245: Geneen Roth - This Messy Magnificent Life • Seeing Extraordinary In The Ordinary • Stop Complaining
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Geneen Roth (IG: @geneenroth) is the author of ten books, including a number of New York Times bestsellers. Over the past thirty years, she has worked with thousands of people in her groundbreaking workshops and retreats and has appeared on numerous national shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, and the Today show. Today we're focusing on Geneen's latest book, This Messy Magnificent Life.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Geneen's hellish relationship with food from age 11 to 28
- If I had X then I would feel Y thinking (it's a myth)
- Working on ultimate contentment and joy
- Everybody has challenges... it's challenging to be alive
- Losing 30 years of life savings
- Focus on what you do have vs what you don't
- There's only this moment
- What people regret most at the end of their lives
- Insight doesn't lead to change
- What's not wrong right now?
- Very little can't be replaced
- Everything ends
- Seeing extraordinary in the ordinary
- Meeting Eckhart Tolle for the first time
- Showing up moment to moment
- Stop complaining
- When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change
- Taking a conscious breath a couple of times a day
- The most fabulous thing about being aware of death
- Death can happen in any moment
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| 0:00.0 | watching how my mind and my whole presence, my sense of being alive shifted from one of terror and grief to one of joy and contentment and the external situation had not changed one iota. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 245. |
| 0:29.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:35.0 | This week our featured guest is Janine Roth. She's the author of 10 books including a number of New York Times bestsellers. |
| 0:41.0 | Over the past 30 years she's worked with thousands of people |
| 0:44.7 | in her groundbreaking workshops and retreats and has appeared on numerous national shows, |
| 0:49.2 | including the Oprah Winfrey Show, 2020, and the Today Show. |
| 0:53.3 | Today we're focusing on our latest book, |
| 0:55.1 | This Messy Magnificent Life. |
| 0:57.2 | Before I get into the details with Janine, |
| 0:58.9 | I want to acknowledge the fact that this is the last episode |
| 1:01.5 | we're putting out before we become husband and wife. |
| 1:04.0 | Sunday, July 15th coming up this weekend is our big day. We're getting married and we're so excited. |
| 1:09.4 | It's going to be the ultimate wedding. No pun intended. The day is going to be beautiful we're so |
| 1:13.9 | excited just make sure you guys are following us on Instagram at ultimate help |
| 1:17.6 | podcast we're gonna be doing updates leading up to it after the fact and just we're |
| 1:22.3 | going to try and share as much as we can with you guys. |
| 1:24.6 | We can't wait to share the big day. |
| 1:26.1 | Tune in. |
| 1:27.1 | All right and getting back to our show with Janine. |
| 1:29.1 | Such an incredible conversation Janine has been through a lot and has some very important messages to share with you guys. |
| 1:35.6 | So here's some of what we talk about in today's show. |
| 1:37.8 | We talk about how to focus on what you do have versus what you don't have, how to really |
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