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  • Recognizing & Upgrading The Systems of Our Life For Better Results w/ Systems Specialist Ben Meer

    Recognizing & Upgrading The Systems of Our Life For Better Results w/ Systems Specialist Ben Meer
    2026/11/09
    My guest here talks about creating systems in our lives in order to get better results. When I hear this I immediately think about calendars and habits and check lists and a lot of things I don’t inspire myself with. Concepts that take time and confine me and I end up being a slave to some daily factory of myself. But. But what he helps me understand is that my life always has been, and already is, a system. There is a system in place. If you videoed my life for a week, even a couple days I think, you would see “Kevin’s System.” It exists. It’s already in place. I do it day in and day out and it produces what you would see as predictable results. So the idea is not to implement all these new, complex systems, but to recognize a system is already in place, and look to alter it for results I’d like to experience, better than what I have now. Ben Meer is a writer, speaker, and coach who Forbes refers to as “The Systems Guy”. He believes most people don’t need more inspiration; they need better life infrastructure. His weekly newsletter, System Sunday, reaches more than 250,000 subscribers, and his ideas on productivity and systems thinking have built a social media following of over two million. Ben got his MBA from Cornell University while advising Fortune 500 companies at Ernst & Young, he realized that the same systems driving business growth could make everyday life easier. I invited Ben on because I felt he was pretty down to earth and grounded in his approach. He wasn’t promoting some militant, super disciplined charge for us to again, just be slaves to a some overall factory setting of systems. The point is to be ourselves. To be human. To enjoy life. And to let some overall system settings help us find what we want. HIs new book that you’ll hear me referencing is How to Be Good at Life: Simple Systems to Achieve More and Stress Less. To connect more with Ben go to benmeer.com/newsletter Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 10 分
  • Revisiting A Candid Moment During My Dad’s Death - In Memory of 48 Days’ Dan Miller

    Revisiting A Candid Moment During My Dad’s Death - In Memory of 48 Days’ Dan Miller
    2026/11/08
    Four days ago we published my conversation with RamDev Dale Borglum who leads the Living/Dying Project, and we discussed how dealing better with fear of death, frees us up to live more fully, now. I’m taking the opportunity to bring back a podcast from nearly three years ago. I recorded the following monologue from my Dad’s office, while he lay in a hospice bed on the other side of the wall, dying. This was my first and so far only experience with death of a loved one. My brother Jared and I had joined my father in Las Vegas to see U2 in the Sphere. He was feeling a bit off and on returning home, went for a checkup. And they found advanced pancreatic cancer. He chose not to fight it and six weeks later, I was by his bedside when he took his last, shuddering breath. So this was a 30 minute talk through some of my thoughts and feelings as my Dad, Dan Miller, of 48 Days To The Work & Life You Love fame, ended his mortal time here on earth. I hope you find value. You can still connect with Dan’s work at 48days.com. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 分
  • How To Keep a Fear of Dying From Diminishing Our Joy In The Life We Are Living Right Now w/ RamDev Dale Borglum

    How To Keep a Fear of Dying From Diminishing Our Joy In The Life We Are Living Right Now w/ RamDev Dale Borglum
    2026/11/02
    This is not an episode, focused on death. As my guest will say, the point is right here and right now and our life in this moment. But he is showing how much we limit right now with the fear of death. If that sounds basic, I implore you to stay tuned in. I don't go around feeling that I fear death. I'm someone who I perceive considers the concept more than most, and yet after this conversation, I have a different understanding of how I can have more hope and freedom in the now by having a better concept of death. My guest is RamDev Dale Borglum. Dale's new book has been in the works for a long time, How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear. Dale is the executive director of the Living/Dying Project and a pioneering figure in the conscious dying movement. He spent decades helping individuals face death — and life — with greater awareness and has collaborated with leaders in the field including Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. He says he draws on his background as a mathematician, meditation teacher, lover of God, and devoted practitioner of both Eastern and Western healing traditions. I experienced Dale as down to earth with a practical and accessible map to the healing. I really like this line from him, which you’ll soon hear, "What you want is not Hope for the future but fullness in this moment". Visit him online at livingdying.org Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 3 分
  • How Attuned Our We To The People & World Around Us w/ Collective Trauma Expert Thomas Hübl

    How Attuned Our We To The People & World Around Us w/ Collective Trauma Expert Thomas Hübl
    2026/10/30
    Thomas Hübl is an Austrian teacher and author known for his work in the field of collective trauma. He’s known for integrating the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. He wrote a book, Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World. I’d heard of Thomas and really wanted to get into his perspective on attunement. He told me something that I’ll never forget, and that I’ve helped myself continually with. You’ll hear it in this episode. He said, “Kevin, when you walk into nature, you are not just seeing nature. You are then, nature yourself. You are there and you are part of nature.” The concept was around how we tend to see ourselves as separate from…everything. Even my title of this episode is actually a misnomer. I labeled it, “How Attuned Our We To The People & World Around Us.” Thomas makes the case that the people and world isn’t around me. We are all together. In a sense, one. My interest is in the concept of attunement. Am I walking around feeling separate from all around me? Or am I tuning in to the energy of everyone and everything around me, that I’m integrated with? This is much of our discussion. You can connect with Thomas at thomashuebl.com Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 20 分
  • Building The Capacity To Just Be With Yourself w/ Consciousness Teacher Peter Russell

    Building The Capacity To Just Be With Yourself w/ Consciousness Teacher Peter Russell
    2026/10/26
    Most people I think have had the experience of no electricity for a while. I remember it back before cell phones, so when the electricity was out, everything was literally out. You were all of the sudden transported back to 1900 before most homes had electricity. Everything was just…quiet. Quiet. Like everything just slowed down to a…stop. I hope you had that experience so you can relate. Think about your daily life today and how long it may have been since that feeling. But what if you could have it? Every day? This is the opportunity I feel we have with meditation. Or if that word doesn’t thrill you, just a full-stop from everything. Just you and you alone with no input. No sound. No stimulation or input. Just you. Even if just for a minute. My guest to talk about this is renowned consciousness teacher Peter Russell. He has 11 books, but his recent, short book is called, How to Meditate Without Even Trying. Peter has been teacher of meditation for more than fifty years and believes the critical challenge of today is freeing human thinking from the limited beliefs and attitudes that lie behind many of our problems — personal, social, and global. He has inspired thousands through his talks, teachings, retreats, and popular online courses. I took the opportunity to talk about more than even meditation, but our cultural distance from just being able to be with ourselves. With no input. Just sitting and being. What are we missing? What could we benefit from? That’s our talk. Find Peter at www.peterrussell.com. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 7 分
  • How To Be Happy Without Changing Anything w/ Arthur Brooks

    How To Be Happy Without Changing Anything w/ Arthur Brooks
    2026/10/23
    In our culture today I feel the pursuit of happiness has become the pursuit of…more. The pursuit of something we don’t have that we must need. It’s become an external pursuit. And it doesn’t seem to ever end. I’ve not met anyone who finally, one day, got a big win and then said, “Boom. There it is. I’ve finally been chasing it all my life, I finally got it, and now, I’m happy. Done.” My guest has become possibly the most well known purveyor of happiness. Arthur Brooks. Arthur has been a professor at Harvard and now teaches at Vanderbilt University. His How To Build A Life column at the Atlantic was wildly followed and he now writes for the Free Press with a new column, The Pursuit of Happiness with Arthur Brooks. He has many bestselling books, such as Strength to Strength which is a book I’ve recommended to scores of people. Following is my second time having Arthur on my podcast, and this time it’s in regard to a book he wrote with Oprah Winfrey, Build The Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. In it, he and Oprah guide us in finding happiness, where we are now. They discuss the tools of emotional self-management and how they can change your life―immediately. It’s not about being in a state of “happy” at all times, and how we don’t really even value that. It’s about a foundational set point of happiness that supersedes our circumstances. You can connect with Arthur at arthurbrooks.com Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 26 分
  • Nourishing Your Nervous System w/ Vitalists Jared Angaza & Ty Clark

    Nourishing Your Nervous System w/ Vitalists Jared Angaza & Ty Clark
    2026/10/19
    Research increasingly shows how much of our daily, lived experience is shaped by our nervous system. As a society, we seem to be living with dysregulated nervous systems, and it is taking a heavy toll on our overall well-being. We hear a lot about meditation, breathwork, exercise, cold plunges, time in nature, and much more, but we hear little to nothing about what we put into our mouths to help de-stress our systems. My guests, Jared Angaza and Ty Clark, call themselves vitalists. Their focus is on how we can become more vital and expand our capacity for a full and fulfilling life. They are pioneering wellness providers and entrepreneurs who have created an innovative nutritional supplement designed to nourish the nervous system. While they do have a product, our conversation centers on what actually goes into expanding our capacity. They maintain that being healthy is far more than simply not being physically or psychologically sick at the moment. I feel we got into some aspects of well-being that are sorely missing from the public conversation right now. We didn't go very deep into their product, a mushroom- and adaptogen-infused raw honey with 24 synergistic ingredients, but you can check it out at alvara.life. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 10 分
  • The Pros & Cons of Positive or Negative Change w/ Cognitive Scientist Maya Shankar

    The Pros & Cons of Positive or Negative Change w/ Cognitive Scientist Maya Shankar
    2026/10/16
    Continuing with my series on what drives people from when my book, What Drives You came out, I bring you cognitive neuroscientist, Maya Shankar. She is also the host of a hugely popular podcast, A Slight Change of Plans, named Apple Podcast of the year in 2021. Maya actually founded the Behavioral Science Team at the White House, called “the Nudge Unit, which used insights from behavioral economics to write better public policy. Maya’s focus is around what happens to and in us, when change happens. Change we’ve pursued, and change that has fallen upon us. She shares about a girl who lost 100 lbs and realized she was no longer who she was, and who she liked, and she was disappointed at people’s new behavior to her just because she lost weight. And the health nut who got cancer and from it realized if he’d understood what dealing with cancer did for his mindset, he wouldn’t have feared it so much. This is a very candid discussion with Maya on the ins and outs of her own experiences with change and what happens to us when change happens. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    56 分