When did you “die” inside? When someone told you that you weren’t good enough? When you buried who you really are for fear that others would disapprove? Or when you gave up your creative dreams to take a “practical” job? You may not have realized you were dying, but you have been dying a little more each day. How can you stop this and start living to your fullest each day? Today Lisa talks with author Temple Hayes about her new book, “When Did You Die? 8 Steps to Stop Dying Every Day and Start Waking.” Temple is a powerful, dynamic, and energetic presence — a successful author, life coach, motivational speaker, Unity minister, and practicing Shaman. Rev. Hayes is currently senior minister and CEO of First Unity Campus, a New Thought center in St. Petersburg, Florida. Info: templehayes.com
Prolific author Anne Rice is most known for her Vampire Chronicles, including some of the best-selling novels of all time including, “Interview with the Vampire” and “The Vampire Lestat.” Today, in honor of her recent passing, we air an interview with her from 2008, when she had just completed her book, “Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt.” This marks one of her most ambitious and courageous books, a novel about the early years of Christ, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. Anne talks about her decades of atheism and return to Catholicism during this period. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. She passed away in December at the age of 80. Info: www.annerice.com.
In the second part of Lisa’s interview with world-renowned psychic healer and respected spiritual teacher Vincent Genna, he talks about the importance of a healthy ego and how it allows us to move forward. He further explains how when we change how we think about ourselves, we become unblocked and therefore experience the riches of love, manifestation, deep compassion, and more. Vincent is an exuberant speaker and teacher who discusses how we live in an abundant universe, and how therefore we deserve to be prosperous and thriving. As a medium and channel, he receives and deciphers messages from the other side to help improve our present-day lives. He holds a BA in Psychology, a Masters in Social Work, and has practiced as a Hospice Clinical Social Worker. Info: https://vincentgenna.com/.
Are you ready to live a life of passion and purpose? Today’s guest, Patrick Harbula, is a spiritual teacher and corporate trainer who discusses balancing spiritual values and principles in everyday life. Patrick has been a leader and teacher in the human potential movement, meditation trainer, and life coach for more than 20 years. He is author of the acclaimed book, “The Magic of the Soul: Applying Spiritual Power to Daily Living.” Patrick is founder of the Living Purpose Institute, an organization that trains coaches to help individuals discover and actualize their life purpose and succeed at their ideal careers. Patrick is also the president of the Spiritual Unity Movement, a nonprofit organization that presents interfaith events for people of all backgrounds to join together in creating a positive force for peace and goodwill in our communities and for our planet. Info: livingpurposeinstitute.com.
Why do we sometimes set goals that feel absolutely unattainable? We may spend valuable time and many dollars attending lectures and workshops, buying self-help books, etc but why after all this study do we still find ourselves not accomplishing our dreams? Today’s guest, Vincent Genna, says we unknowingly have mechanisms in place to sabotage our efforts to create a meaningful life. He explains how our brain is set up to keep us safe to protect us so we can stay alive. He then explains how we can change our unconscious patterns to feel deserving so that we know we can be unlimited, powerful beings and life lives of true fulfillment. Vincent is a world-renowned psychic healer and respected spiritual teacher who receives and deciphers messages from the other side to help improve our present lives. He has practiced as a Hospice Clinical Social Worker and holds a BA in Psychology and a Masters in Social Work. Info: VincentGenna.com
Today’s show features a live, in-studio band called Tonehenge and an interview with its leader Peter Ludwig, better known as “Mystic Pete.” Tonehenge specializes in World, Tribal, and Electronic dance music, and plays at conscious dance and movement events. Mystic Pete teaches spirituality and mysticism as part of his mystery school, “The Open Hand School,” which focuses on developing mystic abilities such as healing, astral travel, sex magic, psychic self-defense, emotional yoga, and chi force.
He is a radio host of talk and DJ/dance music shows and his book is “Mystic Pete Chronicles: Book 1 Sex & Mysticism.” He has taught and produced many events connecting spirituality and the Arts. Today Mystic Pete shares his cello music with us as he and bandmates discuss various spiritual gatherings. Info: MysticPete.com.
As we enter the holiday season, festive gatherings around the table abound. Yet for many, many people who suffer from eating disorders, these parties cause an enormous amount of stress and anxiety. For people with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and body dysmorphia, they may be experiencing an extreme amount of fear about their weight, their food, and the calories they intake. Today’s guest, Dr. James Greenblatt, is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine and has been treating patients for many decades. His nutritional approach to psychiatry is revolutionary and has helped patients worldwide.
He is the author of seven books, including “Answers to Anorexia” and “Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD.” He is the founder of Psychiatry Redefined, an educational platform dedicated to the transformation of psychiatry, which offers courses, webinars, and fellowships for professionals about functional and integrative medicine for mental illness.
After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr. Greenblatt completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA and serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine. Info: jamesgreenblattmd.com
Lisa continues her conversation today with Dr. Michael Beckwith, founder of the Agape Spiritual Center. He discusses his “Life Visioning” process, a spiritual technology he developed for conscious evolution, authentic living, and living your life's purpose. He invites us to get still, quiet the mind, and find our own answers from deep inside our inner wisdom. He is widely recognized for his teachings on the science of inner transformation and unity, and today he further shares ways to experience inner peace and bring awakened awareness into our everyday lives. Info: agapelive.com
What’s the secret to a happy, long-lasting relationship? Marital and family psychologist Dr. Michael Tobin believes it’s mutual respect for one another. He’s been with his life partner, soulmate, and wife, Deborah, for 47 years, and in practice as a psychologist for more than 45 years. His most recent book, “Riding the Edge, A Love Song to Deborah,” chronicles a six-month transformative journey in 1980 when Deborah, an Arab American, and Michael, an American Jew, bicycled across Europe, Lebanon, and Israel where they confronted the challenges of love, war, and identity. Today he discusses ways to work through trying times, even when life-transforming situations such as illness or marital infidelity occur. He is also a life-long writer, and has written extensively on marriage and family relationships, aging, health, fitness, and travel. Info: drmichaeltobin.com
Today Dr. Michael Beckwith, founder of the Agape Spiritual Center, shares his wisdom and insight and invites us to contemplate the act of questioning. He asks us to consider the impact our thoughts have directly on our lives and how we can draw from a deep, creative well from within. Reverend Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director of Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, California. He is a featured teacher in the film and book “The Secret.” In the ’70s, he began an inward journey into the teachings of East and West, and today he teaches universal truth principles found in the New Thought-Ancient Wisdom tradition of spirituality. Gifted with a vision of a trans-denominational spiritual community, he speaks to a congregation of tens of thousands of people weekly online and at Agape. Info: agapelive.com
Today Lisa Garr continues her interview with Lisa Broderick, author of “All the Time in the World.” The author talks about meditation and visualization, which eventually led to her working on social justice issues, such as police reform. Lisa Broderick is a senior executive who earned her BA from Stanford and her MBA from Duke. She is also a Transcendental Meditation teacher and studied expanded states of consciousness at the Monroe Institute. She believes if we embrace time as an ally, we can truly create our own reality. Info: https://allthetimebook.com/
Lisa’s guest today, film producer Emmanuel Itier, has created a documentary chronicling and championing the role women play in healing this planet. Listen as Emmanuel tells us about “FEMME: Women Healing the World “ – an inspirational voyage about women around the world who are actively transforming and healing global society on a daily basis. He assembled an impressive group of influential women as they discuss religion, science, history, politics, and entertainment – and the solutions to the multiple crisis we face throughout the world. Marianne Williamson, one of the participants in the film, will also be joining in the conversation on-air today. An experienced feature film producer, Emmanuel directed the thriller “Tell Me No Lies” and the horror film “Scarecrow.” He also produced the peace documentary “The Invocation” narrated by Sharon Stone and with Desmond Tutu, HH The Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, and many other worldwide peace activists.
How many of us feel like there’s just not enough time in the day? Wouldn’t you love to control your experience of time, even stretching it to feel like there’s more hours in the day? Well, it may be possible, according to our guest Lisa Broderick. She is the author of the brand-new book, “All the Time in the World,” and today she shares her secrets about perception, physics, and the psychology of the human construct of time. She also shares a meditation process which she finds extremely helpful for creating your own reality. Info: https://allthetimebook.com/
Whether you want to be a writer, painter, architect, entrepreneur, or business leader, developing creative ideas is the factor that differentiates the extraordinary from the common. On the show today to elaborate on this premise is Whitney Freya, author of the book, “The Artist Within: A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit.” She’ll talk to Lisa about the principles that underlie the aesthetics of design, how to strengthen your own creative ability, and how to turn that ability into reality. Whitney Freya is a spiritual teacher who is devoted to helping people use art making as a spiritual practice. Whitney works with art as a creative energy medium and powerful portal to connect to the subconscious and Source energy, allowing for new healing insights and personal growth. She is considered a muse for guidance in ways to tap into creativity as a pure language of our souls. She is also a mother, an author, a motivational speaker, and a creative entrepreneur. Info: WhitneyFreya.com
Is it possible that cultural beliefs can affect our health and longevity? Clinical neuropsychologist and founder of Biocognitive science, Dr. Mario Martinez, believes it does! He lectures worldwide on how cultural beliefs affect health and longevity more than genetics. In today’s interview he discusses ideas such as how our immune systems have their own moral system and how resilience has an immune-boosting factor. He also considers how archetypal wounds affect our DNA and RNA and can be passed through the generations. His research demonstrates how thoughts and their biological expression coemerge within a cultural history, even as current science continues to divide mind and body, and ignore the influence cultural contexts have on the process of health, illness, and aging. Cultures that view growing older as positive are associated with increased wisdom and have higher numbers of centenarians living healthier lives than cultures that view aging as a process of inevitable deterioration. He also teaches how joy requires sufficient self-esteem to accept it without self-sabotage. He is the author of "The MindBody Code." Learn more about his field of “biocognition” in today’s interview. Info: www.biocognitive.com
If you or someone you know has issues with anger or managing their emotions, this is the interview for you! Lisa talks with anger-management expert Ian Brennan about how to have more self-control. Learn what drives anger and what may lie underneath it, how drug use affects this dynamic, and how you can deal with anyone in a way that’s safe, brief, and rewarding for both people. Brennan has taught classes on anger management since 1993 and has brought his patented high-energy, lightning-speed delivery presentations to more than 100,000 people across the USA. During his 15+ years on staff in locked emergency-psychiatric facilities in Oakland, CA (the job rated as the most dangerous in CA for assault), his teachings spread by word-of-mouth until he was soon regarded as an expert on the topics of anger management, conflict resolution, solution-oriented communication, and violence prevention. Info: violenceprevention.us
We’ve all heard the expression, “Ignorance is bliss,” but what if the truth was just the opposite? Professor Robert Thurman, the preeminent scholar and interpreter of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy for the modern world, believes that “Wisdom is Bliss” and in fact, that’s the name of his latest book. Professor Thurman is a very close friend of HH Dalai Lama and today he discusses deep ideas about mindfulness and presence and leads us on a joyful exploration into the nature of reality through Buddha’s threefold curriculum of “super-education.” He invites us to shift our attention of suffering to know we are part of the bigger flow of life. He asks us to manage our mind and thoughts through meditation, awareness, and compassion. He believes by cultivating intuition, and coming from a perspective of neutrality, we can all attain a more peaceful state.
Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University as well as Co-Founder and President of Tibet House US in service of HH Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet. He is a leading worldwide lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, passionate activist for the plight of the Tibetan people, and skilled translator of Buddhist texts. Info: tibethouse.us
Happy Halloween! And what better to talk about on Halloween than paranormal phenomena?! Lisa’s guest today is Parapsychologist Michael Lewis and he shares with us some of his own first-hand experiences and encounters with the paranormal and ‘ghosts.’ After encountering several near-death experiences from a normally fatal heart condition, Michael found new proof for previous conclusions and broadened his paranormal horizons. Info: www.michaellewis.org.uk
Is it scientifically possible to consider what happens in the Afterlife? It is a natural question to ponder what happens after we die, and scientists have been studying this phenomenon for decades, attempting to bridge the divide between science and faith. Our guest today is Mark Anthony who is well-known as the “Psychic Lawyer.” Traditionally trained at Oxford, Mark was a practicing trial attorney who also acknowledged his gifts as a psychic and medium. His latest book is “The Afterlife Frequency: The Scientific Proof of Spiritual Contact and How That Awareness Will Change Your Life” where he deeply studies what happens after the cessation of consciousness from a neuroscience and physics perspective. In this discussion, Mark offers hope for those in grief, experiencing PTSD or guilt, or from a loved one’s suicide or homicide. He shares very personal stories of how he overcame grief as well. Info: afterlifefrequency.com
Lisa continues her conversation with author and medical researcher Christian Wilde on the show today. It is a fact that 50% of all heart attacks and strokes occur to people with normal cholesterol. Christian discusses the wonders of turmeric and how that helps tremendously in leading a healthy lifestyle. He also continues to talk about what fibrinogen is, what the appropriate levels should be, when it’s dangerous, how you get tested, what you can do to bring your levels down and more. He also talks about his book, “The Hidden Causes of Heart Attack and Stroke.” Tune in to this very important show! Info: myheartbook.com
What habits do you want to change? What roadblocks are keeping you from achieving your goals? Scientists now know that you can change your brain (what's called neuroplasticity), and they know exactly how to change it. Want to learn more? John Assaraf joins Lisa in a discussion about how to unlock your brain for success and invites you to attend the BIGGEST personal growth online event of the year!! This is one of our top-rated podcast episodes! Be sure to tune in! You won't want to miss this!! This FREE online event is coming soon and includes luminaries such as not only John Assaraf, but best-selling authors and peak performance experts like Lisa Nichols, Jack Canfield, Marisa Peer, Dr John Demartini and more! To register and for more info: www.theawareshow.com/
Did you know that 50% of all heart attacks occur to people with normal cholesterol? You hear so much about heart disease these days, but have you ever heard about fibrinogen? Maybe not, but it’s important that you know about this! That’s why Lisa is hosting author and medical researcher Christian Wilde on the show today. He’ll tell you all about what fibrinogen is, what the appropriate levels should be, when it’s dangerous, how you get tested, what you can do to bring your levels down and more. Pls listen to this very important show! https://www.myheartbook.com/
Dr. Harley Rotbart, a nationally renowned infectious diseases specialist, pediatrician, parenting expert, speaker, and educator discusses his latest book “No Regrets Parenting: Turning Long Days and Short Years into Cherished Moments with Your Kids.” He shares special keys for parents to guide children to live a life of wonder and contentment by conscious parenting and notes that there are just 940 Saturdays before children turn 18. He talks about the importance of boundaries and includes forgiveness, appreciation, and opening to discovery. A man of science, and the son of a Holocaust survivor, he talks about his believe in a higher power and how that belief has guided him to live a life of meaning and purpose. Named to "Best Doctors in America" for eighteen consecutive years, as well as receiving numerous other national and local awards for research, teaching, and clinical work, Dr. Rotbart continues to serve as professor and vice chair emeritus of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Info: harleyrotbart.com.
Do you find yourself recreating and repeating the same relationship issues over and over again? Same issue, different person? Do you feel that you need a partner to “complete” you? Perhaps there’s something to look at there. And today’s guest, author and therapist Sherry Gaba just may be able to help. Her latest book, “The Marriage and Relationship Junkie” offers great relationship insights. You can find out if you’re a love junkie by taking her quiz at: http://sherrygaba.com/love-