Podcasts about Ego

Eileen invites Nikki Mammano, author of Breaking Good to the show. Without spoiling the memoir the two discuss addiction, drug abuse, bad decisions, and even worse consequences. A harrowing and suspenseful glimpse in time that reminds us that sometimes breaking completely is the only way to become whole. Get A Signed Copy of the Book "Breaking Good"  here www.nikkimammano.comGet Involved and Learn More About Ryse Hawaii Here www.rysehawaii.org/donate/Support the showStrangers With Kittens is a podcast created by Eileen Kelly and Produced by Ashley Aker. You can listen to full podcast episodes on Spotify, Amazon, Audible, and Apple Podcasts. Follow Strangers With Kittens On Social Media Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube Keep The Conversation Going https://www.strangerswithkittens.com/

You cannot improve what you refuse to accept. In today's episode, Kevin and Alan break down the uncomfortable starting point of real self-improvement. Everyone wants growth, confidence, and better results, but far fewer people are willing to face the honest truths that make those outcomes possible. This conversation explores why self-awareness and acceptance sit at the foundation of personal development, leadership, and long-term progress.When the ego protects comfort over truth, growth stalls. When reality becomes clear, better decisions follow. Press play and see what happens when denial quietly leaves the room._______________________Episode Reference:The Pyramid of The Self - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/16-how-build-your-best-self-from-ground-up-alan-lazaros-ya3oe/Learn more about:Track the Work. Earn the Results. To know more about the "Next Level Fitness Accountability Group," reach out.Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/Alan: https://www.instagram.com/alazaros88/Book Alan's Business Breakthrough Session. Your first 30-minute coaching call is FREE. Learn how to prioritize success and let your quality of life become the byproduct. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-session_______________________NLU is not just a podcast; it's a gateway to a wealth of resources designed to help you achieve your goals and dreams. From our Next Level Dreamliner to our Group Coaching, we offer a variety of tools and communities to support your personal development journey.For more information, check out our website and socials using the links below.

Taking your shoes off in the house. Ego death. Lemon Party. Is it still a Rueben sandwich if there is no rye bread? Lemon pepper steppers. Ayahuasca treatment to cure depression and anxiety. DMT. We are all connected through our consciousness. Duji has never seen The Matrix. New rules on where to put your hands on the steering wheel. President Trump has fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Why did JLR call Curious George? JLR would not work at Wendy's as their taste tester for $100k. McDonald's CEO tried their new Big Arch burger. Charlie eats his burgers upside down. A mother has been arrested in connection with two little girls' deaths in Cleveland. A middle school teacher was caught urinating in the classroom and pouring it down the sink. Prediction "betting" market Kalshi, doesn't want to pay out on bets tied to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Rover would cut U.S. flags out of the newspaper when he was young. Curious George calls to find out why JLR called him.

Taking your shoes off in the house. Ego death. Lemon Party. Is it still a Rueben sandwich if there is no rye bread? Lemon pepper steppers. Ayahuasca treatment to cure depression and anxiety. DMT. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Taking your shoes off in the house. Ego death. Lemon Party. Is it still a Rueben sandwich if there is no rye bread? Lemon pepper steppers. Ayahuasca treatment to cure depression and anxiety. DMT. We are all connected through our consciousness. Duji has never seen The Matrix. New rules on where to put your hands on the steering wheel. President Trump has fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Why did JLR call Curious George? JLR would not work at Wendy's as their taste tester for $100k. McDonald's CEO tried their new Big Arch burger. Charlie eats his burgers upside down. A mother has been arrested in connection with two little girls' deaths in Cleveland. A middle school teacher was caught urinating in the classroom and pouring it down the sink. Prediction "betting" market Kalshi, doesn't want to pay out on bets tied to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Rover would cut U.S. flags out of the newspaper when he was young. Curious George calls to find out why JLR called him. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Taking your shoes off in the house. Ego death. Lemon Party. Is it still a Rueben sandwich if there is no rye bread? Lemon pepper steppers. Ayahuasca treatment to cure depression and anxiety. DMT. 

Tonight we confront a possibility that many relationships quietly orbit but rarely name. Some people do not pursue love. They pursue ego compliance. In other words, the relationship slowly transforms into a service counter for someone's identity. You've seen it. Eyeservice. Lipservice. Curbservice. Eyeservice shows up first. That moment when sincerity suddenly appears whenever someone watches. Public affection rises. The image shines. The couple looks unified. But once the audience disappears, warmth quietly evaporates. The performance fulfilled its purpose: protecting the ego's reputation. Then comes lipservice. Words overflow with promises—growth, accountability, forever language. Yet behavior remains unchanged. Lipservice operates like emotional theater: the script sounds convincing, but the character never evolves. Finally, curbservice. The moment someone stops performing admiration—when truth interrupts the script—the relationship abruptly ends. The partner who no longer protects the ego's image gets rolled to the curb like expired garbage.

Send a textOn this episode of To The Top Jeremy Sonny and Al take a different approach at the New Year New Me Episode We hope you get some good value from this one

Kolaborasi Radikal muncul sebagai respons mendesak terhadap tantangan global yang disebut sebagai "Masalah Pelik" (Wicked Problems), seperti krisis iklim dan ketimpangan ekonomi, yang mustahil diselesaikan oleh satu entitas saja. Di tengah paradigma pemasaran konvensional yang sering kali terjebak dalam obsesi persaingan dan dominasi pasar, strategi ini menawarkan pergeseran fundamental dari mentalitas "Ego" menuju "Ekosistem". Alih-alih berusaha menjadi yang terbaik di dunia dengan mengisolasi diri atau menjatuhkan lawan, organisasi kini dituntut untuk menjadi yang terbaik bagi dunia dengan menyadari bahwa skala dampak yang masif hanya bisa dicapai melalui kerja sama kolektif yang inklusif dan terbuka. Secara konseptual, Kolaborasi Radikal melampaui batas-batas kemitraan tradisional dengan melibatkan "Sekutu yang Tak Terduga", termasuk para pesaing langsung atau lembaga lintas sektor yang tampak bertolak belakang. Kekuatan strategi ini bersandar pada tiga pilar utama: pencapaian skala yang luas melalui penggabungan infrastruktur logistik dan distribusi, perolehan legitimasi melalui asosiasi dengan pakar atau LSM kredibel, serta terciptanya inovasi hasil pertemuan berbagai perspektif unik yang berbeda. Melalui pendekatan ini, sebuah merek tidak hanya mengandalkan anggaran iklan untuk memenangkan perhatian, tetapi membangun kepercayaan radikal yang memungkinkan lahirnya solusi-solusi baru yang mustahil ditemukan jika hanya berdiskusi di dalam ruang rapat internal yang homogen. Implementasi efektif dari kolaborasi ini membutuhkan penyelarasan nilai yang mendalam pada tingkat tujuan (purpose) serta proses penciptaan bersama (co-creation) yang menempatkan komunitas sasaran sebagai mitra setara sejak tahap awal ideasi. Keberhasilan kolaborasi tidak lagi diukur dari sekadar angka penjualan atau keuntungan jangka pendek, melainkan dari kemampuannya untuk memicu sebuah gerakan sosial yang berkelanjutan. Pada akhirnya, Kolaborasi Radikal bertujuan membangun jaringan orang-orang dan organisasi yang tetap saling terhubung untuk mendorong perubahan positif, bahkan setelah kampanye pemasaran berakhir dan perhatian publik mulai berpindah ke isu lainnya.

What if the clarity you've been searching for isn't in your mindset—but in your heart? In this conversation with Kimberly Snyder, we explore heart coherence, emotional regulation, intuition, and why so many high-achieving women are stuck in the “propelled heart” phase of constant doing. Kimberly shares the five stages of the heart + how stress, ambition, trauma, and ego keep us disconnected from our true power. We talk about nervous system rewiring, hormonal balance, and how dropping from the mind into the heart can change your relationships, health, and magnetism. From manifesting her husband in six weeks to building a wellness empire while raising two kids, Kimberly reveals how living from the heart creates ease, intuition, and alignment. If you're tired of forcing, hustling, or overthinking your next move—this episode will feel like a reset. We also talk about: The five heart stages: dark heart, propelled heart, steady heart, devoted heart, and clear heart Heart coherence and its impact on cortisol, DHEA, hormones, and longevity Why “manifestation culture” often keeps women in the mind instead of the heart Healing grief + how tragedy can open your heart Ego vs. authenticity in relationships The difference between emotional reactivity + true heart connection Nervous system regulation through heart-focused breathing Intuition vs. overthinking How partnership accelerates spiritual growth Magnetism, energy fields, and how your heart affects others Redefining success beyond hustle + achievement Why ordinary moments can feel extraordinary when you're embodied Resources: Website: mysolluna.com  Book: The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts: Empower Your Thoughts, Balance Your Emotions, and Unlock Vibrant Health and Abundance Order our book, Almost 30: A Definitive Guide To A Life You Love For The Next Decade and Beyond, here: https://bit.ly/Almost30Book.  Sponsors: Ka'Chava | Go to https://www.kachava.com and use code ALMOST30 for 15% off your next order. Ritual | Don't settle for less than evidence-based support. My listeners get 25% off your first month at https://www.Ritual.com/ALMOST30.  Hero Bread | Hero Bread is offering 10% off your order. Go to https://hero.co and use code ALMOST30 at checkout. Revolve | Shop at https://www.REVOLVE.com/ALMOST30 and use code ALMOST30 for 15% off your first order. #REVOLVEpartner BetterHelp | This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/almost30 and get on your way to being your best self with 10% off your first month. Chime | It just takes a few minutes to sign up. Head to https://www.Chime.com/ALMOST30. Paleovalley | Head to https://www.paleovalley.com/almost30 for 15% off your order! Our Place | Visit https://www.fromourplace.com/ALMOST30 and use code ALMOST30 for 10% off sitewide.  Fatty15 | Get an additional 15% off their 90-day subscription Starter Kit by going to https://www.fatty15.com/ALMOST30 and use code ALMOST30 at checkout.  Our Place | Visit https://www.fromourplace.com/ALMOST30 and use code ALMOST30 for 10% off sitewide.  To advertise on this podcast please email: partnerships@almost30.com. Learn More: https://almost30.com/about https://almost30.com/morningmicrodose https://almost30.com/book Join our community: https://facebook.com/Almost30podcast/groups https://instagram.com/almost30podcast https://tiktok.com/@almost30podcast https://youtube.com/Almost30Podcast Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: almost30.com/disclaimer.  Almost 30 is edited by Garett Symes and Isabella Vaccaro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send a textWhat if the fastest route to a meaningful life is slowing down for the people at home?  Today, we welcome the founder and CEO of Arena Staffing, Dave Kooiman.In our conversation, Dave opens up about small-town roots, a painful college cut, getting fired, and the surprising breakthroughs that followed. The result isn't a hustle story; it's a playbook for building a family culture with clear values, humble leadership, and daily presence.We start with gratitude and the simple joy of being together—church, school, coaches, and late-night game watching. Dave introduces us to his family's world: a long love story with his wife and three kids on different paths—golf, cheer, flag football, and baseball. When his daughter lost the spark for club soccer, he didn't double down. He listened. That choice reframed attitude and effort at home and became the seed for the “Kooiman Compass,” a visible set of family values—Kindness, Obedience, Opportunity, Initiative, Mission, Appreciation, Non-judgment—posted in the kitchen to guide everyday behavior.From there, we head into the hard stuff. Dave relives getting cut from college soccer for being “not all-in,” a lesson in commitment that stung for a year but forged resilience. Later, a corporate firing pushed him to launch Arena, a skilled trades staffing and headhunting firm in the AEC space. We unpack risk, personal guarantees, and the early years of living lean. The quiet hero is his wife—steady belief, tightened budgets, and a simple charge: “I've got the kids. Figure out what's next.” Her support didn't just save a business; it safeguarded a family.The throughline is presence. We talk about guarding evenings, coaching golf, and choosing a family Scotland-Ireland dream over a buddies-only trip. We confront ego, set boundaries, and remember that happy homes make better teammates at work. If you care about faith-driven leadership, parenting with purpose, or practical ways to build character at home, you'll find tools you can use tonight—questions to ask your kids, values to post on the wall, and a calendar that finally reflects what matters most.If this conversation nudged you to put family first, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review. Your support helps more dads find the courage to lead at home.Support the showPlease don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts! Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!

We help B2B brands launch shows that turn their point of view into pipeline. If you're launching a podcast (or have one already) and are not sure how it can hit your bottom line, book a meeting with Jason: https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/jason-bradwell/youtube-meeting-link They hit the top 10 in their category. They landed Fortune 500 CEOs. They racked up downloads month after month. And they closed precisely zero deals. In this solo episode, Jason Bradwell unpacks one of the most common and costly mistakes in B2B podcasting: building a show for your ego instead of your pipeline. If your guest list reads like a networking wish list, this episode is for you. Most B2B podcasters start in the same place: chasing the biggest, most recognisable names in their industry. The logic feels sound. Credibility by association. Impressive LinkedIn posts. A logo wall of guests. But those guests are rarely in your ICP; their audiences are not your audience, and the conversations you have with them rarely address the specific, real-world problems your prospects are wrestling with right now. Jason walks through the practical alternative: the editorial-led approach. Instead of starting with the guest, you start with the question. What keeps your prospects up at night? What objections come up on every sales call? What decisions are they struggling to make? Those questions become your episode topics, and the guests you find to answer them do not need to be famous. They need to be credible, relevant, and close enough to the work that your prospects genuinely recognise themselves. He also outlines a five-step framework for building an editorial roadmap rooted in sales intelligence and explains the only metrics that actually matter when measuring a podcast's commercial impact. Key Takeaways ◼️ How to audit your sales calls to build a content-driven editorial roadmap ◼️ Why booking recognisable guests optimises for vanity metrics rather than pipeline ◼️ How to structure an episode around a prospect's problem instead of a guest's agenda ◼️ Why the best podcast guests are often practitioners and customers rather than celebrities ◼️ How to give your sales team content they can actually use to move deals forward ◼️ Why download counts are the wrong success metric and what to track instead Chapter Markers 00:00 Intro 00:45 The top 10 podcast that closed zero deals 01:30 Why chasing big-name guests hurts your pipeline 02:45 Start with the question, not the guest 03:30 Ego approach vs. editorial approach: a direct comparison 05:00 When big-name guests do make sense 05:30 Five steps to build an editorial-led podcast strategy 06:45 The only metrics worth measuring What's Next If this episode made you rethink your guest strategy, the next step is simple: pull up your last five sales calls and write down the questions that came up most. That is your editorial roadmap. Share this episode with anyone on your team who is involved in your podcast or content strategy. Useful Links Connect with Jason Bradwell on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbradwell/Listen to Pipe Dream on Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/bac4p-2a0121/Pipe-Dream-PodcastLearn more about B2B Better: https://www.b2b-better.com

Jörg startet diese Folge mit einer klaren These: Die Führung in unserem Land hat ausschließlich ihr Ego im Kopf. Aus seiner Sicht haben viele Politiker verlernt, Deutschland wie ein Unternehmen zu betrachten – mit Verantwortung für Wachstum, Chancen und langfristigen Wohlstand. Er spricht über verpasste Möglichkeiten im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz und darüber, warum Deutschland in wichtigen Zukunftsthemen zu langsam handelt. Ein weiteres Beispiel ist der Wohnungsmarkt in Städten wie München, wo politische Entscheidungen aus seiner Sicht immer häufiger zum Problem für Unternehmer und Fachkräfte werden. Jörg erklärt, warum unter diesen Bedingungen vielen Unternehmern die Freude am Gestalten verloren geht und weshalb politische Eitelkeiten dem wirtschaftlichen Fortschritt im Weg stehen können. Bewerte diesen Podcast bei iTunes und/oder Spotify und abonniere „KINTZEL MINDSET", wenn du keine weitere Folge mehr verpassen möchtest. __________ Mehr von Jörg: UnternehmenX - Dein Weg zum erfolgreichen Unternehmens­berater: https://linktw.in/qUCMZF Das Seminar für echte Unternehmensführung am 13.12.25 - Ticket sichern: https://linktw.in/BpLQqj ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joergkintzel/ ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@joergkintzel ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jörg-kintzel-vertrieb-unternehmertum/ ► Homepage: https://joergkintzel.com/ Jörg Kintzel ist Vorstand, selbstständiger Handelsvertreter und Aktionär der Valuniq AG, einer der größten unabhängigen Finanzdienstleister Deutschlands (gem. jährlicher Cash-Rangliste). Gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Birgit Elisabeth Kintzel führt er als Unternehmer und Investor die SVART GmbH, ein Family Office, das verschiedene Beteiligungen an Unternehmen und Start-ups bündelt. Mit der SVART GmbH fördern Jörg und Birgit Elisabeth Kintzel zusammen ganz gezielt Ideen und setzen sie gemeinsam in die Tat um. Über Erfolge wird leider in Deutschland viel zu wenig geredet, dabei hat dieses Land Unglaubliches und auch viele Innovationen zu verbuchen. Darum ist es ihnen ein persönliches Anliegen, ihr Wissen und ihre Finanzkraft in Menschen zu investieren und diese Erfolge sichtbarer und größer zu machen. Denn sie werden zukünftig dazu beitragen, dieses Land nach vorne zu bringen. Impressum: https://joergkintzel.com/impressum/ __________ KINTZEL MINDSET, Jörg Kintzel, Business, Unternehmertum, Wirtschaft, Interviewpodcast, Wirtschaftspodcast, Investor, Geld, Autos, Uhren, Mindset, Family Office, Unternehmer, Performance, Unternehmen gründen, Verkauf, Sales, Start-Up, Vertrieb, Mindset, Erfolg, Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, Selbstbewusstsein, Leadership, Produktivität, Motivation, Karriere, Unternehmertum, Nein sagen, Entscheidungsfindung, Selbstmanagement, Zielsetzung, Selbstreflexion, Kommunikation, Kundenakquise, Zeitmanagement, Selbstvertrauen, Erfolgsstrategien, Verkaufstechniken, Resilienz, Stressmanagement, Mentaltraining, Selbstwirksamkeit, Netzwerken, Innovationsgeist, Business-Strategien, Work-Life-Balance, Weiterbildung

In dieser Episode 10 von "Mit IHM Betrachten" dieser neuen 5.Serie (von Beleuchten und Verbinden) zum SELBST-Reflektieren, sehen wir uns genauer an, was uns CHRISTUS Jesus in Bezug auf eine "Neue Wahrnehmung" und die Verfeinerung unserer Denkweise anbietet. Wir erkennen an, dass wir von IHM über unsere spirituellen Konzepte und Erwartungshaltungen hinaus geführt werden, die vom Ego entsprechend Bedeutung gegeben wird, um die Trennung als Realität aufzuzeigen. Was wir lernen dürfen, ist, dass das uns Einfühlen und einander Abholen besser und schneller verbindet, als wir verstehen können und durcch spirituelle Konzepte erreichen werden. Wir teilen unsere Erfahrungen diesbezüglich und sehen uns dazu auch einige praktische Beispiele aus unseren persönlichen Situationen an, die wir mit IHM betrachten und – so neu ausgerichtet – verstehen lernen, was unser Verständnis darüber uns anbietet und in uns an Erkenntnisse eröffnet. ◊ ◊"#MitIHMBetrachten" mit #Devavan und EKIW – #einkursinwundern * — mit Teilen der Lektion 63 des Übungsbuchs von Ein Kurs in Wundern - EKIW ◊ ◊BITTE unterstütze diese Aktivitäten mit deiner SPENDE! Wenn du meinst, dass diese Aktivitäten, Sendungen und Archive dir für deine persönliche Transformation eine Hilfestellung beim Erinnern bringen:DANKE für “Deine Wertschätzung”. Klick einfach auf den Link und wähle dann aus, welche und wieviel Deine Unterstützung dieser Arbeit als “Mitgliedsbeitrag” sein soll. Du kannst es auch jederzeit verändern. Und DANKE an alle, die es schon tun!https://steady.page/de/ekiw-zu-einer-neuen-wahrnehmung-mit-devavan/aboutFür eine einmalige Wertschätzung oder einen Dauerauftrag von deinem Bankkonto, verwende BITTE mein dt. Comdirect Konto (siehe Details auf der Webseite: https://devavan.com/spenden/)Kontaktmöglichkeiten (wie erwähnt)...auf Telegram:Gruppe: EKIW - zu einer Neuen Wahrnehmung -- https://t.me/+HweY3ga0kMtkYjYxMit IHM Betrachten - Teilnehmer Kommunikation -- https://t.me/mitIHMbetrachtenKanal: Devavan & Kurs in Wundern -- https://t.me/devavan_kurs@DivineMan_Devavan +1608...3525Für persönlichen Kontakt, Fragen oder Zugangsproblemen:Kontakt über Webseite https://devavan.com/WhatsApp: +16084064360per Email: divineman11@gmail.comDetails zu diesem Angebot, ebenso wie die Zugangsdaten zum Zoom-Raum findest du auf Devavan's Webseite https://devavan.com/deutsch/aktuell/ , ebenso wie in der Angebots-Seite. Die archivierten Episoden aller Serien befinden sich gesammelt auf der "Archi Aufnahmen"-Seite, die die einzelnen Aufnahmen in chronologischer Folge listen, oder auch auf YouTube unter den Playlists "Neue Wahrnehmung", "EKIW - Verschiedene Lehr-Themen (Deutsch)" und in "EKIW - In aller Kürze" der Serie "Mit IHM Beleuchten". Auf Spreaker, im Kanal "Die Stimme des Himmels", kannst du die Audio Files in der gleichnamigen Playlist finden.Copyright-Erklärung zum Titelbild: WallHere.com

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Wie können wir in kreativen Prozessen voranschreiten und echte Herzensprojekte in die Welt bringen, ohne dass sich unser Ego ständig einmischt? In dieser Podcastfolge geht es nicht um die Struktur und produktive Umsetzung von Projekten. Es geht darum, die Seele unserer Projekte zum Leben zu erwecken und uns von dieser Energie durch den Prozess führen zu lassen. Ich nehme Dich mit in meine kreative Produktentwicklung und zeige Dir am Beispiel meiner Gefühlsfülle-Karten und dem Begleitbuch (das jetzt kurz vor der Veröffentlichung steht), wie ich in einen beseelten Prozess eintauche und meinem eigenen Rhythmus folge. Denn es geht hier nicht um Geschwindigkeit, sondern um die Essenz unserer Ideen und die Energie, die in unsere Produkte und Angebote fließt. Wie Du Dich mit der Seele Deiner Herzensprojekte verbindest Es hat viel mit Intuition und Vertrauen zu tun, solche Projekte zu verwirklichen. Gerade in der heutigen Zeit, in der wir mit Hilfe der KI Ideen blitzschnell umsetzen können. Aber echte Herzensprojekte entstehen aus einem schöpferischen Prozess und einer tiefen Verbindung mit unserer inneren Führung. Es sind keine Kopfgeburten, sondern Seelenimpulse, die diesen Projekten Leben, Tiefe und Verbindung einhauchen. Dadurch entsteht zwischen uns und den Menschen, die damit in Berührung kommen, ein neues Feld. Deshalb ist es so wichtig, unsere Herzensprojekte nicht unserem Willen unterzuordnen, sondern im Prozess immer wieder innezuhalten und wahrzunehmen, was hier wirklich entstehen will. So werden wir zu sanften Geburtshelfern, die ihre Projekte nicht an Ziele und Erwartungen anpassen, sondern ihren Ideen erlauben, frei zu fließen und ihre eigene Form zu finden. Alles Liebe, Deine Nina In dieser Episode erfährst Du: Wie Du Projekte mit Herz und Seele verwirklichen kannst Warum meine Herzensprojekte ihren eigenen Rhythmus haben Wie Du vermeidest, dass Dein Ego die Führung übernimmt Wie Du bei der Umsetzung in einer beseelten Energie bleibst Shownotes: Gefühlsfülle Kartenset & Kurs Newsletter-Anmeldung Inner Balance Coaching Ausbildung Mehr über mich Instagram

What if the hardest moments of your life were chosen for you, by you, before you were ever born? On this episode of The Greatness Machine, host Darius Mirshahzadeh sits down with best selling author and spiritual teacher Rob Schwartz for a deep, expansive conversation on soul growth, pre birth planning, and the hidden purpose behind life's most painful challenges. Rob shares his unlikely journey from the corporate world to writing “Your Soul's Plan,” explaining how spiritual awakening experiences led him to explore why souls may choose certain life circumstances in advance. Together, Darius and Rob unpack topics like ego versus higher self, surrender, intuition, past lives, soul contracts, and how suffering can become a catalyst for compassion, love, and service. In this episode, Darius and Rob will discuss: (00:00) Introduction and Guest Background (02:15) Rob's Journey to Spirituality (07:55) Understanding Pre-Birth Planning (13:29) The Role of Ego and Higher Self (18:25) Surrendering to a Higher Power (27:38) Exploring Pre-Birth Plans and Life Lessons (35:15) Mediums, Channeling, and Accessing Guidance (39:07) Past Lives and Their Impact on Current Life (42:24) Rob's New Book: Your Soul's Love (46:21) The Role of Plant Medicine in Spirituality (50:26) Understanding Darkness and Light in Souls (53:03) Channeling Your Higher Self (57:42) The Greatness Question: Overcoming Barriers to Greatness Rob Schwartz is a spiritual teacher and regression therapist specializing in past life and between lives soul regressions. After a profound spiritual awakening in 2003, he began exploring pre birth planning and the deeper purpose behind life's challenges. Drawing from both personal healing and spiritual insight, Robert is dedicated to helping others understand their soul's plan and find meaning, growth, and compassion through adversity. He teaches internationally and is the best selling author of “Your Soul's Plan” and “Your Soul's Gift,” translated into 22 languages. Connect with Rob: Website: https://yoursoulsplan.com/  Email: light@yoursoulsplan.com  Connect with Darius: Website: https://therealdarius.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmirshahzadeh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imthedarius/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Thegreatnessmachine  Book: The Core Value Equation https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Write a review for The Greatness Machine using this link: https://ratethispodcast.com/spreadinggreatness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Rausch goes deeper than ever in this episode of the Raw & Unscripted podcast. Asking a question most of us have thought but rarely say out loud: Why do I overreact? Is it anger? Ego? Weakness? Or is something deeper happening inside your nervous system?In this powerful and personal episode, Christopher breaks down the real science behind emotional triggers — including the fight-or-flight response, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, amygdala hijacking, and how childhood experiences shape adult reactions.He shares how feeling misunderstood or unimportant early in life can wire the brain to defend, intensify, or prove — especially in close relationships.You'll learn what's actually happening in your body when emotions spike, how trauma differs from PTSD, why sleep and hydration matter more than you think, and simple tools to regulate yourself in the moment.This is not about suppressing emotion. It's about understanding your wiring and becoming the man or woman you choose to be — instead of the one your nervous system defaults to.If you've ever snapped, escalated, over-explained, or felt triggered by being misunderstood, this episode will challenge you, ground you, and equip you with practical steps to return to center.

Did you know that happy people are less judgmental? Nobody likes being judged… and for the judgmental ones, it doesn't feel good either. We've all been judgy, and the truth is, being overly critical of others is often linked to insecurity, anxiety, perfectionism, and unhappiness. Subscribe to my new Substack! In this week's quickie, we're unpacking the psychology of judgment: where it comes from, why we do it, and how to become less judgmental in a world that fuels comparison and criticism about everything from how we parent, to how we look, to how we earn and spend our money. Judgment usually says more about our own wounds than someone else's behaviour. So we're exploring the psychological drivers behind judging, and psychology-backed tools to shift into a more curious, understanding, and compassionate mindset. Tune in to hear: Why the ego needs to feel “right” The link between perfectionism and criticism How insecurity and comparison fuels judgment The connection between self-judgment and judging others Understanding the Fundamental Attribution Error The blind spots I've had to confront in my own judgments Using curiosity as the antidote to judgment Challenging your assumptions and biases Practicing self-compassion to reduce projection   For advertising and sponsorship inquiries, please contact Frequency Podcast Network. Sign up for our monthly adulting newsletter:teachmehowtoadult.ca/newsletter Follow us on the ‘gram:@teachmehowtoadultmedia@gillian.bernerFollow on TikTok: @teachmehowtoadultSubscribe on YouTube

Do you ever find that the root of your problems stems from your ego? In this podcast, Bhante explores the nature of ego, showing how it can subtly control us and create false identities through pride or comparison. He then emphasizes that humility, self-awareness, and mindfulness are the keys to managing ego, allowing one to recognize one's value without feeling superior or inferior. With that understanding, one can learn to help themselves and others navigate the extremes of ego equipped with compassion and respect.

ISSO100 is back mit einer neuen Folge. Sascha aka Mr. Worldwide war die letzten Wochen ziemlich viel unterwegs und berichtet von seinen Trips zwischen LA und Amsterdam. Unser Hauptthema diese Folge sind mentale Struggles als Kreativschaffender. Wie Geht man mit kreativen Durststrecken um? Wie schafft man es, Kritik nicht zu persönlich zu nehmen und einen gesunden Abstand zu seinen Ideen zu gewinnen? Ist eine zu negative Eigenwahrnehmung der Treibstoff immer besser werden zu wollen? All diese Themen und der Schwank aus der Popkultur findet ihr in dieser Episode, auf Spotify, Youtube und überall wo es Podcasts gibt. Alle 2 Wochen Dienstag für euch! 00:00:00 Mr. Worldwide, zwischen LA und Amsterdam00:12:34 Instagram vs. Reality00:20:54 Macht uns Social Media kreativer?00:25:27 Wie gehen wir mit Durststrecken um?00:33:01 Wir gehen wir mit Druck um?00:39:50 Warum kickt das Imposter Syndrom?00:47:23 Process over Results?00:50:37 Warum nehmen wir Kritik so persönlich?00:57:26 Kreativität und der Kampf um den eigenen Stil01:00:01 Wie bekommt man sein Ego in den Griff?01:10:16 Overexposed and Underexposed01:11:01 Sport als Therapie?01:19:37 Was ging in der Popkultur? 

Songstats: For 10% off lifetime subscription use the code word "WILLCLARKE" or follow the link https://songstats.com/app?ref=WILLCLARKEWho is Layton Giordani: Layton Giordani stands firmly as one of the most popular tastemakers of techno's new school, with his pioneering musical vision serving as a contemporary voice for the younger generation. Spending years acquiring knowledge from musical greats, the 28 year old possesses a wealth of experience far beyond his years and has now undeniably earned his rank in the upper echelon of techno.Podcast Overview: In this episode Layton opens up about taking back control of his career, leaving the comfort of Drumcode, changing management, launching his own record label, and building serious momentum in America.We talk about:1) Taking the driver's seat in your career 2) The reality of stepping away from a label family3) Meeting John Summit and witnessing the US scene explode4) Starting a label and partnering with Armada5) The year long process of clearing Gorillaz Dare6) Production culture versus pure music7) Ego, fame, money, and whether success actually brings happinessThis is a real conversation about growth, ambition, identity, and what happens when you finally achieve the things you once dreamed about.If you are a DJ, producer, creative, or entrepreneur trying to level up, this episode will hit. Subscribe for weekly conversations with the most interesting minds in electronic music.⏲ Follow Will Clarke ⏱https://willclarke.komi.io/https://djwillclarke.com/https://open.spotify.com/artist/1OmOdgwIzub8DYPxQYbbbi?si=hEx8GCJAR3mhhhWd_iSuew https://www.instagram.com/djwillclarke https://www.facebook.com/willclarkedj https://twitter.com/djwillclarke https://www.tiktok.com/@djwillclarke Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send a textIn this episode of Spartan Leadership, Josh sits down with Kevin Hohe — leader, altruist, and self-described “brilliant failure” — to talk about what actually builds resilient leaders: public failure, ego management, risk tolerance, and the lost art of bringing people together.If you're a business owner or executive who feels the weight of responsibility and wants to grow without losing who you are, this conversation will challenge you.If you're ready to build alongside other serious leaders, learn more about Bridge Builder Mastermind here:

Pensad en aquel soldado de la película "Johnny cogió su fusil". Tendido en la cama de un hospital sin brazos, sin piernas, también ha perdido el habla y los sentidos de la vista, el oído, el olfato y el gusto. Solo con sus pensamientos, apenas si puede comunicarse con el mundo exterior. Es una situación terrible, agobiante, sin un ápice de esperanza. Pensad ahora en este Real Madrid. Si atendemos a lo que nos dicen y en comparación, el soldado Joe Bonham, protagonista de la película y del libro de Dalton Trumbo en el que se basa, era un privilegiado. Min. 01 Seg. 52 – Intro Min. 08 Seg. 18 - Problemas de presente y de futuro Min. 15 Seg. 23 – Millones y millones despilfarrados Min. 20 Seg. 21 - ¡Ojo, que viene el City! Min. 24 Seg. 18 - ¿Egoísmo o compromiso? Min. 29 Seg. 32 - Falta de compromiso y profesionalidad Min. 36 Seg. 18 - Desordenado, sin ideas y sin un plan Min. 42 Seg. 14 - Un parte médico que no aclara nada Min. 48 Seg. 48 - Le falta todo y no tiene más que problemas Min. 52 Seg. 55 - Ningún fichaje cumplió con las expectativas Min. 58 Seg. 08 - Un problema estructural, pero no deportivo Min. 64 Seg. 55 - Despedida Neil Sedaka - You (Londres 07/04/2006) Jackson Browne (Austin, TX 22/09/2021) Our Lady Of The Well Doctor My Eyes The Dreamer These Days I'm Alive Late For The Sky The Long Way Around My Cleveland Heart Take It Easy A Human Touch Neil Sedaka - Medley (Londres 18/03/1984) - Oh! Carol - Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen - Laughter in the Rain - Solitaire - Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Matt Paige interviews Vishnu Hari (Vish), CEO and founder of Ego (YC W24), about shifting focus from AGI to “humanness”: AI characters that behave like people through memory, emotions, personality, needs, and desires.Referencing Ego's paper “Behavior is All You Need,” Vish argues consumer AI for entertainment must be relatable and character-like rather than purely task-smart, drawing inspiration from MMORPG social dynamics and Character.AI's appeal.Ego initially pursued a 3D sim-world vision inspired by Sword Art Online and Westworld, but found accessibility, game development, and perception latency challenging; internal Roblox tests (“Chatterblocks”) showed the key gap is natural speech beyond turn-taking.Vish discusses simulations as a path toward real-world robotics via a partnership with Menlo AI, critiques task-bound robots versus agents with inner lives, suggests retention as the main metric, and shares views on AGI definitions, safety in entertainment, technology impacts, simulation theory, and consciousness.Ego's work is at egoai.com and the company is hiring in SF, Singapore, and Tokyo.--Key Moments:00:57 Behavior Is All You Need02:41 Anatomy of Humanlike Agents03:29 Game Bots to Real People05:10 Building Ego and Sim Worlds06:35 Why Speech Feels Human08:27 From Sims to Robotics10:29 Her vs Helper Robots13:17 Measuring Humanness by Retention15:27 Continual Learning and Personality16:57 Meta Lessons on Empty Worlds18:08 Lightning Round on AGI20:31 IP Characters vs UGC Worlds21:55 Risks and Just Tuesday24:11 Simulation and Consciousness--Key Links:EgoConnect with Rowan on LinkedInMentioned in this episode:Free report from HatchWorks AI — State of AI 2026What's real in AI this year, what's hype, and what leaders should prioritize — including production lessons, designing for agents, and governance. https://hatchworks.com/state-of-ai-2026/AI Opportunity FinderFeeling overwhelmed by all the AI noise out there? The AI Opportunity Finder from HatchWorks cuts through the hype and gives you a clear starting point. In less than 5 minutes, you'll get tailored, high-impact AI use cases specific to your business—scored by ROI so you know exactly where to start. Whether you're looking to cut costs, automate tasks, or grow faster, this free tool gives you a personalized roadmap built for action.

In dieser Folge spreche ich mit Tobias Vetter von Vetter consulting über die größten Risiken für Unternehmer und warum viele sich zu sicher fühlen – bis es zu spät ist. Wir diskutieren, wie Ego und Selbstüberschätzung zu folgenschweren Fehlern bei Finanzen und Versicherungen führen können und warum echte Absicherung mehr ist als nur eine Pflichtaufgabe. Du erfährst, welche Fallstricke im Unternehmeralltag lauern, wie man sie frühzeitig erkennt und wie ein pragmatischer, humorvoller Umgang mit ernsten Themen zum Erfolgsfaktor werden kann. Außerdem geben wir Einblicke, wie sich der Markt durch KI und neue Trends verändert und worauf Unternehmer jetzt achten sollten. Wenn du wissen willst, wie du dich und dein Unternehmen wirklich schützt, hör unbedingt rein!

This podcast offers encouragement when so many of us have and are experiencing the heart break of losing those close to us.  One listener has shared how difficult it was for her when her mother passed. Recently her heart broke when her 24 year old step daughter also passed. She reached out with a beautiful request, "Please speak more about what happens after we die, based on what you gathered in your spiritual and psychotherapy practices."   This recording of a live Q & A has been edited for clarity, length, and helpfulness.These podcasts are here to support your personal path of awakening whatever that might be. I feel they are most powerful when listened to in sequence from podcast one forward because each is built on the last. Though they, also, all stand on their own. If anything does not resonate, please disregard it and follow your heart. All my podcasts and website are free. Enjoy!Though I am a psychotherapist, and these podcasts are offered to be spiritually helpful, they are not psychotherapy. If psychotherapy is ever needed, please reach out to a psychotherapist.www.williamecooper.wordpress.com for more support. You may, especially, enjoy the short contemplations and the resource page which gives you some supportive material.

Dr. Alok Kanojia, MD, MPH ("Dr. K"), is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and expert in both Eastern and Western medicine to improve mental health. He explains tools for unlearning maladaptive thoughts and behavior patterns and for making behaviors that better mental and physical well-being more reflexive in work, relationships and daily life. We also discuss ways to resolve trauma, build stress tolerance, increase intrinsic motivation and even change temperament. We also discuss how social media, gaming and online dating shape our identity and perceptions and how to navigate them healthily. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Lingo: https://hellolingo.com/huberman Joovv: https://joovv.com/huberman Function: https://functionhealth.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Alok Kanojia (Dr. K) (00:03:09) Internet, Computer Games; Academic Pressure (00:07:11) Millennials & Self-Awareness, Hijacking Mental Health Language (00:13:24) Sponsors: Lingo & Joovv (00:16:06) Personality & Individual Road Maps, Misdiagnosis (00:22:02) Ambiguity, Flirting, Social Skills Decline, Uncertainty Tolerance (00:26:06) Dating in the Internet Age, Cognitive Bias (00:30:39) Healthy Distress Tolerance, Tool: How to Feel Your Feelings (00:39:58) Sponsor: AG1 (00:40:49) Expectations vs Internal Desire Roadmap, Western vs Eastern Theory of Mind, Ego (00:50:35) Sense Organs, Comparison & Proving Oneself, Internal Drive (00:59:22) Internet, Ego, "Teflon Buddha", Tool: Dealing with Criticism (01:10:36) Observing One's Mind, Meditation, Psychedelics (01:11:59) Sponsor: Function (01:13:46) Tool: Shunya "Void" Meditation & Resilience (01:24:02) External Reminders, Environment; Men & Emotional Regulation (01:30:04) Samskara, Yoga Nidra, Trauma & Learning, Shunya & Personal Compass (01:39:15) Yoga Nidra, Channeling Divinity, Genius (01:42:30) Sponsor: Eight Sleep (01:43:48) Breathwork Practices; Meditation Science, Self-Esteem & Belief Change (01:53:40) Liminal States, Meditation Types & Benefits; Western & Eastern Balance (02:01:50) Understanding Ego & Perception; AI & Narcissism, Psychosis (02:14:07) Tool: Healthy Social Media Use, When To Not Use, Normal Standards (02:18:38) Social Media & Looks Obsession, Purpose, Charisma (02:24:18) Young Men Falling Behind?, Male Support, Suicide; Men in Relationships (02:30:36) "Stuck" Young Men, Failure to Launch, Tool: Motivation & Understanding Oneself (02:39:03) Pornography, Erectile Dysfunction, Emotions, Addiction; Relationships (02:44:21) Men & Love, Looksmaxxing, Rejection, Partner Characteristics, Tool: Walk Before Dates (02:55:12) Exploring Practices, Meditation, Breathwork (03:01:39) Spirituality, Personal Exploration; Acknowledgements (03:06:12) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Disclaimer & Disclosures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Dismantling of the Religious Self Four Lenten Reflections on Delusion, Abandonment, and the Life That Remains in God “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” John 12:24 Second Reflection The Violence We Call Righteousness On the Ego That Survives Inside Virtue “They being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.” Romans 10:3 When the man sees that fulfillment cannot be found in religious life itself, he turns toward righteousness. He disciplines himself. He purifies his conduct. He restrains his passions. He orders his thoughts. He seeks purity. Outwardly, transformation occurs. Inwardly, something remains untouched. The ego survives. It survives inside virtue. St. John Climacus writes that vainglory completes every virtue the man performs. It attaches itself to fasting. It attaches itself to prayer. It attaches itself to obedience.
 It whispers: This is yours. Virtue becomes possession. The man begins to live from righteousness. He experiences himself as stable because he is righteous. He trusts his righteousness. This trust separates him from God. Because union with God requires the loss of trust in oneself as source of life. The Pharisee stands before God and speaks truth. He fasts. He obeys. He lives faithfully. And remains separate. Because he still exists as the center of his own existence. The tax collector possesses nothing. He cannot lift his eyes. He does not trust himself. Christ says he goes home justified. Because justification belongs to the man who has nothing left to preserve. St. Isaac says that until the soul despairs of itself, it cannot rest in God. Not emotional despair. Ontological despair. The knowledge that one does not possess life. Righteousness that preserves the ego prevents union. Because union requires death. Not moral improvement. Death. The man must lose the self that lives apart from God. Virtue cannot substitute for this death. Virtue can conceal it. The ego can survive indefinitely inside righteousness. And remain alone. ⸻ This is the most dangerous stage of the spiritual life. Because sin is obvious. But righteousness can conceal separation. The sinful man knows he is sick. The righteous man believes he is alive. Christ said to the church of Laodicea, “You say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.” Revelation 3:17 This is not addressed to pagans. This is addressed to believers. To those who have acquired religious identity. To those who possess righteousness and draw life from it. They do not feel their need. They do not cry out. They do not seek life because they believe they possess it. This is why Christ says, “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” Luke 5:32 Not because the righteous do not need Him. But because those who believe themselves righteous cannot receive Him. They are full. And God only fills the empty. St. Sophrony writes that the greatest tragedy is when man begins to live from himself rather than from God. Even if this life is clothed in virtue, it remains separation. It remains death. Virtue can purify behavior without destroying autonomy. It can cleanse the exterior while leaving the center untouched. Christ speaks with terrifying clarity about this. “You clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self indulgence.” Matthew 23:25 The outside can be purified. The inside can remain intact. The ego does not resist virtue. It feeds on virtue. It incorporates virtue into itself. It expands through virtue. It becomes righteous. And this righteousness becomes its shield against God. Because God does not come to improve the ego. He comes to crucify it. St. Paul says, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” Galatians 2:20 This is not metaphor. This is the destruction of the autonomous center of existence. As long as the man lives from himself, even virtuously, he remains separate. Because life belongs only to God. St. Silouan the Athonite saw this with terrible clarity. He had labored greatly. He had prayed. He had struggled. He had purified himself. And yet the Lord allowed him to descend into hell. Not because he was sinful. But because righteousness had not yet been shattered. And Christ said to him, “Keep thy mind in hell, and despair not.” Not because hell was his destination. But because only in the destruction of self trust could union be born. As long as the man stands on his own righteousness, he stands alone. Only when this ground collapses does he begin to stand in God. Archimandrite Zacharias writes that God allows even the virtuous man to see his utter poverty so that he may cease drawing life from himself. This is the blessed despair that gives birth to true life. This despair is not psychological collapse. It is ontological revelation. The revelation that without God, one does not exist. Christ says, “Apart from Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 Not less. Nothing. Not even righteousness. When this is seen, virtue loses its power as identity. It remains. But it no longer belongs to the man. It becomes the life of Christ within him. Before this death, virtue belongs to the ego. After this death, virtue belongs to God. This is why the saints do not trust their righteousness. They fear it. They flee from it. Abba Poemen said, “A man may appear to be silent while his heart condemns others. Such a man is talking constantly.” Outward virtue. Inward autonomy. Separation remains. Another elder said that even if a man raises the dead but trusts himself, he has lost everything. Because union is not achieved by virtue. It is achieved by death. This is why the saints see themselves as sinners even when they are purified. Not because they deny reality. But because they do not live from themselves. They live from God. St. Isaac writes that the man who has truly seen himself is greater than the man who raises the dead. Because he has seen the truth. He has seen that he does not possess life. He has seen that all righteousness belongs to God. This vision destroys the ego at its root. And only when the ego dies can God become life. Until then, righteousness remains violence. Violence against truth. Violence against union. Violence against love. Because it preserves the illusion of existence apart from God. The elder Sophrony says that as long as man attributes righteousness to himself, he remains enclosed within the prison of his own being. He cannot escape. He cannot breathe. He cannot live. Only when righteousness is lost as possession does it become life. Only when the man ceases to exist as source does God become his existence. This is why Christ says, “Whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” Matthew 16:25 Not improves it. Finds it. Because it did not belong to him before. This is the second dismantling. Not the destruction of sinful identity. The destruction of righteous identity. Not the loss of vice. The loss of ownership of virtue. The loss of oneself as the one who lives. Until this death occurs, the ego survives. It survives inside prayer. It survives inside obedience. It survives inside humility itself. It survives inside righteousness. And remains forever alone. --- Text of chat during the group: 01:28:35 Danny Moulton (Lakeside, Ohio): I'm wondering how fear and ego interplay in producing unhealthy religiosity. It seems to me ego and fear are two sides of the same coin. Ego is fed when we think we are righteous and doing religion right, but fear calls the shots when we think we are unrighteous and doing religion wrong. It seems both can lead to obsession with something other than Divine love. The Apostle John says that perfect love drives out fear. I believe this is absolutely true, but fear sure can put up a good fight at times. 01:32:27 Fr Martin, Arizona: What do you think of this? Shortly after arriving at my first parish, I told my spiritual father about all the things I would change. He said, “Check with God. He didn't give you the football and tell you to run with it. What if God send you there to fail?” 01:33:46 Jaden Abrams: Father, bless! I was really impacted by these last two talks, thank you very much. What change can I make today to die to myself and stop sitting next to the vine. 01:35:31 Kate: When you speak about the death of the ego, is it more like a process of dying rather than something that is accomplished once and for all?  And I find my self asking how, how does the ego die?  Is it a simultaneous process of the dying of the ego and the soul growing in union with Christ? 01:40:29 Una: I was a complulsive A-getter in college, too. Thank you for sharing. 01:41:05 Angela Bellamy: Reacted to "Father, bless! I was..." with ❤️ 01:42:47 Shannon: It feels must bleed out our ego and diappear into the darkness in order for God to turn light.  Not knowing where the next step, but trusting in God.  We disappear into prayer/ looking through window with lamps lite hearts 01:44:16 Fr Martin, Arizona: Today's retreat convicted me. I'm not sure where to begin poking at my sense of self-identity and autonomy. My anxiety reveals to me that I harbor some delusions about myself. I used to visit a Romanian monk who was imprisoned and tortured by communists. Surprisingly, he never complained about that. Rather he said to me once, “Before I was imprisoned, I knew God in my books. After I was alone in prison, I found God in my heart.” 01:45:02 Jaden Abrams: How do I go about finding a spiritual Father? Am I supposed to choose, discern, let him "come to me", combination of all? I have fallen in love with the east in general and am immersing myself as much as possible please pray for me. 01:47:13 Julie: Reacted to "How do I go about fi…" with

Welcome to the Social-Engineer Podcast: The Doctor Is In Series – where we discuss understandings and developments in the field of psychology.  In today's episode, Chris and Dr. Abbie discuss decision fatigue—how making too many choices throughout the day drains mental energy and affects judgment. They explain how stress and lack of sleep make it worse, how it differs from burnout, and why leaders and parents are especially vulnerable. The episode also shares simple, practical strategies to reduce daily decisions, protect mental energy, and prioritize recovery.  [Mar 2, 2026]  00:00 - Intro  00:56 - Show Updates and Sponsors  02:35 - What Decision Fatigue Is  03:34 - Stress, Sleep, and Mental Energy  05:12 - Mental vs. Physical Limits  07:13 - Decision Fatigue vs. Burnout  10:22 - Leadership, Empathy, and Hard Decisions  14:33 - Prevention: Routines and Breaks  20:43 - Advisors and AI Caution  24:38 - Everyday Life and Parenting Load  27:23 - Recovery Outlets and Wrap-Up  28:49 - Closing and Next Month's Topic (Diet Culture)    Find us online:    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dr-abbie-maroño-phd    Instagram: @DoctorAbbieofficial    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopherhadnagy    References:   Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Muraven, M., & Tice, D. M. (1998). Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(5), 1252–1265. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.74.5.1252   Baumeister, R. F., & Tierney, J. (2011). Willpower: Rediscovering the greatest human strength. Penguin Press.   Danziger, S., Levav, J., & Avnaim-Pesso, L. (2011). Extraneous factors in judicial decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(17), 6889–6892. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1018033108   Davidson, R. J., & McEwen, B. S. (2012). Social influences on neuroplasticity: Stress and interventions to promote well-being. Nature Neuroscience, 15(5), 689–695. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3093   Fleming, S. M., & Dolan, R. J. (2012). The neural basis of metacognitive ability. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367(1594), 1338–1349. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0417   Hagger, M. S., Wood, C., Stiff, C., & Chatzisarantis, N. L. D. (2010). Ego depletion and the strength model of self-control: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 136(4), 495–525. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019486   Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  

In this episode of Market Maker by AmplifyME, we sit down with Nick Leeson to explore trading psychology, risk management and what it takes to survive public failure after the collapse of Barings Bank and more than $1.3 billion in losses.At just 25 years old, Leeson was running a derivatives operation in Singapore during the high-pressure culture of 1990s banking. What followed brought down a 233-year-old institution and became one of the most infamous events in modern financial history. But this conversation goes far beyond the headlines.We examine the psychology behind catastrophic risk, the pressure to succeed at a young age, and how ego and fear of failure can quietly distort decision-making. Nick reflects on the culture inside investment banking at the time, the compounding effect of hidden mistakes, and what resilience really means after prison, public scrutiny and rebuilding a life from scratch.For anyone pursuing a career in trading, investment banking or financial markets, this episode offers a rare and candid perspective on ambition, accountability and the true cost of unchecked pressure.Market Maker by AmplifyME brings you conversations with the people who've experienced the highs and lows of global financial markets and the lessons they learned along the way.(00:00) The Rogue Trader Story(02:25) Growing Up & First Ambitions(04:36) Entering the City(10:24) Morgan Stanley & Big Bang(14:33) Fast Promotions in Finance(22:44) Joining Barings(25:06) Singapore at 25(29:41) When Pressure Builds(31:57) Managing Without Mentors(34:14) Getting on With Everyone(37:38) Status, Culture & Ego(42:14) Stress Was Off The Charts(42:58) The Losses Spiral(48:35) Ethics & Accountability(52:14) Fear of Failure(55:45) Prison & Resilience

Curse spricht mit Michele Loew – buddhistische Lehrerin, Yoga-Nidra-Expertin und langjährige Wegbegleiterin über Bliss, Angst, Krankheit und die Vorbereitung auf das Sterben. Diese Episode ist ein Remake eines früheren, sehr persönlichen Gesprächs – neu aufbereitet und aktueller denn je. Michele wurde mit einer aggressiven Form von Krebs diagnostiziert. Umso kraftvoller ist ihr Blick auf das, was buddhistische Praxis freilegen kann: unsere ursprüngliche Natur jenseits von Ego, Kontrolle und Angst. In dieser Folge erfährst du: - warum wir Glück im Außen suchen – und was uns wirklich davon trennt - was die Angst vor dem Tod mit dem Verlust unseres „Ichs“ zu tun hat - wie Yoga Nidra und Meditation uns auf Loslassen, Krankheit und Sterben vorbereiten können Unterstütze Michele bei Ihrem Kampf gegen Eierstock-Krebs: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-micheles-battle-with-ovarian-cancer Vielen Dank und nur das Beste. Schon gewusst? Meditation, Coaching & Life erscheint nun auch als Video: https://www.youtube.com/@Curseofficial www.curse.de Curse auf Instagram: www.instagram.com/cursezeit Curse auf Facebook: www.facebook.com/curseofficial Curse auf TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@curseofficial Curse auf YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Curseofficial

S6:E22 Marketing fails because of fragmentation across too many platforms. Queue Up Episode This week on Small Business Stories, Dr. LL sits down with Jensen Savage, founder of Savage Growth Partners, to unpack what really drives sustainable growth. If people don't trust you, they won't buy. If your strategy isn't coherent, your signal gets diluted. Jensen shares why ruthless prioritization matters, how ego interferes with data-driven decisions, and why marketing must connect to sales and operations to truly scale.

S6:E22 Marketing fails because of fragmentation across too many platforms. Queue Up Episode This week on Small Business Stories, Dr. LL sits down with Jensen Savage, founder of Savage Growth Partners, to unpack what really drives sustainable growth. If people don't trust you, they won't buy. If your strategy isn't coherent, your signal gets diluted. Jensen shares why ruthless prioritization matters, how ego interferes with data-driven decisions, and why marketing must connect to sales and operations to truly scale.

James Altucher Show: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- A Note from James:Is he the most hated man in America? I don't think so.Martin Shkreli was notorious for various reasons that you'll hear about in this episode—there are some crazy stories—but I've come to know Martin over the past few months as both a friend and business partner.Let's just hear his stories and explanations. I think you'll agree with me that this is one of the smartest people I've ever had on the podcast.Episode Description:Martin Shkreli became one of the most controversial figures in business history—labeled “the most hated man in America,” prosecuted, imprisoned, and publicly vilified.In this conversation, he tells his side of the story.Part 1 focuses on how media narratives form, why conviction and risk-taking matter in entrepreneurship, and the deeper mechanics behind the pharmaceutical controversy that made him famous. He explains the economics of drug pricing, insurance systems, neglected medications, and why public perception diverged so dramatically from what patients actually experienced.The episode also explores learning across disciplines, intellectual courage, prosecutors' incentives, and how public scandals evolve into legal consequences.Whether you agree with him or not, the discussion raises uncomfortable questions about business, regulation, media, and reputation.What You'll Learn:Why media narratives can shape public opinion more than factsThe real economics behind pharmaceutical pricing and insurance coverageHow entrepreneurs learn complex industries without formal trainingWhy conviction and risk tolerance are essential in investing and businessHow incentives within legal and political systems influence outcomesTimestamped Chapters:[00:02:00] “Most Hated Man in America” — Media Narratives & Reputation[00:03:11] A Note from James[00:03:45] Humor vs. Backlash: Handling Public Criticism[00:06:39] Conviction, Investing & Standing Your Ground[00:09:00] Optimism, Forgiveness & Business Relationships[00:12:08] The Pharma Controversy Begins[00:14:52] From Hedge Funds to Biotech CEO[00:17:40] Learning New Industries from Scratch[00:19:00] Staying Curious & Avoiding Fear of Complexity[00:21:00] Borrowing Knowledge Across Domains[00:23:06] How People Actually Learn Complex Skills[00:29:00] Entrepreneurship, Ego & Motivation[00:31:20] The Daraprim Pricing Decision Explained[00:34:00] Neglected Drugs & Pharma Economics[00:37:00] Profit Motive vs. Public Good[00:41:13] Why He Became the Target[00:45:00] Prosecutors, Incentives & Legal Strategy[00:47:00] Hedge Funds, Technical Violations & Trials[00:50:00] High-Profile Cases & Selective Enforcement[00:53:00] Media Attention & Personal DecisionsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Last week, I started talking about the nature of this Gnostic Reformation that I’m describing here. It turns out that the approach to Gnosticism that I am sharing with you here at Gnostic Insights is a reformation of what is understood to be Gnosticism. If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode yet, it would be really good for you to start there. Go back and listen to or read the episode called, This Gnostic Reformation. I didn’t read any books about Gnosticism; I actually read the Nag Hammadi itself. I used my own method of discernment, my own model building method called A Simple Explanation to understand what I was reading. We all do that. We all have internal structures that help us to interpret what we understand about the world around us–what we understand about the nature of anything, whether it’s God or people or oneself. I had already previously come up with a very coherent system for understanding the things around me. That’s what I call A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything. That book is available. You can check it out. I’ll put the link here in the transcript. When people say, “My goodness, your Gnosticism is so different than what I have come to understand Gnosticism to be,” that’s because I didn’t take it from secondary sources. I took it from the original sources.  Then of course, Valentinian Gnosticism is an early form of what has come to be called Christianity. Christianity diverged immensely from the original message around the 300's and on up, when the gnostic books were taken out of Orthodoxy. Those folks that are called heresiologists are the people that went around slapping heresy labels on the early Christianity—the early Valentinian Gnosticism. They weeded it out of the official sacred texts that made their way into the New Testament. The main book of the Nag Hammadi that I relate to is called the Tripartite Tractate. I believe it to be the purest form of gnosis. It has very little in the way of mythologies, of extraneous characters, of the names of things and the numbers of things and the astrology of it all. Valentinian Gnosticism from the Tripartite Tractate is unique in that the fallen Aeon is not called Sophia, a female character. In the Sethian mythology, the female character—and by the way, that presupposes that there are genders among the Aeons in the Fullness of God, but that really doesn’t make much sense because there’s no sex. That is not the way that Aeons procreate. Aeons procreate by giving glory to the Father in various combinations, and it’s those various combinations of giving glory that produce amalgamations of those combinations. It’s a logarithmic progression of Aeons. It keeps growing as various Aeons recombine with one another and give glory to the Father and the Son—upstream, as I like to call it. That has nothing to do with gender. It has to do with giving glory to God with your friends and neighbors. See, we have gender because it has to do with procreation, and this is what is causing all of the gender confusion going around now. Differences among us—what we typically call masculine or feminine—these are personality traits. They don’t have to have anything to do with your sex. So the idea that you have to change your physical sex to reconceive of your gender or reconceive of who you are or your personality—this is a false teaching. You are who you are. You are a combination of various Aeons. You are the fruit of those Aeons, and it really has nothing to do with gender. The Father is not a male figure. Barbelo is not the mother. These are gendered identifications, but they are not truly gender because they’re not sexed. Does that make any sense? So last week we talked about the first emanation. In Sethianism, it’s Barbelo, the mother figure, the womb of all, the matrix of divine life. In Valentinian Gnosticism, that first figure is the Son, and in most of the Valentinian texts, the Son is conflated with the Christ. Oh, by the way, Christians get very bent out of shape about calling Christ the Christ. They say, if anybody—and I heard this from a radio preacher not long ago—“If anyone says ‘the'Christ, you know right off they’re not saved. You know right off they’re not Christians, because ‘the' Christ is a made-up figure, whereas Jesus is Christ, and Jesus is the Son of God.” Well, Jesus is a human being, so we know that Jesus is not the originating Son of God, which an ethereal figure. The Son, in Valentinian Christianity, was the immediate self-expression of the Father. The Father emanated the Son, and the Son entirely represents the Father. Jesus is way downstream here, along with the rest of us humans. He was called the perfect human because he expressed the Father and the Son in his human personality. Jesus came to be well downstream, along with the rest of us humans. In Sethianism, the Barbelo, the first expression, isn’t the Savior. She’s the source of the Savior. She’s the mother of Autogenes, whom they call the Christ. In Valentinianism, the Son is the immediate self-expression of the Father. There’s no Barbelo figure, and the Son is the primary mediator of divine knowledge. The Son is fully expressive and representative of the Father, and he stays plugged into the Father—or it stays. It’s difficult when speaking English not to use gendered pronouns, because that’s the way our grammar works. So, forgive me for saying “he” when I speak of the Son or the Father, but “it” just seems so impersonal. And the Son is personal to us. The Son is our Father, our Abba. In Sethianism, Christ, also known as Autogenes, is not the initial revelation of the Father. He’s the restorative agent who repairs the damage caused by the fall of the Aeon. And in Sethianism, the Aeon who fell was a female figure, Sophia. Christ is often paired with Seth, and Seth is a character out of the mythology of Sethianism that is the heavenly archetype of the Gnostic race. Sethianism has distinctions amongst humans. There are the elect and there are those who are not elect. There are those who are called hylic-only, which is material only. And so, if you’re a Sethian Gnostic, you don’t believe that all of the people that you see around here are carriers of divinity. You believe that only Gnostics are carriers of divinity, much like Christians only believe that those who have come forward and professed belief in Jesus Christ are the elect, and they’re the only ones who are saved. Gnostics have the same type of distinction, only they think only the Sethians are those who are saved. And that really doesn’t have to do with Jesus. It has to do with Christ and Seth—that Christ’s role is to descend and rescue the elect, and the elect would be Sethians. Now, in Valentinian Christianity, you don’t have that kind of distinction. Christ is the direct image of the Father. Most of the books of the Nag Hammadi, the Valentinian as well as the Sethian, still identify Sophia as the fallen Aeon; they still have a gendered pleroma of the Fullness of God. This is one of the big, big differences between the Gnosticism that I share with you and these more ancient Gnostic strains of thought. I do not think that Aeons are gendered. It’s an unnecessary step of confusion, the idea of syzygies and marriages and pair bonds. No, that’s not necessary. At least in the Tripartite Tractate, if you read it, nowhere is anything like that mentioned. There’s no gender identification mentioned at all. In Valentinian Christology, [which is what it’s called when you study Christ], outside of the Tripartite Tractate the rest of the books that talk about Christ say that Christ is the direct image of the Father. His incarnation is intentional, therapeutic, and as a teacher, and he brings knowledge of the Father, not merely rescue from the Fall. Christians generally believe that Christ brings knowledge of the Father because he talked about the Father, or he taught—that he’s a pedagogical character. He’s a teacher, but that his actual salvation came from dying on the cross, from death and then overcoming death. He brings everyone who believes in him forward in overcoming death. Now, the Tripartite Tractate doesn’t put it that way. The Tripartite Tractate explains how Christ came not to die and not only to teach, but salvation lies in the very fact that Christ came to Earth in the perfection of the Father. Jesus said, “If you see me, you see the Father. He who loves me loves the Father, and he who loves the Father loves me.” That was Jesus speaking as the embodiment of the Christ. Jesus embodied the Fullness of the Christ in his human body walking around on the Earth, and so he built a bridge between the ethereal plane and the material plane. He brought them back together for the first time since Logos fell out of the pleroma. He brings them back together, and he brings restoration in that manner. There’s another primary difference between Sethian Gnosticism and Valentinian Gnosticism, other than Barbelo being the first emanation or the Son being the first emanation. In Sethianism, Christ’s role is as a cosmic rescuer, and in the Valentinian tradition, he is the revealer of truth and the healer. Sethians tend to think of the world as completely hostile and alien. This material world is a prison. It’s a trap. Everything’s wrong down here.   Now, in the Valentinian system, it is also thought that the world is wrong. It’s fallen, but it is redeemable, and so salvation comes through transformation of what is around us, whereas in the Sethian system, salvation comes by escaping the trap. The goal in Sethianism is to return to Barbelo, and the goal in the Valentinian system is to return to the Father. So, Sethianism is much more apocalyptic. It’s about crashing the world and getting out because there’s nothing good down here. Valentinian is more therapeutic because it believes in transformation through love and spreading the gospel–the good news. That’s what gospel means. The good news of Christ, the good news of the Father, the good news of eternal life beyond materiality. In the Gnostic Reformation that I am proposing here, we can combine somewhat the two schools of thought. This is a bridge Gnosticism between Sethianism, Valentinianism, and Christianity, although churchgoers aren’t going to like any of this, right? Because they’re fine in the system that they believe it to be, and I think that’s okay. If you’re a non-hypocritical Christian who goes to church and prays, and you’re in touch with the Father, and you embody the Christ, that’s great. No problem with that. And did you know that Valentinian Christians were accepted as full Christians for the first 300 years? They were side by side, sitting in the same churches, giving the same prayers, sharing in the same rituals. It was only after the Nicene Council and the takeover by the Catholic Church that Valentinians were excluded from Christianity. So I’m not trying to crash Christianity. I’m only trying to bring a correction to the hypocrisy and misunderstandings of Christianity. Well, we know there’s a ton of hypocrites. I’m an idealist. That’s my nature. So when I discuss these things, it’s in their ideal form. It’s the way they ought to be. It’s the way they’re described. It’s the way they were designed by God and the Aeons. If you take your knowledge from what you see around here in this fallen world, then you have got a very poor idea of what it is. And you may sit in a Christian church, and you may go through the motions of being a cultural Christian. But unless you are in touch with the Father, and unless you are embodying the Christ, you’re taking your guidance from the world. And this is how it is that many people nowadays think they’re doing good, when actually they’re doing bad. And even worse than that, people who say they’re doing good, and they know they’re not doing good, they know they’re doing bad. That’s hypocrisy. That’s what hypocrisy is. So when I describe these systems, or I describe the nature of the Christ, the nature of the body of believers, the nature of love, the nature of the Father, the nature of our aeonic or heavenly home in the pleroma of the Fullness of God, I’m describing it in an idealistic manner, in the way it’s designed to be. And that’s what we aim for. We aim for the ideal. You cannot take your cues from this earthly realm. And make sure that you don’t take your cues from teachers who are themselves fallen and not embodying Christ. In this Gnostic Reformation that I’m sharing with you, the Son is the primal emanation, the direct image of the Father. He stays fully plugged into the Father. He has all of the direct knowledge, wisdom, love, consciousness of the Father–life. While Christ is a later restorative agent, formed through the prayers of the aeons, the Son, and the Logos after Logos returned back to the Fullness. They prayed for help to come to the mess that Logos made down below when he fell. They pray for help to rescue the Demiurge, which is part of Logos—it's his ego. It’s his presenting face. They want the Demiurge to come out of its amnesic state and remember the Father, remember the Fullness, remember Logos, its better half. And when that happens, that is when the big roll-up can occur—when all of the shadows will disappear. Because when the Demiurge comes to awareness, to Self-awareness, as being part of the Logos, as being part of the Son, then all of the shadows that have come out of the Demiurge—all of this material construction—will just vanish. Dissolve like snow, as the old hymn says. There’s nothing in the Nag Hammadi like Armageddon. Christian theology culminates with a great bloody battle called Armageddon, where all the sinners are killed and only the elect remain. And only the elect are up there in heaven then. And that’s why it’s all good, because they killed all the bad people, and they all went to hell, and they’re locked down there in eternal torture. Well, that does not sound like the Father Jesus spoke of. And that doesn’t appear anywhere in the Nag Hammadi. The way we Valentinian Gnostics do battle is not with swords and bullets and fists. We are to do battle with love. We love them. That’s what we’re supposed to do. We demonstrate love. We are called the second order powers. All creatures on the earth are second order powers. The Aeons above are the first order of powers. We are their descendants. We are their children. We are their fruit. And we are called the second order of powers. We were sent here to remind the Demiurge of love and life and consciousness. See, the Aeons and the Logos–this was their plan. They cooked it up. We were sent here to bring love and remembrance to the Demiurge. Restoration in that way. It didn’t work out, because we get caught up in this material life; because we get caught up in the never-ending war. You can’t remind people of good through evil. You cannot remind people of love through hatred. Only love breeds love. Now let’s look at how all of this affects Christology, the study of Christ. In the Gnosticism that I am sharing with you, the Son is the primal emanation. He’s the direct image of the Father. He represents divine Self-knowledge, and he is stable, he is eternal, and he is not fallen. The Christ is a later emanation. He’s a third order power. He’s generated for the purpose of restoration. He is shaped by the Son, Logos, and the Aeons, praying together to the Father for help to come to the Fall. He is the agent of healing, reconciliation, and revelation. So we have a Son, which is the first emanation, and we have a Christ, which is the restorative agent that comes after the first and second order of powers. Christ teaches the soul to recognize the Son. Christ repairs the cosmic imbalance caused by ignorance, and salvation flows from the Father, through the Son, through Christ, and into our souls and the Demiurge's soul—his ego. You see, we all have a perfect Self that is an embodiment of the pleroma of the Fullness of God. All of the first order powers are within us as they were with Logos, within him in a fractal manner, and then we are further fractals of Logos. It’s a nested hierarchy. We are children of the Elohim of Adonai Elohim So when the Christ comes into the cosmos to bring perfection and healing to the Demiurge and to us, it’s very similar, because the reason we feel less than perfect is because we have both an ego and that perfect Self, as did Logos. And it was the ego of Logos that became the Demiurge. Well, our fractal version of that same exact phenomenon is when our ego is not in alignment with our Self. And when the ego is not in alignment with the Self, when the ego has forgotten its origin, like happened to the Demiurge, when the ego has forgotten that it’s not the boss—our boss is our big S Self because that has the direct connection to the emanations of the Father and the Aeons above. Consciousness, life, love, all come from above, and that comes through our Self. The Self at the center of our souls is a fractal of the Fullness of God Then when we are melded onto this material world, to the molecules of the egg, the zygote that is now splitting, splitting, splitting, and leveling up to become the organism, we become lost in the materiality of this cosmic space. And it’s harder for our Self to shine forth through the material. And our egos are more than willing to identify with the material, with the Demiurge, because the Demiurge is pure ego. And so our egos come to resonate with the Demiurge. Even the Aeons have egos. Even the Son has an ego. Ego is merely your address. It’s your name, your rank, your function in the overall hierarchical pleroma of the Fullness of God. That’s what your ego is—it's your ID. The Aeons in the Fullness all have their position, place, power, function. So ego in and of itself is not a bad thing. It is easily led astray once we are in these material bodies down here on the earth. The pleroma of the Christ is the 3rd Order of Powers And so Christ’s function is to remind us of the purity of God, the purity of the soul, the purity of our Self, where we come from, and where we will be returning to, and what our job is down here. Because it’s only then, through the Christ, that we can feel the love, that we can embody the love, in order to share it with others and with the Demiurge. Consciousness and life only comes from above. The computers come from below. Life cannot jump into the molecular level. Okay, we’ll come back around to all of this one more time next week. Please leave me your thoughts. Let’s have a discussion on these things. We’ll pick it up again next week. God bless us all, and onward and upward! A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel puts it all together for you. Please purchase the book and don’t forget to leave a review! 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Life doesn't always shout its lessons—sometimes it whispers them in moments you almost miss. In this special solo episode of The Greatness Machine, Darius Mirshahzadeh unpacks four hard-earned lessons from a year marked by deep personal transformation. Stepping away from the polished highlight reel, he explores the quieter, in-between moments where lasting growth often begins. Through honest reflection and lived experience, Darius dives into themes of clarity, surrender, and identity—offering a raw look at what it means to truly do the inner work. This episode invites you to pause, reflect, and consider what life might be asking of you right now. In this episode, Darius will discuss: (00:00) Reflections on a Profound Year (04:54) Embracing Life's Shortness and Purpose (10:00) Trusting Yourself to Create Desired Outcomes (12:53) Ego vs. Soul: Finding True Purpose (16:51) Unapologetically Being Yourself Connect with Darius: Website: https://therealdarius.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmirshahzadeh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imthedarius/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Thegreatnessmachine  Book: The Core Value Equation https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Write a review for The Greatness Machine using this link: https://ratethispodcast.com/spreadinggreatness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Love isn't just chemistry—it's communication, polarity, self-worth, and the courage to show up authentically. In this deeply insightful and empowering conversation, Dr. Anna Cabeca sits down with world-renowned dating and relationship expert Mat Boggs, bestselling author of Project Everlasting and his newest book, Cracking the Man Code, to uncover the real dynamics behind attraction, commitment, and lasting intimacy. Together, they explore what truly makes a man fall in love—and what makes love last. Whether you're navigating midlife dating, healing after heartbreak, or rekindling passion in a long-term relationship, this episode will transform how you understand masculine and feminine energy, emotional connection, and your own magnetic power. Dr. Anna brings her expertise in hormones, oxytocin, and female physiology to the conversation—revealing how our biology, nervous system, and self-worth shape our relationships more than we realize. You'll learn how to communicate your needs without losing your independence, stop over-functioning in masculine energy, and step into your feminine strength in a way that inspires devotion, partnership, and emotional safety. This is a must-listen episode for any woman ready to attract—or reignite—a passionate, deeply connected relationship. What You'll Learn in This Episode ● Why masculine and feminine polarity drives attraction—and how to use it consciously ● How over-functioning in masculine energy can unintentionally repel the partner you desire ● The surprising hormonal and emotional effects of intimacy before commitment ● How oxytocin, dopamine, and bonding hormones shape attachment ● The difference between chasing and inviting pursuit ● Why friendship and shared adventure are essential for lifelong passion ● How to communicate your needs in a way that deepens connection instead of creating conflict ● The foundational role of self-love in becoming magnetic ● Daily practices to increase self-worth, confidence, and relational success Why This Matters—Especially in Midlife As women step into midlife, many have spent decades leading—in careers, families, and businesses. But this leadership strength can sometimes make it difficult to shift into receptive feminine energy in relationships. Dr. Anna and Mat explore how to create balance without sacrificing independence—and how understanding your biology, nervous system, and emotional patterns can help you attract the love you truly deserve. Because thriving relationships aren't about losing power. They're about aligning with your authentic energy. Memorable Quotes "Femininity is not passive, submissive, or weak. It is proactive, powerful, and magnetic." — Mat Boggs "Half of manifesting your partner faster is getting rid of the wrong partners sooner." — Mat Boggs "Partnership doesn't start outside of you. It starts with loving yourself first." — Dr. Anna Cabeca Key Timestamps [00:00:00] Introduction. [00:03:09] Lifelong love and relationships. [00:06:00] Ego and love in relationships. [00:08:42] Communicating needs in relationships. [00:12:57] Compromise in relationships. [00:14:51] Masculine and feminine energy dynamics. [00:19:02] Masculine vs. feminine energy in dating. [00:21:34] Masculine vs. feminine attributes. [00:29:13] Attraction and pursuit dynamics. [00:32:29] Commitment and sexual interaction. [00:36:18] Friendship and adventure in relationships. [00:40:16] Self-worth in relationships. [00:44:08] The journey to self-love. [00:46:16] Daily practices on self-love. [00:51:06] Partnership starts from within. Connect with Mat Boggs Website: https://www.bravethinkinginstitute.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mathewboggs/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/matboggs Pre-order his new book: Cracking the Man Code Connect with Dr. Anna Cabeca Website: https://drannacabeca.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegirlfrienddoctor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegirlfrienddoctor Call to Action If this episode spoke to you, share it with a girlfriend, daughter, or partner who needs to hear it. Because the most powerful relationships don't happen by accident. They happen when you understand yourself first.

Jay Fonseca por primera vez en Café en Mano. Una conversación que tardó casi 8 años en darse.Hablamos de Puerto Rico, el potencial desperdiciado, la frustración de fiscalizar al poder, y por qué “el verdadero cambio” requiere sacrificio real.También entramos en temas personales: perder proyectos, el miedo a fracasar, disciplina, transformación física, salud mental, y cómo separar el ego para mantener relaciones — incluyendo lo que Jay ha aprendido trabajando con Chente.

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A Note from James:Is he the most hated man in America? I don't think so.Martin Shkreli was notorious for various reasons that you'll hear about in this episode—there are some crazy stories—but I've come to know Martin over the past few months as both a friend and business partner.Let's just hear his stories and explanations. I think you'll agree with me that this is one of the smartest people I've ever had on the podcast.Episode Description:Martin Shkreli became one of the most controversial figures in business history—labeled “the most hated man in America,” prosecuted, imprisoned, and publicly vilified.In this conversation, he tells his side of the story.Part 1 focuses on how media narratives form, why conviction and risk-taking matter in entrepreneurship, and the deeper mechanics behind the pharmaceutical controversy that made him famous. He explains the economics of drug pricing, insurance systems, neglected medications, and why public perception diverged so dramatically from what patients actually experienced.The episode also explores learning across disciplines, intellectual courage, prosecutors' incentives, and how public scandals evolve into legal consequences.Whether you agree with him or not, the discussion raises uncomfortable questions about business, regulation, media, and reputation.What You'll Learn:Why media narratives can shape public opinion more than factsThe real economics behind pharmaceutical pricing and insurance coverageHow entrepreneurs learn complex industries without formal trainingWhy conviction and risk tolerance are essential in investing and businessHow incentives within legal and political systems influence outcomesTimestamped Chapters:[00:02:00] “Most Hated Man in America” — Media Narratives & Reputation[00:03:11] A Note from James[00:03:45] Humor vs. Backlash: Handling Public Criticism[00:06:39] Conviction, Investing & Standing Your Ground[00:09:00] Optimism, Forgiveness & Business Relationships[00:12:08] The Pharma Controversy Begins[00:14:52] From Hedge Funds to Biotech CEO[00:17:40] Learning New Industries from Scratch[00:19:00] Staying Curious & Avoiding Fear of Complexity[00:21:00] Borrowing Knowledge Across Domains[00:23:06] How People Actually Learn Complex Skills[00:29:00] Entrepreneurship, Ego & Motivation[00:31:20] The Daraprim Pricing Decision Explained[00:34:00] Neglected Drugs & Pharma Economics[00:37:00] Profit Motive vs. Public Good[00:41:13] Why He Became the Target[00:45:00] Prosecutors, Incentives & Legal Strategy[00:47:00] Hedge Funds, Technical Violations & Trials[00:50:00] High-Profile Cases & Selective Enforcement[00:53:00] Media Attention & Personal DecisionsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Do you want to know investment success secrets? Look no further than today's discussion! The long-dominant "buy the Magnificent 7 and forget it" tech trade is fading, with sector rotation favoring energy, materials, and staples while technology and discretionary lag. Drawing on presidential cycle data, it seems markets often experience weakness and corrections in midterm years before potential strength later, though today's backdrop of sticky inflation, high debt, and constrained Federal Reserve policy could challenge historical norms. Liquidity over politics is the true market driver and power preservation incentives may shape fiscal and economic decisions and highlights opportunities in defensive sectors and fixed income if rates fall. As always, disciplined investing is the most important: avoid ego, abandon rigid outcome-based predictions, adopt scenario-based thinking, respect price action, and define in advance when you are wrong. We discuss... The long-standing strategy of simply buying mega-cap tech stocks is breaking down as sector leadership rotates. Energy, materials, and staples are outperforming while technology and discretionary stocks lag, signaling possible market-top behavior. Historical sector rotation patterns suggest markets may be transitioning from expansion toward a late-cycle phase. Midterm presidential years historically bring volatility and frequent 10–20% corrections before potential recovery. Liquidity is framed as the primary force driving market cycles. Today's environment of sticky inflation, high debt, and constrained Federal Reserve policy may weaken the reliability of historical patterns. Defensive sectors and fixed income could benefit if growth slows and interest rates decline. Political incentives around power preservation may influence fiscal decisions and economic optics heading into elections. Investors are warned not to blindly "buy the dip," especially in volatile assets like crypto. The hosts stress that price action ultimately determines whether an investment thesis is right or wrong. Ego and overconfidence are identified as major threats to long-term investing success. Outcome-based thinking is discouraged in favor of scenario-based planning across multiple probable outcomes. Behavioral research shows experts often double down when wrong, reinforcing the importance of flexibility. Successful investing requires humility, adaptability, risk management, and clearly defined exit strategies.   Today's Panelists: Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth Douglas Heagren | Mergent College Advisors Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moneytreepodcast Follow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/money-tree-investing-podcast Follow on Twitter/X: https://x.com/MTIPodcast For more information, visit the show notes at https://moneytreepodcast.cominvesting-success-secrets-793  

Is self-sabotage the result of rejecting one side of your own duality?Josh Trent welcomes Dr. John Demartini to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 803, to dismantle the myth of self sabotage, reveal how duality governs perception and destiny, unpack why pride and shame distort authenticity, explore the hidden order behind chaos and so called evil, and show how integrating opposites through the right questions unlocks gratitude, fulfillment, and true self mastery.In This Episode, Dr. John Demartini Uncovers:(01:15) Self-Sabotage Is a Myth(05:00) Mastery Happens Through The Opposites(09:25) Perception Changes Absolutely Everything(14:40) Values Hierarchy(19:50) Pride VS Gratitude(27:15) You Can't Get Rid of The Ego(31:45) What Stops Your Growth(34:35) What Is God?(40:10) The Purpose of Evil(46:25) The Illusion of Morality(51:55) Teach Your Children Accountability(58:10) Good and Bad Don't Exist(01:00:50) Your Values Define You(01:07:45) Synthesis + Synchronicity(01:10:35) You're Part of The Matrix(01:14:40) Ask The Right Questions(01:17:25) Love + Gratitude Are The Key

Is self-sabotage the result of rejecting one side of your own duality? Josh Trent welcomes Dr. John Demartini to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 803, to dismantle the myth of self sabotage, reveal how duality governs perception and destiny, unpack why pride and shame distort authenticity, explore the hidden order behind chaos and so called evil, and show how integrating opposites through the right questions unlocks gratitude, fulfillment, and true self mastery.

In this episode of the Sober Motivation Podcast, Philip Barb shares how a DUI at 22 became the turning point that led to 18 years of sobriety. This is a powerful conversation about alcohol addiction, anxiety, grief, and long-term recovery. Philip opens up about using alcohol to silence anxiety, growing up under pressure, and how ego and perfectionism kept him stuck. What started as drinking to cope eventually led to arrests and legal consequences — and ultimately a decision to quit drinking for good. We discuss: • DUI and the wake-up call that changed everything • Alcohol addiction and anxiety • Ego in recovery • The role of community and support meetings • What long-term sobriety really requires If you're struggling with alcohol, thinking about quitting drinking, or looking for insight into long-term sobriety, this episode offers real perspective and hope. ---------- Philip on IG: https://www.instagram.com/phillipbarbb/