In this 10-minute post Mark and Jen continue a conversation about how controversial they should be as audio blog hosts. They discuss the drawbacks about sharing their own political beliefs and how if they do, it has the potential to turn people off to their Oh, shift! message.

In this 10-minute post Mark and Jen discuss page 221 of Oh, shift! and the suggestion that people should “turn off” the news. They go on to shed light on what it is about the news that might be influencing people’s state of mind and may be negatively affecting them more than they realize. The two finish the show by getting controversial.

In this 9-minute post Mark and Jen discuss the concept of people having careers that they really love.  They go on to discuss reasons that people might work in jobs they don’t enjoy and why they might never have considered that they can have a career that fills them up.

In this 9-minute post Mark and Jen talk about their three year wedding anniversary and what it’s been like being married for that long. They reminisce about dealing with ex-spouses and living in partnership. The two go on to talk about the results of a 75 year Harvard study meant to help us understand the key to happiness.

In this 9 minute post Mark and Jen discuss people’s tendency to spend way too much time thinking about their own lives. They talk about their own experience with it and why and when we might be spending too much of our time using our brainpower to wallow in our own problems.

In this 9 minute post Mark and Jen give an update on her new Jennifer Powers website and what’s changed with it. They go on to talk about their efforts to live a healthy life. They focus on Jen’s journey of learning and adjusting and where she is now. 

In this 8 minute post Mark and Jen talk about being a couple who works together and spends lots of time together, and how that can eventually create some friction. They acknowledge how this is a common issue for many couples and they discuss their plan for keeping the relationship fresh.

In this 9 minute post Mark and Jen discuss the idea of visualizing and writing down what we want in life. They talk about how it’s worked for them and how they’ve used visualization to help target their efforts to get the results in life they want.  

In this 8 minute post Mark and Jen continue the conversation about peoples’ seeming tendency to be selfish. They talk about motives and even how our most charitable acts may be done for our own selfish interests. Jen gives listeners a challenge that may help them understand their own motives.

In this 8 minute post Mark and Jen start a conversation about people’s tendency to put themselves first.  They talk about the biological reason this may be so, while at the same time explaining why it’s not super popular with the self-help world. 

In this 8 minute post Mark and Jen continue the conversation about aging and discuss how some people don’t seem to mind aging while others are unhappy about growing older. Mark offers a theory suggesting that those who aren’t happy with where they are in life will tend to be less happy about aging.

In this 9 minute post Mark and Jen talk about aging, maturing and the way a person’s approach towards life changes over time. They target the self-help world and some of the concepts in Oh, shift! and then how Jen’s attitude towards what she originally wrote has changed.

In this 11 minute post Mark and Jen announce a huge personal goal reached by Jennifer and then go on to discuss the importance of setting goals.  They talk about the value of failing and sticking with goals, even when those goals are very difficult to attain.

In this 9 minute post Mark and Jen discuss the idea of learning to take on the victor role instead of the victim role. They talk about how responsible we are for those things that happen to us and what power we have even when really terrible things happen in our lives. 

In this 10 minute post Mark and Jen introduce listeners to the concept of “Masterminding” – a technique for exploring different life possibilities and enhancing life or business endeavors.  They tell about how effective Masterminding has been for them, why others might consider doing it, and then give pointers making it super easy for listeners to do it for themselves.

In this 10 minute post Mark and Jen make a big announcement about the Movement. They go on to discuss the topic of “outside the box” thinking and how powerful and life-changing it can be. They give examples of how this type of thinking works and how it’s been used in their own lives.

In this 10 minute post Mark and Jen discuss the need to stay busy and the desire for others to think of us as very busy people. They speculate what that’s about and what it would be like to be seen in a more vulnerable way. 

In this 10 minute post Mark and Jen discuss coping with the long, dark winter. It’s no problem for some, but what about the many, many folks who get blue during the dark, cold months? The two discuss their own experience and cast some light on what it’s like for so many people who have low moments.

In this 9 minute post a listener refers to a previous episode and asks Mark and Jen if there is a more healthy approach to Facebook. The two consider the basic human need that people have for self-validation, why we turn to Facebook to support that self-validation and how Facebook may be falling short. They go on to talk about how a little self-awareness can be a help in using Facebook more productively.

In this 10 minute post Mark and Jen bring in the New Year by talking about New Year resolutions. Why do people make New Year resolutions and do they really work? They discuss people’s human nature to try to fix their own flaws and at the same time offer support to those who seem to fail.