

The Nishant Garg Show
Nishant Garg
I help Introvert Entrepreneurs, Techies, and Software Engineers, connect to their emotional and mental well-being so that they can show up fully with courage, own their voice, and stand for their truth with confidence in the face of challenges. I interview entrepreneurs, authors, mental health professionals, and people from all walks of life to tease out the habits, stories, success and failure patterns to learn from those who have already been there. I am just like you on this path to get inspired and inspire others through this podcast. Join me in my mission to bring change and create a ripp
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May 18, 2021 • 1h 15min
#149: Dr. Jannell MacAulay, Combat Veteran on High Performance under Stress, Overcoming Adversity, Healthy Living, and More
Dr. Jannell MacAulay is a U.S. Air Force veteran who has managed human performance under high-stress situations for over two decades. As a military leader and combat pilot, she experienced the same stress, frustration, and fears that leaders and teams in corporate America face daily in their personal and professional lives. Her own personal journey led to earning her Ph.D. with work in the field of strategic health and human performance. With her innovative leadership style, she was the first leader to introduce mindfulness as a proactive performance strategy within the US military. Jannell is a TEDx speaker and mother of two, who is on a mission to help leaders and organizations excel in high-stress and rugged environments, by showing them how to lean into each moment. In this conversation, we cover many grounds to achieve high performance in our everyday lives. I highly invite you to revisit this episode in the future
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May 11, 2021 • 54min
#148: Anthony Trucks, Former NFL Athlete — Identity Shift: Upgrade How You Operate to Elevate Your Life
Anthony Trucks is a former NFL Athlete, American Ninja Warrior on NBC, an international speaker, and the founder of Identity Shift coaching. He uses cutting-edge science and psychology to upgrade how you operate so you can elevate your life and business to reach your full potential. After being given away into foster care at 3 years old, losing his NFL career to injury -he learned how to shift at a very young age, and now his life mission is teaching others how to Make Shift Happen in their lives. He teaches people the power of using their identity to start attaining their most ambitious desires. He created The Shift Method, A process and a company focused on helping people close their “Identity Gaps” that are responsible for the shortfalls in their potential and lack of success. It’s time to Make the Shift Happen.
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May 4, 2021 • 1h 7min
#147: Scott Shute — Full Body Yes, Practicing Compassion in Challenging Times, Changing Work from the Inside Out, and More
Scott Shute sits at the intersection of ancient wisdom traditions and the business world. He currently leads Mindfulness and Compassion programs at LinkedIn. After twenty-five years of customer-oriented leadership roles, he found his dream job, where he gets to utilize his entire skillset and embrace his passions. In this work he explores the possibility of human potential, helping employees become the very best version of themselves. I enjoyed this conversation so much with Scott and I am sure you'll enjoy it too. Scott discusses his new book Full Body Yes, his passion for photography and creative process, how he serves as the head of mindfulness and compassion programs at LinkedIn, and much more. You can find his book link and show notes at nishantgarg.me/podcasts
Full Body Yes book link https://www.scottshute.com/the-book
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Apr 27, 2021 • 59min
#146: Loch Kelly on Awakening, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, Creating Spaciousness, Meeting with Anthony de Mello, and More
Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW, is an author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. He teaches in a non-sectarian human being lineage using an adult education style based in the earliest non-dual wisdom traditions, modern science and psychotherapy. Loch’s work is to help people access awakening as the next natural stage of human development. Loch has collaborated with neuroscientists at Yale, UPenn and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and wellbeing. As a licensed psychotherapist, Loch has been teaching seminars, supervising clinicians and practicing awareness psychotherapy in NYC for 30 years. He was awarded a fellowship to study forms of non-dual meditation in Sri Lanka, India and Nepal from 1981-1982 and has studied with teachers from around the world. He studied Buddhism the at University of Kandy, Sri Lanka, Insight Meditation at the Theravada monasteries, Inter-Spiritual Contemplative Meditation with my Anthony de Mello, and including many others. He has a long bio and you can check the details at nishantgarg.me/podcasts. This episode is going to be deep, so please be patient and I invite you to revisit this episode in the future for your Open Hearted Awareness. Now, please enjoy.
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Apr 20, 2021 • 54min
#145: Jordan Harbinger on Lesson Learned from Ray Dalio, Cultivating Relationships, Forgiveness, Relationship with Parents, and More
Jordan Harbinger, often referred to as “The Larry King of podcasting,” is a Wall Street lawyer turned interview talk show host, and a communications and social dynamics expert. Jordan has hosted a top 50 iTunes podcast for over 12 years and receives over eleven million downloads per month, making The Jordan Harbinger Show one of the most popular podcasts in the world. The show was awarded Apple’s “Best of 2018” and is one of the most downloaded shows of the year. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, Jordan deconstructs the playbooks of the most successful people on earth and shares their strategies, perspectives, and practical insights with the rest of us.
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Apr 14, 2021 • 59min
#144: Erika Flint on Embodied Hypnosis, Mind-Body Relaxation Techniques, Anger Management, and More
Erika Flint is an award-winning hypnotist, best-selling author, speaker, and co-host of the popular podcast series Hypnosis, Etc. She is the founder of Cascade Hypnosis Center and the creator of the Reprogram Your Weight system. Her background is in computer programming and problem-solving. She worked in that field as a Software Engineer for over a decade when she realized how interested she was in the greatest computing device available – the human mind! Now she helps people transform their lives with the power of hypnosis. In this episode, Erika discusses different forms of mind and body relaxation techniques such as two breath hypnosis technique, Meditative Movement Exercise, using binaural beats music, her writing process, exploring spirituality and hypnosis, and much more. Please enjoy
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Apr 9, 2021 • 19min
#143: Patricia Karpas — Relationship Master Class and Relational Mindfulness
This is part 2 of my conversation with Patricia. Patricia Karpas is Meditation Studio’s Co-Founder and Head of Content. She is also the host of Untangle, Meditation Studio’s original podcast with over 4 mm listens to date that shares stories from experts and thought leaders about how mindfulness practices change us. Patricia is passionate about health and wellness and deeply committed to having a positive impact on the world. In this episode, Patricia discusses relational mindfulness, What are the good qualities to have a compatible partnership, and much more. If you have not listened to part 1 yet, please check that out - you will love it. In part 1 Patricia discusses how she learned to be self-reliant from a very early age, how she launched the meditation studio app, her meditation practice, interviewing renowned mindfulness and meditation teachers, and much more. Without further ado, please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Patricia.
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Apr 7, 2021 • 51min
#142: Patricia Karpas on How to Handle Challenge, Inner Critic, and Celebrate Mistakes
Patricia Karpas is Meditation Studio’s Co-Founder and Head of Content. She is also the host of Untangle, Meditation Studio’s original podcast with over 4 mm listens to date that shares stories from experts and thought leaders about how mindfulness practices change us. She is A New York native and former media executive at CNBC, NBC, and AO, she is passionate about health and wellness and deeply committed to having a positive impact on the world. She co-founded a meditation studio app with the simple goal of making meditation accessible to everyone. This little app has gone on to do big things. Named one of Apple’s Top 10 Apps of the Year, Meditation Studio has helped millions of people start a meditation practice. In 2018, Meditation Studio was sold to the makers of Muse, the Brain Sensing Headband.
This episode is part 1 of my conversation with Patricia. In this part1, Patricia discusses how she learned to be self-reliant from a very early age, how she launched the meditation studio app when she feels over-meditated, and much more. If you enjoy this episode, you will love the short and sweet part 2 with Patricia on cultivating relationships in a personal and business setting.
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Mar 31, 2021 • 58min
#141: Michael Ostrolenk — The Emergent Human, Exploring Optimized Mind, Body, Health, Embodied Spirituality, and Transcending Limits
Michael Ostrolenk has been exploring the relationship between post-conventional living, transformational leadership, optimizing health, and regenerative paradigms his whole life. His interest in human growth and personal development began when he was 9 years old and worked with psychotherapist Pat Lawson learning biofeedback, meditation, and guided imagery. In the late 1990’s he received his master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, from John F. Kennedy University and he completed post-graduate training in somatic psychology from the California Institute for Integral Studies. Mr. Ostrolenk is a Master Coach and Head Instructor with SEALFIT Unbeatable Mind Academy. He worked closely with Mark Divine (Ret- U.S Navy SEAL) in creating the Unbeatable Mind Online Accelerated Learning program in 2010. Ostrolenk is the Director of Human Resilience at Apeiron Zoh where he works with medical and psychological staff in creating online and in-person programs seeking to transcend the limits of human performance and health.
I personally enjoyed this conversation so much and I am going to listen to this episode over and over. How do you optimize your mind, body and spirit and transcend the limits stopping to reach your full potential? How do you design, optimize your lifestyle? You will learn all of it in this episode.
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Mar 26, 2021 • 60min
#140: Dr. Dyan Haspel-Johnson on Improving Quality of Sleep, Slowing Down Brain Waves, Hypnosis, Altered States, and More
Dr. Dyan Haspel is a highly accomplished and successful licensed psychologist, hypnotherapist, and trauma specialist. For over 25 years she has been creating self-hypnosis recordings for thousands of busy people to help them heal their bodies and minds so that they can sleep and reach their potential in their relationships, their work, and their physical and mental health. Before building her full private practice, she worked for 20 years in a holistic medical office using mind-body-spirit interventions. She also taught hypnosis for sleep, to treat pain, anxiety, depression, digestive and immune issues, and more, at UCLA, USC, and the Southern California Society for Clinical Hypnosis, where she served as President. She is a VIP Contributor to www.thriveglobal.com. In this episode, Dyan discusses how to improve the quality of sleep through hypnosis, self-hypnosis, and much more. She also guides us through a Hypnosis demo. Please enjoy.
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