Decide to Transform

Yes, that's right. The theme of this episode is chill, calmness, relaxation, and being a chilled-out human. Fun!

I offer this short episode in response to a frequent question. It goes like this: "Dude, how are you so chill? I mean seriously, how is it that you're so relaxed?"

The very first thing I can say is that, well, I just am. Now, how can you be more relaxed in your life, and what are the benefits to you if you are? That's th...

When we think of healing in the world, we tend to think of the physical body, the curing of illness, the mending of a broken bone. This indeed constitutes healing. Today on the show, I invite you to ponder another, more expansive definition.

Healing is of the mind. The physical body may or may not follow (though it typically does.) 

How do we heal the mind? By allowing it to be healed, by accepting healing for ourselves. In truth w...

Spirituality is universal. It applies to everybody.

It also applies equally to everybody, that is maximally. Spirituality is always on; it never switches off, even if we seem to. We could run off and hide for as long as we wish, but the universal never goes anywhere. That is why it's known as "universal."

Please join me for this message of accessibility and inclusivity. There is no one excluded from these discussions, no matter wha...

What are miracles?

Great question. Of all the many topics of world spirituality, this always rises to the top of any list of the most attractive. But what are they, actually?

We think of examples like people being cured of a supposedly incurable disease. We also think of levitation, bending spoons, or if we're Star Wars fans, Yoda or Luke Skywalker moving boulders with just the power of their own thought. 

The truth is that miracle...

What is nonduality?

What isn't it?

Both are perfect questions, and neither can be answered in words. Nonduality is beyond all symbols and concepts; it simply is.

That being the case, let's use some words to talk about it, why don't we?

On this episode of Decide to Transform I take you on a short journey through the truth of all that is. Nonduality underlies all spirituality because it is all that truly exists. In other words, there...

Disarm. That's my word.

Yes, the subject of today's show is a verb. So is spirituality, when you think about it. Spirituality is an action verb.

How is this? It involves our active decision-making each and every moment. As we see throughout the spiritual path, every moment presents us with an opportunity to choose Love or fear, God or the ego, etc. This choice is active and immediate.

When we choose Love, we lay our weapons aside. ...

When it comes to spiritual practice, the power of decision cannot be understated. It is both central and immediate, with far-reaching implications. In short, it is huge.

The world seems to present us with many decisions: what to make for dinner tonight, Netflix or Hulu, chicken or beef, the list goes on. While it seems we face a million decisions, in truth we have one decision to make, and we have only two options.

Every moment of ...

Welcome back to Decide to Transform! 

After a five-month break, I'm coming back to the mic with some new and exciting, shorter episodes. I'll be coming to you solo, and speaking from my heart and my own experience on spirituality and the journey we all find ourselves on. This is, unbelievably, Season Five.

This first episode is all about simplicity. As I show up in the world and teach, I find a number of themes coalescing, ideas th...

What is your inner tour guide telling you? 

Are you listening?

Are you aware that you have an inner tour guide?

Suzanne La Voie Sammon is aware. She is listening, and she invites you to explore with her on this very special episode of Decide to Transform.

With over 30 years of experience in service-driven positions, including hospitality, Suzanne has realized that each of us has a unique, living story, and that we all find ourselve...

Noa Gliksman lives in a postcard. Really, she lives in a postcard, and perhaps you have been there, too. It's in Mexico, on the Caribbean Sea, and I can promise you it is relaxing. 

Whether you have been to Playa Del Carmen or you haven't, I'm sure you'll agree that living right next to the Caribbean Sea is picturesque and relaxing. We all want to live in a more relaxed state. Modern life stresses us, and we need to know that the j...

Join my special guest Amy Halloran-Steiner and me for the first-ever episode of Decide to Transform between high school classmates!

Amy and I graduated from high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1990. Amy has gone on to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who teaches mindfulness and works with clients on her farm in western Oregon. She was once a wilderness therapist, and has long stressed the connection between mindfulnes...

At age 14, Ben Oosterveld found himself on the streets. At 15, he endured a failed suicide attempt. Rehab soon followed.

Today, Ben is highly successful in business, having built a multi-million dollar, top national team in real estate. He leads personal growth retreats and coaches entrepreneurs and national companies. What changed? Ben realized that the inner game is everything. 

Indeed the inner game does mean everything. Master ...

Five years ago, Emilie Rawlings had a breakdown. She was overworking herself, the culmination of years of struggling with boundaries, specifically of time and obligation. She pushed herself constantly to be better, informed by an undiagnosed anxiety and drive for perfectionism.

Her breakdown was not just mental and emotional but physical, as well. Emilie found herself unable at one point to get out of bed, unable even to think. She...

GP is back! 

Please join me for this very special edition of Decide to Transform as renowned Spiritual Teacher GP Walsh joins me on the show. GP is a regular contributor, and in the past few months we have had some amazing conversations and covered a number of topics. One thing is for sure: you will definitely learn something today.

We begin with the premise of acceptance and receiving. What is this, really, on the spiritual path, ...

Newly-published Author, Coach and Yoga Instructor Rachel Matz has had plenty of experience of never feeling "enough." Like all of us in one way or another, she has been shamed, and has felt this pain acutely.

Perhaps you can relate. Perhaps you have experienced shame and the nagging sensation of never being good enough, valuable enough, smart enough, sexy enough, etc. As human beings we tend to eat ourselves alive in this departmen...

Yes, different is fun!

You might even argue that it's essential.

Author and Actor Andrew Mondia has adopted "Different Is Fun" as a life slogan, and he lives it every day.

Andrew joins me as my guest on this episode of Decide to Transform to talk about this slogan, and to share with us his journey to adopting it, an opening up process that has spanned many years and is an integral part of his personal transformation. 

Andrew has en...

In the world as it currently appears to us, we humans face the high-speed evaporation of old paradigms. As old ways of thinking and of being cease to serve us, we find ourselves on our own, finding our way through as best we can. 

My special guest GP Walsh and I use this situation as a jumping-off point for a far-reaching, spontaneous, and purpose-driven dialogue, and we hope you will join us!

Our current global predicament stems, ...

In this very special episode of Decide to Transform, I sit down with GP to discuss the Teacher. What is the true role of the Teacher? What does the Teacher do--or not do? We cover these and many other questions, and GP shares with us some of his experiences with Mooji, his own Teacher.

While we primarily cover the arena of spirituality on the show, everything GP has to say about the Teacher applies to all aspects of life. Because s...

Awesome is his middle name (really, legally.)

Flip Awesome Aguilera has done a lot, been through a lot, and learned a ton in the process. As a liquor distributor by day in Miami, Flip spent his 20s in an evening poker league and as a DJ in South Beach. You can imagine. Life was a constant party.

A major shift took place in his life when a friend one day took him biking. Flip began racing mountain bikes, lost 30 pounds, and transfor...