The Hidden Why Podcast

Ideal Life

Today's featured guest is Robert Lawrence. The topic is "Ideal Life."

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Guest Bio

Robert Lawrence is an airline pilot, sailor, adventurer, and an author. Following a 17-year career in law enforcement, Lawrence put his beliefs to the test at age 48 when he decided to become an airline pilot. He was hired as an airline pilot at age 49, proving to himself that he could visualize a goal and his inner vision would manifest as his outer reality.

At age 50, Lawrence became an author, so that he could share his ideas with others. He has now written and self-published three books. Lawrence is currently living his ideal life because he followed the suggestions of authors and public speakers such as Dr. Wayne Dyer, Napoleon Hill, Louise Hay, Jack Canfield, and now Leigh Martinuzzi!

Lawrence proposes that every human creation first begins with a thought. Every building, every invention, every sculpture, began with an invisible thought. Therefore, the same power of creation must be true for our lives. Our inner thoughts create our outer lives, for better or for worse. By writing down our desired outcome, then creating a vision in our mind’s eye and taking inspired action, our invisible thoughts will manifest as our physical reality.

"What drives success and the most successful students is internal motivation." Vivienne Ming

In this episode, I answer three questions I am frequently asked. It's actually a great opportunity for me to reflect and hopefully, a perfect opportunity to share some information with The Hidden Why followers. Here they are:

How did you first get interested in studying human motivation?

How has being a podcaster changed your life?

What advice can you give to people who dream of moving to another country?

Let me know what you think and enjoy!

"Things don't go according to plan and that is the plan."

Kristen Hadeed unintentionally launched Student Maid, a cleaning company that hires students, while attending the University of Florida in 2007. Since then, Student Maid has employed hundreds of people and is widely recognized for its industry-leading retention rate and its culture of trust, accountability, and compassion. But Kristen and her company were no overnight sensa­tion. In fact, they were almost nothing at all.

In this episode, I chat to Kristen about her journey and all that she's learnt. A few months into starting her new venture, with little knowledge of how to lead her business, disaster struck and 75 percent of her cleaning team quit on the same day. She's learnt the hard way but what she's learnt is gold - she shares all in this interview.

"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen." Brene Brown

Having listened to Brene Brown's fantastic TED talk and then downloading the audio copy of The Power of Vulnerability I had to learn more. I was hooked, engaged and inspired. I've now just completed listening to the audio version of Daring Greatly and can safely say that my belly is full.

In Daring, Greatly Brene shares all that she has learnt about vulnerability. It is not only inspiring and insightful but also highly practical. Brene shares tool, tips and techniques of how we can all aim to be more vulnerable. Daring Greatly is about having the courage to show up every day as our authentic selves. Great read - Enjoy!

Stories

Today's featured guest is Sandra Marinella. The topic is "Stories."

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Guest Bio

Sandra Marinella, MA and MEd, is an award-winning writing teacher and author from Chandler, Arizona. She has taught thousands of students and presented hundreds of writing workshops. Her articles have appeared in The English Journal, The Arizona English Bulletin, and Seventeen.

When Sandra faced breast cancer, she turned to her personal writing to help with healing. The experience inspired her to teach writing to heal to cancer patients and veterans. As she watched storytelling and writing help others transform their lives, she wrote her new book, The Story You Need to Tell. Her pioneering work shows us the power of finding our stories, sharing them, and writing our way out of the darkness toward resilience and renewal.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” Steve Jobs

The noise of the external world is muting the sound of the internal world, and therefore our intuition pays the price. What moments do we have in the day to connect internally? How much time do we give to listen to our internal voice? What is consuming our attention and why?

Distraction is the killer of productivity and destroyer of happiness, perhaps! In this episode, I share my thought as to why - Enjoy!

“An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.”

I couldn't resist the opportunity. I had to speak with Lisa again about her field of work. And that is why this episode exists. Lisa is a Professor of Psychology and her book How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain is one of my favourite book of all time. A must read!

Why is this conversation so important? When we can understand how emotions are made we are better equipt to understand ourselves and I believe that is the brilliance of her research. Self-awareness or understanding is the key to unlocking suffering and moving towards a greater state of joy.

In this episode, we chat more on her research getting into some pretty interesting stuff on the construction of emotions, the difference between feelings and emotions, the implication they have to how we operate, how we can alter them, the thought behind "free will," and much more. You'll love it!

Please share your comments thoughts and questions below, or reach out directly to either myself of Lisa. Enjoy!

Neal Barnard is an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is one smart guy that knows an incredible lot about the science of health.

In this book, Cheese Trap, Barnard explores the surprising truth about the harmful effects of cheese and dairy. If you are a lover of cheese and don't want to give it up anytime soon, then you may want to avoid this book. Neal shreds cheese apart. If on the other hand, you have an open mind and curious to discover why dairy is bad for our health, you'll gain a lot of insight from reading this book. Sceptical or not, Neal will make you think twice about eating that next slice of cheese.

Enjoy my book reflection of The Cheese Trap.

SOS Mentality

Today's featured guest is David Hare. The topic is "SOS Mentality."

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Guest Bio

David is a UK author and coach who inspires individuals to achieve breakthroughs in their lives and helps teams and companies communicate with more confidence and passion.

David is a practising Nichiren Buddhist since 1985, his first book, The Buddha in Me, the Buddha in You – a Handbook for Happiness, published in 2016 and has gone on to sell thousands of copies worldwide. Themes of the book include Nichiren Buddhism, life coaching, spiritual development, human revolution, inspirational leadership and world peace.

“There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.” Jackie French Koller

There is a great deal of talk around the topic of minimalism at present, perhaps a bit too much talk. However, I for one believe there is plenty of value in creating a minimalist lifestyle. I'd also agree that there is a lot of hocus-pocus going around, making it a little bit trendy. For this reason, I recorded this episode to share my thoughts on whether minimalism is fact or fiction. Let me know what you think and enjoy!