If you’ve ever wanted to overcome an addiction, of any sort, then do we have The Abstinence Myth show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Adi Jaffe, PhD, research psychologist, addiction, specialist, founder of IGNTD, and the author of a brilliant new book on recovery, The Abstinence Myth.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about a new approach for overcoming addiction without shame, judgement or rules.

The Abstinence Myth Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What happened when Dr. Adi Jaffe asked his first girl out?
2. How did Dr. Adi Jaffe end up in a cycle of addiction?
3. What was the dual life he was leading?
4. What happened after he was caught?
5. How did going to jail change Dr. Jaffe?
6. Why did he go back to school?
7. Why is everything we’ve been told about addiction wrong?
8. What does it mean that we are not our addiction?
9. Why doesn’t recovery require or have to begin with abstinence?
10. What’s wrong with the label of an “addict”
11. What’s the importance of the issues we’re avoiding?
12. What is the Pygmalion effect?
13. What can we learn about the Pygmalion effect and kids
14. And with rats?
15. What’s the study he did on addiction and what did he find?
16. What if people want help, but don’t want to stop?
17. What does it mean to release our shame?
18. Why is it not about willpower?
19. How do we let go of the belief we are unfixable?
20. What do we do if a loved one has an addiction?
21. And if a child has an addiction?
22. For More Info Visit: IgnitedRecovery.com

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If you’ve ever wanted a stronger healthier relationship then do we have the New Relationship Show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Nancy Levin, an all-time favorite guest of mine, the best-selling author Worthy and Jump, and the author of a phenomenal book at reframing love, The New Relationship BluePrint.

And that’s just what we’ll be talking about today, about 10 steps to loving deeply, without losing yourself.

The New Relationship Blueprint Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What happened to Nancy Levin’s Marriage?
2. Why was it “you deplete me” rather than “complete me”?
3. What can we learn from Jerry McGuire?
4. What happened when she was D.O.N.E. with relationships?
5. What are core wounds and triggers?
6. How do we attract relationships that trigger our core wounds?
7. What was a “deady sin” to Nancy?
8. What are a few key myths about relationships?
9. Why are we the only one who can heal the sadness and loneliness inside of us?
10. How is being in a relationship school?
11. What are our origin stories?
12. How do our origin stories affect our relationships?
13. What are shadow beliefs or limiting beliefs?
14. How do we prove our beliefs are wrong?
15. What’s the importance of forgiveness in relationships?
16. Why do we need self-forgiveness for relationships?
17. What’s the importance of selfishness?
18. What’s the correct order of priorities?
19. What’s wrong with the term “sacrifice”?
20. What’s a pattern interrupt and why is it so important?
21. Why do we want to “negotiate” when we fight?
22. Why don’t we want “conflict resolution”?
23. What’s the wisdom of surrendering?
24. What’s a relationship 2.0?
25. How do we learn to live ourselves?
26. What do we need to know about self-talk?
27. To find out more visit NancyLevin.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to step into your power, then do we have The Miracle Club show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, award-winning PEN historian, best-selling author, a master of the new thought movement, and the author of a brilliant new book for stepping into your power The Miracle Club.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about diving INTO spirituality to dive IN to your inner power.

The Miracle Club Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What’s the "power of silence”?
2. What is the 48 Laws of Power?
3. What does nobility have to do with personal power?
4. What does it mean to be as wise as serpents, as harmless as doves?
5. Do spirituality and power actually go together?
6. What’s the million dollar secret hidden in your mind?
7. What can we learn from Anthony Norvell?
8. Why do we tend to minimize ourselves and our abilities?
9. What does it mean that our minds like definiteness?
10. What’s the importance (and challenge) of giving yourself a five-year plan for study, growth, and evolvement?
11. Why does it mean you must create a need in your life for the things you want?
12. What does it mean (and matter) to attend to your outside?
13. What’s the importance of asking how we want to present ourselves to the world.
14. What we can actually learn from Lisa Simpson?
15. What it means that our aim is the elevation of self?
16. Why there’s really no distinction between the exterior and the interior?
17. What is the “other self”?
18. What can we learn from The Magic Story and a “plus entity”
19. What’s the importance of making a daily and nightly companion of your plus entity?
20. What’s a late summer experiment we can all try?
21. What does it mean that we are all black magicians in our dreams?
22. What’s the Condensed Classics Library???
23. To Find Out More Visit MitchHorowitz.com

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If you’ve ever wanted more brilliance on demand, then do we have the Radical Brilliance Show for You!

Today I’ll be talking with Arjuna Ardagh, awakening coach, public speaker, the best-selling author of at least nine books including the #1 national bestseller The Translucent Revolution, and the author of a brilliant book on awakening your mind, Radical Brilliance.

And that’s just what I talk with him about, about the brain and brilliance, how and why people original life-changing ideas, and how we can have them ourselves!

Radical Brilliance Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What does Shakespeare have to do with a 1-year old?
2. What did Arjuna learn from a Hare Krishna monk?
3. How did Arjuna use the law of attraction to begin attracting wealth into his life?
4. What is the meaning of life?
5. Is there a magic switch to find life satisfaction?
6. What is brilliance?
7. Is there a formula for brilliance?
8. What is the brilliance cycle?
9. What are the 4 components of the brilliance cycle?
10. How does one know where one’s at in the brilliance cycle.
11. What is resting in pure awareness – and what’s the harm of getting stuck there?
12. What is creative flow, and what happens if we get stuck there?
13. While we know what productivity and accomplishment are, why do they need balance with pure awareness?
14. What is letting go and dissolution, and why is it so difficult?
15. What does it mean to get addicted or stuck to any part of the cycle?
16. What is going on with our brains during these times?
17. How can we shift back into the creative cycle and out of a place of feeling stuck?
18. What are tips for those who stay in pure awareness?
19. What are tips for people who stay in the creative flow – but cannot get things done.
20. What are tips for those stuck in the “do” mode?
21. What are tips for those stuck in “self-improvement” or “self-help” mode?
22. What do we need to know about our kids and brilliance?
23. For More Info Visit: RadicalBrilliance.com

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If you’ve ever wanted more creativity and joy in your life, then do we have the Art and Soul Reloaded Show For You!

Today I’ll be talking with Pam Grout, #1 New York times best-selling author, repeat guest, and the author of a beautiful new book and treatise on rediscovering your creativity, Art And Soul Reloaded. 

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about how to summon your muses and reclaim your bold, audacious creative side.

Art & Soul Reloaded Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What does it mean to be a closet Bohemian?
2. How did Pam Grout go from creative to corporate America?
3. How’d she end up becoming a travel writer?
4. What does Pam like people on both sides of the bell curve?
5. Why is it so important to help people with their creative side?
6. What does it meant to invite in our muses?
7. Are we all creative?
8. What does it mean to have creativity inside of ourselves?
9. What does it really mean when we believe or say we don’t have time?
10. What’s the importance of writing down three creative ideas every day?
11. How do we overcome internal resistance to creativity?
12. How do we get creative again after we’ve been told or shown we’re not creative (particularly from early experiences)
13. What does it mean if we say “I have no talent”
14. What’s an invocation to the muses?
15. What’s zumba for the soul?
16. What did Hay House send Pam Grout just before she released E-Squared?
17. What’s the importance of blogging?
18. What is a creativity ritual?
19. What does it mean to “do it anyway” and how can this help us?
20. What are 5 of the top creativity myths?
21. Why is “starving artist” such a dangerous believe?
22. What is creative capital?
23. How’d she start Patootie Press?
24. What’s wrong with “when I grow up…”
25. Does real art require sacrifice?
26. What is silliness and do we need more of it???
27. What does it really mean “to create or die”
28. What’s the importance of an “art partner” and just what is one?
29. What can we learn from John Steinbeck’s Working Days: The Journal of The Grapes of Wrath”?
30. Why is the creative life a sacred calling?
31. To find out more visit: PamGrout.com

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If you’ve ever wanted a life worth living, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll talk about living fully, exploring life, and bringing out the fun in all that you do.

1. How CJ is becoming an empty-nester this week?
2. What is CJ doing for her transition?
3. How may walking the Camino in Spain help her to live a life worth living???
4. How movement can help you get your energy unstuck?
5. Why Michael and Jessica are putting their lives on instagram:
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6. Why it’s so important to take in different, sometimes even uncomfortable experiences?
7. Why putting yourself out there, such as in drum circles or other unusual events, can help bring back out your childlike eyes?
8. Why you want to dress like yourself, and have lots of FUN with it!!!
9. What it means to “live life in this moment”???
10. Why you want to plug back in with the natural world???
11. How automatic writing (AutomaticWriting.com) can help change your life?
12. What it means that a walk, or life, can be “the practice”?
13. How you can use a watch as a reminder to “drop in”?
14. What’s the importance of getting assistance to help us peel away the obscurations to your happiness?
15. To find out more visit: FireItUpWithCj.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to feel greater freedom and peace with the shape of your body, then do we have the Physical Disobedience show for you! 

Today I’ll be talking with Sarah Hays Coomer,  a certified personal trainer, wellness coach, “diet abolitionist,” and the author of Lightness of Body and Mind. And her latest to set you free, Physical Disobedience.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about an unruly guide to health, stamina, busting through paradigms, taking control of our lives, and making great change in the world!

Physical Disobedience Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What was Sarah’s relationship with food and dieting growing up?
2. What does it mean to access your body and make peace with it?
3. What is physical disobedience?
4. What can we learn from the Dove study about our body image?
5. What happened to her stomach?
6. How did she become a physical trainer?
7. What can we learn from physical training about our bodies?
8. What does it mean that beauty has nothing to do with the pursuit of perfection?
9. What does it mean to squander away our lives by picking our bodies to pieces?
10. What can we learn from She-Ra?
11. What does it mean to give our mice a microphone?
12. What’s a health opportunist and why should we become one?
13. How can helping our bodies help us with stress?
14. What is the myth between exercise and weight loss?
15. What’s the importance of focusing on our breath?
16. What’s the truth about social media?
17. What’s the importance of stopping doing what you feel you’re supposed to be doing?
18. What’s the importance of being aimless?
19. What can we learn from Felix Ivanov and Tai Chi?
20. What’s the importance of being soft?
21. What can we learn from 96 year old Lois Lee Frauchiger?
22. What was her philosophy of acceptance?
23. SarahHaysCoomer.com

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If you’ve ever wondered why you’re struggling with your health, your emotions, or your mind, then do we have the Mind-Gut Connection Show for You.

Today I’ll be talking with Emeran Mayer, MD, who has studied brain-body interactions for the almost 40 years and is considered a pioneer and world leader in the area of brain-gut microbiome interactions and chronic pain. He’s the author of an astounding new book and look at our minds and our health, The Mind-Gut Connection.

And that’s just what we’ll talk about today, how the hidden conversation within our bodies impacts our mood, our choices, and our overall health, and what we can do about it.

Gut Health & Microbiome Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. How he started listening to his gut and where it steered him
2. What’s the power of journaling?
3. How many microbes are in us and on us?
4. What do microbes have to do with what we think, feel and say
5. How to listen to your gut when you’re shopping for food
6. What’s a new view of the human being or the human superorganism
7. What are we really made of?
8. What is the human microbiome?
9. What is the language of the microbiome
10. Who is driving the ship, or how are the micro-organisms controlling or talking to us
11. How changing the microbiome changes whether we gain or lose weight
12. Why we have to be careful which microbes we feed
13. How our microbiome has developed for our modern poor diet
14. What’s the danger of eating angry?
15. What’s the power of prayer for your food
16. What does your childhood has to do with your gut?
17. How we can help our children’s guts
18. How our guts and microbiome has been changed over multiple generations
19. How to prevent our kids from getting obese
20. What we can learn from Michael Pollan
21. What the stress on the mother (during pregnancy too) does for the microbiome of the baby
22. What’s the importance of breast-feeding
23. What happiness and positivity have to do with your child’s microbiome
24. What’s the French paradox?
25. What are some of the healthiest diets in the world
26. What’s the danger of emulsifiers and additives
27. What does our food have to do with our mood
28. How does meditation and mindfulness change the microbiome
29. How does spirituality and spiritual practices change your microbes
30. emeranmayer.com – find lots of interviews and video clips On The Mind Gut Connection
31. What’s a Buddhist approach to our microbiome
32. What has his meditation practice been like
33. What focusing on our breath in meditation has to do with our microbiome

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If you’ve ever wanted to flow through change then do we have the Tapping Solution to Create Lasting Change show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Jessica Ortner, the New York Times best-selling author of The Tapping Solution for Weight Loss and Body Confidence, co-producer of The Tapping Solution documentary, and the author of a beautiful new book The Tapping Solution to Create Lasting Change.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about how to get unstuck and find your flow.

The Tapping Solution to Create Lasting Change Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What were Jessica Ortner’s weight challenges growing up?
2. How did it all turn around through tapping?
3. What is a pattern of panic?
4. What is tapping?
5. What does the science show?
6. How do we begin tapping?
7. What is tapping 101?
8. What’s a most-pressing issue?
9. How do we measure intensity?
10. How do we craft a set-up statement?
11. Where do we tap and how do we do it?
12. What’s a tapping meditation?
13. How can a tapping meditation help re-write the subconscious?
14. How can a tapping meditation help us get unstuck?
15. Why do we stay stuck?
16. What’s the brain’s safety bias?
17. How do we create lasting change?
18. How do we use tapping as the ultimate stress-relieving technique???
19. How does tapping help relax the body and quiet the mind?
20. What can we learn from Arianna Huffington about Failure?
21. What’s the importance of celebrating our “one star” reviews???
22. What can we learn from Louise Hay about trust and faith?
23. What were the most powerful lessons Jessica Ortner learned from Louise Hay?
24. What can we take away from Louise Hay at the time of the anniversary of her passing???
25. For More Info Visit: TheTappingSolution.com/Change 

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If you’ve ever wanted to discover your life purpose, then do we have The Life You Were Born to Live show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Dan Millman, former world champion gymnast, coach, martial arts teacher, the run-away international best-selling author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior, and a phenomenal guide and one-million book best-seller for discovering your life purpose, The Life You Were Born to Live

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about, about an amazing Life-Purpose system, to find meaning, purpose, and direction in your life.

The Life You Were Born to Live Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. Who did Dan Millman meet after he shattered his leg in college?
2. How did he become Socrates in The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
3. What’s the true story behind Socrates?
4. Who was the warrior priest who Dan Millman met in 1984?
5. How did he change Dan’s life?
6. What will Dan Millman’s last book be?
7. How did Dan discover what became the “Life-Purpose system”?
8. Where did the system come from?
9. What does the system have to do with Numerology?
10. What does Dan Millman mean that one’s life path is a mountain they get to climb?
11. How does one determine one’s life path number (you can visit peacefulwarrior.com for a calculator)
12. What does one’s life path number tell you?
13. Is each person’s life path number unique?
14. How can you use your number to guide you?
15. What does it tell you about your career?
16. What are the positives and negatives about your life path number?
17. How does one’s numbers affect their relationships?
18. What can we learn about our relationship from our numbers?
19. What are the laws of spirit?
20. What’s the law of flexibility and how does it affect us?
21. How did the law of process affect Dan Millman’s life?
22. What is the law of love?
23. For More Info Visit: PeacefulWarrior.com

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If you’ve ever wanted greater happiness in your life, then do we have the shake it up, show for you!

Today we’ll talk about shaking things up and focusing on happiness, what it looks like, how to do it, why it’s so important, and why challenging yourself, is half the fun!

Topics Include:

1. What does it mean to shake things up for greater happiness?
2. What can we learn about happiness for chipmunks?
3. Why we want to challenge ourselves by doing the uncomfortable?
4. What it means to see the world from a new perspective?
5. Why we want to get outside of our “bubbles”?
6. Why do we want to “try” things, even if we don’t know the outcome in advance?
7. How CJ’s training is going for the Camino pilgrimage in Spain?
8. Why going on our own “pilgrimage” is so valuable for us?
9. Why the things going “wrong” in your life, may be the very things that strengthen you?
10. How to drop the struggle, and realize the challenges aren’t what they appear to be?
11. What it means to treat everyone with complete and total love and kindness?
12. What it means to step forward into “I don’t have a clue-edness”???
13. What it means to say “it is what it is”???
14. What does it mean to be brutalized with love?
15. What does it mean to balance internal and external “hard” and “soft”???
16. What it means for your life to realize everything is information “neither good nor bad”???
17. To find out more visit FireItUpWithCj.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to find greater peace, happiness, and fulfillment in your life, then do we have THE Self-Love Experiment show for you! 

Today I’ll be talking with Shannon Kaiser, best-selling author, 7 time contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Soul, and author of a phenomenal new book on perhaps my all-time favorite topic, The Self-Love Experiment.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about, about the key principles for becoming more kind, compassionate, and accepting of yourself!

Self-Love Experiment Self-Improvement and Self-Help Notes Include:

1. What was the struggle she faced in her childhood?
2. How did she end up in corporate America?
3. How did she hit the reset button in her life?
4. How did she overcome eating disorders and drug addiction?
5. What does it mean that she went out of her way to sabotage herself?
6. What’s the danger in “when I’s”?
7. What does it mean to lean into your troubles for guidance?
8. How did she lean into her depression?
9. How did she start the self-love experiment?
10. What is the self-love experiment process?
11. What’s the magic of self-care and what does it look like?
12. What’s wrong with being an A+ wellness warrior?
13. What do you mean self-care has nothing do with what you do but how you do it?
14. What’s it mean to allow yourself to be where you are?
15. What’s a Daily Me-Matters List and how can it help?
16. What was the importance of a new wardrobe?
17. What does self-compassion look like?
18. What’s the power of the physical space and living where we love?
19. How do you make your environment a reflection of your peace and joy?
20. Why don’t we want to spend time with negative thoughts?
21. How do we find the time to do what we love?
22. Why is how we feel more important than how we look?
23. What’s it mean the more you, you show, the more oyur life will flow?
24. What’s so important about your dreams?
25. What’s the importance of gratitude?
26. For More Info Visit: PlayWithTheWorld.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to breathe easier and ditch your perfectionism, then do we have The Perfection Detox show for you. 

Today I’ll be talking with Petra Kolber, internationally renowned fitness authority and happiness facility who has choreographed and starred in over 60 award-winning workout programs and is the author of a Perfect new book on letting go of perfectionism, The Perfection Detox.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about taming your inner critic, living bravely, and unleashing your Joy.

The Perfection Detox Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include: 

1. How did Petra become one of the top fitness experts in the US?
2. How was she struggling with perfectionism and eating disorders during this time?
3. How did she survive cancer?
4. How did her body force her to look at her perfectionism?
5. What does the inner critic have to do with perfectionism?
6. What’s a perfection detox?
7. How can a journal be a powerful tool to overcome perfectionism?
8. How do we begin to tame our thoughts?
9. What’s the impostor syndrome?
10. How do we stop the rumination of our minds?
11. What do we need to know about unrealistic expectations?
12. What’s the importance of self-acceptance?
13. How does social medial create unrealistic expectations
14. What’s the importance of our vocabulary?
15. What’s the danger of “No But” and the importance of a YES habit?
16. What can we learn about positivity from Tal Ben-Shahar?
17. How do we practice positivity?
18. What is Recover, Reframe, and Repeat?
19. What’s a passionist?
20. How do we see the positive sides of our traits?
21. How do we see the beautiful truth of who we really are?
22. What do we need to know about forgiveness and self-forgiveness?
23. To find out more visit: PerfectionDetox.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to change your beliefs and regain your health, then do we have the MindBody Self Show for you! 

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Mario Martinez, licensed clinical neuro-psychologist and the best-selling author of The Man from Autumn, The MindBody Code, and The MindBody Self.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about biocognitive science, and how to change the beliefs that limit your health, longevity, and success.

The MindBody Self Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. Where did Dr. Mario Martinez group up and how did his culture affect his beliefs?
2. What does neuropsychology have to do with our health and success?
3. What did Dr. Martinez learn working in a maximum-security prison?
4. Where do our limiting beliefs come from?
5. How our cultures powerful architects in creating our reality?
6. Do we have any influence in creating our own reality?
7. How do our cultural beliefs affect our health and happiness?
8. How are cultural beliefs embodied in our biology?
9. Where does our fear come from?
10. How do we recognize the fear inside of us?
11. How can we feel what our body has to tell us?
12. What’s the importance of empathetic beliefs?
13. What can we learn from centenarians?
14. Where does there resilience come from?
15. What are the different beliefs that centenarians all share?
16. What’s it mean to be a healthy narcissist?
17. What are some of the other causes of health?
18. What’s the danger of reductionist science when it comes to our health?
19. What’s the importance of learning worthiness?
20. What’s a retirement consciousness?
21. What does it mean to inhabit the embodied present?
22. What can we learn from the Mexican tribe, the Tarahumara (Raramuri)?
23. What are the different portals our culture puts us in?
24. How do we recognize the portals?
25. How do we break free from the portals?
26. What’s an anti-aging technique that Dr. Christiane Northrup teaches?
27. What’s the anti-aging photo experiment?
28. How can we help our children break free of the cultural beliefs?
29. To find out more visit: www.biocognitive.com

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If you’ve ever wanted more happiness, and resilience your life, or greater positivity in the face of storms, then do we have the Buddha’s Brain show for you. 

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Rick Hanson, neuropsychologist, brain expert, and the best-selling author of Hardwiring Happiness, Just One Thing and the Buddha’s Brain.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to develop resilience and a Buddha brain, one simple practice at a time.

Neuroscience of Positivity Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: 

1. What to do when the waves of life come?
2. What is a self-transforming brain?
3. How can we change the emotional intelligence of the brain?
4. What is the brain’s negativity bias?
5. Why are we so vulnerable to the impact of negative experiences?
6. Why do our brain’s focus on the sticks over carrots – or on the negative experiences?
7. How does mindfulness awareness help bring more stability and peacefulness to our minds?
8. Three fundamental ways to relate to the mind
9. How do we begin to focus on the positives with our brain???
10. How do you switch from the negative to the positive?
11. What’s the importance of focusing on the rewards in an experience?
12. What does it mean to experience what you want to grow
13. What does it mean that the path our life takes boils down to three causes?
14. What are 9 ways to make your life better?
15. What has the greatest opportunity to make your life better?
16. How do we increase our resources for positivity and resilience?
17. One simple way on a day to day basis to grow our mental resources?
18. What it means to anchor an experience?
19. How do we steepen our growth curve to learning in our lives?
20. How do we learn how to learn?
21. What’s the importance of safety, satisfaction and connection?
22. How do we watch our minds learn
23. What’s the importance of reflection on our experiences?
24. How to rewire the mind for courage.
25. How do we change ourselves in some meaningful way?
26. For More Info Visit: www.RickHanson

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If you’ve ever felt stuck, in a rut, or wondered where to go from here, then do we have the open to new possibilities expand your horizons and dare to dream show for you!!!

Today we’ll talk about stepping forward, daring to dream, getting uncomfortable, and being open to crazy new possibilities.

Topics Include:

1. What in the world Michael in the movies really means???
2. What is the documentary PGS, or the Personal Guidance System from Bill Bennett?
3. What can we learn from George Costanza about getting unstuck?
4. What’s the importance of trying new things?
5. What’s the benefit in believing you don’t have the answer or might even be wrong?
6. Why do we want to get uncomfortable?
7. What’s going on with the Inspire Nation coach trainees???
8. Will Inspire Nation be having retreats in Colorado???
9. What it means to get lighter for our journeys?
10. Why do we want to play “mind games” with ourselves?
11. What’s the benefit of having a carrot in your life?
12. How we can use visualization work to re-energize ourselves?
13. What does it mean to have a moment of grace?
14. What’s the importance of listening to the Universe???
15. What can we learn from the Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei?
16. How do we change our mindset from a place of joy?
17. How do we discover our gifts?
18. To find out more visit: www.FireItUpWithCJ.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to wake up in your dreams, and use it to change your life, then do we have the Lucid Dreaming show for you!

Today I’ll speaking with Robert Waggoner, the past President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, co-editor of the online magazine, The Lucid Dreaming Experience, and the author of one of my all-time new favorite books, Lucid Dreaming!

Lucid Dreaming Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. When was Dr. Waggoner’s first lucid dream?
2. What are pre-cognitive dreams?
3. What did he learn from The Lesson’s of Don Juan by Carlos Castenada?
4. What was the early technique he learned for Lucid Dreaming (and still teaches today)
5. What’s the importance of modulating your emotions when lucid dreaming?
6. What does it mean that only the mind distniugishes between the two realities?
7. What do waking activties have to do with lucid dreaming?
8. What is the shadow self?
9. How are the top ways of getting into lucid dreaming?
10. What’s the MILD technique?
    What’s the NAP To Lucidity technique?
11. What are other techniques and activities to improve the chance of lucid dreams?
12. How do we remember our dreams?
13. What advice for people who do not dream (or remember dreams)
14. What is a conquistador of consciousness
15. Is there anything to fear in lucid dreaming?
16. What kind of questions can you ask in your dreams?
17. What can you learn in your dreams?
18. How can you heal yourself through lucid dreams?
19. What does it mean to manipulate your dream body?
20. What are the benefits of meditation and meditating in your dreams?
21. What can we learn about a connected universe through our dreams?
22. How important is it to talk with our children about their dreams?
23. How can we help children with nightmares?
24. For More Info Visit: lucidadvice.com and www.dreaminglucid.com

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If you’ve ever wanted all-natural remedies to improve your health, then do we have the Simple Guide to Natural Health show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Melanie St. Ours, a clinical herbalist, founder of Psyche and Soma, and the author of a beautiful new healthful book, the Simple Guide to Natural Health.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about super easy-to-use home remedies for health and healing!

The Simple Guide to Natural Health Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. Why did Melanie St. Ours get into herbalism?
2. What’s the benefit of looking into natural health?
3. What are natural remedies?
4. How do natural remedies encourage prevention?
5. How do natural remedies complement modern medicine?
6. How do we know when we can DIY our health?
7. What’s the importance of understanding your medications?
8. What do you need to know if pregnant or nursing?
9. What herbs are never safe during pregnancy?
10. What are safety guidelines for children under 12?
11. What plants do we want to stock up on?
12. What are other natural ingredients we want to keep in the house?
13. What are the key essential oils we want to keep in our house?
14. What does it mean to eat the weeds?
15. What are herbal potpourris?
16. What are sweet petal lingerie drawer liners?
17. What are herbal remedies to help the respiratory tract?
18. What herbal remedies can help with smoke in the environment?
19. What herbal remedies can help with stress and anxiety?
20. What herbal remedies can help with depression?
21. What herbal remedies can help with sleep?
22. What are some all natural cleaning products?
23. How can miso soup help us?
24. What are the benefits of ginger and turmeric tea?
25. How can we boost our immune system?
26. How can we increase our fitness and recovery?
27. What do women need to know for their health?
28. How can herbal remedies help with urinary tract infections?
29. How can herbal remedies help with cramping?
30. How can herbal remedies help with fertility?
31. To Find Out More Visit: PsycheandSoma.com

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If you’ve ever thought ANYTHING was impossible, or the challenge was too great, then do we have the Sometimes Brilliant Show for You.

Today I’ll be talking with Larry Brilliant, pioneering physician, global philanthropist, and one of the key players in the eradication of smallpox, which has saved millions, of not a billion lives to come. He’s also the best-selling author of a brilliant new book, and a MUST read about faith or courage, Sometimes Brilliant.

And that’s just what we’ll be talking about today, about the impossible adventure of a spiritual seeker and visionary physician who helped conquer the worst disease in history.

Larry Brilliant Notes

1. What happened with his dad and the mafia
2. What ancient coins taught him about India
3. How did he meet Martin Luther King Jr, and how’d he change Larry’s life
4. What does a motorcycle ride and nitrous oxide have to do with anything
5. Who he miraculously got into medical school
6. What was a rescue mission to Alcatraz and who was Wovoca?
7. What happened with Larry and Warner Brothers?
8. Who’s Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm Commune Bus and the Sterling Hog – and touring on the Silk Road
9. What happened with Ram Das and Be Here Now?
10. What was it like meeting Neem Karoli Baba – aka Mahara-ji
11. What is the opposite of faith, and what does doubt have to do with faith
12. larrybrilliant.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to change your mindset about wealth, success, and significance, then do we have the Unlock It show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Dan Lok, best-selling author, mulit-millionaire serial entrepreneur, and the author of Unlock it.

 And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about the master key to wealth, success, and significance.

Topics Include:

1. How’d Dan Lok end up moving from Hong Kong to Canada (without any English skills!)
2. What happened to his parents at 16 that forever changed his life?
3. What did he learn from Bruce Lee that helped him forge success?
4. What was the commitment Dan Lok made?
5. How’d he begin to find success (even after 13 businesses failed)?
6. What are the four stages of life and where are we almost all living?
7. What’s the great debt lie?
8. What does he mean we have a lack of high-income skills?
9. What are some of the debt-lies?
10. Whare are some of the myths about money?
11. How do you increase your value?
12. What are some of the top money mistakes we make?
13. What are some of the top money secrets?
14. Who does money move to and why???
15. What are a few of the top incorrect thoughts we have about money?
16. How do we achieve a lasting success mindset?
17. What’s the importance of gratitude?

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If you’ve ever wanted to stay in your heart-space, and feel better about life, then do we have the be in the love, show for you.

Today we’ll talk about getting in your heart-space, staying in the love, and even how to get back to the love, when you’re feeling lost or afraid.

Topics Include:

1. What it means that life is conspiring for you?
2. What Michael feels called to do next?
3. What’s it mean to let ourselves fall apart?
4. What it means to step forward even when you don’t know?
5. What it means to be open and let go of believing you have the answer?
6. What it means to be there with the ones you love?
7. Why CJ let her son go sky-diving???
8. How and why you want to be “calmly in your heart”?
9. What it means to have attachment in your life – and be able to let it go???
10. What it means to know what’s most important in your life?
11. How important is it to let go of attachment to your identity?
12. What it means to change your look?
13. What it means to release tension from your back and your life?
14. How pain can be a positive reminder to get us back into a state of love?
15. How we can use challenges to get us into a state of love?
16. What it means to love yourself up???
17. To find out more visit: FireItUpWithCj.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to wake up from your dream state, then do we have The Way of Liberation show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with the spiritual teacher Adyanshanti, author of two of the most beautiful and important books I’ve ever read, Falling Into Grace, and The Way of Liberation.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about a practical guide to spiritual awakening and enlightenment.

Awakening & Enlightenment Self-Improvement and Self-Help topics include:

1. What Adyashanti was like as a child?
2. What he discovered about the world?
3. What his early spiritual experiences were like?
4. What did Adyashanti discover in a book by Alan Watts?
5. How did he get into Zen Buddhism?
6. What did he build in his backyard for meditation practice?
7. What is the “spiritual fast track”
8. What were his awakening experiences?
9. Why is it so important we wake up now?
10. What’s the importance of moving past our egoic minds?
11. What’s the importance of letting go of judgment of yourself?
12. What’s the importance of the question of being?
13. Why is it so important to know thyself?
14. Why is the question of being everything?
15. What does it mean to be sleep walking in life?
16. Why is it so important to awaken?
17. What are the three core practices for awakening?
18. What’s the importance of meditation?
19. What is meditation that helps with awakening?
20. How does one begin with this type of meditation (and for how long)?
21. What is the process of inquiry?
22. How does one begin the process of inquiry, and what can it be done on?
23. How does one balance inquiry with meditation?
24. What’s the importance of introducing a sentence or phrase into meditation?
25. What’s the importance of understanding what is looking through our eyes?
26. A guided meditation to help us begin the awakening process.
27. To find out more visit: Adyashanti.org

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If you’ve ever wanted to live a different way, more in alignment with your soul, then do we have the Be Feel Think Do show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Anne Berube, a modern shaman, speaker, teacher and the author of a beautiful, soul-revealing journey, Be Feel Think Do.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about what happens your soul wakes up to who you truly are, and how to get there.

Be Feel Think Do Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: 

1. How did Anne Berube meet Wayne Dyer?
2. How did she begin working with Wayne Dyer?
3. What was her near-death experience years earlier?
4. How did life change for her – or what was the parallel life she saw?
5. What did she learn from Shirley Maclaine?
6. What did she learn from her grandmother?
7. How do we steer by listening to our guts?
8. What can we learn from our pain?
9. What does it mean to spend time being and feeling?
10. What did she learn from the Shaman Laura Kealoha Yardley?
11. What is the ancient Hawaiian tale of Lemuria?
12. What does it mean to live from a place of be and feel?
13. What does it mean to make your soul your leader?
14. How did she bring Deepak Chopra to Halifax and what can we learn from it?
15. What’s our soul compass and our soul plan?
16. What’s the importance of learning how to pause?
17. What’s a way to visualize getting out of our small selves?
18. What’s the gateway to our soul?
19. How do we connect with our inner body?
20. What’s the importance of bringing our constant awareness to our breath?
21. What do lilac branches and Wayne Dyer have to do with anything?
22. What’s the special message or package she got from Wayne Dyer?
23. What is the language of spirit???
24. To Find Out More Visit: AnneBerube.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to use your superpowers to engage, persuade, and change your life, then do we have the Storyworthy show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Matthew Dicks, the international best-selling author, 36 time Mothy StorySLAM champion, five-time GrandSLAM champion, cofounder of Speak Up and the author of a truly brilliant must-read book for spinning a yarn, Storyworthy. 

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to engage, teach, persuade and change your life through the Power of Storytelling.

Storyworthy Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: 

1. How did Matthew Dicks become a good story-teller?
2. What happened when he went to his first Moth StorySLAM???
3. What are some of the early stories he’s shared?
4. Do we need big stories in order to become a story-teller?
5. Can anyone become a story-teller?
6. Why do we want to learn how to tell good stories?
7. What can we learn about ourselves through the process?
8. If you have no desire to get on stage, why learn to be a story-teller?
9. What are a few big no-no’s when it comes to telling a story?
10. What’s wrong with drinking stories or vacation stories?
11. Why do stories have to require change?
12. What’s the harm in telling other people’s stories?
13. What is the dinner test?
14. What is “Homework for Life” and how can it change our lives?
15. How can it help slow down time?
16. What’s the importance of “moments” in our life?
17. What’s the slash and burn exercise?
18. What is the first last best worst exercise and how can it help us?
19. What does it mean that the beginning should be the opposite of the ending?
20. Three key ways to keep your story compelling.
21. What is an elephant?
22. What is a backpack?
23. What are story hourglasses?
24. What’s the Spiderman principle of meetings and presentations?
25. How does storytelling give you superhero powers?
26. What’s one homework assignment to help you become a better story-teller?
27. How can we help our kids become better story-tellers?
28. To find out more visit: MatthewDicks.com and to find Matthew Dick’s podcast go to the SpeakUpStoryTelling show.

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Today I’ll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, a leader in the New Thought Movement, PEN award-winning historian, the 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 that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how thoughts are causative, and how to reprogram your mind!

Topics Include:

1. What happened to Mitch’s book when it was published in China?
2. Are thoughts causative?
3. What’s the danger of people believing thoughts become things?
4. How is it a destabilizing force?
5. What happened to Marianne Williamson and why are people so threatened by the law of attraction?
6. Why are so many people afraid of self-help?
7. Who made the term “self-help” popular?
8. How old is self-help?
9. Was Benjamin Franklin into self-help?
10. What does authentic self-help demand?
11. Who was Emile Cuoue?
12. How were the Beatles influenced by Emile Cuoue and self-help?
13. What did Paul McCartney and John Lennon write and sing about?
14. How did Emile Cuoue end up studying abroad, a century before the internet???
15. What is conscious autosuggestion?
16. What is a powerful mantra for rewiring your mind?
17. What’s the hypnagogic state, and why is it so powerful for reprogramming your mind?
18. Why is it so important to say affirmations when we’re drifting off to sleep?
19. What is science showing about autosuggestion?
20. What can we learn from the Scientist Charles Honorton and Ganzfeld experiments???
21. How do we practice subconscious mind-training?
22. How do we rewire our minds when we’re facing physical or mental pain or depression?
23. To find out more visit mitchhorowitz.com