Dr. Michael Hudson is a teacher, speaker, writer, facilitator, coach & ideapreneur who can help you Get Your Message Heard. Michael is the author of the book Public Speaker Secrets, filled with practical insights you can use to increase your impact every time you share your message.

Communication is Michael’s gift. In this episode we focus on why true authentic expression is the path of progression. Life is about living our own journey yet for many of us we are living through an expression of external expectation. We have a long insightful and inspirational chat about how we can better express our ideas, communicate our message and have greater impact in our lives and others. Enjoy!

Expanding on a thought that has been consuming my mind – Does free will exist? What choice or influence over our reality and the life we wish to live do we have? Those thoughts and more in this episode of The Hidden Why Podcast.

Maria Felipe is the author of Live Your Happy. A Cuban-American born in Miami, she is 5’9” with a towering personality to match. After experiencing success as a model and actress, including hosting World Wrestling Federation TV shows, she felt called inward and studied to become a reverend at Pathways of Light, an accredited religious school inspired by A Course in Miracles.

Live Your Happy is not a philosophic explanation but rather a practical guide for living it. In this episode we discuss Maria's book and work to highlight how we can remove the “cuckoo voice of the ego”, connect with their “inner Self,” and access personal power and strength. The path to deeper happiness.

Joshua Fields Milburn ann Ryan Nicodemus are The Minimalists. This book is a guide to living a minimalist lifestyle.

If life is bringing your down you may benefit from the insights shared in this book. In efforts to create a meaningful life Ryan and Josh suggest focus on these five areas of life - health, relationships, passion, growth and contribution.

Enjoy this book reflection.

Proactively Create an Awesome Life “I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it’s proactive and there is positive intent behind it.” Michael J. Fox What does your ideal life look like? Start with the end in mind and from there proactively go about creating that awesome life. … Continue reading 342: Leigh Martinuzzi – 3 Minute Thought: Proactively Create an Awesome Life

Kim Ades is the president and founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and JournalEngine TM Software. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mother of five, Kim is recognized as one of North America’s foremost experts on performance through thought mastery. Using her unique philosophy and quirky coaching style, Kim helps her clients shift their thinking in order to yield extraordinary results and personal transformation.

In this conversation we discuss why our thoughts have greater impact on our lives than any other contributing factor. Kim shares her perspectives on what it takes to change the direction of our lives even sharing some cool practices and techniques.

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." Aristotle

Biologically speaking we are hard-wired to survive. Happiness is nature’s way of helping us fulfil that need? We just endowed with chemicals and hormones that not only bring balance to the operation of this vessel but guide us towards what is beneficial to our journey and what to avoid.

In this solo rant I discuss my thoughts on this topic. Thoughts on our happy chemicals. Why we have some natural tendencies to move towards pleasure and avoid pain, how this links to our evolution and need for survival and why it creates and ever expanding set of perceived needs. On order to better navigate our lives towards greater freedom, fulfilment and happiness.

Enjoy!

"The committed heart when fast with a challenge will find a solution. The uncommitted heart will seek an escape."

Siphiwe Baleka is the founder of Fitness Trucking, LLC and serves as the Driver Health and Fitness Coach at Prime Inc., one of America’s largest trucking companies. His innovative, on-the-go wellness program has helped thousands of truck drivers lose weight and reclaim their health. The trucking industry is the least healthy of any industry in the US with 69% of truck drivers being obese.

His premise is that anyone with 4 minutes can get fit. What works for truckers can work for any sedentary person! After being raised in Chicago by a single dad, he graduated from Yale University and is the first African American ever named to the First Team All-Ivy League Swim Team. He missed qualifying for the 1992 Olympic Swimming Trials in the 100 freestyle by just 0.8 seconds!

He is the author of 4-Minute Fit. In this episode we get a perspective on health from a different angle that attempts to inspire greater health among others.

"The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don't." Marcus Aurelius

Philosophy is an attitude and a guiding principle of behaviour in life. In many ways philosophy is about asking questions, seeking truth so to live as best we can with greater ease. Principles that can improve wisdom, perseverance and the art of living. This book by Ryan Holiday is awesomely insightful- full review here at The Hidden Why.

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” Buddha Our Thoughts are Our Reality! Reduce the suffering, increase your happiness, focus on your thoughts. Positive thoughts bring rise to positive behaviours and positive realities – negative do the reverse. … Continue reading 337: Leigh Martinuzzi | 3 Minute Thought: Our Thoughts are Our Reality