Hi, I am Marina Perry! As a Self-Sovereignty Coach; Whole Womanhood Activist; entrepreneur and mother to two girls… I’m on a mission to empower every woman with the tools and core compass she needs to explore and expand her experience and expression of herself. To embody her wholeness, magnify her more and live her light! Ready to Step out of Stuck and Flow into Fulfillment?
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Kyra Yang, a Certified Hypnotherapist that helps 7 and 8-figure entrepreneurs design a winning CEO mindset, to discuss emotional intelligence. Kyra has been responsible for generating multi millions in new revenue and higher entrepreneurial fulfillment for her clients by overcoming self sabotage and deep mindset blocks around money, visibility and success. By leveraging neuroscience, Kyra helps break mental bottlenecks in business to help unveil your utmost potential so that you can amplify your success and happiness sustainability.
When Kyra got started in entrepreneurship, she started to notice that a lot of the people she worked with were having stress, anxiety, and self-doubt. Even if they were creating new levels of success, they were still feeling a very low quality of life. That’s when she realized the emotional intelligence and the mindset component were so crucial for entrepreneurs to actually sustain this level of success and continue to break into more.
People think if they work for themselves, they’ll be free of all of these stressors from working the daily grind. And yet, entrepreneurship for many people is more stressful and less abundant. The reality is you just have more success and more money, but you're still the exact same person. If you have a perfectionism cycle or a scarcity loop running, the pressure to sustain that level of success that is self-created is so high.
When you have more positive thoughts or a positive belief system, that then results in thoughts that release positive emotions, greater confidence, and we move forward. That's naturally gonna increase your energy. There's a lot of pressure to be a certain way, and it’s natural to doubt yourself. The good thing is we can start to reframe imposter syndrome as moving towards an even bigger goal. Of course, it's gonna feel uncomfortable because we haven't been there before, but that doesn't mean that we can't do it.
Learn all this and more on this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast!
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, EJ Love returns to the podcast to discuss healing from heartbreak and betrayal. EJ is a trauma-informed, conscious sexuality, and thought leader, specialising in transparent and authentic conversations.
EJ has recently experienced heartbreak. When these things happen, the journey we end up on is facing a lot of our own shadows and darkness, and having to feel the grief and loss of a relationship. There's always two sides to every story, and EJ is someone who likes to come with as much curiosity, compassion, and responsibility as possible.
There's a lot of people who say, “well, I didn't lie.” But not telling a truth is withholding authentic communication and sometimes it's more painful. Many people relate conflict to death, so if they go into conflict, they might die. There's a fear of loss of respect, especially if the person they're conflicting with is related to them being productive or gaining resources.
Many women have had the story told that their beauty, attractiveness, and beliefs are there for a man's pleasure. Yet, in EJ’s experience, personally and professionally talking to men, they really love boundaries, feedback, and information because it gives them confidence. Being able to consciously explore sexuality after her uncoupling has been uplifting for EJ in her own journey. It helps to understand that no one else needs to love or see her partner in his wholeness other than her.
Learn all this and more on this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast!
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Narelle Clyde, a spiritual mentor and life coach, to unpack light language. Light language is a multi-dimensional form of communication that speaks directly to the heart, soul, body, energy field of human consciousness, and also animals and nature. It is a healing frequency that can transmute anything into a loving frequency.
If you think about stuck emotions, traumas, and other difficult experiences we can have that get congested in the body, light language works as an energy healing tool to transmute through it. We already use light in traditional medicine to heal and explore the body. X-rays, for example, are a certain frequency of light. Humans are multidimensional beings. So we are here on this 3D earth plane as physical beings, but we also exist through other dimensions. Research has shown that there are up to 13 dimensions, and we exist in them all. So through those dimensions, we have access to different frequencies.
Narelle has received quite a bit of pushback over her career from people who can’t make sense of her work, but in deciding to take light language seriously in her own life, she did a live stream online about who she was, what she does, what light language is, and what she uses it for. From there, everything just blew up in the best way. This universe went “yes, this is alignment; this is your fullest expression.” And clients started coming in from everywhere.
It's a nuanced experience, and a piece of a cosmic puzzle. It's a return to more wholeness, which arguably is a return to greater light. The purpose of life is to be happy, and yet we know with the epidemic we have of depression, anxiety, and the pharmaceutical culture, we’re in a lack of happiness. The worst thing we can do is think about it and let it ruminate because we send ourselves in a spiral and it's soul destroying. We need to be in charge of who we are and who we want to be, and light language is a tool available to you if you seek it out.
Learn all this and more on this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast!
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina hosts a solo episode to discuss the human superpower of trust. Too many of us don't have enough trust— in ourselves, in life, or in others. As a result, we essentially lack safety, and when we lack safety, we seek to control more. We shrink, we contract, and we don't live fully expressed and liberated. Trust is so fundamental, yet there are mistaken beliefs that we hold around it.
Trust is not actually earned. It can be, but that's not actually how it exists. Trust is only ever given, so even when someone proves themselves trustworthy, you can still withhold trust. And if someone proves themselves to not be trustworthy, you could still give them trust.
There are categories of trust that Marina teaches to the coaches she certifies through the school of growth. These categories include capability, character, and commitment. These categories work together to establish trust. You might love someone's character and commitment, and think they’re such a good person. They just have the purest heart and you adore them, but maybe they are useless at doing the things you need. So they lack the capability arena of trust for you.
There are ways you can try and extend more trust if you can break down where there’s a potential lack of trust. If you see someone in their wholeness, in their capability, and affirm that verbally, they now have a capacity to grow into it. This is how we get to be more impactful leaders in any area in our lives. When someone breaks that trust and betrays us, we get to see someone's true colours. We get to make a choice, and we’re the better for it because if we hadn't given that trust, we run the risk of staying in that situation longer.
Learn all this and more on this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast!
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Lynn Kendall to discuss resilience in children and what we can do to bolster and amplify it. Lynn has over 35 years in the education system inside of Australia's schools and studied psychology. She created her own program called the Resilience Tutor built on the idea that resilience trumps intellect when it comes to what we need to instil in our children.
Statistics and studies show our children are in desperate need of support systems, due in part to social media and the current cultural climate of the world. Lynn got started in resilience after witnessing so many kids struggle with everything from academic work to social skills in schools. In an effort to get to the route of the problem, she went into the field of psychology and worked as a school psychologist. However, helping kids as a psychologist required waiting for something bad to happen first. So, she was still seeing kids struggle and felt like her current path wasn’t able to help them.
This led her to focus on a preemptive program based on teaching skills to navigate the world in terms of their emotions, thoughts, energy, and how it links to every experience that kids have in life. It comes from a proactive space that allows children to understand who they are within their space. They are able to take these skills out into life and have tools to help them perform better.
A large part of this approach is picking about the mistakes and beliefs we think are fueling our behaviours because behaviour is the outcome. Behaviour is what we see. So when we see a tantrum or meltdown, or we’re seeing anger and frustration because when we actually unpack what behaviour is, we realise it’s all emotion. What Lynn does differently in her programs is teach emotion from an energy perspective.
Emotions can be very complex for kids, and they can’t always work out what’s happening because they don’t yet understand life or where they fit in society. If we are not used to being present with ourselves, we cannot hear ourselves. We cannot feel ourselves. We are literally absent and outside of ourselves. Self-mastery is the foundation of self resilience. With higher levels, kids get the opportunity to modify their identity. So if we go back to the “behaviourally challenged” children, or ones identifying as “dumb” or “slow” or “problem children,” they have the chance to reclaim their self-identity and transform.
However, not all weaknesses are bad or even need to be changed. Helping kids know their uniqueness, strengths, and knowing what they want to achieve in this lifetime, can work toward achievement. We're not all academic and we weren't all born to be academic. The system is one-fit-all, and that doesn't work in the way that enhances the diversity of the world that we live in because our world is becoming more and more diverse.
If they are capable of connecting to themselves emotionally first, and then socially, with resilience, compassion, and curiosity, we start seeing happier, healthier, and more confident children who grow into happier, healthier, and more confident adults.
What You Will Learn:
How the Resilience Tutor helps kids become happier, healthier, and more confident in themselves, their life, and their place in society.
This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Caitlin, someone Marina met through Pure Health Club who also participated in Dream Builder. She’s done the program multiple times, and started out as a PT. She now works as a confidence coach and has built her dream life thanks to the confidence and empowerment she built in her life.
Holistic health and nutrition has always been close to Caitlin’s heart, and as soon as she learned about Marina’s business and mission, she knew immediately she needed to work with her. She was very much focused on how she wasn’t good enough, and was living in a lot of fear. She felt like a complete fraud and didn’t know what she was doing. What led Caitlin to dive deep into her work with Marina and seek out Dream Builder was letting go of that fear and resistence.
At that point, Caitlin was trapped in a defensive state, and the intimate groups of Dream Builder forced her to work through that resistance. She had no idea what she was doing or where she wanted to go in life, so the first Dream Builder planted seeds around self-sovereignty, awareness, and figuring out what she wanted. The second time, she was experiencing a lot of change in life, and the program got her to the otherside of that situation. The third time she took Dream Builder, she saw herself in a future she never considered and reached out to achieve that next level.
Dream Builder was the thing that allowed Caitlin to step in and own her next step in life. Listen now to hear more about what Dream Builder can do for you.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Lauren, who has been on the show in the past, to discuss her experience with the growth work program, Dream Builder. Dream Builder is a three day workshop meant to help you reach your higher self and build your dream life.
Lauren is a sex and relationship therapist, a sex educator, and an adult entertainer. She loves to combine her fields to give people a safe space to explore their sexual expression. Lauren did Dream Builder back in 2015, when she was raising three kids and caring for her husband’s traumatic brain injury. She was also dealing with a lot of PTSD from dealing with her husband’s accident as well as child loss.
Dream Builder allowed Lauren to take radical responsibility for herself and her life, which was a huge game changer. After Dream Builder, Lauren had a fourth child and felt empowered enough to leave a relationship that was not serving her. Dream Builder allows you to let go of what’s not serving you, so despite Lauren’s relationship ending, her ex-husband is still in her life. They are best friends, he is one of her biggest supporters, and it is a much healthier relationship. You are worth the heartache and pain to change your life.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by her client, Carol to discuss her experience with Dream Builder. Dream Builder is not just about learning new things, but also learning about yourself through experience and self-discovery. The goal of Dream Builder is to reach to your higher self and build your dream life.
Carol is originally from Ireland, and is a graphic designer, editor, and mother. She did dream builder in 2016 when she was feeling a bit lost in life. She wanted to find direction and purpose, but wasn’t sure where to go. If you feel stuck, change is what your system is calling for, so Carol signed up for Dream Builder. She had no idea what she was signing up for, she was new to Australia, and had a gut feeling that this was what she needed to do.
Dream Builder is a fast-track degree in yourself. Learning how we personally do things, and how our minds work differently in the same situations. The program is very layered, designed to help you take accountability for your stuff and put you back in your power. It also helps us to step into compassion and change ourselves for the better.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Benjamin Berry to discuss breathwork and how it plays into healing and recovery. Benny has dedicated his professional career to assisting the community in times of need. From an Ocean Lifeguard, Underground Search & Rescue Team Leader and a Firefighter, he has been faced with some of the most challenging circumstances that can be presented to humans.
Through injury, Benny not only found the power to take his physical health into his own hands, but the ability to connect with the essence of what it is to be human. With breathwork and cold exposure guiding him, his life broadened from rolling through the motions of everyday living, to the expansion of discovering himself as his own man with the power to choose the life he wants to live.
We breathe in oxygen and blow out carbon dioxide, and in exhaling, we’re influencing our blood and urinary system into going into a deep rest and repair state. Breathwork allows us to take control of our oxygen intake and be a catalyst to that repair cycle. Many people are unaware that our body is an ecosystem. We forget it’s not the one thing, it’s the overflow and bringing harmony to the system. There’s a pushback in using very powerful breathwork and playing with this tool because people are afraid of their own power.
It's work, but it’s a different kind of work and you have this power within you. The conscious mind drifts aside and allows us to sit with ourselves. This allowed Benjamin to separate himself from his pain and injury and start to heal from within. It’s about the desired outcome and it’s a skillset that takes time and development. It’s incredibly accessible to everyone, whether you do it on your own or take classes and develop community.
Benjamin highly recommends working with someone to guide you through the process, but it is work you can do on your own. He encourages listeners to look outside their normal archetype and play around with passion until you find answers. Listen now and learn more on what breathwork can do to help you discover your deeper self.
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Additional Links:
https://www.instagram.com/your.mate.benny/
Extras:
Benny has dedicated his professional career to assisting the community in times of need. From an Ocean Lifeguard, Underground Search & Rescue Team Leader and a Firefighter, he has been faced with some of the most challenging circumstances that can be presented to humans.
Through injury, Benny not only found the power to take his physical health into his own hands, but the ability to connect with the essence of what it is to be human. With breathwork and cold exposure guiding him, his life broadened from rolling through the motions of everyday living, to the expansion of discovering himself as his own man with the power to choose the life he wants to live.
Benny is a certified Wim Hof Method instructor and now works full time delivering workshops based on this method and other practices he has utilised throughout his career and his own journey of personal health and growth.
My mission/message:
To spread love and create community! It doesn't bother me how this is done - through exercise, meditation, mens/womens groups etc. In my case, I do it through breathwork and cold exposure, but I get just as amped joining other people on their journey of creating spaces where people can truly be themselves and feel powerful in doing it.
This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined once again by Lauren Violet for a second dive into the topic of sexuality, sexual trauma, and the ever-evolving relationship we have with sex. How sexually free we are is not directly related to how much sex we’re having, but rather how we approach the concepts of sex and sexuality.
For Lauren, she was raised to view sex was for married people, not for pleasure or fun, and taking part in it outside of marriage was viewed as sinful. For most of her early life she abstained because that was what she thought she was supposed to do. As a teen, she indulged in other pleasures, but she knew she didn’t want to have a one-on-one relationship, get married, or have kids. She didn’t identify as monogamous, or even heterosexual, and many of her first sexual experiences were with women.
In her twenties, she fell in love with a man and explored a monogamous path. After the breakdown of that relationship, she abstained from sex despite having embraced it during the relationship and discovered she really enjoyed it. Her decision to abstain was a direct result from sexual trauma within that relationship. Sexual trauma, assault, and violation typically happen with someone you know and is not uncommon in domestic relationships. It happens across all genders, in all walks of life, all relationships, and we have to move through them. They are a part of our sexual evolution.
If you or someone you know is experiencing or dealing with an older experience, reach out to someone. There are people trained in sexual trauma that can help you through that experience.
As part of her evolution and healing, Lauren explored many different types of relationships before transitioning into an exclusive polyamorous relationship and then ultimately pivoting back to monogamy. An exclusive polyamorous relationship is between three or more people where all people involve are only dating each other. Relating and communication between partners is challenging whether you have one or multiple, and whether a relationship works or not is not based on the style, but on the effectiveness of the individual, communication, and emotional regulation.
There’s a fluidity to how we relate to one another that’s present even in couples. How our context evolves will change the trajectory of how we relate to others, and it’s important that we feel safe to explore the ebbs and flows of our evolution whichever way it takes us. Exploring our own sexuality and embracing our natural evolution allows us to better connect with ourselves and our partner(s). Listen now to learn more about Lauren Violet, sexual evolution, and working through sexual trauma.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Lauren Violet to discuss navigating the unique nuance of children entering the teen/tween phase and relating to their blossoming relationship to sexuality. Sex and sexuality is the part of society that holds the most shame and the most conditioning. When it’s misused or abused, it’s harmful because that energy is so powerful. But when it’s embraced and embodied, it can literally create— whether it’s life, connection, growth, or healing. So the question is, how do we navigate that as parents?
As children get older, the exploration of their bodies switches from curiosity to sexual in nature, and being uncomfortable in these conversations with your kids is very natural. But it’s important to be a part of the conversation as parents because it’s a part of life. Whether we talk about our sexual journey or not, it’s still going to impact our kids. Lauren advises listeners not to be afraid of being open about that discomfort and acknowledging that you don’t have all the answers.
Children are forever evolving into adulthood. If you want your child to be a healthy, functional, sexually active adult, you need have these conversations with them as they evolve because that’s where they learn healthy communication. We all have an inner child that should be welcome within that space as well, so if you can recognize and hold your own transition into sexuality, you can better recognize and hold your child’s.
Many of our parents didn’t handle our transition well and some of us felt the impact of that well into adulthood. Others even bring that experience into the next generation. The most important aspect is that we’re practicing sex in a happy, healthy, and safe way, but what that looks like to each of us might differ. Having differing views can create struggle, but it’s okay to experience that struggle. Letting go of control is at the core of the solution. Sex and sexuality is explorative and an avenue of learning, and it takes personally navigating the journey to understand it.
Listen now and learn more from Lauren!
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Stepha Doyle, an international branding photographer, creative wildcard, content creator, speaker and facilitator. She is also the co-founder of Daydream Dreamday photography and branding studio. Her vision, art, and work centres around self-expression, creativity, aliveness, and humanness.
She taught herself photography at age 19 but felt too young and naive to feel confident in it. It wasn’t until she became a blogger and starting Instagramming that she picked the camera back up again. After being asked to take photos for others’ social media profiles is when she really launched herself into photography as a career.
The best photos are less about the pose and more about the human connection. It’s the intimacy and vulnerability we see in them. Photos are just another journey to self love because we’re seeing ourselves through a different lens. We start to learn our best angles and poses, and overall start feeling more confident in ourselves. When in doubt, move more, and do what feels natural.
There’s such a stigma when it comes to selfies, and despite how commonplace they’ve become, they are still met with judgement. But being unafraid to take your phone out when you’re feeling good and capturing that moment, doesn’t make you conceited. In many ways, it’s empowering and a way to come into your own. We downplay these parts of us and take away this love because there are all these narratives around if we love ourselves too much then we’re not a good person. Meanwhile, there are so many industries that profit off of people not loving themselves.
Nailing the “big selfie energy” comes down to approaching it from a place of neutrality and realising taking a picture doesn’t mean anything. On the technical side, Stepha recommends exploring different lighting like natural and ring lights, and playing with lighting angles. Learning the foundations of photography is great, but don’t be afraid to experiment and break the rules. Don’t take just one or two, either. Sometimes it takes a hundred shots to get the one that looks the best, and not even all of Stepha’s photos are keepers. Understanding what we see online is not a true representation of real life.
Our personality is a large piece of what can build a brand and help people remember us, so creating content that capitalises on who we are on a personal level is so beneficial. We feel safe around what we know, so being imperfect and showing that vulnerability is key to making those connections.
Learn more from Stepha Doyle and listen now!
Bio:
Stepha Doyle is an international branding photographer, creative wildcard, content creator, speaker and facilitator. She is also the co-founder of Daydream Dreamday photography + branding studio.
Her vision, art and work centres around self-expression, creativity, aliveness, and humanness.
Mission/message:
To support people in feeling their aliveness and the liberation of their self-expression through photographic experiences, art and creativity.
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Additional Links:
instagram.com/stepha_doyle
instagram.com/daydreamdreamday
https://www.stephadoyle.com/photography
This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Stepha Doyle, an international branding photographer, creative wildcard, content creator, speaker and facilitator. She is also the co-founder of Daydream Dreamday photography and branding studio. Her vision, art, and work centres around self-expression, creativity, aliveness, and humanness.
She taught herself photography at age 19 but felt too young and naive to feel confident in it. It wasn’t until she became a blogger and starting Instagramming that she picked the camera back up again. After being asked to take photos for others’ social media profiles is when she really launched herself into photography as a career.
The best photos are less about the pose and more about the human connection. It’s the intimacy and vulnerability we see in them. Photos are just another journey to self love because we’re seeing ourselves through a different lens. We start to learn our best angles and poses, and overall start feeling more confident in ourselves. When in doubt, move more, and do what feels natural.
There’s such a stigma when it comes to selfies, and despite how commonplace they’ve become, they are still met with judgement. But being unafraid to take your phone out when you’re feeling good and capturing that moment, doesn’t make you conceited. In many ways, it’s empowering and a way to come into your own. We downplay these parts of us and take away this love because there are all these narratives around if we love ourselves too much then we’re not a good person. Meanwhile, there are so many industries that profit off of people not loving themselves.
Nailing the “big selfie energy” comes down to approaching it from a place of neutrality and realising taking a picture doesn’t mean anything. On the technical side, Stepha recommends exploring different lighting like natural and ring lights, and playing with lighting angles. Learning the foundations of photography is great, but don’t be afraid to experiment and break the rules. Don’t take just one or two, either. Sometimes it takes a hundred shots to get the one that looks the best, and not even all of Stepha’s photos are keepers. Understanding what we see online is not a true representation of real life.
Our personality is a large piece of what can build a brand and help people remember us, so creating content that capitalises on who we are on a personal level is so beneficial. We feel safe around what we know, so being imperfect and showing that vulnerability is key to making those connections.
Learn more from Stepha Doyle and listen now!
Bio:
Stepha Doyle is an international branding photographer, creative wildcard, content creator, speaker and facilitator. She is also the co-founder of Daydream Dreamday photography + branding studio.
Her vision, art and work centres around self-expression, creativity, aliveness, and humanness.
Mission/message:
To support people in feeling their aliveness and the liberation of their self-expression through photographic experiences, art and creativity.
What You Will Learn:
Additional Links:
instagram.com/stepha_doyle
instagram.com/daydreamdreamday
https://www.stephadoyle.com/photography
This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Atlas Talisman, a game designer living in Tokyo, to discuss harnessing energy. He grew up in South Africa and studied creative arts throughout his life. He moved to Australia in his early teens where he really broadened his creative focus and worked as a creative consultant for many different industries.
He set out to grab all of these different “creative play” things he was doing, pull them together in some way, and trust the hive mind to create some sort of symbiotic relationship between them. The approach opened a lot of doors for him in so many different industries that he otherwise wouldn’t have gotten to be a part of. Now, he tells trans-media stories and brings culture and art into the electronic space.
There is an artificial structure in society which forces the unnatural. And we can create metrics of success, put money into marketing, and use brute force to make sure that we adhere to things which are actually against our natural way of being. For Atlas, gamifying something means highlighting what’s already there, not making something new. It’s turning the spotlight onto things that are already present, and giving you an interface to help you interact with and challenge what’s artificial.
Everyone wants to be a king or queen rather than understanding the group enrichment of symbiotic living where you give to the system that gives to you. We live in a world where everyone is addicted to control and giving others what they think they want to hear. The gaming industry is able to challenge those mindsets within us and explore the relationship between enslavement and freedom. There’s definitely a darkside to the web and gaming, but there’s a powerful leverage point there as well that can take us to the new era in society.
The facade of power and success is crumbling, and artificial intelligence is just adding another voice to that conversation. We have trust that there’s good and bad, and that there will be a syntropic evolution to it. NFT, or Non-Fungible Token, is more than graphic art. It’s a standard of Smart Contract, and is traceable through the digital world. It’s programming code that cannot be duplicated and can change the way we handle medical records, voting, and more.
Atlas suggests starting with participation. Getting involved with gaming and technology will connect you to the culture and community in the tech space. Don’t wait until Apple or Google give you the opportunity, but get involved now. Get a twitcher account, and attend “Ask Me Anything” events with developers at the forefront of the space.
What You Will Learn:
This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Atlas Talisman, a game designer living in Tokyo, to discuss harnessing energy. He grew up in South Africa and studied creative arts throughout his life. He moved to Australia in his early teens where he really broadened his creative focus and worked as a creative consultant for many different industries.
He set out to grab all of these different “creative play” things he was doing, pull them together in some way, and trust the hive mind to create some sort of symbiotic relationship between them. The approach opened a lot of doors for him in so many different industries that he otherwise wouldn’t have gotten to be a part of. Now, he tells trans-media stories and brings culture and art into the electronic space.
There is an artificial structure in society which forces the unnatural. And we can create metrics of success, put money into marketing, and use brute force to make sure that we adhere to things which are actually against our natural way of being. For Atlas, gamifying something means highlighting what’s already there, not making something new. It’s turning the spotlight onto things that are already present, and giving you an interface to help you interact with and challenge what’s artificial.
Everyone wants to be a king or queen rather than understanding the group enrichment of symbiotic living where you give to the system that gives to you. We live in a world where everyone is addicted to control and giving others what they think they want to hear. The gaming industry is able to challenge those mindsets within us and explore the relationship between enslavement and freedom. There’s definitely a darkside to the web and gaming, but there’s a powerful leverage point there as well that can take us to the new era in society.
The facade of power and success is crumbling, and artificial intelligence is just adding another voice to that conversation. We have trust that there’s good and bad, and that there will be a syntropic evolution to it. NFT, or Non-Fungible Token, is more than graphic art. It’s a standard of Smart Contract, and is traceable through the digital world. It’s programming code that cannot be duplicated and can change the way we handle medical records, voting, and more.
Atlas suggests starting with participation. Getting involved with gaming and technology will connect you to the culture and community in the tech space. Don’t wait until Apple or Google give you the opportunity, but get involved now. Get a twitcher account, and attend “Ask Me Anything” events with developers at the forefront of the space.
What You Will Learn:
This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Teila-Anne Butler to discuss aligning your brand from the beginning to reach success. She’s a digital marketing guru and has years of experience helping brands define themselves and stand out online. Teila got into marketing on accident by following a skillset, and naturally grew through sharing her knowledge.
Aligned branding means keeping true to you, and it’s important from the beginning because of the sheer amount of noise present in every industry. When you’re showing up as who you genuinely are, the right people will find you. That saves you time and energy in marketing because your fans and the people who love you and your services will do a large part of your marketing for you. It also keeps you from having to rebrand later on because you’re staying to what’s natural to you, and it will feel like less work.
The number one mistake people make on social media is putting pressure on themselves to create. It’s the perception that every piece of content has to be intentional, and they stop having fun with it. This comes out specifically with people with personal brands, who have a hard time separating themselves from their online persona.
Knowing your target audience will help you streamline your alignment. Showing up for people comes down to the kind of language you’re using about your business, images you’re sharing, and the way you’re speaking to people. The moment you have that person in mind as you do these things, you’ll naturally change the way you’re showing up for them. Your brand vision is long-term, whereas your mission works shorter term and allows you to target specific goals and customers. Figuring out where you want to start showing up is the first step to aligning your personas with your vision and mission. Listen now and learn all this and more from Teila-Anne!
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Teila-Anne Butler to discuss aligning your brand from the beginning to reach success. She’s a digital marketing guru and has years of experience helping brands define themselves and stand out online. Teila got into marketing on accident by following a skillset, and naturally grew through sharing her knowledge.
Aligned branding means keeping true to you, and it’s important from the beginning because of the sheer amount of noise present in every industry. When you’re showing up as who you genuinely are, the right people will find you. That saves you time and energy in marketing because your fans and the people who love you and your services will do a large part of your marketing for you. It also keeps you from having to rebrand later on because you’re staying to what’s natural to you, and it will feel like less work.
The number one mistake people make on social media is putting pressure on themselves to create. It’s the perception that every piece of content has to be intentional, and they stop having fun with it. This comes out specifically with people with personal brands, who have a hard time separating themselves from their online persona.
Knowing your target audience will help you streamline your alignment. Showing up for people comes down to the kind of language you’re using about your business, images you’re sharing, and the way you’re speaking to people. The moment you have that person in mind as you do these things, you’ll naturally change the way you’re showing up for them. Your brand vision is long-term, whereas your mission works shorter term and allows you to target specific goals and customers. Figuring out where you want to start showing up is the first step to aligning your personas with your vision and mission. Listen now and learn all this and more from Teila-Anne!
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Queen of Confidence, Erika Cramer. Erika has survived many different traumas throughout her life including, childhood abuse, foster care, loss, and more, and is the definition of transforming trauma into triumph. Erika believes all women are queens of confidence and the route to achieving that level is to see it in ourselves.
Curvy women struggle with finding clothes that fit more than any other demographic in Australia, so back when she was a clothing stylist, she started out as the Queen of Curves. But through that journey, she felt the exclusion of other types of women, and she decided she didn’t want to stand in that spotlight. So she changed the name to be more inclusive to any woman looking for a leader.
Erika grew up in the US. Her mom was in and out of mental hospitals, so Erika spent a lot of time in foster care. She was constantly looking for validation, had no sense of belonging or confidence, and was very angry. At 17 she joined the army, thinking that was the only way she could get out of her world. Years later, Erika was involved in a very bad car accident, spent 30 days in the hospital, and had to learn to walk again.
Thinking that was her wakeup call, she left the military and started on her journey of becoming a model and stylist. At the age of 23, her husband was involved in a drunk driving accident and passed away. Feeling lost and alone, she dated several men who were not good people, and ended up relocating to Australia. While living in Australia, she realized she couldn’t outrun the past and really needed to do the work to heal and grow. That set her on the path to becoming the Queen of Confidence and meeting her now-husband.
You need to look in the mirror, and realize that the common denominator in your life is you. It’s not because of anything else, and we can’t keep blaming all those other things. If you’ve had a lot of terrible things happen to you in your life, they can be easy to blame for where you are now. But so many people have had truly horrible things happen in their pasts and are thriving. Look to those people, and take responsibility for the life you have and the future you want. We can’t change anything through anger and judgment.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Brianna Bowley, a trauma coach who focuses on rewriting trauma response and teaching what we need to learn. People think trauma is abuse, witnessing something violent, or an accident. For Brianna, my definition of trauma is anything that disconnects us from ourselves. When we have these traumatic experiences, whether traditional trauma or minor experiences, one of three things happens: fight, flight, or freeze.
Understanding our go-to response and why we do what we do is incredibly important to achieving new growth because then we can start to shift those patterns. Brianna encourages her clients to track their reactions, what triggered it, the responses in their bodies, and what they felt driven to do afterward to deal with it. That adds an extra depth of awareness, and we start to see how it impacts our lives.
For people in a constant state of fight-or-flight for survival, teaching them to be in their stillness allows them to take themselves out of that space. You don't feel it when you're in a fight or flight state. It feels normal to you, and it's often a real struggle when you try to slow down. So take it in small steps and know that the things we feel we're missing pave the way for values. Our pain points pave the way for our power.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Trace Garbin to discuss inner wisdom and intuition. In the journey for the meaning of life, Trace found self-awareness was her answer. Self-awareness unlocked everything for her when we’re lost, and things don’t feel good. Now, she works with adults to unlock that inner wisdom and soul energy. With self-awareness, you can retain your life-force energy and focus on what’s expansive for you.
Self-help can feel like busy work, but that doesn’t mean you’re not getting results. And you can get caught up and distracted in self-help. Being more in tune with what you’re feeling, hearing, saying, etc., can help you gain self-awareness. It’s like a muscle, and you have to keep using it. Absolutely everyone has intuition, and the key to tapping into it is getting rid of the layers that dimmed it. The biggest step toward initiative awareness has self-trust. Relationships take time. Skills take time. So don’t stop showing up.
Regarding growth work, the most important thing is figuring out what works for you. Sometimes, like if we’ve suffered a big trauma, meditation won’t be helpful, and something else might be more effective in achieving the right amount of mental stillness. Explore different ways of grounding yourself and pay attention to what you feel in your body. Give yourself a chance to get into those lows and work past the initial challenge of learning a new system.
Once we’ve done the work, we can better see our true calling in life. Everyone has a side-hustle; there’s nothing wrong with it, and if it’s genuinely your divine calling, go to it. However, you want to be doing it because of you and not for any external reasons.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina discusses parts, fragmentation, and the reclamation of our parts. Parts of us are the aspects of our personality or behaviors we either identify with or have chosen not to. As we go through life, we’re being fed information and feedback that we internalize as lessons for survival and expectation.
If you’re punished for certain behaviors, or even if you’ve heard people in your life speak poorly of others who displayed those behaviors, your desire to be loved and accepted will force you to reduce the acceptance of those parts within yourself.
We can disown a part of ourselves, meaning you brought a part forward and experienced a painful rejection for it. And if we experience that rejection repeatedly, we’ll shut it down and stop doing it. We can also leave pieces of ourselves dormant, which happens when we witness someone we respect reject someone else we are less likely to step into that same behavior for fear of rejection.
Thirdly, we can fragment ourselves in what’s called the distorted part. This is when we allow pieces of ourselves to show through, but only in specific environments when we know we’re more likely to not experience rejection. Every single person walking the planet has fragmented themselves based on their conditioning. It doesn’t mean you’re living a terrible life; you can be incredibly successful and still fragment. A sign of fragmentation is triggered by someone displaying a specific behavior because that means you’ve encoded that behavior as bad.
We end up draining our own energy by not owning these parts. That denial takes energy away from us, and when we open up, we can release and use that energy. The same way you have an arm and an elbow in your physical being, you have parts to your identity and spiritual being that is just as much a part of you as anything else.
With women in particular, as we pick up more roles in life, we start establishing all these rules for ourselves of what we’re “supposed” to be in these roles. For example, when we step into motherhood, we can no longer be a boss or a sexy minx because our conditioning says mothers can’t be those things. So we start repressing those parts of us to be what we think of as a proper mother. Marina invites you to explore what makes your identity, is something serving you, and think of what life would be like if you welcomed those parts back into expression.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina discusses how we can only manifest what our system allows. She explores the concepts of inner floors and ceilings we all have in our lives and how our reality reflects our inner codes. Only once we truly understand that can we step in and call what we want. Codes are learned concepts we hold ourselves to, and they ultimately create a cage of conditioning. And most of us aren’t even aware of it. It doesn’t matter if your life is amazing or not. We all have something inside the matrix of all of our codes that creates a floor and ceiling that keeps us “safe.” Without growth work, we cannot reach anywhere above that ceiling of our cage that’s limiting us.
When we’re in a cage, we might not be happy, but our system is happy because it knows what’s happening. It keeps up in belonging and the routine. The unconscious mind likes to lock in because so many of our actions and movements are unconscious so the brain can conserve energy. When we consciously try to reach above our ceiling, our system gets a little freaked out.
The fear of success is more common than people realize. We know we can do it, but our codes interfere. To move past that ceiling, we need to do that work and update our codes to be more in alignment with what we’re trying to achieve. We manifest what our system allows, so allow it, and then you get to have it. But when we fear success, we’re afraid that we’re going to lose another by achieving one thing. Hitting our ceiling back bouncing back down isn’t like a sabotaging cycle. Your goal is not to eliminate the ceiling or the floor but elevate them.
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On the Marina Perry Podcast this week, Marina discusses how to get around the number one block to being your best self. We often talk about our best self being our higher self or next-level you. It’s an ever-evolving concept, and the block that’s stopping us from being our best selves is identity coherence.
Identity coherence is when we believe we are a certain way and actively work to match that perceived identity. The problem is, that our best self is a different version of us. So if we’re always working to match the identity of what we think we are, we’re never going to be able to change into a better version. The etymology of the word “identity” is “same,” meaning when you identify with something, you’re saying you’re the same as it. So we construct this cage of our own making, and only you have the power to change.
This doesn’t mean that the you you are right now can’t have the life you want. It means you aren’t a match. We live in a magnetic universe, and we attract the things that we are, not the things we want. To close the gap between what we are and what we want to be, we have to stop limiting our identities and blocking our birthright. When we’re in our wholeness, we are everything, and when we’re everything, we can have anything.
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On the Marina Perry Podcast this week, Marina discusses being overwhelmed as a form of sabotage. Often the reason we feel overwhelmed is that we have too many open loops. Open loops can be anything from a conversation you're putting off, a task you haven't done, or any number of things, and they mentally drain us. Our brain is wired to remember and focus on incomplete tasks. When you have a lot of open loops, you want to take them out of your head. Writing a list is one of the quickest ways to take open loops out of your head because it puts the responsibility of remembering in the list and not your brain. Another thing you can do is start ticking off some of the smaller tasks and close those smaller loops.
Outsourcing and delegating tasks to others is a great way to increase your capacity when you're feeling overwhelmed. Asking for help is a superpower, but you want to make sure you're handing over those tasks to people you trust. That way, you can fully outsource the responsibility to them.
Open loops from an inability to make decisions can be incredibly overwhelming, so practice the art of decision making to close them. Decisions aren't permanent, and you can always change your mind later.
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On the Marina Perry Podcast this week, Marina chats with personal growth coach Rudi Landmann about life journeys and how we don’t always follow the path we expect ourselves to. Rudi came from a very sedentary lifestyle, ate fast food multiple times a week, and was unhealthily overweight. So they decided to take a more athletic path. But even at their peak physical health, when Rudi looked in the mirror and photographs they were still no happier than before. They were proud of those accomplishments, but it was a huge shock to realize they still weren’t happy. The turning point for Rudi was walking by an athletics store and seeing a pair of women’s tights they loved. It started this narrative in Rudi’s head of why they couldn’t wear them if they wanted to. It took many tries to get the courage to not only buy the tights, but wear them out in public. But once they did, the fear and resistance Rudi was anticipating didn’t happen. Rudi even received compliments. The biggest thing standing in Rudi’s way wasn’t other people, but it’s the paradigm and resistance they were adhering to. We have to retrain our beliefs to fit a different paradigm and clothes were the start for Rudi to wonder if maybe they weren’t the person they always thought they were.
How masculinity is enacted in society is dangerous and toxic. Not just to women and children but men themselves. Many misogynies and violent reactions to womanhood are so grounded in our society that they’re not just targeted at biological women but femininity as a whole. It’s anything outside the tightly held distinction of what is “properly male.” This holds to masculine and feminine energies, too, not just physical presentations.
We know that people who do not conform to traditional gender identities or presentations are often ridiculed and even murdered. For Rudi, it’s never gone past verbal abuse, and it’s always been by a specific group of male-presenting individuals in packs. Rudi went from being a larger male most of his life who didn’t think twice about walking alone at night to someone cautious about where they are and who is around them. In contrast, the women in Rudi’s life have been unendingly supportive.
Rudi isn’t sure if their two sons (age 10 and 8) even perceive a difference. The boundaries of what male behavior should be or look like have been expanded by their involvement in Rudi’s journey. Raising sons was something Rudi was concerned with at first because of their struggle with gender identities, but Rudi realized that navigating masculinity isn’t something they have to teach. Their sons are already so immersed in it and have the freedom to decide for themselves what it looks like.
The key is learning discord and unhappiness have a source. There could be a wound inside you caused by societal conditioning and inauthenticity, and to find inner happiness, you need to dive deep into yourself. We need to find that sense of liberation and expansion, and the more we are with ourselves in freedom and self-exploration unironically, the happier we are.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina chats with her daughter, Harlow, to share her experience, learnings, and lessons over the last year. For new listeners, Harlow experienced a severe medical condition called AVM, or “bleed on the brain,” which is a misformation of blood vessels that can result in a rupture. Harlow’s vessel ruptured last year at school. For her, it presented at first like a migraine, but as time went on, Harlow and her family realized her symptoms were much more severe than an average migraine. That led them to seek medical treatment right away. Because of the area of Harlow’s bleed, medical professionals kept her in the ICU for several weeks. They needed to wait for the bleeding and swelling to go down to figure out what exactly happened. In recovery, Harlow had a hard time reading, which was especially hard for her since reading is an important hobby. At first, the doctors decided not to operate due to multiple factors, including Harlow’s age and the area of the AVM. After months of pushing back her return to school due to complications, they eventually decided to go ahead with the surgery.
She had a phenomenal recovery process and eventually returned to school, which presented other challenges since she’d been absent for so long. Her friends were incredibly excited to see her, but they knew the teachers now, and Harlow didn’t. They hand inside jokes she wasn’t in on anymore. It didn’t help that Harlow was only going to school part-time. She tried very hard to care about the small things like the school dance or a new pet, but she found it hard to relate. She went through this particular experience of continued recovery from major brain surgery. While her friends worried about what they would be wearing to the dance, she was concerned about the results of her follow-up appointments and life-threatening complications.
We all go through events in our lives, whether in childhood or later in adulthood, and we survive. But what we sometimes don’t realize is we are forever changed as a result of that experience, and as we’re going through one pathway, the rest of life is going through another. Often we’re all-consumed in an area of life, or we’ve diverged in a different direction. So if we’re still trying to keep alive a section of society that no longer adds to our lives, we need to permit ourselves to let it go.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina chats with Kira Love in this part 3 live special exploring what it means to be a whole woman. Kira is a gender intelligence business and relationships coach and embodies women empowering women. So many women are taught not to focus on themselves, but we fail to realize that when we focus on self-care, pleasure, and needs in life, we're better at helping others.
We're raised with societal pressures on us based on others' perceptions of what it means to be a woman, and it manifests differently. For example, some girls are taught to be less bossy and not "too much," whereas others are celebrated for those more masculine traits. There's such a lack of self-love, self-trust, and emotional freedom, which strangles the spark from our lives. The journey to wholeness starts at healing those voids and quieting inner criticism. Women drive the emotional tone of the household, and when we don't have inner peace, the home doesn't have a state of peace either, no matter how loving we are. Wholeness means understanding that the most connected and intimate relationships start with ourselves.
There's an element of self-awareness to wholeness and understanding that we unconsciously choose the direction and context of our lives. We battle so many undercurrents daily, and many are out of our control, such as race and sexual orientation. Women are facing challenges now that we didn't have to face sixty years ago, and many of those challenges are in our relationships and careers. There's a balance between masculine and feminine energy, and how we allow these pressures, elements, and constant battles to define our womanhood is entirely up to us.
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This week on the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina chats with Devashi Shakti about fostering wholeness in womanhood in this part 2 live special. Devashi has been a leader in the feminine embodiment space for years and creator of Tigress Yoga- yoga for women by women-centered around female empowerment.
Today, being a woman amplifies the incredible challenge of embodying trust and surrender in uncertain times. To feel safe in our body and trust the divine plan for humanity. Practicing to surrender is about trusting the intellect of your instinctive body, which has far more knowledge than we realize. It's about trusting the bigger parts of yourself that know precisely what's going on and how to lead you through this time and leaning into them. Paying attention to the subtle experiences of your body can help.
When someone is so dysregulated and wounded, they pass on to the people they encounter each day. Being on the receiving end of that trauma is like an artificial veil over the truth, and we mistakenly believe things about ourselves and our worth. The wholeness journey is an opportunity to cleanse yourself of trauma and clear that out of your space so that you can be more complete.
Just because we can do something doesn't mean we always should. Humanity can evolve to be truly wise and constantly learning more, and a lot of the work is letting go of false perception. As we become older and wiser, the discernment point is, "at what cost," and where we hold the line and say we've gone too far. Will we be brave enough to make that correction when that moment comes?
The ability of women to imprint their children with experience is unbelievably essential to furthering humanity. Listen to your inner knowing even when it's heavily contrasted with the status quo and cultivate that learning. It starts with being willing to face contrast—question what your soul is driving you to question and have the courage to follow through on it.
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Many parents encourage women to grow up like men and not to need a man but to be strong and dependable on their own. The issue is that it raises women prone to hyper-independence and self-reliance. They often struggle with depending on others and believe they must do everything independently. While it’s great for building strong and resilient people, it also causes them to push away great relationships with people that come into their lives.
Whether it’s setting aside exercise or time to read a book, we must be taking care of ourselves by putting ourselves first. We are valuable people, and we can’t keep serving others unless we take time to serve ourselves, too. The practice of being in nothingness can help you be more present at the moment, more in-tune with yourself and your needs, and have an easier time dropping into the present at a moment’s notice. We have so many different parts, so being in our wholeness means being with all parts of us. It means bringing all those contradicting parts together physically, emotionally, and spiritually to be our more complete selves.
Attunement is an ever-evolving, constantly expanding the concept and is something that as you work with it, you will become more and more finitely attuned to yourself and the world. As you continue in your journey, the nuances you experience allow you the room to check yourself and expand into a more in-tune, more enlightened person offering the highest level of service to your fellow human. So, if you’re feeling stuck or small, inquire. Curiosity is a superpower. Look at what is alive within you and what your soul calls for you to do.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Marina Perry Podcast. This week, Marina is joined by Tino Beth. Tino assists leaders and entrepreneurs to engineer their purpose in the quantum field, update self-awareness, and manage mental health. How Tino got into his industry was very much a Hero's Journey, or a transformative pathway through life that acts as a "call to adventure." After leaving his full-time job several years ago, Tino decided not to continue down a tried-and-true career path and instead reinvented his life. He looked deep within to figure out what he could contribute most to society, which led him to help others reach their higher selves through their connection to the quantum field.
Everything you think about has an aspect of and is connected to the quantum field. It can come in "yes" or "no," taking very linear representations. Your mindset is your quantum sender and receiver, so if you think about why something is too hard or why you can't do it, that's tapping into the "no" side. Shifting to the "yes" is as simple as changing the thought process around it.
The goal is to bring consciousness and attention into our automated mental loop to create different outcomes. The key to creating more self-awareness is to check in with all the quantum loops we hold with us every day and not let one sideswipe your attention or take you off guard. Consciousness changes the state of things at the quantum level, and developing consciousness through self-awareness means identifying what will accelerate your journey the most so you can focus your attention there. Tino encourages you to reflect, sit back, and adjust as you go. Don't be afraid of the unknown and take little steps throughout the day, whether a different route to work or a new break in routine, to get more accustomed to living there.
The biggest mistake many people make is allowing too many ideas into their minds that aren't their own. There's no firewall checking that everything fits with our neuro-network we've developed over our entire lives. When you're working with quantum feedback and coming into mastery, you're going from learning the mind into the infinite. That's why people who work with quantum fields talk about collapsing time and speeding up manifestation. There is a natural call and response when you're in tune with your consciousness in nature. Nature reflects it and steers you in the direction you need to go.
The power of the universe is living within you, and all you have to do is have the courage to trust and follow it. Awareness has no limits. Now is the time to double down and focus on where your place in the universe is.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Marina Perry podcast. Joining Marina today is Jade Spear, founder of Jade Start, mother, and lawyer, to discuss balancing a multifaceted life. So many people go into entrepreneurship thinking it will be all about freedom and getting to call the shots. But what they end up doing is working longer, harder, and being paid less than they expected. It's all about aligning with your business and not doing it purely for the money. It's a lot harder than being an employee, so you need to make sure you have a purpose there.
When you're looking for your purpose or your "why," it's often right underneath your nose, and you don't even know it. It's the things you're naturally drawn to, good at, love doing, or have familiarity with. It's often so obvious to you because they're part of who you are. A great place to start is asking others in your life what impression they have of you or what things about you stand out to them. As you realize those things about yourself, you can connect the dots in different ways and try strategies until you get to where you want to be. We need to eliminate the fear of failure and lean into trying new ideas.
The second biggest mistake Jade sees in fledgling entrepreneurs is not putting the right structure in place, to begin with. Maybe they didn't get the right advice on what business to set up and company structure, and they grew too fast. No one thinks their business will be successful the first time around, but if you don't prepare for success, you'll end up causing yourself a lot of issues on the back end.
Lastly, many newbie entrepreneurs don't take the time to learn about their ideal client, which leaves their messaging and marketing too broad. So they end up frustrated and frazzled. Many people are resistant to niche-ing their business because they feel like they might be missing out on a lot of business in other places, but there's an art to knowing when to niche things down and keep things broad.
When it comes to being a parent and an entrepreneur, the key is to set very clear boundaries with yourself and know where the limit is at all times. Being a business owner allows you the opportunity to design your life with flexibility, so you don't have to make sacrifices you don't want to in either world. Integrating time management and delegation, communication, and respect into your business and family models will help you achieve that flexibility.
Often we find ourselves resistant to locking ourselves in because we're not sure that's the final path. However, that's something that evolves with us, and in business, you can be years down the line and decide to take things in a new direction. If you want to achieve something, the first step is being audacious, setting yourself in the right environment, and surrounding yourself with people who support you the whole way through.
Whenever you feel a little bit of self-doubt, remind yourself of all the things you've already accomplished you never thought you'd do and give yourself a little pep talk. Belief is key. No one will make your life work for you, create the change you want, or execute the ideas in your heads. You can only achieve the things you believe you can achieve. And if someone doesn't believe in you, find someone who does.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Marina Perry podcast. Joining Marina today is Mason Taylor, owner and founder of SuperFeast, one of the foremost companies offering tonics, herbs, and medicinal mushrooms. Mason started with mushrooms twelve years ago when he began a journey into better health and wellness.
The herbs, mushrooms, and berries Mason works with have been identified worldwide as the herbs that modulate the body, and tonic herbs have long been called the Bridge to Heaven. As you become more familiar, you'll learn which herbs help your body the best, balance your yin and yang, and help you cultivate life. The first herbs Mason went into were medicinal mushrooms because practitioners have revered them for thousands of years. They can stimulate the immune system, and if you give the immune system what it needs, it hits receptors that turn pathways on. This can regulate better and even fight infection.
Mason recommends listening to your body and using your intuition when including herbs and mushrooms into your wellness routine. For example, some people like cycling, and others prefer taking the same product every day. Mason also explains how important it is that we sustainably get these herbs and not rip the earth apart to get them. No matter what you pick to start with, you're going to get your foot in the door, and that's what's most important. Mason also recommends starting with at least two herbs and going from there with adding and taking away. Other than that, Mason can offer some guidance, but there aren't many rules because it's such a personal experience.
If you're looking to activate energy, look at your sleep hygiene to determine what kind of energy you're lacking and why. When you're lacking empowerment, you've most likely fallen into some ideological doctrine, and you're confused due to apathy, or you've gone far into a halting mindset. Mason recommends starting to contradict yourself in a safe space and looking at the people opposing your narrative to determine why it's triggering to you.
Remember, true intelligence is the capacity to hold two opposing ideas simultaneously and still thrive. And take medicinal mushrooms!
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Marina Perry Podcast! This week, Sophie Guidolin joins Marina to discuss parenting, entrepreneurship, and multi-passionate living. She is a woman’s health and fitness expert, social media star, and business entrepreneur.
Sophie has half a million followers on Instagram alone and prides herself on keeping her content very authentic. But she does admit it can be a lot to manage. Several years ago, she reached a point of burnout after consistently posting and prioritizing what she thought everyone wanted to see. So she took back control and set very clear boundaries to only see what and how much she wanted to share. Her advice is to own the fact that not everyone will like you, and don’t let that stop you from being who you are. When you find your people, they will accept you 100% as you are, and the more you are true to yourself, the more you’ll attract the right people.
The key to juggling her social platform with her parenting and business life is through organized chaos. Sophie has shared diaries and calendars with her ex-husband, kids, and friends so that everyone can have access to what’s going on in her life. It also helps that she loves what she does, so managing her business and releasing new products doesn’t feel like work. She’s learned many business lessons the hard way, like managing staff and delegating the right tasks to the right people. It took hitting rock bottom for Sophie to finally prioritize and reorganize her alignment to stop chasing the next best thing.
When it comes to making a blended family work, the most important thing is to take the ego out of it. When a partnership breaks down, we tend to get so caught up in ourselves we forget that there are children involved. Not every relationship is meant to last forever because we are all supposed to grow constantly, so it’s natural to outgrow each other. It was so important to Sophie and her ex-husband that their children don’t grow up into adults that need to heal. They were able to separate their lives before things got to an ugly place.
Independence and free-thinking have always been essential aspects of Sophie’s parenting style. She believes the best lessons are often the hard ones, so she’s not a helicopter parent. We need to learn to allow others to have their own beliefs and sit with someone else’s perspective we might not necessarily share. Journaling can give you immense perspective into your mindfulness and help you feel secure and empowered enough in yourself to sit comfortably with someone else.
Be authentically who you are because you’re the one who has to live your life.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Marina Perry Podcast! This week, Todd Polke discusses personal entrepreneurship and financial sovereignty. Freedom is our birthright, and when we're born into society, we give up a lot of our freedoms to fit into that society. Financial sovereignty comes down to privacy, control, and safety, and when you seek sovereignty, you are taking that freedom back. If we succeed, we have the opportunity to create a different reality without anything wanting us to stay in line.
Feeling safe in your finances can look different to everyone, and when your income is outside your control or private, there's not any way for you to feel safe. Every person is running a personal wealth business, which is figuring out how to take income from different areas and invest it into a diverse and sustainable portfolio that delivers month in and month out. Unfortunately, most people don't implement everything they need to get the results they're looking for, and they need to focus on raising financial intelligence to make better quality financial decisions. That way, they can install a more effective personal finance system.
There is never a perfect time to get started, and so many people buy into the idea that they need to wait until "the right time" to build their finances and personal wealth. As a result, they end up sitting on the plan for years and never take any action. Todd encourages you to take personal responsibility because you can move forward and step up to the plate the moment you leave those excuses behind. We can't let ourselves get stuck in the loop, so the next step is to focus on habits and form actionable plans.
Everyone has the potential to take back their finances, and when your money is in the bank, it's not your money. The bank has it and is allowing you to use it. When you factor in inflation as well, your money is losing value while it sits there. So even though you feel secure leaving it in the bank, it's not working nearly as hard as it could be.
It's important to remember that there's not a one-size-fits-all approach, so setting your pillars to determine your strategy is key. Every single person can take back their freedom and create financial sovereignty. All it needs is you taking that first step, so don't wait.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Marina Perry Podcast! This week, Erika Belanger joins Marina to discuss yoga, meditation, and procrastination. Erika is a certified yoga instructor, life coach, and host of the On And Off Your Mat Podcast and has dedicated years of her life to the practice of yoga and self-enlightenment.
Many people start yoga because of the exercise aspect, and it's truly one of the best places to start. But, in reality, it's only an eighth of the practice itself. The way we treat ourselves and others, breath practice, and meditation are also large pieces of yoga outside the physical movement. The exercise benefits are amazing, but yoga is ultimately training you for an ability to come into stillness with self.
Erika also uses daily practice for stress management and feeling more comfortable in her body. There's a lot of potential for yoga to help you self-regulate your central nervous system and gain the self-knowledge and understanding you need to serve yourself better every day. The practices we do every day on the mat are things we can take with us off the mat to help manage our attachments, stress, and emotional responses. If you take out the achievement-based result, can you see the practice as a way to set the tone for your day or week? Maybe you're showing up calmer or more energized and can better do the things you have to do.
Procrastination is the action of unnecessarily delaying something we should do, must do, or even want to do, almost like a force that prevents us from following through. It breaks our self-trust over time and even can be a form of self-harm and self-sabotage. Procrastination is a mechanism of negative mood repair, which means you're trying to avoid a negative feeling, so you're avoiding the task to avoid the discomfort that comes with it.
There are so many solutions to procrastination, but not all of them will work for you. So building awareness around your pattern will give you access to the right solution for your situation. Then, the strategy is to interrupt the behavior, and naturally, you're going to start replacing the undesired action with something better. It's important that you show yourself a little grace and not beat yourself up because that makes the process even harder. Take any action as soon as you can and celebrate yourself for it.
Time isn't the issue, so saying "I don't have time" doesn't make sense. Instead, Erika encourages you to rephrase it as "x isn't a priority for me because y" to put perspective into why you're procrastinating. Looking at your excuses from a different angle will show you if you're prioritizing the things you want to be prioritizing.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Marina Perry Podcast. This week, Karen Searle joins Marina to discuss society's relationship with childbirth. Karen is a certified hypnobirthing educator and has 22 years of experience in midwifery, and her passion in life is helping women positively experience childbirth.
Karen explains that a midwife is a carer with the skills and knowledge to care for women in pregnancy, labor, and post-labor to look after the physical and mental health of the mother while helping them navigate through the process. A doula is there solely to be with the woman, but they don't have any legal or formal medical training. Hypnobirthing helps women get into a positive mindset to go into birth with and understand she is safe and can do this. Evidence suggests women who hypnobirth and properly prepare for labor have a much more positive experience, require fewer interventions, and have a decreased need for pain relief.
If you were going to go run a marathon, you'd train for that. Yet, most labors are as physically intense, if not longer-lasting, than most marathons, and most women don't prepare physically, let alone mentally and spiritually. So women need to understand what's happening to their bodies, that our pelvises are designed to stretch, and talk about the mindset behind labor and delivery. The aim is to provide a toolkit for pregnant women to use as often as they need to, including affirmations, partner support, and strategies for managing birth preferences.
Hypnobirth also gives the partner, whether a spouse, significant other, friend, or family member, the opportunity to have a greater part of the birth experience. It's often easy to feel helpless and unsure of what to do during labor and delivery, and hypnobirth allows them to have purpose and control throughout the process. We need to remember our bodies were made to do this, and even in cases like Marina's, where medical intervention was necessary, bringing tools and strategies into your birthing experience will do nothing but help.
Karen recommends sitting with yourself and listening to what you want. It's your birth journey and no one else's, so get as much information as you can from reputable sources. Decide what you want your experience to be like, and then find the right people to support you.
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A midwife is a carer with the skills and knowledge to care for women in pregnancy, labor, and post-labor to look after the physical and mental health of the mother while helping them navigate through the process. A doula is someone who is there solely to be with the woman, but they don’t have any legal or formal medical training. Hypnobirthing helps women get into a positive mindset to go into birth with and to understand she is safe and she can do this. Evidence suggests women who hypnobirth and properly prepare for labor have a much more positive experience, require fewer interventions, and a decreased need for pain relief.
If you were going to go run a marathon, you’d train for that. Yet, most labors are as physically intense, if not longer lasting, than most marathons, and most women don’t prepare physically, let alone mentally and spiritually. Women need to understand what’s happening to their bodies, that our pelvises are designed to stretch, and talk about the mindset behind labor and delivery. The aim is to provide a toolkit for pregnant women to use as often as they need to, including affirmations, partner support, and strategies for managing birth preferences.
For the longest part of Marina's life, she embodied the "I'll sleep when I'm dead" mantra and struggled to let go of the day. But even after one day of insufficient sleep, that's where problems start. For example, the stress hormone Cortisol rises by 37% after just one night of inadequate sleep! That's not to say you can't make up for a night or so of bad sleep, but the short-term effects are just as significant as the long-term.
97% of the population needs between 7-9 hours of sleep a night, and genetics dictates how much sleep a person needs. If you're getting over 9 hours, that's considered too much sleep and also increases the risk of mood disorders, obesity, and other issues similar to adequate sleep. When we lack sleep, one of the main areas impacted is the frontal lobe, responsible for decision-making and judgment. We don't detect how tired or slow to react we are, and we think we're reacting normally.
Slow-wave sleep is by far the most important because of the production of growth hormones. That hormone spearheads cellular regeneration, which is so important to normal function. REM sleep is the dream state and is super important for memory consolidation, encoding, and emotional regulation. This is when memories move from short to long term and come to terms with our emotions.
Sleep also gives our bodies time to regenerate dopamine and serotonin (the happiness hormones) to use the next day, which is why we often feel depressed or drained after a bad night's sleep. Insomniacs are 10x more likely to be depressed and 17x more likely to have an anxiety disorder. If you're struggling with the wind-down at night, it doesn't necessarily mean you have a sleep disorder. Light (such as blue light, TV, ceiling fans), stress, and caffeine are all "sleep sabotagers," which not only make it harder for you to fall asleep but stay asleep.
To maximize the benefits of sleep and wake up feeling energized, the best time to wake is when you're in a shallow sleep stage- either Stage 1 or 2 and not REM. Waking up from REM sleep will make you feel groggy. There are a few apps where you set a window of time, and it will detect when you're in a lighter stage of sleep to alert you instead of a traditional alarm. Waking up with the sun or using a smart lamp set to gradual light can also be helpful. We also need to ensure we're giving ourselves space throughout the day to digest and process so that we're not bringing it with us to bed.
Olivia has seven recommended steps for getting a better night's sleep. First, block out light. Lavender can help reduce anxiety, so any type of aromatherapy using lavender can be helpful. Set the alarm an hour before bed to kick you off your phone (and blue light) for the night. Have a shower and a magnesium-based sleep supplement, meditate or read, and use an eye mask. A bedtime routine is essential, but you can implement many more techniques to optimize your sleep further, which Olivia explores in her book.
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As someone trained in transformational coaching and human potential, Marina's work often encompasses relationships. And what she's found is when someone is left or ghosting, it means anything about them. We particularly love to protect ourselves, so when we experience pain or suffering around a particular situation, we will mark it with meaning. That way, we remember not to recreate that same state.
However, that meaning we often give it is incorrect, and we end up remagnetizing it. We have hyper-stabilized beliefs about not being good enough. So we end up seeing this experience as evidence of this previously formed but incorrect belief. We all have our own frequency we operate on and what we look for in our ideal relationship. So when someone ejects themselves from that situation, it's because they've coded that frequency as unsurvivable, and they're moving onto something they deem as safe.
We need to spend time cultivating and envisioning the kind of relationship we want and how we want to be inside that relationship. Let that act as a compass out in the world. If we allow someone to come into our frequency and they eject themselves later, it means they're not aligned with us. In which case, leaving us is a good thing! Otherwise, we'd be stuck making something that doesn't fit work, and that's never going to feel good to you because you're sacrificing your alignment for the sake of not being alone.
If you're single, Marina encourages you to do as much growth work as possible because it will allow you to explore the frequency you're operating on fully. You'll have the ability to come into your future relationships much safer with yourself and being able to hold onto your frequency. As people come in and out of your life, you'll be more in tune with why they're not a match and not attach meaning to it that isn't there. Of course, there are times where we are the problem in the relationship, and someone will choose to leave according to their needs and boundaries. And we get to work with that, too, because it allows us to grow and evolve.
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This week's solo show aims to unpack what's really alive right now in the collective to understand better how and why we as humans are acting the way we are. Marina will drop into a conversation around projection, perspective, and protection and why we're experiencing such division and anxiety out in the world. This is a very unique time in recent history, and it's putting a lot of pressure on our values. It's spurring within us a lot of fear and anxiety and causing us to conflict with people we otherwise wouldn't have a conflict with.
As a human being, you have a physical body, a mind, and energy. We also have a primary need to stay alive, and that need activated within us a way of working with our internal system. This helps us to filter the world into a reality that makes sense to us. Just like everyone has a unique fingerprint, the way we filter the world is unique to us. Perspective is what aspects of the larger frame of existence we are focused on, and when we're making sense of life, we delete or distort some of what we're taking in. This isn't a system flaw but rather an essential aspect that keeps us from becoming overwhelmed with information. However, this essential function can severely limit our ability to comprehend the big picture right in front of us.
In our current world, this phenomenon is being used as a tool to cultivate fear and establish control over us. But our perspective is not the entirety of what's true and real out there. We're seeing people limited to seeing what they're currently seeing and feeling like they must report on it due to fear. We run into trouble when we fail to consider that other people's perspectives are also true. This pulls into question whether we're really choosing the things we're choosing or if we're assuming it's the only option available to us. If we close ourselves down to feel safe, we're handing over that power of choice to someone we think we know better, which does us as individuals a great disservice.
We need to expand our perspectives and frames of reference by listening to others and understanding that there's more than one truth. Our frame, on its own, severely limits us and keeps us from getting the things we want out of life. However, Marina stands by her mission and is not here to tell you what you should be thinking. We all have our own life's purpose and paths. Instead, she asks you to consider, "what is your current frame?" and invites you to dive deeper into the answer. Being afraid of someone else's perspective doesn't make it wrong; it just means it's something we're not yet able to handle. The definition of an expanded mind is the willingness to sit in the unknown and requires deep sovereignty and safety with self to journey into someone else's map.
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Man Up Australia is committed to sharing knowledge about the healthcare process for men with prostate cancer because there’s often a lack of support and resources to help see them through their treatment. Originally, they thought Man Up would be all about support services, and they tried to organize things like prostate care nurses. However, getting people interested in something that no one really knew about was hard because there wasn’t that awareness that things like breast cancer have. So they started an educational program that targets male-dominated industries to educate men on what they should be doing.
Many people don’t realize that early-stage prostate cancer has no symptoms, so if you’re waiting for symptoms to get checked, you’ll be in trouble. The stats say 1-in-5 Queenslanders get prostate cancer, but the national average is 1-in-7. The only way to take control at all is to test yourself and test yourself often. Anything that suddenly is different, you should never just ignore it. Survival rates are much better the earlier you catch it. The test is really easy, but you do have to ask for it. Try to be consistent. Men should also always know their PSA score, which is unique and should stay the same every year. Education is so important, and knowing what to look and ask for can make a world of difference.
We drill proactive health into girls from a young age, and there’s a huge disconnect with men’s health. They don’t want to have these conversations because it’s not something that’s been taught to be important, and it’s not something all doctors automatically test. General practitioners have a complicated job and have to know a little bit about everything. So, they might not test for things they don’t think are relevant at that moment. Many doctors, however, are very receptive to doing PSA checks when asked, but others give a pushback due to age and situation protocols. Outside programs can help you with things like blood testing for your PSA if your doctor isn’t willing. [They said the name once, but I couldn’t quite catch what they said- Maxellus?]
Part of Man Up Australia is taking the fear and stigma out of prostate testing. Many don’t realize doctors no longer use the “finger test,” but rather blood tests that are less invasive and more accurate. It’s a movement about the passion and concern for men, much like our movement for women. It’s not hard to make a difference. Man Up Australia has a website to post information about its events, benefits, partners, and donations.
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It's really important to build a business as a soul expression and not as something we need to fill a void. Everything we want from a physical perspective is only from a feeling that it gives us. Yet when we're merely obtaining that thing, we realize that feeling is not permanent. As human beings, we're here to experience emotions, and if we numb ourselves from pain, we are also numbing ourselves to pleasure.
We all have this facade of a person we think we need to be, but once we crack the facade, can we experience life and come to our natural state. To unravel that facade, we need to be willing to see the parts of ourselves that we're judging. Personal development, however, can overcomplicate the process. Thus, bringing those teachings back to absolute basics and feel everything in each moment.
We see this movement in modern society against the patriarchy and a rejection of all things masculine. But the truth is masculine and feminine energies are both beneficial energies in their own way. By balancing both in a way that allows them to work together will help you reach the success that you otherwise wouldn't be able to reach. Everything around us and the world we create for ourselves mirrors what we need to heal. The triggers are the gateway to healing, and the answer isn't in fixing the issue once triggered. But rather, it's about understanding what caused the reaction so we can choose to respond differently in the future.
The key to that growth is to feel everything before you react and to stop looking outside ourselves for something found within. It's about going within, coming home to yourself, and doing the actions rather than talking the talk. Even as you get better and better at growth work, it doesn't mean there's not that pull in before the expansion. It's that you get better and better, and it flows much more easily. When we have the willingness to express our uniqueness in totality, there is freedom. Then it's just a matter of trusting and surrendering to the process.
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When you work toward human growth, patterns become incredibly important. When you’re in the pattern, it’s like you can’t see the wood through the trees, and only once you come through to the other side do you gain the self-awareness to ask ourselves why it happened. When we put something out there with no resistance- bang, it comes when you’re not ready, and you just have to take it. When we start assigning meaning to it and having more to lose by not getting it, it gets infinitely harder to achieve.
Being bold essentially means being comfortable in your own skin no matter what. The best way to start truly embracing yourself is to stop agreeing with people when you don’t actually agree with them. Relationships come and go; if they don’t, it means you’re not growing. The only constant person in your life is you, which is why it’s so important always to have your back no matter what. People are often afraid of rocking the boat because they’re afraid they won’t swim if the situation goes bad. It’s important to remember that if people aren’t okay with who you are when you love yourself, those are not your people. And if you’re giving someone a less authentic version of yourself, they deserve better as well.
Never rely on pure motivation to get things done. You have to repair and raise your standards for yourself every day. Once you approach who you want to be as a commitment to who you are, and tackle things one small step at a time. Every time you switch your focus back and forth between creative ideas, it takes a few minutes to switch completely. An action can be the smallest thing, but we tend to self-sabotage when we talk about doing something and not doing it. You have to get into the habit of taking consistent action. Once you take that leap of faith, you’re not going to be the same person, and most of the time, you’re not going to want to go back to that person anyway.
Sleep and exercise are two of the best things you can do for your brain, both in the moment and long term. Most of the time, you’re going to want to be asleep by midnight due to the circadian rhythm. If you’re over or undersleeping, it’s hard to get yourself on a consistent schedule but stabilizing that routine is very important. Having dim lights and low stimulation shortly before bed can help you wind down and get to sleep more easily. Outside of sleep, a balanced diet with healthy fats, sugars, and oils is great for the brain. Taking care of your body and your brain is so important to elevating yourself and being your best. Ultimately, your power lies in how you respond to situations. No matter what is going on around you, everything that occurs is based on how you choose to perceive it and respond.
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We learn so many skills throughout life about the world, like physics, finances, and construction, but it’s mindblowing how little people learn and understand themselves. We distance ourselves from ourselves so much because no one has ever helped them understand how truly magnificent they are. True transformational coaching is all about getting the handbook to your system. Otherwise, you will always be limited by the system we live in.
It’s not about some people being more capable or luckier. Some people know how to better work with the system of their inner humanness. There are things outside what you think you want you can’t even conceive of. Marina’s journey into coaching started with better understanding herself and her own design and increasing her own wholeness and acceptance. When you know how to take the initiative and upgrade your inner system, you are gifted with an infinite ability to ripple outward positive change and achieve calm happiness in the face of challenges.
If you’re a mother, getting certified as a coach will make you the most exceptional, embodied, calm human you can be. You’ll learn all the language and how to record your conscious mind. You’ll also get a broad range of tools to facilitate those shifts and change because what works for one person won’t always work for others. So if you want to do the deepest personal work of your life, clean up your lineage or trauma, consider this program. It’s an investment in ourselves.
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Marina talks with expert Skye Williams on the who, what, where, and why of Conscious Parenting. We have this way of parenting that we’ve followed for many generations, and that’s what we call the “old paradigm,” and it’s very outdated. This is the paradigm where we see children as less than us and know better because we’re bigger and know better. The new paradigm focuses instead on children being their unique people who should be their authentic selves.
With Conscious Parenting, children get a parent who is more aware of what they’re doing, how they’re interacting with the child, and letting their child just be a child. For the parent, they have more flow and connection through those more challenging moments. Ultimately, children need to know three main things: am I seen, do I matter, and am I worthy? Making sure we allocate full periods to our children where we are fully present is vital. Children need to be able to express themselves and learn that it’s not scary to have feelings. They can let those feelings out and still be loved and respected.
Dealing with a young child in the middle of a meltdown can be stressful. A great habit to form is pausing before reacting. Allow your child to stay in the emotional side of their brain, and talking to them will pull them back to the more logical-reasoning side. Don’t attempt to fix the problem until they’ve had the chance to self-regulate their emotions and learn that it’s okay to feel those things and that they don’t mean anything. Also, the overgiving, selfless parenting archetype is damaging to you as a parent. It’s important to ensure you are giving yourself proper self-care to be the best parent you can be.
When a child is showing up differently than a parent wants or expects, it comes down to the parent’s experience of not being accepted as a child. Ultimately we love our children and want the best for them. So we commit ourselves to fit a certain mold to fit it and gain acceptance. As parents, our job is to create a safe space for our children to explore and find their interests.
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Joining Marina this week is Human Design expert and human embodiment coach Jasmine Smith. Human Design is about understanding why some things just aren't meant for us and how we can play more into our unique gifts. Jasmine comes from an Egyptian family and can trace her DNA back to Ancient Egyptian.
Human Design takes place and time of your birth and turns it into a static personality-type chart you can use to better know yourself. It draws from several ancient systems, including Hindi Chakra and Astrology, to show a person's energetic blueprint of who you're meant to be. Knowing your chart can give you a sense of owning your own strong suits and gives you permission to be yourself.
Types of personalities are generators, manifesting generators, projectors, manifesters, and reflectors. However, there are thousands of different variants that can present depending on an individual's chart. Knowing which type you fall into can enlighten you to how you are designed to perform at your best. Undefined Solar Plexus shows us how we feel emotions, how we experience other people's emotions, and how we process emotion as a whole. Not processing feelings is causing a lot of sickness in the world, so knowing your Solar Plexus can help you better deal with uncomfortable emotions and set boundaries.
The head center and root center are both pressure centers. The head represents mental pressure, such as doubt or inspiration, and the more defined the head center is, the more black-and-white the person will interpret the world around them. Having someone else's chart can give you insight into how and why they do things differently than you. The root is the pressure to do and a motor. Someone with a defined root drives to constantly, while an undefined root is prone to be overwhelmed. It's how we communicate and deal with stress and shouldn't be the only drive we have for moving forward. The heart center is the will and motivation within us.
What works for some people doesn't work for everyone, which is why we can't adopt other people's "life hacks" and insert them into our lives with the same results. It's because our systems aren't designed that way. There's no cookie-cutter approach. Human design work is best for those who have done some self-work and self-reflection but still feel that something is missing. It can help gain more clarity into who you are as a base person and why you do the things you do.
It also gives you the chance to work against your unconscious patterns for self-advancement. All the answers you're looking for outside of yourself live within you. Spend more time with yourself and look at yourself and your body as a whole.
In today's society, we tend to use the word "procrastination" as a synonym for laziness, distraction, and lack of focus. Instead, Marina encourages listeners to look at procrastination as a curiosity compass. Expanding on why you're procrastinating allows you to reflect on whether what you're avoiding is something you even want to do. You will often find that you're avoiding a shift in your life you're viewing as undesirable.
Sometimes we procrastinate something because we're afraid of what will come on the other side of it. Even in terms of leveling up in life or career, we might not be sure of the increased commitment or unseen consequences. Other times, it can stem from a fear of failure and feeling like it will prove you're not good to accomplish whatever it is you're trying to.
Procrastination is a wonderful tool to point to deeper issues. If we look at these issues from an angle of curiosity, we're going to shift our world and transform ourselves. Through growth work, we can open ourselves to so many experiences we would have otherwise denied ourselves. By looking inward, you might even find you don't even want to do whatever it is you're avoiding in the first place because it's no longer aligned with our deeper selves.
If that's the case, you can let go of it and delegate it to someone else. That can give you the freedom from the obligation of doing something you don't like doing. We have to ask ourselves why we even want the thing we think we should be doing? Is it because I actually want it or because I think I should want it? Marina encourages listeners to get curious and unpack it.
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Abergale Bremner, aka ‘The Limitless Woman’ initiates women to reclaim their power and pleasure through artistic expression. She’s helped thousands of individuals through somatics and breathwork, and believes that everybody has a soulmate available to them. Abergale’s spirit is best represented, according to her, as a black panther. The feline qualities and movements define her.
Abergale has gone down her fair share of paths to realize who she wasn’t. But, that allowed her to catapult herself into who she truly is. From music, to theater, to art, and the plethora of other things she was involved with, there was always a pressure to focus on a single thing and become successful in it. That led her to Australia 11 years ago, during a time where she wasn’t connected to her worth, which attracted negative people into her life. When she got there, she had to process and alchemize past feelings. Since then, growth has been exponential and abundant.
There has always been a sense of ‘there must be something more’ in Abergale’s transformation. She took a stand for her truth by stepping into the person she is meant to be, but it took guts. She has a sense of curiosity. There is an inner child who dreams up her own reality. Investing energy into imagination has paid off in a big way. It’s kept her opening doors and going further down the maze of life without fear of the dead-ends she might face.
For Abergale, one of the biggest tools she uses and teaches is breathwork, as breath is the bridge to the body. There are practices that bring you so far into your body that you are able to feel and celebrate emotions from the past. Suppressing emotions can lead to disease and result in negative health problems. Clearing those blockages through breathwork gives you your freedom back.
Abergale believes that we are all shamanic. She means we are all connected to the earth in many different ways. Some are sensitive to their environment and feel vibrations and auras etc. Some are visual, kinesthetic, or otherwise that triggers an image in your third eye. Especially women, historically, are connected and bound to the earth in a spiritual way. At some point, many of us shut down that feeling. It’s not everyone’s journey to reawaken that, but it is for some. Doing so takes work on getting out away from your current environment and spending time in nature with other’s with a similar experience.
Abergale feels that we are built to find a soulmate. In her belief, we are all connected in different ways to God, and that our souls are split in different parts when we are incarnated on this planet. Those parts can be masculine/femine, masucline/masculine, feminie/mascule, etc. In a relationship, when those dynamics are in harmony it is a beautiful and limitless thing. The journey is finding the other half of your soul. It’s a return to self.
Misunderstandings happen, feeling wounded happens. Abergale and her partner work through these conflicts differently every time. Either they will have a timeout and transmute those feelings apart, reflecting on the emotions that are triggered. Then, they can come back together with more clarity and space to love. Often then, they’ll make love, because it’s not about who is right, it’s about balancing the healthy masculine and fememine energies.
There’s a misunderstanding that when you become vulnerable by sharing your truth with someone, you’re forcing them to run away. When in reality, it brings two people much closer together. Communicating that truth and allowing it to open a conversation is incredibly useful.
For those who feel numb in their bodies and have moved away from pleasure, Abergale empathizes. It isn’t uncommon. She believes that what creates the most pain is not allowing your life-force in. As a woman, that is one of our superpowers. Take it slow. Connect to your body.
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In this episode, you’ll gain insight into somatics and breath work, as well as sacred sexuality and sex magic. Abergale and Marina dive into topics and practices that can empower you as a woman and help you reconnect with your physical body and your spiritual self.
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@abergale_offlimits on Instagram
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https://limitlessloveglobal.com/woman/
Off Limits with Abergale Bremner Podcast
This week’s show is very reflective, so if you’re looking for a fast-paced episode with many key takeaways, Marina lets listeners know upfront that this might not be the episode for them. She wants to have this conversation with her tribe, who knows Pure Health Club and wants to know what is going on with Marina personally. Marina decided to let Pure, her health club of 20 years, go earlier this year and transfer ownership for new listeners.
When Marina needs to reactivate her energy, she has a tendency to turn inward for clarity. That is the inspiration behind doing this show solo. Many listers have been with Marina for a very long time, and this year has been quite the plot twist. Pure is an innovative mind-body wellness facility that started in 2001 that offers a wide range of wellness classes. She built it from the ground up and has a lot of love for her first baby. However, sometimes we continue to do something for the sake of that original love that continues, ignoring that life often changes around us.
Ten years or so ago, Marina began moving into personal development and inner work as opposed to nutrition and physical wellness. This created a huge shift in her life that she realized needed to realign. As Pure developed to stand on its own, she found herself with a great team and less hands-on work, allowing her to travel and be the eternal student she is. As time goes on and staff turns over, brands inevitably evolve from their original forms. It took the Covid-19 pandemic of last year for Marina to refocus her power for change. They took Pure online in a matter of weeks, and when they reopened their doors earlier this year, she expected the brand to go back to normal.
However, that’s not what happened. Marina realized she would have to go back 10-15 years and rebuild. She was forced to rethink whether or not this aligned with where she is in life, and her soul was very resistant to this idea. Marina realized that Pure deserved better than a reluctant leader unaligned with its needs, but one lit up with how it is now. Because Marina loves this brand so much, she knew she needed to let it go so it could reach its highest.
She got really honest with herself and asked herself, “if this went how I wanted it to go, what would it look like?” And she realized she wanted to be free of that obligation, but in a way where that brand she built and loves so much would be taken care of. Marina touches on how not all decisions are certain, and we have many conflicting codes within us. We need to listen to ourselves and constantly review and revise those codes. Otherwise, we risk putting our trust in systems we have because we’ve always had them and not because they align with our current selves.
Getting her unlikely, best-case scenario outcome didn’t keep Marina from experiencing the stages of grief either. Realigning yourself can be incredibly uncomfortable, but that doesn’t mean it’s the wrong path. This was all happening while her daughter was having health issues, so all-in-all, 2020 was a very transformative year for Marina. Your health is your wealth, and prioritizing appropriately can put other things in life into perspective.
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Belinda has a background in transpersonal psychology, neuropsychology, neurolinguistics, and much more. She wrote the book on Love Codes and is here to talk about soul-satisfying love and how we make relationships harder than they need to be. We live in a world where it gets trickier and trickier to stay politically correct and inclusive. Belinda'sBelinda's book is written around a woman's relationship with a man, and that's the relationship dynamic that they will be focusing on in this show. Inclusion is important. However, Belinda is an expert in hetero-type, masculine/feminine relationships and not a specialist in others, which is why the conversation will stay to one side.
Belinda explains that there's a place and a time for all the energies in our lives, including masculine and feminine. It is a spectrum between them, and we get to choose where on that spectrum and when. Masculine energy can create a battlefield because it's competitive and fun. If you, as a woman, stay in the masculine space, the man has two options: occupy the feminine space or stay masculine and exist in that battlefield. It'sIt's all about balancing that space and learning when to switch to more feminine energy when needed.
Feminine energy revolves more around emotions. Instead of directing the energy, the feminine is about being more receptive and seeing where it goes. Belinda recommends actually feeling the feelings in an argument, not just in a sudden flash or by analyzing them. Masculine energy will respond with a more protective direction. Don'tDon't project onto your partner emotionally, but be in the moment of the emotion and react naturally.
Belinda talks about the four types of women. Single women who just aren't getting asked on dates or go on so many dates but can't seem to find what they want. She'sShe's seen women in marriages unsure if it can improve or if they want to leave. When you tap into this more feminine energy, you develop a more balanced polarity and start, continue, or end your relationship with much more grace.
Choosing what you want your relationship to be is crucial. Relationships should be easy, but zero conflict isn't always a good sign. If you're looking for growth, make sure you're giving yourself other areas to grow outside your relationship. To find out what we want in our relationships, we need to learn to understand the language of the unconscious. Belinda also mentions that the way we approach relationships isn't always our fault and can be influenced by fear and/or trauma. We have to practice spending time in the feelings we want in a relationship to hardwire ourselves into seeking it out.
Invisible influence is a state we can embody as women where we start to influence that change around us. We can't change others, but it creates a ripple effect that incites change elsewhere if we change ourselves. It'sIt's not about being loved; it's about allowing ourselves to be loved in the way we're looking to be loved. As a society, and especially as women, we don't know how to receive and to receive is very feminine.
The thing about desire is once you have it, you can't desire it anymore. So if you are in a relationship that always has a level of insecurity, there will always be a higher level of attraction. In contrast, love is about absolute safety and security. One way to recultivate desire is to reintroduce a little bit of insecurity using wisdom and practice before bringing it back to safe and secure. One side of the spectrum introduces a little bit of space between partners to do their own thing. The opposite end would be something along the lines of an open relationship.
The biggest takeaway for Belinda is to remember we can say yes to love in every moment. It's up to us, and it's time to really start valuing the feminine aspect of life.
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Pippa is a highly qualified expert in many modalities like yoga, pilates, astrology, and more. Marina and Pippa met many years ago through a yoga teacher, and they just instantly connected. As for what animals Pippa thinks she's most like, she'd have to say a horse or a turtle. And the superpower she'd most want is to be about to pause time. When Pippa and Marina first met, they were coming out of very chaotic times in their lives and pursuing the more spiritual sides of science.
After returning from her yoga teaching training, Pippa's life started to go in a direction she didn't expect, and one by one, she began to lose things she knew and was comfortable with. Her business, her husband, her house, the cars all went one by one. It forced her to reassess her values and turn inward. That act of being forced to give up those things that we feel like we can't live without and really just surrender, that's when we're able to re-identify and learn we can be anything we want.
Pippa believes she used to put a lot of security in physical things, so when all those things got taken away, she had to look for a new sense of groundedness and home. She never was really an anxious person. Being in a new country, with a new baby, not knowing anyone for thousands of miles, she started to become more of an anxious person and needed to resolve that feeling. She ended up connecting with an astrologist who gave her jaw-dropping information, and Pippa decided she just needed to understand more about it.
With meditation, you can't force it, and things don't always go quiet. Your thoughts might not settle down, and that's okay. Gradually, as you practice, those thoughts slow down, and you find those moments of quiet. Also, you get what you need that day from meditation. For example, if you fall asleep, your body needs sleep, and meditation gives it to you. There are many ways to do it, like mantra or breath. They're just tools to distract you from those thoughts while you continue to practice to slow them down. There's a lot to it, but it's actually quite simple at the end of the day.
Marina shared a similar experience as Pippa when her chart was first to read, and it blew her mind with how accurate it was. We know that everything in our universe is related- the Moon controls the tides, and humans are made of 90% water - it would make sense that on the day of our birth, all those gravitational forces would have an imprint on that person. Pippa is more into sharing what she knows more than trying to convince someone of the validity of astrology and the deeper consciousness. When you think about it, so much of our lives revolve around the sun (when you go to sleep, when to wake up, when to plant crops, etc.) that it's hard to believe the other stars and planets don't have any effect on us at all.
Many people misunderstand astrology because they don't realize how much there is to it. They attribute it to just their sun sign and whether it fits or it doesn't fit their personality. In reality, there are twelve houses. It helps to explain why two people can be Leos but can also be so different. Pippa adds that Astrology is ancient wisdom; it's been around for a very long time. A birth chart is a blueprint of where the sun and all the planets were on the day and time and your birth. Where the planets are in relation to the sun, and each other can also influence your energy. It's very mathematical at its very essence.
Where the transits of planets and their current cycling can affect your current situation based on your birth chart. There are also 3 major categories most astrologers look at Sun, Moon, and Rising. Your sun is your external self-expression and outwardly to the word. The Moon represents our more internal and introspective world and how we deal with emotions. The rising sign represents more of your soul's calling and your spiritual journey. They're always in the first house because it's our ascendent.
The chart isn't a seal of fate. It provides deep insight into who you are and what it makes. But we still have full autonomy. However, the universe at some point is going to guide you back there. Pippa doesn't believe there's anything good or bad, but more natural gifts and challenges. Not knowing means you'll go back through the same cycle and make the same mistakes. Knowing your chart can help you understand more about who you tend to be so you can stop making those mistakes over and over. It's another base of understanding and can even positively impact how to deal with each other.
For Pippa, astrology provides an insight into which tool would be the most beneficial to specific situations. The more she can learn about different practices in life, the more tools she has to use. Pippa recommends meditating to elevate your energy. In terms of empowerment, understanding the things you shy away from and hard or comfortable to do. Instead of shying away from them, step into them and face them. The most important thing is to learn all about yourself, learn how to be yourself and not anyone else. All those weird things inside of you are gifts, and they make you unique. Be okay to be you.
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Kerwin is known for fast-growth business. He shares that he’s ADHD/dyslexic, which he attributes to his ability to think, see, and handle things differently. When he first went into business, he failed spectacularly several times. It took several failures to build up the humility to ask, and as he got more on his feet, he realized his “superpower” was to move very fast to keep his brain engaged. He forced himself to learn every aspect of business, whether he was naturally good or found it cognitively draining. When he started bringing people on, he was hiring more for attitude. Eventually, he realized the benefit of bringing in already knowledgeable employees and refining their knowledge rather than recycle his own.
As someone who didn’t grow up with the money, his success allowed him the funds to buy the material goods he thought would make him happy, only to find out they didn’t. This sent him on a journey inward to find his motivation. Kerwin discusses pursuing success out of money and passion and how each impacts the rate of success and happiness. Life is all about a balance of negative and positive to achieve neutrality in hindsight, so you never celebrate too much or become too consumed in what could go wrong later.
Kerwin shares how several near-death experiences influenced his mindset and how he is thankful for those experiences. Even though his days as an adrenaline junkie, Kerwin was chasing the feeling of not being afraid. After every near-miss, he found himself less afraid of living and what comes after. Then he had his son, and all those fears started creeping back in.
The business industry is massively growing but at times can feel very saturated. It’s easy to buy into the story that it’s already been done. Social media has turned the marketing environment massively, but many marketers are still stuck in more traditional mindsets, which does a huge disservice. People tend to develop preferences for things as they become more familiar with them. The flip side to this is people don’t like having products and brands directly thrown at them. They want to be engaged. Kerwin goes around this issue by centering himself around solving relevant problems.
The key to breaking through all this, Kerwin explains, is to get over ourselves and focus on what works. Marketing through video works and giving away your stuff for free does not mean people aren’t buying it. It’s a curse of knowledge where you think just because you know something you think isn’t important or it doesn’t have value to someone else. Providing a service, not just selling, will keep potential buyers engaged, and keeping your service consistent is integral. Kerwin also stresses that this isn’t something that grows overnight either. It can take years of accumulated experiences and self-awareness.
What You Will Learn:
Marina and Kerwin talk about what success means and how it relates to happiness. He speaks of how he bounced back from multiple failures in the beginning and what lessons he learned along the way. Lastly, Kerwin offers tips for staying relevant in the constantly shifting social media industry.
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Let me know what you want to hear on future episodes, or tag me in a screenshot on Instagram @iammarinaperry.
In this episode, Marina speaks with Sarah McLachlan on attracting certain kinds of relationships and what people can do to form the kind of relationships they want. Sarah McLachlan is a connection coach and relationship specialist, helping people attract and ignite healthy and enriching relationships. Sarah aligns, attracts, and amplifies relationships.
Sarah dives into why people attract certain kinds of relationships, finding these patterns, and what to do to form more better relationships, on your terms. By diving into her own history of the highs and lows of past relationships, Sarah describes her motivation to become a relationship specialist, after she ultimately developed her most important relationship––the one she has with herself.
By explaining how humans manifest themselves and their expectations in the relationships around them, Sarah describes how “we attract what we are, not what we want”. Sarah delves into what it really means to manifest the kind of relationship you want, from taking the time to think about the emotions that come with being in a relationship, to taking the extra intention of feeling those emotions.
Together, Marina and Sarah discuss how in order to attract what we want, we need to be in tune with what and who we are, on a personal, and spiritual level.
Things You Will Learn:
In this episode, you’ll learn about the different kinds of connections that drive us, identifying patterns in these connections, and how to channel connections on your own terms, that fit with your own values of what a relationship is, and not what you think a relationship should be.
Social Media:
Let me know what you want to hear on future episodes, or tag me in a screenshot on Instagram @iammarinaperry.
Check out Sarah’s blog on her website at: www.movetrainglow.com and keep up with her at @iam.sarahmc.
On today’s episode, I’m joined by Bobby F. Parihar, an entrepreneur, numerologist, and spiritual guide who has dedicated his life to helping others tap into their truest self and go after the life they deserve. Together, Bobby and I talk about what numerology is, how it works, and how it could benefit and influence you and how you show up in the world.
Bobby begins our conversation today by explaining how he got started in numerology and began growing through it. He shares with listeners the failures and struggles he had with work, relationships, and personal choices and how it wasn’t until he turned to numerology that he began to turn his life around and find success. For this reason, Bobby refers to numerology as a technology that operates through frequency, consistency, and replication, explaining that it can offer people a language through which to find their power. Like a science, numerology can help people to navigate through time through the vibration of math; however, Bobby also stresses the practice’s spiritual weight and how numerology echoes throughout the scriptures of many different religious texts, revealing many of the same parallels.
After introducing the ways numerology has worked within his own life, Bobby then goes on to explain why others may turn to numerology and how it can help them better understand their own sacred life map. It can be used for interpreting different personality types or can reveal the frequency with which one might encounter wealth, pain, love, etc. Numerology is largely about bringing out one’s power and helping them to decide what story to create, and Bobby’s role as a numerologist is helping that person to feel seen, known, and supported. He may also help people identify a better spelling of their name, or for other entrepreneurs, he can help with branding names or reading the meaning of certain addresses. Because a name is an identity, he stresses the importance of intentionality when it comes to the naming of the self, of one’s brand, or even one’s children.
Finally, to end our conversation today, Bobby shares with listeners how as an entrepreneur he learned how to become comfortable charging for his services and recognizing their worth. He also reminds listeners that because there are always peaks and valleys in life, even during difficulties, it’s important to remember to stay grateful and feel blessed. To learn more about Bobby’s work, his top tips for elevating energy, empowerment and expression in your life, or about his current self-growth journey, be sure to listen in to today’s episode!
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
To learn more about Bobby and his services, check out his websites at: https://bobbyfparihar.xyz/ and https://createloveandwealth.xyz/numerology-alignment
Bobby’s Reading Recommendations:
A Happy Pocket Full of Money, Expanded Study Edition: Infinite Wealth and Abundance in the Here and Now by David Cameron Gikandi: https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Pocket-Money-Expanded-Study/dp/1571747362
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill: https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller/dp/1585424331
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life* by Mark Manson: https://www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitive/dp/0062457713
Bobby’s Other Recommendations:
Dr. Joe Dispenza’s Collection: https://drjoedispenza.com/
Vishen Lakhiani’s Mindvalley: https://www.mindvalley.com/
Matt Kahn’s website: https://mattkahn.org/
On this episode of The Marina Perry Podcast, Marina welcomes Trav Bell, the world’s number one expert on bucket lists. Together, Marina and Trav discuss why bucket lists are important, especially in the midst of Covid-19, and the best way to begin creating your own.
Trav begins their discussion today by explaining his path towards becoming “the bucket list guy,” and how it started with his own personal development journey. Bucket lists, he explains, are about intentional living. By writing down what you want to do in life, you become a step closer to manifesting these desires. Because of this, Trav explains why simply taking the time to write your goals down on paper is the best way to begin unlocking your potential.
Together, Marina and Trav talk about the ways people can seem to become trapped in life due to fear of failure, fear of success, and ultimately fear of change, which can lead to a downward spiral. Trav, however, encourages listeners to start living their lives by design rather than by default and to take the time now to begin using the bucket list model in order to create a tangible, fulfilling life plan. In order to do so, Trav breaks down for listeners his 12-Step Bucket List Blueprint, encouraging them to start by achieving the small things on their list so as to build momentum through instant gratification.
In addition to providing tips for how to begin your own bucket list, Trav shares with listeners how such plans have helped him and others lead more successful and engaging lives. Because the bucket list model is based on positive psychology, it is especially suited for those who may be feeling depressed, lonely, or stuck because it can help to create an achievable path towards meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. Trav also offers strategies to those who may hate their jobs but need to continue paying their bills, providing actionable steps one can take to begin escaping the safety of the mundane.
To hear more of Trav’s advice on how to best begin taking ownership over your own life, be sure to listen in to today’s episode!
What You’ll Learn in Today’s Episode:
Helpful Links:
Check out Trav’s website and buy his new book, My Bucketlist Blueprint, at: https://www.thebucketlistguy.com/
Watch Trav’s Ted Talk at: https://youtu.be/GImTk0BzBhM
Trav’s Book Recommendations:
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar: https://www.amazon.com/Happier-Learn-Secrets-Lasting-Fulfillment/dp/0071492399
The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss: https://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/dp/0307465357
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina hosts Kristie Ord to discuss managing the magic and mess of “more,” and how to navigate major life and identity transitions. Kristie is a mother, growth coach and mentor, and self-made entrepreneur who works to help others explore, decide, and become the true version of the person they want to be.
Kristie began her own identity transformation as well as professional transformation into business with, admittedly, a lot of failures, however, although she may have experienced shortcomings at first in her journey, she also used these experiences to grow and learn a lot of life lessons in order to achieve her dream balance of professional and personal life while supporting herself and her family.
As an entrepreneur and coach, Kristie wants to inspire listeners to take the steps every day to make the change they want to see, and encourages everyone to ask themself, “what things do I need to do to become the person I want to be?” She advises that shifting an identity begins with shifting decisions first and actions second in order to become the version of “you” you want to become—even if it seems unattainable at first.
Marina and Kristie also touch on the topics of earning and spending, balancing motherhood and business, taking risks, and tackling the first steps of your personal journey to invest in yourself and your future on this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast.
Things You Will Learn
You will learn about Kristie’s own transformation with identity, how she helps others embody the change they want to see, and what resources she uses to guide her own, as well as others’, professional and personal transformations.
Social Media
Let me know what you want to hear on future episodes, or tag me in a screenshot on Instagram @iammarinaperry. Follow Kristie Ord on Instragram @kristiexord, check out her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvnf_55fDcg1bGtFuHDVxaw, or find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kristiexord/
External Links
Check out Kristie’s book recommendations: The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks; You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth by Jen Sincero.
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina explores the topic of men’s medicine and growth work with proud entrepreneur, coach, husband, and father, Lino Hola. Lino is the founder of Men’s Medicine, a mental health organization and support group for both men and women, and on this podcast, he and Marina will explore the topic of men’s medicine: what it is, why it's significant, and how everyone can benefit from diving deeper into this specific type of self-growth work.
How did Lino start his journey into the field of men’s work (or life-coaching specifically for men)? After coaching his first male-exclusive workshop, Lino felt personally called upon to continue his work advocating for and promoting change around men’s mental health and personal development. He wants to encourage fellow men to explore growth work through the core values of connection, community, and culture, as well as provide a safe space where men feel invited to share and open up. As an NLP Master Practitioner, Soma Breathwork Facilitator, and personal trainer, Lino combines all of his expertise and talents to help people reach the results they want to achieve and reach their true potential.
How should men take their first steps to beginning their journey with men’s medicine and men’s growth work? Lino breaks down the structure of a typical men’s medicine workshop, addresses misconceptions around men’s medicine, and shares invaluable advice for those who are interested in becoming involved with men’s medicine workshops, breath work, or just feeling more connected to oneself. Lino also shares a few daily tips anyone can incorporate into their daily routine in order to set yourself up for a more positive day ahead of you.
Things You Will Learn
You will learn what men’s medicine and growth work is, what it’s significant, and how everyone can benefit from it. You will also learn some invaluable tips for incorporating new habits into your daily routines that will help empower you to reach your full potential as both an individual and a member of a community.
Social Media
Let me know what you want to hear on future episodes, or tag me in a screenshot on Instagram @iammarinaperry. And follow Lino Halo on Instagram: @men_medicine or on Facebook: Mens Medicine
External Links
Check out Lino’s website:www.mensmedicine.info
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by her guest, addiction specialist Drew Wild. Drew’s mission as an addiction specialist is to begin changing the conversation around addiction, the stigmas around it, and reframe the ways in which we approach the realities of addiction and the needs of those who are working to recover from it.
Drew reveals to listeners that he is passionate for this line of work after he himself spent 15 years of his life suffering from cycles of addiction before he found himself in rehab where he then felt ready to do the growth work necessary to overcome his addictions to drinking, smoking, casual sex, and other unhealthy and addicting coping mechanisms or vices that helped him “check out” of the realities of his life and not longer served him or his lifestyle.
At the core of it, Drew believes that vices and unhealthy and addicting coping mechanisms are just symptoms of other, deeply-rooted problems or internalized traumatic experiences, and that these are distractions used to avoid sitting with the hard feelings of pain, feeling hurt, or otherwise feeling unable to deal with experiencing the realities of life or sitting with oneself while hard feelings arise.
Together, Marina and Drew will unpack the cycles of living with addiction, share some advice for implementing more healthy daily lifestyle choices, and ask listeners to reframe looking at addiction as coming from a place of deep pain in others rather than fixating and casting judgements on the addiction itself.
Things You Will Learn
You will learn about what addiction is, how it may be expressed in others, and also how we can begin to reframe the ways in which we approach the subject of addiction and also start to unpack and change the stigmas around it.
Social Media
Let me know what you want to hear on future episodes, or tag me in a screenshot on Instagram @iammarinaperry. And follow Drew on Instagram @drew_wild or get connected to his personal resources and Facebook page through: https://linktr.ee/drew_wild
External Links
Check out Drew’s book recommendations: Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Yourself-Like-Your-Depends/dp/1478121734; Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russel Brand: https://www.amazon.com/Recovery-Freedom-Addictions-Russell-Brand/dp/1250141923; & A Happy Pocket Full of Money, Expanded Study Edition: Infinite Wealth and Abundance in the Here and Now: https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Pocket-Money-Expanded-Study/dp/1571747362
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina has a conversation with Caitlin Eichperger about body confidence, comparison-itis, and how to better approach your inner critic. Caitlin is a life coach who specializes in helping clients with perceptions of self-image, body positivity, and body confidence and acceptance.
Body image is one’s own perception of their body through the filters or lenses of both societal beauty standards and the conditioning one experiences within their own culture or family system. Body image and acceptance affects anyone and everyone who has a body, and Caitlin reminds listeners that any person can have insecurities about their body regardless of how one may look. Body positivity and body confidence is not exclusive to any body type or shape, so showing acceptance
Comparison is a form of judgement we use to discern between options, however, comparison and judgement become ineffective and do not serve us whenever we use them to put ourselves down while we lift others and their qualities. Instead, Caitlin suggests that we celebrate the differences rather than use any of these to negate the qualities or characteristics that we notice within ourselves. Wasting time wanting to be someone or something else is also a waste of your lifeforce when this time could be used accepting and celebrating yourself instead of internally fighting any unchangeable things about you.
Together, Marina and Caitlin break down what it means to be body confident, explain self and body acceptance, and discuss tips for reconnecting and reframing the thoughts and behaviors that don’t continue to serve us anymore.
Things You Will Learn
On this episode, you will learn the differences between body image, body positivity, and body confidence, as well as ways in which you can start to approach your inner critic in a way that better serves you.
Social Media
Let me know what you want to hear on future episodes, or tag me in a screenshot on Instagram @iammarinaperry. Or follow Caitlin and her coaching on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/caitlineichperger/
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is solo this week on the podcast to lead a discussion about promoting positive change in the world by harnessing our personal superpowers. More specifically, Marina will discuss the importance of the power of choice and break down what it means to have the power of choice, how choice can be expressed both as an individual and within a collective, and ways in which everyone can be more mindful about their habits and choices as well as choose to explore more sustainable ways of living to promote positive change as both an individual and a member of a larger social system.
Inspired by David Attenborough’s latest environmental documentary, Marina wants to share with listeners what it means to have the power of choice. For example, as an individual, what little changes can you implement into your daily schedule that will ultimately help the environment? Making the choice to carry a reusable bag rather than accumulate mountains of single-use plastic bags or refusing disposable takeout utensils can be the first step in being more mindful and aware of our environmental impact on the personal level.
Upcycling clothing and furniture, shopping locally, and even growing small personal gardens are also all powers of choice that can shift the flow of sustainability from the individual to the collective. Marina also takes time to remind her audience that corporations or systems of power oftentimes are wired in ways that are not within an individual’s best interest, and instead, these systems of powers profit from greed and continue to remain in power. She also reminds listeners that self-sovereignty gives us the right as individuals and consumers to purposefully decide where our dollars go and what businesses or corporations we continue to support with our money.
Next time before you buy, ask yourself: Can I buy more local, sustainable, ethical, and environmental?
Things You Will Learn
You will learn how to positively impact the world with your superpower: the power of choice. This episode breaks down the power of choice between both the individual and the collective, how to be more mindful of your spending habits, and which approaches you should consider when having conversations around promoting change, as well.
Social Media
Let me know what you want to hear on future episodes, or tag me in a screenshot on Instagram @iammarinaperry.
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina interviews Jennifer Cauchi, the founder and formulator of blūm (pronounced “bloom”) organics: a range of self-care support products and tools tailored for women to unleash their true self and recalibrate their body, too. These products are convenient tools for busy women, as well as daily reminders to check in with ourselves and our needs. Jennifer’s biggest passion in life is sharing her experiences and journey with other women, and on this episode, she opens up to listeners about a few experiences she believes many women have most likely also experienced, too, as she tried to gather answers around her health, career, and future as a fully empowered woman, mother, and entrepreneur.
What is an aura and why does someone need an aura mist? Jennifer created her mists to help immediately shift the energies, or aura, of a space or within your own auric field. When sprayed, the carefully curated ingredients in the mist triggers smell receptors within the olfactory system which then signals the limbic system to produce a desirable response or emotion. This can completely shift anyone’s auric field within seconds, and Jennifer personally perfected her crystal powers within each bottle to perfectly evoke a variety of deep, powerful feelings.
Jennifer created her products with an intentional design to source organic, locally-grown and farmed, small-scale, and sustainable ingredients, to build and create her products and packaging for blūm organics. Jennifer also works with indigenous communities and native Australians to purchase locally-sourced ingredients that later go into the miracle products that she manufactures all in-house. As the founder of her own company, blūm organics, Jennifer hopes that her products are a catalyst for women to become reacquainted with themselves as well as tune for the deep personal connection we all deserve.
Things You Will Learn
You will learn about Jennifer’s journey as a wellness entrepreneur, the power of aura-shifting mists, different ways in which you can empower yourself and fellow women, and some tips to bring yourself back into your body.
Social Media
Let me know what you want to hear on future episodes, or tag me in a screenshot on Instagram @iammarinaperry. Check out Jennifer Cauchi and blūm organics on Instagram: @blumorganics.
External Links
Visit Jennifer Cauchi’s store online: www.blumorganics.com.au
Marina is solo this week on the podcast for a conversation about ecology, belonging, and relationship ecosystems (or spheres.) She will explain what it means to feel “safe” within our individual ecological safety zones, how past, present, and future relationships shape our sense of belonging, and how you can explore different ways to tackle re-coding learned behaviors and help you move in the direction you want to be through growth work.
You may have many different types of spheres of which you are involved: family, work, school, social, etc., are all different ecosystems, or spheres, that may have different sets of rules of belonging within them. And, as humans, since we inevitably want to belong, we may adapt certain behaviors across different ecosystems in order to simultaneously maintain a sense of belonging and create an ecological safety zone where our sense of self and identity feels safe.
Marina also reminds listeners that ecological safety zones are based on the ecology you were born into in addition to the ecology you choose to stay connected to, and that any relationship outside of your family is chosen. Also, past relationships or past models of relationships code or influence the ways in which we will view and experience future relationships.These belief structures are unconscious, and oftentimes, can even lead to volatile cycles of self-sabotage in order to maintain a “safe” ecosystem that is familiar rather than healthy.
Growth work, however, is centered around getting into the habit of assessing one’s beliefs and then overriding old, learned, codes in exchange for habits and behaviors that align more with one’s beliefs and values. Seeking new beliefs and behaviors with a coach can help unlock your conscious mind and recode old habits and behaviors as safe and also give you the results that you want to see from the view of an expert third-party perspective.
Things You Will Learn
You will learn about ecology and belonging, how formative relationships influence future ones, and tricks to help re-code learned behaviors and achieve the results you want to see through growth work.
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On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina interviews Abbey Rose, a psychic, energy healer, and accountant to discuss the intersection between accounting and spirituality, money as energy, taxes, and financial self-sovereignty. As founder of the most significant Conscious Accounting Body in Australia, Abbey has combined her two seemingly disparate fields of accounting and spirituality to help grow her own business as well as the businesses of her clients, too. Although she stepped away from the accounting industry, bookkeeping business, and firm, Abbey used this time to focus on her spiritual healing journey, which resulted in the founding of the Spiritual Accountant (2019) and becoming the CEO of the Awakened Accountants (2020).
Abbey always felt like she was a little bit different than her fellow coworkers; she felt that she couldn’t be confined to the cubicle and that she wanted to be on the road, face-to-face with clients, so she felt that she needed to get out of her professional rut. After leaving the industry, she embarked on a personal journey of honing her talents in healing and spirituality when she found that the two worlds of accounting and consciousness truly exist and belong together.
How do we own our truth? Abbey admits that, in a way, she had to relearn how to live and who she was. But after she did, Abbey found spirit speaking to her, and after trusting a deep gut feeling, found that she could read other people’s energies, as well. As an awakened accountant herself, Abbey helps create, manage, and protect other people’s money in addition to coming up with creative ways to make and save money, too.
Marina and Abbey round out the podcast with some final tips for listeners on financial advice and altering behaviors to promote a positive cash flow as well as a positive relationship with money.
Things You Will Learn
You will learn about the intersection between accounting and spirituality, relearning self-worth, money as energy, taxes, and financial self-sovereignty.
Social Media
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Follow Abbey Rose on Instagram too: https://www.instagram.com/i_am_abbey_rose/
External Links
You can also follow Abbey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamabbeyrose
Or at her website: https://abbeyrose.org/
Marina is solo this week on the podcast to dive into a conversation around triggers, radical responsibility, and how listeners can reclaim self-sovereignty when someone else tries to steal their power.
Marina starts the conversation off with unpacking a few definitions for her listeners. She discusses what a trigger is, how it may feel, and why it manifests and is expressed differently in each and every person. She also breaks down the definition of growth work, what “being wrong” means as well as what it means to us internally, and unpacking our internal structures and beliefs.
Marina suggests getting curious about our triggers as the first step to taking responsibility as well as our power back from the unconscious reaction of our personal internal codes. However, she also advises her audience to take less responsibility for the triggers of others.
After identifying what your unconscious responses (or triggers) are and how you usually express them, you can then move toward rewiring the less desirable behavior or the internal codes to better reflect the person you aspire to be. A greater awareness in the self can help someone modify their behaviors for the benefit of others, however, it can also come at a cost of diminishing one’s own power in response to someone else’s trigger. When are you dimmining your own light in life to illuminate others?
Practicing radical responsibility can help you start a conversation with others, too, about your individual triggers as well as introduce a discussion or compromise about how you would each feel most comfortable in future situations when another unconscious reaction is triggered. Radical responsibility doesn’t mean taking on someone else’s trigger, though, or sacrificing your own power for the sake of helping someone else reclaim theirs.
Things You Will Learn
You will learn about triggers, how they manifest and are expressed differently in others, what radical responsibility is, and how to stay sovereign when someone else tries to steal your power.
Social Media
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Yildiz Sethi joins Marina this week on the Marina Perry Podcast to discuss the link between mental and emotional blocks, how these blocks can get in the way of living one’s most authentic life, and how one can quickly do something to address them. Although Yildiz has a background schoolteaching for 15 years in the subjects of physics and chemistry, she now holds a private clinic in Lisbon, Australia for sexual abuse recovery where she practices as an innovator and founder of psychotherapy as well as Family Constellation practitioning and training. Yildiz draws on her diverse knowledge and experience in creating unique approaches as a Brief Therapist over twenty years of private practice in relationships (families and couples), mental health, and trauma recovery.
Yildiz also comes from a background of studying Vedic astrology, so she is particularly fascinated by spiritual science and consciousness. Her main interest is assisting herself and others to find peace and clarity in their lives. As a Director of Family Constellations P/L and innovative practitioner of New Dawn Recovery From Sexual Abuse, Yildiz offers short term treatment for trauma of sexual abuse and PTSD. Additionally, she also offers practitioner training in Systemic Family Constellations, Emotional Mind Integration, Rapid Core Healing, Recovery From Sexual Abuse and Family Constellations workshops for the public.
As the creator of Emotional Mind Integration and Rapid Core Healing, Yildiz explores many therapeutic styles which are also presented in her book titled, Rapid Core Healing. She sourced and developed modalities that are deeply foundational in the way in which they address the core dynamics of what is required for human wellness, and these carefully curated modalities are appropriate for the treatment of a diverse range of mind and relationship issues.
Yildiz’s innovative and unique practices bring her closer to achieving her ultimate goal to help unblock systemic, generational hurdles for growth and fulfilment in order to enhance personal growth, relationships and success in others.
Things You Will Learn
You will learn about Yildiz’ backgrounds in teaching science, Vedic astrology, and trauma counseling. Listeners will also receive an in-depth lesson on astrology, family constellations, and tapping into the external forces that guide our recurring life patterns.
External Links
Yildiz is the author of three books. Check them out here.
EMI Family Constellations Rapid Core Healing Recovery From Sexual Abuse
Learn a Spiritual Science
Social Media
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On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina has guest Rossco Paddison on to unpack the world of cryptocurrency to listeners, as well as discuss how you can become financially self-sovereign in digital marketplaces. Together, they will dig deep into what cryptocurrency is, what it does, and why you should be more informed about it.
What is a cryptocurrency and why is it important? Transactions within the digital environment, instead of taking paper money, requires its own unique currency in exchange for goods and services, and this type of exchange, Rossco explains, could be the new, future iteration of how we will exchange money. When you exchange money with cryptocurrency online, you can do so safely and securely even if you usually do not have—or not permitted to have—reliable access to a bank or your own liquid assets. Creating your access and taking control of your own finances is, as Roscoe adds, a form of self-sovereignty.
It’s the digital wallet that you can control from anywhere with stable coins. Once it’s in your wallet, you can start earning with it safely and securely.
He also admits, though, that we are early within adopting and integrating this new technology and market; however, we may be interacting with it already whether we know it or not as the market increases and the technology evolves. However, Bitcoin (one of the first forms of cryptocurrency) or other forms of this currency is not practical for certain daily situations or purchases such as buying groceries. Additionally, its worth fluctuates more than liquid assets such as gold or paper money, so many experts would consider this a volatile investment.
Although there may be foreseeable problems within this market of cryptocurrency or in the way that society adapts and changes in the way it performs exchanges for goods and services, Rossco is optimistic in that he sees problems as an opportunity for someone to feel compelled enough to finally do something about it and address it head-on. New problems simply require new solutions. And, becoming aware of these problems and recognizing them is the first step forward in the right direction.
Things You Will Learn
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On this solo episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina explores the top five mistakes new entrepreneurs often make while starting their brand or business careers. Making mistakes is a natural process for any new entrepreneur, however, Marina will discuss five ways in which you can avoid her top five examples of commonly-shared growing pains many new business professionals encounter during their startup.
Marina often sees many budding entrepreneurs getting caught up on simply not starting their new business or brand idea. Many starting entrepreneurs make business plan after business plan to procrastinate actually starting their business because they are too busy studying all the ways they can get hurt, instead, rather than just going for it.
She also sees new business startups often folding to perfectionism since budding entrepreneurs may also tend to sell themselves short (for many reasons.) However, Marina reminds listeners that something is better done and perhaps not complete rather something that is never attempted in the first place.
Marina also stresses that you do not have to do absolutely everything when creating a new business and that if you do, you will experience burnout from working too hard too often. The right team will help you elevate and explode your brand or business. Play to your strengths within your own business and delegate tasks that you may consider some of your weaker areas. You can even outsource tasks, too, if they are not within your area of expertise.
Lastly, Marina encourages new entrepreneurs to embrace sales and marketing. As an entrepreneur, you will need to sell if you want to serve. In other words, you will need to believe in your products and advocate for them when making connections with future clients and potential team members. Lean into sales and marketing in addition to selling your unique brand, too, and you will undoubtedly succeed more within your field of business.
Things You Will Learn
You will learn the top five mistakes entrepreneurs often make when launching their new brand or business, as observed by Marina.
Social Media
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On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Lauren Violet, a somatic sex and relationships coach, joins Marina to dive into the topics of sex, sexuality, and stepping into full sexual expression despite common social conditioning and the social stigma around taboo topics. Lauren works in what she refers to as the dark side of sexuality: BDSM; the adult entertainment industry; kink; and all things taboo.
What is a somatic sex and relationship coach and what do they do? Lauren explains that she guides people through any sexual or relationship blocks they are currently experiencing. She helps her clients through guided self-body work and coaches them to reach their full sexual potential as well as push through any limiting blockages to become fully embodied in their sexuality.
You will know if you have a block if you are having a desire for more, Lauren explains. For example, you may be experiencing a block if you: have difficulty orgasming; have difficulty becoming erect or maintaining an erection; or if you are experiencing identity/sexuality dysphoria, confusion, or frustration.
What is sexual energy? Lifeforce energy, eros, or sexuality energy, as Lauren calls it, is also creative energy. Sexual energy can ultimately create life, but it can also create something out of nothing: a dance; a delicious family meal; a piece of art; a creative workout; etc.. This powerful energy can also be misused and abused, which will incite fear in some people. Sex or sexual feelings are often socially coded as taboo, and we are traditionally told to repress these feelings or curiosities. So, how can we overcome these fears to reclaim this raw power? Lauren suggests we become more aware of our dark (or toxic) energies, as well as any toxic behaviors and tendencies we might rely on; especially when it comes to seeking external validation from others. Communication, as well, is an easy first step in assuring that you and your partner are on the same page—even unrelated to sex, specifically—and that you are both getting what you want and need within this relationship.
Communication with and within yourself is also crucial to gaining a deeper relationship and understanding of your sexual needs, wants, and desires. Marina touches on the power of social conditioning and how it affects the way in which we communicate with others, even our most trusted or loved ones, and asks Lauren to explain to listeners how to overcome socialized or conditioned negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors around sex and sexual expression.
What You Will Learn
External Links
Watch the documentary, Kink: https://www.amazon.com/Kink-Peter-Acworth/dp/B00RT7DE1Y
Grace Code Human Potential Practitioner Training: https://www.humanpotentialinstitute.com/
Social Media
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Follow Lauren on Instagram: @thelaurenviolet
Or, check out her website: https://www.laurenviolet.com.au/coaching
This episode of the Marina Perry Podcast is brought to you by the 12 Day Reboot Program from the School of Growth to help detox your mind and body and promote gut health.
Marina kicks off the hot tips with her number one good habit: hydration. Many of us are dehydrated, and this is a quick and easy way to incorporate a new good habit into your lifestyle. However, also be mindful of your water quality if you are drinking from a tap. Marina suggests setting out a large water bottle at night to rehydrate as soon as you wake up. She also suggests cutting sugar and process foods from your diet. She wants listeners to remember that we are, literally, what we eat, so you will feel better if you limit your intake of refined sugar, grains, and processed foods.
The third tip is: find your soul song. Marina explains that a soul song is a song that you use to shake out any negative feelings and change your body and mind state in a more positive direction. Also reading or listening to a podcast for at least ten minutes a day can be a meditative way to change your mood or negative state, too, and you might also learn something while you do it. Marina suggests bringing presentness to your daily activities to keep you stimulated while you complete routine tasks.
Create a healthy bedtime routine that is consistent for you. Changing into pajamas and avoiding using your bed as a workspace will help signal to your brain that you are about to go to bed, and your body will also begin to settle down for the night. She also adds that journaling may be a beneficial nighttime activity to recenter yourself and take personal inventory without relying on the feedback of others.
Marina stresses that meditation and future pacing are integral to maintaining her healthier lifestyle, too, as they provide her with a deeper awareness of her sense of self and deciding who or what is serving her. Exercising may also provide people with a deeper connection to their sense of self—even when starting small. Incorporating more movement into your daily routine will make you feel noticeably different when you practice moving your body.
Detoxing from the television or mainstream media may also provide some time and space for yourself to see what your values are as well as objectively see how much of this media you actually consumed within a day. After you declutter your mind, declutter the physical spaces around you—especially those problem areas you have been avoiding for a while. Marina reminds listeners that any one of these tips will create a ripple effect in your life of positive change and that in six month’s time, you will not even believe the kind of different person you can be.
Things You Will Learn
You will learn 13 hot tips and tools for daily lifestyle changes that will bring you more health, happiness, and heartfulness.
Social Media
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External Links
12 Day Reboot Program: https://www.marinaperryschoolofgrowth.com/12-day-reboot
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Rachel Lee, founder of Thrive Natural Health, for a deep dive into the subjects of a woman’s monthly cycle, hormones, and natural contraceptives for women, too. Together, they break down how the body sends and receives signals about a woman’s natural rhythm, as well as how to properly care for your vagina as well.
Why do women need to “understand their cycle” post-puberty? Racheal says that we grow up seeing menstrual cycles as inconvenient rather than powerful, however, a woman’s period is actually also considered a vital sign, too. What is the cycle? Women are deeply connected to the moon cycle as periods and moon cycles both last around 28 days. To break this down further, Racheal compares a woman’s cycle to the cycles of different seasons within a year. The first day of a cycle, for example, Racheal compares to wintertime and suggests that we should be more still during this time. The day you stop bleeding (usually 3-5 days later), is compared to the first days of spring after winter, and she suggests that women should go back to the gym, try building muscle, and socialize more with the extra energy during this time.
Immediately after a period, a woman’s body will experience a surge of estrogen. Summertime, Racheal explains, is when a woman’s estrogen is at its peak, and when a woman may feel and look her best, too. Racheal warns that although women may feel their best at this time, it may be easy to over-commit to activities and experience feelings of burnout. Racheal suggests winding down during the cycle’s autumntime in preparation for the return of the winter months of the cycle.
What is the benefit of having a monthly bleed? Racheal says it comes down to the release of progesterone in the body that also comes along with the physiological release of the tissue and blood. Progesterone will not only help you feel better, but it may also give you more of a natural glow to your skin as well.
But what can women do if they do not want to take the pill or use condoms with their partner? Racheal suggests tracking your body’s natural signs such as your vaginal secretions or checking your temperature around your fertility window. Although tracking your period and ovulation window can be effective for many women, you may still choose to reach for a condom or diaphragm to avoid contracting any sexually transmitted diseases through intercourse.
Things You Will Learn
External Links
Check out Racheal’s work at: https://www.thrivenaturalhealth.com.au/
Social Media
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On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina and her listeners will dive into the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) presupposition that “you cannot not communicate.” She explains that we are always communicating: with others; with the self; and even with our moments of silence, however, our reactions to communication—or the lack of it—are also influenced by one’s foundational and internal meaning-making systems.
Whenever we experience a lack of communication within a relationship, we still interpret noncommunication as a form of communication, and we each may draw different assumptions on why or how this void exists based on what Marina calls our “internal maps.” These maps are the experiences and information that affected us during our foundational years and continue to influence the ways in which we engage in daily communication and social interactions. They are our coding or internal wiring, Marina explains.
Silence, for example, may not mean what you think it means. But, it does mean something. Your internal map may come up with an assumption for what you think the silence could mean, but that does not mean that your partner’s map will bring them to the same conclusion. Marina suggests navigating through the silences with others in order to experience richer relationships, as well as come to a better understanding of one another’s internal maps.
Marina rounds out the podcast with a few final tips for opening ourselves up to a deeper awareness of our internal communication. She reminds listeners that internal communication also includes bodily sensations, and that these nonverbal cues are warning signs that we should also remember to thank our body for whenever we experience them. Taking the time to pause, recognize, and hear these sensations will bring us a higher awareness of what our body is trying to tell us.
Things You Will Learn
External Links
Check out The School of Growth NLP coaching program on Instagram: @theschoolofgrowth
Social Media
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On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina explores what it means to step into alignment through shifting identities, as well as the embodiment of self-love with her guest,
Jen Hamilton. Jen, a human potential coach, joins Marina to discuss the topics of self-love, identity, and tips for recognizing as well as moving through negative limiting beliefs.
As a human potential coach, Jen is trained in several various therapeutic modalities such as clinical hypnotherapy, strategic psychotherapy, NLP, theta healing, and holographics (just to name a few), where the goal is to take the power of the mind and use different mindsets to bring one to living a more incredible life. Jen works with clients so they can work toward understanding and expressing their truth by breaking through their mental roadblocks in life.
Who can benefit from this type of therapy? Jen says her ideal client is one who understands they are experiencing some kind of block, and that they want to explore moving through it. She also says that a great client is one who wants to play with the more “woo-woo,” or spiritual, field of life. Ultimately, this type of therapy is to help people move through any self-induced blocks that hold them from speaking and living their truth. She wants people to see life from a different perspective, and then live a life from a different perspective, as well, and this can be achieved by shifting one’s mindset.
Jen shares her personal story about how she became interested in helping people in this field.
Before she was a trained coach, Jen said she was in a place in her life where she was experiencing a severe lack in self-love with herself, and she discovered that she needed to do some work on her own mindset, acknowledge her negative limiting beliefs, and allow herself to embark on a journey of finding her self-love.
What is a limiting belief? A limiting belief is a conclusion based on an assumption. An assumption is made up of the facts of the situation at-hand, past experiences, DNA coding, and family systems of beliefs, and that these factors mould together to form the invisible boundaries that constrict our experience of life. But how do we come to this awareness that we are experiencing a limiting belief? Sometimes, we can’t see that we have a negative belief or internal negative language pattern, however, we can see that we are not reaching our desired goal or outcome. We may feel that we keep hitting a wall before we can reach our goals. Once someone realizes this feeling of hitting a wall, then they can begin to work on breaking down the mental boundary that is keeping them from reaching their goal.
Marina and Jen then discuss some red flags or signs that someone may need to do some self love. For example, a lack of nourishment in food or water, or decreased self-care in hygiene and appearance may be big signs that someone is experiencing a limiting belief of some kind.
How can people move past the pushback of allowing yourself to self-love? Jen admits that there are extremes of the self-love spectrum, but it’s up to the individual to find where it feels good for them to dance somewhere in between the two polarizing ends of loving the self. Self-love may look different to each individual, but it is important to recognize—and do—what nourishes you, even if it’s wearing your favorite tracksuit or just washing your hair. Jen says that a common mistake she sees with clients is that people do not see themself as worthy of change or good things. She adds that the first step to overcoming this mindset is to tune in to tune in with the self and those feelings of desire for change.
Marina and Jen finish out the podcast with some rapid-fire final tips for those who are struggling with living their truth. Marina summarizes this for listeners as: When we are in alignment with truth, we feel that things flow better and we don’t have the feeling of being stuck. Also, if we can let go of the idea of needing to be for everyone then we can show up fully for those who are ready to receive us.
Things You Will Learn
External Links
Add Jen on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jenhamiltonofficial/
Jen’s coaching: https://www.jenhamiltonofficial.com/services
Social Media
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Our guest this week is Rachel Marie, the founder and owner of Thrive Natural Therapy. She’s an incredible Naturopath and is especially talented at bettering women’s health. Today, we’re going to dive into Naturopathy -- what it is and how it can benefit us, and Adrenals -- what they are, how they affect us, and what we can do to maintain a less stressful, more impactful life.
From a young age, Rachel was always a “sick” girl. Growing up, she was put on a prescription of Ritalin to deal with ADHD. Thankfully, her mother took her to a Naturopath where they looked at her diet and offered her supplements and herbs. As an adult, she thought, what if others were experiencing the same thing? Her passion now fuels her drive to help those around her.
There is certainly an abundance of incredible doctors practicing traditional medicine, and there is absolutely a place for it. However, we may be too reliant on pharmaceuticals in situations where they aren’t necessarily needed. The body is capable of healing itself, and our role is to support it. Rachel’s approach is holistic. She treats every aspect of the body, the gut, the nervous system, circulatory systems together to gain a better understanding of the bigger picture of health. The tools Rachel uses is different than that of a general practitioner. Where a doctor my prescribe paracetamol, Rachel would take an approach that would treat the root cause of the issue as opposed to putting a band-aid on.
The primary topic of today’s episode is Adrenals and Adrenal Fatigue. Right now, people could be unconscious of the amount of stress they are under. There is wear and tear on the body that we may not be aware of.
The two types of nervous systems are the Sympathetic and the Parasympathetic. Fight or flight and rest and digest. Stress can be really good -- if our ancestors weren’t stressed, we wouldn’t be here. It’s essential. Stress is usually short-lived.
During a sympathetic nervous response to stress, a hormone called cortisol is released that has a few different effects on the body. It will send blood to your limbs, it increases your heart rate to get more oxygen in your blood, your libido shuts down, and you don’t get hungry. Your body uses glucose to burn this energy, so you’ll crave sugar and store more fat. For many women, it can be difficult to shed weight when they are under incredible amounts of stress on a daily basis.
During a parasympathetic nervous response, you’re able to be proactive about stress. During this time, your blood flows to the gut to allow for better digestion. Short-term memory shuts down, and long-term memory kicks up. Your immune system is more agile and you sleep much better in this system.
Rachel touches on some of the signs for Adrenal Fatigue. One of the biggest identifiers is your energy levels. Cortisol should be very high in the morning, and if you’re waking up tired, your cortisol levels could be flatlining. If your cortisol levels are normally higher than they should be, there is a moment where you feel more awake the moment you get into bed. The next stage of this fatigue is more serious -- vascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and autoimmune conditions are all a result of Adrenal Fatigue.
The most powerful thing you can start doing right now to reduce your cortisol levels is deep-belly breathing. When you’re in a fight or flight mode, you’re breathing shallowly. Breathing deeply changes the oxygen levels in your body and reduces cortisol instantly.
Rachel expands on how sleep impacts our overall adrenal health. If you’re struggling to wind down at the end of the night, Rachel suggests establishing a ritual that includes eliminating screens. Blue light reduces melatonin levels which can lead to restlessness. Supplementing your melatonin levels can help rebalance your adrenals. This is a short-term aid -- longer than that and you begin masking the core issue and cause a shortage of self-made melatonin. In the morning, if you’re struggling with that kick-start, Rachel recommends having a cold shower. Temperature therapy can wake up your system and can help burn fat. It doesn’t have to be a long shower, a minute is fine!
It’s important to remember that what you put in your body impacts every aspect of your health. If you cut out all the packaged foods and increase your fish intake you increase the healthy fat you’re putting in your body. Cut out sugar but listen to the craving -- use it as a sign to look introspectively at what is stressing you out.
Identifying stresses allows you to realign your viewpoint on situations and can allow you to work through it without putting your body under undue pressures. We often create stories about how we feel the world should work, and if it doesn’t pan out, we sometimes start to have animal responses that can take a massive toll on your body. Taking a step back and viewing the situation objectively can help ease that feeling.
Putting in real, physical practices in place to bring your body back to reality -- one where you aren’t getting chased by a bear -- remind your adrenals that you are still in control and will get through whatever it is that has come up. Rachels favorite practice, aside from breathwork, is Kundalini Yoga. This practice is very inwards and centering. It teaches you to put anchors throughout your day -- breath, music, and pauses for meditation are all included.
There are general diet changes that can benefit everyone. There are qualities to look for when you’re trying to incorporate a healthier diet into your lifestyle. Adaptogenic herbs are incredibly helpful. These herbs support you in adapting to stressful situations. Often we are reactive to stress when we should be proactive.
What you’ll learn
On this episode, Rachel Marie breaks down Naturopathy, it’s benefits and uses. She also dives into adrenals and Adrenal fatigue -- what it is, how it affects us, and what we can do about it.
Links
https://www.thrivewellnesscentre.com.au/
On today’s episode of The Marina Perry Podcast, Marina talks about the role conditioning plays in our lives. She explains the three ways people come to be conditioned and how our conditioning largely stems from our desire for rightness and belonging. She then stresses that only by recognizing our conditioning can we begin to create change in our lives.
In order to create change and step into stronger self-sovereignty, Marina encourages practicing open-mindedness. Open-mindedness requires a person to step away from their safety net and certainty and to instead explore the unknown. By doing so, we can begin seeing the world from new perspectives. This practice helps us to resist becoming stuck in our identities, opinions, and at the mercy of the media we consume and instead allows us to continue to remain open to change, growth, and the truth inside of us.
By exploring the power open-mindedness can have upon conditioning, Marina demonstrates how opening oneself up to new perspectives and voices can become a tool for helping us to better recognize injustice and inequality in the world. She explains that it is only when we remain open to change and encourage the expansion of our consciousness that humanity itself can begin to change for the better.
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On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina interviews Kira Love, a nutrition coach, empowerment coach, fitness professional, and contestant of television show, Master Chef. On today’s episode, Marina and Kira tackle the topics of what to do when life throws us curve balls and discuss how to navigate these situations with grace. They also discuss how to empower our children, families, and ourselves to make better, healthier choices every day.
To kick off the podcast, Kira shares the top mistakes she has observed many people make when embarking on their journey to a healthier self. As a mother, Kira is passionate about educating children about food and nutrition as well as helping adults break their attachments to some of their unhealthy eating habits, too. She is also extremely passionate about teaching others how to implement change in their life with ease, grace, and flow to move toward living a life with more passion and purpose.
Marina and Kira also discuss breaking attachments to labels, especially with children, around food and eating. For example, Marina says, labeling a child as a “fussy eater.” Patience and persistence, Kira suggests, are most important to those who have to juggle many roles within the household. It may take ten to twenty attempts with a new taste or texture before our bodies (or our childrens’ bodies) start to understand the new food sensation we are encountering. Kira also assures the listeners that we can still have good memories centered around food—it should just be whole, healthy foods on the table.
Marina and Kira transition to the topic of navigating divorce as a single mother with children, in addition to other big transitions a single mother may encounter in her life during or after a divorce. Kira shares her own experience with her recent divorce and how she reclaimed her power and value as a woman through extensive coaching during this time in her life. Marina then digs deep into the concept of the nuclear family and the label of the “broken family” after divorce and asks Kira to share her advice on coming to terms with the reality of this new perception of the family unit after divorce.
Kira wants listeners to know that there can also be blessings and gifts through this challenging time, as well. She feels that she had an awakening that led her to feeling overall more powerful now, and she feels that she has also been gifted the ability to let go of lingering negative thoughts and feelings that manifested during this time in her life. Kira feels that she gained the power to trust herself completely, and thus feels more centered in life as well.
Marina and Kira end the podcast on the question of dating after divorce: How do you start “getting out there?” Kira suggests doing research, especially after long relationships, on how the dating world has changed, and she implores women to know their boundaries and what they want in a partner before jumping back into dating. Kira also recommends a few tips for women on empowerment, finding your gift, and finding your channel to share your gift with others. She leaves listeners with some final tips on life after divorce for single mothers, and she shares some words of wisdom that she has also adopted as part of her own vision statement for not only her work with clients, but also for becoming a more empowered self.
Things You Will Learn
External Links
Kira Love Counseling: https://kiralovecounseling.com/
Kira Love’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEdLbFiay4X5ZOKN6stiVhg
Social Media
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On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina focuses on the topic of feedback. She explains how feedback serves as a pathway towards the expansion of self. It allows the world and the people in our world to act as a mirror so that we can more clearly see ourselves and the ways in which we are being perceived.
Marina then suggests some practices to listeners for how to begin receiving and identifying feedback in their lives. She explains that oftentimes the patterns appearing in our lives are a form of feedback but that it’s easy for our survival codes to blind us to these, which is why speaking with friends, family, and partners can become so eye-opening. She then asks us to consider the following:
Marina also shares with listeners how to go about offering feedback to others in a way that is kind and productive. She encourages everyone to think of feedback as not only an opportunity but also as a powerful gift that can become the gateway to self-growth.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
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On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina welcomes John Templeton, a high-performance wealth and mindset coach dedicated to helping others better cultivate a more positive mindset around wealth creation.
John begins the podcast by sharing with listeners his personal journey and mentality concerning wealth and finance and his path towards becoming a high-performance coach. John and Marina emphasize the importance of finding passion and purpose in life and igniting one’s life force. In order to do so, John recommends that people do what they enjoy. By doing what one loves, a person achieves a higher vibration in life and the answers concerning his or her life’s purpose will become more apparent.
John then moves on to discussing money and why he believes the wealth gap exists. He explains that it’s people’s belief systems that directly impact their relationship with money and their wealth mastery. When people identify their feelings towards wealth and the rich, they can then trace these emotions to their thoughts and belief systems regarding money. By doing so, they can then begin the growth work necessary to begin changing these beliefs, a process that requires getting uncomfortable but which can help a person better achieve his or her full potential.
John then shares with listeners 5 steps for creating wealth. These include:
John also recommends several strategies for beginning the path towards wealth and tips for better understanding and improving one’s relationship to money. He and Marina stress the importance of every person identifying his or her personal “why” when it comes to the desire to be wealthy and how this can strengthen one’s motivation and justify the sacrifices that might need to be made. John encourages listeners to remember that they can achieve whatever they want in life by refusing to be complacent and striving to cultivate certainty in who they are.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
Check out John’s work and connect with him at https://johntempleton.io/
John’s Book Recommendation: Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki - https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1543626610
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This episode of the Marina Perry Podcast is all about feedback. Feedback, Marina explains, is asking the world and the people in your world to act as a mirror for you and what they hear, see, and experience. It can be beneficial to ask for feedback from others to see how they perceive you so you can compare this to your own internal perception of yourself to adjust where necessary. Feedback can wake us up from the illusion of our own delusions, as we objectively look at how others perceive us. Although everyone’s experience is not necessarily “the truth,” it can be beneficial to see their experience of truth. The world may experience us in ways that we do not perceive ourselves, and this is why it is important to ask for feedback from others.
We are conditioned to look for feedback, and in particular, positive feedback. However, Marina reminds us that we shouldn’t fear receiving feedback. Marina shares exercises with her listeners to ask for feedback as well as how to deliver it, too. Sometimes we let parts of ourselves lay dormant, and this is when Marina suggests that we should ask others to act as our mirror to help re-open us up to these parts of ourselves.
Feedback is a gift, and may even uncover new parts of ourselves, but we have to be open to receive this genuine feedback from others. Marina challenges us to listen with open ears, rather than becoming defensive when receiving feedback. She wants us to ask questions to those we trust such as, “How can I serve you better?” Questions like this can be a gateway, Marina says, to growing and changing in magical ways.
Things You Will Learn
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On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina interviews a self-love, intimacy, and relationship coach, EJ Love. EJ is also an international best-selling author of the book, Become the One, which centers around loving oneself through self-marriage and self-love.
Marina kicks off the podcast with EJ’s three-year journey of writing her book, and EJ explains to the listeners what it was like for her to heal and write Become the One. She thinks this book will particularly resonate with those who have experienced unhealthy relationships with narcissistic abusers and codependency, and that it explains how and why certain people attract this type of personality. EJ even admits that within the relationship, she acted out of character due to the abuse, and she gets raw with her readers within the book.
Marina and EJ go deeper with their listeners as EJ explains what narcissism and codependency is in a relationship, and how to spot these in your own relationship or with a partner. EJ explains narcissism as a spectrum of narcissistic traits (that everyone may have a few of), but the extreme end of the spectrum may point toward one having a personality disorder. Lacking empathy is a main factor of narcissism and narcissistic personalities, but there are different types of narcissism, EJ explains. Codependency and narcissism usually go hand-in-hand as one partner tries to cope with their narcissistic other to feel that they have received love.
Marina asks EJ if codependency is also a spectrum like narcissism, and EJ confirms that though everyone may have some degree of codependency, there is an unhealthy end of the spectrum where one is too dependent on their partner to feel sure in oneself. EJ suggests to follow your intuition, and that it’s a big red flag whenever a partner does not respect your boundaries. There are many different kinds of red flags for the different types of narcissists, but EJ explains that how one talks about their ex-partners is also a big indication if someone may be a narcissist.
Marina then turns the podcast over to EJ for her to explain her top tips in moving more toward self-love and improving one’s own view of themself. Together, they touch on the topics of shame, setting boundaries, personal values, and being present in the moment.
EJ closes the podcast with her story of self-marriage and how she came to hold a self-marrying ceremony. After her journey of self-marriage, EJ faces relationships from a place of wholeness where she doesn’t solely rely on another person to receive love.
Things You Will Learn
External Links
EJ Love’s website: https://www.biglovefest.com.au/ej-love.html
EJ Love’s book: https://www.ejlove.com/book
EJ’s recommendations:
The Queen’s Code: https://www.amazon.com/Queens-Code-Alison-Armstrong/dp/B00ECFLKS0
The Conscious Uncoupling Course: https://www.consciousuncoupling.com/course/
Social Media
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Want to connect with EJ Love? Links to her social media are below:
EJ Love’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_qM_ZGEbM2B3_LgM5mWqA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ejlove
nstagram: @ejloveofficial
On today’s episode, Marina is talking about a factor in each of our lives that sits on top of everything else and has a massive influence on our day-to-day interactions--focus. It impacts nearly every aspect of your life. Your focus is a direct image of what shows up in your life. Because of that, it can mess with your growth and progress. This week, we’re going to sit down and discuss what it is, how we can leverage it, and everything you never knew about focus.
As a word, “focus” can act as a noun--it’s definition being “the center of interest.” However, as a verb, it means “to adapt to the prevailing level of light to see clearly.” Obviously, this is in reference to photography, but if we can take this definition and apply it in other ways, it allows us to understand that we can shift what’s around us to shift our focus.
Our first step is to look at how your focus acts. Is it pulled in a million different directions? Are there overwhelming influences on your focus? A result of an inability to focus can manifest as drowning in work and feeling undersupported to name a few. Are you focusing on the good or are you focusing on the bad? If you’re unclear, just take a look at your life--it’s a direct reflection of where your focus is. What you’re zoning-in on is all that you’ll see. Where your energy flows, focus follows. If you say to your brain, “I NEED to do this” your body will follow. When you filter the noise, you find a focus. If all you’re focused on is the lack, you’re going to build a world of lack around you. If you are creative and lateral in your thinking, that is what you’re going to see.
Marina talks about some tangible, tactical steps we can take to ensure our focus is working FOR us and not AGAINST us.
First, identify what it is you’re focusing on. In some cases, this might be a question of “can I focus at all?” Are you allowing everyone else’s needs to step in? Can you set one task for a day and complete it, or are you distracted? For a week, sit down and identify what it is you are or aren’t focusing on. Then, consider what else you could see. What would someone else notice about my life? After that, create a context for what you choose to focus on and establish boundaries. Disallow distractions, but don’t tackle it all at once. Look at what else is on the menu and think about what new meals you can have.
What you’ll learn
In today’s episode, Marina breaks down focus: what it is, how it can lead us down a number of roads, and what we can do to elevate our focus and leverage it to achieve.
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina shares 4 factors that may be affecting how we relate to coming out of COVID as well as transitioning to what our normal used to be. Ultimately, she wants people to be compassionate to each other as we all cope and transition in different ways during this time. Marina provides these factors as tools so we can be curious with ourselves about our likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses surrounding COVID and our COVID lifestyles.
When breaking down the first factor, how one relates to COVID, Marina discusses how stress, suffering, and even pleasure affect how we personally relate to COVID and how we come out of it. Some may have had a more positive isolation experience as their reality, however, there are also people who are having a negative experience while in isolation that may be a result of enduring higher levels of stress and suffering caused by new external factors.
The second factor, your old reality, also affects how you view your new reality, as well as your motivation in this new reality. Resistance to a new reality, Marina says, may be because someone really liked their old life, and thus more resistant to taking on a new, possibly less pleasurable, reality. If it feels effortless to move through new stages and phases, you may have a good muscle for change, or, you just may not be experiencing a whole lot of change right now. In states of flux, it may actually be the easiest time to implement new shifts since everything around us is shifting and changing already. The hardest time to create change, Marina says, is in times of solid, set routine.
Like packing for a trip, Marina says that we get to bring stuff back with us through times like this. She also challenges us to implement change whenever we start unpacking and navigating through the things we picked up along the way to flex and strengthen our muscle for change and adaptation. Finally, once we can accept change and transitions for ourself, then, we can be accepting of others who are also working on taking on change in their life, too.
What You’ll Learn on This Episode:
The 4 factors:
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On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina welcomes Belinda Wearne, creator and CEO of Yoni Elixir and the Enlightenment in the Bedroom events and experiences. Together, Marina and Belinda talk about some of the more intimate aspects of adulthood, discussing intimacy and its many forms, how to get better in touch with our bodies, and women’s self-pleasure.
Belinda begins by explaining to listeners what her Yoni Elixir is and how it can be used to create deeper self-pleasure as well as deeper intimacy. She created the oil after struggling to get more deeply in touch with her body and self and realized other women must be experiencing the same disconnection.
Belinda and Marina discuss some of problematic ways women’s bodies are discussed when it comes to sex and pleasure, explaining why language is so important when it comes to fostering self-empowerment and how oftentimes the language surrounding women’s genitalia is negative or derogatory. Because of this, Belinda encourages use of the word “yoni” because it is a sacred term for a woman’s entire reproductive space that gives it the reverence it deserves.
Belinda and Marina then move on to exploring the concept of intimacy, what it means to them, the different ways it gets expressed within our lives, and the different types of intimacy people crave. Belinda explains that oftentimes people’s desires are born from what they did or didn’t receive when they were young and that learning to identify these needs or desires can help individuals to better activate them within their lives. Belinda also covers some of the most common resistances people have when it comes to self-pleasure and bodily intimacy and the need to start shifting this mindset so that women can get back into their feeling bodies, which she describes as the most powerful, singular thing a woman can do.
Finally, Belinda shares with Marina her advice for best increasing energy, empowerment, and one’s expression in the world. She encourages women to lead by example, explaining that by making room for self-pleasure and by being intimate in the details of their practices with others, they give other women the permission to do the same and to feel comfortable doing so.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
Check out Belinda’s Yoni Elixir and learn about upcoming events at https://www.yonielixir.com/
Belinda’s Book Recommendations:
Vagina by Naomi Wolf: https://www.amazon.com/Vagina-Revised-Updated-Naomi-Wolf/dp/0061989177
How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving by David Richo: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Adult-Relationships-Mindful/dp/1570628122
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As a sovereignty and wholeness coach, Marina’s work revolves around helping others better recognize and understand who they are and how to better expand into the identity that they actually desire. With this ultimate goal in mind, on today’s episode of The Marina Perry Podcast Marina asks listeners to reflect upon the rules and stories that dictate their lives, encouraging them to ask themselves: “Who am I? Who do I want to be? Who could I be?”
Marina explains that many people often forget their own power and so allow themselves to remain confined to ways of living restricted by self-imposed rules. Oftentimes, individuals perform the roles they occupy in life (e.g. as a daughter, mother, partner, career woman, friend, etc.) based upon a set of rules or stories they’ve told themselves about what is and is not allowed or what is considered right behavior and what is considered wrong behavior. Rather than sticking to these rules, though, Marina urges listeners to recognize that as a sovereign soul, you can renegotiate any aspect of who you are at any time.
Marina shares several experiences she’s had in her own life where she has felt restricted by the rules she’s set for herself and how she broke free from these. She does this so that listeners can draw parallels to their own lives and recognize the stories and rules they may be unknowingly writing for themselves. Marina encourages everyone to begin discerning what is right for them and to allow for multiple expressions of one’s self to coexist in a way that may seem contradictory but is instead a testament to one’s unique difference and wholeness.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
Check out my School of Growth at https://www.marinaperryschoolofgrowth.com/
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In this episode, Marina continues her electric interview with healer and writer, Inna Segal. Marina and Inna continue their discussion about how to explore and develop our inner strength to further enrich one’s life. Marina then turns the podcast over to Inna to describe for us how her healing gifts and powers appear to her in the moment, and what the day-to-day experience entails for Inna—is it a “switch” that she can just “turn off?”
What is the “etheric body,” and what does it mean to Marina and Inna? To Inna, there’s a difference between seeing aura and seeing one’s etheric body, and one must train themself to discern between the two, and go deeper to see the etheric body. She then jumps into a conversation about her research and writing process when writing her book, The Secret Language of Your Body, and ties back her research on self-healing at home to the feedback she received from health medical professionals after sending them her book for review.
Marina then asks Inna’s advice for people who want to stay strong in their body, their soul, and their health during this COVID-19 crisis. Inna suggests that we should be conscious of how fear affects our daily thoughts and seep into our unconscious, and possibly our body, as well. Fear is a powerful emotion that can weaken our body and soul, so we should strive to find time to develop a practice (with ourself, our partners, etc.) to recenter ourself with our body, mind, and soul. Inna says that this is the best time to open your heart to learning and to yourself.
Marina wraps up the podcast with some rapid-fire questions for Inna about her sense of self, her personal healing journey, and some final tips on self-exploration and opening ourselves up to change in our patterns for the long game.
Things You Will Learn
External Links
Inna Segal’s website: https://www.innasegal.com/
Inna’s book, The Secret Language of Your Body, available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Language-Your-Body-Essential-ebook/dp/B003L786IM/ref=sr_1_4?crid=34DEICOFPV13A&dchild=1&keywords=inna+segal+the+secret+language+of+your+body&qid=1588362895&sprefix=inna+se%2Caps%2C158&sr=8-4
Inna’s Most Impactful Books and Authors:1. Rudolf Steriner: https://www.rudolfsteiner.org/
2. The Twelve Stages of Healing, by Nathaniel Altman and Donald M. Epstein D.C: https://www.amazon.com/Stages-Healing-Donald-Nathaniel-Epstein/dp/1568651414
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In this episode, Marina records her podcast as a zoom call to interview renowned healer and writer, Inna Segal. This episode is broken up into two parts: the first episode is about Inna Segal’s book, The Secret Language of Your Body, and self-healing, and episode #19 will pick up with a discussion of the possibility of having and experiencing multiple lives (at 44:49 in the podcast.)
Marina introduces Inna Segal as an international healer and speaker; as well as a pioneer in energy medicine and human consciousness. Inna, however, is unique in that she can see illnesses intuitively in other people as they interact with one’s personality traits and/or characteristics. Inna looks at “what is there, within, and then most likely can predict a person’s behavior.” She then guides people through their processes of self-healing based on an individual’s own needs, beliefs, and personal characteristics.
Marina and Inna then discuss one of Inna’s current works, The Secret Language of Your Body. This book, in brief, is about life experiences, personality traits, the body, and controlling (or overcoming) our own thoughts and emotions through spiritual and self-healing, but tune in to hear what it “really all is about” straight from Inna herself in this interview.
Inna and Marina then discuss one of Inna’s first transformative self-healing experiences where Inna healed certain aspects of her physical body herself, spiritually. She also realized she had developed a special sense where she could discern connections between a person’s personality or certain personality traits and their body’s afflictions. After this personal experience, she realized she wanted a book to help explain and better work through this new sensation and personal experience, but she needed a deeper guide than what already existed. She needed to go deeper than just saying, “I just need to love myself or my body,” and explore the inner-self further to work toward a more aware and certain sense of self. Her work is developing deeper connections on all aspects of the interlocking parts of the body.
Inna describes “Divine Healing Intelligence” as a powerful realization that she wasn’t just a physical being who could rely on herself. One of the first things that came to her during her own spiritual healing process where she asked herself if she could surrender herself to something higher to connect to spiritually, but, after talking to a doctor, she realized that she is a deeply spiritual being and needed to figure out what that meant to herself. She says that this Divine Intelligence means different things to different people as we develop our versions of our “higher self,” and we may take different journeys individually based on our own beliefs and interests.
Most people can intuitively connect to the body, but Inna does feel that her development of this is a gift, but she also worked to have her personal level of understanding of herself, who she is, and her connection to the spiritual world. This latter development may take considerably more work than the basic levels of intuition through the self and body.
Marina asks Inna for her top three tips about how to enhance one’s own skills in developing their own sense of intuition, and Inna’s advice is as follows:
Inna also advises to “work on your heart first.” Unite the disconnect between the self and the heart. This episode ends with Inna’s explanation of the connection between the body and soul in the self, and the next episode will begin on Marina’s follow-up question about Inna’s take on whether or not people have and experience multiple lives, or, one, singular life.
Episode 19 will start at the timestamp: 44:49, where Inna introduces the topic of the possibility of multiple lives.
Things You Will Learn
External Links:
A link to this video on Youtube once live:
Link to Inna Segal’s YouTube and book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzVCNAgIZeQ
Book, The Secret Language of Your Body, available on Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Language-Your-Body-Essential-ebook/dp/B003L786IM/ref=sr_1_4?crid=34DEICOFPV13A&dchild=1&keywords=inna+segal+the+secret+language+of+your+body&qid=1588362895&sprefix=inna+se%2Caps%2C158&sr=8-4
Social Media
YouTube:
Marina Perry YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC489jXKVDubUFkG0FD-004w
Inna Segal’s website: https://www.innasegal.com/
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is solo-recording her show during the COVID-19 pandemic to address a topic that has received a lot of requests: What are my tips for “immunity?” Immunity, Marina explains, extends farther than the physical body, and she will explore elements on how we can thrive, rather than survive during this time, and “step into more energy, more life force, and dial up the vitality factor, for the various and multiple factors that are within our control.
What is “physical energy?” In this podcast, Marina will share rapid-fire tips with listeners to kick harmful habits that only replenish our energy in the short-term from external energy sources. Depleted energy results in a compromised state, so Marina encourages her listeners to incorporate some of her rapid-fire tips into our daily routines for a healthier self and sense of beingness.
The number one mistake, Marina says, is that people look outside of themselves, of their “skin suit,” for energy. What she means is that we may turn to caffeine, alcohol, and other vices to replenish our energy, however, this “external prop,” or short-term satisfaction will lead to a “super low-low” from these external sources. We then begin to think that energy is only available through these external sources for that kick of energy that we are lacking.
In the second half of the podcast, Marina moves away from the physical to discuss the topic of sovereign spaces. Sovereign spaces include our body, mind, spirit, and our soul. Marina says that this is our home within the bigger universe, and advises to act intentionally because this is how we build our sense of self within our personal sovereign spaces. Acting with intention will also build your energetic immunity within your own “rainbow bubble,” too. Also, Marina warns listeners to gatekeep their bubble to maintain their energy sources, and take inventory of these three things: 1. What goes in, 2. What comes out, and 3. What is happening within your sovereign space.
Things You Will Learn:
Rapid-fire Physical Energy Tips
Moving from the Physical tips:
External Links
Other tools available:
Wellness Programs available online and in select health clubs
I. 12-day reboot
II. Fast Fix Formula
III. 8-week Shake Up
IV. Water in the Blue Zone
V. Pure Club
Social Media:
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In this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina interviews Kylie Boreham, founder of Bham Powerpants. Throughout the episode, Kylie tells her story of surviving an abusive relationship, recapturing her self-esteem with the use of positive affirmations, the creation of her business after the birth of her daughter, and the importance of creating a business utilizing your passions.
The podcast begins with Kylie reflecting on her life and her experiences surviving an abusive relationship. She goes on to discuss her company, Bham Powerpants, and her passion for creating environmentally conscious and socially impactful clothing, or “ethical fashion.” She then describes the different ways one is able to purchase Powerpants and the charitable donations they make to abuse victims in Papua, New Guinea.
Kylie then proceeds to discuss her experience surviving an abusive relationship and explains some of the reasons that it can be difficult to leave these relationships. She shares that for her, the physical abuse did not begin immediately, but she was being verbally disrespected and insulted regularly. Kylie and Marina go on to converse about the importance of recognizing when a relationship is ending and the strength it takes to end one.
Lastly, Kylie and Marina discuss the importance of using your passions within your business and the importance of avoiding burnout. For example, Kylie discusses how she uses meditation, yoga, and time with her children to recharge her batteries, and she keeps signs around her office to “remind her why she does what she is doing.” Finally, Marina and Kylie end the podcast with Kylie sharing her personal tips for elevating health and energy and increasing happiness.
What You’ll Learn in this Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
Bahm Powerpants Website: www.powerpants.com.au
Kylie’s Recommendations:
Brene Brown Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability?language=enDaring Greatly by Brene Brown: https://www.amazon.com/Daring-Greatly-Courage-Vulnerable-Transforms/dp/1592408419
On this episode of The Marina Perry Podcast, Marina discusses the difference between playing the short game and playing the long game. She defines the long game as the intentional actions people take towards a vision for the future while the short game refers to the actions taken in the present to achieve instant gratification. She explains that those who play the long game possess the ability for long-term focus and tend to achieve more success in life. Because of this, in this episode Marina offers listeners advice for how to stop self-sabotaging, how to establish a long game, and how to get more out of your journey towards achieving your goals.
Long games can be applied towards all aspects of life, whether that be regarding nutrition, relationships, career, etc., and they can often lead to greater progress and mastery. While it’s okay to play the short game every once in a while, it is crucial that the short game does not disrupt the long game. To prevent this from happening, Marina explains 3 reasons people use the short game to sabotage their long game so as to make listeners more aware and reflective concerning these behaviors. They include:
In addition to drawing awareness to these 3 behaviors, Marina also provides listeners tips and strategies for establishing their own long game. This begins with first deciding and then declaring one’s long game, getting intentional and being disciplined, and prioritizing and compartmentalizing each step to make them more manageable. Marina further expresses the importance of faith and play when it comes to staying on track for one’s long game. While there may be challenges along this path, aligning one’s short game and long game can lead to a feeling of mastery within life that ultimately is the experience of self-sovereignty.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
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In this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina interviews Victoria Jennings, an entrepreneur, best selling author, business consultant, and two-time college founder (IPS Institute and the Dynamic Academy). Throughout the episode, Marina and Victoria discuss lessons that encourage people to embrace their natural strengths while aligning them with their passions in order to increase collaboration with others. Today’s discussion will cover how everyone is different, why we do not think or act the same way, why this is important, how to create more effective teams.
Marina and Victoria begin by discussing the importance of failure as a teacher and how it is acceptable to fail more than once. They go on to discuss Victoria’s colleges, the IPS Institute and the Dynamic Academy. Both colleges focus on working with an individual’s strengths instead of trying to force them to work within the current academic model. For example, the IPS institute focuses on empowering “blue collar workers” to continue their education while increasing their self-esteem within the classroom setting, while the Dynamic Academy focuses on utilizing profiling tools identifying an individual’s strengths.
Marina and Victoria go on to discuss the importance of discovering your strengths and the effect this can have on your self-esteem, self understanding, and understanding others. Victoria highlights the 4 Frequencies that people exhibit and examples of the strengths of the people in these frequencies.
Finally, Victoria then explains her concept of the 1-2-3 Equation for building a successful team. This requires a person to understand what their strength frequency is and what they need on their team to be successful. Marina and Victoria talk about the importance of having a balanced team, and in doing so, how the team can capitalize on individual strengths and thus is more likely to experience higher profits and higher satisfaction.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
Victoria Jennings’ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriajennings1/
IPS Institute Information: https://www.facebook.com/IPSInstitute/?hc_ref=ARSri6fmBc39xFIU2PAbJsm851Y48nKcH5Cc634xdh9tYy6Fi1FRPz3ll9nDn7GnbZE&fref=nf&__xts__[0]=68.ARAzIobWtMKypzSr--xs11ebuAbdzuQn820E1mIMEXNBea471MOn4rHCYcJNwmxYrENYuwUy0q5DjSk5tSM3Y63uSNy5Y8xEUHzMnHuBZvrY6_mQ1ie2vBzFPxBhB3J3U38MfWlqiCy4r6gDS8KodNfgSx7tiW1g6LcjQe1eLVtPhwNEArqmGbGdiHtaBVMVLz8DyucdaW16bZTTOXEIHPawu2V_Xt6qCt53wpS5_RcBbIrK_4E49XTzHY0Mc8oqAgGhF6dWcyEvk6cXA6YHn9jDW81g4el-qG54Vfh-_NlNeqzus3HseXvx1uwbgiR54AXVrJXvkAaTLbPSG8lNA-jYiQ&__tn__=kC-R
Dynamic Academy Profile Assessment: http://dynamicacademy.com/profile-test/
Media Recommendations:
Mastering the Art of Success by Jack Canfield https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Success-Canfield-Hansen-Nicholson-ebook/dp/B00CRZ1SPM/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2FE04PXMGX9ZC&keywords=mastering+the+art+of+success+jack+canfield&qid=1585603164&sprefix=mastering+the+art+of+succ%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-2
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield https://www.amazon.com/Celestine-The-Prophecy-An-Adventure/dp/B00292HMTE/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2P70DNVW6E7VS&keywords=the+celestine+prophecy&qid=1585603300&s=books&sprefix=the+celestin%2Caps%2C326&sr=1-2
Esther and Jerry Hicks the Absolute Law of Attraction YouTube Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTb6mKAwftA
Recorded during the coronavirus pandemic, Marina uses today’s episode to reflect on privilege and how to stay calm and find peace during moments of chaos. Marina begins the podcast by acknowledging the world’s current uncertainties and the ways in which they are collectively affecting everyone on the planet. She then uses her own personal experiences both currently and in the past to help others find ways to navigate these moments that can hold potential for fear but also for growth.
Marina shares with listeners the two pillars in her life that allow her to stay calm amongst times of chaos: perspective and self-trust. Concerning perspective, she encourages listeners to recognize how problems reveal privilege. Needing to pay rent, worrying about keeping children in or out of school, having to find ways to shift business practices -- each of these problems, when reflected upon, reveals the privileges of shelter, education, and career that we have the joy of experiencing. She reminds us that “only when we lose something do we really value it or miss it.” By recognizing this and reframing the problems we are facing as opportunities for gratitude, we can change our perspective into one that better allows us to stay calm and reflective.
Marina also discusses the importance of self-trust during difficult times, explaining how the problems we face become survival experience. Rather than focusing on what we lack, it’s important to identify where we are capable; focus on what’s possible rather than what’s not available. Marina recognizes the ways in which a person’s foundational beliefs pre-frame how they deal with challenging times, so she also calls for listeners to think deeply about what beliefs they want to be true for themselves.
Finally, Marina ends this episode discussing the need for everyone during this time to pivot. By pivoting, people can better examine what is available to them as well as use this time to find greater self-alignment. This moment in time offers an opportunity to better realize what we want to prioritize in our lives, and Marina encourages listeners to take advantage of it and use it to grow in a way they can be proud of and can use once the chaos ends.
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Helpful Links:
Have any questions or thoughts about today’s podcast? Shoot me a DM on Instagram: @iammarinaperry
On this episode of The Marina Perry Podcast, Marina interviews Michelle Wilson, founder of Unicorn Empire Media, a business growth agency dedicated to helping entrepreneurs navigate digital marketing. Together, Michelle and Marina discuss advice for entrepreneurs, the power of authenticity, and the importance of beauty and its connection to empowerment.
Michelle and Marina begin by talking about personal branding and how personal branding has recently exploded due to a higher demand for transparency and authenticity by consumers. Today, people are more inclined to want to know the person behind the business, therefore making the personality of the business even more important. Recognizing this demand, Michelle’s UE Media helps people to visually represent themselves in alignment with their personal brand. Drawing from this experience, Michelle shares with Marina the importance of narrowing down one’s market and finding one’s niche. She also explains how having a positive mental attitude, self-belief, and not worrying about what others think are each key to achieving the goals we want and overcoming personal mental blocks.
In addition to entrepreneurship, Michelle and Marina also discuss the importance of beauty and how oftentimes “it feels amazing to look amazing.” They differentiate between putting time into one’s appearance and superficiality and how making an effort to look one’s best is about embodying both your natural beauty as well as your imperfections. Taking the time to look and feel good demonstrates an investment in the self that can then help someone to show up in better alignment with their self.
Finally, Michelle offers tips for beginner entrepreneurs or those looking to take their business to the next level. She also shares her personal advice for better elevating her health, elevating her empowerment, and elevating her expression in the world. She discusses the difficulty of changing identities but also how doing so can lead to new lessons and better alignment and can open a person up to becoming more authentically and unapologetically themselves.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
Check out Unicorn Empire Media at: https://unicornempiremedia.com
Check out The High Class Hippie at: https://thehighclasshippie.com/
Check out Michelle’s Book Recommendation, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill at: https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller/dp/1585424331
Looking for advice on personal development, check out Michelle’s recommendation, Tony Robbins, at: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/personal-development-process/
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina talks about decision-making and discernment. She defines for listeners exactly what discernment is and why it is such an important skill when it comes to decision-making. Recognizing the vast number of decisions people make in a day, Marina points out how easy it can be to fall into a state of decision-making fatigue and how indecision itself can come to have a significant cost. Therefore, she dedicates this episode to providing listeners tips on how to become better at decision-making.
First, Marina encourages listeners to reflect on how they’ve come to make decisions in the past. Do you make decisions on your own? Do you seek guidance from someone else? Who is it that you typically talk to? Do they usually end up guiding you or rather do they simply make the decision for you? By reflecting on these questions, Marina explains how we can begin to understand the ways in which our survival codes and perhaps even our stored trauma influence the ways in which we make decisions.
It is because of the way our bodies react to decision-making that Marina then encourages going within the body as a place to begin this process. She recommends starting with your thoughts and taking the time to map them out concerning a particular decision; then she recommends thinking about your senses and what your physical body is saying about the decision; and finally, she encourages you to go deeper and tap into your spirit and how it feels about the decision. In practicing these three levels of reflection, you’ll be able to start better attuning yourself to the frequency of what decisions are in your highest good.
Finally, Marina advises listeners to look to what they’ve done in the past when it comes to decision-making and perhaps alter these behaviors by doing the opposite temporarily, a practice that allows you space for personal discernment to come through and can help to better sharpen your integrity. She explains that becoming better at making decisions best suited for the person you want to be comes from deepening and playing with this process of discernment. By allowing yourself to do so you’re also strengthening your self-trust, which is absolutely necessary for achieving self-sovereignty.
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Helpful Links:
Have any questions or thoughts about today’s podcast? Shoot me a DM on Instagram: @iammarinaperry
On today’s podcast, Marina Perry interviews Natalie Diane, an expert women’s empowerment coach and founder of Nourish by Natalie, a program dedicated to helping women master foundational life skills needed in order to thrive physically, mentally, and emotionally. Together, Natalie and Marina discuss empowerment, boundaries, and how to relinquish control.
Natalie shares with listeners her personal journey towards becoming a women’s empowerment coach, discussing her own path towards finding self-empowerment. She explains how the media and external influences led to a disconnection with her inner self and how she was able to reconnect with her body, femininity, and womanhood - a journey she now helps other women to navigate through her coaching.
Together, Natalie and Marina discuss how women become caught up in the need for control and how this can come from a place of fear or need for self-validation. Because of this, they talk about the ways in which women can begin to surrender control, a process that can be difficult but can ultimately help a person better cultivate a sense of self-worth and self-love.
Natalie and Marina then move on to talking about boundaries and how women need to better solidify their boundaries so that they are not constantly giving in a way that fails to account for their own needs. Instead, Natalie and Marina explain why having boundaries can help women become better attuned to their own needs and allow them to get into the habit of better aligning their lives with their own values and fulfillment.
Finally, Natalie and Marina end today’s podcast offering tips for building better self-trust. Natalie also shares the ways in which she expands her own Gypsy-Goddess-Queen energies and encourages listeners to “honor yourself and speak your truth.”
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
Check out Natalie’s website at: https://www.nourishbynatalie.com
Follow Natalie on Instagram: @nourishbynatalie
Book Recommedations:
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés: https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Run-Wolves-Archetype/dp/0345409876
How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving by David Richo: https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Adult-Relationships-Mindful/dp/1570628122
In this episode, Marina Perry focuses on the concept of Whole Womanhood, sharing what it means to be a whole woman, why this is important, the ways in which women become “not-whole,” and her personal tool for taking on the journey to Whole Womanhood in a playful and fun way.
Marina begins by clarifying that everyone is already whole, everyone possessing a pure and limitless lifeforce. People block parts of this lifeforce, however, preventing them from stepping into their wholeness and embracing it. This is because people often compromise their wholeness and edit themselves, abandoning or leaving dormant those parts of themselves that may have been denied or suppressed in the past for purposes of survival or from the words of those we are relationally dependent upon. The journey to wholeness, therefore, is about the undoing and revealing required in order for a woman to stand “unapologetically true in the beingness of her.” It begins with becoming aware of the parts of us we need to resuscitate and reclaim.
Marina then shares with listeners her Gypsy-Goddess-Queen archetype, which she uses as a tool to bring back into play those pieces of ourselves we don’t allow. She breaks down each role as:
She then explains how each of these pieces of ourselves either come into expression or fall into shadow, encouraging listeners to reflect upon which parts of themselves they embrace and which may be lying dormant.
Marina ends by recognizing that reclaiming one’s wholeness can be terrifying, but by doing so, we become an example and “loving permission slip” for others to follow our lead. She encourages listeners to share what they’ve learned with at least one other woman in their life so that this journey can be undertaken together, and as always, she welcomes any questions or conversations from listeners through direct message or social media.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
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Does what I’ve said resonate with you? Have any questions? Shoot me a DM on Instagram: @iammarinaperry
On today’s podcast, Marina Perry interviews Dévashi Shakti, an educator, mentor, psychotherapist, coach and bodyworker and the world’s first founder of feminine yoga for women’s bodies, which she calls Tigress Yoga. Dedicated to her work as a sacred, feminine, medicine trainer, Dévashi shares with Marina her beliefs about feminine embodiment education, what led her to her path, and how others can become in tune with their own sovereignty and wholeness as well.
Sharing her story about how she became involved with therapeutic healing from a young age, Dévashi encourages listeners to listen to their own soul-callings and trust their intuition and the natural human capacity to know one’s self. She advises listeners to feel rather than just always think and be aware of how external focuses can often lead us astray from our right path.
Clarifying how Tigress Yoga differs from other yoga styles in its emphasis on awakening the female body, Dévashi explains to Marina her understandings of Tantric body work as well as her experience with somatic psychotherapy. She discusses how these body-focused approaches to self-alignment help women to go deeper into themselves to heal, transform, and evolve.
Dévashi encourages women to “move out of the mind and into the being,” offering advice on some of the best ways to do so. Her and Marina also discuss the importance of this work in a largely patriarchal society and the ways it helps to cultivate a sacred feminine energy for the self that can then be spread to others. To do so, however, one must be willing to be the change, step forward, as well as commit to practices of self-nourishment.
Marina and Dévashi then move into a discussion concerning different archetypal energies such as those of the Queen, Gypsy, and Goddess. Dévashi explains how these archetypes look different for different women and are therefore expressed in different ways. Ultimately, however, the archetypes serve as a means for women to explore themselves in their “fullest expression.”
Finally, Marina and Dévashi end their conversation with tips for tapping into one’s feminine energy, Dévashi sharing her favorite ways to express her femininity as well as her masculinity. Her and Marina also offer advice for better activating Gypsy energy as well as how to begin shifting from feelings of self-loathing into self-appreciation. Dévashi finishes her interview by reaffirming that the divine feminine is something innate to all women, and it can be achieved by a re-remembering of the fullness of self.
Things You’ll Learn in This Podcast:
Helpful Links:
https://www.devashishakti.com/
In this episode, Marina Perry talks about survival codes, which refer to our deep subconscious programming that controls our entire reality. Marina provides an in-depth overview of survival codes, describing to listeners where they come from, what they are made of, and what can be done about them.
Survival codes are made up of three components:
These three components fuse together to create our survival codes, telling us what to do and how to act in certain ways in order to survive. They become created during one’s formative years during times of stress or danger and from that point became a form of internalized programming designed to keep us alive. Oftentimes, we learn these codes through familial and societal systems, but they also come from the self, created through the truths we’ve found alignment with. The problem, however, is that this truth and these codes are often created by toddlers, and people struggle to update them as they grow and their lives change.
While Marina stresses that our survival codes are created from self-love, they can become a form of ineffective love or self-sabotage when they prevent us from expanding into new aspects of ourselves. If we want to come into sovereignty and embrace wholeness, we must know what our survival codes are, respect them, but then from a place of maturity, reprogram them to include more of that which is now true and what we want.
In order to begin changing our survival codes, Marina advises becoming attune to our codes that need retouching. She recommends, through self-reflection, looking for cycles of similarity that are frustrating and noting those patterns in our lives that continue to repeat. She also recommends looking for the persistent complaint present in our lives, explaining how this can be the signal for a need to change a survival code.
As always, Marina encourages listeners to reach out to her with any questions, and if you’re interested in learning more about survival codes or a different topic, feel free to DM her, and your suggestions may work their way into the content of a future podcast.
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On this episode of The Marina Perry Podcast, Marina is joined by Bella Zanesco, a career and life strategist who teaches people how to be fully expressed in career, life, and relationships. She is also the author of Smart Girls Screw Up Too and was awarded the UK Top 50 Young Changemaker of the Year. Together, Bella and Marina discuss ways to recognize when one is on a path towards burnout, ways to correct this path, and how to find joy in being “all of the parts of us.”
Talking about some of the major points in her book, Smart Girls Screw Up Too, Bella explains how the book was inspired by her own breakdown and the realization that the majority of people are struggling. She suggests that recognizing these feelings of struggle and identifying their sources is the first step in beginning the journey towards ending them.
Bella and Marina then discuss the importance of building desire into one’s life. They recommend finding the simple actions in one’s life that makes them feel lighter and then setting a few of these as daily goals. They suggest that doing so will then begin to shift that person towards a more joyous lifestyle.
Bella and Marina also introduce a number of new concepts and ways of examining different factors in one’s life that may be contributing to negative feelings. For example, they define and explain “source wounds,” “The Four Levels of Thought,” “The Five Tribes of People” in your social life, and “Kintsugi” (the Japanese philosophy of repair). In doing so, Bella and Marina offer a variety of ways for listeners to self-assess elements in their life that may or may not be contributing to a full and joyous lifestyle.
Together, the two also explain their own thoughts and experiences concerning meditation, recommending it as a pivotal tool for gaining self-insight that cannot be accessed in other ways. Marina talks about her initial resistance to meditation but how it has come to be a fulfilling practice for her through her recognition that there is no “right” way to meditate and that different people meditate in different ways.
Finally, Bella and Marina end the episode by discussing “play” and how it can be incorporated especially into the lives of those in corporate roles. Bella then offers her personal tips for best magnifying energy, empowerment, enterprise, and self-expression.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
Helpful Links:
http://www.fullyexpressed.me/
Smart Girls Screw Up Too by Bella Zanesco
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078J64RHM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VYX944/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The Surrender Experiment by Michael Alan Singer
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NDTUDOS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CRQMQ17/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Men’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009U9S6FI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
On this episode, Marina goes over the 5 Stages of Stuck, recognizing how in the journey to discover our highest selves, we sometimes become trapped in a mind space that seems to halt our growth. As Marina explains though, we’re never not moving but instead are falling into either cycles of growth or cycles of decay. Rather than wasting valuable energy feeling stuck, however, Marina wants to help listeners move through whatever stage they feel trapped in so as to redirect that energy and channel it towards finding their dream life.
The 5 Stages of Stuck Marina discusses include:
Stage 1: Being distracted - In this stage, one is not yet awake to their dream and hasn’t taken the time to think about what they want out of life.
Stage 2: Being disoriented - In this stage, one doesn’t know the answer to what they want out of life, but they wish that they did and are seeking clarity.
Stage 3: Doubting - In this stage, one knows what they want, but they think that it’s either impossible to have or impossible for them to have.
Stage 4: Being disillusioned - In this stage, one may be succeeding, but this success is not bringing fulfillment or true alignment with the self.
Stage 5: The Dreamer - In this stage, one has become attuned to their truth and can use this in a way that allows for the type of self-negotiation needed to continue moving forward.
Marina provides an in-depth overview of each of these five stages, describing their causes, what they may feel like, as well as ways to attempt to overcome them. She also explains that because life is cyclic, we drop in and out of these stages and so it is important to learn how to pivot when headed in the wrong direction. To become better at doing this, she encourages listeners to get curious, journal, and, as always, reach out to her for a coaching session if looking for assistance in finding your core compass.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast Episode:
Helpful Links:
Feeling stuck and looking for some assistance? Check out here for some more info: http://marinaperry.com.au/dreambuilder-experience/
For today’s podcast, Marina Perry sits down with her cousin and former business partner, Anthony Noud, who works as a nutrition and mindset coach, is the director of Awakened Lifestyles, and who dedicates himself to helping others live their ideal life. Together the two discuss addiction and low self-worth and how to move from these traps towards one’s more awakened self.
Drawing from his own personal history with drug addiction, Anthony shares his struggle with feelings of worthlessness, false promises to self and others, and the helplessness of not knowing how to change. He offers his story to inspire and help others overcome these same obstacles, asserting that a complete “180 change” is possible and achievable.
Offering advice to those looking to undergo a drastic change in lifestyle, Anthony discusses the concept of “surrendering” oneself to one’s heart rather than head and to listen to others. He and Marina encourage seeking others out for help and to celebrate even the small progresses made along the journey.
Together, Anthony and Marina share some practices they perform in their own lives that help with constant self-growth and change such as meditation, exercise, and service to others. They also warn against the danger of seeking out “shots of value” to add temporary worth to one’s life, instead advocating for an attitude of gratitude that can help to establish a more lasting acceptance of self. While this process of change will be difficult, they also recommend seeking out ways to bring more “play and more pleasure” to the process so as to find joy throughout it.
Finally, Anthony and Marina wrap up their conversation with an examination of the differences between guilt and shame, recognizing that while the former can be a healthy form of self-growth and compassion, shame is unhealthy and often only ruins one’s view of the self. For those struggling with shame, they offer advice for how to overcome it and rebuild inner connection that fosters self-love and self-acceptance. Anthony then ends by offering his own personal tips for magnifying energy, empowerment, career, and expression.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast:
Helpful Links:
http://www.awakenedlifestyles.com.au/
http://pureandlean.com.au/about-ant/
Book Recommendations:
Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm by Thich Nhat Hanh
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007HBY9RK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Top 5 Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0079HLDEE/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina introduces the idea of self-sovereignty and how she’s come to discover the concept along her life path as a “wounded healer and early adapter.” In this episode she discusses what self-sovereignty is as well as what it isn’t, proposing that it serves as a necessary component for awakening one’s wholeness.
When defining self-sovereignty, Marina differentiates it from the concept of self-love, arguing that self-love is incomplete, and the language of self-sovereignty opens one up to a more holistic experience of gaining full right and power over oneself. Using the metaphor of nation sovereignty, she explains how self-sovereignty encourages one to stop looking externally for how to best rule themselves and instead seek and draw from one’s internal compass. In doing so, one can better discover and accept their innate value and uniqueness that they can then continue to grow, expand, and express.
While self-sovereignty encourages a turn inwards, Marina stresses that it is not a separation from others but rather a practice that can then lead to a deeper connection with others. By fostering deeper self-acceptance, self-sovereignty helps people to stop wearing the masks they present to others and instead come into their wholeness and use it to serve those around them.
Marina ends the episode by offering tips for how to begin embodying one’s self-sovereignty. She reaffirms her belief in its power and how it can create peace, joy, and love from within.
What You Learn in This Episode:
Helpful Links:
http://marinaperry.com.au/
On this episode of The Marina Perry Podcast, Marina Perry sits down with Alexi Panos, a self-proclaimed “artist of life” and co-founder to the non-profit, E.P.I.C. (Everyday People Initiating Change). Alexi dedicates herself to empowering others by teaching them how to connect with their best selves through her training videos, workshops, books, and retreats. She was named one of ORIGIN Magazine’s TOP 100 Creatives Changing the World, one of 15 Women that Wow by Creativ Magazine, and one of the stars of breakout documentary’s The Abundance Factor and Rise Up.
Alexi discusses how her journey as a musician, model, TV host, and victim eventually led her to her work as a traveler, life-coach, and entrepreneur, using her first-hand personal experience to inspire others to seek out their best life & authentic self. Using her own life as an example, she encourages women to be authentic and honest about owning the ups and downs of their journey and sharing these with other women so as to combat the “sparkle” and glamour of commercialized life that often leaves women feeling incomplete and unworthy.
Together, Marina and Alexi exchange advice for creating an environment that encourages learning and evolution as well as how to find clarity in moments they’ve felt stuck. They discuss the complicated relationship women often have with leadership, encouraging their listeners to stop comparing their abilities and worth and instead know their own value and the ways they lead for their community, family, friends, and partner. They also explain, “You are a leader for your inner-child,” and responsible for making sure their dreams, hopes, and goals are sought after.
As mothers, Marina and Alexi also dive into the constant barrage of questions and judgements mothers face and the emotional and physical messiness of being a new mother. Addressing their own experiences as well as the common fear of many mothers not being good enough, Marina and Alexi discuss how society stigmatizes new mothers through labels and commercialized portrayals of motherhood. Pushing back against these practices, they encourage mothers to trust that they are right for their children and to recognize their role in supporting and expanding them into their own wholeness.
Finally, Marina asks Alexi to share her personal ways of activating her inner Gypsy, Goddess, and Queen. While sharing some daily practices she performs to nurture these aspects of herself, Alexi ultimately encourages listeners to practice in giving and receiving life’s pleasures and in allowing themselves to be open to receiving, even in small ways. She ends with the assertion: “Meet yourself. Listen to him or her. Trust that listening and go,” affirming her belief in the need for self-trust, self-worth, and action.
What you’ll learn in this podcast:
Helpful Links for this episode:
https://alexipanos.com/
https://www.epicthemovement.org/
Recommended Books from the episode:
Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer
Warrior Goddess Training by HeatherAsh Amara
Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other by Osho
Loveability by Robert Holden
On this episode of the Marina Perry Podcast, Marina Perry introduces listeners to her podcast series, outlining her intentions so that listeners can decide for themselves whether or not her podcast is in alignment with their own personal journey and goals. Marina lays out exactly who she is speaking to, emphasizing that her intended listeners are “the greedy folk,” or, those dedicated to growth who want to illuminate not just one, but many areas of their life.
Marina explains that the content of her podcast will span many areas in its dedication to fostering wholeness. Specifically, though, it will be dedicated to topics concerning energy, expression, and empowerment, which she explains are the keys to learning how to hold more within one’s life and unlocking better self-sovereignty.
Finally, Marina informs listeners that her podcast episodes may take the form of either interviews or be her offering solo advice regarding a theme she’s been noticing arising amongst her own clients. Ultimately, however, each episode is dedicated to servicing her listeners and helping them to escape the ways they limit themselves. Even if an episode title may not seem to speak directly to you, Marina still advises taking a listen, given the possibility of discovering something new that resonates. As always, Marina also encourages her audience to contact her, ask questions, and give feedback, so the podcast itself can become a conversation dedicated to best serving its listeners.
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