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If you've ever felt your life, work, or business, has gotten way too complex, then do we have the Why Simple Wins show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Lisa Bodell, founder and CEO of Futurethink, business consult to organizations such as Google, and the best-selling uahtor of Kill the Company and her latest, Why Simple Wins.

And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about how to escape the complexity trap and get to work that matters.

That plus we'll talk about large banks and newsletters, what in the world's a laundry decree, multi-tasking at kids sporting events, what a cut the crap committee, when you want to take the air out of the tires, why you don't need 283 types of coffee beans, and 98 types of rice, and why in the world every Ikea purchase should come with marriage counseling?

Why Simple Wins Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

Why'd she write Kill the Company
1. What were the roadblocks to change and innovation
What it means in business and personal life to have the space to innovate
What does 'More is Less' start to look like?
What's our addiction to 'more'
What the secret to Southwest Airlines
Why should Ikea purchases come with marriage counseling
What exactly is simplicity?
What does M.U.R.A. stand for?
What's the importance of autopilot?
What's going on with Millennials today?
If we're looking for a job, how can we tell what a simple work environment or corporate culture looks like?
What happened at Life is Good when it comes to email
What's a time-box with no email
What's the importance of saying no to things
What it means to chunk your time
What's the cutting the crap committee?
What we can learn from Nancy Colier, today's guest and the power of off
How meditation and transcendental meditation can help?
What are conscious decisions we can make to help bring simplicity into our lives?
What's a simplicity toolkit look like?
What we can learn from Google's email rules and meeting rules
What's a time inventory?
What is 'Practice Two Today'?
What's the practice of 'what if I didn't'
What's the importance of throwing things out?
What's a simplicity statement?
What does worth have to do with value and busyness
What advice would we give to parents to give them more time with their kids?
What it means 'the first step to realize your dreams is to wake up'

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HOW TO STAY SANE IN A DIGITAL OVERWHELM WORLD! + GUIDED MEDITATION! Nancy Colier | Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire Nov 07, 2016

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If you've ever struggled to reduce your anxiety, get off your smartphone, or to step away from the Facebook, then do we have the Power of Off show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Nancy Colier, psychoterapist, interfaith minster, veteran meditator, and author of Inviting a Monkey to Tea, and a fantastic new book on getting unplugged, The Power of Off.

And that's just what I want to talk with Nancy about today, about a mindful way to stay sane in a virtual world.

That plus we'll talk about smart houses and dumb humans, who in the world is wikiman, what you don't want to do on a jeep tour, how to give a house a lobotomy, the importance of being nobody, why in the world we need a piece of chicken, when all we want is a plain salad? And the danger of texting cover rear, or thank you douche for last night,

The Power of Off Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

How has technology been creating overwhelm and 'twiredness'
What's a new challenge people have when they go to sleep
Why people are afraid of going to sleep
What is a lottery brain?
Why technology's become an addiction
What's the paradox today of social media
How sharing our lives takes us further away from our lives?
How technology is affecting anxiety and depression
What happened to her first daughter when she got her first smart-phone
What the immediacy of the device is causing us
What this growing 'neural network' is really headed and doing for us
What's a more mindful approach she took with her second daughter
How do we do a digital detox
What questions do we need to ask to understand our cravings
How do we pull ourselves back into the here and now
What's the importance of a morning practice?
What's the power of silence?
How do we get past the fear of silence?
What's the power of prayer in moving beyond our addiction with our technology
What it means to become 'nobody' (what she learned from Sri Mooji)
How do we bring more compassion into our lives, and into ourselves
How do we bring true self-love into our lives
What do we do to help our kids with technology?
To find out more nancycolier.com and the book The Power of Off.

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DISCOVER YOUR PSYCHIC ABILITIES & TUNE IN WITH TAROT! + Meditation! John Holland| Health | Spirituality | Self-Help | Inspire Nov 06, 2016

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If you've wondered how to tap into your soul, get inner guidance or wisdom, or connect with your higher self, then do we have the show for you!

Today I'll be talking with John Holland, best-selling author, radio-show host, and one of the top psychic mediums and spiritual teachers in the country. He's also the creator of some of the most interesting or accurate sets of tarot cards we've ever worked with.

Today we'll talk about psychic tarot, plus tapping in to your own inner guidance, for greater peace, happiness, and love in your life, plus growing your own intuitive gifts.

That plus we'll talk about unsolved mysteries, falling out of trees, and what in the world is spiritual book camp.

Questions and Topics Include:

Why John was always the different one or the sensitive one in the family
How John began to see things
What happened at a janitor's cave when John was a child
What was unusual about Grandma Rose and Aunt Shirley
How Aunt Shirley would win horse races with her gifts
How John had to keep his abilities quiet
How the family's home was miraculously spared when an entire block of apartment buildings burned
What happened as a boy when he fell out of a tree
The miraculously occurrence while driving on the 10 in LA
How our soul tries to talk with us.
What was John's wake-up call just after 30
Why John is so thankful for his wake-up call
What was the Arthur Findley college or 'spiritual boot camp'
What's the difference between a psychic and a medium
Can we all raise our vibes to touch on mediumship?
How John can teach mediumship
What's a development circle
What is spiritualism and what happened to John in England (and how synchronistic events took place)
What is Psychic Tarot and how did it come about?
How did John make his tarot cards
A tarot card reading to show how it works.
How to trust your feelings
How to move past the fear or resistance when you're using your intuition
What's the most important question to ask when it comes to intuition
What's the importance of asking "is it coming from me or to me"
How do you know it's not you?
How to tell the difference between intuition and imagination
How to tell if you're clairsentient, clairvoyant, or clairaudience (which is the hardest to develop)
Can a husband and wife develop their clairaudience to 'walkie talkie' between the two of them?
What are the keys to developing your skills:
1. Meditation
2. Chakra
3. Aura
4. Breath
Why you want to stay grounded as you develop your spiritual gifts
What you need to do for mediumship
What meditation helps, and how it helps for practicing readings
How John works with the SPCA and the CODA fund www.nhspca.com under donations see a whole page on the CODA fund
Why you want to do something nice this week for someone out of the blue
What's the 'ripple effect'
com – can even choose a card on the website (and check out the frequently asked questions), recommends checking out the newsletter as well
1. On Hay House Radio live every Monday
Coming to Mexico (and elsewhere) as well!
Why it's so important to know you are a soul that comes with a body
A short "Raising the Power" meditation

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HOW TO TELL YOU'RE MAGNESIUM DEFICIENT & WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT!!! Dr. Carolyn Dean | Health | Nutrition | Self-Help | Inspire Nov 05, 2016

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If you've ever struggled with your health, whether energy and fatigue, blood sugar challenges, auto-immune disorders, heart-disease or more, then do we have the Magnesium Miracle show for you.

Today I'll be talk with Dr. Carolyn Dean, the undisputed magnesium queen of the world. She's a global leader in the magnesium movement to help to heal all of us, and the award-winning author of at least 33 books, especially on magnesium including an all-time favorite of mine the Magnesium Miracle.

And that's what I want to talk with her about today, about discovering the missing link to total health, reducing the risk of heart-disease, preventing strokes and obesity, treating diabetes, and even improving mood and memory.

Health & Nutrition Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What magnesium does for the bones
How many people are magnesium deficient
Why are we magnesium deficient
Why more sunlight and vitamin d means we need more magnesium
What's going on with magnesium in the soil
How can we tell if we're magnesium deficient?
What are magnesium deficiency syndromes
Magnesium 101 and what it affects in the body
Why magnesium may be the most important mineral in the body
What we can learn from Tim Rusert's heart-disease
What does magnesium deficiency have to do with heart-disease
How can magnesium help with infertility
Can baby's in utero be magnesium deficient
How magnesium can help people with anxiety – and also depression
EMpowerplus at truehope.com
What does magnesium have to do with asthma?
How magnesium can help with muscle cramps and with periods and cramps
How migraines can dramatically help with migraines and how headaches can be helped
How topical magnesium can help with tendinitis and overuse injuries
How Epson salts can help
What is pico magnesium?
What are the different type's of magnesium and what works best?
Can you take too much magnesium?
What foods can help with magnesium?
What can we learn about hypertension or high blood pressure and magnesium
com or rnareset.com

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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION FOR LOVE, ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIPS! +Meditation! Dr. Laura Berman | As Seen on Oprah & Dr Oz | Self-Help Nov 04, 2016

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If you've ever wanted more love, greater love, or to find the greatest love of your life, then do we have the show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Dr. Laura Berman, Nationally syndicated Radio show host and New York Times Best-Selling author of Real Sex for Real Women, and the author of Quantum Love, Use Your Body's Atomic Energy to Create the Relationship You Desire.

And so today we'll talk about quantum love what it is, how we can cultivate it, and ways to bring it into our lives, consider this show the law of attraction meets love.

That plus we'll talk about the energy of kissing, the power of the number nine, why three minutes matter, and how in the world to manifest quantum sex.

Questions and Topics Include:

What is an AFGE?
What was Dr. Laura Berman's dark night of the soul
How it was predicted Laura was about to have a crisis
Why Robert Ohotto suggested Laura Berman needed to 'land her plane'.
How 'The Secret' and the Law of Attraction affected Dr. Berman
How Dr. Laura Berman went to see Therise Rowley, psychic intuitive
How it turns out her son is clairsentient
How she was able to repair the relationship with her eldest son while healing from breast cancer
What was the seed for her healing?
How she was forced to look at her fear and scarcity
What she was forced to learn about from her cancer
What were the inflammatory causes of her cancer
How we're essentially human tuning forks and what this means for our relationships and our emotions
What Neurobiologist Jill Bolte Taylor who wrote 'Stroke of Insight' teaches us about 'blank slate'
What 'home frequency' and how it can change your life
What the importance is of resonance and having people match you at your frequency
What was Dr. Berman's ah ha moment that started her down the road to Quantum Love
What's a Jedi-mind trick for your relationship
How your vibrational frequency or 'state' can be quantifiably measured
What is a quantum love map?
How Dr. Michael Beckwith was woven into the Quantum Love Map.
How do you get yourself unstuck from ego frequencies.
What does it mean to get clear about what you want out of love – and how to manifest love
How to manifest love when you want a relationship, or in a relationship (how to start at the end)
Love's Danielle Laporte's Fire-Starter Sessions – and what happened on a particular New Year's Eve
1. What are your core-desired feelings? (Really important in the law of attraction world and the quantum love world)
What are quantum love goals?
Find out how you really want to feel in love
Why it's so important to put yourself in the time of imagining
How you can move yourself into the frequency of your emotion to help bring about or manifest a match
How to quantum match (entrainment) to overcome relationship difficulties
How do we overcome limiting beliefs (which is typically the stopping point in the law of attraction)
How to change our subconscious thoughts?
What is Quantum Sex?
What is mind-body-spirit pleasure?
What does an 'energy hangover' mean for singles and sex?
Why you may want to protect your heart if you're having casual sex
What's the intention blessing and how does that help with your different sexual scenarios
How a rose-quartz phallus helped someone to heal from deep emotional wounds
What is the pink sparkly vagina?
What is the energy of kissing?
What is testicular breathing?
How to understand your attention and the power of thoughts when it comes to sex and quantum sex (and what your chakras have to do with it)
How to build a circle of energy to create a full body sensation for full body arousal and orgasm
What is a fire-breath orgasm?
What parents should teach their kids about quantum love (and quantum parenting)
Where can people go to find out more drlauraberman.com – book, radio show (35 markets)
Guided Open-Hearted Meditation (can also be a biofeedback system for yourself)

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If you've ever wanted to shake things lose, improve your life, or step way outside of the box, then do we have the flip things on their head, show for you.

Today we'll talk about how to break through your paradigms, find new paths, and discover new ways to succeed.

That plus we'll talk about changing seasons, getting out of ruts, warmth-warmth, where's the warmth, and what to do when your significant other' is 10,000 miles away.

Paradigm Busting Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What's the benefit of getting rattled around every now and again
What's the importance of getting out of your paradigm
What to do during a blue moment?
What to do when you're in the thick of the challenges?
What's the importance of growth and challenges?
What we can learn from Pele on Hawaii?
What discomfort is a gift in disguise
Why tight and narrow doorways can be beneficial for our lives
What it means to break through paradigms
What it means to be hyper-optimistic
What hyper-gratitude has to do with anything
What is Ho'opono'pono
What happened in a prison psychiatric ward in Hawaii through Ho'opono'pono
What's the importance of 'this too shall pass'
What it means to remain present through your challenges
What's a great Napoleon Hill exercise of going into your fears
How running in the cold has been helping Michael
Why going into your fears can be so healthy for you
What barefoot running in the snow has to do with anything
What's the importance of relaxing into your fear and anxieties
Why changing seasons is so beneficial for us
Why it's important to be forced to change your habits
What to do when you're going through a Dark Night of the Soul
What's the benefit of a gratitude list?
To find more from CJ FireItUpWithCJ.com

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If you've ever wanted to achieve great things, and enjoy the process along the way, then do we have the Fully Engaged Show for You!

Today I'll be talking with best-selling author Thomas M. Sterner, accomplished musician and composer, and the best-selling author of The Practicing Mind, and his latest, Fully Engaged.

And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, how to use the Practicing Mind to accomplish our goals with ease and a sense of calm awareness.

That plus we'll talk about butterfly brains, Laura Decker and sailing, a GPS gone awry, music theory class madness, the power of practicing golf, the little book that could, and an overnight success in only ten years flat, and why in the world you don't want the stagehand to let the pianist in early!

Be Here Now (Mindfulness) Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:

What does attachment and practice have to do with our lives
Why we need to stop clinging to the goal
What the real purpose of a goal is
How to find joy in the process
How he took a leap of faith from professional musician to piano technician extraordinaire
How he got into golf and what it had to do with sports psychology and eastern thought
What's the importance of being in the present moment
What being in the present moment can do for us
Why golf is such a zen sport
What was the goal of writing The Practicing Mind
What the spirit of music did for him
What's wrong with the way people practice?
What is Thought Awareness Training?
What is a butterfly brain?
What is present mind functioning?
What's it mean to be more biased to the observer?
What's the importance of procedures for flying a plane
What's the concept of 'sterile concept' for a pilot
What's the importance of meditation (what he calls thought awareness training)
How to understand you are not your thoughts and that you are the 'observer'
How to use meditation to observe your mind
Why are people better at meditation than we think
Why he's not a big fan of guided meditations
What are perfect opportunities to practice
Why 'mistakes' get a bad wrap
Why we want to risk making mistakes
What was a music class gone bad?
What's the importance of the question 'and then what'?
What did he learn from Laura Decker in her sailing around the world in her teens (made a movie on her – Maiden Voyage)
What was learned from the process of his mother passing away
What did he learn from his mom about love?
What's the importance of non-judgment to yourself
How can we help parents to help their kids become fully engaged
tomsterner.com to find Fully Engaged, also www.thepracticingmind.com, and email tom@tomsterner.com

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DISCOVER THE ART OF GETTING THINGS DONE & STRESS-FREE PRODUCTIVITY! David Allen | Business | Career | Self-Help | Inspire Nov 01, 2016

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If you've ever struggled to get things done, keep on top of your inbox, or keep from singing the to do blues, or the "Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda, If Only I Had the Time" shuffle, then do we have the time free, stress-reducing, show for you!

Today we'll be talking with David Allen, the undisputed king and best-selling author of getting things done.

And that's just what we're going to talk with David about, how in the world do we get things done, without more pressure, more stress, more hours, and less life at the end of our days.

Plus we'll talk about cleaning out our inbox, de-cluttering our lives, jumping chasms over weekends, and how in the world to move past amorphic blobs of undoability.

Questions and Topics Include:

What David means by having 35 jobs by 35.
How David Allen went from those 35 jobs to Lockheed, Palm Pilot, then GTD (Getting Things Done)
How to leverage consciousness or tap in so we can work less
How Getting Things Done is much more elegant and easier if you're on a spiritual path (whether it's the Tao, Buddha, or whichever it is)
How David see's the spiritual significance in everything AND how Getting Things Done helps us on our spiritual paths.
Why things need to be stopped, renegotiated or completed…and how Getting Things Done helps you with the completion process.
How Getting Things Done helps us have more freedom, more space, work less, and plug in more to intuition, heart, spirit, or whatever you want to call the higher source of that 'small still voice' or what guides us.
What are 5 steps we engage in to get things under control
Why getting things done is not about getting things done, it's really about getting appropirately engaged with everything in your life so you're totally present with it.
Why GTD is 'lean for your brain'
How much time does it take to get Getting Things Done going (in home, business, or anywhere)
How to free yourself from feeling overwhelming
What's an amorphic blob of undoability
What's wrong with a to do list?
Why a to-do list is not really a to-do list
What's the problem with people's to-lists and calendars
How to take care of all of your 'open loops'
What's great about mindfulness, but how to make things even easier
Why you don't want to meditate on cat food
And what you want to make sure you do when you meditate to help you focus
Using Inspire Nation as an example for Getting Things Done
Why you want to get everything down to identify the open loops
1. And how long you want to block off to do this
Why it's important to start with where people's attention is, rather than where it should be.
Why it's important to break down the beginning steps of a project
How David Allen discusses the Inspire Nation Club with Michael, and the importance of an "@Jessica List"
Why you don't want to use pop-ups to remind you of things
Why there's an inverse relationship between 'on your mind' and 'getting done'
Why you don't need to meditate to figure projects out, but instead need to practice these techniques and 'build the cognitive muscles'
Why you want to start where you're at.
Why you want to get it all down so that you don't have to over-structure, but can have information there ready to go if you need it.
Where to start with your paperwork
1. What's an important algorithm to help you get through your paperwork.
2. What's a foolproof way to start filing?
3. Why he's a HUGE fan of a labelmaker "there's magic to a labeler"
4. The Dymo PNP labeler is the simplest.
A quick way to begin to clean up email.
How to do this with Gmail
Why a lot of googlers use Getting Things Done (GTD)
How to use gmail as a list-manager
How to use your google-drive spreadsheet as your organizer
What you can do to start today
What's the importance of writing things down
What's the importance of a list manager
Why you want to buy David Allen's Getting Things Done book
1. The center of the book will help coach you through – it's a manual for people.
2. GettingThingsDone.com
3. Also has seminars worldwide
  1. Russia
  2. India
  3. Brazil
  4. Europe
  5. Scandinavia

How David has freed himself from time
Why chill should be the new normal
Why you want appropriately doing to be appropriately being (and what in the world that means)
Why the most being people may also be the highest doing people
A challenging invitation: What would you do if you had more space/time in your life…how would you use it???

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WHY YOU CAN DO ANYTHING - EVEN SAVE THE WORLD! Dr Larry Brilliant! TED Talk Prize| Health | Inspiration | Self-Help | Inspire Oct 31, 2016

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If you've ever thought ANYTHING was impossible, or the challenge was too great, then do we have the Sometimes Brilliant Show for You.

Today I'll be talking with Larry Brilliant, pioneering physician, global philanthropist, and one of the key players in the eradication of smallpox, which has saved millions, of not a billion lives to come. He's also the best-selling author of a brilliant new book, and a MUST read about faith or courage, Sometimes Brilliant.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, about the impossible adventure of a spiritual seeker and visionary physician who helped conquer the worst disease in history.

That plus we'll talk about the importance of juke boxes, Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm Bus, the power of a pomegranate Ben Spock, Martin Luther King, Ram Das, time off for bad behavior, what in the world 420 and the Bhagavad-Gita Gita have to do with anything, who's the world's tallest white monkey, eating car tires, and what Grandma Ida and Electric punch have to do with anything.

Larry Brilliant Notes

What happened with his dad and the mafia
What ancient coins taught him about India
How did he meet Martin Luther King Jr, and how'd he change Larry's life
What does a motorcycle ride and nitrous oxide have to do with anything
Who he miraculously got into medical school
What was a rescue mission to Alcatraz and who was Wovoca?
What happened with Larry and Warner Brothers?
Who's Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm Commune Bus and the Sterling Hog – and touring on the Silk Road
What happened with Ram Das and Be Here Now?
What was it like meeting Neem Karoli Baba – aka Mahara-ji
What is the opposite of faith, and what does doubt have to do with faith
larrybrilliant.com

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HOW TO GET GUIDANCE FROM THE STARS – ASTROLOGY & ASTRO-CARTOGRAPHY! Natasha Alter| Health | Spiritual | Self-Help | Inspire Oct 30, 2016

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If you've ever wondered if the answer's in the stars, and what in the world that means anyway, then do we have the show for you.

Today I'll be talking with astrologer Natasha Alter, about astrology 101 and discovering our path through astrology.

That plus we'll talk about planets rising, presidential inaugurations, psychology in Stockholm, and why in the world mercury is always in retrograde.

Astrology Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

How Natasha was introduced to metaphysics & astrology
What synchronicities have to do with anything?
What it means to embrace the moment and trust in the experience?
What's a natal chart and why does our birth date or time matter?
How long has astrology been practiced?
What does timing have to do with astrology?
How chart astrology is a fantastic tool for learning the power of surrender
What is astro-cartography – of finding your matches to live
What does activation mean?
What it means to be connected
What astrology has to do with time?
How astrology helps you know yourself and be in alignment with you are?
What's wrong with newspaper astrology?
What is mercury in retrograde and what does it mean?
How does astrology help parents in general?
Why chart-reading is so important for a child – and for the parents
natashaalter.com and www.kidsfromheaven.com
What is the shifting of the Ages into Aquarius - what does that mean?

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