The Meaning Project

The Meaning Project

Hosted by: Dr. Daniel A. Franz

The Meaning Project - the intersection of Mental Health and Meaning. In this podcast, Dr. Daniel A Franz, speaker, consultant, and psychotherapist, discusses the art and science behind forms of organizational health,...

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TMP-Ep77 - Masterful Storytelling & Healing Hypnotherapy w/ Steve Cohen

You can quickly tell that Steve Cohen is living a meaningful life of helping others - of transcending the self - through his work as an RN and hypnotherapist; but it's his masterfully storytelling that makes you...
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TMP-Ep76 - The Difference Between Meaning and Purpose w/ Rabbi B.

What is the difference between Meaning and Purpose? Ever since The Purpose Driven Life, written by Rick Warren back in 2002, it feels like "Purpose" has taken the lead in pop culture and common language, while Meaning...
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TMP-Ep75 - The 3 Pillars of Planning for the Future w/ Michael Butera

Michael Butera is President and CEO of Association Activision. He is a professional speaker with more than 40 years of experience working exclusively with nonprofits. He focuses on inspiring, educating, and...
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TMP-Ep74 - Self-Transcendence & Self-Love w/ Rayna Steigman

Rayna Steigman is, quite possibly, THE MOST energetic and enthusiastic person I know. And definitely one of the hardest working. Not only is she a training manager and professional speaker by day, but she is also...
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TMP-Ep73 - Preventing Burnout & Compassion Fatigue w/ Kyla Cofer

It is difficult, sometimes if may feel nearly impossible, to maintain our own health and wellness when trying to take care of others - whether that means taking care of an ailing family member, or an organization or...
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TMP-Ep72 - "Discovering" vs. "Making" Meaning w/ Rabbi B.

The great thing about working with Rabbi B. is that we don't really have a plan - we start with a topic and see where it goes, and we end up covering a lot on the topics of mental health, meaning, logotherapy, and a...
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TMP-Ep71 - Resiliency in the Military and at Work w/ Matt Lostaglia

Resiliency continues to be an important topic in our world today. The better we are at it, the more we train ourselves to be resilient in good time, the better we will "bounce back" from difficult times. Matthew...
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TMP-Ep70 - Corporate Culture & Hiking the Mountain with Jay Thompson

"Preach, Teach, Coach, & Serve" - these are the words Jay Thompson has lived by for the past decade. He lives these principles through his work with HikeTheMountain.org; helping businesses and organizations craft...
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TMP-Ep69 - Substance Abuse, Suffering, & Meaning

For this episode, we go back into The Meaning Project archives to a past discussion with Sarah D., a client I worked with almost two decades ago, who is now a mental health professional.In the early days of my career,...
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TMP-Ep68 - The Future of the Frankl Archives w/ Alex Vesely

We are so close to a feature length film on the life of Dr. Viktor Frankl! For this episode, we went deep into the archives to pull up one of my previous discuss with Alex Vesely - Dr. Frankl's grandson. What a...
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TMP-Ep67 - Desperation, Redemption, & Recovery

We seem to be facing an ever increasing substance use and abuse problem. But recovery is possible. In this episode, we go back to a discussion with a former client from my days in adolescent substance abuse...
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TMP-Ep66 - Anxiety, EMDR, and "Big T" & "Little t" Trauma

In this episode we go back a few years to a discussion about anxiety and trauma - something we seem to be facing more of now than ever before.EMDR - Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - a fancy way of...
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