Bryan Reeves, relationship ninja, with 30 Million Readers has released his second book, Choose Her Every Day or (Leave Her), comes on the show to talk about relationships. We go over a few of the essays in his new book, which includes 7 years of articles from his experiences, to help you learn how to improve your relationships. In 2010, at age 36, while going through yet another agonizing breakup, Bryan had an epiphany: He knew nothing useful about how to do intimate relationship well. In that moment of painful realization he vowed to never suck at intimacy again. Thus began an extraordinary journey into the realms of love, sex, relationship. In summer 2015, with already legions of readers all over the world following his adventures, his essay “Choose Her Every Day (Or Leave Her)” went viral, exploding to over a million readers daily. This book (which includes that essay) is Bryan’s anthology of stories, insights, practical tools, and secrets (that should never be secrets!) to help guide you on your own journey to thriving in love and intimacy. His Mission: To Serve the World one Awakened Man, one Illuminated Woman, one Thriving Relationship at a Time.

Bryan Reeves: Choose Her Every Day or (Leave Her)

Kute joins us to discuss his newest book, The Magic of Surrender. Learn why surrendering brings more into your life, not less. Why surrendering can open doors, not close them. And how surrendering can bring about a life that you could never have believed possible. It is a topic that I love, practice, and have found essential to my growth!&nbsp;

Kute Blackson: The Magic of Surrender

Laura Coe is interviewed (yup that's me) on her story over the last 4 years on love, her new book series, and her latest passion, the Akashic Records. She shares her story through a reverse interview with good friend, Kevin Keiser on how she discovered a deep connection to spirituality, more authenticity, and more of what she loves!&nbsp;

Laura Coe: On Love, On Spirituality, and On Finding Deeper Purpose

Kevin Kaiser—a good friend—joins us on the show to talk about how to unlock, discover, and uncover your purpose. For 25 years, Kevin's worked with some of the world's top-leading perfomers—from New York Times bestselling authors to Grammy award winning musicians—and yet, despite their external success, he realized they all struggle internally. Now, using a blend of psychology, somatic practices, and rites of passage, he helps people deepen their relationship to themselves, and live their truest, most soul-infused lives. You can find him at kevinkaiser.co

Kevin Kaiser: Unlock Your Purpose

In this episode, Annmarie Chereso comes on the show to talk about taking out the fear in conscious parenting. For almost two decades Annmarie has taught and spoken at schools and universities, facilitated workshops and trainings for teachers and coached adults and young people. In 2015, she co-hosted Chicago’s first Conscious Parenting Summit featuring international speaker Dr. Shefali Tsabary and Conscious Leadership Group co-founder Jim Dethmer. In 2019, Annmarie published her first children’s book and is currently working on her newest book. You can find her at annmariechereso.me

Annemarie Chereso: Discovering Your Truth with Conscious Parenting

Josh Trent is the Founder of Wellness Force Media and host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast.  Josh has spent the past 19+ years as a trainer, researcher, and facilitator discovering the physical and emotional intelligence for humans to thrive in our modern world.  The Wellness Force Media Mission is to help humans heal mental, emotional and physical health through podcasts, programs, and a global community that believe in optimizing our potential to live life well.  After publishing over 400 high-level interviews with some of the most respected minds in the health, wellness, and self-help industries, Josh has been spotlighted in major wellness media outlets such as Onnit, Spartan, SEALFIT, and Paleo f(x).  Josh holds a C.E.S certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and is the creator of the BREATHE | Breath & Wellness Program.&nbsp;

Josh Trent: Discover Physical & Emotional Intelligence To Thrive In Our Modern World

In this episode, Rupert Spira, teacher, spiritual leader, and writer, teaches us about the nature of reality and the source of lasting peace and happiness. He explains the direct path and non-dual philosophy. As well as, elaborating on his latest book, You Are The Happiness You Seek.&nbsp; After spending twenty years immersed in the teachings of classical Advaita Vedanta, he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, who introduced him to the Direct Path approach whereby one may recognise the source of peace and happiness in oneself. Rupert has written several books and holds regular meetings and retreats online, as well as in Europe and the United States. He is also a noted potter, trained in the British Studio Pottery school, with work in public and private collections. www.rupertspira.com

Rupert Spira: You Are the Happiness You Seek

In this episode, Danielle LaPorte, best-selling author, joins us again to talk about; what love is, her path to mysticism, and balancing the experience of being genuinely happy alongside the fear and emotions of the world. In our conversation, everything comes back to love. Danielle LaPorte&nbsp;is the creator of the&nbsp;&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&nbsp;with 400+ leaders in 30 countries hosting conversation circles, retreats, and workshops in all kinds of communities and businesses. This most recent book, , is also an Audiobook + ebook, with a companion Journal. Danielle is also the author of&nbsp;The Fire Starter Sessions,&nbsp;White Hot Truth, and&nbsp;The Desire Map, and producer of dozens of meditation kits and online programs for spiritual support.

Danielle LaPorte: How to be Loving

An Authentic Goodbye, A Soulful Hello

Want to love what you do? This episode is for you!&nbsp;This episode is filled with so much honesty about how Natalie walked away from, not one but two high level degrees to follow her dreams. She explains how she just wanted to be that person who loved what she did and how she turned that dream into a reality.&nbsp;

Natalie Tessler: How to Love Your Job

Rachel Fiske: yoga teacher, tantric sex coach. What is an authentic sex life? How to talk to your partner about sex. How to work out issues that show up after years of marriage in the bedroom. All of this and more will be covered with Rachel in today's show.

Rachel Fiske: Tantric Sex and Authenticity

Do you struggle to get started? Are there too many options? Does fear get in the way? Starting can be the hardest part of a project. Check out this episode and get that plan your've always dreamed of underway.

How to Get Started

Aaron Anastasi is a So Cal native who&nbsp;graduated with a master’s from Princeton. He’s the founder of the internationally recognized,&nbsp;Superior Singing Method, an&nbsp;online singing program grossing 7-figures annually. Aaron is also a prominent life coach and just published his book, The Voice of Your Dreams, an Amazon Best Seller.

Aaron Anastasi: The Voice of Your Dreams

Several emails have recently come in asking if I offer coaching and the answer is, yes I do. Want help figuring out what success means to you? Or is answering the question, "what do I want?" really frustrating. Or do you have momentum, but the stress is kicking in and you need help with priorities, balance, or list management? That's what I help with. How to build a life that is successful and meaningful without all the stress! And the first call is free... hop over to lauracoe.com and contact me for a free session or click on the button at the bottom of the homepage and schedule a time. Here's that link http://www.meetme.so/LauraCoe This week will be best of interviews and next week we will resume our normal schedule with new content. Thanks for listening

Do I Offer Coaching?

Today on the podcast we have Tony Wrighton joining us. Tony is the host of the popular podcast, Zestology: Live with energy, vitality, and motivation. On his podcast, he interviews a wide range of experts in the field of health and personal development. Obviously, we have a lot in common given that the Art of Authenticity is all about how to live life with meaning and his passion is talking about energy, vitality, and motivation. Tony is a personal development author and presenter. He has published three books in 12 different languages and is one of the country's foremost experts on Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and if that wasn’t enough, Tony is also a popular presenter on Sky Sports in the&nbsp;UK, hosting several different sports including football, golf, basketball, hockey, and many more. In today’s chat with Tony, he shared with me an incredible trip he took, where he went to three or four different countries. On this trip, he stopped in at a place called 40 Years Zen, where he had the opportunity to attach probes to his mind and engage in meditation done on a scientific level. This gives you the benefits in a ramped up, incredible way inside a very short window. It sounds amazing and is really expensive, but Tony shares with us his experience and all the updates of his life. We dive into a lot of secret tips on vitality and energy, why Tony keeps a tracking log of all the things he does, how to increase energy and feel better, and how he manages to get a significant amount of work done in a day. There are a lot of incredible suggest of wisdom in this episode, so I hope you enjoy it! Be sure to also check out my interview and feature on Tony’s podcast,&nbsp;Zestology.

Tony Wrighton: Travel, Zen, and Productivity

Today on the podcast we have Suzanne Falter joining us. On this show, we have done a lot of episodes about people who have had success and have found a purpose in their life. That is really the main topic of the show. However, today we are going way over to the other extreme. This is a story of somebody who had a ton of success but found herself in one of those life crisis moments that we all deeply fear. After losing a relationship that she had been in for years, and recognizing her true sexuality, Suzanne made the choice to completely change her career. If all of that wasn’t enough for a single person to handle, in 2012 Suzanne also suffered the loss of her daughter, Teal. Although this sounds like a conversation that will be sad and overwhelming, this is really a story of inspiration and joy. Suzanne goes there in this interview as she takes us to the day her daughter died. She shares the whole story with so much recognition of what she has and how she took this difficult moment and turned it into a life-changing event. She completely turned her life in a different direction and for Suzanne, this became a deeply spiritual moment of connecting with her daughter. So tune in, and stay open. Suzanne is someone who I deeply respect and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to hear her story and to share it with all of you.

Suzanne Falter: A Heroic Story of Bravery and Faith

Today on the podcast we have Olivia Goldhill joining us. Olivia is a weekend writer for Quartz, with a focus on philosophy and psychology. Quartz is a digitally native news outlet, for business people in the new global economy. Quartz’s founding team includes veterans of some of the world’s highest-quality news organizations who have reported in 115 countries and speak 19 languages. Quartz publishes bracingly creative and intelligent journalism with a broad worldview, creating a really well rounded new site. It’s not just your average story and from there, I discovered Olivia. Olivia is a Harvard educated philosophy student and is interested in several subjects but one of them is authenticity, which is exactly what this podcast is all about. Olivia previously worked at The Daily Telegraph in the UK, first as part of their graduate scheme — which sent her to Media Wales and Press Association — then as a business reporter, and finally as a features writer. She reached out to me to come onto the show and we did more of a deep dive into authenticity from a philosophy as essentialism and what it means. Hope you like today’s show.

Olivia Goldhill: Existentialism and Authenticity

When I first read Pema Chodron, I couldn’t get past the first few chapters. Later, I realized: I was missing out on a genius. On this rebroadcast, I talk about Pema Chodron’s work, why you never really change, the nature of thoughts, and the life-changing insight that revolutionized my life (hint: it has something to do with the sky).

Pema Chodron: Why You Never Really Change, and How That’s a Good Thing (Rebroadcast)

Today we welcome publisher, writer, editor and author, Karen Rinaldi. Karen is the publisher of Harper Wave, an imprint she founded in 2012, and a senior vice president at Harper Collins Publishers. Harper Wave publishes broad based nonfictions from health and wellness, to lifestyle, to inspiration. While Karen has worked in the publishing industry for over two decades, this is her first time in the role of novelist. Her latest book, The End of Men, is something she worked on for over four years and inspired the story for the 2016 commercial film, Maggie’s Plan. Karen is one of those women who might appear to “have it all“ but is not afraid to tell you when she sucks at something. In fact, she encourages sucking at something. So much so, that The New York Times even published her article on why sucking at something is so great. Today we talk about Karen’s journey – learning to surf at 40, what it means to “have it all,“ the role of men, authenticity, agency and the liberation of what we have come to know today, as failure. Take a listen!

Karen Rinaldi: The End of Men

On today’s show we welcome Marcus Aurelius Anderson, Coach, Speaker and Author of The Gift of Adversity. While preparing to deploy with the U.S. Army, Marcus suffered a severe spinal injury that left him paralyzed from the neck down. His life was turned upside down, and after dying twice on the operating table, he was told he would never be able to walk or use his hands again. Days quickly turned into months, and he was forced into life changing soul searching. He discovered he was left with two choices, he could either be a victim, or he change his mindset. Having no other option, he began looking for any lessons to be learned from his injury, and soon discovered that his Adversity was a gift.

Marcus Aurelius Anderson: Gift of Adversity

Do you feel that communication breaks down in your relationships and you aren't certain why? Perhaps you have falled into the Death Gap. Listen in to hear how to close the gap, improve communication, and get back to enjoying the one you love.&nbsp;

Bryan Reeves: On Communication in Relationship, Avoid The Death Gap

Amy is a mother of three, a birth doula, a retreat leader, a yoga instructor at Yoga View in Chicago City, and has been practicing meditation since the ripe year of 1986.&nbsp;In this episode we discuss what meditation is, the benefits of meditation and what exactly happens to our mind when we do it. Amy explains the difference between the head brain and the heart brain and how meditation aims to strengthen the heart brain, which is growing progressively weaker with the demands of busy western life. Amy also shares one of her favorite mantra’s and invites us to try out one of her favorite simple meditations that you can start doing today.

Amy Owen: Why We Need To Listen To Our Heart Brain

In a few minutes a day, you can dramatically change you life. Learn how from one of Chicago's premier yoga teachers.&nbsp;

Amy Owen: How You Can Change Your Life Just By Changing Your Breath

Most of us want to live an authentic life. But while the idea feels appealing, the realities of finding such a life can be quite elusive. Tune in to hear Mike Bundrant discuss the VAK model and how it can help you practice living more authentically.&nbsp;

Mike Bundrant: A Model To Live More Authentically

On today’s show, we have Kate Swoboda joining us. In this episode, we are going to talk about courage, how to accept your fears, release the past, and live your most courageous life. A lot of people want to step forward and live a more authentic life, and Kate shares with us how courage plays a very large role in that experience. She lays it out in incredible detail, with a four-part process that she believes will help you step into the life that feels right for you. Kate has been featured in MindBodyGreen, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Forbes, and many other publications.&nbsp;

Kate Swoboda: The Courage Habit

Today on the show we are joined by Nadja Pinnavaia, founder of Euphebe Healthcare. She is here to talk to us about how we can really change our lives by the way we eat. Prior to founding Euphebe, Nadja was an undergraduate student in Chemistry from King’s London College. She gained her Ph.D in Quantum Chemistry from Saint Catherine’s College in Cambridge, and then went on to become managing director at Goldman Sachs. Nadja has certainly got the education, the background, and a ton of amazing accomplishments under her belt. However, because of a personal experience dealing with cancer in her family, Nadja decided to switch her focus to food; why it matters, why it can really change your life, and how it impacts our health and wellness.

The Other Side To Finding Peace

On the show today we are joined by Dr. Frankie Bashan, psychologist, matchmaker and relationship guru! She has over 20 years of experience working with couples and individuals and has managed to find her calling and passion in a life devoted to helping others to find love. Her company, Little Gay Book, serves the lesbian and bisexual community but you better believe that the ideas she shares on the show are applicable to everyone! Dr. Frankie is so honest and hilarious as she tells us about her early pull towards matchmaking and how she found her father a new partner when she was just 14-years-old! In our conversation we dive into online dating, setting up her business, balance, vulnerability and she offers a strong message about the powers of hope and love. For this beautiful and inspiring chat, be sure to join us!

Dr. Frankie Bashan: How to Find Authentic Love

Today we are so lucky and happy to have an old friend on the show, Cal Callahan! Cal is here to talk about his authentic life and the journey that he has been on. He has worked on Wall Street, coached and owned an athletic team, and left it all to explore spirituality. Cal will be the first to admit that he has been through trials and tribulations on his life’s path, but wouldn’t have it any other way. We speak a lot about following your truth and intuition and becoming a spiritual warrior in the fight for authenticity. He has such a beautiful story and his honesty and openness will simply blow you away.

Cal Callahan: Wall Street to Spiritual Warrior

Michelle Lederman has just released her new book The Connector’s Advantage: 7 Mindsets to Grow Your Influence and Impact. Named by Forbes as one of the 25 networking experts to watch. She’s a former NYU professor who has since made her mark as an accomplished speaker, trainer, coach and, of course, esteemed author. Her passion is really to help individuals and organizations build better relationships and achieve greater results through her company, Executive Essentials. Michelle has worked with an array of big-name organizations of all kinds, has been featured in The New York Times, and she’s here today to advise us on implementing the most important networking skills that she has learned over the years. Michelle shares with us what it means to be a connector, the different type of connectors, how we are to approach our networks and the mindsets that are required to become better at relationships on all levels. This thought-provoking conversation is guaranteed to pique your interest, so don’t miss out on this one!

Michelle Tillis Lederman: The Connector's Advantage

Today we have a really special show in store for you! We welcome relationship coach Silvy Khoucasian to share her expertise and personal work with relationships and couple's therapy. Silvy has her masters degree in psychology and is particularly interested and specializes in attachment and boundaries and how codependency arises in relationships. She helps clients to show up and stay authentic with their partners, a balance that most people will find to be a constant challenge, even with the best intentions.&nbsp;

Silvy Khoucasian: Love with Integrity

DR. MARGARET PAUL&nbsp;is a bestselling author, popular MindBodyGreen writer and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding®&nbsp;self-healing process, and the related SelfQuest®&nbsp;self-healing online program -&nbsp;recommended by author Marci Shimoff, actress Lindsay Wagner and singer Alanis Morissette. Margaret has worked with thousands of people to help them heal through her inner bonding system, and she has even appeared on Oprah. I have practiced the inner bonding system and found it to be a game-changer in my life. If you struggle with quieting those internal dialogs, repeating patterns that don't result in the life you wish for, or find you have a lot of anxieties or depression that therapy and other modalities haven't solved then check out this episode.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Dr. Margaret Paul, PhD: Empower Yourself To Heal Within

Marci Shimoff&nbsp;is a #1&nbsp;NY&nbsp;Times&nbsp;bestselling author,&nbsp;a&nbsp;world-renowned transformational teacher, and an expert on happiness,&nbsp;success&nbsp;and unconditional love.&nbsp;Her&nbsp;NY Times&nbsp;bestselling books&nbsp;Happy for No Reason,&nbsp;Love for No Reason&nbsp;and six titles in the&nbsp;Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul&nbsp;series&nbsp;have sold more than 16&nbsp;million copies and are translated in 33 languages.&nbsp;&nbsp;She’s&nbsp;also&nbsp;a featured teacher in&nbsp;The Secret&nbsp;and narrator of the award-winning movie,&nbsp;Happy.&nbsp;&nbsp;She currently co-leads a global online program called Your Year of Miracles to help people live more miraculous lives.&nbsp;

Marci Shimoff: Love and Happiness for No Reason

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