Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
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With 25+ million downloads, the Inspirational Living has been offering motivational broadcasts for the mind, body, and spirit since 2016. If you want to find a free online life coach, look no further than the most motivational self-help authors of the past. Each self-development podcast is edited & adapted from the books and essays of classic inspirational writers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Helen Keller, Booker T. Washington, James Allen, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Orison Swett Marden, Neville Goddard, and Frederick Douglass, as well as self-development authors who have largely been lost to history but deserve to be re-discovered again and enjoyed. Subscribe to...
Episodes(40 episodes)
Living a Life Driven by Your Ideals
Listen to episode 1141 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living a Life Driven by Your Ideals. Edited and adapted from How to Fight the Battles of Life by Carl Hilty.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: True idealism is not the deceiving of oneself about reality, or the intentional ignoring of reality, or the hiding from reality, or the creating for oneself a world of unreality. Idealism, on the contrary, is reached by a deeper interpretation of the world, by victory over it, and especially by victory over oneself. For we, too, are an integral part of the world and we...
Published: Jul 23, 2026Duration: 14m 40s
How to Realize Your Dreams | Uplifting Podcasts
Listen to episode 1140 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Change Your Life Around. Adapted from a 1952 lecture by Neville Goddard.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The only work you are called upon to do is work on yourself. Start this work by observing your reactions to life. Remember, your future is not being developed; it already is. The time track is complete, as well as all of the events you can encounter. As you move up or down the level of your being, changes will occur in your life. You are now resting at a certain l...
Published: Jul 21, 2026Duration: 15m 14s
Overcoming Worries & Anxious Thoughts
Listen to episode 1139 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Worries & Anxious Thoughts. Edited and adapted from: Your Right to Be Happy by Frank & Marion Van Eps.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: About nothing be anxious." THESE words from the Apostle Paul are not in opposition to earnest and determined effort towards a lofty goal; rather they put us in the best frame of mind for effective action, that state which is most conducive to successful endeavors. “About nothing be anxious” is a statement that is opposed to faintheartedness, whether it arises from the consciousness of our own limit...
Published: Jul 16, 2026Duration: 17m 45s
The Sacred Wisdom of the Kybalion
Listen to episode 1138 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Sacred Wisdom from the Kybalion. Adapted from the Kybalion, published in 1912 by the Yogi Publication Society.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: There is always an action and reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising and a sinking; manifested in all of the airs and phenomena of the Universe. Suns, worlds, people, animals, plants, minerals, forces, energy, mind and matter, yes, even Spirit, manifests this Principle. The Principle manifests in the creation and destruction of worlds; in the rise and fall of nations; in the life history of all things; and...
Published: Jul 14, 2026Duration: 14m 50s
Maintaining Your Mental & Spiritual Mood
Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from from from Success and How to Win It by B.F. Austin, published in 1904. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Our condition largely determines the quality of our thought and action — and it is, ther...
Published: Jul 12, 2026Duration: 4m 58s
The Pathway to a Spiritual Life
Listen to episode 1137 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Pathway to a Spiritual Life. Edited & adapted from The Way of Peace by James Allen.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is the mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Without its aid, you cannot grow into the divine state, and the fadeless glories and joys of Truth will remain hidden from you.Meditation is the intense dwelling, in thought, upon an idea or theme, with the object of thoroughly comprehending it...
Published: Jul 9, 2026Duration: 16m 21s
How to Achieve Limitless Wealth
Listen to episode 1136 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Achieve Limitless Wealth. Adapted from the work of Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We assume importance and become a power in the world, just as soon as it is found that we stand for something; that we are not for sale; that we will not lease our ideals for salary, for any amount of money or for any influence or position; that we will not lend our name to anything which we cannot endorse.--------------------- Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon...
Published: Jul 7, 2026Duration: 15m 52s
What the Wise Know & Do | Our Sunday Talks
Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from 4 Minute Essays by Dr. Frank Crane, published in 1919. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: I can do as I please. And I can always refuse. Hence I know that I am responsible for my ac...
Published: Jul 5, 2026Duration: 3m 41s
Living in the Great Eternal Now
Listen to episode 1135 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living in the Great Eternal Now. Adapted from How to Stay Young by Christian D. Larson.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is only in the now that you can live. You can live neither in the past nor in the future. You may think of the past or the future, but you can live only in the now. To train the mind to concentrate the whole of attention upon the great eternal now is to develop the consciousness of the "isness" of the now, and to consciously feel that its...
Published: Jul 2, 2026Duration: 12m 52s
Living the Optimistic Life | Uplifting Podcasts
Listen to episode 1134 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Living the Optimistic Life. Edited and adapted from Helen Keller’s essay on optimism.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Let it be remembered that the world’s philosophers — the Sayers of the Word — were optimists; so also are the men and women of action and achievement—the Doers of the Word. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. The optimist believes, attempts, achieves. They stand always in the sunlight. Some days the wonderful...
Published: Jul 1, 2026Duration: 15m 53s
The True Power of Transformation
Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Light on Life's Difficulties by James Allen. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Each of us stands unique and alone, in a world where we comprehend within ourselves the mysteries of the universe. The ri...
Published: Jun 28, 2026Duration: 5m 57s
Here is Your Key to Success | Motivational Podcasts
Listen to episode 1133 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Here is Your Key to Success. Edited and adapted from The Keys to Success by B.C. Forbes.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Nobody can hand you a ready-made key to open the door of success. You must fashion your own key and find the combination of the lock for yourself. No magician can waft you to the heights of fortune and fame. You cannot fly there on the wings of an airplane. The road, often rocky, has to be traversed on foot. You, and you alone, ca...
Published: Jun 25, 2026Duration: 9m 18s
The Emotional Forces that Drive Success
Listen to episode 1132 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Emotional Forces that Drive Success. Edited and adapted from How to Develop Your Will Power by Clare Tree Major.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Self-control is emotional control. Like all forces inherent in human nature, the emotional forces work equally thoroughly in either direction, as builders or as destroyers. You are, whether you like it or not, dealing with forces, with laws, with energy, which must expend themselves, must carry out their predestined mission — forces as blind and as inevitable as the forces of electricity or the laws of gravitation. <...
Published: Jun 23, 2026Duration: 16m 14s
How to Succeed in the Game of Life
Listen to episode 1131 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Succeed in the Game of Life. Adapted from “If I Were Twenty-One” by Dr. Frank Crane.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Never forget that anyone can be happy if they choose to be. Happiness does not depend on circumstance, but upon YOU. This is perhaps the greatest truth in the world, and the one most persistently disbelieved.Happiness, said Thomas Carlyle, is as the value of a common fraction, which results from dividing the numerator by the denominator. The numerator, in life, is What We Have. The deno...
Published: Jun 18, 2026Duration: 13m 10s
The Power of Laughter & Cheerfulness
Listen to episode 1130 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Adapted from The Optimistic Life by Orison Swett Marden.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Joyous people are not only the happiest, but the longest lived, the most useful and the most successful. A sense of humor, the love of fun in human nature, is a normal, natural lubricant which oils life's machinery, makes it run smoothly, and relieves that grinding of the bearings which prematurely wears away so many lives. The 19th century women’s activist Lydia Maria Child used to say: "I think cheerfulness in...
Published: Jun 16, 2026Duration: 10m 4s
How to Stay Calm and Reduce Stress
Listen to episode 1129 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Be Calm, Cool & Collected. Adapted from a lecture by Dr. George Lincoln Walton.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: If we are to change our mental attitudes, we should begin by modifying them by suggestion. In attacking faulty mental habits, suggestion is the most potent agent at our command. There is nothing new or pseudo-scientific about the practical employment of self-suggestion toward achieving poise and equanimity. Lao Tzu urged his followers to guard their vitality by entering into harmony with their environment. And Cicero claimed that to learn to live...
Published: Jun 11, 2026Duration: 12m 56s
We Must Strive to Do Great Things
Listen to episode 1128 of the Inspirational Living podcast: We Must Strive to do Great Deeds. Edited and adapted from a speech by Teddy Roosevelt.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong person has stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the men and women who are actually in the arena, whose faces are marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strive valiantly; who err; who come short again and again, because there is no effort...
Published: Jun 9, 2026Duration: 16m 34s
The True Nature of Reality | Our Sunday Talks
Welcome to Our Sunday Talks. Today’s talk was edited and adapted from Light on Life's Difficulties by James Allen. Gain access to more episodes (ad-free) by becoming our patron for as little as $3 a month.By becoming a patron, you'll also gain access to our entire archive of Inspirational Living podcasts, plus full transcripts. Learn about the benefits our patrons receive by going to https://livinghour.org/patron. Thank you.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: It is well sometimes to meditate deeply and seriously on the truth of the transitory nature of the things. By meditation we...
Published: Jun 7, 2026Duration: 9m 8s
The Life-Changing Power of Habit
Listen to episode 1127 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Life-Changing Power of Habit. Adapted from book The Mind & Its Education by George Herbert Betts.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:Habit is our "best friend or worst enemy." We are "walking bundles of habits." Habit is a "cable which we cannot break." Such are the popular expressions linked with habitual behavior. In other words, let me know your habits of life, and you have revealed your moral standards and conduct. Let me discover your intellectual habits, and I understand your type of mind and methods of thought. In short, our...
Published: Jun 4, 2026Duration: 16m 27s
Beauty & The Philosophy of Tea
Listen to episode 1126 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Beauty & The Philosophy of Tea. Edited and adapted from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt:The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about humanity and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. I...
Published: Jun 2, 2026Duration: 13m 53s