Holistic Survival Show - Economic Crisis

Jeffrey Lord, a former Reagan White House political director, is a columnist and contributing editor for The American Spectator. He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His work has been published around the country, including The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Harrisburg Patriot-News.

He is also the author of the new book "What America Needs: The Case for Trump". Jason and Jeffrey recently talked about if a Trump presidency was actually possible, and, if it was, what it might actually look like.

Key Takeaways:

[1:42] How the media has portrayed Trump and the misportrayals of Trump supporters

[4:05] The dangers of political correctness

[7:40] The condescension of people toward Trump supporters and how Trump and Ronald Reagan have something in common

[9:17] The history of liberal smear tactics

[12:01] How a conservative like Jeffrey ended up a CNN contributor

[13:21] What the average Trump supporter ACTUALLY looks like

[14:48] What draws people to Trump

[15:28] Why the details don't matter

[20:29] The KKK relationship with the Democrats

[21:46] Contrasting what Trump is suggesting doing with the Muslim nationalization process to what FDR did following Pearl Harbor to Japanese, Germans and Italians

[24:19] How Trump reminds Jeffrey of a certain Eddie Murphy character

[27:01] How Trump is using his media savvy to run his campaign on the cheap

[30:45] What a Trump presidentcy might look like

[33:04] The economy that comes from having a tough guy in the Oval Office

Websites Mentioned

What America Needs, The Case For Trump on Amazon

Seth M. Siegel is a businessman, activist and writer. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and other publications around the world on business, political and cultural issues. Siegel has often appeared on television and has been widely quoted in major print media. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Key Takeaways:

[2:36] How Israel, a country with 60% desert, is able to be water independent and actually EXPORT water

[4:14] Israel manufactures their water from sewage

[5:52] The 3 ways Israel gets and uses their water that differentiate them from the rest of the world

[8:30] If water is basically free, why would anyone care if they conserve it?

[11:18] Highlighting some BIG differences in thinking about water between nations like the USA and Israel

[14:39] The timeline of improving a nation's water situation, and why that is a big problem for the USA

[15:26] Seth's listener challenge

Websites Mentioned:

www.sethmsiegel.com
www.twitter.com/sethmsiegel

Chris Dancy is touted as “the Most Connected Man on Earth,” and the world is watching those connections carefully. For 25 years, Dancy has served in leadership within the technology and healthcare industries, specializing in the intersection of the two.

Chris entered the public dialog concerning digital health as the media started to focus on wearable technology. He earned his moniker by utilizing up to 700 sensors, devices, applications, and services to track, analyze, and optimize his life--from his calorie intake to his spiritual well-being. This quantification enables him to see the connections of otherwise invisible data, resulting in dramatic upgrades to his health, productivity, and quality of life.

A noted keynote speaker and executive workshop retreat facilitator, Chris guides organizations and audiences on a journey--a disruptive, breathtaking journey--into the future of computing, when behavior becomes the ultimate interface.

Key Takeaways:

[3:19] Every major corporation is surveilling you, they just have a different name for it to make it sound better

4:19] Chris tells Jason how he went about starting to collect data on himself and how he decided what to do with it

[7:05] How Chris' background as a Database Analyst led him to be able to collect all his data on himself

[8:59] The one piece of equipment that's already doing tracking for you, whether you know it or not

[10:21] How categorizing your purchases by feeling rather than type can change the way you view your habits

[11:27] Wanting to collect data is good, but data isn't very high on the food chain of your life

[12:20] The internet is turning into the INNERnet

[13:58] What could cause the death of apps

[16:34] As technology improves, we're heading towards devices that can track anything we want, from blood oxygen to reading blood with spectral imaging

[18:21] How marketing could be changed as companies are able to get more and more data about our lives and the one place on Earth that's ALREADY doing this

[20:02] The new world of data collection and surveillance is new and, admittedly, scary

[20:52] Whether we should be optimistic or pessimistic about the direction we're headed with technology and surveillance

[23:03] What is singularity and how far off it might be

[24:37] The people who are going to be the most important as we move into quantum computing

Websites Mentioned:

www.chrisdancy.com
www.twitter.com/chrisdancy

Tweetables:

[6:32] "there's this interesting relationship about our lives when you experience everything through a connected interface, that you realize there's filtered information that you can benefit from"

[8:03] "We're entering an age very rapidly, in the next 4 years (and I'd say we're already, it's done), where you can't afford to live without the internet"

[18:08] "Disney's probably the most surveilled, convenient, safe space on Earth"

[19:57] "People don't have the ability to not weaponize facts, and we live in a world full of facts and data"

Dan Brulé is a modern day teacher and healer—an innovative, unorthodox, irreverent, creative, game-changing entrepreneur. He is a master of Prana Yoga (the Hindu Science of Breath), and of Chi Kung/Qigong (Chinese Medical Breathing Exercises).

Dan is a world-renown pioneer in the field of Breathwork, and leader of the worldwide Spiritual Breathing Movement, He is one of the originators of Breath Therapy, and was among the first group of Internationally Certified Rebirthers.

More than 80,000 people in over 40 countries now apply Dan’s breathing exercises and techniques in their work and in their lives. Among them are Olympic champions and elite martial artists, leading psychotherapists and medical experts; monks, meditators, hospice workers, yoga teachers, performing artists, personal trainers, substance abuse and pastoral counselors, health practitioners, life coaches, and business executives.

Dan is the author of: “A Formula for Transformation,” “The Principles of Breath Therapy,” “Zen and the Art of Breathing,” “Stress and Breathing,” “A Brief Introduction to Chinese Medical Breathing Exercises,” “The Art and Science of Breathwork,” and “Spiritual Breathing.”

Jason had a chance to speak with Dan about some breathing techniques we can apply immediately to help us in our day-to-day life.

Key Takeaways:

[5:11] A breathing technique to help you feel energized

[6:45] Getting started with default breathing patterns

[8:22] Delving into why we don't naturally breathe the way the situation dictates

[9:22] Going over some of the core breathing techniques everyone should know

[11:06] A recent scientific breakthrough that is changing the way we think about the autonomic nervous system and breathing

[15:34] Learning to box breathe and really steadying your breathing and create physiological changes

[18:02] A transformational technique called continuous breathing

[22:08] How breathing can make you feel an emotional aliveness that might scare you

[23:33] The key to all breath work

[35:24] The 3 points to remember when doing your breathing

Website Mentioned:

www.breathmastery.com