Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler

Hi Everyone, Michael Sandler here, your host on inspire nation. Today we have a very relaxing and empowering Badass meditation from Jen Sincero, our recent guest and author You Are a Badass, How to stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. This empowering meditation can be done anytime of the day, but I personally love it for morning and evening reprogramming of my mind. If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show. You get huge Karma points, it supports us, and helps people find the show. Thank you so much! To Hear Jen Sincero’s recent interview on abundance and a Badass wealth consciousness, or to hear more meditations from me or from our guests, check out Inspire Nation, or InspireNationShow.com. I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste. Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Spiritual | Mindfulness | Consciousness | Law of Attraction | Manifestation | The Secret | Happiness | Abundance | Self-Help

Today we have a very inspired entrepreneur, artist and athlete, who will be talking with us about overcoming hurdles, chasing your dreams, and doing what it takes to succeed. He should know, he’s built over 20 companies worth over 100 million dollars (combined). His name is Mike Stemple, and I’m proud to call him my friend, and our first mentor, when we were getting our first company RunBare together, what feels like eons ago. Mike has a knack for cutting through the B.S. and getting at the core of what it takes to succeed. He’s done this with dozens of startups, while running ultra-endurance races, and in his own way, with his artwork as well. If you’ve ever driven i-25 through Denver, you’ve likely seen his Denver Bronco’s mural on a prominent building. I think though, what impresses me most about Mike is his inability to quit, hear no, or get discouraged, no matter what. To make 20 million dollar companies, means being willing to fail, and fail a LOT, something Mike knows a lot about too. But he knows how to ride fear, or look past it, something I’m fascinated by. Mike’s life hasn’t been all roses, he lost his hearing as a child and developed a speech problem. He damaged his brain in a car accident at 24 losing his medical and military career. He’s struggled with depression himself, and with severe illness, something I’ll let him tell you about. But Mike has come back, time and time again, not just to build companies, but to inspire us all. At age 39 he became a sponsored athlete after running hundreds of miles across the desert sands in the Sahara. I guess that’s why he calls himself, a full-time inspirer. Questions Include: What was life like for you as a kid? How did you become a serial entrepreneur? You’ve had numerous very serious health-challenges and really trying times. In retrospect, why do you think these happened? What’s your mission in life? How would you say it’s changed or evolved? How or why did you ever think, I’d like to become a sponsored athlete and run across the sahara? How do you get the idea to start a company? What have been some start ups we may be familiar with? I’ve recently heard the expression from numerous sources fail fast. What do you think of failure? Can You Talk About the Law of Attraction, The Secret, and Yoda You used to have a website Iamnotafraid.com, what do you mean by that? What’s the illness you’ve struggled with? Recently, you struggled through a pretty dark time. I think we ALL go through dark times, if we can recognize that, they often make us stronger. What did you go through and how did it change you? What advice would you give for parents raising kids, or to empower kids these days? Topics Include: Lost hearing – learning how to communicate Learning it was okay to fail Learned failure will only happen if work hard and try but success will only happen if try Yoda – try or not try – disagrees, thinks all there is is the try Fail and Fail Fast Rails against Yoda Quote, because greatest things in his life at moment thought failure was imminent – if believed it was absolute, that there was nothing beyond Law of Attraction & The Secret Ran Atacama Desert Crossing Didn’t want to play it safe Wanted to truly “live” Act to prove his health Training became his full-time job Separated shoulder on flight to Chile Spiritually was vacant – didn’t go there with full respect of The Universe Spiritual experience – changed person “I lived my whole life to become the person I am today – was it worth it?” Flipped “worth” question around – was my life worth it to The Universe Realized lived so much about “me” was I worthy of my life? Back from desert Succeed more than you lose Favorite moments 20 100 million dollar plus companies or “step children” to him Skinit Rich N Wraps (3M bought them) Odojo, Lesoro, Enriche Courage vs. Bravery Courage exists in fear, bravery transcends it Like’s courage since has to be with fear Learns to separate the rational vs. the irrational fear. How do you predict success? “Effectual Action” Premise #1 (bedrock of overcoming fear) Overcoming who are you? What do you know? Who do you know? Everything will come out mediocre if try to do it all yourself Passion is the box that holds the above 3 questions together Can’t do a “money idea” Why “Wet T-Shirt In A Box” is a Million Dollar Idea, but NOT the right way to go. MUST MEET YOUR CORE VALUES! Passion idea is always best – must be something you totally believe in YOU must be YOUR avatar!!! Johnny Iveand Steve Jobs, biggest fans of their products Can’t be about the money…world is littered with start-ups this way Has to be about your passion – if you’re not 100% a believer in it, you won’t have the strength for your company. Always refer to your company as if it’s an individual and a person. Have to be very introspective Premise #2 Acceptable loss – what am I willing to lose by doing this venture? Are you passionate about it??? Human condition – suffering will come to us Everyday given choice, free will, to chose, to dream, to aspire to be better Live life, put it all at risk, put it to the edge and beyond, create with no ego Have Courage Believe your worthy of doing extraordinary things: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckenberg, Richard Branson…they are no different than us, we all have the right, we just need to go out and seize it. Feed dreams and starve fears!!! Inspiration | Motivation | Health | Wealth | Business | Entrepreneur | Sidepreneur | Intrapreneur | Career | Law of Attraction | Secret | Spiritual | Spirituality | Mindfulne

Today we have a very short, unique, fun heart-chakra meditation. This one’s sure to put a smile on your heart. This meditation offer’s the perfect balance for today’s interview with serial entrepreneur and ultra-endurance athlete Mike Stemple, who talks about moving past the BS, to succeed in business, in life, and in everything that comes our way. If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor, and rate and review our show. It’s the single #1 most important way to show your love for inspire nation, and to help others to find the show. I send you each mighty, mighty karma points and woo-hoo’s for your support!!! To check out Mike Stemple’s interview, or to hear more meditations from me, or our guests, visit our Inspire Nation Show or InspireNationShow.com. I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste. Woo hoo! Okay, this is a super-simple, yet really fun meditation, Jessica Lee, my wife and co-host on inspire nation shared with me. You can do this meditation any time of the day, and anywhere you’d like, it’s particularly fun to do on a park bench, on the subway, or anywhere you can radiate love all around you. Of course, you can certainly do it from the privacy of your own home as well. And if you have pets, particularly kitty-cats, expect them to come around. To begin, as always, I want you to breathe nice and slow and deep in through the nose, and out through the nose as well. Nice and slow and deep. Now imagine a glowing three-dimensional warm glowing ball in your heart-chakra or center point in your chest… Inspiration | Visualization | Relaxation | Meditation | Spirituality | Spiritual | Mindfulness | Heart Chakra | Happiness | Love | Inner-Peace | Joy | Bliss

Hi Everyone! Jessica Lee here, Michael Sandler’s wife and wing-mate in life and occasional host on Inspire Nation. If you’re new to the show, Michael is your regular host, but today for the second time ever, a rare event indeed, I’m turning the tables on Michael, so today he’s a guest on his own show. If you’ve been listening to the show, then you’ve likely heard Michael mention a couple of near death accidents he’s had. Today, we’re going to revisit near death accident number one, what transpired right before, what exactly took place so that Michael found himself flying through the air before crashing down on a cement sidewalk and how he found his way back, stronger and more vibrant than ever before. If you’ve ever felt completely upside down, like you’ve been thrown in a blender and tossed around or as if someone’s just hit the reset button on your life, then do we have the show for you. We’ll be talking about why we sometimes need a cosmic two by four from the universe, what you can learn from life’s seemingly darkest moments, and how a positive attitude can make all the difference between slipping away versus rising to the occasion and shining brighter than ever before. Key Questions Include Michael, before, we dive into the events that place on April 2nd, 2006, let’s talk about the adventure you were about to embark on that summer. Can you share what you were busy training for up until that point? Had you had any fears or hesitations about the upcoming journey? Were the pieces falling into place naturally and easily? Now let’s head to the morning of April 2nd, 2006. That day you were out for a regular training skate on a beautiful spring-like Sunday morning in Boulder, Colorado. Can you paint a picture of what that day was like? At one point, you stopped to take a break and cool off. Can you share what happened there? Had you been listening to Inspiration by Dr. Wayne Dyer? So you laced up and headed off again down the trail, then what happened? The EMT’s arrive and they keep asking you if you’ve hit your head, why? Was there a sense of relief? Do you think perhaps there was a part of you that felt this trip was a mistake? So you arrive at the hospital and the doctor takes x-rays of your leg. What was his prognosis? How did you know everything was going to go back perfectly? Did you have any fear whatsoever? After you’ve woken up after surgery, the doctor comes rushing into your room with new x-rays. At that point, how long were the hospital personnel planning on keeping you there? How did you convince them to release you early? At this point, it might seem like the hardest part of the ordeal was over, meaning surviving the accident and getting out of the hospital. But things didn’t get easier. When the accident took place, your fiancé at the time was out of the country. Two weeks after you get out of the hospital, she breaks up with you. I imagine that was extremely devastating at the time. You’re lying or sitting in bed for much of everyday, barely able to care for yourself. Stacks of hospital bills are starting to arrive in the mail. You can’t work. And then the woman you think you’re going to spend the rest of your life with drops you cold. What was going through your mind? Why do you think the Universe served it all to you at once? How did you stay positive? What was the process like for you learning to walk again? Was there ever any question? What did you discover out on the trails? Often, when we experience a major health crisis, it’s like hitting the reset button. I’ve found that in my own experience, it’s an opportunity to break old patterns and habits that no longer serve us and to put in new habits that do. What were old habits that didn’t serve you? Where new habits that came out of this experience? Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Spiritual | Mindfulness | Health | Wealth | Happiness | Wayne Dyer | Self-Help

Today we have a very short, relaxing meditation that’ll help you calm the body as well as the mind. It’s called the Slow Breath, and I’ll show you in just minute why it has this name. You can do this meditation anytime of the day, but I love it best in the evenings, when I want to slow down, and quiet my mind. If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show. Ratings and Reviews are the #1 way you can help us, and support the show. Plus it’s great karma! To hear more great meditations from me, or our guests, visit our Inspire Nation Show, or InspireNationShow.com. I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste. Okay, for this meditation, you’re going to want to sit nice and tall, or laying on your back with your hands by your sides. In short, I’m going to count out your breaths, and I want you to do them, nice, and slow and controlled. This is about breathing in through the nose, and if possible, out through the nose as well. The trick it to go slow and controlled, and get as much air as you can into your belly. Yes, you won’t want a tight belt or taught draw string for this one. A key point, if you have a medication condition such as heart disease or asthma, check with your doctor first, and make sure it’s okay to practice, very slow, deep breathing. Inspiration | Motivation | Meditation | Spirituality | Spiritual | Relaxation | Relax | Inner-Peace | Breath

Have you ever had a dream so real that it didn’t feel like a dream at all? Ever stranger still, did anything in that dream later come true? Or have you ever had a coincidence or multiple coincidences occur to you, maybe back to back, that left you with goosebumps, thinking to yourself how in the world is that possible? If so, do we have a show for you! Today we’ll be speaking with Robert Moss, a world-renowned expert in the field of Active Dreaming. He’s a former professor, a shaman, and an expert when it comes to signs and symbols, or the study of the “coincidences” we see in the world around us. And he’s the best-selling author of well over a dozen books including the recently released Sidewalk Oracles. Today I want to dive into the “magic” and understand what dreams really have to offer, what active dreaming, and in a sense, how our awake world, is still a world of dreams. I think we’ve all experienced strange coincidences, and certainly deja-vu moments, I want to find out what they really mean, if they’re just coincidences, or if there’s a lot more here than meets the eye…and if so, how we can use these synchronicities to live a more magical and meaningful existence. Topics Include: How to know you live in a magical world If you have magic inside of you then you live in a magical world If we’re open then things we speak to us We live in a speaking land - Aborigines Take 10-15 minutes every day and be available For 15 minutes receive what the world around you is trying to tell you Listen to what people are seeing Look at what a child is drawing How do we live by synchronicity? Prepare to have your “plans” “screwed up” Best things happen when plans come un-stuck Trickster energy – Coyote, Fox, Universe Transition and movement is when it all multiplies What is the meaning of trickster energy and how does it work? Works at the luminal places – at the border places Be ready to change when things aren’t working out. Developing your personal definition of things Develop your own personal omens What follows from a certain thing? What is the pattern of the day? Learning to read and recognize your own signs There is a deeper meaning at play Test, Check, Verify, and Notice What Follows Ask for guidance it will appear “Walk on the bridge don’t build on it” Don’t take this life too seriously We live in a “mind field” where all of our energies are inter-twining Lucid dreaming – What it is and what it means Lucid Dreaming vs. Active Dreaming How to become a Lucid Dreamer If more mindful in daytime reality, are likely to be more mindful in your dreams. To become a lucid dreamer, work on becoming more lucid during the day. How to lucid dream or go into a lucid dream while falling asleep “right from take-off” The power of drumming to shift human consciousness Active Dreaming Techniques Why linear thinkers still wake up to the dream world The world around us is talking to us constantly in signs and symbols Consider looking at the world as a dream report Playing sidewalk tarot Go for walk and look for first three things you notice from beyond yourself and the world around you. Look at them and make a story of them Develop a certain sense of poetic consciousness and poetic health. Jung – synchronicity and coincidence Not just that things are happening at the same moment, but clustering, and dreams come into it. Notice patterns and track them. Bibliomancy – open book to a page and it has meaning for you. Playing with Shelf Elves What are kledons and why they’re important to us Listen for your daily kledon Repeating #’s Law of attraction – check your inner sidetrack Gratitude is “practical magic” The gift of the everyday oracle – spoken by a stranger Website: MossDreams.com For more information visit www.InspireNationShow.com Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Mindfulness | Synchronicity | Spiritual

Today we have a very special Personal "Tree of Vision" Meditation led by Robert Moss, our guest today, and author of Sidewalk Oracles: Playing with Signs, Symbols and Synchronicity in Everyday Life. This is a perfect meditation to help you get guidance, clarity, grounding, and focus. If you ever have big decisions, moments of anxiety, or need wisdom and understanding, this meditation is the perfect place to go. This meditation is great any time of the day, and with practice, particularly useful anytime you need clarity, guidance, or focus. If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show. Ratings and reviews are the #1 you can help support the show, and help others to find the show and enjoy these meditations as well. In essence, you’ll be earning great karma points! To listen to Robert Moss’s interview, or to check out or more meditations by our guests, or from me, check our our Inspire Nation Show, or InspireNationShow.com. I send love. I send light. And many, many blessings your way. Namaste. "This is a perfect meditation to help you get guidance, clarity, grounding, and focus. If you ever have big decisions, moments of anxiety, or need wisdom and understanding, this meditation is a great place to start. This meditation is the perfect place to come any time to rest, to relax, to center, to restore your inner compass. It’s a place that you can find will offer you portals or gateways, to make several kinds of journeys or meditations, to go to deeper spaces, to meet spiritual guides and teachers, to connect with the earth, to travel perhaps across space and time, or into parallel times, or to journey to spiritual masters on a higher plane…." Inspiration | Motivation | Meditation | Mindfulness | Spiritual | Spirituality | Guidance | Health | Wisdom | Wealth | Self-Help

Remember when you were kid how you wanted to be a explorer, or an astronaut, or a pilot flying around the world? Then somewhere along the lines, you either forgot, or were told to stop dreaming and get serious, and you left the world of dreams and passions behind entering a pragrmatic life of compromise. If this sounds familiar, then do we have the show for you. Today we’re interviewing Greg Levoy. Greg is the best-selling author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion and Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life He is a former "behavioral specialist" writer for USA Today, and a regular blogger for Psychology Today. He’s written for the NY Times magazine, Washington post, and Readers Digest among many others. Today we’re going to talk about rediscovering who you are, and who you were meant to be. We’ll look at where your energy’s draining out, how to take stock, and where to put your focus. Most importantly, we’ll help you change how you relate to the world so you can rekindle your inner flame. Balancing our tendency to want to stay indoors most of the time We must reconnect with what is wild in us! Our dreams Nature and the natural world around us Why we’re constantly negotiating between passion and security There’s the part that wants to take risks and make leaps and come alive There’s the part of us that wants to be safe, and secure, and in control The Danger: In a tug-of-war security tends to win…passion tends to get back-burnered. Chronically can have detrimental effects to choose security over passion Observe how often make security choices over vitality choices Reclaim ourselves from the task-master that says safety and security above all else Why no running on the playground may be the most dangerous thing of all Why society is so fear averse – i.e. Warning Labels Do not iron clothes on body This superman costume does not allow you to fly Why we must give ourselves non-work modes of expression Make art, make music, listen to music, spend time in men’s or women’s groups, athletics, sports, using the body, something that involves not sitting at a desk in front of a computer, or not being indoors Remember our passions that have gone dormant How to Find your passion Ask yourself, what part of the book store do you go to first? Do as Hannah Papp, author of the Mystical Backpacker suggests Listen to Robert Greenway – father of Eco-pyschology. “Civilization is thousands of years old, but only 4 days deep” Why we can all benefit from a mortality meditation and learning about death in order to fully live Concept that death could be a source of death Death asks what matters to you, what’s really important to you? Helps us make decision between passion and security Thomas Murton – “to make an important decision consult your death” Study: Almost everyone told less than 6 months to live were liberated in very profound ways! “My concern diagnosis was the best thing that ever happened to me” How learning about death can keep us from being trapped by life Vital Signs helps illuminate compromises Compromise and ignoring passions and nature may be the reason people have most heart-attacks at 9 AM on Monday mornings Must do what makes your heart sing Must reclaim your soul, spirit, energy, or mojo Other goals of the book Life is so rich and we settle for so little Jean Houston – author and mythologist and psychologist Says we need to live “larger than life” Help people to be profoundly present to the stuff of your life Most important question – Ask yourself what does my soul want today? This is where the work happens “Best way to make God laugh is to declare your plans” Progress happens in the “to do” list of life Deciding between the brake or accelerator, that’s where the work is in the world. Everything in life becomes a mindfulness exercise Takeaway pieces of advice Begin to acknowledge where you lose energy and vitality Take an inventory of where your energy dribbles out Use the inventory so you can change your habits and your focus Try to surround yourself with people who shine Connect with people who are living out loud Be gentle with yourself Give yourself time Have self-compassion Don’t beat yourself up because you don’t live up to your potential Remember - stuff hitting the fan isn’t bad, it’s part of the path, not opposed to the path Inspiration | Motivation | Kindness | Spirituality | Compassion | Business | Career | Self-Help | NY Times | USA Today | Reader’s Digest

If you’ve ever struggled to get out of your own way, or doubted the law of attraction thinking, this stuff doesn’t work, or doesn’t work FOR ME, then do we have the show for you! Today we’ll be interviewing Michael Samuel’s the uber best-selling author of Just Ask the Universe, the Universeity, and Keep Calm and Ask On. It’s actually his second time on the show. The first time was day one of the show, launch day, talking about Harnessing the law of attraction, and yes, it works! Our show has absolutely taken off and gone viral with thousands of listeners now in 101 countries and counting. So now we wanted to have him back on and talk about Keeping Calm and Asking On.So while they’re be the obligatory celebratory hi-fives for our progress and the show taking off, plus a woo hoo or too, I want to spend a bit of today talking about the tough stuff as well. I want to talk about having faith in the Law of Attraction, about what to do when the chips are down, and most importantly, how to get out of our own way, stop blocking the flow and to allow the success, abundance, and happiness we deserve to come rushing on in. In short, I want to talk about finding outrageous success, EVEN if we don’t believe it’s possible. Well, if that’s even possible. But then I also want to talk about the fun stuff, or What Michael Calls the Law of Laughter, and why it’s perhaps the most important rule of them all! Topics Include: Celebrating the victories · Overcoming Rejection · Why there’s no such thing as dreaming too big · Why Everything in Life is Steps · Why waiting hours in an Apple Store (4 hours for an iPhone) is good for you. · Realizing everything is a process · Never stop reading, never stop learning · Lessons learned from Gambling o Need to take the steps · Hal Elrod – Miracle Morning · Surround Yourself with Books and Like Minded People · Kamal Ravikant – Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It · Wheat Belly – Dr. William Davis · The Dorito Effect – Mark Schatzker · Using Law of Attraction to Get Healthy o To Change Cholesterol Levels o To Lose Weight o To Reverse Thyroid Disease Paleo, Diet, Weight Loss, Whole Foods · Universe Gives You the Tools · Nutrition – Why Fat is Good · “The Perfect Human Diet” Documentary · Hitting Goals from Your I Want List · Life is About Having Fun · Laughing Interrupts Any Pattern · Laughter is Candy for the Soul · Laughter is an Energetic Shower o Watching Caddy Shack o Watch Back to School – Rodney Dangerfield o Download comedians § George Carlin Jerry Seinfeld Inspiration | Motivation | Spirituality | Business | Career | Health | Wealth | Nutrition | Paleo | Diet | Entrepreneur | Self-Help

Today we have a very short, yet powerful relaxing and rejuvenating inner flame or white light meditation. This is a favorite of mine for healing, and pulling myself up, if I’m feeling a bit down. It’s hard not to finish with a quiet ear-to-ear grin. This meditation goes well with today’s guest Gregg Levoy, who’s teaching us all how to rediscover our passion, so we can lead happier, more fulfilled lives. Okay, maybe it’s a bit of a stretch, but when you’re energy’s up from meditation, there’s more chi or juice to go after your passion. And when you’re going after your passion, you feel more enlightened to meditate as well. If you like this meditation, please do us a HUGE favor and rate and review our show. Ratings and reviews are the #1 way you can help support us, and help people find the show. So we send you a HUGE thank you in advance! To listen to Gregg’s interview, or find more meditations by me, or by our guests, check out our Inspire Nation Show, or InspireNationShow.com. Okay, this is a very simple meditation. For meditation I recommend you lay down, with your arms by your sides, palms up. Now I want you to breathe in and out very gently through the nose. As you breathe deep, I want you to imagine a glowing white light in your belly. As you breathe in it begins to expand. As you breathe out, it stays the same size. This is a heavenly light, filled with love, capable of immense healing, and relaxation... Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Kindness | Compassion | Health | Healing | Love | Loving | Mindfulness | Buddhism | Happiness | Joy