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You may need to break out of your social comfort zone in order to find new opportunities in life! Hear more about that from Tanya Menon, an organizational researcher who studies how people think about relationships, and how this affects the way they make decisions, collaborate, and lead at work.  She is Professor of Management and Human Resources at Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. Her research on decision making, influence, culture, teams, and networks has been cited in various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Financial Times. Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back.  And, with Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/nobody.

Our guest, Molly Fletcher, was one of the first female sports agents who represented hundreds of the biggest names in sports. She’s now a full-time speaker and author who focuses her work on helping leaders, teams, and organizations re-imagine their potential and up their game every day. She’s written several books including, "The Energy Clock" and "Fearless at Work". Her website is mollyfletcher.com.   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back.  And, with Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/nobody.

When a romantic relationship ends, we can find ourselves devastated.  How can we pick up the pieces of a broken heart and move forward with our lives, when even getting up in the morning feels like an overwhelming challenge?  Our guest, Amy Chan, found herself jobless, homeless and single, all at once when a relationship with her boyfriend ended.  Since then, she’s not only found a way to turn heartbreak into healing for herself, but for others as well.  Amy founded a “breakup bootcamp” to help women heal themselves first and their hearts, second.  She's the author of the book, "Breakup Bootcamp:  The Science of Rewiring Your Heart".  Her website is Welcome to Renew Breakup Bootcamp Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back.  And, with Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payment

How can you achieve lifetime satisfaction?  We talk about that with clinical psychologist Dr. Jennifer Guttman, who contends that happiness is not sustainable, but satisfaction is.  Dr. Guttman has helped thousands of clients struggling with anxiety and depression, and she’s the author of the new book, "BEYOND HAPPINESS: The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction".  Her website is guttmanpsychology.com.   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back.  And, with Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/nobody.

Joining us on this episode is award-winning journalist Michael Easter who’s become a leading voice on how humans can integrate modern science and evolutionary wisdom to achieve improved health, meaning, and performance in life and at work.  Michael is the author of, "The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self."  For more on the book, check out BOOK – Michael Easter   Ritual’s clinically-backed Essential For Women 18+ multivitamin has high-quality, traceable key ingredients in clean, bioavailable forms.  It’s gentle on an empty stomach with a minty essence that helps make taking your multi-vitamin enjoyable. Here's a special offer for our Nobody Told Me listeners! Get 25% off your first month at ritual.com/NTM.  Start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today. Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new custo

This is another one of our favorite interviews! Dr. Michele Harper is an emergency room doctor and a New York Times bestselling author. She has worked as an emergency room physician for many years in the South Bronx and in Philadelphia.  Michele’s book, "The Beauty in Breaking", weaves together the story of her life, and her interactions with her patients in the emergency room. Her website is micheleharper.com.   Ritual’s clinically-backed Essential For Women 18+ multivitamin has high-quality, traceable key ingredients in clean, bioavailable forms.  It’s gentle on an empty stomach with a minty essence that helps make taking your multi-vitamin enjoyable. Here's a special offer for our Nobody Told Me listeners! Get 25% off your first month at ritual.com/NTM.  Start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today. Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, dis

As a mother-daughter duo, we’re always interested in issues related to parents and raising children. On this episode, our guest is education professor Dr. Traci Baxley, who is a cultural and race identity coach for parents.  Dr. Baxley is the mother of five biracial children and she feels parenting is a form of activism. She’s the author of the book, "SOCIAL JUSTICE PARENTING: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World".  Her website is About Me   Ritual’s clinically-backed Essential For Women 18+ multivitamin has high-quality, traceable key ingredients in clean, bioavailable forms.  It’s gentle on an empty stomach with a minty essence that helps make taking your multi-vitamin enjoyable. Here's a special offer for our Nobody Told Me listeners! Get 25% off your first month at ritual.com/NTM.  Start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today.   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own

Our guest on this episode is Lacy Crawford, author of the book, "Notes On A Silencing:  A Memoir",  which is the story of Lacy’s sexual assault as a teenager by two fellow students at the one of the top boarding schools in the country. The Washington Post calls the book, “A haunting exploration of the systemic ways assault victims are ignored.”   Her website is lacycrawford |   Ritual’s clinically-backed Essential For Women 18+ multivitamin has high-quality, traceable key ingredients in clean, bioavailable forms.  It’s gentle on an empty stomach with a minty essence that helps make taking your multi-vitamin enjoyable. Here's a special offer for our Nobody Told Me listeners! Get 25% off your first month at ritual.com/NTM.  Start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today. Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the followin

Our guest is Dr. Jack Schafer, a retired FBI special agent who specialized in behavior analysis and trying to get people to confess to their crimes. In his book, "The Like Switch", he shares his proven strategies on how to instantly read people and influence how they perceive you so that you can turn strangers into friends in any aspect of your life, whether that be in a job interview or on a first date.     Ritual’s clinically-backed Essential For Women 18+ multivitamin has high-quality, traceable key ingredients in clean, bioavailable forms.  It’s gentle on an empty stomach with a minty essence that helps make taking your multi-vitamin enjoyable. Here's a special offer for our Nobody Told Me listeners! Get 25% off your first month at ritual.com/NTM.  Start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today.   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover

Would you like to be more successful? Can you define what success really means to you?  Do you have a plan to achieve it? For some help with those questions, we talk with our guest, Wharton Professor G. Richard Shell, who’s an award-winning author and the creator of a very popular Wharton School course on the meaning of success.  He’s also developed a course on success for Coursera, the world’s leading online learning platform, which you can check out at https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-succcess.     Ritual’s clinically-backed Essential For Women 18+ multivitamin has high-quality, traceable key ingredients in clean, bioavailable forms.  It’s gentle on an empty stomach with a minty essence that helps make taking your multi-vitamin enjoyable. Here's a special offer for our Nobody Told Me listeners! Get 25% off your first month at ritual.com/NTM.  Start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today.   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to star

How can we best cope with the loss of a pet?  What can we do to heal and move forward from it?  Joining us on this episode is Dr. Guy Winch, licensed psychologist and expert on the topic of healing from the loss of a pet. Dr. Winch was with us previously to discuss his book "How to Fix a Broken Heart", which aims to help people cope with a breakup or death of someone they love.  His website is http://www.guywinch.com.   Ritual’s clinically-backed Essential For Women 18+ multivitamin has high-quality, traceable key ingredients in clean, bioavailable forms.  It’s gentle on an empty stomach with a minty essence that helps make taking your multi-vitamin enjoyable. Here's a special offer for our Nobody Told Me listeners! Get 25% off your first month at ritual.com/NTM.  Start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today. Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, d

Learn an easier, lighter way of moving through life by embracing the peace, calm, and spaciousness that emptiness and silence offer.  Joining us is psychotherapist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas Moore, author of, "The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness".  His website is thomasmooresoul.com.

We get some great insight and advice from Robin Dreeke, the former head of the FBI's Behavior Analysis Program and a recognized expert in the field of interpersonal communication. In this episode, Robin tells us how to create an instant connection, why some communication styles work better than others, and why it's important to follow what he's deemed "the platinum rule": treating others as they want to be treated. Robin is the author of several best-selling books, including "The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Five Rules to Lead and Succeed".  He is also the founder and president of People Formula, an organization that offers advanced rapport building, training, and consultation. His website is https://www.peopleformula.com/about   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back. Shopify

Do you feel uncomfortable in some social situations?  Do you feel self-conscious and insecure and wish you could do something about that?  If so, you’ll want to hear what our guest, Dr. Ellen Hendriksen has to say.  Ellen is a clinical psychologist who has helped millions of people overcome social anxiety.  She’s the author of book, "How To Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety".  Her website is https://www.ellenhendriksen.com/about   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back. Shopify makes getting paid simple, by instantly accepting every type of payment. With Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/nobody.

Looking for a new way to solve problems? Join us as we talk with Hal Gregersen, author of the book, "Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life".  It's based on interviews with leaders like Pixar founder Ed Catmull and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Hal is well-known as an innovation and leadership guru who is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His website is https://halgregersen.com/   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back. Shopify makes getting paid simple, by instantly accepting every type of payment. With Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/nobody.

Dog lovers, this episode is for you!  We’re excited to talk with our guest, canine behaviorist Clive Wynne who explores the incredible relationship between people and dogs in his book, "Dog is Love:  Why and How Your Dog Loves You".  His website is https://www.clivewynne.com/ Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back. Shopify makes getting paid simple, by instantly accepting every type of payment. With Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/nobody.

It takes a lot of work to make a relationship work! For more than 30 years, our guest, psychologist Dr. Ellyn Bader has specialized in helping couples transform their relationships. Ellyn and her husband, Dr. Peter Pearson, co-founded The Couples Institute in Silicon Valley, where they work with entrepreneurial couples including CEOs, startup founders, and small business owners, helping them better understand and overcome the unique challenges of managing a business and marriage simultaneously (and successfully).  Her website is https://www.couplesinstitute.com/ellyn-bader/ Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back. Shopify makes getting paid simple, by instantly accepting every type of payment. With Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-

Friendship is the topic as we talk with Deborah Tannen, who has spent her career studying the language of everyday conversation. She is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and the author of many books, including, "You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships".  Her website is http://www.deborahtannen.com/   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back. Shopify makes getting paid simple, by instantly accepting every type of payment. With Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/nobody.

Our guest on this episode, Lilia Tarawa, is an extraordinary woman who has lived a remarkable life. Born into the secretive cult, the Gloriavale Christian Community in New Zealand, she fled with her family when she was 18 years old. Since then, she's made it her life's mission to help others break free and see what's possible. She's the author of "Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life In A Religious Cult”.   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back. Shopify makes getting paid simple, by instantly accepting every type of payment. With Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at Shopify.com/nobody.

On this special Father’s Day edition of Nobody Told Me, we repeat our conversation with Laura’s father, and Jan's husband, Ronn Owens, a legendary radio talk show host who is a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. In addition to many other honors, Ronn received two Marconi Awards for being named Large Market Personality of the Year in 2003 and again in 2010. We talk to him about some of those “nobody told me” lessons that guys learn when they become fathers, the best advice he's given to his daughters, and what he learned from his dad.   Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that makes it simple for anyone to start, run and grow your own successful business. With Shopify, you’ll create an online store, discover new customers, and grow the following that keeps them coming back. Shopify makes getting paid simple, by instantly accepting every type of payment. With Shopify’s single dashboard, you can manage orders, shipping and payments from anywhere. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period