I’m a huge reader, and one of the most influential books in my marriage and relationships is Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman.

It helps us love others not as we want to be loved, but in the way that helps THEM feel loved. In this episode, I talk about the five love languages, help you figure out which one is your primary language, and how you can use this knowledge in decision-making. (Get your copy of the book at http://lainloves.com/lovelanguages).

I’m deconstructing elements that go into how we choose, so we can make better decisions. And one element I’ve come across is the idea of whether you’re a satisficer or an optimizer. 

In this episode of Clarity, we’ll talk about how this distinction contributes to the decision-making process, and how you can leverage your personal tendencies to make better decisions. 

How can you evaluate your decisions if you don’t know what you’re trying to accomplish? It’s such a basic idea, but one we often overlook. In this episode, we talk about setting parameters for your desired outcomes so you know where you’re headed before you begin.

Those in the medical profession have had a variety of challenges over the past few years — particularly if they’ve chosen to go against the prescribed approach to treatment. Our guest today, Dr. Nathan Goodyear, is an integrative cancer expert and medical director of BRIO-MEDICAL, an alternative cancer treatment center. We talk with Dr. Goodyear decision-making in a life-or-death situation, evaluating new research, and how he maintains his personal values and ethics despite external pressure.

Online haters and critics can keep us from opening our mouths, for fear of being attacked. Activist Alison Furno joins us to talk about dealing wtih the negative opinions from others. As a Prager Influencer, Turning Point USA representative, and Arizona Executive Director of the American Majority, she gets almost daily negative “input” from a variety of sources. Hear what she does — and what you can do, too.

We’re conditioned to see censorship as bad, picturing the Nazis burning piles of books in the 1940s. Bad, right?

Well, not necessarily. Before we make up our minds that censorship is something to fight at all costs, let’s take a look at what is censorship, what its role is in protecting vulnerable populations like children from obscene or harmful content, and also what censorship ISN’T.