The Douglas Robbins Show
136 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago -Topics on the show range from writing to publishing to life and the individual. I welcome politics, spirituality, creativity, healing, public policy, economics, environmental, and astronomical, anything in the realm of learning, humanity, and its expansion. Anything that touches the human condition.
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#118 - Mental Health in America with Dr. Bonnie Wims
July 11, 2024 16:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Many of us suffer alone, in silence, with those negative thought loops keeping us stuck, small, afraid. But if you had a broken arm that got treated, there would be no shame in it. Shouldn't we treat the mental and physical the same? Mental health, or should I say mental well-being, we all hear so much about now and all need more of it. Just think if we were all mentally and emotionally well what the world would look like. Today we dive into this topic with Dr. Bo...
#117- Philosophy Professor Daniel Berthold and His Work with the Bard Prison Initiative
June 19, 2024 13:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Systemic racism, kids of color forgotten by the system, and raised in a violent world with no escape, and a country who's not asking deeper questions of itself. Join Daniel Berthold, philosophy professor from Bard College who teaches at a maximum security prison through the Bard Prison Initiative. There is also a documentary on this subject by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick entitled College Behind Bars. Please listen to this evocative conversation. You won't think ...
#116- Healing with Food and a Tea that Saved a Village
May 29, 2024 19:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Lainie "Sevante" Wulkan, known as "The Food Oracle," is the visionary Founder of CIFT Center for Intuitive Food Therapy™. A wellness author, intuitive, and advanced energy healer, she has authored several bestselling books, including The Food Healing Oracle Deck® series and a chapter in Energy Healer's Oracle. With a Bachelor's in Food Science and Nutrition, Sevante combines her expertise with her intuitive gifts to help clients unlock subconscious beliefs and achi...
#115- Meditation Changes our Brain Chemistry with Kara Goodwin
May 08, 2024 14:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBSend us a Text Message. This was such a great conversation. In today's show I speak with Kara Goodwin, the host of the Meditation Conversation Podcast. Meditation brings us back to the moment and can help transform our brain chemistry with certain techniques while being present can help calm many charged issues. Kara Goodwin is a meditation and spiritual transformation coach, host of The Meditation Conversation podcast, energy healer, and beekeeper. She was drawn to meditation after a t...
#114 - Education Leaves Parts of Us Behind
April 03, 2024 12:00 - 9 minutes - 6.36 MBSend us a Text Message. Education needs to radically change or we are failing ourselves and our futures. It should inform and develop the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. So when we are finished, we are ready for adulthood. It should provide tools on how to be an adult and navigate the world. If not, what is the point of education? To only feed the intellect while remaining undeveloped in every other way? Just look at the world with its argument and blame. Is this an emotionall...
#113- The Releasing of Victimhood
March 20, 2024 18:00 - 6 minutes - 4.48 MBSend us a Text Message. Do you feel like a victim? You probably are to some event and more importantly to your own thoughts. We all are until we set it free. Even if an event shaped your life and outlook do you want to hold onto it forever as a reminder? Or do you want to move forward and be your best self? We cannot become our best selves playing the victim. That makes everyone else more powerful and us smaller as they will need to lift us up. Let's release victimhood together. Suppor...
#112- Are You Afraid of Death or Life? With Author Kate Manser
February 28, 2024 17:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBSend us a Text Message. Today is such a powerful interiew. Kate Manser is the author of You Might Die Tomorrow: So Live Today. In the span of six months, three of Kate's friends died in unrelated, unexpected tragedies. She developed a fear of death that began to take over her life: She would imagine getting hit as she crossed every intersection, go into a panic attack at every ring of the phone, and avoided taking any risks out of fear. Learn how Kate transformed deep death anxiety into t...
#111 Happy Relationships with Marriage Counselor Paul Sigafus
February 13, 2024 17:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Have you ever wondered what a healthy and happy relationship looks like? On this Valentine's Day Special we dive into that very topic. Paul Sigafus has degrees in both Marriage & Family Therapy and Marriage, Family, and Human Development and has been practicing as a therapist since 2001. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Colorado Counseling Center, where he supports a team of therapists in providing counseling services to couples, individuals, and familie...
#110 - What are you searching for?
January 18, 2024 23:00 - 11 minutes - 7.89 MBSend us a Text Message. Hey folks, I'm back for the new year with a new show name and intro and outro. Yes, that's me on the drums. So, I've been thinking. We look at social media. We look at the news. We look in the mirror. We look to others. But what are we searching for? Take a listen. To find out more about me and my books check out douglasrobbinsauthor.com Support the Show.
#109 - Meaningful Moments Make a Lifetime w/JJ JJ DiGeronimo
November 11, 2023 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBSend us a Text Message. JJ DiGeronimo is a lightworker, business woman, and author that creates a bridge for people to tap into tools, practices, and mindsets to illuminate their path. Listeners seeking more meaningful connections, more moments of joy, and more fulfilling activities, she shares common obstacles holding many back while providing tools many can use off the side of their desk to follow their whispers. Support the Show.
#108 - A Simple Shift
September 20, 2023 16:00 - 5 minutes - 3.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Do you ever feel stuck? Do you have the same conversations and start poking at your partner and vice versa? Does this make you start questioning your relationship and everything in your life? Well, sometimes all that is needed is a simple shift to get you out of it and help you change perspective. Support the Show.
#107- My new book Baseball Dreams and Bikers
September 07, 2023 15:00 - 7 minutes - 5.11 MBSend us a Text Message. Is due out 10/24. Pre-sale soon... In the title story, I don't think I knew how closely I was writing about my own struggles as a teen. What would have happened if someone had paid more attention or was a guiding light in my life? The trajectory of my life would have been very different. My thoughts and choices would have been different. And so would have the outcomes. I'm guessing it is the same for you. I also didn't realize the three pieces in the collection we...
#106 - If Everything is a Story so is Happiness w/Counselor Kevin Burk
August 10, 2023 14:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBSend us a Text Message. Your life is a story, and you are the main character. Every choice you make in your life is intended to move you closer to your ultimate goal: to get everything you’ve ever wanted. The reason you want everything you’ve ever wanted is that you believe when you get everything you’ve ever wanted, you’ll live happily ever after. This doesn’t mean what you think it means. Happily ever after is not the end of the story of your life. Happily ever after means you have a ...
#105- Dolphins, Ducks, and Motorcycle Rides
August 02, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutes - 4.08 MBSend us a Text Message. Are you taking your walk? Are you swimming your swim? Are you riding your ride? There are so many experiences and opportunities awaiting for us when we take action and do our thing, The unknown and unexpected awaits. The unknown can be scary, but that is also where the best of life waits for us. Support the Show.
#104 - Law of Attraction Methods with Zehra Mahoon
July 26, 2023 17:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBSend us a Text Message. Great conversation today with Zehra Mahoon, She says, " Today, I am at a place where I feel secure. I feel confident about my future. I feel that I am in control of my life. I feel happy and satisfied with my accomplishments. But it wasn't always like that. My life was a mess. I had no money, my husband had cheated on me and left the country, I had no work and was alone in a new country with two little children. That's when I found the Law of Attraction. The thing ...
#103 - Never Forget What You Love
July 19, 2023 17:00 - 5 minutes - 3.97 MBSend us a Text Message. We often hold onto things that do not serve us. We spend time in the arena of bad memories and feelings that often keep us stuck in the very same event day after day, month after month, year after year. But life is short and fleeting. Don't hold onto regrets or fear. For life can change in the blink of an eye. A friend's wife had a stroke. She is in her early fifties and was in good health. This is not the podcast I expected to release today. I recorded it this mo...
#102 - Who Are You Accountable To? with Accountability Coach Julie Moses
June 21, 2023 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBSend us a Text Message. This is one of the most important topics to changing your life: Accountability Feeling lost and having a lack of purpose? Feeling overwhelmed or on a hamster wheel, stressed and exhausted? Knowing what you want to do, but not taking action? Unhappy with your relationships, physical body/health, finances, and work? We all must get clear on what’s important, by creating goals/outcomes and an action plan. Master time management by creating a work/life balance with ...
#101- Most Men Still Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation w/Certified Men's Coach Ettore Toppi
June 07, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBSend us a Text Message. A plague far more destructive than any virus has swept over the world. It is the destructive narcissist many know as modern day man. Most men suffer in silence and often damage others along the way. Today I speak with Ettore Toppi who is a certified men’s coach, men’s work facilitator, and creator and co-host of the popular podcast Authenticity Road: Adventures in Men’s Work. His coaching and facilitation take a somatic approach to connecting men with their emotio...
#100 - Mother Earth
May 17, 2023 16:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBSend us a Text Message. In this 100th episode we celebrate the earth. Mother Earth truly provides all that we have. She gives us our food, our clothes, our housing. We and all animals including fish and ocean creatures create C02 while the plant life on land and in the ocean provide oxygen in this incredible symbiotic relationship. Support the Show.
#99- Accident, Depression, Darkness to Redemption and Renewed Love w/ Ed Watters
May 10, 2023 17:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBSend us a Text Message. Ed Watters was injured on the job he eventually lost. After sinking into despair and darkness feeling "Dead" in America. Both he and his wife became unfaithful, yet their 40 year love bent but didn't break. Eventually, after much struggle and heartache, they fell in love again. This is a hard journey of childhood trauma and sexual abuse to healing one's self through connecting to others, and letting go. Ed started the Dead America podcast for others feeling depre...
#98 - Honorship
May 03, 2023 15:00 - 5 minutes - 3.69 MBSend us a Text Message. We hear about ownership, but what about honorship? Owning what we honor becomes our lives and how we live. Honor pain and doubt, you get more of the same. Honor love, more love finds you. We often hear about following one's dreams. That can often be found in some external pursuit. Yet all dreams start with honoring oneself. Honoring oneself in the face of opposition or that negative chattering voice. Beneath opposition and fear exists truth. So all of the doubts bec...
#97- Podcast Marketing and Other Industry Secrets with Vinnie Potestivo
April 26, 2023 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBSend us a Text Message. Vinnie Potestivo is an Emmy® Award-winning Brand Advisor who grows personal brands & founder-led businesses by getting them get seen, heard, and known by scaling content and media reach. Vinnie is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of I Have A Podcast® and Host of LinkedIn Presents: I Have A Podcast® - a podcast that examines the Creator Economy with guests like Mandy Moore, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Ja Rule, Christina Milian, and Top Business Strategist for LinkedIn Creators ...
#96- Humanity
April 19, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutes - 3.26 MBSend us a Text Message. Often our humanity gets trapped in the dogma of the mind and the dogma of society causing us to feel and think small. We adhere to it rather than the other way around. On this show we are trying to break free to live our true potentials. For we are here to expand while dogma remains stuck in the past. Here's a short one- a few nuggets is sometimes all we need. Support the Show.
#95- Brain Trauma Survivor and Renowned Speaker Danielle Matthews
April 12, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBSend us a Text Message. At the age of 23 Danielle was hit by a drunk driver and sustained a life-altering injury to her brain. The medical world said there was no hope of recovery & told her to accept this life as her “new normal”. Although her body was physically impaired, her spirit was strong & she refused to believe their diagnoses. Her mind was determined to recover…and she did! She is a testament to the concept of post traumatic growth and has since built an international busin...
#94- The Hurried Fox
April 05, 2023 16:00 - 4 minutes - 3.16 MBSend us a Text Message. I was driving the other day on a country road when a fox ran out in front of me. There were no cars behind me and waiting would have served him better as I almost hit him and he almost lost his life. How often do we hurry as if our lives are on the line when we don't have to and when waiting and thinking something through would better serve us? Enjoy today's short solo cast. Support the Show.
#93- Sustainable Living with Author and Filmmaker David Wann
March 29, 2023 17:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Is this lifestyle sustainable? Is the exhaustion, stress, and debt? Overeating? Under nourishing? Water pollution? Garbage? Air quality? Does it have to be sustained? We are capable of something far better. More people are juicing, eating better, exercising, taking better care of the earth, buying less and seeking more meaningful connections. My guest today is David Wann. He is an author, filmmaker, and speaker on the topic of sustainable lifestyles and designs. ...
#92- Go Through Your Day Clear and Fulfilled with Psychotherapist Dr. Foojan Zeine
March 15, 2023 18:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBSend us a Text Message. Everyone needs skills to go through their day feeling clear and fulfilled. Dr. Foojan Zeine brings simple and practical skills to the audience for dealing with matters of life. She has developed a psychological and education model that supports minimizing depression, anxiety and raises self-esteem and self-confidence. The Awareness Integration theory can be explained in a very simple way to enhance your audience's life. Dr. Foojan Zeine is a Psychotherapist, Radio/...
#91- Intuition and Synchronicity with Intuitive Guide Lori Hoover
March 08, 2023 17:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBSend us a Text Message. We've all had little things happen that we can't explain. These events and ideas seem to come out of nowhere. Medium and Psychic Lori Hoover and I discuss this phenomenon. She is also the host of the podcast Wake The Fuck Up! which is about bringing mindfulness to the earth and our daily lives. Find out more about Lori on her Facebook page Lori Hoover Intuitive Guide & Medium Support the Show.
#90 - What's your story? Is it trapping you or setting you free?
March 01, 2023 18:00 - 4 minutes - 3.26 MBSend us a Text Message. Everyone has a story. What's the story your living? Is your story trapped by dogma and doubts, belief systems that undermine you? Today I solo-cast on the difference between society and humanity. One of them can set us free, while the other one can trap us. Everyone has a story. What's yours? Support the Show.
#89- Do You Enjoy Cutting People Down? The Tall Poppy Syndrome w/ Dr. Doug Garland
February 22, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBSend us a Text Message. The tall poppy syndrome is a human condition that has been present in every society since the beginning of time. It explains why we seek fairness and justify our actions by cutting others down. Using both recent examples and case studies throughout history Dr. Doug Garland reveals the emotional damage and challenges that we, as well as all Tall Poppies, experience. It helps bring a new level of understanding to the rise in 'cancel culture' and cultural movements suc...
#88- Ben Albert Continued
February 15, 2023 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Folks, we had lost Ben near the end due the internet going down. So this is the conclusion of that conversation. Support the Show.
#87- Authentic Marketing with Ben Albert
February 15, 2023 17:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBSend us a Text Message. Ben Albert of BALBERTMARKETING.COM is all about amplifying your values to potential clients. He is an advocate for your vision, your values, your why. This is the new style of marketing. Marketing your authenticity. He understands that marketing is about creating emotional relationship with your audience. He is also the founder of the Real Business Connection Network. He creates a road map for your success based upon your values and goals. His goal is to share your...
#86- Are you looking out the window or in the mirror?
February 08, 2023 19:00 - 5 minutes - 3.97 MBSend us a Text Message. I'm solo-casting today on this super important topic. At a young age we are taught to want what everyone else wants. This is where comparison begins of what they have compared to what we don't. We are taught to want materials and external things and not what are souls need. There's always someone who will have what you want: looks, money, cars, hair, physique. This makes us feel small and powerless. This is us looking out the window. No one taught us to look in ...
#85- Intentional Optimism with Andrea Johnson
February 01, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBSend us a Text Message. Optimism and positivity gets more done than doubt and fear ever could. We love better, we think better, we're more productive and creative, we're happier and healthier. On today's show I interview Andrea Johnson who is an Executive Leadership Coach, Certified DISC Consultant, and host of the Intentional Optimists, Unconventional Leaders podcast. She uses her training and experience to equip & empower female leaders to think critically, create imaginatively and le...
#84- Strengthening Childhood Education through Understanding History- Author Barbara Mojica
January 25, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBSend us a Text Message. She is the author of Little Miss History which brings childhood development and history together in fun adventurous books that bring us to Mount Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall and other important historical events and locations. Barbara is a historian that believes "If you don't know your history, you don't know what you're talking about." Today in our society, so much is being swept under the rug and denied. We at the Den of Discussion bring ...
#83- Compressing Time
December 09, 2022 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.47 MBSend us a Text Message. Solocasting today - When we are stressed and angry we compress time. When we are free and at peace sitting on the crest of a wave, we feel like we can see forever. And this expands time, because there is more space in the moment to experience joy and harmony. Support the Show.
#82- What will be your legacy? Wartime Psychological Operations and Current Affairs - Tim Heale
December 01, 2022 14:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBSend us a Text Message. What will be your legacy? What stories will fade with you that your loved ones will never know? *I would first like to say how grateful I am to Tim Heale. His best friend died unexpectedly the day before and yet, although I offered to reschedule, he still wanted to do the show. Thank you, Tim. Tim Heale has done it all. Having spent most of his adult life under the Colours in the British Army from being an infantry soldier to an experienced PSYOPS Operator or Psy...
#82- What will be your legacy? Wartime Psycological Operations and Current Affairs - Tim Heale
December 01, 2022 14:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBWhat will be your legacy? What stories will fade with you that your loved ones will never know? *I would first like to say how grateful I am to Tim Heale. His best friend died unexpectedly the day before and yet, although I offered to reschedule, he still wanted to do the show. Thank you, Tim. Tim Heale has done it all. Having spent most of his adult life under the Colours in the British Army from being an infantry soldier to an experienced PSYOPS Operator or Psychological Operator tryin...
#81- Are you Showing Up with Love or Ego?
November 23, 2022 16:00 - 4 minutes - 3.21 MBSend us a Text Message. We often show up in situations contemplating how it affects us. Our family notices. Are you showing up with love or selfishness on how it's inconveniencing you. Well, that response is felt by others. So you might be showing up physically, but not emotionally. Are you showing up with love or ego? Support the Show.
#80 - From the Darkness of PTSD to Redemption with David Hollenbach
November 17, 2022 17:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Retired Battalion Chief David Hollenbach is the author of “Fireproof: Your Grand Strategy for Transforming Failure into Fuel for Your Future.” He is an international best-selling author, motivational speaker, coach, and mentor. He owns and operates David Hollenbach Consulting, LLC, and hosts the popular podcast “From Embers to Excellence.” During his 23-year career in the fire service, he served as a •Firefighter •Apparatus Driver/Pump-Operator/Engineer •Company Of...
#79 - Freedom of Speech is Costing us Dearly as our Democracy Teeters
November 10, 2022 12:00 - 9 minutes - 6.25 MBIt's time I got to soloing again. I feel there is no more poignant time to post this than during an election cycle. There is much fear mongering of late. The misinformation campaigns are raging. And We The People get lost in the power struggle. We love the idea of freedom of speech, but should speech that deliberately misleads be so easily free? it is a manipulation of this freedom I take to task. Take a listen. Support the show
#79 - Freedom of Speech is Costing us Dearly
November 10, 2022 12:00 - 8 minutes - 5.7 MBSend us a Text Message. It's time I got to soloing again. I feel there is no more poignant time to post this than during an election cycle. There is much fear mongering of late. The misinformation campaigns are raging. And We The People get lost in the power struggle. We love the idea of freedom of speech, but should speech that deliberately misleads be so easily free? it is a manipulation of this freedom I take to task. Take a listen. Support the Show.
#78 - Author, Historian, and Ex-Intelligence Officer Terry Thiele
November 02, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBSend us a Text Message. We are witnessing a blast of the technological and societal changes that are accelerating us into a future our imaginations cannot grasp. For 7,000 generations, since anatomically “modern” humans emerged 200,000 years ago, children could look to their parents and grandparents for life lessons in how to confront the chaos. No more. Their yesterday experiences will be of little, if any, help to today’s children in surviving tomorrow’s chaos. Our children have no maps,...
#77 - The Fall of a Christian Leader with Brian Kreeger
October 26, 2022 17:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBSend us a Text Message. To fall or be brought down by temptation is not Christian, but human. We all fall at one time or another. Brian Kreeger was no different. But he felt he had failed God as well as his wife... This is one not to miss as we dive deep into what happened and how he and his marriage recovered. Brian Kreeger is an author, speaker, and nonprofit consultant. In 2012, he founded a faith-based free health clinic that served as a vehicle to share Christ's love through primary ...
#76 - Traditional and Indie Author - Dave Milbrandt
October 20, 2022 14:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBSend us a Text Message. Today we get back to basics: writing. Today's guest and I speak about traditional and indie markets and how to best navigate each. Dave is a novelist who has straddled the fence with both indie and traditional publishing. He is the the author of Fool's Luck and the Jim Mitchell series of novels (Chasing Deception, Undue Pressure and Running), Dave Milbrandt fell in love with writing in junior high and has been a storyteller ever since. A former staff writer for a ...
#75 - She Quit Her Dream Job on Broadway - Emily McGill
October 12, 2022 17:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Emily McGill is a spiritual seeker, tarot reader, storytelling strategist, and a deep believer in the power of community. After nearly a decade and a half working in entertainment in New York City as a Broadway and entertainment publicist and communications consultant, her path of self-exploration led to healing and evolution - and reading tarot cards professionally. Invited to read tarot for virtual Burning Man 2021 and Brooklyn's dry speakeasy Club Curious, Emi...
#74 - Reading Cultural Signs through Technology with Dr. Rick Chromey
September 15, 2022 16:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBSend us a Text Message. Insight. Inspiration. Ideas. DR. RICK CHROMEY helps people interpret history, navigate culture and explore faith so they can create transformative change in their homes, at school or work. With over 30 years of training experience, Dr. Chromey is a sought after speaker both nationally and internationally. He has also penned over a dozen books on leadership, culture, history, classroom management and creative communication, including his most recent book "GenTech...
#73 - Economics Researcher and Mathematician Noah Healy
September 08, 2022 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBSend us a Text Message. Is the economy rigged against you? Yes it is. Recreational mathematician and programmer Noah Healy is working on upgrading capitalism for the computer age. He is a mathematician with expertise in computational math and algorithms. He spends his time working to upgrade the operating methods of the global economy. Entered the University of Virginia as a high school junior. Last person admitted to University of Virginia’s nuclear engineering program. Completed BS E...
#72 - Healing Trauma with Ann Hince
August 25, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBSend us a Text Message. When Ann was 19, she woke one morning to find her mother dead face down in their bathroom. Twenty years later the tears from that trauma were still just under the surface. It took one 15 minute session with a strange technique to remove the charge from that event and be able to tell the story with no emotion. That one session set her on a journey to not only release the trauma from past memories, but to get beyond that, into the subconscious mind to release tension ...
#71 - Authentic Branding with DP Knudten
August 10, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBDP Knudten is the creator and host of the NONFICTION BRAND podcast. Is there honesty in branding? Should there be? Yes, as per DP Knudten, authenticity makes all the difference. As a 30-year veteran of advertising and branding, he's pretty much seen it all. His nonfiction philosophy is outlined in his latest book "NONFICTION BRAND—Discover, craft and communicate the 'completely true / completely you' brand you already are." DP’s worked on some of the biggest brands in the business in...