Guest: Dr. Jorina Elbers

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the constant barrage of distressing news? You’re not alone. In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Jorina Elbers, Director of the Trauma Recovery Project at the HeartMath Institute, sheds light on the hidden impact of secondary trauma — a crucial issue affecting many of us.

Secondary trauma occurs when we overload from exposure to traumatic events through graphic news, social media, and other people’s personal stories. Many of us are deeply impacted by trauma inputs every time we open our smartphones. The stress can take a toll, creating brain fog, emotional numbness, sleeplessness, and more — and we may not know we are struggling with secondary trauma. 

Like a circuit breaker pushed beyond its limits, Dr. Elbers explains how your mind and body can become overloaded from traumatic news. Join host Deborah Rozman and Dr. Elbers as they unpack how today’s constant influx of stress news is pushing people’s nervous system to the brink, leading to a range of physical and emotional symptoms.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to recognize signs of secondary trauma and gain invaluable insights on how to rebalance your nervous system and release cumulative stress. Discover how to read your body’s stress signals and ready yourself with techniques that go beyond surface-level symptom management.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world, as well as those supporting loved ones through difficult times. Dr. Elbers helps you see how you have more control over your well-being than you may have thought possible.

Tune in for an episode that offers hope and direction to help you move from nervous system dysregulation to regulation, empowerment, and healing.

As a special bonus, the episode concludes with a guided heart meditation, led by Deborah, that you can use anytime you start to feel overwhelmed and to help you regulate your nervous system.

About our guest:

Dr. Jorina Elbers is a pediatric neurologist with clinical expertise in treating chronic stress and trauma. She is currently the Director of the Trauma Recovery Project at the HeartMath Institute and is the creator of HeartMath’s newest program, “HeartMath for Parents.” She was previously an assistant professor at Stanford University and has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers, with her most recent publications discussing nervous system dysregulation and how the body adapts to chronic stress or trauma.

Guest: Kute Blackson

In this episode, we explore the concept of surrender, and our guest, Kute Blackson, talks about the magic of true surrender to your own highest self. He passionately debunks myths about surrender, that it’s a sign of weakness or passivity. Instead, he reveals it as a powerful act of courage that can lead to extraordinary personal growth and fulfillment.

Kute is a celebrated transformational teacher and author of The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go. He says that true surrender, as articulated by many sages, is not about surrendering to someone else or something outside of you. Rather, it involves releasing the attachments and desires dictated by the mind, personality, or ego.

Through his own stories and personal experience, Kute discovered that true surrender is releasing the illusion of control and allowing life to unfold in unexpected and beautiful ways.

Kute and host Deborah Rozman discuss how the process of surrender is about trusting our heart’s intuition and the guidance it offers. When we listen to the heart’s intelligent guidance, we are surrendering to something beyond the ego, and magic can unfold along with deeply fulfilling manifestations of what is possible.

Kute and Deborah talk about the importance of meeting ourselves with grace, ease, and compassion as we learn how to let go. When we live life motivated or driven by the grip of the ego, we tend to live a limited life. 

Kute’s profound wisdom and infectious enthusiasm will linger in your mind long after you finish listening to this episode. Listen in for an engaging and enlightening conversation as Kute shares insights about how we can each experience the magic of surrender. Prepare to be inspired!

The episode closes with a heart meditation, led by Deborah Rozman, to help us connect with our heart’s intelligence and ask what insights, nudges, and intuition it might want us to hear for our next step. 

About our guest:
Kute Blackson is the author of The Magic of Surrender: Finding the Courage to Let Go. He is a beloved inspirational speaker and transformational teacher and speaks at countless events that he organizes around the world, as well as at outside events, including A-Fest, YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization), and EO (Entrepreneurs’ Organization). He is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, a select group of one hundred of the world’s foremost authorities in the personal development industry. Winner of the 2019 Unity New Thought Walden Award, Blackson is widely considered a next-generation leader in the field of personal development. His mission is simple: To awaken and inspire people across the planet to access inner freedom, live authentically, and fulfill their true life’s purpose.

Guest: Matt Kahn

In this episode, we’re talking about how to put love into action in practical ways in challenging areas of our lives to activate its transformative power. Matt Kahn, our guest, is a teacher, healer, speaker, and author of the highly acclaimed books Whatever Arises, Love That and Everything Is Here to Help You. His newest book, All for Love: The Transformative Power of Holding Space, won a Gold IPPY Award (Independent Publishers Award) and an Ommie Award (World Vision category) and is topping bestseller lists with its heart-centered messages and solutions. 

Loving ourselves can be one of the hardest things to do, and Matt shares how we can learn to dialogue with the parts of ourselves that don’t feel worthy of self-love and heal what we see in ourselves as bad, undesirable, or unworthy.

Matt suggests that when our ego plays less of a role in being in charge of what we love and don’t love, then love becomes how we deliver healing to interrupt and transform patterns.

Expanding on love as a transformative power, Matt and our host, Deborah Rozman, talk about how pain and suffering are a call for love and some of the intricacies of choosing love. They help us understand how we can still put love and care into action even when we don’t like or don’t agree with someone or something. They share how to remain aligned with our highest truths and values while we hold space for hearing the experiences of others — and why this is needed to heal the profound separations and pain that people are experiencing around the world.   

Matt and Deborah help us understand how love’s power to transform moves beyond the linear and rational mind that judges, and they encourage us to connect with our heart’s intuitive intelligence for guidance in putting love into action in our own lives. 

This episode closes with a heart meditation to help us deepen our love and compassionate latitude for ourselves and for others. We are all going through transitional times where old structures and beliefs are breaking down, and new possibilities and structures have yet to take place. This meditation guides us to radiate compassion and care toward people and world situations that need more love in action.

About our guest: 

Matt Kahn is a renowned spiritual teacher, highly acclaimed empath, and bestselling author known for his transformative insights into the journey of awakening. His teachings focus on love as the ultimate path to self-realization, emphasizing the importance of emotional freedom and the power of self-awareness. Kahn’s approach blends deep spiritual wisdom with practical guidance, offering tools for navigating life’s challenges with grace and humor.

His books, including the spiritual classic Whatever Arises, Love That, and his other recorded teachings have inspired millions, earning him a dedicated following worldwide. Kahn’s message is simple yet profound: embrace every moment with love and kindness to unveil the divine within. His ability to translate complex spiritual concepts into accessible, everyday wisdom makes him a beloved figure in the world of contemporary spirituality.

Guest: Kristina Furia

In this insightful broadcast, we talk with Kristina Furia, a 30-something mental health counselor who guides other millennials and Gen Zers on how to discover their “true north” and lean into their purpose through listening to their heart. 

Kristina shares that the increased anxiety and depression that so many in the younger generations are experiencing these days stems, in part, from a disconnection with the heart. Many find themselves trapped in a state of hopelessness about their future, leading to loneliness and feelings of despair. Kristina helps them understand how this can be an unexpected gift because loneliness and despair can often help us go deeper inside our hearts and become more receptive, drawing in the heart’s help and insights. 

Through her thriving Instagram community, @YourNewFrequency, and as a clinical psychologist and nationally certified transformational coach, Kristina helps people to self-empower and break free from the grip of a harsh inner critic to connect with their heart’s fresh perspective and intuitive direction. Kristina and host Deborah Rozman discuss how we each can learn to sense and know our heart’s voice and discern its guidance. They discuss hope, community, and the positive role that social media could play in building meaningful connections.

Kristina shares her transformational journey from living in her mind to awakening to her real heart and realizing that we are all meant to live in a higher frequency, resulting in more love and aliveness. The episode concludes with a heart exercise and meditation to lift our frequency whenever we feel stuck or disconnected from others and connect with the higher vibration of our true selves.

About our guest: 

Over the past 14 years, Kristina Furia has supported thousands of people on their journey to become the next, more fulfilled version of themselves. With a master’s degree in clinical and counseling psychology, Kristina began her career supporting individuals on the path beyond trauma and addiction, working in both individual and group formats. Then, in 2013, she began her private practice, which was later named Best Therapy Practice by Philadelphia Magazine. 

In 2019, after experiencing a major spiritual awakening, Kristina made the decision to hang up her therapist hat and became nationally certified as a transformational coach. Taking to Instagram to spread her message, she went on to rapidly grow a large following, sharing her unique, integrative approach to rapid and sustainable life transformation. Kristina’s ongoing mission is to guide people to release the limitations caused by the past, to enjoy the beauty of the present, and to consciously create a soul-aligned new future.

Guest: Sarah Syed

Don’t miss this wonderful episode with our guest, Sarah Syed, a globally recognized 18-year-old technology inventor, climate activist, and founder of You Are the Change, an international youth-led organization focusing on youth mobilizing action and mindsets to become sustainability leaders. Sarah has been recognized as a Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalist in Canada and named one of the Top 20 Under 20 in the World by Diversity in Action.

This is a truly inspiring conversation as Sarah shares her passion for taking action to make a difference and how, on her journey, she uncovered a profound truth: that the heart is essential for real change and progress. She has spoken at the United Nations to world leaders about the importance of leading with the heart and how the world has reached a critical juncture where our heart must be the captain of our ship of activism to guide us toward sustainable solutions, not just surface-level actions. As a passionate advocate for climate change, she astutely observes the disconnection between humanity and nature, emphasizing the need for the heart’s wisdom to reconnect us with each other and with our planet.

She talks with Deborah Rozman, our host, about the changes that young people she works with are committed to and how the compassionate power of the heart is what will enable us to all work together to create the changes we want to see.

The episode closes with a heart meditation, creating a reservoir of energy we can each draw from to bring more heart to positive change initiatives we are involved in or passionate about.  

About our guest:

Sarah Syed is an 18-year-old climate activist, innovator, poet, and founder of You Are the Change, an international youth-led organization focusing on youth mobilizing action and mindsets to become sustainability leaders. 

Combining her interest in the climate tech space with climate activism, Sarah has done research on biodegradable plastics made from food scraps, polymers to aid in cleaning up oil spills compared to bioremediation, and worked on a biomass bio-sorbent made from orange and pomegranate peels with an additional polysaccharide aerogel component to remove 98% of oils, heavy metals, and organic compounds from water. She has also worked on increasing solar energy output using nanomaterials to decrease water loss in agriculture. Some of her current projects revolve around cellular agriculture and carbon capture.

Sarah’s work has been recognized by parliament members, and she was named a Top 20 Under 20 Youth in the World, Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalist in Canada, Ontario Junior Citizen, National Nature Inspiration, and won second place at national and international science fairs. She has been featured in The Toronto Star, North York Mirror,

Guest: Dr. Scott Noorda

Dive into an enlightening conversation as we sit down with Dr. Scott Noorda, a dedicated longevity physician who draws on functional medicine’s approach to cultivating resilient brain health.

Drawing from his extensive experience working closely with Alzheimer’s patients in memory care, Dr. Noorda sheds light on a topic close to many hearts: Alzheimer’s disease and brain health. Amid the shadows of uncertainty, he shares hope, revealing there’s more we can do than we might think to prevent Alzheimer’s.

Through personal anecdotes and professional insights, Dr. Noorda dismantles the notion of accepting brain decline as inevitable. Having witnessed a family member’s battle with Alzheimer’s, he embarked on a mission to specialize in brain health, arming himself with knowledge and strategies to empower everyone to take charge of their brain’s vitality.

In an intimate heart-to-heart with our host, Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., Dr. Noorda unveils his own daily rituals, painting a vivid picture of how each of us can craft a routine that fuels our brain’s resilience. The discussion delves into the profound impact of stress on brain health and showcases the transformative potential lying within our very own hearts.

With wisdom and simplicity, he offers practical suggestions on unlocking these benefits and integrating them into our lives.

The episode closes with a heart meditation to help us align with our heart’s guidance about the areas we need to give more care and attention to for improved wellness and energize our commitment to follow through on it.

About our guest:

Dr. Scott Noorda, D.O., calls Utah home with his wife and their five children. Dr. Noorda believes that health is not one-size-fits-all, and each individual’s unique personal history, genetics, biological systems, stressors, toxic load, diet, and overall lifestyle must be considered when formulating disease prevention and treatment protocols. Dr. Noorda is board-certified in family medicine and did postdoctoral training with the Institute for Functional Medicine. He is passionate about brain health and utilizing precision medicine. He spent several years working with Alzheimer’s patients in memory care units before setting up a functional medicine clinic and developing a step-by-step program to improve brain health called the Brainlift Program. He is also the creator of the Brainlift Neuroprotective Program. 

Guest: Gary Zukav

In this episode, Gary Zukav, author of four consecutive New York Times bestsellers, including the widely popular The Seat of the Soul, shares his wisdom on the topic of aligning your personality with your soul or higher self, embracing your authentic power, and stepping into a vibrant life of purpose and love.

Gary and podcast host Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., talk about the authentic heart power fueling a transformational consciousness emerging in millions of people.

Throughout the episode, Gary discusses evolving from perception through our five senses to multisensory perception and the significant role our hearts play in this awakening.

Gary and Deborah explore why it’s important to recognize the parts of our personalities rooted in love and the insecure or fear-based parts that prevent us from accessing our authentic soul-self. Gary offers genuine encouragement about how we can direct our attention toward nurturing the loving aspects while compassionately challenging the fear-based aspects.

They encourage us to embrace our authentic heart power, granting us greater agency over life experiences and inspiring responsible, heart-directed choices in our actions and interactions.

This deeply inspiring episode closes with a heart meditation to help us connect more with our authentic power and ask our heart’s guidance for clarity or direction in our next steps for living a more authentic life.

About our guest:
Gary’s gentle presence and wisdom have inspired millions. He is a teacher and author of four consecutive New York Times bestsellers, including the globally popular The Seat of the Soul. He is the founder of The Seat of the Soul Institute with Linda Francis, his soul partner. Gary has been a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, with over 30 appearances. 

Conveying complex insights in a language all can understand, Gary is dedicated to an unprecedented transformation in human consciousness. He is a Harvard graduate with a degree in international relations, a former US Army Special Forces (Green Beret) officer with Vietnam service, a member of the Club of Budapest, and a recipient of the World Business Academy Pathfinder Award for his contribution to the ongoing evolution of knowledge and consciousness within the global business community and the Einstein Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine for his contributions to the psychosocial growth of humanity.

Guest: Leah Smart

Picture a time when everything seems to be in place—a job, home, and a loving relationship. It should be the recipe for a fulfilling life, right? But what if there’s an unexplainable sense of something missing – a feeling that lingers and leaves you questioning why?

In this captivating episode, our guest, Leah Smart, author and host of the In the Arena podcast on LinkedIn, takes us on her personal journey through this mysterious terrain. Together with our insightful host, Deborah Rozman, they unravel the enigma of what’s behind a nagging sense of emptiness.

Leah shares her “something’s missing” experience and a pivotal realization that led her to an unexpected path of transformation. Leah’s mission now is empowering women to create more fulfillment for themselves. In this conversation, Leah and Deborah talk about the hyper-individualistic society surrounding us and its role in perpetuating a longing for something more.

This episode is particularly relevant for the millions of millennials seeking their way amid a cacophony of societal pressures and expectations. As a millennial herself, Leah’s inspiring story and profound insights from her inward journey to the heart will surely ignite a spark in your own heart, no matter your age.

To close the episode, Deborah guides us through a heart meditation—a powerful tool to infuse heart energy into the missing pieces of our lives and illuminate our next steps.

Tune in and let your heart be inspired!

About our guest:

Leah is an author and the host of the In the Arena podcast on LinkedIn News. Leah works to empower millennial women who are feeling a bit lost, helping them tap into their authentic power, so they can author the life they truly want. 

Leah studies positive psychology, blending what we know scientifically about the experience of being human with the metaphysical understandings that have surrounded us all along. Leah is also a serious runner, a dog mom (to Piper the Goldendoodle), and a globetrotter.

Guest: Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar

Our guest is Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar, a former football player for the NFL’s Miami Dolphins (where he once led the league in touchdowns) and now a fitness and health coach. 

In this episode, released during Men’s Health Month, Karim talks about the outdated narrative so many athletes are taught: “Don’t complain; suck it up,” and its effect on mental and physical health. 

We delve into Karim’s story of how he discovered that real strength involves identifying what you really feel and having the courage to share it — to be self-honest first and then honest with others.

In this captivating conversation, Karim opens up to host Deborah Rozman, revealing his profound wake-up moments that shattered his self-denial and illuminated the value of heart vulnerability and following his heart. His story serves as a testament to the true meaning of strength, dismantling stereotypes and offering a fresh perspective on what it means to be strong.

Hear why Karim learned to listen to his heart’s intelligence and the profound impact it had on his life. This episode will inspire you to reconsider societal expectations and embrace your own heart-directed journey of fitness, health, and true self-care.

The episode closes with a heart meditation to help us hear our own heart’s promptings of our next steps to better mental, emotional, and physical fitness. 

About our guest: 

Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar is a “wholistic” coach certified in personal training, precision nutrition, and HeartMath®. He is a former NFL professional football player for the Miami Dolphins and now works with executives and their families, often three generations (children, parents, and grandparents). Karim founded the National Center for Wholistic Coaching, where he teaches trainers to become wholistic coaches and empower their clients with tools for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and fitness using twenty-one measurable principles covering three primary objectives: excellence, wellness, and character. 

Topic: Dare to Love
Guest: Dr. Patricia Van Pelt-Scott

At this time on the planet, there is increased separation, polarization, and emotional reactivity. Imagine being a congresswoman, having to navigate all the political maneuvering. How would you handle opposing political and social views from yours? This episode is an eye-opening conversation about what can happen when we choose the power of love, compassion, and justice instead of suspicion and fear — even in the face of being misinterpreted. 

Our guest, Illinois State Senator Patricia Van Pelt-Scott, Ph.D., talks with host Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., and shares how she faced a showdown — being shouted down on the senate chamber floor — and had to make another choice. What happened when she chose non-judgment and sincere listening? Dr. Pat describes how she had to learn to appeal to the humanity in others first to uncover ways they could collaborate on new ideas. She offers us practical advice on how to better handle separation and polarization in society, perhaps even in our own families. Her story is dynamic and inspiring: If we want to change the divided world around us, we must have compassion, release judgment, and sincerely listen. 

We close with a heart meditation that we can use anytime to step into our heart’s intention for guidance on how we can dare to love more.

Listen to this episode now for an empowering discussion on what can happen when we dare to love.

About our guest:

Dr. Patricia Van Pelt-Scott is an Illinois State Senator, serial entrepreneur, author, real estate developer, certified public accountant, founder of The Season For Love Inc. and Diamond VII Enterprises LLC, and co-founder and past president of WaKanna For Life LLC.

Before that, she served as the founding CEO of a successful social movement organization where she served for 15 years. 

Dr. Pat teaches “The Advanced Life Series On Wealth, Health, and Love and Soulmate Attraction For Christian Singles.” Her goal in life is to advance civilization and help solve world problems. 

Currently, she is on tour with her “Getting To The Top – Opening New Pathways To Your Ultimate Success” live conference. Dr. Pat received her doctorate in management of non-profit agencies after completing a dissertation on the study of social movements and revolutions. 

Guest: Kimberly Snyder

We hear more people talking about “becoming your best self” or your “true self,” but what does this really mean, and how do we get there? In this episode, our guest, Kimberly Snyder, author of You Are More Than You Think You Are, delves into what it means to become our true self and why our heart is the connection point. 

In this episode, our host, Deborah Rozman, and Kimberly discuss some of the common blocks that prevent us from becoming our best selves. Also, Kimberly shares what she considers to be the four cornerstones of true health that can work together to open the heart to connect more with who we truly are. 

Deborah leads listeners through a guided heart meditation to support becoming your best self.

About our guest:

Kimberly Snyder is a multiple New York Times bestselling author. She has authored six books, including Radical Beauty, which she co-authored with Deepak Chopra. Her latest book, You Are More Than You Think You Are: Practical Enlightenment for Everyday Life (Hay House), was recently published in paperback (Jan 2023). She is also the founder of Solluna®, a holistic lifestyle brand that offers supplements, meditations, and courses; Practical Enlightenment Meditation™; and is the host of the top-rated Feel Good podcast on the Podcast One Network. Kimberly has also worked with many top celebrities, such as Drew Barrymore and Reese Witherspoon, to help them feel their best. 

Guest: Dr. Tara Scott

In this episode, our guest Dr. Tara Scott, known on Instagram and TikTok as the Hormone Guru and founder of Revitalize Medical Group, talks with our host Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., about the connection between today’s stress and hormones. She addresses important questions: Is stress accumulation contributing to hormonal imbalances and depression in teenage girls, infertility and menopausal problems in women, or causing low testosterone in men? Is there a link between stress and endocrine imbalances in insulin, glucose, thyroid, or cortisol levels? Should physicians do more to include stress assessments during hormone balance evaluations? 

Dr. Scott shares with us her answers to these questions and how she works with patients to get the right tools to help them rebalance their hormones. “Don’t wait until you’re having chronic health issues,” says Dr. Scott. She wants people listening to hear that addressing stress and hormonal health is a priority. She offers suggestions for better protecting yourself now from stress-related diseases you could otherwise face later in life — and why heart-based techniques such as those offered by HeartMath® are a key part of her practice.  

The episode closes with a heart meditation to help increase our heart rhythm coherence and synchronize the rhythms of our heart and brain by radiating love throughout the body. This can support our awareness of self-care, health, and self-empowerment. 

About our guest: 

Dr. Tara Scott first became involved with hormone and integrative medicine while practicing as an OB-GYN. Her empathy for patients experiencing hormone-related issues led her to become trained and certified by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. The evidence-based practices she employed helped many patients conquer chronic wellness issues, and word quickly spread. It soon became clear that a practice devoted strictly to evidence-based regenerative medicine, highly focused on hormone-related issues, was needed in the medical community. Revitalize Medical Group was born. Dr. Scott is passionate about educating the medical community on the advances in evidence-based hormone therapy. She is a national speaker on the subject and has an extensive list of credentials, which include being a member of the Fellowship of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG) and a member of the Fellowship in Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine (FAAFM).

Guest: Justine Grosso, Ph.D.

In this enlightening episode, we welcome Dr. Justine Grosso, a licensed psychologist and trauma expert who challenges the outdated notion that self-love is selfish or narcissistic. Dr. Grosso, known for her impactful work through her practice and popular Instagram page, @heydrjustine, joins our host, Deborah Rozman, to explore the crucial role of self-love in personal happiness and our capacity to love others. 

Dr. Grosso and Deborah delve into the concept of developing a love language as it applies to our relationship with ourselves. They offer insights on breaking free from self-critical, judgmental inner dialogues and the habit of neglecting our own needs. 

The conversation highlights how harsh self-treatment can hinder personal growth and lead to overwhelming stress. 

They emphasize the importance of recognizing and nurturing the lifelong friendship we have with ourselves, a relationship that deserves love, care, and kindness. The discussion explores how cultivating a heart-based love language with yourself can unlock your personal growth and healing and release stuck energy. Instead of draining self-criticism, our experts advocate for self-soothing through self-compassion. 

Dr. Grosso, drawing from her expertise in mind-body wellness and trauma-informed therapy, provides practical advice on initiating a new self-love language. 

We invite you to listen in and gain valuable insights on transforming your relationship with yourself and learning how to practice self-compassion. Most of us can benefit from a deeper understanding of how this fundamental shift can positively impact our lives. 

To close, Deborah Rozman takes us through a guided heart meditation where together we create a reservoir of heart energy we can draw from to help support our efforts to have more compassion and love for ourselves. 

About our guest: 

Dr. Justine Grosso is a licensed psychologist (NC and NY) and corporate wellness consultant. She is particularly passionate about helping people create the relationships, careers, and businesses they want through cutting-edge research on the neurobiology of stress, trauma, and relationships. Dr. Grosso received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Baylor University and completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Duke Academic Medical Center, specializing in trauma and women’s health. Dr. Justine is the founder of the educational page @heydrjustine on Instagram and online courses for healing the nervous system and relational trauma. Her expertise has been featured in Vogue, National Geographic, and Newsweek, among many other publications. 

Guest: Neale Donald Walsch

In this episode, our guest Neale Donald Walsch, globally acclaimed speaker and best-selling author of the Conversations with God book series, joins us for an extraordinary conversation about the heart. Neale and our host, Deborah Rozman, explore questions such as: What’s the difference between the heart and the soul? Is the heart the coupling between our human self and our soul self?

Neale describes people as 3-part beings: the mind, the body, and the soul. However, in this exploration, Neale and Deborah discuss the heart as part of this equation, and the conversation expands our understanding to include the energetic or spiritual heart — making us all 4-part beings. The heart is how we connect with something greater than ourselves.

As science is trying to better understand this connection, what we do know is that the body is a kind of receiver of energetic information. And at the core, it is the heart that is helping us to understand and decode the information we receive energetically — which we call the heart’s intuitive guidance. Since the heart is also capable of broadcasting energetic information, the question is asked, what information are we broadcasting and to whom? 

We broadcast our feelings and emotions through the heart’s energetic field. That’s how we pick up on each other’s vibes (vibrations). We broadcast higher heart feelings such as love, care, compassion, and kindness, as well as feelings of heartache, anxiety, fear, and resentment. 

To get our heart and mind aligned and receive intuitive guidance from soul/spirit/God, do we have to choose to open our hearts to love and care and have compassion for each other? This question is discussed, and the conversation wraps up with an exercise and a heart meditation we can each use to invite our mind to align more deeply with our heart and intuitive guidance.

About our guest:

Neale Donald Walsch (nealedonaldwalsch.com) is a modern-day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. With an early interest in religion and a deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life thriving professionally yet searching for spiritual meaning before experiencing his now-famous Conversations with God series of books that have touched millions and inspired important changes in lives across the planet. Having traveled the world extensively, Neale says there is a hunger among the people to find a new way to live in peace and harmony. His latest book, The God Solution: The Power of Pure Love, was released in 2020.

Neale has created several Conversations with God outreach projects (www.CWGPortal.com) that are dedicated to helping the world move from violence to peace, from confusion to clarity, and from anger to love.

Topic: Adding Heart to Parenting — Why It’s So Important Now
Guest: Dr. Jorina Elbers

Our guest for this episode is Dr. Jorina Elbers, a pediatric neurologist with a special interest in trauma-informed medicine and the mother of two adventurous and energetic boys. Jorina joins Deborah Rozman, our Add Heart® Podcast host, to talk about one of the world’s biggest personal growth opportunities: parenting.

Today’s stressful world and all its unpredictable changes often create challenges in our home life. Many of today’s issues are adding mental and emotional strain on parents. Our children and grandchildren feel these stressors too, which can lead to an increase in undesirable behaviors, such as acting out, talking back, not listening, etc. As their patience is tested, many parents try to correct and control their kids’ attitudes and actions—without a lot of success.

Jorina, who is also the program director for the Trauma Recovery Project at the HeartMath Institute, shares with Deborah how she and her husband, Owen, have found that by focusing first on their own emotional self-regulation, then tuning in to their heart for intuitive direction, their communications with their boys have become much more effective.

Jorina shares with listeners a couple of powerful heart tools she uses to manage her personal energy and shift into a heart-coherent place, which enables her to reduce over-reacting to her children’s undesirable behavior.

She says many parents are told to just breathe to avoid reacting. However, if we don’t add heart coherence to a situation, we often end up lecturing a child, which shuts down communication. Learning how to shift into heart coherence is key for increasing a parent’s ability to respond in a way that empowers them in adverse situations—and kids do take notice.

Jorina and Deborah also discuss how we can allow children to experience intense emotions in a healthy way. Rather than scolding their behavior, using heart-directed practices can validate their emotions, which helps to defuse their energy and allows for a deeper heart connection and communication to unfold, uncovering what’s really going on.

Jorina says, “When we elevate our personal energy first, get into a heart-coherent space, we can then also help our kids to elevate their energy. When you have kids and parents working together in this way, the connection and communication can be very deep and rewarding.”  

The episode closes with a guided heart meditation to help us energize our commitment to elevate our own energy first and better help our children.

About our guest:
Dr. Jorina Elbers is a pediatric neurologist with a special interest in trauma-informed medicine. She was recently an assistant professor at Stanford University and is currently the program director for the Trauma Recovery Project at the HeartMath Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. She has published over 25 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and created trauma-sensitive programs for health practitioners, first responders, refugees, and parents.

Guest: Lynne Twist

What is fulfillment, and how do we find it and nurture it? 

Our guest, Lynne Twist, shares how having a purpose larger than yourself is what leads to deep fulfillment. Lynne says when we get “off our self-centered focus, we open to new possibilities” that reward us. We’re in a time when many societal structures and ways of thinking and being are giving way to something new and as yet unformed, which can leave us feeling uncertain and without direction. In her new book, Finding Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger than Yourself, Lynne explains why it’s so important at this time that we listen deeply to our hearts to find and unfold our larger purpose. 

Lynne is a recognized global visionary who has dedicated her life to serving the greater good. She has been an advisor to the Desmond Tutu Foundation and is the recipient of the prestigious “Woman of Distinction” award from the United Nations. She helped found the World Hunger Project and the Pachamama Alliance. She sees the time we’re in now as a rebirthing process for humanity and a grand opportunity to find a new vision and purpose in serving a greater whole.  

Lynne and host Deborah Rozman talk about why vision and purpose are essential for personal fulfillment. Their conversation explores the difference between taking a “heart stand” that unifies people rather than a “mind stance” that separates them. Lynne explains how holding a fixed position on issues is what creates judgments and polarization, blocking our ability to see or consider other perspectives. Deborah and Lynne offer hopeful insights and next steps in finding and unfolding a larger purpose. Listening to and following the heart’s inclusive guidance is what will ultimately bring people together, leading to solutions that serve the greater good—and that is love.

This episode closes with a heart meditation to energize your purpose and vision.

About our guest:
For more than 40 years, Lynne Twist has been a recognized global visionary committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. Her breadth of knowledge and experience has led her to profound insights into the social tapestry of the world and the historical landscape of the times we are living in. Lynne has served as an advisor to the Desmond Tutu Foundation and is the recipient of the prestigious “Woman of Distinction” award from the United Nations. She helped found the World Hunger Project, the Pachamama Alliance, and is the author of the bestselling book The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life. Her latest book, Finding Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger than Yourself tells the story of how serving a larger purpose is an important key to fulfillment.

Topic: Amplifying Gratitude
Guest: Jacqueline Way

Gratitude is an amplifier of heart energy and one of the quickest ways to offset stress and lift our mood. With the overwhelming stress so many people are experiencing, gratitude and appreciation count more than ever right now. The greater our capacity for genuine gratitude and appreciation, the deeper the connection to our heart—which is where intuitive guidance, inspiration, and new possibilities emerge.

In this episode, Jacqueline Way, founder of 365give (a nonprofit inspired by her discovery of the power of gratitude), joins Deborah Rozman to talk about how to “change the world one give, one day at a time.” An adoptive mother of three, Jacqueline shares her inspiring story about how waking up to the power of gratitude moved her to do a yearlong experiment with her young son to give something back to the world every day for an entire year. 

Jacqueline and Deborah discuss how gratitude and appreciation aren’t just nice gestures but powerful emotions that activate the brain’s reward pathways, feel-good hormones, and endorphins that can greatly improve our outlook on life. They share how scientists have been studying the “helper’s high” that comes from giving gratitude. When we do something authentic and meaningful for others, it opens our hearts and provides us with uplift, renewal of spirit, and health benefits.

The HeartMath® research lab discovered that when we sincerely feel gratitude or appreciation for family, friends, nature, or the convenient things in life, a profound change occurs in our heart rhythms. They become more synchronized and coherent, which increases mental clarity, resilience, and the well-being needed for discernment and better choices, especially in today’s stressful environment. 

Jacqueline and Deborah provide simple suggestions on how each of us can amplify gratitude and appreciation in our own lives to quickly uplift our thoughts, feelings, and outlook.

The episode closes with a beautiful heart meditation to amplify gratitude and appreciation and to see new possibilities. 

About our guest:

Jacqueline Way is a dedicated world changer. Her purpose is to inspire and educate the hearts and minds of people globally to create happy, meaningful lives. She expresses her purpose through 365give, her charitable organization created and inspired by her son with a simple vision to “change the world one give, one day at a time.” She is a world-renowned keynote speaker with one of the most watched TEDx Talks, “How to Be Happy Every Day: It Will Change the World.” Every day she is committed to living the highest expression of who she is as a human being through her work and by touching the lives of others.

Topic – What it means to be a citizen scientist and how it can help you align with your purpose

Guest – Dillon Brooks

Many Gen Zers and millennials have lost trust in humanity and hope for the future. Most will tell you they’re stressed much of the time. Driving their stress are feelings of being financially insecure and mentally burned out, fears over climate change, and world unrest. 

As a 29-year-old, Dillon Brooks is on a mission to help other millennials and Gen Zers listen to their heart to empower themselves. Dillon, a TikTok channel creator, has established a sizable TikTok community for Gen Zers and millennials called “Citizen Scientists,” and he is on a mission to help others empower themselves. 

Dillon and our podcast host, Deborah Rozman, discuss what it means to be a heart-centered citizen scientist and why it is important to step into this role to create the change we desire personally and collectively. 

Dillon and Deborah discuss the power of the heart and its ability to transform and lift perception. Dillon believes this is, in part, what the younger population is in search of.

Gen Zers and millennials need to connect more deeply to themselves, according to Dillon, and become citizen scientists in all aspects of their lives: diet, exercise, sleep, stress management, mental health, and spiritual growth. He shares his foundational principles for feeling a strong sense of purpose and connectedness to others. 

This insightful episode closes with a heart meditation on empowering your intentions and commitments.

Guest: Dr. Allen Schoen

Some of our deepest heart connections are with our pets. Whether it’s a dog, cat, bird, hamster or other animal, the love and care we exchange with our pets is supportive and healing for us and for them.

This undeniable energetic heart exchange with our pets is the focus of this podcast episode. Dr. Allen Schoen, our podcast guest, is a pioneer of holistic veterinary medicine and recognized as one of the most influential veterinarians worldwide for introducing an integrative approach to veterinary medicine. 

Dr. Schoen and our host, Deborah Rozman, explore this amazing energetic heart connection between people and pets. The therapeutic benefits associated with human-pet bonding aren’t new. In fact, research has shown this powerful bond can help decrease stress, regulate breathing, lower blood pressure, and release oxytocin—a hormone associated with love. 

Dr. Schoen’s research exploring the heart-to-heart connection of the human-pet bond suggests that without the healing power of the love of animals that uplifts people’s lives, the world would be an even more stressed-out place. Animal lovers will enjoy hearing about the heart-rhythm synchronization that happens when people send love to their pets. Deborah explains these findings that come out of the HeartMath® Institute. 

Dr. Schoen also talks about Trans Species Field Theory: An energetic field created by the thoughts and emotions of humans and animals interacting with each other. This episode will leave you with a deeper appreciation and understanding of how we benefit energetically from the love we share with pets and how this can contribute to a healthier, happier, more conscious and harmonious world. 

The episode closes with a heart meditation on how our collective heart energy can help increase understanding and cooperation between humans and our animal friends.

About our guest:
Dr. Schoen is one of the pioneers of holistic, integrative veterinary medicine. He has been acknowledged by his peers as one of the fifteen most influential veterinarians in North America as well as worldwide for introducing the concept of an integrative approach to veterinary medicine. He’s authored seven books including Complementary & Alternative Veterinary Medicine; Love, Miracles, and Animal Healing; and Kindred Spirits, and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Veterinary Acupuncture for his groundbreaking contributions to veterinary acupuncture. His new project C.A.L.M. (Conscious Animal Lovers Movement) is his approach to helping all animal lovers co-create a healthier, happier, more harmonious world.

Guest: Lynne McTaggart

In this episode, award-winning journalist and author Lynne McTaggart and our host, Deborah Rozman, talk about collective intention and Lynne’s research in this area. 

At this time in history, there is an amazing opportunity for groups of people to harness the power of collective intention to create sustainable change that can help humanity and our planet. 

Currently, society is mired in many outdated paradigms that no longer fit today’s world. As a result, many societal structures are falling apart, polarization between groups and inflamed biases and beliefs have become more extreme, while corruption within governments and organizations is increasingly being exposed. 

The power of collective intention is not a new concept, yet we are reminded, through examples that Lynne shares, of how small groups throughout history have created significant change that helped to improve and heal people’s lives. 

Lynne shares her transformative results from bringing small groups of people with different beliefs and opposing views together to hear each other more deeply and to focus on an altruistic collective intention they all can agree on. 

Based on her research and HeartMath® Institute’s research on collective heart coherence, Deborah and Lynne discuss how the new paradigms needed now for humanity to learn to get along with each other could very well come from small groups empowering a collective altruistic intention.

This episode closes with a heart-focused meditation that walks listeners through HeartMath’s Shift and Lift™ Technique. This heart-based practice is being used with groups and teams to facilitate listening more deeply to each other’s hearts.

About our guest: 

Lynne McTaggart is an award-winning journalist and the author of seven books, including the worldwide bestsellers The Power of Eight, The Field, The Intention Experiment, and The Bond—all considered seminal books of the New Science and now translated into 30 languages. She’s consistently voted one of the world’s top 100 spiritual leaders for her groundbreaking work with consciousness and the power of intention. Lynne is known for the quality of her writing and in-depth research, her inspirational speaking style, and her uncompromising role as a New Thought leader and spiritual change agent. In 2020, she was singled out with a special Walden Award for being a “Champion of Change.”

Guest: Agapi Stassinopoulos, best-selling author and recognized speaker

In this meaningful episode, Agapi Stassinopoulos, the author of Speaking with Spirit, and Add Heart® Podcast host Deborah Rozman talk about the connection between heart and spirit. “Spirit” can mean different things to people. Some refer to their spirit as their higher self, their soul, or their connection with Source. Whatever we call it, we’re acknowledging a source of wisdom that can guide us through the intuitive voice or feelings of the heart. Yet it can sometimes be a struggle to make a quality connection, especially as life is much more complicated these days.

Agapi shares how she felt her heart was hurting, and she felt lost not being able to connect with people during the pandemic as she was accustomed to doing. She talks about what helped her transform her pain and sadness, which was a connection with spirit that helped her find the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Deborah and Agapi discuss how we can deepen our connection to the wisdom of spirit and the heart’s intuitive guidance. Deborah talks about research that demonstrates how we access intuitive guidance first through the heart—and then this information is transmitted to the brain/mind, which translates intuition into words or images that we can understand.

Deborah and Agapi share how we can draw on the connection with spirit to keep our hearts open and manage our empathy and compassion for the suffering of others in today’s world without the emotional drain that can affect our happiness and joy. 

The episode closes with a meaningful and inspiring heart meditation to enrich our connection with our heart’s intuitive guidance.

About our guest: 

Agapi Stassinopoulos is a best-selling author and speaker who inspires audiences around the world. She is the author of Wake Up to the Joy of You and most recently Speaking with Spirit: 52 Prayers to Guide, Inspire and Uplift You. Agapi was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and received her master’s degree in psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She teaches meditation and facilitates workshops for Thrive Global, a company founded by her sister, Arianna Huffington. Her previous books on the Greek archetypes, Gods and Goddesses in Love and Conversations with the Goddesses, were turned into PBS specials. Agapi was born and raised in Athens, Greece, and she divides her time between New York and Los Angeles. You can learn more about Agapi and her work at https://wakeuptothejoyofyou.com/.  

Guest: James O’Dea, author and former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences 

What do you think of when you hear the word “resilience”? Many people associate the word with strength, adaptability, or a toughness that can overcome the fiercest of challenges and unexpected change. In this episode, we’re talking with James O’Dea, former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, former Washington office director of Amnesty International, and former executive director of the Seva Foundation. 

James joins our podcast host, Deborah Rozman, to discuss why resilience is so key to both our personal growth and to humanity’s collective healing. They talk about the qualities of resilience we all need today in the face of growing personal, social, and global stress and uncertainty. James has witnessed the terror of war, massacre, civil upheaval, and a coup d’état. He has also witnessed the personification of resilience in people with a tremendous courage to uphold their heart values regardless of their circumstances. 

James explains in this episode why resilience isn’t just the ability to bounce back after a toxic disrupter or a stressful time—resilience is an energy we build in our system through honoring and living heart values, such as care, compassion, kindness, and generosity. 

This episode closes with a heart meditation to build resilience in our lives and to co-create a reservoir of regenerative heart energy that we can access anytime, to reduce stress and increase our capacity to remain resilient.

About our guest:

James O’Dea is the award-winning author of The Conscious Activist, Cultivating Peace, and Soul Awakening Practice. He is a former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences as well as the former Washington office director of Amnesty International, where he met with U.S. presidents and foreign heads of state and represented Amnesty International to the World Conference on Human Rights. He was the executive director of the Seva Foundation and worked with the Middle East Council of Churches in Beirut during a time of war and massacre, and he lived in Turkey during civil upheaval and a coup d’état.

At this time in our world, it seems that there is a global loss of integrity, and yet integrity is a highly valued trait. 

In this podcast episode, we are talking with Martha Beck, a life coach, speaker, columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine, and author of several bestselling books including the newly released title The Way of Integrity. 

Martha and our Add Heart® Podcast host Deborah Rozman discuss the connection between integrity, heart intuition, and aligning with our true selves.

To live from integrity and align more with our true selves, we have to distinguish between our heart’s intuitive guidance, our mind’s reactions, and our emotional pulls. Martha and Deborah talk about how we can learn to know the difference.

Guest: Dr. Mimi Guarneri

Imagine a world where your doctor doesn’t just hear your heartbeat but empowers you to hear your own heart’s wisdom to improve your health. Our guest, Dr. Mimi Guarneri, president of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, is a world-renowned cardiologist and leader in integrative medicine.  

In her book, The Heart Speaks, she talks about how the heart is a complex organ, possessing intelligence, memory, and decision-making abilities independent from the mind—and that healing the heart can have more to do with healing the mind and soul than we ever knew. In this podcast, she talks about why the world needs a revolution of love. 

As a cardiologist, she explains how the toxic toll of stress is closing our hearts and silently eroding lifespans, yet traditional medicine often overlooks an important factor: our overwhelmed nervous systems that burden us with accumulated stress. Dr. Guarneri reveals how activating heart coherence can rebalance and stabilize the nervous system, leading to better health outcomes. 

In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Guarneri exposes stress’s subtle yet detrimental impacts and how the heart’s natural healing potential can rewrite our well-being story. 

Join Dr. Guarneri and host Deborah Rozman as they explore innovative approaches to “hacking” and regulating your nervous system to help you reverse the downward spiral of stress. Hear what these experts recommend and why they agree that it’s your heart that holds the key to a healthier, balanced life.

Dr. Guarneri also shares how you’re giving a gift to yourself if you give yourself the opportunity to transform how your nervous system is responding. The nervous system was designed to save your life and improve your longevity.

This is a wake-up call episode for anyone who wants to take control of their health and live a life free from the grip of stress. Dr. Guarneri says this isn’t just about health; it’s about revolutionizing how we love, think, and care for ourselves — and each other. 

An episode bonus! Enjoy a guided heart meditation to co-create a reservoir of healing and compassionate heart energy for ourselves and others. 

About our guest: 

Ranked as the number one female physician in the U.S. embracing integrative medicine, Mimi Guarneri, M.D., FACC, ABOIM, is a renowned cardiologist focusing on integrative medicine for disease prevention and health promotion. Board-certified in Cardiovascular Disease, Internal Medicine, and Integrative Holistic Medicine, she serves on the Founding Board of the American Board of Physician Specialties in Integrative Medicine. Dr. Guarneri is the co-founder and medical director of Guarneri Integrative Health and president of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine. An accomplished author, educator, and speaker, she has received numerous awards, including the Bravewell Physician Leadership Award and the Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award.

Guest: Daniel Amen, M.D., psychiatrist, author, founder of Amen Clinics

Globally, mental health issues are on the rise. A new poll from the American Psychological Association found that a large majority of Americans are reporting high stress levels due to financial concerns, inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

Stress and mental health are important topics anytime, but especially now, with so much uncertainty happening in our world, this time-relevant episode will give you valuable suggestions and direction for these times.

High-profile athletes and celebrities, including Simone Biles, Michael Phelps, Naomi Osaka, and Prince Harry, have courageously gone public about their own mental health challenges, making it more acceptable for any of us to seek help.

Our Add Heart® Podcast guest, Dr. Daniel Amen, talks about mental health during these times and how we can take charge of our brain health. Dr. Amen is a physician, psychiatrist, professor, and 12-time New York Times bestselling author. He is a double board-certified child and adult psychiatrist and founder of Amen Clinics, Inc., with ten clinics across the country. Dr. Amen’s latest book is titled You, Happier and was released just before this podcast aired.

Dr. Amen and podcast host Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., also discuss the dynamic heart-brain connection in this episode and simple strategies to reduce and prevent stress and increase happiness. Health care professionals and individuals alike can benefit from the brain tools that Dr. Amen recommends—and the heart tools developed at HeartMath® to improve mental and emotional health. 

This episode closes with a heart-focused meditation to get our heart and brain in sync to help release stress and connect with what’s important to you to support your mental and emotional well-being.

About our guest:

Dr. Daniel Amen is a physician, adult and child psychiatrist, and founder of Amen Clinics, Inc. with 10 locations across the U.S. The Amen Clinics have the world’s largest database of brain scans for psychiatry. He is the founder of BrainMD, a fast growing, science-based nutraceutical company, and Amen University, which has trained thousands of medical and mental health professionals on the methods he has developed. In addition, he has produced 16 national public television shows about the brain, and his online videos on brain and mental health have been viewed over 300 million times. Dr. Amen is a 12-time New York Times bestselling author, including Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, The End of Mental Illness, Healing ADD and many more. You, Happier was published in March 2022.

Topic:  Global Compassion/ Random Number generator data and findings

Guest: Roger Nelson, Ph.D., director of the Global Consciousness Project and former Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)  laboratory, Princeton University for over 20 years. 

In this episode of the Add Heart®  Podcast, host Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., and her guest Dr. Roger Nelson discuss the scientific impact of global compassion. Dr. Nelson’s Global Consciousness Project (GCP) maintains a series of data collection sites worldwide that monitor for indications of a global consciousness response to major world events. They found that during emotionally resonant major events the GCP data become internally correlated.

Events that embody or evoke compassion and love show statistically significant larger effects than other emotions. The more compassion evoked by the event, the larger the effect. 

Dr. Nelson will share how these findings indicate that compassion is a powerful connecting emotion, more powerful than fear, and a bridge that’s connecting people globally—that we are all connected and the connecting fiber is compassion. 

Guest: Howard Martin, Executive Vice President, HeartMath, Inc.

During the pandemic, people re-evaluated their priorities and connected with deeper values regarding their relationships with family and work. Despite what it looks like on the news, many became more optimistic about the future as a result. A recent Harris Poll reported, “Sweeping research suggests the future is bright and we are rethinking, resetting, and reimagining our futures for the better. Hope and optimism are increasing, connections with friends and family are strengthening and we are re-prioritizing towards what matters to us most.” 

Add Heart® Podcast host Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., and her guest Howard Martin, Executive Vice President, HeartMath, Inc., talk about the awakening of the heart that is occurring around the world. They discuss a new opportunity that humanity has right now to sustain the awakening of compassion and heart connection without needing a pandemic, disasters, or other stressors to motivate us. It’s in the heart that people access feelings such as compassion, care, kindness, forgiveness, and appreciation that lift us above separation, judgments, and blame. 

In our deeper heart, we can sense that nothing is going to change until we can start to put our heart first. Caring and genuine heart connections can help to offset stress accumulation from anxiety, fear, or panic, while clearing the mind for effective reasoning, especially when confronted with health, financial, or societal challenges. 

In the new edition of their book Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Heart’s Intuitive Guidance for Effective Choices and Solutions, released in February 2022, Deborah and Howard share how we can build trust in our heart’s intuitive guidance and how each person’s heart intelligence (heart’s intuitive guidance) can help us connect to higher choices and untapped potentials.

The episode closes with a heart meditation that we can use daily to energize our commitment to adding more heart to all of our relationships and connections, knowing that we are each contributing to a shift in humanity’s energies from separation to cooperation and resulting in higher solutions to our global, social, and economic problems.

About our guest:

Howard Martin has been with HeartMath® Inc. and HeartMath® Institute organizations since their inception in 1991, serving as a key spokesperson and executive. In 1999, he co-authored The HeartMath Solution with Doc Childre, published by Harper San Francisco and considered to be a classic and the definitive work on the intelligence of the heart. Howard is also a contributing author of the new book Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Heart’s Intuitive Guidance for Effective Choices and Solutions, re-released in February 2022. He also co-produced, along with Doc Childre, the online video learning program The HeartMath Experience. 

As a key spokesperson, Howard has conducted countless media interviews on all of the major U.S. television networks, internationally syndicated radio, major magazines, and documentary films as well as conducting online and in-person speaking engagements and training events annually. He speaks internationally on developing the new intelligence needed to navigate life during these changing times and the importance of creating global coherence.

Guest: Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D, Founder-Director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research

For humanity to learn to get along with each other, it will require more heart. Despite the seemingly unsolvable separation and polarization between people and groups that we see, there is also an amplification of the collective heart throughout the planet. More people are realizing that we are all interconnected, and we need to help each other through increasing kindness and care. The omnipresent virus, climate change and extreme weather events, and an uncertain future are waking us up to our interdependence with each other and with nature.

In this Add Heart® Podcast episode, our guest Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D, a systems scientist, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and founder-director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research in Italy, joins our host Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., to talk about the critical importance of this time and the essential role of the heart for the future of humanity. 

Ervin talks about his systems research and the quantum field and how the heart is a transmitter of information to the world. He explains how the heart helps us feel like we are part of nature and the universe and enables us to know that all things have to work together. Ervin and Deborah inspire us with their perspectives on how we can connect more with our heart day to day, to uplift our own life experience while simultaneously adding more heart to the world.  

Deborah closes the episode by leading us through a heart meditation that we can use to energize and deepen our intentions to add more heart to our world throughout the new year.

More about our guest:

Ervin Laszlo, Doctorat d’Etat Sorbonne (1970), is founder-director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (Italy), founder and president of the Club of Budapest, fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. He is the recipient of the Goi Peace Award (2001), the International Mandir of Peace Prize (2005), the Conacreis Holistic Culture Prize (2009), the Ethics Prize of Milan (2014), and the Luxembourg World Peace Prize (2017). Laszlo is an honorary citizen of the City of Buenos Aires and Honorary Professor of the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology and holds honorary Ph.D’s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary. He is the author or co-author of over one hundred books that have been translated into twenty-four languages. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005.

Guest: Nick Ortner, CEO of The Tapping Solution, LLC

Mental and emotional well-being perhaps has never been more important than it is right now. As a result of the pandemic and ongoing challenges it’s created, nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults say they have experienced an increase in headaches, fatigue, feeling anxious or overwhelmed, sleep challenges and so on. A Harris Poll conducted on behalf of the American Psychological Association found that more than one-third of Americans say making basic day-to-day decisions has become far more stressful (e.g., what to wear, what to eat, etc.). 

In this podcast, Deborah Rozman, our Add Heart® Podcast host, and her guest Nick Ortner, best-selling author of The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living and CEO of The Tapping Solution, LLC, will talk about how we can better support our mental and emotional well-being during these uncertain times. 

Many people assume that they have no control over how they feel. Feelings and emotions often come and go with no apparent reason. Yet, HeartMath® research and Tapping research confirm that we can take charge and release or shift many unwanted feelings. We can create our way out of overwhelm, anxiety, and other stressful emotions. 

Deborah and Nick have both made their life’s work about helping others learn how to release anger, anxiety, and depression and experience more renewing and uplifting emotions. They will share some of the hopeful research and provide helpful information along with a technique you can start using right away to increase your emotional well-being. They will share insights that can help address some of the compounding pressures we may be experiencing at this time. 

The podcast will close with a guided heart meditation to activate your heart power and create a reservoir of heart energy you can draw from any time you need an emotional uplift.

More about our guest:

Nicolas Ortner is CEO of The Tapping Solution, LLC (www.thetappingsolution.com) whose mission is to bring into the mainstream a simple, effective, natural healing method known as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) or “Tapping,” that combines ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology. The Tapping Solution App has been downloaded by over a million people and has had over 9 million completed sessions on it! You can download it for free wherever you get apps. Nick is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living and The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief: A Step-by-Step Guide to Reducing and Eliminating Chronic Pain. Nick and his company have raised over $1,000,000 for tapping-related charities such as Project Light, which aids genocide orphans in Rwanda, Africa; The Veterans Stress Project, supporting veterans with PTSD; You Can Thrive! a New York organization providing services for women with cancer; and The Tapping Solution Foundation, that Nick started in 2013 to support the community of Newtown, CT after the tragic shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Nick lives in Newtown, CT with his wife Brenna and daughter June.

Guest: Erwin Valencia, Ph.D., physical therapist for the New York Knicks

Scientists are confirming that gratitude has many benefits that range from emotional uplift and improved mental health to physical benefits, such as boosting the immune system. What is less commonly known is that we can repurpose the uplifting energy we experience from gratitude. 

Gratitude is a powerful heart quality that provides a sense of warmth and lift. When we feel gratitude, we’re naturally more connected with our true selves. We can see this as an opportunity to repurpose the gratitude energy into deeper care and kindness. Because we’re in a higher vibrational state, we’re less inclined to get caught in worry and can see more clearly what an appropriate act of care would look like. This higher vibrational energy can also increase the effectiveness of our intentions.

Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., host of the Add Heart® Podcast, and her guest Erwin Valencia, Ph.D., life coach and world-renowned physical therapist for the New York Knicks, will discuss gratitude in this fresh light. 

Deborah will share how we can add heart to repurpose the energetics we feel from gratitude towards people, projects, and issues that we care deeply about.  

In this podcast episode, Deborah and Erwin will also discuss how the science of gratitude is being used as a biohack by experts like Erwin, who specialize in the neuroscience of human performance in athletes and performance artists. 

Erwin will share what gratitude means to him and how he has integrated gratitude into his training with athletes. He’ll share how he helps people learn to harness its power to increase their resilience, focus, and performance. 

This episode closes with a heart meditation to add heart to our experience of gratitude and to increase the effectiveness of our care.

About our guest:

Erwin Benedict Valencia, PT, DPT, MEd, ATC, CSCS, PES, CES, CHC, is a wellness expert in the world of high-performance sports. He’s also a speaker, life coach, social entrepreneur, and a world-renowned physical therapist for the New York Knicks. Erwin is the founder of KinetIQ and the #BeyondMedyo Foundation. Erwin brings a holistic approach to professional sports, combining Sports Science + Clinical Expertise + Mindfulness + Positive Psychology to the algorithm of athlete wellness and care.

Guest: Marilyn Tam, former president of Reebok/CCM, former CEO of Aveda Corp.

What does it mean to be a leader with heart? Heart-centered leadership means to lead others with authenticity, transparency, and humility.

Our leadership reflects who we are inside and needs to include the heart’s intelligence in order to successfully support, guide, and encourage others. 

In today’s world, we are all having to learn and adapt continuously. As leaders, we need to care for individuals and respond in new ways to the changes and emotional challenges people are experiencing with more presence, flow, flexibility, and connection.

Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., our Add Heart® Podcast host, and her guest Marilyn Tam discuss why, in our present environment, the heart needs to be part of a leadership role—whether we’re leading a company, a team or group, or a community. Marilyn Tam, former president of Reebok/CCM, former CEO of Aveda Corp. and voted one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers in the world by Inc. Magazine, discusses with Deborah the vital importance of adding heart to leadership. 

Our world has changed, and people are far more inclined to do business with companies that, first and foremost, do good for their own people, their customers, clients, vendors, and the world. Deborah and Marilyn talk about why caring for people first needs to be a priority in all roles of leadership. 

Anyone can be a heart-centered leader if they have the commitment to practice heart-based principles. Hear about some of the practical and evidence-based ways organizations are creating collaborative and innovative work environments that support and encourage coherent teams.

Deborah closes the discussion with a heart-focused meditation that we can each practice to lift our personal commitment to lead from the heart. 

More about our guest:
Marilyn Tam, Ph.D., is a humanitarian, business leader, and author of the best-selling book The Happiness Choice, which was the 3rd most read book by businesses according to 800 CEO Read. She was formerly the CEO of Aveda Corp., President of Reebok Apparel and Retail Group, Vice President of Nike Inc., and voted one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers in the world by Inc. Magazine. Marilyn was honored with the Tara Bodhisattva Award in 2017, conferred by the Living Saint of Thailand Venerable Mae Chee Sansanee, at the Sathira Dhammasathan in Bangkok for her compassion and humanitarian work.

Creating peace starts with living “heart first.”

Humanity is in a period of profound change. Though this transformation period can be challenging, we must not lose sight of that which connects us as one human family. 

In a word, what connects us is heart.

In this episode, we are talking about adding heart to peace and why peace is a product of heart-directed living.

Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., our Add Heart® Podcast host, and her guest, sociologist, researcher, and acclaimed author Kingsley L. Dennis, Ph.D., discuss what it means to put the heart first and why it is the foundation for experiencing inner peace—and ultimately creating world peace. 

Peace is a choice we can make each day by practicing heart-based qualities, such as love, care, compassion, kindness, and forgiveness.

As we witness climate disruption, resource depletion, financial inequities, international conflicts, and pandemic restrictions, it can be difficult to not feel frustrated, angry, judgmental, or have blame towards others, all of which feed separation and compromise our peace. The healing of separation is essential for inner and outer peace—and many people are feeling that life is shaking us awake to this requirement.

Our host and guest, Deborah and Kingsley, will discuss how peace is first an inside job that starts with the heart. They will talk about an increasing collective heart opening on the planet that will help dissipate separation and conflict between people and nations and draw hopeful solutions for the many challenges humanity is experiencing.

We’ll close this episode with a heart meditation to energize putting the heart first in our lives to increase our inner peace and to give peace a chance in how we interact with each other.

Kingsley L. Dennis, Ph.D., is a sociologist and researcher. He is the co-founder of WorldShift International and co-author of the study New Media for a New Future: The Emerging Digital Landscape for a Planetary Society, produced as part of the Fuji Declaration for The Goi Peace Foundation in collaboration with the renowned global think tank Club of Budapest. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books including Healing the Wounded Mind, The Modern Seeker: A Perennial Psychology for Contemporary Times, and New Consciousness for a New World. He currently serves on the board of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research and runs his own publishing imprint, Beautiful Traitor Books.

Guest: Spencer Taylor

In this inspiring episode, Spencer Taylor joins host Deborah Rozman to talk about the power of love and compassion in war-torn areas. Spencer isn’t just talking philosophy — he’s bringing the power of heart to the streets in Ukraine, Rafah, Gaza, Syria, and other crisis zones.

Spencer’s authenticity comes through as he shares candidly about how being in disaster zones has deeply affected him and why he had to make peace with death in order to fulfill this calling. He also shares why a 10-day trip to Ukraine turned into an eight-month experience. 

Spencer talks about the disconnection between what’s shown in the media and what is happening in war-stricken areas. He shares about the warmth and love of people who invite him to tea in makeshift tents as bombs go off nearby and why it’s the children who inspire him the most.

You will appreciate Spencer’s valuable insights about what love and compassion achieve and how refugees stay resilient. He observes how love creates an indescribable spark, which he views as a higher frequency that helps transmute the dark energy in these areas, creating a type of alchemy.

Spencer inspires us to examine our own lives for how we can bring our love and compassion more to the street. This episode closes with a guided heart meditation led by Deborah on putting our love into action and reducing separation. 

About our guest: 

Spencer Taylor is the co-founder of Vybe Source, a self-help and self-appreciation company dedicated to helping individuals visualize themselves better every day. With its Instagram page rapidly approaching one million followers, Vybe Source has become a significant force in the self-improvement community.

In addition to his entrepreneurial success, Spencer co-hosted popular podcasts, where he shared his insights and experiences with a wide audience.

Spencer is also an accomplished documentary filmmaker, focusing on critical issues such as mental health, climate change, and education. His latest project, The Death of Recess, is set for release this summer. This film tackles the problems within global education systems and proposes innovative solutions to create a new paradigm for education.

Beyond his media and entrepreneurial ventures, Spencer is deeply committed to humanitarian work. He travels extensively to volunteer with the Global Empowerment Mission, a leading disaster relief organization. Spencer and his team have provided vital aid to crisis zones worldwide, including Northern Gaza, Ukraine, Egypt, Brazil, Taiwan, Turkey, and Japan, bringing hope and essential supplies to those in need.

Guest: Judith Orloff, M.D.

The world can feel so uncertain these days. The stress can leave us drained, worried, or even hopeless. But what if there is a healthier way to navigate through this?

This episode explores the power of empathy and compassion with Dr. Judith Orloff, a bestselling author and UCLA psychiatrist. Her book, The Genius of Empathy, explains how cultivating these heart qualities isn’t just noble; it’s a smart way to process our challenges.

Judith addresses important questions, like how can we begin to feel empathy for someone if we don’t like them. She and our host, Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., talk about the science of why empathy and compassion offer powerful healing effects and are regenerative for you, the people you interact with, as well as the greater world. 

They explain why compassion can be misunderstood as a cover-all word for pity, excessive worry, or unmanaged empathy when we get sucked into others’ problems and drain our energy. Many people listening will appreciate Judith and Deborah for addressing the question: how can we learn to have empathy without absorbing someone else’s pain? 

They also discuss how empathy and compassion work in tandem to combat polarization and blame. Judith and Deborah agree; it’s empathy and compassion that will finally bridge our societal divides and create real solutions. Hear what they say about this.

The episode concludes with a guided meditation led by Deborah to help you connect with your heart and cultivate balanced empathy and compassion. Don’t miss this chance to gain valuable insights and practical wisdom for moving through our world with a more hopeful outlook.

About our guest: 

Judith Orloff, M.D., is a psychiatrist, empath, and author of the new book The Genius of Empathy (with a foreword by the Dalai Lama), which offers powerful skills to tap into empathy as a daily healing practice in your life and relationships. She also wrote The Empath’s Survival Guide and Emotional Freedom. Dr. Orloff is a New York Times bestselling author and a UCLA clinical faculty member. She synthesizes the pearls of conventional medicine with cutting-edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality. Dr. Orloff specializes in treating highly sensitive people in her private practice. She has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Oprah Magazine, and the New York Times.

Guest: Rollin McCraty, Ph.D.

Are we truly interconnected? Can our thoughts and emotions impact the world around us? In this episode, our host, Deborah Rozman, talks with Rollin McCraty, Director of Research for the HeartMath Institute. Rollin and Deborah discuss exciting research exploring the link between heart rhythm coherence, Earth’s magnetic field, and humanity’s collective energy. 

Rollin talks about a new citizen science project, inviting people around the world  (including our podcast listeners) to participate in a collective heart-focused meditation experiment radiating love and compassion into Earth’s magnetic field that will be happening in May 2024. You’ll hear about how this groundbreaking citizen science experiment will utilize a global network of sensors to detect subtle shifts in Earth’s magnetic field and how these shifts may contribute to a more peaceful and harmonious planet. Rollin explains how this experiment is part of the HeartMath Institute’s Global Consciousness Project 2.0 and its hypothesis that shifts in Earth’s magnetic field may be linked to human consciousness.  

So, if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the world situation, be sure to listen in and experience the hope that this new research provides. The podcast closes with a guided collective heart meditation to cultivate more heart coherence in yourself and co-create a reservoir of coherent heart energy that we can all tap into when we need an uplift. 

This episode is a must-listen for anyone who believes in the power of love and compassion to create positive change in our world.

About our guest: 

Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., is a globally recognized scientist and a leading researcher on the heart-mind connection and serves as Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute (HMI). Since the Institute’s inception in 1991, McCraty and his talented team have spearheaded groundbreaking research with extensive studies, exceeding dozens in number, exploring how to harness communication between the heart and brain to manage stress, cultivate coherence (a state of optimal physiological balance), and strengthen our connection to ourselves and others. 

McCraty’s Google Scholar profile boasts over 250 publications, presentations, and patents spanning 25 years, with over 17,000 citations and a highly respected h-index score of 56.

He is a pivotal figure in the Global Coherence Initiative. McCraty and his research team have designed a global network of sensors to monitor Earth’s magnetic field and its potential link to human consciousness. His research explores the possibility that these fields influence our bodies, emotions, and the very fabric of our connections to each other and the planet. His esteemed body of work appears in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and has captured the attention of major media outlets like CNN, ABC’s Good Morning America, and PBS. He actively contributes to various scientific societies, furthering our understanding of the heart’s profound influence on our mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

Guests: Kyle Boyd and Leah Rush

Be inspired as Kyle Boyd and Leah Rush share their remarkable story to heart coherence. Motivated by his deep desire to overcome intense anxiety, Kyle stumbled upon a life-changing solution. While exploring YouTube, he discovered Dr. Joe Dispenza talking about something called “heart coherence” to tap into our heart’s power and potential to shift out of anxiety and into a life of gratitude and peace.

Deeply wanting that for himself, Kyle looked into how he could commit to practicing heart coherence for 30 days straight to help change his chronic anxiety. Leah joined him for support, thinking, “I can commit to something for 30 days…Let’s see if this works.” What started as their personal quest for more inner peace quickly snowballed into something much greater. Little did they know that their experience would start a momentum, inspiring over 50,000 individuals to join them in 30-day heart coherence challenges to release unwanted habits and open their hearts to joy and fulfillment.

Join us as Kyle and Leah recount their transformative experiences and talk about the next 30-Day Heart Coherence Challenge, where we can join with others to build heart momentum in our own lives. 

Listen in and learn how you can be part of this groundbreaking initiative and embark on your own journey toward greater coherence, well-being, and connection. Join the movement and transform your life from the inside out!

This episode concludes with a guided heart coherence meditation to amplify the heart energy flowing through your system. 

About our guests: 

Kyle Boyd and Leah Rush are the creators of the growing 30-Day Heart Coherence Challenge on Facebook and YouTube and the Heart Coherence Collaborative on YouTube. Kyle is also a HeartMath® certified trainer. He creates heart-focused fellowships, facilitates men’s circles, and focuses on using the heart for reality, creation, recovery, relation, improvement, and igniting purpose, all the things that the heart can empower. Leah is a certified hypnotherapist and EFT practitioner helping women with trauma, anxiety, habit changes, and learning to self-love and trust their femininity. 

Guests: Owen Ward and Howard Martin

In a world where love often seems forgotten, key figures in the HeartMath executive team, Howard Martin and Owen Ward, discuss with host Deborah Rozman the powerful vision of restoring love to the forefront of our collective awareness and co-creating a heart-based world. Hear their shared insights into reconnecting with the heart—a crucial antidote to the challenges humanity faces. 

Amid escalating chaos and stressors that we’re all witnessing, Howard and Owen help provide a perspective that acknowledges the rapid planetary transformation unfolding all around us and how it is leading to a collective yearning for love’s intelligence. They also share exciting developments at HeartMath that will help to amplify the power of love and heart coherence.

Owen explains how one moment of heart can change someone’s day, many moments of heart can change a life, and many people practicing many moments of heart can change a planet.

There are already hundreds of millions of people around the world who recognize it’s a synergy of heart and mind—heart intelligence—that is needed to increase love in their own lives, relationships, communities, and the world. 

So, how do we create more heart intelligence to help offset much of the distortion and chaos that we see? Howard and Owen share with us HeartMath’s groundbreaking developments for amplifying love and heart coherence.

This episode closes with Deborah guiding us in a heart meditation to increase love in our mental, emotional, and physical systems and to co-create a reservoir of heart energy we can each tap into whenever life gets a bit overwhelming or we need a little extra support to follow our heart’s calling.

Join us for a compelling conversation on how a deeper heart connection with oneself and others can go viral and help heal separation, which is needed to bring about sustainable positive change in our world. 

About our guests: 

Howard Martin is Executive Vice President of HeartMath Inc. He’s been instrumental in assisting Doc Childre in the development and teaching of HeartMath’s programs since its inception. Howard speaks internationally on the HeartMath approach to advancing human awareness based on compelling scientific research linking heart function with health, emotional well-being, and intelligence. Howard is the co-author with Doc Childre of The HeartMath Solution and co-author of the book Heart Intelligence. 

Owen Ward serves as Chief Strategy Officer at HeartMath Inc., where his journey of personal transformation through HeartMath practices has ignited a deep-hearted passion to empower people worldwide to harness the intelligence of their hearts. Owen is one of the principal architects behind the innovative HeartMath app and oversees HeartMath’s strategic direction and marketing initiatives. Prior to joining HeartMath, Owen’s career was marked by a series of successful entrepreneurial ventures and investments.

Guest: Oren Jay Sofer

Our guest, Oren Jay Sofer, is a former Buddhist monk and author of the newly released book Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love. Oren talks with us about the crucial importance of awakening the natural and powerful capacities for transformation that reside within each person’s heart, especially during this very tumultuous time in our world. 

Oren opens up to Deborah Rozman, our host, about how Buddhist teachings talk about qualities of the heart as resources that empower a different and more enlightened consciousness. Oren shares the heart qualities that were access points to his own transformation and how he practiced them.

A seasoned teacher in mindfulness, meditation, and nonviolent communication, Oren conveys insightful wisdom in a warm and engaging manner. He encourages us to practice and fortify our own connection to heart qualities so they become an underlying foundation for how we live and engage with the world.

Deborah and Oren explore how each quality of the heart possesses unique attributes that empower us to better handle life’s situations, fostering a deeper connection with our purpose, inner courage, strength, and clarity.

In his conversation with Deborah, Oren shares a vision of transformative potential by merging activism and heart. Together, they explore how this union has the power to reshape society, paving the way for collaborative models that honor our shared humanity.

The episode closes with a heart-inspired meditation to energize the growing heart momentum unfolding on the planet and see more people connect with their true heart’s purpose and desire to co-create a world that awakens humanity’s collective heart.  

About our guest: Oren Jay Sofer teaches meditation and communication internationally. He holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University and is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for the healing of trauma. Oren is also the author of several books, including the bestseller Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication and his latest book, Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices to Meet a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love. His teachings have reached people around the world through his online communication courses and guided meditations. A husband and a father, Oren lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he enjoys cooking, spending time in nature, and home woodworking projects.