Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick

Someone told me I was called a misogynist. Not a stranger's opinion I could shrug off — someone who'd formed a real judgment about who I am. And it caught me off guard, because it felt nothing like how I see myself. My first instinct was to defend myself. My second instinct was to dismiss them. But then I went... Hmmm. Because if I'm asking all of you to stay curious and question your conditioned interpretations, shouldn't I be willing to question mine — especially about myself? Today, we're talking about what to do when someone hands you a label you don't recognize.

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MAKES SENSE PODCAST

Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

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00:00 - Teaser

00:21 - Intro

01:13 - Cancer Update - Gratitude

02:47 - Intro Welcome

02:59 - Someone Recently Called Me a Name

04:24 - GREAT MORNING HUMANS

04:34 - Being Misunderstood

07:47 - What's A Label You Were Given That You Don't See In Yourself

09:25 - Do Names and Labels Hurt Or Do They.....

09:44 - The Three Options We Have To Respond To A Label

10:47 - Curiosity Without Capitulation

16:16 - When someone criticizes you, what's your default reflex?

16:49 - The Interface Response System

23:53 - What context could I be missing

28:00 - What if they are wrong

32:38 - The Mindful Deviant

34:43 - The Hardest Truth - Somewhere Out There

37:41 - Misunderstanding Turns into Inadvertent Help - Care Less

38:58 - Carrency

39:54 - The Power of Knowing Who You Are

40:10 - What Label Are You Still Carrying

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What if the reason certain problems keep coming back isn’t that you haven’t fought them hard enough—but because you haven’t changed the environment that allows them to thrive?

In this Good Shift, Dr. JC explores the difference between living like a Weed Whacker and becoming a Transformational Gardener. Drawing from his own journey with Stage 4 cancer, he challenges the instinct to spend our lives attacking symptoms, habits, stressors, relationships, and circumstances we don’t want—while overlooking the terrain beneath them.

Because lasting transformation isn’t always about fighting harder. Sometimes it’s about changing the soil.

What are you repeatedly trying to eliminate from your life that might be asking you to change the environment in which it keeps growing?

Stop whacking. Start gardening.

Hmmm?
Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy:► Makes Sense Substack - https://drjcdoornick.substack.com

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MAKES SENSE PODCAST

Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=003780ca147c4aec

Podcast Affiliates:

Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

OUR SPONSORS:

Operly - Take Back Control of Your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly -  https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95

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What if reality isn't made of particles — what if it's made of code? My guest today is an independent researcher who took a laser, pointed it at the world, and recorded something that mainstream science has no clear explanation for. Danny Goler calls it the Code of Reality. Others have compared what he captured to the geometric patterns people report seeing on DMT. We'll get into the experiment itself, what he thinks it means, and why some of the most credentialed people in consciousness research are quietly paying attention. If you've ever felt like there's a layer to reality you're not supposed to see — you're going to want to stay for this one.

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Website: https://dannygoler.com

IG: @dannygoler

YouTube: @dannygoler

Substack: @dannygoler

Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy:► Makes Sense Substack - https://drjcdoornick.substack.com

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MAKES SENSE PODCAST

Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast.

FOLLOW Podcast: You will find a "Follow" button in the top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week.

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=003780ca147c4aec

Podcast Affiliates:

Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

OUR SPONSORS:

Operly - Take Back Control of Your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly -  https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95

Blue Blinds Bakery - Handcrafted with all-natural ingredients - www.blueblindsbakery.com

00:00 - 01:02: Cold Open and Podcast Intro

01:02 - 02:25: Introducing Danny Goler

02:25 - 06:54: From a DMT Breakthrough to the Laser Idea

06:54 - 10:41: DMT vs 5-MeO-DMT: Comparing the Experiences

10:41 - 14:10: What the Code Actually Looks Like

14:10 - 17:01: Feeling Called and a Global Awakening

17:01 - 22:49: Is the Code a Message? Arrival and Objective Reality

22:49 - 25:33: The Moment Danny Learned Reality Is Rendered

25:33 - 32:31: Free Will, Agency, and Choosing Your Reality

32:31 - 34:18: Can You See the Code Without DMT?

34:18 - 38:16: The Pineal Gland Myth and DMT in the Body

38:16 - 40:43: Does Everything Happen for a Reason?

40:43 - 42:32: JC's Cancer Diagnosis: Six Days Later

42:32 - 47:19: Danny's Family, Loss, and Reframing Diagnosis as a Gift

47:19 - 51:11: Rapid Fire Questions

51:11 - 52:17: Where to Find Danny Goler

52:17 - ending: Outro 

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In 2001, psychologist Roy Baumeister tried to find one situation where good news outweighs bad news of the same size. His team couldn't find a single one. Their paper became one of the most-cited in psychology, and the conclusion was simple: bad is stronger than good. That's not pessimism — that's how your brain is wired. It's why one criticism can outweigh ten compliments, and why 'what if this fails' can drown out every reason it might work. So today, we're asking: what if the real problem isn't fear itself, but how much more trust we hand it?

Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy:► Makes Sense Substack - https://drjcdoornick.substack.com

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►YouTube:  / drjcdoornick

MAKES SENSE PODCAST

Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast.

FOLLOW Podcast: You will find a "Follow" button in the top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week.

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=003780ca147c4aec

Podcast Affiliates:

Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

OUR SPONSORS:

Operly - Take Back Control of Your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly -  https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95

Blue Blinds Bakery - Handcrafted with all-natural ingredients - www.blueblindsbakery.com

00:00 - Teaser

00:13 - Intro

01:12 - Cancer Update

02:39 - Selective Trust

03:19 - Great Morning Humans

03:51 - Trust Issues

09:11 - New Book - Carrency

15:04 - Pioneers of Selective Trust

18:52 - Question from Substack

25:23 - Connecting to the IRS

25:58 - Step 3 Selective Trust Tools

29:47 - The Science Behind The Power of the Past

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Welcome to Good Shift—our weekly series where I take one of my favorite entries from the Makes Sense Substack and bring it to life right here on the podcast.

Today’s Good Shift is about the Automatic Yes—and why learning to pause before you commit might be one of the most powerful ways to protect the life you’re designing.

Let’s get into some Good Shift.
How many times have you said “yes” before you ever stopped to ask whether you actually wanted to?

Inspired by an August 26th entry from Jim Kwik’s Limitless Daily, this episode explores the hidden cost of the automatic “yes”—and why every commitment misaligned with your goals, purpose, and future may actually be a “no” to the person you’re becoming.

We’ll look at how people-pleasing, fear, habit, and conditioned reflexes can cause us to surrender our time, energy, attention, and carency before we’ve consciously decided where they belong. The Good Shift? You don’t have to answer right away.

This is where the power of “Hmmm” comes in.

By creating space between the request and your response, you give yourself an opportunity to look at the decision Whole-O-Graphically. Does this choice nourish your terrain or plant another weed? Does it support the life you’re designing, or quietly pull you away from it?

Sometimes the most powerful “yes” you can give yourself is a well-placed “no.”

In this episode, we explore how pausing before committing can help you reclaim your attention, protect your energy, consciously distribute your trust, and become the Architect of where your life goes next.

Because your future isn’t just shaped by what you choose to do. It’s also shaped by what you finally give yourself permission to decline.

Make sense?
Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy:► Makes Sense Substack - https://drjcdoornick.substack.com

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MAKES SENSE PODCAST

Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast.

SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast.

FOLLOW Podcast: You will find a "Follow" button in the top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week.

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/makes-sense-with-dr-jc-doornick/id1730954168

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=003780ca147c4aec

Podcast Affiliates:

Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon

OUR SPONSORS:

Operly - Take Back Control of Your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly -  https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95

Blue Blinds Bakery - Handcrafted with all-natural ingredients - www.blueblindsbakery.com

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