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The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Florence Price: Sonata for Piano in E minor by Clipper Erickson Feb 11, 2026

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Florence Price: Sonata for Piano in E minor by Clipper Erickson Clippererickson.com Florence Price: Sonata for Piano in E minor! Clipper Erickson brings commanding insight to Florence Price’s 1932 Wanamaker Prize-winning masterpiece. Symphonic in scope yet tightly woven, the sonata draws its poewr from the fusion of grand Romantic form with the melodic and rhythmic language of African American spirituals and dance. Erickson illuminates every nuance of Price’s writing, revealing its vitality, lyricism, and structural ingenuity. Clipper Erickson, Pianist, Soul, Passion, Color, and Spirituality. Throughout his long career, Clipper has sought to uplift the music of under-represented voices in classical music, both old and new, alongside the great works of the past. His artistry continues to receive international critical accaim through recordings and performances in major concert halls. As a musical explorer and educator, he shares his insight and love through commentary along with performance.

The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Beautifully Broken: Learning to Trust God in my Brokenness by Lavon Hodge Feb 10, 2026

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Beautifully Broken: Learning to Trust God in my Brokenness by Lavon Hodge https://www.amazon.com/Beautifully-Broken-Learning-Trust-Brokenness/dp/B0DKB3BZ4XBeautifullybless.com This moving book provides a realistic exploration of the long-term impact of maternal rejection and sexual trauma on one's life, relationships, and capacity for love. It's a necessary journey to confront childhood pain and find the strength to embrace one's truth. How does one find beauty in anything after enduring constant abuse and rejection? How can you become an overcomer through Christ and claim the abundant life that is rightfully yours? Lavon faced a challenging life, but she refused to be defined by the abuse. In her book, she shares her experiences to demonstrate that what was meant to break you can become a platform for teaching others about love, healing, and forgiveness. Your past does not determine your worth in God's eyes. He has plans for you, plans to transform the broken pieces of your life into His masterpiece.

The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Unlicensed Medicine: Releasing Ancestral Trauma and Unleashing the Power of your Lineage by Dr. Meher Chahal Feb 09, 2026

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Unlicensed Medicine: Releasing Ancestral Trauma and Unleashing the Power of your Lineage by Dr. Meher Chahal Drmeherchahal.com https://www.amazon.com/Unlicensed-Medicine-Releasing-Ancestral-Unleashing/dp/1967587345 What if the emotional trauma you're carrying isn't even yours? Dr. Meher Chahal thought she had escaped her childhood trauma and shadows by becoming a psychiatrist. Initially, she was passionate about joining psychiatry as a result of her mother’s schizophrenia and the impact of the illness on her family system. But everything unraveled when she discovered her maternal ancestor was found guilty of the murder of her husband in a trial that made Indian Supreme Court history. Her carefully built career, her denial of past trauma, even her sense of self—suddenly, none of it felt real. In Unlicensed Medicine, Dr. Chahal takes you on a raw, unflinching journey from psychiatric residency to ancestral healing, revealing how generational trauma lives in our bodies and shapes our lives in ways we never imagined. This ancestral trauma essentially becomes a soul-level karmic debt that a child carries out of love and loyalty to the family system of origin. This isn't your typical self-help book filled with gentle affirmations. This is shadow work for the brave—a guide to facing the parts of yourself you've been avoiding and alchemizing your deepest wounds into power. Through the lens of Family Constellations and somatic healing, Chahal shows us that breaking generational cycles requires more than positive thinking, conventional medications, and talk therapy. It demands radical honesty, nervous system rewiring, and the courage to feel everything you've been running from. If you've ever wondered: Why you keep repeating the same painful and self-sabotage patterns Why meditation alone isn't enough Why your "perfect" life still feels empty What's really beneath your anxiety, depression, or unexplained rage This book is your wake-up call. This is root cause healing at the deepest layer of all trauma. Something which most self-help books miss. Drawing from both Western psychiatry and spiritual healing on a soul level. Dr. Chahal offers a revolutionary approach to understanding trauma—not just as personal wounds, but as inherited burdens passed down through generations. With unflinching vulnerability, she shares her own journey of pain, discovery, and continuous healing—because this work is never truly "done," and that's exactly the point. Unlicensed Medicine is for seekers who are done with surface-level healing. For those brave enough to look into the shadow cage and reclaim what's been hidden there. For anyone ready to honor their ancestors while returning their unprocessed pain. You are the cycle breaker your lineage has been waiting for. Warning: Side effects include sudden self-awareness, expanding your consciousness, audacious authenticity, and the uncomfortable realisation that most healing modalities don’t even come close to the root. The Good News? This powerful healing therapy may just heal your relationship with money, power, sex, and love! Since these are all deeply intertwined in the systemic constellation quantum field. After all, what’s the point of healing if it’s not practically useful? Because the experience of the material world is the most spiritual experience for a soul on this planet. About the author Indian-American doctor, model, psychological astrologer, angel investor and visionary entrepreneur trained in Family Constellation therapy Born into a lineage marked by her mother’s schizophrenia and a murder in her maternal line, she experienced firsthand the weight of trauma that Western medicine alone could not explain. After 11 years in medicine and psychiatry, she left the conventional path to follow a deeper calling. Her discovery and training in Family Constellations revealed a system she calls the most powerful healing modality on the planet — one that unites the science of epigenetics with the wisdom of the soul.

The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Stealing Forbidden Dreams by Edward L Alban Feb 09, 2026

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Stealing Forbidden Dreams by Edward L Alban https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Forbidden-Dreams-Edward-Alban/dp/1962931005 Maria Diaz, originally from Ecuador, teaches math in a Miami high school. She is intellectual, loves poetry and likes music-from classical to Andean, to tangos-and suffers from insomnia. Sleep intrigues her. She does the math and figures that over a sixty-year span we sleep the staggering sum of twenty years. Where does all that time go? Is it a waste? Or does it have a hidden redeeming value? Finding answers to these questions becomes her quest. She reads extensively about the brain's activity during sleep, she keeps a log of the few brief dreams that she remembers and manages to intertwine her conscious hours with her subconscious hours into a helix-like braid of her life, which she presents in the form of a novel. Her sleeping mind opens its doors and reveals her sleeping world. She meets her inner self: her id, libido, ego, alter egos, muses, and oracles. They all come alive as colorful human characters, vying for control of her life and her destiny. Maria's Libido is a sexy look-alike who thinks it's high time for Maria to lose her virginity. Her sassy Literary Muse advocates career change from teaching and mathematics. Her oracles are alter egos personified as older gentlemen who guide her in matters of philosophy. Every night, Maria is at the center of this seemingly schizophrenic reality filled with laughter, tears, adulation, and scorn. It is a wonderful world that she comes to love, but, as with all humans, Maria can't remember her dream world when she is awake. Day after day, Maria's parallel world is wiped away upon awakening. The only exceptions are wisps of dreams and little snippets that are still fresh when she awakens. But the bulk of her sleeping hours is off limits. This is where her treasures, her "forbidden dreams" are held by oblivion. And she intends to get them, if she has to steal them. It took her ten years to do it. The result is this work. Maria comes of age in many ways, she matures philosophically, she becomes sure of her convictions, and she lives her life by her own precepts. She shares with us how the mind at night interphases with the conscious world. We do relive our daytime life by night, and our night hours in turn do influence the decisions we make in the real world. But it happens so subtly, it is almost imperceptible. This is what we learn from her experiences.

The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Pharmacology For Babies by Amanda Mullins Feb 09, 2026

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Pharmacology For Babies by Amanda Mullins https://www.amazon.com/Pharmacology-Babies-Amanda-Mullins/dp/B0BM3DD9LM Understanding basic pharmacology is important for the safe use of medicines. Receptors, agonists, and antagonists are all important parts of how medicines work in our bodies. Pharmacists go to school to learn about medicines and how they interact and change our body's processes.

The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Giving Is Not Just For The Very Rich: A How-to Guide for Giving and Philanthropy by Susan Aurelia Gitelson Feb 08, 2026

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Giving Is Not Just For The Very Rich: A How-to Guide for Giving and Philanthropy by Susan Aurelia Gitelson https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Just-Very-Rich-How/dp/1468111043 A valuable resource for you, Giving Is Not Just For The Very Rich is an inspiring, easy-to-use guide which gives you numerous creative ideas on how to reap the many benefits of giving. It’s all about your feeling connected to worthwhile programs, achieving a sense of purpose, and deriving immeasurable pleasure from helping others. Dr. Susan Aurelia Gitelson offers you reasons to give, considers values and concerns, and advises you how to give wisely. She presents you with examples from the wealthiest donors, innovative givers, social entrepreneurs, celebrities, government officials, nonprofit professionals, volunteers, and social media networkers. To help you zero in on major areas for your giving, she reviews religious philanthropy, education K-12, higher education, science and health, arts and culture, sports, multipurpose umbrella organizations, awards, and international aid. Finally, she shows you how to evaluate charities, make choices, and realize your commitments. About the author Dr. Susan Aurelia Gitelson has been President of International Consultants, Inc. and has been consulting for international business, educational, cultural and other institutions. Dr. Gitelson has been Co-Chair of the Dean’s Council of the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She was also a National Vice President of the American Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and remains a member of the International Board of Governors of the Hebrew University and the Board of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute on the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University. In addition, she is a member of the Board of Advisers of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. Currently she is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Museum of Jewish Heritage/A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Previously she had been on the advisory boards of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the City University Graduate Center and the Center for the Study of the Presidency. In addition, she has supported the Columbia SIPA Gitelson Policy Forum, the Gitelson Peace Publications of the Truman Institute, and many other programs and awards at Columbia University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the City University Graduate Center, the Center for the Study of the Presidency and other institutions. Her books and articles have been published on four continents. Columbia University awarded her its prestigious Alumni Medal for Distinguished Service.

The Chris Voss Show Podcast – The A-Suite: Trust, Strategy, and Breaking Barriers with Justina Beth-El Johnson Feb 07, 2026

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The A-Suite: Trust, Strategy, and Breaking Barriers with Justina Beth-El Johnson Valkyrie Solutions: Valkyrieus.com Justina Bethel’s Music: justinabethel.com About the Guest(s): Justina Beth-El Johnson is a dynamic executive leader, business strategist, advocate, and artist. As the founder of Valkyrie Solutions, Justina has positioned herself at the crossroads of strategy, storytelling, and soul. She is particularly dedicated to empowering women and organizations to transform self-trust into effective strategy and impactful vision. Alongside her strategic work, Justina is an accomplished lifelong singer and a staunch advocate for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Her work both on stage and off exemplifies authenticity, agency, and audacious leadership. Episode Summary: In this engaging episode of The Chris Voss Show, host Chris Voss welcomes an extraordinary guest, Justina Beth-El Johnson, to discuss transformative leadership, the importance of self-trust, and the necessity of redefining power on personal terms. This conversation brings into focus the dynamic A Suite program that Justina has created through her business, Valkyrie Solutions, designed specifically to empower women in leadership roles. Throughout the episode, a slew of insights unfold as Chris and Justina tackle the enduring challenges and hidden opportunities within male-dominated industries. They dive into how Justina's A Suite initiative helps women leverage their unique strengths and build communal, rather than competitive, environments in the workplace. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in leadership development, gender dynamics in the corporate world, and practical guidance on fostering inclusive workplaces. Key Takeaways: Redefining Power: Women in leadership can thrive by reinterpreting power to mean freedom and collaboration rather than dominance and control. Importance of Self-Trust: Building self-trust is crucial for women to assert themselves and excel in their professional environments. Dismantling Competition: Encouraging women to view each other as teammates rather than competitors to enhance innovation and success. Unlearning Toxic Conditioning: Addressing and overcoming toxic workplace environments that condition negative views towards leadership and gender. Research-Backed Strategies: The A Suite offers rooted strategies and psychological insights to empower women in leadership with evidence-based practices. Notable Quotes: "The greatest transformation is that women trust themselves the first time around." "When there is no diversity at the top, we see the same ideas regurgitated and recycled." "In the absence of self-doubt, we're really able to thrive in other aspects of our life." "I never should have had to doubt myself in the first place." "We all rise together when we teach and empower those around us."

The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Rational Thoughts: Common sense improvements to life in America by Sam Galanis Feb 06, 2026

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Rational Thoughts: Common sense improvements to life in America by Sam Galanis https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Thoughts-Common-improvements-America/dp/B0F1GYBRXT Samgalanis.myshopify.com Rational Thoughts: Commonsense Improvements to Life in America positions itself as a comprehensive guide delving into the intricacies of contemporary existence in the United States. Within its pages, the book imparts insights into politics, finance, and both civilian and professional spheres, urging readers to engage in critical thinking and explore a spectrum of perspectives. Skillfully transcending superficial discussions, the author adeptly presents an indispensable companion, fostering positive transformations by promoting profound discussions on the interwoven elements shaping life in America over the years. The book encourages readers to reflect on their roles as citizens, consumers, and professionals, empowering them to contribute substantially to the ongoing evolution of the American way of life.

The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Health, Healing, and the Holy Spirit by Wendy Creel Feb 05, 2026

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Health, Healing, and the Holy Spirit by Wendy Creel https://www.amazon.com/Health-Healing-Holy-Spirit/dp/1647739950 Wendyswellness.org Are you unable to obtain a breakthrough in areas of healing? Are you stuck in destructive patterns of behavior? Do your own thoughts have you in bondage? Inside these pages, you will discover the keys to your breakthrough. You will find the power to unlock your divine potential to overcome any hindrances in your life. Learn the power of the Holy Spirit and how to apply it to receive victory. This book will challenge what you believe about the spirit world realities and the impact they have on your life. Everyone needs to walk in the power and authority of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, "I will give you all power over the powers of darkness." Discover how the enemy of your soul sabotages your success. Let's shake the gates of hell, and let's start now.

The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Snook-A-Pie Gets Adopted by Nancy Ure Douglass LSW Feb 04, 2026

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Snook-A-Pie Gets Adopted by Nancy Ure Douglass LSW https://www.amazon.com/Snook-Pie-Adopted-Nancy-Douglass-ebook/dp/B07L1KC5RK This is a fun interactive book that explores the concept of open adoption via a Welsh Corgi puppy named Snook-a-Pie. It is intended to help children and adults alike to better understand and emotionally comprehend the adoption process.

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