Ricky is a Life, Spirituality and Wellness Coach. He writes about spirituality, philosophy, mindfulness, meditation, and psychology in his blog Mind That Ego.

Quotes to remember: 

“If we can embrace suffering and not crave happiness and not be overly resistant toward difficult feelings, that’s going to lead us down a fulfilling path.” 

“Spirituality is not a hobby. It’s a way of being.” 

“You are not a product of what goals you achieve.” 

“Ultimately, our truest essence is beyond what we can identify with.” 

“You are not the center of the universe, but you are the universe.” 

“Depression is a great teacher.” 

Takeaways:

• It’s common to link being scientific with being atheist/cynical toward spirituality
• The journey of spirituality is bitter at first, then like sweet nectar
• With suffering, the only way out is through
• Unresolved grief and sadness contribute greatly to our suffering
• Our spirituality evolves in spirals, and each stage incorporates all previous stages
• Self-transcendence is what lies beyond the ego and beyond Western individualism
• You can be spiritual and have goals
• The ego will constantly try to intrude and impose, even when you are engaging in a passion project
• The ego both downplays and aggrandizes the truth
• What we identify with can hold us back and keep us stuck, even if it’s supposedly a good identity
• When our Shadow side (our undesirable side) is not faced, it will come out as projection onto others
• We are afraid of not only our Shadow but also our power, potential, and creativity
• Mental illness can be the beginning of spiritual awakening; nonstandard states of consciousness are not necessarily insanity
• Our potential is far beyond our senses
• Curiosity is the antidote to fear

What you’ll learn:

• Ricky’s introduction to spirituality through suffering
• How he talked himself through the suffering of mental illness to a place of wholeness
• Our understanding of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs isn’t the full picture of what Maslow intended
• About Ricky’s relationship with goal-setting
• How our concept of our identity shifts as we grow
• What envy can teach us about ourselves

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.mindthatego.com/
• Maslow’s hierarchy and self-transcendence
• Spiral Dynamics
• Eckhart Tolle
• Dr. Leanne Whitney
• Ken Wilber
• Crazy Wise documentary
• Stanislav Grof and Holotropic Breathwork

Links:

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Youtube

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Candy is a writer, blogger, and wellness speaker. She writes on the topics of health, personal growth, and methods for moving through and beyond challenging life circumstances. Her latest book is Life on Pause: Learning to Wait Well.

Quotes to remember: 

“Sometimes waiting is for our protection.” 

“The people who are successful as writers are those who are teachable.” 

“When you find your voice, you’ll know it.” 

Takeaways:

• Pausing can be a time of preparation and relaxation
• When we write about subjects that aren’t often discussed, it can strike a deeper chord with people
• We can write about things we don’t have direct experience of
• Writing can be intuitive and contemplative rather than schedule-driven
• You may not be aware of your own patterns until in hindsight
• The more you write about something, the more ideas you’ll have about it
• Hone your focus and you’ll write better
• New writers tend to want to write everything

What you’ll learn:

• The life challenges that inspired Candy to write a book
• Lessons she learned during a time of waiting
• The circumstances around Candy’s first successful book proposal, a book on losing a loved one to suicide
• Tips on your first book or first major project
• On writing about a topic without personal experience of it
• What inspires Candy in her work

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://candyarrington.com/
• Life on Pause: Learning to Wait Well
• Aftershock: Help, Hope, and Healing in the Wake of Suicide

Quotes to remember: 

“The only way to make great changes in your life is to be able to visualize and to imagine something for yourself that pretty much doesn’t exist for you today.” 

“Imagining and visualizing don’t need to be limited to the scope of entertainment.” 

Takeaways:

• Visualization is the practice of seeing and feeling in great detail
• Visualization is a skill we can build
• There is a huge difference between thinking about the future and imagining
• Imagination is not based on anything in the past or anything you know currently
• People can remain stuck due to an inability to imagine a radically different life
• Imagination plants the seed to a new way of being
• Good visualization technique includes imagining things that have nothing to do with your current reality

What you’ll learn:

• Why visualization and imagination are important
• The wrong and right way to do it
• An exercise to improve your visualization technique
• How visualization has helped me personally

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Visualize the first minute of your ideal day. What do you do? How do you feel? Do you stay in bed for a bit, or get up smoothly and easily? Embody the feeling as you visualize. 

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Lyndsay is a leadership coach, energy healer, and author of The Beautiful Un-Becoming: The Ultimate Guide to Life after Spiritual Awakening. She is passionate about empowering people on their spiritual journeys to reconnect with their inner light and wisdom to live an authentic, inspired life.

Quotes to remember: 

“I suddenly was face-to-face with my own mortality.” 

“I was so focused on that goal of financial security because I didn’t have it growing up, that I forgot that we’re actually here to experience life.” 

“Why do you want to wait that long? Why do you feel like you’re not ready now?”

“It’s not just one spiritual awakening and you’re done.” 

“Spirituality is woven into my fiber.” 

“Follow what lights you up because that is your biggest indicator of what you’re here to do in this lifetime.” 

Takeaways:

• When you realize that things could be over in the blink of an eye, you begin to question if you’re doing the right things
• We have whispers of the things that call to us
• Making the world a better place can appear very small
• We will need to rebuild our community when we have different priorities from those around us
• When you don’t have support you can get stuck in your own head
• Healing happens in spirals/circles
• Our resistance often comes from our social programming
• When you find yourself wanting to get rid of stuff, that’s a big sign you’re in spiritual awakening
• Many spiritual concepts are understood in other terms like burnout or depression or anxiety
• “It’s harder to fix my inside so I’m going to fix my outside”--consider if this applies to you
• Our ego loves to catastrophize
• Staying safe is often staying small
• Society often tells us we need to know what the next step is and what we want, but that’s not how it works
• Do what you do for the highest and greatest good of others
• If you want to do something exciting, you need to be excited about it--and our childhood reveals clues of it

What you’ll learn:

• What created the circumstances for Lyndsay’s “crumbling,” or “dark night of the soul”
• How she navigated her spiritual awakening on her own
• The 11 symptoms of spiritual awakening
• How to know when you are acting from the ego rather than from the heart/inner wisdom/higher Self
• Where to begin when you feel bombarded by stray thoughts
• The 6 stages of spiritual awakening
• Signs that you are progressing in your journey
• About Lyndsay’s relationship with the future

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://lyndsaytoensing.com/
• The Beautiful Un-Becoming: The Ultimate Guide to Life after Spiritual Awakening
• The Myth of Getting Over It - GP podcast

Link:

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Quotes to remember: 

“We’ll never win the game of comparison.” 

“When somebody’s doing well in their path, it really doesn’t have anything to do with your path.” 

Takeaways:

• Comparing is a distortion of what is really going on
• Online and offline, many people will showcase their highlight reel versus the full picture
• The voice of the ego is not you
• Choose your comparisons wisely
• When you focus on who you are and what you enjoy doing, the FOMO and the comparing fall away

What you’ll learn:

• What to do when you find yourself comparing to others and feeling bad
• How to work with the ego rather than against it
• What comparing reveals about yourself

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Notice one time in which you are comparing yourself to someone else. Allow it to be there rather than avoid it. Notice when it happens, how you feel, and what the voice is saying in your head. 

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Dmitria is an author and healer who helps people reconnect with their spirit and reignite the light within.  She works with people who are feeling like something is missing in their world to reconnect to the forgotten, neglected, and undiscovered parts of themselves, in order to finally experience the ease that comes from being whole.

Quotes to remember: 

“I realized that it wasn’t something out there; there was something in me that I had to figure out to unlock this life that I was dreaming of.” 

“You connect with people at the level and depth that you’re able to connect to yourself.” 

“We get caught up in trying to prove to ourselves that we’re successful.”

“The only thing that keeps you from being ready is your own willingness.” 

Takeaways:

• Are you clear on what you personally enjoy doing?
• The beginning of your spiritual journey is a struggle and a search for help
• You don’t need to be somebody for somebody else
• Meditation gives you perspective
• Our purpose is to experience love and joy in this lifetime, and to simply be
• Let’s challenge the idea that success will bring us happiness
• Success, happiness, and self-care can all occur at the same time
• Allow yourself to rest and relax
• Why did we come here only to restrict ourselves and live by somewhat arbitrary rules? 
• Things will be okay when you take two or five minutes to take time for yourself
• All of us are a little lost
• We all have the same universal purpose, and unique passions and ways of expressing it

What you’ll learn:

• Why everything looked good on paper for Dmitria yet she still wasn’t happy
• How Dmitria started finding herself
• How her days and focus have shifted over this process of getting to know herself
• The two foundations to leaving the rat race and feeling whole
• The technique Dmitria uses to quickly replenish her energy
• The kind of shifts that are possible when you are connected within yourself
• Why we abandon parts of ourselves that are really core to us
• A useful reinterpretation of fear
• How Dmitria continues her learning 
• When she decided to quit her corporate career

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.luminancehealing.com/
• https://www.dmitriaburby.com/

Links:

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Youtube

Quotes to remember: 

“Life is more than a to-do list.” 

“Presence always pays off in the end.” 

Takeaways:

• What life is about
• To think that life is about productivity is to reduce and minimize the vastness of your experience
• Productivity is a chase whereas presence feels whole and complete, and nothing is missing
• Shifting to presence is reminding yourself of what is important by remembering unforgettable moments
• Presence is a process and it is ongoing

What you’ll learn:

• Alternate ways to judge the quality of a day, aside from productivity 
• What it means to love well
• What presence feels like and how to know when you are present
• How to shift from productivity to presence
• Questions to ask yourself to evaluate your day

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Find three moments in your day that you appreciate. Notice that your day would be different without those small things. 

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Joey is a personal & professional development coach, author, and professional speaker. His mission is to help others find their purpose and live it with passion by living as their most authentic self.

Quotes to remember: 

“There was so much fear to it… but then there was that other side of what’s possible.” 

“If there’s no good or bad, there’s no right or wrong, there’s no fair or unfair, and life is truly happening for me, why would this be happening?”

“Any time life is happening to us, at the deepest level we go we’re a victim.” 

“The wealthiest people don’t decide what’s possible for them based on their past results.” 

Takeaways:

• Things will change for you when your prayer is stronger than your fear
• Look for where your spirit is fed
• It is so difficult to serve two masters so to speak, with regards to a job and a passion
• Failure is never taking a step
• Our reality is made-up based on our perceptions
• Differentiate truths versus facts
• So often people will use what happened in their lives to hold themselves back and limit them
• Fear kills dreams
• Living your purpose will take effort but won’t feel like work
• Sometimes we learn and absorb wisdom but don’t apply it
• Living our purpose is like a train going uphill; if you pause, you’ll be slipping
• We must continue to grow and expand, and this feels exciting, enjoyable, and enlightening
• The vast majority of people spend their lives in fear, doubt, and worry
• If we don’t take an abnormal action, we’ll get more of what we already have
• Life is not a to-do list

What you’ll learn:

• About Joey’s come-to moment in which nothing was going right in his life
• Step Number One of changing your life (no, not quitting your job)
• The biggest obstacle that everyone faces to living a life by their design
• How Joey waded through various addictions, a divorce, and living states away from his son
• How to shift your perceptions of your self-image 
• Being the conscious creator of your life
• The two key indicators of if someone will be successful and get results from coaching

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• http://coachwithjoseph.com/
• https://www.josephadrolshagen.com/
• Life’s Lessons book

Links:

Facebook

Youtube

Quotes to remember: 

“Feelings are temporary.” 

“Letting go and getting over something is a process of becoming okay with all the feelings that come up.” 

“Sadness isn’t wrong. Grief isn’t wrong. These feelings don’t need to be fixed.” 

Takeaways:

• Healing doesn’t mean that you’ll never think about something and feel pain about it ever again
• Two supposedly opposite feelings can co-exist together
• Grief and sadness and loss are cyclical rather than linear
• It is difficult to sustain a single emotion when you aren’t trying to run away from it
• Our feelings are like colors in a color palette; to avoid some feelings is to toss out half of the colors
• Strength is being able to bear the pain

What you’ll learn:

• What it really means to get over something
• A different paradigm on healing and getting over heartbreak or loss or rejection

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Take a look at something you are getting over or trying to get over, big or small. Consider the possibility that how you feel about it is exactly where you should be right now. That you don’t need to feel only positively or neutrally about it, and that the “negative” feelings mean that the person or thing that you miss is important to you. Ask yourself: “Why do I feel the need to get over it? What does getting over this look like for me?” 

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TShane fought for his life after a horrific accident, flatlining three times as medics worked to save him. Later, as he struggled with PTSD, his business collapsed and he found himself homeless for two years. Today he is an author of three books, a motivational speaker, single father and a successful business owner, and he attempted to break two world records, for most pushups in an hour and most pushups over 12 hours, on a livestreamed event May 1 2021, raising money for the Purple Heart Honor Mission.

UPDATE: TShane DID indeed smash the 1-hour pushup world record (it was 2,919, he finished 3,050 pushups). Though he fell short of the 12-hour record, he managed to do over 16,000 pushups and hopes to tackle the 12-hour record again, which has stood for more than 30 years, set by Paddy Doyle at 19,325 pushups.

Quotes to remember: 

“There’s something calming about being homeless.” 

“Once we learn how to embrace pain, it doesn’t always have to be a bad thing.” 

“I don’t pity anybody that wants to talk about something and never do anything.”  

Takeaways:

• We are where we are because of so much that others have done
• Hardship and coming close to death can be your inspiration for doing challenging things
• Remembrance every day is key to building yourself long-term
• Take responsibility for your mistakes in order to keep moving forward
• Being homeless can be freeing and allow you to connect with yourself; nobody bothers you
• Workout time is you time
• Opportunity is any- and everywhere
• Find positively rewarding activities to be addicted to
• Food is to power the body, not pleasure the palate
• It’s okay that your energy varies throughout the day
• You can be happier and more productive when you finish your work early and have time for yourself and your family in the daylight

What you’ll learn:

• How TShane recovered so quickly after flatlining multiple times in the ICU
• What motivates TShane to break world records
• His thoughts on why the veteran suicide rate is so high
• Why pain isn’t necessarily a bad thing
• What TShane listens to while working out and training (it’s not music)
• How he feels about someone breaking his world record
• What’s next for TShane after pushups
• What his food routine and self-care look like

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://tshaneinspires.com/
• Earl Nightingale
• Zig Ziglar
• Les Brown

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“A relationship is not the answer to your problems in any way. It’s a mirror to show you more of who you are.”

“Within fear is an opportunity to discover just how powerful you are.” 

“It is not the absence of fear that defines a successful relationship; it’s the ability to move through that fear, to look at it and face it and move past it.” 

Takeaways:

• We will all feel fear in a relationship, and it’s not a sign that the relationship isn’t right
• Everyone has fears and a relationship will bring them to the surface
• Fear has a million faces and shows itself in myriad ways
• Fear is our mind’s response to being vulnerable
• It’s important to recognize fear and air it out rather than avoid it
• Love is the antithesis of fear; it is being open to anything that could happen
• There will never be a time when we have defeated all of our fears and no longer feel fear
• In a loving relationship, each individual is a willing participant in looking at themselves and who they are
• Why be in a relationship if it’s resonating with the energy of worry and doubt the entire time, a fear of it ending? 
• Rejection is not painful--self-rejection is
• There is no such thing as a perfect relationship without fears
• Being in relationship is one of the toughest things to do, period

What you’ll learn:

• Why we feel afraid in relationships
• A characterization of fear
• How to acknowledge fear and move through it in a relationship
• Tactics to jolt yourself out of the fear
• The purpose of relationship

Mentioned on the podcast:

• Self-Love episode

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Identify a lesson in a past or present relationship, and what it taught you about yourself. Feel gratitude for this lesson. 

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Dr. Rob is a transformational author and filmmaker who advises athletes, celebrities, business leaders, and everyday people on how to live their best lives. He is the host of The Dr. Rob Show and the author of The 48 Laws of Happiness: Secrets Revealed For Becoming The Happiest You.

Quotes to remember: 

“One of the most difficult things for people to do is to both literally and metaphorically look in the mirror.” 

“Become the person that you want everybody to believe that you are.” 

“Whatever your mind magnifies becomes real.” 

“When we learn to slow down our lives to the speed of enjoyment is when we learn how to become content.” 

Takeaways:

• There are health benefits to forgiving others
• Sometimes we have an “aha” moment; other times it is a process
• It is useful to look to the people who are 2 or 5 years ahead of you in how you want to be, for more guidance and strategy
• Experience is not the best teacher--reflected experience is
• When we let go of judgment of our experiences, they become data points
• People can live without a lot of things but people cannot live without hope
• The chase for achievement to make us happy is neverending
• We often don’t fulfill our calling because we don’t give ourselves permission
• Whatever you want to find… you find
• Accepting yourself unconditionally is not based on your circumstances
• The difference between positive and negative people is what they focus on
• Morning is your time to feel in control of the day

What you’ll learn:

• About Dr. Rob’s near-death experience and how it helped him develop into who he is today
• How to use your past experiences, good or bad, to further your own growth
• What our identity is based upon
• Questions to ask yourself in order to manifest your potential and your greatest self
• How Dr. Rob gained his wisdom and how you can too
• An example of living with gratitude versus ingratitude
• About his meditation practice that grounds him every day
• What he has learned from being a filmmaker and director
• A simple way to focus on what matters
• What Destination Disease is

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• http://drrob.tv/
• The 48 Laws of Happiness: Secrets Revealed For Becoming The Happiest You

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“We can’t actually stop overthinking. What we can do is focus on what we want to do instead of overthinking.” 

“You are not the thoughts. You are not the mind. You are the witness to those thoughts.” 

Takeaways:

• Worry feels productive but is counterproductive
• A decision takes just a moment, whereas anxiety and indecision can take years
• We don’t need to believe every single thought we have
• The mind/ego is always in the past or in the future; the body can only be in the present moment

What you’ll learn:

• Grounding questions to ask yourself when you start overthinking
• How to disidentify with your mind
• Other tips for dealing with a busy mind

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Give your ego/mind a name. Try the name out for a week. Whenever you start overthinking, refer to them as not your thoughts, but that entity’s thoughts.

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Tati helps high-achievers with high-functioning anxiety feel more calm, present, and confident so they can finally stop overthinking everything and live a more balanced life. She has had over 10 years of experience in the field of mental health & self-improvement.

Quotes to remember: 

“It got to the point where it felt like I couldn’t handle it anymore--and that’s when I realized I shouldn’t be reacting this way to something so small.”

“It’s not a linear journey.” 

“You don’t need to be hard on yourself to be ambitious.” 

“When you’re overthinking things, in some way you feel like you have control.” 

Takeaways:

• People with high-functioning anxiety appear calm and confident on the outside, but are struggling on the inside
• You may not know that you have anxiety because you believe that this is what it takes to be successful
• The first step is becoming aware of your negative thoughts and when they come up
• Speak with yourself like you might speak with a friend
• We mistakenly believe that we must be hard on ourselves in order to get things done
• Self-compassion can aid in ambition
• We are taught via punishment growing up--but it’s ineffective at building sustainable habits for ourselves
• Anxiety is rooted in shame and being uncomfortable with oneself
• Express your shame and fear, if even in a journal 
• When you notice the thinking, you give yourself the choice
• Anxiety often leads to either avoidance or overworking
• Focus on energy management rather than time management
• Sometimes people become comfortable in their discomfort

What you’ll learn:

• How core beliefs may be holding us back
• What Tati implemented in her life once she realized that anxiety was running her life
• Steps to accepting yourself
• What to do when you find yourself overthinking
• Preventing burnout by keeping a pulse on your health
• How to address guilt when saying no, especially in work
• How to be more productive in less time
• Why some people fail to change

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.becalmwithtati.com/
• Calmly Coping podcast

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“You are infinite… you are capable beyond anything you can imagine.” 

“Every choice you make is a step either toward the person you want to become or away from the person you want to become.” 

Takeaways:

• Sometimes it takes hardship and being treated poorly to discover self-love
• It is important to differentiate the true you from the inner critic
• Letting go includes letting go of ideas and plans and people and influences
• Accepting yourself means that you accept that at times, you won’t be up to par
• Self-care is only a part of the whole of self-love
• Self-love is a practice; it can only be known experientially
• You are enough to satisfy what you need 

What you’ll learn:

• Defining self-love
• Several aspects/basic principles of self-love
• Exercises to implement to love yourself more

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Write down one idea that stood out to you. Ponder it this week. 

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Pip is a social justice writer, podcast producer, radio presenter, and personal brand strategist with a background in criminal investigations and advocacy. She began writing 15 years ago as she journaled her way through PTSD and anxiety. In 2017 she created the radio show, The Hour to Empower, and the accompanying podcast, Elements of Empowerment. 

Quotes to remember: 

“Women’s empowerment is all about saying yes and knowing when to say no.” 

“Justice is often an apology.” 

“We shouldn’t have to justify or excuse ourselves in order to get what we want.” 

Takeaways:

• Justice looks different for everybody
• Trauma that isn’t dealt with manifests into frustration and anger
• Most perpetrators have been victims
• The conversations we have with ourselves are where empowerment begins
• Men who consider suicide often would rather kill themselves than hurt their family members
• Suicide comes from intergenerational trauma and patterns of behavior
• Justice is not a system or in a courtroom ruled by a middle-aged white man
• The only people who benefit from the legal system are the people who work in it
• The legal system repeatedly subjects you to your trauma
• Boys need to learn how depersonalize rejection so that they don’t turn to violence
• You teach others how you want to be treated

What you’ll learn:

• Social justice and trauma from a former police officer’s perspective 
• How men’s mental health plays into women’s safety
• On the gender gap in suicide (men complete suicide more frequently than women), and what we can do about it
• How self-care ties into justice and mental health, and how to build self-worth
• On parenting children and developing confident young people
• What self-care looks like for someone working in justice

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://piprae.com/
• https://julesoneill.com/
• https://hannahkorrel.com/

Quotes to remember: 

“Our identity isn’t based on achievement. Our identity is based on our values.” 

“Perfectionism is a symptom of your relationship with yourself.” 

Takeaways:

• A huge part of getting over perfectionism is recognizing the benefits of it
• In reality, nothing can ultimately be perfect
• Our society, especially in the U.S., trains us to be perfectionistic from an early age
• Perfectionism is a way you treat yourself; how do you want your mental space to feel?
• We don’t think completely logically--otherwise we wouldn’t be perfectionistic in the first place
• Letting go of perfectionism doesn’t mean letting go of your values; in fact, you may even do better for it

What you’ll learn:

• Why we are perfectionistic
• How to overcome perfectionism: tips
• My personal relationship with being a perfectionist and how I got through it

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Write down the 3 biggest things you tend to be perfectionistic about.

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Herb is a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University studying organic chemistry. His array of experiences include attending a majority black high school, speaking at a meeting with members of the Obama Administration about education, playing D3 football in Ohio, resolving racial issues at a Predominantly White Institution, and rebounding from losing his father at 22. He is also the co-host of The NuBlack Podcast, where he and Taaj Davis have conversations about anything and everything that can mold, challenge, or shift perspectives.

Quotes to remember: 

“Literally you’re watching someone you love, die… it’s a hard task to do but you do it because you love the person.” 

“If you try to go faster than your pace, that’s how burnout happens.” 

“There’s so much life out there and there are so many experiences to have.”

Takeaways:

• We often need to mourn before a loved one dies
• Grieving the loss of a loved one is one of the hardest things you will do
• We can work through the impostor syndrome
• When we’re hitting a wall, it helps to take a break, take a step back, and come to it with a fresh mind later on
• Simple grounding techniques can help you move out of dwelling and back to the present
• It’s important to share your stories, both positive and negative

What you’ll learn:

• On Herb’s grieving process of losing his father to lung cancer
• Dealing with impostor syndrome and being a black researcher in STEM
• The idea of having a short memory and how it can be useful in challenging times
• How Herb addressed a racist incident on campus in a creative way
• Why and how to be well-rounded as a person
• What inspired Herb to podcast

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• The NuBlack podcast

Quotes to remember: 

“To the lonely person, being alone equates to being lonely.” 

“Oftentimes this loneliness that we feel echoes some wound or some trauma that we experienced a long time ago.” 

Takeaways:

• Being alone helps us face our fears of loneliness
• Get curious about the feeling of loneliness, and see what it tells you about what you feel disconnected from
• Consider your inner child and whether or not that child is still hurting
• We are all connected in so many ways
• The practice of solitude is a deliberate ascetic act
• The feeling of loneliness is a guest; it will come, and then it will go; we don’t need to fear it
• When you practice solitude, be ready to feel more lonely initially before it passes

What you’ll learn:

• What to do when you feel lonely
• What it means to feel lonely
• The difference between loneliness and solitude
• Questions to ask yourself the next time you feel lonely
• Four types of disconnection or alienation

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• 4 Ways to Overcome Alienation and Loneliness

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Write out one thing that you love to do with other people. Do that thing on your own and see how the experience is. 

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Corry is a transpersonal art therapist, artist, and cognitive coach. She helps people activate their Creative Intelligence, giving them the freedom and grit to transform their challenges into wisdom. She is the author of Life In Full Colors: Unlock Your Childlike Curiosity to Uncover and Activate the Creative Intelligence You Are.

Quotes to remember: 

“There was always this process where there was a challenge… and that became the ultimate art material.” 

“We can love all of ourselves.” 

“Even if things aren’t flowing or colorful, they can just become our normal.” 

“My god, we’re the universe in a pair of jeans.” 

Takeaways:

• There is a deep intelligence within us that can guide us to new ways of being
• Sometimes we need a different way to express our emotions to release them
• Our darker emotions are trying to tell us something
• Change is a gradual spiral upward, not an on-off switch
• Intentional messiness can help you get in touch with your heart
• It can be helpful to dialogue with your challenges and problems
• Accessing the intelligence within helps us move through challenges and take on a different perspective
• At rock-bottom is where we finally look up and cry out for help
• If you only paint blue, paint blue
• The heart’s magnetic field is 5000x stronger than that of the thinking mind
• Our hearts attune to one another

What you’ll learn:

• What transpersonal art therapy is
• What led Corry to becoming a healer
• How to connect the thinking and feeling minds
• The connection between art and self-love
• The process by which Corry wrote Life in Full Colors
• Telltale signs that you are not living life in full colors
• Why we become disconnected from our creativity
• How to get back in center with your heart when you feel out of it

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.creatinghealingwithcorry.com/
• Life in Full Colors book
• Joseph Campbell
• https://www.heartmath.org/

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Quotes to remember: 

“We need to say no to most things because most of everything is not going to align with what you’re trying to do.”

“You’re letting yourself down if you commit to something that just won’t work for you.” 

“Setting boundaries is a way to determine what your priorities are.” 

Takeaways:

• Saying no is arguably more important than saying yes
• Your time and interests are valuable
• We have been simultaneously conditioned to want to say yes to others and to not want to say no
• If your gut reaction is negative, you should say no
• Your no should be transparent
• People who want something from you don’t like you for you; they like you for what you can do for them
• You don’t need to provide a reason or excuse for turning down an opportunity
• Remember that you don’t owe other people if they ask you for something

What you’ll learn:

• Why it’s hard to say no
• Tips and techniques on how to make it easier to say no
• How to set boundaries clearly with yourself and with other people
• How to deal with FOMO when trying to say no

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Count how many times you say no in one day.

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Gerry is an executive coach, public speaker, and the author of The Thriving Mindset–Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World. He inspires people to build resilience, and to understand that adversity can become a source of opportunity.

Quotes to remember: 

“No matter how tough things got… it did not compare to what I had come from.” 

“Adversity causes some people to break, and other people to break records.” 

“There is nothing wrong with being afraid. It’s what you do when you’re afraid that matters.” 

“You have to leap. You will fall. You will struggle. And if you have the power of persistence you will evolve.” 

Takeaways:

• Disruption and opportunity come together
• Adversity is a natural part of life, and the normal response to adversity is fear
• The problem with fear is getting stuck in paralysis, which creates further adversity
• A leader without fear doesn’t exist
• Clarity comes from knowing what is most important to you and how you seek to add value to the world
• It is possible to become a victim of your own success
• Ask yourself: What might I not know? 
• The world will constantly change in ways we cannot predict
• The claim that you are an expert and have nothing more to learn is actually a fear response
• We can’t go backwards and put the genie back in the bottle in terms of technology
• There will inevitably be struggle after you take a courageous leap out of your box
   

What you’ll learn:

• The bio behind Gerry’s bio of the tough situation in which he grew up
• The skill of the thriving mindset and how to cultivate it
• How Kodak went bankrupt despite their having invented the digital camera
• How to rethink what education is, because one set of skills will no longer carry us forty years into the future
• What intellectual capital is, why you should cultivate more of it, and how
• An example of Gerry responding to his fear around releasing his book

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://gerryvalentine.com/
• The Thriving Mindset book

Links:

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Quote to remember: 

“All rejection is self-rejection.” 

Takeaways:

• The spotlight effect means that we tend to overemphasize our own role in a situation
• We expect others to reject what we reject in ourselves
• Just because someone else rejects us doesn’t mean we need to reject ourselves
• Try becoming aware of your beliefs around being rejected
• Many people use the term “should” as a weapon against themselves to undermine themselves
• Just because you care deeply about doing well in something doesn’t mean you need to reject yourself when you do a poor job
• How would you help someone you love deal with rejection? 

What you’ll learn:

• Why we take things personally
• Tips and techniques to not take things personally
• Questions to ask yourself as you feel rejected

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Identify a time when you took things personally (could be big or small). Talk about it with someone and observe how their response to the situation is different from your own. 

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Jonathan is a founding pioneer in the field of sound healing, musician, and author of Healing Sounds, Shifting Frequencies, The Divine Name, and The Seven Secrets of Sound Healing. Andi & Jonathan coauthored The Humming Effect. They have dedicated his life to helping awaken and empower others with the ability of sound to heal and transform.

Quotes to remember: 

“Everything in the universe is in a state of vibration.” 

“Sound helps amplify the power of our prayer and meditation.” 

Takeaways:

• Sound is one of the most expressive modes of therapy
• Sound has a profound effect on our bodies
• Using the voice is simple way to practice sound healing
• Humming is like giving yourself an internal vibroacoustic massage
• Even one minute of humming can reduce stress 
• Your intention can affect how to produce and receive sound/music

What you’ll learn:

• What led Jonathan and Andi to sound healing
• How intention factors into sound as a healing modality
• The physical aspects on a cellular level of sound
• The most powerful intention to pair with sound and prayer
• What sonic entrainment is
• A short sound healing exercise

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.healingsounds.com/
• The Humming Effect

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“This is a tool for your own self-awareness. It’s not something that’s going to be graded on some objective scale.” 

“If that feels inspiring to you, go ahead and do it, but if that feels heavy on you then it’s not an obligation at all.” 

Takeaways:

• Life wheels vary but generally speaking, have the same categories
• The point isn’t to have 10/10 in each category
• Over time you will internalize the life audit process
• A life audit is to understand where you are right now, not necessarily to make changes
• Start small when you look at your life wheel and want to make improvements
• Let yourself be in an imaginal space to start

What you’ll learn:

• How to do a comprehensive life audit
• Why do an assessment and how often
• What to do if you feel stuck on one category in the life wheel

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• How to Audit Your Life by Asking the Right Questions (blog post - Tiny Buddha)
• Life Wheel images

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Look at a Life Wheel (see link above) and read the categories in the image. 

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Robert “Bud” Abbott has been a marine biologist, a seeker, a student, and a teacher on a spiritual journey. He is the co-author of Transformation: The 90-Second Mind-Body Practice Integrating Tai Chi and Yoga to Manage Stress and Unlock Your Potential.

Quotes to remember: 

“I want to speak my truth. I want to accomplish my goals. I want to be of service.” 

“I find myself seeing my daily interaction with the world through the lens of these movements.” 

Takeaways:

• Beginning your day with affirmations that are paired with movement is a very effective way to reprogram your mind
• Feeling the feeling of a spoken word and going through the mental/inner journey of that is important
• When someone irks you, think: I can move around them, I can flow on by
• Somatic learning is a powerful way to modify your own behavior 
• The mystical truth of sharing is that the other person is a manifestation of yourself
• Consciousness goes beyond what’s in the mind

What you’ll learn:

• What somatic learning is
• How Mu-i works
• Questions to ask yourself to engage yourself in your practice more fully
• A method to feel joy through this embodying practice
• How to begin your spiritual journey

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://transformationtaichi.com/
• Transformation: The 90-second Mind-Body Practice Integrating Tai Chi and Yoga to Manage Stress and Unlock Your Potential

Quotes to remember: 

“Strength isn’t the ability to take anything and not feel it. It’s actually the ability to feel everything.”

“When you deny yourself one feeling, you deny yourself all feelings.” 

Takeaways:

• Strength is often portrayed as the inability to feel
• We often fear feeling, which is why we see strength as not-feeling
• Feelings are always temporary and never last forever
• True strength is being able to bear it all
• Denying yourself your emotions is an incomplete attempt at grieving
• Grief doesn’t work on your timeline

What you’ll learn:

• What strength is and is not
• Why we see strength in the wrong light
• How to feel and continue to feel despite pain and despair
• The timeline of grief

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Take a look at one difficult, potentially unresolved situation in your life. Name it and write it down on paper or in your phone.

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Rachel is a UK-based public speaker and former sex worker. She talks openly about her experience working in the sex industry in the hope of educating people about the reality of sex work and dispelling misconceptions. After eight years in the sex industry, she has strong views about the need for clear and honest sex education. She is also the face of the vegan cooking Youtube channel, Auntie Rachel’s Chaotic Kitchen.

Quotes to remember: 

“There’s a lot of interest to keep women suppressed physically, emotionally, sexually.” 

“You can’t live your life for other people, because it’s exhausting.” 

Takeaways:

• Enjoyment of work often comes from freedom to choose
• Women who take control of their sexuality are demonized
• The more comfortable we are with ourselves, the more comfortable we can be with others
• Self-deprecation in its extreme can become self-humiliation
• Porn is not representative of sex and looking for it often expresses a desire to get sex education
• Many people use porn as a way to self-soothe
• Sweet potatoes are extremely versatile in food
• Try buying something in the grocery store you’ve never gotten before, to make cooking a fun exploration

What you’ll learn:

• How Rachel got into sex work and what motivated her
• Why sex work is stigmatized
• How to wear your past as your armor 
• Why she is open about her experiences
• Ideas on better sex education and porn literacy
• How we can reconsider what porn addiction is 
• Why Rachel became vegan (more than health benefits)
• How to go vegan if you’re a beginner or you’re intrigued

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• http://racheltalksreality.com/
• Auntie Rachel’s Chaotic Kitchen
• Hannah Gadsby
• @DrDavidLey - Author. Shrink. Sex therapist. Black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Centrist rejecting all black and white thinking. “Shaman of the modern world.”
• @JustinLehmiller - Social psychologist, sex researcher, author, pinball wizard. Kinsey Institute Research Fellow. I run the Sex and Psychology blog & podcast.
• @EmRothman (she's created a porn literacy course) - I’m a social epidemiologist. I study how to prevent dating and sexual violence and lately I study autism, too.
• @NicoleRPrause - Advocate for empirically-supported treatments and provider for mental health clients. Neuroscience & physiology lab studying primary rewards.
• http://liberoscenter.com

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“There is a part of us that is eternal and that is boundless, and can’t be confined by a system…”

“We are not the thinker. We are the thing that observes the thinker in us.”

Takeaways:

• It’s important to recognize the systems we partake in
• We can mistake the game for real life
• There is a part of us that is always wild and free
• We don’t need to win every game

What you’ll learn:

• What it takes to become aware of the systems we are in
• What it looks like to step outside the systems
• How to exit the illusions of the physical world
• The look and feel of being present and identifying with your spirit

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Take a couple of minutes to reflect on what life would be like if everything in your life were a game. What kind of person are you when you play a game? 

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Elisa is an interior designer and founder of Zen Spaces, a California-based interior design-build firm. She synergizes psychology, neuroscience, aging, health, fitness, and mindfulness into the design of spaces that people thrive in.

Quotes to remember: 

“I want to help people feel more alive. And for me, that means having more freedom.”

“I don’t think people realize how much their environment affects them.” 

Takeaways:

• Research is me-search
• We spend >90% of our time indoors
• Hints of nature in a space, from color to sounds, will affect our physiology and reduce stress hormones
• Living indoors is fairly new and unnatural for humankind
• Design your spaces according to the function of the space and how you want to feel during those activities 
• It’s important to have your own space/retreat/sanctuary where you can be with yourself
• Aim for 1 plant per 100 square feet of space

What you’ll learn:

• How to optimize your living space for wellness, better sleep, and physical health
• About Elisa’s custom sprinter RVs to bring your lifestyle back to nature
• Getting work-life balance while working from home
• How to create a meditation room in your home, using the space you have
• The most common mistake when designing a home space
• Quick tweaks you can do in your living spaces to improve your wellness 
• How the layout of our home or office affects our habits

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://zenspaces.design/
• Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography
• Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“A thought isn’t just some kind of imaginary idea; it literally has a physical presence in our brains and in our bodies.” 

“Just because there’s no clear scientific reason why it works doesn’t mean you can’t use it to your benefit.” 

Takeaways:

• Self-affirmation has immediate results in the moment
• The mind defaults to the negative because it is looking for threats
• Thoughts become things
• The subconscious mind follows different rules than the conscious mind, and interprets things symbolically
• Affirmations don’t need to be complicated
• Affirmations, like mantras, gain power over time and use
• It’s not so much the words themselves that work--it is the images that the words create
• Affirmation produces a subtle shift in the body

What you’ll learn:

• How to craft a good affirmation that works
• The major way that people go wrong in creating an affirmation
• When to use self-affirmation

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Find 2 affirmations that resonate with you. Take 1 minute (time it!) and repeat these affirmations to yourself. 

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As a speaker, writer, and creator of the Vision Board Mastery learning program, Steve works with individuals and work teams to help SEE their goals, BECOME the people they need to be, then build ACTION PLANS to achieve them.

Quotes to remember: 

“I don’t want to be Tony Robbins. I want to be me.” 

“Consistency and momentum build confidence.” 

Takeaways:

• When you don’t know how to move forward, find people who are already doing what you already want to do
• Rather than balance, consider integration
• Start your day happy by reliving good moments and experiencing gratitude
• Try shopping cart rescue therapy or another form of giving when you’re feeling down
• Most people do a vision board party the wrong way by not assessing where they are now and why they want what they want
• Believe the people who believe in you
• Little victories get you from not feeling confident in yourself to feeling confident
• When you are consistent for long enough, you won’t want to stop
• Do you have friends who are like deadweight? 

What you’ll learn:

• About Steve’s rock-bottom moment of deep debt, divorce, and losing a job
• How he started in motivational speaking
• What led to his eventual burnout
• The habits of a sustainable and healthy lifestyle
• What a motivational speaker does when he’s feeling down
• The right way to make a vision board
• A story of helping another person change the course of his life
• The crazy story of how Steve received an email from someone in high school out of the blue 20+ years later… and now they’ve been married 14 years

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.motivationalfirewood.com/vision

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Quotes to remember: 

“A big thing that happens when you let go of blame is that you let go of any possibility in your mind that it could’ve been any other way.” 

“When we release the blame, we empower ourselves.” 

Takeaways:

• When you blame someone else or a situation, you can be the good and innocent one
• You also may very well be right in that what happened wasn’t your responsibility
• Holding on to blame means you relinquish your control and power in the situation
• Taking responsibility doesn’t mean you condone what happened
• Acceptance is not the same as approval
• Change will happen when your own well-being becomes more important than holding onto blame
• Taking responsibility does not mean taking on others’ responsibilities and blaming oneself

What you’ll learn:

• The advantages to blaming others and playing the victim
• What taking responsibility is and is not
• How to own your own health and healing

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Identify one instance of blame that you’re holding on to, that has been holding you back. Also identify one advantage to holding onto the blame.

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Dmitry is a professional designer of concert-grade violins, as well as a musician, mentor, and entrepreneur. Dmitry started playing violin at the age of 8, becoming a member of La Petite Bande, a Belgian ensemble famous for playing baroque music, and selling out concerts as a solo performer. As a child in Soviet Russia, he couldn’t afford to buy an instrument which could properly showcase his talent. Frustrated by the sounds produced by the basic violin he had, he decided to rebuild his instrument to improve his own performance at the age of 11. He had a successful career as a master violin-maker.

But in January 2013, Dmitry had a massive stroke, which almost killed him and left him paralysed down his left side. Doctors told him he would have to relearn how to walk and then broke the devastating news that he was unlikely to ever play the violin again. Now at 51, Dmitry offers online training for instrument makers, teaching them how to create pieces which stand out from the crowd and tell a story.

Quotes to remember: 

“When you walk along the streets of ancient European cities, you will see literally a symphony in tone.” 

“When a musician can really fulfill their musical dreams, I would say it’s priceless.” 

“It completely makes no sense doing exactly what everyone else is doing… It is time to do things differently in this art.” 

Takeaways:

• Ancient masters understood sound, space, and instrument-making better than modern people
• People will discourage you when you try something different
• In Pythagoreanism, people believed that there are musical underpinnings to the world and universal systems
• Sounds are different proportions that create harmonics
• Older instruments don’t necessarily sound better than new instruments, due to advancements in craft and construction
• Have full faith in your true calling and go for it no matter what 

What you’ll learn:

• How Dmitry got into violin-making at the age of 11
• What inspired him to study the art of violin making beyond the level of most instrument makers
• Why he quit violin making, and how he returned to it
• Why the violin is shaped the way it is
• How Dmitry cracked the code of the ancient masters and designs custom instruments
• How he recreated the violoncello da spalla, an instrument that is essentially extinct

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://badiarovviolins.com/jp/
• The Authentic Instrument Makers Academy
• La Petite Bande
• Pablo Nassarre
• The Lives of the Artists - Giorgio Vasari
• The Violoncello da Spalla, introduced by Sigiswald Kuijken

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Quote to remember: 

“Any life transition involves some kind of loss.” 

Takeaways:

• Grief is part of all change, whether the change is good or bad
• The fourth stage of depression often feels like the worst part, despite it being before acceptance
• Accepting change and everything that comes with it 
• The stages of grief do not go in order, and you cycle between them rather than go step by step
• No emotion lasts for very long
• Judging our feelings will add another layer of feelings

What you’ll learn:

• Why we might feel negative emotions when we’re making positive changes in our lives
• The stages of grief
• The optional sixth stage of grief
• What grieving looks like when we make a positive change

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• Healing from Betrayal with Dr. Debi Silber
• Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler’s work

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Notice one moment when you are grieving the loss of something. Which stage(s) are you in?

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Doug is a professional hypnotist, host of the Making Meaning podcast, and an adventurer. He helps people worldwide overcome roadblocks like mental illness and fear through online hypnosis at Anywhere Hypnosis. He also does performance hypnosis at different events.

Quotes to remember: 

“I realized that no one was going to come to save me… I didn’t want to die, but I didn’t want to continue living the way that I had been.”

“Our unconscious mind speaks in images and feelings.”

“When we change at the identity level, everything else changes.” 

Takeaways:

• Solo meditation actually increases the frequency of our brain waves
• Depression and anxiety are large issues that aren’t cured by hypnosis or meditation by a magic wand; they have layers and steps to them
• Depression can become a guidepost for you, to provide you with needed information
• Hypnosis is not the same as mind control; it is entering the creative and open theta state
• Changing at the identity level is more difficult than changing at the habit level
• Everyone responds to the same hypnosis differently
• A hypnotism performance is similar to improv in that the hypnotist works with new actors and doesn’t know where the show is going to go
• Our emotional states are a lot more malleable than we think; emotions as patterns last only a few minutes 
• Depression can be useful to be aware of

What you’ll learn:

• How Doug got started in hypnotism 
• The link between meditation and hypnosis: our brain waves
• Doug’s tools for facing anxiety
• What self-hypnosis looks like
• What being hypnotized is actually like (as opposed to the movie version)
• What it’s like being a stage hypnotist and performer
• How Doug writes his shows
• How to tell a good hypnotist from a so-so one
• Why Doug believes that everyone can be hypnotized

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.anywherehypnosis.com/

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Quotes to remember: 

“The future is an idea that exists in our minds.”

“It becomes a joy to live in the mystery.” 

“There is nothing to fear in the present moment because there is nothing unknown.” 

Takeaways:

• Does it help us to remain present in every single moment? Yes.
• Living for the future puts us in a constant state of waiting and judgment in the present
• We think about both the past and the future, in the present; they are ideas
• Everything is temporary

What you’ll learn:

• How to remain present 
• A different way to view the past and the future
• How living in the present moment feels

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Find one instance in your life where your present is serving your future. Flip it and see how your idea of the future is serving your present. 

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Treveal is a self-worth specialist and author of WHAT Is Enough: How to Lighten Your Load and Find What Makes You Happy. He is the founder of iamthepossible, whose philosophy is that “everything you hope to be tomorrow, you already are today." His mission is to help people see who they are and to like themselves.

Quotes to remember: 

“Ideas change everything.” 

“The greatest form of self-development is self-discovery.” 

“The less I control, the happier I am.”

“You’re at the acorn stage of life, but you can begin right now, seeing yourself as a 20-foot-high oak, because it’s in there.” 

Takeaways:

• You create this thing called your life
• Can you be content and satisfied with your worth, without things external to you? 
• Perfectionists are very afraid of judgment
• Everything changes starting with a single idea
• The journey within yourself is a journey; it’s important to have a good tour guide who allows you to be you
• You can be okay with not seeing the full picture; acknowledge that your viewpoint is like a magnifying glass
• Ambition is no bad thing; it’s the foundation of it that could be faulty
• Change is absolutely possible if you are willing to consider that it can happen
• Ask yourself if what you’re doing is working for you, and how you can be the greatest expression of yourself today

What you’ll learn:

• What changed for Treveal when he was facing 15 years in prison for grand theft
• How to do self-observation to uncover the worth inside ourselves
• Why we are so often out of touch with who we are
• Why it’s not a denial of what happened if you are happy in the present
• How to identify if not by your achievements and status
• Treveal’s take on death

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.iamthepossible.com/
• WHAT Is Enough book
• The iamthepossible Podcast

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Quotes to remember: 

“To be able to focus is your source of power.”

“There’s only a handful of thoughts that you constantly have in one day.” 

Takeaways:

• There is the acute detox and the general detox; acute detox is dramatic, like fasting, and general detox is ongoing
• Reduce all distraction, turn off notifications, put phone on airplane mode most of the day and in the night
• Books and novels count as media to detox from
• The constant back-and-forth switching of focus takes a huge toll on us and our minds
• Switch your mindset from always connected to always disconnected except for select moments of interaction
• Try leaving your phone in a different room or at home when you go out
• The real FOMO is fear of missing out on yourself

What you’ll learn:

• How to do a digital detox and a mental detox
• Techniques to limit your time with tech
• Three techniques to do a mental cleanse
• A different way to think about FOMO

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• The Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron
• CBT

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Identify one recurring thought. Write it down. Then spend one day as if that thought was not a concern in your life.

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Nelson was the child of a 15-year-old mother after she said a Pennsylvania police officer pulled her over and raped her. Tressler’s grandfather found and fatally shot the officer, leading to his grandfather serving life behind bars. Nelson was the oldest of five children, raised in poverty by an alcoholic and abusive stepfather who was in and out of jail. His first major goal was being the first person in his extended family to receive a college degree, which he fulfilled upon leaving the US Air Force. Flash forward to today, he is married to his best friend and wife of almost 25 years, was a top producer for a top five commercial real estate firm, and has started over 10 businesses. He is the author of The Unlucky Sperm Club: You are Not a Victim of Your Circumstances but a Product of Your Choices.

Quotes to remember: 

“My aha moment was, if I could be that first person in my family to graduate from college, I could change the direction of my life.” 

“The sky literally was the limit. If I was willing to work long enough, hard enough, and focus enough on a goal then I was going to be able to accomplish it.” 

“Goals help you live a life with purpose.” 

“We should all be our own hero.” 

“Focus is where the power is.” 

Takeaways:

• We are capable of anything we set our minds to, and it’ll take time and hope
• Sometimes we are more capable when we have nothing to lose
• You don’t need to know where you’re going; sometimes knowing where you’re getting away from is enough
• The potential inside of you is great, and you realize you have more of it after you accomplish a major goal
• Your only limitations are the ones you put on yourself
• Most people want to feel motivated before setting a goal, but setting a meaningful goal will motivate you
• You decide what meaning things have--why give it a bad or self-limiting meaning? 
• There is one thing that separates you from others: your choices
• Many people want to learn the next best thing instead of studying what they already know
• When you are crystal-clear on what you want to accomplish, you will find that you have extra time
• Goals affect the generations
• Fear only exists in one place: our mind

What you’ll learn:

• Nelson’s first realization in 7th grade that he life was headed in the wrong direction 
• How he became involved in personal development
• The turning point when he knew that he could do anything he set his mind to
• How he went from victim to empowered by the past that he had no part in
• Where people go wrong in setting goals
• How to use an alter-ego to achieve goals
• How to know your goal is the right one for you
• Nelson’s single biggest fear

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://nelsontressler.com/
• I GOT SMARTER program

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“You are 100% responsible for how you feel.”

“How do I want to relate to myself? How do I want to be in a relationship with myself?”

Takeaways:

• Premises: there is no perfect parent or perfect childhood, and you are in charge of how you feel—no one else is responsible
• There is a parent inside of us, and there is a child inside of us
• Reparenting is the process of becoming aware of this dynamic, and reshaping how the parent and child interact inside
• You are in a relationship with yourself
• Reparenting includes self-talk, emotional awareness
• It is giving yourself everything you needed and didn’t get
• Most important is love—unconditional love

What you’ll learn:

• The skills that form the basis of reparenting
• Who can benefit from reparenting
• What great reparenting can look like
• How to up your emotional and physical awareness
• When to use this skill and how to recognize that an opportunity to use it

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• What is Codependency with David Essel

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE: Identify 2 things in your life that represent unconditional love. 

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Marco is a transformation life coach and mentor. We last spoke in Episode #8: Rising Through Crisis and Finding Peace. 

Quotes to remember: 

“Life starts from the inside out, not the other way around.” 

“Love always protects, always hopes, always trusts, is always kind, always perseveres, is not happy when bad things happen but rejoices when it’s always good.”

“Listening is an act of love, because it’s a gift.” 

“Write from approval, not for approval.”

Takeaways:

• Our core needs will be satisfied, the question is by what means; you cannot tame these desires
• Can you be at peace with nothing? With uncertainty?
• We can be addicted to ideas and wanting validation
• Healthy love is selfless and wanting to do good, yet not being a doormat
• Drink from the endless source of unconditional love
• Faking love does not work
• We have a thinking mind and an emotional mind, conscious and unconscious; true change is when the unconscious changes
• Knowledge alone will not bring transformation
• When you want to be heard, you listen less
• Are you working from your identity, or for your identity?
• It is our choice to create radical change in our lives

What you’ll learn:

• The common relationship between achievement and self-love, and what we can discover about ourselves within our need to be validated
• An example of different parenting styles in which you are punished for either what you did or who you are
• How to build a culture of truth rather than of fear, and how to lead yourself
• How Marco connects to the source of unconditional love
• About the gift of listening, and how it is empowerment
• A different way to measure your influence and impact than the number of followers you have 

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• http://www.marcostephano.com/
• Forrest Gump
• Lord of the Rings

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“The only thing a sense of peace is dependent on is you.”

“The way to feel peace is through practicing gratitude.” 

Takeaways:

• Happiness is a feeling and all feelings are fleeting
• True happiness, or contentment/peace, is not determined by anything but you
• We don’t allow ourselves peace for many reasons
• Can you be happy regardless of the situation? 
• Accepting something is not the same as doing nothing about it
• It is our responsibility to feel grateful and at peace

What you’ll learn:

• Why nothing “makes you” happy
• What your desire to feel happy is an indicator of—the utility of feelings
• How to use the feeling of happiness to assess the big picture

CHALLENGE: Find 2 things to be grateful for in a situation in your life that you view negatively.

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Tamy is a happiness & mindfulness meditation coach, yoga teacher and founder of Happy Meditator. She believes that anyone can create a life with less stress, less anxiety, and more balanced emotions.

Quotes to remember: 

“I knew at the time, my problems were deeper than just the symptoms.” 

“The more you focus on the negative, the more you’re going to see.” 

“We have been training our minds, usually most of our lives, to be mindless.” 

“Your happiness is not determined by external factors.” 

Takeaways:

• Meditation is a much more sustainable method of managing stress and anxiety, versus therapy and medication
• Practicing mindfulness long-term will affect your brain chemistry, your physiology, your sleep, and your central nervous system
• Anxiety is a heightened focus on the negative that were already there before the anxiety
• Movement is a big part of stress reduction
• You can pick the type of meditation for you based on your situation
• With any issue or challenge in your life, start with meditation
• Most physical and mental problems link back to not getting enough quality sleep
• The more we “time travel” in our minds, the more prone we are to illness
• Hope has a huge impact on our wellbeing
• We do most of our mind-wandering between 9PM and 2AM
• Meditation cultivates your emotional awareness so that you can better temper your emotions
• Mindfulness can help us overcome childhood trauma

What you’ll learn:

• How Tamy’s sudden onset of auditory problems led her to meditation
• The goals of Tamy’s meditation practice and revitalized health
• What the goal of meditation is
• A useful mindfulness exercise you use when you feel overwhelmed
• A list of techniques for you to use to train your mind and to feel better 
• What to do when you sense your mind wandering

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://happymeditator.com/
• The Quiet Mind Better Sleep technique
• Where to Find Your Worry Trap
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“The amount of effort we put into solving a problem isn’t directly correlated with the actual results we’re going to get.”

“The ideal time to have silent time… is when you don’t want to do it.” 

Takeaways:

• Silence is a space and can appear in meditation as well as activities like doing chores, walking, solo sports, etc.
• When we are silent and still, we have the opportunity to expand our perspective and awareness
• Silence gives us the opportunity to release stress and anxiety
• Sometimes not doing anything will bring the answer to a problem
• Silence is a time to hit refresh on your system
• The body heals itself once you become aware
• Eating is a great built-in time to use for silence
• Be the observer of the thoughts and the presence witnessing the mind think
• What happens when you turn off your identities? Who are you?
• We can barely conceive of our own greatness

What you’ll learn:

• Why silence is important and how to cultivate silence in your life
• Two meditations to guide you to a place of greater perspective, that can be time-adjusted to your schedule
• Why your productivity can increase with more space and silence
• Tips on how to incorporate more silence in your day
• How to create a retreat within yourself
• A challenge, or mental exercise, to become more aware of your thoughts

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For more than 40 years, Gene has enjoyed a fascinating, multi-faceted career in the entertainment industry. In addition to revolutionizing the traditional trivia game show format with his invention of Trivia Theatre, his career credits also include speech writer, radio talk show host, emcee, touring variety artist, corporate seminar instructor, copywriter, and author. Gene is the creator and host of the GIMME A HINT! Trivia Game Show and the author of Younger and Wiser: Peaceful Words For A Troubled World. He was the official Judge of The Guinness Book of Records from 1983-1990 and has produced and performed in various variety shows.

Quotes to remember: 

“The key to developing a career is to let things unfold in a natural way.” 

“Pain can be a great teacher as well as cause suffering.” 

Takeaways:

• You are probably in the right place if you love what you do and you love the people around you
• There are two types of creativity, and we all have the creative force within us
• Chaos is the catalyst for growth
• Fear of the unknown can be managed with the right tools
• Give yourself the freedom to just try
• Care about what you do, really care
• When we drop our fears we can reach our potential

What you’ll learn:

• How Gene got started in entertainment--while studying economics
• What he learned from representing the Guinness Book of Records
• Why he assembled his journals into a book
• Some of the things he has learned about people, having traveled the world and most states in the U.S.
• How a serious car accident led to Gene’s spiritual development
• Why entertainment is healthy for us

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://dreamquestpublishing.com/
• https://www.gimmeahint.com/
• Younger and Wiser book
• The Nine Pillars of Creativity

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“A lot of our habits that were once adaptive are now maladaptive.”

“We don’t need to feel bad about having ‘bad’ or ‘unhealthy’ habits.”

Takeaways:

• Perfectionism is a habit that we had a reason for cultivating
• Our habits are contextual and are learned in certain situations
• Habits are tools to do something in life, not the end
• When we become aware of why we have certain habits and what we want to do, it becomes simpler to develop better habits

What you’ll learn:

• Why we may beat ourselves up over a mistake 
• An analogy of habit formation to playing games with different rules

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Sean is the author of The School of Intentional Living and founder of The Intentional Living Academy. Sean found himself bankrupt at the age of 28 after following conventional wisdom all his life. Now, he hopes to inspire and empower others to achieve their dreams and live the lives they truly deserve.

Quotes to remember: 

“You have to experience a little bit of a fall… before it can propel you to that next place.” 

“It’s not about just growth for growth’s sake or improving the grades for improvement’s sake; it’s about getting that awareness.”

Takeaways:

• Some of our biggest blessings are our biggest failures
• It takes great pain to be ready to make changes
• The number one regret of the dying is that people wish they had lived true to themselves rather than what others expected of them
• When we shift the questions we ask ourselves, we shift in a big way
• Defining what we want is often re-defining what we wanted
• We forget to weigh the risks of staying put
• There are warning signals in our lives when something we do is not normal or okay in certain groups, or we feel guilt or shame
• Feed your mind like you feed your body
• We have the responsibility to be the expert and guru of our own life

What you’ll learn:

• What happened when Sean failed at the “conventional path to success”
• What bankruptcy looks like not only in the financial aspect of our life
• How to define what you want for yourself, not what others expect of you
• What it means to live with purpose
• Death is coming; how to be “mortality-motivated”
• What school can teach us about setting up our lives, where stakes are much higher
• How to play the long game in our habits and gaining awareness around what we are doing
• Balancing is an act, not a place

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.seanrosensteel.com/
• The School of Intentional Living: A Real-World Approach to Living Life on Your Terms
• The Top Five Regrets of the Dying - Bronnie Ware
• The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“Do the barest possible minimum that you can do in that moment.” 

“It’s when we lose consistency and momentum that we cannot reach our goals.” 

Takeaways:

• It’s important to recognize that you are getting derailed in the first place
• We will get derailed; it will happen, so it’s good to be prepared
• You don’t need to bring the baggage from one day to the next
• Achieving goals doesn’t need to feel like pushing and striving--even big goals
• Improving at something doesn’t necessarily feel different from usual

What you’ll learn:

• What to do immediately when you get derailed
• The most difficult part of goal-setting and how to avoid the common error made when setting a goal
• The paradigm shift around how change happens
• Techniques on building resilient habits

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Yuri is an actor, creative director, and life coach with a passion for poetry and photography. He is the author of "My Life on a Cactus", a collection of 32 poems and one monologue. He has won numerous awards for directing and producing, and has worked on several campaigns for major brands.

Quotes to remember: 

“Sometimes certain things we’re made for, sometimes they present themselves.”

“What if, in this moment, we can’t be better than we already are?”

“It is completely fine to feel low. It is completely fine to have that darkness.” 

“The unknown is one of the most beautiful gifts that we have.” 

Takeaways:

• We are multifaceted as people and wanting to express ourselves in a variety of ways
• Our values and perspective on success change over time
• No press is ever enough; it never fills you the way you think it could
• We don’t need to be fixed, we are works in progress
• It’s okay to feel confused and vulnerable
• Write down what is in your mind so that you can be objective
• It is important to take time for yourself at the beginning and end of each day
• The most beautiful thing you can do with your pain is to share it
• You are free when you say, “I don’t feel good enough today”
• No one but you can discover the beauty and truth of who you are

What you’ll learn:

• Why Yuri recommends exploring several different art forms
• What happened after he landed a major contract with MARTINI
• How he discovered his passion, unexpectedly
• The importance of acknowledging how you feel 
• Tips for how to feel less stuck
• What it means and looks like to be fully present
• Why he wrote “I Will Not Go Down From Here”, a monologue on suicide
• A story on facing our fear of the unknown

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.yuribuzzi.com/

Links:

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Quotes to remember: 

“A decision is actually made in a moment.” 

“Everything that happens is neither good nor bad--it’s both.”

Takeaways:

• Doing nothing is very important to gaining clarity; even five minutes a day will make a difference
• We have choice within the confines of our circumstances
• It’s possible to go through life only seeing the parts of life we don’t have control over
• Grief isn’t just loss of a loved one
• When we rush grief, we don’t actually get to grieve
• We learn so many things from the process of grief, and we find meaning in the process
• There is always something to be grateful for, in any situation
• Be aware of the difference between physical danger and psychological danger
• The ego’s desires are endless

What you’ll learn:

• The importance of silence and how to cultivate time for yourself
• Why it’s so easy to fall into a victim mindset
• The importance of grief and how to grieve
• Why grief will echo past experiences with loss
• On the dual nature of everything; how good and bad come together
• On the ego and why we tend toward the negative
• Seeing the mind as a garden
• Meaning and how to attain it
• How to live from your Higher Self rather than from the ego

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After 20 years of working in the financial industry for one of the largest banks in the world, being in the top 1% of producers, Barbie was one of the few females to achieve this elite status. Yet her success didn't lead to happiness; instead, she was totally burnt out and her health was deteriorating. She has since discovered the tools that are essential to success in life and in business, and re-invented the way she views herself and her life.

Quotes to remember: 

“I don’t need them to give me kudos; I can find my own kudos.” 

“I’m not going to give energy to people who don’t truly value me.” 

Takeaways:

• Many people keep trying to prove themselves to the world
• Success doesn’t matter if you don’t take care of your health or pay attention to your friends who are trying to help
• Little things will help you as you transition to becoming more mindful
• Our culture identifies us based on our work and accomplishments
• If you can’t sit with yourself, you probably aren’t happy with yourself
• True self-care is giving yourself space
• It feels good to need and want less
• We often ignore or deny the truth when confronted with it

What you’ll learn:

• How Barbie redefined success after burning out completely and taking a year off work after being anxious and depressed for so long, despite outward success
• Why she ignored her health until she hit burnout
• Things she did to practice mindfulness and wasn’t quite ready to meditate yet
• How her relationships with her family and coworkers changed when she stopped working
• Other ways to identify yourself that aren’t based on your achievements and productivity
• How to know if you’re on the edge of burnout, and how to know that you’re growing from it
• Overcoming materialism and the never-ending desire for more
• How she views failure now that she doesn’t believe in it
• Learning to respond versus react to a situation
• How to reconnect with intuition and gut instinct, and trusting yourself

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• The Presence Process - Michael Brown

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Ryan is a motivational keynote speaker, coach & author of Get Off Your Attitude. He has experienced overcoming terminal illness, being shot, losing a business, being foreclosed on, and having to rebuild his personal and professional life from the bottom up.

Quotes to remember: 

“We have a choice to be happy. We have a choice no matter what’s going on around us.”

“How are you responding to your own negativity?”

Takeaways:

• Our attitude is based on where we get information and what our daily habits are
• Change starts with taking it day by day
• Fear of the unknown stops us from taking action and forming new habits
• One sentence in a book can change your life
• There is a ping-pong match in our minds between negative and positive 
• No matter what the circumstances in our life, we can respond with a positive attitude
• We tend to look for happiness in the wrong things
• It is our second thought that counts
• So often we forget that where we are now is where we dreamed of being five or ten years ago
• You can always find something good in the bad; likewise, you can always find something bad in the good
• Look at yourself as a lifelong learning project; “if you’re ripe you’re rotting, if you’re green you’re growing”

What you’ll learn:

• About Ryan’s biggest challenge and how he lost everything he had built for years
• What “get off your attitude” means
• What to do if you are a self-help junkie
• How to handle anxiety and overwhelm; steps to take and tips on prioritization
• A cutting and inspiring example of someone choosing their attitude
• How to not ignore your negative feelings
• What Ryan learned from being on the brink of death multiple times
• His list of daily habits to build a strong and positive attitude
• How to coach yourself through situations
• The metaphor of people as eagles and owls; those you want to be around and those who stop you

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://ryanclowe.com/
• https://getoffyourattitude.com/
• Get Off Your Attitude: Change your Attitude, Change your Life
• Brian Tracy
• Zig Ziglar
• Tony Robbins
• Les Brown
• Earl Nightingale
• Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

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We’ve had magicians, musicians, former lifers, former addicts and children of addicts, professors, relationship experts, yoginis, endurance athletes, several people who lost one or both parents early on, a dropout turned real estate investor, a man who walked from Florida to New York with no plan, a corporate attorney turned burlesque dancer, and a criminal justice professor turned children’s book author. 

Our guests have come from both coasts of the U.S. and everywhere in between, and many more from South Africa, Australia, the UK, Canada, India, China, and Vietnam. 

We’ve heard about burnout, self-care, self-talk, meditation, empowering oneself, losing 50 pounds, losing 100 pounds, beating addiction, betrayal, consciousness, vulnerability, energy, capitalism, careers, bankruptcy, near-death experiences, suicide attempts, death of loved ones, brain tumors, depression, permanent disability, emotional validation, morning routines, evening routines, mastery, finding purpose, leadership, healing yourself, and more rock-bottoms that I can count. 

Notable Stories

• 86: Wendy Shew
• 10: Muhammad Seven
• 56: Sheena Renea
• 57: Kane Patterson
• 94: Lynn Ruth Miller
• 23: Kylie Travers
• 22: Susie Moore
• 32: Andrew Mann
• 77: Kyle Dean Houston

Mind Twist

• 63: Limor Pinhasi-Vittorio
• 89: Betty Kovacs

Heartwarming Conversations

• 65: Elissa Weinzimmer
• 85: Ana Levin
• 8: Marco Stephano
• 47: Harry Uddoh

Top Picks on Mindset (Unforgettable)

• 61: Rob Tull
• 35: Brian Bergford
• 73: Tor Seppola

Quotes to remember: 

“You can still be deeply, deeply unhappy inside despite the shiny exterior.”

“How you feel is up to you, not up to a circumstance.” 

“The true self is beyond any system of reward and punishment.” 

Takeaways:

• Death is an essential topic to ponder in order to live a better life
• You don’t need to be dying to benefit from considering death
• We are trained on how to be in this world in childhood, and how to feel and express our feelings
• Many of us were trained to not allow ourselves to feel happy
• Reprogramming begins with awareness
• Being an adult means being responsible for yourself, including your emotions and how your feel
• We can be trained to respond in any way to almost any scenario
• Dreams grow in the soil of discomfort and courage

What you’ll learn:

• About the top five regrets of the dying
• The programming and training principles in a parent-child relationship
• How to reprogram and reparent yourself
• An example of the process of reparenting oneself
• What it means to live true to oneself

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• The Top Five Regrets of the Dying - Bronnie Ware

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Pierce is an empowerment speaker, coach, and former Division I college basketball player. After losing scholarships and his father’s tragic suicide, he hit a personal rock-bottom before age 20. He has since found meaning and inspiration from trauma and now helps others do the same.

Quotes to remember: 

“Everything happens for a reason; we are in charge of that reason.” 

“There is good that has emerged from the bad that has happened.” 

“Gratitude doesn’t mean absent of pain… it’s just seeing a fuller picture.” 

Takeaways:

• When your expectations are wrapped up with your identity, not meeting those expectations can be very painful
• We can find meaning in madness when we can accept what is; avoidance is a missed opportunity to find the meaning
• #ThirtiesAndTherapy
• It’s important to have emotional safety with those you speak with
• It’s great to admit that you don’t have it figured out
• Why we need to be grateful for our hardships in some way
• We all desire significance 

What you’ll learn:

• How Pierce managed basketball as it became less and less fun and more about managing others’ opinions
• What he did when he father passed away and he lost his scholarship within the same week
• The effect of wearing a mask and appearing as if he loved playing basketball
• Pierce’s acceptance of being laid off during Covid and how he found meaning 
• Cultivating gratitude despite the pain

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://piercejbrooks.com/
• Playing the Game of Social Pressure TEDx
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
• Loving What Is - Byron Katie

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Quotes to remember: 

“One of the things that is inherent to creativity and expression is it’s unknown to you.” 

“There are things we want to do that are totally outside what we currently know.”

Takeaways:

• When we feel stuck we are often faced with the path we are currently on and a more unknown path
• The essence of creativity is a mystery
• Our mind/ego wants to protect you and keep you safe, but this often becomes limiting
• The thing you will regret most is not trying
• The steps become clear when we have a destination in mind
• When we are making a switch or transition, the first decision is a commitment
• Nothing outside of you will give you the satisfaction and contentment of being fully yourself
• It’s okay to feel stuck; we’re just not meant to stay there
• Is anything safe, really? 
• When we can accept the mystery, we can become the fullest expression of ourselves

What you’ll learn:

• A useful thought experiment to help you when you feel stuck
• How a visualization of your future self can clarify things for you now
• How to differentiate between something you like to do and something you love to do
• Why projecting oneself into the future is such a powerful technique
• What the physical body is trying to tell you through pain and illness
• About our deepest instinct to be the fullest expression of who we are

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• The Slight Edge - Jeff Olson
• Future self-continuity: how conceptions of the future self transform intertemporal choice - Hal E. Hershfield

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Shanna is an Industrial Psychologist and Leadership & Health Expert. She helps leaders feel better and perform better. She hit the invisible wall of burnout six years ago, which led to her to redefine success and health for herself. Now she helps others do the same by focusing on integrative health of the body, mind, and spirit.

Quotes to remember: 

“There is an invisible wall that people hit, whether it starts with a health event… or starting to get negative feedback.”

“I realized, I haven’t updated my dreams in a while.” 

“When we are under threat, we’re looking to confirm what we already know.” 

“To deny our grief, to deny our pain, our sadness… it has a way of finding us.” 

Takeaways:

• We are constantly reshaping and reforming who we are
• Sometimes our goals are outdated
• It’s difficult to admit that parts of your work aren’t working anymore
• Go to your opposite to develop yourself
• Our old stories served as at one point and may not serve you now
• Deep breathing is such a powerful tool because it calms the nervous system
• There is a lot of unspoken grieving now with the pandemic which we may not have considered grieving
• Call it what it is when it comes to how you feel and your emotional state; the label will empower you
• Events need to be felt, processed, then understood; then healing occurs
• The grief will always catch up with you one day; incomplete grief becomes chronic grief
• There is no amount of achievement, recognition, or wealth that will treat your unfelt grief
• Every abandoned child will subconsciously feel as though it is their fault

What you’ll learn:

• What to do when we are rewarded for high achievement yet it is detrimental to our health
• About Shanna’s wake-up call 6 years ago to listen to her body
• How she redefined health and wellness for herself when her body hit a wall three times over
• The steps to letting the old go and accepting the new
• What to do to get in touch with yourself if you’re an anxious high achiever
• How to end your emotional hijacking and become able to separate perceived threat from real threat
• How Shanna grieved the loss of both her parents, her significant other, and her dog

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://drshanna.com/
• The Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron
• Natalie Goldberg

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Lynn Ruth started doing stage comedies when she was 70 years old and has since received many accolades and recognitions. She has done numerous comedy and five-star cabaret shows, including Britain's Got Talent, and has toured all over the world. At 87 she is currently considered as the oldest performing stand up female comedian on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of Getting the Last Laugh: The World's Oldest Comedienne Rocks the Comedy Stage.

Quotes to remember: 

“There are two ways to go when you have a childhood like that: you either succumb to it or you fight your way through.”

“I fought for every gig I got.” 

“I do not feel old; I feel just like you do, I feel me.”

Takeaways:

• Quality and the craft of your work keep you going
• Go for it and use what you already have to get started
• It’s okay if others don’t think you’re funny (or insert adjective); it’s subjective; even if they are a talent manager
• There is rampant age discrimination in entertainment
• Comedy, and art, are messages to the world
• It’s okay to not know what you’re doing
• To get well, you must relinquish the perks of being ill; and there are many perks
• Consistency is often more important than quality
• When you treat your art as something someone else must approve of, you are in rocky waters
• Anyone can do something like what Lynn Ruth did

What you’ll learn:

• How Lynn Ruth pivoted to comedy coming from a background in journalism, amidst failure and being broke
• How she accidentally found herself in comedy after not knowing that it was a career
• About her surprising and unexpected start in the business
• On doing burlesque at 72 and being spotted by Amy Schumer
• How she made things work on 14,000 dollars a year
• How Lynn Ruth healed herself from decades of anorexia and bulimia, and how comedy helped her
• Her thoughts on comedians and depression and what the psychology of it is

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• http://www.lynnruthmiller.net/
• Getting the Last Laugh - Lynn Ruth Miller
• SF Comedy College
• Tony Sparks - Brainwash
• Edinburgh Festival
• James Hollis
• Starving Hearts - Lynn Ruth Miller
• A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

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Tim is a triathlete, ultra-marathon runner, and a life and fitness coach. He is the author of TRIPOLAR: The Story of a Bipolar Triathlete. He is a 12-time Ironman finisher, 1-time double Ironman finisher, and a 7-time 100-mile endurance run finisher.

Quotes to remember: 

“Pain leads to desperation, and desperation leads to willingness.”

“I am responsible for my second thought and my first action.” 

Takeaways:

• Disgust can fuel us to do big things
• Our addictions and habits impact those around us whether we realize it or not
• Don’t ever forget how bad it can get in terms of an addiction
• Self-care happens in our body, mind, and spirit
• Everyone gets down sometimes and the important part is not to stay there
• If you stay sober you will live a life beyond your wildest dreams… 

What you’ll learn:

• How a New Year’s resolution led Tim to lose 60 pounds in 6 months
• The story of how Tim’s father died when he was 13 years old, and how he was brutally beaten for it happening
• What finally allowed him to quit after relapsing and going in and out of rehab five times
• How Tim manages his rapidly changing moods
• His methods of self-care
• How he fit his training for a double Ironman in while working as a teacher
• About cultivating humility and tempering the ego

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://ultratimdavis.com/
• Tripolar book

Links:

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Brent is a former U.S Army Combat Engineer, speaker, and the author of ROGER UP: The Mission Ready Blueprint to Crush the Morning, Own the Day, and Become the Best Version of YOU! He is also a self-proclaimed human test subject for peak social, mental, and physical development and a soon-to-be coach.

Quotes to remember: 

“The snooze button kills dreams.”

“Your success and your happiness will speak for themselves.” 

Takeaways:

• Successful and productive people have a plan for their morning
• The evening routine sets us up for the morning routine
• Skills are like weapons
• You have complete control over who you are around and what you consume
• Raising a child is essentially training an adult

What you’ll learn:

• How to dial in your perfect morning routine that is unique to you
• The three things to do to get you started in your morning 
• What motivates Brent to do diverse things such as learn Mandarin 
• How he adjusted to becoming married and a stepdad in one day
• The metaphor of the world being sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• ROGER UP book
• Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

Links:

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Sandy is a multi-racial meditation teacher, self-care practitioner, soul-centered marketing whiz, podcaster, and a big believer in humans. Her mission is to revolutionize modern living by introducing a new level of functionality through simple self-care principles to help others experience their fullest expression in this lifetime. After living with suicidal depression and crippling anxiety, she has integrated a new way of living through a devoted meditation practice that led her to a profound career path, her soulmate, and inner peace.

Quotes to remember: 

“The present is the most unknown space to be.” 

“Within you are the different versions of you.” 

Takeaways:

• You don’t need to overcomplicate things when you first start self-care
• We can live more intuitively and more efficiently when we tap into heart-centered energy
• Knowing there is an inner child in you will help you ask better questions
• We are closest to god when we “fail”
• Fear controls you by making it difficult to let go
• We tend to feel inadequate when we are out of control, but the truth is that most of it is not up to us

What you’ll learn:

• How to start a self-care practice 
• What to do if you feel anxiety when meditating
• Two simple breathwork techniques you could begin today
• How to treat yourself with compassion and increase your self-respect and self-love
• How to let go of something you were sure of
• What surrender truly is

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.sandyvo.com/
• American Meditation Institute
• Prosperous School of Self Realization

Links:

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Adam aka The PHD (Previously Heavy Dude) hit a rock bottom moment in his life where he weighed 327lbs. He then went on his own 100-lb weight loss journey, started a gym and bootcamp, and helped his hometown lose over 35,000 pounds in five years. Now he is a coach and the host of the The Million Pound Mission podcast where his goal is to inspire one million pounds of healthy weight loss.

Quotes to remember: 

“Goal-setting is really like goal-guessing.”

“You gotta show up for you and realize that your goals and your hopes and dreams, they’re worth it.” 

Takeaways:

• Accepting personal responsibility is the hardest exercise to do
• The one thing we can control is our show-up rate
• Measure progress looking back to where you started, not to where your goal is
• One domino can knock down another that is twice its size
• Getting the initial momentum is what you want to focus on for any major change
• Until your “Why” stack is bigger than your “Why Not” stack, you won’t achieve your goal
• Make your goals emotional by asking yourself why over and over until you feel its emotional power

What you’ll learn:

• How Adam’s rock-bottom moment extended to his health, finances, career, and relationships and when he was able to make a change in his life
• How he created a Lifestyle Rehabilitation Statement for himself that he stuck to for 5 years
• What happens when you set a giant goal and succeed and then in essence start over
• About Adam’s second reinvention in which he pivoted from health to teaching others how to podcast
• How he developed his voice and message
• His signature Implementation Alarm Challenge (it takes only one day!)

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.transformationcoach.me/
• The Secret
• Dan Sullivan
• Podcasting Business School podcast with Adam
• The Shine Show with Salome Schillack
• Seven Levels Deep - Dean Graziosi

Links:

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Dr. Kovacs is the author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World. Within a three-year period, she experienced the deaths of her mother, son, and husband in separate car accidents. She witnessed her son's consciousness after his death and began researching our ancestors' forgotten and repressed wisdom of a greater consciousness.

Quotes to remember: 

“There is no death. Consciousness continues.” 

“If we don’t know who we are, then others can control us.” 

“We can grieve any kind of change or loss.”

Takeaways:

• Our dreams can have premonitions of the future, including those concerning our deaths
• True myths nurture our growth and development
• We are the mediators between the energy of the earth and of the cosmos
• Our dreams, prayers, and meditations feed us symbolically
• Grief can lead us to a vaster consciousness
• We are immortal, divine, and creative, although we have lost sight of this
• Meditation is a form of study, with our thoughts and feelings as the subject
• The heart is part of the brain
• When we connect with ultimate consciousness, our lives are forever changed
• Ancient cultures were perhaps more advanced and knowledgeable about the nature of humankind

What you’ll learn:

• How Betty experienced her son’s consciousness after his death
• How our ancestors had a much vaster understanding of consciousness, and what we can do to return to this state
• Accessing the wisdom of your dreams
• About the inverted myths in religion that have disconnected us from the truth of who we are
• The role of the shaman in guiding us to who we are
• About the San Bushmen traditions and how they utilize energy and lost wisdom of consciousness

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://kamlak.com/
• Merchants of Light book
• The Miracle of Death book
• Heart Math Institute
• Bradford Keeney
• Cosmic Consciousness - Richard Maurice Bucke
• Peter Kingsley

Links:

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Doug is a mediator, speaker, and author of De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less. He was a commercial trial lawyer for 22 years before transitioning to leadership development, problem-solving, and peacemaking. He is the co-founder of Prison of Peace, an organization dedicated to promoting peaceful conflict resolution among prison inmates.

Quotes to remember: 

“There are many conflicts today that should not be in the legal system.” 

“We do not create emotional safety for each other or for our children.” 

Takeaways:

• Lessons from tai chi: the softer you are, the stronger you are; the more vulnerable you are, the more powerful you are
• All human conflict starts in the brain
• Our society privileges rationality over emotion
• We are hardwired to recognize emotion
• Emotional invalidation is one of the most ubiquitous and insidious forms of abuse
• Anger is hiding many other emotions
• Feeling numb comes from not wanting to feel the pain of emotion
• By emotionally validating others you do not need to take on their emotion or feel scared or anxious

What you’ll learn:

• How being called too arrogant by his martial arts instructor, and being let go, led to an entire career change for Doug
• The reason most people’s emotional competence is so low
• How a former gang member cried when he was able to finally connect with his daughter, who was afraid of him
• What it means to “listen someone into existence”
• The difference between active listening and emotional listening
• Why people emotionally invalidate others
• The neuroscience of emotional validation (affect labeling) and why it works to calm someone down in minutes
• How to learn the skill of emotional validation in 6 weeks

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://dougnoll.com/
• https://www.prisonofpeace.org/
• De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less
• Childhood ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences)

Links:

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Twitter

Carrie is a coach who chases freedom and helps others do the same. She is a digital nomad, a gluten-free foodie, and the host of the Set Yourself Free podcast.

Quotes to remember: 

“My brain is lying to me all day long. It’s trying to keep me safe. That’s its job. And so my job is to question and to get curious and to know that I don’t have to believe everything that my brain tells me.”

“How can I celebrate what is and accept what is?”

“You’re never going to grow your intuition if you’re not quiet.”

“Clarity comes from action.”

Takeaways:

• Our gut health is linked to our emotional health
• Thoughts lead to feelings, which lead to action (or inaction), and that leads to our results
• Try to experience the feeling of already having received what you desire
• Choose empowering thoughts before they feel true
• We may forget to do our mental training when things are going well
• Your desires are safe and good and you can listen to them
• You can always course-correct
• How can you keep one promise to yourself every day?
• When we judge others, we also judge ourselves
• Self-talk is a primary component of self-care; self-care is not simply something we do for an hour a day
• Treat yourself as you would a child

What you’ll learn:

• What led Carrie on a path to physical, emotional, and spiritual freedom
• How to consciously choose thoughts that will serve your dreams, aka thoughtwork
• Connecting with your intuition and learning to trust yourself
• How to build your self-confidence to do scary things like quit your job and work for yourself and travel the world
• How to treat yourself when you feel shame arise (because it will)
• Tools you can use to aid your self-care
• On reparenting ourselves and handling the mind with compassion

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://setyourselffreellc.com/
• Set Yourself Free podcast
• The Surrender Experiment - Michael Singer
• Letting Go - David Hawkins
• The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss

Link:

Facebook

Wendy lost her mother to cancer at a young age. After nearly overdosing in her early 20s, she had a wake-up call to change her life and rewrite her story. She is the founder of Building Education, a for-purpose organization that builds schools to help alleviate poverty. She is also an ultramarathon runner and extreme trekker.

Quotes to remember: 

“The things that happen to us when we’re young take years of healing and recognizing.”

“We’re not losing anything. We’re not leaving anything. It’s just a shift.”

“I definitely use my tragedies to fuel me.”

“Your words are the leading edge of thought.” 

Takeaways:

• Any one of us can live in a victim mentality and truly believe that we are a victim to circumstances
• The people around us play a major role in our addiction and recovery
• The truth is that… things end
• Being thankful for the lessons of life seals the practice of letting go
• As people, we need to be right
• The vast majority of our decisions are made emotionally and subconsciously
• Our mind will constantly make excuses
• Courage and self-confidence arise from all the challenges we have overcome
• What happens in our life is meant to build you into the person you are meant to become
• Be bold in what you want
• Incessant dreams, big unanswered questions, and feeling like you’re missing something are all signs of forthcoming change
•  Our realities are reflections of our inner world
• Giving is ultimately more rewarding than receiving

What you’ll learn:

• About Wendy’s rock-bottom moment of nearly overdosing and realizing that if she had died, her body would be thrown behind a dumpster
• How she overcame her mother’s untimely death through meditation
• Lessons on letting go peacefully
• How endurance running has helped Wendy tame the mind
• The one thing that allowed her to finish an ultramarathon
• Why Wendy quit her job and sold everything to travel solo, after going abroad for the first time at 28
• How being Chinese American and the child of immigrants has affected her experiences growing up in California and traveling in Asia
• The overwhelming and life-altering conversation she had with a monk from Tibet who had been persecuted by the Chinese government
• What Wendy’s mission is in building schools to empower both those in the villages and those who give

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.bebuildingeducation.org/

Links:

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Youtube

Ana is an Energy Aligner and Heart Activator. In 2014 she had a spiritual awakening and felt like she had come home to herself. Now she helps people heal their emotional wounds so they can live a meaningful life.

Quotes to remember: 

“When we receive such a deep, profound message in our lives, whatever it is… it takes so much courage, it takes so much faith and trust because it shakes the foundation of who we think we are.” 

“I allowed myself, even though I was scared, the possibility of what wanted to come through, what wanted to be given to me.” 

“Just look at creation; you can see God.” 

Takeaways:

• We put so much responsibility on our parents to parent us well
• Lack of self-love and self-worth are so pervasive
• We are constantly changing and discovering ourselves
• There is power in acknowledging that you may not know it all
• We are here to have experiences
• The heart’s wisdom is irrational to the mind and cannot be understood with the mind
• We are so connected and for one person to witness another’s experience is healing for both people
• Love never dies, even if a relationship comes and goes
• We often feel depressed when we are denying ourselves and who we are
• Our human brain cannot understand what God or Spirit is
• We are a part of God; God is within us

What you’ll learn:

• How Ana’s desire for a mother she didn’t have led her to self-love and reparenting herself
• Where we go wrong in our thinking when things don’t last like we thought they would
• How to listen to your heart to know yourself, and what it sounds like
• Why we close off our hearts and stop feeling, and the ill effects of doing this
• When Ana lost herself in tending to other people’s needs, and how she recovered herself by speaking her fear
• How to connect to God even when you haven’t felt unconditional love from anyone

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://analauralevin.com/

Links:

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Dwan went from no job, no car, being a single parent of a young child, and $75 in the bank to real estate investor and mentor.

Quotes to remember: 

“You’re gonna learn from mistakes or mentors.”

“Anger just really poisons you.”

“Take care of your mind, because you will miss it once it’s gone.”

“We have a new normal every day that we wake up.”

Takeaways:

• Rehabbing is cheaper than therapy
• It’s healthier to let something go and forgive but not forget; “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me”
• When we are out of balance, we will pay for it mentally and physically
• Be your own advocate for your health; don’t put it on other people or chalk it up to age
• We constantly gain wisdom as we grow older
• Plan for the future but don’t live for it
• Time will pick up speed so be in the present, really be here
• Somewhere along the way, things become stuff and experiences come to the forefront
• Consider: who are you trying to impress?
• We grow up people-pleasing, and it’s up to us to be aware and stop

What you’ll learn:

• About Dwan’s “come to Jesus” moment where her life had a fork in the road
• How she began rehabbing homes with no experience 
• What motivates her to teach real estate investing
• One huge mistake Dwan made in which she bought a house that didn’t exist
• About the Life Equities, a way to categorize the important aspects of your life
• About Dwan’s experience with two coinciding health conditions that led to dementia-like symptoms and looking like a zombie
• What growing up in a strict Southern Baptist home on a farm was like
• One of the most freeing things you can do for yourself

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://dwanderful.com/

Links:

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Leigh is the founder of Kindleigh, a non-profit that makes the world a better place through acts of kindness. Through helping to uplift others Leigh has found her purpose, and her hope is to inspire others to live their best life by sharing their own positivity.

Quotes to remember: 

“We and everyone else want to be seen, recognized, acknowledged.”

“When you get criticized… you probably just reached a really large audience with your message.”

“I’m not going to take someone else’s bad behavior and make it mine.”

“We should strive to be a kaleidoscope of a human.”

Takeaways:

• Where our skills and interest meet others’ needs is where we find meaning
• Kindness is a tool not only to be generous to others but also to ourselves
• An act of kindness doesn’t have to be huge; acknowledging someone’s humanity is most important
• Our perspective has been created by a million small moments
• Put yourself out there from a place of your own values rather than for validation
• If we do the work of investigating criticism, we can only learn from it
• Is it not strength to take the higher road than to respond to a low blow with a lower one?
• Let us look inwardly for the resources rather than outwardly signs of them
• Your generosity may return to you in unexpected ways from unexpected sources
• Don’t let the world harden your heart

What you’ll learn:

• The circumstances that led to Leigh’s search for greater meaning in her life
• Various ways you can practice kindness and generosity
• How to cultivate your empathy, even for those you disagree with
• Wisdom for dealing with criticism
• How practicing kindness has altered Leigh’s relationship with the world at large

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.kindleigh.org/
• The United Way
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Links:

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Christine is a cacao ceremonialist, the creator of the Maltyox Method, and an artist. The Maltyox Method is a gratitude method and transformative experience for the body, mind, and spirit. Through guided instruction, meditation, and the assistance of the cacao plant, students experience heart expansion, mind clearing & release.

Quotes to remember: 

“We are just big kids pretending to be adults.” 

“We lost our indigenous ways and we’ve been told to perform.”

Takeaways:

• We often find the greatest learning and transformation in the darkest times
• Cacao works best when you sit with it with the intention to go deeper
• Connecting with the inner child begins with honoring our ancestors
• Cacao is heart medicine, suitable for anyone
• Following your intuition is following your heart; we are all intuitive
• We are not alone and we are always supported by our ancestors
• Remembering your truth is that you remember that you are magic and that you come from magic
• Our bodies hold on to what happened even if our minds don’t remember

What you’ll learn:

• How Christine was first connected with cacao
• How cacao is different from chocolate
• Her method of preparing cacao
• How to connect with your inner truth
• Christine’s intention with her children’s book
• On the indigenous ways that we have lost and forgotten
• What her morning ritual looks like

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.iamchristineolivia.com/
• A Child of Magic book

Links:

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Youtube

Michelle lost her husband to suicide 14 years ago. She hid the truth about his death for over 10 years out of shame and fear of stigma. Now she has turned her pain into purpose by speaking publicly about her journey through healing and coaching others who live with mental health challenges and loss.

Quotes to remember: 

“Carrying a lie that big has an impact on us.”

“I had to grieve all the things I didn’t give myself permission to grieve.”

“When we are shame-driven, we just keep doing things that we’re ashamed of.”

“Fear is a liar.”

Takeaways:

• Shame and deceit grow over time
• Trauma is stored in the body; talk therapy only takes us so far
• Our self-worth is tied up into the stories we have been telling ourselves of who we are
• You can’t stop anyone from dying; you are playing god if you act otherwise
• Some people spend their whole lives trying to make other people happy
• You don’t need to accept anything as “the way it is”—it’s your choice to
• Confronting our shadow is at once painful and liberating
• You have permission to say, “I don’t want to live in this old story anymore”
• Your community are people who support you and want you to be happy and free
• There is no timeline for grieving; grief is the truest form of surrender; the tears will end
• Treat yourself as a loving parent treats a child

What you’ll learn:

• How Michelle found herself lying about her husband’s death
• What compelled her to tell the truth and face the shame
• How an unhealthy relationship manifested due to her lack of self-worth
• What it takes to develop self-love when you don’t have much
• What happened when Michelle broke the news to her teenage children, a decade later
• Why so many of us play small and play the martyr
• Her process of forgiving her family
• The hidden opportunity in grief
• How to quickly tell when you are not living aligned with your values and are betraying yourself
• How to be discerning in relationships, and more importantly why

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.michelleanhangcoaching.com/
• Maya Angelou
• Brené Brown

Links:

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Twitter

Chiara is a spiritual counselor and writer. Through connecting with spirituality she has overcome postpartum depression and anxiety. Chiara helps others by guiding them intuitively to a path of self-healing.

Quotes to remember: 

“The more we resist an experience, the more we reject it, the more pain we bring to ourselves.”

“We are the ocean and the waves are the emotion.”

Takeaways:

• Do not reject your experience or emotion; breathe into it
• Your friends and family can remind you of your past identities
• We can only find joy in the present moment
• Life is like a school where we are here to learn certain lessons
• The brain can always be retrained
• We are born without blockages; they accumulate over time
• Self-awareness is the first step to healing; many people need an outside source of help in this aspect

What you’ll learn:

• How Chiara’s postpartum depression and anxiety manifested and how she didn’t initially develop an emotional bond with her child
• The tools she used for self-healing
• What a soul contract is and how they empower us
• A variety of tools to help balance your chakras
• How to connect with your power
• The four pillars of healing

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.chiarabtownley.com/

Links:

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

Youtube

Tyler is a recovering dieter, a health coach, and founder of Radically Transformed Coaching. His mission in life is to help chronic dieters ditch their diets for good so they can live happy healthy lives.

Quotes to remember: 

“To create sustainable, long-term, healthy habits and goals, your health always has to remain a priority.”

“Everybody can be whoever they want.”

Takeaways:

• Love yourself and your body now, rather than when you lose/gain ___ pounds
• Self-love is a muscle that can grow with time and practice
• How we eat tends to be habitual
• Heath and weight loss are not instant things
• You don’t really change; you become more in tune and aligned with who you already are
• People are afraid to stand out and they want to fit in and so they adhere to society’s standards
• Most people stay stuck because they’re unwilling to allow themselves to feel and process
• When you come at weight loss from a place of love, it is much easier
• Not everyone is ready for transformation
• Dieting is designed to fail

What you’ll learn:

• The biggest misconceptions about dieting
• How to ditch the numbers when it comes to losing weight and feeling good about your body
• What Tyler learned when he lost fifty pounds and then was derailed by discovering his parents’ meth addiction
• How he overcame his lifelong belief that he was “the fat kid on the playground”
• What to do when you’ve held onto shame and self-pity for a long time
• How weight loss is about more than just the body
• Some of the principles of intuitive eating
• How to know you’re ready for change

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://radicallytransformedcoaching.com/

Links:

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Twitter

Tamar Medford is a performance consultant, podcast host, and champion for people who suffer from addiction. Since overcoming her own 20-year battle with addiction and obesity in 2012, Tamar has dedicated her life to inspiring and empowering others to believe their positive transformation is possible too.

Quotes to remember: 

“It was about learning to own my past and own my life at that point.”

“Our resistance to change stops us from being able to get our preferred reality.”

Takeaways:

• Addiction doesn’t necessarily stem from childhood trauma
• The craving for alcohol starts when it’s ingested
• The first step to healing is to recognize that there is a problem, then to relinquish control
• Being heard and seen and knowing you’re not alone is key in recovering
• Being around people who want to help others is an inspiration
• Your vision will carry you through to a sustainable lifestyle
• Shift “How can I?” to “Why can’t I?”
• Mind your words and your self-talk—the script you tell yourself—because it becomes reality
• Your story makes you relatable
• Self-love is the antidote to depending on someone else for your happiness
• Remember the feeling of facing your fear; it comes in handy for the next fear
• Sometimes we don’t achieve our goals because they are too big or too small

What you’ll learn:

• Tamar’s journey through alcohol and drug abuse, an abusive relationship, yo-yo dieting, an unhappy marriage, and weighing 215 lbs., and near suicide attempt
• How she quit drinking, and how you can release your addictions
• What to do when you hit a plateau in your healing/development
• How the spiral of failure and self-pity works
• How Tamar broke the cycle of codependency and the savior complex
• The process of trusting again
• The three reasons we procrastinate
• How to have a vision when you have no idea what to do with your life
• How to get started with a big vision

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.theroadforward.ca/
• The Million Pound Mission podcast
• The Road to Health podcast

Links:

The Road Forward Facebook group

Instagram

Twitter

Kyle is a speaker and author of Patchwork Junkie: A True Story About Drugs, Prison & Surviving Redemption. He came out of prison at 35 years old with 5 felony convictions, no college degree, no network, and had never even sent an email. He then built a successful sales career and went from earning $10 per hour to becoming Vice President of a publicly-traded company in less than a decade.

Quotes to remember: 

“I changed the way I thought and what I was filling that God-shaped vacuum with.”

“Success doesn’t require that you’re complete or that you’ve got everything worked out.”

“Everyone’s ultimate success is always on the other side of fear.”

Takeaways:

• Seek truth rather than different circumstances
• Everyone has opportunities; they are disguised as hard work and needing to swallow your pride
• Your life is so much more than to make money for investors
• Telling your truth is an act of courage and strength to overcome your fear
• We are not the ego/lizard brain
• What is happening to you might be happening for you; ask yourself what the thing inside you is that wants to be expressed or shifted and do it
• It all comes down to how we treat ourselves, and to love ourselves
• See the child in everyone
• Who you become is why it matters
• What is more important than your spiritual philosophy?
• Your story will become part of many other people’s stories

What you’ll learn:

• How Kyle went from Letterman to junkie on the streets to criminal in jail
• The three spiritual truths he came to after detoxing for months in solitary prison, which helped him recover without rehab
• About the emotional strain of not knowing how long he would be imprisoned
• The secret sauce that launched him from working at a call center to VP of a large company
• Why he walked away from his lucrative career 
• How to face your inner critic
• What scares Kyle now, in this leg of his journey
• Why he wouldn’t change anything looking back; what’s truly important
• The power of your story and your truth

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://kyledeanhouston.com/
• Patchwork Junkie: A True Story About Drugs, Prison & Surviving Redemption
• The Edgar Cayce Primer - Herbert Puryear
• Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions - Alcoholics Anonymous

Links:

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Twitter

Ryan is an Unbeatable Mind Coach, a Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher, and the author of Choice Point: Break the Cycle of Self-Sabotage, Accelerate Your Growth, and Realize Your True Potential.

Quotes to remember: 

“The more we surrendered and let go of these pieces of the puzzle, the more space we had for each other.”

“I know that so much of the things that run my life are not the truth of me.”

“My goal is to not color the present moment with the past.”

“We can legitimately recreate ourselves to have whatever experience we want to have.”

Takeaways:

• If you’re telling yourself “I can do it for one more year/day/season”, it’s time to stop
• When we can meet our own mental and emotional needs and reparent ourselves, we grow and love others better
• Transformation begins with awareness
• The mind will lead us to believe we are at a false summit and that we can stop doing the work; this is the time to continue the climb and integrate doing into being
• No matter what we’re taking on in life, we need to make room for it
• Learn from it; grow from it; release it
• Your morning and evening routines feed one another
• Your morning minimum can be a single intentional breath
• The most important moment of transformation into the person you’re becoming is the moment just before you fall asleep
• You are not your thoughts or your body; you are the one watching your thoughts and experiencing your body
• When we create a space between a happening and our reaction, we get to choose how to respond and who we are

What you’ll learn:

• Why Ryan left his lifelong dream of coaching college football
• What happened subsequently as his marriage fell apart after his emotional affair, their house is sold, and Ryan was ready to leave that night
• How shadow work can help you uncover unconscious patterns, stories, and programming 
• How to create an environment of growth for yourself
• The steps in the cycle of transformation
• Why and how Ryan practices non-attachment and “cleaning the slate”
• The building blocks of robust morning and evening routines
• The intricacies of his breathwork and visualization practices
• How he defines success

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.ihpcoaching.com/
• Choice Point: Break the Cycle of Self-Sabotage, Accelerate Your Growth, and Realize Your True Potential

Links:

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Chandra is a marketing consultant and life coach. She is committed to creating a legacy of helping people transform their lives by overcoming depression, anxiety, losses, and limitations so that they can live a life they love.

Quotes to remember: 

“People can make huge life transformations in a split second.”

“Waiting for everybody else to like you is a recipe for disappointment.”

Takeaways:

• Our human needs that often hold us back are the same things that can propel us forward
• We need both certainty and variety
• You can choose your higher purpose; it doesn’t need to be bestowed on you
• Not everyone will resonate with you and it’s important to respect the differences
• We are always getting to the next plateau of the mountain, not the top
• When we prioritize the wrong things, we feel overwhelmed and like everything has to happen all at once
• Let’s embrace our full multidimensional selves, and not deny or disown pieces of ourselves

What you’ll learn:

• Why Chandra became a coach while having a successful career in marketing
• About our root areas that determine the shape of our lives
• On our basic human needs that must be fulfilled one way or another
• How to go through the dark night of the soul
• How Chandra rebranded herself to align with what she believes
• A lesson from celebrities on wanting to be liked
• The three pillars of our emotions

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://glowliving.com/
• Root to Rise program
• Robbins-Madanes Strategic Intervention program
• Own Your Throne program

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Michael is an executive coach and speaker who had a near-death experience in 2001. He was hit head-on by a speeding SUV while cycling. As he lay on the asphalt he promised himself that if he lived, his life would be different. He is the author of Shift: Creating Better Tomorrows; Winning at Work and in Life.

Quotes to remember: 

“I thought I could be more if I did more.”

“Try to sit in a moment so we can understand why this moment is showing up for us.”

Takeaways:

• Nothing has meaning until you give it meaning
• Ask yourself: how did this happen for you, rather than to you?
• We are tougher than our tough moments
• No mud, no lotus
• Create the change you want, don’t wait for it

What you’ll learn:

• Why Michael vowed that his life would be different as he lay on the asphalt dying
• How he built a healthier self-narrative
• What his cycling accident means to him now and how it has happened for him
• How to address impostor syndrome and the self-critical voice
• How to connect better with others during Covid
• About his breath practice and a simple way to connect to your breath

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.michaelobrienshift.com/
• Shift: Creating Better Tomorrows; Winning at Work and in Life
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
• Breath - James Nestor

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Tor was diagnosed with an "inoperable" blood clot in 2005. He was $4 million in debt at age 20 due to a drunk accident, spent 3 years in prison for armed robberies and arson, and overcame suicidal thoughts while in solitary confinement. His fiancee and child were deported in 2018 and he fought for them to return for over 8 months. Now he teaches people how to consciously manifest their dream reality through meditation, habits, routines, and lessons from quantum physics.

Quotes to remember: 

“You are not your thoughts.”

“If you focus on right now, then everything you do is a seed for the future.” 

Takeaways:

• If you get 1% better every day, you will make enormous leaps in the span of a year
• You won’t necessarily feel the results so much as see them
• We often think we’re not good at something or anything when we actually are
• One phobia indicates other fears and excuses in one’s life
• We can’t solve a problem we’re not aware of 
• You can get addicted to a negative mindset
• It is so important to consider where thoughts come from
• We wake up through pain
• Be open to relearning things you thought you knew or understood

What you’ll learn:

• About Tor’s victimhood mentality that led him to commit crimes including arson and armed robberies, eventually landing him in prison
• The mindset shift that helped Tor’s life flip from failure to success very quickly
• The meditation techniques that gave him an out-of-body experience
• How to address a negative thought or a fear
• How Tor is facing his mortality from his inoperable blood clot
• Why you have so much power in your life

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.thefmlproject.com/
• Nassim Haramein

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Rachel is the founder of The Fullness of Your Power and the author of Navigating Life: 8 Different Strategies to Guide Your Way and Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life. She helps people tap into their deeper purpose and higher aspirations.

Quote to remember: 

“You may not know what your purpose is other than in hindsight.”

Takeaways:

• We are all born as perfect beings with curiosity, wonder, and joy
• Dealing with guilt and “should” is a matter of listening to your heart
• Find the common threads in what you have experienced and done and taken interest in
• Focus on taking the next step rather than trying to see the whole staircase
• Look at your contributing factors rather than blame yourself
• Investigating your triggers can increase your self-awareness
• Fear is trying to protect you

What you’ll learn:

• The developmental science around why we hold onto limiting beliefs
• How to address guilt, shame, regret, fear, and grief
• Internally versus externally motivated shoulds
• How to create rituals to tap into your soul in the face of too many things to do
• The difference between forgiving others and forgiving yourself
• An alternative to having boundaries, especially if you’re conflict-avoidant
• What multiple personality disorder can show us about our own identity

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• http://www.thefullnessofyourpower.com/

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Dr. Benjamin Ritter is the founder of Live for Yourself Consulting and he believes that everyone deserves and can feel that their work is meaningful. He is a leadership and empowerment coach, speaker, consultant, and mentor. He is passionate about guiding others in finding, creating, and sustaining a career they love.

Quotes to remember: 

“There is value where you’re currently at.”

“Whenever I feel discomfort, that means I’m on the right path.” 

Takeaways:

• We often don’t know the job we actually want exists
• Many people who are dissatisfied will burn their existing bridges instead of seeing the opportunity of where they are at
• Setting boundaries for your time and energy is important to get out of fight-or-flight mode
• Organizations want to retain you
• Clarity and confidence give you the control you seek
• We are all stuck in the programs of the past
• Desires are not commitments
• If you work in a way you don’t want to, you set precedence for it to continue
• There is opportunity even in a pandemic
• Our career journeys are just that--they constantly change and evolve

What you’ll learn:

• How we end up dissatisfied with our jobs even though they are great on the outside
• The first step of making a career transition
• How to find your Career Sweet Spot
• How to take control of your career
• The 3 C’s of Self-Leadership
• A way to reframe fear to take you closer to your goals
• How to set boundaries at work, especially now if you work from home and overworked

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://benjamin-ritter.com/

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Nick is a passionate learner and devoted student of mastery. He is the author of Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It.

Quotes to remember: 

“I need to be learning something all the time. I like learning something every day.”

“It’s important to have that inner critic that says, can you do better?”

Takeaways:

• The study behind the 10,000-hour rule and how it has been misinterpreted
• Repetition doesn’t mean improvement
• Learning isn’t necessarily fun all the time; it’s more of a slow burn
• The willingness to suck helps you improve more quickly, and it takes courage
• Everyone starts as a beginner, even the masters
• Metrics help us remain accountable and motivated 
• There comes a time when we focus and reread quality texts to go deeper
• Challenge is part of joy
• Do the little things that only you will notice

What you’ll learn:

• How Nick became so involved in the art of learning and all of the subjects and sports he has studied
• Common myths around mastery
• The steps of learning that will help you get better at anything, faster
• How to build resilient habits that are easy to follow and difficult to break
• Handling and working with the inevitable inner critic
• Nick’s process for reading books and organizing the information
• The shallow search for novelty versus the meaningfulness of going deeper into one subject of study

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://unlimitedmastery.com/
• Learn, Improve Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• Switch - Chip and Dan Heath

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Kawan is a Victory Coach. He works with people struggling with adversity in their personal and professional lives by identifying their true potential and creating a plan to utilize that potential. Over the last six years, he has had a stroke, three brain surgeries, a suicide attempt, an opioid addiction, battles with depression, and been $1.2 million in medical debt. He is the author of Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life’s Purpose.

Quotes to remember: 

“My superpower is vulnerability.”

“When you ask yourself bad questions, your mind has no choice but to produce bad answers.”

“When I get up in the morning and my feet touch the ground, everything I do after that is a bonus.”

Takeaways:

• When you have no room for judgment of others, you will not fear being judged
• Guilt will hold you hostage
• Joy is built on your gratitude for life, your relationships, and the things that matter
• You are the only person perpetuating your limiting beliefs 
• Acceptance is the first step to finding the solution for anything
• Choosing stillness is an action
• Your morning is for you and no one else
• When you are quiet with your thoughts you will begin to listen to the subtle guiding thoughts of your mind and self
• Ask yourself empowering questions

What you’ll learn:

• Kawan’s journey through three brain surgeries that began as he was a sophomore in college, with addiction, depression, strokes, and PTSD in between
• What he did and does to overcome the story of “why me?”
• How to get past limiting beliefs that stem from childhood
• What his relationship with his body is now
• How he would respond now if he knew he would need a fourth brain surgery
• How being black affects Kawan’s relationship with his health
• How to bring yourself in the present moment, and more advice for people who aren’t okay
• What Kawan’s purpose is

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life's Purpose

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Sheila is a tour creator and guide. She is the owner of Britain Your Way Tours and Women Sharing Cultures. She reinvented herself at the age of 50 when she went abroad for the first time and went back to school for her Bachelors and Masters degrees.

Quotes to remember: 

“Getting a degree meant more to me than having a degree. It showed me what I was capable of.” 

“Sometimes people treat this life like it’s a dress rehearsal.” 

Takeaways:

• Reinventing yourself starts with getting settled and having something to hold onto and work toward
• Treat yourself like you would a friend, with compassion and kindness
• Understand that you’re doing the best you can for who you are now
• Tapping into your passion can change your life
• Give yourself the space to heal and take small steps--it doesn’t happen all at once

What you’ll learn:

• About Sheila’s “year of hell” that included a job loss, bankruptcy, her husband’s affair, an economic crash, and downsizing
• How she found community despite being one of the oldest people at UCLA
• How she found herself and her passions, at the age of fifty
• Her experience doing stand-up comedy at fifty-two for the first time
• On remaining flexible especially during crisis

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• http://www.womensharingcultures.com/
• http://www.britainyourwaytours.com/

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Faith is a Naturopathic doctor who specializes in gut and hormone health. Through working as a scribe in the ER she saw the truth behind the conventional medical world, where the same people returned with chronic diseases to receive symptom relief but not true healing. Now she helps people find the root cause of their health concerns by focusing on optimal wellness.

Quotes to remember: 

“The answers are in the history.”

“You can choose if you want to rise above it or if it overcomes you.”

Takeaways:

• There is a gap in medicine for subclinical occurrences
• Birth control often messes up your hormones
• Some people don’t know what it feels like to feel good
• We often just need accountability for our health, instead of more tips
• Social media is insulting to our senses
• Listening and asking the right questions can help the healing process when someone knows that another person is taking care of them
• Confidence comes from being okay with where you are 

What you’ll learn:

• How Faith found herself pivoting from contemporary medicine to naturopathic medicine
• What she does to solve “medical mysteries”
• How to know when you have hormone issues (it’s not obvious)
• Dr. Faith’s essentials for good health
• How growing up in a large and abusive household has affected her and her practice today
• How naturopathic doctors are filling in the gaps in medicine today

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://faithfuldoc.com/

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Daniel walked away from an opportunity to run a billion dollar business to hitchhike around the world to find happiness and inner peace. He lived as a monk in a monastery for 10 years, and he is the author of The Mosaic, a fable whose premise is that you are one connection away from an entirely new opportunity.

Quotes to remember: 

“It isn’t the amount of time you spend in your practice, it’s the amount of practice you give to your time.”

“Every single person has a story that they can tell you that can actually change the entire way you see the world.” 

Takeaways:

• Just because the body leaves doesn’t mean the person does
• Everything is not as it seems; we are all connected
• Every road develops potholes
• Our thoughts become our words. Our words become our stories. Our stories become our lives.
• Who are you without your burdens?
• We listen so little and we talk so much
• Everyone wants to be listened to and heard and validated and recognized and acknowledged
• We were never meant to be extraordinary on our own

What you’ll learn:

• What begin Daniel’s search for the answer to why his parents passed away
• The four types of people who encounter potholes
• About the stories that we tell ourselves that we begin to believe
• A story about the weeds that take root inside of us
• How archetypes help reveal more about who we are and parts of our identity
• The great lesson that Daniel’s daughter, who is developmentally delayed, taught him that applies to business and world peace

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://danielbrucelevin.com/
• https://themosaiconline.com/
• The Mosaic - Daniel Bruce Levin
• Conversations with Strangers

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Elissa is a voice and presence coach, and the founder of Voice Body Connection. After suddenly losing her own voice at age 21, Elissa began studying the mechanics of voice. Over time she developed a unique approach that empowers performers, leaders, and speakers to optimize their voices and share them more authentically.

Quotes to remember: 

“Not only was I not allowed to talk, but I didn’t know how to talk about what had happened to me.”

“The impulse for expression is in every cell of our body.”

“Mastery of anything is about doing the necessary and releasing the excess.” 

Takeaways:

• Being good can be damaging too, to fit within a good-bad paradigm
• We had our intuitive ways of understanding the world and creating, before we were provided a system and structures
• We warm up to check in with our body and nervous system
• Ask yourself: Am I doing what I’m doing with an economy of effort?
• All physical issues have their roots in mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects because you cannot separate these aspects
• You are meant to vibrate at your authentic energy
• Creativity is less creating and more receiving
• We have been living in a capitalistic acquisitional culture that says that what you want is over there, rather than the truth that it is right here
• Authenticity is asking yourself “what’s here?”

What you’ll learn:

• How and why Elissa lost her voice
• What it means to have a voice on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels
• How Buddhist principles weave into using our voice and creating
• What it means to have an authentic voice
• Pointers on how to cultivate your authentic voice
• A practice on how to trust and yield to what is
• How to get in touch with what you’re feeling and to be present with the Voice Body Connection process

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.voicebodyconnection.com/
• Untamed - Glennon Doyle
• Find Your Voice Speak Your Truth podcast
• Virginia Rosenberg
• Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Find Your Voice, Speak Your Truth mini-course

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Sandy is a meditation teacher, self-care practitioner, and intrapreneur who is committed to helping others trailblaze the path to their highest expression through self-care. She is the founder of the Prosperous: School of Self-Realization, a 90-day program teaching burnt out leaders how to redesign the unconscious mind and access their field of limitless potential.

Quotes to remember: 

“No outfit that I put on made sense to me.” 

“When we can recognize that the comments that they make and the criticism that we’re facing are actually creating more space for us to get to know ourselves at a deeper level, and seek to understand ourselves, that’s really where the deepening of that relationship happens and you begin to know yourself.”

Takeaways:

• When you ask a question within yourself, you are able to receive the answer from within too
• What if everyone around you is already perfect and already whole?
• Self-care is being self-aware
• There is a difference between vital energy and forced exertion
• Your destiny is created by a series of decisions in the moment; start with one different decision
• Burnout and adrenal fatigue are created by a back-and-forth inefficient energy
• Think about what you need first, not your family or anyone else around you; you’re not here to save anybody
• We are constantly facing ego death in our lives
• If you’re not seeing it in the world, you must become it

What you’ll learn:

• Everything that led up to Sandy’s spiritual awakening and the death of her ego
• What it was like for her to come back to a place where people knew her as the old Sandy
• How she describes meditation--not as sitting down with your eyes closed in a temple
• What to do when you feel like you’re treading water or unfulfilled
• How to tell when your energy isn’t in the right place
• How Sandy’s identity as multiracial and a child of immigrants has affected her experiences
• Why ego is your friend, not your enemy
• When Sandy decided to follow her calling as a meditation teacher, and how sexual molestation played a role 

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• https://www.sandyvo.com/

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