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 #18 Nicky Billou is in Service of Others!
Season 3 Episode #18 Nicky Billou is coming from Toronto, Canada
You can find via his website ecircleacademy.com and TheThoughtLeaderRevolution.com
About our guest: Nicky Billou is Christian immigrant from the Middle East and is an international best selling author of 7 published books. Nicky is the host of 2 podcasts: The Thought Leader Revolution and The Sovereign Man.
Nicky is also the founder of eCircle Academy where he runs a yearlong Mastermind & Educational program working with Coaches, Consultants, Corporate Trainers, Clinic Owners, Realtors, Mortgage Brokers and other service-based Entrepreneurs, positioning them as authorities in their niche.
Nicky has used his expertise in helping 11 men and women add 7-9 figures to their businesses and 70+ men and women add $100,000 — $500,000 to their businesses. Nicky loves helping entrepreneurs win big and loves helping people make the difference they were born to make.
Nicky, thanks for sharing your many gifts and thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients – Welcome to the show!
TOTD – “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Gandhi
In this episode:
What was life like growing up?
What are your life’s essential ingredients?
What is Freedom and why is it so important
The positive influence your father has made in your life…
Finding fulfillment in life? How do you define fulfillment?
The importance of serving others and truly seeing other people… people are buying their way out of a problem…
Grow Your business, Avoid Burnout, Build Your Authority
Define Success
Define Leadership
Define Clarity
Do you have any particular decision making models you teach to your clients?
Messaging and using it as a way to differentiate
Qualities of successful people – decisive, commitment, personal development, resourceful
Just finished a leadership camp with 80 youth… what advice would you give them for being an entrepreneur?
Developing your message
Motivation…
Legacy