Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Doctor: You Can't Help World When Stressed

27 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Short monologue urging listeners to focus on family and immediate personal interactions to effect larger social change. The speaker cites a Mother Teresa quote—"if you want to heal the world, go be with your family"—and gives concrete examples (watching childbirth, not snapping at a cashier) to illustrate how reducing personal stress and attention to those in front of us can create ripple effects that change the world.

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There's a Mother Teresa quote that I love, and it's, if you want to heal the world, go be with your family. And I think that's so powerful. They say there would be no more wars if every man got to watch children being born. Because you think about, I mean, in the day to day, like, if you go out into the world in a stressed, chaotic state, you're not helping anyone. You're contributing to the chaos. You think about how you interact with the cashier at Target. When she takes too long, you snap, right? So if we can just make everything a little bit smaller and focus on what's in front of us, that will create the ripple, and that has the ability, dare I say, to change the world.