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Najwa Zebian is an activist, author, speaker, and educator.  Najwa recently launched a digital school, Soul Academy, and a podcast, Stories of the Soul.   Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Glamour, Elle, Huffington Post, and more.  She’s well known for her TEDx Talk “Finding Home Through Poetry“

In this episode, Eric and Najwa discuss her new book, Welcome Home:  A Guide to Building a Home For Your Soul.

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In This Interview, Najwa Zebian and I Discuss How to Build a Home for Your Soul and …

• Her book, Welcome Home:  A Guide to Building a Home For Your Soul.
• Her search for the feeling of home within herself
• Learning to see herself through her own eyes and not other’s eyes
• The feeling of being loved needs to come from within
• How to balance being at home in yourself with your relationships with other people
• Identifying your “guest list” who you’d welcome into your home
• Being at home in yourself allows for the best connections with others
• Being worthy of love is not based on pleasing others or working hard for it
• Self-acceptance is about knowing who you are and not focusing on what other people think
• Changing the question from “why can’t I have that” to “why don’t I have that” 
• The self-fulfilling prophecy of what you believe is what you will live
• Self-accountability and choosing your actions
• Forgiveness is not a one-step thing, but a constant process of choosing to let go
• The activities of the blank canvas mirror and the unveiling mirror
• Finding clarity and asking yourself “what’s next?”
• Choosing to speak to yourself kindly

Najwa Zebian Links:

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Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation and is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Her research has focused on why people succeed and how to foster success.  She has held professorships at Columbia University and Harvard University, has lectured all over the world, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on Today and 20/20. 

In this episode, Carol and Eric discuss her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

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In This Interview, Carol Dweck and I Discuss Fixed and Growth Mindset and …

• Her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• How in the growth mindset we believe in our ability to grow and change
• In the fixed mindset we become afraid to not know or to fail
• Listening to and accepting what our minds think
• Learning to talk back to our default mindset
• Recognizing that we have a choice of our mindset
• How we can have a fixed and growth mindset in different areas of our lives
• A growth mindset doesn’t say that there aren’t differences in skills and ability
• How people with the fixed mindset are not inspired by role models
• The mindset approach can be used in regards to personality
• That teenagers that are taught the growth mindset are less likely to become depressed
• Learning to use the growth mindset
• In a growth mindset we can see criticism as feedback, as a way to change
• Relationships grow better in a growth mindset

Carol Dweck Links:

Mindset Works

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Jonathan Fields is a father, husband, award-winning author, executive producer, and host of one of the top-ranked podcasts in the world, The Good Life Project. He also speaks globally to groups and organizations and his work has been featured widely in the media including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Oprah Magazine, and many others. 

In this episode, Jonathan and Eric discuss his book, Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive. 

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In This Interview, Jonathan Fields and I Discuss How to Discover Your Sparketype and …

• His book, Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive
• The 10 impulses that underlie the drives that humans have
• Why the words “life purpose” and “passion” often lead us down the wrong path
• How very often in life there’s not A “right” answer
• How to find out your Sparketype
• The difference between primary, shadow, and anti sparketypes
• Eric’s Sparketype
• How to align your work with your Sparketype (without blowing up your life!)
• How to figure out the answer to “what am I going to do with my life?”
• How to step into the important work of self discovery

Jonathan Fields Links:

Jonathan’s Website

Sparketype Assessment

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Dr. Miles Neale is among the leading voices of the current generation of Buddhist teachers and is a forerunner in the emerging field of Contemplative Psychotherapy.  He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice, an international speaker, and a faculty member of the Tibet House (US) and Weill Cornell Medical College.  

In this episode, Miles and Eric discuss his book, Gradual Awakening:  The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human

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In This Interview, Dr. Miles Neale and I Discuss Gradual Awakening and…

• His book, Gradual Awakening:  The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human
• How a person’s mythology is held in the unconscious with the framework that was formed in childhood
• Shadow work is diving deep into the unconscious or the inner child
• The process of going from understanding our behavior to changing it 
• How processing emotions need to be included in behavior change
• The importance of establishing a new framework in the complex inner work
• Becoming fully human is complex and requires commitment
• The gradual and direct paths to awakening experiences
• How awakening requires a new framework within the psyche
• The importance of understanding the complexities of psychedelics
• The paradigm of the current wellness movement and materialism
• How we can miss the power of many transformative techniques 
• Aligning ourselves with the greater good

Dr. Miles Neale Links:

Miles’s Website

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Bob Thurman is a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University.  He’s also the President of the Tibet House US, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization.  He’s also the President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies.  

In this episode, Bob and Eric discuss his book, Wisdom is Bliss:  Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life

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In This Interview, Bob Thurman and I Discuss How to Find Bliss and …

• His book:  Wisdom is Bliss:  Four Friendly Fun Facts That Can Change Your Life
• How our civilization is based on fear
• The wisdom in the bliss view is that reality is good and that you get back what you put into it.
• The Four Friendly Fun Facts he renamed from the four noble truths
• How altruism strengthens our sense of self-worth
• To be noble means you become more “we” oriented than “me” oriented
• The deepest level of reality is love, abundance, energy
• First Friendly Fact is to take responsibility to understand our ultimate reality or we will suffer
• Second Friendly Fact is the diagnosis- to understand that we are not the center of everything
• Third Friendly Fact is the prognosis or needing to unlearn and opening ourselves to what we really are
• Fourth Friendly Fact is the “therapy” or the eightfold path of how we can open our own minds to find freedom and bliss
• Our tendency to see things as absolute rather than relative
• Investigation is the real practice of Buddhism and meditation is a tool
• Realistic mindfulness is noticing what’s going on in the real world
• The three types of wisdom are born of learning, unlearning, and freedom

Bob Thurman Links:

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