Enjoy!

Philosopher’s Notes: Discipline Leads to Blissipline

“The transition from the egoic self to the Authentic Self requires discipline… The good news is that discipline eventually becomes what I call a “blissipline” because it leads to playing our part with integrity, dignity, elegance, passion, and deep contentment.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation

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Freedom from the Tyranny of Trends on Philosopher’s Notes

“One of the ways we hijack our capacity to experience a state of beholding is that we become swept up in what I call the “tyranny of trends.” The tyranny of trends allows for the lowest common denominator to set the standard of success, and of course, “coolness.” Very often, trends convince individuals what their life’s purpose should be. The tyranny of trends is blasted out at us from television, radio, newspapers, tabloids, computers, and even our dentist’s waiting room, attempting to convince us that we must smell a certain way, wear a certain label, weigh a specific weight, have whiter teeth, drive a certain car, make a certain income, and so on, before we can consider that we’ve made it.” ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith from Spiritual Liberation

Business Success Tips: Info Products and the Democratization of Monetization

What is a Mens’ Group and Why Should You Care?

Are you one of those guys who — deep down — is wondering, “What in the hell am I doing with my life?”

When you get in the weeds, do you tend to isolate like a wounded animal?

Music for a Moonlit Beach (feat. Zen Lemonade, Brioski, T. Orlando, & More)

It days like today when I feel like I belong on a beach somewhere.  Luckily I have music like this to transport me.

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The Expanded “O” a 21-Day Program for Partners with Dr. Patti Taylor interviewed by @SusanBratton

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Tantric Tips from the Goddess Temple

In this episode, Corynna engagingly inspires us into the Dharma challenge & joyous innocence of Tantric Personal Practice. Discover and deepen into the 5 Keys of Tantric Sex: Breath, Movement, Sound, Intention, and Consciousness.

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In this excerpt from my DishyMix interview with John James Santangelo, creator of the “Speak Up with Power & Influence System,” he explains how to “get into another’s world” by listening for cues about how they think, learn and comprehend information – like what they can do to support your goals, for example.

See the excerpt below about using “negations,” “hypnotic language,” “NLP copywriting,” and getting what you want by communicating visually, or for auditory or kinesthetic learners.

If you haven’t yet listened to the two-part series and bonus stress reduction guided visualization bonus audio, you can click here now to stream it through your browser, download to your mp3 or go to iTunes to put them on your iPhone/iPod.

DishyMix episode 122: John Santangelo Teaches You How to Speak Up with Power and Influence to Get What You Want Part 2 of 2

DishyMix episode 121: Stress Reduction Guided Visualization and Hypnosis by John Santangelo

DishyMix episode 120: John Santangelo on Getting What You Want Anytime from Anyone Part 1 of 2

John says, when we’re communicating with somebody’s representational systems, whether they’re visual type learner, an auditory type learner or a kinesthetic or feeling type learner, it’s best to understand HOW they process information so you can speak to them in the way that they best comprehend new information.

When I communicate with people, the words I choose are going to match somebody’s representational system, and I’m going to use more visual words like “I see”, “That looks good”, “It appears to me”, or words as auditory person maybe “I hear you”, “That sounds good”, “That resonates with me”, and kinesthetic words, “I feel it”, “I get a grasp on that”, “I get a handle on that.”

The more that I can match somebody’s internal world and build repertoire with them, the better I’m able to then communicate my ideas.

This is the premise of the “L” in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) which stands for lingustic or language. And one of the things that I found in working with people is that we come – especially in American society – we come from a perspective of negations. We use a lot of words like “don’t”, “shouldn’t”, “can’t”, “won’t”, and the unconscious mind (the unconscious mind that runs 90 percent of us) does not understand negations; it only understands what’s being said.

So for instance, if I said to you “Don’t, do not, whatever you do, don’t think of a blue tree”, where does your brain have to go?

You’ve got to think of a blue tree. So you can’t think about what you don’t want to think about without thinking about it. Think about it.

So the first things is be cognisant of how we communicate our ideas. One of the things that we say in LP is this: say it the way you want it. Say it the way you want it to have happen. Give you another example; a personal relationship. People say “I don’t want you to treat me like that. Don’t treat me like that.” Now the unconscious mind is registering “Treat me like that” and it asks how or what, “Treat you like that?” So you’re not giving any direction when you’re speaking. The same in copywriting; you can use a negation in copywriting, and I’ll talk about that in a moment, but most people say, you know, “Don’t buy this product”, something that… and they get into this whole world of their map*, they’re communicating is their map.

So how can we influence other people by really telling them what to do, in a way that it doesn’t have any resistance in it? We want to bypass the conscious mind and speak to the unconscious mind. So words like “don’t”, “shouldn’t”, you can eliminate those and tell them exactly what to do, especially online, and you’ve probably heard this if you’ve done copy writing or website design and writing for websites is give them information and tell them what to do, tell them exactly what to do. The listener or the follower or the reader of the information needs to know that there’s a process of what to do next, and a lot of people don’t understand that. So with hypnotic language we can say things like “don’t”, “I don’t think that you should buy this product right now.” So the brain is hearing “Buy the product right now.” And what that does is it bypasses the resistance of the conscious mind rather than me saying, “Look, you need to buy this product right now.”

To see negations and other NLP based hypnotic language in use, check out John’s landing page copy at Speak Up with Power. It’s a crash course in copy writing on a single page!

*to learn more about what a “map” is in NLP, listen to John’s interview.

I met Lesley at a Mastermind event and we hit it off. Once I saw her work, I realized I couldn’t live with anything less. Lesley is a celebrity portrait photographer. She LOVES to connect with people and make them look beautiful.

Lesley and Susan

Since so much of our contact is made online now, it’s more important than ever to have images that reflect who you are and bring out the best in you.

Here are some images from my shoot and photos of Lesley’s studio and of her working with another client.

Kyra Reed, Markyr

Conversation ranges from Bing to GoogleWave to Hashtags to TweetCrawls. Then we get into social influence marketing strategy and creating a solid, active community site.

Then things get dishy as Suz and Kyra talk about men with presence and why that’s the sexiest attribute a man can have. Don’t you love how the show combines humanity and marketing business advice all in a 30 minute treat?

Kyra Reed, Markyr on Community Development, Integrated Microcosms, Tweet Reach

Bernie’s Show       Bernie’s Blog        Find and Convert in iTunes

He asked me a number of questions in advance of the interview and I thought I’d blog the answers here.

Who is Susan Bratton and what does she have her hands in now?

I’m a CEO, Publisher, Blogger, Podcaster, Speaker and Author.

DishyMix is my weekly podcast and companion blog. My coverages ranges from brain science to new gadgets to landing page conversion to the future of the social graph.

I’m the CEO and co-founder of Personal Life Media, an aspirational company and next-generation publisher focused on providing virtual, fully downloadable content experiences.

Our mantra is “frank talk and deep discussion for your personal life.”

We publish 40 podcasts, companion blogs and are launching 15 new information products I call “ebooks with benefits.”

Our first info products to market are, Talk Show Tips, Speak Up with Power and Influence, Masterful Techniques to Overcome Anxiety and Fear, Naturally Slender Quickstart and a 21 Day Lovemaking Program for Couples. We have another 10+ info products in production.

Top shows on Personal Life Media include:
DishyMix, Inside Out Weight Loss, Expanded Lovemaking, Buddhist Geeks, Living Dialogues, 3 Digital Photography Shows, The Diva Cast, The New Man, Just for Women, Philosopher’s Notes, Tantra & Kama Sutra and Sex, Love & Intimacy.

What is my high level view of social media marketing?

I view social media as being in three categories, Listening, Appvertising and Participation. Shiv Singh of Razorfish really helped me gel my concept of these buckets and his DishyMix interview is coming in June.

Listening is getting the most traction with Participation second and Appvertising third.

Listening: New companies like Unbound Technologies, a next generation Neilsen Buzz Metrics, is focused on opportunities around the social graph and social influence marketing. They create a list of the most influential individuals for any given brand and then provide an “affinity map” of the other most-influential people and brands related to that single, key influencer. This is fantastic for outreach, prioritization of influencers and joint promotions to important clustered audiences.

Taking behaviorial targeting to a new high with the inclusion of social graphing is Media6Degrees. They offer ad targeted based on social graphing. I also need an update on Lookery who is aggregating social media data across social networks to use for ad targeting. My interview with Scott Rafer of Lookery is here.

Appvertising is being well handled by ClearSpring, Gigya and RockYou! as well as SocialMedia.com and ContextOptional. Brands who create useful aps or sponsor useful aps for their target consumers are brilliant players at a high-level of sophistication in the social influence marketing sphere.

Participation is certainly evident in Facebook Pages. Here’s my DishyMix Fan Club where I give away all kinds of goodies to my listeners.  Also popular and smart are consumer generated content experiences like HP on YouTube described here in my interview with Daina Middleton and the darling of the moment, corporate Twitter accounts like this one.
What is the biggest difficulty in Social Media Marketing?

I believe in larger organizations, it is around internal ownership. Should social marketing be part of marketing, corp comm, where? In smaller organizations, I see the problem being one of overwhelming choice. Where do I start as a small business with limited resources?

Also, tracking and ROI still being figured out. Here is a great presentation on social media ROI.
http://www.slideshare.net/yongfook/social-media-roi

Lee Odden (the wonderful soul who connected Bernie and I in the first place through his superlative Top Rank Online Marketing Blog  and I talk about integration of web analytics and social media analytics in this interview I did with Lee at SXSW for the #Community Powered project. Emphasis on real time data. The data that you can collect through something like a social media monitoring tool, like Buzz Logic, Collective Intellect, Radian6, married with web analytics, like Google Analytics, Omniture, Web Trends.

Lee Odden and Susan Bratton on Web and Social Media Analytics

Podcasting? How did you get into it? What is the current state of podcasting and consulting your crystal ball on podcasting’s future.

Podcasting is still a nascent market.

The beauty of it is that anyone can create an audience of raving fans. (and in my ebook with benefits, called Talk Show Tips, I teach you how to empower your raving fans with the tools they need to help you grow your audience.)

If you are articulate and like to talk more than you like to write, audio may be better for you than blogging. And with transcripts, you can have the best of both worlds.

For video, the bar is very high on production quality. Make sure you are adequately resourced before pursuing.

Commercial podcasting is a very smart solution for brands who have deep knowledge to share with their customers and prospects.

The ADM (Association for Downloadable Media) is working on ad models, audience measurement and consumer attitudes toward sponsorships of podcasts.

It’s a greenfield opportunity for sponsors. Integrated social media programs are key. You must leverage the hosts’ social media influence.

There are two excellent video clips on Volomedia’s blog about Podcasting Metrics and Podcast Advertising and Sponsorship that Jeff Karnes and I just presented at the eMetrics Summit.

My presentation is at Slideshare.com about some of my best programs from TrustedID, Holosync’s MeditateFree.com, Better Sex Institute, Lensbaby, Accuquote and Audible.

http://www.volomedia.com/blog/2009/05/shows-on-the-go-with-jeff-karn.php

http://www.slideshare.net/SusanBratton/podcasting-metrics-and-sponsorship-ideas

Finally, Talk Show Tips: 72 Secret ‘Master Host’ Techniques will teach anyone how to land big name guests, prepare for their show, ask killer questions with my easy question-generator mini-course, create and manage a facile show flow, conduct professional in-interview techniques and learn a dozen ideas for using social media to radiate your show and help your fans promote your show for you.

What is your DishyMix podcast and blog business model?

I’m very fortunate to have sponsors who underwrite my show to reach my valuable, sophisticated audience of marketers, agency pros and digital media mavens. DishyMix is sponsored by Isobar US Carat, the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summits, adtech conferences, Trusted ID, Upstream Habitat and Audible.

Who are some of the most memorable guests on DishyMix?

I’ve created a blog post to wrap up my Top 10 Favorite DishyMix Guests.

DishyMix: Success Secrets from Famous Media and Internet Business Executives

And Coming Soon! Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock on his newest tome, Revolutionary Wealth and Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone on his newest angle, Who’s Got Your Back?

Without a doubt, this list of amazing human beings are my all time favorite guests. The interviews are delightful, inspiring, educational and entertaining:

Sir Ken Robinson on The Element, Talent Assessment and Feeling Lucky

Dacher Keltner, Born to Be Good, Your Jen Ratio and Cro-Magnon CEO’s

Lynda Resnick on Predicting Winning Products, Outliers and Rubies and Cuties

David Szetela and the PPC 10 Cylinder Engine

Nolan Bushnell, 20 Start Ups Later, on Chemical Engines, Existentialism and “My Cave.”

WOZ Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer on Inventing as Art, Philanthropy and the Spirit of Creativity Part 1 of 2

Marcus Buckingham on The Truth About You, Career Intervention on Oprah and the Strength’s Revolution

John Zogby, Preeminent Pollster on The American Dream, Retail Politics and the Value Chasm

Alex Bogusky of Crispin, Porter + Bogusky on Culture Jamming, Hermie the Pygmy Elephant and Telling the Subservient Chicken to Go “Pluck” Himself

John Battelle on The Conversation Economy, Hairy World Issues and High School Musicals Part 1 of 2.

Here’s an excerpt from my interview with Sir Ken about finding your passion and being in “the element.”

Susan Bratton: Sir Ken, when I read your book I really felt like what you did was kick open the door to a new realm of talent assessment tools. I, poof, popped into a whole new place where there was so much more for me to understand about myself and the people that I love and work with, about their talents and their capabilities. You referenced a lot of people’s work and stitched it together, with your own special spin and look at humans and their unique ways of being. Please describe The Element for us. Give us that level set.

Sir Ken Robinson: Okay, well The Element, the title comes from an expression that a lot of people use, and I hear myself saying, you know, which is that people do their best when they do the thing they love, when they’re in their element. And I thought, “Well what is that exactly”, because it’s clear to me in my experience that an awful lot of people do things for a living that they don’t really like doing, they don’t much enjoy it, they just get on with it because they have found their way into it and, you know, they live their lives in a kind of low grade sense of tolerance, is what they do.

And yet I also meet lots of people that actually love what they do and couldn’t really imagine doing anything else. You know, they’re in their element, so to speak. Well it’s two things it seems to me. One of them is to be in your element you have to be doing something that you have a natural attitude for, a natural feel. And the truth is, we all have very, very different attitudes. You know, we take the things in very different ways. But it’s not enough to be doing something you’re good at, because I know lots of people who do things they’re good at that they don’t really much like doing. To be in your element you have to love it too. And if you are doing something you’re good at and something that you also love to do, that seems to me to be the perfect place and that’s what being in your element is.

Susan Bratton: So it’s the intersection of your talent and your passion… And that was the point in the book. It doesn’t matter what your talents are if you don’t love them. If you’re really good at numbers and they bore you to death, don’t do it. If you love plants and growing things and that’s your passion and it’s a part of your talent, that’s where you should be.

Sir Ken Robinson: That’s right. And it applies definitely to people in all sorts of different walks of life, you know. For some people it’s math, for some people it’s working with people, it’s teaching, it’s doing what you’re doing now, you know, or it’s, it could be cooking or raising families, or anything at all. I mean our attitudes are very different, and that’s in a way a major point in the book. You know, the book is really about diversity and celebrating difference.

Susan Bratton: You wrote, “The best hope for the future is to develop a new paradigm of human capacity to meet a new era of human existence.” I think that goes to what you’re saying, that every one of us has a unique talent. You know, you’ve been very critical of our education system being a part of the industrial revolution mechanism. That we are thinking about people’s talents and pigeon holing them as well, and you want to get out of that and find a lot of new ways. What are some of the things that we can do as people who manage other people for example, to create this new era of human existence?

Sir Ken Robinson: The shift I’m talking about, as you say, is from an old model, not just of education but of the mind to, a richer model. You know, the current systems education are intended to develop our ability to work, among other things. But the way in which it’s done is rooted so much in the 19th century models of industrial manufacture, that most people now I think never truly discover their own talents through the process of being educated. I have lots of people in the work, I’ve interviewed all kinds of people in the arts and sciences, in business, in not for profits, and many of them didn’t do well at school at all, they. They went on to do brilliantly well afterwards, once they discovered their real talents.

I don’t mean to say that in order to succeed you have to have failed at school first; I mean that would be pushing this a bit far. But it is true that education is designed to identify certain sorts of talents and not all talents. That’s, by the way, education, traditional education at its best. The problem now I think is that our school systems have become so oppressed and stifled by standards of systemized testing that their not even succeeding in their traditional market, so to speak. So a lot of people come through the system never really know what they’re good at…

And I think for companies and organizations, and for parents and families, what I’m trying to argue for is we have to go back and think very differently about the nature of human intelligence and the nature of human ability. We’re grown up with a whole set of ideas that we take for granted about our natural abilities, and the result of it is I think we have a very impoverished view of our own potential, and I think companies have a very impoverished view very often of the real talents that align there in the people they employ.

To listen to the whole interview, click on the buttons below.

Sir Ken Robinson on The Element, Talent Assessment and Feeling Lucky

Additional Discussion Points from the Interview:

• What is your human potential, the intersection of aptitude and passion and finding your calling?
• Does your job make you ecstatically happy or utterly miserable?
• Your best attributes? Linguistic, musical, mathematical, spatial, kinesthetic, interpersonal or intrapersonal?
• Do you have more analytic intelligence, creative or practical intelligence?
• “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.”
• Two free autographed copies for http://dishymixfan.com DishyMix fans!
• The Element from @SirKenRobinson. 2 free autographed copies! Post your desire at http://dishymixfan.com DishyMix
• “The best hope for the future is to develop a new paradigm of human capacity to meet a new era of human existence.”
• Our school systems have become so oppressed and stifled by standards of systematized testing they’re not succeeding.
• “Companies have a very impoverished view of the real talents that align in the people they employ.”
• Howard Gardener says there are 9 main forms of intelligence. What are yours?
• @SirKenRobinson on Robert Cooper, The Other 90 Percent, about the heart brain and the gut brain.
• @SirKenRobinson on how experiences go first to the neurological networks of the intestinal track and heart.
• The enteric nervous system: 2nd brain inside the intestines, independent of, but interconnected with the brain.
• Why we often experience our first reaction to events as a gut reaction, which shapes everything we do.”
• Robert Sternberg from Tufts, kind of an anti-IQ guy on analytic, creative and practical intelligence.
• Herman Brain Dominance: A, B, C & D Quadrants: analytic, implementation, social and future thinking.
• Herman Brain Dominance Instrument better than Myers Briggs.
• The Luck Factor by psychologist Gordon Wiseman.
• Sir Ken Robinson on The Element, Talent Assessment and Feeling Lucky

Did you know there was stuff this good on our network?

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BG 119: The Dharma Overground    18:47    Vince Horn and Ryan Oelke    Buddhist Geeks: Seriously Buddhist, Seriously Geeky

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CLC 037: Practical NLP For Everyday Life with John Santangelo & Robert Harrison    42:33    Robert Harrison    Coaching the Life Coach: Business Coaching for Entrepreneurs & Executives by Famous Coaches

EL 087: Secrets of a Temple Priestess for Women (Part One) with Triambika    37:11    Dr. Patti Taylor    Expanded Lovemaking: Sex, Love, and Consciousness

JFW 077: Reid Mihalko: Hot Fun with Your Clothes ON!    1:01:01    Alissa Kriteman    Just For Women: Dating, Relationships and Sex with Alissa Kriteman

EL 084: Infuse Your Life with Enlightened Love  (Part Two) with Satyen Raja, Tantric Master and Founder of WarriorSage, Inc.    35:41    Dr. Patti Taylor    Expanded Lovemaking: Sex, Love, and Consciousness

IOWL 045: Making Food Your Former Best Friend    30:15    Renee Stephens    Inside Out Weight Loss: Aligning Mind Body and Spirit for Lasting Change

LD 073: Deborah Tannen – Shifting to Deeper Dialogue and Understanding Between the Sexes    38:41    Duncan Campbell    Living Dialogues: Thought-Leaders in Transforming Ourselves and Our Global Community with Duncan Campbell, Visionary Conversationalist, Living Dialogues.com

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TNM 061: Sandor Gardos – Get Your Sex Life Off of Life Support    21:18    Tripp Lanier    The New Man: Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp

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Two discinct styles include the classic journalistic type, where one person asks questions of the other and records it. The second is having a “dialogue” where neither person has any agreed upon “advantage” and both come as equals to the conversation to open themselves to more possibilities and deeper understanding through discussion.

WIKIpedia link to DIALOGUE

One of the audio lessons in the Talk Show Tips system is an interview with visionary conversationalist, Duncan Campbell. He has a show called Living Dialogues: Thought Leaders in Transforming Ourselves and Our Global Community.

Here are some excerpts from the interview. Consider this art of dialog as you are conducting your next interview and see where it takes your work.

Excerpt from Talk Show Tips, “The Art of Dialogue” with Duncan Campbell.

Duncan explains how we was inspired to: host a conversation with various visionaries that were tuned into this sense of evolution of human consciousness, and to particularly get people to move off of their attachment to looking for a leader or a hero or a guru or a charismatic CEO that would tell them what the score was, what reality was all about and how to live their lives, because the core insight here was that we all already know that. We all already have that divinity, that insight within ourselves. The Buddhist’s call it “the seed of awake, the Buddhi Chita”. It’s is our birthright as human beings. So the question is how to evoke that in each other.

And a part of the way to do that is to un-Velcro our self from this adolescent stage of hero worship, or heroine worship, of finding a woman or a man to be a model that you can aspire to, and then getting stuck, like a record, in that groove. And I felt that that was what was happening in the media

I wanted instead for any of the guests on my show to be with me in a way that would allow them to give their unique gift to people. “Well wait a minute. This isn’t about one single way of doing things, one single way of seeing things, one single guru or teacher.” It’s about all of us together, midwifing this new larger mature consciousness. I could not conduct an interview in a normal adolescent cultural interview mode, where I ask questions to the authorities figure and the authority figure dispenses with them, because that reinforces our tendency in our adolescent culture at this point in history to look for the truth and wisdom outside our self. Somebody else is the expert and they’re going to tell us what we’re missing. It’s a kind of culture of lack that we see in our economic system and in our education system and so on, rather than one that draws people into their own empowerment. So in a nutshell, the instruction, as it were, was “You need to speak Duncan to each one of your guests as a peer, as an equal, and engage them in passionate conversations, so that the audience will be entrained, intrigued, involved as participants in a respectful and appreciative and exploration, exploring kind of dialogue, rather than just simply an exchange of information.

Most of the conventional media tends to be involved in what one of my guests, Deborah Tannen, called an argument culture. It’s a polarized “either/or” culture. You see it with the McLaughlin Reports, you see it with Fox News, you see it in many places where people say, “You say one thing”, and then they go to the other guest, “You say something else”, argue back and forth and somehow the truth is going to emerge, but in fact what happens is that there’s a lot of heat, very little light, and a kind of hardening of the positions on either side. That’s one way of doing it.

Another way of doing it is to flatter the guest. You see this in celebrity interviews where people are interviewed that have famous names, and the host, like Larry King or Barbara Walters, has specifically said that, “I want to be invisible. No one’s interested in what I, Larry King, has to say”, or “What I, Barbara Walters has to say”, they’re only interested in Prince Charles or whoever it is that they have on, and they’ve said that specifically. That’s really the old adolescent mode of doing the media, of being a mediator.

I think what we’re being called to as a culture is a much more co-creating a larger logos, a wisdom of the universe that’s within each of us, waiting to be progressively awakened more and more. And the word dia, one of its interpretations is flow, so the key is to awaken the dia, the flow of the logos, the innate evolutionary wisdom of the universe in ourselves, hence the word dialogue rather than interview, which is like looking at something from the outside, kind of peeking into some secret knowledge, as opposed to awakening the wisdom within. And, finally we say living dialogues, it happens in the now.

Living Dialogues: Thought-Leaders in Transforming Ourselves and Our Global Community with Duncan Campbell, Visionary Conversationalist, Living Dialogues.com

Living Dialogues®: Thought-Leaders in Transforming Ourselves and Our Global Community with Duncan Campbell, Visionary Conversationalist, Living Dialogues.com

This weekly program features pioneers in new paradigm thinking in a broad variety of fields. Duncan’s focus is to develop a new consciousness, a much better educated citizenry, and the financial and new clean energy independence that will be required for each of us to play a positive collaborative leadership role in our emerging global world. Each show provides a different facet of the vision emerging from the work of many to transform our individual lives — and our planet…It is a fire-keeping space where together, we can ignite each other’s unique creative spark to bring forth both our individual transformation and the evolution of our global community.

If you love exploring the realm of consciousness and transformational thought, this show goes beyond typical interview formats to a deeply analytical, sophisticated dialog of issues ranging from the bio-dynamics of longevity to past-life regression to the origins of belief structures that define our culture. These dialogs function as a kind of “Cliff Notes” for the consciousness revolution.

Duncan Campbell possesses the unique gift of tying world views, insights and philosophies together to deliver transformative revelations to the active and culturally creative listener, thereby evolving consciousness. With such guests as Andrew Weil, Deepak Chopra, Joan Borysenko, Judy Collins and many more, Duncan engages in mutually participatory and co-creative dialogue evoking a flow of meaning and understanding beyond what any of these individuals can present themselves. Subscribe to this podcast now and join us, as together with you, the active deep listener, we engage in ‘Living Dialogues.’

What are the benefits of subscribing to Living Dialogues? “One of the most important things we can do for our health is to cultivate a community of rich social connections. Living Dialogues with Duncan Campbell is one of the best ways I know to cultivate community without leaving your home. Risk taking; getting out of ruts and routines and habits; Experiencing new things, are also valuable. That’s what Living Dialogues is all about. Get healthier. Join in Living Dialogues with Duncan Campbell.” — Larry Dossey, M.D., Leading physician and visionary

Bert has been on DishyMix and I have promoted his book, “You Have to Be Believed to Be Heard,” widely to my friends and compatriots.

At SXSW, Bert noted that panelists were monitoring Twitter to get audience feedback during presentations and panels. This behavior is not confined to the social media mecca that is SXSW. You’ll find panelists at ad:tech and other events doing the same thing.

I interviewed Bert about this phenomenon to get his opinions. Listen here to Bert Decker’s advice.

Susan Bratton & Bert Decker

And below is my complete DishyMix interview with him. If you are a public speaker, or want to be, this is a great interview, chock full of relevant and actionable advice.

Bert Decker on The First Brain, Transforming Your Personal Impact and The Decker Grid