The Hidden Why Podcast

Kindness, Meditation & Creativity Ann joins me again for a second time on the podcast and in this episode, we continue our conversation about Transcendental Mediation and the benefits that are gained from this practice. We also touch on creativity and how kindness has a big role to play in our lives. Enjoy! Guest Bio. Ann Purcell is a philanthropist, award-winning author, and songwriter. Her lates...

Beliefs My conversation with Lion Goodman discussed beliefs and how we unwrap them. Our limiting beliefs often stop us from living our best life. Hard to discover through self-assessment as often we put up blocks to prevent us from doing so. This is a discussion on how we get to the root cause of our beliefs so we can create new, more empowering ones. Enjoy! Guest Bio. Lion Goodman, PCC is a trans...

Carbonauts, The BIG 6 & Climate Change In this episode, I speak with Graham about how we are doing in the fight against climate change. The modern environmental movement has been around for about 30 years and awareness is solid. The next piece to fighting climate change is action. Graham with Cabonauts is doing just that. He discusses The BIG six, the highest impact actions we can take to slash ou...

The Business Pickle Are you a business leader or owner looking to do more good and have a great positive impact in the world. The Business Pickle are here to help. In this episode I speak with Gillian about how they are helping businesses have a more positive impact in what they do. An insightful conversation and one that may make business leaders and owners step back and assess how they are curre...

Life Mastery My conversation with Sherry Fernandez discussing her book, Life Mastery, Personal Progression Toward an Infinite Potential. Sherry has lived an incredible journey having raised 6 kids, started her own fitness company, and becoming a great guide and coach for many on how to live a purposeful life. Sherry shares her story and guidance for us all in this interview. How to find daily moti...

Great Philosophical Problems A conversation with Dr Tim Shaw discussing great philosophical problems. Tim navigates me through the philosophical definition of moral injury and what it means in the modern world. Enjoy! Guest Bio. Dr Timothy Shaw is a Philosopher and the director of Great Philosophical Problems, a think tank with a mission to provide a unifying definition, and accompanying metaethic...

Hypnosis Explained An awesome conversation with Heidi Hazen about Hypnosis. This was really insightful and fun. We delve into how by tapping into the subconscious mind we can change our beliefs and redirect our lives. Enjoy! Guest Bio. For a decade, she was the co-owner of the world-famous bookstore, The Last Bookstore, before pivoting into her soul's purpose. For years, Heidi was depressed, extre...

Cross-Cultural Relationships It's all about relationships. Our conversation begins discussing Kathrine's area of expertise with Cross-Cultural relationships. Kathrine has worked with many couples helping them create a greater understanding of one another's differences to help navigate and improve their relationships. We then delve into modern-day dating, dating apps, divorce, and where the world o...

Do Hard Things My interview with Steve Magness, performance expert and bestselling author of Peak Performance. We discuss his new book Do Hard Things, a revolutionary science-based new definition of toughness—one that focuses on assessing a challenge on a physiological and psychological level. Learn how to, Ditch the Façade & Embrace Reality, Listen to Your Body, Respond, Instead of React, and Tra...

PlantWave Music From Plants In my interview with Joe, I speak to him about his company and tech product PlantWave. A device that creates music from data waves produced by plants. Really cool stuff and in the interview Joe shares some live music direct from one of his office plants. Enjoy! Check out PlantWave here. Guest Bio Joe Patitucci is an artist fostering connection to intuitive states and th...

WeConcile Relationship Therapy In my conversation with Mike, we discuss WeConcile which is a couples therapy app designed to help people build on and improve their relationships. It helps individuals better understand themselves to then become better at understanding and addressing the relationship issues they may be facing. An insightful conversation with Mike about our relationship. Guest Bio. F...

Nature, Culture, and Finding Your WHY In this episode, Nina shares her tips and thoughts on how we can follow our passion, find our purpose and create our Why! After a great career working with many to help find their purpose, Nina has a lot of practices and advice to help you thrive. Enjoy! Grab a copy of Nina's latest book below. Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for LeadershipGra...

Light After Loss In this episode, I speak with Ashley Bush about practices to help shine a light into the darkness and illuminate the lifelong journey of integrating loss into life. A spiritual conversation to higher healing that offers a shift, a redirection from pain and suffering to the sacred qualities of compassion, love, connection, gratitude, and transformation. Enjoy! Guest Bio. Ashley Dav...

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Go For Stupid! What would you achieve if you weren't afraid of being laughed at? In the age of "gotcha" culture, people are terrified to do anything that might be laughed at. Steve Sims is the exact opposite. In my conversation with Steve, I discuss his newest book Go For Stupid: The Art of Achieving Ridiculous Goals. Steve talks about how to ignore what everyone else thinks and go for big, stupid...

FocusCalm Max Newlon is the president of BrainCo, a company that brings cutting-edge science, engineering, and algorithm development to address real-world challenges. In this episode, we discuss FocusCalm which is a neurofeedback wearable that has been designed to enhance performance and control your mindset. Cool new tech and will likely get better and better. Enjoy! Interested in 10% off FocusCa...

Ageless Ageing—not cancer or heart disease—is the world's leading cause of death and suffering. In spite of this, we accept the ageing process as inevitable. We come to terms with the fact that our bodies and minds will begin to deteriorate and our risk of disease will rise as we get older. Ageing is so deeply ingrained in the human experience that we never stop to ask: is it necessary? A fascinat...

The Enlightenment Project On a quest to move towards greater awareness, peace, joy, and love Jonathan has interviewed now over 100 of the world's greatest spiritual leaders, from the late Mother Teresa and Ram Dass, to the Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra. What he's learnt along the way is quite amazing. In his new book, The Enlightenment Project, and in this interview, Jonathan shares some of the lea...

Lifestyle Satisfaction Have you ever found life has just gotten away from you? Walking a path that perhaps just doesn't feel right. I believe most of us find ourselves here at some point in life. Instead of us choosing life, life has been chosen for us. Instead of a human being, we are just humans doing. On the hamster wheel of life, it feels like the impossible to change. However, what if there w...

Brain Immunology An insightful conversation with John Lukens discussing brain immunology. John explains how the interactions between the immune and nervous systems will lead to an improved understanding of complex neurological disorders in humans. The more we understand the better we may live. Guest Bio. John received his PhD from the University of Virginia in 2008 for his work describing roles fo...

The Promotability Index A conversation with Amii about the nature of the workplace including how to improve trust, enhance communication, advance your career and become a better leader. We discuss Amii's Promotability guidebook and how through better self-awareness we can more purposefully navigate our careers and life.  Grab a copy of Amii's PI Guidebook using this link.  Guest Bio. A former Fort...

Chess 4 Life An incredible conversation today with Elliot Neff about Chess. You may think of chess as just a game but as I've learnt today, it's much more! Through Elliot's journey in playing chess and becoming a Chess Master, he went on to develop a program to help children excel in life. Elliot and the team and Chess4Life have developed programs to help make a positive impact on the lives of 1 m...

Wanting, The Power of Memetic Desire. Humans don't desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic – we imitate what other people want. This affects the way we choose partners, friends, careers, clothes and travel destinations. Mimetic desire is responsible for the formation of our very identities. This is a great conversation with Luke about how we can best understand our desires, simply b...

Optimal Health & Wellness I speak with Dr Ron Sinha about metabolic health and how we can improve it. As a physician and the world's leading insulin resistance expert, Dr Ron has much to share. As a highly sought-after wellness speaker in Silicon Valley, Dr Ron has first-hand experience working with individuals and companies to help improve overall health and wellness in the lifestyle dynamics of...

The Mystery of You Have we forgotten about being happy in our pursuit of happiness? We have been well trained to go after what we want, but are we missing out on life by always focusing on some future event? In this conversation with Emilio Diez Barroso, he invites us to uncover a peace that is untouched by the happenings of life and encourages us to discover who we are beyond our familiar identit...