Better Place Project with Steve Norris

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Better Place Project with Steve Norris episodes

June 28, 2022 Living as If Your LIfe Depended on It, with Internationally Best-Selling Author, Philosopher, and Speaker, Sharon Lebell
For over 25 years Sharon Lebell’s internationally bestselling book, The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness, has inspired philosophy lovers and the modern Stoicism movement. A contemporary interpretation of the ancient sage Epictetus’ teachings, it is a perennial classic that is a cherished spiritual companion and daily guide for readers from every walk of life.
Sharon is a strong proponent of expressing philosophy in accessible language so anyone can apply it to better their own lives and be invited to delve further into philosophical inquiry. The imperative to use our lives to improve the lives of others and the importance of beauty and engagement with art, music, and design are central to her message of what makes the best possible life.
Since Sharon Lebell was a child, she was obsessed with the questions “how do we each live the best possible life and what does that mean?” She has thus spent her adult life writing and speaking about philosophy, spirituality, meditation, Buddhism, Judaism, ethics, feminism, and related topics. She is also the author of Naming Ourselves, Naming Our Children and co-author with Brother David Steindl-Rast of The Music of Silence.

For more information about Sharon:
https://www.sharonlebell.com/

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1 hr 15 min
June 24, 2022 Feel Good Friday! Greater Love Hath No Man - The Story of Patrick Cadagin
In this week's Feel Good Friday episode, Steve shares the inspirational story from 1909 of an Irish-American hero named Patrick Cadagin, who gave his life to save a young woman.

Cadagin, who was living in Springfield Illinois, was a watchman at a railroad crossing when a woman named Pearl Bunes was approaching in her horse and buggy. The horse panicked at the roar of an approaching locomotive and bolted towards the tracks. Cadagin took action and grabbed the horse by the reigns, only to be thrown upon the tracks and killed by the train.

He's been gone 113 years, but the story of his legendary heroism lives on.

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9 min
June 21, 2022 The Healing Power of Sound with Lisa Grezlak
Lisa Grezlak is a healer, advocate, teacher and creator. She created SVOUND to promote the incredible healing Sound Vibration offers to provide RESTORATION and CALM for those struggling with any form of dis-ease in their lives. Our minds and bodies are meant to be in a state of total wellness. But in today's world, there is so much going against the balancing of our energy systems and people are suffering tremendously.
From an early age, Lisa suffered with severe levels of anxiety and depression. As life progressed PTSD popped up, and a host of other emotional and physical issues. that were managed through medication and 'hiding'.
While visiting Sedona, AZ in 2016, she got an 'accidental' sound massage (as she thought she was getting a standard body massage). and that session changed her life forever. Today she is free from the physical and mental pain she lived with her entire life by incorporating sound vibration healing regularly. A whole new world of understanding herself has opened up and she can say that she has reclaimed the most important aspects of the self she never knew, and with gained healing.
Today, she is a Certified Sound Vibrational Practitioner, Trainer, Advocate, Transformation Mentor, and Retreat Facilitator offering Sound Vibration / Energy work and Education to individuals, groups, companies, and more.
Her vision is to be a leading advocate to support the emerging evidence that "The Future of Medicine is Sound Vibration."

For more information, please visit:
https://svound.com/

Research mentioned in the podcast: Effects of Singing Bowl Sound Meditation on Mood, Tension, and Well-being: An Observational Studyhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5871151/

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1 hr 5 min
June 14, 2022 Garrain Jones - Author of Change your Mindset, Change your Life: Lessons of Love, Leadership and Transformation
Garrain Jones is a coach, international inspirational speaker, podcaster, and bestselling author of Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life. Garrain has gone from $200K in debt and living in his car, to millionaire through deeply meaningful work touching millions of lives. His greatest belief is that when we tap into our truest, creative essence we open up magical doors of possibility for abundance and transformation to flow into our lives.

https://garrainjones.com/

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58 min
June 05, 2022 Bonus Solo Episode: Guns, Nude Beaches and other Musings from Santorini
In this solo bonus episode, Steve checks in from Santorini, Greece and shares his thoughts from overseas on sights he's visited, our belief systems and why we should question them, the Uvalde Mass Shooting and his first time going au naturel at a nude beach.

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19 min
May 20, 2022 Feel Good Friday! Disorder in the Court: Hilarious Real Life Stories of Courtroom Exchanges
This week, Steve decided to try and inject a little humor into your Friday (or whatever day it is that you happen to be listening to this), and borrow again from his friend Brad Aronson’s blog. Brad is best known for writing the inspiring bestselling book Humankind: Changing the World One Small Act at a Time (all proceeds go to nonprofit Big Brothers Big Sisters).

In this episode Steve reads excerpts from Brad's blog detailing actual exchanges taken by court reporters between lawyers and witnesses on the stand, taken from a book called Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History.

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7 min
May 17, 2022 Wanderlust Founders Jeff Krasno & Schuyler Grant
In this episode, Steve chats with Wanderlust Co-Founders and husband/wife duo Jeff Krasno & Schuyler Grant. On top of having a few laughs about Schuyler's Mom embarrassing her as a child in a Mexican restaurant in the case of the missing fajitas, and some Curb Your Enthusiasm stories, Steve, Jeff and Schuyler do a deep dive on topics such as community, relationships, having babies at home, the early days of their relationship, current political divisions, whether we are or not in a the midst of a consciousness revolution, forgiveness, free will, gratitude and much more.

In 2008, Jeff Krasno created the concept for Wanderlust, a series of large-scale events combining yoga & wellness with the arts. Wanderlust has become a global wellness platform with 65 events in 20 countries. In 2018, Jeff founded Commune Media, an online learning platform for personal and societal well-being. He also hosts the Commune podcast, interviewing a wide variety of guests from Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson to Brendon Burchard and Russell Brand.
Jeff serves on the board of Pure Edge, a non-profit organization dedicated to integrating yoga and mindfulness curriculum into the public school system. Jeff is a contributor to the Huffington Post and Fast Company.His first book, eponymously named, Wanderlust, debuted in May 2015 on Rodale and has sold more than 35,000 copies worldwide. His new Wanderlust cookbook, Find Your True Fork came out in July 2017.

In 2016, he was selected by Oprah Winfrey to be part of the SuperSoul100 as one of the nation’s leading entrepreneurs.

In 1995, Jeff married Schuyler Grant, his college sweetheart. Schuyler, a yoga teacher and director of Kula Yoga Project, served as the inspiration for Wanderlust. Jeff & Schuyler have three beautiful daughters, Phoebe, Lolli and Micah. They currently live in Los Angeles, California.

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1 hr 49 min
May 13, 2022 Feel Good Friday! The Story of Two Frogs
In this week's Feel Good Friday episode, Steve tells the fable of two frogs who fall into a deep pit and how the power of encouragement (or lack thereof) affects the outcome.

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5 min
May 10, 2022 Encore Presentation - Christy Turlington Burns: Founder of Every Mother Counts
In honor of Mothers around the world, this week we are releasing an Encore Presentation of our interview from 6 months ago with Every Mother Counts (EMC) founder Christy Turlington Burns. Christy's work in maternal health began after experiencing a childbirth related complication in 2003—an experience that would later inspire her to direct and produce the documentary feature film, No Woman, No Cry, about the challenges women face throughout pregnancy and childbirth around the world. Under Christy’s leadership, Every Mother Counts has invested nearly $21 million in programs in Africa, Central America and Caribbean, South Asia and the United States focused on making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother, everywhere.
Before founding Every Mother Counts, Christy received international acclaim as a model representing the world’s biggest fashion and beauty brands. She was the Founder of Nuala, a yoga lifestyle brand in partnership with Puma, co-founder of Sundari, a skincare based on the principals of Ayurveda, and author of the bestselling book, Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice.

Christy has been featured on thousands of magazine covers, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, and among Glamour Magazine’s 2013 Women of the Year. In March 2016, EMC was recognized as one of Fast Company magazine’s Top 10 Most Innovative Not-For-Profit Companies.

In this episode, we chat with Christy about her childhood growing up in Northern California, a middle child raised by an Airline Pilot father and flight attendant mother from El Salvador. She talks openly about her experience on that fateful day that changed the course of her life forever. We chat about the problems in maternal healthcare worldwide and here in the US, where a woman is twice as likely to die in childbirth now as her mother was decades ago. We discuss the disturbing disparities in mortality rates in childbirth between women of color and white women, and why that is, as well as the amazing work that Every Mother Counts is doing in order to bring about change around the world.

To make a donation to EMC, or to learn more about their work, please visit:
EveryMotherCounts.org

To send a quick email in support of the Build Better Act (discussed in this episode), which includes policies that improve maternal health and equity, please go to https://p2a.co/eydcbjc

To learn more about pregnancy, and postpartum during the time of COVID-19, please visit justbirthspace.org

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52 min
May 06, 2022 Feel Good Friday! 23 Stories to Inspire You to Succeed!
For this Feel Good Friday episode, we're bringing you 23 stories to inspire you to overcome and even embrace your failures, and use them as fuel to pursue your dreams.

Whether it's Steven Spielberg, Colonel Sanders, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Walt Disney, or 15 year-old Jack Andraka who created a diagnostic test for Pancreatic Cancer that was better than the tests developed by scientists, research labs and billion dollar pharmaceutical companies, all of these success stories had one thing in common. They all had huge failures along the way, but never gave up!

Special thanks to Brad Aronson for his article Famous Failures: 23 Stories to Inspire You to Succeed, that is featured in this episode.

To learn more about Brad, or to order his National Bestselling book Humankind: Changing the World, One Small Act At a Time, please visit BradAronson.com.
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15 min

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