Inner Revolutionary Radio

We all have fear. What’s yours? Losing love, money or security? Are you afraid of people, because they seem selfish or hurtful? Do you fear failing, getting old or dying? Are you afraid to walk in your neighborhood or go home to an abusive parent or spouse? Are you anxious about a decline in your health or your mind? Life can be scary and it’s always unpredictable. We ARE vulnerable. We may be fine one moment, and then not the next. But while fear is normal, it’s sometimes irrational or exaggerated. Or it can be so chronic, anxiety becomes our habitual state of mind and we don’t even see it anymore but eat or drink over it. Let’s talk openly about fear. Do we deny it, give in to it or try to ignore it? Are we ashamed of it? Can we trace its origin? Can we overcome it? Tune into InsideOut. Call and ask Beth’s help. Go to our InsideOut post-show forum where we can all support one another (see link on right). Don’t be alone with fear! Don’t stuff it and don’t be dominated by it. Join us!

What a way to describe a human being! And yet how many times have we described ourselves or others as idiots? When you’ve made an obvious mistake, do you feel like an idiot? When others can’t understand something or are slow or confused, do you judge them as idiots? How are we going to fess up to our foolishness, if we condemn ourselves? And how can some of us also face becoming impaired by illness, age or anxiety, if we judge cognitive loss as shameful? Let’s stop denying our mistakes and impairments. Let’s stop blaming others and covering up. We are all idiots sometimes, and some of us are declining as well. Tune into InsideOut to face the reality of our own mental limitations. Let’s stop beating ourselves up and learn how to get more support so we can make fewer mistakes and forgive ourselves when we make them. Don’t BE an idiot! Call in and talk about the way you FEEL like one, and let Beth help. Then join our post-show forum via phone or internet; see link on right of this page!

If you’re anything like Beth Green, you get upset watching the news. Or you just don’t watch. Let’s talk about how YOU react and why. Are you overwhelmed by human cruelty or irrationality? Do you judge with few facts? Do you avoid issues that seem too complicated? Do you blame “them” for what’s happening and never address your own accountability? Do you just hide in the horoscope? Once informed, do you feel like you have the answers but nobody listens? Or do you feel like you have no answers and you’re glad nobody is asking? If you want to stay informed but not get angry or depressed, tune in to InsideOut. Let’s examine our typical reactions and learn how to face the facts in a way that supports us and others. You can even call in for Beth’s help or to share how you may have overcome some past reactivity and gotten engaged in ways that make a difference. We need to be informed. So tune in. Get real. And join our post-show forum (link on right) to further engage in the conversation.

How much of your life do you spend waiting vs. living? Why? Sure, we all have things to look forward to, but do you ever feel that you’re actually waiting for your life to begin? Are you waiting first to buy the house, get a job or meet, marry or divorce a guy, and then your life will begin? Are you waiting for a baby to be born or for your kids to leave home or to finish school so that life can begin? Are you waiting to get up the guts to make a change? And are you waiting for something to give you those guts: get more secure at work or save enough money to take a chance? If you feel like you’re waiting for your life to begin, you are not alone. In fact most of us feel that way on some level some time. But for some of us waiting seems to be a permanent state. Don’t wait anymore. Tune into InsideOut, call in or email, and ask Beth to help you stop waiting and start living. And join the post-show forum (see link on right) to continue the conversation. Life happens only once. Join us!

Many of us say we want intimacy, but do we? Intimacy is being totally honest and transparent about ourselves – our feelings, thoughts and agendas – and having our partner be the same. And that includes our feelings toward each other. Do we want that much truth? Do our partners? If we don’t really want intimacy, what are we seeking from relationships? This episode of InsideOut will confront the question: Do we want intimacy, or are we craving admiration and security? Do we want someone to know us, or are we really trying to get someone to think we’re fabulous so they’ll never leave us? Let’s have a good laugh at ourselves and how much we kid ourselves about our desire for intimacy. But let’s also acknowledge the cost of hiding and ask host Beth Green to help us embrace the true value of intimacy and overcome our discomfort with it. Tune in, call in live or join our weekly post-show forum (see link on right) via phone or internet where you get to join the conversation whenever you can.

The Declaration of Independence says that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all persons are created equal and are endowed with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our rights may be inalienable, but we can still lose them. If you kill someone, you lose your liberty and maybe your life. If your pursuit of happiness includes molesting a child, you lose that right. But not only do we lose our rights, we throw them away. We don’t speak out of fear, we can’t think because of our slavish assumption of social attitudes, we aren’t free because of our addictions and egos. On this edition of InsideOut, we’re going to talk about our inalienable rights, how we keep them and how we lose them. If you want to exercise your freedom of speech, call in live! If you can’t, join our post-show forum (see link on the right of page). Let’s not squander our rights. Let’s confront how we lose them, and let’s celebrate this July 4th by taking them back.

Some of us wax poetic about Dad and how great he was. Some of us are pissed at the guy till the day we die. Some of us didn’t even know him. How did you really feel about your dad? Do you know? Do you want to? Did you fear him, hate him, crave more attention from him, really bond with him or barely see him? Did you adopt your mother’s view of him? Did you reflect his view of himself? Did he embarrass you? Did he overshadow you? What’s a Dad for anyway? Let’s get a real InsideOut look into our relationship with Dad. Who was he to you? And how did that affect you? Tune in and hear host Beth Green guide our discussion with her usual humor and insight. If you call in, she can even help you sort out your feelings. Father’s Day may have passed, but let’s not let another day go by without understanding a relationship that has been so critical to who we are. And join our weekly post-show forum (see link on right) via phone or internet where you get to join the conversation whenever you can.

Fly over California and look at the parched earth. Go to Miami Beach and watch the waters rise. Why are we still arguing about global warming? Why are we still resisting making the big changes? And whose fault is it? Special interests? China? Politicians who are afraid to ask us or industry to change? Or is the problem us – all of us? We want the car that uses lots of gas because it’s more comfortable. We don’t want to pay more for green products. Very few of us are prepared to change OUR lives or demand change from industry. And fewer of us even know what to do. A couple of months ago climate scientist Dr. Grant Deane came on the show and shared his knowledge with us. Now that we’ve had more drought, more record-breaking cold, more tornadoes, we’re asking him back. Tune in to our show. Email or call in live. Get involved by joining our after-show phone or internet forum (see link on right). Let’s talk. California’s burning, so let’s stop fiddling, and let’s face the music together.

The two sides of aging – loss and freedom. Become a teen and resent your greater responsibilities, or relish your new freedoms, like a car. Become 40 and regret the loss of physical strength or beauty, or be relieved that you don’t have to prove that you’re macho or look perfect anymore. Become 70 and hate being hard of hearing, or rejoice that you can pretend deafness and just tune out what you don’t want to hear. If we can regret or embrace the changes of age, which are YOU choosing? Why? Don’t let anyone tell you aging is all wonderful! Each age carries its challenges, but each also brings the possibility of maturity, relaxation and a greater connection to ourselves. Let’s cultivate the skill of embracing our aging at any age. Call and share your stories. Ask questions and let host Beth Green help you laugh to enlightenment. And click the link to the right to join our growing community – the post-show InsideOut discussion forum – via phone or online! Let’s take on aging together!

You’ve heard people say: “Don’t hang out with that guy. He has no ambition.” But then you’ve also heard: “Watch out for that new girl. She’s ambitious and doesn’t care who she steps on.” Ambition: Is it good or bad? Do you have it? Do you lack it? Do you like it in yourself but distrust it in others? Are you embarrassed to have it? Do you think it’s okay in some areas but not in others? Let’s get real. In this edition of InsideOut, host Beth Green blows the cover on ambition. What exactly is it? Why the love/hate relationship with it? How do we transform our relationship to it so that it supports rather than drives us? And how do we get it if we need it? For honesty and new insights, trust Beth Green and InsideOut! Tune in, call in, email, or participate as you’re comfortable in our NEW post-show phone and online forum where our audience discusses each show! Click the link on the right side of our host page for all the details. Join us and become part of our growing online community!

So you’ve set up your apartment, house or cabin in the woods, and now you’re alone. Or you’ve filled your home with a mate, kids, friends or pets, and there you are! In your haven. Or are you? Do you want to come home at the end of the day? Is there loneliness, or is there tension, arguing, polite non-conversation, pretending or smoldering resentment? Is your home clean and orderly, or is it in chaos, strewn with pizza boxes, dirty dishes, unopened bills? Home: haven or hell, and why? Is it us? Is it them? Are we living alone when we should live with others? When with others, do we have tools to resolve differences, large or small? Do we or our housemates bring home stress or exude negativity? Are we ourselves demanding or self-centered? Even alone, are we peaceful within ourselves? Let’s take an honest look at our homes and learn what we can do to make them the sanctuaries we hope they can be. Tune in for some real soul searching, and call host Beth Green to share or to ask for help!

Loss – everybody has it. Whether it’s a loved one, home, job, money, business, health or capacities, we all face loss. Even as kids we lose our two front teeth and maybe our belief in Santa Claus! But if the young suffer loss, the more we age, the more we seem to lose, and that’s not fun. When we’re young, we see the future as an exciting time to acquire: an education, career, house, mate, kids, the chance to do new things. But as we age, we seem to face more and more loss and fewer and fewer gains. No matter our age, however, the challenge is the same: How to turn loss into gain without lying to ourselves, pretending or rationalizing. In this episode of InsideOut, we’re going to face this question head on! What have you lost? What did you gain? Did you piss and moan and then evolve? Or did you piss and moan and then piss and moan? Tune in or email. Better yet, call in, tell us your loss, and let’s see if we can help you turn loss into gain – even if the gain is just greater wisdom!

Have you ever been envious, jealous or competitive with others? Have you ever suffered from other people’s envy, jealousy or competition with you? Most of us have. These qualities are common and widespread among us, but they still can hurt. On this episode of InsideOut, we’re going to get real about envy, jealousy and competition. We’re going to define them, look at their origins in our psyches and society, and acknowledge their effects on us all. And we’re going to do so with compassion for ourselves and everybody else. But let’s go further. Let’s bond together to see how we can lessen their power over us and support one another to co-create a world where they become increasingly rare. Are you game? Can you envision a different world? Tune into this episode of InsideOut. Email questions before or during the show. Or call in live to share your story about how you have been envious, jealous or competitive or been hurt by those qualities in others. Share what you’ve learned. Join us!

Have you ever been around someone who had real confidence? Did you envy them? Or did you admire them and feel safe, because you knew you could trust them to be who they said they were and do what they said they could? On the other hand, have you ever felt resentful or suspicious of someone who acted confident? Was it because you were feeling negative about yourself and felt compelled to cover it up by putting them down? Or was it because you sensed they were puffing themselves at your expense and/or not able to deliver? In this edition of InsideOut, host Beth Green will lead a discussion of confidence and ego. She’ll help us tell the difference between the two in ourselves and others. And she’ll support us to discover what might be stopping us from being confident when we should be and what might be causing us to puff ourselves up when humility would be the better course. Tune in, call or email. Speak to Beth live if you want to benefit from her uncanny insight into you and others.

Most of us think of ourselves as individual souls on a singular path. But here’s a guy, Dr. Carl Calleman, with a different idea. He says, “What if human civilization is a product of an evolving global mind field that we are all part of? What if this is a divine mind that always influences the way we think?” So much for free will! Carl Calleman is coming to InsideOut to discuss his latest book, The Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization. In it, he speaks knowledgably about history, archaeology and human biology, examines the rise of civilization and brings evidence to a mystical perspective. Tune into our show, where he and host Beth Green will talk about their shared view that we are aspects of the divine in the process of evolution. Learn more about his unique perspective, that of a scientist, as well as a world-renowned expert in the field of the Mayan calendar. Call in or email in advance. Let’s discuss just how the global mind could inspire you, limit you, express through you.

Lots of things guide us to our destiny. Sometimes we have a vision and go for it. Other times things get so bad, we just have to change. Think of a situation that was so bad you had to shift course. Was that a change you secretly wanted but feared to admit? Did you want things to get that bad, so you would have to change, despite your fears or reluctance? Did you want to prove how bad things were, so that people around you would have to support you, even if initially they didn’t? And when adversity did guide your destiny, did you gripe or embrace the process? Did you tend to focus on the value of the change or the pain of the loss? Whether it’s a marriage getting to the breaking point, our health tanking or our own behavior nearly destroying us, let’s acknowledge how bad things can guide us to move in different directions, and let’s look at how we react when it does! Tune in, call in or email. Maybe we won’t need adversity to guide us next time, or maybe we’ll embrace it when it does!

Madam Mazurka is on a roll. This dead, Transylvanian psychic lady is fresh from her first-ever video appearance on the topic of “How to Increase Love & Passion at Any Age,” featured on YouTube.com. And she’s ready for more. “I just scratched the surface of the topic,” she said in a recent interview. “And I’d like to go deeper.” So join us! Ask her why age doesn’t matter, when it comes to love, passion and sex. Learn more of her tips for deepening your connection to your partner and yourself. And have more experiences of energetic connection with her, experiences that open you to that spiritual-sexual connection to life! For those who don’t know her, Madam Mazurka comes out of Beth’s mouth, but she’s her own free spirit. She frequently co-hosts with Beth and James, and people love to hear her on the show. So tune in to this episode to enjoy the wit and wisdom of Madam M! Call in your questions live, or email during the show or before. And watch her video on YouTube for even more.

We all know how to celebrate: Dinner, flowers, a party or gift. But are these traditions always geared to the person or occasion? Or are we just doing what’s expected (I’ve always given my son a Christmas gift)? Or trying to look caring by doing the “right” thing the other parents are going all out for their daughter’s wedding)? On today’s show we’re going to talk about celebration. We’ll laugh at some of the things we’ve done for the wrong reasons. Then we’ll look at some people or occasions we want to recognize and do it consciously. We’ll tap into the spirit of the event or person, then uncover the most meaningful way to celebrate them! We need your participation. Who or what do you want to honor? Email or call in live, so you can help us tune into their spirit and explore the best way to celebrate them. We’ll be joined by Madam Mazurka and the “Guru,” two of Beth’s personas, who will help create more meaningful celebrations that truly honor the spirit of what matters to us.

What causes someone to become a spiritual teacher who dedicates his or her life to inspiring others? Have you ever wanted that identity for yourself? What are the joys? What are the pitfalls of ego, expectations and self-delusion that can accompany such an identity? Meet Simran Singh, host of 11:11 on VoiceAmerica’s 7th Wave channel, publisher of 11:11 Magazine and creator of the Rebel Road Tour. Many of you have heard her program and would like to know more about her from the inside out. We will be asking Simran about her early life as the child of an Indian Sikh family growing up in Bamberg, South Carolina. What can she share about living at the divide of 2 cultures? How did those experiences shape her personality? What was it like entering an arranged marriage? Why is she so passionate about transformation and authenticity? How does she handle having a bad hair day? If you are interested in an intimate portrait of Simran Singh, join us. And call in or email your questions.

We’ve all lived with authority figures: natural, step- or foster parents, older siblings, teachers, even bosses. And we’re used to those figures being in charge. What happens when they are no longer there – either because they died, became frail or someone moved away? These were the guys who created order in the universe, even if the order was unfair. How does their absence change us and our relationships? Do we rebel angrily against having been dominated in the past? Do we claim the role of authority figure or critical parent with someone we think WE can dominate? Do we try to punish the sibling we think the parents favored? Do we pick on someone who represents that sibling to us now? Do we seek a new authority? Let’s get conscious about how we behave when no one’s in charge. Let’s laugh, heal and transform our sibling relationships, wherever they show up – with mates, friends or anywhere else. Let’s turn competition into cooperation and mutual support. Listen, call, email. Join us!