Respark Your Life

About Respark Your Life

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.

Publisher

Raymond Aaron

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Aug 2020

Latest episode

29 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 388 episodes have a transcript.

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   29 Oct 2026

   EP392: Michael Chaleff - What Magicians Know That You Don't

   "I literally had to build Michael away from myself. I created an image in my mind of a separate human being, and I put on that image my history, my thoughts, all of my beliefs and my choices. And then I asked myself: how do I feel about that person? And I honestly, I like that person." — Michael Chaleff Michael Chaleff has been a naval officer, a federal trial attorney, a professional magician, a mentalist, and a TEDx speaker. That breadth is not accidental, and in this conversation he explains both the light and the dark side of it with unusual candor. What magicians know, he says, comes down to two things: radical clarity about what you want, and a genuine willingness to inhabit the perspective of the person in front of you. From those two foundations, Michael helps funeral directors, physical therapists and sales professionals tell a single short story, 60 to 90 seconds, that moves people to act more reliably than any argument ever could. But the conversation goes deeper than craft. Michael describes the years of therapy that followed a breakup at 50, when he finally saw what he had been hiding from. He gave up magic. He gave up needing to be the funniest, most interesting person in the room. And in doing so, he found the relationship and the life he had never believed were possible for him. Raymond, characteristically, recognizes himself in the story, and says so. Learn more and connect: Michael Chaleff, Practical Influence: https://www.practicalinfluence.com Resources mentioned: What Magicians Know About Mistakes That You Don't, Michael Chaleff at TEDxStanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_xGBcwez8 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 (https://www.aaron.com) ---

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   22 Oct 2026

   EP391: Chinmai Swamy - From Broken Life to Beautiful Life

   "The book is just a finished product. The real transformation was that big person I became in the process of becoming an author." — Chinmai Swamy Chinmai Swamy arrived in the UK with a master's degree in rocket engineering, a £30,000 student loan, and a clear picture of the life he had emigrated to build. What he found was a visa that locked him out of the space industry, an IT job that didn't quite meet immigration salary requirements, and six months of midnight kitchen shifts, 11 PM to 2 AM, cooking for stock workers, just to qualify on paper. He was accomplished by every external measure. And he was exhausted, frustrated, and watching his marriage deteriorate under the weight of the gap between who he knew he was and how he was actually living. The turning point was a sprint to the back of a conference room in London, where he had just watched Raymond Aaron hold an audience of four thousand people. Raymond's book writing program runs ten weeks; Chinmai had his first book published in six, had left his corporate job, and had begun building a consulting business around the systems thinking his engineering background had given him all along. Three more books followed. So did work with Virgin Active, Bentley, Suzuki and ISRO, India's space agency. His marriage was repaired. The child he and his wife had longed for arrived. Today the three of them choose together, with equal votes, including their young daughter, where in the world they want to live next. Learn more and connect: Chinmai Swamy: https://www.chinmaiswamy.com Resources mentioned: Raymond Aaron's 10/10/10 Platinum Book Writing Program: https://www.aaron.com/101010platinum 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 (https://www.aaron.com) ---

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   15 Oct 2026

   EP390: Jim Hetherington - Fix A Broken Marriage

   "They complete me. No, they don't complete you. You don't need anybody to complete you. You need someone to complement you, but not to complete you." — Jim Hetherington Twelve years into his marriage, Jim Hetherington was ready to walk away. Every complaint he had was directed outward — at his wife, at what she wasn't doing, at what she should be different. Then something shifted. He turned the finger around. Forty-four years later, he still opens the car door. His wife still stands there waiting for him to remember. Jim is a relationship coach and the author of Swipe Left on the Frogs, a book built on the premise that most relationship problems begin long before the wedding — with conversations that never happened about children, money, friendship, and what each person actually values. He met a couple four years into their marriage who had never once discussed whether they wanted kids. Neither had brought it up. Raymond adds the story of Dr. John Gray — who made a navigation video from his hotel room so his wife wouldn't feel anxious walking to the meeting room alone, and who drove out in the cold for milk at midnight without a groan or a counterproposal. Jim has a name for what both men are practicing: necessity of effort. It's the same energy you brought when you were trying to win someone over. The argument here is that it never stops being the requirement. Learn more and connect: Jim Hetherington: Swipe Left on the Frogs, available on Amazon Resources mentioned: Swipe Left on the Frogs by Jim Hetherington The 200% Marriage (authors interviewed separately on Respark Your Life) Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by Dr. John Gray 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 (https://www.aaron.com) ---

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EP353: Dr. Elliot Justin - Sex and Heart Attacks

Published 29 Jan 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So one is not enough. So in medicine, we say the indicator, that means it's predictive. In medicine, we treat associations. High blood pressure is associated with heart attack, it's grow. Elevated blood sugar is associated with diabetic complications. But it's not predictive. And it's not as if your blood pressure goes from, say, one, three, one, 50, then usually have a heart attack at a certain period of time. But if you're not currently erections go down by 50%, you got a 50 % chance of having heart attack next to yours. Wow. When this urologist told me that I was taking it back, because I had no idea that, you know, so it was man averages by myself, three plus not child erections per night, and that goes to one plus. […]

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