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Everyone wants to be Duolingo: over a hundred million active users worldwide, all hooked on its nudges and streaks and terrified of that big green bird. But where else is 'play-thinking' starting to transform the rest of the marketing industry? Jaywing's Danni Smith and UsTwo's Maz Karimian tell us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reiki is more than a healing technique—it is a path that reveals deeper wisdom, trust, and purpose. In this Distance Reiki Share, we explore how Reiki supports spiritual awakening, even when the path is uncertain. Topics Covered: Why trust is a key part of Reiki and spiritual awakening How Animal Reiki teaches us to listen beyond words Personal stories of Reiki guiding life's unexpected turns How Reiki supports healing, momentum, and personal growth The connection between Reiki, synchronicity, and following your path Join us for this guided discussion and Reiki journey meditation, where we will invite Reiki to reveal the next steps on our path. You can also enjoy a meditation titled: "How to Follow Your Path with Reiki – A Guided Reiki Journey Meditation" Subscribe to Reiki Lifestyle® for more Reiki shares, guided meditations, and discussions. Learn more at: www.ReikiLifestyle.com Connect with Danni Smith: danni@reikilifestyle.com ✨Connect with Colleen and Robyn  Classes: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes-page/ FREE Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/community/  Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/ (available on all major platforms too) Website: https://reikilifestyle.com/ Colleen Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReikiLifestyle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reikilifestyleofficialempo Robyn Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robynbenellireiki Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robynbenellireiki **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction which support the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.

Reiki reveals the way forward, even when the path is unclear. This guided Reiki journey meditation invites you to trust the process, listen beyond words, and follow where Reiki leads. What You'll Experience in This Meditation: How Reiki supports trust in yourself and your journey What it means to follow your path with Reiki energy A guided experience to connect with Reiki's wisdom How Animal Reiki teaches deep listening and awareness The role of Reiki in personal growth and spiritual awakening Reiki is already guiding you. This meditation will help you listen. There are moments of silence for you to have your own inner experience. Subscribe to Reiki Lifestyle® for more guided Reiki journeys and insights. Learn more at: www.ReikiLifestyle.com Connect with Danni Smith: danni@reikilifestyle.com ✨Connect with Colleen and Robyn  Classes: https://reikilifestyle.com/classes-page/ FREE Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/community/  Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/ (available on all major platforms too) Website: https://reikilifestyle.com/ Colleen Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReikiLifestyle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reikilifestyleofficialempo Robyn Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robynbenellireiki Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robynbenellireiki **DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction which support the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional health care providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional health care providers may offer. Results vary by individual.

The City of Albany's Good Neighbor School, an educational program for Albany tenants and landlords, is offering two webinars this week. Aileen Javier spoke with Danni Smith, the Housing Services Advocate for the City of Albany, about upcoming webinars: Tenants' Rights on February 22, and Legal Processes & Protections for Tenants on February 24. Both webinars are virtual and at 5:30 pm. To register: www.albanyny.gov/1942/Good-Neighbor-School Or contact Danni Smith at: dsmith@albanyny.gov Interview by Aileen Javier

Where do religious beliefs come from? It's a perfectly reasonable question, and it's a question that even the fervent atheist might ask, although Richard Dawkins would come to a very different conclusion from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Kitty O'Lone and Rabbi Danny Smith reflect on an age old question... Like this podcast? Please help us by writing a review

Mindfulness Meditation @10:00 Today’s hot topics @25:15: Reiki and shifting your stories, attitude, stress. Reiki on the fly. Reiki restores your colors, and balances your chakras. Does Reiki burn calories? Reiki and ADD. Using Reiki to highlight your “One Thing”. What do I do if I don’t feel Reiki? How do I prepare a room for a Reiki session? Reiki your way and all the different ways you can send Reiki. Reiki, business practices and sustained effort. Reiki and charging money. Online vs in-person Reiki classes. Childrens Reiki. Sign up for our free webinar and discover your conscious intentions for 2020: https://reikilifestyle.com/discoverwebinar/ The new Discover Your Next Step class will start Thursday 1.16 from 830am-1130am Pacific. Find more information here: https://reikilifestyle.com/discoverbeginnercourse/ Contact Colleen and Robyn Benelli or Danni Smith at:Reikilifestyle.comcolleen@reikilifestyle.com robyn@reikilifestyle.com Danni@reikilifestyle.com SocialColleen:facebook:@reikilifestyleInstagram: @colleenbenelli Robyn:Instagram/Facebook: @robynbenellireiki   Jill Thiel can be reached at: https://mnreikicenter.com/

Mindfulness Meditation: @10:15. Today’s hot topics @23:15: The frequency of Holy Fire Reiki. Reiki business practices. Work/life balance. Charging money for Reiki. Why does it feel like my Reiki isn’t working? The gratitude ceremony and Thanksgiving address for your thanksgiving.  The new Discover class will actually be Thursday from 830am-1130am Pacific (not wednesday). Find more information here: https://reikilifestyle.com/discoverbeginnercourse/ Contact Colleen and Robyn Benelli or Danni Smith at: Reikilifestyle.comcolleen@reikilifestyle.comrobyn@reikilifestyle.comDanni@reikilifestyle.com SocialColleen:facebook:@reikilifestyleInstagram: @colleenbenelli Robyn:Instagram/Facebook: @robynbenellireiki

Mindfulness Meditation: @18:30 Today’s Hot topics: @36:35 Using Reiki in your practical life. Using Reiki to answer your questions. Handling your cancellation policy with sessions, developing our policies, working on our authentic authority and the balancing of our giving and receiving. Empowerment. Reiki and our colors. How Reiki can restore colors. What do you do when others make erroneous comments on Reiki? Using Reiki to balancing opinions. Self Love. Using gratitude to heal judgement. "You don’t have to wait for the sunset to notice beauty around you." Colleen and Robyn's articles can be found at: https://reikilifestyle.com/category/articles/ Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Reikilifestyle.com facebook: reikilifestyle insta: @colleenbenelli  Robyn Benelli can be reached at: reikilifestyle.com email: robyn@reikilifestyle.com Danni Smith can be reached at: reikilifestyle.com email: Danni@reikilifestyle.com

Colleen, Robyn, and Danni Smith discuss Reiki Lifestyle’s upcoming webinar “Distance Reiki Journeying” for others.  Distance Reiki Journeying for Others means: Helping others heal! Obtaining spiritual guidance, information, and empowerment for others from a higher source of consciousness. Taking your distance Reiki sessions to another level. Transforming you, your life, and your Reiki practice.  Having an outlet for activism Adding another skill and tool to your spiritual tool bag. They take you through how learning to journey for others has changed their life and their practices, why anyone can learn it, and how it benefits you and the world. Colleen guides you on a short journey to the Reiki World Peace Grid at the end of the podcast.  The Live Webinar is Saturday August, 10; @9am Pacific. Register now: https://reikilifestyle.com/webinars/ Colleen can be reached at: colleen@reikilifestyle.com reikilifestyle.comfacebook.com/reikilifestyleInstagram: @colleenbenelli Robyn Benelli can be reached at:robyn@reikilifestyle.com Dannielle Smith can be reached at:danni@reikilifestyle.com

Colleen, Robyn, and Danni Smith discuss Reiki Journey Techniques and Reiki Lifestyle’s upcoming webinar training “Introduction to Reiki Journey Techniques”.  The common intention of a journey is to obtain spiritual guidance, information, healing and empowerment from a higher source of consciousness. They take you through how learning to journey has changed their life and their practices, why anyone can learn it, and how it benefits you and the world. There is also a short intuition exercise, and 20 minute guided journey by Colleen. Register now at reikilifestyle.com/webinars They also cover Next Step Reiki, their monthly skills training and mentoring classes. More information on Next Step Reiki reikilifestyle.com/nextstepreiki For questions email:colleen@reikilifestyle.com reikilifestyle.comfacebook.com/reikilifestyleInstagram: @colleenbenelli Robyn Benelli can be reached at:robyn@reikilifestyle.com Dannielle Smith can be reached at: danni@reikilifestyle.com

Have you ever wondered if you could talk to Animals? Have you heard animals “speak” to you and wondered if there was a way to open this channel even further? Guest Pamela Allen-LeBlanc, Reiki Master Teacher and Animal Communicator is on the podcast to share how she came to be an animal communicator after a career in science, overcoming her skepticism and belief around animal communication, how she integrates it on her working farm Hidden Brook Farm in New Brunswick Canada, and how Reiki plays a role in all of it! Pamela shares tips and tricks to animal communication, common misconceptions of speaking with animals, and also leads us in an amazing grounding meditation to open our awareness to the Earth and the Animals. If you are interested in Animal Reiki or Animal Communication, you don’t want to miss this one! Pamela Allen-LeBlanc can be reached at:www.hiddenbrook.caFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiddenbrookfarmReikiHorsesOils/ Email: pam@hiddenbrook.ca Colleen Benelli can be reached at Reikilifestyle.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReikiLifestyle/ Email: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com Robyn Benelli can be reached at: robyn@reikilifestyle.com Danni Smith can be reached at:danni@reikilifestyle.com   ******************************************************* Hidden Brook Farm’s, Pamela Allen-LeBlanc is a Professional Member of the International Center for Reiki Training and is currently the first Canadian to have been accepted into the Center Licensed Teacher Program.  She is a registered Usui/Holy Fire III Reiki Master-Teacher and a Holy Fire III Karuna Reiki® Master-Teacher. She is also a Centered Riding instructor, an animal communicator, a dowser, an intuitive and creates the Hidden Brook Farm line of essential oils. Pam is known in articles featured in the Reiki News Magazine and the Reiki for Animals book for her unique approach to using Reiki with animals.  Her work on Animal Communication, Animal Reiki, Horses and Essential oils and Dowsing your horses’ needs was featured at the Equine Affaire. She is thrilled that her unique work is becoming more mainstream. Pam is currently writing a book entitled In Relationship with Horses: What horses want us to know… as understood by an animal communicator. She recently travelled to Australia to teach both Reiki level 1&2 and Animal Communication classes and will be travelling to Utah and Edmonton, Alberta this summer to teach these courses as well as teaching them at Hidden Brook Farm. Here website is www.hiddenbrook.ca

Meditations @6:50. Hot Topics @16:18. Questions answered about Holy Fire 3. Questions answered about teaching, the symbols, and belief systems. Reiki and the trinity. Inner guidance. Does Colleen have a favorite symbol? A calling to the energy as it presents itself to you. “Fixing” your clients. Using Reiki for compassion fatigue. Reiki on the Fly. Insights into Karuna Reiki®. Sign up for the podcast newsletter for all the latest updates: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/ Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.comwww.facebook.com/reikilifestyle https://reikilifestyle.com/classes Robyn Benelli can be reached at: Robyn@reikilifestyle.com Danni Smith can be reached at: danni@reikilifestyle.com

Meditation @23:35 Hot Topics @35:45 : The Reiki World Peace Grids. “May the follower of all religions and spiritual paths work together to create peace on Earth.” Answers to Holy Fire III questions. Our culturally created self vs our authentic self. Unification Consciousness. Embracing our human self. Usui/Tibetan Reiki and how that works with Holy Fire Reiki. Feeling dizzy and other physical sensations from Reiki. Starting a Reiki practice. Reiki and color. Reiki and our Chakras. The 3 parts to Reiki: the energy, the system, the tools and techniques. The Burning Bowl can be found here: https://reikilifestyle.com/a-reiki-burning-bowl/ Colleen Benelli can be reached at: Colleen@reikilifestyle.com www.reikilifestyle.comwww.facebook.com/reikilifestyle https://reikilifestyle.com/classes Robyn Benelli can be reached at: Robyn@reikilifestyle.com Danni Smith can be reached at: danni@reikilifestyle.com

Colleen and Robyn Benelli, and Danni Smith reflect on their Next Step Reiki™ Journey over the last 7 months and how it has transformed their lives! Danni’s lightbulb moment: Is doing office work still doing Reiki? How do you gain more Reiki skills and confidence in your personal and professional practice? Listen to what Robyn discovered in the class about this! Colleen has been wanting to teach extra curricular Reiki training for years, hear why this class divinely pushed her to finally take her own next step and create the class with Robyn, and why she feels the curriculum that she was guided to is so important! Plus the Red Rubber Ball skill builder: Start understanding your own intuition! And...The Field of Possibilities Guided Meditation by Colleen Benelli, with an opportunity for automatic writing! The Next Step Reiki ONLINE Beginner course only has a few spots left!  Register Here: https://reikilifestyle.com/discoverbeginnercourse/ This class will be ONLINE via Zoom monthly for 7 months.

Booth One welcomes the amazing Rachel Rockwell to our studios amidst her action-packed schedule. Her beautiful production of Shakespeare in Love has just opened at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and she has about a million other irons in the fire. As a choreographer, Rachel was nominated for Joseph Jefferson Awards for The King & I (2007) and A Chorus Line (2011). As a director, she received Jeff Award nominations for Miss Saigon (2009); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee—Best Musical (2009); Ragtime (2010) and 42nd Street (2011). For her acclaimed Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre production of Ragtime (11 Jeff nominations and seven awards), she received the Joseph Jefferson Award as Best Director of a musical. As Director, Jeff Award nominations (2012) for Best Director and Best Musical: The Sound of Music and Sweeney Todd at Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre; and Best Play: Enron at Timeline Theatre Company. In 2013, her production of Oliver! received a Jeff nomination for Best Musical. In 2014, she received Jeff Award nominations (Director, Choreography and Best Musical) for the revival of Brigadoon at The Goodman Theatre and Les Miserables at Drury Lane Oakbrook. Her production of Brigadoon was named Best Musical and she was named Best Choreographer for that production. She won the Jeff Award for Best Choreography for her production of Billy Eliot in 2015. In 2016, she won the Jeff Award as Best Director for her production of Ride The Cyclone at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.[22] She has directed notable Children's Theatre productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. At CST, she also choreographed productions of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, and Measure For Measure. Since the mid-nineties, Rockwell has directed and choreographed dozens of productions for such theaters as: Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook, Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire, Paramount Theatre, Noble Fool Theatricals, Fox Valley Repertory, Apple Tree, The Little Theatre on the Square, SIU Summer Theatre and McCleod Summer Playhouse. Rachel is also working on writing and developing new musicals. Look out world!!! Booth One has a couple of ideas we may be passing by her desk. Rachel is the third musical genius to come on our show who hails from Indiana. Beckie Menzie and Danni Smith, both past guests and friends of the show, cultivated their talents in the Hoosier State. We're wondering what's in the water over there!? Rachel credits her success to a long line of mentors and teachers, including Buzz Miller, who danced Bob Fosse's brilliant choreography in the seminal "Steam Heat" on Broadway and in the film of The Pajama Game. Rachel was Dance Captain in Mamma Mia on Broadway and the National Tour, and she gives us some backstage insight about what a difficult and important job this is. She choreographs in her car(!) and counter-clockwise in her living room to avoid the coffee table. So yeah, kind of a genius. Deb Acker, the production stage manager at Chicago Shakespeare, says Rachel is the most prepared director she's ever worked with. Rachel tells us why she prepares so thoroughly. Gary and Rachel talk the 2017 Tony Award nominations and Rachel particularly recommends Come From Away. Martha Lavey,  a mentor to us all and a huge force in the Chicago theater community, is our Kiss of Death segment this week. There are no words. But these journalists come close: Hedy Weiss for the Chicago Sun Times Chris Jone for the Chicago Tribune New York Times        

Gary welcomes 4-time Jeff Award winner Danni Smith to the Booth this week, in a lively discussion of her career,  growing up in Indiana, her recent lauded performances in Jesus Christ, Superstar, Man of La Mancha, and the currently-running Mamma Mia at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre. Gary and Roscoe first encountered Danni at the Theo Ubique, where she was just marvelous in the role of Mary Magdalene. Not only was she a highlight of the show, she was also our table server at the intimate space. Oh, what fine actors do to make it in this business! Danni treasures the time she spent doing five shows at Theo Ubique. The "bolt of lightning" description is a quote from a Broadway World rave review of her performance in Man of La Mancha. Ever since playing a Munchkin in a grammar school performance of The Wizard of Oz, Danni has been smitten with the theatre. She attended Ball State University to study musical theatre. (Other Ball State alumni include David Letterman, Steadman Graham and John Schnatter, founder of Papa John's Pizza.) We chat about her inspirations, aspirations and dream roles. You can view a clip of Danni's performance in Mamma Mia here. The latest news in our recurring watch of the world's elephant community is about the cold weather sweeping across northern India and threatening the health and well-being of these gentle mammals at the Wildlife SOS Elephant Conservation and Care Center. Big-hearted local villagers have begun knitting giant sweaters to keep the pachyderms warm. These colorful new duds take about 4 weeks to create. But it's well worth the effort to keep these animals happy and comfortable, especially considering all the hardships they've been through. Click here to see great photos of the locals knitting with the elephants and some of the finished products. You can knit your own sweater and send it to them! Learn about other ways to help at http://wildlifesos.org/donate-2-2/. About a year ago, Danni co-founded, with Artistic Director Harmony France, a new Chicago theatre company called Firebrand Theatre, the first "equity feminist musical theatre company" committed to employing and empowering women by expanding opportunities on and off the stage. The inaugural season includes 9 to 5 The Musical and Lizzie, a rock musical based on the true-life story of accused axe-murderess Lizzie Borden(!). Plus a kick-off benefit concert called Nothin' Like a Dame: A Celebration of Women in Musical Theatre. That February 27th performance featuring 28 singers was sold-out! Congratulations, Firebrand, and best of luck in your new exciting venture. Gary gives a shout-out to the Goodman Theatre's production of Uncle Vanya, adapted by Annie Baker and directed by Artistic Director Robert Falls. This is one of the finest examples of ensemble acting we've seen in some time, and beautifully captures the humor and existential pathos of Chekhov's brilliant play. Danni discusses her starring role in the independent feature Curtain, a horror thriller film from 2015, in which something sinister lurks behind the bathroom tiles in her shower, and things start to mysteriously disappear. Chaos ensues, of course.  You can also view the trailer here. In Episode 52, we wondered aloud whether Glenn Close might be awarded a second Tony for her performance in the new revival of Sunset Boulevard. Thank you to loyal listener Robbie Young for writing to let us know that one cannot win twice for the same role, even in different productions. Yul Brynner's 1985 Tony was awarded as a "special" honor and not specifically for his reprise as The King in The King and I. Perhaps the same situation will come up again at this year's ceremony. Most of the photos of Danni you see in these notes were taken during a portrait session with genius photographer Joe Mazza at Brave Lux. Gary and Roscoe have done a photo session with him and he is definitely a creative force to be reckoned with.