If you’ve ever wanted to feel healthier, more rested, sharper of mind, and get a fantastic night’s rest, then do we have the sleep smarter show for you! 

Today I’ll be talking with Shawn Stevenson, founder of the Model Health Show, and author of the best-seller Sleep Smarter.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about essential strategies to sleep your way to a better body, better health, and bigger success. 

That plus we’ll talk about madden football, why we want to sleep through the melatonin show, why we want to bring back cortisol and david hasselhoff, why it’s not cool to wear shades, the hormonal goodfellas, the power of the big O, why position matters, and you should beware the midnight strangler,

Health & Fitness Self-Improvement & Self-Help topics include:

1. How do we make sleep sexy?
2. How do we get more quality out of your sleep
3. How to optimize your sleep
4. Eric Thomas – had no idea was optimizing his sleep
5. What in the world is twinkie sleep?
6. How do you get more nutrition out of your sleep
7. What’s pseudo sleep?
8. Why do we need to get the light down?
9. What’s going on in our brain when we sleep
10. What’s going on with the hypothalamus
11. What’s the glymphatic system?
12. How do we move past the fear of missing out
13. What is serotonin and what does it have to do with sleep?
14. Why a twinkie can trash your sleep
15. What does melatonin have to do with anything?
16. Why is it important to walk first thing in the morning
17. What’s the deal with cortisol, and why has it gotten a bad rap?
18. Why is i.flux of f.lux?
19. What can we learn about sleep and weight-loss
20. What’s crucial to know about caffeine and sleep
21. What does cold have to do with sleep
22. What they do in Finland and Sweden for babies to sleep
23. What’s it mean to sleep cool but rock socks
24. What ayurvedic medicine has to do with sleep
25. What’s the danger of the graveyard shift?
26. What’s the connection between staying up late and high blood pressure
27. What staying up late has to do with fat
28. Why proper sleep is more impactful on health and appearance than diet and exercise combined
29. What’s the importance of the big ‘o’ and sleep
30. What are the benefits of meditation and sleep
31. Why meditation makes such a big different with your sleep
32. Why meditation breathing, or mindfulness and breathing improves your sleep
33. Why is grounding or ‘earthing’ so important for your sleep – vitamin G (for ground)
34. What advice for parents to help kids / children sleep at night
35. Where can you find sleep smarter sleepsmarterbook.com or www.book.com includes free bonus 21 video series, www.themodelhealthshow.com and look up his The Model Health Show podcast

 Shawn Stevenson of The Model Health Show on The Power of Great Sleep & How to Get It! Weight Loss | Fitness | Diet | Nutrition | Inspiration | Inspirational | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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

Today we’ll talk about finding clarity, setting intention, and steps you can take to step forward into your future.

That plus we’ll talk about flow and structure, k9’s and coffee, the power of 4 AM, what’s going on, under the waves, and what in the world baby deer and coaching, have to do with one another!

Go with the Flow Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What twin baby deer have to do with anything?
2. What’s the importance of teaching a baby sign language?
3. What is conscious parenting?
4. How do we step outside of our bubbles?
5. What’s the importance of taking time in the beingness
6. What is taking a higher level perspective on life?
7. How we can use muscle testing to help guide our lives?
8. How you can juggle multiple projects at the same time
9. How to set up your schedule for flow and structure
10. What it means to bring more flow into your life
11. How to open up and respond to what’s happening?
12. What we do on a daily basis to help keep some structure and get the things done we want to get done
13. How you can use automatic writing to tap into your intuition
14. How you can use automatic writing to help organize your day
15. What it means to get into a pro-active stance to getting things done
16. How to figure out the one most important thing you need to get done in the day?
17. How to remember the one most important thing you may be forgetting?
18. How to live in a state of flow – listening to your higher guidance
19. What’s the importance of self-care and refueling the tank
20. How to build exercise such as walks and runs into your day – and with flow
21. All about an old mountain bike that wasn’t – and what we can learn from it.
22. How to recognize when you’re not in flow.
23. How to use your morning routine for greater clarity
24. What it means to find peace beneath the waves
25. Why attacking things may not be the answer
26. How to work with the wind instead of pushing against it
27. How to move past our ADHD wiring
28. Why it’s so important to find the gift that’s wrapped around your heart
29. What it means to look for the essence of what you’re looking for in life?
30. How to set your intentions in automatic writing?
31. How to begin to discover who you truly are?
32. For more visit: FireItUpWithCJ.com and www.InspireNationShow.com

CJ LIU On How To Find More Clarity, Direction & Vision + Happiness, While Going With the Flow!!! Health | Career | Running | Nature | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

Today I’ll be speaking with Vanessa Van Edwards, behavioral investigator and professional people watcher, and the author of a fascinating manual on how to be a better earthling, Captivate.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about the Science of Succeeding with People, and how to go from awkward to on Top.

That plus we’ll talk about cool kids and hiccups, pop rocks over mints, helmet hair without helmets, space mountain and the tiki room, what we can all learn from the bachelorette and why in the world your v-necks have to be plaid!

Human Behavior Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What does the Woo Hoo have to do with power-poses?
2. What are poses of pride?
3. What happened to Vanessa in Grade School?
4. What happened when she tried to make friends?
5. How did she start studying human behavior?
6. What are the top ten hacks for human behavior and social success?
7. What can we learn from Harry Truman and playing to your strengths?
8. What’s wrong with faking it till we make it?
9. Are our emotions contagious?
10. What’s a social game plan?
11. Who is the conductor Arild Remmereit and what can we learn from him?
12. What’s the triple threat?
13. What can we learn about snap judgments or first impressions – and how do we make the best one?
14. What’s the importance of using your hands?
15. What can we learn from Vanessa at Space Mountain?
16. What are conversational sparks and what’s a Big Talk?
17. What is Vanessa’s challenge to take a vow of silence – and what can we gain from it?
18. What’s the Thread Theory?
19. Wrong’s wrong with Not Me comments?
20. What’s a decoder?
21. What can we learn from watching the Bachelorette?
22. What are the seven microexpressions and how do we use them to uncover the truth???
23. How can we identify faces better: visit: www.SciencefPeople/Face
24. What’s the importance of showing someone you value them???
25. What’s the importance of empowering others?
26. What’s the Franklin effect?
27. For More Info Visit: ScienceofPeople.com

Vanessa Van Edwards on How to Decode People, Captivate Your Audience, Win Friends & Influence People! Health | Career | Introvert | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Dale Carnegie | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com 

If you’ve ever struggled to find your purpose, and fully live your life, then do we have the Claim Your Power show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Mastin Kipp the #1 best-selling author of Daily Love, blogger extraordinaire of The Daily Love, and author of a fantastic new book on elevating your life, Claim Your Power.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about going from powerless to powerful by dissolving hidden blocks and discovering your life Purpose.

That plus we’ll talk about barrels of monkeys, the neverendingstory, a clothing line called loving yourself, why you want to be careful when hugging mom, living in an ex-girlfriend’s poolhouse, and what in the world Carolyn Myss and the Nine Inch Nails, have to do with anything!

1. What happened to Mastin Kipp in Hollywood and Rock N’ Roll?
2. What was he doing by night and how did he lose his dream job?
3. How’d he hit rock bottom?
4. What did it take to begin to change?
5. What did he do with self-help books?
6. How did he start TheDailyLove?
7. What happened in August of 2009 with Kim Kardashian?
8. How did Mastin end up on Oprah?
9. What’s the importance of prayer?
10. What’s the real meaning of obedience?
11. What does it mean to obey the will within?
12. What’s the importance of surrender?
13. What does it mean that we have to step forward?
14. Why don’t affirmations work?
15. Why it’s so importance to feel your feelings and heal your trauma
16. What does it mean to Claim Your Power?
17. What is trauma and why’s it so important?
18. How do we discover our hidden beliefs?
19. What’s the importance of goals?
20. What is our real purpose?
21. What’s the importance of saying no?
22. For More Info Visit: www.MastinKipp.com

Mastin Kipp (From Oprah Super Sunday) on How to Overcome Emotional Blocks & Trauma to Claim Your Power!!! Health | Yoga | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve ever wanted to see reality more clearly and navigate through uncertainty then do we have the Deviate show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Beau Lotto, professor of neuroscience, founder of the Lab of Misfits, and author of a fantastic new book that’ll have you questioning everything you see, Deviate.

And that’s what I want to talk with him about today, about how to celebrate uncertainty, the Science of Seeing Differently, and how it affects our lives.

Deviate Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What can we learn from Dr. Marian Diamond?
2. What does it mean that your mind is like a muscle?
3. How complexity helps our brain?
4. How do we help our brain to be more open?
5. What’s the harm of living a passive existence?
6. What can we learn from the kitten in the basket experiments?
7. Why it’s so important to physically interact with your world and make meaning?
8. What’s the importance of challenge and change?
9. What’s wrong with education today, and particularly science education?
10. Why it’s important to continuously know less?
11. What can we learn from “the dress” that broke the internet
12. Why is there no such thing as objectivity?
13. Where do the secrets to what it means to be human exist?
14. What is the real nature of our perception?
15. What’s the importance of conflict and experiencing conflicting situations?
16. How to train your child’s brain?
17. What can we learn from the polypedal lab?
18. What can we learn about the feelspace belt?
19. What are tools that can augment our reality?
20. How are we projecting meaning onto people?
21. What’s the power of being open?
22. How can we live longer and have more diverse experiences, and have a more complex brain?
23. How to strengthen our brain for focus?
24. What it means to “remean” events in your life to change your perceptions and your future
25. What can we learn from Bonobos (and happiness!)
26. What it means to love someone’s deviance, not their normality?
27. What advice for parents to help kids today?
28. For more info visit: LabofMisfits.com

Beau Lotto on On How to Build Courage, Strengthen the Brain & Improve Happiness Thru The Science of Seeing Differently! Health | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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Have you ever wanted to get out of your head, to have more trust, or faith in the intuition or the listen voice inside of you, that never steers you wrong, if only you’d listen more. We’ll if so, then do we have the intuitive show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Penney Peirce, a gifted intuitive and author of the best-selling book, The Intuitive Way, The Definitive Guide to increasing your awareness.

Today we’ll talk about how to increase your intuition, learn how to trust your inner knowing, and why it’s so important these days.

Plus we’ll talk about love over fear, raising your vibrations, and Balfor and Luck Dragons.

Questions and Topics Include:

1. How did Penney become an intuitive.
2. Can anyone develop their intuition skills?
3. What was her path to become a ‘spiritual teacher’
4. What is intuition?
5. How do you work on cultivating intuition?
6. Why you need a balance of both hemispheres (spirituality/creative and linear).
7. How kids are coming in differently today.
8. How do we work to get more out of our heads and into our hearts
9. Why we’re moving from the industrial to the information and now to the intuition age
10. What’s coming for humanity and our transformation
11. The new criteria we get to use for making decisions
12. What do you do when you’re frustrated and don’t have a moment to take a deep breath (for instance if you have an angry boss)
13. How does one begin to get unstuck?
14. Words of wisdom for kids coming into the world today
15. An exercise to help get into your intuitive side.
16. How to shift from the left brain to the right brain

Penney Peirce Shares How to Tap In To Your Intuition, Boost Your Inner-Voice and Get Answers Fast! + Guided Meditation! Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Health | Self-Help | Inspire

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you’ve ever wanted to find more rest in your life when the world won’t stop, then do we have the show for you.

Today we’ll talk about catching your breath, finding a respite, and how to find a way to slow your mind down.

Rest and De-Stress Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What’s the benefit of breathing deep – and why we don’t want to shallow breath.
2. What’s it means to try and stay in a place of love?
3. How to calm down in the crazyness?
4. How to center and ground yourself as the world is revved up?
5. What seeing baby deer has to do with anything.
6. How you can use white light to help you calm, protect, and relax.
7. Why it’s so important to help others to feel heard
8. What it means to come from an open-hearted place?
9. What it means to be calm and responsive, even in a delicate situation
10. What’s the importance of going quiet, even in a current, and being aware of your intuition
11. What we can learn about the language of our bodies from an applied kinesiologist
12. What’s the importance of grounding?
13. What’s the importance of getting positive messages?
14. What we can learn from Anita Moorjani’s cancer experience?
15. What’s the importance of being open in any situation?
16. What’s a different way to look at, or reframe work?
17. How to shift your energy when it comes to work?
18. How to remember who we truly are.
19. How to get ourselves into a loving place and plug into the love
20. For More Info Visit: FireItUpwithCJ and www. InspireNationShow.com

CJ Liu on How to Find Rest & Catch Your Breath When the World Won't Slow Down!!! Health | Career | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Mindfulness | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you’ve ever wanted to game happiness, then do we have the Solve for Happy show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Mo Gawdat, the Chief Business Officer for Google X and the author of an incredibly touching and powerful new book and treatise on happiness, Solve for Happy.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, how to solve for happy, and engineer your own path to joy.

Solve for Happy Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What exactly is Google X, now called X?
2. What’s it mean to fall in love with the problem, not the product?
3. What are a few things Google X is working on?
4. What’s the idea behind 10x’ing something?
5. What’s the importance of starting with a blank slate?
6. What are moonshots?
7. What did Mo begin doing at age 8 to accelerate his growth?
8. What was school like in Egypt for Mo?
9. What happened when Mo moved to Dubai?
10. What was life like as a trader?
11. How was he feeling at the time?
12. What happened after he bought 2 classic Rolls Royce’s
13. Why did he decide to game happiness?
14. When was his son Ali born and his daughter Aya?
15. What was Ali like?
16. What was his outlook on life?
17. What was the tattoo he wore on his back?
18. How did he like to play the game halo?
19. Where’d he end up going to school and what was it like having him so far away?
20. What did he begin asking people about in the last year of his life?
21. What happened when his son called him with a sense of urgency?
22. What did he sit down and tell his family when he came home to visit?
23. What happened to him during his visit?
24. Why did Mo decide to write a book on happiness?
25. What was the Arabic proverb Mo’s mom always taught him?
26. How do we set up the equation for happiness?
27. What’s the happiness equation?
28. What’s a happy list and how do we use it?
29. What can we learn from a classic Saab 900 about life?
30. What can we learn about the state of confusion?
31. What can we learn about the state of joy?
32. What’s the happiness model?
33. What’s it mean that I am, therefore my brain thinks?
34. What did his five year old daughter teach him about happiness?
35. What can we learn from tragedy about life?
36. What does living legendary have to do with anything?
37. What’s the importance of making a game hard?
38. What can we learn from the lyrics to the Portal game’s song “Still Alive”
39. For More Info visit SolveForHappy.com

Google X's CBO Mo Gawdat on How to Solve the Happiness Equation & Find Your Happy Under Any Circumstance!!! Health | Career | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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Hi everyone, welcome back I’m Michael sandler your host on inspire nation along with you ever creative, sometimes uber-quiet, wifey, Jessica Lee.

If you’ve ever struggled with getting outside of your comfort zone, then do we have overcoming insecurities show for you!

Today we’ll talk about challenging ourselves to put ourselves out there, get out of our shells, and step toward our greatest brightest selves, even when filled with fear and doubt.

Finding Greatness by Stepping Outside of Your Comfort Zone Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: 

1. How Jessica’s stepped outside the comfort zone to get back on the mic.
2. How we both stepped outside our comfort zone to set up a green-screen studio
3. What are “mistakes” and “failures” along the way, and why is it okay
4. Why losing your job sooner than expected can be a good thing
5. What it means that the “Universe” knows your ready
6. Why if it ain’t broke, you want to “fix” it…or completely change it up
7. What we can learn from Google X’s Mo Gawdat on exponential growth
8. What it means to fall in love with the problem and not the product
9. Where did Jessica disappear to, and what’s she learn to get back on the mic?
10. What happened when the Happy Medium, Kim Russo did a ready on the air.
11. Why Jessica’s vulnerability is actually a good thing.
12. What it means (especially for women) that we grow up recognizing masculine strength, but not feminine strength
13. What Jessica’s been gaining from her automatic writing – for stepping outside her comfort zone.
14. What’s the Inspire Nation Baby project?
15. What we can learn from creative angst – and why’s it so important to challenge ourselves and get uncomfortable
16. What’s the importance of stepping forward, even in times of great trial and error
17. What can we gain from a book of intentions?
18. Why being a social butterfly (when you’re an introvert) can help you
19. What we can learn from animal healings?
20. Why it’s important to explore your possible futures, and work to discover your passion’s and talents
21. What’s Jessica’s learning about distance healing work?
22. Why it’s important to become aware of the hidden programming going on in the background that’s keeping you from stepping outside your comfort zone.
23. Why it’s important to do something when your heart leaps for it.
24. The importance of the C word – commitment, and what that means!

Jessica Lee On How to Move Past Fear & Step Outside Your Comfort Zone for Growth, Happiness & Success! Health | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you’ve ever wanted a life filled with more meaning, purpose, and fulfillment then do we have the Remembering the Light Within show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Dr’s Mary R. Hulnick, and Ron Hulnick, founding faculty of University of Santa Monica, the worldwide center for the study and practice of spiritual psychology, and the authors of a beautiful new love song, scratch that, beautiful new book, Remembering the Light Within.

And that’s just what I want to talk with them about, discovering our goal line and our soul line, what is soul-centered living, and how do we begin living soul-centered today.

Purpose, Meaning & Fulfillment Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: 

1. How did Mary come to spirituality
2. How did Ron come to spirituality
3. How did Ron and Mary meet each other?
4. Who is John Roger and how did they end up studying under him?
5. How did they end up running a school together?
6. What is spiritual psychology?
7. What’s the Michelangelo effect?
8. What does it mean it’s not a journey about becoming as it is about remembering?
9. What does it mean to remember the angel essence within each of us?
10. What is spiritual amnesia?
11. What did Teilhard mean that we’re having a spiritual being having a human experience?
12. What’s the difference between a goal line and a soul line?
13. What is our true essence?
14. What is an intention to awaken?
15. What does it mean to awaken?
16. What are soul line intentions?
17. What’s an overaching spiritual intention?
18. What does it mean that the mind is a tool to be used in service to the Heart?
19. What’s the importance of silence?
20. What’s the importance of self-appreciation and self-love?
21. What does it mean to see the love essence?
22. What’s the importance of commitment?
23. What can we learn about unworthiness?
24. Why is self-forgiveness not for sissies?

Dr's Ron & Mary Hulnick on Finding More Meaning Purpose & Fulfillment, By Discovering Who You Are! + Guided Meditation! Health | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you’ve ever wondered if spirits are real and if so, what they can teach us, then do we have the Happy Medium show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Kim Russo, known for starring in The Haunting of…on Lifetime Movie Network and the author of a jaw-dropping incredibly fascinating, must-read book, The Happy Medium.

And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about life lessons and what we need to know from the other side.

The Happy Medium Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What happened after an early past-life regression with your husband?
2. What happened when Kim Russo was a child?
3. Why can kids see ghosts better than adults?
4. What are earthbound souls and why are they stuck here?
5. What are guides and do we all have them?
6. How do we find our guides or their names?
7. What do we need to know about our kids and their ability to see what adults can’t see?
8. For people who are experiencing spirits or “hitch-hikers” what works for protection or to get rid of them?
9. What is happening when spirits get trapped in the physical dimension?
10. How do we avoid trapped spirits?
11. How do we find out who are
12. What happened when Kim moved from one house to another?
13. What can she tell us about meeting children waiting to be born?
14. Who Michael’s guides are and what’s their influence?
15. Who are Jessica’s guides?
16. What mission or message do they have for Jessica?
17. What are old souls and what does that mean for our kids?
18. What’s the importance for kids in using their creativity?
19. What it means to stay in our own lane in life
20. What’s the importance of our intentions?
21. What’s the importance of our frequency?
22. What’s the importance of forgiveness for keeping our vibration high?
23. What’s the importance of setting boundaries?
24. What’s the importance of respecting and loving yourself?
25. Where does gratitude fit in?
26. Why you want to be codependent on the Universe.
27. For More Info Visit: KimTheHappyMedium.com

Kim Russo, The Happy Medium & Star of The Haunting of..., on Wisdom from the Spirit World to Improve our Lives! Health | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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Today we’ll talk about finding more love, cultivating love, radiating love, and how in the world to usher in more love for yourself.

That plus we’ll talk about getting aero, the dangers of late night chocolate, no pain, no gain, what you don’t want to do with a fit bit, and what in the world calf massages have to do with anything?

Be the Love Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include: 

1. What late night chocolate means for your week!
2. What do you do when you feel “behind”
3. What Michael’s automatic writing book means for all of us
4. What’s the importance of front-loading?
5. What are some of the benefits of automatic writing?
6. What’s the importance of an automatic writing sandwich?
7. How to get loving words and guidance for your life and for your day?
8. How do we remember who we truly are?
9. What’s the importance of transcending your worries and concerns?
10. How to have your subconscious go to work for you while you sleep?
11. What’s a way to unwind in the evening and clear your mind for a great night’s sleep?
12. What we can learn from a fit-bit about our sleep?
13. Why it’s so important to get up at the light part of the sleep cycle
14. What can we learn about love and self-love these days?
15. What’s the challenge with the no-pain, no-gain mentality?
16. Why the no-pain, no-gain paradigm is broken?
17. What’s the importance of listening to your body and staying in the parasympathetic zone?
18. What we can learn from Michael’s desire to ride, run and swim fast (triathlons)
19. Why you don’t want to go into the fight-or-flight response in work, and especially in your work outs.
20. What’s the importance of getting to a place of self-love in your workouts
21. What we can learn about parenting and self-love
22. What CJ’s son’s graduation has to do with her life, gratitude, and self-love
23. What happened to CJ at her son’s graduation
24. How to use self-love to move past anger-issues (and what surrender has to do with anything)
25. What’s the importance of taking loving time with our partner’s, spouse, or kids

CJ Liu on How to Shift Your Mindset, Your Day and Attitude Be Being, Sharing, and Sending Love!!! CJ Liu | Health | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve ever wanted to rediscover your power, and transform your health and your life, then do we have the shamanic journey show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Judah Pollack, former faculty member at Stanford’s StartX and the co-author of an incredibly creative and entertaining new book we’ve spoken about on the show, The Net and the Butterfly.

Today I want to talk with him about the shamanic journey, what it is, what it looks like, and how we can reclaim our power and connection to the natural world.

Shamanic Journey Questions and Topic Include:

What’s Judah Pollack’s background and how’d he get into Shamanism?

1. How has it helped the former Stanford StartX’s faculty member?
2. What exactly is a shamanic journey?
3. What does shamanism and the shamanic journey have to do with nature?
4. What can the shamanic journey help with?
5. Why is it so important today?
6. How does it help overcome obstacles?
7. What is soul loss and how does the shamanic journey help?
8. How does power loss come about?
9. What are the symptoms?
10. Can it show up as illness as well?
11. What is soul retrieval?
12. How does one lose pieces of one’s soul?
13. Why is it so important to do something about it?
14. What is the shamanic journey itself?
15. What is a helping spirit?
16. What’s the importance of the drum, rattle, or chanting – or what’s a sonic driver?
17. What happens wihen the drum plays?
18. Do we need a shaman?
19. Where do we go?
20. What are the upper, middle, and lower worlds?
21. What’s a departure point?
22. Why is it so important to remember your way back?
23. What’s it mean to develop a disciplined practice and why is it so important?
24. How do we maintain a journey practice on our own?
25. What’s the importance of setting intention before taking a journey?
26. Can you lead us through a guided journey?
27. Guided shamanic journey with drums!
28. For more info visit: JudahPollack.com

Judah Pollack on How to Reclaim Your Power, Health, Energy & Happiness By Taking a Shamanic Journey! + Guided Meditation with Drums!!! Health | Fitness | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve been practicing your affirmations, and working on that law of attraction, but it just isn’t getting you where you want to go, then do we have the affirming, scratch that, afforming show for you.

Today we’ll be talking with Noah Saint John, the best-selling author of 10 books, including Afformations: The Miracle of Positive Self Talk.

So today I want to talk about affirmations, what they are, and why’re their not working, and why it’s NOT your fault, and afformations, what’s the difference, how they work, and why they’re so powerful.

(Whether you're an entrepreneur, have your own business, career, are in school, anywhere in-between, or are raising children)

That plus dasummumptions, dbar, success anorexia, a shower that changed everything, and what in the world is a loving mirror?

Questions and Topics On Today's Inspire Nation Show Include:

1. How Noah stacked the odds in his favor through ballet
2. How he started in a ‘dirt poor’ home in a rich town.
   1. Very interested in question of how some people succeeded when others did not.
3. How he learned that hard work wasn’t the answer.
4. How John started in a career as a professional ballet dancer
5. How John became suicidal and made the decision to die.
6. How John heard he should leave Hollywood and move back home – the exact one place he didn’t want to go.
7. What was the shower heard round the world
8. Why weren’t affirmations or positive statements working?
9. Why people don’t believe their affirmations?
10. What is a belief gap?
11. What is your CPR vs. NPR?
12. How to go from where you are and where you want to be?
13. What is a empowering question vs. a disempowering question?
14. What are the four steps for afformations?
15. What’s the difference between a traditional vision board and an affirmation board?
16. What does afformation mean and where did it come from? 
17. What’s it mean to accept an assumption or an afformation?
18. What do people do if they’re feeling stuck?
19. What are afformations to help with income?
20. What are examples of afformations for physical health?
21. What are afformation statements for emotional health?
22. What’s one of the most powerful afformations?
23. What is a loving mirror?
24. Why you should give yourself permission to succeed and get your foot off the brake.

Noah St John on How to Supercharge the Law of Attraction & Turn Your Affirmations Into Success! + Guided Meditation | Fitness | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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

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

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

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

Questions and Topics Include:

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

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

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If you want to be happier, feel happier, or feel more positivity in your life, and no matter how you much you try, you just can’t get that stick…well then do we have the show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and author of Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture.

Today we’ll be talking about Hardwiring Happiness, or creating the grooves in the record that help us get positive, stay positive, or return to a positive state of being, almost no matter what…we’ll talk about why to do it, how to do it, and how it can literally transform your life.

Plus we’ll talk about tapioca pudding, weeding dandelions, neural Darwinism, Green Brain, Red Brain, A Joyful Amygdala, and what paper tigers, have to do with anything.

Questions and Topics Include:

1. How did Rick go from a ‘shy, dorky, nerdy kid’ to where he is today.
2. Why it’s important to let the good sink into you.
3. How to marinate in the positive – and how it makes you stronger and kinder
4. What happens with zombie worms
5. Shawn Achor – The Happiness Advantage -
6. How we can learn & grow on an exponential curvilinear way’
7. How are brains are constantly being shaped by our experiences
8. Why our brains are wired to look for the negative – and why it’s so important to hold the negative in mindful awareness
9. What is paper tiger paranoia?
10. How and why you deliberately want to take in the good
11. Why we need to change the world inside to change the world outside
    1. And how “the personal is the political and the political is the personal”
12. How do we hack our brain
13. What we do to H.E.A.L ourselves
14. How we get better at the installation of our beneficial experiences into our brains
15. How to get the most out of our beneficial experiences, even the 1’s and 2’s out of 10’s.
16. How you link to a negative experience to make it a positive.
17. Why our brains are designed to learn from negative experiences, particularly negative experiences in childhood – why we’re designed to overlearn and hold onto it…aka why we often can’t ‘get over it’
18. How do we use these techniques to help our children?
19. Where can people find Foundations of Wellbeing – RickHanson.net
    1. Freely offered resources
    2. Talks, videos, writings, interviews
    3. The Foundations of Wellbeing – Comprehensive Collection of Resources
       1. Tara Brach
       2. Barbara Frederickson on positive emotions
       3. Sue Carter on oxytocin the love hormone
       4. Dan Siegel positive neuroplasticity
20. Plus (Mindfulness) Stress-Releasing, Relaxing Meditation

Dr. Rick Hanson on How to Hardwire Happiness & Transform Your Mind Thru Simple Exercises & Awareness! + Guided Meditation! TED | Health | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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Today we talk about passion, creativity, and overcoming challenges. We look at how to find more passion in your life, and ways to overcome hardship, and adversity.

And perhaps most of all we look at how to move past anger, frustration, and stress, in times of great change! In essence, we look at aligning yourself with whatever makes you shine the most – especially if your son is headed off to college.

The Power of Creative Angst Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What is squirrel on crack on a mission energy?
2. What is “Go Time”?
3. How to call in our guides for guidance?
4. What does fear and anxiety have to do with motion?
5. What does creative angst have to do with our day-to-day lives?
6. What do barriers (such as in running) have to do with anything?
7. What’s the importance of having a big goal or target?
8. What’s the importance of individuation and riding your own bike?
9. What does spinning class have to do with spinning?
10. What can we learn from the different phases of life – particularly with young children
11. What’s an operating manual for children?
12. What is CJ learning from her son’s high school graduation?
13. What does emotional emptiness have to do with our eating habits?
14. What’s the creative process to discover what we want to do next?
15. What are integration issues with different phases in life?
16. What we can learn from different transitions in life?
17. What we can learn about transitions from the author William Bridges?
18. What’s the positive power of frustration in the creative process?
19. What it means to take the metta-perspective during transition
20. What to do with the pain and loss in transition
21. How to work through powerful emotions
22. Why tears can be such a beautiful thing
23. What tears in the creative process mean for you
24. What we can learn from Carla McLaren on emotions
25. Why it’s important to challenge ourselves and take creative chances
26. What we can learn from Art Therapy
27. For More Info Visit: FireItUpWithCJ.com and www.InspireNationShow.com

CJ Liu on Finding Incredible Power in Times of Change Thru Anxiety Frustration & Creative Angst! Health | Running | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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

Today I’ll be talking with Dan Ariely, Ted Talker Extraordinaire, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioral Economics at Duke University, a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight, and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, and a new favorite book on Motivation, Payoff.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about, about the hidden logic that shapes our motivations, and how in the world to find more of it!

Science of Motivation Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What happened to Dan Ariely in a fire?
2. How was he burned over 70% of his body?
3. What’s a pain person?
4. What did the nurses have to do daily?
5. How and why did Dan try to negotiate with them?
6. What was his working hypothesis?
7. What would happen to Dan when the scars began to shrink?
8. What did he learn about short term pain vs. longer term pain?
9. What ideas did Dan discover were false?
10. Why was Dan interested in studying motivation?
11. What’s irrational thought and why did it intrigue him?
12. What can we learn about irrational thought?
13. How do we motivate ourselves more?
14. Can we motivate anyone?
15. How do we set people up for success?
16. How do we make getting things done easier?
17. What are the unintended consequences of our environments?
18. How do we change the environment to change our motivation?
19. How do we help kids to be more motivated?
20. What is gameification and how does it help kids?
21. What are the challenges of modern technology and distraction?
22. How do we view time and how does that skew our decision-making abilities?
23. What’s the importance of helping others?
24. What’s the importance of meaning?
25. To Find Out More Visit: DanAriely.com

Dan Ariely, PhD On How To Find Motivation, Overcome Incredible Hardships & Step Forward Toward Your Dreams!!! Health | Fitness | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you’ve ever wanted more courage in your life then do we have the Bravest You show for you!

Today I’ll be talking with Adam Kirk Smith, entrepreneur, life coach, consultant and blogger, and the author of an inspiring new book, The Bravest You.

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about key steps to fight your biggest fears, find your passion, and unlock your extra-ordinary life.

Five Steps to Being Brave Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. How in the world Adam broke his leg in 4 places during a pillow fight!
2. Why Adam was so afraid and painfully shy growing up
3. How did he start to come out of his shell
4. What made Adam passionate about learning about bravery
5. What does he mean that passion is the fuel behind bravery
6. What are the five stages of the bravery process
7. What can we learn about complacency and Richard Petty?
8. What’s the importance of starting small?
9. What’s the importance of patience when doing anything large?
10. How did he start writing a blog on Zenga?
11. What’s the importance of showing up?
12. How do you learn to become comfortable in your own skin?
13. What’s the importance of the inspiration stage?
14. What’s the importance of dreaming fearlessly?
15. What’s the importance of community?
16. What’s the I Can’t Do It stage?
17. Why do our goals and dreams need to scare us?
18. What’s the importance of a healthy obsession?
19. What do we need to know about a fear of inadequacy?
20. What’s the importance of meditation?
21. What’s it mean to stop waiting and choose yourself?
22. What can we teach our kids about failure and being brave?
23. To find out more visit: ASmithBlog.com

Adam Kirk Smith on Being the Bravest You – Fighting Your Greatest Fears, Unlocking your Passion, & Living Your Greatness! Health | Fitness | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement

To Find Out More Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you’ve ever wanted to get more living out of life, then do we have the Pyscho-Cybernetics show for you.

Today I’ll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, PEN award winning writer and vice-president and editor in chief at Tarcher Perigee about one of my newest all-time favorite books, that could have been written yesterday, Psycho-Cybernetics

And that’s just what I want to talk with him about, about how to steer your mind to a productive useful goal, so you can reach the greatest port in the world, happiness and a peace of mind.

Psycho-Cybernetics Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

1. What is psycho-cybernetics
2. Who was Dr. Maxwell Maltz?
3. How did a plastic surgeon come to write a self-help book
4. What does it mean that man has a machine which he uses?
5. What’s the self-image, and how is it a self-fulfilling loop?
6. What’s imaginary ugliness?
7. What’s the success mechanism or the built-in guidance system
8. What’s the importance of being goal oriented?
9. Are mistakes a bad thing?
10. What’s the real secret to visualization?
11. What’s the best way to imagine ourselves (finding success, living dreams, etc.)
12. What does it mean to be hypnotized by our beliefs?
13. How do we dehypnotize ourselves?
14. Why do we want to examine and re-examine our beliefs?
15. Why’ don’t we want to be too careful?
16. How can happiness be cultivated and developed?
17. What’s a happiness habit?
18. How do we reprogram our self-image?
19. What’s the importance of persistence?
20. How do we move past self-doubt?
21. How do we chose the right path in life?
22. One homework assignment to help you overcome setbacks
23. For more info visit: www.MitchHorowitz.com 

Mitch Horowitz on How to Reprogram Your Self-Image For Happiness, Success & Direction Thru Visualizations, Affirmations & Meditation! Health | Fitness | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve ever felt jumbled, spinny, foggy, short on attention, brainpower, memory…what was I talking about again, or like your mind’s just not working like it used to, then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with cognative behavioral therapist and brain fog expert Dr. Mike Dow. He is also the cohost of TLC's Freaky Eaters and My 600-lb Life Reunion, Logo's That Sex Show, ID's Strange Criminal, and VH1's Couples Therapy. He also appears regularly on The Dr. Oz Show has been on the   Rachael Ray show and has a fantastic new book, The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory and Joy in Just 3 Weeks.

And that’s just what we’ll talk about today, reclaiming your brain. How to gain focus, concentration, overcome anxiety and depression, sleep better, and even be a better mommy or daddy…or maybe even have smarter kids.

Plus we’ll look at the benefits houseplants, rescuing animals, kicking yourself outdoors, the power of berries and why we should all go crazy with curry.

Questions and Topics Include:

1. How Dr. Mike Dow experienced his own brain fog
2. Why spiking our blood sugar harms us in the short-term, but has some major long-term negative consequences
3. What’s polypharmacy, and what’s the danger with it?
4. Why high omega 3 EPA has been shown to be as effective in treating major depression disorder has been shown to be as effective as anti-depressants
5. Why the food has changed over generations
6. What factory farming is duing to our omega 3’s and omega 6’s and fogging our brains, our moods, and causing depression
7. What’s the #1 thing we can do to do to squeegee away the brain fog?
8. What are pitfall fault patterns
9. What is polarization?
10. How to grow and shape your brain?
11. What’s the harm with artificial sweeteners?
12. Why do we want to protect our blood sugar levels?
13. What’s a great carb for the brain?
14. What’s a blood sugar swap?
15. How sugar literally shrinks the brain (as well as factory farmed foods)
16. How a modified Mediterranean diet will help grow and maintain your brain – MODIFIED, not the typical American Mediterranean diet
17. What are two great foods for the brain ---in moderation?
18. What you want to swap out in your coffee for something surprising that tastes create and alleviates blood sugar spikes.
19. How to protect yourself, before you eat pizza
20. Why we need folate, and where to get it from
21. A couple key supplements for vegetarians
22. Why algae is so important
23. What’s the #1 most important food to eat to prevent dementia
24. What’s a ‘wellness shot’ you want to prevent dementia and protect the brain
25. What’s the danger with several very common sleep and anxiety medications
26. What’s the value of time in nature
27. Why we want to stay away from fluorescent bulbs (not to mention energy saver bulbs and LED’s)
28. What are some top toxins to stay away from (to prevent ADHD, anxiety, depression, dementia)
29. What to do if we’re stuck with non-stick pans
30. How our plants can help us breathe easier in the home
31. What fish to have and which to avoid
32. So great hacks to help you sleep at night
33. Why sleep is so important –even for men, AND for mommies.
34. How spirituality can help
35. Why meditation is so important
36. Why Rocco is Mike’s little Buddha – and what we can learn from our pets!
37. Why we all need a rescue animal
38. What’s the power of cuddling?
39. What’s the cuddling chemical and why is it so important?
40. What’s a mommy brain and what can we do to help?
41. What do we want to do for seniors?
42. What’s the N-back?
43. What foods you can’t live without if you’re senior.
44. What’s important for kids brains as well.
45. A Bonus Thought Stream guided meditation

Dr Mike Dow, a Regular on Dr. Oz on Eliminating Brain Fog to Reclaim Focus, Memory, Health, Sleep, Energy! + Diet & Meditation! Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

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If you’ve ever wanted to discover who you truly are and vibrate at the highest level possible, then do we have the Book of Truth show for you. 

Today I’ll be talking with Paul Selig, medium and author of I am the World, The Book of Love and Creation, The Book of Mastery, the Book of Knowing and Worth and a new, paradigm blowing favorite, The Book of Truth.

And that’s just what we’ll talk about today, how to get in allowance and accord with your true self at the highest level, and discover who you are in truth, what you are in truth, and how you can truly serve in truth!

The Book of Truth Self-Improvement and Self-Help Notes Include:

1. What does it mean to get in accord?
2. Why is this so important?
3. What does getting in accord mean for our day to day lives?
4. What’s it mean to deconstruct our old world?
5. Why are we here?
6. What are our paths in life?
7. Who are Paul’s guides?
8. How did he start hearing them?
9. What would they say about our everyday worries and concerns
10. What is the agreement we make with those before us?
11. What does it mean mankind decided she was separate from source?
12. What is truth and what does it mean to live in a lie?
13. What does it mean to hold in vibration?
14. What does it mean I am Here, I am Here, I am Here.
15. What does it mean I know who I am in truth?
16. What does it mean I know what I am in truth?
17. What does it mean I know how I serve in truth?
18. How can we get in alignment today – this minute?
19. The guides do a meditation to get us into alignment
20. How have the teachings evolve?
21. What does it mean for the future of humanity?
22. What does it mean we are God in form?
23. What is the true self?
24. What does it mean we are not distinct from the landscape we inhabit but a co-creator?
25. What do we need to know about war?
26. What’s the importance of just being?
27. How do we be in truth?
28. What does it mean to live in fear?
29. How do we get out of this state of fear?
30. How do we set a daily intention to raise our vibration and be in alignment?
31. For more info visit: PaulSelig.com

Paul Selig & His Guides on Discovering Who You Truly Are, How to Ascend & How to Vibrate at the Highest Level Possible! Health | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire

For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com