Best J Michael Godfrey Dmin Phd Pcc Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 143: How do you see it - Truth about stress 8:16

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How do you see it? The truth about stress and its benefits. Much of your success in putting stress to work for you depends on your understanding of stress and your perspective on its purpose and usefulness.

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Episode 142: Tips that will make stress work for you 7:19

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Timely Tips That Will Make Stress Work for You. Introduction to the principles of putting stress to work for a positive, helpful outcome.

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Episode 141: Tired of Being a Victim of Stress 7:07

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Tired Of Being A Victim Of Stress? Put Stress To Work Now with These Proven Strategies

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Episode 140: Are you in a whirlwind of busyness and stress? 7:35

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Here's what you must do to manage the whirlwind of busy-ness and stress and make it count for the future.

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Episode 139: Your Life is Too Short to be Dominated by Discouragement 5:26

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Your Life is Too Short to be Dominated by Discouragement. Discover the Daily Mental Habit that Changes Everything.

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2024 True Course Ministries Donor Letter 12:51

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Episode 138: Mastering Conflict Management 7:13

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Mastering Conflict Management: Expert Tips for Handling Tough Situations with Grace. A tip, offered step-by-step, for lowering anxiety and achieving positive outcomes in conflict situations.

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Episode 137: Achieve More - Improve Your Emotional Intelligence and Unleash Your True Potential 7:01

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Achieve More: Improve Your Emotional Intelligence and Unleash Your True Potential. Tips for Growth.

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Episode 136: Increase Your Personal and Professional Impact - Communicate 7:49

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Want to Unlock the Secrets to Thriving Relationships? Try these Personal and Professional Communication Tips

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Episode 135: Increase Your Personal and Professional Impact - Take Risks 7:15

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Taking risks is hair-raising but will move you into a bigger world. Embrace more of the unfamiliar, unpredictable, and uncontrollable to make a bigger positive impact on those around you. Here's how.

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Episode 134: Increase Your Personal and Professional Impact - Learn 7:09

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Get ahead in your career and relationships, have a bigger positive impact on those around you, and even save your life (yikes!). Take time to watch attentively, ask questions, and learn.

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Episode 133: Increase Your Personal and Professional Impact - Think 6:39

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Get out of overwhelm and survival mode and make a bigger positive impact on those around you. You can thrive as a relevant, sharp influence on your world, personally and professionally. Here is how.

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Episode 132: Making Sense of Things 6:34

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It's one of the most predictable human responses. When behaviors, interactions, and words don't make sense to you, you'll create a story to explain them. A climate of transparency can eliminate assumptions, false beliefs, and misunderstandings.

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Episode 131: Thriving and Enjoying the Now 6:30

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What keeps you from truly thriving and enjoying life now? The present moment is the only guarantee you have for living. Unfortunately, you can find yourself caught up in the past, future, or both and miss the opportunities in the present moment.

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Episode 130: Transition Disorientation 7:52

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Your life recently changed, and you feel shaken, empty, confused, and maybe a little lost. Transition Disorientation is real and common. Transform your thoughts and actions for the new season. Here's how.

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Episode 129: Are you courageous and strong enough to embrace new ways of thinking? 5:31

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It takes courage and strength to take a hard look at whether your thinking is true to reality and helpful for living. Do you have it?

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2023 Donor Letter 16:02

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Episode 128: Time is short - Practice Gratitude 5:26

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Your time is too short to get discouraged about the things around you. Make the most of every moment with this exercise.

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Episode 127: Reflections after 20 Years 5:19

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Dr. Godfrey's reflections growing out of personal development and 20 years of work at True Course.

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Episode 126: True Course Celebrates 20 Years 5:30

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True Course Celebrates 20 Years. Here's what's kept us busy.

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Episode 125: Difficult Conversations 8:11

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It will be a scary, teeth-grinding conversation, and you're unsure how to handle it. It must be sooner than later. Here's how to finish it well, smiling about the result.

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Episode 124: Inspiration or Desperation 7:56

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When you finally take on the hard work of changing your ways, why do you do it? In the end, is it the growing power of your inspiration, proactivity, and desire to thrive, or the intense pressure of your desperation, reactivity, and need to survive?

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Episode 123: Deepening Unwavering Engagement 6:56

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If you want exceptional employee commitment and energy contribution, management must create and maintain an environment that cares for people and their development more than the bottom line.

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Episode 122: Stop Talking Start Learning 7:26

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Afraid your message is not getting through? Stop telling and start creating learning experiences for yourself and others. Genuinely curious questions are the magic key.

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Episode 121: Psychological Distance for Problem-Solving 6:09

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When your back's against the wall, finding the real problem requires sophisticated skills. Here's how to manage the distance for clearer perspectives and better results.

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Episode 120: Busy vs Big Picture 7:09

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In a busy, stress-filled life, the first thing to go is the appreciation of a bigger picture. Would you like to regain a broader perspective? Here's how.

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Episode 119: Doing What's Best. Why Don't You. 8:05

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When you're confident it's the right thing to do, what keeps you from doing it? Your answer will give you an unsettling gut check about your risk for the future.

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Episode 118: Deeper Longing 7:06

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Do you end your days feeling, "There must be more?" This signals a deeper longing, which you may be unaware of, but you need an answer for it now. Here ís the direction to your answer.

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Episode 117: Zoom Out 6:17

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Zoom Out! Manage your crazy busy, overwhelmed days and frequently muddled priorities with a fresh big-picture focus at the start of this year. Here's how to get started.

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Episode 116: Are you in a whirlwind of busyness and stress? 7:35

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Here's what you must do to manage the whirlwind of busy-ness and stress and make it count for the future.

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Episode 115: Stop Losing to Poor Communication 6:47

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Stop losing to poor communication. Learn 10 ways to improve communication in your workplace and save your organization money.

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Episode 114: What You Value Most Decides Your Everyday Thoughts and Actions 7:09

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What You Value Decides where you invest your mental and physical energy. Are you sure you are investing in the most important?

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Episode 113: How to Create Psychological Safety 7:49

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Fear will freeze the growth of relationships and effectiveness in your family or work group. Here's how to create the psychological safety your group needs starting now.

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Episode 112: Wake-up Call - Your Brain Will Make Mistakes 7:01

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Wake-up call! Your Brain will regularly make mistakes, cause conflict, and make you miserable if you don't pay attention. Here's what to do to manage it.

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Episode 111: Say Yes Say No 5:22

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How Often Do You Cave In and Say "Yes" When You Really Want To Give a Strong Determined "No?" This episode provides the tips for action in understanding the stories behind your "yes" or your "no" and how to give the answer you really want to give.

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Episode 110: Failing to Deconstruct is a Risk 6:38

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Deconstruction for learning is a common experience. Why it's important and good, how it helps, how you can benefit from deconstructing.

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Episode 109: My Valuable Experience with My Coach 7:09

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My valuable experience with my coach and why you'll be amazed and amused that you haven't tapped into the remarkable process and results of True Course coaching yet. Learn how much coaching can mean to your life.

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Episode 108: Bad News Overwhelm 5:36

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Learn how Constant haphazard exposure to information can quickly flood the days and weeks of your life with deepening misery and confusion and how you can take charge for a more joyful experience.

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Episode 107: Why framing the big picture for your life now takes the fear out of decisions about those big life transitions every time 5:09

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Getting the picture clearly in mind can take some of the fear out of those big life transitions. Here's why.

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Episode 106: Why you need failure to achieve the success you crave in life 5:29

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In this episode we consider how our thinking about success and failure is distorted, how that thinking can cripple progress, and what is needed for making failure a learning ally.

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Episode 105: Are you courageous and strong enough to embrace new ways of thinking? 5:31

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It takes courage and strength to take a hard look at whether your thinking is true to reality and helpful for living. Do you have it?

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Episode 104: Warning: People Seeking Fulfillment from One Source Will More Likely Find Disappointment 4:46

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I find that some rely on their job to provide more fulfillment than it ever can. They may over-rely on other occupations, activities, or relationships in the same way. Learn how to diversify to find the fulfillment you want.

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Episode 103: Little Powerful Steps that Can Lead to an Amazing Finish 5:11

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You may want to get the job done all in one sitting but an incremental approach will result in better long term, higher quality results.

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Episode 102: The One Thing You Must Do to Thrive 5:02

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In this episode I tell you about the one absolute essential thing you must do to thrive as an adult.

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Episode 101: A Story I Experience Time and Again 5:28

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How to escape uncertainty and thrive beyond your current success.

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Episode 100: Staying Irresistibly Relevant - The One Key 4:56

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If you want to continue your contribution and influence in your relationships and the world, if you want to "stay relevant," here is the key.

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Episode 99: How to Disagree and Argue Well 11:56

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Most avoid argument and disagreement and do it poorly when it's required. Here are some tips that can help you be healthy and nurture others when you must disagree or argue.

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Episode 98: When is a Difference an Offense? 4:13

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When is a difference an offense? Who decides? How does one manage differences?

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Episode 97: Want Your Team to Conquer Its Next Big Challenge? 10:30

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In this episode I describe the critical importance of growing emotional intelligence in ensuring organizations successfully navigate big challenges. I explore the need, define emotional intelligence, and give practical points of implementation.

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Episode 96: What's Your Story 2:47

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Did you know that every person on the planet has a special story they've created for making sense of life? You need a story as a guide to understanding the world and living in it. Your conscious thoughts and actions as well as your unconscious decisions and actions are controlled by your story. Every person's story is a little different from anothe…