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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

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

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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Healing Back Pain

The Mind-Body Connection

A book by Dr. Sarno exploring the mind-body connection in relation to physical pain, particularly back pain, which Gabby was studying and considering teaching.

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I'm studying the work of Dr. Sarno. And yeah, he wrote How to Heal Back Pain and The Mind-Body Prescription and The Divided Mind.

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A book by Dr. Sarno exploring the mind-body connection in relation to physical pain, particularly back pain, which Gabby was studying and considering teaching.

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I'm studying the work of Dr. Sarno. And yeah, he wrote How to Heal Back Pain and The Mind-Body Prescription and The Divided Mind.

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Deepak Chopra M.D.

Metahuman

Unleashing Your Infinite Potential

Deepak Chopra's new book, 'Metahuman' was discussed in detail towards the end of the podcast, and Jay Shetty indicated that he'd love to do another interview to delve further into it in the future.

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His book Metahuman is coming out in October. We will do another interview for that book because I believe there's so much to dive into.

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Deepak Chopra's new book, 'Metahuman' was discussed in detail towards the end of the podcast, and Jay Shetty indicated that he'd love to do another interview to delve further into it in the future.

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His book Metahuman is coming out in October. We will do another interview for that book because I believe there's so much to dive into.

So I highly recommend that reading before Metahuman when it comes out later this year.

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Lisa Genova

Still Alice

Kate Bosworth mentioned reading it and it had a great impact on her, especially due to her experience with grandparents who suffered from Alzheimer's and dementia. It was later adapted into a movie.

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I really love Still Alice. Um, and, and, and I, the way I got that role was because I ended up tweeting another great relationship through social media.

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Kate Bosworth mentioned reading it and it had a great impact on her, especially due to her experience with grandparents who suffered from Alzheimer's and dementia. It was later adapted into a movie.

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I really love Still Alice. Um, and, and, and I, the way I got that role was because I ended up tweeting another great relationship through social media.

I had grandparents who suffered from dementia and Alzheimer's, and it is a firsthand account of what it feels like to go through that experience as that person.

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Marianne Wiggins

Evidence of Things Unseen

A Novel

Kate Bosworth indicated she loved the character Opal in this book and felt it could be turned into a great movie. The title was particularly relevant to her, tying into the importance of things invisible to the eye, like love.

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Oh, there's a book as well called The Evidence of Things Unseen that is the female character's name is Opal.

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Kate Bosworth indicated she loved the character Opal in this book and felt it could be turned into a great movie. The title was particularly relevant to her, tying into the importance of things invisible to the eye, like love.

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Oh, there's a book as well called The Evidence of Things Unseen that is the female character's name is Opal.

And I think the idea of, I actually talk about this a lot, funny enough, the importance of The Evidence of Things Unseen, and it actually kind of ties into The Little Prince because obviously one of the most famous quotes is, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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Chana Weisberg

Expecting Miracles

Finding Meaning and Spirituality in Pregnancy Through Judaism

It was discussed as a source of spiritual insight during pregnancy, specifically regarding the impact of a mother's emotions and experiences on the developing child.

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I read a book when I was pregnant. It's amazing how many, how, how this, you should write a book about this because there's not a lot of books on it.

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It was discussed as a source of spiritual insight during pregnancy, specifically regarding the impact of a mother's emotions and experiences on the developing child.

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I read a book when I was pregnant. It's amazing how many, how, how this, you should write a book about this because there's not a lot of books on it.

Uh, cause I was looking for it, but I, I wanted to know when I was pregnant, I wanted to know what was spiritually happening. So there's so many books of like today he has fingernails, this week he, his brain is developing, eat a lot of salmon, this month this is happening.

And I was like, what is spiritually happening in my belly? And my friend Deepak, Deepak gave me his book and he said, read this book. And it was the spirituality and miracle of pregnancy.

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Rangan Chatterjee

The Stress Solution

The 4 Steps to a Calmer, Happier, Healthier You

It was discussed as a guide to reset your body, mind, relationships and purpose, with practical actionable tips and advice to reduce stress. It was recommended to help you find more meaning and purpose in your life.

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Rangan's new book is out. It's called The Stress Solution. The four steps to reset your body, mind, relationships and purpose.

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It was discussed as a guide to reset your body, mind, relationships and purpose, with practical actionable tips and advice to reduce stress. It was recommended to help you find more meaning and purpose in your life.

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Rangan's new book is out. It's called The Stress Solution. The four steps to reset your body, mind, relationships and purpose.

If you enjoyed the conversation, this was just the tip of the iceberg of all the wonderful insights, challenges and takeaways that are inside this book.

It's truly going to change your life. Go and grab a copy.

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Jeff Goins

You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)

It was mentioned as a book that helped Jay Shetty before he started writing his own book, implying it offered useful advice and guidance on the writing process.

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I remember before I started writing my book, I read a few awesome books that truly helped. And one was You Are a Writer by Jeff Goins, I believe his name is.

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It was mentioned as a book that helped Jay Shetty before he started writing his own book, implying it offered useful advice and guidance on the writing process.

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I remember before I started writing my book, I read a few awesome books that truly helped. And one was You Are a Writer by Jeff Goins, I believe his name is.

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Marc Randolph

That Will Never Work

The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

It was discussed throughout the podcast, with an emphasis on the idea that success comes from embracing challenges and pivoting rather than focusing solely on the initial idea. The book details the founding of Netflix and its journey.

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His new book, which he'll be talking about today, is called That Will Never Work. I love the title, The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.

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It was discussed throughout the podcast, with an emphasis on the idea that success comes from embracing challenges and pivoting rather than focusing solely on the initial idea. The book details the founding of Netflix and its journey.

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His new book, which he'll be talking about today, is called That Will Never Work. I love the title, The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.

And again, I'm learning so much just by this. This conversation is unbelievable so far. If you've been listening or watching right now, I really hope you're taking notes. Again, all of this conversation, you'll learn so much more by reading the book That Will Never Work, which we're discussing right now by Mark Randolph.

I genuinely believe that if you've got a big idea, you've got a small idea, no idea, this book's going to help you navigate the process of getting started and then navigate the process of actually making it happen.

And everyone who's been listening or watching back at home, you can get the book, That Will Never Work, The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Mark Randolph.

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Leatrice Eiseman

Pantone

The Twentieth Century in Color

It was mentioned humorously in the context of the speaker's colorful attire, referencing the comprehensive color guide within the Pantone book.

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If you're watching the visual, I'm wearing many colors, every color in the Pantone book, I swear.

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It was mentioned humorously in the context of the speaker's colorful attire, referencing the comprehensive color guide within the Pantone book.

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If you're watching the visual, I'm wearing many colors, every color in the Pantone book, I swear.

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Brian Grazer

A Curious Mind

The Secret to a Bigger Life

It was mentioned as one of Brian Grazer's works, a New York Times bestseller that he wrote. It was discussed briefly in the context of his career and achievements.

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Brian Grazer is an Academy Award winning producer, New York Times, a bestselling author of A Curious Mind, who's been making movies and television programs for more than 25 years.

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It was mentioned as one of Brian Grazer's works, a New York Times bestseller that he wrote. It was discussed briefly in the context of his career and achievements.

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Brian Grazer is an Academy Award winning producer, New York Times, a bestselling author of A Curious Mind, who's been making movies and television programs for more than 25 years.

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Kenneth Boa

Face to Face

Praying the Scriptures for Intimate Worship (Volume 1)

It was the main focus of the podcast, it is a book about human connection, specifically focused on the power of face to face conversations. It was recommended by Jay Shetty to listeners.

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Brian's new book, Face to Face, is what we're talking about today. It's the art of human connection, something I know is so important to every one of you.

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It was the main focus of the podcast, it is a book about human connection, specifically focused on the power of face to face conversations. It was recommended by Jay Shetty to listeners.

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Brian's new book, Face to Face, is what we're talking about today. It's the art of human connection, something I know is so important to every one of you.

I'd highly recommend that you go and get the book face to face, the art of human connection.

What I love about this book is there are lots of people in our lives that we may never get to have curious conversations with ourselves, but it's people like Brian who bring those curious conversations into our lives.

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Peter Pauper Press

The Book of Me, 2nd Edition (Autobiographical Journal)

Lala Anthony mentioned that her books were a form of therapy, allowing her to discuss previously unaddressed feelings and emotions, and that the honesty and authenticity resonated with readers.

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So I would definitely say the books. I learned that the books became like therapy for me.

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Lala Anthony mentioned that her books were a form of therapy, allowing her to discuss previously unaddressed feelings and emotions, and that the honesty and authenticity resonated with readers.

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So I would definitely say the books. I learned that the books became like therapy for me.

It became my own therapy session because I was able to just talk about feelings and emotions that maybe I had never talked about before, things that I had kept bottled in before.

And I felt like during the process of writing the book, it became very therapeutic to me.

It became like a therapy session and I wasn't afraid to share with the world.

And it worked. It worked. You know, people really seem to like the books.

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It was mentioned briefly, in passing, as one of the books written by Dr. Oz's wife, who is also a chef, and was a New York Times best seller.

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That was one of our, you know, one of the New York Times bestselling books was her book on food. I forgot that one.

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It was mentioned briefly, in passing, as one of the books written by Dr. Oz's wife, who is also a chef, and was a New York Times best seller.

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That was one of our, you know, one of the New York Times bestselling books was her book on food. I forgot that one.

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