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From Alcoholism and Chronic Illness to Endurance Racing: Defying the Odds with Nick Klingensmith

In this episode, you'll hear:

• How did Nick go from dealing with medical issues to being an extreme athlete? 
• How can we shift out of the victim mentality? 
• What do defensive feelings tell us about our role in the situation?

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Hello, and welcome to a special one-off episode of our podcast. Today, I want to feature a podcast I helped produce called the Nourished Life Podcast. Ang and Claire host it, and their goal is to get you some life-giving nuggets to help you live the life you dream of.  Here is their explanation:

You are invited to listen to a journey focused on holistic wellness, the pillars of healthy eating, physical act...

Come to a Ketamine Treatment with Me 

In this episode, you'll hear:

• What is ketamine, why are people using it, and how it works
• Why ketamine has a bad reputation and potential side effects 
• What Mathew’s experience was like before, during, and after

Have you ever wondered what a ketamine therapy session is like? Well, wonder no more! T...

Quick Wins to Improve Teacher Retention and Student Experience with Dr. Paulie Gavoni and Anika Costa

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why are so many teachers leaving the field, and what can we do about it?
• How can we use simulations to help educators be more prepared? 
• Simple things you can do this week to improve your classroom

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In this episode, Mathew and Tiffany discuss how her childhood shaped her beliefs today, what she has learned from having children, and the grieving process we go through as our children age. She talks about the roles of self-compassion, acceptance, and forgiveness in the healing process, gives tips for anyone struggling through those stages, and helps us think about how to encourage our kids to talk to us about their struggles.

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In this episode, you'll hear:

• The difference between typical kid behavior and serious school avoidance issues 
• Underlying issues that contribute to school avoidance and how to overcome them 
• Do's and don'ts for parents dealing with school avoidance

Jayne Demsky is an advocate, a mother, and the founder of the School of Avoidance Allian...

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why do certain foods present issues for us at certain times but not others?
• How stress impacts our guts and why fermentation is helpful for digestion 
• Steps we can take today to help ourselves
• Why breastfeeding is so important, and which formulas to use if breastfeeding isn't an optio...

Surviving a Stalker + EMDR to Take Her Power Back with Candice 

In this episode, you'll hear:

• How being sexually molested as a toddler manifested later in her life 
• The power of EMDR and meditation for healing and managing emotions 
• Why is it so hard to get a stalking conviction, and where to start
• The difference ...

A PCP-Laced Brownie Changed Her Whole Life with Ruth Poniarski

In this episode, Mathew and Ruth discuss the impact of unknowingly ingesting a hallucinogenic substance while already in a bad mental state, the long-term impacts, her recovery journey, and where she is today.

Ruth Poniarski is here to share her story of surviving a devastating mental illness that stemmed from a PCP-laced brownie. In 1977, Ruth was in her fourth year of...

Today's episode is what the podcast people call a "Swap." We're pausing Learn from people who lived it this week to showcase one of the most downloaded episodes on the I NEEDED THAT PODCAST.

Today’s show features an interview with Dr. Mary Claire Haver. Dr. Mary Claire Haver is a wife, mom, physician, and entrepreneur who has devoted her adult life to women’s health. As a board-certified OBGYN in Houston, ...

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why do many high performers have a hard time cutting loose?
• We are not in control, but we can influence and adapt.
• What Cort learned on Richard Branson's private island
• What does it mean to “play” as an adult?
• Mathew and Cort do an improv exercise. 

Part 2: Creating More Time in Your Day with Cortney McDermott

This is part two of three in a series with Cortney McDermott. Cort is a bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and mind-body expert with a Master of Science from the London School of Economics. She speaks four languages and splits her time between Italy and the US. There was a time in her life when it looked like she had it all, but in reality, she was “miserably successful."...

Part 1: Why You Don’t Have What You Want with Cortney McDermott

This is part one of three in a series with Cortney McDermott. Cort is a bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and mind-body expert with a Master of Science from the London School of Economics. She speaks four languages and splits her time between Italy and the US. There was a time in her life when it looked like she had it all, but in reality, she was “miserably successful...

Combating Complacency with James Schlosser

James Schlosser is joining us from Washington, DC, to discuss combating complacency. This topic is important to him because he grew up in poverty and lived in survival mode with a scarcity mindset. He had an issue with his eyes that made reading hard; therefore, school was exhausting and discouraging. Eventually, he went to college without direction on a Pell Grant. During his last semeste...

Youth Sports: What we have done wrong and how to fix it with Luis Fernando Llosa

Luis Fernando Llosa is a Peruvian-Ukrainian-American writer, editor, speaker, investigative reporter, youth sports consultant, and full-time father-coach of his five kids. He started his journalism career at Fortune Magazine in 1995, then moved to Money Magazine in 1996. After three years there, he found he was always looking for the people in the stor...

How to be Happy with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar

In this episode, you'll hear:

• The elements of happiness and how to be happier
• The role that rest plays in reducing stress and the importance of exercise as medicine
• “Perfect” vs. “good enough” and why the ego is stopping us from being happy
• The impact of the pandemic and soc...

Marriage and Mental Health: Surviving a Spousal Suicide Attempt 

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Taking care of yourself is the best way you can take care of everyone else.
• The complicated grief of a suicide attempt and reconnecting with your spouse after a traumatic event
• Cari’s journey with psychedelics and how they have changed her relations...

Achieving Your Dreams with Annie Mayo

In this episode, Mathew, Annie, and Dr. Frank discuss the uphill struggle many people have when they decide to pursue a career in the arts and how different people deal with hearing "No, you can’t”. They explore the reasons others may discourage people from following their artistic dreams, why it is so important to define success for yourself throughout your life, and the impact thoughts have o...