In this episode, author and wellness expert, Judy Gaman, and I discuss her unique and rewarding friendship with Lucille, a centenarian who changed her life.

Judy Gaman is an award-winning author, public speaker, and CEO of Executive Medicine of Texas. She’s spent nearly a decade offering advice on longevity and vitality as a voice of The Staying Young Radio Show, which was nationally syndicated on 58 stations. She has appeared on Fox News Radio, Good Morning Texas and San Diego Living, among numerous other outlets. Judy also tours as a public speaker, and has been entertaining audiences of all sizes for years. She crafts her presentations around engaging and easy-to-understand concepts including longevity, vitality, and healthy living. Her presentations touch on topics like curing workaholism and burnout, while still being a strong leader. Judy’s award-winning books include Stay Young: 10 Proven Steps to Ultimate Health, Age to Perfection: How to Thrive to 100, Happy, Healthy and Wise, and her latest, Love, Life, and Lucille: Lessons Learned from a Centenarian.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      The different cultural views towards the elderly.

·      Lucille’s unique life and how their friendship formed.

·      Judy’s history of being a workaholic and how Lucille helped change her view towards work and life.

·      The underlying issues that were driving her workaholic nature.

·      What Lucille taught her about true friendship.

·      How comparisonitis holds us back from being vulnerable with our friends.

·      What children and the elderly have in common but the rest of us lose sight of.

·      The health and longevity benefits of finding a balance between routine and variety.

·      The importance of connection with family.

·      And the biggest lesson Lucille taught her about the meaning of life.

You can find and follow Judy here:

JudyGaman.com

LoveLifeLucille.com

Twitter: @JudyGaman

Instagram: @judygaman

Facebook: @judy.gaman.9

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In this episode, science journalist Lydia Denworth and I do a deep dive into friendship, including the evolutionary, biological, and psychological benefits.

Lydia Denworth is a science journalist and author of Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond. She is a contributing editor for Scientific American and writes the Brain Waves blog for Psychology Today. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and many other publications.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      Her interesting and personal journey into becoming a science writer.

·      The evolutionary advantage of living in groups and being able to create bonds.

·      The scientific definitions of friendship and how long it takes to develop true friendship.

·      Whether or not you can outgrow friends.

·      The impact social media has had on friendship.

·      The physical benefits of friendship and the evolutionary biology reason behind them.

·      The intersection of genetics and our environment, including our social environment.

·      Our implicit in-group out-group bias and the importance of empathy.

·      And why we choose the friends we do.

You can find and follow Lydia here:

LydiaDenworth.com

Twitter: @LydiaDenworth

Instagram: @lydicadenworth

Facebook: @ScienceWriterLydia

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In this episode, Dr. Ash Eldifrawi and I discuss a new psychology of happiness, which entails ten different worlds based on our beliefs about happiness. What world are you from??

Ash ElDifrawi, Psy.D. has built a reputation as a thought leader in clinical, social, and consumer psychology. He began his career as a clinical psychologist before transitioning into work as a marketing executive for some of the most prestigious and innovative companies in the world. Ash received his bachelor’s degree in biology and master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago, where he also conducted clinical research in the areas of neurology and bio-psychology. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Chicago School of Psychology, completed his internship at the world-renowned Family Institute at Northwestern, and then went on to be the inaugural fellow at the Center for Family Health at the University of Chicago. Ash is still a licensed clinical psychologist.

After transitioning to a career in marketing, he has held senior positions at companies including Google, McKinsey, Wrigley, Gogo, and currently Redbox. He’s been featured in The Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Money, WSJ, The New York Times, CNBC, Mashable, Crain’s Chicago Business, MarketWatch, and Re/Code. Ash also co-wrote a television pilot called Sessions that was optioned by DreamWorks Television. Ash lives in Illinois with his family. He comes from the world of Tranquility.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      What led him and his coauthor to write the book The Ten Worlds of Happiness, and why they felt it was important.

·      How all our different beliefs about happiness can be boiled down to ten core beliefs.

·      The relationship between your unique beliefs about happiness and your life.

·      How our base life condition affects how we view and interact with life.

·      And we go through each world – a description as well as the core belief (or delusion) about happiness that drives that world. And the worlds are:

1.      Hell

2.      Hunger

3.      Animality

4.      Anger

5.      Tranquility

6.      Rapture

7.      Learning

8.      Realization

9.      Compassion

·      And the tenth world – Enlightenment – which does not have a core belief or delusion, but instead a core truth and way to see the world. And how enlightenment is a real, documented, reachable state.

You can find and follow Dr. Eldifrawi here:

TheTenWorlds.com

Twitter: @AshCMO

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In this episode, Kate Swoboda and I discuss the four main fear-based patterns that we all have, how to identify them, and how to disrupt them so we can live a more courageous life.

Kate Swoboda is creator of YourCourageousLife.com, Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification, and author of The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life. She helps individuals, teams, and companies see where old, fear-based habits have kept people stuck or started to limit what’s possible for an organization, and then start creating more courageous lives by getting into “the courage habit,” a four-part process for behavioral and organizational change. Kate has appeared in MindBodyGreen, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Forbes, Lifetime Moms, The Intelligent Optimist, Business Insider, and more, and her website Your Courageous Life was named a top-50 blog for happiness by Greatist. She’s spoken at conferences and seminars on the topic of courage as it relates to personal development, releasing overwhelm, business and marketing, money mindset, wellness, increasing emotional resilience, and healthy goal-setting using habit-formation techniques.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      How courage can look differently for all of us and that it doesn’t always live in big, flashy, actions.

·      Our tendency to see our patterns as part of our identity vs. learned behavior.

·      The cue-routine-reward loop and how it can build fear-based habits.

·      Which part of the loop we need to change in order to change our habits.

·      How to use discernment to identify which habit loops are out of integrity with who we are.

·      The four main fear routines – perfectionism, people pleasing, pessimism, and self-sabotage.

·      Different ways we can access the body and be present to help us disrupt a routine.

·      What it means to listen without attachment.

·      The importance of recognizing and releasing our emotions so we can get to clear thinking.

·      How involving other people in our life is more courageous than doing it on your own.

·      And finally, the importance of realizing discomfort won’t kill you.

You can find and follow Kate here:

YourCourageousLife.com

TeamCLCC.com

Instagram: @katecourageous

Facebook: @YourCourageousLife

Twitter: @KateCourageous

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In this episode, Dr. John Chuback and I discuss the subconscious programming we all have running our lives, and how to change the system.

John A. Chuback, M.D., is Board Certified in General Surgery and Cardiovascular Surgery. He received his MD from Rutgers University and has been in private practice in Paramus, New Jersey, for 16 years. Dr. Chuback is also a successful entrepreneur: he is the founder and Chief Medical Officer at Chuback Medical Group, founder and managing member of Elant Hill, LLC, and the nutraceutical company BiosupportMD. He is the recipient of the Patient’s Choice Award and Compassionate Doctor Recognition amongst many other honors. Dr. Chuback founded Chuback Education, LLC, which offers audio programs on subjects like weight management, smoking cessation, personal development, and academic achievement, and he is the author of Make Your Own Damn Cheese: Understanding, Navigating, and Mastering the 3 Mazes of Success and Kaboing! 50 Ideas That Will Springboard You To Academic Greatness.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      His medical background and what caused him to enter the world of personal and spiritual development.

·      The difference between your strengths, your passions, and your interests.

·      A synopsis of the book Who Moved My Cheese and why it profoundly impacted his life.

·      How easily we can end up in a life that doesn’t feel right or fulfilling and why it happens.

·      The difference between real thinking vs. mental activity that we view as thinking.

·      The objective and subjective parts of our mind, when they are developed, and how they interact.

·      The relationship between the body, the brain, the mind, and you.

·      How to recognize the programming in our minds that isn’t working for us and what to do about it.

·      How to shift your mindset from blaming others to taking personal accountability.

·      And finally, what exactly we need to do to reprogram our minds, or like the title of his book – make our own damn cheese.

You can find and follow Dr. Chuback here:

ChubackEducation.com

Instagram: @JohnChubackMD

Facebook: @ChubackEducation

Twitter: @ChubackED

His book – Make Your Own Damn Cheese: Understanding, Navigating, and Mastering the 3 Mazes of Success

RESOURCES:

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson

Eckhart Tolle

Jim Rohn

Bob Proctor

Denis Waitley

Brian Tracy

Price Pritchett

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Earl Nightingale

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In a break from my normal formatting, I’m sharing my thoughts on what is currently going on in my country (the US).

#blacklivesmatter

In this episode, Krista (founder of A Life in Progress) and I discuss the messiness of life and how to use self-compassion to get through it.

Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui works as a writer & Joyful Living Educator. Her mission is to help messy humans like herself quiet the noise of perfectionism, comparison and fear and show up fully - with joy and on purpose - to their imperfect and beautiful lives, in every season.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      What it means to be a highly sensitive person and how it can cause someone to struggle.

·      How to better understand your sensitivity and see that there is beauty in it.

·      The importance of fully accepting ourselves, including the mess, pain, and discomfort that comes with growth.

·      Perfectionism and the different ways it can show up.

·      How our struggles are actually tied in with our strengths.

·      Using curiosity vs. judgment to see how nothing is inherently “bad.”

·      How our different traits live on a spectrum of healthy vs. unhealthy and the importance of being aware of that.

·      How being deeply rooted in self-awareness and self-compassion can help us stay grounded when we move along those spectrums.

·      The difference and relationship between self-compassion, self-esteem, and self-worth.

·      How self-compassion involves allowing all the emotions and all the messy parts of life.

·      And the power of both/and instead of either/or.

You can find and follow Krista here:

www.alifeinprogress.ca

Facebook: @alifeinprogressca

Instagram: @a_life_in_progress

RESOURCES:

Kristin Neff

Brene Brown

Byron Katie

Parker Palmer – Let Your Life Speak

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In this episode, we talk Jungian psychological insight into our unconscious, and knowing and embracing our archetypes.

Gary S. Bobroff is the author of Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung (2020) and Crop Circles, Jung & the Reemergence of the Archetypal Feminine (2014). He is the founder of Jungian Online and JUNG Archademy and the developer and facilitator of Archetypal Nature. He has an MA in Jungian-oriented Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a BA from the University of British Columbia, Canada. 

In this episode, we discuss:

·      A brief history of Carl Jung – his work, his contribution to psychology, and his influence on our culture.

·      The human psyche and the different views – or definitions – of it.

·      Our egos and how they can be under-developed or over-developed.

·      How we need a strong sense of self in order to grow.

·      Archetypal principles and where they exist in our culture and our psyches.

·      Four common personality archetypes and their different characteristics.

·      Whether we should try to enhance each archetype within us or settle for being in one or two.

·      How to identify our archetype and how to look at other archetypes to further our own growth.

·      How we can get trapped trying to live in a different archetype because that’s what we think we are supposed to be.

·      How understanding the different archetypes can help in relationships, especially family.

·      And how archetypes impact dating and relationships.

You can find and follow Gary here:

GSBobroff.com

ArchetypalNature.com

Facebook: @ArchetypalNature

JungArchademy.com

JungianOnline.com

Instagram: @JungianOnline

Twitter: @JungianOnline

Facebook: @JungianOnline

His books –

Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung

Crop Circles, Jung & the Reemergence of the Archetypal Feminine

Archetypes article I reference in the episode.

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In this two-part episode, we discuss what it means to really listen to life and how we can best learn from it. In part 2, we discuss The Gene Keys contemplative system and Paul goes through my Gene Keys profile.

Paul Kuhn is a sound practitioner, teacher, and intuitive guide. His mission is to support others in remembering their innate divinity and discovering their unique purpose in the world. Paul’s approach is multi-disciplinary - drawing from his ongoing study of sound, yogic and eastern contemplative traditions, The Gene Keys, alchemy, and amazonian shamanic practice. In his work, he applies the tools and practices from these bodies of wisdom to empower clients to transform themselves. When not in personal study, you can find him playing music, offering 1:1 Gene Keys readings, and leading Seven Senses transformational work around the world with his partner Dr. Erica Matluck.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      What it means to be a sound practitioner and how sound can impact our consciousness.

·      Paul’s history with music and how he got into this work.

·      His spiritual awakening and what led to it.

·      What holistic listening entails and what we can learn from it.

·      How life talks to us through our senses, triggering feelings and stories in our internal state, which creates an opportunity for us to be aware of them and question them.

·      How maybe my favorite question – why – is actually a trap and what we should do instead of trying to figure out the why.

·      The difference between eastern and western instruments and how sound can impact our brainwaves.

·      His definition of consciousness and how language falls short in describing it.

·      And finally, we discuss the Gene Keys system and he actually reads some of my Gene Keys profile.

You can find and follow Paul here:

SoundAndSelf.com

ExperienceSevenSenses.com

Instagram: @paulmkuhn

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In this two-part episode, we discuss what it means to really listen to life and how we can best learn from it. In part 2, we discuss The Gene Keys contemplative system and Paul goes through my Gene Keys profile.

Paul Kuhn is a sound practitioner, teacher, and intuitive guide. His mission is to support others in remembering their innate divinity and discovering their unique purpose in the world. Paul’s approach is multi-disciplinary - drawing from his ongoing study of sound, yogic and eastern contemplative traditions, The Gene Keys, alchemy, and amazonian shamanic practice. In his work, he applies the tools and practices from these bodies of wisdom to empower clients to transform themselves. When not in personal study, you can find him playing music, offering 1:1 Gene Keys readings, and leading Seven Senses transformational work around the world with his partner Dr. Erica Matluck.

In this episode, we discuss:

·      What it means to be a sound practitioner and how sound can impact our consciousness.

·      Paul’s history with music and how he got into this work.

·      His spiritual awakening and what led to it.

·      What holistic listening entails and what we can learn from it.

·      How life talks to us through our senses, triggering feelings and stories in our internal state, which creates an opportunity for us to be aware of them and question them.

·      How maybe my favorite question – why – is actually a trap and what we should do instead of trying to figure out the why.

·      The difference between eastern and western instruments and how sound can impact our brainwaves.

·      His definition of consciousness and how language falls short in describing it.

·      And finally, we discuss the Gene Keys system and he actually reads some of my Gene Keys profile.

You can find and follow Paul here:

SoundAndSelf.com

ExperienceSevenSenses.com

Instagram: @paulmkuhn

GET YOUR GENE KEYS PROFILE

The Gene Keys

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Find my book – I Gave Up Men for Lent, the story of a jaded, hopelessly romantic, health-conscious party girl’s search for meaning – on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible.

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