Energy Studies Book Club

After a 60-day hiatus, Samm Smeltzer returns to share an honest, unfiltered recap of her slow but meaningful journey through Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine by Harriet Beinfield and Efrem Korngold. In this episode, Samm reflects on why pacing matters more than progress, and walks through the passages that stopped her in her tracks — from the Taoist concept of the Tao as an un...

It's here. The first official episode of the Energy Studies Book Club podcast and we're starting where every good book club starts: the reading list. In this episode, I'm walking you through the seven books I'll be reading this year, why I chose them, and the structured reading methodology I've built to actually make it through them. Primary Book List: Between Heaven and Earth The Way of the Five...

Welcome to the Energy Studies Book Club Podcast — I'm so glad you're here. This trailer is me being fully transparent about what this podcast is, what it's becoming, and why I believe energetic theory is the conversation that HR, culture, and workplace wellbeing have been missing. A little about me: I'm Samm Smeltzer, founder of the HRart Center burnout recovery center in York, PA, and I hold a Do...

Welcome back to the very last episode of this season of the HRart Worker Book Club podcast. If you've been following along, you know we've been expanding upon our insights and discussing the overlap that exists between three very different books, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant, Think Again by Adam Grant and Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh. Grab your books, join us a...

Books have the ability to change our lives. They broaden our worldview, they influence our thoughts, they show us how to be better people, and they help us to connect to others. The HRart Worker Book Club has just finished reading The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant, Think Again by Adam Grant and Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh. Now we gather to talk about the real impac...

Let’s chat about that element that runs through both our personal lives and work lives… that subject that can be both polarizing and yet essential – spirituality. We continue to read three very different books and discuss the amazing themes that run throughout them all in this episode of the HRart Worker Book Club Podcast. Grab your copy of The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant, Think Aga...

The HRart Worker Book Club Podcast is back again with another episode as we read three very different books and discuss the amazing themes that run throughout them all. Karen, Liza, Ben and Samm jump back and forth between talking about mindfulness, suffering, the power of focus, and the practice of reading itself. Grab your copy of The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant, Think Again by Ad...

The 2022 Book Club is a month into this new reading experiment where we're reading three very different books simultaneously in order to unpack common themes between them. Karen, Ben, Liza and Samm all tease out themes of openness and curiosity as each book uses them to show us how these qualities can lead to success. They also discuss the incredible way these texts are connecting on a personal le...

Welcome to our first Book Club episode of the 2022 season of the HRart Worker Book Club Podcast! We are so excited to introduce you to our 3 Book Club members who will walk us through their experience as they read 3 incredible books -- 10 pages a day, 70 pages a week. The magic happens as the insight of these individuals with vastly different backgrounds and perspectives is woven together to creat...

“Do more of what matters most to you and let go of the rest.” Today's guest on the HRart Worker Book Club Podcast gives this life decluttering advice in her book The Happiness Recipe . On this episode of the podcast, Samm interviews author Rebecca Morrison about her writing process, what the research and data says about happiness, as well as some practical next steps to help you discover your own...

We read because we understand the power books have to transform our personal and professional lives. Sometimes this quest for growth traps us into reading non-fiction exclusively, but Samm has a few great reasons you may want to reevaluate that idea. In this episode, Samm describes the impact reading fiction has had on her own growth and why a healthy stack of fiction books are now an essential pa...

We all know that reading can transform our personal and professional lives, but how do we incorporate a reading practice into our busy lives? In this episode of the HRart Worker Book Club podcast, Samm breaks down her reading process and runs through the stack of her current non-fiction reads. Find the show notes at www.hrartcenter.com .

As an HR intuitive and healer, Samm brings healing into workplaces. In celebration of the upcoming release of her new book Workplace Healers , Samm shares a special chapter with us and expands upon her vision of what the world might look like if we brought the wisdom of the Dao into the heart of our workplaces. What happens when our organizations focus on people? And as people-centered leaders, wh...

On this episode of the HRart Worker Book Club Podcast, Samm interviews Medical Qigong Therapist, Acupuncturist and lead instructor at the East Coast Institute of Medical Qigong, Ted O’Brien, about his book An Altar Boy Goes East. Growing up a devout Catholic and typical workaholic American whose stress-heavy lifestyle was making him sick, Ted found the answers to his healing journey when he travel...

Welcome to the very first episode of The HRart Worker Book Club Podcast, where we kick this podcast off by sharing Samm’s personal writing journey for her last book The HR Intuitive . Together, we’ll chat about the writing process, the inspiration and purpose behind the book, as well as tackle the question she gets all the time: is this book only for HR people? Then, we’ll sit back and enjoy a spe...