

The Mindvalley Podcast
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The Mindvalley Podcast brings you the world's leading minds in personal growth, exploring cutting-edge ideas for mind, body, spirit, and work. Join Mindvalley founder Vishen Lakhiani and renowned TV host Megan Pormer as they dive deep into the transformative wisdom that traditional education often misses. Unlock the secrets to extraordinary living, expand your consciousness, and discover the tools to create a life you love. Join us every week - Big names. Big topics. Big transformations. Welcome to The Mindvalley Podcast.
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Oct 27, 2021 • 52min
5 Cutting-Edge Longevity Hacks To Extend Your Lifespan - Sergey Young
Can we live longer but stay younger? The aging population is one of the greatest challenges facing society. As more people reach older ages than ever before, the focus shifts from simply surviving to create new means to long-lasting health, fulfillment, and independence. Join Vishen Lakhiani and longevity investor Sergey Young in this conversation about ways to adopt longevity-promoting lifestyles. Listen out for: - The upcoming longevity innovations that are shaking up the health industry. - The 4 killer monster diseases. - What is the downside of mRNA? - Is alcohol bad for us? - 5 tips for longevity. - The importance of fasting for your health. - Live bonus Q&A session. ABOUT SERGEY YOUNG Sergey Young is a longevity investor and visionary with a mission to extend the healthy lifespans of 1 billion people. He is the founder of the Development Sponsor of Age Reversal XPRIZE, a global initiative designed to cure aging and age-related diseases, and the $100M Longevity Vision Fund, one of the few funds specializing exclusively in longevity and helping accelerate longevity breakthroughs. Sergey is also an investor with experience spanning over 20 years, which includes managing a $2 billion private equity fund. Part of his mission is to make longevity affordable and accessible to everyone. Bonus: - Find more about Sergey Young here 👉 https://sergeyyoung.com/ - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 25, 2021 • 36min
Discover The Science Behind The Perfect Night’s Sleep - Dr. Michael Breus
In the era of busyness and productivity, some view sleep as a necessary waste of time. In this exclusive interview, Dr. Michael Breus—aka The Sleep Doctor—busts the biggest sleep myths and reveals the science behind why sleep is an essential factor in reaching your ultimate peak performance every single day. Listen out for: - How to use sleep as a way to boost your productivity & cognitive performance. - How to know if you are sleeping enough. - How to calculate your bedtime. - Why your body requires more sleep at certain points. - Can you recover from illnesses faster with more sleep? - How coffee and alcohol affect your sleep. - What a nap-a-latte is and how it helps you sleep. ABOUT DR. MICHAEL BREUS Michael J. Breus, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist, a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine, and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Heis on the clinical advisory board of The Dr. Oz Show and is a regular contributor on the show (30+ times). Dr. Breus’ topic of expertise is the science of sleep and peak performance. He has been interviewed about: consumer products for sleep, sleep disorders i9ncluding in children), and sleep hacks for optimal performance. He is the author of GOOD NIGHT, The Power of When, and The Sleep Doctor’s Diet Plan. Bonus: - Learn how to sleep like a baby and perform like a pro at work in life in Dr. Michael Breus’s FREE Mindvalley Masterclass. 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/podcast_tmos - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 22, 2021 • 37min
How To Meditate When You Don’t Have Time - Emily Fletcher
Want to learn the ultimate tool to stress less and accomplish more? In this refreshing interview, meditation expert Emily Fletcher reveals the truth about a practice many underestimate. Among countless other benefits, meditation can increase our lifespan, decrease stress and help us achieve more in less time. Emily shares practical and powerful ways to incorporate meditation into our daily lives —even on a crowded New York subway! Find out how meditation single-handedly transformed her life and how it can do the same in yours. Listen out for: - The biggest reason why meditation may not work for you. - How to make sure you are meditating the right way (for beginners). - The key to becoming a self-sufficient meditator. - The difference between mindfulness and meditation. - What you need to do if you are too busy to meditate. ABOUT EMILY FLETCHER Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the leading expert in meditation for extraordinary performance. The Ziva Technique is a powerful trifecta of mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting designed to unlock your full potential. Emily has been named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch, has taught more than 25,000 students worldwide, and has spoken on meditation for performance at Apple, Google, Harvard Business School, and Barclays Bank. Bonus: - Learn the EASIEST way to meditation with Emily Fletcher in this FREE Mindvalley Masterclass 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/MWord - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 20, 2021 • 48min
5 Steps To Cleaning Up Your ‘Mental Mess’ - Dr. Caroline Leaf
During these times, companies are losing billions of dollars from mental-health-related absences while stressed, anxious, and burnt-out employees. Not only that, but work quality and results end up dropping. So, what is the solution? In this episode, Vishen and Dr. Caroline Leaf teach us how to reduce burnout, increase resilience, and help you and your employees better manage stress and succeed in every area of life. Get ready for a truly stress-relieving lesson. Listen out for: - The definition of ‘the mental mess’. - Why cleaning up one’s mental mess is so important. - 5 steps to reduce anxiety, stress, and toxic thinking. - 4 things that help you understand and change your body signals. ABOUT DR CAROLINE LEAF Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a master’s and Ph.D. in Communication Pathology and a BSc in Logopedics, specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change (neuroplasticity) with directed mind input. Dr. Leaf has helped hundreds of thousands of students and adults learn how to use their minds to detox and grow their brains to succeed in every area of their lives. Bonus: - Find out more about Dr. Caroline Leaf here 👉 https://drleaf.com/ - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 18, 2021 • 24min
The Secret Sauce To A Powerful Belief System - Tom Bilyeu
If you constantly tell yourself that you’re stupid, you don’t belong, or don’t deserve love...guess what you’ll manifest? The power that words have on our brains is undeniable, and we can learn to use them to achieve more than we can imagine. To help you transform your self-narrative, we have a serial entrepreneur, change-maker, thought leader, and host of the popular Impact Theory podcast: the one and only Tom Bilyeu. He’ll be sharing some of his insightful first-hand experiences on how we can transform not only our business but our entire lives. Get ready for a real identity shift. Listen out for: - Why the mind is the matrix. - The power of words on our mindset. - The secret to getting whatever you want. ABOUT TOM BILYEU Tom Bilyeu is a filmmaker and serial entrepreneur who chased money HARD for nearly a decade and came up emotionally bankrupt. To that end, he and his partners sold their technology company and founded Quest Nutrition -a company predicated not on money but rather on creating value for people. The company’s mission was to end metabolic disease -one of two pandemics facing the planet. Despite not being focused on money, Quest exploded and became a billion-dollar business in roughly five years, making it the 2nd fastest growing company in North America, according to Inc. Magazine. After exiting Quest and generating extraordinary personal wealth, Bilyeu turned his attention to the other pandemic facing society -the poverty of a poor mindset. To solve the mindset problem at scale and help hundreds of millions of people adopt an empowering mindset, he has co-founded the media studio Impact Theory with his business partner and wife, Lisa Bilyeu. They aim to influence the cultural subconscious by building a single-minded content creation machine that makes exactly one type of content -content that empowers people. Bonus: - Discover how to access altered states of mind for powerful guidance & problem solving with Vishen Lakhiani in this FREE Mindvalley masterclass 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/Silva - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 15, 2021 • 39min
4 Steps To Becoming Your Own Coach - Ajit Nawalkha
In this episode with the Co-founder of Evercoach Ajit Nawalkha, you’ll learn how the powerful principles of coaching can help you overcome life’s biggest challenges. Get ready to create some extraordinary results in your everyday life, relationships, or career. You’re about to master the powerful skill of self-coaching. Listen out for: - The story of how Lisa Nichols changed Ajit’s life. - 3 steps to turning information into transformation. - The definition of self-coaching and how it’s going to transform your life. - 4 pillars that will make you an expert in self-coaching. ABOUT AJIT NAWALKHA Ajit Nawalkha is well-known throughout the globe as the guy who always builds booming businesses. After failing a startup, struggling with partnerships, and going from the ranks of an intern to a co-founder, Ajit has vast experience in the world of business--and he is committed to sharing the lessons he learned with budding entrepreneurs. Through these hard-hitting experiences, Ajit found that business is more about emotion, spirituality, physicality, and mental resilience than you’d think – and it’s not so heavily reliant on strategy. His passion and mission aim to help make the world a better place, one entrepreneur at a time. Bonus: - Become a certified Business Coach with Ajit Nawalkha here 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/q8gW6CCd - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 13, 2021 • 21min
How To Use Crystals, And Candles To Create A Sacred Space At Home - Marie Diamond
In this episode, Feng Shui Master Marie Diamond teaches us how to boost the energy in our home by using crystals, candle activations, and some powerful energy rituals. Get ready to clear your home from stress, conflict, heaviness, and any bad vibrations. Listen out for: - The 3 levels of the law of attraction. - The definition of Feng Shui. - How to find your direction of success. - Everything you need to know about crystals. - How to use candles to create a sacred space. ABOUT MARIE DIAMOND Marie Diamond is a globally renowned transformational teacher, leader, speaker, and international bestselling author, creator of Diamond Feng Shui, Diamond Dowsing, and Inner Diamond Meditation programs. She uses her extraordinary knowledge of energy, quantum physics, the Law of Attraction, and ancient wisdom like meditation, Feng Shui, and Dowsing to support individuals, organizations, and corporations to transform their success, financial situation, relationships, motivation, and inspiration. Bonus: - Click here to learn five unique techniques from Feng Shui and how to apply them to enhance your life, health & wealth 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/mfengshui - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 11, 2021 • 13min
How Tom Bilyeu Created A Billion Dollar Company That Fights Obesity
Driven by a deep passion for helping people with their health and wellbeing, serial entrepreneur Tom Bilyeu went from a perpetual state of anxiety to co-founding one of the most auspicious Humanity+ company of all time. Since then, it’s gone from being a business to an entire community dedicated to healthy eating—with zero compromises along the way. In this episode, Tom shares his unique journey, which led him to build one of the most successful enterprises on the planet, the challenges he met along the way, and the main practices that ultimately revolutionized how he does business. Listen out for: - The importance of building a community. - How he incorporates ‘thinkitating’ into his daily routine. - The 3 books that forwarded Tom’s entrepreneurial growth. - The one thing that made quest nutrition stand out from the rest. ABOUT TOM BILYEU Tom Bilyeu is a filmmaker and serial entrepreneur who chased money HARD for nearly a decade and came up emotionally bankrupt. To that end, he and his partners sold their technology company and founded Quest Nutrition -a company predicated not on money but rather on creating value for people. The company’s mission was to end metabolic disease -one of two pandemics facing the planet. Despite not being focused on money, Quest exploded and became a billion-dollar business in roughly five years, making it the 2nd fastest growing company in North America, according to Inc. Magazine. After exiting Quest and generating extraordinary personal wealth, Bilyeu turned his attention to the other pandemic facing society -the poverty of a poor mindset. To solve the mindset problem at scale and help hundreds of millions of people adopt an empowering mindset, he has co-founded the media studio Impact Theory with his business partner and wife, Lisa Bilyeu. They aim to influence the cultural subconscious by building a single-minded content creation machine that makes exactly one type of content -content that empowers people. Bonus: - Discover how to access altered states of mind for powerful guidance & problem solving with Vishen Lakhiani in this FREE Mindvalley masterclass 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/Silva - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 8, 2021 • 21min
The 3 ‘F Words’ That Suck Your Willpower Every Day - Dave Asprey
Best-selling author and biohacking specialist Dave Asprey has spent over two decades learning seemingly impossible techniques to alter his biology and achieve the unimaginable. In this talk, the Bulletproof founder reveals the three F(-ing) things that influence our willpower. He explains how once we learn to manipulate these three factors, we gain better control over accomplishing what we set out to do. Dave has single-handedly transformed the diets (and waistlines) of thousands of people worldwide through his extensive training, and today he generously shares some secrets of his biological hacking success. You don’t want to miss this episode. Listen out for: - The biology behind where willpower comes from. - How and why most of our willpower gets wasted. - The labrador brain and how it affects our decision-making process. - How we give into terrorists every day. - How our survival instincts can harm us. ABOUT DACE ASPREY Dave Asprey is the Founder of The Bulletproof Executive, a Silicon Valley investor, and a technology entrepreneur who spent two decades and over $300,000 to hack his own biology. Dave lost 100 pounds without counting calories or excessive exercise, used techniques to upgrade his IQ, and lowered his biological age while learning to sleep more efficiently in less time. Dave is the creator of the widely-popular Bulletproof Coffee, host of the radio show and #1 health podcast Bulletproof Radio, and author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Bulletproof Diet. Bonus: - Discover how to access altered states of mind for powerful guidance & problem solving with Vishen Lakhiani in this FREE Mindvalley masterclass 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/Silva - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 6, 2021 • 55min
3 Simple Strategies To Ditch The Imposter Syndrome - Shadé Zahrai
Feeling like you’re a fraud who doesn’t belong? According to a new article published in the International Journal of Behavioral Science, seven in every ten people have or will experience impostor syndrome at some point in their lives. In this episode, peak performance expert Shadé Zahrai tells us how to ditch it for good. Join Vishen and Shadé in this fascinating conversation to learn how to construct your own reality, leverage your self-awareness and regain control over your inner critic. Listen out for: - 4 traits that contribute to core self-evaluation. - The difference between self-love and self-esteem. - The true definition of imposter syndrome. - The key to boosting your confidence at work. - The secret to supercharging your life. ABOUT SHADÉ ZAHRAI Shadé Zahrai is a leadership ‘alchemist’ known for her ability to translate the latest in neuroscience and psychology research into practical and actionable strategies that drive mindset shifts and behavioral change in a systematic way. She is a bestselling author, Harvard-trained leadership coach, TEDx speaker, and was recently recognized as Adweek’s Careers Creator of the Year. Along with her Ph.D. research in leadership and career performance, Shadé has spent hours with hundreds of teams from startups to Fortune 500s, observing clear behavioral trends behind the happiest and most successful people. Bonus: - Find Vishen’s notes on this episode here 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/Shade - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices