Think Happy: Recent Episodes
Leslie Inc.
Due to popular demand, Leslie Juvin-Acker now offers essays on audio on the subjects of emotional intelligence, entrepreneurship, and the human spirit.
I was just interviewed by Sofie Lindberg on Classy, Sassy, and a Bit Badassy: The Empowerment Podcast. We talked about emotional intelligence and its role in financial, career, and personal development. If you’re interested you can check out the full episode here: https://www.classysassybadassy.com/episodes/emotional-intelligence-with-leslie-juvin-acker. Take a listen to her podcast. She asks great questions and genuinely wants to help people with similar questions. Learn more about my books mentioned in the episode here: https://www.leslieinc.org/books
What out what excuses are really saying. Learn how to spot them, break them down, and leave behind excuses for good.
Read the essay here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/putting-down-the-excuses-the-journey-of-personal-responsibility
A true story of how I helped a friend recover from the tragic suicide of his best friend.
Read the essay here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/healing-after-a-friend-commits-suicide
Do you have a hard time getting what you want? Do the things you want feel outside of you and beyond your reach?
What out what you're getting wrong to get it right.
Read the essay here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/why-you-ll-never-manifest-stuff-you-want-ever
Are you getting what you want out of life? I explain how you can do it and get good at expect and creating better.
Read the essay here: https://leslieinc.org/post/how-to-get-what-you-want-in-life
- Do you recognize when you're getting what you want?
- Do you confuse situations as punishment rather than an answered prayer?
- Do you recognize when life is getting what you want?
Read The Essay: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/i-want-change-but-not-that-kind-of-change
Can you imagine a better life for yourself? Do memories of traumas past floor your mind? Do you expect that life can get worse, but not better? Do you want to learn how to use your imagination to create the life you want?
Read the essay here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/this-or-better
Do you know where your emotions come from? Do you know how to control what you feel? Are you afraid of experiencing strong emotions? Do you hold your emotions in?
If the answer is yes to any of these questions, listen and find some solutions to start mastering your emotions.
Read the essay here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/do-your-emotions-control-you
A shared experience between a homeless man, a young donut shop clerk, and I taught me about the power that moves us and connects us.
Read the blog essay here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/the-power-that-connects-our-hearts
In this bonus episode of Valuable Insight series, Leslie Juvin-Acker shares how mentoring Daniel gave her many insights of her own.
Leslie encourages you to hear what you say, evaluating your self-concepts and beliefs, and learn to recognize when you're limiting yourself and setting yourself back in life.
Leslie encourages you to ignore unloving thoughts and feelings and hold onto loving thoughts and attitudes that can build a healthier, calmer, and loving life
Leslie shares her tips for starting on the path of enlightenment, build a community of supportive friends, and how to start loving yourself and letting others love you.
Read the blog post: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/leslie-juvin-acker-on-filming-valuable-insight-and-mentoring-daniel
Watch the YouTube: https://youtu.be/Un-nerb_sTs
Have you learned from Daniel's journey with Leslie? What was your favorite part of the Valuable Insight series? Do you have a success story to share?
Read the blog post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/how-daniel-benefited-from-learning-from-leslie-juvin-acker-valuable-insight-bonus-episode
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/Sc8c3o_1mso
Daniel shares a dream that make him realize that is ok to start over, forgive, and give oneself a change to change life circumstances.
Daniel's journey of enlightenment is on film for you to benefit from. When Daniel started the enlightenment process, he was in doubt of himself and he realized that he was more open to change than he initially wondered.
The enlightenment process breaks down the human condition. And, it helps us all realize that life is the enlightenment process. Leslie and Daniel share how you can fulfill your own dreams and make yourself happy by allowing yourself to harness personal growth.
This final episode of Valuable Insight has empowered you with tools to fulfill who you are and your life's purpose in a way that is healthy, happy, and full of freedom.
Are you ready to discover your true self and your power? Are you ready to love yourself?
Let Leslie and Daniel know what you learned from the Valuable Insight series in the comments. Please share your success stories with us.
Read the blog post here:
https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-24-awakening-using-valuable-insight-in-your-world-valuable-insight-video
Watch The YouTube Video Here: https://youtu.be/H--B-QfYRoQ
Do you believe in scarcity? Do you believe in limitation? Do you believe in science? Do you believe that others have more power than you?
Leslie shares how what you believe shapes and defines your world. Leslie invites you to take a closer look at your life and the circumstances in your life to explore your fundamental beliefs.
Your habits, appearance, relationships, health, and deep feelings are telling you what you believe. The greatest problem is the ignorance of our own beliefs. Many people do not know what they believe and only recognize their beliefs until it is woefully too late.
Learn to recognize how your life is a reflection of your beliefs. Learn to recognize when other's choices and actions are NOT a reflection of YOU, but rather an opportunity to witness another's beliefs in actions.
Create freedom for yourself by evaluating your deepest held beliefs with Leslie and Daniel in this episode Valuable Insight.
Read the full blog post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-23-believing-programming-your-subconscious-mind-to-create-the-life-you-want-valuable-insight
Watch the YouTube Video here: https://youtu.be/uWlmog8rcLs
We all, at one point in our lives, have experienced trust issues. We have all experienced periods of doubt and harmful self-talk.
In this episode of Valuable Insight Leslie Juvin-Acker and Daniel Beavers discuss trust. Many people believe the world is not a safe place. And, because of that, they limit themselves from their heart's desires. Daniel reveals his own trust issues and how he's working on building everything Leslie has taught him to trust himself and life.
Leslie unravels insecurity and the fear of life and helps you to build a trust in your self and life.
Learn to build trust in your inner guidance, relationships, higher intelligence, and your dreams.
Let go of the desire to control, manipulate, withhold your truth, and the survival mechanism of being someone that you're not.
Learn to trust life, trust yourself, and be who you truly are and believe that you can still get what you want.
Read the blog post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-22-trusting-how-to-build-the-skill-of-trusting-life-valuable-insight-video
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/68sISWlRsZs
In this episode of Valuable Insight, Leslie Juvin-Acker and Daniel Beavers go into Leslie's garden to teach you how to recognize when your body, life, and life experiences are answering your questions. Learn how to ask direct, smart, and clear questions to get the best answers that will help you move forward in life.
Asking good questions clarifies your logic, question your beliefs, and improve your thought processes.
Asking is a key skill in life. Asking good questions helps us to understand ourselves, the world we live in, and others. Pave new pathways to your ideal life. Leslie and Daniel explore the skill and benefit of asking good questions to release the past and create happiness in your life now.
Read the blog post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-21-asking-get-life-s-answers-with-good-questions-valuable-insight-video
Watch the YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/hvBY2RPcr7Q
Leslie invites you to harness personal change to create the life you want. Get in the right mind frame to experience what your heart desires every single day.
Have you selected your goals? Do you know how to project your goals in your imagination and be what it takes to succeed? Are you ready to collect on the opportunities you created in your imagination?
Leslie breaks down how healthy motivation is created from the wise use of your imagination. Learn to affirm with your self-talk everything you imagine. Find out what it takes to show up for your dreams.
Read the blog post: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-20-drive-going-for-it-valuable-insight
Watch the youtube video: https://youtu.be/9NupB3pSCw8
How can you BE a success if you don't feel like you ARE a success?
Leslie explains how you can get into the state of mind of being a wealthy person. And, how to get into the state of mind for anything your heart desires to experience.
Leslie shares her own personal story of buying her house without having to "work" for it.
Watch The YouTube Video Here: https://youtu.be/qTwnH3TkAoI
Read the blog post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-19-what-i-really-want-be-what-it-takes-to-succeed-valuable-insight-video
LIFE is more than just a board game. In this episode of Valuable Insight, Leslie Juvin-Acker and Daniel Beavers discuss how you can create the life you want with your thoughts.
With all your questions in life, take a moment to evaluate the quality of your thoughts. This episode builds on all the previous episodes of Valuable Insight by giving you the tools to take your thoughts and imagination and turn it into an actual experience.
Leslie explains the HOW in life. Many of her clients have asked "How do I get X, Y, Z?"
Leslie shows that how is engaging your thought in a creative way in your imagination.
The WORK first starts in your MIND - Leslie Juvin-Acker, Valuable Insight
Read The Blog Post Here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-18-life-thought-in-action-valuable-insight-video
Watch the YouTube Video Here: https://youtu.be/Th26pw3wx8w
There are a variety of tools available to us to tap into our inner wisdom. And, inner wisdom can come in a variety of forms such as emotions, spirit, and your still small voice.
Leslie will guide you into your inner wisdom and effectively shutting off outside voices so that you can begin to listen to your highest self and higher intelligence.
If you have a hard time trusting your self, then this episode is right for you.
Read The Blog Post: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-17-inner-wisdom-tuning-out-to-tune-in-valuable-insight-video
Watch The YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/kBikPQj8zbg
Can you tell the difference between self-talk and the still small voice?
Do you know where your self-talk is coming from? Does your self-talk come from your parents? An unloving statement from a careless person in the past?
Leslie Juvin-Acker and Daniel Beavers set the record straight to help you gain a sense of relief and the skill of discerning.
Make healthy choices based on loving truth, rather than discouraging fears.
Take your self-talk and improve it so you can finally be your own coach and cheerleader.
Read The Blog Post: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-16-inner-dialogue-self-talk-vs-the-still-small-voice
Watch The You Tube Video: https://youtu.be/ikP2CN1Z7wU
Most people ARE overqualified for their jobs! Why? Because they're settling for LESS.
In this episode of Valuable Insight, Daniel tells his story of career transformation. He went from the celebrity horse training world to a career in human resources. He shares how he made the change.
Leslie, as a Certified and credentialed Global Career Development Facilitator explains how you do not have to hang your soul at the door of a job AND the most important quality that can open any career door in your life.
Give yourself an opportunity in the field of your choice. Learn how to believe that others want what YOU have to offer as a person.
Claim the right salary, benefits, job, and lifestyle of your dreams - but it comes from knowing yourself, your value, and whether or not you're settling for less than you rightfully deserve.
Watch The YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/t4ezsxOk0G0
Read The Blog Post: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-15-overqualified-what-really-opens-careerdoors
Leslie shares her own story of forgiveness in which holding onto unforgiveness caused her ill health.
In this episode, Leslie and Daniel ask the following question:
- What does forgiveness mean?
- How can forgiveness affect you?
- Have you learned to forgive?
- Do you have people in your life that really need forgiveness?
- Do you need forgiveness?
Read The Blog Post Here: https://youtu.be/Ji_gYsMsrlY
Watch The YouTube Video Here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-14-forgiveness-letting-go-of-the-hurt-video
Attitude is everything. How does your attitude shape your perspective and experience of life? In this episode of Valuable Insight Leslie Juvin-Acker and Daniel Beavers explore how they manage their attitudes for better living.
You can choose your operative attitude through life. For better or for worse, how you show up in life affects your relationships, career, and well-being.
You don't have to know it all in life to be a success, but you have to have the right attitude. Anyone can assume a loving attitude and transform their life and future.
Are you ready to take on a new attitude? Furthermore, are you ready to take responsibility for how you are feeling? Join us as we have a frank discussion about attitudes on this episode of Valuable Insight.
Watch The YouTube Video Here: https://youtu.be/otpeev3FPzA
Read The Full Blog Post Here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-13-attitude-valuable-insight
Regain new focus, take on a new attitude, and get the right feelings. We will help you change your perspective on leaving the past and starting over with a positive frame of mind.
Read The Blog Post Here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-12-starting-over-v-running-away-valuable-insight-video
Watch The Youtube Video Here: https://youtu.be/1HYbTX_9SKQ
Are you haunted by the past? Daniel and Leslie explore how we self-sabotage by letting the past interfere with our present.
Emotional and psychological baggage and prevent us from living a fulfilling life now.
Leslie and Daniel challenge viewers to deal with their past, learned from their experiences so that they can be finally free to enjoy the present moment.
How do you know you're haunted by the past? You're haunted by the past when: * you replay memories on loop * acting on past mistakes * misinterpreting memories with false beliefs * treating others based on the mistakes of others in the past * unforgiving of yourself or others for previous mistakes * letting your past determine who you are today * making decisions based on unresolved past issues * anticipate bad things happening again * believe experiences you witnessed in the past happened to you. * overanalyze the past * get stuck on past issues without constructively dealing with them * cannot see a different future for yourself * believe that someone else's past is your future ( example: your parent was an alcoholic, therefore you will be an alcoholic) * believe you don't have any control over your present and future potential
Read The Blog Post: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/ep-11-haunted-by-the-past-valuable-insight
Watch the Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/LUlJBTHvNA4
Daniel reveals childhood trauma in which is was physically and sexually abused as a child. He shares how he tried to mask the abuse and hide his emotions. And, he shares how those repressed emotions began to wreak havoc on his emotional and mental health.
As an emotional intelligence expert, Leslie explains the role of emotions and how, if not effectively expressed, emotions can interfere with our daily lives.
Leslie explains how to re-write your past and change how you feel about a situation that you experienced in the past.
Watch the YouTube Episode here: https://youtu.be/ReNUFeduSPM
Read the blog post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/emotions-valuable-insight-ep-10
Leslie throws out an important fact about signs: there is no reason to wait for the universe to give you a sign.
Do you wait for the Universe to give you a sign? Or, do you think of the sign first?
"Signs" are merely a validation of your faith. You will always see "the sign" after you've asked, in full expectation, the universe to give it to you.
This is one of funniest episodes that Leslie and Daniel filmed together. Daniel thought he was ready to speak on the subject, but ended up learning a lot more than he expected - or forgot he asked for!
Watch The Youtube Video Here: https://youtu.be/ARgZV6wkYnc
Read The Blog Post Here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/speaking-to-the-universe-ep-9-valuable-insight
Are you living in your truth? Do you know others who don't live in their own truth? What is the price we pay to avoid living in the truth? Can lives be based on lies?
Daniel had to come to terms with his own identity as a gay man. And, live his truth as a gay Muslim man. Leslie had to overcome the lies of her own childhood where being herself is not safe, desirable, or encouraged. We discuss how children learn to disguise their true selves to avoid abuse, pain, neglect and other negative reactions from their parents and loved ones.
Watch The Video Episode Here: https://youtu.be/Ibe8URc98J8
Read The Blog Post Here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/episode-8-valuable-insight-living-your-truth
Daniel didn't become a world champion horse rider and trainer by thinking defeatist thoughts. He tells us his personal story that led him to be the best in the world.
And you can be the best in the world of anything your heart desires, too.
Get your head in the game with some new thoughts.
Your thoughts tell you what you believe is true about yourself.
We want to give you the truth of who you are and what you can do.
Are you ready to manifest thoughts of a best life?
Watch the Youtube Episode Here: https://youtu.be/0TZij1_iRos
Read the Blog Post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/valuable-insight-episode-7-manifesting-thoughts
What is the meaning and power of independence? How can you create an independent life for yourself. Do you give your power to somebody else?
Daniel shares his story of co-dependence and how to learn and step back and be Daniel.
Watch the Youtube video: https://youtu.be/SZDOmKMm3Rs
You don't have to lose yourself in order to love others. Find out how you can love yourself while loving others.
Daniel and Leslie discuss happiness on today's episode on Valuable Insight.
"Happiness: What is it? How to get it? Where to find it?"
In this episode of Valuable Insight, Daniel Beavers shares the story of his secret marriage. This secret marriage that lasted five years led him down a road of loneliness and misery.
By the end of the marriage, Daniel felt that he had lost himself. He was determined to get back on a path of self-love. He realized that his definition of self-sacrifice was draining him of joy.
Watch the Youtube Video Here: https://youtu.be/3BJUmAsXl6Y
Read the Blog Post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/valuable-insight-episode-5-happiness
Our relationships are a mirror of personal self-concept. What is a self-concept? We talked about that in Episode 1: Enlightenment.
As you evaluate your surroundings, ask yourself a few questions:
- Do my close relationships bring the best out of me? Or, do my relationships bring the worst out of me?
- What do the relationships I have with others say about what I believe about myself?
- Do my relationships fill a void in my life or do they help fulfill my goals and mission?
- Do I rely on others for my sense of happiness? Or, do I allow others to rely on me for their sense of happiness?
Allow these questions to open an honest and realistic dialogue. Sometimes, we have to face the lies we tell ourselves. Sometimes, relationships distract us from our goals. Relationships can bring the worst out of us.
Watch The Episode on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/0tpRG5-K8JY
Read the blog post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/valuable-insight-episode-4-surroundings
Do you know who you are? Do you know what you are? Do you know what you want to be? Awareness serves an important function for making big life changes. Find out with me and Daniel Beavers how to use awareness to change your life for the better.
Watch the video episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/GQsjfYEWbas
Read the blog post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/valuable-insight-episode-3-awareness
Are your weaknesses something to feel bad about? Or are they worth examining? You might be missing an awareness of your greatest strengths.
On this episode of Valuable Insight, Daniel and I examine the concepts of strengths and weaknesses and how to make the most of them both.
Read The Blog Post Here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/valuable-insight-episode-2-strengths-weaknesses Watch the Youtube Video here: https://youtu.be/1ddtF-j4_6g
You are not your thoughts. The thoughts you have are not always yours. The process of enlightenment is the process of informing yourself without identifying yourself.
In this episode of Valuable Insight web series, Leslie and Daniel ask the questions: What does it mean to grow? What does it mean to be aware? What does it mean to be alive?
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApS69J_qUPw
Read The Blog Post here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/enlightenment-episode-1-valuable-insight
How do you find your truth? "Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." - William James
Think Happy podcast will release audio of the 24 episode Leslie Inc. web series Valuable Insight.
Valuable Insight is a web series developed in 2020 with Daniel Beavers and Leslie Juvin-Acker. Valuable Insight is a series showing the real time story about Daniel.
Daniel struggled with anxiety and low self-worth. He lived with experiences he didn't understand or could share. That is, until he met me, Leslie.
I helped Daniel make sense of his life and harness his power. Within a week, his whole life changed.
This program shows what happened and what Daniel learned. Find out how you can do it, too. Join Daniel and I as we share how to harness personal growth to transform your world.
Watch the Video Episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBBErkb4IQ4&t=7s
Do you experience anxiety, panic attacks, chronic illnesses? You may be feeling unsafe in your body. Learn how to recognize and let go of the feeling.
Read the full essay here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/signs-you-feel-unsafe-in-your-body
A true story of a near tragic accident taught me the lessons that can be learned from close calls.
Read the full essay here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/what-we-can-learn-from-close-calls
Are you too quick to judge? Do you let what you see determine what you think? Take my story of Romeo and Juliette as an illustrative example of letting false information get the best of you. Read Full Essay here: https://www.leslieinc.org/post/bad-judgement-calls-how-to-stop-judging-life-by-our-immediate-impressions
Do you see people all wrong? Do you judge them for their actions? Do you associate their character with how you feel? I know I did. Join me on this journey of seeing others with compassion. Read the full essay here https://www.leslieinc.org/post/how-i-saw-people-all-wrong
Join me as I tell the story of a dream that awoken me to all the times I've lied and lived lies. Free yourself from deceptive thinking and join me on the path of honest living. Read the full episode https://www.leslieinc.org/post/a-life-of-lies-having-the-courage-to-live-honestly
Do you sometimes wonder when you'll get out of a psychological rut? Wondering when you'll arrive to the other side? You're not alone. Here's my story of finding my way to emotional freedom.
My 18 year journey with Facebook comes to an abrupt end.
I share the reasons why I decide to "unfriend" Facebook and Instagram once and for all.
Read the full audio text at https://www.leslieinc.org/post/why-you-won-t-find-me-on-facebook