How To Heal Your Trauma To Manifest Your Most Abundant Life | Melissa Wood-Tepperberg

James Sexton is a divorce lawyer and the author of If You're in My Office, It's Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together. He tells Lewis Howes that marriage is a technology with tradeoffs, and that it erodes through small unaddressed disconnections around sex and money. They discuss Hit Send Now emails, Go Without or Go Elsewhere, prenups, joint and individual accounts, infidelity, and Mating in Captivity.

Brad Beeler, a US Secret Service agent for 25 years and polygraph examiner for 17, is the author of Tell Me Everything. He argues that people disclose the truth when an interviewer builds safety and curiosity, since body language is a poor lie detector. The conversation covers the Buddy framework, FEEL, the crime equation, horns and halos, tactical empathy, confirmation bias, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Terry Bradshaw is a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers and a longtime host of Fox NFL Sunday. He argues that lasting change begins when a person accepts that the common factor in repeated failures is himself and speaks openly about depression. The conversation covers his memoir Looking for Terry, his ADD diagnosis after retirement, years of counseling, and a self-honesty exercise he calls mirror evaluation.

David Bach, author of The Latte Factor and The Automatic Millionaire, spent nine years at Morgan Stanley and co-founded a registered investment advisory firm. He argues with Lewis Howes that automated saving and long term ownership of stocks and real estate build wealth, while get rich quick thinking keeps people broke. The conversation covers Smart Women Finish Rich, the Rule of 72, Acorns, and Federal Reserve data on emergency savings.

Vanessa Van Edwards, behavioral researcher and founder of Science of People, is the author of Cues and Conversation. Conversation is a learnable skill, and moving past small talk through deeper levels of intimacy builds the connection that technology cannot supply. Topics include Dr. Dan McAdams' Three Levels of Connection, the Nine Power Questions, Dream Building versus Dream Killing, Conversational Confetti, the Candor corpus, and charisma as warmth plus competence.