What if the thing standing between you and the life you were meant to live… isn’t your circumstances, your resources, or your talent — but one invisible enemy inside your own mind?

My guest today spent thirty years broke, overlooked, and grinding before the world ever heard his name. He drove trucks. He tended bars. He wrote scripts nobody bought. And then he sat down and wrote a book that redefined how artists, athletes, and entrepreneurs think about their own psychology.

Steven Pressfield has one name for what’s stopping you — and once he tells you what it is, you will never unsee it.

Stay with us. This one is going to hit different.

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MAKES SENSE PODCAST

Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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0:00 - Intro: The Invisible Enemy / Resistance

1:40 - Steven Pressfield Today

4:57 - Before Success / Finding His Voice

7:02 - The Breakthrough Moment

9:01 - Calling and the Muse

11:08 - Resistance and the Arena

20:43 - The Wilderness / Hero’s Journey

35:40 - Telemon, Arcadian, and the Fiction World

44:21 - What Humans Are Here to Do

47:47 - Legacy and Final Thoughts

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You will spend more energy this week trying to control things you have zero power over than on anything you can actually change. Zero. And it's exhausting you. There's a river that never fights the boulder in its path — it just flows around it. Today I'm showing you how to become that river. This is the Untouchable Flow — the mindset shift that took me from fearing my own diagnosis to finding more peace than I've ever had. If you've ever felt like life's chaos gets to decide your mood, your focus, your peace — that ends today. Let's go.

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Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

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0:00 - Intro

4:14 - Great Morning World

5:09 - On a Healthy Body

7:39 - Never before have we had so much yet so little

8:56 - The Untouchable Flow

16:44 - Getting in a fist fight with the wind.

18:12 - Stop Teaching it and Start Living It

21:01 - We all have a choice

13:25 - Becoming a better Gatekeeper

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What would you do if you had lost everything — your home, your freedom, your will to live — and the only thing you had left was a decision? My guest today hit every one of those walls. He was homeless. He sat behind bars. He tried to end his life. And then — somehow — he went on to build an 800% sales turnaround at a dealership most people had written off, become a national speaker spotlighted on ABC, NBC, and CBS, and raise nine kids along the way. Today Glenn Lundy is going to tell us exactly what broke him, what rebuilt him, and the dead-simple morning practice he says anyone can use to stop surviving and start performing. Stay with us — because the moment he tells you what he was doing at 4 am that changed his entire life, you will not want to go back to the way you've been starting your days.

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Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

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• Operly - Take Back Control of your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly - https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95
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Great Morning, Humans, Great Morning, World. I am Dr. JC Doornick, AKA the Dragon. Welcome to the Makes Sense Podcast, and welcome to the Uprising of the sleepwalking masses.

Here's a bold statement: 99% of the emotional pain you feel today isn't happening to you — it's happening to a costume you're wearing. Napoleon Hill called it indifference. I call it the Unshakable Mindset. And today, I'm going to show you the exact four-step system I am using — right now, in real time — to stay architecturally sound while the world tries to shake me. If you've ever wondered how some people seem completely unbothered while everyone else is a puppet on a string... stay with me. This one might change how you respond to everything.

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Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

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0:00 = Teaser

0.22 - Intro

1:14 - Great Morning

2:29 - Napoleon Hill on the First Words Out of Your Mouth Each Day

4:27 - Every Single Cell Inside My Body

6:11 - Becoming Mentally Unshakable

9:48 - To stop carrying things that are not yours

10:08 - Human beings living like puppets

14:04 - Carrency

17:42 - IRS Comes In

23:52 - Detachment vs. Suppression

26:03 - The Sick Role

26:37 - Bruce Lee Flow Like Water

27:41 - Allowing myself to be silent

30:41 - The 5 Year Rule

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What if the most transformative experiences of your life — crisis, loss, near-death — aren’t things that happen TO you… But things that can permanently wake you UP? My guest today has spent two decades collecting the evidence. He’s a psychology lecturer, a bestselling author in over 20 languages, and someone Eckhart Tolle called a vital voice for the shift in human consciousness. Today we’re going into the psychology of awakening, why he believes the ego isn’t your true self but an evolutionary accident — and why he thinks the Beatles were tapping into something most of us never access. Stay with me — this one will change how you see your own mind.

Connext With Steve

Website- Books: / https://www.stevenmtaylor.com/

IG: / @stevetaylorauthor

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Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

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0:00 - Teaser

0:16 - Intro

1:09 - Who Is Steve Taylor? Exploring Consciousness & Awakening

4:09 - What's it like to be Steve Taylor these Days

8:28 - What Is an Awakening?

12:02 - Why Curiosity Matters More Than Certainty

20:38 - Can Suffering Trigger Spiritual Awakening?

30:14 - What is actually happening when someone goes through a crisis?

39:40 - Why Time Slows Down During Life-Changing Moments

47:49 - What Made The Beatles So Extraordinary?

55:48 - What Are We Really Waking Up From?

56:54 - Final Advice, Meditation & Where to Find Steve Taylor

59:40 - Outro

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Here's something nobody tells you about a cancer diagnosis: it might be the most clarifying moment of your entire life. Studies show that up to 70% of cancer survivors report what psychologists call post-traumatic growth — not just surviving, but becoming. Today we're going somewhere most podcasts are too afraid to go. We're asking whether a terminal diagnosis could actually be a spiritual breakthrough — a forced consciousness shift that delivers the radical authenticity and flow state you've spent your whole life chasing. Buckle in. This one's going to change the way you see everything.

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Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

OUR SPONSORS:

• Operly - Take Back Control of your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly - https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95
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0:00 - Teaser

0:39 - Intro

1:31 - Great Morning

4:01 - Cancer Gave Me What Years of Therapy Couldn't

4:34 - America's Favorite Couple

8:24 - The Unsuspecting Teacher

9:55 - Stop Trying

10:53 - Don't wait for your situation to force your hand.

13:04 - What happens when the illusion of tomorrow suddenly disappears

13:24 - The Prison Of Trying

20:45 - Napoleon Hill

21:22 - Blue Blinds Bakery Sponsor

22:47 - The Compression of Mortality

26:19 - Denial

30:00 - Recovery Programs

32:36 - Cancer Didn't Give Me Gratitude

36:02 - Director of the Feature Film

37:49 - Closing

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What if the most powerful therapy available right now isn't in a clinic? Is it in a jungle? My guest today has sat in a ceremony with hundreds of people. He's guided them through Ayahuasca in the Amazon, through the full-force blast of 5-MeO-DMT from Bufo toad venom, through peyote, San Pedro, and mushrooms, and he has seen people fall apart and put themselves back together in a single weekend. But he's also seen how it could go wrong. And that's exactly what we need to talk about. Billy Venkatraman is a life coach, a CBT and NLP-trained practitioner, and the founder of I AM TRIBE — and he's here to give you the most honest conversation about plant medicine you've probably ever heard. Stay with me.

Connext With Billy V

Website: www.arkanainternational.com

IG: b.venkatraman

I AM TRIBE: www.iamtribe.com

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Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

OUR SPONSORS:

• Operly - Take Back Control of your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly - https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95
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0:00 - Introduction – Is Plant Medicine the Future of Healing?

3:12 - Billy V's Journey Into Plant Medicine

13:21 - Who Are You Beyond Your Identity?

17:01 - How Can Plants Become Teachers?

22:06 - What Makes a True Maestro?

33:44 - Ayahuasca – Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds

35:03 - What Bufo (5-MeO-DMT) Really Feels Like

39:55 - Which Plant Medicine Has the Biggest Impact?

48:29 - The Medicine Is Already Inside You

54:41 - The Vision Behind I AM Tribe

1:02:47 - Where to Find Billy V & Final Thoughts

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Here's a question that might sting a little — who has power over you right now? Because if you're honest... it's anyone whose approval you need. Research shows that the human brain is wired to treat social rejection the same way it treats a physical threat. Your nervous system literally cannot tell the difference. But what if the most radical act of personal power wasn't fighting harder — it was wanting less? Today we're talking about strategic indifference: the IRS Process principle that the ancient Stoics figured out thousands of years ago — and that most people will never use. Stay with me

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Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

OUR SPONSORS:

• Operly - Take Back Control of your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly - https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95
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0:00 - Teaser

0:20 - Intro

1:39 - Great Morning

4:23 - Who Owns You?

5:41 - Alexander the Great and Diogenes

9:47 - Indifference

10:39 - Carrency

14:09 - Who is standing in the way of your sun

16:39 - The Unveiling of True Friends

20:54 - Unfuckwithable

23:27 - 5 Habits of the Unfuckwithable

30:55 - Wanting vs Needing

32:45 - Who is your Alexander

33:29 - The World Will Always Try TO Negotiate for Your Attention

35:23 - What are you asking for that you already have

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