Gina Conway, multi-award-winning salon owner, sustainability ambassador, and founder of Gina Conway Aveda Salons & Spas in London, joins Dr. Tara Perry to explore what 38 years behind the salon chair has taught her about beauty, confidence, and the human need to be truly seen. Gina grew up in Lake Tahoe, built her salon business from the ground up in London, and — when menopause brought her to her knees at 51 — reinvented her entire approach to wellness.

This conversation starts with hair and ends somewhere much deeper: what it means to find the flame in every person, and why the most powerful thing you can offer another human being is your full, undivided attention.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

04:50 Gina listens with all her senses — not just her ears — and describes it as a full-body experience with every client.
05:35 What people are really seeking when they sit in a salon chair isn't a haircut. It's confidence and the experience of their inner light being brought out.
07:02 Gina built her business around a "guest journey" — replacing the word "client" with "guest" and redesigning every single touchpoint around positive energy and love.
09:28 At 51, menopause brought Gina to a breaking point — she was resting her head on the dinner table every night, too exhausted to be present with her family or her hundred employees.
14:01 Gina tracks beauty the way others track problems — deliberately following what delights her and lights her up, which has shaped every area of her life and work.
19:45 The first 30 seconds of a guest consultation are everything: connection, rapport, and trust — always eye to eye, never through a mirror.
21:20 People use their hair as armor — to hide, to disappear, to project strength. A hairdresser who understands that is doing something closer to therapy.
24:09 Gina's wellness ritual begins every appointment: 32 essential oils, three deep cleansing breaths, and a full head, neck, and shoulders massage done with deliberate healing intention.
31:40 Beauty is in everybody — not just the 3%. Gina says she would love the opportunity to help anyone who doesn't feel beautiful see what she already sees in them.
32:23 Attractiveness has nothing to do with how you look. Sexy is a state of mind — it's how you hold yourself, how you play, how you express.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

ginaconwaysalons.co.uk — Gina's award-winning Aveda salons and spas in London, including the flagship Wimbledon location
Gina Conway on Instagram — @conway_gina

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What if the answers you’ve been searching for… you already know?

What if your intuition has been talking to you all along—and you’ve simply learned not to hear it?

Medical intuitive Julie Ryan joins Dr. Tara Perry for a fascinating conversation about intuition, healing, and what may be possible when we start listening.
KEY TAKEAWAYS

05:10 Julie raises her vibrational level to the frequency of spirit and watches a hologram of the body in her mind's eye — like an X-ray — to identify what needs healing.
10:15 Nobody ever heals anybody else. Healers facilitate the process, but the body always heals itself.
13:03 If you receive information that feels negative or abusive during spiritual practice, that's your brain — not spirit. Spirit is pure love.
15:59 Energetic healing happens instantly on the spiritual level, then integrates into the physical body — sometimes immediately, sometimes over days or weeks.
22:00 Everyone is already intuitive. Thinking of someone right before they call you? That's your intuition at work.
22:27 Julie's daily routine: legs-up-the-wall meditation, the rosary, and two minutes standing in the superwoman pose facing the sun.
26:43 We all come in with the same spiritual hardware. Children are naturally psychic until adults teach them not to trust it.
33:34 The faces people see during meditation are the multitudes of spirits that surround us always — ask them if they have a message.
40:43 The biggest way we get in our own way is using logic to override what spirit is already telling us. The antidote: ask "what if?" and take one step.
38:00 University research now shows that 90% of people at the end of life see and communicate with deceased loved ones and pets. Nobody dies alone.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

askjulieryan.com — Julie's website, free book download, call-in show schedule, and training information
Angelic Attendance — Julie's free digital and audiobook on what really happens as we transition from this life to the next
Ask Julie Ryan Show — Julie's live call-in show, Thursdays at 8pm ET / 7pm CT / 5pm PT
Julie's Atlanta Training — October 23–25, learn to develop your own intuitive and healing abilities in person

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Dr. Pegotty Cooper, co-founder of the Certified Divorce Coach Program and a Supreme Court of Florida-certified family mediator, joins Dr. Tara Perry to share a story she says she almost never tells: the night a man broke into her home in pitch-black darkness, pinned her to her bed, and called her by name. It's not just a home-invasion story — it's proof of what three years of deliberate practice in emotional validation can do when a life is actually on the line.

Pegotty breaks down affect labeling from the neuroscience up — why naming someone's emotion shuts down their threat response faster than reasoning ever could, why she's watched it change outcomes in courtrooms and prisons alike, and how burying her own grief at age eight taught her, decades later, exactly what silence costs.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

02:33 A man she thought was her cat turned out to be an intruder pinning her to her bed in a pitch-black room. He said only four words the entire encounter: "No, Peg, don't" — and knowing her name terrified her more than anything else.

05:37 Instead of fighting or freezing, she started talking: "You're such a kind person. You're an honorable member of society. Why would you want to be doing this?" With every validating phrase, she felt the energy drain out of his hands until he sighed, got up, and walked out.

08:32 Three days later, she learned her neighbor across the street had gone into a cornfield and shot himself. She believes he was the intruder — and chose never to seek confirmation rather than reopen the wound for his widow.

13:39 A darker counter-example: her sister was murdered by a neighbor's son after she'd once told him he "made her feel uncomfortable." He carried that single remark, stacked on a lifetime of his own unaddressed trauma, into a decision that ended her life.

21:17 What affect labeling actually is: naming what someone is feeling back to them ("you're angry," "you're feeling unsupported") using a "you" statement — not to agree or fix anything, just to be heard.

22:33 The neuroscience: when a person is emotionally escalated, their prefrontal cortex — the slow, rational part of the brain — disconnects. Naming the emotion out loud reconnects it, letting them think clearly again instead of just reacting.

24:05 Prison recidivism rates dropped significantly once inmates were taught affect labeling to use with each other — proof that the technique works even in the highest-stakes, highest-conflict environments.

27:05 Why affect labeling outperforms the classic advice to use "I" statements: "I" statements can't be refuted, but they don't lend the escalated person your own calm, functioning prefrontal cortex the way naming their emotion does.

32:26 Her mother died when Pegotty was eight and a half; the family's rule was "life is for the living" — no mourning, no discussion. She spent decades believing she simply didn't have emotions like other people.

38:13 The word that finally broke her open: at a Landmark Education event, hearing another woman say "abandoned" hit her like a fist to the chest. She'd spent 40 years avoiding that exact word — until she finally let herself feel it, held for two minutes by a stranger.

44:38 A divorce attorney once called one of Pegotty's trained coaches mid-trial, desperate, because his client was performing so badly on the stand she was about to lose her children. One unscripted phone call of pure validation later, the attorney called back and said, "I don't know what you did, but I'm in."

RESOURCES MENTIONED
Certified Divorce Coach Program — Pegotty Cooper's co-founded certification program for divorce coaches
De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less — Doug Noll's book, the foundation of the affect labeling technique discussed in this episode
Divorce: Taking the High Road — Simple Strategies for Creating a Healthy Divorce, co-authored by Pegotty Cooper
Divorce: Overcome the Overwhelm and Avoid the Six Biggest Mistakes — co-authored by Pegotty Cooper
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Dr. David Jernigan, doctor, researcher, inventor, and founder of the Biologix Center for Optimum Health, joins Dr. Tara Perry to share how nearly 30 years in treatment-resistant chronic illness led him to invent a therapy that turns the body's own viruses into precision antibiotics — a search that began because no one could help his own wife. This isn't just a Lyme story. It's a story about a decade of bedridden Christmases, cookbook medicine, an epiphany scribbled in the margins of a magazine at 30,000 feet, and what happens when a doctor refuses to accept that his wife is a lost cause.

Dr. Jernigan breaks down the circuitry, the testing, and the phage science behind his results — and why the goal was never to kill every pathogen, but to restore the body's range of adaptability.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

05:33 A doctor is only as good as he's been taught. Dr. Jernigan estimates 99% of medicine is cookbook doctoring — and no matter how good a hammer is, you can't build a house with only a hammer.

08:27 His definition of optimum health: the point where body, mind, and spirit respond correctly and instantly to any change in the internal or external environment. A husband and wife can test positive for the exact same infections while only one is sick — the difference isn't the bugs, it's range of adaptability.

13:26 The body runs on semi-dedicated circuits. Your kidneys, your two front teeth, and your psoas muscle share one — and when that circuit blows, everything on it drops to roughly 40% power.

17:48 Flown to England to treat a girl who hadn't walked in six and a half months, Dr. Jernigan spent one hour turning her circuits back on. She sat up, stood, and walked across the room. Three days later they were playing lawn darts.

24:36 His wife fell on her face trying to get from the bathroom to her bed and prayed, "Either kill me or show me what to do." She opened her laptop, and within five minutes a stranger in a support group mentioned the Biologix Center.

27:44 The eureka moment came on a plane to a Lyme conference, scribbled into the margins of a Scientific American article on bacteriophages. When he called his wife to tell her, she said: "Well, you do it, and if you don't die, I'll think about it."

32:18 He eliminated infection after infection and her headache stayed. She asked him to test deeper. The culprit was candida auris — and once he built a formula to target that one organism, the headache was gone in 10 minutes.

35:41 What a phage actually is: you are born with up to 100 trillion of them. They're benevolent viruses that only infect microbes, never your own cells — and they kill roughly 40% of the bacteria in your body every single day.

40:55 In a study of 26 chronically infected Lyme patients begun one week before COVID hit, 24 of 26 (92%) showed complete elimination of the targeted infection — and 77% tested negative after only four days of treatment.

50:20 The formulas contain no phages at all. They induce the phages already living in you — which means they can cross the blood-brain barrier and break down mycotoxins where binders never could.

55:41 Every cell in your body is listening to everything you say and think, and takes it as a command to change its chemistry. Your mind doesn't cause the illness, but it does have to be in alignment for the body to work from the inside out.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Biologix Center for Optimum Health — Dr. Jernigan's clinic in Franklin, Tennessee, offering all-inclusive one- to four-week programs of care

PhagenCorp — The company producing the Inducen phage inducer formulas, with online training and registration for healthcare practitioners

Adjunctive Testing Using Biospectral Emission Sequencing — Dr. Jernigan's open-access peer-reviewed article explaining how BES testing works (searchable as "Cureus Jernigan bioregulatory")

Induced Native Phage Therapy for the Treatment of Lyme Disease and Relapsing Fever — The published Cureus study behind the 24-of-26 results discussed in this episode

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Robert Hartline, entrepreneur, EOS implementer, and founder of Music City Work Club, joins Dr. Tara Perry to share how he went from selling cell phones out of the trunk of his car to building a company with over $100 million in sales — and then walked away to live in Costa Rica while it kept running. This isn't just a business story. It's a story about breathwork, manifestation, sobriety, armed robberies, and what happens when an entrepreneur finally stops firefighting long enough to become the fire chief.

Robert breaks down the frameworks, mindset shifts, and inner work that made sustainable success possible — and why love, not strategy, is the most important thing any entrepreneur can master.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

02:22 Robert went from not thinking of himself as a salesperson to recognizing sales as the most lucrative learnable skill on the planet.
13:11 Reading Traction was the first time Robert understood that entrepreneurship, like selling, is a skill with a recipe — not a personality trait.
15:50 Watching a fire chief stand back and observe while others fought the fire was the moment Robert realized he had been a firefighter, not a leader.
19:56 Do the work you love, with the people you love — Robert calls this the formula for heaven, and its opposite the formula for unnecessary suffering.
28:54 Robert scaled fast by teaching his team one thing: that caring about people is a skill, and it's the only skill that actually drives sales.
34:13 The weekend Robert moved his family to Costa Rica, he was robbed of $80,000. His nervous system activated — and for the next year, he unconsciously manifested break-ins, fraud, and theft until breathwork helped him see what he was creating.
38:00 A life coach asked Robert what he did. He said, "I sell cell phones" — dismissively. Her reframe of his impact changed his energy and 10X'd his results.
39:04 Breathwork became Robert's primary tool for shifting state — fear, guilt, creative blocks, high-stakes meetings — all addressable in under 10 minutes.
49:55 Robert built Music City Work Club first in his mind during a breathwork session — two years before it existed as a building.
52:40 The number one tool for finding your why is a friend willing to ask you a real question: What do you want to do while you're here?

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Music City Work Club — Robert's entrepreneurial community in Nashville for building businesses and lives worth living
The Decision Experience — Robert's breathwork and embodiment event, held every other Sunday in Nashville
Traction by Gino Wickman — The EOS book that changed how Robert built and scaled his business
Soma Breathwork — The rhythmic breathing practice Robert credits with transforming his inner life and sobriety
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Daniel Everett, professor of cognitive sciences at Bentley University and author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, joins Dr. Tara Perry to share what 30 years living among the Pirahã people of the Amazon taught him about happiness, fear, and the stories Western culture tells itself. He arrived as an evangelical missionary. He left a changed man.

The Pirahã have no suicide, no panic attacks, no depression, and no word for the past they refuse to carry. In this episode, Daniel breaks down exactly how they live, and what the rest of us might be doing wrong.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

03:19 Daniel went to the Amazon to convert the Pirahã — and calls his failure the best thing that ever happened to him.
05:15 When Daniel described suicide to the Pirahã, they burst out laughing. They had never heard of such a thing.
09:47 A Stanford psychologist measured Pirahã happiness the simplest way possible — by tracking how often they laugh and smile.
17:27 The only behaviors the Pirahã consider unacceptable are losing your temper, violence, and forcing others against their will.
34:21 The Pirahã live entirely in the present — not talking about the past or future is a deliberate cultural value, built into their language.
36:07 Pirahã verbs carry a built-in suffix that marks whether an event is in your control or out of it — a distinction that shapes how they relate to life.
37:20 Every few months, Pirahã people change their names after a significant event — a practical way to leave the past behind and become someone new.
43:16 The Pirahã's self-confidence, resilience, and fearlessness in the face of genuine daily danger ultimately cost Daniel his Christian faith.
47:50 The Pirahã openly saw and described an entity on the riverbank that Daniel, standing beside them, could not see at all.
54:00 Daniel's takeaway from three decades in the Amazon: when you're underwater, keep walking. You will reach the bank.
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Nancy Rynes, author of Awakenings from the Light, Walking in the Light, and Messages from Heaven, joins Dr. Tara Perry to share what happened when a distracted driver ran her over on a Colorado bike path, dragged her 50 feet, and left her with over 100 bone fractures — and what she experienced on the other side. A former scientist and committed atheist, Nancy returned from her near-death experience with a radically transformed understanding of consciousness, the soul, and what she now calls "home."

In this episode, Nancy walks through her life review, her spirit guide's beyond-telepathic communication, why she refuses to call it the "afterlife," and the daily practices that keep her connected to source energy a decade after her recovery.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

00:10 Consciousness can split during trauma — Nancy experienced the accident from two simultaneous vantage points.
16:33 A mysterious trauma nurse held Nancy down at the scene, almost certainly preventing her death from a broken neck.
27:00 During her NDE, Nancy began remembering that Earth is the simulation, not home.
31:42 The life review was the most transformative part — she experienced every event from the perspective of everyone involved.
34:06 Thoughts carry energy that extends beyond the skull and affect the people and situations around you.
37:11 Communication in the NDE was beyond telepathic — feelings, history, and meaning transmitted in an instant.
41:10 We plan our lives at a high level before arriving, including a pre-agreed willingness to experience difficulty.
45:11 Nancy's father appeared at the foot of her bed at the exact moment of his death, 250 miles away.
54:55 Nancy's bones healed in four weeks despite over 100 fractures — her doctors were stunned.
58:07 The heart is the direct channel to source, and 15 minutes of genuine gratitude or love can shift your entire state.
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Allyne Betancourt, a member of the Dr. Joe Dispenza healing community, joins Dr. Tara Perry to share one of the most extraordinary healing stories on the show to date: how she was diagnosed with advanced colorectal cancer, cured it holistically before ever undergoing surgery, and then — after surgeons removed most of her rectum anyway — used meditation and visualization to regenerate the organ back to nearly full size. Allyne walks through her refusal to "own" her cancer, the alternative protocols she combined with traditional treatment, the devastating aftermath of a surgery she now believes was unnecessary, and the dark night of the soul that led her to Dr. Joe Dispenza's work. The conversation closes with the medical documentation of her regeneration, the forgiveness work that made healing possible, and her hard-won belief that anyone — not just the exceptional — has this same capacity for the impossible.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

(00:02:38) Diagnosed with advanced T3 colorectal cancer and told surgery and a permanent colostomy bag were her only option — and her calm, immediate decision to refuse
(00:05:37) "This is not my cancer" — why Allyne refused to own her diagnosis from day one, and how that mindset carried through seven months of treatment
(00:10:01) Combining traditional treatment with alternative approaches: organic-only foods, raising her own grass-fed beef, and daily Buddhist chanting for hours at a time
(00:11:54) Fasting five days before each chemo treatment — and the unusually severe reactions her oncologists had never seen before
(00:19:27) The pressure to have surgery despite inconclusive scans, and her repeated request that doctors simply look before cutting
(00:28:06) Waking up from surgery and instantly knowing she'd made a mistake — while the surgeon celebrated how well the procedure had gone
(00:30:13) The physical toll of losing 8-10 centimeters of colon and most of her rectum: nonstop urgency, incontinence, and a dehumanizing new reality
(00:36:04) Getting the lab results back — no cancer found anywhere in the tissue that was removed
(00:37:15) Five months of worsening depression and a devastating conversation with her husband about not wanting to live like this anymore
(00:39:50) The turning point: "I'm either going to live like this, or I have to grow another rectum"
(00:46:04) Starting Dr. Joe Dispenza's meditation practice while running to the bathroom every 45-50 minutes, and the first sign of change after two months
(00:52:16) Confronting the surgeon who performed the operation — and learning she had no idea Allyne never had cancer to begin with
(00:59:50) The visualization practice Allyne used to dissolve scar tissue and "stretch" her remaining rectal tissue back toward full size
(01:10:18) The colonoscopy that documented her rectum had grown from 3 centimeters to 10 centimeters, with no trace of scar tissue
(01:15:46) Her message on breaking "the habit of being yourself" and why she believes healing the impossible isn't reserved for exceptional people
(01:18:09) How Allyne has learned to meet life's setbacks with curiosity and trust instead of fear — even in the face of her husband's death

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