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July 17, 2023

Don’t Freeze Them!

Here is something you do, and I bet you don’t know you do it! You ‘freeze’ people and keep them in a frozen wasteland. Puzzled? I will explain. My friend Nina was about to go on a cruise when her daughter, call her Shirley, phoned. Shirley had a nasty fight with her husband and thought…

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Published on July 17, 2023 04:39

July 10, 2023

The Best Mindset To Sell Without Sounding Needy | Selling With Love Podcast with Dr Srikumar Rao and Jason Marc Campbell

We hope you enjoy this conversation between Dr Rao and Jason Marc Campbell, host of the “Selling with Love” Podcast. Dr Rao and Jason discuss how to sell without selling, how to overcome neediness and fear in sales, how to find meaning and joy in any circumstance, how to stop your mental chatter and be…

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Published on July 10, 2023 17:27

The Greatest Gift You Can Give Your Child

One of my students, let’s call her Susan, shared her problem with me recently. Her son was fifteen and alternated between boisterous exuberance and moody withdrawal. She suspected that he was borderline depressed, but he refused to talk about what, if anything, was bothering him. “I found your course to be immensely valuable, Professor Rao,”…

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Published on July 10, 2023 11:15

July 6, 2023

Are We Living In An Illusion? Episode #1217 – The You Project Podcast with Srikumar Rao

Tune in to this conversation between Professor Rao and Craig Harper, host of The You Project Podcast, for a chat about the Matrix (we’re living in one, but not the one you think), our self-created illusion, mental and emotional prisons, why identity doesn’t matter, raising our consciousness and why the ‘idea’ of success (how l’ll…

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Published on July 06, 2023 10:50

July 3, 2023

Getting Rid of Suffering

I have spent a lifetime collecting powerful sayings from the world’s greatest masters. I will share many of them in the coming weeks. Sometimes I will tell you who the masters are. Or were. Other times I will invite you to reach out if you really want to know. Why am I doing this? I…

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Published on July 03, 2023 08:18

June 25, 2023

Things Drop. Let Them.

As you go through life you recognize that some things just will not happen. I now know that I will never watch all the movies in my Netflix and Amazon Prime queues. I will never read all the books piled up in front of my full bookshelves. I will not visit all the exotic destinations…

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Published on June 25, 2023 17:16

June 19, 2023

Two Different Perspectives

I was talking to the mother of an old school friend. She was a traditional and somewhat orthodox South Indian woman and both hospitable and astute. Her son’s colleague, a vivacious middle-aged American visiting India for the first time, was staying with her for a few days. Let’s call her Susan. Susan was waxing eloquent…

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Published on June 19, 2023 07:43

June 14, 2023

The secrets behind unstoppable success in business and life | ScaleX™ Insider Podcast

Hello Friend! Hope you enjoy this conversation with my friend, Brendan McGurgan, host of the podcast, “ScaleX Insider”, a series of conversations aimed to inspire and enable millions of ambitious leaders to scale with purpose. In this podcast episode, we discuss the secrets behind unstoppable success in business and life. We covered a range of…

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Published on June 14, 2023 05:47

June 12, 2023

What I Learnt From a Baklava!

A baklava is a multi-layered sweet filled with nuts and sweetened with honey. It was one of the most famous and popular desserts of the Ottoman era. I discovered baklava when I came to New York, and I loved it. I ordered it every time I saw it on a menu and sometimes hunted for…

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Published on June 12, 2023 10:37

June 4, 2023

Three Mind Blowing Ideas!

Vishen Lakhiani is CEO of Mindvalley. Perhaps the largest company in the Personal Transformation space. I love Mindvalley audiences and always get a charge out of speaking to them. Here is a podcast where Vishen interviews me. https://podcast.mindvalley.com/cracki... I hope you like it. Peace!

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Published on June 04, 2023 19:34