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  • Uncomfortable Conversations: Tonya Lester and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Uncomfortable Conversations: Tonya Lester and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Feb 19 2026
    Tonya Lester, LCSW, is the author of Push Back: Live, Love, and Work with Others Without Losing Yourself and a Brooklyn-based psychotherapist and writer known for her work with relationships and communication. Her essay “Couples Therapist, Heal Thyself” was published in the Modern Love column in The New York Times, and she has been writing the popular Staying Sane Inside Insanity blog for Psychology Today since 2020. She has been featured as an expert in The Guardian, Newsweek, Well+Good, HuffPo, Fatherly, and the Bumble site The Buzz. Here she and Dawson cover:
    • Conflict aversion
    • Assertiveness
    • Jealousy
    • Question: “Where do I have resentment and the other person would be surprised?”
    • Value of a script
    • Reciprocity, reliability, and communication
    • Should partners do therapy together or separately?
    • We don’t need to process absolutely everything, we can let some things go
    • Core vulnerabilities: incompetence, unloveable, unworthy
    • Noticing where you overreact
    • A “dread list” of things
    • If your emotions are getting above a 5, take a break
    • Speaking for your feelings not from your feelings
    • Reframe conflict from what divides us to what brings us closer
    For more information about Tonya and her work: https://www.tonyalester.com/ Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson's latest book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #relationships #communication
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    47 min
  • Your Personal Hero’s Journey: John Bucher and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Your Personal Hero’s Journey: John Bucher and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Feb 13 2026
    John Bucher is a renowned mythologist and story expert who has been featured on the BBC, the History Channel, the LA Times, The Hollywood Reporter and on numerous other international outlets. He serves as Executive Director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation and is a writer, podcaster, storyteller, and speaker. Holding a PhD in Mythology & Depth Psychology, he integrates scholarly insights with practical storytelling techniques, exploring the profound connections between myth, culture, and personal identity. Here he and Dawson explore:
    • John's background
    • The life and teachings of Joseph Campbell
    • Mythology and Depth Psychology
    • Questioning: What experiences of awe are you missing?
    • Campbell’s take on joy and doing the inner work to discover what brings you to life
    • Why we don’t have enough time to pause and reflect on things that bring us alive
    • Exploring what makes you most alive?
    • The 3 large stages of the Hero's Journey: Departure, Initiation, and Return
    • Joseph Campbell's definition of the hero as a person who’s willing to sacrifice
    • Journaling to reflect on the stages of your own Hero’s Journey
    To learn more: https://www.tellingabetterstory.com/ Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson's latest book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #mythology #psychology #hero
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    46 min
  • Money Loves You: Sarah McCrum and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Money Loves You: Sarah McCrum and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Jan 30 2026
    Sarah McCrum is a money consciousness coach, author, and educator. She is the author of Love Money, Money Loves You. She helps entrepreneurs, leaders, and families create lives of genuine wealth and wellbeing by transforming their relationship with money. Through her books, courses, and live masterclasses, she invites people to experience money not as stress and scarcity, but as a supportive, loving energy that enables us to thrive. Here she and Dawson reflect on:
    • Sarah's background
    • Why when your muscles relax your energy channels open so you're more receptive
    • The way money is a movement of energy
    • How the energy of worry compounds as more things to worry about
    • Energy is a form of power, currency is a transfer of power and freedom
    • Our relationship with money
    • True meaning of abundance
    • False belief that money has to come from a particular source
    • Building strength and resilience through adverse experiences
    • Money always tells us that it’s unlimited
    • How you can organize my life to create more value
    • How money relates to our spiritual life
    • The energy of money is the energy of creation, turning energy into form
    To learn more about Sarah's work: https://sarahmccrum.com/ Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson's latest book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #money #abundance #energy
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    45 min
  • Reborn in God: Anton Grosz and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Reborn in God: Anton Grosz and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Jan 23 2026
    Anton Grosz, PhD, is an ordained Interfaith Minister, a retired Hospice Chaplain. He grew up in an atheistic family. But his life was changed when in 1978, at the age of 37, he discovered spirituality through a Near Death Experience. He is the author of several books including Letters to a Dying Friend: What Comes Next, as well as How Do I Live When I Know I’m Going To Die? His most recent book is Handbook for a New Consciousness: The Next Step in Human Evolution. Here he and Dawson discuss:
    • Anton's background and near-death experience
    • Earth from an infinite distance
    • “I am reborn in God”
    • Why the jewel of truth is available through the door of every spiritual path
    • The pure consciousness with “I am” at the core
    • Disappearing into the oneness through meditation
    • Peace, love, and joy at the core of who we are
    • Inner stillness
    To learn more about Dr. Anton Grosz and his books: https://antongrosz.com/ Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson's latest book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #stillness #neardeathexperience #consciousness
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    46 min
  • Finding Stillness Within: Elena Brower and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Finding Stillness Within: Elena Brower and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Jan 16 2026
    Elena Brower is a celebrated international yoga and meditation teacher on Glo, guiding transformative practices since 1999. Her debut book, Art of Attention, has been translated into seven languages. In 2023, she received Jukai (lay Buddhist vows) from Roshi Joan Jiko Halifax at Upaya Zen Center and is a student in Upaya’s Chaplaincy Training As part of her service, she volunteers in hospice and penitentiary settings, bringing yoga, meditation, and compassionate presence. Her most recent book, Hold Nothing, investigates what it means to let go of narratives and return to the spacious emptiness within. Here she and Dawson reflect on:
    • Elena's background
    • The moment of change: “How do I ever stop?
    • The alignment of outer work with the vows and values
    • The sometimes scary inner world
    • Exercise: when you want run away, stay with it for one more breath
    • The point where the void ceases to be fearful
    • Letting go of the external extraneous realities
    • Why there's no way to escape sickness, old age, death, and losing everyone you love
    • Wisdom in the quiet
    Learn more about Elena at: https://elenabrower.com/ Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson's latest book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #zen #stillness #holdnothing
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    45 min
  • Love Beyond Words: Andrew Vidich and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Love Beyond Words: Andrew Vidich and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Jan 8 2026
    Andrew Vidich, PhD, is an author, educator, international speaker, and editor. Dr. Vidich has served as faculty at several universities and is a founding member of The Interfaith Council of New York. He teaches and trains people in conflict management, leadership skills, and contemplative practice in educational, corporate, and nonprofit organizations. He has been meditating, and studying and writing about meditation, since his teenage years. He is the author of Love Is a Secret and Light Upon Light, two books about the paths of the great spiritual masters, and what their journeys can teach us. Light Upon Light has recently appeared in audio, and you can download it for free if you choose it as your first book when you get an Audible membership. Here he and Dawson reflect on:
    • Andrew's background
    • The use the word “love”
    • States of being that we don’t have words for
    • How lovers don’t meet each other, they’re in each other all along
    • The fundamental misconception that love is outside us
    • Love as the gift of the Creator to the created
    • Why all forms of love are derivatives of the Creator’s love
    Find Andew's book, Love is a Secret, at: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Secret-Andrew-Vidich-ebook/dp/B0CL5HCDDK/ Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson's latest book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #love
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    45 min
  • The Awakened Warrior: Joel Levey in Conversation with Dawson Church

    The Awakened Warrior: Joel Levey in Conversation with Dawson Church
    Jan 3 2026
    Dr. Joel Levey, along with his wife Michelle, are pioneers in the global “mindfulness revolution." Through the International Center for Corporate Culture and Organizational Health, they have been introducing mindfulness into workplace as a “vital organizational operating system” for enhancing the quality of every aspect and encounter of life and work within an organization. They are the authors of Manual for the Awakening Warrior. Here Joel and Dawson explore:
    • Joel's background
    • Consciousness research in the 70s at Washington University
    • Understanding human potential movement
    • Exercise: Feeling each of your fingers individually
    • Integrating high level nutrition, aikido, biofeedback and neurofeedback
    • Dissolving tension, regulate emotions, calm minds, contemplative mindfulness
    • The word for being unable to describe your feelings: Alexithymia
    • Exercise: Wiggle fingers, feel toes
    • Vipassana techniques
    • Releasing traumas that are encoded in the deep matrix of the body
    • Allowing the field of our love reach out to touch everyone
    Learn more about Dr. Joel Levey at: https://www.wisdomatwork.com/ Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson's latest book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #wisdomatwork #awakeningwarrior
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    48 min
  • Dream Wisdom: Greg Mahr and Dawson Church in Conversation

    Dream Wisdom: Greg Mahr and Dawson Church in Conversation
    Dec 29 2025
    Greg Mahr, M.D., is a psychiatrist actively involved in teaching and research on acute trauma and nightmares. He is on the faculty of the medical schools at both Michigan State University and Wayne State University and has published more than 30 academic research articles. Greg is the author of The Wisdom of Dreams: Science, Synchronicity and the Language of the Soul. His most recent work, coauthored with Heather Taylor-Zimmerman, is a guidebook and set of 42 cards called the Dream Wisdom Oracle. Here he and Dawson discuss:
    • Greg's background
    • Why every dream is an unopened letter
    • How nightmares can be a way of processing trauma
    • Rewriting traumatic dreams with a positive ending
    • Modern techniques for inducing lucid dreams
    • The Jungian term, “Active Imagination”
    • The link between dreams and creativity
    • How MRIs of the dreaming brain show lots of connections not present in waking life
    • What is trauma
    • The ways dreams can help you connect with parts of the self that allow creativity to enter in different ways
    For more information about Dr. Greg Mahr: https://www.gregmahr.com/ Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/ To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/ #mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #dreams
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    46 min