Today’s operation is a little switch between worrying and preparing, and then getting after it. A few thoughts on golf, football, and self-brain surgery will help us stop worrying and start preparing to take action when it’s time! Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34, I Corinthians 9:24-26 Music by Tommy Walker Newsletter mentioned: James Clear (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) This is a public episode. If you’d like to dis...
Oct 15, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 176
Lisa Bevere is a powerful voice for troubled times Join me for a conversation with New York Times bestselling author and international minister Lisa Bevere. We talk about her important book, Adamant, how holding onto truth and embracing our God-given strength helps up face any situation in life. Lisa’s Official Bio: Lisa Bevere has spent nearly three decades empowering women to find their identity and purpose. She is a cancer survivor and a New York Times bestselling author. Her books include Wi...
Oct 14, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 175
It’s good to know you’ve got a friend who will always come through for you That’s what our daughter Kalyn told me when she picked the James Taylor song, You’ve Got a Friend for her to dance to with me at her wedding last weekend in Alabama. Kalyn only asked two things of me for her wedding: to dance with her to that old song (I used to sing it to her when she was little), and to make a short speech at the reception. I’m not much of a dancer, but we got through it. The speech, though, was harder....
Oct 13, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 174
If you want to make real progress in your life, stop putting mountains in our own way. Here are some thoughts from Hebrews 12:12-13 on making level paths for our feet. Music from Elevation Worship (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices....
Oct 12, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 173
The last three years have felt like we're all being sifted! Jesus told Peter that Satan had asked to "sift you like wheat." What happened next is a remarkable story. It's Tuesdays with Tata and we have a great conversation for you! (Replay of TWT #19, from November 2021. Back with all new episodes tomorrow!) Scriptures: Luke 5 Luke 22 Ephesians 1 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscrib...
Oct 11, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 172
The 5 R's of Mind Management Will Set You Up For Success! Renew. "Do not allow this world to mold you in its own image. Instead, be transformed from the inside out by renewing your mind. As a result, you will be able to discern what God wills and whatever God finds good, pleasing, and complete." (Romans 12:2) Reset. "Finally, brothers and sisters, fill your minds with beauty and truth. Meditate on whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is good, w...
Oct 10, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 171
Surgery Is A Balance Between Power and Finesse (Note: I'm taking a day off! Here's a helpful episode from last year, one of my favorites!) So is life. Here are some musings on paradox, on baseball, on things that sound opposite but have to coexist, on how to be tender in a hard world. Thanks to Jon Swanson for inspiration. Here's Jon's essential daily blog. Scriptures mentioned Romans 11:22 “Note then the kindness and the severity of God..” Romans 8:35 “Who shall separate us from the love of Chr...
Oct 09, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 170
Sometimes We Need to Adjust Our Own Attitudes IF We Want to Make Progress! Click here to download the transcript! In this episode, we'll take the bad thought biopsy results from last week and use them to accomplish real life change. We dig in under the hood and learn to lobotomize our lousy attitudes. Negative thoughts come in two categories: those there to motivate us when we need to make positive changes, and those that are the result of disordered, negative thinking. Learning to tell the diff...
Oct 08, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 169
Science and Faith Do Not Have to Fight Each Other Join me for an amazing conversation with Dr. Michael Guillen, Ph.D. about his important book, Believing is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith. Dr. Guillen was born in East Los Angeles, where he dreamed of becoming a scientist. The dream took him to UCLA, where he earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics. Then to Cornell, where he earned an M.S. in experimental physics and Ph.D. degre...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 168
How Do We Maintain Hope When Science Says It's Hopeless? (Throwback Thursday replay) Thoughts on how to use science AND faith together even when all seems lost. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 06, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 167
Here’s a powerful way to spend some quiet time today. Question: What did Jesus say was the key to being set free from anything that holds us back? Listen for the answer! Scripture: Luke 4:18-19, John 8:31-32 Music by Paul Baloche and David Crowder (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.subst...
Oct 05, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 166
It’s Tuesdays with Tata! Today, we pick apart an old Hebrew proverb, and mine it for a great lesson that’s as timely today as it was in those days. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth are set on edge. We talk about what that means, and how it applies to our lives today. Scripture: Ezekiel 18:2, Jeremiah 31:28PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen! Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new boo...
Oct 04, 2022•25 min•Season 6Ep. 22
It’s Mind Change Monday! Today, I have one question for you: how high is your floor? It’s a quick mindset shift, a decision to finally gain control of anything that’s been holding us back. Scripture mentioned: Job 38:11 Music by CeCe Winans (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com...
Oct 03, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 164
Life is hard. And it can produce stress and anxiety for all of us sometimes. But synapses that fire together wire together, and it’s possible to teach our brains how to live an anxiety lifestyle, so that we frequently slip into anxiety and stress even when nothing is actually happening. This episode will help us learn to break the cycle of fear and anxiety, cultivate calm, and make a huge difference in our quality of life. Scripture: II Corinthians 1:8-11 This episode was inspired by Jon Swanson...
Oct 02, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 163
It’s Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Today’s operation is the Thought Autopsy. It’s a super-powerful technique you can use to look critically at what your were thinking about during times that were particularly good or bad, successful or not, happy or sad. Thoughts become things, and learning to go back and retrospectively dissecting our own thinking during such times is a superpower for learning how to replicate the good and avoid the bad outcomes next time we encounter a similar circumstance. Scr...
Oct 01, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 162
Are We Managing Our Lives, or Really Changing Them? Our last good decision for September is to commit to real change, instead of just managing things over and over! I see people in my office every week who are hurting, and often times I can offer them a fix for their problem. But some folks just want to manage their pain, take a pill, or do something that's quicker and less scary than having surgery. This episode was inspired by Tommy Walker's song Water Into Wine, which was written out of the s...
Sep 30, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 161
Cashing Out Paper Losses Turns Them Into Real Losses (Throwback Thursday replay!) That's tragic in investing, but it's a disaster in the rest of your life too. Here are some principles to help manage our minds and behaviors when life seems to be handing us big losses. We'll look at the psychology of investing, and apply it to the rest of our lives. And we'll see God as the God who can give us late-market rallies, 4th quarter comebacks, and who makes a way where there is no way. PLUS! A story abo...
Sep 29, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 160
Storms are going to come in life. How we prepare for them makes all the difference. When my last book came out, I did a podcast interview in which I was asked a strange question: When did Noah build the arc? The answer: Before it started raining. Look, storms happen in life. Hard times come, but when things get hard, strong people get busy. And when great opportunities come, we need to be ready. Let’s pick up the hammer and start building that arc. Because the rain is coming. Because something g...
Sep 28, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 159
It’s Tuesdays with Tata! Today, we talk about something called “high places” in the Bible. It’s a great lesson about the power of culture to draw us away from what really matters. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drleewarren.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 27, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 158
It’s Mind Change Monday! (Back tomorrow with a brand-new Tuesdays with Tata!) Today I want to remind you that it’s okay to say no. Here’s Self-Brain Surgery Tip #10: No is not a cuss word. You need margin and space to be efficient and do the things you commit to well. It’s better to say no kindly than to say yes and then let more important things suffer. Scripture: Matthew 5:37 Music by Tommy Walker (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP l...
Sep 26, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 157
You Can't Trust Every Thought That Pops Into Your Head In this episode, we'll make more progress on our journey towards achieving real life change. We peek under the hood of our thought patterns and behaviors and learn to diagnose the ones we need to change. Once we understand how we think, we can start making things better. If you want a better tomorrow, you have to make changes in your life, and you have to start today. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscri...
Sep 25, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 156
Synapses are where the business of the nervous system happens. Lately, we’ve been talking about the basics of self-brain surgery to learn how to think about our thinking, and the ideas behind my new book, Hope is the First Dose. But this isn’t just some “self-help” or motivational speaker-type thing. Because the vast majority of your life, the decisions you make, the relationships you have, the things you accomplish or strive for come out of how you think: your attitudes, your thought patterns. ...
Sep 24, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 155
Do you find yourself wondering where God is? Wondering why God seems to be taking forever to answer your prayers? Wondering why everything seems so hard all the time? Are you so tired of being so tired? If so, a good decision you can make is to learn to grow while you’re waiting! Here’s a short lesson about the latin phrase mutatis mutandis, which means “after the necessary changes have been made.” Scriptures: Psalm 13 Habakkuk 1 Isaiah 42:8-9 Joshua 3 Micah 7:7 Music by Tommy Walker (Music shar...
Sep 23, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 154
Self-Brain Surgery Tip #7:(It's Tata's birthday! Email him if you'd like to say hello! lee@drleewarren.com ) When you make a mistake, admit it to yourself and correct it going forward. Excuses build the false idea in your brain that it’s not really your fault, and you’ll be more likely to do it again. Own it, recalibrate, move forward and you’ll be happier! It's No-Slip November friend! In the Bible, we read of how the Israelites turned an 11-day trip into a 40-year-long journey through the dese...
Sep 22, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 153
When You Can't Hear Truth in Your Own Brain, You Need Better Words(REPLAY of Season 5, Episode 89 for Wild Card Wednesday) “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.” (Deuteronomy 32:46–47) In this episode, we’re going to look at ...
Sep 21, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 152
It's Tuesdays with Tata! Today, we talk about Romans 12, to find the incredible hope that lies in changing our minds. Music by Tommy Walker Sign up for my Substack letter here. (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Go to my website www.wleewarrenmd.com for more information about my letter, this show, my books, and more. John to Know, James to Grow bible study Some music on the show comes from Tunetank.com This is a pu...
Sep 20, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 151
It's Tuesdays with Tata!Today, we talk about Romans 12, to find the incredible hope that lies in changing our minds. Music by Tommy Walker Sign up for my Substack letter here.(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Go to my website www.wleewarrenmd.com for more information about my letter, this show, my books, and more. John to Know, James to Grow bible study Some music on the show comes from Tunetank.com This is a publ...
Sep 20, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 150
It's Mind Change Monday! Gratitude is a key superpower for happiness. C.S. Lewis teaches us how to find the little evidences, the "Godlight" around us, that can fill us with gratitude and hope no matter how tough our circumstances are. Music by Paul Baloche Scripture: Acts 17 Books mentioned: Happiness by Randy Alcorn, and Letters to Malcolm by C.S. Lewis Sign up for my Substack letter here. (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #...
Sep 19, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 149
If You Keep Making the Same Mistakes, Don't Give Up! Make a new decision about the same old mistakes, starting today! Scripture: Colossians 3:13 Music by Unspoken Sign up for my Substack letter here. (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Go to my website www.wleewarrenmd.com for more information about my letter, this show, my books, and more. John to Know, James to Grow bible study Some music on the show comes from Tu...
Sep 19, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 148
It's Mind Change Monday!Gratitude is a key superpower for happiness. C.S. Lewis teaches us how to find the little evidences, the "Godlight" around us, that can fill us with gratitude and hope no matter how tough our circumstances are. Music by Paul Baloche Scripture: Acts 17 Books mentioned: Happiness by Randy Alcorn, and Letters to Malcolm by C.S. Lewis Sign up for my Substack letter here.(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #40...
Sep 19, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 147
