Ruthless Compassion with Dr. Marcia Sirota

Frank King, Suicide Prevention speaker and Trainer was a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years. Depression and suicide run in his family. He’s thought about killing himself more times than he can count. He’s fought a lifetime battle with Major Depressive Disorder and Chronic Suicidality, turning that long dark journey of the soul into five TEDx Talks and sharing his lifesaving insights on Menta...

Dr. Mark Goulston is a psychiatrist and one of the foremost thought leaders in the area of listening and empathy with his book, "Just Listen” becoming the top book on listening in the world and with his recent book, Taking to Crazy: How to Deal with Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life also becoming an international best seller, especially in Russia where its title is: How to Talk With A-...

Dr. Brian Goldman is an ER physician at Sinai Health in Toronto. He is also one of Canada's most trusted medical broadcasters. Since 2007, he has hosted White Coat, Black Art, an award-winning show on CBC Radio One about the patient experience in modern medical culture. Brian is the author of three Canadian bestselling books. His latest - The Power of Kindness: Why Empathy is Essential in Everyday...

Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and former Guggenheim Fellow, he has written or edited more than 30 books, the latest being The Animals’ Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age, Canine Confidential: Why Dogs Do What They Do, and Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Gu...

Steven Buser, M.D - trained in medicine at Duke University and served 12 years as a physician in the U.S. Air Force. He is a graduate of a two-year Clinical Training Program at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and is the co-founder of the Asheville Jung Center. He has worked for over 20 years in private practice psychiatry. He currently works in the field of addiction medicine and serves as Publ...

Originally from Chicago, Samantha Bennett is a writer, speaker, actor, teacher and creativity/productivity specialist and the author of the bestselling, “Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day” (New World Library) which Seth Godin called, “An instant classic, essential reading for anyone who wants to make a ruckus.” Her latest bestseller is, “Start Right Where You...

David Sax is a writer and reporter who specializes in business. His work appears regularly in Bloomberg Businessweek, the New Yorker’s Currency blog, and other publications. In addition to The Revenge of Analog, he is the author of Save the Deli, which won a James Beard Award for Writing and Literature, and The Tastemakers. He lives in Toronto.

Maia Szalavitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, which is widely recognized as an important advance in thinking about the nature of addiction and how to cope with it, personally and politically. Her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids was the first to expose the damage c...

Dr. Lynn Rossy is an expert in mindfulness-based interventions for stress, eating, and workplace wellness. She is the Executive Director of Tasting Mindfulness, LLC and a Kripalu Yoga Teacher. Her work in mindful eating led her develop a ten-week class called Eat for Life and to author the book, The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution, which was named one of the top ten books of 2016 by Mindful.org....

Christina Crook is the award-winning author of The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World, which has established her as a leading voice on human flourishing in a digital age. Through her speaking and writing, she reveals how key shifts in our thinking can enable us to draw closer to one another, taking up the good burdens of local work and responsibilities. She writes about the value...

Alexandra Lange is the author of The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids. Her writing has appeared in New York, The New York Times, Curbed, Dwell, The New Yorker, and many other magazines and design journals. She has authored and coauthored several previous books, including Writing About Architecture. Lange holds a Ph. D. in twentieth-century architecture history fr...

Angela Hanscom is a pediatric occupational therapist and the founder of TimberNook, an internationally recognized program in the United States and New Zealand. She is also the author of Balanced & Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children. Angela has been featured on the Children & Nature Network, Huffington Post, MindShift, Babble.com, NPR’s...

Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology at Boston College who has conducted and published research in neuroendocrinology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and education. He is author of an internationally acclaimed introductory psychology textbook (Psychology, Worth Publishers, now in its 8th edition), which views all of psychology from an evolutionary perspective. His recent resea...

Lenore Skenazy is an American blogger, columnist, author, and reality show host. A mother who lives in Queens with her husband and two sons, her controversial decision to let her then-9-year-old son take the New York City Subway home alone became a national story and prompted massive media attention. She was dubbed, "America's Worst Mom." In response, Skenazy founded the book, blog, and movement "...

Holly Rogers, M.D. is one of the developers of Koru, an evidence-based program for teaching mindfulness and meditation to college-age adults. Holly is the co-founder of the Center for Koru Mindfulness, an agency dedicated to developing and delivering mindfulness programs for young adults. She works as a psychiatrist at the student counseling center at Duke University where she helps students integ...

Julie Lythcott-Haims is the author of the New York Times best-selling book How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success. The book emerged from her decade as Stanford University’s Dean of Freshmen, where she was known for her fierce advocacy for young adults and received the university’s Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for creating “the” atmosphere that de...

Nicolas Cole is a writer and columnist for Inc Magazine, and Top Writer on Quora. His work has been published in TIME, Forbes, Fortune, Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, and more. He is best known for writing true stories about self development. To find out more about Nicholas you can visit his website here: http://www.nicolascole.com/

Delaney Ruston is a filmmaker, Stanford trained physician and mother of two. Through her company, MyDoc Productions, Delaney has made award-winning feature documentaries such as Unlisted: A Story of Schizophrenia, about her father, and Hidden Pictures, about global mental health, which was filmed in China, India, France, South Africa and the US. These films have screened in multiple film festivals...

Nicholas Lovell is the author of The Curve (Portfolio Penguin, 2013), a book that helps businesses to make money in the digital age. He funded GAMESbrief, a website dedicated to new business models in the videogame industry in 2008 and has been helping games companies with digital transition ever since. Games clients include Rovio, Square Enix, Makielabs and Sega, while non-games clients include M...

Dr. Raj Raghunathan is Professor of Marketing at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in exploring the impact that people’s judgments and decisions have on their happiness and fulfillment. Raj’s work has appeared in top journals, including The Journal of Marketing, The Journal of Consumer Research, The Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consu...

23: Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - On Embracing Your Darkness & Finding Your Power by Dr. Marcia Sirota

Emily Esfahani Smith writes about culture, relationships, and psychology for the Atlantic, New Criterion, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Daily Beast, and other publications. A native of Zurich, she grew up in Montreal and lives in Michigan. The author lives in Ann Arbor, MI. You can find out more about Emily on website: http://emilyesfahanismith.com/ Twitter: @EmEsfahaniSmith

On today's episode we discuss the 4 elements of mental toughness. LaRae Quy was an undercover and counterintelligence FBI agent for 24 years. She exposed foreign spies and recruited them to work for the U.S. Government. As an FBI agent, she developed the mental toughness to survive in environments of risk, uncertainty, and deception. As a former FBI agent, she speaks and consults on how to develop...

Megan Bruneau, M.A. RCC is a mental health therapist, wellness coach, writer, and host of The Failure Factor podcast. After struggling with perfectionism, eating disorders, depression and anxiety for most of her life, Megan discovered a liberating way of relating to herself and the world. She now helps her clients and readers do the same. Megan's work has been featured in The Huffington Post, Forb...

Why are powerful women perceived as unlikeable? Listen to todays episode with writer Laurel Raymond and find out! Laurel Raymond is a reporter for ThinkProgress.org, a digital news site based in Washington DC, where she is currently covering the 2016 US election. Before working at ThinkProgress, she worked in the US Senate and served as a Fulbright scholar at a university in southeast Turkey. She...