60 Mindful Minutes

Isn't it interesting how we give generations labels? As you may know, Gen Z is defined as anyone born between 1997 and 2012, which means these are the people that are roughly 11 to 26 years of age now. As you give some thought to people you may know in this age group, I wonder what labels or judgments might you have? In his new book, What Would Gen-Z Do?: Everything You Don't Know About Gen-Z But...

Living in an aligned and conscious way sounds good on paper, but how do we actually do this? We live in an often overwhelming world, one that doesn't offer many opportunities to turn within and connect with ourselves. In I'm Ascending, Now What?, energy and embodiment expert Sydney Campos explores how we can begin to reclaim ourselves and transform our wounds and shadows into your greatest gifts....

No matter what your relationship with your family looks like today, your family dynamics have a tremendous impact on how you feel about yourself, show up in the world, and relate to others This week I'm joined by Elaine Carney Gibson to discuss her book, Your Family Revealed: A Guide to Decoding the Patterns, Stories, and Belief Systems in Your Family. Beyond being a clear and compelling guide for...

Lisa Broderick, author of All the Time in the World: Learn to Control Your Experience of Time to Live a Life Without Limitations, shares her insights on how we can use science-based practices for stretching and bending time, thereby changing our experience of time altogether. "Our ability to influence our experience of time is the key to doing what we are here to do. As you liberate yourself from...

This week I'm joined by Thomas Moore, who is best known for his NYT bestselling book, Care of the Soul, A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life. Thomas recently released his newest book, The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness, which is a book about how we can embrace, even enjoy, emptiness. In a world that encourages us to want more, do more and hav...

This week I'm joined by Dr. Luana Marques, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, to discuss her book, Bold Move: A 3-Step Plan to Transform Anxiety into Power. After decades of research, teaching, and clinical practice, Dr. Luana understands anxiety, including the thinking patterns that can leave us feeling tense, anxious, and worried. Bold Move is a book designed to offer tr...

So many of us go through a period of feeling completely stuck. But as we'll learn from today's guest, it's not because we're lazy, crazy, or unmotivated. We're missing a clear pathway to get back on course. In her new book, The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward, Britt Frank offers a research-backed road map for moving forward with purpose, confidence, and freedom...

I'm joined this week by George Mumford to talk about his book, Unlocked: Embrace Your Greatness, Find the Flow, Discover Success. George has worked with the elite of elite athletes, including Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal. What he has discovered is that natural ability wasn't exclusively what made them great. "What made them so exceptional was that they were wha...

This week I met with Vivian Risi to discuss her book 24 Hours Is All It Takes: Daily Habits Guaranteed to Change Your Life. This is a book about the daily essentials… things we could all do every day to kickstart the next steps toward living the life we want to live. And it's a book filled with ideas, strategies, and tools, especially the ones we can use first thing in the morning so we can all se...

This week we dive into the book, Profit with Presence: The Twelve Pillars of Mindful Leadership, with its author, Eric Holsapple. This is a book about how we can create workplaces that are anchored in mindful presence, peace of mind, and gratitude, without sacrificing profits or performance. In fact, Eric would argue that mindfulness is not only a path to personal success, it's a sound business st...

Imagine what could be possible if we intentionally engaged with our spiritual side on a regular basis? Bill Philipps, author of Soul Searching: Tune In to Spirit and Awaken Your Inner Wisdom, has spent a lifetime learning how to tap into the human guidance system and direct energy with intention. He encourages us to not only tune into our intention and energy, but also become skillful at surrender...

It's easy to miss something you're not looking for. Psychologists call this inattentional blindness: the failure to notice something right in front of you because other attention-demanding tasks are at hand. This week, my guest is Paul Angone, author of Listen to Your Day: The Life-Changing Practice of Paying Attention. Paul argues that inattentional blindness sums up the day-to-day of most of our...

Belonging, as research shows us, is a key determinant of our health. It gives us a sense of safety, and it gives our lives meaning and purpose. Without it we feel lost, alone, depressed, even worthless. As you'll hear in this week's conversation with Lisa Kentgen, author of The Practice of Belonging, we can build belonging into our lives with intention using the six lessons Lisa learned during her...

What is "woman" if not mother? This is one of the many thought-provoking questions Ruby Warrington asks in her book, Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood. This is a book designed to confront the ways we normalize women as mothers and stigmatize women who don't have children. It takes on the stubbornly taboo topic of women without children, and offers a timely and brav...

Few of us will get through this lifetime without going through at least one major upheaval, a time when life feels completely upside down. Whether the upheaval comes in the form of a world-shaking event or something as intimate as a broken relationship, medical emergency, or personal loss, we can be left feeling completely untethered. In her book, In Deep Shift: Riding the Waves of Change to Find...

Saving our planet and averting a climate disaster seem increasingly challenging, even impossible. But this week's guest believes that hope and heart are the answer. In his book collaboration with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Patrick McDonneLl proposes a compassionate revolution and encourages us to see that real change in the world will only come from a change of heart. Join us this wee...

There are many doorways into our mindful selves. Some use meditation, some use running. This week's guest uses creativity. In her new book, Creating Stillness: Mindful Art Practices and Stories for Navigating Anxiety, Stress, and Fear, Rachel Rose explores how we can use our creative selves as a way to focus and steady the mind,  create inner knowing, and cultivate peace.    Guest Bio Rachel Rose...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to feel steady and confident in your parenting? Do you ever think about how to truly savor these precious years with your growing people? And, perhaps most importantly, do you dream of creating connected relationships that endure beyond childhood? This week, we connect with Carrie Contey, who has spent the last two decades guiding, supporting and inspir...

Reflect back on the last hour of your thinking and consider how many of those thoughts you created on purpose. If you're like most of us, you'll likely see that much of your thinking gets produced without your direction, and often outside of your awareness. This week, Thomas Sterner shares insights from his book, It's Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. Throughout his ca...

Mental health counselor and author of Designing Healthy Boundaries: A Guide to Embracing Self-Love, Building Better Boundaries, and Protecting Your Peace, Shainna Ali returns to 60 Mindful Minutes to discuss what it means to experience healthy love. What does it look and feel like? How do we find it? How do we nourish it?    Guest Bio Dr. Shainna Ali is a mental health counselor, educator, and adv...

Whether we're aware of it or not, most of us spend a lot of time in our thoughts and use our minds to navigate the world. For Sarah Blondin, there's another layer to living, a dimension we're missing when we forget to turn towards our hearts to connect with ourselves and the world around us. In her book, Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love, she invites readers to come home to the...

Suck it up. Stuff it down. For many men, this is the extent of their emotional education. In his new book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide to Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, and Find Freedom , Connor Beaton asks: Where is the modern-day strength training for the hearts and minds of men? Offering a tactical, self-led guide for men to explore their inner world, Connor blazes a new trail of faci...

Most of us can relate to being addicted to something at some point in our lives, and can remember the oh so familiar negative cycle of succumbing to our addictions, feeling shame and regret, making new attempts and commitments for change, and then possibly failing again and again. This week, we welcome Rebecca Williams to share insights from her book, The Gift of Recovery: 52 Mindful Ways to Live...

Imagine you've got a glass jar filled with sugar on your kitchen counter. You are the jar, and the sugar is your energy. This week we connect with author Yasmine Cheyenne about her book, The Sugar Jar Create Boundaries, Embrace Self-Healing, and Enjoy the Sweet Things in Life. This book is about how we can get an accurate gauge of how much is in the sugar jar (how resourced we are). It's about ide...

This week we connect with Becky Volmer, author of the brand new book, You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom This is a book about action. Who doesn't feel stuck sometimes? Sometimes it's in our jobs, our relationships, sometimes it can feel like our whole life feels stuck. Any time we feel like we can't see better options, or we're just not clear, or things just don...