The Practice of Being Human: Recent Episodes
Emily Goodrich and Brandi Gordon
A conversation between two life-long friends who invite you on their journey of self- discovery and share both the challenges and magic that greet them along the way.
This week Emily and Brandi go down the rabbit hole of Human Design. Human Design is a tool for self discovery that brings together principles of The I Ching, astrology, Kabbalah, Hindu-Brahmin chakra system, and quantum physics. This complex and facinating process helps you discover your 'true self' and ultimate purpose.
The two-some are joined by Sam Nelson, Human Designs coach, breath work practitioner and owner of Human Aligned. Sam walks Emily and Brandi through the intricate process of reading a human chart, the 5 types, and how to use Human Design to live a more authentic life.
Join us every Monday for new episodes as we talk about self discovery and the tools we have found to help us. Please like, share, subscribe and leave a review to help our podcast grow.
The Karpman drama triangle is a social model of human interaction proposed by Stephen B. Karpman. The triangle maps a type of destructive interaction that can occur among people in conflict.
Whether conscious or unconscious, we all participate in this triangle. We have each found ourselves playing one of the destructive roles and operating in an unhealthy space as a result of it.
On this week's episode, licensed therapist, Cate Ryan walks Brandi and Emily through the details of the triangle, how to break away from the unhealthy roles, and how we can examine what motivates us to participate in it.
Join us each week as we examine how to live more authentically and consciously while we walk the path of development and growth. Like, subscribe, and share our podcast to help us grow.
Carl Jung defines the false self as a "kind of mask, designed on one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual."
On this week's episode, Brandi and Emily curiously explore the idea of the false self and how it holds us back from self discovery and true growth. Who are we beneath the surface? How do we embrace wholeness when society encourages and rewards the idea of a false self? How do we begin the journey of uncovering our authentic self?
Listen this week while Brandi and Emily talk about how setting down their false selves was not and easy process but worth working through, along with all things Carl Jung :) Check out new episodes every Monday. Please like, subscribe, share, and review, your support helps our podcast grow.
Welcome to our brand new Speaking Your Truth series, where we invite amazing women on the podcast to share their personal stories of leaning into the discomfort and what their journey towards living a more authentic life looks like. This week we welcomed Cori Latousek to the podcast to share her personal journey of living a more authentic life. Cori is a member of the Seattle Fire Department, the LGBTQ community and an active member of the Christian community. Being raised in a very conservative church in Arkansas, Cori was faced reconciling the contradictory views of her church and sexuality. Cori stood in her truth and paved a way that felt true to her. As a result she has become an active voice for LGBTQ teens finding a safe and accepting space in the church and being able to embrace their faith in a way that feels true to them.
Join us each week as we curiously explore what it looks like to live more authentically. Do you know any kick ass women who should share their story on our podcast? Please reach out to us at thepracticeofbeinghuman@gmail.com or DM us on IG. We would love to talk to them!
Are you looking for something inspiring to read that will support you on your own journey? Follow the link to our new webpage of suggested reading and purchase the books we have discussed on our pod. https://www.fourelementsrealty.com/the-practice-of-being-human/
Want to be in person with us for a transformative day of inner work and discovery? Our next workshop is March 26th in Seattle. Space is limited so message us asap if you are interested.
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Languishing is described by Adam Grant as the neglected middle child of mental health and can dull your motivation and focus.
As we approach the two year mark of living in an ongoing pandemic, Emily and Brandi discuss their experience with languishing and what they have reached for to pull themselves out of it. Wordle anyone?
Just launched: you can now access all the books discussed on the podcast at https://www.fourelementsrealty.com/the-practice-of-being-human/. The site gives you an episode guide and quick link to purchase.
Join us each week as we talk to experts, share our stories, and chat with other women who share their own journey's with us. Like, subscribe, and share our podcast. Your support helps us grow our community.
On this week's episode Emily and Brandi revisit the Enneagram with Deanna Talkwalkar, Certified Enneagram expert and coach. A variety of topics are covered during this deeper dive in the enneagram:
How and when to use the Enneagram as a parenting tool
How to identify your Wings and integrate them into your self exploration
Stress and growth numbers
Using the Enneagram as a relationship tool
Deanna is a retired Lawyer who left corporate America to focus on her real passion, "helping others find joy and hope in growth." She focuses on helping people grow and get 'unstuck' using the enneagram. You can find her @mirabellacreations on IG or learn more about her "Unstuck" course on her website www.mirabellacreations.com
Join Emily and Brandi for new episodes every Monday. Like, share, download, and subscribe to help grow our community.
Are there any topics you are wanting us to explore? Have a book you think we must read? Know an amazing human who has a story to share? Connect with us and let us know! You can email us at thepracticeofbeinghuman@gmail.com or DM us :)
This week’s episode is a huge step forward in our personal journey of self development and healing. We hope that you, with compassion, can hold space as we discuss our personal relationship with shame. Please share this episode with anyone who may need to hear it.
Shame is one of the most powerful emotions that can hold us back and lead us down a path of abandoning ourselves. If you have ever experienced deep shame you understand how toxic and controlling it can be.
Releasing and healing shame can be one of the most powerful steps on your healing journey. Fully loving and accepting yourself can truly set you free.
Please take the time to listen to this weeks episode, leave a comment below and please subscribe and download to help our podcast grow.
Nancy Levin, author of "Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free," joined Emily and Brandi this week. Nancy is a bestselling author, Master Life Coach, founder of Levin Life Coach Academy and host to her own podcast, "Your Permission Prescription."
Nancy is the queen of setting healthy boundaries and shares some amazing insight on how to get started on the process and what can help you along the way. It was a great honor to have her on the show to talk about her books, share her personal journey and wisdom to healthy boundaries.
You can grab a copy of her book here: https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Boundaries-Will-Set-Free/dp/1401957552/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1642453037&sr=8-2
Or check out her website for more info on individual coaching: www.nancylevin.com
We are so excited to continue this conversation with her in future episodes and also explore her other books. Did you take the boundary challenge with us? Have you seen a shift take place?
Join us every week as we explore topics that help us lead a more true and authentic life. Like, subscribe, share, and review our podcast, your support helps us grow!
In the fall of 2021, Brandi and Emily started to explore the concept of boundaries with Licensed Therapist, Neha Kumar. The two-some made the commitment to take an inventory of their current boundaries and explore the work they needed to do to arrive at more healthy and consistent space with the relationships in their life.
Over the past several months, with the help of the book, "Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free," by next week's guest Nancy Levin, both Brandi and Emily committed to the work of exploring their boundaries. Each of them will share their 'ah-ha' moments and revelations, discuss what shifted for them, and share where they still have work to do.
Join us next week as we chat with the Queen of Boundaries, Nancy Levin and ask her follow up questions and dive deep into her bestselling book.
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Emily and Brandi are back at it after taking some much needed time to rest and regroup. This year starts off with the two-some reflecting on 2021: lessons learned, places they could have done better, and who they have become now that they are standing on the other side. The two chat about what they want more of in the new year and what they hope the next 12 months has in store for them.
Join us every Monday as we release a new episode and explore the concept of living a more authentic and true life. We have so many amazing guests lined up, books to read, and topics that will push us to grow and evolve.
This week Emily and Brandi welcome author of "More Than a Mom", Ashley Carbonatto. The three discuss what it looks like to attempt to authentically and wholly show up in motherhood. From finding and holding onto your identity to the daily grind, Ashley brings her insight and shares how she became a voice for other moms walking through the trenches of motherhood.
For those moms out there, especially in the thick of it, we see you. This is tough work and you are showing up daily. Trying to find your own identity outside of motherhood is a process and one that is always evolving as our role/season of mothering evolves.
Ashley Carbonatto is a domestically underachieving mom-of-three who juggles all the things. She’s a gatherer of people, a welcomer to the outsider, a storyteller to the tired, and an entertainer to the downcast. After leaving a successful career, she re-discovered her voice and renewed purpose in motherhood, but in her own unconventional way. You need homemade frosting? She’s not the one you call. But you need a good story and honest reflection? Ashley’s your woman. She lives in Issaquah, Washington with her husband & three minions, runs an e-commerce wine business so she always has a drink in the fridge for anyone who stops by. You can find her book on amazon https://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Mom-Everyday-Monotony-ebook/dp/B08FHB9WQC/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=more+than+a+mom&qid=1639418049&sr=8-1
We will be taking the next two weeks off to rest and be present with our families. We look forward to starting back up in the New Year. If you miss us, please listen to one of our past episodes, share our podcast with someone as a holiday gift, or like/subscribe/download, your support helps our podcast grow.
What does it mean to trust someone? What does it mean when trust is broken? How do you build trust with yourself?
In this week's episode, Brandi and Emily explore these questions and try to define the complicated concept of trust. Using Brene Brown's acronym, BRAVING, the two-some walk through the anatomy of trust and how it is an essential part of any deep and healthy connection.
Where have you struggled with trust? What would you add into the definition of anatomy of trust that is a key to you personally?
Tune in every Monday, anywhere you listen to your pods :). Watch weekly on YouTube. Please like, subscribe, review, and share. Your support helps our show grow each week.
On Episode 11, Emily and Brandi continue their commitment to exploring and integrating ways to live a more authentic life by welcoming Breath Work practitioner, Kelsey Anderson.
When was the last time you checked in on your breathing? When was the last time you sat in stillness, focusing on nothing more than the rhythm of your breathing? Breath work is one of the most empowering ways we can return to ourselves and stay grounded and centered in our bodies.
Kelsey walks the two-some through the art of breathing and some simple exercises to incorporate into daily routines to encourage connection.
Kelsey is a Reiki Master, Doula, and Intuitive Energy Healer focusing on creating space for acceptance, openness, and healing. After turning to breathwork practice in her own life for managing anxiety, she made a shift away from her corporate career as a Management Consultant and followed her calling into this healing work. She focuses on bringing her knowledge and passion to life through her writing and healing work, turning to her personal journey for inspiration and insight. Whether leading group breathwork sessions, focusing on 1:1 client support, or creating on demand tools and resources, she is always learning, growing, creating, and shifting to bring her authentic self to this work.
Most recently she’s enjoying the seasons of motherhood and, through her doula training and her own postpartum journey, is incorporating her energy work and breathwork practice in supporting women postpartum.
Kelsey truly believes in the power of the mind-body-spirit connection and how energy healing and breathwork helps you bring balance to your life, get in tune with your Life Force Energy, raise your vibration, and live the life most authentic to you.
You can schedule a private session with Kelsey or learn more about her at Rooted Flow Mama on IG and FB.
On Episode 10 Brandi and Emily kick off the holiday season with a show on Gratitude. Not only is gratitude scientifically proven to increase your overall wellbeing and happiness, it also can help shift your perspective while navigating complicated and uncomfortable situations.
In previous episodes the two-some have explored topics ranging from forgiveness to grief. Gratitude is important to return to when doing any form of self healing and inner work. While this path can be overwhelming at times, taking a moment to pause and find gratitude makes it that much more fulfilling.
We are so grateful for the opportunity to bring you these episodes each week and in doing so. be building an amazing community of listeners dedicated to growth. Thank you for listening, sharing, liking and subscribing to our show. Happy Holidays- Emily and Brandi
In Episode 09, Brandi and Emily discuss the concept of grief. Brandi shares her personal experience losing her dad and what it was like for the grief to catch up with her 5 years after his death.
Grief is a complex emotion and process that requires both compassion and patience in order to fully embrace it and eventually make it to the other side. However, in the opinion of both Brandi and Emily, modern society does not hold space for the grieving. Typically grief is met with discomfort, a timeline, and a projected impatience from those who are witnessing the pain of another. Brandi and Emily explore these ideas and also provide some action items to help those who are grieving.
How have you personally experienced grief? What has helped in your moments of pain and how did you process these powerful emotions that should not be overlooked? Let us know in the comments below or reach out to us if you would like to share your personal story on our podcast.
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On Episode 08 Emily and Brandi explore the complicated and interconnected concepts of Forgiveness, Amends, and Reconciliation. They break down their working definitions of these terms and how, through experience, they arrived at them.
The road to forgiveness can be one of heart break, internal reflection and ultimately healing. In this episode you will hear them share their personal experience, how healing is necessary to start on the path to forgiveness, and how reconciliation is not a necessity to authentic forgiveness.
Join this twosome each week as they tackle and explore tough topics that are key to self discovery, growth, and ultimately living a more fulfilling and authentic life. Please download, subscribe, review, and share the podcast. Any support is appreciated.
In Episode 07, Brandi and Emily welcome licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Neha Kumar. With Neha's help, Brandi and Emily tackle the idea of establishing and upholding healthy boundaries and there is no better time to start to explore these concepts then at the start of the Holiday Season.
What exactly is a boundary? How do I take my boundary temperature and establish where I am personally on the road to healthier relationships? How I do I uphold my boundaries once I have set them? ALL of these questions and ideas are explored in this week's episode.
Come along with Emily and Brandi as they explore their own boundaries and authentically lean in where there is more work to be done. The two will revisit and share their own boundary work on an episode to ring in the New Year. You are invited to join in, do you own boundary work and also share your experience. The two will also be reading and sharing their insights from "Setting Boundaries Will Set You Free," by Nancy Levin. Grab a copy, take notes, and share you questions and feedback.
We will see you for Part 2 of Boundaries in 60 days and we cannot wait to hear your personal experiences as well.
Tune in every Monday as these two dive deep into topics surrounding personal growth, living a more authentic life, and ultimately how they practice being human. Please like, download, subscribe, review and share the podcast. We deeply appreciate your support.
Neha Kumar is a licensed Marriage and Family Counselor. With a Master's degree from Antioch University, one of Neha's main goals is to empower clients to redefine and take control of their lives through active exploration and modification of negative thoughts and behaviors. Neha is a PNW native who currently resides in SoCal with her husband and two young daughters.
A conversation between two lifelong friends who invite you on their journey of self discovery, trial and error, and how they practice being human.
In Episode 06, Emily walks through her personal journey inward and how this resulted in self discovery, inner peace and ultimately the relationship she is building with herself. Emily pays tribute to "Heart Minded' by author Sarah Blondin and talks about how this book gives words to her inward journey and healing, specifically Sarah's take on "Soul-itude".
Join these two every Monday for new episodes. You can listen on spotify, google, and apple, or watch on Youtube.
A conversation between two lifelong friends who invite you on their journey of self discovery, trial and error, and how they practice being human.
On Episode 05, Brandi opens up and shares about her personal journey and the fears she had to conquer to live a more authentic life. One of the key moments on her journey of self discovery was reading Untamed by New York Times bestseller, Glennon Doyle. Brandi talks about how this book inspired her and supported her in her moments of self doubt and uncertainty. Every so often, we run across something that speaks to our soul and helps propel us forward, and this book was just that for Brandi.
Join us for new episodes every Monday. You can catch our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, or watch it on Youtube.
A conversation between two lifelong friends who invite you on their journey of self discovery trial and error, and how they practice being human.
On Episode 04, Brandi and Emily explore the Enneagram and how they used it to help propel their growth. The Enneagram is a system of personality typing that describes patterns in how people interpret the world and manage their emotions. This test provides both highs and lows on the journey of self exploration and the twosome provide insight on how taking the test impacted them and the realizations they both uncovered after taking the test.
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A conversation between two lifelong friends who invite you on their journey of self discovery trial and error, and how they practice being human.
In Episode 03, Brandi and Emily explore the concept of showing up, both for oneself and what it looks like to show up for the many relationships and roles we each have . What does it mean to truly show up for yourself? How can this lead to showing up more authentically in your life overall? They twosome dive deep on how they had to explore this concept in their own journeys and the their own personal definitions of "showing up". Vulnerability, trust, intimacy, this episode touches on ALL the big ones.
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A conversation between two lifelong friends who invite you on their journey of self discovery trial and error, and how they practice being human.
On Episode 2, Brandi and Emily share the moments that changed their lives and kicked off their life changing journeys of growth and evolution. Both share personal experiences regarding how their worlds came crumbling down and how what felt like devastation, turned into an opportunities to reshape their lives into more authentic and fulfilling spaces.
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A conversation between two lifelong friends who invite you on their journey of self discovery, trial and error, and how they practice being human.
In Episode 01 you will meet the voices behind the mics. Embarking on their 34th year of friendship and on Emily's 39th birthday, the two-some will dive deep and intro one another and talk about their friendship.
Learn what you can expect from their podcast and what you definitely should not expect (Calling all experts to come on their podcast and help them navigate this crazy journey).
New episodes come out each Monday (fingers crossed) check it out, tune in, come on their journey with them.