Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick

Good Shift - Nature Doesn't Hurry - E227

In this good shift episode, Dr. JC Doornick brings you the best of the Makes Sense Substack live in his Wednesday series. He begins with a line attributed to Lao Tzu: nat

Steven Kotler - We Have Godlike Power and Stone Age Brains - E226

Meet Steven Kotler, founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective, a Distinguished Research Fellow at Florida Atlantic University, and co-author with Pet

For People Feeling Behind In Life - E225

On this Makes Sense episode, Dr. JC Doornick takes on the quiet questions most of us avoid: Am I doing enough? Am I behind? Do I matter? Drawing on ideas explored by Alan

Good Shift - What Are You Waiting For? - E224

In this Good Shift episode, Dr. JC Doornick, the Dragon, hears a David Guetta and OneRepublic song and finds it lands differently than ever before. Navigating cancer, he

Jack Daly - The Plan He Wrote at 13 Still Runs His Life Today - E223

My guest today is Jack Daly, a serial entrepreneur, sales leader, author, and endurance athlete. He built six companies into national firms, sold two of them to Wall Stre

What Cancer Taught Me About Time - E222

Most of us are remarkably good at preparing to live and surprisingly bad at actually living. In this solo episode, Dr. JC Doornick shares what his cancer diagnosis has ta

Good Shift - Your Personal Board of Directors: Ask the Giants a Better Question - E221

In this episode of Good Shift, Dr. JC Doornick brings one of the best ideas from the Makes Sense Substack to the show: a personal board of directors made up of ten people

Evan Carmichael - Rejection to 4 Million Subscribers: The YouTube Growth Playbook - E220

Evan Carmichael turned a year of near silence into one of the biggest YouTube channels for entrepreneurs on the internet, with millions of subscribers. He built and sold

Why Do Hurt People Hurt People? - E219

Yesterday everything was fine. Today they’re cold, they’ve ghosted you, or you find out they’ve been talking about you to everyone but you. In this episode, Dr. JC Doorni

Good Shift - Who's Typing? How the Algorithm Vibe Codes You - E218

In this Good Shift episode, Dr. JC Doornick takes the term "vibe coding," coined by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy in February 2025 to describe building software by simply

Jill Schulman - A Marine Veteran Explains How to Conquer Fear - E217

Jill Schulman was one of the first women to lead in Marine Corps combat engineering. She then turned a career in pharma and corporate leadership development into a master

Curiosity Is Your Superpower: Beat Imposter Syndrome for Good- E216

Even Dr. JC Doornick is not immune. One presentation was all it took to send his mind spiraling into doubt, comparison, and the question every high achiever quietly fears

Good Shift - How Creative Allowance Changes the Way You Plan - E215

What if the life you keep trying to make happen is not the only one available to you? In this Good Shift episode, a new series where Dr. JC Doornick brings one of his fa

Dr. Robert Epstein - This Harvard Scientist Was Warned to Stay Silent - E214

What if the search result you trusted most was quietly chosen to change your mind? Dr. Robert Epstein is a Harvard-trained research psychologist and the former editor-in

Radical Responsibility: When Life Chooses You - E213

What if the very thing draining your energy every day isn't your circumstances, but the hours you spend rehearsing a future that hasn't happened yet? Dr. JC Doornick is

Good Shift - The Currency of Attention - E212

What if the people you love most aren't getting your best attention, just whatever is left after the noise has taken its share? In this Good Shift episode, Dr. JC Doorni

He Turned His Employees Into Millionaires — At 93, Frank Stronach Explains How - E211

He built Magna International into one of the world's largest auto parts companies, with hundreds of factories and well over a hundred thousand employees. But the real sto

IRS - How to See Life From a Completely Different Perspective - E210

If you've been trying to change your mindset — for success, happiness, or just clarity — you found the right video. I'm Dr. JC Doornick, and for over 20 years, I've help

Good Shift - How to keep your feet in the face of adversity - E209

What does it really mean to “keep your feet” when life tries to sweep you away? In this short Good Shift, Dr. JC Doornick explores the difference between experiencing ad

Helen Urwin - The Woman Fortune 500 Brands Called in Secret for 30 Years — Finally Reveals The 9 Freedoms of Being Giant - E208

For thirty years, if you worked at Mars, Kellogg, General Mills, KPMG, or Sony — and your brand needed to change from the inside out — there's a good chance you were quie