Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life, with Joe Deitch

How often do you wish you knew the secret to living a successful and happy life? Not just a life that brings periods of joy, but a life that is joy-filled through both the ups and the downs we all inevitably encounter? Well, wait no longer. In this episode of Talking Business Now, host Kelly Scanlon talks business—and self-discovery—with Joe Deitch, the author of Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life. It's a book that's meant to be lived, not just read.

A financial industry pioneer who founded Commonwealth Financial Network—the largest privately owned independent investment broker/dealer in the U.S.—Deitch is also the chair of a golf resort and real estate company with properties in the U.S., the Bahamas and Scotland. Among his numerous awards, he counts a Tony Award as co-producer of The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. He also established the Deitch Leadership Institute at Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the U.S.

Here's what you'll take away from the episode:

• An understanding of the interconnectedness of personal and interpersonal skills across life in general, business and your most important relationships.
• The difference between Awareness and Action, and how they work together.
• The 5 insights that are part of Awareness.
• The 10 skills that are crucial to Action.
• How to connect your internal and your external journeys.