Better Place Project with Steve Norris

We had a good laugh over this story.  This week’s guest, my good friend Glenn Crawford, who played on the ASU Football Team during their undefeated 12-0 season, tells the story of his wife thinking that he was a “white receiver” back in the day. 😂 But nowadays, Glenn is known more for his work helping people with their financial needs, especially those who happen to be going through something tha...

Have you heard about ChatGPT yet?  If not, you need to know about it.  It is a brand new world of artificial intelligence and we better pay attention to it or we could very well pay a price. in this short solo episode, I break it down for you, show you the awesome capability that it has, but also present the very real concerns that we all need to take very seriously. This is some powerful technolo...

What a remarkable conversation I had with the truly remarkable Chloé’ Valdary! Chloé’s insights and teachings on anti-racism that she’s bringing to the world via her organization Theory of Enchantment, are game-changing, yet at their core, are simply based on unity and love. The curriculum of Theory of Enchantment is rooted in 3 guiding principles: 1) Treat people like human beings, not political...

Louise Phipps Senft, Founder and CEO of Baltimore Mediation   is an attorney and nationally recognized Transformative Mediator for Family, Divorce, Commercial and Complicated Business and Healthcare Issues. She is the author of the best-selling book, Being Relational: the Seven Ways to Quality Interaction & Lasting Change. She is also the creator of a Top 15 Podcast, Blink of an Eye, on trauma...

This was a first for me.  I had a blast just shooting the sh*t with Adam Carbary of Embrace & Expand. Adam and I decided to not interview each other on our separate podcasts, but rather just plug in the mics and chat, no set questions (except the 1 signature questions from each of our podcasts), just two wanderers in the world sharing their journeys.   Adam has a question he asks his guests on...

Imagine having to endure the senseless murder of your beautiful, innocent 6 year-old child, and then having to endure the torment of a powerful media personality screaming to his rabid fan base that the Sandy Hook Massacre was all a hoax, that you are a liar...a paid actor, and that your son never existed! In this episode, Steve & Scarlett talk about that fateful day 10 years ago, and how she...

Matthew Fray is a relationship coach and writer who leans on the lessons of his failed marriage and divorce to help others avoid making the same mistakes. His work has been featured in The New York Times , The Times and The Sunday Times of London, The Daily Mail , Salon , Huffington Post , as well as with television programs The Tamron Hall Show in the United States and ITV's This Morning in...

I am back from hiatus and kicking off 2023 with the inspiring Clint Hatton, the founder of BigBoldBrave. BigBoldBrave was inspired by the life of Clint’s oldest son, Gabriel, who achieved his life-long dream of becoming a pilot at the young age of only 17.  But unfortunately, just months later, to the sheer horror of his family, Gabriel tragically died in a plane crash.  In this episode, Clint ope...

In this Encore Christmas Bonus Episode from 2020, Erin and I chat about our own holiday traditions growing up and what we look forward to the most about the holidays. We even take a trip down memory lane and listen to clips of some Norris original Christmas songs from the 90s and early 2000s. That’s right, we have our own Christmas album. Pour yourself some eggnog or hot cocoa and enjoy this holid...

In this episode Steve and his guest, therapist Lisa Strawn, discuss their life changing experience with Somatic Breathwork. Steve and Lisa participated in a recent in-person Somatic Breathwork Practitioner training conducted by Somatic Breathwork founders, Steven Jagger and Fish Fischer. In this episode Steve and Lisa discuss: * What Somatic Breathwork is and how it helps people heal. * The releas...

Melissa and Chris Bruntlett are Canadian authors and urban mobility advocates who strive to communicate the benefits of sustainable transport and inspire happier, healthier, more human-scale cities. Their first book, Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality, explored the urban and transport planning decisions that established the Netherlands as a bicycle paradise, and how...

After experiencing the devastating loss of his father and best friend, Dan Fischer turned to surfing to heal through the transformative power of the ocean.  After one faithful salt water session on January 4, 2022, he decided to throw out an open invitation on Tiktok to others who may be struggling with loss. He invited them to share the stories and names of loved ones who they'd lost and pro...

This week concludes our 4-Part, 4-Month Series (We had one guest per month who is a specialist in relationships), with Divorce Recovery Coach Leah Marie Mazur. With past guests, we've learned how to find a good partner, how to be a good partner, and how to save or improve our existing relationship.  We close the loop with this episode as we navigate the waters regarding how to move on when af...

This week's episode is a true story about a 6-year-old girl who has a talent and a passion for writing.  She overcomes some devastating obstacles and goes on to achieve a level of success beyond her wildest dreams. Spoiler alert: You may know who this person is, but you probably didn't know her story....Until now.  To stay connected with Better Place Project and for updates and behind th...

After reading his game-changing book "The Myth of Normal," it was such an honor to have Co-Writer Daniel Maté on the show to do a deep dive on trauma, sickness and health and the mind/body connection.   Daniel and I chat about how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans...

In this uplifting story, three laughing monks go from village to village in China, stand in the market place and simply laugh, causing all the villagers to gather around and become infected with the joy of laughter. Here the twist at the end when one of the monks dies...yet the laughter continues.  :) To stay connected with Better Place Project and for updates and behind the scenes info, please fo...

One day a boy asked his father, “What is the value of this life?” Instead of answering, the father told his son, “Take this stone and go offer it at a market, however do not accept any offer and bring the rock back to me.  If anybody asks the price, raise two fingers and don’t say anything."   The boy then went to the market and a woman asks, "How much is this stone? I want to put it in...

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Seibo Shen, creator of The I Am Self Mastery Academy, and he did not disappoint!  This episode is just full of takeaways, as we learned from Seibo about the “I Am Equation,” which consists of Intuition, Actualization, and Manifestation, and " takes the pressure off of yourself for having to figure everything out. You simply follow your HIGHEST JOY...

For this week’s story we go to the  streets of Los Angeles to tell the story of TikTok sensation Isaiah Garza who’s gone from homeless to helping the homeless, those in need and those that perhaps just need a friend. Isaiah with his 8 million followers on Tiktok, 1.6 million on Youtube and 755K on Instagram is taking the world by storm one act of kindness at a time.  And he's changing so many...

I so enjoyed this conversation with Relationship Coach Stefanos Sifandos.  He opened up to me about his childhood, abuse, bullying and other trauma that led him towards a life of debauchery, alcohol, prostitution, and infidelity in his relationships. His downward spiral brought him to a crossroads where his 3 choices were 1) Suicide 2) A Psychiatric Ward or 3) Break free from his limiting patterns...

For this week’s story we go to Chicago Il, and feature an organization called The Simple Good.  I was inspired to do this episode after reading and article on BitterSweetMonthly. Com written by Kate Schmidgall.  After hearing this story and reading this article, I was curious to learn about the Simple Good, so I went to their website and discovered a little bit about Founder Priya Shah’s backgroun...

Despite being a self confessed non-athlete and scientist - Paul Watkins has managed to compete in and win some of the worlds toughest races, as well as build multi-million dollar businesses - in multiple fields. Paul has climbed some of the toughest and most iconic mountains across all seven continents. He has climbed, trekked and adventured in Tanzania, Argentina, Alaska, the Arctic, Antarctica,...

In this episode, Steve shares an old tale called "The Sower." In life, whatever you plough and sow in your mind, you will receive. "Faith is the seed I sow: good works are the rain that fertilizes it; wisdom and modesty are the plough; my mind is the guiding-rein;”  If you have a dream, belief and faith is the seed, good works are the rain that fertilizes it. Wisdom and modesty are...

I am back with a brand new episode featuring a fascinating interview with cognitive scientist and host of A Slight Change of Plans, Dr. Maya Shankar.  I loved this conversation, as we started the talk about Maya’s being accepted to Juilliard as a 9 year-old violinist and how and injury changed her life forever.  We talked about what it’s like to be a UTTL (Unwilling traveler through life) as well...

In this episode, Relationship Coach and Teacher, Jillian Turecki and I talk all things relationships.  We start off with Jillian sharing a little about her childhood and what led up to her finding her passion in the world of relationships.  Jillian shares some hardships she went through during her "dark night of the soul," from the breakup of her marriage to her mother's diagnosis w...