Everyday Mindfulness Show

What would happen if every member of your team came to work focused on finding solutions and creating better results? Based on ground-breaking new research in innovation and problem-solving, you'll learn what leaders like you are doing to build more creative and solutions-oriented teams. On this show we talk to Karin Hurt & David Dye to explore how this research will change the way you lead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How many hours a day are you on a video or Zoom meeting? Make the most of that meeting with proper intentional planning. Author of Engaging Virtual Meetings and CEO of Geoteaming John Chen tells us how a little bit of mindfulness can increase the success of online meetings by 10x. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I am love, I am in my heart, I am listening. In this episode, Holly interviews Juha Riverhill, spiritual teacher from Finland. Juha's inspiration comes from a lifetime of difficulties, from being bullied as a child to a tumultuous divorce in his later years. out of the worst moment of his life. A difficult divorce, overwhelm of the aftermath and the whisper from his spirit guide, Cecelia, led him to channel/write his book, The Golden Book of Humanity. Questions Holly and Juha explore include: • How did you come to the understanding of spirit guides? • What is something that you may be resisting in your life that gives you an opportunity to find a greater guide in your own life? • Where do you start and how can you implement a sense of curiosity in your daily life? • How can we ponder and practice the mantra I am love, I am in my heart, I am receiving? • The Divine approached Juha in many ways from the time he was a child. He asked to be shown the way to communicate on a deeper level with his spirit guides. • During a time in Paris, his time with Cecelia and other guides gained clarity and understanding the gifts they could help him bring to the world. He set a goal of becoming a spiritual teacher. Coming from a Christian background, he always had an understanding of the Holy Spirit, but he came to crave more of a spiritual exploration to a connection with unconditional love. He found this by bringing his living from his head to living in his heart. Through this it fulfilled an aching heart and created a raised vibrational state of sending and receiving perfect unconditional love with his life. Find out more about Juha's book here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg Williams is The Master Negotiator. His experience and proven results in negotiation skills and body language, combined with his knowledge of emotional intelligence, make him a sought-after speaker and​consultant. ​He is a dynamic speaker who engages and motivates audiences by us​ing real life examples from the negotiations he’s participated in to illustrate the principles he shares. Questions that Holly and Greg discuss: ·     What are you top two or three tips for people to discuss the topics in today’s environment? ·     How do we iterate our master skills to meet the needs of today’s changes? ·     How insights can be gained by paying attention to body language during negotiations? ·     What are some introductory things that people can refine in today’s video environments? ·     Are you finding that you’re able to connect with a sense of oneness through body language? Everything I engage in works! Find more about Greg at https://www.themasternegotiator.com/ or email him at greg@themasternegotiator.com. Remember, mindfulness matters and so do YOU! Find more resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly interviews Justin Foster about his work with Root and River Marketing. He and his team have cultivated blending spiritual and practical for mission-driven brands. His company helps define ways for every great brand to have a spiritual experience. A brand is how others experience what you believe. They philosophy behind their strategy is humanistic marketing practices. Do not market unto others the way you would not be marketed to. “Root” is the intrinsic mission, brand and message. “River” is how your message shows up in the world and these need to be congruent. Some of the questions they explore are: ·     What makes a “Mystical friendship”? ·     What thoughts do you have for navigating the deep roots of the changes happening right now? ·     What does consciousness mean to you? Justin pronounces that “Nature kills pretense!” These times are causing people to really examine what is really important. He also shares his belief that consciousness is the space between thoughts and feelings and YOU, your true self. Justin recommends that we be willing to ask more questions and incorporate “this is what it means to me.” His philosophy is to have a self-intervention practice. This involved three things to ask yourself: 1.    When you react to something ask yourself “is that true? “Don’t trust your thoughts and feelings completely. Listen to them, but don’t trust them completely. 2.    What are you feeling called to do, or action to take, that you haven’t been called to do before? 3.    What is something you can’t go back to? Justin says that something he is not going back to borrowing energy from other people. See more about Justin’s work at https://rootandriver.com/ or his personal work at https://fosterthinking.com/ Remember – Mindful Matters and so do YOU!! https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Honor of National Hair Loss Awareness Month in August, Holly hosts an interview with The Alopecia Angel, Johanna Dahlman. After having alopecia and recovering through holistic and organic methods, Johanna created books, programs and a site that is filled with empowering information, healthy alternatives and side effect free results for hair and health. Health is the greatest form of wealth. She helps people reduce anxiety, depression, stress, weight gain, health problems that arise due to neglect and reduce the toxic burden you are potentially enabling, even unknowingly. Correcting steps now, avoids potential health risks and increases productivity along with prosperity. Questions Holly and Johanna explore: How do we have the conversation with employers when a health situation comes up? What are practices that can be done to start listening to the body? What are symptoms of alopecia? Where can we start to evaluate our lifestyles? The power is in your hands to improve your health! Visit www.alopeciaangel.com for more information. Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do YOU! For more resources go to https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Sanborn holds the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame. He was recently honored with the Cavett Award, the highest honor the NSA bestows on its members, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the speaking profession. In 2019, Global Gurus named Mark the #5 Leadership Authority in the world. In his latest keynote, The Intention Imperative, based on 33 years of working with organizations globally, teaching leaders and observing powerful shifts, Mark has identified three essential areas of focus for leaders in the world: Inspiration: motivation to the power of purpose Culture: creating an engine that sustains vision and values while achieving desired results Emotion: designing and delivering positive emotions for customers and employees You don’t have to have a title to be a leader! If you take care of the moments the moments become your life. If you daydream, choose to do it and don’t do it accidentally. Mark’s personal practice is to focus. Morning meditations and prayer and setting his intentions wherever you’re at, be there. His current read is The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. He’s highly recommends taking the time to slow down to the point of purposefulness. Questions Holly and Mark explore: How can you deliver positive emotions to customers during this time? How can we reconstruct how we connect to others? What is a surprise lesson outside North America that you have learned? Post COVID-19, people are now worried about security and safety. It’s imperative that companies, particularly restaurants, engineer around secure. Being at home more, Mark learned that he really liked being at home. After a long career of travelling extensively, he hadn’t gotten much of a chance to be home. The lifestyle change helped him look at his underlying values. Reinvent yourself every day. One of the tools that Mark offers is The Extraordinary Living Journal, which is a combination of two pages a day journaling, goal setting, examining purposes and important relationships. Recount what happened the day before, find three good things and examine them and then write and plan for the day. Find more about Mark at https://marksanborn.com/ Mark Sanborn is an award winning speaker and Leadership Expert in Residence at High Point University, the Premier Life Skills University. For more information about his work, visit www.marksanborn.com. He also teaches professional speakers and leaders how to increase their messaging and public speaking effectiveness. Learn more here. Remember Mindful Matters and so do YOU! Find more mindful resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Failing to plan for problems is planning to fail. Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases, which devastate bottom lines and bring down high-flying careers. His expertise and passion is developing the most effective and profitable decision-making strategies, based on pragmatic business experience and cutting-edge behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience, to empower leaders to avoid business disasters and maximize their bottom lines.  A best-selling author, he wrote he wrote Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (2019), The Truth Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide (2017), and The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships (2020). Dr. Tsipursky’s cutting-edge thought leadership was featured in over 400 articles and 350 interviews in Fast Company, CBS News, Time, Scientific American, Psychology Today, The Conversation, Business Insider, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Government Executive, Inc. Magazine, and elsewhere. Questions Holly explores with Dr. Tsipursky: ·     How can we navigate decisions from a place of higher awareness during this time? ·     How does resilience pertain to the current situations? ·     What are the six issues to think about during transition times? ·     What are some tips for navigating awkward? Decisions are 80-90% driven by emotions.  Going by gut responses, or the fight or flight responses, do not serve appropriately in today’s world. With the situation today, the world situation of Coronaviras and Covid-19, people’s responses are not built to deal with this situation appropriately. People are still functioning in emergency mode and need to adjust to a new “abnormal.” Dr. Tsipursky’s business was deeply impacted during this challenging time. As a speaker and trainer, all of his events around his book tour were cancelled. His father also contracted Covid-19! His mother, having medical training, was able to keep him from going to the hospital. With so many layers of crisis occurring right now, people may believe they are better at communicating than they are. We all operating through different lenses. It’s important to ask oneself, What kind of values and information does the other person have? What kind of filters are they operating with? How can your communication fail? How can you address the ways they can fail? With the advent of virtual communications there are many different aspects that need to be addressed and being aware of body language and other aspects of how one comes off on video. His daily mindfulness practice mornings include yoga, John Cabbot Zen school of evidence-based meditation which have been evaluated by academic research and in the afternoon he does Zazen empty mind meditation. See more of Dr. Gleb’s work at https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/ and read his book Resilience: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do YOU! Find more mindful resourses at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“You really miss something when we equate success to money. Balance and presence is the key to success.” Peter Taunton is a pioneer in the fitness industry. In 2003, he had a vision for Snap Fitness to create an affordable, 24-7, results driven gym differentiated from the impersonal, expensive big box experience. Today there are Snap Fitness franchises in 2500 locations in 26 countries. And Taunton, CEO of Lift Brands, didn't stop there. Taunton is a expert at understanding consumer desires and fulfilling them. In recent years, he has acquired and founded several brands to round out the consumer fitness experience: 9Round, Farrell's, YogaFit, STEELE Fitness, Fitness on Demand. Together with the Snap Fitness they comprise one of the world's largest wellness franchise organizations with over 6000 locations across multiple brands serving 165 million workouts and counting. Peter's accomplishments have been well recognized by the business community. In 2010, he was named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of The Year. For Taunton it comes down to one word: passion. He has it, he teaches it and the results speak for themselves. Even as his operations expand, he remains ever committed to providing owners and members with the tools and programs they need to reach life changing goals. Some of the questions that Holly and Peter explore: ·     How did you create a vision of growing a wellness franchise? ·     What are tips and strategies get you into the flow and keep you there? ·     What is your daily mindfulness and physical fitness practice? ·     How are you building your CBD business? Peter says “I love my life!” And in his life the common thread is wellness, physical and mental. Having the right mindset and being prepared to do the work by setting up a chronological order to set up new businesses. Take small bites and work your way through it. Thin yourself from the herd to be visible and impactful. He found himself finding that money doesn’t buy happiness. He was wealthy, but single, and focused on philanthropy in order to create a life that made him happy. He started posting his daily devotionals and gained a following Luck and hope is not a business plan. Along with his daily devotional, he has a to do list that he’s kept since he was twelve years old. Social media has become an avenue for him to express himself – if you see four guys in a meeting, three in suits and one in jeans and flip flops – he’s the one with the money. He rides his bike around Miami to meetings. He prays with those he meets with. Known as Pistol Peet, even the homeless community leans on Peter to bring smiles and connection. Peter looks back at his life and asks “What did I miss? What would I have done differently?” And, responds, “I wish I would have danced more. He wishes he’s spent more time with his family, church and friends. He built 377 stores in a year! He was able to hire the right talent and get them to stay in their lanes. He has used the same systems and processes over the years and they have worked successfully whether he was opening 5 stores a month or 377 a year. Peter started working out when he was thirteen and just never stopped. He manages his weight and body fat and can do more pullups today than when he was in his twenties! You really miss something when we equate success to money. Balance and presence is the key to success. Peter gives 10% of his profits in his CBD sales to charity. He is in it for the challenge of building a consciously run company. Follow Peter on Instagram @Peter_taunton or on Twitter @petertaunton. For more information on Peter’s CBD Business, go to www.elevarelabs.com. Remember Mindful Matters and So Do You! For more mindful resources go to https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Holly interviews Richard and Charly Jaffe, father and daughter co-authors of Turning Crisis Into Success: A Serial Entrepreneur’s Lessons on Overcoming Challenge While Keeping Your Sh*t Together Richard Jaffe was the co-founder of Nutri-Foods International (frozen novelties) and SafeSkin Corp (medical devices), both of which he took public on NASDAQ and sold to Fortune 100 companies. Both companies developed #1 selling products in their categories nationwide. He currently writes, speaks and mentors young entrepreneurs on starting and scaling new ventures. Charly Jaffe is a writer, storyteller and captivating advocate for mental and emotional health. With a background spanning industries and continents, Charly produced stories for BBC News, ran an Australian yoga school and was an award-winning Google strategist. She is currently a crisis counselor and graduate student in Columbia University’s Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology. Richard shares his most memorable advice from his father. “I didn’t find crisis, crisis found me. Just remember crisis is only change over a very short period of time. Will it hold you back or catapult your growth?” Charly found that when her dad faced a big crisis, asking for help was a key part of getting out of it. The belief that we can do it by ourselves doesn’t get very far in the face of big crisis. They suggest getting over your pride and ego and ask for help to reframe true strength! When we feel like we can only make the decisions ourselves, we can only go with the choices we see. When we ask for help, we have many more alternatives and can make better decisions. We have to learn how to respond and not react. Some of the questions they explore are: ·     What are some tips to getting through crisis? ·     How do you respond to “hope is not a strategy”? ·     What are some powerful stories that you’ve from a father/daughter relationship viewpoint? ·     What are some thoughts for leaders that have a business they’re trying to recalibrate? Hope is the only positive emotion that requires negativity and uncertainty to exist. The first step is assessing the situation. Becoming present with our assessments includes asking for help. Being able to assess what resources are available, who is available to help, and finding hope through learned hopefulness. Hopeful action is one of the most effective tools that allow us to thrive and adapt. Richard and Charly reveal that the ability to be vulnerable was one of the biggest lessons that shared with each other the process of writing their book, throughout which they share many stories of asking for help from each other. Richard’s advice for businesses in today’s climate - everything starts with what the customers need. Be where the customer is going to be when we come out of this. He says that when we come out of this, things are going to be different. Some people are not going to make it without changing. They need to learn to separate achievements from self-worth. Charly, in her work with suicide prevention, …. There is a part of you that needs to die, but not all the parts of you. What do I need to let go of and what needs to remain in the past? We do have the ability to dance with crisis and asking for help is vital = other people have been there and how to cope. Being able to see models of what works inspires others to get through crisis. We live in a society that skews reality by only showing the end result. Learn more about Richard and Charly’s work at https://www.crisisintosuccess.com/ If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800.273.8255. Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do YOU!! For more mindful resources, visit https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“One of the key aspects of leading a curated workplace, is knowing yourself well enough to seek out leadership roles hour abilities and passions, offering the best you have to your coworkers, and you won’t be getting in their way. as they try to offer their best back to you.” Holly interviews Gail Golden, Principal of Gail Golden Consulting, LLC. As a psychologist and consultant for over twenty-five years, she has developed deep expertise in helping businesses to build better leaders. Her experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, and consultant to senior leaders of both Fortune 1000 and non-profit organizations informs her approach to executive selection and development. As a therapist and coach for over twenty years she realized that the constant situations was people trying to do too much and feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. Nobody she knew had a balanced life. Out of this realization came the inspiration for her book Curating Your Life: Ending the Struggle for Work-Life Balance. In it she brings to life the idea of curating your life as you would an art exhibit. Decide what is the exhibit about – what belongs in the exhibit and what doesn’t. It means that you have to make decisions about the handful of items to highlight, while letting other things be in the background. Focus on the greatness and where talents lie. The culture of being “on” 24/7 isn’t healthy and it isn’t working. It isn’t helpful for family commitments. Business leaders have a responsibility to actively create a culture that supports and cultivates the curated life. Questions Holly and Gail explore include: ·     Does my exhibit need to include mindfulness? ·     How will I find the energy to include it – and make the space for it? ·     How do you help people trying to figure out how to curate their job around a job description and a boss’s expectations? ·     How do you educate someone on starting the conversation with a boss about curating? ·     How can we inspire ourselves to risk having these conversations? ·     What inspired you to move from a therapy role to an entrepreneurial role and working with business leaders? ·     How can we make virtual communications more effective? ·     How can leaders help people have more career balance as they build their families? Gail encourages listeners to embrace mediocrity. There are things we do that we’re just good enough, and Gail advises that “if you try to be great and perfect at everything, you’ll end up being great and perfect at NOTHING.” For a well curated life, focus on those choice talents in order for them to thrive. Your exhibit will change over the course of your life based on things that happen – or you happen to things. Find out more about Gail’s work at www.gailgoldenconsulting.com and buy the book her book Curating Your Life: Ending the Struggle for Work-Life Balance. Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do YOU! Find more mindful resources at www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly interviews Sean Fargo – the hardest working man in the mindfulness field. With over 12,000 hours on the meditation pillow and an incredible journey from there to being a leading entrepreneur, Sean’s background includes: ·     Certified Instructor, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (the mindfulness program born at Google) ·     Chief Zen Officer & Director of Mindfulness Program Development, WellBrain ·     Certified Integral Coach, New Ventures West ·     Buddhist Monk For 2 Years (2008-2010), Thai Theravada Tradition ·     Founder & Teacher, Mindfulness Exercises ·     Mindfulness Teacher for San Francisco & Silicon Valley, Refresh Body ·     Advisory Board Member, ID8TE ·     Mindfulness Teacher, Spirit Rock Meditation Center Questions Holly and Sean cover: ·     How are you merging the religious background into the secular world? ·     What is one of the exercises you’re most passionate about? ·     How do you distinguish mindfulness from meditation? ·     What do you tell someone who claims “I just can’t meditate.”? ·     What do you think the future of mindfulness in a business context? With over 2000 mindfulness exercises and courses on https://mindfulnessexercises.com/, Sean says that one of his most favorite is “Just Like Me” which brings awareness to a particular person and the guided meditation to reflect on how the person is a human being just like me. This exercise fosters compassion and empathy, tapping into that person’s experience. He does admit that many people may not have the courage to step into this exercise because it can create discomfort. Mindfulness in business creates an advantage for morale, the bottom line, mental health, comradery and communication practices. Join Sean in his teachings at https://mindfulnessmastermind.com/, https://mindfulnessexercises.com/ and https://seanfargo.com/ Remember – Mindful Matters and So Do YOU! Find more resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Robbins is the author of five books, Focus on the Good Stuff, Be Yourself Everyone Else is Already Taken, Nothing Changes Until You Do, and, Bring Your Whole Self to Work, which have been translated into fifteen different languages.  His fifth book, We're All in This Together: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging, was just released. He admits that writing books is not his favorite thing to do, but he keeps getting downloads and ideas for new books. Every team has a chemistry – egos and ambitions included – that makes them special. After playing baseball he got interested in the dynamics of teams. There really isn’t a “them” it’s all “us.” And when we can stop the us vs. them mindset… Some questions they explore: ·     What are some ways we can bring mindfulness to our work? ·     Are you actually able to articulate what you’re feeling? ·     How has the question “Hey, how are you?” changed in recent times? He learned about meditation when he was in college back in the mid-90’s. His girlfriend at the time introduced him to a teacher who had come in to help her swim team. He found that he was better able to connect mind, body and spirit, and he knew it was going to be a path he would travel in his life. These days, his now wife even asks him “Are you meditating?” when he seems out of alignment. Mike recommends to meditate in whatever manner you choose, that works for you. His personal practice has him meditating in bed in the morning to start his day. Find ways in the midst of your lives to spend a few minutes in mindfulness. Focus on the Good Stuff He keeps a gratitude journal for about twenty years. He not only writes down what he’s grateful for but what he needs to forgive himself for. Self compassion and gratitude. We have an opportunity to bring our whole selves to work these days. We are experiencing something globally, at the same time. The ups and downs are very stressful right now, and he recommends just being present with the experience and whatever we’re feeling right now. Be present with sadness, anger or fear  – Then move through it! Also, meet others where they are and be present without judgements – Then move through it! The power of curiosity and compassion with ears on our heart – we could be more present with each other. Collectively sharing what each person is going through is recognition of being honest about where we are in the moment. It’s also ok to take breaks when you need to! Check out Mike’s work at https://mike-robbins.com/ Remember Mindful Matters and So Do You! Find more mindful resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Give up on perfect – give up on getting it right. The point is how fast can you get to the learning!! Focus on doing something that helps and serves. Tricia Benn is an Executive at the C-Suite Network and the General Manager of The Hero Club, a group of CEOs, founders, and investors who commit to a life balance of hard work while giving back to the communities in which they serve. Questions that Holly and Tricia explore: How do you prioritize mindfulness? What are your conditions of satisfactions? What does hero leadership mean to you? In order to great impact you must have great leadership, great business, and great heart Tricia doesn’t believe in having a “balanced” life. Our lives are integrated conditions of satisfaction. One of her conditions is reaching for her great day and helping others reach theirs. She recommends that In this time of challenge, be mindful of the basic “hygiene” of business, core aspects of what you’re invested in – measure what matters. Build your tribe. Eliminate limiting beliefs. In this time of a level playing field, people need what you have to offer and you can create opportunity by being a first responder and focusing on personal gifts at this time. There are many ways to create connection and opening up new avenues to potential clients is crucial right now. Find out more about Tricia at https://c-suitenetwork.com/news/speakers/tricia-benn/or https://heroceoclub.com/ Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do YOU!! Find more mindful resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mindfulness is the quality of attention. Holly hosts a special episode as she interviews Rob Beemer about The Mindfulness Movement documentary now available for rental or purchase. Rob is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning television and film documentary producer, director and writer. He has been making documentaries for more than 25 years, including several feature length documentaries and more than 200 hours of network and cable TV programming in a variety of documentary and reality genres. He is the CEO of Interesting Stuff Entertainment On May 22, 2020, join Holly along with Eric Szymanski of Leadership Solutions International for a special VIP screening with a Q&A session with Rob and some of the participants from the movie. Click here to rent the movie and register for the VIP screening. Rob shares much of his experience with mindfulness, meditation and how the movie came to be. His best advice is “Our minds are going to wander – be gentle with yourself as you navigate building your own practice.” And, watch the movie! The VIP session is brought to you by the C-Suite Network Mindful Leadership Council. Remember, Mindfulness Matters and so do YOU. Find more resources at The Everyday Mindfulness Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mindfulness is “Working out in the heart.” Steve Lishansky is the CEO of Optimize International, the company he founded in 1992 specifically for successfully maximizing the development of top leaders and high performing executive teams in the US and internationally. He has worked with leaders and top performers from over 40 countries. Questions that Holly and Steve explore include: How do we get to be the best we can be in a personal sense, organizational sense? When you’re already the best, how do you keep getting better? What makes for a great life? How do we bring the numbers and the wisdom together? How do we reward reflection and create space for presence? Mindfulness and meditation is a foundation for Steve. He’s been doing this for forty years.  In the midst of the battle, Steve is one of the calmest Type-A’s you’ll ever meet. Years ago he started asking himself what makes people successful. He found that people who are most successful are always looking to get better. When he first started in business, he was doing ten year plans. In today’s world this is impossible.  He encourages leveraging strengths instead of spending time on weaknesses. After 9/11, he observed that people needed a way to find center. He began sharing his knowledge about meditation. The nature of the mind is to create thoughts. We become over-involved in those thoughts. We need to get space to get perspective. All of a sudden, you become the observer of your thoughts. You get to choose what to deal with. Learning to do meditation in the beginning is tough, but he encourages readers to start and create a habit around it. Perhaps 2020 is the year that we bring together people on both ends of the spectrum: data vs meditation. Steve shares that his teacher from many years ago shared with him “I never send a student to a cave to find God. Show me a place that God doesn’t exist.” Power comes from being able to integrate multiple practices. It’s not about getting there faster, it’s about figuring out if “there” have more value? What would be more effective and have more impact and value? What is it that is making us think about what is less effective, impactful and valuable? Steve offers that meditation allows people the ability to be able to reflect. So often, people are working toward something that just doesn’t matter. Space and clarity and presence creates a place of making decisions from a position of mindfulness.  Even science is now proving what the yoga masters have been teaching for years. Steve feels that going forward he wants to focus on teaching people what sound decision making looks like. How do we share the wealth and a future for a whole civilization? The ability to be present in and mindful of the head, heart, gut decision making process is so important. When these are out of balance, bad decisions get made. Steve meditates in the mornings for thirty-three minutes, moves to get energy flowing, and then puts the creative energy to use to get through his “what matters” list. He asks “where am I going to make the most impact today?” He also takes a break in the afternoon to meditate for a few minutes.  He recommends, “Better to do five minutes a day seven days a week than two hours once a week.” Get on the wait list for Steve’s Book - email info@optimizeintl.com. See more about Steve’s work at www.optimizeintl.com or follow Steve Lishansky on YouTube.   Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do YOU! Find more resources at www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People are feeling robbed right now. Kids aren’t getting graduations, contracts are being vaporized. The world stopped just as we were gearing up for the end of the first quarter. People work very hard in January and February, and are then usually rewarded in March of spring breaks and plans for relaxation and rejuvenation, and then this massive shut down occurred. Holly talks with Mike Skyrpnek, coach, speaker and entrepreneur, about how impact has been interrupted and how we can adjust to get back in touch with our passions and set our impacts back on course. Some of the questions they dive into: ·     How can we talk about restoring passion? ·     What are now the “could do” “should do” and “will do” things that go on your 2020 vision boards? ·     How can we honor this time of doing less better? ·     When the money is in place, where do you want your impact? ·     How do you give back to yourself in order to give to your community? ·     What are ways to relieve “busy brain”? ·     What do you see as high possibility industries coming out of this? ·     What questions should listeners ask if they are thinking about getting a coach? This is an invitation to recommit to our passions. We have to make the best impact personally and professionally from this place. These times are very revealing. For people now, these are the opportunities to realize where to realign and become focused on what motivates you and allows you to build a life around it. It can be the time to reconnect with the spirit. In his book, Grow Get Give Life, Mike shares his philosophies that hold the keys to success that the world’s most successful entrepreneurs know, and he implemented, to achieve big impact in his life and the lives of thousands of entrepreneurs, advisors, business owners and the millionaire next door. This is a period of time that people are going to go through a lot of stuff and seeking what their identities will be on the other side. Perhaps we are deconstructing to reconstruct. We didn’t get a choice about the deconstruction piece at this time. However, we do have a choice in the reconstruction phase. Some of the possibilities could be technologies that put people in front of others without being in person, such as holographs. Retail experiences that help people shop without being in a crowded store. This may dissolve some of the human to human contact but will elevate when we do actually get to be in an in-person situation. Shopping experiences have changed drastically with the necessity of online shopping. The social requirements we have as humans are changed forever. It will be interesting to find out how people will want to get out and see other humans. How many people will actually go back to the jobs they had? Coaching is a process of bringing the best out of people. One of the most important things to understand is how coachable a person is and are they going to have the humility to be coached. Those who are coaches also need to be able to surrender to their own paths to success. What is the next big goal? Find out more about Mike at https://www.mikeskrypnek.com/. Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do You. Find mindful resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly interviews longtime friend, Theresa Rose, VP of thought leadership with C-Suite Network. She started as a contributor there and in 2019 they offered her a position with the company. Theresa Rose official bio states that she is a nationally-acclaimed motivational speaker, award-winning author, high performance coach, and standup comedian. Her latest book, Mindful Performance: How to Powerfully Impact Profitability, Productivity, and Purpose, is a practical how-to book on mindfulness that helps readers become more present and powerful at work, at home, and all day long. Theresa’s soul bio states: I am a...Mindfulness "Expert". Energizer Bunny*. Standup Comedian. Productivity Nerd. Content Crystallizer. Award-winning Writer. Fearless Dancer. Questions they explore are: ·     What are some of the practices that you lean on? ·     What do you tell people how to get past the “woo woo”? ·     How you are navigating the “Fear Wave”? Theresa’s book, Mindful Performance, guides readers with solid, everyday practices to follow to become more mindful in day to day actions. ·     "Start with the breath” is her go to strategy. ·     “Outcome Energization” – see in your mind what you want to come to fruition. Create the day you want in your head in the morning to set the tone of the day. ·     “Gratitude Rant” – Theresa is not a journaler so she speaks her gratitude aloud to get herself back to a place of higher vibration. ·     “New Choice” – when you find yourself less than optimal, what is the new choice you can make? ·     “Emotional Audit” – Looking at the facts of the current scenario, recognizing what’s happening, and uplevel it by a little bit. Constantly bring yourself back to awareness. For those who shy away from “woo woo,” Theresa suggests to Google “mindfulness” and look for the leaders, high end athletes, military members, education and entertainment to find those who are using highly effective focus tools that will help you make more money! Take one step back as the observer when the fear wave hits. It’s important to be able to just see what’s happening and tap into a self care tool kit, whatever that entails (essential oil, going for a walk, etc.) Lean into each other in times of stress, take a look at each other and see our humanity and empathy. Do anything that reminds us of our unity. Try to laugh! We are all navigating awkward. When you don’t know what to say – say, “I don’t know what to say right not but I hear you and I’m here for you.” We’ve been offered the tools to get through life and now we are in the lab. We get to decide how we’re going to do it. Shower your brilliance out into the world! Take a breath, speak some gratitude, visualize as you move forward. Find out more about Theresa at https://www.theresarose.com/ or email her at Theresa.rose@c-suitenetwork.com. Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do You! Find more mindful resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LOVING, LEARNING AND LETTING GO Holly interviews David Veech, Veteran, speaker and teacher. With over twenty years teaching leaders, his presentations always give listeners practical skills and soaring possibilities that will: ·     Convict their hearts that they need to change ·     Convince their minds that they can succeed in the change, and ·     Commit their efforts to make the change work for all. David shares that this has been an interesting time to watch unfold. It’s pulling all kinds of emotions out of the people he’s talked to during. He expressed his concerned for where this is going in trusting each other in relationship building. David’s core work is around the three tenets that drive all we do: Loving, Learning, and Letting go. He calls these three tenets “Leadersights” and truly believe that if leaders are able to make these three key decisions (to love, to learn, and to let go) everything that follows will work better. Love may be more than just an emotion felt for partners and family members. The decision to love is to place the needs of your people above your own. Understand their needs and do what you can to support that. This form of servant leadership can be very different for many leaders. Learn “If I’m going to place your needs above mine, I need to figure out what you need. I need to go and learn.” This includes building relationships with people in order to find out what they need. This takes time to create these relationships. During this period, there is TIME to build these relationships. Listening is crucial to uncovering needs. It’s important for the needs at every level in the organization to be taken care of, including the leaders. Letting go can be difficult. There are so many barriers to trusting others and letting go of needing to be in control. Leaders need to let go in order to free up more time to actually lead their people. This takes time and putting systems in place that allow leaders to know what’s going on without having to be hands on all the time. David uses a card that he created with a “to do” list with nine things to do today. 1.    Share your vision 2.    Be the model 3.    Build relationships 4.    Carefully develop people as leaders 5.    Build diverse teams 6.    Be a continuous learner 7.    Pay attention to metrics that matter 8.    Stay positive 9.    Do it again tomorrow - only better Things you can do to boost remote team identity during this time: Huddle every day to drive the day’s work. Break tasks down into daily bites. Expectations, targets and challenges and review at the end of the day if that was what was accomplished. Let the team choose a team name. It gives a strong sense of identity. One resource for creative names is www.findteamnames.com. The best way to reach David is by email him at David.veech@leadersites.com, or you can find out more about his work on Leader Sights at https://leadersights.com/. Follow David on Twitter: @davidveech Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do You! See more resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”― Viktor E. Frankl Tina Greenbaum, M.Ed., LCSW is an Optimal Performance Coach and a dynamic workshop leader. Throughout her extensive career of 36 years, she has been a pioneer in combining traditional psychotherapy with body awareness, energy psychology, neuroscience and spirituality. In her book, Mastery Under Pressure, Tina helps readers discover a five-step system to have ultimate confidence, achieve super human results and break through limiting mindsets. Some of the questions Holly and Tina discuss: ·     What are some of the learned skill that we can use at this times? ·     What’s in my control and what is out of my control? ·     What are the remedies for managing anxiety? ·     How are you inviting clients to process emotions right now? ·     How does one know if they need a therapist and how does one “shop” for one? Good mental health is a learned skill. We need to learn to manage the levels of stress, which is the perceived amount if control that you have or don’t have. In many situations, we can make decisions and change things relatively quickly for ourselves. However, we are facing the collective being out of control. Stress is a body and a mind experience. Yoga is very helpful, as well as breathing and meditation. We have lost our freedom. With loss, comes grief. The more we can expand our self awareness and name the emotions we can come up with a tool to help manage what is happening. Adjusting to the new normal takes a good amount of flexibility. Recognize what’s happening and be in the moment with it and seeing what we can let go of. When we get to a place when we don’t have the answers anymore. Reaching this place may indicate the need to seek support and therapy. Tina is an expert in helping with the “How” of getting to the next step. A good therapy relationship has a sense of relaxation and that you are being heard. Start with a complimentary session to start and go from there. “You are already great, what could be more interesting than learning more about you?” Real control is being at choice with all the things that are going on, we are being called on to be experts on ourselves. We have the time right now!! Give yourself time to feel everything you’re feeling. Give it a timeframe and then move on. Find out more about Tina’s work at www.Masteryunderpressure.com.  You can also email her at tina@masteryunderpressure.com. Remember, Mindful Matters and So Do You!! Find more mindful resources at www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey – did you know that waking up with pain every day is NOT normal? Holly hosts Dr. Lanae Mullane, a Naturopathic Doctor and Director of Nutrition at Vejo. A graduate of Bastyr University’s Naturopathic Medicine Program and a member of both the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians and the California Naturopathic Doctors Association, she completed a residency focused in rheumatology in Lansing, Michigan. She utilizes biochemistry, genetics, behavioral change, medical history and member-specific goals to create a truly personalized program for patients. A naturopathic doctor is trained in the fundamentals of health that look at the whole person, looking at sleep, relationships, stress, and disease prevention. During this worldwide reset, listening to our bodies is very important. Dr. Mullane provides support through making her patients active participants in their own healthcare and optimizing their baselines and how their bodies operate. Dr. Mullane shares some of her own practices of stress relief. She highly recommends bio feedback and the importance of breath. This can take the body from fight/flight to rest/digest. She also recommends moving the body every day. This helps the lymphatic system which supports the immune system. Checking in with friends and family frequently for support is very important. Cooking is another way to …… Disconnecting from electronics and be in silence is another way to bring balance during this time. Finding creative time and connecting to the things that relieve stress. Now is the time to reset our mindset! We need to redefine our relationships with our medical support teams and find better ways to communicate our needs. Dr. Mullane’s practice is more focused helping patients understand how to know their bodies better. Right now is the time to take the time to change rituals and routines, evaluate food, sleep, relationships, communications, and see if they’re in alignment. Sleep should be simple and keeping a routine around it is very important. What is your sleep hygiene? Is it dark? Are you shutting off entertainment and getting into a wind down phase? If you’re having a hard time going to sleep, don’t stay in bed, get up and go sit in a chair and read a book until you get tired again. She also recommends progressive muscle relaxation techniques. NO TELEVISION in the bedroom! Food impacts stress as well. Keep in mind that what goes into the body affects digestion. Get things that are frozen, vegetables and fruits. Make soups to put in the freezer. Create meal plans. Do meal prep so that there is a go to instead of snacking during the day. Don’t bring things into the house that are unhealthy. Set boundaries around habits around numbing out. Find ways to celebrate little things and enjoy new routines and structures. Dr. Mullane also has a line of supplements and food options to support a healthy lifestyle. Find out more at www.vejo.com. Remember to breathe! Create stronger relationships and connects more deeply, move more, and eat to support quality of life. What can be done to support ourselves around more electronics usage. Make sure that your work station is ergonomic, set a work schedule, take plenty of breaks, eat regularly and create boundaries with others in the house around work and personal space. Find out more about about Dr. Mullane and her work at www.vejo.com Honor where you are right now, get the support you need. Remember, mindful matters and so do you! For more Everyday Mindfulness shows at www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com. Also join Holly on Facebook for the Daily Live show! https://www.facebook.com/duckworth.holly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly devotes this special edition show to grief and how to deal with it. Her guest Georgena Eggleston, Beyond Your Loss grief expert, helps navigate these tough topics as the world is in a state of change, upheaval and global loss. Physical body emotions mind and spirit. Go to the center where there is always stillness. This is so big that we can’t navigate it with just our minds. We have to just trust that it’s going to be ok. Stop in the moment and simply breathe. That air supply hasn’t gone away!! Just pause. We have to do this breath by breath, moment by moment.  Georgena shares a powerful story of going to the grocery store and observing a young man in distress over literal “spilled milk.”  Natural loss is a part of life. We don’t cry when the leaves fall because we know it’s natural. But when something happens in our life, it’s more personal and grief is an “inside job” that is essential for us to be in this moment and feeling everything so we can be a grounded presence in the world.  Grief is a process - it’s not an emotion. It is the universal consequence of loss. we have to recognize that we are all in a state of grieving loss of life as we knew it. When we pause and listen, much of this high level of emotion is settled and we can realign ourselves.  Georgena explains the different states of grief: Raw grief - Fragile grief - Gentle grief Grief is an opportunity for growth. To go back and find that peace that’s always been within us. Three of the most important characteristics include courage, compassion, and forgiveness. Holly and Georgena navigate how to be with someone who knows people who have been diagnosed. This is a call to have a conversation about how we’re feeling! Ask questions like: “How does that make you feel?” “How’s your grief? “How are you doing this moment?” “When I hear you talk about _____ I feel your longing to do ____.“ “Would it be helpful if ____?” Do NOT flip it back to intellectual, simply listen, be present and don’t try to fix.  Right now the power is our presence and that’s what we need to remember. Be in whatever situation you’re in, whether it’s zoom meetings, emails, or social media interactions with coworkers, friends and family.  Holly and Georgena share their experiences with virtual funeral services, something that we’re not used to, but we are having to create this as our new normal.  We are not only grief-phobic but emotion-phobic in America! Georgena specializes in helping her clients integrate their mind, body and spirit during this extreme time of upheaval. Holly invites listeners to open compassion channels and centering channels so that when these experiences come, they can move through these situations with peace and presence. Use energetic touches during this time. Send compassion to those going through so much. Georgena sees herself as a lighthouse and invites listeners to do the same. Ask “What am I going to learn to do today?” “Turn on the switch within you that is our power and presence and love that you are.”  Find out more about Georgena at https://www.beyondyourgrief.com/.  Join Holly on Facebook Live for a daily show. Listeners can also find archived shows and resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I don’t have time to sit on a pillow and meditate for 20 minutes! Good, then sit there for 40 minutes.” Holly interviews Mike Mumola, trial attorney, entrepreneur, consultant, actor and speaker about living the fulness of a mindful life while growing and scaling successful businesses.  Mike was one of the first in his circles who embraced mindfulness, in spite of business associates lack of acceptance. Eventually they started asking how he was using mindfulness in his life to get the results in growing his success and his happiness levels.  Using outward demonstrations of what he’s practicing on the inside have opened unexpected doors for him. For example, he changed from an expensive watch to a bracelet of mala beads. It’s important to stay centered and focused and he uses these as reminders. Everyday, he practices in order to create more mindful living in corporate America.  Holly and Mike discuss the difference between judgement and discernment, to which Mike responds - Whether you react or respond, it’s important to bring yourself to center and discern what’s going on with clarity and making sure that it stays on track with your desired intent. What is the best outcome for everyone involved? Mindfulness is more mainstream because we recognize that being present in all of the situations we experience using tools and practices helps us stay on course.  Mike shares, “I did everything that everybody said you’re supposed to do and I still wasn’t happy.”  This sparked him to journey, by design, to figure out the secrets of making life enjoyable. It isn’t based on how much money is in the bank. For him, being happy meant helping other people find their passions and purpose.  Mike encourages readers to ask “What is the impact of everything that you’re living?” His productivity has increased exponentially by getting in harmony with himself. Mindfulness is the only thing he’s changed in his professional life that has added to all the business he’s built and scaled.  Mike begins his days with gratitude, some basic yoga and meditation before even looking at his phone. He observes situations that come at him during the day without reacting in ways that are counterproductive. He ends his day with meditation and gratitude. And, he’s a “no coffee” kind of guy and practices intermittent fasting. He does affirmations as he’s drinking water in the mornings.  Try this exercise with Mike - SMILE!!! You can find more about Mike on his website, by following him on social media, Instagram @mikemumola, Facebook, and reach him at his personal email address at mmumola@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly interviews speaker, author, humanitarian, David Meltzer, who is the Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and formerly served as CEO of the renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire. David helps people align with what is uncertain - when we have quick change. now time is compressed because change occurs quickly. The future is leaking into the present which causes fear and anxiety. We create interferences with the connection to mindfulness. Being mindful of the obstacles that get created during times of stress. Davids new book, Game Time Decision Making guides readers in learning how to know their values! Take inventory daily on personal, experiential, giving and receiving values. When the pressure is on, great coaches remain laser-focused, confident, and fully in charge of their roster. They’re the same way when it comes to developing strategies and game plans to succeed. In short, they always win because they have a superior decision-making process. Focus on three things - Skills. Knowledge. Practice. Clear away the interference between you and what inspires you! Then, clear the interference between you and others. Receiving - at this time, so many people are having to open up to receiving help that they are not used to receiving. Nobody has a problem with giving, but they forget how to receive. Remember to feel amazing when receiving because that is a gift to the giver. David has learned to receive and allowing others to give. Nothing was "for" him but "through" him. This is why he has the motto "Make a lot of money. Help a lot of people. Have a lot of fun!" So many people have an issue with the money part but David reiterates the truth of money in this existence. It's a tool. How you use it is up to you. Shop for the right things! What can you buy to help others? Money is the currency of this vibration level, and because David has made lots of money, he still has all of his employees right now. How can he be of value when someone asks him for financial assistance. He asks questions to find out how he can be of value and then he asks how he can get help to speed up his own ability to help and expand his giving. With no sports, David recommends trading one game for another. What other games can you enjoy with your family? Take it to a personal level and figure out how you can come through this in the most positive way. Find the light, love and lessons in sports and make them attributable to what is happening now. David's goal for life is to create and share his motivational and inspirational content with as many people as possible. There are many ways to reach him - Text: 949-298-2905. Go to his website. Listen to his podcast, The Playbook, which brings listeners inspiration through leaders across industries as they share their playbooks for success. David leaves listeners with the missive of "Be kind to your future self and do good deeds." Share the love right now! Remember - Mindful Matters, and SO DO YOU! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?" Thich Nhat Hanh Mindfulness is the ninja parenting skill we need! Holly Interviews Hunter Clarke-Fields, MSAE, about her new book, Raising Good Humans, released in December 2019. Hunter's hope is to bring attention to parenting and the necessary mindsets to parent in mindful ways. As a way through the boredom and frustration that can be part of raising children, Hunter explored ways to bring more mindfulness into her life. She shares her own challenges and how she found methods on practicing mindfulness lacked a link between mindfulness and communication. She created her own practices that included intertwining mindfulness and skillful communication. Our culture is so judgement based, and we tend to be very hard on ourselves. Yet the truth is that self compassion is far more effective. Research shows that not berating ourselves and changing our own inner dialogues ease parenting in so many ways. Remember that whatever is inside will come out when stressed. Creating a good relationship with ourselves is an essential step to creating positive parenting skills. For people who don't have kids, ways to support parents include being a good friend and keep your judgements in check - you never know what people are going through. Hunter shares that developing our own awareness is so needed. Seeing those things that cause us discomfort and using them to become more compassionate for others. As we create more peace for ourselves, it makes everything around us more peaceful. Check in with your intentions on mindfulness. Find out more about Hunter Clarke-Fields at https://www.mindfulmamamentor.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly interviews Cheryl B. Englehardt, singer-songwriter, composer and podcaster.  Some of the questions they explore: What are the things that you’ve learned in your creative career that can be brought to corporate executives? How self aware are you as a leader? How can music be used in corporate situations to make better connections? How do we create the business case for bringing music into business events? Cheryl shares that she worked in a way that wasn’t healthy for her in the beginning. She started using morning routines and looking into meditation and gratitude practices. She experienced panic attacks and shares her experiences with her audiences with the hope that they will take away the ability to be available as human beings. Perhaps all the things that are going on in the world are inviting us to be more present.  In business settings, Cheryl recommends using music to help alleviate the “waiting period” moments.  Music can also support the meditative process. She shares her experience with different types of music and what wasn’t working for her to keep her present and focused on the process of release and attraction. The lack of suitable music gave birth to her own musical creations in her album Luminary. The world is experiencing evolutionary processes that we are not responding to the way our bodies were meant to. There are no tigers that are going to eat us, but the stress levels are out of control! Cheryl designed her music to support a higher energy than most meditation music. Her tracks are balanced to awaken the masculine and feminine energies in order to bring out peace and focus.  Learn to become a master of dropping the ball and be available. She uses calendars rather than to do lists. She trusts the past version of herself that knew to put it on the calendar. If she moves it more than a couple of times she reviews whether it is actually a priority or if it needs to be broken down to smaller tasks.  Cheryl realized that one of the most important things is translating and realizing whose job it is to translate. This can be used across communication arenas whether it’s music, or art, or business. All problems can be resolved if we can have clarity around what we want to feel or what our customers are feeling.  Cheryl believes that mindfulness is the act of practicing self awareness. Something you do to know yourself, your shadows, or the parts you don’t want others to see. If you can be aware then these things won’t come out when they shouldn’t.  You can find out more about Cheryl Englehardt and her work at https://www.iamaluminary.com/ or https://www.cbemusic.com/ and you can find it anywhere music is streamed. You can also follow her on Instagram @cbemusic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you are a sales person, you can choose to be the model of a great sales person. Holly interviews her co-author and business partner, Eric Szymanski. Eric shares is definition of mindfulness as "Mindfulness is sanity." It takes all of what is going on in life and provides clarity and intention, removing the chaos.  Questions they explore: How did you meet? What is the cost of success in sales if you are not being mindful? In their conversation, Eric admits that for most of his high demand sales career, mindfulness wasn’t even on his radar and he was sacrificing his own mental health and sanity, as well as his family. He turned to Holly as a coach and she asked: Does it have to be that way? Does it have to be so stressful? He started reading Holly’s book, Everyday Mindfulness and using the tips each day to find the path out of the chaos. He and Holly entered a coaching relationship, and he realized that he could drive success without chaos.  He realized that there are great benefits to applying mindfulness to the sales profession and wanted to share this with people living in the high stress world of sales. Holly and Eric have woven the Seven Practices of Sales and the Seven Practices of Mindfulness into their book, Sell More Stress Less: 52 Tips to Create Mindful Sales. They have been doing co-facilitation workshops with these practices all over the world.  The book has three sections. The first addresses the business case for mindfulness, then presents the seven steps for successful sales. The final section presents readers with weekly tips to connect mindfulness practices to daily sales business.  Along with the book, Holly and Eric offer deeper resources through the Mindful Leadership Council hosted by the C-Suite Network. The Council assists leaders in bringing the mindfulness way of life to their organizations.  They also invite you to meet face to face in May at their Mindful Leader Conference. The first day is full of mindful leadership teaching and the second will be a day for couples to learn how to live in the essence of intention. Eric’s intention is prosperity for 2020. Living a life of intention and expanding into prosperity for himself and all those that he and Holly have the opportunity to work with. Eric leaves listeners with the thought that if you could just take a step back and realize that it’s ok to allow yourself not to live with stress and chaos. Step into your best life using mindful practices offered through the resources that Eric and Holly have created. Find out more about Holly and Eric’s work at www.mindfulsalestraining.com and www.leadershipsolutionsintl.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly interviews the GPS Girl, Karen Jacobsen whose everyday mindfulness practice included started doing yoga and meditation some twenty years ago. She became frustrated with herself because her meditation practice was very sporadic. Like so many, she believed that meditation had to be very strictly followed in order to be effective, but what she realized is that it was more about making the commitment to meditate, rather than making it a restrictive practice. She became very interested in transcendental meditation. Last year she took a course and has been doing meditation twice a day ever since. Questions Holly and Karen explore: How does this inform your creative endeavors? How can this help us choose differently in how we deal with our experiences? How can you put well being above all other priorities? How does the way we phrase descriptions of our experience affect our reality? Karen shares that sleep is very important - optimal rest is essential for well being. Meditation fills her well and adds to her ability to be present and notice when she’s going off course. She also believes that meditation allows for the full feeling of human emotion.  Choosing the way you recalculate relationship with time, creates powerful change in how we can look at life and its priorities. Karen’s tells more in her book, Recalculate – Directions for Driving Performance Success. In 2020, Karen is listening to what life wants to give her. She is releasing a new album with new music as well as a musical memoir full of music, motivation and inspiration.  For more information, visit Karen’s website at https://thegpsgirl.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Connecting the physical reality with quantum reality. Holly interviews Sophie McLean, author of Elegance of Simplicity A Wisdom Teacher’s Epic Journey to Awareness. Questions they explore: What is the ego? How can we use the ego as a tool in our lives? How would you help people through dealing with the negative aspects of ego? What was Sophie’s journey to writing her book? How are you addressing the misconception that spirituality and mindfulness doesn’t belong in the business world? We need energy to survive. Part of the ego is learning what energy keeps us alive. Now we have a world where we have people who survive each other the same way we used to survive in the beginning and Sophie believes this is why we suffer. Holly calls the ego - Expanding God Opportunity. We are entering the time of Homo Spiritus!! There is a groundswell movement of people who believe there is more to living than just suffering.  Sophie says you cannot survive material existence without an ego! You need to distinguish between your personality and your ego, then you are free to be who you want to be. When you are really connected to your soul, then what you create is directly connected to the Divine. Sophie refers to the Dali Llama: "If you seek enlightenment for yourself you are a fool. If you seek enlightenment for others, then you are wise."  Sophie gives an example of doing meditation and all she could think about was where she was going to put her rug. (silent laughter from this transcriber) Sophie went on a nine year sabbatical to walk her spiritual journey. She reached a place where she needed to give away what she got out of it. Teachers are people who impart the knowledge gained. As part of her work, Sophie offers a year long course that nurtures participants as they integrate soul work into their lives and elevating the collective consciousness. Holly and Sophie close the show with the question: Imagine yourself at the end of your life, what kind of human being would like to have been? Learn more about Sophie at https://www.sophiemclean.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you pack your life vest? Author, coach, life adventurer and digital nomad who is house sitting her way around the world, Lori Rising has created a life where she gets to travel and make her living exclusively online. She shares her experience of letting go and stepping into the unknown when she packed what she could fit in her car and started this lifestyle.  “It is all unknown and it is ok!” Questions Holly and Lori explore: What is a digital nomad?  What is the call that invited you to live this life? In your life, what is that thing you’re waiting to do? What did you pack in the car? Lori teaches English as a foreign language online to students all over the world.  One of the things that she lives by is addressing fear, which she so aptly gives the definition of: Friendly Energy Awaiting Recognition. “What is a necessity and what can I carry?” - Lori went through quite a process to pare her belongings down to what she could take with her in the car. It really came down to what she needed to work and survive along with a couple of coffee mugs. She found that her relationship with “stuff” changed entirely. She doesn’t collect things anymore, and she has redefined community and home for herself. It’s an ongoing practice of detachment and being in the moment.  Lori is building an online community at The Tribe of Rising Women on Facebook. She will share this safe space and more of her story there as it unfolds. She invites women to join and explore what it is that brings them to life. You can find out more about Lori at https://www.loriannerising.com/. Her book, You Rising, is available on Amazon or downloadable version are on her website. As a special for our listeners, Lori is offering a starter kit free! Click here for yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“You're not going to make a huge impact and transform your audiences’ lives and work if you're hiding. I'll help you break out of your shell and emerge as a fully expressed version of the real you.” Lisa Braithwaite, speaker, coach and author, shares her definition of mindfulness: “Being aware of what’s happening around you and inside your body and your head.” A self admitted non-meditator, she does do her best to get into nature in her town of Ojai, California. There is an oak forest just outside her window where she retreats when she needs to get grounded. She also focuses on what she puts into her body.  Questions they explore: How does mindfulness show up in your life? How do you inspire people to be real and create community? How much can we serve and connect with others? Are you willing to have the courage to ask for help? What is something you can do today to move your business forward? How can we engage listeners better? How can listeners catapult their message into the world? Part of Lisa’s work is teaching networking techniques, assisting clients with mindset changes to connect with others. In public situations, Lisa uses her ability to connect people to resources that they need. Holly and Lisa discuss how women today are helping and inviting goodness into the world. Holly suggests the mantra of “Let those who I need to serve or be served by show up.”  CliftonStrengths Finder is a resource that Lisa uses and recommends. Her number one strength is “Activator”.  Presenting for Humans, Lisa’s book was written to help people with engagement and connection and remind those who speak that we are all just human, no matter the audience. She reminds us to ditch the perfection and just be in the moment, get out of your head, and engage with the audience in a way that they interact with you and share what is important to them. There is no such thing as a person that is naturally talented getting to great heights without working on their skills. Lisa's life work is helping people become better humans so they can serve other humans. Find out more about Lisa’s work at https://coachlisab.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly interviews Brendon Watt about his new book Relationship: Are You Sure You Want One. Interestingly, he wrote the book while being in a relationship with Simone Milasas and ended the relationship before the book came out. They navigated the publicity as a team, even though they were stepping out of their relationship. When asked how he could claim to be an expert on relationship when he was breaking his up, Brendon responds: “Becoming an expert really involves what you’re willing to say that other people won’t say.”  Questions they explore are: What is another example of a time your life when you let the question create for you? What can I be today that I wasn’t before? What is the truth of “Me”? What am I going to “BE” today? What are the societal myths that keep you from living a full life and how can Access Consciousness help change those? What is your body telling you? Brendon explains how he lives each do to the fullest by following the edict of “This was me yesterday - but that doesn’t have to be me today.” Choosing for yourself never means choosing against someone or something else.  After years of depression, He found Access Consciousness and changed his life by using the tools and processes that can change any area of your life, through four steps: question, choice, possibility, contribution. Access Consciousness empowers you to know what you already know. What feels heavy is a lie! The problem is that we’ve been trained to do what we’re told instead of going with this knowing.  Four question he uses when analyzing what is the body saying: What is this? What do I do with it? Can I change it? How do I change it? Another is question is, “Is this mine?” So many times we feel other’s emotions and it’s important to determine if what we are feeling is actually our own emotions or someone else’s. True living comes from being in every moment and asking yourself “How can I make this greater?” The joy that comes from this and the courage that it takes to choose this way of living He discusses the idea of bravery for men, courage is the willingness to choose what’s best for you not based on the image of “being a man.” Be willing to be vulnerable.  You do not have to give up your life to be in a relationship. Have a great love with yourself first and if a relationship is not adding to your life, the it isn’t right for you. Holly asks: “What are you looking to add to your life in 2020?” Brendon: “Everything! How do I be more so I can contribute more to the world so we have somewhere to live that’s happy!” Brendon leaves the listener with this thought for 2020:  “Allow yourself to look at the one choice that you think you can’t have and allow yourself to have it in your world, even if you don’t choose it. Don’t push it away, just let it be in your life. “ Drawing upon his transformation from a struggling tradesman and single dad to global speaker and CFO, Brendon facilitates classes and workshops all over the world, empowering others to know they are not wrong, that anything is possible and that they are only one choice away from change. Find Brendon every week on his podcast "One Choice from Change" on iTunes, on Amazon, and on the Access Consciousness® website. Find out more about Brendon at https://www.brendonwatt.com/.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly interviews Simone Milasas, Joy in Business expert.  “True leadership is knowing where you are heading and not allowing anyone to stop you. You have to know what you wish to create.” Simone Milasas is the worldwide coordinator of Access Consciousness, a forever expanding company in over 176 countries. She is the author of JOY OF BUSINESS translated into 13 languages and best-selling book GETTING OUT OF DEBT JOYFULLY translated into 5 languages. She is currently working on her 3rd book with Brendon Watt called; Relationship. Are you sure you want one? Work doesn’t have to be hard. One of Simone’s original businesses was importing and selling goods and was having a great time and her friends kept asking “when are you going to get a real job?”  Questions that Holly explores with Simone:  What if your business was something that you loved and you could make money and an impact? How do we self sabotage ourselves? What are some of the things you did to attract more money into your life? What would it take for more money to show up? How do you build your support network? What tools and resources are you using to move beyond what society says you should be doing? Simone follows the philosophy that nobody should have money problems. At one point in her life, she was $187,000 debt, and she made the conscious choice to have a debt free life. Now, she has debt that is consciously building wealth. She made the demand that she would get out of debt and actually start to create money. If you could create everything with your logical mind, you could have everything you want, but we think with our insane points of view that lock us up.  She recommends taking a look at your reality around money. Look at the familial and social beliefs around money. Take a look at how you “un-invite” money. Make sure that you receive when money shows up, or someone offers to buy you somethings.  Allowing good experiences to be received. So often if we decide that things should look a certain way, and when it doesn’t happen the way we think, we automatically things something is wrong. What if nothing was wrong? What if it shows up completely differently and we just need to acknowledge the situation and be grateful? Find joy in creating from chaos. Use your intuitive questions with curiosity and discovery to create from that chaos.  There is a difference from chaos and frantic. If you instill chaos into your life, it’s like a banquet and you get to choose from the many options.  “Life is a banquet and there are people starving to death.” - Auntie Mame Simone’s most recent book, Relationships: Are You Sure You Want One, with Brendon Watt. She and Brendon tell a lot of stories about their relationship in the seminars that they give.  One of the tools she uses is making everything about the other person, and how this can turn around a relationship and give you more of what you want. Everything starts with having a healthy relationship with yourself. This becomes a healthy foundation for everything else in your life.  For 2020, Simone asks for change and freedom every day. Her current question is “What is my reality and how do I find it?” This creates the mindset of allowing the Universe to show up with options you might not have realized.  Access consciousness helps her bring in her networks and resources. Find out about Simone’s new program, Just Start - https://www.simonemilasas.com/ or discover more about her life changing work with Access Consciousness at https://www.accessconsciousness.com/. Stay open to the possibilities that YOU can choose the life you love! Stay tuned next week for Holly’s interview with Brendan Watt.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We don’t rise to the level of our goals; we fall to the level of our systems. Holly comes into Divine alignment with Noah St. John to discuss his new book that addresses the system of changing habits for success: Power Habits®: The New Science for Making Success Automatic® www.powerhabitsbook.com. In it, he studies the power habits of the “naturals of success” and how they are unconsciously competent at allowing themselves to succeed. Noah’s work has centered around “Afformations” or the reframing of how the mind answers the questions that we ask ourselves. What if instead of asking lousy questions and getting lousy answers. What if instead these questions were empowering? The Shower that changed everything. April 1997, while in the shower and after years of “affirmations” he realized that human thought is the process of searching for answers to questions. “Why am I so rich?” instead of saying “I am rich.” Ask empowering questions that create phenomenal answers! Questions Holly and Noah explore: What are appropriate ways to use social media?  What is a belief? What does it mean to be unconsciously successful? Why did he write his latest book? What question are you using right now for 2020?  Why am I attracting just the right people to me so that we can all reach our goals together? He says he would rather brag about what the people he’s working with are accomplishing. He measures his own success and the success of others by asking the question, “Have you helped anyone else get what they want?” Noah shares the four stages of competence: Unconscious incompetence - don’t know you don’t know Conscious incompetence - know you don’t know Conscious competence - you know you know Unconscious competence - do without thinking What is Noah’s goal for 2020? To reach more people internationally. He’s reached people in over 120 countries and he intends to visit more of the countries where his customers are buying his products.  Visit www.powerhabitsbook.com and purchase his book, it includes a digital gift pack and tickets to one of his live events.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Love yourself enough! Join Holly as she interviews Dawson Church, PhD, and they discuss how science is proving the affects of living a mindful life on the body.  In his book, Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality Dr. Church shares: “As Mind to Matter drops each piece of the scientific puzzle into place, it leaves us with a profound understanding of the enormous creative potential of our minds. It also gives us a road map to cultivating these remarkable brain states in our daily lives.” So many people are skeptical of meditation, but Dr. Church’s brain science is proving that mindfulness creates vast health benefits.  At one time in his life, he was one of those skeptical people. He suffered from depression, anxiety and PTSD from his early childhood. He joined a spiritual community and joined an ashram for several years and studied psychology to fix his own suffering. Around 2000 he got into energy psychology and committed to a daily meditation practice. His entire life changed.  In the ashram they directed, “Sit down, be still, close your eyes, clear your mind.” Well, the mind doesn’t clear itself. He set about studying science and how the brain reacts to how the body reacts to seven simple steps of the method he’s created and shares in his book, Mind to Matter. Some of the questions that Holly and Dr. Church explore are: How do you maintain and have emotional regulation once your eyes are not longer   closed for meditation?  Did you know there is an emotional control network in your brain? How would you advise people to find and make time for meditation? How do little introductory tools create bigger results?  How can this industry support and change the narrative to preventing stress, rather  than a reactive state? In his book, he shares a story from the first chapter of Graham Phillips, who was a television show Catalyst in Australia. He and his camera team and did a study of him for eight weeks. The results were astounding! This study biologically proved that meditation and mindfulness can actually produce growth of the emotional control network parts of the brain.  Energy is where it all begins. When you change your energy field, it affects the world around you in a very direct way.  Meditation is the foundation. Dr. Church offers more than thirty options, of which he states that two are the most essential; meditation and tapping. These have dramatic effects on PTSD, weight control, anxiety and traumas. His studies have revealed that over the course of one week many participants lower cortisol, the stress hormone, by more than 30%.  He claims that results can be produced in as little as fifteen minutes a day. He suggests using aides to help get started. Guided meditations are very helpful.  Shadow work is very important to address the past and work on traumas to shift into a powerful state of mind and body. Clearing our own past issues helps release old triggers from the past.  When people are in tune with non local mind their brain activity changes. Huge surges of oxytocin occur, and the brain actually gets to an “at one with everything” state. Tuning in to the universe if you will. In “flow” state of consciousness, people are five times more productive and creativity doubles! Don’t just get the book and read it but help by giving him a review about how it helps change and create a mindful world! Will YOU commit to 15 minutes every morning to meditate and see how it can change your life? Don’t check your phone or the news, start your day with meditation! Love yourself enough to give yourself this start! Find out more about Dawson’s work at https://mindtomatter.com/.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“You must learn one thing - the world was made to be free in.” David Whyte Holly interviews Marc Lesser, executive coach, speaker and author who has been at the forefront of this movement before it was on the radar, Marc Lesser, often dispels the myth that this is a new idea to bring mindfulness into work.  Dōgen Zenji, the founder of Zen in Japan, wrote a treatise on bringing mindfulness into work. It was written as instructions to the head cook. Lesser ironically found himself as a head cook in a monastery, so he took this to heart early on. Dōgen writes that one should always work with three minds; joy mind, grandmother mind and wise mind.  Marc’s explains his definition of mindfulness: Mindfulness is humanness - being curious about the human dilemma.  Questions Holly and Marc explore are: What does it mean to be fully human? How has the definition of mindfulness changed? How can this support me in becoming a more effective leader? What is the difference between effectiveness and wellness? What is the silliest or most stern objection that you’ve gotten regarding mindfulness? Is meditation the only tool to be mindful or are there other tools?  Is there truly a way to have work life balance? Marc shared a story about leading a group of high level executives through meditation and mindfulness practices under the guise of “attention” training; being present with their breath and taking time to stop and be present. He wants to bring awareness to executives and their teams that everything they do and everything they don’t do, and everything they say and they don’t say will have influence. Marc’s continued practice is bringing awareness to the influence that executives have within their companies and business circles. As a former employee with Google, Marc shared that Google adopted mindfulness practices into their core wellness initiative. Marc admits that he has a bias toward meditation as the main tool to implement mindfulness. He says, “Meditate with your monkey mind!” and Holly follows with “give it a cookie, thank it for showing up, and go back to your practice.”  He says that burnout is being out of alignment, with values, with the true nature of business and how people get lost in how business can blur the lines of ethics and caring for people. Some sense of full alignment is aspirational. Marc’s favorite quote: “Be joyful though you’ve considered all the facts.” Wendell Berry. In the midst of the gaps that exist, be committed to considering all the facts, make decisions and go with the facts that you with in the present moment.  Marc shares the seven practices from his book Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader. Love the work.  Do the work. Don’t be an expert. Connect to your pain. Connect to pain of others. Depend on others. Keep making it simpler. If you can focus on the first and the last, love what it is you’re doing and continue doing it with heart. Alignment comes when you find all the ways to make it simpler by eliminating all the distractions and only focus on what is most important in the moment.  Marc’s focus for 2020 is to help social leaders with mindful meditation combined with mindful finance and operations - combining the inner and outer work to get the work done.  You can find out more about Marc at https://www.marclesser.net/ Marc leaves the listener with “I wish we would spend more time promoting peace,” as well as a line from poet, David Whyte, “You must learn one thing - the world was made to be free in.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A New view on ROI (Return in Intention) Holly interviews Jane Stevenson, Managing Director of Magnetic Minds in South Africa. The two shared a connection through stories that flowed together on stage at a South Africa conference in 2019.  As the managing director of Magnetic Minds, Jane’s company helps reframe mindfulness in ways that serve organizations in planning for their teams goals and future big picture. Her purpose: Finding True North. Personalized business solutions that equip leaders and teams to magnify results and impact. Magnetic Minds brings teams together to help them shift their mindsets in safe spaces to have conversations about where they want their teams to go.  Some of the questions that Holly and Jane unpack are: How do conversations within ourselves magnetize the right people to us?  Who am I?  Why does success in business not feel like success in my heart? Are you showing up and following the plan that you committed to? What is your purpose on earth? Am I winning? How to Reframe what success means - no more winners or losers. We are all wanting to feel like more than just the jobs that we do. We tend to focus on our jobs as the centers of our lives, but is this the most mindful way to live?  Purpose is far bigger than profit! Jane mentions Elan Musk and his opening up his intellectual property to the world, and how his example of sustainability over profit is the perfect example of living with purpose.  Collaboration brings a much higher influence than working alone and in isolation. Holly and Jane discuss global challenges such as violence against women. More questions that they address are:   How can we use the negative stories and build purpose driven collaboration around these?  What are we doing to affect change?  How do we become part of the solutions?  How could anger create the answer? Sometimes we need anger to move into a state of brilliant action. Jane actually uses Holly’s book, Everyday Mindfulness, as one of her tools to give herself a framework for setting daily intentions.  Jane leaves listeners with “Don’t ever think of it as a failure, but as a revelation of how to not do things in the future.” Find out more about Jane’s work at http://www.magneticminds.co.za/ or email her at jane@magneticminds.co.za Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After meeting during one of Holly’s Mindfulness and Sales speaking engagements, Karla Merrell, Owner, President of MNG Events is The Event Maximizer was excited to work with Holly, as she felt a strong connection to mindfulness and how she uses it in her business. She says that sometimes in the world of sales, we need to be reminded of awareness during the sales process.  In her business, Karla focuses on helping entrepreneurs make the first step. She has a mindset of considering quality rather than quantity when identifying networking targets. Her vision is to help as many new entrepreneurs as she can, focusing on women entrepreneurs. Questions that Holly and Karla address are: What is the first step to creating with mindfulness? What did you put in your mind before stepping into a situation? How can you flip the script on a negative view to creating opportunities? What is your 2020 vision? What makes you great? Everything that we accomplish starts with taking the first action. So much of what we set out to accomplish, only comes to fruition by taking action - even if the first action is imperfect. While the mind may say that it’s imperfect, the world sees it as the perfect next step. Life expands to the ability that we are willing to believe in that expansion.  Find out more by contacting Karla Merrell on Facebook.  Instagram: @theeventmaximizer Website: http://www.mng.events/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Breath is life! After 25 years in a health and fitness career, Rebecca Kordecki always felt along her journey that she was meant to do more in a different way. She was completely focused on working with people from outside in, through fitness and nutrition, but she felt that she was always meant to touch people from the inside out.  Her big “Aha” moment came when she discovered breath work three years ago and she realized that she found the tool to help herself and others - from the inside out. She had been excavating through her own work and it became such a great tool that she started teaching it to her clients and in classes. She says that it has never failed her.  Holly highlights how different kinds of breath work techniques are the perfect way to insert into applied mindfulness into people’s busy schedules.  Rebecca shares that the beauty of breath work has so many facets that will calm, energize, induce sleep, reduce asthma, and release trauma. She suggests Box breathing, or a four by four. It goes as follows: inhale for four counts, hold for four counts, exhale for four counts doing this for six to eight cycles. There are variations that can be applied, such as inhale for four, hold for seven, exhale for eight. The point is to just BREATHE consciously! She mentions her teacher, Dan Brulé, the world's foremost expert and renowned pioneer in the field of breathwork, and leader of the worldwide Spiritual Breathing movement. She wanted to share his outlook on playing with every single breath. Play with the inhale, the hold and the exhale. Just breathe... and play! Learn more about Dan at https://www.breathmastery.com/. The biggest gift you can give yourself is a big inhale and a big sigh of relief exhale. Create space, release anxiety. Create levity.  Try incorporating people in whether you’re a busy mom, salesperson, manager, leading a small group, just play with breathing together.  The question they presented for audience consideration for the break was: Can I be willing and open to allowing all the possibilities and opportunities that are showing up around me right now?  After the break Holly shares that she has a word of the year - this year’s word is “allowing”, which was the perfect segway for being open to the opportunities, and Rebecca’s new book that will be released in 2020: Flip Your Switch. Rebecca got the idea when she was questioned about how she came out of the childhood and addition to cocaine - what was the trick? How did you flip your switch? She feels that surviving these came through many different techniques and the book is a result of gathering her remembrance of all the things that she did to get to where she is, fulfilling her purpose.  Rebecca asks, “Do you choose to stand in your story, or on your story and inspire from it and spin gold.  She offers a two weekend The Breath Zone Teacher training can be a great way to deepen a personal practice as well as become a teacher of her method.  About Rebecca Kordecki (from www.rebeccakodecki.com)  Rebecca Kordecki, the creator of Booty Slide and owner of RK FIT, has enjoyed a robust 20-year career as a Beverly Hills Celebrity Trainer, Group Exercise Teacher, Diet Coach, Corporate Wellness Advocate and Speaker. Also, Rebecca is now offering wellness retreats in resort locations. You can spend 3-5 days away with Rebecca and a small group of like-minded people in a beautiful and relaxing setting. During the retreat, you have daily workouts with Rebecca while getting away from the daily grind and with Rebecca’s Booty, Body and Breath approach to refreshing and recharging every aspect of your being, you will head home with valuable tools to sustain a healthy and balanced life. You can also find more about Rebecca at: www.thebreath.zone  Instagram handle: @rebeccakordecki  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Spellos is the President of Meeting U., whose mission is to help people become more productive and comfortable with technology. Holly talks with him about the past ten years or so that they’ve known each other and how a health crisis helped Jim implement a routine of meditation, exercise and a new eating lifestyle. As mindfulness returned, he supported it with technology and apps that helped him find restaurants and places that were conducive to his new healthy lifestyle. He and his wife implemented their new eating regimen based on Mark Bittman’s book, Vegan Before 6pm (VB6). Jim also shares that he is building a community through Patreon.com. He offers courses for subscribers for $5 a month. He shares various content to help subscribers stay up to date with changing technology, through his Minute Tech video education series. Check it out at https://www.patreon.com/jspellos.  One support tool that Jim is particularly passionate about is In Case of Emergency or I.C.E. apps. He encourages listeners to download one ASAP so that first responders have critical information that is easily accessible in the event of an emergency.  Jim encourages people to not be afraid of using technology to balance their lives.  Jim delivers over 150 keynote and educational sessions annually on how to use technology more efficiently. In 2015, Jim was named one of the Meeting Industry’s trendsetters by Meetings Focus magazine. He is a faculty member at New York University, teaching in the School of Professional and Continuing Studies since 1990. He has been honored with both their Award for Teaching Excellence and their Outstanding Service Award. With a passion for helping people and companies understand what’s new in current and future technology including the latest information about virtual & augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. Find out more about his work at https://www.meeting-u.com/.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Grategy” = Gratitude Strategy Lisa Ryan, Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), talks with Holly about making gratitude matter and how she turned a major bump in the road into a success strategy. One day, she woke up and by lunch, she found herself without a job. Fortunately she had implemented a gratitude practice about a year before her job left her. Not knowing what she was going to do, she asked herself what she could be grateful for and what came to mind was a goal list that she had written many years prior. She realized in that moment of gratitude, that she had already accomplished many of her goals. She said to herself, “I’m going to laugh about this someday, why not now?” and she set out to recreate herself.  Out of this time was born a career as a best-selling author and international, award-winning speaker and trainer. Ryan’s programs focus on positive workplace culture, inter-generational communication, employee acquisition, engagement, retention, and gratitude strategies (“Grategies”) for personal and professional development. Her down-to-earth approach and willingness to share best practices have proven to be a winning formula for her clients.  With her clients, she highlights the power of authenticity. She recommends feeling the depth of whatever emotion that is being experienced, and then find what can be appreciated. These conversations about gratitude raise the energy of a room and halts the negative spiral where so many find themselves. Most talk about gratitude for friends, health, family, education and the “things” that they have. Lisa encourages people to find the surprises and be grateful for the little things - running water for example.  Lisa’s daily gratitude practice includes a morning and evening journal. Her morning journal gives her gratitude in advance. She also writes on the ABC’s of gratitude - using the letters of the alphabet, she writes all the things associated with each letter, giving the monkey mind something to do in alphabetical order.  Write a hand written thank you card every day. Lisa shares that she takes pictures with her clients and makes a card to send to that client as a thank you. Sometimes it isn’t about the cards, or the handwriting, its about the show of gratitude! Use every day technology well: tweet your gratitude! She also gives her clients thank you cards to send out. One of her clients buys a sheet of stamps every month and sets a goal to use all of them.  With her “S.H.O.W.” (Self, Health, Others, Wealth) and THANKS programs, she teaches leaders that gratitude grows employee engagement. She encourages leaders to start meetings with a positive note, catch employees doing something well and recognize staff for what they contribute.  Since 2011, Lisa has used a weekly gratitude thought of the week to engage her loyal followers. It includes a quote, a story, a lesson and an action. From this, she says that she gets the gift of heartfelt responses and authenticity with her subscribers and readers. What can you be thankful for in advance as the holiday season unfolds? Lisa says “gratitude is very easy to do and very easy not to do.” Challenge yourself for 30 days to write down 3-5 things each day, and at the end of the month you’ll see that it works! Create your own “Grategy!” Contact Lisa Ryan at https://lisaryanspeaks.com/ or email her at lisa@grategy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Intense love does not measure it just gives." - Mother TheresaHolly interviews Sandra E. Johnson, LCSW, and author of Flowers for the Living and Standing on Holy Ground: A Triumph over Hate Crime in the Deep South who joins Holly to discuss her latest release, The Mind-Body Peace Journal: 366 Mindful Prompts for Serenity and Clarity. The journal was born out of Sandra’s work at the South Carolina Correctional Department’s psychiatric hospital.  “The inmates showed me no matter how mentally ill they were, they benefited from counseling that included the teaching of mindfulness. Through engaging them in this type of therapy, I watched them make light years of progress in comprehending their psychiatric disorders and how to better cope with them. They loved when I would quote sages like Patanjali and give them mindfulness-based writing exercises to do. Their enthusiasm sparked the idea of creating a 30-day meditational journal for them to complete while attending the weekly group sessions I led.” from https://sandraejohnson.net/about/Coupling this experience with a deep rooted practice of yoga which she started some twenty-five years ago, she created The Mind-Body Peace Journal. She saw that, even for people with severe mental health issues, mindfulness really helped improve the quality of their lives and contends that it can help anyone from any walk of life. Studies have proven that meditational journaling helps with all kinds of physical and mental issues.  The author shares how her quotes showed up throughout her life, coming from a long list of her favorite writers, singers, religious and spiritual leaders. “Developing mindfulness offers a way out of the never ending cycle of misery.”  Sandra also shares how many times in her life she felt small, disempowered and unworthy. Two of her favorite mantras are “I am enough and “everything is going to be ok.” Both have given her the ability to get through many situations that seemed hopeless. This combined with meditation, prayer and scripture creates the foundation for her spiritual practice and gives her a sense of peace.  Holly and Sandra share a discussion about a like minded documentary called The Dhamma Brothers which brings eastern and western meditation program into a southern correctional facility and follows how dramatically ancient meditation program changes the men who participate in the intensive program. Sandra leaves the listeners with encouragement that, “This book is for anyone who wants to connect to the present moment where we find peace and balance in a society that has us worrying about the future and fretting over the past.” Get Sandra’s book here on Amazon, or wherever books are sold.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What would you like to create as your life and your living? In her first team interview, Holly joins Chutisa and Steven Bowman from Australia. This amazing couple have joined forces for the last forty-seven years, living and growing several businesses and their personal lives together. This duo speaks to honoring each other individually and together, as they have grown seven global businesses. They have worked together over a quarter of a century, mastering the art of blending business and building family together. Chutisa loves to write and Steven loves to work with executives who lead companies. Together, they are a powerhouse of mindful leadership knowledge. The duo’s shared motto is, “What would we like to create as our life and our living?” Life is different than living and living is different than life. With this as their driving force, the have created seven global business and tap into the key to having multi streams of possibility. Their secret to running several business, is, as they share “We contribute to one another, though not always physically contributing to each others ventures, we put energy toward them.” The side conversation is that “we never withdraw our energy from any of the businesses.” They are constantly asking “Where does our energy need to be today?” Some of the questions Holly explores with the couple are: How do you handle conflicts? To which Steven presents listeners with the questions: “Are you doing that to prove or to create?” and “What would this be like if I was doing this to create?” How do you overcome bridges to create mindful change into organizations? How do you help people let go of old views of wealth to have a more mindful view? What is your favorite source to expand people’s view? What is on your dream board that is keeping you stimulated to move forward? Wealth is so much more than money. It is about choices and possibilities that we have in the world. Money is the easy bit. The bit that people trip over is their view about money and about how they can get it. The Bowmans advise listeners to not totally buy into other people’s reality. We recommend education about personal finance. It doesn’t matter where or how you start, just start! Trust in yourself and become a conscious leader in your own life. See yourself as your biggest asset. Be the creative source of your life.  Chutisa’s new book launches in January, Conscious Leaders for Futures That are Sustainable: The gift of inner leadership. It asks the question: Are you a conscious leader of your own life, if not, who is? She is also working on a YouTube channel to support her work on inner leadership.  The Bowmans express that we must continue functioning from a place of curiosity. Asking, “What else can we add to our life?” and to keep asking EVERY day, “How much fun and joy will that create in my life?” Most people have a full time job as wishful thinkers, but taking action is essential. Many people keep wishing but take no action. The universe thrives on change. Keep looking for things that bring change to your life. Know that every choice creates, but never judge any of your choices as good or bad and from that space everything is possible. Steven and Chutisa Bowman are global business advisors, authors and speakers who have spent the past 30+ years working with many top society changing companies and entrepreneurs of our time.  The2Bowmans have devoted their career to inspiring people to challenge today’s certainties and consciously create a future of their choosing. They are recognized worldwide as Pragmatic Futurists and “thought leaders” on:  Benevolent Capitalism and Benevolence@Work Conscious Leadership for sustainable futures Prosperity Consciousness and Business of Wealth Creation  Strategic Awareness and business transformation. See more about Steven and Chutisa on their website at https://the2bowmans.com/ or buy their books on Amazon here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Intersection of Emotion and the Law Holly and Melody Kramer explore mindfulness in the legal realm through Melody's book, Lawyers Decoded: Essential Knowledge for Saving Money and Reducing Legal Hassle. Melody is trial lawyer, author, speaker, innovator and visionary who shares her experiences in the legal arena and how she continuously saw a lack of human connection and caring, and wanted to create change in relationships between lawyers and clients. Melody talks about how she has even shifted her fee structures to create a more peaceful resolution timeline, by giving incentives for handling cases more quickly. Some of her recommendation for creating positive outcomes during legal interactions include writing down goals, budget, and expectations so that a client has an upfront understanding of the path they want to forge with their attorney. Kramer also recommends a life affirming approach of writing your own obituary in order to provide insight into the bigger picture of one's legacy and estate planning steps that come from this. Find out more about Melody's work through her website: www.melodyannkramer.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am love, I am in my heart, I am listening. In this episode, Holly interviews Juha Riverhill, spiritual teacher from Finland. Juha's inspiration comes from a lifetime of difficulties, from being bullied as a child to a tumultuous divorce in his later years. out of the worst moment of his life. A difficult divorce, overwhelm of the aftermath and the whisper from his spirit guide, Cecelia, led him to channel/write his book, The Golden Book of Humanity. Questions Holly and Juha explore include: How did you come to the understanding of spirit guides? What is something that you may be resisting in your life that gives you an opportunity to find a greater guide in your own life? Where do you start and how can you implement a sense of curiosity in your daily life? How can we ponder and practice the mantra I am love, I am in my heart, I am receiving? The Divine approached Juha in many ways from the time he was a child. He asked to be shown the way to communicate on a deeper level with his spirit guides. During a time in Paris, his time with Cecelia and other guides gained clarity and understanding the gifts they could help him bring to the world. He set a goal of becoming a spiritual teacher. Coming from a Christian background, he always had an understanding of the Holy Spirit, but he came to crave more of a spiritual exploration to a connection with unconditional love. He found this by bringing his living from his head to living in his heart. Through this it fulfilled an aching heart and created a raised vibrational state of sending and receiving perfect unconditional love with his life. Find out more about Juha's book here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leave the mind aside and dive into intuition and your own knowing! Holly has some fun with Doris Schachenhofer, international coach and speaker, as they translate thru a multi-language interview. Doris shares how she teaches others to find their intuition and really embrace and trust it. Doris talks about staying out of the mind and go with the first thing that comes in the present moment. Stop! Don't go any further. She shares 5 Practices of Intimacy and how to really have the courage to do what they really desire. Play with the way you think and feel and the way intuition comes in. She offers the perspective of having our stories, but not being broken by them. She encourages us to focus on feelings of "light" and "heavy" to really navigate and understand what is truly relevant for our lives. Questions to ponder during this show: Does it feel light or heavy? Embodiment gives you a voice - are you losing it? How much are you willing to get comfortable with silence? What do you know here if you trust yourself? What difference are you being? How can you use anger as a catalyst for personal change? Silence opens possibilities! Take a breath and stay in a moment to see what comes in for you. Every wrongness is a STRONGNESS! Doris has always been rebellious in her interactions and has strength in her ability to stand up for herself and have her own back. She examines where to use rebellion to fight for what is right in your life. Unbox and explore how you can use this in your own life and business and see what creativity is unleashed. Be you fully in your joy of creation! Find out more about Doris, Her feature on Woman Entrepreneur and the workshops and conversations she is presenting at her website at www.dorisschachenhofer.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Connection, Communication and Commitment! Holly talks with Jonathan Aslay about his new book What the Heck is Self Love. He touts belonging to the Self Love Club - there are t-shirts on Amazon! Known as America’s Leading Midlife Dating & Relationship Coach, Jonathon Aslay is a defender and protector of women’s hearts around the world. He helps women transform from attracting Mr. Wrong into finding their Mr. Right. The focus of one of America's Leading Mid-Life Dating Coach has expanded into a deeper, essential philosophy of what it truly means to LOVE.     After losing his 19-year-old son Connor in 2018, Jonathon Aslay’s grief led him on a soul-searching inner journey, where he became aware of an often-overlooked dimension of the dating conversation.    He realized that the process of dating reveals the most common emotional health issue faced by many singles seeking a partner: a distressing lack of self-worth, self-regard, and self-love.     Today, he is on a mission of encouraging both men and women to fully love themselves with a new book, "What The Heck Is Self-Love Anyway?"— packed with fun, engaging spiritual and personal growth practices—and his dynamic Mid-Life Love Mastery mentorship program, that inspires hundreds of people daily, around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Embrace Possibility, Claim Your Freedom, Love Your Life!In this episode, Holly talks with Stef Swink, a Licensed Spiritual Practitioner with the Center for Spiritual Living since 1999. Stef holds space for her clients and helps them deepen their own practice through standing in light and truth. Stef creates a space of Divine Love and support for those who come to her for spiritual wisdom. She says that the most important thing for her is to get herself out of the way so that truth can come through. Holly and Stef discuss her time ghost writing for Louise Hay and how her own advice column, “Ask Stef” came to be. It is published monthly in Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind Magazine. Her best advice is, "To step away from the many spinning plates and stop for just a moment and let the wisdom come through." You might consider the following: Why think about the leap of going to an intensive retreat? It is the opportunity of stepping away from the every day responsibilities to give yourself the gift of getting to know yourself through changing your everyday scenery. Stef leaves us with the advice of "Just notice." Let this be something you start to try, even if for just a day. Contact Stef through her website, stefswink.com, or join one her powerful retreats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cory Allen talks with Holly about his path to mindfulness through meditation and his new book: Now Is the Way: An Unconventional Approach to Modern Mindfulness. "The modern world has overwhelmed us. Anxiety rates are high and we’re more distracted than ever. We're suffering. But it doesn’t have to be this way. By learning how to control our minds, we can control our lives." In this book, Cory offers a fresh guide to mindfulness for you – a person living in the strange and beautiful times of today. Find out more about Cory's powerful work and listen to his show at www.cory-allen.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices