Episodes

Have you ever taken note that both wanting and desire are two powerful occupants of your mind and body that prevent you from enjoying the present moment you are in now? Lets make sense of the power in detaching from WANT and DESIRE in search of...

One from the vault of the earlier Rise Up With Dragon Show. This short 5 minute episode exposes the secret to my Rise Up Great Morning Routine in capturing the sensitive and prescious moment when we wake up and move from unconscious to conscious and...

Have you ever heard of Post Traumatic Success? How did we come to a place where there is such a powerful stigma attached to mental health and men? In this episode we Make Sense of Men's Mental Health and the Post Traumatic Stress associated with being...

When it comes to calling your own shots and changing the way you look at things, how much say do you have? Well that will depend on your ability to allow yourself to be open and curious to all possibilities vs. tethered to your pre programmed mind....

So grateful for the opportunity to spend time deep diving with the Nightingale of empowering humans to greatness in Mindset and Financial success. This podcast is available on both Spotify and Apple. Sharon Lechter is the Co-Author of the...

What do Yoga, Meditation, Spirituality and Technology have in common? Lets Make Sense of Yoga and technology with best selling author of the Simulation Hypothesis, Simulation Multivers and his newest book Wisdom of a Yogi, Rizwan Virk. This Podcast...

What do we do when it appears that everything is falling apart? Lets make sense of our relationship with things and how we've been taught to gauge whether they are going well and happening in favor of our dreams and desires vs. falling apart and...

Dr. Russell Fulmer is an Associate Director at the Counseling Program at the prestigious Northwestern University. He has research interests in Artificial Intelligence and Psycho-dynamic Theory. He lived in the Caribbean for 5 years where he had a...

Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest in Dallas Clounch "THE AI SURFER". In this episode we will be Making Sense of Artificial Intelliegence and what it means for humanity?  Our guest...

We were all born to BE who we were meant to be. So we go on a run towards that person. Somewhere along the way we got the idea that we were supposed to become someone and something else other than ourselves. Lets Makes Sense of the difference between...

Are you feeling the curious calling to learn more about or experience working with plant medicine? Have you been researching Psilocybin or Ayahuasca and wondering what they are and if they are right for you? DISCLAIMER: I in no way shape or form make...

Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest in Jodi Wellman. In this episode we will be Making Sense of Mortality and whether death is your friend or foe?  Our guest is none other than Jodi...

Lets make sense of this whole Manifestation thing. Ever since the book the Secret Came out, the world bought into the idea that you can manifest everythig you desire by focusing and AFFIRMING your desires into existence. If this were all there was to...

In this episode of RISE UP WITH DRAGON, we have a very special interview in my opinion one of the most intelligent and intreaguing speakers and educators of our time. Professor Donald Hoffman, Author of A Case Against Reality and cognitive...

I JUST NEED TO GET OUT OF MY OWN WAY? Sound familiar? What does it mean to be in your own way and why are you insistent on being there? We've all been programmed to believe we need to grow into someone different than we are. All the while failing to...

Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest Karen Conti. In this episode we will be Making Sense of The Death Penalty as well as the idea of defending someone that the world perceives as a...

In this episode of RISE UP WITH DRAGON, we have a very special interview with a man that is impacting the world and teaching us all a Time tested system to LEARN. Imagine if you could learn how to read faster, retain and remember things at a much...

Welcome to another episode of the Makes Sense Podcast with Dr. JC Doornick and a very special guest. Making Sense of Optimal Health with Dr. Steven Geanopolus. What a great conversation about a topic that proves to be mostly confusing and for the most...

Welcome to One from the Vault Thursdays, where the Makes Sense Podcast Pulls the most classic Rise Up With Dragon podcast episodes from the past.   INDISTRACTABLE: Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for...

Observe the three words. Interface - Response - System? Steps one through three have been acknowledging the Interface between you and the things you come across in life.  Now armed and aware of your unconscious and automatic response system we...

The goal is to change the way we look at things, so that the things we look at can begin to change. Welcome to Stpe Three of the Interface Response System - ASSESS - In this episode we learn how to execute on this arduous task of assessing the scene...

Moving right along. Welcome to  STEP TWO of the 4 step Interface Response System called PAUSE. This powerful tool teaches us how to place our often problematic, knee jerk perception and response on a temporary pause in order to allow ourselves to...

I am very excited to present to you STEP ONE of the 4 step Interface Response System called PERCEPTION. This crucial step unveils the very reason we’d validate working on our perception and responses in acknowledging the vast capabilities your brain...

Welcome to the MAKES SENSE podcast, where we apply the science, art and philosophy of sense making to the things that make you go Hmmm? Those most pressing thoughts and discussions going on in our minds today. The Makes Sense Podcast is an expense...