I am hosting a Prosperity Workshop in Austin, TX on Saturday, August 8. Get more information here. Capping spots at 16 people.

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1. A great obituary: In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

This piece of writing made me weep for the deeply human moments shared here. I could feel the suddenness of the loss and also the impact of the human that Elise had been to Stephen. There was such a beauty to the “little things” ... the email exchanges, the time when he flew back to see her, the decisions she weighed in her head. It was wonderfully profound, and the love they shared is clearly a gift to us all.

I personally loved this quote:

“Truth, beauty and our family and four children were her great themes. She always told me that truth and beauty were ultimately the same thing, and that one day I would understand that.”

Enjoy the whole piece when you can sit down for 10 minutes and really be present with it. Well worth the investment.

2. A great podcast episode: The Map to New Earth by Pam Gregory & Anne Turner

This podcast episode talks about how we’re moving to a world dominated by the head to one dominated by the heart. We are shifting from the masculine to the feminine. And we are the “transition team” making that a reality. I couldn’t agree more.

“The major shift [that we’re going through as a collective] is the journey from the head to the heart. It is against our expectations. We think we need to work hard to make things happen. When in fact, we need to get to a place where we stop resisting. We have to recognize where we are fighting against ourselves.”

I’ve experienced this firsthand with my journey doing hypnosis work. When I’ve stopped resisting myself, the work has been easy, effortless, and abundant. I believe it can be that way for all aspects of life.

3. A great book: Living from the Heart: Heart Rhythm Meditation for Energy, Clarity, Peace, and Inner Power by Puran Bair and Susanna Bair

The premise of this book is simple: feel your heart. Do it while meditating, but also do it while reading this email.

And there’s some deep wisdom here.

The book is a treasure trove of wisdom. Like this:

Your heartbeat tells you a great deal about your emotions. As you listen to your heartbeat and then think of people and situations in your life, you’ll notice that the beat changes. These changes tell you which relationship needs attention, which situation needs more priority.

4. I am absolutely on fire.

There is so much creativity flowing through my system right now.

I’m making new hypnosis tracks, posting on X, serving clients, strangers, and everyone in between.

I attribute a great deal of this energy to all the hypnosis I’ve done on myself.

Soon (maybe next week), I’ll announce a new partnership, a new in-person event, and a new online program. Stay tuned.

For now, check out my Prosperity Workshop in Austin, TX. The wild part about this workshop is I’m making it so valuable that even if you don’t attend, you’d still get a tremendous amount of value from it.

Love,

Danny

Earlier last week, my friend Max asked me if my foot and back were still healed from the Joe Dispenza retreat (two months ago).

I told him, it was better than before I went, but I’ve noticed that the pain has come back slightly.

I’ve been able to notice driving in the car creates an imbalance in my body.

But then, that night, everything changed (again).

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I closed my eyes to go to sleep while listening to an 8-hour prosperity hypnosis track.

And I started dreaming...

I was in Bali.

I was alone on a beach. I went to sleep in the dream. And, in the dream, woke up in the middle of the night.

And I looked out into the darkness. And it was scary. It was nothingness.

And then I felt two beings circling me. I couldn’t see them, I didn’t know what they were or what they wanted.

And when they got closer, I could see they were two tigers. And that was even scarier than the complete and total darkness.

These two tigers attacked me. They latched onto me.

They stuck to my back.

And they stayed there for an hour.

I left this darkness. I had conversations with two different people while these two tigers stuck in my back. I didn’t understand why they were there, and I was fearful for my life.

After an hour, they removed themselves and disappeared.

And I realized that my back pain was completely gone.

In this moment, I felt a spiritual lesson download into my being:

What we fear can heal us if we have the courage to face it.

I assumed the complete and total darkness was something to fear. I assumed the tigers were something to fear. I assumed the tigers stuck in my back were something to fear.

In actuality, the darkness, the tigers, and their bites were actually healing me.

In my conscious body... I woke up for a second and felt my back straighten.

Then I fell back asleep.

When I woke up again at 7:15am, I was curious... was this a “dream” or did this also happen in “real life”?

It turns out I got out of bed with absolutely no back pain.

I just started laughing. And laughing. And laughing.

I walked out of my door and basically was kissing the ground, laughing, kneeling to the sun and God just saying, “Thank you!!!!!”

I saw a woman walking her dog and just wanted to share the good news. I was laughing and laughing. “Good morning!!!!!” She let out a quick “Good morning.” and walked away quickly. And that made me crack up even more.

I thought to myself, if I had woken up when the tigers were on my back that could’ve been a nightmare.

So it made me consider: are nightmares simply unresolved dreams? Meaning, do you just believe it’s a nightmare because you didn’t see how it played out in full? Could this be applied to regular, waking reality itself too?

I thanked Divine Grace for allowing me to see the dream out. For not waking me up while the tigers were attached to my back.

It’s my guess that the prosperity hypnosis track actually allowed me to heal my back because the back is likely where I store tension about money.

We’re spiritual beings living this human existence. We have powers far greater than what we realize.

And we’re (myself included) so blind to them so often.

We have the ability to heal our bodies. We have the power to connect with a force greater than ourselves. We have the power to tap into the Infinite.

You ended up in a human body. Do you know how you got here? Do you remember where you were before you were in your body? Do you realize that this is a game or a school and not actually all that serious?

Laugh a little bit. Have a good time. Tell someone you love them. Spread your joy. Heal your life.

Love,

Danny

PS I’m hosting an in-person, 2-hour workshop on prosperity in Austin, TX this Saturday. We have a great group forming. Join us!

Over the course of the last week, my perspective on Dr. Joe Dispenza has changed. Dramatically.

I entered into this retreat skeptical.

I didn’t really resonate with Dr. Joe’s teachings, but I knew I felt called to the retreat.

The truth of my experience is that this was one of the most transformative weeks of my life.

Let me explain why...

I Healed Through Healing

By far the most incredible part of the whole week was the Coherence Healings.

Imagine 2,000 people in a ballroom focused on feeling love at the exact same time. It was more powerful than anything I’ve personally experienced.

The room was broken down into healers and healees. There were approximately 1,800 healers and 250 healees. Each healee has a pod of 6-8 healers.

How it works is that all the healers are instructed to feel all the love in their heart and then send that love (with their hands) to the healee. It was the most profound feeling of love I’ve ever experienced in my life.

During the first Coherence Healing session (which took place on Day 5), I focused all of my love on the healee. My hands were sweating. I just kept repeating, “I love you.” I felt the power of all the members of my family who have poured love into me over the years.

While doing this, I felt an incredibly powerful energy in my right foot, stomach, and right shoulder. I didn’t think anything of it.

For as long as I can remember, my right foot has typically been slanted to the right. This has caused me to sprain my right ankle while running and had some lower back pain.

I woke up the next day, and as I’m walking to my first session, I noticed that for the first time in a long, long time… my feet were walking in the same direction. Tears immediately came to my eyes as I realized what had occurred. My foot and back had been healed.

Every day prior to this healing (and almost every day for the past six months), I had back pain on my right side. That was completely gone. Every day prior to this healing, I was stretching a lot.

I haven’t stretched for the past week. My feet are still walking completely straight. My back pain is gone. It’s quite remarkable.

In the process of healing another, I healed.

Meeting Dr. Joe

After the retreat was over, I got dinner with some friends. I was going to go to my room. But I saw some friends in the lobby of the hotel.

So the four of us started practicing the Coherence Healing together. We formed a little circle and put our hands together and said, “Let people feel the love in this circle for the next century. Let this be a space of healing and love. Let Dr. Joe walk through this space and feel this love.”

About 10 minutes later, my friend was telling a story about something that happened to her in the week. She mentioned how “two Canadian guys…” and as soon as she did, there they were. The two Canadian guys had appeared right behind her. It was perfectly synchronous.

About 10 minutes later, Dr. Joe came up to us and we had a brief conversation with him. Someone asked him for a photo, and he said he doesn’t usually take them, but he’d make an exception. It was a really special moment.​

One of the Canadian guys said that he quite literally had the vision of the exact scene happening before the retreat started.

The Amount Of Meditation

I’m someone who loves to meditate. But this is next level... It’s basically 35 hours over the course of the week. On average, I spend approximately 20 hours per month meditating. So this was a huge increase for me.

By myself, I close my eyes and see what arises. With Joe, it was more about getting your heart and brain coherent, going to space, and creating what you want.

Spending so much time with myself was a dream come true. Not every meditation was easy, but it was incredibly useful for me to spend so much time with my higher self.

I Noticed The Effects Immediately

When I did the first meditation on the first day, and I instantly felt elevated. I could feel my brain operating differently.

After the second meditation, I was dancing on the way to lunch.

At some point in the first day or two, I was in a state of absolute bliss. I had executed a specific breath that allowed energy go from my perineum to pineal gland that put me in a gamma brainwave state.

In simple terms, I sent energy to my brain and it felt absolutely incredible. Nothing anybody said or did could take me out of this state of peace. It was wonderful.

It Also Brought Up A Lot

I also noticed that it wasn’t just sunshine and rainbows.

I remember during one meditation feeling like I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I ended up discussing what came up outside the cafeteria area with a really kind woman.

I was upset that my desires had changed from one day to the next. This caused me a lot of anger and frustration. Why couldn’t I just be consistent?

This has been a pattern that has played out in my life as well.

This was really useful for me to see in the context of the retreat.

The Synchronicities Were Amazing

1. During one the meditations, I thought about one of my friends. Then after the meditation was over, I get a tap on the shoulder. It was her. I had no idea she was at the retreat.

2. One person I sat next went to the same 149-person retreat I did two years ago (randomly) in Mexico. We were in a group chat together and had no idea.

3. One woman asked me to do a hypnosis in her community. When I opened her homepage, the tagline said, “Helping you come home to yourself”... which is exactly the tagline on my website.

Disclaimer

Prior to this experience, I never resonated with Dr. Joe.

He was too science-y. I felt like whenever he went on podcasts, he didn’t share his personal journey. He would say a bunch of words I didn’t understand, and I assumed it was because he wanted to sound smart. Since mentioning that I went, many people have come up with many criticisms of him…

He is a “doctor” but didn’t get a medical degree. He doesn’t take Q&A. He teaches about kundalini awakenings but doesn’t give people the tools to integrate their experience.

And yet, I cannot deny the truth of my experience. It was profound. It was life changing. And I highly recommend it (if you feel called to it). I am looking forward to going to future retreats and continuing to learn from Dr. Joe.

Also, big thank you to Scott Britton for sharing his experience at the retreat. Scott has introduced me to a number of different people, books, and situations that have altered the course of my life in an extremely positive direction (like David Hawkins). I am extremely grateful for him and he is a brilliant soul.

Feel free to share any questions or your own personal experience with Dr. Joe. I understand that not everybody who attends has the overwhelmingly positive experience I had and am open to learning from others.

Love,

Danny

PS If you’re interested in hearing me (and Tej) talk about this retreat for 3.5 hours, you can listen here.

Three days ago, I was walking around the Lady Bird Lake trail in Austin.

A random tall guy stopped me and asked a simple random question: “Are you wearing wired headphones because you don’t want the bluetooth in your ears?” Yup, I told him. He told me how he preferred the same. It was a short interaction.

And I didn’t think I would ever see him again.

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Fast forward to yesterday.

My friend Leo texts me out of the blue. “I’m going to Casa de Luz. Are you around this afternoon?” I told him I’d see if I could swing by around 5. When it came time, I got in my car and texted him that I was 15 minutes away.

As I’m driving, he calls me and says, “I’m literally just about to leave.”

That’s odd. He’s leaving just as I’m about to get there.

My first thought was: I’m supposed to go to Casa de Luz right now. And apparently I’m not supposed to meet up with Leo. But something is going to happen to me here tonight.

I park my car and see my friend’s Instagram story: she’s hosting a meditation event here.

“Oh! That’s why I’m supposed to go to Casa de Luz tonight. Makes sense.”

So it was a couple of hours until the meditation. I brought my book Guided by Laura Lynne Jackson with me.

I’ve been on a big Laura Lynne Jackson kick recently. She’s a psychic medium. I feel deeply connected to her. And all of her writing has made me question... should I learn how to do this? I even bought Develop Your Psychic Abilities (a book she mentioned in The Light Between Us) a week ago because I was so curious about how she does her readings. She claims anyone can learn, and I’m fascinated by it.

Anyway, I sit down outside Casa de Luz with my book. And I start getting attacked by bugs. “That’s strange,” I thought. I’ve sat here many times and never gotten attacked by bugs.

“I guess I’m not supposed to sit here.”

So I went to the upstairs area (closer to where my friend was hosting her meditation) and peaked into a cafe that I haven’t been in since it opened about a year ago.

And I stepped into the magical door.

And I sit down in the corner of the room and read my book. Loving it. Getting lost in it.

I get up to grab a tea and see a bunch of books at the front of the room. One is by Frederick Dodson called Intuition Training. I find that interesting because I’ve been listening to lots his meditations and podcasts recently. He’s not that well known. Another is by Sonia Choquette. They’re all about training your intuition.

I think to myself, “I’m definitely in the right place.”

But I don’t ask about the books or why they’re there. I really just want to enjoy my own book in the corner of the room.

I’m reading for about 30 minutes, and people start filling up the room. One guy sits across from on the couch.

And as this happen, I naturally go into meditation. I feel the energy rising in the room. I feel the energy rising in me. I feel something is going to happen.

More and more people show up. There must 50 people in the room, but my chair is in the corner in an alcove so I can’t really see everything that’s going on.

Another guy comes over to where the initial guy was sitting on the couch and says, “I usually sit on the other side of the room. I’m going to change it up this week and sit here instead.”

Then he looks at the guy on the couch (sitting directly in front of me) and asks, “Is this seat taken?”

The guy on the couch says “No.”

And then they introduce themselves. He said, “Hi, I’m Milo.” The guy sitting across from him said, “Hi, I’m Henry.”

Wait, a second... this guy sitting across from me is named Henry?

Well, it just so happens in Guided from pages 262 to 269... is all about a dog named Henri. This happens to be the chapter I’m currently reading. I’ve been reading about Henry for the past few minutes with Henry sitting across from me.

What are the odds of that?!

Anyway, before I could share this wild synchronicity...

Milo turns to me.

And he says, “What’s your name? Hey, wait a second, I feel like I know you. Where do I know you from?”

My first instinct was maybe he saw the podcast? Maybe a clip on social media?

And without missing a beat he said... “Were you wearing headphones on the trail a couple of days ago?!”

Yes, Milo. Nice to meet you again. I was wearing headphones on the trail a couple of days ago.

Here I was, in this place I didn’t expect to be, sitting in this chair I didn’t expect to be in, meeting this person who “randomly” chose to sit on a different side of the room... just so happened to stop a stranger two days prior. Hmm. That’s interesting.

So I asked my new friend Milo, “Hey, there’s a lot people here. What’s this about? Why is everyone here?”

“Well,” he tells me, “This is something called Mindful Mondays. This guy Chris Harders has been putting them on for the last 38 weeks and it’s a way to get a spiritual community together. Last week, we chanted ‘OM’ for like 15 minutes.”

I said, “That’s super cool. This is right up my alley. I’d love to chant ‘OM’ for 15 minutes.”

He said, “Well, I don’t know if we’re going to do that. It’s a different theme every week.”

What’s the theme this week?

“How to develop your psychic abilities.”

I threw my book down in disbelief. Awe. Shock. Gratitude. I mean...

All of the synchronicities coming together in perfect unison. Henry. The headphone guy. Reading Guided (while feeling guided). Fred Dodson. How to train your intuition.

You can’t make this stuff up.

We spent the next 90 minutes meditating (a great one led by Chris), learning about how to do a psychic reading, doing one, receiving one, and cleaning our energy field.

Overall, I was just left in awe.

And that’s because I stepped into The Magical Door.

The Magical Door shows up when you tune into the Source. The Magical Door shows up when we are open to love and possibility and connection. The Magical Door is there for us when we get really quiet, and listen to that still small voice inside.

The Magical Door shows us the truth. If your heart is beating, you’re here for a reason. You’re part of the grand symphony. The closer you get to the Source (via raising your energy), the more magic you seem to experience. You start to see that every moment is happening perfectly, exactly as it is supposed to, with absolutely zero errors.

That’s been my experience at least.

Wishing you peace and love,

Danny

PS Want to experience Divine Moments​ like this? I created 14 guided meditations​ to help you experience the magic, too.

Last night, I was reading Guided by Laura Lynne Jackson.

And I broke down in tears on the couch.

Here’s why:

I’ve had this feeling that all of her books (The Light Between Us and Signs) were written specifically for me.

As soon as I got the feeling this book was for me...

First, there is a chapter about a guy named Danny.

Danny’s wife and child both pass away. So he goes to see Laura Lynne (who is a psychic medium). And Laura relays a message from Danny’s child who tells him, “You’re going to go through a few traumatic events over the coming week, but remember, everything you’re experiencing is for you.”

He did indeed have a few traumatic days ahead (as if losing your wife and child isn’t enough). And as he’s getting upset at God in his car...

He sees a license plate that says DANNY4U.

He starts laughing. He starts seeing the connection between things. And all of a sudden, the trauma makes a little more sense.

I was in awe. Because not only was the message for Danny in the book, it was also for me.

Then, the following chapter is about a couple named Liz Rosenberg and David Bosnick.

Liz went to Binghamton and David went to Colgate. When I saw this, my jaw dropped.

These are the two schools I went to. I went to Colgate for three semesters and Binghamton for a few years. I’ve never seen these schools mentioned in any book I’ve ever read... let alone in the same paragraph.

​(Quick additional note: It also turns out David’s birthday was July 14. Mine is July 13. The 13th and 14th chapters of the book are dedicated to this couple.)

Then in the following chapter, Laura Lynne describes how she became close to David.

She was a teaching assistant at Binghamton for one of his classes. When the semester was over, they went to the Number 5 steakhouse. She was gifted an equal portion of David’s salary.

This was a place I went a handful of times with my friends, and I remember my Aunt Lauren and Uncle David took me out there once. It held a special place in my heart and is now closed down.

That’s when I just broke down in awe and appreciation and connection.

I recalled all the formative moments at Colgate, at Binghamton. Interestingly, earlier that day my dad randomly resurfaced a beautiful letter he wrote me when I was in the middle of transitioning from one school to the other in 2014. David Bosnick was also transitioning. He passed away in January 2014.

It gave me this feeling that every single moment of my life had been perfect and correct. All of the decisions I’ve made were perfectly guided for me to be there in this moment reading those words.

And if that’s the case, then what I’m doing right now, in this very second, is perfect and correct. There is harmony and order in the universe. It works in a way that is far greater than our limited human minds can comprehend. And the piece that binds us all together is love.

If any of you know Laura Lynne Jackson personally, please send her this because I have a feeling we’re supposed to meet.

Love,

Danny

PS There is 1 spot left in my 3-month coaching program. I genuinely believe it will be an amazing investment that will fill you with more love, money, synchronicities, and help you create whatever you want in your life.

1. Close your eyes (or check in with your heart).

2. Think about the first person that comes to mind.

3. Send a message to that person with exactly what you appreciate about them. Be as specific as you possibly can.

If that person’s not living, write a letter to them. If they are living, share the message.

I’m happy to receive the love back. But do this with someone other than me! It might make someone’s day. They might get a gift in how they’re seen that they may have never gotten before.

Typically, we only receive love on our birthdays or funerals (or maybe Thanksgiving). Let’s make spontaneous appreciation cool, one message at a time.

Love,

Danny

1. I’ve decided to take on more 1-on-1 clients.

I love the process of meeting up with someone weekly and seeing them transform. It’s fun for me. It seems to work for others. Thus, I’m offering a 3-month program that will be a mix of hypnosis and 1-on-1 coaching.

​Click here for the Google doc. Reply here if you have any questions.

Also, I’ve decided I’m going to host a workshop in Sedona. Don’t know when yet. Maybe October, maybe some time in 2027. We’re going to do a mix of meditation, hypnosis, intuition training, and increasing your energy. Reply to this email if interested.

2. I’ve been reading Laura Lynne Jackson.

I was gifted her book Signs, and it blew me away. I just started reading it and I couldn’t put it down. What I came to realize is that it’s basically the Divine Moments book I was working on.

I got that same feeling when I started reading Wayne Dyer... “Oh, I’m deeply connected to the person writing this material.”

So naturally, I ordered her two other books: The Light Between Us and Guided.

When I finished Signs, I immediately started diving into The Light Between Us.

Well... it turns out she want to Binghamton University.

...which happens to be where I went to college.

If that wasn’t enough of a sign, she also mentions one other college in the chapter. It turned out to be my brother’s college.

It’s all connected!

3. Exploring death opens you up to life.

It seems my favorite books have something in common.

They talk about death.

Some include..

• The Light After Death by Vincent Todd Tolman

• Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss

• Journey of Souls by Michael Newton

• You Were Born Again To Be Together by Dick Sutphen

• Signs and The Light Between Us by Laura Lynne Jackson

Death was something I avoided for a long time because from a materialist worldview... death means the end. It’s dark. And scary.

But these books offer an alternative viewpoint: death isn’t the end. It’s actually just a continuation of life. When someone “dies,” they don’t really die. Their spirit is still there. And there’s something truly peaceful about this perspective. My sense is if we can release our fears about death, we can truly enjoy this life. The more I read about it (and the more perspectives I get), the more

My friend Tej shared an awe-inspiring story on the podcast recently about the unexpected death of a loved one. Listen to it in his words. It’s remarkable.

Love,

Danny

What I’m consuming shapes who I become.

I’ve been consistently in awe with how quickly I can change my character based on the inputs I fill my consciousness with. Here is a running list of some meditations, sports, books, and videos that I’ve been fascinated with.

Here’s a list…

Guided meditations and hypnosis

Why do we consciously take actions against what we say we want?

The only reasonable explanation I’ve discovered is my subconscious mind is not on board with what my conscious mind wants.

And as I get older, I see that my habits, beliefs, and emotions are actually shaping everything.

For example, imagine the person who is 20 years old. They are naturally fit. Maybe they go to the gym once every couple of weeks. Their habits and beliefs are, “Going to the gym isn’t that important. Eating right isn’t that important.” And they’re right (in the moment).

But those same unconscious beliefs are going to make that person feel poorly about themselves over a long enough time frame. And those become evident, the older we get.

The other part (that I didn’t quite notice in my youth) is that more situations arise in life, and some of those naturally stick to you. The “what if’s,” “should I have done that differently,” “why did I choose X instead of Y” can grow in your awareness. Your decisions and the events seem to create bigger ripples the older you get.

This is why starting the habit of meditation is so important (because my ego lessens and I can see my faults more clearly).

Here are some of the many hypnosis and guided meditations that I’ve been paying attention to and that have been helping me:

• Chakra Meditation Cleansing, Balancing & Healing with Guided Hypnosis Activation (Michael Sealey)

• Rain Hypnosis For Attracting Wealth (Law of Attraction, Create & Manifest Abundance) (Michael Sealey)

• Practice Connecting with God’s Light (Lorie Ladd)

• Guided Sleep Meditation (Michael Sealey)

• Prosperity Hypnosis (Frederick Dodson)

• Bubble of Light Meditation (by me :)

Sports

Sports have made a relatively big comeback in my awareness.

The reason for this is twofold:

1. Sports help connect me with my childhood. When I was young, I spent a lot of time playing basketball and baseball. I spent even more time watching and playing sports video games (shoutout NBA 2K, Madden, and FIFA). When I was 15, I wrote a Knicks blog. And then I wrote sports for the local newspaper (before getting fired, a story for another day 🤣). I played fantasy sports. I bet on sports. It has played such an outsized role in my life.

2. AI has made me question everything I see on the Internet. As a result, I move toward what is real and live. Sports are real and live and they have consequences.

By the way, somewhere in the development of myself, I decided sports were not in service to the person that I wanted to be. I made the argument to myself, “The player and the team do not care about you. Why do you care so much about them?” And to be fair, it’s a good argument. But what I’ve realized is that sports teach me about greatness, leadership, and channeling the divine.

I enjoyed and witnessed the New York Knicks win the NBA Championship in San Antonio last month (literally sitting in the last row the stadium) for the first time in 53 years. I got obsessed with witnessing this team create magic (like this 29 point comeback in the NBA Finals and this 22-point comeback in the fourth quarter against the Cavs). This closing montage from Mike Breen really encapsulated the journey for me and brought tears to my eyes. This team really did it.

I also have found the World Cup to be awesome even though I don’t have a massive interest in soccer.

I’ve also realized that every time I watch sports, I connect with a younger part of myself. And for that, I’m grateful.

YouTube Videos

I’ve been enjoying Frederick Dodson’s work recently. I enjoyed his interview with Jack Moses. I also enjoyed Jack’s most recent episode with Tej Dosa.

Here is a Joe Hudson video on love:

Quote from that video:

“You’re always dating from a pattern. That’s the beauty of dating. You’re always working out some family of origin issue when you’re dating or when you’re married. So the question is are you doing that with someone else who can work through that with you? … You’re not going to be attracted to someone who doesn’t have some interlocking, psychological attachment issue. The question is are you working on it and are you consciously working on it?”

This is a video I know I’m going to reference at some point in the future (stopping the chattering mind by an awesome monk dude). Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.

Here are some more Dodson videos worth exploring:

Books

My love affair with books is one of the greatest joys of my life. One day, I hope I have a massive library.

For now, here are some bangers I’ve been reading and rereading:

• Signs by Laura Lynne Jackson

• Maps of Consciousness Explained by David Hawkins

• The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

• Healing Kundalini Symptoms by Tara Springett

• How To Find Your Soulmate by Tara Springett

• Real Magic by Wayne Dyer

What have you been consuming? Any overlap?

Love,

Danny

PS If you’re interested in booking a hypnosis session, I started offering Past Life Regressions (!!), and they’ve been absolutely incredible. I’ve also been doing regular hypnosis, coaching, and podcast consulting. This is a message from a friend…

Feel free to send any questions my way.

When the old you is not the new you? When you’re unsure of how to explain the person you’ve become?

I look at the tagline of this Substack:

“An inside look at growing The Danny Miranda Podcast from 25k to 1m downloads/month”

And I say to myself… “but I don’t care about that anymore!”

And I feel a sense of sadness, a sense that there was something that I desired that didn’t come to pass. I feel that there are people out there who supported me who I feel I’ve let down in some way. I feel the hopes and dreams of a mission that no longer is true.

And I question myself…

“Can I even trust what I want if I wanted something so deeply… and now it’s no longer true?”

It’s okay. I’m just going to start where my feet are. I’m just going to share what’s true today and take it from there.

I fear…

“Will I just be some guy who had some podcast at some time and who trounced off into irrelevancy?”

And I laugh hahahahaha. That’s not true. And it would be okay if it was.

“What’s the point even in writing if AI can do it??”

I don’t know. It feels good? It helps me think? It helps me grow.

I enjoy sharing stuff on the internet. I enjoy looking at the world and seeing what’s true for me. I enjoy the process of my world expanding. I enjoy meeting people who have different and similar worldviews.

I remember at 13 years old… reading Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger. And I thought to myself…

“That would be the coolest thing in the world to be a ‘pro blogger.’”

The calling has been in me.

But what else can I do but share?

“It’s been a long time… should I just start a new Substack or new accounts to reflect the new version of myself?”

I don’t know. Maybe I should. Maybe I will.

I’ve been gone for a long time. Or at least it’s felt that way. Two plus years. The world has changed a ton. The internet has changed a ton. I’ve changed a ton.

And at the core of it is the same essence.

Just a guy who wants to spread some love, who wants to share what’s true, who wants to help myself and others in the process.

There’s a whole lot I don’t know. And I’m more open to seeing what happens than ever before.

Sending big love to you,

Daniel Fedele Miranda

In August 2025, I decided to be a hypnotherapist.

This may go down as the most significant decision of my life. I studied for a few months...

And on November 13 of last year, I officially conducted my first sessions.

(Quick side note, what is a hypnotherapist? Basically, I get you into in a deeply relaxed, meditative state where you are more open and receptive to changes. Then we program what you desire into your mind.)

Now, two months later, I have over 80 sessions under my belt.

What does this mean for you?

Well, there are a number of things I’ve uncovered about the human mind that have blown me away...

1. Everybody is getting hypnotized, every day. There is this idea that some people can’t be hypnotized. I don’t buy it. To be hypnotized just means you’re in a theta brainwave state... which just means you’re deeply relaxed like you are with meditation, doing creative tasks, with increased suggestibility. If you ever find yourself staring out of a train window or driving somewhere and forgot where you were... congrats, you were hypnotized. If you’re logging onto X and spending any time scrolling the feed... congrats you’re getting hypnotized.

2. In order to go deeper into a trance state, take yourself out of it and then bring yourself back in. This seems counterintuitive, but it actually works. During the induction (beginning stage of the hypnotherapy process), I do this with clients by deliberately having them open and close their eyes. The reason why this works is because when you go out of something and come back into it, you feel more comfortable. Social media sites do this, too. They deliberately show you posts they know you won’t like. And then they follow this by showing you posts you will like so you go deeper into trance.

3. If you don’t program yourself, someone else will. This has always been true. But it’s more true today than ever before. Just because there are more possible inputs. There are more feeds. There are more people who want your attention. You can go so deep into rabbit holes, that before you know it, you forget where you were. That’s because the algorithms are so good. So it’s important to know where you’re going.

4. It’s important to get really clear on what you desire. Your destination impacts your direction. As part of many sessions, I write out three different suggestions for the client based on what they would like to achieve. The statements say “basically” the same thing. For example: (a) I am happy (b) Every day, in every way, it is easier for me to be happier, (c) I think happy thoughts and live a happy life. But one of those probably feels most true to you. And that will be different for every person. That’s why it’s important to really make the statements you are programming with yourself to really hit for you.

5. Repetition, repetition, repetition. This is not a one-and-done type process. I personally do different hypnosis audio recordings every day. You wouldn’t just go to the gym once and be done with it. It’s a process that you work on for life. And I view my mind training the same way.

6. Today, it’s common to have a personal trainer; tomorrow, it will be common to have a mind trainer. I can’t help but feel this is the cutting edge. If you tell someone you’re seeing a hypnotherapist today, they might think it’s a little bit weird of woo-woo. Probably less so today than it was a couple of years ago. I think it will be so common in 10 years that people will be doing some sort of mental programming like they go to the gym today. Your mind fitness is arguably more important than your physical fitness (since what you think is likely impacting and/or creating your body). And your mind fitness is impacting every area of your life.

7. If you heard other people’s problems, you’d likely be a lot less critical of your own. My job is to hear other people’s issues. Stuff like what they’re doing wrong, how they’re treating themselves by themselves, and why they haven’t reached their big goal. And after a few sessions, you start to see the similarities. People are constantly beating themselves up for stuff that doesn’t even matter. And that probably means you, too!

8. Choose a job where you get the benefits. Every time I do hypnotherapy with someone, I get the benefits. I see my heart rate drop to 55-65 bpm. And I’m transferring that calm, relaxed state to the client. I also get to program all the positive, helpful suggestions to myself. It feels like my growth is getting supercharged. Every time I help someone, I feel better because, in part, I’m programming myself.

9. Your conscious mind is not telling you the full picture. If someone asked you, “How is your emotional self doing?” You might have an answer that makes logical sense and sounds good. “It’s doing good, no complaints.” But I take you into trance and ask you the same question, you’ll have a deeper, truer answer than you conscious mind could come up with. We have conversations with other people’s conscious minds all day. But it’s rarely we talk to their subconscious.

10. Your spiritual self knows all is well. Oftentimes, part of the introductory session I take people on is a self-assessment whereby I have them talk to different aspects of themselves (physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual). I live in the United States and most of my clients are in Western countries. There is a heavy emphasis on work here. Some of my clients don’t have a regular spiritual practice. But it doesn’t matter. Your spiritual self knows all is well. Even if you’re an atheist. The spiritual self is always kind, loving, and helpful. The message it gives many people is one of forgiveness, appreciation, love, and peace. Doing all of these sessions has strengthened my spirituality in a real and practical way.

This is genuinely the most fun I’ve ever had working. It’s like I get to a personal podcast with the deepest parts of someone’s soul. And every day feels like a gift.

It seems to have been equally enjoyable and expansive for others.

If you want to book a session, just check my website for availability. Sending love your way.

I haven’t posted on Substack in a while. I have a hunch that I’ll spend more time here with you in 2026.

I’m sending you this because I wanted to let you know about potentially the single greatest offer I’ve ever released:

A 90 minute hypnotherapy session for $100. Book here.

Tonight at 11:59pm EST, the prices will increase to $200 per session.

I’ve been running these sessions for the past month, completing more than 40 sessions, and the results have been incredible.

(This has been such a good offer that the rest of December and practically all of January is sold out. People have signed up for second sessions, told their friends and family.)

Here is what some people have said about it:

• “Yesterday’s session was awesome man. I had no idea what I was in for and I’m so glad I did it. Thank you thank you! I honestly felt lighter all day today.”

• “Holy smokes, what just happened! I’m still reeling (in the best way possible) from the hypnotherapy session with Danny. To say that it was transformative is an understatement. I went so DEEP that it feels surreal. It honestly felt like a psychedelic experience. I feel like I have both the insight and the energy to make the exact changes I need to make right now.”

• “Hi Danny. Thank you so much for sharing your gift of hypnotherapy with me. It’s fascinating and I still feel better today! I also naturally went to my affirmation driving home from dropping off my kids at school this morning. So it’s already taking hold!”

Now if the last time you saw a message from me, I was trying to become the greatest podcaster in the world and sell out Madison Square Garden… you might be a bit confused.

How did we get here?

Let me share with you the cliff notes:

• September 2023: I discovered the work of David Hawkins. His Map of Consciousness was really helpful to show me where I was stopping myself from surrendering to love.

• August 2024: I discovered the work of Brian Weiss. Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss. It opened me up to a deeper, truer understanding of the world. That we’ve lived before and that we’ll likely live again. It broke me open, and I instantly knew I was supposed to attend one of his workshops. This same time, I was became connected to Wayne Dyer. I read I Can See Clearly Now (his final book) and it showed the interconnected nature of his life. I read 10+ Wayne Dyer books over the next year, and he became my closest personal mentor.

• June 2025: I went searching. What was I supposed to do with this one, precious life? I went to a Brian Weiss three-day workshop that was extremely powerful.

• August 2025: I went to Sedona, Arizona. I visited the gravestone of David Hawkins. I uncovered the work of Dick Sutphen (a hypnotherapist who lived in Sedona) and read You Were Born To Be Together Again. I started hypnotherapy school from Grace Smith. It felt like a calling and a passion.

• November 2025: Start to offer hypnotherapy for the public. Completed 30+ sessions in a month.

• December 2025: Raise prices from $50 to $100 to $200. Continue serving clients with vigor.

So if you’d like to be apart of this beautiful journey, sign up here.

I can promise you that if your session is anything like the 40+ I’ve done thus far, you’ll leave feel more energized, aligned, and excited about life than you were before.

Sending you love,

Danny

Today I’m announcing the launch of Writing Council.

Writing Council is an online group program for authors to finish the first draft of your book by the end of July.

My mission for 2026 is to write 12 books in 12 months. When you join, you will get front-row access to my live creative process as it unfolds. And in this experience, I'll take you behind-the-scenes as I document my journey for the next month. At the same time, I’ll hold you accountable for your own book.

I’ve written 200,000+ words this year alone (the equivalent of 3 or 4 full-length books). One of my books is 35,000 words into its first draft and another has over 15,000 words. You'll be the first to see how I get these books over the finish line.

What’s Included?

• Weekly live “Write With Me” sessions

• Access to WhatsApp group

• Leaderboard for group participants

• At least 10 behind-the-scenes videos on idea generation, outlines, how to write 1,000 words in 30 minutes, choosing a book cover, what I learn from editing process, self-publishing, marketing

Investment: $800 (sign up here). This includes everything above and lifetime access to the replays.

This is for anyone who feels called to write in a book format, but is looking for inspiration, structure, and accountability on their journey.

This program will run from June 23-July 25.

If you know it’s time to write your book (or want to look over my shoulder as I write mine)...

​Sign up to join the Writing Council.

Enrollment closes Saturday, June 21 at 3pm EST. I won’t be offering this again until fall (if ever). 100 people max.

Let me know if you have any questions. Looking forward to seeing you inside!

Love,

Danny

PS I’m also hosting my first BookWeek where I’ll be hosting as many as 10 people in person to help them write the first draft of their book in a week in Vancouver (last week of July).

PPS The last time I posted on this Substack I was deep into podcasting. Over the past year, I’ve focused on book writing. My aim is to write 12 books in 12 months in 2026. More on that in a future post, but I just wanted to share that writing has completely stolen my heart. I love you.

Here were three wise quotes from him:

1. On saving: “Plan on the plan not going according to plan.”

2. On fame: “It’s actually terrifying. What percentage of the world population is just wacko, insane, crazy? One percent. One-tenth of 1%. I don't know what it is. So if you have a blog post or a tweet that has a million plus impressions, you do the math. There's gonna be a hundred or a thousand people who are completely insane. And those people are most likely to reach out to you and tell you how stupid you are, how crazy you are, and how quickly you are going to hell.”

3. On introspection: “I think there's a lot of people that out there that know other people better than they know themselves.”

Which of these three resonated the most? Reply below!

Consider checking out the full episode on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

Meaning: let the episodes be just as valuable 10 years from now as they are today (if not more). It doesn’t always work, and it’s not always the right strategy. But when in doubt, it’s the one I tend to lean toward.

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It was this one:

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The next day it feels like you’ll never actually make it.

This is normal, right?

I’ve written “The Danny Miranda Podcast gets over 1,000,000 plays per month by January 2023” thousands and thousands of times over the past six months. And I’ve somewhat convinced myself that it’ll actually come to fruition des…

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That’s because it gives you in-depth stats about your podcast over the past 11 months.

In this post, I’m going to break down those stats, how I’m going to improve them, and general thoughts from podcasting in the year 2022.

My friend noted how helpful it was for him to see that he was a top podcast for X number.

Minutes Uploaded

To me, this is perhaps the most important stat. Because it’s the one I can control.

5,491 minutes. Not bad. More than 99% of other podcasts. And that’s with inconsistency until October 2022.

But if I really want to be a pro, if I really want to take this to the next level, I need to hit 10,000 minutes in 2023.

That will be one episode on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Let’s build something special.

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Yesterday, I announced my first partnership for my podcast.

It’s My First Million!

What does this mean exactly?

It means their podcast will pay me to promote their podcast. This is wild. Because prior to the sponsorship, I was already telling friends privately to check their show out. The two hosts of the show have both appeared as guests (Sam Parr and Shaan Puri). I listen to it pretty religiously. And I genuinely think it’s one of the most informative, humorous, and insightful business/tech podcasts in the world.

This is the result of thousands of hours of work, 278 episodes, and 20 months.

And now the journey is just the beginning.

I wanted to use this newsletter as a way to. tell you about the behind-the-scenes…

Behind The Scenes Details

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One common question since I started this newsletter:

What’s been the 80/20 of your first 275 episodes (i.e. what had the biggest impact on growth and learning vs. what was a relative waste of time?)

In other words: what have the 20% of actions that have had 80% of impact? It’s a fair but difficult question to answer, and in today’s newsletter, I’ll do my best to break it down.

Learning How To Interview

When I decided I was going to start a podcast in August 2020, I spent the month learning how the greats before me did it (Tim Ferriss, Larry King, Oprah, Malcolm Gladwell, etc.).

I didn’t do this as a way to procrastinate. I learned in the mornings and interviewed in the afternoons.

Don’t expect to learn your own style from reading these notes below. But you might pick up a tip, trick, or insight that could help you in your next session.

Here were some of my notes:

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But what if the game has barely even begun?

This chart from Edison Research (and Podnews) details why this may be the case:

For context, 63% of U.S. adults listen to the radio daily (source: NPR). 83% listen to the radio weekly:

It’s hard to imagine, a world in which podcasts are bigger than they already are. Because if you live on the Internet... it already seems like there are so many.

But John Shahidi (President for NELK) recently told Casey Adams that we’re just getting started (source):

I think podcasts are going to be like consumer goods products. I think everyone’s going to have one. I think it’s its own platform. … Eventually I feel like everyone will have their own… Some people are going to be late to the game, like a lot of actresses and actors were to social media … And then everyone is going to have their own podcast network. LeBron James is doing that. Kevin Durant has his own network as well.

This was a big reframe for me. If you imagine podcasts as social media accounts, you start to think of them completely differently.

According to ListenNotes, there are almost 3 million podcasts out there.

To put this in context, there are 51 million YouTube channels.

Now, it’s not quite the same thing. It’s easier to start a YouTube channel than it is to start a podcast. But maybe that will change some time over the next decade. I’d venture to guess it will.

Imagine living in 1436 – when the printing press got invented. By 1500, it probably felt like everyone had written a book. There’s so many books out there! Who could possibly read all this? Little did they know how many more books would be created.

It’s probably a similar story for podcasts and videos. There are so many out there today. But that doesn’t mean the quality won’t rise. And there will be many more over the coming decade.

People have been communicating in the written word, audio, and video for a long time. But now anyone can do it. There’s more competition for eyeballs and earholes, but also means a more equitable chance for anyone to publish something and for it to get seen or heard by millions of people.

I don’t imagine it getting easier than right now to get seen or heard. Meaning if podcasting or video creating is something you could imagine yourself doing a decade from now, what’s stopping you from starting today?

From my vantage point, we’re just getting started.

By the way, if you’re interested in podcasting… check out my latest episode with Sriram and Aarthi.

They run a tremendous podcast called The Good Time Show where they’ve interviewed people like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Hawk, and Gary Vaynerchuk. In this conversation, we spoke getting into tech before it was cool, podcasting secrets, what it’s like to be an insider, and what it’s like to interview Elon Musk to 800,000 people.

Check out the full episode here (or listen here):