If you’ve ever wanted to feel brighter, more vibrant, healthier, and well-rested, then do we have the Chasing the Sun show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Linda Geddes, award-winning journalist and the author of one of my absolute favorite books of the year, Chasing the Sun.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today. About how the science of sunlight shapes our minds and our bodies. Plus we’ll talk about the joy of Caesar’s Palace, Arctic Reindeer, peas and jet lag, summer solstice, and what in the world chopping carrots in the dark has to do with anything.

Key Points Discussed:

• Getting interested in the sun despite living in a place known for its dark and dreary winters (02:49)
• Mark Galvin; The man with none 24-Hour sleep-wake disorder (08:18)
• Artificial light and how it affects our health and wellbeing (15:36)
• Bright light first thing in the morning as a treatment for seasonal affective disorder and general depression (24:05)
• What’s the light tracking watch? (32:33)
• Cases of medical prescriptions to stay away from the light (40:10)
• The impact that sunlight has on pregnant mothers and newborns (50:24)
• Advice for children in the light and schools potentially trying to get kids up later in the day (55:32)
• Advice for getting through winter; brighter days and darker nights (01:00:39)

Additional Resources:

• www.LindaGeddes.com
• Chasing the Sun By Linda Geddes
• The Body Electric By Robert O. Becker

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If you’ve ever felt lost, chasing your tail, or wondered if there just has to be more to life than what we see around us, then do we have the Angels in the OR show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Tricia Barker, writer, teacher, and author of a beautiful book on life after a near-death experience, Angels in the OR.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about what dying can teach us about healing, survival, and transformation!

Key Points Discussed:

• Being an annoying passenger and going over bridges (03:04)
• The dream (being outside of time) the night before the accident (08:16)
• Going under and the exciting near-death experience (13:28)
• The essential truth of the soul: Bringing some heavenly love back to earth (22:53)
• The operating system installed by our mums, the screw-up gene, and getting to God and arguing with Him (29:55)
• A different perception of vision: Love and perfection exist even in a blade of grass (37:14)
• What is a mental health first aid kit? (44:37)
• Seeking to be of service to others and spreading kindness and God’s love (48:50)
• The importance of meditating, praying and resetting our energy every day (51:50)

Additional Resources:

• Angels in the OR By Tricia Barker
• www.TriciaBarkerNDE.com

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IF you’ve ever wanted to make more sense of science and spirituality, and HOW they fit together then do we have the SPIRITUAL SCIENCE show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Steve Taylor, PhD, senior psychology lecturer at Leeds Beckett University the author of numerous books on spirituality and psychology, ranked one of the 100 most spiritually influential living people by Mind body and spirit magazine, and the author of a phenomenal new treatise of science and spirituality, SPIRITUAL SCIENCE.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about a new vision of the world that transcends conventional science and religion, and what it means for us!

Key Points Discussed:

1. What did Steve’s family worship (hint, it’s not a religion) growing up?
2. How did he first end up experiencing meditation?
3. How did meditation change Steve’s world view?
4. What is science vs. scientism?
5. Is science almost its own religion?
6. How are spirituality and science intertwined?
7. What is materialism and why is it the predominant world view?
8. What is panspiritualism?
9. What are the dangers of materialism?
10. What are the environmental consequences of materialism?
11. What is eco-psychopathology?
12. How long has panspiritualism been around?
13. What did Plato say about spiritualism and science?
14. What’s the indigineous spiritual perspective?
15. Is this perspective still around today?
16. What is spirit force?
17. What does complexity have to do with consciousness?
18. What is the mind and how does it differ from the brain?
19. Is the mind local to the body?
20. What does a full hippocampus have to do with anything?
21. What can we learn from near death experiences?
22. What are “awakening” experiences?
23. What does science say about psychic phenomena?
24. What does the research really say about depression?

Additional Resources:

• www.StevenMTaylor.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to find greater freedom and peace, then do we have the Daily Reflection on Addiction, Yoga, and getting Well show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Rolf Gates, the author of Meditations from the Mat and Meditations on Intention and Being, a former social worker and US Airborne Ranger, the co-founder of the Yoga and Recovery Conference, and the author of an incredibly beautiful, peaceful, life-healing work, Daily Reflections on Addiction, Yoga, and Getting Well.

Key Points Discussed:

1. How did Rolf become anxious from his first memory forward?
2. How’d he end up sitting at the back of the class?
3. How’d he end up with an addiction?
   And how’d he become an Airborne Ranger?
4. Who took him to his first 12-step meeting and what did he learn?
5. What does it mean to surrender?
6. What did his mentor Henry teach him
7. What’s the groove between training and success?
8. What’s the importance of commitment?
9. What it means to get good at something?
10. How can learning be an excitement and a win?
11. How we can relax tension in our bodies and our lives?
12. How we can let go of suffering in our bodies?
13. How to bring ease and stillness to your mind?
14. What it means to be held by your truth?
15. What does it mean to be an open-hearted warrior?
16. What does it mean to let go of the fight and let things be?
17. How we can use the power of prayer?
18. What does it mean to remember the grace?
19. What’s the importance of silence?
20. What does it mean to meet pain with compassion?
21. What’s the gentleness we have to learn about our own learning process?
22. What does resolve mean and how do we use it?
23. What it means to rest in the present moment?

Additional Resources:

• RolfGates.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to end Negative Thinking and Liberate Your True Creativity, then do we have the Joy of Genius show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., the best-selling author and co-author of more than 40 books, a leader in the field of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies for more than 45 years, and the author of a brilliant new book, The Joy of Genius.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to liberate your true creativity and discover your genius, by ending negative thinking.

Key Points Discussed:

1. How did Dr. Hendricks lose 100 pounds in a year?
2. What is pure consciousness and creativity?
3. What was his roadmap to get back on track?
4. What’s the connection between genius and consciousness?
5. Why do we need to bring forth what is inside of us – and what does this mean?
6. What does living our genius really mean?
7. What are genius-related activities?
8. What’s the importance of a heartfelt commitment?
9. What does unhappiness have to do with genius?
10. What do we need to know about self-critical thoughts?
11. What’s the power of asking “will this feed my spirit”?
12. What’s the genius spiral?
13. How do we learn to let go?
14. How did he meet his wife Katie?
15. What’s the importance of not hiding the truth?
16. What’s a vow to reveal instead of conceal – and how can this liberate us?
17. What does it mean to commit to a life of creativity?
18. What does creativity really mean?
19. What does gratitude have to do with creativity?
20. How do we recommit to living our genius?
21. What’s a deathbed marker?

Additional Resources:

• JoyOfGenius.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to feel better, sleep better, have less inflammation, and less stress in your life, then do we have the earthing show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Clint Ober, a revolutionary pioneer in the field of earthing and grounding, the co-author of a brilliant book on health called “Earthing”, and featured in a brilliant new documentary called “The Earthing Movie.”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today. About reconnecting to the earth and you natural state of being for greater health, better sleep, reduced inflammation, and less stress. Plus we’ll talk about metal duct tape, white Nike shoes, Deepak Chopra, and what in the world a quarter million dollars of art and a Commode have to do with anything. 

Key Points Discussed:

• The results of plugging premature infants into the electrical field of the earth (03:11)
• The girl who had Scarlet fever and what the elders did with her (09:10)
• What is earthing/grounding? (11:14)
• When you’re not grounded, you have a thousand bears after you (19:47)
• How earthing positively impacts Cortisol levels for overall health and well-being (22:12)
• Sticky blood and its relation to cardiovascular disease and inflammation (31:20)
• Going home barefoot and what’s going on with our kids’ health today (36:59)
• Boosting your immune system by touching good healthy soil (42:55)
• Getting grounded 101: Where to begin (48:31)
• Grounding mats and how they work (53:32)
• The peace that comes with grounding (01:04:21)

Additional Resources:

• Earthing By Clint Ober
• The Body Electric Book By Robert O. Becker 

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If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, pulled in multiple directions, or simply stretched too thin, then do we have the hold on show for you.

Today we’ll talk about holding on, calming the mind, and breathing deep to step forward no matter what, or how many miles are coming your way. That plus we’ll about rain, double rainbows, Eagles on the Pyrenees, ringing 14th-century bells, trashed calves, magic and misery in Pamplona, nine-hour drives, rising at 3, meeting old friends, more hiring, 55 gallon tanks, an acrobatic tunneler, and what in the world random strangers at a bar have to do with anything.

Key Points Discussed:

• Walking 15 miles in 85 degrees heat and no sleep (03:46)
• Choosing to either be overwhelmed or to keep moving (09:37)
• The double rainbow doesn’t appear on perfectly clear skies (14:57)
• Letting go into the experience so the magic can flow (20:46)
• Communicating with a non-English speaking Italian through Google Translate (32:30)
• Navigating through life by loving and supporting each other (36:16)
• Knowing that you’re not alone and that the world will provide for you (43:47)

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If you’ve ever wondered how to get guidance and overcome almost any challenge, then do we have the show for you.

Today, the tables are turned and I’m being interviewed by Anne Bérubé, the author of “Be Feel Think Do: A Memoir” and host of Embodied with Anne Bérubé. So, sit back, enjoy the show, and above all else, shine bright. 

Key Points Discussed:

• Growing up in a challenging environment (03:48)
• The past life connected to the injuries (07:16)
• Being like Moses on a mountain and leader of leaders (11:07)
• When Michael became aware of the presence of a greater intelligence (18:57)
• A book tour gone bad and the experiences of surviving a life-changing accident (27:35)
• It’s our responsibility to the world to love ourselves (38:19)
• Healing our traumas so we can be in a loving state towards everyone (53:29)
• Seeing UFOs, learning from the guides, and our protectors from another dimension (56:52)

Additional Resources:

• Be Feel Think Do Book by  Anne Bérubé
• Barefoot Walking By Michael Sandler and Jessica Lee 

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If you’ve ever wanted more guidance and direction in your life, or to tap into your Source and Higher Self, then do we have the Morning Pages show for you. 

Today I’ll be talking with Julia Cameron, the best-selling author of more than forty books including The Artist’s Way, and her latest, a beautiful treatise on connecting with the Divine, Life Lessons.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about, about how we can dive deep, hear the voice of God, and what she has to share with us.

Morning Pages Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:

1. What is morning pages?
2. How did Julia Cameron discover it?
3. How has it changed her life?
4. How exactly does it work?
5. How does it help you get guidance?
6. Can it help you discover your purpose?
7. Are you tapping into your intuition?
8. Does it help you tap into consciousness or something greater than yourself?
9. How has it changed other people’s lives?
10. How often should you do morning pages?
11. Does it need to be done first thing in the morning?
12. Can it be done on the computer?
13. How do you begin?
14. What if what comes out is negative?
15. What if we’re concerned about our inner critic?
16. How can morning pages help us to heal?
17. And to reduce stress and anxiety?
18. Does the writing need to be focused?
19. What’s the best way to do morning pages?
20. What can one expect and what are the challenges?
21. What is the exercise of things one loves?
22. What is another powerful tool that should be used in conjunction with morning pages?
23. How was the book Life Lessons written?
24. What are a few key lessons that can help change our lives?
25. What’s a beautiful prayer we can all take away from this show?

Additional Resources:

• JuliaCameronLive.com

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If you’ve ever wanted more success, happiness, and fulfillment in your life, then do we have the master your time, master your life show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with one of my first guiding lights and mentors in my life, though he has no idea that’s the case, Brian Tracy, motivational speaker and the best-selling author of over 70 books, including a new favorite of mine, Master Your Time, Master Your Life.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about a breakthrough system to get more results, faster, in every area of your life.

That plus we’ll talk about Hawaii and Palm Springs, Goodwill and Vincent De Paul’s, The phoenix seminar and the inner game of success, the power of detentions, the importance of clarity, why you want to take a two night Shabbat, what in the world is psychoneuromotor activity, the superconscious mind, and why if you don’t straighten up, you’ll end up like Tracy!

Brian Tracy Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. How he learned if he wanted to change things he needed to change his life.
2. How he went from laboring to sales
3. What’s the Pareto principle and how did it affect Brian Tracey?
4. What’s the importance of a decision
5. What’s the importance of clarity?
6. What’s a psychomotorneuroactivity???
7. What are our learning modalities?
8. How to use the law of attraction by writing our intentions down
9. What you can do with a 10 cent pencil and a 1 dollar notebook to achieve your 1 million dollar goals!
10. Why you want to write down your 10 goals every day
11. Why Clarity is his favorite word
12. What’s the importance and meaning of focus
13. What does concentration have to do with anything?
14. What are A and B tasks
15. What’s the ABCDE method for your to-do list
16. How to save huge time through our to-do list?
17. What’s your most valuable financial asset?
18. How one idea can change your life
19. What’s the importance of reading
20. What we can learn from Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
21. When to make fast thinking and slow decisions
22. What’s goal orienting thinking vs. distracted thinking
23. Focused thinking vs. unfocused thinking
24. Long term thinking vs. short-term thinking
25. What’s the importance of the book Get Smart by Brian Tracy and what are the top ways that successful people think
26. What’s the Peter F. Drucker Reader?
27. What’s the importance of a flexible mindset and we can learn from Carol Dweck’s book mindset
28. Creative thinking vs. mechanical thinking
29. Entrepreneurial thinking vs. corporate thinking
30. What is Rich Thinking vs. Poor Thinking
31. How do rich people think?
32. How Rich people have rituals
33. What we can learn from the Fiddler on the Roof, and what it means to have a 2 Sleep Sabbath
34. What’s the importance of 2 Sleeps!
35. How do we avoid the attraction of distraction
36. Why you want to ask: is this moving me toward one of my most important goals or is it merely a distraction (or time-waster).
37. What’s everyone’s #1 goal whether they’re spiritual or not
38. What we can learn from Jeff Bezos and Amazon
39. Why there’s a positive relationship by the number of people you know and who know you in a positive way and your success
40. Peter Ouspensky and Russian Metaphysics
41. What is the importance of the words “I Am Here”
42. What’s the importance of mind-calming and meditation
43. What is the meditation practice of contemplation
44. Powerful guidance to help parents help their kids to reach their full potential
45. What’s important to do at the end of the year to make next year the best year of your life

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If you’ve ever wanted true peace in your life, then do we have the show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Jonathan Granoff, attorney, author, international advocate, senior advisor and UN Representative of the permanent secretariat of The World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates, Ambassador for Peace, Security and Nuclear Disarmament of the Parliament of the World Religions, and Chair of the Task Force on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Advisor to the Committee on National Security of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association

Today I want to have a deep discussion inner and outer peace, how we can find more of it, bring it into our hearts, and change the world, by diving deep and who and what we truly are.

Key Points Discussed:

• Jonathan’s worldwide mission (03:27)
• Getting attracted to a heart-based path in life (09:42)
• The theory of mutually assured destruction (15:46)
• The accident that started World War 1 (24:50)
• The importance of the clarity of the why (32:46)
• Giving ourselves to others to be free of the illusions of separation (44:13)
• Coming to an awareness of the miracle of breathing (01:00:13)

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If you’ve ever felt alone, unsupported, or disconnected from the Universe, then do we have the "How to Know There's a Plan and Surrender to a Higher Good" show for you!

Today, we’ll talk about getting guidance, plugging back in and how to let your burden’s go. Plus we’ll talk about past life pressure, shifting org structures, body wisdom, Nobel Laureates, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, exciting invitations, 20,000 calories a day, 19-mile excursions, and what in the world a little dude with a giant heart named Nacho Molé Friské has to do with anything!   

Key Points Discussed:

• Getting invited to a Nobel Laureates summit in Mexico (02:55)
• Reconnecting the circuit of your scar to get your Chi flowing again (09:30)
• Doing an ego dump and developing a different relationship with the earth (17:14)
• We learn best with challenges and discomfort (23:59)
• Saving Nacho Molé Friské and the little lessons learned (36:08)
• A gift from the universe for surrendering and letting go (42:46)
• Sharing the Camino walk experience on Instagram (46:37)

Additional Resources:

• The Wisdom of Anxiety By Sheryl Paul

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If you’ve ever wanted to release attachment and align with inner-love, then do we have the Wild Offering show for you! 

Today I’ll be talking with Tosha Silver, the best-selling author of Outrageous Openness, Change Me Prayers and her latest creation, The Wild Offering Oracle. 

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, how to give it all up and ALIGN WITH THE DIVINE!

That plus we’ll talk about gratitude, hardship, forgiveness, and abundance, letting the divine take the lead, the power of living outrageous openness forum, and what in the world a Divine-Menage has to do with anything!

The Wild Offering Oracle Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. Was Tosha Silver spiritual growing up?
2. What did she want to be when she went to Yale?
3. What does it mean she had 30 years of writer’s block?
4. How did she get past writer’s block?
5. What’s it mean to surrender to the Divine?
6. What does it mean to truly let go?
7. How do we let go in today’s world?
8. What does it mean to offer our lives in service?
9. Does letting go mean we can’t have or do what we want?
10. Where does passion or joy fit into the equation?
11. How do we balance offering with driving – or is there such a thing?
12. How does Michael offer up each Inspire Nation Show to the Divine???
13. What does it mean to co-create?
14. How do we call in Divine guidance?
15. What’s the biggest challenge with self-help today?
16. What do need to know about finding our purpose and direction?
17. What does it mean to stop using the Universe to get what you want, and instead starting asking Love to use you?
18. How do we know when we’re being of service?
19. What is true sanctuary?
20. How do we get clarity on our path?
21. How can we surrender AND find greater freedom?
22. How do we release what is no longer needed in our life?
23. How do positivity and gratitude go hand-in-hand?
24. How do we let go in times of crisis?
25. For more info visit: ToshaSilver.com and www.shop.toshasilver.com/wildoffering 

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If you’ve ever wanted to feel greater peace and wholeness in your life then do we have The Transformation show for you!

Today I”ll be talking with Dr. James S. Gordon, Harvard educated psychiatrist, research at the National Institute of Mental Health, chairman of the White House Commission of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School, and the author of one of the most important books I’ve ever read, The Transformation.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about, about discovering wholeness and healing after trauma, to live your greatest life.

Topics Include: 

1. What are the two common and dangerous misconceptions about psychological trauma?
2. Do we all have traumas?
3. Do traumas have to affect us for our entire lives?
4. Are we “broken” and “unfixable”?
5. What’s wrong with us being “diagnosed”?
6. What’s the mind-body connection with trauma?
7. How much would the world change if we healed our childhood traumas?
8. Who was Azhaar and what happened on 60 minutes?
9. How can doing “drawings” help us???
10. What is the “soft belly” meditation?
11. Why is meditation the antidote from trauma?
12. What are the three types of meditation?
13. What is the technique of shaking and dancing???
14. How does shaking and dancing help people???
15. What’s a technique of forced laughter?
16. What’s the importance of making friends with our emotions?
17. What does it mean to have a dialogue with an emotion?
18. How do we access inner guidance???
19. What’s a guided meditation to tap in to an inner guide?
20. To find out more visit: CMBM.org

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If you’ve ever wanted to see past the veil and discover who you truly are, then do we have the A Curious Year in the Great Vivarium Experiment Show for you! 

Today I’ll be talking with traveler, marketer, writer-extraordinaire, and the author of a fascinating whirlwind of a book, A Curious Year in the Great Vivarium Experiment Show for you.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about, the power of gratitude and intention, getting behind the veil, allowing life in, and discovering who you truly are.

1. How did Tim Shields end up working with Dr. Joe Dispenza?
2. What did he learn from working with Dr. Joe Dispenza and his retreats?
3. How did he end up leaving the corporate world with a one-way ticket to India?
4. Was he spiritual growing up?
5. What did he learn about surrendering in his journey?
6. What was his experiment in gratitude?
7. How did he end up volunteering at an orphanage in Tanzania?
8. How did he end up working for one of the leading environmental attorneys in the world?
9. What can we all learn from his work?
10. How did he begin to discover who he really is beneath the veil?
11. What is marble cancer and how was the Taj Mahal saved???
12. What’s the importance of guarding our thoughts?
13. Why is it so difficult to turn and face ourselves?
14. Why was he so afraid of writer’s workshops?
15. What are quantum strings through life???
16. What it means to look for the narrative in your life?
17. What do dive-bombing birds have to do with anything?
18. What can we do to manifest in our lives?
19. How important is choosing our thoughts?
20. What does it mean to choose love over fear?
21. Is the human heart the most advanced technology on earth?
22. To Find Out More Visit: ACuriousYear.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to discover inner happiness then do we have the 10 Second Shortcuts to Awareness show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with psychotherapist, relationship expert and best-selling author Jonathan Robinson, the author of over 12 books including The Experience of God, Find Happiness Now, The Idiots Guide to Awakening Your Spirituality, and a fantastic new podcast for diving into awareness, Awareness Explorers.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about easy awakening shortcuts and diving into pure awareness, what it is, what it looks like and how it can transform our lives!

Awareness Explorers Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. Who is Poonjaji and how did Jonathan Robinson meet him in India?
2. What is pure awareness?
3. Where does happiness come from?
4. How long last Jonathan Robinson been meditating and how has it helped?
5. What does it mean to awaken?
6. What do we need to know about awakened awareness?
7. What are the most important attitudes to help us develop awakened awareness?
8. What is a 10 second tool to dive into awakened awareness?
9. What’s the importance of having no preference I nthe moment?
10. What’s the importance of being totally innocent to this moment?
11. What’s the importance of allowing things to be exactly as they are?
12. How is everything interconnected?
13. What’s it mean to come from a place of love?
14. What are non-awakening practices that help with awakening?
15. How can certain places help with awakening?
16. How can gadgets help with awakening?
17. What supplement can help with awakening?
18. What is an acupressure ring and how can it help?
19. What is Technology of Joy?
20. What are a few of the dynamite dozen awakening exercises?
21. What are direct awakening mantras?
22. What is the power of “where am I”?
23. What’s the importance of “what’s aware of that?”
24. What is “slowing”?
25. To find out more visit: AwarenessExplorers.com

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If you’ve ever wanted more courage in your life, to do the things you’ve always dreamed of doing, then do we have the courage building show for you!

Today we’ll talk about finding the courage to step forward into your dreams even when the legs feel wobbly, or your mind is screaming no!

Topics Include:

1. What’s coming up for CJ?
2. How is she preparing for her journey?
3. What we can learn from a stampede?
4. What can we learn from connecting with the animals?
5. How we can use Inspire Nation to help change the world?
6. Why is it so important to let go of your “security”?
7. What does it mean to not know where you’re going, but know exactly how to get there???
8. Why mini-changes over a massive duration can help get you anywhere?
9. How to move through the sadness of transitions?
10. What in the world is a “weight weenie”?
11. What it means to let go of everything???
12. Why you want to build buffers in your life?
13. Why you want to let go of your plans and lean into something greater???
14. How to let your future unfold before you – and how this grows your courage!
15. What’s important to being undertrained or lighter on your heart?
16. What it means to reset your starting line in life???
17. To find out more visit FireItUpWithCJ.com

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If you’ve ever wanted less worries in your life, then do we have the Wisdom of Anxiety show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Sheryl Paul, depth psychology counselor and author of a beautiful book on helping you to heal, The Wisdom of Anxiety.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about how worry and intrusive thoughts are gifts to help you heal.

Topics Include:

1. What synchronicities lead Sheryl Paul from leaving the comfort zone to discover her shadow self in Brazil?
2. What is the call to turn inward, and why do we need to heed the call?
3. What exactly is anxiety, and where does it come from?
4. What do symbols, metaphors and imagery have to do with our anxiety???
5. What’s wrong with calling anxiety a “disorder” or a problem, or as wrong??
6. What does our childhood (and bullying for that matter) have to do with anxiety?
7. What’s the genetic component of worrying, and what if we come from a long line of worriers?
8. What dos mainstream culture have to do with anxiety???
9. What’s a media diet and why do we want one now???
10. What are the top two cultural messages that create anxiety?
11. What’s the myth of “normal”?
12. What’s wrong with the expectation of happiness?
13. What’s the danger of “should”?
14. What’s the danger of transitions, such as August to September???
15. What’s the importance of journaling?
16. What are some spiritual practices to help us heal from our anxiety?
17. What are the four steps to face anxiety and help us to grow from it?
18. To find out more visit: conscious-transitions.com and be sure to check out Sheryl’s 9 month course!!!

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

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

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

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

Questions and Topics Include:

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

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If you’ve ever wanted to feel more abundant, then do we have the Illusion of Money show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Kyle Cease, former stand-up comedian, actor, and the best-selling author of I Hope I screw this up, and his latest creation, The Illusion of Monday.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about why chasing money is stopping you from receiving it.

Topics Include:

1. Who was Sean Stevenson, and what was his message about life?
2. How did Kyle Cease go from working stand up comedy (even with Jim Carrey) to writing and speaking?
3. What was the switch that flipped, and how did Kyle know it was time for a change?
4. What’s the amnesia so many people are experiencing?
5. Why is money an illusion?
6. What does it mean to fall in love with ourselves?
7. How do we divorce our lifelong obsession with money?
8. What does it mean to get into alignment with our highest selves?
9. How do we feel abundant right now, even if we’re broke?
10. What is the illusion of security?
11. What is real security?
12. What does it mean to become secure in our surrender to the insecurity?
13. What’s the importance of gratitude and constant acceptance?
14. What’s the importance of being okay with being broke?
15. What can we learn from Jim Carrey about having everything?
16. How can we be okay with right now even if our account’s tapped out?
17. How do we raise our value???
18. What’s a better way to live???
19. What does it mean to aim for expansion?
20. To find out more (and get free access to the movie) visit: KyleCease/Illusion)

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If you’ve ever felt you’ve lost your way, then do we have the Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life, show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Boyd Varty, master life coach author, and TED speaker, who runs retreats that merge tracking, coaching and storytelling at the Londolozi Gme Reserve in South Africa, and the author of my favorite book of 2019, The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life!

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about, about going deep inside, finding your wilder-self, and rediscovering your gift, your purpose, and your mission.

What does Lion Tracking have to do with your life? Apparently, a LOT!!! This is my favorite BOOK of the year, and perhaps my favorite INTERVIEW of the year as well!!! Boyd Varty on the Lion Tracker's Guide to Life!!!

Topics Include:

1. How did Boyd Varty end up on a lion reserve?
2. What did his father learn from his deep connection with the land?
3. How did Boyd end up weaving coaching and lion-tracking together?
4. What does tracking mean to Boyd?
5. Who is Boyd’s teacher Renias and what has he taught him about tracking and life?
6. What is the importance of waking up and presence?
7. What does it mean that life is full of information?
8. What does it mean that we must train ourselves to see our tracks?
9. How do we learn to follow a deeper, wiser, wilder place inside of ourselves?
10. What’s the danger of losing ourselves in shoudls?
11. How do we turn our attention back to our wilder selves?
12. When it comes to rediscovering our path, what’s it mean to find our first tracks?
13. What’s it mean to read the subtle tracks of our body?
14. What do we do if we lose our track???
15. What does Joseph Campbell mean by “If you can see your whole life’s path laid out before you, then it’s not your life’s path?
16. What is inner tracking and how do we do it?
17. How do we begin to trust our instincts?
18. To find out more visit: www.BoydVarty.com

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