Self-Improvement Episodes

“There's a difference between breathing and living. Everybody will breathe, but not everybody will live. Everybody will exist, but not everybody will live.” – Dr. Kevin Foreman

“The body will not allow you to feel something, even if it's positive, if it doesn't feel safe. It's a pure biological, instinctive response. It’s the body's job to keep you safe, and if something feels like a threat, it's going to divert your behavior, and we're going to do something to sabotage i…

“Everything that's difficult that happens in our lives, especially in relationships, is showing us to ourselves. It's showing us where we have some healing to do or something to work out or fear to overcome.” – Thais Gibson

“Don't make your work your identity.” – Jacob Karnes

“Beauty truly does come from within…and a glow can't be purchased.” – Liane Marie Lambert

“At the same time in which, he kind of like crushed my dream a little bit. He gave me permission to dream a new one, a different one, which in the end, looking back five, six years later, I appreciate.” – Regina Linke

“Even if it doesn't mean anything to you, it means something to the person that you're writing for, and it means something to the person who's reading the story.” – Dr. Rhonda M. Lawson

“It just takes a different mindset and a different approach and a different way of saying yes to yourself…I learned to say yes to myself and say, give it a chance. See what happens.” – Heike Yates

“I also want my kids to see that if you have something inside of you and you want to tell the story, tell the story...I like to write, and if something pops up, I'm going to tell the story because I'm going to do my very best to not die with any story inside of me.” – Dr. Charles Thomas Jr.

“When we don't do the inner work as leaders, then we tend to lead from a place of fear and control and ego, as opposed to a place of compassion and love and shared purpose.” – Jane Marie Chen

“If you have a very empty but very conscious mind…then anything can happen in that mind.” – Stan Lai, PhD.

“I'm not afraid of the beast. I am the beast.” – Bria Rose

“One of the really most valuable things you learn is that people are capable of a lot more than they often think they are.” – Commander William C. Spears

“Living is a progressive art.” – Dr. Candy Campbell

"There's no better way than to call your own bullshit, then to write your own story through the hardest and messiest parts of your life. Because as time passes, and as hindsight tends to be, you can finally see yourself clearly.” – Becca Eve Young

“Talking is so critical in healing and maintaining memories. There were things I knew about my mom, but we really didn't do it on a regular basis, and a lot of those memories were lost.” – Julie Corn

“When you hit rock bottom, and you really hit rock bottom, you look around and you kind of take account and you go, all right, why am I here? How do I get out of here? When you're down there and you're alone, it leaves an impression. And so, when I got myself out of it, I just decided I never wante…

"Don't let fear rule your life, let possibility and curiosity drive you." – Kathryn Henry

“Life is short, and I spent 11 years of my life doing something that I found interesting, like software development and project management. And this is all wonderful and interesting, but there is an opportunity cost to that. These are 11 years that I didn't write my books, and I don't want that to …

“I don't know if it's time, but what I do know is I know where the road to nowhere goes, and it goes to nowhere. And I want to take the road to somewhere. Somewhere has road signs like, you can do this, you accomplish this, you're going to feel good about yourself.” – Mike Burkhard

“If you don't care about that reader, if that's not the main focus, the rest doesn't matter.” – Troy Horne

“There’s something really beautiful about sharing your stories with people, because universally we're all connected through love and pain.” – Kelli Kassoff

“We are transformed more through our trials than our triumphs.” – Wendy Gunn

"Keep having conversations that drive people to more and better." – Bridget Hom