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). Just launched Season 6 with the show currently listened to in 145 countries and 1564 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
Communication Expert Sandy Gerber is Living Her Best Life with Insatiable Curiosity!
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C4 Leaders – the ONLY nonprofit to utilize the pizza making process to create space for our companions to be seen, heard, and loved. We work with businesses, sports teams, hospitals, churches…anyone looking to RISE TOGETHER. We also write children’s books and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other. Please check out c4leaders.org to support our important work.
Season 6 Episode #22 Sandy Gerber is coming from Victoria, British Columbia (inform, inspire, & transform)
You can find Sandy via her website sandygerber.com
Sandy Gerber is a Communication Coach, Emotional Intelligence Trainer, and Best-Selling Author of Emotional Magnetism, which has won 24 international book awards. Sandy’s mission is to help people to have Connected Conversations. She’s ranked as #16 in the 2026 World’s Top 30 Communication Professionals by Global Gurus and the 2025 Women of Influence Creative Innovator.
If those accomplishments weren’t enough, Sandy also won a limbo contest at 14, which she insists is still one of her proudest accomplishments. Sandy is passionate about helping people to communicate to connect by developing and sharing emotionally intelligent communication tools people can start using right away at work and home.
Congrats on an amazing career, thanks for helping people all over the world be better communicators, and thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients…welcome to the show!
Podcast – Magnetic Communication…
TOTD – “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.”
Maya Angelou
Build a habit - to create intention - to live your purpose!
In this episode:
I start and end every day with a practice I call the First and Last Thought of the Day, a simple tool for setting your day on purpose instead of just reacting to whatever hits you first.
What was life like growing up?
Regulating emotions…in the moment of activated…
Communication failure that changed the trajectory of your life..
EI and AI…developing both…
ALL IN on your podcast..100% benefit of the doubt…assuming good intent and the release of oxytocin vs. cortisol…RISE to belief vs. RUN…
Body Language Signals…
Adoration…
Skills to create trust, influence and lasting relationships…
First date conversation that built a 12 year marriage..
Congrats on being an tow-time author…Emotional Magnetism and your newest CONNECTED CONVERSATIONS…
Connected Conversations Advantage Framework… Aware, Express and Engage
Love your humor in your speaking profile … highlighting all the books and catch phrases…
What do you love about reading and Books you recommend?
Extensive blog from your website…5 human skills for 2026…
Simple pocket tools to self-regulate under pressure
Legacy