This is the time of year that doesn’t feel “normal”. There are a lot of distractions and things happening that are not our usual activities. So, during the next few weeks, use the time to take a look and see if there’s something you want to change as we go into the new year.

Highlights

• Tap into the energy of change and decide who you want to become.
• We often need to share ideas and get feedback from other people. Other people can often see a bigger picture than we do.
• No one person has all of the answers for you.
• It’s really important for you to know and understand your Self.
• Who do you want to be in the next segment of your life and how can you make that happen?
• The energy of change, which is happening now, presents us with many opportunities.
• How are you going to adapt to the energy of change and what help do you need to make it happen?
• We are wired to need connection to other people.
• If you learn to have better relationships with humans, you are going to have a better life.
• What does prosperous living mean for you?
• Happiness comes from satisfaction within you, not from money.
• You have choices, and if you don’t like what your life is like now, you can make changes.

Links

Henry Lopez’s website

Podcast episode with Robert Pardi

The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours

Udo Erasmus is the Co-founder of Udo’s Choice line of health products. He designed the machinery for making oils with health in mind and pioneered flax oil, a billion-dollar industry. Pesticide poisoning in 1980 left Udo’s doctors at a loss regarding treatment so he decided to take his health into his own hands.

Udo’s research and discoveries led him to a passion for finding the answers to life’s big questions. He is an acclaimed speaker and author of many books including the best-seller Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill. He teaches at events hosted by Tony Robbins and Deepak Chopra, has given live presentations, interviews, and training in over 30 countries and has impacted more than 25 million lives with his message about health, peace, nature, and human nature. Udo has an extensive education in biochemistry, genetics, biology, and nutrition, psychology.

Highlights

• Because he was born in the 1940s, during the war, the overwhelming uncertainty led him to be very curious. He explains.
• What you are deep down looking for is already inside of you.
• Udo gives suggestions for how to get in touch with the place within your heart that knows what’s right for you.
• Being is more important than doing.
• Your real purpose is found internally.
• When the heart aches, people often turn to distractions. By focusing on success on the outside, we are trying to fix the hurt that is on the inside.
• If you feel restless, you don’t have to do something, you need to sit still.
• Your emotional state determines how you see and relate to the world. Peace has always been there, but if you’re not looking for it, you won’t recognize that it’s there.
• When you’re in a place of peace and taking care of your inner needs, it’s easier to build a business.
• When you feel cared for, you can flow with life.

Links

Udo’s websites: www.TheUdo.com and www.UdosChoice.com

Udo’s book: Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill: The Complete Guide to Fats, Oils, Cholesterol and Human Health

Udo’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theudoerasmus/

Udo’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/udoerasmus/

My guest today is author and CEO, Marty Strong. Marty spent twenty years in the Navy’s elite SEAL Teams learning effective leadership skills and mastering the art of turning vision into actionable strategy. After his service, he spent seven years as a financial advisor and portfolio manager with UBS before moving on to become a C-Suite executive. Marty’s new book, Be Nimble, is set for release in Fall 2021.

Highlights

• Marty shares how he decided to become a Navy SEAL and what’s behind the people who don’t make it through the training.
• We talk about the 80-20 rule regarding success with the SEALs and for entrepreneurs.
• You can teach tenacity, but you have to know how to teach it.
• Being exposed to risk-taking as a child helps prepare you for being an entrepreneur.
• Serial entrepreneurs often use failures as a strengthening exercise.
• I asked Marty what drove him to be in the financial industry. It wasn’t planned.
• Marty has the ability to go with the flow of life and not resist change.
• Marty was not afraid of failure and over time, became a good problem solver.
• Because of his family background, at an early age, Marty realized that he had to learn how to take care of himself.
• We discussed whether qualities of strength and resilience are inborn and the person.
• There are different ways of handling different forms of failure. Marty often looks at seeming failure as an opportunity to make changes.
• When he was writing his book, Be Nimble, Marty asked himself the question, “Why am I the person to write this book?”
• We talk about how people react to financial issues, including up and down income.
• Most things in our evolution aren’t linear. There are always ups and downs. Marty tells how the lives of presidents Grant and Truman illustrate this principle.
• I asked Marty if he was born with the name Strong. He was.

Links

Marty’s Website www.martystrongbenimble.com

Marty’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/marty.strong.547/

Marty’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marty-strong-9676bb13/

Marty’s Twitter: mlstrongauthor

Marty’s Instagram: Martin L Strong

Herb “Flight Time” Lang is an 18-year former player and coach with the World-Famous Harlem Globetrotters who is now a speaker, entrepreneur, motivator, and author. Throughout his travels, to nearly 90 countries with the Globetrotters, some of Herb’s most memorable moments include meeting Pope Francis, President Obama, and appearing on numerous national television commercials and reality TV shows—most notably CBS’s “The Amazing Race.”

He currently resides in Sacramento, California, where he is the proud father of two, and continues to make a difference through kindness and his life experiences, which he believes are the keys to maximizing what we get out of life. He is a true believer in that we are all rich with love and kindness. “Kindness Is Free!”

Highlights

• Herb tells us how he was surrounded by kindness as a child and how that affected him.
• He also shared what he went through physically to become one of the Harlem Globtrotters.
• We talk about how his background taught him how to survive being a celebrity. He said it was important for him to never forget where he came from.
• Some of the things that have given me the most pain are the things I’ve learned the most from. It taught me resilience.
• “The feedback I get from others is what keeps me going.”
• Herb’s positive mindset has inspired others. Being around a bunch of older people is what helped him develop the positive mindset along with his high-school basketball coach.
• With the work he’s doing now, Herb is trying to teach young people how to develop kindness.
• Look into a young person’s eyes and feed them all the things that you’ve learned along the way.
• Things aren’t as bad as you think they are.
• It takes support for us to achieve our dreams. Reach out to others.
• I asked him how he deals with “the downs”. Now, he meditates and goes for daily walks. He also takes his mind back to “the kid me” where he had all his dreams.
• We talk about “the wall” that often surrounds people of wealth and celebrity. Herb doesn’t have that wall.
• Kindness is within all of us. We just have to let it out.
• It bothers me when I see people who had a difficult childhood and now they’re doing the same things to their kids. I can only understand it and show them another way.
• We are all children at heart.
• The world is not a bad place.
• My purpose is to do the best I can while I’m here.

Links

Prosperity Place: https://www.prosperityplace.com/

Herb’s book: Projects Popes and Presidents: An Inspirational Journey That Shows How You Can Overcome Life’s Obstacles and Achieve Your Dreams

Herb’s Website: www.Herblang.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/herbertflighttime.lang

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/themotivationalspeaker/

This past Sunday, I gave a talk at The Celebration, the spiritual group I belong to and thought you might like to hear it. I’ve been interested in the idea of synchronicity for a long time and I shared some of my thoughts about it in this episode.

If you have stories about your experience with synchronicity, I’d love to hear about them. You can email them to Joan at ProsperityPlace.com.

I recently woke up with the word “truth” sounding loudly in my mind which led me to think about truth – a lot – and how I might talk about it on a podcast episode. Because we have been going through a period of a lot of not truth I’ve been pondering what we miss when we don’t tell the truth. I discuss it in this episode.

Highlights

• I ask, “Why the advantage of telling the truth or the truth of you?”
• Years ago, I committed to tell the truth all the time. It is really difficult.
• People often exaggerate in order to make a better impression, which makes it difficult to tell if they’re telling the truth or not.
• I talk about all the claims made in commercials that I perceive is not being true.
• We’re becoming adapted to alternative realities and “alternative truth”.
• In order to connect to your truth, you have to develop a certain amount of intuition.
• To develop self-awareness, you need to be able to learn to travel into the depths of yourself.
• We sometimes think that people who display a lot of self-confidence no more than we do.
• As children, we often suppressed ourselves because it appeared to be safer.
• Every time you adjust your truth, you're slowing down the process of finding out who you are becoming.
• Humans are complicated, and finding our own path is complicated because we have to overcome a lot of the messages we got as children.
• We tend to not honestly express our emotions.
• I talk about the nuances that are sometimes necessary when telling the truth.
• What are the things that you think about but never talk to other people about?
• What is it that separates you from other people that you never talk about?
• I talk about my invisible disability and how I have kept it hidden. But I now see that I’m actually holding myself back by doing this.
• Whatever you are thinking is limiting you may be what you’re identifying as a disability.
• If you have a physical disability, that’s not something that’s wrong with you, it’s just something you have to deal with.
• Each of us is separate, unique, and valuable. You can’t understand your value to the greater society, if you’re thinking that you’re less-than.
• What is it about you that you consider something that holds you back? That would be what you perceive to be your disability. That is the truth of you and your life doesn’t have to be diminished because of it.
• The truth of you shall set you free.
• There’s nothing wrong with you that needs fixing. You just have habitual thoughts beliefs and emotions that may need to change. And you can do that.

Links

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Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive by Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

My course, Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom, will show you how to create new habits.

The new year is soon to be upon us. In this episode, I ask you to decide what choices you want to make in the new year as to who you want to be and what you want to be doing. What changes do you want to make?

Highlights

• We have no idea what our lives or our world are going to look like in the coming year.
• There’s going to be a new normal, but we have no idea what normal is going to look like.
• Covid has given us the opportunity of reevaluating everything in our life. Do we really want to go back to what was, or do we want to create something new that is more satisfying?
• It’s hard to set goals when you have no idea what the future is going to look like. I suggest that instead of setting doing goals that you set feeling goals.
• The one thing that you have control over and the power to change is your internal environment.
• What we are all going through, provides us with the opportunity to ask who we want to be and what we want to change. Change is happening whether you wanted to or not.
• What is it that you can do to create some certainty for yourself?
• It is impossible to create specific goals when you have no idea what the external environment is going to be.
• I’m going to ask you – if you’re willing – to examine your internal environment and decide what choices for change you want to make in the new year.
• This is the time for choice. You are where you are because of the choices you have made and now you can make different choices that will allow you to move in a different direction.
• Every choice that you make has an emotional component.
• We have been given the opportunity, at this juncture in time, to examine our lives and make new choices.
• What will it take for you to be the best version of yourself today?
• If we all make changes together, it will affect the entire world.

Links

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Dr. Jessica Hehmeyer is a functional medicine practitioner and founder of Well Empowered where she uses data-driven natural medicine to help her clients resolve health problems and maintain health. Her singular focus is helping people sustain the health and vitality needed to bring their gifts fully to this world.

Dr. Hehmeyer holds a Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, a Doctorate in Chiropractic Medicine, and a BA from UCLA. She is an Institute of Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner as well as a certified Yoga Instructor, Master Level Certified SuperSlow High Intensity Strength Trainer.

Highlights

• Jessica had a serious problem maintaining her weight which led her on the path to learning about alternative protocols.
• People aren’t trained to know that there are options to the traditional medical system.
• Medical practices are starting to shift and doctors are starting to recommend people to natural medicine practitioners.
• Most illness is related to lifestyle choices.
• Data driven natural medicine uses a lot of tests to determine a course of action for a patient.
• We talk about the necessity of addressing psychological elements that affect people’s eating habits. Jessica helps people recognize their emotional triggers.
• There are a lot of challenges to making functional medicine available to large numbers of people.
• Jessica shares a lot of her knowledge via webinars and social media.
• Meditation can help you find what’s right for you.
• When people identify their why, it’s easier to make a decision to heal.
• Jessica works mostly with people who have weight issues.

Links

Prosperity Place: https://prosperityplace.com/

Jessica’s site: www.WellEmpowered.com

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/YouWellEmpowered/

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicahehmeyer

In this episode, I share my experience going through sepsis, a potentially fatal condition that I obviously survived. The experience has led me to do a lot of thinking about the frailties of our medical system and I share some of my thoughts with you.

Highlights

• I share the harrowing experience I went through when I thought I had COVID-19, but it turned out I had sepsis.
• I’ve been thinking a lot about our medical system and its shortcomings and how people make unhealthy decisions for themselves.
• We haven’t taught people that they have control of their health.
• Your body is a complex machine that needs certain kinds of fuel. The wrong fuel will cause symptoms.
• Each body has different needs.
• We put too much faith in the opinions of medical doctors. It’s important to learn how to communicate with your body.
• There are good practitioners within the allopathic system who are open and willing to try alternatives. The idea of integrative medicine that combines different systems is what makes sense to me.

If you’d like to share your thoughts with me on this topic, you can write to me at Joan@ProsperityPlace.com.

Mark Wolynn is the director of the Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco. He is a leading expert in the field of inherited family trauma. His book It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (published by Viking/Penguin) is the winner of the 2016 Nautilus Book Award in psychology and has been translated into 19 languages. His articles have appeared in Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, MariaShriver.com, Elephant Journal, and Psych Central, and his poetry has been published in The New Yorker.

Highlights

• Mark explains what Family Trauma is.
• When trauma is unresolved it can pass on to future generations.
• Many of us live with medical mysteries that need deeper examination.
• Our sense of not having enough can hark back to not getting enough attention from our mother in early life.
• If the mother has a previous difficult pregnancy or miscarriage, or any difficult life experience during pregnancy, that will affect the child’s experience as a fetus.
• Instead of blaming your parents because you are, in some way, screwed up, find out what trauma they experienced that allowed them to treat you the way they did.
• There’s a long list of questions about their parents that Mark asks his clients.
• Although early memories may not be available to us, they still affect us.
• By understanding what your parents went through, it makes it easier to forgive your parents. We can then let go of whatever anger we are holding on to.
• Mark helps people get out of the stress response so they can have new, more pleasant experiences and build new neural pathways while overcoming the stress response.
• Mark mentions some of the techniques he uses and how he helps people become “trauma detectives”.
• Trauma in our family history can determine how success does or does not flow to us.
• Because of Covid, we have the chance to look inside and work through past traumas.
• What’s your worst fear? It time to look at this.
• When traumas are not talked about, that’s what leads to repeating the pattern.

Links

Prosperity Place

Mark’s Book

Mark’s Site

Mark's Facebook Page

Mark on LinkedIn

David Wood is a high-performance coach for executives, entrepreneurs, and teams and the author of “Get Paid For Who You Are.” He was nominated to the Transformational Leadership Council alongside such thought leaders as Don Miguel Ruiz, John Gray, and Marianne Williamson. David believes the tough conversations we avoid are our doorways to confidence, success, and even love – in both work and life. In this episode, we talk about having tough conversations about money and race.

Highlights:

• David tells us how he decided to focus on tough conversations when he worked in corporate and eventually learned about things like emotional intelligence and other personal growth techniques.
• When conversations are looming, we tend to avoid them.
• With the CARE model David uses, the first step is to ask, “What is your hope for this conversation, what is your fear?”
• I ask David what keeps people from talking about money. I use an example of when a husband racks of credit card charges but is afraid to tell his wife. He shows us how to use the CARE model in this case.
• There is often a fear of loss.
• We spend time talking about difficult conversations about race relations.
• David shares his position as a privileged white male and what he has to do in order to have the race conversation.
• It’s only in the past few weeks that David has been developing awareness about what goes on for blacks.
• David is trying to understand his own whiteness, privilege, and unconscious bias.

Links:

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Get the CARE worksheet on David’s site: www.playforreal.life where there is also information about his coaching.

I read an article this week in Neuroscience News about how Repetitive Negative Thinking (RNT) can lead to cognitive decline and the buildup of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s. In this episode, I talk about how to eliminate negative self-talk and thinking with brain training in order to prevent loss of cognitive function.

Highlights

• A lot of physical and mental problems that come with aging can be prevented.
• Although the study cited in Neuroscience News was done with people 55 and older, no matter what your age, it’s important to prevent problems as you age.
• Negative thinking patterns are habits. I talk about how they start as protective measures and because of the way brains are wired.
• Hypervigilance is a common result of difficult childhood experiences.
• The trick is to recognize your patterns and make a commitment to changing them.
• Start by recognizing when you use the word should. Then take a deep breath and use a positive statement such as You’re doing fine.
• Lead with love.
• You can create a benevolent mother or father in your mind who reparents you.
• What if what we imagine is going to happen is what is going to happen.
• Meditation can help you recognize what’s going on in your mind.
• The more positive my thinking becomes, the more positive things happen for me.
• If you stop being angry, that doesn’t mean you have to stop working for positive
  societal change.
• Anger can be transmuted into a positive force.

Links

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The Adverse Childhood Experience Test

Tina Greenbaum works with executives who want to increase their performance level in high stakes, high-pressure situations. An Optimal Performance Specialist and Sports Psychology Consultant, Tina’s signature program, Mastery Under Pressure empowers leaders and their teams using cutting-edge technology, neuroscience, energy psychology, sports psychology, and current learning theory.

Highlights

• Tina is a trained psychotherapist who intuitively knew that there was a better way of treating eating disorders.
• She now focuses on anxiety, teaching people how to train the mind to overcome its reaction to perceived danger.
• If you practice deep diaphragmatic breathing, when you are in a difficult situation, the deep breathing will happen naturally.
• If you have a lot of worrying thoughts, ask, “Do my thoughts produce something useful for me?”
• Stress comes when you seem to be out of control.
• People under stress don’t see their options.
• When you feel you don’t have control, ask, “What can I do now?”
• When we live in the past or future, we need to get back to the present.
• The issues of those in higher positions have different kinds of problems to solve and they still have to manage their anxiety.
• Good leaders have faith they can find answers to their problems.
• Resilient people have a specific language they use. Tina gives us examples.
• People get used to their comfort zone and have to learn to tolerate the uncertainty that comes with change.
• Tina offers suggestions for dealing with uncertainty.
• The challenge is living in a state of curiosity.
• It’s important to understand why you can’t get instant results. Tina explains.
• Meditation quiets the amygdala and builds new connections to the prefrontal cortex, which helps you make better decisions.
• If you want to change anything in your life, you have to change yourself.
• The secret lies not in what you are doing but in who you are being.

Links:

Prosperity Place

Tina’s site: www.TinaGreenbaum.com

In this episode, I share some of my ideas about how to maintain a positive attitude about the future despite what’s going on. You have choices as to what you’re going to think about and how you’re going to feel.

Highlights

• You can have empathy for what’s going on and still move forward with your life.
• Each one of us has the opportunity to say, “Where am I now and where do I want to be in the future?” even though, at this moment, the future is so unknown.
• The survival skill for today is to learn that you are ok today and you are learning what you need to learn..
• If you can have a positive view of your future and get out of your fear of the present, you’ll have an easier time finding a pathway forward.
• The bigger the mountain you have to climb, the more you have to have faith in your ability to get from where you are, to where you want to be.
• If you can let go of the fear and have a positive view of the future, surviving what we are all going through will be a whole lot easier.
• Talk to people and exchange ideas.
• If you want to survive this thing, you have to believe that you can.
• I feel as if we are in a space between where we are and where we are going.

Links

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It’s as if the whole world is turning upside down as we go through this unprecedented period of our lives. It’s important to rise above the fear so you can see the opportunities that abound and take action in a new direction. It’s up to us to create the new normal.

Highlights

• At a Zoom meeting I had recently, we all agreed that we aren’t going to go back to the old normal.
• What are you going to do to plan a future without a model to work from?
• It’s hard to come up with good ideas when you are in fear.
• There are always ways of thinking outside of the box. There’s a problem if you’re afraid of technology.
• Your brain is going to tell you that change is dangerous.
• Think of a positive future. It’s time to let go of the things you really don’t like to do.
• There are always options.
• Allow your life to be a little more spontaneous.
• I talk about the restaurant business and how they might change how they deliver their food.
• The future is whatever you make it and you have the option of making new choices.
• You may have to learn new skills.
• What is a skill that you have that you can do differently while collaborating with other people?
• During this time, learn something new.
• This is the winter of the planet when things are dormant.

Links

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The Intention + Action Coaching Group

Steven Ringlestein is a lifelong serial entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Pristine Creations LLC, a high flow state consulting firm creating extraordinary results, innovation and excellence. He is an evolutionary leader who pioneered the 4 Zones of Leadership framework. He uses neuroscience principles to hack leaders’ internal decision-making algorithms to enhance performance. He is highly skilled in emotional intelligence, energetic intelligence, and an expert in the science of intuitive intelligence.

Highlights

• Steven tells us how he got to the place of believing in the power of our inner reality.
• The gap between what is and what I think it is can be large.
• Our collective consciousness can create the apparent reality.
• Because our outer world is contracting, we now have the opportunity to examine our inner world.
• Habits are invisible because they have disappeared from our awareness. The trick is to become aware of the habit. Steven explains how to do this.
• We talk about what is triggering people to buy so much toilet paper.
• There is an opportunity now to find balance between our inner and outer worlds.
• Steven explains how to activate parts of you that have become numb.
• Because families are spending so much time together now, there is opportunity to heal conflicts within family relationships.
• I ask what can people do to stop focusing on what’s wrong so they can look for opportunities. Steven suggests asking, “What’s the gift in that”.
• If you watch too much TV now, you can generate fear. If you ask, “What’s the gift in that?”, you can shift to looking at opportunities.
• Letting go of the fear takes trust. When each of us can trust, it facilitates the evolution of the group.
• Focusing on getting healthier can counteract some of the fear.
• By consciously slowing down while doing everything, you will counteract some of the fear.
• Steven practices radical self-love and creates communication between his internal masculine and feminine.
• We are the only ones who know what each of us needs.
• Meditation, walking outside, and nurturing yourself are helpful now. Also, ask yourself, “What’s important for me?”
• Healthy desire gives us access to our intuitive selves.
• Steven equates money with the energy of love.
• We talk about connection and how to create it now.
• It’s a gift now to open ourselves to receive.

Links

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Steven’s site www.PristineCreations.co

Interview with James Pupura

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Going through the coronavirus experience presents many new opportunities if you are willing to do some deep introspection while the world goes through a major reset.

In this episode, I make suggestions for things you can do while you have to wind down and find quiet things to do. It’s a great time to slow down, listen to your inner voice and stop pushing forward.

Your brain is wired to perceive uncertainty as a threat. It’s not. This is your opportunity to assess where you’ve been and mentally move forward towards a more satisfying future.

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Today I talk about what’s happening with the coronavirus, how it might affect your business and how you can deal with it from the inside out. I recorded this episode on March 3, so I only had the amount of information that was available on that day. I have a feeling that things are going to get worse by the time this posts on March 6.

I think it’s important to look at the facts and the possibilities and to do our best to rise above the fear that’s being generated.

In this episode I discuss how to overcome your fear and concerns, and focus on taking the action that you can. I also mentioned that during any downturn, people succeed. The trick is to be open and listen to your inner guidance.

Use whatever techniques you know to deal with the possible stress because it is stress that affects your immune system and causes inflammation. I make some suggestions.

If you’d like to join with a group of people with whom you can discuss what’s going on, I invite you to join the Intention + Action coaching group. The first month is free. For more information go to https://ProsperityPlace.com/intentions

In today’s episode I talk about synchronicity, often called meaningful coincidences, plus how to experience more synchronicity and what prevents its occurrence. The main problem is fear and I discuss how to tamp this down.

Highlights

• I give some examples of synchronicity and my ongoing question of how we can increase synchronicity happening for us.
• Fear is one of the things that keeps you from experiencing synchronicity because when you are fearful, you are usually making up a story in the future that doesn’t exist.
• Fear of an immediate danger is different from fear of the future.
• If you want more of what you want to show up, you need to control your fear.
• Mindfulness or meditation can help you focus on the present.
• I share simple meditation techniques for staying focused on the present.
• People often talk about accepting what’s happening but don’t think about it in terms of our greater reality.
• I ask if peace on earth is possible within our dualistic reality.
• In your quiet moment, you can ask if there is something you can do to ameliorate what’s happening.
• How can you contribute to solutions?
• By letting go of fear, you can contribute to solutions.
• Fear blocks creative forces and keeps us in a stagnant place.
• I also believe that you need to understand how traumatic childhood experiences are affecting your outcomes.
• You have to make a decision to work through your fear

Links

Prosperity Place

Paul O’Brien interview

My book, The Search for Connection

The podcast episode about Empathetic Detachment

The course Simple Meditation for Busy Entrepreneurs:

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The feeling of powerless seems to be spreading as it gets harder to get what we want from companies we have to deal with. In this episode, I talk about some experiences I’ve had that you’ll probably relate to and offer suggestions for taking back your personal power.

Highlights

• The online courses platform I was using changed their pricing model, which would have more than doubled my cost. So I found a better solution that will save me money.
• You can make decisions that can help you get what you want.
• If more people make conscious buying decisions, it will affect change.
• Feeling powerless starts when you are a child.
• Stop people-pleasing, which only hurts you.
• If one of us has to be uncomfortable, it doesn’t have to be me. The corollary to this is, “No is a complete sentence.”
• If you aren’t honest with other people, you can’t be honest with yourself.
• Do a search for alternatives to whatever software you are using.
• Examine your options.
• You don’t have to be stuck with what you have.
• Value yourself. You really matter.
• When you feel you have more control over your life, you will feel empowered.
• If you feel powerless, think back to your childhood to times when you felt powerless.
• You aren’t a victim. You get to make choices that make you more comfortable.
• You always have options.
• When you feel powerless, instead of fighting back, ask yourself how you can be an agent of change.
• If you make decisions that are right for you, you’ll feel more powerful.

Links

Prosperity Place

My new courses site: Use the promotional code 50off2

The Intention + Action Coaching Group

Todd Maddox, Ph.D. has doctorates in Psychology and Neuroscience and studies the brain basis of learning, memory, and performance. He is interested in the interplay between emotion, cognition, and behavior. In this episode, we have an interesting discussion about dopamine, addiction, the money and sex connection, and more.

Highlights

• Todd tells how he got into the combination of psychology and neuroscience.
• The answer to every psychological problem lies in the brain.
• To deal with addiction, willpower is not the answer. Understanding the brain helps.
• We talk a lot about dopamine and addiction.
• Behaviors can be influenced by genetics. Behavioral genetics tries to determine the percentage of specific behaviors that can be inherited.
• Todd explains why recognizing habits is so difficult.
• We talk about how money and sex are connected.
• By pairing a memory of when you were satisfied with an experience of dissatisfaction, you can train your brain to have a more positive response.
• We talk about the neuroscience explanation of the moving stupids.
• In science, the more you know, the more you don’t know.
• The more that we learn, the more we’ll be able to understand things, like mysticism, that we don’t understand now.
• Todd shares his views about Artificial Intelligence and how to make it closer to how the brain works

Links

ProsperityPlace

Todd Maddox on LinkedIn

For years, I’ve seen the connection between money and sex. These are two topics that people think about most, but don’t talk about them. In this episode, I examine this connection as well as the role that both dopamine and emotions play in our relationship with money and sex.

Highlights

• Both money and sex are about how we use our personal energy to interact with the outside world. It’s all about energy flow.
• Understanding how your brain works helps you understand why you do what you do and how to make better choices.
• In our culture – in the US and some other countries – there is a lot of sexual repression and dysfunction.
• I talk about dopamine and how it motivates us.
• Dopamine is part of our survival instinct.
• Anticipating getting more money causes a release of dopamine.
• I talk about how dopamine and disappointment are connected.
• Understanding how dopamine works can help you set more realistic expectations and avoid disappointment.
• Advertisers understand that they have to stimulate your dopamine in order to stimulate your desire for their product.
• You can learn to tame your dopamine response and make pleasure part of conscious living.

Links

The Molecule of More – A book about dopamine

When I ask people what they want to achieve, they often say, “freedom”. Well, freedom is a state of mind. In this episode, I talk about the feeling of freedom and how decisions I have made have led to freedom.

Highlights

• I talk about when I reached my moment of stillness in August and how I now really feel free.
• When we understand how our brain works, we can understand why we make the decisions we do.
• Are you willing to pursue the feeling of freedom? It does take work.
• What would your life look like if you really feel free?
• If you feel trapped, you need to recognize the feeling of trapped and related feelings such as longing and disappointment
• Start by becoming aware of when you feel contracted. Also, recognize what you are thinking about when you feel contracted.
• You’ll be learning how to transmute the contracted feeling into expansion.
• You can train your brain and change habits.
• I talk about impulsive decisions.
• The goal is to make better business decisions.
• Are you willing to believe that there’s nothing wrong with you that needs fixing?
• If it’s hard for you to believe that, let’s find out why.

Links:

ProsperityPlace.com

As the last show of the year, in this episode, I review some of the things we talked about in 2019 and what you can expect in the next year. The upcoming topics will include, but not be limited to:

• The role of emotions in the healing process
• How to apply brain science to make better decisions.
• Money, sex, and dopamine
• Viewing what’s going on today from a new perspective
• Simple ways to live a happier, healthier, and more prosperous life.

I also express my gratitude to those who have been listening to the show.

Links

Check out the Intention + Action Coaching Group

ProsperityPlace.com

I recently got a message via Facebook from a woman who has been struggling for a long time to withdraw from sugar. Because I gave up – really gave up – sugar 46 years ago, I know how to sustain what might be called sugar sobriety. I offer some of what I learned along the way.

Highlights

• Giving up sugar is a lot more complicated than just not eating sugar.
• Finally, people are realizing that sugar is not healthy.
• In 1973, I saw a documentary on hypoglycemia and knew immediately that was part of my problem.
• I talk about how I found out I had hypoglycemia and the doctor who helped me.
• Most chronic diseases are caused by inflammation. Sugar causes inflammation.
• I mention a number of the symptoms of hypoglycemia as well as how the endocrine system is affected.
• Sugar is harder to give up than heroin.
• You have to make a decision to give up sugar first and then start reading the labels on your food.
• You have to be off sugar, alcohol, and carbohydrates for quite a while before you can sustain the withdrawal.
• I list some of the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle.

Links

The Low Blood Sugar Symptom List  (Download Nourish Yourself on this page)

Articles:
10 Reasons Why Sugar is Bad for Your Health

14 Simple Ways to Stop Eating Lots of Sugar

Your Brain on Sugar

Paul O’Brien is a visionary entrepreneur who invented a new category of software in 1989 that evolved to become the world’s largest astrology and divination websites. He sold the company in 2007 and has since authored three books, including Intuitive Intelligence, his latest. Paul is a sought-after speaker, philanthropist, and founder of the educational Divination Foundation.

Highlights

• Paul tells us about how he was introduced to the I-Ching – an ancient divination system – and how he used it to help him make decisions.
• He explains how divination works.
• In the 1980s he figured out how to create divination software based on the I-Ching.
• In his book, Intuitive Intelligence, Paul helps us understand synchronicity and its relationship with time.
• How to figure out who you are is part of what he talks about in his book.
• We talk about what can interfere with intuitive messages, especially fear.
• You can’t “read between the lines” when there’s a lot of chatter in your brain.
• Once you decide to notice synchronicity, you will.
• If you slow down, things will evolve more smoothly.
• Being visionary is being able to see patterns.
• We talk about what a society of aware people would look like.
• Egocentricity keeps us from seeing the deeper meaning of things.
• To find meaning, you have to come from the heart.
• Take a risk that can grow you.
• Intuition is of the heart.
• Ego is a limited level of consciousness.

Links

The Divination Foundation

Intention + Action Coaching Group

Intuitive Intelligence book on Amazon

Kristin Sunanta Walker is the CEO of Mental Health News Radio Network – a global network of podcasts dedicated to mental health, which is the only podcast network in the world dedicated to this topic. She is the host of multiple podcasts and is also a founding member of Digital Tech Initiative – created to research, study, and provide awareness around digital media addiction. 

Highlights

• Kristin shares her personal story and how that led to the formation of the network.
• There’s a lot more to mental health than just talk therapy.
• For Kristin, talk therapy was very helpful.
• People have to try a few things until they find something that works for them.
• Listeners to the network often say that the shows let them feel less alone.
• Kristin’s show is about healing from abuse.
• We have a long discussion about digital media addiction and how Kristin decided to learn as much as possible about it.
• If you aren’t aware of how you are using technology, you may not be aware of how it is using you.
• Students often don’t know how to have real human communications.
• By talking about digital addition it helps people realize that it is.
• Kristin tells us what to do if you are addicted to your digital media.
• People are beginning to see that there has to be time off from devices.
• There’s a lot of discussion going on about how to disconnect from media and reconnect with each other.
• A lot of young people don’t have a lot of experience connecting.
• We need to figure out how to connect to each other more authentically.

Links

Access the network: www.MHNRnetwork.com

Contact Kristin: info@mhnrnetwork.com

It feels like we are in a process of great change, which can lead to a lot of feelings of discomfort because of the uncertainty. This requires that you look at things from a different point of view. What if, everything that is happening really is for our own good?

Highlights

• The process of moving forward can be uncomfortable. I talk about how you need the stirring up in order to move forward.
• Are you willing to let go of your attachment to the past?
• The process is about letting go and building new.
• There’s an energy of change on the planet. Seeing our connection to everything helps to deal with the change.
• Santa Fe, where I live, is a peaceful place, so I don’t live in the conflict.
• It takes time to turn things around.
• What do you want to be feeling in the next few years? You can decide how you want to feel.
• Although I don’t know where my life is going, I feel it moving in a positive direction.
• There needs to be an internal cleansing.
• The clearing process happens over a period of time.
• Although we are going through a difficult time, it’s part of the process of change.

Links

Prosperity Place

Intention + Action Coaching Group

Holistic Prosperity Facebook Group

Info about the Energy Adjustments

In today’s episode, I discuss a prosperity principle that people aren’t always aware of. It takes a bit of time to understand, but once you get it, your perception of your problems can change dramatically. This makes it easier to find solutions.

Highlights

• Here’s the principle: The situation you are in doesn’t cause your emotions, your emotions create the situation.
• Your emotions are the creative force behind your life stories.
• Emotions are not inherent in a situation.
• I use a disappointment habit as an example.
• I talk about a process for recognizing and altering your habitual feelings.

Links

Intention  + Action Coaching Group

In this episode, I talk about being a “closet woo” and hiding the thing I love to do best. I wonder what you may be hiding in plain sight that’s keeping you from enjoying your full expression – and the success that can come from being honest about who you are.

Highlights

• Finding out who we really are and expressing it is one of our life journeys.
• There’s an evolution of consciousness that happens with each decade.
• Much of our life is finding out who we are not before we find out who we are.
• Learn how to enjoy what you’re doing and to not judge it.
• My goal was to not let my money determine how I feel and not to worry about anything.
• I talk about the energy adjustments that I’ve been doing for many years and was afraid to talk about with total confidence.
• I share some stories about things that happened when I did energy adjustments.
• Why are you still hiding?
• I talk about my new goal and how I’m going to handle it and changing my old habits.
• Your cash flow is related to the energy flow through you.
• Your emotions are the creative force behind your life stories.
• What about you is hiding in plain sight?

Links

Intention + Action Coaching Group

I’m a Success, Now What? Coaching

Today I want to talk about never having enough. About 95% of the people who contact me say that they do not have enough to do what they want or to invest in their business. They are always in this place of not having enough.

Camille Adair has developed a unique approach to coaching and consulting, informed by her experience working with people related to life and death as a hospice nurse, educator and health care leader.  Over the years she has developed a practice that allows her to serve as a guide, facilitator and mentor in accessing one's inner wisdom and healing and in leading groups toward organizational health.  

Certified in emotional intelligence and family constellation work, with formal training in mindfulness practice, Camille has synthesized these modalities into a blended approach providing a resource-rich, individualized framework for her clients. 

The best way to save on healthcare costs is to stay healthy. Since most physical problems are the result of poor lifestyle choices, you have the ability to stave off chronic problems and serious dis-ease by making different choices. In this episode, I discuss some of the alternatives to traditional allopathic medicine.

After working in traditional financial firms since 2007 and then going to work for a NY start-up Sophia Bera decided to quit her job to launch her own firm, Gen Y Planning. Now, she’s location independent and is the top Google search for “Financial Planner for Millennials.”

Sophia’s been quoted in The New York Times, Forbes, Business Insider, AOL, The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine and more. She was recently named one of “10 Young Advisors to Watch” by Financial Advisor Magazine and one of the “Top 40 Under 40” by InvestmentNews.

In this episode Joan Sotkin talks about the one decision you have to make in order to get unstuck and move forward, to take your business to another level, or to reach a specific goal.

After leaving a full-time job with Apple Retail, Zephan Blaxberg had a series of interesting experiences before he started his podcast, the Year of Purpose, early this year. He interviews entrepreneurs and experts all over the globe who are living a life on their own terms, which is exactly what he’s doing – and I’ll let him fill in the details.

Awfulizing is a term coined by psychologist Albert Ellis. It refers to an irrational and dramatic thought pattern, characterized by the tendency to overestimate the potential seriousness or negative consequences of events, situations, or perceived threats. Joan Sotkin gives tips and suggestion on how to stop Awfulizing. 

Jennifer Lipski is the co-creator of the online community network, MyMetaWorld: Inner Wisdom in Community. She has been working in health and wellness in different capacities. She is a published writer, public speaker, avid home cook and animal advocate with a BS in Technical & Science Communications and is currently completing her MA in Transpersonal Psychology.

Can You Really Easily Make Money Online? I recently received an email with the subject, “Can you create a 50K a month Webinar?” Of course, the copy said you can. This kind of over-the-top claim is rarely true. I’ve been doing tele-classes and webinars for 12 years and have been doing business online for 20, so I think I can give you a realistic overview of the potential for earning money online.

When I first got online 20 years ago, I knew the Internet was the future.

Story Telling and Solo Performance

Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, www.TheSoloPerformanceCoach.com,  is one of the world’s premier Solo Performance Coaches and Directors. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she works with actors, writers and other creative people to create outstanding One-Person Shows that are performed at theaters, festivals and conferences world wide. Her work has been featured in O The Oprah Magazine, where it was called “a gift and a necessity,” on NPR, in BackStage and on CBS (The Early Show). She is also the co-editor of the book The Cancer Monologue Project.

I’ve come to believe that the outcomes of our life stories are the result of our habitual thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors, many of which develop in early childhood.

Your emotions act as a bridge between your internal and external worlds.

My guest today is Jim Bouchard. Through his life in martial arts, Jim transformed himself from dropout, drug abuser and failure to successful entrepreneur and Black Belt.

Now as a business speaker, trainer and author of THINK Like a BLACK BELT and THE SENSEI LEADER, Jim is in demand internationally touring and speaking to corporate and conference audiences. He appears regularly on TV and radio including such programs as BBC Worldview and FOX

How Your Childhood Experience of Touch Influences Your Business and Finances 

In past episodes, I’ve talked about the need for connection and how that need often leads to bad decision making. In this episode, I take the idea a step farther and examine how our need for touch can affect our business and our finances, especially when it comes to under-earning.

Jeffrey Goodman has long history of business successes including life as a fashion/advertising photographer and then developing a very successful private practice in energy medicine which he formed a long waiting list of clients within his first 3 months of starting his business.

Jeffrey was born a visionary with a very rare and unique ability to see the invisible patterns of nature and life. His compassionate guidance has helped thousands of people from all over the world discover their own health and powerful abilities both personally and professionally. He has also been mentoring and advising practitioners on creating business success for over a decade.

Expanding Our World by Tapping into Other Dimensions

Today, I’m sharing a story that will set the foundation for talking about developing your inner resources and getting in touch with who you really are, which is something that really interests me. In the episode I talk about the time, 40 years ago, when I was first contacted by what I thought was a being in another dimension. I’ve since learned that it was another dimension of myself.

When I saw the name of my guest’s book, I knew I wanted to talk to Dawn Fotopolus whose new book is Accounting for the Numberphobic: A survival Guide for Small Business Owners.

Dawn is the associate professor of business at The King’s College and the founder of BestSmallBizHelp.com, an award-winning blog dedicated to helping struggling solopreneurs. As an experienced entrepreneur and small-business turnaround expert she has rescued hundreds of small business from financial disaster. Dawn has led an accomplished 20-year career in business, working as a serial entrepreneur, vice-president at Citigroup and Wall Street trader. Fotopulos is a certified facilitator in the Kauffman FastTrac Program, and is a CEO leader for the Job Creators Network. An expert in her field, she has been featured on MSNBC’s “Your Business,” at the New York Times Small Business Summit and in Forbes.

One of the questions I get most often is, “Why can’t I reach my income potential?” In today’s episode I discuss some of the factors that can lead to what might be considered under earning, with a focus on expectations that develop in early childhood that affect your financial outcomes.

How Simplifying Can Give Your Life Meaning and Purpose.

Joel Zaslofsky is the host of the Smart and Simple Matters Podcast and the curator and simplifier behind Value of Simple and the SimpleREV movement. In March 2012, two years after his personal renaissance shook him awake, he quit his cushy corporate job to help people simplify, organize, and be money wise. When he’s not enjoying nature, making his wife smile, or playing with his two young sons, he’s living intentionally, being Paleo, and Experience Curating.

Finding My Right Professional Description

In this episode, I share the process I’m going through trying to find the right “label” for the work I do. Our culture requires that we call ourselves something, but sometimes, that’s hard to pinpoint in a few words.

I also look at the emotion of sorrow, which is often passed down through generations.

One of the First Prosperity Teachers Is Back!

I was first introduced to Jerry Gillies in the early 1980s when I read his book Money Love, which was one of the first prosperity books. He has now published an updated version, Money Love 3.0.

Along with his thoughts about prosperity, Jerry shares the story of why he had to spend 12 years in prison in order to find what really matters to him.

Quieting the Critical Voice in Your Head

Recently I was listening to someone who is really successful at what he does and was surprised to hear that he still deals with a lot of negative self-talk. So, I thought this is a good time to talk about that critical voice in your head and how to replace it with something more productive.

Doing a better job of Stacking Benjamins Joe Saul-Sehy is the co-host of the award winning magazine-style podcast Stacking Benjamins. Joe and his partner OG cover a wide range of financial topics and talk to interesting guests live from Joe’s parent’s basement.

Before Stacking Benjamins, Joe was a financial advisor for 16 years and spokesperson in the media for Ameriprise Financial. He’s been quoted in publications ranging from the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Sun Times, and magazines like Bride, Best Life and Child. He was the Detroit ABC television affiliate, WXYZ’s Money Man for nine years, appearing twice weekly on the news. While he knows about finance, he’s also always on the lookout for someone to pay his twin’s college tuition bill.

Raising Your Personal Energy

In this episode Joan Sotkins talk about how the energy you generate affects your business and personal outcomes, and I offer suggestions to increasing the positive energy flow through your body-mind. If you want to change what you are drawing into your life, take a look at your thoughts, emotions, food and sleep habits, and your surroundings.

Affluence: Alison Pena was born into a wealthy family, rubbing elbows with millionaires, blind to any other reality. My eyes were opened by a friend who grew up in Harlem. This observation got her wondering… Why does money have so much to do with our view of what’s possible?

Over time, she realized that this view – limitless opportunity, limitless possibility – wasn’t about money. It was about affluence. She now sees existing affluence everywhere, accessible by choice.

Alison’s passion is teaching entrepreneurs to step into the time, money and freedom they desire.

Use Money As a Tool for Personal Growth:

In this episode I talk about how our money beliefs and emotions are mirrors of what we believe and how we feel about ourselves. I also give suggestions that you can use to use money to grow and expand on a personal level.

Annemarie Cross, a Money, Marketing, & Mindset Business Coach and inspiring speaker based in Melbourne, Australia works with clients from across the globe. Her passion is to help women entrepreneurs (especially coaches and consultants) and executives design and launch powerful online and offline marketing strategies so they can finally get noticed, hired and paid what they’re worth.

Annemarie is also the Co-Founder of CoachesConnectionAcademy.com – THE Business Building Community & Membership Program Globally for Coaches to Connect, Learn and Grow.

Her podcast, Ambitious Entrepreneur, was listed in the top 25 Business podcasts for Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur.com and other podcasts lists.

Effective Connecting for Success in Business
In today’s episode I continue sharing my ideas about the importance of  connection and offer some suggestions for getting out of your own way so you can connect to others and counter feelings of aloneness you may have.

We all need and crave connection and having a good support system and community is essential.

My guest today is Jim Palmer who is a marketing and business-building expert and in-demand coach. He is the founder of the Dream Biz Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program.  Jim is the host of Newsletter Guru TV, the hit weekly web tv show watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners, and he is also the host of Stick Like Glue Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim’s unique brand of smart marketing and business building strategies. Jim is best known internationally as the Newsletter Guru and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, the ultimate “done-for-you” newsletter marketing program used by hundreds of clients in nine countries.

Jim’s latest book is called Decide.

In today’s episode Joan Sotkin talks about the human need for connection, how it manifests through behaviors such as compulsive debting, overspending, excessive drinking, gambling, etc. Understanding this need for connection can help you build your business and market your services.

Comparing Yourself to Others and Taking Things Personally
In today’s episode, I talk about two things that follow the “Courage to Be You” theme and can keep you stuck where you are. They are comparing yourself to others and taking things personally. Understanding these can help you  improve your self-esteem develop a success identity.

Reprogramming Your Subconscious to Lose Weight, Alter Financial Behaviors and More 

Asher Fox is a pioneer in the integration of several fields of study into a comprehensive therapeutic approach that creates rapid and lasting improvements in the lives of his clients where prior forms of therapy and treatment proved ineffective. His approach simultaneously addresses the subconscious, conscious and environmental levels of human behavior in a way that creates generative change and lasting life-long results.

Although he specializes in working with people with weight-loss issues, we talk about how his techniques can be used for altering unproductive financial behaviors.

The power of story in Business - Sales and Marketing
Aprille Janes has many years of experience as a business consultant in corporate, but she left the corporate life and now works as a small business coach, speaker, and host of the Bolder Business Podcast. Her favorite focus is helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs leverage the power of story for sales and marketing so they can stand out, become memorable, and close more business.

Finding the courage to tell you who I am Joan Sotkin
Like many of you, I have managed to find a way to seem “normal” in a world where there really is no normal. Now, it’s time for me to modify the proper business woman persona I have developed and let the playful, creative part of me come out. I hope you’ll join me and let your “real” self express itself.

Indigo Ocean Dutton is a prolific entrepreneur, social innovator and author. She is founder of Awaken Business Consulting, Aspiratech, and the Phone Buddies Online Peer Counseling Community. She is also the author of "Being Bliss" and “Micro Habits for Major Happiness.” The Awaken motto is, "Transform your business, transform your life," because Indigo believes that the work we do in the world is an integral part of our path of spiritual awakening.  

Today I talk about a problem faced by many entrepreneurs – income that goes up and down - Income ups and downs. Because entrepreneurs are an optimistic bunch, they often think, during the up times, that there won’t be another down and they don’t plan on the income cycles. 

My guest today is Kathleen Gage, who has been doing business on the internet for many years - an internet marketer. She’s the author of Power Up for Profits: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Online Marketing and her mission is to inspire you to live fully, play full out, generate great revenue, and leave a lasting legacy.

On the day we changed our clocks in the U.S., I gave a talk at a gathering in Santa Fe about how people are often affected by change. My question for the group was, “What have you not done that you wanted to do because you were afraid of the consequences of making a big change?”   

Rev. Karen Russo is Your Spiritual Guide in Wealth.  She’s the award-winning author of The Money Keys: Unlocking Peace, Freedom and Real Financial Power, endorsed by her teachers Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, Loral Langemeier, T. Harv Eker, and Katherine Woodward Thomas with a forward by Bob Proctor.  Karen contributed a featured chapter to Sharon Lechter’s Think and Grow Rick for Women.

With her unusual blend of experience as an MBA from Columbia University, an accomplished corporate trainer, top selling salesperson, and an ordained interfaith minister, Karen shares insights from over 25 years of spiritual and secular success. 

The Prosperity Show is about building your professional practice from the inside out. Developing your inner awareness and focusing on your own physical and emotional health makes it much easier to express yourself authentically and profitably through your business and professional practice.

Today I take a look at two questions on topics raised by listeners - 1. The time it takes to change your financial identity and 2. Why it is so important to express emotions. Time and emotions.

Jordan E. Goodman is “America’s Money Answers Man” and a nationally-recognized expert on personal finance. He is a regular guest on numerous radio and television call-in shows across the country, answering questions on personal financial topics. He appears frequently on The View, Fox News Network, Fox Business Network, CNN, CNBC and CBS evening news.

For 18 years, Jordan was on the editorial staff of Money magazine, where he served as Wall Street correspondent. While at Money, he reported and wrote on virtually every aspect of personal finance. In addition, he served as weekly financial analyst on NBC News at Sunrise for 9 years and the daily business news commentator on Mutual Broadcasting System’s America in the Morning show for 8 years.

If you suffer from chronic or ongoing debt, you’ll want to listen to this episode.

I was a compulsive debtor and have had a lot of experience dealing with debt. In this episode I talk about how my family background set the stage for my debting, including when my father went bankrupt. I also offer some insight into how you might be using debt to express habitual emotions.

Stacey Couch, CSP, CAC has dedicated her life to nurturing the sacred bond between humans and nature. She works as a publicist and journalist for Mother Nature, empowering people with the ability to form a real connection with their own souls.

In this episode she talks about her experience living alone on an island where she developed a relationship with a family of hawks and other birds. Her book, Gracious Wild, is about this experience.

The Prosperity Show is About building your professional practice from the inside out. Developing your inner awareness and focusing on your own physical and emotional health makes it much easier to express yourself authentically and profitably through your business and professional practice.

This is the second episode of my new series where I am staying true to my theme of the courage to be you.  In these episodes I get a little more personal and share what is going on with me. I invite you to leave your questions, stories and comments.  Being vulnerable - If one other person shares at the level of your feelings we do not feel so alone. 

Today's topic - Financial Transitions.

Psychotherapist and Difficult Conversations Expert Rachel Alexandria teaches corporate climbers and business owners how to get clear of their care-taking and conflict-avoidance and start leading the brilliant lives they are meant to live. Trusted by clients and fans as a therapist who walks her talk, Rachel helps visionaries and peace-seekers find their emotional center in the midst of inner turmoil. Through her proven methods, women learn how to recognize the warning signs of inner panic, create easy-to-remember strategies and declare themselves as powerful collaborators and leaders.

The Prosperity Show examines a holistic approach to building a business or professional practice. In this episode, Joan Sotkin talks about Sustainability in terms of your business and your self. 

Patti Keating is the Founder of The Entrepreneur Unleashed and the host of The Entrepreneur Unleashed Podcast. She’s a Mentor and Strategist for purpose driven entrepreneurs and she has created money, mindset and business breakthroughs for thousands of people, resulting in millions of dollars. 

Dr. Joe Vitale is the author of way too many bestselling  books to mention here. Some of them include The Attractor Factor, Life's Missing Instruction Manual, The Key,

Faith, Attract Money Now and his latest is a sequel to his bestseller, Zero Limits which was officially launched in January 2014, entitled At Zero. Stay tuned for his soon to be released book, The Secret Prayer!

Joe has also been in several movies, including the blockbuster The Secret. He's been on the following TV shows: Larry King Live, Donny Deutsch's “The Big Idea,” CNN, CNBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News: Fox & Friends and Extra TV. He's also been featured in The New York Times and Newsweek.