SecondWind with Joyce: Recent Episodes
Joyce Buford
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Sherianna Boyle is the author of nine books including her most recent Emotional Detox Now: 135 Self-Guided Practices to Renew Your Mind, Heart & Body. She is the founder of Emotional Detox Coaching and the Cleanse Method. She has over twenty-five years experience in the mind/body field, is an adjunct Psychology Professor and has published over eighty articles.
In this popular replay, Sherianna shares powerful insights on emotional detox and how prioritizing our emotions can lead to real, lasting change.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Reactions are ways we suppress, oppress, and repress emotions
- Sherianna's emotional detox program
- Healing comes from feeling, not reacting
- The "cleanse yoga" protocol
- The impact of movement on depression and anxiety
- All healing happens in the now
- Reframing anxiety
- Sherianna's books and her top recommendations for getting started
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Creating happiness is not as difficult as one might think. There are 31 types of happiness, and today's episode will inspire you to live a happier, more fulfilling life! This replay of a very popular past episode is just in time for the holiday season, which brings a wide range of feelings, not all of them happy ones.
Pamela Gail Johnson is the Practical Happiness Advocate. She founded the Society of Happy People in 1998, created the first three globally celebrated happiness holidays, and is the author of Practical Happiness: Four Principles to Improve Your Life.
She started her career working at Junior Achievement, then in the mental health and substance abuse field at the Hazelden Foundation. She was an award-winning salesperson for American Express and Staples, and now helps leaders and teams create happier workplace cultures through her speaking and programs.
She lives in Dallas. Her happiest moments are when she's spending time with her friends, and meeting other people who are aspiring to live their happiest life.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Why managing happiness is important for all aspects of life
- Top happiness zappers and what to do about them
- How to recognize the happiness in your life
- Current trends in happiness and why unhappiness is increasing
- How to bring stress levels down
- Setting boundaries in friendships that are draining your happiness
- Pamela's organization, The Society of Happy People, and how they serve businesses and organizations
FREE GIFT for listeners! Download the happiness counter with the 31 types of happiness here.
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Nobody is immune to chronic stress and burnout. Thankfully, there are many tools to support healing and recovery and resilience against future stressors. This popular replay episode with Erica Cuni is timely, as more and more people are experience burnout than every before.
Erica Cuni, known as "The Burnout Professor," is a stress and burnout expert, integrative performance coach, professional speaker, #SameHere PsychAlliance Expert, social media creator & fellow survivor. She teaches individuals & businesses how to consciously thrive through a holistic approach.
Erica is the founder of "The C.U.N.I. Method," which stands for Create Undeniable Natural Impact. She is a former Trauma Psychotherapist, Clinical Director, and Adjunct Lecturer and Clinical Professor at Central Connecticut State University. Her mission is to help make the mental health field more effective, accessible, decolonized, and non-stigmatizing.
Erica found her mission in 2014 after being hit by a Mack Dump Truck (literally) while driving to work and having her life fall completely apart over the following two years. This is what she had on her recovery journey - a roadmap that didn't pathologize her for doing her job, life events, her culture and the intergenerational trauma she was carrying around with her.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Erica's major life transition after being hit by a mack truck
- Erica's prior lifestyle of stress and overcommitment and how her car accident completely changed her health and life
- How Erica realized she needed something more than traditional talk therapy to help her heal
- How stress manifests in the physical body
- Erica's integrative approach to mental health
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While anxiety and depression are on the rise, there is hope for those suffering from mental health symptoms. This is a replay of a past popular episode featuring mental health survivor and advocate, Erin Kerry.
Erin Kerry is on a mission to empower those struggling with mental health issues not to be limited by a label or diagnosis. As a survivor of PTSD, depression, and bipolar disorder, Erin knows firsthand how living with a chronic illness infiltrates every area of life. She now works as an integrative nutrition health coach and studies functional medicine in an effort to provide hope and restoration for mental health.
What You'll Learn from This Episode:
- The epidemic of mental illness in our world today
- How fear keeps us in "fight or flight" and the impact on the brain
- Tools to support depression and anxiety
- The gut-brain connection
- How chronic inflammation impacts mental health
- Erin's story of healing from mental illness
- How Erin coaches men and women to find renewed health
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This is a replay of a popular episode in recent years which explores the power of neuroplasticity, the importance of understanding our brain's biology, and the potential for creating positive change.
Leigh E. Richardson has studied human behavior for over 30 years. Her initial focus was on organizational behavior then shifted to human behavior in 2003 after her son had a traumatic brain injury. Leigh has been in the ICU twice with brain injury and all of this fueled her need to understand how the brain works or why it doesn’t work. She can relate to brain dysregulation on a very personal level and she visualized what could be done for many others like her.
Leigh is the founder and clinical director of The Brain Performance Center, utilizing her MBA, MS, Counseling, and board certifications to offer state-of-the-art solutions for “brain problems.” She is currently taking her PhD in Psychology.
As a brain health expert, she regularly contributes to radio and television stations across the nation. Whether it is anxiety, ADHD, depression, insomnia, or brain injury, Leigh’s understanding of the brain and the different methodologies that can be used to organically change the brain is immense. And more importantly, they will provide the right solution for the problem.
Leigh is the author of Turn Your Brain On – To Get Your Game On, an international speaker, and a popular syndicated radio host. Leigh enjoys educating the general public on how the lifestyle choices and environmental factors impact brain health and the physiology and psychology of your mental state. She has a unique ability to connect with people, understand their situation, and win their trust.
Leigh gets inspiration from her friends, family, and clients. It is the positive change that she sees in others that motivates her to continue to learn. She just recently converted her upstairs office to an in-home art studio where she paints as a way to explore her creativity.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Leigh's personal history with brain injuries, both in her son who was struck by a car and in herself
- Leigh's background and expertise in brain performance
- How the stigma of mental health in the workplace is changing
- The impact of social media on mental health
- Success stories and the changing narrative of mental health
- Sleep and its importance for a healthy brain
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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This episode will make you rethink the way you think about authenticity and personal branding - that is, the way you show up in the world.
Laura Ballerini is a seasoned creative who has been running a thriving communications firm for over 20 years. During that time, she has become the “perspective shifter.” She is not defined by her design talents, but rather, how she applies unique solutions to client “pain points.” Through strategic communication, tactics, and seamless execution, solutions are inspired by a shift in thinking.
Author of The Green Velvet Chair, Laura has written a collection of heartfelt stories depicting how art and design influence and spur creativity not only in our work, but in our everyday lives.
Laura has a degree in Visual Communications from The Alberta University of the Arts and is a recipient of numerous awards. While she is a quiet and introverted executive, Laura has recently found her inner badass and radiates her “quietly fierce” disposition in her work and her life. Ballerini lives in Calgary, Alberta with her husband, two daughters, one son-in-law, a granddaughter, and a pretentious cat named Gooey.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Laura's journey of self-improvement and the realization that personal branding is based on inner values, not just external appearance
- Maintaining one's essence despite external changes
- Laura's achievements in visual communications
- Laura's experience of creating titles and covers for their book and seeking feedback
- Sources of inspiration for content creation
- The importance of authentic and relatable presentation style
- Laura's desire to connect with her audience
- Tapping into universal experiences through the book
- The power of joining a networking group and overcoming shyness
- What it means to embrace the tagline "let the quiet ones tell their stories"
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Today's episode dives deep into a topic that has become a national epidemic and affects countless families - dementia. Did you know that dementia is not a disease itself, but a group of symptoms affecting memory and behavior? Alzheimer's is the most common type, affecting over 70% of people with dementia.
Christiana Egi is an exceptional Dementia Advocate who brings a wealth of experience as a Registered Nurse, Diabetes Educator, Registered Natural Health Nutritionist, and Geriatric and Mental Health Specialist. In her endeavor to provide compassionate care for individuals living with dementia and their families, she has established Alexis Lodge Retirement Residences, memory care retirement facilities committed to person-centered and relational care for individuals living with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Dementia's definition as a group of symptoms affecting memory and behavior
- Different types of dementia, with a focus on Alzheimer's disease
- Christiana's early experiences with mental health in Nigeria and her realization of the global stigma surrounding mental health
- The absence of family involvement in dementia care facilities
- Difficulties caring for loved ones with behavioral issues
- The emotional toll on caregivers and the need for support
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This episode features Paula Munier, renowned author, editor, literary agent, and teacher. Paula dives deep into her passion for writing and shares invaluable insights on persistence and finding support within the writing community.
Drawing from her own experiences, Paula highlights the importance of joining a genre association and surrounding oneself with like-minded individuals. From her love for mysteries and classic authors like Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie, to her current work in helping authors refine and revise their first chapters, Paula's journey in the literary world is both inspiring and enlightening.
Paula also shares her unexpected foray into the world of yoga and how it transformed her life, giving her a newfound sense of vitality and purpose. Joyce and Paula discuss how her passion for writing and yoga intersect, ultimately leading Paula to become a qualified yoga instructor for seniors, including those with dementia.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Importance of persistence and support in the writing journey
- Paula's journey as a writer and editor
- How yoga has played a role in Paula's life and working with seniors
- Overcoming challenges and pursuing writing goals
- Writing techniques Paula uses
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Parenting is filled with challenges. This episode explores the power of parenting with consistency, compassion, and communication, with a focus on raising children who become brave, voice trusters, risk-takers, and problem-solvers.
Kiva Schuler is the founder of the Jai Institute for Parenting which has been training parenting coaches globally since 2011. Most importantly, she is mom to Myles and Charlotte, who inspired her journey toward her life’s work, which is to change the world by changing how parents parent. Kiva’s passion for parenting stemmed from her own childhood experiences of neglect and trauma. Like many of her generation, she had a front-row seat to witness what she did not want for her children. In many ways, Jai is the fulfillment of a promise that she made to herself when she was 16 years old - that when she had children of her own, she would learn to parent them with compassion, consistency, and communication.
Kiva is a serial entrepreneur and has been the marketer behind many transformational brands. Passionate about bringing authenticity and integrity to marketing and sales, she’s a sought-after mentor, speaker, and coach.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The impact of childhood experiences on parenting
- Creating joy and allowing children to fail
- Observing changes in parenting styles
- Parenting with authority, compassion, and effective communication
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Dana Killion had always struggled with sleepless nights and a deep sense of emptiness. One particular night, while living in a high-rise in Chicago, she found herself gazing down at Lake Michigan, envisioning what it would be like to walk into the water and disappear. It wasn't that she was suicidal, but rather, she felt lost and unsure of how to cope with her emotional emptiness. This moment became the catalyst for her transformative journey, though it wasn't the start of her story. Dana experienced a series of events that led her to this pivotal moment, and it was through writing her book that she chose to share her dramatic journey of self-discovery and healing.
An accomplished author of a mystery series, Dana Killion shares in this episode her debut memoir, Where the Shadows Dance: He Got Sober. I Got Broken. It’s a story born of a life in the turmoil of her husband’s alcoholism, a situation where the only way through was to write it. Women ready to find the strength and solace Dana has found through her own re-invention.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Dana's journey of finding courage and hope
- The silence women often face in protecting themselves and addiction
- Helping others through vulnerability and courage
- A transformative and dramatic moment in Dana's life
- The impact of addiction on relationships
- Discussing narcissism and addiction with a therapist
- Differentiating clinical narcissism from narcissistic behaviors related to addiction
- The constant suspicion, mistrust, and pressure in relationships with addicts
- Dana Killion's journey and book
- Themes of personal trauma in Dana's writing and resonance with other women
- Overcoming silence and finding one's truth
- The importance of sharing one's truth and ending silence
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Vanessa Kahlon is the founder of Kahlon Family Services School, a nonprofit organization that provides education for (K-8) along with resources and support to families with strong willed children, that some would call 2E (twice exceptional).
Vanessa is an experienced caregiver who has dedicated the past 25 years of her life to working with children. She is a Family Interventionist, offering comprehensive and individualized coaching and support regularly. Vanessa's natural ability to connect with and support these children quickly became evident, as families consistently sought her help. Despite occasional attempts to pursue different career paths, Vanessa's true passion always led her back to working with children who have autism. Her unwavering commitment and expertise have made her an invaluable asset in this specialized field, despite her occasionally strong opinions leading to challenges in maintaining employment.
YEAS YOGA (Yoga Education for Autism Spectrum) is an exciting and personal Yoga Curriculum for children that benefits Self-Regulation. Her book, "Shut Up and Parent" gives parents the tools for managing their kids' daily behaviors. She hosts the podcast, “Parenting With Vanessa Kahlon,” and lectures at numerous schools and organizations.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The importance of communication and relationship in parenting
- Discouraging the use of time-outs and instead focusing on building a strong connection with the child
- Emphasizing the need for parents to be present and engaged with their child rather than relying solely on teaching mode
- Encouraging parents to take breaks when feeling overwhelmed, rather than resorting to punitive measures like spanking
- Promoting self-care as a way to recharge and better handle parenting challenges
- Highlighting the importance of growth and evolution for the whole family, not just the child
- Emphasizing the need for parents to apologize to their child when they make a mistake, promoting a culture of growth and learning
- Recognizing that moderate use of technology is not necessarily a bad thing for kids and can even help with social skills
- Advocating for parents to understand their children's technology use and use it as a means of connection and teaching
- Providing parenting groups and workshops to support parents in getting their children back into school
- Initiating a study with a self-care journal to help teachers better handle classroom situations
- Acknowledging the difficulties faced by parents, particularly those who have to juggle multiple jobs or face financial struggles
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Lisa McCourt is a joy enthusiast and spiritual teacher who believes that at our core, we are beings of love and joy. Through her studies in comparative religion and various spiritual traditions, she has come to the realization that we are often conditioned to build obstructions that prevent us from recognizing our true joyful nature. This understanding has become the foundation of her work at Joy School, where she helps others identify and gently release these obstructions in order to reconnect with their inherent joy. Lisa believes that joy is not something to be found or created, but is already within us – we simply need to remove the obstacles in our path.
Lisa's books have sold over nine million copies, earned seven publishing industry awards, and garnered over 9,000 glowing Amazon reviews. She generously opens her comprehensive toolbox for joyful living in her newest release, Free Your Joy: The 12 Keys to Sustainable Happiness, which takes readers through a full year of vibration elevation practices guaranteed to sustainably elevate their Joy Setpoint.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The two paths to joy and manifestation
- The importance of finding joy and inspiration
- Uncovering and raising the "joy set point"
- Embracing all emotions and pursuing personal joy
- Listening to intuition and clearing limiting beliefs
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Lisa's newest book, Free Your Joy: The 12 Keys to Sustainable Happiness is available for preorder everywhere books or sold, or right here at Amazon.
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Kelly Lutman grew up in a military household, moving frequently and living in multiple countries as well as the US. She originally trained in accounting at Bentley College and UT El Paso, earning her CPA, but after starting a family, she chose to stay home to homeschool her sons. It was then that she discovered one of them had ADHD, and she has been fascinated by the power of food ever since resolving his ADHD by simply changing what he ate.
A health coach certified in Applied Functional Medicine, Kelly firmly believes that symptoms are the body’s cries for help, and that the body can heal when provided the building blocks it needs. She meets each client where they are, helps them understand what is happening in their body, and guides them in identifying the changes that will help them experience the vitality they were missing.
Her new book is called Thriving Through Cancer: A Whole-istic Approach for Your Journey.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Importance of nutrition and natural substances for the body
- Kelly's journey in health coaching and functional medicine
- Empowering cancer patients through nutrition and writing a book
- Prioritizing self-care and joy for well-being
- Understanding and supporting individual bodily needs in food practices
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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David Dennis is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Eckerd Connects, one of the nation’s largest nonprofits providing workforce development, Job Corps, juvenile justice, and child welfare services across the country. His book is called GAMENESS, Land on Your Feet, Not on Your Feelings.
Inspired by the word "gameness," which is not commonly used today but was prominent in the 1800s, Dennis explores its rich meanings and attributes in his book. The four defining characteristics of gameness that he highlights are a never-quit mindset, resilient purpose, a fighting spirit, and the will to act beyond one's feelings.
David has earned certifications as a licensed professional counselor, marriage and family therapist, and childcare administrator. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma Baptist University and a master’s degree in marriage and family counseling from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife Becky live in Clearwater, Florida. They have five grown children.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- David's personal story and background
- The importance of discipline and acting beyond feelings
- Cultivating a mindset of game and taking charge of circumstances
- Turning pain into power and bouncing forward
- Introducing the concept of gameness and its significance
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Escaping an oppressive relationship requires immense strength. On this episode, Kanchan Bhaskar shares a courageous story of her escape from a toxic marriage. Be inspired by her determination to regain confidence, independence, and the freedom to live life on her own terms.
Kanchan Bhaskar (Kan-chan Bhas-car), an Indian-American, is a first-time author of Leaving: How I Set Myself Free from an Abusive Marriage. She holds a Master's Degree in social work and a certificate in life coaching. She is also a certified Business Coach. Being a successful Human Resource professional, her expertise is in training and mentoring. She is a certified advocate, speaker, and coach for victims and survivors of domestic violence. Kanchan lives in Chicago.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The tradition of arranged marriages in India
- How Kanchan's marriage turned into a nightmare after marrying a narcissistic man
- How revolution and hope can bring change, even when it's hard
- Simple techniques to developing belief in self
- Finding joy within, spirituality, nature, self-expression
- How to encourage struggling friends
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Near-death experiences contradict the idea that there is no realm outside of what we can see on this earth. This episode dives deep into a fascinating new concept of heavenly bodies, and how physics and neuroscience bridge the gap between scientific discoveries and mystical experiences.
Joseph Selbie enjoys making the complex and obscure simple and clear. He is the author of Break Through the Limits of the Brain, how neuroscience supports spiritual experience, The Physics of God, a unification of science and religion, and The Yugas, a factual look at India’s tradition of cyclical history. He is known for creating bridges of understanding between the modern evidenced-based discoveries of science and the timeless experience-based discoveries of the mystics. A dedicated Kriya yoga meditator for nearly fifty years, he has taught yoga, meditation, and universal experiential spirituality throughout the US and Europe.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Description of bodies in heaven as coordinated images of light
- An introduction to M theory in physics, and how it offers a new view of reality
- How Selbie's work bridges the gap between scientific discoveries and mystical experiences
- The importance of meditation as a starting point
- How neurons in the brain communicate with the body
Links Mentioned in This Episode
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Patti DeNucci is an author and entrepreneur known for her expertise in networking. In 2011, Patti embarked on an empty nest project as her son was about to graduate from college. With a desire to share her thoughts on entrepreneurial success, she began writing a book. That book, The Intentional Networker: Attracting Powerful Relationships, Referrals & Results in Business, was dubbed a “success guide.” It earned excellent reviews, two prestigious book awards, and a community of enthusiastic readers.
Later, her focus shifted towards networking, emphasizing quality over quantity. Patti believes that effective networking doesn't require constant socializing and superficial connections. As an ambivert, she values enjoying her interactions and leaving them energized rather than drained. Patti's book, More Than Just Talk: The Essential Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Enjoy Better Conversations, offers practical advice on how to network better, making it a valuable resource for professionals seeking to enhance their networking skills.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The importance of asking open-ended questions
- The value of conversation and connection
- Improving social intelligence
- The power of networking
- How to have more meaningful conversations
- Networking and "conversational salons"
- Finding joy in the midst of hardship
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Does clutter got you down? In this episode, Julie Ann Segal, interior designer and feng shui expert, sharing her secrets to creating spaces that make us feel good. Julie Ann reveals how getting rid of unnecessary items and organizing drawers can bring ease and simplicity into your life.
Julie Ann, Interior Designer and President of Metro Interiors, is renowned for her deep commitment to providing clients with state-of-the-art design. Always on the cutting edge, Julie Ann’s dynamic approach is to utilize all resources within reach.
Eclectic to classic, modern to traditional – there is nothing she and her team will not do to create that “wow” factor that has exceeded clients’ expectations for over 3 decades. A certified feng shui consultant, Julie Ann infuses elements of the ancient art into all design endeavors, revealing environments rich in comfort, beauty and harmony.
For over 30 years, Julie Ann has enjoyed taking the stress out of making design changes. With her “Fun” Shui approach, she makes the design process simple and loveable. Listening to each client’s needs, she’s inspired in a unique way to choose colors, materials, fabrics, and art to create a new space. Trustworthy and dedicated, Julie Ann values relationships formed with clients and designs homes and businesses of their dreams. Her book, Change Your Space to Change Your Life, is available now.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Incorporating feng shui principles in interior design creates a balanced energy and promotes well-being.
- Decluttering and organizing spaces can have a profound impact on both physical and mental health.
- Utilizing the Feng Shui Baghwa grid and intentional placement of objects can help manifest specific desires in our lives.
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Mary Beth O'Connor has been sober from methamphetamine and other substances since 1994. She also is in recovery from abuse and trauma. The details of her story can be found in her memoir, From Junkie to Judge: One Woman’s Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction.
Mary Beth is a Director for LifeRing Secular Recovery. She also is a Director and Secretary for She Recovers Foundation. She develops relationships with organizations supportive of the multiple pathways approach, such as working on joint projects with Women for Sobriety.
Mary Beth regularly speaks about her personal story, on behalf of LifeRing and She Recovers, about multiple paths to recovery, and shares her expertise on other substance use and recovery topics. She's appeared on podcasts, radio, and television. She has presented keynotes and workshops at a variety of conferences and events.
Mary Beth writes opinion pieces and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Recovery Today, among others. She's also had numerous memoir writings published. Professionally, 6 years into her recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm in Silicon Valley, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014 Mary Beth was appointed an Administrative Law Judge. She retired early in 2020 and now devotes her time to her writing and recovery advocacy.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The interconnectedness of trauma and substance abuse
- Mary Beth's multi-pronged approach to recovery
- The challenges she faced in relationships during her recovery
- Debunking outdated ideas of substance abuse and addiction
- How Mary Beth went from substance abuse to federal administrative law judge
- How to combat the stigma of addiction and find hope and healing
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Terri Banner Fitzsimmons (TK Banner) is the author, motivational speaker, and best-selling author of four books. She has been in the field of education most of her adult life as a teacher of all grades, a Sociology Professor for twenty years, and director of an Independent Study Program, helping adults earn their diplomas. She won many awards, including being recognized for initiating a girl power group, developing innovative career strategies, and working for United Way, helping parolees find employment. She has worked with various Indian Reservations, homeless shelters, and the Cal-Works program at a local college. Her biggest passion is helping women achieve their passion for life, to break free of all the doubts they cling to that stop them from recognizing their worth.
On this episode, TK joins Joyce to discuss the camp fire fire that took place in 2018. Terry shares her experience of buying a beautiful home in Paradise, California with her fiancee and staying behind to care for 6 children when others were evacuated during the fire. The conversation then transitions to the importance of teaching social skills to youth, as it is crucial for their success in university and beyond.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- TK's personal experiences of writing and career
- Traumatic experience of TK losing her possessions and how she dealt with it
- The importance of teaching social skills to youth, especially disadvantaged ones
- TK's experiences and thoughts on spirituality and meditation
- The importance of being authentic and not relying on possessions
- Writing tips and suggestions, including finding inspiration and sharing writing with trusted friends
Links Mentioned In This Episode:
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Rhonda Parker Taylor was born and raised in a small community in Texas. She came from a family of immigrants and was the first female to attend college in her family. Leaving behind her hometown and everyone she knew, Rhonda packed up her Mazda RX7 and headed to college. This was a huge adventure for her, as she had never lived outside of her community before. Despite the challenge, Rhonda was determined to succeed and make a better life for herself.
Today, Rhonda is best known for her study on emotional intelligence and as the multinational leader presented at the Union Global Compact Committee. She loves writing, consulting, and teaching. However, she has spent her business life encouraging others through career and academic development programs, including being a campus president for National College and founder of Intelligence Solutions. After years of assisting others in pursuing their dreams, Rhonda follows her passion for writing.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Rhonda's transition from leadership to writer
- How writing is therapy for Rhonda
- How to find joy in adversity
- How to teach kids to avoid envy and victimization
- The importance of travel to teach empathy and cultural appreciation
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Laura Black is a retired attorney, award-winning businesswoman, author, and speaker. She
conceived and co-founded one of the first temporary legal staffing companies in the U.S., moving on to become its CEO after it was acquired by a public company. The company emerged as the largest in the nation of its kind. She helps later-life women embrace their 2nd (3rd or 4th) acts through her speaking and writings. Her essays have appeared in The Baltimore Sun, Next Avenue, Kveller, Hadassah, and others. Laura validates the challenges of women with humor and affirmation. This episode discusses Laura's latest book, "Climbing Down the Ladder," which is about retiring and facing its challenges.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The retirement transition
- The importance of giving ourselves permission to acknowledge that we no longer have to prove anything
- The challenges and opportunities unique to retirement
- Mastering the transition to the next phase of life
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Pamela Gail Johnson started her journey towards creating the Society of Happy People 25 years ago when she was working in the self-help field for the Hazelden Foundation. She worked in publishing and at one of the treatment centers, attending conferences and teaching empowerment workshops. She couldn't help but wonder: "Why were there so few truly happy people?" This led her to start a newsletter, which eventually evolved into the Society of Happy People, an organization dedicated to promoting happiness and creating a community of positivity. Despite the challenges of printing and distributing newsletters in the pre-digital age, Pamela Gail was determined to spread her message and make the world a happier place.
On this episode, Johnson discusses her latest project, the "Happiness Unites Tour," which brings people together to bond over happy experiences. She also shares the first principle from her book "Practical Happiness: 4 Principles to Improve Your Life," which is that happiness is personal and everyone needs to find what makes them happy. Johnson also identifies five categories of "happiness zappers" and discusses how to manage them to increase happiness. She also shares her personal experiences with grief and how to navigate changes in life.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- What led Pamela to organize a Happiness Unites tour
- The first principle discussed in her book on practical happiness
- Happiness "zappers" and how to manage them
- How Pamela teaches others to break free from negative thought patterns
- Pamela's greatest source of joy
- How support groups like Pamela's can help people to navigate change in their lives
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Linked In | Instagram | YouTube
Angela Cody-Rouget, aka Major Mom®, used to have the keys to the nukes, but now she declutters and organizes homes with her teams of Liberators in three states, plus she has clients all over the world thanks to her skills at virtually organizing DIYers. Angela spent 14 years dedicated to serving her country in the US Air Force as a satellite control commander and missile combat crew commander. She attained the rank of Major and her husband nicknamed her Major Mom after their first child was born.
After her son was born in 2005, she decided military life and motherhood were no longer compatible. So, she left the military and created Major Organizers®, a residential organizing company. She has been building the Major Organizers brand since November of 2006. She was featured on the military episode of Shark Tank on February 5, 2016 and began franchising her concept in 2017.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Angela became "Major Mom" and started her organization business
- Why we become disordered
- How clutter can create more issues than you realize
- How to find peace in the midst of disorder
- Creating boundaries in your relationship with things
- Why you should stop buying things even if they're on sale
- How Angela experiences joy
- Tips to create more joy
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Angela's Virtual Organizing Service is $88 instead of $108 for a Power Hour with Major Mom if booked by December 31, 2023. Click here. Discount Code: Joy
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Rebeccah Silence is the world's leading coach for emotional healing and relationships. She was named the 2022 REDx Magazine Top Emotional Health and Relationship Coach for helping people heal from heartbreak so they can love and lead beyond anything that they thought was possible.
As a survivor of a childhood full of trauma and abuse, as well as being diagnosed with and surviving Stage 3 cancer while she was pregnant, she has powerfully supported countless leaders, teams, couples, and families to heal and process even the most intense of experiences.
An accomplished TV and radio personality with over a decade of speaking experience, Rebeccah is a groundbreaking voice in the space of healing and self-development, supporting millions of people to do the inner work to move through their healing and allow themselves to truly thrive.
Rebeccah offers clients, readers, and audiences a safe space to become aware of traumas, neutralize past events, release emotional burdens, create a compelling vision for the future, and reconnect with their spirits. She teaches us how to become our own healer, to love and trust ourselves, and to be our best for others and the world.
She is the CEO and founder of Inspired Results, LLC, based out of Denver, Colorado as well as the author of Coming Back to Life, host of the Healing IS Possible Experience and the Tougher Together Breakthrough Podcast, and the creator of The Emotional Survival Kit course.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Rebeccah's story of surviving abuse and trauma
- Her trauma recovery method that is changing lives everywhere
- The five emotions that we all experience
- How Rebeccah experiences joy
- Learning from our childhood and shaping adulthood differently
- How trauma impacts your physical health
Get Rebeccah's book, Coming Back to Life, A Roadmap to Healing From Pain to Create the Life You Want here.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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About five million Americans are adopted. It might be you or someone you know. Despite this, outdated misperceptions still persist. Forever Families Through Adoption works to demystify adoption through education and awareness.
Sam Karliner is a husband, father, and Ironman triathlete. He is also an adoptive parent and sits on the board of directors for the organization Forever Families Through Adoption. Through his Ironman triathlon races, he came to realize that there could be an even greater accomplishment in competing by using his races as a platform to help educate and inform others about adoption and help so many people create forever families.
In 2011, Sam began to wonder just how far he could push his body and mind in an endurance event. That led to his first Ironman race. While it was a fantastic experience, he saw other people share their journey of Ironman as a way to help raise awareness to a cause that was important to them. Since then, he has been raising awareness and education about adoption, specifically for the organization Forever Families Through Adoption located in Rye Brook, NY. He takes all his supporters along with him as he writes their names on the frame of his bike and uses their support as inspiration during a very long day of 140.6 miles.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Sam's connection to adoption
- Demystifying adoption and changing the perception of it
- How Forever Families Through Adoption works to create awareness and support for the adoption process
- How adoption has changed over the years
- What Sam has learned in his Ironman competitions
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Mindful forgiveness and paying attention to who we want to be in the world is essential to a healthy relationship with self and others. This episode tackles the topic of forgiveness and how to mindfully explore it through a different lens. Whether you are apologizing or asking for forgiveness, being mindful of your intention to create healing is key.
Los Angeles native, Kelly Browne grew up in the entertainment industry, and attended California State University Northridge - School of Cinema and Television Arts, earning a Master of Arts degree in Communication/Screenwriting. She was awarded the Presidential Medal for Personal Achievement in Screenwriting working in various acting, production and development roles in the Entertainment Industry. Her credits include the Academy Award-winning motion picture, Glory, the Emmy-winning series, Moonlighting, Malcolm & Eddie as well as many others.
Kelly is the go-to gratitude expert on thank-you note etiquette for adults and kids. She is also the author of the bestselling book series, 101 Ways to Say Thank You with her fifth book, 101 Ways to Create Mindful Forgiveness: A Heart Heart-Healing Guide to Forgiveness, Apologies, and Mindful Tools for Peace, already out now. Her advice has appeared in Parade, The Wall Street Journal, eHow, Tinyprints, and Jezebel—among many others—along with TV and podcast appearances. A mother of two, her mission is to spread the “magic of gratitude” and how to heal the heart with “Mindful Forgiveness.”
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How a need for forgiveness is experienced in everyone
- How bitterness and grudge-holding gets in the way of forgiveness
- How to create mindful forgiveness in our lives
- The importance of finding joy in our lives
- Kelly's best-selling books and how she got started
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Linked In
After moving to Malta with her family during the 2020 pandemic, Emily A. Francis learned insider secrets to one of the healthiest lifestyles in the world. Now she shares these insights so that you too can improve your wellness and invigorate your spirit.
The Taste of Joy shows you the importance of living simply, mindfully, and naturally while nourishing your body and soul. Discover your own path to happiness as Emily recounts eye-opening experiences with a country and culture that made her come alive. Using food as a metaphor for life, this book highlights local methods for harvesting and cooking while exploring Mediterranean values. With Emily's pearls of wisdom and a handful of recipes, you can get a taste of bliss and create a life you can relish instead of simply endure.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The reason Emily and her family left the United States to move to Malta
- Why Emily chose to live in a country without genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
- What makes Mediterranean living different in terms of health and wellness
- How Emily experiences joy
- Emily's three tips for creating more joy
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Change starts with the mindset to do it. So many people get stuck and blocked to make changes, but a mindset change is necessary for sustained change. This episode covers what is blocking your ability to make changes and how to create a mindset of success.
Zoilita Grant has been involved in human development for over forty years. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1971 with a BA in Psychology and got her MSW from UTEP in 1979. She had the privilege of managing two nonprofits, a YMCA in El Paso, TX and a Drug and Alcohol program in Bellefontaine, OH. Besides a short time as a Drug and Alcohol corporate trainer, her entire professional life has been private practice. She worked for over twenty-five years as a psychotherapist specializing in hypnosis, and has been a hypnotic coach for the last twelve years. Her desire to serve both her peers and the general public led her to help form the Colorado Association of Psychotherapists. She served as president for six years. She also served as vice-president of the American Council of Hypnotists for twenty-one years. She offers certifications as hypnosis professionals and products for them and the general public.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Five keys to changing your mindset
- The blocks that keep us from becoming a success
- How to keep a mindset of success
- Zoilita's program for success coaching and what it entails
- A time Zoilita felt joy
- Tips to creating more joy in your life
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Linked In | YouTube
Practicing intentionality is difficult in a world of multitasking. In this episode, author Melinda Salisbury shares how she has created more inspiration and joy in her life by being more intentional and practicing her word of the year, presence.
Melinda Salisbury is an author who lives on the southeast coast of the UK, though she grew up in the country. She says, "It was always a dream to live by the sea, and it's everything I hoped it would be." She writes full time, a mixture of young adult fantasy novels and almanacs for city-based people. She writes for people who desperately want to forge a connection with nature, but live in cities, or flatshares, and don't have easy access to outdoor space. The almanacs help people build a realistic and sustainable connection with nature, without traveling out of town or spending loads of money.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Melinda got started as an author
- Melinda's transition from country to coast, and her love for travel, including her upcoming trip to Texas.
- The inspiration behind Melinda's works of fiction.
- How Melinda brought nature into her work and almanacs.
- How her word of the year, presence, has brought more joy into her life
- Tips to create more joy
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Twitter | Instagram | Linktree
Many people want to have a deeper understanding of the way God works through people. Understanding spiritual gifts and the way they show up is one way to learn more about God's work in the world. This episode tackles the topics of spiritual gifts and how to use your gifting to impact the world.
Blessed at a very early age with the gift of the Holy Spirit, Kathleen Bright found she had the gift of wisdom, faith, word of knowledge, healing, prophecy, and discerning of spirits. Within these gifts, she was also given the gifts of being intuitive, a medium, psychic, clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, and the ability to see auras, channel, and astral travel.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Kathleen began her spiritual journey sharing her gift as an intuitive
- What Kathleen defines as a spiritual journey
- The different spiritual gifts we are given from the Holy Spirit, and the ones we don't commonly talk about
- The personal transformation Kathleen experienced that led her to using her spiritual gifts
- How Kathleen experiences joy in her life
Connect with Kathleen via email by clicking here.
Heather Creekmore writes and speaks hope to thousands of women each week inspiring them to stop comparing and start living. Her first book Compared to Who? encourages women to uncover the spiritual root of body image issues and find freedom. Her latest release, The Burden of Better, offers women a journey into the depths of God's grace to find a way off the treadmill of constant comparison.
Heather is on a mission to help women uncover the spiritual roots of their body image and comparison issues. Her podcast tackles these tough topics through the lens of the gospel. Heather is best recognized from her appearance as a contestant on the Netflix hit show, Nailed It --and her blue bake-fail of a cake was the icon for the show for several seasons.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- Heather's work and writing as a body image coach
- How the struggle with body image starts at a young age, and is getting younger and younger
- The spiritual aspect of struggling with body image
- How Heather coaches women who struggle with the size of their bodies
- The way dieting trends have changed over the years, leading to a "schizophrenic relationship with food."
- How body image issues impact men
- Information on Heather's podcast and two books, plus the new ones coming out
- Heather's joyful moment, and three tips to create more joy in your life.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Take five days to transform the way you think about body image and kickstart your freedom journey: 5-Day Body Image Email Challenge
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Kathy Sparrow is an award-winning author, ghostwriter, and publishing consultant who has mentored aspiring non-fiction, fiction, and poetry writers for over two decades. Known as a “behind-the-scenes secret weapon” to thought leaders, Kathy specializes in the areas of self-development, leadership, and memoir.
She’s also an avid fly fisher and penned The Whispered Teachings of Grandmother Trout, touted as the feminine version of A River Runs Through It. She is co-author of the children’s books, Stanky & Cece: Break the Rules (2022) and Stanky & Cece: Out of Control (2023).
She has ghostwritten books and blogs on the topics of banking, personal growth and development, memoir, and leadership, including The Precipice of Life: Leadership and Personal Growth Insights from a Mountaineer’s Edge.
Kathy believes that our stories hold the power to heal and transform not only ourselves, but also our families, our communities, and the world. She’s dedicated her life to holding space for those who wish to embrace their calling to write, share their wisdom with others, and guide aspiring writers through the writing and publishing process.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Taking the first step to overcoming your fear
- Background on her book, The Whispered Teachings of Grandmother Trout
- How to take the first step to begin writing
- How to schedule time for writing, but also time for inspiration
- The importance of building an author platform
- The moment that brought her joy and her tips to building more joy
Special offer for listeners: Schedule an exploratory call to learn more about Kathy's year-long writing program here.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Linked In | Instagram | YouTube
Longevity studies show that it's important to eat well, move your body, and manage stress. But what are the best ways to do that? This episode shares all the latest and greatest on aging well!
Patricia Greenberg is known as The Fitness Gourmet. She is an expert in all aspects of living life to the fullest at any age. As the creator of Eat Well, Live Well, Age Well, she consults, teaches, and hosts a weekly YouTube show, and speaks at seminars nationwide. She has a special interest in enhancing the education of the general public, and providing accurate health information to today’s consumer. Passionate about wellness for life, Patricia completed 20 marathons and 115 half marathons, and loves the sport of tower climbing, having conquered buildings all over the country. Married with a grown daughter, in her downtime she is an avid reader and knitter.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The latest science of aging well and longevity
- The best steps to take for wellness and longevity
- Ways to support balance as you age
- The importance of asking for help when you need it
- The most important inteventions for health that you can start today
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Shai Tubali is a believer in making deliberate drastic changes in life every now and then in order to keep the mind young - and to live several lifetimes in just one lifetime.
He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is an international teacher and author. Five years ago, he felt that spirituality wasn’t enough to satisfy his intellectual passions. He completed a Master’s Program in Philosophy and followed that up with a PhD in the Philosophy of Mysticism. He has dedicated many decades to developing medically proven methods of therapy and self-empowerment, which he details in this episode.
Shai’s newest book, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Meditation is available now.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- The rising issue of screen addiction
- How prayer and meditation are the same practice
- The moment Shai discovered his greater purpose
- How meditation works in different ways to benefit us
- Tips to create more joy
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Preslee Marshall is twenty-five years old with a story to tell. She had minor health issues prior to 2020, but from the start of the pandemic until now, she has been diagnosed with seven to eight conditions - all of which are either very chronic or have no cure. She experienced a diagnosis of fibromyalgia after spending years searching for answers to her health issues with no solution. She describes her experience as medical gaslighting, and writes about her story in this article.
Preslee lives in in Winnipeg, Manitoba. When she’s not busy managing her business, Preslee is traveling the world and unlocking new opportunities for her future.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The definition of gaslighting and how it applies to medical treatment
- Preslee's story experiencing many mystery symptoms and never any clear answers
- The importance of advocating for your health
- How to know you are being medically gaslit
- Populations of people who are more likely to face medical gaslighting
- What to do if you feel like you are being medically gaslighted
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Michelle Gladieux (Glad-ee-oh) is author of Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges. She is also President of Gladieux Consulting, a Midwest-based team known for top-notch design and presentation of seminars in communication and leadership topics around the U.S.
Michelle provides executive coaching and facilitates strategic planning for clients in diverse industries, in governments, at nonprofits, and in academia. She has 18 years of collegiate teaching experience at three universities in her home state of Indiana, accepting her first adjunct faculty position at age 23. Her students (whether in introductory public speaking or graduate-level organizational psychology courses) benefitted from her deep commitment to helping others grow as communicators. She has worked as a Corporate Human Resources and Training Director in the cold storage, robotics, and construction industries and enjoys visiting conferences as a keynote speaker and workshop presenter.
She's served on several boards of directors including the National Public Radio affiliate in her hometown for more than a dozen years. Michelle has mentored thousands of people and her positive effect on those she advises is evident even after just one interaction. Her clients and friends are delighted that she's finally documented some of her best tips (AKA "Pro Moves") in Communicate with Courage. Please visit her company website, Gladieux Consulting, to learn more about Michelle.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Michelle's new book, Communicate with Courage, and the intent behind it
- Michelle's passion for communication and how it developed at a young age
- How to approach fear of communication with courage
- The four hidden challenges of communication
- Michelle's joyful moments
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Trauma impacts everyone, so it is important to be able to have honest conversations about it in order to heal.
Randall Bell, PhD, is a sociologist and economist who specializes in disaster recovery projects. Dr. Bell has consulted in more tragedies around the world than anyone. He was retained for the World Trade Center, Flight 93, Sandy Hook, BP Oil Spill, Hurricane Katrina, the Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test sites, the Northridge earthquake, OJ Simpson, Jon Benet Ramsey, Heaven's Gate, and hundreds of other cases.
Dr. Bell’s investigations have taken him to 50 states and seven continents. In every case, Dr. Bell observed the emotional consequences and how some fared better than others. He was inspired to put his unique research skills to work and study the cycle of trauma.
Dr. Bell is the author of MeWeDoBe and the founder of Core IQ, a nonprofit educational foundation that provides free online training on life skills. He is certified through the Insight Prison Project to facilitate group discussions with victims and offenders at San Quentin Prison.
In his new book Post-Traumatic Thriving, Dr. Bell lays out the academic research and speaks freely about his trauma of being born with a congenital heart defect.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Dr. Bell's definition of trauma and his defining moment
- The importance of having difficult conversations
- His new book, Post-Traumatic Thriving, and the need for better discussions on trauma
- How some people are more resilient to trauma than others
- How to get through trauma without bitterness and anger addiction
- Dr. Bell's work with trauma victims
- Three tips to create more joy in your life, in spite of trauma
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Toby Dorr joins SecondWind for the second time to share more inspiration from her life lessons after aiding in a prison escape and landing in prison herself.
Having never had so much as a traffic ticket, Toby Dorr shattered her mold of perfection by helping a convicted murderer, a trainer in her prison dog program, escape in a dog crate from Lansing Correctional Facility. Her story is a lesson in perspective. Instead of focusing on everything she lost, Dorr made a conscious choice to use her twenty-seven months in prison as a period to reflect on her life, heal emotional wounds, plot a course for the future, and embrace the sisterhood of women she encountered behind bars.
Far from easy, her prison sentence was gut-wrenching and devastating. But a pivoting revelation during a stay in suicide watch gave her purpose and direction. Through her memoir, Living with Conviction: Unexpected Sisterhood, Healing, and Redemption in the Wake of Life-Altering Choices, Dorr takes readers through all of the heart-pounding, tear-jerking, heartbreaking, eye-opening experiences that touch the most primal human need, the need to be significant.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Background on Toby and her work as a trainer in the prison dog program
- How Toby got involved with a prison inmate and helped him escape
- Toby's turning point and what she learned from her time in prison
- The launch of Toby's new podcast and her seminars on shame
- How dark places are blessings in disguise
- Steps to creating more joy
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Book | Facebook | Instagram
Bill C. Potts is a five-time cancer survivor currently living with incurable cancer. He has written a book similar to What to Expect When You're Expecting - but for cancer. His book, Up for the Fight, How to Advocate for Yourself as You Battle Cancer, was inspired by a suggestion from the Mayo Clinic to turn his pain into purpose and to help others who are in the cancer club. Bill is the father of twin girls and a son. Married 32 years to his amazing wife Kim, Bill is a family man, entrepreneur and marketing executive.
Bill works hard to live a healthy, active lifestyle, including a healthy diet, exercise, prayer, and connecting with nature. He is an IRONMAN athlete, has run the Boston Marathon, and even Run Up the Empire State building. Bill has been limited in his activities for over two years due to his fight with cancer and his severely damaged immune system, caused by the chemotherapy. He has adapted by meeting friends outside whenever possible, recently taking up outdoor pickleball for socialization. The cancer journey has changed Bill's perspective on life and how he lives life in many positive ways. He is grateful to be alive and hopeful treatments will improve enough to someday cure his cancer.
Bill wrote the book while undergoing chemotherapy with the help of Page Two Publishing. The book gives him a purpose in his life as he tries to live a life of significance. It is available in audiobook form worldwide and wherever books are sold. The book and its mission are supported by the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson, and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. The book is already making a positive difference in the lives of cancer patients - with amazing testimonials being received often.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Bill's journey with experiencing cancer five times
- The importance of advocating for yourself and getting a second opinion
- Bill's defining moment in his cancer journey
- Why Bill decided to write a book for those enduring cancer treatments
- How he protects his immune health and adapts to life with a weakened system
- A moment that brough Bill joy
- Three tips to creating more joy in your life, even during a cancer diagnosis
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Tiktok | LinkedIn | YouTube
Christina E. Foxwell survived domestic violence, unfaithful behavior, intense rejection, and judgment. She is now the founder of Ignite Purpose where, over the past decade, she has supported leaders in their navigation of their teams and helped people find their purpose and flow. This has led to her supporting them in their own life-changing journeys to follow their passions, transform their lives, and grow into the people they were always meant to be.
Foxwell is the author of four books. Her first two works are children’s books on emotional intelligence, The Adventures of Oscar the Pufferfish: Owning My 'Pop' and The Story of Astra the Unicorn Finding Her Belonging. Her third book Grow Me is a guide to growth. Her latest book, The Glass Angel, is a powerful look into transformation change and perseverance.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Christina's personal journey and transformational moments
- The importance of learning to accept where you are in spite of your past
- Post-traumatic stress disorder and the effect on Christina's life
- How Christina escaped a violent marriage
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Entering midlife as a woman can come with difficult transitions. In this episode, you will learn from one woman’s journey into midlife and her passion to help support other women as they undergo major life transitions.
Jean Macdonald, aka “The Midlife Midwife,” is an author, educator, blogger, as well as love, sex, and gender expert. Jean believes that Midlife Women can change society and the world when they believe in themselves. She has created the New Midlife Woman Community to help them build a better lifestyle and lovestyle, which will fulfill them for the second half of their lives. She is the author of Love, Sex, and the Midlife Woman, and founder of the Midlife Butterfly Club. She has created an online course called How to Find Love in Middle Life with some help from the Game of Chess.
Jean worked in business and marketing for many years and then founded a multimillion business in the North West of England. Since then she has written many self-development books and run several education enterprises.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Jean became passionate about supporting midlife women
- The support groups and courses Jean offers midlife women
- How the midlife transition can be a transformation that you want it to be
- The loss of confidence midlife often brings and how to use it as an opportunity instead of a hardship
- Leaning into your feminine power
- Skills women have that are underrated
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube
Sally K. Norton should have been the picture of health. She exercised regularly; did yoga; and ate a well-researched diet chock full of wholesome, nutritious foods. She even had an Ivy League degree in Nutrition.
But her health was far from fabulous. She suffered from several physical and cognitive impairments including chronic fatigue, severe joint pain, and kidney problems. Doctors couldn't figure out why someone so young and “healthy” could be so unwell. Sally never imagined that her health problems could be related to her beloved health foods. After her career in health research and medical education ended due to her worsening condition, Sally finally connected the dots and recovered her health by lowering her oxalate intake.
Sally K. Norton, MPH holds a Nutrition degree from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her path to becoming a leading expert on dietary oxalate includes a prior career working at major medical schools in medical education and public health research. Her personal healing experience inspired years of research that led to her forthcoming book, Toxic Superfoods, which is available HERE and everywhere books are sold.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The health crisis happening in our country and how Sally is on a mission to help people heal with nutrition
- How Sally was eating all the foods she thought were healthy, yet she still struggled with her health
- What oxalates are and why you should avoid them
- How to know you're dealing with oxalate overload
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Gene Bennett is a twice-deployed Iraqi Freedom veteran who shares the gut-wrenching story of his time as a prison guard at a transitional internment facility, in his book, We Did Not Deserve the Crapper: The prison we entered but never fully left. This was the only prison in all of Iraq to house juvenile detainees. In this episode and in his book, he tells the story, of his journey in the Marines, his two deployments, and his PTSD diagnosis and recovery journey. With a diagnosis of PTSD from the VA, Gene Bennett explores and chronicles the kind of dysfunction that only war and family can inflict upon you.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Gene got involved in the Marines
- His two deployments and how things took a turn for the worse
- Gene's time in Baghdad in a juvenile detention center
- What he learned during times of imminent danger
- Gene's experience post-military life dealing with the VA and PTSD
You can download and read his incredible story here.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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How can we make this new year better than the ones before, not only for ourselves but for our families and those around us? What are some practical steps to make changes that stick? This episode featuring Sandra Beck will give you new tools to embrace a new year with a positive mindset.
As an Author, Coach, Speaker, Radio Host, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, Sandra Beck is as successful as she is busy. The single mother of two young boys has created a virtual empire of successful companies entirely staffed, managed and implemented using a host of virtual assistants and on-line resources. An active contributor and participant in many charities, Beck strives to make the world a better place for today’s and our future’s children.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
- How to end the year and begin a new one without stressing yourself out
- The importance of finding time to rest, even when you're busy
- How to set intentional goals that work for your lifestyle
- Prioritizing taking care of yourself like you do for the others in your life
- How to evaluate what is working, and what needs to change
- Creating a task manager that fits your needs
- How to recalibrate after an emergency situation throws off your plans
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
You can learn more from Sandra on any of her popular podcasts, including Motherhood Talk Radio, Military Mom Talk Radio, Coach Talk Radio, or Powered Up Talk Radio.
In this solo episode, Joyce Buford reflects on the meaning of the holiday season, sharing encouragement from one of the classic Christmas carols by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day:
"I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace of earth, good will to men."
Happy holidays to all the listeners!
Isn’t it fun to EXPRESS your truest self outwardly... to SHINE brilliantly... and LIVE unapologetically?
Gina Vincent is a Life Artist & the creator of Exquisitely Aligned, a movement designed to shatter mundane thoughts & mediocrity, one that champions the voice of your soul to be expressed fully, your deepest desires to be embraced, and your gifts to be divinely expressed.
In 2009, while her husband lay fighting for his life with kidney and liver disease, Gina was fighting the collective conformity of their local hospital, the doctors, and their rules. Gina turned inward & took an unwavering stand. She stood 100% for Mark’s unlived, amazing future life. Here, she discovered her 3-step strategic solution to live Exquisitely Aligned. Her goal is for you to make YOUR unique difference in the world. Gina believes the world is missing what ONLY YOU have to give.
Gina shares hacks to help elite, professional, & ambitious women find their missing piece in life, allowing them to escape the one-size-fits-all paradigm, and freeing them from the judgment that comes with up-leveling their life. She shares practical tools to remove the guesswork in finding their true destination with shortcuts along the journey. She’s known for her relentless positivity, creating safe spaces, & moving others to action. She took adversity and transformed it into discovery and creativity.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Gina's husband's battle for his life was the turning point in her own
- The journey to health that led Gina to her program, Exquisitely Aligned
- Gina's program and how she incorporates unique gifting of the individual
- Gina's three keys to living exquisitely aligned
- The growth process as part of the journey to alignment
Gift for Listeners: Journey into what's possible for you - Guided Visualization & Meditation
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | LinkedIn
Our busy, modern lifestyles often leave very little room for the natural world. Sometimes, all it takes is a little creativity and a personal awakening to bring the outdoors to our modern life.
Melinda Salisbury is the four-time Carnegie-nominated and bestselling author of multiple young adult novels, including the Sin Eater's Daughter series, the State of Sorrow duology, Hold Back the Tide, and Her Dark Wings, a Guardian Children's Book of the Year 2022 and a The Reading Agency Book of the Year 2022 pick.
Her first novel, The Sin Eater's Daughter, was the bestselling UK YA debut novel of 2015, and collectively her books have been nominated and shortlisted for numerous national and international awards and accolades, including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Branford Boase, the Edgar Awards, the 2016 and 2019 and 2021 Carnegie medals, YALSA Best YA 2022, Eason's YA Book of the Month, and more. Her books have been published in fifteen countries, to date.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Her journey as an author
- How her love for nature allowed her to get back in touch with it as an adult
- How Melinda started growing food right where she was, on her windowsill
- The types of books Melinda writes as a way to offer hope for young people
- What is coming up next for Melinda and her writing
Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Website | Instagram
Life often brings multiple forks in the road. What unravels is due to expectation and choice and planning to deal with risk and change. Today's episode focuses on one woman's journey to choose to soar through life.
A sassy South African native transitioned to a proud citizen of New Zealand and now happily domiciled in Australia, Kelly Markey's life and knowledge has touched and conveyed remediable to souls globally. Kelly is passionate about making a difference in the lives of others and see herself as a channel - a conduit for insights, lessons gleaned and inspiration. Markey has over 30 years of professional experience in health IT, including working internationally in 5 different countries for major world gorillas.
Kelly has inspired and supported thousands of people to navigate their own pivotal life moments. Kelly champions awareness towards making an excellent brand by transforming your mindset. Kelly consciously works to reduce the trauma and ignorance that surrounds racism and discrimination by prompting healthy conversations that matter.
As an international bestselling author Kelly has been tagged a Renaissance woman and appeared on several international radio stations and newspapers including three magazine cover futures. Kelly Markey has been inundated with request from a global reader cohort to write another book - countless people from around the globe have awoken to a vibrantly alive and restored life after reading Kelly's debut book "Don't just fly, soar." She has an advantage of speaking five languages and fellowship being with a broad spectrum of demographics from around the world. Kelly is a paragon that is confident and exhibits solid boundaries both in her professional and personal portfolio.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The life changes and choices that led Kelly to who she is today
- How the Covid pandemic led Kelly to writing her memoir and sharing her experience with others
- The global impact of her best-selling novel and how readers have responded
- The importance of learning from those who came before us
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram
We only have so many heartbeats in this life, and women can design the life they desire one heartbeat at a time. That is exactly what this episode will share.
As a two-time breast cancer and toxic relationship survivor, Stacey Aaron Domanico has a purpose and passion to help women personally and professionally to overcome obstacles in their lives and become the best versions of themselves BEFORE a catastrophe. She has over 25 years of leadership experience in corporate America for a Fortune 500 company where she learned that her passion was coaching and mentoring women. She left her safe corporate job to coach and mentor full time while
writing her new book Where Do You Spend Your Heartbeats?
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Stacey’s concept of spending your heartbeats and what it means
- Stacey’s defining moment of a second diagnosis of breast cancer and how that moved her to make changes
- The choices we make daily that create our lives
- What to do with overwhelming fear and anxiety
- How to make the hard decisions and tune into your body
- How to get rid of negative thoughts
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Instagram | Linked In
We often live tangled up with our past experiences, our limiting beliefs, and our states of stress. In order to bring freedom and healing, we need to untangle the knots that limit us. This episode features a new modality and inspirational story to do just that.
For the last twenty years, Angela McKinney has been helping people transform their lives - including her own. As a somatic guide and expert in addiction recovery, Angela created a unique approach to healing from life challenges called The Untangle Method. She is the author of a new book, Untangle: How to Create BIG Possibilities through SMALL changes, was released in October and can be ordered now on Amazon.
Angela was born in Tennessee. At age thirteen, Angela was disowned by her father and sent to live in Los Angeles, where she and her mother survived feeling lost without a home. At fifteen, after winning Star Search, it all became too much for her, engulfing her in a life of chaos and addiction. Her early adulthood recovery efforts have paved the path to help implement hundreds of complex recovery cases across the country. Angela uses humor as a tool to capture the insanity of survival states and highlights “the terror of success” not often spoken of.
Angela says, “I use evidence-based strategies to empower disenfranchised addicts, CEO's, professional athletes, and stay-at-home parents to emerge from hiding and embark on successful living. Untangling builds creative resilience to realize your best life, even if there is a part of you that says you can’t.”
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Angela's background and the reason she decided to write her book about untangling the knots in your life to bring freedom
- Why survival states are difficult to untangle and the three step process of untangling
- The defining moment that changed Angela's life
- The steps people should take when they want to dig into what's underneath the survival state
- Tools to transform trauma or "stuckness" and redefine it
- How the healing journey is ongoing
Bonus for listeners: Learn How to Untangle the Noise and Find Your Pathway to Freedom: A free audio from Angela to learn the 3 steps that will change your life fast. Download here.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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Blessed at a very early age with the Gift of the Holy Spirit, Kathleen Bright found she had the gift of wisdom, faith, word of knowledge, healing, prophecy and discerning of spirits. Within these gifts she was also given the gifts of being intuitive, a medium, psychic, clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient and has the ability to see auras, to channel and astral travel.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- How Kathleen cultivated her gift of intuition and prophesy from a young age
- How she bridges the gap for those who are unsure that gifts of sight can be used in the religious community
- Defining moments that helped her realize her gift
- How to lean into a healing spiritual journey
- A guided meditation to help decrease stress and anxiety
Hormonal imbalances can wreak so much havoc on mental well-being. Being able to advocate for yourself and find treatment that is right for you is more than half the battle. Today's episode with Andrea Jones digs into how to get to the root of hormone symptoms and find whole body balance.
Andrea Jones is an RN, BSN and Functional Hormone Coach. She works with women all over the world to get rid of their painful periods, mood swings, irritability, fatigue, insomnia and perimenopausal symptoms...naturally!
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Andrea's struggle with hormonal imbalances and why she's on a mission to help other women who struggle
- The importance of advocating for your own body and finding what is normal for you
- Andrea's unique program that supports women
- What the liver has to do with hormone health, plus other contributors to hormone balance
- How menopause and perimenopause influence mental health and what you can do about it
- Why birth control and hormone replacement
therapy don’t work for many women - What are the biggest contributors to hormone
imbalances
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram| YouTube
Parenting can often create a strain and added stress to relationships. It's important to be able to co-parent in a healthy way, while also maintaining self-care practices.
Eli Weinstein is a Social Work Therapist (LCSW) who has worked in a psychiatric hospital and intense outpatient clinic, and currently runs his own private practice in New York and Nevada. He is married to his wife Ariella and has two beautiful children, Rikki and Max, and lives in the sunny Las Vegas.
He created ELIvation, The Dude Therapist Podcast, and became a therapist to fill a need and create a modern outlook on mental health by creating a more digestible and relatable view on mental health to help those in struggling times, and add some extra inspiration and motivation into everyday life.
Eli has been featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Trauma Therapist, Mimosas With Moms, Holding Space, Breaking Taboo, Therapy Thoughts w/ Tiffany Roe and on multiple podcasts ranging from parenting, relationships, mental health and infertility. His main goal is to help people on their journey to add support, care, empathy, expertise, and insight. He runs events, seminars and individual coaching on topics from mental health awareness, public speaking, coaching, relationship coaching and confidence boosting.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Eli's work with couples and how to address relationship stress that is based on past hurts
- Parenting in the modern age and how it is different from past parenting philosophies
- How to co-parent in a healthy way
- How to keep relationships healthy while being a parent
- How to care for yourself daily
- Parenting with joy and fun
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Instagram
Parenting can often create a strain and added stress to relationships. It's important to be able to co-parent in a healthy way, while also maintaining self-care practices.
Eli Weinstein is a Social Work Therapist (LCSW) who has worked in a psychiatric hospital and intense outpatient clinic, and currently runs his own private practice in New York and Nevada. He is married to his wife Ariella and has two beautiful children, Rikki and Max, and lives in the sunny Las Vegas.
He created ELIvation, The Dude Therapist Podcast, and became a therapist to fill a need and create a modern outlook on mental health by creating a more digestible and relatable view on mental health to help those in struggling times, and add some extra inspiration and motivation into everyday life.
Eli has been featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Trauma Therapist, Mimosas With Moms, Holding Space, Breaking Taboo, Therapy Thoughts w/ Tiffany Roe and on multiple podcasts ranging from parenting, relationships, mental health and infertility. His main goal is to help people on their journey to add support, care, empathy, expertise, and insight. He runs events, seminars and individual coaching on topics from mental health awareness, public speaking, coaching, relationship coaching and confidence boosting.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Eli's work with couples and how to address relationship stress that is based on past hurts
- Parenting in the modern age and how it is different from past parenting philosophies
- How to co-parent in a healthy way
- How to keep relationships healthy while being a parent
- How to care for yourself daily
- Parenting with joy and fun
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Instagram
The loss of a child is unimagineable, devastating pain. Today's episode focuses on overcoming loss and moving forward to live a full life.
Cathleen Elle is a #1 International Bestselling Author, Transformational Speaker, Suicide Loss Expert, Master Certified Success Coach and Healer, and Podcaster. Cathleen shares powerful healing techniques for parents who have been shattered by suicide to redesign their life and connect to their inner joy and redefine their experience.
She has coped with multiple traumas, but the death of her 19-year-old son from suicide was the catalyst that changed her life forever. Today, she assists in changing the trajectory of parents’ lives by providing the tools that aid them in moving through the emotions accompanied by complicated loss and challenging experiences.
After 25 years of political service and extensive experience as a suicide awareness advocate, Cathleen is now a global speaker and healer who has been featured on national media outlets including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, as well as ModernMom, Authority Mag, and Pop Culture. Top podcasts and radio shows within the emotional wellness space has featured her as the expert in suicide loss.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The devastating loss of Cathleen's son to suicide and the defining moment that occurred after.
- The healing journey Cathleen stepped into after her son's transition.
- The journey of grieving and the step by step process
- The importance of self-forgiveness after tragic loss
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube
The loss of a child is unimagineable, devastating pain. Today's episode focuses on overcoming loss and moving forward to live a full life.
Cathleen Elle is a #1 International Bestselling Author, Transformational Speaker, Suicide Loss Expert, Master Certified Success Coach and Healer, and Podcaster. Cathleen shares powerful healing techniques for parents who have been shattered by suicide to redesign their life and connect to their inner joy and redefine their experience.
She has coped with multiple traumas, but the death of her 19-year-old son from suicide was the catalyst that changed her life forever. Today, she assists in changing the trajectory of parents’ lives by providing the tools that aid them in moving through the emotions accompanied by complicated loss and challenging experiences.
After 25 years of political service and extensive experience as a suicide awareness advocate, Cathleen is now a global speaker and healer who has been featured on national media outlets including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, as well as ModernMom, Authority Mag, and Pop Culture. Top podcasts and radio shows within the emotional wellness space has featured her as the expert in suicide loss.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The devastating loss of Cathleen's son to suicide and the defining moment that occurred after.
- The healing journey Cathleen stepped into after her son's transition.
- The journey of grieving and the step by step process
- The importance of self-forgiveness after tragic loss
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube
Andrew Hahn, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and second-time guest on the show. He comes back on the show to discuss relationships, what goes wrong, and what we can do to create healthier ones.
Dr. Hahn received his A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Social Studies/Psychology from Harvard University and his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann University. He is certified by Helen Palmer to teach the Enneagram and has also been a faculty member in the graduate Counselling Programs at Lesley University and Northeastern University.
While Dr. Hahn’s strong foundation and significant experience in traditional psychology has served his clients well, he has been untiring in his effort to better understand what is going on for people so that he could better help them live more contented and healthier lives. He is the founder of Life Centered Therapy.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How our relationships are shaped by our family of origin
- How to talk about talking in a healthy way
- How to have a better understanding of our partner
- The problem with "marrying the potential"
- Handling reactivity in healthy ways
- How to understand each other's individual personalities beyond our own interpretations
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website
Highly sensitive people, empaths, and over-givers can often find themselves on the edge of burnout. This can be rooted in childhood limiting beliefs and experiences that impact whole body health. This episode peels back the layers of what causes burnout and how to recover.
Anne Bérubé, PhD, (Nova Scotia, Canada) is a spiritual teacher with an uncommon ability to share her story and insights in a way that awakens the inner wisdom in others. She helps people free themselves from the societal and parental conditioning that is holding them back from realizing the highest calling of their soul.
Her work has also allowed her to share the stage with renowned self help luminaries, including bestselling authors Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Ken Robinson, Julie Daniluk, Anita Moorjani, Gabrielle Bernstein, Neal Donald Walsh, Dr. William Davis MD, and Gregg Braden. Her new book, The Burnout Antidote, is available now.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
- Anne's own period of burnout that led her to write her book
- How empaths, over-givers, and highly sensitive people are more prone to burnout
- The root causes of burnout, the limiting beliefs and childhood experiences that impact how we relate in the world
- Reconnecting with your essence and who you are
- Why we hold on to trauma
Gift for listeners: Start with Anne's free course "Decoding the Wisdom of Feel." Sign up here.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
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This episode focuses on life and loss from a different lens. Loss when viewed from the perspective of the soul is an opportunity to grow spiritually and connect with our inner guidance. This is a gift that allows us to live a happier and more fulfilling life in the future.
Ann Clark retired early from an academic and research career, most recently at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to go into private practice. Her main focus is stress management and spiritual health. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and the following certifications:
- Hypnotherapy - Association of Clinical Hypnosis
- Past Life Regression - Brian Weiss Institute
- Life between Lives - Michael Newton Institute
She is trained in Therapeutic Touch and is a Reiki Master. She is currently the Director of Research for the Micheal Newton Institute.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The concept of life between lives from the Michael Newton Institute
- The definition of the soul
- Past life regression using hypnotic trance
- How the Soul views life on earth and loss
- How to view trauma and grief from a different perspective
- Ann's experience losing her daughter to a drug overdose
- How to support healing after a great loss, and more about her book, Healing from Great Loss
Gift for Listeners: Ann is offering a $50 discount on Past Life Regression. Information on Past Life Regression can be found at her website.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook
Eating disorders affect at least 9% of the population worldwide, and close to 26% of people with eating disorders attempt suicide. Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental illnesses, second only to opioid addiction. This episode creates a conversation about the importance of awareness and finding healing through yoga as a therapeutic tool.
Jennifer Kreatsoulas is a certified yoga therapist specializing in eating disorders and body image. She is the founder of Yoga for Eating Disorders, the former creator and host of Real Body Talk, author of The Courageous Path to Healing and Body Mindful Yoga, educator, and mental health advocate.
Through her virtual school, Yoga for Eating Disorders, she offers individual yoga therapy, groups, classes, and continuing education and mentoring for professionals. Jennifer is dedicated to educating about eating disorders and guiding those affected to identify the strength in their story.
Her writing about her personal journey of eating disorder recovery and professional experience as a passionate yoga therapist has been featured in several publications and podcasts.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Jennifer’s history of anorexia and what led to her recovery
- The prevalence of eating disorders and the life-threatening danger for those affected
- How yoga played a role in Jennifer’s healing her relationship with her body
- How yoga creates a community of support for positive body image
- The difference between a yoga therapist and a yoga teacher
- How eating disorders manifest differently for different people
- Jennifer’s virtual school, Yoga for Eating Disorders
- Her new book, The Courageous Path to Healing
Bonus for listeners: Sign up here to receive 3 short Meditations for Creating Inner Calm plus Jennifer's monthly newsletter, Nourishing
Notes, for updates on upcoming courses, community programs, and more.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Linked In
Vanessa Cloke is known for her acting roles in "The Big Short," "The Walking Dead" and "American Horror Story," but she is also an abuse survivor and Founder of The Escaped Goat, an organization dedicated to reform psychological abuse laws, educate law enforcement, and end the trauma/abuse cycle.
The Escaped Goat’s driving objective is to Take Action, and waves the motto “GTFO, Heal, Take Action.” The Escaped Goat provides several proactive opportunities such as options to anonymously share personal stories or volunteer expert and professional services.
Vanessa's personal story of escaping narcissistic abuse is what drove her to start this organization. In this episode, she shares her story and her passion for awareness and reform of psychological abuse laws.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- Vanessa's personal story of abuse and how a TMZ story about her sent her world reeling
- How to know if you are in a psychologically abusive relationship and the warning signs to look out for
- The growing trends of psychological abuse and narcissism and why awareness is increasing
- Misconceptions with the label of narcissism
- How being in a narcissistic relationship is a wake-up call, and the struggle to find support
- Therapy that can be helpful in healing from abusive relationships
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
The Escaped Goat Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn
Patricia Greenberg, "The Fitness Gourmet," is an expert in all aspects of living life to the fullest at any age. As the creator of Eat Well, Live Well, Age Well, she consults, teaches, and hosts a weekly YouTube show and speaks at seminars nationwide. She has a special interest in enhancing the education of the general public, and providing accurate health information to today’s consumer.
Passionate about wellness for life, Patricia completed 20 marathons and 115 half-marathons, and loves the sport of tower climbing, having conquered buildings all over the country. Married with a grown daughter, in her downtime she is an avid reader and knitter.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How fitness and wellness were not fully part of Patricia's plan for her life until she started marathon training
- The defining moment that changed her life
- How her book is the "encyclopedia of aging well"
- Patricia's philosophy that life begins when you start to live it
- The realistic limitations we face when we age and how to pay attention
- The cause of many injuries as we age and how walking can help
- How resistance training can be beneficial for health
- How multitasking is one of the worst things you can do for your brain as you age
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Linked In
Healing and clearing past relationships is necessary to get past the old and make way for the new. Romance depression is not like a flu that should be allowed to run its course to have its way with you. It can be managed, shortened, and solved.
Gillian Harris is a Spiritual Advisor and because she specializes in Metaphysics and Conscious Creation, she's often used as an 'Intention Coach' by those who want to learn how to activate their own Alchemy.
She is a teacher of Conscious Creation techniques - how to use aroma, stones and crystals, colors, strategic thought and authentic emotion to manifest at will. She's a long-time Medium, Channel, Intuit, Ordained Minister (New Thought), Reiki Master and she holds a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology (2012 USM). She is an inspirational speaker and four-time published author. Based in Southern California, you can often find Gillian off-roading in the desert where she facilitates sound baths under the stars and guided world peace and CE5 meditations.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- We are more than physical beings, we are spiritual and emotional as well
- Past relationships can keep people stuck in grief and negative patterns
- The importance of following your emotional guidance system
- Evaluating core beliefs from childhood and how they play a role in who we are
- Healing from the past and learning from our current relationships
- What it means to be a "conscious cougar"
- Gillian's books and courses available on her website
Links Mentioned In This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Toby Dorr dared the unthinkable. She broke a convicted murderer out of Lansing Correctional Facility and found herself behind bars. Then she dared even more. Since completing her time in federal prison, she has achieved two master's degrees and rebuilt a broken life.
Featured in the Wall Street Journal, Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, Inside Edition, The Atlantic, and Dateline, she is a regular guest on podcasts, including the nationally-ranked podcast, Criminal.
A screenplay of her story is in the works and the Lifetime movie based on her story, Jailbreak Lovers, was released in July, 2022. Dorr created The Unleashed Series, imploring women through twelve-week programs to escape what confines them.
Through her memoir, Living with Conviction: Unexpected Sisterhood, Healing, and Redemption in the Wake of Life-Altering Choices, Dorr takes readers through all of the heart-pounding, tear-jerking,
heartbreaking, eye-opening experiences that touch the most primal human need: the need to be significant. Dorr’s memoir is an inspirational invitation to look upon life with self-acceptance and love.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Toby's background and the decision that landed her behind bars
- Toby's experience in prison and how she found freedom behind bars
- How writing supported Toby's healing journey
- Fighting back from the "Shame Dragon"
- How Toby worked on her Master's degrees
- How to escape your own emotional, physical, or spiritual prisons
- Overcoming victim mentality
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube
Toby Dorr dared the unthinkable. She broke a convicted murderer out of Lansing Correctional Facility and found herself behind bars. Then she dared even more. Since completing her time in federal prison, she has achieved two master's degrees and rebuilt a broken life.
Featured in the Wall Street Journal, Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, Inside Edition, The Atlantic, and Dateline, she is a regular guest on podcasts, including the nationally-ranked podcast, Criminal.
A screenplay of her story is in the works and the Lifetime movie based on her story, Jailbreak Lovers, was released in July, 2022. Dorr created The Unleashed Series, imploring women through twelve-week programs to escape what confines them.
Through her memoir, Living with Conviction: Unexpected Sisterhood, Healing, and Redemption in the Wake of Life-Altering Choices, Dorr takes readers through all of the heart-pounding, tear-jerking,
heartbreaking, eye-opening experiences that touch the most primal human need: the need to be significant. Dorr’s memoir is an inspirational invitation to look upon life with self-acceptance and love.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Toby's background and the decision that landed her behind bars
- Toby's experience in prison and how she found freedom behind bars
- How writing supported Toby's healing journey
- Fighting back from the "Shame Dragon"
- How Toby worked on her Master's degrees
- How to escape your own emotional, physical, or spiritual prisons
- Overcoming victim mentality
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube
In Salt Lake City, Utah, Diana Cannon Ragsdale’s family was a Mormon dynasty with ancestors who were contemporaries of Brigham Young—and they had many dark secrets to keep.
Growing up at the mercy of her mother’s depression and father’s undiagnosed schizophrenia, Diana and her five siblings were left to fend for themselves as their mom and dad rotated in and out of psychiatric hospitals and police custody.
This inspiring interview highlights Diana's experience growing up, and how she overcame her dysfuntional family history to rise above and move forward.
Diana Cannon Ragsdale is an author, retired physical therapist, and mental health advocate for survivors of abusive and dysfunctional families. Diana attended Utah State University on a dance scholarship and then several years later received her degree from the University of Utah. In retirement, she has dedicated herself to travel and creativity. Today, she lives happily in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is married and a mother of five and grandmother of eight. Loose Cannons is her first book.
A debut memoir like no other, Loose Cannons is a harrowing and hilarious saga spanning more than 60 years of multigenerational trauma and dysfunction—and the spiritual power it took to overcome it all.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Diana's family history of dysfunction and mental illness in a strict Mormon household
- Diana's parents' mental illnesses and how they were treated
- How Diana broke free from the constraints of her Mormon upbringing
- How it took Diana's third divorce to realize it was time to change her mindset and outlook
- The steps Diana took to break away from her past trauma and setbacks to start over
- The lesson Diana learned from her mother that led her to write her memoir
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Instagram | Facebook
August is Happiness Happens Month. Creating happiness is not as difficult as one might think. There are 31 types of happiness, and today's episode will inspire you to live a happier, more fulfilling life!
Pamela Gail Johnson is the Practical Happiness Advocate. She founded the Society of Happy People in 1998, created the first three globally celebrated happiness holidays, and is the author of Practical Happiness: Four Principles to Improve Your Life.
She started her career working at Junior Achievement, then in the mental health and substance abuse field at the Hazelden Foundation. She was an award-winning salesperson for American Express and Staples, and now helps leaders and teams create happier workplace cultures through her speaking and programs.
She lives in Dallas. Her happiest moments are when she's spending time with her friends, and meeting other people who are aspiring to live their happiest life.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Why managing happiness is important for all aspects of life
- Top happiness zappers and what to do about them
- How to recognize the happiness in your life
- Current trends in happiness and why unhappiness is increasing
- How to bring stress levels down
- Setting boundaries in friendships that are draining your happiness
- Pamela's organization, The Society of Happy People, and how they serve businesses and organizations
FREE GIFT for listeners! Download the happiness counter with the 31 types of happiness here.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Linked In
When we experience trauma and pain, whether emotional or physiological, we tend to start identifying with the issue itself, instead of asking what the issue is teaching us. This episode is a deep dive into the psychology of trauma and illness, and how to break free from the bondage of our current situation.
Andrew Hahn, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist. He received his A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Social Studies/Psychology from Harvard University and his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann University. He is certified by Helen Palmer to teach the Enneagram and has also been a faculty member in the graduate Counselling Programs at Lesley University and Northeastern University.
In 1997, Dr. Hahn developed the Life Centered Therapy Training program for those who want to facilitate and/or teach this process. Today, Dr. Hahn has a private practice in Waltham, MA; speaks, teaches and leads trainings and healing groups internationally; and continues his effort to better understand what is going on for people so that he can better help them live more contented and healthier lives.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- His work with trauma and Life Centered Therapy
- How not to identify with your trauma and life experiences
- What is life and the self at its core
- How trauma keeps us stuck and how to break free
- The physical symptoms we experience and what they tell us about our trauma
- Why is self-acceptance important and how to start accepting yourself
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website
For many writers, the call is deep within them, but they aren't sure what that process looks like for them or how to get started. This episode focuses on answering that call to write and follow where your passion leads you!
Kathy Sparrow is an award-winning author and leadership and empowerment expert, who has been mentoring aspiring writers of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry for over two decades. Her latest book, The Whispered Teachings of Grandmother Trout, is touted as the feminine version of A River Runs Through It.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- How Kathy pushed past criticism and answered the call to write
- Kathy's writing routine and how she gathers ideas and inspiration
- Kathy's love for fly fishing and how she integrated that in her latest novel
- Her journey writing The Whispered Teachings of Grandmother Trout
- Advice for writers wanting to get started
- Finding your purpose in your writing and moving forward
- What Kathy is working on next
Download a free excerpt from The Whispered Teachings of Grandmother Trout here.
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Linked In
Many women can spend their entire lives wrapped up in comparison and body image struggles. This week's guest aims to change that from an entirely different approach.
Heather Creekmore writes and speaks hope to thousands of women each week inspiring them to stop comparing and start living. Her first book Compared to Who? encourages women to uncover the
spiritual root of body image issues and find freedom. Her latest release, The Burden of Better, offers women a journey into the depths of God's grace to find a way off the treadmill of constant comparison.
Heather is on a mission to help women uncover the spiritual roots of their body image and comparison issues. Her podcast tackles these tough topics through the lens of the gospel. Heather is best recognized from her appearance as a contestant on the Netflix hit show Nailed It!, and her blue bake-fail of a cake was the icon for the show for several seasons.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Why Heather’s main focus is helping women break free from comparison
- Why Heather thought that being “better” was the key to fulfillment, but it wasn’t
- The problem with playing the comparison game
- Heather’s struggle with body image and disordered eating and how she broke free
- Freedom from body image issues doesn’t come from loving yourself harder
- The trap in constantly searching for the "ideal you."
Gift for Listeners:
Heather has a 5-Day Body Image Email Challenge free on her website. It's 5 days to transform the way you think about body image issues and kickstart your freedom journey!
Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
Laura Stack was best known in the business world for her professional moniker, The Productivity Pro. Her 30-year career as a keynote speaker, bestselling author of eight productivity books, and corporate spokesperson came to a screeching halt on November 20, 2019, when her 19-year-old son, Johnny, died by suicide after becoming psychotic from dabbing high-THC marijuana concentrates. Laura responded by forming the nonprofit, Johnny’s Ambassadors, to educate parents and teens about the dangers of today’s high-THC marijuana on adolescent brain development, mental illness, and suicide.
Her platform now brings education, awareness, and prevention curriculum to parents, drug prevention conferences, community groups, and schools to stop youth marijuana use. She is a powerful speaker who brings Johnny’s personal warning and solid research together in her new book, The Dangerous Truth About Today’s Marijuana: Johnny Stack’s Life and Death Story. Described as a force of nature with unstoppable drive and unwavering purpose, Laura is determined to get teens to #StopDabbing.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Laura's personal story and how she founded her non-profit, Johnny's Ambassadors, in honor of her son
- What parents need to know about today's high-potency THC, and terminologies like "gateway drug" and "dabbing."
- What Laura has learned that has renewed her purpose to make a difference
- Laura's book and the curriculum she helped develop for middle and high school students
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When life throws punches, there are strategies to kick back, and that is exactly what this episode is about.
Jennifer Cassetta is a nationally recognized speaker, empowerment coach and self-defense expert. Equipped with her 3rd Degree Black Belt in HapKiDo, Master’s Degree in Nutrition, and health coaching certification, she develops programming that helps women feel strong, safe and powerful from the streets to the boardroom. With clients that include American Airlines, British Airways, Del Monte, Nike, Uber and UBS, Jennifer has rocked over one hundred stages across the country with her superpower combination of engaging content and contagious enthusiasm.
Her skills have been featured on The Today Show, The Doctors, Rachael Ray and she was a featured expert on ABC-TV’s My Diet is Better Than Yours. Her new book, The Art of Badassery: Unleash Your Mojo With Wisdom of the Dojo, will be found on bookshelves everywhere in August, 2022.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Jenn's traumatic experience being three blocks away from the World Trade Center on 9/11/01 and how it led her to martial arts
- The purpose of Jenn's new book, The Art of Badassery, and the approach to life through lessons from the dojo
- How to "embrace the suck," and push through the hard things
- How to learn to pivot and change direction, and make the ultimate comeback
- The importance of blocking negativity and communicating boundaries
- Finding power in body language and tone
- How meditation plays a role in Jenn's life
- The importance of learning self defense
- The purpose of her book, The Art of Badassery
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It is never too late to unlock your creativity and invite more joy and playfulness into your life. This episode is a great reminder of the importance of connecting with your creative side.
Shannon Grissom is an award-winning artist, television producer/host, author, and songwriter, and she just launched an online creativity school called Painterly. Learn more about her work with sock monkeys at sockmonkeyoracle.com.
Shannon didn't discover painting until she was 33, but once she discovered this hidden passion, she was hooked and driven. By 1999, Shannon was able to leave her day job and began to create art as a full-time business. At 46, Shannon self-published her children’s book Monkey Made of Sockies, along with a line of licensed merchandise, including a coloring book and the popular Monkey Made of Sockies golf club headcovers that have been carried on tour by several LPGA pros.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How the sock monkey got started, and how Shannon's career in painting didn't start until her 30s.
- The common thread in all of Shannon's creative work
- The oracle cards Shannon makes and how to use them as daily reminders
- The affirmations and how Shannon's affirmation cards are unique
- The importance of play in daily life
- How Shannon's oracle cards have helped people overcome obstacles
- How the creative process has been helpful for Shannon in releasing her limiting beliefs
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Genevieve Piturro is the founder the non-profit, Pajama Program, which this year celebrates its 21st anniversary, having delivered more than 7 MILLION magical gifts of new pajamas and new books to children through their 63 chapters across the U.S.
Genevieve is a professional speaker and purpose consultant. She shares life and leadership lessons from her award-winning bestseller, Purpose, Passion and Pajamas: How to Transform Your Life, Embrace the Human Connection and Lead with Meaning. The book debuted during the Covid shutdown to rave reviews as its message dovetails perfectly with our Nation’s growing interest in finding purpose.
Her TEDx talk: “1 Idea + The Human Connection = 7 million Pajamas” debuted at the same time. Her book awards include the NIEA 2021 Award, the 2021 NYC Big book Awards, a bronze medal winner in the Anthem Awards, and Distinguished Favorite in the Independent Press Awards.
With a deep understanding of how vital purpose and the human connection is in leadership, team building, and the bottom line, Piturro created the Purpose ACER business training program. The
program helps leaders create a shared culture by aligning the goals of the company and management with the goals of its employees.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How a conversation with a six year old girl transformed the direction of Genevieve's life
- How Genevieve's passion to help turned into a non-profit organization and support for businesses
- The steps to finding your true purpose
- How to reconnect after the disconnection of the pandemic
- What she hopes readers will learn from her book
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This episode changes the conversation about change and transformation. Navigating change is always difficult, but with the world going through so much collective change in the last two years, this conversation is even more important.
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino is the Chief Executive Officer of Compliance4, as well as the founder of The Best Ever You Network. Through these companies, she has helped individuals and organizations around the world be their best and achieve world-class excellence with gratitude-based behavior and belief systems. She is one of America’s foremost personal and corporate development consultants specializing in mindset, gratitude, change management, strategy, leadership, and taking action.
Guarino is the author of eight books including the award-winning book Percolate – Let Your Best Self Filter Through (Hay House, April 4, 2014). The Change Guidebook – How to Align Your Heart, Truths, and Energy to Find Success in All Areas of Your Life (March 8, 2022) is published by Health Communications and distributed by Simon & Schuster. The Change Guidebook ends the search for self-help that works, serving as a life-long companion guide and resource to compliment your life. It is a guide for anyone who is seeking change and wants to align to their highest purpose.
As a trusted leader, consultant, trainer, speaker, and best-selling author, Elizabeth provides development and training to individuals and organizations around the world. Elizabeth serves as a Leadership
Advisor for the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute and is a member of the Forbes Business Council. She is a Certified Master Coach.
Elizabeth lives her daily life with multiple, life-threatening food allergies. Elizabeth and Sally Huss co-authored three best-selling children’s books: A Lesson For Every Child: Learning About Food Allergies, Self-Confident Sandy and Best Ever You.
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What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Elizabeth's father's stroke and how that sparked transformation in her life
- How her new book helps people to navigate change on a relatable level
- The ten points of change that are discussed in the book
- How gratitude drives her approach to everything
- Elizabeth's daily struggle with life-threatening food allergies and her book for children who suffer from them
- How to align your heart with your energy and be your authentic you
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So many people grow up with limiting beliefs and feeling like they aren't enough. Today's episode will inspire you that it is never too late to find healing.
Judy Jewett is a healer, intuitive reader, medium and a Holistic breakthrough coach who has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs who are not having the results that they want in their lives to build confidence, reclaim their inner truth and make more money doing what they love.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Judy worked through a learning disability and limiting beliefs growing up
- We can change the course of our learning at any time
- The spiritual journey to healing we are all on, and the energy blocks that must be removed
- The exercises Judy works on with clients to help them overcome obstacles
- Judy's self-discovery journey and transition to becoming a healer
- How to live as your authentic self and live by your truth
- Learning to listen to your intuition
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There is often mixed messaging when it comes to female sexuality. Rediscovering sexual desire during major life transitions can be difficult. This episode empowers women to embrace their feminine fire at any life stage.
Amanda Testa, Southern Belle turned Sex Coach, is a soulful, heart-centered expert when it comes to sex and relationships. She helps overwhelmed professional women and couples reconnect to themselves, their libidos, and their partners.
Her unique proven process, The Feminine Fire Method™ combines neuroscience and nervous system regulation, with ancient practices to help women heal their relationship to their sexuality so they can
eliminate shame and guilt, own their confidence, feel like a Goddess in their skin, and have the deeply connected relationships they desire.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Amanda's personal transition and how she rediscovered her feminine fire after the birth of her daughter
- How sexual energy is a reflection of your health and vitality
- How Amanda developed her coaching program to be effective at connecting women to their feminine fire
- The importance of slowing down and being present and taking a deep breath
- How cultural conditioning plays a role in how you show up sexually in your relationship
- How to have a sensual wellness practice to connect to your own body
- How to work with your partner to deepen your physical connection
- How to move past unnecessary shame that holds you back
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In the challenging times we live in today, there is an ominous sense that the world is breaking apart. Long-held comfortable beliefs are being shattered, and we face unprecedented questions and challenges. Radical Loving: One God, One World, One People, by Rabbi Wayne Dosick, PhD, DD, is a compelling appraisal of the state of our present-day world and a bold, visionary, spirit-filled blueprint for its transformation and evolution through Radical Loving and Awesome Holiness.
Rabbi Wayne Dosick 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.
The bestselling, award-winning author of nine critically acclaimed books, including the now-classic Living Judaism, and the more recent The Real Name of God: Embracing the Full Essence of the Divine, Rabbi Wayne is the author of more than 400 articles of religious, political, and social commentary.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Why we need Radical Loving more than ever
- How to connect and listen to God
- What Radical Loving means
- Rabbi Wayne's spiritual practice of gratitude
- How awesome holiness is the twin of radical loving and how it helps us connect to each other
- Where to get started to love better
- How to model this loving behavior to our children
- How to live out the greatest good for the highest society
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We all experience setbacks, but how can we use those setbacks to create growth? In this conversation with Michaela Renee Johnson, she inspires us all to soar past our setbacks in order to achieve inner happiness!
Michaela Renee Johnson is a best-selling author, licensed psychotherapist, and host of the top iTunes podcast, Be You Find Happy which encourages people to speak their truth with grace and live a courageous life of authenticity. Her initiative, Be You Find Happy, holds workshops and conversations on finding happiness in spite of life's setbacks and has landed her speaking opportunities across the nation.
She is an avid adventurer and aviator, having traveled to over 20 countries. She always has a book and a journal within arm's reach and has a soft spot for inspiring quotes. She is an endless horizon lover who lives in Northern California where she hikes, kayaks, and spends time in her garden while continuing to work toward a sustainable life with her family and farm full of animals.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How learning to fly an airplane was a defining moment for Michaela
- How fear turns into learning and growth
- How to be mindful of our reactions and give ourselves grace
- How the company you keep promotes your mindset
- What keeps us from living an authentic life and how to embrace who we are
- Her workshops and how she inspires others to grow in happiness
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Dr. Joe Gallenberger is a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience as a therapist. In 1992, he began to investigate psychokinesis (PK), the ability to influence matter using the energy of directed consciousness. This unique energy is useful in healing and manifestation.
Gallenberger scientifically confirmed PK in university laboratories and has taught PK in over 150 workshops such as his Inner Vegas Adventure where students achieve dramatic healing, strong influence over dice and slot machines, and many powerful manifestations at home.
Gallenberger, a trainer for the past 30 years at The Monroe Institute, created its popular MC2 program to teach PK, energy healing, and manifestation. He developed SyncCreation®, a home study course in manifestation. Using the casino as classroom, his book Inner Vegas: Creating Miracles, Abundance, and Health reveals how mind energized by heart influences our reality. He offers 7 meditation exercises on CD and as downloads.
With the Liquid Luck meditation exercise, people immediately reported receiving money from unexpected sources, winning lottos, selling houses in a hour, having businesses take off, solving intractable problems, and receiving brilliant ideas for inventions.
His book Liquid Luck: The Good Fortune Handbook shares these extraordinary stories. He covers how happiness, gratitude compassion, praise, love and feeling fortunate are essential to powerful abundance creation. He shows us that we can indeed be miracle workers in our own lives.
Gallenberger's book, Heaven is for Healing: A Soul's Journey After Suicide shows that all death leads to light. A dynamic heart driven speaker, Joe is in demand internationally as a workshop presenter. He has been a guest on more than a hundred shows, including nine appearances on Coast to Coast AM and five on New Thinking Allowed. He is featured in many episodes of the docuseries, SuperPowerFilm.com.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Dr. Joe's work with manifesting and psychokinesis
- Why Dr. Joe's believes that fear is expensive and distracting
- The "ocean heart" exercise that opens us up to more love and compassion
- How to know if fear is clouding out love in your life
- Psychokinesis and how it helps us manifest what we want
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We have the ability to make the stories of our lives one that is triumphant and inspiring. Though April Tribe Giauque has faced many adversities at various stages of her life, she still managed to create her happily ever after in her story that continues to be written. She describes the steps she took to free herself and her children from her abusive marriage which included rejecting the victim label and mentality.
April Tribe Giauque is a published author, ghostwriter, coach, and podcaster. She is an Amplifier. She is a lens/mirror/prism to your light so that it can stretch your message to thousands more. April has a passion for authors’ stories and how they connect humanity. Speaking from her heart, April’s transformational story and power captivate her audience about thriving and forgiveness.
Her published work, Pinpoints of Light: Escaping the Abyss of Abuse, gives real hope to anyone in domestic violence to know there is a way out of emotional, spiritual, physical, mental, and financial abuse. She has created a national campaign called Pinpoints Across America. People all over America receive a free copy of the book (only pay a small shipping and handling fee) and then deliver it to a local shelter to offer the people there hope and light!
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- The 3 poisons that people searching to be loved and accepted tend to take on
- Why we should adjust the concept of living “happily ever after”
- How April Tribe Giauque was able to create an exit plan and gain financial independence
- Where she found her value after being challenged so many times in her marriage
- The role faith played throughout April’s life
- What a comfort cage is and how we play a part in creating our own
- The inspiring story of April Tribe Giauque’s 4th great grandmother and how it motivated her to change her own life
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Creativity doesn’t have to mean art, writing or music. In this episode, Dr. Minette Riordan explains that all of us are inherently creative beings and that it is essential to our health and wellbeing that we access this part of ourselves. She shares some of her own powerful experiences of moving through challenging transitions and how creativity plays a role in the healing process.
Dr. Minette Riordan is a modern-day Renaissance woman: artist, writer, award-winning entrepreneur and advocate for creativity as essential to the well-being of all people and our planet. She has built several successful businesses, worked with thousands of business owners and published three books, including her bestseller The Artful Marketer. Minette is the founder of the Confident Creative Framework, a simple and effective transformational process for helping others to own their artistry. She believes that when we are all working in our highest and best creative genius, we can solve all the world’s problems.
What You’ll Learn from This Episode: * We are a creative species and why it is essential for our health and wellbeing * The many faces of “creativity”; it’s not always what you might think * Some of the reasons we stifle our natural creativity * What the Zentangle movement is and how it can help you * Why coloring, in particular, is so helpful to our overall health and happiness * Death isn’t the only experience that causes grief * Why it’s important to properly heal grief and other difficult emotions * The importance of being connected to other women * Three of Minette’s favorite suggestions for creative play * Some fascinating ways to use junk paper and old books * Information on Minette’s five-part video series gift for listeners * Why it is essential to put self-care at the top of your list of priorities * Why words can be restrictive in certain kinds of creativity
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Dating after divorce, while raising children, can be challenging. This episode tackles these tough topics in a way that offers practical tools and hope. Rosalind Sedacca, CDC is recognized as The Voice of Child-Centered Divorce. She is a Divorce & Co-Parenting Coach and founder of the Child-Centered Divorce Network which provides advice, programs, coaching and other valuable resources for parents who are facing, moving through or transitioning after a divorce. She is the author of How Do I Tell the Kids About The Divorce? A Create-a-Storybook Guide To Preparing Your Children – With Love! -- an internationally acclaimed ebook designed to help parents get through the tough divorce talk with the best possible outcome for themselves and their children. Rosalind has also created several ebooks and e-courses on co-parenting success strategies including an 8-hr Anger Management Program for Co-Parents. She also hosts the Divorce, Dating & Empowered Living Radio Show & Podcast. In addition, Rosalind is a Dating After Divorce Coach and co-author of 99 Things Women Wish They Knew Before Dating After 40, 50 & Yes, 60! as well as the DatingRescue eCourse and Create Your Ideal Relationship Kit for women and Mastering the Challenges of Dating: A Success Formula for Men. She is a national contributor to Divorce Magazine as well as numerous dating, relationships and parenting websites and blogs. Rosalind is the 2008 First Place Winner of the Victorious Woman Award as well as the 2011 International Women’s Day Outstanding Service Award winner for her work with divorce and parenting issues. What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The challenges parents face when going through the decision to divorce
- How children can learn conflict communication skills from their parents
- Entering the world of dating as a divorced parent
- Success strategies for dating after divorce
- How to prepare children for your dating journey
- How to find the right person
- Warning signs to look out for
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Everyone experiences stress, though some seasons are more stressful than others. It's important to be able to have the tools and coping strategies before the difficulties hit; then we can grow from them!
Judy Davis is on a mission to help you stress less and improve your mental wellness. She is a motivational speaker, published author and mental wellness specialist with information, products and books that are go to resources to help people reduce stress and find balance in their lives.
Judy is no stranger to turning tragedy into triumph. In fact, in April 2019 everything about her life changed when her husband of 30 years was in an explosive blast while serving in the US Army. The amputation of his left leg, as well as other injuries and an ongoing recovery process, gave Judy an
inside look at the challenges caregivers navigate every day.
An entrepreneur and business owner for over 25 years, Judy is someone who believes that stories change lives. She is transparent about their experience and how she has had to pivot both personally and professionally.
Now Judy not only provides support to her husband, but she empowers others in a positive way helping them stress less and feel better emotionally, physically and financially.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Judy learned about the explosion her husband was in, and how that transformed her life
- The grieving process involved in major life trajedies
- The importance of allowing yourself to feel
- How any challenge can be an opportunity for transformation
- Judy's strategy to stress less
- How to have the energy, capacity, and focus to navigate difficult times
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Many people reach a point in their lives when they feel ready to step away from their current situation and enter a journey to spiritual enlightenment, but not everyone experiences it. Today's episode features someone who did.
Kevin Krenitsky is a medical doctor and author of The Still Point. Despite leading a life deemed outwardly "successful," he lived with a deep background of anxiety, fear, and stress that waxed and waned since early childhood. At the age of forty, in the midst of decades of suppressing tremendous inner and outer conflict, he reasoned there must be another way.
This "willingness" led to a decade of studying non-duality by way of A Course in Miracles. In 2015, at the height of a successful business career as Chief Commercial Officer at Foundation Medicine (FMI), Kevin turned away into relative isolation, and found the direct path to recognizing one's true nature. He wrote The Still Point to help others find their eternal nature, which is happiness itself.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Why Kevin experienced a major career transition after not feeling fulfilled by all his successes
- The sense of fear and separation he felt for a long time until his transformation
- Kevin's defining moment in his life transition
- The background of his book, The Still Point
- The importance of creating self-awareness
- How to live life "in the now" without reactivity
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As issues related to mental health continue to rise, we need tools to support a healthy brain. In the last 15 years, much of the neuroscience research has shown that we have the ability to change our brains...with the right tools.
Leigh Richardson has studied human behavior for over 30 years. Her initial focus was on organizational behavior then shifted to human behavior in 2003 after her son had a traumatic brain injury. Leigh has been in the ICU twice with brain injury and all of this fueled her need to understand how the brain works or why it doesn’t work. She can relate to brain dysregulation on a very personal level and she visualized what could be done for many others like her.
Leigh is the founder and clinical director of The Brain Performance Center, utilizing her MBA, MS, Counseling, and board certifications to offer state-of-the-art solutions for “brain problems.” She is currently taking her PhD in Psychology.
As a brain health expert, she regularly contributes to radio and television stations across the nation. Whether it is anxiety, ADHD, depression, insomnia, or brain injury, Leigh’s understanding of the brain and the different methodologies that can be used to organically change the brain is immense. And more importantly, they will provide the right solution for the problem.
Leigh is the author of Turn Your Brain On – To Get Your Game On, an international speaker, and a popular syndicated radio host. Leigh enjoys educating the general public on how the lifestyle choices and environmental factors impact brain health and the physiology and psychology of your mental state. She has a unique ability to connect with people, understand their situation, and win their trust.
Leigh gets inspiration from her friends, family, and clients. It is the positive change that she sees in others that motivates her to continue to learn. She just recently converted her upstairs office to an in-home art studio where she paints as a way to explore her creativity.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Leigh's personal history with brain injuries, both in her son who was struck by a car and in herself
- Leigh's training in neurofeedback and mapping the brain support healing
- How the stigma of mental health in the workplace is changing
- The psychological impact of the pandemic
- What puts a brain in a dysregulated state
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Nobody is immune to chronic stress and burnout. Thankfully, there are many tools to support healing and recovery and resilience against future stressors.
Erica Cuni, known as "The Burnout Professor," is a stress and burnout expert, integrative performance coach, professional speaker, #SameHere PsychAlliance Expert, social media creator & fellow survivor. She teaches individuals & businesses how to consciously thrive through a holistic approach.
Erica is the founder of "The C.U.N.I. Method," which stands for Create Undeniable Natural Impact. She is a former Trauma Psychotherapist, Clinical Director, and Adjunct Lecturer and Clinical Professor at Central Connecticut State University. Her mission is to help make the mental health field more effective, accessible, decolonized, and non-stigmatizing.
Erica found her mission in 2014 after being hit by a Mack Dump Truck (literally) while driving to work and having her life fall completely apart over the following two years. This is what she had on her recovery journey - a roadmap that didn't pathologize her for doing her job, life events, her culture and the intergenerational trauma she was carrying around with her.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Erica's major life transition after being hit by a mack truck
- Erica's prior lifestyle of stress and overcommitment and how her car accident completely changed her health and life
- How Erica realized she needed something more than traditional talk therapy to help her heal
- How stress manifests in the physical body
- Erica's integrative approach to mental health
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As family members age, transitions are inevitable. It's difficult to know the best care for our older family members. We live in a time where many options are available. Leighton Boyce is the owner of Synergy Home Care in Longmont, Colorado, where she provides in-home care for the aging population.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Leighton cares for the elderly with Synergy Home Care
- The most frequently asked questions family members ask
- Finding the right caregiver for your family member
- Individualizing care for those with dementia
- Next steps for family members when they see signs of aging in their elderly family members
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Finding love can be challenging, but making a relationship work can be even more challenging. That's why Dr. Duana Welch is back on the show with her science-based tips and tools for relationships.
Dr. Duana Welch (pronounced DWAY-nah) is the original Love Factually author and coach, known for using social science to solve real-life relationship issues. She has been a professor at universities in Florida, California, and Texas across 20 years, and has contributed to NPR, PBS, Psychology Today, and numerous other outlets, podcasts and videos.
Her first book, Love Factually: 10 Proven Steps from I Wish to I Do, is now out globally in five languages; its fully revised and updated edition released in 2022. Love Factually for Single Parents is the second book in the series, specifically geared for finding the right partner not only for readers, but their families.
All Duana’s books rely on science rather than opinion to help men and women find and keep the right partner. She is an expert for Paired, the couples relationship app. Her client practice is global, via Zoom and other technologies.
For more information and free content, see LoveFactually.co.
What You'll Learn from This Episode:
- How science is at the focus of Dr. Duana's work
- The process of forgiveness and releasing anger
- What science says about forgiveness
- What effective communication looks like
- Looking for love and defining dealbreakers
- Dating approaches in the 21st century
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Liz Thompson is an expert on all things related to food!
She previously owned and opened two restaurants and even taught culinary classes. Then she had to pursue a second career change when she lost part of her vision overnight. She had to access her skillset in terms of what angle of the food industry was she most passionate about and she could do mostly at home.
Today she focuses on recipe development and new product development. She also helps individuals launch their own food company and get their products to market.
She is working on her fist book Baking with Herbs. Her mantra is, “Let your passion define you, not your disability."
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Liz was able to deal with overnight news that she had developed a serious vision issue with no health issues whatsoever.
- How she was able to access the skills and passion she had to put together a new plan of work.
- How to understand the importance of help when it is being given and also having the strength to look for it as well.
- How it is up to ourselves to create the story that will play out and never play the victim.
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Divorce touches the lives of people every day. It can often be painful, costly, and life-changing. Finding support during this transition is critical.
Sue Horwitz is an inspirational life transition and divorce coach. She guides women through the chaos and devastation of their divorce into a new, purposeful life the love.
Years ago, as she transitioned her business into a coaching practice, her husband abruptly ended their thirty-year marriage. As a result, she learned firsthand how challenging divorce can be for women and their families emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually.
Today, she uses her experience and training to help women design a better, less costly, and less challenging divorce, and find the gifts of divorce to build a life they love.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- Sue's story and how she transitioned into coaching
- New ways to think about divorce
- The importance of being your best at the worst of times
- How you start the process is key to outcomes and recovery
- Finding the gifts of divorce
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Zoilita Grant is a success coach who uses hypnotic coaching to clear subconscious blocks, change the mindset, and help her clients achieve goals and bring out their own brilliance so they can create a purposeful, extraordinary life. In this talk, she discusses the power of past life regression and finding one's soul purpose.
Zoilita has been involved in human development for over 40 years. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1971 with a BA in Psychology and got her MSW from UTEP in 1979. She worked for over 25 years as a psychotherapist specializing in hypnosis. For the last 12 years, she has been a hypnotic coach.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Why past life regression is so powerful
- Different ways to work through past life regression
- Finding gifts, talents, and abilities from past lives
- How to complete soul contracts
- Clearing karma from past lives
- Finding your soul purpose today from past life work
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Dana Hentschel is a Professional Organizer. Organizing is her passion and really just what she LOVES to do! "Arranging Joy" has been a dream of using her gifts to help busy families like her, all the while arranging spaces that bring joy! Dana loves serving others by helping them transform their homes through well-designed spaces that bring peace.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Why organization brings peace
- What brought Dana to professional organizing
- Most common areas of the house needing organizational help
- Dana's process for getting started and helping peole get organized
- What to do with the clutter you don't want to throw away and how our things bring emotional attachment
- Practical systems that anyone can utilize
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Deanna Bryant is a midlife relationship coach for couples who find themselves at a crossroads in their marriage. Bringing both her teaching and mentoring skills to her coaching, she helps couples cultivate new meaning and a deeper intimacy in their marriages.
Midlife divorce has the highest percentage of any other age group, and Deanna's relationship was at that point five years ago. Like most couples, she and her husband simply didn't have the skills to sustain a long-term marriage. This experience was the impetus for starting both her podcast and business, "Revive Your Midlife Marriage." By breaking patterns that are not serving you, learning new patterns for a healthy marriage, and working on yourself, couples can turn the tide and enjoy a better relationship than ever before.
What You'll Learn In This Episode:
- Deanna's personal journey and how she became a relationship coach
- How your family of origin impacts your marriage
- Common conflicts in relationships
- The negative feelings impacting a relationship
- What to do when one spouse wants help, and the other doesn't
- How to set healthy boundaries
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Seema Bonney, MD is the founder and medical director of the Anti-Aging & Longevity Center of Philadelphia. She is dual board-certified in both Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and Emergency
Medicine, and has completed a fellowship in Regenerative Medicine.
Dr. Bonney is a holistic doctor who is passionate about changing the way medicine is practiced. Her emphasis at her practice is based on prevention and wellness, and diagnosis/treatment of root causes of common symptoms such as weight gain, low energy, hormonal imbalances, insomnia, and anxiety/depression. She is focused on helping her patients achieve optimum physical and mental wellness by helping them change their habits and form new healthy ones through her work with them.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- Dr. Bonney's transition from her career as an ER physician to preventative care with functional medicine
- How she motivates patience to make positive health changes
- How stress causes the body to store weight
- A functional medicine approach to blood pressure
- Dr. Bonney's definition of functional wellness and how she evaluates patients
- Creating a helpful sleep routine for deeper sleep
- Solutions for anxiety
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In 2006, Tracy Cromwell was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. Tracy had to start making better lifestyle choices. A chronic yoyo dieter most of her life, the news of this diagnosis was frustrating and just anothe "failure." But this diagnosis set her on a solid path to wellness.
Today, Tracy is healthy and strong, taking on century bike rides, eating in a way that supports her body and feeling good in her own skin. Tracy’s personal health journey inspired her to go back to school, where she trained in more than 100 dietary theories and studied a variety of practical lifestyle coaching methods as well as science-based personal training.
Tracy now helps clients create a completely personalized “roadmap to health” that suits their unique body, lifestyle, preferences, and goals.
Tracy is a published author of Your Personal Journey with Food. It is an interactive book that will take the reader on their own journey where they will uncover their current unique relationship with food which may not be serving them, thus allowing them to create a new, vibrant, unique, and healthy relationship
with food.
Tracy received her Health Coaching and Nutrition Training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Precision Nutrition. She received her Personal Training, Senior Fitness Specialist, and Weight Loss Specialist certifications from The National Academy of Sports Medicine.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- How Tracy's health crisis transformed her career and put her on a healthier path for herself and others
- Tips to support our bodies as we age
- How to be your body's number one teammate
- The importance of listening to your body and inner voice
- Tracy's book and why she wants to empower others on their personal journey with food
Access Tracy's guide to "Stop the Yo-Yo Diet Chaos." Available at her website here.
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Rachel S. Heslin has been immersed in the study of psychology for over 40 years. Her father, a clinical psychologist, taught his children his craft such that Rachel was first introduced to Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) concepts when she was 9 years old.
Rachel is currently the author of two books: Navigating Life: 8 Different Strategies to Guide Your Way, and Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life.
Through her work through her company, The Fullness of Your Power, she loves helping people who feel like they are their own worst enemy learn how to embrace all parts of themselves so they can live happier, more successful, and more deeply fulfilling lives.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- Rachel's view of the world as a kaleidoscopic hologram and her life's transitions
- The differences in being goal-oriented and process-oriented
- The innate tendencies we're born with
- How external clutter is a manifestation of internal clutter
- Celebrating incremental progress
- Incorporating Daily Rituals to Improve Clarity
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Dr. Duana Welch (pronounced DWAY-nah) is back for her second show to talk about the science of love and dating. She is the original Love Factually author and coach known for using social science to solve real-life relationship issues. Her first book, Love Factually: 10 Proven Steps from I Wish to I Do, is now out globally in five languages in audio, e-book, and paperback, with seven Love Factually titles now out in the series. All of Duana's books rely on science rather than opinion to help men and women find and keep the right partner.
She is an expert for Paired, the couples relationship app. Her client practice is global, via Zoom and other technologies.
What You'll Learn from This Episode:
- What is a scientific approach to dating?
- The individuals who seek support from Dr. Welch
- Common myths in dating
- Moving away from the past to find a hopeful future
- How childhood attachment styles impact our relationships
- Finding love in mid-life
- Mental roadblocks that prevent you from finding love
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Kami Jackson and Amy Waters are passionate about people. Out of that passion they created Living Well Holistic Counseling and Wellness, a sanctuary for the soul in Tyler, Texas.
At Living Well, they believe people are created holistically: mind, body, and soul. The multidisciplinary team promotes mental health and well-being through collaborative care for the whole person. They partner with each person to create a comprehensive approach that effectively meets their individual needs including grief, trauma, chronic illness, marriage and relationship challenges, anxiety, and depression.
Their services include counseling, nutrition, massage, yoga, soul care, and a variety of other wellness services.
What You'll Learn from This Episode:
- What it means to be a holistic wellness center
- The idea behind Living Well
- The importance of creating space for processing and deeper healing
- The importance of individual counseling along with couples counseling
- The multi-disciplinary approach to healing utilized at Living Well
- The whole-body connection in counseling
- Various therapies and tools to support trauma and mental health
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In this special episode, Joyce Buford looks forward to 2022. She reflects on personal growth and shares her own goals and thoughts on planning for a successful new year.
Happy New Year!
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In this episode, Joyce Buford delivers a special message to listeners as she sums up her experience of 2021 and her wishes for this special season. Happy holidays to one and all!
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Nubia DuVall Wilson is a published author, screenwriter and advocate for survivors of sexual abuse. As a storyteller, her mission is to liberate survivors of sexual abuse by curating content that supports their well-being and gives them a voice and a community to embrace the reality of living and loving after
assault.
In May 2018, she published her second book, The Survivors Club, a supernatural novella inspired by her journey to heal as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. The novella is the inspiration
behind a new TV pilot currently being pitched to be optioned.
In November 2020, she co-founded Starfury Productions with two partners to develop, package or pitch underrepresented writers who have TV/film projects with social impact.
Nubia is part of the RAINN Speaker’s Bureau and has spoken at the Trinitas Medical Center, Bloomingdale’s Peace of Mind event, Own Your Voice Summit, Together Digital Virtual Summit and Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, among others.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- How memories of childhood abuse were triggered for Nubia as an adult
- The reason she wrote her book, The Survivors Club
- The story behind her production company
- Upcoming projects with her company's screenplays
- How Nubia creates her future and other passions that keep her moving forward
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Norman Bacal believes the main way to grow and evolve is to fly in the face of fear and to take on challenges for which we don't feel qualified and learn from our mistakes.
Norman is a retired lawyer who once built and led one of Canada’s prestigious law firms as one of the most successful film finance lawyers in the country. He sat on the board of directors of a Hollywood studio and represented companies like Warner Bros., MGM, Sony, and Lionsgate.
Then in 2014, the bottom fell out. The law firm collapsed.
With the help of family, he picked himself up and began his redefinition, which he calls rewiring.
He now has successfully published a handful of books. His latest non-fiction, Take Charge: The Skills That Drive Professional Success, is a manual for young professionals on the soft skills that are not taught.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- His work as a lawyer and the collapse of his business
- His defining moment that got him writing
- His thoughts on forgiveness as part of the journey to coming back
- How grit is more important than talent or ability
- Tapping into expertise as part of the comeback
Get Norman's free book on interviewing, called Tips From the Interviewer, available through his website or here.
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Dr. Duana Welch (pronounced DWAY-nah) is the original Love Factually author and coach known for using social science to solve real-life relationship issues. She has taught at universities in Florida, California, and Texas across 20 years, and contributed to NPR, PBS, Psychology Today, and numerous other outlets, podcasts and videos. Her first book, Love Factually: 10 Proven Steps from I Wish to I Do, is now out globally in five languages in audio, e-book, and paperback, with seven Love Factually titles now out in the series. All of Duana's books rely on science rather than opinion to help men and women keep the right partner. She is an expert for Paired, the couples relationship app. Her client practice is global, via Zoom and other technologies. For more information and free content, see www.LoveFactually.co.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- The importance of being in a secure relationship
- What the science says about healthy relationships
- How to post a good ad on a dating website
- How love is not enough - what else matters in a good relationship
- How to find the right partner for you - at any age
- Dealbreakers to look out for
Get free content on each of her 7 books simply by visiting www.LoveFactually.co.
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Richard Capriola has been a mental health and addictions counselor for over two decades. He recently retired from Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas where for over a decade he treated adolescents and adults diagnosed with substance abuse issues. He is the author of a new book for parents entitled "The Addicted Child: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse."
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- What drugs are today's teens using and what
changes have their been over the years - What warning signs should parents know about
- The first thing parent should do if they suspect substance abuse
- How the pandemic impacted teen mental health and compulsive behaviors
- How mental health issues impact teen substance abuse
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Lisa Strahs-Lorenc is a career counselor and owner of Go Career Compass. She used her career counseling skills to start her own business and work in higher education. She has worked for various non-profit organizations as well as universities, school districts and businesses.
She believes we should all “Do what we love, and we will love what we do.” She loves making a difference in the lives of people of all ages and in her local community.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How Lisa got into career counseling
- How the story you create for yourself impacts the decisions you make
- Lisa's "End of Life Journey and Beyond" series on YouTube and her thoughts on grief
- The things we can control and change and how to focus on those things
- Her business and how she helps people find work they love to do
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Can you imagine what would happen if we, the living, explored these things before we got to the point of having to?
As an end-of-life doula, Kristen Elliott is trained to guide people to find meaning in their lives, come to terms with their unfinished business, have those really hard conversations, and think deeply about all the joy, fulfillment, and love they’ve experienced. As a result, they often come to know their fears, hopes, regrets, and gratitude at the deepest level. They find deep joy in living and themselves. Except... they’re at the end of their life.
Kristen believes we have to kill the things that no longer serve, continuously throughout our lives, to keep inching closer to our most authentic selves. And through this process, we learn how to live our soul truth. She is passionate about helping people maintain their sovereignty through their end of life process.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- What is an end-of-life doula?
- Kristen's work and her podcast "Dying to Live"
- The growing role of end-of-life doulas in communities
- How Kristen helps people move through emotions and process their life journeys when the end is approaching
- Creating a death plan for the terminally ill and what that entails
- How to lessen fear and anxiety in grieving family members
- The courses Kristen created to help people get "unstuck"
- How working on yourself can allow you to love others better
Click here to gain access to The Journey Home, a course for people to feel more at home in themselves.
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Maria Romano is the founder of Love Knots, LLC. She started the rental company with her husband Frank. Maria’s company grew to over $18M a year in gross revenue. She and Frank were also involved with another company at one time when they owned over 30 bars in Las Vegas.
Maria and Frank sold their car rental company in 2010 and Maria transitioned with her career. She became a minister. For over ten years, she has performed over 3,000 wedding ceremonies.
In 2012, Frank passed away, and Maria again was faced with another transition. In addition to her wedding ceremonies, she then started another component by helping people find love as well.
Maria has developed a signature talk to help people over 50 find love again. She shares tips to help get you ready to have a healthy, happy dating experience. She also has another signature talk and workshops entitled “Loving Your Way to the Top.”
Maria’s address and workshop are building a healthy relationship with your clients, your team, and yourself. During Covid, she recognized that she needed to share her talents with others about officiating wedding ceremonies. She has created an online school that will teach others how to officiate weddings and how to grow this dream hustle into a full-time gig. She launched her school in June 2021.
She is also a bestselling author and released her first book “Going from Just One to a Plus One” in September 2020. She is anticipating the release of her next book in late 2021, titled “Loving Your Way to the Top.”
What You'll Learn from This Episode:
- How Maria transitioned after the loss of her husband, Frank
- Why Maria has a course for becoming a wedding officiant
- Dating and marriage trends in the Covid era
- How connection trumps chemistry in relationships
- Starting over after 50 and not settling
- How to actively start meeting new people
- Learning and listing your must-haves in a relationship
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Tracie Root is a coach, a speaker, an educator, and a community builder.
Tracie ended her career in corporate America and found her new calling after a personal family tragedy. Her partner of almost 20 years passed away after a battle with cancer, at the age of 47. Tracie and her two toddlers were left with no family nearby, a house “under water” from the housing crisis of 2008, and
couldn’t see how anything was going to change. Ever.
Then, years later - a spark. That light inside her, dimmed after years of trauma and loss, finally started to shine brighter. She saw a way back to her former self and began the journey, one step at a time. She shifted her career to one of helping others at a deeper level while making more time for her own fulfillment, adventure, and joy.
Now Tracie helps women remember their best selves. For almost a decade, she has been serving and supporting clients around the country to SET and to GET their goals in health, in life, and in business.
With the founding of Gather in 2019 and its expansion in 2020, she took her own goal-getting advice and created a community of like-minded women who are growing and thriving together. Tracie serves women around the US in her group programs and in the Gather community to expand their thoughts and
dreams to live their BOLD life!
Tracie is an engaging and enthusiastic speaker. Audience members take away the belief that they can do ANYTHING! Tracie speaks frequently on cultivating optimal health and well-being, goal-setting and strategy, entrepreneurship, overcoming tragedy and loss, and other personal development topics.
Tracie lives in Santa Cruz, CA, is married to her best friend and they are raising two teens and a dog.
What You'll Learn In This Episode:
- Tracie's story of losing her husband while she had two toddlers at home
- How she processed her grief and began to remember her best self
- Her health journey and how she made sustainable change
- Her journey as an entrepreneurs
- The importance of learning boundaries and setting goals
- Other tools Tracie uses for remembering your best self
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Sherianna Boyle is the author of nine books including her most recent Emotional Detox Now: 135 Self Guided Practices to Renew Your Mind, Heart & Body. She is the founder of Emotional Detox Coaching and the Cleanse Method. She has over twenty-five years experience in the mind/body field, is an adjunct Psychology Professor and has published over eighty articles.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Reactions are ways we suppress, oppress, and repress emotions
- Sherianna's emotional detox program
- Healing comes from feeling, not reacting
- The "cleanse yoga" protocol
- The impact of movement on depression and anxiety
- All healing happens in the now
- Reframing anxiety
- Sherianna's books and her top recommendations for getting started
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The Ellegant Wealth mission is to empower women to show up and own their financial journey with Courage, Confidence, and Wisdom!
Jayne Ellegard spent thirty-four years managing wealth for high-net-worth individuals and wealthy families. During that time, she observed a gap in the financial education women have received. Two years ago she decided to leave her job as a Senior Vice-President and follow her passion to provide a warm, welcoming environment for women to experience financial transformation. She believes learning about money can be enjoyable and fun—yes, fun!
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Jayne's transition to Plan B, as a financial educator
- Why women need more education and empowerment about their finances
- Why Jayne is passionate about courage, confidence, and wisdom
- Six Pillars to Financial Empowerment
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If you are experiencing financial stress, avoiding money conversations or lacking financial focus, it's time to
find clarity, create vision and move forward in your financial journey. This guide will help you take steps in the right direction!
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Rachel S. Heslin has been immersed in the study of psychology for over 40 years. Her father, a clinical psychologist, taught his children his craft such that Rachel was first introduced to Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) concepts when she was 9 years old.
Rachel is the author of two books: Navigating Life: 8 Different Strategies to Guide Your Way, and Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life.
Through her work through her company The Fullness of Your Power, she helps people who feel like they are their own worst enemy learn how to embrace all parts of themselves so they can live happier, more successful, and more deeply fulfilling lives.
What You'll Learn from This Episode:
- The definition of Neurolinguistic Programming
- How the brain changes and develops in childhood and creates our story
- How secure attachment and our feeling of emotional and physical safety forms early on
- How Rachel helps people embrace all parts of themselves
- Rachel's 8 strategies for navigating life
- Noticing patterns in your reactions and creating awareness and deliberate choice
- How to heal when trust has been broken in a relationship
- Forgiving others and forgiving yourself as a crucial part of healing
Rituals of Release: How to Make Room for Your New Life is an ebook that shows you how to incorporate rituals into a regular part of your routine to clear out all the little things that accumulate over time so you can move into "what's next." Click here to download..
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While anxiety and depression are on the rise, there is hope for those suffering from mental health symptoms. Erin Kerry is on a mission to empower those struggling with mental health issues not to be limited by a label or diagnosis. As a survivor of PTSD, depression, and bipolar disorder, Erin knows firsthand how living with a chronic illness infiltrates every area of life. She now works as an integrative nutrition health coach and studies functional medicine in an effort to provide hope and restoration for mental health.
What You'll Learn from This Episode:
- The epidemic of mental illness in our world today
- How fear keeps us in "fight or flight" and the impact on the brain
- Tools to support depression and anxiety
- The gut-brain connection
- How chronic inflammation impacts mental health
- Erin's story of healing from mental illness
- How Erin coaches men and women to find renewed health
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Claudia Goetzelmann is a true global being with having lived on four continents. German-born, she is now based out of Venice Beach/LA California. Claudia spent most of her live traveling and working around the world as a fashion advertising photographer, capturing amazing places and beautiful faces for varied big companies and fashion brands.
In 2017, after a heart-wrenching divorce and "death of her old self" as she calls it, she became a certified End-of-Life Doula. At the end of 2018, she completed a Spiritual Life Coach training and founded "Permission to Bloom" coaching. She is also a yogi, and she grows her own veggies and holds guided meditations. She is currently studying Trauma and Grief Therapy with Dr. Gabor Mate as she would like to add this module of tools and knowledge to her coaching practice. She is now combining all her gifts, talents and wisdom to help others to live a more empowered and authentic life.
What You'll Learn from This Episode:
- How Claudia got into work as a well-known photographer
- The role death and trauma has played in her life
- How to have a better relationship with death, grief, and pain
- Claudia's work as an End-of-Life Doula
- The importance of human connection and vulnerability
- Different types of grief
- Navigating difficult transitions
- Coming to grips with grief as a transition
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Many people struggle to find their purpose in life, because they get caught in the insanity cycle of doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. Today's episode will challenge you with practical tools that help you get out of your own way and make lasting changes.
Becca Ribbing is the author of The Clarity Journal and has been a coach for over a decade. She's on a mission to help people break out of the cycles of uncertainty and struggle that hold them back.
What You'll Learn From This Episode:
- Becca's background and work coaching clients who feel stuck in their careers
- The way women value connection and purpose in the workplace
- Engaging your strengths so that work is enjoyable
- The purpose behind The Clarity Journal
- How what we envy tells us a lot about ourselves
- Signs that we are stuck and in procrastination mode
- The purpose behind her downloadable resource, Get Unstuck
- Becca's next book coming soon
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Is it possible to end a relationship in a healthy way? How can we find healing and understanding in the midst of loss?
Katherine Woodward Thomas is the New York Times bestselling author of Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After and Calling in “The One”: 7 Weeks to Attracting the Love of Your Life, as well as an award-winning marriage and family psychotherapist.
Over the past two decades, Katherine has had the honor of teaching hundreds of thousands of people from all corners of the globe to create conscious, loving relationships and to realize the higher potentials all their connections hold for health and happiness. Katherine also trains and certifies people to become Certified Calling in “The One” Coaches, and/or Conscious Uncoupling Coaches, and provides ongoing supervision and development to a vibrant community of her coaches from around the world.
She’s a Billboard-charting, #1 iTunes jazz artist with her CD Lucky in Love, which was co-written and co-produced with The Brothers Koren.
What You'll Learn from This Episode:
- How Katherine went from cabaret singer to therapist
- How she learned to change her life by creating a future
- The story behind her divorce and book Conscious Uncoupling
- The concept of "happily ever after" and how it fits (or doesn't fit) in the 21st Century
- The steps to conscious uncoupling
- Importance of emotional awareness and finding the truth
Katherine's Website | Calling in The One | Conscious Uncoupling
Sharon Valenti was born in England to an American military father and British mother. Her childhood years were affected by many forms of abuse. Deep rooted negative beliefs gained a foothold in her and ran her life unconsciously for many years. Consistently pursuing her own awakening, she is motivated to help others do the work and experience a shift within themselves, one that is in extreme contrast to the suffering they've been subjected to.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Sharon's personal journey of healing
- How our core beliefs as children affect our adulthood
- Sharon's spiritual transformation in India
- Generational strongholds and negative core beliefs of "not enough"
- Misconceptions of emotional health and mental health
- How to let go of others' perceptions of you and show up for yourself
- Where to begin the self-love cycle
- Sharon's unique courses to create self-awareness and growth
Grab your FREE eBook "Relationship Restoration" at ISITTRUE.com. It provides a head start on how to change any unhappy relationship into a loving one.
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There is a strong correlation between personal finance management and the way we see ourselves and show up in this world. In this episode with Dawna Campbell, she shares how the subconscious creates, and how the mind-body links you, your emotions, and your money.
Known as the Mind Whisperer, Dawna combines her past knowledge, wisdom, and experience to assist you in creating and restoring a life of happiness, prosperity, and love. Dawna has over 25 combined years of professional experience. As a former financial advisor, her book Financially Fit is a #1 international bestseller that brings together the world of money, the energy body, and the soul's essence. She is a professional speaker who shares her techniques in interactive workshops while maintaining an international private practice.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- How happiness is on the inside
- The emotional tie to money
- Five human emotions
- The pivot and shift strategy
- How to shift the lower feelings to feeling fantastic
Get Dawna's free gift here from the website of her book Financially Fit.
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Meditation is a popular buzzword right now, but what is it, why do you need it, and how do you do it?
Ambika Devi is on a peace mission to help people realize their true nature so that they can step out of the churning river of thoughts and activity of the mind, stop wearing insane schedules like badges of honor, and begin their days reinforced with the calmness a meditation practice brings. Meditating since the age of six, with 44 years of teaching experience, 13,000 plus hours of study and having taught over 19,000 people the art of meditation, she gives you clear steps that lead you directly into a deep state of meditation.
She is a scholar of Yoga with expert knowledge of the philosophy and teachings of the Far Eastern Mystery Schools. As a teen, Ambika became fascinated with Astrology and Astronomy. This took her on a journey of apprenticeships with world-class astrologers and a degree in astrology from NorthStar University. As a coach, Ambika utilizes this skill to guide clients to make better decisions and to unlock their hidden potential. In 2012 Ambika received a Masters degree from the Hindu University in the teaching of Yoga and Meditation.
Her internationally best-selling and award-winning books delight readers with easy to comprehend yogic philosophy embedded in stories and poems. Ambika’s two favorite techniques that she passionately teaches to students are Pranayama-Yogic breathing techniques and Primordial Sound techniques. She believes that a body, mind, and spirit in harmony makes good choices that promote well-being.
What You'll Learn From this Episode:
- How Ambika's early childhood practice of meditation and stillness became a habit
- What meditation is and how it trains the mind
- How to use meditation for improved sleep
- Getting in touch with intuition through meditation
- Digging deeper into Ambika's background with astrology
- Using mantras to quiet the mind
- The benefits of yoga
- Background to her six books
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Many people allow their fears, negativities, and self-blinding beliefs to stop them from experiencing life to the fullest. That is not the case with Gail Hamilton.
Gail Hamilton is an NSA certified international motivational virtual and live speaker, TEDx Breckenridge speaker 2021, author Soaring into Greatness, a Blind Woman’s Vision to Live her Dreams and Fly, trainer, opera singer, and is totally blind. Gail motivates, facilitates, educates, and exhilarates her audiences unlike any other presenter, to fully open their eyes and change the way they see and change the way they live.
Her soaring spirit has led Gail to build her former Habitat for Humanity home, to climb the historic 75-story Cydney Harbor bridge, and to partner with six spectacular Seeing Eye dogs over the years. Her astounding experiences, immense knowledge and unparalleled determination have inspired thousands to live lives of vision, purpose and action. Gail believes that everything is possible and everyone can live an unstoppable, unforgettable, and unbelievable life.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
- Gail's story and how she overcame the challenge of blindness from a young age
- The turning point and book that changed her outlook and trajectory
- The importance of therapy and how Gail was inspired to get her master's in psychology
- How living a life of greatness means getting past the negative core beliefs and stigma and going for something more.
- The motivation and reason behind her book.
- The traits needed for a successful life.
- The importance of vulnerability and telling your authentic story.
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Learn more about Gail and access Twenty Ways To Soar, a handout of twenty ways to achieve your dreams on her website, Soaring into Greatness.
Grieving is a process we will all be familiar with at some point in our lives. Our guest for this week’s episode of SecondWind, Emily Thiroux Threatt, is here to reveal healthy ways for us to cope with these profound emotions. Because she personally knows what it feels like to lose a loved one, she is able to connect to others while remaining sensitive to their emotional state.
Emily Thiroux Threatt is the author of Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief: A Comprehensive Guide to Reclaiming and Cultivating Joy and Carrying on in the Face of Loss.
Emily grew up in Porterville, California and earned her master's degree in English with a concentration in writing. She taught writing at the university level for 39 years. She currently lives in Maui, Hawaii.
Having gone through the experience of two husbands dying, as well as the deaths of her father, mother, sister, many family members and friends, Emily has much experience in the grieving process and has learned to face life with love, optimism, and joy. Her mission is to comfort and support those dealing with grief and loss focusing on happiness.
She earned a master’s degree in English with a concentration in writing which led to her career teaching writing at the university level, so she naturally turned to writing to deal with her grief. She also is teaching those dealing with loss how to use writing to deal with their grief.
When she’s not writing, you can find her in her tending to her garden, creating art, and walking on the beach.
“It's not that you're trying to get over grief, it's that you’re trying to work with it so that you can move forward with the rest of your life…” Emily Thiroux Threatt
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- How Emily was brought face to face with the fragility of life at a young age
- Dealing with grief sooner rather than later will be easier in the long run
- The process of grieving isn’t negative if you look at it from a certain perspective
- Parents often shield their children from death because they don't know how to explain or handle it themselves
- The process of creating Emily’s book from what inspired her, to getting it published
- The interesting writing exercise Emily advises people who are experiencing grief to try.
- How we should interact with people who are grieving the loss of a loved one
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Evaluating Your Life & Appreciating Accomplishments Public relations and marketing continues to evolve before our eyes, but as members of the public, we can only see these changes from the perspective of a consumer. Today, communications professional Jeanette Brown gives us a peek behind the curtain for a full picture of what it is like to work with a variety of famous brands. We delve into what it means to be successful, and how we should adapt the meaning of success to fit our daily lives
Jeanette Brown Green Founder of Excellence & Presence Communications - an integrated PR & Marketing Agency providing corporate, lifestyle and non-profit clients with brand development, communications campaigns, culturally relevant programs, crisis communications as well as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consulting.
Jeanette is a Brooklyn native whose family tree branches reach the Caribbean, including Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica. Her appreciation for community, family, and culture developed while growing up in a multi-ethnic neighborhood, Bushwick. The sounds of Latin music filled every bodega, the aroma of exotic dishes infiltrated the air, and everyone was treated like family at celebrations.
She is a communications professional with more than 20 years of public relations, marketing, and branding experience representing a variety of brands, including wine and spirits, luxury, sports, and entertainment as well as high-profile personalities. Jeanette has led marketing communications strategies for brands like Ketel One Vodka, Maker's Mark, Pisco Portón, Bacardi Global Travel Retail, MillerCoors, Pepsi Global, Audi, Reebok, and many more. She has overseen the development and execution of all channel-neutral communications plans in support of a brand's PR and trade programs in addition to experiential and strategic partnerships.
“It took me a long time to build my confidence, a very long time and lots of experiences. I just wanna help people not have their bumps in the road be as hard as mine were.” Jeanette Brown
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- What it felt like growing up in a diverse neighborhood like Bushwick, Brooklyn
- How losing her mother at a young age impacted Jeanette Brown’s life
- What motivated Jeanette Brown to take a moment to look at her family and friends and evaluate her life
- People have a tendency to work hard, but not recognize their own growth
- What motivated Jeanette Brown to process the loss of her mother years after she passed
- How starting her own PR & marketing agency allowed her to work on a wide range of marketing categories
- The types of amazing clients Jeanette Brown has, and how they continue to inspire her
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Achieving a Healthy Work-Life Balance It can be difficult for working mothers to manage their duties at home and at work. This week on SecondWind, we have Stacey Hiles on to share her story about raising her children, running a business, and then getting introduced to a company that allows for a better work-life balance. She speaks on the importance of giving back to your community, and how being a Rodan & Fields consultant helps her to help others.
Stacey Hiles is a mom to four, and a business owner. She grew up in Tyler, Tx and attended college at Abilene Christian University. 13 years ago, she found herself going through a divorce, raising children alone and with a business that her ex had run primarily. Her journey was far from easy and she made a huge change in careers after 5 years running that business. Stacey found a company that let her work around her life and help people. It was a leap of faith and took consistency to build what she has today. That was the hard part. Sharing products she loves and helping others do the same is a pleasure. Her passion through life has been volunteering in her community and she has had the privilege of leading some large events. Stacey gives credit to her volunteer experience in preparing her to survive her life transition. Today, she’s married to an amazing man. She never thought she’d trust anyone again, but it’s possible. Their three older kids are successfully adulting and they have one still at home that’s doing great. Stacey has been working at her new business for 9 years and it continues to be a blessing. The ups, downs, twists and turns of life haven’t always been easy. Through adversity, we have to keep going, push through, be brave and find joy!
“Another thing I love about not only our skincare, but the company is the diversity, and the inclusion, and the love that everyone feels for each other. We’re just a big family.” Stacey Hiles
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- What gave Stacey the confidence to know that she can run a dry cleaning business
- What it was like balancing motherhood and a business after her divorce.
- How she met her husband, and what helped her determine that he is trustworthy
- The insecurities that come with starting a business, and how Stacey was able to get past them
- The types of skin care regimens Rodan & Fields offers for different skin types
- Important information to know about skin cancer
- What makes Rodan & Fields and excellent business for anyone to be a part of
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Connecting to Yourself & Obtaining Your Dream Life Though it may be difficult to admit, many of us have trouble managing our finances. This week on SecondWind, we have Bob Wheeler on to talk about how our emotions and money management can be connected, and how money can become a source of contention in a marriage. His background in comedy gives him a unique way of seeing the world and connecting with people in order to give them the life they envisioned for themselves.
Certified CPA and CORE Energetic practitioner, Inspirational Speaker, Author, and CFO of the world-famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles Bob Wheeler inspires people with his financial acuity, compassion and genuine energy, sharing his simple and effective concept, “The Money Nerve” regarding emotions and money. He teaches people from all walks of life how to create a healthy relationship with money. Bob is a popular speaker, workshop presenter, thought leader, and TV / podcast guest.
His crusade for personal growth and deeper awareness developed from his thirty years of helping clients, while baring his soul onstage as a stand up comedian. Digging down to find clarity and purpose on a personal level motivated Bob to help others to explore their past without judgment and to provide insight for people to recalibrate their mental mindset. Knowing that shame or personal memories about money can affect numbers-based budgets, Bob’s passion to help others gain an understanding about emotional triggers – that often sabotage financial decisions – is transforming lives for thousands of people.
Bringing emotions to the center of personal finance conversations sets Bob apart from other financial experts. His book, The Money Nerve: Navigating the Emotions of Money, explores how negative emotions and habits surrounding money impacts people, and then guides people to determine their life values, be proactive, explore unhealthy emotional habits and start making intentional decisions. Integrating an intentional mind-body balance of energy, certified Radical Aliveness and CORE Energetic Practitioner, Bob has conducted numerous Proactive Abundance and Money at its CORE seminars through the USA & Canada.
“I think each of us wants to have an impact on the world. I think each of us deep down want to be the best versions of ourselves and we want to make a difference. And I think all of us are starved for community and we want connection...” Bob Wheeler
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- How we can tell that we hold our trauma and emotions in our bodies
- How CORE Energetics & Radical Aliveness has helped Bob express his vulnerability
- What Bob learned when he separated men and women in his workshops, and asked them to talk about money.
- Couples often don’t have an equal say in how money is spent and saved within their household
- What one of the biggest takeaways from his workshop is
- What Bob used to do early in his comedic career to help in case he had a bad performance, & what he does with a negative reaction
- One of the hardest lessons he had to learn about accomplishments
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The Benefits of a Positive Mind & Healthy Body A near death experience can have a profound effect on how you view your health and life’s purpose. My guest Anita Pirkle can relate to having a life threatening illness, surviving, and finding her new mission in life. In this devastating yet inspiring story on battling Covid-19, we are left with a lesson on the significance of prayer, having a positive mindset, and healthy diet.
Anita Pirkle was born and raised in New Jersey and graduated from Purdue University. She was married for 61 years, and has 3 children and 2 grandchildren. They moved to Atlanta 40 years ago, and have been sharing a product called Juice Plus for 25 years. With all the many nutrients Anita has been putting in her body, she was in excellent health. That is until Christmas Day when 7 members of her family were exposed to Covid-19. Only 3 of them were hospitalized. Her daughter, Dana, her husband, Carl and herself. It was one of the most terrifying experiences she has ever had. Dana was released in 6 days and Anita was released in 14 days. Her husband, Carl, died after 8 days. One night she heard her doctor tell a nurse that her lungs were not sustaining the oxygen, and he didn't think Anita would make it. She awoke at 2:00am in a sheer panic. She had to talk to someone so she called Dana. Anita didn't know what she said, but when she closed her eyes she prayed harder than she had ever prayed. Carl had just died and Anita knew she had to survive. She asked God and Carl to help her lungs heal and pour healing light over her body. Anita then went to sleep. The next morning she woke up a different person. It was a miracle. She knew she was going to survive and go home. The doctors and nurses were amazed at how much Anita had changed. From lying in bed dying to sitting up living. Everyday she grew stronger. Her mission is to tell people they have choices. Being grateful for everything puts you in a different frame of mind.
“God really knows I have more to do. I have a message. I have more to do in this life. He’s not ready for me to go over.” Anita Pirkle
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- The Pirkle family’s experience with Covid-19
- What Anita Pirkle credits to saving her life
- What Juice Plus is, and how it played a part in Anita’s recovery
- How it felt to be grieving in the hospital and live alone for the first time
- Anita’s daughter-in-law’s idea on how to help with grieving at home
- Why Anita isn’t worried about not being able to visit her loved one's resting place
- A good way to process pain and capture moments
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Online Dating & Finding Your Match Dating today looks very different from how it was when many of us were coming up. We now have the internet to help us find our soulmate, and my guest Dr. Joan Bragar has first hand experience with the wonders of online dating. Most people desire to have a partner to commit to, but for those who went through a gray divorce, dating again can be a challenge that a dating coach can guide you through.
Dr. Joan Bragar is the author of Never Too Late for Love: The Successful Woman’s Guide to Online Dating in the Second Half of Life.
Joan is a certified relationship coach who helps women to find happy healthy love in the second half of life. She was happily married at age sixty-two to Marc, whom she met on Match.com. They are living a full life working, staying fit, and enjoying their many children and grandchildren.
She has worked as a professor of leadership at Boston University and as an executive coach to business owners at Harvard Business School.
Joan earned her AB, EdM and EdD degrees from Harvard University. She has taught leadership around the world in universities, businesses, and health ministries.
“Dating is a practice in asking for what you want and finding out how they respond” Dr. Joan Bragar
**What You’ll Learn from This Episode:**
- Dr. Bragar’s message for women who are giving up on finding love in their midlife or after divorce
- Why some women feel the need to be an overachiever
- The importance of vulnerability while dating
- The difference between how men and women experience attraction towards one another
- The beauty in friendship before intimacy
- How long you should wait to marry your partner, what to look for and why
- How to rebuild trust after it has been broken
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Age & Retire With an Open Mind Aging and preparing for retirement can be sensitive topics to navigate through with your parents or even your peers. With the help of my guests, Amanda Lambert & Leslie Eckford, these grim topics became more pleasant by discussing the variety of ways the elderly can be taken care of. In this episode, we take a look at the negativity we associate with the word “old” and how we should all work to make sure the elderly feel seen and heard.
Leslie Eckford is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and RN with a long practice in mental health and geriatric health. She is co-creator and co-author with Amanda Lambert of mindfulaging.com and three books. Leslie has been a long distance caregiver to her aging parents. As her own children become young adults, Leslie is determined that the "empty nest" is the "empty NEXT."
Amanda Lambert grew up on the east coast and went to undergraduate school at University of Massachusetts in Boston. She migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah over 25 years ago and received her Masters at University of Utah. She spent several years working as a geriatric care manager and professional guardian and started her own geriatric care management company about 4 years ago. In addition to co-authoring three books with Leslie Eckford, Amanda is a full time freelance writer on topics related to aging, end of life, caregiving, home accessibility and senior living. Amanda’s particular area of interest is how we can age with good mental and physical health. Her parents live in Salt Lake City in independent senior living and her sister is here as well. She enjoys hiking out with her trainer, reading, family time and exploring healthy cooking ideas.
"We all have wishes. We have a life that we wish for, and we have a life based in reality. And when we put a lot of effort and thought we can make a life that is closer to our wished for life, but it doesn’t always work. One of the things that Amanda and I are really emphasizing in this book is you have to keep an open mind. Some things are going to fit, and some things aren’t.” Leslie Eckford
"You may fantasize about this wonderful living situation, and then you may find that there are parts of it that you just didn’t anticipate and that’s just part of the process” Amanda Lambert
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- We have more options for assisting the elderly than we used to
- Why people are gravitating away from the concept of assisted living
- Our society puts an emphasis on youth and denies aging
- A lot of aging women are starting to do home sharing with like minded people
- Making preparations for your later years helps take the burden off of your adult children
- Women often give up paying jobs to be a caregiver for their families
- Many people, especially women, say that they often feel invisible as they age
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The Dangers of Adult Entertainment With the rise of internet pornography, more people have access to sexually explicit content, and are more susceptible to develop an addiction. In this episode, we will have an informative conversation with Rosie Makinney on the dangers of porn addiction in a relationship, and how you can move forward from this as a couple. We dive into why she also went into recovery for her husband’s addiction, and why some women have a crisis of faith in these relationships.
Rosie is an author, podcaster and founder of Fight For Love Ministries. Her heart is for women in relationships affected by porn addiction, especially those in the lonely and confusing stage between discovery and recovery. She grew up in a small seaside town in Yorkshire, England, and now lives in a small seaside town in California. Her garden is her happy place, and in it she has planted a seed for every woman in her support group. Rosie's mission is to give women hope that a porn-free marriage is possible, and to educate and empower them with the faith and the facts to help them get there.
“Pornography is not actually the problem, it is the solution to the problem which is an intimacy disorder” Rosie Makinney
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- The gender demographic of porn watchers, and how the global sex industry is trying to change women’s views on sex
- The shame attached to watching porn is nonexistent for some people, and prevents others from seeking help
- Why men and women are affected differently from viewing adult entertainment
- Pornography programs women to accept and expect to be degraded
- There is no profile or personality type that is more likely to be addicted to internet porn
- 75% of wives of porn addicts blame themselves for their partners addiction
- The red flags women need to watch out for to determine if their partner is watching porn
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Entrepreneurship, Aging, & Caretaking It takes courage to go against the expectations of others, and follow your own dreams. My guest for this week’s episode, Linda Pavek, has had her life planned out for her as a child. In her adulthood, she decided to take her life into her own hands. As a successful business owner, caretaker, and recent college graduate, Linda is an example of what can be possible with a plan & dedication.
Linda Pavek was born in Duluth, MN. She is 64 years of age, and owns two businesses located in North Branch, MN (BeasyTrans Systems, Inc. and CopperTouch, LLC). She is married with no children, has three spoiled dogs, and also was an only child. Linda considers her family to be whomever she meets that she feels a kindred spirit with. She is a caretaker for her husband, who is a stroke victim, her Mother, who is 91 with severe dementia, and her 95 year old amazing Aunt who still drives and lives independently. Pavek graduated from college four years ago with two BS degrees in business and marketing. It was a lifelong dream to get her college degrees, and she did it with a 3.98 GPA which she is very proud of.
“Some people age faster because they think they’re old.” Linda Pavek
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- How school took away Linda’s love of music & pushed her to switch her major
- What she discovered when she returned to playing music for pleasure
- Linda’s perspective on life, spirituality, and how to move forward from tragedies
- A message for people who feel they are too old to become an entrepreneur
- How coming from a stoic family influenced how Linda expressed her emotion
- Being introduced to death and learning how to grieve in order to find peace
- What to know before becoming a caretaker, and dealing with a parent with severe dementia
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How to Become More Active & Achieve Fitness Goals Finding ways to remain active is an essential part of our physical wellness journey. Our guest, an award-winning personal trainer Julio Salado, is on to discuss how we can get on the track to a healthier lifestyle. By sharing that he wasn’t athletically gifted as a child, we are all reminded that with hard work, we too can achieve our fitness goals.
Julio Salado is an award-winning personal trainer and the founder of Fitnessfoundry.net, a leading online resource for health and wellness. For over fifteen years, Mr. Salado has guided countless individuals from all levels of fitness to achieve their body sculpting and personal training goals. His unique blend of Western exercise science and holistic arts has been featured on numerous TV shows, in print, and online. Mr. Salado also is a licensed EMT, continuing education provider and consultant for team development and personal training business.
His passion for being the best is carried outside the gym and into his community through his social networking with other successful health and fitness professionals including businesses that have a similar mission.
“Physical wellness leads to empowerment, which leads to mental health benefits.” Julio Salado
**What You’ll Learn from This Episode:**
- What Coach Julio means when he says he offers his clients unconditional support
- How to begin your weight loss journey for long term results
- What makes Coach Julio’s training unique
- Pain is not a motivator, and you have to listen to your body before doing any physical activity
- How consuming sugar has a lasting effect on your body
- Why people lose so much weight at the beginning of their weight loss journey, but lose less weight with time
- The sequence of areas we notice weight loss on our bodies
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Aligning Our Body, Mind & Spirit Everyday we see the effects of the pandemic, and not being able to communicate the way we’re used to taking a toll on our mind, body, and spirit. In this episode, the multi-talented Danielle Findlay talks about the benefits of incorporating movement like Pilates or yoga into our routine, and how she is able to use her gift of communication to help others navigate through their own struggles. She leaves us with a challenge to find 3 things that we are grateful for which is an excellent step to achieving a more positive outlook on life.
Owner of Danielle Findlay Pilates & Wellness, Danielle is a Pilates teacher, yoga instructor, podcast co-host, and energy practitioner. In 2018 after leaving a 20+ year corporate career, she discovered her #1 true love and purpose within her studio guiding bodies through the magic of movement and supporting others on their journey of healing and wellness.
Danielle is a natural communicator and loves to share, connect, and empower others to live their best lives. Her podcast, The Cauldron Podcast, is her favorite platform for expression and she loves the weekly conversations that take place around the podcast airways.
Danielle loves to engage in conversation and never shies away from topics like sex, personal relationship issues or physical and mental health concerns, she is always open to sharing her personal experiences of pain, trauma and heartbreak. She has a supportive ear, is a wise soul, and believes in the importance of others feeling seen and heard.
Danielle lives in the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Canmore, Alberta with her husband, Robb and their cat Louis and when not in her studio she will most likely be on a travel adventure, taking in a round of golf or relaxing by there with a book in hand.
Multi-talented and skilled, never with judgement, always with support, ask her anything and get ready to laugh, be motivated and inspired - this girl lives her best life and wants to help you live yours too!
“The real beautiful magic happens when you work one-on-one because when we move our body, emotion will come to the surface and we have choices. We can either suppress it, move it, we can numb it, we can not even acknowledge it, but what I remind my clients is that in the movements that’s going to happen there is an opportunity for emotion to come to the surface and for it to be embraced, be acknowledged, and then release it.” Danielle Findlay
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- What it is about Pilates that draws Danielle in
- How men and women differ in how they approach Pilates
- The difference between the experiences Danielle has with yoga and Pilates
- What inspired her podcast, and how it helps people get through the pandemic
- The naivety and the numbing that happens with acknowledging the effects of the pandemic
- How we can tell when we’re not in alignment
- Everyone can move in some way, we just have to find what works best for us
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Meditation, Relationships & Emotional Intelligence Many have attempted to answer the age old question: What is the secret to a happy marriage? Our guest on this week's episode of SecondWind, Bill O’Herron, reveals how we can enter relationships with a better understanding of ourselves, and sustain these relationships with emotional intelligence. What we take away from this conversation is a greater understanding of the significance our childhood plays in our romantic relationships, and the role that masculine and feminine energy play in the human experience.
Bill O’Herron is a corporate executive and practicing clinical social worker (weekends and evenings). He tries to use all the insights and experiences that he has garnered from the 46 countries he visited, his 34 years of financial sales management, 24 years of marriage and parenting 3 amazing daughters, 15 years of counseling clients, and most importantly his 8,500 hours (25 years) of meditation, to help his clients better understand themselves, deepen their relationships, and fully complete their lives. Bill grew up in NJ, earned a BA in English from Middlebury College and an MSW from Columbia Univ.
O’Herron has been researching self in relationships for 20+ years. All the work they have done shows that relationships fail for one single reason: a lack of understanding of one’s own emotions and reaction patterns created in childhood. His work with archetypes demonstrates also that relationships are not a single experience or dyad between two people, but are eight unique relationships occurring at the same time.
Three key concepts Bill uses which helps accelerate his client's work on themselves are Stand in the Fire, 2nd Law of Thermodynamics at Home, and Relatus.
O’Herron believes our marriages start in 4th grade, when our limbic-emotional body learned, absorbed, and inherited our parents’ lives and experiences, and that we are all actually married to our own old, unconscious emotions more so than to our spouse.
Bill believes that working on oneself, which will automatically improve the dynamics of all our relationships, is the most important thing in life, and that what we do right now in reaction to others echoes through posterity, changing who our grandchildren's children become.
“Women see the boy inside the man, and they see the man inside the boy-adult, and they’re trying to get him to wake up.” Bill O’Herron
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- A deeper appreciation for feminine energy
- Why Bill doesn’t initially ask people he counsels to love themselves
- The reason that women should observe their partner’s relationship with their mother
- Why men feel the need to hide their sensitivity
- How to balance your rationality with your emotions and gain emotional intelligence
- Why marriages between young people are more likely to end in divorce
- How experiencing heartbreak is a fundamental part of transitioning into manhood
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Co-Parenting & Recognizing Your Strength Grieving the loss of a marriage is a unique type of pain that can be amplified when there are children involved. This week on SecondWind, licensed therapist and divorce coach Jill Barnett Kaufman touches on some of the hardest parts of going through this process such as financial strain, emotional turmoil, and adjusting to co-parenting. Instead of focusing on the past, she offers helpful solutions on how to move forward with this new phase of your life.
Jill Barnett Kaufman is a Divorce Coach, Licensed Therapist, Author & Co-parenting Expert. After she went through her own difficult divorce in 2012, she made it her life's mission to help others not have it so tough. Single parenting with a difficult ex wasn't easy, but she eventually got to a great place in her life and learned so much about the process. Jill has put all that she learned into her book, I'm Getting Divorced, Now What? and the book is the basis for her group coaching program, Thriving Through Divorce. Jill’s extensive experience enables her to help her clients and creative solutions to the complex financial and parenting issues in divorce. Her 3 adult children are doing well, and she lives part time in Colorado and part time in New Jersey where she skis, snowshoes, golfs, hikes and bikes. Jill is excited to be getting married in August.
“Once you decide you’re getting a divorce, you no longer are in the same relationship with your ex. If you have children you’re co parents and you don’t have the same expectations...” Jill Barnett Kaufman
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- The most difficult thing about entering a divorce
- The affect the pandemic had on divorce
- Healthy ways to process your emotions during a divorce
- How Jill has changed from the beginning of her marriage to after her divorce
- Realizing that your partner is not always the only reason for your divorce
- Some of the mistakes people make when going through a divorce
- How you should view co-parenting with your ex-spouse
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Business Strategies & Knowing Your Worth Starting a new business can be an exciting yet terrifying decision to make. Our guests for this episode of SecondWind, Deirdre Harter and Carmen Reed-Gilkison, make it their goal to help alleviate the fear that comes with this new career path. Their focus is helping you build a solid foundational business strategy that is rooted in your values. We discuss how women are taught to put ourselves last, and how that presents itself in how we charge for our services.
Carmen Reed-Gilkison, Whole Person Certified Coach, and Deirdre Harter, CPA, and Business Strategy Coach are the Co-Founders of Encore Empire.
We help new and established female entrepreneurs over 40 increase bottom line profits in their online business consistently and holistically by leveraging their past experience, honoring their values, and becoming financially savvy.
With decades of combined entrepreneurial experience, we understand all aspects of business-building in the online marketplace. By combining our two areas of expertise we’ve created a uniquely holistic approach to launching and growing businesses for women over 40.
Women relate and interact differently at this age than their younger counterparts, and definitely different than men. We believe in relationship-marketing and that’s where women over 40 excel. The majority of our activities take place inside our free Facebook Group: Empire of Unstoppable Midlife Women Building Profitable Businesses. You are cordially invited to join us for free weekly training, monthly networking events, bi-weekly business promotion posts, and more!
We offer a holistic 6-month launchpad program for new entrepreneurs and 12-month next-level profits coaching program focusing on business strategy, systems to scale through the lens of finance and leadership.
“The women who are drawn to us are women who are action takers. They realize that they have decades of life experience that is valuable, and they have a dream that they want to bring out to the world.” Carmen Reed-Gilkison
“We tend to work a lot with heart centered entrepreneurs...We are doing this in a holistic manner.” Deirdre Harter
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- How Covid-19 forced business owners to make major changes with the services they provide.
- How adopting a feminine way of doing business can be beneficial
- Why their clients are often uncomfortable with discussing compensation for their work, and how they can avoid feeling this way
- The power your mindset has in your entrepreneurial journey
- When you get to midlife you begin to look at things from a different perspective and think about your legacy
- Being okay with your entrepreneurial journey not being linear
- Important things to know about building a business based on your values
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You Don’t Have to Stay Stuck in The Present Finding the strength to change your life can feel like an impossible task. This week we have certified life coach Jennifer Crowley on to discuss how we can change our mindset from accepting our life’s shortcomings, to acknowledging our own power to create a new story. Jennifer takes us on her journey from evaluating her life, to realizing that she needed to take a new direction.
As a Certified Life Coach and founder of Changeable Coaching, Jennifer Crowley works primarily with women looking to make impactful changes in themselves and in their lives. She’s also a leadership consultant, working with entrepreneurs to help them strengthen their management skills and develop healthy cultures of success.
Prior to her professional life as a coach and consultant, she made the decision to leave behind a successful 20-year career in the wine business to follow her calling and share her path to change and fulfillment.
Jennifer’s mission is to help women summon their strength and create plans to bravely make changes and live the lives they want. As a former executive and divorced mother, she understands the struggle of juggling roles and living with other people’s expectations. In light of her experiences, her goal is to empower women to make changes that align with their wants and needs and help them transition themselves into more integrated, joy-filled lives.
She has chosen to share her story and the life-altering practices she discovered on her journey to inspire other women to action and help them prepare themselves and gather the support they need to be more fearless in the face of change.
Jennifer grew up just outside of Chicago and majored in microbiology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She worked in iconic downtown Chicago bars and restaurants in her twenties, and then found her way to the wine business. She now happily lives in Chicago with her son, Liam, and their dog, Buck.
“My heart is really with women and helping women. I don’t want another woman to stay stuck the way that I did for so long...” Jennifer Crowley
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- The role Jennifer’s career played in sparking a transition in her life
- How Jennifer discovered her passion for helping others
- The difference in the way that men and women tend to express or deal with their pain
- How being a woman in a male dominated work environment can alter your personality traits
- How Jennifer was able to realize that she was living with anxiety
- Why connection to your support system is essential to your wellbeing, especially during quarantine
- How to distinguish stress from anxiety
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Moving From Pain Points to Peace We all grieve in different ways, but for many of us it can become a self-consuming struggle that we feel we can’t escape. Our guest Debra Hester is on this week to help us learn how to build resilience while experiencing grief. We discuss what has put her on this path to help people at their lowest point, and the approach she takes to get them to a more peaceful state of mind.
Debra Hester is a creative social entrepreneur who advocates building resilience and breaking the silent struggle with grief and loss. She is the award-winning author of My Backyard Garden, A Memoir of How Love Conquers Grief.
As founder and CEO of MB Enterprises, Debra leads a talent development organization with a motto of “Inspire, Inform, Transform, that’s what we do! She offers a MOVE Mapping™ workshop experience to address the limited amount of ongoing support, resources, and structures for people struggling with traumatic change.
This transformative MOVE Mapping™ approach applies growth mindset techniques to move participants from pain points to peace. Her My Backyard Garden book series also includes a 2021 release, Look Up Mississippi, A Photo Memoir. Debra creates and produces videos, podcasts and uses social media channels as the foundation for bringing awareness to looking and moving beyond traumatic change and events to #empathyforgrief and loss for self and others.
With over 25 years’ experience as a creative, innovative, learning, leadership development and SHRM senior certified HR leader in large, global organizations, she brings a broad base of practical, people, organizational development skills, and experience. Debra has a passion for the art and science of personal transformation. She is known for participating in, developing, and leading professional and leadership development experiences which drive increased team engagement and performance.
Debra is a skilled writer, facilitator, and visualist who uses communication, marketing, and digital strategies to drive awareness to adoption for her clients’ organizational change initiatives. Debra spent K-12 in Arkansas and graduated from Oklahoma State University in Broadcast Journalism and received her MA in HR Management from Ottawa University. She is currently pursuing an MBA from Mississippi State. She has a weakness for coffee and dark chocolate and finds peace in modern country living in Northern Mississippi.
“There are a lot of things that are strong. We have trees and buildings but there are certain forces that they can’t withstand. I don’t care how strong they are. So it doesn’t mean that you're weak or strong … because you know yourself it allows you to be resilient.” Debra Hester
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- The special connection Debra had with her mother and how that played a role in finding her passion
- How Covid-19 has broadened her audience
- How we should view and deal with anger while grieving
- Why Debra chooses to focus on emotions rather than stages of grief
- The problem with using the word “strong” to describe people going through a difficult time.
- What MOVE Mapping stands for, and how you can implement this into your own life
- Debra’s goal of identifying your specific pain points and helping you move to peace and productivity
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Surviving PTSD & The 2020 Journey Years of dealing with traumatic experiences can take a toll on your mental health. This week on SecondWind, Janet Wiszowaty gives us her insight on PTSD, life through the pandemic, and living in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut. With this discussion we not only get a picture of the cause & diagnosis of PTSD, but also what life can be like living with it.
Janet is an expert in overcoming life’s challenges and has transformed that into helping others do the same. She is an author, speaker, trainer and cheerleader for her clients. Janet has honed her skill while working with emergency police services, through trauma, change, and crisis management, into a practice that is second to none in terms of results achieved with individuals and groups. Janet has and continues to work closely with her clients to develop tools that work for them to move forward and thrive. This work has brought significant results to both individuals and business teams. The tools and the overall effectiveness that Janet has developed and fine-tuned over the years has and continues to provide life-altering results to those when they are at their most vulnerable, their Now What. If you are searching to live a healthier, wealthier, happier and more productive, life, reach out to Janet to explore your next step. Janet has trained with the best and is a Canfield Certified Trainer, Dream Coach plus Master NLP, Time-Line Therapy™ , and Hypnotherapist. She says Your Success is Her Success. To connect directly with Janet, call 780 983 0840 or email Janet directly at janet.wiszowaty@gmail.com
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- How our understanding of PTSD has changed throughout the years
- What accumulative PTSD is, and how it has impacted Janet Wiszowaty’s life
- The correlation between keeping busy and burying your trauma
- The steps that Janet has taken to help deal with her trauma
- Why she pushed herself to travel, learn, and be driven.
- What it is like to live in an arctic region
- The types of issues the pandemic has created or worsened in the home
“It’s hard to slow down, you just want to keep going... I’m alive so I better keep moving.” Janet Wiszowaty
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Knowing Your Values & Community We are constantly changing and facing new challenges that force us to reevaluate who we are, and what we want. For those of us who value in person human interaction, it has been a very difficult year due to the pandemic and social distancing. On today's episode of SecondWind, we’ll be discussing our evolving values, self love, and the complexities of socializing in today’s day and age.
"You need to connect with love, and the love starts with you. Self love.” Joyce Buford
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- What we need to be aware of while going through a difficult life change
- Why we need to find a community that fits who we are now
- How Covid-19 has expanded the way we use the internet
- The role our family plays in our self esteem
- How isolation affects the way we grieve
- Why we should change our mindset from blaming others to accepting responsibility
- The journey to loving yourself and finding your values
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Finding Enjoyment in the Next Stage of Life As women age, we’re often pushed aside and forgotten about as if our value diminishes with time. Our guest for this week's episode, Valerie Albarda, has made it her mission to remind aging women of our worth, and make sure we are seen and heard in a society that dismisses us. She talks about how the different aspects of our identity, namely race, age, and gender, can play a role in what she calls the “invisible woman syndrome”.
Valerie Albarda likes to think of herself as a midlife women's advocate. She tries to inspire women to embrace this time in life, and to squash the notion that just because we're midlife, it doesn't mean we have to be in crisis. She was recently diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, and that changed her world. Even with this, she didn't consider herself in crisis. Valerie began researching and reading about MS so that she can become an advocate and ally for those also dealing with the disease, especially midlife women. “I'll get even more granular: I advocate for midlife women of color who have MS because the medical community often treats us as disposable people; collateral damage in the healthcare system. I don't like that.”
Albarda is also a TEDx alumna. She recently completed her Talk in October 2020, and it started airing in February. “My talk, "The Invisibility Trifecta," tackles the invisible woman syndrome as it relates to women of color (hence, the Trifecta: midlife women of color). I grew up in Maryland with my parents and four sisters. I didn't go to college straight out of high school. At the age of 37 1/2, I was determined to get my degree. I completed an accelerated degree program in 2.5 years and walked across the stage to get my BS in Management 2 months shy of my 40th birthday.”
Currently, by day she works as a senior writer for a large home improvement retailer. On her off hours, She devotes most of her time to her website, Midlife-A-Go-Go, her podcast, MS work and spending time with her family. She’s a wanderlust at heart and she can't wait to embark on her next adventure.
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- Valerie’s journey through her multiple sclerosis diagnosis
- How to enjoy midlife and skip the crisis
- Why women in their midlife stage tend to feel like a they’re a “disposable demographic”
- Steps you can take to redefine who you are
- What the “invisible woman syndrome” is and how race can exacerbate this issue
- Why Valerie wants both midlife women and other demographics to hear her message
- What it is like to have health concerns be dismissed, and why you should always be your own biggest advocate
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Finding Enjoyment in the Next Stage of Life As women age, we’re often pushed aside and forgotten about as if our value diminishes with time. Our guest for this week's episode, Valerie Albarda, has made it her mission to remind aging women of our worth, and make sure we are seen and heard in a society that dismisses us. She talks about how the different aspects of our identity, namely race, age, and gender, can play a role in what she calls the “invisible woman syndrome”.
Valerie Albarda likes to think of herself as a midlife women's advocate. She tries to inspire women to embrace this time in life, and to squash the notion that just because we're midlife, it doesn't mean we have to be in crisis. She was recently diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, and that changed her world. Even with this, she didn't consider herself in crisis. Valerie began researching and reading about MS so that she can become an advocate and ally for those also dealing with the disease, especially midlife women. “I'll get even more granular: I advocate for midlife women of color who have MS because the medical community often treats us as disposable people; collateral damage in the healthcare system. I don't like that.”
Albarda is also a TEDx alumna. She recently completed her Talk in October 2020, and it started airing in February. “My talk, "The Invisibility Trifecta," tackles the invisible woman syndrome as it relates to women of color (hence, the Trifecta: midlife women of color). I grew up in Maryland with my parents and four sisters. I didn't go to college straight out of high school. At the age of 37 1/2, I was determined to get my degree. I completed an accelerated degree program in 2.5 years and walked across the stage to get my BS in Management 2 months shy of my 40th birthday.”
Currently, by day she works as a senior writer for a large home improvement retailer. On her off hours, She devotes most of her time to her website, Midlife-A-Go-Go, her podcast, MS work and spending time with her family. She’s a wanderlust at heart and she can't wait to embark on her next adventure.
“I do think that we need to embrace that notion that midlife does not mean that we are at the end of our life, and that there are so many wonderful things still left for us on the horizon.“ Valerie Albarda
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- Valerie’s journey through her multiple sclerosis diagnosis
- How to enjoy midlife and skip the crisis
- Why women in their midlife stage tend to feel like a they’re a “disposable demographic”
- Steps you can take to redefine who you are
- What the “invisible woman syndrome” is and how race can exacerbate this issue
- Why Valerie wants both midlife women and other demographics to hear her message
- What it is like to have health concerns be dismissed, and why you should always be your own biggest advocate
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It’s easy to forget about practicing self-care when your busy schedule prohibits you from adding much more to your to-do list. On today’s episode of SecondWind, we have Hope Flansburg on to discuss everything relating to self-care from body positivity to work-life balance. She reminds us that making time for ourselves doesn’t have to be such a time consuming task.
Hope is an author, Wellness and Self-Care Educator, and owner of Hope for Health Wellness. She plants seeds of hope by teaching others how stress impacts their emotional and physical health, while sharing complimentary layers of self-care to promote healing. She wants to help you decrease stress, anxiety, and improve overall health to live the quality of life you crave free from continued symptoms and deteriorating health.
Hope began writing sixteen years ago as part of her own healing process. She now uses her fiction romance novels to bring a voice to the exact scenarios that break us. Through stories of vulnerability, courage, and healing, these books can be used as a tool for social emotional awareness, and to inspire and empower others. With an exquisite mix of suspense, darkness, lightness, and personal growth, she sends the message that existing is reason enough to receive abundance in this life, and out of our darkest times can come our greatest achievements.
You hear all the time that it is really important to own our “no”, but I think what's even more important is that we know what our “yeses” are. If we can define our yeses, it’ll help us find that balance of where we’re giving our time, where we’re giving our energy, and so we don’t get led to burn out and overwhelm all the time to where we feel that we aren’t showing up and giving the love that the people around us deserve as well” - Hope Flansburg
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- What it was like becoming a single parent with twin girls
- How to turn your darkest times into something great
- Why you should start manifesting and create vision boards during tough life transitions
- How Hope incorporated her love of love, spirituality, and self-help into a novel
- Our society is impacted by the “disease of being busy” or stress and anxiety
- We tend to focus so much on loving others more than loving ourselves
- How Hope helps those who feel their busy schedule prevents them from practicing self care
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Journey of Self-Expansion At some point we may find ourselves becoming unsatisfied with some aspect of our lives. On today’s episode, Natasha Scripture shares how she felt accomplished in her career, but struggled to find her ideal partner. What started out as a desire to ground herself has turned into a 9 month journey of self expansion far away from the hustle and bustle of New York City. She speaks on her culture’s belief that you need to be married to be complete, and how she learned to feel whole on her own.
Natasha Scripture is an author, poet, health coach and former aid worker. As an emergency spokesperson for the United Nations, Natasha covered humanitarian crises around the world, including conflicts and natural disasters in Ethiopia, Haiti, Libya, and Pakistan. Before the UN, she worked as a writer, producer and editor for a variety of organizations, including the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera English, TED, National Geographic and Condé Nast Publications. She has been interviewed by CNN, ABC News, BBC Radio, the Irish Examiner and Women’s Health (Australia), among other news outlets, been published in the New York Times, The Telegraph, Marie Claire, Glamour UK, The Sydney Morning Herald, Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, the New York Post and The Atlantic, among other publications, and been featured in Marie Claire, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Sunday Times Style magazine.
What You’ll Learn from This Episode:
- How reaching her mid-thirties changed Natasha Scripture’s outlook on her life
- How being on a “Man Fast” can change your dating life & relationship with yourself
- The journey to self acceptance & realizing you are enough
- Why people tend to change after going through something difficult
- The healing effects of nature and a change of scenery
- Perfection can be boring and flaws can be endearing
- How incorporating daily practices of gratitude can lead to abundance
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In this episode as guest host for Joyce Buford, Cynthia Isaac discusses her journey from significant losses to hope and healing, and how this journey led her to discovering her purpose and passion. Now she shares what she has learned in an effort to help others live their best lives.
Cynthia Isaac is a personal growth and empowerment coach, clinical hypnotist, NLP and EFT practitioner, personal development trainer, and workshop and facilitator. Her purpose in life is to encourage, empower and equip those who experience loss to grow beyond the grief and loss so they can create more fulfilling lives with grace and ease. Her passion is to help her clients "drop the drama" and "transform trauma into triumph."
What You'll Learn from This Episode: * The importance of growing beyond loss, including divorce and death * How accidentally stumbling into coaching helped Cynthia to “heal her heart” * How healing prepares you to find hidden gifts you didn’t know you possess * How discovering your purpose and passion can free you from drama and trauma * Three simple secrets to begin activating your best life now * Problems are not your problem, they are the symptoms of what needs to change * The more honest you are with yourself, the quicker you can get what you want * 95% of your decisions are made by your subconscious, and how this impacts your life * Why it is important to examine your beliefs, and why they are behind the choices you make * The importance of finding acceptance, encouragement and support in a group of like-minded people * How your thoughts can raise or lower your vibrational frequency, and the impact of this on manifesting the life you want.
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