Holly Swenson is a registered nurse, an award winning author, a wellness blogger, mother to four incredible sons, and a perpetual student of life. She's on a mission to raise the bar for parents and infuse more joy, intention, balance, and wellness into parenting and beyond.

Holly joins the show today to discuss her book, “Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow: Forming Deeper and More Joyful Connections with Yourself and Your Children.” She breaks down each easy-to-remember step: Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow. She also explains her “5 Rights of Parenting” based on her nurse training of “5 Rights of Medication Administration.”

Holly packs a lot of wisdom and practical advice into this episode. Even if you aren’t a parent, you’ll learn a lot about creating deeper, more joyful connections in your life.

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Activate your unique gifts and then share them with the world. I wrote “Stop, Drop, Grow, and Glow” to be of service to parents everywhere. And what I found is that in being of service to others, it has really changed my life from the ground up. And, you know, for me, one of my gifts is promoting wellness and intentional living for parents and children alike and, you know, becoming an author has open doors that never would have opened had I not been brave enough to put pen to paper, you know? And so I think to share with your listeners that, you know, The world needs more people to turn on their individual light and to live their truth in a way that makes a difference for humanity. And that's your gift. They're going to vary. Everyone has different gifts. And so, you know, don't blindly follow in the footsteps of others, but be brave enough to leave your own mark. You know, I think that we can change the world one person at a time. And I believe the biggest way to start making an impact is to activate your own wellness and your own internal knowing and then start sharing your heartfelt wisdom with others.

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Resources:

• Read “Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow: Forming Deeper and More Joyful Connections with Yourself and Your Children”
• Learn more at liveyourglow.live
• Follow Holly Swenson on Instagram: @HollySwenson_LiveYourGlow

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Have you ever noticed how some people are great storytellers and some aren’t? Matthew Dicks joins the show today to explain how storytelling is a skill anyone can learn and improve upon. He also shares his newest book with us, “Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand.”

Matthew is an international best-selling novelist, comic book writer, and humor columnist. He is a 61-time Moth StorySLAM winner and acts as a consultant for major businesses to help them tell their stories.

He shares the secret sauce with us: Figure out what the story is, pick an excellent beginning, focus on actions and thoughts, and know when to stop talking. Above all, lean into the listener’s imagination.

And yes, he tells us some good stories during the episode. Don’t miss it!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

I think the most important thing is that people see stories as big sort of momentous occasions in their lives. They watch movies and they see plane crashes and people jumping from building to building and bank robberies and epic romances. And I think what they fail to see is that tiny moments like the one I just described to you, where your son says something to you and it just reframes your thinking, I actually think those are the most important stories to tell. I'm a person who has died twice and been brought back to life via CPR both times. And those are not my favorite stories to tell. I would much rather tell you the story about Charlie reminding me that ice cream on a shirt is called childhood. Because I think those are the stories that relate to people the most, they're the stories people understand the most. And they're the ones that if we don't pay attention to and hold onto, it's like sand through our fingers. They just, they disappear forever. And then suddenly our son is 27 years old and we don't know where the time went. But if we recognize those moments, we hold onto them and we tell those stories, like the one I just told you, then they become permanent markers in the life of me and my son, Charlie. And suddenly it's not sand through my fingers anymore, but it's something I get to share with other human beings and remember myself. So be paying attention to the tiniest of moments because they can have the biggest meaning.

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Resources:

• Read “Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand” by Matthew Dix
• Listen to Episode 269. Making Someday Today with Matthew Dicks

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Rusty Rueff has built an incredibly successful career in tech, and today he invests in and advises startups. That is why it is no surprise that he thinks about life in tech terms, even spirituality. Rusty joins the show today to tell us about his new book, “The Faith Code: A Future-Proof Framework for a Life of Meaning and Impact.”

He explains that Biblical teachings can act as the source code on which you build your life. You and your circumstances might change– your apps may update– but your source code can continue to be your foundation for an intentional life.

Tune in to hear Rusty’s incredible career journey and his perspective on modern spiritual living.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

We pay a lot of attention in our jobs and the world around us on mind and body. Right? The corporations now for the last 45 years have helped us with our body. That's why we have corporate gyms and memberships. And all those things to take care of our body. And in the last 15 to 20 years, we've started to talk about our mind. You know, with mental health. And now you can, it's a wonderful thing. You can be expressive about your mental health that you couldn't when, you know, when I was going into the workplace. Which is fantastic. And now we have tools and things, enablers to help us. But what we haven't done is we're not paying enough attention to the spirit. And in a healthy life. In my estimation. It is an isosceles triangle. It is balanced. Mind, body, and spirit. So whatever and however you define spirit. Pursue it. Pursue it. It's the one thing actually in our lives that can get stronger while we age. Our minds will go. And our bodies will go. We can fight it. As much as we want to. But they will go. But our spirit can increase and increase and increase. And we may well be the strongest point in our spirit in the last days of our lives. So find it. Pursue it. And hold on to it. And life will be better.

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Resources:

• Read “The Faith Code: A Future-Proof Framework for a Life of Meaning and Impact”
• Learn more at RustyRueff.com

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Robert Brace has been an elite ballet dancer, a Harlem minister, and creator of the 28-day challenge for six pack abs. As you can imagine, he has deep insights into how physical, mental, and spiritual wellness are all connected. We are thrilled to have Robert on the show today.

Robert walks us through his incredible personal journey and how that has led him to create The Brace Life community. This wellness community guides people in improving their physical movement, spiritual fulfillment, and mental acuity. We talk about neurotransmitters, community, and “soul level qualities.”

There’s a reason Robert has been selected by VeryWell.com as one of the Top 100 Voices in Wellness. He is a force for good. Enjoy our conversation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The most important thing is remembering that the body as a temple. Yes, the outer shell and that can include your body, that can include what we achieve, the things we have and things we buy. But the most important thing is what's inside that temple, is the soul that is within every single person listening to this podcast. Within that soul, there is a spirit of goodness because people at some point in their lives has done something good for other people, some cause or whatever. There's a spirit of greatness because everybody has some gifts, some talent, something that they do better than anybody else, whether it's big or small. And there was a giving spirit within everybody, right? Uh, we've sacrificed at some point, we've given of ourselves to some point. And that goodness, that greatness and that giving spirit is what resides in your soul and whatever you do, you want that to be steamed by the world. Because if that's the place you're living from, you're happier, you're fulfilling your purpose, you're changing the world in a way that you were, that you're supposed to change the world, and you'll find whatever you need to do that gives you a life purpose, right? That goodness, that greatness, and that giving spirit. And so, do whatever you can in your life, whether it's taking care of your physicality, whether it's taking care of your environment, whether it's taking care of the career that you're in. to give yourself the opportunity for that goodness, that greatness, and that giving spirit to thrive. Because that's where you'll find your true purpose and your true happiness.

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Resources:

• Learn more at BraceLifeStudios.com
• Check out Robert’s online platform: TheBraceLife.com

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Dr. Joe Vitale has written 90 books. He’s made appearances on CNN, CNBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, Fox and Friends, Extra, etc. He’s one of the top 50 inspirational speakers in the world. He is known globally for his role in the movie, “The Secret.” But it wasn’t until his latest book, “Zero Limits Living,” that Dr. Joe Vitale put everything together.

We’re thrilled to have Dr. Joe Vitale as a guest on the show today. He’s here to explain how “Zero Limits Living” is a synthesis of all his work, combining everything that needs to be put in place for success. He organizes it into three pillars: mindset, inspired action, and mysticism.

How he describes each one may surprise you. So tune in and check out why Dr. Joe Vitale is considered the guru he that he is.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The message I really want people to get is that you are loved by this invisible spiritual force. You are loved by this invisible spiritual force, this cosmic consciousness, this infinite intelligence. And the more you can feel that and sense that, the happier you'll be, the more relaxed you'll be, the more in the flow you will be. the more life will work out in a co-created, moment-by-moment sense of the miraculous. You are loved.

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Resources:

• Read “Zero Limits Living: The Three Essential Pillars to Achieving All Your Life's Goals” by Dr. Joe Vitale
• All 90 of Dr. Joe Vitale’s books can be found here on Amazon
• Learn more at MrFire.com
• Follow Dr. Joe Vitale on Facebook
• Follow Dr. Joe Vitale on X
• Watch Dr. Joe Vitale’s videos on YouTube

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The methods we’ve traditionally used to tell if you have heart disease aren’t very accurate. Only 40% of people who have a heart attack experience any warning signs like chest pain of shortness of breath. Cholesterol levels, inflammation levels, diabetes status, blood pressure, etc. are only indirect markers– highly unreliable in identifying who has heart disease and who's at risk of a heart attack.

Our guest on the show today is here to tell us about a better way to identify heart disease and save lives. Dr. James Min is a board certified cardiologist and professor of radiology and medicine at Cornell. He’s also the founder of Cleerly, a company that provides 3D images of the coronary system so that doctors can see exactly what’s going on and what exactly a specific patient needs.

Dr. James Min is on a mission to create a world without heart attacks. What he has to say is fascinating.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Heart disease remains, is, was, and remains the number one public health epidemic in the world. There's somebody who suffers a heart attack in the US every 40 seconds. It's a preventable phenomenon. We have a heavy toolbox of tools. We just need to identify people at an early stage where we can get to them, treat them effectively and prevent all of these catastrophic events from occurring. It's a new paradigm, a new clinical paradigm, but I think it is the one that has been demonstrated in many other fields to be successful. And I think what we need to do is really introduce or transition our field into an era of precision heart care or personalized medicine. So easy to be proactive. It's harder to be reactive because an adverse event has already occurred.

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Resources:

• Find a Cleerly-integrated scan site near you
• Learn more at CleerlyHealth.com

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For most folks, confidence and Buddhism probably don’t really seem to have much to do with each other. But for Ethan Nichtern, who grew up in a modern Buddhist community in New York City and has been studying it his whole life, it makes complete sense. Ethan joins us today to tell us about his book, “Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds.”

Ethan explains what Buddhism’s eight world winds are: Pleasure and pain, praise and criticism, fame and infamy, success and failure. Holding your seat during these winds, or in other words, keeping your confidence, is achievable through practice.

The second half of Ethan’s book and the second half of our interview is focused on this practice. We dive into what mindfulness truly means and how it's the foundation of Ethan’s confidence-building techniques.

If you’ve ever struggled with confidence, and most of us have, check out this episode!

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The struggle with confidence is very human. It's universal. If somebody claims not to struggle with it I think they're probably lying at least a little bit. If we can view showing up and trusting ourselves as a practice rather than an outcome It will help tremendously.

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Resources:

• Learn more at EthanNichtern.com
• Check out Ethan’s yearlong program on Buddhist philosophy and psychology at DharmaMoon.com.
• Listen to Ethan’s podcast, “The Road Home”
• Read “Confidence: Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds”

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Joe Apfelbaum is the CEO of one of the fastest growing digital marketing agencies in the US, wrote five books in five years, and lost 100 pounds. There is nothing he can’t do. Today Joe joins us to tell us about his newest venture, evyAI,

evyAI is an AI assistant that drafts LinkedIn post responses, DMs, and more to help you save time making important networking connections. What used to take you 100 minutes, can now just take you 10. And most importantly, evyAI is personalized to reflect your voice.

As the author of High Energy Networking, Joe knows how vital it is to make meaningful connections. Take a listen to this episode and learn how you can utilize an AI strategy to build those connections today.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

The right strategy will save you a decade. Remember that energy without strategy is a waste of time. So if you want to grow your business, if you want to grow your life, if you want to be able to help other people and take your life to the next level, remember there's a strategy. Success leaves clues. There's a way to get to your goal by looking at somebody that's already done it, like Dr. Richard. And so follow their footsteps, listen to their podcasts, buy their books, get into their courses, join their communities, get more involved with people that have what you want and you're going to get their strategies, and you don't have to reinvent the wheel. You can literally do R&D– it's rip off and duplicate. You can literally just copy somebody else's strategy. Find the coach that has done what you wanna get to do and go out and just copy their strategy. When I tell somebody, hey, you know, I can help you with LinkedIn, just copy my strategy. Join my community and just copy my strategy. Do what I do.

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Resources:

• To join Joe’s community, text “community” to Joe’s AI at 973-841-8868
• To watch a demo video of evyAI, text “demo” to Joe’s AI at 973-841-8868
• Watch a free video on funnel strategy at AjaxUnion.com
• Read High Energy Networking

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