ToddTalks--Spirit By Design: Your Weekly Survival Guide

Send us Fan Mail Are you drowning in the sea of self-criticism? Feel like anxiety is a constant companion? Let Shane Murphy, a skilled psychotherapist, guide you towards the shore of peace and positivity. Shane and I navigate the turbulent waters of the mental health crisis that has washed over the globe, fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. The isolation and online dependency caused by lockdowns h...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wondered how life changes can shape your perspective and lead you to design a life that you truly desire? Picture this - retiring from a military career, moving countries, attending your child's wedding, and launching into a dream job. That’s the whirlwind of changes that I've navigated recently. Join me as I share insights from this intense journey and break down t...

Send us Fan Mail What if paradigm shifts could be your personal catalyst for growth and transformation? Would you dare to embrace them? In a stimulating conversation with international best-selling author, Smita Joshi, we traverse the terrain of paradigm shifts and personal transformation, examining how these elements intersect with trust, vision, and overcoming trauma. Smita weaves personal narra...

Send us Fan Mail Be Visionary - Marty Strong and I discuss leadership, vision, and strategic understanding. What do I want to be, or do over the next few years? Who do I want to be? What goals am I going to set?  How do you determine what goals you need to set in order to create your vision? These are some of the many questions we answer in this episode. Support the show You can reach me anytime a...

Send us Fan Mail Being an entrepreneur is not an easy road.  It is often a road that is taken in lieu of college, and in today's world of colleges as indoctrination centers, and a serious need for blue collar professionals, entrepreneurship is a path you should look into. One essential of entrepreneurship is marketing. Marco Salinas, Ceo of Expert Publishing Associates, and I discuss everythi...

Send us Fan Mail 11 wholesome techniques for managing stress. You need to try these scientifically supported strategies to handle stress when it becomes unbearable. You don't need to use every one, you just need to find which one works best for you. There are so many good ways to reduce stress. There are also many people that don't do anything to manage their stress. They just get overwh...

Send us Fan Mail Why do we do what we do? Why do we act the way we act? Putting things in context can be healing. Learning to forgive yourself and others is central and one of the greatest gifts you can receive. Your mind is always trying to protect you and in this episode we focus especially on active acceptance. In order to perceive new opportunities and take advantage of them, we need to accept...

Send us Fan Mail Do you know what you want to do? What's your dream job? What career goals do you have?  Fatemah Mirza, Owner of Career Tuners, helps people navigate the job search, resume build, and stress of figuring out what they want to do with their life. We come at things with different perspectives, but have a great conversation about how you can develop interview strategies, negotiate...

Send us Fan Mail TedX Speaker and Author Dai Manuel and I sat down and discussed whole life fitness, what that means, and how you can improve your life through fitness. Fitness is one of the pillars of life.  I teach four pillars: Mental, Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Health. Dai focuses on the pillars of Fitness, Faith, Family, Finances and Fun. Together we break down why you need to develop...

Send us Fan Mail You have the duty, the purpose, the right to create the life you desire. Have you ever heard the phrase "live life on purpose"? It's a great phrase with lots of meaning. A purpose driven life means you aren't wasting your time, your life away. You seek out your purpose and you seek to fulfill it. Another quote that John and I expound upon is the idea that it is...

Send us Fan Mail You're in the box and you don't even know it! What is the box? It is the self-delusion you feel that you are in the right and others are in the wrong and you get there by betraying your own beliefs. What does this mean? It means that you lie to yourself. It means that in order to develop your intuition and improve your success, you need to learn to see truth and see thro...

Send us Fan Mail To truly accomplish the goals you want, you need to have a plan, and you need to write it down, in detail exactly what you want. 2023 is here. What are you going to do? What is your path forward? If you do nothing, it will look very much like 2022. One of my primary goals this year is to become financially free by helping as many people as possible to also earn a million dollars o...

Send us Fan Mail You have a problem. You don't listen. You never hear me. You miscommunicate at home or work. You get confused because you misinterpret what you hear. Why? Because you listen only enough to think about what you want to say rather than listening to relate to what is being relayed. This makes it difficult to understand. Brigitta Hoeferle and I share a deep discussion about how y...

Send us Fan Mail Opportunities are always there, you just have to have the sight to be able to see them. Decisions are one of the hardest things that we have to do. And as the intro says, if you want success, you've got to have some skin in the game. Burn the ships! You've heard it. I've heard it. It's advice from down the ages. If you want to succeed, burn the ships so that yo...

Send us Fan Mail "Life doesn't happen to you, you happen to life!" - Sandy Joy Weston After a year of studying people who lived a joyful life and another year studying successful people, Sandy created a five-minute approach to living joyfully and accomplishing your dreams and spent a year studying a group to use her method... And it failed miserably. When talking about it with the g...

Send us Fan Mail You are Not Broken! You may feel that you are. You may struggle with what you are conditioned to believe about yourself. If Jean and I can leave you with one message in this episode it is that you are not broken. Living unapologetically authentic means allowing us to be who we truly are. It is filtering out what we've been conditioned to believe about ourselves and learning t...

Send us Fan Mail Positivity is lacking in this world. It seems to be a human trait to focus on the negative. Today Shane and I discuss the power of positivity, and the simple steps he uses to move from a 30/70 split of positivity/negativity to a 70/30. It doesn't take much, but it does take time and effort. And living a positive life with a positive outlook is positively grand! This episode i...

Send us Fan Mail Let's call them basic rules of a happy successful life. Listen to the rules and ideas that Robert Fulghum laid out back in 1986 and discover that these ideas don't change. They pass the test of time. This is not a 5 rules for success episode. This is basic rules for living. Take a moment, breathe, and don't forget to flush! This is a fun little episode to get you to...

Send us Fan Mail “If you’ve been struggling with your weight, and your health, because you can’t kick the sugar and dessert habit, I’ve got good news for you... you can.  Does the idea of giving up sugar or flour make you cringe inside?  Yes. But, let me tell you, sugar is poison! And until now, you’ve played all the games, tried all the diets. Lost a few pounds and gained back more. Your body is...

Send us Fan Mail Life is pretty simple. You will be somewhere five years from now. Where you are is determined by what you do today. In today's episode I go over a simple 3 step method for improving your life.  Everybody can do it. All it takes if faith and trust ... and something I forgot - wait this isn't Disney, this is real life and this is a real answer and faith and trust in what y...

Send us Fan Mail There is a difference between meditation and prayer.  Centering prayer or Silent prayer is a form of meditation. It's an opportunity to continuously center your mind and clear the clutter and noise so you can hear what God is saying to you. Often Journaling after your 15 minutes of Silence will help you understand themes that stand out and what repeats you can understand what...

Send us Fan Mail This week I attended the Mastermind World Summit hosted by Dean Graziosi and Tony Robbins.  In this episode I share my thoughts of some of the things I learned. This is the perfect follow-up to my last episode to live your dreams. This episode I talk about how to do that and give some info regarding projects in the works. Consistency is the key to achieving your dreams.  Support t...

Send us Fan Mail The old adage "Chase after your dreams!" is a little overrated in my opinion. Because you should not just chase, but catch and live them. That's the premise behind today's episode. You have one life to live. Do you want to be always chasing, never satisfied, never fulfilled? Or do you want to live the life you dream? Today I go over how I have been living my be...

Send us Fan Mail Why is it hard for your brain to be productive? Thinking is actually made of 28 different cognitive functions.  Struggle is based on a lack in one cognitive area. Why do you feel overwhelm? Because your thoughts are based on unclear or blurred perceptions due to a lack in one cognitive area or more. You can get an assessment for free at  https://lifepixuniversity.com/cf Or you can...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a while since I went on my own and just spoke from the heart.  Never stop learning.  it's a process that is necessary. You're either growing or retreating in life. Life is what you make of it. I tell a couple stories to explain why I think it's so important. Whether it's learning a language or starting a business, you can and should go after all...