Thriving Not Surviving – The Five Secret Pathways To Happiness, Success and Fulfillment

SHOW GUEST: Gina Gardner

Gina Gardner believes that disability can be a metaphor for life. Our limiting beliefs: I’m not worthy, not clever enough, I’m too old, too poor, not beautiful enough, etc. keep us stuck. I may have challenges with my mobility but I have the capacity to wheel away (usually at high speed) in my wheelchair.

I have learned that it is not the challenges that define us but what we do with them. Over the years it has become very clear when working with individuals, couples, teams or whole organizations that the vast majority of challenges or issues to their being happy, staying happy and be capable of spreading happiness, fall into one of five categories: beliefs, particularly self-belief, love, and relationships, achieving and sustaining success, managing change and transition and finding a sense of purpose and fulfillment. This is why Gina has created the five secret pathways in the Thriving Not Surviving Programme, and also detail them in her latest, and supporting, book, ‘Thriving Not Surviving – The Five Secret Pathways To Happiness, Success and Fulfilment.’

THE BODY IMAGE BOOK FOR GIRLS: Love Yourself and Grow Up Fearless

SHOW GUEST: Dr. Charlotte Markey

It is worrying to think that most girls feel dissatisfied with their bodies, and that this can lead to serious problems including depression and eating disorders. Can some of those body image worries be eased?

Body image expert and psychology professor Dr Charlotte Markey helps girls aged 9-15 to understand, accept, and appreciate their bodies. She provides all the facts on puberty, mental health, self-care, why diets are bad news, dealing with social media, and everything in-between.

Through this easy-to-read and beautifully illustrated guide, Dr Markey provides practical, helpful and safe techniques to help them improve how they view and understand their bodies—both the physical and the emotional aspects—as they become women. Girls will find answers to questions they always wanted to ask, the truth behind many body image myths, and real-life stories from girls who share their own experiences.

The Power of Discord: Why Discord in Relationships is the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience, and Trust

Show Guest: Claudia M. Gold, MD

Society paints a picture that perfect harmony is the defining characteristic of healthy relationships, but the truth is that human interactions are messy, complicated, and confusing. According to renowned psychologist Ed Tronick and pediatrician Claudia Gold, that is not only okay, but it is also actually crucial to our social and emotional development.

In The Power of Discord, these two pillars of UMass Boston show how working through the inevitable dissonance of human connection is the path to better relationships with romantic partners, family, friends, and colleagues. Working through the volley of mismatch and repair in everyday life helps us form deep, lasting, trusting relationships, resilience in times of stress and trauma, and a solid sense of self in the world. Drawing on Dr. Tronick's research and Dr. Gold's clinical experience, The Power of Discord is a refreshing and original look at our ability to relate to others and to ourselves.

On the Loving End of Crazy: Finding Hope and Help to Face Your Loved One’s Crippling Anxiety and Depression

Show Guest: Faith McDonald

Faith McDonald, author of On the Loving End of Crazy: Finding Hope and Help to Face Your Loved One's Crippling Anxiety and Depression, offers hope and help to those who love someone who faces anxiety disorder and major depression. The story starts when Faith's son Matt begins college; however, instead of attending classes and learning to thrive, he flounders and fails. His life becomes a series of arrests and reckless, self-destructive acts culminating in a suicide attempt. In the wake of his bewildering behavior, Faith worries that his life will never get back on track. She longs for her son to thrive. She aches, prays, and wonders how to intervene.

Join us as Faith shares how we can find Comfort in that you don't have to face the journey alone. She speaks to important actions of: 1) persistence in seeking professional help for their loved ones, 2) finding the courage to endure the dark days of the illness of their loved one, 3) stopping the blame for themselves or others during the dark days, 4) why coping and healing involves sharing their stories to fight stigma and shame, and 5) asking for support from those around them.

The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your Goals

Show Guest: Bridgit Dengel Gaspard

Author and therapist Bridgit Dengel Gaspard coined the term “the final 8th” to describe this phenomenon when talented, energetic, motivated individuals have accomplished many steps toward a goal (7/8 of it) but stall in front of their finish line, for no apparent reason. In The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your Goals, Bridgit offers a powerful technique called voice dialogue to help readers recognize and free themselves from hidden internal conflicts that are blocking their ability to achieve their goals. “My clients were baffled about why they were stuck.

They reported feeling frustrated, stressed, sad, and scared. I’d tell them, “The truth is, not every part of you wants what you think you want! Some of your inner selves are opposed to your goal.” The Final 8th guides readers through the process of identifying and speaking with their inner selves to uncover their secret intentions and figure out which of them support their goals and which are impeding it, and then how to speak with those alter egos to enlist their help in achieving the goal.

Light Em UP! Targeted Combination Therapy Kills Cancer Cells in Less than 2 Hours

Show Guests: Matthew Gdovin & Tom Roberts, CEO

According the National Cancer Society, a staggering 606,000 people died of cancer in the U.S in 2019. When a cancer tumor grows in the body, it creates an acidic environment on the outside of its cells. This acidic environment causes blood vessels to grow and attach to the tumor in an attempt to remove the acid. In something of a biological trick, the tumor then commandeers the blood vessels and uses them as a source of nutrients to help it grow. The current standard of care to treat cancer is to cut (surgery), poison (chemotherapy), or ablate (radiation therapy). Unfortunately, these treatments can cause debilitating unwanted side-effects.

Vitanova Biomedical (VNB) is developing an alternative therapy, Light-Activated Acidosis (LAIA), which uses a focused beam of light to activate a targeted drug injected into the tumor. Once activated, this drug causes the cancer cell to become very acid on the inside triggering rapid apoptosis (cell death). LAIA therapy has proven capable of killing up to 95 percent of cancer cells within two hours across five different cancer cell types including breast cancers including the very aggressive triple negative breast cancer (MDA-MB-231), two types of prostate cancers (LNCaP and 22RV1), and a pancreatic cancer (BxPC3). sparing near-by healthy tissue, and potentially causes no debilitating unwanted side effects.

Tom Roberts, the company’s CEO, resports that VNB has entered a global strategic partnership with LiteCure Medical Lasers, and was awarded a competitive National Science Foundation SBIR Program Phase I grant to further develop LAIA therapy. Together, these partnerships should help to advance VNB’s LAIA therapy from laboratory bench to an FDA submission….and ultimately provide an effective alternative cancer treatment for multiple cancer types.

Shine Brighter Every Day: Nourish Your Body, Feed Your Spirit, Balance Your Life

Show Guest: Danah Mor

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Shine Brighter Every Day is a beautiful, full-colour book packed full of unique insights into how to live well by making the right choices with food, lifestyle and well-being. In Shine Brighter Every Day, Danah introduces readers to a new perspective on food and lifestyle that helps them understand why they are attracted to certain foods or ways of life.

While many nutritionists bombard readers with lists about what to eat and what not to eat, Danah guides you back to basics. The book is structured into 14 chapters, each one aimed at increasing your understanding of a specific aspect of health and well-being. Danah share, 'It’s about improving your quality of life, preventing disease, and manifesting the best version of yourself. It unlocks a lifestyle, a way of thinking – a state of being – that is in tune with your body."

SIMPLIFY: How to Stay Sane in a World Going Mad

Show Guest: Bob Hillary

In this book, you will discover how to combat this world with the secret of “Slow Living” – Sustainable, Local, Organic and Whole. You learn how about finding and accepting yourself away from the pressures and expectations of society, and not only envisioning a better future but creating one. Simplify provides 21 practices to help you simplify your life. These practices range from being still for a few minutes before rushing out of bed in the morning, to learning when to say ‘no’ in your everyday life when you are feeling overwhelmed. Easy, practical advice that we can all incorporate into our daily lives.

Dancer Interrupted: A Memoir

Show Guest: Susan Priver

“A must read for any creative person who’s felt they’ve lost their voice only to realize it’s been there all along.” -John Fleck

What happens when our dreams of becoming professional athletes, concert pianists, singers, writers—whatever we excelled at and loved in our youth —become impossible? For Susan Priver— author of the memoir, Dancer Interrupted—a girl obsessed with ballet, a gifted child ballerina, the center of attention without ever having to speak, it was, she believed, the end of her life. Dancer Interrupted is the story of an artist who loses her ability to practice her art and how she rediscovers herself without the veil of ballet. It’s a story of loss, self-recrimination, family drama, love affairs. It’s also the story of one woman’s vibrant, uplifting climb out of a world she believed to be the only world possible, and into a world far better than she had ever anticipated.

Future Vision Your Working Life: 10 Strategies to Help You Get Ahead

Show Guest: Anne Jirsch

The world is changing fast. Just imagine being able to anticipate the future and finding your best and most successful direction. From using your intuition and finding your inner genius to handling information overload and adapting to changing circumstances this book will show you how to be ahead of the game. Packed with case studies, exercises and techniques Future Vision will guide you through ten strategies that will help you get ahead.

Anne Jirsch is a world pioneer of Future Life Progression (FLP) and the creator of Future Visioning, an innovative new business tool rooted in her unique FLP system. With over 2,000 practitioners in 20 countries and a list of noteworthy clients, Anne has now condensed her knowledge into a set of 10 tools to give you the advantage and take genuine control of your career path. Each strategy is supported by practical exercises and fuses hypnosis, visualization and intuition work. There are also numerous scientific and personal case studies to demonstrate the effects. Every chapter is designed to help you tap into your future reality and bring those skills back to the present. By the end of the book you’ll be equipped to sift through the ‘epidemic of busyness’ and connect with your most powerful, productive and innovative self.