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If you've ever wondered where are we going and how in the world will we get there, then do we have the uncharted show for you!

Today I'll be talking with internationally acclaimed intuition expert, oracle expert, and host of the TV show Messages from Spirit, and the best-selling author of a life guiding book, Uncharted.

Today we'll talk mastering the courage to step into the unknown, facing unfamiliar landscapes and answering the call to transform ourselves and our lives, and to reprogram our subconscious.

That plus we'll talk about silver roads, spiritual narcolepsy, Wayne and Garth, George Burns and John Denver, a house full of pomeranians, dragon flies and shopping for houses, the importance of a beautiful beaming white heritage soft-tail Harley, and what in the world does FRED, has to do with anything.

Uncharted Spiritual Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What happened when she did a particular TV show, Messages from Spirit, recording?
What in the world's a half-slobbery state?
What's the significance of the name Fred?
How she's a student of Dr. Joe Dispenza
What is the great mind
What's humor have to do with this world?
Why self-evolution is serious business, and why we don't want to take it seriously
What's spiritual amnesia and spiritual
How she was shown her path and her highest good
How she wanted to play it safe and avoid criticism
What happened with her Harley motorcycle
What's the danger of not being your authentic true self
What is the non-self, and how do we move forward in life?
How do we move past our subconscious and the internal blocks we have
How do we reprogram our subconscious mind
What's the importance of by-passing the subconscious?
What gives the opportunity for change
An exercise to help reprogram the subconscious
What dragons and birds have to do with the subconscious?
How to drop the fear and have courage
What's one realm we get to work on first
What's the importance of training our dragons
What do dragons and Avitar have to do with our happiness
What's the importance of being grateful in advance
What we can learn from Pam Grout in Thank and Grow Rich.
What's the Uncharted Facegroup also www.colettebaronreid.com
What's most important for kids these days

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WHAT YOUR GUT IS TRYING TO TELL YOU & WHY YOUR HEALTH DEPENDS ON IT! Dr Emeran Mayer| Ted Talk | Health | Self-Help | Inspire Oct 08, 2016

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If you've ever wondered why you're struggling with your health, your emotions, or your mind, then do we have the Mind-Gut Connection Show for You.

Today I'll be talking with Emeran Mayer, MD, who has studied brain-body interactions for the almost 40 years and is considered a pioneer and world leader in the area of brain-gut microbiome interactions and chronic pain. He's the author of an astounding new book and look at our minds and our health, The Mind-Gut Connection.

And that's just what we'll talk about today, how the hidden conversation within our bodies impacts our mood, our choices, and our overall health, and what we can do about it.

That plus we'll talk about exotic Bavarian chocolates, the dangers of eating mad, gut microbes and making Xanax, breast milk and valium, dietary lessons from the Yanomami, a bus-ride that shall forever live in digestive infamy, and what in the world rhesus monkeys have to do with going to college.

Gut Health & Microbiome Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

How he started listening to his gut and where it steered him
What's the power of journaling?
How many microbes are in us and on us?
What do microbes have to do with what we think, feel and say
How to listen to your gut when you're shopping for food
What's a new view of the human being or the human superorganism
What are we really made of?
What is the human microbiome?
What is the language of the microbiome
Who is driving the ship, or how are the micro-organisms controlling or talking to us
How changing the microbiome changes whether we gain or lose weight
Why we have to be careful which microbes we feed
How our microbiome has developed for our modern poor diet
What's the danger of eating angry?
What's the power of prayer for your food
What does your childhood has to do with your gut?
How we can help our children's guts
How our guts and microbiome has been changed over multiple generations
How to prevent our kids from getting obese
What we can learn from Michael Pollan
What the stress on the mother (during pregnancy too) does for the microbiome of the baby
What's the importance of breast-feeding
What happiness and positivity have to do with your child's microbiome
What's the French paradox?
What are some of the healthiest diets in the world
What's the danger of emulsifiers and additives
What does our food have to do with our mood
How does meditation and mindfulness change the microbiome
How does spirituality and spiritual practices change your microbes
emeranmayer.com – find lots of interviews and video clips On The Mind Gut Connection
What's a Buddhist approach to our microbiome
What has his meditation practice been like
What focusing on our breath in meditation has to do with our microbiome

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HOW TO FIND YOUR HAPPY PLACE! + Meditation! Ally Hamilton Yoga's Healing Power| Inspiration | Health | Self-Help | Inspire Oct 07, 2016

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Today I'll be talking with Ally Hamilton, yoga teacher, writer and life coach, and the founder of www.YogisAnonymous.com. She's also the author of a fantastic book on healing yourself from the inside out, Yoga's Healing Power.

And that's just what I want to talk about today, about looking inward for change, growth, and peace, on a path filled with forgiveness and LOTS of self-love.

That plus we'll talk about posting dogs in downward dog, scorpions and frogs, vipassana, cushions and near-mental breakdowns, a spiritual experience under a sink, being a tall drink of water, And what in the world the cheese man has to do with anything

Yoga's Healing Power Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include

How was her first Yoga class?
How Yoga was a humbling experience
Why the pose is not the point
What a new toddler does to your life, your relationship, and business
What the importance has been of a daily practice
Why we replay the traumatic events in our lives
How a Vipassana retreat changed her
org for Vipassana retreats
How her little kids do yoga and meditate (son 10, daughter 7)
How do you work on attachment?
What's the importance of self-love
What it means no mud, no lotus
yogisanonymous.com

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If you've ever felt unclear, unsure, or uncertain about your direction, or where you're heading, then do we have the reassuring show for you!

Today we'll talk about faith, what it means, what it doesn't how to have more of it, but why you don't want to go in blind.

That plus we'll talk about running scared, swimming in the cold, packing calendars, and what in the world, book tours without books, has to do with anything.

Health, Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:

What happened at a retreat with Joe Dispenza
What this has meant to her mindfulness and presence
How money magically appeared – from listening to her intuition
What it means for one's life to reboot
What CJ's learned from a Paul Selig event
What's a kundalini awakening
What CJ learned from a Byron Katie event
What in the world is a spiritual orgasm
What happened with Stewart Pierce's chanting
What happened with a Shaman in ceremony
What's a spiritual attunement?
What's the difference between faith and blind faith
What it means to let go and surrender
Lessons on faith and spirituality from swimming in cold waters
What virtual reality has to do with current reality and spirituality
What we can learn from Colette Baron-Reid and Uncharted
What it means to step beyond a place of fear
What CJ learned from James Van Pragh
What we can all learn from astral projection
What it means to believe it and you will see it
Why Pam Grout says the most dangerous four letter word is 'Hard'

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If you've ever felt inundated, overwhelmed, or drowning in email, then do we have unsubscribe show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Jocelyn Glei, productivity, time management and creativity expert, and author of 3 fantastic books, Manage Your Day-to-Day, Maximize Your Potential, and Make Your Mark, and her latest productivity extravaganza that I've PERSONALLY needed to manage my email, Unsubscribe.

And that's what we'll be talking about today, how to manage your inbox, kill email anxiety, avoid distractions, and get real work done.

That plus we'll talk about rat brains and random rewards, the power of emoticons, nibblers vs. batchers, the importance of a power-nap, why you'd want to send 600 Christmas cards to random strangers, and how not to be an email idiot.

Email Time-Management Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

What's wrong with email today
What B.F. Skinner found about positive rewards and rats (and how that affects our careers and email behavior)
What is email doing to us from a stress point of view
When we do not want to check our email
What's the importance of writing your to-do list
What's the progress paradox and what's wrong with Inbox Zero
What's a negativity bias in email
What's an inbox guilt complex?
What's the rule of reciprocity?
What is the Newtonian physics of email
What is FOMO and what's it have to do with email?
How to get your goals up on a board in front of you – to see your long term career, business, and life goals
What's a good daily email routine
What's a reboot ritual?
How often should we check our email daily?
What she learned about checking email from working with writers when at 99u.com
What's the importance of setting expectations
A good way to use folders, but why she doesn't use them (and what she does you)
What David Allen's 2-minute rule has to do with Email (David Allen – Getting Things Done)
What's a switching cost
Why multi-tasking makes us stupid
What's an email audit
How to make pitches, and when is it polite to respond
What are pitches or emails that provoke action?
Why we need to take another look at how we write emails
How do we keep from being an idiot on email?
Why you want to be as positive as possible via email
Any advice for parents for kids with their email (or millennials)
What's the importance of a technology Shabbat, or an email Shabbat
How to find Jocelyn Glei – go to www. jkglei.com and jkglei/unsubscribe

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HOW TO LIVE LIFE OPEN-HEARTED!!! Leah Pearlman FaceBook 'Like' Button Creator! + Meditation! Health | Self-Help | Inspire Oct 04, 2016

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If you've ever wanted to feel better about yourself and put the heart and passion back in your life, then do we have the happiness show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Leah Pearlman, human-being extraordinaire, the creator of the Facebook Like button, Facebook Pages, and a phenomenal new book that tugs at your heart strings, Drawn together.

And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about our opening our hearts and bringing more happiness back in.

That plus we'll talking about Momo the cat, the power of burning man, learning to surf, dressing like a kitty, Tim and kissing pencils, and what in the world bees and BandAids, has to do with anything.

Inspirational Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

How did she create the Facebook Like Button
What was the dual life she was living while having a career at Facebook
How she became bulimic in middle school
What her 2 x 4 was that stopped her in her tracks
How she took a break from Facebook and how she ended up at Burning Man
What's the Axis of Contrast?
How she got a relationship with art
How she learned about doing things for the sake of doing them
How she first experienced forgiveness
What she gained from a 10 day Vipassana retreat
How she had never done anything spiritual or spirituality related before, and how she began to relate with spiritual people around the world
How did her drawings come about?
What's universal about her drawings
What's the importance of loving yourself
What her life's journey or spiritual practice is
How she began to find self-love
What's the mirror practice in the movie What the Bleep.
Why affirmations have never worked for her
What's her favorite practice now
What's the importance of asking questions
What are the answers she hears when she asks 'what is my practice'
What her first tattoo felt like and how she used mindfulness to pay attention to the tattoo pain.
What does 'bees and bandaids mean'
What's the benefit of paying attention
What happened at her Ted Talk in Boulder Colorado?
What's a Values Based Life?
What's the Leah Cat?
What's the importance of awareness and validating the current experience.
What Byron Katie means by every thought is just wanting a friend
What's the importance of self-love?
Dharmacomics.com – can order the book
What's the importance of the little steps
Why putting the attention on something, makes it doable
A beautiful guided curiosity & awareness meditation

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If you feel like you're being pulled in too many directions, have too many competing demands, or are working yourself to the bone, but not getting where you want to go, then do we have the show for you!

Today we'll be talking with Greg McKeown, author of one of my all-time favorite books, the NY Times best-seller Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.

Today we'll talk about the power of less, of letting go of everything that doesn't serve you and focusing all your efforts on just what's essential.

That plus we'll talk about the how to go in monk mode, why we all want to go fly a kite, why sleep is the new status symbol, what a dinosaur covered in pink flamingos has to do with anything, and why from here on out, there's no more Yes. It's either Hell Yeah, Or No!

Questions and Topics Include:

What is the power of less?
How'd Greg go from Law School in London to Essentialism
1. Question: What would you do if you could do anything?
2. What his dad said to Greg when he told him he was thinking of quitting law school – and what in the world Hamlet has to do with anything
Why is it that otherwise successful people and companies don't break through to the next level?
What is the paradox of success?
What's the challenge that comes with success?
What is the undisciplined pursuit of more, and why is it so dangerous (and it's the natural extension of success)
Why success can be a catalyst for failure
Why according to Bill Gates "success is a very poor teacher
How do we become successful at success?
What is a contribution or fulfillment gap?
What does it mean to retire in roll?
Why you should do only the things that bring you the most value
Why saying yes to everyone is saying no to everything
Why you want to do few things done better to break through to the next level
Why our culture is biased to on having to do it all – which makes it more difficult to have success
What's the philosophy of non-essentialism?
Why you can't have it all.
Why we want to choose less but better
Why the undisciplined pursuit of more makes Greg McKeown furious because it is "a lie which does not deliver on any of its promises"
Why the undiscipline pursuit of more
Why the antidote is the disciplined pursuit of less or better.
What is a core mindset or the logic of essentialism?
How to clean out your physical and metaphorical closet
What Mary Condley suggests (about cleaning out our closet)
What's the importance of the simple question "Does it spark joy?"
How to explore; eliminate and excute; use resources to Reallocate – in the closets of our life
What's the invincible power of choosing to chose?
Why you don't 'have to do' things
Why the power of choice can be 'forgotten' with non-essentialism
What's the 'invincible power of choice?
Why Southwest Airlines has been so successful, and what we all can learn from them
What's the harm of a straddled strategy?
How do we protect our time so we can start to narrow things down?
What is the 90% rule?
Why you constantly want to increase the dial of selectivity
Why if it's not a definite lens, it's a definite no.
Why do we want to all go fly a kite?
Why play is essential and why we want to play our way to learn (especially important for our children!)
Why is sleep the new status system?
What's a bogus badge of honor in the busy-ness bubble we're in
How we're waking up to sleep being critical to high performance
What the mind blowing truth is on the 10,000 hour rule from the Eric Anders study that's quoted in Malcolm Gladwell's book.
Why you do not want to 'be a machine'
Why sleep is a must because it 'helps you discern the vital few from the trivial many'
Why relationships with children are 'hard if you work easy at them and easy if you work hard at them'
What's the importance of the idea of 'inter-generational family'
How to get first chapter for free – sign up for his newsletter at GregMckeown.com
What are a few of Greg McKeown's favorite books?
Why we should all read a bit of the 'wisdom literature'

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HOW TO FIND HEAVEN ON EARTH! + Meditation! Anita Moorjani - Dying to Be Me | Inspiration | Spirituality | Self-Help | Inspire Oct 02, 2016

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If you've ever thought we've got things flip-flopped backwards and upside-down on earth, then do we have the heaven on earth show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Anita Moorjani, the New York Times Best-selling author of Dying to be Me; and a guest I've been looking forward to speaking with for as long as we've had this show. She's now the author of a beautiful new book, with a fantastic orange rose on the cover, What if This is Heaven?

And that's what I want to talk with her about today, how our cultural myths prevent us from experiencing heaven on Earth and unconditional love.

That plus we'll talk about, chocolate and deserts, perfume and handbags, cities vs. seaside's, skirts and synchronicities, the significance of orange roses, and what in the world battlestar galactica, has to do with anything!

Heaven On Earth Spiritual Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

What's the significance of orange roses?
What Dr. Wayne Dyer has to do with Anita Moorjani, Dying to Be Me, and What if This is Heaven?
Why we have to shine bright and stay away from being fear based
What was Anita's life before and after her NDE?
What it means to surf the waves?
What happened to her while growing up
Debunking the myth – you get what you deserve
What happened with constant feelings of being less than, not worthy, and not good enough
What's the opposite of 'you get what you deserve'? (and why it's not your karma)
Why the law of attraction does not mean you're attracting negative situations into your life
What's the problem with the Law of Attraction?
What is true unconditional love?
What does it mean we're born perfect just as we are?
Is it possible to 'screw things up'?
What it means to remove judgment?
How we move past the fear of screwing up?
What's the incredible importance of being authentic?
What's the most important advice for parents and children today
What does loving yourself look like?
What does it mean to move past fear on your path of passion and joy?
What it means to align yourself with your divine light?
What does it mean to turn inward: meditation, mindfulness, the kitchen sink?
What might be wrong with our meditation practice?
What's the spiritual purpose of meditation, or what should meditation really look like?
Why real love doesn't mean anything goes – but what real love really means!
What do fireflies have to do with the sun?
What are non-negotiables in her relationship with her husband
Why we are ALL worthy of unconditional love
Why gentle is the new strong
What you need in your health care
What is an information fast?
What it means to feel what's good for you
What it means that spiritual people are above (not) having an ego!
What's wrong with competition
Why we want collaboration in our world
What advice do parents need to know for guiding children and teens?
What important things we want to teach kids about, rather than their academics
What's a beautiful practice of sending love we can do each day
anitamoorjani.com also Anita Moorjani facebook page, also radio show on 12 noon pacific every Wednesday on www.HayHouseRadio.com
A beautiful spiritual meditation to guide you in this life and help you live a life without regrets

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If you ever felt you're aging too quickly, get cold after cold, or your immune system just isn't what it used to be, or how you think it can be, then do we have the anti-aging, health-boosting show for you!

Today we'll be talking with New York Times Best-Selling author and Longevity expert Dr. Mark Liponis co-author of Ultra-Prevention and best-selling author of The Hunter Farmer Diet Solution and Ultra-Longevity.

Today I want to talk with him about ultra-longevity, and ultra-health, how boosting our immune system can help us live longer, healthier, and more energized lives!

That plus we'll talk about the power of dance, developing a dream mantra, the power of music-therapy, and why we all need our vitamin L – Love that is.

Questions and Topics Include:

Why is Hook a favorite movie?
What got him into holistic medicine?
What is Canyon Ranch and how did Dr. Mark Liponis end up there?
What Dr. Liponis and his wife have learned by volunteering in Laos.
What is Immune System 101?
What is the innate intelligence of the Immune System
What is innate immunity?
What is the thymus and why is it so important?
How does having a stronger immune system help us live longer?
Why dirt is so good for the immune system
What can we do to strengthen, smarten, rebalance, and 'control' our immune system?
How stress produces an immune system response
How stress leads to inflammation
How sleep apnea affections inflammation
What's the importance of the breath and the immune system?
What's the power of the sigh?
Why wind-instruments, singing, and the dijereedoo are great for breath work
How can we use food to bolster or get our immune system into balance?
The importance of not eating too much
How our metabolism slows as we get older
What are some immune friendly foods?
A supplement you should take if you don't take fish oil (as a vegan)
What are two of the most important high-fiber foods to eat daily – that you may not even think of.
Why you need to start slowly when eating beans
How does sleep affect the immune system
A secret to a good night's sleep you've probably never thought of?
What are the dangers of sitting?
What is Vitamin L?
What's the importance of a pet?
What's a love journal?
How can you use Facebook as a love journal?
Can you tell us about Bilbo Baggins house on Lord of the Rings?
What's the danger of mold in a home?
Why vitamin D is very important in the winter time
What it's important to know about probiotics vs. antibiotics
Why fiber's so important for probiotics

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If you've ever wondered where you were going in life, where you want to go, or how in the world to get there, then do we have the life direction show for you.

Today we'll be talking about tapping into your heart, figuring out where you want to go, and the first few steps toward getting you there.

That plus we'll talk about the power of equinox, fall swimming, world podcast day, dharma comics, the most beautiful town in America, and why you might want to move your car, before you fall asleep.

What losing your keys has to do with anything and what's the spiritual significance
What a rebooting phone means for your life
What's the spiritual significance of equinox
How to get light enough to pivot
How do you put more space between each event to slow things down in your life
What proper running stride looks like and what it has to do with life direction and spirituality
Visualizations for proper walking and running tecniques
What in the world the duck butt is
Why you want to move like a spring when walking or running
How to go fast without striving to do so?
How to prevent running injuries
What we can do to reframe our experiences (or view them with a new perspective)
What we can do to make others (and ourselves) feel better on the subway
High to vibrate at a higher frequency or at a higher state
How to get higher vibration answers to your problems
Why it's so important to try and figure out what you like, and what you enjoy
What's the importance of asking 'what would love do'?