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We will learn: The intersection between hate and fear. How to get comfortable embracing your discomfort. A daily practice to keep your optimism while taking action. Standing up for what you believe in is, in my opinion, one of the most honorable things you can do. The problem is, fighting for a cause and spending so much time and thought immersed in your own ideology and surrounding yourself with people who think the same is both amazing and also the exact directions to create your own echo chamber. I’ve also found that the more I fight, the angrier I become at the world around me. So what do we do? How do we participate in activism without being consumed by anger or hatred or even self-pity or hopelessness? That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Dr. Simran Jeet Singh. He is the Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program. He is Senior Adviser for Equity and Inclusion at YSC Consulting, an Equality Fellow for the Open Society Foundations, and a Visiting Professor at Union Seminary. Simran is the author of “The Light We Give: The Power of Sikh Wisdom to Transform Your Life.” Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/X97 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How to make your environment a product of you instead of becoming a product of your environment. How to train yourself to make adjustments instead of excuses. A daily habit to filter your thoughts during hardship. Not everyone becomes stronger after struggle. For some people, the struggle shows them what they’re capable of, and it completely reroutes their life for the better. For others, it shows them what they can’t control and it completely reroutes their life, for the worse. So what’s the difference? How do we zoom out just enough to choose what’s in our highest good rather than what our humans attach to? That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Joel Green. He is CEO of Pro Level Training and a former professional basketball player. After retiring from his career in basketball, he founded Pro Level Training (PLT), which has become a 7-figure company. He’s also a speaker and the National Director for Nike Sports Camps. And he was the face of Cheez-It crackers Celebrity Crunch Classic campaign, just showing his face on millions of boxes. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/245 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How to identify toxic or manipulative people. What to expect when leaving a toxic relationship and how to move on without closure. How to let go of anger or self-blame after years of mental turmoil. If you've ever found yourself in a toxic relationship, you know how taxing it can be. First I want to say, it’s not your fault; however, acknowledging your role in it is essential to taking your power back. That might mean spotting signs, knowing what you deserve, or finding a way to get out when you realize something is wrong. So the question is, how did you get there in the first place? How do you convince yourself you deserve better after who knows how long you’ve been brainwashed to think you don’t? And what are the steps to get out and start to heal? That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Stephanie Sarkis. She is a psychotherapist specializing in anxiety, gaslighting, narcissistic abuse, and ADHD. She is the author of eight books and one workbook, including Healing From Toxic Relationships: 10 Essential Steps to Recover from Gaslighting, Narcissism, and Emotional Abuse. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/X96 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: What happens to our brains when we’re in conflict. The archetypes of difficult people so you can better identify the root of their behavior. 9 principles for getting along with anyone. Sometimes people suck. They’re passive-aggressive, sometimes straight-up aggressive, they blame you for their wounds, they steal the credit for work you did, and that’s just at work. It makes you wonder, are work relationships even worth it? Turns out, they are, and we’ll get into the why in the episode but for now, just know that ignoring your colleagues because you have friends outside of work can do a lot of damage to your happiness and your career. So if work relationships are so beneficial to us, what can we do? How can we get along, or at least work with, anyone, even difficult people? That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Amy Gallo. She is a workplace expert who writes and speaks about interpersonal dynamics, difficult conversations, feedback, and effective communication. She helps people and teams better collaborate, communicate, and transform their culture to support dissent and debate. She is also the author of two books: "Getting Along: How to Work With Anyone (Even Difficult People)" and the "HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict". Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/244 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How to identify your mom rage triggers. Strategies for coping with rage. How to build your village, even if virtual. My baby is only 18 months, so 90% of the time it’s cuteness and cuddles and I love it so much. But there have been these moments, already, where I can just see red, I feel like he’s doing it all on purpose just to fuck with me.And I know it’s early, but if these moments are happening already what am I going to do when he actually has an attitude? When he actually has developed enough ego to try to get under my skin?So that’s what we’re learning today.Our guest is Florence Ann Romano. She is an author, and childcare and village advocate. She worked as a childcare provider for over 15 years and has always had a special place in her heart for children.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/X95 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How to engage different levels of listening. How to validate people in conversation.  Why we get pushed away when someone fights their pain.  Do you ever have moments where you just don’t feel understood?Why is it that some conversations feel disconnected while others feel like you’re completely wrapped in them? I think it has to do with the space that someone holds for you. It’s probably one of the greatest gifts we can give to someone else. And it’s also one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves.When you hold space for yourself, you give yourself the awareness and the time and the intention to allow your own energy to move. You need space to transform.So today we’re going to learn how to hold space for ourselves and others.Our guest is Matt Kahn. He is a spiritual teacher, speaker, author and highly attuned empathic healer. Matt wrote the highly acclaimed books “Whatever Arises, Love That", "Everything Is Here to Help You”, and “The Universe Always Has a Plan".His newest book is “All For Love: The Transformative Power of Holding Space.” He has 20+million YouTube channel views where people are finding relief from the challenges of daily life through his heart-centered messages.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/243 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How to call upon your animal spirits. How legends and stories can connect us with our nature. Why we’ve lost the sacred and how to bring it back. We tend to think of medicine as pharmaceuticals. In reality, medicine has been practiced since prehistoric times and it was more like an art form of knowledge and skill. But what if we expand our view of medicine even further?What if we chose to see that everything is medicine? Everything in life is helping us to grow, evolve and expand in love. Everything is leading to our evolution. Our most difficult experiences are actually a gift.So today we’re talking about how you can recognize the gift of these experiences and how to move into a different state of being.Our guest is Asha Frost. She is an Indigenous Medicine Woman and a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She is the best-selling author of "You are the Medicine", and has guided thousands of people through profound and lasting transformation.Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/X94 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: The common barriers that make it hard for us to look at ourselves in an unbiased way.  How to ask for feedback and respond non-defensively.  How to embody humble ambition.  Whatever happened to humility?  Everyone in the world seems to have their personal brand: this is who I am and what I’ve done and how I look and everyone should follow me. The algorithm feeds our narcissism and as we’ve heard in several recent episodes, we’re literally living in a narcissism epidemic. So if society is built to reward narcissistic behavior, how do we consciously choose to balance out? Today we’re talking about how and why to be humble.  Our guest is Daryl Van Tongeren. He says that in its true sense, humbleness is the happy medium between self-denial and self-obsession: It grants the holder an accurate view of reality. By seeing where we have room to improve, we can grow. By admitting our doubts, we can learn. And by acknowledging our own worldview as one among many, we can truly connect with others despite our differences. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/242 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How we screw ourselves in free-flowing arguments.  How to break through deadlocked conversations.  How to bring in empathy in times of disagreement.  Do you shy away from arguments because it’s just not worth it? Or do you run toward them, get nowhere and then feel like crap wishing you hadn’t? What I’ve found is that so many topics have so much emotion behind them, or dare I say programming, that both sides become blinded by their talking points and have stopped being able to see outside of them. So how do we get to a place where we respectfully converse? A place where we can come together and shave off the extremities in both of our views and meet somewhere in the middle? That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is Bo Seo. He is a two-time world champion debater and a former coach of the Australian national debating team and the Harvard College Debating Union. He is one of the most recognized figures in the global debate community and is now the author of Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/x93 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will learn: How we self-impose our suffering.  How to choose “feeling it out” over “figuring out out”.  A process called “painting forward” that helps you integrate new choices.  Did you know that we make an average of 35000 choices per day? Look back at yesterday. How many of those choices were you actually aware of as you were making them? The thing about those subconscious decisions is, we have more control over them than we think we do. So today we’re going to talk about five deliberate choices to help you realize fulfillment and joy in your life. Our guest is Amy Wong. She is the founder of Always On Purpose®. She is an executive leadership coach, author, speaker, and facilitator working with organizations like Airbnb, Salesforce, Roku, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more. Links from the episode: Show Notes: https://mindlove.com/241 Sign up for The Morning Mind Love for short daily notes from your highest self.  Get Mind Love Premium for exclusive ad-free episodes and monthly meditations.  Support Mind Love Sponsors  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices