Everyday Podcast

Recently, I have stopped listening to music in the car. It's been a change I do not regret doing. Yes, after work I do enjoy the bass of my car pumping out my favorite music. However, I find listening to podcasts much more relaxing and I feel that I learn something new every episode. Yet, there is still that pull to listen to some good gossip with "Out of the Pods" girlies Deepti and Natalie. That's just something to fill the time while doing a puzzle, but I found this podcast called "Everyday Better with Leah Smart" she finds the world's greatest minds from scientists to writers and she interviews them asking them what makes us better. This podcast is a way to better yourself to learn something new. Leah Smart is a journalist, podcaster and educator who explores the psychology of happiness and how to improve our lives and how to build greater potential in your career. I listen to this as I walk from my car to work, and I find that my day is much brighter and happier since doing this routine.

One of the more compelling episodes that I found was where Leah Smart had interviewed a global activist by the name of Lynne Twist. Twist talked about changing the definition to wealth, she spoke about how all people look for is "more of everything that they already have" this writer and activist has worked with the greatest minds in the universe including Mother Theresa and the Dalai Lama. Someone who has worked with such amazing people had really great things to say about abundance and wealth. "Rarely in our life is money a place of genuine freedom, joy, or clarity, yet we routinely allow it to dictate the terms of our lives and often to be the single most important factor in the decisions we make about work, love, family, and friendship." This is a well-known fact for us, but when it's put into terms like this it really makes us think about what is truly important in our lives.

Another episode that reacted positively with me was the interview and talk with Dr. Michael Gervais. Dr. Gervais has worked with many successful athletes and highly successful people around the world as a high-performance psychologist and he spoke about FOPO (fear of other people's opinions) this could be because I myself have anxiety about what other people think of me and I think this really helped me get out of the spiral when I am at work. This quote here:"100% of the time, you have the capacity to control you. Everything else is noise. Mastery is an inner-directed life externally expressed. When purpose is bigger than pain, purpose wins." I think he said something similar in the podcast, but basically, we have full capacity to change and control our own minds. Professional athletes become athletes even if people tell them that they should "get a real job" or that "you can't do it". Those athletes did not listen to the people bringing them down. He talks about how we need to select the people we listen to, the people that bring us up are the ones we can trust. The ones that celebrate the small wins are the people that you need in life. We need to ask ourselves "What are we afraid of?" and most of the time it's letting someone down. This episode really made me think about how I've let others affect me.

All of the episodes are meant to speak to a different audience, Leah Smart interviews people from NASA, psychologists, writers, NFL coaches, professors, engineers, CEO's there is something there for everyone. You might be struggling in your personal life trying to figure things out for yourself. Chances are this podcast will help you with something that you are going through and did not even know it, or you realize you can be better than you already are, you can grow more and that's exactly what this all about. This podcast is very positive, and it will put you in a better mood. Please see below for the podcast link:

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