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

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

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

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

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

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

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HOW TO GO WITH THE FLOW & FIND CLARITY IN YOUR LIFE!!! CJ Liu & Michael Sandler | Health | Fitness | Self-Help | Inspire Jun 29, 2017

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

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

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

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

What twin baby deer have to do with anything?
What's the importance of teaching a baby sign language?
What is conscious parenting?
How do we step outside of our bubbles?
What's the importance of taking time in the beingness
What is taking a higher level perspective on life?
How we can use muscle testing to help guide our lives?
How you can juggle multiple projects at the same time
How to set up your schedule for flow and structure
What it means to bring more flow into your life
How to open up and respond to what's happening?
What we do on a daily basis to help keep some structure and get the things done we want to get done
How you can use automatic writing to tap into your intuition
How you can use automatic writing to help organize your day
What it means to get into a pro-active stance to getting things done
How to figure out the one most important thing you need to get done in the day?
How to remember the one most important thing you may be forgetting?
How to live in a state of flow – listening to your higher guidance
What's the importance of self-care and refueling the tank
How to build exercise such as walks and runs into your day – and with flow
All about an old mountain bike that wasn't – and what we can learn from it.
How to recognize when you're not in flow.
How to use your morning routine for greater clarity
What it means to find peace beneath the waves
Why attacking things may not be the answer
How to work with the wind instead of pushing against it
How to move past our ADHD wiring
Why it's so important to find the gift that's wrapped around your heart
What it means to look for the essence of what you're looking for in life?
How to set your intentions in automatic writing?
How to begin to discover who you truly are?
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Today I'll be speaking with Vanessa Van Edwards, behavioral investigator and professional people watcher, and the author of a fascinating manual on how to be a better earthling, Captivate.

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

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

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

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

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HOW TO CLAIM YOUR POWER BY OVERCOMING HIDDEN BLOCKS! Mastin Kipp | Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire Jun 27, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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HOW TO LIVE A RICHER, MORE MEANINGFUL LIFE THRU THE SCIENCE OF SEEING DIFFERENTLY!!! Beau Lotto | Health | Fitness | Self-Help Jun 26, 2017

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

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

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

Deviate Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

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

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HOW TO BOOST YOUR INTUITION & GET ANSWERS FAST! + Guided Meditation! Penney Peirce | Health Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire Jun 23, 2017

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

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

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

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

Questions and Topics Include:

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

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

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

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

What's the benefit of breathing deep – and why we don't want to shallow breath.
What's it means to try and stay in a place of love?
How to calm down in the crazyness?
How to center and ground yourself as the world is revved up?
What seeing baby deer has to do with anything.
How you can use white light to help you calm, protect, and relax.
Why it's so important to help others to feel heard
What it means to come from an open-hearted place?
What it means to be calm and responsive, even in a delicate situation
What's the importance of going quiet, even in a current, and being aware of your intuition
What we can learn about the language of our bodies from an applied kinesiologist
What's the importance of grounding?
What's the importance of getting positive messages?
What we can learn from Anita Moorjani's cancer experience?
What's the importance of being open in any situation?
What's a different way to look at, or reframe work?
How to shift your energy when it comes to work?
How to remember who we truly are.
How to get ourselves into a loving place and plug into the love
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DISCOVER THE FORMULA FOR HAPPINESS FROM GOOGLE X CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER MO GAWDAT! Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire Jun 21, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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HOW TO STEP INTO YOUR POWER & GREATNESS BY STEPPING INTO THE UNKNOWN!!! Jessica Lee | Health | Fitness | Inspiration | Self-Help Jun 20, 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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HOW TO LIVE A SOUL-CENTERED LIFE WITH DEEPER MEANING & FULFILLMENT!!! Dr's Ron & Mary Hulnick | Self-Help | Inspire Jun 19, 2017

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

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

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

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

How did Mary come to spirituality
How did Ron come to spirituality
How did Ron and Mary meet each other?
Who is John Roger and how did they end up studying under him?
How did they end up running a school together?
What is spiritual psychology?
What's the Michelangelo effect?
What does it mean it's not a journey about becoming as it is about remembering?
What does it mean to remember the angel essence within each of us?
What is spiritual amnesia?
What did Teilhard mean that we're having a spiritual being having a human experience?
What's the difference between a goal line and a soul line?
What is our true essence?
What is an intention to awaken?
What does it mean to awaken?
What are soul line intentions?
What's an overaching spiritual intention?
What does it mean that the mind is a tool to be used in service to the Heart?
What's the importance of silence?
What's the importance of self-appreciation and self-love?
What does it mean to see the love essence?
What's the importance of commitment?
What can we learn about unworthiness?
Why is self-forgiveness not for sissies?