Extraordinary Minds

Is it possible for you to achieve levels of success that you never even dreamed of? Can you create a life where miracles are an everyday occurrence and your heart is filled with gratitude? The good news is that, yes, you can absolutely live such a life —and with much less effort than you imagine. The bad news is that you are so firmly entrenched in erroneous ways of thought and deed that it may take a very long time – certainly years, probably decades – to get to that space. The best news is that you can experience a significant improvement in your life in the direction indicated within a few months. You just have to practice the exercises Dr. Rao shares with you conscientiously. In this episode, Dr. Srikumar Rao will show you how every belief you hold is dead wrong and keeps you imprisoned. Be prepared to have thunderbolts wreck your current mental models and to be introduced to better models that bring both freedom and happiness   

Dr. Srikumar Rao is an educator, executive, best-selling author, and life coach. He also happens to be one of the most popular business professors in America. His pioneering course, ‘Creativity and Personal Mastery’ remains among the most popular and highest-rated courses at many of the world’s top business schools, including Columbia University and The London Business School.

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- 5 steps to experience joy and achieve success.

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Most people experience strained love in their relationships, even in professional ones. In most cases, it’s because they are servings from a half-empty or bone-dry cup. The first thing that we need to learn to stop this draining situation is how to fall in love with ourselves. Learning how to love and serve others to your total capacity in a healthy and fulfilling way starts with learning how to love and serve yourself. In this episode, motivational speaker Lisa Nichols will show you the essentials of how to fill your cup up by falling madly in love with yourself first.   

From a struggling single mom, Lisa Nichols has since become one of the world’s most-requested motivational speakers and went on to become a best-selling author of six books to date. As founder and CEO of Motivating the Masses, Lisa has now impacted thousands of lives and altered businesses across the world. Her extraordinary story of transforming her own life was the inspiration behind her bold mission to teach others that it is possible to do the same.

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- The importance of falling in love with yourself.

- Why you need to find out what you are committed to.

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In this episode, Katherine Woodward Thomas shares the relationship advice she used to change her frustrating love life and attract the love of her life. She also shares her secret to clearing the blocks in your love life, plus the three questions she constantly asked herself to prepare for her future relationship. It doesn’t matter if you are going through relationship problems or are stuck in the attracting-the-right-partner phase, Katherine has an answer for you.   

Katherine Woodward Thomas is the New York Times Bestselling Author of Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After and Calling in “The One:” 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life. In addition, she is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and teacher to thousands in her in-person and virtual learning communities. Before becoming a bestselling author, Katherine decided to evolve beyond her painful patterns in love consciously when Katherine was in her early forties. As a result, she miraculously manifested a beautiful marriage and became a mother. For many years, she and her husband were happy together. A decade later, however, they realized that they’d grown apart and, after much discussion, decided to end their marriage. Yet, they’d both been raised by parents who’d had messy, hostile breakups and knew how damaging divorce could be for kids. Katherine also knew how traumatic a bad breakup could be from the many heart-wrenching experiences she’d had in the past. This motivated her to create the Conscious Uncoupling 5-step process that would inspire the kind and conscious breakup of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin just a few years later.

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- The story of how Katherine changed her love life.

- How Katherine created conscious uncoupling.

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Have you ever noticed that most of the problems we have right now take us back to how our caregivers treated us when we were kids? And the same thing is going to happen to our children, so where did it go wrong? We all want nothing but the best for our kids, but somehow things don’t turn out the way we want them to. Unconscious parents affect the subconscious mind of the children since early childhood. In this talk, clinical psychologist and parenting expert Dr. Shefali Tsabary explains how we've all been raised and conditioned to think we're all so unique when in reality, we are all more similar than we'd like to believe. So get ready to snap yourself out of this shared delusion.   

Endorsed by Oprah as “revolutionary” and “life-changing,” New York Times bestselling author and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Shefali is the foremost expert in the field of conscious parenting. Dr. Shefali’s journey into this radically new parenting paradigm arose from her own experience as a parent herself. After reacting irrationally to a tantrum thrown by her daughter, who was 3-years-old at the time, Dr. Shefali became deeply self-aware that her parenting frustrations were never about her child. Instead, it was about her own unmet childhood needs that she was unconsciously projecting on her own daughter. Merging western psychology and eastern philosophy, Dr. Shefali brings a more conscious approach to parenting that centers around honoring our children as sovereign beings, creating authentic connections with them, and, most importantly, raising our own consciousness as parents. Her new book, A Radical Awakening, is available for purchase.

Listen out for:

- The parenting paradigm of today.

- Where all our problems come from.

- What it means to awaken.

- The definition of categorical duality.

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Speaking in front of many people can be scary, but if they are all around the same age as you, you at least have an idea of how to engage them. Imagine if you were to talk in front of an audience with ages 4 to 19. Do you think you will be able to keep all of them engaged? Doesn’t it sound even scarier than before? Worry not! We have a master of public speaking who is here to help you become one as well. In this episode, our award-winning international speaker, Eric Edmeads, is going to give us some great tips on how you can master this art that will change your personal life, career, and the way you see yourself.   

Eric Edmeades is an award-winning international speaker, author, and pioneer in evolutionary biology, nutritional anthropology, and behavioral change dynamics. He guides people towards profound and lasting health breakthroughs through science-based protocols that deliver results far beyond the ordinary. His achievements have also earned him an award from the Transformational Leadership Council: a panel of 150 of America’s top visionaries in health, wellness, and peak performance. In 2017, Mindvalley exclusively licensed Eric’s WILDFIT methodology due to the dramatic effect it had on the health of over 100 Mindvalley team members.

Listen out for:

- The definition of the stage effect. 

- The most effective system of marketing. 

- The greatest tool of an introvert.

- The Broad Spectrum Appeal. 

- Why information needs to be delivered in stories.

- How to tell an engaging story.

- The charisma pattern.

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Tiago Forte is one of the world’s foremost experts on productivity. He has taught more than 20,000 people worldwide through his programs and speaks about how technology can help knowledge workers revolutionize their effectiveness. Tiago believes idea management is one of the most impactful skills in the world today, and his course, called Building a Second rain, makes it more accessible for everyone to thrive. In this episode, Vishen Lakhiani and Tiago Forte talk about how leveraging the power of ideas requires shifting our mindset from scarcity to abundance and how human progress depends on putting our ideas into action.   

Tiago Forte is one of the world’s foremost experts on productivity. He is the founder of Forte Labs, an education company for professional development in the Information Age. Tiago's mission is to help knowledge workers use design and technology to transform their productivity, elevate their performance and reframe their relationship with work. Building a Second Brain, Tiago’s online course has been taken by more than 1,000 students from over 70 countries. The course draws on his experience in his work with top organizations and leaders in Silicon Valley, academic disciplines such as information science, and practical fields such as user experience design.

Listen out for:

- What made Tiago dive so deep into productivity. 

- The concept of a second brain.

- 4 apps that help you optimize your second brain.

- What code methodology is.

- The PARA Method.

- How to efficiently manage your time.

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So many reading patterns we were taught during childhood turned us into slow readers now. And in the fast-paced world today, we don’t have much time left to read slowly. Also, many of us believe that reading fast lowers our comprehension, so what do we do? Do we stop reading? Not even an option. But don't worry. Did you know that brain performance experts can help us save time and read faster? Not only can our speaker do that, but also his tools can boost your life in ways you can't even imagine. Jim Kwik possesses a real passion for teaching others how to learn faster and increase their brainpower. They will make you read way quicker without forgetting everything in the past paragraph and memorize things that matter to you for the rest of your life. So get ready for a life-changing experience.   

Jim Kwik is a widely recognized world expert in memory improvement, brain optimization, and accelerated learning. He has dedicated his life to helping others unleash their true genius and brainpower. He is also the host of the top education training podcast Kwik Brain and instant NY Times bestselling author of “Limitless - Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, Unlock Your Exceptional Life.” His mission is to leave no brain behind.

Listen out for:

- The ultimate quest in life.

- 3 powerful questions in life.

- What makes you a slow reader.

- How sub-vocalization slows you down.

- 3 things you can do to remove sub-vocalization.

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In this episode, the Founder of Ziva Meditation, Emily Fletcher, uses real-life examples and humorous anecdotes to prove that the 3 M’s of wellbeing are powerful. They can reduce your stress, heal past wounds and enable you to live a happier and more fulfilling life. Emily shares how her personal story led her to develop a meditation practice, which resulted in her founding one of the most successful meditation schools of our time. She explains mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting are different and how, when used in combination, they can help us become good at life. Get ready for a mind-blowing experience.  

Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the leading expert in meditation for extraordinary performance. The Ziva Technique is a powerful trifecta of mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting designed to unlock your full potential. Emily has been named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch, has taught more than 25,000 students worldwide, and has spoken on meditation for performance at Apple, Google, Harvard Business School, and Barclays Bank.

Listen out for:

- Emily’s story of how she changed her life completely.

- The difference between mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting.

- What is the corpus callosum, and how it helps your creative mind.

- The definition of Mantra and how it helps us.

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You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague wants to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by and, once again, you put your most important personal and professional goals on hold. This episode will reveal the hidden psychology driving us to distraction and the reason why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices. The truth is abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Listen to learn the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model, and the key to getting the best out of technology without letting it get the best of us. 

Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and The M.I.T. Technology Review called him “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir’s writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today.

Listen out for:

- Nir’s personal experience with distraction.

- Why distraction is not a new problem.

- The real definition of distraction.

- 2 types of internal distraction triggers.

- The 10-minute rule to help your distraction triggers.

- The only metric of success.

- How to use your phone to help you stay indistractable.

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- Discover how to rise above distractions, own your time, and regain your peak focus and performance, no matter what’s going on inside you or around you with Nir Eyal in this FREE Mindvalley Masterclass 👉https://go.mindvalley.com/NirFocus  

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How can you be captivating, dynamic, and memorable on video? How about in emails or chats? Whether you are on endless Zoom calls, emailing important VIPs, giving presentations over the video, or just chatting with friends and colleagues, you need to know how to thrive in digital communication. Learn to captivate every time. On one of the best-rated sessions of Mindvalley Summit, Vanessa Van Edwards, bestselling author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People and founder of ScienceofPeople.com, will give you a roadmap to powerful digital people skills because virtual communication requires different interpersonal skills than in-person. 

Vanessa is the Lead Investigator at Science of People. Her book, Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People, has been translated into 16 different languages, and more than 30 million people have watched her on YouTube. She regularly speaks to innovative companies including Google, Intel, Facebook, Comcast, Miller-Coors, Microsoft, and Penguin Random-House. She has been a spokesperson for Dove, American Express, Clean and Clear, and Symantec. Vanessa has developed a science-based framework for understanding different personalities to improve our EQ and to help us communicate with colleagues, clients, and customers. Her TEDx London Talk on the science of charisma has been watched over 2,000,000 times. She is renowned for teaching science-backed people skills to worldwide audiences, including SXSW, MIT, and CES, to name a few. Her groundbreaking and engaging workshops and courses teach individuals how to succeed in business and life by understanding the hidden dynamics of people.

Listen out for:

- How to make our online meetings energy-giving instead of draining.

- Tips on how to make a better impression online. 

- Shark Tank best pitches patterns.

- The secret to creating oxytocin online.  

- The importance of seeing hands in online presence.

- What all the best Ted Talkers have in common.

- The key to using your vocal power to gain trust.

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