If you’ve ever gone through dark times of despair, a lack of hope, or even incredible desperation, then do we have the illuminating show for you.

Today we’ll be talking with Mirabai Starr, best-selling author, poet, teacher, translator of many mystic greats, including Saint John of the Cross’s Dark night of the soul, and the author of one of the most touching memoirs I have ever read, Caravan of No Despair.

Today we’ll be talking about transformation, making it through the dark times, and what a Dark Night of the Soul really means.

That plus celebrate the life of Jenny, Mirabai’s daughter who left her too young, but who’s spirit more than carries on, plus talk about Ram Dass, Dog Angels, the cloud game, monkeyshines, and why you want to be careful of what they put in the fruit punch!

Questions and Topics Include:

1. What happened to her brother Mattey at age 7.
2. How her family set out on a Caravan on No Despair – written about by the poet Rumi.
3. How six months living on Mexico coast (Yucatan Peninsula) and how it changed her life.
4. How travel opens the doors to your imagination
5. What growing up in Taos was like during the peak of the counter-culture
6. What in the world was put in the fruit punch, and how did it affect Mirabai’s life.
7. How her first love Phillip passed away as her life was in turmoil.
8. How Mirabai was drawn to the Lama Foundation, an intentional spiritual community up in the mountains where Ram Dass wrote Be Here Now.
9. How she was given her name Mirabai (former name Paula Starr)
10. How heartbreak is one of the most direct paths to “suchness” or a place of spiritual nakedness
11. How she adopted two very difficult children, two mixed-race children who had been abused
12. What happened to her daughter Jenny
13. In dark moments how do we keep from ‘torturing’ ourselves?
14. Who are Mirabai’s ‘dog angels’
15. How the first copy of her book, a translation of ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ arrived just before news of her daughter’s death.
16. How Caravan of No Despair came out exactly to the day 14 years after Jenny’s passing away.
17. How writing saved Mirabai’s life and how writing can help you through your darkest nights.
18. What’s the key message of transformation from The Caravan of No Despair
19. What she was told after visiting India nine years after Jenny’s passing.
20. Last words of wisdom to help anyone through their own darkest moments.
21. Guided Meditation Led by Mirabai Starr

Mirabai Starr Shows You How You Can Overcome Life's Toughest Moments as She Shares Her Own Journey Through Multiple Tragedies and Then To Brighter Times. You'll Feel Inspired, Uplifted, And Motivated! Inspiration | Spirituality | Health | Self-Help

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Get smarter at any age! If you’ve ever wanted to have a sharper mind with greater focus, better memory, more patient, creativity and resilience, then this interview with Dr. Michael Merzenich, the “father of brain plasticity” is for you!

Learn how to exercise your mind and get it sharper than ever.

Learn how to keep your mind strong into your golden years, and for seniors, how you can roll back the clock, and get a smarter brain at any age. And for parents, key tips to help your kids grow up smarter, and more engaged than ever!

Dr. Michael Merzenich is the pioneer in brain plasticity, or the ability to change the brain. According to him, the brain is not fixed as we’ve been taught, but can work better if we work on it. And not just a little, but huge changes. This means you could change careers, become an entrepreneur, or a singer, or do something completely outside your comfort zone and brain-power if you want. You can change your mind to be able to do anything.

Your IQ is not fixed. Your memory is not fixed. And you do not need to lose brain cells or get fuzzy-brained as you age. As he says “The brain is plastic till you die. You cannot kill it until you die. It is the greatest trick. We all have the capacity to be greater and get stronger.”

In this interview he suggests ways to make your brain stronger.

It’s an especially important interview for seniors, for parents, kids, and for returning veterans. For parents he discusses ways to increase children’s intelligence, and the dangers, and benefits of their technology. For seniors, he discusses ways to prevent trips, falls, hip fractures, and other potentially life-threatening injuries, through specific brain strategies.

And for all of us, he shows how we can enrich our lives by having sharper, more resilient, and smarter minds.

Deepak Chopra often talks about strengthening your brain. Wayne Dyer’s discussed it. Tony Robbins talks about NLP. And Dr. Michael Merzenich helps you life muscles with the mind, simply and easily, to give you the super-powered brain you always wished you had!

Lastly, as someone who has met the Dalai Lama several times, Dr. Merzenich discusses ways we can use our minds to increase compassion, kindness, happiness, and joy. These are things we could all use more of!!!

Dr. Michael Merzenich – Father of Brain Plasticity Shares How to Get Smarter, More Focused, Boost Our Kids IQ’s & Heal the Brain! Important lessons for children, parents, seniors, veterans, entrepreneurs & all of us! Health | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve ever wanted to find more purpose, meaning, or direction in your life, or to live a life in full bloom, then do we have the purposeful show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Elizabeth Murray, best know for her work tending Monet’s gardens for over 30 years and for the beautiful book Living Life in Full Bloom.

Today we’ll be talking with her about Life Mapping the process of matching your passions with your skills and talents to help you get on track and make a difference in your life, your families life, and in the world!

So today she’ll take you through the process, help you uncover your dreams, reignite your passions, and begin to see how you can get where you want to be!

That plus we’ll talk about bird feeders, binoculars, feather collections (yup, I’ve got one) and how in the world you might make bird-watching, or any other feathery habit a colorful part of your life!

Questions and Topics Include

1. What is life-mapping?
2. How do we live on purpose?
3. Why working “hard” isn’t the answer
4. What is life-mapping 101
5. What are supplies for life-mapping?
6. How do we discover our passions – and our talents
7. What are the benefits of looking back at your childhood.
8. Why you want to look at your skills and talents
9. How you want to see how you can contribute in the world.
10. What are some tips for introverts
11. How to begin making a life-map
12. What is your north star or your heart compass?
13. Can life-mapping be done with teens or kids coming out of college?
14. How to literally listen to our dreams to live the lives of our dreams
15. How the Achuar in the Amazonian Jungle are a ‘dream people’

Elizabeth Murray Shares How Life Mapping Can Help You Discover Your Purpose, Focus On Your Dreams, And Build a Passion-Filled Purpose-Driven Life! Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Business | Career | Health | Art | Self-Help | Inspire

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Do you ever wish you could find a way to heal, to overcome injuries, serious illness, even cancer, or nagging pain or other physical problems that keep coming back or will never go away? If so, then do we have the guest for you!

Her name is Brenda Michaels, she’s the nationally syndicated radio show host of Conscious Talk radio, and the amazing co-author of the book the Gift of Cancer.

She’s also been an incredible mentor, guide, and I’d even say a guardian angel in helping get our show off the ground.

Now Brenda knows a thing or two about repeating patterns and rising above them. She’s struggled with negative emotions, poor relationships and had cancer three times before digging deep and learning how to truly heal. Now she’s been cancer free for over 25 years!

Personally, I’ve also had my challenges with repeating patterns, in particular with major injuries over the years. So I’ll always fascinated to talk with Brenda about recognizing challenges, rewriting the programming in our minds, and learning to rise about it.

Today we’ll talk about writing new programming and shifting your consciousness to a higher level, to truly heal from the inside out.

Key Topics Include:

1. Law of Attraction
2. Intention
3. The Secret – Realizing what we resist persists!
4. Identifying repeating patterns
5. Moving Past Fear and Negativity
6. Healing from the Inside
7. Making the Commitment – healing as a full-time job
8. Contributing your energy to healing, and to becoming the person you wish to be
9. Moving Past Fear & Negativity
10. Learning to Use Your Breath to Heal
11. Committing whole-heartedly to your purpose
12. Loving Yourself
13. Forgiving Yourself
14. Journaling
15. Identifying your limiting beliefs
16. Learning how to move past your beliefs
17. Identifying How You’re Feeling
18. Getting connected into your body
19. Get your heart opened and get connected to your spirit
20. Be open and allowing, don’t push, allow, surrender
21. Breathe out what isn’t right with you, what doesn’t feel right to you, breathe in what you truly want, peace wellbeing, joy, abundance, breathe those energies into your body and release the opposite to you.
22. How to Pray to Heal
23. How to Stay open
24. How to Meditate to Heal

Brenda Michaels 3x Cancer Survivor Helps You Gain Inner Strength & Shares Simple Powerful Steps to Overcome Major Challenges or Heal From Almost Anything! Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Health | Business | Career | Relationships | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve wanted more time in your day, greater success, or to achieve dreams so big you’d scare yourself silly, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Jay Papasan, vice-president and executive editor at Keller Realty, co-owner Papasan Properties Group (with his wife) and co-author of best-seller The One Thing, to me, one of the greatest business books of all time… right up there alongside Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich.

And so today, while I want to ask Jay questions about dozens of topics, we’re gonna focus on The ONE THING, and that one thing can make your days easier, help you build the life you desire, give you MORE time, and quite possibly greater success than you could ever imagine.

That plus we’ll talk about the power of dominos, going small, why big isn’t bad, why will power isn’t always on will-call, what in the world’s a time block, and why we almost all fail at the marshmallow test.

Questions and Topics Include:

1. How Jay Papasan stopped writing a book on focus, and lost focus to write a different book.
2. What it means to go small
3. What is the key battle-cry of The One Thing
4. What dominos have to do with the One Thing
5. What it means that one thing can do many things, in business or in life.
6. How Dominos can move exponentially.
7. Why a plateau is not necessarily a plateau but a foundation for explosive future growth
8. What the Six Big Lies in Life and Business are.
9. Why all things are not equal.
10. What does the Paredo effect have to do with our to-do lists
11. Why we need a success list, not a to-do list.
12. Why it’s not about what you do, but what you accomplish.
13. A three minute technique to radically improve your to-do list and improve your time management.
14. Why multi-tasking is a lie – Clifford Nass former Harvard then Stanford behavioral scientist who did a study on multitasking.
15. Why you need to minimize your transition time
16. What is time-blocking for time management
17. Why it’s so important to use your morning’s for the One Thing
18. Why it’s so important to have an assigned time for things in a calendar over your to do list
19. Why success is not about your will power.
20. Baba Shiv Stanford motivation study
21. What was learned from an Israeli Parole board about motivation
22. What’s the important of energy management.
23. Why it’s never about motivation
24. Why big is not bad
25. Why successful people aren’t trading time for success
26. Why it was said during a Greg Cardone by Jay “why wealthy people buy time, while poor people sell it.”
27. What is the focus question, the one most important question to ask yourself.
28. Why it’s better to say “I do” then to say “yes”
29. The importance on learning how to say “no” how to protect your commitments, and say yes to yourself
30. The importance of lining up your dominos
31. What’s the importance of taking a mental health day
32. One important tip on time management
33. How Jay went from 240 to 199.
34. Seinfeld’s secret to success
35. How to use your calendar for success – and why you want to show it to others.
36. Why you want to take 5 minutes a day for your One Thing.

Jay Papasan Shares the Secret to The One Thing and How This Simple Technique Can Create The Success, Happiness, and Life You Desire! Plus Extreme Time Management!!! Business | Career | Health | Inspiration | Motivation | Entrepreneur | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you want to feel more fulfilled motivated and inspired whether you’re leading a household, classroom, team, small business, or fortune 500 company, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Simon Sinek, the undisputed King of the Why, though he may never have been called that before, but he’s the global best-selling author of one of the most Inspiring Books on Leadership, Success and Business Out there, Start with Why.

Today we’ll be talking about the “why”, what it is, why it’s so important, how to incorporate it into our lives, and who in the world is using it for success?

Plus we’ll talk about inspiration vs. manipulation, Ferrari’s vs. minivans, why there’s 32 flavors of toothpaste, why Sneetches have stars and what in the world Hot pants, and go-go suits, have to do with air travel.

Questions and Topics Include:

1. What happened with Simon as a 4th year entrepreneur
2. How his passion and optimism was gone.
3. How Simon Sinek began to learn how our lives (and even businesses) function on the same three levels.
4. How Simon Sinek began his search to find his why and to find his balance again.
5. What is nature’s balance?
6. The story of the race for flight
   1. Wright Brothers vs.
7. Why people and companies ‘fail’
8. Why the clearer the cause the more maniacal we become to succeed
9. What is a why?
10. How did Apple Computers exemplify the why?
11. Why you can’t have price, speed, and technology.
12. What Simon talked about in his Ted Talk, and what does it mean to have Why, How, What?
13. What is the Golden Circle and why do we have things inside out?
14. Why people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do.
15. Why you want to be honest and true and do things that reflect my beliefs, and why those who believe what I believe will be attracted to me
16. What Dr. Seuss’s Sneetches have to do with us
17. What Ben Cohen, a runner with cerebral palsy, can teach us about ourselves.
18. How do we become more like Ben
19. Why we’re drawn to people who only compete with themselves
20. What requires tremendous courage
21. Why you need to go for it, and take care of those around you, even if you’re putting yourself at risk
22. Why it’s important to risk yourself to help others
23. What it means to be called a leader
24. Why Martin Luther King gave the ‘I have a dream’ speech, not the ‘I have a plan’ speech, but why politicians today all give 12 point plans to solve a problem
25. Why a common vision is needed first
26. What does it mean to start at the values level, and why is it so important.
27. How do we bring out our why?
    1. He has it online – The Why Discovery course – startwithwhy.com
28. How can we start to do this right away (to find your why)?
29. How do you cultivate your why?
30. What do you do once you find your why?
31. How do you use your why once you find it?
32. How the why works
33. What’s the Celery test?
34. What does 32 flavors of toothpaste have to do with anything?
35. Why there’s only two ways to influence people (manipulation or inspiration)
36. Why it’s so important to take care of each other
37. Why we truly help ourselves by helping each other

Simon Sinek (As Seen On Viral Ted Talk) Shares How ‘Starting With Why’ Ignites Your Inspiration & Motivation, Helping You Achieve Success, Happiness, & Greatness In Life! Plus Become An Amazing Leader! Business | Career | Health | Self-Help | Inspire

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