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 112 countries and 1009 cities.
The educational and entertaining show takes a deep, yet humorous look at life’s essential ingredients. The hosts 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 and for the listener to add an ingredient or two to their life recipe.
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%.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 171
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
EP: 31 - Julie Hruska is using Clarity, Courage, & Commitment to Live her Best Life!
Julie Hruska
Where You Can Contact Julie Hruska – [email protected], or thru her website powerfulleaders.com.
About the Guest. Powerful Leaders was created in 2020 by Julie Hrus…
EP: 30 - Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn is Helping Others Heal with Hope, Gratitude, & Purpose!
Dr. Joyce Mikal Flynn – Founder and Originator of MetaHab
Where You Can Find Joyce: Her website is www.drjmf.com Instagram @dr.jmf , Email is [email protected]
About the Guest: Dr. Mikal…
EP: 29 - Helping our World, One Dream at a Time - Professional Mermaid Linden Wolbert!
Where You Can Find Linden: Her website – www.mermaidsinmotion.com, YouTube is mermaidsinmotion, Instagram – @mermaidlinden.
About the Guest: Linden is a pioneer of the exploding mermaid…
EP: 28 - Living a Full Life with Nurse Practitioner Christine Picinich
Christine is a Nurse Practitioner with the Neurocritical Care team at UCDMC. Christine has only been in the nursing/medical profession for 10 years but during that time, has accomplis…
EP: 27 - Cristina Zenato is using a Barrier to Breakdown Barriers - One Dive at a Time!
About the Guest: Cristina Zenato is the Director of Training at Underwater Explorers Society, Founder of People of the Water (501c3 whose mission is to widen the conduction and distribu…
EP: 26 - Using Resiliency, Vulnerability, and Kindness to Grow Workplace Civility with Sejal Thakkar
About the Guest: Born and raised in the Chicago. Sejal received her Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from University of Illinois at Chicago and her JD from Northern Illinois. In 2000 s…
EP: 25 - Andre Coleman is Using his Expertise to Help Students Reach Their Dreams!
About the Guest: Born and raised in Berkeley, CA by his incredible mother who valued hard work and education. Dre listened well and received his Bachelor’s degree from Occidental Coll…
EP: 24 - C-ROC is Using ROCKET FUEL to achieve Success and Positively Impact the World!
Mike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco -
CEO of People Building, Incorporated, Host of What Are You Made Of podcast (on the top 100 list), performance coach, author, public speaker, visionary, thought …
EP: 23 - Jae Taft is using her Faith to Empower Women
About the Guest: Jae Taft, Hooper, healer, inspirer, bucket filler, hope dealer, youtuber, influencer, believer in God and of all people, daughter, sister, friend, and someone who is un…
EP: 22 - Building Relationships & Shining Light on STRENGTHS – Dr. Jeff Williamson
About the Guest: Dr. Jeff Williamson, Founder and Author of “The Power of 168”, Gallup-certified Strengths Coach, Mentor, and People Developer. Jeff is the Executive Director of Corpor…
EP: 21 - Living Her Best Life With Balance – Brandi Malinoff’s Story
I had the good fortune of coaching this amazing young lady when she was in high school. Words to describe Brandi include: dedicated, loyal, hard working, genuine, authentic, beautiful…
EP: 20 - Catherine Mattice is Resilient in her Mission to Create Respectful Workplace Cultures
Catherine was pushed into her career (bullied actually) as Founder and CEO of Civility Partners, a Human Resources boutique specializing in creating respectful workplace cultures. Cat…
EP: 19 - Allah-mi Basheer is Coaching her Clients to BE GREAT EVERYDAY!
Who is Allah-mi? Mindset Coach, Life and Leadership Coach, Speaker, Game Changer. Allah-mi helps clients gain clarity, courage, confidence, and consistency to reach new levels of suc…
EP: 18 - Surrounded by Love - Ryan McCarty is Living Fulfilled!
Ryan McCarty is living his best life in the present moment; surrounded by the love he has for his family and the love his family has for him. Ryan is the Co-Founder of Culture of Good …
EP: 17 - Consistent, Persistent, and Efficient, it’s Melissa Tucci the #1 Real Estate Broker in the Nation
Every now and then you run across someone who is wired a little different. Who makes you question what you do. Who gets you talking about what it takes to be the best. Who causes yo…
EP: 16 - Greg Sempadian - Hall of Fame Student-Athlete Ambassador
What an honor to host our long-time friend and mentor, Greg Sempadian. I have never met any person who is so humble, so kind, and so considerate of all people, but specifically, stude…
EP: 15 - Oh, What the World Needs Write Now – The Transcendence of Aditi Surana
Aditi Surana is a young woman who will change my life. This episode of Life's Essential Ingredients kept me up all night. Aditi is someone who is so genuine, so soft-spoken, so arti…
EP: 14 - Beyond Humble - The Love of Aaron Larson
Aaron was a three time All American basketball player at Olivet Nazarene University (ONU). He is close to the top on most ONU basketball records; he has his graduate degree in Business…
EP: 13 - RISING to Protect and Educate - The Legacy of Sivonnia DeBarros
Where do you start when you have the good fortune of meeting someone so GIFTED! Sivonnia DeBarros is the founder and CEO of SL DeBarros Law Firm, Protector of Athletes, Loving mother t…
EP: 12 - John Sayers is HOME - Making our World "Slightly Better."
John Claudius Sayers IV takes us on a journey all over the country. John was blessed to have moved every two years of his young life. He didn't realize it at the time but he was "ge…