How Thinking About Our Death Can Radically Energize Our Life Today with Jodi Wellman

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and AquaTru. Conversations about death are often uncomfortable and avoided by many. However, open and honest discussions about death and mortality can help us live more intentionally and clarify what truly matters in our day-to-day lives. Today’s guest wants us to get truly comfortable with death—to start living. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with executive coach and author Jodi Wellman. Jodi shows us how embracing the idea of our mortality can help us fully live. She suggests implementing a "mortality math" exercise and practice to change your perspective on death and shares lessons learned from near-death experiences. Jodi also provides insightful questions to help you take inventory of your life and find your purpose. Jodi Wellman is a former corporate executive turned executive coach and author. She has a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is an instructor in the Master’s program and a trainer in the world-renowned Penn Resilience Program. She is a Professional Certified Coach with the ICF and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach from CTI. In this episode, Dhru and Jodi dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): Stepping into death to fully live (00:00:57 / 00:00:57) Mortality math to motivate you to pursue your purpose fully (2:55 / 2:55) What gets in the way of living a meaningful and purposeful life (12:27 / 9:40) Removing the idea of death from our daily lives (14:00 / 11:53) A practice to implement to change your perspective (21:19 / 18:22) Taking inventory of your life (23:35 / 20:48) Lessons from near-death experiences (36:47 / 34:00) Regrets as lessons for the future (41:01 / 37:54) Jodi’s origin story (52:50 / 50:08) Questions to ask yourself and assess a path forward (1:13:27 / 1:10:40) How to discover your purpose (1:19:07 / 1:16:20) Final thoughts (1:25:17 / 1:22:40) Also mentioned in this episode: Jodi's book, You Only Die One: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets Jodi’s Ted Talk-How Death Can Bring You Back to Life Explore Cams For more on Jodi, follow her on Instagram or via her website. Right now, get 30% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com/dhru and use code DHRUP. AquaTru is a countertop reverse osmosis purifier with a four-stage filtration system that removes 15x more contaminants than the bestselling water filters out there. Go to dhrupurohit.com/filter/ and get $100 off when you try AquaTru for yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jody, welcome to the podcast. I'd love for you to get a chance to introduce yourself.
0:07.2	And most importantly, you have a powerful truth that you're here to share with our audience today.
0:13.0	I have 1,814 Mondays left as of this Monday to live.
0:19.0	And my message as I am here on behalf of the Grim Reaper, I'm going to die, you're going to die,
0:25.4	we're all completely going to die, and that's totally okay because the good news is,
0:30.0	when we do tune in to the fact that we're all gonna kick the bucket it helps us live
0:35.2	with more intentions so this is not a morbid thing this is a good thing you still
0:38.8	you still game to keep chatting and that's what our conversation is about today and yes
0:42.4	let's explore that.
0:43.7	Why does meditating thinking about and stepping into the fact that we're going to die?
0:51.0	How does that help us live a happier, more meaningful life today?
0:54.8	Yeah, let's start with the pain because that's what we all feel. But it's a weird pain because most of us just do
0:59.4	this thing where we take life for granted. We're not even aware that we've slipped into
1:02.8	autopilot because it's what we do, right? We want to be efficient. I do too. I'm not an
1:07.1	animal. But we come up with these routines and then we follow them and it's
1:10.6	Monday and then it's Tuesday and then all of a sudden it's like
1:13.2	Thursdays indiscernible from Wednesday and we find ourselves in these ruts in life
1:18.7	and sometimes we're just not aware until you know years have flown by.
1:22.6	So that's the pain I see and the way that death helps us,
1:27.1	if I could get science with you and I love you science,
1:29.9	called temporal scarcity.
1:31.7	And it's this idea that whenever there is something that is called an asset,
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