Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

In this engaging discussion, Amy Cuddy, a Harvard Professor and New York Times best-selling author, reveals the profound impact of body language on personal confidence. She shares insights on overcoming imposter syndrome and the importance of power poses. Amy also explores the concept of the 'spirit of the staircase,' the difference between confidence and cockiness, and how authentic communication is key in high-pressure scenarios. Listeners will learn to bring their boldest selves forward in challenges while navigating vulnerability and authenticity.

Michael Sandler and Jessica Lee's personal story (and discussion) on their Miscarriage, their healing journey, and now pregnancy x2. An inspiring, heart-warming, and honest discussion (from their recent YouTube live). Be ready to laugh, cry, and be inspired to get back on your horse, overcome your own challenges, no matter how little or how large, and use this show to power up your positivity!!!! The Power of Positivity & The Do-Over (Michael and Jessica's Pregnancy Story) What happened to Michael and Jessica's first pregnancy? What did Michael try to do during the miscarriage process? How was Jessica after the experience? What does it mean to focus or "own" your pregnancy or potential positive experience? What's the power in sharing with others (rather than hiding challenges)? What happened when Jessica went to a Dr. Joe Dispenza retreat just after her miscarriage? How we can view challenges as tune-ups for the body, heart and soul? What can be do for our mindset after we've fallen off the horse? How can you reframe from challenging events??? What it means to invest our well-being in positivity? What it means to invest in yourself? What it means to free yourself from your child-hood wounds!!! What it means to never worry about the past? Why it's important to get rid of the "should-a's" in our lives? How meditation can help us to erase or rewrite the past? Why small traumas can actually be beneficial, depending on how we react to things? What we learned from Paul Selig about the miscarriage? How daily intention work can help attract in what we desire? What's Jessica Lee's morning routine? What a "Perfect Pregnancy" Melissa Peer self-hypnosis is like? Top tools to help you stay in a positive place! To Find Out More And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever worried about your health, or the health of your kids, and how to make it better, then do we have the Sicker Fatter Poorer show for you! Today I'll be talking with Dr. Leonardo Trasande, and internationally reknowed leader in children's environmental heath, and the author of a brilliant…albeit unsettling book on endocrine disrupters and health, Sicker Fatter Poorer. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about the Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to our health and future, and what we can do about it. Sicker Fatter Poorer Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: How'd Dr. Trasande end up in public health policy from Harvard? What was the Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Disease Burden Working Group? What did they learn about endocrine disprupting chemicals and why is this so important for us? What's the difference between a playground in 1962 and one today? What are the chemicals with the strongest evidence of health effects? What are some of the potential side-effects? What is endocrine disruption? What's the difference in these chemicals between the US and Europe? What's happening to our babies? What is the connection between chemicals, diabetes, and obesity? What do we need to know about BPA, and are the replacements any better? What's wrong with the concept "everything in moderation"? What's going on with autism in kids (and especially boys) today? What do we need to know about thyroid hormones especially in newborns? What can you tell us about pesticides in the brain? Key ways we can remove these chemicals and improve our lives What's a natural mattress and truly natural materials? What's wrong with flame retardants? What do we need to know about packaged foods? Are plastic containers safe? What about non-stick pans? What do we need to know about ADHD and Autism? What's wrong with canned foods? What are obesogens? What's a chemical whak-a-mole? How do we protect our kids? To find out more visit:www.leotrasande.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever struggled to get past your jumbled mind, then do we have the GET OUT OF YOUR MIND AND GET THINGS DONE show for you! Today I'll be talking with David Allen, author, consultant, international lecturer, and the best selling author of numerous books including his international best-seller, Getting Things Done. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about creating more room in our minds, getting in control, and getting things done. Getting Things Done Self-Improvement & Self-Help Topics Include: Why can't we trust our minds? What is our mind good for? What is our mind terrible at? What does the #4 have to do with our minds? How to create a vision in your life? How do we turn that vision into a reality What are the key steps to getting things done? What's wrong with how we've been taught to plan? Why is our planning methodology completely unnatural? What's a natural way to plan instead? How do we craft and frame a vivid picture of what we want? What's the power of a brain dump? How do we figure out the first step to getting things done? What's the importance of deciding the meaning behind the things we want to do? How do we come up with the most important actions? How do we get unstuck when we get an overwhelming list? How we move past the desire to do the latest and loudest? How do we build the microhabits to take things out of the conscious mind? How do we build our physical environment to support our getting things done? To find out more visit www.GettingThingsDone.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted more genuine, fulfilling life, then do we have the show for you! Today I'll be talking with Sandra Joseph, The Record-Holding, Phantom of the Opera's longest leading lady and the author of a phenomenal new book on living your life, Unmasking What Matters. And that's just what I want to talk with her about 10 key life lessons, from 10 years on Broadway to unmask what matters most, and step into your field of power. Unmasking What Matters Topics Include: How did she become the longest running lead actress on Broadway? How did she get into acting? How did she overcome the fear of public speaking? What's the importance of facing fears to prevent regrets? What happened in her 5th grade performance that changed her life? What was her vow and what can we learn from it? What was her commitment she made after college and what does that mean for us? How do we move past the internal wiring that's holding us back? How did she move past her fears to get the lead role in the Phantom of the Opera? How do we move past Imposter Syndrome? How do we move past our wounds from the past? What's it mean to see behind the mask? What's the importance of starting a discussion with worthiness? What does it mean that we're truly enough? How do we turn toward ourselves? How do we counteract our tendency to beat up on ourselves when things haven't gone well. What's the importance of presence? How do we take a vow of ultimate kindness toward ourselves? What's it mean to let yourself be seen? What's the importance of choosing love over fear??? How do we move past self-criticism? What's the importance of self-compassion? What's it mean to stand in your field of power? What's it mean to value your role??? What's the importance of unconditional love? Who is the Phantom of the Opera who didn't get away? For more info visit: www.SandraJoseph.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted to make big changes in your life, then do we have the Liminal Thinking show for you. Today I'll be talking with Dave Gray, founder of Xplane, and the author of two previous books on design change and innoviation, Gamestorming, and The Connected Company, and his latest, liminal thinking. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about creating the change you want by changing the way you think. That plus we'll talk about lemonade and Somalia, what in the world's falsifiability, the power of baking cookies, late night video games and routers, the power of a cup of tea, why you'd want to put crackers in a bed, and why in the world spitfire, wasn't really doomed. Life-Changing Liminal Thinking Topics Include: What is xplane? What is the word liminal? What is visual problem-solving? What does it mean change happens at the boundary of things? What does it mean beliefs are constructions? What does it mean the obvious is not obious? What's the danger of confusing beliefs with "reality" What does it mean beliefs cause behavior? What's a doom loop? How do beliefs create blind-spots? What's the importance of assuming we're not objective? What is falsifiability? What's the importance of triangulation? What does it mean to disrupt routines And what's the importance of disruptors? Why would you want to put crackers in a bed? What's the importance of taking a risk? http://www.LiminalThinking.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever struggled to get things right, but wanted a second chance then do we have the we're pregnant again, power of a do-over show for you! Today we'll talk about overcoming fears, getting back on the horse, and trying again, until you get things right. The Power of the Do-Over Topics Include: How Jessica told Michael they're pregnant again Why Jessica wants to tell the world – and what it has to do with what you bring about? How to bring the right energy to your baby? What it means to redo something large in your life? What we can learn for do-over? What Michael learned about doing over life – from a past-life regression? What does fear vs. love have to do with a do-over? What we learned about Jessica's diet (and smoothies) for the do-over? What we can learn from our bodies? What it means to allow into "what is"? To Find Out More And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted to feel more love in your heart and spirit all around you, then do we have the special show for you! Today I'll be talking with Radhanath Swami a world-renowned spiritual leader and the best-selling author of The Journey Home, Autobiography of an American Swami, and the author of one of my new favorite spiritual books, The Journey Within. Today we'll be talking about attaining divine love and living a more spiritual existence in each and every moment. That plus we'll talk about cave dwelling in the Himalayas, the yoga of cooking, the secret of redwoods, hanuman's tail, and what we can all learn from monkeys! Self-Help & Self-Improvement Topics and Questions Include: What happened to his mother with a monkey near Mumbai Understanding the monkey mind The importance of treating a sentient being with compassion and love In his first book, The Journey Home, how he tells the story of his travels to India and through the Himalayas, and how he spent time with a Saddhic Kaleshbaba, and what he taught him about living in the jungle What's the importance of seeing other people and other things as children of God, with compassion and respect. What the true wisdom is of seeing everyone with equal vision How do we answer the question, who am I? What's it mean to live in sacred space? How we're affected by the people we're with, and our environment – important self-help tip! What is the spiritual definition of 'success' and what we can learn from Hanuman How to find love What's the spiritual importance of satsang, or associating with uplifting people? What's the spiritual practice of satana? (How yoga is a method of doing this too) What is sadichar – living in a spirit of service and character? About Hrishikesh and Reika How we would treat people differently if we viewed people as gifts of God entrusted in our care What he was given on the bank of a river that an orthodox hindu holy man had held onto for 40 years For more info and for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted to lose weight permanently and feel better about your life, then do we have the FEED YOUR SOUL show for you. Today I'll be talking with Carly Pollack, founder of Nutritional Wisdom, a certified clinical nutritionist with a amsters in holistic nutrition, and the author of a macronutrient dense wisdom-filled book, Feed Your Soul. And that's just what I want to talk with her about today, about nutritional wisdom to lose weight permanently and live fulfilled. Topics Include: What was Carly Pollack's relationship with food growing up? What were her diets like? How did she end up binging on the weekends? And what would happen with her diets each Monday morning? What is food karma and what's it have to do with how we eat? What do we need to know about will-power and discipline? How do we learn to love food that love us back? How do we uncover our beliefs? What are higher vibration foods? What does pain and pleasure have to do with how we eat? How do we "find more time" to eat healthfully? What's real food? What's the importance of a food journal? What are food lists and how can they help us? What are some basic tenets of conscious / mindful eating? What does it really mean tot eat only when hungry? What's it mean to eat like you're a professional food critic? What's the importance of taking a breather halfway through a meal? What's a self-care sandwich and how can it help us? What's the five second rule? What's the importance of silence and meditation when it comes to eating? What's the importance of gratitude when it comes to eating? To Find Out More Visit: carlypolack.com and www.nutritionalwisdom.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

If you've ever wanted to have more happiness in your life, then do we have the Shortcuts to Happiness show for you! then do we have the Happier show for you. Today I'll be talking with Tal Ben-Shahar former Harvard Professor who taught the largest course at Harvard "Positive Psychology" and one of the leading Happiness experts in the world. He's also the author of several fantastic books on Happiness including Choose the Life You Want, Happier, and his latest couture, Short Cuts to Happiness. And that's just what I want to talk with him about today, about life changing lessons, he learned from his barber! Topics Include: What has Tal Ben-Shahar a leading researcher on happiness been looking into lately? What can we learn from our barbers about happiness? What's the importance of "others" when it comes to happiness? What's the importance of relationships? What's the importance of "touch" for our health and happiness? What we can learn from Temple Grandin? What are the potential benefits of children from hardship? What can we learn from Maria Montessori about childhood struggles? How do we increase the resilience in our children? Why failure is so important for our children? What's wrong with focusing on a child's grades? What do the studies show about our focus (with kids) and happiness? What the studies show about money buying happiness? What's the science behind sitting up straight, and what it does for our happiness? How do we make the best decisions for our happiness? What can we learn from Professor Joseph Badaracco about right decisions? What's the importance of shifting from self-focus to other-focus? What can we learn from the studies about shifting perspective and anger management? What's the importance of focusing on praising effort with children and mindset expert Carol Dweck? For More Info Visit: TalBenShahar.com And for free meditations, weekly tips, stories and similar shows visit: www.InspireNationShow.com