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Ep. 101 - Why Pain Reveals the Truth: Rena Harvey on Self Mastery and Inner Power

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:30:00 -0400

In this compelling episode, transformational teacher and author Rena Harvey joins us to explore why pain reveals the truth. We delve into self-mastery, soul contracts, childhood wounding, frequency, and the courageous work of reclaiming personal power. Drawing from her own lived experience, Rena shares how pain becomes initiation, how truth emerges through shock, and why mastery is not a moment—but a lifelong remembering. This conversation is raw, expansive, and intensely activating for anyone ready to rise beyond illusion and into embodied wisdom.

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00:00 – Opening Reflection & Heart Check-In

01:45 – A Childhood Marked by Control, Trauma, and Awakening

Early experiences that shaped Rena’s path toward self-mastery

07:33 – When the Invisible Becomes Visible

Spiritual sensitivity, fear, and unsupported awakening

10:00 – Leaving Home, Losing Power, and the Illusion of Freedom

Why escape isn’t the same as healing

15:00 – The Slow Path of Healing and Nervous System Repair

Why awakening is a gradual remembering—not a single moment

16:19 – The Wounded Child and the Rock in the Chest

Understanding emotional pain as stored energy

20:00 – Childhood Programming and Subconscious Beliefs

How early meanings shape adult reality

25:00 – Soul Contracts, Purpose, and Choosing Our Lessons

A bold exploration of why souls choose their experiences

30:00 – Collapsing the Time Gap Between Who You Are and Who You’re Becoming

Frequency, mastery, and embodied transformation

34:30 – Light, Dark, and the Power of Integration

Why wholeness—not positivity—is the path to freedom

40:00 – The Formula of Life: Six Principles of Self Mastery

A practical framework for conscious evolution

55:34 – Why Pain Reveals Truth More Than Peace Ever Could

The moment that defines the episode

59:00 – Women, Power, and the Call to Rise

A fierce invitation to embodied feminine authority

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Episode Resources

renaharvey.com.au

Book: The Formula of Life: Go Deeper, Rise Higher

https://www.renaharvey.com.au/the-book.html

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Ep. 100 - Awakened by the Forest: Cristiano Colla on Healing, Presence, and Wholeness

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0400

From professional football in Italy to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, Cristiano Colla’s extraordinary journey reveals what it means to heal, awaken, and live as a whole human being. In this moving Hearts Rise Up conversation, Cristiano shares his evolution from an externally driven life to one guided by presence, compassion, and authenticity. Through Ayahuasca ceremonies, inner-child work, and the union of masculine and feminine energies, he discovered that true transformation begins when we embrace our paradoxes and meet every part of ourselves with love. His story is an invitation to turn inward, reclaim our power, and remember the freedom of being fully alive.

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Chapters/Key Topics:

00:00 – Introduction

00:54 – Meet Cristiano Colla

01:37 – “How Is Your Heart?” - — The Power of Presence

02:33 – Leaving Football: Breaking Free from Identity

05:34 – The Call to the Forest: Meeting Ayahuasca

08:44 – The Somatic Surgery Experience

12:34 – Dreams as Divine Guidance

14:07 – How to Work With Dreams

16:47 – Ceremonies Five & Six: Union of Masculine and Feminine Energies

20:16 – Healing the Inner Child: Return to Authenticity

23:22 – The Greatest Lesson: Embracing Human Paradox

25:31 – The Message of the Book: Awakened by the Forest

27:53 – Integrating Shadow and Emotion: The Process of Reclamation

32:51 – Beyond Awakening: The Path Continues

35:49 – What’s Next: Tantra & Energy Healing

37:56 – Guidance for Those at a Crossroads

39:31 – Gratitude, Family, and Forgiveness

40:45 – One Truth About Life and Death

41:42 – Closing and Where to Connect with Cristiano

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Episode Resources:

Connect with Cristiano:

https://substack.com/@thehybridsoul

https://oneiriclives.substack.com/

https://www.instagram.com/cristiano.colla/

Cristiano's Book:

Awakened by the Forest – A Memoir of Ayahuasca and Inner Evolution (estimated launch date – early 2026)

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From Burnout to Breakthrough: Leslie Draffin on Healing Trauma, Womb Wisdom & Sacred Medicines

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:00:00 -0400

What happens when burnout, grief, and loss collide? For Leslie Draffin, a 15-year broadcast journalist and news anchor, it became a breaking point—and ultimately, a breakthrough. In this Hearts Rise Up Podcast episode, Leslie shares the raw, vulnerable story of walking away from the anchor desk after years of hidden trauma, PTSD, and exhaustion, only to discover a profound new path as a trauma-informed somatic practitioner, psychedelic microdosing guide, and womb mystic.

This conversation is a journey through the dark night of the soul into rebirth—exploring how grief can become a sacred portal, how the womb holds untapped wisdom, and how sacred Earth medicines invite us back into trust, authenticity, and the Divine Feminine. You’ll hear moving client stories of transformation, visionary insights into reimagining society through cyclical wisdom, and a powerful reminder that “You are it—you’re already the embodiment of what you’re seeking.”

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Key Topics

00.00 – Intro – Meet Leslie Draffin

04:08 – Public Breaking Point & Phoenix Rising

08:17 – Identity Collapse with Sacred Earth Medicine

11:41 – Grief as a Portal

17:29 – The Path of the Womb Mystic

19:51 – Becoming Ungovernable

23:25 – Client Stories of Transformation

29:45 – Reimagining Society & Feminine Wisdom

33:13 – Walking the Edge

36:10 – Following the Signs

39:12 – A Message from the Womb

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Episode Resources

https://www.lesliedraffin.com/

https://www.instagram.com/lesliedraffin/

https://www.facebook.com/leslie.draffin

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRakA_HiNPoVYEB_MYDEs3Q

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Awaken Your Nomadic Soul: Seline Shenoy on Meaning, Connection, and Self-Worth

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:00:00 -0400

In this soul-nourishing episode, Seline Shenoy, author of The Nomadic Soul, invites us on an inner pilgrimage to reclaim what truly matters—meaning, self-worth, and soulful connection. Drawing on her global upbringing, deep personal struggles, and spiritual insights, Seline explores the emotional minefields we all encounter and offers grounded guidance to help us rise above them. With heartfelt wisdom and real-world tools, she introduces two archetypes—the Curious Pioneer and the Wise Sage—as companions on the journey back to ourselves. Whether you're seeking clarity, healing, or creative renewal, this conversation is a call to awaken your nomadic soul and reclaim the deeper, more purposeful life you were born to live.

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Key Topics:

00:00 — Intro - Meet Seline Shenoy: A Global Voice for Inner Growth

04:27 — “How Is Your Heart Today?”: A Raw Moment of Honesty

06:10 — The Early Spark: Childhood Travels and Seeds of Seeking

09:51 — Turning Inward: Discovering the Inner Landscape

12:24 — The Birth of The Nomadic Soul: A Book—and a Calling

16:22 — Two Inner Archetypes: The Curious Pioneer & The Wise Sage

18:38 — Daily Practices to Activate Your Inner Archetypes

21:39 — The Core Human Needs: Freedom and Connection

24:24 — Lost in the Noise? Here's Where to Begin Again

28:18 — When Your Soul Whispers: Listening to the Yearning for “More”

31:29 — Sleep, Simplicity, and a Cup of Tea with Yourself

39:43 — Navigating Emotional Minefields: Healing without Numbing

44:38 — Rewiring the Mind: How Your Thoughts Shape Your Life

46:07 — Redefining Success: Your Worth Is Not Up for Debate

47:33 — Final Wisdom: Let Your Nomadic Soul Lead You Home

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Episode Resources:

www.selineshenoy.com

www.thedreamcatch.com

https://www.thenomadicsoulbook.com/

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Create from the Summit: Alexander Inchbald on Clarity, Energy & Masterpiece Leadership

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:00:00 -0400

In this timely and soul-expanding conversation, visionary guide Alexander Inchbald returns to explore how we can lead, create, and live from a deeper source of clarity. As the world accelerates in complexity and technological noise, Alexander offers a powerful truth: real progress doesn’t come from speeding up or chasing after—it comes from rising up and into. He invites us to shift our vantage point—to stop operating from the base of the mountain, caught in reaction and overwhelm, and instead return to the summit, where stillness, vision, and alignment reside. This episode is a masterclass in energetic leadership, soulful branding, and how building a movement emerges not from striving, but from presence. For those feeling the weight of uncertainty, this dialogue is a reminder: your masterpiece was never meant to be created in the valley. It lives at the peak.

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Episode Highlights

05:00 AI vs Presence: Why Depth Outpaces Speed

05:30 Creating from the Top of the Mountain: Clarity & Perspective

10:30 Resistance as Teacher: The Wind Painting Story

13:10 Energetic Cost of the Valley: Burnout and Overwhelm

14:50 Masculine + Feminine Energies in Creation

20:10 Van Gogh vs Michelangelo: Struggle vs Soul-Aligned Mastery

25:00 The PEAK Framework: Path, Embrace, Audience, Key

30:00 Asking ‘How’ Means You’re Too Low on the Mountain

33:45 Breakthrough Stories: Leaders Rediscovering Clarity

42:15 Energetic Hygiene: Clearing & Protecting Your Field

47:30 Final Message: Returning to Your Summit Daily

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Episode Resources

Alexander’s Live Masterclass:

How to Build a Memorable Brand in 4 Simple Steps: https://leap.themasterpiece.agency/leap-optin

Masterpiece Website: https://themasterpiece.agency/

Alexander's Website: https://alexander-inchbald.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artisinside

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/becreativeeverywhere/

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/becreativeeverywhere

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Jonn Serrie on Music, Silence, and The Soul: Composing with Cosmic Consciousness

Thu, 15 May 2025 16:51:00 -0400

In this luminous return to the Hearts Rise Up podcast, sonic mystic and legendary space music composer Jonn Serrie invites us beyond the edges of music and into the sacred space where silence breathes, frequencies speak, and creativity plays like a child running free. What begins as a conversation unfolds as a cosmic remembering—a transmission on the soul of sound, the intelligence of texture, and the spiritual responsibility of the artist in an age of artificial intelligence.

In this episode, Jonn weaves stories of childhood dreams, planetary awakenings, and divine synchronicities—revealing how music is not created but received, not engineered but lived. This is more than an interview. It’s an initiation into the invisible forces that move through us when we dare to listen beyond the note, trust the muse's voice, and honor the stillness from which all sound is born.

Episode Highlights

00:00 Introduction

03:15 The First Note as Sacred Threshold

05:49 Texture Over Technique

10:24 Composing from the Temple of Stillness

11:00 Synthesizers as Living Beings

14:11 Dancing with AI Without Losing the Soul

15:57 Sound as Spiritual Weight

18:05 The Vision Behind the Note

20:10 Music as a Living, Breathing Intelligence

21:33 The Voice of the Muse as a Child

23:56 Initiatory Dreams & Spiritual Guide

27:55 Creating from Cosmic Memory

30:21 Returning to Compassionate Sound

36:46 Music as Mirror and Portal

Heart-centered Wisdom Shared

38:55 "Keep that sense of play and creativity alive no matter what, because that’s what it is. You’re not learning how to be a technician of music. You’re learning that the music technique is built into this joyful moment that music is created."

— Jonn Serrie

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Episode Resources

Website: https://www.jonnserrie.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb25kLFosbZbeh8QxYBvuLw

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/jonn-serrie/5297212

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1QZGv6Rumxnw9nIGmowvlM

Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/jonn-serrie/ARjwK6vjpqPnvXZ

Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/545403242

SoundCloud: https://www.deezer.com/us/album/545403242

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/artists/B000QJUXW0/jonn-serrie

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Sound Healing, Plant Medicine & Spiritual Awakening: Bjorn Lestrud’s Journey to Blue Dragon Healing

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:00:00 -0400

After years in a high-performance sales career marked by chronic pain and inner disconnection, Bjorn Lestrud embarked on a transformative journey into sound healing, plant medicine, and spiritual awakening. In this soul-stirring episode of Hearts Rise Up, he shares the extraordinary path that led to the creation of Blue Dragon Healing, including profound experiences with tuning forks, ancestral trauma release, and chanting as a channel for healing frequencies. From moments of euphoric awakening to energetic rebirths through sound and ceremony, Bjorn offers potent insights into how sound can shift deep-rooted patterns, restore emotional balance, and connect us with unseen guides and wisdom. This is a revealing conversation for anyone seeking healing, truth, and a deeper connection to the self.

Key Topics

02:32 The catalytic experiences that awakened Bjorn to his true path

03:55 Chronic pain, emotional suppression, and spiritual awakening

04:36 Bob Proctor’s "Stick Person" model and the revelation that flipped Bjorn’s reality

06:05 Emotional alchemy: transmuting childhood bullying into gratitude and liberation

10:15 Microdosing with plant medicine and unlocking new sensory dimensions

17:09 A mystical ceremony that healed chronic pain through ancestral trauma release

20:48 Spirit guides, jaguar medicine, and energetic storytelling

17:16 Bio-dynamic breathwork

25.52 Activating the voice as a sacred healing instrument through Bufo medicine

28:36 The energetic rebirth of the "High Heart" and falling in love with all of life

31:45 The healing powers of biofield tuning and sound baths

32:00 Why sound bypasses the mind and speaks directly to the body and spirit

34:00 How ancestral memory/trauma are encoded in the body and accessed through frequency

43:45 Client work - remotely using intuitive sound healing, affirmations, and energy tracking

44:00 Sound to face fears, shift emotional patterns, and invite transformation

Episode Resources

https://bluedragonhealing.net/

A special landing page: www.bluedragonhealing.net/heartsriseup

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Rewriting Your Life's Story: How Myth and Archetypes Unlock Your True Potential - with Allison Stieger

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:00:00 -0400

Myth and archetypes shape your life in ways you may not realize—guiding your choices, relationships, and personal growth. In this compelling episode, mythologist, storytelling expert, and transformational guide Allison Stieger reveals how ancient wisdom, Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, and the power of narrative can help you break free from limiting beliefs, reclaim your true path, and unlock your highest potential. Discover how understanding the hidden patterns in myth and archetypes can shift your perspective and empower you to rewrite your life’s story.

From Ariadne’s tangled labyrinth to Joseph Campbell’s Heroic Journey, Allison reveals how archetypes shape our identities and even the cultural figures we elevate or reject. She shares that myth is more than entertainment—a survival tool, a hidden GPS that helps us navigate life’s transitions. Whether you’re feeling lost, stuck in a cycle, or on the edge of transformation, this episode will awaken a profound new way of seeing your story.

Episode Highlights

Prepare for a soul-stirring journey as we discuss:

The Power of Myth in Personal Transformation – How ancient stories hold timeless wisdom for navigating life’s challenges.
Joseph Campbell’s Heroic Journey – Understanding how this framework can help us move through life’s trials and transitions.
The Role of Archetypes – How unconscious patterns shape our identity, relationships, and the world around us.
Myth as a Healing Tool – How stories provide psychological safety, insight, and emotional healing.
Personal Mythology & Narrative Coaching – Reshaping personal stories to break free from limiting beliefs.
Archetypes in Culture – Exploring the mythic roles of contemporary figures like Taylor Swift and Donald Trump.
The Power of Ritual – Why integrating movement, ceremony, and symbolic actions creates profound personal shifts.
Finding Meaning in Life Transitions – How mythic wisdom can guide us through personal losses, career shifts, and relationship changes.
The Story of Ariadne – How this ancient myth mirrors the modern women's journey of overcoming betrayal and reclaiming power.
How to Use Mythic Energy – Borrowing archetypes to step into confidence, resilience, and purpose.

This is more than a conversation—it’s a call to awaken. Are you ready to step into the mythic dimension of your own life?

🎧 Listen now. Your story is waiting to be rewritten.

Allison’s Websites/Social Channels

https://mythicstories.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-stieger/

https://www.facebook.com/allisonstieger

https://www.instagram.com/mythicstories/

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Schedule a complimentary 30-minute call with Allison for actionable steps to "move the needle" in transforming your story.

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Heart-Centered Wisdom Shared:

"We all have a personal myth, a story we tell ourselves about who we are. The key is learning to shape that story in a way that empowers rather than limits us."

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Sacred Sounds: Diane Arkenstone on Healing Through Music and Nature

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:00:00 -0400

In this episode, Sacred Sounds: Diane Arkenstone on Healing Through Music and Nature, we step into the extraordinary world of a musical pioneer whose life and work embody resilience, creativity, and healing. Diane’s awe-inspiring journey—is one that began in nature’s embrace and led to a transformative career in healing music. She reveals how her life-threatening heart condition sparked a deeper connection to sound and vibration, unlocking the power of music as a healing force.

SPECIAL BONUS: In this episode, listen to the premiere of “Meditation 2,” an ethereal track, from her upcoming album to be released later this year.

Exclusive Podcast Intro and Outro tracks from Diane’s albums:

Intro: "Elements of Nature" from The Essential Diane Arkenstone

Outro: "It's Been Here All Along" from Aquaria II - Ascension

Immerse yourself in Diane’s music for your healing. We’ve all faced seemingly insurmountable challenges, but Diane’s story reminds us that healing is possible when we trust the power within. This conversation will leave you inspired to embrace life’s symphony with an open heart and renewed gratitude.

Interview Highlights:

A Journey through Adversity
Music as a Lifeline
Nature as a Muse
The Sacred Science of Sound
The Creative Process
Resilience and Gratitude
Global Impact
Simple Beauty in Complex Times
Timeless Wisdom

Heart-centered Wisdom Shared:

"Always be kind—that opens every door.” i.e., Kindness is the music of the heart.

Diane Arkenstone is one of the top 10 healing artists in the world, with hundreds of millions of streams globally across music streaming platforms, her prolific discography and collaborations have resulted in over 55 albums spanning many genres throughout her career.

Website and Social

Website: https://dianearkenstone.com/

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dianearkenstone

Links to social media and other onsite profiles

a. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DianeArkenstoneMusic

b. Twitter: https://twitter.com/dianearkenstone

c. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diane.arkenstone/

d. TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dianearkenstone

e. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dianearkenstone

f. Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arkenstone

g. Bandsintown: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/118265-diane-arkenstone

Links to streaming site artist profiles

h. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tACdDgcOW9HHM1Z4T3L29

i. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/diane-arkenstone/98965339

j. Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/diane-arkenstone/ARkvJ6kwjjbj9vZ

k. Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/17332

l. Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Diane-Arkenstone/e/B000APTQBO

m. Bandcamp: https://dianearkenstone.bandcamp.com/

n. Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dianearkenstoneofficial

o. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DianearkenstoneMusic

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Unlocking Unshakable Inner Peace and Awakening – With Rachael Jayne Groover

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:00:00 -0400

In this soul-stirring episode, Rachael Jayne Groover takes us on a journey of profound transformation, from the depths of adversity to the heights of unshakable inner peace. As a global leader and catalyst in spiritual awakening, human potential, and entrepreneurship, Rachael Jayne shares her raw, vulnerable truths about healing, the art of receptivity, and the power of aligning personal growth with spiritual surrender. With wisdom honed through hardship and triumph, she reveals how to live as a vessel for infinite awareness while embracing the paradox of being human. This conversation will challenge your beliefs, awaken your potential, and ignite your path toward a life of clarity, purpose, and peace.

Key Topics Covered

The Transformative Journey: from ego-driven ambition to spiritual surrender.

The Art of Receptivity: isn’t just a mindset but a cellular state of being.

Awakening Through Opposing Forces: the paradox of ego strengthening and ego unwinding.

Living as a Vessel for Infinite Awareness: shifting from goal-oriented ambition to purposeful action.

Lessons from the Dark Night of the Soul: reframing adversity as a sacred invitation for awakening

Building an Elevated Community: creating a space for the spiritually mature to go “all in.”

Practical Pathways to Peace: simple daily practices even in the most challenging moments.

Heart-Centered Wisdom - "Receptivity isn’t a thought; it’s an energetic state—a doorway to the infinite that opens when we soften, surrender, and allow."

Website & Resources

https://theawakenedschool.com/

Free Report: 5 Spiritual Superpowers

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Spiritual & Successful Event

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https://www.youtube.com/c/RachaelJayneGroover

Book – Unshakable Inner Peace

https://www.amazon.com/Unshakable-Inner-Peace-Emotional-Rollercoaster/dp/195610822X

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More Info: Rachael Jayne is the Founder of The Awakened School®, a community that loves elevating conversations on spiritual awakening, human potential, and entrepreneurship. She is also the best-selling author of three transformative books, a TEDx speaker, and an Inc 5000 CEO. She’s also the creator of the Art of Feminine Presence® training, a revolutionary program taught worldwide to over 13,000 women in the last 13 years.

Healing Everyday Trauma: Awakening, Purpose, and the Power of Love - With Farra Allen

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:00:00 -0400

In this heartfelt episode of the Hearts Rise Up podcast, “Healing Everyday Trauma,” Farra Allen—a transformational life coach, founder of Life Works School of Coaching, and author of You Are Enough: A Soul Sound Journey to Awakening—takes us on an extraordinary journey of healing, self-discovery, and purposeful living.

From navigating profound personal traumas to pioneering holistic approaches in body-mind therapy, Farra shares his deeply transformative insights on embracing our inherent worth, overcoming emotional barriers, and aligning with the flow of life. Dive into his wisdom on unlocking your unique gifts, finding fulfillment, and cultivating love as the ultimate tool for personal and collective healing. This is a must-hear conversation for anyone seeking clarity, connection, and courage in today’s chaotic world.

Key Topics Covered in the Episode

Farra’s Transformational Journey: How his early life challenges and traumas shaped his mission to heal and empower others.
Understanding Everyday Trauma: The often-overlooked micro-traumas that shape our emotions, health, and decisions—and how to heal them.
The Power of Emotional Healing: Why allowing yourself to feel the full range of emotions is critical for releasing emotional blockages.
Somatic Integration for Holistic Growth: Farra’s insights on how trauma manifests in the body and the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit.
Finding Your Passion and Purpose: Practical wisdom on how to uncover your unique gifts and align with your higher calling.
Guided Visualizations as a Healing Tool: The transformative impact of combining music, visualization, and meditation to integrate growth.
Lessons from Influential Spiritual Leaders: The wisdom Farra gleaned from iconic teachers like Ram Dass, Alan Watts, and Dan Millman.
Living a Life of Fulfillment: Farra’s reflections on moving beyond societal success markers to focus on soul-level fulfillment.
The Role of Love in Healing and Transformation: Why love is the most powerful force for personal growth and collective healing.
Navigating the Chaos of Modern Times: Strategies to stay grounded, resilient, and open during periods of upheaval.
The Evolution of Consciousness: How humanity can transcend fear and division to embrace a more unified, love-based existence.

Book

You Are Enough: A Soul Sound Journey to Awakening

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Bonus: Farra's book includes guided visualizations to help you heal, awaken, and thrive.

Website

https://www.lifeworkstransformationalcoaching.com/

Email

coachfarra@lifeworkstransformationalcoaching.com

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The 7 Levels of Wisdom: Unlocking Your Path to Inner Peace with Monica Esgueva

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:00:00 -0400

In this transformative episode, we dive deep into the life and teachings of Monica Esgueva, a renowned self-development teacher, spiritual guide, and author of “The 7 Levels of Wisdom.” Monica shares her incredible journey from a conventional life as an economist in Paris to a spiritual awakening during her studies with Tibetan lamas, including the Dalai Lama, in the Himalayas.

With a unique blend of Eastern and Western philosophies, Monica offers profound insights into self-transcendence, inner peace, and the importance of forgiveness and service to others. Through her experiences and teachings, Monica reveals how surrendering control and trusting the universe can lead to personal transformation, helping listeners connect with their higher selves and move toward a more heart-centered existence. This is a must-listen for anyone seeking to awaken their inner wisdom and elevate their consciousness.

Show Notes:

1. Pivotal challenges starting at birth

2. Looking to the stars as home

3. Early awareness of energy and possibilities vibrating all around us

4. Meditation as a path to perception and understanding

5. Going beyond our five senses

6. Breaking free of “fitting in”

7. A life-changing journey to India and Nepal

8. Serving others selflessly as a volunteer

9. Faith and perseverance are keys to believing in yourself

10. Vital importance of inner balance

11. Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of suffering

12. The 7 levels of wisdom

12. Illusion of control and the freedom of surrender

13. Transforming negativity to goodwill, benevolence, and cooperation

14. Becoming an expanded version of yourself through surrender and service

15. Looking forward to continuing transformational one-on-one coaching sessions, releasing an inspirational novel, and starting The Ascension Institute.

Books by Monica Esgueva:

New Book - 7 Levels of Wisdom: A Path to Fulfillment

Social Media: (all available in English and Spanish)

Monica’s Website: http://www.monicaesgueva.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Esguevaweb

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/m%C3%B3nica-esgueva-b85b9727a/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monica_esgueva/

X: https://x.com/MonicaEsgueva

Free Offers:

Helpful content is available for free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@monicaesgueva.author

Free Ebook - http://www.monicaesgueva.com/funnel/raise/ebook/

Heart Centered Wisdom Shared:

“Think, speak, and act in a way that is a benefit to others.”

“I am here to serve the light.”

“If I offer myself as an instrument of something bigger, I’m willing to accept whatever comes my way.”

People Mentioned:

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama https://tibet.net/about-tibet/his-holiness/

Embracing Spiritual Growth: Love, Resilience, and Self-Inquiry - With Jennie Lee

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:00:00 -0400

In this engaging episode “Embracing Spiritual Growth: Love, Resilience, and Self Inquiry, Jennie Lee, a Nautilus Book Award-winning author of “Spark Change,” spiritual coach, and certified yoga therapist shares her journey of spiritual growth. She discusses the significance of self-inquiry and meditation in navigating life’s challenges.

Reflecting on the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, she emphasizes choosing love over negative emotions and offers practical strategies like setting intentions and focusing on gratitude. The discussion delves into the practices and philosophies that support resilience, endurance, and conscious evolution, emphasizing the power of questions, curiosity, and a loving mindset to foster inner peace and personal transformation.

Jennie shares ideas on supporting others in their spiritual journey and highlights her offerings, including yoga retreats, creativity coaching, and an artist-in-residency program in Tuscany, Italy.

Show Notes:

● Experiencing gratitude in daily life

● Accepting grief and loss in the school of life

● Choosing a “happy heart”

● Importance of cultivating a loving mindset in the face of suffering

● Meditation as a practice to build resilience

● Paramahansa Yogananda

● Basic principles of yoga philosophy

● Choosing love over bitterness, negativity, or anger

● Value of self-inquiry

● Making a conscious choice to move out of negative emotions

● Setting intentions to shift thought patterns

● Feeding the right thoughts

● Curiosity and Kindness

● Offering space for creativity to thrive

Quote Mentioned:

“Your love must be greater than your pain.” Paramahansa Yogananda

Books by Jennie Lee

Spark Change

True Yoga

Breathing Love

Social Media:

Jennie Lee Coaching Website: https://www.jennieleecoaching.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennieleeyogatherapy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennieleeyogatherapy/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennielee_author/

Free Offers:

Free Discovery Call with Jennie plus gifts! https://www.jennieleecoaching.com/

Creative Residency:

Essere Writer and Artist Residency in Tuscany

https://essereresidency.org/apply/

Heart Centered Wisdom Shared:

“As we show up in kindness for ourselves and to others, we can slowly make changes.”

Author Mentioned:

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear

Unlocking Creativity and Purpose - With Alexander Inchbald

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:30:00 -0400

In this episode “Unlocking Creativity and Purpose,” Alexander Inchbald, a climate artist and global authority on creativity shares his journey from suppressing his artistic passion due to external discouragement to rediscovering it through personal struggles and mystical experiences. He discusses the importance of inner work, reclaiming the shadow self, and embracing resistance to unlock creativity and purpose.

Alexander founded The #Masterpiece Movement and The Masterpiece Agency, he helps individuals and teams discover their purpose and create transformative masterpieces. He emphasizes that everyone already possesses the essence of their true selves and encourages listeners to embrace this realization to reach their personal summits. Alexander is an international bestselling author of a groundbreaking book #Masterpiece. He is a Master Trainer at the Entrepreneurs Institute. He coaches and facilitates individuals, business leaders, and teams worldwide to bring Purpose to life through conscious leadership, marketing, and regenerating business.

As a Climate Artist, Alexander has brought attention to our planet's incredible beauty and fragility through his art and speaking engagements. His artwork has been shown around the world. He lives in Switzerland with his family.

Show Notes: (Highlights)

My archetypal journey
The role of art in my life from an early age
Influence of naysayers on our life path
Consequences of suppressing the inner artist
Climbing the mountain of creativity
Answering the “unanswerable question”
The reclamation work of Peter Koenig
My mystical mountain experience
Ascent Assessment - Base Camp to the Summit
Factors of money, power, love, and time
Balancing shadow and light
The concept of tribes
Applying Masterpiece to businesses

Free Offers:

Receive Alexander’s book #Masterpiece as a download for free. https://alexander-inchbald.com/masterpiece-book-2/

Purpose sessions are offered regularly for free. https://themasterpiece.agency/

Author’s Mentioned:

Peter Koenig https://peterkoenig.typepad.com/

Carl Jung https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung

Carlos Castaneda https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000APXVFG

Quote Mentioned:

“What you resist not only persists but will grow in size.” - Carl Jung

Movie Mentioned:

Dead Poets Society https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165/

Book Mentioned:

#Masterpiece - What you would do with all the time and money in the world by Alexander Inchbald https://www.amazon.com/Masterpiece-what-would-money-world/dp/2839931877

Social Media:

Alexander’s Website: https://alexander-inchbald.com/

Masterpiece Agency Website: https://themasterpiece.agency/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artisinside

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/becreativeeverywhere/

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/becreativeeverywhere

Heart Centered Wisdom Shared:

“Feel the essence of you.”

“You are it! You may be searching for it, but you already are it. There is part of you at the summit of your mountain right now.”

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Ecstasy In Everyday Life - With Alara Sage

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:14:00 -0400

In this episode, Ecstasy in Everyday Life, we dive deep into spirituality with the incredible transformative spiritual guide Alara Sage. With over 15 years of experience, Alara shares her profound journey of awakening, from a spontaneous Kundalini Awakening to connecting deeply with her Higher Self. She delves into the wisdom of the womb, the essence of Kundalini Shakti, and the power of surrendering to suffering. Alara introduces the "Spiritual Kung Fu" concept, teaching how to achieve profound relaxation and presence in life. Tune in to discover how to ignite your divine potential, access deep healing, and live a life of ecstatic bliss and creation.

Show Notes:

Challenges on the spiritual path
Learning to let go of attachments
Connecting and validating the voice of our Higher Self
“Surrender into the suffering.”
Revelation of God and the path to bliss and ecstasy
Aligning with service to all
Importance of relaxation vs. rest
Practicing Spiritual Kung Fu
An unexpected introduction to Kundalini energy
Respectfully accessing and working with Kundalini Shakti
The “wisdom of the womb”
Understanding the Creation Point
Connecting the heart and the womb
The Enneagram as a magical modality

Social Media:

Website: https://www.alarasage.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alarasage/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shaktima.net

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYJKB7qg4rnCMDf9S9hhwLQ

Podcast: https://www.theecstaticwomanpodcast.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alara-sage/

Free Offers:

Free 42-page ebook - Activate and Access Your Higher Self

www.alarasage.com

Gain consistent and regular clarity in life

Connect to all aspects of Self = Wholeness

Connect into the “key of the Universe”

Cultivate relationships like no other

Activate Unity Consciousness

Videos and practices included

Heart Centered Wisdom Shared:

“Law of One - we are all creation, all source, we all come from the energy.”

“Suffering truly is grace.”

“You are ultimately an ecstatic being.”

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Harnessing The Power Of Flow To Navigate Life's Waves - With Summer McStravick

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:15:00 -0400

In this inspiring episode of the Hearts Rise Up Podcast, join us as we delve deep with Summer McStravick, the visionary behind Flowdreaming, an innovative technique designed to manifest dreams, heal the soul, and build inner emotional strength. With decades of experience and a journey that took her from the halls of Hay House to touching the lives of thousands through her books and podcasts, Summer brings a wealth of knowledge on personal growth, the power of emotions, and the art of manifesting your deepest desires.

Discover how Summer’s concept of Flowdreaming transcends traditional manifesting, offering a unique blend of guided daydreaming and emotional resonance to attract the life you've always dreamed of instead of chasing it. Learn about the pivotal moments in Summer's life, from her early days at Hay House to facing her fears and personal challenges, and how these experiences have shaped her teachings and her approach to living a life in flow.

Summer shares practical insights into overcoming the barriers that keep us from achieving our full potential, emphasizing the importance of embracing challenges, listening to our emotions, and stepping fearlessly into the unknown. Whether you're facing a crossroads in your career, seeking deeper personal growth, or simply curious about a new approach to manifesting your future, this episode is a treasure trove of wisdom, offering guidance, inspiration, and the push you need to rise to your heart-centered higher self.

Tune in to learn how to navigate life's ups and downs with grace, transform your emotional landscape, and align yourself with the universe's flow. It's time to stop dreaming and start flowing.

Her latest book is Stuff Nobody Taught You: 40 Lessons from ME School to Help You Stop Being Miserable and Start Feeling Amazing. Summer’s been teaching for 18 years. Previously, she worked for Louise Hay for a decade and created HayHouseRadio.com. Summer's website: https://flowdreaming.com/.

Show Notes

Being the “little reluctant mouse” in the publishing world
Getting “skilled up” with luminaries at Hay House
Challenges of entrepreneurship, cancer, and life
Limiters, pivot points, and leaning in
Learning to “embrace the sucky stuff”
Discovering the language of emotion and energetic blueprints
Fear as an invitation
Evolution of Flowdreaming and the ME School
Communicating honestly with the universe
Exploring my intuitive nature
Claiming our royalty - we are all Kings and Queens
Playing the long game - watching past efforts fruit in the future
Practicing gratitude - past, present, and future

Books by Summer

Stuff Nobody Taught You

Flowdreaming

Creative Flowdreaming

Free Offers Mentioned

Website: Enjoy two free meditations that dip you into Flow and fire up powerful manifesting. Get Instant Alignment and Financial Abundance at www.flowdreaming.com, or find them free inside the mobile app "Flowdreaming for Meditation and Manifesting.”

Practitioners/Teachers Mentioned

Bruce Lipton

Wayne Dyer

Louise Hay

Social Channels

Website: https://www.flowdreaming.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Summer_Mcstravick/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ILoveFlowdreaming/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FlowdreamingSummerMcStravick

Flowdreaming App: https://urlgeni.us/flow

Podcast: https://flowdreaming.com/podcast/

Heart Centered Wisdom Shared:

“The world will respond - what do you ask for?”

“Shift your vision and you will find it.”

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Expanses of Consciousness - With Jason Medlock

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:00:00 -0400

Join Jason Medlock, a masterful confluence of a Quantum Healing Hypnotist, Mindset Performance Coach, and spiritual explorer, in this profound episode that ventures beyond the physical realm into the expanses of consciousness. As the author of "Empowered by Consciousness," Jason's life work is a testament to the transformative power of self-awareness and metaphysical modalities.

In the heart of the episode, Jason unfolds his saga from a curious child to a sage of spiritual practices, delving into his own experiences with self-development and the myriad techniques he has mastered. You will be enthralled by tales of astral projection, remote viewing, and the revolutionary Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT®), all part of Jason's unique toolkit that has shaped both his life and the lives of countless others.

Beyond just an interview, this conversation is an intimate journey into the essence of self-realization. It's a call to awaken the dormant potential within and to courageously challenge one's perceived reality. Jason not only shares his expertise but also reveals how embracing love and compassion as core principles can lead to profound self-improvement and fulfillment.

For those yearning to break the chains of conventional existence and tap into higher states of being, this episode is not just a listen but an experience that promises to catalyze your transformation and align you with your deepest values and aspirations. Step into Jason Medlock's world, where every moment is an opportunity for growth, and every individual is a universe of potential waiting to be realized.

Show Notes:

Early Recollections of God
Influences along my path
Effect of COVID-19 on my spiritual journey
First journey out of the body
Modalities of the subconscious
Experiencing the death of the ego
Channeling through the heart space
Importance of meditation
Finding a practitioner to help you
Thinking in multi-dimensions
Galactic Energy Healing
Water Alchemy
“It’s all about Self-Realization”

Social Media:

Expansion of Consciousness Website

Mindset Coach, Mindset Performance Coach

Author, “Empowered by Consciousness”

Founder, Expansion of Consciousness

Podcast, Expansion of Consciousness The Podcast

Books:

Empowered by Consciousness- by Jason Medlock

The Secret - by Rhonda Byrne

Be Here Now - by Ram Dass

Far Journeys - by Robert Monroe

Lessons from the Twelve Archangels - Belinda J. Womack and Catherine Shainberg

Angel Words: Visual Evidence of How Words Can Be Angels in Your Life - by Doreen Virtue

Practitioners/Teachers Mentioned:

Dolores Cannon - Quantum Healing Hypnosis Techniques

Akashic Records

Bob Proctor - Author, Life and Business Coach, Speaker

Chloe Moers – Author, Spiritual Teacher

Heart Centered Wisdom Shared:

“Gratitude is essential!”

“Sunlight recharges us.”

“We are here to learn.”

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Journey Tending: The Wheel Of Life - With Alberto Roman

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 01:11:00 -0400

In this soul-stirring episode of "Journey Tending: The Wheel of Life," Alberto Roman, a mystical voyager through life's tapestry, returns to the Hearts Rise Up podcast to delve into the profound turns of his wheel of life. Having previously enchanted listeners in episode 32 with tales from his Costa Rican haven, the path of a shaman, healing as an occupation, art, and music, Alberto re-emerges from the "Big Bright" of creativity and ancient wisdom to recount a passage through life's darker woods. Battling illness and loss, he reveals the transformative power of thought, community, and spiritual resilience. Join us as Alberto illuminates the paths that lead through fear and grief toward healing and hope.

Show Notes:

Igniting the church of my skull
Storytelling as a tool for transformation and clarification
Navigating significant life challenges like cancer
Releasing assumptions and adjusting to a new body and new consciousness
Importance of spiritual practices to help depersonalize the event
Blending Western medicines, spiritual practices, and my tribe to restore health
Communing with beauty and solace
The role of tears
Dancing with the demon of fear
Having an aspirational narrative and cultivating imagery
Community and catharsis
“Plant medicine is about communion”
The “arena” - Influential dreams and characters
Contemplating death and choosing to be earthbound

Social Media:

Healing the Healer Go Fund Me Page

Blogger

Heart Centered Wisdom Shared:

“Experience yourself as an exalted creature of pure wisdom magic and of open-ended knowledge creating benefit in all ways.”

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From Logic To Intuition: A Skeptic's Path to Spiritual Awakening - With Julia Marie

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:19:00 -0400

Join us in this episode with Julia Marie as she walks us through her spiritual awakening. She offers a unique perspective on the guiding 'voices in your head' and the 'Sound of the Universe,' linking them to spiritual teachers and innate childhood capabilities. Julia candidly discusses the skepticism stemming from her military and legal background and reveals how she embraced her intuition through validation training. Prepare to be inspired by Julia’s journey of awakening and her remarkable and evolving abilities as an energy healer, medium, and intuitive—more about Julia in her bio below.

You'll learn about:

Spiritual Transformative Events (STEs)
Perceiving energy teachers - voices in my head
Sound of the Universe - Recalling childhood abilities
Coping with unbelievers by "tamping down my senses"
Military, law, & psychology = skeptic with logical mind
Using validation training to confirm messages & teachings
Challenges of being an intuitive and a medium
Unfolding intuition organically - go with your strength
Side effects of “waking up”
Benefits of finding a like-minded community
What to look for in a mentor/teacher
Evolution of my Restorative Energy Technique
Awakening - expansion - blessing
A call for focus, quiet, and sending peace

Website/Podcast:

Website https://www.juliamarie.us/

Podcast: https://evolvinghumans.buzzsprout.com

Podcast Episode Mentioned: https://evolvinghumans.buzzsprout.com/1883831/14138150-ep-93-2024-in-perspective-the-planet-is-ascending-and-so-are-you-julia-marie

Free Offer:

Julia has made a free grounding meditation and 7 Simple Intuition Hacks available to our listeners.

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Julia’s Book:

Signals From My Soul: A Spiritual Memoir of Awakening by Julia Marie - January 2024 release - Amazon

Author’s Page on Amazon

Heart Centered Wisdom Shared:

“If I could go from fear and confusion to quiet confidence, understanding that all is well in my world, so can you.”

“Connecting with Nature. That feeds my soul.”

More About Julia Marie (Bio)

With over 30 years of experience, Julia fosters others' spiritual development. As a trans-dimensional healer and intuitive medium, she founded the Academy for the Intuitive Arts in 1997, nurturing sensitive individuals toward their spiritual potential. Globally recognized, she offers spiritual consultations and a practical approach to spirituality.

Her memoir, "Signals from My Soul," recounts her spiritual awakening and learning to live guided by an inner voice. Julia's multifaceted expertise includes a BA in Psychology, a Law Degree, military service, and a longstanding career as an intuitive consultant. Her credentials are complemented by QHHT training with Delores Cannon and various certifications in intuitive disciplines, making her a uniquely qualified spiritual mentor. Lastly, she is the host of Evolving Humans Podcast. Her mission is to help sensitive seekers understand that we are all wired the same and that the Teacher lives within each of us.

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From Catwalk to Nature's Canvas - Shana Robbins' Artistic Transformation

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:17:00 -0400

Explore the captivating world of Shana Robbins—her artistic transformation and how she weaves her art as a cultural creative, an eco-feminist, and a shape-shifter. In this conversation, you’ll gain a deep understanding of how Shana utilizes the transformative abilities of plant medicine rituals to unveil the profound connection between personal growth and our interdependent relationship with nature.

In this enchanting interview, Shana shares her challenging life as a child and her remarkable journey of how she came to discover and embody her nature-oriented art after a career in modeling. Her work has been fueled by her global travels, inspirational ideas, and performances in some of the most magnificent and magical locations.

Beyond her artistic endeavors, Shana imparts her wisdom as an Art professor at Georgia State University and delves into the mystical practice of Butoh, a unique combination of walking meditation and dance deeply rooted in the natural world. Join us as we uncover the intricate layers of Shana's artistic universe and gain profound insights into what she refers to as our "radical interdependence with the wild.”

Show Notes:

Experiencing abuse as a child and teen
Tuning into the creative as a survival tool
“Earth as my Mother”
Learning to touch the world - fully embodied
Awakening experiences with Shamans and plant medicine
Release of the heart through ceremony
Importance of establishing community
Understanding Sympoiesis - participatory relations
Graduate school - teachers who planted guiding questions
Exploring eco-avatars and eco-emissaries
Spiderwoman influences
The Goddess Garden in Atlanta
Importance of solitude and spaces
Helpful rituals for living fully

Social Media:

Website: Shana Robbins Art

Resources Mentioned:

Goddess Garden Atlanta Founded by Shasta Zaring

Heart Centered Wisdom Shared:

One of her favorite inspirational quotes is: “To heal ourselves and the earth, we need to sing to the mountains, speak to the living world, and resonate with our surroundings.”

Some excerpts from the episode:

"I am connected with, and a part of, and immersed in an incredible exquisite tapestry of sentients."

"Commune with poeta mathematical patterns and energies."

"Tune into your inner light - allow it to emanate."

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"Our Beliefs Create Our Experience" - With Lion Goodman

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:01:00 -0400

In this interview, “Our Beliefs Create Our Experience,” Lion Goodman describes his near-death experience (NDE) as a traveling salesman that changed the trajectory of his life setting him on a path of recovering his consciousness and creating a more grounded focus in his life. This time of reflection led him into a stellar 25-year career in executive search and continuing his quest for inner development and continued exploration of consciousness. This inner work eventually led him to become a professional certified therapeutic coach, teacher, healer, and Subconscious Pattern Detective.

After years of study on the subconscious mind and beliefs, numerous workshops, and trainings he created the Clear Beliefs Method – a proprietary process for deconstructing limiting beliefs, healing childhood wounds, and resolving past traumas to create profound change in others. He is the founder of the Clear Beliefs Institute.

Lion is the author of five books, including Clear Your Clients’ Limiting Beliefs and Creating on Purpose. He has taught workshops on 4 continents, and his articles have been widely published in books, magazines, and blog sites. He has been a featured speaker on summits, radio programs, podcasts, and television shows.

More than 600 coaches, therapists, and healers around the world have graduated from his Clear Beliefs Coach Training. Thousands of students and clients have reported profound transformation from his work, allowing them to feel freer, be happier, and achieve their goals faster and easier. Listen as he shares personal experiences of his transformation and the birth of the Clear Beliefs Methods. Also, in this episode, enjoy a special treat as Lion guides us through a practical exercise of one of his simple, yet powerful techniques.

Show Notes:

Hippie traveling salesman with a degree in Consciousness Studies
Good Samaritan and a harrowing journey
Near-death experience realizations
Going from corporate headhunter to Subconscious Pattern Detective
Gathering profound, impact-making technologies that lasted beyond workshops
The birth of the Clear Beliefs Method
Understanding the mind and its role in beliefs
Going beyond traditional talk therapy and the mental-verbal mind
Matrix of patterns and beliefs tied into childhood experiences
Common misconceptions about trauma
Consciousness and awareness
Where does self-focus come from - the spectrum of Narcissism
The flourishing of the human animal and a child’s needs
Helping our awareness and ego work together
Experiential exercise to change your feelings anytime

Social Media:

Lion’s website

Clear Beliefs Website

https://clearbeliefs.com/ebook/

Book Mentioned:

Free ebook:

Heart Centered Wisdom Shared:

“Do parts work and do belief work, clear the things that are in the way so you can live a wise, loving, open-hearted life.”

Some excerpts from the episode:

"If I was going to die, I wanted to die in peace."

"It wasn't luck, I was a blessed man."

"I'm definitely not my body."

"My real interest, quest, and desire is to create profound change for other people."

"Our mind is a pattern-detector"

"You have to feel in order to heal."

"We have to live a whole life - fully integrated, aware of everything around us."

"Don't get distracted by what other people might think."

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Leveraging The Qualities Of Neurodiversity - With Carson Reed

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:53:00 -0400

In this interview, Carson Reed shares how leveraging the qualities of his neurodiversity has advanced his career of choice – 3D animation and film. Diagnosed earlier in life with autism spectrum disorder, he has found that his neurodiverse qualities empower him to think differently and have proven to provide significant advantages in his personal and professional life. He also describes some of his childhood experiences, the triggers that bother him the most, and how he copes with them.

Carson is a brilliant, young cinematic animator. He is already making his mark in the world of motion pictures as one of the top people in his field. His company is CinemaMotions. He describes himself as a 3D animator and Motion Capture Actor. This career started while he was in high school. He describes what he does as “creating stories through 3D animated characters and CGI worlds.” He has mastered many of the programs needed to excel in this genre and is making tutorial videos to help others using his “weirdly good” memory. In addition, Carson’s hobbies include guitar, gaming, and connecting with his friends.

Show Notes

Defining moments in my life
Challenges & struggles of Autism
Recollections of childhood
Triggers in everyday life
Coping & managing in business & personal settings
Thinking backward & deconstructing
Applying my abilities to my work today
“Breaking the software”
Biggest lessons & influences
Importance of feedback
Value of friendly competition
Logic vs Emotion
My definition of success

Social Media/Website:

Website CinemaMotions

Books Mentioned

The Enlightened Gardner by Sydney Banks

Recommendations:

David Baum

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Some excerpts from the episode:

"My memory is weirdly good."

"Breaking the software is a plus."

"Don't develop an ego over something that isn't you."

"Success is whatever makes you content...Success is not defined by your bank account. It's just how you live."

"Everything I'm doing is as calculated as it can be to the best of my ability. And if I mess up, then I learn from it and move on. I don't dwell on it."

"If you have an idea, stick with it. The only opinion that actually really matters is your own."

"Don't get distracted by what other people might think."

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Game Changer: My Mental Health Journey - With Sarah Qureshi

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:07:00 -0400

In this interview, Sarah Qureshi shares her mental health journey, eye-opening moments, and her optimism and determination to be a game changer in the mental health field. She is a Pre-Med Psychology student at Georgia State University with a strong personal interest in mental health, rehabilitation, and proper representation in the medical field for minorities.

Sarah's journey provides her the impetus to help others, including medical practitioners, understand the importance of explaining what is happening and how medications may positively and negatively affect someone struggling with mental illness. Sarah aims to educate the medical community about the importance of seeing a person holistically so they can better treat them.

Having grown up in a Pakistani household and community, she seeks to bring awareness of the impact of cultural norms, especially where there is a strong taboo on talking about mental health. It has been a difficult journey, but Sarah is excited about her future and plans to become a psychiatrist with a strong influence on the affordability, access, and appropriateness of the uses of medicine in mental illness treatments. She is grateful for the experiences that have led her to this point.

While interning at the Centered Recovery Program in Georgia, Sarah wrote articles on ADHD and Addiction, Music and Mindfulness, and Dopamine and Addiction. She shares that she is incredibly grateful for her education, family, circle of friends, boyfriend, and little sister!

Show Notes

A life of stories
The power of music and lyrics
Dream - to help others struggling with mental health
The problems with squashing feelings
Bullying that led to self-gaslighting - taking the blame for how others treated me
Cultural taboos and the stigma of labels
Lack of cultural representation or knowledge in the mental health community
Good and bad aspects of being hospitalized
Overwhelmed by medications
Natural ways of self-care have carried me
Grounding tools and techniques
Lessons learned about forgiveness
Put yourself first - ask for help - ask questions
Take a stand - set boundaries
Game changers in family dynamics

App Mentioned

Daylio - Self-Care Bullet Journal with Goals, Mood Diary & Happiness Tracker

Song Mentioned

So Far Away - Agust D (BTS Suga) - Feat. Suran

Sarah's Writing

https://www.centeredrecoveryprograms.com/blog/music-and-mindfulness/https://www.centeredrecoveryprograms.com/blog/dopamine-and-addiction/https://www.centeredrecoveryprograms.com/blog/adhd-and-addiction/

Social Media and Resources

Memorable Quotes from Sarah

"In general, the illnesses are just words until they manifest, then I deal with them."

"I'm my own best determiner of my mental state."

"I can still forgive and learn from things that have happened to me without letting go or invalidating my experiences."

"It's all about making a new world. Making it more loving and accepting."

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Unleashing Your Unique, Inner Genius - With Soleira Green

Wed, 10 May 2023 21:58:00 -0400

Future innovator and quantum coach Soleira Green shares her perspective and vision for a radiant future where we all can tap into and build upon our unique inner genius and possibility. She sees this as a time of great innovation and collaboration.

Soleira Green is an amazing woman with a story we can all benefit from. She is the author of 14 visionary books. In addition, she is a quantum coach, future innovator, consciousness elevator, leadership facilitator, and "ALLchemist." Her desire to share these talents came about from two life-changing moments, which she discusses in this interview. Soleira offers guidance through her coaching, videos, and books to help us tap into and realize our superpowers of creativity for personal and global transformation.

Show Notes

Highlights include:

Life changing moments
How the death of a loved one opened the door
Epiphany on the Glastonbury Tor
Extreme exploration within and without
ALLchemy and Limitless Potential
Becoming aware of shifts in consciousness
Empathy and energetic mastery
Simple ways to open to vitality and life force
Tapping into resonance vs. dissonance
Going from channeling to owning my creative intelligence
Quantum Coaching
Being a future innovative
“Say ‘Yes’ to greatness”

Social Media and Resources:

Website: Soleira Green.com

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Books Mentioned

Soleira’s Books

Place Mentioned

Glastonbury Tor

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From Pain To Possibility - With Greg Wieting

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:20:00 -0400

In this interview, "From Pain to Possibility," Greg Wieting shares his journey of insurmountable anxiety, trauma, depression, and chronic pain. He talks about the path that brought him to study neuroscience and trauma, leading to his healing from debilitating Scoliosis with miraculous results.

Greg is a health consultant, energy healer, speaker, leadership, and entrepreneurship facilitator. Through his own journey and training, Greg developed a program called Prisma Method that offers 7 steps or pillars to healing. He practices Mindfulness, Somatic Healing, and BodyTalk - a comprehensive and personalized healthcare system in tandem with Reiki. All these tools and his personalized consulting help his clients “get to the root of your anxiety, depression, and chronic pain and heal.”

Greg shares his story and mission with the world through speaking engagements on consciousness, energy medicine, trauma-informed healing, neuroplasticity, brain health, and the intersection of spirituality, purpose, and entrepreneurship.

Show Notes:

Reaching burnout on my way to “save the world”
Introduction to Somatics, India, and mindfulness
Trauma and neuroscience
A 7-step system to make healing more accessible
Acute, chronic, and complex trauma
Beyond Fight or Flight
Going from “pain to possibility.”
The orchestra of our bodies - music vs. noise
Depression and anxiety
Reconnecting to our innate wisdom
My arc of transformation
Shifting from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation
Defying the odds

Social Media and Resources:

Offerings:

Free Masterclass - 3 Biggest Lies Keeping You Depressed & Anxious

Free Prisma Download

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Reframing Your Relationship With Money - With Amanda Strojny

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 17:00:00 -0400

Amanda Strojny shares the impactful journey that transformed her life and how she helps to "reframe your relationship with money."

Amanda is a teacher at heart and in action. She combines her extensive business coaching knowledge and yogic training principles to assist her clients in uncovering their relationship with money. By uncovering our beliefs and following three basic tenets, which Amanda calls her Rules of Money, we can all live in alignment with the currency of energy called money.

Reframing our relationship with money can give us the “Golden Ticket” to financial freedom and empowerment. Amanda also has a podcast called “Untapped Power - Success On Your Terms” and meditations to share on her website.

Amanda is an ERYT 200-hour experienced registered Yoga teacher and a Certified Transformational Coach. She uses those skills and experiences to coach her corporate and small business clients and yoga instructors “in their business and career while staying rooted in their unique gifts." In addition, she provides clients with a clear and concise Financial Roadmap to monetize their skills.

Show Notes:

How we tell our story
Do I follow the familial path or “my” path
Seeds of change - Transitioning to the entrepreneurial space
Discovering where attachment to beliefs come from
Value of patience, hope, and faith
The process of “unpacking our money story”
Defining how money and success relate
How to use a professional financial planner
Be accountable to yourself and in alignment
Three “Rules of Money”
Changing your inner and outer dialogue about money
Dealing with your blind spots
Meditation, journaling, yoga, and reaching out for support

Social Media and Resources:

Website: https://amandastrojny.com/

https://schedulingamandastrojny.as.me/schedule.php?appointmentType=14854798

Podcast - “Untapped Power - Success On Your Terms”

Offering:

FREE 30-minute connection call with Amanda:

FREE Quiz and access to E-Guide - Gaining Confidence in Your Money. https://amandastrojny.com/rules-of-money-quiz

Developing a Spiritual Money Mindset - a self-paced course available at:

https://amandastrojny.com/spiritualmoneymindsetworkshop

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The Gift Of Disruption - With Natalie Viglione

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 01:51:00 -0400

Natalie Viglione is a creative, intuitive entrepreneur who changed her life thanks to the gift of disruption. In this interview, Natalie shares her journey.

After a fast climb up the corporate ladder in executive marketing and sales roles, Natalie decided to venture into the world of entrepreneurship. Subsequently, she founded a creative collective called Team Gu. Natalie runs the company with her husband, Marc, focusing on creative content marketing. They have now evolved Team Gu to include life and business guidance. Through these efforts, they added the Disrupt Now program and podcasts. She is committed to helping other entrepreneurs awaken the power within to remember and become conscious divine co-creators with the universe so they can bring their gifts to the world.

Natalie is skilled at blending creativity with science. A cycle breaker, truth seeker, intuitive, priestess, healer, and lightworker, Natalie's a vessel for life and business guidance to help us regain our power. As a healer, Natalie is currently learning divine nutrition - advice for our unique body's blueprint. She also has been studying biofeedback and other healing modalities and has a Master's Degree in plant and herbal medicine. Everything she learns she applies in her work.

Show Notes

1. Early life trauma & sense of abandonment
2. Importance of human contact and bonding
3. Heart space as an anchor
4. Toxic environments leading to dis-ease
5. The story that keeps us in boxes
6. The violent shove - turning on the power during life turmoils
7. Awareness of spiraling energy
8. Tapping into infinite intelligence
9. Lose the anchors that keep you from rising
10. Many healing modalities - find the right one for you
11. Creativity in a digital world - Team Gu
12. The gift of "Disrupt Now"
13. The Law of One theory

Social Media and Resources

Website: Natalie Viglione
Email: info@natalieviglione.com
Facebook
Youtube
Instagram

Disrupt Now Podcast

Offering

Tap Into Your Magick - A preview of the course

Book Mentioned

Secret Life of Plants by Peter Thompkins and Christopher Bird

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Transmosis Healing - With Tracey Whittet

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:49:00 -0400

Tracey Whittet describes the journey that led her to create an integrated method to restore divine balance in the body called Transmosis Healing. In this conversation, she describes her journey through life as an explorer who always looked for answers - first in nature, then in books and teachers. What she learned through her life experiences led her to self-healing and to help others heal.

Tracey is an amazing spirit with many talents in the healing arts. Her skills resume is impressive, starting with a degree in Holistic Stress Management. She is also an intuitive facilitator. Her certifications and skills include Certified Spiritual Healer, Multidimensional Body Balancer, Reiki Master, Access Consciousness Bars® and Body Facilitator, Creative Wellness Instructor, a practitioner in Divine Healing Hands, Theta Healing, Yuen Method, and Healing Touch.

Tracey is intuitive, a teacher, healer, and facilitator. Reiki is the path that led her to become a healer. After years of practicing healing as a side passion, she retired from the corporate world to focus all her attention on healing. In the process, she received a divinely inspired message which led her to develop Transmosis Healing, a multi-dimensional way of balancing the body, mind, and spirit.

She is a co-author of The Magi Within: Unlocking the Gifts of the Inner Self.

Show Notes:

Always on the path to improve
We are good at creating our own misery
Trauma and loss
Making myself fit into a corporate mold
Receiving a divinely inspired word and practice - Transmosis
The way Transmosis healing works - steps to connect to self
Exploring spiritual hygiene
Role of the endocrine, chakra, and nervous systems
Quantum effects of clearing past generations
Contemplation - a potent practice
Say Thank You!
We are wired to be intuitive
Importance of relationship

Find Out More About Tracey:

Website: Tracey Whittet

Facebook - Tracey Whittet

Facebook - Transmosis Healing

Attitudinal Healing Center

Offering:

Free ebook offer - The Magi Within

Book

The Magi Within - Unlocking the Gifts of the Inner Self - By Tracey Whittet, Vickie Brown, Sandra-Leigh Serio

References:

Course In Miracles - by Foundation For Inner Peace

Creative Wellness - by Michelle Lusson

Love is Letting Go of Fear - by Gerald Jampolsky

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"What I Know Now" Operating From The Heart - With Ulrika Sullivan

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0400

Ulrika Sullivan shares "What I Know Now" operating from the heart and relates what changed her career path, turning from external influences to seeking her own inner wisdom. She shares some simple practices to start you on a path to a heart-centered life with passion!

Ulrika Sullivan is an intuitive, spiritual life coach. She is a national bestselling author of Wisdom Beyond What You Know, a yoga teacher, healer, and podcast host. Ulrika went from an educational background in chemistry and science and a career in the pharmaceutical industry to a life of serving others as an intuitive and coach. Her journey is fascinating and enlightening. Ulrika wants to share what she has learned to help others, especially women, operate from the heart.

Show Notes:

Shifting from Science to Spirituality
Building expectations in early adulthood
Riding along on autopilot
Losing our self-identity
Rock bottom and rising up
Clear space, make space for yourself
Tap into self-love and cultivate it
Dialogue with your 11-year-old self to rediscover your passions
Seven inner shifts
Going from logic to wisdom
Take note of what comes to you naturally or quickly.
Power in intuitive journaling
Awaken your life force

Find Out More About Ulrika:

Website: Ulrika Sullivan

Facebook

Instagram

YouTube

LinkedIn

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Book

Wisdom Beyond What You Know by Ulrika Sullivan

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Strengthening Your Intuition: 2 Powerful Ways And More - With Isabeau Maxwell

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 23:17:00 -0400

Intuition, spiritual mediums, and psychic experiences were the last things on Isabeau “Beau” Maxwell's mind until a life-changing event triggered a profound personal experience. As an intuitive coach, facilitator, and energy worker, internationally known medium, and author, she is the developer of the award-winning SAGE Method and creator of the SAGE Circle Community. Her book, Cracking Open: Adventures of a Reluctant Medium, tells of how she went from being a skeptic with a strong science background to a full-fledged spiritual medium. In this interview, Beau relates her journey and the undeniable experiences she had that opened her up so that she could reunite with her natural-born intuition. Beau says, “It took an impactful shock to open me to the possibility.”

Since developing the SAGE Method, Beau has served clients and friends worldwide who have opened up and found a way to trust their intuition. The SAGE Method offers many tools for becoming aware. Beau tells Carol about several easy-to-do exercises that she learned from her guide. They also discuss the need for intuition in this world of overwhelming input from all around us and how to align the energy body and ground oneself to tune out the noise and tune into self. Beau's scientific side also shines as she talks about brain chemistry regarding belief and doubt and how our intuition is linked to our senses.

Show Notes:

Skeptic to Sage journey
A Grandmother's visit
Scientific method - Looking for validation
Evidential or energetic medium
Differences between higher self, guides, and intuition
Tools to tap in
Importance of energetic alignment
What blocks our intuition
Self-care as a tool for increasing your ability to unite with your intuition
The brain chemistry of belief and doubt
How intuition is linked to our five senses
Keep a "No Doubt" Notebook
The Sage Method development and the Sage Circle Community

Find Out More About Beau:

Email: info@thesagemethod.com

Website: The Sage Method

The Top 5 Intuitive Tools Course

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Living In The Freedom Of The Present Moment - With Indra Rinzler

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 01:58:00 -0400

Indra Rinzler is a lifetime spiritual seeker, healer, teacher, and mentor who lives in the freedom of the present moment. He offers life readings for clients using Vedic Astrology and the Enneagram of Personality. Indra’s been studying astrology for fifty years and the Enneagram since 1999. In this interview, Indra shares with Carol his life journey and why it is his mission to help his clients to wake up to who they really are.

Indra has worked with people of all ages from all over the world. The modalities he uses help us learn to observe our behavior. He says, “When we can be aware of the stories that we live from, we can live free in 'presence' and not stuck in our stories.”

Indra has a fascinating history that includes living in a Spiritual community for 20 years and experiencing deep lessons as a disciple of the well-known Indian master, Paramahansa Yogananda. He has traveled the world and taught workshops and readings. Throughout his travels, he has met and sat with other awakened and holy teachers in India, enjoying living in the moment...being grateful for the simple things in life.

Show Notes:

Early influences and exposures
Ego, Mind & I
You can’t take a vacation from yourself
Released from my ideals
Enneagram of Personality as a turning point
Seeking out teachers
Letting go of misidentification
Arrogance and its purpose
Taking every seat at the table for perspective
Four Doorways of Conscious Living
Planting seeds
Celestial Enneagram
Leaving breadcrumbs for the future

Find Out More About Indra:

www.indrarinzler.com

Free Offerings:

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Enneagram Test
Vedic Astrology Informational Chart

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"Living In A World Of Inner Magic" - With Timothy Stuetz

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 11:00:00 -0400

Using Fairy Tales, Ancient Arts, Sacred Sciences, and EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, Timothy Stuetz empowers people of all ages to develop and use their infinite soul powers to achieve their full potential and "live in a world of inner magic." Timothy is a healer, facilitator, yoga master, minister, and one of the most prolific children's authors. He just completed his 86th Fairy Tale Of The Heart featuring Bliss Beary Bear. He is the creator of The Magical Miracle of You—A Self-Empowerment Course for Children and Families. He also created the Power Animal Frolics—A Yoga/T'ai Chi/Qigong COURSE for children where they exercise along with 7 Power Animals in Disney-quality costumes.

In this interview, Carol asks how Timothy went from being a CPA to delving deep into the healing arts to heal himself and share his knowledge with children and adults. His programs and services inspire everyone to achieve their full mental, physical, emotional, and heart-filled potential. They are enriched through his having held children and others at birth and death and coaching people of all ages through various life challenges.

Timothy also runs a Quantum Energy Training Academy, certifying graduates to teach multiple forms of Quantum Energy Healing, Meditation, Yoga, Qigong, and T'ai Chi for over 35 years.

Using Fairy Tales, Ancient Arts, Sacred Sciences, and EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, Timothy empowers people of all ages to develop and use their infinite soul powers to achieve their full potential.

Show Notes:

Fairy Tales
Man of many careers
Importance of integrity
CPA to Chocolatier
Heeding signs from God
Flowing through the lows and highs of life
Reconciling the logical brain with the exploring brain
Diving deep into the life
Idea for children's books
Be-yond-a Book Club
Tai Chi, Chi Gong, and Power Animal frolics
Quantum Energy Academy
Gratitude

Social Media:

https://www.timothystuetz.com/a/jhh5s

Offerings:

Free meditations, qigong exercises, children's stories & songs, plus more: https://www.timothystuetz.com/freebies

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Books Mentioned:

Ballad of the Bees - Timothy Stuetz

Bliss Beary Bear's Fairy Tales of the Heart - Timothy Stuetz

Past Lives, Future Loves by Dick Sutphen

People Mentioned:

Ram Dass

Swami Muktananda

Quotes:

"Listen to your own truth" - Ram Dass

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"Love Is The Weapon Of Mass Illumination" - With teZa Lord

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:50:00 -0400

teZa Lord’s life experience is a testament to transformation and the power of LOVE. From a Caribbean She-pirate to a public sharer of "Everything's Sacred" -- We Are ONE is her language. Everywhere she looks, she sees/feels/touches, and interprets the sacred in the everyday. Her early path was not an easy one. She learned about herself as she experienced life in a time of exploration. teZa was an early explorer of both indigenous plant medicines and meditation. She learned that recovery from addiction is a great teacher and that meditation offered her a way to tune into the bliss of being alive. She has many messages to share and this interview is just a start of a rich treasure of insights from someone who is committed to healing ourselves and our planet.

Join Carol as she interviews teZa Lord, a sacred trailblazer! teZa is a spirit author-artist-activist, a lifelong yoga and meditation practitioner, adventurer, and nature lover. She is also a co-host of the ZLORD spiritual podcast with Carter Lord – documenting their inner and outer adventures. Spreading love, energy, and joy all around the world is teZa’s thing. She is the author of 4 nonfiction books that document the transformation available to us all. Her books are featured in the No BS Spiritual Book Club.

Show Notes:

Childhood of trauma
Running away physically and emotionally
Magical, mystical experiences looking for Nirvana
Being a botanical illustrator opened doors
Ego death - Exploring the psyche
Plant medicine - honoring the indigenous traditions
The Mind - our metaphysical organ
Meditation becomes the way
Choosing love over fear
Tune into the breath with “mind-stillers”
Nature - Modern spirituality is Environmentalism
Fill yearning with inter-connectedness
It is my duty to share our connection to oneness

Social Media and Resources:

Website teZaLord.com
Facebook
LinkedIn
YouTube
Podcast ZLord
Soundcloud

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The first five listeners to write to teZa at teZalord@gmail.com will receive a complimentary book from among her four published books.

Books Mentioned:

teZa Lord’s books: Hybrid Vigor, In the I, We Are One, & Zen Love
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Into The Magic Shop by James Doty
How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

People Mentioned:

Eckhart Tolle
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Timothy Leary
Richard Alpert/Baba Ram Dass

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"Peace Within, Peace On Earth" - With Kate Heartsong

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:46:00 -0400

In this interview, Kate Heartsong shares how she empowers others to realize that as they better themselves and create inner peace, they also support creating peace worldwide. Carol finds out more about Kate’s passion for “empowering people to realize their brilliance and greatness and help ignite their potential.” She shares the early influences from which she evolved to being the coach she is today. Kate says her clients “benefit from the motivational, interviewing, coaching skills, empowering growth and confidence tools, and encouragement I share with them, leading to positive change.” In addition, Kate talks about how we can all raise our vibration and in turn raise the energy in a positive way for each other and our planet as we transition into the Age of Aquarius.

Kate is the empowering and life-enhancing author of two books Humanity's Cry For Change and Deeply We Are One. She is also a confidence coach, workshop facilitator, co-author, public speaker, and Reiki Master Teacher. For over 20 years Kate has been receiving profound insights while meditating. She is passionate about supporting her clients, audiences, and readers with these insights along with the wisdom from her vast life experiences and education. Kate empowers people to realize that as they better themselves and create inner peace.

Show Notes:

1. Childhood defining moments

2. Hearing loss and shame

3. Taking control of myself

4. Tools to raise confidence

5. Study you - learn about yourself

6. Magic of a positive phrase

7. Meditation practice

8. Ushering the Age of Aquarius

9. Learning to transmute stuck energy

10. Pay attention to the interconnectedness

11. Acknowledge what makes you feel good

12. Power of the ripples of self-healing

13. How do you show up?

Social Media and Resources:

Joyful Radiance Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

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Kate's Published Books:

Humanity’s Cry For Change by Kate Heartsong

Deeply We Are One by Kate Heartsong

Person Mentioned:

Dr. Joe Dispenza

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Ep. 67 - Tai Chi & Qi Gong - Navigating The Scars Of Loss And Trauma - With Sifu Rubia

Tue, 17 May 2022 02:15:00 -0400

Sifu Rubia discovered the benefits of the ancient healing arts of Tai Chi and Qi Gong as a way to navigate the scars of loss and trauma. An orphan born in Bangladesh, she experienced abandonment early in life, creating intense anxiety in her body and mind. Later in life, the traumatic loss of a miscarriage brought her to her first Qi Gong class. There she discovered the healing and strength-building power of this ancient tradition. Since then, she has accumulated hundreds of hours of teacher training, including Yang Family style Tai Chi, Yoga, and Iron Shirt Qi Gong.

With over a decade of teaching experience in community centers, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, private group classes, and speaking engagements at places such as the Oprah Winfrey Network offices in Los Angeles, Rubia has transformed hundreds of lives. She has given students the tools to maintain health, rejuvenate their bodies and recapture youthful energy and equanimity in their life. In addition, she has produced online courses through her website and company, Wei Wu Tai Chi, in the hopes of extending the reach of these ancient healing arts.

In this interview with Carol, Sifu shares the positive impact of learning the ancient practices of Tai Chi and Qi Gong to heal her traumas. Sifu is committed to sharing what she has experienced with others who have been through some of life's traumas. Her message is clear - our intention and commitment to self, through movement and meditation, will raise our awareness and tune us into the body's healing power.

Show Notes:

1. Trauma of abandonment and loss

2. Alchemy of movement

3. Building a strong body through Yoga

4. Life force practice of Qi Gong

5. Qi Gong, Tai Chi, & Yoga

6. Melding forms of healing

7. Importance of breath to movement

8. Crystalized emotion

9. Where do you hold your emotions

10. "Mirror time"

11. Experience your dimensional self

12. Breathe, slow down, commit to a practice

13. Find your "Energy Management System"

Social Media and Resources:

TaiChiWellness.Online

WeiWuTaiChi.Online

Offering:

Qi Gong Course - Live online - use code HRUQI to access at TaiChiWellness.Online

Book Mentioned:

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Quote:

"It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity." - B.K.S. Iyengar

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Ep. 66 - Somatic Healing & 13 Tools For Emotional Breakthroughs - With James Mayfield

Sun, 01 May 2022 18:59:00 -0400

James Mayfield is a Somatic Healing Coach and BreakThrough Facilitator. He is the founder of BreakThroughCircle.com and creator of Somatic BreakThough Facilitation, which is a synthesis of body and feelings-based facilitation along with inner parts work.

In this interview, James shares his life history and personal initiations that have made him ideally suited to support others' emotional healing. He’s personally experienced and healed from a variety of unmet emotional needs and traumatic physical and emotional abuse from early life circumstances that required him to seek out transformation-focused work at a young age. At a time of extreme vulnerability and deep grief, he stumbled into the world of breathwork, somatic healing, inner parts work, and structured psychodynamic processes.

James has been involved in transformational education and emotional development training for 30 years. He is a master facilitator of inner work, serving thousands of people through 49 transformation-focused retreats, 8 online courses, and thousands of private sessions. His work has helped sensitive and heart-centered artists, healers, change agents, professionals, and entrepreneurs to empower their transformation by using somatic tools and structured processes to nurture breakthroughs in their lives. James is passionate about his work helping others and his service is that of a "repairman". He describes how we can all access transformational healing and in this interview, he shares 13 of the many techniques in his toolkit.

Show Notes:

Growing up in survival mode
Seeking out transformational healing
Ways of seeing
Types of Somatic healing
Our hierarchy of needs
Finding your inner wisdom
Speak to your body - ask and listen
Healing our divided self
Use compassion instead of blame
Avoid the “shame storm”
Triggers and your inner child
Unmet needs are root causes
Breakthrough Tools you can use today

Social Media and Resources:

Website: BreakThrough Circle

Gifts for Hearts Rise Up Listeners - https://www.breakthroughcircle.com/Hearts-Rise-Up-Podcast-Listeners-Free-Gifts.

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These five fantastic gifts include: 1) BreakThrough Toolkit and Checklist, 2) Sensitive Healers training, 3) Inner work journey, 4) Mini-course for anxiety, overwhelm, fatigue, people-pleasing, and playing small, and a 5) 60-minute conversation with James.

Authors Mentioned:

Louise Hay

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00:00:02

(Carol Chapman) All right, thank you for tuning your heart's in for another episode of the Hearts Rise up podcast. I'm carol chapman your host along with my co-hosts Ann Serrie and Concetta Antonelli. We share our own personal experiences, tips and strategies along with powerful stories and compelling insights from guest interviews. We're here to inspire and empower your conscious evolution, help you tap into your inner wisdom and rise to your heart centered higher self. Together we can rise to a higher level of consciousness, an elevated state of being and experience more love, joy and freedom. Yeah, hello and welcome back. Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Hearts Rise Up podcast where we share heartfelt wisdom to inspire your conscious evolution.

00:01:15

(Carol Chapman) I have a very special guest with me today. His name is James Mayfield. James is a somatic healing coach and breakthrough facilitator. He is the founder of Breakthrough circle dot com and creator of somatic breakthrough facilitation which is a synthesis of body and feelings based facilitation along with inner parts work, his life history and personal initiations make James ideally suited to support others emotional healing. He has personally experienced and healed from a variety of unmet emotional needs and traumatic physical and emotional abuse. Early life circumstances that required him to seek out transformation focus work at a young age at a time of extreme vulnerability and deep grief. He stumbled into the world of breathwork, somatic healing. Inner parts work and structured psychodynamic processes. James has been involved in transformational education and emotional development training for 30 years.

00:02:23

(Carol Chapman) He is a master facilitator of inner work Serving thousands of people through 49 transformation focused retreats eight online courses and thousands of private sessions. His work has helped sensitive and heart-centered artists, healers, change agents, professionals and entrepreneurs to empower their own transformation by using somatic tools and structured processes to nurture breakthroughs in their lives. James, welcome to the show.

(James Mayfield) Carol, thank you for that wonderful introduction and I'm really glad to be on here today talking to your listeners and having this conversation with you.

(Carol Chapman) Well I'm very excited and I've personally experienced your work in a session recently and I must say that your tools and processes are very effective. It takes a lot of guts for anyone to commit to healing and working through layers of unhealthy conditioning those types of unconscious patterns and I know that I have had them for years and years but it takes a lot to cut through it and get to some breakthroughs.

00:03:34

(Carol Chapman) I would love for you to share your story, some of the defining moments in your life, some of the issues, what you've learned about yourself, the transformational moments and then look it into some of the nits and grits of the work that you do.

(James Mayfield) Well carol, thank you very much for the opportunity. I would love to just kind of dive in and share a little bit about my background. Good way to start is just I'm 49 years old in the first half of my life I spent up in my head very insecure trying to figure out what I was supposed to be doing and what I was supposed to be thinking and feeling and I was very confused about it. I didn't have a good map for my own emotions and for other people and the way people behave, it wasn't working out for me very well at all. And it came to a head in my early 30s, even though by then I'd already had Like 12 years of deeply transformational work under my belt. I went into education very early, I started out my career as a school teacher At age 17, I got my first girlfriend pregnant and so I was a teen father ended up in a very dysfunctional relationship that I didn't understand what was happening with a lot of abuse and I ended up getting out of it and ended up as a full custody of my son and then put myself through college as a single dad amidst all of that when other people my age were partying and we're learning about themselves and really being in their early twenties, I was studying personal transformation for children.

00:05:17

(James Mayfield) I was working in a preschool, I was raising a child at a very young age and very, very focused on how can I be here in front of this child and have a transformative experience something so that they either see things differently or they hear things differently, They feel things differently, They experience the world in a different way. So, for the last 30 years I've been very, very focused on, on whether we're working with children or now I work primarily with adults. How do I take the 85 minute sessions that I allow with the client and how do I make that absolutely transformational so that something happens that is totally different than before that session and new possibilities are available and that's a very different take Then a lot of coaches when they sit down with their sessions, I am really looking for what can we do to cultivate a breakthrough moment and that's what my tools do is cultivate emotional breakthroughs.

(Carol Chapman) What is in your experience, a breakthrough moment in the work that you do.

00:06:26

(James Mayfield) I would love to love to talk about that. One of my favorite topics, the first thing a breakthrough is, is a significant change. It's a significant difference from going from one state to another state and in breakthrough work, what it often looks like is either a catharsis, it's a release of energy that's been long held in the body. Oftentimes it can also be an aha moment, a way of seeing a dynamic that's been happening in a relationship or in your life in a completely different way. And seeing it in that different way changes the nature of your relationship to it and changes the possibilities for what happened. It is about feeling something, seeing something, experiencing something that creates new possibility great.

(Carol Chapman) That really helps to explain it because it is really kind of just a major shift in how you perceive yourself in in the world. And whatever is going on with you with respect to getting through that breakthrough, if you could just share a little bit about what somatic really means, at least for our listener.

00:07:31

(Carol Chapman) I mean, we all might know what the term is, but what does it really mean in the context of the work that you do and how it helps people heal well.

(James Mayfield) Somatic means body based and it was really the turning point for me in my own personal life and in the work that I do up until I started doing somatic work, which is body centered work. And some somatic work is more overt moving of the body and appropriate reception moving in space and then other somatic work that I do is more intense reception. It's about the sensations I'm having in my body, the tightness in my throat, to the heaviness in my chest or on my shoulders. The anxiety that I feel in my belly or my solar plexus. It's that interior kind of sensation that's happening. And what I learned with somatic work was that before, an emotion before a thought, there's almost always a sensation that happens and most people miss it.

00:08:32

(James Mayfield) They totally miss that there's a sensation of either pulling away or grasping for and the Buddhists and the meditators have been learning about this for a long time that I did a tin dave upashi honest sit and and they focused the first four days just on feeling the air moving in through your nose over your lips and that very specific sensation for four days. We focused on that because what we learned in the VIP arsonists at least was that before any of the mind activity happens, there's almost always a body thing that happens and a pulling away or a grasping. And in my work with people, what I found is that long before we get to saying something or doing something in our relationship or with our boss or in our life, there's already an energy that's inside of us that is directing us unconsciously and there are parts of us that are in touch with these energies and there are parts of us that are not in touch with those energies and that's what I specialize in, is going in and using, I use altered states, usually breath work to help people to get really, really sensitive to what's happening inside and then to feel what's happening inside as they're thinking about their problems in their life.

00:09:50

(James Mayfield) And what everybody finds is that when we think about our problems, when we reminisce about the struggles we're having or any dynamics that were not comfortable with our body is responding in lots of different ways, it lights up like a Christmas tree and once you get that and you start focusing in and paying attention, you find there's a whole lot going on beneath the surface, beneath our conscious awareness. That is not only fascinating if you study the psyche, but also immensely practical. And so where my work, the turn my work is taken with somatic work is I used automatics to help people to find their inner wisdom to basically find clarity about. Yes, that's true for me. I know that's true. That is absolutely true. I know it in my bones and when someone has that kind of experience, that's an aha, that's a breakthrough moment if they haven't had that and they know, okay, this is true for me now, I can turn off all of the other things over there that were before the clarity.

00:10:55

(James Mayfield) I don't have to consider them. I don't have to be overwhelmed by them. I don't have to be confused by them or sucked into doubt about which what to do because I have clarity in my body. A felt sense presents clarity of what's true for me and that's how I use maddox is as deeply intuitive wisdom that I can trust.

(Carol Chapman) That's a great explanation. I think it would be helpful to understand what really causes emotional upset an outbreak. I can think of it like logically, but there's got to be something more deeply rooted there. I mean, it's not just because somebody pissed me off that I might have an outbreak, you know? But what is it that really causes emotional upset and outbreaks? I'd love to talk to you about that and to do that.

(James Mayfield) There's a couple of things I want to introduce. One is I use a chart that's a hierarchy of needs kind of like a Maslow's hierarchy of needs and on that chart we have certain needs that people have. So we have a need for physical self-care.

00:11:58

(James Mayfield) For example, we have a need for safety when we're in groups or in our family or with other people or even just on our own. We have a need for connection to other people. We have a need for it to feel powerful in our life and we have a need to have purpose and identity in the world and when any of those needs don't get met when they go unmet sensations happen in the body are unconscious, lets us know. So for example physical self-care, if I all of a sudden my stomach starts hurting and I'm like I'm not sure what's going on why is my stomach hurting. And so I decide oh maybe I'll take a nap and I take a nap, it's still hurting and then I go for a jog and it's still hurting and then I eat an apple and it goes away like ah it was hunger, that's what it was hunger was. What was causing my stomach to her. Well if I don't move enough I'm sedentary and I don't move then I'll get very a key and I might get uncomfortable in my body and I might then get fatigued and actually not want to move. So all these things that we, all these choices we make in our life and all these experiences we have, they have an effect and oftentimes people ignore.

00:13:10

(James Mayfield) They don't see the correlation that happens in that they don't understand where this trigger is actually coming from. And so if you examine, I'll give you an example of say a sensitive child, sensitive to I was a sensitive child and a sense of child and I was in a family that was in survival mode. They were just trying to pay the bills and get things done and they didn't have anybody watching out for their emotional needs growing up and that wasn't really on their radar either. And I grew up feeling really insecure. I didn't really have good social skills. I didn't know how to connect and I felt very much different than other people and I just wasn't very successful in the social peace. I was very successful at school. Teachers loved me and that that was a really good relationship I had but I didn't, I didn't really know how to relate to peers and so I would be in a peer situation, a social situation and I would overcome was something I didn't know what it was then. Now I know it to be shame. I didn't know it for a long time, but it was shame. It was this icky feeling, I didn't feel confident and I would try to, like crack a joke and they always fell flat because I wasn't in my body, I wasn't in the present moment, I was up in my head trying to figure out how to impress somebody when I was a kid.

00:14:23

(James Mayfield) But as a sensitive growing up, I ended up having unmet needs for connection for connection. I didn't have an adult there to interact with me in the ways that I that I needed and I didn't know how to do that in my life. So it created anxiety, this social anxiety and the social anxiety, we think is the problem. It's actually not the problem. It's a symptom, the social anxiety is a symptom of an unmet need for connection and social anxiety is the warning system, your body tells you, oh, something's wrong here. I'm not attuned to the people around me, I don't feel safe, anxiety is helpful,...

Ep. 65 - Expand Your Consciousness, Transform Your Life - With D. Neil Elliott

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:00:00 -0400

In this episode, D. Neil Elliott shares his personal story of how he expanded his consciousness and transformed his life. At age 57, to any outsider, he was highly educated, had a successful consulting business, and had an amazing family. His life was going well, but things were not all they seemed. He found himself anxious and fearful and sinking into a world of depression and planning his suicide. Then, something changed. He remembered a manuscript that he received. He then put aside the suicide note, began reading, and embarked on a process over the next year to transform his life.

In this interview, Neil describes his upbringing, patterns of thinking, behavior, and beliefs, and how these influenced his view of the world. Next, he expands on concepts of personal consciousness and the mechanisms of how each of us is unknowingly impacting our individual and collective lives, creating our current turbulent reality. Finally, he discusses the 7-step process that became the blueprint that transformed his life. He's now making it accessible for others to achieve the best possible outcomes for their life in his book, A Higher Road: Cleanse Your Consciousness to Transcend the Ego and Ascend Spiritually.

Neil is an author, speaker, and Professional Engineer with an MBA and has worked in the Electric Utility industry for over 30 years. He lives in a peaceful historic village on the West Coast of British Columbia with his wife and a house full of art, books, and plants. Neil refers to himself as a science-based thinker that looks at things from an engineering perspective. This background facilitated the 7-step process he used to blend science and spirituality.

Show Notes

Influences that shaped my beliefs
Educational path leading to positive thinking
Ego won & “Life became about work”
The albatross of depression
Right material - right time - the influence of books
Levels of consciousness
Belief - what it is/what influences it
Neuroplasticity
Book and Blueprint
Importance of meditation - Silence & Stillness
Dissolving negative habits slowly
Being in the space of unconditional love
Blending science and spirituality

Social Media and Resources

Website: DNeilElliott.com

Linked-in

Book

A Higher Road: Cleanse Your Consciousness to Transcend the Ego and Ascend Spiritually, by D. Neil Elliott

Available on Amazon, eBook, and other major retailers.

Offering

A Free Chapter of the book is available upon request – on his website DNeilElliott.

You can find references to the book topics he mentions (on Mind and Meaning, Mind and Biology, Neuroplasticity, and Near-Death Experiences) in his book, A Higher Road: Cleanse Your Consciousness to Transcend the Ego and Ascend Spiritually.

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00:00:05

(Carol Chapman) Thank you for tuning your heart's in for another episode of the Hearts rise up podcast. I'm carol chapman, your host along with my co-host Ann Serrie and Concetta Antonelli. We share our own personal experiences, tips and strategies along with powerful stories and compelling insights from guest interviews. We're here to inspire and empower your conscious evolution. Help you tap into your inner wisdom and rise to your heart centered higher self. Together we can rise to a higher level of consciousness, an elevated state of being and experience more love, joy and freedom. Thank you. Mm hmm. Welcome back. Heart centered listeners. Thank you for joining us again for another fantastic episode of the Hearts Rise up podcast where you will always find inspiring heart centered wisdom for your conscious evolution.

00:01:17

(Carol Chapman) I have a very special guest today. D Neil Elliott to any outsider Neal was highly educated, owned a profitable consulting firm, a successful career and an amazing wife and family. But things were not all they seemed to be. and at age 57 Neil was depressed, anxious and fearful and ready to commit suicide in a phrase. He was in a very, very dark place quite by accident. He discovered a higher road as he traveled that road, he found the key to transforming his life. In fact, he wrote a book on it entitled a higher road, cleanse your consciousness to transcend the ego and ascend spiritually Neal lives in a peaceful historic village on the west coast of British Columbia with his wife and a house full of art, books and plants. He names all of his plants. His favorite is a tall and lean yucca called row helio.

00:02:25

(Carol Chapman) Did I get that? Right, okay, good. He has three Children and five grandchildren, all of whom of course are all brilliant. He loves all wildlife and domestic pets too. Furthermore. In his 20s, Neil raised a variety of parrots and Labrador dogs. He has a passion for motorcycling and loves to travel particularly in Europe to visit museums, churches and art galleries. He likes to visit cities and enjoy all that they have to offer, but prefers a peaceful country life close to water forests and plenty of wildlife Neil. Welcome to the show.

(D. Neil Elliott) Oh, thank you carol. It's a pleasure to be here. I'm very much looking forward to our conversation today.

(Carol Chapman) Well, me too, you know, we have had a couple of conversations, but our first one was a pretty long conversation and that was a few weeks ago and when we came together, we had a very heartwarming conversation and then as you were sharing a little bit more about who you are in your story.

00:03:32

(Carol Chapman) You know, there was some very heart wrenching things when I started to think about it. It's not really uncommon because a lot of us go through so many different things in our lives. But what is uncommon is how you approached your challenges in life that led you to a dramatic turnaround and I would love for you to share your personal journey and the crucial moments in your life, what was happening, how you turn things around. And also I want to talk a little bit about the work that you're doing today. Your mission, the book process that you are putting out there to help others, that process that helped you and that you stumbled upon. I would love for you to share as much as you can about that as well. Go ahead dive right in

(D. Neil Elliott) Alright, probably the best place to start is when I was a child and kind of just give everybody a little bit of window into my childhood, youngest of six and my father passed away when I was five years old.

00:04:44

(D. Neil Elliott) It was in 1965. So I was born in 1960. So in 1965, my mother found herself without a job, six kids and essentially buried my father and then went to summer school, she had a university degree, so she went to summer school to begin a process again in her teacher's certificate and got a job to start that September as a teacher. Consequently, you know, growing up it was, You know, I didn't have a lot of parental influence and we're left to our own devices and in the 60s, that's way different than today. You know, I walked myself to school and those kinds of things, but you know, essentially as I was growing up as everybody does. You know, we come into this world as a little child and our brains don't get to the point where they can make conscious decisions for themselves until they're about five years old, so that's the kind of normal development of a brain. And so when you're a baby, and if you've been fortunate enough to be born into this world with a parents of means that can look after you and support you and feed you and you know, shower you with love your this little embodiment of joy and really what you are is you're a sponge, you're just soaking up everything that's in your environment, your parents, emotions, your parents thinking and, you know, your siblings and anybody that you become exposed to, essentially what you're doing is you're shaping your beliefs and your shaping your future experiences and as we grow from, and then at age five, we start to make our own conscious choices that have already been influenced by what we've kind of absorbed up to that date, then your environment that you're in, in your circumstance, you're in.

00:06:36

(D. Neil Elliott) You take that information and start to respond in a way which affects your learning and affects how you view the world, and we reinforce those patterns of thinking and behavior as we grow from babyhood to adulthood. Now, I'm telling you all of this now that I'm at where I'm at, I certainly didn't know this before and I'm still a work in progress, everybody needs to know that. So still a work in progress and anything I say today, that sounds brilliant or amazing if I say anything like that, I know that it doesn't come from me, I am merely the messenger. Anyway, we grow from babyhood to adulthood and we're reinforcing these patterns of thinking, we're learning new things, we're reinforcing additional patterns etcetera. And we bury those deeply in our subconscious mind and then we have these conscious thoughts and choices and we begin to view the world in a particular way we think we're becoming versed in the ways of the world, but what we're really doing is we're shutting our soul off from its connection with the divine, we're shutting our soul off from its source and from the light and I finished high school, you know, I've worked a few jobs driving a tractor trailer, you know, working in a restaurant, those kinds of things, but I went to university and I got an engineering degree and then I got into the working world as a professional engineer in my thirties, I decided that I needed, I wanted to adopt, you know, a more positive attitude from in terms of how I viewed other people's opinions and beliefs and their expression of themselves, so to speak, their ideas and so I took up positive thinking, I picked up, you know, books that we've probably all read Tony Robbins, Napoleon Hill Dr Wayne Dyer, you know, etcetera and they all have good processes and good ideas and good information.

00:08:34

(D. Neil Elliott) And so I adopted some of those but it was always this conscious effort to try and change how I was thinking about somebody and I could do that. But in the end the subconscious mind wins, the ego wins. In 2002 I went into consulting and life became about work, you do good job, you deliver and you please your clients, you get repeat work and if you don't kind of things dry up pretty quickly. So I worked hard and you know, I made a lot of money and I spent a lot of money and we made some financial decisions. We lived in this beautiful waterfront home which was very expensive, But over this period from 2000 to 2 2015, what was really happening was still in the mental processes and patterns of thinking that I had and I was just slowly going into this really deep and despondent depression And in 2015 I realized oh this is kind of like I'm really depressed, I'm thinking like what's the point of life?

00:09:40

(D. Neil Elliott) I work hard, I'm not getting ahead, I earn lots of money, I'm not getting ahead. I just, I felt like this albatross or this chain around my neck that was just dragging me down and no matter what I was doing, I couldn't, you know, get clear of that and I just kept getting more and more depressed. And so I started to pick up newly issued books, spiritual books, some science books, those kinds of things. All new great information by authors. We know again and all good processes and stuff. So I was trying to change how I thought about life. And I read a book from a woman that experienced in your death experience. And you know, it was a great book and she brought back messages that resonated with me. They were believable but not understandable if that's the right way to say it. And you know, they were just hard to grasp even though I believe them. But what her book did for me was it gave me permission to commit suicide. one of the messages she brought back was we are two of them was we come from love, We return to love.

00:10:48

We're not judged after death. And I had this nagging kind of Christian doubt, even though I grew up agnostic had this nagging Christian doubt that if I committed suicide there's a chance I'd go to hell and I didn't want to do that of course, but life was so it was so pointless to me. I was just willing to cash it in. So I was planning my suicide. Some material landed up in my lap. But a week prior to me sitting down at the kitchen table and crafting a suicide note and I thought I have permission now to commit suicide. So I planned out my suicide. Our house had finally sold after seven years on the market, my wife had left to visit family and friends in Toronto Ontario Canada and I sat down in this kitchen table and crafted a suicide note. And I was planning it out because, you know, we're all good actors in our environment, we all put our best foot forward. We can hide all kinds of things. So no one knew I was depressed. No one knew I was feeling like I was feeling and I wanted to ensure that my wife was going to be financially okay when I pulled the trigger and I wanted to say goodbye to my family without them knowing what I was going to do.

00:11:59

(D. Neil Elliott) So I crafted this note. I had a plan, but this material, you know, it called to me, so to speak. You know, it promised to liberate me from my thinking if I was willing to be open to it, curious, nonjudgmental and read it. And so I did. I began this process and I thought, okay, well put the suicide away. That was going to be three months away. Anyway. I'll put it away. You know, it's delayed a little bit. That's okay. I can always do that. But I can't come back from doing it. So I thought, okay, I'll embark on reading this material a year later. My depression was totally gone. I was full of inner peace. I was full of joy. I was just, you know, it's just I totally had a new outlook on life and so I've carried on with this process and I wanted to share this with everybody. I could I wanted to stand on the rooftops and showed it to the world and I thought I'd be looked at like an idiot. Of course I didn't do that, but I kept it all to myself.

00:13:04

(D. Neil Elliott) No one knew about it, No one knew about this transition. And I decided after a couple of years, the best way for me to do that is to write a book and my goal with my book, of course, is to help people the new knowledge I gained, the logical and rational information that bridges this gap between spirituality and science in a very specific process that's tangible that, you know, I found I could do and it made sense to me, just made all the difference in the world with making this leap and with actually understanding who we really are at the core of our being and what we're here to do and we're meant to do, and at some point each of us will do it. The question is just when and how. So I want to share the process. I went through, I've done that in my book and my goal is to help people that, you know, if it rings true to you and you follow this process, you can totally transform how you think and as we individually change and we become this expression of unconditional love and we understand what we're here to do and why we're here and what this process looks like.

00:14:22

(D. Neil Elliott) We will eventually bring this whole world into a new era of love and peace. And so my part is to try and get this out to people so that they can read it and make a decision for themselves.

(Carol Chapman) Well, I have to admit, I've read the book and it's very, very compelling. The steps that you go through. People go through a lot of different changes in their lives and we each have an opportunity to take the time to find what process, what approach, what's going to work for us in terms of really understanding more about ourselves, where we come from, who we are. And I've studied a lot of different things myself, but I've found that what you have presented is something very, very compelling now. It may not work for everyone. I think part of it is our commitment to our own personal development, our own personal spiritual growth. I think that is probably the most important thing, but I would love for you to share your experience as you were going through the process of unfoldment.

00:15:34

(Carol Chapman) And the steps that you describe in the book that over the course of a year really helped you just turn things around because it's really all about breaking through the barrier of the ego...

Ep. 64 - Inner Work: Living From The Heart Space - With Christine Samuel

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:00:00 -0400

Christine Samuel is the founder, coach, and facilitator of Inner Work Matters. In this interview, she shares her journey from Indonesia to Canada and the awakenings she experienced. After discovering the effects of stress on her health and exploring the causes, she began a healing journey of new and healthy routines, journaling, and dialoguing with her inner child. As her realizations expanded, Christine began living from the heart space instead of the mind space. She left her corporate career of 20+ years to follow her heart path. Even the uncertainty of COVID led her to look to a new strategy for living, trusting the unknown of creation, and “move purposefully one step at a time”.

Christine is working on a book, hosting workshops, writing, facilitating training and meetup groups, and “co-creating” new services to assist others through Inner Work Matters. She finds delight in sharing her ever-growing understanding of living from the heart space. She defines the Heart Space as follows - “gently holding space where all feelings, thoughts, and sensations are welcome. It is a space where we can have a loving relationship with our complexity and our contradictions.”

Show Notes

Meandering laneways leading to connections
Ways of seeing and early dreams
Learning to start over from zero
Who Am I?
Journaling to awareness
Left-handed stigma
Autoimmune wake-up call
Meeting our inner child
COVID as a catalyst for change
Making the most of uncertainty
My 6-month experiment
Walking a “coddiwomple” path forward
Power of the Heart Space
Essence of Joy
Build the skill of returning home
A new view of success

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00:00:05

(Carol Chapman) Thank you for tuning your hearts in for another episode of the Hearts Rise up podcast. I'm Carol Chapman, your host along with my co-host Ann Serri and Concetta Antonelli. We share our own personal experiences, tips, and strategies along with powerful stories and compelling insights from guest interviews. We're here to inspire and empower your conscious evolution. Help you tap into your inner wisdom and rise to your heart-centered higher self. Together we can rise to a higher level of consciousness, an elevated state of being, and experience more love joy, and freedom. Welcome back to all of you. Heart center listeners. Thank you for joining us again for another episode of the Hearts Rise Up podcast where you will always find heart-centered wisdom to inspire your conscious evolution.

00:01:21

(Carol Chapman) I have an absolutely delightful guest today. Her name is Christine Samuel. Christine is the founder, coach, and facilitator of inner work matters. She left her corporate career of 20 plus years to follow her heart path, permission is to be a living example and help others to become the fullest expression of who they are while navigating their path to transition with unwavering peace and clarity. She finds delight in sharing her ever-growing understanding of living from the heart space. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two young kids. Christine. Welcome to the show.

(Christine Samuel) Hi Carol. Thank you for having me here. I'm really happy to be able to speak with you today. Oh I just am excited and I love your energy and your heart-based approach to life and work and I wanted to say I enjoyed your deep listening practice a few weeks ago.

00:02:24

(Carol Chapman) That is, was quite an experience. And I think more and more people could really benefit from that practice and I hope that we get an opportunity to share a little bit about that practice today. It's one of many tools that you have right now. You have quite a personal story that I would love for you to share. You know, our life experiences always contribute to who we are and who we are becoming, and sometimes that can be helpful and sometimes not so helpful, especially as we develop patterns and habits and behaviors and sometimes limiting beliefs that no longer serve us. And it's important for us to recognize that I know based on our previous conversation that you had the courage to step into the unknown with such curiosity at a turning point in your career and I to follow your heart's desires. So I would love for you to share your story because oftentimes we don't follow our heart's desires because we follow what others or the world perhaps has in store for us or wants for us.

00:03:37

(Carol Chapman) So I would love for you to just share your story from an early age.

(Christine Samuel) Yeah, I'm quite a bit because I'm thinking where should I start from? How long do I have time or you know, time to speak about it? I grew up in Jakarta Indonesia and one of my favorite times I spent was exploring, you know the laneways. I don't know if you've been into traveling to Southeast Asia. Yes, quite a bit because I lived and worked in Southeast Asia. I don't think we ever covered that. Maybe we did. We did. Yeah, I remember you worked in Singapore. So the road is not as organized here where it's like north, south, southeast, or east-west, it just meanders around and what I love to do was just to walk through all the laneways and then find out where I can go back home. So basically connecting the ones that I had never been to before to what's familiar to me and I never knew that that become kind of ways I'm seeing things or I'm exploring thing is just to find out what is unexplored.

00:04:56

(Christine Samuel) So when I was 16 I had a dream to live abroad. It just has to be abroad. I don't know why. So I've been working towards it my dream. And finally, During 1998 where There was a big riot economic collapse 1998 my parents were able to say, you know, you want to go, let's go. So with this luggage, I flew to Toronto but I had already prepared all the immigration work and I apply for my permits and everything like that and I start my life from zero again because I never, ever left my family before. You know, just for a trip, but like never lived by myself through that shocking drastic change. Where suddenly I didn't have anyone any family here where I was the first six months in Toronto, and I moved seven times where before that I moved two times in my life, I was like 20, and at that time I have two questions about who I am.

00:06:07

(Christine Samuel) I have to really find out my real value. What is my value? What is me, Who am I? Because before I always knew it from my parents, my siblings, my friend and now I came to this place where the culture is different, the way people react is different and I have to find out what is the culture, what is the real human connection? I experienced so much uncertainty at the time there moment where I only had $3.23 in my bank account and a foot in my fridge. And you know, a friend of mine gave me a bicycle, the racing bike, and I never by right a bike with a place that has a streetcar track. So, a friend of mine told me to be careful on the streetcar tracks, I didn't know what that means. So one day I was late going to work and then my wheel stuck into the track and I fell and I didn't have health insurance at that time.

00:07:16

(Christine Samuel) So it was shocking, but to make it short, I made it so I got a full-time job, I start saving some money and I built up my career from scratch then I didn't realize that I had actually high functioning anxiety And when I found it it was in my early 30 I always feel nervous about things. I always felt that if I do something I might message that. So one day I was on a business trip in the States to lead a very important workshop and I was so nervous because this is the first, it was the first time I did it and for some reason, I developed a lot of like rash on my body. It was so painful then because of nervousness, I thought I just can't afford to go for a job. So I went for a job and when I came back I started writing a journal and then I realized the connection between why I was nervous all the time to my childhood trauma and I didn't know it was trauma.

00:08:29

(Christine Samuel) I grew up left-handed. I was born left-handed, but during that time, not anymore. Now, you know, it's only different worlds, but it was impolite to speak or interact with other people, you know, shake other people's hands with your left hand, you have to do it with your right hand. So what happened was I was about 345 years old and I have many cousins, and relatives older than me. So they told me don't use your left hand, don't use your left hand, I got confused as four or five years old and like and I broke down plates, glasses because I just have to use the other hand and you know as a child, of course, my cognition is limited. So I thought you know something wrong with me, there's something I hold gonna break. So I developed attention that I really have to be careful and make sure everything is right and I went through my career challenges, but then I get so tense in my muscles, stress, you know, stressing job and I developed an autoimmune disease and that was my basically a wake-up call, like something I gotta fix.

00:09:54

(Christine Samuel) Like there's something wrong here. It's amazing what those experiences that we haven't, particularly in early life, and if they continue to perpetuate how can have a significant impact on us health-wise, you know, mentally, emotionally, and physically. So I can just imagine what you were experiencing but go ahead and share, share some more. So the idea is basically, I, instead of looking out, I start looking at what is this inner world means, what is my feelings, what is my body trying to do, what is my mind trying to do and through that kind of healing journey, I met my inner child, you know, the one who is always scared and afraid that she's going to mess things up and have a dialogue with her because I noticed as you know, there's nothing wrong with me. Actually, I am going through a lot of challenges. But I made it. So I have a talk with her and said, you know what I love you, let me handle everything now, you can relax.

00:11:01

(Christine Samuel) So that was the first time were kind of into my healing journey where I kind of less anxious, less worried, and be able to have a journey of accepting myself more, and through also the autoimmunities I learned about food balance, emotional balance, and apply a lot of self-care in my daily routines. So things are going well, then I met my husband and you know, kids went through my career then coffee, yep. Yeah, right. And so what happened with coffee it is, I always felt I need a certain thing, you know, I need a certain amount of money, I need a certain amount of freedom. I need a certain amount of a lot of things basically. And through the coffee, we cannot as you know, we can't really do much and we don't really need to go to restaurants every time. We don't really need to buy clothes.

00:12:06

(Christine Samuel) That's right. It turned everything upside down in terms of how we had to reconfigure our lives and the things that we could do, we could no longer do and we had to find a new way of doing and being yeah, through that I've been wanting to make a change in my life. I know I need to follow more of my passion and my purpose, but I had no guts to do that because it's nice to have paychecks. Yes, I know the feeling. Yeah, it's hard not to, so I was not there, but the universe kind of forced me into no, this is your time is up, You need to do something else. So things are happening at the end of, you know, coffee, it also the career that really helps me to focus and not exactly without a doubt what I want to do because you know, I think my life experience taught me how painful it is to worry to doubt ourselves to fit in, to feel powerless to feel disconnected to be in the world of dominance, where we have to fit in to be successful, then there's a point where I said, you know what, I have enough of this.

00:13:36

(Christine Samuel) If it's not now when and through coffee, I know you know, if I can deal with uncertainty a little bit more then I can kind of okay too, take a little bit more of uncertainty. So at that moment, I decided before I thought like you know what, I'm going to try six months, something different if I if not now when And I went through six months and I thought, you know what, I don't want to go back, this is so good, this is so fulfilling, this is so where I can be in my inner genius, this is where I can really serve others, not because of you know I have to be somebody else, I just have to be myself and moved from the expression of my being and all my pain, all challenges that I have all the uncomfortable feeling that I have, it's kind of transmutes into this is maybe like a cliche to really laugh force.

00:14:45

(Christine Samuel) Like you know I have fear so much fear of course of going to uncertainty but that fear is often come by, you know there's something bigger, something better than I have experienced myself because I let it let go of everything in a way that others can experience the same thing. I have no idea this is like a very powerful action, inspired action that I never thought I could do before because before right, always have doubts. Oh maybe it doesn't work, you know who I am, that's the ego. Yes, just protect trying to protect us, you know, is really what it's all about and it's I think the first, the hardest step is the first step, it's always the hardest step. But once you take one step and then you take another step and then you keep going and you found yourself at the end of that six months that you were in a good space, you knew that you could do it and if you know the more steps you take the more courage that we muster up within us.

00:15:56

(Carol Chapman) So at that point, you knew that there was no going back, no turning back. So what happened at that point? How did things shift for you?

(Christine Samuel) So the reason why I know it's possible is because I've been through, you know that $3.25 I've been through, this is like this is what I want, I want to go abroad, that's right. And there is no, like at that moment, you know the first year I was in Canada, it was tough, but I knew there's no turning back, there is no failure. I cannot fail and go home. I have to keep moving forward. So really you have already faced fear faced your, your biggest fears at that point in time and you really were thrust into a situation where you had no choice but to move through it and cycle through it and move to the next level in your life. Yeah. It's interesting though because looking back now, I just felt, oh, this, I was so young and so naive.

00:17:02

(Christine Samuel) Sometimes it's better when we're doing things when we're younger and we're naive because then we don't talk ourselves out of it Tony. I also want to share why I don't talk about it. It was difficult because I have a choice to I have 20 years of career so I can look for jobs that I want, but I kind of tired of feeding in. So what I, what happened was in the beginning at the same time. Again, nothing is a coincidence. I stumble upon a word and then through people in the co-creation space, the word that is, become my philosophy until now is called D C O D D I W O M P L E Cody. I never knew about that before. It's an English slang, which means to move purposefully toward an as yet unknown destination.

00:18:07

(Christine Samuel) So, I thought, wow, that's totally perfect because I had no idea. You know, I have, I have some idea, but it's very fake of what I want to do, but I can move purposefully one step at a time. That's not a big deal for me. I can commit to that. I cannot commit to like, yo I got to be this or that I'm going to make this much, But I can commit to one step at a time. And what happened during that time, also I do an experiment with this work because, you know, I've done things and it works in my professional job, right? And consulting's and my background is too so experienced is you find discovered problems and then find a solution. So you have to start with a problem, and...

Ep. 63 - Releasing Emotional & Mental Blocks For Permanent Breakthroughs - With Micaela Passeri

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:19:00 -0400

In this interview, Micaela Passeri shares her journey to releasing emotional and mental blocks for permanent breakthroughs and what led to this mission to help others. Based on her own experience, she discusses the many different modalities and tools to help her clients expand, evolve, and transform their lives - both in business and personally.

Micaela leads women on transformational journeys through her unique custom and experiential retreats in her hometown of Florence, Italy. She firmly believes that business success is directly tied to an individual's ability to free themselves from the emotional ties of the past and what better way to do so than being plucked out of your day-to-day life and placed in the middle of the Tuscan countryside to look at yourself and life from a different perspective. Micaela helps participants go deep into their spiritual hearts to find "home." Her work has helped hundreds of clients “go from stuck, stagnant, and unfulfilled to happy, liberated, hopeful, and healed”. They learn to take action using their inner truth to create abundance on their own terms.

Micaela Passeri is an award-winning emotional intelligence and business performance coach. She is the Founder & CEO of Love You Revolution. She is an international speaker, fashion designer, and author. Her mission is to guide women to financial freedom by helping them heal their emotions around money. Micaela has used her business degree, 20 years of experience, and many certifications to help entrepreneurs open their hearts and enjoy life to its fullest.

Show Notes:

Origins in Italy
Death as grief & a path to catharsis
Who do we attract based on past patterns?
Victimhood & inadequacy drain lifeforce
Driven to introspection and self-development
Discovery of the Emotion Code
Breaking out of negative self-talk
Subconscious memory banks
Power affirmations create new neural pathways
Be the co-pilot of the life you want
Releasing trapped emotions - be willing, dig deep, seek a guide
Transformational retreats in Tuscany
Create! No matter how big or small.

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Ep. 62 - Journey to Simplicity - With Kay Newton

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:48:00 -0400

In this interview, Kay Newton shares her journey to simplicity, how she arrived at this point in her life, and why she wants to help others, which in turn can help our planet. Kay loves to inspire people around the world to live midlife on their terms, full of fun and vigor. She loves to create and hold space where an individual or group can master their purpose in life. She says the process does not need to be “time-consuming or painful”.

Passionate about simplicity, Kay says “Midlife Simplicity is often hard to find. Midlife is a time of grief, overwhelm and worry which impacts your well-being. The loss of past roles or relationships also creates uncertainty. Whether you are navigating a looming empty nest or deciding what to do when your parents die and all the issues in between, don’t let them take you by surprise!”

Kay Newton is the Founder of Midlife Strategies. She is an experienced Midlifer and has worked with people over 50 in both their personal and business life, taking them from "Worry to Wealth" in simple stages she calls the ‘lightbulb’ and ‘goose pimple’ moments. Kay is an award-winning International Speaker and voracious author. She is passionate about “down-to-earth space creating to guide women over 50 to get their mojo back”.

Kay delivers compelling yet relatable presentations for conferences, online events, interviews, panels, meetings, retreats, workshops, and seminars.

Show Notes:

The many crossroads of life
Influences and working-class background
Taking advantage of opportunities
“I never swam back”
Downsizing x 3
Fear is a fantasy
Adventurer or Explorer
Living with change as a constant
Walking the Camino De Santiago
Aligning head, gut, and heart
Tips and tools to simplify your life
Circle of influence
Importance of Self Confidence

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Organization and Journey Mentioned:

EXXpeditions - All-female voyages exploring the impact of and solutions to plastic and toxic pollution in our ocean.

Camino de Santiago

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Ep. 61 - Navigating Change Through Heart-Centered Insights And Action - With Mindy Kantor

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 02:39:00 -0400

In this interview, Mindy shares her change journey on turning insights into action with a heart-centered approach. She shares her personal experience and thoughts on assessment tools for self-reflection, how to successfully navigate change, staying heart-centered in the process of change, and how to deal with our inner critic. She also shares her perspective on appreciation, gratitude, and other qualities and how they play into effective communication and connection with others. Have a listen to discover how you can navigate your world in a heart-centered way.

Mindy Kantor is a dynamic coach, consultant, and writer whose mission is to empower you to activate your best self. She works with people who want to transform themselves, teams, or organizations. Combining her twenty-five years of experience in communication, change management, and marketing expertise with a natural curiosity about the wiring of people’s minds and human behavior, she provides a fresh perspective and integrated way to turn insight into action.

Mindy holds a Bachelor of Science in business with a marketing focus and a Master’s degree in public and corporate communication. In addition, she has several certifications in project management, change management, and psychological assessments including Enneagram, Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and Firo-B and Firo Business. Mindy’s toolbox of game-changing assessments assisted her in finding the path that allows her to use her passion to help others.

Show Notes:

On a learning journey
Recognizing the pattern of my three-act play at work
Turning inward for answers instead of to others
Finding my game-changing tools
The growing pains of committing to self
Breaking from the corporate world and designing my business
Pandemic effects on introverts, sensitives, and extroverts
My change formula
Heart-centered approach to others through communication
Journaling as an inner tool
Take the high road
“Name that gremlin”
Recognize and control what you are taking in
Find what brings you joy

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Books and People Mentioned:

Beckhard and Harris Change Model

Sparked by Jonathan Fields

Sparketype Free Assessment

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Ep. 60 - Inspiring Joy Around The World - An Interview With Yasmin Nguyen

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:20:00 -0400

Yasmin Nguyen has a joyful story to tell. He does it as an author, adventurer, facilitator, filmmaker, joy ambassador, photographer, speaker, and world changer. Yasmin is the founder of the Joyful Living Project. He created the Joyful Living Project to ignite positive change and remind us of all the good around us. He's also starting a podcast to help others activate joy in their lives.

In this interview, Yasmin talks about some of the challenges he has faced, including fleeing communist Vietnam, being rescued at sea, growing up as an immigrant in America, his experience with corporate life, entrepreneurship, deep depression, and burnout. Yasmin has come up with seven principles of joyful living that worked for him and is excited to share them. In addition, to inspire and reach more Joy Ambassadors, he's writing a book on his life journey and challenges.

Some years ago, Yasmin found a deeper calling that led him to pack up his car to drive across America on an 18-month journey to discover, document, and share stories of real people, beautiful places, and heart-opening experiences that bring us joy. In 2022, he and his team will launch a new concept called "The Joy Gym" to reconnect millions of people every day as "Joy Makers" to practice simple habits that activate joy, strengthen their hearts and minds, and create a better world.

Show Notes:

Rescued from a sinking ship
Looking for the gifts in the positive and negative experiences of the past
The challenge of connecting and belonging
Recognizing achievement as a crutch
Corporate to entrepreneurial pursuits
Seeking approval and fighting FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)
"More things do not equal more success."
Discovering the "Retirement Day Practice"
"Helping the overworked givers."
18 months of Kitchen Surfing and living the nomadic life
7 Principles of Joyful Living
Many facets of joy!

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Joyful Music Playlist

Joyful Books and Reading

Retirement Day Practice Cards (26 Ideas for More Joyful Experiences)

The Joy Gym

People & Quotes Mentioned:

"What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny." - Robin Sharma

"Progress equals happiness." - Tony Robbins

"If you measure it, it will improve." - Seth Godin

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Ep. 59 - Leaning Into Love And Nature - An Interview With Heath Armstrong

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:13:00 -0400

In this interview, Heath Armstrong explains how he leaned into love and nature to turn his life around after waking up face-down-pants-down in his garage during a rock-bottom breakdown. He began interviewing 100+ creative entrepreneurs and adopting their strategies. He also had the help of a few magical strangers.

In 2016, he retired his traditional 'career' in concrete construction, sold all of his belongings, and scaled his bootstrapped e-commerce startup to hit multiple 6-figure months while mainly wearing undies. He shares some of the tips and techniques that have helped him live with a sense of rebirth every day. Living in tune with Nature, surrendering expectations, having a morning routine, and "leaning into love and letting his heart rise up".

Since then, he has worked location-independent from over twenty countries, summited the world's largest free-standing volcano, survived rafting the Nile River, witnessed exorcisms in Indonesia, and fallen in love with the culture and experience of East African digital education for children. Heath brings some of his adventures and experiences to us in this interview.

Heath Armstrong is an author, explorer, e-commerce maniac, podcaster, and co-founder of Rage Create. He is the creator of Sweet-Ass Affirmation Decks (motivation for your creative mind) and several Sweet-Ass Journals, and the host of the Never Stop Peaking podcast.

What happens when you suppress creativity
Face in a dream and "Indiana Jones."
Right person, right question, right time
Hitting rock bottom
Follow your heart and ask for help
Value of routine - committing to connect with yourself
Balancing masculine and feminine energies
Signs from the universe - importance of awareness and attention
Lessons from plant medicine
Ban the fear and resistance gremlins
Activism through love and creativity
Affirmations - magical reminders to light you up
Nature as a healing path

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https://heatharmstronHeath is also the co-founder of FBAleadlist.com, SellerSpaceship.com, and founding partner of Releaf Outings, a nature experience company based in Tennessee.

Media and People Mentioned:

Amber Vilhauer - No Guts, No Glory Enterprises

Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

Earthing documentary found at Earthing.com.

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Ep. 58 - Finding Your Radical Purpose - With Jose Leal

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:05:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Early inventor out of necessity
Defining moments as a young man
Helping others embrace technology and transform their vision
The dark side of the corporate world
Numb & done
Research to understand internal dissonance
Empathy is a superpower
Feelings and homeostasis
Future of the workplace - Society 2045
Why the term “radical.”
Three things we can all do to bring balance
Listening to your heart

Social Media:

Radical Purpose
Linked In
Society 2045

Books Mentioned:

RADICAL Companies: Organized for Success without Bosses or Employees - by Jose Leal, Adrian Perez, and Matt Perez
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures - by Antonio Damasio

Research Mentioned:

Robert Sapolsky discusses physiological effects of stress, Stanford Report, March 7, 2007
Whitehall Study on Stress

Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot "Best Wisdom Podcast…2021."

Ep. 57 - Turn Your Money Monster Into A Money Honey - with Morgana Rae

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:07:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Starting with a failure
Swimming against the tide because of mindset
Nurturers and helpers struggle to charge for their skills
Overcoming a "superhuman power of money revulsion."
Curiosity as a game-changer
The one simple yet "weird question" that changed my life
Transforming a "money monster" into a "money honey."
Role of the subconscious in our pain points
Hack for intuition
The mind follows the heart
Steps to transforming your relationship
Love, lifestyle, and legacy

Social Media:

Book

Financial Alchemy by Morgana Rae

Free Offering:

Money Love Quiz

Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot "Best Wisdom Podcast…2021."

Ep. 56 - The Standing Meditation Practice That Saved My Life - With Nate Rifkin

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:43:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Environment and bad programming as a child
Role of self-esteem in young adults
First taste of transforming self
Spiral of alcohol and resentment
Enter a mentor and Daoism
Meditation in the Standing Position
Physical action as a challenge and a hook
Energetic anatomy
Turning down the volume on self-hating, limiting thoughts
Opponents/challenges grow as you grow
Power comes from going deeper with a simple practice

Social Media:

Website

Book

The Standing Meditation by Nate Rifkin

You can read the first chapter for free, right here.

Quote:

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee

Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot “Top Wisdom Podcast…2021.”

Ep. 55 - Journey from Self-Sabotage to Self-Mastery - An Interview With Dylan Charles

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:24:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Childhood experiences - pressure to fit in or be an outsider
Finding and surviving in the tribe
Old souls are seekers
Looking for access to the sacred
Funky baggage, ghosts, and demons
Role of martial arts and meditation
Having the grit and strength to make changes
Power of the subconscious mind
Science of Fear
Plant medicine and is uses
Don’t go it alone - ask for help

Social Media:

Battered Souls Podcast

Waking Times

Books:

Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao - by Mantack Chia

Offer:

FREE 15-minute insight consultation - available on Dylan’s website

Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot “Top Wisdom Podcast…2021.”

Ep. 54 - Trusting Yourself - An Interview With Kathleen Flanagan

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:04:00 -0400

Show Notes:

1. Ask your body – trust the answers
2. Mind blowing experiences from childhood
3. Meditation as a trigger into light
4. Being open
5. Healing trauma with sound
6. Three days in the ethers
7. Co-creation with spirit
8. Tsunami of emotion
9. People are a gift to us
10. Breaking patterns
11. Prayers of light to banish the darkness

Media:

Website
Youtube
Facebook
Instagram
Aromatherapy Website
LinkedIn

Free Offer:
Four Minute Chakra Balancing Sound Therapy Meditation

Book:
Dancing Souls: The Call by Kathleen Flanagan

About Kathleen:

Kathleen Flanagan is a national and international multi-award-winning author of Dancing Souls: Merging Heaven and Earth – Book One. She is the founder and CEO of Awakening Spirit, Inc., a Certified Aromatherapist, a Vibrational Expert, Workshop Facilitator, Sound Therapist, Meditator, and Esthetician. Kathleen taught esthetics at Heritage College, attended the School of Metaphysics, and has taught spiritual principles for over 30 years.

Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot "Top Wisdom Podcast…2021."

Ep. 53 - Creating vs. Consuming In A Digital World - An Interview With Corbett Barr

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:33:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Background and personal philosophy
Hitting a reset button that changed my life
It all started with a blog
Magic of the internet
Power of connecting with people through creating content
A scientific approach for entrepreneurs
Focusing pursuits on what gives you energy, not what depletes you
Pros and cons of social media
Respect, love and be yourself
Finding your voice
Self-care practices
Journey of refinement

Social Media:

Personal Website - Corbett Barr

Twitter

Fizzle

Quote Mentioned:

"To be nobody - but -yourself-- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

- E.E. Cummings

Documentary Mentioned:

The Social Dilemma

Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot “Top Wisdom Podcast…2021.”

Ep. 52 - Surviving and Growing Through Grief - An Interview With Justin Caffrey

Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:08:00 -0400

Show Notes

Highlights of our discussion include:

Material pursuits
Living a life of extremes
Joshua's journey
Surviving the death of a child
Realizing truth and facing grief through the eyes of others
PTSD signs and seeking help
Cold Water, Yamabushi, and Meditation
Developing a mindset of resilience and hope
Nature as a healing modality
The critical role of Acceptance
Dealing with difficult people
Directing your energy
Rely on your internal power

Social Media

Justin Caffrey website

Youtube

An article by Justin Caffrey on Grief and Loss

More About Justin Caffrey

Justin is a recognized expert on the inner critic, that internal voice that holds you back, "You are not good enough, you are not enough, and the Imposter Syndrome." His research is a rich combination of Western neuroscience, Eastern philosophy, mindfulness, and his own hard-earned life experiences. His fields of specialty are Subjective Emotive Brief Therapy (SEBT), Resilience, and Neuroscience. In addition, he is one of only a handful of Westerners to have completed the grueling Master Training with the Yamabushi in the remote mountains of Shonai, in Japan.

Justin Caffrey is also a proven multi-business entrepreneur in differing sectors and countries who built and sold regulated companies with seven-figure exits. He's a Certified Investment Fund / Hedge Fund Director and Private Equity Professional. He's also All Ireland All-Star Thought Leader in Personal Development in 2019 & 2020.

Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot “Top Wisdom Podcast…2021.”

Ep. 51 - Transforming Your Relationship With Fear - An Interview With Tim McDonald

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:35:00 -0400

Show Notes

Early lessons in confronting and dialoguing with fear
The right to change your mind
Understand that we cannot know all the answers and outcomes
Relationship with fear
Rational fear - finding the healthy aspects
Irrational fear - learning to reframe your thinking
Receiving THE diagnosis
Educating and advocating for yourself
Converting “Why Me?” to “Why Not Me?”
Modern Medicine vs. Holistic Medicine - room for both
Community, compassion, and impact
The gifts of the journey
Tools for dialoguing with fear

Social Media

About Tim

Tim McDonald is the former Director of Community at Huffington Post, Founder of My Community Manager, and Director of Communications for Social Media Club Chicago. Tim works with organizations and individuals who are stuck and helps them to get them unstuck. He helps people connect with their voices and stories. He is also a speaker, consultant, and facilitator of workshops.

Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot “Top Wisdom Podcast…2021.”

Ep.50 - Tools For Healing The Grief-Stricken Heart - An Interview With Ophelia Rigault

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:29:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Early memories of island life and kin
The shock of culture change
Early grief experiences
Mom as the “scaffolding” of emotional support
Multicultural, multi-faith influences
Wounds calling for strength and wisdom
Breaking point to surrender
Elements of the “brave space” of grief
Smoothing out the rip in our fabric
Create a grief toolbox for healing
Support for your grief journey
Ask, “What am I meant to do today?”

Social Media:

https://mindfuljourney.ca/

About Ophelia:

Ophelia is a second-generation ancestral gift of spiritual insight and intuition. She brings together years of certified professional counseling skills, leadership, life coaching, yoga, meditation, metaphysical mastery, and business building acuity to create highly exceptional client experiences like no other for professional women.

Hearts Rise Up is a Feedspot “Top Wisdom Podcast…2021.”

Ep. 49 - 3 Soul Questions To Find Your Path - An Interview with Rev. Janice Chrysler

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:15:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Early clues of a life path
Astral projection then and now
Intro to Reiki and Meditation
Weaning out of the church without losing faith
Opening up to intuitiveness
Holding space and being quiet
Ways to reduce fear
The 3 Soul Questions to ask
Importance of Joy
Step out of the “waiting room”
Past life regression as a tool

Social Media:

Facebook

Weekly/Daily messages and meditations, Insight Timer

Books:

Sally’s Closet - Rev. Janice Chrysler

Make it Happen by Rev. Janice Chrysler

Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Suess

About

Rev. Janice Chrysler is a Metaphysical Minister, Certified Hypnotherapist, Author, Reiki Master, and Meditation Facilitator. For over 15 years, Rev. Janice has been using her intuitive gifts, experience, and training to hold space for those seeking a balance of mind, body, and spirit. Through her service, Mindful Journey, Janice sees people privately for intuitive readings, spiritual coaching sessions, and Journey of the Soul sessions, better known as past life regression. In addition, she facilitates various workshops, all designed to help others on their life journey. Janice feels her purpose is to show others what she has learned so they, too, can have a mindful journey that leads to their self-discovery.

Note: Feedspot names Hearts Rise Up a “Top 30 Wisdom Podcasts…2021.”

Ep. 48 - Courage For The Complexity Of Being Human - An Interview With Shelly Francis

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:45:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Awareness of cycles
Writing as a way of processing life
True self-care
What is "True Self?"
Paying attention to signs
Creating spaciousness
Being comfortable with paradox
Accessing the best, whole part of yourself
Ingredients of courage – "Quintessentials"
Finding the “third thing”
What would you do with more courage?
Advice to writers

Social Media:

Creative Courage Press Website

Instagram

Twitter

Facebook

Books

The Courage Way by The Center for Courage and Renewal and Shelly Francis

Damocle’s Wife: The Inside Story of Cancer Caregiving & Long-Term Survival in the Midst of Motherhood, Marriage & Making Life Matter by Shelly Francis

Other References

Courage to Create - Rollo May

Parker Palmer Books

George Ella Lyon - Poet

Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant

More About Shelly Francis

Shelly has been involved with the Center for Courage and Renewal and worked with author Parker Palmer for some time. She has been a communicator in a range of business sectors from publishing to the government to high tech and health care. Whether running her own business or serving organizations, the common thread throughout Shelly’s career has been bringing to light the best-kept secrets — technology, services, resources, ideas — while bringing people together to facilitate collective impact and good work.

Note: Feedspot names Hearts Rise Up a “Top 30 Wisdom Podcasts…2021.”

Ep. 47 - From 'Living' To 'Dying' to 'Awakening' - An Interview With Dawn James

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 22:45:00 -0400

In this interview, she shares her experiences with resilience, vibrational frequencies, and her knowledge and passion for uplifting others through her virtual Soundscape Meditation events, Online Spiritual Mentoring, and leading Soulful Healing retreats in Costa Rica.

Show Notes:

Getting through early adversities
"Just breathe, Dawn."
Waking up spiritually and experiencing spiritual essence
Paying attention to the inner and the outer aspects of life
Listening for messages
Repair and redirect our behaviors and activities
Finding our motivation, our "carrot within."
Non-physical level awareness of the world around us
Looking through new eyes
Steps to open us spiritually

Social Media:

Dawn James Website

Facebook

Books:

Newest Book – Unveiled

All Books

Offerings:

Free webinar called How to Write Your Life Story. It's offered 2x a month. https://publishpromote.eventbrite.ca/

Dawn says, "Spirit is guiding me to teach others to heal through writing, so I am creating a self-discovery journaling program called Discover your Spiritual Self for Fall 2021." Check it out at https://dawnjames.ca/discover-your-spiritual-self/.

Feedspot names Hearts Rise Up a Top 35 Wisdom Podcast...2021.

Ep. 46 - Awakening The Hero Within - An Interview With Christian de la Huerta

Fri, 21 May 2021 19:30:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Growing up under powerful influences
The puzzle of success and emptiness
Jumping tracks
The dynamic key of breathwork
Discovering “soul level, mission level purpose.”
The energies of emotion
The “shenanigans of the mind.”
Development of “Soulful Treks”
Breathwork “clears emotional crap.”
Women, empowerment, and heroism

About Christian:

With 30 years of experience, Christian de la Huerta is a sought-after spiritual teacher, personal transformation coach, author, and leading voice in the breathwork community. He has traveled the world offering inspiring and transformational retreats combining psychological and spiritual teachings with lasting and life-changing effects. An award-winning, critically acclaimed author, he has spoken at numerous universities, conferences, and the TEDx stage. His new book, Awakening the Soul of Power, was described by multiple Grammy Award–winner Gloria Estefan as “a balm for the soul of anyone searching for truth and answers to life’s difficult questions.”

Social Media:

Website Soulful Power

Awakening the Soul of Power

Book:

Offerings:

Free Guided Meditation, Breathwork Practice, and Sample Chapter of “Awakening the Soul of Power”

Hearts Rise Up

Hearts Rise Up Community

Ep. 45 - Reclaiming Your Authentic Self - An Interview With Megan Johnson

Wed, 05 May 2021 22:30:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Reaching a breaking point – manifestations of stress
Getting to know "myself"
Tuning out external voices
How to be a "holy outsider"
5 Phases of Reclamation
Build and cultivate a support team
Trust your intuition
Protocol questions to ask yourself and others
Practices to connect to your inner wisdom
Becoming a sovereign reclamation queen

Social Media:

Website: https://megscolleen.com/

Email: megan@megscolleen.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megscolleen/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/megscolleen

You can find her online at megscolleen.com or on social media @megscolleen

Media Mentioned:

Dissenters Podcast - Dr. Edith Eva Eger: The Healing Survivor on Trauma, Healing, and Forgiveness

About Megan

Megan is a life coach, creative consultant, space holder, podcast host, and speaker who helps passionate humans as they rise to be the leader of their own life. With a focus on self-trust, wholeness, and sovereign reclamation, Megan coaches humans who are ready to discover their magic, stand in their power, and reclaim their dreams. Megan is a certified life coach with Beautiful You Coaching Academy, holds her degree in graphic design, hosts her podcast titled “The Reclamation Podcast,” and has over 8 years of creative marketing experience with a roster of clients including Steven Pressfield, Chris Guillebeau, Wilson Sporting Goods, and many more. You can find her online at megscolleen.com or on social media @megscolleen.

Ep. 44 - Two Simple Practices For Dealing With Anxiety - An Interview With Dr. Tonya Crombie

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 21:30:00 -0400

Show Notes

Fiesty Type A's can meditate too
Recognizing anxiety in adversarial relationships
Big shifts in mindset
Self-care helps others
Knowledge does not equal application
Our #1 go-to is always our breath
Downtime from devices is critical to a healthy psyche
The problem of comparing ourselves with others

Social Media

Website: Guidanceforthefuture.com

FaceBook

Stop Worrying About Your Anxious Child

Twitter,

YouTube

Book

About Tonya

Dr. Tonya Crombie is the best-selling author of Stop Worrying About Your Anxious Child and a certified life coach who likes nothing more than teaching adults how to help children overcome struggles with stress and anxiety. Tonya has a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and an MBA. However, in addition to being someone with letters behind her name, Tonya is the mom of two teenagers who have had struggles with stress, overwhelms, and anxiety. All of her work as a coach, speaker, writer, and facilitator is informed by her experience as a parent of anxious children and is driven by her desire to help young people thrive in the high-pressure, stressful world in which we live. Her work has been featured in The Invisible Illness, P.S. I Love You, Be Unique, and Candour.

Tonya lives just outside of New Orleans with her amazing husband, two awesome teenagers, two incredibly barky dogs, and one very feisty kitten.

Ep. 43 - "A Healthy World Begins With A Healthy Artist" - An Interview With Tammy McCrary

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 23:30:00 -0400

https://heartsriseup.com/podcast/

Show Notes:

Destined to found Artistology
Early Influences in the world of art and music
The growth of a music manager
Living and working with sister Chaka Khan
Working with "creators"
Heart of commitment to the special needs community
Coping with the "Cycle of Invalidation"
Imperfect Perfection
Effects of competition and compromise

Social Media

www.artistology.com

www.innergytuner.com

www.powerofsoundandmusic.com

LinkedIn

Artistology App

Books

Transformative Power of Sound and Music

Succeeding Through Doubt, Fear and Crisis

From Tammy's website: "Her mission is to provide a safe and trusted community offering wellness resources just for artists where they can connect and collaborate with other artists who get them and resources that empower them."

More About Tammy

Tammy is also the co-founder of the Transcendence Project, a co-creator of the Innergy Tuner app, and co-authored two Amazon #1 Bestsellers "The Transformational Power of Sound and Music: A Handbook for the Sound Healer and Musician" and "Succeeding Through Doubt, Fear and Crisis." Passionate about the special needs community, Tammy has been a part of an award-winning documentary called "Diagnosis" about the personal side of living with a loved one with Autism. Tammy's championing in the area of Autism has helped effect change in the Disability community.

Note to Listeners:

The Hearts Rise Up Podcast has been listed on Feedspot’s “Top 35 Wisdom Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021.” We’re feeling very humbled to be among Jay Shetty, Jack Kornfield, and Sam Harris podcasts on the list at 1,2 &3. Please spread the word, ask others to subscribe, and leave us a review.

Ep. 42 - Energy Healing and The Science of Spirituality - An Interview with Drs. Tom & Shelley Negelow

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:15:00 -0400

In addition to his healing work and counseling, Tom is also a Trance Channeler. In the process of learning and self-development, Tom became aware of an inner knowing and level of intuition. During this time, he experienced the voice and wisdom of an “energy” speaking through him. It became apparent to Tom that he was channeling the energy frequencies of Ascended Master Kuthumi and The Guiding One. In this episode, we experienced a short and powerful session with the energy of Kuthumi.

Show Notes

Healing early trauma
Power of love and support in the healing process
Energy - from infinitesimal to infinite
Early influences - Being trained in the energy world
“Quantum Physicalness”
Trance Channeling – experience, perspectives, and encouragement
Ascended Master Kuthumi insights – Universal Energy & Unconditional Love
Curious about being a healer?

Contact Information

Tom Negelow – tomnegelow@gmail.com

Shelly Negelow – shelleynegelow@gmail.com

Website
Academy For Conscious Living.com

Social Media
Facebook: The Voice Of Unconditional Love

Facebook: Academy For Conscious Living

Books

The Master in the Mirror: A Woman’s Guide to Living a Passionate and Joyful Life

Blueprint for Healing: The Path To Conscious Living

Note to Listeners:

The Hearts Rise Up Podcast has been listed on Feedspot's "Top 30 Wisdom Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021." We're feeling very humbled to be among Jay Shetty, Jack Kornfield, and Sam Harris podcasts on the list at 1,2 &3. Please spread the word, ask others to subscribe, and leave us a review.

Ep. 41 - Becoming Aware of Awareness - An Interview With Jonathan Robinson

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:30:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Midlife crisis at age 12
Benefits of an insatiable curiosity
Inner technologies
Importance of gratitude
Our real job in life
Blindspots and shortcomings
Taking responsibility for your experience
The wordless world

Website:

https://findinghappiness.com/

Free List of 10 Favorite Happiness Hacks and 12 Questions to Create Intimacy with Anyone

Free audio downloads on 3 simple and practical happiness tips: https://findinghappiness.com/free-happiness-tips/

Social Media:

https://www.facebook.com/deeperhappiness

Books and Media:

Books: https://findinghappiness.com/books/

Podcast: https://www.awarenessexplorers.com/

Note to Listeners:

The Hearts Rise Up Podcast has been listed on Feedspot's "Top 30 Wisdom Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021."

Ep. 40 - Music: A Bridge For Healing And Expanded Awareness - An Interview With Flicka Rahn

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:00:00 -0400

Show Notes:

Spiritual experiences leading to healing through music
Finding the zero point
Web of sonic magic
Patterns in indigenous music
Chakra sounds
The science of Cymatics
Discussion of musical elements – 440 Hz, 433 Hz, Fractals, and the Fibonacci spiral
Sound as an Rx

Social Media:

http://www.flickarahn.com/

https://twitter.com/flicka_rahn

https://www.facebook.com/flickarahnofficial

Multi-Media:

C.D.s on Amazon: Chakra Soundscapes and Hymns to Gaia

Book on Amazon: The Transformational Power of Sound and Music

Authors Mentioned:

Bruce Lipton

Gregg Braden

Note to Listeners:

Thank you to all our fantastic guests who have been on the show, our listeners, and last but not least - my awesome co-hosts, Ann Serrie (also our editor) and Concetta Antonelli; and our Chief Technical Director - Christopher Drummond.

Ep. 39 - "Pause And Question Everything!" - An Interview with Ayelet Baron

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:43:54 -0400

In this interview, Carol learns how Ayelet Baron became the global futurist that many CEOs and seekers turn to. Her mission is to create communities that live in harmony with their environment or to change the setting. Ayelet is an author, healer, facilitator, and a Forbes Top 50 Female Global Futurist. She is the author of F*CK The Bucket List Trilogy. Through her life experiences worldwide, she has charted a personal journey that examines what matters in life.

Ayelet offers information and insights that bring health to the individual and community's body, mind, and soul. Holding a mirror up to humanity and asking questions about how we got to where we are today, Ayelet shows us how to "pause and question everything." Then to create, from a place of balance and harmony with our environment and each other.

Show Notes:

"Architects of Humanity" - Inspiration from Buckminster Fuller
Opportunities abounding
Working "sick" and firing myself
Un-conditioning
Learning to "relish" failure
Become an asset in your own life
We are "amazing creators."
Build a community to lift everyone

Social Media:

Website: ayeletbaron.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ayeletb

Books:

F*CK the Bucket List Trilogy

http://ayeletbaron.com/books/

Our Journey to Corporate Sanity: Transformational Stories from the Frontiers of 21st Century Leadership

Influences Mentioned:

Buckminster Fuller

Linda Pollio

Ep. 38 - The Benefits of Gratitude Will Motivate You To Be Thankful Everyday

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 06:28:12 -0400

A conversation about the power of Gratitude to improve your life so that you rise up to your best self every day.

Join us in this episode of the Hearts Rise Up podcast with founders Carol Chapman, Concetta Antonelli, and Ann Serrie as we explore how a Gratitude Practice can be a motivator when you consider that the secret to having it all is knowing you already do. They talk about the benefits of gratitude in their lives, share the scientific research that shows how gratitude improves all areas of our lives and offer some simple ways to create your own practice.

Show Notes:

Count your blessings all the time.
Gratitude morning & evening practice.
Research shows Gratitude improves physical, mental and emotional health.
Raise your vibration with a Gratitude Practice.
Appreciative Inquiry.
The magic of a smile.
Gratitude in action.
Heart Resonance Primer and Hearts Rise Up on Mighty Networks

Social Media:

From Journal of Applied Sports Psychology : Gratitude Enhances Athletes' Self Esteem: The Moderating Role of Trust in Coach

Additional Resources:

From Positive Psychology.com : What is Gratitude and Why Is It So Important by Courtney Ackerman

What Oprah Knows for Sure About Gratitude by Oprah Winfrey

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Quotes Referenced:

Oprah Winfrey - "I practiced being grateful. You then radiate and generate more goodness for yourself and it changes your personal vibration."

Sansone & Sansone, 2010 - Definition of gratitude: "The appreciation of what is valuable and meaningful to oneself and represents a general state of thankfulness and/or appreciation."

Ep. 37 - Finding CALM Through Clarity, Awareness, Learning & Motion - An Interview With Deb Schell

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:17:04 -0400

In this interview, Carol learns how Deb Schell turned her life around and found a sense of calm that she has shared with many others through her Find Calm Here Community. Self-examination helped Deb find the courage to ask hard questions that opened her eyes to finding a path to calm and happiness. In doing so, she realized that her environment and past habits were holding her back from feeling empowered. Deb explains how the elements of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion helped her manage stress, leave the corporate world, find financial freedom, and create an environment of calm.

Show Notes:

Waiting vs. Starting – "Stop wishing and go create!"
Stepping into confidence
Honoring self over people-pleasing
Physical environment – clutter and placement
Paying attention to relationships
The power of choosing a word for the year
The road to sharing the Find Calm Here message
Creating a welcome warm space

Website/Community:

Website: FindCalmHere.com

Deb has created the Find, Calm Here Community where members are welcomed warmly and offered monthly interactive meetings in an atmosphere of wellness and encouragement for living a life of Calm and Empowerment. Find Calm Here Community on Mighty Networks

Virtual Events

Podcast

Find Calm Here Podcast

Quote Referenced:

Maya Angelou - "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Ep. 36 - Break-Up With Social Media To Become A Better Version Of Yourself

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:40:00 -0400

An Interview with Johan Versteegh – Life and Digital Wellness Coach and the co-founder of Social Media Breakup, who knows firsthand about the downsides of screen addiction and how to recover using his "6 Step Formula Series".

A few years ago, Johan Versteegh suffered from cell phone and social media addiction. When he realized and accepted the adverse effects on his life, he knew he had to find a way to unhook himself from screens. He knew that he couldn't totally abstain from technology; after all, he worked in the IT industry! Accepting that there was a way to take charge of his screen time rather than feel driven by it, he began to explore ways to first disengage from mindless interaction with his devices and then reengage with them mindfully.

As Johan began to heal himself, he realized others were struggling with the same addiction. After gaining clarity about his life purpose, he became a Life and Digital Wellness Coach and eventually created Social Media Breakup. His mission is helping individuals and families recover from phone and social media addiction enabling them to become better versions of themselves.

Show Notes:

Social Media Breakup

The Uncomfortable Zone

Screen addiction

Digital Wellness

"I don't want to die stupid."

"Disconnect so you can reconnect."

Google Dementia

Digital Citizenship - online etiquette

Digital Detox

"Outsourcing your happiness."

"Improve the story you tell yourself about yourself."

"Transform your device into an ally instead of an enemy."

Social Media:

Website: https://www.socialmediabreakup.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/phonebreakupInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/techbreakup/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTmNvzsYPKkSegM8C-cVy4w/videosFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/socialmediabreakup

Books & Movie:

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Joe Dispenza

Ready Player One - a 2018 science fiction action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline based on Cline's novel of the same name.

Special Offer:

Access Johan's Udemy Course "Break Free From iPhone, Screen, Social Media, Tech Addiction" for FREE by sending an email to Johan@socialmedia.com .

Ep. 35 - Finding Resonance With The Current Reality Through Our Inner Light - A conversation between the founders of Hearts Rise Up

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:11:08 -0400

Join us in this episode of the Hearts Rise Up podcast with founders Carol Chapman, Concetta Antonelli, and Ann Serrie as we discuss what's been happening in our lives during the ongoing Pandemic. Working through this crisis's emotions reminds us of author Elizabeth Kubler Ross and the stages of grief. Accepting change and uncertainty is challenging, but we strive to look for the positive in what we are experiencing, tap into our inner light, and look for the light in others. In this way, we find "resonance" with the current reality, putting ourselves in phase with a higher vibration.

Show Notes:

Recognizing and managing emotions
Learning points that teach us about ourselves
Tools and behaviors that have served us
Adapting to a more virtual world
"Hanging out in what feels uncomfortable."
"Letting go of the oars" - flow.
Methods to shift your energy away from stagnation and fear
Being in partnership with the divine
What's different?
Heart Resonance Primer and Occupy Sanity Tools

Social Media:

www.HeartsRiseUp.com

https://www.facebook.com/alberto.roman1

Books:

On Death and Dying - Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Ep. 34 - Listen To Your Heart To Create Success From The Inside Out - An Interview with Jeanne Sharbuno

Sun, 11 Oct 2020 12:00:00 -0400

An Interview with Jeanne Sharbuno – seasoned coach, team facilitator, fun ballroom dance instructor and author of “52 Ways To Live Success…From the Inside Out: Bite-Size Coaching for Success-Minded People.”

Confident that she was making a place for herself in the corporate world, Jeanne Sharbuno faced a life-defining moment when she was laid off for the third time in four years. She vowed never to be at the mercy of another corporation for her livelihood. Thus began the journey that took her “From Corporate Misfit to Ballroom Dancing Queen.” She shares how listening to her heart, and intuition, led her to create success from the inside out.

Jeanne and Concetta explore how following our inner guidance enables us to discover what the heart wants. We learn how becoming a coach empowered Jeanne to embrace her vocation and prepared her to help others from the inside out. Once again, by listening to an internal nudge, she discovered her avocation: teaching Ballroom Dancing. As she notes, she was guided by her "inner Ginger Rogers" which led her to uncover her bliss.

She shares ways to fine-tune our inner listening skills. Learn Jeanne's success formula as she explains the importance of having a coach in your corner.

Jeanne continues to model how listening to your heart is living from the inside out with her unique ability to connect with and inspire people at all levels. She enjoys guiding people in answering that question "What's next?" As a train-the-coach trainer for Best Year Yet® Worldwide, she is passionate about training and mentoring new coaches to be the best possible coaches for their clients.

Show Notes

"Success happens from the inside out"

Being a "corporate misfit."

"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him – then choose that way with all your heart." - Hasidic Saying

Listening from the inside to inner nudging and intuitive knowing

Being yourself is being spiritual

Flow Activities create a state where time stands still

Body Wisdom

Answers can come in different ways

Navigating obstacles

Thinking in ways that support us rather than sabotage us

Accountability = keeping promises to yourself

Shifting limiting paradigms

Role of Dance - Joy, A Flow Activity

Social Media:

Website: JeanneSharbuno.com

Special Report on the Home page: "How to Achieve More in 1 Week Than Most Do In 12."
Blog articles on website include:
“4 Tips to Inspired, Effective Goal-Setting”
“How to Blast Out of Overwhelm So You Can Be Laser-Focused" and

Free Offers:

Free excerpt of eBook: “A Taste of 52 Ways to Live Success…from the Inside Out!” Under the Book Tab on Jeanne's website. Scroll down the page and find it the on left hand side.
Offer for our listeners: The First 3 people who email Jeanne at coach@jeannesharbuno.com will receive a FREE 30-minute session.

Facebook: Business Success with Ease

Ep. 33 - A Gentle & Timely Introduction to Mindfulness - An Interview With Melissa Plosker

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:52:58 -0400

In this interview, Carol learns how, at a low point in her life, Melissa accidentally discovered mindfulness. She describes how, over a decade ago, with a divorce looming and thousands of miles from home, Melissa attempted to bend herself into a pretzel in her first yoga class. She was sore for a week, but it was just what she needed to guide her through a difficult time in her life.

The yoga experience launched her into what she would later understand to be mindfulness – helping her become more aware of her body, thoughts, and emotions. It also ignited a passion for being present for others through her entrepreneurial pursuits.

As a logo, website, and user experience designer, Melissa has built her business and her reputation on bringing simplicity, clarity, and meaning to each project, all values that emerged from her gentle introduction to mindfulness.

Today, she is the co-founder of Nobody Life with her husband, J. A., and strives to raise her daughter and live each moment with the same level of awareness she first started practicing over a decade ago.

Show Notes:

A Gentle Introduction to Mindfulness
Creativity in the Moment
Learning to Notice Things
Sitting with Yourself – Reflecting and Letting Things Pass
Breaking Apart Expectations
Mindfulness and Working with Clients
Intuition Doesn’t Lie
The Nobody Life Community

Social Media:

Website:https://nobodylife.com/

Free Offer - Mindfulness Quickstart Guide

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissaplosker/

Facebook: Nobody Life

Ep. 32 - Into the "Big Bright" - An Interview with Alberto Roman

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 14:58:34 -0400

Alberto Roman is an artist, musician, philosopher, Shaman, and Transformational Healer. He is a magical being who offers a unique perspective on the world – both inner and outer. Alberto is a humble explorer of consciousness and has a heart of compassion. In this interview with Carol Chapman, the topics are varied; growing up in Costa Rica, discovering the Shaman’s path, healing as an occupation, art, and music. Alberto reminds us that as we are in tune with our inner muse, we will more easily recognize opportunities as they come. He tells Carol how this has happened to him and brought him to some of the world’s most beautiful places. Listen in as he shares his tales of the "Big Bright".

Show Notes:

Growing up in Costa Rica
Ways of being on this planet
Modes of Perception
Relationship with loss
Being like Ferdinand The Bull
The tangible States of Service
The “Big Bright” of Realization
Performance Art and High Magic
Pura Vida – Pure Life
Stay Humble!

Social Media:

Multi-Media:

Books Mentioned –

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

The Shaman and Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms by Don Jose Campos (Author), Geraldine Overton (Editor), Charles Grob (Foreword), Alberto Roman (Translator)

Documentaries mentioned –

The Shaman and Ayahuasca: Journies to Sacred Realms – Documentary directed by Michael Wiese. Featuring: Don Jose Campos, Pablo Amaringo, and Alberto Roman

Talking with Spirits: Journeys into Balinese Spirit Worlds - Documentary directed by Michael Wiese. Featuring: Dr. Luh Ketut Suryani, Nyoman Sumandhi, Wayan Dibia, Alberto Roman, and Dewa Nyoman Batuan

Alberto’s Music –

Podomatic

Ep. 31 - "Simplicity, Clarity, And Mindfulness"- The Power of Being Nobody - An Interview with J.A. Plosker

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:57:37 -0400

In this interview, J.A. Plosker, the co-founder of the Nobody Life concept and community, describes the benefits and necessity of finding our inner “Nobody.” J.A. is a former attorney, social work counselor, and instructor of comparative religion, philosophy, and social work. He is the host of The Nobody Guide to Life podcast and has appeared on many stages, including TEDx. His message and mission are to increase awareness of ancient wisdom and mindfulness to facilitate personal and spiritual growth.

Carol talks with J.A. about how the ‘Nobody’ concept and community came about. They delve into J.A.’s early meditation and mindfulness practices, his interest in ancient philosophy and religion, and his two award-winning books: The Nobody Bible: Uncovering the Simple Wisdom in Ordinary Life and his novel, An Audible Silence. J.A. hopes to show that ancient wisdom can offer practical and profound help. He says it doesn’t take years of study; change for good can happen “right now.” He and his wife, Melissa, created the community, Nobody Life, to help spread the message of simplicity, clarity, and mindfulness.

Show Notes:

Early experiences
The teachers in our lives
Adding tools to our “toolbox” for life
Simple techniques are often the most powerful
Start with what you have
Touchstone of simplicity
The world as a mirror
Messages we receive from silence
We change hearts from our nobody side
Value of asking yourself questions

Social Media:

Website www.nobodylife.com/booksFacebook: www.facebook.com/groups/nobodylifeTwitter: @nobodysviewGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/16632630.J_A_PloskerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/japlosker/?hl=en

Books:

The Nobody Bible: Uncovering the Simple Wisdom in Ordinary Life by J.A. Plosker

An Audible Silence by J.A. Plosker

Available at Amazon and from Nobody Life website

Ep. 30 - "Becoming Something New & Unexpected" - An Interview with Lynnda Pollio

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:41:28 -0400

Lynnda Pollio is the author of multi-award winning, best-selling visionary novel, Trusting the Currents. She shares her compelling story of how this novel came about and the love and work that went into telling Addie May's story.

Carol interviews Lynnda about her unique journey to becoming an author. They talk about her love of nature as a child and now. Then on to her successful corporate life first as a New York advertising executive and then as the world's first Chief Consciousness Officer, "supporting Fortune 500 companies by helping them engage the human technologies of wisdom, intuition, compassion, empathy, forgiveness, and gratitude." Lynnda shares how at specific times in her life, she followed the messages of her heart – which is how she ended up in Sedona – a place of healing and creativity.

Lynnda has led a successful corporate career and managed to weave her core beliefs into all that she does. In this interview, she discusses several of those beliefs: celebrating our differences, listening to our inner guidance, and living a life of service for the greater good. Today, Lynnda is a writer and communications consultant.

She has experience in various spiritual disciplines, energetic practices, and healing modalities. Her current passion is helping people understand and connect to energetic frequencies that expand self-awareness for personal and global transformation. Lynnda recently moved from New York City to Sedona, Arizona, and like many others, is in the process of becoming something new and unexpected.

Show Notes:

Intuitive childhood
Listening to the voice of the heart
Summer of transformation
Blending into the corporate world
Role and Power of Sedona in the healing and creative processes
Overcoming fears – challenging yourself to grow
The mouse at the door
The genesis of a book
Mystical writing partner – honoring the muse
Celebrating our differences
Frequencies - Feeling and trusting what your body and soul tell you

Social Media:

Website http://lynndapollio.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LynndaPollioAuthorTwitter: https://twitter.com/lynndapollioGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/LynndaInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/lynndapollio/

Book:

Trusting the Currents by Lynnda Pollio

Available on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble

Quote:

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."—Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)

Ep. 29 - "Inspiration is Invitation" - Follow Your Heart - An Interview With Sara Troy

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:55:50 -0400

Sara Troy is a spiritual counselor, entrepreneur, storyteller, and successful Podcast host with over 2,500 shows. Sara’s company, Self Discovery Media is made up of an ‘Orchard of Wisdom’ from all her guests who have found the courage to change their lives, discover their purpose and gifts, and serve others.

In this interview, Sara describes what led her to the world of podcasting. Carol and Sara discuss Sara’s philosophies and what led her to hone in on celebrating and highlighting people who have faced challenges, redirected their lives, and discovered their purpose. In this challenging time in the world, they also talk about how it is more important than ever to find our own “redirect”, overcome fear, and believe in ourselves.

Join in the conversation and then look up Sara Troy to learn more about the interviews (2,500 episodes in 18 different genres), podcast books, mentoring, and educational platforms

Show Notes:

1. Redirection – how the crossroads of life can bring us to discovering our purpose

2. Don’t sell yourself short.

3. Pretzel twists of People Pleasing

4. Take the journey of Self-Discovery.

5. The intellect of the Soul Heart.

6. “Actionism is the new Activism.

7. You are the solution.

8. “Inspiration is Invitation”- inviting you to show up in your own life.

9. Finding balance when you are both empathic and highly sensitive.

10. “Trees, Breeze and Water” – finding our equilibrium

11. Two types of fear and what to do about them.

12. What creates an inner smile for you?

Social Media:

www.selfdiscoverymedia.com

www.selfdiscoverycommunity.org

https://www.facebook.com/SelfDiscoveryMediaNework

mailto: selfdiscoverymediamail.com

Book Mentioned:

Who Moved My Cheese?, by Spencer Johnson

Who Moved My Cheese? - for Kids, by Spencer Johnson, MD and Christian Johnson

Ep. 28 - Find The Fun So Life Becomes A Game You Want To Play Again - An Interview With Marisa Raymond

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 14:05:11 -0400

An Interview with Marisa Raymond, a wife, mom, mindfulness coach and board-certified genetic counselor and founder of Marisa Raymond Coaching.

"Find the fun" is a motto that Marisa Raymond believes is necessary to live life with ease. Marisa Raymond, a successful genetic counselor, mom, coach and yoga teacher talks about her journey from being a serious perfectionist attempting to control life to a Fun-preneur who embodies Mary Poppins' philosophy: "In every job that must be done there is an element of fun. You find the fun and *snap* the job's a game."

Marisa began her professional career as a genetic counselor in the U.S., a career she loved; however, when her husband was offered a job in France they felt they couldn't pass up this once-in-a-lifetime chance. Marisa shares the thrills and disappointments that came with the decision to move to what she and Concetta call the 'Ex-pat Planet'. They discuss the unique experience of living and thriving in a foreign land, which the stress of ultimately led to Marisa having serious health issues.

Listen in to see how she rose up out of that challenge by living life in the moment, discovering that when she let go of control, connecting with her children as well as her own inner child, she actually had MORE control. This led her to find a way to bring together her past work experience, her natural talents, what she loves doing and the element of FUN to create Marisa Raymond Coaching.

She and Concetta explore the notion that by tapping into our 'inner Mary Poppins and inner child' we can get curious about the world around us. This allows solutions, connections and possibilities we never imagined to arise naturally. Marisa is passionate about working with families to enable them to release their frustrations so they can create their own unique visions of their family and how they want to live their lives.

Show Notes

Find the Fun so *SNAP* life becomes a game you want to play again
Living on the Ex-Pat Planet
"Explore, Dream, Discover" - Mark Twain
Learning one step at a time
Tap into your inner "Curious George" (i.e., inner child)
Two ears, one mouth - listen more than talk
"Adulting" is hard and messy
The Pros and Cons of navigating a new environment and culture
Magic of creating in a group
Role of Yoga and Meditation
The healing path of Kids Yoga
Giving up control in order to find your way
Getting to reinvent yourself
Pandemic thoughts

Resources Mentioned

Magic Misfits Series by Neil Patrick Harris

Brené Brown

Marisa's Website

Marisa Raymond Website

Social Media

Facebook:

Marisa Raymond Coaching

Marisa Raymond Yoga

Instagram: marisaraymond77

Special Free Offer Just For Our Listeners Music by Jonn Serrie

Intro and Outro music composed and recorded by Jonn Serrie.

Host of Digital Introverts Podcast

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 27 - Insights And Hope From The "Messy Middle" - An Interview With Elizabeth Miner

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:12:47 -0400

Elizabeth Miner, successful Author, Life and Business Coach, Speaker and Founder and CEO of Thrive This Day, shares insights and hope from her own journey from poverty to self-sufficiency. In her conversation with Carol, the listener can learn from Elizabeth's experiences and how her deliberate choices and goals led her to a soul-satisfying career. Through her book, coaching, and workshops, Elizabeth has helped hundreds of people find their calling by following a goal achievement system that leads to success.

This interview took place in the first months of the global pandemic. Carol and Elizabeth discussed the impact of the changes we have seen on many levels. Elizabeth shares what she has been doing to make the most sense of this unfamiliar situation in the moment and for the future. She offers helpful tips for all of us to consider.

Elizabeth is the author of The Flipside of Failure. Her second book, about the importance of mindset - particularly for entrepreneurs, is in the works. Elizabeth has traveled the world as a digital nomad (mostly in the warmer climes). But for now, with everything that is going on, she is staying in the U.S. close to family.

Show Notes:

1. Rx for our world crisis – Believe in ourselves and challenge what is possible

2. What does the future hold?

3. Go within, reflect on what is important to you and "architect" your future

4. Story-sharing for learning and healing

5. One humanity, one story, one healing

6. Shifting from going with the flow to deliberate choices

7. Lessons from adversity

8. Life influences and change catalysts

9. In the space of the "messy middle" – learn to listen

Social Media:

Elizabeth Miner website

Ep. 26 - The Power To Change Rests Within Us - An Interview with Jennifer Spor

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 15:56:38 -0400

In this episode, Carol interviews Jennifer Spor, a transformational coach, spiritual mentor, writer, and host of the Awake & On Purpose Podcast. Jennifer firmly believes we are given dreams for a purpose. She says, “Your time is precious. Don’t waste it on a life you’re not in LOVE with.” Jennifer discusses the life-changing catalysts that brought her to her current mission of helping and inspiring others.

Listen in as Jennifer shares her transitional awakening from a business career where she was “checking off all the boxes of success” to a place of clarity and purpose, by being honest with herself and allowing her courage to exceed her fear.

Show Notes:

The process of a transitional awakening
Our achievement checklist and why we think we have to follow it
Are you feeling called to make a change?
The problem with doing nothing
Leaning into vulnerability
Learning the divine strategies
Role of prayer and meditation
The realization that everything is energy
Forging connections with intuition
How the podcast came about
Believe in your dreams

Social Media:

Book Mentioned:

Ask and It Is Given by Ester and Jerry Hicks - The Teachings of Abraham

Ep. 25 - The Amazing Allure of a "Gentle Rebel"- An Interview with Andy Mort

Mon, 18 May 2020 08:20:47 -0400

In this episode, Carol interviews Andy Mort, musician, writer, podcast host, coach, and introvert. Andy discusses how his path evolved and the impact of listening and feedback on guiding his next steps in building an online community. Andy is a storyteller, a philosopher, and an example of coping in a busy world through planning, self-awareness, and creativity.

Andy‘s podcast is called The Gentle Rebel. From Andy’s website, “Founder of The-Haven.co, a membership community dedicated to support and encourage ‘Gentle Rebels’ (creative introverts and sensitive types) to find and share their voices, using stoic philosophy as a way to respond to the hostility and noises of an overwhelming world.”

Show Notes:

Learning about introversion
Role of music as a primary language
Organic evolution of an online community
Going from the sidelines to leading
Asking the right questions to raise awareness
Power of helping others

Social Media:

Andy Mort’s music can be found on Facebook under Atlum Schema

Writers mentioned:

10 Myths About Introverts – Carl King

Art of Being Minimalist – Everett Bogue

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl

Quotes:

Flannery O’Connor - “I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”

Viktor E. Frankl - “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

EP. 24 - Undaunted By Failure: Lessons Learned - An Interview With Godwin Chan

Mon, 04 May 2020 16:21:06 -0400

In this episode, Carol interviews Godwin Chan as he takes us on his journey of failure and discovery. Godwin shares the role of self-awareness regarding his career path, adventures in start-ups, lessons learned from failure, and inspiration to forge ahead.

Godwin started early on intending to become a physician. Through years of study toward that singular goal, he had an awakening that ultimately, this was not the right profession for him. Listen as Godwin shares the values, knowledge, and connections that have helped him move ahead to new opportunities. Godwin is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and author.

Show Notes:

Drive and focus don’t always get you where you think you are going to go

2. Journey of self-awareness

3. Exploring ideas that combine medicine and business

4. Requirements of career success

5. Start-up Key - Be clear on the problem you want to solve

6. Combining past experiences for future ventures

7. Lessons learned about writing a book

8. Overcoming biggest fears

9. You don’t have to do it all yourself - Influences along the path – Writing Course, Brian Almeda’s podcast VulnerABLE – “Just Start”

10. Ways to look at failure

Social Media

Upcoming Book

Digital Introverts

Music by Jonn Serrie

Intro and Outro music composed and recorded by Jonn Serrie.

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 23 - Tuning In To Energy Frequencies For Healing - An Interview with Dr. Tom Negelow, Healer and Trance Channeler

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:44:39 -0400

In this episode, Carol interviews Dr. Tom Negelow, Healer and Trance Channeler where he discusses his background and goal of supporting people in their healing. For many years he and his wife Dr. Shelley Negelow have worked together to develop healing modalities to heal and encourage self-healing. Tom developed a healing method he calls Cellular Energy Releasing Healing. His passion is to serve the universal family.

In the process of learning and self-development, Tom became aware of an inner knowing and level of intuition. During this time, he experienced the voice and wisdom of an "energy" speaking through him. It became apparent to Tom that he was channeling the energy frequencies of Ascended Master Kuthumi and The Guiding One.

In this special episode, Tom channels the energy of Kuthumi. Listen to the wisdom shared during this global crisis of COVID 19 from this revered ascended master through Tom. It's a treat you won't want to miss!

Also in this episode, Tom talks about his channeling experiences as well as how he tunes into the frequencies of Ascended Master Kuthumi and The Guiding One. Tom is the author of Blueprint for Life, Blueprint for Healing – The Path to Conscious Living and Love and the Human Spirit, a book of dream-inspired poetry.

Show Notes

Reiki and healing modalities
Tom's perspective on channeling
Seeing the positives that arise out of adversity
Ability to recognize patterns and share what we have learned about ourselves and the world
How to serve - focus on supporting others in their healing
Discover who you are
Kuthumi insights – Keep moving, self-reliance, responsibility to share

Social Media

Facebook: The Voice Of Unconditional Love

Contact Information

Tom Negelow - tomnegelow@gmail.com

Shelly Negelow - shelleynegelow@gmail.com

Music by Jonn Serrie

Intro and Outro music composed and recorded by Jonn Serrie.

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 22 - Listen To The Voice Of The True Self & Find Purpose - An Interview With Jacob Nordby

Sat, 04 Apr 2020 16:55:45 -0400

In this episode, Carol interviews Jacob Nordby, writer and creative guide. Jacob is the author of The Divine Arsonist: A Tale of Awakening, Blessed Are the Weird - A Manifesto for Creatives, and soon to be published The Creative Cure. Jacob is the founder of Manifesto Publishing and he leads the Creative UnBootcamp course for students around the world. He also offers transformational group retreats and individual creative guidance sessions.

In this conversation, Carol and Jacob discuss how to navigate and find purpose in this time of uncertainty due to the COVID 19 pandemic that is impacting our global community. Jacob shares how we can individually find calm, explore our inner selves, and live fully instead of fearfully.

Jacob has experienced many valuable life lessons and is eager to share what he has learned. His mission is to help others explore their inner lives to reach a place of creativity and fulfillment.

Show Notes

Highlights include:

Love of place - simple grounding techniques
Shifting perspective in times of upheaval
Paying attention to inner discord in order to realign
Tuning in to our inner compass
Role of recognizing purpose
Methods to quiet the mind
Living in the Green Zone*
Benefits of meditation
The ripple effect of goodness

* P olyVagal Chart - Ruby Jo Walker

Jacob's Free Guide

Download your free copy here: How to Establish Your Creative Self Journaling Practice

Jacob’s Website

www.jacobnordby.com

Social Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/author.jacobnordby Twitter: https://twitter.com/jacobnordby Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobnordby/ Tumblr: https://jacobnordby.tumblr.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobnordby/ Music by Jonn Serrie

Intro and Outro music composed and recorded by Jonn Serrie.

https://www.instagram.com/clearyourlife/

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 21 - From Clutter to Life-Altering Energetic Change - An Interview With Jen Rao

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:52:36 -0400

In this episode, Carol interviews Jen Rao, founder of Clear Your Life. Jen's a professional organizer specializing in clutter clearing (and its magical benefits).

Life wasn't always clutter-free for Jen. She spent years collecting a lot of "stuff." Back then, life was stressful, with all her stuff just weighing her down until she took steps to reprogram her mindset and change her life from the inside out.

Jen is a tough-love truth-teller with a gentle side that encourages others to open themselves to the energetic possibilities of decluttering their life. Listen in to hear Jen's story, and how decluttering and getting organized led to transformative and liberating energetic life changes. She shares some amazing client success stories as well.

Show Notes

Highlights include:

Three tips for letting go of stuff
How to go from fearful to excited; disorderly to orderly
Why clutter takes up more decision making and precious time
The energetic effects of decluttering
Mindset tools for decluttering
Journaling as an essential role in life and decluttering
How to "hold space" for the 'clear space' future you want to manifest
Alignment of Habits ~ Goals to clear the clutter

Free Guide

Download your free copy here: The Clear Your Life Method: 4 steps to clear clutter & transform any space in an hour or less (without overwhelm!)

Jen’s Website

clearyourlife.ca

Social Media

Music by Jonn Serrie

Intro and Outro music composed and recorded by Jonn Serrie.

bit.ly/emergenceblueprint

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 20 - The Story Behind The "Emergence of the Total Woman" - An Interview with Dr. Shelley Negelow and Lynnis Woods-Mullins

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:21:44 -0400

Dr. Shelley Negelow and Lynnis Woods-Mullins each experienced powerful lessons in healing from past-life traumas that led them to career paths to help other women. Over time, each has developed tools and techniques to help women discover how to make sustainable changes in their lives.

Listen in to this episode as we explore their traumas, how they overcame them, and their determination to transform their lives. Each shares their personal story of challenges and healing, and a new program they are now collaborating on. It’s called “Emergence of the Total Woman Seminar: A Blueprint for Living the Life You Love” designed for women to address their outer and inner life – physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, so they can create a life they love.

SHOW NOTES:

Highlights include:

Life lessons
Pivotal points
Epiphanies
Practices for keeping balance
Power of movement and dance
Breaking point and the journey to wellness
So much more than the roles we take on

Info on Dr. Shelley Negelow

Facebook – Power of Woman Seminars with Shelley Negelow

Website - http://shelleynegelow.com/

Email: PowerofWomanSeminars@gmail.com

Info Lynnis Woods-Mullins

WellnessWoman40.com - a portal to all social media, women’s Facebook group, E-Magazine, books, retreats, spa days

In Facebook: Wellness Woman 40 and Beyond

Email: WellnessWoman40@gmail.com

Emergence of the Total Woman

Music by Jonn Serrie

Intro and Outro music composed and recorded by Jonn Serrie.

https://www.instagram.com/jae_hermann/

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 19 - The Heart In Hearts Rise Up - Meet the Founders

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:41:12 -0400

In this episode, we're wrapping up our first season of the podcast and beginning a new one. Ann, Concetta, and Carol share their thoughts on the podcast after a full year of experience with it. The conversation includes our personal life challenges and stories along with thoughts on why we started the podcast.

SHOW NOTES

In this episode, you can get an up-close and personal perspective as they share their thoughts on:

How the Hearts Rise Up Podcast came to be.
The reasons each decided to pursue the podcast.
Start and evolution of their relationship - sharing their unique journey.
Favorite quote, philosophy, mantra related to Hearts Rise Up, and paths.
Why community is so powerful.
Their life challenges and the learning behind them.
Why being present for each other is essential.
AHA Moments

BIOS

Ann Serrie

Concetta Antonelli

Carol Chapman

Ep. 18 - From Struggling And Self-Doubt To Creative Transformation - An Interview With Lauren Sapala

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:00:48 -0400

Lauren Sapala is the author of The INFJ Writer, a guide for sensitive, intuitive writers, The INFJ Revolution, and Firefly Magic: Heart Powered Marketing for Highly Sensitive Writers. She is also a writing coach for writers of the INFJ and INFP personality type, and blogs about writing, creativity, and personality theory at laurensapala.com. She currently lives in San Francisco.

In this episode, Lauren Sapala shares her journey of an intense and difficult childhood with challenges and addiction; struggles in early adulthood to finally - opening creative doors as a writer and how it has transformed her life, creating a new way of being and growing.

SHOWNOTES (Learn about)

Value of silence and community
Myers Briggs observation (Intuitive, introvert types - INFP/INFJ)
Discovering INF attributes
Intuitive writing vs. Rational writing
Positive changes from finding a style
Being an empath - the positives and negatives
Living with Highly Sensitive People - HSPs - INFs
Struggles of HSPs and INFs
Expansion and contraction cycles

Subscribe to Lauren's newsletter and get a gift! Two free chapters from The INFJ Revolution, one all about the recurring pattern INFJs and INFPs have with toxic narcissists in their lives.

WEBSITE

http://laurensapala.com/

LAUREN'S BOOKS

SOCIAL MEDIA

Ep. 17 - What's The "Best" That Could Happen? - An Interview With Jae Hermann

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 17:34:45 -0400

What's the "best" that could happen? That's the mindset of Jae Hermann and the question she asks whenever she's dealing with situations in her life. It wasn't always that way. Just like many people, Jae focused on what's the "worst" that could happen.

As a young woman, she was determined to build a career in her chosen field, strategizing, and planning the details to increase her opportunity for success. That all changed one day after being physically assaulted, which then proceeded to derail her beliefs about her choice in career and nearly ruining her emotionally - leading to a massive identity crisis.

It took a while for Jae to find herself. Soon she learned to embrace life with curiosity even when fears and doubts surfaced. This approach has allowed life to unfold, leading her to an incredible career as a marketer and business owner, which laid the groundwork for an international wholesale jewelry design business, running an online magazine, building a media production company, and pursuing an award-winning acting career on stage. There was no big plan. Instead, life blossomed into a series of synchronistic opportunities that she sought when presented.

Show Notes

Jae believes that everything happens for a reason. Listen in to this episode as she shares her story and how she lives in the present, is grateful for potential and possibility, and how the Law of Attraction works in our lives. Key insights include:

Heart-focused intention
"It's not about you!"
Overcoming or adapting to OCD
Life as a series of synchronous events
Realizing one's gifts - being self-aware
Being realistic and prepared
Losing identity
Growth - step by step
Say "Yes, and"
Step into Life
Uses of adversity in changing life's course
Don't let bad things define who we are or who we're meant to be
On being highly sensitive and being an introvert
Need for solitude
The gift of high sensitivity
Self-care = Grateful in the moment
Awareness as self-care
Gratitude is the key to manifesting
Focus on what you truly desire
Capture fleeting thoughts by writing them down!
Know what you want; write it down.
We can be critical of ourselves with our internal self-talk, but we rarely write down the negative thoughts.
Tip - come up with 3 to 5 statements of what you want, then write affirmation statements about each one.
When faced with a crisis - embrace it.
Final words - The importance of Acceptance and Gratitude

Website

https://jaehermann.com/

Instagram

Twitter

https://twitter.com/jaehermann

Biography

Jae is a storyteller, motivator, creative entrepreneur and brand consultant. She’s also been a marketing gal, a media producer, and an award-winning actress, model, and a long list of other roles. Truly a woman of remarkable talents and interests.

Jae publishes a Substack weekly, called #RealTalk which is a collection of motivational essays and curated personal development resources.

Ep. 16 - Navigate Your Life By Owning Your True Self - An Interview With Alie Harwood

Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:19:11 -0400

As a shy introvert, disconnected from her true self, Alie Harwood was fraught for years in her teens and early adult life with a fear-driven mind of negative and self-conscious thoughts. She mostly relied on external attention and approval to feel comfortable in her own skin. These patterns created a variety of suppressed emotions and feelings, making it very difficult to function with confidence and clarity in the world.

It wasn't until a significant turning point that shifted her perspective and life path. Eventually, this led to a gradual unfoldment of other shifts transforming her into a confident introvert empowered to take responsibility for her self-esteem and happiness.

Today, based on her own experience and process, Alie coaches other shy women introverts to break free from self-limiting beliefs and behaviors. She helps them empower themselves to discover their potential so they can be true to their authentic selves. As a Holistic Wellness and Confidence Coach, she believes there is no greater fulfillment than KNOWING your true self and no greater freedom than OWNING your true self.

In this episode, Alie shares her own story of transformation, and how she helps others in her 6-step process to living in their authentic self for personal growth and happiness. She also offers our listeners a free guide, THE CONFIDENT INTROVERT'S PATHWAY: 6 Steps to Go From Shy & Insecure to Confident & Empowered.

SHOW NOTES

Key highlights include:

Alie's path to being a coach: Low points as a teen and while in college.
Starting over calls for being proactive
Focus on Influences for Good
Life Decisions and Gifts
The turning point during a low period
Learning to release anger
Taking responsibility for the happiness
Navigating our lives
Be tender with yourself
Alie's process with clients
Alie's mantra
Amplification of your ego-mind
Vision for helping women with the power of creative expression

Tips: Choose to see challenges as something for us not done to us.

Remember: Create time and space for yourself and make it a priority.

INFLUENTIAL BOOKS

Power of Now and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

INFLUENCER

Melissa Ambrosini - Podcast

WEBSITE

www.wellness withalie.com

FREE GIFT: THE CONFIDENT INTROVERT'S PATHWAY: 6 Steps to Go From Shy & Insecure to Confident & Empowered.

Alie can be found on Facebook at Wellness with Alie and Confident Introvert Tribe (a private FB group). She's also on Instagram.

BIOGRAPHY

Alie Harwood is a Holistic Wellness & Confidence Coach helping shy women introverts to break free from overthinking, self-judgment and holding back so they can finally feel happy in their own skin and express their true authentic selves in the world. She believes that there is no greater fulfillment than knowing your true self and no greater freedom than owning your true self as this is how we find our peace, our passion, and our purpose! Alie is a lover of all things personal and spiritual development, healthy living, nature, dancing, and wise words.

Ep. 15 - Live Your Life Not Your Story - An Interview With Tommy Breedlove

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:43:13 -0400

From incarceration on his birthday at age 19 to University to fast-tracking the corporate ladder, Tommy Breedlove had achieved what few people have done given the humble beginnings and violence in his earlier years. He had a great job, a beautiful wife, fancy car, corner office, and was a senior partner and member of the Board of Directors of a major financial consulting firm. He was also set for life financially. On the outside, he had achieved everything. On the inside, things were crumbling around him, and he almost lost everything.

After several days of complete chaos and hitting rock bottom, he committed to making "life his full-time job" and never looked back. He knew he had to save himself and be the person he was born to be. From that point forward, he doubled down and invested the next seven years in working on himself -- emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually. The work shifted his mindset and gave him a whole new perspective on life, transforming his way of thinking and being in the world.

SHOW NOTES

Now as a business, career and mindset coach, a keynote speaker, and author he helps others empower themselves to build a legendary life. Listen in on how to make your life your full-time job as he shares his life-changing story and wisdom:

Rising to life's challenges
Refined by the Fire
Have you been called to your profession?
Not dealing with the demons from the past
"Man, I have got to change something!"
How to build your emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical fortress
Tips and Techniques to be the Master of your Mindset Every Single Day
Serve yourself first so you can serve others
We all have a purpose
Purpose changes based on the seasons and changes in our life
What is important to you?
Benefits of an Accountability Partner
"Burn the Boat" concept
Mentors and Coaches vs. Psychologists
Ambition, Drive, and Desire to make an impact on the world
Choose! To do the hard work
Build a legendary life!
Life Tips from others: Live your life or Live your story
Participate in your own rescue

WEBSITE

www.tommybreedlove.com

TOMMY'S BOOK

Legendary: A simple playbook for building and living a legendary life, and being remembered as a legend

SOCIAL MEDIA

Tommy Breedlove – Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram

BIOGRAPHY

Tommy's purpose is to empower humans to build a legendary life. He guides his clients and audiences to discover a life of significance while creating a legacy. The tools he shares shows them how to work in their zone of brilliance, obtain financial freedom, and live with meaning and balance. And importantly, become the person they've always wanted to be.

From overcoming incarceration as a young man to working at the largest financial consulting firm in the world, he gained business notoriety and financial success. He became Senior Partner, International Practice Leader and Member of the Board of Directors. He looked successful on the outside, but was crumbling on the inside and almost lost everything. Tommy chose to transform his life and follow his true calling. He now works as a Featured Keynote Speaker, Author, and Business, Relationship, and Mindset Coach.

Join Tommy on this journey if you are ready to live a "Legendary Life," "Obtain True Freedom," and "Participate in Your Own Rescue."

Ep. 14 - Untangling Spirituality From Religion - An Interview With Eva Live

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:18:31 -0400

After years of fundamentalist evangelical Christian practice, Eva Live only felt disillusioned with religion. She was feeling aloneness, disconnection, and isolation — an inner sort of torture. She spent years deconstructing her life. Never feeling good enough or a real sense of belonging or spiritually connected until a significant turning point that set her on a course of awakening and beginning with one of her deepest spiritual experiences. From that point, she began reconstructing a new life based on a sense of openness to mystery. She sought out tools and teachers that took her on an inner journey of exploration of what is right for her — opening the doors to trusting her inner voice and wisdom.Today she knows what it takes to make life work on her terms from a place of inner strength and power. She helps others untangle spirituality from religion by inviting them to experience their connection to Self and align with their divine essence – their Soul. When you embrace conscious choice from within and align with your Soul you feel a sense of purpose that fuels and guides your journey forward in life.

SHOW NOTES

Join us for the pearls of wisdom from Eva as she shares the tapestry of her journey to include:

Shifts and changes along the way
The role of isolation and disconnection in opening new doorways
Isolation vs. community
Diving into spirituality after religion
Living in "flow mode."
Purpose - where does it come from
Ways to discover purpose
Souls journey
Eva's philosophy/mantra - "observe what is, and do what works."
Using your "inner compass of joy"
Connect with your power source
Practices to lift one up
Ecstatic dance
How to connect with and trust your intuition
The value of saying no!

FREE DOWNLOAD & OTHER RESOURCES

"The Soul Resonance Method for Discovering Your Life Vision "

If you’re looking to connect in person around spirituality, embodiment, and conscious awakening, here are some ideas of keywords to Google or search on Facebook — just add your city name to the end of each one. A lot of things tend to be listed on Facebook and not Google, Eva recommends looking in both places. Ecstatic Dance, 5 Rhythms Dance, Meditation group, Conscious movement, Tantra, Authentic relating, Intuitive jam, Contact improv, Singing circle, Moon circle, Spiritual awakening group, Sexual awakening group, Sacred embodiment community, Yoga.

HOW TO CONNECT WITH EVA

Facebook Group: Spirituality After Religion

A space to share and connect on spirituality that’s outside of religious frameworks, especially for those who have also left a dogmatic religion and are reconstructing their life outside of it.

BIOGRAPHY

Eva Live is a writer, poet, and coach who is passionate about helping those who have become disillusioned by the aspects of religion that seek to dominate human spirituality.

After healing long-term traumatic effects of her religious past and letting go of the beliefs that held her back, she has discovered an ecstatic spiritual life lived in alignment with her inner soul calling.

She started Ecstatic Soul Calling to help you discover your own ecstatic soul calling — so you can feel fully alive, in tune with the life force that flows through all things.

BONUS: EVA's FUTURE STATE (not shared in the interview)

She has a poetry book that’s almost complete. It’s been on hold for a while as she's focused on other aspects of her creative life, but she's excited to get that out there. It is a poetic journey of coming into her own energy and being and as she says, "becoming who I am."

She likes to help more and more humans to discover and connect with our own innate human spirituality and become empowered by reconnecting with our inner core. Particularly for people who’ve been wounded by religion, she's really excited to share the things that have worked for her to get deep healing and come into a sense of purpose as she aligns with what feels like her ecstatic soul calling.

Long term, she'd love to see the type of religion that’s been artificially holding humanity down being transmuted. She once had a vision of all religions turning into gold beneath our feet, becoming a beautiful foundation for us to move forward from. It’s when we get to space where we’re no longer feeling victim to our past, but able to see it as foundational with gratitude but also consciously choosing another path, that we really start coming into our power as humans.

Ep. 13 - The Beautiful Gifts Of Highly Sensitive Introverts - An Interview With Jasraj Hothi

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:01:46 -0400

As a child, Jas Hothi thought everyone was like him. It wasn't until his teens that he realized he was different from others. And it became even more apparent when his career took off while in the corporate world. His big "AHA" came when he had the best year ever in sales recruitment, having made "Employee of the Year." Most people would love to have that kind of accolade. But for Jas, something wasn't right. He was unfilled and just kept wondering why he wasn't happier.

Discovering that he was a highly sensitive introvert was a powerful realization for Jas. Sensitive introverts don't always know they're different because, as he puts it, "we become used to our own reality." Also, when you become used to what you know, anything different is frightening. It turns out, for Jas, the Universe was nudging him in another direction, and he knew he had to trust his intuition.

Show Notes

This episode is a real down-to-earth conversation with Jas as he shares his courageous journey to step out of his comfort zone (without a plan) to recalibrate his life. He learned to trust his intuition, honor, and accept who he was and allow that to guide him to make new and positive choices. Although he has many interests and passions, he's committed to sharing what he's learned to help other highly sensitive introverts acknowledge and understand their unique gifts so they can better navigate the world. Listen in to learn more of his experience:

Growing up
Turning points
Empathy is huge
Sensitive introverts
Introvert uprising
Highly sensitive self-test
Not just an introvert
Myers Briggs - INF trends
Visceral reactions of sensitive people
Trends in the workplace
Highly Sensitive Refuge
Introvert Dear
Live Your Legend
Intuitives
Positive Psychology
Escape the City
National Novel Writing Month (November)
The value of community

Mentions/References

Susan Caine - Ted Talk

Dr. Elaine Aron

Scott Dinsmore

Fizzle.co

Facebook Groups for Highly Sensitives

Introvert Dear

Highly Sensitive Refuge

Websites/Blog

INF club

For info on Jas' upcoming novel "What Happened to Scott Andrews?"

Biography

Jasraj Hothi is a multi-passionate blogger, writer & entrepreneur. After dropping out of university, he previously worked in sales, before leaving the city in 2015 to study a Masters in Positive Psychology and he hasn't worked in an office since. Alongside his Masters, he started his first entrepreneurial venture Thriva in 2016 – an alternative higher education program for 18-24-year-olds. He has also run various blogs for introverts, including his latest introvert blog INF club - for INFP & INFJ personality types, many of whom identify as 'highly sensitive introverts' aka HSPs

He is currently learning about investing & trading and is also publishing his 1st novel this year. Jas also writes poetry from time-to-time and journals daily, and he has been fortunate to visit 5 continents - though he calls SW London, England home.

Ep. 12 - Marrying Science and Spirit - An Interview With Mandara Cromwell

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:25:42 -0400

For years Mandara Cromwell has been on an incredible journey marrying science and spirit. She grew up in the farmlands of Kansas in a devout catholic family. Her divine quest began as a child with mystical experiences of angels and saints, the sounds of Latin masses, pipe organs and choirs in the Gothic architecture of a Catholic Church.

Studies of art and philosophy led Mandara to follow a spiritual path to India, where she learned about sacred sound. Later after much investigation, she discovered that science confirmed her spiritual experiences. One of the most profound spiritual experiences came to her from science in the form of sound made visible. This experience led her on an intense quest to create a new paradigm for healing through sound therapy.

Mandara is the CEO of Cyma Technologies and is the inventor and manufacturer of AMI Acoustic Meridian Intelligence Devices. The AMI 750 was nominated for the Thomas Edison Award for Innovation in the Field’s of Science and Medicine in 2013. She’s the author of Soundflower: The Journey To Marry Science and Spirit 2019.

Show Notes:

Listen in to hear Mandara’s story of being at the forefront of new science and her journey to follow the heart and inner wisdom to include:

Sound - the Medicine of the Future
Feeling sound - human physiology
Early architectural influences
Path changing dream
Journey to India
Powerful dreams that stand out
Scintillating diamonds of the universe
Getting caught in a cycle
Seeds planted in our hearts
Courage, perseverance, and love of self
Importance of meditation - taking the time to go within
Chinese medicine breaking ground
Entrainment perspective
Path to sound therapy
Five frequencies, five bodies
How sound can help people
Master Pitch Pipe
Pioneers of Sound Science in this area
Sound as specific support for the body
AMI 750 Protocols
Challenges of bringing this technology to the world
Mandara's vision
Tips on helpful sound in your environment
Meditation - "ease on in"
The visual expression of a healing code
Advice when challenged or stuck - take a break, sleep on it, volunteer, pay attention to what is around you

References:

John Kabat-Zinn

Soundflower – by Mandara Cromwell

John Stuart Reid, Acoustics Physics Researcher, United Kingdom 2017

Dr. Hans Jenny, a Swiss Medical Doctor, and Natural Scientist

Dr. Peter Guy Manners, British Osteopath

ISTA (International Sound Therapy Association)

Website

www.cymatechnologies.com

Free Download from Website

www.cymatichnologies.com/media/ to download free Soundflower (Free Cyma Glyph PDF)

Biography

Mandara Cromwell D.C.M. (Doctorate of Cymatic Medicine), an American woman entrepreneur and inventor, who is the CEO and President of Cyma Technologies. Her company also manufactures her inventions – the AMI Acoustic Meridian Intelligence devices. The AMI 750, an advanced sound technology device, was nominated for the Thomas Edison Award for Innovation in the Fields of

Science and Medicine in 2013. In 2002, she coined the term "Cymatherapy" to refer to wave therapy based on the work of Dr. Peter Guy Manners, with whom she studied extensively. She continues to promote sound as a healing modality throughout the world. As a way of forwarding the field of vibrational medicine (specifically sound therapy), Ms. Cromwell founded (ISTA) the International Sound Therapy Association. Since 2006, the organization has been producing conferences to bring new voices together in the field of "sound science." ISTA and Cyma Technologies offer ongoing classes, training, and programs in numerous cities throughout the US.

In 2017, Mandara produced the Atlanta conference "Cymatics: The Art and Science of Making Sound Visible." This event featured never before seen sound-made-visible images of the healing frequencies found in her own sound therapy devices. She acted as co-producer on two short films created at the University of Florida utilizing cymatic images: "dance divine" featuring dance, yoga, and sound images. She also co-produced "Full of Stars," a short film showing three-dimensional views of the healing frequencies. In 2019, she released her first book, "Soundflower: The Journey to Marry Science and Spirit," which includes many stunning cyma glyph illustrations.

Ep. 11 - Human DOing vs. Human BEing

Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:14:23 -0400

In this episode, Concetta and Carol talk about what it means to be a Human Doing vs. a Human Being in today’s world. It’s a question all of us must ask ourselves as we live in an increasingly complex, fast-paced and ever-changing world that involves so much doing. Most everyone’s day appears to be externally driven involving so much doing.

Show Notes:

Concetta and Carol explore a variety of things that impact and influence the amount of Human Doing vs. Being and what we can do create more of a balance between the two, such as:

Balancing action and rest
What is it to be a Human “BEing” (as a verb)?
Stillness in being
"Indulging" in the present moment
Healing from burnout – the power of Nature
Decision points
What is human "DOing"?
Balance achievement and being busy with self-nurturing
The continuum of doing and being
Living life on purpose
Benefits of balance
Role of meditation and self-reflection
How to address hindrances for balance
Time and Trust
Power of choice
Tips and Techniques
Being = Nourishment of mind and body
Being in tune with the cycles of life

Book Mentioned:

The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

"The Sensitivity Cycle" Mentioned

As referenced in Hearts Rise Up Blog post The Wisdom of a Pause For Clarity To Act

Music by Jonn Serrie

Intro and Outro music composed and recorded by Jonn Serrie.

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 10 - Step Into Your Beauty Through Truth And Courage - An Interview With Rebecca Boskovic

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:51:26 -0400

In this episode, Rebecca Boskovic shares her perspective on the achievement of beauty. It’s an inside job by walking the path of truth and courage.

Ever since she was 5 years old, Rebecca was very aware of her “own thinking”. Being very self-aware she learned how to process her feelings at a young age. But then as she grew older, especially when she hit adolescence, self-consciousness crept in. She started questioning herself. Stopped looking inward.

And in high school, as is the case with many teens, the need for approval from others became prominent in Rebecca’s life. She was more worried about what people thought of her. Everything was outside in and she found herself trying to appease the world, giving up who she was for others. She found herself in a pitched cacophony.

Rebecca’s big “Aha” occurred early on in college when her therapist asked a pointed question that shifted her whole perspective on herself, life, and the world. From that point onward she approached life and decisions as to what she wanted from the inside out with greater clarity.

Show Notes:

Listen in to hear about her philosophy on fitness and whole-body health. What’s involved in the achievement of wholeness and beauty. How to love the body you have while simultaneously seeking the body you desire and much more such as:

1. Her perspective on Truth, Courage, Beauty

2. Optimal health is not about what you look like, but rather how you feel

3. Achievement of beauty - learn to love yourself and tend to your soul

4. Beauty is dynamic – slightly imperfect

5. Our life stories inform our path and purpose

6. Confidence leads to beauty and strength

7. The impact of adolescence

8. Importance of awareness regarding our "Self Talk"

9. What to do when you have reached all your physical goals and still feel empty

10. Important questions to ask yourself:

- Do I really want this?

- How do you know what other people think of you?"

11. AHA Moments that cause us to pivot

12. We’re all part of a great human body

13. "You were born perfect"

14. Be the tortoise and just show up every day

Favorite Book:

Website and Contact Info:

https://www.thefittestme.net/

Strength for Life Podcast: https://www.thefittestme.net/sfl-podcast

More Info:

Rebecca lives a life infused by the love of…and in loving…her husband and four children ages 15, 12, 8, and 5.

Her happiest moments are spent on picnics with her family, in watching her children grow and mature, and when a client discovers they’re stronger than they’d ever imagined they’d be.

A lifelong seeker of truth, beauty, and courage . . . Rebecca believes that the best things in life include all three.

In her current endeavor to launch her personal training studio in Suwanee, GA, she helps clients who are looking for that personal touch in achieving their fitness goals.

She understands that for lasting change to take place in someone’s fitness goals, we also need to tend to how we see and feel about ourselves.

Her ultimate goal for her clients is for them to see transformations at not only the physical level but the mental and emotional as well.

Rebecca is the founder and CEO of The Fittest Me – a personal training and nutrition studio and digital site focused on whole-body health. She also has a podcast called Strength for Life.

Music by Jonn Serrie

Intro and Outro music composed and recorded by Jonn Serrie.

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 9 - Sacred Space Is All Around Us

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:43:56 -0400

Sacred space. It’s a personal expression of our need as human beings for spiritual nurturing. A place to tap into the deeper recesses of our soul.

Sacred Space is a place that has special meaning for us and it’s up to each of us to decide what we want from the space and what we practice for personal nourishment within the space. Whether for meditation, quiet time, journaling, ritual, yoga, etc. There are many ways to enjoy the space to include considerations for who and for how many, how you want to be with it, and what it might contain – altar, incense, candles, crystals, divine symbols, and other special objects.

In this episode, Ann and Carol expand the discussion on a recent blog post "How to Create Sacred Space In Your Home Or Anywhere" written by Ann. They share their own experiences and insights on creating sacred space within the home and enjoying the serenity of spaces outside the home, and how the sacred space should be a personal expression of the intention we set for it.

SHOW NOTES Episode highlights include:

Early experiences with Sacred Space - Grandmother Tree, Mountains, etc.
Power spots in the natural world
Observation inspires awareness of the sacred
Bringing qualities of nature into your home
Purpose of creating Sacred Space at home
Build energy in the sacred spot
Mini alters throughout your space
Creating a "Story House"
Use your intuition
In your garden
Animals tune in to energy - use them to help you find your space
Make your own transporter room
You can find Sacred Space anywhere you go
Clear the space - Shake up the energy
Rituals enhance Sacred Space
Techniques for meditation
Focusing on the "still points"
Tips for meditation
Create your own sacred space: Set the intention, choose a spot, get creative
Find the sacred in every moment

Music by Jonn Serrie

Intro and Outro + Special bonus for tuning into today’s episode at the end. Listen in to hear a meditative piece of music called “Breath of the Valley” composed and recorded by Jonn Serrie.

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 8 - Pausing The Linear Flow of Time

Mon, 27 May 2019 14:29:34 -0400

Ann and Carol expand the discussion on “Make Every Moment Count” - a previous blog post authored by Ann. They talk about what it means to “Be in The Moment”. They share insights from each other’s experience on why it’s important to practice more mindfulness in our daily lives, and what are the obvious and not so obvious reasons to do so.

Other takeaways include what makes being in the moment so difficult these days and when you do it, it’s like a form of meditation which research has shown has demonstrably positive effects on our overall well-being. They share tips, tools, and techniques on how to practice present moment awareness and how doing so expands time and can actually pause the linear flow.

SHOW NOTES

Listen to find out more about:

Expanding time
Slowing down
Experiencing the gifts life's little things bring
The power of our mind
How to take a photograph - the power of observation
Mindfulness for creativity
Mindfulness for stress relief
The physiology of control and mindfulness
The multiple functions of our cells
How meditation is helpful for pain control
Being more conscious
Finding your reset button
The Oasis of being in the present
Role of letting go and acceptance
Serving others by being present
Gratitude
Mindful moments - reminders
Silence is golden
Creating a balance

SOME OF THE AUTHORS AND BOOKS

Present Moment Awareness: A Better Way to Stay in Control by Deepak Chopra, M.D.Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing by Andrew WeilDigital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal NewportLazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment by Thaddeus Golas

Music by Jonn Serrie

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 7 - Love Is Stronger Than Death - An Interview With Carol Neustadt

Sun, 12 May 2019 15:27:42 -0400

Being a gifted intuitive and clairvoyant is something that Carol Neustadt came into this world as. As a young child, she thought everyone had the ability to hear the voice within. And that everyone had an inner cheerleader or self-helper of a sort. One day, she realized, that was not the case after accidentally being hit in the head by a rock and having to go to the emergency room.

Carol had never talked about her ability as an intuitive and clairvoyant until that accident. What’s most striking is that she knew in advance that she was going to have some sort of accident. She often had advance warnings. When she shared this in the hospital, she realized she was different and that not everyone had that ability. That scared her so much that she shut it down for a while.

The gift, however, was always there and just dormant for just a short time. Over the year’s her use of intuition and clairvoyance evolved becoming beneficial in her work and life. She began doing volunteer work at a Hospice in Atlanta, GA using her abilities to help patients near death. Over time, her work grew in demand by doctors and staff, and she decided to go all in and get her certification as an End-of-Life Specialist and Death Doula.

In this episode, Carol shares her passion along with with amazing stories of work with patients, many straddling consciousness between the worlds and how she helps them lovingly move on. Listen in to hear more about:

“All is Well” and what it means to her

Helping others is a joy

“Doesn't everyone experience this?”

What a doula is

How to ‘Be the Observer’

It's “Not Your Story”

Unconditional love washes away the fear

Meditation is key

Many forms of meditation

Joys of intuition

More accurate than the weatherman

Feel the pull toward something and follow it

Exercise your intuition by playing games

The powerful world of dreaming

The role of visualization and feeling

Changing the way, we think about death and dying

Music by Jonn Serrie

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 6 - You Hold The Pen To Your Life - An Interview with Brenda Underwood

Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:09:54 -0400

Rejection was a big cloud over Brenda’s life for a long time. It was like a pillar from the time she was born. As the youngest of 5 children, for years she allowed rejection to shape the way she saw people and things, how she interacted with others, and even the attitudes she held onto.

And for a time, all this culminated into leading a promiscuous and risky life. She eventually realized that she had to get to a place where she wasn’t seeing herself through the eyes of her critics. She realized that weaknesses do not define us. Everybody has pluses and minuses. She eventually turned her life around by first letting go, and then trusting a higher power, her faith, and herself.

Brenda believes that “When people are able to discover their purpose and walk in their destiny, their happy factor increases.” She’s a testament to that. It took years to discover her purpose, but when she did she was able to live life authentically and rise up to her best self every day. She’s on a mission to help others do the same.

Show Notes

In this episode, you won’t want to miss Brenda's story. Listen in to what she’s learned on the journey to live her purpose. Key takeaways include:

Intentionality vs. "Life Happens"
The need to let go to have a winning life
Create yourself vs. find yourself
Who defines you? What defines you?
Paying attention to a higher power or Kisses from Heaven
We are all multi-faceted diamonds
Plan your work and work your plan
Use your tapestry of talents
Have a Dream Party
Who is your reference group?
You hold the pen to your life and you get to define you

Books She Recommends:

If You Want to Walk on Water You’ve Got to Get out of the Boat by John Ortberg

Influencers In Her Life:

Maya Angelou

Colin Powell

Warren Buffett

Life Coaches: Tony Robbins and Lisa Nichols

Contact Info:

Website: https://www.breakthroughforlife.com/

YouTube Channel: Breakthrough With Brenda

More Info:

After 25 years of corporate level management for companies like Unisource Worldwide, Mitchell Williams Law Firm, and Toshiba America, Brenda founded Breakthrough for Life, a life coaching business committed to reaching out to help others break through to their next level of living.

As the founder of Breakthrough for Life, Brenda Underwood is a Certified Growth Coach trained by

Jennie Turton via Lifeforming Leadership Coaching and Professional Coach trained by Lifeforming Leadership Coaching. She has spent the last decade mentoring and coaching people from every walk of life, helping them to win at life.

Educated in both accounting and biblical studies, Brenda has a worldview that touches hearts and balances budgets, literally! Through her corporate career and ministry service, she has a unique understanding of the dynamics of both corporate and personal breakthroughs. She understands, that the most successful businesses require successful people. The reality is the two are intertwined and happy people make happy employees. When people are able to discover their purpose and walk in their destiny their happy factor increases.

Brenda has the capabilities necessary to coach individuals into personal breakthroughs that lead to successful lives. She has an astonishing knack for helping individuals reach to the heart of the barriers they face every day. By tearing down the roadblocks and breaking through the blind spots her clients are able to win at life.

Music by Jonn Serrie

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmoorer

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 5 - Always ask "What If?" and Then Go For It - An Interview with Terry Moorer

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:53:15 -0400

Known worldwide as the“Hottest Disabled Speaker in America”, our featured guest for this episode is Terry Moorer. As a person with Cerebral Palsy, Terry has known first-hand what it takes to Rise Up to his best and greater self. He has 30+ years of experience working in the entertainment industry. He’s worked with NBA Entertainment, Queen Latifah, Walt Disney, MTV, Atlantic Records, and many others.

In this interview, Terry takes us from his early years as an adolescent on up to adulthood and to where he is today. He shares how he broke into the music industry through sheer hard work during a time that was unheard of for people with disabilities.

What’s interesting is that Terry didn’t realize he had a disability until he entered middle school. During that time, he experienced some tough times; not feeling accepted, rebelling and getting into trouble. But that didn’t last. That’s not the kind of person he was. Finally, over time his peers started to accept him. And since then he’s put one step in front of the other, always asking “What If”?

In this interview with Terry, he shares insights on how to make the most of your life despite disabilities, struggles, or setbacks. Listen in to hear more on:

Elevated moments in life
Being on Hallowed ground - the White House experience
Thoughts on control
Disability is not an excuse
Opening doors into a career
The role of courage and persistence
Building relationships everywhere you go
Keys to success: Write everything down, have a schedule, follow-up with people and ideas
The "advantage" of disability
Gratitude throughout the day
Always learning
Ask yourself "What if..." as a motivator
The biggest secret
Don't take anything personally

Contact Info:

https://expertfile.com/experts/terry.moorer

Website:

www.thepalsyblog.com

www.sendpaperlove.info

More info on Terry:

As a person with Cerebral Palsy, Terence has been blessed to have over 30 years in the entertainment industry (sports/music). Terry received a community citation for his participation in the gold selling song entitled "Self Destruction." The project produced by the National Urban League raised awareness of black on black crime. The project Included rap music top stars, Heavy D., Public Enemy, MC Lyte, and Doug E. Fresh. In addition, his duties have included assisting location manager for MTV and coordinating talent celebrity basketball games hosted by TNT sports commentator Kenny Smith. He has also penned stories for several top entertainment and regional magazines including Right On, Billboard Magazine and Atlanta Business Journal. In the past, he has interviewed Gospel sensation Kirk Franklin, Actor Will Smith, Bull's Bill Cartwright, and Hawk's Tyrone Corbin, The Braxton’s (Toni Braxton siblings) and Singer Aaliyah to name a few. He has worked with the New York Knicks, NBA Entertainment (1992 NBA All-Star), jazz sensation Bob Baldwin, Denver Nuggets, Queen Latifah, Quincy Jones, Denver Nuggets, Special Olympics and Walt Disney World. For eight years he held the title as a personal publicist for MC Lyte, one of rap music’s most prominent female artist. In 1996 he increased membership and created awareness for the National Black Golfers Association, as Director of National Publicity. As an entertainment publicist, he has had the opportunity to travel worldwide and meet various people including Magic Johnson, Madonna, Paula Abdul, Dekembe Mutombo, Cyndi Lauper, Wesley Snipes, Jessie Jackson, Whitney Houston, Karl Malone, Janet Jackson, Sean Combs and Tupac Shakur. A new site www.learnthemusicbusiness.com is coming soon. He is the author of two books: How to Launch Your Music Career in 21 Days and Fearless Dreams (URL coming soon).

Music by Jonn Serrie

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 4 - "What Gets In The Way Becomes The Way" - An Interview With Thought Leader Jess Villegas

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:48:31 -0400

In this episode, Jess shares his perspective on "what gets in the way becomes the way". He illustrates how mental models, habits, and assumptions can limit our view of the possibilities in our life. He shares some of his most impressionable life experiences (as a parent, a leader, an entrepreneur, and a CEO) and how these experiences have shaped his thinking and way of being in the world.

Jess’ keeps in mind two things that reflect his personal philosophy. 1) A quote by Marcus Aurelius, "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” , and 2) His personal mantra - Release, Receive and Deliver. When we learn to release and detach from assumptions we hold about ourselves and life, we can allow ourselves to receive what serves the greater good. It is then we can choose and own what we deliver and bring our best self to the world.

Listen in to hear Jess’ story and the pearls of wisdom he shares to include:

Leading for the rest of us
His anchoring principles or What would Marcus Aurelius Say?
Effect of "Story" through the years - What we tell ourselves and others
Key roles of adapting and/or adopting a culture
Success Key - treat every moment as a "Sacred Event"
Paying attention to life's triggers for change
Overcoming malaise or getting past obstacles

Tools for intentional living for Jess:

Meditation
Yoga
A mantra of Release, Receive and Deliver
Remembering that everything is temporal

Book recommendations from Jess:

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
Healing the Heart of Democracy - Parker J. Palmer
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
A Mindful Nation - Tim Ryan
Seeing Systems by Barry Oshry
Ervin Lazlo books on Systems Thinking

Jess’ Blog post mentioned on the show:

Jess’ Blog post – How Clearly Can You See Your Moonshot?

Contact Info:

Linked in - Jess Villegas
Website - www.LeadingConceptsGroup.com

More Info:

Jess Villegas is the Principal of Leading Concepts Group a, business consulting firm assisting small and medium-sized businesses in the areas of strategy, leadership, and management development. He is also the CEO of Clowe & Cowan, a water infrastructure and technology company based in the southwest.

Jess leverages personal, leadership, financial and operational skills and philosophies to drive individual and organizational success. He’s the architect of a unique organizational leadership application called “Leading For The Rest of Us”, which is designed to elevate the influence of individuals who seek to be impactful in their organizations, but who do not necessarily have a formal title.

Jess' business philosophy is to raise awareness of mental processes and habits that limit organizational growth, facilitate more constructive patterns of thinking, and champion the concepts that how we are being in a business fundamentally impact how we are acting in a business.

Music by Jonn Serrie

Record Labels and Links to Jonn’s Music: Valley Entertainment and New World Music

Ep. 3 - Living In A State Of Awareness, Observation, And Discipline - An Interview With Larry Sims

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 11:22:51 -0400

In this episode, as he was growing up in the south, Larry had lots of questions around many things in life. Many of the answers he received from others were inadequate in his mind which led to a lot of confusion. The harder he tried to understand, the more questions he had and the answers were never satisfactory.

Life was a bit awkward as he was growing up. Having started school a year early, he was smaller than his peers, and a target for bullying. Eventually, he was able to internalize his own sense of self-worth in his musical abilities. He found his calling as a Band and Orchestra Director. It wasn’t until he hit his early 50’s, that he was able to make sense of a lot of things. He learned that it’s never too late to raise your awareness and consciousness.

Show Notes:

Listen in to hear Larry’s story, what he learned and how he applies it in his life today. There are many nuggets of wisdom to include:

1. What you feed grows

2. How to dispel anger and resentment

3. Making time to reflect

4. Egocentricity and transcendence - the Zen of it all

5. The dynamics of growth through relationships

6. The power of neutral observation - the downside of going from observation to analysis

7. Acceptance and patience

8. Spirit "Body-building" tips - moving from learning to practicing via discipline

9. Finding what works for you10. Don't ask “Why” - Ask "What is the opportunity for growth?" (Advice from Dr. Steven Hairfield)

11. Resist the urge to control others - a Lilliputian tale

Books he recommends:

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself - Joe Dispenza

When Everything Changes, Change Everything by Neale Donald Walsch

Power vs. Force - Dr. David Hawkins

Gulliver's Travels – by Jonathan Swift

People who’ve influenced his life:

Wayne Dyer

Marianne Williamson

Dr. Steven Hairfield

More Info:

Larry was born in Jackson, MS as a post-war baby boomer and into a Christian household via Southern Baptist orthodoxy. Bullied through the early years, he finally found refuge when discovering his musical abilities. After receiving undergrad and graduate degrees in Music Education, taught for 30 years as high school band and orchestra director. Retired from teaching and worked in retail for a decade before fully retiring.

If you wish to contact Larry, feel free to reach out to Hearts Rise Up at Hello@HeartsRiseUp.com for details.

Music by Jonn Serrie