Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

If you’ve ever needed to heal body, mind or soul, then do we have The Story You Need to Tell, show for you. Today I’ll be talking with Sandra Marinella, writing teacher, and the author of a beautiful new book on healing your soul, The Story You Need to Tell. And that’s just what I want to talk with her about today, about writing to heal from trauma, illness, or loss, how to do it, and how to begin. Key Points Discussed: When did Sandra discover the power of writing? How did Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning inspire her? What happened when she was diagnosed with cancer? How did writing help her during this time? What did it mean to write her story? How did she begin writing her story? What was her mission through the healing process? How did she make the decision to re-write her life? What was Sandra’s mystical experience while writing? What’s the importance of reflection? What is waving, not drowning? What does it mean that choices matter? What can we learn from Cheryl Strayed? What’s the importance of a comforting place? Why do we want to go back and review our journals? What does it mean to find your writing pattern? How do we start writing? How do we choose a journal? What’s the importance of finding a writing place? Why is it good to meditate before writing? Are we all writers? What does it mean to fire our inner critic? How can writing help us hear and move toward positive change? Additional Resources: StoryYouTell.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive

If you’ve ever wanted to reclaim the power of your humanity, then do we have The Golden Sequence show for you! Today I’ll be talking with Jonni Pollard, best known for his creation of the 1 Giant Mind and the Learn Meditation Smartphone app, and the author of a brilliant new book, The Golden Sequence. And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about tapping into Vedic wisdom to break through our toxic beliefs and conditioning, and create authentic loving connections with everyone and everything around you. Key Points Discussed: What happened when Jonni Pollard starred worldwide in Heartbreak High? How’d he end up traveling in India? What was the self-judgment he was feeling, and why? What’s the Vedic perspective of reality? What is the Golden Sequence? What’s the heart of our crisis today? What is survival mode? What’s it mean we’re distracting ourselves to death? What is our evolutionary mismatch? What are the four golden insights? What’s the practice of affirming the four golden insights? What does it truly mean that life is sacred? What is meant that love is our nature? What is wisdom and how is it our power? What does it mean that fulfillment is our purpose? What’s the importance of meditation? How do we begin? How do we recognize the sacredness in our lives and of our lives? What is witnessing and why is it so important? What can we learn from a visit with the Dalai Lama about friendliness? What’s the importance of being of service? What’s the power of a daily practice? What are a few key items to include in our daily practice? Additional Resources: JonniPollard.com www.1GiantMind.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive

If you’ve ever wanted a more energized new year, then do we have the what’s under the carpet, fix those holes show for you. Today, we’ll talk about looking at what’s hidden, what’s been avoided, and what we haven’t wanted to deal, with and how looking at it, can change our lives. Discover how to find what's holding you back, and set yourself free for your greatest New Year ever!!! Topics Include: How do we call in what we desire for the new year? What’s the importance of looking at what’s hidden under your “carpet”? What’s astrology have to do with finding our shadow selves? What does tearing things down have to do with our success in the New Year? And why is Inspire Nation going to 3 days a week on iTunes? What is Inspire Nation doing for the New Year? What does it mean to challenge all of your assumptions? Why is it okay to experience chaos and doubt? What’s it mean to go in to come out? What’s an exercise to find out what’s hidden beneath your carpet? What’s the importance of challenging all of your assumptions?  Why do you want to challenge your patterns for the New Year??? For more info visit: www.InspireNationShow.com and www.FireItUpWithCJLiu.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive    

If you’ve ever struggled with arguments or disagreements, then do we have the why are we yelling show for you. Today I’ll be talking with Buster Benson, entrepreneur, former product leader at Amazon, Twitter, Slack, and Patreon, the CEO of 750Words.com, and the author of a fun and fantastic look at disagreements, “Why Are We Yelling?” And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about why in the world are we yelling?, and the art of productive disagreement.  Key Points Discussed:  Why did you go from Silicon Valley to the art of disagreements? (02:49) The art of productive disagreement: Buster’s new superpower (03:44) What is a productive disagreement? (05:18) Ruinous empathy and how it can create disastrous situations (07:20) What’s the backfire effect and what’s going on with kitty cat? (09:56) What’s the importance of asking, “Is this about what’s true, what’s meaningful, or what’s useful?” (11:10) Should we be trying to win arguments? (15:15) What does it mean to acknowledge the shadow or projections? (15:58) The first step in the art of disagreement (18:47) Sliced bagels and what they have to with anxiety (19:34) The pink train named Rosy, our internal voices and the importance of self-talk (23:55) Developing an honest bias and getting a front seat to the interesting person that is Jeff Bezos (26:53) Challenging our beliefs and realizing how we are missing something today so we can be smarter tomorrow (32:15) Having productive conversations by asking questions that invite surprising answers (35:40) What is nut picking and why are we wired that we need to win? (40:31) What can you tell us about monkey paws and guns? (44:48) Cultivating neutral spaces to be mindful of the environments we’re in (46:11) Excepting reality and then participating in it (49:39) What have you been teaching your kids about productive disagreements? (51:55) How disagreeing on one thing a day can make a relationship stronger (54:33) Additional Resources: www.BusterBenson.com Buster on Twitter Why Are We Yelling By Buster Benson Radical Candor By Kim Scott Willful Blindness By Margaret Heffernan ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive

If you’ve ever wanted your wealthiest, happiest, and most abundant new year ever, then do we have the secrets of self-mastery show for you. Today I’ll be talking with Mitch Horowitz, a leader in the new thought movement, PEN Award-Winning historian, author of “The Miracle Club”, and the Napoleon Hill Success Course series which includes “The Miracle of a Definite Chief Aim”, “One Simple Idea”, and the latest, “Secrets of Self-Mastery” And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about setting intention, and how we can all think and grow rich for the new year ahead, and whatever that means for you. Key Points Discussed:  How did Napoleon Hill help you to become a millionaire as a writer? (03:00) The significance of having one definite absolute chief aim in life (07:21) Acknowledging what we really want and how it helps us choose our definite chief aim (10:55) We don’t have to share our definite chief aim because it shouldn’t be subject to peer pressure or people’s opinions (15:53) It is what you put in your mind mentally that makes your person (19:18) What’s the power of maybe? (21:23) What did Napoleon Hill mean by “Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment and to build your own life to order?” (22:42) Looking at the circumstances we need to place ourselves in order to begin moving in the direction of our aim (28:24) Having imaginary advisors and how it can help us get in touch with intuition or insights of conscious ideas (34:24) The 10-Day Miracle Challenge and why it works (42:06) Maxwell Maltz, Psychocybernetics, self-image, and the three steps for reprogramming our subconscious (54:07) Ralph Waldo Emerson’s three steps to earning wealth and his statement on the individual being born to be rich (1:03:28) Émile Coué’s mantra, “Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better” (1:09:09) The way bread smells depends on how hungry you are (1:13:48) Additional Resources: Think and Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill Secrets of Self Mastery By Mitch Horowitz Psycho-Cybernetics By Maxwell Maltz ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive

If you’ve ever wanted to be someone else, do something else, or finally live the life of your dreams, then do we have the out with the old, in with the new show for you. Today we’ll be talking about auditing, taking inventory and looking at everything in your life to see what works, what doesn’t, and what you can do to change it up in the most positive way for the new year ahead.  Key Points Discussed:  CJ’s amazing experience at the acupuncturist and what it taught her about the nature and trajectory of pain (02:57) Peeling away the pieces to wake up our sensitivity and become awake to what is going on in our lives so we can gain clarity (08:35) Seeing things in a positivity way no matter the challenges (09:20) Good karma, neutral karma, and bad karma (11:07) Karma cleansing and sending out love through paying the happy ploughment fee (15:12) Bumping up our homeostasis levels by making the necessary changes in our lives  (21:12) Why falling apart may be the greatest thing in the world and how down is just another direction (23:46) Running to the top of the mountain in the snow with only shorts on (25:42) The value in looking beyond frustrations to engage in mindful practices  (32:57) How being like loaves of bread with expiration dates on our heads would help us live differently (38:48) Stability comes by going through fear and allowing ourselves to go up (43:15) How we get set back to zero when we are in equanimity all the time because we don’t build karma  (47:38) Going through a period of cleansing, cell regrowth, and cell regeneration for the body to have a break (53:57) Changing the world with automatic writing for everybody (1:00:21) How everything that is broken is going to be attended to in 2020 (1:02:37) Additional Resources: Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive

If you’ve ever wondered who you are and where we really came from then do we have the Human by Design show for you.  Today I’ll be talking with Gregg Braden, Five times NY Times best-selling author, a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality, and the brilliant author behind a treasure of a new book, Human By Design. And that’s just what I want to talk with him about, about the new human story and science behind who we are, where we came from and even where we go from here. Key Points Discussed: What was Gregg Braden’s upbringing like? How did he get interested in spirituality? How did he end up traveling to indigenous cultures and what did he hope to learn? What’s so important about the question, who are we? What’s wrong with Darwin’s Hypothesis? What does new DNA evidence suggest? What does survival of the fittest mean for us? What changes if we change the story? What’s wrong with the human tree of evolution What’s the mystery of the fused DNA? What can we really learn from chimpanzees? What’s the latest discovery about Neanderthals? What are anatomically modern humans? What’d we learn from the human genome project? What is FOX-2 and why is it so important? What do we need to know about human chromosome 2? Does any of this suggest intentionality? What does the evidence overwhelmingly suggest? What is the brain in the heart? Does the brain control the body, or the heart? What is the heart’s “little brain” What are neurites? What’s the importance of heart intelligence? How do we access it? What’s the force of nature that’s also a human experience? What’s the importance of compassion and how does it change our lives? What do children need to know about where they come from – and what does it mean for them? Additional Resources: www.GreggBraden.com ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive

If you ever wanted to overcome setbacks and come out shining, then do we have the Things No One Else Can Teach Us show for you. Today I’ll be talking with Humble the Poet, rapper, singer, word artist, blogger, and the author of a beautiful book that shares what needs to be told, “Things No One Else Can Teach Us” And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about how to respond to everyday challenges, and come out shining on the other side.  Key Points Discussed:  What’s the one thing to do when the going gets ugly? (03:00) Why did you want to write your own hip hop songs and how did you come up with the name Poet? (03:17) What does it mean to be a battle rapper and how did you become a real writer? (04:35) What does it mean to cut corners and how did it affect you? (08:34) How writing and sharing his authentic self was the best therapy (10:41) The value of practising automatic writing(13:13) How we would live differently if we were like a loaf of bread and had an expiration date on our forehead (15:05) Hitting rock bottom, doing an audit of all his life decisions, and getting rid of toxic friends (16:15) Losing Boomerang and how it made him realize that his happiest moments were when he did things for others (18:18) What happened to you on a small street between Brooklyn and Queens? (22:29) What did dropping your shields in that moment in the subway do to your heart? (25:49) Totems the universe puts in our path particularly in moments of misery and self-pity (28:46) What can you tell us about “I Will” and what can we learn from your time with Himet? (32:37) What do you mean by “Our worst fears are rarely realized and even when they are, we are still standing”? (39:31) Tuition in the school of life and how to conduct ourselves (44:11) The meaning of “In western religion, tradition is a straight line while in eastern religion it’s cyclical” (46:32) Pots of Gold and what he learned from playing in London (50:39) What did Pharell Williams tell you about the sun when you started drilling him with questions? (54:27) The idea of focusing on our journey instead of worrying about the destination (56:54) Additional Resources: Things No One Else Can Teach Us By Humble the Poet www.HumbleThePoet.com Humble the Poet on Instagram ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive

If you’ve ever wanted amazing clarity in your life, then do we have the 2020 show for you. Today I’ll be talking with Dr. Michael Lennox, psychologist, dream expert, creator of the Daily Astro Alert, astrologer, and prognosticator. And that’s just what I want to talk with him about today, about astrology for 2020, a year of clarity and reckoning, what it means for all of us, and what we should do and not do for the year ahead. Plus we’ll talk about 1776, death and taxes, great teachers, personal responsibility, goals and discipline, planetary demotions, and what in the world a goat has to do with anything.  Key Points Discussed:  What does the Solstice have to do with anything and what’s going on right now? (02:50) Bringing light to the darkness and the astrological events that are having darkness appear at this time (05:36) Were all men created equal or is it just classic shadow? (10:40) Will 2020 be a year of clarity or reckoning, and could reckoning bring clarity? (13:49) What does it mean when death and the teacher get together? (14:33) The order of hierarchy called the slowest planet wins (18:11) The role of Jupiter in amplifying whatever is coming and the current wave of crisis that is rising up (20:13) Playing our cards, stepping forward, and setting intention for the new year (23:55) The interaction of Pluto with the north nods of the moon that happen right before the elections (34:00) How Donald Trump is the perfect avatar to help reveal the shadow of racism (40:59) What we all need to know about 2020 so we can figure out how to navigate it (42:44) What do we need to know about the planets this year? (54:00)  Additional Resources: www.MichaelLennox.com Dr. Lennox on Instagram Dr. Lennox on Facebook ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNation And to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive

If you’ve ever wanted more clarity in your life, then do we have the 2020 show for you. Today we’ll talk about finding focus, gaining clarity, and discovering direction in your life for the years ahead.  Plus we’ll talk about ankle flare-ups, coughs and karma questions, body knitting, hiring clarity, starting an art club, a party with a mayor, running progress, mugging runners, four hundred pushups, learning ups and downs, running naked, and what in the world vegan brownies gone bad have to do with anything. Key Points Discussed:  Trying out the bitter ashtray-chocolate tasting vegan brownies made from molasses (02:36) Running naked on the steepest mountain around and the health benefits of playing in the cold (04:42) The way we put limitations on what we can and cannot do even when we are capable (08:53) How and why we heat up a lot faster when we work out a lot (10:55) Starting every morning with automatic writing and figuring out the single-minded purpose for each day (12:42) CJ’s horrible nightmare about driving in an Uber and accepting that she didn’t need to analyze it (16:05) Adopting this philosophy that helps someone find a stay of joy throughout each and every day (20:42)  Gaining clarity about what it is that is coming up for you (27:08) The microwork over a massive period of time that has enabled Michael to now be capable of doing 400 pushups (31:44) A bright light of clarity that comes with love, wisdom, compassion, and equanimity (36:38) Viewing and feeling the world from a state of love rather than from a state of hostility (41:31) The importance of heading in the direction of love (44:00) Understanding that the in-breathe and out-breathe both work to carry us forward in life (53:00) Finding what pulls us forward and bringing it about for the year ahead (56:21) Bodyknitting and Jessica starting an art club (58:00) ……. For free meditations, weekly tips, stories, and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com To support the show and get even more great tools, tips, and behind-the-scenes access, visit: www.Patreon.com/InspireNationAnd to follow Inspire Nation (and the lives of Michael and Jessica) on Instagram, go to www.instagram.com/inspirenationlive