SoundBalming with LaMarr Darnell Shields: Recent Episodes
Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields
About SoundBalming with LaMarr D. Shields: Inviting you into his basement Balm shelter once weekly for emergency relief from the rays of negative reinforcement bombarding us throughout our daily living experiences, LaMarr D. Shields drops balms made up of inspiration, information, uplift, and edutainment on shelter dwellers in the form of amazing stories about innovative individuals--artists, activists, social entrepreneurs, social impact practitioners, educators, soldiers of our civic systems, everyday people/courageous everyday doers--committed to creating positive progressive social change in our world today, often doing so via unique, unusual, and surprisingly unexpected methods and approaches.Hosted by the Baltimore based and Chi-town south side raised, Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields, SoundBalming brings its listeners social change ideas through audio lectures, audio interviews and roundtable discussions. With the intention to help you rise and thrive, Dr. Shields chronicles the journeys of his special guests creating their own paths, enlightening and illuminating the way forward for you on your own special road to restoration, healing, progressive change and positive action.
In this episode, Dr. LaMarr D. Shields is joined by LaMonika Hill, the author of Liv & Gabby. LaMonika shares her personal challenges with mental illness and decided to write a book entitled Liv and Gabby: Brighter Days Ahead to help children understand the effects and causes of mental illness, and to learn the importance of being supportive and never losing sight of brighter days, no matter how dark things may seem.
LaMonika's advocacy work is centered on increasing awareness to end the stigma surrounding mental illness. She emphasizes that seeking help for mental illness is a sign of strength, not weakness. Her experience and understanding of mental illness have profoundly affected others, allowing them to see that they are not alone in their struggles.
www.thehelpingheal.com
Support the show
Research shows that there is real power in play. Through play, children develop the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical skills they need to thrive both now and into their futures.
In this episode, Dr. Shields is joined by Drew Vernon, Founder, and CEO of tonies. Drew Vernon is the marketing director for tonies, a dad, podcaster, and childhood advocate, who understands that their is purpose in play.
The Toniebox is an imagination-building, screen-free digital listening experience that plays stories, songs, and more.
Designed for little listeners ages 3+, it’s the perfect storytime companion for tiny hands and active imaginations.
Support the show
What’s the value of living in the present?
This is the question Dr. Shields posed to Kim Tang, an internationally recognized yoga instructor and breathwork facilitator. In this episode, Kim shares strategies to eliminate distracting and staying present.
www.kimtangyoga.com
Support the show
On this episode of SoundBalming, Intentional Leader Karan Ferrell- Rhodes explains that leadership is a verb. Not unlike a high-performing athlete that mitigates injury and reaches performance goals by being intentional in every move they make, if we lead our teams with intentionality we can achieve better and more predictable outcomes.
Karan Rhodes is a leadership speaker who shares how to grow from being a high potential leader to one who “leads at the top of their game” .
www.shockinglydifferent.com/leadership-speaker
Support the show
In this episode, we discuss the social media platforms like Instagram, which made headlines last year for suppressing likes to curb the comparisons and hurt feelings associated with attaching popularity to sharing content. But do these efforts combat mental health issues, or are they simply applying a band-aid to a wound?
We discuss the excessive use of Social Media with Dr. Margaret Cochran and how it fuels feelings of addiction, anxiety, depression, isolation, and FOMO.
Dr. C is a transpersonal psychologist, licensed clinical social worker, educator, life coach, and author with over 25 years of clinical experience. She seamlessly interweaves traditional ego psychology, transpersonal psychology, and energy psychology Affording her patients every tool possible to achieve their goals and make their dreams a reality.
www.drcochran.net
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show
Born in Italy during World War II, Salvatore Forcina was a young boy who survived all odds by living through his young childhood without any real or proper shelter. Like many Italians during this time, a month after turning eight years old his parents followed this migration to Argentina, a developing country at the time rich with natural resources and hope for a more stable life. Sent away to live with Redemptorist priests for seven long years as the only available option to study, this young boy struggled emotionally and psychologically with no social outlets and little emotional development. Salvatore’s dream to study medicine and help people propelled him to carry on and continue his education, eventually being educated and living on three different continents, each with a new language to learn and master. Despite his meager beginnings which provided no social and little educational opportunity and despite the many years and setbacks it took him to accomplish this, his goal was ultimately accomplished because of his sheer determination. This true-life story is motivating, uplifting, and based on what genuine love of family can provide to someone.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Doctor-Salvatore-J-Forcina/dp/1592112099
https://histriabooks.com/product/the-american-doctor/
https://www.facebook.com/people/Salvatore-Forcina/100080742693642/
https://www.instagram.com/drsalvatoreforcinamd/
https://twitter.com/DrSalForcina
Support the show
Communicating new perspectives, questioning the status quo, speaking out about beliefs, and inspiring others to take action—art and activism often share some of the same underlying motivations.
This interview looks at the art and activism of Hip-Hop Artist and Social Worker, GaKnew Roxwell, across time and cultures to examine how art can activate ideas for both the maker and the audience, and asks you to think critically about different approaches to activism and how you can use your own voice.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show
The conversation about first-generation trauma is emerging in the Latino community, specifically in social media spaces focused on improving mental health.
For this reason, Priscilla Maria joins Dr. LaMarr D. Shields to discuss generational (or intergenerational) trauma, which differs from first-generation trauma because it is passed down through generations.
She offers listeners compassion, empathy, and patience because she is a trauma survivor.
She knows how challenging it is to replace negative behaviors and thought patterns with healthy coping mechanisms.
She understands the obstacles of breaking generational trauma and self-advocacy cycles, especially as a first-generation Latina.
Support the show
Author Amanda E. Lee joins us on this episode to talk about her eye-opening account that details her experience with domestic violence and how she managed to survive.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show
My guest today is Laura Doyle, New York Times Bestselling author of “The Surrendered Wife,” and her newest work is “The Empowered Wife.” She also starred in the Empowered Wives series on Amazon Prime.
Do you feel like he doesn’t love you anymore, and you don’t know why? If you wonder why you even married him? If you afraid of losing him? If you feel rejected and heartbroken and want to fix your relationship, this interview is for you.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show
In this episode, Dr. Shields talks with Victor Sagalovsky about all things Deuterium-Depleted Water (DDW) and its effects on our biology. Victor Sagalovsky is Co-Founder and CEO of Litewater Scientific, the first and only super deuterium-depleted light water, where he has dedicated himself to the research, development, and production of this rare water.
https://www.drinklitewater.com
Support the show
Troy Hadeed was worn on the island of Trinidad & Tobago, and teaches, practices, and lives yoga to the best of his ability on his home island.
In this episode, Troy gives practical tools to aid the listeners on their journey of self-realization and empowerment through breath, alignment, and funny. Troy believes, " that our practice on the mat is a direct representation of our daily lives in every way."
Whether a simple beginners practice, foundations, or intense advanced transitions, this interview aims to offer an avenue to connect with mindfulness, your body, the GOD of your own understanding, & LOVE.
Support the show
Kevin W. Reese, PhD has guided and inspired thousands to reclaim their health through his books, seminars, and exclusive programs In this episode, he sits down with Dr. Shields to discuss his book Peace Over Pain and how to live a wholistic and healthy life.
Support the show
It’s pretty hard to remain hopeful these days. It can seem as if the world has gone mad — violence, cruelty, and inhumanity are everywhere and not just in Ukraine. The United States, once a beacon of personal freedom and security, is waging war on women, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ, and anyone deemed different from the majority. In this episode, Attorney Lauren Abrams shares the wisdom and insights from the people she has interviewed through firsthand stories that helped them find hope.
For more information about Lauren, please visit www.52weeksofhope.com.
Support the show
Victoria M. Gallagher is a worldwide leader in Hypnotherapy, a best-selling author, international speaker, life success coach, and renowned authority on the Law of Attraction. She has dedicated her life to empowering people all over the world to successfully live a life of liberty, aligned with their dreams through her effective meditative recordings and online courses. Through her podcast, The Power of Your Mind and her many books, she exudes her passion for inspiring listeners with influential guests in the areas of self development, mindset, discipline & habits, entrepreneurship, wealth and relationships.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show
Identifying and escaping domestic abuse is only a first step for survivors of abuse, especially when your husband is living a secret double life. An FBI investigation. $94 million stolen and hidden abuse and control. A story made for the movies. That's the story of today's guest, Kimberly Blackburn, author of Dirty Love.
Support the show
If you saw Black Panther 1 and 2, you know both films had some fantastic stunts. And since I was a kid, I've always been intrigued by how actors perform such amazing stunts. To help me, I sat down with Kevin Cassidy to share some behind-the-scenes stories from Black Panther. Kevin Cassidy was a utility stunts performer in Captain America: Civil War and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and a stunt performer in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Black Panther, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Endgame, and Spider-Man: Far From Home. The following Monday on SoundBalming, Kevin will share some personal stories from his new book, Falling to Find Myself. For now, listen to him talk about Black Panther. If you like what you hear, please share and subscribe. Wakanda Forever!
Support the show
Born with a facial birth defect, he battled a speech impediment and bullying throughout his youth but he was able to conquer one of life’s hardest challenges, a former Hollywood stuntman who has appeared in some of my favorite movies. Kevin Cassidy stunted in numerous Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including Spiderman: Far From Home, Avengers Endgame, Black Panther, Captain America: Civil War, plus The Dark Knight Rises, Salt, and Sons of Anarchy
His new book, Falling Down to Find Myself: How a Hollywood Stuntman Conquered Life’s Bumps and Bruises to Cultivate a Philosophy for True Happiness. In it, he offers a rarefied glimpse into his life as a Hollywood performer and how he overcame personal hardships to reach success both professionally and personally. Cassidy shares not only exciting details from behind-the-scenes on some of the biggest movie sets in recent memory-such as The Dark Knight Rises and multiple Spider-Man films-but also a compelling depiction of the real ups and downs of a career full of physically demanding, contract-based work.
Support the show
Today's guest is Sara Banta, a busy mom of three and Accelerated Health Radio and TV host. She joins me today to share her health strategies for optimizing body, mind, and spirit to help individuals increase their frequency and live their best lives.
For more information about Sara, please visit her website at www.sarabantahealth.com.
Support the show
If you've ever felt the pain of disconnect, from yourself, from those closest to you or from the world in general, then Steve Vincent's raw and authentic interview with Dr. Shields will help you rethink life's challenges. If you want to find true freedom, to 'find you', then you're invited to take the journey into your Shadow Self.
Support the show
At the age of 33, author Doris Whitaker founder her father. She revealed an emotional story about how she met her father for the first time on SoundBalming.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show
In this episode, author, Fatima Oliver shares strategies on healing wounds from the past to break generational habits for the future.
Fatima is a walking inspiration. She knows what it takes to crawl through decades of untruths, hurt, and victimization to the other side where freedom lives. Fatima is unafraid to share her journey in transparent accounts. She believes it is the only true way to lift others up out of their pain. Her honest and clever approach to life is challenging, yet can quickly be applied to every day events.
Support the show
In this episode, Dr. Shields sits down with freelance journalist, Rebecca Webber, who lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and covers social justice, the environment, the arts, travel, and more for CNN, USA Today, the New York Times, Dwell, and many other publications.
She shares personal stories of being a journalist, and how she coaches writers by helping them improve their skills, break into new markets, and increase confidence.
www.rebeccalweber.com
Support the show
Many of us have a tendency to worry unnecessarily about our health. For some the anxiety becomes chronic, and they may spend many hours checking for symptoms, seeking reassurance from others, surfing the internet for information about different diseases, or repeatedly visiting the doctor.
By trade, Brian Sachetta is a software developer. He combines his experiences in the tech world with previous mental health battles to draw parallels between computer systems and the human mind and give readers practical strategies for evading their own psychological demons.
He currently has two books on the market, “Get Out of Your Head: A Toolkit for Living with and Overcoming Anxiety” and “Get Out of Your Head Vol. 2: Navigating the Abyss of Depression.” His mission is to help as many sufferers as possible through not only those books but also his blog and podcast appearances.
Support the show
How to breathe better and why it matters with Karese Laguerre
There's a good chance you're not breathing effectively, which may be impacting your health, according to Karese Laguerre, the author of Accomplished: How to Sleep Better, Eliminate Burnout, and Execute Goals.
Karese, like many parents, suffered in silence while her children struggled with the symptoms of undiagnosed sleep and breathing issues. One visit to a pediatric dentist changed the trajectory of their lives. Already a Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH), Karese, trained with Sandra Holtzman, Lois Laynee, and Sarah Hornsby to establish her orofacial myology knowledge. With this initial training and numerous others, in a few short years, she has not only resolved all her children's issues but helped hundreds of patients, children and adults alike, discover how great life can be fully functioning. Her private practice, The Myo Spot, is now a leader in the quest for myofunctional therapy awareness and public education.
She joins Dr. Shields on SoundfBalming to talk about how to sleep better, eliminate Burnout, and execute goals. Karese's mission is to transform and positively impact as many households as possible through dynamic breath, brain, and bodywork.
Support the show
Americans got their first big exposure to the Shaolin monks with the 1970s TV series Kung Fu starring David Carradine. In the intro, we see him as a young monk completing a rite of passage ceremony where he had to lift and move a heavy cauldron filled with glowing cinders, and in doing so his arms were branded with a dragon and a tiger. For all his quiet wisdom and serenity, this monk had fighting skills that were unsurpassed. It was a combination that was deeply attractive to Western audiences of the seventies obsessed with the superiority of Eastern enlightenment over Western materialism.
Oluwafemi Oladeji shares his personal journey from being an actor, singer, model, yoga teacher, to becoming a Shaolin Monk, and how it has shaped in personal and professional life.
Support the show
Empower U 2022 is a platform that connects and inspires women. Attendees meet and network with other talented, like-minded women while developing tips and tricks from some of the best minds of our time. You get access to a highly curated, impactful program and much more! And
Empower U 2022 focuses on women driving change and being in control of their path. It gathers the next generation of curious creatives, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and tastemakers to spark conversations around topics they are passionate about. It is a platform that connects and inspires women. I hope you will join us on Saturday. Your admission is free, just make sure you sign up and feel free to invite a friend.
Support the show
Costa began life as a creative misfit, using his imagination to spur havoc, laughter, and the occasional unintended success. Come to think of it, he hasn’t changed much over the years.
Some of his adventures include working with NASA scientists to reimagine the search for life beyond Earth, designing innovation tournaments inside of Fortune 500 companies to seed innovation projects, speaking at the United Nations in New York as part of the first TEDx event there, working with a group of cyber security experts (including one of the original creators of the internet—not Al Gore) to make recommendations to the Obama Administration, and that’s just the compulsory who’s who. Some of the most impactful and beautiful work he’s done has been with college students, young entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Too often we put all our energy into maintaining a healthy body that we end up neglecting our mind. Stress, anxiety, past traumas and more can all put a huge strain on our lives, yet rather than stopping to take the time to deal with these feelings head-on we choose instead to suppress or put up with them, discounting the importance of our emotional wellbeing.
In this episode, Pastor Gregory Dicksow shares strategies to help improve your emotional and spiritual health. Pastor Dicksow's personal story of addiction and perseverance, will help you to become unstuck in your life so you can find your own healing path to rebalance your life so you may achieve whole health and wellness in all areas.
Gregory Dickow, one of America’s leading Bible teachers, is motivated by an unstoppable passion to dismantle the barriers and limitations holding people back from their God-given destiny.
His revolutionary “Fast from Wrong Thinking” has become a global phenomenon that has transformed countless lives around the world from the inside out.
He hosts the international television ministry, The Power to Change Today—reaching millions of households weekly, here and around the world, and helping people find healing, hope, and transformation through Jesus Christ.
www.gregorydickow.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Teaching is an all-consuming career often characterized as emotional labor. It’s physically, mentally, and emotionally draining. It’s also a job that’s almost impossible to “leave at work,” whether in the form of a stack of papers to grade or persistent thoughts about how to help a struggling student. Practicing self-care, for teachers, is both vital and challenging.
Dr. Gwen shares some essential practices to help teachers avoid chronic stress, burnout, and limited productivity.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Mary Welp is a CranioSacral and Hypnotherapist living in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband Jim. She has been in private practice doing bodywork and hypnosis for 20 years. Since the pandemic she has begun teaching RISE Hypnotic Meditation to help bring meaningful change to people’s lives.
She has worked with a nonprofit involving returning soldiers from Iraq andAfghanistan as well as served on the board of LinkUp, offering assistance to those who have dealt with clergy abuse and related trauma.
She stopped by SoundBalming to share her strategies for moving your energy and self-healing.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
With today’s increased focus on diversity and inclusion, executives, chief diversity officers, and human resources leaders love to extol the value of bringing our authentic selves to the workplace. Still, for many African American women in corporate America, that platitude falls on deaf ears.
So, in this episode, we talk to Shayna Renee Hammond about the state of African American Women in the public and private sector.
Shayna Renee Hammond is a leadership and life coach who has coached and developed thousands of school and senior leaders within the education and non-profit sectors for 20 years. She is the Founder and CEO of Lead For Liberation (formerly known as Teach To Lead), a leadership development organization dedicated to guiding organizations, school districts, foundations, and communities to demystify and operationalize liberatory cultures. Through Lead For Liberation’s (L4L) support, schools and organizations across America have experienced unprecedented school growth and achievement outcomes, inclusive school and organizational cultures, and strengthened teacher, principal, and senior leader retention.
Inspired by the success of L4L and her calling to raise global consciousness, Shayna recently founded IndigoWomen, a coaching and consulting practice dedicated to creating spaces, methods, and conditions for Black women in leadership to thrive. In this capacity, Shayna coaches individuals and groups of Black women leaders from around the globe in a spiritually-inspired and research-based coaching methodology created by and for Black women.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode of SoundBalming, I interview Walker Brandt and discuss her life and how she has found a way to connect with nature to discover herself. In addition, she shares her long and difficult journey to her current inner peace and self-discovery.
Walker Brandt is a professional actor, model, spokesperson, and new author, she has worked internationally in the entertainment industry for over 25 years on blockbuster films, TV shows, and over 2000 advertising campaigns and commercials for global brands. What most didn’t know about her until March 2020 when Walker's first book AWAKEN - Discovering Yourself Through the Light of Your Innocence was released, was what she overcame while on her path to success and how in her personal time she has been dedicated to helping youth who've also been through struggles thrive.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
We all have a negative voice that lives inside our heads, and it’s very challenging to perform at our best when we’re not kind and supportive of ourselves.
So I decided to reach out to Kristin Taylor, one of the leading experts on self-compassion, to discuss the nature of self-compassion, including why it’s such an essential skill for personal growth.
As a Life and Executive Coach, Kristin helps entrepreneurs and executives successfully manage anxiety, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome so that they can more confidently achieve the success they desire.
www.kristintaylorconsulting.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
If you’re feeling stuck, stressed, or stagnant, you’re not alone. Large numbers of people feel burned out or feel a loss of control in their professional and personal lives. But now is a perfect time to take stock—closing one chapter and opening another. Nira Lull shares strategies to help you get unstuck and set your course to begin moving forward.
www.niralall.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Words are a powerful thing. Words can build and lift, comfort and calm, teach and inspire. To the opposite, words can destroy and demolish, incite and enrage, berate and criticize, embarrass and demean. It has been said that in an average day a person will speak somewhere between 10 and 20,000 words. Which means we have that tons of chances every day to say something positive or to say something negative, the choice is totally up to us.
There is an old saying that “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Whoever came up with that saying had it completely wrong…what they saying needed to say is “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but unkind words will always hurt me…and a broken bone can heal with time, but the damage done by unkind words might never heal.”
My next guest understands the power of words, and is passionate about helping people to unlearn the negative things they’ve said to themselves or were said about them. Through his work over the past 40 years, he has taught countless thousands of people how to improve various aspects of their lives.
His latest book, 'How to Be Bulletproof From Criticism' has attracted rave reviews from health professionals, business owners and world class entrepreneurs.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Leaders of today are facing a multitude of challenges. They need to create a triple bottom line, finding economical, environmental, and socially sustainable solutions. Moreover, leaders are not only expected to see a strategy through; they also need to reimagine and re-examine the workplace for their employees.
In this episode, Dr. Kweisi Ausar discusses the relationship between workplace spirituality, organizational justice, and mental health.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
A global pandemic, Depression-level unemployment, civil and political unrest – from Minnesota to Venezuela to China, it feels as if the world as we know it is faltering. Economies are unwinding; jobs are disappearing. Through it all, our spirit is being tested. Now more than ever, it's imperative for leaders to demonstrate compassion.
Adam Baruh, Chief Executive Officer at SuiteCentric, has studied and talked about the importance of compassion in leadership for years. Even more important, he is on a mission to educate the CEOs and leaders of global organizations on implementing compassionate leadership.
As host of "The Change," Adam shares stories from business leaders and individuals making positive work/life changes. He is also interested in de-stigmatizing m's wellbeing.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Ruby Taylor, the Owner, and Ceo of Financial Joy School, gives Black Families the tools and resources to build generational wealth through long-term investing, free of charge. The platform uses the power of financial knowledge to bring connections, applications, and education to communities. Free resources include educational, seminars; investment calculators; access to financial portfolios and marketplaces; giveaways and prizes; and dedicated articles on different financial topics. Ruby Taylor, M.S.W, a double HBCU alumna (Howard University and Virginia Union University) founded Financial Joy School in 2021 to make investing joyful for Black Families and our allies Financial Joy School is a Black Owned Business.
www.financialjoyschool.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
When news of the college admissions scandal broke in the spring of 2019, it was the perfect scammer story for the media to latch on to. Detail after detail emerged about wealthy parents who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy their kids’ way into upper-tier colleges, as the FBI pursued indictments for mail and wire fraud; more than 50 people were charged.
The investigation into the conspiracy was code named Operation Varsity Blues.
Dr. Shemmassian is the Founder of Shemmassian Academic Consulting and one of the world's foremost experts on medical school admissions, college admissions, and graduate school admissions. He joined me today to share how he and his team have helped thousands of students get into medical school and top colleges using his systematic and proprietary approach.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Are you on a quest to find happiness? While happiness might feel elusive or out of your reach at times, that doesn't make it an impossible journey or goal to achieve.
On the contrary, happiness could be waiting for you around the next corner if you just hang on.
In this interview, Kortney will help you identify where you are now - how satisfied or dissatisfied you are with various aspects of your life and why. She will push you to dream and vision a life that excites you - that fills you with joy and purpose.
www. kortneyrivard.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Doug Cartwright is a speaker, author, and the CEO and Founder of The Daily Shifts, an online company dedicated to inspiring lasting transformation of the mind, body, and soul. The Daily Shifts was born from Doug’s personal journey of introspection and healing. Now an app, a master class, and blog, The Daily Shifts has appeared on ABC News, Spectrum TV, and in Psychology Today, among others.
In his new book, Holy Sh!t We’re Alive, Doug shows you how to live with intention, how to trust yourself, and how to show up every day for a meaningful life. You’ll learn mind-blowing facts and important clues to understand your existence and unique contributions. Self-love can be your superpower. No matter who you are or where you’ve been, his book gives you permission and motivation to do the work and throw out the garbage holding you back, so you too can maximize your human experience.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Today I sit down with the author of the national bestseller Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World (published by Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books in 2018). He's also the CEO of The Better Meat Co., a four-time TEDx speaker, the Business for Good Podcast host, and a long-time leader in food sustainability.
He co-founded, The Better Meat Co., which uses fermentation to turn microbes into meat within hours, creating a far more sustainable and humane method of satisfying our “meat tooth” than raising and slaughtering animals for food.
www.bettermeat.co
www.cleanmeat.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this interview, Dr. Shields talks to Anissa A. Morgan, Founder and CEO of Dollars At 10. Dollars At 10 is a unique nonprofit organization for families, teaching transformation through financial education. Dollars At 10 comes from her experience of handling her finances at the age of 10.
Anissa shares the lessons learned early to save and invest wisely. She purchased her first home in New York at the age of 25 after relocating to the United States for college as an international student at 18. She is also the author of two books, Teach Me How to Money Now and Cooper Learns to Save. Books that help parents start the conversation about money early with their children, the lessons are simple, interactive, and are used in an engaging way for both parents and children.
www.dollarsat10.org
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
When the depression hit, Shawn Tegtmeier felt unlike herself. And her chain-smoking made it worst. Then she met Walt and began to run.
In this episode, I sit down with Shawn Tegtmeier, who I started running because she wanted to get back in shape, but her mental health improved more than anything else.
She is a certified Personal Trainer and Published Author who changed her mindset from a chain-smoking couch potato to a full-time personal trainer who inspires others to change their lifestyle. She’s the author of Running with Walt: How A Chain Smoking Couch-Potato Got of the Couch.
www.shawntegtmeier.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode, Jay Shifman shares his life journey and explains how and why it is so vital the child and youth mental health system is fixed. Jay shares how storytelling allowed him to find a path to recovery available to all who have suffered traumatic experiences as children.
Jay Shifman is a speaker, coach & mental health advocate. He is also the host of Choose Your Struggle podcast.
www.jayshifman.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Committing to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEI&B) is not about having a feel-good story; it’s not even about being an employer of choice. DEI&B is about the success of your business and, quite frankly, doing the right thing.
I sat down with Torin Ellis, to talk about how world is changing and prioritizing having a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization where every employee, at every level of the organization, knows they can bring their whole self to work is key.
Torin Ellis describes himself first and foremost in human terms: a husband, a father, a grandfather, a brother and an adviser. But professionally, he is also an expert on diversity and inclusion strategy, a risk mitigator and a tremendous speaker. Torin wants us all to take a closer look at diversity and inclusion (D&I) than what we may have heard from training exercises that simply checked off boxes. And he isn’t afraid to challenge people to have conversations that push them out of their comfort zones.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Simone Knego is the best-selling author of The Extraordinary UnOrdinary You, is a speaker, entrepreneur, and mother to six multicultural children. With her bold witticism, larger than life personality, and fearless attitude, she is a powerful force for good. Sharing her journey of adopting three of her six children in foreign countries, her climb of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise cancer awareness, and all of the funny, scary, and inspiring stories that came along the way.
www.simoneknego.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
For too long, women have been told to confine themselves—physically, socially, and emotionally. So on this episode, Dr. Shields sits down with Eliza VanCort, author of A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space, to discuss the inequalities and systems of oppression that take shape in private, professional, and public spaces.
Eliza identifies the five critical behaviors of all "Space Claiming Queens": use your voice and posture to project confidence and power, end self-sabotage, forge connections, neutralize unsafe spaces, and unite across differences. Through personal narrative, research, and actionable strategies, VanCort provides how-tos on combatting challenges like antimentors and microaggressions and advises on building up your "old girls" club, asking for what you're worth, and owning your Space without apology.
Eliza VanCort is a teacher, consultant, and speaker who provides the necessary tools for women to rewrite the rules and create the stories of their choice safely and without apology.
www.elizavancort.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode, Maria Brito shares her most essential information about creativity. She discuses how creativity works, how to find your hidden creative genius, and how to create meaningful work by learning how to make creative thinking a habit.
Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, author, and curator. A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, her first monograph “Out There” published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, was the recipient of the Best Book Awards in both the Art and Design Categories. In 2015 Brito was selected by Complex Magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World and in 2020 she was named by ARTNEWS as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art world. She has written for publications such as Huffington Post, Elle, Forbes, Artnet, Cultured Magazine, Departures, and the Gulf Coast Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Houston, Texas. For several years, Maria has taught her creativity course in companies and, in 2019, she launched “Jumpstart”, an online program on creativity for entrepreneurs based on years of research and observation in both the areas of business and art.
www.mariabrito.com
www.mariabrito.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
The ancient Egyptians' attitude towards death was influenced by their belief in immortality. They regarded death as a temporary interruption rather than the cessation of life. To ensure the continuity of life after death, people paid homage to the gods, both during and after their life on earth. When they died, they were mummified so the soul would return to the body, giving it breath and life.
Author Robert Ginsberg started researching the evidence for survival of consciousness and immortality soon after his daughter died in 2002. Devastated by the loss, he needed science to tell him if she still existed in some form. He stopped by the SoundBalming to share his story.
In 2004, Bob and his wife Phran founded Forever Family Foundation. Bob hosts the Signs of Life radio show, is past editor of Signs of Life Magazine, heads the foundation's Medium Evaluation Certification Program, and writes a blog at beyondthefivesenses.com. Bob and Forever Family Foundation are currently featured in the Netflix series Surviving Death.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Dr. Shani Fox helps cancer survivors get back in charge of their health and build their confidence so they can make the most of their new chance at life. Believing unconditionally in each person’s innate power to generate wellness and happiness, she encourages survivors not to settle for a “new normal”, but to create a “new extraordinary”.
Dr. Shani’s revolutionary survivorship care model, “Back in Charge! Your Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wellness and Joy After Cancer” nurturesphysical wellness and body/mind harmony that increase resilience to disease.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode, Eric Newman, Founder & Chief Play Officer of Roc Solid Foundation, shares why he wrote What Hope Looks Like and how his most significant vulnerabilities fuelled his greatest triumph to build hope for every child and family fighting pediatric cancer.
To find out more information about Eric Newman and the Roc Solid Foundation, visit the links below:
https://rocsolidfoundation.org/
https://thenewmanexperience.com/
https://thenewmanexperience.com/what-hope-looks-like/
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
John Moyer is a professional hypnotist, speaker, and filmmaker. He has appeared throughout the Unites States performing his stage hypnosis show for numerous universities, corporate and private events, and also across the world as a headlining entertainer for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. During his 25 year career of performing live on stage, John has also seen success as a produced screenwriter and filmmaker.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
PAUL SALTER is a Registered Dietitian Coach, Author, and Sustainable Weight-Loss Expert. He firmly believes that weight-loss-related challenges aren’t related to lack of nutrition knowledge, but are actually projections of deeper rooted emotional and psychological challenges and that one won’t be able to confidently sustain weight loss until those challenges are acknowledged and overcome.
If you want to know more about Paul Salter, you can visit his website at www.thepaulsalter.com.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode, I sit down with inspirational speaker, Certified Psychodramatist, Team Coach, and owner of The Game Plan for Better Living, Joshua Lee! We discuss helpful habits to get your life back on track.
When you are distracted by life events, you let go of yourself to meet the needs of others. You work late for your boss, you help someone build a business, you support other’s dreams, you volunteer and give of yourself. All the while, you let go of your own dreams or leave them in a box in the garage.
www.thegameplancoaching.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode of SoundBlaming, Paul Cope continues his lesson on problem-solving. He shares some observations about the nature of problems, and how to dive into the art of problem solving. Paul wrote How To Solve Any Problem In Life: The Root Causes Of Everything” that will help remind you how to solve problems when they inevitably come your way.
In the application portion of the episode, Dr. Shields and Paul Cope discuss how hope can bond the optimist and the realist when it comes to problem solving despite the tensions that often arise between both personality types. We discuss how hope can benefit our attitude, how to get yourself and your team to refocus in the midst of problems, and how your core values act as a constant guide in the midst of problems.
www.paul7cope.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
What do monks, Olympians, and entrepreneurs all share in common?
At first glance, it is the differences between the three callings that appear most starkly. Monks devote their life to inconspicuous prayer and work in the stillness and stability of a monastic setting, while Olympians train and mold their body into a state of almost inhuman physical prowess, often gaining fame and vast fan followings as they do so. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs innovate, thinking outside the box and presenting new goods or services at the doors of the public. Although in quite different ways, monks, Olympians, and entrepreneurs do share a common pursuit: the pursuit of greatness.
In this episode, Reginald Gant shares the habits to help you unlock your greatness. Reginald is a man of many dreams who is out to serve the masses. He is a 4X author and Founder of Serve4Men, LLC and the SERVE principles, which is a personal development vehicle used to educate men, fathers, and husbands. He equips and encourages them to step into their leadership roles as protectors and providers by challenging them with the question “why not me” instead of allowing them to settle for less so that they can live life with a clear conscience and without regret. Reginald’s purpose is to assist men in finding their way because there is no manual or guide for manhood and fatherhood.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Philosophers, researchers, spiritual leaders—they’ve all debated what makes life worth living. Is it a life filled with happiness or a life filled with purpose and meaning? Is there even a difference between the two?
Think of the human rights activist who fights oppression but ends up in prison—is she happy? Or the social animal who spends his nights (and some days) jumping from party to party—is that the good life?
These aren’t just academic questions. They can help us determine where we should invest our energy to lead the life we want.
In the episode, Sid Garza-Hillman and I explore these questions in depth, trying to tease apart the differences between a meaningful life and a happy one.
Sid Garza-Hillman is the author of Approaching the Natural: A Health Manifesto and Raising Healthy Parents: Small Steps, Less Stress, and a Thriving Family. He graduated from UCLA with a BA in Philosophy, is a public speaker, podcaster (What Sid Thinks Podcast), certified nutritionist, and Small Steps Coach–teaching his unique approach to healthy living at smallsteppers.com. He is the Stanford Inn Eco-Resort’s Wellness Programs Director, co-creator (with No Meat Athlete,
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Over the last seven months, as the Covid-19 virus has continued its spread, our worlds have become smaller. Working from home has morphed from a novelty to the mundane. Travel for business or pleasure, once routine, has become nonexistent. Seeing friends, going to our favorite restaurants, visiting family — the list of things we can’t do, and won’t be able to for months to come, is endless.
Peter Quinn stopped to talk about how the lack of novelty in our Covid existence can negatively impact our creativity — our ability to put ideas together in new, useful combinations to solve problems.
Peter Quinn describes what he does as being a creative director working at the nexus of brand, culture, and purpose. As a creative professional, he helps organizations grow, engage, shift beliefs and attitudes, and sometimes what he makes inspires people to act. Peter believes that everyone contains many selves. His past experience of being a performer in bands, painter, curator, video creator, and even little league baseball coach, father, and husband– has allowed him to bring a lens to his projects– one that is uniquely his.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Amy Dempster helps in understanding the healing power of the earth. What began as openly sharing her spiritual journey on her popular blog Following Hawks, has become a resource for others wanting to learn how to communicate with nature and share their own unique healing gifts with the earth.
Together with the Spirits of the Land in the mountains of northwest Montana, she tends seven portals on the land where she lives, along with any grid keeping work she is assigned. She also leads the Earth Tenders Academy, an immersive online journey to help others re- establish their connection with their ancient ancestors, learn to communicate with the seen and unseen forces in their environment and respectfully offer their healing energy to places in need.
www.followinghawks.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Making the journey to financial wellness requires moving beyond dollars, cents, and budgets. People struggling with money problems didn’t know how to prevent and don’t know how to “solve” need more than lessons in money management they don’t relate to.
So, in this episode, I explore the role of trauma in money problems and learn a trauma-informed approach to financial wellness with Seanté Hatcher.
Seanté is a trained Clinical Social Worker who is passionate about helping those who are in or have overcome financial hardship (self-inflicted or not) and want to set boundaries, be fulfilled, and live life on purpose.
www.readysetmerge.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
It may seem that there’s nothing you can do about your stress level. The bills aren’t going to stop coming, there will never be more hours in the day for all your errands, COVID-19, and your career or family responsibilities will always be demanding. But you have a lot more control than you might think. In fact, the simple realization that you’re in control of your life is the foundation of stress management.
Join me today as I talk with Sandy Woznicki, the stress and Anxiety Coach and Mindful Teacher dedicated to helping you become the happiest version of you. In this episode, Sandy shares tools to help you become calm and confident and able to handle anything life throws at you.
www.stressandanxietycoach.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
On the surface, it may appear that we live in an extrovert’s world and that the most vocal, visible, and socially connected people employ more natural confidence and presence. Society tends to view more outgoing people as having a desired “it-factor,” propelling them to higher levels of success than those who are more introverted.
However, introverted people possess a great deal of positive attributes that are becoming more valued in both personal and professional realms. These include strengths like good listening skills, being more thoughtful and strategic in their decision-making, and the ability to pay attention and provide intuitive insight—all demonstrating a high level of confidence to the outside world.
Visibility Expert Amelia Roberts joins me to share some simple introvert-friendly ways to channel your inner confidence and become more visible.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Whether you have questions about your love life, need help making a big life decision, or want to know what your future looks like (don't we all!), Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields and Medium Barbi Dahl have teamed up to offer live, free readings to the SoundBalming community.
These online readings may be able to give you the clarity you need to move forward with confidence.
Still a bit cynical? Maybe, that's because you're picturing a veiled fortune teller clutching a crystal ball in a dark-lit room, promising the imminent arrival of someone tall, dark, and handsome. Throw that image away.
Barbi is a genuinely gifted individual who uses extrasensory perception to reveal hidden truths about your life, shed light on issues that are holding you back, and help you make changes if they sense trouble is lurking ahead.
So, if you're ready for an eye-opening one-on-one Medium reading experience, send us an email to
soundbalming.nicoleklimpacher@gmail.com, and maybe you will be selected to be on the show.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Marketing never stops. Even when a crisis event like coronavirus seems to be consuming everyone’s attention, you still have to get your message out — but do so in a sensitive, thoughtful way. How? JP Clement, CEO, boomtime, recently offered some insights with me on SoundBalming.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Perfectionism is officially infamous — it is now one of the most popular responses to the interview question “What is your biggest weakness?”. It is quite likely that perfectionism is assumed to be a strength that manifests as a weakness, hence desirable and safely sharable in a job interview. However, even as we tout perfectionism as weakness, most of us have not spent the time to realize its true perils. Many of us fall into the trap of perfectionism. It is pervasive and on the rise, impacting individuals, teams, and organizations.
If perfectionistic thinking is causing you stress, listen to Dr. Shelly Johnson as she shares some steps you can take to work toward healing on your own.
Shelly Johnson teaches ethics and a variety of other philosophy classes at Georgetown College in Kentucky. She blogs at Love is Stronger.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In today's special Mother's Day episode, I speak with Natalie Estelle, Co-Founder and CEO of Preemie Moms Rock. This non-profit organization served Moms of premature babies about the recent launch of 52 Self-Care Tips for NICU Moms from a NICU Mom.
Natalie Estelle shares candidly with Dr. Shields about the years that have led up to where she is today: the heartbreak and loss, the learning to trust her own voice as a patient, and the healing and hope shines through her six-year-old daughter Andrea.
www.mrsnatalieestelle.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Why is it that some people seem to shine in any sphere in which they choose to exert themselves, and others cannot manage even a glimmer despite obvious talent?
Research shows that it’s the way that they think about their ability that really counts.
Most of those who have achieved greatness, to use Shakespeare’s phrase, have worked extremely hard to get there. Many were told that they would never amount to anything. But they believed that they could achieve, and worked hard to do so.
Andi Saitowitz joins me to talk about how working on your own mindset could be the single most important thing you ever do to help you achieve success.
Andi is a global personal development strategist, transformation coach for mastering change and author of Rise & Shine Personal Development Journal. Andi brings her wealth of knowledge, expertise and extensive training in EQ, positive psychology & high performance mindset together with her unwavering passion for personal development leadership into her coaching.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
How do you sum up a life in 30 to 40 pages? By highlighting the poignant moments, funny stories, and unique photos that sum up what life is all about: childhood, culture, love, military service, hope, death, raising kids... life challenges and how we overcome them.
These are the unifying experiences that should be celebrated, captured, and shared with future generations. These are the stories that come out in our unique interview process to create one-of-a-kind keepsake albums that your family will treasure, pass down, and revisit for years to come.
To talk about writing and the power of story, I sat down with author and storyteller Corey Johnson. Corey is the author of Courageous, a story loosely based on the life of Avon "Flubber" Johnson Sr. In this story, a young man from the streets of Baltimore is raised by a single mother and a family of proud, hard-working Carolina folk who has a lot of Faith and Pride. Still, because of Flubber' lifestyle, he ended in prison and consequently died from AIDS.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode of SoundBalming, I sit down with Liz Lewinson, an award-winning author, speaker, teacher, technologist, strategic planner, and feminist.
Liz is Vice President and Treasurer of The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism. She leads the grant category titled “Women in Buddhism.”
Liz has authored three books–American Buddhist Rebel: The Story of Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz; Women, Meditation, and Power; and The Power of the Loving Man – with additional book and audiobook projects underway.
Most people associate the word power with having a lot of money, fame, influence, and beauty. But according to my guest, Liz Lewinson, true power comes from within. It’s an inner power that helps us lead a life of peace, joy, and tranquility.
So, get your pen and pad ready because Liz shares practical techniques for reducing fear and shares the steps for women to regain their feminine power. Also, she sheds light on the misconceptions of feminine power and impacts our society.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
“Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” - Madam C.J. Walker.
"Face challenges, fear, and frustration by seeking out knowledge and opportunities for growth."--Fanny Mairena
There are absolutely no limits to what you can achieve, especially when you’re equipped with the right tools, the right attitude and the right plan! At the Empower U Summit: The Women of Color Edition, you will learn from leading experts who will give you the direction, the clarity, and the focus you need to achieve your goals, and you will network with like-minded women who have similar goals to you. If you want to improve your life or business, this is the event to be at!
The Empower U Summit: The Women of Color Edition is a first-of-its-kind convening some of the most influential voices in women’s leadership—from the fields of entrepreneurship, spirituality, leadership, mindfulness, health and technology.
Sponsored by the SoundBalming Podcast in collaboration with the Cambio Group, this timely and essential conference will expand our understanding of the many ways women leaders are transforming their communities and their nations; it promises to advance thought leadership and provide opportunities to learn from the women who are making a difference not only across their respective disciplines, but around the world. During informal discussions, attendees will explore what women’s leadership looks like through the lens of four key leadership competencies—mind, body, spirit and business —leading to a deeper appreciation of the challenges women of color face and offering productive strategies for addressing them.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
With every passing year, it seems that our collective awareness of educational inequity is growing.
In this episode, that’s what we’re going to learn about.
I’m talking with Dr. Tessa R. Sutton. Dr. Sutton is the Assistant Superintendent of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion at the South Bend School Corporation. She has served as a teacher and building and district level administrator. Tessa leads the Thought Leadership Conference, bringing business, education, and community leaders to one place to build a connected culture. She is also president of Intercultural Relations Group and a Certified Diversity Executive.
Tessa serves on the City of Elkhart's municipal international Sister Cities Association Board. She holds a Master of Science degree in education from Indiana University and a Master of Arts degree in Intercultural Relations from the University of the Pacific, in conjunction with Intercultural Communications Institute. She received her Ph.D. in educational leadership from Indiana State University.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Whether you have questions about your love life, need help making a big life decision, or want to know what your future looks like (don't we all!), Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields and Medium Barbi Dahl have teamed up to offer live, free readings to the SoundBalming community.
These online readings may be able to give you the clarity you need to move forward with confidence.
Still a bit cynical? Maybe, that's because you're picturing a veiled fortune teller clutching a crystal ball in a dark-lit room, promising the imminent arrival of someone tall, dark, and handsome. Throw that image away.
Barbi is a genuinely gifted individual who uses extrasensory perception to reveal hidden truths about your life, shed light on issues that are holding you back, and help you make changes if they sense trouble is lurking ahead.
So, if you're ready for an eye-opening one-on-one Medium reading experience, send us an email to
soundbalming.nicoleklimpacher@gmail.com, and maybe you will be selected to be on the show.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Rich Curtis is, and always has been, a guide. He spent over a decade as a raft and mountain guide on the rivers and mountains of the American West and as a real estate entrepreneur. Now he spends his time guiding people through life’s inflection points as a best selling author, story expert and success coach. Rich guides, coaches, writes and speaks to help entrepreneurs, CEOs, adventurers and go getters rewrite their stories, get unstuck and live their dreams.
As a passionate student of the power of story, neuroscience, positive psychology and behavioral psychology, Rich believes in a world where people are invested in the process of being better tomorrow than they are today. His life’s work, including his book, Change Your Story Change Your Life, have been about helping people get there. .
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
During any rapidly changing situation, loss of daily routine, isolation, and uncertainty can lead to anxiety, fear, depression, and loneliness. Dr. Stephen Bond, a Social Studies teacher at Wilson Preparatory Academy in Wilson, North Carolina, spoke with his students via email and text during the COVID-19 crisis that ended the 2020 school year and discovered many were feeling these emotions. These journal entries so moved Dr. Bond, he decided to turn them into a book, Perseverance in a Strange Land: The Voices of the Youth During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Whether your hair is kinky, curly, or tightly coiled, HIP HOP HAIR offers a fresh perspective on the many textures of beautiful hair. With its catchy rhythm and melodic rhymes, this poetic anthem will leave your head bopping and your feet hip-hopping! So, proclaim your uniqueness and broadcast your truth with the styles you wear and your "HIP HOP HAIR."
Written by JFAM Johnson(TM) (a collective of 8 siblings), HIP HOP HAIR highlights the rhyme, rhythm, and respect of the history and culture of Hip Hop. This literary delight includes original illustrations and designs by Abigail C. Johnson (age 12) and Jael K. Johnson (age 10). Each image is a vibrant display of Black and Brown American boys and girls in uplifting and true-to-life settings.
Hip Hop Hair is a playful ode to all types of curly black hair. Every page exudes empowerment through rhymes and imagery. This book takes an honest look at every black girl whose hair is not the socially accepted norm. Curating self-love and acceptance through a playful hip-hop style reminiscent of the first emcees
I had the pleasure and opportunity to interview all of the siblings about their new book and other projects, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I hope you will, too.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Carolyn Colleen is a fierce mother of three children, author, international speaker, entrepreneur, and business strategist focused on helping others achieve their goals.
Carolyn is the founder of the FIERCE Academy, an online program that helps women create life strategies that enables them to have the life they dream of—without sacrificing their families, careers, or lifestyles. She is also the author of F.I.E.R.C.E.: Transform Your Life in the Face of Adversity, 5 Minutes at a Time!
Carolyn Colleen’s life story is one of personal and professional transformation and triumph. She is a living example that if there’s anything holding you back, you have the power to overcome it – and to achieve all of your goals.
She’s gone from a child who survived abuse, to a FIERCE and fearless woman whose mission is to serve other women who want to transform their lives.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Are you emotionally strong enough to change your thoughts, beliefs and find out what you really want? In today's episode of SoundBalming, we tackle "Limiting Beliefs" with Life Coach and Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching, Kim Ades.
As the founder of Frame of Mind Coaching, Kim Ades has a particularly unique way of coaching her clients. Her One Big Tip involves a method of journaling which you can use to advance your company growth and client interactions.
www.frameofmindcoaching.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Eliza is the author of A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO CLAIMING SPACE. Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard., which will be published by Berrett Koehler in May '21, and available now for pre-sale. A student of the arts and political science, Eliza is a Cook House Fellow at Cornell University, member of Govern For America's League of Innovators, and a Diversity Crew partner. Creator of highly regarded talks and workshops, she educates about universal/women's empowerment, and DEI. Eliza's talk on anti-racist communication was originally commissioned by MIT's Office of Minority Education.
https://www.elizavancort.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Brenden is the founder of MasterTalk, a YouTube channel he started to help the world master the art of public speaking and communication. He coaches purpose driven entrepreneurs on how to master their message and share their ideas with the world.
As an experienced speaker and facilitator, Brenden understands that audience members need to walk away captivated, and above all, inspired to master the art of communication. It should be seen as something to look forward to rather than a burden that must be overcome. He sits down with me to share some of his public speaking secrets.
https://www.mastertalk.ca
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Deneen Joyner is a Soul Medium, Spiritual Coach, Storyteller, and Nationally award-winning author of Soul Wounds & Sacred Revelations who has sat with many wounded people and witnessed their pain. Even when they cry out, “Why did this happen?”
Since the age of five, she often sensed others’ emotional pain and could feel what was heavy on one’s heart. Unknowingly being an empath often made her feel awkward and alone with my feelings.
She uses both her personal and professional experiences with emotional pain and the knowledge she gained from her healing journey and blended it with her beautiful gifts along with the spiritual soul healing wisdom passed down to her by her ancestors to offer innate self-guided healing.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
With extreme passion and transparency, Treveal Lynch has been captivating audiences for over 18 years. Through his thought-provoking yet highly applicable messages, Treveal has become known as “the voice they listen to”. As a trusted communicator in both the corporate and faith-based community, Treveal continues to present innovative ideas that spark the imagination, inspires the soul and calls for lasting life change!
As the founder of iamthepossible®, a company built on the philosophy that “I and my possibilities are one and the same; everything you hope to be tomorrow, you already are today”, Treveal is committed to communicating ideas that inspire audiences to see themselves in ways they've never imagined possible
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
The daughter of Hattian Immigrants, Juliette Nelson, is no stranger to hard work. From a very young age, she has always been on a mission to inspire, motivate, and encourage youth and adults to be their very best.
As the Founder and CEO of JUNURI, a company that equips students, professionals, and business owners, with the tools and resources to be successful in the different areas of their lives, and the founder of NURILENS, a wooden eyewear collection with blue-light blocking solutions for students and professionals.
In this episode, I sit down with Juliette Nelson, and we talk about her Haitian roots, running multiple businesses, new ventures, and how she empowers others to the same.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Matt Javit and his wife Nikki left their high paying Executive jobs in the USA to pursue their love of traveling the world and learning what it's like to be true entrepreneurs. Matt talks about what it took to finally make the leap of faith and trust that everything they had planned for over the year was the right decision.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
How often do you beat yourself up over making mistakes? My guest today is Kamini Wood, the founder, and CEO of Live Joy Your Way and the AuthenticMe® RiseUp program, specializing in helping teens and adults struggling with perfectionism to let go of stress, overwhelm, and anxiety.
Kamini is a mother of 5, is an international best selling author and founder and CEO of Live Joy Your Way. In addition, she is a certified life, wellness, and teen life coach. As such, Kamini works with high achievers on letting go of the stress, overwhelm, and anxiety that comes with trying to do everything perfectly.
In today’s episode, she shares how you can calm your inner critic and strengthen your self-compassion and inner confidence.
Thank you so much for listening!
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
While the idea of connecting with the supernatural realm might conjure images of gypsies and crystal balls, those stereotypes don’t hold true to the modern psychic. Nor do the “reality” shows involving ghost-hunting clairvoyants or sobbing celebrities communicating with dead people. Although skeptics are quick to debunk psychic abilities as pseudoscience, firm believers may go so far as to replace their therapists with frequent (even daily) psychic readings. (Which neither Barbie nor I suggest.)
To get a glimpse of the reality of a working psychic, I spoke to Barbie Dahl, a California based “medium.” While other kids his age were playing dress-up, seven-year-old Barbie was reading her friends. She knew he was different than other children and so did her friends and family.
One of the aspects that I found refreshing in Barbie’s unpretentious approach is her belief that everyone possesses psychic abilities but might not know how to harness them. “I’m a firm believer that everybody is ‘psychic’ and has a connection to the nonphysical realm,” she said. “It’s just like developing a muscle or validating it, trusting it, learning how to have that form of connection, and strengthening it.”
Barbi's soul purpose is to bridge the gap between the living and the deceased. She is able to communicate with souls on the "other side" using her clairvoyance (seeing), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (feeling), and claircognizance (knowing).
For more information about Barbie, visit her site at www.pathwaystogratitude.com.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Do you ever feel like the universe is trying to tell you something, but you just don’t understand the message?
Do you find yourself seeking answers to questions in your life and never quite finding a solution?
I’ve invited Dan Riordan to the show to help me unpacked these questions.
Dan is also the author of “Signals,” In his book, he provides us with an entirely new way of thinking about subtle signals you are getting in everyday life.
Dan’s passion is helping people produce better outcomes in their lives, relationships, and businesses by giving them steps to improve the choices they are making.
Let us know what you think of the show. https://lovethepodcast.com/soundbalming
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
I think it’s safe to say none of us want a repeat of 2020, in 2021.
It’s time to close the books on another year and hit the reset button — quite possibly the most anticipated reset of all time.
A New Year brings new energy and new hope for the future. We all need it after 2020.
So, what’s going to change within you when the clock strikes midnight on December 31st?
A New Year will not translate into a New You unless you take bold actions towards your future through eliminating behaviors that have held you back in the past.
You can say the right things. Hope for the best outcomes. Possess the best intentions.
Yet, if you don’t eliminate the useless behaviors and take action towards a breakthrough, then all of it is for nothing.
In this interview with Dr. Joe Johnson, you’ll find the mindsets, behaviors, and ideas that have prevented you from having personal breakthroughs in the past. If you want to avoid an empty feeling at the end of 2021, it’s time to take action towards eliminating these behaviors right now and focusing on having a successful 2021.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode, I talk with Calvin Correli, CEO of the holistically focused software company Simplero, about his passion for helping business owners do precisely what brings them most alive. He shares the deeply personal and often spiritual, and political lessons he learned in founding and operating his million-dollar business ventures.
www.calvincorreli.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Author, organization expert, Laurie Palau joined me in the BalmShelter to share the tactical side of tackling our spaces and her insights on how to get our life, home, and business organized for the new year.
Laurie is the author of the book Hot Mess: A Practical Guide to Getting Organized, the founder and CEO of Simply B Organized, and the podcast's host, This Organized Life.
www.simplyborganized.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this digital age, it’s easy to become detached from the people and things that really matter in life. Our schedules are hectic, busy, and packed full of personal and professional tasks that swallow us up and then spit us out on the other side, feeling empty, exhausted, and often lost and looking for meaning.
In this episode, I talk with author Sean Rosensteel, founder of the Intentional Living Academy, to get his blueprint for what it means to live a perfectly intentional life.
With a passion for helping others, Sean's journey began when he found himself bankrupt at the age of 28 after following conventional wisdom all his life. This eye-opening moment showed him that attaining true happiness and fulfillment means breaking free of societal chains and making your own path. Now, he hopes to inspire and empower his readers to achieve their dreams and live the life they truly deserve.
To learn more about Sean, please visit www.SeanRosensteel.com.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Writing can be a lot of things, but at its best it can be a life saver. Listen about how writing changed (and saved) Christina Johnson and helped her build a successful publishing business with her husband and children. As an award-winning educator, bestselling author, and Founder of Testimony Publishers, LLC. Christina M. Johnson used her academic studies, life experiences, and background in science and research to develop the transformation methods you need to plan, pen, & publish your life-changing book, blog, or business-to-business content. Christina has equipped over 1,000 entrepreneurs and service providers with the resources and tools to start, scale, and leverage their businesses.
www.testimonypublishers.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Branding influences people's desire to purchase, share, donate, etc. Why is this the case? And how can we tap into that power? Sterling McKinley will share many of his branding successes and failures in this episode of SoundBalming.
Sterling McKinley is a windowpane-suit-wearing, international keynote speaker who specializes in digital marketing and brand strategies. With more than a decade of experience working on projects with the Department of Defense, Bridgestone Golf, and Sprint, McKinley Media provides digital marketing, social media, and branding strategies.
www.sterlingmckinley.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Do you want to uncover what’s truly standing in the way of your ambitions and figure out what it’s going to take to get you to where you want to be? If you answered yes, you are going to love my interview with Lee Hopkins.
Lee Hopkins is a Thought Leader, Podcaster & Transformational Coach. He is best known for his work in promoting social-emotional wellness. His work as a Transformational Coach started when he found himself ill-equipped to create meaningful, long-lasting connections with family members, friends, or romantic relationships. He believed that the source of his broken relationships was rooted in the people around him, so he needed to change his scenery. After moving across the country and back, he found himself in the same dysfunctional circle of friends and the same chaotic romantic relationships.
www.patternsofpossibility.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Today on SoundBalming, I am interviewing Jeff Leisawitz. Jeff is a man of many talents. He is a writer, a poet, a musician, a filmmaker, and a photographer. Jeff has tapped into his creativity throughout his career and brought it forward in many different ways. In that process, he has developed this philosophy around creativity as a tool to be seen, expressed, and healed.
Jeff burns with a mission— to inspire and teach writers, artists, songwriters, musicians, filmmakers, solopreneurs, arts organizations (and every other human with a heartbeat) to amp up their vision, tap into their potential and shine in the world.
He is the author of Not Fing Around—The No Bullsht Guide for Getting Your Creative Dreams Off the Ground is Jeff’s first book. It is really like an advice book if you want to be more creative. It is an adorable little book with some excellent illustrations. He will talk today about that book and share some advice and stories around being more creative in your own life. I certainly had a lot of fun interviewing Jeff, so I think you will enjoy the conversation.
www.jeffleisawitz.com
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Imagine you’ve just been invited to a high-level event, the room is filled with fascinating people, and you know you want to be in their orbit. The problem is, you have no idea how to get there. Instead, you find the nearest chair and stay put for the next two hours.
If you’re introverted, shy, or socially awkward, you are going to love this episode with Nick Shelton, author of An Introvert’s Guide to World Domination. He shares how he coaches shy, introverted, and socially awkward people and helps them become better communicators while making them more comfortable and confident.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Genevieve Piturro left her job as a successful TV marketing executive, picked up a pair of pajamas, and built a nationally known 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and named it Pajama Program. Two decades later, Gen educates audiences on how to change their own course.
Genevieve Piturro was a successful television marketing executive in New York City for twenty years when a little girl’s question changed the course of her life forever – and she jumped off the corporate ladder. She began delivering pajamas and books to children in shelters and in 2001 founded Pajama Program, a non-profit which has been recognized nationwide for both its success and Genevieve’s story.
https://www.genevievepiturro.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
In this episode of SoundBalming, I’m happy to bring you a conversation with the author, speaker, and creative thinker, “the idea dude,” Terry Rich, about the importance of integrating creativity at work, even and especially in jobs not traditionally considered creative. Terry has authored two books: The $80 Billion Gamble and Dare to Dream, Dare to Act. He is on a mission to dispel the myth that creativity and strategy are at odds to help business leaders electrify their work and amplify their impact.
Before that, he started four successful entrepreneurial businesses and has numerous national media appearances including ABC, NBC, HBO, CBS, 20/20, CNN, CNBC, USA Today, and The New York Times; a movie host on Starz!; and appeared as a panel guest on the Tonight Show. Terry’s a disruptive innovator and entrepreneur with a drive for integrity and honesty.
Terry Rich was also involved in busting the most massive lottery fraud in U.S. history and giving away a billion dollars.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Tamy Khan is a happiness & meditation coach, and founder of Happy Meditator.
She joins us to talk about mindfulness and meditation and how those practices can impact our heart health in a positive way. Discover how mindfulness and meditation can help you reduce stress & anxiety, enhance your focus and balance your emotions.
https://happymeditator.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Now that so many of us are spending time working at home (thanks, COVID-19), a harmonious work/home space is more vital than ever. Whether you've got a master bedroom, dorm room, or the tiniest studio around, Tandy Pryor stopped by the BalmShelter to share some practical Feng Shui tips to make your living space happier and full of positive energy. Creating balance in the space where you work, live, and play just might be the key to a much-needed boost of productivity and positivity. Tandy leverages a toolbox that includes 25 years of coaching, 100’s of modalities, and energetic principles that enable her to quickly get to the root of where you are holding back. She uses this deep experience to create tangible, lasting change so her clients are operating from a foundation of joy, love and empowerment.
www.tandypryorcoaching.com
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Inspirational Speaker Johanness Atlas did not let his disability stand in the way of gifts.
In this interview, he talks about how he has been treated as a person living with Poland’s syndrome, a disorder in which affected individuals are born with missing or underdeveloped muscles on one side of the body, resulting in abnormalities that can affect the chest, shoulder, arm, and hand.
For the past several years, people of all ages have been inspired, motivated, educated, and entertained by his “CAN DO” attitude.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Sherrill Mosee, inventor and designer of MinkeeBlue, set out to solve a problem she calls the “overload bag syndrome.” Like many women, Mosee carried two or three bags to work—a purse, laptop bag, lunch bag and sometimes shoes in a plastic grocery bag in her purse. She wanted to create an organizational fashion bag for busy women whose role changed throughout the day—from executive to fitness enthusiast, daily commuter and mom.
Mosee is the former president of Family Care Solutions, a nonprofit organization she founded to promote higher education among low-income women with children. The organization awarded over $3 million in childcare scholarships to help women with children stay in school and earn a college degree. An electrical engineer by profession, Mosee, designed the compartmented bag with a patented folding panel inside to separate items in the bag.
MinkeeBlue organizational travel and work bags have been featured on the Today Show, the Katie Couric Show and QVC.com. Mosee describes MinkeeBlue as a reflection of “who we are” and “what we do” in our daily lives: “Your day is in the Bag.”
www.minkeeblue.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Dr. Adama Kalokoh is a strong advocate for women and girls in her ancestral homeland, Sierra Leone. Her passion for helping others and devotion to the service of humanity was crystalized after she made her first visit to Sierra Leone in 2003 and realized the tremendous need to help rebuild a fragile nation which still harbors the trappings of instability. She felt a great sense of responsibility, challenge and inspiration to become an Ambassador and Agent-of-change for girls and women in Sierra Leone.
She joined me to talk about her work in Sierra Leone and how she has worked tirelessly to raise the consciousness of Americans and the Global Community to the plight of women and girls in Sierra Leone.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Tom is the founder of Becoming Tom, which provides candid insights into his battles with mental health and anxiety, along with the steps he is taking to help improve his outcomes.
In this episode, we tap into the motivation and discipline of Tom Simmons. Still a young adult, Tom has had to wade through the challenging waters of varying adversity. From anxiety to cancer, Tom has figured out how to navigate his body in positives ways. As you will hear, Tom is now trying to help others, and his story will inspire you.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In today’s episode of SoundBalming, Dr. Michael Pariser and I had a great conversation about living on a boat, overcoming depression, surviving and thriving through a global pandemic, working through “Nice Guy Syndrome,” the hero’s journey, how men can build happier, healthier relationships, and much more.Dr. Michael Pariser also dives into many psychological techniques and practices for reconditioning your mindset for happiness and success despite past traumas or maladaptive traits.This episode is packed with helpful tips to show you how to break through your fear, resentment, and the problems, so you can get what you want in your life and business.
www.drparisertherapy.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
On this episode, I sit down with Mindset Expert, David Richards to talk about how we can alleviate some of the worry by being more mindful of our thoughts.David is a #1 international best-selling author, life coach, yoga instructor and self-development speaker. In his debut best-selling book, Whiskey & Yoga, David shares his wisdom on finding one’s purpose and living intentionally. His forthcoming novel to be released March 31st titled, The Lighthouse Keeper is a story around the power of mindfulness, and will explore the ways individuals can learn to shift their awareness to master their minds.
www.davidrichardsauthor.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Every year, millions of African American teenagers work to navigate the American job market. Unfortunately, courageous and resilient young people are often under-prepared and face various barriers due to systemic inequities-making them less likely to gain and excel in meaningful employment opportunities.
Author and Youth Advocate Albert Phillips, Jr. joined me in the BalmSheter to discuss his new book, Y'all Hiring? : The Black Teen's Guide to Navigating Employment. And to provide our listeners with some practical, culturally relevant strategies for African American youth seeking to obtain, maintain, and thoughtfully exit a job.
www.albertphillipsjr.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In today's SoundBalming conversation, my guest, Jacqueline Claire, a Visual Artist and Spiritual Storyteller Coach, shares how she uses her platform to uplift the community and bring people together through her paintings.
Jacqueline has devoted her life and career to exploring the role of art and faith in elevating her audiences and encouraging them to access mystical realities. She recently concluded her first art and spiritual storytelling tour of her show, Awaken to Your Life As a Spiritual Journey, through nine cities.
www.jacquelineclaireart.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
From out of the realities of abandonment by her biological mother, being bi-racial, and growing up in a Black home, Katara McCarty realized early in life that the color of her skin mattered. After becoming a single mother at 19 and finding the courage to leave an abusive relationship, Katara became an entrepreneur holding leadership positions in both non and for-profit organizations.
Katara sat down with me to discuss her new app, EXHALE, the first emotional well-being app for Black Women. The app, which launched August 25, offers content tailored to women of color to promote self-care, mindfulness, and rest. The app is free to download from the App Store and Google Play channel. Basic features are immediately available, but the user has the option to unlock additional features for a subscription fee of $4.99 a month.
www.kataramccarty.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode, I'm interviewing international relational facilitator, writer, and women's empowerent consultant, Dorenthea Nemeth, about all things womanly.
Dorenthea is an author and women's conference speaker. She loves to empower women to walk into their "next", which happens to be the title of one of her books, Next: Four Steps to Get Unstuck and Walk Into Purpose. Dorenthea is a wife and mother, and knows the demands that come along with that, along with having a career and a business. She empowers women by pointing them to the joy of walking in their purpose and pursuing their dreams that may have been at one point, forgotten.
www.dorenthea.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Case Kenny is the host of the New Mindset, Who Dis podcast – an iTunes top-ranked podcast. He is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of PRSUIT.com. He writes every day, records the podcast twice a week, and is regularly featured in publications like Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc, Forbes, The Chicago Tribune, Made Magazine, and others. Recently I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Case Kenny to talk about what drives him and keep him motivated to be the best. Case Kenny will make you think, laugh, and contemplate change all at once.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-mindset-who-dis/id1383599078
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Most diets, detoxes, or pills promise overnight and effortless weight loss, but it never lasts, and 'yo-yo dieting' leads to greater and more demoralizing weight gain. We typically follow the diet until something drives us to the refrigerator for comfort or stress relief. Renée Jones shows you how to get free from the emotional eating that sabotages every diet.
-
After 40 years on a diet, yo-yoing up and down the scale, Renée Jones had learned every diet – and every cheat – before finally stopping the comfort eating and self-sabotage to lose “those last 30 pounds” AGAIN in 2012 – but this time she maintained her goal weight. Who knew that was truly possible?
With a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling and a Clinical Residency in Pastoral Care, she has an international counseling and coaching practice utilizing traditional and contemporary models as well as relaxation and horse-assisted methods to help others win at losing extra weight and other baggage they’ve dragged with them for decades.
Her first book was "What’s Really Eating You: Overcome the Triggers of Comfort Eating." This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Jed helps busy professionals incorporate a common language and principles for success into their daily lives. He is a therapist, author, coach, and founder of iThrive3:20.
Jed's mission is to help couples energize their relationships by breaking out of the average and becoming joyfully married. So grab a cup of coffee, tea, or other favorite beverage, and join us in this conversation on marriage, trust, relationships, and parenting.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
In this episode, I speak with author and engineer Norman McCombs, who's debut novel "A Reason To Be" Is out now. Norman is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which honored him with the EDISON Medal, their highest patent award. He has received numerous other awards for technical achievement, including the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Obama for developing the portable oxygen concentrator credited with saving and extending the lives of millions with lung diseases. He has over two hundred patents worldwide, primarily for air separation technology used for a myriad of oxygen applications around the world
For more on Norman and his book, go to: https://www.normanmccombs.com/
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Jennifer has developed her expertise in Talent Strategy and Leadership Professional Development over her exciting 20 plus year career as an HR Professional. She’s led international teams across Greater China, Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to expand into new markets, managing franchise retailers, and developing key strategic partnerships - all while exceeding business objectives and financial results. The rapid growth of her consulting firm 304 Coaching has been largely due to Jennifer’s unconventional approach to building innovative workforce development solutions for companies who are facing breakthrough growth and accelerated hiring patterns. She is a sought-after business strategist, specializing in start-ups and large value-based organizations. She assists her clients in building talent strategies that complement their business strategies to ensure exponential growth.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
What is a trusted healer? What is patient centered medical home? Does everyone need both? AND, What type of leadership is needed to propel a healthcare revolution? Join Dr. LaMarrr D. Shields as he explores these questions and more with Dan Pelino, author of Trusted Healers:
Dan Pelino is an innovator, thought leader and author. Pelino is a regular contributor to the discussion on healthcare, citizen-based services and Smarter Cities, having appeared on CNN, Bloomberg, the BBC and other media outlets. He serves as a moderator and host to the current healthcare debate and is an adjunct professor lecturing on leadership at his alma mater Western Kentucky University. He serves on numerous private and public boards, and worked for IBM for thirty-six years leading its global healthcare and life sciences business for ten years. Pelino concluded his career with IBM as the general manager of the global government, healthcare, education, and life sciences business.
www.everyonemattersonline.com
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Aura Elena Martinez is a Self-Discovery and Empowerment Coach, helping the outer and inner travelers who seek greater well-being and personal fulfillment to discover themselves powerfully so that they can live life to the max. As a person who has traveled the world as a Flight Attendant, the opportunity has helped her learn and see so much and she discovered the most fabulous place for us all to see that is truly the key to greater well-being and she shares that with others worldwide.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
CareerGig CEO Greg Kihlström joined me in the BalmShelter to talk about the CareerGig platform, and why both freelancers and companies can benefit by working together.
Greg is a best-selling author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is currently Chief Experience Officer at Cravety, and was formerly SVP of Experience at Yes& after Carousel30, a digital agency he started in 2003 which was acquired by the agency. He is an award-winning customer and employee experience expert and digital transformation strategist who has worked with top brands, including AOL, Choice Hotels, Coca-Cola, GEICO, Marriott Hotels, MTV, Starbucks, Toyota and United Nations.
www.careergig.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Kris Holmes has helped unlock the careers of tens of thousands of people in her role as an executive recruiter. In her new book, Ignite Your Career!, she shows the best tools she’s honed over two-plus decades in her industry. Kris’s book was one I needed when I was just getting started in my career and as we spoke, I realized the same tools continue to apply as people make important shifts throughout their careers.
Kris joined me in the BalmShelter to share her hard-won insights on career advancement at any stage of the game.
https://www.oconnellgroup.com/team-profiles/kris-holmes-mba-cpc/
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Micha Goebig is a life coach, blogger, and published author. She specializes in life story coaching and intercultural awareness. Originally from Germany, Micha received her master’s degree from the University of Munich and trained as a coach with one of Germany’s leading executive coaches, Monika Scheddin. In this episode, Micha Goebig talks about strategies to overcome limiting beliefs in your growth journey and life. She also shares strategies to help women unlearn harmful behaviors, such as perfectionism.
www.michagoebig.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Mollie McGlocklin is the creator of Sleep Is A Skill, a company that optimizes how people sleep through a unique blend of technology, accountability, and behavioral change. Her obsession with sleep came after “scratching her own itch” when her lifelong poor sleep habits progressed to a challenging bout of insomnia. With a background in psychology & human behavior, she went deep down the rabbit hole to solve her sleep disturbances. She became fascinated with chronobiology, and by extension, its practical applications to restore a state of homeostasis to sleep. For the past three years, she’s traveled the world testing sleep quality in different environments across the globe. Knowing the difference between a life with sleep and without; she’s dedicated to sharing the forgotten skill set of sleep.
www.sleepisaskill.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Brendan D. Murphy is a preeminent “Change Agent” and a chronic “truth addict”. He has a compassionate heart, keen intellect, is deeply “spiritual,” and a no-bullshit humanitarian with a genuine disdain for political correctness and “acceptable lies.” Running on a fairly respectable “bandwidth,” he advocates something he calls “broad spectrum awareness,” meaning a big-picture, well rounded, multi-faceted worldview – the result of years of study (as opposed to ten minutes on Wikipedia). Throw away your blinkers and preconceptions about what it means to be spiritual (or anything else for that matter!), because Brendan will go where angels fear to tread, and he’s not afraid to drag you along for the ride kicking and screaming. In The Grand Illusion books, he has attempted what few other authors dare to, making his writing valuable to anyone consciously seeking deeper awareness of themselves, the nature of reality, and the challenges of life on earth.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
They say that in sports, 90 percent of performance is mental. Yet, we spend the majority of our time, effort and money on physical and technical training — including everything from gear and coaches to gym memberships and sports massages.
In this episode, Christian Straka shares his a unique approach to mindset training through methodologies for applying evidence-based mindfulness techniques in sports. Christian has been practicing mindfulness for many years, is a Unified Mindfulness L² Coach, a member of the Mindfulness Facilitation program at UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Today's guest, Tony Chatman, cuts through the chaos and clutter to focus on what really matters to your life, livelihood, community, and role as a leader. Tony shares with LaMarrr his passion for teaching leaders and teams how to build emotional and business bridges, tackle tough diversity conversations, and develop communication avenues that allow for greater growth, healthier teams, and elevated productivity.
Tony has worked with hundreds of corporations and government agencies including the U.S. Secret Service, Chase Bank, Estee Lauder, N.O.A.A. and N.A.S.A. to help people reach new heights of effectiveness by understanding themselves and others better. As a leadership keynote speaker, his passion is contagious and his messages provide practical, usable knowledge that people implement immediately for business and personal success. Recognized for his stage presence and intensity, Tony delivers the kind of results that consistently garner outstanding and enthusiastic reviews. His profound ability to connect with every audience member ensures they come away feeling that he spoke directly to them and impacted by his message. As an author, Tony recently completed his first book: The Force Multiplier — How to Lead Teams Where Everyone Wins.
www. tonychatman.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this interview, David Ciccarelli the Founder and CEO at Voices.com reveals how he went from 2 founding owner-operators, writing an idea on a napking, to generating over $15 million in annual revenue and employing over 100 employees.
David is an entrepreneur at heart. For the last decade, David, with the help of his team, has grown Voices.com from the ground up to become the leader in the voice-over industry. As Chief Executive Officer, David is responsible for setting the vision, executing the growth strategy, creating a vibrant culture, and managing the company on a day-to-day basis. David is wholeheartedly dedicated to growing the company to become a world-class organization and leading the industry in the digital age.
www.voices.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Married couple Christina and Javier Llerena know how it feels to be on the edge of divorce. After their second daughter was born in 2010, they almost ended up in court. In this episode, they share their expertise from facilitating marriage preparation retreats for over 1,000 individuals and overcoming their own crisis in marriage and faith.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Feeling overloaded with the worries of the world? Ever wonder whether you might be an Empath? In this SoundBalming episode, host, Dr. LaMarr D. Shields talks with Jennifer Moore about the energy of COVID 19, and how it will affect empaths. Jennifer also talks about the importance of battling negativity and bringing more positivity and light to raise your vibration an Empath.
Jennifer Moore is a mentor and healer for sensitive empathic women. Holding a Master’s degree in Psychology & Religion, she is also an accredited Master Trainer for EFT International and the founder of the Empathic Mastery Academy. Jen is the host of Empathic Mastery Radio and the creator of the Healing Tarot and two additional oracle decks.
www.empathicmastery.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Listen in as host LaMarr D. Shields talks with author Ed Kressey about the process of rebuilding their lives after struggling with the disease of addiction. Ed describes how and why he made the turn away from addiction to seek help and share the most significant lessons learned along the way—about shame, adversity, strength, perspective, and gratitude. Ed struggled through challenges and pain. After two decades of drug addiction—including 11 devastating years of addiction to methamphetamine—Ed had thrown away his life savings, biotech career, home…even his dog. He’d spent months in jail and four years in meth psychosis. He heard disembodied voices, believed vast conspiracies targeted him and estranged himself from everyone who’d tried to help him. His book, My Addiction & Recovery, is for readers seeking a greater understanding of the possibilities for power through adversity, via a personal, poignant, triumphant story. You will be inspired by his message, which is pointed, positive, and powerful: Redemption is possible, despite the most hopeless-seeming circumstances. Never give up on a human being…kindness is never wasted. Second chances benefit the giver (society), as well as the receiver.
www.edkressy.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Shea Butter has been extracted from the nut of the Shea tree in West Africa and used as cosmetic and therapeutic skin care lotion for thousands of years. It’s origins go as far back as Cleopatra’s Egypt, where it was carried in large clay jars for cosmetic use. Not long after, the healing properties of Shea Butter were discovered and optimized for use throughout the West African wooded savannah.Global trade of shea butter dates not only back to Cleopatra's Egypt, but was a very popular item of trade in the Middle Ages throughout West Africa and into the coastal regions. It was also traded heavily as an oil in European markets. As trade of Shea Butter spread throughout different regions of Africa in particular, it’s various uses began to diversify into things like soap and nasal decongestant. Shea Butter remains a popular substitute for cocoa butter in chocolate, though it still functions primarily as a skin care product as it has since the days of Cleopatra. If you’re interested in starting a bootstrapped business from scratch, or you just want to build a brand that’s completely your own, listen to Mary Benson, who shares how she takes pride in being Nigerian, and creating all-natural, hand-crafted products for your skin and hair. She uses nature's best moisturizer, shea butter, as the main ingredient in all of her products. She provides a variety of shea butter mixes that are blended with moisturizing oils and signature scents. All products are 100% handmade, vegan, and cruelty free for the entire family BioMary Benson is the owner of Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care. With a lengthy background in the medical field, her motivation has always been to bring health and wholeness to people. That intention shows through in the product line she has crafted and through her own journey of self-care.
www.jimmyandmarys.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
ANALYTICSEDIT VIDEO
In this episode with Edy Nathan, it features a compelling mix of science-based knowledge with heart-centered compassion. Listen as Edy Nathan shares a deep understanding of how grief can affect people at every level of their being. She offers workable tools from two decades of experience to help you actively shift moods, crippling thoughts, and behavior. Edy teaches you to dance with your grief, and to know it as a way to know yourself. Whether it is the loss of a loved one or the loss of a limb or the loss of the life you once knew, it is your soul that offers the answers to relief.
Edy Nathan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Midtown Manhattan and an expert in grief and trauma recovery. With over two decades of experience, Edy brings a deep appreciation for the universality of loss and the many forms it can take, from the loss of a loved one, to the loss of one's own sense of self.
www.edynathan.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Today's guest is Joy Dushey, creator of The Joyful Approach.
Joy Dushey is a holistic life guide and breathwork energy healer utilizing a variety of supportive esoteric modalities: crystals, reiki, sound healing, somatics, intuitive therapeutic coaching, and Mother Nature herself. Joy lives boldly in her core desire to help inspire growth in others and create positive impact in the world by sharing what’s worked well for her. Her greatest joy is to give others a means to awaken to their own great love, joy, and purpose.
After suffering for years with sadness, PTSD & depression, and an Ischemic stroke due to struggling with grief and illness from the tragic loss of her brother, Joy created The Joyful Approach. The Joyful Approach is a life system that combines the upgrading of practical daily disciplines around eating, sleeping, exercising, breathing, and thinking, with deeper spiritual work addressing core values, self-love, intentionality, and authenticity. The approach allows for living in true flow of life and for the unfolding of our best and highest selves.
www.thejoyfulapproach.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
One of the principle ways that people mismanage their anger is by playing the role of victim. In this interview, formerNFL Player and author of "The Winning Edge", Shawn Harper describes the characteristics of individuals who, because they feel uncomfortable with their own anger and misfortuane become trapped in a victimized orientation toward life, and provides practical insights on how to win in every arena of life.
Shawn has played a total of seven seasons with the Rams, the Oilers, the Colts, and NFL Europe. Since 2004 he has owned and operated American Services and Protection, a growing multi-million-dollar security services firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. He uses many of the powerful lessons he learned in the NFL and strategically applies them in running his company.
As a gifted national motivational speaker and author, Shawn Harper has inspired countless individuals and corporations such as Dow Chemical, Northwest Mutual, Beach Body, and Goodwill Industries to “PLAY TO WIN” by harnessing the vision, mindset, strategies, and teamwork needed to rise to their highest potential.
www.shawnharper.org
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Enjoying good health and optimal wellness is becoming the ultimate dream. For many, living a holistic lifestyle has moved to the forefront of an ideal future. And Victor Ferguson, founder of Optimal Wellness Community Victor Ferguson, is leading the charge.
In this episode, discover how Victor transformed his life and reinvigorated his body and community, using unique practices, alternative modalities, and self-healing solutions. His compelling story speaks to everything from stress and overexertion to depression and plant based meals.
www.optimalwellnesscom.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Bice started his first tech company at age 18, building an eight-figure revenue business that became the market leader in our niche of law firms and corporate legal departments. That led to Thomson Reuters acquisition, where he joined the management team of a $2B business.
Since then, he’s founded and invested in 27 companies, always seeing the same correlation: the better you are at marketing, the more significant the success.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
My guest Eric G Reid the creator of Success Life Coaching System sat down with me this week and shared some valuable info on a sensitive subject for all... Self Worth! What you'll find inside this session: There is often a disconnect between KNOWING you are worthy and FEELING you are worthy. Worth is something you are born with, you don't need to work hard for it or impress others. Eric Reid will help you to understand how you can help yourself in designing and executing a specific vision for your life, and surpass your mindset to create actions and practices that will transform your life from stagnant to stellar. Eric's mission to impact people and help them to take their life and their business to the next level. To see individuals get more of what they want out of life.
www.ericgreid.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Harry Sherwood's dedication to following his heart led him to travel the world. Over the last decade, he lived with and learned from monks, yogis, martial arts masters, professors, and psychologists.
In this episode, Harry discusses why so many people can’t seem to make lasting change in their personal development and self-help worlds, plant-based diets, and why most people are left feeling unfulfilled no matter how much external success they achieve, as well as his journey through change. He also talks about life lessons that have shaped him, from his hard-knock early years to founding Consciously.org.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode we talk with Kristine Ovsepian of Journeys to Heal, where she explains hypnotherapy and how she started her path to being a hypnotherapist, how it helped her, and why she wants to help others by doing this work. She also explains what past life regression work is - what happens during this, how it can help you in your current life and/or situation and what results people have seen. Past life regression is so fascinating, and how she explains it will make you want to know more about what your past life was like!
Kristine Ovsepian is the author of the book Living through Choice: Transform Fear to Love. She is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Life Coach and Intuitive Healer. She holds an M.A. in Psychology as well as certification in Past Life Regression, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Emotional Freedom Technique. She is a Certified Dream Builder Coach, Reiki Healer and Angel Practitioner.
www. journeystoheal.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode, I sat down with Matthew Ferry, who has been coaching thousands of top performers to achieve Enlightened Prosperity. His books, audios, and seminars utilize his street tested methodology called The Rapid Enlightenment Process, a guaranteed system to achieve profound states of happiness and success in life.
Matthew and I discussed how being tuned-in to life gets you to a more expansive and creative state, how we often attach the idea of risk onto the fear of losing out on an imaginary benefit, and he shared how pride, illogical rules and not being of service get in the way of the creative mind.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Tommy Breedlove is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author and Atlanta-based business, relationship, and mindset coach who is a regular featured keynote speaker at global events. He serves clients and audiences by empowering them to build and live Legendary Lives. We’re talking about his personal transformation, finding your purpose and the principles in his book Legendary. Tommy also explains why he left a career at a leading financial consulting firm to become a “mindset coach” who empowers people to “build and live Legendary lives.
www. tommybreedlove.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Chad Peterson is an expert business broker and the founder of Peterson Acquisitions, an award-winning M&A firm.Chad’s firm handles transactions in the $1 million to $25 million range, with some deals exceeding $25 million.
On this episode, Chad discusses how grit and determination can lead to becoming a successful business owner once you find needs that aren't being addressed.
URL for Free Gift
https://petersonacquisitions.com/get-the-book/
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Speaking with Bob Wheeler on today's episode was quite a delight! He has a vast base of experience and knowledge in all things finance as well as the emotional factors that contribute to attitudes and decisions in that arena. As CFO of the world-famous Comedy Store in Hollywood, he also has a treasure trove of stories and insights on the storied history of a venue that made tons of comedians into household names! He truly cares about the people he serves and offers some great bi-weekly online classes as well as other excellent material, not the least of which is his popular book, The Money Nerve: Navigating the Emotions of Money. Find out more at TheMoneyNerve.com
On this episode, comedian and CFO of the world-famous Comedy Store in Hollywood, Bob Wheeler, share simple strategies to help you conquer your money shame and avoid making poor financial decisions by teaching how emotions can dictate our choices. As a man of true integrity with infectious energy, Bob’s crusade for personal growth has cross-pollinated with his accounting practice to create a new approach to personal finances. His passion is to help others gain insights about how their emotions trigger financial decisions. Combining finances with behaviors, Bob explores his personal concept of creating a healthy relationship with money in his recent book, The Money Nerve. While strengthening his accounting practice, Bob has simultaneously pursued his love of satire and ventured into the realm of standup comedy. From his thirty years of helping clients, Bob has distilled a concoction of warmth, humor, information, motivation and budgeting directives that he offers to anyone with financial concerns. He is also currently the CFO for The World Famous Comedy Store. Bob's world travels have led him to high altitudes. He has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, ascended to the Mount Everest Base Camp, and hiked several smaller mountains in between.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this episode of SoundBalming, Taylor Bryant and Nicole Katsaounis join me to discuss the incredible impact of childhood experiences, the fuzzy distinction between trauma and stress, and what we can do to heal from those experiences. Taylor and are mindset coaches who have an extensive background practicing cognitive behavioral therapy with a focus on trauma. They have spent 10+ years serving their community as family therapists, individual therapists, mental health therapists, and trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy. Combining their years of therapy experience, Taylor & Nicole launched their coaching practice to have a more significant impact in their communities and change lives without being held down to a specific therapy model.
www.visiondrivencoaching.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
If you are ambitious, driven and understand how important it is to have some balance in your life then you are in the right place, because I had the honor to speak with and interview Dr. David Arrington, and he gave me some really good personal and professional nuggets.
David is one of the most successful executive coaches in the country. He coaches leaders to use positive accountability on their in-person and remote teams without micromanaging, which increases morale and engagement.
He is also the author of Promotable: How to Demonstrate Your Value, Highlight Your Potential & Land Your Next Promotion which was an Amazon #1 bestseller in multiple categories.
www.arringtoncoaching.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Watching your dad or mom walk out the door with all of their stuff isn’t easy.
Knowing they aren’t coming back for you is an even harsher, more numbing, reality to grapple with. You’re left with questions like, Is there something wrong with me? Were we not fun to be around? Was I not enough?
When loss, violence or betrayal test our willingness to forgive — how do we do it anyway? This hour, Dr. Shields sits down with Leonoardo L.T. Lightbourne and explores the challenges and benefits of forgiving others and ourselves.
Leonardo Lightbourne is a content creator, speaker, activist, mentor, writer & author of “It’s Not a Man’s World: How I conquered the sins of my father,” and founder of Open Thought, a non-profit organization.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Maureen Pelton is a Coach, Consultant, Certified Advanced QNRT Practitioner, and Bridge Builders Collaborative Partner, who uses a variety of integrative modalities in her practice. Using her intuitive gifts, Maureen offers support and guidance to those seeking their truth, wisdom and personal power on their path of self-discovery. Through her unique method of HeartSight, she invites clients to open their hearts, blend their bodies and souls and raise their consciousness to include Divine wisdom.Born as a medium with mystic abilities, Maureen has received mentoring from mystics, psychics and mediums from the United States and abroad. She sat down with me to discuss, healing energies, racial healing, trauma, and spiritual health.
www.shiftit.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Lisa Erickson is a chakra-based energy healer, author, and teacher specializing in women’s energetics and sexual trauma healing. She has trained in many energy healing modalities and is certified in both mindfulness meditation instruction and trauma sensitivity. She is also the creator of a popular DailyOM course Awakening Your Feminine Chakras. Lisa is the author of Chakra Empowerment for Women: Self-Guided Techniques for Healing Trauma, Owning Your Power & Finding Overall Wellness.She joined me in the BalmShelter to about how working with your chakra energy can support you through life-cycles, as well as traumas that may cause disassociation with the body. This talk will help you claim your full personal power, move past any trauma holding you back, and thrive with twelve chakra tools that are based on the feminine energy body and life phases.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
What impact does the classroom environment have on overall class behavior and learning? A whole lot! Kay-Twelve founder, Kevin Stoller, chats with us about the power of your classroom environment, and how changing the classroom environment can increase academic engagement and decrease disruptive behavior. Kevin's company helps academic organizations better structure learning environments to get better outcomes from their students.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Have you experienced some kind of abuse or trauma in your life? Maybe it was handed down to you generationally, or perhaps you just found yourself on the wrong end of a relationship. Have you endured the loss of a loved one or a friendship? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are going to enjoy my interview with Tina Incarnation.
Tina illustrates the many types of traumas she's experienced and the actions she took to survive, grieve and move on. Tina let go of the shame, guilt, anger, and fear associated with trauma and reclaimed a full life. Any listener who has experienced trauma or knows someone who has will find comfort and hope in this interview.
www.tinaencarnacion.com
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Building your social capital extends the value and power behind your network of social contacts. All of which can help you further hone your reputation and get ahead in your career.
But what exactly does it look like to build social capital? Dr. Froswa Booker Drew stopped by the BalmShelter to share some practical was to build your social capital from practicing the law of reciprocity to staying in touch with friends and family. Listen to what the most well-connected professionals have already mastered.
Dr. Froswa' Booker-Drew is an author, speaker, trainer and consultant. For more than twenty years, she has offered consulting services to a number of small businesses and organizations. With a vast, diverse network within and beyond the US, Froswa' is called a Master Networker and a Partnership Broker.
www.froswasrules.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Jonathan Pritchard is a magician of sorts, but sleight of hand has nothing to do with his tricks. He’s a master at deceiving the mind. Jonathan is really a mentalist who has dedicated his career to tapping into our subconscious to find out what we’re really thinking, and he says we can all do it too.
In this interview, Jonathan talks about how he got started in this field of mentalism and how he ended up on stages in Vegas, America’s Got Talent and many more and how he has been able to turn this passion into something that pays the bills. He also explains how he convinces people he can read minds by using the same psychological techniques employed by sales, marketing, and other business leaders.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
ANDREW PHELPS is the Creative Director of User10, a boutique studio focused on SaaS product strategy and design. He leads design teams at small startups as well as enterprise brands. An expert in product strategy and design, he was named one of the Arizona Republic's 35 under 35. He shares his knowledge of strategy, design, and entrepreneurship at ASU, SEEDSPOT, and The CleanTech Open.
www.user10.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Ever feel like you are just running in place? One day bleeds into another, and every day starts to lose the luster of being alive? You might be stuck, depressed, anxious or unable to do the things you want to do, but you can’t seem to do anything about it. The status quo often seems more appealing than expending the energy required to move to a different state – and heck, you might not like the new state any better. What you know is safer than what you might encounter next. Well, by the end of this show you will learn that you are not victims of change, but rather how you can thrive in the face of change.
Jennifer Powers, MA, MCC, is a best-selling author and Master Certified Coach. Traveling the world speaking to corporate and industry professionals, she is a leading expert in helping people improve their confidence and competence. For the past two decades she has coached hundreds of professionals, trained more than 2,000 coaches and delivered keynote addresses to over 250,000 people around the globe. As a Master Certified Coach, the highest earned credential from the International Coach Federation, Jennifer is ranked in the top 3% of coaches worldwide. Her best-selling book Oh, shift! and her newest book Good shift! are the foundation of her teachings.
www.jenniferpowers.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Michelle E. Dickinson is a passionate mental health advocate, a TED speaker, and a published author of a memoir entitled Breaking Into My Life. After years of playing the role of child caregiver, Michelle embarked on her own healing journey of self-discovery. Her memoir offers a rare glimpse into a young girl’s experience living with—and loving—her bipolar mother.
Michelle spent years working to eradicate the mental health stigma within her own workplace by elevating compassion, causing more open conversations, and leading real change in how mental illness is understood in the workplace and within the first responder community.
https://www.michelleedickinson.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Everyone has experienced fear at some point in their life. For those of you who have given into your fears and anxieties, we want you to know that you are not alone. In order to overcome fear, you must learn to push through it, not avoid it. Listen as Dr. LaMarr D. Shields ask Gina Fresquez the tough questions about the impact fear can have on our lives.
www.ginafresquez.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Eric Christiansen is an acclaimed documentarian who has built his brand around socially responsible filmmaking that educates, inspires and heals. He has the capability to identify an issue within a specific population and have it resonate with a general audience through compelling storytelling. A trauma survivor himself, having lost his home in the Santa Barbara Painted Cave fire disaster, he understands trauma, the resilience of the human spirit, and how important HOPE is to the healing journey. A seven-time Southwestern Region Emmy Award recipient, Christiansen's previous films (Faces in the Fire, Homecoming: A Vietnam Vets Journey, Searching for Home: Coming Back from War) have been transformative in the recovery process for thousands of people whose lives have been compromised mentally, spiritually and physically by trauma. Leveraged as educational tools by top mental health institutions, Christiansen's films migrate from the entertainment arena into environments that help additional audiences navigate the profound collateral damage trauma creates not only on the individual, but the family and community as well. The New York Times called his last film, "strikingly photographed" and "...sure to give comfort and support to countless veterans and their families." By spotlighting these survivors and their journeys, Christiansen has been able to help unify a variety of audiences around the power of HOPE, and educate the general population about the complexities of trauma. Christiansen has also produced for major networks including Discovery, TLC, PBS, MTV and an Imax film.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Cynthia is a Voice Coach, Speaker and Author. She has helped business professionals and professional speakers from 46 countries across 5 continents with their voice to speak with impact and conviction, engages and inspires people to embrace change and take action.
Cynthia has been a professional speaker and coach for the past 17 years and her engagement spans 4 continents in countries as U.S., Finland, The Netherlands, Argentina, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China, India, Brunei, Vietnam and The Philippines.
Cynthia and Dr. Shields discuss some of the techniques and best practices towards developing a more confident and authoritative voice! Some of the techniques include properly projecting your voice, proper breathing, and resonance.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Once a week for a year, when he was in college, Jared Dixon underwent "conversion therapy," a practice that attempts to attempt to change an individual's sexual orientation, sexual behaviors or gender identity. He joined us in the BalmShelter to discuss the dangers of conversion therapy, and to discredit the practices that falsely claim to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. Jared's journey of survival is the focus of this powerful interview.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
June is Pride Month and Pride Month presents a chance for you to express your support for your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, or other LGBTQIA+ people in your life. Navigating how to be an ally appropriately can be tricky, but your support can help LGBTQIA+ people feel heard and safe as well as be used to amplify LGBTQIA+ voices as they advocate for equal rights. As an advocate for the LGBTQIA+, our team has created two shows dedicated to addressing the many challenges faced by the LGBTQIA+ community.
Our first guest in this series is Melissa DaSliva. Melissa is the owner of East Coast Mental Wellness, a therapist, author, podcast host, and an artist. She specializes in working with LGBTQ+ individuals and school systems. She joins us to talk about creating a truly inclusive environment for the LGBTQIA+ Community, by offering direct emotional and therapeutic support for people in crisis. She also offers advice, support, and simple strategies to make like changes for the better.
https://www.melissadasilva.com/about
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Kenny Weiss is a leading personal development speaker and the author of Your Journey to Success. As a life coach and founder of The Greatness Movement, he works with successful entrepreneurs, professional athletes, individuals, and families. He has been featured for his work in Psychology Today, Phoenix Magazine and Reader’s Digest among other popular publications. He joins me in the BalmShelter to talk about how our childhood affects our adult.
https://www.kennyweiss.net
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
The pre-eminent guide and life influencer for leaders, students, athletes and employees on getting out of their own way in business and life to achieve the ‘impossible", Tom Corner, joined me in the BalmShelter to talks about Finding Life After Rage.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In this time of crisis and isolation, the role of art becomes more central to our lives, whether we realize it or not. Joining me in the BalmShelter to discuss the role of art and artist during COVID-19 is Artist Jodie King.
Jodie's mission is to help others excavate their own authentic power and joy through the use of art and creativity. She possesses a combination of playful irreverence and spirituality with almost 20 years of art experience that resonates with her audience from around the world.
As an artist, Jodie paints primarily in abstract expressionism which simply means she uses paint and other media to express externally what’s bubbling up in her mind, body and spirit.
www.jodieking.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Listen in at author, CEO/President, Lorna Little, as she takes us on her incredible journey from being a teen mom to CEO to leading a $28 million organization during an international pandemic.
Lorna joined me in the BalmShelter to discuss how she is leading with compassion and integrity. Learn how she is making decisions, what is influencing her, and the challenges she has as experienced as women and a "women of color" along the way.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In 2012, Reed quit his job in Australia and moved halfway across the globe to the US to change his life, and to chase a dream. With limited funds, no investing experience, and no credit, Reed went from purchasing a small duplex to growing his own real estate investment firm, Wildhorn Capital. Reed has grown a portfolio of 1,100 multifamily units. He has been involved with $500M-worth of large-scale commercial construction and development projects in Australia, the UK and the US.
Today, Reed Goossens joins me to share ways to invest in yourself and why it's so powerful.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
With the outspread of the Coronavirus pandemic, one must take care of oneself and loved ones. For this various precautionary measure has been adopted by everyone over time, but with that, it is essential to take care of our eating habits also.
It is of utmost necessary to have a healthy diet as it could help us to boost immunity. One should be mindful now that how to make our eating habits healthy so that even if one is contaminated, then also our immunity can fight with the virus. If few food items inculcated in diet, then it could lead to a stronger immune system –Registered Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator, Author, Celebrity Chef and Professional Speaker, Marlisa Brown stopped by the BalmShelter to provide our listeners with some tips to tips to eating healthy during this pandemic.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Bill Protzmann, a renowned contemporary pianist and composer, tells a very personal story about the healing power of music.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
With self-effacing humor and refreshing candor, Uma Shankari examines her Spiritual Evolution from her childhood in India to her arrival in the United States.
What she uncovers are familiar and all too common distortions that shaped her view of about eating healthy, and about the spiritual evolution of our species.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Mark Hernandez is the owner and founder of People and Pets Energetics. He is a Holistic Practitioner that helps people and animals that have “hit the wall” with health and well-being issues. He uses non-invasive energy-medicine modalities and tools to help his clients experience a change gently and safely.
In this episode, we tap into what the Body Code and Emotion Code are and how we can use these tools to help us understand our energy and the energy that is all around us. Mark is an excellent teacher and is incredibly knowledgeable about how energy and spiritual medicine can nurture our souls and help us experiences more joy, peace, and happiness.
www.peopleandpetsenergetics.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Are You a Highly Sensitive Person- HSP?
Do you even know what an HSP is?
Well today may be your lucky day as we interview Alexandria Thibodeaux, transformational leader, teacher and healer for highly sensitive persons -HSPs and HSP Consultant that has helped 100’s of HSPs step into their true gifts as an HSP and let go of “shoulding all over themselves” about how to be in the world in a way that doesn’t suit them.
Today we discuss highly sensitive persons traits and problems that are common to HSPs.
www.alexandriathibodeaux.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
It’s no secret that the popularity of CBD has grown exponentially in recent years. Chances are someone in your circle of acquaintances has used CBD: a co-worker, a family member, or a friend. And chances are they’ve shared stories about how well it works for whatever ails them: from arthritis and back pain to anxiety relief and acne reduction, the miracle of CBD as a natural remedy seems to know no bounds.
In my interview with Michael Pachan, he discusses the hemp, CBD, and cannabis industry, and his startup Mountain Made.
During this interview, you will learn three things: 1) Why people beginning to experiment with CBD should start with just CBD. 2) How much CBD you really need to be therapeutic. 3) What to look out for when researching CBD products.
www.mountainmade.life
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Michelle Kuei was an 11-year-old student in rural Taiwan when a car running a red light completely altered her life’s trajectory. Through the long and painful process of recovery, Michelle made surprising discoveries about loss, identity, and personal strength--revelations that helped guide her through her journey as an immigrant to the United States. On this episode, Michelle shares her personal story about how positive transformation can happen when we let go of self-pity, embrace our flaws, and learn to love ourselves. Michelle Kuei is a certified transition life coach who helps negative self-talkers discover inner strength and beauty by overcoming fear for judgments. As the founder of Elevate Life Coaching, a seminar and coaching company, Michelle teaches her clients the tools and inspiration they need to live confidently and with purpose by helping them redirect their fears and use their energy to build themselves up.
https://elevatelifecoaching.org
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Starting and growing a business in the creative industries can be challenging at the best of times. Can you move your company forward during a major crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and if so, how? Serial creative and designer Marjorie Nicole joins us in BalmShelter to how she's using her skills to protect us from COVID-19.
As one of the latest entrepreneurs to step up and help out with the nationwide mask shortage, Marjorie Nicole, founder of NSAA, an African inspired clothing boutique, started selling reusable face masks with fabric from Africa for use as protective measures against the spread of COVID-19.
The facial coverings are more crucial than ever since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began advising that people should wear them in public places where it's hard to keep a safe distance from others.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
When people first come across the Law of Attraction, their hearts and minds often immediately think of one specific thing that they’d love to manifest in their lives. However, the next thought is usually, “But I can’t do that.” You may come up with all kinds of excuses, from the belief that you’re too old to find love to the assumption that you don’t have the skills to reach the top in the career of your choosing.
Luckily, the truth is that it’s never too late to follow your dream. Christy Rutherford shares reasons why you should believe you can.
www.christyrutherford.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) may be stressful for people. Fear and anxiety about a condition can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children. Coping with stress will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger.
Everyone reacts differently to stressful situations. How you respond to the outbreak can depend on your background, the things that make you different from other people, and the community you live in. Therefore, Dr. Balin A. Durr, a board-certified psychiatrist with 20 years of experience in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry, joined Dr. Shields in the BalmShelter to provide our listeners with strategies for coping with anxiety and different ways of thinking about and reacting to anxiety-causing situations.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In addition to the serious implications for people's health and the healthcare services, coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a significant impact on businesses and the economy. Dr. Jeffrey A. Robinson shares strategies to help small business prepare and respond to the crisis. Jeffrey A. Robinson, Ph.D. is an award winning business school professor, international speaker and entrepreneur. Since 2008, he has been a leading faculty member at Rutgers Business School where he is an assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship and the founding Assistant Director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.” - Mark Twain.
You are going to LOVE this episode! Dr. Towanna Burrous is real. She is a mom, Executive Coach, Founder & President of CoachDiversity Institute, and knows a lot about pursuing your purpose.
In this episode, Towanna explains how to release yourself from damaging relationships, debilitating fears, finding a good coach, and the “power” of questions.
This episode is for those who refuse to waste a single day and who fervently desire to build momentum and pursue purpose every day.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
For years, critics have sounded off about the lack of diversity in nominations in the Academy Awards. Social media commentators have used the hashtag, #OscarsSoWhite, to share their disappointment.
Just like the Academy Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, considered the world's most prestigious film festival, also has been called out for lack of diversity.
Enters Yolonda Brinkley, creator of Diversity in Cannes, an independent filmmaker movement promoting inclusion at the Cannes Film Festival. Due to the continued conversation regarding the lack of diversity in the festival, Yolanda felt it necessary to encourage the presence of marginalized and underrepresented filmmakers as well as celebrating their achievements at the world's most prestigious film festival.
Yolonda joins me in the BalmShelter to talk about why diversity is important, key challenges she encountered while promoting inclusion at the Cannes Film Festival, and advice and insights on a topic that is a top priority for so many of us.
https://diversityincannes.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Jeff gives a candid, unforgettable look at the world for at-risk and incarcerated children and youth today, and the juvenile justice professionals who work with them.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Julia Gabor, Mindful Founder of Kid-Grit, opens up about her personal life, and how her upbringing prepared her to serve some of the most challenging kids. Kid-Grit is committed to a holistic developmental approach promoting the nourishment of a child’s intellect, emotion and intuition, along with the conditioning of his/her body through delicious nutrient-dense food, movement, breathing and other self-regulation tools. In this way, we can holistically impact the whole child
https://www.kid-grit.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
On this episode of SoundBalming, Hotep, Business Abolitionist, documents his personal and professional journey of building Hustle University in real-time. From his early days of being a kindergarten teacher to creating innovative ideas that evolve to life-changing products.
As the founder of Hustle University, the first self-help organization for entrepreneurs, Hotep is an internationally renowned success strategist, Congressional Award-winning educator, and authentic entrepreneur known for his out-the-box thinking, guerilla marketing tactics, branding expertise, and his provocative, “hardcore” approach to teaching leadership, entrepreneurship and practical business best practices.
If you need a dosage of thinking big, Hotep will do the trick.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Known Nationally and Globally as, “Mr. I’M POSSIBLE,” Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Keith L. Brown, overcame the systematic labels of, “Special-Ed,” and, “At-Risk,” to become one of the most sought after speakers of our time. Named a, “World Class Speaker. I caught up with Keith at the National Youth At-Risk Conference in Savanah Georgia, and he shared some ways to jumpstart your personal growth by challenging everything that comes your way. You will be inspired, and ready to take control of your life.
http://keithlbrown.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
I caught up with Dr. Irma Gibson at the National Youth At-Risk Conference. She was giving a talk about her new book, Intimate Partner Violence Among African American Male Victims. The essence of this nonfiction book pertains to intimate partner violence (domestic violence) with a focus on an unnoticed population, black male victims. The content consists of fourteen awe-inspiring chapters strategically aligned with the task of addressing the twenty-first-century crisis of IPV comprehensively, truthfully, and holistically from a personal, research-based, practice-focused, and policy-based perspective. Real-world truths innovatively address and present a diverse range of topics and solutions, including the stories of IPV survivors and victims, mental and behavioral health caveats, the military aspect, issues of culture, bullying, and the influences of reality television. Most of the contributors are professional social workers as well as professionals in other disciplines, and have all either personally or indirectly experienced this public health problem.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Being a servant leader means putting the interests of others above your own. And no one knows this better than Dr. Shaw Ashworth. For the past two years, every Thursday evening, at the Baltimore Washington Thurgood Marshal Airport, she feeds over 150 people. On this episode of SoundBalming, Dr. Shawn Ashworth explains why she decided to serve displaced men, women, and families living in the airport. And explain why it's important for all of us to serve.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Ever wonder what the hidden power of words is?
My next guest would cringe at the sight of the grammar on this blog as I often confuse “Whom with Who,” and “Affect with Effect.”
For me, it’s always been about the passion behind my words, not the grammar or structure (that may also be my cop-out since I almost flunked English in high school).
The magic of words, however, happens when we learn to use the correct grammar coupled with passion… that’s when the real inspiration happens in creating a visual story and powerful emotions with the readers.
In this episode, I sit down with the communication expert, Ayesha Gallion to talk about the power of words and her new podcast, I’m Speaking Now.”
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Actor, Gregory Keith Grainger embodies the hope that anyone, no matter how humble their background, can succeed at the highest level. Known for his work on Queen & Slim (2019), Uncle Drew (2018), and Atlanta (2016). He went from studying communications and mass media, then flipped the script entirely and pursued a career in acting. Despite many setbacks and challenges he faced, Greg remained loyal to his core values and his craft. In this episode of SoundBalming, Greg explains precisely how he fell in love with acting, speaks passionately about the importance of forming and nurturing relationships, faith, and even talks about how to overcome the primary roadblocks that stop most people from achieving their dreams.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Ayinde Alakoye's journey as a serial entrepreneur began early in his career when he created the first iteration of what would become Clear Channel's iheartradio app. Now a highly popular app with over 100 million users, the way in which the world at large listens to radio has been forever changed. A highly tech-savvy individual with a long history of working in – in fact, for the majority of his career. After serving as a speechwriter and advisor for President Obama's 2008 and '12 campaigns, and even appearing on the hit Bravo show, "Millionaire Matchmaker" in 2010.
Ayinde talked with LaMarr about how he initially started his company, some of his early obstacles, his revolutionary new radio live audio creation app, nēdl, that lets users create, monetize and distribute live interactive podcasts, what he's learned from his mother, how he keeps ahead of the latest trends, his best advice, and so much more.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Ask for what you want, get what you want. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But as Bobby Audley explains in this inspiring episode, sometimes it’s the smallest words, the simplest steps, and 50 cups of coffee that can make the biggest difference in our lives.
By setting the goal of having coffee with 50 people forces you to be clear about your goals. Making the goal public, one person at a time, also makes it much stronger. Having 50 coffees is good because then you have to commit to the specific move that you want to make. You’ll also get input from smart and interesting people.
The hidden insight in the 50 coffees idea is that the biggest changes in your life will only happen through the people that you meet and conversations you have. Human beings create and convey meaning through stories and conversations. If you change the conversations that you’re a part of, then your life changes automatically.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
For so long, Black women’s and Black girl’s stories and memory have often been ignored, erased, and neglected. However, Tiffany Gill, Founder/Chief Visionary Officer of Black Girls Unscripted, is ensuring that these “errors” and the exclusion of their voices will never happen again. She stopped by the SoundBalming Studio to discuss how she’s pushing back against distorted versions of Black women and Black girls.
www.blackgirlsunscripted.org
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
How do you practice staying on purpose? Have you lost sight of the purpose of your life? If so, you're not alone. According to a new book, by Victor Strecher, having a purpose in life is crucial for our health and well-being. Today I sat down with a transformational servant leader, Dr. Tasheka L. Green, who chose to live her life on purpose.
As an inspirational speaker, influential coach, thirteen-time best-selling and international best-selling author, entrepreneur, philanthropist, talk show host, and the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of To Everything There is a Season Enterprises.
Learn how this woman of God found a fantastic source of purpose in her life. If you have questions or are looking for meaning in your life as well – this is the interview for you.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
What started as a dare between two college friends in a hotel room in Las Vegas, quickly turned into a journey from rural Pennsylvania to the Mediterranean. When former educator and CEO of Day Real Estate, Mat Day, dared to unearth his family history.
So, pull out your Hummus, Rice Pilaf, Fattoush, and pour yourself of a cup of Sahlab, and follow along on Matt's heritage journey to see what happens when he discovers where his ancestors are from for the first time.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Family and togetherness are key themes for the holidays. That can make the holidays awfully difficult for people who are grieving the loss of a loved one. My father passed away a few weeks before the holidays. We still shared stories, ate large meals, visited with family, even sang some songs—but it was all pretty subdued.
Although grief is nearly universal, it expresses itself in many different ways, and sometimes resembles significant depression. Frequent crying spells, depressed mood, sleep disturbances, and loss of appetite are frequent during the bereavement process.
Internationally recognized author, speaker, and global female empowerment expert, Janice Ferebee joined me in the SoundBalming studio to discuss grief and loss during the holiday season. She also discussed her global mission empower girls and women around the world to claim their rights, advance their education, and unlock their boundless potential.
https://www.janiceferebee.com
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Maurissa Stone Bass is a social artrepreneur, change strategist, management consultant, facilitator, motivational speaker, executive coach, and community development professional. She sat down with me today to talk about why people of color need safe spaces. And how valuing and protecting areas for people of color (POC) is not just a kind thing that white people can do to help us feel better. She feels supporting these spaces is crucial to the resistance of oppression. She also opened about how she copes with adversity in her own life.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
In his latest book, Lessons I Learned from Drinking: Life Principles Gained through Investing in Spirits, Timothy Fields reflects on some of his most memorable drinking adventures over the last 20 years. This book is not just about drinking; instead it's about life and the many challenges it contentiously presents and how to combat them to live a better, more carefree, and peaceful life!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
I’ve been lucky enough to travel around the country telling folks about the history of soul food. Along the way, I learned a sure-fire way to bring an energetic audience into a stunned silence. I tell them that “vegan” is the hottest trend in soul food. Many African Americans have gnashed their teeth (some have even wailed) after hearing this news. Why? Because vegan cuisine, with its lack of animal products (dairy, lard and meat) is so completely at odds with what the food they grew up eating in their parents’ or grandparents’ kitchen. No fried chicken or catfish? Greens without any ham hocks? No macaroni and cheese? Yes, they have a point, but when one takes a peek further back into African American culinary history, one comes away with a surprising conclusion. The words “vegan” and “soul food” actually can belong in the same sentence, and Greg Brown does a great job of explaining it.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
As a society, we learn about the world and advance our well being through science and engineering. The United States may be known around the world for its higher education, but compared to many other leading and steadily emerging countries, we lack a strong focus on educating scientists and engineers. One significant reason that we have fallen behind is that we do not encourage our female students to pursue career paths in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
Dr. K. Renee Horton believes this needs to change, as the lack of women in STEM will continue to plague our country until all students, regardless of sex, have adequate opportunities to explore math and science throughout elementary, middle and high school. As a NASA trained engineer, she is on a mission to help minority girls get excited about a future in STEM careers.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Marriage takes work. This is especially true when you literally work with your spouse. Having your partner at your side all day at work and then for the rest of the night at home isn’t for everyone, but for married entrepreneurs, Kim and Tim, they couldn’t see life any other way.
Kim and Tim Lewis, the Co-Founders of Curl Mix, which was featured on ABC’s “Shark Tank shares their story of young romance, failed business, and bouncing back to be a force to be reckoned with. Learn how Kim started Curl Mix alongside her husband, how she became a self-taught freelance photographer, and what she learned in the process.
She and her husband/co-founder Tim have gone from mixing small batches of their clean beauty product for curly hair in their South Side kitchen to moving into a small business incubator on the city’s Near West Side.
Employing a staff of 25, Kim and Tim get to help people feed their families and pay their mortgages. It’s the satisfaction of providing opportunities for others that keeps them going. And the love they have for one another that is at the heart of this story.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Dr. Ericka Njeri Elion is an emerging spiritual and cultural leader, as well the Creator and President of the Miriam House, who understands the need to define and respond to the generational spiritual consequences of racism, victimization, marginalization, and isolation experienced by people of African descent, specifically serving as scholar-activists in ministry.
She joins me in the BalmShelter to offer practical steps on how to "unlock the creative genius" she believes lives inside all of us.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Are you overwhelmed with life’s changes? Have you gone through a divorce? Wanted to give up? Had a baby? Changed jobs? Switched careers? In this up and close interview, former Ebony Fashion Fair Commentator and model turned psychotherapist and media personality known for her transparent, practical style of communicating and teaching, Dr. Jada Jackson, talks about how to manage life’s losses and common transitions by reframing negative thought processes. Dr. Jada will help get you refocused and back on track! As a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Jada shares how she struggled with life’s transitions and emerged to living a life of contentment, peace, and massive success.
Jada has worked as a consultant and counseling psychology professional for the NBA/NBPA Health Education Program, Major League Baseball Association, L’Oreal USA, Disney, Walmart, MSNBC Universal, Fox News, WE TV, The Weather Channel and a host of professional athletes and entertainers.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Soul music legend Donny Hathaway, who is name-checked among a list of famous suicides— a man who often refused to take the prescribed medication that was meant to help control the debilitating symptoms of his paranoid schizophrenia takes center stage in Washington, DC.’s Mosaic Theater’s scintillating musical drama Twisted Melodies.
Kelvin Roston, Jr., who wrote Twisted Melodies and grew up in St. Louis just like Donny Hathaway, joins me in the BalmShelter to discuss this breathtaking solo performance for which words are really insufficient to describe its emotional impact.
Jimmy&Mary's Authentic Body Care
Jimmy&Mary's take pride in creating quality handcrafted products for the entire family.
Mountain Made Clear Crystal CBD
Enhance your active lifestyle with natural blends and formulas...crush life with Mountain Made CBD!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
I recently had a chance to chat with entrepreneur and real estate expert Christian Ross. If she looks and sounds familiar to you, she either sold you your home or you’ve seen her on an episode of HGTV’s “House Hunters.” With more than 10 years’ experience as an international realtor, the TV personality specializes in luxury properties in Atlanta, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Australia.
She is one of Atlanta's most respected and recognized top-selling brokers whose success has flourished into an international client base expanding through Europe, South America, Israel, Canada and Australia
During this interview, Christian shares some of the juicy wisdom she has picked up on her road to success as a real-estate investor, entrepreneur, innovator, and business owner.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
It turns out that dating and job searching aren’t all that different. One expert shares her best advice for flirting, handling rejection and avoiding being too picky.
I recently conducted an interview with my friend Ericka Jackson, who is a witty, fun, energetic all around beautiful human being, and also an incredible dating coach. She runs https://ilovethechase.com/, and teaches workshops all over the world on how to meet people. She connects single, busy professionals and entrepreneurs through exclusive, personalized matchmaking services and customized, private matchmaking events. Unlike most Matchmaker, Ericka’s approach is simple, easy, and human. I learned that Ericka’s advice for finding love can also work for your job search. I must admit, she changed my perspective on how social interactions work. Listen to our podcast, or take a look at an excerpt below. And I wish you the best of luck finding whatever kind of match you’re looking for.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Across the country, thousands of young people are without permanent homes. Service providers and policy makers have not known how many of these young people exist or how to meet their needs. That picture is changing due to the work of a Rebeka Beach, Director at Project Connect.
Founded in 1996, Project Connect provides advocacy paired with specialized educational services and lifestyle enrichment opportunities for children who have neither a voice nor a choice, in being homeless. Cincinnati Public Schools serves about 1,700 students whose families are homeless.
We caught up with Rebeka at the National Youth At Risk Conference in Savannah, Georgia to talk about her work with homeless youth, loss, poverty, and educational challenges. And how, despite those setbacks, many of the youth she services express optimism and hope for their future.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
It’s been one week since federal authorities announced that 50 people — including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman — participated in a massive scam focused on getting wealthy children accepted to elite universities.
The scandal has sparked an intense discussion about wealth, privilege, and access to America’s most selective schools. But the ongoing fallout, and other recent stories about race-conscious admissions at Harvard and growing racial disparities in New York City’s selective high schools, provide a chance to examine a larger issue: how racial, educational, and economic inequality and discrimination collide to create a system where low-income students of color — particularly black and Hispanic students — struggle to access a quality education.
Well, the average student doesn't have wealthy families and don't have trust funds. Therefore, they have to apply for student loans. In Student Loans Are The Devil, educational leader, and author Shatavia Elder combines a deeply personal narrative of her own journey through student loan debt along with practical strategies that will help you. No matter where you are on this journey, this book and interview are geared to help you create personalized solutions to lessen the mental burden of the debt and to develop specific skills to help you use your past experiences and your debt as a foundation of your future freedom. Your financial freedom toward a more purposeful life is within your reach.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Someone once said, “Every great loss demands that we choose life again.” This quote sums up the life of Jeff Jordan, social entrepreneur and health and wellness advocate. Despite being raised by a single mom, who was addicted to drugs, and a father who was absent from his life, Jeff has been able to bounce back and build several successful businesses focusing on holistic youth development, mentoring and kinetic life coaching. He shares some of those strategies with me in the BalmShelter.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Parenting a child with a disability can be a challenge, and often those challenges feel like a strong tidal wave coming, threatening to make parents lose their balance, to fall, and sometimes wanting to give up.
Despite the stares, the school system, the medical billing, the ignorance from other people, and or the lack of support, Tracy Ward or Sista Tracy, as she prefers to be called, speaks about finding beauty in brokenness with gritty honesty and openness. She's passionate about sharing the real – sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly – aspects of faith, parenting, and raising a child with special needs.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
I’ve been meditating and practicing yoga for 15 years — ever since I realized that meditation isn’t about sitting in a lotus pose surrounded hippies, pretending you’re as calm as Buddha while pondering what’s for dinner and planning responses to work emails. Meditation is the best tool in the world — life-changing, in fact — for connecting with yourself and making your wildest visions come into fruition.
So, I was excited to sit down with talk with yoga and meditation teacher Leonora Eubanks. Leonora shares her insights into anxiety, fear, and schizophrenia and how mindfulness and meditation can be of benefit to those struggling with these forces.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Educator, author and filmmaker Dr. Marc Williams, a nationally-respected sports marketing pioneer, pop culture expert, has been widely regarded as a Sports Marketing Pioneer. He is one of the nation’s experts on Education, Leadership, Career Transition, Crisis Management, and Professional Development. Dr. Williams has worked for three of the largest Sports Brands in the world: Champs Sports, Footaction and Reebok and was named as one of the Top 20 Inspirational Speakers in the World. His insights have been featured on CBS World News, BBC World News, and CNN. He's worked with Michael Jordan, Beyoncé, Allen Iverson, Chris Rock, Shakira, Will Ferrell few to name few. We chopped it up in the SoundBalming Studios, and as only Marc can do, he “spit fire”. In this very raw and transparent interview, Marc discusses how sports and failure have had a tremendous impact on him and his career.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
From the moment we are born to the final days of our lives, touch acts as a central aspect of the human experience — impacting our physical, mental and emotional health, and quite literally shaping the way we go through our lives.
Candace J. Mickens, the lead massage therapist at Sacred Touch Body Work, stopped by the SoundBalming Studio to talk about her journey to becoming a Thai Message Therapist,
“bodywork,” and how our sense of touch and our emotional responses authentically impact our lives. As a “bodyworker,” her mission is to re-connect the body with the mind and spirit through enhancement of body awareness and various body modalities in a safe, secure environment.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
I recently had the opportunity to chat with Samara Stone, Founder of The Stone Foundation, about personal branding, learning from failure, and leading with passion and purpose.
Samara is an innovative leader in the field of mental health, where she leverages her 20 years of experience to develop business coaching and branding solutions specifically for her unique niche of mental health entrepreneurs through her work with BeBrandConfident.com.
If you find yourself stuck in your career or looking for a boost of motivation, look no further, Samara’s message will encourage you to constantly look for opportunities as well as think outside the box.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
After walking into Brain Surgery and never walked back out, Dr. Yvette Pagues lost an opportunity for fully-funded Ivy League college scholarship, Fortune 100 Executive Engineering career and the ability to walk on her own. On the other side of tragedy, she won 3-wheelchair pageant titles with platform to help children aged 7-17 years old publish their #Storms2Stories in a book - starting with her own children, active advocacy for Global Inclusion, re-created career as Corporate Disability/Diversity Consultant, became published author, Purpose Coach, Professional Speaker and recently returned to graduate school to earn a Doctor of Education degree with focus on Special Populations. And without using legs, Dr. Yvette Pegues is climbing mountains, and she wants to show you how.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
These days, the word ‘legend’ is very seldom used to describe modern day artists, but I had the opportunity to sit down with a legend, Frank McComb.
Frank has worked with this century and last century’s greatest musicians and blessed many people’s lives through his music, including mine. His musical journey started when he was 12 when saw his aunt play at the local church.
I caught up with him at The Publick Playhouse in Cheverly, Maryland, known for its comfortable, inviting space and great acoustics.
In this interview, he discusses being an independent artist, Prince, creativity, and being compared to Stevie Wonder and the late Donnie Hathaway.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
When Kalilah Wright left her six-figure architect job to follow her true passion of becoming an entrepreneur — crafting cool sayings on cotton t-shirts for her brand, Mess in a Bottle — she never thought she would come face-to-face with crime. More importantly, she never thought the city she loved and called home would be where her nightmare took place. But the root of her story stretches far beyond fashion and entrepreneurship, its premise focuses on empowerment and having the fortitude to forge ahead when you’ve given up hope. Today, Wright will tell anyone who listens, the importance of being happy and living your dreams, even when they’re interrupted by trauma.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Shantell Roberts can remember the exact time her mother called her at work to say that she’d found Roberts’ 1-year-old daughter unresponsive in the bed. It was 9:48 a.m. – and the moment everything in her life changed.
Tylour Marie had been sick with a fever and vomiting, but doctors didn’t seem too worried, telling Roberts to come back in three days if her daughter hadn’t improved. At the time, it all seemed fairly routine.
But the viral infection doctors thought Tylour had turned out to be MRSA pneumonia, and, despite doing everything doctors told her to do, on the day after Valentine’s Day in 2011, Roberts’ baby girl died.
Shantell joined us in the BalmShelter to talk about her beginnings as an advocate, as well as how she started Touching Young Lives., a nonprofit focused on public education for best practices in infant care.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Being happy doesn't have to be hard, says prominent executive coach Anisa Rashad. We each possess an internal compass that expresses our individual wisdom and points to the things that would most fulfill us.
On this interview, Anisa offers tried-and-true strategies that help us to access our own inner knowledge to achieve what she calls JIL: Juicy Integrated Life, in which gains come more easily because we've learned to honor our true desires and work with our individual talents rather than exhausting our energy on a traditional model of achievement. Her techniques focus on asking ourselves what we really want instead of frenetically trying to "have it all." We learn to ask questions that move us forward, not backward, to discover our own unique "lucrative purpose," and to design a "SuiteSpot" that draws to us the more rewarding existence we deserve. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
This is one of my favorite interviews to date. It really delves into the details of how Kyle Pompey found his niche, and started to excel in it. We also reminiscence on the days when Kyle was my student, and what he learned from me. Most importantly though, we discover how Kyle has found his own style and the inspiration behind his shooting. And how you can do the same. If you’re an aspiring photographer or just need a bit of inspiration, then this interview is for you.
Kyle Pompey is a professional photographer living in Baltimore, Maryland, who considers himself an "organic photojournalist." Whether collaborating in his studio or documenting throughout his travels, Kyle avoids posed or planned pictures. Instead, he perceives the energy of his subject, which he allows to define the story of the moment. Inspiring imagination is the goal of Perspective: Baltimore. Designed to promote freethinking every image will deliver a different narrative from the reader.
A Baltimore native, Kyle is featured in a variety of publications such as The Huffington Post, GQ, Essence, Japan Magazine, and The Baltimore Sun Dark Room. His images have also been used in a collection of artistic works such as the Reginald F. Lewis Museums “Reflections of Baltimore” exhibit, Tariq Toure's "Black Seeds: The Poetry and Reflections of Tariq Toure," and Aaron Maybin's "Art Activism." He also runs a youth photography camp called “Youth Perspective: Baltimore Photography Camp”.
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
This week on the podcast, my guest is Jennifer Powers, author of the Oh, Shift! and Oh, Shift! for Teens. She talks about the power of words, living free, beating depression, and choosing joy. Her message of hope provides real solutions for real people who need a shift in their lives, relationships, jobs, and marriage.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Shodekeh Talifero has embarked on many collaborations over his career as a professional beatboxer - not only with other musicians from a diverse range of backgrounds, but also with neuroscientists as he seeks to reinforce his musical intuition.
As a participant in Session 547 | The Neuroscience of Art: What are the Sources of Creativity and Innovation?, the Towson University Department of Dance Faculty spoke to LaMarr about the origins and values of beatboxing, child abuse, the politics of Hip-Hop, and using beatboxing to teach kids math.
Listen to the interview and an exclusive beatboxing performance here. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Ayanna Gregory is the daughter of longtime civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory; she's also an accomplished singer. Ayanna talks about how activism influenced her acting and music. Also, Ayanna Gregory shares an excerpt from her one-woman show, Daughter of the Struggle, including a song she wrote in tribute to her mother and father.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
From work, school, and finances, to friends, family, and first dates, pretty much every aspect of our lives can (and will) be a cause of stress at some point. In this episode of SoundBalming, author Candance Greene shares her deep breathing technique called Peace-Breaks, used to alleviate in-the-moment tension. In addition, Candance also discusses her new book, Inhale Peace: A 31-Day Journey to Realign with the Peace of God.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Charnele Brown's role of Kim Reese in A Different World was one of the most relatable ones during the run of the show. Striving for educational perfection while experiencing real world issues, there was no denying Brown's talent in her role on the show. Charnele joined me in the BalmShelter to talk about acting, colorism, God, Bill Cosby, and so much more. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
People know him as the Digital Lifestyle Expert® on NBC’s TODAY Show, CNN, NPR, FUSE, and more. They’ve watched him on Steve Harvey, Inside Edition, Dr. Oz, and other popular talk shows and news programs.
In recent years, Mario has become an even greater pop-culture presence as host of multiple events and shows, including filling in for Carson Daly in the TODAY Show ‘Orange Room’ and hosting an event with judges from the popular TV show Shark Tank.
Mario has now launched his own interactive talk show, the Emmy Award-winning Never Settle Show. This is the world’s first crowd-produced, livestreamed talk show with live participation from the in-studio & online audience. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
After an interaction with Howard County police in 2012 that he found deeply troubling, filmmaker A.J. Ali says he was motivated to address relations between police and the African-American community.
AJ — teamed up with Errol Webber, a Maryland Institute College of Art alumnus and cinematographer who previously worked on an Oscar-winning documentary short. With Ali as director and Webber as director of photography, they produced "Walking While Black: L.O.V.E. Is the Answer," which discusses bridging the gap in police-community relations throughout America. The acronym "L.O.V.E.," coined by Ali, is to encourage people to "learn about others in their community, open their heart to them, volunteer to be part of the solution in their life, and empower others to do the same. The solutions-focused documentary features nearly 30 interviews with members of communities across the country. Current and retired law enforcement members — including Baltimore Police Chief Melvin T. Russell, commander of the department's community collaboration division, and retired Los Angeles police Sgt. Cheryl Dorsey — appear along with community leaders, social workers and psychologists who discuss the effects of racial profiling on American communities and tragic instances in the history of police-community relations, which include the deaths of Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland and the five members of law enforcement who died in a shootout in Dallas in July. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
I recently caught up with Dr. Adair White-Johnson, the author of eleven self-published books and the founder of the Johnson Tribe Publishing.
In this interview, she told me about:
1)How to self-publish a book in 2018 2)The one thing you must do before you write or self-publish your book 3)How to avoid the common mistakes new writers (not authors!) make 4)The simple rule that helps Adair balance writing with running a successful business 5)And so much more Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Jan. 12 will mark the nineteenth anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Among the millions of Haitians still homeless and rebuilding their lives are artists — painters, musicians, dancers, writers. On a recent trip to Haiti, I caught up with Jean Appollon and Stephanie Scherpf at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince to witness the beauty their work, dance.
Jean talked about his home country and its art, its history and future, and how its artists are surviving in the earthquake’s aftermath.
Jean Appolon Expressions uses dance to celebrate Haitian cultural expression and empower young people through innovative dance performance and community programs.
JAE is one of the few companies in the world to synthesize Haitian folkloric dance and modern technique. As an ambassador of Haiti, and the Haitian, Caribbean and African diasporas, JAE showcases artistic expression of a specific cultural community.
JAE is proud to call Boston, with the third largest Haitian population in the U.S., its home. JAE conducts community classes,teen programs, and performances in the Boston area and beyond with the goal of enriching and enlivening communities through authentic cultural programming.
Every summer, JAE conducts The Jean Appolon Summer Dance Institute in Port-au-Prince. Sixty young Haitian dancers are selected to participate in a free, high quality dance program directed by Jean Appolon.
https://jeanappolonexpressions.org
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
'13th' Cinematographer Hans Charles On 'Mr. SOUL!' And Being Deliberate About The Black Image Selma director Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th examines America’s prison industrial complex and its effect on African Americans from slavery till now. The 2016 film, named for the Thirteenth Amendment, has been nominated for an Academy Award. LaMarr Darnell Shields spoke with Hans Charles, the film’s cinematographer and an assistant professor of cinematography at George Mason University, about what it was like to work on 13th, being an “angry” Black Male in America, his creative process, and Hip-Hop music, just to name a few. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
This episode is dedicated to people who are feeling lost, stuck, or stagnant in their lives, people who are in jobs that they don’t love, and people who are struggling with finding what it is they’re really meant to do.
Dr. Joe Johnson shares key insights on how to pursue your purpose while getting paid to do it. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
The extraORDINARY: Mr. Nobody follows Tsanonda Edwards, a young man growing up in inner city Baltimore, MD, as he strives to find his way through high school, college and life having grown up in a strict religious home. After death significantly impacts his family and upbringing, Tsanonda struggles to understand the world around him.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
Some experts say domestic violence is a common thread in mass shootings. Mildred Muhammad, D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad's ex-wife, said she knows about the connection first-hand. She joins me in the BalmShelter to describe her living nightmare.
It is not just “a” story – it is “one of the many” stories built on the experiences of domestic violence and the depths of its terror. After her children were kidnapped and her inability to go on living without them, she began the silent struggle of looking for them, knowing that if she exposed herself, John Allen Muhammad would locate her and kill her. She was triumphant in her struggle to get through those 18 months of not knowing where her children were and re-gained full custody of them. She fled from her estranged husband and moved to Maryland with the children. She was frightened during the horrific sniper shootings, sat through court proceedings during the trial, and last but not least, began re-gaining her strength to start a non-profit organization, After The Trauma, to assist survivors of domestic violence. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
If you have never experienced firsthand the incarceration of yourself or a loved one, Bettye Blaize’s story will give you an empathetic, but realistic look at a struggle that has become a national crisis. And if you are a family member of an inmate or an inmate yourself, Doing Time will give voice to a struggle that you know only too well. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)
This week, SoundBalming featured Eliseba Osore, 2016 OSI Fellow and Program Director of ShareBaby, an organization that provides clothing, diapers, strollers, toys, and other basic goods to organizations that work with families in need. Eliseba Osore’s developed her project, Baltimore Baby Pantry as part of ShareBaby to focus mostly on collecting and distributing diapers, which is the primary need for struggling families with young children.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SoundBalming)