Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

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If you've ever been short on time, not had enough time, or felt at wit's end to find the time, then do we have the time finding show for you!

Today we'll be talking about making time, finding time, getting more efficient with your time, plus finding the time to breathe.

That plus rolling research, dancing in the rain, schedule flips, trips to Taiwan, and what in the world podcast launch accelerators have to do with anything.

Making time, finding time, and finding the time to breathe

What's misplaced 'doing' energy look like and how does it affect our psyche, and our career
What it means to change your schedule in your career or life
What does a shift in the weather do to people
What does a Podcast Launch Accelerator have to do with anything?
What does changing your diet do to you – what's the ripple effect?
Why different locations – geographically, have different energies
What we can learn from Tommy Rosa and Health Revelations on Heaven and Earth
Why the woo-hoo works for some, and not for others.
Why there are different shows that resonate with different people and why it's all about the energy
What's the importance of understanding our filters
What happened with the Cardiologist and the Accountant
What heart-coherence has to do with anything
What rain shadows in Sequim Washington has to do with anything
Why people in Seattle don't carry umbrellas
What we can learn from Carl Honore, his Ted Talk and The Slow Fix
Why self-care's required when you get busy
Why you need to take time to meditate when you get busy
When you have to slow down

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HOW TO OVERCOME HEARTBREAK & BUILD YOUR ESTEEM! + Meditation! Susan Anderson | Relationships | Love | Self-Help | Inspire Sep 08, 2016

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If you've ever struggled with heartbreak or loss, and who hasn't, then do we have the show for you.

Today I'll be talking with psychotherapist Susan Anderson, founder of the abandonment recovery movement, and the author of four trailblazing books including The Journey from Abandonment to Healing, Taming Your Outer Child, and her latest, The Abandonment Recovery Workbook.

And that's just what we'll talk about today, about overcoming heartbreak,

whether from a divorce, breakup, loss of a job friend health or dream, and helping build esteem, resolve issues, make better choices, and increase your capacity for love.

That plus we'll talk about abandaholics, black swans, emotional splinters, truth nuggets, and what we can all learn from grief-stricken alpha bamboons.

Overcoming Heartbreak and Abandonment Relationship Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

What's her abandonment challenge
What it means to put one foot in front of the other
What's the importance of mindfulness or putting yourself in the moment
What's the significance of the black swan
What is SWIRL
What are the 5 Stages of Abandonment
What we can learn about separation and stress from different animals
What's the harm of separating young from their parents, even for short periods of time
What is post-traumatic growth?
What does it mean we have to learn to accept the pain?
How a shattering brings you to the center of yourself
What is an abandoholic
Can you rewire your abandoholic tendencies to be in love with someone who is good for us?
Why do we elevate the one who hurts us?
How do we remove the pain and remove the splinter
What are truth nuggets?
What's the obsessive primal component to abandonment
What do you do when someone tells you it's your fault?
Could the breakup be your fault?
What's the role of forgivenss?
abandonment.net
A guided visualization not for relaxation, but to use your imagination to heal

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HOW TO BUILD AWESOME HABITS TO LEAD AN INSPIRED LIFE! Michael Bungay Stanier | Motivational | Career | Self-Help | Inspire Sep 07, 2016

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If you've ever wanted to get more done, finally achieve your dreams or help lead your team toward your goals, then do we have the Coaching Habit show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Michael Bungay Stanier, Rhodes Scholar, First Canadian Coach of the Year, author of numerous best-selling books, including a #2 book on Amazon, End Malaria, another great book, Do More Great Work, and a fantastic book to help you ask the most important questions of yourself and your team, The Coaching Habit.

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, saying less, asking more, and changing the way you lead and do things forever.

That plus we'll talk about a glint of goldfish, the danger of advice, synchronized nude male modeling, why Pierce Brosnan jumped off a dam, the danger of shovels, when will rhetorical questions end, and what in the world happened in Budawang National Park!

Habit Building, Life-Changing Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include

What you need to ask when you're saying yes to things
How does the universe help nudge us in a good direction
What is Box of Crayons?
What cyclists Greg Lemond and Laurent Fignon and the Tour De France has to do with anything
What's it mean to go around on auto-pilot
How do we build a habit
How to use structures to really help you
Why Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hour rule isn't true
What we can learn from Leo Babauta and Zen Habits
What we can learn from Charles Duhigg and the Power of Habit
What's a 60 second habit?
How to make meditation a habit, or how to meditate on a regular basis (or any other spiritual practice)
What does it mean get mindful of a habit
What's it mean to step away from good work and step toward great work
What can we learn from Debbie Ford and the Dark Side of the Light Chasers
What we can learn about Practicing Deeply
What we can learn from Daniel Coyle and The Talent Code
Importance of getting out of your comfort zone
What in the world barefoot running has to do with coaching and improving your life
What's the nature of feedback and Anders Ericcson
What's the importance of the question 'what's on your mind'
What's the importance of the question AWE – And what else?
What's the Columbo question?
How do we focus on the real problem, not the first problem?
Why Starting with Why (Simon Sinek) may not be the right way to go
How do you determine the real challenge for yourself?
What's it mean to get comfortable with silence
What's a really important question to strategize for our lives?
Why you need to ask what you really want?
How meditation can help you get to a place of understanding oneself
How mindfulness and meditation can help you put the spotlight on yourself
What's the importance of a mastermind group
How morning pages and journaling can help
The strategic importance of the learning question 'what's been most useful for you'
Go to thecoachinghabit.com – ton of free resources

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HOW TO SLOW DOWN & LIVE BETTER IN A WORLD ADDICTED TO SPEED! Carl Honore | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Help | Inspire Sep 06, 2016

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If you've ever felt you can't get ahead, reach your goals, or come up with the quick fix that gets you where you want to go, then do we have the slow fix show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Carl Honore, one of my new favorite authors and guides, and the award winning writer of a fantastic read I'd consider candy for the brain…The Slow Fix, about a philosophy I've shared for years, though sometimes forget to implement.

Today we'll talk about moving slowly and thinking long-term to solve problems, work smarter, and live in a world addicted to speed.

That plus we'll talk about hot cupping, Brazilian witch doctors, Andon ropes, Barry Manilow t-shirts, Clinton daily moments, why there'll never be brown m&m's for Van Halen, the danger of targetitis, why Michael Johnson switched from running 400's to changing tires, rush hour in Bogotá, the power of pill UK-92480, and what's coming next for the Bennerley band.

The Slow Fix Self-Improvement and Self-Help (think mindfulness) topics include:

Why quick fixes aren't the answer – particularly for your health!
What's Toyota's Andon rope for business?
What are brain systems 1 and brain systems 2 and how does it affect our careers and decision making?
What's the einstellung effect?
How is a slow fix being mindful, present or zen?
How is moving slowly like a meditation?
What does mindfulness and running and swimming have to do with one another
What does fitness have to do with moving slowly?
What the Royal Air Force has to do with moving slowly and what we can learn from dog fights and cotter pins
What's the importance of admitting mistakes?
What's the Clinton Rule?
What's the importance of thinking long and connecting the dots?
Why do we want to beware of targetits?
What does it really mean, whether career, business, or home that the devil is in the details?
Why will there be no brown M&M's for Van Halen?
What's the power of a checklist?
What's the power of sweating the small stuff?
What can we learn from Grand Prix motorsports racing?
What's the importance of seeking ideas from everwhere?
Why would you want to rent an office in a common space to benefit your career?
What's the importance of thinking alone and working together?
What can we learn from rush our traffic in Bogota?
What is Chore Wars and how do we make housework more fun?
What's the importance of turning the search for a fix into a game – and having fun?
What's the importance of trial and error?
How do we embrace uncertainty?
What can we learn from Chile and the Chagas?

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If you've ever wanted a positively sharper, smarter mind, with better resilience, retention, focus, and creativity, then do we have the show for you!

Today we'll be talking with brain expert and researcher, Marcus Conyers, the best-selling author of Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well-being.

Today we'll shatter some myths and talk about what they said couldn't be done… raising our IQ, changing our minds, strengthening our brains, and even learning new tricks, at any time, at any age, and with any genetics.

In short, we'll talk about building a better brain.

That plus we'll talk about London Cabbies, running marathons, lifting weights, and how old birds learn new tricks!

Questions & Topics Include:

How Marcus did The Cambridge Bumps
How your exercise and brain strength as a child dramatically affect your brain in later life.
The reason Dr. Crowley from Younger Next Year suggests becoming a full-time athlete once you hit 65.
Why there's something special about rallying to help others.
How you can train your brain to be better at any age.
What happens to your brain as you get older?
What the science behind human potential is
What happened in a study with 70/80/90 year olds with weight-lifting
Why you're as old as you think you are and as old as you behave.
What is the Innate Talent Paradigm?
In essence who told us what we can't do anymore?
Why you're not your DNA
What happened with Marcus's mom at 78?
Is there a limit to how much we can change our brains?\
Why we need to let go of our theoretical genetic limitations
The power of epigenetics – Dr. Dawson Church's Genie in Your Genes, and his recent interview
Why volunteering if you're feeling stuck – helping someone else, will help you inherently light up
Why the act of trying is so important for the brain
What are cognitive assets?
What is practical metacognition?
For students why the #1 indicator of whether students will do well is metacognition.
What does positivity have to do with the brain?
Why you can't be in the flow when you're in a negative place.
What's the Wow of Now and why we should write them down whenever we find them.
Why exercise is so important for the brain
Why Marcus is always talking about the body-brain system and what it means.
What to do to stimulate the brain if you don't 'have time' for exercise
How exercise can give you more energy afterwards – training body-brain system for greater cognitive endurance.
What exercise is best for the brain?
Why new muscle is young muscle?
Why creating muscle is flipping the on-switch of you.
Why women need to do strength training
How lifting weights can be a spiritual experience or help you be more spiritual.
How diet plays a role in the body-brain system.
Why it's so important to get kids outside.

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If you've ever wanted to vibrate at your highest level, to attract health, wealth, and happiness into your life, then do we have the show for you!

Today I'll be talking with Tommy Rosa, a once-plumber who survived a near-death accident that took him on a fantastic journey. He wrote about it in a beautiful book, I once interviewed his co-author Dr. Stephen Sinatra about, Health Revelations from Heaven and Earth.

Today we'll talk with Tommy about his journey, what he learned, and 8 revelations he learned that can help us each, live the most charged, high vibration life possible.

That plus we'll talk about guardian angels, perpetual sunsets, whether unicorns are real, and what in the world a 1976 silver Mercury Cougar has to do with anything.

Self-Improvement, Spirituality & Self-Improvement Topics Include:

How Tommy Died in 1999 & was resuscitated 5 times
What Tommy experienced after he died.
What Tommy's Heaven experience was like.
How do we let go of fear?
How do we raise our frequency and vibrations?
How importance is self love?
What do we do to increase our self-love?
What animals did Tommy see in Heaven
What was he taught about healing?
What can we do to get healthier and to heal ourselves?
Do we see our loved ones again after we die?
What is free will?
How do we generate more self-love in our lives?
What's the meaning of life and the importance of being here?
What's our divine spark and how do we crank it up?
What does positivity have to do with anything?
What's the power of forgiveness?
What does it mean that we're all connected?
Are angels real and do we have guardian angels?
What's the most important thing we can do while we're here?
A guided meditation

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EAT WHEAT & HEAL YOUR GUT! WHY WHEAT GLUTEN & DAIRY MAY NOT BE BAD FOR YOU AFTER-ALL! Dr John Douillard | Self-Help | Inspire Sep 03, 2016

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If you've ever struggled with stomach problems, gut conditions, an inability to eat wheat, gluten or grains, then do we have the liberating show for you.

Today we'll be talking with Dr. John Douillard, Ayurvedic health expert, and the author of one of the most fascinating nutritional books I've read in a long while, Eat Wheat!

And that's just what we'll be talking about today, about why we might want to consider putting wheat, and dairy, back into our diets…and how to heal our guts to overcome intolerance, sensitivies, and other stomach problems.

That plus we'll talk about the dangers of eating while you stand, why you should never eat angry, rhesus monkeys and calorie restrictions, why your wheat belly may be something else, and who in the world is the pacman of the liver?

Wheat, Dairy & Gluten Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include:

Why we might want to put wheat and dairy into your diet
What's the danger of taking wheat and dairy out of the diet
What's the danger of becoming a raw foodist
How we actually evolved with wheat and gluten
What's our genetics for eating glutens
What wheat has to do with our evolution
How taking wheat out of the diet may weaken our guts
What it means to eat seasonally
What happens to the gut when we eat processed foods and foods with preservatives
How wheat lowers cholesterol, helps lose weight, reduce cancer, and increase longevity and how studies back this up.
Why many people are not allergic to wheat even if tests show it – and what it means
Why 70-80% of American's have digestive issues
What dairy has to do with congestion
What diversity has to do with mold toxicity
What is pasteurization, and what does it mean for our health?
What is vat pasteurization, (Kalona Milk, Grass Fed, Vat Pasteurized, at Whole Foods)
What does the intestinal skin have to do with anything
What's the deal with casein
What can do we to heal the intestinal skin
What the lymphatic system has to do with glutens
What chlorine does to the microbes in the intestinal tract
What is ghee and why is it really good for you
How to warm up your digestive system for better digestion
What's the best way to eat
What the lymphatic system has to do with cellulite
What's wrong with removing the gall bladder
What's the importance of the liver and bile
How to heal the intestinal skin
What is kitcheree and how does it help heal the intestinal skin
What are foods that improve your digestion and help heal the intestinal tract
What it means to be deficient in iodine and what it means for your thyroid
What kind of bread and baked goods do we look for?
Ebook – released sept. 1st – for September will be 99 cents
Eatwheatbook.com can get the entire ebook for 99 cents
For more from Dr. John Douillard visit: lifespa.com

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HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILDREN BE HAPPIER, MORE SELF-RELIANT & BETTER STUDENTS FOR LIFE! Peter Gray | School | Self-Help | Inspire Sep 02, 2016

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If you've ever wanted your children to be happier, healthier and more successful in all that they do, then do we have the playful show for you.

Today I'll be talking with Peter Gray, research professor of psychology at Boston College, the author of the college textbook Psychology, and the author of what I consider a must-read for parents, and those considering parenting…Free to Learn.

And that's what we'll talk about today, about helping our kids steer their own learning and development to help them problem solve, get along with peers, gain control over their lives, and become emotionally resilient.

That plus we'll talk about playing with matches and machetes, the secret weapon of teaching, diabetes, 'shmiabetes', the competition for the world's worst parent…and traveling to the UK, what's the big fat elephant in the school room, and why all we really need to know, we could learn from Ruby Lou.

Parenting & Education Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

Why children's creativity is so important
What's happening with children's 'education' today
What learning should be about for children
Why 20% of boys in the US are considered mentally disordered
What's the Sudbury Valley School?
Who was Ruby Lou?
What it means 'there's no running on the playground?'
Why academics is a much weightier part of children's lives now.
How the educational experience has changed, particularly for elementary school children
Why children need to be able to roam free and play
What are hunter, gatherer children and the importance of play
What Darwinian psychology has to do with evolution and play
How hunter gatherer families raised children and how children were empowered
What is trustful parenting?
What it means that children grow up playing with machetes and matches
How to turn your neighborhood into a play-berhood
Why current education may be a violation of a student's human rights
Are there more schools around that are like Sudbury Valley School?
Valuable resource and homeschooling and unschooling website: alternativestoschool.com
Has a Freedom to Learn blog at psychologytoday.com

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If you've ever felt big change was coming, whether you like it or not, but you need to figure out what to do, or how then do we have the ever-changing show for you.

Today we'll talk about change…how to make it, how to weather it, the best way to bring it about, and why it's not just inevitable, but inevitably a huge positive.

That plus we'll talk about dancing dolphins, perfect chairs, lake, lake, what's in a lake, the power of outlet stores, a mega logo contest, what we can all learn from kung-fu panda, spongy keyboards, and why 46 is such a lucky number!

Change Embracing Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

How to reframe change
Why menopause is your 'moment of power' for women
Why it's the work you did yesterday that affects our today's
Why things that you neglected in earlier years catch up with you, and what you can do about them
What it means to strengthen your foundation
What's the two-step for healing, health and success
Why change shifts everything lose
What it means to let go and let the change occur
How to embrace situations that aren't what you desire
Why unplanned change can actually be for the best
What it means to truly surrender into the process
When it's time to push through, and when it's time to stop
What it means to be on a plateau
What it means to ask for help
Why a stable foundation is so important for change
Why it's so important to take a big picture self-help view of our lives
What's the importance of self-care when in the sea of chaos
Why switching your career isn't a bad thing, but just means you're in transition
How you can become more resilient
What Kung-Fu Panda has to do with transformative, positive change

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HOW TO ATTRACT MORE MONEY NOW!!! Lisa Nichols - The Secret | Law of Attraction | Inspiration | Motivation | Self-Help Inspire Aug 31, 2016

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If you've ever wanted more prosperity and a better relationship with money in your life, then do we have the Abundance Now show for you.

Today I'll be talking with one of my all-time favorite repeat guests Lisa Nichol's. She's one of the stars of the movie The Secret, one of the most requested public speakers in the world, and one of the most successful African American businesswomen and entrepreneurs out there.

She's also the founder and CEO of one of the only publically traded personal and business development companies out there, Motivating The Masses, Inc.

She's also a NY Times Best-selling author and has an incredibly empowering new book, that's in one of my top 10 all-time favorites, Abundance now.

Today I want to talk about our relationship with money, how to change it, enrich it, get to the root of it, and turn it around to work for us, rather than against us, to amplify our lives and achieve abundance now.

That plus we'll talk about an office in a closet, climbing mountains in Kenya, breaking bones on jet-skis, the best way to buy an A8, who's purring when scratched, how funding your dreams can lead to 62,000 dollars, and why your convenience and your convictions, don't live on the same block!

Abundance Self-Improvement and Self-Help Topics Include:

How did she decorate her "office in a closet" for her business
How'd she break bones falling jet-skiing?
Who was Sister Brown?
What your spirituality can teach you, or confuse you about prosperity
What the spiritual Sermon on the Mount has to do with abundance and wealth
What's the importance of your family's mindset to money?
What we can learn from Steve Seibold on how rich people think
What an abundant thinker is, and what are discursive abundant ideas
What's a money blueprint?
How each gender is taught differently about money
How your present state can be a reflection of our history with money
What's the power of affirmations – law of attraction in action.
How to use affirmations and the law of attraction to place your order to the Universe.
How do we envision an abundant life?
How do we use visualizations to bring about wealth, happiness, and abundance
What's the power of emotions
What's a lottery mentality?
What's the power of having a financial plan?
What it means that convenience and conviction don't live on the same block
What's a financial readiness assessment
abundancenowonline.com
What is surround 360 learning?
What's the abundant life home study?