Rand Selig, Author of Thriving!
Your World of Creativity
Mark Stinson
5.0 • 45 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today, we welcome Rand Selig — an accomplished investment banker, entrepreneur, coach, Scoutmaster, board member, and hands-on conservationist. Rand brings a unique balance of analytical insight and human understanding to everything he does.
For more than 35 years, he’s led The Selig Capital Group, named the Best Sustainable Investment Banking Firm in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2024 by Wealth and Finance International. Rand is also the author of the award-winning book Thriving! How to Create a Healthier, Happier, and More Prosperous Life — a 333-page guide that’s been inspiring readers around the world since its release through selfpublishing.com.
Thriving! resonate with readers seeking practical guidance for designing a life filled with purpose, vitality, and joy.
- The Power of Choice — Why “Thriving” Matters
- Rand, your book is built on the idea that intentional choices can completely reshape our lives. What inspired you to write Thriving! and how do you define what it truly means to “thrive” in today’s fast-paced world?
- Overcoming Setbacks and Building Resilience
- You write about turning obstacles into opportunities — something you’ve clearly practiced in your own entrepreneurial and personal journey. What are some of your favorite tools or mindset shifts for building resilience through life’s challenges?
- The Science of Thriving
- With your background in both psychology and mathematics, you take a unique, evidence-based approach to personal growth. How do you bridge scientific insights — like self-awareness and behavioral psychology — with practical, everyday tools your readers can apply right now?
- Designing Your Life — Becoming the Architect of Your Future
- You often say we can design our own lives. What does that process look like in practice? Could you share a few of the most powerful exercises or decisions that help people move from drifting through life to actively creating it?
- The Ten Keys to Aging Well and Living with Vitality
- One of my favorite parts of the book is your section on “The 10 Keys to Aging Well.” You emphasize that aging well is about vitality, not longevity. What are some of the key choices we can make today — psychologically, emotionally, and physically — to keep thriving as we age?
- You talk about defining success on your own terms. How can people begin that process when society tends to equate success with money or status?
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| 0:00.0 | Unlocking your world of creativity with bestselling author and brand innovator Mark Stinson. |
| 0:08.0 | This episode is brought to you by White Cloud Coffee Loasters, where every bean tells a story of adventure. |
| 0:15.0 | Visit white cloud coffee.com and use the code creativity. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome back, friends, to our podcast, your world of creativity. |
| 0:24.4 | We're continuing our around the world travels, talking to creative practitioners everywhere |
| 0:28.6 | about how we get inspired and how we organize ideas and of course how we make the connections |
| 0:34.8 | and gain the confidence that get our work out into the world. And today, |
| 0:39.1 | we're going to talk about a topic that's close to all our hearts, and that's thriving, |
| 0:43.3 | finding purpose, vitality, and joy. And of course, those of you who know me, know what that I love |
| 0:48.9 | to smile and keep some joy in our world. And my guest is the same. Rand Seelink is my guest. Rand, welcome to the show. |
| 0:57.8 | Mark, hey, it's so great to be with you. I'm looking forward to our conversation. It's going to be a lot of fun. |
| 1:03.0 | And besides an accomplished investment banker, I see the entrepreneur, coach, even Scoutmaster, |
| 1:09.3 | are on your CV, hands-on conservationist. All these things find a real balance |
| 1:14.8 | of analytical and business, but also human understanding and fun in everything you do. That's really true. |
| 1:22.7 | But I don't say balance anymore. I say integration, because balance sounds to me too much like teeter-totter, |
| 1:30.6 | where if you're doing emphasizing one thing, you're not emphasizing the other thing. For me, |
| 1:37.1 | I've been very intentional about an integration of a number of things. And they actually feed on |
| 1:44.0 | each other, give me energy. |
| 1:45.8 | People often say, brand, how could you be doing all these things and be doing them so well? |
| 1:50.8 | I say, because they fuel, they provide fuel, they give me, I sleep so well at night, |
| 1:57.6 | feeling good about what I did during the day and looking forward to tomorrow's new |
| 2:02.4 | challenges and opportunities. So good. This is the author of an award-winning book called Thriving, |
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