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For The Luminous Mind - Best of 2016, the #1 MOST downloaded podcast for the year, Episode 146 - Diana Zaheer! Diana is a homeschooling mother and helps people heal for better more personal peace and better relationship with others. To learn more about Diane, go to theluminousmind.net

Show notes for Episode 146

For The Luminous Mind - Best of 2016, we continue with the 2nd most downloaded podcast for the year, Episode 160 - Stacey Taggart. During this podcast, Stacey talks about how farming helped change her paradigm in all facets of her life and led her to her mission. To learn more about Stacey, go to theluminousmind.net

Show notes for Episode 160

For The Luminous Mind - Best of 2016, we begin with the 3rd most downloaded podcast for the year, Episode 153 - Connor Boyak. Connor is the author of ten books, including the popular Tuttle Twins children's series that teaches young kids about the principles of liberty. However in this podcast, we spend a majority of the time discussing his book, Passion-Driven Education: How to Use Your Child's Interests to Ignite a Lifelong Love of Learning. To learn more about Connor, go to theluminousmind.net

Show notes for Episode 153

We invited Diana Zaheer to join us again to discuss steps we can take to have of more relaxed holiday season. We discussed 5 steps to help families get through this wonderful, yet often stressful time. The tips include: 1) have your kind of fun -  2) take a break -  3) if you hear your Critical Voice, you needs you - 4) your reaction is your job - 5) practice an undivided heart. Diana goes in depth in these issues and more to help us have more connection and influence with the people we love the most.

To learn more about Diana, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes:

"There's a way we can include are human experience and when we do that everybody benefits."   "All of those things anchor us, into the present moment, maybe I can feel my breath little bit, that brings a presence of mind, a presence spirit,  a presence of heart, to our gathering. There is the witnessing presence, as a guidance, there is new ingredients, not just thinking, not just people talking at each other and not listening."   "All of these things can happen during holidays, we can get really overstretched during the holidays, we get really overwhelmed, we feel a lot of not knowing, sometimes we might feel afraid."   "If my critical voice is talking to me, that is telling me that I'm looking for loving and gentle attention with myself."   "A good enough holiday, not a perfect holiday because the material that holds this whole holiday season together is love."

Zak Slayback is an entrepreneur who writes on issues of education, innovation, and philosophy. He is an Ivy League dropout and speaks regularly on education, college, how and why to foster more entrepreneurship, and issues related to professional development. He believes that entrepreneurs are the primary actors of social change. Zak is a founding team member of Praxis, an apprenticeship programs that help people jumpstart their careers with connections and training. We discuss Zak's journey through educational discovery, his book and how people can better educate themselves "The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom", and how people can better educate themselves then through compulsion. 

To learn more about Zak, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes: "What's good in like the 60s and 70s and 80s needs to be good for somebody in 2010, 2012, 2016 is kind of stupid."

"I meet people are like, "I'm gonna go get a masters degree." "Why you gonna go get a masters degree?" "Is going to more doors for me." That's not necessarily true, one it takes time and there's an opportunity cost to the time you're in school and the time you spend four years in university it is four years you could be doing other things."

"I think that self-learning, unlearning, and relearning is not just something that you need to do throughout your life but with the way the economy is developing today, is a moral imperative."

"School is the place where 'knowing how to learn' goes to die."

" I know so many people that are like, "Oh, I'm no good at math." No, you're probably actually fine at math, just associated math was suffering while you're growing up, but because you have no context to it."

"I've learned that learning how to learn and knowing how to learn is one of the most important and least appreciated skills out there."

"The most valuable skill you have is that you know how to learn."

"The most dangerous part of school in particular, is that it associates learning with work (or pain)."

We invited Joanne Miller (Episode 155) to return, this time bringing a very special guest and illustrator of their new book, "What If It Were Possible?" We welcome her granddaughter, Clara Logsdon! This is a fun conversation of how they worked together on this creative, inspiring story as well as how to foster creativity in ourselves. 

To learn more about Joanne and Clara, go to theluminousmind.net

Joanne Miller is the author of Creating a Haven of Peace, Be Your Finest Art and the I Wanna' Be children's series based on personality styles of children. She is an artist, speaker and teacher.  Clara Logsdon is her granddaughter. Clara has been in her Yia-Yia's art class since she was 4 yrs old.  The two of them combined their talents in writing a children's book titled, What If It Were Possible? and Clara, at 8 years-old, did all the illustrations.  The two of them enjoy speaking to schools, libraries, and homeschool groups about how everyone is creative and explaining the process they went through to get their book written, illustrated and published.

Jake Carlson is first (and most importantly) a family guy, dad of 3 and husband to 1. Originally from the west coast, his family is currently on the other side of the world on a yearlong family bonding experience.  

 Jake is President at Family Before Fortune and host of the Family Before Fortune podcast, helping listeners build the life of their dreams with the people they love.

To learn more about Jake, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes: "What I want to change is that paradigm that says," you know we really CAN build a life of our dreams WITH the people we love."

We invited Diana Zaheer to join us again to discuss "Making Peace with Our Reactions." We spent a majority of our time talking about her "Reaction" healing room. We discussed how we ALL have reactions and how to learn to recognize and control reactions. Questions we worked on during our discussions  - How does our "Critical Voice" affect our reactions? What is a reaction and what to do about them? How to deal with the reactions of others? Diana gives us tools and resources to acknowledge and hopefully work to change our reactions to be more loving and empathic to cultivate richer relationships with others.

To learn more about Diana, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes: "We have a lot more material there, that's getting in the way of really being close to those people because we have unfinished business inside of us that comes out in reactions."

"When I'm not a reaction, I feel very relaxed, I feel very peaceful, things seem to find place effortlessly, I don't have to push myself."

"If there's a way I can reconnect to myself, everybody's gonna benefit especially me because I'm not going to step into my history and recycle what I saw people do."

Tiffany is a full-time traveling, roadschooling Momma to 5. With a background in theatre education she knew she didn't want conventional school for her children, but she didn't know what the answer would be for their family. It's been 7 years since her oldest started "school" and she learned a lot since then. They started out as more conventional homeschoolers that evolved into unschooling and now into roadschooling as they travel the US in their RV!

To learn more about Tiffany, go to theluminousmind.net

 Quote: "I'm learning to let go and let them lead, filling out where they are, rather than trying to force on where we think they should be."

Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President.

Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann has sold over half a million copies and it has been translated into 21 languages. It has been released in a new, expanded edition, with a foreword by Huffington Post founder and publisher, Arianna Huffington.

Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Furry Friends Adoption & Clinic in his town of Jupiter, Florida.

To learn more about Bob, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes: "It is when we build ourselves and grow on the inside, it manifests on the outside."

 

"Now a go- giver is someone whose focus is on providing value or giving value to others, it's a shift in focus "

"But never forget the money is simply the reward for hitting the target it's not the target itself your target is serving others." 

 

"Money is simply an echo of value."

"Selling is simply defined as, discovering what the other person wants, needs or desires, and helping them to get it."

"The five laws themselves are the laws of value, compensation, influence, authenticity, and receptivity. When we speak in the business-sense, the law of value says your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value."

"There is probably hundreds of ways to communicate value to come down to five what we call elements of value and they are excellent, consistency attention, empathy, and appreciation"

"And how you do ANYTHING is how you will do EVERYTHING, so you want to make sure to get into great habits"

"We've got to understand that they are doing things for their reasons and this is why a great leader, a great influencer, a great salesperson constantly ask themselves questions."

"In my opinion the essence of influence is pull, pull as opposed to push"

"More important than what you say, is obviously what you do, we know that; but more important than what you say and what you do, is who you ARE"