The Release Podcast

Have you ever considered the science of luck?

What if we are all super lucky, and just fail to notice the opportunities around us every single day? What if luck is really just opportunity, and it's your own mindset that’s blinding you to how lucky you were meant to be? What if it doesn’t have to be so hard?


My guest this week is Nicole Perrone, a renowned mortgage banker better known as the Billion Dollar Banker, whose keynote "The Science of Luck" is just the new take on life that many of you need to hear today. I know I did. And despite any evidence to the contrary….I’ve always considered myself to be the luckiest girl in the world.

When was the last time you tired yourself out trying to explain for what feels like the hundredth time how your feelings were impacted by someone's behavior, twisting yourself into a pretzel to convey why their behavior was not okay, only to have them fail yet again to see where you’re coming from? Have you ever wondered whether they’re not grasping the point because they can’t….or perhaps because they actually just don’t want to? You might be fighting a losing battle against your partner’s Empathy Deficit.

The always nuanced and truly dialed-in Dr. Peter Salerno joins me again this week on the podcast to discuss the concept of an Empathy Deficit, and the difference between sympathy, empathy and compassion. Does the empathy deficit exist on a spectrum, can it be cured…and how much does it matter if your partner never really gets where you’re coming from? Is it enough for them to at least try to learn how to 'go through the motions'?

According to Dr. Salerno, there are ways to make sense of what is or is not being made available to you in your relationship; but the key isn’t just determining what cognitive/emotional potential is sitting across from you at the dinner table; its figuring out whether that is enough for you...and what you’re going to do about it.

For more on Dr. Peter Salerno: https://www.drpetersalerno.com/

For our first interview with Dr. Salerno on Discerning Between Connection And Attunement: https://youtu.be/3XK4kNzuMV4

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In every life there are some turning points. Moments when we need to change course, or face the consequences. To finally live life the way we always suspected we wouldn’t be allowed to. Or at least that nobody would approve of. For Deirdre Abrami, a sixth generation psychic intuitive on her father’s side who grew up in a home where ‘psychic’ was a dirty word…that journey was sparked by a near fatal brain aneurysm she was diagnosed with, after giving birth to her second child. 

Deirdre was told she had 30 days to live, she was faced with the possibility of leaving her babies behind, and she realized she had no choice but to STOP HIDING from the truths she had always known. And thank goodness that she did. The now proud psychic intuitive is helping people with everything from answers on love and life to training in how to tap into their own knowing, and finally get themselves on their own…destined path.

On today’s podcast we are talking about the experience of a cerebral aneurysm just days after giving birth, the corporate career she left behind, the angels she always saw and knew she could trust, and what in the world it is like….to date when you’re psychic. 

If you want a good reason never to leave the house again, ask people for their worst online dating story. Trust me.

A few years ago, Sean Cook, and IT industry veteran who had been horrified watching his 60 year old mom being catfished and disappointed routinely online…decided to do something about it. He launched the Tea App, which is not a dating app but rather a "dating safety app" for women. Tea lets you complete background checks, reverse phone number searches and reverse image searches with the click of a button through the safety and privacy of the app, and it also gives you access to a chat forum where you can share your experiences with other women who, just like you, are out here looking to date intentionally….and safely.

Since launching Tea, Sean has learned a lot about what women endure in the modern dating world, and it goes far beyond his mom. On today’s podcast we’re talking about the statistics of fraudulent profiles and romance scams, and the pushback on the app from men who get very uncomfortable about the idea of a public forum where women can share the Tea on their behavior. Sean says the Tea platform receives about one legal threat a week from somebody who doesn’t appreciate having their behavior called out on the app.

But Tea is not backing down. Because he reasons, and I agree…that truly, there are tons of wonderful men out there looking for love. And if you have nothing to hide….then you really should have nothing to worry about.

For more on The Release Podcast: www.TheReleasePodcast.com

What exactly qualifies you as a grown up? Paying your bills? Managing your emotions? Turning 21?

Raffi Grinberg has some thoughts, which he taught in a popular course at Boston College called Adulting 101, and which he has now turned into a book, published last month entitled "How to Be a Grown Up: The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed (Until Just Now)." Raffi is a business leader, author, and educator and was also cofounder of The Constructive Dialogue Institute along with Jonathan Haidt.

Raffi is interested in helping today’s young adults build the confidence and resilience required to be a fully functional, and hopefully satisfied grown up. Because as a former career coach, he saw up close that while we’ve got tons of so-called highly trained adults graduating these days, many newly minted adults are more educated, and more lost than ever.

From more on Author Raffi Grinberg: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Grown-Up-Essential/dp/1797231073 

Imagine that you're overwhelmed and worn out, lying on the living room carpet, noticing the crumbs that need sweeping, the toys that need putting away, and the curious sensation of nearly losing your mind. And imagine that you are overcome with the sneaking sense you were meant for more….but that it would be scary, weird, and probably alienate you from a lot of people. Imagine your sneaking suspicion was that you were psychic, and that you’d fall apart completely if you didn’t start taking it seriously.

That’s basically what happened to Jen Abra, now known to her nearly 80,000 Instagram followers (since going viral for predicting Trump’s presidency) as the dancing medium. A Canadian, married mother of 4 who quit a decade-long career as a kindergarten teacher, Jen has learned very quickly that people confuse predictions for preferences, and that internet celebrity as a psychic medium comes at a price.

On today’s podcast we’re talking about how she found herself here, why she dances despite the trolls, how the predictions come to her, what she sees for the future of America & Canada...and how much control she has, over any of it.

For more on The Release with Poonam: www.TheReleasePodcast.com

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Do you still look forward to your birthday? Do you plan it, or have faith that someone else will do something to commemorate another year of your time on this earth? Or does it loom large like a threat, stressing you out and promising to lay bare the wastage of time?

Have you ever had the chance to see a mentalist or a magician, live? What is the line between what we cannot see, and what is an actual illusion? And how much does it matter?

My guest today is Gerard Senehi, known as the Experimentalist. He has been recognized as a “superstar” mentalist, featured in TV shows as diverse as the Today Show” and “Ellen, and has even performed for corporate audiences, private events and US presidents during his career. New York Magazine referred to his performance as “some sort of religious experience from the sixteenth century.

But Gerard is proud to say that what he does defies categorization, and he won’t discuss whether or not its real…because the point, to him…is living in the ambiguity. From a childhood in swiss boarding school to studying paranormal phenomena and psychology at Amherst college, to trying his hand as a street performer in Israel, he’s seen a lot.

And he wants us to consider all the things we cannot see.

How much control do any of us really ever have…over anything? Kidnapping survivor Jess Buchanan has some thoughts....

Driven into the desert and forced to participate in a mock execution, she and her coworker soon realized her kidnappers were Somali pirates demanding $45 million dollars for her release. The good news was that she was worth more to them alive than dead; the bad news was that she spent the next 93 days entirely outdoors being moved around in the Somali desert by a gang of pirates, men who would routinely berate her, threaten to sell her to AlShabab, and hold a gun to her head. Most days she ate a tin of tuna and perhaps some canned pineapple. But the constant threat of assault paled in comparison to the fear of losing her own mind, which she realized then was the single most important thing she had ever had. 

Through a miscarriage she never mentioned to her captors, to the months of taking stock of every life choice she had made until the day of her kidnapping…to the night when she was saved but none other than SEAL TEAM 6 (on the direct orders of President Obama)…Jess Buchanan could never shake her belief that this was not the end.  Not only did she manage to connect with her kidnappers in ways that are now taught in classes…but she empathized with them and reach the conclusion that in fact…her kidnapping was just not personal. And thanks to a kidney infection that triggered her rescue and a husband who NEVER stopped fighting for her…she managed to do what the seals told her was the most impressive part; she survived. 

Life is a classroom, she says. And today she gets to live that lesson and impart it to her two children alongside the husband who helped save her…in the warmth of a life which she knows, better than any of us, was NEVER guaranteed.

Most married people know very little about divorce, and prefer to keep it that way. But what they don’t know, can hurt them, and those they love. For a lifetime.

My guest this week learned that the hard way during her own divorce process, and in the aftermath of launching a small women’s support group that led her from her original career as an investigative reporter…to her new life as the Freedom Warrior. A certified coach and divorce specialist, Amy Polacko has dedicated herself to helping people distinguish between frustration and abuse…and determine for themselves when it becomes necessary, to take steps top get out of the marriages that they never signed up for.