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Feb 28, 2020

If you’ve ever wanted to surf the tides of change and get out of a funk without being taken under, then do we have the breath into change show for you.

Today we’ll talk about recognizing change, surfing change, breathing into change, and allowing change even when we want to hold on. Plus we’ll talk about the empty nesting reboot, butts in seat, doors, and hallways, paco and pedals, YouTube and MeTube, the open-hearted warrior Bootcamp, and a pookie midlife growth spurt has to do with anything. 

Key Points Discussed:

  • What butts in the seat have to do with the tides of change (03:16)
  • How Michael’s screen goes disco when the energy is too high (04:39)
  • The belief in past lives and how CJ has had the weirdest past lives (06:09)
  • Working on getting grounded and getting stuck in a seat right after a meditation (09:50)
  • The numerous doors that are opening up, the amazing momentum that’s building up, and success with the Open-Hearted Warrior Bootcamp (14:58)
  • The importance of keeping your energy up and positive during a time of change (18:00)
  • The empty-nesting reboot and creating a vision for every part of life (21:51)
  • The devotional practice of loving family members and how it teaches us compassion, unconditional love, patience, and anger management (25:23)
  • The purpose that conditioned beliefs serve (28:07)
  • Trying new things with YouTube, learning and discovering that MeTubing is more effective in increasing viewership (31:17)
  • Pookie’s midlife growth spurt and how it’s about her stepping into empowerment (35:54)
  • Looking at the strengths and weaknesses of focusing on self versus focusing on others  (39:54)
  • The different tribes of deer that are now hanging out at Michael’s house (45:19)

Additional Resources:

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Feb 26, 2020

If you’ve ever wanted to see more clearly and feel more whole and at peace, then do we have the mosaic show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Daniel Bruce Levin, author, poet, businessman, and mystic, a former monk and former business director of Hay House, and the author of perhaps my favorite fable ever, “The Mosaic”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about finding peace by rediscovering our connection and learning how to see clearly again. That plus we’ll talk about Thor, Spider-Man, Captain America, and the Fantastic Four, squeezing lemons, broken bowls and glue of gold, the gift of prophecy, and what in the world invisible friends have to do with anything. 

Key Points Discussed:

  • How many times have you walked away from everything and walked towards yourself? (03:23)
  • Connecting to the beast of passion and living in the moment instead of running away from it (06:20)
  • How did you handle the competing interest within you that could have torn you apart? (08:15)
  • The reason why Daniel was set up (13:36)
  • How the horrible consequences of having an affair unfolded into the greatest gift for Daniel (20:39)
  • How to establish connection in a world where nobody can say how they actually feel and where people don’t listen to each other (24:00)
  • How to pour out enough of the cup to listen to the universe but most importantly listen to ourselves (25:58)
  • The internal conflict we go through when we are out of integrity and out of sync (29:31)
  • Creating a listening revolution and the impact it could have (32:52)
  • The blind woman who sees more clearly than any of us and how we can begin to see (48:23)
  • How do we let of the stories that are destroying us to set ourselves free? (55:47)
  • The importance of trusting our inner voice and how Daniel did it (57:57)

Additional Resources:

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Feb 24, 2020

If you’ve wanted to unf*ck yourself and discover your purpose, then do we have the Do the Work show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Gary John Bishop, personal development and urban philosophy expert, the New York Times best-selling author of “Unf*ck Yourself” and “Stop Doing That”, and the author of an irreverent new guide to getting unf*cked, “Do the Work”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about changing your life and discovering your purpose. Plus we’ll talk about captain stardust, soccer and barbarians, relationships and vegas, frolicking with orphaned baby Koalas, Peruvian acoustic guitars and Machu Picchu, and what in the world suburbia and creating a man has to do with anything.

Key Points Discussed:

  • The most important thing we must do to unf*ck ourselves (03:28)
  • Writing down our beliefs and assumptions and then challenging them  (04:46)
  • What’s the importance of making promises and keeping them? (08:21)
  • How to remind ourselves of the promises we’ve made ourselves (13:05)
  • How important is our self-talk and where has it driven the majority of us today? (15:13)
  • Interrupting the drift of our default self (17:21)
  • Understanding the machine so we can have choice and an option of other ways to express ourselves and behave (21:07)
  • Stretching the possibilities of the bag of the bones that we are so we can start to shake things up (23:56)
  • The pretense of “I don’t care” among young people and the value in a young person starting to test the world for themselves (25:46)
  • Do you give yourself that complete and total forgiveness? (28:42)
  • The absurdity of the idea of finding purpose (31:48)
  • The internal question that purpose is supposed to answer (34:02)
  • How do we begin to find the context if we’re driven and lost by the content? (38:55)
  • How playing the guitar is the most selfish act that is also the most selfless because it recharges his soul to help others (43:15)
  • The importance of looking at our time and our day to day routine (46:27)
  • The two steps to freedom and the one tool we can use to shift our perspectives and challenge our beliefs (51:44)

Additional Resources:

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Feb 21, 2020

If you’ve ever felt you’re driving or striving too hard, then do we have the surrender to the will of the universe show for you.

Today we’ll talk about what surrender really means, when to do it, why to do it, and why it doesn’t mean you’re weak. That plus we’ll talk about chanting and pranayama evolving, seeing big picture during change, skiing epiphanies, listening to your audience, trusting your gut, trips to Sedona, guest in India, publishing meetings and hearing back, chocolate brownies, and what in the world two feet of champagne powder have to do with anything.

Key Points Discussed:

  • The ease of things that comes when we surrender and go with flow (04:07)
  • The be and the do: Tips for being more present (05:30)
  • Continuously quieting the mind and then plugging in (07:18)
  • Letting go of the clinging and deep thought at a very deep level (09:20)
  • One of CJ’s 30-minute meditations and how it can take someone to a deeper peaceful state (12:00)
  • Living on the side of a ten thousand feet volcano and the amazing vortex experience there (14:58)
  • The transformative crystal bowl music and how toning with the bowls heals (18:32)
  • When our ego drives to fulfill our self desires and how to fulfill the divine through love (23:30)
  • Going to a deeper place in writing to create a conceptual flow and how hard it is (29:37)
  • Revering the supreme and being in a place where our heart is filled with the grace of God and love (31:47)
  • Michael’s meeting with his publisher and looking into how he can leverage the opportunities there to help Jessica step back  (38:05)
  • Surrendering to the beauty of snow storms instead of focusing on the disruptions they cause (43:14)
  • The life information experience we already have when we are surrendering into the unknown (47:00)

 Additional Resources:

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Feb 19, 2020

If you’ve ever wondered how to use quantum science to bring happiness to your life, then do we have the quantum spirituality show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Amit Goswami, world-famous physicist, pioneer of the quantum world view, the best-selling author of numerous books translated into at least 9 languages, including “The Text Book of Quantum Mechanics”, the phenomenal documentary, “The Quantum Activist”, and the co-author of another brilliant book along with Dr. Valentina Onisor, “Quantum Spirituality”

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about bridging mysticism and science to bring more happiness to your life. 

Key Points Discussed:

  • What does quantum science have to do with happiness? (03:24)
  • Is consciousness and therefore happiness non-local or not located in the mind? (04:34)
  • The optimal scale of happiness and what it has to do with anything (05:18)
  • How to gradually expand consciousness through simple practices like meditation and yoga (06:02)
  • The misconception around seeking enlightenment when we want happiness (06:42)
  • An example of a concentration meditation that anyone can jump into without much practice (12:33)
  • Using quantum science to get out of a stuck state, get to normal, and then get to positive mental circuits going on (17:36)
  • The huge danger of falling into psychosis or depression, and the only way to deal with it (19:48)
  • The difficulty in being whenever we are neurotic (21:28)
  • Our real natural state of being and how what we call normal has become sub-normal (25:19)
  • Developing positive emotional brain circuits and how to turn inward to remember who we truly are (28:16)
  • What is your archetype and what do you do when the negative emotions come out to try to get you? (40:26)
  • How did you crowbar into your heart? (43:07)
  • What can you tell us about the secret of Jesus’ way of wholeness? (49:03)
  • What is one tip that you would give women to help strengthen the navel? (52:53)
  • What’s the five-layer cake that’s coming up? (56:40)

Additional Resources:

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Feb 17, 2020

If you’ve ever wanted your wealthiest, happiest, and most abundant life 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 Napoleon Hills’ top ten rules for self-mastery and success. Plus we’ll talk about the miracle man of France, the importance of war in the world, the psychology of clothing, and what in the world bad brains and PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) have to do with anything.

Key Points Discussed:

  • The power of having one absolute focus/aim in life (03:32)
  • Our unwillingness to be honest with our ourselves, how it affects our ability to focus, and the importance of throwing out all habitual thought (07:21)
  • Living with not being lukewarm in life and the value of trying to expend near the limits of our strength (09:31)
  • The role of desire in helping us become successful and fulfilled (12:03)
  • Walking away from dwelling in places where we can no longer be served (17:12)
  • The importance and rewards of self-discipline (19:29)
  • How the art of keeping our heads down makes us mediocre and deters us from what we’re passionate about (21:35)
  • The real and tangible nature of the hidden self (25:29)
  • Climbing to the top of a watchtower and making a huge declaration (26:41)
  • Sun Tzu’s principle of the way the greatest warrior prevails without fighting (29:02)
  • The role of setting intentions and reciting mantras in working on reprogramming our minds (34:08)
  • What is accurate thinking? (36:44)
  • Following the esoteric golden rule and how it conditions our view of the world and ourselves (39:07)
  • Having an imaginary counsel composed of people in history or people we admire (46:57)
  • The importance of having a positive mental attitude (50:27)
  • The one tool Mitch or Napoleon Hill would recommend to cultivate a PMA (53:29)
  • What’s the importance of a personal code and what is cosmic habit force? (55:29)
  • The magic elixir of life that is enthusiasm and how it makes everything work (59:22)

Additional Resources:

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Feb 14, 2020

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by negativity then do we have the how to get over a funk show for you.

Today we’ll talk about all things funk, how we got here, what we can learn, and how in the world to get out of the funk without falling to pieces. That plus we’ll talk about foundation building, awareness of my unawareness, rewarding and loving myself even in small progress, second fast, five-year recap, funky epiphanies, people falling in apart, Saturday night spells, skit skiing bliss, and who in the world is the real Jane Doe (deer that is).

Key Points Discussed:

  • An interesting and energetic time period with people falling apart left and right (03:06)
  • Forgetting the mind map making and how it screwed up a whole day (06:16)
  • Being attached to her motherly role, crushing from worry about her son, and overcoming the whole thing with action (09:54)
  • Surrendering and asking whomever we pray to for the insight and wisdom to know what the next is (11:33)
  • Dealing with the negativity in our mind: Advice from the Dalai Lama (14:04)
  • Performance/Achievement addiction and what it’s all about (17:49)
  • The entrepreneurial dilemma that every entrepreneur experiences (20:30)
  • How we are so overwhelmed by trying to get through life and the emotions we experience on a daily basis (24:00)
  • Falling into wholeness by leaning into the source of one’s fear (30:20)
  • The life review process and the value of discernment (34:50)
  • Seeking purpose and the ten gentle turns that will definitely take place along the path (43:23)
  • Setting the intention each day to work towards what we believe is good for us (44:27)
  • CJ’s form of letting go by adopting a fast mimicking diet (50:00)
  • The most important and positive experience of Michael’s life that had to happen to shift him in an amazing direction (56:58)
  • Doing what we need to do in the moment and loving ourselves up no matter what (1:00:00)

Additional Resources:

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Feb 12, 2020

If you’ve ever wanted greater happiness in your life, then do we have the Good Morning, I Love You show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Shauna Shapiro, clinical psychologist, mindfulness and self-compassion expert, the creator of an amazing viral TED Talk, and the author of a beautiful golden book in mindfulness, “Good Morning, I love You”

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about the power of mindfulness and self-compassion to rewire your brain for calm, clarity, and joy.

Key Points Discussed: 

  • What happened to you when you were 17 and playing volleyball (03:31)
  • The waterfall monastery, the English speaking monk, and what Shauna practiced at the monastery (06:18)
  • How our entire lives are a meditation and how what we focus on grows stronger (11:01)
  • The happiness set point theory; We are as we are (11:52)
  • The superhighways of habit versus country roads (14:20)
  • The power of focusing our minds and having laser-like attention (18:09)
  • Beating ourselves up and the energy it costs us (21:08)
  • The myth and disease of perfectionism that we all have in the west today (22:17)
  • Learning how to become our own ally and being on our team (25:36)
  • How do we apply mindfulness, kindness and common humanity in handling a child’s tantrum? (30:21)
  • Working with soldiers with PTSD and the profound story of the soldier who had never spoken (32:14)
  • The mistaken belief that self-judgment and shame makes things okay (36:58)
  • Practicing forgiveness to free our hearts and what forgiveness really means (39:15)
  • How compassion makes us more accountable (43:00)
  • Why we often feel worse before we feel better when we start practicing mindfulness (44:21)
  • Showing up for the beauty in our lives and training our minds into our being so we can change our happiness set point (47:00)

Additional Resources:

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Feb 10, 2020

If you’ve ever struggled with fear and anxiety, then do we have a year without fear show for you.

Today I’ll be speaking with Tama Kieves, freedom Ninja, visionary heroine, inspirational best-selling author, and the author of a beautiful daily read, “A Year Without Fear”

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about five-minute shifts to let go of fear and become inspired and unstoppable. 

Key Points Discussed: 

  • What’s the scariest thing that’s ever taken place in your life and how did you take action? (04:01)
  • Would you say the fear was pushing you away or calling you forward? (05:12)
  • How things falling together, chaos and fear lead to new growth (06:19)
  • The love in disguise that is fear and letting go by listening to the voice that empowers us (07:34)
  • 5 ways of discerning what fear and love really are (09:03)
  • The damning effect of adopting a “Shoulda-woulda-coulda” mentality (12:00)
  • Living into every moment in this life and realizing every moment is here for our good (13:47)
  • Picking one thing when it comes to sources of self help content (18:22)
  • Overcoming fear by doing what we’re individually here to do (21:19)
  • The misleading nature of thinking that we can always live in trust, love, joy, and grace all the time (25:28)
  • The fire hose of the universe, the value of losing the sense of time, and how a different experience answers fear (29:24)
  • Trusting the process, coming back home to ourselves and giving the universe another chance (32:49)
  • How recognizing the seeds of our greatness can change everything (38:15)
  • Seeing everything with love and taking scared Tama for a ride (41:45)
  • What you’re doing now is what is creating the greatness to come (44:54)
  • Getting past the addiction of picking on our ourselves to step forward into love (46:51)
  • How would you encourage people to become an open-hearted warrior? (50:15)
  • Experiencing magic by taking a risk (51:43)
  • How love kicks in when we take the pressure off ourselves (53:15)

Additional Resources:

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Feb 7, 2020

If you’ve ever felt stuck, lost, or unsure where to turn, then do we have the positive momentum show for you. 

Today we’ll talk about putting yourself out there, taking steps forward, watching your thoughts, and experimenting, experimenting and experimenting some more to create positive momentum in your life.

That plus we’ll talk about Hare Krishna, energy buffet, coronavirus, shiva lingam, 7 daily meditations, less error, clarity of thought, YouTube alignment, starting new shows, trips to Boulder, pivots and shifts, and what in the world goes bump in the night?

Key Points Discussed: 

  • Getting back from India and getting grounded (04:10)
  • What did this trip mean to you in as far as stepping forward and gaining momentum is concerned? (06:08)
  • Adopting the mindful practice of repeating something that helps get us into a special sacred space (11:05)
  • Watching our thoughts and being more discerning of what we want to keep in our heads and what doesn’t serve us (13:48)
  • Michael’s clarity of thought and how they are starting a new show that will help shift the world (21:16)
  • Getting dreams and synchronicities about starting the projects he’s been aiming at (25:00)
  • The YouTube alignment piece: How YouTube recently called out the unreal subscribers from people’s channels (30:48)
  • Feeling the inevitability of becoming closer and closer to a goal (38:40)
  • Calling in the assistance that is always there around us and how powerful it is (41:08)
  • The unrealistic belief that one person can solve all our issues and being our own spiritual guru despite having people to help us (46:55)
  • The deer in the yard that couldn’t stop staring at the tomato plant and having the herd of deer grooving on them (51:49)
  • The Hare Krishna energy buffet and the amazing experience of meeting Radhanath Swami (57:52)
  • Having faith that we will endure and watching our thoughts and keeping them pure (1:05:50)

Additional Resources:

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Feb 5, 2020

If you’ve ever wondered how to make a real difference in the world, then do we have the Love Anyway show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Jeremy Courtney, one of the world’s true heroes and the epitome of an open hearted warrior, the founder and CEO of Preemptive Love Coalition, a relief and job creation community working to end war, and the author of one most powerful life changing and must read books, “Love Anyway” 

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how and why to end war, the real work on the inside, and what in the world is preemptive love?

Key Points Discussed: 

  • What did 9/11 mean to you? (03:25)
  • How did grandpa no-no’s path affect the trajectory of your life? (05:22)
  • Seeing people do triple flips in war zones and former war zones: How love and pain changes us (08:03)
  • The mission in Turkey and what it was all about (09:50)
  • A Jesus way of living and how it cracked his heart (13:05)
  • Experiencing a profound spiritual experience and stumbling into a higher way (15:08)
  • What in the world made you visit Iraq? (20:26)
  • What the people were like in Iraq and his journey of assimilating into the new norm (27:45)
  • Who is brother B and how did he influence your life? (30:47)
  • Loving first and asking questions later: Jeremy’s brand of religion (35:10)
  • What happened when the genocide started? (46:42)
  • How responding quick in times of violence actually stops the spread of violence from one person to another (50:00)
  • Can you carry us forward in the timeline of 2014 to approximately today in Iraq? (54:24)
  • What do you mean by something is wrong with our maps and our way? (58:47)
  • Diving in on the inside on an individual and group basis of seeing the richness within rather than just the topography that we think we’re seeing on the surface (1:04:26)
  • There are no victims on the other side of preemptive love (1:07:23)

Additional Resources:

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Feb 3, 2020

If you’ve ever struggled with addiction, or know someone who has, then do we have the We Are The Luckiest show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Laura McKowen, the author of a harrowing, brilliant, and beautiful look at living the sober life, “We Are The Luckiest”

And that’s just what I want to talk her about today, about why everything we think we know about addiction is wrong, and the surprising magic of living a sober life. 

Key Points Discussed: 

  • How long have you been living a silver life and when did you first realize that you had an addiction challenge? (03:17)
  • Taking the quiz and how she convinced herself that things would be fine (04:22)
  • Staying sober for ten months when she was pregnant (04:58)
  • The drinking culture at her workplace and the role it played in her alcoholism (07:22)
  • Taking ownership and how it can save one from being a victim (12:08)
  • The importance of taking things one step at a time (16:35)
  • Looking into our shadow self instead of pushing it away (17:17)
  • Being on the train of “I’m about to drink” and the medical miracle that kept her from drinking (20:46)
  • How she had to be honest and realistic to make it in her sobriety journey (26:50)
  • The value of having interrupters and how they keep one on track (28:58)
  • The pain of feeling the internal disconnection from her inner goodness and wisdom (34:02)
  • Emotional sobriety: The biggest piece of work she had to do (39:30)
  • If we lie to keep the peace, we start a war within ourselves (42:24)
  • What’s the pregnancy principle? (43:48)
  • Building a new life and how it requires a lot of care, attention and focus (45:20)
  • The game that most of us think we’re playing is not the game we’re playing (48:24)

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