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On Purpose with Jay Shetty

I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen...

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9 Months That Count Forever: How Your Pregnancy Diet Shapes Your Baby's Future cover

9 Months That Count Forever

Jessie Inchauspe

Mentioned 4 months ago

Jessie Inchauspé: 90% of Pregnant People Are Missing THIS Nutrient (Follow THIS Simple Diet To Reduce Glucose Spikes & Protect Your Baby’s Brain & Metabolism)

The host highlighted the book as a new resource that explains how pregnancy nutrition shapes a child's lifelong health, and listeners were urged to preorder it for practical guidance.

Jessie's new book, Nine Months That Count Forever: How Your Pregnancy Diet Shapes Your Baby's Future, releasing March 17th. If you haven't already ordered it, make sure you get it right now as you're listening to this conversation.

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Messy Conversations

La’Shondra Johnson

Mentioned 5 months ago

Stop Trying to “Win” An Argument With Your Partner! (THIS Shift Will Turn Conflict into Communication)

Jay Shetty discussed his Audible original "Messy Love", describing it as a collection of relationship lessons and reallife couple sessions that teach how to handle difficult conversations and build emotional safety.

Welcome back to On Purpose. Today we're talking about messy love, difficult conversations for deeper connection.

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The New Attachment Theory

Thais Gibson

Mentioned 5 months ago

Relationship Expert Thais Gibson: Do You Keep Attracting The Same Emotionally Unavailable Partner? (Use THIS Attachment Reset To Break The Cycle And Choose Better Partners)

It was cited as Thais Gibson's book that explains how to heal relationships by rewiring the brain and nervous system.

In Thais' book, The New Attachment Theory, heal every relationship by rewiring your brain and nervous system.

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8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go cover

8 Rules of Love

Jay Shetty

Mentioned 5 months ago

Relationship Expert Thais Gibson: Do You Keep Attracting The Same Emotionally Unavailable Partner? (Use THIS Attachment Reset To Break The Cycle And Choose Better Partners)

It was mentioned as Thais Gibson's second book that draws on Eastern teachings to outline relationship principles.

When I wrote my second book, Eight Rules of Love, it was all based on the Eastern teachings, which is every stage of life is called an ashram.

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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence cover

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

Mentioned 5 months ago

Michael Pollan: The Hidden Cost Of Constant Distraction (Use THIS Practice To Reclaim Your Attention, Clarity, And Inner Freedom)

The speaker mentioned that he missed interviewing Michael Pollan previously because this book, which the speaker loved, came out in 2018. Pollan discussed how psychedelics, which he explored for this book, smudge the windshield of our consciousness.

On Purpose launched in 2019 and his book that I loved came out in 2018. I'm speaking about the one, the only Michael Pollan, an award-winning journalist, best-selling author known for reshaping how we think about food, nature, and how we experience the world around us.

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A World Appears

Michael Pollan

Mentioned 5 months ago

Michael Pollan: The Hidden Cost Of Constant Distraction (Use THIS Practice To Reclaim Your Attention, Clarity, And Inner Freedom)

This new book by Michael Pollan explored consciousness, examining how perception, awareness, and attention shape the reality we inhabit. The author admitted to starting the book with questions rather than answers, framing the work as a quest where he learned alongside the reader.

In his new book, A World Appears, he explores consciousness, how perception, awareness, and attention shape the reality we live in.

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The Other Side of Change

Maya Shankar

Mentioned 5 months ago

Maya Shankar: Does Change Make You Feel Lost Or Uncertain? (Use THIS Framework To Find Direction Again and Use Change to Upgrade Your Life!)

Jay and Maya discussed Maya's newly released book, highlighting its focus on how unexpected change can reshape identity and offering practical insights drawn from research and personal stories.

And so the fact that you've all come out here tonight to support her and hopefully get her book or you've already got it. How many of you have already got the book?

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MANY LIVES, MANY MASTERS - 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - With a New Afterword by the Author cover

MANY LIVES, MANY MASTERS - 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - With a New Afterword by the Author

Brian Weiss

Mentioned 5 months ago

John Edward: Stop Trying to “Move On” After Loss (Use THIS Daily Practice to Make Peace Without the Answers)

Jay Shetty referenced Dr. Brian Weiss's Many Lives, Many Masters as an influential work on pastlife regression.

Dr. Brian Weiss, when you look at Many Lives, Many Masters and all of his materials, he was very influential for me, you know, at that point in my life because I needed to know.

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Chasing Evil

Robert Hilland

Mentioned 5 months ago

John Edward: Stop Trying to “Move On” After Loss (Use THIS Daily Practice to Make Peace Without the Answers)

John Edward explained that the book chronicled thirty years of his work assisting a retired FBI agent, blending crime cases with his mediumship experiences.

So Chasing Evil is the 30-year culmination of me assisting an FBI agent now retired on his case work. And he, like multiple other people, did not believe in the subject matter, except he took it to another level.

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The Afterlife Experiments

Gary E. R. Schwartz

Mentioned 5 months ago

John Edward: Stop Trying to “Move On” After Loss (Use THIS Daily Practice to Make Peace Without the Answers)

John Edward described how the data from scientific studies on his abilities were compiled into a book titled The Afterlife Experiments.

And then he compiled all that data and it ruled out that body language, verbal inclination to all, like all of the things that the quote unquote cynics would say we're doing, they were able to establish no, we're not. And here's the data. That book was written. It's called the afterlife experiments.

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Old Souls

Thomas Shroder

Mentioned 5 months ago

John Edward: Stop Trying to “Move On” After Loss (Use THIS Daily Practice to Make Peace Without the Answers)

Jay Shetty noted that Ian Stevenson's Old Souls was a scientific exploration of reincarnation that influenced their discussion.

Ian Stevenson's book, Old Souls, was always a beautiful scientific exploration of it, I felt.

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Infinite Quest

John Edward

Mentioned 5 months ago

John Edward: Stop Trying to “Move On” After Loss (Use THIS Daily Practice to Make Peace Without the Answers)

John Edward mentioned he has a book called The Infinite Quest that is available on his Evolve Plus platform.

I have a book called The Infinite Quest. And that book is on a platform that I created called Evolve Plus TV.

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Claudio Saunt

Unworthy Republic

The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

Jada Pinkett Smith wrote her new book, "Worthy," as a way of healing from her past experiences. She speaks candidly about her childhood growing up with a teenage mom who struggled with addiction, her feelings of being unlovable, and her journey to Hollywood, including her friendship with Tupac Shakur. She also goes into detail about the challenges of her marriage with Will Smith, including the 2022 Oscars incident.

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Jada, if Jada doesn't want to write a book, she doesn't have to write a book.

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Jada Pinkett Smith wrote her new book, "Worthy," as a way of healing from her past experiences. She speaks candidly about her childhood growing up with a teenage mom who struggled with addiction, her feelings of being unlovable, and her journey to Hollywood, including her friendship with Tupac Shakur. She also goes into detail about the challenges of her marriage with Will Smith, including the 2022 Oscars incident.

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Jada, if Jada doesn't want to write a book, she doesn't have to write a book.

I said, because I'd been pushing back for a long time and you talking to me about it. And that moment I was like, OK, I need you to take that home and I need you to think about it because J's your brother.

And it was really that moment that put me on pause. And a couple of days later, I was in meditation and it came to me.

And I said, oh my goodness, my journey from unlovable to lovable is a worthy story to tell.

You want out of the pain and you cannot imagine your only way out is death. You think in your mind you've tried everything and you're like, it's all I got.

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon) Cover

Austin Kleon

Show Your Work!

10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)

This book is recommended to anyone who struggles with showing their work. It discusses the idea of self-promotion versus idea promotion.

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Yes.

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This book is recommended to anyone who struggles with showing their work. It discusses the idea of self-promotion versus idea promotion.

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Yes.

And I really like it. And I recommend that to anyone who's struggling with showing their work because it's exactly, and I love the way you've differentiated been self-promotion and idea promotion.

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know Cover

Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers

What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

It was discussed in detail, particularly regarding the concept of strangers and how our assumptions and biases can cause us to misinterpret their behavior and intentions.

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I wanted to dive into your incredible book, Talking to Strangers, that we'll be putting a link to available for everyone to grab as well.

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It was discussed in detail, particularly regarding the concept of strangers and how our assumptions and biases can cause us to misinterpret their behavior and intentions.

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I wanted to dive into your incredible book, Talking to Strangers, that we'll be putting a link to available for everyone to grab as well.

And I'm going to dive straight in here. But I've heard you say that when you visit the Lincoln Monument, you're always moved to tears. And I wanted to know why is that?

I wanted to ask you to start with, because it's called Talking to Strangers. How do you define or how can people define who a stranger is in their life?

What are those things that we then are? What are like the biggest pitfalls in our assumptions and biases when we're first meeting a stranger? Where is it that we naturally go wrong?

I wanted to dive into Talking to Strangers, because what I find fascinating is you wrote this book before everything happened. And it almost... When I say everything happened, I mean everything that's happened in 2020.

Relax and Win Cover

Bud Winter

Relax and Win

It was published in 1981 and includes several proven relaxation techniques, including deep breathing and body scan exercises, like the military sleep method, which claims to help you fall asleep within two minutes.

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First appearing in Bud Winter's 1981 book, Relax and Win Championship Performance, the military method combines several proven relaxation techniques like the deep breathing and body s...

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It was published in 1981 and includes several proven relaxation techniques, including deep breathing and body scan exercises, like the military sleep method, which claims to help you fall asleep within two minutes.

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First appearing in Bud Winter's 1981 book, Relax and Win Championship Performance, the military method combines several proven relaxation techniques like the deep breathing and body scan exercise in case you want to check out more.

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Alicia Keys

More Myself A Journey

Alicia Keys's book, "More Myself", was discussed extensively as a journey of self-discovery and healing, with a focus on learning to say no and reconnecting with one's authentic self.

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And today we're going to be speaking about her book, More Myself. And trust me, I've been going through the pages of this book and it is without a doubt a work of art.

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Alicia Keys's book, "More Myself", was discussed extensively as a journey of self-discovery and healing, with a focus on learning to say no and reconnecting with one's authentic self.

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And today we're going to be speaking about her book, More Myself. And trust me, I've been going through the pages of this book and it is without a doubt a work of art.

It's not a memoir. It's not just an autobiography. It was really a experience for me as I was reading it. I really felt like I was there with you and I felt so connected to you in the vulnerability and the intimacy of the book.

At the time I wouldn't have described it that way nor did I truly understand that there was a flow with my name on it but from this side of life I can see how every moment every experience every pivot even my supposed missteps have been life's way of getting me where I have always been meant to go rather than resisting the current I've learned to surrender.

In life we don't get what we ask for we get what we believe.

Please please please please go and grab a copy of this book.

Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet Cover

Jesse Itzler

Living with a SEAL

31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

Jesse Itzler's book was mentioned as an example of someone who uses a tradition called 'closing the books' to reflect and set intentions for the new year, during the holidays.

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Jesse Itzler wrote the books Living with a SEAL, that's Navy seal, not the sea animal and Living With The Monks.

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Jesse Itzler's book was mentioned as an example of someone who uses a tradition called 'closing the books' to reflect and set intentions for the new year, during the holidays.

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Jesse Itzler wrote the books Living with a SEAL, that's Navy seal, not the sea animal and Living With The Monks.

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Jesse Itzler

Living with the Monks

What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus

Jesse Itzler's book was mentioned in relation to the 'closing the books' tradition, where he reflects on the past year and sets intentions for the future during the holidays.

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Jesse Itzler wrote the books Living With A Seal, that's Navy seal, not the sea animal and Living with the Monks. I'm of course partial to that one.

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Jesse Itzler's book was mentioned in relation to the 'closing the books' tradition, where he reflects on the past year and sets intentions for the future during the holidays.

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Jesse Itzler wrote the books Living With A Seal, that's Navy seal, not the sea animal and Living with the Monks. I'm of course partial to that one.

A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food Cover

Will Harris

A Bold Return to Giving a Damn

One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food

It was briefly mentioned as another book that explores historical patterns, specifically focusing on how different generations influence history.

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They also wrote a book called Generations. It's about 550 pages of Anglo-American history and it shows how each generation affects it.

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It was briefly mentioned as another book that explores historical patterns, specifically focusing on how different generations influence history.

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They also wrote a book called Generations. It's about 550 pages of Anglo-American history and it shows how each generation affects it.

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Charles Duhigg

Smarter Faster Better

The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

It was mentioned as being about productivity, specifically relating to how our environment influences decision-making. One of the key takeaways was that we need to build habits to slow down and think more deeply about the choices we're making.

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He wrote The Power of Habit and Smarter, Faster, Better, which talk about productivity, habits, and the science behind it.

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It was mentioned as being about productivity, specifically relating to how our environment influences decision-making. One of the key takeaways was that we need to build habits to slow down and think more deeply about the choices we're making.

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He wrote The Power of Habit and Smarter, Faster, Better, which talk about productivity, habits, and the science behind it.

one big question is how do we build the habits that force us to slow down and think more deeply about the choices we're making when thinking deeply is hardest

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Jamie Kern Lima

Worthy

How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life

It was described as a playbook on how to believe in yourself, packed with over 20 tools to help build self-worth. Jamie said that the book is about unlearning the lies that lead to self-doubt and igniting the truths that wake up worthiness.

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How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life.

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It was described as a playbook on how to believe in yourself, packed with over 20 tools to help build self-worth. Jamie said that the book is about unlearning the lies that lead to self-doubt and igniting the truths that wake up worthiness.

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How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life.

How do you believe in you?

For the 80% of women who don't believe they're enough, the 75% of female executives who deal with imposter syndrome and the 91% of girls and women who don't love their bodies.

When you believe you're fundamentally not enough and unWorthy as a person, it's a lie. The time to unlearn that lie has come. Together, let's leave no girl, no woman, no person left behind in knowing they are Worthy.

It's all about the power and the data behind it, um, oh my gosh, about how so often the things that we think are wrong or odd or quirky or off or different or strange or, or wrong about us are actually the things that are most right about us.

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Oprah Winfrey

What Happened to You?

Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Oprah and Dr. Perry co-authored this book, exploring the idea that 'what happened to you' is a more beneficial question than 'what's wrong with you' when understanding trauma and its impact on individuals.

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We talk about how they are redefining childhood trauma, why experiences at a young age mold our adult life, and finding rhythm and balance to start healing yourself.

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Oprah and Dr. Perry co-authored this book, exploring the idea that 'what happened to you' is a more beneficial question than 'what's wrong with you' when understanding trauma and its impact on individuals.

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We talk about how they are redefining childhood trauma, why experiences at a young age mold our adult life, and finding rhythm and balance to start healing yourself.

Why is it so important to make this switch from us thinking what is wrong with you to What Happened to You?

So I want to ask you both this first question to start with is, why is it so important to make this switch from us thinking what is wrong with you to What Happened to You?

And so I will just say this. One of the things that Bruce says in the book, each of us comes into the world with our own worldview.

And that worldview is actually shaped from the crib.

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Robert Greene

The 33 Strategies of War

It was mentioned in passing as the book where the author wrote about Mahatma Gandhi and his strategic use of civil disobedience.

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And I read very deeply about Gandhi, and I wrote about him in my third book, The Strategies of War.

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It was mentioned in passing as the book where the author wrote about Mahatma Gandhi and his strategic use of civil disobedience.

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And I read very deeply about Gandhi, and I wrote about him in my third book, The Strategies of War.

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Ryan Holiday

Discipline Is Destiny

The Power of Self-Control (The Stoic Virtues Series)

It was mentioned as Ryan Holiday's new book and was said to be available at the time of the podcast.

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Ryan's books, like his new one, Discipline Is Destiny, which is available right now.

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It was mentioned as Ryan Holiday's new book and was said to be available at the time of the podcast.

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Ryan's books, like his new one, Discipline Is Destiny, which is available right now.

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