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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: Heal Every Relationship by Rewiring Your Brain & Nervous System cover

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

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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Cheryl Isaacs

The Unfinished

Priyanka's memoir, 'Unfinished', was discussed at length, with anecdotes and reflections about her life, career and journey, and was mentioned to be available on February 9th.

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Today's guest is the one and only Priyanka Chopra. And today we're talking about her new memoir, Unfinished.

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Priyanka's memoir, 'Unfinished', was discussed at length, with anecdotes and reflections about her life, career and journey, and was mentioned to be available on February 9th.

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Today's guest is the one and only Priyanka Chopra. And today we're talking about her new memoir, Unfinished.

Her Bollywood superstardom began when she won Miss World 2000 and she hasn't slowed down since. From starting her own production company and now having so many successful hit movies and TV shows in the US and of course most recently, marrying her beloved Nick Jonas, Priyanka's story is remarkable to say the least and you can pick up her book Unfinished on February 9th.

I'm hoping that people maybe get to know me a little bit more than a fashion meme or a headline or something like that.

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Aravind Adiga

The White Tiger

A Novel

Priyanka was moved by the story and its themes of the haves and have-nots, and actively pursued being part of the adaptation after reading it.

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If it resonates with me like if I read something and I'm moved by like The White Tiger for example I'd read the book and it really like there you know some books you just remember alw...

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Priyanka was moved by the story and its themes of the haves and have-nots, and actively pursued being part of the adaptation after reading it.

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If it resonates with me like if I read something and I'm moved by like The White Tiger for example I'd read the book and it really like there you know some books you just remember always because they were such a vivid journey and The White Tiger was one of those for me it was such a vivid journey and um I when I read that it was being adapted I chased it I went after it and I was like I need to be I need to do this I need to be a part of it because it moved me it was a story that I feel like needs to be told is topical it's entertaining um you know it's it's based on a universal theme of the haves and the have-nots you know that exist everywhere so I think like that I feel is my purpose to be able to be moved by the things that I choose to align with

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow

The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

The book's author was mentioned as an expert on peak performance and flow states, with the podcast host highlighting a concept that flow begets flow - the more frequently you experience flow in one area, the more likely you are to experience it in others. A practice of finding an activity that brings flow, and engaging in it at least 30 minutes a week, was recommended.

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Stephen Kotler is a peak performance expert and the author of several bestselling books.

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Episode: 4 Seasons of Life We All Live Through & 4 Practice...

The book's author was mentioned as an expert on peak performance and flow states, with the podcast host highlighting a concept that flow begets flow - the more frequently you experience flow in one area, the more likely you are to experience it in others. A practice of finding an activity that brings flow, and engaging in it at least 30 minutes a week, was recommended.

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Stephen Kotler is a peak performance expert and the author of several bestselling books.

Kotler says that Flow begets Flow, meaning that the more often you experience Flow states in one area, the more often you can experience them in other areas.

So the practice to train yourself to experience more Flow is to find one area where you experience Flow easily.

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others Cover

Daniel H. Pink

To Sell Is Human

The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

It was mentioned as one of Daniel Pink's books, but there was no further discussion of the book in the podcast.

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...as well as the number one New York Times bestsellers Drive, which was actually the first book that I read from him, and To Sell Is Human.

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It was mentioned as one of Daniel Pink's books, but there was no further discussion of the book in the podcast.

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...as well as the number one New York Times bestsellers Drive, which was actually the first book that I read from him, and To Sell Is Human.

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Daniel H. Pink

A Whole New Mind

Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

It was briefly mentioned as one of Daniel Pink's books, but no further discussion or details about it were given.

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...His books include the long time running New York Times bestseller, When, which we'll be dissecting today, A Whole New Mind...

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It was briefly mentioned as one of Daniel Pink's books, but no further discussion or details about it were given.

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...His books include the long time running New York Times bestseller, When, which we'll be dissecting today, A Whole New Mind...

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Eli J Finkel

The All-or-Nothing Marriage

How the Best Marriages Work

It was recommended by Daniel Pink as a resource for understanding the social psychology of marriage, covering healthy marriages and how marriage has changed in America over time.

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He wrote a very good book called The All or Nothing Marriage about how marriage has changed - a lot of what we know about healthy marriages and also how marriage has changed in America over the last 2...

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It was recommended by Daniel Pink as a resource for understanding the social psychology of marriage, covering healthy marriages and how marriage has changed in America over time.

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He wrote a very good book called The All or Nothing Marriage about how marriage has changed - a lot of what we know about healthy marriages and also how marriage has changed in America over the last 200 years.

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Peter H. Diamandis

The Future Is Faster Than You Think

How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives (Exponential Technology Series)

The book was discussed as a way to understand the future and how rapidly technology is changing various industries, with the author suggesting a more positive and proactive approach to embracing the future instead of fearing it.

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How do you want to shape your mind?

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The book was discussed as a way to understand the future and how rapidly technology is changing various industries, with the author suggesting a more positive and proactive approach to embracing the future instead of fearing it.

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How do you want to shape your mind?

Today we're talking about his new book, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries and Our Lives.

it does a damn good job at outlining what's expectable in computation sensors, networks, AI, robotics, 3d printing, synthetic biology, augmented virtual reality, blockchain, and the implications that those technologies will have on the industries we live in the retail health education, finance, insurance, you know, uh, name all the real estate.

It is an exponential and abundance mindset.

So whether you want to understand an industry that you currently work in an industry that you're fascinated about an industry, you know, nothing about, it's important to know what's happening in the future.

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Eric Schmidt

How Google Works

The book was briefly mentioned during a discussion about the future of work, with Eric Schmidt's prediction that everyone should become a data analyst as the world becomes increasingly data-driven.

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I remember I went to a talk that was organized by the financial times and it was Eric Schmidt. Uh, anyway, so it was about the book How Google Works and the book was fantastic. One of...

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The book was briefly mentioned during a discussion about the future of work, with Eric Schmidt's prediction that everyone should become a data analyst as the world becomes increasingly data-driven.

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I remember I went to a talk that was organized by the financial times and it was Eric Schmidt. Uh, anyway, so it was about the book How Google Works and the book was fantastic. One of my favorites also,

Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement Cover

Rich Karlgaard

Late Bloomers

The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement

It was discussed in relation to the pressure to achieve early in life and how it can be detrimental. The book's author is the publisher of Forbes Magazine.

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If you're feeling pressure to hurry up and find your passion or to find the one thing that drives you and to double down on it as fast as possible, you're not alone.

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It was discussed in relation to the pressure to achieve early in life and how it can be detrimental. The book's author is the publisher of Forbes Magazine.

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If you're feeling pressure to hurry up and find your passion or to find the one thing that drives you and to double down on it as fast as possible, you're not alone.

And sometimes this pressure has tragic consequences.

As Cargard writes in Late Bloomers, Now this date is from six or seven years ago and that means that a number of you were adolescents then. Even if you're a bit older, I bet those figures don't exactly surprise you.

The pressure to find that one thing you're great at and to do it fast is something most of us feel.

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EMILY WALKER

SILENCING YOUR INNER CRITICS

Silencing the Negativity

Jhen Aiko received this book from a friend during a period of stress and anxiety. It helped her to understand that she is the observer of her thoughts and not the thoughts themselves.

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She got me this book called... I think I remember the name of the book. Silencing Your Inner Critic.

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Jhen Aiko received this book from a friend during a period of stress and anxiety. It helped her to understand that she is the observer of her thoughts and not the thoughts themselves.

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She got me this book called... I think I remember the name of the book. Silencing Your Inner Critic.

Because she was doing my makeup at the time and she would see me so stressed before shows or after shows and I would be like, how was it? Like, oh, I felt like...

You know, I would just be so frustrated. And we never talked about it. She just gave me that book.

So I'm like, oh, okay. You see that I'm dealing with something right now.

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Rasha

Oneness

It was described as a book that profoundly impacted Willow's perspective on the connection between music and vibration, leading her to explore string theory and physics more deeply.

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I had been reading a lot of spiritual literature. I had been reading a lot of Osho. I read this one book called Oneness by Rasha, I think, or Rama. But it's called Oneness

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It was described as a book that profoundly impacted Willow's perspective on the connection between music and vibration, leading her to explore string theory and physics more deeply.

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I had been reading a lot of spiritual literature. I had been reading a lot of Osho. I read this one book called Oneness by Rasha, I think, or Rama. But it's called Oneness. And that book changed my life forever.

The Omni Diet: The Revolutionary 70% PLANT + 30% PROTEIN Program to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, Fight Inflammation, and Change Your Life Forever Cover

Tana Amen BSN RN

The Omni Diet

The Revolutionary 70% PLANT + 30% PROTEIN Program to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, Fight Inflammation, and Change Your Life Forever

It was mentioned briefly as Tana Amen's previous work and a New York Times best-selling book, highlighting her expertise in wellness.

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His wife, Tana Amen, is a world renowned wellness expert and New York Times bestselling author of The Omni Diet.

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It was mentioned briefly as Tana Amen's previous work and a New York Times best-selling book, highlighting her expertise in wellness.

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His wife, Tana Amen, is a world renowned wellness expert and New York Times bestselling author of The Omni Diet.

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