Do you want to learn how remodeling your brain helps create peace and joy in your life? Join your host Adam Markel as he interviews Dr. Dawson Church about the neuroscience of change, consciousness, and resilience. Dawson Church, Ph.D., is an award-winning science writer with three bestselling books to his credit. Different circumstances lead you to believe that your life will not get any better. The truth is you can be happy and calmer no matter what the odds are. Tune in to learn more about the importance of deep meditation and the proper techniques to help you produce measurable changes in your brain.

Show Notes:

• 4:05 Introduction
• 8:23 People Change
• 17:45 Areas Of The Brain
• 19:21 Default Mode Network
• 26:20 Two Components
• 29:47 Deep Meditation
• 39:42 Tools For People To Maintain Peace
• 43:12 Practices
• 45:51 Tapping Technique
• 1:00:17 Wrapping Up

People these days are not experiencing the magic of surrender. They are actually afraid to surrender because they think it means living in the Himalayas and giving up everything. That is not true surrender. You won't feel joy or magic by letting go of everything. True surrender is an inner state of being. It is in your relationship with life. It is the whole-hearted participation in the process of life that is unfolding. Don't be afraid to follow your life's purpose. Join Adam Markel as he talks to Transformational Truth Teacher and bestselling author Kute Blackson about his new book, The Magic of Surrender. He is also the winner of the 2019 Unity New Thought Walden Award. He teaches people to live authentically and fulfill their true life's purpose. Listen in so that you can learn how to truly surrender and be open to life. Discover how you can get unstuck if you feel like refusing to change. Find the magic of surrender today!

Show Notes:

5:25 - A Passion For Speaking

10:24 - The Magic Of Surrender

20:37 - The Future Is None Of Your Business

32:00 - Getting Unstuck In Life

39:10 - The Meaning Of Resilience

40:47 - Surrendering To Life

48:25 - The Fear Of Surrender

50:55 - Be Like Water

Speaker, Coach, and Top Show Podcaster, Tiffany Peterson is passionate about helping others live with intention while implementing essential success habits to create a thriving life and business. How can you create the life and business you want without sacrificing yourself too much? Listen to your host Adam Markel as he talks with Tiffany about nourishing your body, mind, and spirit so you can fully embody the success habits that would make you thrive in different areas of your life. Tiffany shares in-depth insights on the importance of self-care, showing up, and self-exploration. She also discusses non-negotiable rules she has for herself that help her live her purpose with more meaning and fulfillment. Do you have a clear vision and goals, or are you just surviving? Tune in to explore how you can root yourself most powerfully while living on your own terms.

Show Notes:

• 00:01 Introduction
• 01:07 Having A Tender Heart
• 05:20 Self-care         
• 08:06 Showing Up
• 11:44 Trusting Yourself
• 13:23 Acceptance
• 16:10 Energy
• 23:58 Dancing With The Unknown
• 35:45 Rules
• 36:26 Clarity
• 38:30 Saying No
• 45:55 Environment Has Influence
• 52:54 Rejection
• 56:10 Great At Sales
• 1:06:14 Persistence
• 1:07:55 Wrapping Up

It is important to cultivate an awareness that the world doesn't revolve around you. Everything is not about you but it's about others. People need to be more compassionate, humble, and frugal. It's their choice to make. Instead of choosing to waste your food, be grateful for it. Be fully aware and make good choices. Mindfulness is to be aware that you have a choice in things, so make the right decisions. Unlike animals, humans have the ability to make great change because of the choices they make. Join Adam Markel as he talks to Daoist monk, Monk Yun Rou about the power of awareness. Monk Yun Rou has been said to be the new Alan Watts for his Daoist teachings and the Zen Gabriel Garcia-Marquez for his spiritual works. He is also an award-winning author and a master of tai chi. Discover that you have the ability of choice and why you should use it. Learn about mindfulness and awareness. Understand why you should practice being compassionate, humble, and frugal. Find out how you can make a difference in other people's lives by just choosing what's right.

Show Notes:

0:01 Finding Enlightenment

16:14 Responding To Change & Shifts

27:50 The Root Cause Of Suffering

39:40 The Power Of Choice

45:37 Resilience

52:39 Mindfulness

1:00:14 Achieving Awareness

1:06:50 The Starbucks Story

Overcoming challenges is what leads us to our successes. We often find the biggest PIVOTs at our darkest moments. It’s simply because your accomplishments do not define you. It is the work that you put into every task and the discomforts you had to overcome that make you stronger. It's the lessons you learn from every fall that makes you the person that you are. In this episode we are joined by the New York Times bestselling author of Paleo Kitchen and creator of the #4 app in the world, Caveman Feast 3.0, George Bryant as he talks about how he fought his battles on and off tour. The Civilized Caveman also shares the Five A’s that helped him overcome most of the challenges he faced as he remains committed to helping people and organizations put the heart back into their businesses.

When we think of superheroes, we often think of people with extraordinary abilities, like flight or superstrength. But did you know that there are people with real-life superpowers? As the Executive Director of Super Power Experts and Creator of the Super Power Network, the number one podcast network for inspired personal development, Tonya Dawn Recla spends her day proving superpowers are real. She’s passionate about creating scalable, sustainable solutions to support rapid evolution and vibrational shifts for individuals and the collective.

In this episode, Tonya Dawn Recla discusses her commitment to authenticity, personal responsibility, and accountability. She also shares advice for people wanting to take the first step into personal responsibility and operate from their highest frequency.

Producing success in your life is less about the tasks that you need to do and more about the decisions that you need to make. Moving on from an emotional pain that happened to you in the past is a decision. It's a decision to find success in the future. We all have the power to turn every loss into a lesson. No one probably knows this better than Darryll Stinson. Darryll is an author, speaker, and spiritually-directed business coach that helps athletes and heart-centered entrepreneurs grow their businesses and change more lives using his integrity marketing process. Today, he takes the time to talk with Adam Markel to share his life experience of overcoming addiction, childhood rejection, mental illness, depression, and multiple suicide attempts to produce success in his life.

Pivoting in life is necessary. However, the process of going through those moments is often not simple. Sometimes, you have to wiggle your way out of challenges to find your new place. That is what our guest today shares. Business strategy coach and bestselling author Penny Zenker joins Adam Markel to take us across the many pivots in her life that made her who she is now. And Penny’s stories are nothing short of great lessons that range from business development to personal development, sharing how she moved to start her own business and dealt with divorce. Through it, Penny shows us the process that has helped her navigate from the changes in her life and into reinvention as well as the rituals and habits that cultivate resilience. Join this conversation and gain so much wisdom about going through the changes of life and coming out of it stronger than ever.

It feels different when you are helping others succeed and attain happiness. Join Donna Steinhorn in this episode as she shares the story that led to the critical pivot of her life’s purpose. Donna is an executive, mentor, life coach, co-founder of Serendipitous Events, co-founder of the non-profit Coach Initiative, and a board member of the Transformational Leadership Council. She dives deep into the importance of finding your true passion and transforming people’s lives.

Show Notes:

●       05:03 Introduction

●       16:18 Helping People Change

●       30:45 Adjustments And Pivots

●       41:12 Stories

●       44:01 Rituals

When it comes to fitness, there is no “one size fits all” solution. Two people could be doing the same things and come out the other end with completely different results. Joining Adam Markel to discuss how you can develop a fitness strategy that works for you is Angelo Poli. Angelo is a transformation specialist and Founder of MetPro, the advanced methodology that analyzes an individual’s specific response to diet and activity and adjusts based on their personal needs and goals. He helps you achieve success and maintain by not only evaluating your physical fitness but by focusing on your mindset as well. Caring for your personal health is a lifetime battle, but it’s won worth winning. Don’t miss out on valuable tips and life-changing insights by tuning in to this episode.

Show Notes:

• 3:50 – Adam and Angelo’s perspective on life insurance and personal health
• 10:44 – The missing piece to taking care of yourself and how to get good at it
• 17:21 – Angelo’s pivot to business and fitness not being a one size fits all
• 23:44 – Why a person doesn’t achieve an outcome and evaluating health
• 27:30 – Is there a way to eradicate self-sabotage? Goal vs lifestyle
• 35:23 – Belief without process isn’t going to work and the domino effect that follows
• 41:34 – Building resilience to help us go the distance
• 45:21 – A belief system that produces a higher level of success
• 50:12 – Angelo’s rituals that created greater resilience

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