May 20, 2025

Watch Wayne Dyer’s Documentary The Shift for Free

Dr. Wayne Dyer was the author of many self-help books from his 1976 classic Your Erroneous Zones to his bestsellers The Power of Intention (2004) and Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life (2007). Dr. Dyer passed away in 2015, but one of his publishers, Hay House, is making sure his wisdom lives on. They’ve recently uploaded over 20 of his full-length talks to their YouTube channel for over 40 hours of Wayne Dyer wisdom:

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Official Playlist on the Hay House YouTube Channel

One of the videos they uploaded is a two-hour documentary starring Wayne Dyer called The Shift (2009):

In this feature film that skillfully mixes drama and interview footage with Dr. Wayne Dyer, the viewer learns various lessons on how to overcome the ego, break the chains of self-driven ambition, and find personal purpose in life. In three parallel story-lines, a selfish business executive, a bullheaded film director, and an unfulfilled homemaker learn how to “find their nature” as Dyer puts it during a weekend retreat. This mix of fiction and documentary not only illuminates Dyer’s concepts through dramatic illustration, but also provides new footage of the popular speaker talking lucidly about concepts he’s spent a lifetime developing. It is now available for free to watch on the Hay House YouTube channel.

For much more from Wayne Dyer check out our author page on him:

Wayne Dyer Audio & Video on LearnOutLoud.com

May 19, 2025

Two Audio Documentaries on Great African American Speeches

American Public Media’s documentary unit American RadioWorks (now called APM Reports) has produced over 100 high quality audio documentaries on various topics which you can check out on our American Public Media Publisher Page or on their APM Reports Documentaries Podcast. We’ve previously blogged about some of these documentaries:

Free Audio Documentaries from American Public Media

Two of their best audio documentaries cover great African American speeches that are mostly from the 20th century, with excerpts and analysis of these speeches. Listen to these one-hour audio documentaries from American Public Media:

Say It Plain: A Century of Great African-American Speeches

This hour-long audio documentary from American RadioWorks is an excellent introduction to great African American speakers of the last century. In chronological order it covers speeches all the way back to Booker T. Washington’s address at the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition up to Barack Obama’s recent speech at the Democratic National Convention. The hour-long documentary features excerpts of the speeches with interviews and commentary on their significance, and if you liked a particular speech American RadioWorks offers each speech individually as streaming audio so you can listen to it in its entirety.

Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights & African American Identity

American Public Media presents this follow-up audio documentary to their production Say It Plain: A Century of Great African-American Speeches. In this audio documentary, they present speeches from prominent African-American figures from the 1960s up to the 2000s. They start with Malcolm X’s The Ballot or the Bullet speech, which was critical of the nonviolent protests of the civil rights movement and in support of Black Nationalism. Other speeches in the documentary come from a variety of voices, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Panther founder Bobby Seale, affirmative action critic Ward Connerly, comedian Bill Cosby, and President Barack Obama. In this documentary, you’ll get a wide range of views on the political goals of African-Americans at a time where significant civil rights achievements had been made, but rates of poverty and incarceration among African-Americans are also disproportionately high. Historians and intellectuals chime in with commentary on the speeches presented throughout the documentary. For transcripts of speeches and some audio excerpts of the speeches, check out the American RadioWorks website.

Enjoy these and more excellent audio documentaries from American Public Media!

May 18, 2025

Psychology Audio Seminars from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago

Want to learn more about the analytic psychology of Carl Jung? The C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago has been recording its seminars on audio for decades now. You can check out their educational archive store here: The C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago Archive Store. The archive of over 300 audio & video titles features renowned presenters in the field of Jungian psychology like Robert L. Moore, June Singer, Murray Stein, John Beebe, Ann Ulanov, Andrew Samuels, Jean Shinoda Bolen, and many others.

The Institute has also been podcasting many of their seminars on their podcast they launched in 2014:

Jungianthology Podcast: Analytical Psychology Seminars from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago

On this podcast, you’ll learn about the influential Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung and the psychological concepts he founded, which have formed the basis of analytical psychology. These podcasts are recorded lectures from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and cover topics such as individuation, archetypes, dreams, relationships, and more. If you’re new to Jung or want a refresher, try out the podcast episode called “An Introduction to Jung’s Life and Work”. In this podcast, Murray Stein (who has authored many books on Jung) tells the life story of Carl Jung from his relationship and eventual split with Sigmund Freud and Jung’s turbulent midlife crisis, which he came out of and went on to develop the psychology we now know of today as “Jungian”.

To get more in depth into Jungian psychology, there’s a YouTube channel dedicated to the late Jungian analyst Robert L. Moore:

Robert L. Moore YouTube Channel

On this channel you can hear popular seminars that he delivered at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago on Jungian archetypes such as:

The Magician Within

The Warrior Within

The Lover Within

The King Within

For more, check out the Robert L. Moore author page on LearnOutLoud.com:

Robert Moore, Ph.D. Audio Seminars on LearnOutLoud.com

And for much more on Carl Jung, check out the:

C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago Website

May 18, 2025

Stephen R. Covey Interview on Principle-Centered Leadership

Author Stephen R. Covey was best known for his mega-bestselling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which is still a bestseller over 30 years since its original publication in 1989. That same year, he published another popular book on leadership called Principle-Centered Leadership. This book focused on Stephen R. Covey’s principles for being an effective leader.

Covey didn’t give many interviews in his lifetime, but he did give an interview on C-SPAN in 1989 following the publication of this book. You can watch the interview here:

Leadership Styles & Ethics Interview with Stephen R. Covey

In this 40-minute interview with Stephen R. Covey, he discusses his book Principle-Centered Leadership and how leaders in business and government must apply principles in order to be effective. He articulately answers questions from the interviewer and from callers across the United States, often addressing the leadership qualities of past American presidents and other political leaders. This interview provides excellent insight into the leadership ideas of Stephen R. Covey.

While Covey passed away in 2012, his wisdom lives on. You can check out over 50 titles on audio & video from Stephen R. Covey on LearnOutLoud.com:

Stephen R. Covey Audio & Video on LearnOutLoud.com

May 16, 2025

Dr. Robert H. Lustig Confronts Sugar in These Five Talks

American pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Robert H. Lustig gained attention with his 2009 talk Sugar: The Bitter Truth that has been watched 25 million times in the past 15 years! Since then he’s given many more talks and published a number of books related diet, including Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease, Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, and The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains. We’ve featured a number of Lustig’s talks over the years, and here are five that stand out:

1. Sugar: The Bitter Truth

Of course we must start with the most famous one! In this popular video from UCTV, Professor Robert H. Lustig attempts to explain the American obesity epidemic as being due to the rise of sugar and fructose consumption over the past 30 years. He examines the history of high-fructose corn syrup and how it has made its way into drinks like soda, fruit juice, and sports drinks, along with many foods. He goes into a detailed biochemistry explanation of how fructose is converted into fat, and why he feels fructose is a poison with many of the same effects of alcohol. Lustig links these findings to the childhood obesity epidemic since children are drinking more and more high-fructose corn syrup beverages. He closes by advocating the elimination of sugar beverages, the increase of fiber in the diet, and more exercise. The talk is available on online video on YouTube and on audio and video download on the UCTV website. Caution: After watching this video you might never drink soda again!

2. Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0

In the follow up talk to his viral video lecture Sugar: The Bitter Truth (now with over 25 million views), superstar endocrinologist Robert Lustig dives deeper into the physiological effects of sugar and high fructose corn syrup on the human body. Countering the argument that it is lack of willpower in eating less or working out enough, Dr. Lustig shows how excessive sugar hijacks the brain’s reward center and pushes humans to want to eat more and more. Lustig is skilled at presenting science-based research in a clear and impassioned manner in order to strongly convey his message to eat less sugar and to advocate getting high fructose corn syrup out of the Western diet in which it has been dominating in the last 40 years or so. If you want to lose weight, then cutting down on sugar consumption is a good place to start! This talk is available to watch on YouTube from the UCTV channel and on MP3 audio download from the UCTV website. It has a lot of visual aids from Dr. Lustig’s slides that accompany his talk so we recommend watching it.

3. The Skinny on Obesity

Watch this great new series from UCTV Prime called “The Skinny on Obesity”. This 7-episode series (lasting one hour total) features Dr. Robert Lustig and two of his UCSF colleagues who look at the obesity epidemic and what has been driving it in the last 30 years. Dr. Lustig’s previous UCTV video Sugar: The Bitter Truth went viral and has received over 25 million views to date.

In this new series Lustig’s message is presented in an even clearer and more powerful way with the help of animations and documentary footage. He presents the science of obesity, debunking the idea that “a calorie is a calorie” and showing how the massive increase in fructose and sugar into our daily diets has led to a skyrocketing obesity epidemic which contributes to our most common diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. These short videos explain how sugar consumption and obesity have now become a major public health concern in the same way that drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol are through their unavoidability, toxicity, abuse, and negative impact on society. A must-watch from UCTV!

4. Robert Lustig on Sugar

Robert Lustig speaks at Google and gives us the history of the rise of the obesity epidemic as he attempts to debunk the idea that it is due to people being gluttonous and slothful. He goes into the history of the sugar and high fructose corn syrup industry, and how fat free processed foods have had sugar added to make them taste better and have longer shelf lives. He connects the rise of sugar consumption with the rise of obesity globally, and he shows that high sugar consumption has many of the same health effects as high alcohol consumption. He encourages political action in the face of a powerful sugar-based food industry, and on a personal level discourages eating foods high in sugar.

5. Dr. Robert Lustig on The Hacking of the American Mind

In this 30-minute interview from UCTV, Dr. Robert Lustig presents some of the ideas in his book The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains. Dr. Lustig is the famed endocrinologist behind the viral video Sugar: The Bitter Truth. In this interview he expands his ideas beyond food, discussing the many addictions in American life including gambling, opioids, cell phone usage, and much more. He differentiates pleasure from happiness which he boils down to the battle of the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin. Dr. Lustig outlines the four C’s for happiness which are: Contribution, Coping, Cooking, and Connection. It’s a wide ranging and engaging talk on many of America’s predicaments with addiction.