Roger Dooley is an internationally recognized author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and expert in neuromarketing and behavioral science. His books include Friction, Brainfluence, and The Persuasion Engine, which examines how artificial intelligence is making sophisticated behavioral science tools accessible to businesses of every size.We explore how most human decisions happen beneath conscious awareness and why effective persuasion requires more than listing features and benefits. Roger explains how AI can analyze customer behavior, strengthen marketing messages, simulate eye-tracking research, and provide insights based on the work of leading behavioral scientists. He also shares practical ways to improve AI responses, including providing detailed context, asking the model to identify missing information, requesting a stronger version of the original prompt, and comparing answers across multiple platforms.Roger also challenges the belief that AI cannot understand emotion. While it does not experience empathy, it can often predict emotional reactions and help organizations communicate difficult decisions with greater care, clarity, and awareness.The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important TakeawayAI understands emotion and empathy better than many people realize. Used ethically, it can help us communicate and persuade more effectively while guiding people toward choices that genuinely serve them.--Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.Resources:The Persuasion EngineBrainfluenceFrictionProduced by NOVAAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Phil Cousineau is a writer, teacher, filmmaker, storyteller, cultural historian, and the author of more than 40 books, including The Art of Pilgrimage and The Hero’s Journey. Drawing on decades of studying mythology, working with Joseph Campbell, consulting for major film studios, and leading journeys through Greece, Phil joins us to explore his newest book, The Wisdom of the Odyssey: 24 Life Lessons from Homer’s Epic.We examine why The Odyssey has remained relevant for nearly 3,000 years and how it can serve as a map for navigating trauma, identity, relationships, and healing. Phil reframes Odysseus as a wounded soul trying to find his way home and shares lessons about seeking mentors, reclaiming our personal stories, welcoming unfamiliar ideas, and listening deeply to the people we love. He also explains why ancient stories help us recognize that our pain is not unprecedented and why wisdom begins when we look beneath the surface of our experiences.The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important TakeawayGo deeper into the stories, relationships, and experiences that move you. Ask what wisdom and hidden meaning they contain, then listen closely enough to hear the answer.--Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.Resources:The Wisdom of the OdysseyThe Art of PilgrimageThe Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and WorkProduced by NOVAAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Richard Moss is an internationally respected teacher, author, and visionary thinker who has spent nearly five decades exploring human consciousness, presence, and what he calls radical aliveness. After a spontaneous state of illumination ended his career in emergency medicine, he devoted his life to helping people understand how their thoughts shape their emotional experience and how awareness can reconnect them with a deeper sense of self.In our conversation, Richard explains the framework behind his book, The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness. He describes how the mind pulls us into stories about the past, fears about the future, and judgments about ourselves and others. By returning to the present moment, we can observe those patterns without becoming controlled by them.We also explore why resisting fear often gives it more power. Richard shares how meeting difficult emotions with attention, softness, and curiosity can turn fear into aliveness and help us respond to life from a place of love rather than reactivity.The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important TakeawayYou have a divine spark within you, and you are not the victim of your mind. Before speaking or reacting, pause and ask, “What does love want right now?”--Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.Resources:The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness on AmazonRichard Moss’s Official WebsiteProduced by NOVAAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DJ DiDonna is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and the founder of The Sabbatical Project, where he studies how extended time away from routine work can reshape our health, identity, and direction. In his new book, Big Time Off: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals and How to Take One, he draws on years of research to show why sabbaticals are far more than extended vacations.We explore how stepping away gives us enough distance to recover from burnout, reconnect with neglected parts of ourselves, and consider what we want from the next chapter of our lives. DJ explains the three common sabbatical archetypes: the achiever, the explorer, and the seeker. He also shares why duration, disconnection, and journaling matter more than creating the perfect itinerary.Our conversation offers a practical way to think about time off, even when family, finances, and professional responsibilities make it feel impossible. A meaningful sabbatical may require years of preparation, but the first step is deciding which experiences are too important to leave undone.The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important TakeawayTreat a sabbatical as regret insurance. Make space to identify what you would regret never doing, then begin moving the financial, professional, and logistical pieces needed to make it possible.--Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.Resources:Big Time Off by DJ DiDonnaDJ DiDonna’s WebsiteProduced by NOVAAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode of The Daily Helping, we’re joined by Paul Ingram, the Kravis Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and author of What Do You Really Stand For? The One Question That Will Transform Your Work and Life. Paul has received Columbia’s highest recognition for teaching, along with numerous teaching awards from students at Columbia and Cornell, and his research has appeared in more than 100 articles, book chapters, and books.Paul shares why clarity around our values is one of the most practical tools we have for improving our work, relationships, and well-being. Through decades of research and teaching, he has found that when people bring their values to mind, they become more resilient, ethical, motivated, and connected to what truly matters.We also explore how values shape workplace culture, strengthen relationships, and help people make better decisions. Paul offers a simple reflective process for identifying values by looking at meaningful experiences and asking why they mattered.The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important TakeawayClarify your values, then make them concrete and easy to access. Keeping them visible, whether on a card, mug, or daily ritual, can ground you, reduce stress, and help you live with greater intention.--Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.Resources: Read What Do You Really Stand For? By Paul IngramProduced by NOVAAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Kevin Dias is the founder of Ambiki, an EMR and practice management platform built for pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapy practices. His path has taken him from investment banking to teaching English in Japan, translation technology, and healthcare software, but the thread connecting it all is a deep interest in solving real-world workflow problems.In this episode, we explore Kevin’s book, The Problem First Method, and why teams so often rush into building solutions before they fully understand the problem. Kevin shares how customer requests, investor pressure, competitor moves, and now AI can all make it easier to build quickly, but not always wisely. His framework encourages leaders and teams to slow down, ask better questions, remove solution language from early planning, and build from a clearer understanding of what actually needs to be solved.What we loved about this conversation is how practical and human Kevin’s approach is. Whether you are building software, managing a team, or navigating everyday family challenges, his message is a reminder that thoughtful problem-solving starts with curiosity, not assumptions.The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important TakeawayDon’t fall in love with solutions. Fall in love with understanding the problem deeply enough that the right solution becomes obvious.--Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.Resources:Read The Problem First Method by Kevin DiasAmbikihttps://problem-first-method.comhttps://www.kevinsdias.com Produced by NOVAAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Alan Rozanski joins us to explore the deep connection between mindset, behavior, and long-term health. A cardiologist who has spent more than 40 years studying the mind-body relationship, Dr. Rozanski developed the six domains of health and vitality: physical, emotional, social, cognitive, purpose, and stress management. His work shows that health is not simply the absence of disease, but the active cultivation of habits that help us live longer and live better.In our conversation, we talk about why small daily actions matter more than dramatic overhauls. Dr. Rozanski explains how movement, optimism, gratitude, meaningful relationships, purpose, and healthy stress all shape our resilience over time. He also reminds us that stress is not always the enemy. The right amount of challenge can build confidence, wisdom, and growth when we have strong coping tools in place.The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important TakeawayBelieve in the power of the first step. Whether you are working on fitness, purpose, relationships, or stress, lasting growth begins with one small, consistent commitment that helps you build from there.--Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.Resources:Dr. Alan Rozanski’s website: alanrozanski.com Produced by NOVAAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Lisa Woodruff, founder and CEO of Organize 365 and host of the top-rated Organize 365 Podcast, joins us to talk about her new book, Escaping Quicksand: 10 Steps to Overcome the Overwhelm of Modern Home Life. Lisa brings both lived experience and academic research to the conversation, helping us understand why modern home life can feel so heavy, especially as responsibilities stack up in midlife.We explore how organization is not just about clean counters or color-coded closets. It is about reclaiming time, reducing decision fatigue, and seeing the household as a place of real economic and emotional significance. Lisa reframes the work of managing a home as leadership, encouraging us to stop chasing perfection, lower unrealistic expectations, and build simple systems that create more capacity.Her approach is practical and deeply compassionate. From organizing the bedroom, bathroom, and closet first to replacing endless to-do lists with her Sunday Basket method, Lisa shows us how small shifts in order, mindset, and rhythm can help us feel less overwhelmed and more present in our lives.The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important TakeawayLook at your household as if you were seeing it from the outside for the first time. When we step back objectively, we can make better decisions, free up time and capacity, and give ourselves more grace.--Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.Resources:Read Escaping QuicksandOrganize 365Produced by NOVAAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today, we’re joined by RamDev Dale Borglum, author of How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear and executive director of the Living/Dying Project. A pioneering voice in the conscious dying movement, Dale has spent decades helping people face death, grief, caregiving, and healing with greater awareness. His work has been shaped by Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, meditation, mathematics, and both Eastern and Western healing traditions.In our conversation, Dale reframes death not as something separate from life, but as one of life’s greatest teachers. He reminds us that the way we live shapes the way we die, and that remembering our mortality can bring us into deeper presence, compassion, and honesty. Rather than trying to control every moment, Dale invites us to surrender, open our hearts, and work with fear, grief, and uncertainty as part of the healing path.We also explore caregiving, grief, and the spiritual opportunity that can arise at the end of life. Dale’s message is both practical and profound: when we stop denying death, we begin to live with more kindness, more forgiveness, and more love.The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important TakeawayRemembering that every one of us is mortal can inspire us to be kinder to each other, kinder to ourselves, and more willing to forgive. When we truly admit that life is temporary, we can take better care of one another, the planet, and the love already within us.--Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.Resources:Living/Dying ProjectHow to Live So You Can Die Without Fear by RamDev Dale BorglumProduced by NOVAAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today, we are joined by Colin Hodge, startup founder, author, and co-owner of Down, a top 10 dating app in the U.S. Colin has led companies and growth teams responsible for more than 100 million users, and his new book, Outrageous Startup Growth, distills the hard-won lessons behind that success.In our conversation, Colin shares how personal loss shaped his willingness to take risks, move across the world, and build companies through uncertainty. He explains why the best growth does not come from gimmicks, but from understanding user psychology, creating authentic brands, and designing environments that help people make better decisions.We also explore the mindset behind “outrageous growth,” from resilience and discomfort to ethical marketing, FOMO, and what Colin calls “magic moments.” At the heart of it all is empathy: the ability to truly understand what people are going through so we can build products, messages, and businesses that actually serve them.The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway“I would return to empathy and it is such a quintessential part of being a great entrepreneur and  doing something that feels good at the end of the day”--Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.Resources:Outrageous Startup Growth by Colin HodgeColin Hodge’s WebsiteProduced by NOVAAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy