Discover Your Potential Podcast

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How do we find meaning in life’s chaos? In this heartfelt episode, host Dan Gilman sits down with Dr. Bernie Siegel, world-renowned author of Love, Medicine and Miracles, and his grandson Charlie Siegel, photographer and writer, to uncover the deeper truth behind happiness, healing, and love.

Together, they share insights from their co-authored book When You Realize How Perfect Everything Is: A Conversation About Life Between Grandfather and Grandson. Through stories and reflections, they reveal how love transcends time, why happiness lives in simplicity, and how every life experience—good or bad—serves a higher purpose.

✨ In this episode:
• Discover why life is “perfectly imperfect”
• Learn how love can heal the body and the soul
• Find out what happiness truly means beyond material things
• Hear Dr. Siegel’s timeless advice for parents and seekers alike

This conversation is an uplifting reminder that miracles happen every day when we open our hearts.

Discover Your Potential with Robin Casarjian. Robin Casarjian, M.A. is the Founder and Director of the Lionheart Foundation and its National Emotional Literacy Projects. She is an educator, public speaker, writer, and consultant. In developing and implementing programming for prisoners and youth-at-risk, she draws from her experience as director of a school for at-risk adolescents, as well as extensive experience in education, stress management training, psychotherapy and administration. She is author of Forgiveness: A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart (Bantam, 1992) and Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom (Lionheart Press, 1995), and co-author, with Bethany Casarjian, Ph.D., of Power Source: Taking Charge of Your Life (Lionheart Press, 2003).

Melissa is a freelance writer for Kings County Politics and the Canarsie Courier – Features Editor for Metropolitan Magazine, Creative Director for Preferred Health Magazine, and a lead booker for Dr. Robi Ludwig, a syndicated Psychotherapist.

Prior to turning into an author, she was on her way to seek after a vocation in law enforcement, yet life proceeded on a different route. As a native New Yorker, Melissa knows the rushing about of daily existence yet practices how to balance spirituality and the abundance of joy with assistance along the way.

Dianne Bischoff James MS is a bestselling author, motivational speaker and expert on the topic of conscious transformation. Having found herself completely, off track, she rebooted her life, losing 60 pounds, ridding herself of depression, conquering numerous debilitating health problems, launching an acting career, a healthy divorce and surviving the perils of an addictive relationship, all after 40 years of age. Dianne’s experience, continued fascination with why we came here and what makes people tick along with “pragmatic metaphysical” tools have established her as a leader in enlightened education and her Top 10 Inspirational Book, The Real Brass Ring has garnered national media attention by helping others create long-term change in our modern age. She has taught people all over the country how to recognize their own personal power and potential and educates clients in the latest techniques for transforming their hearts, minds and bodies for optimal authentic living.

Discover Your Potential with Renown Medium Robert Brown. Robert has experiences from a very early age, being born with the ability to see Spirit. Though at the time not understanding the experiences, these became fully clear and explainable after Robert attends The Spiritualist Association of Great Britain, Belgrave Square, London, as a teenager in the early 1970s.

In the 1990s Robert undertakes more travels, notable events were: in 1994, medium James van Praagh has a sitting with Robert and invites him to join in double demonstrations. This results in numerous events which were attended by up to 400 people. In 1996, Robert gives a reading to John Edward; again, collaboration with double demonstrations follow and a residential retreat is organised by John in Barbados in 2000. Later, Robert is delighted to be invited by John, along with Suzanne Northrop and John Holland, to demonstrate at his “4 Mediums” event in Las Vegas with an audience of 1,980 people.

Eric Bornstein discusses the art of the mask.

Award-winning mask maker Eric Bornstein of Behind The Mask Studio/Theatre specializes in custom made masks, corporate event planning, arts education, and mask theater programming. Eric has studied mask making with masters Agung Suardana in Bali, and Donato Sartori in Italy. He received his MLA in Fine Arts along with the Thomas Small prize from Harvard University. Behind The Mask was recently awarded the commission of 120 award statuettes for the prestigious Reggae Gold award event in Kingston, Jamaica. Previously, Eric was awarded a Fulbright award to revive and reinvigorate the art of giant puppet effigies in Jamaica 2017. He won the 2016 IRNE award for Best Puppetry Design for Company One’s Shockheaded Peter, and was part of the Liars & Believers team that won the Excellence in Production Design award at the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2012 for his masks in Le Cabaret Grimm. Eric was recently featured on the PBS hit show, Pinkalicious and Peteriffic. He is currently the artist-in-residence at the First Church Boston UU.

Check out his web site:

http://www.behindthemask.org

Jon Land on Discover Your Potential

Jon Land is the USA Today bestselling author of 50 books, including ten titles in the critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series: Strong Enough to Die, Strong Justice, Strong at the Break, Strong Vengeance, Strong Rain Falling (winner of the 2014 International Book Award and 2013 USA Best Book Award for Mystery-Suspense), Strong Darkness(winner of the 2014 USA Books Best Book Award and the 2015 International Book Award for Thriller, and Strong Light of Day whichwon the 2016 International Book Award for Best Thriller-Adventure, the 2015 Books and Author Award for Best Mystery Thriller, and the 2016 Beverly Hills Book Award for Best Mystery. Strong Cold Dead became the fourth title in the series in a row to win the International Book Award in 2017 and about which Booklist said, “Thrillers don’t get any better than this,” in a starred review. It was followed by Strong to the Bone, winner of the 2017 American Book Fest Best Book Award for Mystery Suspense and the 2018 International Book Award for best Mystery as well as Thriller. It was followed by Strong as Steel (April ’19) about which Suspense Magazine proclaimed, “Get ready to sink your teeth into what just might be the best novel of 2019.” The book went on to win the 2019 International Book Award for Best Thriller/Adventure.