My podcast guest this week, Rico Racosky, is perfect for helping us creative meaningful change. He is a former fighter pilot, author and habit coach who teaches people about the binary nature of the way our brains make decisions. Our podcast highlights a crucial element of resolutions and goals. When it comes down to it, Rico explains, there truly are just two choices we can make; the choice to move towards a goal, or the choice to move away from it.

This week I'm chatting with former NFL football star, Anthony Trucks. He is an international public speaker, best-selling author, coach and the host of the Aww Shift Podcast. After an injury, he had to find a new identity in life, and I love his story because it is proof that no matter where you start, you have the power to create a success story. While none of us controls our childhood, we have the power, as adults, to create a new story, a new identity, and a new attitude.

This week, Heather Piedrahita and I are discussing de-stigmatizing mental illness, as well as tips for coping with pain and grief. 

I recorded a short podcast on my gratitude; gratitude about this bizarre and amazing year and my new course on Teachable. I have been working hard for months to create a new course on happiness, health and empowerment. My hope is that the course has the same impact; that someone who needs it will change their life and pass the happiness on. I'm learning that putting good things in the world can have unforeseen consequences. They create positive loops that continue past anything we imagine.

We all have the power to be a light in someone else's day. It's powerful when you send a letter or flowers, or food. Let people know you care and that you see them. I promise, it takes you our of your own distress to help others.

This week's podcast guest, Kevin Barhydt, is an author, actor and mentor, who created his own YouTube community to dive into three important topics: adoption, addiction and sexual abuse. If your first reaction is anything like mine, you might be tempted to stay away from such a heavy discussion in 2020. We all have a lot on our plates right now! However, I would urge you to listen to this conversation for several reasons. First, Kevin is an incredible human being with a tale that is beyond inspiring. He fosters hope that no matter what life hands you, can heal and overcome. Further, he gives real tools for healing from pain.  

My guest this week, Aaron Golub, has been featured on Sports Illustrated, ESPN, NPR, CBS, The New York Times, and ABC's Good Morning America. He achieved fame by becoming the first legally blind athlete to play Division 1 football for Tulane University.

Aaron offers us a path to reaching our own dreams, whatever they are. He discusses how to make your dreams a reality by being willing to do more than anyone else.

This week, I chat with Matthew Confer, who breaks down how to make better decisions in three easy steps.

1. Challenge the Constraints
2. Embrace a Pre-Mortem
3. Check the Basic

Matthew talks about other techniques for making decisions, like the method used by Walt Disney, who liked to address decisions from three perspectives; the dreamer, the realist and the skeptic. Looking at every major decision through these three lenses can help give a balanced approach. I hope you tune in to hear our plan for using these strategies to approach issues like getting healthy or giving up alcohol.

In this week's episode of Fix Yourself, Dan Blank and I discuss using clarity cards to get clear on where you want to put your energy. While Dan usually focuses on creative energy, I started to see the potential of these cards to be used in a broader way. Perhaps they could help us create a roadmap to guide us through this challenging time. In the midst of a pandemic, an election, a climate crisis and a reckoning with our cultural racism, maybe we could all use some self reflection to figure out where to put our energy.

Dan and I discuss other topics like healthy engagement with social media, and the ability to connect genuinely with other people around the globe to share ideas. We discuss happiness and how to create balance in this challenging time.

My podcast guest this week, Dr. Manuel Astruc, is an expert on burnout. A psychiatrist and coach with over 50,000 client hours, Dr. Astruc explains the three components that create burnout: a sense of exhaustion, a cynical attitude, and feeling that you are no longer effective at your work. Sounds a lot like everyone in 2020! Listen in for more information and tips on beating burnout this year. 

On this episode of "Fix Yourself", health psychologist, author, and Stanford professor, Dr. Kelly McGonigal, joins me to talk about her latest book, The Joy Of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage, and how by moving our bodies, we simply become the best versions of ourselves.