The Daily Helping

For most folks, confidence and Buddhism probably don’t really seem to have much to do with each other. But for Ethan Nichtern, who grew up in a modern Buddhist community in New York City and has been studying it his whole life, it makes complete sense. Ethan joins us today to tell us about his book, “Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds.”

Ethan explains what Buddhism’s eight world winds are: Pleasure and pain, praise and criticism, fame and infamy, success and failure. Holding your seat during these winds, or in other words, keeping your confidence, is achievable through practice. 

The second half of Ethan’s book and the second half of our interview is focused on this practice. We dive into what mindfulness truly means and how it's the foundation of Ethan’s confidence-building techniques. 

If you’ve ever struggled with confidence, and most of us have, check out this episode!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The struggle with confidence is very human. It's universal. If somebody claims not to struggle with it I think they're probably lying at least a little bit. If we can view showing up and trusting ourselves as a practice rather than an outcome It will help tremendously.

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Resources:

• Learn more at EthanNichtern.com
• Check out Ethan’s yearlong program on Buddhist philosophy and psychology at DharmaMoon.com.
• Listen to Ethan’s podcast, “The Road Home”
• Read “Confidence: Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds”

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Joe Apfelbaum is the CEO of one of the fastest growing digital marketing agencies in the US, wrote five books in five years, and lost 100 pounds. There is nothing he can’t do. Today Joe joins us to tell us about his newest venture, evyAI, 

evyAI is an AI assistant that drafts LinkedIn post responses, DMs, and more to help you save time making important networking connections. What used to take you 100 minutes, can now just take you 10. And most importantly, evyAI is personalized to reflect your voice.

As the author of High Energy Networking, Joe knows how vital it is to make meaningful connections. Take a listen to this episode and learn how you can utilize an AI strategy to build those connections today.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The right strategy will save you a decade. Remember that energy without strategy is a waste of time. So if you want to grow your business, if you want to grow your life, if you want to be able to help other people and take your life to the next level, remember there's a strategy. Success leaves clues. There's a way to get to your goal by looking at somebody that's already done it, like Dr. Richard. And so follow their footsteps, listen to their podcasts, buy their books, get into their courses, join their communities, get more involved with people that have what you want and you're going to get their strategies, and you don't have to reinvent the wheel. You can literally do R&D– it's rip off and duplicate. You can literally just copy somebody else's strategy. Find the coach that has done what you wanna get to do and go out and just copy their strategy. When I tell somebody, hey, you know, I can help you with LinkedIn, just copy my strategy. Join my community and just copy my strategy. Do what I do.

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Resources:

• To join Joe’s community, text “community” to Joe’s AI at 973-841-8868 
• To watch a demo video of evyAI, text “demo” to Joe’s AI at 973-841-8868 
• Watch a free video on funnel strategy at AjaxUnion.com
• Read High Energy Networking

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Meet Dr. Gladys McGarey, a trailblazer who has dedicated over a century to transforming healthcare through holistic medicine. Known as the mother of holistic medicine, her approach emphasizes love, understanding, and a profound connection with the patient's inner physician. Dr. McGarey's pioneering work focuses on understanding the deeper lessons behind diseases rather than merely treating symptoms.

Born in India to medical missionary parents, Dr. McGarey knew from a young age that she was destined to be a physician, despite challenges like dyslexia. Her resilience led her to co-found the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978. She believes in the body's ability to heal itself by paying attention to its signals and working in harmony with our inner selves.

Dr. McGarey's wisdom offers invaluable insights for enhancing well-being through holistic practices. By connecting with our inner physician and embracing the five L's, we can lead healthier, happier lives.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Live your life with life and love. If you can do that, other things are attracted to you. They become fun. They become joy. But if you don't love the trees and the birds and the people around you, you learn to lose love. And the beat goes on.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at gladysmcgarey.com
• Read The Well-Lived Life by Dr. Gladys McGarey
• Follow Dr. Gladys on Instagram: @begladmd

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There are a ton of resources out there about how to intentionally build your business culture, structure, and capacity, but almost none when it comes to doing the same for your family. Our guest on the show today, Tiffany Sauder, is here to fill that gap. 

Tiffany is a successful CEO, married to another professionally driven person, and is mother to four kids. A few years ago, her marriage and her family were at a breaking point. Everyone was stressed and frustrated. That’s when it hit Tiffany: She needed to run her family like she did her business. 

Today she teaches other families to do the same: Establish a mission and vision; do an honest, detailed evaluation where everyone in your family is at; and make concrete plans on how to function and be accountable.

If you’ve been looking for concrete, realistic ways for your marriage and family to be better for everyone, be sure to tune in.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Choose your hard. Being a grownup is hard, life is hard, every path is hard. Getting up at 5 a.m. to work out is hard, not feeling comfortable in your skin is hard. Being on a budget is hard, being broke is hard. Staying married is hard, getting divorced is hard. Owning your own business is hard, working for somebody else is hard. The point is not for this to be frustrating. The point is to accept life is hard. And I think as soon as that's our expectation, we can say, I'm gonna choose the hard that aligns with the life I want, with where I want to go, with the relationships I want to have, with the impact I want to have on the world. And when you choose that hard, then it's not hard because it's in service to who you're becoming and the impact you're gonna have on the world.

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Resources:

• Check out Tiffany’s Life of And Academy
• Listen to Tiffany’s podcast Scared Confident
• Follow Tiffany Sauder on Instagram: @TiffanySauder

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Paul Cheek was MIT’s first Hacker in Residence. No, he didn’t sit in a basement and try to steal nuclear codes or anything like that. He used his software developer skills to help entrepreneurs create what they needed for their businesses. Over the years, Paul worked with more and more entrepreneurs, not only helping them hack their technical problems, but overcome their business ones as well.

Based on this experience, Paul has written a new book called “Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics.” In it, he gives 15 tactics across four foundations: goal setting, marketing testing, product development, and resource acquisition. The mission of the book is to help entrepreneurs take action to turn their business plans into businesses. 

Paul joins us in today’s episode to share highlights from his book and encouragement for anyone considering the path entrepreneurship. Listening to this episode might just be your first step.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Entrepreneurship is for everybody. It doesn't matter whether you're going to start a company. We need more entrepreneurs in this world and we need more entrepreneurial leaders in this world, regardless of whether you're gonna be a startup founder, you're gonna go join a company, you work in a larger organization today, you lead a team within a larger organization today. There are things about the entrepreneurial process that you will find useful, that you will be able to deploy with your team, with your business. And I would encourage you to do the hardest part. The hardest part of entrepreneurship is just getting started. Take the opportunity right here, right now today to go and take that first step.

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Resources:

• Read “Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics”
• Learn more at PaulCheek.com
• Check out Oceanworks.co
• Connect with Paul on LinkedIn

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After 15 years as a social worker, Catherine Nikkel knew it was time to make a career change. She thought she was going to become an insurance agent, but suddenly the ground fell out from under her: She became paralyzed from the waist down. What got her through her time in the hospital was people telling her stories.

Today, not only has Catherine learned to walk again, but she has helped fifteen people tell their stories by ghostwriting bestselling books with them. She has also helped dozens more tell their story through her book coaching. 

Catherine joins the show to explain what it means to be a ghostwriter and book coach. She also has tips for people who are thinking about writing a book. Her bottom line: “Get your voice out there because it deserves to be heard.”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Please use your voice to make an impact, whether it be in your life, someone else's life, your communities. And the biggest thing for me is get your voice out there because it deserves to be heard.

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Resources:

• Learn more at CatherineNikkel.com

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As a professor, Dr. Craig Detweiler saw that his arts and media students were becoming anxious about AI replacing them in the job market. That’s why he decided to write a book about what he hopes will be the future of human creativity and AI.

Dr. Detweiler’s book, “Honest Creativity: The Foundation of Boundless, Good, and Inspired Innovation,” lays out the case that AI will help humans in their creative efforts, not replace them. Humans are good at analogies, embodiment, and empathy, while generative AI is good at lowering the traditional barriers to creative undertakings like legal work, studio tools, and more.

He lays out the three step process that students, and all of us, should take in order to succeed, hand-in-hand with AI. He draws on his experience as president and CEO of Wedgewood Circle, a philanthropic investment collective that funds creative projects of meaning.

It’s not everyday that you get to hear directly from Variety’s Mentor of the Year, so be sure to tune in and give a listen.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Fear not. The machines aren't coming to get you. The machines, hopefully, are coming to help and to serve you. And so have confidence in your HI: In your human intelligence, your human imagination, and your human ingenuity to create inspired innovation. 

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Resources:

• Read “Honest Creativity: The Foundation of Boundless, Good, and Inspired Innovation.”
• Follow Craig Detweiler on Instagram: @CraigDet

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Sue Van Raes would like for us all to befriend our biochemistry. Today she joins the show to teach us how. Sue is a functional nutritionist and food psychology specialist. She is also the author of a new book, “Food and Freedom: Discover your Personal Recipe to Eat, Think and Live Well.”

Our willpower is tied to our blood sugar levels. The health of our relationships is tied to understanding our rates of cellular oxidation. Expressing the full range of our emotions changes what we put in our bodies. Sue Van Raes explains the intersection of our inner biochemistry and our lived experiences. 

Everyone has their own individual ratio of how much of the three macronutrients they need: protein, fat, and carbohydrates. Through both blood tests and developing better internal sensation observation, we can learn to eat to feel how we want to feel. And that is freedom. 

Join us on today’s episode to learn more!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

If we could, and can, tend to our relationship to food and self the same way we would tend to another important primary relationship in our life– by showing up, by listening, by prioritizing, by tending to– there is incredible healing that is possible. And this relationship with food and self is the most primary and profound relationship we can start with because from there, everything else, every other relationship in our lives improves. The ripple effect is incredible. And I think it's also the relationship that we forget about the most. So it's my reminder to turn to ourselves and take care of ourselves because we need to be our number ones. 

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Resources:

• Read: Food and Freedom: Discover your Personal Recipe to Eat, Think and Live Well
• Learn more: BoulderNutrition.com
• Follow Sue on Instagram:  @BoulderNutrition

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Loretta Napoleoni’s career as a journalist and author began when she discovered her childhood best friend had joined a terrorist organization. Since then she has dedicated herself to analyzing the intersection of economics, politics, and violence. We’re excited to have Loretta on the show today.

Loretta’s newest book is called “Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good.” In it, she identifies the dangers of only a handful of people controlling the most powerful, newest technology. She advocates for more government oversight. 

Don’t let the title fool you. Loretta doesn’t mind capitalism and she likes technology. She just believes that the common good, as determined by a democratically elected government, should be the guiding light in how we regulate them.

Loetta’s perspective has been shaped through her Fulbright Scholarship to Johns Hopkins, her Rotary Scholarship to London School of Economics degree, and her work at the National Bank of Hungary in the early 1980s. She’ll give you a lot to think about in this episode!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

We have the power to understand technology. Do not be afraid. I mean, all we need is to study, understand, investigate, and then take control of it, because it's a very, very positive thing for humanity. 

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Resources:

• Read Technocapitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good
• Learn more at LorettaNapoleoni.com

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When she was about 12 years old, Meredith Heller left her troubled home and survived in the woods along the Potomac river. What saved her life was writing poetry and noticing how nature took care of her. Meredith has now spent over 30 years helping students and incarcerated women tap into that same power of noticing and writing. Her newest book, “Writing by Heart,” invites all of us into the practice.

In this episode, we dive into Meredith’s book. “Writing by Heart'' walks you through gathering information from your body, experience, psyche, and imagination. That way you can write about what you’re deeply experiencing, not just what you are thinking. The book also helps you notice things around you that spark something within you– joy, curiosity, learning. Through this practice, you teach yourself that the world is a place that feeds what moves you deeply.

Meredith describes writing as a way to make room within yourself to notice and fully experience the good and bad of life. This, she says, is the true path to healing.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Writing is a path home to self, to love, to life. It helps us fall in love with ourselves. It helps us come into deep friendship with ourselves. And from here, everything is possible. Pick up your pen, grab your journal, write a gratitude list, write a sparkle list, dive into the invitations in my book, come to workshops, such a warm, beautiful community, and start writing. Open up your inner world to yourself.

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Resources:

• Learn more at MeredithHeller.com
• Follow Meredith on Instagram: @MeredithHellerPoetry

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