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Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? with Emily Fletcher

Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? with Emily Fletcher

By: Emily Fletcher
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Welcome to Why Isn't Everyone Doing This with Emily Fletcher. Each week we’ll explore some of the most spine-tingling, potent modalities that can give you the kind of bliss and pleasure that is your birthright. No topic is off limits: We’ll dive into everything from breathwork to psychedelics, from meditation to BDSM. Join Emily in conversation with scientists, doctors, healers, and innovative thinkers to reveal the tools that have radically changed their lives, and that very well may change yours, too. We can’t wait to hear which one has you asking, “Why isn’t everyone doing this?”2023
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  • 140. Why Isn't Everyone Living Their Purpose? with Suzy Welch

    140. Why Isn't Everyone Living Their Purpose? with Suzy Welch
    Aug 18 2026
    What if you've been lied to about what it actually takes to find your purpose? In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Suzy Welch — NYU Stern professor, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming You, and one of the most trusted voices in the world on purpose and career strategy. Suzy walks Emily through the research-backed framework she teaches at NYU (the same one that makes grown adults cry in the front row), and the two go deep on faith, grief, and what really pulls people away from the life they were meant to live. Suzy opens up about the “Four Horsemen of Values Destruction,” the forces she's identified that quietly hijack people's purpose: expectations, expedience, events, and economic security. She shares the eerily universal “widow's dream” she experienced after her husband died, and why she doesn't believe anyone can do life without prayer. She also tells the story of a woman whose family was torn apart after a tragic boating accident, and how Suzy's own decision-making method helped bring that family back from the edge, including pulling her father back from the brink of suicide. It's a rare mix of hard data, personal faith, and real transformation. In this episode, Suzy explores: The Four Horsemen of Values Destruction: expectations, expedience, events, and economic security Why only about 11% of people actually want to “change the world” — and why that's perfectly fine Her framework for finding purpose: values, aptitudes, and interests The Values Bridge assessment, and why it's built to strip out social desirability bias The “widow's dream”: the strange, common experience she and other widows rarely talk about What daily prayer has meant to her since her husband's death The story of a family nearly destroyed by tragedy, and how her method helped save a father from suicide Why her NYU class is nicknamed “the class where everyone cries” Her real-time framework for deciding between two major life-changing opportunities Why she believes we're in the middle of a purpose crisis, and how AI is accelerating it Key Moments: 0:00 – Welcome + why this episode is called “Why Isn't Everyone Living Their Purpose?” 3:00 – Suzy's definition of purpose: the intersection of values, aptitudes, and interests 4:59 – What prayer means to her, and life since her husband's death 7:38 – Her NYU class nickname: “the class where everyone cries” 10:29 – The student who kept “getting” Zumba teacher as her purpose and couldn't accept it 11:47 – Horseman #1: Expectations 12:05 – Horseman #2: Expedience 14:31 – Horseman #3: Events (and the story of going back to the Today Show after her husband's death) 16:11 – Horseman #4: Economic security 23:59 – The Values Bridge assessment, and why it strips out social desirability bias 24:17 – Why only about 11% of people actually have “changing the world” as a top value 29:10 – The widow's dream: the moment a friend asked, “Are you having the dream?” 36:57 – Deciding between two major opportunities in real time, using her own framework 50:13 – The stranger who stopped her on the subway mid job-decision 55:16 – The family torn apart by a fishing boat tragedy, and how her method helped save a father from suicide 59:48 – Where to find Suzy, and her closing thoughts ✨ Where to find Suzy Welch: Book: Becoming You Podcast: Becoming You with Suzy Welch (wherever you listen to podcasts) Take the Values Bridge assessment: thevaluesbridge.com Website: suzywelch.com Instagram: @suzywelch 🔗 More from Emily & Ziva: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 139. Why isn’t everyone creating a relationship with their intuition? with Anna Gannon

    139. Why isn’t everyone creating a relationship with their intuition? with Anna Gannon
    Aug 11 2026
    Your intuition isn't quiet. It's just been out-shouted by your mind for years. In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Anna Gannon, an intuitive psychic and energy mastery teacher who has spent years training hundreds of people to hear their own inner guidance. Anna breaks down the ten distinct ways intuition actually speaks, from chills and gut feelings to taste, smell, and a knowing with zero evidence to back it up, and explains why the heart always talks first. Anna also shares her own story: starting Ziva Meditation while deep in postpartum depression, then a solo pilgrimage to India where a kundalini awakening left her getting electrically shocked every five seconds for three months. She traces how her meditation foundation gave her the nervous system capacity to hold that awakening, and how Ziva Magic's emotional alchemy work helped her channel that raw current into her creativity and her marriage. The episode closes with a story of using her intuition to help heal her mother from a jungle hammock in Costa Rica. In this episode, Anna explores: The ten distinct ways intuition communicates, from sensing and feeling to clear hearing, seeing, taste, smell, and guidance Why her almost seven-year-old son told her, “my heart always talks first, it's just my mind is so much louder” A kundalini awakening in an Indian temple that left her electrified every five seconds for three months Why she believes her meditation practice made that awakening survivable instead of destabilizing How Ziva Magic's emotional alchemy helped her turn that life force into creativity and connection Her mentor's line: “this work doesn't make your life easier, it just gives you more choices” Healing her mother's body from across the world using nothing but intuition Why she never says “just trust your gut blindly,” and what she teaches instead Key Moments: 00:33 – The Kogi prophecy: the end falling into the beginning 05:02 – What an intuitive actually is 06:24 – Her son's line: “my heart always talks first” 09:26 – The ten ways intuition speaks 17:15 – Smelling radiation: a reading that revealed a client's cancer 21:52 – Why cells have two jobs: take care of themselves, take care of the whole 28:37 – Postpartum depression and the login that changed everything 32:42 – A solo pilgrimage to India, decided in one scroll 38:03 – The kundalini awakening in the temple 44:29 – Home, and electrified every five seconds for three months 48:44 – How Ziva Magic's emotional alchemy helped her channel the current 51:11 – How to start developing your own intuitive relationship today 1:01:29 – Healing her mother from a hammock in Costa Rica ✨ Ziva Magic is open. This isn't just a course, it's a movement, a prayer, and the culmination of Emily's life's work. Ziva Magic blends ancient wisdom, modern science, and a powerful community of Magic Makers, all so you can learn how to magnetize the life of your wildest dreams. It's crafted to help you Visualize, Alchemize, and Magnetize the life you've always imagined, not only for you but for the planet. Grounded in science, but inspired by magic. Inside, you'll merge with your future self, become the version of you who is already an energetic match for your dream, transmute fear into fuel, and learn to use your pleasure to pray. The better you feel, the more magnetic you become. Enroll now: zivameditation.com/pages/zivamagic 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • 138. Why Isn't Everyone Giving Their Feelings the Microphone? with Signy

    138. Why Isn't Everyone Giving Their Feelings the Microphone? with Signy
    Aug 7 2026
    What if the thing you've spent decades avoiding is the exact thing that's been trying to help you? In this bonus student spotlight episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Signy, a grocery store manager who now mentors underprivileged and neurodivergent people at work. Signy grew up in a deeply restrictive, religious household where women were raised to have babies, not opinions. Her father died by suicide when she was eight, and she spent decades pushing grief and anger down rather than feeling them, until those feelings started arriving anyway, in waves she couldn't predict or control. Signy shares how Ziva Meditation gave her a nervous system baseline, and how Ziva Magic's Alchemize practice became her real turning point, teaching her to give her anger and grief the microphone instead of letting them steal it. She talks about the tsunami analogy that reframed everything, the moment her boss asked why she wasn't losing her mind under pressure that was breaking everyone else on her team, and the appointment where her own doctor told her she was healthier in her mid-forties than she'd been in years. In this episode, Signy explores: – Growing up in a household where women weren't meant to speak, vote, or have needs – Her father's death when she was eight, and decades of grief she learned to push down – The tsunami analogy: why feelings that never get a pressure release eventually take over – Why Visualize was hardest for her at first: "tell me what I'm supposed to want, and I'll just want that" – Her boss asking why she wasn't losing her mind while everyone else on her team was struggling – Regina Thomashauer's line: "your mind can't handle any more, but your body is infinite" – Why Alchemize became her biggest game-changer, faster than years of therapy alone – Her doctor confirming she's healthier in her mid-40s than she was five years earlier – How drinking simply fell away, without willpower or a dark night of the soul – Turning her own healing into daily mentorship for people at work Key Moments: 00:56 – Life before Ziva Magic: meditation as a baseline, anger and grief as "unwelcome guests" 04:47 – Growing up in a restrictive household where women weren't meant to speak 06:00 – Her father's death when she was eight, and decades of pushed-down grief 09:10 – The tsunami analogy: why repressed feelings eventually take the microphone 13:58 – "Tell me what I'm supposed to want": the hardest part of Visualize 17:00 – Her boss asking why she wasn't losing her mind like everyone else 18:31 – Regina Thomashauer: "your body is infinite" 23:48 – Her doctor's report: healthier in her mid-40s than she'd ever been 26:00 – How drinking fell away with ease 28:18 – What she'd tell someone too scared to try Magic Maker 33:18 – Turning her own healing into mentorship for others at work ✨ The Ziva Experience is open for enrollment. This is the final window. Meditation to dissolve stress at the root. Embodied manifesting to turn your emotions into fuel. A mantra ceremony and a community built to hold you through all of it. Doors close Fri, Aug 7 at 11:59p ET. Enroll now: experience.zivameditation.com 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation
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    40 mins
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