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Life often throws things at us unexpectedly; you get caught off guard and you're not sure how to handle the situation. It often takes tragedies to show us what is really important in life, but we don't all have to experience devastating circumstances in order to learn how to be prepared for it.

Chic Kelly is a prime example of someone who dealt with adversity and learned how to apply his conquests to helping others. Tune into this episode of 11 Minutes to Inspiration with Danny Bader to get inspired and learn to appreciate the positive moments in your life when faced with adversity.

"The gift I have to offer is being a regular guy who dealt with adversity and overcame it." – Chic Kelly

Show Highlights:

• How Chic Kelly got started in hockey
• How Chic Kelly dealt with breaking his neck and being paralyzed
• Not being able to enjoy normal tasks
• Putting your life back together after tragedy
• How to interact with and lead students
• Using your experience to help others grow
• Learning to make others feel worthy
• Getting to help families who are experiencing tough situations
• Appreciating things in life
• Finding a support system
• Creating a bank of happy memories
• Living with spirituality
• Staying connected with people

Resources:

www.chickelly.com

While it's unlikely we will all win the lottery, get struck by lightning, win a Nobel prize, or become the next Albert Einstein, if you put every possibility together, it's likely that something significant will happen to all of us.

Typically, these things happen when we least expect it. At least, that's how it happened for Dean McMurray. Dean is a father, a husband, and a dog owner from a small town who served in the armed forces; I'm sure you know many people who fit this qualification. But along these platitudinal titles, Dean is a psychic medium.

Dean McMurray's, also known as the Military Medium, gift came unexpectedly and changed his life; even when he didn't want it to. Tune into this episode of Eleven Minutes to Inspiration, with your host Danny Bader, to learn more about the psychic gift and how to pursue your own gifts.

Show Highlights:

• What a psychic medium is
• Empowering individuals with your gifts
• Questions you can't ask a medium
• Changing the direction of your life
• Being in the right place to receive spirits
• How your gifts will manifest in the right timing
• Faith being tested
• Confirmation in your gifts
• Validation in a higher power
• What life on the other side is like and the journey to get there
• Sharing your energy and light with the world

Resources:

Dean's Website

I met Dan Sandel about 4 years ago, and ever since then I couldn't help but wonder what would happen when we mixed our two areas of passion and expertise. The result is nothing short of wonderful. In a former life, Dan worked with a Pharmacy Organization with their Learning and Development department. With his background in human behavior, Dan decided it was time for some new ventures out on his own.

Now, Dan is offering people wonderful opportunities to grow into their full potential to live fulfilling, happy lives. His research and methods focus on shaping a mindset that leaps onto opportunity and silences our evolutionary conditioning to be wary and negative. Through Dan's work with Go Positiv, people across the world are discoing how to unlock a positive, optimistic mindset that is paving the way to success.

In this week's episode, you will hear Dan explain the Biological component to our happiness, and how we can literally rewire our nervous system to make us even happier and less fearful. He will teach us the tools we can use to change our mindset and banish negativity. You will be able to understand the research behind happiness, as well as a seminal study upon which a lot of the Go Positiv work is based. You won't just leave this episode inspired, you will also be empowered! Listen to find out just how easy it is to see the sunny side of life.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why positivity is so essential for workforce performance.
• The benefits you will see when you change your mindset.
• How to open up the potential of your brain.
• How positivity generates inspiration.
• Examples of self-limiting beliefs.
• 5 Ways to Improve Happiness Scores.

Links Mentioned in the Show:

GoPositiv.com

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In this episode, I talk to a good friend Mike Duffy, executive director of Limen House in Wilmington, Delaware about the power of self-development and the role it plays in substance abuse recovery.

Mike had been in and out of treatment several times for substance abuse since his 20's. After things finally clicked and he committed to remaining sober, Mike took a job at Limen House for men and women in various stages of recovery and is now their Executive Director.

We spend some time talking about the struggles of addiction, but how it's not impossible to overcome. You can change your thinking and beliefs, and when you're open to retraining your brain to get away from the continual negativity that comes with addiction, you can finally open yourself to choosing a new path.

My book, Back From Heaven's Front Porch, 5 Steps to Create a Happy and Fulfilling Life recently played a role in helping some of the residents at Limen House with their own personal development in their journey to recovery, and Mike shares his perspective on how this book is helpful for anyone out there who is currently struggling.

In this episode, you'll learn about:

• Mike's journey of addiction and how he lost everything
• The power of substance abuse treatment and the recovery process at Limen House
• How Back From Heaven's Front Porch can help transform your mindset
• Ways you can retrain your brain toward a less addictive, more positive mindset
• How to use vision, faith, and stillness as keys to sobriety and forward momentum

Links Mentioned in the Show:

Limen House

Danny's book, Back From Heaven's Front Porch: 5 Principles to Create a Happy and Fulfilling Life

Follow Danny Bader on YouTube

In this episode, I'm joined by Sally Miller, life coach, soul stylist, and expert on personal vision. Sally believes that vision is essential to our life direction and makes a tangible impact on what we make into a reality. Whether it's your ideal weight, your idea of a perfect relationship, or your dream house, we all have deeply-held desires. But they're hard to go after, especially when we surround ourselves with people who don't support our vision or feel like we're unworthy of achieving the vision we truly want.

Sally and I talk about how vision and productivity go hand in hand, and we offer some useful tips on how you can pull out your deepest desires, bring them to light as personal visions, and make them your new reality.

Show Highlights:

• What is vision and why you should practice it daily
• A personal story from Danny about the importance of vision after tragedy
• Why getting your mind out of past moments is crucial to setting your vision
• The power of the word "desire"
• How to hold yourself accountable to moving toward your vision
• Personal stories of encounters with people who have strong visions
• The blocks that stand in our way of creating the vision we truly want
• "Acting as if" your vision is already a reality
• How to use vision boarding as a tool to reach your dreams
• Why you should stop preparing for the worst

Links Mentioned in the Show:

Sally Miller's website - http://www.soulstylelife.com/

Danny's workshop, Jckrbbt - http://www.dannybader.com/jckrbbt-workshop/

Danny Bader on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuoNbstcbSG2SafbIPFsL8w

What You Say When You Talk to Your Self by Shad Helmstedder - https://www.amazon.com/What-When-Talk-Your-Self/dp/1501171992

In this episode, Retta Matagiese, former Division II athlete, sits down to talk to me about her journey with weight. For years, Retta was overweight and wanting to make a change in her life.She considered everything and explored every option -- from fad diets and weight loss programs to a variety of dedicated work out programs. But what truly helped Retta with her weight loss was her focus and her realm of support. Her support included specialized weight management doctors and nutritionists, trainers at her favorite gym, friends and family; and with this, Retta was able to remain conscious around her relationship to food and movement by keeping goals in mind and helping friends and family to hold her accountable.

At the time of this interview, Retta was over 100lbs down from her heaviest weight and is continuing to live a productive, focused life full of vision for a healthier future.

Show Highlights:

● Retta's personal story on her journey of weight gain and loss

● A funny personal story of Retta's first gym experience after 6 years of inactivity

● How ketosis can be helpful in the process of weight loss

● The importance of doctors and trainers in the weight loss process

● How to set successful weight loss goals…and keep them

● What maintenance looks like after you hit your weight loss goals

● The top 3 actions Retta recommends for committing to weight loss

Links Mentioned in the Show:

NYU Weight Management Program

Danny Bader on YouTube