Better Place Project with Steve Norris

Lisa Grezlak is a healer, advocate, teacher and creator.  She created SVOUND to promote the incredible healing Sound Vibration offers to provide RESTORATION and CALM for those struggling with any form of dis-ease in their lives. Our minds and bodies are meant to be in a state of total wellness. But in today's world, there is so much going against the balancing of our energy systems and people...

Garrain Jones is a coach, international inspirational speaker, podcaster, and bestselling author of Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life.  Garrain has gone from $200K in debt and living in his car, to millionaire through deeply meaningful work touching millions of lives. His greatest belief is that when we tap into our truest, creative essence we open up magical doors of possibility for abundance...

In this solo bonus episode, Steve checks in from Santorini, Greece and shares his thoughts from overseas on sights he's visited, our belief systems and why we should question them, the Uvalde Mass Shooting and his first time going au naturel at a nude beach. To stay connected with Better Place Project and for updates and behind the scenes info, please follow us on social media: Website: https...

This week, Steve decided to try and inject a little humor into your Friday (or whatever day it is that you happen to be listening to this), and borrow again from his friend Brad Aronson’s blog.  Brad is best known for writing the inspiring bestselling book Humankind: Changing the World One Small Act at a Time (all proceeds go to nonprofit Big Brothers Big Sisters). In this episode Steve reads exce...

In this episode, Steve chats with Wanderlust Co-Founders and husband/wife duo Jeff Krasno & Schuyler Grant.  On top of having a few laughs about Schuyler's Mom embarrassing her as a child in a Mexican restaurant in the case of the missing fajitas, and some Curb Your Enthusiasm stories, Steve, Jeff and Schuyler do a deep dive on topics such as community, relationships, having babies at hom...

In this week's Feel Good Friday episode, Steve tells the fable of two frogs who fall into a deep pit and how the power of encouragement (or lack thereof) affects the outcome. To stay connected with Better Place Project and for updates and behind the scenes info, please visit our website at www. Betterplaceproject.org   Follow us on social media: Instagram: @BetterPlaceProj To follow Steve &am...

In honor of Mothers around the world, this week we are releasing an Encore Presentation of our interview from 6 months ago with Every Mother Counts (EMC) founder Christy Turlington Burns.  Christy's work in maternal health began after experiencing a childbirth related complication in 2003—an experience that would later inspire her to direct and produce the documentary feature film, No Woman,...

For this Feel Good Friday episode, we're bringing you 23 stories to inspire you to overcome and even embrace your failures, and use them as fuel to pursue your dreams. Whether it's Steven Spielberg, Colonel Sanders, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Walt Disney, or 15 year-old Jack Andraka who created a diagnostic test for Pancreatic Cancer that was better than the tests developed by scient...

Daniel Blevins is a salon owner, social media influencer, LGBTQ+ advocate, activist and founder of Stand In Pride.  Daniel and his husband of 22 years reside in rural East Tennessee. He’s a proud father of two children and three grandchildren. Daniel founded the Facebook group Stand In Pride in early 2021, the group has since grown to over 36k members, with members in over 70 countries. The succes...

This week's Feel Good Friday episode shines a light on Bernadette Russell from the UK, who after having a random positive experience in a post office, decided to commit to doing an act of kindness for 365 consecutive days.  The experience would change her life forever!  Steve chats about Bernadette's story, while playing clips from her BBC 4 appearance, while also sharing some fascinatin...

In this episode, Steve and Brad chat about the Power of Kindness, the ripple effect of kindness, what Kindness means to Brad, how it effects us physiologically when we do acts of kindness, and you’re definitely going to love the stories he shares from his book about amazing humans doing breathtaking acts of kindness. Brad Aronson is the author of the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller Hu...

For today’s story, we are featuring a fellow podcaster…but not just any ordinary podcaster.  We go to Duluth Minnesota, where Fr. Mike Schmitz, a catholic priest, along with renowned bible scholar Jeff Cavins, have been stealing headlines all over the world for their podcast that they launched last year.     In the podcast, called “The Bible in a Year,” Fr. Mike walks the listeners through the ent...

Kelli Foulkrod is a holistic psychotherapist, trauma-informed yoga teacher, and healing arts practitioner based in Austin, Texas and licensed in Colorado.  She has been working in the mental health field for 21 years and for the past 12 years, she has managed her private practice, Organic Mental Health Center.  Kelli supports pregnant and postpartum women, reproductive trauma, grief and loss, psyc...

For this week’s story, we head to Wisconsin.  Steve stumbled across a project called “Love Wisconsin,” whose mission is to use storytelling and social media to bring about a more connected, compassionate, and engaged Wisconsin. In this episode, Steve reads and essay written by Yia Lor that was published in the Wisconsin Historical Society Press' book ‘Hope Is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perse...

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...

For today’s story, we go all the way back to 1887 when a group of men put Susanna Salter’s name on a ballot for mayor as a joke intended to humiliate her and put women in their place. Well, the joke backfired and she won over 60% of the vote and became American’s first female mayor. Susanna Madora Salter ( née Kinsey; March 2, 1860 – March 17, 1961) was an American politician and activist. She ser...

Kara Nicole Bitar is an Optimization Coach and Kundalini Yoga Teacher.  She helps her clients live the happiest, healthiest and most successful versions of themselves.  She holds a J.D. from Duke University School of Law and worked in high-stakes corporate litigation at one of the largest law firms in the Southeast. She combines the dedication and commitment that it took to become a successful att...

For this week’s story, we head to Ukraine, which we all know is in the middle of a war with Russia right now, and we shine a light on Levgen Klopotenko, who was the winner of Master Chef Ukraine in 2015 and is one of the best known chefs in the country. Klopotenko owned a restaurant in Kiev, but fled the day that Russia invaded.  Klopotenko can’t leave the country because he is a man of fighting a...

Simon Drew is an Australian poet, author, musician, photographer, and philosophical mentor. He has a Bachelor of Music from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and is currently studying for a Master of Divinity. He is most well known for his work with the Practical Stoic Podcast , which has since evolved into The   Walled Garden — a podcast and online community where he, Kai Whiting (philosophe...

Fascinated by nature since her earliest memories, Tigrilla Gardenia turned that passion into her vocation.   Her journey began in a polyethnic childhood. She earned a degree in music and electrical engineering, entering the high-tech corporate world via RealNetworks and Microsoft in the early days of the internet.    The desire to escape the confines of the corporate world proved too strong, and T...

This week's story is about the San Francisco Giants baseball player Drew Robinson's battle with mental illness, which drove him to the point of shooting himself in the head in an attempted suicide.  Against all odds, Robinson survived and is now on a mission to help others who may feel like they have nothing to live for. To become a Better Place Project Member (and receive free BPP Merch...

Zach Skow, Marley’s Mutts Founder rescued Marley, a Rottweiler-Pit Bull  from the Mojave Shelter in 2002 at eight weeks old. He used to carry him around in a backpack with just his head poking out. ​When Zach was diagnosed with end-stage liver disease, it was Marley who helped pull him from despair and into the fight. It was his relentless love, omnipresent affection, and “today can be the best da...

For this week's feel-good story, we go half way around the world to the democratic republic of Congo to shine a light on a man named Jay Nash and the organization he founded called StandProud. Mr. Nash first began assisting disabled people in the developing world when serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  He resumed spare-time work with disabled Congolese yo...

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...

Today’s story shines a light on Dan Blevins, who after walking his daughter down the aisle in 2018 said that just the thought of someone not having a parent at their wedding or in their life, was just heartbreaking to him.  So, what did Dan do? He uploaded a video to Tiktok where he invited anyone from the LGBTQ community to ask him to stand in as a parent at their wedding if their own parents wer...