Episodes
Wednesday Dec 13, 2017
Liz Gilbert- spiritual sister and all around amazing human
Wednesday Dec 13, 2017
Wednesday Dec 13, 2017
Liz Gilbert (not THE Liz Gilbert of Eat Pray Love) is one of the best human beings that I have ever known. She has been my spiritual sister for over a decade and has consistently shown up and strove for spiritual growth.
Here is her story.
Wednesday Dec 06, 2017
Dianne A. Allen, MA a mentor, author, speaker, podcaster and life catalyst
Wednesday Dec 06, 2017
Wednesday Dec 06, 2017
Dianne A. Allen takes her raw experience, education and information and offers exhilarating solutions to life’s challenges. She works as a mentor, author, speaker, podcaster and life catalyst for bright and sensitive people creating exciting and diverse avenues to opening and expanding possibilities of personal transformation. If you want to be free of what holds you back, Dianne has a way of offering that needed push of inspiration to get your moving for your highest good. With over 3 decades of working with personal development, Dianne is committed to presenting ideas and strategies in understandable and empowering ways.
Books:
How to Quit Anything in 5 Simple Steps
The Loneliness Cure – A Guide to Contentment
7 Simple Steps to Get Back on Track and Live the Life You Imagine
The new Book 4th Daily Meditations for visionary leaders
Podcast:
Someone Gets Me – enjoys an international audience
Website: http://visionsapplied.com/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/visionsappliedfl/
Podcast website: http://www.someonegetsme.podbean.com/
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/someonegetsme/
EPISODE QUOTABLES:
I even took a world religions class and I loved it and what I really loved was the diversity from like Eastern religions and Western religions and religions that aren't around anymore that were really cool I started wondering what is God anyway? ~ Dianne A. Allen
When somebody says HE they were making God human when God is not human. ~ Dianne A. Allen
I remember going down to this jetty at the beach where I live and just looking at the Gulf or the sunset and it's magical, it's the most beautiful places on earth, and I remember feeling the breeze on my face and watching the sea oats blowing and thinking, that's it, that's God. God is the wind, you cannot see it but you see the effect of it. ~ Dianne A. Allen
Wednesday Nov 29, 2017
Mark Silver: Founder of The Heart of Business
Wednesday Nov 29, 2017
Wednesday Nov 29, 2017
This week I got the pleasure of interviewing Mark Silver. It was one of my favorite interviews so far.
Mark Silver is a recognized master teacher in his Sufi lineage, and has earned his Masters of Divinity. He is also the founder and leads the team at Heart of Business, and since 2001 they've helped thousands of small business owners develop their small business in this dysfunctional economy, while striving to live the truth that every act of business can be an act of love. He lives in central New York with his wife and twin sons.
https://www.heartofbusiness.com/
EPISODE QUOTABLES:
The core Sufi practice is called remembrance. It's remembering the divine, remembering the presence of the divine and One. The way that we understand divinity, and divine and Allah as the word, is the name, is that this is not a beard in the sky, it is the oneness, it's universal source that we all come from and we all return to, on that we are not separated from. Our yearning, our striving, is to remember the divine in every moment, in everything, to see the oneness and the multiplicity and to see the multiplicity and the oneness. ~Mark Silver
Sufism is it is a is a devotional practice, it's a devotional path and it has to do with not of detachment but of attachment, like we're attempting to attach ourselves to the One, to the love through love.
The Remembrance as a practice, is the repeating of the calling of the name. It's not a mechanical practice, it's a relationship, like we're wanting to be in relationship with the One and there is some of the language of the deity, language that comes in because it represents an intimacy that is available you.
Love is a deeply attaching force and quality and that's what we're attempting to do, is to feel the love is to witness the love it's present in everything in every moment.
I'm trying to call through my heart to the divine and be aware of that presence as much as possible.
The way that we understand and witness the divine according to Sufism is of course is by the 99 divine qualities. ~Mark Silver
It's just a way of understanding how the divine moves everything, that everything is an expression of the movement of divine presence and that we're never alone and we're never separate. ~Mark Silver
So many of our actions are unfulfilling, because the actions are an attempt to manufacture divine qualities and human beings are completely unable to manufacture divine qualities we don't have that power but what we can do is we can sense that neediness inside ourselves a thirst for safety a thirst for love a thirst for appreciation for connection for wisdom for guidance for forgiveness and then we can ask for it and we can fill with it and then when we're filled with it we can be an expression of it.
In Sufism the one of the metaphors we use the metaphor of the ocean a lot and water and thirst and so what I've come to understand is that these emotions like fear and anger and a grief these are just symptoms of thirst it's like when we're thirsty our throat gets dry when we get hungry our stomach rumbles when our heart is thirsty we feel fear or anger or grief and it's just the sign of thirst and we can either you know go for junk food that doesn't really nourish us or we can slow down and get what really nourishes us and for me an understanding of the thirst of the heart's thirst helps me not react on the fear so directly. ~Mark Silver
Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Alisoun Mackenzie, The Compassionate Business Mentor, Speaker & Author
Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Alisoun Mackenzie The Compassionate Business Mentor, Speaker & Author, Alisoun Mackenzie is on a mission to empower business owners and entrepreneurs to grow profitable businesses that make a difference in the world. She does this through her books, speaking at events and working with clients around the world.
https://www.alisoun.com https://givetoprofit.com https://www.facebook.com/alisounbusiness/ https://twitter.com/AlisounMac https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUejCtEN1SwNZ43n5ERPbow https://soundcloud.com/alisoun-mackenzie/sets/give-to-profit-podcast
EPISODE QUOTABLES:
Business is a great opportunity to be kind. ~ Alisoun Mackenzie
Supporting charities and social causes through your business is a powerful way to turn your business into a force for good. ~ Alisoun Mackenzie
I thought that spirituality was this white-haired God that we told us all what we weren't allowed to do and I had no idea what spirituality was ~ Alisoun Mackenzie
We could have faith, we could be connected and I felt like it actually all made sense and that my resistance was actually more to the particular churches that I was being taken to. ~ Alisoun Mackenzie
I see faith and spirituality as being completely neutral and nothing to do with religion but more to do with us as human beings and connection. ~ Alisoun Mackenzie
Before we are born all we are is an energy of love. When we are in the womb, we are just love, when we are born we're love all the way through, life our energy force is love and connection and it's within us, it is us, it's all around us and some people may call that God, some, people may call that source, some people may call that the universe. I see them now as all being the same thing. ~ Alisoun Mackenzie
The connection (to spirit) was too strong. I liked what I was hearing, I loved what I was experiencing, I really liked the people I was meeting and it just was the start of me really stepping into a whole other world that now I could never be without. ~ Alisoun Mackenzie
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Bri Seeley Author, Speaker and Catalyst
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Bri Seeley is an inspirational woman who supports women around the world to bring their visions to life. A catalyst, speaker, and author, she is a regular contributor for The Huffington Post and Influencive and is known by many for her tell-it-like-it-is, out-of-the-box guidance that creates massive and epic changes in every woman she encounters.
I am excited to tell you her amazing new book Permission to Leap which comes out on November 14th, she also has a podcast with the same name and a 6 month training. You can find out how to get all of these amazing things at CoachLeslie.com/podcast
I also have to say, one of the people responsible for making this podcast possible. It was through a transformational conversation with Bri that I got the courage to go Take the Leap and do what I feel so passionately about!
Bri is motivated by a deeply-held belief that every woman deserves to live a life that inspires her, and her work reflects this deep remembering of the possibility - nay, inevitability - that our desires hold. Through her book, podcast, and 6-month training, Permission to Leap will guide you through the process of leaping from the day you commit to the day you land softly on the other side.
Bri has been featured on NBC's The TODAY Show, Forbes, Inc, Medium, PBS, and Free Enterprise. Bri received the Outstanding Small Business award from the Los Angeles Mayor's office and the Small Business Development Center in 2016.
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life - Before 8AM by Hal Elrod
EPISODE QUOTABLES:
There's a physical world and there's a spiritual world and if we're not tapped into the spiritual world we're missing out on 95% of really what's available to us in any given moment. ~ Bri Seeley
I have three hours of non-negotiable, protected time, in the mornings and that is my time to connect with spirit that is my time to receive guidance. ~Bri Seeley
Wednesday Nov 08, 2017
Berni Xiong, The Shin Kicking Life Spark
Wednesday Nov 08, 2017
Wednesday Nov 08, 2017
Berni Xiong is The Shin Kicking Life Spark. She is a Reiki Master, and author of several books including The Year of the Brave Bear, and its paperback companion The Way of the Brave Bear: An Intuitive Guide for Speaking up, Standing Out and Changing Your World. She is a contributing writer for Chicken Soup for the Soul and HuffPost.
Hear Berni's story of growing up Catholic, getting married at 16 and having her son, to becoming burned out at work and finding Reiki as a way to do Self Care. Today she "believes that my mission and my purpose in this lifetime, in this world, is to make a positive difference in the world, make a positive impact in the world" and that belief is a driving force for her decisions that she makes about her career and her life.
http://www.bernixiong.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Soubirous
EPISODE QUOTABLES:
What I've learned being Catholic for so long and then now being more open to other modalities, spirituality and of energy healing, I think it that all groomed me to be the person I am today and the belief systems I have today. ~ Berni Xiong
I'm constantly trying to improve and transform and learning how to letting go of all the guilt. ~ Berni Xiong
It is my purpose and my mission to be someone of healing people, being loving, being compassionate and making a positive difference. ~ Berni Xiong
My faith is stronger than it's ever been before in terms of believing and something powerful and loving and beautiful and that my purpose and mission in this world is to be someone who contributes to that positivity and that positive contribution. ~ Berni Xiong
When I write that is the greatest form of creative expression. ~ Berni Xiong
Reiki is not magic, there's nothing strange about it. It's basically our bodies are full of energy and sometimes energy is trapped in a way in your body, where it's either overactive or it's under active and so you're just giving attention to those spots and you're allowing them to feel balance. ~ Berni Xiong
I wholeheartedly believe anybody who's listening, if they're feeling like spirits and angel guides are not visiting them, I guarantee you give yourself the space and the time and become more still and become less focused on forcing the message to come and just telling yourself I'm open to receiving the message you will hear or feel or sense something in some way shape or form. ~ Berni Xiong
Wednesday Nov 01, 2017
Peter Rubin ~ Business Midwife
Wednesday Nov 01, 2017
Wednesday Nov 01, 2017
Peter Rubin is known as Your Business Midwife. He guides his clients on authentic journeys of inner growth and the creation of visionary businesses that stand out in the marketplace, contribute to communities, and generate a healthy profit. Coaches, spiritual healers, sexuality teachers, social justice activists, and other visionary leaders turn to Peter for compassionate and brilliant guidance that unites strategy and soul.
Join us on hearing Peter's story. We talk about his journey discovering...
~ mindfulness as a depressed engineering grad student at Stanford and his mentoring relationship with Julian Gorodsky
~ being a designer and leaving his design job to become a coach in 2011
~ the intersection of spirituality and sexuality and his experiences with Orgasmic Meditation
~ the intersection of spirituality and business
Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
After the Ecstasy the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield
EPISODE QUOTABLES:
I probably had a half dozen, mini awakenings, maybe more. These little awakenings are some part of me that was asleep wakes up and I'm able to see a little bit deeper into myself for a new realm or something comes online that was numbed out or shut down. ~ Peter Rubin
I find my curiosity gets me into things and then my courage gets me out of it. ~Peter Rubin
I could finally integrate my sense of ethics and spirituality with the way I was doing business ~ Peter Rubin
I'm teaching how to know soul and strategy, how do you stay connected to your soul and your heart sense of what's right and what's wrong … and then how do you integrate all of your business practices, your curriculum, your marketing, or selling with who you are and who you want to be. ~ Peter Rubin
It feels like we're in this awkward space between capitalism and what's next ~Peter Rubin
God grant me the appropriate challenges, please may my life not be too easy or so hard that I go into panic and can't learn the courage. Tibetan Buddhist prayer
Wednesday Oct 25, 2017
Amelia Vogler is an intuitive, a specialist in energy medicine
Wednesday Oct 25, 2017
Wednesday Oct 25, 2017
Amelia Vogler is an intuitive, a specialist in energy medicine and natural healing. She has been working in this field close to 12 years and her practice draws from a variety of energetic and holistic modalities, education in and across the Spiritual sciences, and deep study in natural and earth-based healing methods.
Her specialty is supporting those who do not feel connected to the planet. She works with individuals who have suffered traumas that lead to disassociative patterns at the soul level; people who come into the planet not feeling connected to it; or people who don't feel safe with other people or in their own emotional lives. Through the spectrum of her work she walks individuals through a path of wholeness supporting them through "truly being here" and then supporting them in uncovering the gifts that they are here on Earth to live into their lives.
www.ameliavogler.com https://www.facebook.com/thehealingspacellc https://twitter.com/HealingSpaceNC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravian_Church
EPISODE QUOTABLES:
I had this very whimsical childhood filled with music and celebration and opportunity for curiosity and imagination. ~ Amelia Vogler
The language of energy is so universal it takes us beyond the stories of everyday religions it brings us to the core the template the code that which is inspired by something beyond us and allows us to hold it. ~ Amelia Vogler
It's all in the alchemy of what does it mean to know the light in us. ~ Amelia Vogler
I think spirituality is verb. ~ Amelia Vogler
I like to be in balance with the natural unfolding of our knowledge here on the earth plane and then inquiring deeply from that framework from those questions into a more contemplative and meditative practice to be able to tap into spirit and say spirit teach me teach me what else. ~ Amelia Vogler
I think every company should hire an intuitive because they can get you the answers. ~ Amelia Vogler
Signs of offness are really lovely wisdoms that say you're not in the right place. ~ Amelia Vogler
Wednesday Oct 18, 2017
Eric Bensoussan Relationship & Divorce Coach
Wednesday Oct 18, 2017
Wednesday Oct 18, 2017
Eric is a Relationship & Divorce Coach. He is helping people to overcome the emotional challenges of divorce such as pain, anger, hurt and confusion, so that they can move on and start to feel better. He supports people's healing process to reclaim their Strength, Confidence and Joy. He believes that you can experience a new way of being yourself through transcending divorce.
Hear Eric's journey as he was born in Morocco in a Jewish family, with the experience of God, an inner knowing, then as he grew up he lost that connection. During this 20's and early 30's being atheist and believing that there was no God, to getting to a place where he started to question his own beliefs and started looking for his own answers.
EPISODE QUOTABLES:
"I grew up with the presence of God and for me there was no doubt that there was a there was God somewhere I didn't know really what it means at that time" ~ Eric Bensoussan
"I was praying it was very natural to me, I didn't know where it was coming from … it was just natural I knew that there was something else, that I could have support" ~ Eric Bensoussan
"I just started to be curious more about what is it to be spiritual and I was seeking people who were spiritual to get a sense of what was their experience." ~ Eric Bensoussan
"At some point you have to allow yourself to forgive, for whatever didn't work in your life and you just have to seek for the learning, for the teachings, about what you went through and then you can get more guidance from life, more guidance from the universe or God whatever is your belief" ~ Eric Bensoussan
"I am more spiritual being having a human experience this is it and whatever the religion you have you just have to find the connection with the divine"~ Eric Bensoussan
"What I seek in my life right now is whatever is sacred" ~ Eric Bensoussan
"When you start hearing like the whispers of the of the wisdom the whisper of the of the divine presence you get you pay more attention and don't get me wrong sometimes I really feel disconnected from that so it's a practice" ~ Eric Bensoussan
"The universe will throw you a lot of opportunities in your lives but it's your choice to take them or not" ~ Eric Bensoussan
"Being on a spiritual path is not yes suddenly you get it and then nothing else. Even the big gurus, the big teachers, they are still on a spiritual path. Until you die you have to practice." ~ Eric Bensoussan
"Spirituality is so powerful, you get to have a sense that this is not only a path this is a way of living"~ Eric Bensoussan
"I realized that there is no actually separation between me and the Devine." ~ Eric Bensoussan
"There is no right or wrong path to connecting to the divine or the universe you just have to find your own path"~ Eric Bensoussan
"When bad things happened to me I still resist about it, but as I recall my spirituality and my inner guidance I know that something's going to come back from that" ~ Eric Bensoussan
"I live my life on a daily practice and I do honor the present moment. Â That's where am I in my spiritual practice right now, I do Honor being present, being present for myself, being present for my friends, for my family, and not being distracted by anything else." ~ Eric Bensoussan
"it is beautiful and frustrating that repeatedly the answer is surrender and forgiveness" ~Leslie Seidel
"There is what happens and then what I think about what happens" ~Leslie Seidel
"Welcome to your Practice" ~Leslie Seidel
"Our spiritual life is a practical thing not something left for Saturday or Sunday or a special confinement but actually a practical tool to navigate the world" ~ Leslie Seidel
http://www.happilydivorcedcoaching.com/
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
Claire Shamilla Energy Healer
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
Claire Shamilla is an energy healer who lives in New Zealand with her life partner and their two young children. She believes that Light bringers and healers have a powerful role to play in creating a future for humanity that is free of fear.
Since 2010 she has worked with Universal Realm energies to overcome a lot of fear and anxiety in her own life and she now supports Light Bringers to overcome obstacles and step into their highest purpose and infuse more Light through the world.
Listen to Claire's amazing journey to healing and spiritual grown. She traveled the world searching for answers and end up back in her homeland of New Zealand. It was her desire to help others, her path into motherhood that she in turn healed herself. She learned Reiki, Psych K, hypnotherapy and other modalities
"I remember starting that Reiki class I felt like I was like this ancient wizard and I started to reconnect with that little girl who knew magic was real." ~ Claire Shamilla
"Children are can be such a motivation for us of propelling us even more strongly towards our spiritual journey" ~ Claire Shamilla
"I really chose at that point, I drew the line in the sand that I'm not raising kids in this fear even if the world falls apart I refused to be in the grips of this fear anymore" ~ Claire Shamilla
"you've realized the fear wasn't a fact, like I need air is a fact right, it became, I have choice here I can live a different way" ~ Leslie Seidel