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

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

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

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

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

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

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ANGELS – HOW TO PUT THEM ON SPEED DIAL & GET PRAYERS ANSWERED FAST! + Meditation! Marie-Ange Faugerolas | Self-Help | Inspire Sep 18, 2016

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Have you ever prayed to angel, felt an angels presence, or wondered how in the world to call on an angel in a time of desperate need?

Well if so, then you are not alone…and do we have an angelic show for you!

Today we'll be talking with Marie-Ange Faugerolas, best-selling author of over 13 different books, award-winning screenwriter, and an expert in the field of angels.

Today we'll be talking about her new book Angels, The Definitive Guide to Angels from Around the World. We'll discuss whether angels are real, and if so, how to feel one's presence, call one too us, and how in the world we can ask them for help. Plus we'll talk about feng-shui for angels, what clothes to wear and what not to wear, and how we can even take an angelic bath.

Questions and Topics Include:

Is Los Angeles Really a City of Angels?
Making a screenplay on Angels
How Marie-Ange's name came about "Marie Angel"
How Marie-Ange first discovered Angels
Why a child's "imaginary friend" may not be so imaginary – and how to cultivate it!
How to live from the magic that's deep inside of each of us
What are angels, where did they come from, what is their main purpose?
Are angels spirits, ghosts, or departed loved ones?
Can pets be angels?
Why gut reactions can be angelic guidance.
How do we feel or sense that angels are around us?
Why angels may do things in our best interest that don't appear as such in the moment.
How do we call upon angels?
Example prayer for connecting with angels
How to call on angels for energy
How to call on angels for peace
What are the different type of angels, and what kind of angels are all around us?
What is the main mission of angels?
What's the difference between a regular angel and an arch-angel
What is a celestial hierarchy?
Can angels visit many people at the same time?
Do we need to call in a specific angel?
Why calling on specific angels may be the quickest, best answer.
What is an angelic Task Force?
Is it okay to ask angels for money or to help with finances?
How to get divine guidance to discover your purpose?
How to clear space to allow in angels
Why it's so important to declutter for angels
Why angels dance when you set up an altar
The importance of angelic baths and angelic massages
How to give back to angels
What are the best ways to make requests of angels?
Can we ask anything of angels?
What's an invocation we can make to send healing to someone far away?
How to invoke angels for our kids and cultivate that relationship?

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If you've ever wanted to help your loved ones or others to heal, and wished there was something hands on you could do, then do we have the Healing show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Richard Gordon, Best-selling Author of Your Healing Hands and author of one of our favorite books on healing, Quantum-Touch.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, using the power of touch to heal.

That plus we'll talk about JULIUS the Maine Coon, having fun with a stradavarius, charging wine, making grapefruit taste better, Teddy's miraculous recovery, energy ball icons, and what we can all learn from Mr. Rabbit!

Alternative Healing and Medicine Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

What is Your Healing Hands, The Polarity Experience
Who changed Richard's life?
How Richard got into energy healing
What is the body's self-healing mechanism
What does the placebo effect have to do with anything
What it means to run energy (and how did it save Michael Sandler's life)
What it chi, qi, prana, energy or force?
What's important about Dr. Imoto
How healing energy can be put into an object
Can anyone do energy healing?
What does moving energy feel like?
Brief guided meditation for feeling energy
What does moving energy have to do with sex?
What's 4 x 4 breathing?
What does breathing have to do with moving energy?
What do different energy patterns mean?
What does the healing do to the healer?
Does this healing last forever?
Where illness comes from
What does suppressed anger have to do with anything?
What are human blockages that get in the way of our healing
What can help your zen meditation
What is energy healing 2.0
What's the heart-to-heart objects
Do healers need to be unhealthy to heal?
How do we heal ourselves?
quantumtouch.com

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If you ever felt stressed, or anxious and who hasn't these days , then do we have the stress-relieving show for you!!!

Today we'll be talking with Jeanne Ricks, Anti-Stress Expert, nutritional consultant, and best-selling author of The Biology of Beating Stress.

Today we'll talk about the biology of stress…what it is, where it came from, and how in the world to outrun it…or to beat it at it's own game. We'll look at stopping stress, reducing stress, and eating our way to stress free.

Plus we'll look at the momentum of the omemtum, dancing with elephants, the power of the inner scream, and why we might want to the cha-cha, with the circadian rhythm.

What's the benefit of chocolate?
What's the biological basis for stress?
What's the problem with stress?
What's the momentum of the omentum?
What's the danger of visceral fat?
What's the stop technique?
How can a smile help with stress?
Why the brain only knows what you tell it.
What are techniques we can start on a biological level to turn stress around?
How can breathing help to reduce stress?
How can alternating nasal breathing help reduce stress?
Why we want food with the greatest "information"
1. Phytonutrients
2. Plant Life
3. Vitamins
4. Minerals
How food becomes medicine because of the quality of the information of your food.
Why men who are almost 50% more likely to get diabetes because of stress
The value of starting meals with 3 deep breaths
What foods are calming?
What foods should we take under stress?
Why you want a very small amount of "clean" protein each month
How she defines "clean" protein
The dangers of processed foods
What are considered processed foods?
How can stretching help reduce our stress?
Are people exercising too much?
Why longer exercise movements can actually hurt you (and keep the weight on)
Why you lose muscle each year, and what it means to your metabolism
What's the benefit of HIIT training
Why Suzanne Somers gets HGH injections, but instead a NATURAL way to do it.
What's the benefit of glutathione?
How exercise can slow your aging
How you can fool the brain to burn more calories than it wants to.
How exercise can help prevent cancer or prevent you from getting sick
How do we dance with the elephants?
How can we let out stress?
What's an inner scream?
What's the benefit of wall push-ups
How do we give people permission to heal and to feel better?
How can meditation biologically help with stress?
What's the importance of our relationship with sleep?
How you can sleep off fat
How do we cultivate self-love?

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If you have a child that's struggling at home or at school, with discipline, academics, health, or getting along with other kids, then do we have the balanced and barefoot show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Angela J. Hanscom, pediatric occupational therapist, founder of Timbernook, an award-winning development and nature based program, and the author of a fantastic new book, I couldn't put down, Balanced and Barefoot.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today. About how unrestricted outdoor play makes for strong, confident, and capable children.

That plus we'll talk about tummy time, spinning caurosels, climbing trees, getting lost, eating dirt, playing in the dark, the power of Alpacas, playing in the rain, why we might want to put our babies out in the cold, the power of spinning, loose parts, and why flying from swingsets, just may be the greatest thrill in the world!

Happy Healthy Children Self-Improvement and Self-Help Parenting Topics Include:

What was happening with Angela's daughter?
Why our expectations for kids are not necessarily developmentally appropriate
What's going on with child development today
What has happened to kids core strength and balance skills
What is Tummy Time?
Why do kids need floor time?
What is active play for kids?
What's the importance of crossing the midline
What's container baby syndrome (and what do flat heads have to do with anything)?
What's the harm of restricting children's movement?
What's the importance of the outdoors?
What it means that nature is the ultimate sensory experience
What's wrong with bright colors and things on the wall in classrooms, nursery, and kindergarten
What's wrong with trying to 'engage' the child in school
Why kids need to climb trees
What's wrong with putting 'safety first' for our kids
What's the importance of dirt and what's the hygiene hypothesis?
What we can learn from Lenore Skenazy author of Free Range Kids
What's developmentally appropriate freedom for kids at different ages
How spinning improves attention (for students with ADD and ADHD too)
What's wrong with today's playgrounds
What are 'loose parts' for kids?
What's wrong with recesses today?
What's the challenge with organized sports for children today?
How much outdoor time should parents give kids get at different ages – and how can it help a child's development?
What's unique about what they do with children in Sweden and Finland?
What you should look for in an environment to raise your children
Is boredom okay for children
What are some of the biggest fears of parents?
What is Timbernook, Timbernook.com

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If you've ever wondered how to fit it all in, get everything done, or take your ideas from the drawing board to the printing press, then do we have the actionable show for you!

Today we'll be talking about getting things done, what it takes, how to do it, why it's not all about discipline, and what are the most important steps you need to take.

That plus we'll talk about the power of carrots, de-cluttering magic, shrinking bicycles, musical chairs, lake, lake, where is the lake, why less time is best, and the magical power of hammocks.

Getting Things Done Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

How do we change and appreciate what we have done vs. trying to cram some more in
What we can learn from Scott Belsky on Making Things Happen
What it means that everything is a project
Whether we need to be task driven or love driven
Why you want to balance your organization and creativity
What Myers Briggs has to do with creativity and getting things done
What's the importance of mini-deadlines
What's the What-Is-Next WIN strategy
Why parents need to step away from their kids to allow them to get things done.
What's the importance of structure, and when you do vs. don't want it
Why it's dangerous to want too much 'freedom' when doing a project
Why safeguards may be necessary.
What Harvard Professor Brian Little says about Biogenics
What your natural tendencies have to do with getting things done
What a Jungian unclaimed part of yourself is
What it means to get wholly in balance
What our Ayurvedic body/mind state has to do with anything
What are rewards and why are they important?
What's the importance of our inner nature
What our environment has to do with getting things done
What we can learn from Shaman Sandra Ingraman and whether an environment resonates with your soul
What's the importance of working step-by-step on things
What it means to have your own personal zen zone?

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If you've ever wanted to achieve your goals, get things done, or take your ideas from inception to reception, then do we have the happening show for you!

Today we'll be talking with Scott Belsky, co-founder and former CEO of Behance, investor and author and the international best-selling author of Making Ideas Happen.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, about overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality to turn your ideas into spectacular achievements, or at least get things done!

That plus we'll talk about Zappos and cowbells, the dangers of brainstorming, killing ideas liberally, the benefits of fighting, the tao of follow-up, and why we all need a quieter lizard-brain.

Creativity, Career & Entrepreneurial Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include?

What Scott learned at Goldman Sachs in Pine Street
What he learned about creativity in business from Harvard Professor Teresa Amabile
1. What he was learning about how to take extraordinary creative people and help them be more productive
What is Behance?
1. What's the importance of organization in your career or entrepreneur
What can we learn from the artist Thomas Kinkade
What can we learn from James Paterson
What is the creativity and impact formula and why is it important
What's the 'creative's compromise'
What's the Action Method and how do we get projects started?
What's the power in your career of sharing your ideas with others?
What are our action steps?
How do we keep from having a reactionary work-flow
What do we do to manage our email
What can we learn from David Allen's Getting Things Done strategies
What can we learn from Seth Godin and having a 'quieter lizard brain'?
What's the tao of follow-up?
What's the importance of rituals in business, success and getting things done
What can we learn from Zappos and cowbells?
What can we learn from Chris Anderson and wired?
What's the importance of sharing your ideas liberally in your career and business?
What are the benefits of fighting in your company and as an entrepreneur or team / career member?
What it means for a team to have a really strong immune system
How do we try to maximize happiness and what's the benefit of play in the workplace?
Where his 'Positive Slope' writing is: https://medium.com/positiveslope and on Twitter @scottbelsky

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WHAT YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE MEANS FOR YOUR SUCCESS & HAPPINESS! Dr. Brian R. Little | Ted Talk | Health | Self-Help | Inspire Sep 12, 2016

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If you've ever wanted to be happier, more content, and more comfortable with who you are, and those around you, then do we have the personality revealing show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Dr. Brian R. Little, researcher, author, and professor, voted the favorite professor by students at Harvard for three consecutive years! He's also the author of a fascinating book on who in the world we are, and why we operate the way we do, Me, Myself, and Us.

And that's what we'll be talking about today, about the science of personality and the art of Well-Being, and how it can change our lives.

That plus we'll talk about bathtub farts and lumberjacks, music that makes your hair stand on end, why the professor's left shoe is an introvert, the dangers of caffeine after 3, what in the world is cyberia, what North Dakota has in spades, why you don't want to follow the professor into the bathroom, the power of weisel words and why extroverted females, may be the most heroic of them all!

Happiness & Success Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

What we can learn from his Ted Talk (s) and how do we know he's an introvert?
How do we tell if someone is an introvert or an extrovert
Can we shift from introvert to extrovert
What are personal constructs?
What can we learn from Jack and the lumberjack
What can we learn from a Harvard Student who'd been in Army ROTC
What's it mean to be in your own cage?
How you can grow resiliency
What can we learn from the Myers Briggs test
What are stand up chameleons
What are the big five dimensions of personality
How epigenetics and social powers can change aspects of our human genome and therefore our personality
What happiness really is, means, and how important is it really
Why introverts use weasel words
What is hardiness or resiliency and can it be learned?
What does hostility have to do with type A personalities
What we can learn from play
What's the importance of play
What do we need to know about personality and creativity
What is the creative project?
What's the hero view of the creative personality
How are geography and personality intertwined?

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INTUITION – HOW TO TUNE IN, TRUST & TRIUMP! + Meditation! Penney Peirce | Inspirational | Spirituality | Self-Help | Inspire Sep 11, 2016

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

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

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

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

Questions and Topics Include:

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

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THE CASE FOR CARBS & EATING FOODS YOU LOVE, WHILE LOSING WEIGHT FOR GOOD! Dr. John McDougall | Fitness | Self-Help | Inspire Sep 10, 2016

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Do you love your corn, potatoes, beans and rice, and wish that they just weren't starches so you could eat them to your heart's content?

Well if so, then do we have a myth-busting, turn-things-on-their-heads, no potato left unturned, starchy show for you!

Today we'll be talking with Dr. John McDougall, author of 12 National Best-Selling books, including The Starch Solution: Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good!

Today we'll be talking about starch, what it is, why it's supposedly not good for us, what the studies show, why you've never heard this before, and perhaps the shocking truth.

For I want to get to the bottom of this, because I love my potatoes and with a bit of salt, but for years, wouldn't touch a single one. I've been high ketone, high fat, high veggies, lots of green smoothies, but always, above and beyond everything else, LOW STARCH…and don't even get me started about the glycemic index. But we'll talk about all of it today in a mind-blowing, myth-busting show. Nothings sacred today, and especially not the potato.

Questions and Topics Include:

What it's like windsurfing in Bodega Bay.
What Dr. McDougall's health was like growing up
How Dr. McDougall had a massive stroke that left him completely paralyzed at the age of 18.
How Dr. McDougall became a sugar plantation doctor
How he began to notice the older workers were healthier than the younger (first generation vs. second or third generation)
Walter Kepner, Rice Diet, and 1939.
How it became clear that diet was an effective healing solution.
Why a diet high starch helped with healing
Why a simple diet can be effective and nutritionally safe
Why we need to look at early studies that weren't backed by industry.
How Dr. McDougall is in the process of suing the egg industry.
Why there's a conflict of interest with the USDA
How industries started to buy there way in beginning in the 1980's.
Why studies were made to favorably affect industries
How do we get unbiased information?
Why there's a protein myth and never a case of protein deficiency ever.
Why people are being convinced to buy products they don't need – it's called 'unique positioning' – and what it means to you.
How study's are biased and slanted in favor of industry and particular results
Why starches may actually be good for us.
How can starch be good for us?
Doesn't starch turn into fat?
Don't starches hurt our blood sugar levels?
Why fat paralyzes insulin causing blood-sugar problems
Why you want 90% of your calories from basic starches
Why Paleo would disagree with a high starch diet
Why we've been starch eaters back before we were even humans
What do we see from being on a 90% starch diet.
Where you can find stories, studies, and over 600 recipes - drmcdougall.com
1. Studies on curing type II diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and more
2. Look at colored book on food poisoning
  1. Animal foods
  2. Vegetable oil