If you’ve ever needed to heal body, mind or soul, then do we have The Story You Need to Tell, show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Sandra Marinella, writing teacher, and the author of a beautiful new book on healing your soul, The Story You Need to Tell.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about writing to heal from trauma, illness, or loss, how to do it, and how to begin.

Key Points Discussed:

• When did Sandra discover the power of writing?
• How did Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning inspire her?
• What happened when she was diagnosed with cancer?
• How did writing help her during this time?
• What did it mean to write her story?
• How did she begin writing her story?
• What was her mission through the healing process?
• How did she make the decision to re-write her life?
• What was Sandra’s mystical experience while writing?
• What’s the importance of reflection?
• What is waving, not drowning?
• What does it mean that choices matter?
• What can we learn from Cheryl Strayed?
• What’s the importance of a comforting place?
• Why do we want to go back and review our journals?
• What does it mean to find your writing pattern?
• How do we start writing?
• How do we choose a journal?
• What’s the importance of finding a writing place?
• Why is it good to meditate before writing?
• Are we all writers?
• What does it mean to fire our inner critic?
• How can writing help us hear and move toward positive change?

Additional Resources:

• StoryYouTell.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to reclaim the power of your humanity, then do we have The Golden Sequence show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Jonni Pollard, best known for his creation of the 1 Giant Mind and the Learn Meditation Smartphone app, and the author of a brilliant new book, The Golden Sequence.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about tapping into Vedic wisdom to break through our toxic beliefs and conditioning, and create authentic loving connections with everyone and everything around you.

Key Points Discussed:

• What happened when Jonni Pollard starred worldwide in Heartbreak High?
• How’d he end up traveling in India?
• What was the self-judgment he was feeling, and why?
• What’s the Vedic perspective of reality?
• What is the Golden Sequence?
• What’s the heart of our crisis today?
• What is survival mode?
• What’s it mean we’re distracting ourselves to death?
• What is our evolutionary mismatch?
• What are the four golden insights?
• What’s the practice of affirming the four golden insights?
• What does it truly mean that life is sacred?
• What is meant that love is our nature?
• What is wisdom and how is it our power?
• What does it mean that fulfillment is our purpose?
• What’s the importance of meditation?
• How do we begin?
• How do we recognize the sacredness in our lives and of our lives?
• What is witnessing and why is it so important?
• What can we learn from a visit with the Dalai Lama about friendliness?
• What’s the importance of being of service?
• What’s the power of a daily practice?
• What are a few key items to include in our daily practice?

Additional Resources:

• JonniPollard.com
• www.1GiantMind.com

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If you’ve ever wanted a more energized new year, then do we have the what’s under the carpet, fix those holes show for you.

Today, we’ll talk about looking at what’s hidden, what’s been avoided, and what we haven’t wanted to deal, with and how looking at it, can change our lives.

Discover how to find what's holding you back, and set yourself free for your greatest New Year ever!!!

Topics Include:

1. How do we call in what we desire for the new year?
2. What’s the importance of looking at what’s hidden under your “carpet”?
3. What’s astrology have to do with finding our shadow selves?
4. What does tearing things down have to do with our success in the New Year?
   1. And why is Inspire Nation going to 3 days a week on iTunes?
5. What is Inspire Nation doing for the New Year?
6. What does it mean to challenge all of your assumptions?
7. Why is it okay to experience chaos and doubt?
8. What’s it mean to go in to come out?
9. What’s an exercise to find out what’s hidden beneath your carpet?
10. What’s the importance of challenging all of your assumptions?
11.  Why do you want to challenge your patterns for the New Year???
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If you’ve ever struggled with arguments or disagreements, then do we have the why are we yelling show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Buster Benson, entrepreneur, former product leader at Amazon, Twitter, Slack, and Patreon, the CEO of 750Words.com, and the author of a fun and fantastic look at disagreements, “Why Are We Yelling?”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about why in the world are we yelling?, and the art of productive disagreement. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• Why did you go from Silicon Valley to the art of disagreements? (02:49)
• The art of productive disagreement: Buster’s new superpower (03:44)
• What is a productive disagreement? (05:18)
• Ruinous empathy and how it can create disastrous situations (07:20)
• What’s the backfire effect and what’s going on with kitty cat? (09:56)
• What’s the importance of asking, “Is this about what’s true, what’s meaningful, or what’s useful?” (11:10)
• Should we be trying to win arguments? (15:15)
• What does it mean to acknowledge the shadow or projections? (15:58)
• The first step in the art of disagreement (18:47)
• Sliced bagels and what they have to with anxiety (19:34)
• The pink train named Rosy, our internal voices and the importance of self-talk (23:55)
• Developing an honest bias and getting a front seat to the interesting person that is Jeff Bezos (26:53)
• Challenging our beliefs and realizing how we are missing something today so we can be smarter tomorrow (32:15)
• Having productive conversations by asking questions that invite surprising answers (35:40)
• What is nut picking and why are we wired that we need to win? (40:31)
• What can you tell us about monkey paws and guns? (44:48)
• Cultivating neutral spaces to be mindful of the environments we’re in (46:11)
• Excepting reality and then participating in it (49:39)
• What have you been teaching your kids about productive disagreements? (51:55)
• How disagreeing on one thing a day can make a relationship stronger (54:33)

Additional Resources:

• www.BusterBenson.com
• Buster on Twitter
• Why Are We Yelling By Buster Benson
• Radical Candor By Kim Scott
• Willful Blindness By Margaret Heffernan

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If you’ve ever wanted your wealthiest, happiest, and most abundant new year ever, then do we have the secrets of self-mastery show for you.

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

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about setting intention, and how we can all think and grow rich for the new year ahead, and whatever that means for you.

Key Points Discussed: 

• How did Napoleon Hill help you to become a millionaire as a writer? (03:00)
• The significance of having one definite absolute chief aim in life (07:21)
• Acknowledging what we really want and how it helps us choose our definite chief aim (10:55)
• We don’t have to share our definite chief aim because it shouldn’t be subject to peer pressure or people’s opinions (15:53)
• It is what you put in your mind mentally that makes your person (19:18)
• What’s the power of maybe? (21:23)
• What did Napoleon Hill mean by “Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment and to build your own life to order?” (22:42)
• Looking at the circumstances we need to place ourselves in order to begin moving in the direction of our aim (28:24)
• Having imaginary advisors and how it can help us get in touch with intuition or insights of conscious ideas (34:24)
• The 10-Day Miracle Challenge and why it works (42:06)
• Maxwell Maltz, Psychocybernetics, self-image, and the three steps for reprogramming our subconscious (54:07)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson’s three steps to earning wealth and his statement on the individual being born to be rich (1:03:28)
• Émile Coué’s mantra, “Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better” (1:09:09)
• The way bread smells depends on how hungry you are (1:13:48)

Additional Resources:

• Think and Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill
• Secrets of Self Mastery By Mitch Horowitz
• Psycho-Cybernetics By Maxwell Maltz

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If you’ve ever wanted to be someone else, do something else, or finally live the life of your dreams, then do we have the out with the old, in with the new show for you.

Today we’ll be talking about auditing, taking inventory and looking at everything in your life to see what works, what doesn’t, and what you can do to change it up in the most positive way for the new year ahead. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• CJ’s amazing experience at the acupuncturist and what it taught her about the nature and trajectory of pain (02:57)
• Peeling away the pieces to wake up our sensitivity and become awake to what is going on in our lives so we can gain clarity (08:35)
• Seeing things in a positivity way no matter the challenges (09:20)
• Good karma, neutral karma, and bad karma (11:07)
• Karma cleansing and sending out love through paying the happy ploughment fee (15:12)
• Bumping up our homeostasis levels by making the necessary changes in our lives  (21:12)
• Why falling apart may be the greatest thing in the world and how down is just another direction (23:46)
• Running to the top of the mountain in the snow with only shorts on (25:42)
• The value in looking beyond frustrations to engage in mindful practices  (32:57)
• How being like loaves of bread with expiration dates on our heads would help us live differently (38:48)
• Stability comes by going through fear and allowing ourselves to go up (43:15)
• How we get set back to zero when we are in equanimity all the time because we don’t build karma  (47:38)
• Going through a period of cleansing, cell regrowth, and cell regeneration for the body to have a break (53:57)
• Changing the world with automatic writing for everybody (1:00:21)
• How everything that is broken is going to be attended to in 2020 (1:02:37)

Additional Resources:

• Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson

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If you’ve ever wondered who you are and where we really came from then do we have the Human by Design show for you. 

Today I’ll be talking with Gregg Braden, Five times NY Times best-selling author, a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality, and the brilliant author behind a treasure of a new book, Human By Design.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about, about the new human story and science behind who we are, where we came from and even where we go from here.

Key Points Discussed:

• What was Gregg Braden’s upbringing like?
• How did he get interested in spirituality?
• How did he end up traveling to indigenous cultures and what did he hope to learn?
• What’s so important about the question, who are we?
• What’s wrong with Darwin’s Hypothesis?
• What does new DNA evidence suggest?
• What does survival of the fittest mean for us?
• What changes if we change the story?
• What’s wrong with the human tree of evolution
• What’s the mystery of the fused DNA?
• What can we really learn from chimpanzees?
• What’s the latest discovery about Neanderthals?
• What are anatomically modern humans?
• What’d we learn from the human genome project?
• What is FOX-2 and why is it so important?
• What do we need to know about human chromosome 2?
• Does any of this suggest intentionality?
• What does the evidence overwhelmingly suggest?
• What is the brain in the heart?
• Does the brain control the body, or the heart?
• What is the heart’s “little brain”
• What are neurites?
• What’s the importance of heart intelligence?
• How do we access it?
• What’s the force of nature that’s also a human experience?
• What’s the importance of compassion and how does it change our lives?
• What do children need to know about where they come from – and what does it mean for them?

Additional Resources:

• www.GreggBraden.com

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If you ever wanted to overcome setbacks and come out shining, then do we have the Things No One Else Can Teach Us show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Humble the Poet, rapper, singer, word artist, blogger, and the author of a beautiful book that shares what needs to be told, “Things No One Else Can Teach Us”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to respond to everyday challenges, and come out shining on the other side. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• What’s the one thing to do when the going gets ugly? (03:00)
• Why did you want to write your own hip hop songs and how did you come up with the name Poet? (03:17)
• What does it mean to be a battle rapper and how did you become a real writer? (04:35)
• What does it mean to cut corners and how did it affect you? (08:34)
• How writing and sharing his authentic self was the best therapy (10:41)
• The value of practising automatic writing(13:13)
• How we would live differently if we were like a loaf of bread and had an expiration date on our forehead (15:05)
• Hitting rock bottom, doing an audit of all his life decisions, and getting rid of toxic friends (16:15)
• Losing Boomerang and how it made him realize that his happiest moments were when he did things for others (18:18)
• What happened to you on a small street between Brooklyn and Queens? (22:29)
• What did dropping your shields in that moment in the subway do to your heart? (25:49)
• Totems the universe puts in our path particularly in moments of misery and self-pity (28:46)
• What can you tell us about “I Will” and what can we learn from your time with Himet? (32:37)
• What do you mean by “Our worst fears are rarely realized and even when they are, we are still standing”? (39:31)
• Tuition in the school of life and how to conduct ourselves (44:11)
• The meaning of “In western religion, tradition is a straight line while in eastern religion it’s cyclical” (46:32)
• Pots of Gold and what he learned from playing in London (50:39)
• What did Pharell Williams tell you about the sun when you started drilling him with questions? (54:27)
• The idea of focusing on our journey instead of worrying about the destination (56:54)

Additional Resources:

• Things No One Else Can Teach Us By Humble the Poet
• www.HumbleThePoet.com
• Humble the Poet on Instagram

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If you’ve ever wanted amazing clarity in your life, then do we have the 2020 show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Michael Lennox, psychologist, dream expert, creator of the Daily Astro Alert, astrologer, and prognosticator.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about astrology for 2020, a year of clarity and reckoning, what it means for all of us, and what we should do and not do for the year ahead.

Plus we’ll talk about 1776, death and taxes, great teachers, personal responsibility, goals and discipline, planetary demotions, and what in the world a goat has to do with anything. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• What does the Solstice have to do with anything and what’s going on right now? (02:50)
• Bringing light to the darkness and the astrological events that are having darkness appear at this time (05:36)
• Were all men created equal or is it just classic shadow? (10:40)
• Will 2020 be a year of clarity or reckoning, and could reckoning bring clarity? (13:49)
• What does it mean when death and the teacher get together? (14:33)
• The order of hierarchy called the slowest planet wins (18:11)
• The role of Jupiter in amplifying whatever is coming and the current wave of crisis that is rising up (20:13)
• Playing our cards, stepping forward, and setting intention for the new year (23:55)
• The interaction of Pluto with the north nods of the moon that happen right before the elections (34:00)
• How Donald Trump is the perfect avatar to help reveal the shadow of racism (40:59)
• What we all need to know about 2020 so we can figure out how to navigate it (42:44)
• What do we need to know about the planets this year? (54:00) 

Additional Resources:

• www.MichaelLennox.com
• Dr. Lennox on Instagram
• Dr. Lennox on Facebook

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If you’ve ever wanted more clarity in your life, then do we have the 2020 show for you.

Today we’ll talk about finding focus, gaining clarity, and discovering direction in your life for the years ahead.  Plus we’ll talk about ankle flare-ups, coughs and karma questions, body knitting, hiring clarity, starting an art club, a party with a mayor, running progress, mugging runners, four hundred pushups, learning ups and downs, running naked, and what in the world vegan brownies gone bad have to do with anything.

Key Points Discussed: 

• Trying out the bitter ashtray-chocolate tasting vegan brownies made from molasses (02:36)
• Running naked on the steepest mountain around and the health benefits of playing in the cold (04:42)
• The way we put limitations on what we can and cannot do even when we are capable (08:53)
• How and why we heat up a lot faster when we work out a lot (10:55)
• Starting every morning with automatic writing and figuring out the single-minded purpose for each day (12:42)
• CJ’s horrible nightmare about driving in an Uber and accepting that she didn’t need to analyze it (16:05)
• Adopting this philosophy that helps someone find a stay of joy throughout each and every day (20:42) 
• Gaining clarity about what it is that is coming up for you (27:08)
• The microwork over a massive period of time that has enabled Michael to now be capable of doing 400 pushups (31:44)
• A bright light of clarity that comes with love, wisdom, compassion, and equanimity (36:38)
• Viewing and feeling the world from a state of love rather than from a state of hostility (41:31)
• The importance of heading in the direction of love (44:00)
• Understanding that the in-breathe and out-breathe both work to carry us forward in life (53:00)
• Finding what pulls us forward and bringing it about for the year ahead (56:21)
• Bodyknitting and Jessica starting an art club (58:00)

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If you’ve wanted to get unstuck, get ahead, and take your life to a new level, then do we have the disrupt yourself show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Whitney Johnson, named One of the World’s 50 Most Influential Management Thinkers by Thinkers50, author of “Build an A-Team”, host of the Disrupt Yourself podcast, and the author of a brilliant must read for anyone who wants to leap ahead, “Disrupt Yourself”

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about how to skip the ladder, leap ahead, and take your life and ideas to a new level.  

Key Points Discussed: 

• What does it mean to be a disruptor and to disrupt yourself (03:42)
• How in the world did you go from secretary to a retail sales broker and then end up catapulting your existence by studying disruptors (06:25)
• What does “Amateurs Compete, Professionals Create” mean? (12:38)
• The evolution of trucks and the manufacturing limits that Elon Musk faced with the Tesla Truck to create instead of compete (15:57)
• How we are biologically wired to be disruptors and how disruptors living in the creative process makes a huge biological difference (17:07)
• The top seven secrets to becoming a disruptor and riding the wave for all it’s worth (20:40)
• Starting something new by figuring out the jobs to do and positioning oneself to play where no one is playing (22:34)
• Playing to our distinctive strengths like the Koala (23:58)
• Is there something that made you peculiar when you were young and could it be your superpower? (27:39)
• How constraints set us free and mould us to become successful (32:57)
• The innovation killer, what it means, and how to battle it (36:35)
• Stepping back in order to grow and how failing is just being on the wrong S curve (41:35)
• Billy Beane and moneyball: A fascinating story about constraints and taking a step back to grow (45:06)
• Giving failure its due meaning and ditching shame to be truly disruptive (49:00)
• What are Toyota’s five whys and how can they help us overcome the fear that keeps us from disrupting? (52:13)
• The puke to excitement ratio and how it’s a good sign (57:43)
• What does it mean to follow your north star and we do we ever get bad with disruption? (58:39)

Additional Resources:

• Disrupt Yourself By Whitney Johnson
• Dare to Lead By Brené Brown
• www.WhitneyJohnson.com
• Moneyball By Michael Lewis

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If you’ve ever wanted to open your heart and soul then do we have the BIG LOVE show for you.

Today I’lll be talking with Scott Stabile, best-selling author, screen-writer, speaker and advocate, and the author of a heart-warming new book on a powerful way to live, BIG LOVE.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about the power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart.

Key Points Discussed:

• What happened to Scott at the age of 14?
• What happened to his parents?
• How’d he get through school as an orphan?
• What was his coping mechanism?
• How often did he end up breaking down?
• What happened to his brother Ricky?
• What happened to Scott after moving to San Francisco – and how’d it begin his healing journey???
• What’s the importance of not keeping things buried?
• How did writing help him to heal?
• What can we learn from “the cougher?”
• What’s the importance message behind shame?
• What’s the importance of self-care, and what does it have to do with underpants???
• What’s Oogust 29th and what was the film The Ooogiloves???
• What happened after writing the biggest box-office flop ever?
• How do we define failure?
• How did Scott’s mega-successful facebook page come about?
• What’s the importance of not judging yourself?
• What’s the importance of being aware of one-another?
• How does one overcome fear?
• What’s wrong with choosing happiness?
• What’s the importance of speaking our truth?
• What’s the cult of yes?
• What can we learn about “what if’s” in life?
• What’s the importance of forgiveness?

Additional Resources:

• www.ScottStabile.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to awaken the love within and find more peace and guidance in your life, then do we have the Giovanni and the Camino of St. Francis show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with James Twyman, a.k.a the Peace Troubadour, professional musician, singer, and songwriter, the New York Times Best-Selling author of 16 books, a producer and director, and the author of a beautiful song of a spiritual journey, "Giovanni and the Camino of St. Francis."

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about life lessons from St. Francis, and finding love, peace, faith, and guidance, on the road of life. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• How Lake Chapala in Mexico has become the number one place for expats (04:02)
• Why did you first become interested in St. Francis and how old were you? (04:54)
• Being able to pull on the golden thread by being exactly where and when you are supposed to be in life (08:34)
• The one single most important lesson that James has learned from St. Francis (10:57)
• Being cracked open through trauma, difficulty, and things not going our way (14:54)
• Surrendering fully to the no mud, no lotus experience and what that means (17:02)
• Getting back into our essence through walking (19:39)
• Love as the key to remembering who we are (26:38)
• What if you were to see everyone through the eyes of God/Love and how do we begin to do that? (32:10)
• The story in the Giovanni and the Camino of St. Francis book (44:21)
• Is there something that you recommend for people to get in the flow of putting themselves out there? (49:09)
• What would you tell people to help them shine if they’re on their Camino and they’ve just fallen and maybe broke their wrist? (52:35)
• How do you personally keep bringing it back? (56:00)

Additional Resources:

• www.JamesFTwyman.com
• Giovanni and the Camino of St. Francis By James F. Twyman

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If you’ve ever wanted to live a more awake alive and brilliant life, then do we have the Wake Up show for you! 

Today I’ll be talking with Chris Barez Brown, renowned speaker, Fortune 500 consultant, and the author of one of highest vibration books, I’ve ever had the pleasure of pawing, let along reading, Wake Up!

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about brilliant and playful strategies to help snap you out of autopilot, to live in the here and now!

Key Points Discussed

• How not to make big decisions in life!
• What does it mean to have an autopilot life?
• How much is our subconscious running the show?
• What does our caveman brain have to do with anything?
• What does it mean to wake up?
• What can we learn from David Bowie’s passing?
• What’s the importance of doodling?
• What’s the fastest way to get off autopilot?
• What’s so bad about our television?
• Do rats really prefer sugar to cocaine – and what’s this mean for us?
• What’s the importance of holding our favorite things?
• What is a bathroom buff up?
• What’s it mean to draw your life?
• What are the benefits of dressing the same?
• What is forest bathing, and why is getting to the woods so important?
• What’s the importance of trees?
• What’s so important about dancing?
• What’s the importance of writing your own songs?
• Why do we all want to journal?
• How do we wake up excited and go to sleep grateful?
• What’s the importance of smiling???
• Why do we need to do something big, and what does that look like?
• Why do we want to send a letter this week to someone we care about???

Additional Resources

• www.barez-brown.com
•  www.uppingyourelvis.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to welcome in magic into your life and feel better about your life, then do we have the love yourself like your life depends on it show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Kamal Ravikant, self-published phenom, poet, entrepreneur, and investor, and one of my all-time favorite guests I’ve had on the show (he was also the first). He’s also the author of one of the most beautiful, brilliant, and important reads out there today, “Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about one simple practice and four simple steps that can completely transform your life. Plus we’ll talk about living like you’ve died, why being depressed is a good day, CocaCola signs and market street, two last leaves and an open heart, and what in the world rubber snakes and Jesus have to do with anything.

Key Points Discussed: 

• What in the world happened to you two months ago and what was going through your mind? (03:55)
• How has the Satori experience changed you? (08:09)
• What works for the inside practically and how it changed Kamal’s mindset (15:24)
• What was the original bursting of the artery that sent you down this whole path of loving yourself? (20:15)
• Loving ourselves with the same intensity we would use to pull ourselves up if we were hanging off a cliff with our fingers (23:45)
• The power of weaving in “Thank You” into everything we put into ourselves (28:45)
• Going into flow by embracing ourselves and the importance of committing to loving ourselves (32:54)
• Setting people up for success by having them listen to the same piece of music every time they’re meditating (42:31)
• What does light have to do with anything? (49:34)
• The need for an internal change before anything else changes (52:12)
• How the “Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It” book will help people (57:27)
• How important is giving love? (59:41)
• How much would our world change if we got this concept? (1:04:21)

Additional Resources:

• Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It By Kamal Ravikant

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If you’ve ever been looking for a better year ahead, then do we have the re-engineer your life, your whole life, show for you.

Today we’ll talk about stepping back, taking inventory, and how to step forward into your greatest life before it steps forward onto you. Plus we’ll talk about new formats, new order in the house, new ways of exercise, new ways of eating, new programs to record, new haircuts, chilly Thanksgiving, and so much more.

Key Points Discussed: 

• The donut maker and the needs versus wants discussion (02:43)
• Getting caught by the airfryer bug (04:54)
• How massively Amazon Prime one-day shipping affects the environment (08:27)
• The amazing apple smoked turkey and what CJ’s Thanksgiving was like (10:14)
• Running 10 miles up and down in a 10,000 feet incline within marathon time(19:01)
• Keeping from getting despondent and sad from the frustration of going through the downhill walk of shame (28:37)
• Simpler ways of doing things and being intentionally chill about everything (32:00)
• Learning how to let go into it and Michael’s definition of success (40:00)
• The antithesis of stillness during the holiday season (45:02)
• Bringing peace to ourselves and those around us (48:09)
• Getting the most beautiful flow outcome by breathing into it and asking exactly what you want (50:46)

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If you’ve ever wanted to feel better at work and about your work, then do have the Healing Organization show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with best-selling author and visionary, Michael Gelb. A pioneer in the field of creative thinking, a fit degree black belt in aikido, the author of at least sixteen books, including “Think Like Leonardo Davinci”, and the co-author of one of the most brilliant and needed books today, “The Healing Organization”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how we can change the way we work, awaken the conscious of business, and help save the world.

Key Points Discussed: 

• What we can do at work to begin to change the world (03:10)
• Being more successful by being consistently kind and focusing on the needs of those around us (09:48)
• Shifting businesses to the notion of stakeholders rather than just shareholders (13:36)
• How do we as individuals choose which companies to work for to support that which supports us? (19:51)
• Planned obsolescence and how exploitative it is of customers and the earth (27:50)
• What we can do when we are in a company that is performing shock experiments on their employees and customers? (34:43)
• What do we do if we’re in the barrel and can we actually make a difference when we’re feeling we can’t? (41:05) 
• Out of all companies, which one expresses the most positive story or best model for us to understand moving forward? (44:14)
• Healing ourselves and aligning our daily lives around a higher intention (51:07)
• The truly human leadership by Bob Chapman at Barry Wehmiller companies (57:20)
• The power of an idea that is just right for it’s time (1:00:57)

Additional Resources:

• The Healing Organization By Michael Gelb
• The Wealth of Nations By Adam Smith
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments By Adam Smith
• www.MichaelGelb.com
• www.HealingOrganizations.com

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If you’ve ever wanted more magic and abundance in your life then do we have the Being You, Changing the World show for You!

Today we’ll talk with Dr. Dain Heer, best-selling author, co-creator of Access Consciousness, and the genius rabble-rouser, behind one of my all-time favorite books on changing our energy, and leaping into our greatest selves, "Being You, Changing The World!"

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about stepping our magic and our power, and finding the incredible abundance waiting for each one of us.

That plus we’ll talk about a monsters of magic, playboy the horse, 100 monkeys on an island, why we want to stay weird, and when in the world you want to feed random ducks rice-crispies!

Key Points Discussed:

• Why Money Isn’t Hard
• What it means to ask for money
• How to find where we’re stuck with money
• How do we clear emotional blocks to money
• What is a clearing statement?
• The importance of the question: “What’s right about me I’m not getting”
• Why there’s no such thing as a money issue, only what you’re willing to receive
• What’s the importance of “interesting point of view, I have this point of view”
• Why we have a hang-up around money
• Why joy doesn’t follow money, but money follows joy
• What it means to be willing to receive
• Why we have an addiction to being miserable
• What happens when we’re miserable
• Why we don’t want to put up walls to receiving
• What’s the 10% account?
• What it means your point of view creates your reality, your reality doesn’t create your point of view
• Why you don’t want to touch your ten percent
• When you want to say “What’s it gonna take to pay this without dipping into the ten percent…show me something new”
• Why we want to ask the universe “what’s it gonna take to change this”
• “If I was truly creating my life today, what would I chose, right away?”
• Why you want to actually ask the Universe for what you want, and why you need to ask yourself how much you need to create happiness in your life
• What’s the importance of “ask and you shall receive”

Additional Resources:

• www.DrDainHeer.com
• www.AccessConsciousness.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to heal from illness, feel your greatest, or literally heal from cancer, then do we have the Chris Beat Cancer show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Chris Wark, speaker, patient advocate, wellness crusader, and the author of one of the most brilliant books I’ve ever read on health, Chris Beat Cancer.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to listen to your instincts, step out in faith, and take massive action to help heal our bodies.

Key Points Discussed:

• What happened to Chris Wark at age 26?
• What happened when he tried out for The Apprentice?
• How was he diagnosed with Cancer?
• What was he told by the oncologist?
• What was the shift Chris made at this time?
• What does commitment have to do with anything?
• What’s the importance of trusting your intuition?
• What’s it mean to step out on faith?
• What do you do if things don’t feel right?
• What’s it mean to truly have something to live for?
• What’s it mean to “overdose on nutrition”
• How can food fuel our health?
• What’s the problem with health-care today (and how can we overcome it)?
• What is the Beat Cancer Mindset?
• What’s the importance of accepting total responsibility for your health?
• What’s the importance of being willing to do whatever it takes?
• What does it mean to take massive action?
• How important is it for our health to make bold plans for the future?
• How important is gratitude in our health?
• What’s the importance of a plant-based diet?
• How can we use plants to beat cancer and return us to perfect health?
• How important is stress reduction in a return to perfect health?
• How do we need to change our internal languaging?
• How do we move past negative self-talk?
• What’s the importance of forgiveness?
• What’s it mean to choose faith?

Additional Resources:

• www.ChrisBeatCancer.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to achieve true success and happiness in your life, then do we have the Four Secrets to Success, Intensity Matching, Three Minute Pitch show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Brant Pinvidic, award-winning film director, veteran TV producer, Founder and CEO of INvelop Entertainment, and host of the Why I’m Not Podcast, and a brand new business-based podcast, IPO. 

Brant has sold more than 300 TV and movie projects, sold TV shows like Extreme Makeover: Weightloss Edition and Bar Rescue, which have grossed nearly a billion dollars in revenue. He is also the author of a really fun and transformative read we can all benefit from, “The 3-Minute Pitch”

Today I want to talk with him about preparing and planning for happiness, and why preparing for success and planning for it are two different things. 

Key Points Discussed: 

• Swimming with 17 different great white sharks on Guadalupe Island, 210 miles off the coast (03:15)
• What was the feeling of being in the water and were the shark watching you as much as you were watching them? (05:36)
• What in the world does a napkin of destiny have to do with anything? (08:18)
• What is the importance of qualifying success? (09:54)
• The emotional struggle of having no more road runners to catch (11:46)
• Being physiologically accustomed to feeling a certain level of appreciation and success (14:30)
• A different version of working with the end goal in mind (20:59)
• Defining what success looks like and backing that up (24:58)
• What do we bring to our goals so that we’re not setting ourselves up for failure? (28:03)
• Winning more situations, the game of life, and matching your intensity (37:09)
• The power of taking the win in a world that is programmed to have big goals and not little achievements (43:11)
• Being chased by success and getting a cheerleader (48:49)
• What is reject average and which is your favorite car among the four million dollars worth of 7,000 horsepower cars? (54:01)
• Using Hollywood storytelling techniques to lead your audience to the conclusion you want (58:55)

Additional Resources:

• The 3-Minute Rule By Grant Pinvidic
• www.3MinuteRule.com
• www.BrantPinvidic.com
• www.RejectAverage.com
• Hardwiring Happiness By Rick Hanson
• Brant on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

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If you’ve ever been looking for signs from the universe, then do we have the signs and symbols and synchronicities ---universal guidance--- show for you!

Today we’ll talk about hearing the universe, listening to the universe, and how to take action on the universe, before she pulls out the 2 x 4.

1. What buying a Tesla Truck has to do with the Law of Attraction?
2. What it means to make symbolic gestures to the universe?
3. How to get your father-in-law less wobbly!
4. What are plyometric kitty exercises???
5. What does Dr. Michael Merzenich, the father of brain plasticity have to do with our ability to adapt?
6. Why Michael’s been getting minor injuries lately—and what they mean???
7. How the Universe has been screaming at Michael?
8. What you can learn from what feels good and what feels bad?
9. How we can interpret the language of the Universe?
10. What does it mean to hear whispers of the Universe from your body?
11. What it means to hear the alarms from the Universe???
12. What it means to listen to the signs of the Universe?
13. How do we discern between fear and love?
14. Why is fear often excitement in disguise?
15. What’s the format change Michael will be making for the Inspire Nation Show for the New Year?
16. How do we practice going into the fear, and seeing what comes out the other side?
17. To find out more is FireItUpWithCJ.com and www.InspireNationShow.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to live your greatest life, then do we have the Top Five Regrets of the Dying show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Bronnie Ware, author, speaker, musician and song-writing teacher, and the author of a brilliant, life-changing book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about living without regrets and a life transformed by the dearly departed.

The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. How did Bronnie Ware start working with the dying?
2. Who was Ruth and what can we learn from her?
3. What’s the harm in hiding death from society?
4. What’s the benefit of facing our death with honest acceptance?
5. How can facing death help shift our priorities?
6. How does facing death help shift us from our ego to our heart?
7. What does surrender really mean?
8. What’s the number one regret of the dying?
9. What can we learn from Grace and what did she make Bronnie promise?
10. What does it mean (from Tony Robbins) we do more to avoid pain than to gain pleasure?
11. What’s the importance of compassion and self-compassion?
12. What’s it mean that we become the product of our environment?
13. What’s the importance of becoming incredibly mindful of the life we’re creating?
14. After learning life lessons from the dying, what does success really mean?
15. What is the second regret of the dying?
16. What’s the harm in seeing yourself as a victim?
17. How did Bronnie use the law of attraction to make a music album?
18. What is the third regret of the dying?
19. What’s the importance of expressing our feelings?
20. What lessons can we teach our kids based on the regrets of the dying?
21. How important is happiness for our children and ourselves?
22. For more info visit: BronnieWare.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to build your own reality, then do we have The Magic Club show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, a leader in the New Thought Movement, PEN award-winning historian, the author of Occult America and One Simple Idea, and a phenomenal must-read new book The Miracle Club.

And that’s what we’ll be talking about today, about how thoughts become reality, and what it means this means for you!

Key Points Discussed:

• What in the world is Schroedenger’s cat?
• What is information leakage?
• What is the many world interpretation?
• What is a serial universe?
• What does quantum mechanics have to do with thoughts becoming things?
• Is cause and effect linear?
• What can we learn from Dean Radin and PSI research
• How long has ESP and pre-cognition been studied?
• What can we learn from the latest research on pre-cognition?
• What are Ganzfeld studies?
• What happened with Julliard studies when studying PSI?
• How does Schroedenger relate to Neville Goddard and creating our reality?
• Can we imagine our world into being?
• What is a time collapse?
• What happened with Mike Nesmith of the Monkees?
• What does it mean that reality doesn’t travel in a straight line?
• What does it mean changing the past is the means to change the future?
• Is there a way to improve ourselves in hindsight tomorrow?
• What can we learn about Neville Goddard?
• What are the three steps of Neville Goddard to create our own reality?
• What does it mean that every creative act begins with a passionate desire?
• What does it mean that your imagination is fertilized in a state of physical immobility?
• What’s the importance of forming a vivid simple, mental screen of your desire fulfilled?

Additional Resources:

• MitchHorowitz.com

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If you’ve ever wanted to overcome challenges, and bounce back faster, then do we have the Resilience show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Linda Graham, a licensed marriage and family therapy, mindful self-compassion teacher, and the author of a beautiful new book Resilience. 

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, rewiring your mind for maximum resilience through powerful practices for bouncing back from disappointment, difficulty, and even disaster.

Key Points Discussed:

• What is resilience?
• How do we learn to bounce back?
• What does it mean that shift happens?
• What does it mean that how you respond to the issue is the issue?
• What’s the shift from the “poor me” to an empowered, active “I”
• How do we nurture flexibility of the mind?
• How does flexibility get derailed?
• What is conditioning?
• How can we change the relationship with what just happened?
• How do we accelerate brain change?
• What’s the importance of little and often?
• Why do we need “safety” in order to rewire the mind?
• How do positive emotions shift brain functions?
• How can the breath help change the mind?
• What’s an instant state change through the breath?
• How can the hand on our heart health us?
• What’s the power of hugs?
• What can we do in times of serious crisis or when things are just “too much”?
• What’s the importance of understanding the power of emotional memories to trigger reactivity in the present?
• What’s the negativity bias and how can we overcome it?
• How can we rewire a negative emotion through movement?
• What’s the importance of a dialogue between your wiser-self and your inner child?
• How do we deepen the trust with ourselves?
• What is the Gratitude Goulash by Doug Von Koss?
• What is forest bathing?
• What is a digital vacation?

Additional Resources:

• Lindagraham-mft.net

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If you’ve ever wanted greater courage, strength, and wisdom in your life, especially during trying times, then do we have the A Fierce Heart show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Spring Washam, a visionary meditation and dharma teacher based in California and South America, founding teacher of the East Bay Meditation Center, a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, Founder of Lotus Vine Journeys, and the author of a beautiful, transformative book, "A Fierce Heart"

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about finding strength, courage, wisdom, and self-compassion, in each and every moment.

Key Points Discussed: 

• One simple way of finding courage when nothing appears to be going our way (03:19)
• Trying a hand at shoplifting and how getting caught changed her life (06:01)
• How did you find yourself out on the street at age 15? (06:50)
• What is the break down and why is it good for us? (12:00)
• What in the world do insane looking clowns have to do with anything? (14:55)
• The hike on the Andes mountains that taught her about inner strength, trust and belief systems (19:27)
• What she learned about her heart when she started working with the shaman in the jungle (28:58)
• Bringing forth what is within us before it destroys us (38:52)
• What does a fierce heart mean to you? (49:20)
• Motivating yourself to heal so you can access your heart for helping others (53:00)

Additional Resources:

• www.SpringWasham.com
• www.LotusVineJourneys.com/
• www.EastBayMeditation.org/

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