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 94 countries and 920 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%.
Life's Essential Ingredients
Season 5 Episode #11 Tay and Trev's Marriage Adventure!
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Season 5 Episode #11 Tay and Trev are coming from Austin, Texas (inform, inspire, & transform)
About our guests: I have had the good fortune of spending some of the best weeks of my life with our guests today. We have the honor of working a life-changing and transformational leadership camp. The camp is sponsored by Rotary Club District 5160 and lead by the one and only Lain Hensley.
Learning about leadership, love, sadness, joy, pain, triumph, and all the emotions that surface when you peel down the layers of this thing we call life… with these two incredible people - like I mentioned –is one of the best weeks of my life.
The time we have spent together have led to a wonderful friendship and I am so fortunate to have Tay and Trev in my life. Words to describe Tay include: beautiful, strong, organized, driven, compassionate, caring, assertive, great communicator, athletic, in love, and someone still yet undefined.
Words to describe Trev include: artistic, creative, strong, athletic, kind, helpful, courageous, bighearted, hard-working, talented, curious, inquisitive, in love, and someone still yet undefined.
Tay and Trev, thanks for all you do for the Austin community, for the campers of Camp Royal, for your family and friends, for me and my family and for being our guests on Life’s Essential Ingredients – Welcome to the Show!
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In this episode:
What was life like growing up?
What are your life’s essential ingredients? Individually and as a to be newly married couple.
Camp Royal experience…what do you love most about it…
Can’t mention camp without mentioning Lain and Grandma K…
Recently moved to Austin, what have you noticed most about it?
Let’s tell the listeners how your love story began..
What is love at this point in your life and your relationship?
Been together for three beautiful years…I know you have traveled the country during that time…where are some of the cool places you ventured together?
Trust – Covey’s definition and in application of rock climbing…how does it play out when you are hundreds of feet off the ground…
Rock Climbing, Artist, Biking, and Backpacking
Thing Tay does that you love the most – same for Trev
Any routines or rituals you have noticed in each other
Nursing School…most excited about and who inspired you?
Legacy Been married for 71 years and you both are ready to go home. You are in the beautiful HOME you built together and are surrounded by family and close friends. You are holding hands and getting ready to take your last breath…what is it you want to leave behind for your children, grandkids, great grandkids….