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You can change your life and Mel Robbins will show you how. The Mel Robbins Podcast is the #1 podcast on the globe for a reason: Mel’s simple, research-backed advice has changed millions of people’s lives, and in every episode, she’s giving you all her hard-fought secrets, science-backed tools, and...

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The Secret Life of Secrets: How Our Inner Worlds Shape Well-Being, Relationships, and Who We Are Cover

Michael Slepian

The Secret Life of Secrets

How Our Inner Worlds Shape Well-Being, Relationships, and Who We Are

Dr. Slepian was inspired to write this book after a personal secret was revealed to him, which was that his father was not his biological father. This secret was kept from him and his brother, and he was surprised to learn this was a secret they planned on never telling them.

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You were inspired to write your book, The Secret Life of Secrets, because of a secret in your own life. Tell us that story.

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Dr. Slepian was inspired to write this book after a personal secret was revealed to him, which was that his father was not his biological father. This secret was kept from him and his brother, and he was surprised to learn this was a secret they planned on never telling them.

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You were inspired to write your book, The Secret Life of Secrets, because of a secret in your own life. Tell us that story.

Yeah. So this story takes place 10 years ago, and I was presenting this new research on secrecy as part of a job interview at Columbia.

And then he called again. And I thought, oh no, something bad has happened. There must be like a death in the family or something.

And he says, Michael, I need to tell you something. Maybe you could sit down for this.

I'm calling to tell you that I'm not biologically able to have children.

Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life (The Dr. Mark Hyman Library, 11) Cover

Dr. Mark Hyman MD

Young Forever

The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life (The Dr. Mark Hyman Library, 11)

It was described as explaining how to activate the body's healing systems and how to radically reverse biological age and health problems. The book discusses the science-backed steps to slow down the aging process and even reverse disease.

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In my new book, Young Forever, I explain how to do this.

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It was described as explaining how to activate the body's healing systems and how to radically reverse biological age and health problems. The book discusses the science-backed steps to slow down the aging process and even reverse disease.

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In my new book, Young Forever, I explain how to do this.

In my book Young Forever, I talk about how, for example, if we cured heart disease and cancer from the face of the planet, we'd extend our life by five to seven years.

And that's what my book Young Forever is focused on. How do we activate our healing systems?

In Young Forever, I have a whole series of quizzes that aren't fancy tests. They're literally just questions you answer and you get a score.

And in the longevity space I've been working in, and when I wrote about A Young Forever where these scientists are now talking about what's underlying all these diseases, these 155,000 diseases.

This Is Why You Dream: What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life Cover

Rahul Jandial MD PhD

This Is Why You Dream

What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life

The host noted that it was Dr. Jandial's most recent NewYorkTimes bestseller and later read a passage from its introduction about how dreams can solve problems and foster selfknowledge.

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He is the author of 10 bestselling books and over 100 academic articles on surgery, neuroscience, and cancer biology, including his most recent New York Times bestselling book, This Is Why You...

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The host noted that it was Dr. Jandial's most recent NewYorkTimes bestseller and later read a passage from its introduction about how dreams can solve problems and foster selfknowledge.

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He is the author of 10 bestselling books and over 100 academic articles on surgery, neuroscience, and cancer biology, including his most recent New York Times bestselling book, This Is Why You Dream.

I want to read to you from your bestselling book, This Is Why You Dream. And this is from the introduction. Today, the word dream means many things... Dreams can help you solve a problem, learn a musical instrument, a language, or a dance move.

You write about this on page 128 in This Is Why You Dream. To lucid dream is to enter a paradox that seems more mystical than real, a dual consciousness that straddles the vivid ideological dreamscape and the insight that you, the dreamer, are both the creator and an actor inside this imagined dream world.

Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology - Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook Cover

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department

The Anthology - Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook

It was mentioned that Taylor Swift's album, "The Tortured Poets Department", contained 16 songs and three bonus tracks, and that she later released a surprise anthology with songs 17-31, totaling 34 songs in two years.

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The latest album she released, The Tortured Poets Department, came with 16 songs and three bonus tracks.

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It was mentioned that Taylor Swift's album, "The Tortured Poets Department", contained 16 songs and three bonus tracks, and that she later released a surprise anthology with songs 17-31, totaling 34 songs in two years.

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The latest album she released, The Tortured Poets Department, came with 16 songs and three bonus tracks.

But she wasn't done there. Boom, she dropped a surprise anthology containing songs 17 through 31.

Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose Cover

Martha Beck

Beyond Anxiety

Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose

She described it as her new seventh instant NewYork Times bestselling book about flipping the anxiety spiral and tapping creativity.

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Well, that is the topic of your new seventh instant New York Times bestselling book, Beyond Anxiety.

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She described it as her new seventh instant NewYork Times bestselling book about flipping the anxiety spiral and tapping creativity.

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Well, that is the topic of your new seventh instant New York Times bestselling book, Beyond Anxiety.

what you write about in your book, Beyond Anxiety, which is asking yourself, what can I create?

Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire Cover

Lori A. Brotto

Better Sex Through Mindfulness

How Women Can Cultivate Desire

It was mentioned as another book that might be useful for improving sexual experiences and mindfulness around sex.

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and Better Sex Through Mindfulness by Dr. Lori Brado.

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It was mentioned as another book that might be useful for improving sexual experiences and mindfulness around sex.

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and Better Sex Through Mindfulness by Dr. Lori Brado.

Dr. Vonda Wright's Guide to Thrive: 4 Steps to Body, Brains, and Bliss Cover

Vonda Wright

Dr. Vonda Wright's Guide to Thrive

4 Steps to Body, Brains, and Bliss

Guide to Thrive was mentioned as another of the bestselling books authored by Dr. Wright.

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She's also written five bestselling books, including Fitness After 40, Younger in Eight Weeks, Guide to Thrive and the upcoming book Unbreakable.

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Guide to Thrive was mentioned as another of the bestselling books authored by Dr. Wright.

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She's also written five bestselling books, including Fitness After 40, Younger in Eight Weeks, Guide to Thrive and the upcoming book Unbreakable.

Fitness After 40: Your Strong Body at 40, 50, 60, and Beyond Cover

Vonda Wright

Fitness After 40

Your Strong Body at 40, 50, 60, and Beyond

Dr. Vonda Wright was noted as the author of the bestseller Fitness After 40, which was highlighted as one of her five bestselling books.

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She's also written five bestselling books, including Fitness After 40, Younger in Eight Weeks, Guide to Thrive and the upcoming book Unbreakable.

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Dr. Vonda Wright was noted as the author of the bestseller Fitness After 40, which was highlighted as one of her five bestselling books.

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She's also written five bestselling books, including Fitness After 40, Younger in Eight Weeks, Guide to Thrive and the upcoming book Unbreakable.

Sex Talks: The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life Cover

Vanessa Marin

Sex Talks

The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life

The host highlighted the book as a New York Times bestseller that offers five key conversations to transform listeners' love lives.

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She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life.

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The host highlighted the book as a New York Times bestseller that offers five key conversations to transform listeners' love lives.

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She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life.

The card deck is based off of our New York Times bestselling book, Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life.

Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance Cover

Kelly McDaniel

Mother Hunger

How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

The book introduced the term "mother hunger" and described how unmet childhood needs for nurturing, protection and guidance can manifest as anxiety, peoplepleasing, perfectionism and addiction in adulthood.

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She's also the bestselling author of the book Mother Hunger, which has given a name to a very common issue that thousands of her patients have faced.

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The book introduced the term "mother hunger" and described how unmet childhood needs for nurturing, protection and guidance can manifest as anxiety, peoplepleasing, perfectionism and addiction in adulthood.

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She's also the bestselling author of the book Mother Hunger, which has given a name to a very common issue that thousands of her patients have faced.

One of the things that I love in your bestselling book, Mother Hunger, is that in the introduction, you tell readers that as you're learning about Mother Hunger, which is this kind of quiet grief that you feel because you have a big mismatch with the way that you were mothered, you invite readers to really look at the topic of Mother Hunger through the lens of being a daughter.

If you have a friend that's reading the book with you, or start a book group. Start a book group with your friends so that everybody reads it, everybody underlines what they want to talk about, and you bring it in.

You write about in the book how addiction can become a replacement for your mom.

We've seen people wake up and say no I can't do this anymore, and then on the flip side some have said this marriage that I thought was so broken really isn't. I just need to quit expecting this partner of mine to be my mother. So relationships get better, food gets easier, addiction and cravings get a little smaller.

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood Cover

Gregg Olsen

If You Tell

A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

Unbreakable was referenced as an upcoming title among Dr. Wright's five bestselling books.

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She's also written five bestselling books, including Fitness After 40, Younger in Eight Weeks, Guide to Thrive and the upcoming book Unbreakable.

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Unbreakable was referenced as an upcoming title among Dr. Wright's five bestselling books.

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She's also written five bestselling books, including Fitness After 40, Younger in Eight Weeks, Guide to Thrive and the upcoming book Unbreakable.

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Cover

Shonda Rhimes

Year of Yes

How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

Shonda's NewYorkTimes bestseller about saying yes to fear was highlighted as a lifechanging guide, and Mel urged listeners to buy and read it.

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She has also written a New York Times bestselling book called Year of Yes.

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Shonda's NewYorkTimes bestseller about saying yes to fear was highlighted as a lifechanging guide, and Mel urged listeners to buy and read it.

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She has also written a New York Times bestselling book called Year of Yes.

You know, I tore through your book. I want you to go out and buy this book. It is absolutely fabulous. It is going to be absolutely everywhere.

The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships Cover

Harriet Goldhor Lerner

The Dance of Anger

A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

The podcast host discussed Harriet Lerner's research on overfunctioning and underfunctioning as responses to stress, highlighting how these patterns impact relationships. The host used Lerner's concepts to analyze her own stress response and that of her husband.

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Harriet Lerner has this phrase that I love because again, we want you to get out of the trap where you do this on automatic.

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The podcast host discussed Harriet Lerner's research on overfunctioning and underfunctioning as responses to stress, highlighting how these patterns impact relationships. The host used Lerner's concepts to analyze her own stress response and that of her husband.

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Harriet Lerner has this phrase that I love because again, we want you to get out of the trap where you do this on automatic.

Under and over-functioning, these are terms that she first coined as a way to describe the way people respond to stress and how it impacts their ability to function in those situations.

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Charles Dowd

Funky Primer for the Rock Drummer

The speaker discussed The Rock as a source of inspiration, admiring his kindness, humility, and diverse business ventures.

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The Rock is a North Star for me, and I'll explain more as we jump into this.

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The speaker discussed The Rock as a source of inspiration, admiring his kindness, humility, and diverse business ventures.

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The Rock is a North Star for me, and I'll explain more as we jump into this.

It's The Rock. Who doesn't love The Rock?

It is so clear that he's such a great guy. It is so clear that he is a person that's out there for the everyday person. It's so clear that he's so generous and humble and kind.

And I also admire him in that he's got such diverse businesses. It seems like anything he's interested in, he's like, whoop, pivot, energy drink. Whoop, pivot, we're doing shoes. Whoop, pivot, we're launching the XL NFL League. Whoop, pivot, I'm going to do this superhero movie. Whoop, pivot, I'm going to go do this thing.

The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today Cover

Lewis Howes

The Greatness Mindset

Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today

It is a playbook based on what Lewis Howes learned after 10 years of interviewing many people in sports, business, and entertainment; it teaches how to discover your unique gifts and talents and how to do the work to heal.

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His brand new book, The Greatness Mindset, teaches you how to discover your own unique gifts and talents, but more importantly, how to do the work to heal.

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It is a playbook based on what Lewis Howes learned after 10 years of interviewing many people in sports, business, and entertainment; it teaches how to discover your unique gifts and talents and how to do the work to heal.

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His brand new book, The Greatness Mindset, teaches you how to discover your own unique gifts and talents, but more importantly, how to do the work to heal.

I felt like all I could do during those dark days was flip through TV reruns and infomercials with the remote as I felt my chance at greatness, not just slipping away, but sprinting as fast as it could go.

I didn't know what to think, how to feel or how to process my own emotions. And on top of that, I hadn't even finished college at the time. I was financially, physically, emotionally, and spiritually broken.

I wondered what to do next. And from my perspective, I was now very much alone, but I knew this couldn't be how the story of my life went. I knew there had to be more to my story.

There had to be greatness inside of me, but I didn't know where or how to get started. Yet deep down, I knew I would eventually figure it all out.

The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast (The Dr. Mark Hyman Library, 3) Cover

Mark Hyman M.D.

The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet

Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast (The Dr. Mark Hyman Library, 3)

The book was described as a resource used to help patients reset autoimmune disease, reset the gut, turn off inflammation, and get rid of various health issues like asthma, migraines, and depression.

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I've written a book called The 10 Day Detox Diet, which is really what I used in my patients to help reset autoimmune disease, reset the gut, turn off inflammation, get rid of asthma, migraine, whatev...

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The book was described as a resource used to help patients reset autoimmune disease, reset the gut, turn off inflammation, and get rid of various health issues like asthma, migraines, and depression.

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I've written a book called The 10 Day Detox Diet, which is really what I used in my patients to help reset autoimmune disease, reset the gut, turn off inflammation, get rid of asthma, migraine, whatever it is that people are suffering from depression.

The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First - The Simple Way to Defeat Depression, Overcome Anxiety, and Sharpen Your Mind Cover

Mark Hyman

The UltraMind Solution

Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First - The Simple Way to Defeat Depression, Overcome Anxiety, and Sharpen Your Mind

This book's subtitle was mentioned as "how to fix your broken brain by fixing your body first." The book discusses the gut-brain connection and the microbiome.

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The Ultra Mind Solution is a book-

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This book's subtitle was mentioned as "how to fix your broken brain by fixing your body first." The book discusses the gut-brain connection and the microbiome.

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The Ultra Mind Solution is a book-

And the subtitle of The UltraMind Solution is how to fix your broken brain by fixing your body first.

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