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