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Mary O’Malley is an author and speaker who has studied with Patricia Sun, Steven Levine, Jack Kornfield, Pema Chodron, Adyashanti, and more!  Since the early 1980’s, she has been writing books, speaking to groups, leading retreats, and working with people all over the world.  

In this episode, Eric and Mary O’Malley discuss how to bring awareness and attention to our heart and learn to fall in love with ourselves.

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Mary O’Malley and I Discuss How to Fall in Love with You and …

• Learning to embrace the difficult makes it lose its power
• Noticing what is here brings awareness and openness
• Our minds are a tool for maneuvering reality, but are not reality
• How our challenges will be our teachers if we let them
• Understanding that our heart is connected to everything and is the doorway to freedom
• Her course, “Falling in Love With You”
• How your home is your heart
• The pathways back to YOU
• What you try to control, controls you
• One of our core addictions is fixing ourselves
• The difference between meeting and feeling our feelings
• How attention heals
• The importance finding curiosity in your immediate experience

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Kute Blackson is an inspirational speaker and transformational teacher. Born in Ghana, West Africa, Kute’s multicultural upbringing as the child of a Japanese mother and a Ghanaian father has spanned four different continents. His unique lineage lay the foundation for his approach to breaking down barriers and unlocking an individual’s true gifts and greatness. He now speaks at countless events around the world, is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, and was the winner of the 2019 Unity New Thought Walden Award. 

In this episode, Eric and Kute Blackson discuss his book, The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go.

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Kute Blackson and I Discuss The Magic of Surrender and …

• His book, The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go
• The importance of connecting with who we really are underneath the patterns and stories we’ve built as we grow up
• Is what I believe about myself and what I believe about life fact or a story?
• The value of a guide or coach to help you see things about yourself that you may not be seeing
• How all lessons are repeated until learned
• That meeting ourselves with compassion allows us to let go of outdated coping mechanisms
• The difference between surrendering and succumbing to our feelings
• All feelings remain present until fully felt
• When you take the label off the feeling, it’s an energy and sensation that can be experienced in your body
• How grief can actually break our hearts open to a new way of being, a new dimension of love and strength 
• What surrender is and isn’t

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Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction physician, bioethics scholar, and author  He is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and also hosts the podcast “Flourishing After Addiction”

In this episode, Eric and Carl Erik Fisher discuss his book, The Urge:  Our History of Addiction.

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Carl Erik Fisher and I Discuss The History of Addiction and …

• His book,  The Urge:  Our History of Addiction.
• Recognizing the paradigm of disordered choice in addiction
• The different approaches to understanding choices for addicts
• Psychological flexibility and how
• Society’s categorical views of treatment approaches to addiction
• Placebo effects in treating addiction
• The dangers of labeling “good” drugs and “bad” drugs
• Drug policies and why there is no simple formula for treating addiction
• How addiction is part of the human condition
• Defining recovery capital
• Understanding there are many different pathways to recovery
• The step care model and one size fits all model of recover
• The spiritual practice that he developed in recovery
• Knowing that the key to overcoming addiction is to try

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Debbie Millman is a writer, designer, educator, artist, brand consultant and host of the podcast, Design Matters.  Debbie was named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company Magazine and one of the most influential designers working today by Graphic Design USA.  She is the author of 7 books, including her most recent, Why Design Matters:  Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People

In this episode, Eric and Debbie Millman have an interesting discussion about why design matters in every aspect of your life..

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Debbie Millman and I Discuss Why Design Matters and …

• Her book, Why Design Matters:  Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People
• Her slow process of shedding shame from her traumatic past
• Finding her way back to creative work after pursuing security
• Taking small steps and practicing every day can bring forth hope
• Design is about intention and decision making about everything
• Learning to deal with rejection and to perseverance
• How confidence comes after you do something many times
• Expecting things to be hard and messy

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Christian Jarrett is the author, editor or contributor to ten books, spanning psychology, neuroscience, self-help and productivity.  He is recognized as a chartered psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. and is the Deputy Editor of Psyche, a global digital magazine that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophical understanding and the arts.

Eric and Christian discuss his latest is Be Who You Want: Unlocking The Science of Personality Change.

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Christian Jarrett and I Discuss The Science of Personality and …

• His book,  Be Who You Want: Unlocking The Science of Personality Change
• How some traits are genetic but don’t entirely influence our personality
• Deliberate actions can short circuit our innate tendencies
• How cognitive and physical exercise builds confidence and encourages open mindedness
• The link between mood and personality
• Defining mood as the temporary state of how you feel
• How extroversion and introversion personalities are affected by habit
• The 5 main traits of personality:  openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
• The maturity principle and how personality traits change as we age
• How those who are more open and resilient are less prone to dementia
• Social investment theory refers to how the roles we take on in life shape our personality
• Will power and the ego depletion theory
• The importance of being realistic and honest with ourselves when wanting to change

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Martha Beck is a bestselling author, life coach, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve greater levels of personal and professional success. She is the author of nine nonfiction books and one novel, and has been a longtime contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine.  Her most recent book is The Way of Integrity:  Finding the Path to Your True Self 

Eric and Martha discuss how to live in integrity and find the path to your true self.

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Martha Beck and I Discuss The Path to Your True Self and …

• Her book, The Way of Integrity:  Finding the Path to Your True Self\
• How what we often want is influenced by our culture
• Asking ourselves what we yearn for as opposed to what you want
• The repetitive cycle of thoughts that cause fear
• How our culture reinforces the fear 
• Learning to move from fear to curiosity
• How humor and using your senses can turn down our fear
• The dilemma of when our nature conflicts with our culture
• Psychological suffering comes from the thoughts we choose to believe
• Why suffering is needed to make us pay attention and can actually be our ally
• Understanding that we have different “internal parts” that make up our whole self (Ref. to Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems
• Her New Year’s resolution to not lie for a year and the healing that she found
• Navigating her way out of the Mormon religion
• How switching our identity to a material self to a limitless state of being brings joy
• Learning to imagine the good that will come from facing our discomfort
• The power of small, incremental, and repetitive actions to change your life

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