Respark Your Life

Raymond Aaron
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Welcome to RESPARK YOUR LIFE, the world's foremost podcast to respark the fire within you to live life on your terms. Dust off the cobwebs of life on automatic, and grab the excitement and changes you desire but have been hesitant to reach for. No, you likely won't fly faster than a speeding bullet nor leap tall buildings in a single bound, but you will indeed be moved powerfully, day by day, with increasing ease, to take those little steps that will lead to huge changes. If you are driving a motorboat fast due south and you want to go in a different direction, don't yank the steering wheel. Make a tiny change and, within moments, you are traveling safely in a totally resparked direction to live life on your terms. Your host for this Podcast is Raymond Aaron, author of a New York Times Bestseller plus 143 other published books. You will hear stories and learn lessons from his extraordinary life to respark the fire within you to live YOUR life on your terms.

  1. 3d ago

    EP388: Dr. Robert Wolf - Beating Anti-Semitism

    "If passion is the tool to fight antisemitism, you've got all the ammo you need." — Raymond Aaron Dr. Robert Wolf's father was a four-time escape artist. He survived Nazi Hungary, Communist Hungary, forced labor camp, and a final daring escape in 1956 — sneaking into a Soviet office the night before he fled to read his own dossier. What the Soviets wrote there gave the book its name: Not a Real Enemy. They thought he was no threat. He left the country the next day. Wolf converted his father's autobiography into a biography and has spent years taking that story — twenty miracles, a dentist hiding gold with Christian neighbors, a priest who sheltered the family and received donations from them for decades — into Holocaust museums, university campuses, and conversations exactly like this one. His method is simple: education, one person at a time, no invitation turned down. Raymond, who is Jewish and has experienced no antisemitism personally, brings his own warmth and candor to a conversation about why hatred of any group injures everyone, what it takes to change a single mind, and why passion may be the most powerful weapon available. Learn more and connect: Dr. Robert Wolf — https://www.robertjwolfmd.com; Not a Real Enemy on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@NotaRealEnemy Resources mentioned: Not a Real Enemy by Dr. Robert Wolf — https://www.amazon.com (search: Not a Real Enemy Robert Wolf); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — https://www.ushmm.org; Respark Your Life Podcast — https://www.resparkyourlife.com; Raymond Aaron — https://www.aaron.com --- Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. Raymond's latest, co-authored book is The AI Millionaire's Path: Discover How ChatGPT-Written Books Become Bestsellers and How They Can Make You a Millionaire Author! https://www.aaron.com ---

  2. Sep 24

    EP387: Donna Hartley - Past Life Regressions

    "You have stuff locked in there that's stopping you from being the full person you are meant to be in this lifetime." — Donna Hartley Raymond Aaron spent 60 years unable to touch his right collarbone. Chiropractors, psychiatrists, every kind of specialist — none of them could touch it. One past life regression session changed that permanently. Donna Hartley, former Miss Hawaii, international speaker, and author of the Fire Up series, arrived at the same work by a completely different path. She reads the Akashic Records directly — seeing the past life patterns quietly shaping your health, your relationships, and your sense of worth. She did five such readings in the 70 minutes before this conversation. The two compare their methods, swap stories, and find they've been working the same territory from different directions. Donna shares the medieval life she uncovered during open heart surgery that explained three cardiac procedures — and a surname she didn't decode until her fifties. They discuss soul clusters, the veil that lifts around age six, Hitler's karmic future, and what it looks like when someone finally decides to stop carrying a pattern forward into another lifetime. Learn more and connect: Donna Hartley — https://www.donnahartley.com Resources mentioned: Donna Hartley — past life sessions, videos, and the free Zip It, Pay Attention video — https://www.donnahartley.com; Chicken Soup for the Soul (Jack Canfield) — https://www.jackcanfield.com; Respark Your Life Podcast — https://www.resparkyourlife.com; Raymond Aaron — https://www.aaron.com --- Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. Raymond's latest, co-authored book is The AI Millionaire's Path: Discover How ChatGPT-Written Books Become Bestsellers and How They Can Make You a Millionaire Author! https://www.aaron.com ---

  3. Sep 17

    EP386: Amber Abila - The Secret Ingredient Causing You To Overeat

    "Sometimes we taste the flavor of that food and we get a reward, and then sometimes we taste that flavor and we don't — we don't get the nutrition. So this drives over-engagement and overeating on the food and more of a hyper-obsession, because our brain is simply trying to figure out: where is my nutrition coming from?" — Amber Abila There is a four-word phrase on the back of almost every packaged food in your kitchen. It sounds reassuring. It sounds natural. And according to binge eating expert Amber Abila, it may be the single most underappreciated driver of overeating in the modern food supply. Natural flavors. Not sugar, not artificial additives — the ones labeled natural. Amber explains that flavor-isolated molecules create a specific neurological trap: your brain tastes orange and predicts nutrition is coming. When none arrives, it triggers the same intermittent reinforcement loop that drives gambling addiction. The result is not weakness or lack of discipline. It is your brain doing exactly what it was designed to do — and being systematically deceived. Raymond, who lost 50 pounds by cutting sugar and salt entirely, connects deeply with Amber's central argument: the problem was never willpower. It was a decision, and then an understanding of what the food was actually doing. They also cover why Ozempic produces the same 95% weight-regain rate as traditional dieting, how taste buds recalibrate when processed flavors are removed, and Amber's simple 100-year test for deciding whether something is actually food. Amber's free guided audio — a 7-minute tool to get through a craving before it becomes a binge — is linked below. Learn more and connect: Amber Abila — Stop a Binge Before It Starts, free guided audio — https://www.theconfidenteater.org/urge; Confident Eater Program and coaching — https://www.theconfidenteater.org Resources mentioned: Amber Abila — Free Craving Audio — https://www.theconfidenteater.org/urge; Amber Abila — Coaching and Programs — https://www.theconfidenteater.org; Become a Confident Eater Podcast — search "Become a Confident Eater" on your podcast app; Respark Your Life Podcast — https://www.resparkyourlife.com; Raymond Aaron — https://www.aaron.com --- Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. Raymond's latest, co-authored book is The AI Millionaire's Path: Discover How ChatGPT-Written Books Become Bestsellers and How They Can Make You a Millionaire Author! https://www.aaron.com ---

  4. Sep 10

    EP385: Dr. Alena Candova - Claim Your Inner Authority

    "We don't need to get rid of anything. We just need to cultivate enough inner safety for our nervous system and our psyche for these patterns to finally realize that life's different now. We can start dissolving, and the authentic, powerful self can step forward." — Dr. Alena Candova Dr. Alena Candova is a doctor of chiropractic turned applied neuroscience practitioner, and she came to this work the way most honest practitioners do — by needing it herself. Repeated toxic relationships, a spiritual life that looked whole from the outside, and a meditation retreat that broke her open when the instruction shifted from sending loving kindness to others toward sending it to herself. That moment became the beginning of something. Her framework, the Grace Over Grit Method, is built on a deceptively simple insight: the patterns that quietly run our adult lives were not designed to hurt us. They were designed to keep us safe, built before our brains were fully formed, wired into the nervous system as protection. And you cannot willpower your way out of a protective programme — because the part of you running it thinks that's still what survival requires. Raymond brings something rare to this conversation — the story of spending sixty years as the person he became to survive his own childhood, and the specific moment at 75 when he felt that pattern leave his body. Between the two of them, the episode becomes something more than a framework for change. It becomes a quiet argument for grace. Learn more and connect: Dr. Alena Candova — https://www.sattva-integralhealth.com Resources mentioned: Grace Over Grit: The Neuroscience of Claiming Your Inner Authority — Dr. Alena Candova — https://www.sattva-integralhealth.com; Respark Your Life Podcast — https://www.resparkyourlife.com; Raymond Aaron — https://www.aaron.com --- Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. Raymond's latest, co-authored book is The AI Millionaire's Path: Discover How ChatGPT-Written Books Become Bestsellers and How They Can Make You a Millionaire Author! https://www.aaron.com ---

  5. Sep 5

    EP384: Mario Lamarre - The Investor Edge

    "My dad committed suicide when I was 14. I left school and never went back. Then in my 20s, early 30s, I went bankrupt, lost everything, and got divorced the same year. I rebuilt myself again. And now at 46, I've been through a lot, and I think I'm there. I think I'm ready." — Mario Lamarre Mario Lamarre returns to Respark Your Life — one of very few guests Raymond has ever welcomed back — and the reason becomes clear within minutes. He leads with his failures, not his wins. His first business idea flopped. His early 30s brought bankruptcy and divorce in the same year. His father died when he was 14. He shares all of it without drama, because he has learned that the hard path he walked is exactly what prepared him to do what he now does well: bring ambitious people together and create conditions where real things happen. The business he has built around that gift, the Investor Edge Ecosystem, is part curated coaching directory, part intimate experiential retreat, part global business growth summit — and it grew directly from understanding what he was genuinely good at and building everything around that, rather than around what he thought he should be doing. Along the way, Raymond adds something most people have never heard: the real reason Henry Ford named his breakthrough vehicle the Model T. It is a small piece of history that reframes failure entirely. Mario also shares a three-part networking framework — network up toward mentors, tend the relationships you already have, and never stop expanding outward — that he credits as the turning point of the last four or five years of his life. Learn more and connect: Investor Edge Academy — free access — https://www.investoredgeacademy.ca Resources mentioned: Think and Grow Rich — Napoleon Hill; Investor Edge Academy (free access) — https://www.investoredgeacademy.ca; Respark Your Life Podcast — https://www.resparkyourlife.com; Raymond Aaron — https://www.aaron.com --- Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. Raymond's latest, co-authored book is The AI Millionaire's Path: Discover How ChatGPT-Written Books Become Bestsellers and How They Can Make You a Millionaire Author! https://www.aaron.com ---

  6. Aug 27

    EP383: Ken Kunken - World's First Quadriplegic Lawyer

    "You can't always control what's happening to you, but you can control how you react to it. That was the biggest lesson I learned." — Ken Kunken On Halloween 1970, twenty-year-old Cornell engineering student Ken Kunken tackled a ball carrier during a football kickoff and broke his neck. The rehabilitation pamphlet his family was handed listed one possible future for someone with his injury: selling magazine subscriptions by telephone. Ken couldn't dial a rotary phone. What happened next took five decades, three Ivy League degrees, a passed bar exam, a courtroom with doors too narrow for his wheelchair, and more than 200 mailed-out resumes before a single employer said yes. Ken Kunken became the world's first quadriplegic lawyer — and eventually a Deputy Bureau Chief supervising 25 assistant district attorneys — not because adversity left him alone, but because he learned something essential: you can't control what happens to you, only how you respond. His story is a reminder that the people who help us matter as much as the determination we bring ourselves — and that one person willing to give you a chance can change everything. Ken's book, I Dream of Things That Never Were: The Ken Kunken Story, is available in hardcover, ebook, and as an audiobook narrated by Ken himself. Learn more and connect: I Dream of Things That Never Were: The Ken Kunken Story — available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook — https://kenkunken.com Resources mentioned: I Dream of Things That Never Were: The Ken Kunken Story — Ken Kunken; The Viscardi Center (formerly Abilities Incorporated) — https://www.viscardi.org; Rusk Rehabilitation, NYU Langone — https://www.nyulangone.org/locations/rusk-rehabilitation; Respark Your Life Podcast — https://www.resparkyourlife.com; Raymond Aaron — https://www.aaron.com --- Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. Raymond's latest, co-authored book is The AI Millionaire's Path: Discover How ChatGPT-Written Books Become Bestsellers and How They Can Make You a Millionaire Author! https://www.aaron.com ---

  7. Aug 20

    EP382: Dr. Ona Love Brown - The Les Brown Legend Continues

    "It's hard to see the picture when you're inside of the frame. So having someone that's willing to get in the trenches of your life with you, and be present with you and be able to extract and see some of the things that have helped you to become who you are — that's a powerful process." — Dr. Ona Love Brown She went to a Come Out and Vote rally in Columbus, Ohio not knowing anything unusual was about to happen. She'd invited her mother along as a nice outing. When she mentioned the speaker's name — a former state rep, former disc jockey, now a motivational voice people were talking about everywhere — her mother went still as a ghost. And then said the words that changed everything: I know very well who he is. In fact, he is your father. That is how Dr. Ona Love Brown met Les Brown. In her twenties. At a rally. With a notepad in her hand and her whole life about to shift direction. What followed was a journey that took her from the Ohio legislature to a receptionist's desk at Les Brown Unlimited in Detroit — a pay cut she took without hesitation, because what she was gaining was worth far more than what she was giving up. Over the years that followed, Les handed her some of the toughest clients he had — attorneys, surgeons, athletes, people carrying extraordinary stories they had no idea how to tell — and walked out of the room. What Ona discovered in those sessions became her life's work: she is what her clients now call the Message Midwife, someone who helps people give birth to the unique story they were always meant to share. Raymond contributes his own extraordinary memory — the Atlanta event where Les arrived in unbearable pain, was lifted onto the stage in a wheelchair, then lit up the room so completely that when he finished, ten thousand people stood and walked out, leaving Raymond next on stage with forty. He would make the same choice again. Whether you know your story or suspect you might have one you've never said quite right, this conversation is an invitation to look more carefully at what you already carry. Learn more and connect: Mastering My Story: https://www.masteringmystory.com Resources mentioned: Mastering My Story (Dr. Ona Love Brown's coaching program): https://www.masteringmystory.com Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (the 10,000-hour mastery principle): https://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017930 Respark Your Life Podcast: https://www.resparkyourlife.com Raymond Aaron: https://www.aaron.com --- Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. Raymond's latest, co-authored book is The AI Millionaire's Path: Discover How ChatGPT-Written Books Become Bestsellers and How They Can Make You a Millionaire Author! https://www.aaron.com ---

  8. Aug 13

    EP381: Beth Wilson - Transformational Change

    "I'm very, very encouraged because people are shaking yokes off. They don't always know what the next step is or the complete vision, but something again is propelling them towards something better and greater." — Beth Wilson Beth Wilson knew from age seven that she moved through the world differently. Books fell off shelves at the right moment. She felt guided rather than driven. By 14 she realized not everyone experienced life this way. Today she helps people reconnect with that same inner compass — the one that conditioning, religion, and ordinary life have trained most of us to ignore. Her book Escaping Crazytown weaves together childhood trauma, mystical adventure, legislative work in Washington, and decades of coaching into one of the more surprising life stories you'll hear. Raymond brings his own extraordinary story: the woman who wrote down, before they ever met, that her dream man had to be a mathematician, a real estate investor, a teacher, and the author of exactly two Chicken Soup for the Soul books. One man on Earth qualified. These are the kinds of stories that make you wonder what you might have written down — and haven't yet. Learn more and connect: Beth Wilson: https://www.bethwilsonlifecoach.com Escaping Crazytown on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Crazytown-Spiritual-Adventure-Courage/dp/194556766X Resources mentioned: Escaping Crazytown by Beth Wilson: https://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Crazytown-Spiritual-Adventure-Courage/dp/194556766X Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins — available at major booksellers The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels — available at major booksellers Respark Your Life Podcast: https://www.resparkyourlife.com Raymond Aaron: https://www.aaron.com --- Raymond Aaron has shared his vision and wisdom on radio and television programs for over 40 years. He is the author of over 100 books, including Branding Small Business For Dummies, Double Your Income Doing What You Love, Canadian best-seller Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul, and he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Chicken Soup for the Parent's Soul. Raymond's latest, co-authored book is The AI Millionaire's Path: Discover How ChatGPT-Written Books Become Bestsellers and How They Can Make You a Millionaire Author! https://www.aaron.com ---

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Welcome to RESPARK YOUR LIFE, the world's foremost podcast to respark the fire within you to live life on your terms. Dust off the cobwebs of life on automatic, and grab the excitement and changes you desire but have been hesitant to reach for. No, you likely won't fly faster than a speeding bullet nor leap tall buildings in a single bound, but you will indeed be moved powerfully, day by day, with increasing ease, to take those little steps that will lead to huge changes. If you are driving a motorboat fast due south and you want to go in a different direction, don't yank the steering wheel. Make a tiny change and, within moments, you are traveling safely in a totally resparked direction to live life on your terms. Your host for this Podcast is Raymond Aaron, author of a New York Times Bestseller plus 143 other published books. You will hear stories and learn lessons from his extraordinary life to respark the fire within you to live YOUR life on your terms.

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  • Creator
    Raymond Aaron
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    383
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    Clean
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