If you’ve ever wanted the assistance of the spiritual world, then do we have The Book of Ceremony show for you.

Today I’ll be speaking with Sandra Ingerman, licensed therapist, shamanic practitioner, and the best-selling author of shamanic Journey, walking in the light, and her latest, beautiful creation, The Book of Ceremony.

Key Points Discussed:

• How did nature help you in dealing with depression?
• What’s it mean to set up a divine connection within yourself?
• What’s it mean to work with the elements?
• What’s the importance of greeting and welcoming the ancestors of the land?
• What’s it mean to create sacred space and incubate conscious intentions?
• What’s it mean to transform negative thoughts through ceremony?
• How can we create positive outcomes by bringing the sacred into everyday life?
• What does it mean to bring the sacred into everyday life?
• What exactly is ceremony?
• How do we create ceremonies in our lives?
• When do we want to create ceremony?
• What are the most common reasons for holding ceremony?
• What does it mean that children are true masters at creating ceremony?
• What’s the exponential power of working in a group?
• How can ceremony help us when we’re feeling stuck?
• What is the true magic that takes place when making ceremony?
• What does it mean (and how do we) create sacred space?
• How do we choose the right place for our ceremony?
• What can we learn about ceremony and a baby’s birth?
• What’s the power of drumming?
• What’s the power of an altar?
• How do we set up an altar?
• What do we need to know about electronics and ceremony?
• What’s the importance of intention when it comes to ceremony?
• What are prayer trees?
• How can we use ceremony to help animals who have passed on?

Additional Resources:

• SandraIngerman.com

If you’ve ever wanted to achieve your dreams, or reach your goals, then do we have the finding mastery show for you! 

Today I’ll be talking with high performance psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais who’s worked with the seattle seahawks, the high flying Felix Baumgartner, and countless other professional athletes is the co-creator of Compete to Create along with Coach Carroll, and is the host of the Finding Mastery Podcast.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about what it takes to find mastery, and the imagery work and inner work it takes to get you there.

Key Points Discussed: 

• How did Dr. Michael Gervais discover sports psychology?
• What were his own early challenges in sports?
• How did he begin studying performance psychology, and who did he study under?
• When did he begin using imagery or visualization work?
• How important is the inner journey to success?
• What’s the importance of discovering ourselves on our path?
• Why is failure important?
• What’s the root of fear and what can you do with it?
• What’s the importance of challenging ourselves?
• What’s the importance of putting ourselves on an edge?
• What can we learn from Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team – and freefall from 128,000 feet?
• What kind of work was he doing to prepare?
• How can mastery be a vehicle to help all areas of our lives?
• What’s the importance of mindfulness?
• What does mindfulness really look like?
• What’s the importance of presence with your mind?
• What’s the importance of doing what scares you and causes your heart to race?
• How do we organize our lives to grow?
• What’s the importance of great stimulus and stress?
• How do we master our fears???
• How to bring about the results you desire through imagery work!

Additional Resources:

• FindingMastery.net 
• www.CompeteToCreate.net

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If you’ve ever wanted to find greater success without selling out then do we have the miracle of definite chief aim show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, a leader in the new thought movement, PEN Award-Winning historian, author of “The Miracle Club”, and the Napoleon Hill Success Course series which includes “The Miracle of a Definite Chief Aim” and “One Simple Idea”, and a fantastic new masterclass, “The Mastery of Good of Luck”.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to find the success you’re looking for without selling out.

Plus we’ll talk about Steve Ditko and Spiderman, the fight club and the art of war, boxing and Mitch Horowitz, who in the world is Mr. A, and what in the world satan’s honor roll has to do with anything. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• What in the world does satanism have to do with anything? (03:00)
• Following a path outside of the traditional path to find our own internal ethics (06:19)
• Is society today missing an honorable code of ethics? (08:16)
• Why are we disempowering ourselves so much today? And how to transmute the donut (16:01)
• How escapism brings a temporary pleasure (19:05)
• Succeeding in life without getting the dopamine rush that makes us feel powerful (21:57)
• Selling our souls and success, and how our leaders have  forgotten how to succeed with honor (26:51)
• How do we go from this original nature of struggling to survive to something else (36:05)
• The greatest lost virtue of our time and what it’s really all about (36:52)
• Attracting more goodness into our lives by acting more honorably (41:05)
• The perception that money is the root of all evil and achieving success is being a sell-out (46:15)
• The importance of being around people who are receptive to what you’re trying to accomplish (51:00)
• Who is Mr. A? (52:50)
• Making sacrifices to stick with your vision (56:45)
• How to start taking honorable choices today (1:00:10)

Additional Resources:

• www.MitchHorowitz.com
• Mitch on Instagram

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If you’ve ever wanted to turn your relationships into magic, then do we have the Relationship Magic Show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Guy Finley, the incredible best-selling author of The Secret of Letting go and at least 45 other books and audio programs, the founder and director of Life of Learning Foundation, and the author of an illuminating new look at relationships, Relationship Magic.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to heal your heart, and love unconditionally.

Key Points Discussed:

• How did Guy Finley grow up with Hollywood Glitz and the like of Lucille Ball and Liza Minnelli?
• What did he discover from being with the Hollywood in crowd?
• How’d he end up traveling the world, and what didn’t he find?
• What’s the gift of being divinely dissatisfied?
• What is really going on when our partner is fighting with us?
• What does it mean that an attack is not an attack?
• How are relationships helping to protect us?
• What is a gentle bull and how is one tamed?
• What is a pattern interrupt to stop any fight?
• How do we change our subconscious to prevent fights and relationship turmoil?
• What does it mean that the real problem we have with others is what we don’t yet see or understand in ourselves?
• What is the magic of the mirror a relationship provides?
• How can relationships help awaken us?
• What can we learn from our buttons?
• What is meant that any negative thought or feeling that hides within us must be revealed before it can be healed?
• What does it mean that when the student is ready, the relationship appears to teach?
• How do we move from the blame game to an entirely new story?
• How do we see from someone else’s eyes?
• What’s the real story behind Jerry McGuire?
• What’s the real magic and power of relationships?
• What’s wrong with trying to win a fight?
• What does it me to see ourselves?
• How do we see our relationship through the eyes of Love?
• Why is it never our job to make our partner change?
• What’s it mean to let Love be your answer?

Additional Resources:

• RelationshipMagicBook.com
• www.GuyFinley.com

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If you’ve ever who you struggled with dicks in your life, then do we have the Don’t Be a Dick, show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Mark B. Borg, Jr, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, the co-author of Irrelationship, Relationship Sanity, and author of his latest work on not becoming dick-free, Don’t Be a Dick!

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about what it means when we attract dicks into our lives, how to deal with dicks, and how to know if we’ve become dick’s ourselves.

That plus we’ll talk about Satyagraha, hospitality, stone cold dicks, the danger of Impletives, nuclear snubs, what on earth is a grawlix and what in the world is a turd hurdler???

Key Points Discussed: 

• One thing we can do tell if we're attracting dicks into our lives and one simple reason why (03:02)
• Were you a dick when you were growing up? (04:22)
• How did you get interested in helping others stop becoming dicks and stop attracting dicks into their lives? (06:32)
• Being a dick inadvertently by refusing help from others (10:07)
• What do you mean forget the narcissist, it's really about you? (16:18)
• What do you mean it's not you, it's me, and what are the dangers of that? (18:17)
• How the poor behavior we perpetrate on others likely reflects the way we also mistreat ourselves (22:52)
• Why does it appear that there are more dicks today than ever? (24:23)
• Can we be an empath and still be a dick? (27:29)
• Intimacy: The greatest risk a dick could ever have (32:00)
• What in the world is a turd hurdler? (34:22)
• Why do some of us feel comfortable in relationships with dicks (38:36)
• What's the importance of halting negative assumptions about people and circumstances (41:11)
• What's a moratorium between our rage and the world? (41:48)
• Why causing yourself burnout is being a dick to yourself (45:06)
• What's the importance of mapping your positive attributes? (47:51)
• What do we do with a bully and how do we get rid of a stray cat? (48:56)
• How do we teach our kids about dickery? (54:28)

Additional Resources:

• www.CCGNY.org

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If you’ve ever wanted superpowers, then do have the plug back into nature show for you.

Today we’ll talk about the healing, quieting, zen-like, and recharging powers of nature, and how to access it almost from your back door. 

Plus we’ll talk about San Francisco trip, nature’s healing, passion-compassion, finishing Camino, integrating new parts, extroversion, the power of scenery, action, smells, decoration, incense, meditation, channeling energy, earthing animal, sliding in the mud, and what in the world chipmunk breakfasts have to do with anything.

Key Points Discussed: 

• Becoming more simple and not trying to think and understand how everything works (02:44)
• The meaning that one gets from the Camino and learning that nature heals us (05:26)
• Rediscovering our authentic nature and walking into our beingness (10:08)
• Tuning in to the signals and the power of operating in the felt sense (17:18)
• Healing and transitioning by learning from a group of people who have gone through a transition (22:53) 
• The theory of relativity, going through a wormhole and letting things be (27:11) 
• How unplugging from oneself can help in discovering and expanding our consciousness (31:27)
• The time and energy efficiency of letting life do its thing  (33:48) 

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If you’ve ever wondered who you really are, why you’re here, and what you could do to make a difference in the world, then do have the discover your greatness and change the world show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Audrey Kitagawa, JD, the current chair of the UN Task Force and the Programmatic Areas Standing Committee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, the United Nations Representative for the United Religions Initiative, and Chair Emerita of the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about discovering our own spirituality and greatness, and how we can make a true difference in our own lives, and the entire world.  

Key Points Discussed: 

• What we can do to discover/re-discover our true divine nature (03:30)
• Floating on the ceiling incident in Elementary school (04:30)
• The cry baby who became a lawyer and the experience that transformed her from within (06:00)
• Who was she referring to, who are the two masters that you were serving? (13:04)
• The wind of the divine and how it knocked her diploma off the wall (15:38)
• Being open and receptive to whatever direction the divine will dictates (20:40)
• The possibility of making a bad decision while on a sacred journey (25:12 )
• The art of being able to have the acuity to be able to change with life experiences so we don’t become rigidified (27:38)
• The healing power of humor and going to the upper room (30:20)
• What does it mean to work with the light? (34:43)
• Cultivating the inner essence within us that is deeply connected to the divine (36:55)
• The importance of love versus the importance of forgivessness (and self forgiveness) (40:14)
• How important is compassion today and what have you learned from working with children in armed conflict? (44:45)
• What’s wrong with the words “Just a kid”? (49:11)
• Is there a way to make a conscious choice to view the world in a different way? (53:03)
• We are perfect children of God, immortal, eternal, and already in God’s light (58:26)

Additional Resources:

• www.LightOfAwareness.org/

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If you’ve ever wondered if there’s an afterlife and answers to life’s greatest questions, then do we have the show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with one of the world’s leading authorities on NDE’s, Dr. Raymond Moody, the best-selling author of Life After Life who actually coined the term Near Death Experience (NDE). And Lisa Smartt, literacy expert and the best-selling author of a brilliant book on final words called Words at the Threshold, about their elevating new project, The University of Heaven.

And that’s just what I want to talk with them about, about life beyond life and answers to life’s greatest questions from near-death experiences, shared death experiences, and even after-death experiences.

Key Points Discussed: 

• How Dr. Moody learned about near-death experiences.
• What happened when Dr. Moody went to medical school after becoming an expert on NDE’s.
• How did Lisa Smartt get interested in people’s final or dying words?
• What can we learn from the language of nonsense – people’s last words, or words of delirium?
• What can we learn about life, and life after life, from Near Death Experiences?
• Who is Anthony Cicoria and what happened with his near death experience?
• What are the different levels of experiences people have with NDE’s?
• What are some of the common things that take place in NDE’s?
• What does it mean that death is a transition into another reality?
• Are people who have had NDE’s on a mission when they come back?
• What can we learn from early greek philosophers about NDE’s?
• What can we learn from Plato and the cave allegory about near death experiences?
• What happened to Carl Jung and how did it change him?
• What do people start saying before they die?
• What is a living dream and what can we learn from it?
• What does it mean that final words has meaning and patterns to it?
• What happens to people when they’re out of their body?
• What do we realize when we leave our bodies?
• What do near death experiences teach us about life?
• What are shared death experiences?
• Is it definitive that there is an afterlife?
• How do shared death experiences prove there’s an afterlife?
• What can our kids teach us about life after life?
• What can we learn from kids about reincarnation?

Additional Resources:

• TheUniversityOfHeaven.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to become a boundary badass then do we have the setting boundaries will set you free show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Nancy Levin, an all-time favorite guest of mine, the best-selling author of “Worthy”, “Jump”, “The New Relationship Blueprint”, and an incredible must-read on boundaries, “Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free”

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about how to tell the truth, create connection, and find freedom to become a boundary badass. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• What do a Wayne Dyer briefcase and a 4 am flight have to with anything? (03:05)
• Giving the father of motivation a finger and cross personal boundaries to achieve a goal (08:30)
• What is boundary blindness? (11:24)
• The energetic risk of serving others and not yourself (15:22)
• How do we know if we need to set boundaries? (16:02)
• Common myths about boundaries and applying the simplest boundary in the world (18:43)
• Knowing our non-negotiables and how to make ourselves a priority instead of putting everyone else first (23:37)
• Guilt: The most common symptom we have of co-dependence disease (27:21)
• What are disowned qualities and the “what if” syndrome? (30:42)
• How do we snuggle up with conflict and what’s a desire list? (35:54)
• The importance of pledging to ourselves and choosing our beginner boundaries (39:43)
• Repeat until free: Embracing boundary setting as a way of life until you no longer have to set boundaries (45:00)
• Is there ever a right time to set a boundary? (45:45)

Additional Resources:

• Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free By Nancy Levin
• www.NancyLevin.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to find more peace in your heart and in your life, then do we have the what is peace show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Lexie Brockway Potamkin, a human rights activist, counselor, and minister, former Miss World USA, a speaker before the UN, a collaborator with the Dalai Lama and Tibetan monks, and the author of a brilliant series of books including “What is Spirit?” “What is Peace?” and “What is Love?”

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about “What is Peace?”, how they’re each interrelated, that plus death and laughter too, and how we can bring more peace into our lives.

Key Points Discussed: 

• How to bring more peace into our lives right now (03:17)
• Going back in time, what can you tell us about your dad? (03:32)
• What did your parents teach you about making your life the argument (05:34)
• How in the world did you end up in beauty pageants and how many pageants were there along the way to Miss World USA? (08:26)
• Death as a doorway to something greater rather than a final ending (12:01)
• The power of being defenseless and the meaning of Shalom/Shalem (13:35)
• How visualizing world peace can help us all come together (19:36)
• What does visualizing peace look like to you and how are love and peace intertwined? (20:15)
• Finding peace after losing a lot of the savings she had invested with someone (26:10)
• What is the relationship between spirit, peace, and love? (31:47)
• Death and understanding how temporary this world is (34:38)
• How every prayer helps and having no fear around death (37:51)
• Meeting Tibetan monks and forming a strong connection with them (42:43)
• Finding peace when we’re stuck in the chase (46:42)
• How have the monks taught you about staying in your heart? (49:25)

Additional Resources:

• www.SpiritPeaceLove.com
• What is Peace? By Lexie Brockway Potamkin
• As A Man Thinketh By James Allen
• Create VisualizationBy Shakti Gawain
• What is Death? By Lexie Brockway Potamkin
• What is Love? By Lexie Brockway Potamkin
• What is Laughter? By Lexie Brockway Potamkin

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If you’ve ever wanted revolutionary change in your life, then do we have the fasten your seat belts Dorothy, we’re not in Kansas anymore show for you.

Today we’ll talk about stepping through portals, envisioning a new future, learning from the past, and how to step forward into your future without getting spun.

Plus we’ll talk about a Camino, integrating, opening up to the universe, crazy early winter, working on a TV show, temporary slowdown, hiring, hiring, and more hiring, putting systems in place, the countdown to a ghost rider, parental visit, breaking ribs, surrendering, surrendering, and more surrendering, what on earth is a zapping party, and what in the world a most harrowing auction has to do with anything.

Key Points Discussed: 

• Working on a TV show with a producer in Hollywood and a new book (02:55)
• Manifestation is a two-step dance: writing about it and stepping forward (09:15)
• A self-inflicted knee to the chest that cracked a rib (09:58)
• One of the most emotional experiences of Michael’s life (14:40)
• Stepping through the portal for the flow to get back in place (21:34)
• Zapping parties and how zapping helps in reconnecting our energetic channels (25:49)
• Getting ready for skiing season and climbing 2,000 feet an hour (29:32)
• Going to LA to produce the TV show, selecting the first guests, and what the first episodes will look like (36:19)
• Becoming an anchor for those around us who aren’t as awake and aware or are spinning due to life’s circumstance (42:00)
• CJ’s amazing the Camino de Santiago experiences and integrating (48:20)
• Physical transformation and re-discovering aspects of ourselves that have been dormant or concealed (53:14)
• How to have some experience where we can step back enough to become the observers of our lives (1:00:31)
• Finding a way over, around, or through the mountain in our way (1:03:04)

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If you’ve ever wanted to find your deepest purpose and potential life, then do have the Designing Destiny show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Kamlesh D. Patel, a spiritual master also known as Daaji, co-author of the “Heartfulness Way” and author of his latest book, “Designing Destiny.”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about heartfulness practices to find your purpose and fulfill your potential. Plus we’ll talk about salad sandwiches, backdoors and humility, eating with love, a new Ferrari and the mind, Monica and wet cement, squirrels and observation, salivating and meditation, and what in the world yoda and luminosity have to do with anything.  

Key Points Discussed: 

• How to begin discovering our purpose and fulfilling our potential (03:09)
• Who is Ram Chandra and how did meeting him change your life? (05:50)
• Do you believe that destiny is fixed or do we have free will? (10:24)
• The things we came here to do in this life or in the life after (14:15)
• The challenge of meeting the father’s expectations and the constant search to do better (18:44)
• How to center ourselves and meditation as a hoover vacuum (21:12)
• The most powerful thing we have and how it affects us (26:52)
• What is transmission? (37:50)
• The specialness in the day when it goes from darkness to light (43:15)
• What is a pure heart and how does living with it change everything? (46:31)
• Babaji’s message to the UN in 1957 about world peace (55:04)
• What is superconsciousness? (56:38)

Additional Resources:

• Designing Destiny By Kamlesh D. Patel 
• The Heartfulness Way
• www.Heartfulness.org
• HeartsApp on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store

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If you’ve ever struggled with a great loss in your life, then do we have the Finding Meaning show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with David Kessler, the world’s foremost expert on grief, the co-author of “On Grief and Grieving” and “Life Lessons” with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and “You Can Heal Your Heart” with Louise L. Hay, and his latest and perhaps most important creation, “Finding Meaning.”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about the sixth stage of grief and what it means to all of us.

Key Points Discussed: 

• What to do to feel better when we are grieving a loved one (03:10)
• Would you mind sharing what happened with your son? (07:01)
• Finding meaning: What we have control over after a loss (12:26)
• What took place on New Year’s Eve ‘72 and the weeks that followed? (15:41)
• The different forms of grief we experience in life (23:00)
• What happens if we try to avoid sadness and grief? (25:13)
• Curiosity about how at the end of life people see loved ones who have already died  (27:30)
• How writing allows us to witness our own grief and deal with the thoughts of our mind (33:27)
• Listening to our loved one’s body when it is winding down (37:26)
• The idea that even our most ordinary day could be enough for us (44:12)
• Learning to live with grief in a way that honors those we’ve lost (46:08)
• How do we know when it’s time to be present? (50:54)
• What is Takotsubo/Broken Heart Syndrome? (53:03)
• The year of grief and being present in the season we are in (1:00:03)
• What's the power of a hug? (1:02:51)

Additional Resources:

• On Grief and Grieving
• Life Lessons
• You Can Heal Your Heart
• Finding Meaning
• www.SixthStage.com
• www.Grief.com
• The Needs of the Dying

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If you’ve ever wanted to know the purpose of life and why you’re here, then do we have the Brother John show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with August Turak, award winning author, speaker, contributor for Forbes.com, and the BBC, founder of the Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation, author of "Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks", and one of the most beautiful, meaningful books I’ve ever read, "Brother John".

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about a monk, a pilgrim, and the purpose of life!

Key Points Discussed:

• What are happy accidents?
• What happened to August after jumping out of an airplane?
• What was his dark night of the soul?
• How did August end up working for MTV before they even launched?
• How did he go from being a CEO to cleaning monastery toilets?
• What did he learn when he first went to a Trappist Monastery?
• What does he mean that work is a form or prayer?
• What does it mean that everything is sacred?
• Who is Brother John and what is his magical umbrella?
• What can we learn from Brother John?
• What is the true purpose of our life?
• Why are we so scared to see what the purpose is of our individual lives?
• How do we dive into our purpose?
• What is the truth of the meaning of life?
• What’s the importance of self-commitment, and to what???
• What are the biggest lies?
• What are we so afraid of?
• What does it mean to act on faith?
• What is grace?
• What’s the importance of living a meaningful life?
• What does it mean “Trappist monks don’t just make success happen, they let success happen”
• What can we learn about business success from Trappist monks???
• What can we learn from near death experiences about the meaning of life???

Additional Resources:

• www.AugustTurak.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to live a more beautiful, peaceful life, then do we have the Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Stephen Mitchell, a brilliant author and interpreter of books including Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, the co-author of three beautiful books with his wife Byron Katie, and the author of one of the most beautiful reads I’ve ever had  the privilege of coming across, “Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about a profound tale to open your heart and ease your life. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• How to bring more forgiveness into our lives (03:08)
• Has forgiveness always come easy to you? (03:23)
• The inner wisdom that would pull Joseph to do things and that was there for his highest good (10:34)
• The central moment: When Joseph choose not to blame his brothers for throwing him into the pit (12:10)
• The freeing realization that can lift condemnation from ourselves and the rest of the world (17:29)
• What does “May your will be done” mean? (20:57)
• Using God’s name as a synonym for reality and getting out of the human image of God (24:31)
• Accepting what is and seeing every situation as the best that could possibly be happening (31:42)
• How everything that appeared to be the worst thing for Joseph actually served him (37:57)
• The many years of intensive Zen practice and practice of “The Work” that changed Stephen’s life? (47:36)
• The meaning of “The Great Hymn to the Sun” (58:53)
• How important is it to forgive everyone in our lives? (01:02:58)

Additional Resources:

• Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness
• www.TheWork.com
• www.StephenMitchellBooks.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to heal your life and live your greatest dreams, then do we have the angel experiment show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Corin Grillo, licensed psychotherapist, founder of the Alchemy Academy, and the author of a beautiful book on connecting and healing through the angels, “The Angel Experiment”

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about how to call on the angels for a magical adventure to heal and live your greatest life. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• What to do now to connect with your angels (03:04)
• The California fires and what Corin’s angels are doing to help (03:23)
• Were you always into angels from childhood? (05:00)
• The synchronicities that started happening after she opened the door to the angels (07:58)
• Everything that comes into our lives comes for our highest good and to serve us (12:36)
• Are miracles real and how do angels view us? (14:31)
• Learning how to ask the angels in a consistent and powerful way (16:49)
• Do we need to speak out loud to call on the angels? (20:28)
• The importance of showing gratitude to the angels (27:26)
• Being a feather manifester and the rest of the top angel signs (33:45)
• What’s the importance of setting up a sacred space or an altar (39:21)
• What to ask for from the archangels to find more courage in our lives (46:07)
• The five key ways to keep the angel juju flowing (54:23)
• The funnel of awesome and teaching our kids about the angels (59:46) 

Additional Resources:

• The Angel Experiment By Corin Gillo
• www.CorinGrillo.com

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If you’ve ever wanted greater health, energy, and longevity, then do we have the Run For Your Life show for you! 

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine, the owner of the first minimalist running and walking shoe store, a distinguished mountaineer, Air Force Athlete of the Year, and the author of a brilliant new book on walking, running, and life, Run For Your Life!

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to run, walk, and move without pain or injury and achieve a sense of well-being and Joy.

Key Points Discussed:

• What happened to Dr. Marc Cucuzzella’s health growing up?
• What happened from anti-inflammatories – and why might they be dangerous?
• What does it mean as a society we need to run and move?
• What is happening to our feet these days?
• Who is Tyler Benner and what is a wide toe-box cycling shoe?
• What are Correct Toes and how can we help our feet?
• What is the human body intended to do?
• Are we born to run?
• What are key exercises we need to do?
• Why is it dangerous to stop moving???
• What do we need to know about the human body about movement?
• Why is moving on the feet so beneficial for us?
• How our posture can help us get strong?
• Are our bodies meant to break down?
• Can we adapt at any age?
• What are the dangers of a rigid shoe for walking, running, and your health?
• How can we save our knees and hips?
• What’s the danger of sugar – and what else do we need to know about nutrition?
• What does nasal breathing have to do with anything?
• What can we learn from Patrick McKeown’s The Oxygen Advantage?
• What can we learn from heart coherence and Heart Math’s Inner Balance tool and app?
• Advice for parents and kids for their health.
• What was the trial against Dr. Tim Noakes author of The Lore of Running that he won.
• What women want to do to protect their feet?

Additional Resources:

• DrMarksDesk.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to set yourself free, then do we have the Four Sacred Gifts show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Anita L. Sanchez, a powerful visionary of Mexican American and Aztec heritage, an Amazon rainforest guide with Pachamama Alliance, and the author of an incredibly beautiful and powerful book I consider a must-read for all of us, “The Four Sacred Gifts”

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about indigenous wisdom for modern times and how it can bring us peace and set us free. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• A piece of indigenous wisdom to begin changing our lives at this moment (03:07)
• The prophecy of the sacred eagle hoop (03:22)
• What is indigenous and did we all start out as indigenous (04:18)
• The meaning of acting as if we have no relations (08:32)
• What does it mean to be in right relation to nature? (09:20)
• Honoring the sacredness of all things and remembering that everything we do is interconnected (13:11)
• What happened on a hot mid-summer afternoon in 1967? (20:01)
• The importance of truly forgiving even the unforgivable (26:13)
• Standing Rock and its importance (36:38)
• We are nature and the universe in human form (43:47)
• What does it mean to listen with the softest part of your ear (45:57)
• The fourth sacred gift: The power of hope in action (56:26)
• What is the great mystery (1:14:25)

Additional Resources:

• www.FourSacredGifts.com

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If you’ve ever wondered if there has gotta be more to life than just chopping wood and carrying water, then do we have the we rise up show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with futurist, entrepreneur, storyteller, and film-maker, Michael Shaun Conaway, about his important new documentary, “We Rise Up”

That’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to rise up, redefine success, and do our part in the world. Plus we’ll talk about Storyworks Films, Marie Forleo, the Dalai Lama, Shawn Stevenson, Barbara Marx Hubbard, bold and abundance, and what in the world caterpillars, butterflies, and an amino-acid soup have to do with anything. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• One way we can begin helping ourselves and the world at the same time (02:55)
• Were you always interested in helping the planet? (04:16)
• Developing an interest in filmmaking and being a bridge (07:13)
• Reflecting a shadow from the past rather than where we want to go (10:09)
• Carrying forward the value in other people’s opinions (14:13)
• The ability to step back from our story and to look at it more globally (18:34)
• Taking over the planet on a global scale and tackling the problem of who we are as human beings (19:49)
• Peter Diamandis: Becoming one of the greatest voices for humanity (31:02)
• Getting the happy drugs, love drug and endorphins from helping others (36:15)
• Do you think we are reaching the end of the road for humanity as a competitive species (37:38)
• A self organizing universe and the evolution of consciousness (43:44)
• Allowing the universe to speak through us to create something new (47:16)
• The ocean and the importance of removing plastics from our lives (51:22)

Additional Resources:

• www.WeRiseUp.com

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If you've ever struggled, had self-doubt, felt trapped, at a dead-end, or like your life wasn't igniting, then do we have the show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with John O’Leary, one of my all-time heroes, both him and his mom, though I just heard about him a few weeks ago. He is the author of the future New York Times Best-Seller, "On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life", and one of the most inspirational people I have ever had the pleasure to have on the show.

Today we’ll talk about John’s miraculous journey, one that should have killed him, and instead helped mold him into the person he is today. We’ll talk about going through our own fires in life, flipping the ignition, learning to burn, and out of the fire, creating something more beautiful than we ever could have imagined.

That plus we’ll talk about the world’s greatest mom, accumulating baseballs, Phra Phuttha Maha Suwan Patimakon and what that means, and why in the world, you’d want someone to get in a hockey brawl for you.

Key Points Discussed:

• What is a milkshake promise?
• What happened to John when he was 9.
• How the experience became a true blessing in John’s life.
• How his older brother Jim changed and became a state hero (lifesaver of the year for Missouri)
• How his sisters Amy and Sarah became true hero’s as well.
• Why he asked his sister for a knife so he could kill himself
• How his seven-year-old sister risked her life (3 times!) to save her brother John.
• What his mom told him he credits with saving his life
• What his mom says when he asks if he’s going to die
• How do we light our internal flame?
• What we can learn from Robin Williams.
• How do we turn our lives around?
• What you can do to ensure that tomorrow is better than today
• Journals ‘why me’ in the morning and in the evening ‘what can I do to ensure that tomorrow is even better than today?
• What Big Roy had to do to him, to keep the scars from pulling him into the fetal position
• How do you become extraordinary???
• “We have to forget everything we’ve learned and realize we are BORN extraordinary!!!”
• The importance of asking ‘why do you choose to thrive?”
• Why his story with his Dad, Denny will be a second book.
• Who was Glenn Cunningham – and how did he help hundreds if not thousands of kids.
• Can you tell us about the announcer Jack Buck, the voice of the Cardinals?
• How John O’Leary day at the ballpark took place
• How you can make a huge difference in someone else’s life – simply!
• How Gino Cavallini got in a hockey brawl on John’s behalf.
• Why he wanted his book to be a guide to waking up from Accidental life.

Additional Resources:

• www.JohnOlearyInspires.com

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Hi everyone, welcome back, I’m Michael Sandler your host on inspire nation, along with my wifie….Jessie Lee.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, plateaued, or unsure, where to turn then do we have the How to Get Out of a Rut, show for you!

Today we’ll talk about stepping back, shedding your paradigm, dancing with the chaos, and building your future, from an entirely new perspective.

That plus we’ll talk about bad Indian food, short and sweet runs, TV in bed, a 100 foot journey, laughter therapy, dancing with chipmunks, beaming ourselves in the kitchen hand what in the chocolate vegan cupcakes, has to do with anything…

Topics Include:

Show Notes Include:

1. What’s the grief Jessica’s experienced over the last year?
2. How has the grief been here to serve us?
3. How has she worked to move past the grief?
4. What’s it mean to be cracked open from our traumas?
5. How do we move past being shut down, and reconnect with our hearts?
6. What it means to share your true authentic self?
7. What it means to be sensitive in the world, and why it’s important to put oneself out there?
8. What it means to go from a “skyscraper building to a pile of mush”
9. What is a shamanic deconstruction?
10. What it means to make total and complete peace with exactly what we resist?
11. Why crumbling may be the best thing for us?
12. What we can learn from Pele, the Hawaiian Goddess of Fire and Destruction?
13. What it means to relax into the process?
14. What’s the harm in resisting the chaos and destruction???
15. What in the world is baking therapy???
16. What in the world is laughter therapy???
17. What’s the importance of doing what serves your soul???

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If you’ve ever wondered why you’re so sensitive, and how in the world to navigate this world, then do we have the Evolutionary Empath show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Rev. Stephanie Red Feather Ph.D., founder and director of the Blue Star Temple, an expert on empaths, and the author of a brilliant must read for anyone who’s attracted to show, or with a highly sensitive child, or married (my wife calls it The Handbook to the Pookie), “The Evolutionary Empath”

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about how to know if you’re an empath and live a heart-centered life. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• A simple way to tell if you are an empath (03:23)
• Having a challenging time blending and merging with others from a young age (03:52)
• Flipping the switch and choosing the dark side (06:04)
• How did you become Red Feather and what is an empath? (10:10)
• The meaning of living from the shadow aspect (17:32)
• The morphic field of the empath and the role of empaths in helping move humanity through its period of ascension (24:35)
• The common challenges and special qualities of an empath (26:48)
• Do our sensitivities increase during our lifetime? (32:30)
• An empath’s ability to merge with and absorb the energy of other beings (34:46)
• A technique to use to create an energy field (41:36)
• Building boundaries despite having a big open heart and the desire to serve others (47:28)
• Self-Care: Some simple steps to take to start to refill the bank account (55:56)
• Advice for parents who have an empathic child (59:24) 

Additional Resources:

• The Evolutionary Empath By Rev. Stephanie Red Feather Ph.D.
• www.BlueStarTemple.org

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If you’ve ever wanted more time in your day, then do we have the Make Time show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with John Zeratsky, the best-selling co-author of Sprint, along with Jake Knapp, and the co-author of a new favorite book on time, Make Time.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to bulldoze your calendar, and focus on what matters, every day.

Key Points Discussed:

• How did John start working with Google and YouTube?
• How did he begin his own time experiments?
• What are infinity pools and how do they suck away your time?
• What’s the busy bandwagon and how does it affect our time?
• What does it mean most of our time is spent in “default”?
• What’s the difference between being productive and doing the most important work?
• How do we handle our email on our smart phones?
• What’s a distraction free iPhone?
• What is a design sprint and how does it help us get things done?
• What’s a high priority goal?
• What’s it mean to start one’s day with a high priority goal?
• What are the four steps to find and make more time in your day?
• What’s it mean to highlight?
• What does it mean to laser, and how does it help us beat distraction?
• How do we use the body to recharge the brain?
• What’s it mean to reflect to adjust and improve our system?
• How is perfectionism a distraction?
• How do we choose what to focus on first?
• What’s the danger with to-do lists?
• Can becoming a morning-person change your life?
• How can timers transform our day?
• What’s a time timer (timetimer.com)?

Additional Resources:

• MakeTimeBook.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to Awaken Your Spirit and live your best life, then do we have the ENERGY CODES show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Sue Morter, international speaker, master of bioenergetic medicine, quantum field visionary, and the author of a brilliant new book, The Energy Codes. 

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about, about a seven-step system to awaken your spirit, heal your body, and live your best life!

That plus we’ll talk about the danger of goop, glowing hands and tadpoles, Puttaparthi and Sai Baba, root locks and squeezing the heart, trap doors and B.E.S.T., who in the world is the clover lady, And what in the world jellyfish and emotions, have to do with anything!

Key Points Discussed: 

• What we can do to begin to reconnect with who we truly are (02:58)
• Going through an existential dilemma and ending up in a darkened ballroom full of meditators (04:57)
• Showing people how to access a deeper true sense of self so that they’re not on a continual process of searching (07:32)
• Giving ourselves permission to embrace the wholeness that we already have (16:35)
• What’s the quantum flip and can we do that with our own perception of ourselves? (18:03)
• Our lives are a reflection of our energy and we should use our energy for productive things (22:57) 
• Increasing awareness of our body and biofield to increase awareness of our soulful selves (27:47)
• We are the creative energy that flows through us (34:49)
• The Feeling Code - The Language of the Soul (40:48)
• How to access the subconscious beliefs that are slowing you down (44:11)
• Leading with love and allowing love to be the dissolvent that interferes with obstacles in our lives (47:17)
• What PH has to do with the chemical balance of the body (52:00)
• The practice of walking in nature using the central channel breathing (55:15)

Additional Resources:

• The Energy Codes By Dr. Sue Morter
• www.DrSueMorter.com

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If you’ve ever wanted more luck in your life, then do we have the mastery of good luck show for you. 

Today I’ll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, a leader in the new thought movement, PEN Award-Winning historian, author of “The Miracle Club”, and the Napoleon Hill Success Course series which includes “The Miracle of a Definite Chief Aim” and “One Simple Idea”, and a fantastic new masterclass, “The Mastery of Good of Luck”.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today. About how to benefit from the power of thought and some simple rules to help you get lucky. Plus we’ll talk about David lynching green lights, emails and court, Louis Pasteur and chance, flying weed and ash trays (from 5 storeys that is), and what in the world Mick Jagger and satisfaction has to do with anything.

Key Points Discussed: 

• What we can do right now to change our luck (02:56)
• Influencing good luck through our minds and conduct (06:23)
• Dancing with the fear on the 13 Rules of Good Luck (09:56)
• Poker and sports seem to be the one place where you can bend luck (11:54)
• Road Magic: Solving problems while travelling (15:48)
• Getting noticed and what’s wrong with keeping your head down (23:23)
• How much of a dopamine rush we get from the news (32:07)
• Failure is lucky: Sticking around and maintaining perspective on things (38:35)
• How far you can get by taking time to work on one chief aim (45:13)
• Being more enthusiastic than optimistic (51:17)
• Apologizing quickly when we humiliate others (58:23)
• If you don’t want it in public, don’t put it in an email (1:04:29)
• The importance of recognizing others and remunerating the valuable people (or paying them quickly) (1:05:42)
• Acting quickly and decisively when an opportunity comes your way (1:09:43)

Additional Resources:

• The Miracle Club By Mitch Horowitz
• The Mastery of Good Luck By Mitch Horowitz
• www.MitchHorowitz.com

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