Aristotle's Secret to Happy Life
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
I sat down with bestselling author and behavioral change expert Karen Salmansohn for a conversation that will change how you think about your life and your death. We went deep on mortality awareness, the "near-life" experience so many of us are stuck in, and how to use the end of life as a powerful tool to live more boldly and authentically right now. Karen shares her incredibly practical framework of seven core values to avoid the top regrets of the dying. I even asked her a question she said she's never been asked before. This is a must-listen for anyone ready to get off the "conveyor belt" and design a life you're proud of.
00:00 Welcome
02:02 Why a Book on Death Now?
05:29 Listening to Your Intuitive Voice
07:19 The "Near-Life" Experience
10:24 From Mortality Awareness to Action
14:51 Aristotle & The Soul's Purpose
21:35 Identity-Based Habits for Change
24:50 Getting Off Life's Conveyor Belt
33:47 The 7 Core Values for a Meaningful Life
42:04 Death as a Teacher & Creating Urgency
45:27 Spirituality, Psychology, and the Soul
50:28 Reclaiming Contemplation in a Digital Age
55:17 How to Find Karen's Work & Resources
56:14 Closing Thoughts & Gratitude
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https://youretodieforlife.com/
SM: @notsalmon
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Life, Death & the Space Between Dr. Amy Robbins
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. |
| 0:05.8 | My interview today with Karen Salmanson is incredible. It is like she and I were living in the same |
| 0:13.7 | head. Her new book, Your To Die for Life, How to Maximize Joy and Minimize Regret before |
| 0:20.2 | your time runs out is exactly what I am |
| 0:23.3 | often talking about on this show. We talk about mortality awareness. I dig into the soul. She talks |
| 0:31.2 | about the soul. We talk about woo. And if you're woo or woo-woo, and what the difference is. And I try to |
| 0:37.2 | bring Karen over to our side of the woo-woo, not just the woo. And I'm going to be Karen over to our side of the woo-woo and what the difference is. And I try to bring Karen over to our side of |
| 0:39.2 | the woo-woo, not just the woo. And I also ask her a question that she says she has never been asked |
| 0:45.7 | before in all the interviews she has done. And she has done a lot because Karen is a best-selling |
| 0:52.8 | author and behavioral change expert. and she's often celebrated for blending |
| 0:57.6 | research-based psychological strategies with bold humor. She has over two million books and courses sold. |
| 1:06.0 | So she is someone who has been interviewed time and time again, And I have to say, I absolutely loved talking to |
| 1:12.7 | her. I think you're going to love this interview. I think you're going to have so many nuggets |
| 1:16.7 | that you will be able to take with you and apply to your life immediately. So with that, here is |
| 1:22.5 | today's interview with Karen Salmanson. We need at our table of awareness the logician, but equally we need the |
| 1:30.0 | intuitive, we need the mystic. I was died. I was allowed to go to the very precipice of death, |
| 1:35.8 | of life and death, and look over the edge. And I was allowed to behold what was there and allowed |
| 1:41.7 | to come back. Most people aren't. When we talk about being aligned with our self or being aligned with our soul or hearing |
| 1:47.9 | our higher self, that's really what we're talking about is being connected to that divine |
| 1:52.7 | part of ourself, that light-filled part of us, that is connected to God energy, that is |
| 1:57.2 | connected to everybody here and every experience we've ever had. |
| 2:01.6 | If more doctors, more professionals can open up to use intuitive gifts in their work, |
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