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Meaningful Conversations with Maria Shriver

by Shriver Media and Cadence13

Building on the success of her instant No. 1 NY Times-bestselling book I’ve Been Thinking…Reflections, Prayers and Meditations for a Meaningful Life, Maria Shriver continues to explore the life topics, issues and ideas that we’re all thinking about.Through intimate, thought-provoking conversations with friends and other individuals she respects and admires, Maria dives into issues like love, pain, forgiveness, gratitude, family, faith, connection, loneliness, the art of self-reinvention, and more to inspire you to reflect on your own life and have more meaningful conversations with the people you love.

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Episodes

  1. How to Seek Joy with Martha Beck

    "If I can experience joy, then isn't joy its own excuse for being, isn't that enough of a reason to be alive? And everything I read or heard about people with down syndrome, was that they could experience tremendous amounts of joy. So I chose to keep Adam, but more importantly, I radically…

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  2. Dave Asprey on How to Biohack Your Life!

    "Biohacking didn't have a definition, that wasn't a word...I created this conference with thousands of people and there's now millions of people will say, "I'm a biohacker. I want control of my own biology." It's now in the dictionary. But that community was partly something that I built because…

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  3. Father Greg Boyle Shares The Meaning of Radical Kinship

    "The minute you can kind of say, wow, the widow, orphan stranger, the folks at the margins, these are my trustworthy guides, I'm going to go there so they can lead me to the kinship. Oh God. Well that's, you've just turned privilege on its head because you're not guiding them or leading them....

  4. How to Transform Suffering into Connection with Sharon Salzberg

    "My meaning in life has been changing suffering, into connection...Whatever we go through as human beings, realizing we're not alone and helping other people realize they're not alone." ​ -Sharon Salzberg​ Sharon Salzberg is someone I have admired for quite some time. She is one of America’s...

  5. Kendra Scott Reveals Why Adversity Can Be Your Greatest Gift

    "There's this fire sometimes inside you that you have to grab down deep. And it is literally like talking to yourself...Like, 'pull yourself off the floor....what am I going to do proactively today to move forward, to progress forward?' And if I get turned away again at another bank...I'm just...

  6. How to Gain Self-Love & Create a Better Reality with Marisa Peer

    "If you want love, change one thing, how much you believe you're worth. Then, you will find love." -Marisa Peer I am enough. Three simple words that we don’t tell are selves nearly as often as we should. Bestselling author and therapist Marisa Peer is determined to help us change that. She says…

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  7. Chelsea Handler Reveals The TRUE Story of Her Mid-Life Awakening

    "I think the thing that hits me the most is: I didn't think about, you know, how strong I came across for so long. I just thought there's all these other sides of me that everybody must automatically know about...But there was only one side of me I was showing on like say, Chelsea Lately, my old...

  8. Brené Brown Shares Why You Have to Be Vulnerable to Be Brave

    "Everybody wants to be brave, but no one wants to be vulnerable...Courage doesn't exist without vulnerability." -Brene Brown Brené Brown wants to help you choose “Courage over comfort.” She has spent the past two decades of her life researching and writing about courage, vulnerability, shame, and...

  9. The Power of Friendship with Special Olympian, Loretta Claiborne

    "And she said to me, "How would you like to be my friend?" I looked at her and I started to cry. I said, "I really don't have no friends," and she went in her purse, She got a little card and it says Special Olympics...And says, "I want you to write me." I said, "I can't write that good. You…

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  10. Tina Knowles Lawson on Parenting, Marriage and Self-Love

    "It was hard-earned and not the easiest thing to do, and something really drastic had to come along to say, 'Wake up! Like, come on. You know, you're working seven days a week and you're taking care of everybody. What are you doing for Tina?' And it was very little." -Tina Knowles Lawson I’m so...

  11. Kathie Lee Gifford Reveals Her True Feelings On Leaving Today & Her Next Chapter​

    "I think because I've always defined myself since I was 12 years old as a child of God...That is what gives me self worth. Not Emmy Awards, not Tony nominations, not Grammy nominations. All of those things I've experienced, and they're lovely...But ultimately, at the end of a lifetime, it's, 'Who...

  12. Father James Martin on How the Catholic Church Can Evolve

    "There's a great story in the Gospel of Luke...the story of Zacchaeus, the tax collector...and there's a line when Jesus reaches out to him, that says, 'all who saw it began to grumble,' and I often think, 'well, that's what's going on in our church, and online.' People don't like the fact that...

  13. Timothy Shriver Reveals the Untold Story of Our Country

    "There's a story going on in the country that we don't really understand yet. It's not the story of people who are progressive's hating people who are conservatives, or people who are conservatives, hating people who are progressives. That's largely a story told by politics in the media...But...

  14. The Toxic TRUTH About The Beauty Industry with Gregg Renfrew

    "There's an incredible lack of awareness around personal care cosmetics because people think that the FDA, like it does in the food industry, has the ability to protect the American consumer. And the reality of the situation is, that we have laws dating back 80 years that are insufficient and...

  15. Mary Pipher on How to Redefine Your Relationship with Aging

    "I realized that the cultural scripts about older women, first of all, they are often misogynistic, but there are also primarily scripts where are defined by what we no longer have...The real story is this life stage is catalytic for growth. It's a walking into a portal where we have so much...

  16. Jon & Dorothea Bon Jovi Share a New Way to Change Lives

    "This is about dignity. It's about human dignity. I have yet to meet someone who strives to be homeless, strives to be unemployed...People want their dignity...They want to come in, they want to be part of something. They want to give back. Everyone can contribute in some way" -Dorothea Bon Jovi...

  17. Jen Sincero on How to Be a Badass and Create the Life You Want

    "I think motivation is a muscle. I think confidence is a muscle. I think tenacity is a muscle...And like any other muscle, you've got to keep working it out if you want to stay strong and grow it." -Jen Sincero Jen Sincero is a badass. That’s the truth. Ever since she released her book “You Are a...

  18. Don Miguel Ruiz Shares The True Meaning of Love 


    "When you know what you are, you know you are love, you love with no conditions. You're not selfish...You just share yourself, you give yourself…When you receive love, you have so much gratitude, and that gratitude will change into generosity. The more you receive, you have more gratitude and...

  19. Hoda Kotb on How to Build Meaningful Relationships

    "Being present is more important than what you say. Being present is more important than giving someone the right quote or the right whatever. Being there, sitting there matters...And I think that sometimes it's as simple as that.” -Hoda Kotb On this episode, I'm joined by a dear friend of mine…

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  20. Marianne Williamson on Healing the Soul of America

    “If you are looking at what's going on in the world today and what's going on in our democracy, and you're not depressed, what is wrong with you? These are sobering times. These are legitimately upsetting times. Our democracy is under assault.” Marianne Williamson On this episode, I’m joined by...

  21. Rob Lowe on How to Stay Curious and Keep Evolving

    “I think it's the little, tiny things that you do to try to be an authentic person that incrementally chip by chip, by chip, by chip, by chip, one day there's enough weight on the scale. Now, the scale goes in your favor. For me, it's being able to look back at what I've been able to do in my…

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    Meaningful Conversations with Maria Shriver launches January 21st.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Building on the success of her instant No. 1 NY Times-bestselling book I’ve Been Thinking…Reflections, Prayers and Meditations for a Meaningful Life, Maria Shriver continues to explore the life topics, issues and ideas that we’re all thinking about.Through intimate, thought-provoking conversations with friends and other individuals she respects and admires, Maria dives into issues like love, pain, forgiveness, gratitude, family, faith, connection, loneliness, the art of self-reinvention, and more to inspire you to reflect on your own life and have more meaningful conversations with the people you love.

HOSTED BY

Shriver Media and Cadence13

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Building on the success of her instant No. 1 NY Times-bestselling book I’ve Been Thinking…Reflections, Prayers and Meditations for a Meaningful Life, Maria Shriver continues to explore the life topics, issues and ideas that we’re all thinking about.Through intimate, thought-provoking conversations...

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