Life's Essential Ingredients
Life’s Essential Ingredients is spinoff of C4 Leaders, a California based non-profit who uses PIZZA to guide all people in RISING TOGETHER. The show is hosted by two best friends who were college roommates at the University of San Francisco – (Jeff with a Mike). Season 5 started in 2025 and the show is currently listened to in 58 countries and 808 cities.
The educational and entertaining show takes a deep, yet humorous look at life’s essential ingredients. The hosts will engage in interesting conversation with some of the world’s best leaders, authors, athletes, musicians, chefs, architects, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, comedians, CEOs, coaches, professors, teachers, and many, many, more industries and professions.
The goal of the show is to have the guest highlight their life’s essential ingredients, who helped them develop the ingredients, and how the guest can help the listeners develop their essential ingredients.
The hosts create space for the guest to be the star of the show and provide an incredible platform to highlight their life, their business, their passion, and most importantly, their gift they share with the world.
Our listeners are diverse and 9% are 18-24, 18% 25-29, 13% 30-34, 18% 35-44, 18% 45-54, and 55+ 24%.
Life's Essential Ingredients
Season 3 Episode #5 Strategies for Emotional Evolution with David Szczecinski
Season 3 Episode #5 David Szczecinski is coming from Perth Western Australia
You can find David at mymilan.com.au
About our guest – David is an Accredited Mental Health Practitioner, Trainer, Coach & Presenter. David served in the Health Department as a mental health clinician in the adult, child & adolescent divisions for many years. David was instrumental in developing the Self Awareness Method® of coaching excellence and his cross-cultural experience with critical incidents, anxiety, stress, grief, family dynamics, marriage, professional relationships and communication has allowed him to develop an effective array of approaches; some of which are unique to Milan. David is committed to strategies that work and looks forward to helping his clients achieve greater understanding, connection, happiness and wellbeing in their lives.
David, thanks for the important work you do and for dedicating your life’s work toward helping others find deep meaning to theirs. David, welcome to the show!
TOTD – “Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.” Paul Ekman
In this episode:
What was life like growing up?
What are your life’s essential ingredients
What got you interested in studying human behavior
Neurobiology
Writing a book – The Secret of Life
Emotional Self-Defense
What are some of your tools and techniques that comprise the Milan Approach?
Psychotherapy
Systems Thinking
Window of Tolerance
The influence of Dr. Paul Ekman on your practice…
To increase the capacity of the window – we need to feel it to heal it
What are the best things we can do for ourselves to increase our window of tolerance?
Stress
Anxiety
Let’s talk about the LOVE MAP
Body Language
The Self Awareness Model – let’s talk about the importance of it…
Legacy