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"Be Still and Know" is a guided meditation technique developed by Roy Masters for effortlessly overcoming root causes of stress and illness. In use for over 45 years, this simple method has helped generations free themselves from: Abuse, Anger, Addiction, Bipolar, Depression, Smoking, Self-doubt and...

Podcast Here (Clip from episodes: K3699) This podcast is brought to you by the Foundation of Human Understanding: http://www.fhu.com Wondering what the difference is between meditation and concentration? Could over-focusing and concentrating too hard counteract the positive benefits of meditation? On this free meditation podcast, Monty reports a painful pressure in his sinuses when he meditates. Meditation expert Roy Masters knew immediately what the problem was and fills Monty in on the proper way to meditate. Unlike many meditations being taught and practiced today, Roy Masters does not promote a heavy concentration-based exercise. His exercise is a free guided meditation called "Be Still and Know." “You are taking a journey to your true self, and it is a little painful, because you have to undo a whole lifetime of conditioning of who you are.” If you are having difficulty concentrating in a productive way, listen to this podcast now! Quotes regarding meditation and concentration from Roy Masters’ books: “Concentration is the way you produce hypnosis; but observation is the way you produce meditation; Observation is the 'opposite' of concentration and is the way you free a fixated attention. If you concentrate hard enough, you will become hypnotized; but if you can observe gently, you will wake up. A continuous process of observing self leads one out of the hypnotic state we all live in towards a source of knowing called understanding. “Understanding is to meditation as knowledge is to hypnotism.” - The Hypnosis of Life “True awareness is a healthy, observing attitude that protects from all dangers. But in your subjective state of preoccupation with worry and ambition, you have fallen into ridiculous predicaments. You have had accidents and become involved with the wrong people. Frightened and realizing your need for greater awareness, you may have even tried to force awareness. You began by making sure you did not repeat the same mistakes. Unfortunately, this procedure leads to a limited, subjective state of mind. You become so suspiciously aware, so preoccupied with each incident that you tend to make even more mistakes than you otherwise would—and you are even more mystified by them in view of the fact that you are trying so hard. For example, while at the beach you cut your foot on a piece of glass. The next time you are there, you are more cautious, ever conscious of the potential danger of glass lying half-hidden in the sand. You are so preoccupied with the fear of that possible danger that you fail to see a volleyball coming straight at you. The next time at the beach you are so worried about glass and volleyballs that you do not even see the dog that bites you after you have tripped over him. This type of forced awareness, which results from concentration and self-effort, is really a diminishing awareness, increasingly preoccupied with more and more things and circumstances.You are taking in too much knowledge unbuffered by understanding.” - How to Conquer Negative Emotions “Be careful not to concentrate so hard, with so much emotional investment that you make a god of learning and intellectual achievement. If you feel driven to learn you may be using the acquisition of knowledge as an escape from the more important reality considerations with which you should be concerning yourself. Remember that anything you use as an escape corrupts and creates an addiction to the source of corruption, whatever it might be.” - Surviving the Comfort Zone “When you concentrate, or fixate away from Reality, toward goals and pleasures, you temporarily forget the condemnation of conscience and the ultimate penalty of death. Instead, you feel the stirrings of a new self-righteous, earthy creature life. You trade your true and eternal life for a selfish ego life.” - Surviving the Comfort Zone LISTEN:

Meditation and Concentration: Is Concentrating Beneficial?

Podcast Here (Clips from episodes: K4647 and K4755) This podcast is brought to you by the Foundation of Human Understanding: http://www.fhu.com Have you benefited from guided meditation? Curious if meditation is right for your child or children? Wondering when and how to introduce meditation to your kids? On this free podcast, Mitch is wondering what age is appropriate to introduce meditation to his children. Meditation expert Roy Masters discusses with him the importance of not pushing meditation on your children. Being a good example, especially as a father, provides a natural form of meditation for children. At a certain age, some children may ask how to meditate. Marco, a ten-year-old boy, provides a special testimonial for the Be Still and Know meditation. If it wasn't for the free guided meditation, he would still be dealing the destructive anger and trauma he's suffered with since was six. Quotes regarding children and meditation from Roy Masters’ books: The salvation of your children and family depends on two things: 1) your standing firm on principle, making principle unmistakably clear and 2) their choosing to stand with you on the side of principle, it having been made clear to them. The choice must be theirs alone, for God wants volunteers, not conscripts; that is why you must get your own will in the matter out of the way. - Adam & Eve Sindrome The true authority is within; those who are truly linked to that authority in themselves understand the very delicate process of slowly introducing their children to their own centers of dignity. If you have such authority in yourself— that is, if you have abandoned your ego life—your offspring can follow any suggestion from you without any danger whatsoever of becoming conditioned to an authority outside themselves, for the love coming through you is in concert with the understanding of life in them. - How to Conquer Negative Emotions “Don’t coerce people to accept you or your beliefs. You have no responsibility but to express the Truth. By doing so, you provide an example that stands in sharp contrast to evil. Be patient; let people make their own commitments.” - How to Conquer Negative Emotions LISTEN: ----- If you suffer deeply from the effects of stress, fear and pain, we recommend Roy Masters’ special meditation and advice audio pack: Overcoming Stress Fear and Pain.

Meditation for Children | Should Kids Meditate?

Podcast Here (Clip from episodes: K3673 and K4481) This podcast is brought to you by the Foundation of Human Understanding: http://www.fhu.com Are you looking to learn how to meditate? Have you attempted meditation before, only to find yourself struggling with it? Do you find yourself getting frustrated while attempting a meditative state? Are you wondering how meditation can benefit you? On this episode of the Meditation – Overcoming Stress and Illness Podcast, Thomas discusses getting hung up "trying" to meditate properly. Radio counselor Roy Masters explains how struggling with meditation can undermine any positive results that are possible through the meditation exercise. Being that the Be Still & Know guided meditation is designed to point one away from emotional effort, one must learn not to struggle with the exercise. Roy also hears from Rick who describes the benefits of meditation he has experienced. By using the free guided meditation to separate from his thoughts, Rick has been able to overcome symptoms brought on by agoraphobia, such as panic attacks and paranoia. Roy explains how to maintain all the benefits that meditation helps bring you to. Quotes regarding learning meditation and its benefits from Roy Masters’ books: “Meditation... is the vital key to understanding everything. Without the objective state of meditation, your real self is not free from its involvement in the mind-stuff with its hodgepodge of prejudice and sin, education and cultural conditioning.” - The Secret Power of Words “The correct technique of meditation facilitates the process of bringing you up and out of the old system of responding into the new state of functioning from realizing. The Truth indeed awakens and sets you free from responding like a zombie in a dream world.” - How to Conquer Suffering Without Doctors “Love and courage are not qualities we can bestow on ourselves. At most, we can only long to be graced with them, to hunger and thirst after righteousness; and (correct) meditation is the way the sincere seeker of Truth has always employed to express his commitment to Good.” - Understanding Sexuality “Needless to say, the meditation exercise I have recommended will enable you to sift the natural from the unnatural, as well as enable you to realize the lie (hypnotic suggestion) from the Truth.” - How to Conquer Suffering Without Doctors “Only the process of meditation, entered into with the right intent, can lead the student to the rediscovery of these truths for himself and gently clear the way for the action of grace that can transform him.” - Understanding Sexuality “Your meditation is the way to the Life and the Truth; it involves two important antihypnotic and antimagnetic phases, one rising out of the other. Believe and follow what is revealed, and you complete a cycle; you establish a permanent relationship with the indwelling God, and nothing can ever pull you away again. Being 'hooked' here means being saved.” - How to Conquer Suffering Without Doctors LISTEN: ----- If you suffer deeply from the effects of stress, fear and pain, we recommend Roy Masters’ special meditation and advice audio pack: Overcoming Stress Fear and Pain.

Learn Meditation | How to Benefit from Meditation Exercises

Podcast Here Do you have an overactive imagination? Do you use your imagination to escape pain? Is the difference between fantasy and reality sometimes difficult to determine? On this podcast episode, Sharon brings up that she has been meditating regularly for over a year, and is concerned that it may be hypnotic. Radio counselor Roy Masters spells out how to know if you are hypnotized by meditation. Though she may not be hypnotized by meditation, Sharon is addicted to creating elaborate stories in her mind. Roy discusses how getting lost in your imagination through preplanning, and fantasy is really the misuse of a God-given talent. A second caller, June, is wondering if what she is envisioning during meditation is a product of her overactive imagination. At one point in the free guided meditation, Roy says, “You can almost see an outline of your hand, through your mind’s eye.” When meditating, June says that here hand doesn’t look like her own. Roy explains how becoming objective and aware lead you to see things differently. (Clip from episodes: K3537 and K4485) This podcast is brought to you by the Foundation of Human Understanding: http://www.fhu.com Quotes regarding imagination from Roy Masters’ books : “The meditation is the science of starting a similar stimulation from the other side of the psyche. It is a science of diminishing response to temptation, persons or things. By eliminating the response to outer stimulation, we starve the roots of unfounded fears and dissolve the faulty imagination, opening up a whole new world of understanding. Then, and only then, do we begin to see reality.” - How Your Mind Can Keep You Well “Your imaginative mind is a computer. You are not supposed to live inside your computer; otherwise, you lose control over the input. Lost in your imagination, your computer is overshadowed by other forces suggesting exciting lies and ideas to you. You are no longer creating in a godly sense, but in a prideful and tragic sense.” - Adam and Eve Sindrome “Since childhood, your mind has been lost in your imagination, just as Alice lost herself in Wonderland. You have probably confused fixation and fascination with true concentration and meditation. You have been so involved with fascinating things that you could not be aware enough to realize the vital difference between fascination and concentration.” - How to Conquer Negative Emotions “Seek, therefore, the true ground of being. To find it, you must be willing to give up pride, emotion, and fantasy. Imagination is the world where pride lives away from reality, where you are the only reality. That is a very dangerous place to be. When you are lost in your mind, words take on a false life and false meaning; they lie, they excite. Here you are like God, in control of everything. It seems as though you are making people serve you. But you are merely giving power to devils to excite you with lies, with words, with the knowledge of good and evil.” - Adam and Eve Sindrome ----- If you suffer deeply from the effects of stress, fear and pain, we recommend Roy Masters’ special meditation and advice pack: Overcoming Stress Fear and Pain.

Meditation and Imagination | Overactive Imaginations

Podcast Here Do you overeat or find yourself obsessing over food? Is stress, anxiety or depression holding you back? Did you know that there is a simple, meditative exercise, that when practiced daily, benefits both your physical and mental health? On this podcast episode, Mark gives a testimonial regarding the free guided meditation technique. By disconnecting emotionally from food and practicing the “Be Still and Know” daily meditation, he is happier and beginning to see the world more clearly. During their conversation, radio counselor Roy Masters reemphasizes the simplicity of this meditation. “You drop your anger, and I’ll show you how to get rid of all your illnesses and have a happy life.” Now that his life is improving immensely, Mark’s friends are not as eager to heed his advice. “I feel like I won a million dollars and no one wants any of it.” How should one cope with feelings of loneliness and isolation that often accompanies personal success? Roy Masters answers this and discusses more about the benefits of meditation in this free podcast episode. (Clip from episode: K4545) This podcast is brought to you by the Foundation of Human Understanding: http://www.fhu.com Quotes regarding feelings of loneliness from Roy Masters’ books : "Of course, from the moment you undertake to live from your common sense rather than from the world's illusions, you will be engaged in a war of natures, yours and theirs, the good coming through your freedom, versus the guile coming through their vices. They will try to make you doubt your perspective in order to involve their nature with yours, but you must frustrate their purpose by remaining calm and detached. The world does not take kindly to the person who can stand alone on principle, so you will be faced with every love/hate trick in the book. Just stand your ground, with merry eyes twinkling." - Surviving the Comfort Zone “It is your own evolving consciousness that makes others aware of what they are doing to you and to themselves. They see your grace, your aloneness in the world. They see your strength, rooted in an invisible ground of being, and they are profoundly impressed.” - How to Survive Your Parents “Realize that you are not alone and that this is the reason you know what is wrong with you… Remain aware of your problem. Resist the temptation to struggle with it. Struggle indicates a lack of faith on your part, a belief that you still think you exist alone with your problem.” - How to Conquer Negative Emotions “Your honesty, becoming visible, sets you apart from disease-producing, soul-debilitating friendships. Being rejected and persecuted will awaken your need to seek comfort only from the God-source within. Your words will threaten word-sensitive egos and disturb an intellectual concept of world order in which they take comfort, and upon which they depend for survival. They will immediately try to confuse you, but even if your knees are knocking together, you must stand firm. You will feel weak and afraid, primarily because your former nature drew a great deal of confidence from being in agreement with those you now see to be your enemies. Prepare yourself, for the moment you speak up, you will break all the old bonds. When you withdraw ego-support from your ‘friends,’ they will withdraw their ego-support from you... Each new truth, openly championed, snips another subtle point of attachment and releases you from the unreasonable grip of friendships and passions.” - The Secret Power of Words “From the day you are born, you are bathed in a sea of negativity that sets you up progressively to respond to the wicked environment around you. At the beginning, you alone can perceive things as they really are, and this can make you believe that you are crazy and the world is really sane. With no one present to suggest anything that would counter the notion rising within you, the sheer mass of souls who are oblivious to their follies and wickednesses can reinforce your sin of doubting the Truth, and can displace what is left of your sanity with distorted worldly logic and direction.” - The Secret Power of Words ----- If you suffer deeply from the effects of stress, fear and pain, we recommend Roy Masters’ special meditation and advice pack: Overcoming Stress Fear and Pain.

Meditation Benefits: A Testimonial | Coping With Loneliness

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The Freddie and Alyssa Show is hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor, Freddie Smith and his wife, Florida realtor and author, Alyssa Tabit Smith. This podcast is dedicated to bringing you a mix of entertainment, inspiration and education.

On episode 251 of The Freddie & Alyssa Show, Freddie & Alyssa share out-of-the-box ideas for Alyssa’s birthday and a significant life experience that happened one year ago today!

#251: The Freddie & Alyssa Show: Happy Birthday, Alyssa!

On episode 250 of The Freddie & Alyssa Show, Freddie discusses the Actors & Writers Strike taking place right now in Hollywood.

#250: The Freddie & Alyssa Show: Hollywood is Completely Closed for Business!

On episode 249 of The Freddie & Alyssa Show, Freddie and Alyssa do a deep dive on the cost of living and inflation in America. https://www.easycanvasprints.com/fanda/

#249: The Freddie & Alyssa Show: A Deep Dive into the Cost of Living

On episode 248 of The Freddie & Alyssa Show, Freddie sits down for a special Days of Our Lives Q&A;!https://www.easycanvasprints.com/fanda

#248: The Freddie & Alyssa Show: Days of Our Lives Q&A

On episode 247 of The Freddie & Alyssa Show, Freddie goes solo and discusses his favorite hacks to winning the social media algorithm, how new media has evolved, and shares a life update!

#247: The Freddie & Alyssa Show: Hacks to Winning The Social Media Algorithm, The Evolution of New Media, & Life Update!

The Freddie & Alyssa Show

The Coachzing Show is dedicated to helping coaches, therapists, speakers and authors work less, earn more, and help more people through creative content marketing strategies. 

Each episode features leading experts sharing their best kept secrets about the content marketing techniques they use to in...

This episode features the host, Doug Foresta, as he shares reflections and lessons learned from hosting the Coachzing Show. This is the last episode before the show goes on hiatus.
Doug Foresta is a therapist, podcast producer and host. He has completed over 800 podcast episodes and helped hundreds of people from all over the world stand out and be heard through the power of podcasting.
The Coachzing Show is dedicated to helping coaches, therapists, speakers and authors work less, earn more, and help more people through creative content marketing strategies.
Each episode features leading experts sharing their best kept secrets about the content marketing techniques they use to increase their credibility, visibility, and revenue streams. Visit: http://www.coachzing.com/podcast

E362: Doug Foresta- Reflections From The Show

Chris Ducker discusses the power of creating membership sites and community to grow your business and create recurring revenue.
Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker and bestselling author of the book, “Virtual Freedom”. He is also a popular business blogger and podcaster at ChrisDucker.com.
The Coachzing Show is dedicated to helping coaches, therapists, speakers and authors work less, earn more, and help more people through creative content marketing strategies.
Each episode features leading experts sharing their best kept secrets about the content marketing techniques they use to increase their credibility, visibility, and revenue streams. Visit: http://www.coachzing.com/podcast

E360: Chris Ducker- The Power of Membership Sites

Angie Fisher discusses how to create successful systems that will help your business grow.
Angie founded and created Coaching Success Systems in 2011 as a way to provide busy entrepreneurs with the full range of resources they need to accomplish their goals.
What began as a part-time position became a full-time, thriving business by 2012, providing copywriting, graphic design, administrative, marketing assistance, and more to several successful coaching entrepreneurs. Over the last 3 years, Angie has continued to grow a thriving business by creating a team of 15 talented support members. Coaching Success Systems provides valuable services to clients all over the world.As a mother of three children and an entrepreneur, Angie understands the importance of providing solutions that will help you reduce stress, grow your personal wealth, decrease overwhelm, stabilize your business during hectic times and find more free time to do what you enjoy.
Angie’s passion for helping entrepreneurs succeed has led her to author several free reports providing tips you can implement today to save time, grow your business and spend more times with those close to you.
The Coachzing Show is dedicated to helping coaches, therapists, speakers and authors work less, earn more, and help more people through creative content marketing strategies.
Each episode features leading experts sharing their best kept secrets about the content marketing techniques they use to increase their credibility, visibility, and revenue streams. Visit: http://www.coachzing.com/podcast

E358: Angie Fisher- Creating Successful Business Systems

Michele PW returns to the show to discuss the process of creating your best content.
Considered one of the hottest marketing strategists today, Michele PW has a reputation for crafting promotional materials and creating marketing campaigns that get results. She is the owner and founder of Michele PW/Creative Concepts and Copywriting LLC, which is the premiere international direct response copywriting and marketing company around. She’s also a national speaker and author, plus her client list reads like the “Who’s Who” list of Internet marketing.
The Coachzing Show is dedicated to helping coaches, therapists, speakers and authors work less, earn more, and help more people through creative content marketing strategies.
Each episode features leading experts sharing their best kept secrets about the content marketing techniques they use to increase their credibility, visibility, and revenue streams. Visit: http://www.coachzing.com/podcast

E357: Michele PW- How to Create Your Best Content

Todd Uterstaedt discusses the power of podcasting and your unique voice to grow your business.
What do you get when you mash up a former Army intelligence officer, with a former corporate Vice President, and a successful entrepreneurial CEO? You get a guy named Todd Uterstaedt who is super passionate about helping Founders make the successful leap to CEO. He launched his "From Founder To CEO" platform in March of 2015 and has seen it grow as the go-to resource for Founding CEOs to become better leaders. As host of the popular "From Founder To CEO" podcast and as a sought after Executive Coach, Todd is on a mission to ensure Founding CEOs have the leadership tools necessary to build, scale, and lead the company of their dreams.
The Coachzing Show is dedicated to helping coaches, therapists, speakers and authors work less, earn more, and help more people through creative content marketing strategies.
Each episode features leading experts sharing their best kept secrets about the content marketing techniques they use to increase their credibility, visibility, and revenue streams. Visit: http://www.coachzing.com/podcast

E356: Todd Uterstaedt- Finding Your Voice Through Podcasting

The Coachzing Show

Scott Colby: The Abs Expert, Fitness Coach, Entrepreneur

About this episode
My special guest for this episode is Hope Zvara.  Hope helps people, just like you, breathe and enjoy life again.  Her goal is to help you reach your full potential so you don't have to struggle to find what works because that can be frustrating.   In this episode, we talked openly about Hope's eating disorder that she struggled with for years, and how yoga became her weekly ritual of second chances for her to get her life together.  Hope also shared her heartbreaking story of losing her daughter Faith, after only 20 minutes here on Earth, and the lessons she's learned from that experience that she can use every single day of her life.
One Big Takeaway
You can cultivate tools and skills in yoga, like breathing and learning how to shift your mind's focus, and learning how to live in your body.  That means learning how to be OK with the skin that you're in regardless of the thoughts and feelings you're having in that moment.  This is critical in a yoga practice where you learn about being in the moment and staying in a yoga pose even if you don't feel comfortable and even if you might not like it.  This is a mirror for everyday life when we're in situations we don't like or aren't comfortable with, and have to learn how to let those feelings pass.  You can learn these skills on the yoga mat and then take them off the mat.
Be Grateful
Hope expressed gratitude for her husband, and had some very kind words to say about him.
Resources
Visit Hope's website at Hope Zvara.  If you're ready for a Reboot, check out Hope's Clearing Mental Clutter Mini-Course.  Follow Hope on Facebook and Instagram.

Hope Zvara: Breath – Body – Belief

About this episode
My special guest for this episode is Sheila Viers.  Sheila is a Health and Lifestyle Coach that is passionate about helping women break free from yo-yo dieting and self-sabotage so they can rock their dream body and their dream life.  In this episode, we talked a lot about Sheila's journey of taking the leap out of the corporate world and starting her own business, her difficult decision to sell Live Well 360 and her own struggles of not feeling good enough and being locked in body jail and how she finally broke free.
One Big Takeaway
Every experience along the way in your journey that doesn't go your way is not a failure.  It's a stepping stone to becoming the person that can handle what you are now creating.  And if you wouldn't have had those experiences...those struggles - with business, with risk, with real life challenges, then you wouldn't have that perspective that you have today with whatever venture you're working on.  Whether its running a business, helping others or even rocking your dream life, no matter what happens, you can figure things out.  Be resourceful and come up with a solution that probably will be better than your original ideas anyway.
Be Grateful
Sheila expressed gratitude for her mom, and had some very kind words to say about her.
Resources
Visit Sheila website at Sheila Viers. Follow Sheila on Facebook and Instagram.  As well as her private women's only community here.

Sheila Viers – Rock Your Dream Life

About this episode
My special guest for this episode is Lori Harder.  Lori is the host of the Earn Your Happy podcast and is a leader in the field of fitness, transformational work, mindfulness and is a self love junkie.  Lori is the host of the Earn Your Happy podcast and created The Bliss Project.  In this episode, we talked a lot about the self image issues Lori has struggled with and how she overcame them, fears she's been able to overcome and how to turn actions into habits.
One big takeaway
Every single day you can take an action that makes you feel better.  It might not last all day, but it offers a glimmer.  And these glimmers can carry you throughout your.  You can create small habit shifts that make you feel better that add up to big changes over the long run.  When you first wake up, think about what can make you feel good right now.  The goal is to make the day a day that you feel happy.
Resources
Visit Lori's website at Lori Harder and the Earn Your Happy podcast.  Follow Lori on Facebook.

Lori Harder – Earn Your Happy

About this episode
My special guest for this episode is Preston Smiles, a messenger of love.  Preston's mission is to empower, inspire and ignite a multigenerational movement of radical growth through conscious, creative content, acts of love and living boldly.  We cover a lot in this episode including how Preston has turned some of his biggest pains into his greatest gains, a recent time he was down and struggling and he overcame it, the mis-perception that personal development coaches are always happy and his favorite habit for loving himself more.  He also gave us 3 action steps to take for those of us that are struggling and in a dark place.
One big takeaway
Change your thoughts, change your story, change your actions, change your life.  Our perspective creates our perception.  Our perception creates our beliefs.  Our beliefs create our behavior.  Our behavior creates our experience.  Our experience creates our reality and our reality creates our next perspective.  This cycle continues all the time.  Until something comes in and shakes that up, you will be in this same cycle year after year.
Resources
Visit Preston's website at Preston Smiles and check out his new book Love Louder.  And check out his YouTube channel for inspiration.

Preston Smiles – Love Louder

About this episode
Our special guest is Jeff Agostinelli, a life and business coach, and the host of The Next Level podcast.  Jeff spent a couple of years of his life studying the MCATs and getting ready to go to medical school to prepare for life as a doctor.  But along the way, something didn't feel right to him, so he took a detour and becaome a private chef, traveling all over the world.  While this seemed like a dream job, once again Jeff decided to make a big change and moved into the world of personal development and business.  In this episode, Jeff shares his story of how he's been able to continuously take his life to the next level and how you can too!
One big takeaway
Get comfortable being uncomfortable not knowing your next step. Get comfortable letting options be presented and saying yes or no based on how you feel.  This is where changes actually start.  Embrace getting uncomfortable and you will see your life change.
Resources
Visit Jeff's website at Jeff Agostinelli and connect with him on Facebook here

Jeff Agostinelli – How To Take Your Life To The Next Level

Table of Contents “It’s called healthcare but it has nothing to do with health and nobody cares.” Dr. Jennifer Daniels The medical–industrial complex is the…

Exposing The Medical Industrial Complex with Dr. Jennifer Daniels – UBA Radio

Whether its a coronavirus pandemic or economic collapse, having the Asafo mindset will help you survive anything. Listen and learn!

Survive Anything: An Interview With The Asafo Gun Club – UBA Radio

In this podcast the President of the Universal Negro Improvement Association Div. 421 teaches us how we can build the future of Black history and what it means to be a Rastafarian.

Creating The Future of Black History With UNIA Leader Ras Marvin – UBARadio

Tech Activist Anthony Frasier delivers a master class on how Black Entrepreneurs can launch and grow their brands and businesses.

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A provocative roundtable discussion on Black polygamy, Black relationships, and interracial dating.

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The Pan-African Alliance

Naturopath - Chiropractor - Author - Speaker

In this episode of The Functional Medicine Radio Show, Dr. Carri’s special guest Dr. Greg Eckel explains his FAN-C Approach to Parkinson’s Disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. The combination of Naturopathic and Chinese Medicine (acupuncture and botanical medicine) has provided Dr. Eckel with a variety of tools to treat both acute and chronic illness while […]

Neurodegenerative Disorders with Dr. Greg Eckel

In this episode of The Functional Medicine Radio Show, Dr. Carri’s special guest Dr. Terry Wahls explains her updated version of the Wahls Protocol for MS, autoimmune disease, and a number of other health issues. Dr. Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of […]

The Wahls Protocol for Autoimmune Disorders with Dr. Terry Wahls

In this episode of The Functional Medicine Radio Show, Dr. Carri’s special guest Jon Mitchell talks about the relationship between the environment and your health. Jon Mitchell is a certified Physician Assistant turned Functional Medicine Health Consultant who shows driven professionals how to get abundant and sustained energy, mental clarity, and resolve their chronic health issues. Main Questions Asked […]

The Environment and Your Health with Jon Mitchell

In this episode of The Functional Medicine Radio Show, Dr. Carri’s special guest Dr. Kelly Brogan talks about a different approach to treating mental illness. Kelly Brogan, M.D., is a holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the New York Times bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, and the children’s book, A Time for Rain, […]

Mental Illness – A Different Approach – with Dr. Kelly Brogan

In this episode of The Functional Medicine Radio Show, Dr. Carri’s special guest Dr Ann Shippy explains the symptoms of mold toxicity and mold exposure. Dr. Ann Shippy, MD, is on a mission to help create extraordinary wellness by using cutting-edge science, testing, and the latest genetic research to find and treat root causes—and not […]

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The Functional Medicine Radio Show With Dr. Carri

A podcast hosted by Jessica Sturdy about wellness, spirituality, entrepreneurship, and a whole lot more.

Clara Artschwager is a dating coach, writer, and speaker helping women navigate the crazy world of dating in today's digital age. Clara's been featured in New York Magazine's The Cut, Man Repeller, Well + Good, Mind Body Green, and many more. And I got to steal a few hours of her time when she was in Chicago a few weeks ago! We chatted all things hookup culture, ghosting, dating in your upper 20’s and 30’s, the apps, how to meet people in real life, long distance relationships, bad texters, and more.

Keep up with Clara:

www.ClaraArtschwager.com

@ClaraPersis

Upcoming Events:

Date + Flow in Brooklyn on July 17th

Dating in the Digital Age at The Wing in NYC on August 7th

Here are some other helpful links for things we mentioned…

NY Times Article: "Jenny Spelled the Jewish Way"

The Cut Article: Dating Without Texting

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10: Dating in the Digital Age with Clara Artschwager

Kate Kennedy is an author, podcaster, small business owner, pop-culture commentator and blind item enthusiast. Kate is one of my real-life friends here in Chicago and one of my most dynamic friendships, as our similarities and interests really run the gamut. In this episode, Kate and I chat about all the things… triggering questions we face as women approaching life milestones, relationship dynamics, therapy, regression therapy, subconscious beliefs, enneagrams, religion, giving back, and more. Lots of laughs peppered in, too!

Keep up with Kate: @BeThereinFive, Be There in Five Podcast, BeThereinFive.com, Be There in Five on Etsy

Here are some helpful links for things we mentioned…

Twinkle Twinkle Social Media Star by Kate Kennedy

Kate's How I Built This Part 1 (BTI5 #30), How I Built This Part 2a (BTI5 #32), How I Built This Part 2b (BTI5 #33)

Jessica's Blog Post: What's New?!

The Lively Show #229: RTT with Marissa Peer

The Lively Show #234: Overcoming Money Blocks with RTT

Enneagram Book: The Road Back to You

The Lively Show Episode #188: Law of Attraction

E-Squared by Pam Grout

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Aire Ancient Baths in Chicago

09: Be There in Five with Kate Kennedy

“I think when you make the decision (even if you’ve always had this internal longing for something in your life, whatever it may be)… Once you formally decide, everything just kind of comes together.”
In this episode, Jessica is having a conversation with Samantha Urioste, one of the fellow ladies in her Remote Year program, #RYKahlo! Initially the two bonded over self-help books and alone time so you know it's a good match...
Here are some helpful links from the episode...

5 Minute Journal

Jade Roller

Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen

Honest Beauty Facial Oil

'White Hot Truth' by Danielle Laporte

'You Are a Badass' by Jen Sincero

'Wonder Over Worry' by Amber Rae

Find Sam over on Instagram: @samanthaurioste

You can read more about Jessica's Remote Year journey on her blog!

08: Coffee with Kahlo | Meet Samantha Urioste

In this episode, Jessica is talking all things anxiety. What helps her manage her anxiety, why routines are so important for her, and how she 'finds her calm.' It's all about working *with* your anxiety, instead of against it. As someone who works for herself, Jessica also talks about how she structures her days and weeks for optimal productivity. There is also a long talk about an article she recently read and how ADHD brain can feel similar to anxiety.

A few links to things mentioned...

** What's It's Like to Have an ADHD Brain

'May Cause Miracles' by Gabby Bernstein

Astrology Episode on Girls Gotta Eat

Creativity Ted Talk by Manoush Zomorodi

Productivity Planner

Continue the conversation on Instagram: @alongfortheridepod

07: Let’s Talk About Anxiety

In this episode, Jessica does a solo Q&A; with questions from Instagram! She talks about her recent trip to India, dating apps, the spirituality things she's into, making friends in a new city, favorite bars and restaurants in Chicago, astrology, blogger friendships, and meet & greets.

Here are some helpful links for things mentioned...

Blog Post: 'Lets Chat Dating Apps'

The Lively Show

Abraham Hicks and @abrahamhickspublications

"The Law of Attraction" and "Ask and it is Given" by Esther & Jerry Hicks

"You Are a Badass," "You Are a Badass at Making Money," & "You Are a Badass Every Day" by Jen Sincero

Meditation App: Headspace

Chill Meditation Studio in Chicago

ClassPass (get $40 off your first month!)

"10% Happier" by Dan Harris

"The Universe Has Your Back" and "May Cause Miracles" by Gabby Bernstein
The 5 Minute Journal
Blog Post: 'Find Your Tribe'

Astrology Zone App by Susan Miller

Astrology-Based Instagram Accounts: @EzzieSpencer, @SpiritDaughter, @KariSamuels

Mental Health IG: @club_mental

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this type of Q&A; format, any questions for future episodes, or if there's anything I touched on here that you'd love to hear about in further detail! Hit me up on Instagram: @alongfortheridepod

06: Q&A #1

Along for the Ride Podcast

Single in Seattle is a podcast for normal people by normal people. No ex-Bachelor contestants here. Hosts, Kelsey and Lindsay, discuss topics ranging from dating to self care to career goals, with the utmost goal of relatability and humor. Guests will include people we admire for a variety of reason...

Breaking up is hard to do, even if it’s only been a date or two! It’s never easy to let someone down and there’s definitely an etiquette to doing so. As always, your girls give our unqualified advice on the dos and don’ts of ending things. 

We can’t tell you how incredible the last year has been for us. We appreciate each and every one of you who listened, shared, commented, reviewed, and came back week after week. We love you all so much, thank you! Byeeeeeeee!

Follow us on Instagram @singleinseattlepodcast

Episode Fifty-Three

We asked and the universe delivered - we’ve wanted a comedian on the show forever and our prayers were answered via a little slip n’ slide in the DMs by the hilarious and charming Ben Butler! Ben tells us all about the differences between dating in Ireland vs. Seattle, dating as a comedian, and all the times he realized he was not gay. All the while, Lindsay was bursting at the seams with the urge to tell her semester abroad stories. Sláinte!

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Episode Fifty-Two

We’ve had both of our mothers and our fathers, our friends and our therapists, but today, after 51 episodes, we finally have our truly kick ass siblings on the pod! We’re talking about the difference between sisters and sister-brother relationships, sibs during breakups and what happens when you’re not a big fan of your sibling’s partner. It’s a long one, but it’s so worth it, so buckle up!

Follow us on Instagram @singleinseattlepodcast

Episode Fifty-One

Holy shitballs, it is episode FIFTY people! This week your girls are BACK talking about something that plagues just about everyone at some point—dating fatigue. Whether you’ve been on the apps for too long or are just killin’ the dating game, chances are you’ve experienced a period of frustration, nonchalance, or depression related to dating at least once. We’re talking all about it and how to pull yourself back up and out of that mindset and set you on a path of positivity and intention. 

Follow us on Instagram @singleinseattlepodcast

Episode Fifty

We have the wonderful and hilarious Marina from the Dating In Seattle Instagram on the pod today! We’re having a nice chat about the cluster you-know-what that is Seattle dating and trust us, this girl speaks our language. You’re gonna love her and all her crazy dating stories and maybe she’ll even re-post a few of yours—If you’re like us, you’ve probably collected a few!

Follow @dating_in_seattle

Follow us on Instagram @singleinseattlepodcast

Episode Forty-Nine

Single in Seattle Podcast

Listen. Learn. Love thyself. Never fear your future again.
If you are an entrepreneur, solopreneur, mompreneur or working woman, you can have a successful career and abundant family life without pulling your hair out.  “Women with Balls…in the Air,” delivers incredibly awesome guidance on how the he...

Health & Fitness

Today we speak with Arianna Taboada who is a maternal health consultant who works with experienced entrepreneurs who are becoming first-time mothers, helping them customize their maternity leave plan and return to work. She is deeply committed to providing on-going, multi-faceted support that meets the professional, physical, mental, social, and emotional needs of entrepreneurs as they baby-proof their business and navigate new motherhood. We discussed: 1) The top 3 tips for baby-proofing your business while you are newly pregnant or planning on starting a family 2)The best ways for you to build [business and personal] support networks when you find out you are pregnant 3) What every pregnant entrepreneur should know about how having a baby will affect their business If you haven’t already, check out this podcast episode where we give you actionable advice on how to navigate the biggest transition of your life.

#48 Baby-Proof Your Business with Arianna Taboada

Rosanna Imbriano, owner of R.I. Consulting of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, is a marketing strategist and consultant who empowers her clients to grow their businesses through nontraditional marketing methods. In addition to her consultancy, she speaks to companies and nonprofits about strategic marketing campaigns and the benefits of growing their businesses through developing these strategic alliances. She is a marketing visionary and has worked in strategic marketing and public relations ever since she opened her own health spa at the start of her career in her 20′s.  I brought Rosanna on the show today, not only because of her great body of work but because of the assistance she gives other women in business. Rosanna is the State President of the most powerful long-standing woman's organization in New Jersey…New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners. Rosanna is a team player who is rocking it with her leadership, innovation and just plain getting back to basics attitude. Please take in the value as I discuss with Rosanna, motherhood, making it big, and her passion in leading women to better their business- self. We discussed: The meaning behind relationships, referrals and revenue Not being so hard on yourself The importance of having a strong support system What it's like to be the President of a large organization  If you haven’t already, check out this podcast episode where we give you actionable advice on how to become the President of your organization.

#47 Relationships, Referrals & Revenue with Rosanna Imbriano

Hello my sisters. Here we are again talking about issues that are important to make your business and or career a great success. Today I'm speaking with Carol Cox. Based on her 15 years of business, marketing, and presentation experience, Carol created SpeakingYourBrand.com to help purpose-driven women entrepreneurs and leaders excavate their stories, define their core message, and create a breakthrough brand and signature talk that grows their business and their influence. Carol is oozing with great tips on how to get you ready for your next big speech. Check out how Carol helped me get my feet on the ground and take my biz to a whole other level! We discussed:  How to create a message that will best resonate with the audiences you want to reach How to improve your presentation to make it more persuasive and engaging How to get the most out of every speaking engagement   If you haven’t already, check out this podcast episode where we give you action advice on how to learn to create a powerful brand through public speaking.

#45 How to Create a Powerful Brand Through Public Speaking

Caroline Greene is a recovering lawyer, chronic overachiever and passionate truth-teller who loves helping women build whole lives that truly matter to them. Before she became a life and business coach, she was a stay-at-home mom of my two beautiful girls. And before that, she was a big-law litigator and former prosecutor. Needless to say, as a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law, she meant it when she said," I know what it feels like to get stuck into someone else’s definition of success." Most of her life was spent doing the next “right” thing. But then she hit a point when “right” wasn’t enough anymore. Caroline wanted more. Not more money or more fame or more prestige. But that intangible more. More joy. More laughter. More connection. More meaning. And She's been working on building a life that truly matters to her ever since. Today's show we will learn how to keep going, keep learning and keep facing our fears with humility, compassion, and curiosity. On this podcast, we are going to redefine success in the way that’s right for us. We discussed: Having a "Top Card" priority and serving it well Disconnecting from external sources of success and reaching from within Sell first then build Outsourcing at home If you haven’t already, check out this podcast episode where we give you action advice on how to learn to have a healthy mindset around success!

#44 How to Define Your Own Success

In today's podcast, financial expert Hilary Hendershott equips parents to teach their children how to win with money. Starting with the basics such as vocabulary, mind set, working, spending, saving, then moving into more challenging issues like avoiding student loan debt, and paying cash for college.   What we covered: What is a healthy dialogue to have with children when you don't want to buy them something in the toy store? How your 7-year old can learn about money Student loan debt, and how to avoid it If you haven’t already, check out this podcast episode where we give you action advice on how to learn to have a healthy mindset around money!

#43 Teach Your Kids to be Rich

Women With Balls...In the Air with Casey DeStefano

The "Love Junkie" podcast is dedicated to giving hope and practical tips to those who struggle with love addiction (the persistent pursuit and fantasy of unavailable romantic partners), sex addiction, codependency, and trauma. 

Every week, we will explore either a problem area and give advice on ho...

Love Junkie: Help for the Relationship Obsessed, Love Addicted, & Codependent

Today's most successful leaders share their incredible stories and life lessons to help you get the life you want in the areas of health, wealth, relationships and personal growth. Every show is jam packed with actionable tips and insights that will propel you forward to become the man you want to b...

Jay Coughlan has been a CEO, a national keynote speaker, and a mentor to aspiring business leaders. He is also a convicted felon, and has spent time in prison. During this dark part of his life, he began developing a framework for dealing with the troubles that life inevitably brings. Jay uses lessons gleaned from his own missteps to help change the paths of individuals and organizations. He has captured the energy from his true passion and combined it with his experience as a chief executive, creating TruBalanced™: Building Better Business Leaders. Favorite Success Quote “Don’t pray for easier lives, pray to be stronger men.” ~John F. Kennedy Key Points 1. Clarity is the Key to All Success All success, whether it is in business, relationships, or health comes from clarity. Imagine that we could rewind to the beginning of the new year and examine two different men. One of them sets his new year’s resolutions with a simple statement “Get healthy”. The other, clearly writes out his goals for his health, stating “I will go to the gym at least twice a week, working through a comprehensive weight lifting program with the goal of losing 10 lbs. of fat and adding 50 lbs. to all of my major lifts” Which one do you think will be successful? You see, without a clear roadmap for who we are and what we want to achieve, we will never find true success. You must know exactly what you want, when you want it, and why you want it. Without this clarity, you will find yourself wandering aimlessly for years, or even decades of your life and looking back, wishing that you’d had more direction.   2. Real Change is Predicated on Accountability Anytime we set out to make real changes in our lives, whether it is overcoming an addiction, repairing a marriage, starting a business, or achieving our dream body, we need accountability. Whenever you “go it alone” you are the only person who you can disappoint. If you miss a workout, spend too much money on going out, or relapse into old habits of drugs, alcohol, and porn, then you are the only person there to catch you when you fall. However, when you build a structure of accountability into your life and have other men who are willing to show up around you and hold you to a higher standard and help you up when you fall. When you have men who you are accountable to, you have a support system that will not allow you to fail, a support system that will call you on your crap, and encourage you whenever you are doing it right. No man is an island and the only true way to succeed is with a team of like-minded individuals around you. 3. Failure is Not an Option… It’s a Given  So often, you hear the phrase “Success is my only option, failure is not.” As nice as that sentiment is, it is also wildly inaccurate. Not only is failure an option, it is a given! There is no way that you will succeed without failing on some level, it is simply a part of life. But what defines a man and the legacy that he creates is not his failures, what defines a man is the way that he responds to failures. Are you going to lie down and allow life to kick the motivation, joy, and passion out of you? Or are you going to get up, look failure in the eyes, smile, and be grateful for the lessons that failure has taught you? 4. Life is a Marathon All too often, men, and especially young men, feel the need to go, go go, pushing 60, 80, or even 100 hour weeks. They work themselves bare to the bone, keeping their nose to the grindstone trying to “sprint” their way to success. But you need to remember, life is a marathon. You cannot just “sprint” your way to a balanced and fulfilling life. A life of joy and happiness comes from years of doing the small things with excellence over and over and over again. Working yourself into oblivion is your gateway to an early grave. Pacing yourself and prioritizing the people and relationships in your life, on the other hand, is your gateway to success and fulfillment. 5. Remember 168 One of the only things in life that is truly fair is time. Every single person has the same 168 hours in a week. Bill Gates, Oprah, Elon Musk, all of these people have the same 168 hours in a week as you and me, the only difference is what they are doing with them. Remember that each week you are given a gift, you are given 168 hours of precious time that you will never get back. What are you going to do with those hours? Are you going to invest them wisely ot build a legacy and create a life of love and joy? Or are you going to squander them on television, video games, porn, and other traps? The choice is yours.

Rise Above Your Circumstances and Redefine Your Life With Jay Coughlan

Jeremy Cage’s life mission is to help unleash the full potential of as many businesses and as many people as he possibly can. His business experience spans three decades of delivering strong, profitable business growth for Procter & Gamble, Schering-Plough Healthcare, PepsiCo, The Lighting Science Group, and his own firm, The Cage Group. He is a truly global citizen, having lived and worked in Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States. He is also the author of All Dreams on Deck. Favorite Success Quote “Most of us will die full of potential because we dream vaguely and dread specifically” Key Points 1. Dream Specifically and Dread Vaguely  In our day to day lives, we get caught up in a trap of dreaming vaguely and dreading specifically. We know that we want to travel the world, quit our jobs, start a company, and find the love of our lives. But… If we travel the world, we run the risk of getting kidnapped by a nefarious terrorist group that will hold us in a cave inside of the mountains and keep us until someone pays our ransom of $5,000,000 or we die from malnutrition. If we quit our jobs, we will lose exactly $7,500 a month in income, run the risk of never financially recovering, burn every bridge in the world, and … The list goes on and on and on. The reality is that we should be dreaming specifically and dreading vaguely. The worst that can happen is rarely that bad, and if you get specific, you have an unlimited potential to achieve all of your dreams. 2. Climb the Ladder of Intention Most of us have dreams, but we are not intentional about them. We have these ideas in our head about things that would be “nice” to do. We think that it would be “nice” to achieve the body of our dreams, have a passionate and loving marriage, earn 6 or 7-figures, backpack across Europe, go skydiving in New Zealand, or finally start up that line of awesome gym wear. But we don’t act. We don’t set the intention. If you want to achieve your dreams, then you must start by climbing up the ladder of intentionality. The first rung of the ladder, where most of us reside, is the rung of thought. We think about what we would like, but we leave it at that. We relegate our dreams to the plain of our imagination and never move on from there. Moving up the ladder, we then come to the rung of writing. This is where we take the first step in moving our dreams forward by writing them down with clear parameters and a specific deadline. This can be as simple as writing down our goals in a journal or creating a comprehensive plan with step by step actions that we are going to take. Then, once we have leveled up our intentions and written our dreams down, the third step is to actually state our dreams to the world. Whether you tell your wife about your new intention of showing up as the best husband ever (and tangible steps you are going to take to achieve that goal) or make a statement on social media about when and why you will quit your job, this step makes your dreams more visceral. You now have other people holding you accountable and expecting greatness from you. It’s harder to back down on your dreams when your whole social circle is there holding you accountable for the intention that you set. The final level of intention is to actually take action. To leave the “what if’s” and “I cant’s” behind and to actually start making moves towards achieving what you want. If you are serious about living your dream life, then you need to start by climbing the ladder of intention. Imagine your goals in your mind, write them on paper, tell loved ones about your plans, and then take massive action to achieve it! 3. Create Dreams for Each of Your Grab Bags Each of us has our own personal “grab bags” or areas of life that we hold dear. For some of us its adventure for others its stability. For some of us its intimacy and for others its excitement. No matter what your personal grab bags are, you need to create and clearly articulate your dreams for each. Is health a grab bag for you? Then define your dream. Write out and climb the ladder of intention with your health, declare what you want your body to look and feel like and then go out and take the action necessary to make it happen. Is your relationship with your wife a grab bag? Then define your dreams for your relationship. How many times do you go out for dates? How do you treat her and speak to her? How do you show up as the passionate and loving man you have the potential to be? If you want to die empty and truly live a 10/10 life, then you need to determine what is important to you and define your dreams for each area of your life.

Charter the Course for Your Life and Dreams With Jeremy Cage

Anna Akbari, PhD, is a sociologist, writer, and entrepreneur. She holds a PhD in sociology and has taught at NYU and Parsons. She is the founder of Sociology of Style, an image and life coaching company, and a partner in HVCK, a Silicon Valley innovation consultancy. She is a frequent public speaker and media personality, and has written for and been featured by Forbes, CNN, The Atlantic, The Economist, TIME, The Financial Times, TED, Bulletproof Executive, New York Observer, DailyWorth, The Huffington Post, and dozens more. Favorite Success Quote “Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct” ~Eleanor Roosevelt Key Points 1. True Happiness is Never the Goal All too often in our modern Western culture, people chase happiness. Happiness is something that they try to attain, it is a goal that they pursue, and in the end, it is this pursuit of happiness that ultimately leads to its demise. True happiness doesn’t come from simply meditating, chanting a mantra, or looking at yourself in the mirror and saying “I am happy, I am happy, I am happy”. True happiness is a multifaceted feeling that is derived from creating a multifaceted and fulfilling life. I want you to imagine two men on their personal growth journey. Man #1 spends his mornings meditating, screaming incantations about happiness, and journaling about how he wants to feel happy. He is constantly chasing happiness, but finds that every time he experiences unhappiness, he spirals into a downward plunge thinking to himself “Why am I not happy? What am I doing wrong? Life sucks!” Man #2 on the other hand, is not concerned with feeling happiness, but rather with creating an optimal life where happiness is the byproduct. He meditates in the morning, says his affirmations in the mirror, and writes in his journal, sure. But he is focused on something bigger. He is building a business, growing a family, taking care of his body, and putting himself into flow every day. And as a result of these actions, he experiences true and recurring happiness. Stop chasing happiness and let it come to you. 2. Develop Your Personal Rulebook  There is an old saying that “Life doesn’t come with an owners manual”. Life is unpredictable and we are often left confused and clueless about what we should do. However, the only way that we can truly experience any level of consistency in this crazy thing called life is to hold ourselves (the only thing that we are truly in control of) accountable to our own set or rules and values. In other words, to create our own personal rule book for what we will allow in our lives and what we won’t, how we will act and how we will not, what we will and will not tolerate, and most importantly, who we will show up as every single day of the week. Life may not come with an owners manual, but whenver you create rules for your life, you don’t need one. You don’t have to look outside of yourself for the answer to problems that you face. Instead, you approach each and every hour, minute, and second of your life through a set of lenses that you have created and determined. If you have created a rule for yourself that you will prioritize family over finances, then you don’t have to worry about whether you should take the higher paying job or continue working at a lower pay grade so that you can continue spending time with your children. If you have a personal rule that you do not drink, smoke, or snort cocaine, then you aren’t going to have to wonder whether you should try it “just this once” when you are out with your friends, because you have a set of rules that you abide by. The thing is, outside of the basic moral fibers that constitute and uphold our society, there are no “wrong” rules. For some of you, finances might be the biggest priority in your life, for others it might be your health or your spirituality. Some of you are totally ok having an occasional cigarette and drinking a glass of wine each night and some of you have highly addictive personalities and can’t touch the stuff. Know yourself, know your worth, and create your rules accordingly. 3. Prioritize Your Social Life to Optimize the Rest of Your Life  Many men put off creating and maintaining a healthy social life in favor of relentlessly pursuing their financial and career goals. This is a mistake. What most men do not realize is that a healthy social life is actually one of the biggest keys to having a healthy life, period. Social connection, love, and friendship are so important that if you are not cultivating strong relationships in your life, you are doing the same damage to your body as if you were smoking a pack of cigarettes a day! It is hardwired into our genes and our psyche to seek out companionship and relationships and to build communities of our own. And in our “hyper-connected” world, we seem to forget the importance of real human interaction. If you want to instantly boost your happiness, health, and success, then seek out new friendships with positive people, and cultivate those relationships on a daily basis. Whether you simply have coffee with a friend before work, go to the gym every day with your significant other, or host weekly dinner parties, it is important that you get off of your devices and into real interaction. 4.It is NEVER too Early or Late to Pivot Your Life Whenever you ask someone why they are unwilling to make a drastic change in their life, they will often tell you that they feel they are too young or too old. Let me tell you right now, you are never too young or too old to pivot and achieve the life that you want. It doesn’t matter whether you are 15 or 95, you can make the conscious decision today to make a pivot, to make a change, and to start living a life on your terms. 5. Remember that Life is Created in Our Moments of Play and Introspection Two of the key components of true happiness that are often entirely ignored by the modern man are play and introspection. Life is a journey, and it’s supposed to be a fun one. You weren’t put on this planet to constantly be serious and miserable, you were put here to make an impact and have fun while you do it. If you want to be happier, then stop taking yourself so damn seriously! Relax, enjoy the simpler things in life, and just play around. Be goofy, be spontaneous, be funny, be ridiculous, just play. The funny thing that you will find is that your moments of play often bring about the greatest ideas and epiphanies to shape the rest of your life. However, as you work hard and play harder, never forget to take time to pause and reflect. Take time away from the noise for introspection. Think, reflect, and ponder your own existence, your own purpose, and your own character. Your moments of introspection will equip you with the power and the self-knowledge that you need to truly show up in every area of your life.

How to Hustle and Hack Your Way to Happiness With Anna Akbari

Born in Egypt, Dr. Nour left Cairo in 1977 after graduating in the top of his class at the Medical School of Cairo University. Looking for the freedom to study medical subjects of interest to him in the U.S., he made his way to London but got caught in three year immigration process. After many years of private Neurology practice in the Midwest and due only to an allergy to Canadian Geese, which flourish in large populations there, Dr. Nour moved to Southern California. Happily married with two daughters in college, he is now semi-retired. He is an accomplished painting artist, videographer, photographer and a graphic designer. He enjoys opera, sailing, tennis, bicycling, and learning about other cultures through travel, all while still enjoying helping patients with complex neurological disorders. Favorite Success Quote “With persistence, you can achieve anything your heart desires.” Key Points 1. “Love” is a Scientific Series of Processes that Occur in Four Distinct Phases 1. Mate Choice The first phase of love is mate choice. At it’s most basic level, this is the process of meeting someone and (subconsciously) deciding that they are a good match for you and your potential offspring on a genetic level. This phase happens almost instantly. 2. Falling in Love The process that Hollywood and pop culture have used and abused. This is the phase in a relationship where the two individuals will feel massive attraction for one another and experience a heightened increase in certain pleasure chemicals. This phase will typically last 1-3 years. 3. Falling Out of Love  A necessary part of finding true love, the third phase of love is where you effectively experience the proverbial “come down” from the neurochemical high that you experienced during phase two. During this phase of the process, you will begin struggling in your relationship and find your partner less appealing than you did before.  This phase will typically last around a year. 4. True Love This is where the rubber meets the road. During the final stage of love, “True Love”, you have experienced falling out of love, made a conscious and informed decision that your current partner is right for you, and you now experience a release of a new set of pleasure chemicals that are slower forming but longer lasting, leading to the much desired “Happily ever after”. 2. Falling Out of Love is Essential to True Love Many people assume that if they are falling out of love with their partner it is a bad thing. However, they should actually get excited. Falling out of love is an essential, if not the most essential part of the four phases of true love. You see, the first two phases of love cause people to experience such an overwhelm of pleasure chemicals being released in the brain that they quite literally cannot see the other person for what they really are. Thus the phrase “Love is blind”. However, because your genes are hardwired to help ensure that you are able to survive and procreate with the highest levels of success possible, phase two begins. During this phase, your genes are working behind the scenes to help you determine whether the person you are with is truly the best match for you in the long run. If you do not have this phase, you cannot have true love. Read that again and write it down. Unless you fall out of love with your partner, you will scientifically never be able to experience true and lasting love.  This is not an easy reality to stomach, but the knowledge and foresight of what is to come will allow you to make informed decisions about your relationships and truly determine what is best for you in the future. 3. If You Do Not Fall Out of Love with Somebody You Cannot Fall in Love With Someone New Many men beat themselves up and feel battered down because they are unable to move on after a bad breakup or divorce. Gentlemen, I have good news for you. It is not your fault. Despite what we have been lead to believe by the pop culture surrounding masculinity, on a chemical and neurological level, you cannot just get over it whenever you experience a traumatizing separation. You see, whenever you are caught in the second phase of love and your partner ends the relationship (often because they reached the third phase and did not know how to handle it), you are still caught in love on a chemical level. Your brain will literally not allow you to move on until you have experienced the biological and neurological effects of falling out of love. So what does this mean for you? If your wife or girlfriend ends things while you are mid-phase 2 are you doomed to an eternity of lovelessness? No. Even though your brain and genes are working “against” you, it is possible to recover. Typically this will occur whenever you maintain an amiable (or nonamiable) relationship with your previous partner and allow yourself to naturally fall out of love with them. If they have been removed from your life completely, you will often need to seek professional help to truly recover and move on to your next love in a healthy way. 4. Love and Sex Are Not the Same Thing A common fallacy among the uninformed is that love and sex are the same things. They are not. While love and sex are complimentary in their nature, they serve two completely different purposes. Think about it this way. Sex is all about satiation. It’s about achieving the goal of orgasm and there is a set amount of sex that any given person can handle before they are done. Love, on the other hand, does not have an inherent goal or “climax”. It is an ongoing process that can and should feel like a bottomless well. Have you ever heard anyone say “No thanks, I don’t want any more love today. You can take your love and go give it to someone else.”? However, love makes sex more intense and emotional and sex makes loves more binding. Like a doctor and a nurse, they work together, but serve very separate roles. 5. Your Capacity for Love Depends on Your Genes And now, the big one. This particular point will be uncomfortable for many of you and might even make some of you angry. But like the famous scientist Neil DeGrasse Tyson said, “The great thing about science is that it is true whether you agree with it or not”. Your capacity for true love, connection, and monogamy are all highly dependent on your genes. There are some people who due to their genetic variations quite literally cannot experience true love. The chemicals are there, but the genetic wiring to receive the “true love” chemicals are not. This is a hard pill for many to swallow. The fact that monogamy, fidelity, and the quality of your relationships can actually have anything to do with your genes, let alone everything to do with them, is not something that most members of society understand and accept. And while this truth may not be comfortable, it is the truth and it’s important that you remember this on your quest to find your own true love.

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A former SpaceX employee turned social powerhouse, Michael Knight is the author of “Understanding the Fundamentals of Female Dynamics”, a world traveler, and a master of authentic social interaction. Favorite Success Quote   Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.” ~Ray Bradbury   Key Points 1. Persistent Small Action will Get You the Results  On your path to greatness, one thing and one thing alone will be responsible for your results. The consistent and persistent action that you take over time in pursuit of your dreams. It is like Bruce Lee said, “Long term consistency trumps short term intensity”. If you decide that you want to revolutionize your health and your physique, then going to the gym for 6 days straight, working out three hours each time, and taking $100s of dollars of supplements in the first week will do very little to help you achieve your goals. However, even going to the gym a mere 3 times a week over the course of six months, training for an hour, and taking only two supplements but taking the right supplements will result in the ultimate success you desire. If you want to build a successful online business, then publishing 7 articles a week for a month and working 16 hour days for the first five days will actually prove counter-productive. However, persisting through the challenges and consistently generating new content and products over 12-36 months will give you a platform that will provide success and financial freedom for years to come. The same is true of your interactions with women. If you want to get better with women, then you need to be persistent and take small action over time. As you grow and build your skills, you will become more successful and your success will compound until eventually, you reach your desired level. 2. Reset Your Definition of Success If you want to be truly successful with women, then reset your definition of success. Most men think that they are only successful if they leave their venue with a hot girl wrapped around their arm begging him to call a taxi and take her back to his place. But the truth is, achieving success on a social level simply requires that you take action. Did you go over and talk to the pretty girl? Did you say hello? If so, then congratulations! You are successful. As soon as you make this mental shift, all of your interactions will be viewed through a different set of lenses. Instead of seeing rejection as a failure, you will see the fact that you even tried as a success. And when you reset your definition of success, you will find yourself having more fun and enjoying your social time on a whole new level. You will be able to let loose and enjoy a night with friends without being outcome dependent. And ironically, this almost always increases your success with women.  3.Remember that You are a Gold Miner Whenever you are put into a social situation and you are looking for companionship platonic or otherwise, you need to remember that you are not there to barter for attention. You aren’t at the bar, club, networking event, or restaurant to woo others or to buy affection. You are there to mine the crowd to find those one or two individuals who you genuinely connect with and who you feel comfortable spending time with. Even if buying women drinks always lead to sex, would you really want those kinds of relationships? Wouldn’t it be better if you were rejected by 99 women, but found that 1 girl who you could talk to for hours? The girl who interested you, who captivated your attention, who respected you, and who genuinely enjoyed your presence… not just your cash? That should be your end goal anytime you find yourself in a social interaction. You and panning and filtering for gold, and not shedding a tear when your pan comes up muddy. 4. You Attract What You Are If you have found yourself consistently attracting low-quality women, winding up in relationships with “crazies”, and getting sucked into petty drama and trivial bullshit with your significant other, then it’s time to take a look in the mirror. Who you attract into your life is almost always a direct reflection of the kind of man you are and the kind of behavior that you are willing to tolerate. If you find yourself with whiny, clingy women, it is because you are not showing up as a man. You are not setting the standards from the word “go” and you are allowing these women to act in a certain manner around you. If you want to attract a higher quality of woman, then become a higher quality man. 5. Women Crave Confidence and Congruence in Men All women want two things from their men. Confidence and congruence. Women want you to show up in the world with a grin on your face, no matter how challenging the circumstances are around you. They want a man who knows that he can handle anything the world throws at him. They want a man who is confident in himself and in who he is becoming. They also want a man who is congruent. A man who is who he says he is. A man whose words and actions are in alignment. If you can show up in the world as a man who is confident in who he is and what he believes and maintain a strong congruence in your thoughts, words, and deeds, then the sky is the limit. And not just with women, but in all areas of your life.

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