Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

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If you've ever felt stuck, plateaued, or like what you're doing just isn't working out, or you can't figure out how to reach your dreams, then do we have the getting unstuck show for you!

Today we'll be talking about getting focused, setting goals, and taking steps, to keep your dreams moving forward, and what to do if you feel you've hit the quicksand.

That plus we'll talk about cold-water swimming, international podcast day, and why feeding the kitty love meter, always pays off!

Business, Career & Health Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include!

Why when we think we're stuck we're likely not
What a shift in perception has to do with our success
What Dr. Joe Dispenza in the Placebo Effect talks about how your thoughts
Why we don't want to identify with our challenges or illness
How our 'presence' comes on line
Why things sometimes have to move slowly toward our success
Why 'slow' is often necessary for business, career, or life sustainability
What's the importance of appreciating right where you are
What's the importance of going with the flow
Why a 'wind up' or plateau can be so important – particularly for putting habits in place
Why flip-flopping like a fish can be a good thing.
Why it's not necessary to know what you want – despite what the experts say!
Why it's so important to surrender
What Pam Grout says about being open to the universe
What it means to get clear with your higher self?
What's the goal of a Joe Dispenza conference
What's the danger of 'one day it'd be nice'
How to shift energetically
What to do when an opportunity comes up?
Why we don't want to hold on too tightly
What it takes to get light, let go, and be open to change
What's it mean to turn things on their heads, or upside down
Whether business, spiritual, or personal, why it's important to 'front load' your most important activities
Why gratitude is such a gamechanger
What Marie Kondo talks about with gratitude for your possessions
How to prepare your mind to see more opportunities
How to become an attractor magnet for positive people and events
What Parkinson's Law has to do with anything
How would cleaning more shift the energy in our homes, work, career, and all that we do
What Jessica Tracy says about pride, and how pride truly matters
What is Pam Grout's AA 2.0

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If you've ever wanted more abundance, love, and happiness in your life, then do we have the Thank and Grow Rich Show for You!

Today I'll be talking with Pam Grout, repeat guest, zombie movie extra, writer extraodinaire, and author of my favorite book I'm placing by my bed, Thank and Grow Rich.

And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about finding shameless gratitude, and unabashed joy.

That plus we'll talk about Kevin Costner and Rumple Stilskin, Santa rules and Santa Hats, Mattel thing makers and creepy crawlers, AA 2.0, eating worm cuisine, walking a bassador, and what in the world Mrs. Trunchbull, has to do with anything.

Thank and Grow Rich Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What happened with Buddy Biancalana
What happened with E-squared and how did her 16th book take off.
How she got a NY Times #1 best-seller
What do you tell people who want to eat worms
What God didn't have bad hair days has to do with anything
What is ferocious gratitude?
How did she crank up the energy after a book flopped?
Why the possibilities possee is so important
What's the most dangerous 4 letter word in the English language?
What's AA 2.0 - the 30 day experiment she recommends everyone does?
Why something amazingly awesome is going to happen to you today.
Why you see more stuff when you're happy
What is sloppy judgment?
What can we learn from Mrs. Trunchbull?
How do we move past the mad and angry inner critic?
How meditation can help with the inner critic
Why it's so important to choose the thought that's gonna make you happy
What is FP
What are different kinds of capital and which are most important?
What are some of the cultural paradigms that are hard to see – and so important to notice
What is Santa Con?
What is creative capital?
Why it's so important to follow your dreams and do what you love to do
Why our thoughts are our prayers
How does gratitude and prayer work together?
Why we're all manifestors
What we can learn from Amy Cuddy and Wonder Woman poses (and grinning like a lunatic)
What we can learn from Marie Kondo (the life-changing magic of tidying up) and why we should thank our possessions
What's the Jimmy Fallon game?
What's a gratitude jar?
What does it mean to spread contagious laughter? (Norman Cousins)
Parenting tips and lessons of gratitude for our kids
pamgrout.com also Facebook fan page, twitter @pamgrout

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If you've ever wanted more to feel better and more confident about your success, and helping others, then do we have the pride-building show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Jessica Tracy, psychology professor and researcher at the University of British Columbia, and author of a groundbreaking book, Take Pride.

Today we'll talk about what pride is, it's double-edged sword, how to get more of the good stuff, and what we really want to leave behind.

That plus we'll talk about Arnold Schwazhenhegger, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Albert Einstein, Lance Armstrong, Stuart Smalley, spilled soup and two year olds, what we can learn from chimpanzees, what's the difference between a captain and a waterboy, And what in the world a mean tuna bagel has to do with anything.

Take Pride Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

How she got into studying pride
What post-impressionist Paul Gauguin has to do with pride?
What does pride have to do with potential?
Is ego also pride?
What they found in people in remote villages in West Africa
What's the importance of the pride expression?
What can we learn from knowing pride is a universal emotion (and not something just for Americans)
What can we learn from Arnold Schwarzenegger?
What is hubris, and what's the down side (or the dark side) of pride?
Is there a career (such as a leader or politician) where pride is important?
What's in-authentic vs. authentic pride?
What can we learn from the Kalahari bushman (from anthropologist Christopher Bohm
What can we learn from Judo athletes in the Olympics
What is narcissism, and what's the video game study behind it.
How early do kids start to feel pride and what can parents do to cultivate authentic pride (and self-esteem)
How pride comes from achievement
1. What's the importance of focusing on who we are, who we want to be, and how we want to get there – mindfulness and awareness
What can we learn from chimps and pride
What can we learn from Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (and what it has to do with each career and with pride)
What can we learn in comparing Obama's pride vs. Donald Trump's pride
What can we learn from the pride of Lance Armstrong?
What's the impostor phenomenon?
What's the dictator game?
What we can learn from Carol Dweck and mindset
What can we learn from Angela Duckworth and grit?
What can we do to help teenagers develop their authentic pride?
How mindfulness and awareness fits into authentic pride?
ubc-emotionlab.ca or http://ubc-emotionlab.ca/take-pride/

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If you've wanted more time in your day, greater success, or to achieve dreams so big you'd scare yourself silly, then do we have the 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, one of the greatest business books of all time… right up there alongside Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich.

And so today, while I want to ask Jay questions about dozens of topics, we're gonna focus on The ONE THING, and that one thing can make your days easier, help you build the life you desire, give you MORE time, and quite possibly greater success than you could ever imagine.

That plus we'll talk about the power of dominos, going small, why big isn't bad, why will power isn't always on will-call, what in the world's a time block, and why we almost all fail at the marshmallow test.

Questions and Topics Include:

How Jay Papasan stopped writing a book on focus, and lost focus to write a different book.
What it means to go small
What is the key battle-cry of The One Thing
What dominos have to do with the One Thing
What it means that one thing can do many things, in business or in life.
How Dominos can move exponentially.
Why a plateau is not necessarily a plateau but a foundation for explosive future growth
What the Six Big Lies in Life and Business are.
Why all things are not equal.
What does the Paredo effect have to do with our to-do lists
Why we need a success list, not a to-do list.
Why it's not about what you do, but what you accomplish.
A three minute technique to radically improve your to-do list and improve your time management.
Why multi-tasking is a lie – Clifford Nass former Harvard then Stanford behavioral scientist who did a study on multitasking.
Why you need to minimize your transition time
What is time-blocking for time management
Why it's so important to use your morning's for the One Thing
Why it's so important to have an assigned time for things in a calendar over your to do list
Why success is not about your will power.
Baba Shiv Stanford motivation study
What was learned from an Israeli Parole board about motivation
What's the important of energy management.
Why it's never about motivation
Why big is not bad
Why successful people aren't trading time for success
Why it was said during a Greg Cardone by Jay "why wealthy people buy time, while poor people sell it."
What is the focus question, the one most important question to ask yourself.
Why it's better to say "I do" then to say "yes"
The importance on learning how to say "no" how to protect your commitments, and say yes to yourself
The importance of lining up your dominos
What's the importance of taking a mental health day
One important tip on time management
How Jay went from 240 to 199.
Seinfeld's secret to success
How to use your calendar for success – and why you want to show it to others.
Why you want to take 5 minutes a day for your One Thing.

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FIND LOVE HAPPINESS & COMPASSION THRU ANCIENT VEDIC WISDOM! Linda Egenes | Motivation | Spirituality | Self-Help | Inspire Sep 25, 2016

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If you've ever looked for more inspiration and guidance in your life, then do we have the dharma show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Linda Egenes, author of more than 500 articles and five books on the benefits of meditation, yoga and other vedic techniques for improving health, and co-author of an incredibly readable version of an ancient wisdom text, a book I can't put down, though it's a LOT of book, The Ramayana.

(Co-authored along with Kumuda Reddy)

And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about dharma, or our existence and the life lessons we can learn from the Ramayana, and how we can put them into place in our lives.

That plus we'll talk about a golden deer, the power of a squirrel, getting swallowed up by mother earth, flying monkeys, rediscovering who we truly are, and why you might not want to date a demon.

Happiness, Compassion & Love Self-Improvement & Self-Help Spirituality Topics Include:

What Maharishi Ayurveda has to do with the Ramayana
What is the Ramayana and why is it read by over 1 billion people worldwide
How the Ramayana influenced George Lucas and Star Wars
Why do these myths always involve wars or tremendous battles
What can we learn about kindness and compassion from this book
What are some of the lessons we can learn here about the nature of our nature
What Tony Nader has written about the Ramayana about how it takes place in our physiology "The Ramayana in Human Physiology"
What can we learn from Hanuman
What is a tapis, and what is a boon?
What's a severe version of meditation?
What is this Romeo and Juliet story and what happened to the lovers
What it means to spiritually remember your spiritual true nature
What does nature have to do with our existence?
Why everyone is viewed as an equal
Why it's important to embrace even our enemies
What's the importance of loyalty in the Ramayana?
What it means to transcend struggle by going to your higher dharma.
What it means to be true to dharma
What in the world is car-horn dharma
What kindness and compassion have to do with everything
Why transcendental meditation works
How the Ramayana can help our kids
What the Ramayana teach children about treating others
What our daughters can learn from Sita in the Ramayana
How meditation is her 'inner woo-hoo'!
To find Linda Egenes's blog: lindaegenes.com

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BECOME SUPER-HUMAN BY TRANSFORMING YOUR GUT! Overcome Chronic Disease + Meditation! Dr. Rodney Dietert | Health | Self-Help Sep 24, 2016

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If you've ever struggled with disease, illness, an auto-immune disorder or allergy, then do we have the super-organism show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Rodney Dietert, professor of immunotxicology at Cornell University, and author of Strategies for Protecting Your Child's Immune System and Immunotoxicity, Immune Dysfunction and Chronic Disease, and his latest book, which I couldn't put down, The Human Superorganism.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, what's our microbiome and how it's revolutionizing the pursuit of a healthy life.

That plus we'll talk about giant-pouched rats, cliff the dog, the power of dark chocolate, why germ free mice are antisocial, the importance of a giraffe's neck, and what a dog's obsession with doves has to do with anything!

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

How he went from a dream to this book.
How he ended up in the documentary microbirth
What happened to him at a conference in Germany
How he went from 30 years on antibiotics to years antibiotic free by addressing his gut and microbiome
Why our microbes in our body have much control or influence over our biology than we think.
What is a superorganism?
What a fight on infectious diseases at now isn't the problem
What's the problem with the ecology and diversity in our body
What's a non-communicable disease (NCD)
Why does one non-communicable disease lead to the next disease?
What NSAIDS including aspirin can harm our microbiome
What it means to be deemed 'safe'
How much of us in made up of microbiomes?
What's the possible harm of GMO's
Why is the immune system really a junkyard dog
Are infants born with a complete immune system?
What do mom's and parents need to know for pregnant women, pregnancy, and unborn children
How do we prevent children from getting non-communicable diseases
What do cravings have to do with your microbiome?
What's the new field of psychobiotics
What's the history behind caesarian section and what's been happening with C-sections?
What's the obesity tree?
How do we begin to heal our microbiome
What it means to get a profile for your microbiome
What's the importance of fermented foods
How do we test our microbiome
What are prebiotics?
What's happening with sugar-free food and artificial sweeteners?
Big foods to watch for:
1. BPA
2. Emulsifiers
What's the importance and danger of hand sanitizers
Rodney Dietert's rules for food shopping
How important are organics
How can meditation help calm our microbiome
What's a 'gut instinct'
What does spirituality, mindfulness and contemplative tools have to do with our microbiome
How can swing dancing help your microbiome?
Why exercise is so powerful for our microbiome?
Why you don't want to exercise too hard for your microbiome?
Why stress-exercise is so bad for the microbiome
How Mindful Running can help your microbiome
Why dancing puts you in a state of coherence (think Heart Math and Howard Martin)
Why it's so important to get out of the fight or flight state
Where can people go to find 'the Human Superorganism'
What people can learn about Cliff the microbiome searching dog
Guided meditation to help with any problem or issue

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If you've ever felt stressed, worried, freaked out, or burdened with concerns you just can't let go of, or if it feels like a saber-tooth's about to jump out at you, and there's no where to hide, then do we have the destressifying show for you!

Today we'll be talking with Davidji, a true expert in the field of stress management, and authors of the Secrets of Meditation and his best-selling book Destressifying: The Real-World Guide to Personal Empowerment, lasting fulfillment, and Peace of Mind.

Today we'll be talking about destressifying your life, getting you out of the fight or flight, I'm about to be eating by a tiger-mode, and help you discover a path of de-stress, greater ease, and far more peace, no matter what you're doing.

That plus destressifying at work, on the phone, on an airplane, and even before the TSA…

Questions and Topics Include:

How he left Zen after only two weeks.
What happened to Davidji after 9/11
How he went to study with (and later work for) Deepak Chopra.
Why it doesn't take 20 years of meditation to reach a place of peace.
Can stress be good for us?
Can you combat stress?
How Eureka moments can turn us into Super-rats, or super people!
What is destressifying?
What do you do when the saber-tooth tiger emails you?
How Elizabeth Blackburn, 2009 Winner of Noble Prize discovered Telomeres
How pattern interrupts can make us happier
How Joe Montana saved the Superbowl with a Mind-stopper!!!
What's the importance of the presence moment
Why a spanner may be in the works!
What is "tactical breathing" or sixteen seconds
A brief mindfulness meditation to stop your mind and give you an instant chance to breathe.
How sixteen seconds can give us the time we need to defuse and step back before we make a decision.
How do we bring pause to people in war zones, or countries with war?
How fight or flight can serve you, and how to tone it down when you need to.
How do we rewire for greater awareness and to stop the fight or flight response, and all of it's negative (cortisol, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc…) challenges.
How do we interrupt the patterns in our mind
How we can practice RPM - rise, pee and then meditate!
A second brief meditation you can practice anytime to help you quiet your mind.
How can we help cultivate self love.
How he brought Blue Courage Awareness Training BCAT training for police officers.
How we transform the world by transforming ourselves.
How to send love to the TSA, and what to do to stay relaxed with airport security – particularly if you're 'randomly selected'
A meta-kindness meditation
About Peaches the Buddha Princes, a rescued Mindful Morkie – who has over 3000 friends on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/buddhaprincess/
Several musicians who practice meditation.
What's a chocolate tasting meditation?
com to join the sweetspot meditation community
Why kindness matters.
A kindness META guided meditation.

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Today we'll be talking with relationship experts and past guests on our show Mali Apple and Joe Dunn the run-away best-selling authors of The Soulmate Experience , and The Soulmate Lover.

Today we're going to talk about the sexy side of things, we'll talk about feeling better about our bodies, allowing ourselves to open up, cultivating greater love in the bedroom, and how to spice things up for the big "O".

We'll also look at the real power of strawberries, why it's sometimes good to be bad, whether size really matters, and the true importance of walking around naked.//

Questions and Topics Include:

Why you're probably not having as much sex as the Jones's, but why they're probably not having much sex either.
Why great sex and love is cultivated from within.
How do we cultivate sexiness as a state of mind.
Why sensual and sexy are really the same thing.
Why sensuality begins with the senses.
The importance of embracing where you are, now.
The secret of the "Magic Door" and what it has to do with power suits
What is a sensual date, and what to really do in the theatre.
Why the grocery store makes for a great date.
The importance of getting into your centered place
Who do we begin sexual healing – which can help our relationships and life.
Since aging is inevitable, why attitude is everything
The true meaning of "oral sex"
Why talking about sex leads to more sex.
The importance of working out for energy levels.
The importance of naked time.
Ask your partner, what do you like in my body, and can you help me to see that.
How to we create and generate our own sexual energy?
Why masturbation may be good for us.
What's the real purpose of masturbation?
How getting into your own sensuality changes the energy you put out into the world.
How to gain more confidence by getting back in your body.
How to speed date and enjoy yourself!
What are sexpectations and how do we free ourselves from them?
Is it okay to fantasize about someone other than your partner?
How to experiment in the bedroom?
How to integrate your partners desires into your relationship?
How to share and create fantasizes with your partner.
Is it okay for a partner's eyes to wander?
How do we cultivate or keep the spark alive?
Why remembering the anniversary isn't as important as living each day as an anniversary!
Why gratitude is huge…plus a ton of "oral sex".
The real importance of the toothpaste cap.
How do we open ourselves up to our orgasmic potential.
The importance of a date night and why we should keep having dates even if you're married or with kids.
What is the "O" zone?
How to move past troubles having orgasms.
How to move past an inability to have an orgasm.
How to allow in the bedroom, orgasm or no orgasm for the most incredible love-filled time.
How women can be multiple orgasmic and why there can be 100's of kinds of orgasms.
What is truly soulful sex?
Why a sex weekend can bring you the greatest happiness.

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If you've ever been stuck up late at night and wondered when to push through, vs. when to throw in the towel, then do we have the kind and gentle, yet striving show for you!

Today we'll be talking about working hard, when to do it, when not to do it, and if you're stuck doing it, how to be kind to yourself in the process!

That plus we'll talk about the power of massage, lake time in the thick of things, taking yourself out, who just turned one year old, kitties and cribs, the power of curtains, and why rescuing a doctor and an accountant was the best thing in the world, particularly if you're on a tandem!

Business, Career & Health Self-Improvement and Self-Topics Include:

The power of gratitude – particularly when you're on a tandem
What's the power of massage
What we 'get' to do when we feel we're short on side.
What's the self-help importance of sleep according to the author of Sleep Smarter, host of the Model Health Show by Shawn Stevenson
Why it's so important to get more sleep when you're having to work hard
What Dawson Church, author of the Genie in Your Dreams has to say about epigenetics and sleep
Why self-care is so important especially when you feel you don't have time for it
What is Parkinson's law and why does that matter?
What does Paul Selig paulselig.com have to do with self-care, self-help, and your spirituality?
What Dr. Joe Dispenza, author of You Are the Placebo has to do with your career
Why having 4 jobs may not be best for your career
Why taking yourself to spiritual events can be important for your spirituality and your path, particularly too when you're short on time
Why saying 'no' to opportunities we're saying no to spirit or the spiritual.
What's the power of yes - Why playing it safe is saying no to your spirituality and is the least safe thing you can do
Why feeling off 'path' is the path.
When it's time to actually give up
Fear vs. love and how to know what's driving you
What's a better way to help our children do their college applications
A powerful phrase to help you get things done
How you're intention or frame of mind can shift everything in your life (from your career to home life, relationships, and everything) all by finding a new perspective
How far Inspire Nation has come over the last year.
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If you've ever wanted more excellence in your life, with a better outlook, health, and greater success, then do we have the easy steps show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Dr. Robert Maurer, a faculty at the UCLA and the University of Washington Schools of Medicine, the director of Science of Excellence, author of One Small Step Can Change Your Life and a second book I am absolutely smitten with, The Spirit of Kaizen!

And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about creating lasting excellence, one small step at a time.

That plus radars and chocolate, tasting insecticide, why *

you don't want left turns, lost wrenches and aircraft carriers, the secret to a good party, the power of a kids meal, why you might want to throw out, your first bite of food, and why it's incredibly important to treat the Zappos van driver right!

Self-Improvement & Self-Help Life, Health & Career Topics Include:

How did Robert get interested in Kaizen?
What career / field was Robert using Kaizen in?
What career was using Kaizen when Robert began studying it?
Why big steps toward success may not be the answer
What does the amygdala have to do with 'big change'
Why big steps tend to lead to big falls
Why self-help big steps aren't what we make them out to be
What can we learn from Jim Collins and Good to Great?
Where does morale come from?
How we can improve the morale of those around you in your career or home?
What we want to do to protect our relationship with our loved one?
What can we learn about the van driver for Zappos (also for Southwest and other organizations)
How do we work with difficult people?
What's neutrality
What does Buddhism have to do with our response to others?
What is the Buddhist idea surrounding the thoughts in our mind
What is the kaizen technique called mind sculpture
What we can learn from Michael Phelps and visualization and mind sculpture
What's the art of compliments?
What can we learn from Carol Dwick and Mindset?
Why giving it your best is most important
Why big bonuses and rewards are not the answer?
What does Toyota have to do with Kaizen?
What's the psychology of mistakes
What are the results of the 15 year study 'Managing the Unexpected'?
What do left turns have to do with the UPS
What do milkmaids and cowpox have to do with anything?
What does throwing out the first bite of food have to do with anything?
How do we lose weight with kaizen
How do we get more nutrition with kaizen small steps
What does data logging underwear (and green lizards) have to do with anything
How can we lose weight by exercising just one minute a day?
What we can learn from fear and anxiety and mindfulness breathing and our breath
How meditation and controlling our breath can help
What's the power of calming our breathing down
How do we move ourselves out of crisis
How do we get rid of our harsh critical inner voice?
What's the importance of gratitude?
Why is gratitude so elusive?
Why are questions the best way to reprogram our brain
What's the danger of isolation?
What is one of the most powerful predictors of future health?
How importance is a spiritual practice or a sense of spirituality
What's the correlation between a spiritual practice and better physical health?
What are the implications for parenting from kaizen?
What's the most important thing we can do for our kids
A beautiful guided meditation
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