Welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser. This is a podcast designed to help you lead your life enthusiastically today, tomorrow, and every other day.

I am your host, Ron Kaiser, positive health psychologist and coach, also keynote-metetic speaker and author of the Triple Award winning book Rejuvenaging, The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthesiasum.

As listening to the podcast, no. My goal is always to bring you individuals who lead their own lives with enthusiasm and have different perspectives and directions on helping us to become the best version of ourselves no matter what age we are.

Today is really a special day because our guest today has lived his entire life with enthusiasm and is now helping others to do so.

As an amazing story and has a TEDx talk that really kind of brought tears to my eyes and helped me to set goals and I am not exaggerating when I say I am thrilled to welcome Rob Dubin to the Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser podcast.

Now, Rob is a happiness expert, keynote speaker, author, and corporate trainer, but he took a rather circuitous route to get to that point.

Actually, by the time he was in his mid-twenties, Rob was an award-winning filmmaker who owned his own company and traveled the world.

Cameron, doing work for numerous Fortune 500 companies. A near-death survival experience made international news in a list of the call from the president of the United States.

And this prompted Rob to do a re-examination of life and a couple years after this experience, he and his wife sold their home and moved aboard a 40-foot sailboat.

I guess maybe the near-death experiences didn't end then with the original one because traveling the world in a 40-foot sailboat, for those of us who may have had some experiences locally and in much milder waters, might see this as a bit challenging too.

But more importantly, they studied human happiness and fulfillment with people ranging from being billionaires to barefoot villagers in 100 countries, over 100 countries.

Today, Rob is in a new career where he teaches people a recipe for happiness. For individuals, this translates to more fulfilling careers and a happier own life.

And for corporations, it actually increases employee engagement, stems resignations, and transforms workplaces resulting in increases in the bottom lines as well as happiness.

So we can see we've got a really special guest, unlike one we've had before. Rob, it's a great pleasure to welcome you to rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kyser.

Well, thanks for having me, Ron. I'm a big believer in your mission of helping people age well and age actively. And I'm a little few years behind you, but I turned 70 this year.

And I really try and live my life not much different than I did in my 30s trying to do as many of the same active things that I've always done. And I think that's what all of us can aspire to.

And you certainly set a great example for others in that realm. So thanks for having me.

My pleasure, and I'm grateful for the fact that you mentioned that you're doing a lot of the things that you did decades ago, and that's really the goal to not look at reaching a plateau and go downhill, but to continue and keep learning and so on.

But before we really get into that, you've had such an interesting life and careers. Can you tell us a little bit about your pre near death experience life? What were you doing then and how did you get to into that role of having your own company and traveling the world in these clients?

Well, I was really, really lucky. When I was in high school, I knew what I wanted to do. I had gotten into photography. I lived in Colorado, and I started taking pictures in the mountains. And this was way back in the days of a little Kodak Instamatic cameras that were little point and shoot film cameras.

And when I'd take a picture of these grand mountain scenes, and then I'd get the film back, the mountain would be about a quarter inch tall in the frame, and all of the majesty and grandeur that I had seen wasn't there.

So I started wanting to take better pictures so I could convey to other people how majestic our mountains were.

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