Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons: Recent Episodes

Kathryn Kemp Guylay

Kathryn Kemp Guylay, MBA, CNC (Certified Nutritional Counselor) shares inspiration and actionable advice for your happier, healthier and more successful life. The Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons Podcast features today’s leaders in the wellness industry as well as successful entrepreneurs and business visionaries. Each show highlights a mantra or set of mantras that listeners can follow and integrate into their days in to reach greater heights in their careers and personal lives. Kathryn is an author, wellness coach and entrepreneur that has escaped the corporate office to enjoy skiing, hiking and exploring the mountains of Sun Valley, Idaho in between her working hours. She is also a parent and occasionally weaves parenting advice and insights about the changing world of education into her mantras. Let the Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons Podcast inspire you to reach for your dreams in wellness, life and business success.

In this thought-provoking episode, Kat delves into the complex topics of identity, ancestral trauma, and what it means to live a good life. The episode begins with Kat reflecting on a common sentiment, "I'm not sure who I am," setting the stage for a deeper exploration of self-identity. Kat offers three powerful mantras designed to help listeners navigate their personal journeys and challenges.

3 Mantras from the episode include:

"Most of us are more than one person
"We have to change ourselves. Our actual terrain, the vehicle that walks through the world."
"Life is a weighted average of the sum of all your minutes and the weight is based on the level of how amplified an emotion is."

The conversation turns philosophical as Kat poses the question, "What is a good life?" She suggests that life is a weighted average of all our moments, with the weight determined by the intensity of our emotions. Kat concludes with a powerful message on resilience and positivity, encouraging listeners to raise their contributory frequency, asserting that even those who have endured severe trauma can make a positive impact.

Tune in for a deep and enriching discussion that offers both practical advice and philosophical insights, helping you understand and navigate the complexities of identity and life's challenges.

They say that there is a planetary SHIFT going on.

Sometimes that SHIFT feels like S*&T.

Como? (what?)

Homo? (what?)

Did I say “Homo Lumininous” in this podcast?

Yes I did. If you want to learn more about this shift, I enjoyed this video and would love to share it with you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJTtkYt3U2I

Here are the mantras from today’s show:

https://makeeverythingfun.com/five-ways-to-win-in-relationships/

I also mention “the Giving Tree” conundrum, and i invite you to listen to that episode, and check out the show notes here.

Thank you for listening!

I had no idea that I’d break into tears during this podcast, but I did. The topic is love, after all. And my heart is broken.

So I call on Shakira to help me, again. She has been one of my important spiritual guides in my life. I LOVE SHAKIRA. (Me encanta!).Sometimes it can put your own problems in perspective when you hear about those of others. Shakira has been through an insane year. My broken heart goes out to hers.

Let’s start with this song by Shakira, Monotonía

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5y6xLpRwx4

OMG that is me! I put my heart on a sleeve, and it got stepped on big time. Thrown on the street, broken. I have felt empty and lying on the floor like Shakira is shown.

Then we go to Don’t You Worry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me19SUmWu2s

I know it’s possible to cry all day and night until you fall asleep sitting up, but eventually, it DOES stop. Your dogs or cats might be soaking wet with your tears and really pent up with energy because you haven’t left the house (and are really worrying the neighbors with whatever can come through the walls), but it does eventually stop. At least for that day.

Then you might find yourself crying the next day again, and it may also come in waves when you least expect it. But I have to say to myself, “everything’s gonna be okay.” Gracias Shakira.

Then we move to Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpeEdMmmQ0

“When you fall get up, eh eh.”

And I will start to meet my OWN NEEDs.

After all, what we need or want from others, we must be able to give to ourselves. Connection with others plays a role in everyone's lives in different ways for different reasons. It is difficult to sustain connections with others when we struggle to connect and meet our needs within ourselves. So…

I will see myself

I will hear myself

I will understand myself

I will fairly judge myself.

Maybe I need to take up dance lessons so that I can move like Shakira. RRRRR. And get back to my work at Nurture to help communities in need.

Mantras from the show:#1: Get to know love; we don’t understand it in our culture#2: Move past “conditional” vs. “unconditional” love and consider compassionate love.#3: Understand the many types of love the Greeks appreciated: Eros, Philia, Ludus, Agape, Pragma, Philatia. I realize that I hardly get into the types on my podcast, so just read about it here.Your homework, if you choose to accept: go help someone in need!

If you are a woman, tune in to what might be happening to other women (or the feminine side of a man) today. There seems to be strong energy around conflict and the change of an old model that involved subjugating women. (Yep, I just wrote that– ask me about the times I’ve seen gross men pat waitresses’ asses and be total assholes. I’ve been on the wrong side of that equation, ME TOO).

See the paradigm for change from episode 124.

Two questions if you’re brave enough to consider change:- Can women and men start to do LESS of being the Perpetrator and Victim?

And move into Creator and Challenger?- Can we start to truly CO-CREATE the way I believe that God/Goddess/All that is intended?

Let’s finish with, What is Love (the SNL version with A Night at the Roxbury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2h4PhgobI8

Thank you for watching. I’m going to go pick up dog poop now. Hasta luego!

I woke up this morning “on the wrong side of the bed.” (It’s likely the divorce I’m going through).

Sometimes I turn to music to help me process the emotions I’m feeling. The word “emotion” comes from “emote,” which is about being in motion. I believe that feelings are meant to be felt, to be processed, which creates movement and allows them to move in and through our system.

What I want to avoid is getting feelings stuck. Or repressing what is meant to be felt.

Since I’m on an inner journey to uncover repressed emotions and better understand myself, I’ll use whatever tools I find helpful.

Even if that means singing off-tune (loudly) in public. Are your ears ready?

In the spiritual growth world, we talk about the Negative words that are to be avoided. We say, “Don’t focus on what you DON’T want.” (Focus on what you DO want).

However, I believe that it is important to understand and feel the entire spectrum of emotions, from “bad” to good, to be able to appreciate the difference.

I mention a kids’ book about a little girl who loves pink, but after her world turns to ALL PINK ALL THE TIME, she stops appreciating pink the way she used to. It is an analogy for how we can’t expect to be happy all the time, or “happy” just doesn’t feel the same.

For today’s show, I drive the mantras based on No, Never, and Not but also songs with messages. I look forward to your comments!

Midwest Mantra #1: Say “No” to a World that Makes You Sad. Musical inspiration: Pop Life (Prince). It sounds like Prince is asking us to say no to: -poverty -lack of generosity -not appreciating each other -jealousy -hierarchy -fake appearances -lack of access to healthcare and education -addiction -thirst -being boring

Midwest Mantra #2: Never Be Out of Love.

Musical inspiration: All Out of Love (Air Supply).

I spoke in episode 123 about creating good boundaries to help you manage the amount of pain you can handle in a single day, week, month, or year (or lifetime).

Sometimes, per Bob Newhart’s sketch on SNL, we need to just “Stop it!”

Midwest Mantra #3: Not so much talking. Menos palabras?

Musical inspiration: Poor Unfortunate Souls (From Disney’s The Little Mermaid). Bonus inspiration: Whip it (Devo)

What I believe we need is heartfelt listening and clear communication about our needs.

Can we do that?

Shall we sing more?

Would you like to comment? What are YOUR needs (and do you communicate them?).

Thanks for listening. Kathryn

PS. I was enjoying Hint water during the recording. I highly recommend Kara Goldin’s book, Undaunted.

I’ve been on the move a lot. I've counted up all the times that I've moved in the past six months and I moved 14 TIMES! How crazy is that?

Anyway, I just did this incredible exercise with my coach, Jessica. And she helped me to identify my values. And I would not have guessed what they were.

My number one was purpose. I'm always the person that asks why. My second is opportunity and third is recognition.

Here are the mantras:

Nothing is as constant as change. My questions for you are:

Do you think that time is speeding up change?

Can we make change fun?

Change is growth. Change is good.
This mantra is actually a song: Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen. My question is:

What is your favorite lyric? Because there's so much in there about advice and things that you can take and digest, but I'm curious what resonates with you today in this moment?

Songs:

Everyone’s Free to Wear Sunscreen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

Changes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgF7Y3q-as

Why have I been so grumpy?
Why the under eye bags?

What is this about imposter syndrome?

I’ve been crying. And dealing with some health challenges. Health challenges always suck, but they are especially hard when you’re supposed to be some kind of “wellness expert”.

In this solo cast “short”, I’m going to be brave, and I hope that by listening/watching this episode, you too can be inspired to be a little more brave.

These days I’m not just crying about my health issues. I’ve got some broken plates I’m dealing with (LINK TO EP 124) as well as coming to terms with my tree stump status (LINK 125).

As I type these show notes, I’m sitting in the waiting room of a dermatologist. I’m here for a biopsy that will help us to investigate a tricky little blood marker for autoimmune that came up positive for me. Why is my body attacking itself?

I’m not going to get all BOO HOO here. In dealing with this “bad news”, I remembered a wonderful clip from SoulPancake that featured an extraordinary young man, Zach Sobiech. I hope SoulPancake won’t be mad that I took about 14 seconds of one of their clips for my podcast- hey, maybe I can help to promote it!

Zach was diagnosed with a terminal illness. When he received this information, he launched into an amazing period of creativity to share lessons about life. One of my favorite songs by Zach is
Clouds.

I think about what Zach faced, and how he remained positive.

What I’m dealing with pales in comparison. I mean, just because I’ve got a bunch of doctors appointments and tests, does that give me the right to become Ms. Grumpy pants?

No.

I will talk about serious stuff on my podcast, but I will always endeavor to Make It Fun.

Here are the 3 mantras from today’s “Solo Cast Short”:

#1: Put yourself in each others shoes- ask the two questions I forgot to say out loud on Episode 125 (but I put them in the show notes). Here they are:

Question 1: Will the boy step into the tree’s shoes* (know and feel the giving of unconditional love)

Question 2: Will the tree step into the boy’s shoes** (know and feel the receiving of unconditional love)

2: People change, all the time. There is nothing as constant as change.

When I work in my nonprofit Nurture, I tell kids during our “nutrition education classes” that they don’t have to try the broccoli if they don’t want to. But I remind them that their taste buds change all the time. I get a lot of success with this approach. What do you think?

#3: Every sentient being that you encounter is a potential spiritual guide. All you have to do is be ready and open!

I’m curious about your thoughts on my desire to go on a journey inward. Did I pick the wrong season for this journey?

The song for today’s episode is The Safety Dance. I’ve put the lyrics below with two important lines highlighted. Any other lyrics you’d like to emphasize?

Sticky notes for future episodes:
- We’re gonna do an EP on Happiness. Stay tuned!

Glennon Doyle Melton’s, “it’s not a good idea to protect our kids from pain” concept. I was intrigued when I met her and saw her speak; she’s on to some great ideas.

In this episode, I I mention my Positive on Publishing interview with #1 NYT bestselling author and transformational leader, Marci Shimoff. She has this beautiful “recipe” for manifestation, as follows:

Intention
Attention
No tension

Listen to the full interview with Marci here (LINK) (so good!).

The Safety Dance Lyrics

We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance
And if they don't dance
Well, they're no friends of mine

Say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find

And we can act like we come
From out of this world
Leave the real one far behind

And we can dance
Or sing

We can go when we want to
Night is young and so am I
And we can dress real neat
From our hats to our feet
And surprise 'em with the victory cry

Say, we can act if we want to
If we don't, nobody will
And you can act real rude and totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile

And say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything's out of control
We can dance, we can dance
They're doing it from pole to pole

We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance

Everybody's taking the chance

Safety dance

We can dance if we want to
We've got all your life and mine
As long as we abuse it, never gonna lose it

Everything'll work out right

I say, we can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
Because your friends don't dance
And if they don't dance
Well, they're no friends of mine

Well, it's the safety dance

It's the safety dance

Well, it's the safety dance

Well, it's the safety dance

Oh, it's the safety dance

Oh, it's the safety dance

Everybody's taking the chance

What a delight it is to be back on my podcast. I’ve been MIA for over 6 months. This podcast gives you a little insight into what I’ve been up to. Yikes.

“You Are Not Alone” is a wonderful song by Michael Jackson. Have a listen!

Today, I talk about my near-death experience and how even when you feel alone, you are not.

Ultimately, when we feel alone, we want to remember to love ourselves. To do that, we must start to uncover, love, and heal, our core wounds.
Feelings like “I’m not enough. I'm too much. I'm not worthy. I'm not lovable.”

Core wounds are related to shame and abandonment and can lead to apathy, which lies at the bottom of the Map of Consciousness.

I interviewed Dr. Mario Martinez about core wounds, which he calls “archetypal wounds” or “dampers of becomingness”; in his framework, they include shame, abandonment, and betrayal.

But In today’s solo cast, I share my own story. Gulp. Get ready for me to be vulnerable and share some deep stuff. I offer 11 mantras, which I call “Midwest Mantras” (since I am currently recording in the Midwest).

Thank you for listening. Feel free to drop me a note on my Contact page or on social media if you have any questions or comments.

Mantra #1: Embrace stillness when possible– even in the chaos; rest when you can.

(A helpful tool for this process is the “Lake Meditation” by Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn and Dr. Andrew Weil- a FAVORITE).

Mantra #2: When all is lost, do a wheely!

Mantra #3: Feel your feelings; feel to heal.

Since when is it crazy to be angry? Since when is it illegal to be angry?

I tell the story of almost getting arrested by the local cops while sitting in a bathtub of mud, trying to cool off. Yes, I had just had a crazy explosion of emotion and release during some back-to-back therapy appointments that I actually did not want to attend. See Mantra #9. It would have been better for me to have set some boundaries and said “I need a nap more than I need therapy today, thank you.” This leads to the next Mantra…

Mantra #4: Assign yourself a time-out - especially when you are about to blow it.

I hope you don’t “blow it” the way I did with my family. You can’t take back things you say. Even if what you are sharing are “truths,” remember that having a FILTER is a good relationship tool. Sharing your truths- in the form of a verbal firehose of vomit- is not helpful to those you love.

So what I suggest (for myself from now on!) is to give myself a time out in the same way that I did when my kids were little. 1, 2, 3, Magic (remember that book?). My kids thought I was counting for THEM, I was counting for ME! (Boy, I needed those time-outs when I was a mom of young kids!).
For you: Take a nap, meditate, go for a walk, but learn to self-regulate so that you don’t blow up your relationships and your life!!

Reminds me of that great song by INXS (Mediate):

“Self regulate, try not to hate, love your mate, don’t suffocate on your own hate” etc.!

Mantra #5: Your basic needs are the following: food, shelter, and companionship.

We can debate if there are other needs, which I do believe include water and certain other support, and I am working on a daily planner that will incorporate these items. Reach out to me if you’d like to see an early edition.

Mantra #6: The new paradigm of win-win includes a third win.
1. Win for self

Win for other
Win for the higher good*

*This goes beyond the Steven Covey “win-win” because we can start to include what is a win for the Higher Good. It is time we shift the paradigm.

Mantra #7: Sometimes what looks like shit is actually gold.Mantra #8: Simplify. Mantra #9: Create good boundaries to help you manage the amount of pain you can handle in a single day, week, month, or year (or lifetime).Mantra #10: Parents - remember the importance of unconditional love.

Elena and Alexander, I love you SO MUCH!!

Mantra #11: Love yourself.

During this interview, I introduce a new book I’m working on. This self-help book will provide, among other things, advice about how we can navigate the changes we are experiencing in the paradigm shift happening today.

I also mention a few times the work of Dr. Bruce Lipton who was a faculty member at Quantum University. I highly recommend checking out his work.

What a delight it is to be back on my podcast. I’ve been MIA for over 6 months. This podcast gives you a little insight into what I’ve been up to. Yikes.

“You Are Not Alone” is a wonderful song by Michael Jackson. Have a listen!

Today, I talk about my near-death experience and how even when you feel alone, you are not.

Ultimately, when we feel alone, we want to remember to love ourselves. To do that, we must start to uncover, love, and heal, our core wounds.
Feelings like “I’m not enough. I'm too much. I'm not worthy. I'm not lovable.”

Core wounds are related to shame and abandonment and can lead to apathy, which lies at the bottom of the Map of Consciousness.

I interviewed Dr. Mario Martinez about core wounds, which he calls “archetypal wounds” or “dampers of becomingness”; in his framework, they include shame, abandonment, and betrayal.

But In today’s solo cast, I share my own story. Gulp. Get ready for me to be vulnerable and share some deep stuff. I offer 11 mantras, which I call “Midwest Mantras” (since I am currently recording in the Midwest).

Thank you for listening. Feel free to drop me a note on my Contact page or on social media if you have any questions or comments.

Mantra #1: Embrace stillness when possible– even in the chaos; rest when you can.

(A helpful tool for this process is the “Lake Meditation” by Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn and Dr. Andrew Weil- a FAVORITE).

Mantra #2: When all is lost, do a wheely!

Mantra #3: Feel your feelings; feel to heal.

Since when is it crazy to be angry? Since when is it illegal to be angry?

I tell the story of almost getting arrested by the local cops while sitting in a bathtub of mud, trying to cool off. Yes, I had just had a crazy explosion of emotion and release during some back-to-back therapy appointments that I actually did not want to attend. See Mantra #9. It would have been better for me to have set some boundaries and said “I need a nap more than I need therapy today, thank you.” This leads to the next Mantra…

Mantra #4: Assign yourself a time-out - especially when you are about to blow it.

I hope you don’t “blow it” the way I did with my family. You can’t take back things you say. Even if what you are sharing are “truths,” remember that having a FILTER is a good relationship tool. Sharing your truths- in the form of a verbal firehose of vomit- is not helpful to those you love.

So what I suggest (for myself from now on!) is to give myself a time out in the same way that I did when my kids were little. 1, 2, 3, Magic (remember that book?). My kids thought I was counting for THEM, I was counting for ME! (Boy, I needed those time-outs when I was a mom of young kids!).
For you: Take a nap, meditate, go for a walk, but learn to self-regulate so that you don’t blow up your relationships and your life!!

Reminds me of that great song by INXS (Mediate):

“Self regulate, try not to hate, love your mate, don’t suffocate on your own hate” etc.!

Mantra #5: Your basic needs are the following: food, shelter, and companionship.

We can debate if there are other needs, which I do believe include water and certain other support, and I am working on a daily planner that will incorporate these items. Reach out to me if you’d like to see an early edition.

Mantra #6: The new paradigm of win-win includes a third win.
1. Win for self

Win for other
Win for the higher good*

*This goes beyond the Steven Covey “win-win” because we can start to include what is a win for the Higher Good. It is time we shift the paradigm.

Mantra #7: Sometimes what looks like shit is actually gold.Mantra #8: Simplify. Mantra #9: Create good boundaries to help you manage the amount of pain you can handle in a single day, week, month, or year (or lifetime).Mantra #10: Parents - remember the importance of unconditional love.

Elena and Alexander, I love you SO MUCH!!

Mantra #11: Love yourself.

During this interview, I introduce a new book I’m working on. This self-help book will provide, among other things, advice about how we can navigate the changes we are experiencing in the paradigm shift happening today.

I also mention a few times the work of Dr. Bruce Lipton who was a faculty member at Quantum University. I highly recommend checking out his work.

We’ve talked over many episodes about the topic of trauma. We’ve explored various modalities to address trauma, from Brainstpotting to EFT to coaching to plant medicine.

Today we talk about the brain and how our developmental years impact our relationships and success.

I invite trauma-informed developmental psychologist Dr. Carol Scott on the show to discuss her SASS (Self-Aware Success Strategies) methodology with listeners. We summarize our discussion with 7 mantras that lead to seven essential strategies for success through relationships.

Mantra #1: It’s never too late to address the past.

Mantra #2: Face Your ACEs. It is a good idea for everyone to take the Adverse Childhood Experiences quiz.

Here are some resources from Dr. Carol’s website.

Mantra #3: Our nervous systems are at the heart of disruptions in our relationships.

Mantra #4: When trying to decipher behavior that may trigger us, ask: What is the need behind the deed?

Mantra #5: Relationships matter when it comes to success.

Mantra #6: The first seven years of life (2,500 days) are crucial to determining your capacity for relationships now.

Mantra #7: Understand Dr. Carol’s seven essential strategies for success through relationships:
1. The infant strategy: trust
2. The toddler strategy: independence
3. The “first adolescence” strategY; faith
4. The pre-k strategy: negotiation
5. The Kindergarten strategy: vision
6. The first grade strategy: compromise
7. The second grade strategy: acceptance.

Dr. Carol has offered some helpful resources to listeners:

Become Your Sassy S.E.L.F e-booklet. You can email Dr. Scott and request this booklet.
The SASS Manifesto on the bottom right side of the page at this link.

More about Dr. Carol Scott

Dr. L. Carol Scott is a trauma-informed developmental psychologist, TEDx speaker, coach, and author. Carol brings the SASS—Self-Aware Success Strategies to help you get along better on the adult playgrounds on which you play.

Carol knows that your success today is determined by your first seven years of life. And she also knows that it’s never too late for Development Do-Overs. As her coaching client, you bring your unique goals for success, and she draws out your SASS. Together, you repattern how you operate in the relationships that are at the heart of achievement.

Also a nationally respected thought leader in early care and education (ECE), Carol is former president of the board for Child Care Aware® of America, and the ECE System Integration Consultant for Steering Impact, the home of EarlyCare+, a technology innovation to revolutionize access for all parents and caregivers to the ecosystem of ECE services.

What is fun for Dr. Scott?

Pondering and discussing deep questions about life and purpose with like-minded women.
Mind-challenging word games (BIG Wordle fan!).
Connecting with the natural world as a manifestation of Spirit.

Links

www.lcarolscott.com

www.facebook.com/dr.l.carolscott

www.instagram.com/dr.l.carol

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-l-carol-scott-7b70429/

On this episode of Mountain Mantras, I interview Amanda Monnier, an Energy Healer and Mindset Coach. Amanda knows that she was put on this earth to support people in waking up and remembering who they are.

Amanda empowers her clients and helps them heal from the inside out, break ancestral patterns, and shift into the fullest embodiment of who they are at a soul level.

We discuss what is going on at a planetary level and how we can together create a shift in consciousness for a more connected and sustainable existence.

We summarize topics with 7 mantras that will help you bring your own personal power back fully on line:

Mantra #1: Spiritual awakenings come in all flavors, colors, shapes and feelings.

Mantra #2: Spiritual awakenings are often not fun, but you can remember this: “Better out than in”.

See Emily Fletcher and I sing this “mantra” during my interview with her in episode 105.

Mantra #3: The “how” of creating an alignment between the heart and soul is to raise your frequency.

Mantra #4: We are on the cusp of the golden age when we will wake up to the essence of who we are (love, joy, ease, flow, etc.).

Manta #5: Set an intention to connect with your higher self, then drop into your body.

We mention Lumari, her book, and my interview with her about Streams of Consciousness.

Mantra #6: Look for the “full body yes” when making decisions.

Mantra #7: Take what resonates and leave the rest.

More about Amanda

Amanda is an Energy Healer, Certified energetic allergy healing practitioner, Certified Magnetic Mind Coach, Certified Yoga Teacher (CYT 200 and Yin Yoga), Emotion Code Practitioner, certified Transformational Nutrition Coach, and holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology. She assists her clients in healing old wounds and up-leveling to the highest-soul aligned version of themselves. Amanda is a woman on a mission to create a movement of healed, intuitively-connected humans—people who are truly aligned with their heart & soul, creating a life on their terms, and passionately unleashing their gifts into the world. Amanda is completely committed to her soul work of changing lives.

What is fun for Amanda Monnier?

Moving my body! I absolutely love it!

LINKS

Website

Instagram

Today we dive into a particular plant medicine, mescaline, the active ingredient in San Pedro (Wachuma).

Dr. Isabel Sharkar is a naturopathic doctor and the co-founder of Indigo Integrative Health Clinic in Washington, D.C. Dr. Isabel, who I call “Izzy” throughout the interview given our personal connection, has been serving the community in health restoration and body optimization for over a decade. She is known as a beauty expert and has some interesting insights for us on purging, healing, beauty, and anti-aging.

Izzy beams through to us from Portugal, where many plant medicines have been decriminalized.

We summarize our discussion with 10 powerful mantras about healing, be that through plant medicine or other techniques Izzy mentions including health food, water, hot/cold therapy, detoxification, meditation, vagal nerve stimulation, and simply being in nature.

Mantra #1: The pandemic has created polarization and separation. We need a way out… see Mantra #2.

Mantra #2: Be present, breathe, listen, bring in love and remember the ultimate desire for connection.

Mantra #3: True healing happens on all levels: mind, body, and soul.

We reference the books When the Body Says No (https://smile.amazon.com/When-Body-Says-Understanding-Stress-Disease/dp/1630262560/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1644009563&sr=1-) and The Body Keeps the Score (https://smile.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0670785938/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1644009654&sr=1-1)

Mantra #4: When the student is ready, the teacher appears (this is true for plant medicine as a master teacher).

Mantra #5: Carrying around years and pounds of emotional baggage is NOT a good look! (Purging and healing can make you look ten years younger!).

Mantra #6: San Pedro is a master teacher (plant); It is considered “grandfather”.

Mantra #7: San Pedro can allow what so many of us need in this day and age: movement, being in nature, and the slowing down of time.

Mantra #8: Mescaline (the active ingredient in San Pedro) has many healing properties (supports immune function, anti-microbial, supportive in healing the gut lining, reduction in alcohol abuse, reduction in suicidal thoughts, activates serotonin and dopamine).

Mantra #9: Integration is key and takes time.
See the previous episode with Sam Liebowitz where we talk extensively about integration: https://makeeverythingfun.com/radio/ep116-sam-liebowitz/

Mantra #10: It all starts with intention.

More about Dr. Isabel Sharkar

Dr. Isabel Sharkar is co-founder of Indigo Integrative Health Clinic in Washington, D.C., a thriving clinic that has been serving the local community in health restoration and body optimization for over a decade. She is known as a beauty expert and has written for magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, Byrdie, Pop Sugar, Psychologies Magazine, Huffington Post, Top Sante, Aspire Skin, Net Doctor, Vogue, and many more. She has been featured in Modern Luxury, NBC News, the Exhausted Docu-series, and numerous podcasts. Dr. Isabel stands for the empowerment of female entrepreneurs and inspires them into goddesses. Through Creatress CEO Unleashed, Dr. Isabel births the new female archetype, the Creatress, who through healing herself can heal the world. As Conscious Creatresses, we have a calling to leave the world a better place for all generations to come while embodying fun, joy, and pleasure. Dr. Isabel guides female entrepreneurs into full self-expression through healing the mind-body-soul triad and supporting re-connection to their personal power and Source.

What is fun for Dr. Isabel Sharkar?

Going to Burning Man, traveling, fancy dresses & making costumes, anything artistic.

Links

www.indigohealthclinic.com

@indigohealthclinic

@izzyindigo

Disclaimer: This podcast is for information only, and no part of its contents should be construed as medical advice, diagnosis, recommendation, or endorsement by the author. You should always ask your physician or healthcare provider for her recommendation before starting any new health-related activity.

We continue our series on the healing properties of plant medicine with this interview with my friend Dr. Diva Nagula.

Dr. Diva experienced life at full speed as a busy physician running a busy clinic until he was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014. He hit “rock bottom” not when he was diagnosed or going through chemotherapy, but when he went into remission and lost his identity yet again. He had moved from doctor to patient (the title of his wonderful book that I highly recommend), and then was faced with a new identity after being cancer-free. As a Dr. Andrew Weil integrative medicine trained physician, Dr. Diva discusses the importance of balancing the mind, body, and spirit for optimal health.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for information only, and no part of its contents should be construed as medical advice, diagnosis, recommendation, or endorsement by the author. You should always ask your physician or healthcare provider for her recommendation before starting any new health-related activity.

We summarize our discussion with 10 powerful mantras about healing, including the responsible use of plant medicine:

Mantra #1: A life lived in fight/flight leads to disease.

Mantra #2: Algorithms used in traditional medicine don’t always fit the individual.

Mantra #3: An important aspect of healing happens on the spiritual level.

Mantra #4: The ego is there to protect us. But the ego often doesn’t want to let go, because it is attached to an identity. Plant medicine allows the ego to quiet so that healing can occur via a sense of universal oneness.

Mantra #5: We must feel to heal. Distractions get in the way.

Mantra #6: Plant medicine creates neuroplasticity so that you can get unstuck.

Mantra #7: San Pedro moves through the chakras, starting from the root chakra, clearing blockages as it moves up to the crown chakra

Mantra #8: Do your homework so that you can feel safe and get the most from your plant medicine experience.

Mantra #9: Perhaps 20% is the plant medicine, the other 80% is about integration.

Mantra #10: It’s about changing your life, not about taking plant medicine.

About Dr. Diva

Dr. Diva Nagula is a board-certified osteopathic physician and has extensive knowledge and training in Integrative and Functional Medicine. A Washington, D.C. native, he grew up in Alexandria, Virginia. His interest in medicine developed at an early age when he decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and practice medicine.

MEDICAL EDUCATION

Dr. Nagula graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at EVMS and had a fellowship in Interventional Pain Medicine at Emory University.

PRACTICE

Upon completion of his fellowship, he opened a practice in rural South Georgia. His practice grew in both size and prestige in a short time. Dr. Nagula opened the first AAAHC certified ambulatory surgical center in Georgia, where he performed cutting-edge interventional procedures. He oversaw all aspects of his practice while still managing to see a full case load of patients. He soon expanded into North Florida with a second practice.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING WITH ANDREW WEIL

Recently, Dr. Nagula completed training, under the renowned Dr. Andrew Weil, in Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona.

CURRENT HEALTH

He owes his successful battle and remission to the tenets of integrative and functional medicine. He is in the best shape and best health of his life and owes it all to his positive lifestyle changes.

“I’m still evolving. Through sharing my personal experiences of transformation, I hope to offer a reflection that allows you to develop an awareness of the positive and negative influences in your own life.” – Dr. Diva Nagula

What is fun for Dr. Diva?

Travel, Golf, trying new restaurants/food, wine etc.

Links

Website

https://fromdoctortopatient.com/about/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/FromDoctorToPatientBook/

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/diva-nagula-d-o-a0677082/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/fromdoctortopatient/

From Doctor to Patient: Healing Cancer through Mind, Body and Spirit

I’m thrilled to have yet another friend from the Evolutionary Business Council on my podcast to talk about the healing properties of plant medicine and its application in the therapeutic process.

Today’s show features Corin Grillo, a psychotherapist and bestselling author. We talk about MDMA therapy to assist with self-love and relationships.
Disclaimer: This podcast is for information only, and no part of its contents should be construed as medical advice, diagnosis, recommendation, or endorsement by the author. You should always ask your physician or healthcare provider for her recommendation before starting any new health-related activity.

We summarize our discussion with 8 powerful mantras about healing through self-and-other-love/listening:

Mantra #1: Before loving others, we must first love ourselves.

MDMA therapy allows us to:

Mantra #2: Process memories without getting triggered.

Mantra #3: Gain a new perspective on love and compassion.

Mantra #4: Connect to your heart space.

Mantra #5: Own your S*&T.

Mantra #6: Put on “big ears” and really listen.

Mantra #7: Bypass the pain so you can show up.

Mantra #8: Arrive at agreements that allow relationship resolution

Links

https://coringrillo.com/

The Golden Vine Podcast: https://coringrillo.com/thegoldenvine/

And we mentioned this in the interview: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tripofcompassion (note: this documentary is focused on psilocybin rather than MDMA).

I’m thrilled to have another friend from the Evolutionary Business Council on my podcast to talk about the healing properties of plant medicine and the importance of integration.

We talk about some substances that I had never heard of, including some synthetic compounds with numbers and letters as names. I want to ensure that we are not in any way advocating that any of you listen to this podcast and go and try any of these substances. This is serious stuff, and you need to work with the right people including getting proper medical advice. So I’ll put this disclaimer up front:
Disclaimer: This podcast is for information only, and no part of its contents should be construed as medical advice, diagnosis, recommendation, or endorsement by the author. You should always ask your physician or healthcare provider for her recommendation before starting any new health-related activity.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I’ll introduce you to my guest, Odette Peek. Odette is a Transformational Guide, Spiritual Ally & Psychedelic Integration Coach. She was searching for a healing modality to help her get through a very difficult time when she was called to do Ayahuasca. In our conversation, you’ll hear more about her own personal journey as well as how she is helping others.

We summarize our discussion with 6 powerful mantras about healing and the importance of looking at each healee as a unique individual.

Mantra #1: Plant medicine has a way of calling those that are ready.

Mantra #2: Change happens from the inside out.

Mantra #3: Healing can happen through many different modalities. Everyone is different.

Mantra #4: Healing is a never-ending journey.

Mantra #5:When working with plant medicines, you tend to get what you need, not necessarily what you want.

Mantra #6: Integrity is about applying lessons learned to everyday life.

More about Odette

I’m Odette - Transformational Guide, Spiritual Ally & Psychedelic Integration Coach. Many of us feel lost. Our lives feel like an unsolvable puzzle… an emptiness that we can't quite put our finger on. We’re stuck in jobs without meaning, relationships that aren’t fulfilling our deep desires, lives that feel boring, dull, and mediocre at best - or worse; toxic, draining, and unfulfilling to our soul. Somewhere along the way we’ve lost the magic. I know exactly what that feels like. I’d been a seeker and an achiever my entire life. So I worked hard to tick off all the boxes society says you must do. I had lived a life in the fast lane when it came to personal development - years of investing in expensive coaches, 100’s of programs, experimenting with all kinds of conventional (and not-so-conventional) healing methods to fix me. I had tried everything to help me but NOTHING had gone to the root of my discontentment. I was so desperate I would have tried ANYTHING. When I was invited to a retreat in Costa Rica that included Ayahuasca, I said yes on a whim. Aya - what?? I’d never heard of it before...

What is fun for Odette Peek?

Doing plant medicine! hanging out with my daughters
Eating cake for breakfast
Living in Costa Rica

CONNECT WITH ODETTE

https://www.spiritualalliance.ca

Thank you everyone for your questions about plant medicine.

I enjoyed your emails, texts, and even those questions that I got while coming and going from yoga class. :)

To help us explore these questions together, I’ve brought some amazing guests together for a podcast series about healing through plant medicine.

Today’s guest is my dear friend Sam Liebowitz. Sam was a guest previously on my other podcast, Positive on Publishing (LINK TO HIS EP).

Sam returns to discuss his work in energy medicine and other healing modalities. Sam reveals his many projects as a multifaceted human on a mission to help others. Listen carefully for a discussion of Sam’s beta program around integration and healing in community.

Our discussion unveils 9 powerful mantras; enjoy the interview!

Mantra #1: Learning about healing can unveil the Healer underneath.

Mantra #2: You can heal and be healed in many ways/ many modalities.

Mantra #3: The Healer and the Healee co-create the healing (with the Healee, not the Healer, truly driving the process)

Mantra #4: Facilitation is not fixing.

Mantra #5: Facilitation is about holding space and creating safety for healing.

Mantra #6: Facilitation is about seeing people as already whole without expectations

Mantra #7: Preparation is key

Mantra #8: Less can be more (going slow can be the fastest way)

Mantra #9: Follow-up (integration) is crucial.
Sam mentions four key elements: rest, whole foods, hydration, and movement; a fifth would be spending time in nature.

Please listen carefully to Sam discuss the need for caution and discernment when thinking about plant medicines.

The Medicine Wheel
Sam described the medicine wheel as containing the four elements of heart, mind, body, and spirit.

In balance, they are:
Heart (water): self-love and connection to others
Mind (fire): analytics and planning

Body (earth): feeling grounded and safe in one's body

Spirit (air): feeling connected to something greater than one’s self

Heart (water): example- MDMA
Mind (fire): example- psilocybin

Body (earth): example- San Pedro

Spirit (air): example- ayahuasca

More about Sam

Sam Liebowitz, known as The Conscious Consultant, is a facilitator, mentor, speaker, healer, serial entrepreneur, and author of the #1 best-selling empowerment book, Everyday Awakening. He has been in business since 1993 and has owned several successful businesses. His current ventures include Talking Alternative Broadcasting, and Double Diamond Wellness in Manhattan. Sam has lectured in several venues in New York City, including being a featured speaker at TEDxUpperWestSide in 2016.

What is fun for Sam Liebowitz?

Surprising people when they least expect it!

CONNECT WITH Sam

About his integration program: https://www.doublediamondwellness.com/ (See contact)

www.TalkRadio.nyc

www.TheConsciousConsultant.com

www.EverydayAwakeningBook.com

I had a lot of fun talking with Brandon Miller about how to build on talents rather than focusing on weaknesses.

Brandon is a Certified GALLUP Clifton Strengths Finder Coach and has coached hundreds of leaders to find and leverage their strengths for themselves and their teams. He is the CEO of 34 Strong, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to improving employee engagement.

We summarize topics with 6 mantras that will help you to leverage your strengths and create more fun in your work and home environments:

Mantra #1: When using psychometric tools to assess your team, use assessments that have high validity and reliability.

Mantra #2: The Clifton Strengths Finder is a highly validated and reliable tool for understanding how the 34 possible strengths apply to you and your team members.

Mantra #3: The Clifton Strengths fit into four domains
1) Relationship Building
2) Strategic
3) Execution, and
4) Influencing

Mantra #4: Understanding your strengths is about building self-awareness.

Mantra #5: Before having your team take an assessment tool, be sure to explain the why and the what (and the what NOT) of the porcess.

Mantra #6: Assessments such as the Clifton Strengths Finder are all about increasing employee engagement.

More about Brandon

Brandon Miller is one of the FIRST 7 Certified GALLUP Clifton Strengths Finder Coaches in the world. Over 15 years ago, he was a very early practitioner of Clifton StrengthsFinder using it as the Executive Leader for a non-profit organization. He has since coached hundreds of leaders to find and leverage their strengths for themselves and their teams. He is the CEO of 34 Strong, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to improving employee engagement. He has nearly 15 years of experience providing specialized leadership training, coaching, advising, and facilitating.

Brandon is also the Co-Founder of Incredible Family, a consulting agency that educates, empowers, and encourages working parents to take a strengths-based approach to parenting in order to unlock their best selves and raise strong, happy children and teens. He and his wife Analyn Miller are successful business owners, parents to seven children, and authors of "Play To Their Strengths" and "Incredible Parent". Their latest book, "Incredible Parent", released in January 2021, will leave readers with an innovative strengths-based intentional approach to child raising that will make them more confident, aware, and energized as a parent, allowing the freedom to do what one does well and bring out the best in kids.

What is fun for Brandon Miller?

Spending time with kids!

LINKS

https://www.facebook.com/analynbrandon

https://twitter.com/brandon34strong

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-miller-873a6bb/

https://34strong.com/

What a delight to share this episode with my friend and philanthropy superstar Jodi Delaney.

We discuss her work in the nonprofit world and how you can leverage purpose in life to manage life transitions and come out the best version of yourself, again and again.

We summarize our discussion with 8 powerful mantras that will help you feel renewed energy and get on the path to being a powerful agent of change.

Mantra #1: The nonprofit world is a place for your heart.
See Jodi’s heart place, the Television Academy Foundation. (LINK)

See my heart place, Nurture (LINK)

Mantra #2: We are all capable of being agents of change.

Mantra #3: We have an opportunity to make a choice in finding our purpose.
Some steps to do so include finding space, grounding, moving the body, practicing radical self-care and getting involved in a purpose-aware community.

Jodi mentions her involvement with Modern Elders Academy (LINK).

Mantra #4: The “pleasure” of finding purpose in life is renewed, invigorated energy, and a sense of having an important place in the world.

Mantra #5: The “pain” of not finding purpose is staying “asleep”, unaware of the lessons to be learned and the possibility of not having a life legacy that makes your heart sing.

Mantra #6: Learn through the “six S’s of grief”: silence, swirl, shame, survival, surrender, and shower.

Mantra #7: (If you are a woman or a man with a woman), Beware of the “seven dwarfs of menopause”: itchy, bitchy, sweaty, bloaty, sleepy, forgetful, pyscho.

Mantra #8: You don’t have to be in the “messy-middle” alone. Jodi loves to support others in the world of philanthropy, environmental conservation, and economic development.

More about Jodi

Jodi Delaney is a longtime executive in the worlds of philanthropy, entertainment, environmental conservation, and economic development. Currently the Executive Director of the Television Academy Foundation in Los Angeles, her career has spanned five states over 25 years, serving dozens of clients including the Trust for Public Land, Youth Policy Institute, the New Mexico Departments of Economic Development and Cultural Affairs, ABC News, HBO, the Discovery Channel and many others. Starting her career as a television producer and writer in New York City, she transitioned to fundraising and philanthropy across sectors, raising funds for the arts, workforce development, and environmental issues in addition to anti-poverty and diversity initiatives. She is also the Founder of Yatra Yoga International, which facilitated yoga retreats worldwide from 2006-2009, and from that experience created VetsYoga, a specialized yoga practice for military veterans with PTSD. VetsYoga served thousands of veterans via clients including the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, the Wounded Warrior Project and the Give Back Yoga Foundation. Jodi is also a certified meditation teacher, reiki level 1, travel addict, single mom and bonus grandmother to four adorable children.

What is fun for Jodi Delaney?

Dancing on the beach
Hiking in the mountains
Playing with children
Connecting with high-frequency women at astonishing spas

CONNECT WITH JODI

Twitter: @jdelaney25

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodi-delaney-b331a49/

Headshot photo is by Stacey Lievens.

As a certified Happiness Ambassador through Marci Shimoff’s Happy for No Reason program, I was thrilled to spend an episode exploring the latest in the science of positive psychology and the happiness movement.

My guest today is Becky Morrison. Becky is a mom, wife, and lawyer turned Happiness Coach. Her mission is to spread joy. She believes most people can live happier, easier lives if they get clear on what matters most to them and then develop a plan to do more of that and less of the rest.

We talk about authenticity and her special happiness as we uncover ten mantras for a life filled with joy:

Mantra #1: Happiness is not a destination; it is something that you can enjoy along the way.

Mantra #2: The definition of the “payoff” for your efforts helps to define your own happiness journey and when you celebrate (hopefully often!).

Mantra #3: Shed the “shoulds”.
(Mindfulness and slowing down helps this process; also identify who owns the “shoulds” and recognize that you can shed them in the same way that you can take off a jacket, or lighten an unnecessary burden).

Mantra #4: We determine our own priorities.
(Don't judge the decisions of others about their own priorities).

Mantra #5: Be honest and claim (speak publicly about) your priorities.

Mantra #6: Align your priorities and your happiness recipe with your current season of life.

Mantra #7: Approach your happiness recipe like a fun puzzle.
(Not with the energy of running up against a wall).Mantra #8: Honor the wisdom of the body.

Mantra #9: Encourage kids to reconnect with who they are.
(When they encounter a difficult issue, ask two questions:
1) What can they control? And,
2) What do they want?)

Mantra #10: Know your strengths, and apply them to your happiness recipe.
About Rebecca Morrison

Becky Morrison is a mom, wife, and lawyer turned Happiness Coach. Her mission is to spread joy. She believes most people can live happier, easier lives if they get clear on what matters most to them and then develop a plan to do more of that and less of the rest. If she can help enable people to find clarity and happiness then everyone wins.

People and processes are at the heart of the work that she has done for the last 20+ years in corporations, law firms – as both a lawyer and administrator – and small businesses. Now she’s using that experience coupled with her own journey to help people supercharge their success and happiness by: finding clarity; taking the next steps in their career; overcoming overwhelm; going from idea to action; and, stepping into their authentic leadership presence.

Becky brings together all her learnings in her recently published book ‘The Happiness Recipe: A Powerful Guide to Living What Matters’.

What’s fun for Rebecca:

Becky also comes from a basketball family – her husband is a basketball coach and both her kids play as well.

Links

https://www.untanglehappiness.com/

Have you ever been in a situation where you are the expert on something, yet you are struggling with that very thing? Imagine the terror of being crowned “The Sleep Lady”, but then not being able to sleep!

This is the amazing authentic story of my friend Kim West, who comes on the podcast to reveal seven mantras about how we must follow our own intuition and choice for optimal health.

Kim West is a mother of two daughters and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Known as The Sleep Lady® by her clients, over the past twenty-five years she has personally helped over 20,000 tired parents all over the world get a good night’s sleep without letting their children cry it out alone.

Gentle Sleep Coach® Training and Certification program in 2010--the first and most comprehensive training program in the world. This program was the start of what is now a global industry- Baby and Child Sleep Consultants. To date, the Gentle Sleep Coach Training and Certification program is available in 4 languages.

Kim has appeared on Dr. Phil, Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, TLC’s Bringing Home Baby, and CNN, and has been written about in a number of publications including The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Baby Talk, Parenting, and many others.

Mantras:

Mantra #1: Everyone needs a different amount of sleep.

Mantra #2: Major medical episodes, such as surgeries, can turn sleep on its head and cause a ripple effect.

Mantra #3: Wellness (sleep included) is not an applied formula.

Mantra #4: Intuition is the key to decoding your own wellness formula.

Mantra #5: “Taking a pill” can be done physically, energetically, or metaphorically.

Mantra #6: Don't let anyone stop you from digging deeper when it comes to learning more about your own health.

Mantra #7: Share your struggles with the intention of creating community and helping others

More about Kim West
Kim West is a mother of two daughters and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker or child and family therapist for 27 years. Known as The Sleep Lady® by her clients, over the past twenty-five years she has personally helped over 20,000 tired parents all over the world get a good night’s sleep without letting their children cry it out alone.

Kim has appeared on Dr. Phil, Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, TLC’s Bringing Home Baby, and CNN, and has been written about in a number of publications including The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Baby Talk, Parenting, The Baltimore Sun, USA Today, The Telegraph, The Irish Independent and the Washington Post.

Kim is the author of three books: “The Sleep Lady’s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy”, “ The Good Night, Sleep Tight Workbook” and “The Good Night, Sleep Tight Workbook for Children with Special Needs”. Her first book “The Sleep Lady’s Good Night, Sleep Tight” is in its 3 edition and has sold over 140,000 paperback copies.

Dedicated to providing tired parents with excellent sleep advice and coaching while knowing Kim could not help everyone herself, she started the Gentle Sleep Coach® Training and Certification program in 2010--the first and most comprehensive training program in the world. This program was the start of what is now a global industry- Baby and Child Sleep Consultants. To date, the Gentle Sleep Coach Training and Certification program is available in 4 languages.

What’s fun for Kim

Dancing!!!

LINKS

https://sleeplady.com/

http://gentlesleepcoach.com/

Follow her on:

http://www.facebook.com/TheSleepLady

http://www.pinterest.com/thesleeplady/

Instagram: @thesleeplady

Welcome to Episode 111 of the Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons Podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Kathryn Guylay. Learn more about my work at MakeEverythingFun.com.

Get ready to hear a story that just might change your life.

Today's guest, Jennifer Love, a dear friend and bright light on this planet, tells the story of being knocked off the workhorse just a mere 4 months ago. She went from not being able to walk and needing emergency surgery to sending me a video of her dancing just as we started the interview.

This interview yields 8 mantras that will allow you to leverage what Jennifer learned during her healing journey so that you can create more magic and healing in your own life.

Since Jennifer is a money therapist, she also weaves into the story how emotions have to do with money and how we can harness our emotions and money for a better life.

Jennifer also provides an amazing recipe for Alchemy - “a recipe to turn a pile of crap into a pot of gold”. See below for the recipe.

Mantras:

Mantra #1: Show up for others- it matters

Mantra #2: Trust your intuition

Mantra #3: Manage your mindset to create your own reality

Mantra #4: Meet your pain -rather than trying to escape it

Mantra #5: Give your own light to your body for healing.
(Jennifer describes the energy work she did on herself during her recovery process)

Mantra #6: Don't necessarily accept a diagnosis you don't align with

Mantra #7: Create micro intentions on your journey

Mantra #8: Find joy in everyday life

Jennifer’s “Alchemy recipe” to turn a pile of crap into a pot of gold:

allow yourself to be held and soften
go inside
welcome the pain and here any messages it might have for you
open your arms to the community around you
choose your reality
breathe
vision a brighter better future
manifest your vision into reality

Jennifer’s work as a money therapist shows us that when it comes to money, your decisions are 90% based on emotion and 10% based on logic.

Thus the importance of harnessing your emotions.

Jennifer's the nature of money show/ podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nature-of-money/id1557047216

The living wealthy quiz on Jennifer's website: www.JenniferLove.com

More about Jennifer Love

Award winning, 5x career entrepreneur with 20+ years under her comfy Keds (she retired her high heels years ago), Jennifer Love is a thought leader with a heart that matches her name. Her degrees, training, and research in human and organizational behavioral psychology are the foundation for her clinical work.

She’s currently the visionary CEO of the Living Wealthy Institute, helping world leaders develop a healthy relationship with wealth free from overwhelm and anxiety by following a regenerative money equation for a holistic and nourishing experience. Leaders who know how to raise, manage, grow and contribute money can live soulful, wealthy lives to
become allies for future generations to come.

She believes ANYTHING is possible while remaining grounded in science and real business practices and hard financial analytics.

On a given day, Jennifer can be found diving deep with a leader in a private money therapy session, taking long contemplative walks and hikes through nature, guiding groups of leaders through workshops and retreats, serving as a guest judge for entrepreneurial events like Startup Weekend, speaking on stage as a Wealth Philosopher, in her art studio shaping her artistic magic onto canvas, preparing entrepreneurs how to land a deal on Shark Tank, working behind the scenes on shows like: Biz Fix with Marcus Lemonis, in her writing studio developing a book or paper, meeting with community leaders and government officials, negotiating with investors (she’s helped raise $100M+), advising leaders of Fortune 200 companies and celebrities through her Living Wealthy Model, OR simply being at
home enjoying time with her sweetheart John, her fur-baby Maggie, and her adored garden of plants.

She is beloved by those around her because she gets results. As a former client once said, “With Jennifer, the only possible outcome is success.”

What’s fun for Jennifer
Being in nature, conversation with friends, arts

What a delight to share this episode with my friend and longevity superstar Dr. Robyn Benson. We discuss her work in longevity and how you can incorporate regenerative medicine techniques into your wellness routine.

We summarize topics with 6 mantras that will help you to create more energy and look and feel 10 years younger.

Mantra #1: Regenerative medicine is all about getting a fresh start.

Mantra #2: Regenerative medicine is about getting more energy from your mitochondria.

Mantra #3: Regenerative medicine includes oxidative medicine which involves employing nutrition, hydration, exercise, mindfulness, and supplements to reduce oxidative stress in the body.

Mantra #4: Regenerative medicine involves the detoxification of the body.

Some of Dr. Robyn’s favorite tools include HBOT, sauna, cranial stimulation, and PEMF. She first measures levels of detoxification, looking at hormones, blood work, and stool analysis.

See/hear my interview with Dr. Jason Sonners: https://makeeverythingfun.com/podcast/e061-jason-sonners/)

See/hear my interview with Sunlighten CEO Connie Zack:
https://makeeverythingfun.com/radio/e101-connie-zack/)

Mantra #5: Create a self-care kit. Dr. Robyn suggests emulsified oregano oil, vitamin D, and vitamin C for starters.

Dr. Robyn recommends ADP by nutribiotics research:
https://shop.bioticsresearch.com/products/adp

Mantra #6: Amp up your self-care and longevity routines by including cutting-edge therapies such as PRP, exosomes, ozone therapy, IV therapy, and Prolozone therapy.

More about Robyn Benson

Dr. Robyn Benson is a Regenerative medicine specialist, author, speaker, and founder of Santa Fe Soul Center for Regenerative Medicine and Destination Regenerate. For 28 years, she has applied her knowledge of PRP, acupuncture, herbs, IV therapies, Ozone, and leading-edge energy medicine to help patients get out of pain, restore sexual function and look and feel 10 years younger naturally. Dr. Benson is the podcast host of Younger, the Art, and Science of Youthful Aging. Robynbenson.com Destinationregenerate.com

What is fun for Dr. Robyn?
● Never evers. Novelty, things I have never done before.
● Hanging out with change-makers in the world
● Deep connecting with loved ones
● Dancing to 50, 60s and 70's music
● Traveling to countries exploring new cultures (food, arts....)

LINKS

robynbenson.com
destinationregenerate.com

Robyn all Social Media
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www.santafesoul.com
www.jointheselfcarerevolution.com
www.healthytravelbook.com
www.healthytravelersummit.com
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https://www.facebook.com/DrRobynBenson
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https://www.pinterest.com/DrRobynDOM/

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LinkedIn – http://www.linkedin.com/company/join-the-self-care-revolution

What fun to talk to Shawn Wells just following his appearance at the 2021 Sun Valley Wellness Festival in my hometown of Sun Valley, Idaho.

Shawn was part of a panel discussion exploring the healing benefits of plant medicines.

Our interview covers some philosophical insights that undoubtedly connect his time in Sun Valley with his fantastic recent book, The Energy Formula.

You’ll hear that the structure for The Energy Formula came about through an almost magical process.

ENERGY is an acronym that stands for Experiment, Nutrition, Exercise, Routine, Growth, and Your Tribe. The book is Shawn’s magnum opus and incorporates hundreds of scientific citations. The book includes chapter summaries, shares a resources guide, and provides a “formulators corner” for each chapter.

Shawn wrote- and rewrote- this book during the 2020 covid-19 pandemic. HIs creative endeavors allowed him to turn what was a very fearful and paralyzing situation (for many) into a process to help others.

The interview yields 10 “mantras” that will allow you to navigate your life post-pandemic with more grace, health, and fun.

Mantra #1: You can be your own best -and worst -critic. Shawn talks about how he balanced these inner voices to create the best version of his book.

Mantra #2: You can only give to others from an overflowing cup. Make sure not to deplete your cup and practice self-care and self-acceptance.

Mantra #3: Engage your inner child in your creative endeavors.

Mantra #4: Consider taking “hustle,” grind,” even “work” out of your vocabulary; can you replace them with “ease,” “flow,” “fun.: and even “play”?

Mantra #5: Using the above mantra, shift from “inner work” into “inner play”.

Mantra #6: Chase your own “hell yeses”.

Mantra #7: Communicating your own needs is essential to the healing process.

Mantra #8: Grant yourself grace.

Mantra #9: Get past the polarization in today's dialogue; release attachment to something being either “right” or “wrong”.

Mantra #10: Release judgment and ask open-ended questions when presented with ideas that differ from your own.

More about Shawn Wells

Shawn Wells MPH, LDN, RD, CISSN, FISSN is the world’s leading nutritional biochemist and expert on health optimization.

He has formulated over 500 supplements, food, beverages, and cosmeceuticals and patented 10 novel ingredients including Teacrine, Dynamine, and Dihydroberberine and is now known as the Ingredientologist - the scientist of ingredients. Formerly a Chief Clinical Dietitian with over a decade of clinical experience, he has counseled thousands of people on innovative health solutions such as keto, paleo, fasting, and supplements. He has also personally overcome various health issues including Epstein-Barr Virus, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, depression, insomnia, obesity, and a pituitary tumor.

As a world-renowned thought-leader on mitochondrial health, he has been paid to speak on five different continents. His insights have been prominently featured in documentaries and podcasts like Ben Greenfield and regularly on morning television. His expertise can help any health-conscious individual to better manage stress and experience greater resilience and more energy through utilizing his practical research-backed solutions.

His book, "The ENERGY Formula" has been recognized by both USA Today and Forbes as well as an Amazon best-seller in multiple categories.

What is fun for Shawn?
Doubles volleyball, basketball, music, singing, action/sci-fi, Kenny's Burgers, my dog Maya, and connecting with all the amazing people in this health & wellness space!

LINKS
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shawnwells/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/shawnwells
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ingredientologist
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingredientologist/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ingredientology
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/Ingredientologist/

THE ENERGY FORMULA BOOK:
Book Home Page: http://www.energyformula.com/
Book Bonuses: http://www.energyformulabook.com/

WEBSITE:
Downloadable Guides, Blogs: https://shawnwells.com/
Newsletter - Biohacking, Supplements, Keto & more: https://shawnwells.com/

HIRE SHAWN:
Formulations and Novel ingredient Design: https://zonehalo.com/

I am thrilled to share this interview with Paleofx founder Michelle Norris which yields a whopping 14 mantras to support your wellness and life.

We walk through the important lessons of Michelle’s role as a Mama Bear for her own family as well as her company and event, Paelofx.

Michelle is a former corporate warrior, trained chef, and multi-potentialite whose personal health issues and struggles with traditional medicine inspired her to upend the way the world tackles health, wellness, and prosperity.

Enjoy the show and these amazing mantras:

Mantra #1: Embrace your authentic feminine Goddess aspects (nurturing, vulnerability, receptivity, etc.) to achieve greater success in business and life.

Mantra #2: Responding is different than reacting. Reacting is when you are unable to hear/listen to the story and the other person’s point of view.

We talked about a model that suggests that “action” is about recognizing when you are in reaction. You can then move to interaction and proaction in order to co-create for the better good of all.

Mantra #3: We can only control our response- everything else is uncertain.

Mantra #4: Influence is different than control (and influence is superior to control as there is really no such thing as control).

Mantra #5: Triggered moments are the best times to keep one’s mouth shut.

Mantra #6: When you are triggered by someone else, try the mirroring exercise from Primal Uprising.

Mantra #7: Escaping the zoo is all about keeping an open mind, asking questions, and avoiding fear and polarization.

The Primal Uprising Litmus Test questions and the end of each chapter provide provocative questions to help you explore a path to escape the constructs of the Human Zoo.

Mantra #8: Each person is sovereign.

Mantra #9: Programming starts in childhood and is maintained by fear and polarization.

We talked about a conversation between Harry Massey of NES and Dr. Bruce Lipton and the influence of theta brain states (suggestibility of childhood and how we are programmed. This interview also talks about how we can interrupt the program to pursue our desires and dreams. https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1266259176/energy4life-by-nes-health/48-reprogramming-our-reality-with-dr-bruce-lipton

Mantra #10: Find a tribe that will challenge you with an open mind and will hold you accountable for progress.

We talked about the difference between the url (online connection) vs. the “irl” (In Real Person). Find out about the next Palelofx.com here: www.paleofx.com.

Mantra #11: Divergent ideas create evolution.

Mantra #12: Paleo is about (holistically) removing toxins from your life.

Mantra #13: The Paleofx model includes 7 Pillars of Health, as follows:

Physical health
Mental health
Emotional health
Spiritual health
Financial health
Relational health
Tribal health

Mantra #14: COVID was a wake-up call that health has to be a priority.

More about Michelle Norris

Michelle is a former corporate warrior, trained chef, and multi-potentialite whose personal health issues and struggles with traditional medical orthodoxy inspired her to upend the way the world tackles health, wellness, and prosperity.

She soon became one of Paleo’s most outspoken evangelists, then co-founded and is now CEO of Paleo f(x)TM, the largest Paleo event in the world. She’s a passionate speaker, motivator, and guiding light to those seeking deliverance from a broken healthcare system and disabled economic system.

Having left the corporate grind far behind, she is now a serial entrepreneur in the health and wellness space, and a tireless firebrand for advancing the Paleo movement; a cultural reawakening of self-empowerment for the 21st century. Having survived the death of her 22-year-old daughter, Michelle knows what it’s like to fight back from an overwhelming loss. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, she used the tragedy as a catalyst for her to “put up or shut up”, and follow through with her vision of leaving the economic status quo behind, and becoming a self-made entrepreneur. All this, at the pit of the housing market crash of 2008. Her belief, you can always find beauty among the ashes.

What’s fun for Michelle:
Helping someone find the keys to their cell door and get free of their imprisonment in the Human Zoo. Empowering people to take back their personal sovereignty.

LINKS
www.paleofx.com/primaluprising
www.paleofx.com
www.danamichellenorris.com

This episode releases at a time when news reports share that many of the US population has gained an average of 10-15 pounds during the time of the COVID19 lockdown.
We discuss how putting wellness at the top of your list of priorities is more important than ever.
Our guest, celebrity wellness professional, physician, and author Dr. Ann Kulze shares with us some inspiring tips to get us all back on the path to wellness, freedom, and fun.
We summarize topics with 5 mantras that will help you to create more energy and vibrancy in your life. Enjoy the show!
Mantra #1: COVID is yet another reminder from the universe that we must prioritize wellness.
Mantra #2: To create positive change, we can work either top-down (advocacy, policy, etc.) or bottom-up (education, community, etc.). Both Dr. Ann and I work more from the bottom-up approach.
See Dr. Ann’s school for wellness: https://school.drannwellness.com
Kathryn’s nonprofit for nutrition education: www.MakeEverythingFun.com/nurture
Mantra #3: Digital delivery/technology has allowed everyday access to world-class teachers.
Ann’s school has a wealth of classes from basic education to specialized classes on sleep, brain health, gut health, and more.
Mantra #4: Brain health sets the bar; Dr. Ann refers to the brain as the COO of our wellness team. It weighs only about 2% of total body weight yet uses about 25% of our energy needs/calories.
Mantra #5: The gut is the CEO of our wellness team; it regulates appetite, immune function, and inflammation.
Dr. Ann refers to a wonderful book by Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, Fiber Fueled:
https://www.amazon.com/Fiber-Fueled-Plant-Based-Optimizing-Microbiome/dp/B087L8X7LV/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=fiber+fueled&qid=1621275329&sr=8-1
Don’t miss Dr. Ann’s discussion of how she not only “walks her talk” when it comes to wellness, she runs! Here about a typical day in the life of Dr. Ann.

More about Dr. Ann Kulze

Dr. Ann is a best-selling author, physician, and highly sought motivational speaker in the areas of nutrition and healthy living. She received her undergraduate degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition from Clemson University and her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, where she received numerous academic honors and graduated as the valedictorian of her class. With her formal training in both nutrition and medicine, along with extensive “hands on” experience as a wife, mother of 4, and expert in the kitchen, Dr. Ann has distinguished herself as a one-of-a-kind “real world” nutrition and wellness authority.
Dr. Ann is the author of six books including her best-selling, award-winning Eat Right for Life series. She has been featured in many national media outlets including the Dr. Oz show, Oprah and Friends Radio, Time Magazine, USA Weekend, NPR, and Prevention Magazine, amongst many others. Hundreds of businesses, including some of the country’s most prestigious medical centers, have used her books to guide their employees to better health. With her online Healthy Living School and her e-courses, she is taking her unmatched ability to inspire and educate to even greater heights.
What’s fun for Dr. Ann: Adventures in Nature - hiking, fly-fishing, kayaking.

LINKS
https://www.instagram.com/drannwellness/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/drannwellness/
https://school.drannwellness.com
https://drannwellness.com

Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome

Episode Title: Experience Everyday Awakening with Sam Liebowitz

In this episode, you’ll learn ten powerful mantras about how you can bring more joy and presence into your everyday life.
We are joined by Sam Liebowitz, known as The Conscious Consultant.

Sam is also a facilitator, mentor, speaker, healer, and serial entrepreneur.

Sam weaves in powerful tips for raising your awareness and consciousness as we talk through lessons from his recent #1 best-selling empowerment book, Everyday Awakening.

Here are the ten mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: Life happens for us, not to ss.

Mantra #2: Pain comes from loss and because of our attachments.
We discuss a process that Sam facilitates with Laurie Seymour on “letting go of attachments”. Please see my recent interview with Laurie on the Positive on Publishing Podcsat about Cultivating Your Creative Intelligence: https://makeeverythingfun.com/podcast/eo83-laurie-seymour/

Mantra #3: Letting go of attachments can open up the door to freedom.

Mantra #4: Loss is transformation.

Mantra #5: Don’t judge your experiences as either “good” or “bad”.

Mantra #6: Presence is the key to connection.

Mantra #7: Failure is how we learn.

Mantra #8: We are not broken, and we don't need to be fixed.

Mantra #9: We are all perfectly imperfect

Mantra #10: Enjoy the journey.

More about Sam Liebowitz
Sam Liebowitz, known as The Conscious Consultant, is a facilitator, mentor, speaker, healer, serial entrepreneur and author of the #1 best-selling empowerment book, Everyday Awakening. He has been in business since 1993 and has owned several successful businesses. His current ventures include Talking Alternative Broadcasting, and Double Diamond Wellness in Manhattan. Sam has lectured in several venues in New York City, including being a featured speaker at TEDxUpperWestSide in 2016.

What’s fun for Sam: Fun: Surprising people when they least expect it!

Links
www.TalkRadio.nyc
www.TheConsciousConsultant.com
www.EverydayAwakeningBook.com

Sit tight on your meditation mat and put a smile on your face. I believe you’ll enjoy this interview with the founder of Ziva Meditation, Emily Fletcher.

We move through 8 mantras that will help you to “Stress Less, Accomplish More” (the title of Emily’s bestselling book) in your daily life.

Emily’s definition of “mantra” is different from how I use mantras to create take-aways from the show, so listen for her special description of how she uses mantras in her Ziva meditation practice (as a “mind vehicle”).

I might have butchered this Chinese Proverb during the interview, but Emily and I don’t shoot for perfection in our fun and lighthearted conversation. Here is the proverb as described just slightly more accurately:

“When there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person.
When there is beauty in the person, there is harmony in the house.
When there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation.
When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world."
~ Chinese Proverb

Here are the eight mantras from our discussion:

Mantra #1: Happiness is an inside job.

Mantra #2: Don't get stuck in the “I'll be happy when” syndrome.
I discuss this also in episode 96 with “play expert” Jeff Harry: https://makeeverythingfun.com/radio/e096-jeff-harry/

Mantra #3: Be selfish.
(Emily discusses the happy wife=happy life, and happy mom-happy home sayings. Also, there is nothing very sexy about being a martyr.)

Mantra #4: Don't suffer in silence. (You’ll love Emily’s description of her very special “Suffy Awards”.

Mantra #5: Stress makes you stupid, sick, and slow.
Meditation is a wonderful solution.

Mantra #6: Feel to heal.
This includes kiddos too, and there is a wonderful connection between Emily’s work with Ziva Kids and what recent guest Finnian Kelly talked about when he said “if there is one thing we should teach kids in school, it is how to feel). See Finnian’s interview here: https://makeeverythingfun.com/radio/e103-finnian-kelly/

Mantra #7: Overcome the “I can’t do it” obstacle, otherwise know as the “I’m a meditation failure”.

Mantra #8: Let meditation bring you abundance.
Manifestation is the yummy dessert of the Ziva Meditation technique. The “appetizer” is mindfulness, while the “main course” is meditation.

More about Emily Fletcher
Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the leading expert in meditation for performance. She has taught over 40,000 people the skill of meditation. She is an international speaker and author. Her best-selling book, Stress Less, Accomplish More, debuted at #7 out of all books on Amazon and has been translated into 12 languages.

The New York Times, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Vogue, and ABC have all featured Emily’s work. She’s been named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch and has spoken at Apple, Google, and Harvard Business School.

Ziva graduates include Oscar, Grammy, & Emmy award winners, Navy SEALS & NBA players.

The Ziva Technique is a powerful combination of mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting designed to help you get better at life, not meditation.

What’s fun for Emily: One-song dance parties; seeing my students’ successes; getting better at life!

LINKS
Website: zivameditation.com/online;
IG @zivameditation;
FB: join us in the Ziva Community group;
Book: https://stresslessthebook.com/

In this episode, we Make Brain Waves Fun.

With our guest, Dr. Jackie Kilraine, we explore more about genetics/epigenetics and precision medicine to optimize the human system.
This interview is part of a series that includes interviews with Aperion founders Dr. Dan Stickler and Dr. Mickra Hamilton, genetics panel creators David Krantz (endocannabinoids) and Andrea Lahti (neurotransmitters), and Apeiron medical provider Ryan Lester.
Today’s guest, Dr. Jacke Kilraine, is the Director of Neurotechnolgoies at Aperion Zoh and the CEO of Expressing Optima.
Dr. Jackie covers neurofeedback, sleep, gamma, and much more, through the process of sharing seven mantras:

Mantra #1: Neurofeedback is about training the brain through its reward system (and it is work!).

Mantra #2: Audio Visual Entrainment (AVE), on the other hand, is passive.

Dr. Jackie mentions the MindAlive system, and we also mention Lucia Light:
MindAlive: https://mindalive.com/
Lucia: https://makeeverythingfun.com/radio/e083-allison-pelissier/

Mantra #3: All brain waves have their purpose and function.

Mantra #4: The gateway to Gamma is through Theta. “Theta is the Magic Carpet to Gamma.”

Mantra #5: Gamma waves are associated with creativity (“aha” moments) as well as healing (Dr. Kilraine discusses studies that show that Gamma waves can reduce amyloid plaques in the brain).

Mantra #6: COMT is a high-impact SNP ( single nucleotide polymorphism). We discuss the Warrior vs Warrior terminology. See more at this link: https://nutritiongenome.com/are-you-a-warrior-or-a-worrier-exploring-the-influence-of-comt/

Mantra #7: A holistic approach can solve multiple things at once while bringing more joy to life.

More about Dr. Jackie Kilraine

Dr. Jackie Kilraine is highly skilled at solving complex problems using a very individualized approach. This approach is designed to restore energy, remove fear, regain clarity and help clients look and feel ten years younger.

She is the Director of Neurotechnologies at Apeiron Zoh and the CEO of Expressing Optima and Healthybox.me and her nonprofit, The Free Brain Initiative. She is the author of the Expressing Optima journal which is part of her Rediscovering You program and co-author of the Codes of Longevity. Rediscovering You is designed for women to reclaim their joy and passion and to live life to the fullest to enhance their own life as well as the lives of those they love and serve.

Dr. Jackie is the proud mother of 3 amazing boys and shares her home with her dogs Luna and Stella and three curious cats. She loves to do anything outdoors especially if it involves water.

LINKS
https://expressinghealth.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ExpressingOptima

Research:
https://www.georgiacompanyregistry.com/companies/the-free-brain-initiative-inc/
https://www.facebook.com/fibrochiro/videos/discover-epigenetics-with-dr-jackie-kilraine/290823498186794/
https://expressinghealth.com/videos/

What’s fun for Jackie: Kayaking, floating, hiking, new challenges

This episode was recorded from “mountain” to “mountain” with Finnian in Aspen, CO, and Kathryn in her hometown of Sun Valley, ID.

We bring you nine mantras to create more intentionality into your life, including more intentional relationships, leadership, and love.

Finnian reminds us that the time for Intentionality is NOW; the world is changing at a rapid pace and our roles as humans are also shifting. The new generations will be charged with the task of creating sustainable peace and wellbeing on our planet.

Here are the nine mantras for a more intentional life:

Mantra #1: Don’t put your own pressure/projection on to the younger generation (let them make their own choices)

Mantra #2: Be careful of your language, even if it is positive (as it can create labels and even “conditional love”)

Mantra #3: Life is not linear, and there is no rush!

Mantra #4: Take out your emotional “garbage” on an ongoing basis (don’t suppress emotions)

Mantra #5: Use “tools” to release and process emotions: 1) shaking/movement, 2) breathwork, 3) meditation, 4) emotional clearing, 5) grounding, and 6) serotonin-building sunlight.

Mantra #6: Think of spirituality purely as a way to know yourself better. Spirituality is also a means to experience the wonders of life.

Mantra #7: Be open, not rigid (see tools in Mantra #5)

Mantra #8: Use curiosity to connect across the generational gaps

Mantra #9: Choose love over fear.
This link discusses the “map of consciousness” and tells the story of the “pond skim”: https://makeeverythingfun.com/thoughts-map-conciousness/

More about Finnian Kelly
Finnian Kelly is a world-renowned keynote speaker on Intentionality, a retreat facilitator, and a 1:1 Executive Coach. He has been dubbed the ‘Business Mystic’ and is the creator of Intentionality.com, a unique framework Finnian uses to guide people to be purposeful and aligned in their beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors so they can feel more love in their lives.

As an entrepreneur, Finnian built and exited two multi-million dollar companies in the financial industry. He’s the Creator and Chief Visionary Officer of Intentionality.com and also a retreat facilitator providing entrepreneurs with unique, mind-shifting experiences so they can awaken and connect deeply with their business and their true self.

As an Undercover Angel in the popular National Geographic documentary series, he was dropped into an underprivileged community to discover their core issues, build trust and come up with a project that would support their needs. He funded the entire program himself and worked with community leaders to form a family education center in Fakulteta, Bulgaria.

LINKS

https://www.finniankelly.com/podcast

https://www.finniankelly.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/finnkelly1

https://twitter.com/thefinnkelly?lang=en

https://www.intentionality.com/

In this episode, we continue our series on genetics/epigenetics and optimization of the human system.

This series includes interviews with Aperion founders Dr. Dan Stickler and Dr. Mickra Hamilton, genetics panel creator David Krantz, Aperion medical provider and peptide expert Ryan Lester, and neurotransmitter panel creator Andrea Lahti (today’s interview).

As we did in the David Krantz interview (specific to endocannabinoids), we dive into an actual analysis of genetic data (mine, about my brain!) and how it informs us about actions to optimize the human system.

We have six mantras from the show.

Mantra #1: Neurotransmitters are like an orchestra creating a symphony in the brain.

Mantra #2: The obstacles to having one’s individual genes analyzed (cost, access) are getting lower and lower every day.

Mantra #3: There is no such thing as a “depression gene” (our brains and emotions are much more complex than that).

Mantra #4: A genetics analysis is not scary- it can in fact be validating.

Mantra #5: An epigenetics coach incorporates the client’s goals as the basis for a genetics read with epigenetics interventions.

Mantra #6: The Neurotransmitter panel from Aperion and NeuroEpiGenetix/ Andrea Lahti includes 20 biochemical signals that helps an individual better understand their brain:
Seratonin
Dopamine
Epinephrine
norepinephrine
Histamine
Glutamine
Gaba
Glycine
Acetylcholine
Anandamide
Cytokines
Endorphins
Enkephline
Prodynorphin (Dynorphin)
Nociceptin
Neuropeptide S
Neuropeptide Y
Oxytocin
Adenosine
Nitric Oxide.

Andrea has spent years developing this panel and has focused recently on the complexity and yet simplicity of serotonin. Researchers have known for decades that sunlight affects serotonin, as it's the oldest neurotransmitter in living organisms. Yet, how many psychiatrists prescribe sunlight? From Andrea:

“Being in the mental health field, I can tell you I haven't heard of any of them prescribing sunlight or blue light exposure, but it really does help people.”

More about Andrea Lahti
Andrea Lahti is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Epigenetic Coach. She studied genetics and ethics as an undergrad at the University of South Carolina, then pursued her Masters in Social Work at the University of North Carolina, to gain skills in being an informative and protective liaison between cutting-edge technology and people’s everyday lives.
She has years of experience as a medical social worker to help people balance emotional, mental and physical aspects of their health. Recently, she completed a state-of-the-art genetic panel for neurotransmitter insight - the NeuroEpiGenetix panel - to help guide clients in balancing everything from mental and emotional to physical health.
She uses a systems approach to provide a mix of state-of-the-art technology, education, products and services to help people understand the way their bodies and minds function so they can make changes that will help them feel their best.

What’s fun for Andrea: Pushing yourself beyond what you think are your limits and being successful (and safe)!

For me, that includes running, driving motorcycles, mountain biking, skiing, and hang gliding.

LINKS
www.buildmolecularhealth.com
https://www.facebook.com/buildwellness/?ref=py_c&__xts__=68 Peak Xpression on FB

In this episode, we talk with “glow getter” Sunlighten CEO Connie Zack. She shines through the interview as we discuss the touching genesis story of Sunlighten (her brother’s healing journey from mercury poisoning), the unique healing aspects of infrared light, and the incorporation of sound healing into the Sunlighten sauna system.

We have four powerful mantras from the show.

Mantra #1: Healing can be fun and comfortable

Mantra #2: Healing can be effortless

Mantra #3: Healing can be accessible to all - IF we can be creative

Mantra #4: Surround yourself with people that fill up your bucket

More about Connie Zack
Connie Zack started Sunlighten in a basement in 2002. Along with her husband Aaron, they have grown the business dramatically over the last 16 years.
Today, from its Overland Park Kansas headquarters, Sunlighten develops, designs, and retails infrared light therapies. The company's unique patented Far Infrared technology, and more recently 3 in 1 Infrared light therapies, are globally transforming wellness. Sunlighten headquarters is also home to Sunlight Day Spa, a premium customer-centric spa experience with focus on holistic healing.
Connie is a St. Louis MO native, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Indiana University and also studied Italian and French. Connie has always had a passion for communication and does not believe language should be a barrier. Connie and Aaron reside in Leawood KS with their two boys, Hudson and Aiden.

LINKS

Information about Sunlighten saunas:

https://www.sunlighten.com/?leadsource=MakeEverythingFun&utm_source=MakeEverythingFun&utm_medium=Partner&utm_campaign=MakeEverythingFun

Sound healing book:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570629552/

Next human book (Connie’s brother’s book):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1634438566/

Krisstina Wise Episode:

https://makeeverythingfun.com/radio/e097-krisstina-wise/

Mary Shores Episode:

https://makeeverythingfun.com/radio/e092-mary-shores/

Lisa Williams Episode:
https://makeeverythingfun.com/radio/e087-lisa-rudy-williams/

More about the healing power of sweating:
https://makeeverythingfun.com/sweat-tips-for-surviving-covid/

The Healing Power of Sound: Recovery from Life-Threatening Illness Using Sound, Voice, and Music

The Next Human

In this episode, we continue our series on genetics/epigenetics and precision medicine to optimize the human system.

This series includes interviews with Aperion founders Dr. Dan Stickler and Dr. Mickra Hamilton, genetics panel creators David Krantz (endocannabinoids) and Andrea Lahti (neurotransmitters), and today’s guest and Apeiron medical provider Ryan Lester.

Ryan is a healthcare provider on the forefront of the rapidly evolving field of health optimization and human longevity.

Ryan also knows how to have fun. Here are some of his favorite fun activities::
-Talking all things health optimization and longevity
-Watching and playing sports
-Learning how to learn
-Teaching
-Playing with children and dogs
-Listening to music
-Watching live music
-Watching movies
-Laughing with friends
-Hiking and experiencing nature
-Pushing myself physically
-Training for a physical goal
-Traveling to new places

We have six powerful mantras from the interview.

Mantra #1: Recognize words in the vocabulary of the evolved health provider: “spiritual” and “soul” are examples

Mantra #2: Focus on the four pillars for optimal epigenetic interventions (links provided by Kathryn based on recent blogs and info)
1) sleep
2) stress (this blog is about spiritual practices to manage stress)
3) nutrition
4) exercise

Mantra #3: Incorporate genetic data to allow for customization of supplements, peptides and more precision interventions

Mantra #4: Look at the right data points before making a pharmaceutical intervention (our discussion on cholesterol and looking at 1) LDL particle number, 2) APO-B, which is a proxy for LDL particle number, and 3) Lp (a).

Mantra #5: Start early when it comes to precision medicine (Ryan recommended individuals in their early 20s); traditional panels could be catching symptoms over a decade too late

Mantra #6: Start with each individual’s goals for precision medicine (what is their “why”).

More about Ryan Lester
Ryan has been a Physician Assistant for over a decade and is on the forefront of the rapidly evolving field of health optimization and human longevity. He received his medical degree at Rochester Institute of Technology. Over the last decade he has specialized in Emergency Medicine, Orthopedic and Joint Reconstruction Surgery. He has studied Dietary Epigenetics at Stanford University, is a certified Epigenetic Coach and holds a certification in the clinical application of advanced peptide therapies. He has partnered with The Apeiron Center for Human Potential in Austin, TX in working with clients to elevate their health and well being through genomics based, Precision Performance Medicine that leverages the latest in cutting edge genetic/epigenetic science, nervous system assessments, blood analysis, biometric monitoring, hormone optimization, and lifestyle design.

LINKS
https://www.elevatewithryan.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ryanlesterapeironaustin/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-d-lester/

In this episode, we continue our series on genetics/epigenetics and optimization of the human system. We feature Dr. Dan Stickler and Dr. Mickra Hamilton, the founders of Aperion Zoh.

This series includes interviews with genetics panel creators David Krantz (endocannabinoids) and Andrea Lahti (neurotransmitters), as well as Austin center Aperion medical provider and peptide expert Ryan Lester.

We have six powerful mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: Humans are evolving based on wellness optimization and complex systems (be open to transformation)

Mantra #2: The evolved human requires a healthcare system that is not broken (our current system is broken and may not be fixable)

Mantra #3: Change is not linear

Mantra #4: When it comes to genetics, the important word is “variation” (not “mutation”!)

Mantra #5: Genetic information does not have to be scary; it can in fact be validating and positively motivating

Mantra #6: Transformation must start now so that we can help future generations for the sake of humanity

More about Dr. Hamilton and Dr. Sticker
Dr. Mickra Hamilton is CEO & Co-Founder of Apeiron Zoh Corporation, a Precision Performance Ecosystem that Curates Limitless Expression. A Systems Designer and creative disruptor in the field of Precision Human Performance she informs a new paradigm of what is possible for human flourishing and purposeful evolution. Dr. Hamilton speaks internationally on the focus areas of the epigenetics of the human system and environment, breathing science, conscious leadership and peak psychophysiological performance.

A decorated retired Colonel, Hamilton spent 30 years in the USAFR, as a Systems Strategist and Human Performance Subject Matter Expert. Leveraging this experience she works with a complex systems approach for data driven precision to optimize human and corporate performance and potential. Her contributions assist aware individuals, conscious corporations and international organizations to create system enhancements which drive impact and create global change.

Genetics and epigenetic lifestyle strategies along with scientific research, advanced biologics and leading edge technologies are key components of this approach. These powerful strategies target the physiological, emotional, mental, and energetic aspects of the “human system” to enhance life, improve relationships with the internal and external environment and impact the collective environment.

Dr. Hamilton leverages thirty years of experience in the field of psychoacoustics for research and development activities in Apeiron’s R & D Division. Current development focuses on 3-D soundscape/naturescape virtual reality programming and breath/heart/brain entrainment to restore systems equilibrium and create beneficial shifts in states of consciousness. Apeiron’s acoustic research aims to create advanced technology that works with the “human system” to restore resonance and propel the advancement of human evolution.

Dr. Daniel L. Stickler is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of The Apeiron Center for Human Potential and Chief Science Officer for Apeiron Academy. He is the pioneer behind systems-based precision performance medicine, a new paradigm that re-defines medicine from the old symptoms based disease model to one of limitless peak performance in all aspects of life. A physician to high-performing executives and entrepreneurs who want to upgrade their current state, he’s also an author, speaker, blogger and podcaster. He is the Medical Director for the Neurohacker Collective, a Google consultant for wearable technology, epigenetics, and AI in healthcare and a guest lecturer at Stanford University on Epigenetics in Clinical Practice. In 2008, a new world opened through the lens of genetics and epigenetics and his near obsession like fascination of the potentials for personalized human systems design led to the realization that we truly have the ability within us to take charge of our destiny and become the architects of our evolution.

Links

Apeiron Zoh: https://apeironzoh.com/
Apeiron-certified coaches: https://apeironzoh.com/coaches/

In this episode, we start our series on genetics/epigenetics and optimization of the human system.

This series includes interviews with Aperion founders Dr. Dan Stickler and Dr. Mickra Hamilton, genetics panel creator David Krantz (today’s interview on endocannabinoids) genetics panel creator Andrea Lahti (upcoming interview on neurotransmitters), and Aperion medical provider and peptide expert Ryan Lester.

Today’s guest is David Krantz. He is an award-winning health innovator and Epigenetics coach.

What’s fun for David: Life! getting to experience all the facets of it and continue to break down the illusion of internal/external and self/non-self.

We have four powerful mantras from the show.

Then we dive into an actual analysis of genetic data (mine!) and how it informs us about actions to optimize the human system.

Mantra #1: Be open to nudges from the universe.

Mantra #2: Recognize that epigenetics coaching is a fun form of biohacking.

Mantra #3: Embrace the idea of fine-tuning the human system through customized epigenetics coaching.

Mantra #4: Remember that genetics are not your destiny. Epigenetics empowers you to take control of your health and life.

Video demonstration where we walk through the endocannabinoid genetic panel:
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More about David Krantz
David Krantz is a certified Epigenetic Coach and sought-after expert in the field of individualized nutrition and peak performance. David is best known for developing a test in collaboration with Apeiron Genomics that helps people understand their unique response to cannabinoids. He was nominated in 2019 as a Top 100 Health innovator by the International Forum For Healthcare Advancement and in 2020 launched a comprehensive training program on cannabis nutrigenetics for health practitioners and industry professionals. A lifelong musician, David sees the various systems of the body as parts of a complex symphony and has a passion for helping people fine-tune those parts to create resonant health and wellness.

Links
https://david-krantz.com
IG: @wholesystemshealth
https://cannaDNA.education

Apeiron-certified coaches: https://apeironzoh.com/coaches/

In this episode, money expert Krisstina Wise shares tips on how we can be wealthy and WELL at the same time.

Krisstina’s health and wealth have afforded her a new summer home in Park City, Utah, and I’m so excited to share some mountain moments with her and mountain mantras with you.

We have eight mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: The answer to the question, “how much money is enough money?” is NOT simply…”more”.

Mantra #2: Get in touch with the sensation of being satisfied (when you've had enough food to eat, when you feel good enough, etc.)

Mantra #3: Practice gratitude for the universe, self, and others to heal deep (subconscious) issues around money - likely developed during early childhood.

Mantra #4: There is an important intersection of wealth and health.

Mantra #5: There are three categories of life that you can't opt-out of: 1)health, 2) money and 3) relationships.

Mantra #6: There is no magic pill, modality or doctor that will “fix” your health; the key is listening to your body, having an ongoing conversation with it, to understand its needs

Mantra #7: Have patience. You can't rush your healing (note from Kathryn: a great song by Trevor Hall).

Mantra #8: Don't stop dreaming, while being content with the present moment.

More about Krisstina Wise
Krisstina Wise has made it her life's work to master money. She is a self-made
multi-millionaire with the equivalent of at least two PhDs of intense study with
some of the business world's most sage and seasoned mentors. Her training and
experience has built proven systems that work-- in both good and challenging
times.

After nearly losing her life in 2013 and spending almost half a million dollars to
recover, her mission is now to inspire others to build extraordinary wealth and
optimal health.

Named one of the 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders in the country, she
has been featured in USA TODAY and recognized by Apple and Evernote for her
creative leadership with emerging technologies.

Krisstina is an international speaker and award-winning author of the Amazon
bestseller "Falling For Money," a romance novel for your bank account.
She may wear athletic clothes and a baseball cap for almost any occasion, but
don't let that fool you...Financial sovereignty means the freedom to choose.

Krisstina chooses to show up in a baseball cap instead of a Lamborghini, even
though she could choose the latter. Learn more about her money school for
micro-business owners at www.SovereigntyAcademy.com.

Links
krisstina.(free gift)
www.SovereigntyAcademy.com.

In this episode, “play expert” Jeff Harry joins up with “fun expert” Dr. Kathryn Guylay for some actionable, transformational steps to a better year in 2021 and beyond.

Listen for this amazing quote that Jeff shares from Steven Johnson:

“You will find the future where people are having the most fun.”

We have seven mantras from the show, but first, a Warning: You can get exactly what you want, and not be happy.

Here are the seven mantras:

Mantra #1: To avoid the “I'll be happy when” syndrome, remember the quote: “expectations is the thief of joy”.

Mantra #2: Let go of expectations when they don't serve you (Jeff explains the paper airplane exercise he does with some clients).

Mantra #3: In every decision, we can claim Who We Are….Or try to (endlessly and needlessly) chase our worth.

Mantra #4: Increase your fun, joy, and play “index” through a review of your day, week, month, and year. (If your index needs a boost, use gratitude, appreciation, and curiosity to find more fun, joy, and play moving forward).

Mantra #5: Follow two steps to increase play right away: 1) self-soothe first (shower, music, walk, etc.), and then 2) get bored, then curious; get ready to meet your inner child!

Mantra #6: Leverage your own community of friends to find more play. Reach out to them and ask two questions: 1) what value do I bring to you and your life? and 2) when have you seen me most alive?

Mantra #7: Remember that every conversation is an option: do you choose a transaction or a transformation?

More about Jeff Harry
Jeff Harry shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day.

Jeff is an international speaker who has presented at conferences such as INBOUND, SXSW, and Australia’s Pausefest, showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play. Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers of 2020 for his organizational development work around dealing with toxic people in the workplace. His play work has most recently been featured in the NY Times article: How Do We Add More Play To Our Grown-Up Life - Even Now. He has also been featured on AJ+, SoulPancake, the SF Chronicle, and CNN.

While we spend most of our time pretending to be important, serious grownups, it's when we let go of that facade and just play, that the real magic happens. Fully embracing your own nerdy genius — whatever that is — gives you the power to make a difference and change lives. Jeff believes that we already have many of the answers we seek, and by simply unleashing our inner child, we can find our purpose and, in turn, help to create a better world.

Links
Dr. Anna Cabeca interview (more information about Oxytocin):
Dr. Gay Hendricks interview (more about The Big Leap and Conscious Luck):
https://www.rediscoveryourplay.com
https://youtube.com/jeffharryplays
https://instagram.com/jeffharryplays
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-harry-6991a94/
https://medium.com/@jeffharryplays
https://twitter.com/jeffharryplays
https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffharryplays
NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/smarter-living/adults-play-work-life-balance.html).
Book: The Big Leap
Book: Conscious Luck
Book: The Rise of Superman (about Flow)
Book: Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World https://smile.amazon.com/Wonderland-Play-Made-Modern-World/dp/039918449X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Wonderland%3A+How+Play+Made+the+Modern+World&qid=1609248632&sr=8-1

In this episode, biologist Dr. Rebecca shares her amazing 360 feedback app, icueity. https://www.icueity.com/

You will also gain many insights about the ancestral and instinctual aspects of the brain which makes feedback such an important part of feeling safe in order to unleash our limitless potential.

We have seven mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: Spread happy.
Homemade ice cream recipe: https://makeeverythingfun.com/recipe/homemade-vanilla-ice-cream/
Dairy-free ice cream recipe: https://makeeverythingfun.com/recipe/dairy-free-chocolate-ice-cream/

Mantra #2: Spread your long term legacy. (What do you want to spread?)

Mantra #3: Feedback is fantastic (and helps with the fight, flight, or freeze response).

Mantra #4: Lack of feedback is scary (and triggers the survival or reptilian part of our brains).

Mantra #5: Be aware of your Kryptonite.

Mantra #6: Weaknesses are not permanent, pervasive, or personal.

Mantra #7: Replace those ANTS (Automatic Negative Thoughts) with PETS (Practiced Enlighted Thoughts).

More about Dr. Rebecca Heiss
Rebecca knows fear. As a biologist and stress expert, Dr. Rebecca Heiss is dedicated to helping us become self-aware and overcome our instinctual limitations – the ancient, often subconscious fears that hold us back from our optimal performance and our happiest lives. Her research has been designated “transformative” by the National Science Foundation and it is waking up audiences around the world.
As an author (Instinct, April 2021), founder and CEO of the 360-review mobile application, icueity, and highly sought-after professional speaker, Rebecca has found her calling in helping others recognize the power of biological applications in their lives. A former educator, Dr. Heiss spent much of her earlier career in the classroom at both the high school and college levels and was recruited to be a founding member of an innovative charter school with a focus on entrepreneurial thinking and impact-based learning.
Rebecca has been honored to speak internationally on her work, including multiple TEDx talks. Her “fear(less)” message inspires hope and actionable insights to train our brain to work for us, rather than against us in times of uncertainty. With surprising humor and palpable energy, no matter if Dr. Heiss is delivering virtually or on stage, she wins over audiences around the world with her interactive, inspiring, and timely takeaways. She lives in South Carolina with her spoiled rotten dog named Guinness, and every day tries to live her life motto: “spread happy”.

LINKS
https://www.icueity.com/

https://rebeccaheiss.com/

In this episode, I do my first “solo-sode” to talk about how COVID hit our house, and what we did to avoid a downward spiral as we fought this novel coronavirus.

I reference 9 blog posts that each contain foundational steps to protect your health, whether or not you are experiencing COVID.

These 9 blog posts become the “mantras for our show”
(note… many more to come as I move into more and more bio-hacking related content. Check my blog and/or sign up for my newsletter - see the right-hand area of my webpages or footer on my homepage - to stay in the loop).

To your good health!

Mantra #1: Let Food Be Thy Medicine

Mantra #2: Stay Well Hydrated

Mantra #3: Sleep is the Best Medicine

Mantra #4: Start or Boost your Spiritual Practice

Mantra #5: Ask for Support for Mental Wellness

Mantra #6: Keep It Out of Your Lungs

Mantra #7: Breathe https://makeeverythingfun.com/breathe-surviving-covid/

Mantra #8: Take time for personal/professional development https://makeeverythingfun.com/professional-dev-covid/

Mantra #9: Sweat https://makeeverythingfun.com/sweat-tips-for-surviving-covid/

More about Dr. Kathryn Guylay
Dr. Kathryn Guylay is an agent of change serving transformational organizations and individuals. As a nonprofit founder and leader, she has brought nutrition education to tens of thousands of children and adults. Her platform at MakeEverythingFun.com provides resources on wellness, nutrition, leadership, and publishing. Kathryn has written six books, hosts two podcasts, and has appeared on most of the major media outlets. Kathryn applies her love of learning to assemble eclectic modalities in a fun toolbox to support clients.

In this episode, psychotherapist Dr. Audrey Boxwell shares many insights about the healing properties of walking and movement.

Listen to the show while out on a walk or hike!

We have eight mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: Walking is about moving forward and allows you to get unstuck.

Mantra #2: Walking allows you to rewrite your story.

Mantra #3: Walking is an alternative to seated meditation.

Mantra #4: Walking allows the subconscious to surface.

Mantra #5: Walking moves us into Alpha/Theta brain waves states.

Mantra #6: Walking allows us to breathe deeper so that we can go into the parasympathetic mode of our autonomic nervous system.

Mantra #7: Walking unlocks memories.

Mantra #8: Walking allows us to set intentions and then integrate those intentions.

More about Dr. Audrey Boxwell
Dr. Audrey has been researching the relationship between the mind, body and soul, and their role in healing, for the past 16 years. She currently practices pastoral counseling and psychotherapy outside of the traditional office setting by walking and hiking with patients and clients. Dr. Boxwell is the developer of PsycheHike®, an integrated physical, emotional and spiritual program that reduces stress and increases overall health.

Her latest release, From Sole to Soul: A Daily Prescription for Moving Forward in Your Life, offers readers 365 creative ways to push past stress, uncertainty, and fear through guided meditative movement.

LINKS
Audrey’s new book, From Sole to Soul: https://www.amazon.com/Sole-Soul-Prescription-Moving-Forward/dp/1734161507
Audrey’s website: https://www.audreyboxwell.com

From Sole to Soul: A Daily Prescription For Moving Forward In Your Life

In this episode, we explore how to create deeper connections with our fellow human beings through Conscious Communication.

Our guest is Mary Shores, a transformational leader in the world of business and personal development.

We have nine mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: Shift the use of “should” to... “help me understand how to do this better”

Mantra #2: Our words cast “spells” (from the word “spelling”)

Mantra #3: The word Abracadabra means “I will create as I speak”

Mantra #4: Loneliness is the sickness of our time and results from a lack of communication and connection

Mantra #5: Communication and connection is about listening

Mantra #6: Deep listening happens in 3 steps: 1) validation, 2) planting a seed of happiness, and 3) suggesting can-do ideas or solutions

Mantra #7: Deep listening does not include the words “but” or “unfortunately”

Mantra #8: Do-not-say words include “no”, “not”, “can't,” and “however”

Mantra #9: Ask: how do you feel (about the elephant in the room)

More about Mary Shores

From Mary: BOLD - NO-NONSENSE - APPROACHABLE - TENACIOUS | When people think of me, those are the words I hope come to mind.

See, I have built a career and a business on the power of “Words That Work.” As such, I believe to my core that the words that fill your inner monologue as well as the words you choose to say have a profound impact on your life and the lives of others.

To provide some proof, here is a (condensed) timeline of the trajectory of my life:

♦ In 1998 I opened a debt collection agency, Midstate Collection Solutions. Despite rough personal circumstances, I harnessed the power of positive words and thinking to do this.

♦ In 2005 I overhauled my business model around my proprietary “Words That Work” method and a commitment to making those in debt happier at the end of a call with Midstate than they were at the beginning.

♦ The makeover worked and soon I shifted my focus to changing the debt collection industry as a whole. I began traveling and sharing the “Words That Work” method with businesses all over the country.

♦ I realized that words have the power to change not only businesses, but also people at their core and I set out to help others.

♦ In 2015 I authored and published a best-selling book with Hay House, “Conscious Communications: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life.”

♦ After the success of the book, requests to speak, and professional development industry involvement, I launched The Mary Shores Brand, which aims to share what I have learned through various mediums including speaking engagements, workshops, retreats, podcasts, books, and more.

Today, I concurrently run the Midstate Collection Solutions business while also building The Mary Shores Brand. I LOVE what I do and get to do it because of the words I choose to say to myself and project to others.

LINKS
www.maryshores.com
https://consciouscomms.com/

Article about work of Wendy Levinson: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/414233

Talk by Matthew Lieberman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7UR9JwQEYk&list=PLkZpdj1zSj9Bh4UO9SEUsHkcz5vjt8UhZ&index=41

Nonviolent Communication/ Marshall Rosenberg: https://www.cnvc.org/

In this episode, we explore what is going on with our health care system. Increasing costs. Hidden prices. Frustrated patients and providers.

We discuss the possibility that health care costs are stealing away the American dream.

Our guest is Dave Chase. Dave leads the vision for Health Rosetta -which is to empower community-owned health plans.

We have five mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: Get empowered as a consumer in this irrational and overwhelming healthcare industry.

Mantra #2: Consider cash pay for medical procedures as the cost may be less than going through insurance.

Mantra #3: Employers can get better results for lower prices by working with the right advisors.

Mantra #4: Don’t pay cadillac prices for a “pinto” product/service.

Mantra #5: Go LOCAL:
Learn how to be liberated from the status quo
Optimize health plan infrastructure
Carve our Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM)
Add value-based primary care
Leave behind value extracting PPO networks

Interesting data points from the interview:
1. Healthcare itself isn't expensive (clinicians only receive $0.27 of every $1 ostensibly spent on healthcare). What's expensive is profiteering, price-gouging, and misaligned incentives

Business owners can spend 20-40% of current spending on health benefits and get superior health outcomes by following a more “grassroots” approach (see LOCAL, above).
COVID-19 is accelerating the process of health being relocalized, similar to how the local/healthy food movement greatly improved the health of families and the livelihoods of farmers.

More about Dave Chase
Chase leads the vision for Health Rosetta which is to empower community-owned health plans. Health Rosetta’s blueprint and platform powers the health plans of your dreams: high quality, trustworthy, local, affordable care -- that you thought had disappeared forever -- from caregivers we know & trust. We free up compassionate, well-trained, community-based caregivers to rediscover love in medicine so they can do what they have always been called to do: serve their patients not just in disease, but toward their fullest health. A trusted & sacred caregiver-patient bond is built through transparency & openness that equips and empowers patients wherever they can best achieve their unique health goals -- at home or any setting best optimizing their well-being. By avoiding the 50% wasted healthcare spending, we can ensure our caregivers have the independence & resources to address the psychosocial and medical issues their patients face. Human-centered health plans restore health, hope & well-being.

Through best-selling books & The Resident (on FOX), where Chase serves as a consultant, collateral damage from the Extractive Era of healthcare is highlighted as well as the tremendous successes & opportunities with Health Rosetta-type health plans. The books, writing for various media outlets, TED talk and TV/film have reached over 10 million people with the goal of informing, enraging, empowering and activating a broad grassroots movement designed to restore hope, health & well-being to our communities. Chase received the Health Value Awards' Lifetime Achievement for Health Benefits Innovation at the 2020 World Health Care Congress.

Chase co-founded Avado which was acquired by & integrated into WebMD/Medscape and founded Microsoft's $2B, 28,000 partner healthcare ecosystem.

Outside of work, Chase is an oxygen-fueled mountain athlete and volunteer high school track & cross country coach. Once upon a time, Chase was a PAC-12 800 Meter & 4x400 competitor. Most importantly, devotion to faith, family and friends underpin a desire to be a servant leader to the 4 million lives (& growing) stewarded through the Health Rosetta community.

LINKS
www.healthrosetta.org (please see Dave’s books at the site)
Twitter: @chasedave

In this episode, we invite Sharkie Zartman to talk about how she is making the most of aging and living a fun, vital, and productive life.

We have eight mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: The most important thing that we can control is our attitude.

Mantra #2: Stop complaining and focus on what you can do.

Mantra #3: Remember that aging gives us the opportunity to make ourselves a priority.

Mantra #4: Try your best (advice from Sharkie’s 96-year-old dad).

Mantra #5: Make things fun to maximize vitality and productivity.

Mantra #6: Focus on “I get to” statements.

Mantra #7: Eat your vegetables.

Mantra #8: Avoid additives.

More about Sharkie
Sharkie is a health and fitness professor, an All-American Volleyball athlete, a radio host, speaker, and holistic health coach. She is also an established author of more than six books, including her newest book Win At Aging/. Her latest book helps readers develop a mindset to see aging as an opportunity and a privilege, as well as a challenge.

LINKS
https://sharkiezartman.com/
Sharkie’s new book, Win at Aging:
https://www.amazon.com/Win-Aging-Stay-Free-Retirement/dp/1628656859/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=win+at+aging&qid=1599006295&sr=8-1

Win at Aging: How to Stay Fit, Free, and Love Your Retirement

In this episode, we continue to explore holistic healing with a Naturopathic doctor. Dr. Wdowin has been called “80% magic and 80% woman.” We discuss mind-body healing, detoxification, and much more.

We have five mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: We are complex, unique, magical human beings (and we must honor ourselves in this way).

Mantra #2: We can connect to the magic through ceremony. Even blessing the herbs we are about to take can be an important ceremonial gesture.

Mantra #3: Naturopathic medicine is about getting down to the root issue.

Mantra #4: COVID19 is a great time to embark on a self-care / wellness project.

Mantra #5: Detoxification is a great way to rid the body of the over 80,000 chemicals that are currently circulating around our mind-body systems.

More about Dr. Heather Wdowin

Dr. Wdowin is an educator, author, speaker, naturalist, traveler, and host of “The Bad Girls’ Guide to Living Well”. Her colleagues call her a “naturopathic renegade and eclectic physician”.

One of her enemies once said she was “80% magic, and 20% woman”. She has circumnavigated the planet with a backpack, hiked the Grand Canyon nine times, sailed down the Nile, and meditated in the queen’s chamber of the great pyramid, twice. She loves children, animals, and nature. It is her philosophy that the further we get from nature, the sicker we will become.

LINKS
www.NaturopathicMD.com

In this episode, we explore holistic healing with “Medical Detective” Susan Levin.

For over 30 years, Susan has worked with clients and doctors treating the whole person, not just the list of symptoms. Some call it integrative, alternative, complementary, or functional medicine, but she calls it healing.
We have five mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: Whether we are talking about complementary, integrative, or functional medicine, we are talking about self-repair.

Mantra #2: If you are working in holistic medicine or other helping professions, a good rule (set by Susan’s husband, Dr. Warren Levin, M.D.), is to follow your clients.

Mantra #3: Health wake up calls can be a wonderful way to start new habits.

Mantra #4: Don’t accept less than the best when it comes to your health.

Mantra #5: Sugar is the new cocaine in our society (and it’s NOT good for your immune system).
Read this blog post about sugar and kids.
Read this post about keeping your immune system strong.

More about Susan Levin

For over 30 years, Susan has worked with clients and doctors treating the whole person, not just the list of symptoms. Some call it integrative, alternative, complementary, or functional medicine, but she calls it healing.

Susan counsels clients one-on-one who suffer from chronic illnesses. She helps them find the right combination of health care practitioners in conjunction with healthy lifestyle interventions. This support facilitates her client’s recovery from modern ailments plaguing our country.

LINKS
www.susanlevin.net
https://susanlevin.net/acam-board/
https://susanlevin.net/townsend-letter-reprint/
https://susanlevin.net/freedom-of-choice/
https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Example-Story-Alternative-Medicine/dp/1614480257
https://susanlevin.net/about/

Prime Example: The True Story the Case that Saved Alternative Medicine in New York

In this episode, we continue to explore brain-body modalities for healing and optimal living.

Our guest is Lisa Williams, Lyme Disease survivor/thriver and author of Biohack Your Way Beyond Lyme.

We have five mantras from the show:

Mantra #1: Biohacking starts with our mindset

Mantra #2: Biohacking includes cool technologies that allow us to increase our energy at the cellular level (mitochondrial support)

Mantra #3: Biohacking is about following our intuition when it comes to your health.

Mantra #4: We need a collaborative model for optimal health care.

Mantra #5: Biohacking is about making friends with our own bodies, and connecting to our bodies so that we can come into our own power.

More about Lisa Rudy Williams

Lisa Rudy Williams is a personal coach, biohacking consultant, and alternative health educator. Her mission is to empower individuals to believe in themselves, set a vision for the future and experiment with open-minded curiosity in every area of their life. Lisa is passionate about working with people who seek to take charge of their health in innovative ways and improve their overall well-being by adopting the mindset of a biohacker. With her background in science, research, and neurobiology, she brings a unique perspective to helping clients. Her understanding of the inseparable unity of the brain and body are an important part of her work.

Having battled back from the brink of late-stage Lyme disease and other major health challenges, Lisa is uniquely experienced in working with those who are motivated to move ahead with their own journey to better health. Through her programs, she provides one-on-one and group coaching along with consulting to motivated clients. She is a board-certified health coach with certifications from the Life Purpose Institute and Human Potential Institute. She’s also accredited by the International Coaching Federation as an Associate Certified Coach.

LINKS
Lisa’s site: www.beyondlyme.coach
Lisa’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Biohack-Your-Way-Beyond-Lyme-ebook/dp/B0887WV1GX/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lisa+rudy+williams&qid=1595291421&sr=8-1
Neuroptimal: https://neuroptimal.com/
Biomodulator: https://senergy.us/tennant-biomodulator/
Sunlighten: https://www.sunlighten.com/
Infrared pads: https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=infrared+heating+pads
Biomat: https://www.biomat.com/order/?Top-Sellers#Biomat-professional
Magnus Magnetica: https://www.magnusmagnetica.com/
Dr. Klinghardt: https://klinghardtinstitute.com/

Neurofeedback. Listen to more from neurofeedback specialist Santiago Brand, and see the link to NeuroOptimal below. You may also want to listen to my interview with Dr. Mario Martinez on how the brain heals in the slower brain wave states such as Alpha and Theta.

Biohack Your Way Beyond Lyme: An Inspired Guide for Recovery

In this episode, we explore how to create space for wellness in life and business.

Our guest is Christian Chasmer, Partner and COO at Vessel (Vesselhealth.com) and best-selling author of two books (Lose the Limits and Elevated).

We have seven mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: Wellness is about giving people tools, education, , and support for behavior change.

Mantra #2: Conscious businesses do not follow the “if you build it, they will come” mindset. Instead, a careful (customer) discovery and validation phase is essential.

Mantra #3: Customer validation really happens at the moment when people hand over their credit card # (a pre-order), not when they simply say “yes” to a conceptual idea.

Mantra #4: A conscious wellness business is about solving a key problem for a consumer and creating a transformation for them in their lives.

Mantra #5: The most important word in marketing is “you”.

Mantra #6: Conscious wellness businesses walk the talk. Christian shares how Vessel supports their employees with daily meditation and other wellness and spiritual practices.

Mantra #7: Step away from the desk. Often our best ideas come in the shower, on a walk, or when we are allowing the space for inspiration to flow.

More about Christian

Christian Chasmer is an entrepreneur and operations expert. He is currently a partner and COO at Vessel (VesselHealth.com). He is also the best selling author of Lose The Limits.

Starting in college, Christian built a franchise from $0 to $1.2 million in annual revenue. He then co-founded the real estate development company CC Solutions and grew it to $6 million in revenue in under 2 years. To help others create the same satisfaction he’s found in life and business, Christian authored the bestseller Lose the Limits: Break your limiting beliefs, become a more productive you, and achieve everything you want in life.

Christian’s give-first mindset and skill for building systems help him fulfill his mission: to help others make an exponential impact and simplify business. He lives in San Diego, California.

LINKS
Vesselhealth.com
Christianchasmer.com
Lose the limits: https://www.amazon.com/Lose-Limits-Limiting-Productive-Everything/dp/B00V3Q9D3A/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lose+your+limits&qid=1580235882&s=books&sr=1-1
Elevated - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1670393089

Elevated: Amplify Your Personal Performance to Make an Impact (Without Sacrificing Your Life)

Lose the Limits: Break Your Limiting Beliefs, Become a More Productive You, Achieve Everything You Want in Life

In this episode, we continue to explore brain-body modalities for healing and optimal living. In this episode, we explore optimal performance from a coaching perspective.

Our guest is Eva Medilek, a Certified High-Performance Coach and Relationship Success Coach.

We have five mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: S + R = R (Situation + Reaction equals Result).

Mantra #2: Become aware of your habits/patterns/beliefs in order to understand your relationship operating system

Mantra #3: Understand how schema (typically developed from early childhood experiences) shape our behavior.

Mantra #4: You are 100% responsible for 50% of your relationships (See how Eva’s philosophy aligns with Marilyn Suttle’s)

Mantra #5: Don’t understand the impact of stress on how you show up in the world.

More about Eva

Eva Medilek is a Certified High-Performance Coach and a Relationship Success Coach, coaching both men and women in personal development, leadership, and mastering habits for success. She specializes in helping driven executives, entrepreneurs, influencers and businesses achieve higher levels of business growth without sacrificing health, well-being, and relationships.

Eva knows, first hand, how a driven personality type can leave you feeling lonely, disappointed, frustrated, and resentful in your personal relationships, which impacts your ability to achieve success professionally.

She uses her personal experiences along with her leadership, transformational, and high-performance training to teach you the pillars of high performance as well as showing you how to communicate in a way that fosters influence and connection in your personal life and your career.

Eva believes that the power of your personal and professional relationships can be unlocked in a way the creates success and high-performance mastery in every area of your life.

LINKS

https://www.evamedilek.com/
https://www.instagram.com/personalcoach4success/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/evamedilek/
https://www.facebook.com/personalcoach4success/

In this episode, we continue to explore the cutting edge brain-body modalities for healing and optimal living.

Our guest is Dr. Deb Sandella, founder of the groundbreaking RIM (Regenerating Images and Memory) method.

We have six mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: The primary purpose of our brain is to protect us.

Mantra #2: Busyness is a way that we disassociate.

Mantra #3: To move to a “whole brain”, starting with the self is the key first step.

Mantra #4: Productivity can be quiet.

Mantra #5: Major personal events can be important factors in deciding on a life career.

Mantra #6: Be playful.

More about Dr. Deb

Deborah Sandella Ph.D., RN is author of the #1 International Bestseller “Goodbye Hurt & Pain, 7 Simple Steps to Health, Love and Success.” She is an award-winning psychotherapist, university professor, and the originator of the groundbreaking RIM Method, which is a heavily-backed neuroscience tool proven to reduce stress and improve quality of life. She’s been featured in the media—including USA TODAY, CBS, and CNN. She frequently shares the stage with Jack Canfield and is co-author of their “Awakening Power” meditation program. Her numerous professional awards include, "Outstanding Clinical Specialist," "Research Excellence," and an "EVVY Best Personal Growth Book Award."

LINKS
www.GoodbyeHurtandPain.com
https://www.riminstitute.com/

In this episode, we continue to explore the topic of “trauma” but shift our focus to the modality of light, specifically flickering light.

Our guest is Allison Pelissier, healer, teacher, and US distributor for the Lucia No. 3 light. Read more below (and see videos) about this fascinating light therapy at Allison’s website.

We have four mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: If you think the word “trauma” does not apply to you, you have not bee listening to this podcast :)

Mantra #2: There are many ways to work through trauma; having access to multiple modalities is a huge benefit to humans doing their transformational “work”.

Mantra #3: Healing only happens in certain brain wave states (particularly alpha, theta, and delta); See this podcast episode for more information (Dr. Mario Martinez).

Mantra #4: Light therapy allows us to heal ourselves from the inside-out.

More about Allison

With a MA in International Education and Development, a BA in Political Economics and Psychology, and certifications in Yoga, Vortex Healing; Allison is deeply dedicated to human evolution. Allison’s business, Traveling Light LLC, is a community for Lucia N°03 light practitioners, training others to hold space for their clients to heal themselves. Allison’s philosophy is that we are all manifestations of divine/source energy and in fact, the best way to help someone else is to hold space for them to remember their own power, cultivate and trust their intuition and therefore heal themselves. , spreading this overflowing love to all those connected to them. Currently, Allison is the US and International Distributor and Trainer for the Lucia N°03 and is developing an online learning community for Lucia N°03 Light Guides and those on the path of spiritual growth. As a coach, trainer, and energy worker, Allison brings keen intuitive insight, curious and pro-active support, consistent encouragement, compassion, and a wealth of knowledge.

LINKS
http://www.lucialightexperience.com/ facebook.com/thetravelinglightmachine instagram.com/travelinglightmachine (See Linktree for links to webinar, quiz and more)

In this episode, we continue our exploration of the application of the Brainspotting modality.

Brainspotting is a modality discovered by Dr. David Grand. Please visit www.brainspotting.com to learn more.

Our guest, Jana Glass, discusses perinatal trauma and how we can heal from these experiences.

Here are the seven mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: Sometimes our efforts to help/heal ourselves can blossom into a professional development project.

Mantra #2: There are many opportunities for trauma outside of the actual birth process.

Mantra #3: No human being is exempt from trauma

Mantra #4: The definition of birth trauma is not limited to the mom or the infant (partners, healthcare practitioners and other players can be involved)

Mantra #5: Intrusive thoughts cannot be healed through wishing them to go away.

Mantra #6: A gift of Brainspotting is that it can take the trigger out of a negative story.

Mantra #7: Physical isolation does not have to mean social isolation (specific to the COVID19 pandemic).

More about Jana Glass

Jana Glass is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with multiple certifications and in the areas of Addiction, Perinatal Mental Health, Telemental Health, and Brainspotting.
She is in private practice at Supportive Solutions, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jana supports people healing from trauma, recovering from substance abuse, and improving Perinatal Mental Health including support with infertility, miscarriage, stillbirths, difficult births, and Pre and Postpartum Mood and Anxiety disorders.

LINKS:

www.brainspotting.com
www.supportivesolutionsga.com
www.postpartum.net

In this special episode, we talk with the developer of Brainspotting, Dr. David Grand.

David and I connect during one of the difficult weeks of COVID19, with David calling in from his make-shift office on Long Island given the serious outbreak in New York City.

The community from which I broadcast (Sun Valley, Idaho) was also experiencing great stress given a rapid spread of the virus. You can read more about how COVID19 hit mountain towns hard here:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/ski-vacation-hot-spot-becomes-virus-ground-zero-in-idaho

Here are the sixteen mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: Time distortion is due to being in the subcortex of the brain.

Mantra #2: During this period of existential trauma, we may experience states such as dissociation, shut down, denial, and hyper-hyper vigilance.

Mantra #3: This existential trauma presses on the underlying traumas we are still processing from our childhoods.

Mantra #4: This is not the time to make big decisions.

Mantra #5: This is, however, a time to set your priorities. We are being forced to evaluate what is important and what is not important.

Mantra #6: We must slow down, be curious, and observe.

Mantra #7: We are safe in the present moment; we must bring ourselves back from ruminations about the past and worries about the future and focus on the here and now.

Mantra #8: In the present moment, allow uncertainty, be curious, and mindfully pay attention.

Mantra #9: If not now, when?

Mantra #10: A karmic “pause button” has been hit.

Mantra #11: In adversity, there is opportunity.

Mantra #12: Distractions are a good thing. Embrace hobbies, movies, cleaning, cooking, any other activity that focuses your attention. I will be out in the garden with my hubby this weekend:
https://makeeverythingfun.com/top-reasons-garden-kids-spring/

Mantra #13: Stop and observe the majesty of nature

Mantra #14: Be generous to yourself

Mantra #15: Be generous to others

Mantra #16: We are in a major “reset” period as a paradigm shift occurs in the world. A foundational principle of Brainspotting, the Uncertainty principle, offers guidance on how we can move as gracefully as possible through this challenging period.

More about Dr. David Grand
David Grand, Ph.D. is the developer of Brainspotting, the groundbreaking relational brain-body-mindfulness based method. He is the author of Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change and the co-author of This is Your Brain on Sports. Dr. Grand is involved in humanitarian activities with survivors of 9/11, Katrina and Sandy Hook/Newtown. He is a member of the board of directors of Talk To Me Post Tour Processing (TTMPTP). He has accomplished breakthroughs in performance and creativity with Brainspotting Sports Work and Brainspotting Acting Coaching. Dr. Grand has been widely featured in the media including The NY Times, NBC National News, The Discovery Channel, CNN, MSNBC, Sports Illustrated, and Sirius Radio.

LINKS:

www.brainspotting.com

Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change:
https://www.amazon.com/Brainspotting-Revolutionary-Therapy-Effective-Change/dp/B07ZS2WDB3/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=david+grand&qid=1585919829&sr=8-3

This is Your Brain on Sports:
https://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Brain-Sports-Performance/dp/1608448649/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=david+grand&qid=1585919804&sr=8-1

Biolateral Music/ Sound Healing:
https://www.amazon.com/Brainspotting-BioLateral-David-Grand-PhD/dp/B00ID3R0EU/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=david+grand&qid=1585919829&sr=8-2

Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change

Brainspotting: BioLateral Sound Healing

This is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good!

In this episode, we continue our exploration of the application of the Brainspotting modality.

Brainspotting is a modality discovered by Dr. David Grand. Please visit www.brainspotting.com to learn more.

Our guest, Deb Antinori, discusses the neuroscience involved in our reactions to the COVID19 crisis.

Here are the five mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: Be gentle with yourself

Mantra #2: We are in a state of existential trauma

Mantra #3: The COVID19 disruption affects where we function in terms of the three parts of the brain (survival, homeostasis, restoration). These brain parts interact with the HPA axis and affect cortisol levels. Cortisol levels can affect the hippocampus and thus memory. So if you are not feeling at the top of your game mentally right now, there is a neuroscientific explanation. Return to Mantra #1 and Be gentle with yourself.

Mantra #4: Learn to calm your alarm states during the COVID19 crisis. (Refer to healing techniques and the need for contemplative states in this interview with Dr. Mario Martinez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUOGxJ97gkI&t=464s).

Mantra #5: Our assumptive world has been turned on its head. It is normal to feel the need to grieve the loss of this known world.

More about Deb Antinori:

Deborah Antinori, MA, LPC, FT, RDT is a Licensed Professional Counselor
with 29 years in private practice. She is a Brainspotting Trainer and Certified Consultant. She has been using Brainspotting since its inception in 2003 as she met the developer of Brainspotting, David Grand, in the late ’90s when he was her supervisor.

As a grief therapist, Deborah holds her FT, Fellow in Thanatology, from the
Association for Death Education and Counseling. Deborah is the author and narrator of the double award-winning audiobook, Journey Through Pet Loss.

She is a master’s graduate of NYU’s Drama Therapy Dept. Originally an actress, she earned her BFA from the Boston Conservatory of Music and is still in the professional actor’s unions, AEA and SAG/AFTRA.

She has begun work on a Ph.D. through the International University for Graduate Studies and is hoping to be able to get to Innsbruck for an EEG study on Brainspotting for her Ph.D. when the travel bans are lifted.

LINKS:
www.Petlossaudio.com

www.brainspotting.com

In this episode, we continue our exploration of the application of the Brainspotting modality.

Brainspotting is a modality discovered by Dr. David Grand. Please visit www.brainspotting.com to learn more.

Our guest, Dr. Roby Abeles, discusses addiction and how the brain is wired for reward.

She discusses some amazing processes that allow for overcoming addiction.

We also explore post-addiction/post-trauma growth. We discuss how we can become better human beings as a result of positive post-addiction growth.

Here are the six mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: There is no such thing as a perfect childhood (it is all about a spectrum of experiences).

Mantra #2: You can bounce back from just about anything (and it is easier and can be more fully integrated with support from others).

Mantra #3: The student can become the teacher.

Mantra #4: You can be so much more helpful to others when you can be vulnerable and authentic.

Mantra #5: When a person is feeling an addiction, their brain cannot neurologically connect (between the deeper reward centers of the brain) to the consequences of that addiction.

Mantra #6: Given that addiction is a result of a lack of neural pathways in the brain (not a person having negative characteristics like a “lack of control”) we must work to remove shame around addiction in our society.

Mantra #7: The brain is wired for reward.

Mantra #8: Brainspotting can create new neural pathways in the brain to help people overcome addiction.

Mantra #9: A healing journey can be seen along the same lines as the Hero’s journey (see Joseph Campbell’s 17 stages of the Hero’s journey).

Mantra #10: When it comes to healing, including Brainspotting sessions, the most important person in the room is the client.

More about Dr. Roby Abeles

Dr. Roby Abeles is an accomplished integrative, somatic neuro-psychotherapist, with over 34 years of experience in diverse clinical, academic, government, and human services environments in Australia and the USA.

Dr. Abeles knows the complexities of addiction through her own personal journey which began in utero. She was prescribed tranquilizers and anticonvulsants from ages 2-12, and by then she had already become addicted to several other substances.

She is a survivor of several sexual and physical assaults during the active phase of her addictions. She entered rehab in 1985 and has been clean and sober ever since.

Dr. Roby received her early addiction treatment training at the Betty Ford Center in California. She soon learned that addiction is always pre-dated by overwhelming life experiences. We are often not able to identify these experiences as “trauma”. And we were not able to process and integrate these experiences when they occurred.

Dr. Roby’s own life experiences led her to a life-long study of trauma and addiction which continues today. She has co-developed the MATES Brain Regulation Program. ‘MATES’ is a simple and easy program to help people learn easy self-regulation techniques so they have alternatives to self-soothing with ritualized, compulsive (addictive) behaviors.

She has also been trained in the revolutionary 21st Century brain-based Brainspotting (BSP) therapy and is an international trainer. Based on neuroscience, she developed a way to stop addiction cravings using a BSP technique called the “Crocodile Set Up”, and most recently has developed “The Hero’s Journey” BSP Set Up to transform adversity into a personal story of not just survival, but heroism.

Dr. Roby Incorporates mind, body, and spirit into all her therapeutic work and teaching by combining Brainspotting, Somatic Experiencing, Spiritual Psychology, Narrative therapy, and Ego State therapy, to ensure all levels of client experience are truly resolved and integrated so they can have a clear path forward.

Degrees:
PsyD in Clinical Psychology
MA in Counselling Psychology
MA in Spiritual Psychology
BA in Chemical Dependency Counselling

LINKS:
The Crocodile Set Up
http://thecrocodilesetup.com.au/

Brainspotting Australia Pacific
http://www.brainspottingaustraliapacific.com.au/

For BSP trained therapists
Facebook page Brainspotting and Addictions
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1088689974585814/

In this episode, we continue our exploration of the application of the Brainspotting modality.

Our guest, Dr. Melanie Young, discusses brain injuries, symptoms, and interventions.

We are left with a sense of hope that, through collaborative efforts provided by what we refer to as “allied providers”, people who have experienced brain injuries can successfully heal.

Brainspotting is a modality discovered by Dr. David Grand. Please visit www.brainspotting.com to learn more.

Here are the six mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: Head injuries are often invisible (unable to be seen on the scans).

Mantra #2: (If symptoms persist or get worse), don’t wait too long to see out further information, such as neuropsychology testing.

Mantra #3: People who have experienced brain injury need extra support (at home, at school, at work).

Mantra #4: Watch for problematic symptoms such as withdrawal, apathy, low mood, irritability, etc.

Mantra #5: Neuroplasticity offers hope to anyone who has suffered from a brain injury (see Dr. Norman Doige’s The Brain that Changes Itself).

Mantra #6: Brainspotting (and other modalities offered by “allied practitioners” does not promise “miracles” but it does offer a new better normal for the person who has experienced a brain injury.

More about Dr. Melanie Young

Dr. Melanie Young is a psychotherapist in private practice is based in Boulder, Colorado. She enjoys working with teens, adults, seniors, and couples. Dr. Young uses an integrative approach to working with the brain, body, and spirit. She often utilizes Brainspotting (BSP) to assist with processing and releasing these memories, as well as to decrease other problematic symptoms. She is a national Brainspotting trainer and provides individual and group consultation for psychotherapists.
Melanie believes that each person has the capacity to heal themselves with the support of the therapeutic relationship.

“Together, we can find strategies to help you strengthen your internal resources and increase your resilience. I respect all forms of diversity and approach each client with compassion, curiosity, and openness.”

Melanie’s website: https://melanieyoungpsyd.com/

In this episode, we continue our exploration of the application of the Brainspotting modality. Our guest, Cynthia Schwartzberg, discusses the history of Brainspotting and how she discovered it through her work in Core Energetics.

Brainspotting is a modality discovered by Dr. David Grand. Please visit www.brainspotting.com to learn more.

Here are the seven mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: There is something special about the eyes when it comes to brain-body connection and healing. (See below for more information about how the eyes are part of the central nervous system, developing from the neural tube in the human fetus in utero).

Mantra #2: Relationships create the foundations of healing.

Mantra #3: We can create our own reality (Brainspotting provides opportunities to separate the past from the present and future).

Mantra #4: Brainspotting can assist with self-acceptance (a key element in creating our optimal reality).

Mantra #5: Brainspotting can also assist us in discovering talents.

Mantra #6: Uncertainty is key to allowing “ah-ha” moments to arise.

Mantra #7: Everything is energy.

Cynthia also provided listeners with a great “recipe” for creating your best reality (to great for the new year!).
-Set an intention
-Know its possible
-Create awareness of obstacles (what might be in the way, including limiting beliefs)
-Use methodologies such as Brainspotting to remove obstacles

Love it!

Notes about Mantra #1
I want to give credit here to Dr. Peggy Mason, Ph.D. I am taking her course at the University of Chicago called Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life.

In one of the recent lessons, Dr. Mason explained how the neural tube creates the entire central nervous system from the spinal cord to the brain. At about three weeks of age of the fetus, the neural tube is in a vesicular stage when it is differentiating into the spinal cord, the hindbrain, the midbrain, and the forebrain.

The forebrain then differentiates into two vesicles called the diencephalon and the telencephalon. The diencephalon becomes the thalamus and the hypothalamus. The telencephalon becomes the cerebral cortex, the core parts of the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and a few other structures.

The diencephalon, which ends up inside telencephalon as the cerebral cortex grows, has an outpouching that becomes the optic nerve and the retina.
Here I’m going to quote Dr. Mason:
“Why is that amazing? Because what you have is an accessible piece of the central nervous system. This is the central nervous system, it comes from the diencephalon, it is continuous with the diencephalon. Here's the diencephalon, and here's the optic nerve, here's the retina. It's all contains within the same meninges. It's all surrounded by CSF. So it's one that means that when you look into somebody's eye you're looking into the central nervous system. You're not looking to the brain. But it's a window on the brain…”
Cool.

More about Cynthia Schwartzberg

Cynthia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is a Senior Brainspotting therapist who has been in a Clinical Consultation Group with David Grand, Founder of Brainspotting, since its inception. She started the Southeast Brainspotting Institute. Cynthia has a practice in Atlanta, GA and is passionate about Brainspotting because of all the rapid transformation she witnesses in her clients. She is President of Cynthasis, helping people discover their inner connections and bridging connections.

https://www.facebook.com/Cynthasis-423702771104813/

https://www.cynthasis.com/

Cynthia is also a contributor to Mind Current. Mind Current is the world’s first app that uses the power of artificial intelligence to help shift your energy. “Our story lives within every Mind Current user. In their minds, their hearts, and their happiness.”

In this episode, we continue our exploration of the application of the Brainspotting modality. Our guest, Cherie Lindberg, discusses an application of Brainspotting she is developing called BSP-CC (Brainspotting for Co-regulating Couples).

We discuss Cherie’s cutting edge research in this area and how she is building upon the work of others to create ways to increase our ability to create and sustain loving and connected relationships.

Brainspotting is a modality discovered by Dr. David Grand. Please visit www.brainspotting.com to learn more.

Here are the seven mantras from this episode:

Mantra #1: BSP-CC Is a combination of four main ingredients: 1) Brainspotting, 2) Imago relationship therapy, 3) attachment theory, and 4) polyvagal theory. Cherie tips her hat to leaders of each of these modalities/theories respectively: Dr. David Grand, Harville Hendrix, Dr. Dan Siegel, and Dr. Stephen Porges. There are countless other contributors to work in these areas, including John Bowlby (attachment styles), W. Winnicott (good-enough parent), Dr. Sue Johnson (Emotionally Focused Therapy), and many others.

Mantra #2: Trust is the result of a process or cycle as follows. Need => Arousal => Gratification => Trust

Mantra #3: To regulate and co-regulate, don't get stuck in the “story” (because the stories we tell ourselves are often negative)

Mantra #4: The BSP-CC process requires risk and vulnerability (Cherie mention’s the work of Dr. Brene Brown and how she has termed vulnerability as the new superpower).

Mantra #5: Brainspotting is the way to clear out the dysregulation from the “downstairs brain”.

Mantra #6: Personal growth and Improvement starts with awareness

Mantra #7: Improvement continues with communication skills including presence, listening, summarizing, validating, empathy, and the WAIT (Why Am I Talking) technique.

More about Cherie Lindberg

Cherie has been in the counseling field for more than 20 years. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor, Brainspotting Trainer & Consultant. She is also certified in Imago Relationship Therapy and trained in EMDR. Her specialties include performance enhancement, life transitions, personal growth, anxiety disorders, marital therapy, stress management, PTSD, and ego state therapy.

Cherie’s life purpose is “to support and inspire people in waking up (being conscious and present). Learning to intentionally stay connected to self, relationships and community keep us all moving toward well-being and a fully enlivened life."

https://getconnected.works/

In this episode, we continue our exploration of the application of Brainspotting modality as we discuss applications such as Brainspotting for abundance, Brainspotting for ancestral trauma, and more.

My guest is Nancy Tung, an international Brainspotting trainer, consultant, and coach. Read more about Nancy and follow the links to her practice below.

Brainspotting is a modality discovered by Dr. David Grand. Please visit www.brainspotting.com to learn more.

For this episode, we have four mantras, two key questions, and a group meditation exercise.

Mantra #1: Abundance is both quantifiable and non-quantifiable; both are important to happiness in life

Mantra #2: Set your goals with a focus on mindset

Mantra #3: Recognize that mindset goals might have to do with overcoming generational issues (not just what you’ve experienced in your own lifetime)

Mantra #4: Limiting beliefs can be at an ancestral level (and they can be overcome through modalities such as Brainspotting which address the mind-body system)

Question 1: Write down your biggest fear

Question 2: Notice what symptoms you have suffered since childhood.

More about Nancy Tung

Nancy has been in the health profession in the past 40 years, ranging from medical/surgical nursing, intensive neonatal/pediatric nursing, to anesthesia and outpatient surgery nursing. She immersed herself in energy healing modalities since 2000, has extensive training in Jin Shin Do Body-Mind Acupressure, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Mental Field Therapy (MFT), Autonomic Response Testing (ART), Yiren Medical Qigong, Visualization and Meditation, Family and medical systems Constellation, Craniosacral therapy, and Brainspotting.
Nancy is intuitive, knowledgeable, highly effective and efficient in working with chronic symptoms and multi-generational trauma.

Nancy’s website: https://www.nancytung.com/

In this episode, you’ll learn more about the Brainspotting modality as we discuss applications such as Performance Expansion, Future Self-Spotting, and Neuro Coaching.

My guest is Cindy S. Smith, a therapist, Brainspotting consultant, and executive coach. Read more about Cindy and follow the links to her practice below.

Brainspotting is a modality discovered by Dr. David Grand. Please visit www.brainspotting.com to learn more.

The mantras from the episode are as follows:

Mantra #1: Brainspotting has a Performance Expansion Model that can be used to tap into growth, creativity and peak performance.

Mantra #2: Brainspotting can be used to identify a “future self” to envision an optimal life through multi-sensory perception. Double spotting is another technique within the modality that allows for the processing of the transformation between “current self” and “ideal/future self”.

Mantra #3: Neuro-coaching is about working with the nervous system to meet goals and objectives including creativity, overcoming limiting beliefs, and expanding performance.

Mantra #4: Bilateral stimulation works as it activates the parasympathetic nervous system so that we can self-regulate and perhaps even integrate memories.

Mantra #5: There are “Brainspots” (fixed eye positions that correlate to neurological pathways) all around us. With our brain containing a quadrillion connections, “brainspots” can be considered within a 3-dimensional, 360-degree framework.

More about Cindy J. Smith

Cindy is a licensed clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience in clinical practice providing therapy, licensure/clinical supervision, training, and consultation. She holds an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work, is certified in Organizational Development and Leadership Coaching from Fielding University and holds an ACC credential through the International Coach Federation.

As a certified Brainspotting consultant, she has over a decade of experience in the model, has completed advanced training and provides consultation to other practitioners seeking Brainspotting certification. She developed the bilateral music company, Bodhitree Bilateral, in 2013.

Her clinical practice is focused on adolescents, adults, and families who are dealing with anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviors, chronic pain, trauma, relationship issues, life stage changes, issues associated with having or questioning a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or inter-sexed identity, grief and loss, as well as those who would like to enhance their performance (sports, business or arts) and creativity.

www.bodhitreebilateral.com
http://www.cindyjsmithlcsw.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cindy.j.smith/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-smith-lcsw-acc-4443ba32/

This episode returns to the series of guests I’ve had on the show to discuss the healing modality of Brainspotting. My guest today is Thad Frye.

Brainspotting is a trauma-healing therapy and peak performance modality discovered by Dr. David Grand. www.brainspotting.com.

Thad is the owner of Thad Frye Counseling and is a Certified Brainspotting psychotherapist with In-Depth Therapy in Broomfield, CO. Thad is also proud to be a board member of the Rocky Mountain Brainspotting Institute.

Thad is passionate about the healing power of Brainspotting and utilizes it with people grieving the loss of a loved one or going through a major life transition. Please read more about Thad and the Rocky Mountain Brainspotting Institute below.

The mantras from this episode:
Mantra #1: Brainspotting incorporates a powerful formula which includes a) bio-lateral music, b) an issue identified by the client to explore, c) somatic location of that issue (in other words, where is that issue felt in the body?), d) focused mindfulness, based on the location of the fixed eye location, e) curiosity and f) space held between the practitioner and client so that the client can process the issue.

Mantra #2: Sometimes there are simply no words to explain feelings (a powerful aspect of Brainspotting is that talking is not necessarily required).

Mantra #3: Brainspotting is different for everyone (and is different every time); there is no set protocol.

Mantra #4: You can support someone going through a difficult time simply by being present.

Mantra #5: When supporting someone going through a difficult time, it is always best to ask for permission (to tell a story, to offer a hug, to offer any information)

Mantra #6: When supporting something going through a difficult time, know that it is about them, not about you.

More about Thad Frye
Thad has been in the counseling field for over 17 years. He earned his BA in Psychology with a minor in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder and earned his Masters of Science in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, certified Brainspotting practitioner and has completed Phase 1 and 2, the Master Class with Dr. David Grand and the Intensive with Dr. Pie Frey.
http://www.indepththerapy.org and https://www.thadfryecounseling.com/

More about Rocky Mountain Brainspotting Institute.
A nonprofit organization that was created to promote and advance the use of Brainspotting. RMBI’s founder is the amazing Dr. Pie Frey has been a trainer and importance influence in the lives of thousands of Brainspotting practitioners (including Thad and Kathryn).
https://www.rockymountainbrainspottinginstitute.com/about-rmbi

My guest for this mantra-filled podcast is Cathie Caccia. Please read more about this “yoga superstar” below.
Please also see below for the links to her website, with information about retreats and classes you can get involved in.
If you are one of the lucky people listening to the episode prior to October 18th, 2019, please see below for a link to the retreat with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee.
There are NINE mantras for this show. They are:
1. Being a “yoga superstar” is a bit of an oxymoron (yoga is for every-body).
2. Yoga is about I'm doing rather than doing.
3. A major benefit of yoga is being connected to one's authentic self.
4. Finally - a message about getting unstuck: “don't calcify the conversation, listen”.
5. We all need to be heard, seen, and hopefully understood (listen to others).
6. We need to see ourselves, listen to ourselves, and hopefully understand ourselves (listen to self).
7. Breathing can create physical, spiritual, and mental healing.
8. We are all radio stations broadcasting a signal; what vibrational seeds do you want to germinate?
9. Creating a mantra for the breath (in and out) is so easy, yet so transformational.

Links:
Cathie’s website: http://www.cathiecaccia.com/

Retreat:

http://www.cathiecaccia.com/yoga-events-workshops-kirtans-ketchum-idaho

About Cathie:
Cathie began her yogic studies in 1984 and was immediately captivated by the physical, energetic and philosophical aspects of the practice.
She has found tremendous value in yoga’s capacity to quiet the mind and guide the practitioner home to the Self.
Cathie has extensive training in Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Shiatsu, Acupressure and Massage.
Teaching since 1987, Cathie’s classes combine her love of Yoga, Chinese energetics and Sanskrit chanting to support her students in finding their inner wisdom, clarity and peace. Cathie is registered with Yoga Alliance as E-RYT 500, she teaches public and private classes, workshops and yoga teacher training. Cathie is a licensed massage therapist with over 1200 hours of training.

In this episode, I have Paige Roberts back as a repeat guest on brain wellness, this time to focus on QEEG assessments and interventions such as photobiomodulation to improve brain health.

This interview is part of a series of interviews that I've been doing a modality called Brainspotting (a modality that I'm frankly obsessed with and now certified in). Paige’s first interview was Episode 66 on this podcast.

For more information about Brainspotting, please see www.brainspotting.com. Brainspotting is the work of Dr. David Grand.

For more information about Paige see below.

The mantras from the episode are as follows:

Mantra #1: Performance Wellness coaching is about empowering you, not scaring you.

Mantra #2: QEEG testing/results can be a positive incentive to start or boost interventions to improve brain health.

Mantra #3: QEEG can potentially connect us to the universe (Paige discusses how brain waves align with the frequencies of planets in our solar system).

Mantra #4: Interventions that can be healing to the brain include: 1) earthing, 2) drinking more water, 3) better nutrition, 4) movement, 5) proper sleep, 6) protection from/reduction of exposure to EMFs, and 7) photobiomodulation.
Mantra #5: Photobiomodulation seems like magic, but it is science. See this study about the effect of photo bio modulation on Veterans with TBIs.

More about Paige
Paige is originally from Colorado where she grew up skiing, swimming, white-water rafting and running. She now lives in Washington state and runs a national mind-body performance expansion practice called Paige Roberts Performance Neuro Training.

Paige is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Colorado and Washington, a sport psychology clinician, Certified Brainspotter, brain health coach, light therapist and personal trainer.

Episode Title: Bust Through Your Money Blocks with Brainspotting and Beth Medina

In this episode, you’ll learn how limiting beliefs around money, both obvious and subtle, could be sabotaging your ability to create abundance in your life.

This interview is part of a series of interviews that I've been doing a modality called Brainspotting (a modality that I'm frankly obsessed with and now certified in).

For more information about Brainspotting, please see www.brainspotting.com. Brainspotting is the work of Dr. David Grand.

For more information about Beth Medina see below.

The mantras from the episode are as follows:

Mantra #1: We have some whacky beliefs about money. These whacky macro believes include cultural sayings such as:
“money is the root of all evil”
“money doesn't grow on trees
“money is hard work”
“money causes strife”, and
“I have to save everything I earn”.

Mantra #2: Some of our beliefs about money are actually quite deep and subtle. Examples of some of these subtle beliefs include:
“I'm not worth it”
“charging more is selfish”
“Who am I to charge so much for my products or services?”
“people won't pay that much”.

Mantra #3: Overcoming these blocks is a tactical as well as psycho-therapeutic process when using Brainspotting.

Mantra #4: Money blocks may need to be worked through as a team (for example a partner, spouse, etc.).

Mantra #5: Brainspotting has what Beth called “a music effect”. You might need to listen to a song many times over, but once you hear the lyrics, you can never change the way you hear the song. People have “aha” moments during a Brainspotting session that allows them to see the world differently.

More about Beth Medina

Beth Medina is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice, a Certified Advanced Brainspotting Practitioner Consultant, and online business coach for professional solopreneurs.

Beth is also the Vice President and founding member of the Southeast Brainspotting Institute--an educational 501(c)3 that "promotes the utilization of Brainspotting as an effective therapeutic modality to reduce unwanted suffering, promote personal growth, and develop professional competency."

By adapting Brainspotting for use in the online business coaching setting, she helps professional service entrepreneurs break through the mental blocks that keep them stuck, exhausted, and broke.

Beth is passionate about helping business owners eliminate any blocks they have around money so they can work profitably, serve conscientiously, and live generously.

Links:
Link to the study Beth mentioned: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38095541_Money_or_mental_health_The_cost_of_alleviating_psychological_distress_with_monetary_compensation_versus_psychological_therapy

Link to the SE Brainspotting Institute: https://www.southeastbrainspottinginstitute.com/

Link to Beth’s site: www.bethmedina.com

In this episode, you’ll learn how Brainspotting allows for incredible breakthroughs to peace and peak performance for both athletes (specifically gymnasts) and first responders.

For more information about Brainspotting, please see www.brainspotting.com. Brainspotting is the work of Dr. David Grand.

What do these populations ( gymnastics and First Responders) have in common? They both train in the context of great risk.

You'll learn some amazing tips and hear stories of healing from Brainspotting practitioner Jessica Crowley.

The mantras from the episode are as follows:

Mantra #1: Obstacles don't always result from a first-hand experience; secondary trauma is an important consideration for both peak performance and healing.

Mantra #2: We are not always aware of the underlying causes of our obstacles/ “stuck” feelings, which leads to….

Mantra #3: The Brainspotting process is not always linear; Brainspotting follows the “uncertainty principle” first proposed by Quantum physicist Heisenberg.

Mantra #4: Whether it is an athlete or a first responder, the “healee” has a very important and active role in the healing process (healing is not the “doing” of the practitioner)

Mantra #5: In Brainspotting, verbalizing the content is not necessary; the “talking cure” has its place in mental wellness, but you don't necessarily have to talk to process and heal

More about Jessica Crowley

Jessica Crowley is a 24-year police sergeant for the Bartlett Police Department and is a Crisis Intervention Specialist, hostage negotiator and a former member of the Northern Illinois Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Team (NICISM). A graduate from National Louis University, with a Bachelors in Behavioral Science, a Masters in Human Resource Management, Northwestern University’s School of Staff and Command and the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy Managerial and Leadership School, she is a Certified Professional Coach with an advanced certification in Performance Coaching from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), a Certified Consulting Hypnotist, Certified Brainspotting Practitioner and HeartMath Practitioner.

Jessica is the owner of Aspire Winning Edge and is a Sports Performance Specialist working with athletes and first responders in the area of trauma, fears, anxiety, goal setting, and injury recovery. She has recently presented at the ILETSB Women's Leadership Conference, Heartland Hypnosis Conference, U-46 School Faculty Seminar and Bridging the Gap Conference, as well as coordinating and facilitating the 2018 Mental Health Conference and Providers Fair and is the self-published author of Reinforcing Your Anchor of Greatness.

This episode focuses on the power of brain-body healing using the powerful techniques of Biofeedback, Neurofeedback, and Brainspotting. With our guest, Santiago Brand, we talk about how individuals can become the best versions of themselves by committing to a healing process and confirming their own belief that they can improve their brain/body wellness.

The mantras from the episode are as follows:

Mantra #1: Stress is primarily psychological and anticipatory; it then manifests physiologically.

Mantra #2: Biofeedback is a preventative modality. It provides a mirror to the mind and body so that we can fix things that are out of order/not serving us before they show up as serious physical conditions.

Mantra #3: The metaphor of “sweaty palms” has a much deeper meaning than we might think at first glance. (We discuss GSR, or Galvanic Skin Response). The sweat glands are connected to the brain, which is connected to the gut. Our mind-body system is inter-related. Which leads us to…

Mantra #4: “What is in the brain is in the body, and what is in the body is in the brain” (a quote by Dr. David Grand, the founder of Brainspotting). www.brainspotting.com

Mantra #5: It is okay to not be okay. We need to accept our humanity (which means that life, and indeed trauma, happens to us as human beings). Trauma can range from a difficult dentist visit to a car accident to financial difficulties to relationship challenges and many things in between. Brainspotting is an excellent modality to address trauma in a gentle and healing way.

Mantra #6: The goal is to commit to brain/body healing in order to increase flexibility and resilience. Santiago talks about his work with a case example combining breathing techniques/biofeedback, neurofeedback, Brainspotting and functional medicine (diet, supplements, etc.), all supported by a firm client belief that positive change is possible, to realize extraordinary results in body/brain healing.

More about Santiago Brand

Santiago Brand is a licensed psychologist in Bogotá Colombia. He has 12 years of experience in clinical psychology and 14 years working in sports psychology. He also has 7 years of experience in QEEG (brain mapping) and is board certified in neurofeedback, biofeedback and Heart Rate Variability biofeedback, which he has practiced for 11 years. Santiago has worked training the brains of athletes, CEOS, musicians, TV presenters and has worked with conditions such as ADHD, epilepsy, anxiety, depression, and TBI. Santiago has also been working in the field of Brainspotting and trauma for 3 years and authored a chapter on the EEG and Brainspotting in the Book, “The power of Brainspotting: An International Anthology”.

Santiago´s main interests are in the field of peak performance, exercise and mental health, as well as the Neuropsychophysiology of trauma using EEG and psychophysiological measures such as EMG, HRV, GSR, Temperature, and Respiration. Currently, he is a consultant for the Guatemalan Olympic Committee and the Bolivian Football (Soccer) Federation.

This episode focuses on the power of combining the cutting edge modalities of Brainspotting and EFT(Emotional Freedom Technique) to allow clients to work through obstacle

Mantra #1: “We don’t have to know what it is, to know that it is”. This is actually a quote from one of the slides from the Brainspotting training (Phase One). Brainspotting also follows the principle of uncertainty which means that the brainspotter must not assume what is going on with the client or where the session will go. So much can happen without us needing to understand the details of it.

Mantra #2: We don’t have to suffer. With noninvasive and relatively gentle modalities such as Brainspotting and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)

Mantra #3: Progress can be fast (it doesn’t have to take long). Jenn describes some client stories where she has seen people shift in just one session

Mantra #4: In order to get to the “gold” (or the “glory” as referred to in the episode title), sometimes you have to get the “gunk” out of the way. (This metaphor reminds me of the story of the Golden Buddha), https://carolyntate.co/the-story-of-the-golden-buddha/
Jenn described it as unclogging the gunk in the sink drain. Modalities such as Brainspotting and EFT allow clients to break free from the gunk! And why should we bother to go through the “gunk removal process” through modalities such as Brainspotting and EFT?
-Save time and money
-Stop having to go to ongoing therapy
-Don’t get sick (books like “The Body Keeps the Score” talk about how unresolved emotional issues are the drivers for many of our ailments
-Realize peak performance and be the best version of yourself

More about Jenn DeLorenzo.
Jenn’s passion is collaborating with clients to create their personal blueprint for health, wellness and joy. A vital part of her approach is instilling her clients with a sense of ownership in their therapeutic outcomes. She does this by introducing various exercises, strategies and daily practices, including advanced techniques like Brainspotting and EFT. By helping her clients clear out emotional and physical traumas, they can live free of the repetitive patterns and limiting beliefs that hold them back.

When she isn’t working, you can find Jenn hiking in the woods, walking on the beach, and taking photos of all things nature—especially any and all dogs she encounters along the way.

Interested in becoming the author of your own life story? Contact Jennifer at jenn@jenndelorenzo.com or 978-949-1661.

Jennifer DeLorenzo, LCSW, LICSW

On this interview, we will talk about Brainspotting and its application to high performing athletes and CEOs. Paige Roberts will describe her work bringing athletes back from injuries to achieve peak performance. We will go through a hypothetical Brainpotting session with a CEO and an athlete. Learn how to heal, recover and expand performance.

Kathryn Kemp Guylay explains in this (temporarily) final episode of the Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons Podcast how she is starting a new podcast, Positive on Publishing. Lots of free gifts accompany this broadcast.

Bob Minhas knows that there is a big difference between owning a small business and being an entrepreneur. One is about creating employment to change your own life. The other is about growing a passion with the aim of revolutionizing an industry, a nation or the world as we know it. Bob understands this difference but, more importantly, he wants you to understand it too.

Dr. Sheila O. Walker is a researcher, scientist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work is focused at the Center on the Early Life Origins of Disease. Parents who are hoping to reduce stress in your child's life (after you understand the signs as well as the consequences)-- you will really want to listen to this interview.Don’t miss the summary of (7) mantras for you to incorporate into your daily life that will provide you with greater health and happiness. Enjoy!

Mariaemma Willis is an educator and author. Mariaemma believes that in order to set up the best environment to learn, we must first understand our own unique learning styles. We have seven mantras about education and learning that you won't want to miss. You can also take Mariaemma's assessment for your own child (or yourself) using a link below that provides a discount on the tool.

Today's guest for the Mountain Mantras podcast is Dr. David Holmes, the Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at Community School in Sun Valley, Idaho. David is passionate about education and getting outdoors. Our mantra for today's show is: Be Open to Educational Reform If you have kids that are on the track to apply for college, I think you will enjoy hearings Dr. Holmes' perspective on what character traits REALLY matter when it comes to success.

Today’s guest for the Mountain Mantras Podcast is ME. OMG-- I put myself in the hot-seat again!

I talk about how babies learn to walk. And guess what, that means that you must fall!

Some "falls" that I mention in this episode:
Dan Harris' panic attack on morning television
Arianna Huffington's collapse at work
*Steve Job's realization that "we are already naked"

Whitney Hansen is a personal finance coach and entrepreneur. She teaches overwhelmed millennials how to pay off debt and be financially independent. She gives them the tools to have more fun with money, while sprinkling in a little silliness. Some of her accomplishments are paying off $30,000 in 10 months, buying her first home at 19, and paying $472 for her masters degree. Whitney is the founder of Whitney Hansen Coaching.

Nick is the founder of The Fun Dept., a consulting and training company that has been featured on CNN, BBC News, Washington Post, TEDx and numerous other media outlets. Known as “The Godfather of Fun,” he began his company after experiencing firsthand the enhanced culture and business results of fun during his 20-year corporate management tenure with a company that embraced a “work hard, play hard” culture. His company has delivered more fun in the workplace than any other company in the world, building brief, consistent and engaging activities into the corporate culture that is more important than ever thanks to the presence of millennials. Its clients range from Fortune 100 companies to those with as few as 10 employees.

Today’s guest for the Mountain Mantras Podcast is Jennie Aguirre. After working for 16 years in the medical field as a nurse and case manager, Jennie unexpectedly switched gears and became a stay-at-home mom. Convinced motherhood, especially single-motherhood, would never be a part of her plan, this was a surprising and life-changing role she was tossed into quite abruptly. Being someone who never does anything half-effort, Jennie committed herself to her new title of “mom” tenaciously. She went to all the classes, read all the books, and got all the t-shirts. What she found; however, was that none of it mattered. If this was going to be successful, she needed to dive deep into HERSELF.

Parent-inventor Rob Malen of metro-Detroit, Michigan developed BrushyBall – The Toothbrush Training Coach based on the experiences he and his daughter shared as she learned to brush on her own. The project began in 2009 and spanned seven years as he prototyped, patented, found manufacturing partners and finally funding to produce the product

Brad Cleveland is an author, speaker, consultant and expert on customer satisfaction and employee engagement. He offers up mantras for engaging with customers for the highest levels of satisfaction.

Lisa Najjar used to be a court reporter. Now she’s reporting for a higher court – not the Supreme Court, but the Celestial Court! As an international psychic/medium, and author of Dying to Tell You – Channeled Messages from the Famously Dead, Lisa feels she is living her passion to help raise consciousness on the planet. Her five mantras will help you gain perspective on your time on this planet.

Speaker, trainer and author of the bestselling book, Mountaintop Prosperity, Daphne Michaels guides listeners through a journey to their highest potential.

Saskia Winkler a business coach, life coach and spiritual mentor. After my interview with her, I’d say the best way to describe her would be to use the term (which we explain during the interview) Quantum Healer. This is a not-to-be-missed interview, as we move from the first half in simply taking about Saskia’s work to doing an actual coaching session—with me as the mock client! I will tell you that is an incredibly vulnerable discussion for me, as she pinpoints a moment from my childhood that, I’ll admit, I’m still healing from.

John Vonhof is here to help your aching feet after all those miles you've been putting on them you know, thanks to all the inspiration from my latest guests. The mantra for today's show is take good care of your feet; they are your foundation.

Known today as the Queen of Pain for her perseverance as a relentlessly fast runner, paddler, and mountain bike racer, Rebecca Rusch was a normal kid from Chicago who abandoned a predictable life for one of adventure. Her book Rusch to Glory: Adventure, Risk & Triumph on the Path Less Traveled, weaves her fascinating life's story among the exotic locales and extreme conditions that forged an extraordinary athlete from ordinary roots.

Muffy is one of the most energetic women on earth. In addition to all of her medals for her Nordic and alpine skiing, Muffy has placed second in the 3,000 mile bike race, Race Across America three times. She is the head of the VAMPS women’s nordic program and is an inspiration to the women of the Wood River Valley (Sun Valley, Idaho). Muffy's shares three key mantras for your optimal health and happiness.

Olympian Nordic skiers Kikkan Randall and Liz Stephen share stories to support mantras around staying positive, learning from mistakes, and striking a power pose.

Belldon Colme is a fifty-one-year-old father of 5 and intuitive wellness coach who believed his life was over from heart failure in 2001. Having survived, he researched how the body works and discovered that tracking calories is misleading and that metabolism is central to healthy living. He developed a method to give the body metabolism everything it needs to fulfill its role, and in 2004 he created Nutri-90, a wellness program that has helped thousands of medical professionals and laypeople alike reach and maintain their weight loss, health, and wellness goals.

Dr. DeMaria is an integrative psychologist, 3-time Bestselling author, poet, speaker and 4-time Grammy® nominated recording artist. Michael was also a contributing musician/poet/composer on the Grammy® winning children's album, "All About Bullies Big and Small". Michael is a long time yoga/meditation teacher and the author and creator of the Peace Within Process™ for Integrative Wellness. His passion and mission is helping others find inner peace in our busy, stressed and overworked lives.

Couple Don and Roe offer seven mantras to create a life with no regrets, starting from a "dream day" and ending with shift your mindset from victim to ownership (choice).

Kate Sciandra, an expert in applied mindfulness, draws on her wildly varied life experience to offer listeners five mantras to incorporate more mindfulness into their lives in order to find more compassion and greater well-being.

Rocky Detwiler, author, speaker, trainer, bodybuilder and life coach with 30 years experience in transformational living offers proven principles and a paradigm shift in thinking that will propel listeners to change using only their thoughts and their words. We provide more mantras for health and happiness in the new year!

Charlene Jones, author and meditation expert, offers mantras for listeners for improved health and happiness based on the latest research in neuroscience and mindfulness.

Jen Coken, life coach and stand-up comedian, takes listeners on a journey through eight mantras and several exciting tools that will help you make the very best of the New Year.

Executive coach Steven McGhee shares five mantras with listeners that allow leaders to adopt a style that drives profits for companies while protecting the organization's most important assets (the people within the organization and the hearts of those people).

Joan Posivy takes listeners through the power of the law of attraction and offers a set of mantras that will allow us all to set big goals, take action, and create the life of our dreams.

Holistic health expert Ginger Hudock walks thorugh 5 mantras for having a happier and healthier new year. She also offers a free holiday gift -a free health consultation- to listeners.

Founder of Powerhouse Learning Brandie Hinen talks with Jeff Guylay about the importance of authenticity and helping leaders get unstuck through consulting, coaching and mentoring.

Today's episode is all about giving entrepreneurs some basic tools and techniques to give their businesses and lives a little boost. Business strategist and author Stacy Tuschl offers six mantras on how to take YOUR business to the next level. You’ll hear about issues such as finding mentors, delegating work, and getting out of a rut.

Today we continue our discussion about how allow our prana, or energy to heal ourselves. We talk with EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) practitioner Deb Finch. This is a great show as an add on to Episode 24 with yoga practitioner and Licensed Acupuncturist Sandi Hagel. Deb offers some unique advice on reducing stress and allowing the body to "self-regulate" through gentle and non-invasive techniques.

Today we talk about how allow our prana, or energy to ebb and flow. We talk with yoga practitioner and Licensed Acupuncturist Sandi Hagel. She has some great tips to seek out balance in our lives. The mantra for today's show is that we must allow ourselves to be human BEINGS, not just human DOINGS.

Today we talk about how to develop a friendly, healthy relationship with food. We talk with Annie McMahon, the author of the book, Things I did when I was Hangry. Annie is an expert on mindfulness and runs yoga retreats throughout the year.

Today we talk about getting out of the 9-5 rut and finding an occupation that fits with your lifestyle goals. I talk with Amy Hager, nutritionist, author and beekeeper about how to build a life that is both enjoyable and meaningful. This episode is a great add on to episode 15 with Paul Shoemaker on finding your life's purpose.

This episode is dedicated to sharing the therapeutic benefits of being in the garden. Guests Dr. Charles Majuri (a child psychologist and expert in therapeutic gardening) and Tira Scott (children’s gardening program instructor) walk us through the many benefits of being outdoors in nature and getting our hands in the soil.

This episode if for you if you answer YES to any of the following questions: 1) Do you sometimes dread family meals?, 2) Have you ever struggled because you feel you’re feeding your kids too many processed foods but you’re stuck on not knowing what else there is to feed them?, 3) Have you ever felt overwhelmed by prep work, cooking, dishes & everything else it takes to get a ‘real food’ meal on the table? Passionate mama Trisha Hughes takes us on a journey to empower us to be our own best advocates for our family's health.

As a great follow up to Episode 14 with Solu’s founder and former Olympian David Currier, I talk with Solu's Content Strategist Sheila Moriarty. Sheila and I uncover six Mantras related to entrepreneurism and what is important about Solu’s mission, being authentic.

Registered Dietician and yoga practitioner Charlotte Hammond talks about mindful eating and her work with teens to overcome eating disorders. A great add on to Episodes 26 and 27 about mindfulness as well as our series of conversations with nutrition experts (Episodes 18 through 21).

Global Family Yoga Co-Founder Mira Binzen discusses her work teaching yoga and nidra practices to adults and kids. She explains the importance of finding our inner resource that allows us to find balance from the inside out. She shares a simple breathing technique that has the potential to bring on world peace.

Get ready for an amazing, real time mindfulness meditation with mindfulness expert Ryan Redman. Today’s conversion is a great add on to Episodes 5 and 10 with Dr. Homayoun Sadeghi and Beth Cabrera, respectively. Ryan Redman is the Executive Director of the Flourish Foundation. Ryan teaches yoga classes, meditation classes, and oversees include mindfulness lesson in schools, teacher and adult training, prenatal programs and other retreats.

Inspiration is what Todd and Jackie Courtney are all about. They are the authors of the Inspirational Nursery Rhymes series. Today we talk about the importance of this type of “self help” material for kids to become more responsible, respectful and kind.

Professional skier turned advocate for a cleaner environment McKenna Peterson talks about how we all need to find inspiration to take care of our planet. This episode is a great listen in conjunction with E015 about finding your life's purpose.

Cece Gassner, Director of Economic Development for Boise State University talks about innovative programs going on that galvanize entrepreneurism and cutting edge thinking. Get inspired perhaps to go back to school at any age!

This episode features Kuli Kuli founder Lisa Curtis as she talks about how she started a food company that will allow people to be healthier while at the same time creating great social justice. Learn more about Moringa and its role in saving the planet.

Healthy lifestyle expert Kami Miller shares her insights gained from her degree from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and shares her journey working with adults and kids in schools on how to make healthy changes from the insight out. Be inspired by Kami's positive and empowering messages!

Registered Dietician Laurie McBride from St. Luke's provides actionable tips on how families can improve their nutrition habits, even on a budget.

Nutrition expert from the Institute of Integrative Medicine talks about how we can all get back into our kitchens and feel empowered to use food as our medicine to live a life full of energy and vibrancy.

Registered Dietician Juliette Britton gives listeners six actionable, fun, and practical mantras for healthy eating. This episode is a must-listen for parents who are striving to get their kids (and the whole family) to eat healthier.

As the Executive Director and Founder of Nurture, a big part of podcast host Kathryn Kemp Guylay's mission is working in the nonprofit space helping children and families to be healthier and happier. This interview puts Kathryn on the other side of the mic again (see Episode 001) being interviewed about why she started Nurture and how the work Nurture is doing is so important. An inspiring listen for those that want to tap into the "purpose" part of their lives. For more about putting purpose into your own life, listen to E015 with Paul Shoemaker about finding your own "Can't Not Do".

Successful entrepreneur and Executive Director of the Ketchum Innovation Center (business accelerator) offers up six mantras that will give you an edge in the entrepreneurial environment and inspire you to seek out work/life balance.

What can I do to change the world? The common reaction to that question is to feel that it’s futile, that the world is just too big and complex to affect change. But Paul Shoemaker is here to tell us that we can make a difference and be an everyday heroes- and maybe just make a significant impact on daunting social issues.

Olympic athlete turned entrepreneur David Currier tells his story of starting a software company (Solu) that will allow listeners to preserve and share their life story.

Best selling author and wellness expert Janette Hillis-Jaffe takes listeners through five mantras that support healing and optimal health, starting with taking baby steps to setting up an environment for feeling your best.

Sharkie Zartman, former All-American volleyball athlete and champion competitor with degrees in kinesiology and instructional technology asks you to take on aging as a sport!

Marianne Ryan is a Physical Therapist with over 30 years experience and board-certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist with a career emphasis on prenatal and postpartum treatment. Marianne describes how to use Baby Bod® to provide women with a gentle, effective solution to restore health and wellness inside and out.

Beth Cabrera, author of Beyond Happy: Women, Work, and Well-Being and a senior scholar at George Mason University’s Center for the Advancement of Well-Being offers advice on how we can all achieve greater success and wellness. Her tips including focusing on strengths, purpose, and mindfulness.

Diabetes expert Denise Pancrynz tells a harrowing story of her diagnosis of diabetes in her forties, which she went on a mission to reverse. She gives listeners insight into actions we can all take in our lives to avoid this disease now affecting millions of people.

Human Resources expert Mary Schaefer discusses the fact that 70% or more of today's employees are disengaged. Yes, 70%! She provides strategies to improve these trends at both the individual and group level.

Master Intuitive Practitioner, Life Coach, Author & Wellness Expert Cathleen Miller gives real-time energy healing to listeners as well as practical tip (mantras) to follow for a healthier life.

CEO of Motion Infusion Laura Putnam talks about how we need to become agents of change for wellness by building our story banks and tapping into the emotional triggers for behavior change.

Hear from a MD who has delivered tens of thousands of babies and performs surgeries every day how we can use holistic wellness techniques such as mindfulness to achieve optimal health.

Outdoor adventurist and author "Powder Matt" tells his story of escaping his suffocating desk job to find career success while leading an adventurous life. Don't miss his story about escaping from a mama Grizzly bear on backcountry skis!

A 40-year veteran of the venture capitalist industry and serial entrepreneur talks about why we must focus on on the customer in order to define success.

Wellness expert and bestselling author Dondi Dahlin provides insight on how we can use the ancient healing system of the Five Elements to become more balanced and energetic.

Kathryn Kemp Guylay (host of the Mountain Mantras Podcast) is interviewed for the official launch episode. Learn about Kathryn and why she can offer you inspiration to achieve greater wellness and life success.