Your Life Matters Soul Connection Podcast: Recent Episodes
Junie Swadron
Welcome! The Soul Connection Podcast will inspire you to step into your power, and know that no matter what your history has been, no matter how awesome or how tarnished, your life matters, and you have what it takes to succeed in life — on your terms!
In this episode, host Junie Swadron talks to fellow author, R.J. Spina.
RJ Spina is a true leader and metaphysical teacher, and the world has never needed one so desperately. He has verifiably healed himself of permanent chest-down paralysis, severe chronic illness and life-threatening conditions through his own authentic transcendence. His teachings, wisdom, guidance, and revolutionary self-healing and self-realization technique has already completely changed and saved the lives of many across the globe. He has dedicated his life to the freeing and healing of humanity on all levels.
As a child, RJ would naturally access the limitless hidden realms beyond our ordinary sensory perception. He always felt a deep sense of knowingness that went well beyond the human intellect. Upon turning twenty-four and struggling with ‘normal’ life, he found himself in an unforced and naturally deep state of meditation. That moment was a turning point in this life as RJ. What he tangibly experienced and authentically understood was the beginning of his own liberation and self-realization.
RJ currently lives in San Diego, CA and has recently started his non-profit, Human Advancement Through Higher Consciousness. He teaches revolutionary self-healing and self-realization courses, performs energy healings and counsels’ people worldwide.
In this episode, host Junie Swadron talks to fellow author, Ell Graniel.
Over 30 years of research in the relationship between communication, learning styles, and quantum physics has gone into the creation of of Mind Body Language (MBL) and Truespeak™, her intra-personal communication training company.
Truespeak™ is the language the “observer” speaks in your mind and is the one directly connected to your higher power. When you learn how to meditate, you strengthen that connection. Guided meditation is the first step toward that accomplishment. Truespeak™ also teaches you how to connect with your higher power to resolve conflict, turmoil, and unresolved issues in your thoughts and actions.
Ell Graniel created this great working space with The Academy of Self-Knowledge. IDEA Fit, and several health clubs and spas have also benefited from her expertise.
Mind Body Language (MBL) is the class-room style learning about how the voices in your heard control your actions and attitudes and how to take back that control and put peace in your corner again.
Educational institutions, organizations, and corporations are just a few of the types of clients for which she trains and presents the MBL theories. Some of her diverse clientele includes the Los Angeles County Office of Education, Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Boy Scouts of America, Beachbody, and 24 -hour Fitness.
Her forte is keynote speaking and guided meditation, as her approach is direct, and her humor and insight are refreshing and enlightening.
In this episode, host Junie Swadron talks to long time friend, Eric Hellman.
Eric’s passion is creating positive change in the world. And it’s a path he’s walked with deep commitment for 45 years.
Heading towards a career in maths and science, Eric had a ‘consciousness shift’ in nature (in 1973) which guided him into environmental work. However, by the early 1980s, he was experiencing severe conflict and emotional pain, in both his work and a young marriage. Nothing he did to improve them seemed to help – until he was pushed, ‘kicking and screaming,’ into exploring his spirituality. This larger perspective on life led to a dramatic shift in the way he thinks, works and lives.
Through listening to his inner wisdom, personal healing, facing fears and doing what he loves, Eric has enjoyed work in many different fields – as an environment consultant, ghostwriter, small business owner, resume consultant, international event designer, and caregiver in dementia and aging, to name a few. He now coaches people in change, and is a speaker on spirituality.
How many of us want to improve our lives & relationships, and make the world a better place? Almost everyone. Yet who hasn’t also faced that deep resistance – from others, and within ourselves – to making change?
Why is that, where does it come from, and what can we do about it? That’s what I want to explore, so to create more of the life and world we long for. – Eric
In this episode, host Junie Swadron talks to long time friend, Eric Hellman.
Eric’s passion is creating positive change in the world. And it’s a path he’s walked with deep commitment for 45 years.
Heading towards a career in maths and science, Eric had a ‘consciousness shift’ in nature (in 1973) which guided him into environmental work. However, by the early 1980s, he was experiencing severe conflict and emotional pain, in both his work and a young marriage. Nothing he did to improve them seemed to help – until he was pushed, ‘kicking and screaming,’ into exploring his spirituality. This larger perspective on life led to a dramatic shift in the way he thinks, works and lives.
Through listening to his inner wisdom, personal healing, facing fears and doing what he loves, Eric has enjoyed work in many different fields – as an environment consultant, ghostwriter, small business owner, resume consultant, international event designer, and caregiver in dementia and aging, to name a few. He now coaches people in change, and is a speaker on spirituality.
How many of us want to improve our lives & relationships, and make the world a better place? Almost everyone. Yet who hasn’t also faced that deep resistance – from others, and within ourselves – to making change?
Why is that, where does it come from, and what can we do about it? That’s what I want to explore, so to create more of the life and world we long for. – Eric
In this episode, host Junie Swadron talks to fellow author, Ann Ljungberg.
Ann is the founder of Expert Coalition – a place where you become an expert and create your legacy business.
She has been a true digital nomad since 2002, living and working on a sailboat all over the world, growing her business from a sweet hobby to a small empire.
She is a master teacher and coach, passionate about the personal and professional growth of her clients.
In this episode, host Junie Swadron talks to fellow author, Lawrence J. W. Cooper.
Poet laureate of the Comox Valley.
As a psychologist and poet who has walked the path of borderline personality disorder (BPD), generalized anxiety disorder, and depression, he wishes to help others through his three books of poetry. His first book, Bi, expresses the feelings he experienced in the process of coming to grips with his sexual orientation. In The Room he walks you through his emotions while undergoing therapy after he crashed. Enchanted With Life is his victory song, his celebration of the life he now lives.
He is uniquely equipped to deal with the subject of mental disorders on both an emotional and academic level. Having walked the path of borderline personality disorder (BPD), generalized anxiety disorder, and depression, he believes he has developed a life that he now truly loves to love.
His areas of expertise include ten years as a psychometrician and reading specialist, eighteen years as a school administrator/counsellor/special education coordinator, as well as being available as needed for School Division Educational Psychologist services. In addition, he has spent the last thirteen years teaching high school advanced placement Psychology and English courses on-line. He is the winner of the Canadian Teacher’s Federation Hilroy Fellowship for innovation, and the Alberta and Canadian Educator and Administrator of the Year awards for Inclusion of children with special needs into mainstream education.
His book In Search of the Lost Self contains research, personal anecdotes, and suggestions for living and thriving with borderline personality disorder. The Grounding Virtues and The Centering Virtues are workbooks that take you step by step into building a better life. In addition Lawrence facilitates workshops using the Sacred Circle to explore the healing power of poetry.
Lawrence J.W. Cooper author | speaker | poet LawrenceJWCooper.ca
Megan Edge is a Master Healer and Educator, International Radio Host, Public Speaker and the author of “The Heart’s Journey: Healing Hearts Oracle Cards and Guidebook” & “Falling into Being Human: Intuitive Healing”, the manual for her highly regarded Healer’s certification program, The Confident Healer: An Intensive Intuitive Healer’s Certification Program®. Megan is also the creator of the Intuitive Energy Massage Practitioners Certification®, an innovative, new energy healing modality. Megan offers Mind, Body and Soul Healing® though Energy Healing, Intuitive Counselling and Aromatherapy. In her private practice, Megan holds space for personal healing, empowering the individual to access their own healing powers. She knows each of us has the potential to unlock our healing abilities, both for ourselves and for others. Megan offers her clients and students the tools and techniques to heal in the moment and to maintain their healing as they move forward on their journey. Megan lives in Victoria, Canada, with her two daughters, her husband and their Labradoodle, Frankie. When not holding space for her clients’ healing journeys, she can be found combing the local beaches for clams and oysters, or tromping through the forests searching for wild mushrooms and plant medicines.
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Megan Edge master healer | educator | international radio host | public speaker | author
MeganEdge.ca
In this episode, host Junie Swadron talks to fellow author, speaker, and book publishing expert, Becky Norwood.
Becky is CEO of Spotlight Publishing™. She is widely recognized for the empowering and intuitive way she guides others to weave storytelling into their books and marketing. She incorporates her methods with sound marketing that is the pathway for business expansion and audience growth.
Becky has brought over 300 authors to #1 bestseller. Through her Author Studio TV Show, countless listeners have heard her interviews of both authors and experts offering sage advice. She offers an extensive catalog of services supporting emerging and established authors.
Becky believes that a well-told story is a gateway for growth, sharing, and a way to unite humanity. She is an advocate for the positive that comes from sharing our creative genius and impacting our world in positive ways.
Becky Norwood author | speaker | book publishing expert www.spotlightpublishing.pro
In this episode, host Junie Swadron talks to fellow author, Les Jensen.
Author, radio host, speaker, energy master and visionary, Les was born into a Mormon household in Brigham City, Utah, the last of seven children. This laissez faire situation allowed him significant freedom to explore his strong sense of independence and to indulge his curiosity about the world around him, how it worked, and the people within it.
His technical skills eventually led to a very successful career in engineering in the broadcast industry, and it was here that he experienced a “spiritual awakening.” He hadn’t had a spiritual notion of himself before that, but decades of studying the nature of frequency, energy and very high levels of power in television had prepared him for working with the energy of human consciousness. And then his life-path changed.
Everything Les had learned about energy would later show up in many ways, including his writings. His language was that of karma, emotions, mental stigmas, energy bodies, and levels of consciousness (and the power behind them). Meanwhile, years before becoming an author, Les experienced this energy in the form of a lifechanging moment when he “broke himself wide open.” He felt so much energy pouring out of his personal persona that he went inside his inner self and started cleaning up whatever he found that didn’t serve his well-being. More or “less” naturally, such life-altering changes led to the creation of New Human Living in 2009, a global platform to assist humanity in discovering its own truth.
Without any bias towards a religious group or existing establishment, Les kept the focus of all of his material on the personal empowerment of the individual, where the guidance of the best life path came from each individual’s heart. Based on the notion that the Kingdom of Heaven is within each one of us now and always, and by keeping the focus on the purity of the individual’s energy, Les’ material transcends the inherent cultural bias of those existing establishments’ beliefs.
Les Jensen author | radio host | speaker | energy master | visionary www.newhumanliving.com
In this episode, host Junie Swadron talks to fellow author, Suzanne Ross.
In December of 1995, Suzanne Ross experienced a profound miracle that she describes as a divine intervention. In her first book, Wake Up! Awakening through Reflection, she vividly shares this remarkable blessing and how it awakened her ability to channel higher intelligence and align with the authenticity of her highest self.
In this second book in the Up! Trilogy, Rise Up! Awakening through Revelation, Suzanne shares how 15 years later in 2010, during her walking meditations, she found herself shifting into higher dimensional experiences and moving through them as a crystalline light being. Soon after, she became a disciple in the Vedantic Tradition after receiving a powerful initiation that propelled her into a profound sense of oneness. In one transcendent moment, she became fully aware of the infinite source illuminating all the realms with the divine light of pure love. At the same time, the life force of her own kundalini energy activated her third eye and fully ignited her crown chakra. In that moment beyond time, she was braided with the divine blueprint of her eternal soul essence and ecstatic bliss became her new normal. She was instantly overwhelmed by a strong desire to share this pure bliss state with all others. From that moment on, Suzanne has dedicated her life to bringing the higher teachings of divine enlightenment to all of humanity through her inspirational books, group workshops, live events, energetic sessions and internet television series. Suzanne is building a unity community in Sedona, Arizona
Suzanne Ross author | healer www.suzannerosswellness.com
In this episode, host Junie Swadron talks to fellow author, relationship guru, Michelle Hoffmann.
Because life is better with good love in it, Michelle empowers people to attract, keep, and enjoy loving relationships in their life without losing themselves and being overwhelmed. After the loss of her husband, people asked for her guidance when they saw how she successfully pulled her life together for herself and her children.
She wrote “Life Worth Living” to share her experience and how she got through that traumatic period of her life and became a guide for others through their own unique situations. As her clients consistently experienced success, more and more were referred to help them discover how to create life the way they dreamed it could be. They were able, with Michelle’s coaching, to be ‘desireful’ and attract, keep, and enjoy the right love in their lives. It’s all about Relationships. Wherever you are in your life journey – single, partnered, married, divorced, or widowed, it’s time to have the confidence to live and enjoy life as you dream it could be.
Michelle Hoffmann author | relationship coach www.relationshipping101.com
Cheryl Stelte is a Spiritual Teacher, Intuitive Healer, Coach & Founder of Intuitive Energy Healing & Empowerment Practitioner Program. Best selling author of Client Magnet, The Coaches Guide to Attracting Ideal Clients through Spiritual Awareness and Heal Your Neck Issues & Let Your Throat Chakra Shine. Cheryl helps people transform themselves and their lives, becoming who they truly are and shine with their purpose. After 25+ years of spiritual practice and study, Cheryl is grateful to dedicate all her working hours to helping others. Cheryl was drawn to meditation early on and over the last 25+ years, has studied, practiced and taught various forms of meditation. Her initial motivator was to heal her own severe depression; she soon got off anti-depressants and never went back. Her spiritual journey and her love of the forests, mountains and oceans drew Cheryl to shamanism, where she trained with many shamanic teachers and has since developed Heart Centered Shamanism. Cheryl was a Senior Teacher of IAMHeart and received certification as a Spiritual Leader, Coach, Mentor, Retreat Guide and Hurqalya Energy Healing Practitioner. She now helps others through healing and empowerment.
Cheryl is a Canadian, living in Denver, CO with her husband John. She enjoys beauty, traveling, making duck pate, and most of all, being of service.
Rabbi Wayne Dosick, PhD, DD teaches and counsels about faith, ethical values, life transformations, and evolving human consciousness.
Well known for his quality scholarship and sacred spirit, he is the rabbi of The Elijah Minyan, a retired visiting professor at the University of San Diego, and the host of the monthly Internet radio program, “SpiritTalk Live!,” heard on “HealthyLife.net.”
He is a best-selling author, and an award-winning author of nine critically acclaimed books, and author of more than 400 articles of religious, political, and social commentary. He is also a sought-after speaker, and has been interviewed on more than 300 radio and television shows, including “Good Morning America,” the “Larry King Show,” CNN,
Stephanie James is a transformational life coach and psychotherapist, dynamic public speaker, published author, and filmmaker. Stephanie delivers her message in a powerful way to help others find their own internal sparks and create their best lives at the next level. She has an unrelenting commitment to help others ignite their best lives and to become the best versions of themselves. Her world-wide, weekly radio show and podcast, The Spark with Stephanie James, is a show created to bring you the very best in the fields of psychology, science, and spirituality and take your life to the next level! In her book, The Spark, Igniting Your Best Life, Stephanie shows us how to transform beliefs that don't serve us, befriend ourselves, ways to develop more authentic and rewarding relationships,cultivate grit, resilience, and joy and how to approach each day with zest.
What can you do if you are involved with a narcissist?
Heather Kent is a Registered Psychotherapist with a training background in trauma assessment and treatment. She is the #1 Amazon bestselling author of the books Heal From Your Narcissist Ex and I Left My Toxic Relationship – Now What? Much of her professional practice is focused on helping clients through the process of recovering from the trauma and PTSD of abusive relationships. Having survived her own experience in an abusive relationship, Heather soon came to realize that many other women (and men) find themselves in the same situation, which leaves them feeling broken, ashamed, and paralyzed by fear. Heather combines her experience from her previous teaching career with her integrative therapeutic approach to counselling. Through her virtual programs, speaking engagements, workshops, and retreats, Heather is able to serve a larger population of clients who want interactive guided support from a licensed professional, as they navigate their way through trauma recovery from an abusive relationship and begin the next phase of their lives with safety and confidence. Heather currently resides in Ontario, Canada.
What can you do if you are involved with a narcissist? "You Are Not Alone."
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