Exploring the power of meditation and self-acceptance.
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Bridging Worlds: Empowering Neuroinclusion and Authentic Advocacy
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Julia Armet, PCC, ELI-MP is the Founder of Higher Playbook, a people and culture consultancy with a mission to re-humanize our workplaces. With a professional trajectory that spans industries including media, technology, coaching, and leadership consulting, Julia believes meaningful professional relationships are the source of business sustainabili…
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BURNOUT: Finding Balance Through Honesty, Simplicity, and Willingness.
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Burnout: Finding Balance Through Honesty, Simplicity, and Willingness This podcast episode introduces a new series focusing on burnout, exploring how executives and surgeons alike can manage stress through principles of honesty, simplicity, and willingness. The discussion contrasts external solutions, like executive coaching by RxFaith, with person…
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Navigating Change as We Age: A Coaching Conversation with Dr. Annika
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In this conversation, Dr. Dwayne engages with stress expert Dr. Annika (https://askdrannika.com) as she reflects on her life experiences, aspirations, and the challenges of navigating the second half of her life. They discuss the importance of embracing things outside of our control, being honest about what truly brings joy, and celebrating one's p…
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🔒 The Power of Being Over Doing: Embracing Effortless Existence
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Subscriber-only episode In this episode, Dr. Dwayne delves into the profound difference between 'doing' and 'being.' He emphasizes that 'doing' involves effort, recognizes limits, and seeks permission, while 'being' is effortless, requires no permission, and encompasses a state of presence and awareness. Dr. Dwayne discusses how 'being' leads to a …
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The Difference Between Coaching and Therapy: Leveraging Talents and Abilities Through Coaching
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Dr. Dwayne discusses the difference between coaching and therapy. Coaching is focused on raising awareness and making conscious choices, while therapy is focused on seeking answers from an expert. Coaching helps individuals leverage their talents and abilities to overcome roadblocks and achieve higher levels of performance. The coaching relationshi…
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Subscriber-only episode Embracing Growth and Letting Go: The Journey to Being 'All In' This episode explores the profound principle that 'we either grow or we die,' illustrating how growth necessitates letting go of what no longer serves us. Dr. Dwayne delves into the concept of apoptosis or programmed cell death, paralleling it with emotional and …
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ALL ABOUT EVE: Overcoming Introvert Tendencies. A Coaching Conversation with Julie Barlow RN BSN
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In this episode, Julie Barlow RN BSN and her transformation coach Dr. Dwayne discuss her challenges connecting emotionally with patients due to her introverted nature. She reflects on a protective persona she developed following a major personal loss and discusses her ambition to grow empathy and improve emotional connections with others. Listen ho…
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🔒 You CANNOT Make a Mistake: Words of Life episode 1
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Subscriber-only episode Embracing the CAPITAL-T Truth: You Cannot Make a Mistake This episode explores the profound realization that there are no mistakes, through personal stories and philosophical reflections. The speaker, a gay, black, sober woman's cancer surgeon from the rural South, shares their journey toward embodying the truth that every e…
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Spunky Specs and A Young Physician's Personal Growth: A Coaching Session with Dr. Kimberly Gillens
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Summary Dr. Kimberly Gillens, a recently graduated OB-GYN resident, discusses her struggles with temperament and finding the right words to express herself. She recognizes the need to change and align how she shows up with how she wants to show up. Dr. Dwayne encourages her to give herself grace and acknowledges her growth and achievements. They di…
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Finding the Right Support to Rejuvenate New Mothers with Tessia Watson
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Moms can find all kinds of information and recommendations on how to care for their newborns. But there’s something about new motherhood that not many sources are talking about, and my guest Tessia Watson is trying to bridge the gap. Tessia is an author, spiritual teacher, and devoted mom of two boys with wisdom infused from her multicultural upbri…
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Why We Must Be Trauma-Informed with Dr. Helen Sairany
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Think that veterans, refugees, and abuse victims are the only ones who experience trauma with far-reaching, ongoing effects on their lives? Trauma isn’t just for those who have experienced things like PTSD or domestic violence. Trauma-related experiences exist for the majority of us–70% of the masses, according to my guest Dr. Helen Sairany. She’s …
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A Doula’s View on Internal Healing and Peaceful Life Transition with Brittanie Van Zant
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Healers aren’t without their own wounds to work through. But even in the process of doing so, they can actively work to assist and guide others in healing themselves...as long as they’re willing to offer it. My guest Brittanie Van Zant has something to offer people in search of something more in their healing journey. She’s a trained historian, hol…
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What It Really Means to Love and Embody Love with Troy Hadeed
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While individual spiritual paths might have similarities to each other, everyone still walks on a spiritual path that’s uniquely their own. My guest Troy Hadeed has traveled the world in his. As a yoga teacher and spiritualist, he sees the way for humanity’s conscious evolution through the lens of love. He embodies this himself by trying to live up…
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Why We Need a New Approach to Healing Societal Abuse with Phyllis Leavitt
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When you see or hear of a child being abused, your instinctive reaction is one of condemnation, right? We see abusive dynamics play out and hurt untold numbers of people on a national scale. Yet unlike with an abused child, too many in this country not only tolerate it but condone it. Highlighting this issue is long overdue and my guest Phillis Lea…
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Visibility and Safe Spaces for Tulsa’s Creative Queer Community with Chris Vanndy
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Most people living outside places like Tulsa, OK have a certain assumption about the visibility of queer people here…and not a flattering one. So it might surprise you to know that it’s teeming with artists in the queer community. And as someone who grew up here, my guest Chris Vanndy is leading the charge as a creative and community leader to make…
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Gain More Freedom and Fulfillment Through Relationship Transformations with Sanal Bhanu Rajan
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What do you think when you hear the word “guru”? For many people, nothing flattering comes to mind. Sanal Bhanu Rajan used to get hung up on the term, recognizing that people don’t like those who proclaim themselves as such. Regardless of the descriptive term anyone wants to use to describe what he does, he’s a spiritual teacher and thought leader …
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Powerful Energy Techniques for Self-Healing and Daily Protection with Gabrielle Pimstone
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Do you feel trapped in a cycle of anxiety, trepidation, and always feeling like you’re just waiting for the next shoe to drop? You’re inside an invisible spiritual prison--energetically stuck, burned out, and unfulfilled. After 20 years of working in an organizational psychology career, Gabrielle Pimstone found herself desperately unhappy in the jo…
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Faith As the Substance of Your Energetic Growth and Evolution
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If your two-years-ago self could see you now, how surprised would they be? I’ve come a long way in two years, and now I couldn’t imagine my life now back then. But the substance of my growth and evolution–the foundation, if you will–is faith, and how people tend to misuse or misunderstand it, either. In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, yo…
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How Neglected History Is Key to Reconciliation for Systemic Change with Dr. Amy Aldridge Sanford
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You won’t find the devastation of Black Wall Street in history textbooks. Most of the country didn’t know about it until a few years ago. Like the district itself, it was erased, and it’s only one example of such historical neglect. It’s why my guest Dr. Amy Aldridge Sanford was so adamant about including chapters on history and activism within her…
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The Source of Your Value, Safety, and Truth: A Conversation with Coach Jessica Matchett
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Last week, you heard about how my alter ego Nagasaki was about to go off on someone over the phone...until I decided to just hang up. This week, I’m letting you in on a session with my peer coach Jessica Matchett, that ties into a repeating theme I want all listeners of this podcast to embrace for themselves. In this episode of Words of Love, you’l…
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Nagasaki Rants: The Failure of Some People to See the Humanity of Others
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This episode is quite a departure from what I'm used to delivering to you and what you're used to seeing from me. This episode, though, is so essential. It has stimulated so much growth for me because it was the necessary work that I needed to learn how to make space for all of my humanity. Sometimes, shit happens that threatens to bring your alter…
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How John Giordano Revolutionized Addiction and Mental Health With Holistic Treatment
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You can do much to greatly impact people with just a few hundred dollars...or a high school education. John Giordano has contributed profoundly to the wellness industry. He’s an addiction expert and specialist in holistic mental health and trauma recovery. He’s appeared on many TV and radio stations and written 80 scientific peer-reviewed research …
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How Tattoos Symbolize Freedom and Autonomy Throughout History with Friday Jones
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Tattoos used to be taboo (except among the bikers and rock stars). Back in the day, you wouldn’t dare show them in the professional workplace. But we’ve come quite a way since then. From neighbors to high society celebrities, we see people from all stripes of life with body art in the form of tiny tattoos, sleeves, and even the full body. My specia…
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How to Fight Your Way Back From Your Lowest Point with Jeremy Murphy
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From mythology to Godzilla’s King Ghidorah to that funny meme online, the three-headed dragon is such a popular motif. Yet, those heads can also represent the shadows you need to fight to get out of the low points of your life. What if, for example, the three dragon heads represented divorce, death or a loved one, and depression? My guest Jeremy Mu…
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How Embracing Spirituality Can Help With Mental Health with Mark Weisman
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Within all of us are spiritual and universal truths we recognize before we’re born. Some of us remember those truths while we’re still here in physical form. And while these journeys can share similarities, we also have unique attributes we bring to the table. Take Mark Weisman, for instance. He went from being a minister to a modern-day Shaman and…
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Improve Your Mental Health and Bring Soul to Your Healthcare Role with Dr. Joe Sherman
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Is there a disconnect between what you do and the results you want to get? Do you feel like you’re not making the difference you want in the world? My guest Dr. Joe Sherman has always enjoyed helping out and getting to know other people beyond superficial levels. They were the seeds that put him on the road to becoming a pediatrician. At some point…
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Words of Wisdom on Big Life Changes and Perspective Shifts with Dr. Swati Kumari
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Have you ever heard someone with such a powerful and inspiring story that you just had to know what happened next in their journey? Well, it's time to celebrate and welcome back Dr. Swati Kumari to be part of the conversation again. She is a Nepali-trained physician and fertility specialist who practiced in Nepal and is doing her OBGYN residency in…
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How Everything Is Interconnected With Your Health with Dr. Lynn Carey
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Have you ever had (or do you currently have) a health issue you’ve tried to solve, but nothing seems to work? For years, Dr. Lynn Carey suffered from chronic pain and illness after having scoliosis surgery as a teenager. Nobody knew how to help her beyond the painkillers and antibiotics…until someone introduced her to something that helped her not …
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How Different Sides of Yourself Show Through Everything You Do with Johnny Neang
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You’re not just what you do to earn a paycheck. What you do to fulfill your passion, engage in your creative ability, and so much more helps make up the kaleidoscope of different colors and angles that is you. And ancient and modern tools are available to help you discover these different sides of yourself. My guest, Johnny Neang, who participated …
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Why Meditation and Religion Are Perfect Partners with Alberto Chagolla & Fernando Santillan
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If you were to Google images of meditation right now, what would you see? Chances are you’ll see many people of color; for much of the world, the face of meditation is brown. During my recent 10-day Vipassana retreat, I met Alberto Chagolla and Fernando Santillan and bonded over meditation. We also bonded over our shared experience as people of col…
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Show Up With Resonance That Reflects Who You Choose to Be Now with Cleveland P. Jones
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We all walk down that road of struggling with the self and accepting, embracing, and expressing who we really are. You’ve probably felt compelled to hide something about yourself that was considered “out of the norm” by your family, culture, religion, etc. But it’s still authentically you and always waiting to shine through. Many times on this show…
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How to Break the Bonds of Labels, Norms, and Conditioning with Dr. Asha Rani
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Feeling a bit trapped by your circumstances, even if you look like you’re living the dream? No matter, you can always choose to break out of your conditioning to discover who you really are. At 40 years old, Dr. Asha Rani looked like she was living her best life. She had the marriage, the kids, the degrees, and the successful dental career. What sh…
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How My 10-Day Meditation Retreat Affected My Sobriety
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When you experience Vipassana, it affects various aspects of your identity. During my recent retreat, I discovered (to my surprise) that my sobriety story was one of them. There was a surface-level impact. But there was also another effect that required effort to receive the beautiful gift that awaits anyone who takes the journey. In this episode o…
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The Power of Vipassana Meditation: Sitting In Silence for 10 Days
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Can you sit in silence for 10 days? Many people can’t fathom being quiet for more than a few minutes, much less that long. Six months ago, I couldn’t imagine doing it! But recently, I went on a silent retreat at the California Vipassana Center. For 10 days, I and 50 other men and women had a sacred experience that bore fruit for the mind, body, spi…
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Symphonic Role of a Surgeon & How to Prolong Your Role as Caretaker
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We all play a role in fulfilling the creation of something whole and wonderful. Whether you’re an instrumentalist in an orchestra or a member of a surgical team, not one single person can complete the task alone. In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, we’ll explore the parallel between the operating room and the orchestra hall and how the ro…
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How the Simple 4-I Framework Helps You Learn From Your Fear
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What is fear doing for you? What is it trying to teach you? How is it serving you? Fear has always been part of our human evolution. It’s what helped us survive the dangerous wild in our neanderthal days. But now we no longer (as a general rule) have to depend on it to prevent ourselves from being eaten due to wandering into the wrong cave. So inst…
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The Call That You’re Being Encouraged to Answer and an Ode to k.d. lang
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Today, I offer you a challenge. In fact, it’s really more than a challenge; it’s the divine assignment you’ve been given. In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, you’ll learn what that divine assignment is and how music encapsulates it. I’ll also briefly discuss how k.d. lang took on the challenge in her special way long before other popular …
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Why Now Is the Greatest Time of All to Decide and Share Our Simple Gifts
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In the beginning, there was the word. And we depended on the word to be passed down to us through the ages of Moses, the printing press, and beyond to move us on our voyage through time and space. But no longer. In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, you’ll learn why the most powerful time for us humans to decide and express our simple gifts…
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Blessed Be the Peacemakers: The Key to Peace, Justice, and Cooperation
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Too often, we suppress the child-like qualities within us. We’re told to leave childish things behind now that we’re adults. But we can always choose to champion some part of our inner child. Musicality has that special quality, and it’s also something we’re all born with that plays a role within us as we move through the world. In this episode of …
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Why I Am the Standing Bass of the Orchestra: Face the Mirror Challenge
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There comes a time when everything that came before culminates into an a-ha moment that transforms you. As I sat down to record this episode, I realized that I was resonating in a space that the previous version of me would have never thought possible. Today on the Words of Love podcast, you’ll hear about getting one step closer to full awareness a…
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How Whole Brain Living Can Increase Your Emotional Wellness with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
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What if, one day, you suddenly couldn’t do basic things or recall a single thing about your life? At the age of 37, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor had a hemorrhage in the left side of her brain that left her without the ability to walk, speak, read, write, or remember anything about herself. It took her eight years to recover. Now, she’s an author and advoc…
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Body, Mind, and Spirit: The Health Framework for the Doctor of the Future
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We consistently deal with illness and disease, whether we’re doing so as physicians or patients. But what really lies at the heart of what ails us? After spending so many years with cancer patients, I learned that the needs of the mind and spirit are just as important to me as the needs of the body. It brings us closer to Thomas Edison’s vision of …
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Why This Is Uniquely Our Time As Human Beings
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We have the chance to do something more important and impactful than the Jeff Bezos or Elon Musks of the world. But will we take it or let the moment pass us by? In this episode of the Words of Love podcast, you’ll hear about the unique opportunity we have right now to do the most important work we’ll ever do. I’ll also talk about the contract I ma…
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A Conversation to Help Us Dig Past Our Tribalism Tendency with Dr. Jim Smay
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You’re more than likely guilty of concluding something about someone or something based on what you immediately see. At some point, most are guilty of judging a book by its cover instead of digging in further. For example, if you were to see my friend and colleague, Dr. Jim Smay, you’d immediately think, “middle-aged White man.” And while he is a n…
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Why History Is Key to Middle East Conflict Resolution with Dr. Israel Zighelboim
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This world can be a difficult place to live in, and some people have felt it more acutely than others. We know of the history of African Americans in the U.S. during slavery and the Civil Rights era. We sometimes hear about massacres of people over culture, religion, and ethnicity in places like Sudan or Turkey. The current situation in Israel and …
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The Deep Work of Being a Speaker and Influential Voice with Tricia Brouk
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Today has been a long time coming! I consider Tricia Brouk my mentor, coach, and friend. And after a year of working with her, she’s finally a special guest on my podcast. Who is Tricia? She’s an award-winning director, author, producer, and podcaster. With over 30 years of theatrical performance experience, she mentors speakers and has helped put …
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Life Interrupted: A Brother’s Legacy Left Behind with Dr. Parul Dua Makkar
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Have you had to cope with grief with no friends or family nearby? Dr. Parul Dua Makkar has a powerful story of her own. She practices dentistry in Long Island but has global roots in India, the Middle East, and Canada. But these days, she spends much of her time sharing the story of her younger brother (and only sibling), Dr. Manu Dua. Her life too…
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Emotional Intelligence, Mental Toughness, and Mindfulness with Christopher Salem
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Mindfulness is the foundation of everything we do. But the road to developing that mindfulness can be quite traumatizing. Chris Salem spent 30 years battling inner demons that originally stemmed from his relationship with his father. But now, he’s a professional keynote speaker, podcaster, and trusted advisor who motivates people and tells them how…
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Leading by Example In the World of Medicine with Dr. Tisha Boston
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In life, you meet people who just seem to have a profound impact on everyone around them. Thirty-something years ago, I met someone like that in South Carolina: Dr. Tisha Boston Dr. Boston grew up in the projects of South Carolina. Now, she’s a board-certified family medicine physician practicing in Columbia, SC who has spent her career educating y…
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Taking the Leap Into a Life You Love with Asabi Goodman
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Happiness comes in many forms. Many of us have been told that the path to it is to graduate from school, get a job, get married, buy a house, have kids, etc. But what if you wanted to leap into something else--something that doesn’t look like the traditional 9-5, white picket fence existence? So many are afraid to follow their own path. Not my gues…
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