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For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode100/   Description There’s something powerful that happens when we give up screens one day a week. In her book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, author and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain shares how her family have gained more time, productivity, connection, and presence by adopting the ancient ritual of Shabbat. Based on her own experience of taking a tech-free day, she humbly offers a blueprint for how we can become less available to the world and more connected to ourselves and the people we love.   Guest Bio Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, author of national bestselling book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award. She hosts a monthly #ZoomChallahBake and writes a newsletter called Breakfast @ Tiffany’s. For information on her book, baking, films, and her newsletter, visit tiffanyshlain.com and follow Tiffany on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.   Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s website: http://www.tiffanyshlain.com/   24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week: https://www.amazon.com/24-Power-Unplugging-One-Week/dp/1982116862   Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode99/   Description The idea of stepping away from life and work for months or a year seems pretty impossible, maybe even radical. But in his book, The Year Off: The Anti-Budget Solution to Mastering Your Money and Following Your Dreams, author Steve Larsen challenges the idea that we’re stuck or that we lack choices. He encourages us to rethink our relationship to money and work, seeing them as something to give us the life we want, not to consume our lives.   Guest Bio Steve Larsen is an author and financial educator developing practical tools to help people manage their money more efficiently. Through his 100-million-dollar wealth management firm, financial planning classes at Gonzaga University, and easily digestible online courses, Steve has helped thousands of people pursue what is most important to them. Along the way, Steve received his Master of Accountancy degree from Gonzaga University, credentials as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP), and has held numerous investment licenses. Steve lives in the Pacific Northwest with his family and is an avid regional traveler. You can typically find him cruising around the area in his RV or reading a book far away from direct sunlight.   Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s website: https://www.yearoff.co/   Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode98/   Two-Day Silent Retreat details: https://kristenmanieri.com/octobersilentretreat/   Description “The right question asked at the right time can be life-changing” author Jennie Lee writes. Questions are like doorways, leading us into deeper aspects of our introspection and self-discovery. In her new book, Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution, Lee guides readers through 108 thought-provoking prompts designed to deepen our awareness of our innermost inquiries and callings.   Guest Bio Jennie Lee is the award-winning author of three books: SPARK CHANGE: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution; TRUE YOGA: Practicing with the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment; and BREATHING LOVE: Meditation in Action. She is also a certified yoga therapist and spiritual coach, who has counseled private clients worldwide for over 20 years. From her studies in yoga philosophy and spiritual psychology Jennie has a large toolbox of practices that promote optimal wellbeing and purposeful living. When she is not writing or coaching, she enjoys surfing with her husband near their home in Hawai’i. For more, visit  www.JennieLeeYogaTherapy.com     Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s website: www.JennieLeeYogaTherapy.com   Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution by Jennie Lee: https://www.jennieleeyogatherapy.com/spark-change/   Thinking, Fast and Slow Paperback by Daniel Kahneman https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555   The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself https://www.amazon.com/Untethered-Soul-Journey-Beyond-Yourself/dp/1572245379 Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode97/   Description We are a culture of workers, often preferring to work longer hours, work in off-hours, waive vacation time and bring work home instead of leaning into leisure. How did we become so uncomfortable with idleness and so obsessed with productivity? Celeste Headlee, author of Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, explains in her book that we no longer simply like or love our work; we are fixated with it. Through her research and reexamining of long-held assumptions, Headlee shares that overwork is just a bad habit, and one that can be reversed and rewired so that we can return to a way of life that allows us to thrive. Guest Bio Award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter, Celeste Headlee released her latest book, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, in March 2020. A timely, actionable and illuminating manifesto, Do Nothing, reveals that despite our constant search for new ways to “hack” our bodies and minds for peak performance, human being are working more - not less, living harder - not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. Celeste is a regular guest host on NRP and American Public Media, and co-host of the new series Retro Report on PBS. Celeste’s TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation has over 23 million total views to date and she serves as an advisory board member for ProCon.org and The Listen First Project.   Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s website: https://celesteheadlee.com/ Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving: https://www.amazon.com/Do-Nothing-Overworking-Overdoing-Underliving/dp/1984824732 Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode96/   Two-Day Silent Retreat details: https://kristenmanieri.com/octobersilentretreat/   Description In her book, Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100, science journalist Marta Zaraska offers a research-driven case for why optimism, kindness and strong social networks will keep us living longer than any fitness tracker or superfood. While healthy nutrition and physical activity are indeed important for health, there are things we all too often sacrifice that have an outsize impact on our centenarian potential.    Guest Bio Marta Zaraska is a science journalist with her work published in the Washington Post, Scientific American, the Atlantic, among others. She’s the author of two books: Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million Year Obsession with Meat, which was published in 2016, and Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100, which was published in 2020 and offers a research-driven case for why optimism, kindness, and strong social networks will keep us living longer than any fitness tracker or superfood.   Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s website: https://www.zaraska.com/   Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100: https://www.zaraska.com/non-fiction-books   Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode95/    Description Human development, which crosses psychology, biology, neuroscience and sociology, asks: why are we the way we are? This was one of the questions that drove four researchers to study thousands of people from birth to midlife in the US, Great Britain and New Zealand. In their new book, The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life, these four leading psychologists share their findings so far. The result is unprecedented insight into what makes each of us who we are and the awareness that human development is not subject to ironclad laws but instead is a matter of possibilities and probabilities―multiple forces that together determine the direction a life will take.   Guest Bio Professor Jay Belsky is the Robert M. and Natalie Reid Dorn Professor of Human Development at the University of California, Davis (2011-present). He obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University. Professor Belsky is an internationally recognized expert in the field of child development and family studies. His areas of special expertise include effects of day care, parent-child relations and other developmental experiences and environmental exposures early in life on psychological and behavioral development, the transition to parenthood, the etiology of child maltreatment and the evolutionary basis of parent and child functioning.   Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s website: https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/jay-belsky   The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life by Jay Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Richie Poulton https://www.amazon.com/Origins-You-Childhood-Shapes-Later/dp/0674983459/   Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode94/  Description With so many techniques and advice offered and available, it can be easy to forget that the most impactful and universally available parenting tool is our presence. In The Present Parent Handbook, author and psychotherapist Tim Dukes, Ph.D. encourages us to acknowledge the dilemmas and delights in each parenting moment. We learn that in the present, there is an opportunity to show up, pay attention, and become the parent we so want to be. Guest Bio Dr. Timothy Dukes is a veteran psychotherapist, leadership advisor and father. His expertise, in creating and holding a transformational process, instills Presence in Leadership for the individual, partnership, family, team and organization. Tim consults in a variety of institutional settings, working with established business leaders, political visionaries, and emerging innovators. His unique program for individual and organizational development—distilled from thirty years of clinical work, academic research and contemplative practice—resolves contradiction and opposition through a clarity-based evolutionary practice. His book, The Present Parent Handbook, speaks to his work with families. Learn more at http://www.drtimothydukes.com/   Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s website: http://drtimothydukes.com/ The Present Parent Handbook: 26 Simple Tools to Discover that This Moment, This Action, This Thought, This Feeling Is Exactly Why I Am Here: https://www.apresentparent.com/   Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/    

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode93/   Description Imagine learning to design your identity based on your desired future self rather than who you have been in the past. Through his book, Personality Isn’t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy offers practical, science-based insights for how we go through the process of personal-reinvention and confronts the popular misconception that who we are is innate and unchanging.    Guest Bio Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Personality Isn’t Permanent and Willpower Doesn’t Work. His blog is read monthly by millions of people and has been featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Cheddar, Big Think, and many others. From 2015-2018, he was the #1 writer in the world on Medium.com and is a regular contributor to Inc. and Psychology. He and his wife Lauren adopted three children through the foster system in February 2018 and, one month later, Lauren became pregnant with twins, who were born in December of 2018. They live in Orlando.   Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s website: https://benjaminhardy.com/   Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story: https://www.amazon.com/Personality-Isnt-Permanent-Self-Limiting-Beliefs/dp/0593083318   60 Mindful Minutes Practice Guide & 28-Day Workbook: https://kristenmanieri.com/shop/   Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/

Description Karla McLaren, M.Ed., author of Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion, joins us for a live author Q&A with listeners of 60 Mindful Minutes. In this interactive workshop, Karla guides participants through her Conscious Questioning exercise, which uses 11 questions to allow us to better understand our anxiety.      Guest Bio Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses befriending emotions, even the most “negative” emotions, so that we can begin to open new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication and healthy empathy. Her new book is Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion. Through it, Karla aims to have us see that anxiety is not a problem. In fact, it’s an essential source of foresight, intuition, and energy.   Mentioned in this Episode Karla's website: https://karlamclaren.com/ Emotions Chart: https://karlamclaren.com/a-free-emotions-chart/  Emotions Chart for Kids: https://karlamclaren.com/free-emotions-charts-for-kids/  Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast: Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/

As I wrap up season three, I‘d like to invite you to listen, either again or for the first time, to my conversation with Karen Maezen Miller. We first spoke back in the middle of March when Covid-19 cases were climbing and the world was going into lockdown. These days, cases in the US are higher than ever but lockdowns are far in the rearview mirror. These are STILL turbulent times. I’m sharing this episode with you again because it’s worth listening to again, maybe even multiple times. Maezen has so many wise insights to share and I know you will find solace in them. Guest Bio Karen Maezen Miller is a Zen Buddhist priest she teaches about spirituality in everyday life at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She is the author of three books: Momma Zen, Hand Wash Cold and Paradise in Plain Sight. Mentioned in this Episode Momma Zen https://www.amazon.com/Momma-Zen-Walking-Crooked-Motherhood/dp/1590304616 Hand Wash Cold https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Wash-Cold-Instructions-Ordinary/dp/1577319044 Paradise in Plain Sight https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Plain-Sight-Lessons-Garden/dp/1608682528 http://karenmaezenmiller.com/   Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/