60 Mindful Minutes: Recent Episodes
Kristen Manieri
When things change inside us, things change around us.
Launched in 2017, 60 Mindful Minutes invites you into conversations with award-winning and best-selling authors about what it means to live a more connected, conscious and intentional life. In this fast-paced, digital-centric world, finding the time and space to tune into ourselves has become increasingly difficult. And yet, we all benefit from stillness and introspection. It’s in the white spaces that we come home to ourselves, learn to know ourselves more deeply, and begin to navigate our lives with intention. Join Certified Mindfulness Teacher Kristen Manieri for this weekly deep dive into conscious living. (Formerly, The Synced Life)
This is my last episode of the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast. I’m tremendously proud of what I’ve created and so honored that you’ve listened, some of you since the very beginning. Learning has been our shared journey. Whether through books, conversations, or unique experiences, we've grown together. And while this chapter may be closing, the process of learning never truly ends. So in this episode, let’s dive deep into how we can keep the spirit of curiosity alive as lifelong learners.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode300/
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Becky Blades, author of Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas, joins Kristen to discuss her decision to end the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast after 300 episodes.
Guest Bio
Becky Blades is the author of Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas. She built and sold the award-winning communications firm, Blades and Associates, which served diverse organizations in industries from health care to aviation, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Before that, Becky launched creative marketing departments in other growing companies. She enjoys a portfolio creative career of writing and making art. She writes on topics from innovation and creativity to personal growth, and creates visual art by herself and in collaboration with others. See her art here, and see her writing here. Becky has worked in live theater, and has created special events and creative gatherings, including a sold-out comedy show. Learn more at beckyblades.com.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode299/
Contact Kristen: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/
Author Britt Fran, MSW, LSCSW, SEP, joins us to discuss one of her favorite books, The Artist’s Way by Julie Cameron.
Guest Bio
Britt Frank, MSW, LSCSW, SEP, is a clinician, educator, and trauma specialist. She received her B.A. from Duke University and her MSW from the University of Kansas, where she is an award-winning adjunct professor. She is the author of The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward. Frank speaks and writes widely about emotional wellness and healing.
Previous episode: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode244/
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode298
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252
Guest’s book: The Science of Stuck https://www.scienceofstuck.com/book
Guest’s website: https://www.scienceofstuck.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/
Author Andee Martineu joins us to discuss one of her favorite books, Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté.
Guest Bio
Andee Martineau is a parenting coach and mom of six who specializes in helping parents all over the world raise their kids without yelling, ultimatums or bribes. Using her Connect Method Parenting techniques, she has taught thousands of moms to feel more in control of family life, stress less, get their kids to listen, and more. Andee is a former registered nurse who brings to her clients years of hands-on experience raising her own children (ages 13-22) and coursework in developmental psychology as well as certifications in life coaching and integrative health coaching. Andee is the author of ‘Connect Method Parenting: how to get your kids to WANT to listen to you without the yelling, ultimatums, and bribes’. When she’s not spreading her message that parenting is about connecting and not correcting, you can find her relaxing at the creek next to her home. She lives in a cabin in the woods of Utah with her husband, children and their Sheepadoodle, Leia.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode297/
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://connectmethodparenting.com
Book: Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Your-Kids-Parents-Matter/dp/0375760288
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/
Author Cheryl K. Johnson joins us to discuss one of her favorite books, Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman.
Guest Bio
Cheryl was a research director for nearly twenty years until boxing training gave her the courage to leave corporate life for something that felt more like her true self. Box Lunch Lifestyle is how she now helps people realize that richer, more satisfying lives aren’t as distant as they seem. Secretly, Cheryl loves grocery stores: small family-owned ones, national chains, co-ops, and the corner convenience store. Seeing everyday life through the lens of what food is available, and what people actually buy, fascinates her—and reinforces her disdain for weight loss programs and companies that thrive by selling non-nutritious food. When she’s not boxing, reading, or pushing a cart, Cheryl and her husband enjoy documentary films and Indian food. They live near St. Paul, MN, in a town that Cheryl describes as a cross between Lake Wobegon and Twin Peaks.
Learn more at cherylkjohnson.com
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode294
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://cherylkjohnson.com/
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Berkman
https://www.amazon.com/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Management-Mortals/dp/1250849357
Box Lunch Lifestyle by Cheryl K. Johnson https://www.amazon.com/Box-Lunch-Lifestyle-Using-Deserve/dp/1735085758
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/
Frequent guest John Strelecky joins us to discuss one of his favorite books, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach.
Guest Bio
John Strelecky is the #1 Bestselling inspirational author of many books including; The Cafe on the Edge of the World, Return to the Why Cafe, What I've Learned, The Big Five for Life, The Big Five for Life - Continued, Life Safari, and Ahas!- Moments of Inspired Thought. He co-authored the book, How to be Rich and Happy. His works have been translated into forty-three languages and sold more than 9 million copies worldwide.
Learn more at https://www.johnstrelecky.com/
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode294
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.johnstrelecky.com/
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
https://www.amazon.com/Illusions-Adventures-Reluctant-Richard-Bach/dp/0440204887
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
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- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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Frequent guest Carrie Contey joins us to discuss one of her favorite books, The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin.
Guest Bio
Carrie Contey, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized coach, author, speaker and educator. Her work offers a new perspective on human development, parenting and family life. She guides, supports and inspires her clients to live with wide-open and courageous hearts so they can approach family life with skill and spaciousness. Carrie received her doctorate in prenatal and perinatal psychology and is masterful at synthesizing and articulating the science, psychology and spirituality of humanhood. She is the co-founder of the Slow Family Living movement, the co-author of CALMS: A Guide To Soothing Your Baby and creator of a variety of impactful parenting courses intended to support and guide parents from toddlerhood all the way through teenhood. Carrie has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, NPR, CBS radio and in many publications including Time, Parenting and The Boston Globe.
Learn more at www.carriecontey.com.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode294
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.clayroutledge.com/
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Act-Way-Being/dp/0593652886
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
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Science tells us that feeling a sense of "home" where we live has huge positive benefits to our health and wellbeing. In her book, This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are, author Melody Warnick explores the place attachment and uncovers ten things we can do to feel more rooted in our lives. She embarks on several projects designed to have her love where she lives, sharing her ups, downs and discoveries in her wonderful book and in this week's episode.
Guest Bio
Melody Warnick is the author of If You Could Live Anywhere: The Surprising Importance of Place in a Work-from-Anywhere World and This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Fast Company, The Guardian, Slate, Quartz, CityLab, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, O: The Oprah Magazine, Medium, Livability, and many others.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode293
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are https://www.amazon.com/This-Where-You-Belong-Wherever/dp/014312966X
Guest’s website: http://melodywarnick.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/
This week we’re joined by author Emily P. Freeman to discuss key insights from her new book, How to Walk Into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away. This is a book for anyone standing at a threshold, trying to discern the how, when, and what of making a change, with peace, confidence, and a whole heart. With particular emphasis on our individual “discerning process,” this conversation offers a roadmap for deciding our next move.
Guest Bio
Emily P. Freeman is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of five books, including The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions. As a spiritual director, workshop leader, and host of The Next Right Thing podcast, her most important work is to help create soul space and offer spiritual companionship and discernment for anyone struggling with decision fatigue. Emily holds a master’s degree in spiritual formation and leadership from Friends University. She lives in North Carolina with her family.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode292
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: How to Walk Into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away https://www.amazon.com/How-Walk-into-Room-Knowing/dp/0063328828/
Guest’s website: https://emilypfreeman.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Chelsey Goodan, author of Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls, wants the world to rethink how we all relate to teenage girls. As a tutor and mentor for the past 16 years, Chelsey has learned that teenage girls feel profoundly misunderstood and alienated. But with the right approach and attitude, parents and other adults can learn to connect with teens and forge a meaningful, open dialogue that expands empathy and understanding.
Guest Bio
Chelsey Goodan has been an academic tutor and mentor for sixteen years, with a particular emphasis on the empowerment of teenage girls. She speaks regularly to audiences about gender justice, conducts workshops, and coaches parents on how to better understand and connect with their daughters. She is the mentorship director of the nonprofit DemocraShe and founder of The Activist Cartel. As an activist, she advises public figures, galvanizes volunteers, and organizes large-scale events for national nonprofits, while also serving on the board of A Call to Men.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode291
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls
https://www.amazon.com/Underestimated-Wisdom-Power-Teenage-Girls/dp/1668032686
Guest’s website: https://www.chelseygoodan.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/
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Imagine you’ve come to a point in your life that feels like a fork in the road; one direction things stay the same, and in the other, you change things dramatically. For Ben Katt, this “second half” of life can feel like the archetypal hero’s journey, one of leaving what’s comfortable, falling down on the journey toward something new, and then rising. In this episode, Ben shares insights from his book, The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife, and how he answered his own call to adventure.
Guest Bio
Ben Katt is a meditation teacher, spiritual coach, and writer. As a perpetual student of wisdom traditions, Ben is an expert at adapting ancient personal development practices for modern contexts in order to help people wake up to their fullest lives. He is a certified advanced meditation teacher, holds a Master of Divinity degree, and was an ordained minister for over a decade. Previously, he led The On Being Project’s work in supporting religious and spiritual leaders. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his family. Learn more at https://www.benjaminkatt.com/.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode277
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife https://www.amazon.com/Way-Home-Discovering-Journey-Wholeness/dp/1250910447
Guest’s website: https://www.benjaminkatt.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/
Gay Hendricks returns for his third visit to 60 Mindful Minutes, this time to share key insights from his new book, Your Big Leap Year: A Year to Manifest Your Next-Level Life. What if 2024 is the year we all eliminate our “Upper Limit Problem” and finally learn to live in our “Genius Zone”? We tackle this question and many more.
Guest Bio
GAY HENDRICKS, PhD, has served for more than forty years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies. He is a New York Times bestselling author and his books include Conscious Loving and The Big Leap.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode289
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Your Big Leap Year: A Year to Manifest Your Next-Level Life...Starting Today! https://www.amazon.com/Your-Big-Leap-Year-Next-Level/dp/1250292794
Guest’s website: https://hendricks.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/
Uncover the transformative power of expanding our minds amidst endless life's stressors and distractions. Nate Klemp, author of Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World, joins us to discuss his experiences discovering how embracing life's fullness leads to sanity, happiness, and a larger, more connected existence. When we learn to open ourselves to life, we embark on a journey to rediscovering wonder and creativity in everyday life.
Guest Bio
Nate Klemp, PhD, is a philosopher, writer, and mindfulness entrepreneur. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Start Here and the New York Times critics’ pick The 80/80 Marriage. His work has been featured in the LA Times, Psychology Today, the Times of London, and more, and his appearances include Good Morning America and Talks at Google. He’s a cofounder of LifeXT and founding partner at Mindful. For more, visit nateklemp.com or @Nate_Klemp on Instagram.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode288
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World https://www.amazon.com/Open-Living-Expansive-Distracted-World/dp/1649631480
Guest’s website: https://www.nateklemp.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
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Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh shares insights from her book, Love by Design, offering a new Emergent Love Model for modern relationships. This revolutionary approach, born from extensive research and global couple insights, identifies six relational ingredients for successful partnerships: attraction, respect, trust, compassion, shared vision, and loving behaviors. The result is a transformative blueprint for cultivating lasting love, surpassing outdated ideals of romantic relationships.
Guest Bio
Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh is a world renowned author, speaker and consultant with a PhD in Social Psychology. In the past two decades, she has worked across 40 countries and is recognized as one of the most influential thought leaders in the fields of Relationships, Sexuality, and Intercultural fluency. Her new book Love by Design: 6 ingredients to build a lifetime of love, is going to be launched on February 5th. With a fresh perspective on human connectivity and how we perceive love, Dr. Nasserzadeh’s uses proven research to convey how six ingredients are needed for a thriving relationship—from the bedroom to the boardroom that would give love a chance to emerge. These six ingredients: attraction, respect, trust, a shared vision, compassion, and loving behaviors can be explored with any audience to attain a unified language, common values, shared aspirations and a path forward to solve our disillusionment with love. Dr. Nasserzadeh’s work has been featured on NPR, the BBC, ABC, CNN, and in USA Today.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode287
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Love by Design: 6 Ingredients to Build a Lifetime of Love https://www.amazon.com/Love-Design-Ingredients-Build-Lifetime/dp/1538742918
Guest’s website: https://www.sara-nasserzadeh.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
- Web: https://kristenmanieri.com
- Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/60MindfulMinutes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenmanieri_/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kristenmanieri/
Bonnie Wan, brand strategist and author of The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living, joins us to discuss how we can create a playbook for navigating life’s decisions, crossroads, and curve-balls. Modeled after the creative brief, a tool used by the most innovative companies in the world to unlock clarity and unleash action, The Life Brief carves a path for living with intention and imagination.
Guest Bio
As head of brand strategy for the storied ad agency Goodby and Silverstein, Bonnie Wan has helped the world’s most iconic brands align with their essential virtues using a tool called a creative brief. So when she found herself on the precipice of her own deep dissatisfaction and doubt, Wan turned that same tool inward. What emerged was this profound practice, one that she and thousands of others have turned to over and over. This is a strategic practice for connecting deeply to the things that create meaning, spark joy, and make life worth living. Don’t let another moment pass you by: Discover The Life Brief and find your path today.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode286
Mentioned in this Episode
The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living https://www.amazon.com/Life-Brief-Playbook-No-Regrets-Living/dp/1982195509
Guest’s website: https://thelifebrief.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Explore the uncharted territories of the mind with Rebecca Martinez, a visionary in psychedelic therapy. In a world where ancient wisdom meets modern healing, this episode delves into the ethical labyrinth of psychedelic use. Martinez, author of the revolutionary Whole Medicine: A Guide to Ethics and Harm-Reduction for Psychedelic Therapy and Plant Medicine Communities, offers a rare glimpse into the future of mental wellness. Discover how these powerful substances are not just altering minds, but reforming therapy itself. Join us for a journey beyond the consciousness, where healing and ethics intertwine in the most fascinating ways.
Guest Bio
Rebecca Martinez is a Chicana writer, community organizer, and social entrepreneur who from and lives in Portland, Oregon. Martinez explores the intersections between collective healing, systems design, and expanded states of consciousness. She is a student of transformative justice, Emergent Strategy, Somatic Abolitionism, and regenerative landscape design. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Alma Institute, a nonprofit educational institution that equips students from marginalized communities to become legal psilocybin facilitators. She's a Co-Founder of Fruiting Bodies Collective and a staff member of the Measure 109 campaign which produced the Psilocybin Services Act, the first-ever state program to provide community-based, legal access to psilocybin services. Martinez is an advisor to the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association, the National Psychedelics Association, and the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance. She is a voice on psychedelic justice and has been featured in Business Insider, STAT News, Lucid News, and Psychedelics Today.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Whole Medicine: A Guide to Ethics and Harm-Reduction for Psychedelic Therapy and Plant Medicine Communities Paperback – January 16, 2024 https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Medicine-Harm-Reduction-Psychedelic-Communities/dp/162317855X
Guest’s website: https://www.almatraining.org/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Over the past decade, therapy has shed its stigma and has become increasingly normalized. By speaking with a trained professional, we can gain the self-awareness necessary to make meaningful changes in the way we feel, think and behave. This week, psychotherapist Dr. Annie Zimmerman shares insights from her book, Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life.
Guest Bio
Dr. Annie Zimmerman is a psychotherapist and TikTok personality, working with clients from a psychodynamic approach. She has a PhD in psychology and lives in London where she has a thriving private practice. Her expertise centers on teaching clients how their early lives have formed strategies that might be contributing to unhelpful patterns in adulthood. You can follow her on TikTok and Instagram @your_pocket_therapist.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Pocket-Therapist-Patterns-Transform/dp/0063349604
Guest’s website: https://www.therapyeastlondon.net/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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I recently deisgned a system for tackling my 2024 goals. I call it GrowthMap and I created it to keep me inspired and committed all year long. In this episode, I outline this process for advancing your life, prioritizing what matters, and completing your goals in a systematic way. It’s designed to have you methodically moving forward–growing as a person, bettering yourself and your life–through a step-by-step process that carries you throughout 2024. I’m excited to share this method with you in the hopes that you’ll continue to do what humans are designed to do: grow!
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Mentioned in this Episode
Download the GrowthMap: https://kristenmanieri.com/growthmap/
Sign up for my newsletter: https://kristenmanieri.com/ (scroll down to the bottom)
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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It's an annual tradition on 60 Mindful Minutes to begin the year with a conversation with bestselling author John Strelecky. His innovative, insightful and inspiring approach to life and how we can live it to the fullest always gives listeners a new lens from which to think about the year ahead. For this episode, we dive into a conversation about how we prioritize, pivot and plan for an unforgettable 2024.
Guest Bio
John Strelecky is the #1 Bestselling inspirational author of many books including; The Cafe on the Edge of the World, Return to the Why Cafe, What I've Learned, The Big Five for Life, The Big Five for Life - Continued, Life Safari, and Ahas!- Moments of Inspired Thought. He co-authored the book, How to be Rich and Happy. His works have been translated into forty-three languages and sold more than 9 million copies worldwide. Following a life changing event when he was thirty-three years old, John was inspired to sit down and tell the story of The Cafe on the Edge of the World, his first book. Within a year after its release, word of mouth support from readers had spread the book across the globe--inspiring people on every continent, including Antarctica. It went on to win bestseller of the year 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 2021, & 2022 in Europe and became a #1 bestseller in North America. Through his writings and appearances on television and radio, John's messages have inspired millions of people to live life on their terms. He has been honored alongside Oprah Winfrey, Tony Robbins, and Deepak Chopra as one of the one hundred most inspirational thought leaders in the field of leadership and personal development. All of this continues to humble and amaze him. When he isn't writing or speaking, John spends extensive time backpacking around the world. He has taken extended trips to Africa, the Amazon Basin, Yucatan Peninsula, South America, SE Asia, Europe and China.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Podcast: https://audio.johnstrelecky.com/
Guest’s website: https://www.johnstrelecky.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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After over a decade of studying mental fortitude, international bestseller, Amy Morin, has unveiled her insights on what couples can do to have healthy, lasting connection. In this week’s episode, we discuss Amy’s newest book, 13 Things Mentally Strong Couples Don't Do, and dive into the habits every couple can cultivate to better their relationship.
Guest Bio
Amy Morin is a licensed clinical social worker, instructor at Northeastern University, and psychotherapist. She is the author of the international bestseller 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do, and 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don’t Do. Amy is the editor in chief of Verywell Mind and she’s the host of the popular podcast Mentally Strong People. She gave one of the most viewed TEDx talks of all time and was named the “self-help guru of the moment” by The Guardian. She lives in Marathon, Florida. 13 Things Strong Kids Do is her fourth book. You can visit her online at amymorinlcsw.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: 13 Things Mentally Strong Couples Don't Do https://www.amazon.com/Things-Mentally-Strong-Couples-Dont/dp/0063323575
Guest’s Podcast: https://amymorinlcsw.com/podcasts/
Guest’s website: https://amymorinlcsw.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Our finances have an enormous impact on our wellbeing. Whether we’re trying to make ends meet, get out of debt, or saving for home ownership, money can keep us up at night, negatively impact our relationships and cause us to feel very stressed. But what if we had better tools and insights for how we manage our money? Jay Seabrook, founder of Enriched Academy, is on a mission to expand financial literacy. This week we dive into his approach to financial health and wealth.
Guest Bio
Jay Seabrook is COO and Co-Founder of Enriched Academy, Canada’s fastest growing and largest financial education company. Jay has been teaching financial education for 20-years and known for being an expert systems creator & chaos eliminator.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.enrichedacademy.com/
Net Worth Calculator: https://www.enrichedacademy.com/files/tools/Financial_Freedom_Calculator_Boot_Camp_Version_2021_04_27.xlsx
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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What an incredible thing it is that we humans are built from the food we eat. While food has an enormous influence on how we feel, think and behave, we often pay it little mind, choosing instead to mindlessly munch instead of consciously nourish. Author of Clean Food, Messy Life, Jamie Truppi has dedicated her life to the intersection of food and our wellbeing. A functional nutritionist with a master’s degree in science and nutrition, she encourages us to rethink our commitment to how we nourish ourselves and offers actionable insights for reclaiming our lost love affair with food.
Guest Bio
Jamie Truppi’s life centers around food, people, nature, wellbeing, traveling, and cultivating meaningful experiences in this short, crazy life. A functional nutritionist with a master’s degree in science and nutrition and board certified as a Certified Nutrition Specialist, she guides mostly women healing from gut-brain-stress dis-ease. Certified in permaculture & design and in yoga, she’s also an environmental nerd, edible educator, food writer, kitchen experimentalist, farmers market enthusiast, mountain girl, and yogi. She loves adventuring with her two curious children around her hometown of Hailey, Idaho, and beyond.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Clean Food, Messy Life: A Food Lover's Conscious Journey Back to Self Paperback – December 11, 2022 https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Food-Messy-Life-Conscious/dp/B0BPS5TRRR
Guest’s website: https://www.jamietruppinutrition.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Robert and Kay Lee Fukui, authors of Tandem: The Married Entrepreneurs' Guide for Greater Work-Life Balance, share their insights for how couples can work better together in business and in life. From improving conflict styles and communication skills to creating ways to maintain balance and connection, Robert and Kay Lee offer strategies for staying strong when times are tough.
Guest Bio
Robert and Kay Lee Fukui are the co-founders of i61, inc., a business consulting company. They assist married entrepreneurs create better work/life balance by structuring the business to scale while giving precious time back to the owner to invest into their marriage.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Tandem: The married entrepreneurs' guide for greater work-life balance by Robert Fukui and Kay Lee Fukui https://www.amazon.com/Tandem-married-entrepreneurs-greater-work-life/dp/1953284833
Guest’s website: https://www.thetandembook.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Nostalgia plays an interesting role in our lives. While many of us may consider it something we experience as we reflect on our past, this week’s guest sees it as a tool we can use to create our future. In his new book, Past Forward: How Nostalgia Can Help You Live a More Meaningful Life , Clay Routledge, PhD, guides us through a fascinating investigation into an emotion we all experience yet often misunderstand, inviting us to consider how nostalgia can have extraordinary potential to enrich our present―and our future.
Guest Bio
Clay Routledge, PhD, is a leading expert in existential psychology. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, Forbes, and more. He is the vice president of research and director of the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute. For more, visit clayroutledge.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Past Forward: How Nostalgia Can Help You Live a More Meaningful Life https://www.amazon.com/Past-Forward-Nostalgia-Help-Meaningful/dp/1683648641
Guest’s website: https://www.clayroutledge.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Discover the profound connection between nature's rhythms and the way we live our lives with poet Jacqueline Suskin, author of A Year in Practice: Seasonal Rituals and Prompts to Awaken Cycles of Creative Expression. By synchronizing ourselves with the ever-changing phases of the planet, we can tap into an unending wellspring of imagination, inspiration, and beauty, nurturing our endeavors year-round. When we tune into the world around us, we can learn to live more aligned with the natural ebb and flow of life.
Guest Bio
Jacqueline Suskin is a sought-after poet and educator, recognized by Michelle Obama as a Turnaround Artist, who regularly leads writing and creativity workshops for Commune, Insight Timer, and InsideOut, garnering press in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Better Homes & Gardens, Spirituality & Health, the Huffington Post, and beyond. For more, visit jacquelinesuskin.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: A Year in Practice: Seasonal Rituals and Prompts to Awaken Cycles of Creative Expression
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Practice-Seasonal-Creative-Expression/dp/1649631340
Guest’s website: http://www.jacquelinesuskin.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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In a world filled with noise and distractions, tuning into our inner selves can be quite challenging. This week, we explore the concept of emotional awareness with Nataly Kogan, the author of "The Awesome Human Journal: A Toolkit for Every Kind of Day." It turns out that dedicating time to connect with ourselves daily, fostering love, curiosity, and introspection, not only deepens our self-understanding but also empowers us to nurture and guide ourselves effectively.
Guest Bio
Nataly Kogan is a leading expert in emotional fitness and leadership. After coming to the US as a refugee from the former Soviet Union, Nataly went on to have a successful career as a technology executive. But she suffered a debilitating burnout that led her to find a new way to work and live. Today, she helps hundreds of thousands of Awesome Humans struggle less and thrive more through speaking, leadership training programs, online courses, books, and The Awesome Human Podcast.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Awesome Human Journal: A Tool Kit for the Tough Days, the Good Days, and All the Days in Between
https://www.amazon.com/Awesome-Human-Journal-Tough-Between/dp/1649631820
Guest’s website: https://www.natalykogan.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Liz Kitchens, author of Be Brave. Lose the Beige, joins Kristen for a lively and inspiring episode about how to break free from societal expectations and monotonous living. Discover how to embrace your inner magenta (and lose the beige) at any age, exploring ways to add vibrant colors to your life. We had a blast during this interview, and you'll have just as much fun listening!
Guest Bio
Liz Kitchens is a rare and endangered species, born and raised in Orlando, Florida, whose memory of Florida pre-dates Walt Disney World. She conducts workshops and seminars on creativity and directed an after-school and summer creative arts program for teens in underserved communities. She has also been a market researcher for thirty-five years and is the founder of What’s Next Boomer? —a website dedicated to helping boomers navigate retirement options—and of the blog Be Brave. Lose the Beige, which focuses on issues facing women of the baby boomer generation. She is also a contributing writer for Medium and the online magazine Sixty and Me, and has been published in various online and print publications. Liz is married, the mother of three adult children, and the grandmother of three grandchildren. She lives in Orlando, FL.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Be Brave. Lose the Beige!: Finding Your Sass After Sixty https://www.amazon.com/Be-Brave-Lose-Beige-Finding/dp/1647424682
Guest’s website: https://www.bebravelosethebeige.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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Delve into the transformative wisdom of bestselling author Moshe Gersht and his book, "The Three Conditions: How Intention, Joy, and Certainty Will Supercharge Your Life." Gersht challenges the notion of positive thinking alone and introduces a powerful formula for a more fulfilling life. Discover how intention, certainty, and joy play pivotal roles in shaping your authentic self and finding lasting happiness.
Guest Bio
After performing for nearly a decade as a popular Los Angeles–based musician, Moshe moved to Jerusalem, where he has spent the last fifteen years immersed in the wellsprings of Talmud, Chassidus, Kabbalah, and Spirituality. He has devoted his life to seamlessly bridging the worlds of the Torah tradition, mystical wisdom, the true nature of the human mind, and our collective struggles. For years he studied under the guidance of several of the world’s premier rabbinical figures and has found a niche for himself sharing his love of life, people, and spirit through speaking, teaching, and writing. Sensitive and soft-spoken, his care for the people he guides and teaches is palpable.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Three Conditions: How Intention, Joy, and Certainty Will Supercharge Your Life Paperback – November 7, 2023 by Moshe Gersht
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Conditions-Intention-Certainty-Supercharge/dp/1649631375
Guest’s website:
Find Moshe at www.MosheGersht.com or on his social media platforms: www.youtube.com/moshegersht
www.instagram.com/moshegersht
www.twitter.com/moshegersht
www.facebook.com/moshegershtofficial
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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What happens when we step away from our lives for a few hours, days or weeks? Retreating is one of the best and oldest tools for wellness. It's how we restore and reclaim ourselves. This week, Kristen and her guest, Jim Eastburn (Corporate Director of Transformational Experiences at Canyon Ranch), take a deep dive into all things retreating, including how to design a retreat, the many benefits, and how we can build mini-retreats into the everyday living of our lives.
Guest Bio
As Corporate Director of Transformational Experiences, Jim helps to curate programs and guest experiences that inform, inspire, and delight. With a human services background in the areas of social work and case management, he joined Canyon Ranch in 1993 as a Wellness Guide. Since then, he has held a variety of leadership roles, including serving as the Executive Director of the Life Enhancement Center and Associate Director for Health & Performance.
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Mentioned in this Episode
https://www.canyonranch.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Homelessness is complicated. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons so many of us have such a hard time looking directly at the issue and the people it impacts. This week, we dive into the book, When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America with author and social entrepreneur Kevin Adler. We touch on such topics as relational poverty, look at the societal cost of indifference and discuss the potential for evidence-based, people-first, and community-driven solutions that make a difference.
Guest Bio
Kevin Adler is an award-winning social entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, and author. His latest book, WHEN WE WALK BY, will be published on November 7th, 2023, and is based on his pioneering work over the past decade tackling homelessness and “relational poverty” on the streets. Since 2014, Kevin has served as the founder and CEO of MIRACLE MESSAGES, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people experiencing homelessness rebuild their social support systems and financial security, primarily through family reunifications, a phone buddy program, and basic income pilots. Kevin’s work has been featured widely, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, and in his TED Talk. Kevin is also the author of Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital, a book that explores how shared traumas can unite or divide communities. Kevin has been honored as a Presidential Leadership Scholar, TED Resident, and Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. He received his MPhil in sociology from the University of Cambridge and his BA in politics from Occidental College. Motivated by his late mother’s work teaching at underserved nursing homes, and his late uncle’s 30 years living on the streets, Kevin believes in a future where everyone is seen as invaluable and interconnected. Learn more at kevinfadler.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America https://www.amazon.com/When-We-Walk-Forgotten-Homelessness/dp/1623178843
Guest’s website: https://www.kevinfadler.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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The decision to take a break from or eliminate alcohol entirely isn’t just about stopping drinking; it’s about creating a new, alcohol-free life. That can feel like a daunting undertaking. But in her book, Simple Ways to Unwind without Alcohol: 50 Tips to Drink Less and Enjoy More, Rebecca E. Williams, PhD, provides a blueprint for how we can take a more holistic approach to life and begin to redesign our habits, pastimes and worklife to feel happy and healthier without alcohol.
Guest Bio
Rebecca E. Williams, PhD, is a psychologist, wellness expert, and award-winning author. She received her bachelor’s degree from Williams College; her master’s degree from Harvard; and her doctorate with a specialization in clinical psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Rebecca enjoyed a twenty-year career as a clinic director with the San Diego VA Healthcare System; was an associate clinical professor in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego; and maintained an active private practice. She is coauthor of two popular books bridging addiction recovery with the power of mindfulness. The Gift of Recovery is a “pocket coach” designed to strengthen recovery. The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction is a go-to guide for understanding the relationship between moods and substance use. The workbook is now in its second edition, and has been translated into multiple languages. Her website is www.mindfulnessworkbook.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Simple Ways to Unwind without Alcohol: 50 Tips to Drink Less and Enjoy More
https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Ways-Unwind-without-Alcohol/dp/1648482341
Guest’s website: http://www.mindfulnessworkbook.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Explore the transformative potential of imagination in this episode with Professor Stephen Aizenstat, author of The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity, Connection, and Purpose. Stephen’s book provides a personal path to purposefulness, resourcefulness, and resilience, connecting us each to our own innate creative force, helping us to embrace our role as a seeker, dreamer, and doer.
Guest Bio
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is the founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute, Dream Tending, and the Academy of Imagination. For more than 35 years, he has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology. He has collaborated with Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, Robert Johnson, James Hillman, and Native elders worldwide. He conducts dreamwork and imagination seminars throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. For more, visit dreamtending.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity, Connection, and Purpose https://www.amazon.com/Imagination-Matrix-Greatest-Creativity-Connection/dp/1649630026
Guest’s website: https://dreamtending.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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We are a connected species, and our innate drive for belonging can be a double-edge sword. It brings us together but it also divides us. In his new book, The Connected Species: How the Evolution of the Human Brain Can Save the World, Mark A. Williams, PhD draws from his over 25 years of research and experience as a professor of cognitive neuroscience to explore the human brain’s specialization for connection and how we can use it to expand our in-group and extend multicultural societies for the good of our planet.
Guest Bio
Mark A. Williams, PhD, is a professor of cognitive neuroscience with over 25 years’ experience conducting behavioral and brain imaging research. Mark has published more than 70 scientific articles and received numerous high-profile fellowships and grants. He has made many TV and radio appearances to discuss topics including emotions, technology, education, racism, and even why we can’t tickle ourselves. His research has been featured in outlets globally including The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian, and New Scientist. Mark has worked with thousands of students, teachers, health professionals, and company directors keen to understand how their brain works, how to perform optimally and maintain a healthy brain. He regularly runs programs on the neuroscience of learning, the neuroscience of emotions, how our brains create our reality, and the impact of modern technologies on our brains. See https://www.drmarkwilliams.com/ for more details..
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Connected Species: How the Evolution of the Human Brain Can Save the World Hardcover – August 15, 2023 by Mark A. Williams (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Connected-Species-Evolution-Human-Brain/dp/1538179008
Guest’s website: https://www.drmarkwilliams.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Unlock the keys to power and leadership in this engaging interview with somatic educator and coach, Pavini Moray. Learn how your body holds the secrets to becoming an inspirational and socially conscious leader in this conversation based on Moray’s new book, How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect.
Guest Bio
Pavini Moray (they/them) has started, failed, and succeeded at many businesses. As a serial entrepreneur, they have built private practices, a worker collective, and a for-profit company. These experiences have shaped them into an embodied, service-oriented leader. A Montessori educator at heart, Moray has developed a trauma-informed methodology for embodied relationship skills, teaching hundreds of students how to lead and learn. Moray is also a somatic coach specializing in trauma and relationships. Their identity as a queer, trans, non-binary founder gives them insight into outsider culture and accessibility. Moray holds an M.Ed in Curriculum and Design and a Ph.D. in Somatic Psychology.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect-Paperback – October 10, 2023 https://www.amazon.com/How-Hold-Power-Respect-30-embodiment/dp/1623179246
Guest’s website: https://www.pavinimoray.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Valerie Cockerell shares insights from her book, Manage Like a Mother: Leadership Lessons Drawn from the Wisdom of Mom, which is designed for anyone who wants to become a better leader, in any arena of their life. Drawing from her parenting experience and decades of corporate experience, Valerie emphasizes skills such as multitasking, conflict resolution, and role modeling that leaders can use to drive success in any setting.
Guest Bio
Valerie Cockerell is a French American former Disney leader who was part of the opening team of Disneyland Paris. She pursued her career at Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida and facilitated programs for the Disney Institute. She is now a consultant in Leadership and Customer service excellence for organizations around the world. Today, she is the proud mother of 3 and lives near Boulder, Colorado.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Manage Like a Mother: Leadership Lessons Drawn from the Wisdom of Mom - October 10, 2023 https://www.amazon.com/Manage-Like-Mother-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1636981291
Guest’s website: https://cockerellconsulting.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Author Kris Ferraro discusses key takeaways from her book, "Your Difference is Your Strength," a fearless and joyful guide designed to empower those who've felt like outsiders to celebrate their distinctiveness and harness their individuality in every aspect of life. Renowned for her bestseller "Manifesting," Kris shares real-life examples and practical wisdom to help anyone unleash their full potential.
Guest Bio
Kris Ferraro is an author, International Energy Coach, teacher, and sought-after speaker. She is the creator of Spiritual Freedom Techniques, a series of processes that combine spiritual practices and principles with energy balancing for super charged transformation. A former punk rocker, radio DJ, and performance artist, she writes and performs spoken word poetry and is an accomplished sculptor. Her first book, Energy Healing: Simple & Effective Practices to Become Your Own Healer was a #1 best seller on Amazon. Manifesting: The Simple, Practical Guide to Creating the Life You Want distills 10 years of her best metaphysical teachings.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Your Difference Is Your Strength: A Guide to Accepting Yourself―for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt Out of Place Paperback – October 3, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Difference-Strength-Accepting-Yourself_for/dp/1250875196
Guest’s website: https://www.krisferraro.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Writer, speaker and serial entrepreneur Jon Yarian shares his perspective on the things that get in the way of our performance (in life and at work) and the things that cause us to excel and thrive. Sharing a few key concepts from his new book, Spark: 24 Concepts to Ignite, Unstick or Supercharge Your Work Life, Jon challenges conventional business thinking and encourages a radical mindset shift.
Guest Bio
Jon Yarian is a writer, speaker, serial entrepreneur and performance coach. He is Senior Vice President of Operations and Strategy at Sovereign and is the co-founder of Outline, an award-winning brand studio. Previously, Jon founded a strategic communications consultancy, served as a press secretary on Capitol Hill, and led national accounts for a Washington, D.C., public relations firm. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Spark: 24 Concepts to Ignite, Unstick or Supercharge Your Work Life Paperback – May 16, 2023 by Chris Mettler (Author), Jon Yarian (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Concepts-Ignite-Unstick-Supercharge/dp/1399407619
Guest’s website:
https://sparkbook.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Ximena Vengoechea, an expert in all things rest, takes you on a journey through a treasure trove of relaxation techniques that have stood the test of time. Her new book, Rest Easy: Discover Calm and Abundance through the Radical Power of Rest, covers everything from
gentle movements, soothing sounds, imaginative visualizations to heartfelt journaling, quality time in nature, and calming meditative practices. Rest Easy is like an open invitation to discover how giving your mind, body, and spirit some well-deserved rest can truly transform your life.
Guest Bio
Ximena Vengoechea is a user researcher, writer, and illustrator whose work on personal and professional development has been published in Inc., The Washington post, Newsweek, and Huffington Post. She is the author of the new book, Listen Like You Mean it: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection (Portfolio/Penguin Random House). She is a contributor at Fast Company and The Muse, and writes Letters from Ximena, a newsletter on tech, culture, career, and creativity. An experienced manager, mentor, and researcher in the tech industry, she previously worked at Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Rest Easy: Discover Calm and Abundance through the Radical Power of Rest https://www.amazon.com/Rest-Easy-Discover-Abundance-through/dp/1797219472
Episode #125 with Ximena Vengoechea https://kristenmanieri.com/episode125/
Guest’s website:
https://www.ximenavengoechea.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Richard Dixey, PhD, a scientist and lifelong student of Asian philosophy, believes that we don’t have to sit in lotus pose for twenty minutes or more to feel the benefits of meditation. In his new book, Three Minutes a Day: A Fourteen-Week Course to Learn Meditation and Transform Your Life, he introduces a convenient approach to cultivating a daily meditation practice, requiring just three minutes each day. Delving into the creation of our experiences by our senses, their processing in the brain, and the resulting construction of our worldview, Richard explores how we can establish a solid foundation for profound insight in almost no time at all.
Guest Bio
Richard Dixey, PhD, is a scientist and lifelong student of Asian philosophy. He runs the Light of Buddhadharma Foundation in India with his wife Wangmo, the eldest daughter of Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku. He is a senior faculty member at Dharma College in Berkeley and divides his time between California and India. For more information, visit RichardDixey.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book:Three Minutes a Day: A Fourteen-Week Course to Learn Meditation and Transform Your Life Paperback – August 29, 2023 by Richard Dixey (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Minutes-Day-Fourteen-Week-Meditation/dp/1608688836
Guest’s website:
https://dharma-college.com/about/people/
https://www.richarddixey.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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This week we delve into the transformative world of autonomy-supportive parenting with Emily Edlynn, PhD, author of Autonomy-Supportive Parenting: Reduce Parental Burnout and Raise Competent, Confident Children. Drawing from decades of psychological research, Emily explores how to shift from intensive, controlling parenting to empowering our children's independence and confidence. Join us as we discuss a few real-life parenting dilemmas and explore insights into the importance of fostering autonomy.
Guest Bio
Emily Edlynn, PhD completed her doctoral degree at Loyola University Chicago, specializing in clinical psychology for children and adolescents. Emily worked in academic medicine at two large, urban children's hospitals where she served as the clinical director for two pediatric programs. Emily shifted to private practice and freelance writing about parenting in 2017, including starting a parenting blog focused on science-based guidance. She writes an advice column for Parents.com and has been featured in several national media outlets as a parenting expert. Emily lives in Oak Park, Illinois outside of Chicago with her husband, three children, ages 13, 11, and 8, and two rescue dogs. She works in a small private practice with children, teenagers, and adults, specializing in health psychology.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Autonomy-Supportive Parenting: Reduce Parental Burnout and Raise Competent, Confident Children https://www.amazon.com/Autonomy-Supportive-Parenting-Parental-Competent-Confident/dp/1641709766
Guest’s website:
https://www.emilyedlynnphd.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Change is inevitable but how we each deal with change is highly variable. In his new book, Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You, author and researcher Brad Stulberg explores how change itself is neutral, and only becomes negative or positive based on how we view it and, more importantly, what we do with it. The latest findings from psychology and cutting-edge neuroscience show us that by developing rugged flexibility, we can successfully adapt to change and navigate the twists and turns of life.
Guest Bio
Brad Stulberg researches, writes, and coaches on mental health, well-being, and sustainable excellence. He is bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness and Master of Change. He regularly contributes to the New York Times and his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and the Atlantic, among other outlets. In his coaching practice, he works with executives, entrepreneurs, physicians, and athletes on their mental skills and overall well-being. He is on faculty at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. His past books include Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox. Follow him on Instagram @Bradstulberg and on Twitter @Bstulberg and learn more at www.bradstulberg.com
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You – September 5, 2023 https://www.amazon.com/Master-Change-Everything-Changing-Including/dp/006325316X
Guest’s website: http://www.bradstulberg.com
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Melissa Urban knows firsthand that boundaries are the key to feelings of contentment, confidence, and freedom in every area of life. Since launching the mega-bestselling wellness program the Whole30, she has taught millions of people how to establish healthy habits and successfully navigate pushback/pressure by learning to set clear limits that protect our energy, time, and health. Through The Book of Boundaries, Melissa’s latest creation, she demonstrates that boundaries are the key to better mental health, more fulfilling relationships, and a happier, more productive way of life.
Guest Bio
Melissa Urban is CEO of the Whole30 and an authority on helping people create lifelong healthy habits. She is a six-time New York Times bestselling author (including the #1 bestseller The Whole30); and has been featured by Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and CNBC. She lives with her husband, son, and a poodle named Henry in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits That Will Set You Free https://www.amazon.com/Book-Boundaries-Limits-That-Will/dp/0593448707
Guest’s website: https://www.melissau.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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We live in a culture that values follow through and abhors quitting. But what is the hidden cost of all the things we never start because we’re afraid we might not follow through? To Becky Blades, the author of Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas, the value in acting on our ideas is not measured in grand planned finishes. The value is in each and every start. This week, Becky shares how we can all develop our inner “startistry’ and end the myth that not finishing equals failing.
Guest Bio
Becky built and sold the award-winning communications firm, Blades and Associates, which served diverse organizations in industries from health care to aviation, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Before that, Becky launched creative marketing departments in other growing companies. She enjoys a portfolio creative career of writing and making art. She writes on topics from innovation and creativity to personal growth, and creates visual art by herself and in collaboration with others. See her art here, and see her writing here. Becky has worked in live theater, and has created special events and creative gatherings, including a sold-out comedy show.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas https://www.beckyblades.com/start-more-than-you-can-finish/
Guest’s website: https://www.beckyblades.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Tanya Dalton, author of On Purpose and The Joy of Missing Out, invites you to ask yourself this question: Are you filling your calendar or are you filling your soul? As a productivity expert, Tanya cares a lot about getting things done and achieving goals, but doing so with an unhurried purpose that we each can access when we stay true to our soul's path and design our days on purpose. With simple shifts and innovative strategies, she offers the tools for us to create a more spacious, fulfilling life.
Guest Bio
Tanya Dalton is a best-selling author, transformational speaker, and nationally recognized productivity expert. She helps female executives and entrepreneurs step into purposeful leadership. In addition to having her first book, The Joy of Missing Out, being named one of the Top 10 Business Books of the year by Fortune Magazine, Tanya’s podcast, The Intentional Advantage has received millions of downloads from listeners around the world. She is also a featured expert on several networks including NBC and Fox and is a VIP contributor for Entrepreneur.com. Tanya has been featured in some of the world’s leading publications including Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, and Real Simple. She has been awarded the elite Enterprising Women Award and has been named the Female Entrepreneur to Watch for the state of North Carolina. Tanya is also the founder of inkWELL Press Productivity Co. a multi-million dollar company providing tools that work as a catalyst in helping women do less while achieving maximum success. Her highly anticipated second book, On Purpose: The Busy Woman’s Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success, launched last fall through HarperCollins Publishing.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: On Purpose: The Busy Woman's Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success https://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Womans-Extraordinary-Meaning-Success/dp/140021436X
Guest’s website: https://tanyadalton.com/
The Joy of Missing Out: https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Missing-Out-Live-Doing/dp/1400214335
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Remote work exploded over the past two years, and as a result, millions of people now find themselves in the position to ask this life-changing question: If I can work anywhere, where shall I live? This is the inquiry that author Melody Warnick explores in her new book, If You Could Live Anywhere. Along the way she considers the importance of place, cost of living and community but also our leanings towards a nomadic life or living internationally. Warnick helps the “Anywhereist” discover the right place to do their best work but also live their best life.
Guest Bio
Melody Warnick is the author of If You Could Live Anywhere and This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Fast Company, The Guardian, Slate, Quartz, CityLab, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, O: The Oprah Magazine, Medium, Livability, and many others.
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: If You Could Live Anywhere: https://www.amazon.com/Could-Live-Anywhere-Work-Anywhere/dp/1728246903
This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are: https://www.amazon.com/This-Where-You-Belong-Wherever/dp/014312966X
Guest’s website: http://melodywarnick.com/
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With all of its positives and negatives, most people would agree that technology is a mixed bag. However, it’s becoming harder and harder to see technology’s good side when the headlines offer a nonstop stream of all the doom and gloom it causes. This week, we’re joined by Dr. Cori Lathan, author of Inventing the Future: Stories from a Techno-Optimist, to discuss an optimistic perspective on the role technology plays in our lives.
Guest Bio
Dr. Cori Lathan (she/her) is a global thought leader in the relationship between technology and human performance. She holds an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a PhD in Neuroscience from MIT. Dr. Lathan has been featured in Forbes, Time, The New Yorker, and more. Her many distinctions include MIT Technology Review’s “Top 100 World Innovators,” Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business,” and a life-size statue in an exhibit on contemporary women in STEM at the Smithsonian. When she isn’t designing robots or working on the future of benevolent cyborgs, Dr. Lathan enjoys speaking at universities, businesses, and innovation conferences about the breakthrough technologies of both today and tomorrow.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Inventing the Future: Stories from a Techno-Optimist https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Future-Techno-Optimist-Corinna-Lathan/dp/154453535X/
Guest’s website:
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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This week we dive into the book, The Learn-It-All Leader: Mindset, Traits and Tools, with its author, Damon Lembi. This is a book about what’s possible when we have the mindset of being a lifelong learner, and it offers ways to encourage and cultivate that mindset, as well as ways to integrate wonder and curiosity into our lives continuously.
Guest Bio
Damon Lembi is CEO of Learnit, a global leader in corporate training solutions that has upskilled more than 1.8 million professionals in the past twenty-seven years. Damon lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and loves books, live music, and above all, spending time with his wife, Cara Mia; their two kids, Luciana and Walter; and Pablo the Puggle.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: The Learn-It-All Leader: Mindset, Traits and Tools Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Learn-All-Leader-Mindset-Traits/dp/1544541651
Guest’s website: https://www.learnit.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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We all need a dose of optimism at times. I’d been yearning to see how I could make a difference and affect some much-needed change in the world. But the stakes feel so high and the problems feel impossibly complicated and far-reaching. Before this interview, I wanted to know: what can I do? And how can I stop feeling so powerless and hopeless? I found the answers to these questions and more inside Take Heart, Take Action: The Transformative Power of Small Acts, Groups, and Gardens by this week’s guest, Trathen Heckman.
Guest Bio
Trathen Heckman is an award-winning nonprofit leader with over twenty years of experience cultivating grassroots groups and community networks. He is the Founder and Director of Daily Acts Organization, which specializes in unleashing the power of community to address the climate crisis. Trathen lives in the Petaluma River Watershed, where he grows food, medicine, and wonder while working to compost apathy and lack. Visit Trathen at dailyacts.org. https://dailyacts.org/
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Take Heart, Take Action: The Transformative Power of Small Acts, Groups, and Gardens
https://www.amazon.com/Take-Heart-Action-Transformative-Gardens/dp/1544534310
Guest’s website: https://dailyacts.org/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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“Complete meditation is not about feeling good— it’s about getting real,” writes Andrew Holecek in his book, Reverse Meditation: How to Use Your Pain and Most Difficult Emotions as the Doorway to Inner Freedom. From this lens, meditation intended only to feel good falls short of what’s possible when we tune into and turn toward ourselves. This week’s conversation focuses on reverse meditation, which is a deliberate turning towards difficult thoughts, emotions and physical pain. And with this new perspective, reverse meditation give us the opportunity to relate to our mind instead of from it.
Guest Bio
Andrew Holecek is an author, speaker, and humanitarian who offers seminars internationally on meditation, lucid dreaming, and the art of dying. He has studied sleep yoga, bardo yoga, and other traditional practices with living masters in India and Nepal. Andrew’s books include Dreams of Light, Dream Yoga, and Reverse Meditation. His work has appeared in Psychology Today, Parabola, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle,Utne Reader, Buddhadharma, Light of Consciousness, and many other periodicals. He hosts the popular Edge of Mind podcast and is the founder of the Night Club community, a support platform for nocturnal meditations. Learn more at andrewholecek.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Reverse Meditation: How to Use Your Pain and Most Difficult Emotions as the Doorway to Inner Freedom (Sounds True, July 11, 2023) https://www.amazon.com/Reverse-Meditation-Difficult-Emotions-Doorway/dp/1649631057
Guest’s website: andrewholecek.com
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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One of the most challenging things about raising a family is trying to get your kids to listen, make good choices, and do what you need them to do. As a mom of six and a longtime parenting coach, Andee Martineau has cultivated and now teaches a parenting methodology that puts connection ahead of correction. This week, she’ll discuss the key ideas from her book, Connect Method Parenting: How to Get Your Kids to WANT to Listen to You Without the Yelling, Ultimatums, and Bribes.
Guest Bio
Andee Martineau is a parenting coach and mom of six who specializes in helping parents all over the world raise their kids without yelling, ultimatums or bribes. Using her Connect Method Parenting techniques, she has taught thousands of moms to feel more in control of family life, stress less, get their kids to listen, and more. Andee is a former registered nurse who brings to her clients years of hands-on experience raising her own children (ages 13-22) and coursework in developmental psychology as well as certifications in life coaching and integrative health coaching. Andee the author of 'Connect Method Parenting: how to get your kids to WANT to listen to you without the yelling, ultimatums, and bribes'. When she’s not spreading her message that parenting is about connecting and not correcting, you can find her relaxing at the creek next to her home. She lives in a cabin in the woods of Utah with her husband, children and their Sheepadoodle, Leia.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Connect Method Parenting: How to Get Your Kids to WANT to Listen to You Without the Yelling, Ultimatums, and Bribes
https://www.amazon.com/Connect-Method-Parenting-without-ultimatums/dp/B0B1QL3S24
Guest’s website: https://connectmethodparenting.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Isn't it interesting how we give generations labels? As you may know, Gen Z is defined as anyone born between 1997 and 2012, which means these are the people that are roughly 11 to 26 years of age now. As you give some thought to people you may know in this age group, I wonder what labels or judgments might you have? In his new book, What Would Gen-Z Do?: Everything You Don't Know About Gen-Z But Should, international award-winning author John Schlimm invites you to rethink everything.
Guest Bio
A Harvard-trained educator, artist, advocate, and international award-winning author, John Schlimm was among the first to start piecing together the authentic and multifaceted face of Generation Z—beyond the stigmas, stereotypes, and often misguided media profiling of these dynamic young people, who remain largely misunderstood and vastly underestimated. During the past several years, John’s extensive and revealing work and trusted relationship with Gen-Zers across the country has resulted in several thought-provoking essays—for Huffington Post, Harvard Ed. Magazine, and others—and his groundbreaking collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum to create The Gen-Z Time Capsule, which is a participatory project helping Gen-Zers to further introduce themselves to the world—including to their own parents, teachers, community leaders, employers, and others—while also turning them into a bona fide work of Pop Art.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: What Would Gen-Z Do?: Everything You Don't Know About Gen-Z But Should https://www.amazon.com/What-Would-Gen-Z-Do-Everything/dp/1641707364
Guest’s website: https://johnschlimm.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Living in an aligned and conscious way sounds good on paper, but how do we actually do this? We live in an often overwhelming world, one that doesn’t offer many opportunities to turn within and connect with ourselves. In I’m Ascending, Now What?, energy and embodiment expert Sydney Campos explores how we can begin to reclaim ourselves and transform our wounds and shadows into your greatest gifts. Perhaps it’s time to see what you’re really made of and experience the infinite possibilities that await when you choose to become the creator of your reality.
Guest Bio
Sydney Campos is a Visionary, Energy Healer, Business Strategy Expert and Best-Selling Author of The Empath Experience. She is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of ASCEND and host of the Visionary Souls Podcast. Sydney is devoted to creating Heaven on Earth in all moments. Whether leading marketing strategy for conscious companies, hosting transformational retreats, building soul-aligned businesses, training Akashic Facilitators, or architecting the world’s next social community – Sydney illuminates bridges into new dimensions. Sydney is a sought-after expert in the fields of consciousness, embodiment, intuition and authenticity. Sydney has been featured in Forbes, MindBodyGreen, Refinery29, Bustle, PureWow and New York Magazine.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: I'm Ascending, Now What?: Awaken Your Authentic Self, Own Your Power, Embody Your Truth Hardcover – June 20, 2023 https://www.amazon.com/Im-Ascending-Now-What-Authentic/dp/1250859824
Guest’s website: https://sydneycampos.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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No matter what your relationship with your family looks like today, your family dynamics have a tremendous impact on how you feel about yourself, show up in the world, and relate to others This week I’m joined by Elaine Carney Gibson to discuss her book, Your Family Revealed: A Guide to Decoding the Patterns, Stories, and Belief Systems in Your Family. Beyond being a clear and compelling guide for better helping us each understand family and the subconscious dynamics that can impact us deep into adulthood, this is a book about becoming more aware of where we came from so we can engage our power to change, grow, and create a more meaningful life.
Guest Bio
Elaine Carney Gibson, LMFT, LPC, is a practicing psychotherapist of 50 years. She sees individuals, couples, and families, specializing in Relationship Therapy. She taught graduate courses in marriage and family therapy for many years and is the director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Training Institute of The Link Counseling Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Your Family Revealed: A Guide to Decoding the Patterns, Stories, and Belief Systems in Your Family by Elaine Carney Gibson LMFT LPC
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Family-Revealed-Decoding-Patterns/dp/1649630042
Guest’s website: https://www.elainecarneygibson.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Lisa Broderick, author of All the Time in the World: Learn to Control Your Experience of Time to Live a Life Without Limitations, shares her insights on how we can use science-based practices for stretching and bending time, thereby changing our experience of time altogether. “Our ability to influence our experience of time is the key to doing what we are here to do. As you liberate yourself from the illusion of time as we know it, you will become a confident creator of your own reality. You have all the time in the world.”
Guest Bio
Lisa Broderick is an accomplished senior executive whose career has been defined by understanding how technology impacts society and changes behavior. She is also someone who experiences and studies the world in terms of data, best practices and quantum science. Lisa teaches that life is about constant change, in which energy and matter are the basis of transformation. Now, her groundbreaking new book, All the Time in the World, reveals how new scientific literature is revolutionizing our understanding of what time is and, more importantly, how we can affect it. With her aptitude for making science understandable, relevant, and captivating, Lisa has helped countless others shift their understanding and make profound changes in their lives. For over four decades, she has worked with entrepreneurs and established companies to create lives of presence and purpose. Her approach of integrating science with metaphysics and her own personal experiences has changed the lives of regular people as they reimagine how they see themselves, their businesses and how the world sees them. Lisa earned a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke. She is a Transcendental Meditation Sidha, attended the Monroe Institute for the exploration of expanded states of consciousness, and studied imagery and dream reading at the American Institute for Mental Imagery for 15 years with noted author and teacher of Western spirituality Dr. Gerald Epstein.
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Mentioned in this Episode
All the Time in the World: Learn to Control Your Experience of Time to Live a Life Without Limitations
https://www.amazon.com/All-Time-World-Experience-Limitations/dp/1683647971
Guest’s website: https://allthetimebook.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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This week I’m joined by Thomas Moore, who is best known for his NYT bestselling book, Care of the Soul, A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life. Thomas recently released his newest book, The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness, which is a book about how we can embrace, even enjoy, emptiness. In a world that encourages us to want more, do more and have more, Thomas’s is a quiet voice that whispers… maybe there’s wisdom in less. Maybe there’s something special, deep, spiritual and meaningful about emptiness. Maybe it has something to teach us.
Guest Bio
Thomas Moore is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul and thirty other books. His work brings together spirituality, mythology, depth psychology, and the arts, emphasizing imagination and soul. He lives in New Hampshire.
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Mentioned in this Episode
The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness
https://www.amazon.com/Eloquence-Silence-Surprising-Wisdom-Emptiness/dp/1608688666
Guest’s website: https://www.thomasmooresoul.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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This week I’m joined by Dr. Luana Marques, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, to discuss her book, Bold Move: A 3-Step Plan to Transform Anxiety into Power. After decades of research, teaching, and clinical practice, Dr. Luana understands anxiety, including the thinking patterns that can leave us feeling tense, anxious, and worried. Bold Move is a book designed to offer tried and tested methods to break out of thinking pattern ruts and fuel the courage to create a more confident and meaningful life.
Guest Bio
Dr. Luana Marques is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, founder and director of Community Psychiatry PRIDE at Massachusetts General Hospital, which brings clinical and training initiatives to underserved communities, and served as the first Latina president of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA).
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Mentioned in this Episode
Bold Move: A 3-Step Plan to Transform Anxiety into Power https://www.amazon.com/Bold-Move-3-Step-Transform-Anxiety/dp/0063277018
Guest’s website: https://drluana.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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So many of us go through a period of feeling completely stuck. But as we’ll learn from today’s guest, it’s not because we’re lazy, crazy, or unmotivated. We’re missing a clear pathway to get back on course. In her new book, The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward, Britt Frank offers a research-backed road map for moving forward with purpose, confidence, and freedom
Guest Bio
Britt Frank, MSW, LSCSW, SEP, is a clinician, educator, and trauma specialist. She received her B.A. from Duke University and her MSW from the University of Kansas, where she is an award-winning adjunct professor. Frank speaks and writes widely about emotional wellness and healing.
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Mentioned in this Episode
The Science of Stuck Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward https://www.amazon.com/Science-Stuck-Breaking-Through-Inertia/dp/0593419448
Guest’s website: https://www.scienceofstuck.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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I’m joined this week by George Mumford to talk about his book, Unlocked: Embrace Your Greatness, Find the Flow, Discover Success. George has worked with the elite of elite athletes, including Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O’Neal. What he has discovered is that natural ability wasn’t exclusively what made them great. “What made them so exceptional was that they were what I call unlocked— they were in close touch with that part of themselves that was most truly who they were. That is what allowed them to develop their potential in the way they did.” Today’s conversation is going to do a deep dive into how we can each become unlocked.
Guest Bio
George Mumford is a globally recognized speaker, teacher, and coach. Since 1989, he’s been honing his groundbreaking performance and mindfulness techniques with people from locker rooms to board rooms, Yale to jail. Michael Jordan credits George with transforming his on-court leadership, while Mumford has also worked with Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, and countless other NBA players, Olympians, executives, and artists. Mumford’s first book The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance is a memoir and instruction guide to accessing your inner masterpiece. His new book “Unlocked: Embrace Your Greatness, Find the Flow, Discover Success” will be published in May 2023. While at the University of Massachusetts — where he roomed with future Hall-of-Famer Julius Erving — injuries forced Mumford out of basketball and into addiction to pain medication and drugs. With the help of meditation and mindfulness, he got clean and made it his mission to teach and work with others.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Unlocked: Embrace Your Greatness, Find the Flow, Discover Success https://www.amazon.com/Unlocked-Embrace-Greatness-Discover-Success/dp/0063210096
Guest’s website: https://georgemumford.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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This week I met with Vivian Risi to discuss her book 24 Hours Is All It Takes: Daily Habits Guaranteed to Change Your Life. This is a book about the daily essentials… things we could all do every day to kickstart the next steps toward living the life we want to live. And it’s a book filled with ideas, strategies, and tools, especially the ones we can use first thing in the morning so we can all seize the day.
Guest Bio
Vivian Risi is the president and CEO of one of the largest real estate brokerages in North America. With a career in the industry spanning nearly four decades, Risi is a recognized philanthropist, noted speaker, celebrated leader, and mentor in her field.After immigrating to Canada at a young age, Risi journeyed from humble beginnings and endured many challenges, which resulted in the hard-earned wisdom that she now shares to inspire others-always leading with the core message: it's never too late to change the trajectory of your life.Based in Toronto, Canada, Risi is also the author of Yes You Can: It All Starts with You.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: 24 Hours Is All It Takes: Daily Habits Guaranteed to Change Your Life https://www.amazon.com/24-Hours-All-Takes-Guaranteed/dp/1954854927
Guest’s website: https://vivianrisi.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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This week we dive into the book, Profit with Presence: The Twelve Pillars of Mindful Leadership, with its author, Eric Holsapple. This is a book about how we can create workplaces that are anchored in mindful presence, peace of mind, and gratitude, without sacrificing profits or performance. In fact, Eric would argue that mindfulness is not only a path to personal success, it’s a sound business strategy.
Guest Bio
Eric Holsapple is a successful developer and entrepreneur with LC Real Estate Group, in Loveland, Colorado, who has used mindfulness to transform his life and business, and helps others to do the same. Eric has a PhD in economics, has been a real estate CEO and developer for nearly 40 years, has lectured in real estate at Colorado State University for 20 years, and has practiced Yoga and meditation for 30 years. Holsapple has a unique perspective on how merging business and mindfulness can be a catalyst in changing lives. Eric is the founder of Living in the Gap. His popular workshops teach CEOs and professionals a different way to operate mindfully while improving the bottom line. He has won Entrepreneur of the Year awards from Colorado State University and BizWest magazine.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Profit with Presence: The Twelve Pillars of Mindful Leadership https://www.amazon.com/Profit-Presence-Pillars-Mindful-Leadership/dp/B0B1W4CQQT
Guest’s website: https://www.livinginthegap.org/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Imagine what could be possible if we intentionally engaged with our spiritual side on a regular basis? Bill Philipps, author of Soul Searching: Tune In to Spirit and Awaken Your Inner Wisdom, has spent a lifetime learning how to tap into the human guidance system and direct energy with intention. He encourages us to not only tune into our intention and energy, but also become skillful at surrender and knowing that we are the creators of our lives.
Guest Bio
Bill Philipps is a psychic medium and the author of Expect the Unexpected and Signs from the Other Side. He has appeared on Dr. Phil and other shows, and his clients include numerous celebrities. A popular workshop leader at spiritual centers including Kripalu and Omega Institute, he also offers small-group and large-audience readings throughout the US. Bill lives in Southern California with his partner and three dogs.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Soul Searching: Tune In to Spirit and Awaken Your Inner Wisdom https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Searching-Spirit-Awaken-Wisdom/dp/1608688143
Guest’s website: https://www.billphilipps.com/home
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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It’s easy to miss something you’re not looking for. Psychologists call this inattentional blindness: the failure to notice something right in front of you because other attention-demanding tasks are at hand. This week, my guest is Paul Angone, author of Listen to Your Day: The Life-Changing Practice of Paying Attention. Paul argues that inattentional blindness sums up the day-to-day of most of our lives. We’re missing important things, including revelations, ideas, and truths, that are walking right in front of us because we aren’t actually looking for them.
Guest Bio
Paul Angone is one of the most trusted and sought-after voices in the nation to college students, young professionals, and those going through career change. The bestselling author of 101 Secrets for Your Twenties, 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties, and 25 Lies Twentysomethings Need to Stop Believing, Paul is a dynamic keynote speaker at universities, corporations, and churches nationwide. He is also the creator of AllGroanUp.com and the All Groan Up podcast. He lives just outside Denver, Colorado, with his wife, Naomi, and their four children.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Listen to Your Day: The Life-Changing Practice of Paying Attention
https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Your-Day-Life-Changing-Attention/dp/1540900711
Guest’s website: http://paulangone.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Belonging, as research shows us, is a key determinant of our health. It gives us a sense of safety, and it gives our lives meaning and purpose. Without it we feel lost, alone, depressed, even worthless. As you’ll hear in this week’s conversation with Lisa Kentgen, author of The Practice of Belonging, we can build belonging into our lives with intention using the six lessons Lisa learned during her studies into belonging around the world.
Guest Bio
Lisa Kentgen is a psychologist with over three decades’ experience as a clinician, educator, and speaker. She is the author of An Intentional Life: Five Foundations of Authenticity and Purpose. Dr. Kentgen has published scientific articles on the development of conscious awareness, biological correlates of depression and anxiety, and identifying emotional difficulties in children. She believes that creating vibrant communities is the path forward through the unprecedented social, psychological, and existential crises we face. Read more about her at www.drlisakentgen.com
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: The Practice of Belonging: Six Lessons from Vibrant Communities to Combat Loneliness, Foster Diversity, and Cultivate Caring Relationships https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Belonging-Communities-Loneliness-Relationships/dp/1623177634
Guest’s website: https://www.lisakentgen.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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What is “woman” if not mother? This is one of the many thought-provoking questions Ruby Warrington asks in her book, Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood. This is a book designed to confront the ways we normalize women as mothers and stigmatize women who don’t have children. It takes on the stubbornly taboo topic of women without children, and offers a timely and brave reframing of what it means not to be a mom, instead of continuing to paint women without kids as “sad, self-obsessed, or somehow dysfunctional.”
Guest Bio
Ruby Warrington is a British-born author, editor, and publishing consultant. Recognized as a true thought leader in the wellness space, Ruby has the unique ability to identify issues that are destined to become part of the cultural narrative. Her previous books include Material Girl, Mystical World; Sober Curious; and The Sober Curious Reset. For more, visit rubywarrington.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood https://www.amazon.com/Women-Without-Kids-Revolutionary-Sisterhood/dp/1683649273
Guest’s website: https://www.rubywarrington.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Few of us will get through this lifetime without going through at least one major upheaval, a time when life feels completely upside down. Whether the upheaval comes in the form of a world-shaking event or something as intimate as a broken relationship, medical emergency, or personal loss, we can be left feeling completely untethered. In her book, In Deep Shift: Riding the Waves of Change to Find Peace, Fulfillment, and Freedom, author Valarie Gangus explores the idea that our most turbulent moments are actually the gateways to expanding our consciousness. We can begin a process that forces us to wake up, transform, and come home to our true selves.
Guest Bio
Valerie Gangas is a speaker, transformational life coach, and author who specializes in helping people gain a deeper understanding of who they are, so they can genuinely thrive and unleash their magic more fully. She has worked alongside the David Lynch Foundation and Oprah Winfrey, speaking to large groups nationwide about meditation and the benefits of expanding consciousness, and has contributed to Thrive Global and Spirituality & Health. For more, visit valeriegangas.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book:
In Deep Shift: Riding the Waves of Change to Find Peace, Fulfillment, and Freedom
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Shift-Riding-Fulfillment-Freedom/dp/1683649656
Guest’s website: https://www.valeriegangas.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Saving our planet and averting a climate disaster seem increasingly challenging, even impossible. But this week’s guest believes that hope and heart are the answer. In his book collaboration with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Patrick McDonneLl proposes a compassionate revolution and encourages us to see that real change in the world will only come from a change of heart. Join us this week as we discuss the book, Heart to Heart: A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet.
Guest Bio
Patrick McDonnell is the creator of the beloved internationally syndicated comic strip MUTTS, which features the characters that star in five of his children's picture books: Just Like Heaven, Hug Time, South, Wag!, and The Gift of Nothing. He is also the creator of Me . . . Jane, a Caldecott Honor Book and a New York Times bestselling picture book biography of Dr. Jane Goodall, and has written and illustrated A Perfectly Messed-Up Story and the award-winning picture book Art. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Karen; their formerly feral cat, Not Ootie; and their adopted terrier, Amelie.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Heart to Heart: A Conversation on Love and Hope for Our Precious Planet https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Conversation-Love-Precious-Planet/dp/0063216981
Guest’s website: https://mutts.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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There are many doorways into our mindful selves. Some use meditation, some use running. This week’s guest uses creativity. In her new book, Creating Stillness: Mindful Art Practices and Stories for Navigating Anxiety, Stress, and Fear, Rachel Rose explores how we can use our creative selves as a way to focus and steady the mind, create inner knowing, and cultivate peace.
Guest Bio
Rachel Rose is an educator, writer, and contemplative artist fusing mindfulness practices with the creative arts. She holds a Masters in Adult Education with a focus on Arts Based Research and transformative learning and is a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator with the International Expressive Art Therapy Association. Through her education portal Workshop Muse, Rose has created both a beacon and home for people to come to learn about creative knowing, as well as how to practice creative mindfulness in their own lives. She continues to champion and explore these concepts in her workshops, writing, and as she shares with intimacy about how her own creative practice brings her awareness and insight. Her favorite tools for creation are textiles, paper, the natural world, and words. Rachel makes her home on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Calgary, Alberta. Learn more at www.workshopmuse.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s Book: Creating Stillness: Mindful Art Practices and Stories for Navigating Anxiety, Stress, and Fear https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Stillness-Mindful-Practices-Navigating/dp/1623177596
Guest’s website: www.workshopmuse.com
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to feel steady and confident in your parenting? Do you ever think about how to truly savor these precious years with your growing people? And, perhaps most importantly, do you dream of creating connected relationships that endure beyond childhood? This week, we connect with Carrie Contey, who has spent the last two decades guiding, supporting and inspiring parents to know and trust themselves, deeply. And as a result, there are thousands of parents all over the world who feel skillfully equipped, personally fulfilled, and authentically connected with their people in all phases of development.
Guest Bio
Carrie Contey, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized coach, author, speaker and educator. Her work offers a new perspective on human development, parenting and family life. She guides, supports and inspires her clients to live with wide-open and courageous hearts so they can approach family life with skill and spaciousness. Carrie received her doctorate in prenatal and perinatal psychology and is masterful at synthesizing and articulating the science, psychology and spirituality of humanhood. She is the co-founder of the Slow Family Living movement, the co-author of CALMS: A Guide To Soothing Your Baby and creator of a variety of impactful parenting courses intended to support and guide parents from toddlerhood all the way through teenhood. Carrie has appeared on NBC’s The Today Show, NPR, CBS radio and in many publications including Time, Parenting and The Boston Globe. You can learn more about Carrie at www.carriecontey.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: www.carriecontey.com
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Reflect back on the last hour of your thinking and consider how many of those thoughts you created on purpose. If you’re like most of us, you’ll likely see that much of your thinking gets produced without your direction, and often outside of your awareness. This week, Thomas Sterner shares insights from his book, It’s Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. Throughout his career, Thomas has been exploring methods for thinking, rather than being thought. What he’s learned is that directing our thoughts, instead of being directed by them, is not only possible, it’s transformative.
Guest Bio
Thomas M. Sterner is the founder and CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, a successful entrepreneur, and an expert in present moment functioning, or PMF™. As a popular and in-demand speaker and coach, he works with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, coaches, and CEOs, freeing them to operate effectively in high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery. The author of the international bestseller The Practicing Mind and Fully Engaged, he lives in Delaware. https://tomsterner.com/
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: It’s Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking https://www.amazon.com/Its-Just-Thought-Emotional-Deliberate/dp/1608688291
Guest’s website: https://tomsterner.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Mental health counselor and author of Designing Healthy Boundaries: A Guide to Embracing Self-Love, Building Better Boundaries, and Protecting Your Peace, Shainna Ali returns to 60 Mindful Minutes to discuss what it means to experience healthy love. What does it look and feel like? How do we find it? How do we nourish it?
Guest Bio
Dr. Shainna Ali is a mental health counselor, educator, and advocate who is dedicated to highlighting the important role of mental health in fostering happiness, fulfillment, and overall wellness. She is the author of The Self-Love Workbook, The Self-Love Workbook for Teens, and Luna Finds Love Everywhere, and the owner of Integrated Counseling Solutions, a counseling and consulting practice in Orlando, Florida. In her practice, she uses a strengths-based approach that empowers clients on their journey of self-love. Within the field of mental health, her areas of expertise include exploring identity and culture, fostering emotional intelligence, healing from trauma, and utilizing creative counseling methods. When she isn’t working, she invests in her self-love by practicing yoga, spending time with her loved ones, teaching dance, or exploring the world. Dr. Ali enjoys advocating for the importance of self-love and mental health at workshops and presentations, in the media, and through her Psychology Today–hosted blog, A Modern Mentality. She serves on the board for the Mental Health Association of Central Florida, has been named 30 under 30 by her alma mater, The University of Central Florida, highlighted as an emerging leader by the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision, and honored with the Pete Fischer Humanitarian Award by the Florida Counseling Association. https://www.shainnaali.com/
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Designing Healthy Boundaries: A Guide to Embracing Self-Love, Building Better Boundaries, and Protecting Your Peace https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Healthy-Boundaries-Embracing-Protecting/dp/1646044088
Guest’s website: https://www.shainnaali.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Whether we're aware of it or not, most of us spend a lot of time in our thoughts and use our minds to navigate the world. For Sarah Blondin, there's another layer to living, a dimension we're missing when we forget to turn towards our hearts to connect with ourselves and the world around us. In her book, Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love, she invites readers to come home to themselves and uses centering practices to help us return to a place of groundedness and connection to a deep knowing within.
Guest Bio
Sarah Blondin’s InsightTimer meditations have received over 7 million plays from over 600,000 listeners. She is also host of her own half-million-listener podcast Live Awake. Her work has been translated into several languages and is in use in prison, recovery, and wellness programs. Her online course, Coming Home to Yourself, released in the spring of 2018, is InsightTimer’s top seller. She lives in the quiet countryside of British Columbia, Canada, with her husband and two sons. More at sarahblondin.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Minded-Hold-Yourself-Others/dp/1683643410
Guest’s website: sarahblondin.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Suck it up. Stuff it down. For many men, this is the extent of their emotional education. In his new book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide to Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, and Find Freedom, Connor Beaton asks: Where is the modern-day strength training for the hearts and minds of men? Offering a tactical, self-led guide for men to explore their inner world, Connor blazes a new trail of facing fear, self-sabotage, anger and anxiety head on in order to find liberation from the limiting thoughts, emotions, and patterns men often face.
Guest Bio
Connor Beaton is the founder of ManTalks, an international organization dedicated to the personal growth of men. He is a facilitator dedicated to building better men, an entrepreneur, a writer, and a keynote speaker. Connor has spoken to large corporate brands, nonprofits, schools, and international organizations such as the United Nations, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Apple, TED, and Entrepreneurs' Organization. For more, visit connorbeaton.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Men's Work: A Practical Guide to Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, and Find Freedom https://www.amazon.com/Mens-Work-Practical-Darkness-Self-Sabotage/dp/1683649907
Guest’s website: www.connorbeaton.com
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Most of us can relate to being addicted to something at some point in our lives, and can remember the oh so familiar negative cycle of succumbing to our addictions, feeling shame and regret, making new attempts and commitments for change, and then possibly failing again and again. This week, we welcome Rebecca Williams to share insights from her book, The Gift of Recovery: 52 Mindful Ways to Live Joyfully Beyond Addiction, which is all about creating in-the-moment mindfulness skills that give us the tools we need to navigate this cycle, and to transcend it completely.
Guest Bio
BIO: Rebecca is an award-winning author, psychologist, and wellness expert specializing in healthy recovery from mental illness, addiction, and life’s challenges. For the past 25 years, her work has focused on building resilience and embracing emotional well-being. She has been a program director at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and an associate clinical professor at The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. A life-long yoga enthusiast, Rebecca has also been a yoga instructor for over 15 years. She was able to combine the ancient wisdom of yoga and mindfulness with compassionate recovery from addiction in her books. Rebecca has collaborated for over ten years with marriage and family therapist, Julie Kraft. Their first book together, The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction: A Guide to Coping with the Grief, Stress, and Anger that Trigger Addictive Behaviors is popular with both therapists and recovering clients. Their workbook is used in virtual counseling, group therapy, and addiction recovery centers across the country. The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction has been translated into Korean, Japanese, Russian, and Hungarian! Their workbook is celebrating a 10th anniversary with a new, updated second edition! Continuing their writing journey together, Rebecca and Julie created a new book, The Gift of Recovery: 52 Mindful Ways to Live Joyfully Beyond Addiction. The Gift of Recovery is a pocket coach offering lots of in-the-moment mindfulness skills and adds powerful daily affirmations as clients continue on their personal healing journey.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Gift of Recovery: 52 Mindful Ways to Live Joyfully Beyond Addiction https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Recovery-Mindful-Joyfully-Addiction/dp/1684030706
Guest’s website: https://www.newharbinger.com/author/rebecca-e-williams/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Imagine you’ve got a glass jar filled with sugar on your kitchen counter. You are the jar, and the sugar is your energy. This week we connect with author Yasmine Cheyenne about her book, The Sugar Jar Create Boundaries, Embrace Self-Healing, and Enjoy the Sweet Things in Life. This book is about how we can get an accurate gauge of how much is in the sugar jar (how resourced we are). It’s about identifying what depletes us and what restores us so we can spend our sugar more effectively and more in line with who we are and what we need.
Guest Bio
Yasmine Cheyenne is a self-healing educator, author, speaker, and mental wellness advocate who helps people learn how to cultivate daily practices to build healthy, joyful lives. Yasmine believes in “Self-healing For Everyone™” and on 2/22/22, launched The Sugar Jar Community™ app, a safe space with resources to support mental health. She has been featured on the Today show and in InStyle, Forbes, Refinery 29, The Every Girl, Poosh, and more. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Sugar Jar Create Boundaries, Embrace Self-Healing, and Enjoy the Sweet Things in Life https://yasminecheyenne.com/books/
Guest’s website: https://yasminecheyenne.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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This week we connect with Becky Volmer, author of the brand new book, You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom This is a book about action. Who doesn’t feel stuck sometimes? Sometimes it’s in our jobs, our relationships, sometimes it can feel like our whole life feels stuck. Any time we feel like we can’t see better options, or we’re just not clear, or things just don’t seem to be turning out, we can become immobilized. You Are Not Stuck is about making bold choices that can sometime looks like an audacious leap; more often, though, it is a series of small, deliberate actions based on personal values that yield more clarity, alignment, and, ultimately, long-term contentment.
Guest Bio
Becky Vollmer is a speaker, yoga teacher, and creator of You Are Not Stuck, a movement that empowers people to pursue the lives they most deeply desire. She guides a global community on social media that is several hundred thousand strong, teaches online courses about empowerment and choice, and leads sold-out programs that combine movement, breathwork, self-exploration, and action planning at yoga and wellness centers across the country. A former newspaper journalist, Becky writes on topics including personal growth, relationships, mental health and wellness, mindfulness, meditation, and spirituality. She also is a leading voice in the sobriety and recovery community. Becky lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, their four children, three pets, and more flowers that one person should be allowed.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s books: You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Stuck-Soul-Guided/dp/1250864364
Guest’s website: https://www.youarenotstuck.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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John Strelecky, #1 bestselling inspirational author, returns for his fifth visit to 60 Mindful Minutes. An annual tradition, we kick off every year with a conversation with John. This year we discuss how to create more meaning and find more purpose for 2023.
Guest Bio
John Strelecky is a #1 bestselling inspirational author. His books have been translated into over forty-three languages and sold more than eight million copies worldwide. They have won bestseller of the year awards seven times and collectively spent more than one thousand three hundred weeks on bestseller lists, including more than three hundred weeks in the #1 spot. John’s entry into the world of writing began following a life changing experience when he was thirty-three years old. From that, he was inspired to sit down and tell the story shared in his first book - The Cafe on the Edge of the World. Within a year after its release, word of mouth support from readers had spread that book across the globe - inspiring people on every continent, including Antarctica. It has been a #1 Bestseller in multiple countries.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/John-Strelecky/author/B001IOBII0
Guest’s website: https://www.johnstrelecky.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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There is so much more to our breathing than simply our automatic inhales and exhales. In fact, our breathing has an immense hidden power to change the way we think and feel. This week I’m joined by Stuart Sandeman, breath coach, founder of Breathpod and author of Breathe In, Breathe Out: Restore Your Health, Reset Your Mind and Find Happiness Through Breathwork. Our breathing impacts our sleep, stress and how we manage pain. It has potential to help us focus better, perform better and connect more deeply with ourselves, others and the world around us. We just need to begin leveraging the power of the breath, which is simple but not always easy.
Guest Bio
Stuart Sandeman is the founder of Breathpod and has worked as a breath coach to award-winning artists, Olympic athletes and top business executives. He has created two series of Decompression Sessions for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 1, and joined Brit Award winner Lewis Capaldi on his 2020 UK tour to help support anxious fans.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Breathe In, Breathe Out: Restore Your Health, Reset Your Mind and Find Happiness Through Breathwork https://www.amazon.com/Breathe-Out-Restore-Happiness-Breathwork/dp/1335430687
Guest’s website: https://www.breathpod.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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If you’re struggling to make sense of the role technology plays in our lives, you’re not alone. Many of us are asking questions about boundaries and privacy, but also deeper questions about the purpose digital media has in our lives, and the costs and benefits of its presence. This week, we dive into questions about our digital lives with Bob Hutchins and Jenny Back, authors of Our Digital Soul: Collective Anxiety, Media Trauma and A Path Toward Recovery.
Guest Bio
Bob Hutchins is an accomplished and dynamic marketing executive with a 20+ year comprehensive background in marketing in both corporate and small to medium environments across various industries. He is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in digital marketing, consumer psychology, and organizational marketing direction. As a digital marketing expert, author, and cultural interpreter, Bob is uniquely positioned to help brands understand how to communicate and integrate marketing efforts in a style that is human and relatable. His latest book, Finally Human, explores ways brands can use technology and social media to communicate in styles that are human, impactful, and restorative.
Jenny Black is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in Media Trauma—the ways that media impacts our mental health, creativity and productivity. She is the co-author of Our Digital Soul: Collective Anxiety, Media Trauma and A Path Toward Recovery. She hosts the podcast, LOST+FOUND: Lose the Phone. Find the Flow where we follow the journey of one artist as they see how losing their smart phone for 30 days changes their creativity. In 2022, she delivered a Tedx Talk on The Slow Drip of Media Trauma.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Our Digital Soul: Collective Anxiety, Media Trauma and A Path Toward Recovery https://www.amazon.com/Our-Digital-Soul-Collective-Recovery/dp/B0BK4WYLGB/
Guest’s website: https://www.ourdigitalsoul.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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What does it mean to be in touch with the heart of who we are? That question is at the core of The Heart of Who We Are. Written by Caverly Morgan, a meditation teacher, author, speaker, and nonprofit founder, the book offers a pathway to contemplate such topics as our interconnectedness, our beingness, and the things that get in the way of us feeling whole and complete. This week we look at how awareness practices and contemplative technologies can transform our understanding of ourselves and the world.
Guest Bio
Caverly Morgan is a meditation teacher, author, speaker, and nonprofit founder. She is the founder and Lead Contemplative of Peace in Schools—a nonprofit which created the nation's first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools. She is also the founder of Presence Collective, a community of cross-cultural contemplatives committed to personal and collective transformation, creating spaces for wisdom exchange and belonging. Caverly blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual approach. Her practice began in 1995 and has included eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery. She has been teaching contemplative practice since 2001. Caverly is the author of A Kid’s Book About Mindfulness. Her new book for adults, The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together, through Sounds True is available here. Caverly speaks publicly at conferences on topics including contemplative practice, personal and collective transformation, social entrepreneurship, authentic leadership, and mindfulness education, and has been featured in publications such as Mindful magazine (as a cover subject) and The New York Times.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Who-We-Are-Realizing/dp/1683649222/
Guest’s website: https://www.caverlymorgan.org/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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This week I’m joined by Seth J. Gillihan, PhD, a licensed psychologist specializing in mindfulness-centered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The focus of our conversation is on fostering patterns of thought that serve us well and encourage us to behave in ways that meet our goals. We will be discussing Seth’s new book, Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Simple Path to Healing, Hope, and Peace, and exploring how we can all have more peace in our minds.
Guest Bio
Licensed psychologist Seth J. Gillihan, PhD, specializes in mindfulness-centered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety, depression, insomnia, and other conditions. Dr. Gillihan has written and lectured nationally and internationally on CBT and how the brain is involved in regulating our moods. Dr. Gillihan is a Fellow of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at Penn. He hosts the weekly Think Act Be podcast, which features conversations on living more fully, and is author of the free guide, "10 Ways to Manage Stress and Anxiety Every Day," available at sethgillihan.com. Dr. Gillihan completed his BA in French and biology at Indiana University, his MA in community counseling at The George Washington University, and his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. You can find Dr. Gillihan on the web at sethgillihan.com and on his PsychologyToday.com blog, Think Act Be. He lives in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife and three children.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Simple Path to Healing, Hope, and Peace https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Cognitive-Behavioral-Therapy-Healing/dp/0063075717
Guest’s website: https://sethgillihan.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Tara Schuster had a rough childhood. By her mid-twenties, she was checking all the boxes on the outside but she was falling apart on the inside. Once she hit rock bottom, she began the process of rebuilding herself, essentially giving herself the parenting she’d never received, in order to start becoming the person she wanted to be. Her story and her process line the pages of her runaway hit, Buy Yourself the Fcking Lilies*, where she shares all the ways she learned to put herself back together.
Guest Bio
Tara Schuster is an accomplished entertainment executive turned mental health advocate and best-selling author. She is the author of the forth coming Glow in the Fcking Dark, and the runaway hit, Buy Yourself the Fcking Lilies, a finalist for Goodread’s Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020. It was selected by Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Goop, Publishers Weekly, and many more as one of the best books of the year on mental health and self-care. Previously, Tara served as vice president of talent and development at Comedy Central, where she was the executive in charge of such critically acclaimed shows as the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning Key & Peele. She has contributed to InStyle, The New Yorker, and Forbes, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Buy Yourself the Fcking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There*
https://www.amazon.com/Buy-Yourself-cking-Lilies-Rituals/dp/0525509909
Guest’s website: http://www.taraschuster.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Any number of things can come along to mess up the order we create and topple our well-built boundaries. Such is life. The trick is to have an early warning system that sets off alarms long before we hit overwhelm. In the early 1900s, miners used to keep caged canaries with them to warn them if dangerous gases, such as carbon monoxide, reached lethal levels. If the canary keeled over, it was time to evacuate. What is the canary in your coal mine?
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Coaching
If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
Full Transcript
Have an Alert System
Welcome to 60 Mindful Minutes. I’m Kristen Manieri, the host of this podcast as well as a professional coach. And you’re listening to part four of my end overwhelm series. So far I’ve covered understanding capacity, how to do less and how to say no more often. Today I’m going to be talking about having an alert system so we know when we’re getting close to overwhelm.
Once I know what matters and what doesn’t, and I’m chugging along nicely at 70 percent capacity, it’s only a matter of time before I slip up and start filling in the blank spaces and inching toward 100 percent capacity or beyond.
In my state of ease, I can fall prey to the inevitable tide of overcommitment that can easily roll in when I’m not paying attention.
The holidays arrive and I forget to leave room for all the doingness that goes along with special meals, events, gifts and traditions. A fun project comes my way and I giddily say yes to it before I fully calculate the cost/benefit. I start a course. I make a new friend. I embark on a new hobby. I read a book that inspires me to change the way I eat. We go on a trip. We get a dog. We start a renovation.
Any number of things can come along to mess up the order I’ve created and dislodge my perfect schedule and well-built boundaries. Such is life. The trick is to have an early warning system that sets off alarms long before I hit overwhelm.
In the early 1900s, miners used to keep caged canaries with them to warn them if dangerous gases, such as carbon monoxide, reached lethal levels. If the canary keeled over, it was time to evacuate.
What is the canary in your coal mine?
For me it’s when I drop my morning exercise, start skipping meals or wake up in the middle of the night with racing thoughts. Any of these three things warns me that I’ve got too much on my plate. I know that sleep, food and exercise are such essential aspects of my life that when they suffer, it’s a sign that I’ve let too many other things creep in.
Maybe for you it’s noticing when your anxiety starts to climb. Maybe you start pouring a little more wine into your glass than you normally do. Or you start yelling at the kids. Or you stop wanting to have sex. Or you start eating fast food or scarfing down chocolate bars or skipping your daily walk.
When we’re over capacity, the care we know we need often is the first to go. Ironically, it’s when we have a lot on our plates that we most need to be the fully resourced, yet it’s our fundamental needs—sleep, good food, breaks, movement—that often get set aside. But the more depleted we get, the less equipped we are to handle the strain of our overcommitted life.
We live in a world that applauds our doing and celebrates those that seem to get things done at seemingly herculean levels. It takes practice to opt out of our do, do, do culture and opt-in to something more meaningful and easeful. So, don’t be surprised if you get lured back in from time to time.
And if you’re someone like me who is interested in a lot of things, and loves to meet new people, and is always up for a new adventure or path or area of growth, you might find yourself susceptible to overcommitting from time to time. I sure do. I’m tickled to be asked to volunteer. I love when a friend texts and asks to get together. I want to try the new restaurant, read the latest bestseller, and join the movement. I can easily get swept away in a wave of enthusiasm and excitement before I realize I’ve take on too much.
But I’ve figured out a way to catch things before they get too far gone. The tool I use to keep tabs on myself is my daily centering practice.
Once a day I spend thirty minutes with myself. For me, it’s always worked best to do this first thing in the morning. I wake up, make my tea, and then I go and it with myself. I notice what I’m feeling and what thoughts are dominating my mind. I feel into my body to scan for any anxiety or tension. In a way, I’m getting a weather report for how I’m doing on the inside.
This daily check-in offers a way to notice if I’m dragging or to catch negative patterns quickly. I use my journal to note how I’m feeling and what’s on my mind, and then I consider my options. Do I need to change my circumstances or my mindset? Do I need to repromise or renegotiate some of my commitments? Do I need to talk something through with someone to help get some clarity? I feel into what’s burdening me and then I tend to it… long before it hits overwhelm.
By the way, I offer a whole course on my website about establishing a daily centering practice. It’s free and only takes about an hour to complete. You can find it at KristenManieri.com.
I love the work of Karla McLaren. In fact, I’ve interviewed her twice on my podcast: once about her book Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion (episode 84) and once about her book The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (episode 10). What I’ve learned from Karla is that our feelings—anxiety, overwhelm, tension, etc.—are signals. They’re trying to get our attention to we can do something about what’s causing us strain. These feelings are here to help us, not weigh us down, which only happens when we ignore them.
https://www.amazon.com/Embracing-Anxiety-Access-Genius-Emotion/dp/1683644417/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
To have a daily practice of checking in with ourselves gives us access to the signals our bodies are sending. It gives us the opportunity to listen and stop ignoring them.
Try it out for two weeks. Spend 10 minutes a day—any time of day that you can keep a consistent practice—and just check in with yourself. Ask yourself: How am I doing and feeling? Am I taking good care of myself? I’d love to hear how it goes.
This being the last of a four-part series, I want to quickly recap and also leave you with and important proviso to this work.
To recap, get to know your capacity. Take an accurate reading of what you can realistically have on your plate at once, making sure to factor in the season you’re in and challenges you may be going through.
Second, spend some time getting really clear about the things that matter most to you—the parts of your life that make it worth living—and then begin to prioritize those and eliminate the things that don’t make the list. You can’t do it all. Choose with intention.
Of course, eliminating things that don’t matter, or at least not right now, will require you to start saying no to things. Develop your 24-hour “maybe” response, set and hold boundaries. Finally, know your canary in the coal mine. You’ll inevitably end up overloaded from time to time; life happens and we easily lose our focus. But when we know the things that tip us off to being on the verge of overwhelm, and we check in with ourselves regularly, we find our way back to a centered, more grounded place faster.
I would like to leave you with some thoughts about self-compassion, something I see as a critical ingredient of our growth. Here’s why: as we bring more awareness to our lives, we can often feel frustrated with ourselves for all the many, many moments that we seem to take two steps forward, and then two steps back. Even with my commitment to mindfulness and the integration of better habits and ways of living, I often fall asleep and default back to my over-doing self.
I’ve heard it said from many of my teachers that mindfulness is a bird with two wings. One is the wing of wisdom and the other is the wing of compassion. Mindfulness and the path of mindful living are not meant to be another means to be hard on ourselves, another thing we’re not getting right.
Instead, it’s a way that we begin to be better for others, but also better to ourselves. My humble request is that you approach this journey like a scientist who is curiously observing, inquiring and collecting data. We aim for progress, not perfection. There’s nowhere to get, no contest to win, no grade to earn. Practicing is the journey and there is no destination.
In this spirit of compassionate curiosity, we learn to accept our foibles, even laugh at them. We see our missteps as opportunities to grow and learn, not as failures or further evidence of our deficiency. We are all flawed, yet we are all simply trying to do our best in this wild, sometimes weary, world. Open your mind but also soften your heart.
Thank you for joining me for this series. I’ve got a few more nuggets to share before the end of the year, and then I think I’ll take a break for a while.
Thanks for listening. Bye for now.
Melissa Urban knows firsthand that boundaries are the key to feelings of contentment, confidence, and freedom in every area of life. Since launching the mega-bestselling wellness program the Whole30, she has taught millions of people how to establish healthy habits and successfully navigate pushback/pressure by learning to set clear limits that protect our energy, time, and health. Through The Book of Boundaries, Melissa’s latest creation, she demonstrates that boundaries are the key to better mental health, more fulfilling relationships, and a happier, more productive way of life.
Guest Bio
Melissa Urban is CEO of the Whole30 and an authority on helping people create lifelong healthy habits. She is a six-time New York Times bestselling author (including the #1 bestseller The Whole30); and has been featured by Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and CNBC. She lives with her husband, son, and a poodle named Henry in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits That Will Set You Free https://www.amazon.com/Book-Boundaries-Limits-That-Will/dp/0593448707
Guest’s website: https://www.melissau.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Feelings of overwhelm often directly correlate with being over capacity. We have too much on our plates. How did it all get on your plate in the first place? Some of it, of course, just ended up there because it’s part of the job. But some of the things on your plate you actually signed up for. Someone asked and you said “yes.” Today we’ll look at why you said “yes” and how to say “no” more often.
Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching:
- Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
- KristenManieri.com
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Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Coaching
If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
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(Part Three) End Overwhelm Series: Say “No” More Often
Live: Nov 17
Welcome back to 60 Mindful minutes. This is Kristen Manieri and you’re listing to my four-part series on ending overwhelm. Part one was all about understanding your capacity. Part two was focused on doing less. Today, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on how we can learn to say “no” more often.
Feelings of overwhelm often directly correlate with being over capacity. We have too much on our plates. Ask yourself this question: how did this all get on my plate in the first place?
Some of it, of course, just ended up there because it’s part of the job. You didn’t sign up for your commute to work; it’s simply part of having your particular job. You didn’t sign up for making dinner most nights; it just turns out that you’re the one home first and skilled enough for the task.
But some of the things on your plate you did sign up for. Someone asked and you said “yes.” Those are the things I want to look at today.
Why do we say “yes” to the things we say “yes” to? Here are a few potential answers. See if any are a fit for you.
We say “yes” because:
- We want to appear amiable and helpful, and avoid seeming difficult
- We want to be liked
- We want to avoid hurting people’s feelings
- We feel guilty saying “no”
- It’s just how we were raised
- It’s easier to put ourselves out than to put another person out
- We know we’ll figure out a way to make it all work, even if it causes us stress
- We have a hard time setting and holding boundaries
- Saying “no” feels confrontational or unkind
- We were so excited to be asked that we said “yes” before I we really thought it through
- If we say no, people may stop asking
Here’s a quick test to see if saying “no” is an underdeveloped skill for you: take a look at your commitments for the next 30 days, including tasks you have agreed to do for others and places you have committed to be. How many of them do you now wish you could back out of or secretly hope will be cancelled? Are you already cooking up excuses or lies in order to avoid this commitment? If you see this pattern, even just a little bit, I believe you’re saying “yes” too much and saying “no” too little.
A few years ago, a client (I’ll call her Cheryl) was sharing with me that she was feeling awful about a girl’s weekend that was coming up a few days later. She had committed to going several weeks before but as the details of the trip slowly came to light, she realized that this was not the trip for her. Now she was going through the gut-wrenching process of trying to figure out a way to cancel. Could she say one of her kids is sick? Could she blame it on a fictitious business trip her husband suddenly needed to be on?
She didn’t want to lie but she also couldn’t bring herself to tell the truth: that she had been so excited to be asked to join the trip that she didn’t ask the important questions that needed to be asked to make sure this was the right trip for her. As she got clear on what motivated her spontaneous “yes,” she could see that she had a deep desire to feel belonging in her friend group and to demonstrate that she valued their friendship. Cheryl realized that committing to things and then later backing out was a pattern in her life, and one that she no longer wanted to repeat.
We’ve all faced a similar dilemma, maybe many, many times.
That day, Cheryl drew a line in the sand and declared that she was, from that day forward, going to become someone who only committed to things once she fully knew the details and only if she was absolutely sure she was a “yes.”
She fessed up honestly to her friends, letting them know she would not be joining them, why she’d mistakenly committed in the first place, and offered to pay for any costs that would be incurred by her cancelling.
The real work, however, was getting clear with herself about what all of the haphazard “yeses” in her life were costing her (stress, drama, money, time, etc.) and how she could develop the ability to slow down in her life so that she could become more discerning choices about what she committed to.
The strategy that we developed during that session was called The 24-Hour Maybe. When someone invited Cheryl to something, she learned to develop the habit of saying “Maybe. Can I let you know in 24 hours?” This bought her the time to ask more questions and to think through whether she had the time for this commitment and whether she actually wanted to do it.
Here’s the takeaway: if you realize that you need to learn how to say “no” more often, start by first learning to say “maybe.” “Maybe” creates a pause so you have time to check in with yourself. “Maybe” is non-confrontational if you’re someone who finds it really difficult to say “no.” “Maybe” tells the people in your life that you only say “yes” to things once you’ve really thought it through. It honors the person asking but it also honors you.
During this 24-hour maybe, you have time to pause to check in with yourself before committing. This will give you the space to try on some of these strategies:
- Follow this rule: if I’m not a “HELL YES” than I am a “HELL NO.” Knowing there is only so much of you to go around and only so many hours in the day, realize that anything short of a full-body “yes” needs to be a “no.” Eliminate any version of “ya, I guess so” or “I probably should.” It’s either “hell yes” or “hell no,” nothing in between.
- Rate the invitation on a scale of one to ten. If it’s a7 or under, then you’re out. It’s got to be an 8, 9 or 10 if it’s going to get your time and energy.
- Think about why you’re saying yes. In Cheryl’s case, she often said “yes” because she thought it was what was best for the friendship. Are there other ways you could produce the same result by committing to something that works better for your life? We often think there are just two choices. Is there a third way, maybe even a better way, that you’re not seeing yet? Could your 24-hour pause give you time to get creative about offering a better solution?
Later this month you’ll get to hear an interview with Melissa Urban, the co-creator of Whole30 and the author of The Book of Boundaries. I love this book! I’ve already sent this book to several people who I know struggle with setting boundaries but it’s honestly a must-read for all of us. What I learned from Melissa in our interview and in her book is that boundaries are how we protect our limited resources.
You are a limited resource.
There needs to be a fence around your time, energy and mental capacity. We first figure out what matters to us, which was a big focus of last week’s episode about doing less, and then we protect those things with our boundaries.
If boundaries don’t come naturally to you, try scripting them out. This is exactly the approach Melissa takes in The Book of Boundaries, which includes over 130 scripts with exact words you can use to set a boundary in all sorts of scenarios. Be ready for pushback and an inevitable negotiation that is likely to ensue. If you’re stumped, throw down the 24-hour maybe. Give yourself time to regroup and re-establish your boundary.
Check in with yourself about why you say “yes” to the things you commit to. Get curious about what drives you. It’s universally human to be motivated by a need for safety, love, belonging and esteem. How else could you get these needs met without taking on more than you can handle?
Notice if you’re someone who is constantly cancelling or rescheduling. That’s a good indication that you say “yes” to too many things.
Build the habit of the 24-Hour Maybe. Take some time to pause, reflect and investigate before you commit. Get all the details so you know what you’re getting into. Check in to be sure you’re a “hell yes.”
Finally, set boundaries that honor you… your rest, privacy, space, free time, and values. Develop the skill of boundary setting with practice. It takes lots of practice to become a pro boundary maker and holder. But most importantly, surround yourself with people who honor your boundaries.
I hope you found these insights helpful. Stay tuned for part four, coming next week, when I’ll be diving into creating an alert system so you know when your train is coming off the tracks.
We live in a culture that values follow through and abhors quitting. But what is the hidden cost of all the things we never start because we’re afraid we might not follow through? To Becky Blades, the author of Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas, the value in acting on our ideas is not measured in grand planned finishes. The value is in each and every start. This week, Becky shares how we can all develop our inner “startistry’ and end the myth that not finishing equals failing.
Guest Bio
Becky built and sold the award-winning communications firm, Blades and Associates, which served diverse organizations in industries from health care to aviation, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Before that, Becky launched creative marketing departments in other growing companies. She enjoys a portfolio creative career of writing and making art. She writes on topics from innovation and creativity to personal growth, and creates visual art by herself and in collaboration with others. See her art here, and see her writing here. Becky has worked in live theater, and has created special events and creative gatherings, including a sold-out comedy show.
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Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas https://www.beckyblades.com/start-more-than-you-can-finish/
Guest’s website: https://www.beckyblades.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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It can’t all matter. There’s got to be a way to rank everything that’s important in your life and identify the things that really aren’t. This week I’m going to share some insights from five different authors about how to do less.
Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching:
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Coaching
If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
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Welcome back to 60 Mindful minutes. This is Kristen Manieri and you’re listing to my four-part series on ending overwhelm. Last week, for part one, I shared my thoughts on understanding true capacity. Today, for part two, I’ll be speaking about DOING LESS.
It can’t all matter. There’s got to be a way to rank everything that’s important in your life and identify the things that really aren’t. It’s going to take some time—meaning you’ll want to dedicate an hour or two—to get really real with yourself about what truly are the things that make your life a good life and which things are just a distraction.
This is the path of an essentialist, which Greg McKeown describes as someone who takes on the relentless pursuit of less but better. “Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter,” he writes in his book, Essentialism.
But what does really matter? It’s not always easy to whittle our list down. At first glance you might say, “it all matters! I can’t cut anything!” Essentialism is a skill we develop; it isn’t something most of us know how to do intuitively. So, I’m going to share some thoughts from five different books I’ve read about distilling your life down to only the most important things.
The first book is called The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi. The book lays out 13 Lazy Genius Principles but I’m going to focus on #10: essentialize.
For Kendra, embracing what matters must start with knowing what matters. She writes: “True fulfillment comes from subtraction, from removing everything that distracts you from what matters and leaving only the essential.”
Let’s say I have a jam-packed weekend ahead. In the Lazy Genius Way, the first step is to name what really matters to me. As I consider this, I land on three things that matter this weekend: rest, connection to Marc and the girls, and restoring order to our house.
The second step is removing what’s in the way. Doing my laundry feels essential because that restores order to my wardrobe. Going for a hike with Aly feels essential because it creates connection. Staying in my pajamas Sunday morning and reading a book in front of the fire feels essential because it creates rest.
Something that could get in the way is weekend errands. It’s amazing how much precious weekend time gets used up driving from A to B to C picking up and dropping off stuff if I’m not paying attention to being deliberate about how I spend my weekend.
While some errands feel necessary (I really do need to pick up one of those round batteries before my key fob completely dies) I can essentialize my errand list so it only takes a few hours instead of an entire day. A full day of running around would definitely be counter to rest, which I’ve already established is a priority.
Kendra’s last step is to keep only the essentials. If it doesn’t reeeaaaalllllly matter, and if it’s in the way of what does, it’s nixed.
The key takeaway is this: name what matters.
The next book I want to share with you is Soulful Simplicity by Courtney Carver. I love this book, especially chapter 26, which is all about taking a sabbath. Some of you may remember that most things used to be closed on Sunday. Can you believe that was only about 30 years ago?
What would it be like to have one day a week when you’re completely free of tasks, appointments and obligations? Taking a sabbath is all about putting a fence around one day each week and keeping it protected from everything that doesn’t serve you.
According to Courtney Carver (who I interviewed in episode 17), you start by scheduling your sabbath. Put it in your calendar. Number two, tell the world. “Call your friends, text your colleagues, tweet the news that you have scheduled a day off and won’t be available,” she writes. “Let them know that you won’t be answering the phone, checking email, or updating your Facebook status.”
What would your sabbath be like? Maybe you keep all screens off all day or at least until 1pm. Maybe you sleep in or go for a long hike or read a novel. What would feel exceptionally restorative to you and then ask yourself, why not? Why not take a full day of complete rest?
The next idea I want to share with you is from Kate Northrup’s book, Do Less. Here’s the big idea: receive help. She articulates it this way: “Let’s both of us see what happens if we let go of the lie we’ve been told and that we’ve been telling others—that having it all together or doing it all ourselves is what makes us valuable. Let’s replace it with shooting for genuine connection, true happiness, a full tank, the courage to be vulnerable by owning where we need support, and being willing to receive it when it shows up.”
Those of us who have spent a lifetime being highly self-sufficient—and likely getting a lot of praise from parents and bosses for being so reliable and having such steady follow-through—have probably built an identity around never needing anyone’s help. We’re the ones who chose the independent study over the group project. Why rely on others when we’re so dang good at doing it ourselves. If you can identify, you’re likely similar to me in that asking for and receiving help is really hard. But just like most things, it’s an underdeveloped skill that can be developed. We can get better, maybe even ninja-level better, at receiving help.
Kate recommends we take on this mantra: I am allowing this day to be easy. She recommends that we ask ourselves:
- Does this need to be done?
- Does this need to be done by me?
- Does this need to be done right now?
When we pause to reflect and consider, we might not only see where we could ask for help, or where we could eliminate a task completely.
This topic wouldn’t feel adequately covered without bringing in some important insights from Becky Hall, who wrote the book The Art of Enough: Seven Ways to Build a Balanced Life and a Flourishing World. When I interviewed Becky for episode #148, she spoke a lot about having an “enough mindset,” which is rooted in the idea that there is enough, we can do enough, and we are enough.
Of course, we can always do more. Having an enough mindset is a deliberate approach to our lives that acknowledges the endlessness of our tasks and obligations but draws a subjective line in the sand when we’re come to close to our edge. It’s realizing when we’re almost overdrawn physically, emotionally or psychologically and granting ourselves permission to say, “enough.”
Becky thinks of enough as a state of being and also a way of living. “With Enough we learn to live within the natural limits within our lives,” she writes. With an enough mindset, we honor that we each have limits. It’s only human to reach the end of our capacity and then need to go renew our resources. In fact, those of us who learn to renew our resources effectively through rest and quality leisure become “well rooted and well resourced so that we can flourish with creativity and brilliance.”
In her book, Becky references a practice she read in Jim Collins’ book, Good to Great, which is to create a “stop doing list.” Try this out. Make a list of 10 to 20 things that you could stop doing. Rethink everything through the lens of this question: do I really need to be doing this?
I’d like to leave you with one final thought from Celeste Headlee’s book, Do Nothing. She writes: “The truth is, productivity is a by-product of a functional system, not a goal in and of itself. The question is not whether you are productive but what are you producing.”
We weren’t put on this earth to get our to-do list done. It can’t be that the purpose of life is to get everything done. What I think Celeste Headlee is asking is what is all this doing creating? Stress or happiness? Constraint or connection? Is it creating a life that you’re madly in love with? Maybe the answer is to do much, much less.
I’m not suggesting we all sit on our couches and stare at the wall. What I’m suggesting is a that we look really closely at what we give our time and energy to and make really sure it’s giving us the life that we want. This will require that we dedicate some time taking this closer look.
Go for a walk, sit on a Sunday morning with your journal, find a friend who can listen well and ask good questions so you can tease it out. Whatever it takes, get really clear on the essentials of your good, happy, peaceful life.
Next week I’ll be talking about how to say "no" more often. See you then.
For those who work and also parent, it’s not uncommon to feel like you’re floundering at both. This is exactly how psychology professor and family therapist Yael Schonbrun felt when her two worlds of work and parenting collided. As she navigated her way through it, she learned some practical strategies from clinical psychology and social science to help her balance all of the meaningful roles in her life. In her new book, Work, Parent, Thrive, she shares how we can shift our experience with an inside-out approach to solving the working parent dilemma.
Guest Bio
Yael Schonbrun, PhD, is assistant professor of psychology at Brown University, a family therapist, and co-host of the podcast Psychologists Off the Clock. In 2014, she wrote a piece on motherhood and ambition for the New York Times that went viral. She has since contributed a chapter to Double Bind: Women on Ambition alongside Roxane Gay, Molly Ringwald, and others and has written for Psychology Today. Learn more at yaelschonbrun.com.
For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode214
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection (When Everything Feels Like Too Much) https://www.amazon.com/Work-Parent-Thrive-Science-Backed-Strategies/dp/1611809657
Mentioned in this episode: https://offtheclockpsych.com/
Guest’s website: https://yaelschonbrun.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
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Today is the first of a four-part series on overwhelm. With the holidays coming and the end of the year in our sight, this is the season for feeling completely overloaded. I thought I would share some insights and strategies to help you make it through, peacefully ad gracefully. This is part one, which is all about understanding our true capacity.
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Coaching
If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
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Today is the first of a four-part series on overwhelm. With the holidays coming and the end of the year in our sights, this is the season for feeling completely overloaded. So, I thought I would share some insights and strategies to help you make it through, peacefully ad gracefully.
We all know the feeling when we’ve got way too much on our plates. Racing thoughts. Frantic energy. Nonstop motion. Maniacal fixation on getting it all done. I’d been there many times until I learn the secret to avoiding overwhelm.
Overwhelm happens when we have more than we can handle. It’s too many obligations, appointments or errands. It’s a to-do list that’s impossibly long. It’s too many people wanting more from you than you have to give. It’s not enough hours in the day. It’s too many projects on the go. It’s messes and unfinished projects around the house. It’s not enough sleep because you thought it would be a better idea to try to just get more done.
It’s skipping meals, workouts, date nights, tuck-ins and self-care all to continue to bow down to the god of completion. It’s feeling buried and there isn’t a shovel big enough to dig you out.
Why do we do this to ourselves? Well, it’s because we don’t really understand true capacity.
Our capacity is the size of our container; it’s how much we can actually hold, yield, perform and withstand. Like a balloon, it will only take on so much air until it pops.
To begin to calculate our true capacity, we start with how many hours we have in our day after we’ve fully met our basic needs for survival: sleep, food and exercise. We must also factor in all the people we care for and about. If you’ve got young kids, for example, that will affect your capacity.
It’s also our mental state, which can shift with seasons and cycles. Perhaps your capacity expands in the summer when the days are longer and contracts after daylight savings time when it starts getting dark at 4pm. That’s definitely true for me.
Capacity is also measured by our individual temperament for adaptability and resilience, the parts of our psyche that determine how much we each can handle at any given time.
Put simply, our capacity is how much we can realistically take on, physically, psychologically and emotionally, before our wheels fall off the track. When the wheels fall off the track, we’ve hit overwhelm. We’re over capacity. The dam has spilled over or busted open. We no longer feel peacefully productive and on purpose. We’re now crazed, stretched too thin, agitated and potentially explosive.
So, here’s the secret to avoiding overwhelm. First, assess what 100 percent capacity looks like for you. What’s the most you can do, give, and push while still keeping the train on the tracks?
Now cut 30 percent.
Take an inventory of everything you have on your plate, and find 30 percent of it to completely eliminate by means of deferring, delegating or dumping it altogether.
Here are examples of what I’ve cut in my life:
- Having my kids signed up for more than one after-school activity at once
- Any social engagements or errands on Sunday
- Going into grocery stores (my local store lets you order online and only charges $5 for the pick-up)
- Teaching workshops (at the moment)
- Joining women’s groups (I’m already committed to two)
For you, it could be opting out of hosting a holiday gathering or gift exchange. Maybe taking a pause on a volunteer position. What can you delegate, renegotiate, pause or defer to a later time?
The secret to avoiding overwhelm is to consistently operate in the zone of 70 percent capacity. Not 100 percent, and definitely not 130 percent, which is what we often do when we’re not paying attention. I call being at 70 percent capacity the Peacefully Productive Zone.
Here’s what happens when you stop living in a constant state of over-capacity and you enter the Peacefully Productive Zone:
- You have the mental wherewithal to be more creative and innovative, to solve. problems with more wisdom and resourcefulness.
- You have a clearer vision for the days, months and year ahead.
- You experience a sense of ease and lightness to your day.
- You show up for the people in your life with patience, curiosity and loving-kindness.
- You’re able to handle the unexpected with steadiness, agility and grace.
- You enjoy your life more.
Do you really need to be doing everything you’re doing? Start to bring awareness to all the balls you have in the air and get curious about why they’re there. Who says you must do them? What are all the things you “should” do versus all the things that really matter or all the things you wish you could be doing. Who’s actually in charge of your life? Maybe there are a lot of have tos. Maybe most of your life is filled with obligations that seem impossible to escape. Are you willing to simply look curiously to see where there might actually be room to maneuver? Start with a scalpel, cutting a few tiny tasks, and then gradually build to a hatchet.
In order to become someone who consistently operates at 70 percent capacity, some skills need to be developed. I’ll be diving into these in the next three parts of this four-part series. I’ll be sharing specific tactics and systems you can use to stay in the Peacefully Productive Zone.
But, besides developing some skills, you’ll also need to develop some thicker skin. Cutting 30 percent from your to-do list is likely going to ruffle some feathers. You might disappoint some people. You might need to have some difficult conversations. You might start saying “no.” All of these will be uncomfortable. Be willing to travel through the discomfort in order to get to the other side. On the other side is the life that you want and deserve to have. It has order and calm, joy, space and rest.
On the other side of our over-capacity lives is thriving. For me, that’s the feeling that I’m doing good work in the world, meeting my commitments, tending to my basic needs, and leaving space for rest, presence and the inevitable curve ball. It’s being Peacefully Productive and it’s the zone where we all are at our best.
Stay tuned for Part Two: How to do Less
The chatter in our brains has a direct impact on how we feel and what we do. As Kristen Helmstetter began to tune into her self-talk, she realized she could take her ability to talk to herself and turn it into a force for good. Her discoveries and practices have made their way into ten books about self-talk, including Coffee Self-Talk: 5 Minutes a Day to Start Living Your Magical Life, which is the topic of this week’s interview.
Guest Bio
Kristen Helmstetter has written more than ten books on self-talk, and she writes romance novels under the pen name Brisa Starr. Her popular podcast, Coffee Self-Talk with Kristen Helmstetter, shares her formula for living an intentional life with a happy, magical mindset. She splits her time between Florida and a medieval hilltop town in Umbria, Italy, with her husband and daughter.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Coffee Self-Talk: 5 Minutes a Day to Start Living Your Magical Life https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Self-Talk-Minutes-Living-Magical/dp/0982372264
Guest’s website: https://kristensraw.com/blog/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Title: EP211: Get to Know Your Neighbors
I’ve been thinking about the status of neighbors and our interactions with them in this fast-paced and highly digitalized world we live in. How many of us actually know our neighbors? Maybe we’re missing out on a deep sense of belonging and community that could be built with the people who live right next door.
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Coaching
If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
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This past weekend we had tea with our neighbors, Rick and Leslie. We’ve been living on our new street for almost nine months now, and other than hellos as we come and go or quick chats at the end of the driveway, this was the first time we’d actually sat down with one of our neighbors to really get to know them.
It was lovely. I’m so grateful they invited us over.
It got me thinking about the status of neighbors and our interactions with them in this fast-paced and highly digitalized world we now live in. How many of us actually know our neighbors? Maybe we know their first names and a rough idea of what they do for a living, but who can say they actually have a relationship with their neighbors.
We used to live in Central Florida, and when we moved onto our street back in 2006, our next-door neighbor was a guy named Mike Delaney. From the day we moved in, Mike made it his mission to get to know us and to introduce us to the other neighbors. Marc and I and the other neighbors joked that he was the mayor of our cul de sac. And while sometimes he bordered on a little nosy at time, the truth is that it felt good that there was someone on our street who really cared about the people he ended up living next to.
Mike was in his seventies back then, and maybe that’s part of the reason he was so adamant about getting to know us; he came from an era when that was the norm.
These days, it’s not really the norm, is it?
“By and large, we’re lonelier and unhappier than we were in the decades before the Internet age,” writes Susan Pinker in her book The Village Effect: How face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Happier and Healthier. “Psychologists don’t know why that is exactly, though we do know that close relationships are the strongest drivers of happiness, and that being alone and unaffiliated makes us the most unhappy. The evidence is pretty clear that we are wired for frequent and genuine interaction. As humans, we need to know that we belong.”
Belonging matters. In fact, the relatively new field of social neuroscience, which looks at the relationship between social experiences and biological systems, is overflowing with evidence for how the health of our relationships is directly tied to our mental and physical health. We thrive in community. And if I’m to make meaningful social connection a core part of my thrive plan, then neighbors are just low hanging fruit. They’re literally right next door.
Now, I’m not talking about having tea with Rick and Leslie every week. We’re busy, they’re busy. It would be unrealistic to keep that up. But next time I see Rick washing his car, can I stop for five minutes and have a nice chat? Next time I see our other neighbor walking his dog, can I pause for a few moments to connect?
It all comes down to identifying what matters (in this case, meaningful connection and creating a sense of community) and then being intentional about having what matters be a priority. It’s noticing that these little two- and five-minute moments to connect really matter. It’s slowing down in life long enough to seize the opportunity to connect when it arises.
Sometimes it’s going beyond the organic, spontaneous opportunities to connect—like when we bump into each other while walking our dogs or putting out our recycling—and inviting someone over for tea, like Rick and Leslie did for us.
Remember my neighbor Mike Delaney? While we lost touch after he moved to back to Pennsylvania, when he passed away a few years ago we had the opportunity to connect with his sister. What Marc and I told her was that we would never forget how Mike made us feel; like we mattered, like we belonged. And this was all because Mike took the time to be a good neighbor: to connect, to get to know us, to show he cared. Maybe it’s as simple as stopping to connect for a few minutes a week with someone we live near. Maybe this small act isn’t so small after all.
As an esteemed veterinary oncologist with nearly two decades of experience, Dr. Renee Alsarraf knew a lot about treating cancer, healing, and grief. Then she was given her own cancer diagnosis and she learned that our furry, four-legged, slobbering animals have so much to teach us about healing, positivity and unconditional love. Renee turned her experiences into the heartwarming book, Sit, Stay, Heal: What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well, where she shares life lessons about perfect dogs and their imperfect humans.
Guest Bio
Dr. Renee Alsarraf has created four different veterinary oncology practices and led three veterinary radiation facilities. She has performed numerous veterinary clinical trials, co-authored peer-reviewed journal articles, and has lectured both locally and on the national level. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, and is married to a veterinary ophthalmologist. They have one son, whom she cherishes, as well as Dusty, her beloved, bossy, six-year-old female boxer.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Sit, Stay, Heal: What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well https://www.amazon.com/Sit-Stay-Heal-Teach-Living/dp/0063215225
Guest’s website: https://www.sitstayhealbook.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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Being present in the body is a homecoming, a re-inhabiting, an opportunity to return to and reengage with ourselves. Attuning to the present moment, most often through our bodily senses, we experience the delight and beauty of being alive.
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Coaching
If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
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Wherever you go in life, whatever you do, one thing is for sure: your body will be there with you. The relationship between ourselves and our bodies is our primary connection, so it makes sense that on our journey to cultivate more mindfulness, we begin with habits that support us in being more present with the body.
Much like a mother attunes to her baby’s needs, we too can orient our attention inward to discover what nourishment or nurturing the body might be quietly asking for. Through the process of becoming self-attuned, we learn to become our greatest ally.
The body houses a tremendously helpful alert system for navigating our needs, thoughts and emotions. For me, a 60-second check-in provides boundless intel about my inner world. I close my eyes and sense that I’m thirsty, a little tight in my mid back from being at my computer all day, and I’m feeling residual frustration from a conversation I had this morning. What was lurking below now floats to the surface to be tended to or guided by.
Being present in the body is a homecoming, a re-inhabiting, an opportunity to return to and reengage with ourselves. It’s where we quite literally come to our senses, or what Jon Kabat-Zinn calls “falling awake.” Attuning to the present moment, most often through our bodily senses, we experience the delight and beauty of being alive.
Of course, some of us may encounter physical or emotional pain as we look inward, which can make tuning into the body uncomfortable and confronting. Through mindfulness, we can begin to cultivate a friendliness, or at least a sense of solidarity, toward what’s happening inside, even if we don’t like it. As we turn towards ourselves and create habits of fondly tending to and accepting our body—its shape, sensations and stages—we turn resistance, struggle and aversion into acceptance, compassion and love.
You are experiencing life with and through your body; it’s a faithful and enduring companion. The practices I’m going to share today will support you in creating a mindful body connection.
We reap what we sow. When we fill up our tanks and refuse to run on fumes, we begin to tap into endless resources that not only give us what we need to do our work in the world but also to stay steady when the unpredictable winds of adversity inevitably blow our way.
Healthy habits that attune us to our inner worlds provide the gateway to better self-care and a sense of harmony with ourselves. Mind-body connection isn’t just a spiritual pursuit; it’s an incredibly pragmatic practice. Imagine driving a car without a dashboard. You’d never know the status of your speed, gas, tire pressure or oil. Thankfully, your car has gauges for all of these key metrics, which allows you to care for your car and keep it running. You too have a dashboard. I’d like to offer you some practices that support you in tuning into it.
Stop and Drop
During my Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training, I learned the acronym S.T.O.P. as an effective way to quickly drop into the body. S.T.O.P. stands for Stop… Take a breath… Observe… Proceed. I think of it like tapping my brakes when I am so often moving full speed ahead. But when I learn to drop in for just 30 seconds, I slow down long enough to notice what’s happening inside and around me, making me aware of my environment, thoughts, emotions and physical sensations.
You start by gently closing your eyes or relaxing your gaze as you place one hand or both on the middle of your chest. Bring your attention to one inhale and one exhale, without any intention to change or deepen the breath. Just be with this one in and out breath. Internally, say “hello” to your body and this moment, then look to label your experiences on the inside and outside with single words. Perhaps the words “busy,” “stressed,” “tight,” or “tired” come to mind. Maybe you notice you’re thirsty, hungry or clenched. Tend to your needs; take a sip of water, grab a snack or gently roll the shoulders and neck.
Use any time you shift from one task to another, move from one place to another, or come and go from your home, as a prompt for this stop and drop practice. If you can aim to practice this habit several times a day.
The Mindful Body Scan
Scanning the body for emotions, tension and discomfort is a useful way to quickly tune into our state and triage our needs. We observe sensations, good or bad, that have escaped our notice while our attention was focused elsewhere. It’s also how we detect and diffuse stress. The body has a physiological response to the fast-paced, overly demanding world most of us live in, often unnecessarily flooding the body with hormones such as cortisol. By tuning into our stress response, we can begin to release it.
Start in a seated position, closing your eyes and taking a few grounding breaths. Repeat an anchoring phrase in your mind, such as “I am here now.” Beginning with your feet, slowly bring your awareness to the body’s sensations. As your awareness travels up through the body, notice any warmth, tension, even numbness or absence of sensation. If your mind wanders, which it will, repeat your phrase, breathe, and bring your attention back to where you left off. When you reach the top of your head, finishing by taking a few nourishing breaths, perhaps placing your hand on your heart as a sign of friendly camaraderie with yourself.
Connect this practice to a cue you experience frequently, such as waiting. This could include waiting for your kettle to boil or a Zoom call to start. Notice moments when you’d normally “kill time” by checking your phone and choose instead to do a quick, 3 to 5-minute body scan.
I’ve noticed that the people I know who are thriving tend to take really good care of themselves. It can take a lot of effort to get through the day, but those people who have created habits around caring for themselves with consistency and deliberateness seem to have boundless energy and vibrancy. Use these practices to create little homecoming back to your body.
With all of its noise and distraction, this world we live in isn’t really designed for regular personal reflection. And yet, it’s in the quiet moments with ourselves that we come to listen to our thoughts, get to know who we are, and tap into our innate wisdom. In his new book, How Am I Doing?: 40 Conversations to Have with Yourself, writer and therapist Corey Yeager explores how we can use intentional conversations with ourselves to develop more trust, connection, clarity and confidence. This week we explore some of these conversations.
Guest Bio
Best known for his appearance on Harry and Oprah's?The Me You Can't See on Apple TV+, Dr. Corey Yeager is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at the Doctoral level, focusing his therapeutic practice primarily serving the African American Community. Dr. Yeager holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Metropolitan State University, a Master of Arts degree in Psychotherapy from Argosy University, and a PhD in Family Social Science from The University of Minnesota. His research emphasis centers on better understanding the plight of African American relationships, while educating service organizations to utilize the family system context while facilitating meaningful change in both their personal and professional lives. In his current role as the Psychotherapist for the Detroit Pistons, Corey is working within the merging of his two passions, athletics and therapy. In this role, Dr. Yeager supports the overall organization from a systemic and contextual stance. Dr. Yeager supports players, coaching staff, and front office leadership in his conscientious, relational fashion. Dr. Yeager employs the conceptualization of role clarity in his organizational endeavors as a way to build cohesiveness in a deep and intentional way.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: How Am I Doing?: 40 Conversations to Have with Yourself
https://www.amazon.com/How-Am-Doing-Conversations-Yourself/dp/1400236762
Guest’s website: http://doctorcoreyyeager.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
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Here’s the magic of the mind: when we pay attention, we have the wonderful capacity to both think our thoughts AND witness ourselves thinking them. We are the thinker and the watcher all at once, which means when the uninvited memories and unwelcome worries arrive, we can notice that they’re there. This awareness allows us to (eventually) work around the land mines or render them harmless. It’s simple but not always easy, so I’ll share some practices I use to tame my mind.
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Coaching
I have two coaching spots opening up this fall. If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
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The nature of thought is pretty fascinating when you look at it closely. I’ve come to see that we typically don’t experience the world around us; we experience our thoughts about the world around us. And we can often change our life experience simply by changing our thinking.
Here’s what I mean:
The other day I needed to drive somewhere to pick something up. It was a busy week and it felt really inconvenient and annoying to have to go run this errand. I was feeling pretty pissy about it. And then I remembered that there was a podcast episode I’d been meaning to listen to. Suddenly, I was looking forward to an hour in the car by myself. What felt like a burden suddenly felt like a gift.
I didn’t change my circumstances, but I radically altered my experience simply by changing my thinking.
“An untamed mind is a minefield,” writes Brianna Wiest in her book 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think.
A mind that is a minefield is one that can suddenly and easily unravel into anxiety, regret, shame or anger. I often experience thoughts that seem to come in from nowhere. Old memories float in uninvited. Worries, often unfounded and unwelcome, can linger. My mind is susceptible to unsolicited thoughts that can metastasize into a mental shit storm when I’m not paying attention.
But here’s the magic of the mind: when we do pay attention, we have the wonderful capacity to both think our thoughts AND witness ourselves thinking them. We are the thinker and the watcher all at once, which means when the uninvited memories and unwelcome worries arrive, we can notice that they’re there. This awareness allows us to (eventually) work around the land mines or render them harmless. It’s simple but not always easy, so I’ll share some practices I use to tame my mind.
Develop Your Inner Noticer
Sometimes noticing is all we have to do. It can be enough to simply bring our attention to our thinking long enough to merely name it. “Ah, look at that. I’m thinking about that conversation with my client again.” Perhaps our noticing begins to reveal negative patterns in our thinking. For me, that’s often noticing that I’m jumping to conclusions or making speculative assumptions. We may start to see that we have a lot of mental habits (such as jumping to conclusions). Noticing mental habits takes away their mysterious power over us.
Maybe instead of just noticing the landmines, we also start to disarm them.
This is the taming of the mind that Brianna Wiest refers to. This is where we start to access our own sense of agency and autonomy over our thinking. We can develop control over racing, erratic thoughts the same way we develop any acquired talent, by practicing relating to our thoughts in new ways. With consistency, we begin to develop a new relationship with the mind.
Trade Up
It’s amazing what we hear when we actually listen to our thoughts. If we were to broadcast them when we’re stressed, we might hear things like: “I can’t do this.” “This is not going to work out.” “I should never have taken this on.”
Our thoughts affect how we feel, which impacts what we do and how we respond. Here’s some good news: We are capable of listening to our inner dialogue AND we are capable of upgrading it.
I learned the concept of “trading up” from my friend Kim Ades, who founded Frame of Mind Coaching. Essentially, we isolate a negative thought, such as “this not going to work out,” and we trade it in for a slightly more positive one, such as, “if this doesn’t work out, it could lead to something that does.” The idea isn’t to be unrealistically positive, but to choose a new thought that is both believable AND elevating in an incremental climb.
Just the other day I used Kim’s trading up practice to shift me out of a negative thought spiral. As I may have previously shared, we recently adopted a one-year-old dog from Korea and his transition into our home has been incredibly slow. Having spent his entire life in a shelter, everything in our home is new and, as a result, Leo is incredibly timid, anxious and closed off.
I caught myself feeling upset, disappointed and stressed about Leo. And when I tuned in I was able to isolate the thought “this is really hard.” “This is hard,” I told myself with self-compassion. “But it will get better. You’ve already seen micro progressions forward. Within a few weeks or months, this will be a completely relaxed and happy dog.” I traded up and as I continued on in my day with this new baseline thought, I felt more at ease.
Try it out. Take out a piece of paper. Tuning into your inner dialogue, write down your dominant thoughts and isolate one that’s emitting stress. Notice how the body responds to it. Does your heart race? Do you feel sad or anxious? Now, write a few upgrades to the negative thought and feel which one lands as true for you. Create space for a different possibility. Continue climbing the ladder of better feeling thoughts until you notice a shift in how you feel.
Give the Bothersome Mind a Bone
“Your mind is bothering you,” said Michael Singer, author of the Untethered Soul, in one of his podcast episodes. Sometimes it’s as though my mind has a mind of its own. I notice this is especially the case when I wake up in the middle of the night and my mind starts endlessly chewing on a series of worries or concerns. It’s like a dog with a bone.
Give it a new bone.
Sometimes the best way to conquer the mind is to beat it at its own game. It’s obsessed with thinking? Fine! Give it something to think about. I’ve been known to go through, scene by scene, the entirety of Love Actually, my favorite movie. I’ve mentally wondered through French towns and been pampered at five-star spas. I’ve counted backwards from 300 in threes. In 2001, I memorized the entire poem Desiderata by Max Ehrmann and used it to ease my mind during a particularly difficult time in my life.
The point is, sometimes I know that settling my mind or upgrading my thoughts is too tall an order. It’s not cheating to give my mind something other than my worries and ruminations to chew on.
Connect with Your Older Self
When it comes to triggering thoughts, especially those rooted in old memories, I can often feel frustrated that I’m triggered in the first place. Shouldn’t I be over this by now? Why do I still care? I’m steeped in regret or shame, but then I make it worse by layering on a dose of self-criticism and resistance.
While it may feel at times that I haven’t grown at all in my capacity to redirect my thinking and nurture some self-compassion, the truth is that I’ve worked my way through hundreds of thoughts and old memories that no longer trigger me. It’s taken time, a different perspective, sometimes therapy and often just good ol’ forgetting, but I’ve triumphed over negative thoughts many, many times.
It’s helpful to know that when I spiral into a negative thought loop that it won’t always be this way, that at some point I’ll find the wherewithal to show that thought who’s boss.
When I’m caught in a negative loop, I imagine a me 10 or 20 years from now who can think that thought or reflect on that memory with a totally neutral stance, not triggered at all. I can hold it in my open palm and blow it softly into the breeze like a dandelion wish. I can learn, and have learned, how to simply let go of the grip a thought can have on me. Knowing that sometimes it just takes time, practice and a different perspective gives me the grace to be kind to the me I am today, the me that doesn’t quite have what it takes yet to gently and lovingly turn my attention elsewhere.
How do I know this works? Because I have loads of evidence of things that used to really bother me that no longer do. I have proof that eventually the sting or the storm eventually subside. I can lean on this knowledge for support when I’m going through something tough today.
Final Thought: It’s Just the Mind
I want to leave you with one last thought: to tame the mind is also to befriend it. It doesn’t mean to cause you so much harm. It’s just doing what minds are designed to do, and that is think. Sometimes my mind thinks wonderfully creative thoughts. Sometimes it gives me the idea to do something loving and kind for someone else. Sometimes it notices something good in my life. And sometimes it drags up an old memory or clings to negative thoughts. It’s all just thinking. And the more I can simply allow that this is just the mind being the mind, and not get caught up in the mind being the mind, the more it is tamed and the more I am at peace.
Tanya Dalton, author of On Purpose and The Joy of Missing Out, invites you to ask yourself this question: Are you filling your calendar or are you filling your soul? As a productivity expert, Tanya cares a lot about getting things done and achieving goals, but doing so with an unhurried purpose that we each can access when we stay true to our soul's path and design our days on purpose. With simple shifts and innovative strategies, she offers the tools for us to create a more spacious, fulfilling life.
Guest Bio
Tanya Dalton is a best-selling author, transformational speaker, and nationally recognized productivity expert. She helps female executives and entrepreneurs step into purposeful leadership. In addition to having her first book, The Joy of Missing Out, being named one of the Top 10 Business Books of the year by Fortune Magazine, Tanya’s podcast, The Intentional Advantage has received millions of downloads from listeners around the world. She is also a featured expert on several networks including NBC and Fox and is a VIP contributor for Entrepreneur.com. Tanya has been featured in some of the world’s leading publications including Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, and Real Simple. She has been awarded the elite Enterprising Women Award and has been named the Female Entrepreneur to Watch for the state of North Carolina. Tanya is also the founder of inkWELL Press Productivity Co. a multi-million dollar company providing tools that work as a catalyst in helping women do less while achieving maximum success. Her highly anticipated second book, On Purpose: The Busy Woman’s Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success, launched last fall through HarperCollins Publishing.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: On Purpose: The Busy Woman's Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success https://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Womans-Extraordinary-Meaning-Success/dp/140021436X
Guest’s website: https://tanyadalton.com/
The Joy of Missing Out: https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Missing-Out-Live-Doing/dp/1400214335
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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By slogging away at work, trying to cross off everything on an infinitely endless to-do list, are we really enriched by our work in the world? We lose ourselves in our doing. We create stress and lose access to the present, which is where we find our creativity, wisdom and intuition.
Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching:
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Coaching
I have two coaching spots opening up this fall. If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
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Our work and the jobs we do in the world are fertile ground for discontent. For those of us who meet Monday morning with a sense of gloom, even dread, our work life can be a source of angst, disappointment, stress and dissatisfaction. And yet, we each will spend about a third of our lives working. Yes, it’s true not all of us do what we love for a living, but we owe it to ourselves to feel satisfied and not simply endure decades of work in order to get to retirement when we can “really start living.” There’s no such thing as a happiness layaway plan; we are meant to feel happy and fulfilled today.
In our pursuit of a more mindful life, we place as much emphasis, maybe even more, on how we do what we do versus what we do or the results we produce. Who we are being while we do our work impacts not only how we feel, but also how we make others feel.
These days, it seems as though the point to work is to get as much done as possible and make as much money as possible. What gets lost in that equation is the real point to work: to have our lives be enriched by the contribution we make in the world.
By slogging away at work, trying to cross off everything on an infinitely endless to-do list, are we really enriched by our work in the world? We lose ourselves in our doing. We create stress and lose access to the present, which is where we find our creativity, wisdom and intuition.
In a relaxed, open and mindful state, we regulate ourselves, we see more clearly, we better prioritize, and we relate to others with more patience, humility and kindness. Conversely, in our mindlessness, we weaken our ability to manage ourselves, consumed instead with managing tasks, deadlines, outcomes and other people.
This is why mindful work pauses, thoughtfully punctuated between our tasks, are critical if we are to cultivate more awareness and ease at work. A pause could be just a few moments, such as a mini-break between tasks, or it can be a quiet lunch or a walk around the block.
Mini-Pauses
Using a tool such as a timer, smartphone reminder, calendar alert or hourly chime, you can create an invitation to pause periodically throughout your day. Upon hearing the prompt, stop what you’re doing, take a few mindful breaths, and ask yourself these questions: How do I feel? What could I shift? What is my state? Who am I being in this moment?
A few words of warning: It’s easy to grow immune to reminder prompts. As you build your anchor for this pausing habit, aim to switch it up from week to week. Otherwise, you may find yourself ignoring your cue.
Schedule Pauses
You can also schedule pauses in your day, or what I call buffers, between tasks and meetings. Let’s say you schedule a 60-minute meeting in our calendar. To build a buffer, schedule a five to fifteen-minute pause into your calendar immediately following the meeting. Stand up and go for a short walk. Close your eyes and take a few breaths, or do some box breathing. Stretch. Drink a big glass of water. Resist the urge to scroll through our phone.
Take a Lunch Break
I’ve had two interviews on 60 Mindful Minutes with advocates of a true lunch break (Episode #26 with Laura Archer and Episode #185 with Cheryl Johnson). The point they both make is that a lunch break isn’t’ an indulgence; it’s a necessity. Our minds need the break and our tummies need the nourishment.
Lunch breaks are becoming a rarity. A study conducted by OnePoll found that 51 percent of Americans feel that a lunch break is rare and unrealistic, with 30 percent of study respondents reporting that they regularly opt to eat lunch at their desk instead. For those who do take a break, the lunch “hour” is basically a dinosaur at this point.
Breaking for lunch can feel like an unproductive indulgence when we don’t see or understand the benefit it provides. Besides giving us the opportunity to refuel our bodies, the mental rest we give ourselves can improve performance capacity, boost our moods and increase our energy, according to the American Psychological Association.
Take a lunch break. Leave your workspace and eat with colleagues. Go for a walk outside. Read a book. Close your eyes and feel your body wind down. Shoot for at least thirty minutes.
It might be helpful to find a colleague who can serve as both your lunch date and accountability partner. If this is a new or challenging habit, start by committing to just one day a week and grow from there.
A healthy life is less like a marathon and more like a series of sprints. We’re not designed to continuously, day after day, slog on and on until we drop at six o’clock. We’re meant to distribute our energy reserves with pulses of sprints and rests throughout the day. Pauses to rest and refuel are what give us the power and stamina to do our best work.
The hustle to overachieve at work and at home--all in the hopes that we can “crush it” until we finally feel fulfilled--leaves many of us feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. In her new book, Soul Solution, author and coach Vanessa Loder explores how we can recover our joy by creating our own road map for living instead of following the one that’s been handed to us. By doing things like “following our energetic breadcrumbs” and creating micro-moments of change, we can tap into our intuitive soul power to create a life filled with meaning and joy.
Guest Bio
Vanessa Loder is an international keynote speaker and sought-after expert on women’s leadership, mindfulness, stress management, and sustainable success. She's been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Glamour, and the Huffington Post, among others. She received her MBA from Stanford University, is a certified Executive Coach, and is trained in neurolinguistic programming, past-life regression, and vipassana meditation. For more info, visit vanessaloder.com.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Soul Solution A Guide for Brilliant, Overwhelmed Women to Quiet the Noise, Find Their Superpower, and (Finally) Feel Satisfied https://vanessaloder.com/soul-solution/
Guest’s website: https://vanessaloder.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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What if at the outset of any new endeavor—a new job, a new hobby, a new book—we gave ourselves permission to just try? What if we remember going in that we can always change our minds, that trying is just trying, not committing? I think we all need to fill our lives with more no-strings-attached tries. This week I share some ways to do just that.
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Coaching
I have two coaching spots opening up this fall. If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
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The other day during a yoga class, the instructor invited us to add a few adjustments the pose we were in. “You can reach upward. You can extend through your toes. You can even extend one leg back,” she said. “And remember, you can always change your mind.” Hmmmm. I thought. That’s new. I’d never heard an instructor say that before. But I immediately noticed a sense of ease around my willingness to attempt the more challenging iterations of the pose. In essence, she was giving me permission to just try.
This struck me as an important life lesson. What if at the outset of any new endeavor—a new job, a new exercise experience, a hobby, a new book—we give ourselves permission to just try? What if we remember going in that we can always change our minds, that trying is just trying, not committing?
The thing about trying something new is that we can’t possibly know going in how we will feel about it once we’ve started. We can predict based on our past experiences and what others might have experienced, but the truth is that we really don’t know what’s going to happen until we try.
I think we all need to fill our lives with more no-strings-attached tries. Here are some ways to do just that:
- Dabble
In 2015, author Elizabeth Gilbert gave a talk for Oprah’s SuperSoul Sessions on the two types of passion-seekers: jackhammers and hummingbirds. While jackhammers fixate on a project or task with relentless, almost obsessive, devotion, hummingbirds move from tree to tree, flower to flower, trying all sorts of things along the way.
This metaphor points to how we can let go of passion and instead follow curiosity. Said another way, we dabble. Dabbling is all about trying new things—hobbies, interests, experiences, foods—for the sake of not only expanding our horizons, but to disrupt our habitual thinking patterns and discover innovative thoughts, ideas and solutions.
You make trying new things part of your regular routine. Begin with starting a dabble journal or creating a list of things you’d like to explore. Dabbling doesn’t commit you to anything or mean that you have to give up anything; it simply means you check things out. Once you have a solid list, make some time each week to do some dabbling. Watch a YouTube video, go to the library and find some books, listen to a podcast, do some Pinterest pinning, and get out in the world and explore where your curiosity leads you. Notice how this process makes you feel. Be present to the experience of dabbling.
- Play
According to Stuart Brown, author of Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, play is an essential part of wellbeing. Why? Because it is in our moments of fun and freedom that we disengage from time, purposefulness and worry. Said plainly, it’s where we find joy, a precursor to optimism, possibility and insight.
But play can feel so indulgent and silly, even awkward. It’s as though we forget how to do it once we become adults. Turns out, we’re simply out of practice. Making intentional space for play is a habit we can cultivate by beginning to consider what makes us laugh and feel unplugged. We prioritize play because feeling good matters.
A life that is devoid of fun and play begins to feel gloomy and lackluster. But when we sprinkle our days with laughter and levity, even our tough moments can feel less difficult. Joy makes life more beautiful, fun and easy. Play makes us feel more alive.
Try making a list of things that are fun to you. Think of board games that make you laugh, and pastimes or hobbies that make you smile. Consider what you loved to do as a kid. Grant yourself permission to set aside time for these activities each day or week.
Consider designating the time between dinner and going to bed as “playtime.” Commit to 30 to 60 minutes of play and fun by yourself or with others. Make play a priority.
- Flaneur
I’d never heard the word “flaneur” until l I interviewed Erika Owen on my podcast. Erika was so smitten with the French concept of meaningfully and mindfully meandering through a city that she wrote the book, The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander with Intention and Discover a Better Life.
Wandering is in direct contrast to our highly purpose-driven way of doing life. Whether we’re at a grocery store or walking through our neighborhood, we know exactly what we mean to do and where we mean to go. But in our single-mindedness and narrowed determination, we miss out on what’s lying at the edges of our attention.
The antidote to this linear thinking and living is what Andrew Dietz describes as purposeful purposelessness in his book Follow the Meander: An Indirect Route to a More Creative Life. When we wander with intention, we cultivate mindfulness and tap into new insights, but also increase gratitude and fall more deeply in love with wherever we are. We loosen our preoccupation with what is in order to create space for what could be.
Try spending some time each day or week being aimless. Set aside ten or fifteen minutes to wander, even if it’s in or around your own home. Resist the urge to do something productive or accomplish anything. Notice any discomfort you feel and use it as an opportunity to be more present. Think of a few places you go each week and look to attach a few aimless minutes to the experience.
And Most Importantly… Embrace Missteps
Before I sold my previous business back in early 2020, I often set off in unchartered directions with a new revenue idea. In one particular instance, an idea sent me down an exciting but very expensive road. The concept never panned out and it ended up costing far more money that I had anticipated. I learned a lot from the experience but it started to sow seeds of self-doubt, causing me to shy away from my entrepreneurial inspirations.
What I now see is that life gives us countless opportunities to stretch beyond our own boundaries. New ventures, relationships, even a new hairstyle, gently push us outside of our comfort zones toward our growth and learning zones. Whether things turn out as we hoped is beside the point; the real gold is who we become when we stretch ourselves.
Our missteps and blunders are simply fodder for our development, not evidence that we’re failures. When we embrace the results of our efforts, even when we’d wish those results to be different, we’re able to see how our experiences can shape us for the better, not hold us back.
What could you try today? Find one thing and then give yourself permission to dabble, play and flaneur. And remember, you can always change your mind.
While it largely goes unexamined, we each have a relationship with food. Our thoughts and beliefs around what and why we eat forms the bedrock for how we nourish ourselves and, as a result, how we feel in our bodies and in our lives. This week I’m joined by Functional Nutritionist Sarah Geha for a conversation about our challenged relationship with food and eating, and ways we can rethink and rebuild this relationship.
Guest Bio
Sarah is both a functional nutritionist and environmental toxins specialist. She is a Certified Nutrition Specialist ("CNS") and a Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist (“LDN”) in the state of Florida. Sarah has a Master of Science degree in Nutrition & Integrative Health from Maryland University of Integrative Health, a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University, an environmental toxins specialist certification, and a health coaching certificate from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition (“IIN”) in New York City.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Sarah Geha Wellness Sleep Course: register for wait list at https://www.sarahgehawellness.com/
Guest’s website: https://www.sarahgehawellness.com/
Email address: orlandonutrition@gmail.com
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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We hear a lot about mindfulness these days. In fact, I think we hear about it so much that we might have lost sight of what it actually is and what it’s actually for. Mindfulness is about being present, but it’s really about who we are being in the present when we consciously direct and choose how we want to show up in the world.
Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching:
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
COACHING
I have two coaching spots opening up this fall. If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
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We hear a lot about mindfulness these days. In fact, I kind of think we hear about it so much that we might have lost sight of what it actually and what it’s actually for.
To put it simply, mindfulness is our ability to be aware of what’s happening around us and inside us. It’s not meditation, although meditation can be a great tool. And it’s not being present in every moment of our lives, because that’s impossible. And you know what, I like being lost in my thoughts sometimes.
The thing that I think gets lost when we talk about mindfulness and our goal to become more mindful is the point. What is the point or purpose of being more mindful?
Mindfulness is about being present, but it’s really about who we are being in the present when we consciously direct and choose how we want to show up in the world.
For example:
More compassionate Less judgmental
More patient Less hurried
More easygoing Less rigid
More calm Less anxious
More present Less distracted
More disciplined Less erratic
More self-loving Less self-criticizing
More generous Less selfish
More grateful Less entitled
More joyful Less moody
More conscious Less asleep
I know for myself, when I am judgmental, hurried, rigid, and anxious, I suffer and I’m not all that great to be around. When I am compassionate, patient, easygoing, and calm, I feel lighter and happier, and I create less disconnect and discord in my relationships. In my experience, being mindful makes me a better person toward myself and toward others, and it helps me to create stronger and deeper relationships.
So much of our sense of safety and belonging comes from how well we are able to form healthy and solid attachments to ourselves and to the people we care about. Interestingly, the presence of connective and harmonious relationships is a key wellness indicator, as discovered in an eight-decade-long study outlined in the book, The Longevity Project. We now know that it is our relationships (or lack of) more than our diet or genes that determine how healthy we are and how long we live. Connecting the dots: mindfulness helps us choose better ways of being, which contributes to better relationships, and harmonious relationships make us healthier.
It also creates white space, gaps in-between activity, and stillness or silence amidst the internal chatter and outer noise. Mindfulness gives us pauses, even if only for a second or two, when we can return to ourselves.
How many of us can sit with our thoughts and feelings, especially difficult ones, long enough to let them pass? Or do we need to distract ourselves as quickly as possible? Mindfulness trains us to withstand more discomfort, not so that we can become titans of pain, but so that we can help the pain pass.
But there are many Barriers to Mindfulness
We can set up an incredible support system of habits to cultivate mindfulness and conscious living—my book, Better Daily Mindfulness Habits is filled with them. But it’s all for nothing if we don’t also take the time to remove the hurdles that impede our ability to be mindful.
Technology
Smart phones have become an essential, seemingly indispensable, aspect of our lives. The trouble is, smart phones and apps distract us from the present moment, producing unconscious, repetitive behaviors, like picking it up and scrolling mindlessly dozens of times each day.
Lack of Self-Care
The better we care for ourselves, the better we become at responding to life’s inevitable challenges and trials. Sleep, good nutrition, regular meals, rest, exercise, play and connection with others are just some of the many elements that fill our resilience tanks and help us live with more presence.
Multi-Tasking
Most of us have developed the skill of being able to do many things at once. No wonder we struggle with mindfulness. While we’ve become quite clever at stacking multiple tasks together, it rarely makes us good at what we’re trying to accomplish. In fact, it often makes us much worse. It’s truly impossible to connect with others, ourselves and the nowness of a moment when we are doing several things at once. Part of the intention to live a more mindful, conscious life is the commitment to doing only one thing at a time.
Clutter
Besides creating a sense of sanctuary, simplicity and cleanness, a tidy, organized environment helps us feel more solid on the inside. Clutter robs us of our energy and gusto. It makes us feel crowded in, overly contained, frustrated, even hopeless. But when we can begin to eliminate our outer chaos, we start to settle our inner seas.
Lack of Solitude
Solitude, when it’s chosen, is beneficial for us. The time we spend on our own gives us space to contemplate our lives and discover who we are. It is in the gaps between our interactions with others—either directly with another human being or through technology—that we power down and access our intuition, creativity and insight. If we are to presence ourselves to our inner worlds, and participate deliberately in our growth, we need solitude.
I invite you to take a look at your own life and consider:
- Who are you when you’re at your best and how could you become more aware of bringing that way of being into your life on a more regular basis?
- What barriers are often standing in the way of you being more present so that you can bring more awareness to your way of being more often? Is it technology? Are you too busy? Maybe you could find a way to spend some time alone each day.
It all comes back to being intentional, having some deliberateness about the way we want to show up in this world and then using the tools of mindfulness—meditation, journaling, reflection, time alone, walks in the woods—to keep those intentions clear and present.
Otherwise, we’re just sleepwalking through life on autopilot. And what kind of life is that?
How do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos, especially in a society that often prizes romantic love at the expense of other relationships? This is the question Dr. Marisa G. Franco explores in her new book, Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep—Friends.
Using insights from attachment theory and the latest scientific research on friendship, Marisa shows us that making new friends, and deepening longstanding relationships, is not only possible but essential. This week you’ll learn specific, research-based ways to improve the quantity and quality of your platonic connections.
Guest Bio
Dr. Marisa G. Franco holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Maryland and works as a professor there currently. She writes for Psychology Today and she has been a featured psychologist in The New York Times, NPR, and Good Morning America. Dr. Franco delivers talks about connection and belonging all over the country to private companies, universities, and non-profit organizations.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep—Friends
Guest’s website: https://drmarisagfranco.com/ and Instagram @drmarisagfranco https://www.instagram.com/DrMarisaGFranco/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast
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Most people—even our own family and closest friends—have no idea what we have on our plate, how hard we’re trying, or what we’re accomplishing and creating. What if we got used to asking each other this question: What would you like to be acknowledged for? I’ll tell you from my own experience, an entirely different sort of exchange ensues.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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Your ability to flex your thoughts, feelings, and actions can transform your life, bolster your resilience, and foster your zest for living. Elaine Fox, PhD, psychologist and researcher, studies the science of neurological flexibility. In her new book, Switch Craft: The Hidden Power of Mental Agility, Elaine explores how we can expand and improve our mental agility, and why it is so critical to become as mentally agile as we can.
Guest Bio
Elaine Fox, PhD is a psychologist and author and became Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide, Australia in 2022. Originally from Dublin, her academic career has been primarily in the UK, most recently as Professor of Psychology and Affective Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. She is a leading scholar on the science of resilience and wellbeing and her work was awarded with a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Investigator fellowship from 2013-2019 to set up a large study in Oxford investigating why some people are emotionally vulnerable (to anxiety, depression, & addictions) while others are resilient. She is an engaging writer and speaker with a passion for the science behind how our mind works. Her first book RAINY BRAIN SUNNY BRAIN describes the fascinating science and stories behind why some of us are optimistic and resilient while others take a more pessimistic slant on things. Translated into more than 20 languages, it is a bestseller in several countries.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Switch Craft: The Hidden Power of Mental Agility
https://www.amazon.com/Switch-Craft-Hidden-Mental-Agility/dp/006303008X
Guest’s website: https://www.instagram.com/profelainefox/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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“If you want to show up in this life, you’ve got to begin by showing up in your body,” writes Erica Hornthal in her new book Body Aware. Erica believes it’s time to redefine what movement is and how it plays a role in our lives. As a licensed clinical professional counselor and board-certified dance/movement therapist, she helps people harness the power of movement and see that the way they might currently live in their body is not the only way. Awareness is the key to change and movement is the catalyst for awareness.
Guest Bio
Erica Hornthal is a licensed clinical professional counselor, board-certified dance/movement therapist, and the CEO and founder of Chicago Dance Therapy. Since graduating with her MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling from Columbia College Chicago, Erica has worked with thousands of patients aged 3-107. Known as “The Therapist Who Moves You,” Hornthal is changing the way people see movement with regard to mental health.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Body Aware: Rediscover Your Mind-Body Connection, Stop Feeling Stuck, and Improve Your Mental Health with Simple Movement Practices. https://www.amazon.com/Body-Aware-Rediscover-Mind-Body-Connection/dp/1623176891
Guest’s website: https://www.ericahornthal.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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Gratitude, as I’ve come to see it, is a skill that requires nurturing. The more you’re present to what you’re thankful for, the happier you’ll become. This week I offer two practices for strengthening your gratitude muscle.
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Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
COACHING
I have two coaching spots opening up this fall. If you’ve ever considered coaching, or if you’re feelings stuck or you’re about to make a big transition, reach out to me and we can talk about how I can help you navigate what’s ahead with more confidence and clarity. You can reach me at Kristen@kristenmanieri.com.
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There’s a framed quote in my house that says, “The best things in life aren’t things.” It reminds me to notice what really matters in my life—love, relationships, and laughter, for example. When I bring my sense of awareness to these values, I’m filled with a sense of abundance.
While having nice things and not wanting for anything may seem like a valid aspiration, the truth is that true contentment comes from finding happiness in this moment and being grateful for what it offers. Gratitude, as I’ve come to see it, is a skill that requires nurturing. The more you’re present to what you’re thankful for, the happier you’ll become.
It’s been said that the key to happiness is not about getting what you want but wanting what you already have. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, the University of Miami, and the University of Pennsylvania have all explored the link between happiness and gratitude and found that the more intentional people are about counting our blessings, the more blessed we feel.
The trouble is, the brain isn’t wired to see the positive in the same way that it’s wired to fixate on the negative. The brain has a negativity bias, born from a necessity to stay alert to potential threats. It scans the world for what’s wrong because doing so helps us stay safe and avoid suffering, both physically and emotionally.
But when you’re intentional about seeing what’s going right, and you cultivate the habits of being present to what’s good, you begin to bolster your positivity bias. In other words, the more you look for what’s positive in your life, the more you see it.
Increasing your awareness of what you’re grateful for is a formula for a rich life. Gratitude helps you deeply savor your moments on good days, but it also gives you something to hold on to on bad days. In times of struggle, or when you’re faced with unexpected adversity, solace comes from the ability to see what is going right, even when there are things that going wrong. This boosts your resilience and help you weather tough moments with more grace.
If you’d like to start cultivate gratitude, I’ve got two practices to share with you:
- Say Good Night with Gratitude
One of the best things you can do before you fall asleep at night is increase your sense of calm and ease. Ruminating on troubles and allowing the mind to fixate on worries will only make it more difficult to fall and stay asleep. But when you cultivate a gratitude practice at bedtime, you point the mind toward positive thoughts, calm the nervous system, and gently guide yourself to rest.
Once you’ve climbed into bed and are ready for sleep, take the last few minutes before closing your eyes to think of three to five things you are grateful for. Reflect on your day and the interactions you had. Think of your meals, the weather, your home, and your surroundings.
Listing things you’re grateful for gives the mind a positive project to engage in, especially if you deliberately amplify your positive emotions along the way. Rather than relating to the list as something to get done, engage in the process as something to be slowly savored.
Close your eyes, feel your feelings, use your senses. The more vibrant you can make your gratitude practice, the more deeply it will sink in. Let the feelings of gratitude enhance your sense of calm and peace as you drift off to sleep. The reward for this habit is falling asleep with a sense of peace and calm.
- Use Your ABCs
Sometimes it can be hard to think of things to be grateful for. The reason is not a lack of gratefulness, but rather that the creativity to generate ideas isn’t readily accessible. Making a gratitude list can be like brainstorming, and depending on how much you already have on your mind, it can feel challenging.
When I feel creatively stuck or in a bad mood and I want a practice to help me shift, I use the ABC gratitude practice. I learned this practice from Gratefulness.org (https://gratefulness.org/), an organization that supports grateful living by offering lovely practices anyone can use.
The ABC practice is simple: use the alphabet to help you think of things to be thankful for. Going through each letter, begin to create a list of what you appreciate in the current moment. For example, today I am grateful my (A) aunt is feeling better after her surgery, for (B) bananas being such a great snack, and for the (C) crepe myrtle trees that are beautifully blooming in my neighborhood. As you can imagine, it becomes kind of a game you can play with yourself and others.
This ABC gratitude practice is a perfect companion when you’re stuck in line or waiting for an appointment. You might also practice it on your gratitude walk or as a nighttime ritual with your partner or kids. Stack this practice with your device-free dinner routine or as part of your evening commute. By yourself or with others, you’ll find it’s a fun way to shift into a more thankful state of mind. This habit rewards you with a feeling of fun and levity, especially when you do it with others.
As I said before, if you want to feel like your life is rich, you’re going to want to cultivate gratitude. But remember, it’s a muscle we develop. The more you practice—and by that I mean deliberately integrating gratitude practices and rituals—the stronger your gratitude muscle will become.
And that’s your weekly nugget for this week.
Are you madly in love with your life? Do you want to be? Being madly in love with your life will mean something different to everyone, of course, but I’ve discovered that there are a few common threads and universal through lines that can help us think about it for ourselves. And I wanted to share them with you this week.
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
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I was recently sitting across the table from a new friend when she asked me what exactly I do as a coach. “I help people fall madly in love with their lives,” I said. I had never described my work this way, and I was surprised when she welled-up. She was not, I came to discover, madly in love with her life, but she wanted to be.
Falling madly in love with our lives requires first and foremost proclaiming that our lives are of great consequence. This applies to everyone, not just “important people” doing important things. We all start with the same anthem: we matter. This precedes anything we accomplish or produce with our lives. It merely just sits as a basic truth of our existence. We were born therefore we matter. And as someone who matters we each deserve a life we can fall madly in life with.
Being madly in love with your life will mean something different to everyone, of course, as individuals’ life experiences are unique to them. But I’ve discovered that there are a few common threads, some universal through lines, that can help us think about it for ourselves.
And I wanted to share them with you today.
People who are madly in love with their lives…
- Live their lives by design
Life is like a bonsai tree, a precious living work of art that can be shaped and cultivated with precision. People who are madly in love with their lives have carefully shaped and cultivated their decisions and behaviors so that they align precisely with what matters to them. They are intentional and deliberate.
- Manage their mindset
Life doesn’t always go as planned, people disappoint us, sometimes it rains when we really wanted it to be sunny. People who are madly in love with their lives know the difference between making things happen in the world and believing that the world should be exactly as they want it. They’re extraordinarily realistic about what they can control (which is very little) and the things they can’t control (which is mostly everything).
- Consciously work to be positive
People who are madly in love with their lives deliberately work against their negativity bias. They do it by focusing on what’s good on purpose. They consciously cultivate positive memories, and form healthy, helpful perspectives on negative ones.
- Live in the present moment
Developing the capacity to fully inhabit the present moment—to notice life exquisitely unfolding in real time—allows us to appreciate and relish every ordinary experience life grants us. People who are madly in love with their lives turn off autopilot and instead develop their ability to be here now.
- Have clarified their values and priorities
People who are madly in love with their lives know what they say “yes” to and what they say “no” to. They are rarely overwhelmed or overcommitted because they have devoted the necessary time to discover and articulate their values and priorities, and have aligned their inner and outer resources effectively and realistically.
- Connect deeply with others
We are not islands. We are gardens. People who are madly in love with their lives show up for others and deliberately invest in the relationships that form the tapestry of their lives. They are interconnected. They know that it’s through our community, not our accomplishments, that we gain our sense of belonging and meaning.
- Are always learning and growing
People who are madly in love with their lives deliberately create opportunities to evolve beyond their current capabilities. Without growth, we become stagnant. Without challenge, we become bored and listless. When we’re not stretched, we shrink. They live by a philosophy of “not yet” instead of “I can’t.”
- Make their lives feel good
People who are madly in love with their lives have no qualms integrating juicy joys into their day. Maybe that’s a few morning stretches, a perfect cup of tea, a sumptuous bath, or a quiet walk in the woods. Regardless of the activity, there is a sense of feeling rightly entitled to having a life that feels good.
- Do good work in the world
Whatever their vocation, people who are madly in love with their lives can connect the dots between the work that they do each day and the way it contributes to the world around them. They know that money is just one way to measure success. In fact, they’ve learned that success is more accurately measured by the positive difference they make and the way their work makes them and others feel.
- They clean up their messes
People who are madly in love with their lives have tidied up. On the outside, they’ve done the work to resolve soured relationships and clean up past mistakes. They’re not perfect—sometimes they say the wrong thing or let someone down—but they’re quick to make amends and begin again. On the inside, they’ve done the work to forgive themselves and others, choosing to grow from past mistakes and to unburden themselves from resentments.
We get just one life. My new friend recognized this as we talked about falling in love with our lives. And she was enthralled by the idea that she could steer her life toward that aim. She resolved to do so, and I am happy to say that she’s well on her way.
You get just one shot in this body, with these people around you, in these circumstances. And if you’re not careful, this one life might end up pretty ordinary and inconsequential. The choice is yours. Are you ready to fall madly in love with your life?
Ainsley Arment wants families to be wild and free. While that's going to look different for each of us, being wild and free means that we’re each creating the life we want with intention. As the author of The Wild and Free Family: Forging Your Own Path to a Life Full of Wonder, Adventure, and Connection and the founder and leader of the Wild + Free organization, Ainsley thinks a lot about what it means to build a meaningful and fulfilling life together with our kids. In her book and in this week’s discussion, she explores topics of family culture, pursuing a shared vision together, and making space for childhood wonder to flourish.
Guest Bio
Ainsley Arment is the founder and leader of Wild + Free and co-host of the weekly Wild + Free Podcast. As she leads this movement of raising her kids and homeschooling in a new way, she thinks deeply about making the most out of life and ensuring that her children have a fertile seedbed for their own uniqueness and creativity. She and her husband Ben are raising their five kids, Wyatt, Dylan, Cody, Annie, and Millie, in Virginia Beach.
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Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Wild and Free Family: Forging Your Own Path to a Life Full of Wonder, Adventure, and Connection: https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Free-Family-Adventure-Connection/dp/0062998234
Guest’s website: https://www.bewildandfree.org
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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Remote work exploded over the past two years, and as a result, millions of people now find themselves in the position to ask this life-changing question: If I can work anywhere, where shall I live? This is the inquiry that author Melody Warnick explores in her new book, If You Could Live Anywhere. Along the way she considers the importance of place, cost of living and community but also our leanings towards a nomadic life or living internationally. Warnick helps the “Anywhereist” discover the right place to do their best work but also live their best life.
Guest Bio
Melody Warnick is the author of If You Could Live Anywhere and This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Fast Company, The Guardian, Slate, Quartz, CityLab, Woman's Day, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, O: The Oprah Magazine, Medium, Livability, and many others.
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: If You Could Live Anywhere: https://www.amazon.com/Could-Live-Anywhere-Work-Anywhere/dp/1728246903
This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are: https://www.amazon.com/This-Where-You-Belong-Wherever/dp/014312966X
Guest’s website: http://melodywarnick.com/
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We spend a tremendous amount of our lives working. Work can give meaning, purpose and direction to your lives, and it can be the place where we shine, grow and make a difference. It can also be a source of great stress and strain, especially when our work and home life blurs or becomes out of balance. In her new book, Career Self-Care: Find Your Happiness, Success, and Fulfillment at Work, writer Minda Zetlin has explores dozens of concrete ways to improve work life in any kind of job or entrepreneurial setting. The key is taking steps to integrate self-care into work, including our mindset, our goals, the way we rest and the way we engage.
Guest Bio
Minda Zetlin writes the highly popular “Laid-Back Leader” column at Inc.com and is a regular contributor to Insider.com and CNBC.com. She is author or coauthor of several books, most recently The Geek Gap, and a former president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).
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Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Career Self-Care: Find Your Happiness, Success, and Fulfillment at Work: https://www.amazon.com/Career-Self-Care-Increase-Happiness-Fulfillment/dp/1608687325
Guest’s website: https://mindazetlin.wordpress.com/
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There’s something powerful that happens when we give up screens one day a week. In her book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, author and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain shares how her family have gained more time, productivity, connection, and presence by adopting the ancient ritual of Shabbat. Based on her own experience of taking a tech-free day, she humbly offers a blueprint for how we can become less available to the world and more connected to ourselves and the people we love.
Guest Bio
Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, author of national bestselling book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award. She hosts a monthly #ZoomChallahBake and writes a newsletter called Breakfast @ Tiffany’s. For information on her book, baking, films, and her newsletter, visit tiffanyshlain.com and follow Tiffany on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://www.tiffanyshlain.com/
24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week: https://www.amazon.com/24-Power-Unplugging-One-Week/dp/1982116862
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Have you ever been walking home from work and unexpectedly took a different path just to curiously explore your neighborhood? Or have you been on a vacation and walked around a new city with no destination in mind? Then chances are, you’re a flaneur and you didn’t even know it! This week I welcome Erika Owen, the author of The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander with Intention and Discover a Better Life.
Guest Bio
Erika Owen is a Brooklyn-based travel writer, author, and self-proclaimed Iceland Enthusiast. She is the author of "The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander With Intention and Discover a Better Life," "Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History," and was a contributor to "Fodor's Essential Iceland" guidebook. Her work has previously been published in Travel + Leisure, Departures, and Vogue. You can also find her work online at GQ, Martha Stewart Living, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, and more. When she isn't writing or planning her next trip, you can find her wandering Brooklyn and soaking up the scenes.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://www.erikaraeowen.com/
The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander with Intention and Discover a Better Life:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Flaneuring-Wander-Intention-Discover/dp/1982133511/
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https://kristenmanieri.com/episode156/
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(Summer Replay) If you want to feel more joy and aliveness in your life, cultivate wonder. Our ability to place our attention on all the beauty and magic around us is directly connected to how joyful, grateful and happy we feel. According to writer and artist Andrea Scher, author of Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy, all we need to find wonder and awe is an open heart and a clear intention. When we do, it has the power to renew our spirits and reclaim our inner happiness.
Guest Bio
Andrea Scher is an author, artist, photographer, and life coach. She’s had an award-winning blog called Superhero Journal since 2003 and has hosted the Creative Superheroes Podcast for two years. She’s a Facebook Live host for 1440 Multiversity. Andrea has co-authored a book called Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sister’s Guide to Shooting from the Heart, as well as authoring her own book, Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy, published in 2021. Her works centers around helping others create a life full of ease, joy, and deep connection.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-Seeker-Ways-Wake-Creativity/dp/006307382X
Author’s website: https://www.andreascher.com/
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Each day we make dozens of choices, including how to spend our time, money and energy. In the new book, Handbook for an Integrated Life: A Practical Guide to Aligning Your Everyday Choices with Your Internal Compass, author and philanthropy expert Sharon Schneider explores the ways we can integrate our values and desires to do good in the world with the things we are already doing. From buying habits and ways we celebrate, to how we travel and where we live, all aspects of our lives can come into alignment with our values when we take the time to identify them and bring them into focus.
Guest Bio
Sharon Schneider is an entrepreneur, philanthropy expert, impact investor, and strategist who advises socially conscious founders and family offices. She has overseen more than $1.5 billion in philanthropic capital deployed through grants, impact investments, advocacy efforts and business operations from some of the world’s most prominent families, including members of the Giving Pledge, the Forbes 400 wealthiest individuals, top-10 US private foundations, and others. Learn more about her consulting practice here. Additionally, Sharon was the co-founder and CEO of Moxie Jean, an online marketplace for high-quality, gently used clothes. Moxie Jean was a 2012 portfolio company of renowned tech accelerator Excelerate Labs (now TechStars Chicago). Moxie Jean was acquired by Schoola in 2015.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Handbook for an Integrated Life: A Practical Guide to Aligning Your Everyday Choices with Your Internal Compass https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Integrated-Life-Practical-Aligning/dp/1626349355
Guest’s website: https://www.theintegratedlife.com/
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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Description
There’s value in asking the question: is my relationship with alcohol working for me and my life? There’s a myth that we need alcohol to relax and have fun. But run a cost/benefit analysis, and really look at what alcohol may be costing you (and the amount of space it may take up in your head), and it’s possible to discover that maybe alcohol really doesn’t work for you at all. In her book, Soberful: Uncover a Sustainable, Fulfilling Life Free of Alcohol, author and sobriety coach Veronica Valli explores how we can rethink and reframe our relationship with alcohol, and develop the skills for a rich alcohol-free life.
Guest Bio
Veronica Valli is the author of Soberful: Uncover a Sustainable, Fulfilling Life Free of Alcohol (Sounds True 2022.). She is a former psychotherapist who now works as a sobriety coach. With almost twenty years of experience, she has helped thousands of people live happy, healthy lives and reach their full potential by being alcohol free. She’s been the keynote speaker at annual conferences such as Women for Sobriety and Soberistas, and she is the cohost of the popular Soberful podcast. Learn more at soberful.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal
https://www.amazon.com/Soberful-Uncover-Sustainable-Fulfilling-Alcohol/dp/1683648293/
Guest’s website: soberful.com
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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Description
From juice bars and meditation retreats to crystals and mindfulness apps, wellness has pervaded almost every aspect of our lives. In our uncertain and chaotic world, it’s easy to imagine how hard we’re all trying to feel well. In fact, there’s a trillion-dollar wellness industry that is capitalizing on, perhaps even exploiting, our deep yearning to feel whole, steady and well. But it begs the question: what do we really need to feel well? And who has access to these things and who does not? These are just a few of the questions author and activist Kerri Kelly unpacks in this week’s interview and in her provocative book, American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal.
Guest Bio
Kerri Kelly is an activist, wellness disruptor and the founder of CTZNWELL, a movement that is democratizing well-being for all. She spent seven years as Executive Director of the non-profit Off the Mat, Into the World and is currently on faculty. She’s been teaching yoga for more than 20 years and is known for making waves in the wellness industry by challenging norms, disrupting systems and mobilizing people to act. A community organizer and wellness activist, Kerri is recognized across communities for her inspired work to bridge transformational practice with social justice. She’s been instrumental in translating the practices of well-being into social and political action, working in collaboration with community organizers, spiritual leaders and policy makers to transform our systems from the inside out. Her leadership has inspired a movement that is actively organizing around issues of racial and economic justice, healthcare as a human right, civic engagement and more. Kerri is a powerful facilitator, TED speaker, and host of the prominent podcast CTZN. You can learn more about her work at https://kerrikelly.co and https://ctznwell.org.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal
https://www.amazon.com/American-Detox-Myth-Wellness-Truly/dp/1623177243
Guest’s website: https://kerrikelly.co and https://ctznwell.org
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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Description
In the book, Box Lunch Lifestyle: Using Your Lunch Break to Win Back the Life You Deserve, author Cheryl Johnson uses the common, everyday experience of a lunch break as a kind of metaphor for how we live our lives. Are our breaks rushed with almost no time to nourish ourselves, or do we build boundaries so that we make time for what matters for us? Are we constantly flying by the seat of our pants or do we strategically place moments of calm and clarity in our day so we can pause and return to ourselves? As you’ll hear, box lunch lifestyle is a small change that can have a huge ripple effect.
Guest Bio
Cheryl was a research director for nearly twenty years until boxing training gave her the courage to leave corporate life for something that felt more like her true self. Box Lunch Lifestyle is how she now helps people realize that richer, more satisfying lives aren’t as distant as they seem. Secretly, Cheryl loves grocery stores: small family-owned ones, national chains, co-ops, and the corner convenience store. Seeing everyday life through the lens of what food is available, and what people actually buy, fascinates her—and reinforces her disdain for weight loss programs and companies that thrive by selling non-nutritious food. When she’s not boxing, reading, or pushing a cart, Cheryl and her husband enjoy documentary films and Indian food. They live near St. Paul, MN, in a town that Cheryl describes as a cross between Lake Wobegon and Twin Peaks. Learn more at cherylkjohnson.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Box Lunch Lifestyle: Using Your Lunch Break to Win Back the Life You Deserve: https://www.boxlunchlifestyle.com/the-book
Guest’s website: http://cherylkjohnson.com
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode184
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
Description
There are times when life requires us to have grit and to tough things out. But the hammer isn’t the only tool in our toolbox. Steve Magness, author of the book, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness, offers a new model for how we can respond to our struggles, stressors and discomforts. A performance scientist who coaches Olympic athletes, he challenges us to trade in our broken model of resilience, based on powering through at all cost, for one grounded in the latest science and psychology, and focused on accessing our awareness and discernment.
Guest Bio
Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance, well-being, and sustainable success. His most recent work is Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. He is coauthor of the best selling Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox. In his coaching practice, Steve works with executives, entrepreneurs, and athletes on their performance and mental skills. He's served as consultant on mental skills development for professional sports teams, including some of the top teams in professional sports. His writing has appeared in Outside, Runner's World, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, Men's Health, and a variety of other outlets. In addition, Steve's expertise on elite sport and performance has been featured in The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Guardian, Business Insider, and ESPN The Magazine. Steve received his undergraduate degree from the University of Houston and a graduate degree from George Mason University. He currently lives in Houston, Tx with his wife Hillary. Once upon a time, he ran a mile in 4:01 in high school, at the time the 6th fastest high school mile in US history.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Things-Resilience-Surprising-Toughness/dp/006309861X
Guest’s website: http://www.stevemagness.com/
Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com
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Description
Resilience isn’t something we’re innately born with; it’s something we develop over time. In her new book, Worth the Risk: How to Microdose Bravery to Grow Resilience, Connect More, and Offer Yourself to the World, author and behavioral science researcher Kristen Lee shares how bravery is a process that we can undergo with intention. By engaging in strategic risk-taking and using small, intentional acts of courage, we can build resilience, confidence, and connection.
Guest Bio
Kristen Lee, EdD, LICSW, is an award-winning behavioral science and leadership professor, clinician, researcher, activist, comedian, author of Reset and Mentalligence, and host of Crackin’ Up: Where Therapy Meets Comedy. She has over two decades of clinical experience in mental health and thirteen years of teaching and leadership roles in higher education, focusing on underserved populations. She leads the Behavior Science program at Northeastern University.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Worth the Risk: How to Microdose Bravery to Grow Resilience, Connect More, and Offer Yourself to the World
https://www.amazon.com/Worth-Risk-Microdose-Resilience-Yourself/dp/1683648501
Guest’s website: https://kristenlee.com/
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Our ability to be conscious of and to direct our own thoughts and emotions forms the bedrock of our emotional intelligence and self-awareness. As we raise our awareness of our inner workings, we may discover that our mind is made up of mental habits that cause us to interpret the world around us and act accordingly. In her book, Beyond Emotional Intelligence: A Guide to Accessing Your Full Potential, author Michele Nevarez explores the influence these mental habits have over our lives and the ways we can work with them to give us more agency.
Guest Bio
Michele Nevarez has been studying Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and practicing the wisdom at the core of its contemplative meditation practices for 29 years. She received her B.A. in Religion from Bryn Mawr College and Master of Science degree in Positive Organizational Development and Change from the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. As CEO and Chief Education Officer for Beyond EI’s Coaching and Training programs, Michele’s vision is to democratize Emotional Intelligence as a means of igniting personal and global agency. Michele brings 25+ years of executive leadership experience working for industry leaders in healthcare, investment management, management consulting, and manufacturing.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Beyond Emotional Intelligence: A Guide to Accessing Your Full Potential https://www.amazon.com/Emotionally-Intelligent-Habits-Accessing-Potential-dp-111980020X/dp/111980020X/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
Guest’s website: https://beyondei.inc/
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For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode181 Description
When we can take a step back from our culture of constant motion and self-improvement, we may start to see the power in slowing down and making room for stillness in our lives. In her new book, Don’t Just Sit There, Do Nothing, author Jessie Asya Kanzer shares her experience of using the Tao Te Ching to ground her life in intuition, and insight. The result is practical actionable insights on incorporating simple wisdom into the everyday living of life.
Guest Bio
Jessie Asya Kanzer was born in the Soviet Union. At the age of eight, she emigrated with her family to Brooklyn. She is a writer and former reporter and actress. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Daily News, Wall Street Journal, The Independent, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Ravishly, and Romper. Jessie lives with her two daughters and husband in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Don't Just Sit There, DO NOTHING: Healing, Chilling, and Living with the Tao Te Ching https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Just-Sit-There-NOTHING/dp/1642970352
Guest’s website: https://jessiekanzer.com/
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Description
David Gandelman has helped thousands of students look within to find their own answers to life’s big questions: Who am I? What am I here to do? How can I find happiness? In his new book, The Seven Energies of the Soul, he explores the concept that there are seven potent energies that exist within each individual soul. When any one or more of these energies is out of balance, our lives can become chaotic and unfulfilled. To David, each of us has the power to evaluate our energetic strengths and weaknesses, and work toward spiritual and energetic balance. We start by attuning inwards.
Guest Bio
David Gandelman is an author and spiritual teacher. He is the founder of the Meditation School app, a popular teacher on the Insight Timer app, and host of the Meditation School, Energy Matters, and Grounded Sleep podcasts. He also guest teaches at Cornell University. David's style connects energetic experience, ancient wisdom traditions, and humor, to create a safe atmosphere for people interested in learning to meditate, and develop into their potential.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The 7 Energies of the Soul: Awaken Your Inner Creator, Healer, Warrior, Lover, Artist, Explorer, and Master https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Energies-Soul-David-Gandelman/dp/1950253198
David’s quiz: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/61d4fdcbdae3990018a2fb76
Beginners The Joy And Transformative Power Of Lifelong Learning By Tom Vanderbilt: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551938/beginners-by-tom-vanderbilt/
Guest’s website: https://www.meditationschool.us/
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Description
Have you ever felt stuck, lost, uninspired, or simply bored? When we’ve left a houseplant too long in a pot that’s too small, the plant will eventually stop growing and die. We humans are not much different. In her new book, Repotting Your Life: Sense When You’re Stuck. Explore What’s Possible. Claim Room to Grow, author Frances Edmonds explores how we can look at our lives and see when we’ve become pot bound, or said another way, in need of growth and change. We’re designed to grow and flourish. Sometimes the answer is to repot.
Guest Bio
Frances Edmonds has worked all over the world as an international conference interpreter, writer, broadcaster, keynote speaker, building contractor, and business development networker. Frances holds a master’s degree in modern languages from Cambridge University and a fellowship from Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute. A founding member, fellow, and award-winning speaker of the UK’s prestigious Professional Speaking Association, Frances has worked extensively for national and independent TV and radio in the UK and Australia and has written for a wide range of publications on politics, sports, cross-cultural communication, longevity, and personal development. She speaks four languages and is fond of inventing additional words of her own. She divides her time between London and the South of France.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Repotting Your Life: Sense When You’re Stuck. Explore What’s Possible. Claim Room to Grow: https://www.amazon.com/Repotting-Your-Life-Explore-Possible/dp/1615198717
Guest’s website: https://www.francesedmonds.co.uk/
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For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode178
Description
For those of us who are seekers, sometimes our next move isn’t always clear. As we try to predict and plan, we can often look outside for clarity. But for Amber Rae, author of The Answers Are Within You: 108 Keys to Unlock Your Mind, Body & Soul, we are our own oracle. By simply posing deep questions, and making the space to look inside for the answers, we can gain the clarity and courage to trust ourselves and chart our way forward.
Guest Bio
Amber Rae is an author, artist and global voice for emotional wellness and self-discovery. She turns highly relatable insights on the human experience into viral art, sold-out venues, and best-selling books. She’s the author of Choose Wonder Over Worry: Move Beyond Fear and Doubt to Unlock Your Full Potential and The Answers Are Within You: 108 Keys to Unlock Your Mind, Body & Soul. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, NYMag, TODAY, SELF, Fortune, Forbes and Entrepreneur. Amber has collaborated with brands such as Kate Spade, Apple, ABC, and One Medical, and she reaches over 9 million people per month online with her words and art.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Answers Are Within You: 108 Keys to Unlock Your Mind, Body & Soul https://www.amazon.com/Answers-Are-Within-You-Unlock/dp/1250809355
Guest’s website: https://www.amberrae.com/
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For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode177
Description
When it comes to aging well, we often think about increasing our health and doing what we can to lower our risk of disease. But author and researcher Becca Levy sees another aspect of aging we ought to consider: our beliefs. In her new book, Breaking the Age Code: How Your Age Beliefs Determine How Long and Well You Live, Becca outlines a science-backed argument for how aging isn't just a physiological experience, it's a social and physiological one, too.
Guest Bio
Becca Levy, PhD, is an award-winning Yale Professor of Psychology and Public Health. She received her doctorate in psychology from Harvard University and held a National Institute on Aging postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She has given invited testimony before the United States Senate on the effects of ageism, contributed to briefs submitted to the United States Supreme Court in age-discrimination cases, and participated in United Nations discussions of reducing ageism. Her scientific discoveries serve as the evidence base for a new World Health Organization Campaign to Combat Ageism. She is credited with creating a field of study that focuses on how positive age beliefs can improve, and negative age beliefs can harm, the health and longevity of older individuals. She is the author of Breaking the Age Code: How Your Age Beliefs Determine How Long and Well You Live (William Morrow; on sale April 12). For more information, please visit becca-levy.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Breaking the Age Code How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long & Well You Live https://becca-levy.com/the-book/
Guest’s website: https://becca-levy.com/
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Description
If you are struggling to stay on top of your life—your to-do list, home, hygiene, meals, etc.—consider that it’s not because you’re lazy, even if this is what you’ve been told. Author KC Davis wants you to know this: messiness is not a moral failing. In her new book, How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing, KC takes on our ‘push harder, be better’ culture and all the shame that goes along with seemingly not being able to measure up. Instead, she invites us to take a kinder, more compassionate approach to ourselves during those moments when life overwhelms us.
Guest Bio
KC Davis is a licensed professional therapist, author, and speaker. She is the creator of the mental health platform Struggle Care, where she shares a revolutionary approach to self and home care for those dealing with mental health, physical illness, and hard seasons of life. KC began her mental health journey at sixteen, when she entered treatment for drug addiction and mental health issues. After getting sober, she became a speaker and advocate for mental health and recovery. She lives in Houston with her husband and two daughters.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing https://www.amazon.com/How-Keep-House-While-Drowning/dp/1668002841
Guest’s website: https://www.strugglecare.com/
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Jovanka Ciares, author of Reclaiming Wellness: Ancient Wisdom For Your Healthy, Happy, And Beautiful Life, sees wellness as a birthright we reclaim, versus something we pursue or struggle for. There are so many tools we can integrate as we travel along our own wellness path, including ancient tools like plant medicine, hypnosis, meditation and tai-chi. The key is opening up our awareness and increasing our curiosity.
Guest Bio
Jovanka Ciares is the author of Reclaiming Wellness and several other titles. A certified wellness expert, integrative herbalist, nutrition educator, and coach, she offers lectures and workshops in Spanish and English. Ciares studied nutrition with bestselling author T. Colin Campbell, PhD, at his Center for Nutrition Studies (in partnership with Cornell University) and herbalism / plant medicine with Tieraona Low Dog, MD. A native of Puerto Rico, she lives in Los Angeles. Visit her online at www.jovankaciares.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Reclaiming Wellness: Ancient Wisdom For Your Healthy, Happy, And Beautiful Life https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Wellness-Ancient-Healthy-Beautiful/dp/1608687848
Guest’s website: www.jovankaciares.com
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We tend to think of gratitude as something we practice once in a while. But Kristi Nelson, author of Wake Up Grateful and executive director of A Network for Grateful Living, sees it differently. To her, gratitude is about living a grateful way of life and cultivating a perspective of gratefulness that influences our entire approach to how we show up in life. With a ‘take nothing for granted’ commitment to living, Kristi invites us to explore what it means to treasure, savor, appreciate, cherish and celebrate our lives.
Guest Bio
Kristi Nelson is author of Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted and the Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living. She has spent her adult life immersed in the rewarding work of non-profit leadership, fundraising, and organizational development. In a wide variety of roles, she has helped to lead, fund, and strengthen organizations committed to progressive social and spiritual change. Kristi received her BA from UMass/Amherst, a graduate certificate in Business and Sociology from Boston College, and her Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) with a concentration in Leadership Studies, from Harvard University.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted: https://bookshop.org/books/wake-up-grateful-the-transformative-practice-of-taking-nothing-for-granted/9781635862447
Guest’s website: https://gratefulness.org/kristi-nelson/
The Guesthouse by Rumi: https://gratefulness.org/resource/guest-house-rumi/
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Not all relationships end because of one traumatic event, such as one person cheating. For author Matthew Fray, divorce is more like death by a thousand cuts. In his new book, This Is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships, Matthew looks at his personal experience in his divorce, as well as the experience he’s gleaned as a relationship coach, to identify and address relationship-killing behavior and patterns that lead to divorce. Matthew exposes the root cause of so many relationships gone wrong, as well as the necessary skills we need to cultivate if we want to avoid alienating our partners and creating mistrust.
Guest Bio
Matthew Fray is a relationship coach and writer who leans on the lessons of his failed marriage and divorce to help others avoid making the same mistakes. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, the London Sunday Times, the Huffington Post, Babble, and many other outlets. His blog Must Be This Tall To Ride has a dedicated following and has reached millions of readers.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: This Is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships
Guest’s website: https://mustbethistalltoride.com/
An Open Letter to Shitty Husbands: https://mustbethistalltoride.com/an-open-letter-to-shitty-husbands/
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Self-development has many benefits but it’s interesting to notice that it’s focused on the self. That’s an insight author Gavin Seah explores in his book, True Humility: Finding Peace and Balance in Today’s Modern Society. Could it be that our growth is stunted when it’s not shared with others? Are we missing out on true happiness by keeping our growth to ourselves and not using it to impact others? These are some of the questions Gavin tackles as he encourages readers to see how we can take what we’re learning to not only better ourselves, but to better mankind.
Guest Bio
Gavin Seah was born in Singapore and raised in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to his recent endeavour in writing, he worked in corporate banks and the Big Four accounting firms in Singapore. Growing up, Gavin went through much trials and tribulations. As he scoured the world searching for true peace and balance, he came to realize the beauty of True Humility. With a keen passion to impart the practice of True Humility to others, Gavin hopes to challenge and change the lives of many. In 2019, Gavin founded his socio-educational enterprise, Soil Of Humility (soilofhumility.com) with a vision to be a transformational, game-changing company to bring more value-based contents, products and services in our modern society.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: True Humility: Finding Peace and Balance in Today’s Modern Society https://www.amazon.com/True-Humility-Finding-Balance-Society/dp/981141484X/
Guest’s website: Connect with Gavin on Instagram (@thetruegavin), and Soil Of Humility on Facebook (@SoilOfHumility).
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When we look at the landscape of our lives and notice that most of our time is given to others, it can provoke feelings of unfairness, resentment or grief. In the midst of all of your commitments, obligations and relationships, there’s a “you” in there that would like his or her fair share of the pie. Being intentional about creating more time for ourselves is less about having a “me first” mentality and more about having a “me too” approach. When we start to see just how deserving we each are, and how much it matters that our needs are met too, we start to find ways to create space for ourselves in the midst of all of our doing and giving.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 170 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
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As the saying goes, we need to look before we leap. But when we feel the nudge (or the shove) of change, how do we see clearly what’s ahead and how to navigate it? For Becca Ribbing, it’s all about go inward for the answers for moving forward. Becca is the author of The Clarity Journal, which is filled with over 100 thought-provoking writing prompts and quotes designed to create the clarity and momentum we all crave.
Guest Bio
Becca Ribbing is the author of The Clarity Journal and has been a coach for over a decade. She's on a mission to help people break out of the cycles of uncertainty and struggle that hold them back. She helps women going back and forth with the big, seemingly endless question of what to do next—so they can stop going around in circles and finally figure out what they truly want and create the clarity and momentum they crave.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Clarity Journal: https://www.amazon.com/Clarity-Journal-Becca-Ribbing/dp/1733131604/
Guest’s website: https://beccaribbing.com/
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Social media is an incredible tool… if we use it the right way. In his book, You Are What You Click, internationally acclaimed behavioral scientist and social media expert Brian Primack writes that we do not need to swear off social media, delete all our online accounts, or give up our phones to live healthier, happier lives. Instead, he empowers us to take back control with a simple approach: being more selective, positive, and creative with our lives online. The key is creating intentional and healthy social media habits, and personalizing our tech diet so we can enjoy a fruitful, balanced relationship with social media.
Guest Bio
Dr. Brian Primack is an award-winning expert who developed a multimillion-dollar research program focused on how media and technology influence health. He holds a BA from Yale, a master's in education from Harvard, an MD from Emory, and a PhD in behavioral science from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Primack is now dean of the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, where he also serves as a professor of public health and medicine. His work has been highlighted by the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Atlantic, Today, CBS News, the Washington Post, the BBC, NPR's All Things Considered and Here and Now, the Huffington Post, and many more.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: You Are What You Click: How Being Selective, Positive, and Creative Can Transform Your Social Media Experience https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-What-Click-Experience/dp/1797203649
The Social Dilemma: https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/
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Beyond the emotional experience of loss, researchers are now discovering what happens in our brain when we grieve. In her new book, The Grieving Brain, neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD, shares a fascinating scientific perspective on the universal experience of grief, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning. O’Connor has devoted decades to researching the effects of grief on the brain, and makes the cutting-edge neuroscience accessible so that we can better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace.
Guest Bio
Mary-Frances O'Connor is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss, and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab in investigating the effects of grief on the brain and the body. O’Connor earned a doctorate from the University of Arizona in 2004 and completed a fellowship at UCLA. Following a faculty appointment at UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, she returned to the University of Arizona in 2012. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, and Psychological Science, and featured in Newsweek, New York Times, and Washington Post.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss: https://www.amazon.com/Grieving-Brain-Surprising-Science-Learn/dp/0062946234
Guest’s website: https://www.maryfrancesoconnor.com/
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Here's a thought to consider: Challenges in life are constant, but struggle is optional. In her new book, The Awesome Human Project: Break Free from Daily Burnout, Struggle Less, and Thrive More in Work and Life, entrepreneur, speaker, and author Nataly Kogan explores the idea that while life certainly has its ups and downs, we can learn to move through it with more ease when we use the right tools. These include strengthening our emotional fitness skills and creating a more supportive relationship with ourselves in order to reduce self-doubt start to live, work, and lead with more energy, joy, and meaning, even during difficult times.
Guest Bio
Nataly Kogan is an entrepreneur, speaker, and author on a mission to help millions of people cultivate their happier skills by making simple, scientifically backed practices part of their daily life. Nataly immigrated to the US as a refugee from the former Soviet Union when she was 13 years old. Starting her life in the projects and on welfare, she went on to reach the highest levels of corporate success at companies like McKinsey & Company and Microsoft. When she still found herself unfulfilled, Nataly set out to discover what really leads to a fulfilling, happier life. Her explorations led her to create Happier, a company whose award-winning mobile application, online courses, and "Happier at Work" training programs have helped more than a million people improve their emotional health. Nataly is a sought-after keynote speaker and has appeared in hundreds of media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, TEDx Boston, SXSW, The Harvard Women's Leadership Conference, and The Dr. Oz Show. She is a self-taught abstract artist and a devoted yogi.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Awesome Human Project: Break Free from Daily Burnout, Struggle Less, and Thrive More in Work and Life
Guest’s website: https://natalykogan.com/
Mentioned in this episode:
The Untethered Soul:
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When Harvard-trained physician Dr. Annie Brewster was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, she realized firsthand that the medical system was failing her in one critical way: she didn’t feel seen or heard. Her doctors weren’t listening. This experience launched her onto a path to discover how exploring and sharing her healing journey, and becoming the author of her own story, taught her to integrate her traumatic health event into her new and evolving identity. Annie now uses applied storytelling techniques to help others strengthen connections and cultivate resilience to move forward amid uncertainty and fear.
Guest Bio
Annie Brewster, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, a writer, and a storyteller. She is also a patient, diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2001. She started recording patient narratives in 2010 and, integrating her personal experiences with the research supporting the health benefits of narrative, founded Health Story Collaborative (HSC) in 2013. Brewster lives in Cambridge with her husband, four children, and two dogs. She prefers to be awake rather than asleep, and loves to hike, run in the woods, ski, and play ice hockey. You can learn more about Brewster and HSC at www.healthstorycollaborative.org and @HealthStoryCo. Her new book, co-authored with journalist Rachel Zimmerman, is The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Power-Storytelling-Personal-Narrative/dp/1623176697
Guest’s website: www.healthstorycollaborative.org
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During a difficult time in her life, author Sheila Darcey found that the act of sketching and freestyle drawing—of giving a physical form to her thoughts, emotions and ideas—was an impactful way to process what she was feeling. Expression through the pen, she came to discover, can heal. In this episode, Sheila shares her journey and the process she calls SketchPoetic, a daily sketching practice with the power to become a powerful catalyst for transformation.
Guest Bio
Sheila Darcey has 20+ years of experience as a facilitator and consultant in the technology and digital agency space. Her work with Fortune 500 companies informs her understanding of what drives transformative growth in individuals and teams. She earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree from the University of Memphis and certification in Social Emotional Arts (SEA) from UCLA. The SEA certificate empowers educators, community arts professionals, mental health practitioners, and anyone interested in maximizing social-emotional benefits of arts experiences, and minimizing self-judgment and anxiety that can impede learning and growth. Learn more at https://www.sheiladarcey.com/.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Sketch by Sketch: A Creative Path to Emotional Healing and Transformation https://www.amazon.com/Sketch-Creative-Emotional-Transformation-SketchPoetic/dp/1250773873
Guest’s website: https://www.sheiladarcey.com/
Mentioned in this episode:
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard
https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Keys-Success-Long-Term-Fulfillment/dp/0452267560
Emotion Platform: https://emotionplatform.com/
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Friends are not just nice to have; they make us mentally and physiologically healthy, and they add contentment, meaning and joy to our lives. But not all friendships are created equally. In her new book, How to Break Up with Your Friends: Finding Meaning, Connection, and Boundaries in Modern Friendships, author Erin Falconer invites us to take stock of the friendships in our lives, not only to see which friendships may not be serving us but to also see ways to deeply commit to those that do.
Guest Bio
Erin Falconer is the editor in chief and co-owner of Pick the Brain, — one of the most popular and trusted self-improvement communities on the web — and co-host of the Pick the Brain Podcast. Pick the Brain has been named in over 100 “Best of the Web” lists, and Refinery29 named Erin one of the Top 10 Women Changing the Digital Landscape for Good. Erin is also the co-founder of LEAFtv, a video lifestyle brand for millennials, and is the author of How to Break Up with Your Friends: Finding Meaning, Connection, and Boundaries in Modern Friendships and How to Get Sht Done*, a productivity book for women. She has had a varied career that includes screenwriter stand-up comedian, political consultant, and is now proudly, heavily invested in the online blogging world.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s books: How to Break Up with Your Friends Finding Meaning, Connection, and Boundaries in Modern Friendships: https://www.amazon.com/How-Break-Your-Friends-Friendships/dp/1683648137
Guest’s website: https://erinfalconer.com/
Mentioned in this episode:
The All or Nothing Marriage by Eli J Finkel: https://www.amazon.com/All-Nothing-Marriage-Best-Marriages/dp/1101984341
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel: https://www.amazon.com/Mating-Captivity-Unlocking-Erotic-Intelligence/dp/0060753641
Esther Perel Podcast: https://www.estherperel.com/podcast
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Have you ever noticed that life can be going well—we’re feeling happy and successful—and then it slowly starts to slide? Could it be that we self-sabotage our progress whenever we start to expand beyond the level of contentment and achievement we’re used to having in the past? Gay Hendricks, author of several books, including The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level, explores the concept of having an “Upper Limit Problem” and how we can identify and transcend it to move beyond our limiting beliefs and set points.
Guest Bio
Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., has been a leader in the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies for more than 45 years. After earning his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford, Gay served as professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Colorado for 21 years. He has written more than 40 books, including bestsellers such as Five Wishes, The Big Leap and Conscious Loving (co-authored with his co-author and mate for more than 40 years, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks), both used as a primary text in universities around the world. In 2003, Gay co-founded The Spiritual Cinema Circle, which distributes inspirational movies and conscious entertainment to subscribers in 70+ countries. Gay has offered seminars worldwide and appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS and others. In addition to his work with The Hendricks Institute, Gay is currently continuing his new mystery series that began with The First Rule Of Ten.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s books: The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level https://www.amazon.com/Big-Leap-Conquer-Hidden-Level/dp/0061735361
Guest’s website: https://hendricks.com/
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We’ve got a brand-new year ahead of us. Forget New Year’s resolutions. Instead, consider what the year ahead would look if it was filled with everything that makes you happy, or as John Strelecky calls it, adding the most minutes of your life into your happy bank. The author of several books, including The Cafe on the Edge of the World, John shares his thoughts on how we can look ahead to 2022 with hope and optimism, but also with a solid strategy for creating more joy and fulfillment.
Guest Bio
John Strelecky is the #1 bestselling inspirational author of many books including; The Cafe on the Edge of the World, The Big Five for Life, The Big Five for Life - Continued, Life Safari, and Ahas!- Moments of Inspired Thought. His works have been translated into forty-three languages and sold more than 6 million copies worldwide. Through his writings and appearances on television and radio, John's messages have inspired millions of people to live life on their terms. He has been honored alongside Oprah Winfrey, Tony Robbins, and Deepak Chopra as one of the one hundred most inspirational thought leaders in the field of leadership and personal development. When he isn’t writing or speaking, John spends extensive time backpacking around the world. He has taken extended trips to Africa, the Amazon Basin, Yucatan Peninsula, South America, SE Asia, Europe and China. To learn more about John, visit johnstrelecky.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s books: https://www.amazon.com/John-Strelecky/e/B001IOBII0
Author’s website: https://www.johnstrelecky.com/
Greenlight by Matthew McConaughey: https://www.amazon.com/Greenlights-Matthew-McConaughey/dp/0593139135
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According to author Ian Morgan Cron, we each create a strategy in order to navigate our early years of life. However, at some point this strategy (or story) stops being helpful in our lives. Using the Enneagram, an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, Ian encourages us to rethink and rewrite our negative, outdated stories to ultimately become our true selves.
Guest Bio
Ian Morgan Cron is a master teacher of the Enneagram, the bestselling author of The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self and The Road Back to You, an Episcopal priest, and a trained psychotherapist. Cron hosts the popular podcast Typology and is a highly sought-after speaker for several conferences. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Anne.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self https://www.amazon.com/Story-You-Enneagram-Journey-Becoming/dp/006282581x
Author’s website: https://ianmorgancron.com/
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Description
We all will experience challenging people in our lives. Author Mark Westmoquette calls them troublesome Buddhas because we can see them as teachers or opportunities to grow. Using the teachings of mindfulness and Zen, we can begin to see ways to break free from knee-jerk response patterns and see if these people may prove to be useful teachers in life.
Guest Bio
Mark Westmoquette has a PhD in astrophysics, and is an ordained Zen monk and a yoga and mindfulness teacher. In 2019, he gave up his life of teaching courses and workshops in yoga, mindfulness and Zen to move with his wife to the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic for a two-year adventure that involved writing this book.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People: How to Learn from your Troublesome Buddhas https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Dealing-Difficult-People/dp/178678548
Author’s website: https://markwestmoquette.co.uk/
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Description
Hustle culture, this idea that we ought to make working, striving and achieving the centerpiece of our lives, might have deep roots these days but so too does the anti-hustle movement, which serves to value balance and rest as part of accomplishment. Author Matthew Turner sees the hustle has being deeply ingrained in modern society, exasperated like never before by technology and social media. But there is something beyond the toxic hustle mindset. The secret is intention.
Guest Bio
Matthew Turner is a British author who lives in a small town in Yorkshire, England. Having previously published three novels and a non-fiction business book, he wrote Beyond The Pale on the back of interviewing hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, authors, investors, and thought-leaders. Gaining a unique insight into areas such as mindset, flow, and personal development, and a developing a reputation for crafting compelling stories out of other peoples’ lives, Matthew builds relatable fables for those looking to live a meaningful and purpose-driven life. As well as writing for himself, Matthew ghostwrites both articles and books for other successful entrepreneurs and thought-leaders, in-between spending time with his two children.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Pale-Escaping-Finding-Yourself/dp/1631953842
Author’s website: https://beyondbook.co/
Thrive 2022: https://kristenmanieri.com/thrive2022/
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Description
Live deliberately. Actively engage in your personal evolution. Bring attention and intention to growing and becoming the best version of yourself. Be on your journey like it matters. This is what thriving looks like. We need thrive tribes so that we’re not growing in silos; we’re growing together. And that togetherness makes us feel nourished, challenged and, honestly, more alive.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Thrive 2022 (registration and details) https://kristenmanieri.com/thrive2022/
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When it comes to creating the lives we want, we’re often told that we need to focus on things like commitment, willpower, positive thinking or goal-setting. But Adele Spraggon, author of the book, SHIFT: 4 Steps to Personal Empowerment, thinks there’s actually somewhere else we should be paying attention, and that’s our mental patterns. Current brain research shows that our decisions are the result of decision-making patterns that were created early in life and yet they continue to set the direction of our lives. But these are only patterns and patterns can be changed.
Guest Bio
Adele Spraggon is an award -winning author, a thought leader, an international trainer and speaker. In 2020, she was awarded the Woman of Inspiration: Customer Experience Award, and in 2021, she was recognized as the Top Behavioral Expert of the Year by IAOTP: International Association of Top Professionals. Her book, Shift: 4 Steps to Personal Empowerment, has won three awards for its powerful message of inspiration and hope and is sweeping the globe, transforming how people are setting and achieving their goals.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: SHIFT: 4 Steps to Personal Empowerment:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0825FY149
Author’s website: https://www.adelespraggon.com/
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Description
If you want to feel more joy and aliveness in your life, cultivate wonder. Our ability to place our attention on all the beauty and magic around us is directly connected to how joyful, grateful and happy we feel. According to writer and artist Andrea Scher, author of Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy, all we need to find wonder and awe is an open heart and a clear intention. When we do, it has the power to renew our spirits and reclaim our inner happiness.
Guest Bio
Andrea Scher is an author, artist, photographer, and life coach. She’s had an award-winning blog called Superhero Journal since 2003 and has hosted the Creative Superheroes Podcast for two years. She’s a Facebook Live host for 1440 Multiversity. Andrea has co-authored a book called Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sister’s Guide to Shooting from the Heart, as well as authoring her own book, Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy, published in 2021. Her works centers around helping others create a life full of ease, joy, and deep connection.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-Seeker-Ways-Wake-Creativity/dp/006307382X
Author’s website: https://www.andreascher.com/
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Description
You are not your thoughts! This is the fundamental insight that weaves its way through Just a Thought: A No-Willpower Approach to Overcome Self-Doubt and Make Peace with Your Mind, a new book by life coach and psychologist Amy Johnson, PhD. Imagine we can learn to transcend unhelpful and noisy thoughts and focus our awareness onto something quieter and deeper. This is true peace of mind and its accessible to everyone.
Guest Bio
Amy Johnson, PhD is a psychologist, coach, author, and speaker who shares a groundbreaking new approach that helps people find lasting freedom from unwanted habits, anxiety, and self-doubt via insight rather than willpower. She is the author of Being Human, The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit, and Just a Thought: A No-Willpower Approach to End Self-Doubt and Make Peace with your Mind. In 2017 she opened The Little School of Big Change, an online school that has helped thousands of people find freedom from anxiety and habits and live a more peaceful life. Amy also shares the no-willpower approach in her top-rated podcast, Changeable, and she’s trained over 70 coaches in her Change Coach Training Program. She has been a regularly featured expert on The Steve Harvey Show and Oprah.com, as well as in The Wall Street Journal and Self magazine.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Just a Thought: A No-Willpower Approach to Overcome Self-Doubt and Make Peace with Your Mind https://www.amazon.com/Just-Thought-No-Willpower-Approach-Self-Doubt/dp/1684038189
Author’s website: https://dramyjohnson.com/
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Description
We carry a lot. Sometimes it’s worry or regret. Maybe we have unfinished projects or unresolved conflict weighing us down. Maybe it’s just clutter. Regardless, our thoughts take up space, especially when they seem to go unresolved, feel unsettled or cause us to ruminate for long periods of time without any productive action or resolution. This week I offer my thoughts on how to identify what may be taking up (too much) space in your mind, burdening you unnecessarily and robbing you of energy and creativity that would be best served elsewhere. Get clarity, let some things go, decide on a way forward, and get intentional about liberating yourself from whatever is weighing you down. Listen with a journal or piece of paper handy so you can do the work of exploring this topic and how it relates specifically to your life.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Learn more about and register for the FREE Wednesday Workshops here: https://kristenmanieri.com/wednesday-workshops/
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Description
We are each born with a sense of agency and the ability to rise up and become a force for good. But unless we’re effectively resourced, in part through self-care, we limit what we have to give to the world. In her new book, Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World, Shelly Tygielski sees self-care as truly a selfless act, and a way to expand our view of the “self” to include our family, community, human beings across the globe, and the natural world.
Guest Bio
Shelly Tygielski is the author of Sit Down to Rise Up and founder of the global grassroots mutual aid organization Pandemic of Love. Her work has been featured by over 100 media outlets, including CNN Heroes, The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS This Morning, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. A trauma-informed mindfulness teacher and a Garrison Institute Fellow, she has been called one of the “12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful.org and teaches self-care and resilience at organizations around the world. Visit her online at http://www.shellytygielski.com and http://www.pandemicoflove.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World: https://www.amazon.com/Sit-Down-Rise-Up-Self-Care/dp/1608687449
Author’s website: https://www.shellytygielski.com/
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Description
Is the life you are living based on logical reason and society’s expectations, or are you doing exactly what makes your heart beat a little faster with passion and enthusiasm? If you listened more intently to what your heart wants, what would you be doing? What are your dreams, and why aren’t you living them at the moment? These are the questions that author Kori Hahn explores in her new book, Rituals of the Soul: Using the 8 Ancient Principles of Yoga to Create a Modern & Meaningful Life. When we listen to the soul, and enable our bravest and best selves, we start to move to where we most want to be.
Guest Bio
Kori Hahn is the author of Rituals of the Soul and founder of a community gathering place called the Santosha Society, which is dedicated to travel, surfing, and the soulful. She hosts numerous trips around the world for hundreds of women who study Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, and all things related to soul growth, knowledge, and fulfillment. When she isn’t traveling, she divides her time between Sri Lanka and Southern California. Visit her online at www.SantoshaSociety.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Rituals of the Soul: Using the 8 Ancient Principles of Yoga to Create a Modern & Meaningful Life https://www.amazon.com/Rituals-Soul-Ancient-Principles-Meaningful/dp/160868752X
Author’s website: www.SantoshaSociety.com
Kori explains her life philosophy that is at the heart of her book: https://youtu.be/BB2Y0_gTljw
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Description
There is an inner wisdom in each of us when we take the time to look inside. Not only do we have the capacity to know and understand ourselves, but we can also steer ourselves, evolve, grow and change. This process all happens through self-awareness, which is a consciousness of self: our feelings, motives, desires, beliefs, tendencies, and thoughts, and all the ways we engage with the world around us.
Guest Bio
Beth Gibbs is a speaker, workshop leader, and certified yoga therapist with over twenty years-experience teaching and mentoring hundreds of yoga students, teachers and therapists from all over the world to implement the five-layer model of self-awareness in their professional work and personal practice. She created, developed, and implemented a curriculum for introducing the five-layer model of self-awareness to children in after school and summer camp programs. She is the author of Enlighten Up! Finding Clarity, Contentment and Resilience in a Complicated World.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Enlighten Up! Finding Clarity, Contentment and Resilience in a Complicated World https://www.amazon.com/Enlighten-Up-Contentment-Resilience-Complicated/dp/1945847344
Author’s website: https://www.bethgibbs.com/enlightenupbook.html
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Description
We think a lot about being happy and ways to achieve lasting happiness. In fact, research has found that we often see sadness as a weakness and that many of us are, in a way, afraid to be sad. But Helen Russell, author of How to Be Sad: Everything I've Learned About Getting Happier by Being Sad, sees value in sadness. Helen has researched sadness from the inside out for her entire life, discovering that the key to happiness is unhappiness. Turns out that when we allow ourselves to experience pain, we learn to truly appreciate and embrace joy.
Guest Bio
Helen Russell is a bestselling author, journalist and speaker. Her first book, The Year of Living Danishly, became an international bestseller and has been optioned for television. She is the author of four other critically acclaimed books, translated into 21 languages. Helen also writes for magazines and newspapers globally, including The Times and The Sunday Times, the Telegraph, the Independent, National Geographic, Wall Street Journal, the Observer, Metro, Grazia, Stylist and Stella. She’s spent the last eight years studying cultural approaches to emotions and now speaks about her work internationally. Learn more at helenrussell.co.uk.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: How to Be Sad: Everything I've Learned About Getting Happier by Being Sad https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Sad-Everything-Learned/dp/0063115352
Author’s website: https://www.helenrussell.co.uk/
Maori Haka (All Blacks) dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiKFYTFJ_kw
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Description
When we embark on a spiritual path, one that aims to have us understand life, ourselves and each other at a deeper level, we may start to see that we have a deep intelligence that offers a bigger perspective and wisdom. It’s something beyond our rational, logical and thinking mind. This is the higher self. Donna Bond, author of Original Wisdom: Harness the Power of the Authentic You, differentiates our Human Self—the one consumed with navigating day-to-day reality—from our Higher Self—which is the truest, wisest, calmest core of who we are. By integrating the wholeness of your Higher Self and your Human Self, you will transform your consciousness and empower your life from the inside out.
Guest Bio
Donna Bond is a Spiritual advisor, Business and Life coach, and author of Original Wisdom: Harness the Power of the Authentic You. She holds a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology with an emphasis on Consciousness, Health and Healing and invites everyone to reclaim their authentic power with her illuminating memoir of personal transformation. https://donnabond.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Original Wisdom: Harness the Power of the Authentic You https://bookshop.org/books/original-wisdom-harness-the-power-of-the-authentic-you-9781612449562/9781612449555
Author’s website: https://donnabond.com/
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To author and coach Becky Hall, finding a space between the poles of scarcity and excess is the challenge of our age. For decades, her work has aimed to help us each explore our own version of enough so that we can find the balance and boundaries we all need for ourselves and for our world. In her new book, The Art of Enough, she offers a practical guidebook designed to cultivate sufficiency and peace for healthy self-belief, work pace and sustainable living, so we can all move from striving to thriving.
Guest Bio
Becky Hall has worked as a leadership and life coach for over 20 years with individuals and teams in a wide range of organizations, specializing in building gravitas, presence and inner confidence. She has an English & Drama degree (London University), a master’s degree in Adult Learning (City University), and an advanced diploma in coaching and Fellowships of CIPD and the RSA. She is a registered senior practitioner with the EMCC (European Coaching regulator), a Heart Math accredited coach and part of the Coaching Constellations systemic coaching teaching faculty. Her book, Art of Enough: 7 ways to build a balanced life and a flourishing world, was released in September 2021.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Enough-build-balanced-flourishing/dp/1788602897
Author’s website: https://linktr.ee/beckyhall_artofenough
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Sleep impacts everything. In addition to being a foundational aspect of our wellbeing, it also underpins how we bring our best selves to the world. In essence, it contributes to our thriving and flourishing. And yet, we can so easily shortchange it with bad habits or in order to achieve more or do more. In her new book, Better Daily Sleep Habits: Simple Changes with Lifelong Impact, Renata Alexandre explores how to cultivate and safeguard great sleep in order to live a well and happy life.
Guest Bio
Renata Alexandre is the author of Better Daily Sleep Habits: Simple Changes with Lifelong Impact. She has a Masters in Sociology, a PhD in Health and Human Performance, and her Masters in Nursing. She has worked in Sleep Medicine since 2008 and now lives in Nashville, TN. The Sleep Workbook is her first book and reflects her love for sharing her knowledge about health issues.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Better Daily Sleep Habits: Simple Changes with Lifelong Impact https://www.amazon.com/Better-Daily-Sleep-Habits-Lifelong/dp/1648769772
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As a professional concert pianist, Jeeyoon Kim has built a career on the foundation of daily practice and unwavering persistence. Along the way, she’s learned how to transcend her feelings and whims in order to commit to her work. In her new book, Whenever You're Ready: How to Compose the Life of Your Dreams, Jeeyoon shares how success stems from disciplines, practices, and mindsets that we live out every day.
Jeeyoon’s book is about helping readers prepare themselves mentally, emotionally, and physically for their own performances…whether that’s landing a job, practicing for a speech or training for a marathon. She offers advice, encouragement, and practical exercises anyone can use to help us perform at our best and achieve our dreams.
Guest Bio
Award-winning classical pianist Jeeyoon Kim delights audiences with a sparkling combination of sensitive artistry, broad emotional range, impeccable technique, and innovative concert experiences. A native of South Korea, Jeeyoon has inspired a dedicated and passionate fan base from around the world. Today, between performances at venues like Carnegie Hall and the Chamber Music Society in San Francisco, Jeeyoon is an art activist, educator, podcaster, YouTuber, and award-winning performer who strives to connect with new audiences and help them discover the magic of classical music.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 140 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Whenever You're Ready: How to Compose the Life of Your Dreams
https://www.amazon.com/Whenever-Youre-Ready-Compose-Dreams/dp/1626348561/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1630553420&sr=8-2-spons
Guest’s website: https://www.jeeyoonkim.com/
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In our busy, high-stress lives, sometimes we all need to slow down, breathe, and just be. In her new book, A Moment for Me: 52 Simple Mindfulness Practices to Slow Down, Relieve Stress, and Nourish the Spirit, author Catherine Polan Orzech, MA, LMFT, offers simple, take-anywhere rituals to bring more ease and insight into our daily lives. We learn that self-care and space is less about setting aside time and more about being differently in what we are already doing.
Guest Bio
Catherine Polan Orzech, MA, LMFT, has worked in the field of mind body wellness for almost two decades and has taught Mindfulness since 2000. She’s is currently on faculty at Oregon Health Sciences University in the departments of Psychiatry and OBGYN. She has been on faculty at some of the country’s leading Mindfulness Institutes and continues to be a pioneer in the field of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion research. In addition to teaching Mindfulness-Based Interventions in clinical environments, educational facilities and in the community, she works with individuals and couples in the OHSU Center for Women’s Health Clinic and in her private therapy practice.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://www.corvallismindfulnesstherapy.org/
A Moment for Me: 52 Simple Mindfulness Practices to Slow Down, Relieve Stress, and Nourish the Spirit: https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Me-Mindfulness-Practices-Relieve/dp/168403518X
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Over worked, over connected and inundated with toxicity, many of us live a frantic, frazzled life with very little room for true wellness. Through her book, Clean Mind, Clean Body, author and wellness expert Tara Stiles offers a blueprint for how we can hit the reset button and fill our daily routines with transformative self-care habits. When we make the space for mental and spiritual detox, when we intentionally change the way we eat and move, we heal and thrive.
Guest Bio
ABOUT TARA:
Tara Stiles is a global yoga, movement and wellness expert, author and founder of Stråla Yoga. Named “Yoga Rebel” by the New York Times, Tara brings a revolutionary approach to being, moving and healing to inspire millions around the world with her relatable perspective to yoga, meditation, exercise, awareness, nutrition, and everyday well-being. Through her books - including her latest, “Clean Mind, Clean Body” - and both in person and online classes, Tara offers an important reset button, providing tools, guidance and immersive experiences in mental and physical self-care to transform daily routines and habits and ease into our wellness where we can truly feel and be our best selves. Her work has been used in a case study by Harvard University, she is a sought-after speaker on topics of entrepreneurship, health, and wellbeing, and she has lectured at venues that include Harvard and New York University.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.tarastiles.com/
Clean Mind, Clean Body: https://www.tarastiles.com/books
Episode 52: Foundations of Wellness with Dr. Linda Matteoli: https://kristenmanieri.com/2019/10/08/the-foundations-of-wellness/
Episode #58: The Science of You (Ayurveda) with Caryn O’Hara: https://kristenmanieri.com/2019/12/17/the-science-of-you-ayurveda/
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There’s something powerful that happens when we give up screens one day a week. In her book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, author and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain shares how her family have gained more time, productivity, connection, and presence by adopting the ancient ritual of Shabbat. Based on her own experience of taking a tech-free day, she humbly offers a blueprint for how we can become less available to the world and more connected to ourselves and the people we love.
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There’s something powerful that happens when we give up screens one day a week. In her book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, author and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain shares a blueprint for creating a tech-free day.
Guest Bio
Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, author of national bestselling book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award. She hosts a monthly #ZoomChallahBake and writes a newsletter called Breakfast @ Tiffany’s. For information on her book, baking, films, and her newsletter, visit tiffanyshlain.com and follow Tiffany on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://www.tiffanyshlain.com/
24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week: https://www.amazon.com/24-Power-Unplugging-One-Week/dp/1982116862
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Have you ever been walking home from work and unexpectedly took a different path just to learn more about your neighborhood? Or have you been on a vacation and walked around a new city just to take it all in? Then chances are, you’re a flaneur and you didn’t even know it! This week I welcome Erika Owen, the author of The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander with Intention and Discover a Better Life.
Guest Bio
Erika Owen is a Brooklyn-based travel writer, author, and self-proclaimed Iceland Enthusiast. She is the author of "The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander With Intention and Discover a Better Life," "Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History," and was a contributor to "Fodor's Essential Iceland" guidebook. Her work has previously been published in Travel + Leisure, Departures, and Vogue. You can also find her work online at GQ, Martha Stewart Living, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, and more. When she isn't writing or planning her next trip, you can find her wandering Brooklyn and soaking up the scenes.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://www.erikaraeowen.com/
The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander with Intention and Discover a Better Life:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Flaneuring-Wander-Intention-Discover/dp/1982133511/
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Mindful living can include formal meditation but it’s mostly about how we pay attention to life as it’s happening in the everyday moments of our everyday lives. In her new book, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living, renowned yogi meditation teacher Rebecca Pacheco offers insights and practices for how to live a more present, contemplative life. As we do, we create space for peace and calm, but also for our own mental, emotional, and spiritual grappling.
Guest Bio
Rebecca Pacheco is the author of Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living, to be published by HarperWave on August 3rd, and Do Your Om Thing, named one of the “top ten yoga and meditation books every yogi needs” by Yoga Journal and used in teacher training programs across the United States. Previously, she founded and wrote the popular blog Om Gal (2008-2015). She’s the creator of the Runner’s World Yoga Center as well as videos for Women’s Health magazine. She has appeared on NPR and The CBC, has been featured in Forbes, The Hindu (India), The Huffington Post, Reuters, and USA Today, and frequently contributes to the Boston Globe, covering a range of topics including mind-body health, the natural world, creative life, feminism, mindfulness, and parenting in the present. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Richmond and lives in Boston with her husband and daughter, where she enjoys stillness and movement in equal measure. You can connect with her @omgal.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 130 authors and thought-leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living https://bookshop.org/books/still-life-the-myths-and-magic-of-mindful-living/9780062937285
Guest’s website: https://rebeccapacheco.com/
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John V. Petrocelli, an experimental social psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University, thinks a lot about contaminated thinking and bad decision-making. In his new book, The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit, he looks at why we’re all susceptible to bullshit (sharing it and receiving it) and also the far-reaching consequences of toxic misinformation. With a little dose of skepticism, a commitment to truth seeking and John’s critical thinking defensive tactics, we can all become bullshit detectives.
Guest Bio
John V. Petrocelli is an experimental social psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University. His research examines the causes and consequences of BS and BSing in the way of better understanding and improving BS detection and disposal. Petrocelli’s research contributions also include attitudes and persuasion and the intersections of counterfactual thinking with learning, memory and decision making. His research has appeared in the top journals of his field including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Petrocelli also serves an Associate Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit https://bookshop.org/books/the-life-changing-science-of-detecting-bullshit/9781250271624
Guest’s website: http://petrocjv.sites.wfu.edu/
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The subconscious mind has enormous influence over the day-to-day living of our lives. We each have patterns that were formed at the very early stages of our lives, but these continue to still play out decades later, and not always in healthy ways. In her book, The Seven Gates: Seven Steps Beyond Self-Awareness, Frances Yahia explores a model for understanding why we attract patterns in our lives and how we can shift the subconscious to stop repeating unhealthy, subconscious patterns. The result is a way of living life consciously and authentically, being the truest version of ourselves.
Guest Bio
Frances Yahia is a mental health counselor, akashic records reader, archetypal astrologer, podcast host, author and college professor. She earned her Ph.D. in Mental Health Counseling from Barry University and has studied metaphysics for more than three decades. Having been born into a cult, and finally freeing herself and her children 33 years later; Frances is concerned that cults and other coercive spiritual groups/teachings/techniques are on the rise. The therapy model and techniques she uses are based on universal laws and are designed to liberate individuals and restore self-love, self-empowerment and self-worth. Her background in mental health counseling and metaphysics helped her create therapeutic models that help her clients gain personal insights and unlock the power of their own intuition by removing destructive subconscious programming. Dr. Frances Yahia serves clients nationally and internationally and her mission is to help everyone free themselves from any source of spiritual coercion.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Seven Gates: Seven Steps Beyond Self-Awareness
https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Gates-Steps-Beyond-Self-Awareness/dp/1528916123
Guest’s website: http://www.dryahia.com/new-books
Free Self-Awareness workbook: http://www.dryahia.com/workbooks
Mistress of the subconscious podcast: http://www.dryahia.com/podcast
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Most of us have asked the question: what am I going to be when I grow up? Richard Leider asks, WHO do you want to be when you grow up? In his new book, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging, he invites us to explore the difference between living a default life versus living a created life. The key is to deliberately choose to keep growing and to live life with curiosity and courage. The key is to live a life of purpose.
Guest Bio
Internationally bestselling author and coach, Richard J. Leider is founder of Inventure – The Purpose Company, where the mission is to help people to “unlock the power of purpose” and answer that question. He is ranked by Forbes as one the “Top 5” most respected coaches. Along the way, Richard has written eleven books including three best-sellers which have sold over one million copies. The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your Bags are considered classics in the personal growth field. His latest book, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? is a defining book on the power of purposeful aging. Widely viewed as a pioneer of the global purpose movement, his work has been featured in many media sources, and his PBS Special – “The Power of Purpose” – was viewed by millions of people. He has taken his purpose message to all 50 states, Canada, and four continents, and he has advised everyone from AARP to the National Football League to the U.S. State Department. During his career, Richard has addressed more than two million people worldwide in his speeches to corporate, association, and social service groups. He and his wife, Sally, live in the Minneapolis, MN area. Learn more at richardleider.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging Richard J. Leider and David Shapiro
Guest’s website: https://richardleider.com/books/
Formula for purpose:
G + P + V = C
Gifts + Passion + Values = Calling
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Mindfulness is a powerful tool for staying calm, centered, and steady―but it can be challenging to remember to stay mindful. Meditation is helpful, but real change happens when we can integrate mindfulness into the everyday living of our lives through habits. In this episode, I’m interviewed by my friend and fellow author, Erica Boucher, about my new book, Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simple Changes with Lifelong Impact, which comes out July 13, 2021.
Guest Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Host Bio
Erica Boucher is a yogi, author & educator with a background in human behavior and communication. She’s the author of Showing Up Naked, a book about self-love, emotional intelligence, relationships, and living the life you want to live. Erica is the creator and founder of Empath Yoga, a heart-centered yoga practice she’s shared with thousands of people across the world. She also leads yoga and travel retreats around the world and she’s the host of the All Ways Evolving podcast.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simple Changes with Lifelong Impact https://www.amazon.com/Better-Daily-Mindfulness-Habits-Lifelong/dp/1648769810
Guest’s website: https://kristenmanieri.com/
Free Daily Centering Practice Course: https://kristenmanieri.com/five-day-grounding-opt-in-page/
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Gay Hendricks, author of the new book, The Genius Zone, and the bestselling classic, The Big Leap, thinks a lot about how we thrive. For over four decades, he’s narrowed his focus on the life-altering practice of helping people reach their potential through discovering their Genius Zone. When we’re there, life feels filled with wonder, surprise, joy, meaning, fulfillment and curiosity. In essence, we thrive.
Guest Bio
Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., has been a leader in the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind therapies for more than 45 years. After earning his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford, Gay served as professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Colorado for 21 years. He has written more than 40 books, including bestsellers such as Five Wishes, The Big Leap and Conscious Loving (co-authored with his co-author and mate for more than 35 years, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks), both used as a primary text in universities around the world. In 2003, Gay co-founded The Spiritual Cinema Circle,which distributes inspirational movies and conscious entertainment to subscribers in 70+ countries. Gay has offered seminars worldwide and appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS and others. In addition to his work with The Hendricks Institute, Gay is currently continuing his new mystery series that began with The First Rule Of Ten.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simples Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity https://bookshop.org/books/the-genius-zone-the-breakthrough-process-to-end-negative-thinking-and-live-in-true-creativity/9781250246547
Gay’s mystery novels: Tenzing Norbu Mystery Series: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FJ79ZTM
Guest’s website: https://hendricks.com/
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Kristi Nelson, author of Wake Up Grateful and executive director of A Network for Grateful Living, thinks a lot about gratitude. To her, gratitude is about living a grateful way of life and cultivating a perspective of gratefulness that influences our entire approach to how we show up in life. With a ‘take nothing for granted’ commitment to living, Kristi invites us to explore what it means to treasure, savor, appreciate, cherish and celebrate our lives.
Guest Bio
Kristi Nelson is author of Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted and the Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living. She has spent her adult life immersed in the rewarding work of non-profit leadership, fundraising, and organizational development. In a wide variety of roles, she has helped to lead, fund, and strengthen organizations committed to progressive social and spiritual change. Kristi received her BA from UMass/Amherst, a graduate certificate in Business and Sociology from Boston College, and her Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) with a concentration in Leadership Studies, from Harvard University.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits (July 2021: Rockridge Press). She’s a certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted: https://bookshop.org/books/wake-up-grateful-the-transformative-practice-of-taking-nothing-for-granted/9781635862447
Guest’s website: https://gratefulness.org/kristi-nelson/
The Guesthouse by Rumi: https://gratefulness.org/resource/guest-house-rumi/
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If you’ve been trying to empty your mind during meditation, you may have experienced a lot of frustration and disappointment in your practice. In his book, Modern Meditations: 101 Ways to Slow Down & Connect to Spirit, author and meditation teacher Murray du Plessis encourages a different approach, seeing meditation as an inner adventure of discovery and an opportunity to develop a deeper, gentler relationship with ourselves on and off the meditation cushion.
Guest Bio
Murray du Plessis has studied and taught meditation for fifteen years, and he assisted the running of meditation centers in England, Burundi, Namibia, and South Africa. He has an MA in English education and is currently an assistant professor of English at Daegu University. He lives in South Korea.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher, and she is the author of Better Daily Mindfulness Habits: Simple Changes with Lifelong Impact (July 2021, Rockridge Press). She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s book: Modern Meditations: 101 Ways to Slow Down & Connect to Spirit: https://bookshop.org/books/modern-meditations-101-ways-to-slow-down-connect-to-spirit/9780738768359
Brahma Kumaris: https://www.brahmakumaris.org/
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Regina Louise is fierce. You’d have to be to have gotten through what she’s experienced in her lifetime. But she’s turned her adversity into fuel and turned the insights from her life experiences into wisdom. Along the way, she’s learned to live unapologetically and fearlessly. Through her book, Permission Granted, she’s inspiring others to do the same.
Guest Bio
Regina Louise is the author of Permission Granted: Kick-Ass Strategies to Bootstrap Your Way to Unconditional Self-Love. Her bestselling memoirs, Somebody’s Someone and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, were made into the award-winning Lifetime movie I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story, which was nominated for a 2020 NAACP Award for Best Director. A summa cum laude graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies with a master’s of fine arts degree, Regina is a Hoffman Process teacher, workshop facilitator, and motivational speaker who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her story has been featured in media outlets like NPR’s All Things Considered, Good Morning America, The CBS Early Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, and many more. Visit her online at IamReginaLouise.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.iamreginalouise.com/
Guest’s book: Permission Granted: Kick-Ass Strategies to Bootstrap Your Way to Unconditional Self-Love https://bookshop.org/books/permission-granted-kick-ass-strategies-to-bootstrap-your-way-to-unconditional-self-love/9781608687268
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Some people never stop learning. They are endlessly curious about the world and all the ways we can understand and experience it more fully. As someone who identifies as a lifelong learner, I’m interested and invested in ways to learn better and retain more. Turns out there is a ton of neuroscience and cognitive psychology research behind how to upgrade our learning. In their new book, Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything, Dr. Barbara Oakley and Olav Schewe unpack this research and deliver tangible strategies for becoming a better learner.
Guest Bio
Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE is a Professor of Engineering at Oakland University and Michigan’s Distinguished Professor of the Year for 2018; she is also Coursera’s inaugural Innovation Instructor.
Olav Schewe is the founder and CEO of Educas, an educational technology startup, that develops solutions to help students learn how to learn. He is also an educational consultant to one of the world’s largest educational tech companies, Kahoot.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://barbaraoakley.com/ https://www.olavschewe.com/
Free Learn Like a Pro Course: https://www.edx.org/new/course/learn-like-a-pro-science-based-tools-to-become-better-at-anything
Guest’s book: Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything https://bookshop.org/books/learn-like-a-pro-science-based-tools-to-become-better-at-anything/9781250799371
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When we’re not really thinking about it, we might define kindness as being nice, polite and agreeable. But Bruce Reyes-Chow, author of In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World, looks a few layers deeper. To Bruce, kindness is a decision to use every interaction as an opportunity build up the people in our lives. Kindness takes courage, practice and, at times, herculean restraint, but it’s our pathway to healing, wholeness, and hope in ourselves and the world. It’s an adventure of discovery and rediscovery of kindness of heart, mind, spirit, and action.
Guest Bio
Bruce Reyes-Chow is a kindness enthusiast. A Presbyterian pastor, leadership coach, spouse of 30 years, and parent to three children, he has spent the past 25 years working with individuals and organizations helping them to work through conflict and change having to do with technology, race, relationships, religion, leadership, and change. He has seen most breakthroughs when kindness—the ability to see the humanity of the other and then behave in a way that honors that belief—is embraced, embodied, and expressed by all involved. Author of and contributor to books such as, But I Don’t See You as Asian: Curating Conversations About Race, Rule #2: Don’t Be an Asshat: An Official Handbook for Raising Parents and Children, and 40 Days, 40 Prayers, 40 Words: Lenten Reflections for Everyday Life, he now takes on what seems a most daunting task in today’s world of so much physical violence, dehumanizing rhetoric, and divisive rage-tweeting—the defense of kindness.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://reyes-chow.com/
Guest’s book: In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World https://bookshop.org/books/in-defense-of-kindness-why-it-matters-how-it-changes-our-lives-and-how-it-can-save-the-world/9780827216761
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These days, disengaging, even briefly, is seen by many as self-indulgent and unproductive. Yet creating space for solitude, reflection and deliberate restoration and rejuvenation is a basic human need. Everyone can benefit, whether it’s for a weekend, a month, or a lifetime. Through her book, In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World, author Kirsteen MacLeod takes readers on an engaging and inspiring journey into our modern ways of retreating ― where we go, why we’re drawn, and how it’s urgent. Included is a historical perspective of retreating, but also Kirsteen’s own personal experience on retreats, from pilgrim paths to forest cabins, rented hermitages to arts temples and quiet havens for yoga and meditation.
Guest Bio
Kirsteen MacLeod is a writer and yoga teacher. Her debut collection of short stories, The Animal Game, was published in 2016. Her fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction have appeared in prominent literary journals, including The New Quarterly and The Malahat Review; scores of her articles have been featured in leading Canadian magazines; and her work has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Award in creative non-fiction, among other awards. She divides her time between Kingston, Ontario, and a riverside cabin in the woods near Bancroft.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.kirsteenmacleod.ca/
Guest’s book: In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World https://bookshop.org/books/in-praise-of-retreat-finding-sanctuary-in-the-modern-world/9781770414730
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Becoming a mother is a joyful rite of passage, but it can also bring overwhelming emotional upheaval, exhaustion, and self-doubt. And is it any wonder? Motherhood changes everything, right down to a woman’s brain chemistry. In her new book, Mom Brain: Proven Strategies to Fight the Anxiety, Guilt, and Overwhelming Emotions of Motherhood--And Relax Into Your New Self, Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco, Ph.D (mother of two) offers a compassionate, science-based psychological strategy for helping moms cope with common challenges and make peace with their transformed identity.
Guest Bio
Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco, Ph.D. is a NJ and NY State licensed clinical psychologist and writer
specializing in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety and stress, with a sub-specialty in working with mothers of young children. She is the Founder/Director of the North Jersey Center for Anxiety and Stress Management in Summit, NJ and a Diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She was previously an Assistant Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. She earned a B.A. in psychology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Rutgers University. Dr. Dobrow DiMarco’s writing on maternal stress and anxiety has been featured in Motherwell, Motherly, Pop Sugar Moms, Psychology Today, Scary Mommy, The Week, and Today Parenting, as well as on her own blog, DrCBTmom.com. She is the author of Mom Brain: Proven Strategies to Fight the Anxiety, Guilt, and Overwhelming Emotions of Motherhood--And Relax Into Your New Self, to be published by Guilford Press in May 2021.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://drcbtmom.com/
Guest’s book: Mom Brain: Proven Strategies to Fight the Anxiety, Guilt, and Overwhelming Emotions of Motherhood--And Relax Into Your New Self https://bookshop.org/books/mom-brain-proven-strategies-to-fight-the-anxiety-guilt-and-overwhelming-emotions-of-motherhood-and-relax-into-your-new-self-9781462543212/9781462540266
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Neuroimaging clearly shows that the female brain has many unique strengths. Whether it’s related to decision-making, leadership or relationships, the female brain has exceptional competencies. And yet, women often believe disempowering myths about themselves. In her new book, Think Like a Girl: 10 Unique Strengths of a Woman's Brain and How to Make Them Work for You, award-winning psychologist, professor, and TEDx speaker Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway invites us to dispel the myths and stop underestimating our abilities and stunting our successes.
Guest Bio
Tracy Packiam Alloway, PhD, is an award-winning psychologist, professor, author, and TEDx speaker. She has published fifteen books and over one hundred scientific articles on the brain and memory. Dr. Alloway shares her insights about the brain with Fortune 500 companies, and her research has been used in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Bloomberg. As a teaching professor and in her private psychology practice based in Jacksonville, Florida, Dr. Alloway helps many women learn how to use their uniquely female brains to live their best lives.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.tracyalloway.com/
Guest’s book: Think Like a Girl: 10 Unique Strengths of a Woman's Brain and How to Make Them Work for You https://bookshop.org/books/think-like-a-girl-10-unique-strengths-of-a-woman-s-brain-and-how-to-make-them-work-for-you/9780310361206
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Description
Growing takes work. When we choose to take on our personal evolution with intention but also effort, that’s when we start to truly grow, stretch and strengthen ourselves. In The Full Spirit Workout, author Kate Eckman draws from her multifaceted training (as an athlete, executive leadership coach and meditation teacher) to present daily mind-body-spirit exercises and neuroscience-based practices that keep us engaged in our growth and moving toward our goals.
Guest Bio
Kate Eckman is the author of The Full Spirit Workout and a Columbia University–certified executive leadership coach. She leverages her experience as a well-known communications, performance, and mindfulness expert, accomplished entrepreneur, and elite athlete to equip leaders with the tools, methodology, and energetic boost they need to excel. Kate’s work is rooted in neuroscience, positive psychology, and whole-person coaching techniques. Passionate about mindfulness practices for both brain and body health, Kate is a meditation teacher and course creator for Insight Timer, the world’s number-one ranked free meditation app.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://kateeckman.tv/
Guest’s book: The Full Spirit Workout: A Ten-Step System to Shed Your Self-Doubt, Strengthen Your Spiritual Core, and Create a Fun and Fulfilling Life https://bookshop.org/books/the-full-spirit-workout-a-ten-step-system-to-shed-your-self-doubt-strengthen-your-spiritual-core-and-create-a-fun-and-fulfilling-life/9781608687213
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Creativity is not limited to artists. In fact, every human being is creative, and having a regular creative practice is a vital key to a happy and fulfilling life. But, if we don't exercise our creativity regularly, our lives can feel dull, stagnant, and colorless. In his powerful book, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life, author and creative coach Jacob Nordby offers creativity as a pathway to joy and self-discovery, and a way to reinvigorate the soul.
Guest Bio
Jacob Nordby is a writer, creative coach, and teacher of the popular online course Creative UnBootcamp. He is the author of Blessed Are the Weird: A Manifesto for Creatives, and the founder of the Blessed Are the Weird Facebook community page, which has over 100,000 highly engaged followers. Visit him at jacobnordby.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: jacobnordby.com
Guest’s book: The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life
Three Questions for Journaling:
- How do I feel?
- What do I need?
- What would I love?
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When we’re not paying attention, listening is something we mostly do on autopilot. We hear people but we’re often missing crucial opportunities to go deeper and create authentic, lasting connections. In her book, Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection, Ximena Vengoechea shares tried-and-true strategies and techniques for not only improving listening and building rapport, but for discovering who people truly are at their core. Honed in her own research sessions and drawn from interviews, Ximena offers a warm, funny and immensely practical approach to learning to listen with intention and attention.
Guest Bio
Ximena Vengoechea is a user researcher, writer, and illustrator whose work on personal and professional development has been published in Inc., The Washington post, Newsweek, and Huffington Post. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Listen Like You Mean it: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection. She is a contributor at Fast Company and The Muse, and writes Letters from Ximena, a newsletter on tech, culture, career, and creativity. She is best known for her project The Life Audit. An experienced manager, mentor, and researcher in the tech industry, she previously worked at Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.ximenavengoechea.com/
Guest’s book: Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection: https://bookshop.org/books/listen-like-you-mean-it-reclaiming-the-lost-art-of-true-connection/9780593087053
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“You are normal; it is the world around you that’s broken” writes Emily Nagoski in her New York Times bestselling book, Come As You Are (The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life). Using a research-based approach to understanding female sexuality, Emily aims to help women embrace and celebrate their bodies and sexual response mechanisms in a world that urges them to judge and second-guess themselves. Her approach to women’s sexuality is a transformative pathway to better sex and wellbeing.
Guest Bio
Emily Nagoski is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling Come As You Are and The Come As You Are Workbook, and coauthor, with her sister, Amelia, of New York Times bestseller Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. She earned an M.S. in counseling and a Ph.D. in health behavior, both from Indiana University, with clinical and research training at the Kinsey Institute. Now she combines sex education and stress education to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies. She lives in Massachusetts with two dogs, a cat, and a cartoonist. https://www.emilynagoski.com/
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.emilynagoski.com/
Guest’s book: Come as You Are (The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life): https://www.amazon.com/Come-You-Are-Surprising-Transform/dp/1476762090
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle: https://www.amazon.com/Burnout-Secret-Unlocking-Stress-Cycle/dp/1984818325
Emily’s romance novels: https://www.emilynagoski.com/home
Mind Over Medicine - REVISED EDITION: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Medicine-Scientific-Yourself/dp/1401959881
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In many ways, we are a head-centered species. But the trouble with being so caught up in our minds is that we neglect to tap into our intuition and deep inner guidance system, which live in the body. The body is also where we feel our innate vibrancy, aliveness and wisdom. In her book, Becoming an Empowered Empath: How to Clear Energy, Set Boundaries & Embody Your Intuition, author Wendy De Rosa helps us become more embodied, grounded and present.
Guest Bio
Wendy De Rosa is an international intuitive energy healer, speaker, and teacher. For over two decades she has offered education and training programs for spiritual and personal growth, empowering thousands of empaths to joyfully experience their gifts. The founder of the School of Intuitive Studies, she lives in Longmont, Colorado.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://schoolofintuitivestudies.com/
Guest’s book: Becoming an Empowered Empath: How to Clear Energy, Set Boundaries & Embody Your Intuition: https://bookshop.org/books/becoming-an-empowered-empath-how-to-clear-energy-set-boundaries-embody-your-intuition/9781608687190
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Description
The global pandemic has brought heartache and sadness, but it’s also given us opportunities to think more deeply about how we live our lives and to learn and grow from adversity. Through her book, It Is What It Is: Universal And Everlasting Lessons From Lockdown, Marie-Claire Donnelly shares her experience of using lockdown to go deep within and find the silver lining in such an unexpected situation. Along the way, she reconnects with the importance of faith, self-acceptance, and ultimately, self-love.
Guest Bio
Marie-Claire is the author of It Is What It Is which details the many valuable lessons she learnt during lockdown. Lessons of acceptance, forgiveness, love and hope. The book outlines the toolkit which she has accumulated over the last 20 years of studying personal development and how this toolkit helped her navigate the storm of a global pandemic. It is additionally about her deep faith in God and how this faith has helped her overcome so much. Marie-Claire is also the creator of Dream Magic Superfood Powders, a Quantum Energy Coach and runs Dream Fitness with her sister Joanna. She is super passionate about all things related to improving Health, Fitness and Mental Wellbeing and loves helping her clients to look and feel their best - mentally and physically.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.instagram.com/coachingbymc/
Author’s book: It Is What It Is: Universal And Everlasting Lessons From Lockdown https://bookshop.org/books/it-is-what-it-is-universal-and-everlasting-lessons-from-lockdown/9781913479794
Daily Centering Practice Guide & 28-Day Workbook: https://kristenmanieri.com/product/practice-guide-28-day-workbook/
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Description
There is an invisible labor in life that we rarely notice or address. Whether it’s forms at a doctor’s office, scheduling travel, asking for a refund, coordinating school activities, or planning weddings, funerals or births, we all face an onslaught of paperwork and life admin that just comes with everyday living. Through her book, The Art of Life Admin, Elizabeth Emens aims to help us do less, do better and live more.
Guest Bio
Elizabeth Emens is an Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she is the Director of the Mindfulness Program and Co-Chair of the Davis Polk Leadership Initiative. In recent years, she has been writing about the office work of life—“life admin”—and examining the burdens and inequities that surround this invisible labor that afflicts us all. Her first book, The Art of Life Admin: How To Do Less, Do It Better, and Live More helps us see this labor, understand it, and figure out what to do with it—individually and collectively. Her teacher training in mindfulness has been through the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, the Mindful Schools program, and, most recently, the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. She earned her J.D. from Yale University; her Ph.D. from King's College, Cambridge, where she was a Marshall Scholar; and her B.A. from Yale University. In addition to her academic writing, Emens writes a blog for Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-admin). Learn more at www.elizabethemens.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.elizabethemens.com/
Author’s book: https://www.elizabethemens.com/home
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Description
There are people who seem to go after their dreams with relentless tenacity. This week’s guest is one of these people. A world traveler and bestselling author, John Strelecky walked away from his corporate job nearly two decades ago and has never looked back. Along the way, he’s learned a few things about how to win at this game of life, including overcoming fear and getting comfortable with uncertainty, having a clear vision and finding flow with life. He shares these insights in his books, but also in this week’s episode.
Guest Bio
John Strelecky is a #1 bestselling inspirational author. His books have been translated into over forty-two languages and sold more than six million copies worldwide. They have won bestseller of the year awards five times and collectively spent more than eight hundred weeks on bestseller lists, including more than two hundred and fifty weeks in the #1 spot. John’s entry into the world of writing began following a life changing experience when he was thirty-three years old. From that, he was inspired to sit down and tell the story shared in his first book - The Cafe on the Edge of the World. Within a year after its release, word of mouth support from readers had spread that book across the globe - inspiring people on every continent, including Antarctica. It has been a #1 Bestseller in multiple countries. John went on to write many other books including two sequels to “The Cafe on the Edge of the World”, the “Big Five for Life” series of books, and more. When he isn’t writing, John is often outdoors in his kayak, riding a surfboard, playing beach volleyball, or traveling the world with his family. Their longest adventure was a year-long backpacking trip to see animals in the wilds of Africa, Malaysia and Australia.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.johnstrelecky.com/
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Description
Feeling good is something we all deserve. In fact, joy is an essential part of our well-being. This week, we welcome to the podcast Angie Byrd, who works with women to reawaken their innate wellspring of vibrancy through pleasure. Joy and delight are not luxuries but an integral part of living. This week's episode is all about how we can learn to savor, delight and rejoice in everyday pleasures.
Guest Bio
Angie Byrd has built a career partnering with women who are looking to create extraordinary results in their lives. Angie created Wild Studio as a place where women are liberated from outdated programming around power, pleasure, sensuality, and sex. At Wild Studio, inspiring women to Turn ON is the priority. After all, a turned-on woman is the most powerful being on the planet. Wild Studio provides empowering education to women in the areas of wisdom, wellness, and pleasure through free resources, group coaching programs, intensive individual coaching, personal retreats, a vibrant community, and live group experiences. Learn more at www.ourwildstudio.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: www.ourwildstudio.com
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Description
Thanks to counting calories, food fads and restrictive diets, food can become a chore, even a source of stress. In a way, the science of eating has sucked the joy out of mealtime. This week’s guest wants us to return to the art of eating. The author of Mastering Mindful Eating, registered dietitian Michelle Babb suggests we say goodbye to dieting and instead embrace a new approach, one where we mindfully savor our food and make eating a sacred ritual.
Guest Bio
Michelle Babb, MS, RD, CD, is a registered dietitian and holds a Master's degree in nutrition from Bastyr University. She provides clients with the tools they need to achieve optimal health through nutrition education, creative fitness, and emotional balance. Her special training in functional medicine gives her a unique, holistic perspective that helps her create customized nutritional therapies that empower clients to heal themselves. Michelle has also trained at the Center for Mind Body Medicine, which has given her a variety of tools to help people change their relationship with food and become intelligent, intuitive eaters. Her anti-diet approach ensures success to those who want to lose weight, manage blood sugar and lower cholesterol. Michelle has a passion for cooking and showing people how to make healthy eating fun and delicious. Learn more at
https://eatplaybe.com/.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://eatplaybe.com/
Guest’s book: https://eatplaybe.com/books/
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For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode117/
Description
Intuition is a universal skill, but not all of us have learned to develop, strengthen and nurture it. “Your intuition speaks to you every day; all you need to do is learn to understand it,” writes author Kim Chestney in her new book, Radical Intuition: A Revolutionary Guide to Using Your Inner Power. When we move beyond the limits of our thinking mind and tap into an inner wisdom beyond our intellect and reason, we have the opportunity to expand our consciousness and understand the world like never before.
Guest Bio
Kim Chestney is the author of Radical Intuition. A globally recognized innovation leader and the founder of Intuition Lab, her work has been featured or supported by leading-edge organizations including SXSW Interactive, Carnegie Mellon University, Comcast, and Hewlett-Packard. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Visit her online at http://www.KimChestney.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://www.KimChestney.com.
Guest’s book: https://www.kimchestney.com/books-by-kim-chestney
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For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode116/
Description
Our culture tends to prioritize doing well over being well. But the truth is, we can have both — success and well-being. The new book, Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being, gives readers a method for mastering mindfulness, managing stress, building resilience, and being a leader in our own well-being journey. Author Naz Beheshti joins us this week to share her insights for living your best life in a holistic, grounded way.
Guest Bio
Naz Beheshti is the author of Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being. She is an executive wellness coach, speaker, Forbes contributor, and CEO and founder of Prananaz, a company that provides corporate wellness solutions for improving leadership effectiveness, employee engagement and well-being, and company culture. Clients include Nike, JPMorgan Chase, Omega Institute, UCSF, Columbia University, and Stanford University. Naz also cofounded Rise2Shine, a nonprofit helping to alleviate the suffering of young children in Haiti. She lives in New York City. Learn more at www.NazBeheshti.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://nazbeheshti.com/
Guest’s book: Pause. Breathe. Choose.: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being: https://bookshop.org/books/pause-breathe-choose-become-the-ceo-of-your-well-being-9781713587422/9781608687237
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For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode115/
Description
Our growth is an infinite process of discovery, uncovering and, as this week’s guest calls it, unfolding. When we give ourselves permission to become the fullest expression of who we are, we learn that we can continuously find new layers and depths to ourselves. This week I’m joined by Laura Campbell, a recognized author, speaker, and trainer who believes that when we journey through this life in the loving witness of a supportive tribe, we can expand our growth edges.
Guest Bio
Laura Campbell is a recognized author, speaker, and trainer whose strengths lie in relationship building, communication and developing high performing talent; her passion is coaching, training and mentoring where she can truly make a difference, bringing these oft-sought out skills to others who need it. Laura works with women to reconnect to who they are and supports them to become who they are meant to be. In addition to her private practice as a strategist, she is also a Senior Partner and VP of Strategic Partnerships for InspireCorps, an Inspiration Strategy firm specializing in how inspiration can be used to innovation, company growth and performance for leaders, teams and organizations. Her credentials include an BBA in Finance from the George Washington University, an MBA in Strategic Planning from New York University Stern School of Business, and Human Resource Management Certification from Cornell University. She is also a Certified Life and Executive Coach, which means she has passed a stringent set of standards, qualifications, and ethical behavior to be a professionally certified coach. Her writing can be found on The Huffington Post, Medium and is the author of “The Ultimate Divorce Organizer: The Complete Interactive Guide to Achieving the Best Legal, Financial and Emotional Divorce.”
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://laurawcampbell.com/
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For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode114/
Description
Rituals matter. The way we bring ourselves to our work and our relationships has an impact. In her book, Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines Into Workplace Magic, Erica Keswin explores how we can turn things we do over and over again into opportunities to create deep connection and purpose for our work and home lives. Rituals have the power to cultivate a deep sense of belonging and, when used intentionally, to create stronger teams, families and communities.
Guest Bio
Erica Keswin is an expert in the business of working human. She helps top-of-the-class businesses, organizations, and individuals improve their performance by honoring relationships in every context, always with an eye toward high-tech for human touch. She was named one of Marshall Goldsmith’s Top 100 Coaches in 2020, as well as one of Business Insider’s most innovative coaches of 2020. Her book, Bring Your Human to Work: 10 Sure-Fire Ways to Design a Workplace That’s Good for People, Great for Business and Just Might Change the World (2018 McGraw-Hill) was an immediate Wall Street Journal bestseller. Her next book, Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines Into Workplace Magic will be published by McGraw-Hill in January, 2021.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://ericakeswin.com/
Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines into Workplace Magic 1st Edition by Erica Keswin: https://bookshop.org/books/rituals-roadmap-the-human-way-to-transform-everyday-routines-into-workplace-magic/9781260461893
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For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode113/
Description
Parents today face extreme pressure to get everything exactly right, which can make parenting feel so stressful. In her book, The ''Perfect'' Parent: 5 Tools for Using Your Inner Perfection to Connect with Your Kids, author Roma Khetarpal offers new clarity and a parenting approach that’s rooted in using our inner parenting perfection to nurture a strong, communicative connection with our kids. Drawing from the fields of personal growth and emotional intelligence and distilling cutting-edge scientific research, Khetarpal helps parents strengthen their bond with their kids and enjoy the ride along the way.
Guest Bio
Roma Khetarpal is a Trained Mindfulness Facilitator through the UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and is a member of IMTA (International Mindfulness Teachers Association). She is the author of The “Perfect” Parent: 5 Tools for Using Your Inner Perfection to Connect with Your Kids and the founder/ CEO of Tools of Growth, through which she helps parents raise kids to “Be Happy, Think Positive, and Do Good.” The book is the recipient of the Silver Nautilus Book Award, the National Parenting Publications Award (NAPPA) Gold Award, as well as the Parents’ Choice Award and the Mom’s Choice Gold Award. Roma is a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and is a frequent contributor to parenting and other blogs.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://toolsofgrowth.com/
The ''Perfect'' Parent: 5 Tools for Using Your Inner Perfection to Connect with Your Kids: https://toolsofgrowth.com/book/
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Description
Author Erica Boucher believes your relationship with others, and with life itself, is only as good as, and as honest as, your relationship with yourself. By peeling away our layers, and embarking on a very gentle journey back home to ourselves, we not only get to know who we are but we also begin to consciously and intentionally create the life we’re meant to live.
Guest Bio
Erica Boucher is a yogi, author & educator with a background in human behavior and communication. She’s the author of Showing Up Naked, a book about self-love, emotional intelligence, relationships, and living the life you want to live. Erica is the creator and founder of Empath Yoga, a heart-centered yoga practice she’s shared with thousands of people across the world. She also leads yoga and travel retreats around the world and is the host of the All Ways Evolving podcast.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.ericaboucher.com/
Showing Up Naked by Erica Boucher: https://bookshop.org/books/showing-up-naked-revised/9780984908103
The All Ways Evolving podcast: https://www.ericaboucher.com/podcast
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For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode111/
Description
In our busy, high-stress lives, sometimes we all need to slow down, breathe, and just be. In her new book, A Moment for Me: 52 Simple Mindfulness Practices to Slow Down, Relieve Stress, and Nourish the Spirit, author Catherine Polan Orzech, MA, LMFT, offers simple, take-anywhere rituals to bring more ease and insight into our daily lives. We learn that self-care and space is less about setting aside time and more about being differently in what we are already doing.
Guest Bio
Catherine Polan Orzech, MA, LMFT, has worked in the field of mind body wellness for almost two decades and has taught Mindfulness since 2000. She’s is currently on faculty at Oregon Health Sciences University in the departments of Psychiatry and OBGYN. She has been on faculty at some of the country’s leading Mindfulness Institutes and continues to be a pioneer in the field of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion research. In addition to teaching Mindfulness-Based Interventions in clinical environments, educational facilities and in the community, she works with individuals and couples in the OHSU Center for Women’s Health Clinic and in her private therapy practice.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://www.corvallismindfulnesstherapy.org/
A Moment for Me: 52 Simple Mindfulness Practices to Slow Down, Relieve Stress, and Nourish the Spirit: https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Me-Mindfulness-Practices-Relieve/dp/168403518X
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For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode110/
Description
Over worked, over-connected and inundated with toxicity, many of us live a frantic, frazzled life with very little room for true wellness. Through her book, Clean Mind, Clean Body, author and wellness expert Tara Stiles offers a blueprint for how we can hit the reset button and fill our daily routines with transformative self-care habits. When we make the space for mental and spiritual detox, when we intentionally change the way we eat and move, we heal and thrive.
Guest Bio
Tara Stiles is a global yoga, movement and wellness expert, author and founder of Stråla Yoga. Named “Yoga Rebel” by the New York Times, Tara brings a revolutionary approach to being, moving and healing to inspire millions around the world with her relatable perspective to yoga, meditation, exercise, awareness, nutrition, and everyday well-being. Through her books - including her latest, “Clean Mind, Clean Body” - and both in person and online classes, Tara offers an important reset button, providing tools, guidance and immersive experiences in mental and physical self-care to transform daily routines and habits and ease into our wellness where we can truly feel and be our best selves. Her work has been used in a case study by Harvard University, she is a sought-after speaker on topics of entrepreneurship, health, and wellbeing, and she has lectured at venues that include Harvard and New York University.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.tarastiles.com/
Clean Mind, Clean Body: https://www.tarastiles.com/books
Episode 52: Foundations of Wellness with Dr. Linda Matteoli: https://kristenmanieri.com/2019/10/08/the-foundations-of-wellness/
Episode #58: The Science of You (Ayurveda) with Caryn O’Hara: https://kristenmanieri.com/2019/12/17/the-science-of-you-ayurveda/
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For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode109/
Description
A foundation of adopting a more sustainable and earth-friendly lifestyle, and fighting climate change, is a commitment to reducing how much waste we each produce. Rebecca Grace Andrews, author of How to Go (Almost) Zero Waste: Over 150 Steps to More Sustainable Living at Home, School, Work and Beyond, shares that the key to change is taking small, manageable steps instead of quantum leaps.
Guest Bio
Rebecca Grace Andrews, MA, has graduate degrees in both herbal medicine and eco-psychology and is on a lifelong mission to reduce waste to help heal the earth and her inhabitants. She also offers consultations and online classes in sustainability through her business Wild Wellness. Learn more about her mission at RebeccaGraceAndrews.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://www.rebeccagraceandrews.com/
How to Go (Almost) Zero Waste: Over 150 Steps to More Sustainable Living at Home, School, Work, and Beyond: https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-go-almost-zero-waste-over-150-steps-to-more-sustainable-living-at-home-school-work-and-beyond/9781647398682
Sign up for Rebecca's Six Weeks of Sustainability Course here: www.rebeccagraceandrews.com/6-wks-of-sustainability.html. The fee, if you sign up before 12/25/20, is $35.
Project 333: The Minimalist Fashion Challenge That Proves Less Really Is So Much More: https://bookshop.org/books/project-333-the-minimalist-fashion-challenge-that-proves-less-really-is-so-much-more/9780525541455
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Great sex is mindful sex. When we meet the fullness of a moment with our attention and focus, rather than trying to get somewhere or worrying about whether we're doing something right, so much richness greets us. But we get stuck in mindless sex. After the initial chemical cocktail of arousal and attraction wears off, as it inevitably does, most couples end up feeling disappointed and disenchanted. In Maci Daye’s new book, Passion and Presence: A Couple's Guide to Awakened Intimacy and Mindful Sex, we find a pathway to re-enchantment.
Guest Bio
Maci Daye is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Certified Therapist and Trainer of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy. As a sex therapist, her focus is on helping couples deepen their erotic connection mindfully. Maci has been leading Passion & Presence® couples retreats and professional workshops in the USA, Europe, Israel, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand since 2010. A frequent conference presenter, Maci has graduate degrees from Harvard University and Georgia State University and a doctorate in Human Sexuality from the Parkmore Institute. She also completed the Level 2 Somatic Experiencing trauma training developed by Peter Levine. To learn more about her live and online programs or to contact Maci, visit passionandpresence.com.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.passionandpresence.com/
Passion and Presence: A Couple's Guide to Awakened Intimacy and Mindful Sex: https://bookshop.org/books/passion-and-presence-a-couple-s-guide-to-awakened-intimacy-and-mindful-sex/9781611808131
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Our moods come and go but also form patterns that can become fairly automated and unconscious. Five years ago, Lauren Martin was sure something was wrong with her. Life was good but every day she wrestled with an emotional roller coaster that often left her irritable, frustrated and disappointed in herself. Lauren set off on a journey to better understand moodiness, the hold it had on her and how she could turn her moods around faster and faster. The result is her new book, The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life.
Guest Bio
Lauren Martin is a Philadelphia-based writer. Before publishing her book, The Book of Moods, Lauren was the head lifestyle writer for Elite Daily and contributing writer for Elle, Complex and Bustle Magazine. She is the founder and head writer of the popular platform Words of Women. She is also the creator and author of the children’s YouTube series and book The Adventures of Mina and Jack, featured in The New York Times, BBC, Huffington Post and The Washington Post.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://wordsofwomen.com/
The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Moods-Turned-Worst-Emotions/dp/1538733625
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Most of us have a deeply entrenched and far-reaching digital life. This week’s guest thinks a lot about what we share online, and more specifically, what we share about our kids online, usually without any idea of the impact and consequences. Leah A. Plunkett, Associate Dean & Associate Professor at University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, shares insights from her new book, Sharenthood: Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online.
Guest Bio
Leah A. Plunkett is an Associate Dean & Associate Professor at University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, and she’s a graduate of Harvard College & Harvard Law School. She’s also a faculty associate with the Youth & Media team at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She’s the mother of two and the author of Sharenthood: Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online.
Over the last six years, Leah has spoken with parents, grandparents, educators, lawyers, researchers, technologists, psychologists, computer scientists, government regulators, policy-makers, elected officials, and lots of other grown-ups from around the world about kids and digital life.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://leahplunkett.com/meet-leah
Sharenthood: Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online by Leah A. Plunkett: https://www.amazon.com/Sharenthood-Should-before-Online-Strong/dp/026204269X
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Description
Our lives are filled with the results of the decisions we make. Large or small, we all make decisions every single day. But how many of us really think about the process we use for making decisions? Annie Duke, author of How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, sees decision-making as a learned skill. In her research and career as a championship poker player and public speaker, she has sought to transcend the typical ‘pro and con list approach’ and challenge analysis paralysis so that we can see more clearly, feel more confident and stop second-guessing ourselves.
Guest Bio
Annie Duke has leveraged her expertise in the science of smart decision making to excel at pursuits as varied as championship poker to public speaking. Annie’s latest book, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, is available on September 15, 2020 from Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint. Her previous book, Thinking in Bets, is a national bestseller. In the book, Annie reveals to readers the lessons she regularly shares with her corporate audiences, which have been cultivated by combining her academic studies in cognitive psychology with real-life decision making experiences at the poker table. For two decades, Annie was one of the top poker players in the world. In 2004, she bested a field of 234 players to win her first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. The same year, she triumphed in the $2 million winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. In 2010, she won the prestigious NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. She retired from the game in 2012. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her master’s degree.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.annieduke.com/
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices: https://www.amazon.com/How-Decide-Simple-Making-Choices/dp/0593418484
At-Home Silent Retreat: January 2021
https://kristenmanieri.com/silentretreat/
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Courage isn’t something only a special few are gifted with; it’s a skill we can deliberately develop. In her book, The Courage Map – 13 Principles for Living Boldly, author and maverick entrepreneur Franziska Iseli explores how we each can chart a better, bolder future by learning to not only face fear, but also to discover the personal truths and gifts that allow us to live life to the fullest.
Guest Bio
Franziska Iseli is a maverick entrepreneur, leading marketing and brand strategist, mad adventurer, author and the co-founder of Basic Bananas, The Business Hood, Oceanlovers and Moments of Humanity. In 2013 Franziska was awarded the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award recognizing her innovation, creativity and philanthropic involvement. Franziska is a board member at the global Entrepreneurs Organization EO where she is advising on communications, marketing and branding. She also launched an impact initiative called EOcean to inspire entrepreneurs to be more sustainable.
Franziska sits on the judging panel for Singularity University and has run think tanks at the United Nations to address the UN sustainable development goals through entrepreneurship. Franziska is the author of three bestselling books – Bananas About Marketing, Perception and The Courage Map (foreword by Sir Richard Branson). She is regularly featured across the media including INC, Forbes, Business Insider, Virgin Inflight Entertainment, Marie-Claire, Cosmopolitan, SmartCompany, Dynamic Business Magazine, BRW, 2UE, Channel 9. A Swiss born Australian (or Swaussie) with a sharp-witted humour and the ability to speak five languages, she is known to make up words, which keeps everyone amused.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.franziskaiseli.com/
The Courage Map: https://www.franziskaiseli.com/books/
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For more than 20 years, Nathanael Garrett Novosel has steeped his life in human behavior, psychology, and philosophy in order to answer for himself one question: why are we here? That research and passion has resulted in his new book, The Meaning of Life: A Guide to Finding your Life’s Purpose, which lays out science-based evidence that reveals the exact process for discovering your life’s purpose and exploring your answer to the most complex question known to man.
Guest Bio
Nathanael Garrett Novosel is a professional researcher and advisor with over 20 years of experience studying individual and group behavior. Over that time, he has researched psychology, evolutionary biology, organizational best practices, leadership decision making, business, technology, finance, and philosophy to understand how the world as we know it works and why. Nathanael spent much of his career using the insights from this research to help the world’s leading executives solve their most pressing organizational challenges and create their strategic plans. Noticing the common drivers of success in all areas of life, he decided to devote his research, problem-solving, and advisory skills to helping people live the best lives possible.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website:
https://yourmeaninginlife.com/
The Meaning of Life: A Guide to Finding your Life's Purpose
https://yourmeaninginlife.com/book
8 Ways to Keep Growing
https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/11/10/8-ways-to-keep-growing/
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This week I’m joined by David Gandelman, meditation teacher and founder of Meditation School. For 60 minutes, David answers all of my questions about how and why to meditate, what makes it hard and how to make it easier. Take everything you think you know about meditation and join this conversation with fresh ears. There's a reason why this ancient stress reliever has gone mainstream; it works!
Guest Bio
David Gandelman is the founder of Meditation School. He is also the co-host of the Energy Matters podcast, Grounded Sleep Podcast, and teaches meditation at Cornell University and NBC Studios. His meditations have been streamed for over 30 million minutes on the meditation app, Insight Timer. He connects energetic experience, ancient wisdom traditions, and humor, to create a safe atmosphere for people interested in learning to meditate, and developing their natural spiritual abilities.
Host Bio
Kristen Manieri is a Certified Mindfulness and Resilience Teacher specializing in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, meditation, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 100 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website:
https://www.meditationschool.us/
https://www.davidgandelman.com/
Four Doorways into Meditation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_qIfpFFbg
Workbook & 28 Day Practice Guide
https://kristenmanieri.com/shop/
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Whether we realize it or not, we each have a relationship with our own self. Often, we are our worst enemy. In her new book, Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence-Crushing Pursuit of Unrealistic Beauty Standards and Embrace Your True Power, Erica Mather has us wonder how different life would be if we truly befriended ourselves. In a society overwhelmed with messages of how women should be and appear, it’s easy to internalize these ideas and become our own harshest critics. It’s time for a change.
Guest Bio
Author, Yoga Therapist, Forrest Yoga Guardian, and Master Teacher Erica Mather, M.A. is a life-long educator. She teaches people to feel better in, and about their bodies, and to view their bodies as an ally and best friend on the journey of life. Her new book Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence-Crushing Pursuit of Unrealistic Beauty-Standards and Embrace Your True Power (New Harbinger 2020) is a 7-step spiritual journey helping women befriend their bodies and utilize them as tools and allies on their quest to live their best lives.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: www.ericamather.com
Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence-Crushing Pursuit of Unrealistic Beauty Standards and Embrace Your True Power: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Body-Best-Friend-Confidence-Crushing/dp/1684033438
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Description
There’s something powerful that happens when we give up screens one day a week. In her book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, author and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain shares how her family have gained more time, productivity, connection, and presence by adopting the ancient ritual of Shabbat. Based on her own experience of taking a tech-free day, she humbly offers a blueprint for how we can become less available to the world and more connected to ourselves and the people we love.
Guest Bio
Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, author of national bestselling book 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award. She hosts a monthly #ZoomChallahBake and writes a newsletter called Breakfast @ Tiffany’s. For information on her book, baking, films, and her newsletter, visit tiffanyshlain.com and follow Tiffany on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://www.tiffanyshlain.com/
24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week: https://www.amazon.com/24-Power-Unplugging-One-Week/dp/1982116862
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The idea of stepping away from life and work for months or a year seems pretty impossible, maybe even radical. But in his book, The Year Off: The Anti-Budget Solution to Mastering Your Money and Following Your Dreams, author Steve Larsen challenges the idea that we’re stuck or that we lack choices. He encourages us to rethink our relationship to money and work, seeing them as something to give us the life we want, not to consume our lives.
Guest Bio
Steve Larsen is an author and financial educator developing practical tools to help people manage their money more efficiently. Through his 100-million-dollar wealth management firm, financial planning classes at Gonzaga University, and easily digestible online courses, Steve has helped thousands of people pursue what is most important to them. Along the way, Steve received his Master of Accountancy degree from Gonzaga University, credentials as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP), and has held numerous investment licenses. Steve lives in the Pacific Northwest with his family and is an avid regional traveler. You can typically find him cruising around the area in his RV or reading a book far away from direct sunlight.
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Guest’s website: https://www.yearoff.co/
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“The right question asked at the right time can be life-changing” author Jennie Lee writes. Questions are like doorways, leading us into deeper aspects of our introspection and self-discovery. In her new book, Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution, Lee guides readers through 108 thought-provoking prompts designed to deepen our awareness of our innermost inquiries and callings.
Guest Bio
Jennie Lee is the award-winning author of three books: SPARK CHANGE: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution; TRUE YOGA: Practicing with the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment; and BREATHING LOVE: Meditation in Action. She is also a certified yoga therapist and spiritual coach, who has counseled private clients worldwide for over 20 years. From her studies in yoga philosophy and spiritual psychology Jennie has a large toolbox of practices that promote optimal wellbeing and purposeful living. When she is not writing or coaching, she enjoys surfing with her husband near their home in Hawai’i. For more, visit www.JennieLeeYogaTherapy.com
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: www.JennieLeeYogaTherapy.com
Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution by Jennie Lee: https://www.jennieleeyogatherapy.com/spark-change/
Thinking, Fast and Slow Paperback by Daniel Kahneman
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
https://www.amazon.com/Untethered-Soul-Journey-Beyond-Yourself/dp/1572245379
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We are a culture of workers, often preferring to work longer hours, work in off-hours, waive vacation time and bring work home instead of leaning into leisure. How did we become so uncomfortable with idleness and so obsessed with productivity? Celeste Headlee, author of Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, explains in her book that we no longer simply like or love our work; we are fixated with it. Through her research and reexamining of long-held assumptions, Headlee shares that overwork is just a bad habit, and one that can be reversed and rewired so that we can return to a way of life that allows us to thrive.
Guest Bio
Award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter, Celeste Headlee released her latest book, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, in March 2020. A timely, actionable and illuminating manifesto, Do Nothing, reveals that despite our constant search for new ways to “hack” our bodies and minds for peak performance, human being are working more - not less, living harder - not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. Celeste is a regular guest host on NRP and American Public Media, and co-host of the new series Retro Report on PBS. Celeste’s TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation has over 23 million total views to date and she serves as an advisory board member for ProCon.org and The Listen First Project.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://celesteheadlee.com/
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving: https://www.amazon.com/Do-Nothing-Overworking-Overdoing-Underliving/dp/1984824732
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Description
In her book, Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100, science journalist Marta Zaraska offers a research-driven case for why optimism, kindness and strong social networks will keep us living longer than any fitness tracker or superfood. While healthy nutrition and physical activity are indeed important for health, there are things we all too often sacrifice that have an outsize impact on our centenarian potential.
Guest Bio
Marta Zaraska is a science journalist with her work published in the Washington Post, Scientific American, the Atlantic, among others. She’s the author of two books: Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million Year Obsession with Meat, which was published in 2016, and Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100, which was published in 2020 and offers a research-driven case for why optimism, kindness, and strong social networks will keep us living longer than any fitness tracker or superfood.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://www.zaraska.com/
Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100: https://www.zaraska.com/non-fiction-books
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Description
Human development, which crosses psychology, biology, neuroscience and sociology, asks: why are we the way we are? This was one of the questions that drove four researchers to study thousands of people from birth to midlife in the US, Great Britain and New Zealand. In their new book, The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life, these four leading psychologists share their findings so far. The result is unprecedented insight into what makes each of us who we are and the awareness that human development is not subject to ironclad laws but instead is a matter of possibilities and probabilities―multiple forces that together determine the direction a life will take.
Guest Bio
Professor Jay Belsky is the Robert M. and Natalie Reid Dorn Professor of Human Development at the University of California, Davis (2011-present). He obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University. Professor Belsky is an internationally recognized expert in the field of child development and family studies. His areas of special expertise include effects of day care, parent-child relations and other developmental experiences and environmental exposures early in life on psychological and behavioral development, the transition to parenthood, the etiology of child maltreatment and the evolutionary basis of parent and child functioning.
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/jay-belsky
The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life by Jay Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Richie Poulton
https://www.amazon.com/Origins-You-Childhood-Shapes-Later/dp/0674983459/
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Description
With so many techniques and advice offered and available, it can be easy to forget that the most impactful and universally available parenting tool is our presence. In The Present Parent Handbook, author and psychotherapist Tim Dukes, Ph.D. encourages us to acknowledge the dilemmas and delights in each parenting moment. We learn that in the present, there is an opportunity to show up, pay attention, and become the parent we so want to be.
Guest Bio
Dr. Timothy Dukes is a veteran psychotherapist, leadership advisor and father. His expertise, in creating and holding a transformational process, instills Presence in Leadership for the individual, partnership, family, team and organization. Tim consults in a variety of institutional settings, working with established business leaders, political visionaries, and emerging innovators. His unique program for individual and organizational development—distilled from thirty years of clinical work, academic research and contemplative practice—resolves contradiction and opposition through a clarity-based evolutionary practice. His book, The Present Parent Handbook, speaks to his work with families. Learn more at http://www.drtimothydukes.com/
Mentioned in this Episode
Guest’s website: http://drtimothydukes.com/
The Present Parent Handbook: 26 Simple Tools to Discover that This Moment, This Action, This Thought, This Feeling Is Exactly Why I Am Here: https://www.apresentparent.com/
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Imagine learning to design your identity based on your desired future self rather than who you have been in the past. Through his book, Personality Isn’t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy offers practical, science-based insights for how we go through the process of personal-reinvention and confronts the popular misconception that who we are is innate and unchanging.
Guest Bio
Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Personality Isn’t Permanent and Willpower Doesn’t Work. His blog is read monthly by millions of people and has been featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Cheddar, Big Think, and many others. From 2015-2018, he was the #1 writer in the world on Medium.com and is a regular contributor to Inc. and Psychology. He and his wife Lauren adopted three children through the foster system in February 2018 and, one month later, Lauren became pregnant with twins, who were born in December of 2018. They live in Orlando.
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Guest’s website: https://benjaminhardy.com/
Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story: https://www.amazon.com/Personality-Isnt-Permanent-Self-Limiting-Beliefs/dp/0593083318
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Karla McLaren, M.Ed., author of Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion, joins us for a live author Q&A with listeners of 60 Mindful Minutes. In this interactive workshop, Karla guides participants through her Conscious Questioning exercise, which uses 11 questions to allow us to better understand our anxiety.
Guest Bio
Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses befriending emotions, even the most “negative” emotions, so that we can begin to open new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication and healthy empathy. Her new book is Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion. Through it, Karla aims to have us see that anxiety is not a problem. In fact, it’s an essential source of foresight, intuition, and energy.
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Karla's website: https://karlamclaren.com/
Emotions Chart: https://karlamclaren.com/a-free-emotions-chart/
Emotions Chart for Kids: https://karlamclaren.com/free-emotions-charts-for-kids/
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As I wrap up season three, I‘d like to invite you to listen, either again or for the first time, to my conversation with Karen Maezen Miller. We first spoke back in the middle of March when Covid-19 cases were climbing and the world was going into lockdown. These days, cases in the US are higher than ever but lockdowns are far in the rearview mirror. These are STILL turbulent times. I’m sharing this episode with you again because it’s worth listening to again, maybe even multiple times. Maezen has so many wise insights to share and I know you will find solace in them.
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Karen Maezen Miller is a Zen Buddhist priest she teaches about spirituality in everyday life at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She is the author of three books: Momma Zen, Hand Wash Cold and Paradise in Plain Sight.
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Momma Zen https://www.amazon.com/Momma-Zen-Walking-Crooked-Motherhood/dp/1590304616
Hand Wash Cold https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Wash-Cold-Instructions-Ordinary/dp/1577319044
Paradise in Plain Sight https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Plain-Sight-Lessons-Garden/dp/1608682528
http://karenmaezenmiller.com/
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It’s understandable that we approach conversations about racism with a degree of trepidation. But this week’s guest wants us to be less afraid about talking about race. Drawing on her academic study, teaching experience, and life lessons, Dr. Amanda Kemp created Racial Justice from the H.E.A.R.T., a system that builds skill and increases capacity so that we can transform how we talk about racism.
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Dr. Amanda Kemp is the author of Stop Being Afraid! 5 Steps to Transform your Conversations about Racism, and Say the Wrong Thing, a collection of personal essays about racial justice and compassion. With a doctorate in race and performance from Northwestern University, she taught college students at Cornell University, Dickinson College, and Franklin and Marshall College. She’s now a Visiting Scholar at Franklin & Marshall and has helped over 25,000 people have open-hearted conversations and practice compassion to cultivate racial justice and authentic community. In her work as a racial justice coach and mindfulness mentor, Dr. Kemp blends activism and spirituality. Drawing on her academic study of race, her teaching experience, and life lessons in an interracial blended family, Dr. Kemp created Racial Justice from the H.E.A.R.T., a system that that builds skill and capacity of compassionate change makers, facilitators, and coaches worldwide.
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Guest’s website: dramandakemp.com
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Have you ever been walking home from work and unexpectedly took a different path just to curiously explore your neighborhood? Or have you been on a vacation and walked around a new city with no destination in mind? Then chances are, you’re a flaneur and you didn’t even know it! This week I welcome Erika Owen, the author of The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander with Intention and Discover a Better Life.
Guest Bio
Erika Owen is a Brooklyn-based travel writer, author, and self-proclaimed Iceland Enthusiast. She is the author of "The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander With Intention and Discover a Better Life," "Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History," and was a contributor to "Fodor's Essential Iceland" guidebook. Her work has previously been published in Travel + Leisure, Departures, and Vogue. You can also find her work online at GQ, Martha Stewart Living, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, and more. When she isn't writing or planning her next trip, you can find her wandering Brooklyn and soaking up the scenes.
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Guest’s website: http://www.erikaraeowen.com/
The Art of Flaneuring: How to Wander with Intention and Discover a Better Life:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Flaneuring-Wander-Intention-Discover/dp/1982133511/
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How many of us feel the need to make a difference in the world but have no idea how and where to start? In his book, How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World, Colin Beavan shines a light on one path and it starts with this modification: instead of wondering how we can save the world, why don’t we simply become a person who tries?
Guest Bio
Colin Beavan, PhD is a life and career coach who helps people and organizations live and operate with meaning and purpose. Also a writer, thought leader and social activist, Colin is the author, most recently, of How to Be Alive: A Guide To The Kind of Happiness That Helps The World. He attracted international attention for his year-long lifestyle-redesign project and the wildly popular book, No Impact Man, and the Sundance-selected documentary film that it inspired. He has appeared on Nightline, Good Morning America, The Colbert Report, The Montel Williams Show, and NPR, and his story has been featured in news outlets from Time magazine to the New York Times. A sought-after speaker by wide-ranging audiences, he also consults with individuals and organizations on living and operating in ways that marry prosperity with the promotion of peace, happiness, justice, right action and good will. The author of four books, Colin's writing has also appeared in Esquire, the Atlantic, and the New York Times. He ran for the US House of Representatives in New York’s 8th Congressional District in 2012, is the founder of the No Impact Project, a board member of Transportation Alternatives, an advisory council member of 350.org, a guest professor at Sarah Lawrence College and a senior dharma teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Guest’s website: https://colinbeavan.com/
How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Alive-Guide-Happiness/dp/0062236717
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We all mess up, we drop the ball, say the wrong thing and hurt someone’s feelings. But how many of us know how to effectively apologize and make amends? In her new book, A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right, writer and therapist Molly Howes offers a thoughtful examination and a blueprint for how to make things right when we’ve done wrong.
Guest Bio
Molly Howes is a writer of nonfiction and memoir who has spent many years as a clinical psychologist in the Boston area. Her writing received a Notable Listing in Best American Essays 2015 and has reached finalist rounds in national contests. In 2014, she completed the intensive, yearlong Memoir Incubator Program at Grub Street writers’ center. Her new book, A Good Apology will be released in July 2020 by Grand Central Publishing.
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Guest’s website: https://mollyhowes.com/
A Good Apology Four Steps to Make Things Right: https://mollyhowes.com/a-good-apology-four-steps-to-make-things-right/
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When we are unconscious to it, our belonging can be very conditional in this culture. Our unchallenged beauty contracts impact how we treat ourselves and others. As the founder of J's Everyday Fashion, one of the internet’s first-ever budget fashion blogs, Jeanette Johnson’s life was steeped in beauty. But as you’ll hear, her experiences set her on a journey to not only begin to question our unspoken beauty contracts, but to challenge the entire idea that we get our value from how we look.
Guest Bio
Jeanette Johnson is the founder of one of the first-ever budget fashion blogs, J's Everyday Fashion. She is the author of two books, regularly speaks at conferences, and is on the board of directors of Samaritan Village, a residential recovery home for women survivors of sex trafficking. She is also the co-founder of Wall Crawl, a one-of-a-kind photo studio concept in downtown Orlando, as well as EDEN & IVY, a socially conscious clothing line that employs women survivors of trafficking in Nepal, coming to HSN this summer. She is a native of Kansas, and a graduate of the University of Kansas. She lives in Orlando with her husband.
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Guest’s website: https://www.thebeautycontract.com/
J’s Everyday Fashion: https://jseverydayfashion.com/home
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Stephanie VanZytveld is the author of I Am Gold Dust (And You Are Too): Mindfulness and Authenticity in the Workplace. This week on 60 Mindful Minutes, we tackle all sorts of topics, including racial injustice, mindfulness at work, authenticity and how we can get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Guest Bio
Stephanie VanZytveld, MHA, is a leadership and strategy consultant with broad healthcare experience. She leverages emotional intelligence, design thinking, and data storytelling to guide internal and external clients to arrive at innovative, elegant solutions. Ms. VanZytveld graduated with high distinction from the University of Michigan with departmental honors in Women’s Studies, and earned a Masters in Healthcare Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Guest’s website: https://www.iamgolddust.com/
I Am Gold Dust (And You Are Too): Mindfulness and Authenticity in the Workplace: https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Dust-You-Are-Too/dp/1641375744
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We'll be hosting a special author Q&A with Karla McLaren on Thursday, August 13th 2020. Details here: https://kristenmanieri.com/author-qa-karla-mclaren/.
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In her new book, Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion, award-winning author, social science researcher and empathy pioneer Karla McLaren, M.Ed. aims to have us see that anxiety is not a problem. In fact, it’s an essential source of foresight, intuition and energy. Emotions are a crucial and vital part of everything we do. And if we do not understand emotions, we are not in the drivers’ seat of our lives.
Guest Bio
Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy.
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Guest’s website: https://karlamclaren.com/
Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion: https://www.amazon.com/Karla-McLaren/dp/1683644417/
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This week we're joined by Casper ter Kuile, author of The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices. While they share some of the same DNA, rituals are distinct from habits. To put it simply, repetition without intention and attention is a habit. But when you bring your presence and heart to an activity, that’s a ritual, and rituals give life more meaning and purpose.
Guest Bio
Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, recently published his book, The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices. Casper is also the co-founder of startup Sacred Design Lab—a research and design consultancy working to create a culture of belonging and becoming—and he is the co-author of “How We Gather.” His work has been featured in the New York Times, Vice, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post. Casper holds a Masters of Divinity and Public Policy from Harvard University.
Mentioned in this Episode
The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices by Casper ter Kuile: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Ritual-Everyday-Activities-Practices/dp/0062881817
Casper ter Kuile: https://www.caspertk.com/
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Written from friend to friend, A Mindful Year offers a series of contemplations on living every day life. In their book and in this podcast episode, Aria and Seth invite us to make space for mindful reflection to reconnect with what is most important to us, and to come home to ourselves to do the inner contemplative work of considering how we live.
Guest Bio
Dr. Aria Campbell-Danesh, DClinPsy, is a doctor in clinical psychology and an expert in the fields of behavior change and long-term health (dr-aria.com). A mindfulness specialist and creator of the F.I.T. Method, he works internationally with clients on their mindset, exercise, and nutrition. He is co-author of A Mindful Year (Blackstone Publishing) and is regularly featured in popular lifestyle publications such as Men’s Health, Women’s Health and Marie Claire. Dr. Aria is a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society and Senior Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Seth J. Gillihan, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and host of the weekly Think Act Be podcast. He is author of The CBT Deck for Anxiety, Rumination, & Worry, Retrain Your Brain, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple, and co-author with Dr. Aria Campbell-Danesh of A Mindful Year: 365 Ways to Find Connection and the Sacred in Everyday Life. Dr. Gillihan teaches online courses in mindfulness-centered cognitive behavioral therapy, and provides resources for managing stress, anxiety, and other conditions on the Think Act Be website.
Mentioned in this Episode
A Mindful Year: 365 Ways to Find Connection and the Sacred in Everyday Life: https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Year-Connection-Sacred-Everyday/dp/1982501839
Aria Campbell-Danesh: https://www.dr-aria.com/
Seth J. Gillihan PhD: http://sethgillihan.com/
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Anxiety and stress can overshadow all the joy and well-being in our lives. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In this episode, Henry Emmons, MD, author of The Chemistry of Calm, shares his holistic approach to creating more emotional resilience.
Guest Bio
Henry Emmons, MD, is an integrative psychiatrist who weaves together mind-body and natural therapies, mindfulness teachings, and other holistic approaches to mental health problems like depression and anxiety. He is the author of four books, including The Chemistry of Calm: A Powerful, Drug-Free Plan to Quiet Your Fears and Overcome Your Anxiety.
Mentioned in this Episode
- The Chemistry of Calm: A Powerful, Drug-Free Plan to Quiet Your Fears and Overcome Your Anxiety https://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Calm-Powerful-Drug-Free-Overcome/dp/1439129061
- Guest’s website: https://www.partnersinresilience.com/
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We are each born with an innate knowing as a guide to what we eat. However, we often lose this inner connection. Author Elyse Resch has spent her career helping people reconnect with the wisdom for eating intuitively. In her co-authored book, The Intuitive Eating Workbook, she offers a new way of looking at food and mealtime by showing us how to recognize our body’s natural hunger signals, how to let go of unhealthy weight control behaviors and to develop a positive body image. Most importantly, she teaches us how to stop feeling so distressed around what we eat and to make peace with food.
Guest Bio
Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, Fiaedp, FADA, FAND, is a nutrition therapist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, with thirty-eight years of experience, specializing in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size. She is the author of The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens and the upcoming (2021) The Intuitive Eating Journal, the co-author of Intuitive Eating and The Intuitive Eating Workbook, a chapter contributor to The Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment, and has published journal articles, print articles, and blog posts.
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- Guest’s website: www.elyseresch.com
- The Intuitive Eating Workbook: https://www.amazon.com/Intuitive-Eating-Workbook-Principles-Relationship/dp/1626256225
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For over a decade, Chris Smith has been helping entrepreneurs create clarity around how they share their story and their message about what they do in the world. Now, he’s joined forces with his wife, Melissa, to create Family Brand, a process that helps families discover how to design an intentional culture in their home that leads to greater love, joy and connection while at the same time reducing stress and overwhelm. In this episode, these parents of five kiddos share how you can learn to create an intentional culture in your home.
Guest Bio
Melissa and Chris Smith are the creators of Family Brand, a process that helps families discover how to design an intentional culture that leads to greater love, joy and connection while at the same time reducing stress and overwhelm.
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Campfire Effect: https://campfireeffect.com/
Family Brand: https://familybrand.com/
June 30-Day Challenge: https://kristenmanieri.com/junechallenge
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Andrew Forsthoefel is the author of “Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time,” a memoir he wrote after spending 11 months walking by himself across the country. On his backpack was a sign that read, "Walking to Listen," which became the opening and the invitation for countless interactions, conversations and newfound friendships as he made his way on his journey. Andrew was looking for a graduate program in the human experience, a teacher who’d show up and show him how to do the work of being human. At 23 year’s old, he wanted to mark his entrance into adulthood and transform into the man who would carry him the rest of his life.
Guest Bio
Andrew Forsthoefel is a writer, speaker, and workshop facilitator. In 2011, he spent a year walking across America with a sign on his backpack that read "Walking to Listen." His memoir, of the same name, tells the tale of his journey. Now, Andrew offers workshops and lectures at high schools, universities, and retreat centers to share and promote the transformational connection that deep listening makes possible. He lives in Vermont.
Mentioned in this Episode
- Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time: https://amzn.to/35NCGNH
- Author’s Website: www.livingtolisten.com
- Audio course "Living to Listen" at Inner Truth's website: https://innertruth.org/product/living-to-listen/
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For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/05/12/embrace-the-ways-youre-weird-with-olga-khazan/
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Most of us have felt like an outsider, or that we just didn’t fit in, at some point in our lives. In her book, Weird: The Power of Being of Outsider in an Insider World, author and staff writer for The Atlantic, Olga Khazan considers the causes, consequences and possible benefits of non-conformity. Drawing upon scientific research and interviews, Khazan shares how we can embrace our weirdness and use it to our advantage.
Guest Bio
Olga Khazan is a staff writer for The Atlantic, covering health, gender, and science. Prior to that, she was The Atlantic’s Global editor. She has also written for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, and other publications. She is a two-time recipient of the International Reporting Project’s Journalism Fellowship and winner of the 2017 National Headliner Awards for Magazine Online Writing.
Mentioned in this Episode
Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Power-Being-Outsider-Insider/dp/031641848X
Author’s Website: https://olgakhazan.com/
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We are a flawed and mysterious species. On one hand, we’re extraordinary. No one is like us. No one has been given the gifts we brought into the world. We are exceptionally unique and special, capable of amazing things. And also… we fall down, procrastinate, give up, cut corners, and let ourselves and other down. This is the paradoxical experience of being human. We are extraordinary and, at the same time, infinitely exasperating. But why? Mike McHargue explains.
Guest Bio
Mike McHargue is a public educator trusted by millions to use empathy and deep scientific insights to help them navigate some of the most difficult parts of the human experience. He’s the host of Ask Science Mike, co-founded the chart-topping show The Liturgists Podcast, is the bestselling author of Finding God in the Waves, and You’re a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass), and works as a science advisor and story consultant for film and television working with clients including Marvel Studios and Pete Holmes. Mike has been featured in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Huffington Post, and scores of other notable publications. Mike lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife Jenny, his daughters Madison and Macey, and their beloved dog, Ruby.
Mentioned in this Episode
- https://mikemchargue.com/
- You’re a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Miracle-Pain-Ass-Understanding/dp/1984823248
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Through her book, Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next, author Jennifer Louden invites us to ask why bother, not from a cynical or resigned place, but as a challenge to open our mind, heart, and life. In the face of depression, compassion, fatigue, global crises, or personal failures, asking “why bother?” can bring us renewed purpose, meaning and direction.
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Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Bother-Discover-Desire-Whats/dp/1989603122
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Who helped you become the person you are today? As Nancy Davis Kho neared a milestone birthday, she decided to write 50 thank-you letters to express her appreciation to the many people who have influenced her, helped her, and inspired her over her life thus far.
Guest Bio
Nancy Davis Kho is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, The Rumpus, and The Toast. She's been recognized as a Voice of the Year in the Humor Category by BlogHer and was the inaugural champion of Oakland's Literary Death Match. She covers “the years between being hip and breaking one” at MidlifeMixtape.com and on the Midlife Mixtape Podcast, available on all major podcast platforms. Nancy's book THE THANK-YOU PROJECT: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude at a Time was published by Running Press in December 2019. More at www.DavisKho.com.
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GUEST BIO
Laurie Palau is the author of the book HOT MESS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GETTING ORGANIZED, host of the popular weekly podcast, This ORGANIZED Life, and founder of Simply B Organized-a lifestyle company helping people live simply and work smarter. Her advice has been featured in Real Simple, The New York Times, and Family Circle. A self-described homebody and coffee lover, Laurie lives in Bucks County, PA with her husband Josh, 2 daughters, and their puggle named Jeter.
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Some of us are using all this time at home to tackle house projects, reorganize and declutter. While the tactical sides of making our spaces more lovely and livable are important, there’s also a psychological side to why we have what we have and keep what we keep. Author and organization expert Laurie Palau shows us that getting our home organized is just as much of an inside job as it is an outside job.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Laurie Palau’s website: https://simplyborganized.com/
Hot Mess: A Practical Guide to Getting Organized:
https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Mess-Practical-Getting-Organized/dp/0692921621

Episode #138 of the This Organized Life podcast: https://simplyborganized.com/2019/08/01/ep-138-podcast-on-parenting-with-special-guest-logan-palau/
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What does it mean to be a better person? How do we start? Kate Hanley, author of How to Be a Better Person: 400+ Simple Ways to Make a Difference in Yourself--And the World, answers these questions and more.
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Guest Bio
Isabel Gillies is the New York Times best-selling author of Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World, Happens Every Day, A Year And Six Seconds and Starry night. Her work has been published in Vogue, The New York Times, Real Simple, Cosmopolitan. GOOP and Saveur. Isabel, also known for her television role as Detective Stabler’s wife on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and for her cinematic debut in the film Metropolitan, graduated from New York University with a BFA in film. A lifelong New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan with her husband, kiddos, and Maude & Duke the dogs.
Description
We have an innate ability to comfort ourselves, to come to our own rescue, to steady ourselves, and to come home to our moments. This week I speak with author Isabel Gillies about how to feel good and how to get through the day.
Mentioned in this Episode
Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World https://www.amazon.com/Cozy-Art-Arranging-Yourself-World-ebook/dp/B079WW1FCQ
Isabel Gillies’ website: https://isabelgillies.com/
Doctors Without Borders: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
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If you're struggling to feel positive, productive and peaceful, maybe you need a plan. If you're feeling lost, perhaps structure and intention could help. Deciding to live intentionally and deliberately amidst the chaos is a game-changer.
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The body has an energy anatomy, split into seven different intersections or centers that nourish and support different physiological, psychological and spiritual aspects of our human experience. This week’s guest, Lisa Erickson, teaches us how to use the chakra systems to guide ourselves to a more peaceful and grounded place.
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Guest Bio
Lisa Erickson is a chakra-based energy worker, writer, and teacher specializing in women’s energetics and trauma healing. She is the author of Chakra Empowerment for Women: Self-Guided Techniques for Healing Trauma, Owning Your Power & Finding Overall Wellness.
Mentioned in this Episode
https://chakraempowermentforwomen.com/
Chakra Empowerment for Women: Self-Guided Techniques for Healing Trauma, Owning Your Power & Finding Overall Wellness: https://www.amazon.com/Chakra-Empowerment-Women-Self-Guided-Techniques/dp/0738761400
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Karen Maezen Miller is a Zen Buddhist priest she teaches about spirituality in everyday life at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She is the author of three books: Momma Zen, Hand Wash Cold and Paradise in Plain Sight.
Description
The world is a very unsettled and uncertain place at the moment. And while we all look to someone or someplace for answers, perhaps we have an opportunity to look no further than the very next moment for refuge. This week we welcome Karen Maezen Miller, a Zen Buddhist priest, for her guidance on feeling more grounded and calm in these turbulent times.
Mentioned in this Episode
Momma Zen https://www.amazon.com/Momma-Zen-Walking-Crooked-Motherhood/dp/1590304616
Hand Wash Cold https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Wash-Cold-Instructions-Ordinary/dp/1577319044
Paradise in Plain Sight https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Plain-Sight-Lessons-Garden/dp/1608682528
http://karenmaezenmiller.com/
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Debrena Jackson Gandy is a nationally published best-selling author of All the Joy You Can Stand: 101 Sacred Power Principles for Making Joy Real in Your Life, as well as two other books. She’s a successful business owner of 20+ years, national and international speaker, transformational success coach, thought-leader, nationally recognized relationships coach, award-winning leader and speaker, wife, mother, former TV show host, Huff Post contributor, personal mentor to women all across the country, and a creative, JUICY and joy-full woman that is living her dreams!
Description
What if joy was the secret power source you needed to not only live your day-to-day life but to make all your dreams come true? What if it was the fuel that gave each of us the energy, confidence and clarity to do our best work in the world and make the contribution we were put here to make? This week’s guest believes joy is the center of our being and the more the we can build a capacity for it, the bigger and brighter our lives become.
Mentioned in this Episode
All the Joy You Can Stand: https://milliondollarmentor.net/product/all-the-joy-you-can-stand-101-sacred-power-principles-for-making-joy-real-in-your-life/
Sacred Pampering Principles: An African-American Woman’s Guide to Self-care and Inner Renewal: https://milliondollarmentor.net/product/sacred-pampering-principles-an-african-american-womans-guide-to-self-care-and-inner-renewal/
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Rachel S. Heslin is the author of the book Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life. Having been immersed in the study of psychology for over 35 years, Today, she cultivated the belief that we each have all the resources we need to live happy, fulfilling, and meaningful lives. In her work with clients, Rachel helps people connect with what already lives inside them so they can have a powerful impact on the world.
Description
Emotionally and energetically, we carry a lot around on the inside. And since we’re all busy picking through our closets and tossing out what doesn’t spark joy, maybe we ought to do the same inside our heads. Rituals of Release inspire us to let go with deliberateness and intention so we can make space for more fulfillment and joy.
Mentioned in this Episode
Rituals of Release: http://ritualsofrelease.com/
Rachel's website: http://www.thefullnessofyourpower.com
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280
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Dave Gorham is a long-time entrepreneur and coach with Frame of Mind Coaching. He’s a lifelong learner and owns a successful property management and brokerage company.
Description
What if there is a way to have a quantum leap in the direction of your dreams? In this episode, we explore the power of working with a coach.
Mentioned in this Episode
Kevin Hall: https://powerofwords.com/
Stephen Covey: https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html
Frame of Mind Coaching: https://www.frameofmindcoaching.com/
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Raphael Cushnir is a leading voice in the world of emotional intelligence and present moment awareness. He is the author of six books, lectures worldwide, and is a faculty member of the Esalen Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. Learn more at www.cushnir.com.
Description
When we start to think about what might be holding us back from something we say we want but never seem to move the needle on, we might assume that our lack progress can be blamed on things like self-discipline, money, time, or opportunity. But Raphael Cushnir sees it differently. In our interview, he explains that it’s actually our resistance to difficult emotions that keeps us stuck.
Mentioned in this Episode
https://www.cushnir.com/resources
2019 Interview with Raphael Cushnir
http://traffic.libsyn.com/syncedlife/TSL_036.mp3
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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.
Description
When we do the inner work to forge a relationship with a deeper knowing, we gain access to insight and intuition, and we meet our authentic selves. We begin to flow with life, we start to see the signs and nudges from something greater, and we begin to trade fear for faith.
Mentioned in this Episode
https://journeystoheal.com/
Living Through Choice: Transform Fears to Love
https://journeystoheal.com/book-mp3s/
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Dr. Shainna Ali is a mental health clinician, educator, and advocate who is dedicated to highlighting the important role of mental health in fostering happiness, fulfillment, and overall wellness. She is the author of The Self-Love Workbook and is excited about the upcoming release of The Self-Love Workbook for Teens. She is the owner of Integrated Counseling Solutions, a counseling and consulting practice in Central Florida.
Description
The way we encourage ourselves, take our flaws and missteps in stride, and appreciate how we’ve grown become the well from which we draw our energy, our creativity and our resilience.
We need self-love. In fact, we need it more than intelligence, experience, opportunity and ideal circumstances. Because when we have it, we can weather and leverage whatever life throws at us.
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www.ShainnaAli.com
Self-Love Workbook
https://www.shainnaali.com/the-self-love-workbook
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Dana V. Adams is the Founder of the Life Mapping Institute and is considered one of the country’s top thought leaders on the life mapping process. She is the author of Live Your Gift and its robust companion guide for creating your personal life map. She is a single mom of four boys, ages 16-23, and resides in the same lakeside community where she grew up, in Kirkland, Washington.
Description
Live on purpose and design a joyful, meaningful life through Life Mapping, a personal development system and goal achievement method for those who strive for continual growth. Life mapping is more than writing down goals—it is also looking at your beliefs, principles, and values to determine if they align with what you truly desire in life.
Mentioned in this Episode
https://lifemappinginstitute.com/
Live Your Gift: Discovering Your Authentic Life Through Life Mapping by Dana V. Adams
https://www.amazon.com/Live-Your-Gift-Discovering-Authentic/dp/1732994765
Life Mapping: A Unique Approach To Finding Your Vision And Reaching Your Potential by Bill Cohen
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Mapping-Approach-Reaching-Potential/dp/0688155731
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Nicole Schwarz, LMFT, is the owner of Imperfect Families, a website dedicated to helping parents use respectful parenting strategies (without expecting perfection). She provides online parent coaching to families worldwide and practices positive parenting with her 3 girls at home.
Description
Rather than compare ourselves to each other and try to measure up to an uninvestigated ideal, how about we all agree that we’re imperfect? What’s ahead is a conversation about what it means to embrace the idea of imperfectionism, as a human being, as a parent, and as a family.
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Imperfect Families: https://imperfectfamilies.com
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David Schnurman is the author of The Fast Forward Mindset: How to be Fearless and Focused to Accelerate Your Success, which seeks to give readers a simple formula for consistently breaking through walls in order to attain more success and happiness. David is also the CEO of Lawline, a leading provider of online Continuing Legal Education, and he’s been featured in Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur.com, and the New York Post.
Description
David Schnurman shares his passion for living life to the fullest, even when things don’t go as planned, even when fear and doubt can feel crippling. In the conversation ahead, you’ll not only learn more about having a fast forward mindset, which includes getting outside of your comfort zone and having laser focus, but we also discuss potential, commitment and consistency.
Mentioned in this Episode
https://www.ffwdmindset.com/
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable... About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life
by Patrick Lencioni
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Questions-Frantic-Family-Organization/dp/0787995320
The Success Principles - 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer
https://www.amazon.com/Success-Principles-TM-Anniversary-Where/dp/0062364286
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Caryn is an Ayurvedic Health Consultant, wellness event planner, yoga instructor and colon cancer thriver. The tools she has gained through Ayurveda and the holistic health sciences have given her the courage to continue to come into her fullest power as an individual. By surrendering to her personal truth, Caryn has created an abundant and vibrant life her herself and those around her.
Description
As we set out on a journey to evolve as human beings, much of that path is discovering who we really are. Ayurveda is an excellent excavation tool for those seeking to live not only more healthfully but more in balance on the inside and outside. What’s ahead is a discussion about what Ayurvedic philosophy is, how to use it to discover who we are, and how we can orient ourselves towards making wellbeing and feeling good a priority.
Mentioned in this Episode
DOSHA QUIZZES
https://www.banyanbotanicals.com/info/dosha-quiz/
https://shop.chopra.com/dosha-quiz/
Caryn O’Hara
http://www.carynohara.com/.
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Karen Horneffer-Ginter is the author of Full Cup, Thirsty Spirit, and she has a passion for helping people reclaim what gets lost amidst the busyness of day-to-day life: qualities such as self-care, joy, humor, gratitude, and compassion. Karen currently serves as an Associate Professor and the Assistant Dean for Wellness at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. She is the former Program Director for WMU’s Integrative Holistic Health and Wellness Program and the co-founder of the Center for Psychotherapy and Wellness in Kalamazoo.
Description
Look around you and find someone who is really good at rest. Chances are, you can’t see anyone who fits this category. What you probably see is a lot of people who are overcommitted and totally stretched beyond capacity. So, what’s the deal? Why when we’re biologically designed to rest do so many of us find no time for it or resist opportunities to just stop for five minutes? Why do we all have more to do than is possible to do?
Mentioned in this Episode
Full Cup, Thirsty Spirit: Nourishing the Soul When Life's Just Too Much
Ph.D. Karen Horneffer-Ginter
https://www.amazon.com/Full-Cup-Thirsty-Spirit-Nourishing/dp/1401939937
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Kim Ades is the President and Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and JournalEngine Software, and has 15 years of experience coaching many of North America’s most respected leaders. She’s an author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mom of five, and in recent years she’s started to notice how often leaders struggle with parenting. She joined me to discuss her philosophies and findings on parenting, as well as journaling, a topic she is hugely passionate about.
Description
When it comes to parenting, we can totally wing it; many of us do. A lot of great kids have been raised in great homes without their parents reading a single book about parenting. But for those of us who feel a little out of our depth at times, I’m thankful that there are a ton of books, resources and thought leaders who can give us insight into what it means and what it looks like to parent with intention.
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https://www.frameofmindcoaching.com
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If we’re not careful, or unaware, the meals we create and meet around each day can start to feel like a chore instead of pleasure. And while I can certainly attest to sometimes feeling the drudgery of preparing a dinner each night, my guest today will tell you that dinnertime is not really about the food at all; it’s about the connection.
Description
Brianne DeRosa is the co-author of the new book Eat, Laugh, Talk: The Family Dinner Playbook, and she’s is the Content Manager for The Family Dinner Project, a nonprofit initiative that started in 2010 to champion family dinner as an opportunity for family members to connect with each other through food, fun and conversation about things that matter.
Mentioned in this Episode
https://thefamilydinnerproject.org
Eat, Laugh, Talk: The Family Dinner Playbook
https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Laugh-Talk-Family-Playbook/dp/1641701641
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Uvinie is the Founder and CEO of Leading Through Connection, which trains leaders in compassionate leadership and supports organizations to build a culture of connection and compassion. She has worked with executives and teams at leading corporations and nonprofits including Macy’s, Johnson & Johnson, GoPro, Collective Health, Pachamama Alliance and Google.
Description
Having the spirit of compassionate leadership influences how we listen, the way we relate to our own agenda and even our ability to sideline it. It impacts our ability to connect and see the common humanity in the people we work with.
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https://www.leadingthroughconnection.org/
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Amy Alkon is the author, most recently, of the "science-help" "Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence.” She’s also a mediator and volunteers weekly in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office, providing free dispute resolution for LA residents. She has been on Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR, CNN, MTV, podcasts including Adam Carolla's and Joe Rogan’s, and has given a TED talk.
Description
Many of us have areas of our life where we shrink a little, we let ourselves be a little smaller. You might even say, where we sell ourselves out. To me, part of living life my fully and really thriving is learning to navigate my perceived shortcomings, my fears and my stumbling blocks. Part of that is simply identifying what those are and the other part, as you will soon hear, is taking action in spite of them.
Mentioned in this Episode
http://www.advicegoddess.com
Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence
https://www.amazon.com/Unf-ckology-Field-Living-Confidence/dp/125008086X/
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Linda Matteoli is a functional medical doctor who graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and continued her medical training in a family medicine residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School where she served as chief resident. She is board certified in family medicine and also holds a master’s degree in nutrition from Simmons College in Boston. She founded Origins Functional Medicine, located in Longwood, FL.
Description
It’s so much easier to be grounded and happy when you feel good. If you’ve ever tried to a handle a frustrating, stressful or aggravating situation when you’re tired, undernourished or over-caffeinated, you probably had the experience of struggling to be at your best and to harness a peaceful way of being. But when we’re well rested, well-fed and generally feeling good, accessing the zen parts of ourselves is incredibly easier.
Mentioned in this Episode
Origins Functional Medicine
https://originsfunctionalmedicine.com/
Should You Wake Up Early To Work Out Or Sleep In?
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/sleep-vs-exercise-when-tired
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Laura Markham, Ph.D., is the editor of Ahaparenting.com, the website of Aha! moments for parents of babies through teens, and the author of the book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting and Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How To Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University and has worked as a parenting coach with thousands of parents across the English-speaking world, both in person and via phone. Her daily and weekly newsletters reach an audience of more than 100,000 parents.
Description
It’s really hard to be a conscious parent. It calls on us to be more patient and compassionate than ever before. It requires us to be organized, thoughtful and discerning. It can consume us with anxiety and regret, while also filling our lives with joy and gratitude. But being a parent can be a gateway to our most significant growth points and it gives us the opportunity to expand who we are capable of being.
Mentioned in this Episode
https://www.ahaparenting.com/
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting and Peaceful Parent
https://www.ahaparenting.com/peaceful-parent-happy-kids
Happy Siblings: How To Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life
https://www.ahaparenting.com/peaceful-parent-happy-siblings
Getting Your Child Out the Door in the Morning
https://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/family-life/kids-morning-routine
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Originally from the flat lands of the Midwest, Emily has journeyed far from home connecting with cultures and perspectives around the world. As National Geographic Travel contributor, Emily views photography as an opportunity to explore how we experience our world and what connects us. Emily splits her time between Nepal and the western U.S. collaborating with like-minded companies while working on personal projects. Learn more at https://www.emilypolar.com/.
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Imagine living a “bouncy” life, one that had you being untethered from location or financial obligations, leaving you free to roam where you liked and pursue what you love. Over the past decade, that’s the life this week’s guest has designed. Her story inspires us to begin to ask some questions about what our best life looks like, what our true definition of success is, and what we would create if doubt never stood in our way.
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https://www.instagram.com/emilypolar/
https://www.emilypolar.com/
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Shannon Ables is the founder and editor of the internationally recognized lifestyle blog, The Simply Luxurious Life (est. 2009) which inspired her first book Choosing The Simply Luxurious Life: A Modern Woman's Guide, and her second, Living The Simply Luxurious Life: Making Your Everydays Extraordinary and Discovering Your Best Self (2018). Her complementary weekly podcast, The Simple Sophisticate, was established in 2014, ranking #5 on iTunes New & Noteworthy on its debut, and her vodcast, The Simply Luxurious Kitchen, provides the inspiration for elevating everyday meals using seasonal fare. She has been living in Bend, Oregon, since 2015 with her two spaniels, Oscar and Norman.
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“Living simply luxuriously is a choice, a decision to find what fascinates and delights you…” says author and blogger Shannon Ables. Join us for a discussion about what it means to cultivate the art of living well, design a life filled with everyday delight and how to orient yourself toward feeling good.
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https://www.thesimplyluxuriouslife.com/
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Alyson Long is the owner of the World Travel Family travel blog, a website she created while traveling full time to some extraordinary destinations with her husband and two children. A nomadic lifestyle was a dream come true for this family and these days, after six years of travel, they have no plans to retire from the adventure travel sector. The family is a mixture of Welsh, English and Australian heritage and has lived in all of those places as well as in Vietnam and Romania.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a nomad? Imagine packing up your life, getting rid of everything, getting on a plane and never looking back. Whether that sounds like a daydream or a nightmare, it’s fascinating to know that there are people out there in the world, people with kids no less, who have chosen to orient their entire lifestyle around travel.
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https://worldtravelfamily.com/
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Melissa Wadsworth is a new-community visionary, certified dream coach, change catalyst, creative intuitive, and author. The author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community, her vision and leadership integrate her own life-lessons, inspirational optimism, and her commitment to bringing healing change energy to the world.
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We are all participating—in our life, our family, our culture—but the question is, how intentional are we being about our participation? Your life is meaningful. It has purpose. This week’s guest invites us to wake up to what we are creating and could be creating with intentional communing.
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http://www.collectivemanifestation.com/
https://www.facebook.com/collectivemanifestationbook/
Bliss More: How to Succeed in Meditation Without Really by Light Watkins
https://www.amazon.com/Bliss-More-Succeed-Meditation-Without/dp/0399180354
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Andrew Parker is the Founder & CEO of Papa, a company that connects college students to older adults for companionship, assistance and transportation. He started the company in 2017 to support his own grandfather, and Papa has grown to 15 full time employees and over 1,500 students on the platform. Andrew received his Bachelor’s in Finance from Florida State University and his Certified Employee Benefit Specialist certification from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Miami with his wife and dog, Chewie.
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My guest today is Andrew Parker, Founder & CEO of Papa, a technology platform that connects college students to older adults for companionship, assistance and transportation. Basically, as Andrew defines it, it’s a grandkid on demand, and it has the potential to not only address practical needs for older adults, but it also faces the loneliness crisis head on.
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Papa
https://www.joinpapa.com/
Good News Network
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/app-hires-college-age-grandkids-on-demand-for-loneliness-and-chores/
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Alicia Braccia is a Florida Licensed School Psychologist who received her Masters Degree and Certificate of Advanced Study in School Psychology at Fairfield University, in Connecticut. She has a Diplomate in School Neuropsychology from Texas Women’s University. Prior to moving to Florida and forming the Center for Health, Learning and Achievement’s multi-disciplinary team, she was a Teacher, Peer Supervisor and School Psychologist in the New York Public School System. Learn more at http://www.learningandachievement.com/AliciaBraccia.shtml
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It doesn’t matter if you’re a parent or a CEO, a surgeon or a hockey coach, the principles of brain function and neuropsychology are universal. When we can understand what’s happening inside the brain when people we love get upset or frustrated, as well as feel joyful and safe, we can create better connections and relationships with those around us. By the end of this episode you’ll have a new skill that can exponentially make your family and work life better.
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Becky Bailey – Conscious Discipline
https://consciousdiscipline.com/about/becky-bailey/
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Chris Smith helps entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and teams discover a powerful new relationship to who they are and what they do through his proprietary methodology called The Campfire Effect. Learn more at https://christophercsmith.com/
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Researchers have found that having a sense of our purpose positively impacts our health and longevity. But what if you don’t know your purpose? What if you feel like you just can’t figure it out or maybe, secretly worry that you’re the one lone human that didn’t get one? Today’s guest has spent much of the past decade building a life and a business that helps people discover and articulate their calling.
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https://christophercsmith.com/
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322
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Scott Byrd is an entrepreneur and founder of a coaching company who has recently co-written the book, "A Cloudless Mind," which marries the latest insights from neuroscience with practical ancient wisdom to offer simple truths about the human mind to fundamentally change everything about the way you see yourself and the decisions you make. Learn more at https://www.cloudlessmind.com/
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Most of us have heard the research that says the average mind thinks between 60,000 – 80,000 thoughts a day. But have you ever really contemplated what these thoughts are exactly, and even more out there, who’s thinking them? For those of us in pursuit of a more peaceful inner world and a more harmonious outer world, the idea of having a cloudless mind is worth considering.
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Charles Vogl is an award-winning author of The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging. He’s an executive consultant who works with leaders in tech, finance, media, government and social change organizations. He lectures and leads workshops across the country, and is a regular guest lecturer at the Yale School of Management and Yale Leadership Institute. As a speaker and writer, he draws on his experience in international human rights advocacy and social change, exploring the principles of community as they apply to both secular and spiritual leadership. http://www.charlesvogl.com
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Cultures of belonging aren’t just happy accidents. They’re often designed and cultivated with purpose and intention. Today’s guest has identified seven time-tested principles for growing enduring, effective and connected communities. These communities could be small, like your immediate family, or they can be larger, like a thriving yoga studio or a church with a congregation 10,000 strong. There’s a method to building vibrant, living cultures where people are nourished by a deep sense of belonging and mutual care.
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The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
http://www.charlesvogl.com/book
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We live a hurried, jam-packed life. The days and months fly by in a flurry of routines and commitments. We're constantly in motion with a never-ending onslaught of distractions to occupy our minds and hearts. Tuning into ourselves has become nearly impossible. But in my experience, the only way to live an awakened, authentic life is to find space for reflection and time to tune in. We need to come home to ourselves and take ourselves off autopilot. With love, compassion and zero judgement, we need to wake ourselves up. For me, a daily centering practice is an amazing wake up tool.
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Awakened Living Master Class
https://syncedlife.net/master-class
Writing Down Your Soul
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Down-Your-Soul-Extraordinary/dp/1573243566
The Untethered Soul
https://www.amazon.com/Untethered-Soul-Journey-Beyond-Yourself/dp/1572245379
Time Warrior
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Warrior-procrastination-people-pleasing-over-commitment/dp/1600250378/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Time+Warrior&qid=1552492877&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Insight Timer App
https://insighttimer.com/
The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
http://www.charlesvogl.com/book
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Jessi Bloom is a best-selling author, award-winning ecological landscape designer, and speaker. Based near Seattle, Washington, she lives with her two sons in a permaculture homestead surrounded by functional gardens and rescue animals. She has become an innovator and leader in the field of permaculture, sustainable landscape design, construction and land management. Learn more at https://www.jessibloom.com/
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We all need places we can retreat to that allow us to come home to ourselves, to feel centered and find a sense of calm in this dizzying world. It’s hugely restorative to claim a personal spot, even if it’s in the tiniest corner of our home, to create a sacred space. We weren’t meant to be so disconnected from ourselves and so distracted. We all need and deserve sanctuary.
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Wildcraft: An Herbal Adventure Game
https://learningherbs.com/wildcraft/
Jessi Bloom
https://www.jessibloom.com/
Sacred Garden Spaces, Plant-Based Medicine, and Daily Practices to Achieve Happiness and Well-Being
https://www.jessibloom.com/books-articles/everyday-sanctuary/
Jessi Bloom on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/jessi.bloom/
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Barbara A. Lewis is an award-winning author and educator who teaches kids how to think and solve real problems. Her curriculum in character development and social activism for kids and teens has formed the basis of several books, including “The Kid's Guide to Social Action” and “The Kid's Guide to Service Projects." When she taught at Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah, her students initiated the cleanup of hazardous waste, improved sidewalks, planted thousands of trees, and fought crime. They instigated and pushed through several state laws and an amendment to a national law, garnering 10 national awards, including two President’s Environmental Youth Awards. Learn more at http://www.barbaraalewis.com/.
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Raising kids that become social activists might seem like a lofty goal, especially when many of us adults haven’t figured out how to fit volunteering and social activism into our own lives. In this episode, my co-host (Andy Hill of the Marriage, Kids and Money podcast) and I speak with national award-winning author and educator Barbara A. Lewis about how we can all start to see ourselves as part of a greater whole.
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Togetherness happens around food. Meals, when we let them, can be the richest and most important social connectors in life. Built into the making and consuming of our food are all sorts of rich opportunities to feel connected, but only if we take advantage of those opportunities and mine those moments. This week we speak to Chef Kathleen Blake about food and togetherness.
Guest Bio
Iowa native Kathleen Blake started cooking at an early age in her grandmother's kitchen where she helped prepare Sunday Suppers for her large extended family. Staying true to her path, Blake worked in restaurants during high school and then moved out West to attend the Community College of San Francisco's Culinary Apprenticeship Program. After many years and many kitchens, she and her husband, William, opened The Rusty Spoon in downtown Orlando in 2011. A beloved chef among the locals, Blake is also a 2013 and 2015 James Beard Award Nominee.
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Carrie Contey, PhD is an internationally recognized coach, author, speaker and educator. Her work offers a new perspective on human development, parenting, family life and being a healthy, happy, whole human being. Learn more at www.carriecontey.com.
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Parenting isn’t easy. Just when we think we’ve got one stage mastered, our child develops and grows to a new stage with a new set of challenges for us to rise to and adapt with. We often hear parents of grown children say, “Enjoy it. It goes so fast.” They say this wistfully, almost mournfully, like they wish they could go back and do it all again in slow motion. We can’t slow time, but we can parent with intention. Carrie shows us how.
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We hear a lot about the importance of being more present, almost to the point of it becoming a cliché. But when we stop to actually think about what it means to be in the present moment, it’s kind of laughable that we don’t seem to be naturally oriented to be there, because the present moment is where life is. All the striving and creating and collecting and cleaning is all for the purpose of having this thing called “my life.” And yet, how often am I actually “in” my life?
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Raphael Cushnir is a leading voice in the world of emotional intelligence and present moment awareness. He is the author of six books, lectures worldwide, and is a faculty member of the Esalen Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. Learn more at www.cushnir.com.
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How Now: 100 Ways to Celebrate the Present Moment
http://www.cushnir.com/enter-the-library/books/how-now
Surfing Your Inner Sea
http://www.cushnir.com/enter-the-library/surfing-your-inner-sea
Unconditional Bliss: An Introduction to Living the Questions
http://www.cushnir.com/enter-the-library/books/unconditional-bliss
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Our vacation time, especially when it’s limited to just a few weeks out of the year, feels so precious. Plus, considering that travel uses up so much time, energy and money, it makes sense that we’d want to get it right. In this week’s episode, we connect with author and researcher Jaime Kurtz to unpack the secrets of better and more meaningful travel.
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Jaime Kurtz is the author of The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology at James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she regularly teaches courses on Social Psychology, Psychology of Personality, Positive Psychology, and Psychological Research Methods.
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The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations by Jaime Kurtz
https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Traveler-Unpacking-Secrets-Vacations/dp/0190638982
Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom
https://www.amazon.com/Alone-Time-Seasons-Pleasures-Solitude/dp/0399562303
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With the new year upon us, I decided that it would be very timely to have a conversation about what it would be like to have the best year ever. I wanted to explore how we could all have a spectacular 2019, and not just because we crossed some huge things off our bucket list but because we tackled some little things in our day to day life that simply made living feel better and brighter.
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John P. Strelecky is an international best-selling author and creator of the Big Five for Life concept. His books have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide and been translated into 33 languages. Learn more at johnpstrelecky.com.
Mentioned in this Episode
The Why Café by John Strelecky https://www.amazon.com/Why-Cafe-John-Strelecky-ebook/dp/B004BLKCXY/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1544992062&sr=1-2
The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss https://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/dp/0307465357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544992103&sr=8-1&keywords=four+hour+work+week
Mastery by Robert Green
https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Robert-Greene/dp/014312417X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544992132&sr=8-1&keywords=mastery+by+robert+greene
Core motivation style test: http://www.seemypersonality.com/personality.asp?p=Motivation-Test#q1
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The intentional community movement is growing in leaps and bounds. More and more people are leaving their subdivisions or changing their city blocks to make massive shifts in their sense of connection, belonging and contribution. There’s a growing desire to create a more humane and equitable society that honors our common humanity above money, amassing more stuff or getting ahead at the cost of others. And the good news: you don’t need to move to a rural community to start cultivating the spirit of intentional community living.
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Sky Blue is the Executive Director of the Fellowship for Intentional Community. Over the last 20 years he has lived in, worked with, and consulted for numerous communal and cooperative groups and organizations, and has visited dozens of communities and cooperatives, in the US and in Europe. Living in community and furthering the larger cooperative movement has been a primary focus of his entire adult life. Learn more at https://www.ic.org/
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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward. Gratitude is the opposite of entitlement and it’s the antidote to resentment and scarcity. It’s where we find generosity, humility and joy. As I learned from this week’s guest, it’s one thing to feel gratitude and an entirely different thing to express it. Want to learn how to up your gratitude game? We dive into the art of saying ‘thank you’ in this week’s episode.
Guest Bio
Kelly Browne is the author of the bestselling book 101 Ways to Say Thank You and 101 Ways to Say Thank You for Kids & Teens. She’s spoken around the country inspiring audiences to upgrade their thankfulness etiquette and in the process, has helped thousands of people cultivate more gratitude in their lives. Learn more at www.kellybrowne.net.
Mentioned in this Episode
101 Ways to Say Thank You: Notes of Gratitude for All Occasions by Kelly Browne
https://www.amazon.com/101-Ways-Say-Thank-You/dp/1454915609
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John Neffinger and Matthew Kohut, co-authors of Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities that Make Us Influential, have learned a lot about the impact of a smile, our posture, our gestures, and our tone of voice on the people around us. Their goal is to help others understand how to be more compelling, because being able to influence people, whether that’s getting your toddler to eat her carrots or getting your employees to meet your company’s objectives, is how we make things happen in the world. It’s how movements are started and ideas come to life.
Guest Bio
John Neffinger and Matthew Kohut are the co-authors of Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities that Make Us Influential. John is a co-founder of KNP Communications, a private firm that specializes in helping clients become outstanding live communicators. He and Matthew, a managing partner of KNP Communications, work with entrepreneurs, ambassadors, scientists, and best-selling authors to prepare them for the podium, whether that’s at a board meeting, live television appearance or TED talk.
Learn more at knpcommunications.com.
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Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142181021
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Good relationships have good communication. In this interview, author Jonathan Robinson shares insights and exercises from his book, More Love, Less Conflict, so that anyone can become better communicators with their spouse, learn to diffuse conflict and create more relatedness.
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Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist and best-selling author of ten books, including More Love, Less Conflict. He has reached over 100 million people around the world with his practical methods, and his work has been translated into 47 languages. He has made numerous appearances on the Oprah show, as well as many other national TV talk shows, and he's been featured in USA Today, Newsweek and The Los Angeles Times.
Learn more at morelovelessconflict.com.
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If you’ve ever been to a yoga class or practiced at home, you’ve probably noticed that it not only makes you feel stronger and more flexible, but also more peaceful, attuned and grounded. Rob Schware wants prisoners, recovering addicts and veterans to feel that, too. As the head of the Give Back Yoga Foundation, a non-profit organization that believes in making yoga available to those who might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience its many benefits, he steers projects like the Prison Yoga Project, Yoga of 12-Step Recovery, and yoga4cancer, all with a goal to reducing suffering and elevating consciousness through yoga.
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Rob Schware is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Give Back Yoga Foundation, a non-profit organization that believes in making yoga available to those who might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience its many benefits. Learn more at givebackyoga.org.
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If you’ve ever experienced improvisational sketch comedy, you’ve likely seen people unfurl and connect with each other in ways that just aren’t common, or maybe even possible, in their day to day life. There’s something so raw and real about learning to create a moment, in front of an audience, just with what comes into your head and out of your mouth. The result is a connection between the actors and to the audience that’s truly extraordinary.
Guest Bio
Emily Fontano is the Artistic Director of SAK Comedy Lab, home to live shows nearly every night inside SAK’s 250-seat theater, but also oodles of classes for those interested in learning how to do improvisation. Emily performs in SAK shows, teaches classes at SAK U, competes in festivals across the country, and hosts her own podcast (Amanda and Emily: We Have a Podcast). Learn more at www.sakcomedylab.com.
Mentioned in this Episode
The Science Behind Improv: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/science-behind-improv-performance/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.967cd4583680
SAK Comedy Lab: www.sakcomedylab.com
Amanda and Emily: We Have a Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/AmandaandEmily/
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Did you grow up watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood? Do remember the trolley or King Friday? That red cardigan? The opening song? The show debuted on February 19, 1968 and aired through 2001, so it’s safe to say that generations of kids have grown up watching the more than 870 episodes created by Fred Rogers, who died in 2003. Fred Rogers was infinitely passionate about childhood education and using television as a tool to affirm children’s self-worth and offer them a place where they felt accepted and understood. In this episode, we feature Shea Tuttle, the author of the forthcoming book "In Search of Mister Rogers."
Guest Bio
Shea Tuttle is the co-editor of "Can I Get a Witness? Thirteen Peacemakers, Community Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice" and the forthcoming book, "In Search of Mister Rogers." Learn more at https://sheatuttle.contently.com/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: http://www.pbs.org/parents/rogers/the-method-behind-the-magic
Won’t You Be My Neighbor documentary: http://www.focusfeatures.com/wont-you-be-my-neighbor/
Can I Get a Witness? Thirteen Peacemakers, Community Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice: https://www.amazon.com/Can-Get-Witness-Peacemakers-Community-Builders/dp/0802875734
Seven Lessons from Mister Rogers That Can Help Americans Be Neighbors Again: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/seven_lessons_from_mister_rogers_That_can_help_americans_be_neighbors_again
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Only 1 in 5 five people step away from their desk for lunch. Today’s guest is on a mission to change that. Laura Archer is the author of Gone for Lunch: 52 Things to do on Your Lunch Break, a book she wrote on her journey to reclaim her midday break and to find more time for herself, her interests and her self-care. Through her book, blog and workshops, Laura aims to help individuals and companies to appreciate the unbelievable benefits of taking a lunch break - even if it’s only for 20 minutes once or twice a week. What’s so great about Laura’s story is that it started with her own simple curiosity and her own yearning to feel more connected to herself and the world around her. So what are the benefits of taking a break? What’s stopping us from simply pausing from our work and having a rest? We dive into these questions and so much more.
Guest Bio
Laura Archer is the author of Gone for Lunch: 52 Things to do on Your Lunch Brunch. Through her book, blog and workshops, Laura aims to helps individuals and companies to appreciate the unbelievable benefits of taking a lunch break. Learn more at goneforlunch.com.
Mentioned in this Episode
https://www.goneforlunch.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Lunch-Things-Your-Break/dp/1849499918
Why We Sleep https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144324
International Happiness Day http://www.dayofhappiness.net/
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As you can probably imagine, I read a lot about the topic of human connection and recently I came across an article written for Scientific American titled To Combat Loneliness, Promote Social Health. It not only honed in on the mounting evidence that shows relationships should be a public health priority, but it reported that the UK has recently appointed a Minister for Loneliness. This is pretty astounding and I wanted to know more about the idea of loneliness as a public health priority, in the same way that nutrition and vaccinations area. So, I reached out to the author of the article, Kasley Killan, to see if she was open to an interview and she said YES!
Guest Bio
Kasley Killam is a program manager at Verily, where she sets the strategic direction and oversees the implementation of community engagement initiatives for Verily's national clinical research platform. Based in San Francisco, Kasley spends her evenings and weekends mobilizing efforts to combat loneliness and promote social health as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, member of the board of directors for the Community Living Campaign, and contributor to Scientific American. Learn more at kasleykillam.com.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-combat-loneliness-promote-social-health1/
http://time.com/5248016/tracey-crouch-uk-loneliness-minister/
https://medium.com/world-economic-forum-global-shapers-san-francisco/5-ways-to-address-the-loneliness-epidemic-99e28e8fedb7
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How many of us give much thought to the quality of our friendships or the ways we could be intentionally nourishing our friendships? Turns out there’s not only an art and a science to how we create really good friendships, but there’s a formula to the process as well. Shasta Nelson, author of “Friendships Don’t Just Happen” and “Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness,” has truly become one of the world’s leading voices for friendship. In this conversation, we take a deep dive into the world of frientimacy and how we could all learn to upgrade this area of our lives.
Guest Bio
Shasta Nelson is the author of “Frientimacy” and “Friendships Don't Just Happen.” A leading voice for friendship, Shasta speaks for corporations, churches, and conferences all over the country; writes books, blogs, and articles; provides expertise to media, creates teaching videos and class; gathers people for retreats and events; and consults and coaches leaders and teams-- all for the purpose of creating healthier friendships in this world. Learn more at shastanelson.com.
Mentioned in this Episode
Friendships Don’t Just Happen by Shasta Nelson: https://www.amazon.com/Friendships-Dont-Just-Happen-GirlFriends/dp/1618580140
Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness by Shasta Nelson: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580056075
The All-or-Nothing Marriage by Eli J Finkel: https://www.amazon.com/All-Nothing-Marriage-Best-Marriages/dp/052595516X
Frientimacy Quiz: https://www.girlfriendcircles.com/frientimacyquiz
Girlfriend Circles: https://www.girlfriendcircles.com/
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Imagine there was a way to more effectively and more quickly get our kids to do what we want them to do, when we want them to do it. Imagine if all the struggle and resistance and frustration dramatically decreased in our family life. Heather Turgeon, MFT and Julie Wright, MFT, authors of Now Say This: The Right Words to Solve Every Parenting Dilemma, did more than just imagine these idyllic sceneries: they created a formula for consistently creating more peace, calm, cooperation and relatedness between parents and kids. In this interview, we dive deep into their ALP approach (Attune, Limit Set and Problem Solve) and learn how we can all relate better with each other by becoming skilled in the power of attuning.
Guest Bio
Heather Turgeon, MFT is a psychotherapist who specializes in sleep and parenting. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two kids. She and Julie frequently speak at parenting centers and schools, as well as offer sleep consultations and individual therapy.
Julie Wright, MFT is the creator of the Wright Mommy and Me, one of Los Angeles’s best-known mommy and me programs. She has specialized training and experience in the 0 to 3 years, having interned at the Cedar-Sinai Early Childhood Center and Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic. She lives in New York and has a son in college.
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The Happy Sleeper https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Sleeper-Science-Backed-Helping-Sleep-Newborn-ebook/dp/B00INIXOUO
Now Say This: The Right Words to Solve Every Parenting Dilemma https://www.amazon.com/Now-Say-This-Parenting-Dilemma/dp/014313034X
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I recently made a personal pledge to stop reading the news because I just don’t feel good when I’m feeding my brain a constant supply of negativity. It’s been nearly two months and I can already sense how much more uplifted, hopeful and positive I feel. My only source of news now is the Good News Network, which I access through an app on my phone. The stories that Good News Network reports on are amazing, and they remind me that there is so much good in the world. Today’s guest will do the same.
Guest Bio
Pernille Bussone is the Global Community Captain for Cycling Without Age, a movement started in 2012 by Ole Kassow in Denmark. Ole wanted to help the elderly get back on their bicycles, but he had to find a solution to their limited mobility. The answer was a trishaw and he started offering free bike rides to the local nursing home residents. Cycling Without Age has now spread to all corners of Denmark, and since 2015, to another 41 countries around the world.
http://cyclingwithoutage.org/
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Option B https://optionb.org/book
Ole Kassow’s TedTalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Ti4qUa-OU
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Every month, Traci Ruble joins a group of volunteers near a busy San Francisco street with a sign that invites strangers to participate in free listening. It’s called Sidewalk Talk, a non-profit organization with a mission to nurture human connection by teaching and practicing heart-centered listening in public spaces. Since it began in 2014, Sidewalk Talk has grown to over 700 volunteers worldwide and now has chapters in 19 cities around the globe.
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Traci is the founder and CEO of PSYCHED, a San Francisco-based counseling center, and the co-creator of Sidewalk Talk Community Listening Project. http://www.sidewalktalksf.com/
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Kate DeBartolo is used to uncomfortable conversations. In fact, her job is to be a proponent of them. And here’s why. As the Director for The Conversation Project, her mission is to get people talking about one of the most difficult topics many of us will ever encounter: our end of life decisions and the end of life wishes of the those we love. Let’s face it, we’re all going to die. That’s a hard pill to swallow but it’s obviously true. And how we want to die, how we want our last days to be and how we want to be celebrated and honored after we’re gone are all topics worth considering and sharing with the people we live our life with. So, you may feel uncomfortable over the next 45 minutes but I invite you to stick with it because this episode could be the starting point to one of the most important conversations you ever have.
Guest Bio
Kate DeBartolo is the Director of The Conversation Project, an initiative started in 2013 by The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) that is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care.
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https://theconversationproject.org/
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
https://www.amazon.com/Option-Adversity-BuOption B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Book by Sheryl Sandberglding-Resilience-Finding/dp/1524732680
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Found-Pacific-Crest-Oprahs-ebook/dp/B005IQZB14
Life After Death: The Burden of Proof by Deepak Chopra
https://www.amazon.com/Life-After-Death-Burden-Proof/dp/0307345785
The Last Lecture
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/1401323251/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522333326&sr=1-1&keywords=last+lecture
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I have a theory that if we upgrade the quality of our connections, if we got more intentional about how deeply we connect with the people around us, our lives would feel more joyful and more meaningful. What follows is a conversation about how we can use our hands and our imaginations to make stuff. But more importantly, why making stuff together—even if you don’t consider yourself an artist or even a creative person—becomes a means to cultivating more connection with our family, friends and community.
Guest Bio
Bernadette Noll is an Austin, Texas local and a self-proclaimed maker. She’s the author of the books Slow Family Living: 75 Simple Ways to Slow Down, Connect, and Create More Joy and Make Stuff Together: 24 Simple Projects to Create as a Family.
https://bernadettenoll.net/
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https://www.craftsy.com/
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Spring is nearly upon us, which means for many of us, it’s time to go back outside. My guest today is Rebecca P. Cohen, someone who is incredibly passionate about inspiring families and individuals to spend more time outside. What’s ahead is a conversation about the enormous benefits to being intentional about spending time outdoors every day—with your kids and with yourself – and how to easily and almost effortlessly create a ‘15-minutes outside’ habit.
Guest Bio
Rebecca P. Cohen has taught 6,000 children in North America, Europe, Africa, and China and is the go-to spokesperson and inspirational speaker for getting outside any time of the year. Rebecca's early reader children's book series, PJ's Backyard Adventures, is the latest project from the author of the book, 15 Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids (Sourcebooks) and creator of Rebecca Plants Curiosity Cards. Rebecca’s work has been featured in USA Today, Better Home and Gardens, Parenting, Redbook, Working Mother, Family Circle, and Backyard Solutions.
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Be Outside and Grow: https://www.beoutsideandgrow.com/
PJ's Backyard Adventures: https://www.amazon.com/PJs-Backyard-Adventures-Who-PJ/dp/0989282279
50 Outdoor Activities for Busy Families FREE downloads: https://www.beoutsideandgrow.com/free-downloads
Rebecca Plants Curiosity Cards: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rebecca-plants-curiosity-cards/id1159314546?mt=8
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The idea of living with less—less stuff, less obligations, less debt and making less of a footprint environmentally—is really gaining momentum. And here’s my hypothesis about why: For anyone on a journey to find some meaning in their life or simply trying to gain clarity on what truly makes them happy and fulfilled, we mostly all land in the same place with similar conclusions: it’s not the stuff or the money or the house or the important to do list that give our lives fulfillment: it’s our relationships. And when we have space—physical, emotional and spiritual—to nourish those relationships, our lives are simply better. What’s ahead is a conversation about how living with less makes for room more: more love, more space and more joy.
Guest Bio
Courtney Carver launched her blog Be More with Less in 2010 and is one of the top bloggers in the world on the subject of minimalism. Recently she published the book Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More, which tells her story of living with less and gives practical advice for shedding the excess in our lives to make room for more live. Courtney has been featured in countless articles, podcasts, and interviews on simplicity and is the creator of the minimalist fashion challenge Project 333, which was featured in O magazine and Real Simple.
Mentioned in this Episode
https://bemorewithless.com/
Project 333: https://bemorewithless.com/project-333/
https://www.amazon.com/Soulful-Simplicity-Living-Less-Lead/dp/0143130684
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I first met Katie in my Friday yoga class. She’s a little hard to miss since she’s the only yogi in the class who brings her dog with her. I soon came to find out that she works as a volunteer raising companion dogs as well as therapy dogs. I was immediately fascinated, not just by her work with dogs, but I had a million questions about the relationship between dogs and humans, why dogs are so good at reregulating us and why so many people regard them as man’s best friend. Having owned a dog myself in the past, I have felt the deep love that is exchanged between a person and his or her mutt. Having owned cats my entire life, in my experience, it’s just not the same thing. Join me in this conversation about the impact dogs have on our lives, the work they do in our communities, and how and why animals, not just dogs, have the power to improve our wellbeing.
Guest Bio
Katie Seymour is a volunteer puppy raiser with Canine Companions for Independence and a volunteer handler with Be an Angel Dog Ministry and with Therapy Dogs Inc.
Mentioned in this Episode
Canine Companions for Independence http://www.cci.org/
Be an Angel Dog Ministry https://www.beanangeltherapydogs.org/
Therapy Dogs Inc. https://www.therapydogs.com/
Marley and Me http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822832/
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As the creator of The Dinner Party Project, Dana Marie Roquemore is on a mission to facilitate more and deeper connections between friends and strangers. A food-focused social experiment that invites 8 strangers to share food, conversation and company, the concept provides the random opportunity for people to meet and share a meal. Each week, seven guests are chosen at random and given instructions for where and when to attend. Dana uses guest chefs and guest caterers to create amazing food, but the real richness is in the connections that happen during these dinners. She has such a fabulous story and I can’t wait for you to hear it.
Guest Bio
Dana Marie Roquemore is social entrepreneur who went from being a stylist for fashion shows, personal wardrobe consultant and event planner, to being the creator of an innovative community concept that took Orlando, FL by storm. In 2014, Dana created The Dinner Party Project, a food-focused social experiment that invites eight strangers to share incredible food, interesting conversation and fantastic company.
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What happens when a community comes together to share its stories, triumphs, struggles and aspirations? PechaKucha, an international speaker series based on a 20×20 format (20 slides, 20 seconds each), exists to explore this question. Now held in over 1,000 cities around the world, the series gives a platform to each city’s residents—from creatives to professionals to regular folks with a story to tell—and the result is people connecting with people they would probably have never crossed paths. Minds change, perspectives shift, empathy and compassion expands, and also people fall in love with the unique tapestry of their city.
Guest Bio
As a writer and communicator, Eddie Selover helps people express their business and personal stories in ways that are more relevant, credible, and impactful. As a marketing communications professional, Eddie has written speeches for senior executives, organized and executed large-scale conferences and events. As a certified life coach, Eddie helps people clarify their goals and priorities, and then better align their choices and actions to help meet those goals.
Several times a year, Eddie brings some of Orlando’s most interesting people together, as the organizer and host of PechaKucha Orlando. Held in over 1,000 cities around the world, PechaKucha Nights feature an eclectic mix of creatives and professionals who present in the 20×20 format: 20 slides, 20 seconds each.
Learn more at https://eddieselover.com/.
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PechaKucha Orlando
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone By Brene Brown
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Rick Bommelje has spent decades becoming a master listener and helping others do the same. Before you shrug off listening as a topic you already know about, I invite you to think again. In fact, I invite you to question why you may never have received any formal training in what is actually one of our most critical skills. Mostly, I invite you to listen to this conversation like it could hold the key to something that might dramatically upgrade your life.
Mentioned in this Episode
A Listening Heart: The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness
Listening Pays
The Sacred Art of Listening: Forty Reflections for Cultivating a Spiritual Practice
Listening Leaders: The Ten Golden Rules To Listen, Lead & Succeed
Guest Bio
Rick Bommelje is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida where he’s been teaching The Listening Course for over 20 years. He’s the co-author and author of two books: Listening Leaders in 2004 and Listening Pays: Achieve Significance through the Power of Listening (2013).
Learn more at listeningpays.com.
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Americans forfeit over 600 million days of vacation time EVERY year, and there are huge economic, cultural and psychological consequences to this. We’re not as creative and productive but we’re also not as happy AND we miss out on countless moments we could have used to connect with our loved ones and ourselves. I loved this conversation and I can’t with to share it with you, but a word of warning: I have a feeling you’ll be booking your next vacation by the time this conversation is done.
Guest Bio
Katie Denis is the Chief of Research and Strategy at Project: Time Off, an initiative which aims to shift culture so that taking time off is understood as essential to personal wellbeing, professional success, business performance, and economic expansion.
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Wherever you are in your life, chances are you’re going to find yourself working with teams at some point. And whether you’re trying to solve a challenge at work or plan your next vacation as a family, there’s a method to extracting the gold.
Doug Bolger is the Founder & CEO of Learn2, a participant-centered, experiential learning company with programs designed to have teams wildly alter how they work together, solve problems, and innovate.
In this episode, we dive into how having a diversity of perspectives, listening for the gold and creating an effective scaffolding allows teams, groups and families to work together as a cohesive unit to solve problems in an innovative way.
Guest Bio
Doug Bolger wants to change the way the world works. As Founder & CEO of Learn2, Doug believes that every team can achieve inspired results by unlearning, optimizing and creating best practices. At the heart of his award-winning approach to facilitation and design lies Doug’s commitment to participant-centered and experiential live sessions.
Learn more at learn2.com.
Mentioned in This Episode
Agile Families: The Secrets of Happy Families by Bruce Feiler
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Our culture often teaches us to be uncomfortable with emotions, to avoid them, and to set them aside when making important decisions. But neuroscience would have us see them in a different way. In this episode, empathy researcher Karla McLaren invites us to see emotions as data, as fundamental aspects of our intelligence, and inescapable parts of our cognition.
Whether you like it or not, your emotions are always at play. But the good news is, Karla can help us understand the wisdom that they bring and what a gift our emotions truly are.
Guest Bio
Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy.
Karla is the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill (2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings are Trying to Tell You (2010), and the multi-media online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions (2012). She has taught at University of San Francisco, Omega Institute, Naropa University, Kripalu Center, Hollyhock Learning Centre, and the Association for Humanistic Psychology.
Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration (also known as DEI) is a trailblazing approach to emotions and empathy that reveals the genius and the healing power within the emotional realm. Licensed DEI Trainers and Consultants are available in the United States and internationally.
Karla has also developed the groundbreaking Six Essential Aspects of Empathy model that highlights all of the processes in healthy empathy and makes them easily understandable, accessible, and attainable. This fully realized model teaches people how to access, develop, and manage their empathy intentionally. It also explicitly welcomes people who have been exiled from earlier models of empathy (such as men, boys, and autistic people).
With her husband, Tino Plank MA, MSN, RN, Karla developed the Healthy Empathy® program. Healthy Empathy® helps health and healing professionals develop healthy and sustainable empathy and compassion skills in their practice, in their workplace, and in their lives.
Learn more at https://karlamclaren.com/.
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Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents Paperback by Christine Carter Ph.D.
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence by Gavin de Becker
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Belonging and inclusion are both critical to our health and well-being. There’s real pain to be felt when we feel like we don’t fit in or we're deliberating excluded. It’s not theoretical, it’s actually physiological, and science has proven this. During this episode, we discuss many great studies but we also bring it down to day-to-day life terms. The research is fascinating but so are the practical applications.
Guest Bio
Dr. Shannon Taylor is an associate professor and Ph.D. program coordinator in the management department at the University of Central Florida. His research examines rude, abusive and unethical behaviors of employees and leaders. His work has appeared in journals in business and applied psychology and has been featured by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox News and NPR. Dr. Taylor gives presentations on leadership and management to audiences in business, education, health, and government. He also serves as research director at Knowtro Inc.
Learn more at business.ucf.edu/person/shannon-taylor/.
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We connect with other people all day long, in person and online. But how often do we take the time to connect with ourselves, to really check in and see how we’re doing and feeling? It’s not a practice our busy, fast-paced society allows for. In fact, it feels like we’re more distracted from ourselves than ever. Any given moment we have a multitude of things puling at us, demanding our attention. But there is so much value in coming home to ourselves. In this discussion with performance coach Angie Byrd we dig into why we don’t connect with ourselves and what we’re missing. And we also discuss how we can create self-connection practices and their immense benefits.
Guest Bio
Angie Byrd is a teacher, writer and partner to women in motion. She serves women through intense, experiential engagements that demand presence, honesty and the shared possibility of something more. With Angie’s help, women see, feel and experience themselves as powerful beings that matter, have deep connection with themselves and in their relationships, and can pursue lives of passion and purpose. Though these transformational partnerships, Angie devotes herself to powerful, courageous women who take a stand for the lives and world they want to create. She works with clients one-on-one and in group structure designed for intense impact, speaks to audiences of all sizes and shares her work through her writings.
Learn more at www.angiebyrd.com
Insta: @angie.byrd
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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
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There’s so much more to travel than the places we can cross off our bucket list or the photos we can take. International travel writer Rachelle Lucas invites travelers to break from the pack and get lost in a city. The best travel experiences are the ones that we never expected to happen, and they can only be found when we put down the map or the guidebook and just explore.
Travel gives us the opportunity to connect with ourselves, with our fellow travelers and with the culture we are visiting. When we’re open to it, it can broaden our belief systems, question our biases, and open our mind and heart.
Guest Bio
Rachelle Lucas is an international travel writer whose worked with People magazine, Travel Channel. The New York Times and USA Today. She founded the website The Travel Bite, a food and travel blog for inspiring active culinary vacations.
Learn more at https://thetravelbite.com/.
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During this interview, we discuss how we can prime our emotional state, refine our inner awareness and create better attention skills that result in us having a greater capacity to monitor our mind and body in real time.
Key Takeaways
- “We have emotional deficit disorder around our own potential.”
- Excellence is having the ability to create an exceptionally stable and clarified mind… we do this through contemplative practices.
- When we refine our emotional awareness, we come home to ourselves more readily.
- We must boldly re-envision our lives as something with meaning and purpose.
Guest Bio
Ryan Redman is the Executive Director of Flourish Foundation, a social profit dedicated to promoting contemplative based practices in communities for the purpose of achieving mental balance and universal compassion.
He has spent most of his life learning to make the time and the space to visit his inner world. The result has been the creation of a curriculum on topics such as contemplative practices, mindfulness and emotional regulation that he now teaches to adults, teens and kids in his home state of Idaho and also across the country.
Learn more at flourishfoundation.org/.
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Here’s something we don’t think about very much: how does a relationship occur for you and how do you occur for people who you are currently in a relationship with? What are we really committed to in our relationships with our partners, our family, friends and coworkers. Try on, as a possibility, that this sits at the foundation of your relationships. If you have no idea what I am talking about, give this episode a listen. Mentioned in This Episode
“Everything you do has an impact. Who you are – that you are – actually matters. In an interconnected world (the only kind we have), our actions and the actions of others are inextricably linked- we are always and forever in a dance of mutual influence with those with whom we directly and indirectly participate. It is the unavoidable reality of being social creatures, only magnified by an ever-increasingly complex and interwoven societal structure. We matter to each other.”
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Brandon Craig is a master creator, listener and results visionary coach accustomed to working in high stakes environments. Prior to building his highly successful individual coaching practice, he founded and grew a multi-million-dollar industrial services firm. He co-leads the Create Powerful Course two times each year.
Learn more at ontocore.com.
John P. Strelecky is on a mission to inspire people to think about and start pursuing their Big Five for Life: the five things they want to see, do or experience in their lifetime that would truly define their life as well-lived.
And while he’s living his Big Five every day, he’ll be the first to admit that setting out on a new path, especially one that looks very different from the one you are already one, isn’t easy.
In this conversation John defines the Big Five for Life concept and what it means to think about the museum of your life. We also talk about purpose and the impact fulfilling your goals has on other people.
And of course, he tells us how people start to change or shift when they start to orient themselves towards their purpose and towards their Big Five for Life.
Key Takeaways
- We don’t have to wait until a tragedy or health crisis happens to take stock of our life and start living our dreams.
- We make such a positive impact on the people in our lives when we start pursuing our Big Five for Life.
Guest Bio
John P. Strelecky is an international best-selling author and creator of the Big Five for Life concept. As of 2017, his books have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide and been translated into 29 languages.
Learn more at johnpstrelecky.com.
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Recently, my husband, Marc, and I have started testing out a new ritual. We’re habit people and find that when we can put key aspects of our connection on auto-pilot—that is, we get them to happen without having to think too much about making them happen—we seem to find each other more in the slightly chaotic, sometimes harried, often muddled, basket weave that is the life we’ve assembled together.
For over a decade we’ve carved the habit of a weekly date night into our family blueprint, amassing a dugout of equally delightful and reliable babysitters and teaching our kids that mom and dad time is the norm, no different than morning breakfast or nightly tuck-ins. It’s just what we do. This is simply how the Manieri family rolls.
Call us overly self-indulgent, but we find that after 13 years of marriage, we’d actually like even more couple time together (gasp!). Sure, we see each other every day, but the bevy of hurried, innocuous and sometimes snippy interactions Marc and I experience throughout our busy day feel more like baton passes in a relay than anything close to meaningful connection.
So, we’ve started the practice of meeting once a week for tea (wine or seltzer works just as good, if that’s your fancy). And rather than let the day’s headlines or our endless checklist guide our conversation (Did you call the roofer? Should I book the flight to Atlanta before it gets too expensive? Are you going to call the bank about those extra fees?), we anchor our interlude in two questions that have completely changed how we spend those 30 minutes together.
What would you like to be acknowledged for?
What would you like me to know about your life?
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Kostya Kimlat is a Ukrainian-American magician, motivational speaker, entrepreneur and business consultant who uses magic to help others understand the importance of perception in our daily lives. Learn more at kostyakimlat.com.
Description
Having the ability to see other people’s perceptions of us is a powerful skill. We may not think about it much, but we are always “on,” which is to say that we are always being perceived by our audience (our spouse, our kids, our coworkers, our friends, etc.).
Tuning into our impact and bringing clarity to how we are perceived can help guide our actions in ways that help us to strategically create the result we are trying the create: the sale, the relationship, the feeling, or the moment.
Key Takeaways
- Methods versus effects: there’s what we do and then there is the actual impact we have on others. Sometimes our intended impact and the actual effect don’t align.
- The same principles of perception used by magicians to influence an audience’s thoughts and actions have been used by leaders to inspire, generals to lead, teachers to fascinate, marketers to sell, politicians to lobby, lawyers to litigate, parents to coerce and children to manipulate.
- Laughter, surprise and joy create positive emotions that make occasions extra memorable.
- Become a delighter. Bring more laughter, surprise and delight to those around you and you’ll live a rich life.
Mentioned in This Episode
Penn & Teller: Fool Us with Kostya Kimlat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCFXV6o7cro
Scientists Explain Why People Learn More When They're Emotional
https://www.kostyakimlat.com/blog/scientists-explain-why-people-learn-more-when-theyre-emotional
Can Watching Magic Tricks Transform Your Health?
https://www.kostyakimlat.com/blog/can-watching-magic-tricks-cure-depression
The Secret to Making Your Weekends Feel Longer
https://lifehacker.com/the-secret-to-making-your-weekends-feel-longer-1795585378
Kostya Kimlat
kostyakimlat.com.
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Guest Bio
Carrie Contey, PhD is an internationally recognized coach, author, speaker and educator. Her work offers a new perspective on human development, parenting, family life and being a healthy, happy, whole human being. Learn more at www.carriecontey.com.
Description
Carrie Contey has been our parenting coach for many, many years and along the way her insights and wisdom have helped us navigate our parenthood, partnership and personhood with clarity and intention.
Today’s conversation focused on connection rituals—the habits we create to consistently sync with the people we share our lives with.
Many of us have relationships with people we see every day, maybe all day, every day. And what Carrie and I discussed today was how to add more juice to those relationships and why there is so much value in having connection rituals.
Key Takeaways
- We all crave a deep sense of belonging and long to be seen and felt by the people in our lives.
- Give away only 49%; save 51% for your own self-care because you can only give your best to the world when you’ve filled yourself up first.
- Creating connection rituals gives us the opportunity to settle back into our relationships and to energetically return to home.
Mentioned in This Episode
The Family Cooks
By Laurie David
https://www.amazon.com/Family-Cooks-Recipes-Craving-Incredibly/dp/1623362504
Slow Family Living: 75 Simple Ways to Slow Down, Connect, and Create More Joy
By Bernadette Noll
https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Family-Living-Simple-Connect/dp/0399160078
Carrie Contey, PhD
http://carriecontey.com/
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Human connection is the multivitamin we all need more of. On a cellular level, we are wired to connect and the extent to which we sync with others, even strangers, has a huge impact on our lives, inside and out. Imagine if our lives could be exponentially upgraded just by bringing more intention and presence to the way we connect with others.
About Your Host - Kristen Manieri
To me, life is about constantly evolving as a human being. It's about using the experiences presented to us every single day to upgrade our consciousness, even if it's only by the smallest amount.
Have a conversation with me and within minutes you'll discover that I am an insatiably curious lifelong learner, reader and podcast devourer. I’m on a journey to learn more about how to maximize what researchers have found is the most critical factor in our health, happiness and well-being: the way we connect with others.
I was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and I've been a resident of Orlando, FL since 2006 I launched a lifestyle blog in 2007, the same year I started freelance writing for magazines both locally and beyond.
In 2017, my award-winning blog (Orlando Date Night Guide) celebrated its 10th anniversary and I launched my digital media company, DNG Media, which oversees a network of Date Night Guide websites across the country.
I'm a seasoned speaker and a sought-after television news guest. But mostly I'm just a human being, trying to figure it all out, not make too much of a mess of things, and learn a few things along the way.
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