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THE SECRET BEHIND THE FIRST LOVE STORY – ADAM & EVE & WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU!!! Bruce Feiler | Health | Self-Help | Inspire Mar 24, 2017

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If you've ever wondered how the story of Adam and Eve affects our lives, and what it really means, then do we have The First Love Story show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Bruce Feiler, author of the This Life column for the Sunday New York Times and six consecutive New York Times best-sellers, and a fascinating new book The First Love Story.

And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about Adam, about Eve, and what it means to Us.

We'll look at the mythical meaning behind the story; the story of the Sistine Chapel; what Adam and Eve really means for women's rights; what we're not told about the story—and why it matters, and how the original love story affects our culture, our beliefs, and even our daily lives.

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

Why do an investigative book on the story of Adam and Eve?
Is the story of Adam and Eve still relevant today?
Are we talking an original myth???
What did Saint Augustine say about viewing Adam and Eve verbatim?
What was he investigating in Iraq after the fall of Saddam?
What did Jesus call the most important commandment in the Hebrew Bible?
What does it mean to truly love your neighbor like yourself – and what's the deep meaning behind this?
Why did he visit the Sistine chapel, and what can it teach us about Adam and eve?
What does loneliness have to do with the story of Adam and Eve?
What's so remarkable about the depiction in the Sistine Chapel?
How did Michelangelo depict Adam and Eve and how was it meant to elevate women in the church.
What was Michelangelo trying to tell us?
Was "Original Sin" originally part of the Adam and Eve story?
What's the missing part or the forgotten part of the Adam and Eve story?
Why is it important that the story was mentioned twice in the bible, and what's the real meaning behind this?
What was the sex scandal in Adam and Eve and who was Lilith?
What does it mean that Adam and Eve separated and got back together?
What are they teaching us about the meaning of love and relationships?
What really happened in the story after they left the garden, and why don't people know about this?
Is exile something possible?
How did Adam and Eve choose Love?
What can we learn from Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton about women's rights and Eve?
What's so special about Adam and Eve coming back together?
What's the lesson about families taught through the story of Adam and Eve?
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Today I want to talk about coming up with a vision for your future, how to do, why you want to do it, and how to use that future vision, to help you today.

We'll talk about ways to envision your future, get specific, leave things open, and how to then begin manifesting the future you want "or something better"! It's law of attraction in action, meets David Allen's Getting Things Done!

Prepare to discover your greatest vision for the future and begin to make it a reality!

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What do zombies want in life?
How do you get your stuff in order?
How do you keep chaos at bay while you're trying to maintain your life?
What's the importance of getting things into an organized structure fashion—if you can.
How Jessica and Michael are working on a new book.
How to use Parkinson's law to your advantage in time management
How do we look at our futures far out into the future
What having a clear vision of the future means for our peace and happiness today
What's the importance of balance?
What does it mean to look "big picture"
What's the importance of naps?
What are the challenges with packing and letting go?
What can we learn from the Clutter Buster, Brooks Palmer?
How to let go of attachments?
What's the importance of getting light?
What's the importance of a clear vision for prioritization?
What it means to be time-wealthy
What it means to be in an active role vs. a passive role for the vision of your future
What's the importance of asking and learning from others
What's the importance of asking for others help
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How to move past the resistance of your subconscious
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HOW TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND FIND YOUR FREEDOM!!! Pat Flynn – Smart Passive Income | Health | Career | Self-Help | Inspire Mar 22, 2017

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If you've ever wanted to work less, and do more of what you want to do, then do we have the Will it Fly Show for You!

Today I'll be talking with Pat Flynn, best-selling author, passive income expert, and the author of two phenomenal books on building freedom, Let Go, and Will It Fly!

And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about getting out of the 9 to 5 rut, finding your runway, and taking off!

We'll discuss Pat's struggle's, how he lost his job, and turned things around making 4 million dollars in the process. We'll look at what it takes to step out on your own, find your own path, and gain freedom in the process. And we'll look at how to go far beyond building a successful business, to building a successful life, living your way, by your rules.

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

Does Pat really have time to put his family first?
What was Pat's childhood like and how did he become an architect?
What did Pat do to leap ahead in his career?
What happened when he was getting laid off?
How did he start a website and what happened with it?
How did he start on a path to smart passive income?
What did he discover about his website along the way?
What became Pat's mission?
How did he end up doing online book sales?
What happened the first day?
How did he start http://www.SmartPassiveIncome.com
What does it mean to build a successful life versus a successful business?
What's the importance of passion?
What's the Airport Test?
What's the big question with the Airport Test and how can it help us?
How do we do the 4 Quadrant Exercise?
How can fear help us?
What's the importance of a why or a clear mission?
What's the importance of gratitude?
Where does meditation fit in?
How has Pat benefited from Hal Elrod's Miracle Morning routine?
How has spirituality helped Pat?
What words of wisdom would Pat, a devoted family man, have for parents to help their children?

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HOW TO MINDFULLY REACH YOUR MONEY GOALS & INCREASE YOUR HAPPINESS DIVIDEND!!! Jonathan K DeYoe | Health | Self-Help | Inspire Mar 20, 2017

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If you've ever wanted more savings in your life, and to increase your happiness dividend then do we have the Mindful Money show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Jonathan K. DeYoe, a financial adviser for over 20 years, and a longtime Buddhist. He's also the author of a brilliant book I wish I could have read at least 20 years ago, Mindful Money.

And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about simple practices for reaching your financial goals, and increasing your happienss dividend.

That plus we'll talk about burger barns and humanities majors, a bluebird of unhappiness, holding coca-cola forever, the benefits of boring plain vanilla, why growing money's like growing vegetables especially when returning from Greece, going to the mall in South Dakota, 600 dollar canon cameras, and how in the world your mom intentionally raised a financial planner!

Mindful Money Management Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

When was Jonathan first introduced to money
When did he make his first stock investment
How'd he get interested in becoming a financial advisor
How'd he end up studying Buddhism?
What are four deliberate steps to mindful money management?
What does it meant o awaken to what truly nourishes and fulfills us
What is the "setting the itinerary" exercise?
Do money gurus really have the answer?
Are stock tips on TV really good?
What does it really mena that past success does not necessarily indicate future results?
What does boring plain vanilla have to do with anything
What is volatility?
Why isn't he a fan of investing in individual companies?
What does it mean to invest over a very wide range?
What can we learn from Warren Buffet on Black Monday?
What's the big problem with gaming the market?
How do we develop our vision
What would our future selves tell to our younger selves
What's the importance of eliminating high-interest debt
What's the best way to go about it?
How do we invest for retirement?
How much should we have in an emergency fund?
What should we teach our kids about investing and money?
For more information visit: HappinessDividend.com

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If you've ever wanted to achieve your dreams, and find a way to finally succeed matter the busy-ness, then do we have the One Thing show for you!

Today we'll be talking with Jay Papasan, vice-president and executive editor at Keller Realty, co-owner Papasan Properties Group (with his wife) and co-author of best-seller The One Thing, to me, after reading nearly 500 books for the show, still one of the greatest business books of all time… right up there alongside Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich if not higher.

And so today, I want to speak with him about the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results.

That plus we'll talk about the trouble with truthiness, fear of chaos, city slickers and curly, learning on manual type-writers, frogs and boiling water, living like Ebenezer Scrooge, do fish really smell from the neck down, and what in the world does Mia Hamm, has to do with anything.

One Thing Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What was the synchronicity that brought Jay and co-author Gary Keller together?
What got Jay Papasan interested in the One Thing?
What does it mean to go small?
What's the lie behind multi-tasking?
How does multitasking actually cost time
What's task switching?
What's the trouble with to-do lists
What's the trouble with discipline?
Why isn't will power always on will-call?
How do we manage our willpower levels?
What's the focusing question
What does it mean that extra-ordinary results require a great answer?
What's it mean to live with purpose?
What's it mean that happiness happens on the way to fulfillment?
What's the planning fallacy?
What's a time management system?
What is time blocking?
What size time blocks do we need?
What are the four thieves?
What advice would he give for single moms?
What'd the highly productive person's daily energy plan?
What's the importance of hugging, kissing, and laughing?
What's one homework assignment people can begin working on today?
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How to Find Happiness & Resilience Thru Empathy! Dr. Arthur Ciaramicoli | Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire Mar 19, 2017

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If you've ever felt anxious, stressed out, and unable to bend with the wind, then do we have the resilience-building show for you!

Today I'll be talking With Dr. Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, licensed clinical psychologist, chief medical officer of soundminz.org. He's been on the faculty of Harvard Medical school and is the Chief Psychology of Metrowest Medical center. He's also the author of several book including The power of Empathy and The Stress Solution.

Today we'll talk about the Stress solution, how to use empathy and cognitive behavioral therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience, and return to a state of goodness.

That plus we'll talk about the power of dark chocolate, berries and leafy greens, what we can learn from a Kima the Siberian Husky, who's perhaps the world's most compassionate mom, the true importance of Kaitlyn Jenner's coming out and what American Master Spy and Algiers has to do with anything.

Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:

Who was Arthur Ciaramicoli's mom
What kind of legacy do you want to lead in your life?
What is empathy?
What's the difference between sympathy and empathy
What is empathetic cognitive behavioral therapy - psychology
In psychology, what's a cognitive distortion?
Tell us about Aaron Beck, and what's a negative schema?
What does a negative schema have to do with negative self-talk?
What's second-hand stress?
What does it mean to lose touch with our inherent goodness?
Why depression is often an inability to do sorrow work
How to counteract depression with oxytocin, the love hormone.
How empathetic listening leads to a release of oxytocin
What does it mean to 'make a relationship'
How do we turn down the intensity of our own emotions
How empathy helps us move from the emotional brain to the thinking brain
What is mindfulness meditation, and how can mindfulness help us to be here now and to be present
What is catastrophizing and how does it relate to mindfulness and empathy?
How to plan how you're going to wake up, the night before.
How do we rewire our brains to produce feel-good chemicals?
How studies show the power of empathy
What happens to children who grow up surrounded by empathy.
What's a goodness formula?
Stress reducing foods?
What supplements help with stress
What can we learn from Caitlyn or Bruce Jenner coming out.
Where can people go to find out more and to find The Stress Solution: balanceyoursuccess.com,

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THE SECRET BEHIND YOUR EMOTIONS & WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU!!! Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett | Health | Fitness | Self-Help | Inspire Mar 18, 2017

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If you've ever wondered how emotions work, and what it means for all of us, then do we have the how emotions are made show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, an NIH award winning researcher and a university distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University about her new book, How Emotions are Made.

And that's just what I want to talk with her about, about the secret life of the brain and what in the world it means for us.

That plus we'll talk about Rowdy the dog, chimps and bonobos, right and left dog-tail wagging, eating baby bees, infant baby expressions, mistaking the flu for the love, and what in the word, fuzzy cheese pizza vomit and edible baby-poo have to do with anything!

Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What do 8 "failures" at the University of Waterloo have to do with anything
Why is anxiety and depression so confusing to people
Can people really recognize their emotional states?
Are there only a handful of emotional states?
Are emotional states hardwired into the brain at birth
Do people worldwide all have the same emotions
Is there a biological finger print for different emotional states
How is the brain creating emotion on the flies
Why is what we've learned about emotions so important in experiencing emotions
What do social constructs have to do with our emotions
What is the wiring in infant brains
How do our brains wire themselves to mirror the social and physical environment they grow up it
Why the big innovation of brains is not cognition but is brain plasticity
How is the brain guessing what's going to happen next, and how does it make sense of these sensations
What do the sensations of attraction and the flu have to do with one another?
Why our confidence to read people can get us in real trouble
Why are women more likely to die from heart disease than men
What does emotional stereotyping have to do with women
Why is there a glass ceiling for women in their career, and what's the difference between female expressiveness and male expressiveness
How does this emotional bias play out in elections with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?
What's the danger or false perception of an amygdala response?
Why the amygdala is not really the home of fear, emotion, or irrationality, and what understanding this really means for us.
What does the limbic system really mean?
What in the world is the political flu and what does it have to do with our emotions?
How can we protect our emotional state?
What it means to titrate our exposure to negativity?
What's the importance of mindfulness?
How is gratitude an antidote to acrimony?
Where does compassion fit into things?
What to do when your brain is mobilizing the body to do something
For more info visit: https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/
What it means to be an architect of your own experience and how to empower your life!

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HOW TO BOOST YOUR VISUAL BRAIN POWER, WITH SECRETS TAUGHT TO THE FBI! Amy Herman | Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire Mar 17, 2017

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If you've ever wanted to be more observant, accurate, present, make better decisions, or take your game to a whole new level, then do we have the enhancing show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Amy Herman, lawyer, art historian and the founder of the the Art of Perception course, which trains doctors, police officers, the FBI, the military, state department, and fortune 500 companies; and author of a perspective changing new book, Visual Intelligence, Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your life.

Today we'll be talking about strengthening your perceptions, helping you see things more clearer, find the answers you've been looking for, and articulate them in ways to get things done…plus the powerful words of Dr. Wayne Dyer, why when you change the way you look at things, the things look at change.

That plus we'll look at an orangutan named Kevin, a gorilla in our midst, refrigerator blindness, keeping your head on a swivel, gemba walks, pick-pocketing the secret service, and how in the world to keep a secret from a flight attendant?

Questions and Topics Include:

Visual Intelligence & Perception and the Art of Perception Course –
From Dr. Wayne Dyer – Why when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
How going along with police officers when in Law School changed you
How did she end up 'shooting' someone at a conference
What Men in Black has to do with Visual Intelligence
Why you don't want to mess with the mama-gene
What does Motel soap (Derek Kayongo) have to do with anything?
What does it mean to be visually curious
What is situational awareness?
How did the idea come to her to start teaching art work to medical students – originally a Yale program.
The story behind Dr. Marc Silberman and Art History NJSportsmed.com
What wilting flowers can tell a health service provider
What was a bold phone call to the NYPD after 911.
1. "Hi, I'm Amy Herman, and I have a great idea…"
Why Alexander Graham Bell says "we're all to often walking through life with our eyes shut"
How visual intelligence improves your awareness even after mindfulness or mindful training
What it means to run in HD (Mindfulness Running)
Myth-busting and a talking orangutan (who is on a Ted talk!)
How our perception changes all the time and we don't even realize it.
How we all view the world from different vantage points.
How do you keep a secret from the flight attendant
How do we rethink our communications of our perceptions
What we can learn from Michele Gielan, positivity researcher and author of Broadcasting Happiness
How Amy Herman encourages people to embrace our visual world
Why Beyonce scolded a fan
What's potentially wrong with taking photographs of pictures at art museums
How cameras can take us out of the present moment, or out of being mindful
How digital technology gives us an excuse not to interact with other people, or not to be mindful or present
An inspiration of hers Apollo Robbins, a professional con-man 'deception specialist' who works on the right side of the law
What's the biological bias or survival mechanism.
How do we increase our visual awareness
What Dr. Michael Merzenich, the father of brain plasticity, says about walking (and knowing) your own neighborhood
What we can all learn from 911 in New York City
How to lay the groundwork before bringing subjectivity in
What is Renshaw's cow?
1. Samuel Renshaw who worked with Navy Pilots in WWII
What can we learn from the Kenyan Westgate Mall incident
What we can learn from Jesse Itzler and Living with a Navy Seal.
What she's learned from taking US Special Ops Forces into Art Machines
What is refrigerator blindness?
What we've all mistaken about Michelangelo's David
Why everything deserves a second look
What are the three R's?
What's the concept from Toyota of being in the place (or being mindful) and going to the problem.
What happened with her editor Eamon Dolan
Advice for parents for conversations with their children to increase their perception or visual intelligence
More about program at artfulperception.com and book at www.visualintelligencebook.com

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Today we'll talk about finding peace, making peace, and being the peace you're looking for in your life.

That plus we'll talk about transitions and love, pro-wrestling and kitty cats, a wifey back from beach, and what in the world, Michael's learned about single-parenting.

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Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

Why parenting is so difficult from 0 to 3
What to do when you're woken in the middle of the night
What to do about sleep deprivation
What's the importance of teaching sign language to your kids
How to communicate with your cat
What to do when your computer's blowing up
How do you stay peaceful and calm during these challenges
What do you do internally to stay peaceful and calm
What's the importance of acceptance
How does surrender fit into the equation
Where does prayer fit into finding peace
What to do if your account's been hacked
How to have compassion for anyone
What it means to come into your own power
What's it mean to pull on the golden thread?
What's going on in Emerald Isle, North Carolina
What it means to look at foundational changes
How to find peace even when your home is anything but peaceful
How to get grounded in the chaos
How does chaos give you an opportunity to view the world in a completely different way
How growth can come out of hardship
What do the words "resistance" and "stretch" have to do with anything
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If you've ever struggled with money, to have money, keep money, make money, or even get out of debt, then do we have the money making self-help show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Gary M. Douglas, founder of access consciousness and author of 15 books including the best-seller The Place, and a fantastic book he wrote with another guest we've had on the show, Dain Heer, Money Isn't the Problem, you are.

Today we'll talk about the truth about money, and our problems with money, what' it's all about, how to flip it on it's head, and how much we're truly willing to receive.

That plus we'll talk about dining on fine china, tithing to the church of you, and why one stick up of gum too many, may have driven Dain Heer insane…

Questions and Topics on this Self-Help, Self-Improvement Wealth-Building Interview Include:

---How to Transform Your Relationship with Money--- Like Law of Attraction in Action!

Why Gary had a poor relationship with money growing up
Why he couldn't afford a 4 dollar door knob – that turned out to be 14K gold!
How he went to debtor's anonymous
What we can learn from Richest Man in Babylon
Why he was a self-debtor and what a self-debtor is.
What is a 10% self-tithing (thinking Richest Man in Babylon)
Why a lack of money isn't a money issue, and why it's instead your point of view
What happens to lottery winners after 5 years
Why the self-help goal is to be able to choose what you'd like
What's a 10 second exercise to help choose the rest of your life
What do you do if you're deeply in debt?
Why credit does not equal money
Why Australia has such a different view of debt (and how Australia was a debtor's prison)
What's the difference between credit-worthiness and cash-worthiness
Why you want to love money enough to roll naked in it
Why it's not the love of money that's evil, but the need for money
How do we heal our relationship with money?
How to teach your kids about money
Why it's important to get away from 'I want'
What's the 'I don't want money' exercise?
What happened with Dain Heer and Big Red gum?
How to manifest, and what manifestation actually is – and how it's a spiritual act.
How to actualize something to show up (a little different law of attraction terminology)
What's the importance of the question 'what's right about this I'm not getting?'
What is being in acceptance vs. allowance?
How to be greater today than you were yesterday
How do we let go of the 'butta's' in life?
Word's you want to eliminate from your vocabulary in life
How do we learn how to receive?
What the monk Ajahn Brahm says about receiving
How do you celebrate the abundance we already have
What happened after he got divorced
What's the physical and spiritual power of carrying cash with you for abundance and wealth making?
Go to accessconsciousness.com or www.drdainheer.com
What's the power of laughter?
How to allow yourself to have money