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by Dr. JC Doornick "The Dragon"
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  • Good Shift - What Are You Waiting For? - E224

    October 21, 2026 · 5 min

    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 asks one question: what are you waiting for? He walks through the…

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

    October 19, 2026 · 42 min

    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 Street firms, led sales organizations numbering in the thousands, and is…

  • What Cancer Taught Me About Time - E222

    October 16, 2026 · 30 min

    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 taught him about the illusion of tomorrow, why urgency is not the same…

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

    October 14, 2026 · 5 min

    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 whose lives, ideas, or courage inspired you. Not a boardroom with…

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

    October 12, 2026 · 29 min

    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 a biotech software company and raised venture capital before he ever…

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  • Why Do Hurt People Hurt People? - E219

    October 9, 2026 · 30 min

    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 Doornick takes on “hurt people hurt people” from a different angle: what if…

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

    October 7, 2026 · 9 min

    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 describing what you want to an AI, and turns it on its head. Every…

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

    October 5, 2026 · 50 min

    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's in positive psychology at Penn, and she has trained more than…

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

    October 2, 2026 · 26 min

    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: what if I am not as good as I think I am? Then he did something…

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

    September 30, 2026 · 10 min

    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 favorite Makes Sense Substack blogs to life, he starts with a question…

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

    September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    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-chief of Psychology Today. For more than a decade, he has studied…

  • Radical Responsibility: When Life Chooses You - E213

    September 25, 2026 · 41 min

    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 currently navigating a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, and instead of…

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About the show

Hello and welcome to Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick. We discuss the things that make you go "Hmm?" — the most pressing topics of contemplation in your mind as you interface with the reality of your day-to-day life. Are you open, curious, and ready to solve the mysteries of why stuff happens? Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses.