LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of Happy

Former cognitive psychologist Victoria Shaw shares how losing her passion in academia led her to embrace intuition, spirituality, and professional psychic work. She and Walt explore the Law of Attraction, presence, self-trust, and creating a joyful, soul-led life in uncertain times.Victoria Shaw's Website: http://www.victoriashawintuitive.com/#LawOfAttraction#Intuition#SpiritualGrowth#ConsciousLiving

Discover clear, actionable ideas to help you grow, simplify your decisions, and move forward with confidence.Each episode breaks big concepts into practical steps you can use immediately without fluff, hype, or information overload.#PersonalGrowth#MindsetMatters#PracticalWisdom#SuccessHabits

A bereaved father,  Mike Gomoll, shares how his son Joe’s short life with Dravet syndrome inspired Joey’s Song, a star‑studded music charity raising millions for epilepsy research, blending grief, resilience, rock legends, and joyful community into one powerful annual event.#JoeysSong #EpilepsyAwareness #GriefToPurpose #MusicForACause #DravetSyndrome #LOAToday

In this episode, Walt and Jodie Lynn explore buying a home on a fixed or retirement income, share hard‑won lessons from past real estate mistakes.Explain how inflation erodes savings and discuss Bitcoin, DIY investing apps, and why a trusted financial advisor matters.Money's Website: https://moneypodcast.net/#MoneyPodcast#PersonalFinance#MoneyMindset#FinancialFreedom

A heart-opening conversation with Walt, Anne Marie, and EMDR therapist Elka.Weave together trauma healing, brain science, language, passion, and energy. Discover how renaming “selfish,” naming your brain, and following what you love can literally save your life.#LOAToday #MentalHealth #EMDR #TraumaHealing

A retired listener’s question about CDs sparks a deep dive into money, fear, values, and the law of attraction. Walt and Jodie Lynn explore active management, emotional triggers, real-life money stories, and why awareness, not income, is the real game-changer. #MoneyMindset #ValuesBasedLiving

When a child is adopted from foster care, the story doesn’t end , it gets more real. Walt and Joel explore trauma, expectations, “doing the work,” and why parents must heal themselves to truly help a hurting child.#FosterCare #TraumaHealing #DoingTheWork

A former foster child turned reclamation coach, Ashana shares how surviving chaos, shame, and rock-bottom moments led her to reclaim herself and help other women do the same through radical authenticity, intention, and community.#HealingJourney #SelfReclamation #LOAToday

Walt and Jodie Lynn launch Money, a fun, accessible podcast about money as energy, scarcity vs. abundance, and creativity with finances.Inviting listener questions to demystify the monetary system and shift mindsets around wealth.#money #moneypodcast #wealth

A candid conversation with life coach Joel Elston on why mindset isn’t enough without action. We explore growth vs. victim mindset, foster care success stories, and how perspective shapes pain, struggle, and resilience.#loatoday #action

What happens when the only survivor of a horrific crash, burned over 70% of her body as a child, grows up, buries her pain for 40 years, and then finally decides to stop merely surviving and start truly living?That’s the story Tracy shared in her conversation with Walt - a raw, emotional journey from suppression and silent suffering to radical healing, self-ownership, and helping others become “trauma rock stars.”At 12 years old, Tracy survived a devastating car accident that killed her cousins and left her with life-threatening burns and a head injury. As if that weren’t enough, just a few years later, in high school, she was drugged and sexually assaulted by several boys at a party. She told no one for decades.Back in the 1980s, Tracy explains, there were almost no tools and very little understanding of trauma: “We didn’t have the tools that we have now, even the word trauma was very taboo. Talking about mental health was taboo.”Walt gently reflects the core truth that so many survivors need to hear: “It wasn’t your responsibility anyway what they were doing, of course, entirely on them.”For 40 years, Tracy suppressed everything. She describes it not as living, but simply existing. That began to shift during the pandemic, when she started experimenting with guided meditations at home. Meditation quickly became more than a calm-down tool; it was a mirror: “I started getting these downloads of information, and I realized, like, I was a mess, and I had never really dealt with anything.”Walt asks how those “downloads” affected her, and Tracy is honest about the messy beginning: meditation was frustrating, like “golf” - some days great, some days terrible, but she kept going.Over time, she learned about concepts like the higher self, started guided higher-self meditations, and the truth of her unprocessed trauma finally surfaced.Then came a turning point: MDMA-assisted therapy.Curious and open-minded, Tracy researched MDMA for months after reading about it in a book by another survivor. She eventually found a nearby therapy center, went through a detailed medical intake, and was paired with a therapist, Allie, whom she now calls life-changing.Tracy is clear: this is not street ecstasy, but a carefully controlled, micro-dosed, therapeutic setting. What happened in that session was nothing short of transformational: “It was like a flash of everything that made sense, all the bad decisions I made, people I had in my life - I got all these answers, but it was positive.”She discovered hidden survivor’s guilt, forgave herself for past choices, and grieved the life she might have had - all while viewing herself through what she describes as a lens of love and compassion. A year later, she says her “happy chemicals” still feel switched on.Walt highlights a key mindset shift: realizing that while we can’t always control what happens to us, we can choose how we respond over and over again. Tracy now notices triggers in her body, especially her nervous system, and responds with curiosity instead of panic: “Sometimes I’ll get a really bad pain in my shoulder, and I know I’m about to get triggered, I’m so in touch with my nervous system now.”Her “hot mess,” she says, has become her superpower, the very foundation of her Trauma Rock Stars podcast, her upcoming memoir, and her healing programs.She’s sharing every messy, miraculous step so others don’t have to stay stuck for 40 years, the way she did.Her message is simple and powerful: no one is coming to save you, but that’s not bad news. It’s your invitation to become your own hero.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/tracy-smaldinoFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#TraumaHealing #SurvivorToThriver #TraumaRockStars #MentalHealthAwareness #NervousSystemHealing #MeditationJourney #SurvivorsGuilt #GenerationalTrauma #SelfCompassion #HealingJourney

What does it take to finally stop hustling for your worth?For Pamela, it wasn’t cancer. It wasn’t an abusive marriage. It wasn’t single motherhood. It was a blood pressure reading at a routine dentist appointment.Sitting in the chair, she watched the hygienist frown at the monitor: 158 over 104. At first, they thought the machine was broken. It wasn’t.In that moment, Pamela realized something devastating: “I am a cancer survivor. I survived an abusive marriage, and here I am with a blood pressure that could potentially lead to a stroke or a heart attack. If I didn’t change something, I was going to not be there to enjoy this life that I was trying to build.”The deeper truth underneath it all was a belief she’d carried for years because of her dyslexia: “I had this belief that I had to work harder, be harder, do more than anybody else to prove that I was worth and was able to be where I was.”That belief drove her to walk away from a six‑figure corporate role as a single mom and hustle her way into a successful real estate and coaching business. On the outside, it looked like success. On the inside, it was killing her.Money coach and abundance teacher Jodie Lynn recognized herself in Pamela’s story immediately. Her driver wasn’t dyslexia, it was gender and age: “I had to work harder because I’m a woman and because I’m young. I was working seven days a week, 12-hour days. I didn’t know how to slow down.”When Walt asked, “How long did it take you to realize the fear wasn’t going to come true once you set boundaries?”Jodie Lynn admitted it wasn’t instant. It took months of nervous system work and tiny experiments in rest, starting with just two hours off on a Sunday, to prove to herself that her life wouldn’t fall apart if she stopped answering every call the moment it came in.Pamela added a powerful framework she uses with clients: the “story loop.” An event happens, we react, we judge, then we build a story, and our brain hunts for proof that it’s true.“If you stop at the story and take it back up to: this is an event that happened, what evidence do I have that this story is actually true? Then we can start doing that pattern interrupt.”Perhaps the most dramatic turning point came when Pamela agreed to a three‑day silent retreat, no talking, no phone, no music, no books, no writing, no chores.“It took me 24 hours before my nervous system completely relaxed. My brain is like, ‘Is it over yet? What are we doing?’ Middle of the second day, I physically felt sick.”On the other side of that discomfort was something life‑changing: “Once I got past that, it was life-changing. Now I’m able to meditate. I can completely quiet all the chatter.”Walt summed up the transformation beautifully when he reflected on silencing his own “monkey mind”: “My life experience did change substantially from that point on, because that was gone. It’s a very different way of experiencing life.”Today, Pamela channels everything she’s learned into coaching, speaking, and her books “The Quiet Gift” and “Meaningful Success.”With her business partner, she’s created a Success Summit and a Time Bender framework to help high achievers escape burnout without abandoning ambition.The core message running through this entire conversation is simple and profound: Your beliefs are driving everything. You can change them, and when you do, success finally feels like a life you actually get to live.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/pamela-cassPamela Cass's Website: https://reigniteresiliencepodcast.beehiiv.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#MeaningfulSuccess #BurnoutToBreakthrough #CancerSurvivor #SilentRetreat #NervousSystemHealing #WorkLifeBalance #MindsetShift #DyslexiaJourney #HighAchieverHealing #MoneyMindset #EmotionalWellbeing #InnerPeace #PersonalGrowth #RewriteYourStory

“How many of my patients would I even be seeing if they’d changed their behavior earlier?”That unspoken question hung in the air throughout Walt Thiessen’s powerful conversation with cardiologist Dr. Bilal Ahmed on LOA Today: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Wellness.This wasn’t a dry medical lecture. It was an emotional, honest look at how our daily choices quietly shape whether our final 10-15 years are vibrant or spent fighting chronic disease.Walt opened from a deeply personal place. At 69, with family members who lived past 100, he knows longevity is in his genes but he also knows he could still sabotage it if he doesn’t care for his body. On a recent hike, he and another walker easily outpaced their peers. Many in their age group, he noted, are “hobbling around” or stuck on the couch.His haunting question: “What are you doing? Or more precisely, what aren’t you doing?”Dr. Bilal answered from both head and heart. He shared how his grandfather’s heart condition inspired his path into cardiology, and how he now challenges the purely “pharmacology-driven” model by focusing on inflammation and the gut microbiome.He explained that heart disease isn’t just about “high cholesterol” anymore. Inflammation, driven in part by an unhealthy gut, activates LDL particles, irritates blood vessels, and leads to plaque and heart attacks. A healthy gut microbiome, he said, can even change how well people respond to cancer treatments and influence diabetes and cholesterol.But the most emotional moments came when they dove into personal responsibility and the mental barriers to change. Walt shared about his ex‑wife’s long struggle to make even small, consistent lifestyle shifts, despite having once reversed Graves’ disease through mindset and emotional work.Dr. Bilal didn’t dismiss that struggle. He sees it daily in patients working multiple jobs, raising kids, exhausted, and sedentary. Sometimes, he said, it isn’t “willpower” so much as fear of the unknown and a distorted idea of what activity must look like:People imagine they must suddenly hit 10,000 steps or “kill themselves at the gym.” But research shows huge benefits starting as low as 2,000 steps a day, increasing gradually. “It doesn’t take as much as you think it does,” he emphasized.Walt pushed a tough question many people whisper: Are doctors even motivated to prevent disease if it means fewer patients and less income?Dr. Bilal’s answer was raw and direct. He described half‑days with 26 - 29 patients, giving him maybe 10 minutes per person, barely enough for “hello and goodbye,” let alone real counseling.That’s why he founded Lylah Health, digging into over 79 randomized controlled trials on the gut microbiome and identifying specific probiotics and postbiotics that can lower LDL by 15 - 21%, comparable to some prescription drugs when combined with better eating and activity. No magic pills. No free rides. Just tools to help prevent that dreaded late‑life decline.Co‑host Anne Marie Young brought it home emotionally, reflecting on her own weight gain and menopause, the danger of being “on my bottom all day,” and the power of small, doable changes like hula‑hooping in the living room while cooking.Because, as Dr. Bilal reminds us, there is no silver bullet. There is only your body, from the moment you open your eyes the first time until you close them for the last, and the choices you make in between.Your future self is begging you: start now.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/bilal-ahmedBilal Ahmed's Website: https://lylahhealth.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#HeartHealth #GutHealth #Microbiome #Inflammation #PreventiveCare #HealthyAging #MediterraneanDiet

What happens when the person who “should” know money best hands over her financial power and loses everything?In this gripping conversation, Estelle shares how her life imploded and how that collapse became the doorway to true freedom, spiritually and financially.As a child, Estelle’s father taught her about saving and balancing a checkbook at eight years old. By high school, she was an assistant bookkeeper, and she went on to become a CPA with Deloitte, working with companies from tiny businesses to massive corporations. On paper, she was money mastery. And then it all shattered.After five years of marriage, her husband came home one day and said, “I want a divorce.” Estelle was left with a house she couldn’t afford and bills she hadn’t been watching. Despite her professional expertise, she had done what so many people do in relationships: handed over the money and stopped paying attention. “I had handed over my financial power. I was left with a house I couldn’t afford, bills I wasn’t paying attention to.”That moment forced a transformation. Estelle had to rebuild financially and emotionally at the same time. Along the way, she noticed something heartbreaking and powerful: in her spiritual and self‑development communities, people were affirming prosperity but couldn’t balance a checkbook.Two worlds. Same fear. No freedom.From that realization, Estelle developed a powerful model she calls “Your Word Equals Your World.” She explains how your words shape your thoughts, which form beliefs, which drive feelings, which fuel your actions, and ultimately your experience with money and everything else.As Jodie Lynn adds, this is where responsibility gets scary. Many people resist the idea that their beliefs create their reality because it seems to imply, “If I’m responsible, I must be bad.” But responsibility doesn’t mean you’re bad; it means you’re powerful enough to choose differently now.Walt pushes the conversation further by asking: if the global fiat system is heading toward a breaking point, what happens when money itself can’t function the way it has? What if we end up in a world where money simply isn’t as important?Estelle has heard some intuitives say exactly that: that our values will shift toward community, care, and belonging, and money will lose its place at the center of everything. The pandemic, she notes, was a preview: suddenly, seeing family mattered more than spending money.So how do you get money flowing now, if “money is energy”?When Walt shares his listener Elmer’s question -“Seeing money as energy, how do I get it to flow and keep it consistent?” Estelle and Jodie Lynn answer from both spirit and practicality:Give and receive. “You can’t just sit back on the receiving end,” Estelle says. Money is circulation, and you “prime the pump” with time, value, generosity, and aligned action.Interrogate your beliefs about receiving. Jodie Lynn suggests asking, “What do I believe it takes to receive a consistent flow?” Then listen honestly and change the beliefs that limit you.Play with it like an experiment. Estelle recommends treating this like a lab: try new thoughts, new actions, and watch what happens. No failure, just data.Most of all, they invite you to a radical reframe: money touches every area of your life, and your spirituality is the foundation of every area of your life. When you align the two, money stops being the thing that breaks you, and becomes the thing that wakes you up.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/estelle-gibsonEstelle Gibson's Website: http://www.estellegibson.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#MoneyIsEnergy #SacredWealth #FinancialHealing #SpiritualAbundance #MoneyMindset #ConsciousMoney

What happens when a woman spends decades trying to be everything to everyone, and her body finally says, “No more”?That’s the heart of the conversation between Walt, Anne Marie, and wellness guide Michelle, built around Michelle’s journey from overwhelmed, type‑A single mom to creator of the Holy Well program and the six dimensions of wellness.Michelle described growing up as a classic overachiever with type A parents, then becoming a single mom to two boys just 14 months apart while trying to be the perfect mother, daughter, colleague, and friend.Eventually, her health broke down, leading to an autoimmune diagnosis that forced a reckoning: “Something had to change, I was trying to be everything to everybody, and my health was what suffered.”That crisis pushed her back to her public health roots and to a powerful framework: the six dimensions of wellness - physical, social, spiritual, emotional, occupational, and intellectual. Instead of seeing life as random chaos, she began to see it as a “giant game of whack‑a‑mole” where different parts of us pop up depleted at different times.Walt pressed into the deeper side of this:Walt asked: “What role do you see those inner world pieces playing in your program?”Michelle answered that spiritual, emotional, and intellectual wellness go far beyond “Do I like my job?” or “Do I go to church?”- they are about values, creativity, and mental stimulation, and they directly impact our physical and emotional health.Michelle’s approach is disarmingly simple:Identify which of the six dimensions is most depleted.Notice your behavioral pattern. Are you a chaos‑loving Tilt‑A‑Whirl rider, a cautious Ferris wheel rider, or a stuck merry‑go‑round rider?Start with one tiny “anchor ritual”- a small, repeatable action, to begin refilling that depleted area. “The goal is to borrow from the full to refill the depleted, with baby steps instead of 17 things at once.”Anne Marie’s response made it deeply real. She shared that she went through a career change, menopause, and the loss of her mum in a short span and “completely lost” herself. Hearing Michelle’s framework, she saw how powerful it is to rate each area of life - “I’m an eight here, a four there, a two there” and then gently focus where you’re running on empty: “It just realigns you and brings you back to you.”Michelle’s Holy Well Quiz (18 questions that map those six dimensions) becomes both a mirror and a measuring stick. Women take it, see what’s low, start a micro‑ritual, and retake it months later to see how life has shifted. One woman discovered that, beneath her obvious physical concerns, her intellectual wellness was quietly depleted and that this mattered deeply to her because of a family history of dementia.Throughout, Michelle repeated one critical reassurance: “This isn’t selfish. It’s intentionally meant not to be selfish. It’s meant to make you a better mom, sister, daughter, employee, boss, partner, friend.”If you’ve been playing life’s whack‑a‑mole game, trying to hold everyone else together while slowly disappearing yourself, this conversation is an invitation:Where are you most depleted?Where are you secretly full and could borrow from?What is one tiny ritual you’re willing to claim as yours?Because you can’t save everyone else by losing yourself forever.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/michelle-fordMichelle Ford's Website: https://www.navigatingyourworld.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#WomensWellness #OverwhelmRecovery #MenopauseJourney #EmotionalHealth #SixDimensionsOfWellness #SelfCareIsNotSelfish #HolyWell #NavigatingYourWorld #SingleMoms #BurnoutToBalance #BabyStepsHealing #InnerWork #LifeDesign

“What do you really want?”That was the question Marc’s therapist asked him on a beautiful, sunny Atlanta day when, inside, he felt like there was “one cloud raining on just me.” Mark’s answer was simple and heartbreaking: “I just want to be normal.”In this deeply honest conversation on LOA Today, host Walt and co-host Jodie Lynn talk with Marc - certified personal trainer, nutritionist, strength and conditioning coach, mental health advocate, and podcast host about what happens when therapy feels like it’s failing you, but you refuse to fail yourself.Mark describes walking into therapy feeling broken and abnormal. His therapist gently pushed back: “There’s nothing abnormal about you, this is your normal. Normal is relative.”Those words eventually became the seed for his podcast, Relatively Normal, a platform where Marc speaks with therapists, psychologists, and everyday people about postpartum struggles, imposter syndrome, and the crushing loneliness of mental health challenges. His mission: “I just want to make sure people don’t feel isolated and alone.”Walt relates to his own story - starting LOA Today after a total business “crash and burn” in 2008 and admitting that, at first, he didn’t even think about listeners: “I was doing the podcast because I needed the help. When the first listener email came in, my reaction was, ‘Oh shit, what have I been saying?’”Marc shares a powerful turning point: he had lost weight, checked all the “life boxes” - marriage, house, better body and still felt empty. He called his therapist on the verge of tears: “I feel like I’ve checked all the boxes. Why am I not happy?”The therapist’s answer cut to the core: “Did you think losing all the weight would make you feel better mentally?You have to be intentional with both.”Marc realized he’d been treating physical health as a cure-all for mental pain. That’s when he decided to treat fitness like therapy, even hiring a trainer as his “therapist for physical health.” He stopped using workouts to escape stress and started leaning into his stress at the gym, coming back with “three or four different resolution strategies” after a hard session.Today, Marc’s niche is training young people. Before every session, he asks: “Zero to ten - where are you mentally right now?”If a teenager says they’re at a three or four, he adapts the session. For an eight or nine, he pushes harder. Why? Because: “No one ever asks them where they are mentally.”He refuses to be the harsh coach parents sometimes request: “I don’t want them to hate coming to work with me. My job is sometimes to motivate, sometimes to inspire, and to help them find things in themselves they wouldn’t find without me.”Jodie Lynn beautifully ties the conversation together, pointing out how much of our identity gets trapped in roles - athlete, worker, partner, and how Marc is giving kids permission to ask: Do I actually love this? Or am I just good at it?Marc tells his own daughters, “The first time you tell me, ‘I don’t love this anymore,’ we’re done after the season. I won’t force your childhood to be full of things you hate.”Ultimately, this conversation is a reminder that:Normal is relative.Happy is relative.And you’re allowed to rewrite both.You don’t have to choose between therapy and training, between mental health and physical health, between passion and discipline. You can choose all of it, and you can choose yourself.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/marc-paisantMarc Paisant's Website: https://www.marcpaisant.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#MentalHealthMatters #RelativelyNormal #FitnessAndMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth #ParentingWithCompassion #FollowYourJoy #SelfDiscovery #EmotionalWellbeing #NormalIsRelative #HappinessIsRelative

When Walt opened the show by admitting he saw “preparation” and “where are we going?” as almost the same topic, he expected agreement. Instead, Joel gently pushed back.For Joel, those two ideas live in very different emotional universes. “Where are you going matches the concept for me that there is no destination. There’s a journey. Your journey is where you’re going. There is no destination.”That single idea reframed everything that followed.Both Walt and Joel grew up with the same cultural script: work hard, prepare for retirement, and one day you’ll “get there.”But Joel’s life blew that script apart. He talked about chasing wealth, preparing obsessively for a future that never arrived, then losing everything through addiction, homelessness, and jail. “I dug myself an incredibly deep hole, and the process of digging myself out of the hole is what made me successful.”At one point, he believed his life was permanently ruined. Yet looking back, he now calls that period the catalyst for everything good that came later. Walt still remembers resisting that idea the first time he heard it: “I remember distinctly when you were telling me that, I thought you were nuts.”The “worst thing that ever happened” became the doorway to meaning, purpose, and connection with his son.Walt raised a painful question many of us ask silently:How do you prepare when you don’t even know what you’re preparing for or if the preparation advice you’ve been given is totally wrong?  Joel’s answer wasn’t a checklist. It was a mindset.He described coaching a young man who kept postponing applying for a job. Instead of building a big, complex plan, Joel gave him one clear mental anchor: “When you get to the parking lot, apply for the job.”That wasn’t just preparing a résumé; it was preparing a mind that actually takes the next step.Joel lives this daily. He writes five things he’s grateful for every single morning and has done it for decades, including on the day his son died.“I wasn’t able to be sincerely grateful and depressed at the same time.”For him, gratitude isn’t a cute slogan. It’s survival. It’s preparation for whatever the journey brings next.Walt shared a powerful technique: learning to appreciate what you don’t like—not by pretending to love it, but by inching it from -100 to -80 in your emotional “score.” That tiny shift is still an appreciation, because it increases value.“You don’t have to like it in order to appreciate it.”Joel calls this “reframing.” He used it to transform eating from a dumpster from a lifelong trauma into a necessary piece of the story that ultimately helped him connect with his son.As the conversation turned to money, entitlement, and work, Joel said the real lottery isn’t a financial windfall. It’s this: “The ultimate lottery in life is finding a way to make a good living doing what you’re passionate about and love.”That’s the kind of preparation that actually matters: preparing your mind and heart to live the journey fully, instead of waiting for some mythical finish line that never comes.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/preparationFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#MindsetShift #GratitudePractice #EmotionalResilience #PersonalGrowth #SelfDiscovery #JourneyNotDestination #MentalHealth #AddictionRecovery #LifeCoaching #Purpose #Ikigai #Motivation

What happens when a musician is told he has two years to live and decides not just to survive, but to finally live on his own terms?That’s the story Kevin shared in this powerful conversation with Walt and Jodie Lynn, a story that weaves together music, mortality, and a radical redefinition of success.From the very beginning, Kevin framed music as destiny, not just a career. As a teenager, he discovered the mountain dulcimer and “just knew it was [his] destiny.” By 16, he was signed to a major folk label, recording alongside legends like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie.He went on to sing the theme for the PBS hit Shining Time Station, and in his words, he got “a little rich, a little famous, a book deal, a record deal, all that stuff.”But the dream came with a price.The stress, pressure, and misalignment of success led to a brutal wake-up call: melanoma. Four oncologists told Kevin it would return within two years, and he’d be dead. He calls it what it was: a death sentence.And yet something in him refused to accept that story.Kevin describes himself as “somewhat psychic,” deeply spiritually attuned, and both musical and spiritual “from birth.” When he heard the diagnosis, he recalls walking through his apartment, speaking out loud to his dog, and saying: “Don’t worry, buddy, we’ll get through this.”Then came the realization: “I discovered there were two of me, the conscious warrior and the knower.” That inner knowing told him he wasn’t going to die. He followed that guidance, turned inward spiritually, found teachings from Yogananda and Ramana Maharshi, and radically simplified his life.He left the Midwest with “my dog and my dulcimer,” moved into a small apartment in San Diego, and embraced minimalism. He lost most of his money and discovered freedom. No house. No lawn. No status to maintain. Just health, music, and what truly mattered.When Walt asked what music really means to him, Kevin’s answer was simple and profound: “It was very healing.” He went on to describe Dulcie meditation using dulcimer instrumentals as a vehicle for accessing the subconscious and receiving quiet inner guidance. He realized he’d been doing it his whole life.That insight became the seed of a new calling. At someone’s suggestion, Kevin began life coaching, helping others apply the same principles he used to heal and rebuild.His first question to clients isn’t “What do you want?” It’s: “What don’t you want in your life anymore?” From there, he asks:What do you want?Why is that truly important?What are you going to do about it?Again and again, he returns to a central truth: health and self-love are the real wealth. “Your greatest asset is your health,” he says. “Forget about everybody else. Love yourself.”Now, through his upcoming Dulcie Meditations project on YouTube and Substack and one-on-one coaching via KevinRoth.org, Kevin is quietly redefining what it means to succeed: not by being everywhere, but by being deeply present with the few people he’s meant to help.His journey poses a question that lingers long after the conversation ends: If you were given a death sentence, what would you finally permit yourself to let go of, and what would you finally allow yourself to live for?LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/kevin-rothKevin Roth's Website: https://kevinroth.org/Follow the LOA Today podcast: https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#DulcieMeditation #HealingThroughMusic #FacingDeath #ChoosingLife #SpiritualAwakening #LifeCoaching #SelfLove #Minimalism #ConsciousLiving #MusicIsMedicine

What if the way you compare yourself to others is quietly deciding how happy or miserable you feel every day?In this powerful conversation on LOA Today, Walt and Joel unpack how comparison, gratitude, and mindset can either drain your joy or completely transform your life.From the very start, Walt asks the core question behind the episode: Are we falling into a comparison trap, or are we using comparison as a tool for growth?Joel doesn’t hesitate to call out the problem: “Social media is a platform of comparison; people see things, and they judge their life by where someone else is at, and that creates a feeling of lack.”He explains how we look at someone else’s “100%” – the gym-obsessed entrepreneur versus the person on day three of addiction recovery, and decide one is worthy and the other isn’t.But as Joel points out, both are giving everything they have. The problem isn’t effort. It’s the way we compare.Walt adds another layer: those “perfect” people we see online? “You look closer, they don’t actually fit the images.”There is no perfection. Yet we measure ourselves against it every day.Joel recalls the famous line, “Comparison is the thief of joy,” and explains why: when comparison is rooted in lack, we broadcast the energy of “I’m not enough.” That vibration shapes what we attract.But Joel also offers a reframe: “I like to be the dumbest, weakest, and poorest person in a room.”Not because he feels less than, but because he sees possibility. Around people who are stronger, wiser, or wealthier, he isn’t asking, “Why don’t I have that?” He’s asking, “What can I learn from them?”That simple question changes comparison from poison into fuel.Walt connects the comparison to one of their favorite themes: response.We can’t control what happens, but we can control how we respond. And with comparison, that response is everything: Do I use someone else’s success as proof I’m failing? Or as proof that what I want is possible for me too?Joel illustrates this with heartbreaking, real-life stories: the overdose of a bright 16-year-old, the death of his own son, families choosing to turn grief into advocacy, awareness, and even life-saving organ donation. “You can’t make tragedy not be tragic,” Joel says, “but your response to it can be empowering.”Walt brings it back to the simplest emotional guidance system possible: “It’s either I feel better, or I feel worse.”Instead of comparing ourselves to strangers on a screen, what if we only asked: Does this thought, this action, this focus make me feel better or worse?Joel agrees that comparison is at its best when it’s you vs. you: “Comparison is a quick way with yourself to show the subconscious brain things are different now.”Comparing who you are today to who you used to be can reprogram your belief in what’s possible.In the end, Walt sums up their journey: they both tried for years to make all of this complicated. But underneath it all, it’s simple:Notice how you compare.Choose gratitude over lack.Ask: Does this make me feel better or worse?And keep honoring the process, not just the result.Because the real “gratitude beyond the cake” isn’t about the celebration at the end. It’s about learning to love the journey that gets you there.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/comparisonFollow the LOA Today podcast: https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#Gratitude #MindsetShift #ComparisonTrap #PersonalGrowth #EmotionalHealing #RecoveryJourney #Stoicism #SelfLove #AbrahamHicks #SpiritualGrowth #Resilience #MentalHealthAwareness #EnergyWork

What happens when you stop running from your past and start ripping it up literally?In a powerful conversation on LOA Today, host Walt and co-host Anne Marie sat down with artist and soul-portrait guide Devorah to explore how creativity can become a lifeline out of shame, trauma, and self-hatred.From the outside, Devorah “looked” successful. She went to art school, showed in galleries, and was known as a professional artist. Inside, she felt like she was “never enough.”As she told Walt, she had grown up deeply dyslexic, struggled in school, and carried a childhood certainty that she was simply “bad” and somehow “going to hell” despite not growing up in a religious household. That early inner verdict fueled years of painful choices that seemed to “prove” her own worthlessness.One of the most haunting moments she shared was sitting in freezing Prague, wearing summer clothes, contemplating simply leaning back and letting nature take her life. “Something in me said, ‘No. Get up,’” she recalled. That tiny inner “no” became a turning point.Walt asked what it was like the first time she truly looked under the hood of her own story. Devorah admitted she was terrified of what she’d find: “I was so scared of what I would find looking under the hood, and what I found was love.”Unable at first to put her truth into spoken words, she found a different way: soul portraits. She began writing out her stories - letters, memories, confessions then ripping them up and collaging the pieces onto canvas. She layered writing over the fragments, then painted over the writing. In doing so, she deconstructed her old identity and rebuilt a new one in art form.Walt recognized it immediately: “You found a way to artistically journal.”That’s exactly what it is. Soul portraits are visual journals that live halfway between art and ritual. You don’t need to be “an artist.” As Devorah told Anne Marie, if you can smear glue and rip paper, you’re qualified.The power is not in making something pretty. The power is in getting what’s stuck in your body out onto the canvas, where you can finally see it, witness it, and relate to it differently.The conversation went even deeper when Devorah shared the compounded heartbreak of discovering her children had been sexually abused, losing her extended family support system in the fallout, then watching her husband later develop debilitating seizures.Anne Marie’s “mama bear” response came through strongly as she reflected on just how much Devorah had to navigate at once.Still, Devorah refuses to stay in victimhood. She challenges the belief that we are our worst moments: “I had no idea that under all of those layers was just peace and acceptance, and more than anything, self-forgiveness.”Today, she teaches others to do the same through a digital course, group work, and one-on-one guidance using their own letters, photos, and memories as raw material.Her core question to anyone listening is piercing and simple: Are you willing to look beneath the hood?Because once you start, she says, you may discover you’re not the monster your inner critic told you you were. You might just find a small, stubborn ember of love that has survived everything and is ready to light the way forward.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/devorah-brinckerhoffDevorah Brinckerhoff's Website: https://www.soulportrait.art/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#SoulPortraits #HealingThroughArt #CreativeRecovery #TraumaHealing #SelfForgiveness #EmotionalHealing #ArtTherapyInspired #InnerChildWork #PersonalGrowth #SelfLoveJourney #FromTraumaToPower

What if everything you’ve been chasing for happiness has been pointing you away from where it actually lives?In this powerful conversation on LOA Today, host Walt and co‑host Jodie Lynn sit down with breathwork teacher and money coach Jon Paul to explore how a simple, uncomfortable breathing technique can unlock decades of trapped pain and reveal a life filled with purpose, joy, and self‑love.Jon Paul begins by sharing his turbulent early life in the Irish enclaves outside Boston - violence, heavy drinking, and deep loss: “I lost six close friends before I was 21. I got stabbed when I was 19 and left for dead.”He describes how alopecia, the sudden loss of his hair during his fitness and acting career, shattered his self‑worth: “My self-esteem, my self-worth, was wrapped up in my looks and that was being stripped away, and it really accelerated my alcohol and drug use.”The pain that had no tools, no guidebook, finally drove him to therapy and 12‑step recovery - steps that got him sober, but still left old trauma buried in his nervous system.Walt asks a question many listeners were likely thinking: “What actually happens in this breathwork stuff?”Jon Paul’s answer changes everything we think we know about “just breathing”: “People think breathwork is relaxing meditation. This isn’t relaxing. This is like saying ‘I do fitness.’ Okay, but do you do CrossFit or yoga? Breathwork is like that.”He explains he teaches circular breathwork, a 30‑minute, mouth‑breathing practice done in a safe space that activates the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) specifically to reach stored trauma and emotional pain.The first 10 minutes? Often awful. “Your brain really fights you. It doesn’t want you to shut it off, and you have to push through that to have this big transformational experience.”One of the most striking moments is when Jon Paul describes what happens in the brain: “There’s a thing called transient hypofrontality. Part of the prefrontal cortex, where the critic lives, where the ego lives, can shut down.”For the first time in his life, he felt “enough”: “The first time I ever felt like I was enough was the first time I did this breathwork.”That quieting of the inner critic allowed a massive emotional release - years of grief, anger, and stored experiences finally moving out of his body.Jodie Lynn admits she’s not a natural “yeller,” and shares how past toxic relationships made screaming feel unsafe. Jon Paul responds with an insight that lands deeply: “Men need permission to cry, and women need permission to yell or scream.”At the end of his classes, he has everyone let out a massive yell, often with a gong crashing in the background. It’s raw, primal, and liberating: “When in life do we yell? There’s something there, it felt like years, maybe even other lifetimes of stuff letting out.”Perhaps the most emotionally charged takeaway is John Paul’s reflection on career and purpose: “We have to give up our dreams to step into our destiny. We can keep pursuing something just because we’ve been pursuing it so long and miss something beautiful right in front of us.”Jodie Lynn reframes it brilliantly, adding that we often must surrender our perceived dreams - the ones handed to us by culture, family, and social media - to finally discover a heart‑centered life worth living.In the end, breathwork isn’t presented as a magic fix, but as an actionable, repeatable way to love yourself by doing the hard inner work you’ve been avoiding.“The life that you’re looking for is in the work that you’ve been avoiding.” And this time, that work starts with one uncomfortable, conscious breath.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/jon-paul-crimiJon Paul Crimi's Website: https://breathewithjp.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast: https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#Breathwork

What if the very thing that makes you powerful is the thing your subconscious has spent a lifetime shutting down?In this deeply vulnerable and expansive conversation, Walt and Jodie Lynn explore what it means to live with immense spiritual potential while feeling cut off from some of its most common expressions,  especially visualization and direct connection with spirit guides.Early in the discussion, Walt lays out the emotional load he’s been carrying: grief over his cat’s illness, financial pressure from his gardening business, and the stress of creating a last‑minute memorial video for a family celebration of life.Yet even in the middle of all that, he’s also birthing something new: “What about the idea of the three of us creating a new modality, a way as a group to feed each other energy as we’re trying to focus on the things that we’re trying to attract in life?”That raises one of the central questions of the episode: How do we deliberately amplify good-feeling states so they reshape our lives, rather than treating them as fleeting moments?Walt shares a powerful insight he uncovered with the help of AI: if a conversation or experience raises your vibration (like their show “Your Daily Dose of Happy”), you can lock in the benefit by pausing several times later in the day just to re-feel how good it felt - without replaying the whole story: “You literally take a moment and spend a minute or so remembering how it felt to feel good at the end of the show. If you do that three to four times, you’re going to maximize the value of what you got out of doing the show.”Jodie Lynn takes that further with a somatic, body-based practice:Where does joy live in your body?What does fear feel like, and can you make it bigger than smaller, then quiet?She describes guiding people to map emotions in the body, “coding your entire body in your field” with the feeling you want to live in. She also shares her “Care Bear Stare” group exercise, in which everyone collectively sends love energy like a beam from the heart toward one person, often leaving the receiver feeling profoundly lifted.The conversation becomes even more intimate when Walt reveals his lifelong struggle with visualization: “Any image that I get is a pretty dull image, and it’s a static snapshot. As soon as I close my eyes, it’s gone. I can’t hold that image at all.”Why would someone so spiritually drawn be almost locked out of visual inner experience?Together, they explore the possibility that subconscious protection- some early conclusions like “this world is insane; I need to protect myself” may have led Walt’s system to shut down visual and psychic channels to keep him safe.Jodie Lynn suggests that when he finally unlocks this, he may see far more than most people, and will need not just access, but healthy control to turn it on and off.Walt’s recent Reiki session adds a powerful confirmation. A Native American spirit guide appears to the practitioner and symbolically gives him a large feather, a rare and sacred gift, and a message: his long, frustrating journey of “not quite connecting” is almost over, and a much larger journey is about to begin.“I’ve got this intention of doing a lot of stuff. I’m only, like, halfway through my life.”The core takeaway of this conversation is both simple and profound:Your resistance may not be a flaw; it may be protection.Your body is the gateway to the reality you want to create.Tiny, deliberate returns to good-feeling states can reshape your life.And underneath it all, Walt and Jodie Lynn keep circling one truth: “We have more power than we think. It’s not limited to the few. It’s all of us.”LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/changesFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#EnergyHealing #Reiki #SpiritualAwakening

What happens when the life you built shatters - your child is struggling, your marriage is crumbling, and you realize you’re starting to sound like the parent who hurt you most?In this powerful conversation, Julie joins Walt and JodieLynn to share how losing herself became the doorway to everything she was truly here to be.From the start, Julie frames her journey as a path to becoming an “empowered matriarch” - someone who knows her worth and holds her seat at the table of her own life. She describes how we’re all born with inherent worth, but soon “protectors” take their place at our inner table: old patterns, trauma, ancestral fear. They tell us they’re keeping us safe, but really, they’re keeping us small.A pivotal moment came with the birth of Julie’s second daughter - highly sensitive, reactive, violent at times, and struggling with night terrors and strange inflammation. While other moms around her were exhausted but generally okay, Julie was being pushed past every limit she thought she had.One day, her young daughter slammed her toddler brother’s fingers in a door. Julie snapped. She screamed. She swore. In that instant, she recognized her own mother’s abusive patterns coming through her - something she never wanted to repeat. “This isn’t who I am. This isn’t who I’m here to be.”That breakdown became a begging-for-tools moment. Julie turned to metaphysical practices she’d always been drawn to - Reiki, yoga, meditation, energy healing, and slowly began to respond instead of react. Yoga, especially, became sacred ground where she could “find herself again.”Then came level 10: betrayal and the end of a nearly 20-year marriage. Faced with the option of staying in a loveless but “cushy” arrangement, Julie asked herself a brutal question: “Where is my worth?”Choosing divorce meant four years of excruciating pain - a “death in many ways.” But on the other side, she realized she could never again accept the version of herself who had tolerated that life.This led her to create The Orenda - a mind, body, spirit approach that uses movement, color, intention, and energy to help people reconnect to their essence. Orenda is about putting tools on the table so others can claim their worth too.Throughout the conversation, Walt presses into a key question: Why do some people hit crash-and-burn moments and grow, while others refuse to do the inner work?Julie offers a multi-layered answer: soul contracts, fear of the unknown, lack of tools, and a culture that trains us to live in our heads instead of our heart-brain and gut-brain. She explains how meditation and breath shift us out of fear and into intuition, while Jodi Lynn adds vivid examples from working with horses and energy.One of the most powerful takeaways comes from JodieLynn’s reflection: “When you know your worth, you’ll never settle for less.”Julie’s work, JodieLynn notes, is like changing the crystalline structure of our inner water through words, color, and intention - transforming us from the inside out.By the end, Walt closes with a heartfelt acknowledgment on behalf of all the people Julie will never meet, but has already helped: “You’re making a difference in this world.”This conversation is an invitation and a challenge: Where are you still letting old protectors sit at your table? What pain are you willing to alchemize into worth, wisdom, and a new life?Because once you truly know your worth, staying small stops being an option.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/julie-feldmanJulie Feldman's Website: https://www.aurenda.us/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#SelfWorth #HealingJourney #EmpoweredMatriarch #ConsciousParenting #EnergyHealing #Reiki #YogaLife #Breathwork #InnerWork #SpiritualAwakening #Orenda #TraumaHealing #DivorceRecovery #WomenEmpoweringWomen

What if every person you meet, every fleeting moment, every heartbreak, every kindness, is not random at all but divine?In this powerful conversation, Walt and Joel pull back the curtain on what they call divine encounters and reveal how the smallest moments can reshape an entire life.Early on, Walt poses the core question behind the whole episode: Are some encounters truly divine, or is every encounter divine if we let it be?Joel answers not with theory, but with stories.Joel shares a lunch-time encounter with an elderly man in recovery for 50 years. At first, Joel admits he was just trying to eat in peace. Then the man says something strange: “I’m not going to fall in the Grand Canyon today because I’m not at the damn Grand Canyon.”It sounds like nonsense until he connects it to relapse: if you don’t want to relapse, don’t go near the edge. Don’t go to the places, people, and situations that pull you toward it.A “random” old man at lunch becomes a spiritual and practical teacher in five minutes.Walt reflects on his own powerful encounter with Joel: an interview in 2012, when Joel was guest number 12 on a brand-new podcast.Walt recalls thinking it was just “one good episode.” Almost a year later, he reached out, unsure Joel would even respond. That one decision turned into a long-term friendship and co-hosting partnership - a life-changing encounter neither could have predicted.How many “one-time” meetings in your own life were actually beginnings in disguise?Joel opens up about one of the most pivotal encounters of his life - when everything had fallen apart. He was homeless, jobless, facing felony charges, and with nowhere to go. He got into his car, turned on the radio, and at that exact moment heard someone talking about a gambling helpline. The number was toll-free, which mattered because he had no money.That call led Joel to Rick, the man who took him in when he was broke and broken - someone who became his business partner and lifelong friend: “That one encounter was the foundation for everything that I have today.”What are the odds he would turn on the radio at that precise moment? Walt calls it exactly what it is: law of attraction in action.Both men talk openly about loss - Walt’s beloved cat, Joel’s son TJ, and friendships that ended without clear explanation. They refuse to sugarcoat trauma, yet they lean into one core idea: You can’t control what happens, but you can learn to shape your response.Walt admits there was a time he laughed at the idea that you could choose your reaction. Now, he sees every encounter as a chance to practice that choice to respond with appreciation instead of fear.Joel describes using gratitude as his emotional reset button: listing what’s right in his life, what didn’t happen “today” that once did - homelessness, jail, devastating loss. Even his “worst days” become part of a larger, divine tapestry.Walt finally asks the question many listeners are thinking: “Have you ever had an encounter that just really wasn’t worthwhile?”Joel’s answer is striking: On the surface, yes. In reality, probably no.He recalls a 12-year-old boy he once casually helped at the gym. Years later, that boy, now a strong young man, approached Joel and said: “You changed my life, I never missed a day in the gym after that.”For Joel, it was a forgettable three-minute interaction. For that boy, it was a turning point.So the real invitation from this conversation is simple and deeply challenging:What if you treated every encounter - every person, every moment, every loss, every kindness - as divine, before you know how the story ends?LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/divine-encountersFollow the LOA Today podcast: https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#DivineEncounters #EmotionalHealing #GratitudePractice #Synchronicity #SpiritualGrowth #TraumaAndHealing #LifeLessons

When Jessica Taylor left home on November 15, 1969, she thought she was simply picking up supplies for her cosmetic studio. Instead, a single misstep sent her plummeting down a dark staircase, shattering her skull and erasing her entire memory.“My slate was wiped clean, all memory of everything in my life and what life was, gone. Totally all memory was gone.”In a recent episode of LOA Today, host Walt Thiessen invited Jessica to share how that devastating accident became the doorway to a lifelong metaphysical awakening and what it can teach us about consciousness, soul, and who we really are.After the fall, Jessica didn’t recognize her husband, her daughters, or even herself. There were no MRIs, no CAT scans, and no hospital insurance for her immigrant family. She was sent home after two weeks, where the real struggle began.“I literally had to start all over again, learning everything from scratch.”She had what she calls a Third Eye vision - like a tiny, hyper-detailed television series in her forehead of about twenty women standing on grand steps in front of a white building. She could see lips moving, eyes blinking, every detail.Later, she watched what looked like the sun falling from the sky - a terrifying “sun spin” experience that she later found mirrored in historical accounts from places like Fatima and Bosnia.When Walt asked how long she had lived in this metaphysical overlap, Jessica didn’t hesitate: “Oh, for years. For years, I seemed to wake up in the metaphysical world. I didn’t know the reality of this world.”A spiritual man eventually urged Jessica to go to the library and “just start studying.” What happened next felt fated. “The books literally fell out, my readers say, ‘Jessica, your name was on them. They were waiting for you.’”Those books? Encyclopedias from the Vatican, introducing her to theological science - the science of the supernatural. She learned about Theurgy, an almost forgotten term for people who tapped directly into what she calls God consciousness: healing, clairvoyance, deep spiritual insight.She later met a retired Canon of the Roman Catholic Church who quietly shared “secrets of theology” he had never been allowed to tell his congregation - teachings about reincarnation, hidden biblical texts, and a universe alive with consciousness.Through decades of study, Jessica came to a simple but radical understanding: “The universe is alive, it emits a conscious energy to all life on planet Earth. I call it God consciousness instead of the word God.”Walt connected this to the work of Neville Goddard and other teachers of the Law of Attraction, who also describe a universal consciousness expressing through everything. Together, they explored:Is everything conscious - even a bottle on a desk?Does the soul carry our energy from life to life?Are we separate from God are we God in expression?Jessica believes every being has a vibrational frequency tied to its accomplishments and growth. Raising that vibration means transcending anger, jealousy, greed, and fear. “One of the things I was blessed with was that I rose above anger, jealousy, greed, hatred, envy, in all those 60 years.”For years, she slept with barbiturates under her pillow, suicidal but unable to leave her family or ignore the quiet pull of her higher self, whom she affectionately calls Yiska.Today, despite a permanent brain injury, she has written two books and guides others to a more holistic, soul-based view of life. Walt summed it up beautifully: her tragedy became a tremendous gift not only for her, but for anyone ready to awaken to a universe that is conscious, loving, and always calling us home.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/jessica-taylorJessica Taylor's Website: https://jessicaetaylor.org/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven

What if the quality of your life is not random, not unfair, and not “just the way it is” but a precise reflection of the standards you quietly live by every single day?In this powerful conversation, Walt and Joel unpack how much our lives are shaped not by what we say we want, but by what we’re actually willing to accept, repeat, and tolerate - in love, in work, in health, and in how we treat ourselves.Walt asks a question most of us live but never say out loud: “Which organ is the standard coming from? Is it coming from my heart, or is it coming from my brain?”He shares that when he finally decided, “I can always trust my heart” and let his heart make the final decision. Using his brain only as a tool, not the boss - life got “a whole lot easier.” Choices became kinder, calmer, and more aligned with joy.Joel explains why this shift is so hard. The brain is constantly scanning for danger using old failures as evidence: “The brain is scanning the horizon for problems, using historical events, where the heart is simply saying, ‘Okay, well, let’s give that a shot, see what happens.’”So when your brain and heart disagree, your standards decide who wins.One of the most uncomfortable takeaways from this conversation is that people often defend beliefs and patterns that are quietly destroying them.Walt admits he used to cling to things that hurt him: “I didn’t feel good about myself. If we don’t have ourselves to hang on to, we have to find something else, ‘I’m going to be right about this thing, even if I’m wrong.’”Joel sees this every day in his coaching work: people whose lives don’t match what they say they want, because their actions match their wounds, not their standards. He puts it simply: “You’re living a life that you’re willing to accept.”So how do you change standards that live deep in your nervous system? Not with a single insight but with repetition.Joel talks about his decades-long routines: writing five things every morning, walking, and going to the gym every day, even through COVID. When he woke up from an anxious dream with his heart racing, he didn’t analyze it to death. He went straight to his routine, and his system regulated itself.Walt ties this to neuroplasticity and standards: “Those neural pathways are going to pay off when I have a day like the one where I need to just wake up from the bad dream and get past it quickly.”The message: your routines are not just habits; they are physical proof of your standards.If someone watched your life for a week - your choices, your reactions, your routines, and then answered this question: “What are this person’s real standards?”Would you like their answer?Because whether you’re following your heart or your fears, your life already reflects it.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/your-life-reflects-your-standardsFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#LawOfAttraction #PersonalStandards #SelfWorth #FollowYourHeart #MindsetShift #EmotionalHealing #SelfLove #Neuroplasticity #DailyHabits #EnergyWork #ConsciousLiving #Alignment #FlowState #SpiritualGrowth #InnerWork

What if the worst thing that ever happened to you became the doorway to the life you actually want?That’s the emotional heartbeat of this powerful conversation between Walt, Anne-Marie, and guest Dwight, who shared how a full-blown health crisis and career burnout forced him to reclaim his life, purpose, and freedom.For years, Dwight was the classic high-performing IT consultant: a global internet security specialist, running a computer consulting firm, a retail store, and a service division. He wore exhaustion like a badge of honor. “I used to go days on end without sleep, it’d be nothing for us to be up three days,” Dwight recalled.Then his body pulled the emergency brake.At a casual birthday gathering, a friend accused him of “winking” too much. Confused, Dwight went to the bathroom and realized the right side of his face was paralyzed. It was a severe facial-nerve event tied directly to stress and exhaustion. “I went into the bathroom, and the right side of my face was paralyzed. In three months, I couldn’t work”.Doctors and a long-time friend delivered a brutal truth: if he didn’t change, he might not be around much longer. That friend also challenged him: “You make a good six-figure income, but you’re broke all the time. You need to do something different”.That painful wake-up call led Dwight out of IT and into financial education and coaching - but done his way: relationship-first, heart-first, and purpose-driven.Walt connected deeply with that arc. He shared his own crash in 2008 - business destroyed, years of debt, and profound burnout as an IT guy who was good at the work but never really loved it. That burnout eventually pushed him to create his podcast and, later, discover a genuine passion for AI: “For the first time in my life, I actually like IT. AI is like, " Oh my God, this is so much fun” .Both men asked the same pivotal question in different words:Do I really want to keep living this way?If not, what am I willing to do about it?Dwight framed it simply: " Are you 'the willing”? “Are you willing to embrace the uncomfortable? If you’re not willing, then be honest with yourself and be honest with me. I’m going to go help somebody, that’s the willing”.A major takeaway was the shift from brain-only living to heart-centered living. Walt described the turning point: “My heart never misleads me. My brain is really, really good at misleading me. My heart never gets it wrong”.Dwight reinforced that with a simple physical practice, hands over heart - as a reminder that the heart is the true compass: “This is more of a north on a compass than this is. This fools itself. This reacts in real time”.Anne-Marie pulled it all together with one core theme: be kind to yourself, build awareness, and refuse to have a bad day by always finding the silver lining - even if it’s as simple as, “I opened my eyes today.”So ask yourself:Where am I still on the hamster wheel?Am I willing to be “the willing”?Am I listening to my brain’s fear or my heart’s quiet truth?Because as this conversation proved, burnout and crisis aren’t the end of the story. They can be the beginning of finally living life on purpose, not by accident.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/dwight-heckDwight Heck's Website: http://www.giveaheck.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#BurnoutRecovery #LiveOnPurpose #HeartCenteredLiving #MentalHealth #SelfAwareness #PersonalGrowth #LifeAfterBurnout #EmotionalIntelligence #ChooseYourFocus #LOAToday #ReclaimYourLife #InnerWork #MindsetShift

When Walt sat down with life coach and LOA teacher Joel for an episode of Your Daily Dose of Happy, a simple phrase from one of Joel’s TikToks became the doorway to a powerful, uncomfortable truth: “Excuses are expensive.”At first glance, it sounds like a clever slogan. But as Walt admitted, the moment he read it, he realized how true it was - we pay a real price for excuses, while getting nothing of value in return.Joel explained that for him, excuses are usually a procrastination tool and often a symptom of something deeper: a victim mindset. He doesn’t want excuses from people who work with him. As he put it, he’s fine with someone saying, “I got 4 of the 5 things done; I’ll do the last one tomorrow.” What he doesn’t want is the story:  “My dog did this, this happened, and that’s why I couldn’t do it.”Walt pushed the idea further, asking why people cling so hard to excuses. His take: we’re often pre‑emptively defending ourselves from anticipated blame. We’re bracing for the blame game, so we start playing it first. Joel agreed, connecting this to the broader culture of blame, where responsibility is dodged instead of owned.One of the most powerful moments came when Joel described appearing before a judge back in 1995 for crimes related to his gambling addiction. The public defender told him, “Everybody pleads not guilty.” Joel refused. When the judge asked for his plea, he simply said, “I’m guilty, Your Honor.”Joel didn’t use his addiction as a shield: “That’s not an excuse. I knew exactly what I was doing. I stole the money, and I’m ready to pay the price.”Instead of five years in prison, the judge gave him 30 days and probation, openly admiring his courage. That moment became a cornerstone of Joel’s philosophy: radical responsibility moves life forward; excuses freeze it.Walt contrasted excuses vs. explanations. Both are rooted in real events, but they’re used differently. An excuse carries emotional charge and self‑protection. An explanation simply states what happened without trying to dodge responsibility. As Walt noted, when Joel described his gambling at sentencing, he was offering context, not justification - fact without victimhood.The conversation then turned to relationships and the destructive need to “be right.” Walt shared how he realized that, when he insisted on being right with someone he loved, what he was really doing was trying to prove they were wrong and unconsciously choosing “being right” over the relationship itself.Joel now regularly asks people, “Is being right worth more than the person you care about?”A recurring theme throughout the conversation: energy. Excuses, blame, and the quest to be right are emotionally expensive. They drain energy that could be invested in healing, action, connection, and joy. As Joel put it, the faster he simply accepts what is and asks, “What’s my next step?” the easier life becomes.In the end, Walt and Joel brought it back to happiness and responsibility: when you drop the excuses, you don’t just lose your defenses - you gain your power back.Key Takeaway Questions to Ask Yourself:Where am I making excuses instead of taking action?Am I offering an excuse, or a simple explanation without blame?Is being right more important to me than this person I care about?What is my next actionable step, right now?LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/excuses-are-expensiveFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#ExcusesAreExpensive #RadicalResponsibility #LawOfAttraction #PersonalGrowth #EmotionalMaturity #VictimMindset #NoMoreBlame #SelfAwareness #MindsetShift #DailyDoseOfHappy

What if the part of you that hurts the most is also the part of you that knows the way home?In this powerful conversation on LOA Today, Christine shares how growing up with a brilliant physician father and an alcoholic mother launched a lifelong quest to answer one haunting inner question: “I need a doctor. I need somebody to help me. I need some help. I need somebody to fix me.”As a child, she had access to medical excellence, but not to the emotional safety she desperately needed. The family looked solid on the outside -success, status, financial comfort but, as Christine put it, “We had an interesting shell of a life, there was a lot missing on the inside.”There were no emotional conversations, only trauma, distance, and a deep, unspoken loneliness. That gap pushed her into a lifelong search: How do we heal?Christine devoured psychology books as a teen, explored countless modalities - psychology, plant medicine, reflexology, bodywork and eventually earned a master’s in Counseling Psychology. But the real turning point came when she faced the grief she had buried for decades: “It took me into my 40s before I could really acknowledge it and feel the grief and feel the child that was extremely afraid and felt abandoned.”During her graduate program, in the “strange safety net” of learning to help others, she finally turned toward her own wounded inner child. This is where the conversation dives into one of the deepest themes of the episode: the wounded healer.Christine realized that if she tried to heal others instead of healing herself, she would always be unconsciously using clients to fix her own pain. So she made a new commitment:Heal herself while helping others.Clear her own patterns so she could be “a clear channel” for her clients.Stop “secretly, subversively, unconsciously” trying to heal herself through them.Host Walt connected this to his own experiences as a Reiki practitioner and former partner of a psychotherapist. He echoed a vital truth his ex-wife learned from a supervisor: “It’s not your job to heal them. It’s your job to provide the information. It’s their job to heal themselves.”Christine’s work as a clinical hypnotherapist rests on that same foundation of empowerment. She dismantles the myth that hypnosis is about losing control: Hypnotherapy, she explains, is actually about giving people more control over their minds, not less.She collaborates with clients to craft language that fits their truth and their goals, then delivers those suggestions to the subconscious in a relaxed, focused state. It’s not magic. It’s a partnership.Throughout the episode, Walt keeps returning to one core insight: “You can always trust your heart, but the last thing we’re willing to trust is our own heart.”Christine admits she didn’t even know how to feel her heart for a long time. Her parents never mirrored her, never reflected back, “Oh my gosh, I just love you so much.” So she had to learn later in life how to recognize and interpret those heart signals.The big takeaway?Healing isn’t something a guru, doctor, or therapist does to you.Healing is what happens when you reclaim your heart, your story, and your sovereignty.Helpers - whether they’re hypnotherapists, Reiki practitioners, or friends don’t fix you. They help you clear the blockages so your own “spark of the divine” can do what it’s always wanted to do: heal.You can’t think your way to that kind of healing. But you can feel your way there. One brave step, one released pattern, one kinder thought toward yourself at a time.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/christine-brodmerkelChristine Brodmerkel's Website: https://christinebrodmerkelhypnotherapy.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#HealingJourney #WoundedHealer #InnerChildHealing #TraumaRecovery #EmotionalHealing #Hypnotherapy #Reiki #SelfCompassion #TrustYourHeart

“What do you do when nothing’s changing, even though you say you want your life to be different?”That’s the unspoken question at the heart of this powerful conversation between Walt and Joel, where they explore what Joel calls the Law of Action - the missing piece so many people leave out of the Law of Attraction.From the start, Joel makes his stance crystal clear: “I have never been successful using the law of attraction and not taking action. I’ve never been the guy who sat on the couch, and a guy with a million-dollar check showed up.”For Joel, action isn’t optional. It’s the ignition key. Even the wrong action is better than no action, because movement allows life (or the universe, or God, depending on your belief system) to redirect you, like a GPS that only works once the car is moving.Walt presses the point with a real-world example: a young woman recovering from a devastating car accident and depression. He highlights her choices:She didn’t just stay where she was.She changed therapists four or five times.She kept taking action, even when it was hard.To Walt, the lesson is obvious: “It was the action she took, the repeated action, the adjusting action that made all the difference in the world in terms of her healing.” Joel agrees. Action isn’t just physical; it’s also mental action - choosing to try again, to shift, to refine.Joel weaves in ideas from Atomic Habits: when the staircase of change looks like 1,000 impossible steps, you don’t climb them all - you just take the next one. “Break it down to the next step, always be moving forward. Doesn’t mean there’s always forward progress, but it’s still action.”He shares how he launched a complex intensive outpatient program in a matter of days by starting messy - inviting beta patients for free, accepting a “train wreck” day one, and then engineering improvements from the chaos.Walt connects this to software development - ship, break, fix, repeat. Joel links it to Elon Musk’s rockets blowing up on purpose so engineers can learn exactly where the system fails. Failure, in this worldview, isn’t condemnation. It’s data.A powerful theme emerges when Joel opens up about living with ADHD. His mind wakes up at full speed every day: “Imagine having a brain, where you wake up, and everything happens all at once in your brain.”For him, structure is not a prison; it’s freedom. Routines, workouts, meditation, and a tightly organized schedule keep his powerful brain from turning on itself. When he tried a “free” unstructured day, even napping was impossible. The takeaway?The “right” system is deeply personal. Walt found calm through mirror work, not structure. Joel found sanity through structure, not slowing down. Both discovered the same principle:You must find the processes that work for your nervous system.Then take action within those processes every day.Walt and Joel both return, again and again, to vibration and hope. You don’t have to be high-vibe all the time. On your worst days, the win might simply be:Getting out of bed.Eating something.Saying, “I have hope that there could be hope.”As Joel puts it, even moving from “no hope” to “I have hope that there is hope” is progress.The real question they leave you with is this: What is one tiny, imperfect action you can take today that starts your own GPS and lets life finally begin to redirect you?LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/law-of-actionFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#LawOfAction #LawOfAttraction #MindsetMatters #TakeAction #ADHD #StructureAndFreedom #PersonalGrowth #SelfDevelopment #EmotionalHealing #RecoveryJourney #AtomicHabits #HopeAndHealing #HighVibration #Resilience #WaltThiessen #JoelElston

Sometimes life whispers. Sometimes it nudges. And sometimes, as Walt put it, it brings out the “two by four method.”That’s exactly what happened to Carolyn, whose life changed in a split second during a devastating car accident in her senior year of college - a moment that nearly ended her life and ultimately transformed it.“I was a senior in college. I was in a life‑threatening car accident, and I grabbed my seat belt seconds before the accident,” Carolyn shared. “I was lucky to be alive. It was a huge turning point for me, because I had struggled so many years with depression and anxiety, it finally was that little shift I needed to wake up and focus on what was important in life.”Walt asked the question that so many people secretly wonder after a crisis: “People go through these ‘crash and burn’ moments and they come out the other side and then they say, ‘I never want to have to go through it again, but it was the best thing that ever happened to me.’ Was it the best thing that ever happened to you?”Carolyn didn’t dodge the weight of that question: “That’s such a loaded question, but honestly, in a way, yes. It just forced me to tackle my mental health issues and confront all the demons I’d been trying to ignore.”From that moment forward, she stopped just existing and started living. Writing became her lifeline. What many people do privately in a journal, Carolyn did through a book - “Unbreakable” turning raw pain into words that could help others.“Writing was the thing that poured out of me,” she explained. “It was the most healing thing for me. I got to write things down and just let them go.”Gratitude and mindfulness also reshaped her inner world. After the accident, Carolyn began practicing gratitude almost daily, not as a trendy habit, but as a survival skill: “Looking at life with gratitude was something that I didn’t really do until after that accident, now I try to practice that almost daily and just really find little things to be grateful for.”Simple practices - like her therapist’s “deep three” breathing tool - became powerful anchors: “You take three deep breaths, it regulates your nervous system. If you’re in a manic state or you’re about to panic, it helps reset. I’ve practiced it over and over, and it really helps calm me down.”The conversation also explored the courage it takes to get help. Carolyn was honest about her years of depression, anxiety, self‑harm, and the struggle to find the right therapist. She even admitted to once going to therapy and pretending everything was fine: “Don’t go to the therapist and lie to them either, because that is only going to hurt you in the end.”Her journey also includes living with a nonverbal learning disability and learning to see it not as a flaw, but as part of her superpower - the part that can write a song in 10 minutes and craft a book that reaches people exactly when they need it most.One review captured the impact perfectly: a reader said the book “didn’t resonate” at first - until they went through their own trauma, came back to it, and found it helped them through an incredibly hard time.That’s the ripple effect of being, as Carolyn titled her book, Unbreakable: “Even if you think some pieces are shattered or broken, they’re really not, because you can always pick up the pieces, and that’s what makes you unbreakable.”Key Takeaway: You may not control the crash, but you can choose what you build from the wreckage. Therapy, gratitude, mindful breathing, honest connection, and sharing your story can turn a breaking point into a doorway to purpose.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/carolyn-sophia-skowronCarolyn Sophia Skowron's Website: https://www.carolynsophia.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#Unbreakable #MentalHealth #DepressionRecovery #AnxietySupport #Gratitude #Mindfulness #Resilience #CarAccidentSurvivor

What if the smallest moment - a single question, a single choice could begin to rewrite your entire life story?In this powerful conversation on LOA Today, Walt, JodieLynn, and guest Doug explore addiction, forgiveness, recovery, and the quiet power of asking, “What if?”Their stories remind us that transformation doesn’t always arrive as a lightning bolt. Sometimes, it begins with waking up in the center seat of an airplane, with no idea how you got there.Doug describes his past with disarming honesty: drugs, alcohol, theft, and the collapse of his father’s business. He remembers the moment he realized how far he had fallen, flying back home after stealing the last of the money: “I had to fly back and face him. And it was at that point that I realized my life's probably not going in the way it should be going.”But what happened next wasn’t punishment. It was a doorway. Doug’s father lost his business and much of his financial security, yet chose forgiveness over resentment. Doug recalls: “You know that man never resented me for it, he became probably one of my biggest fans.”One of the most emotional threads in this conversation is the question: Who shows up when you’re in the hole? Walt shares the story of a man who falls into a hole, and the friend who jumps in with him: “Yeah, but I've been down here before, and I know the way out.”Doug experienced his own version of that when he walked into a 12-step meeting and saw two fishermen, customers from his old store, standing on either side of him: “One of them looks at the other and then looks at me, goes, we've been waiting on you.”The conversation repeatedly returns to one key idea: everything can happen for the better, even when it looks unbearable in the moment. Doug quotes his mentor, Fred: “Everything that's happened in my life happened for the best. I just didn't know it always at the time.”JodieLynn echoes this from her own life, including surviving childhood trauma and financial collapse in her twenties: “I remember being shook when I saw that phrase and actually tested it against my life and the crappy things that happened, always something better.”So where does “What if?” come in?Doug’s book Start With What If grew out of a simple yet profound intervention early in his recovery. Overwhelmed by the damage he’d caused, someone gently reframed his world: “What if today, you just went a day without a drink or a drug?”From there, Doug turned what if from a phrase of regret - “What if I hadn’t ruined everything?” into a tool of possibility: “What if I changed how I think about this moment?”He teaches a simple three-step What If Rule: Pause. Question. Go.Interrupt the autopilot, ask a better what if, then take one small action. JodieLynn beautifully ties the episode together by asking us to bring this down to the present moment: “What if we just focused on this moment today? What would change? How would our lives be better?”The real magic of this conversation isn’t in a massive, dramatic change. It’s in the invitation to ask yourself, starting right now: What if today was enough to begin again?What if one question could be the first step out of your own hole?LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/doug-fleenerDoug Fleener's Website: https://www.dougfleener.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#WhatIf #LOAToday #RecoveryJourney #EmotionalHealing #MindsetShift #Forgiveness #SelfWorth #PersonalGrowth #DailyPractice #StartWithWhatIf #AddictionRecovery #LifeLessons #SpiritualGrowth #ConsciousLiving #InnerWork

What do you do when the pain feels like it will never end?That quiet, hidden question was underneath everything in this heart-opening conversation about healing, grief, and the power of energy.Walt began by sharing the rawness of losing his cat Joy just three and a half weeks earlier and then discovering that Joy’s sister, Harmony, is facing the same kidney condition.The emotional whiplash of back‑to‑back losses brought him face-to-face with a powerful truth: “It’s rough. It’s really, really rough. It’s almost like life is piling it on top of you.”From there, Walt and life coach and LOA teacher Joel opened up a deeply human exploration of what healing really is and what it isn’t.Joel made an honest admission that many people are afraid to say out loud: “The loss of my son, TJ. I don’t think I’ve healed from that. I don’t think I will ever.”Instead, Joel describes living in what he calls “remission from the grief,” where the grief is not gone, but it no longer dominates every moment. Healing, in this sense, is not erasing the pain, but learning to live around it, to integrate it, and to let it shape us without completely breaking us.Walt reframed healing as the decrease in the intensity and frequency of breakdown moments over time. He recalled how, after putting Joy down, he collapsed into tears dozens of times a day, then watched those episodes slowly lessen. The pain didn’t vanish, but it became less constant, less overwhelming, more survivable.The conversation turned from emotional healing to physical and energetic healing, especially around Harmony’s surprising improvement.Harmony had stopped eating. The prognosis was that once she declined, improvement was unlikely. Yet after receiving Reiki, focused love, and attention, she began eating again, sometimes even without the appetite medication.Walt asked a powerful question that many quietly wonder: “Isn’t this an example of how, through the power of our thoughts or the power of our emotion, our love, that we can actually help somebody else?”Joel responded by sharing research and stories about energy healing and distant intention, where people improved even when they didn’t know anyone was praying for or focusing on them. He pointed out that while modern medicine has limits, the body’s capacity to heal, under the right emotional and energetic conditions, goes “way beyond the comprehension of modern medicine.”Walt and Joel also questioned the rigid structures of modern medicine and institutional thinking. They discussed:Doctors constrained by corporate employersMedical standards that keep moving the goalpostsThe pressure to follow party lines in medicine, religion, and addiction treatmentThe courage (and risk) of quietly practicing a more expansive view of healingThe deeper takeaway: healing is personal, individual, and often far more possible than we’re told. It may involve medicine, but it must also involve mindset, environment, belief, support, and energy.Joel’s closing thought captured the heart of the conversation: “We are far more capable of healing than anybody even realizes. I don’t think we scratch the surface of that part of healing.”In the end, this wasn’t just a conversation about death, illness, and systems. It was about choosing to believe in our own capacity to heal, emotionally, physically, and spiritually - even when life gives us every reason to give up.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/healingFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#HealingJourney #GriefAndGrowth #EnergyHealing #Reiki #LawOfAttraction #EmotionalHealing #PetLoss #SelfAdvocacy #HolisticHealth #MindBodySpirit #LOAToday #ConsciousLiving #SpiritualAwakening #PowerOfLove #Resilience

What if the person you’ve trusted for years turns out to be a complete illusion?That’s the emotional earthquake Justin describes in his conversation with Walt and Jodie Lynn - a collapse so profound it didn’t just end a relationship; it rewired his life’s purpose.Justin shares how his partner of eight years suddenly “ruptured the marriage” in a way that, as he puts it, “was not consistent with the values that she had set throughout the relationship for eight years”. While he was reeling, she quietly transferred tens of thousands of dollars to herself and her mother. Looking back, he calls it a “horrific Gone Girl type experience, similar to being, you know, paralyzed on an operating table and the surgeon’s carving away at you, having fun”.The obvious question Walt raises is: how does something like this happen to intelligent, caring people? And why don’t we see the red flags?Justin admits, “Apparently I’m really bad at finding red flags, or I used to be”. That painful admission became the seed of his dating safety app, Cray. Instead of letting the trauma destroy him, he asked a different question: How can I make sure this doesn’t happen to someone else?Drawing on his background in app development, he helped launch the first concussion app in 2011. Justin spent 18 months turning his landmines into guardrails for others. Every trick he encountered online - catfishing, blackmail attempts, and financial manipulation became another safety feature. As he puts it, “Over 18 months, as I stepped on these landmines, I built in safety protocols in the app to try and help people to avoid them too”.A central theme of the conversation is love bombing - a tactic many people feel but don’t have language for. When Walt asks, “What exactly is love bombing?”, Justin explains it as the overwhelming, movie-level affection that feels like a dream but is engineered to hook you: “You feel like you have your best cheerleader sitting next to you while they’re strangling you to death, and you not knowing”.Jodie Lynn adds her own lived experience of missing glaring warning signs - being told she wasn’t “allowed” to see her own brother, ignoring violent outbursts, shrinking from a confident woman into “a little mouse” who just did her work in the corner. Later, she realized, “I am the common denominator in all of this, and I need to take responsibility for the way that I’m living”. That decision led her to hire a relationship coach long before getting into her next relationship.Both Justin and Jodie Lynn return to one crucial takeaway: healing starts with self-love and boundaries. Justin says, “If you love yourself, then boundaries are a natural, secondary consequence”. Walt reinforces that the way we talk to ourselves - through journaling, affirmations, and mirror work can be the turning point that stops the cycle of abusive partners and manipulative dynamics.Justin’s app, Cray Dating Safety, is his way of standing guard beside people who are young, newly divorced, or healing from trauma - those least likely to recognize danger early. “If it could happen to me, I had to make sure it didn’t happen to anyone else,” he says.In a dating world full of masks, illusions, and expertly staged performances, this conversation leaves us with a hard but hopeful truth: the red flags are there.The real work and the real freedom are learning to see them, trust ourselves, and walk away.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/justin-smithJustin Smith's Website: http://cray.app/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#DatingSafety #RedFlags #LoveBombing #EmotionalAbuseRecovery #SelfLoveFirst #BoundariesMatter #TraumaHealing #OnlineDatingSafety #CrayDatingSafety #HealthyRelationships

When Walt opened the show by sharing that his beloved cat Joy had just passed from kidney failure, “This is also my daily dose of happy. I really need it today,” the conversation instantly shifted from a typical Law of Attraction chat to a raw exploration of grief, love, and what it truly means to be “ready.”Walt described the brutal week leading up to Joy’s passing: “I literally spent every day with him, I think I gave him about 30 hours of lap time over a three day period.”He poured Reiki, time, and love into Joy, watching how the energy eased his suffering: “Every time that I did give him the attention, he calmed right down every single time.” Still, when it came to the ultimate decision to end Joy’s suffering, Walt was “absolutely locked up.”The episode’s core theme came from a TikTok-inspired title: “Ready Is Not a Feeling.” Joel explained that waiting to feel ready is how we get stuck: “Ready is a decision. It’s not a feeling. If you keep waiting for the perceived perfect conditions, they never come.”Joel shared stories of people waiting for the “right time” to have children, and then being surprised with triplets. He talked about job loss, sudden tragedy, and how life’s plot twists never arrive on our schedule. His point: you almost never feel ready, but you’re still called to act.Walt pushed the idea further by asking whether “ready” even belongs in the equation at all: “Is it possible that ready actually doesn’t play a significant role in any role?”Joel agreed it’s largely a story we tell ourselves. Life doesn’t wait for our readiness; it demands a response. That led Walt to reframe “responsible” as “able to respond,” not a burden handed down by society, but a sacred opportunity to choose our perspective and our next step.Yet both acknowledged that in the deepest pain, like when Joel’s son TJ died or when Walt was watching Joy struggle to drink water, choice doesn’t feel available in the moment.Joel admitted there was “no rational thought” in the early days of his loss; he survived by going to the gym over and over, just to make it to bedtime. Later, though, he chose what to do with that pain. He decided to work harder, study more, adopt another child, and live, in his words, for two people.Walt mirrored this with his own experience, noticing how our minds can eventually reshape trauma. He described how he once feared emotions would last forever, only to discover that intense feelings often pass in minutes if we allow ourselves to feel them fully.One of the most touching moments came when Walt revealed that, just before Joy was put to sleep, he whispered a secret password in Joy’s ear so that, when Walt eventually crosses over, Joy can greet him and confirm their eternal connection.In the end, this conversation wasn’t just about grief. It was about agency in the face of what we cannot control. We may never be ready for loss, for endings, or for sudden change. But as Joel put it, “Your power exists in your response.” And as Walt discovered, sometimes the bravest decision is the one that ends a loved one’s suffering, even when every part of you wants to hold on.You may never feel ready. You may never feel okay. But you are always, quietly, profoundly, able to respond.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/ready-is-not-a-feelingFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#GriefAndHealing #ReadyIsNotAFeeling #EmotionalResilience #LawOfAttraction #ConsciousChoice #PetLoss #SpiritualPerspective #HealingJourney #LOAToday #WaltThiessen #JoelElston

Insecurities are usually a part of ourselves that we want to hide. But in this powerful, vulnerable conversation, Joel and Walt turn that idea on its head and show how insecurity can become a doorway to growth, authenticity, and even freedom.Early in the conversation, Walt asks a deceptively simple question: “How is it that we have a number of different institutions where there’s a crumbling effect going on, and one of the essential pieces is insecurity?”That question launches a deep exploration of how insecurity shows up in childhood, in social groups, in religion, in politics, in money, in aging, and even in our most personal love relationships.Joel shares how he used to be paralyzed by insecurity - missing opportunities because he was afraid of embarrassment or not feeling “worthy.” A turning point came when a mentor suggested a bold strategy: whenever someone asked for a volunteer, be the first one to raise your hand. Joel explains that he often “screwed it up,” but that was the point. By choosing to step forward, he refused to let insecurity make his decisions for him.He gives a painful but illuminating childhood memory: as a boy, he loved to sing loudly in the church choir. Then one day, the choir director told him in front of everyone, “Joel, just move your lips.”That single shaming moment created a lifelong story: “I can’t sing.” It’s a vivid example of how quickly a confident child can become an insecure adult.Walt pushes on the definition of insecurity by bringing up his cat’s decline and his fear of losing him. He wonders aloud if that fear is insecurity or just love. Joel gently reframes it, saying it’s not insecurity but pre-grief - the natural pain of loving someone deeply and facing the reality of loss.Another powerful thread is Joel’s distinction that insecurity is often comparison-based:“I don’t have as much money as they do.”“I’m not as attractive.”“I’m not as smart.”He describes working with wildly successful people - famous actors, NFL players, top nuclear scientists - who, despite their achievements, quietly confess things like: “I don’t think I’m as smart as everybody thinks I am.”Walt then highlights the moment of choice we rarely recognize. He recalls his first public talk, standing at the podium, feeling like an imposter but also knowing he truly understood his subject. He realizes he could have chosen to crumble into insecurity or to lean into what he did know and speak anyway. He chose the latter, and it went well. Only in hindsight did he see that it had always been a choice.Joel sums up the heart of the conversation with one word: perspective. Your perspective determines whether insecurity imprisons you or propels you forward. He notes that his own story can be told in two ways:“I’m the biggest failure in the world,” or“I have one of the greatest comeback stories of all time.”The facts are the same. The perspective and, therefore the life experience is completely different.In the end, Joel offers an invitation: embrace your insecurities as part of your story, not as a verdict on your worth. When you change the way you see them, you change what they mean and what you’re capable of next.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/insecuritiesFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#Insecurity #SelfWorth #PersonalGrowth #EmotionalHealing #MindsetShift #PerspectiveIsEverything #OvercomingFear #Authenticity #InnerDialogue #LOAToday #JoelElston #WaltThiessen #MentalHealth #AnxietyAndInsecurity #LifeLessons

What happens when your world feels like it’s cracking - your beloved pet is struggling, the future of work looks terrifying, and even your spiritual path feels off track?In this deeply vulnerable and expansive conversation, Walt, Anne Marie, and David walk right into those questions and let the answers unfold in real time.From the very start, Walt is honest about needing a “friend conversation” instead of a confrontational one. His cat Joy is not doing well, and he’s feeling it: “My cat and I are really close, it really challenges you to your core when you go through stuff like this.”That emotional honesty sets the tone for everything that follows: this isn’t a polished spiritual talk. It’s real life, in real time, with real feelings.David shares how, after rebuilding his home and successfully publishing his book, he threw himself into building Taya Academy. He stopped trance channeling the Stream and went “all in” on marketing, tech, and scaling a coaching program: “I created a full-on spin out for myself, I still created this prolonged low vibrational struggling period for myself.”Even with all his spiritual tools, David found himself deeply spun out - meditation dropped, the Stream receded, and the business model stopped working. That collapse forced a brutal but liberating clarity: “I don’t want to coach anymore. All I need to do is share these transmissions from the Stream.”The big takeaway? Even a spiritual teacher can get lost in ego, and that’s not failure; it’s part of the path.Walt then turns to one of the most charged questions of our time: What happens to humanity when AI wipes out jobs and reshapes the economy?The Stream comes through David and answers with nuance not doom, not denial. They acknowledge that AI will “unemploy everyone at some point” in many roles, and that leaders are already contemplating basic human income: “There are going to be fear-inducing events, designed to draw all of you, more and more, back into the matrix and get you back under control.”But Walt challenges the narrative that AI automatically lowers human value, suggesting instead that it could elevate everyone: “Why should we believe that just because AI is coming along, therefore everybody is lower? To me, it seems like everybody’s higher.”The Stream responds by emphasizing what AI cannot touch: true human creativity and source-guided consciousness: “That spark of ‘has never been before in this form’ is only available to human beings.”The deepest reassurance comes here: “You’re nowhere near creating your own demise. How you experience what’s next is completely up to your reaction to it.”Later, David shares a powerful inner practice he calls “fire walking” - not with coals, but with your worst fears. When he felt triggered by anti‑gay symbolism and the echo of Nazi imagery, he didn’t suppress it. He sat down and mentally walked through the absolute worst‑case scenario until the charge released: “You’re going to walk into the fire of your greatest fear and experience it mentally, so you can clear it.”Walt realizes he’s been doing his own version of this with his cat Joy - mentally rehearsing the loss, feeling it, and finding some peace inside it.Anne Marie distills the whole episode into one piercing truth: “It only has the power that you give to it.”That’s the through line: with pets, with AI, with politics, with death itself - we don’t control what happens, but we absolutely control how much power we give it.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/david-strickel-the-next-ageDavid Strickel's Website: https://tyaacademy.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#LOAToday #LawOfAttraction #TheStream #DavidStrickel #WaltThiessen #AnneMarieYoung #SpiritualAwakening #Channeling #AIAndSpirituality #FacingFear #ConsciousCreation #EmotionalHealing #TayaPractice

What if losing everything was the moment you finally met who you really are?That’s the thread that runs through Walt’s powerful conversation with productivity life coach Emily Guerra. This story begins with job loss, fear, and uncertainty, and evolves into purpose, balance, and deep self-kindness.At the start of COVID, Emily was an event planner. Within three weeks, both of her event jobs disappeared. “Within like three weeks, I had no income, I could no longer afford rent, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life, and I kind of freaked out,” Emily admits.She moved out of Los Angeles to the Chicago suburbs to live with her brother’s family. First, she sulked - as she says, she got “in my feels.” Then came the turning point question: “How am I going to navigate through COVID and figure out a way to not only have income, but actually enjoy what I do?”Influenced by a family full of entrepreneurs, Emily began asking herself, What if I worked for myself? That curiosity led her into freelancing social media services, getting certified, and quickly booking 4–5 clients. But what really changed everything was what she noticed in those clients:They were exhausted.They were trying to get as much done in as little time as possible.They were quietly burning out.Emily started naturally coaching them without calling it coaching on mindset, energy, and sustainable productivity. “You really helped me a lot. I hired you for social media, not for productivity or life coaching,” clients told her. “You should really turn this into a coaching business.”So she did. Emily got certified as a productivity life coach and founded The Productivity Flow in 2022. Now she runs a coaching practice, blogs, offers free resources, speaking engagements, and has a free Facebook community where she goes live weekly to support entrepreneurs and freelancers.But the heart of this conversation isn’t just about productivity. It’s about self-kindness.Walt shares his own journey from IT burnout and financial collapse in 2008 to discovering that being kind to himself changed everything, even how he felt about his work. A mirror-work practice inspired by Jack Canfield helped him quiet his “monkey mind”: “By day 30, the voice was down to a wisp, by around day 40, the voice was completely gone. And the most amazing part? It never came back.”Emily connects this to the brain’s negativity bias and our evolutionary wiring. We’re built to scan for danger, but in modern life, that becomes constant self-criticism. The antidote is intentional practice, not perfection.She asks Walt a key question every listener can ask themselves: “What were the kind of steps did you take to be a little bit kinder to yourself?”Throughout the conversation, both Walt and Emily circle back to a few essential, emotionally charged truths:You don’t have to destroy yourself to be successful.1% shifts matter more than dramatic overhauls.Rest is productive.Your relationship with yourself shapes how you show up for everyone else.Success without self-kindness is just a different kind of burnout.Emily closes with a simple mission: “If I can just help at least one person see there is a more sustainable approach, then I have done my job.” Maybe that one person is you.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/emily-guerraEmily Guerra's Website: https://theproductivityflow.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#ProductivityFlow #MindfulProductivity #EndHustleCulture #SelfKindness #BurnoutRecovery #EntrepreneurLife #WorkLifeBalance #AbundanceMindset #NegativityBias #ReticularActivatingSystem #PersonalGrowth #LifeCoaching #WomenEntrepreneurs #COVIDPivot #EmotionalWellbeing #SuccessOnYourTerms

What if the key to your mental health wasn’t fixing other people, but finally accepting what you can’t control and pouring your energy into what you can?That’s the emotional core of this powerful conversation between Walt and Joel about Stoicism in mental health and how it literally helped Joel rebuild his life from nothing.Early in the discussion, Walt asks the central question: “Why is stoicism such an important mindset to adopt when it comes to developing your own mental health?”Joel’s answer is both practical and deeply human. He explains that modern cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is rooted in Stoic philosophy. The core idea? “You have zero control over what happens. You have 100% control over your perspective of what happens.”From heartbreak to addiction, from losing a job to losing a child, Joel keeps coming back to this truth: your power lies in your response, not in the event.When Walt recalls his own breakup, he remembers how hard it was to accept Joel’s Stoic reminder: “What do you mean I’m never going to get the answers I want?”Joel didn’t sugarcoat it. Rumination wasn’t going to fix anything. The only real path forward was acceptance and choosing a new response.The conversation gets especially raw when Joel talks about the death of his son: “When my son passed away, it isn’t that I was unemotional about it. But when I started living again, I understood my mission was to find the areas in my control. How can I honor him?”This is Stoicism at its most human, not cold, not detached, but heartbroken and still moving forward.Walt notices something profound: Stoicism isn’t just about coping—it’s about reclaiming ownership of your mental health, instead of depending on a therapist, a partner, or anyone else to fix you. He highlights the irony that: “When we adopt an attitude of taking responsibility for what we can control, we influence what other people do. We can’t control them, but we influence them.”And that influence can be life-changing. Joel shares the story of a wealthy woman desperate to fix her alcoholic son. He refuses to chase the son. Instead, he focuses on her: “You fix you, and his response to you will be different.”When she stopped rescuing him, his recovery finally began. Not because she controlled him but because she changed herself.Throughout the conversation, Walt presses into the deeper implications:What happens when we cling to the illusion of controlling others?What if our obsession with getting a specific person or outcome is exactly what keeps us stuck?How does life change when, like Joel, we wake up asking: “What is in my control today?”Joel’s own story is proof. Homeless, buried in debt, a convicted felon, he had every reason to give up. Instead, he chose one Stoic step at a time: “There was really only one option. Day one, my power was: go find a job.”That one option led to another and another and eventually to a life filled with purpose, passion, and helping others heal.In the end, Stoicism and the Law of Attraction meet in the same place: Focus your mind. Own your choices. Love the life you’re actually living—starting today.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/stoicismFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#Stoicism #MentalHealth #MindsetShift #LawOfAttraction #EmotionalHealing #CognitiveBehavioralTherapy #Acceptance #PersonalGrowth #Resilience #SelfResponsibility

What if the moment you realize you’re slowly killing yourself becomes the moment you’re reborn?That’s exactly what happened for Stanley, a former 367-pound attorney and CPA who transformed his life through walking, plant-based eating, emotional healing, and uncompromising self-honesty.In this powerful conversation on LOA Today with Walt and Anne Marie, Stanley shares how he turned decades of pain, obesity, and grief into a system he now calls The Way of Excellence.The story starts with trauma. At just eight years old, Stanley’s mother died. He described walking home from school, suddenly knowing she was gone. He didn’t cry for days. At the funeral, he demanded the casket be opened so he could see her. The grief froze inside him and later showed up on his body: “We both literally ate ourselves to oblivion.”Years later, at his aunt’s funeral, Stanley saw two young boys, one sobbing, one frozen and expressionless. That younger boy became a mirror: “I looked at him, and I said, That’s me.”He walked over, introduced himself, and said, “I know exactly how you feel.” Then he hugged the boy and told him it was okay to cry and didn’t let go until he did. In that moment, Stanley didn’t just comfort a child. He held, healed, and defended his own inner child.Walt pressed into the emotional side of this transformation, asking about responsibility and self-kindness. Stanley’s answer was radical in its simplicity: “It wasn’t my mother’s fault. It wasn’t my father’s fault. And it wasn’t my fault either. Blame is irrelevant.”Instead of blame, Stanley chose responsibility. At 320 pounds, 54 months before his 50th birthday, he asked himself a brutal question: “Where am I going to be in five years if I keep doing what I’m doing?” The answer: “Dead.” And he did not want to be dead.So he changed that day. He poured his last bottle of scotch down the toilet. He dumped his diet soda. He cut out red meat. Then he began walking - first a few blocks, then hours in a pool, then miles on the road. Over 17 years, he has walked about 72,000 miles, nearly three times around the Earth.But this wasn’t just about weight. It was about identity.“I am a person who walks.” “I am 100% committed that only healthy foods can enter my mouth.”Anne Marie, a vegetarian herself, resonated deeply with the journey of changing how you eat, but she also highlighted the emotional wisdom in Stanley’s story: “Mistakes are proof that you’re trying.” “Embrace your good enoughness. You don’t have to be perfect.”Stanley’s core message is disarmingly human: you are more powerful than you ever imagined, and that power grows when you stop chasing perfection and start committing to better than yesterday.His parting challenge is simple and profound: “Your goal is simple: beat yesterday. And sometimes, just not falling apart is beating yesterday.”In a world that sells quick fixes and punishes imperfection, this conversation is a reminder that permanent transformation is built on willingness, kindness to self, long-term thinking and small daily acts of courage.You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be willing.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/stanley-bronsteinStanley Bronstein's Website: https://stanleybronstein.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow

What if the worst things that ever happened to you turned out to be the doorway to everything you were really looking for?That’s the thread that runs through this powerful conversation between Justin, Walt, and Anne-Marie on LOA Today -  a conversation about addiction, spiritual awakening, comedy, toxic masculinity, and the quiet power of following your heart.Early in the episode, Justin shares how he grew up in an emotionally suppressive household, with parents who “didn’t understand the concept of love.” They loved him, but couldn’t express it. His mom often retreated into her room; he retreated into his and into television and comedy.“The TV wasn’t my babysitter, it was a full-blown parent,” Justin says. Comedy became his pain escape: staying up late to watch Saturday Night Live, absorbing the brilliance of David Spade, Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Norm Macdonald, Jim Carrey, The Simpsons, and Eddie Murphy. That escape later morphed into something darker: alcohol, harder drugs, homelessness, rehabs, and nights in jail.Walt asks the question that so many crash-and-burn survivors recognize: “People go through these crash and burn moments and they come out the other side saying, ‘I never want to go through it again, but it’s the best thing that ever happened to me.’ Is that true for you as well?”Justin’s answer is a resounding yes. He describes losing his mother, his sister, a childhood friend, and the devastating loss of access to his young son and yet, he still says he wouldn’t change any of it: “Good things will still come out of crap, the rose grows from the pot of dirt.”The turning point came when Justin left the “mansion” of rigid religion - his metaphor for a beautiful but fear-built belief system and started working with a shaman. Meditation, shadow work, and questioning old beliefs cracked everything open. Then came what he calls a “bliss attack”: “It was like a panic attack if you replace panic with love,three hours on my bed and my near life experience.”In that state, he felt immersed in source energy, the “water the fish swim in,” the unified field behind everything. That experience became the blueprint for his book Sorcery 101 — “sorcery” with a u, about source, not spells.Anne-Marie locks in on one of the most practical takeaways: intuition. Justin explains the difference between instinct (fear-based, survival mode) and intuition (heart-based guidance), and gives a simple practice: slow breathing, hand on heart, ask yes/no questions, and learn how your yes and no feel. “The mind thinks, but the heart knows.”The conversation then dives into toxic masculinity and the war on the feminine. Justin calls out the influencers “full of ego and hate,” and says plainly that embracing your feminine side does not erase your masculinity: “You lose those toxic traits that are holding guys back.”Walt adds a crucial observation: many men silently agree, but are afraid to speak up until someone like Justin does. Then the “silent majority” starts finding its voice.Through it all, Justin weaves humor, spiritual insight, and raw honesty into a single message: You do have power. You are not your crash and burn. Your heart already knows the way out.All that’s left is to listen.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/justin-shawJustin Shaw's Amazon LinkFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#SpiritualAwakening #LOAToday #JustinShaw #TraumaToTransformation #BlissAttack #Intuition #HeartCenteredLiving #ShadowWork #RecoveryJourney #ToxicMasculinity #DivineFeminine #ComedyAndSpirituality #SourceEnergy #PersonalGrowth #EmotionalHealing #InnerWork #SelfAwareness #ConsciousLiving #LawOfAttraction #MindBodySpirit

What if the moment you were planning to end your life became the moment you finally realized you had a choice?That’s exactly what happened to Tara, an energy coach from Minnesota, in this powerful, heart-opening conversation on LOA Today with Walt and Jodielynn.From the very beginning, Tara’s story hits deep. She describes growing up as the “black sheep” of her family - brown hair and brown eyes in a sea of blondes and blue eyes, feeling different in every possible way. At eight years old, during a birthday/Easter family gathering, her aunt casually mentioned seeing her “dad Bruce.” Tara didn’t have a dad named Bruce or so she thought.The innocent question she ran inside to ask, “Is that my dad?” - was met with stone-cold silence and anger. In that moment, everything shifted. She began to see all the ways she didn’t belong. Only years later, at 12, when she finally met Bruce and saw a “replica” of herself - same laugh, same likes, same energy did she feel, for the first time, “Okay, I belong.”Then, at 15, Bruce died of cancer. “I felt abandoned by him all over again,” Tara shares. That pain pushed her into a relationship with food that became her emotional lifeline: “Food became my best friend, it never disappointed me.” The result: 338 pounds, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and complete self-loathing as a mother of three who felt she was “a disappointment” to her kids and to herself.Her breaking point became her awakening. Tara describes the day she locked her bedroom door, ready to end her life—until the door somehow unlocked and her middle son walked in and asked: “Are you going to die, Mama?”That question shattered everything. “I realized - I can choose,” she says. Up to that moment, she believed life just happened to you. That day, she saw the truth: “I have a choice.” From there, she began learning to love herself, eventually losing 220 pounds and taking her life back.Later, losing her sister to cancer led her into what she calls a “dark night of the soul” and her first successful meditation. Guided by a healer named Trisha, she met her higher self, who told her: “Tara, I’ve waited a very long time for you to show up. You’re a healer. You’ve always been a healer. The world needs you now more than ever.”That moment anchored her purpose. Walt asks the question many listeners are silently wondering: “What are the modalities you hang your hat on, the ones you and your clients can count on every time?”Tara’s answer is clear and grounded:Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Mental Emotional Release to clear limiting beliefs and negative emotions at the subconscious level.Integrated Energy Therapy, similar to Reiki but highly hands-on and intuitive, works with the organs and energy bodies to release stored anger, sadness, fear, doubt, and more, then integrating positive energy back in so nothing “empty” attracts more pain.Throughout the conversation, Tara, Walt, and Jodi Lynn keep returning to a central theme: We trap ourselves with limiting beliefs, old programming, and stories about not being enough, yet healing is always possible, and it begins with awareness and choice.JodieLynn beautifully sums up one of the biggest takeaways: in any moment, you can gain awareness and choose differently, and that choice can change not just your life, but the lives of everyone around you.This episode is a reminder that your worst moments can become the very soil your new self grows through - if you let yourself break through.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/tara-wiskowTara Wiskow's Website: https://tara-wiskow.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy

What if the very thing you call “security” is quietly draining the life out of you?In this powerful conversation, Walt and Joel dive deep into self-responsibility, comfort zones, trauma, mindset, and the wild magic of living at the edge of your growth. What emerges is a brutally honest, emotionally charged message: your life only truly begins when you take responsibility and step beyond what feels safe.Early in the discussion, Walt shares a striking contrast between two people at a breakfast gathering: a retired woman thrilled to “do nothing” and Walt himself, lit up by his AI project and hungry for what’s next. “She wants to stay exactly in retirement, I’m doing everything I can to get out of the comfort zone.”That contrast sets up the core question behind the entire conversation: Are you choosing comfort, or are you choosing growth?Joel explains that the comfort zone isn’t just emotional - it’s biological. The brain is wired for homeostasis, to keep you “safe in the cave.” “Stepping away from that comfort zone is like, man, that’s just where all the magic is. Nothing occurs inside the comfort zone except the same old redundant thing.”Walt reframes the comfort zone in a way that hits hard: “A comfort zone is where we maintain the same behaviors; it’s the same thing as being blocked.”So when we say, “I’m blocked,” what we often mean is: “I’m repeating the same patterns and refusing to leave my comfort zone.”From there, the conversation shifts into self responsibility. Joel doesn’t sugarcoat it: “Most people’s trauma is not their fault but they are 100% responsible for fixing their trauma.”It’s a statement that, as Joel admits, “pisses people off,” but he follows it with the only question that actually changes lives: What are you willing to do differently?They share story after story:A man who built a $500 million company driven by a father who refused to pay for his college.Twin brothers who both had an alcoholic father—one saying, “I’m an alcoholic because my dad’s an alcoholic,” the other saying, “I’m not an alcoholic because my dad’s an alcoholic.”Same facts. Different mindset. Radically different lives.Walt reveals a deeply personal breakthrough: learning to treat himself with kindness instead of constant self-criticism. That inner shift led a woman he was dating to tell him: “You’re the kindest man I’ve ever met.”He never set out to earn that label. It emerged as a ripple effect of being kinder to himself while taking responsibility for his own resistance and patterns.Joel distills one of the most powerful tools of all: “If I am up against something I’m having trouble with, I need to walk away and change my mindset.”Walt calls it a mic-drop moment because it is. That’s the turning point: Not “How do I force this to work?” but “How can I see this differently?”By the end, they circle back to the world we’re living in now - chaotic, magical, AI-driven, and full of possibility. “If you really want to live life to your absolute fullest, keep living life.”The real question is: Will you keep choosing the cave or will you finally step into the magic outside your comfort zone?LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/self-responsibiltyFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#loatoday#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#joelelston#SelfResponsibility #ComfortZone #MindsetShift #PersonalGrowth #TraumaHealing #LawOfAttraction #AIAndLife #SelfKindness #EmotionalHealing #LifeCoaching #LOAToday #InnerWork #BreakthroughThinking #ChooseGrowth

The Paleo story in this conversation doesn’t start with a trend. It starts with a dying woman.A severely underweight client with advanced uterine cancer came to Beverly and refused conventional treatment. Beverly built a way of eating that felt nourishing and doable for her: animal proteins, fats, cooked vegetables, some tubers, low starch, and no grains.Beverly refused to recommend anything she wouldn’t do herself, so she started eating that way too. The client later told her: “I want you to know I have felt better this last year than I have felt for decades.”Even as she was dying, she experienced a level of vitality she hadn’t known in years. That powerful contrast crystallized Beverly’s perspective on what she calls “true and correct paleo.”The core? Grains come off the menu. Wheat, rice, corn, oats, grass seeds humans never evolved to eat. “We’re hunters,” Beverly explained. “We don’t look down to locate food. We look up to watch for motion.”One of the most gripping parts of the conversation comes when Beverly shares her health crisis from about 10 years ago. Already naturally slim, she began losing a pound a month with no clear cause. Doctor after doctor of many different modalities ran tests and came up empty. “They basically sent me home to die.” So she did what most people are terrified to do: she became her own researcher.Beverly dove into medical journals, ordered her own labs, re‑ran them, and eventually discovered she had common variable immune deficiency (CVID) - a serious genetic immune flaw that even affects nutrient transport. “It’s like you’ve got a market full of produce, but no trucks to get it to the store.”After pushing for the treatment she had determined was right for her, she began weekly infusions that she’ll need for life. Her weight stabilized, and her health returned. Not because the system saved her, but because she refused to abandon herself.Throughout the conversation, Walt and Anne Marie kept circling one core truth: modern medicine often gives you pills, not understanding. Anne Marie shared going to a doctor in the UK to ask about HRT and being told: “I don’t really know anything about that. Go back, research, and come back. I’ll prescribe whatever you want.”Beverly’s answer is not blind rebellion; it’s educated ownership. She urges people to ask:What is my biology actually designed for?What does my lab work really say if I “aim for the middle” of the range?Who is paying for the studies I’m trusting?How can I upgrade my food, my sleep, and my self‑respect before chasing miracle cures?Her mantra is simple and radical: “Follow your biology. Help yourself to health.”In a world that often asks you to hand over your power, this conversation is a reminder: you are allowed to be the expert on you.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/beverly-meyerBeverly Meyer's Website: https://www.ondietandhealth.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#SelfDirectedHealing #PaleoDiet #FunctionalHealth #FollowYourBiology #FoodFirstHealing #ChronicIllnessJourney #MedicalAdvocacy #AlternativeHealth #SleepApneaAwareness #VitaminK2 #WomenAndHormones #PrimalDietModernHealth #OnDietAndHealth #LOAToday #HealthEmpowerment #TrustYourBody

What if doing the dishes, getting a free rental car upgrade, or simply making it through a hard day actually counted as celebration?In my conversation with Jodielynn, we explored how most of us save “celebration” for weddings, birthdays, and funerals -while ignoring the tiny, everyday moments that are quietly shaping our lives.We asked:Why don’t we celebrate more when it’s such a powerful tool?What if the “insignificant” things are actually the most sacred?How much of our painful past is really true… and how much is just an old story we keep retelling?Jodielynn shared how doing the dishes became her unconscious way of creating safety and comfort during family crises and how realizing that allowed her to say, “I got you, baby Jodie,” and choose kinder ways to care for herself.She also told a courageous story about making a painful mistake, drowning in shame, and then hearing her best friend say: “Jodie, there’s nothing you could do that would make me love you any less.”That one sentence became a doorway to self-forgiveness and a powerful practice: When I’m beating myself up, what would the most loving person in my life say to me right now?We talked about how:The brain’s RAS (reticular activating system) starts looking for more good when you intentionally celebrate small wins.You don’t have to fix everything overnight. Just shifting a little changes your relationships and the energy around you.Celebration isn’t balloons and cake - it’s a feeling of recognition, gratitude, and “I am okay.”The real question isn’t can you celebrate more.It’s: Will you let your everyday life count as worthy of celebration?LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/celebrationFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#CelebrateYourLife #AbundanceMagic #SelfLove #MindsetShift #EverydayMiracles #EmotionalHealing #SelfForgiveness #InnerSafety #LawOfAttraction #ConsciousLiving #CelebrateTheSmallThings #YouAreEnough

In a world that spins ever faster, where change is the norm and anxiety can easily become an unwanted companion, our recent conversation with Bob, Anne Marie, and Walt was a powerful reminder that meaning, joy, and wisdom are found in the way we choose to engage with life’s complexity.From the very start, Walt set a tone of camaraderie and authenticity, welcoming listeners to another episode of LOA Today. As Bob rejoined the show, Walt posed a simple yet profound question: “What inspired you to write your father’s story?” This question opened a portal to a deeply emotional journey - one that traced Bob’s family legacy from the resilience of Depression-era America to the wisdom gleaned across generations.Bob shared the moving origins of his most recent book: “It is my father's story, which was an amazing story. When he died at 97, all that wisdom, all those experiences - poof, it's just gone. And for 25 years, I kept saying, ‘Somebody needs to tell his story.’ So I finally wrote it down.” The tale of his mother Dorothy’s resilience and his father’s frugal habits painted a vivid portrait of the past—a world where a ham sandwich represented luxury, and acts of frugality carried deep meaning.Conversation soon turned to the unstoppable current of change. Walt reflected, “Look at how much has changed in our lifetimes, and it’s going to continue into the next 50, 100 years, Change is just happening at such a rapid rate.” Bob, referencing Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock,” illuminated why so many feel overwhelmed: “What is changing, though, is the rate of change. That really is hard to keep up with.”But amid these seismic shifts, the group found hope. Anne Marie voiced the struggles and solutions many listeners will recognize: “I always find that if I’m anxious, it’s because I’m focusing on the next thing. Once I pull myself back into the moment and do some breathing, the stress does calm.” The conversation explored how most learning and personal growth come through adversity, and that persistence and passion are key to thriving. “If you quit, if you stop, it won’t happen,” Bob reminded us - a testament to perseverance that anyone facing uncertainty can hold dear.As the discussion evolved, big questions surfaced: Are you on the track you really want? Are you living a life aligned with your passion? “The hardest part is ripping yourself away from what you’re not passionate about,” Walt observed, underscoring the courage required to step out of the comfort zone toward fulfillment.Anne Marie, echoing the wisdom at the table, offered a simple but profound takeaway: “Find your passion, have a bit of joy every day.”This emotionally-charged dialogue wasn’t just about surviving rapid change, but embracing it - finding daily happiness, letting go of perfection, persevering through setbacks, and choosing perspectives that foster growth.Let this serve as a call to action: Reflect on what brings you joy. Embrace change with open arms. Persist, even (and especially) when the outcomes aren’t clear.As Bob quoted, “Never let perfection be the enemy of the good.”LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/bob-martin-2Bob Martin JD, MSW, CMT's Website: https://awiseandhappylife.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#DailyDoseOfHappy #EmbraceChange #FindYourPassion #GrowthMindset #Resilience #MentalHealth #Storytelling #PersonalGrowth #LOAToday

What if the biggest transformation in your life started at rock bottom?In an unforgettable episode of LOA Today, Walt, Jodielynn, and their guest, hypnotist and coach Matt, explored the breathtaking power of the subconscious in healing trauma, rewriting life stories, and reclaiming peace - even after life-shattering events.From the first minutes, the conversation pulled back the curtain on breakthroughs that can happen at the edge of hope. When Walt welcomed Matt, he dove straight into the root: “Most of us are familiar with the fact that you have a conscious mind and subconscious mind, right? But we assume the conscious mind is the one that's large and in charge.In reality, your subconscious is thousands of times more powerful.” Matt illustrated how early-life programming, often set before age seven, shapes our lives invisibly: “A lot of times those early programs, they'll resurface in weird ways, you know, later in life, and that’s when people can really struggle.”The emotional heart of the conversation centered on Matt’s devastating journey after a traumatic brain injury. He described the agony of being told by specialists, “There’s nothing I can do for you,” and retreating to what he called his “dungeon,” a darkened room where pain ruled his life. Yet, his breakthrough began with the smallest flicker: a decision to never give up, even without a plan. “When you make a true decision, you cut off any other possibility,” Matt declared, encapsulating the show’s core message.What followed was an odyssey through traditional medicine, then to alternative healing methods like Reiki, Qigong, and finally, hypnotherapy. Matt’s willingness to keep seeking was palpable: “If you think about it, kids growing up are told, 'you should be a doctor', and that may not be the right career path for them, but someone who geeks out on it - that’s going to be a way better troubleshooter.” When Walt asked about the turning point, the answer was powerful: “When I realized medical science wasn’t going to be able to heal me, I started looking out for what else is out there.”The show explored what it actually takes to rewire your subconscious, questions we all have: Can you really heal yourself? Is it possible to truly let go of past pain? Matt demonstrated a live exercise using color, shape, and movement to dissolve tension, inviting listeners to try it themselves. “We gave it a visual component. Once we do that, we can then start to play with it, that tells your subconscious mind, all right, we're going to handle this differently now.”Jodielynn highlighted a universal theme: so many of us are stuck because of stories we've absorbed from parents, doctors, or society. “Your story today is just another layer of testament that no matter what, you can do something, you can make a change in your own life.” The conversation closed on a message of hope: even devastating moments can reveal unexpected blessings and new purpose, if you “develop your own PhD—pig-headed determination.”LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/matt-johnsonMatt Johnson's Website: https://www.mattjohnsonnlp.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#HealingJourney #SubconsciousPower #Hypnotherapy #TraumaRecovery #LOAToday #PersonalTransformation #MindsetMatters #OvercomingAdversity #EmotionalHealing #NLP

When the world feels cold, literally and figuratively - it’s often easier to hide away and dwell on our setbacks. But some people, like Ilene, find a way to turn every frustration into a springboard for freedom.In a moving episode of “LOA Today,” Walt welcomed Ilene, a self-described powerhouse speaker, innovator, and author, to share her extraordinary path from adversity to accomplishment. Anne-Marie, co-host and fellow traveler on the journey of growth, joined in to explore the powerful moments and hard-earned wisdom that defined Ilene’s story.The energy was palpable from the opening seconds: “We are so happy you decided to join us today, and Happy Monday to everybody!” Walt exclaimed, setting the tone for an hour that would fly by with laughter, reflection, and profound insight. Anne-Marie’s words captured the anticipation: “I smiled the minute I joined the call. This is going to be brilliant.”Ilene’s journey was anything but easy. When Walt asked about her background, she responded candidly: “I grew up in a historical, hysterical home, There was definitely some trauma and a lack of abundance, but I quickly found community - I joined the swim team, Girl Scouts, and volunteered.” With humor and a touch of rebellion, Ilene always found her way forward, even when the going got tough.What followed were stories that might have left most of us defeated: childhood abuse, a rare cancer diagnosis with staggering odds, financial ruin from a divorce, and a career-shattering scandal not of her making. When Walt noted, “It sounds like from your story that you were just so persistent. If there was a crash and burn, you barely noticed,” Ilene replied, “Let me tell you, there were four crash and burns, I needed the brick twice.”But that wasn’t the end. Ilene distilled her life lessons like treasures found in the rubble: resourcefulness - the readiness to “find a way in, not just a way out”; grit - the refusal to give up, no matter how steep the hill; and perspective, the ability to ask, “How can I find the gift in this situation?”Walt probed deeper: “When you learn from it, that’s where the other interesting part of the story is: what did you actually learn from it?” Ilene’s answer was powerful: “Resourcefulness, grit and perspective.” She explained how embracing humor transformed her pain: “The humor is where the lessons are learned. When you can laugh at it, you know you’re finally learning.”Ilene’s ingenuity shone in her entrepreneurial adventure: a sloped frying pan inspired by a lopsided stove. Sharing how she turned misfortune into invention, Ilene reminded listeners that setbacks can be the mother of creativity and connection.The show closed with heartfelt gratitude. Anne-Marie summed up, “It’s finding the sunshine in the storm. It’s literally perspective, and it’s changing that outlook.” Walt honored Ilene’s impact: “On behalf of all those you’ll never meet, thank you for what you’re doing. You’re making a difference.”Through every trial, Ilene showed us it’s not about avoiding frustration - it’s about leveraging it, learning from it, and lifting others by sharing our stories.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/ilene-marcusIlene Marcus's Website: https://alignedworkplace.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#Resilience #TurnAdversityIntoStrength #GrowthMindset #Inspiration #Entrepreneurship #LOAToday #Perspective #HumorHeals

What does it mean to truly come home to yourself?On this heartfelt episode of LOA Today, Walt welcomed listeners to explore the transformative power of Reiki and self-discovery, joined by Anne Marie, her beloved Reiki master Carol, and the ever-curious Joy the cat. Through open dialogue, deep questions, and personal testimony, they painted a moving picture of what it feels like to find healing, purpose, and connection both to oneself and to others.From the moment Walt invited Anne Marie to introduce Carol, the conversation set an intimate, authentic tone. When Walt asked, “Why don’t we start by talking about how you got into Reiki in the first place, and what you’re doing with it today?”Carol’s answer was a story of serendipity and courage. She explained how Reiki “found” her just when she needed it most - after stepping away from a media career to care for her family and go on a journey of self-discovery. Her words, “I always think that Reiki finds you,” resonated deeply throughout the conversation.Carol revealed that before Reiki, she doubted her own abilities, even laughing when a mentor called her a healer. Yet, powerful early Reiki sessions changed her life. She described her first attunement as “like coming home,” a feeling so profound it brought tears. Each step learning, practicing, teaching - deepened her belief in the power of energy healing, and ultimately, the importance of awakening to your truest self.Walt reflected on his own Reiki experiences, noting that “the attunement literally lifted my ability far beyond where it had been.” He described the diversity of Reiki journeys: “Some people have psychic visions, others get pure physical sensations.” Carol echoed this, stressing, “Everyone’s Reiki path is different but Reiki is Reiki, and the more you practice, the stronger it gets.”Anne Marie’s voice brought in the perspective of transformation through trust and surrender. She didn’t expect a healing journey - she simply wanted to “feel calm” after a difficult year. What she found through Reiki with Carol was so much more: “It’s been a rollercoaster. I’ve felt anger, release, and an insane amount of insight. I feel like I’m finally coming home to myself.” The emotional honesty in her sharing was a highlight, reminding listeners that “you will only release today what you are ready to release. The body is very intelligent.”Themes of discernment, self-responsibility, and the ripple effect of healing echoed throughout the episode. Carol emphasized that as practitioners, it’s vital to “stay true to why the client is there,” always prioritizing respect, permission, and empowerment. Walt beautifully summarized, “Reiki is a very physical experience. Its power is real, but it’s only potent if you use it, like working a muscle.”The meeting closed with gratitude, future aspirations, and the hope that more people discover healing - whether through Reiki, meditation, or simply embracing their spiritual health as joyfully as their physical and mental wellbeing.If you've ever wondered how to reconnect with yourself, heal old wounds, or find new purpose, their questions, answers, and stories may plant a seed of hope in your own journey home.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/carol-dodsonCarol Dodson's Website: www.haneys.co.ukFollow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#Q&A#waltthiessen#annemarieyoung#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#Reiki #HealingJourney #SelfDiscovery #LOAToday #SpiritualHealth #HolisticWellbeing #EnergyHealing #LawOfAttraction #PersonalGrowth

In a moving episode of "LOA Today," Walt and Camilla dive deep into the journeys that break us and make us whole again.Their conversation radiates the rawness of real-life transitions, from divorce and loss to rediscovered self-worth and the surprising power of emotional choice.Camilla, a coach dedicated to empowering women, shares her “mirror moment” - dragged into a high-conflict divorce that forced her to confront unresolved pain and protect her daughter’s well-being. Asked by Walt, “What was the story that led up to you doing what you’re doing now?” Camilla doesn’t hold back, describing courtroom battles, PTSD, and the epiphany: “If I do not elevate my consciousness and how I'm showing up, how could I help my daughter, who was struggling?” Her answer pulses with courage: “I had to become a different person to reset my daughter, I first had to reset myself.”Walt relates, validating her pain and resilience. They acknowledge how so many, especially high performers, struggle in silence with taboo topics like divorce. Camilla reminds, “We don’t have to be a victim of our feelings. To thrive and be a role model for your kids, you get to learn how to have inner peace.”But the conversation’s emotional power grows as Walt introduces a transformative twist: “Instead of regulating emotions, I like to think of it as selecting emotions.” Camilla lights up at this perspective, and they discuss how we can choose not just to endure, but to elevate our stories. “I am not tied to a default emotion for a given circumstance,  I can select an emotion I would not normally have.” Walt shares an experiment with his emotions, inspired by a flower in nature, realizing, “I had a lot more control over my emotions than I thought. Even if it was a negative situation, I could choose a positive emotion.”Camilla expands this, highlighting the cost of holding onto attachment - emotional ties to the past that silently consume our energy. “I had given way too much power to my ex, even after he was gone from my life.” She recalls coaching clients: “The moment you train your mind to focus on something neutral,  you reclaim space for yourself.”The duo touch on the contagious effect of energy: “Hurt people hurt people, If we don’t deal with our wounds, we serve without love, at home and at work.” They reveal how shifting inner energy ripples outward, raising not only personal but collective consciousness, even impacting corporate cultures.Their dialogue wraps with a powerful insight, as Walt observes, “If you come at AI with the mind of learning, you get smarter, if you wait for it to do all the work, you get dumber. It’s yes to both. The opportunity is in what we choose to make of it.” Camilla agrees: real growth lies not in the tool, but in how consciously we use it.This conversation is a reminder that we are the artists of our own emotional palette.Like Walt and Camilla, we can choose to select, not simply survive finding purpose and peace in the process.LOA Today Episode Page: https://www.loatoday.net/camilla-calbergCamilla Calberg's Website: https://www.camillacalberg.com/Follow the LOA Today podcast:  https://www.loatoday.net/follow#lawofattraction#manifesting#vibration#podcast#deliberatecreators#Q&A#waltthiessen#jodielynncraven#loatodayapp#YourDailyDoseOfHappy#EmotionalIntelligence #Healing #PersonalGrowth #Energy #SelfKindness #LifeTransitions #Coaching #Mindfulness #Empowerment #AIandHumanity