Best-selling author and long-time Transcendental Meditation teacher Janet Bray Attwood discusses her lifelong journey to find passion, purpose, and self-love. From discovering the TM technique over 50 years ago to becoming a global teacher and speaker, Ms. Attwood recalls the pivotal moments that shaped her path and how TM became the foundation of her work, creativity, and worldwide impact.
Janet Bray Attwood is the co-author of two New York Times bestsellers: Your Hidden Riches and The Passion Test. She has trained over 5000 passion test facilitators in more than 65 countries. Both books have been featured on the Fox Morning Show; O, The Oprah Magazine; SUCCESS Magazine; TIME.com; Alternative Medicine Magazine; Organic Spa Magazine; and other media around the world.
Janet Bray Attwood discusses her lifelong journey to find passion, purpose, and self-love. From discovering the TM technique over 50 years ago to becoming a global teacher and speaker, Ms. Attwood recalls the pivotal moments that shaped her path and how TM became the foundation of her work, creativity, and worldwide impact.
Ms. Attwood has spoken on the power of ritual, enlightened alliances, mastery of self-love, and how to get clear and live a life of passion and purpose. She has shared the stage with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Dr. Stephen Covey, Sir Richard Branson, Nobel Laureate F. W. de Klerk, Jack Canfield, Tony Hsieh, and many others.
For her ongoing work with homeless women and youth in lockdown detention centers, Ms. Attwood received the highest award for volunteer service in the United States, the President’s Volunteer Service Award, from President George W. Bush in 2006.
Christine Albers, host of TM Talks, interviewed Janet Bray Attwood. This interview was aired on September 7, 2025.
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