Creating the Shift: The Deciding Factor: Recent Episodes
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So many of us are stuck and believe that it’s our circumstances keeping us there when in fact it is often our reluctance to make a decision that could change everything. When we fear making the wrong decision we experience decision paralysis and sometimes even give our most precious power over to circumstances and outside forces. The result is that we stay stuck. Pam Rader & Andrew Francis created this podcast to help explore some of the decisions we have made in our lives that leave us stuck in limiting habits, routines & thought processes. We speak to guests who, through raw, real, and engaging stories, recount decisions they've made that have brought them to a higher level of freedom in their lives. The hope is to explore and integrate the teachings and tools from these guests and the Shift Labs experience to make an immediate and positive impact in your life.What if you realized that some of the decisions you made about how the world is and isn’t, who you are, your worth as a human being and what you are able and not able to do, were based on falsities? What would open up for you with a new view of yourself and the world? We are here to help you remember that life isn’t happening to you. You are creating it all.
Jason Parkes, founder of Jason Parkes Customs, Renegade Winemaker, Creator of Crown and Thieves, business owner, front man of his band Proper Man, husband and father. Jason has used his emotional intelligence to build a wine empire. He speaks to the value of surrounding yourself with people better than you and his decision to see the best in people and offer a second chance. He shares the value of connection and caring for your people and about the loyalty that creates in a business. Jason’s true power is to block out the noise, and care deeply about the people that matter most to him. Jason pushes through self doubt to embrace failure, and take risks that align with his creative imagination. Jason separates himself from the Norm...unless he’s embracing his alter-ego.
Key Topics: Building loyalty through vulnerability, embracing failure, being a girl dad, following your own path.
Matt Landseidel, Personal development coach, decided at a young age that he had to hide his highly sensitive nature, his sexuality and his battles with addiction. The discomfort of constantly hiding led him on a search for authenticity, and the discovery of his work with highly sensitive people ( HSP’s). Matt has built a spiritual community for sensitive people who want to embrace their true selves, and grow to serve others.
Key Topics: Highly Sensitive people, why busy is a bitch & gentle is generous, the pull of people pleasing
Joe Greenland & Cindy Edgeson (Foxdreamer), Joe Greenland is an indigenous medicine man and spiritual healer who is highly connected to the spirit world. Cindy, Joe’s partner in life and business, is a transformational coach and an interpreter of sorts. Joe’s decision to trust his intuition and Creator over the doubts of those around him led him on a unique path. Fully surrendering to the spirits that guide him and work with him allowed him to move wholly into his role as a healer. Joe shares stories of his search for belonging, residential schools, living on the streets, and his studies with many spiritual & religious teachers. Cindy shares how everyone has these gifts and gives insight into how we can all develop our connection to spirit.
Key Topics: Trusting your intuition, spiritual guides, the energies around and within us, and how you can harness those energies to build your best self
Mare Mchale, best Selling Author, business owner, and young widow takes you through her decision to live life fully after the painful death of her father, and later the suicide of her husband, which left her a single mother of child with autism. Her inspiring story of speaking out in support of mental health, vulnerability, and an unwavering commitment to keep growing will inspire anyone. She decided young that complaining was useless and action was key. She helps others find their “Cape” and pick themselves up off the mat when they may want to throw in the towel.
Key Topics: grief, perspective, community, vulnerability, serving others, mental health, parenting a child on the autistic spectrum
Andrew Francis, Shift Labs partner discusses his subconscious childhood decision that he wasn’t enough . He explores how he learned to wear masks, and be whoever he thought others wanted him to be and the immense cost associated with pretending. By pretending to be something he wasn’t he wound up manipulating and, deceiving those he cared for. Facing the truth of who he had become forced him into making a new choice to leave a marriage that was built on the lies he created about himself. Coming to terms with his shame and sharing those struggles with others helped shift Andrew into a desire to inspire others live with integrity
Key Topics - Vulnerability, shame, divorce, manipulation, integrity
Pam Rader, Shift Labs founding partner discusses her subconscious childhood decision that weakness was shameful and vulnerability was the epitome of weakness. She explores how that decision led her to hide that she was in over her head in an abusive and addiction riddled marriage. A new decision had to be made as those habits of hiding became too costly when her son started struggling with addiction. Through vulnerability, She was able to build a community of people looking for a safe place to be their imperfect selves.
Key Topics: Vulnerability, shame, addiction, abuse
Season 1 now live!
So many of us are stuck and believe that it’s our circumstances keeping us there when in fact it is often our reluctance to make a decision that could change everything. When we fear making the wrong decision we experience decision paralysis and sometimes even give our most precious power over to circumstances and outside forces. The result is that we stay stuck.Pam Rader & Andrew Francis created this podcast to help explore some of the decisions we have made in our lives that leave us stuck in limiting habits, routines & thought processes. We speak to guests who, through raw, real, and engaging stories, recount decisions they've made that have brought them to a higher level of freedom in their lives. The hope is to explore and integrate the teachings and tools from these guests and the Shift Labs experience to make an immediate and positive impact in your life.
What if you realized that some of the decisions you made about how the world is and isn’t, who you are, your worth as a human being and what you are able and not able to do, were based on falsities? What would open up for you with a new view of yourself and the world?
We are here to help you remember that life isn’t happening to you. You are creating it all.