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Known as America’s Best Preacher, Bishop T.D. Jakes shares with Tony how you can become a great orator. Combining passion with power, instinct and intellect, Jakes creates a recipe that you can follow to have your message touch hearts and souls and change the world. This dynamic conversation with Tony and T.D. will touch your heart, make you laugh, and teach you wisdom you can use in your daily life. Interested in hearing more from Bishop T.D. Jakes? Listen to past episodes where he took part on the Tony Robbins podcast here.
Previous Episode featuring T.D. Jakes:
https://www.tonyrobbins.com/podcasts/a-historic-conversation-for-healing-and-unity/)
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Show Notes:
1:17       Tony welcomes T.D. Jakes
2:17      TR: Why this book, why now, why Frank Thomas?
3:30      Don’t drop the mic: the power of communication
4:13      TR: Tell us the story of you watching the news with your father
4:54      A man of color speaking on the TV was very, very rare
5:30      Dr. King grabbed the mic
6:17      Talk to people outside your bubble
7:20      Dr. Thomas challenges me to explain how I do what I do
8:20      “Great communication isn’t just tangible”
9:38      TR: What part of Martin Luther King have you embodied or has become a part of you?
10:27    Church was about more than just faith for the African American community
12:52    What you don’t know can be expensive
14:11    TR tells story about being abroad
15:20    Different types of poor
16:20    If we can share blood, we can share conversation
17:31    TR: What do you see is the purpose of communication?
18:45    Respect and communication
19:20    Whatever we respect, we give time to
20:40    The book is just as much about listening as it is about speaking
22:00    Some of the greatest breakthroughs come from the bellman
23:00    Aligned interests = trust, but not respect
24:05    TR: What is presence to you?    
25:24    It’s difficult to trust people who want power without investment
27:45    T.D. Jakes on his ancestors
30:14    TR: What is the value of suffering?
32:30    “When they march, they should sing”
33:50    TR: The unification of suffering
35:30    TR: Psychological immunity
37:16     TR: What’s a situation when you fell flat?
40:00    TR: How have you had to adapt to be more effective without an audience there?
41:48    The pandemic created a vortex, and so faith became tangible
44:30    On avoiding criticism
45:30    TR: How can you deal with the fear of public speaking?
46:48    T.D. Jakes: Talk to yourself
48:20    We label to file people away
51:35    TR: Where is love in the magic of your power?
52:30    Nike’s synergism
54:25    Car wreck, do you want me to call the police or the ambulance?
59:22    When I don’t have the ability to articulate what I need, I can only be angry
1:01:55  "We don't treat the successful because we believe success cures personal pain and it doesn't always do that."
1:04:38 TR: How important is drama for someone to be effective as a communicator?
1:06:10  Example: Floyd cried out for his mother. Every woman identified
1:08:50  Adornment        
1:10:40  Sweeping dirt floors
1:11:50  TR: What makes someone a great storyteller?
1:12:30  Bible story: Bartimaeus
1:15:30  TR: How do you know when to go off script?
1:18:38  “You have to engage intellect and instinct”
1:24:30  We were chosen to have this conversation while the clock is ticking
1:25:53  TR: What are the most important things to guide someone to not drop the mic?
1:28:18  "Diversity invites me to the party. Inclusion asks me to dance."
1:34:20  "If I didn't change th

American neurosurgeon, medical reporter and writer Sanjay Gupta joins Tony for an engaging conversation about brain health and its effects on your life. From movement to nourishment to rest, Tony and Sanjay share life hacks that have been proven to improve both the quality and longevity of your life from Sanjay Gupta’s newest book, Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age. Learn and laugh with these experts as they take you on a journey through cutting-edge information and inspiration about brain health and exciting developments for the future of this field. 

WATCH HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxZkwX4i-14
 
Show Notes:
1:00 TR introduces today’s guest, a renaissance man
1:30 Sanjay’s new book, Keep Sharp
2:00 TR: How did that journey begin and what influenced you?
2:58 The first female engineer hired by Ford
3:20 Sanjay’s mom: “if you don’t hire me, you never will.”
4:30 Sacrifice
5:25 Medical marijuana and being able to shift
7:00 Sanjay during Covid-19
7:30 Sanjay did not see the merits of medical marijuana originally
8:00 94% of the studies were designed to look for harm, only 6% looking for a benefit
8:35 I different picture started to emerge      
9:05 TR: You did such a good job bringing the human emotion to it
10:08 Total transparency
10:20 TR: What made you decide to write Keep Sharp?
11:20 Sanjay wrote his book before Covid-19
12:05 The mental impact of Covid-19
13:09 You can build new brain cells at any age
15:20 Defining a healthy brain
16:40 We use 10% of our brain 90% of the time
17:20 Neurogenesis
18:40 Practice makes perfect, but it is change that builds resilience
18:50 TR: Are there skills that you’ve never tried, learning a language, singing?
20:15 TR: Is there dopamine that comes from creating these new pathways?
23:17 TR: Pattern recognition, pattern utilization, pattern creation is what makes people masterful
23:35 Fundamentally, people know the right things to do
25:00 A healthy brain is tied to a wider circle
27:25 Sanjay uses his daughters as a sounding board
29:00 Brisk walking is far better than intensely exercising for the brain
29:50 Get vulnerable
34:12 The brain is exquisitely sensitive to sugar
34:40 You may be overly indulging your body and starving your brain.
35:14 TR: Tell people what the long-term impact of starving the brain is
35:40 Changes in your brain that sets you up for dementia potentially
36:28 TR: Where is the link between side effects of covid and obesity?
39:50 TR: We seem to be outsourcing our health to the pharmaceutical industry, but they can only do so much.
42:00 Medical AI and being the CEO of your own health
42:37 The two words no one wants to talk about
43:45 We can now visualize the inside of the brain
44:33 The process began decades earlier
46:10 Injecting AI behaviors for health
48:10 Technology will continue to add to our lives
49:00 There might be a better use of our time and energy
50:00 The Vatican and stem cells
55:00 We have the capacity to heal ourselves
57:01 Optimizing our life so it is frictionless
57:30 Sanjay: Three teenage girls in the house
57:57 TR: What did you learn from the super-brainers project?
59:04 Confirmation that the brain can get sharper over time
59:20 TR: The more meaningful connections you make, the more you remember.
1:01:00 Blood pressure drugs to prevent destructive memories forming
1:01:55 Dementia Village
1:08:02 1.65-billion-person experiment  
1:09:20 Sleep is essential to memory
1:11:00 “As your friend, you should get more sleep Tony”
1:12:05 Tony comes to mind when Sanjay writes
1:13:00 Habit stacking
1:15:00 Polishing memories
1:16:00 TR: What is your Ikigai?
1:18:05 The difference in data interpretation
1:21:20 Childhood hunger
1:23:05 Experiencing this world fully
1:24:20 TR: You’re a gift to us
 
 

Bond-trader extraordinaire, investor, and billionaire Jeffrey Gundlach joins Tony for a candid conversation about the current markets and the upcoming financial landscape. Gundlach is known for his bold calls, having correctly predicted the housing crash in 2007, and brings his candor to this discussion on inflation, taxes, the US Department of Treasury, and more. In this exclusive interview, founder of DoubleLine Capital, Gundlach also covers a potential asset allocation breakdown you won't want to miss.

Dr. Mark Hyman joins us to discuss his new book, The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World.  He noticed that Paleo and Vegan diets are both plant rich diets that focus on eating good fats and whole, unprocessed foods. The only difference is where they get their protein. The Pegan Diet cuts through the noise so you can biohack your biology and save the planet in the process through regenerative agriculture, eating the rainbow, and the 75% rule.

In this sit-down, Holyfield recounts the moment that changed his life, the 3 best pieces of advice, and what he learned from losing almost half a billion dollars. Tony guides Holyfield through an epic retelling and reveal of what it means to be a part of a comeback story and how boxing is so much more than just a physical battle. Holyfield also discusses the notorious fight with Mike Tyson and the possibility of stepping back into the ring opposite Tyson for a third and final match, all these years later.

Welcome to today’s bonus episode. In the previous episode, The Future of Food, Energy and Space, you heard Tony introduce a group of groundbreaking entrepreneurs who are turning the status quo upside down for how we operate as humans. They shared what amazing technology we have to look forward to, not tomorrow, but today. This is technology that will improve the lives of people all over the world and for generations to come. 
Here Tony continues the conversation with Bill, Jason, Mikhail, and Dakin, but with a focus on the business side to bettering the lives of people everywhere. Bill speaks to his desire to do for energy what Elon Musk did for cars. Jason talks about the power of distribution, comparing Netflix to the food market. And Mikhail opens our eyes to the newest space race and how being business-minded with technology produces incredible results. 
In this episode Tony calls each of us to be an owner, not just a consumer. Entrepreneurship and investing is something he’s worked throughout his career to make accessible for all people. Enjoy this exciting episode and discover how you can get involved.