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How to Win at Mental Health

7/25/2021

A Conversation About How to Conquer Depression with a Full-on Effort

Dealing with depression and anxiety? Who is winning, you or them? What if you had a playbook full of healing, coping, and life-giving strategies at the ready? Would you feel more supported, more hopeful?

Guest Bio:
Zack S. Rutledge is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, an ACE Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist, and a Certified Brain Health Trainer through the Functional Aging Institute. He has a black belt in karate, has practiced yoga for almost a decade, and has played in punk bands for years. He holds an MA from American University in Washington, D.C. and is currently pursuing a Clinical Psychology degree.

Zack is the author of The Official Depression Relief Playbook: Real-Life Strategies From a Guy Who Has Lived It.
He shares with us how depression and anxiety, triggered by grief, sent him spiraling downward as a young adult and how he created a playbook full of winning strategies to take on his mental health challenges from every angle.

Stay tuned to find out how you can defeat your demons with Zack’s D-Day approach. Enjoy this uplifting, laughter-filled conversation and pick up a new perspective that might just change everything for the better.

We do talk a little about the tough stuff of depression, - nothing graphic, but take care of yourself. If you feel things come up for you, reach out and get help, whether that’s a friend, a professional counsellor, or a help line, like National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
800-273-8255.

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Music Credits:
A Hawaiian in Paris feat.-Pierre-Grill

SHOW NOTES:
Key Takeaways:

How to adapt to Covid and other life changes by listening to your gut
How to tell the difference between grief and depression
How to use the D-day approach to conquer depression

Do a Science:

Practice Box Breathing

Zack’s Content

The Official Depression Relief Playbook

Other relevant Episodes:

Episode 85 How to be a Victor, not a Victim with Fatima Oliver.
Episode 76 How to be 88% Happy with Dr. Marissa Pei

Take a Deeper Dive on the Topic:

Myers Briggs Test
- About the Assessment
- Take the official version (paid)
- Take a free version - 16 Personalities
Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

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How to Be Powerfully Peaceful

7/19/2021

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Developing Conscious Skills, Mindfulness, and Success with Neil Seligman

Wouldn’t it be ideal if we could take our full, relaxed, connected and authentic selves everywhere, including to work? Wouldn’t it be better if leaders of all kinds could lead from a place of mindfulness, self-awareness, and peaceful power? If Consciousness and Corporateness coexisted wouldn’t they create something new and revolutionary?

Guest Bio:
Our guest today is Neil Seligman. He was a trial lawyer - or Barrister - in England for 8 years, but his interest in Consciousness and meditation pre-dated his law career. It wasn’t until he ditched the day job and spent several years exploring his inner and outer worlds that he saw how to connect mindfulness practice with corporate life and productivity.

Now Neil trains and coaches professionals in a wide variety of “conscious skills,” and speaks at prestigious corporate events and seminars around the world, from Europe to America, Asia, and Australia. Having immersed himself in mindfulness since his teens, Neil combines his authentic passion for the practice with unrivalled professional expertise in his pioneering business, Conscious Corporate Consultancies. His insight and compelling enthusiasm leave his audiences inspired, energized and armed with practical ways to reach their highest potential.

We are so pleased to bring you our conversation with the calm, grounded, and utterly delightful Neil Seligman. If you don’t relate to the corporate angle, don’t worry - there is a ton in our talk that relates to personal growth and using mindfulness to make pretty much everything more joyful and functional.

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Music Credits: A Hawaiian in Paris feat.-Pierre-Grill

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SHOW NOTES
Key Takeaways:

We can open and close
Mindfullness can lead to increased stress resilience/decreased stress reactivity

Do a Science:

Daily FHB Meditation
- Feet on the Floor
- Hands on the Heart
- Body on Breathing

More About Neil:

Public Website
The Conscious Professional Website
Zen in Ten program
Neil’s Books
- 100 Mindfulness Meditations: The Ultimate Collection of Inspiring Daily Practices
- Conscious Leadership. Reveal your potential. Inspire excellence
Neil’s Art
- Soul Portrait Photography

Neil’s Social Media Resources

Group
Facebook The Conscious Professional
Twitter Neil Seliman
LinkedIn Neil Seligman
YouTube ConsciousProTV

Other relevant Episodes:

Episode 55, How Not to Know with Pete Pierson - using a mindfulness practice to inform social action and advocacy
Episode 78 How to Build Soulful Power - Breathing, laughing and learning with Christian de la Huerta

Dive Deeper on the Topic:

Dance and Movement
- Gabrielle Roth’s Five Rhythms Movement Practice
- Biography of Anna Helprin
Other Topics
- Matthew Fox
- Byron Katie Loving What Is Video

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How to Start a Fire:

7/12/2021

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Getting Our Sex Life Off the Back Burner with Susan Bratton

"Let's talk about sex, baby
Let's talk about you and me"

If you’re our generation, you probably danced to Salt ‘n’ Pepa at a teen club or when you sneaked into a bar with a fake ID. It was all super-hot back then, but how about now? Have you lost your mojo? Is sex, intimacy, and connection on the back burner or worse, a distant memory? Well, it doesn’t have to be. In fact, today’s guest makes shared pleasure, a richer relationship, and a fuller life seem not just possible, but totally worth the effort.

We’re your hosts Charles Matheus and Kelly Roberge. We are insatiably interested in the intersection of personal growth, healthy relationships, and vibrant communities.

Welcome to the HERE.together Podcast where we go deeper than the typical podcast on topics that really matter. We ask questions no one else asks, we share true stories about ourselves that few other hosts tell, and we walk into the material we cover with vulnerability and honesty.

Guest Bio:
Our guest this episode is Susan Bratton, intimacy expert to millions. She teaches people how to achieve ageless passion and unlock the secrets to life-long vitality. She is the best-selling author and publisher of 34 books and programs including “Sexual Soulmates'' and “Relationship Magic.”

She is co-founder and CEO of two corporations: Personal Life Media, Inc., a publisher of heart-connected lovemaking techniques and bedroom communication skills and The20, LLC., a manufacturer of organic and botanical supplements that enhance sexual vitality.

A best-selling author and publisher of 34 books and programs including Sexual Soulmates, Relationship Magic, Revive Her Drive, Ravish Him, Steamy Sex Ed™, The Passion Patch, Hormone Balancing, and Hot To Trot.

Susan has been featured in the New York Times and on CNBC and the TODAY show as well as frequent appearances on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC.

Susan’s core expertise lies in the intersection between passionate lovemaking techniques and bedroom communication skills. She has studied extensively what makes intimacy truly passionate, surrendered, and connected, and she boils those skills down to simple practices anyone can use to achieve profoundly pleasurable results.

What's Different About This Episode:
We normally get to know our guests on a pretty deep level, but this week, Susan Bratton really got to know us. We open up about our own sexual histories and our current sex-life (or lack thereof). We show up as fully transparent and vulnerable, as always, as Susan helps us work through our fears, hesitations, and desires so that we can re-invest our relationship with closeness, caring, and communion.
So keep listening for an honest, revealing, healing conversation about how to make sex great at any age.

SHOW NOTES
Key Takeaways:

Learn the Four Kinds of Touch
Why Sex is Worth the Trouble
How Great Sex and Meaningful Intimacy is a Learned Skill
Good Sex Takes Practice

Do a Science:

Practice the Sexual Soulmate Embrace with your partner at least once this week.
AND/OR download and read the Sexual Soulmate Pact with your partner

Episode References:

Susan’s Websites
- Professional Portal
- Be a Better Lover Resources and Programs
Susan’s Social Media
Susan’s Online Resources

Other relevant Episodes:

Episode 74 How to Make Your Relationship Happy with relationship journalist Claire Vande Polder
Episode 73 How to Make Your Relationship Exceptional with Jachym Jerie and Natasha Koo
Episode 46 How To Be Emotional with Kelly and Charles

Dive Deeper on the Topic:

Brad Blanton Radical Honesty

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How to be a Victor, not a Victim

7/5/2021

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How do you keep going through the darkest nights of the soul? How do you take the worst things that happened to you and turn them into fuel for good? How do you shift from victim to victor?

Guest Bio:
Fatima Oliver is devoted to helping others become their best selves. She is a survivor of the kinds of trauma, abuse, and personal tragedy that would break most people, but she found a way to keep going, heal, and thrive. Now she wants to reach back and help others find their way out.
Fatima has an MBA and the financial knowledge and skills to go with it. She’s written a memoir sharing her story titled, "The Prescription is in the Dirt." If that’s not enough interesting bio to intrigue you, she also toured as a backup singer with the Righteous Brothers for 4 years.

Listen to the whole episode for a deeply meaningful conversation about surviving and thriving, finding our voices, and paying it forward with the multi-talented badass boss, Fatima Oliver.

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Music Credits: A Hawaiian in Paris feat.-Pierre-Grill

SHOW NOTES:
Fatima’s Key Takeaways for the Soul Healing Journey:

Have a safe place to fall - an engaged support group who wants the best for you
Avoid the victim mindset
- Make a commitment to reach out for help and move on
It’s OK to not be OK - it’s not OK to stay that way
Turn your pain into purpose

Do a Science:

Imagine you most wonderful day.
What are three things that you would do on that wonderful day.
Incorporate at least two of those things per day.

Episode References:

Connect with Fatima
- Website
- LinkedIn
- Instagram
- Facebook
The Prescription is in the Dirt

Other relevant Episodes:

Episode 42 How To Turn Setback Into Success with Melanie Banayat.
Episode 76 How to be 88% Happy with Dr. Marissa Pei.

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