The Daily Helping

Join us on an inspiring journey with Laura, the author of "Wonderhell," as she shares her personal experiences of embracing uncertainty and the powerful impact of surrounding herself with the right people. Laura's story begins when she made the bold decision to leave law school, taking unexpected turns that ultimately led her to write "Wonderhell," a book about living in the question and finding one's unique path.

As we follow Laura's story, we learn the importance of living in a state of "doubtable" and embracing uncertain situations. By relying on resilience and adaptability, Laura discovered that uncertainty is essential for growth and being open to new experiences can lead to self-discovery and new opportunities.

The tale takes a deeper turn as we discuss the significance of having the right people around us while navigating uncertainties and challenges. Although we mention the famous Jim Rohn quote about being the average of the five people you spend the most time with, we clarify that there's no direct scientific evidence to support it. Instead, we delve into the concept of mirror neurons, which scan our environment for sameness and influence us subconsciously. This neurological basis highlights the importance of surrounding ourselves with people who support and encourage our journey.

Laura's story also emphasizes the idea that the people who were with us during one phase of our lives may not be the right ones to accompany us in the next. It's not about discarding people, but being intentional about the advice we seek and the voices we listen to. Through personal experiences about well-intentioned family members not fully understanding decisions and career paths, we learn that being mindful of who we seek advice from and having a supportive cheering section can make a significant difference in both our personal and professional lives.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The only people who are visited by Wonderhell are the ones who think are worthy of it. You don't see a bigger, higher, better, different potential for you if you don't have the intelligence and the creativity and the wherewithal to get yourself there.”

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Resources:

• Learn more: lauragassnerotting.com
• Follow Laura on Instagram: @heylgo
• Read: Wonderhell
• Ep. 99: Get Unstuck, Find Your Purpose, #BeLimitless | with Laura Gassner Otting

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Dr. John Dimartini, a world-renowned behavior specialist researcher, best-selling author, educator, and founder of the Dimartini Method, joins us to discuss his book, The Seven Seeker Treasures: A Transformation Blueprint for a Well-Lived Life. With expertise spanning multiple disciplines, Dr. Dimartini's work focuses on human values, aiming to empower individuals to become the best version of themselves.

The Seven Seeker Treasures delves into seven key areas: business pursuits, wealth pursuits, relationship stability, leadership, and social influence, health and well-being, inspired mission, and waking up genius. Dr. Dimartini passionately speaks about mental pursuits, highlighting his method of engaging both teachers and students in linking their values, leading to increased academic success.

With 40 years of experience in teaching genius awakening and supporting struggling students, Dr. Dimartini shares an inspiring story of a hyperactive child who found focus and engagement through a creative, interdisciplinary approach to learning.

Dr. Dimartini also explores the concept of awakening to one's own immortality and its connection to the layers of the brain. By identifying personal values and taking high-priority actions, individuals can increase their self-worth and develop resilience in the face of life's challenges.

Finally, Dr. Dimartini introduces his latest book, The Resilient Mind, which offers insights on managing anxiety, depression, uncertainty, and distractions. Addressing the phenomenon of "trophy case presentation" on social media, he emphasizes the importance of personal accountability and prioritization in order to live an extraordinary life.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Identify what your life truly demonstrates is most important to your life. And if you hear whispering, “I should do this,” “I ought to do this,” “I need to do this,” “I must do this,” just know that's not you. That's an outer authority whispering as a superego in your consciousness and infiltrating your mind and clouding the clarity of what you feel is important. If it brings a tear of gratitude to your eyes, you feel inspired by it, it awakens a vision inside you, you would absolutely love doing it, you feel grateful for the opportunity to do it, you're enthusiastically wanting to work on it, you're certain about it and you're present with it: That's the sign it's authenticity. I call those the six transcendentals. And taking the time to discern that state daily and mastering the art of prioritizing and really sticking to what's really truly meaningful to you because to pursue anything less than what's most important in your life is just going to devalue you. And it's going to keep you from doing something extraordinary. And you won't build incremental momentum and expand this space and time horizons to create immortal legacies. We go around and say we're immortal souls of theology, but nobody sends immortal goals hardly. So it's a contradiction. And I believe that the second you get authentic, your mind expands and you start giving yourself permission to, hey, I can do, I can make a difference on the planet.”

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Resources:

• drdemartini.com
• Read: The 7 Secret Treasures: A Transformational Blueprint for a Well-Lived Life by Dr. John Demartini
• Read: The Resilient Mind: Conquer Your Fears, Channel Your Anxiety and Bounce Back Stronger by Dr. John Demartini
• 211. The Universal Laws of Success with Dr. John Demartini

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Our guest today is Tajay "TJ" Ashmeade, a former Division One Olympic and professional basketball player. Despite a challenging youth, TJ is now a public speaker, coach, and tech entrepreneur, and she's on a mission to help athletes succeed beyond sports.

TJ's journey to success was not easy. After getting involved with the wrong crowd she ended up getting shot, but that didn’t change her path. It wasn’t until she realized her younger brother was following in her footsteps, and once he was shot, she needed to shift her life and began to pursue sports.

She was placed in special education and was called stupid, but she changed the narrative of the word STUPID to Strength, Toughness, Understanding, Persistence, Identity, and Determination. TJ's hard work and determination paid off when she became the number one rebounder in the Big East Conference.

After her playing career ended, TJ had a plan and was already working on her first master's degree from the University of Phoenix. She emphasizes the importance of having a plan when transitioning from professional sports and encourages athletes to take notes from mentors, even if they are not physical people in their life.

TJ's passion for helping athletes led her to create a sports technology company called Nurture SPRT. The company provides a job board for athletes, access to sports psychologists, and resources for high school athletes to find the right college for them. TJ also has a sports leadership consultancy that helps athletes directly.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Move with intention. Move with intent every single day.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at tajayashmeade.com
• Follow TJ on Instagram: @tajayashmeade
• Follow Nurture SPRT on Instagram: @nurturesprt

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Are you a parent or guardian of a child with special needs? Do you struggle to communicate and collaborate with the various providers involved in your child's care? Dr. Crystal Morrison, executive advisor, strategist, leader, scientist, and tech entrepreneur, has a solution for you. She's the founder of Meerkat Village, a digital platform dedicated to improving outcomes for children with special needs by building collaboration and communication among adults providing care.

Dr. Morrison's personal experience parenting a child with special needs and her own struggles with mental health inspired her to create Meerkat Village. The platform allows parents to invite their child's treatment providers, extended family members, and community leaders into a digital village to communicate, create strategies, and track the child's response over time.

The success stories of parents who have used Meerkat Village are inspiring. One parent got her child's entire treatment team in the digital village within an hour, while another is using it to help her adult son stay focused on his schoolwork. Meerkat Village is currently involved in two studies with the University of Pittsburgh and a county in Western Pennsylvania.

Dr. Morrison's ultimate goal is to empower teams and foster village-driven care so that people can receive the care they need at any stage in life. She believes that status quo is a bigger risk than the unknown, and wishes for people to take that away from the conversation. Meerkat Village provides resources for parents, guardians, and treatment teams, as the number of people with a child with autism or learning differences is growing exponentially.

If you're a parent or guardian of a child with special needs, don't miss this episode. Listen in as Dr. Morrison shares her inspiring journey and provides actionable advice on how to improve outcomes for your child. Learn how to leverage technology to build collaboration and communication among adults providing care, and discover how Meerkat Village is transforming the way we care for children with special needs.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“The status quo is a bigger risk than the unknown. That's something that I I live by. It's a very big risk for me to step out and do the work that I'm doing today, but it's a bigger risk to not do anything and to accept the status quo and the system for the way it is today.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at meerkatvillage.com
• Follow Meerkat Village on Instagram: @meerkatvillage
• Connect with Dr. Crystal Morrison on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drcrystalmorrison

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Are you feeling defeated by life's challenges? Meet Frank McKinney - a real estate artist, bestselling author, and philanthropist who has triumphed over adversity. Despite graduating high school with a 1.8 GPA and only having a one-way plane ticket to South Florida, Frank persevered by working hard, flipping houses, and eventually developing ocean front mansions.

But, his journey didn't stop there. Frank realized that he was missing something spiritually and started the Carryinghouse Project Foundation to provide housing to those in need. In his newest book, Adversitology, he shares his personal experience with chronic myeloid leukemia and outlines the importance of accepting and disidentifying from adversity.

Frank emphasizes the power of collaborating with experts and being a philanthropic capitalist. He combines the best of philanthropy and capitalism to fund his charity work in Haiti, where he builds self-sustaining villages.

Don't let adversity keep you down. Frank's story shows that anything is possible with hard work and determination. Remember to accept and disidentify from your challenges, collaborate with experts, and combine the best of philanthropy and capitalism to make a difference in the world.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

In life, you've got to learn to exercise your risk tolerance like a muscle. Eventually, it will become stronger and able to withstand greater pressure. The feeling of fear is nothing more than the thought. We experience fear when we think about taking a risk. Once we take the risk, the fear goes away. Don't let the sensation of fear that sets in once you think about taking a risk stop you.

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Resources:

• Learn more at frank-mckinney.com
• Read Adversitology by Bestselling Author Frank McKinney
• Follow Frank on Instagram: @thefrankmckinney

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Are you a man struggling with balancing success and personal fulfillment? On this episode, our guest Ian Lobas shares how he helps men find their purpose and achieve their goals through his program, Men On Purpose. Through Men On Purpose, Ian guides men through a series of exercises and questions that help them discover their purpose and align themselves with their true selves. The program is action-oriented and formulaic, with a focus on eliminating what's not working and calibrating what is.

Ian has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and has successfully built and sold several businesses. However, he found himself feeling unfulfilled and realized that he was not living his true purpose. This realization led him to create Men On Purpose, a program that empowers men to free themselves from internal restrictions and constraints and live a life full of purpose. Ian believes that the mental health piece is addressed when individuals start to understand how their past, programming, and traumas have influenced their lives. By slowing down, facing their past, and aligning themselves with their true purpose, individuals can leave a legacy that's worth leaving.

If you're a man struggling to find balance and purpose in your life, this episode is for you. Ian's actionable tips and formulas can help you eliminate what's not working and calibrate what is, giving you the tools to live a life full of purpose. Don't wait to start living the life you were meant to live.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You gotta slow down. You gotta slow down. And you've got to face whatever monster you think is chasing you. It's probably you. It's probably your past. Probably something your mom said to you when you were six or eight. If you slow down enough, just for a little bit, to focus yourself up and really understand the path that you should be on, you're destined to be on, and you can align yourself with that path using formulas and systems with structure and support from somebody like me or you that can actually guide you down that dark path. You don't have to be scared of it anymore and you can actually change so much of your life and you can leave a legacy that's worth leaving.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at menonpurpose.net
• Listen: The Irreplaceable Man Podcast
• Follow Ian on Instagram: @iamianlobas

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Reverend Michael Beckwith is the founder and CEO of Agape International Spiritual Center, a trans-denominational community in LA that teaches the science of inter-transformation unity through meditation, affirmative prayer, and life-visioning. He is a sought-after meditation teacher, conference speaker, and seminar leader on the life-visioning process. As a co-founder and president of the Association of Global New Thought, he has hosted conferences featuring operators of world peace, including his holiness the Dalai Lama, and had the distinguished honor of presenting to Nelson Mandela the Gandhi King Award.

Beckwith’s personal journey of spiritual awakening began in the 70s when he was a psychobiology major at USC. He describes having inner experiences that he initially labeled as pathological until a lucid dream experience led him to discover the intrinsic wholeness that we are as unique expressions of the divine. This experience compelled him to explore different paths to awakening, leading him to become a licensed spiritual practitioner and minister. Beckwith's story is a powerful testament to the transformative power of spiritual practice and the importance of staying true to oneself.

Beckwith provides valuable advice on how to approach healing and the power of mindset. He encourages individuals to not hold onto the prognosis of a diagnosis and instead focus on their agreement with the universe and spiritual practice. Physical healing has an emotional and mental component — that healing is a revealing of the intrinsic wholeness that we are as unique expressions of the divine. His advice offers listeners powerful tools for achieving conscious living and unlocking their true potential.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I believe that I want people to know that they have an unlimited capacity for wellness, well-being, joy, and harmonizing prosperity, and that that is not determined by their genetic codes, not determined by what's going on in society, that they could have access to that with intention and a little bit of spiritual practice. That they're not limited in any way. They're not limited by who their parents were. They're not limited by what's going on in the world. They are unlimited beings, but they have to have a little bit of focus, a little bit of an intention, and then inertia becomes momentum and emergence takes place.”

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Resources:

• Learn more: michaelbeckwith.com
• agapelive.com
• Follow Michael on Instagram: @michaelbbeckwith
• Follow Michael on Facebook: facebook.com/Michael.B.Beckwith

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We are on location at Athlete’s Voices with retired NFL player Patrick Willis. During his entire eight-year career in the NFL, Patrick Willis demonstrated exceptional performance as a member of the San Francisco 49ers. He received an impressive seven Pro Bowl nominations, was named the NFL Defense of Rookie of the Year in 2007, and led the NFL in tackles twice. Prior to his professional career, Willis played college football at Ole Miss, where he was recognized as an All-American and the 2006 SEC Defensive Player of the Year.

Currently, Patrick Willis dedicates his focus to the Whinkers Mind Youth Fund, a foundation aimed at empowering communities by harnessing the potential of young people. Through the Whinkers Mind Youth Fund, Patrick helps young individuals develop their mental, physical, and spiritual strength, fostering growth and resilience for the future.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“As long as you're breathing, there's still opportunity to do the things that you want to do, and there are many ways to do that. So when you get discouraged, you just know that as long as you're breathing, there's still opportunity.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at thewhinkersmind.com
• Instagram: @thewhinkersmind

We have a brilliant and incredible guest to share with you today. His name is Leo Treadwell. And he's the founder of I Am the Matrix and inventor of the revolutionary mind-hacking technology, Autobiographical Feedback.

After a challenging upbringing, feeling like he didn't belong in his family and always trying to please others, Leo turned to rebellion and a life of crime to gain attention, which eventually led to his arrest for stealing an airplane. Despite achieving success in his career, Leo discovered a tumor in his back that he realized was caused by his inability to connect with others in a meaningful way. Before he took his life on another dark turn, a friend urged him to address his deeper issues and explore spirituality. This led him to a vision quest and a near-death experience, ultimately realizing he was a good person who didn't need to constantly achieve to be fulfilled and that love was always available to him.

Autobiographical feedback is like writing a story about your life, but instead of writing about your past, you write about your future. This helps you think about who you want to be and what you want to achieve. Sometimes, we get stuck repeating the same things over and over again because of our past experiences. To break out of this cycle, we need to imagine a new story for our future. This helps us focus on what we want to achieve instead of just repeating the same patterns from our past.

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Resources:

• Visit his website: iamthematrix.com

Isabelle Mercier is the co-founder and CEO of Leap Zone Strategies and renowned branding, marketing, and customer experience speaker. Isabelle’s parents instilled in her the importance of creating win-win-win scenarios and positioning herself to make life better for others. She emphasizes the difference between knowing and owning one's strengths, and how crafting an architecture that aligns with your values is crucial for success. Isabelle also highlights the significance of having the audacity to express oneself, even if it means being unpopular.

Isabelle reflects on her 31-year relationship with Margarita, an introverted yet powerful individual who has taught her the importance of audacity. She believes that courage involves moving through fear and finding a personal way of expressing oneself in alignment with one's values. Success requires an architecture of intentional and flexible rituals that limit opportunities for failure. Isabelle believes strongly in treating oneself as one would treat their most important client.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Treat yourself like you would a really important million dollar client. Really look at all the things that you are and you do for others. And even if you took 10% of that and did that for yourself, I'm sure it would be an improvement. One of the principles as at LeapZone Strategies is be and stay your own very best client.”

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Resources:

• Website: LeapZoneStrategies.com
• FREE MASTERCLASS, HELPFULNESS IS THE NEW HUSTLE: How To Leverage Your Team To Rapidly Grow Your Impact And Influence In Any Economy; By Serving Not Selling
• TEDx: How to Increase Your Units of Happiness
• TEDx: The Power of Zero Tolerance
• Dare to Brand: https://leapzonestrategies.com/portfolio/dare-to-brand-documentary/
• Twitter: @LeapZone
• Facebook: facebook.com/LeapZone
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/leapzoneleader