discuss the concept of an exceptional
life. How can you make your life exceptional? What does that even
mean? We talk about the consequences of mediocrity, its differences
with simplicity, and why you could be playing your life on safe
mode.
If you think you need to make a change in the way you live and
elevate yourself, then this episode is for you.
“We own the responsibility to write our exceptional life.”
About Marcus: Marcus Pearce is a
former smoking, binge-drinking journalist, radio and television
producer, Marcus’s media career included time at Leader newspapers,
Sport 927 and SEN 1116 before concluding at Channel Nine and The
AFL Footy Show in 2006. After meeting his now-wife Sarah in 2005,
he slowly switched from sports media to health, wellness, and
personal growth media. Sarah, a chiropractor, was the catalyst of
Marcus’s health transformation from a Red Bull-guzzling,
meat-eating smoker to a ginger-tea sipping teetotalling vegan, to
somewhere back in the middle.
In 2013 Marcus and Damian Kristof began the podcast 100 Not
Out: Mastering the Art of Ageing Well. In that same year, Marcus
joined The Wellness Couch podcast network as the Executive Producer
of events including The Wellness Summit. Since its
inception, 100 Not Out has recorded more than 400
episodes and conversations with some of the planet’s most graceful
agers, high achievers and interesting people. 100 Not
Out has received almost one million downloads, whilst The
Wellness Couch network surpassed 11 million listens in
2020.
In 2014 Marcus and his family moved to northern New South Wales.
With Sarah now a stay-at-home mum, the time had arrived for Marcus
to create the Exceptional Life Blueprint framework. He created an
online program and began sharing his insights and trainings both
digitally and in-person.
Since then, Marcus’s online courses have been consumed by over
20,000 people in 155 countries and he has delivered keynote
presentations and trainings to companies as big as NAB all the way
down to local communities. Sectors including banking, health,
wellness and real estate trust Marcus to help their teams perform
to exceptional standards.
Marcus' Website:
marcuspearce.com.au
Marcus’s Book:
mp.marcuspearce.com.au/order-form1600644372017
Key points with time stamp:
- Writing Your Exceptional Life (00:06)
- What creates an exceptional life? (06:46)
- A simple life vs a mediocre one. What’s the difference? (10:36)
- Why do many of us settle for mediocrity? (13:37)
- Are there consequences to mediocrity? (17:13)
- What does it mean to be an Exceptional? (19:24)
- The story of Dr. Sanduk Ruit, the God of Sight (22:28)
- Is living through a crisis necessary for making change? (26:32)
- Are you being too safe? Can you get away with that? (29:40)
- Stop waiting for that wakeup call! (32:59)
- What is the Exceptional Life blueprint? (34:15)
- The power of simplicity (39:21)
- A low point that later became a blessing for Marcus (42:10)
- Allow free time to exist (46:31)
- Marcus’s morning routine (50:15)
- An Exceptional Marcus would have dinner with (52:03)
- Make the rest of your life, the best of your life (55:16)
Mentioned in this episode:
- Currumbin
- Your Exceptional Life: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life, 2021. Marcus’s book
- Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-lived Peoples, 2006. A book by John Robbins
- Stuart Wilde, British writer
- Affirmations, 1986. A book by Stuart Wilde
- Hamilton
- The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying, 2011. A book by Bronnie Ware
- Paul Rose, Australian sports coach
- The MindBody Code, 2014. A book by Mario Martinez
- Dr. Sanduk Ruit, a Nepalese ophthalmologist
- Fred Hollows
- Tony Robbins
- John Demartini
- Victor Hugo
- Les Miserables
- The Novel of the Century, 2017. A book by David Bellos
About me:
My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en
My website:
www.guylawrence.com.au
www.liveinflow.co