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 Takeaway

Remembering 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.

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Resources:

• Living/Dying Project
• How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear by RamDev Dale Borglum

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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”

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Resources:

• Outrageous Startup Growth by Colin Hodge
• Colin Hodge’s Website

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Today, we welcome back Melissa Swift, a leading voice on the future of work and the author of Work Here Now and her new book, Effective: How to Do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World. Melissa’s work has been featured in outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Economist, and The Washington Post, and her columns for MIT Sloan Management Review are often among their most-read articles.

In this conversation, we explore what it really takes to be effective when work feels more chaotic, emotional, and overloaded than ever. Melissa breaks effectiveness down into four simple but deep areas: knowledge, methods, people, and technology. She also explains why AI does not replace human knowledge, why collaboration can become too much of a good thing, and how leaders can reduce task overload by making clearer priorities.

What makes Melissa’s perspective so useful is her honesty about how difficult work has become. Rather than pretending there is one perfect productivity hack, she invites us to understand our strengths, recognize the specific pressures around us, and build strategies that actually fit the moment we are in.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Effectiveness, can be simple, but not easy, you don't need to be thinking about a million different things”

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Resources:

• Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace
• Effective: How to Do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World
• The Daily Helping Episode 425: “Not All Work Is Good Work” | Building Better Workplaces with Melissa Swift

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