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Do you live with integrity? Are you whole?
Our leadership is lacking integrity.
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In school we grow intellectually. We learn to regurgitate learning facts and figures while our emotions generally go unaddressed only to guide and govern our lives for good or bad. Parts of us get stuck in the past and run amuck. These emotions can ruin relationships and even our lives if we don't deal with them.
Why do you think there are so many adult babies running around destroying the world?
But what if we learned Emotional Intelligence to coincide with intellect? Then we would have adults in their proper chronological age and not stuck in childhood trauma into their forties, fifties and beyond.
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50 individual billionaires, middle men, have been made from the American health care system.
Dozens of pharmaceutical and insurance companies have also gotten filthy rich.
While many Americans have gone bankrupt. Some of the numbers will shock you.
What if that money didn't go up to the few...
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Built From The Quiet: Secrets From A Basque Sheepherder That Will Transform Your Business And Life.
This is a fantastic book that follows her father's journey escaping the dictator Franco out of the Basque Region of Spain and through the Pyrenees Mountains when he was just a teen.
It is about legacy and coming to this country to become a sheepherder and to make a name for himself.
It's about modern day business and how to operate with legacy passed down and intention in mind, not just the bottom line or how to make a buck but how to make a living.
The prose are beautifully crafted, the insights are poignant for business leaders, and the hard won wisdom is universal.
This is a very impressive business book while also being an amazing book on life.
Anamarie Lopategui didn’t learn business from textbooks. She learned it by watching her father lead with grit, consistency, and care.
Years later, Anamarie built what many would call a successful, thriving business in one of the toughest industries.
From the outside, she looked like she had made it. Yet beneath the polished exterior there was disconnection and a single question from her father that unraveled it all: “But are you happy?”
Built From the Quiet is part memoir, part business guide, and part permission slip to reimagine what success really means.
Looking for something a little different? Check out my books at DouglasRobbinsAuthor.com
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Do you ever feel like the internet is the Wild West and that no one is looking out for you? I mean how many times a day do you have to protect your identity or back accounts or be cautious of some phishing email that looks like it's from a friend?
Ever wonder how all the phishing and spam and hackers get in?
Today I speak with my dear friend and cybersecurity expert Lori Crooks about topics ranging from data breaches to election interference to how to protect your business.
Lori is the founder and CEO of Cadra, a trusted cybersecurity & compliance company. If you run a business, they can help you protect your customers information while protecting your business from costly breaches.
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I've been going through a lot these days. The old beliefs are crashing down.
As babies we're 100% vulnerable and without boundaries. We learn through interacting with our caregivers. We respond to input and reactions. We then form a sense of self based upon this. Beliefs and emotional scaffolding begin to from. Almost on autopilot we live and trust this model into our 20's, 30's, 40's, and we simply accept this as gospel. The filters and lens we see life through becomes our identity. That is until we start introspecting and looking back and asking why we act in a certain way or why shame wells up with triggers.
Well, it's the scaffolding. The lens. Emotional beliefs hold up this framework. But that scaffolding and belief system is that of the child's and is based upon core emotions, coping mechanisms, survival. It is not capable of upholding an adults life with jobs, relationships, and responsibilities.
As more pressure is put upon it, It starts to rust and eventually comes crashing down. And with it jobs, relationships, lives.
But the who you've been waiting for might just be on the other side of this and you will no longer be trapped by this outdated identity and belief system, the paradigm of roles you've been living within.
Buying a Porsche just might be easier...
I'm kidding of course. The only way to the other side is through...
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My newest book Pieces of our Past: Stories of our Future is about the parts of ourselves we leave behind, but is still there waiting for us. It's also about the dreams we hold onto.
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As Long As Rivers Run is a tale of lore, wisdom, and wonder; a story of hardship and healing in a rugged wilderness full of challenges and rewards. Protagonist Tom Dunagan was thrown into the role of a surgeon during the Civil War under conditions that yielded more sadness than success. The weight of the war is a cloak he struggles to shed. After the war, he and his 13 year-old daughter, Brooke, cross the Continental Divide and stumble upon a Ute father and son in their own tragic situation. Tom’s heroic effort to save the Ute man’s life after an intense encounter with a grizzly bear gives passage for Tom and his daughter to enter the mystic world of an Ute family band. They learn that the circle of the seasons is driven by the circle of water that drives the circle of life—a profound truth in a harsh land where water is not merely a resource, but the single, sacred thread that binds existence. The novel reiterates a lesson in survival that rings true to this day: the preciousness of water must never be forgotten.
Taking place in a time when great riches for our Native Americans was measured in the number and quality of their horse herd, a time of strike-it-rich dreams in a rock's golden vein. While the story touches on greed, jealousy and violence common of that time, we also find moments of kindness, understanding and love, all cradled in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.
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About the author, Larry Ray Rather:
Larry Ray Rather is a rancher by day, and a weaver of words by night. A true 'Buddhist Cowboy,' Rather's deep connection to the land and the wisdom gleaned from a life spent outdoors resonate with his spiritual principles. Rather finds peace in the saddle and inspiration in the quiet contemplation of the mountains. His blend of Western heritage with the Eastern philosophies of Buddhism creates a unique perspective, one that emphasizes mindful observation, respect for all living things, and a deep appreciation for the present moment.
A lifelong learner, Rather's curiosity extends beyond the written word. He is an avid student of history, archaeology, and the natural sciences, constantly seeking to understand the intricate web of life that surrounds us. Whether he's exploring the ancient ruins of the American West or simply observing the intricate dance of a hawk in the sky, Larry finds inspiration in every corner of the world.
When he is not writing, he is often found with his horses and mules. Whether preparing for a day trip in the aspen-covered forests, or a weeks-long trip through rugged mountain terrain, you can expect him to return with documentation of arrowheads, wolf tracks, and things of that sort.
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ICE has been rounding people up without due process. Immigrants, typically of Hispanic descent, both legal and illegal, have been accused of the most heinous crimes. And yet, research shows they are one of the groups with the lowest violent crimes.
So what's really going on?
We're also told they don't pay their taxes. And yet, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policies states that illegal immigrants paid almost 100 billion dollars last year.
Your beliefs might get challenged during this episode.
A quote from my book The Reluctant Human, "Truth exists. Lies need to be created."
Today I speak with Political Commentator Jose Nino.
Now let's dive in.
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Donald Trump calls himself a patriot — but his actions prove otherwise. From undermining elections and inciting January 6th, to cozying up to Putin, betraying Ukraine, and grifting the American people, Trump has shown us what we are not. This episode lays out his corruption, cruelty, and chaos — and contrasts it with what true American leadership should look like: truth, service, and defending democracy and ideals. Trump isn’t a patriot. He is the Un-American President.
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Let's get back to basics today with what we eat, think, our energy and stress. What we allow and what we welcome into our lives affects our lives.
Feeling out of balance? It's easy to in this crazy world.
Today I speak with Jonathan Glass who is the founder and author of the Total Life Cleanse. He is a Naturopathic Doctor, Master Acupuncturist, Ayurvedic Practitioner, energy healer, herbalist and Natural Health Educator. Jonathan served on the faculty of the New England School of Acupuncture and the Dharma Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda. He has facilitated thousands through his JivAtma Energy Healing and Total Life Cleanse programs. Jonathan has been in private practice since 1987 when he co-founded the Healing Essence Center with Katherine Glass, in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Over 1 MILLION animals die on US roads every single day. But what if we could change that?
In this episode, Doug sits down with Amy Amrhein from the Southern Oregon Wildlife Crossing Coalition and Colin Reynolds from Defenders of Wildlife to talk about wildlife crossings and how they’re saving animals and humans alike. From heartbreaking stats to inspiring solutions, this conversation shows what’s possible when people step up.
Support Southern Oregon Wildlife Crossing Coalition: myowf.org/SOWCC
Learn more about Defenders of Wildlife: defenders.org
Timestamps
00:00 - Over 1 million animals die daily
01:14 - Why Doug cares deeply about roadkill
03:00 - History of animal road deaths and lack of responsibility
04:26 - The human toll: injuries and damages
06:03 - How development fragments habitats
08:18 - Why animals struggle to cross roads safely
10:46 - Documented animal behaviors at highways
14:41 - Wildlife crossings: how they work
17:33 - The first overpass in Oregon
22:24 - Securing $33M federal funding for crossings
25:22 - Wildlife crossings around the world
28:14 - Call to action: reauthorize Wildlife Crossings Program
31:33 - Why insurance & trucking industries should care
41:30 - Can carmakers help prevent collisions?
48:45 - How YOU can help locally
57:00 - Where to donate and get involved
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wildlife crossings, animal overpass, roadkill solutions, The Douglas Robbins Show, Defenders of Wildlife, Oregon wildlife crossing, Amy Amrhein, Colin Reynolds, environmental conservation, biodiversity, animal migration, habitat loss, wildlife road safety,
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Plastics. Plastics. Plastics.
They are everywhere. We ingest them daily in our drinks and food.
In this conversation Anne-Marie Bonneau and I discuss the pervasive issue of plastic pollution, its impact on the environment, and the importance of consumer awareness and legislative changes. We explore the challenges of recycling, the need for sustainable packaging, and the role of education in fostering a more responsible society.
There is necessity for both individual and corporate responsibility in addressing plastic waste and the potential for innovation in sustainable practices. We discuss the role of corporations in perpetuating plastic use and the greenwashing tactics employed to shift blame onto consumers.
Anne-Marie shares her personal journey of reducing plastic in her life, emphasizing the benefits of whole foods and sustainable practices. The discussion also covers practical tips for minimizing plastic waste, the importance of natural alternatives, and the systemic issues surrounding plastic production. Ultimately, the conversation highlights the need for collective action and awareness in addressing environmental challenges.
Find her at the Zero-Waste Chef
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Ralph Pezzullo was born in New York City. When he was five years old his father joined the Foreign Service of the State Department. His job took them to Mexico, South Vietnam, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Nicaragua. They lived in Saigon during the Tonkin Gulf Incident, the overthrow of Diem, a number of other coup d'etats and almost daily Vietcong terrorist attacks against Americans. After that, they survived three years gasping for air at 13,000 feet in La Paz, Bolivia during the time that Che Guevarra was trying to build a guerrilla base in that country. By 1980 his father was the US Ambassador to Nicaragua, and Ralph was there witnessing the first days of the Sandinista Revolution.
These experiences molded him. He saw how political instability could throw peoples’ lives into chaos and test their character. In his teenage years he became a sounding board for his father’s opinions on how to best formulate and carry out US foreign policy. Many of his friends were other diplomats, CIA agents, and military attaches. Through observing them, Ralph developed an appreciation of the unique kinds of challenges US representatives faced in nations where our interests and cultural perspective often sharply differed from theirs.
In 2004, shortly after moving his family to Los Angeles, he received an email from a gentleman who said he was a clandestine US intelligence operative and wanted to collaborate with him. The book they wrote together about the CIA-led operation to overthrow the Taliban in late 2001, called Jawbreaker, was published in 2005 and appeared on numerous bestseller lists.
Following Jawbreaker, he started to receive calls and emails from other former government officials – DEA and FBI agents, police detectives, Special Forces soldiers, and Navy SEALs – who had interesting stories to tell. He helped turn some of them into bestselling books, including Most Evil and Inside SEAL Team Six.
All of these courageous individuals had experienced conflict and human suffering first hand, and had their core beliefs tested. Their views often clashed with policy makers, who saw the same conflicts through the lens of bureaucratic politics. Many of his co-authors had experienced the same phenomena – how time after time our political and culture myopia, or inability to fully grasp the importance of local history, language, and culture, had led to bad decision-making and caused us to be ineffective.
His new book is called Stolen Elections: The Plot to Destroy Democracy
Based on a four-year investigation into election fraud by two top government whistleblowers, including CIA hero Gary Berntsen.
Their conclusion: Enemies of the United States including Venezuela, Cuba, China and Serbia have been determining the results of elections in the U.S. since 2006 through the use of electronic systems that they have developed. Using these systems, they now manipulate the results of elections in 72 countries around the world.
We discuss Ralph's unique upbringing in various war-torn countries, which shaped his worldview and understanding of U.S. foreign policy. The conversation delves into the importance of cultural understanding in international relations, the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the implications of the military-industrial complex.
He is also the host of the popular podcast Heroes Behind Headlines.
Find out more at http://ralphpezzulloauthor.com/
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Hey folks, I haven't done a solocast in quite a while. You should expect more of these in the future. Short nuggets on subjects that need addressing.
Here goes:
We were born into humanity and then are indoctrinated into society. It's often like the square peg in the round hole. Society was born out of humanity to navigate life: laws, government, religions, institutions, the external of goods and services. What happens is often the homogenization of the individual.
Whereas humanity is in the honoring of the individual and the collective to bring their gifts forward. Humanity is that broader self. Humanity is from nature or God or whatever you want to call it. So it doesn't adhere to the same rules. Humanity seeks meaning and connection. It's about love and fulfillment, not tearing others down or labeling.
Humanity is the broader self, the broader perspective
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Is there another way to live other than the rat race? Are you feeling stuck and complacent? Frustrated?
Here's a fun episode on freedom and being on the road. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Ever want to travel and see the world? Yuri has lived in over 20 countries. It all started on something called the nomad cruise, where other people were doing something similar.
People who owned their time and owned their calendar, and were not location dependent.
Yuri works remotely and often lives a higher quality of life. She makes the same money she would make in the States where she might only be getting by. Yet in some places the cost is 10x less.
By living this way, one has the choice to reduce their workload and enjoy more activity, which equals more joy and fun, less stress. Not just living for the hustle and bustle.
There are so many ways to live. Ours is not the only way. Far from it.
How about:
Late afternoon siestas in Spain where everything closes.
Honking mopeds in Viet Nam just to say hello.
In Argentina, fourth meals at midnight.
Two hour lunches in Italy.
For Yuri, joy is found in the celebration of dance and music, especially Bachatta dance with a partner, is everywhere in Argentina, in the streets, lessons in the park. People old and young.
For her, dancing is getting into the body with movement and flow. It is an unspoken language.
Just surviving and want to travel? Get away from burnout, worries, and have more bandwidth for the life you want to live on Freedom Road.
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It's the economy stupid. Well, it's a lot more than that. Is the economy rigged? We often make political decisions based upon economic situations. And what a perfect time for this episode to air as our economy is rapidly changing under Trump's new tariffs and the rollbacks of many beloved and necessary programs.
Please note, this interview took place beforehand, so we don't directly discuss that.
The government licenses corporations and sets the rules. Often the way the rich and powerful want the rules set. I call it corporate and political nepotism.
Can we break the cycle? Will there be another recession? Will the economy crash?
Inequality, subsides, corporate domination, taxation, it's a somber discussion about something that affects us all.
How come corporate leaders complain about minimum wage and yet never complain about the maximum pay of CEO's?
Economist Kris Feder got her Ph.D. from Temple University and taught economics at Bard College for over thirty years.
She is a former board member of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation and of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
She contributed to two books: "Economics from the Ground Up: Public Revenue and the Structure of Production" and "Rent Unmasked: How to Save the Global Economy and Build a Sustainable Future."
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New Year's resolution? Diet? Eat better for a few weeks, then go back to old habits? Well, maybe they aren't resolutions at all but wishful thinking.
Resolution means to be resolved, a firm decision to do something or not. But what if deeper beliefs run contrary to that "resolution" preventing you from getting that better body or better life and not eating emotionally.
Why keep going through that awful cycle of shame and diet, rinse and repeat?
Something deeper is going on.
A perfect podcast to start off the new year.
Today I speak with author Marla Mervis-Hartmann who wrote the best-seller BE-Friend Yourself: Finding Freedom with Food and Peace with Your Body
She is also the Tedx speaker of The Secret Ingredient to Feeling Good in your Body.
We dig into the deeper associations we have with food. When an emotion feels too big, we binge, and for that moment the emotion is met, but no healing has taken place. It can be a black hole of trying to fill this empty feeling. It becomes a pattern, a cycle.
We socialize and celebrate with food, we console loss with food, and we eat food on the couch when we're run down.
But what if we've moved on and don't require food for that? What if you heal those stressors within, healing the wound, healing that emotion that correlates to the eating?
What if a resolution truly meant just that, to treat your body and self with healthy food and self-regulation? Instead, creating a day of eating well to succeed, in your body and in your life.
What if we were free from those crutches and food could be your friend?
This is a deeper conversation about food and emotions. Take a listen and share it with someone who might be struggling with food, feeling alone in this fight.
Find our more about Marla Mervis-Hartmann at https://www.loveyourbodyloveyourself.com/
Also, receive a Free course Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Eating Mini Course: Seven Steps to Finding Freedom with Food
https://goloveyourbodyloveyourself.com/emotionaleating
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Kerrie Flanagan is a publishing insider and author. She and I discuss the do's and don'ts about writing. Traditional or Indie publishing against a rapidly changing landscape. How to create magazine articles that you can repurpose for other magazines.
She is an accomplished author, writing consultant, instructor, and freelance writer with over 25 years of experience in the publishing industry. She has published hundreds of articles and is the author of The Writer's Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing and creator of the online course, Magazine Writing Blueprint. She has also published over twenty books, including three sci-fi/fantasy series' co-authored under the pen name C.G. Harris and two romantic comedies with S.E. Reichert. Her expertise and passion for teaching writers has led her to present at writing conferences across the country and teaching continuing studies classes through Stanford University. When not writing she can be found outside enjoying the beautiful Rocky Mountains with fly-fishing, camping, hiking and spending time with family and friends. https://www.kerrieflanagan.com
If you're interested in writing, this show's for you.
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Guy Morris has led an extraordinary life. After escaping an abusive childhood at age 13 to become a homeless runaway, Guy worked alongside migrant workers before he earned three degrees by age 25, including acceptance to Harvard MBA and a scholarship from University of Arizona. Recognized for his innovations in building a macro-economic that out-performed the Federal Reserve and changed how economic models are built.
After working with IBM and Burroughs in main frame computer manufacturing, his career led him to international Occidental Petroleum where he pioneered adoption of early-stage AI systems and supported business deals worth billions.
A talented musician and composer, Guy has recorded multiple CDs and wrote songs published by Disney Records. His adventures led him from receiving cartel death threats in Latin America to shark diving in Moorea – from boardroom politics impacting early climate change studies to living on a 50-foot sailing yacht with a charter captain’s license.
Now, a multiple award winning author of thrillers, most often compared to Dan Brown, every one of his stories and characters pull from a rich life of diverse experiences grounded with deep, deep research.
Every story is based on true events, history, technologies, or personal experiences. For example, both SWARM and The Last Ark feature the true story of a program that escaped NSA spy labs and confirmed by an FBI visit to his home.
Guy strives to write books that thrill, educate, and inspire thoughtful dialogue on genuine issues facing humanity.
Hold onto your seats listening to this one.
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climatechange.
If you're looking for truth about climate science, this is a powerful and unbiased discussion with an expert in the field.
Eban Goodstein is the Vice President for Environmental and Social Leadership at Bard College in in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. At Bard, Goodstein directs the Graduate Programs in Sustainability.
Goodstein is the author of three books: Economics and the Environment, now in its ninth edition; Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming; and The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. Articles by Goodstein have appeared in among other outlets, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management.
His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Time, The Economist, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record.
Goodstein has coordinated many national and international climate educational engaging thousands of colleges, universities, and K-12 schools in solutions-based dialogue, most recently WorldWide Climate and Justice Education Week in April 2024.
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Have people made you not believe in your dreams? Have they made you feel small and disempowered? Your dreams are not farfetched or pie in the sky, but the very reason you are here.
My guest today is Dr. Lynn Carey. Take a listen to this poignant show during these troubling and confusing times.
Dr. Lynn Carey earned a doctorate in chiropractic and a bachelor's degree in nutrition from Life University. She has gone on chiropractic mission trips to Brazil and India where she discovered that there is only One-verse in this Universe and that is Love. During her years in private practice, she also realized that to be healthy, one needs to examine every area of their life. She loves to empower individuals to create their desired life of health, wealth, and self-expression.
She's gathered a lot of insight learning to heal herself after suffering with sickness and pain for many years. Her journey began way before when she had two spinal surgeries for scoliosis in high school. Afterwards, she was constantly sick.
Chiropractic was the first step in her healing journey and truly changed her life. In her 18 years practicing as a chiropractor, she saw that chronic stress was the main issue for most people not healing. Chronic stress came from not enough time, not enough money, and not having passion or purpose in life. She knows that creating a desired lifestyle is the key to ultimate well-being.
Get her book or sign up for her emails with information on her Masterclass, Healthy Habits Coaching and Business Mentorship programs.
Check out her Journey to Grace https://www.creatingmydesiredlife.com
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Many of us suffer alone, in silence, with those negative thought loops keeping us stuck, small, afraid. But if you had a broken arm that got treated there would be no shame in it. Shouldn't we treat the mental and physical the same?
Mental health, or should I say mental well-being, we all hear so much about now and all need more of it. Just think if we were all mentally and emotionally well what the world would look like.
Today we dive into this topic with Dr. Bonnie Wims, a prominent therapist in NYC who has her own very popular podcast, Therapy Deconstructed.
Find out more about Dr. Bonnie Wims
Don't suffer in silence any longer.
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Systemic racism, kids of color forgotten by the system, and raised in a violent world with no escape, and a country who's not asking deeper questions of itself.
Join Daniel Berthold, retired philosophy professor from Bard College who continues teaching at a maximum security prison through the Bard Prison Initiative.
There is also a documentary on this subject by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick entitled College Behind Bars.
Please listen to this evocative conversation. You won't think of this subject the same afterwards.
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Lainie "Sevante" Wulkan, known as "The Food Oracle," is the visionary Founder of CIFT Center for Intuitive Food Therapy™. A wellness author, intuitive, and advanced energy healer, she has authored several bestselling books, including The Food Healing Oracle Deck® series and a chapter in Energy Healer's Oracle.
With a Bachelor's in Food Science and Nutrition, Sevante combines her expertise with her intuitive gifts to help clients unlock subconscious beliefs and achieve mind-body-spirit wellness through high-vibrational eating. Her unique approach blends food healing, oracle readings, chakra activation, and sound healing.
Sevante's teachings have reached students worldwide through accredited online certifications. Her upcoming Master Nature's Five Elements program will provide an in-depth exploration of living in harmony with the elements for emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual wellness.
As a spiritual recording artist, she has released the bestselling Gulf Coast Meditations series. Sevante also hosts the globally recognized NOURISH YOUR SOUL SHOW, featuring iconic guests like Deepak Chopra and Dr. Bruce Lipton, sharing insights on nourishing the soul.
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This was such a great conversation. In today's show I speak with Kara Goodwin, the host of the Meditation Conversation Podcast.
Mediation brings us back to the moment and can help transform our brain chemistry with certain techniques' and being present can help calm many charges issues.
Kara Goodwin is a meditation and spiritual transformation coach, host of The Meditation Conversation podcast, energy healer, and beekeeper. She was drawn to meditation after a tragic year which brought many losses in quick succession. It felt as though her whole reality shifted, and she dedicated herself to learning the art of meditation. Through her deepening practice of meditation she has opened herself up to a strong connection with Source. In the years since she has been meditating and guiding others on their journeys, she has uncovered latent energy healing capabilities and experiences frequent unexplainable phenomena (visions, journeys into multidimensional realms, inner knowings verified in the external environment, insights). She has had several powerful transcendental experiences where she has experienced her consciousness "outside of her body," as something much bigger than her "little self," and also had transcendental experiences where she viscerally experienced her physical body as a cosmic entity - feeling/seeing her chakras and their corresponding elemental connections, feeling the different parts of her brain and how each part relates to frequency, how consciousness is nonlocal and memories/experiences are stored in the body. These have been spellbinding revelations to experience, which have completely shifted how she sees the life experience and the power and potential of each life here. Most importantly, although these experiences are unique in their way, they are also universal in that they have shown the framework that we are all living in in our human experiences
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Education needs to radically change or we are failing ourselves and our futures.
It should inform and develop the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. So when we are finished, we are ready for adulthood. It should provide tools on how to be an adult and navigate the world. If not, what is the point of education? To only feed the intellect while remaining undeveloped in every other way?
Just look at the world with its argument and blame. Is this an emotionally developed world or one stuck in victimhood?
Take a listen. Together we change the world to the one that’s in our hearts.
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Do you feel like a victim? You probably are to some event and more importantly to your own thoughts. We all are until we set it free. Even if an event shaped your life and outlook do you want to hold onto it forever as a reminder? Or do you want to move forward and be your best self?
We cannot become our best selves playing the victim. That makes everyone else more powerful and us smaller as they will need to lift us up.
Let's release victimhood together.
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Today is such a powerful interiew. Kate Manser is the author of You Might Die Tomorrow: So Live Today.
In the span of six months, three of Kate's friends died in unrelated, unexpected tragedies. She developed a fear of death that began to take over her life: She would imagine getting hit as she crossed every intersection, go into a panic attack at every ring of the phone, and avoided taking any risks out of fear.
Learn how Kate transformed deep death anxiety into the most powerful tool to living her most vibrant life. Her personal story is supported by fascinating clinical research, actionable suggestions, and inspiring stories from people who have come alive by making friends with death.
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Have you ever wondered what a healthy and happy relationship looks like?
On this Valentine's Day Special we dive into that very topic.
Paul Sigafus has degrees in both Marriage & Family Therapy and Marriage, Family, and Human Development and has been practicing as a therapist since 2001. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Colorado Counseling Center, where he supports a team of therapists in providing counseling services to couples, individuals, and families.
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Hey folks, I'm back for the new year with a new show name and intro and outro. Yes, that's me on the drums.
So, I've been thinking. We look at social media. We look at the news. We look in the mirror. We look to others.
But what are we searching for?
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To find out more about me and my books check out douglasrobbinsauthor.com
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JJ DiGeronimo is a lightworker, business woman, and author that creates a bridge for people to tap into tools, practices, and mindsets to illuminate their path.
Listeners seeking more meaningful connections, more moments of joy, and more fulfilling activities, she shares common obstacles holding many back while providing tools many can use off the side of their desk to follow their whispers.
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Do you ever feel stuck? Do you have the same conversations and start poking at your partner and vice versa? Does this make you start questioning your relationship and everything in your life?
Well, sometimes all that is needed is a simple shift to get you out of it and help you change perspective.
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In the title story, I don't think I knew how closely I was writing about my own struggles as a teen. What would have happened if someone had paid more attention or was a guiding light in my life? The trajectory of my life would have been very different. My thoughts and choices would have been different. And so would have the outcomes. I'm guessing it is the same for you.
I also didn't realize the three pieces in the collection were about dreams: dreams that get stuck, dreams that fail, dreams that keep us up at night, and dreams we honor and fulfill.
Stay tuned. This is my best book yet.
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Your life is a story, and you are the main character. Every choice you make in your life is intended to move you closer to your ultimate goal: to get everything you’ve ever wanted. The reason you want everything you’ve ever wanted is that you believe when you get everything you’ve ever wanted, you’ll live happily ever after.
This doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Happily ever after is not the end of the story of your life. Happily ever after means you have a foundation of happiness. Happily ever after isn’t a happy ending. Happily ever after is a happy beginning. The Story of Your Life is just getting started.
To achieve a goal, you need to know three things. You need to know what it is, you need to know where it is, and you need to know how to get there.
The Human Game will give you better answers to all three of these questions. You will know what happiness is and what’s required to experience it. You will know where happiness is. And you will understand your current approach to happiness—and what you can do to improve it.
With the Human Game, you can build a Happiness GPS.
Learn more (and experience this for yourself) at PlayTheHumanGame.com.
Kevin B. Burk has been counseling and coaching since 1998, when he came upon the idea for the Human Game.
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Are you taking your walk?
Are you swimming your swim?
Are you riding your ride?
There are so many experiences and opportunities awaiting for us when we take action and do our thing, The unknown and unexpected awaits.
The unknown can be scary, but that is also where the best of life waits for us.
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Great conversation today with Zehra Mahoon,
She says, " Today, I am at a place where I feel secure. I feel confident about my future. I feel that I am in control of my life. I feel happy and satisfied with my accomplishments.
But it wasn't always like that. My life was a mess. I had no money, my husband had cheated on me and left the country, I had no work and was alone in a new country with two little children. That's when I found the Law of Attraction.
The thing is, my story is not like the other stories of immediate success with manifesting that you hear about. I found Law of Attraction and made a a big mess that was my life, a bigger mess. Yes! I used the tools completely wrong.
You see, I didn't understand nor did I accept the fundamental principles that create success. That was more than 15 years ago.
Since then, I have learned that Law of Attraction is not a tool - it is a way of looking at life; it is a lifestyle. I live it and practice it everyday.
Now it is my mission to make it easy for others to understand and apply the Law of Attraction. I want to cut out the crap and the fluffy sensational headlines and give you the essence of the principles."
Zehra Mahoon’s mission is to guide others to stop making the mistakes that are preventing them from their success and ultimate joy by teaching them the power of heart and mind alignment based on the Law of Attraction. She is the author of fifteen books on these subjects and the creator of the Unlimited 40 day law of attraction workbook and support group. After committing to completely transforming her self-worth in 2006, she went from being massively in debt to owning multiple properties and creating a thriving business, as well as healing her relationships. She shares her personal journey to help people understand that power of reclaiming their self-worth.
Book a one time free 30 minute consultation with Zehra and get Law of Attraction specific to your life at https://www.getmanifestingadvice.com/
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We often hold onto things that do not serve us. We spend time in the arena of bad memories and feelings that often keep us stuck in the very same event day after day, month after month, year after year. But life is short and fleeting. Don't hold onto regrets or fear. For life can change in the blink of an eye.
A friend's wife had a stroke. She is in her early fifties and was in good health.
This is not the podcast I expected to release today. I recorded it this morning after hearing the news.
Hold on to what you love.
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This is one of the most important topics to changing your life: Accountability
Feeling lost and having a lack of purpose? Feeling overwhelmed or on a hamster wheel, stressed and exhausted? Knowing what you want to do, but not taking action?
Unhappy with your relationships, physical body/health, finances, and work?
We all must get clear on what’s important, by creating goals/outcomes and an action plan.
Master time management by creating a work/life balance with self-care.
Work through mindset challenges that hold you back.
Create habits that become second nature, even where you have failed before.
This is all accountability.
My guest today is Julie Moses who has been doing Vision work for 40 years and Coaching for the last several.
She is an excellent coach who has helped me get clear on my goals and how to implement them by changing habits and creating new ones.
Find her at Jenniferdawncoaching.com and www.alifeyoulove.me
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A plague far more destructive than any virus has swept over the world. It is the destructive narcissist many know as modern day man.
Most men suffer in silence and often damage others along the way.
Today I speak with Ettore Toppi who is a certified men’s coach, men’s work facilitator, and creator and co-host of the popular podcast Authenticity Road: Adventures in Men’s Work. His coaching and facilitation take a somatic approach to connecting men with their emotional experiences.
Ettore first encountered the world of men’s work and men’s emotional healing in 2019 and in that arena discovered his mission and life’s work. He considers it his sacred ministry to bring this work to the world and help other men find similar healing, growth, and freedom.
Find him online at ettoretoppi.com and authenticityroad.online.
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In this 100th episode we celebrate the earth.
Mother Earth truly provides all that we have. She gives us our food, our clothes, our housing.
We and all animals including fish and ocean creatures create C02 while the plant life on land and in the ocean provide oxygen in this incredible symbiotic relationship.
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Ed Watters was injured on the job he eventually lost. After sinking into despair and darkness feeling "Dead" in America. Both he and his wife became unfaithful, yet their 40 year love bent but didn't break. Eventually, after much struggle and heartache, they fell in love again.
This is a hard journey of childhood trauma and sexual abuse to healing one's self through connecting to others, and letting go.
Ed started the Dead America podcast for others feeling depressed and alone in their journey.
Listen to this powerful interviewer, as everyone has a story...
Dead America Podcast
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We hear about ownership, but what about honorship? Owning what we honor becomes our lives and how we live. Honor pain and doubt, you get more of the same. Honor love, more love finds you.
We often hear about following one's dreams. That can often be found in some external pursuit. Yet all dreams start with honoring oneself. Honoring oneself in the face of opposition or that negative chattering voice. Beneath opposition and fear exists truth. So all of the doubts become quieter, the confusions subside, because the answers remain the same. It comes back to love and your purpose on this earth. The calling and listening, acting upon, is honorship. This is me. Who are you?
It is very hard to honor oneself when we are denying ourselves. And therefore the dream will remain only that.
Enjoy this important solocast.
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Vinnie Potestivo is an Emmy® Award-winning Brand Advisor who grows personal brands & founder-led businesses by getting them get seen, heard, and known by scaling content and media reach.
Vinnie is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of I Have A Podcast® and Host of LinkedIn Presents: I Have A Podcast® - a podcast that examines the Creator Economy with guests like Mandy Moore, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Ja Rule, Christina Milian, and Top Business Strategist for LinkedIn Creators and co-host, Judi Fox.
As a television network executive at MTV Networks (98-07) he discovered talent and developed new ways to support their goals, pioneering the way brands and business owners could contribute to their public narrative by making them stars and producers of their own television series. Early hits include Punk’d, The Osbournes, TRL, 8th & Ocean, Wild ‘n Out, & The Challenge.
Personal brands Vinnie has helped elevate through the use of original content include Mandy Moore, Diane von Furstenberg, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Simpson, Beyoncé Carter, Ashlee Simpson, Carson Daly, Nick Lachey, Sharon Osbourne, Sean "Diddy" Combs and many more.
Corporate brands VPE has worked closely with include Macy's, Samsung, Nikon, and MLB.
Find more from Vinnie at VPE.TV
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Often our humanity gets trapped in the dogma of the mind and the dogma of society causing us to feel and think small. We adhere to it rather than the other way around.
On this show we are trying to break free to live our true potentials. For we are here to expand while dogma remains stuck in the past.
Here's a short one- a few nuggets is sometimes all we need.
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At the age of 23 Danielle was hit by a drunk driver and sustained a life-altering injury to her brain. The medical world said there was no hope of recovery & told her to accept this life as her “new normal”.
Although her body was physically impaired, her spirit was strong & she refused to believe their diagnoses. Her mind was determined to recover…and she did!
She is a testament to the concept of post traumatic growth and has since built an international business, authored an e-book called 'Mind Control: It's All In Your Head' and shares her life-altering experience with countless people around the globe
For a free download of her e-book: MIND CONTROL: It's All In Your Head go to
BrainBodySelf.com/ebook
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I was driving the other day on a country road when a fox ran out in front of me. There were no cars behind me and waiting would have served him better as I almost hit him and he almost lost his life.
How often do we hurry as if our lives are on the line when we don't have to and when waiting and thinking something through would better serve us?
Enjoy today's short solo cast.
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Is this lifestyle sustainable? Is the exhaustion, stress, and debt? Overeating? Under nourishing? Water pollution? Garbage? Air quality?
Does it have to be sustained? We are capable of something far better.
More people are juicing, eating better, exercising, taking better care of the earth, buying less and seeking more meaningful connections.
My guest today is David Wann. He is an author, filmmaker, and speaker on the topic of sustainable lifestyles and designs. His first novel is, Tickling the Bear: How to Stay Safe in the Universe. He is also an organic gardener and founder of a co-housing community in Colorado.
Get involved at Davewann.net
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Everyone needs skills to go through their day feeling clear and fulfilled. Dr. Foojan Zeine brings simple and practical skills to the audience for dealing with matters of life. She has developed a psychological and education model that supports minimizing depression, anxiety and raises self-esteem and self-confidence. The Awareness Integration theory can be explained in a very simple way to enhance your audience's life.
Dr. Foojan Zeine is a Psychotherapist, Radio/podcast host, International Speaker, and author. She has her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. Dr. Zeine is the originator of “Awareness Integration” educational and psychological theory and intervention, and the author of 6 books including Life Reset – The Awareness Integration Path to Create the Life You Want. She has authored and co-authored 5 books. She is the host of A Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan at KMET1490AM/ ABC Radio. She appeared on the Dr. Phil show and is a guest speaker at universities including Harvard.
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We've all had little things happen that we can't explain. These events and ideas seem to come out of nowhere.
Medium and Psychic Lori Hoover and I discuss this phenomenon.
She is also the host of the podcast Wake The Fuck Up! which is about bringing mindfulness to the earth and our daily lives.
Find out more about Lori on her Facebook page Lori Hoover Intuitive Guide & Medium
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Everyone has a story. What's the story your living?
Is your story trapped by dogma and doubts, belief systems that undermine you?
Today I solo-cast on the difference between society and humanity.
One of them can set us free, while the other one can trap us.
Everyone has a story. What's yours?
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The tall poppy syndrome is a human condition that has been present in every society since the beginning of time. It explains why we seek fairness and justify our actions by cutting others down.
Using both recent examples and case studies throughout history Dr. Doug Garland reveals the emotional damage and challenges that we, as well as all Tall Poppies, experience. It helps bring a new level of understanding to the rise in 'cancel culture' and cultural movements such as Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and even Anti-Vaxers! With over 600 citations, The Tall Poppy Syndrome is the most comprehensive book on the subject.
Why do some find joy in seeing the fall of others who have it better than us? Or who fall down stairs or get hit in the groin?
Ancient Greece called it cutting the tall wheat.
Rome called it cutting the Tall Poppy as does modern day Australia.
Holland's expression is the tallest tree catches all the wind.
Have you ever suffered from someone cutting you down when you stood tall?
Have you ever cut anyone down yourself who had moved forward?
Too big for your britches?
Read Doug's fascinating book detailing the subject: The Tall Poppy Syndrome
Find him at Douggarland.com
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Ben Albert of BALBERTMARKETING.COM is all about amplifying your values to potential clients. He is an advocate for your vision, your values, your why. This is the new style of marketing. Marketing your authenticity.
He understands that marketing is about creating emotional relationship with your audience. He is also the founder of the Real Business Connection Network.
He creates a road map for your success based upon your values and goals. His goal is to share your gifts.
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Folks, we had lost Ben near the end due the internet going down. So this is the conclusion of that conversation.
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I'm solo-casting today on this super important topic.
At a young age we are taught to want what everyone else wants. This is where comparison begins of what they have compared to what we don't. We are taught to want materials and external things and not what are souls need.
There's always someone who will have what you want: looks, money, cars, hair, physique. This makes us feel small and powerless. This is us looking out the window.
No one taught us to look in the mirror and at our souls. No one has what our souls have. This is why we need to look in the mirror. What we find there is what needs to be honored.
We are not supposed to move forward only if people approve of us. We move forward honoring what's within us and approving of ourselves.
Are you looking in the mirror? Are you looking into your soul and really being honest with yourself? Did you do the most you could today to move yourself toward your dreams?
Take a listen.
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Optimism and positivity gets more done than doubt and fear ever could. We love better, we think better, we're more productive and creative, we're happier and healthier.
On today's show I interview Andrea Johnson who is an Executive Leadership Coach, Certified DISC Consultant, and host of the Intentional Optimists, Unconventional Leaders podcast.
She uses her training and experience to equip & empower female leaders to think critically, create imaginatively and lead effectively - in any situation, team or organization.
Her story of overcoming cultural and social expectations of being a “quiet Southern Christian lady,” a mom rather than a professional, and a “good American,” rather than the third-culture kid that she is, offers many points of connection and relatability for your audience.
Her personal growth philosophy, Intentional Optimism, will inspire listeners to navigate their leadership journey with courage and clarity.
Find out more at theintentionaloptimist.com
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She is the author of Little Miss History which brings childhood development and history together in fun adventurous books that bring us to Mount Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall and other important historical events and locations.
Barbara is a historian that believes "If you don't know your history, you don't know what you're talking about."
Today in our society, so much is being swept under the rug and denied.
We at the Den of Discussion bring it back into the light.
Check her out at Barbara Mojica
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Solocasting today - When we are stressed and angry we compress time. When we are free and at peace sitting on the crest of a wave, we feel like we can see forever. And this expands time, because there is more space in the moment to experience joy and harmony.
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What will be your legacy? What stories will fade with you that your loved ones will never know?
*I would first like to say how grateful I am to Tim Heale. His best friend died unexpectedly the day before and yet, although I offered to reschedule, he still wanted to do the show. Thank you, Tim.
Tim Heale has done it all.
Having spent most of his adult life under the Colours in the British Army from being an infantry soldier to an experienced PSYOPS Operator or Psychological Operator trying to influence local cultures on 7 operational deployments. Because of this background we discuss the current state of Great Britain and the war in Ukraine.
He played a lot of rugby, skis telemark(think old school wooden planks on your feet) and has competed several times at the British Telemark Championships. He was also a Hang Gliding Instructor, played American Football for Milton Keynes Pioneers, has owned 3 boats and sailed to the Baltic and back, has also sailed around the UK with just the wife and Artie the Ship's cat.
He spent his last 8 years in the Army as a Unit Welfare Officer for London Central Garrison and has taken part in all the Ceremonial duties in London during that time.
His podcast Ordinary People's Extraordinary Stories is about leaving a legacy for future generations so they will know what life was like in our times. Imagine if you died without telling your life story, it would be lost for ever. So share your stories with loved ones.
My Everyday conversations regarding Mental Health is Thirsty Thursday Live Stream from 7pm until 8.15pm GMT every week.
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We often show up in situations contemplating how it affects us. Our family notices. Are you showing up with love or selfishness on how it's inconveniencing you. Well, that response is felt by others. So you might be showing up physically, but not emotionally. Are you showing up with love or ego?
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Retired Battalion Chief David Hollenbach is the author of “Fireproof: Your Grand Strategy for Transforming Failure into Fuel for Your Future.” He is an international best-selling author, motivational speaker, coach, and mentor. He owns and operates David Hollenbach Consulting, LLC, and hosts the popular podcast “From Embers to Excellence.”
During his 23-year career in the fire service, he served as a
•Firefighter
•Apparatus Driver/Pump-Operator/Engineer
•Company Officer/Lieutenant
•Battalion Chief in Operations
•Chief of Special Operations
•Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) peer counselor
•Public Safety Rescue Diver
•Coordinator and developer of his department’s first leadership development program
He is a veteran of the United States Navy with a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Barry University. A major focus of research was how strong, positive leadership can influence the culture of a large organization.
While studying at Barry University he published "The Firefighter's Creed" and “Women in the Fire Service: A Diverse Culture Leads to a Successful Culture,” an article highlighting the importance of gender diversity within the fire service..
He has spent years as an instructor, coach and mentor helping others define and realize success.
Q. What inspired you to write “Fireproof: Your Grand Strategy for Transforming Failure into Fuel for Your Future?”
A. The death of my brother inspired me to write the book. My leadership failures, both personal and professional, inspired me to finish it.
Q. What do you hope is the biggest takeaway from the book?
A. That an individual’s core essence determines the kind of leader they will be. Once they discover the truth inside of themselves—flaws and all—readers can challenge their limitations and let go of self-defeating behaviors. Within FIREPROOF, the question, “How can I create a Grand Strategy for my life?” is answered and leads the reader to develop their own unique Grand Strategy, to create a life that helps others and leaves a stellar legacy.
Personal development topics like self-leadership, self-awareness, communication, healthy relationships and self-care run throughout FIREPROOF, as I emphasize the importance of uncovering one’s core values and finding their big WHY. I provide an analysis tool for challenging situations to help the reader discern which parts they can control, what they can influence, and which things they can neither control or influence. I also provide tools for releasing stress and working through feelings of overwhelm, as well as outline critical daily habits and mindset matters that are essential for success.
Q. What makes you an expert in this field/a unique voice to speak on this topic?
A. I based the book on my personal experience and research. I spent 23 years in the fire service. I moved up through the ranks, retiring as a battalion chief responsible for 6 fire stations. I have effectively led people from all backgrounds in high stress environments. I developed a leadership training program for my fire department and taught leadership for 10 of the 23 years I served. I suffer from PTSD and as part of my healing process I research and study philosophy.
In FIREPROOF: Your Grand Strategy for Transforming Failure into Fuel for Your Future, Mr. Hollenbach takes the idea behind Yale University’s Grand Strategy Program designed for political leaders and heads of large corporations and applies those principles to the individual. His book answers the question: How can I create a Grand Strategy for my life? He then leads the reader through steps to develop their own unique Grand Strategy to create a stellar legacy.
Find out more about Dave at Hollenbachleadership.com
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It's time I got to soloing again. I feel there is no more poignant time to post this than during an election cycle. There is much fear mongering of late. The misinformation campaigns are raging. And We The People get lost in the power struggle. We love the idea of freedom of speech, but should speech that deliberately misleads be so easily free? it is a manipulation of this freedom I take to task. Take a listen.
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We are witnessing a blast of the technological and societal changes that are accelerating us into a future our imaginations cannot grasp. For 7,000 generations, since anatomically “modern” humans emerged 200,000 years ago, children could look to their parents and grandparents for life lessons in how to confront the chaos. No more. Their yesterday experiences will be of little, if any, help to today’s children in surviving tomorrow’s chaos. Our children have no maps, no talismans, to guide them. Which leaves them with only their instincts to confront the chaos. Those instincts were crafted to enable us to survive in a world that we left millennia ago. That long forgotten world hardwired us to overreact violently when we are frightened. Chaos is frightening. And chaos is about to engulf us. Do we have the innate capacity to survive what is about to happen to us? Hos book The Fourth Age explores that question.
Instinctively, we fear the unknown—chaos—and are hardwired to overreact violently when we are frightened. And chaos is about to engulf us. Welcome to our Fourth Age.
Terry Thiele has been a Cold Warrior intelligence officer and a corporate lawyer. He now consults and teaches strategic planning. His new book is the culmination of forty years helping government officials, corporate officers, and graduate students think about the future. Terry received his B.A. magna cum laude from Princeton, and his J.D. from NYU; he is a graduate of the National War College. Carol and he lives near Wilmington, N.C.
What is our "Fourth Age"?
For millennia, we hunted. After the ice, we farmed. For the last ten generations, we built. Today we are teetering on the brink of societal and technological changes unlike anything ever before experienced. The degree and the rate of change are both accelerating us at light speed into a future our imaginations cannot grasp.
Find more from Terry at TheFourthAge.com
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To fall or be brought down by temptation is not Christian, but human. We all fall at one time or another. Brian Kreeger was no different. But he felt he had failed God as well as his wife...
This is one not to miss as we dive deep into what happened and how he and his marriage recovered.
Brian Kreeger is an author, speaker, and nonprofit consultant. In 2012, he founded a faith-based free health clinic that served as a vehicle to share Christ's love through primary healthcare in an urban, poverty-stricken setting. After growing the organization significantly in four years, Brian experienced his own leadership fall due to the pressures of his work and his own human weakness.
Author of "The Courageous Ask: A Proactive Approach to Prevent the Fall of Christian Nonprofit Leaders." He has served on numerous nonprofit boards and have been in numerous leadership positions. He spent 28 years managing grocery stores.
After about 20 years he was called to open a Faith-Based Free Health Clinic in his city. After 4 years of successful operation, he started to struggle with leadership, loss of true identity and loneliness/isolation. He fell during that period out of his own human weakness.
Recognized through the questioning of a board member that besides human weakness, there are inherent parts of leadership that tempt us toward stumbling blocks that many succumb to. His book recognizes that those surrounding a leader, can see a fall coming.
His book and message empowers leaders, and those around them, to do something when they see it and encourages a proactive approach to prevent it.
He holds nonprofit leadership and board consulting certificates from Duke University and Boardsource and is working with the Christian Leadership Alliance.
Find him at www.briankreeger.com
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Today we get back to basics: writing. Today's guest and I speak about traditional and indie markets and how to best navigate each.
Dave is a novelist who has straddled the fence with both indie and traditional publishing.
He is the the author of Fool's Luck and the Jim Mitchell series of novels (Chasing Deception, Undue Pressure and Running), Dave Milbrandt fell in love with writing in junior high and has been a storyteller ever since. A former staff writer for a daily newspaper, the Southern California native spent five years in journalism and public relations before becoming a teacher. In addition to working at several area colleges, Dave has taught high school English and Social Studies classes since 2005. Dave and his wife, who is also a writer, have been married since 1997.
You can also find him at:
davemilbrandt.com
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Emily McGill is a spiritual seeker, tarot reader, storytelling strategist, and a deep believer in the power of community. After nearly a decade and a half working in entertainment in New York City as a Broadway and entertainment publicist and communications consultant, her path of self-exploration led to healing and evolution - and reading tarot cards professionally.
Invited to read tarot for virtual Burning Man 2021 and Brooklyn's dry speakeasy Club Curious, Emily has also been featured by The Tamron Hall Show, the NY Post, and Thrive Global. She writes Playbill’s Broadway Horoscopes, and currently in development is her own deck, The Broadway Tarot, (which I think is brilliant).
Emily’s passions are unlocking the magic in others, amplifying marginalized voices, offering platforms for open dialogue, and creating meaningful experiences while cultivating community. She is the co-founder of S.N.O.B. (Sunday Night on Broadway), a popup Broadway industry dance party, a founding member of PR collective Spiral5, and a co-author of S5’s signature course The Career Rebel’s Guide to Modern PR.
With 20 Broadway credits, Emily has represented the Tony Award-winning productions of A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington, Memphis, Billy Elliot, and Disney's The Lion King, plus Disney's Aladdin, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock and CATS, George Takei’s Allegiance, This Is Our Youth, Rock of Ages, Ghost, Elf, and First Date. Since her theatrical start, she’s expanded out to other forms of entertainment, including music, film/TV/streaming, and worked with companies large and small (from Disney, HBO, and Amazon Studios, to boutique talent agencies, internet startups, non-profits, and string quartets. Plus male strippers. Yes, male strippers).
Find her at Emily McGill on Instagram
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Insight. Inspiration. Ideas.
DR. RICK CHROMEY helps people interpret history, navigate culture and explore faith so they can create transformative change in their homes, at school or work.
With over 30 years of training experience, Dr. Chromey is a sought after speaker both nationally and internationally. He has also penned over a dozen books on leadership, culture, history, classroom management and creative communication, including his most recent book "GenTech: An American Story of Technology, Change and Who We Really Are."
Who Am I? Why Boomer, Xer, Millennial and Gen Z Labels Need Reimagined
Leading With Style: Understanding Your Unique Leadership Personality
Check him out at www.rickchromey.com
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Is the economy rigged against you? Yes it is.
Recreational mathematician and programmer Noah Healy is working on upgrading capitalism for the computer age.
He is a mathematician with expertise in computational math and algorithms. He spends his time working to upgrade the operating methods of the global economy.
- Entered the University of Virginia as a high school junior.
- Last person admitted to University of Virginia’s nuclear engineering program. Completed BS Engineering Science, Nuclear Engineering.
- 17 years of experience in systems development, 35 years in mathematics.
- Discovered method to price transaction costs.
- You can find out more info at coordisc.com
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When Ann was 19, she woke one morning to find her mother dead face down in their bathroom. Twenty years later the tears from that trauma were still just under the surface.
It took one 15 minute session with a strange technique to remove the charge from that event and be able to tell the story with no emotion. That one session set her on a journey to not only release the trauma from past memories, but to get beyond that, into the subconscious mind to release tension stored deep in her body, simply using the power of awareness.
She has found that seeking truth and accepting feelings, is the key to inner peace.
Once we change our inside, our outside changes.
Ann developed the ability to see inside her body and release physical tension stored in her connective tissue, using solely the focus of her mind. She has x-rays to show physical changes resulting from this inner work - including changing the alignment of her eye sockets, the straightening of her neck, the centering of her lower jaw, and the growth of her tooth roots. She has also grown 1/2 an inch at the age of 55.
Ann wants us all to know that we have this incredible power within us, it just takes going further with practices that you may already be doing.
Ann has a YouTube channel where she shares her journey, and explains the connection between the physical and the spiritual. Her book, A Pathway to Insight, details her journey and breaks down the steps she took to attain what she calls Insight, or the ability to see within the body.
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DP Knudten is the creator and host of the NONFICTION BRAND podcast.
Is there honesty in branding? Should there be? Yes, as per DP Knudten, authenticity makes all the difference.
As a 30-year veteran of advertising and branding, he's pretty much seen it all.
His nonfiction philosophy is outlined in his latest book "NONFICTION BRAND—Discover, craft and communicate the 'completely true / completely you' brand you already are."
DP’s worked on some of the biggest brands in the business including Coca-Cola®, The Athlete’s Foot®, and ClosetMaid®
Find out more at nonfictionbrand.com and get a free gift.
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When Emily was 13, her mother was diagnosed with advanced stage Ovarian Cancer. Shortly after, her mother began writing the novel, Bird of Paradise.
For years her mother had lost herself in a world of creation, never letting anyone read what she'd written. Sadly, in December of 2012, after years of recurrences, setbacks, surgeries, and rounds of chemotherapy, she passed away at the age of 63 . Bird of Paradise was left unfinished.
Shortly after her passing, Emily found a letter from her, with a copy of the unfinished manuscript and one request - that she finish the story for her.
Find Emily at Emilyjohnsonwrites.net
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How often are we in a situation where agreeing seems like the better move? But by doing so, we betray ourselves. Is agreeing to fit in what we all want? Then we'll all want and be and think the same things.
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Michael Magrutsche is a creativity/art researcher that looks for art/creativity's true values outside of any system. He believes art and creativity raise the awareness of our limitless human potential instead of instilling limitations with man-made systems.
He believes humans need something very different right now because we are in a consciousness-crisis. There is nothing more to do but to become conscious- to become the best YOU and therefore become limitlessness.
Understand how to use man-made systems adequately for WE are the priority. Humans relinquish their potential to man-made systems like technology, economy, religion, etc.
Why do we feel incompetent to talk about art? Because art becomes trapped by the system.
Michaell is an Austrian-Californian multimedia Artist, educator, author of 5 art-related books, podcaster, coach, creative advisor and former Newport Beach CA arts commissioner.
Find him at MICHAELLM.com
His podcasts are 30 seconds long with nuggets of wisdom for the day. His podcast is #TheSmartofArt
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As a nationally published teenage author, Sarah will inspire and entertain people to follow their own dreams and to live their own life no matter their circumstances or obstacles in their way. Her dogged determination helped her get this book published and even went to farmers markets to sell it.
Sarah lives in Lehi, Utah and is a die hard fantasy nerd that can’t stop talking about dragons and anime. She's trying to get through her senior year of high school by creating her own worlds and characters, and has written six novels. Her latest is YA Fantasy Romance Novel "Stone Cold" containing 308 pages of clean reading published through Morgan James in New York. She makes friends, but only with people who can stand her habit of constantly talking during movies to critique the plot, her memorization of the How to Train your Dragon wikipedia page, and a monologue explaining why Doctor Strange is obviously the best avenger.
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Annie has read almost 6000 books in the last 6 years. Yes, 6000 books! She loves her job as competition judge and it shows in how darn happy she is. She even read one of mine which was pretty interesting.
If you are writer and want to learn more from this industry insider, take a listen.
You can find her at winningwriters.com
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How many times have you wanted to walk away? Rejection? Doubts? There is something more powerful than both of those to help you keep walking the path. I hope this helps.
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Vance Neudorf follows a creed that no matter what your hand finds to do, you should throw yourself at it and enjoy every minute of the experience. Don't waste your time with complex personal plans, get moving and do something. He spent 8 summers planting trees and in the end planted over half a million. His personal core values of Community, Celebration and Creativity are guided by his Creativity Manifesto and he creates every single day.
He has created a series of epic length fantasy novels. He creates using woodworking, linguistics, Photoshop, Indesign, podcasting, Audible, 3D jewelry design and any other venture he cares to tackle to make stories worth listening to. Check out his fantasy series at www.corseries.com
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Volunteer Management Strategist Karen Knight. Karen's used her 25 years of experience as a leader and mentor in the not-for-profit sector to develop a proprietary framework for turning volunteers into an enthusiastic, reliable and committed team. A volunteer herself, she is passionate about all things relating to volunteers and volunteerism.
Karen is a consultant, volunteer leadership expert, and a dynamic engaging speaker. She was the District Director of Toastmasters International and currently serves as the Vice-President of the Board of Directors for the Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association.
Find her at https://karenknight.ca/contact/
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Heather Hutchison is the Amazon best-selling author of Holding On by Letting Go: A Memoir, and an award-winning singer/songwriter with four albums released to date, including her latest release, 'If I Could' (January 2022).
Check her out at https://www.heather-hutchison.com/
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Now that it's spring and the dark gray of winter is thawing, let's renew with the budding inspiration of life. It's waiting for you, but you have to act and the more you act the more you have.
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Quitting things we love because of pain doesn't set us free. Holding onto the pain and believing it doesn't help us grow.
Tough love can help us learn how to adapt and overcome. It helps us to build those necessary muscles to believe in ourselves and achieve anything we want.
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My dog Zeke loves to hunt. When we hike in the woods, he chases everything from squirrels to chipmunks. He never catches anything, but that doesn't deter him.
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From tracking criminals on the dark web to teaching at MIT for 20 years, Mark Herschberg has done it all.
Mark is the author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. There is also an associated free new app of the same name.
Mark has spent his career launching and developing new ventures at startups and Fortune 500s. He helped to start the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, dubbed MIT’s “career success accelerator,” where he teaches annually.
At MIT, he received a B.S. in physics, a B.S. in electrical engineering & computer science, and a M.Eng. in electrical engineering & computer science, focusing on cryptography. At Harvard Business School, Mark helped create a platform used to teach finance at prominent business schools. He also works with many non-profits, including Techie Youth and Plant A Million Corals.
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If we are going to claim the conviction of freedom we had better damn well back it up. If not our words our empty, our convictions hollow and the bullies of the world will murder the innocent while we talk tough and grow weaker.
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We speak about getting stuck in our lives. Usually those are low emotions like shame and guilt, apathy and loss. This is low on the emotional frequency chart. Whereas love and joy are high on the emotional frequency. They flow like waves on the ocean.
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We create hate. We create separation. Is it skin color we fear? Eye color? The country your from? No, it's the idea that someone is going to take something away from us. It's the belief that we will be made to feel small(or smaller). So we hate what's different from us. It's what we hold onto and pass down. It's what we fear within us. It's our own belittling voice.
What if love were passed down? Empathy? Kindness?
Indra Rinzler’s stories and experiences will delight all audiences. The wisdom he shares will open the audience to learning about themselves, their life’s journey and their relationship with Gaia Earth.
He's journeyed to India and the world over pursuing deep spiritual answers.
What is the Enneagram of Personality and how can it help people in their personal growth?
What are the 4 doorways to Conscious Living?
What does the Wheel of Totality tell us about our life blind spots?
For 50 years Indra Rinzler has been involved in Spirituality and Vedic Astrology. He has been studying and sharing Enneagram of Personality since 1999. He uses these modalities in Life Readings designed to help clients wake up to who they really are.
Are you living your best life? Are you committed to yourself 100%? Do you love and honor your truth? Not perfection, but best. That's what this challenge and update are all about.
All presidents are not created equally. By making this day more generic and watered down, we reduce it's value and our history. Washington! Lincoln! strike a response. They deserve our attention and respect. Does Gerald Ford and many others deserve equal billing? President's Day washes over accomplishments and individual significance. Take a listen.
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Why do some people get off certain holidays while others don't? Public employees get them off whereas many corporate employees do not.
Does this diminish our national heritage? Take a listen.
How often do you give life 100%? How often do you give yourself 100%?
Let's commit together and win together.
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A Peace of My Mind is a multimedia arts project, created by award-winning photographer John Noltner, that uses portraits and personal stories to bridge divides and encourage dialogue around important issues. Through exhibits, workshops, lectures, and distance learning, A Peace of My Mind leads transformative experiences that help a polarized world rediscover the common humanity that connects us.
He and his wife sold their house in October of 2020, bought an RV and are traveling the country interviewing people who are finding creative solutions to our most challenging issues.
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There was a beautiful lesson learned from these innocent flowers at the beach.
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Jason is a China specialist with a deep understanding of China and the Chinese economy. He helps people understand China, our changing world, and what it means for individuals, families, and businesses. I can discuss global political tensions, the global economy, and China's impact on different economic sectors and ways of life. He helps people understand China, how it is different, and where it is headed. He seeks to give people context to better navigate our fast changing world.
Learn more at https://www.jasonszeftel.com/
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We're taught to want to possess to buy and we'll be happy. To build your life on a pile of things and we'll be happy. To suppress and work and fill rather than fulfill an inner calling where there is no judgement or want--where there is only unconditional love.
Building a world of things and separation to make you happy. So, are you happy? Are you fulfilled?
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Is our education system working? Dr. Brown and I dive deep into where it succeeds and where it fails us.
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We often feel alone, but can you feel alone on a team with a like minded purpose? Can you be depressed and isolated while receiving high fives? Aren't we all looking for a team and like minded people in this world with a similar purpose?
It's easy to feel isolated and small, but can you be when connected to a broader truth? Isn't that where purpose is found?
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Recently retired economics teacher Mark Ryall.
Age-Decoded is his first novel. It addresses the question: What could possibly go wrong with the advent of CRISPR genetic engineering technology?
Genetic engineering is about to explode in our near-future world. Many applications will be very positive, such as possible eradication of Cystic Fibrosis, cancer, sight disorder, HIV, Alzheimers, to mention a few.
However, as with any new technology, humans must be careful to harness it safely and humanely.
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Kira is the author of CONSTELIS VOSS, "The anime-inspired, psychological sci-fi trilogy nobody asked for, but everyone (probably) deserves. Karma's a bitch."
Here is the summary:
"Long after humanity reached the stars, and recreated earth in all its vices, one (totally unhinged) man finds himself lost not only in a robotic body, but in the chapters of his prior life (circa 1997).
Knowing what came before—and finding familiar faces to help him—is the only way to survive.
Not just for him, but for the billions that call this planet-sized ship, home."
Kira is insightful, creative, and funny. Enjoy.
Christian De La Huerta is a sought-after spiritual teacher, personal transformation coach and leading voice in the breathwork community. He has traveled the world offering inspiring and transformational retreats combining psychological and spiritual teachings with lasting and life-changing effects. An award-winning, critically acclaimed author, he has spoken at numerous universities and conferences and on the TedX stage. His new book, Awakening the Soul of Power, was described by multiple Grammy Award–winner Gloria Estefan as “a balm for the soul of anyone searching for truth and answers to life’s difficult questions.”
He grew up in Cuba during the Castro takeover and had to flee the country with his family.
From shy, introverted child filled with self-doubt to internationally renowned speaker.
His new book, Awakening the Soul of Power, has strong messages about authentic self-expression and personal empowerment. For anyone who has struggled with issues around relationships, self-doubt, or a sense of purpose. The book explores how we step into power in a different way that's not about hierarchy, control, fear, force or domination.
The book's message can help you transform your relationship to power so you can stop selling out your personal power to fears and pain and can free yourselves from self-sabotaging behaviors.
It can also help you heal toxic relationship patterns and negotiate power struggles more effectively. On a macro scale, issues of power and the abuse of power have been integral to our society. Globally, power is up for all of us to look at—and choose: What kind of leadership do we want? What kind of world?
More information about his work can be found at www.SoulfulPower.com.
A college dropout, Nate Rifkin was lost and suicidal, broke and bankrupt, standing on the street corner making minimum wage holding billboard signs when an ancient meditation changed his life.
Now he's a successful marketer and author, married, and is studying to become a Daoist priest and get his Doctorate in Chinese Energetic Medicine.
He is the author of The Standing Meditation.
Listen to his story, it may just help you with your own.
So many people feel isolated, alone, and powerless, not living their most authentic selves, but their weakest. Why is this? The ego? Culture? Lack of fairness?
Why isn't the world the harmonious place that many feel inside themselves? It often comes down to, are you interconnected or disconnected? Take a listen.
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Dieter Randolph is a third-generation minister, writer, coach, and teacher.
From his bio:
"I am on fire to find ways to take the spiritual experience beyond the traditional church setting. With that idea in mind, I've spoken and taught in countless venues and formats, all over the country. Wherever I find myself, people find me.... I am here to help you find a life that you love, one that feeds you instead of making you feel tired. We’re all in this together. When you win, so does the world."
Listen to the lively conversation diving deep into what drives us, ails us, and ultimately sets us free.
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Are you expanding into the infinite riding on an energy wave? Or are you collapsing like a star upon yourself when the moment feels like a straitjacket you're stuck in. Take a listen.
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Highly entertaining interview with "slightly deranged author" (as he puts it!) of the highly popular Nightlord Series. The series has orcs, dragons, wizards , witches, magicians, and vampires, and all with very interesting twists.
These are monster sized books, many over 700 pages. He just released his 7th book in the series
Nightlord: Fugue
Once you listen to the interview you will understand how active his mind is and how he produces such sizeable tomes and such a funny fantastical world.
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Fulfilled or Sad? Either way we're going to die. Time doesn't care, do you?
Now that I turned fifty I care a WHOLE lot more.
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For many years Reyna practiced as an appellate court attorney with New York State's public defender's office before turning to writing full time. Her debut novel, UNREASONABLE DOUBTS, was named a finalist for the Women's Fiction Writers Association Star Award in 2019. Her first novel for children, MY NAME IS LAYLA, came out in January, 2021, and Reyna's latest novel, BOTH ARE TRUE, will be published in October, 2021. To learn more, please visit reynamardergentin.com.
Take a listen to our fascinating conversation about the courts and Reyna's legal eagle books. Anyone interested in courtroom dramas, this is for you.
I can be found at www.douglasrobbinsauthor.com
A short and sweet nugget today.
Did you earn that drink after work? Do you escape from the day and stress with dessert, pizza, alcohol or drugs? Have you moved your life and dreams forward first? Well, we've got to earn that drink and escape with couch credits. Listen why.
John Davis is one of a kind. He broke his back while helping a friend. A doctor told him that he would be paralyzed for the rest of his life. Learn how John healed himself and went on to become a stunt man and comedian as he traveled with the USO entertaining the troops in Iran and Afghanistan. He now speaks to audiences across the globe. "John inspires you to set and reach your maximum potential and awaken your Inner Action Hero!"
Listen to his amazing story and check him out at www.corporateactionhero.com.
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Is your life out of control? Is your plate full? Do you need a platter or a table instead to pile it all on? Is time running away from you?
We can change things. We can change ourselves.
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Robert and I dive into the subject of Creativity, where it gets lost in the day to day and how to reclaim it.
Robert Belle is a transformational speaker and mentor. He helps people who feel stuck in their career or life journey to break away from the “norm” and find new paths that reveal their true value. He has shared his secrets of creative success at his numerous speaking engagements
He is the author of the book Blow the Lid Off. A book on transforming your life through creativity.
Find him at robertabelle.com
What would you sacrifice for your child? Dreams? Ambitions? Everything?
Jim Bowen is a single father who struggles with his ex-wife. He still loves her and wants it to work but her toxic personality is devastating to their sweet seven-year-old daughter, Lily.
His grand ambitions of being an architect and building skyscrapers in a big city have eluded him. He’s on edge, working in a factory and living in a dying mid-west town while trying to raise his daughter and teach her right from wrong. The pressures are mounting.
Like the town, he fights on for a better life. That better life may come in the form of a single woman with a child of her own.
Pushed to the limits, they fight through each day, while most of the townspeople hold together like a family relying on each other.
The town that once thrived now hangs on to the past like a fraying thread.
Did they stay too long? Will love save them, or will bitterness destroy them all?
The answers delve deep into the eternal question of what it means to truly love.
My interview with Karl ranges from the 28th children's book he's written, many of them address lapses in our education system, childhood development, and to him being a media professor in a state college.
We discuss his book Grow about our foods and where they come from.
We also discuss the publishing industry and how to get your book into the world.
Find Karl and his books at PremioBooks.com.
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We tried ignoring it as we walked along the inlet. But there was so much. What else do we try ignoring as we walk along in life? We are part of the problem and part of the solution.
We also try ignoring the garbage within us that follows us every step we take.
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I wasn't going to do this but I woke inspired this morning.
There is a light and darkness we all grapple with, but there is a deeper truth and a higher self we aspire to. Reuben the protagonist is lost going through his days while his alter-ego Claremone is fighting to be brought into the light. Tanz the Accountant, a seer who helps Claremone on his quest to battle these dark forces of the Toxic Whisperers that are cutting off the evolution of souls.
They must reveal this plot or all will be damned for eternity.
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Daniel and I discuss how he got into making films, his production company totonyproductions, a production company that was created for and dedicated to his cousin and best friend Anthony, who had died of Cystic Fibrosis.
We discuss topics ranging from why Americans want films to end with a happy ending, and Daniel's love of French cinema. Also, he reads a few poems from his recently released poetry bookJust a Boy Blaming Himself which can be found on Amazon.
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Are we bringing our bile or are we bringing our best?
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Are you writing or are your demons stopping you? Are you living your best life or are the demons filling your life with destructive thinking? Let's purge the demons so that we may live as we were intended.
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Are you living the life of your dreams or stuck in the pains of the past?
Have you ever felt at odds with yourself? There is more than meets the eye.
In the last podcast we discussed grappling with the darkness. This time it's the light. But why would you need to grapple with light? There are two sides of the same coin that must be dealt with.
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Does the past wear you down? Do you feel stuck wanting more? It's time to let go of the unwanted.
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What friends, thoughts, beliefs are you plugged into? Do they free you or condemn you? Let's dive deeper into this.
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Writers are often told to write what they know. Essentially, stay in your lane. But that's ridiculous and the well is soon empty. So, what do you know?
Are you living a truth deep within or hiding from it? The time is now to decide where your life is heading.
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Are you a truth seeker? Writers and artists are truth seekers. Often from great suffering we want to learn how life works. The Whys. The Hows. We want to explore the truths of humanity and bring it into the light turning fact into fiction. The facts get built into the characters we create. It is often through pain we want to express or purge to find conclusions, answers, and healing. It is the sword we express to create our worlds and the same sword we bleed from.
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It isn't what you might think. It's about doing the task at hand when you feel low and disinterested. It's not about leaping tall buildings but keeping the momentum going placing one foot in front of the other. You might leap over a metaphoric building once in a while. But some days are just a grind and that's where the Big Doing comes into play and gets you closer to your destination.
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Listen to the dramatic conclusion.
Innocence may be lost as a campground gets stirred up when a young deer is chased by dogs forcing people to make tough decisions and to look at themselves and their choices. Will the deer live or die? Find out.
From my short story book Leaves Piled High
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Innocence may be lost as a campground gets stirred up when a young deer is chased by dogs forcing people to make tough decisions and to look at themselves and their choices. Will the deer live or die?
From my short story book Leaves Piled High
https://www.amazon.com/Leaves-Piled-High-Douglas-Robbins-ebook/dp/B00AM8E2N6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=leaves+piled+high&qid=1597701109&sr=8-1
We hear this catch-phrase thrown around from corporations to spiritual gurus. But do any of us really have it? Is it even possible in the stressful modern world? Let's take a look at a few simple things we can do for better "balance."
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Suffering traps us. It keeps us stuck in some past event. But there's a difference between good and bad suffering. The good gets us onto the other side into the light. The bad keeps us stuck and in pain. Find out the difference and how to free yourself from the bad.
Playing small? Stuck in the past? We all have hurdles to overcome. The power is in the Now.
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Do you live by a moral code or are you only reacting to life? It's a battle we all must wage.
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Are you working hard running in place or are you moving forward?
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Are you giving away your time? Your focus? Your heart? Is your dream on hold? Well, it's time to stake claims on your life and who you truly are.
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Depression can be deadly, stop us in our tracks, cause us to be cruel to loved ones, and zap us of our hopes and happiness. I address some methods I've learned on how to deal with some of the demons hiding in my psyche.
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Why do we write? What happens if we don’t? Does it matter? What if no one reads our works?
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These are unprecedented times and many of us have been given a great gift of time to reflect upon our lives, who we are, and the future we want.
We are living in unprecedented times for publishing. The door is waiting for you to walk through.
This podcast series will include topics ranging from writing to publishing, depression to finding meaning.
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