Why You Should Be Listening to the Make Peace With Life Podcast

There are approximately 47 billion podcasts in the world.

Okay, I made that number up.

But some days it certainly feels like it.

So why should you add the Make Peace With Life Podcast to your listening list?

Because we're trying to do something a little different. We aren't here to convince you that your life is completely screwed up and that you need seventeen steps, nine supplements, three seminars, and a retreat on a mountain to fix yourself.

Our message starts somewhere much simpler:

You are not broken.

You might be confused sometimes. You might be stressed. You might make questionable decisions. You may occasionally walk into a room and completely forget why you're there.

Welcome to being human.

And that's exactly what we talk about.

Metaphysics Without Taking Ourselves Too Seriously

The Make Peace With Life Podcast explores the strange, wonderful, frustrating, funny, spiritual, energetic, and occasionally completely ridiculous adventure of being alive.

We talk about metaphysics, happiness, energy, relationships, spirituality, personal growth, music, travel, mysteries, everyday observations, and those weird little things about life that make you stop and think:

"Wait... why DO we do that?"

One episode might have us talking about positive energy and finding happiness.

Another might take us into Crystal Skulls, Bigfoot, national parks, the energy of crowds, or why relaxing can somehow become exhausting.

That's the beauty of Making Peace With Life.

Everything is connected.

And sometimes the deepest spiritual revelation arrives while you're stuck in traffic, standing in the slowest grocery-store checkout line, listening to a song you haven't heard in twenty years, or staring at a lava lamp.

Enlightenment apparently has a strange sense of humor.

We're Not Trying to Give You a Perfect Life

Perfect lives sound incredibly boring.

We'd rather help you find the extraordinary energy already hiding inside your imperfect life.

The Make Peace With Life philosophy isn't about eliminating every problem.

It's about changing your relationship with life.

Laugh more.

Explore more.

Question things.

Be curious.

Notice energy.

Stop comparing yourself to everybody else.

Find the things that make you feel alive.

And maybe become a little more comfortable with the beautifully weird person you already are.

If you finish an episode feeling a little happier, thinking about something differently, or laughing about something you hadn't considered before...

We've done our job.

But We Need Your Help

Here's where you become part of this.

We want to grow the Make Peace With Life community and get this message in front of as many people as possible.

And one of the easiest ways you can help is completely FREE.

Subscribe to the Make Peace With Life Podcast on YouTube.

Subscribe to the Make Peace With Life Podcast on YouTube

Every new subscriber helps us reach another person.

And another.

And another.

That's how energy spreads.

One person shares something with another person, who shares it with someone else, and suddenly a little idea becomes a movement.

We'd like to see just how big we can make this thing.

Subscribe and You Could Win a Make Peace With Life Shirt!

We're also adding a little incentive.

Because apparently positive metaphysical energy is even better when you're wearing it.

When you subscribe to our YouTube podcast channel, you're automatically entered for a chance to win a Make Peace With Life shirt.

And this isn't just one giveaway.

Every time we reach another 100 subscribers, we're giving away another shirt!

100 subscribers?

Shirt.

200?

Another shirt.

300?

You guessed it.

Another shirt.

As this community grows, we want the giveaways to grow right along with it.

So subscribe, stick around, enjoy the podcast, and you might eventually be walking around spreading Make Peace With Life energy directly from your chest.

That's metaphysical advertising right there.

And We Have Something Special for Our Author Friends

Authors, we've got something extra for you.

Make Peace With Life works alongside our book-promotion company, Book Promotion Library, and we want to help our fellow authors while growing the podcast community.

So we're offering FREE BOOK PROMOTION to authors who subscribe to the Make Peace With Life Podcast.

Yes.

FREE.

Because authors already spend enough money trying to convince the world that the book they spent months—or years—writing actually exists.

Here's how to participate:

1. Subscribe to the Make Peace With Life Podcast on YouTube: Make Peace With Life Podcast
2. Send an email to makepeacewithlife33@gmail.com with BOOK PROMOTION in the subject line.
3. In the email, include the YouTube name you subscribed under, a book cover image, a description of your book, and the purchase link for your book.
4. Once we verify your podcast subscription, we'll set up your free book promotion and send you the details.

That's it.

No metaphysical scavenger hunt.

No secret password.

No need to align your chakras while holding your book toward the full moon.

Subscribe. Send us your information. We'll take it from there.

Come Join This Crazy Little Community

Ultimately, the Make Peace With Life Podcast isn't just about building subscriber numbers.

It's about building connection.

We want people who believe life can be meaningful without always being serious.

People who are willing to explore spirituality without pretending they have every answer.

People who believe laughter has energy.

People who enjoy asking strange questions.

People who want more happiness, adventure, connection, curiosity, and fun in their lives.

And especially people who occasionally need someone to remind them:

You are not broken.

You are living.

You are learning.

You are changing.

You are figuring things out like the rest of us.

So come listen.

Come laugh.

Come think.

Come get a little metaphysical with us.

Subscribe. Share the podcast with your friends. Help us spread the message. And let's see just how big we can make this community.

Because maybe the world doesn't need another podcast telling everyone what's wrong with them.

Maybe it needs one reminding them how much is already right.

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Can We Get a Giraffe?

A little girl longs to have a pet and her choice is an unusual one, indeed: a GIRAFFE. Dad is surprised by this selection. He tells his daughter how impractical it is considering where they live and the room they have for her far-fetched idea. She then suggests other options: 

What about a penguin? 

How do you feel about a sloth? 

Why not a sea turtle? 

But as she continues to negotiate for a giraffe, Dad reminds her that giraffes are endangered animals, and he has another idea for his daughter. What could it be?

Click here to get Can We Get a Giraffe? on Amazon / Kindle 

 

Make Peace with Life on The Global Gratitude Show

 

The Global Gratitude Show

Features

Dr. Rob Alex, Metaphysician

Click here to listen to the show

Listen in as we discuss his book, Making Peace With Life, Dr. Rob Alex takes you on a deeply human, refreshingly honest, and surprisingly humorous journey through the chaos, beauty, heartbreak, energy, and wonder of being alive.

This isn’t a book about chasing perfection.

It’s about embracing the full spectrum — the ups, the downs, the middle ground, the transitions, the questions, the endings, and the beginnings.

Inside these pages you’ll explore:

• Why there is no real “finish line” in life — and why that’s good news
• How life’s hardest moments often become your greatest teachers
• The metaphysical energy that connects you to every other life on the planet
• Why your life is both a tiny drop… and an entire universe
• How music, memories, impact, and love glue everything together
• Why asking better questions may matter more than finding answers
• How to stop defining yourself by age, status, or comparison
• And why your life has unlimited value — even when you forget it does

Blending psychology, personal development, metaphysical insight, and everyday humor, Dr. Rob Alex writes like the friend who hands you cosmic wisdom and a high-five at the same time.

This book will not give you all the answers.

It will give you something far more powerful:

Permission to breathe.

Permission to question.

Permission to adjust.

Permission to live fully.

And most importantly —

Permission to make peace with life exactly as it is… while still growing into what it can become.

Click here to get your copy of Make Peace With Life

Open you Mind and Make Peace With Life

 

Undo Me

At twenty-three, Emilia returns to the small town she once tried to escape, determined to begin again. With a new apartment, a place at City University, and dreams of becoming a writer, she is ready to take control of her future.
Then she meets Leon.

Dark, magnetic, and infuriatingly guarded, Leon is more than Emilia's across-the-hall neighbour. He is also her college project partner and the one man who refuses to be charmed by her beauty. Their attraction is immediate, their clashes electric, and staying away from each other soon becomes impossible.

But there is something unsettlingly familiar about Leon. Behind his cold smiles and wounded eyes lies a truth he refuses to reveal-a secret rooted in their shared past that Emilia no longer remembers.
As desire deepens into love, Leon's silence threatens to poison everything between them. Because some wounds never truly disappear, and when the past finally resurfaces, Emilia must decide whether their love was ever real-or whether the man she trusted entered her life only to destroy it.

Some people break your heart. Others undo you completely.

Click here to get Undo Me

on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited

The Spirit of a Rising Sun (The Last Chain Book 1)

  

The Spirit of a Rising Sun

(The Last Chain Book 1)

Rebellion is always right.

Oyza was raised to obey. Now she yearns to revolt.

Condemned to a lifetime in the damp dungeons beneath the castle, she survives on smuggled texts from the Ungoverned, rebels whispered to live without kings.

Then Yars arrives.

A charming but reckless thief, Yars wants little to do with Oyza's dreams of revolution. But when a sudden attack throws the castle into chaos, they escape together.

Now free, Oyza is determined to find the rebellion hidden deep in the untamed swamps of her ruined homeland. But the ruthless commander she once served is closing in.

As Vaaz descends into a war of fleets and gunpowder, Oyza must discover what revolution demands beyond the pages of forbidden books—and what it will demand of them all.

When blood is spilled, how much will be their own?

Click here to get

The Spirit of a Rising Sun (The Last Chain Book 1)

on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited 

      

Spyder Bones

Aaron Prescott, a seasoned soldier and combat medic, is known by fellow soldiers as Spyder Bones a nickname born from his fearless service as a tunnel rat and battlefield medic in Vietnam. During a fearsome battle and medical evacuation attempt, Aaron suffers a near-fatal accident that leaves him in a coma, suspended between life and death. In this extraordinary state, he discovers that humanity is caught in an ancient and ongoing war between the forces of good and evil.

Guided by celestial beings, Aaron learns that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves are far more than myths. Hidden from ordinary society, these beings are part of a larger spiritual conflict that has shaped human history for centuries. Recognized as a Soldier of Light, Aaron undergoes training to become a mystic warrior entrusted with defending humanity against dark forces.

When he awakens from the coma and returns to the physical world, Aaron struggles to reconcile his extraordinary experiences with everyday life. However, he soon realizes that his visions were real when he encounters evidence of the hidden supernatural world operating within modern society. Determined to fulfill his calling, he embarks on a dangerous mission to hunt down The Defiler, an ancient and powerful vampire responsible for spreading suffering and corruption.

As Aaron confronts vampires, werewolves, and other sinister entities, he forms alliances with those who understand the unseen war surrounding them. Yet his greatest challenge lies in balancing his sacred duty with his personal life.

The battle becomes deeply perilous when Aaron discovers that The Defiler's plans threaten not only innocent lives but also his own family. Forced to confront both external evil and his internal fears, Aaron must rely on his faith, courage, and spiritual gifts to face an enemy who has evaded justice for centuries. 

Blending historical fiction with supernatural suspense, Spyder Bones explores timeless themes of good versus evil, redemption, sacrifice, and faith. Aaron Prescott's journey from war-torn soldier to mystic warrior reveals that the greatest battles are often fought in the shadows, where the strength of one's character and the power of hope determine the fate of those they seek to protect

Click here to get Spyder Bones

on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited / Audiobook

 

Impossible to Say No

  

 

Impossible to Say No: The Integration-Led Growth Playbook — Turn Partners Into Your Cheapest, Stickiest Growth Channel

Everyone thinks an integration means instant traffic. It doesn't.

You ship the integration, post the announcement, and wait for the flood of users. Nothing comes. Then a newer app pushes your listing down the partner's directory and even the trickle dries up.

Here's the truth almost nobody operationalizes: an integration isn't a feature you ship — it's a channel you operate. Run it right and it's the cheapest, stickiest growth channel you have. Customers who connect your product to their other tools churn dramatically less, and every integration a customer adopts is another root a competitor has to rip out.

Impossible to Say No is the execution manual for Integration-Led Growth (ILG) — written from the chair of the smaller vendor who thinks it's presumptuous to ask a bigger platform to promote them. (It isn't. You just have to do the homework.) Inside:

• Be impossible to integrate with — an API, docs, and an MCP server so partners (and AI agents) can plug in without a meeting.
• The Silver Platter — the full co-marketing enablement kit you hand your partner (positioning, co-branded landers, ads, demos, KB + support, offers, press, email, cinematic + UGC video) — and how to build it with AI in about an hour.
• The Grand-Slam Partner Offer — two offers (their customers and the partner) engineered to be impossible to refuse.
• Pick the right partners with a triage matrix, sell the champion inside the partner, and give first.
• Co-marketing that lasts — launch and evergreen; the mutual Slack "war room"; measuring integration-sourced revenue; and reviving dead integrations that quietly stopped sending traffic.

Part strategy, part field manual, part wake-up call — for founders, PLG operators, and partnership leaders who want the cheapest leads and the stickiest customers they'll ever get.

Stop shipping integrations and hoping. Start running the channel.

Click here to get

Impossible to Say No:

The Integration-Led Growth Playbook

on Amazon Kindle / Kindle Unlimited 

Agentic Software: The App Layer Wins

 

Agentic Software: The App Layer Wins:

How One Founder Built an AI Workforce That Runs a Real Company

The software era just ended. Here's what replaces it—and how to own it.

For thirty years, business software did one thing: wait for you. You opened the app, clicked the buttons, chased the tasks. That era is over. The next generation of software doesn't wait—it works.

In Agentic Software, Contractor+ founder Justin Smith sends a dispatch from a few years into the future: a real, revenue-generating company increasingly run by a governed AI workforce—a marketing team, a support team, and a success team, all built as software and directed from a chat window while the founder sleeps.

This isn't theory, and it isn't hype. It's a working field guide and a live case study—hand-drawn and plain-spoken—that shows the exact architecture behind a company that markets, sells, supports, and improves on its own, and gets measurably smarter every night.

You'll learn how to:

• Stop operating software and start directing it—the shift from tools to teammates.

• Build the one asset that compounds: a shared "brain" your AI never forgets.

• Draw an org chart of agents—managers, specialists, and validators that scale output without scaling headcount.

• Keep AI aggressive and safe at the same time with an autonomy ladder, a confidence gate, and a kill switch.

• Run the whole thing affordably by routing every task to the cheapest model that can do it well.

• Turn one painful workflow into your first agent—with a concrete 90-day plan you can start Monday.

The winners of the AI era won't be the companies with the biggest model. They'll be the incumbents who move first—the operators who own the data, the workflow, and the customer trust, and wrap a workforce around them before the competitor down the street does.

If you run a business, lead a team, or simply want to understand where software is heading, this is the playbook for the agentic era.

Start with one workflow. Earn trust one rung at a time. Let the loop compound.

Includes original hand-drawn diagrams and a step-by-step blueprint.

Click here to get Agentic Software: The App Layer Wins

on Amazon / Kindle / Kindle Unlimited 

Claude AI for Business: The 10X Playbook

     

Claude AI for Business: The 10X Playbook:

Master Cowork, Claude Code, Skills, Projects, Artifacts, MCP, Plugins, and AI Agents to Automate Work and Build a Smarter Company

Claude isn't a chatbot anymore. Stop prompting — start delegating.

Most people type a question into Claude and copy the answer. That's using a fraction of it. Claude is now a stack for thinking, creating, remembering, connecting, delegating, automating, and orchestrating real business work — and this is the playbook for running it like an operator, not a tourist.

Claude AI for Business: The 10X Playbook takes you from your first good answer to a governed, automated Claude Business OS — beginner to builder, everyone levels up. Written by a founder who runs an agentic AI workforce in production, it's a complete implementation system, not a prompt dump.

You'll master the whole stack:

• Projects, Memory & Context Engineering — give Claude your company's brain so it stops starting from zero.
• Artifacts & finished deliverables — real spreadsheets, decks, docs, dashboards, and mini-apps.
• Skills, Connectors & MCP — teach Claude your procedures and safely connect your tools with least-privilege permissions.
• Cowork — delegate a complete job, schedule recurring work, and run reliable multi-agent workflows behind a human approval gate.
• Claude Code — for operators and founders, not just developers: build tools, automate operations, work in parallel.
• Department playbooks for executive, marketing, sales, customer success, operations, finance, product, and engineering.
• Safety & governance — prompt-injection defense, permissions, evidence, and an ROI scorecard to prove it worked.

Signature frameworks — the Capability Ladder, the BRIEF delegation method, the Governed Business-Agent Pattern, and Proof-Before-Scale — give you a memorable path, plus a living companion vault of workbooks, 101 Power Moves, 50 BRIEFs, and an exhaustive, proven Skill library.

By the last page you'll have built a personal AI chief of staff, at least three recurring Cowork workflows, a governed connector stack, a live dashboard, and a 30-day rollout your whole team can run.

Stop prompting. Start delegating.

An independent, unofficial guide. Not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Anthropic. "Claude" is a trademark of Anthropic.

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ChatGPT for Business: The 10X Playbook:

100 AI Workflows to Save Time, Grow Revenue, Automate Operations, and Build a Smarter Company

Most people use 5% of ChatGPT. This is the other 95%.

You've been typing questions into a chatbot. Meanwhile ChatGPT quietly became a business operating layer that can research, analyze, create finished work, connect to your tools, and run tasks on a schedule. This is the playbook for using all of it — like an operator, not a tourist.

ChatGPT for Business: The 10X Playbook is not a prompt collection. It's a complete implementation system that turns the way you work into repeatable, AI-powered business systems — beginner to builder, everyone levels up. Written by a founder who runs an agentic AI workforce in production.

Inside, you'll master the full 2026 stack:

• Stop prompting, start briefing — the Universal 10X Brief that turns vague requests into professional work orders.
• Projects, Memory, Files & Deep Research — give ChatGPT persistent company context and documented, cited research.
• Finished work — data analysis, Canvas, docs, spreadsheets, decks, and Sites, done to your templates.
• Agent Mode & ChatGPT Work — hand off multi-step jobs across your connected apps, safely.
• Skills, Plugins & Workspace Agents — productize your best workflows into reusable, shareable systems.
• Department playbooks for marketing, sales, support, operations/finance, people, and product.
• Accuracy, security & ROI — evals, prompt-injection defense, permissions, and a scorecard that proves it worked.

The signature frameworks — the Five Levels of Leverage, the Master Workflow Pattern, and the Universal 10X Brief — give you a memorable path, plus a companion vault of 100 workflow cards, a Business OS workbook, and a Skill library.

Finish the 30-Day 10X Challenge and you'll have a personal ChatGPT Business OS: ten production-ready workflows, one for every department, a reusable Skill or agent, a scheduled workflow, and an ROI dashboard.

An independent, unofficial guide. Not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI.

Stop prompting. Start operating.

Click here to get ChatGPT for Business: The 10X Playbook

on Amazon Kindle / Kindle Unlimited