What if dying felt like waking up from a bad dream?

Rosemary Thornton, author, journalist, and near-death experiencer, describes her death not with fear, but with relief. After losing her husband to suicide, receiving a Stage 2 cancer diagnosis, and bleeding to death on an operating table, she found herself floating through a velvety blackness, giggling, grateful, and completely at peace.

And then she came back—healed.

In this week's episode of Get Yourself Optimized, Rosemary shares what she saw, heard, and felt during her temporary death experience, including:

• The three words that summed up her entire experience of heaven

• How a seven-foot angel appeared in her church pew and told her to write her book

• What happened to her Stage 2 cancer after she returned from the other side

• Why does she call it a 'temporary death experience'—not a near-death experience

• The simple prayers and daily habits that have kept her grounded ever since

This isn't a story about dying. It's a story about coming home.

The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at www.getyourselfoptimized.com/559

Most people hate selling because they've been taught to do it wrong.

The moment you label yourself the same as everyone else in your market, you become a brown box — and brown boxes compete on price. But when you reframe your positioning, build buying energy before the call, and guide your prospect to sell themselves, the whole game changes.

In this episode of Get Yourself Optimized, I sat down with Steve Brossman — sales positioning strategist, author of nine bestsellers, and creator of the Backpocket Guide to Self-Selling Secrets — who breaks down exactly why most knowledge professionals freeze when it comes to asking for money, and what to do instead.

What we unpacked together:

• Why your perceived position predicts your profits — and how to stop being a brown box

• The three levels of influence: imposed, collaborative, and self — and why self is the only one that lasts

• How to build so much buying energy that prospects ask YOU what the next steps are

• Why 'discovery calls' kill your close rate — and what to replace them with

• The neuroscience of annotation: why writing on your screen mid-call boosts engagement and action by up to 500%

If you sell your knowledge, your expertise, or your services and you've ever felt awkward asking for the money — this one's for you.

🎧 Listen now
https://www.getyourselfoptimized.com/558

🎁 Grab your free Backpocket Guide: stevebrossman.com/selfsell

Your body is keeping score — and it may be losing.

Unresolved trauma doesn't just affect your emotions. It drives chronic inflammation, suppresses your immune system, and quietly blocks your body's ability to heal. And most people have no idea it's happening.

In Episode 557 of Get Yourself Optimized, I sat down with Dr. Don Wood — founder of the Inspired Performance Institute and creator of the TIPP program — whose daughter was told she had two incurable diseases. Instead of accepting that verdict, he spent a decade researching, earned his PhD, and developed a method that resolves trauma at the neurological level, often in a single session.

What we unpacked together:

• Why chronic inflammation — not just inflammation — is the real driver of disease

• The difference between capital-T Trauma and the small-t 'emotional concussions' most of us carry without realizing it

• How the subconscious mind keeps looping old trauma as if it's happening right now — and what that does to your genes

• Why conventional therapy often falls short, and what faster, neurological alternatives look like

• The role of hyperbaric oxygen, theta chambers, and PEMF in locking in the healing

If you've ever felt stuck — in your health, your performance, or patterns you can't seem to shake — this episode will change how you think about why.

🎧 Listen now
www.getyourselfoptimized.com/557