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

Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness and author of Make Money Easy, breaks down the five inherited money beliefs that build a personal financial ceiling: what people like me earn, pain as the price of payment, guilt about wanting more, spending to prove status, and the taboo against talking about money. Includes the 30-day four-number challenge, the 72-hour rule, real hourly earnings, and the second price tag.

Michael Beckwith, founder of Agape International Spiritual Center (est. November 30, 1986) and author of seven books including Life Visioning, The Answer Is You, and Spiritual Liberation, discusses his path from Morehouse College and USC psychobiology studies through Black Panther Party-aligned activism to spiritual leadership. Topics include his Synthesis Dialogues with the Dalai Lama, presenting Nelson Mandela the Season for Nonviolence Award, induction with Bishop Desmond Tutu into the Martin Luther King Order of Preachers, and United Nations addresses.

Licensed therapist Kier Gaines, author of “It All Starts When You Do: How To Do The Real Work Of Self Healing,” discusses anger, victimhood versus accountability, and identity formation rooted in his upbringing in Washington, D.C. The conversation references “Sapiens” and “The Mask of Masculinity,” alongside journaling as a therapeutic tool, survivor's guilt, and youth mentorship program experience.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, former McKinsey Consulting analyst and Duckworth Lab founder, is author of Grit, which has sold over 5 million copies, and Situated: Find the People and Places that Bring Out Your Best. The episode references The Person and the Situation, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, the fundamental attribution error research of Dick Nisbett and Lee Ross, and Bob Rosenthal's Pygmalion effect study.

Dr. Katy Milkman, Wharton School professor, host of Choiceology, and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative with Angela Duckworth, discusses How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Covers Status Quo Bias, Fresh Start Effect, Temptation Bundling, and If-Then Plans, citing studies with Hengchen Dai, Peter Gollwitzer, Marissa Sharif, Hal Hershfield, Ayelet Fishbach, and Kaitlin Woolley.