Two idealistic young college graduates journey to the Deep South and work together to found one of the legendary HBCUs.
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Need a free online life coach? Look no further than the most motivational self-help authors of the past. Inspiring readings from James Allen, Napoleon Hill, Hellen Keller, Booker T. Washington, Khalil Gibran, Marcus Aurelius, and more. With over 25 million downloads, we have been one of the most popular self-development podcasts since 2016. Listen to our inspirational podcasts every Tuesday and Thursday, and browse hundreds of uplifting podcasts in our archive. Buy our best-selling trilogy o ...
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Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on t ...
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Dr. Carisa Hines is the founder of Freeman Moore Medical Consultants, a full spectrum disability consultation practice. She is a native of Norfolk, Virginia, and is a proud graduate of Booker T Washington HS. Dr. Hines completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Chemistry at the University if Virginia. She graduated from Meharry Medical College, and subsequently completed her residency at Atlanta Medical Center in Internal Medicine. Since completing residency, she has worked in Emergenc ...
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Each week on Bay Area Focus we highlight great events and worthy causes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Host: Larry Dorsey Jr.
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We are the children of heroes. These are the stories of seven men whose courage, determination and skill are so remarkable that it is nearly impossible to credit them as true. But the stories are true. These men were real. These things actually happened. Writer and series host Bill Whittle peels away the history, the colorless and drab recitation of dates and events, to reveal the actual human beings beneath the legend. Many of these men were national celebrities in their day, although a few ...
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Overcoming Your Fears | Uplifting Podcasts
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15:17Listen to episode 1009 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Your Fears. Edited and adapted from “Thoughts Are Things” by Prentice Mulford. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You can cultivate courage and increase it at every minute and hour of the day. You can have the satisfaction of knowing that in everything you do, you have accomplished …
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Native American Prayers | Sioux, Lakota, Cherokee
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8:47Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode includes prayers from the Sioux, Lakota, Cherokee, Chinook, and Aztec. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Oh, Great Mystery, teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing: the senses of my body,…
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Powerful Positive Affirmations | Building Right Thinking
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12:45Listen to episode 1008 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Positive Affirmations | Building Right Thinking. Edited and adapted from How to Stay Well by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we would overcome the habit of wrong thinking, we must cultivate the habit of right thinking; and for this purpose there is no method that is …
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Listen to episode 1007 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Using the Law of Attraction. Adapted from The Creative Mind & Success by Ernest Holmes. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: In the presence of some people, we feel as though nothing were too great to undertake. We are uplifted. We are inspired to do great things, to accomplish. We feel strong, …
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It ought to be easy for me to give to God. To give Him my troubles, for instance; to give Him the responsibility for the…
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Listen to episode 1006 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Law that Governs the World. Adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Compensation.” Inspirational Living Podcast: Nature hates monopolies, and exceptions. The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing, than the varieties of a condition tend to equa…
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How to Be Successful in Business | Motivational Podcasts
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15:47Listen to episode 1005 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be a Genius in Business. Edited and adapted from The Book of Business by Elbert Hubbard. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The great 21st century retailer must be a leader in taste. They are an educator. They stand for economy, color, proportion, harmony and increased happiness. They i…
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A Vedic Understanding of Life | Our Sunday Talks
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13:38Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Vedic Way of Blessedness, edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Abhedananda. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When we understand the true meaning of life, we know that life is oppos…
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Making Your Ideals Real | Uplifting Podcasts
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16:24Listen to episode 1004 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Making Your Ideals Real. Edited and adapted from The Ideal Made Real by Christopher D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The belief that it is impossible to make real the ideal has no foundation whatever in truth. It is simply an illusion produced by fear and has no place in the exact…
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Your Words Have Power | Motivational Podcasts
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16:47Listen to episode 1003 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Your Words of Power. Adapted from Your Forces and How to Use Them by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every word that is spoken exercises a power in your personal life, and that power will work either for or against you, depending upon the nature of the word. You can tal…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting, published in 1934. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What do you suppose those people got out of contact with you? Do you know? Of course you don't. You t…
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The Mystical Circle of Life | Success Podcasts
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12:36Listen to episode 1002 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Circles of Life & Success. Edited and adapted from the essay "Circles" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Old age should not creep upon a human mind. In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten; the coming only is sacred. Nothing is sec…
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The Secret of Happiness | Inspirational Podcasts
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15:39Listen to episode 1001 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of Happiness. Adapted from The Wonders of Life by Ida Luella Rettinghouse Lyon. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life holds for everyone some different meaning. Out of its great storehouse of treasures, every person endeavors to secure that which, for them, means happiness. Many p…
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Who is the Moral Individual? | Our Sunday Talks
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6:54Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was Edited and adapted from The Shining Gateway by James Allen. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is no surer indication of confusion and decadence in spiritual matters than the severance of morality from religion…
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Essay on Self-Reliance - 1000th Episode w/ Free eBooks Giveaway
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15:31Listen to the 1000th episode of the Inspirational Living podcast: Essay on Self-Reliance – 1000th Episode w/ Free eBook Giveaway. Edited and adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essay on Self-Reliance. Get your free Kindle eBook edition of our motivational books Evergreen, Everest, and Evermore until April 19th by visiting https://livinghour.org/book…
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Listen to episode 999 of the Inspirational Living podcast: You Can Develop a Powerful Concentration. Adapted from Thought Force in Business & Every Day Life by William Walker Atkinson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The individual who can concentrate has a sure remedy for the "blues." How so? Why, just by shutting off the unpleasant thoughts and co…
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Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was Edited and adapted from Working With God by Gardner Hunting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: People suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for y…
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Breaking Conformity to Live an Authentic Life
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14:24Listen to episode 998 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living an Authentic Life | Originality vs. Conformity. Edited and adapted from Working with God by Gardner Hunting. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Isn't it pitiful, how we so often conform: conform to style, to custom, to mode, to trend. And if we think about it, we come upon a curious anom…
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Listen to episode 997 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Great Power of Perseverance. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: "Continual drops wear out the stone." So persevering labor gains our objectives. Perseverance is the virtue wanted — a lion-hearted purpose of victory.…
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Gowing Toward the Divine | Our Sunday Talks
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12:55Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Every man a King by Orison Swett Marden and Ernest Holmes. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When the soul once tastes its native food, once feels the thrill of the infinite pulse, it no long…
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Listen to episode 996 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Earning Your Wisdom and Happiness. Edited & adapted from a speech by David Starr Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The greatest source of failure in life comes from this. It is easier to be almost right than to be right; to wish, than to gain. In default of gold, there is always someth…
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Self-Reliance: The Key to Successful Living
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15:40Listen to episode 995 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Self-Reliance: The Key to Successful Living. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Without self-reliance no one can succeed in the largest way. Self-reliance breeds courage, faith, determination, never-say-dieness. Self-reliance inspires …
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The Evolution of Your Spirit | Our Sunday Talks
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19:50Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Vedanta Philosophy: Five Lectures on Reincarnation by Swami Abhedananda, published in 1896. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Our spiritual nature expresses itself in various ways, but on a h…
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Listen to episode 994 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation to Keep Learning & Growing. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Ralph Albert Parlette. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let me not hear you complain about growing old. We are not growing old; we are growing eternally young. All our life up to today has been merely preparation for …
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Building Up Your Power & Energy for Success
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18:29Listen to episode 993 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Energy, Authenticity & Character | Mind Power. Adapted from The Positive Psychology of Success by Newton N. Riddle. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Before anything can be accomplished we must have power. It takes power to work, to do business, to enjoy, to think, to live. Mental energy backs…
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The Ancient Mexican Code of Moral Precepts
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13:07Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the Ancient Mexican Code of Moral Precepts Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The individual who offends their Divine spark will die miserable, and it will be their own fault. Honor and salute…
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Timeless Advice for Young & Old | Inspirational Podcasts
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15:52Listen to episode 992 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Advice to Young Adults | Life Coach Lessons. Edited and adapted from Increasing Personal Efficiency by Russell H. Conwell. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A life is divine when duty is a joy. The best work we ever do is the work we get pleasure from doing. And the work we are likeliest to en…
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Make This Your Motto For Life | Motivation Podcasts
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10:47Listen to episode 991 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Make Your Life Count | Motivational Speeches. Edited and adapted from “Ambition and Success” by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everywhere we see men and women doing the lower, the commoner things, seemingly satisfied to do them all their lives, when they have the abilit…
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The Way to Find the Truth | Our Sunday Talks
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15:23Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the work of Neville Goddard. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When the walls are being rebuilt, it is easy to imagine that the foundations are being destroyed. Old creeds pass away, but trut…
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Listen to episode 990 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Becoming a Creative Writer | Learning to See Again. Adapted from Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The genius keeps, for all their days, the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in its expanding world. Many of US keep this wide-…
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Creating the Best Attitude of Mind | Success Podcasts
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16:41Listen to episode 989 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Creating the Best Attitude of Mind. Adapted from Thinking for Results by Christian D. Larson. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every moment therefore should be filled with contentment and perfect satisfaction. And every moment should also be filled with a strong desire for still greater achie…
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The Art of Praying Successfully | Neville Goddard
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19:18Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from the work of Neville Goddard. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Prayer is an art and requires practice. The first requirement is a controlled imagination. Ostentation and vain repetitions are …
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Listen to episode 988 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Have Success at Any Age. Edited and adapted from “Self-Control: It’s Kingship & Majesty” by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we honestly seek to live our best at all times, that determination is visible in every moment of our living, and no trifle in our lives…
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Listen to episode 987 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building Greatness from Little Things. Edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haines & L.W. Yaggy. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The little things in life are not to be dismissed. Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated. Those who dare lose a da…
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The Immortality of the Soul | Our Sunday Talks
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18:41Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Vedanta Philosophy by Swami Vivekananda, Published 1899. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What question has been asked a greater number of times; what idea has sent people more to search the…
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Getting Started with a Purpose Driven Life
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16:48Listen to episode 986 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Getting Started with a Purpose Driven Life. Edited and adapted from “On the Threshold” by Theodore Thornton Munger. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Individuals may be divided in many ways, but there is no clearer cut division than between those who have a purpose and those who are without on…
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Motivation to Make Your Life Extraordinary
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15:47Listen to episode 985 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Motivation to Make Your Life Extraordinary. Adapted from Concentration: The Road To Success by Henry Harrison Brown. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Remember to always mind your own business. Any argument or antagonism, is minding another person’s business. All persons have an equal right as…
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What is the Aim of Life? | Our Sunday Talks
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17:08Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Thoughts are Things by Prentice Mulford, published in 1908.. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: You ask, "What is the aim of life?" In a sense, you cannot aim your own life. There is a destiny…
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Listen to episode 985 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Cultivating the Power of Imagination. Edited and adapted from Secrets of Mental Supremacy by W. R. C. LATSON, published in 1913. Inspirational Podcast Transcript:The imagination requires more than mere perception. The things perceived must be remembered. A thing that we have forgotten — los…
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Defeating The Monster of Worry | Inspirational Podcasts
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13:13Listen to episode 984 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Conquering Anxiety, and Worry. Adapted from the book Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The monster of worry dogs us from the cradle to the grave. There is no occasion so sacred but it is there. Unbidden it comes to the wedding and the funeral alike.…
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Secret Teachings About the Mind | The Kybalion
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16:33Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy, published in 1908. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: What the mystics know as "the Law of Paradox" is an aspect of the Principle of Polarity. Mystical writi…
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Listen to episode 983 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Gaining the Youthful Edge (At Any Age). Edited and Adapted from Turn Back the Years by Harry J. Gardener. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Spontaneity is one of the prime points in being youthful. The minute you settle permanently into the same easy chair to watch the same TV show, wearing th…
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Individuality: The Goal of a Real Education
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16:33Listen to episode 982 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Get a Real Education (Individuality). Edited & adapted from Every Man His Own University by Russell H. Conwell. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A distinct university walks about under each person’s hat. The only men and women who achieve success in the other universities of the world,…
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A Mystic's Understanding of God | Sunday Talks
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16:01Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from An Eternal Career by Frank and Lydia Hammer, published in 1947, published in 1916. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A Hindu child once said to his playmate: "If you can tell me where God is,…
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Listen to episode 981 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Grief, Sorrow & Pain | Finding Faith. Edited and adapted from Comfort by Hugh Black. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: THE world is full of men and women who are carrying burdens of work or care or sorrow, and the burden often seems too heavy for them to bear. The sorest part of the…
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Listen to episode 980 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Spiritual Power of Words. Edited and adapted from The Mental Cure by Warren Felt Evans. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the principal mediums through which mind acts upon mind, is that of words, spoken or written. Words are the representatives of ideas; the outward manifestation o…
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How to Develop Real Spirituality | Sunday Talks
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18:10Listen to a sample episode of Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the Inspirational Living podcast. This episode was edited and adapted from Steps in Human Progress by Christian D. Larson, published in 1916. Podcast Excerpt: THE first essential in giving scientific attention to the study of the spiritual world is to realize tha…
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Building a Prosperity Mindset | Success Podcasts
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17:11Listen to episode 979 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Building a Prosperity Mindset. Edited and adapted from a lecture that was delivered by Harriet Hale Rix, at the Hotel Brighton, Washington, D. C., in 1914. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I would like to make a statement here at the very beginning and have you plant this statement, this idea…
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Listen to episode 978 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Breaking from What Holds You Down. Adapted Stepping-Stones to Success by Horace D. Hitchcock. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Life is a fight, a worthwhile battle, but mainly with the elements in one's own self. An understanding of self (with all its moods, possibilities and powers), is the …
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Living Life with No Regrets | Uplifting Podcasts
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11:37Listen to episode 976 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living Life No Regrets. Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let us be glad of the dignity of our privilege to make mistakes, glad of the wisdom that enables us to recognize them, glad of the power that permits us to turn their light as …
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