If you’ve ever felt a spiritual calling, and felt there was more to your life than just the day to day grind, then do we have the show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Karan Bajaj, a #1 best-selling indian author about his brilliant new novel The Yoga of Max’s Discontent, inspired by a one year sabbatical traveling from Europe to India by road and learning yoga and meditation in the Himalayas.

Today I want to talk about taking a spiritual and creative sabbatical, literal or metaphorical to get in alignment, find our path, and find our deepest self.

That plus we’ll talk about going silent, riding a scooty, becoming vegetarian teetotalers, holding up your arm for 12 years straight, and how to hang with monkeys and snakes.

Questions and Topics Include:

1. Taking a creative or spiritual sabbatical, literally or metaphorically
2. Why his story begins in a Bronx housing project
   1. Why the connection with suffering in the US isn’t as real or visceral as it was in India
3. How this book can change your psyche
4. What was Karan’s sabbatical year (from Europe to India by road)
   1. From Europe to India to Himalayas
5. Why Karan has a pattern of taking time off to be and discover facets of himself.
6. How he ended up hanging with homeless drug addicts in Bulgaria
7. How did he get the idea to become successful, then leave it all behind
8. How travelling got the creative juices flowing
9. Why entertainment and meaning is his formula for success
10. What were the 10 day vipassana retreats like?
11. What Monkey’s did to his wife’s backpack.
12. What the ashram was like with monkeys and cobras
13. Why you’d need to step over cobra’s if you go to the bathroom at night
14. What does karma and past lives have to do with yoga
15. Why the further you get away from sabbatical, the more you shift back to the way you were before
16. What is dharma?
17. How he’s realizing it’s all about the inner journey, even more than seeing outward beauty (for instance the Grand Canyon)
18. What happened when he was hiking in the Himalayas (crossing a glacier barefoot!!!)
19. How was hiking in the Himalayas and who were some of the ‘trippiest’ people he met.
20. What’s a standing baba
21. What enlightenment means and why you need to let go of the striving for enlightenment
22. How he just started writing at 28 and already has multiple best-sellers at 36
23. Why it’s so important to live your Dharma
24. What has he learned about meditation and mindfulness
25. Why there are basic steps to follow before moving to mindfulness
    1. What is concentration based meditation
26. Go to Karanbajaj.com/yogamax
    1. Get book and free meditation course, yoga flow course and yoga guide

Karan Bajaj Shares Valuable Lessons Learned from a Year’s Travel on the Road to India & the Himalayas On Discovering Your Dharma or Life Purpose and Value of Meditation, Yoga, Austerity & Silence | Spiritual | Spirituality | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve ever felt drawn to water, whether seaside views, spending time at the like, swimming, snorkeling, canoeing, showering, or just about anything else having to do with water, then do we have the H2O loving show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Wallace “J.” Nichols, called “Keeper of the Sea” by GQ Magazine and “a visionary” by Outside Magazine and is the best-selling author of Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do.

And that’s what we’ll be talking about today, about our connection with the water, and how it can help us all feel better, live better, and have healthier, happier lives.

That plus we’ll talk about a million dollar fish, a slow coast, spear guns and Ohio, blue marbles, one billion baby turtles, a sea-turtle shaped ring, and what pop tarts and Tchaikovsky have to do with anything!

Questions and Topics Include:

1. What happened to his father on Earth Day?
2. What showed up on his doorstep?
3. Why we are all drawn to water for special occasions and important moments
4. Why Oliver Sachs told J he had to write this book (on the science of why we love the water)
5. What it means to look down from above (like Astronaut Clayton Anderson) and see our ‘blue planet’
6. Michael and Jessica running through the snow and water barefoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N_WvIzXIYo
7. Why we’re attracted to all kinds of water (gas, liquid, solid)
8. What’s the importance of Sea Turtles
9. How he’s helped save sea turtles and increase their populations
10. What is full emersion conservation (even working with poachers)
11. How serious is the environmental crisis and threats facing the ocean
12. What’s the blue marble project?
13. What’s the healing power of water
14. Why you want to take any chance to get in the water.
15. Why you want to keep your goggles and your swim trunk in your bag, always.
16. What is Red Mind and Blue Mind, and how can water and Blue Mind help with stress.
17. What’s the importance of gratitude (and prayer) for the water
18. What is J’s Mill Creek experience.
19. How he brought land-locked Native-American children to the ocean
20. How he took his daughter at 1 ½ and they walked the coast from Oregon to Mexico.
21. How much does seeing the ocean (screensavers, paintings, etc), all help soothe the mind
22. The importance of a fountain or creating wave sounds.
23. wallacejnichols.org – blog and website, also google Blue Mind, also a great song by Alexi Murdoch, song called Blue Mind, here on youtube: https://youtu.be/C07jY4LnRg8
24. What are the synchronicities around his father

Dr. Wallace ‘J’ Nichols Ocean Researcher from Men’s Health & Outside Magazine Shares the Healing, Soothing & Transformative Power of Water & the Blue Mind: Ocean, Sea Turtles & Blue Marble Inspiration | Spirituality | Meditation | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve ever struggled to keep up, hold on, or get ahead, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking about getting ahead. What this fabled task looks like, how we can achieve it, and how we can reduce the pressure and overwhelm in our lives.

That plus we’ll talk about weekend plans, running in flip flops, a unique place to where a backpack, and what we can all learn from an astronaut.

Questions and Topics Include:

1. How to keep up, hold on, and get ahead
2. What we can all learn from Astronaut Clayton Anderson – who took 15 tries to become an astronaut!
3. What we can learn from Elon Musk
4. When it’s time to give up.
5. What it means to get ahead
6. How do we get more quality out of our lives or out of each experience
7. How do we become more present in all that way do.
8. How to put systems or processes into place to make things simpler
9. What we can learn from Jay Papasan, author of the One Thing
10. What we can learn from Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism
11. What’s the importance of stripping away everything that doesn’t serve us
12. How to discover what your ‘one thing’ is.
13. How to metaphorically and literally clean out your closet
14. What’s the 90 percent rule
15. What’s the woo hoo factor, and how’s it matter with our clothes, possessions, and whatever we do in life.
16. How nutritionally dense is everything in your life, and what does that look like?
17. Simon Sinek and ‘What is Your Why’?
18. Why it’s so important to live in an intentional way
19. How to make everything in your life, ‘enrich’ your life
20. How do we put money in the bank of happiness?
21. Why it has to be heart and why you have to move mountains to ensure you’re enjoying life
22. Why you want to ask at the end of the day (or if you’re on your deathbed) is it important to me?
23. Where love, happiness, and sharing your gifts (to the benefit of others) comes in
24. Wallace ‘J’ Nichols – Blue Mind who will be on the show shortly.
25. Why we don’t want to die with the music still inside
26. com
27. Ask yourself what’s essential to you?
28. What’s the Inspire Nation Club
29. InspireNationShow.com Patreon Campaign
30. patreon.com/inspirenation

Michael Sandler & CJ Liu Share Tips for Living an Inspire Life, Doing What You Love & Focusing on the 1 Most Important Thing That Brings Health, Happiness & Success! Inspiration | Motivation | Positivity | Spirituality | Spiritual | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve ever wanted to feel sharper, more alive, stronger of body and of mind, and smarter than you ever have before…then do we have the brain-boosting show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Dr. Wendy Suzuki, award winning neuroscientist, famous 4x Ted-Talker, and what I’d call a true revolutionary in the field of brain science. She’s also the author of my favorite new brain book, healthy brain, happy life, a personal program to activate your brain and do everything better!

Today we’ll talk about hacking the brain and getting it moving again, to get you smarter, sharper, more focused, better memory, more creative, less anxious, and better able to learn, than you ever have before!

That plus we’ll talk about car boy and cabin boy, becoming a gym rat, the power of Twix, the Big Ask, Dr. Flux, Disney world for rats, what in the world happened to the cello, and why spandex in the classroom may be the greatest discovery of them all!

Questions and Topics Include:

1. Julie Andrews vs. Shirley Temple
2. What is the Disney World for rats
3. What Eleanor McGuire found with London Taxi Drivers
4. What is prosopagnosia and struggling to see faces (Howard Gardner, author Multiple Intelligences and Brad Pitt)
5. What does brain plasticity mean?
6. Some amazing brain hacks
7. What’s a simple hack to begin enriching the brain?
8. How do we enrich the olfactory part of the brain?
9. Who was the neurological patient HM?
10. Why emotions are so powerful when it comes to learning
11. Why you want to make what you have to learn funny
12. When the light went on between exercise and the brain
13. How much just an hour of exercise can improve your attention
14. What is intensati and how did it change her understanding of exercise and the brain too (and her future classes and research studies!)
15. What we can learn from Spandex in the Classroom!
16. How to use affirmations and exercise together
17. Brain hacks and exercise
18. Short 4 minute exercises you can do
19. What viral animal videos have to do with the brain
    1. Talking Dog and Bacon:
    2. Sloth Video:
20. Brain Hacks to stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain and what makes us happy (study of positivity)
21. Advice for parents to boost the brains of their kids
22. How important is it to step away from the electronics?
23. wendysuzuki.com
    1. 4 Ted Talks!

Dr. Wendy Suzuki, Neuroscientist, Researcher, Professor & 4x Ted Talker Shares Powerful Brain Hacks to Transform your Mind, Discover Greater Happiness, Hardwire Positivity & Turn Your Life Around! Business | Career | Education | Spirituality | Self- Help  

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If you’ve ever wanted to work more yet do less, and be on top of your game without running yourself ragged, then do we have the show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with positivity and performance guru and best-selling author Christine Carter, PhD, author of a new favorite book of mine, The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and at Work. I’d say it’s more than just a book, but an owners manual for doing less and accomplishing more, and who couldn’t use that!

So today we’ll talk about finding your sweet spot, that once-thought mythical place where you can relax yet get things done, achieve your dreams, without driving yourself into the ground, and where you really can have your cake and eat it too.

That plus we’ll talk about celebratory dances, the Yay Me, a hospital fantasy, why no mud, no lotus, what we can learn from olive trees and marathoners, what the real meaning of the codeword ‘green’ is!

Questions and Topics Include:

1. How’d she become known as the ‘friendly jogger’
2. How do you get a treadmill for free?
3. How’d she end up in the ER with 103 degree fever
4. What was the turning point in her life.
5. What’s a hospital fantasy?
6. What was the low-point in her life
7. How did she start rebuilding her life
8. Why she’s obsessed with habits and willpower
9. What does it mean to live and work from your sweet-spot (overlap of place you have greatest strength and place of greatest ease)
10. What’s the equation for a sweet spot (and why it’s so important)?
11. What’s the importance of having things on auto-pilot (versus mindfulness)?
12. What is recess and why do we need it?
13. Why working more to get more done is completely counter-intuitive (especially for kids)
14. What makes us feel productive is not what makes us more productive
15. Why Happiness (her first book was Raising Happiness) is so important
16. What Happiness does for us (and why it really is the answer)
17. Why happiness really means positive emotions
18. Why true happiness is not gratification
19. A few key tips on happiness
20. What is the power of gratitude?
21. How gratitude can make a snowball of positivity in the brain
22. How our posture (and physiology) affects our emotions
23. How to quickly and easily become more confident
24. How to quickly generate endorphins through your posture!
25. How fast can she take a shower in drought-ridden California
26. How do we crack the habit code and where do we get started?
    1. Free email coaching program to crack the habit code
27. Where do people get hung-up the most
28. Why is choosing the right habit so important
29. How do you crack the exercise nut?
    1. What’s a 5 minute workout?
30. What’s the importance of a trigger or a cue?
31. What are keystone mini-habits and why are they so important.
32. How you can have your computer automatically shut down at night
33. What’s the app forcefield (particularly good for children’s phones)
34. christinecarter.com – new coaching program, establishing a new habit, great facebook group (for new habits) and also an online-class “The science of finding flow” learning how to drop into the flow state.
35. Why it’s so important to be able to turn your devices off, and what skill successful children will need most in the future for their careers and happiness!

Dr. Christine Carter, Author of Raising Happiness, Shares How to Live From the Place of Greatest Strength, Ease & Positivity While Making Your Days Easier & More Fun! Inspiration | Motivation | Business | Career | Spirituality | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve ever wanted to shift your life, whether that’s bring in more happiness, abundance, health, wealth, or anything else, then do we have the life transforming show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Dimitri Moraitis, coauthor of karma and reincation, communing with the divine, and a book I wish I knew about years ago, but am so I glad I found now, The Healing Power of Your aura.

Today I want to talk with him about changing your life through your light. How to use light and your aura, even if you can’t see it, to enrich your life whether love, prosperity, healing or wisdom, plus how to deepen relationships, advance your career, and transform destructive emotions.

That plus we’ll talk about the auras of animals, kundulini rising, down-raying light, the power of color and fashion, and why you don’t want to buy a car from somewhere wearing avocado green.

Questions and Topics Include:

1. What his co-author Barbara Martin saw on her mother’s dress
2. How Barbara Martin became Dimitri’s teacher (and why a teacher is so important)
3. What does it mean to change your aura and change your life
4. What is your aura?
5. What does the Law of Attraction and Affirmations for bringing in more abundance have to do with light and color
6. How do bring prosperity about from the inside out
7. Why the Chinese symbol for crisis and opportunity is the same symbol
8. What is Divine Light?
9. What exactly is an Aura?
10. Why Barbara is called the ‘Mozart of Metaphysics’
11. What is a natural clairvoyance, and how we can all be clairvoyant
12. What is kundalini rising and what does it mean to arise too early.
13. What are nature spirits? (21:30)
14. What’s the aura of animals?
15. How can we refuel the energy of our pets?
16. How do we begin to work with light (to change your aura)
    1. Why we need to decide what we want the light to do (need an intention)
17. Why we get too impatient when things are taking off
18. What our chakras have to do with drawing in the light
19. Why (for the law of attraction) emotions are the engine
20. What’s it mean to down-ray light
21. What are a few of the top lights we want to call in
    1. Prosperity / abundance
    2. The love ray
22. What it means to call in a quality and a color of light
23. What color do you bring in, to bring in a baby (pregnancy)
24. How light affects depression
25. How do you generate more self-love
26. Why purple is the color of peace
27. Why don’t you want to buy a car from someone wearing avocado green
28. What colors to wear and why
29. What color helps us with concentration
30. How light and affirmations work together
31. How do we raise our children in the light?
32. How do you use light to protect yourself (and protect yourself from negative energy) and to help with difficult people.
33. spiritualarts.org (spiritual arts institute)
    1. Free Webinar May 6th – 1-800-650-Aura (2872)
    2. Grand Opening North San Diego County June 4th and 5th
34. Advice for mom’s for Mother’s Day
35. Love Energy Guided meditation (perfect for Mother’s Day too!)

Dimitri Moraitis, Co-Author of Change Your Aura, Change Your Life w/ Barbara Martin, Shares How to Boost The Law of Attraction & Transform Your Life Thru Color & Light! + Guided Meditation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Metaphysics | Self-Help | Inspire

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