• The One You Feed parable
• Her new book, Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change
• The role that watching the news has in causing us to feel depressed
• How three minutes of negative news can lead to a 27% lower mood all day long
• How believing we are helpless can be one of the leading causes of depression
• The importance of believing that our behavior matters
• The three greatest predictors of success
• Stress isn't necessarily bad, it's the perception that matters
• Feeding the good wolf in others
• The myth that we can't change other people
• Is this positive thinking?
• Focusing on the good
• The power lead

• The One You Feed parable
• His new book, Dropping the Struggle: Seven Ways to Love the Life You Have
• The power of poetry to reach deeper than the rational mind
• That struggle is not the same thing as effort
• That struggle is not the same thing as work
• That struggle is an extra push that really originates in fear, adding a note of desperation, that rarely ever works

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• The One You Feed parable
• His new book, Finding God in the Waves
• His analogy of our brains being like the government
• Where God is found in our brains
• That if you continually analyze your relationship with a person, eventually that relationship will be less emotionally based and more intellectually based
• That the arts as well as anything looked at or experienced as a whole rather than reductively will help feed your "romantic" wolf in a relationship
• His journey from the Southern Baptist Church to losing his faith to where he is today
• His faith today is a posture of gratitude, surrender, an awareness that life is just something that we have that we didn't do anything to receive and it is a rare and precious gift and that he extends that gratitude to God (which is found in our unique human capacity to love)

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• The One You Feed parable
• His new book, The Science of Enlightenment
• The five fundamental good wolves
• The skill set of mindful awareness
• How meditation helps you concentrate
• How the ability to concentrate is at the base of the pyramid of anything you want to do
• That mindful awareness is the ability to focus on anything you want, whenever you want for as long as you want
• Untangle and be free
• How to break down our inner space
• How to track your sense of self
• Breaking the self down into these three things: Mental images, mental talk and body emotions
• That when you have a strong emotion you almost always will have a change in body sensation
• How to parcel body sensation into emotional and non-emotional
• The experiment you can do when you move into a situation that is emotionally intense but that is not currently intense
• How to suffer less in life and be 10x happier
• The difference between pain and suffering
• The habit of equanimity
• That one of the goals of meditations is to achieve happiness regardless of conditions
• The periodic table of meditation techniques
• The unified mindfulness system
• A "name and claim" meditation

• The One You Feed parable
• His new book, The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever
• The way that the question, How do you stay curious for just a little bit longer? Can transform the way you show up in your life
• How feeling safe can help us access our highest selves
• The power of sitting in the ambiguity of asking a question rather than jumping to the feeling of certainty of telling someone an answer
• The Karpman Drama Triangle: the victim, the persecutor & the rescuer
• The heart of the Victim role: There's only one way to do this, but you don't like the way it's being done.
• The best coaching question in the world: And what else?
• That the first answer someone gives you isn't their only answer and it's rarely their best answer.
• It's a great self-management tool for rescuers because it keeps you from jumping in, it allows you to stay curious a little bit longer
• It's a great question for the victim role because it helps give them other options
• Most people only consider two options before making a decision: should I stay or should I go? Asking this question can give you a third option
• The five essential components to building an effective new habit
• That 45% of our waking behavior is habitual
• The 95% of our brain activity happens in the unconscious brain
• Since it's inevitable that when building a new habit you will "fall off the bus" or fail, it's important that you have a plan for what you'll do at that point
• How do you hold yourself firmly but compassionately accountable when it comes to changing your behavior?
• The kickstart question - a good way to start conversation with anybody: What's on your mind

• The One You Feed parable
• His new book, The Four Virtues of a Leader
• How leadership is like The Hero's Journey
• How he used the spiritual bypass
• His definition of leadership
• Leadership in day to day life
• His four questions surrounding leadership
• The three hurdles we have to overcome to be effective
• His definition of courage
• Ways you can build courage
• The important difference between fear and anxiety
• The lifelong process of discipline
• The three gems of Buddhism
• Procrastination
• How spiritual surrender plays into leadership

• The One You Feed parable
• His new book, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful stories, surprising science and practical wisdom
• The three good life buckets: Connection, Vitality, Contribution
• Improving your experience in your "day job"
• The mistake in his business manifesto: Thou shalt do epic shit
• The role that money plays in living a good life
• That the way that you spend your money plays a big role in a satisfying life
• What gives you a sense of purpose? What in your life do you do passionately?
• Sparks
• The middle way
• Three ways to deal with the energy vampires in your life: self-care, compassion & find your beacon
• That your life can only be as good as the level of your lowest bucket
• How to improve your life by assessing the levels of your buckets and what actions to then take

• The One You Feed parable
• That knowledge reduces fear
• How her work with & knowledge of the dying process influences how she lives
• That as long as we're breathing it is an act of living
• What to do when one receives a terminal diagnosis
• The labor of dying
• The process of gradual death
• The significant changes that happen 1-3 weeks before death
• How to know if someone is minutes to hours away from their death
• That dying is not painful; disease causes pain
• The spiritual driver releasing its hold on the physical body
• The importance of telling the dying person that you understand that they 

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• The One You Feed parable
• Moving often
• Liking where you live
• Committing to where you are and making the best of it
• The difference between people who are movers, stuck and rooted
• Always thinking happiness is "out there" somewhere
• Why walking more helps you love where you live
• What is your Walk Score
• Each town is different to each person depending on perspective- there is no objective town
• Where would you take visitors in your town?
• Taking advantage of the things your town offers
• The paradox of choice
• How important nature is in feeding your good wolf and loving where you live
• Buying local
• The power of "weak ties"