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The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz shares how we can open up to our infinite possibilities – by embracing a new way of thinking. He illuminates the principles he introduces in his book, The Possibility Principle, that enable us to ride the waves of uncertainty, freeing ourselves from our limitations. The Possibility Podcast explores relationships, self-esteem, fear, anxiety, love, leadership and much more. Join Mel as he presents an exciting new way of thinking, relating, and communic ...
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This special 96th episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz features a guest who shares her remarkable story of triumph over trauma. From the age of seventeen and well into adulthood, Jenny’s life was shaped by near-tragedy, disruptive relationships, a shocking and unexpected death, and more. Listen in as Jenny tells her story of one wav…
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In episode 095 of The Possibility Principle with Mel Schwartz, my guest is sports metaphysician Laura M. Wilde. Laura is an expert in facilitating greatness in elite athletes and teams. She helps them transform their games by using a rarely used ingredient in the formula for success: Sports Consciousness! After years as a player and later as an NCA…
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Episode 094 of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz features a conversation with the personal coach, YouTuber, and Instagrammer Leonardo Morán. Together, Leonardo and I discuss intention, manifesting, the mysterious power of the mind and consciousness, and the potentially life-enriching acausal qualities of synchronicity. I welcome your commen…
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The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz episode 093 examines the tricky question: who is the author of our thoughts? It might seem like we are the author of our own thoughts, but for most of us, we’re simply following along, letting our actions be dictated by our thoughts. What if we could turn that around? Imagine a fulfilling life of exciting o…
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In this 92nd episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, we look at the phenomenal feeling of new love, and explore not just why the transcendent flow state of being in love seems to fade over time, but how to restore and sustain that feeling in a mature loving relationship. Are you concerned the timeless excitement of a new loving relati…
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This is a special encore of an episode that originally posted in February of 2019. After reading Mel’s new book, The Possibility Principle, a producer with Radio New Zealand contacted Mel for an interview with Sunday Morning host Jim Mora. Thanks to the generosity of Radio New Zealand, we’re presenting that interview for you in this episode. Jim an…
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It’s time for the 90th episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz! Join me as I discuss the dangers of toxic individualism to our relationships, our culture, and even the planet. Listen to find out how we can maintain and preserve our empathy and compassion for one another. Your comments are always welcome! Subscribe to The Possibility Po…
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Join me in the 89th episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz as I critique the concept of gradualism and instead argue for catalyzing defining moments that help each of us realize our true potential and ultimate “human nature.” Care to share your own breakthrough moments? Please leave a comment! Subscribe to The Possibility Podcast with…
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The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz episode 088 is all to do with how and why assumptions take us out of the present and simplify how we perceive our relationships in a way that precludes the other person’s truth. Listen to discover why it’s so important to free ourselves from the simplicity of assumption and accept complexity with a curious,…
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In episode 087 of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, I explain why there’s a big difference between reacting and responding, and why it’s so much better in our relationships to thoughtfully respond rather than instinctively react. Have you practiced the steps I spell out in this episode to thoughtfully respond, rather than react? I’d love f…
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Episode 086 of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz is all about the overwhelming influence of fear in our culture, and how we can live our lives in a fear-less way. Listen as I explain the reasons we feel fear, how our behaviors can exacerbate our fears, and most importantly, what we can do to live a fearless life. Have you found ways to rele…
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Why are we attracted to our opposite number? Why is referring to our partner as “my other half” actually damaging to our relationship and ourselves? In episode 085 of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, I look at why opposites attract, at least initially, and we learn what we should really be looking for in a partner in a healthy, mutually s…
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The concept of self-worth remains tragically misunderstood in our culture. In this encore episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz originally presented in 2019, I explain the true and powerful nature of authentic self-esteem. I’m joined by a therapy client who shares his challenges with measuring himself and how he has broken free of th…
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The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz episode 083 features an examination of participatory thinking, the key to recreating yourself and embracing possibility. Listen and learn the key to breaking the habit of literal thinking so you can embrace uncertainty and transform your sense of self and bolster your self-worth. In what ways can you recogn…
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In The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz episode 082, I take a hard look at why we need to stop using the terms “mental health” and “mental illness.” What’s the alternative? Listen to discover a holistic, whole-life and whole-history perspective when examining the struggles and challenges that keep us from experiencing mind wellness. Have you h…
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The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz episode 081 explores what we mean when we talk about being true to yourself, what keeps us from being true to ourselves, and how to accomplish true authentic selfhood. Have you chosen to reject fear and embrace your true authentic self? How has it changed your life? Would you like help making this change? L…
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The 80th episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz examines the damaging, limiting effect of “to be” verbs on our communication with others and our relationship with ourselves. Listen to learn how “E-Prime” language can re-set your perceptions and move you from a restrictive, objective reality into one of possibility and subjective accep…
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In this 79th episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, we look at six questions to ask a potential partner before committing to a relationship. How well do we really know the person to whom we commit ourselves? A committed relationship is potentially the most intimate and meaningful, impactful engagement we’ll have with another human be…
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In this encore episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz originally presented in 2019, I explain how our innate state of potential becomes narrowed and finite due to personal experiences, often early in life. From these events, our sense of self can become limited, and we may become attached to limiting personal beliefs. Listen as… I dem…
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In The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz number 77, I look at the placebo effect as a springboard to discussing the false duality of the mind-body connection. Listen to discover… how the placebo effect is treated as less than the gift it is the origins of mind-body duality why psychosomatic effects point to a powerful tool for self-healing why …
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In this episode 76 of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, I share what I think of as the Tao of Communication. Like a martial artist leaning into a conflict in order to redirect the energy of the engagement, you can adopt a sense of flow to defuse arguments and arrive at a win-win conclusion. Listen to discover… why it’s all right to put asi…
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Are we mentoring our children, or simply managing them through life? Did your parents share with you as a human being to better prepare you for your future? Listen to this episode of the Possibility Podcast and discover… why your children need to learn the narrative of your life how a parent’s vulnerability makes a strong child the value in mentori…
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In this episode of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, we examine the paradoxical power of vulnerability. Listen along to learn… the true meaning of vulnerability why acting strong is truly being weak how we’ve been wrongly taught to reject vulnerability how vulnerability strengthens your self-worth Are you ready to embrace the power of vuln…
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Episode 073 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz exposes what’s wrong with most marriage vows… and reveals the right approach to your vows — and to all committed relationships — that will give your union the best chance to succeed. Listen to learn… Why promises in wedding vows will almost certainly fail How to phrase our wedding vows with g…
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In episode 072 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, let’s examine the fundamental pillars of leadership in our personal and business relationships. Listen to learn… …what we’re talking about when we talk about leadership …the difference between passive and participatory leadership …what one fundamental quality of an effective leader has in…
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Episode 071 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz features an exploration of the tendency in this culture to dumb down our thinking and obscure complexity. This either / or thinking often leads to disaster in our relationships. Listen to learn… …how the Included Middle gives us the space to embrace complexity …why reality is not compartmenta…
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In episode 070 of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, I share my personal “origin story” of challenges and transformation in the hopes of providing an example of how embracing uncertainty opens us to possibility. Listen to learn… …how listening to our transformational impulses can bring us closer to the life we’re meant to live …why “safe” p…
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Some years ago, I wrote an article called “Who Am I?” that turned out to be perhaps my most resonant piece. Episode 069 of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz is an opportunity to revisit the topic… and my answer to the question everyone asks just might surprise you. Listen to learn… …why questions with fixed answers reflect a stagnant mindse…
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Episode 068 of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz examines how conforming to societal expectations can lead to a stagnation and a life-long habit of mediocrity. When was the last time you questioned what you believed? Listen to learn… …how we sacrifice our non-conformity as we grow into adults …why conformity can lead to depression …the impo…
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In episode 067 of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, we examine how healthy, productive relationships follow the same rules as the elementary particles that make up the universe, and us. It makes sense! Learn… …the bizarre, scientifically proven nature of entangled particles of matter …what quantum entanglement can teach us about relationsh…
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Episode 066 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz inspires you to employ critical thinking to live a life of purpose and happiness. Learn… …why critical thinking isn’t just for external decisions …how critical thinking is integral to an authentic life …what critical thinking can bring to your relationships …why ignoring critical thinking kee…
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Episode 065 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz presents the concept of “personality masks,” those restricting behaviors based around our fear of acceptance. In this introduction, Mel explains… …how personality masks keep us from living authentically …what we talk about when we talk about authenticity …why being honest about our fears is e…
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Episode 064 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz is the first in a series of episodes dedicated to helping you learn how to access and cultivate the remarkable storehouse of infinite possibility that lies fallow in your mind. In this introduction, Mel explains… …what your mind can imagine, you can actualize …how our thoughts and beliefs inf…
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Episode 063 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz explores the benefits of coherent communication: that unfortunate but common phenomenon wherein we assume we understand what the other person is saying, but fall short. Listen as Mel examines… …why it’s so important to remember that words have different meanings to different people …how unexa…
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Episode 062 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz features Mel in conversation with a long-time listener and reader, Audra Anderson, who was inspired to sit down with Mel after hearing episode 056, “Mid-Life Crisis? Mid-Life Opportunity!” Listen as Mel and Audra discuss… how legacy behavior informs our present habits why a lack of support ca…
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In episode 061 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, our host explains how we can change our lives if we can change our mind: if we can jettison old thinking to embrace the potential of positive disruption. What does this mean? Listen as Mel explains… how beliefs are self-fulfilling prophesies why change is only hard if we approach it with …
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Truth — and our increasingly truth-less society — is on our host’s mind in episode 060 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz. In politics, in society, and in our culture, the assertion of fluidity when it comes to objective truth is becoming a critical issue. What can we do to bring truth back as a core value? In this episode, Mel discusses……
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In episode 059 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, Mel declares that if marriage was a corporation, it would be bankrupt! Marriages and loving relationships fail more often than not. Why do we accept this as the norm? What fundamental shift in focus and attention would help rectify the situation? In this episode, Mel discusses… why we sho…
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Episode 058 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz reveals the essential power of validation in developing and sustaining healthy relationships. Mel asserts that validation is the soul of a relationship, and provides actionable guidance so you can practice validation in your own personal, professional, and loving relationships. In this episod…
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As we concern ourselves with cleansing and purifying our bodies to be rid of unhealthy elements and habits, so too must we remember to detox our mind as well. In episode 057 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, psychotherapist Mel Schwartz (author of The Possibility Principle, the companion to this podcast) explains what it means to detox …
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The fifty sixth episode is all about understanding the opportunity available to you in the midst of a mid-life “crisis.” A mid-life crisis can occur at any point in our lives — when, after all, is mid-life? But is it truly a crisis? Listen as Mel explains… why others might label your experience a “crisis” when they see you coming out of the familia…
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In the fifty fifth episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, author and psychotherapist Mel Schwartz wants to know: are you curious? We cannot be fully alive and engaged without active curiosity… and there’s been a trend toward a loss of curiosity in recent decades. Listen to learn… …the consequences of a lack of curiosity for our relat…
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In episode 054 of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, the subject at hand is the hidden causes contributing to the increasing number of teen suicides in the United States. Marriage and family psychotherapist Mel Schwartz explains… There is no single cause responsible for the rise in teen suicides The essential elements missing in teens’ live…
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Presenting episode 53 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, in which your host discusses what he calls the Familiar Zone… including defining the Familiar Zone, the reasons we find ourselves trapped in it, and why it’s so important we push past its borders every chance we get. In this episode: Why your Familiar Zone is different from your “c…
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Episode 52 of the Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz features the author and TEDx speaker describing why the standard practice of mental health diagnosis is a kind of madness in itself. Listen to learn why… The American Psychiatric Association has codified some behaviors as mental health disorders This attempt to objectively pathologize expected…
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For the fifty-first episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz, the topic is how to be significant. Listen as Mel explains… The importance of feeling significant in your life, in your relationships with others, and with yourself What we mean by “significant” — and what we don’t mean The importance of defining one’s life according to deep …
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It’s the fiftieth episode of The Possibility Podcast with Mel Schwartz! In this milestone episode, your host discusses not just why it’s important to turn small talk into real talk, he offers some tips on how to do just that. In the time it takes to have a coffee break, learn… Why small talk is inauthentic and empty speech How small talk sacrifices…
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In this 49th episode of the Possibility Podcast, host and psychotherapist Mel Schwartz examines the gift of forgiveness. In just fifteen minutes or so, Mel helps you understand… The definition of forgiveness, both in relation to oneself and with regard to one’s relationships with others. How your thoughts about yourself can be an ally, not punitive…
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Here’s a new installment of Mel’s multiple-part podcast series to accompany his virtual course, Cultivating Intimate and Resilient Relationships. This time around, Mel explores the stagnating, counter-productive problem with silence in relationships. This is another lean, insightful, and actionable essay in which Mel reveals… The difference between…
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The latest in Mel’s multiple-part podcast series to accompany his virtual course, Cultivating Intimate and Resilient Relationships, the Possibility Podcast episode 047 is all about the why the need to be right in a relationship is so destructive. In this lean, insightful, and actionable essay, Mel reveals… How a retreat from oneness between people …
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