Overcoming abuse to succeed anyway! We can learn to persevere and thrive despite the special challenges created by surviving a childhood of abuse. This podcast episode begins the story. Tonight, I’m doing something frightening on my podcast. I’m debuting my latest, in-process book. Every Friday evening I will be reading a chapter of what I…
Do you sometimes feel like we are living in a hyper-stimulated world? Like focusing is almost impossible? I get that feeling once in a while, and I get to a place where I have trouble seeing the forest for the trees. As a way handling this issue, I have developed a simple trick. It takes…
Want to Fan that Creative Flame? You Need the Fire Energy to Do It! In order to get stuff done, we need the energy to do it. If we want to be creative on top of that, we need to fan that flame. We need an extra boost. This is especially true if we happen to…
Public Speaking – Never be nervous again! I do a lot of public speaking and performing. Whether as an educator, workshop facilitator, or performer, I connect with, excite, and inspire my audiences every time. People ask me how I seem so comfortable on stage. “Don’t you get nervous?” They ask. I used to be terrified….
If you do what you love, will the money follow? In today’s podcast, I discuss the idea of doing what you love. The thing you do can be your hobby, or it can be how you make your money. This concerns how you spend your time and energy. Motivational speakers, pundits, self-help authors and others…
Clarity: The need for inner focus in a noisy world The cacophony of everyday life can deafen us to our inner voice. In order to focus and gain clarity, we need to go into the quiet, into the stillness. Imagine being a bird high in the sky. The noise of the down-to-earth is silenced when you ride…
Today, I honor those who heed the call to teach. No, it’s not national teachers’ day or anything. Sometimes, the sheer amount of work, dedication, and love that goes into teaching stuns me. To all of you who have taken up the mantle to guide others, to teach them, to imbue in them a sense…
Review of “Crush It!” Today’s Own Your Mind podcast episode reviews entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk‘s first book, “Crush It Why Now Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion.” In the episode, I look at the creative and inspirational aspects of the book and the author’s reflection on the importance of following your passions in order to…
Warm it up to create! To create, you have to warm up your instrument. In order to express our creativity, we must have good tools that we have prepared for the purpose. Just like a marathon runner wouldn’t dream of running one without warming up their body, we must warm up our instrument to create as…
Own Your Heart in the not-so-dreaded friend-zone. Tonight I talk about the not-so-dreaded Friend Zone. How do we find love? We might find it in high school or college. But after college? Many of us are looking online. Love is hard to come by when people say yes or no so quickly. Too quickly, perhaps? Has…