This week we talk to Susan Piver

 In This Interview Susan and I Discuss...

• The One You Feed parable.
• How everything is possible.
• Having an indestructible presence.
• The positive thinking police.
• How do you know when you have felt an emotion enough.
• Her strange friend, depression.
• The difference between feeling and wallowing.
• Depression is when nothing means anything, sadness is when everything has meaning.
• The difference between our feelings and our interpretation of that feeling.
• Feel the feeling and drop the storyline.
• Basic Goodness
• Whether the Universe is a friendly place.
• Taking responsibility of our own experience.
• How the moment to moment commitment to watch our thoughts can cut delusion.
• How wisdom and compassion are inseparable. 
• Dealing with fear.
• Not being afraid of ourselves or our feelings.
• A courageous person is not afraid of their feelings.

Susan Piver Links

Susan Piver Homepage

The Open Heart Project

Susan Piver on Facebook

Susan Piver on Twitter

Susan Piver Amazon Author Page 

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This week we talk to Gregg Swanson about the warrior mindset

 In This Interview Gregg and I Discuss...

• The OneYou Feed parable.
• The meaning of a warrior.
• The warrior mindset.
• Mental strength versus mental toughness.
• Mental strength cannot be developed by reading about it.
• Mental strength is not coming in 1st, it's finishing what you start.
• Changing course when things are not working.
• The main blocks to developing mental strength.
• NLP and Hypnosis.
• The difference between your conscious and unconscious mind.
• Surviving an avalanche on Mt. Ranier.
• Using shamanism to get in contact with your unconscious mind.
• High Mental Resistance and Low Mental Support.
• The Complacent Zone.
• Overcoming mental resistance.
• How leaders take responsibility for all of their results.
• The difference between a leader and a victim.

Gregg Swanson Links

Gregg Swanson Homepage

Gregg Swanson Amazon Author Page

Gregg Swanson Twitter

Warrior Mind Coaching on Facebook

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This week we talk to Emily White about making connections in the real world

 In This Interview Emily and I Discuss...

• The One You Feed parable.
• Understanding loneliness.
• The difference between loneliness and depression.
• Social Depression.
• The exhaustion of being lonely around other people.
• The definition of loneliness.
• How it's becoming harder to make ties in our culture.
• Why loneliness is increasing across the society.
• How finding belonging takes effort.
• That belonging doesn't come right away.
• How much belonging is available if we look for it.
• How caring isn't cool in our culture.
• The difference between public and private belonging.
• The main objections he hears to mindfulness practice.
• How this is the first generation in American history that has a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Emily White Links

Emily White Homepage

Lonely The Book Homepage

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This week we talk to Tim Ryan about mindfulness in everyday life

 In This Interview Tim and I Discuss...

• The One You Feed parable.
• How we can't know what wolf we are feeding without awareness.
• The importance of time for contemplation.
• How meditation can increase the space between stimulus and response.
• His path to mindfulness.
• What mindfulness means to him.
• The regret of missing our lives by being distracted.
• Trying to remain mindful in Congress.
• Bringing mindfulness education to the Youngstown School System.
• Teaching kids to pay attention.
• Mindfulness doesn't make you soft, it makes you tough.
• Mindfulness = mental toughness.
• Mindfulness gives us the ability to get back up when we have been knocked down.
• How Mindfulness has been shown to accelerate the healing process.
• The main objections he hears to mindfulness practice.
• How this is the first generation in American history that has a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Tim Ryan Links

Tim Ryan Homepage

Tim Ryan Congressional Home 

Tim Ryan on Facebook

Tim Ryan on Twitter

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Often it is resisting what is happening to us that causes more pain than the thing itself. Eric talks about another approach.

 Todd Henry describes himself as “an arms dealer for the creative revolution”

Todd is the founder of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas.  He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance. Todd’s work has been featured by Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes,HBR.org, US News & World Report, and many other major media outlets.

His latest book, Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day, unlocks the forces that cause even the brightest, most skilled people to become stagnant in their life and career, and introduces practices that help them build a body of work they can be proud of.

It’s been called “A simple, elegant and masterful manual for leading a fulfilled life” by David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, and Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art says “If you can read this book and not be inspired, you need a 100% full-body-and-soul transplant.”

In This Interview Todd and I discuss…

• The One You Feed parable.
• What mediocrity means.
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Mediocrity.
• How little choices become a big choice.
• How to pick your battles.
• Why the phrase “no one on their deathbed ever wished for another day at the office” is wrong.
• What the west coast should have to match the Statue of Liberty.
• How no one loves every part of their job and that’s ok.
• That a little of something is better than a lot nothing.
• What are Mapping, Making and Meshing?
• The difference between Drivers, Drifters and Developers.
• What is the Project Plateau?
• What is the core practice to transform your work?
• Common Sense is not Common Practice.
• What is the Bliss Station?
• Where is the most valuable land in the world?

Todd Henry Links

Todd Henry homepage

Todd’s latest book: Die Empty

The Accidental Creative homepage

Todd Henry author page on Amazon

This week we talk to Therese Borchard about handling depression.

 In This Interview Therese and I Discuss...

• The One You Feed parable.
• Battling treatment resistant depression.
• Turning struggle into service.
• Her long battles with depression.
• Treating depression holistically.
• Combining traditional medicine with alternative medicine.
• How positive thinking is of no use during extreme depression.
• How there are no easy answers to depression.
• Not having important conversations when we are hungry, angry, lonely and tired.
• How it is possible to be depressed and grateful at the same time.
• How diet is important but is not enough to solve depression.
• How there is rarely a simple fix for depression.
• How tiring faking that we are happy can be.
• The importance of connecting with others who share the same challenges.
• Why there are not more depression support groups?
• The difference between mental health and 12 step culture.
• Learning to accept our limitations.

Therese Borchard Links

Therese Borchard Blog

Therese Borchard on Pysch Central

Therese Borchard on Twitter

Therese Borchard on Facebook

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