Podcast

Guest: Marie Forleo

Nope, not doing it…

It’s that time of year again, when all of your favorite bloggers and podcasters go all-out in their efforts to promote Marie Forleo’s B-School course.

If you’ve been a long-time subscriber, you’re certainly familiar with my yearly B-school promos. The scholarship video contests. The bonuses. The “LAST CALL” emails.

In the 3 years I supported B-School as an affiliate, I enrolled a little over 220 students … at $1000 commission each.

It was lucrative, to say the least. I mean, without B-School I would have never been able to fund our fancy on-camera summit events.

Plus, I would have never had the pleasure of coaching my enrollees, interacting with them in our private Facebook group, and spending time with them at our yearly Labor Day mastermind events.

However, as good as B-School has been to my enrollees as well as my business, I couldn’t do it again this year.

Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to promote it. But my intuition — that Inner Pilot Light our friend Lisa Rankin writes about — kept telling me NO.

“Don’t do it, Sean. Do NOT do it.”

So I’m not.

Guest: Emily Rosen

I did some stat-checking this morning.

In the United States alone, 10 million females and 1 million males are currently struggling with eating disorders — anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder.

In fact, if you’re reading this email you have a 4-in-10 chance of either having personally experienced an eating disorder or you know someone who has.

That’s a lot of people. Way too many people. But unfortunately it’s a reality.

Emily Rosen, Director or The Institute for The Psychology of Eating, was one of those people. She dieted, starved, binged, purged, exercised well past midnight, gained and lost hundreds of pounds.

Because she felt like she had to. Because she was starving for connection.

On today’s episode of The Sessions, Emily opens up and shares the intimate details of her turbulent relationship with food and how she was able to heal this relationship by helping others.

Listen to today’s Session and learn…

– How restrictive food rules during childhood can affect you as an adult.

– The person who taught Emily to purge. (You’ll be shocked. I was!)

– 
How eating disorders affect romantic and personal relationships.

– The #1 key to Emily’s recovery.

– How to cope with the long-term, physical damage of an eating disorder.

Click the PLAY button above to listen to Session #005 with Emily Rosen.

One more thing…

Emily and Marc David are hosting a FREE webinar for you next Thursday, February 23rd on How to Transform Your Relationship with Food!

Sign up to find out how eating psychology can be a powerful ally in healing your relationship with food. PLUS, get the scoop on a tried-and-true approach to overeating that can be a real game changer for you!

Get signed up HERE.

Enjoy today’s session. See you next week with maybe the most revealing interview Marie Forleo has ever done.

Stay tuned!

Sean

Guest: Lisa Nichols

There’s a scene from the movie Rocky Balboa that I’ve watched so many times I could probably recite it to you verbatim.

In this scene, Rocky listens as his son grumbles over the pressures of being the son of a boxing legend. The younger Balboa feels like he’s living in a “big shadow”, plagued by the lore of his last name.

If his aged father goes forward with his next fight against a much younger opponent, the shadow would get even larger. He and his family could become the laughingstocks of a nation.

If only he could convince Rocky to quit, to give up on his dream to win one last fight.

Rocky looks at his son and says…

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place. And I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.

But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. THAT’S HOW WINNING IS DONE!

Guest: Lissa Rankin

OMG, this book was so good!

Every so often I stumble upon a book that fires me up and makes me want to tell everyone about it. Then when I get a chance to interview the author of that book, I want to talk about every single minute detail of the story. But of course we don’t have time for that. Bummer.

Lissa Rankin’s story is a hero’s story, one that takes her from the Ordinary World to the Special World, with many trials and ordeals in between. There was no one there to hold her hand along her path, just the encouraging voice in her head. The one she calls her Inner Pilot Light.

I think we all have an Inner Pilot Light pushing us to take that next step in our lives — that bold step into the depths of uncertainty. To move forward on our missions because we know it’s the right thing to do, not only for ourselves but for the betterment of others.

More often than not, that inspired voice within is drowned out by the foreboding voice of fear imploring us to remain where we are, where it’s safe. It pleads that we remain attached to our present circumstances regardless of how painful they may be. Because stepping out into uncertainty will only bring about more pain.

According to Lissa, we typically accept the call of our inner voices when the pain of staying put exceeds our fear of the unknown.

As an OB-GYN who received the call to obstetrics at a very young age, Lissa came to find herself traumatized and hardened by a system that disconnected her not only from her calling but her femininity.

Guest: Emmanuel Dagher

I used to date a girl.

Really nice girl. Gorgeous. Witty. Fit. Super smart.

We met on Match and had our first date over spicy margaritas at a local pizza joint. At first, she seemed a little tense. But once she loosened up we had a blast.

We talked. We laughed. We ordered another round. Things were looking good.

When it was time to part ways, she went back to being tense. She insisted she pay for her drinks. I mean, really insisted!

Being the chivalrous man my Mom raised me to be, I told her I appreciated her offer but would take care of it. Thanks.

Still, no luck.

Fortunately, our bartender was holding onto my card and had already charged me for both of our drinks. Dodged that bullet. Phew!

Over the next few weeks, we met up again and again. Drinks. Dinner. Arcade games.

But this same issue kept coming up.