Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick - Podcasts

00:50:18

Jill Schulman - A Marine Veteran Explains How to...

Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick ·

2026/10/05

Jill Schulman was one of the first women to lead in Marine Corps combat engineering. She then turned a career in pharma and corporate leadership development into a master's in positive psychology at Penn, and she has trained more than 30,000 leaders around one idea: action creates confidence. Her book, The Bravery Effect, delivers that science as a parable. In this conversation, she and I make sense of why waiting until you feel ready is a trap, what a terrifying obstacle course taught her about

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00:25:55

Curiosity Is Your Superpower: Beat Imposter Syndrome...

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2026/10/02

Even Dr. JC Doornick is not immune. One presentation was all it took to send his mind spiraling into doubt, comparison, and the question every high achiever quietly fears: what if I am not as good as I think I am? Then he did something small that changed the whole story. In this episode, he shows you the one move that puts you back in the driver's seat, and why it might be the most underrated skill in a world that never stops handing you answers. The people who learn this are the ones who stay

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00:10:21

Good Shift - How Creative Allowance Changes the Way...

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2026/09/30

What if the life you keep trying to make happen is not the only one available to you?In this Good Shift episode, a new series where Dr. JC Doornick brings one of his favorite Makes Sense Substack blogs to life, he starts with a question he was asked about who he creates for and what makes his voice different. That leads to a thoughtful look at allowance. Dr. JC explores the sweet spot between setting goals and letting life have the final say, and why we so often confuse certainty with safety. He

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01:00:05

Dr. Robert Epstein - This Harvard Scientist Was...

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2026/09/28

What if the search result you trusted most was quietly chosen to change your mind?Dr. Robert Epstein is a Harvard-trained research psychologist and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. For more than a decade, he has studied how search engines, search suggestions, and video recommendations can quietly shift what people believe and how they vote. He has testified twice before Congress, and his team built America's Digital Shield, which he describes as the first nationwide system to capture

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00:40:33

Radical Responsibility: When Life Chooses You - E213

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2026/09/25

What if the very thing draining your energy every day isn't your circumstances, but the hours you spend rehearsing a future that hasn't happened yet?Dr. JC Doornick is currently navigating a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, and instead of talking around it, he uses it as the live case study for the system his book and coaching are built on: the Interface Response System. He walks through what he calls radical responsibility, introduces a concept from his next book called Carency, the limited currency of

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00:06:01

Good Shift - The Currency of Attention - E212

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2026/09/23

What if the people you love most aren't getting your best attention, just whatever is left after the noise has taken its share?In this Good Shift episode, Dr. JC Doornick brings his Makes Sense Substack writing to life with a short, powerful reflection on Carrency: the limited supply of time, energy, attention, and focus we distribute each day. He explores how the brain's filter, programmed by the world around us, amplifies deadlines, conflict, and threat while quietly muting the moments that

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00:37:05

He Turned His Employees Into Millionaires — At 93,...

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2026/09/21

He built Magna International into one of the world's largest auto parts companies, with hundreds of factories and well over a hundred thousand employees. But the real story isn't the company's size. It's what he did with the profits. Instead of keeping them at the top, he split them with the people on the floor.Today's guest is Frank Stronach, founder of Magna and the mind behind the Economic Charter of Rights, the profit-sharing model that made it happen. We get into the handshake deal that

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00:41:55

IRS - How to See Life From a Completely Different...

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2026/09/18

If you've been trying to change your mindset — for success, happiness, or just clarity — you found the right video.I'm Dr. JC Doornick, and for over 20 years, I've helped thousands of high-net-worth individuals see things from a different perspective—one that got them out of their own way and finally helped them achieve the success and life they wanted. But watching how reactive and quick to judge the world's gotten lately, I decided it was time to share this with everyone, not just the people who

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00:03:49

Good Shift - How to keep your feet in the face of...

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2026/09/16

What does it really mean to “keep your feet” when life tries to sweep you away?In this short Good Shift, Dr. JC Doornick explores the difference between experiencing adversity and letting it take control of your identity, direction, and response. Inspired by Bilbo Baggins’ timeless warning about stepping onto the road and not knowing where you might be swept off to, Dr. JC asks a deeper question: What if keeping your feet has less to do with controlling what happens and more to do with changing how

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01:10:53

Helen Urwin - The Woman Fortune 500 Brands Called in...

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2026/09/14

For thirty years, if you worked at Mars, Kellogg, General Mills, KPMG, or Sony — and your brand needed to change from the inside out — there's a good chance you were quietly sent to one woman. No client logos. No case studies. No public profile. Just results so consistent that people in the industry started calling her 'the best-kept secret in the corporate world.' Today, that secrecy ends. Helen Althea Urwin is stepping out from behind three decades of confidentiality to talk — maybe for the first

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00:42:32

Misunderstoond - How to handle unsolicited criticism...

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2026/09/11

Someone told me I was called a misogynist. Not a stranger's opinion I could shrug off — someone who'd formed a real judgment about who I am. And it caught me off guard, because it felt nothing like how I see myself. My first instinct was to defend myself. My second instinct was to dismiss them. But then I went... Hmmm. Because if I'm asking all of you to stay curious and question your conditioned interpretations, shouldn't I be willing to question mine — especially about myself? Today, we're talking

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00:03:49

GOOD SHIFT- Transformational Gardening Vs. Weed...

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2026/09/09

What if the reason certain problems keep coming back isn’t that you haven’t fought them hard enough—but because you haven’t changed the environment that allows them to thrive?In this Good Shift, Dr. JC explores the difference between living like a Weed Whacker and becoming a Transformational Gardener. Drawing from his own journey with Stage 4 cancer, he challenges the instinct to spend our lives attacking symptoms, habits, stressors, relationships, and circumstances we don’t want—while overlooking

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00:53:06

Danny Goler: DMT, Lasers & the Hidden Structure of...

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2026/09/07

What if reality isn't made of particles — what if it's made of code? My guest today is an independent researcher who took a laser, pointed it at the world, and recorded something that mainstream science has no clear explanation for. Danny Goler calls it the Code of Reality. Others have compared what he captured to the geometric patterns people report seeing on DMT. We'll get into the experiment itself, what he thinks it means, and why some of the most credentialed people in consciousness research

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00:35:55

Why You Trust Fear More Than Your Own Potential - E204

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2026/09/04

In 2001, psychologist Roy Baumeister tried to find one situation where good news outweighs bad news of the same size. His team couldn't find a single one. Their paper became one of the most-cited in psychology, and the conclusion was simple: bad is stronger than good. That's not pessimism — that's how your brain is wired. It's why one criticism can outweigh ten compliments, and why 'what if this fails' can drown out every reason it might work. So today, we're asking: what if the real problem isn't

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00:03:57

Good Shift - The Power of Not Making Up Your Mind - E203

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2026/09/02

Welcome to Good Shift—our weekly series where I take one of my favorite entries from the Makes Sense Substack and bring it to life right here on the podcast.Today’s Good Shift is about the Automatic Yes—and why learning to pause before you commit might be one of the most powerful ways to protect the life you’re designing. Let’s get into some Good Shift. How many times have you said “yes” before you ever stopped to ask whether you actually wanted to? Inspired by an August 26th entry from Jim Kwik’s

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00:54:39

AI Isn’t the Future Without HI: Jim Kwik on Human...

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2026/08/31

What happens to human intelligence in a world increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence?In this special conversation, Dr. JC Doornick sits down with world-renowned brain coach and bestselling author Jim Kwik to explore his new book, Limitless Daily, and why developing our own minds may be more important now than ever. As AI becomes faster, smarter, and more integrated into everyday life, Jim makes the case that Artificial Intelligence still depends on Human Intelligence—our ability to think

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00:44:50

The Idea That Ends Most Arguments Before They Start...

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2026/08/28

Your brain already made up its mind about today's episode, and you haven't even heard the topic yet. That's not a guilt trip; that's neuroscience. In the next few seconds, your mind will label this video interesting or skip it, useful or not, right up your alley or not, and it will do all of that before you have any real information. Today we're calling that out by name. It's called Whole-O-Graphic Vision, and it might be the most useful three minutes you spend all week. Makes sense? Good. Let's get

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00:04:17

Good Shift - Living Your Life By Design - E200

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2026/08/26

What if the hardest moments of your life aren’t interruptions to the plan—but part of the blueprint?In this episode of Makes Sense with Dr. JC, we explore the difference between a life that simply happens to you and a life intentionally designed by you. Inspired by a recent conversation with Jack Daly and the philosophy behind his book Life by Design, Dr. JC challenges us to consider an uncomfortable question: Have you actually designed the life you’re living, or have you mostly been reacting to

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00:55:19

He Was Given 12 Months to Live. Here's What He Wants...

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2026/08/24

What if everything you believe about why you are 'you' is wrong? My guest today has spent his career studying the brain at Johns Hopkins — and a few years ago, he was told he had six to twelve months to live. Today, we're talking about what he's learned on both sides of that line. We're going to get into why 'nature versus nurture' is, in his words, scientifically lazy — and what's actually shaping your personality, your preferences, even who you're attracted to. We're going to talk about a

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00:46:15

The Humbling: The Science of Post-Traumatic Growth -...

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2026/08/21

Everything you're stressed about today? Most of it is about to become worthless. Not because you'll fix it. Because something bigger is about to make it look small.I'm Dr. JC Doornick. I was recently diagnosed with cancer, and what happened next wasn't just fear. It was the fastest reordering of my priorities I've ever felt. Things I obsessed over for years, gone in a week. Research on post-traumatic growth says most people go through this exact shift. By the end of this episode, you'll know what

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