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In this episode we explore the magic of writing and the power of telling your story. My guest Nancy Slonim Aronie wants you to know that writing is not an exclusive club, that everyone has a really good story to tell. And usually not just one. In her new book Seven Secrets to the Perfect Personal Essay she writes “Essay writing is personal. Sharing what you think about a certain topic is risky. Especially if what you think is not what everyone else thinks.”Nancy Slonim Aronie is the founder of the Chilmark Writing Workshop on Martha's Vineyard and the author of Memoir as Medicine and Writing from the Heart. A regular commentator for NPR's All Things Considered, Aronie has taught at Harvard University and conducted writing workshops and lectures at Kripalu, Omega, Esalen, Rowe Conference Center, Wainwright House, and the Open Center in New York City.In this episode, Nancy discusses:Creativity is its many formsThe healing power of the personal essayThe mystery and magic of writingHow everyone is a writerBeing vulnerableThe importance of feeling safe when writing and sharing your writingWriting workshopsTo learn more about Nancy and her workshops, please visit https://chilmarkwritingworkshop.com/________BECOME YOUR OWN SHAMAN Introductory Online Course Visit Wendy's website to learn more about the the Harmonic Egg®  “Gifts and Tools to Explore and Celebrate the Unseen Worlds” - The Lucid Path BoutiqueLucid Cafe episodes by topic  Listen to Lucid Cafe on YouTube  ★ Support this podcast ★

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Astrology is more than just predictions. Join Kino and Gahl for a conversation about spirituality, past lives, and how astrology can help guide us along our journey Gahl Sasson makes Kabbalah, astrology and psychology engaging, illuminating, and fun. His book, A Wish Can Change Your Life, (published by Simon & Schuster and co-written with Steve Weinstein), blends wisdom and metaphors from cultures across history and the entire world into an innovative blueprint for personal transformation and material enrichment. His second work, Cosmic Navigator, is the essential reference guide to understanding your astrological makeup. He recently published a book on the astrology of 2018, 2019, and 2020. Thousands have enthusiastically embraced his fresh and stimulating approach to spirituality in lectures and workshops in the United States, UK, Argentina, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Singapore, Hong Kong, Moscow, Mexico, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Israel. He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, and Astrology.com, and has been named “Los Angeles' Best Astrologer” by W Magazine. He is a guest lecturer at USC, Tel Aviv University, and teaches at Esalen, Omega Institute, University of Judaism, and the Open Center in NYC. He has appeared on CNN, ABC News, KTLA-TV Los Angeles to name a few. In 2017 his academic article, Symbolic Meaning of Names in the Bible was published by the Journal of Storytelling, Self, & Society. He currently resides in Los Angeles.   Practice LIVE with me exclusively on Omstars! Start your journey today with a 7-day free trial at omstars.com. Limited time Offer: Sign up for an Omstars+ membership and Get my FREE course: Ashtanga Mechanics. Sign up Here! Stay connected with us on social @omstarsofficial and @kinoyoga Practice with me in person for workshops, classes, retreats, trainings and Mysore seasons. Find out more about where I'm teaching at kinoyoga.com and sign up for our Mysore season in Miami at www.miamilifecenter.com    

New York Times bestselling author Sonia Choquette has published 28 books in 30 countries and brings over 45 years of experience in teaching and intuitively guiding people worldwide. Sonia is a renowned intuitive guide, spiritual teacher, and bestselling author, celebrated for her work in helping individuals connect with their intuition, spiritual essence, and higher self. With over 40 years of experience in the realms of intuition, energy healing, and personal transformation, she has become a leading voice in the fields of personal development and metaphysical studies.As as bestselling author with a strong academic foundation in metaphysics and spiritual traditions, Sonia has taught at esteemed institutions like the Omega Institute and New York's Open Center, and also been featured on major platforms such as Hay House Radio, Mind Body Green, Mind Valley, The Dr. Oz Show, and Oprah.Sonia is known for her ability to teach practical tools that allow people to harness their innate spiritual wisdom and live with more clarity, purpose, and joy. Her approach blends a deep understanding of intuition with a grounded, accessible way to navigate everyday life. She is the author of numerous books, including the bestsellers The Answer Is Simple, Trust Your Vibes, and Ask Your Guides, which have been translated into many languages and have inspired thousands around the world."I was raised in a family that recognized intuition as our most important guide in life surpassing all our other senses and have been a highly intuitive person my entire life.My mother was separated from her Romanian family during an evacuation, landed as a child refugee at age 12, survived a work camp in WWII, got married at 15, and found herself suddenly in America. Along the journey, she lost her hearing and had only her inner resources to draw from to protect and guide her through the trying circumstances of her early life. My seven siblings and I were raised to Trust Our Vibes as a matter of survival, though I chose to use my heightened skills of intuitive perception for even greater purpose – to help others.As young as age 12, I offered intuitive readings for adults and started training with two master teachers in metaphysical arts and spiritual law. I quickly learned that doing readings alone did not solve people's sense of lost direction as deeply as helping them reconnect with their own natural inner guidance system. At 15, I began successfully teaching small groups of students on how to tune in to their own guidance and have been ever since."New Book: Read Life Accurately: https://soniachoquette.net/read-life-purchase-bonus/WebsiteInstagram Youtube Tiktok Facebook Support the show

Jessica Caplan  is a vocal embodiment coach, singer and sound practitioner, who works with voice and sound as portals for embodiment, transformation, and connection. Known for her voice-infused soundscapes, and open-hearted approach to embodying the voice (Sonic Embodiment), Jessica leads immersive workshops, retreats, trainings, and 1:1 mentorships in the art of therapeutic voice and sound.Jessica has been singing her whole life, and in her 30's, experienced a series of activations that guided her into an even deeper relationship with her voice as a healing instrument. A graduate of the Open Center's Sound and Music Institute, and Grammy award-nominated artist Silvia Nakkach's Yoga of the Voice certificate, she is passionate about helping people re-member the voice they were born with. She's a longtime yoga teacher and mover, lover of ceremonial work, and draws inspiration from the Earth, indigenous traditions, and her own Jewish roots. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and daughter, and their kitty and pup, and is currently working on an album of her medicine songs. Her song "Call Me Home" is available on all listening platforms under her alias Jessonica. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, the Observer, Vogue, and on CBS news.Episode Highlights▶ Jessica's journey to vocal embodiment and how she shifted from being an attorney to a vocal coach▶ How Jessica found sound healing and how she became an Integrative Sound Practitioner▶ When plant medicine came into her life and the true power of intuitive vocalizing ▶ Expansion and contraction in life and business and how it made way for bigger things to happen▶ How Jessica manifested and built a dream space for her work ▶ What has to happen if you want to expand and grow and the tests you might be faced with▶ Why pushing and forcing won't create abundance and the power of honoring the energy of now instead▶ How using your voice can help you get into the energy of flow and receiving ▶ The spiritual and healing aspects of using your voice and how Jesica helps her clients drop into their voices▶ Real transformations that Jessica's clients have experienced after diving into sound healing ▶ Why so many women don't love using their voice and why singing is our birthrightJessica Caplan's Links & Resources▶ Website: www.jessicacaplan.com▶ Instagram: instagram.com/jesscaplan▶ Toning for Inner Peace: https://youtu.be/THCBUgOJqGE  Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into a Transformational Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ The True Path Entrepreneur Group Business Mastermind Program: https://bethaweinstein.com/mastermind▶ Beth's Other Programs & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Beth Weinstein's Instagram: http://instagram.com/bethaweinstein▶ Beth on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bethw.nychttps://www.facebook.com/BethWeinsteinbiz▶ Join Beth's FREE Psychedelics & Purpose Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PsychedelicsandSacredMedicines

Voices Of Courage with Ken D Foster S3EP9, The Courage to Awaken to the Fifth Dimension with Kimberly Meredith We are excited to hear from today's guest, Kimberly Meredith. She has been prominently featured on the covers of and within numerous major publications, including Harper's Bazaar Vietnam, Éclair Magazine, Women Fitness, Preferred Health Magazine, MUPO Magazine, Awareness Magazine, The Life Connection Magazine, Thrive Global, LA Yoga Magazine, and The New York Daily News, The Edge Magazine, The Eden Magazine, and Medium. Kimberly is currently on a nationwide book tour and regularly keynotes at the largest spiritual expos in the world, including the Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo, the New Living Expo, and the New Life Expo. She has appeared at the Omega Institute, New York's OPEN Center, The Life Center of Connecticut, and the RA MA Institute. Kimberly is a recurring speaker at Jack Canfield seminars and Heaven and Earth Oasis, a non-profit organisation serving the Veterans Administration. A healer like no other, Kimberly Meredith bridges the gap between God and science. Show Benefits: ~ Learn about psychic abilities ~ Improve spiritual awareness ~ Gain insight into health and healing ~ Understand channeling Broadcast Bio: Kimberly Meredith is a world-renowned celebrity medical intuitive medium, healer, global influencer with AAE Speakers, media personality, cover model, leading spiritual speaker, successful life coach, and the bestselling author of Awakening to the Fifth Dimension: Discovering the Soul's Path to Healing. Blessed with a unique array of extraordinary healing and psychic abilities, Kimberly has helped thousands of people from around the world improve from all manner of significant illnesses and emotional conditions through the Holy Spirit. Kimberly also connects with those who have crossed over to bring messages to the living. Kimberly received her miraculous gifts of healing and mediumship from the Holy Spirit following two Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), from which she returned with a mission to bring healing to the world. Kimberly channels messages through her eyes' blinking codes as a tool of communication from God. #voicesofcourage #kendfoster #KimberlyMeredith #channeling #healing #psychic #mediumship #spirituality #connectedness

We are excited to hear from today's guest, Kimberly Meredith. She has been prominently featured on the covers of and within numerous major publications, including Harper's Bazaar Vietnam, Éclair Magazine, Women Fitness, Preferred Health Magazine, MUPO Magazine, Awareness Magazine, The Life Connection Magazine, Thrive Global, LA Yoga Magazine, and The New York Daily News, The Edge Magazine, The Eden Magazine, and Medium. Kimberly is currently on a nationwide book tour and regularly keynotes at the largest spiritual expos in the world, including the Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo, the New Living Expo, and the New Life Expo. She has appeared at the Omega Institute, New York's OPEN Center, The Life Center of Connecticut, and the RA MA Institute. Kimberly is a recurring speaker at Jack Canfield seminars and Heaven and Earth Oasis, a non-profit organisation serving the Veterans Administration. A healer like no other, Kimberly Meredith bridges the gap between God and science. Youtube: https://youtu.be/Zl1eo678jT8 #voicesofcourage #kendfoster #KimberlyMeredith #channeling #healing #psychic #mediumship #spirituality #connectedness  

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What is the open throat center in Human Design? How do we work with its unique gifts and challenges in the process of deconditioning?The open / undefined throat is one of my favorite topics in Human Design. It's said that only 29% of the population has an open throat center, making it the least common out of the open centers. Unsurprisingly (and pun intended), there's a lot of misconceptions, misunderstandings, and, frankly, terrible advice about how to live with an open throat center.In this episode, I share about my process understanding, deconditioning, and ultimately befriending my undefined throat.Thank you Kelsey Rose Tortorice for the question! You can listen to my conversation with Kelsey here. She also has incredible courses to help you learn Human Design, Human Design for the Astrologically Minded and Living Your Design. I also mentioned my HD teachers, Amy Lee and John Cole of Human Design Collective whose foundational courses on Human Design I highly recommend.   If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

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Join FemCity Founder and host of the FemCity Podcast, Violette de Ayala in a discussion with Demitra Vassiliadis of Heaven to Earth Astrology, and FemCity Founder's Circle Member.  Demitra sheds light on the key principles of astrology and how it influences our lives, and what is in store for the year ahead. Demitra unveils astrological insights, offering a glimpse into the energies that will shape the coming months. Whether you're an astrology newbie or enthusiasts, this episode promises to be an enlightening and entertaining exploration of the cosmic landscape. Tune in now to gain a deeper understanding of astrology and a sneak peek into the astrological forecast for 2024.  About Demitra // Demitra Vassiliadis of heaventoearthastrology.com is a spiritual astrologer and inspirational speaker who is passionate about helping others understand their unique talents and life path, reflected through the prism of spiritual astrology. Her interpretations and infectious enthusiasm for her subject have made her a popular speaker, performer, personal consultant, and workshop and retreat leader for clients such as Deepak Homebase at ABC Carpet and Home, NYC's Open Center where she was a regular ceremony leader and weekly blogger. She currently collaborates with NYC's Instituto Xilonen and has led workshops at New Age Health Spa, McGraw Hill corporate event, Mohonk Mountain House and more. Her Astrology practice is centered in NYC. Her work takes her across the tri state area and beyond.  About FemCity // Join FemCity with a complimentary Community Membership!It's the perfect way to sample our Membership, attend local events, meet FemCity Founder, Violette de Ayala and see if the FemCity vibe is a good fit for you. And it's free!. You can also learn more about launching a FemCity Chapter in your community. FemCity has been seen in Gilt, Vogue, AP News, Entrepreneur, Forbes, and MarieClaire. Learn why FemCity is more than just a women's networking group at www.femcity.com and on all social platforms @FemCity. Want to learn about FemCIty? Join us for our free upcoming Get to Know FemCIty event.  About Violette de Ayala // Violette is a Cuban-American serial and social Entrepreneur, Founder of FemCity®, and virtual mentor to over 20,000 women. Violette has been quoted in Success, Entrepreneur, CNBC, Yahoo Small Business, Business Insider News as a small business expert. You can connect with Violette on IG, FB, LinkedIn at Violette de Ayala. About Lynn Pelzer // Lynn is the COO of FemCity and has held a chair position on boards, currently part of a DEI board with FemCity, she has been awarded the Rising Star Award and Crystal Executive Award in her previous company. She has been a contributor on podcasts as well as blogs, and has been a speaker in women's groups on the topics of business. You can connect with Lynn on Facebook or Linkedin @lynnpelzer.   

Returning to the show is Maggie Hilpisch. Maggie first joined me in Episode 267 on Parenting Through Human Design. While recording that episode, we realized we're both Splenic Projectors with two defined centers and one channel. So, I invited Maggie back for a candid conversation on the similarities and differences between our designs.  You'll hear us reflect and share insights on: Having Splenic Authorities Our 1 / 3 and 2 / 4 Profile Lines Working with seemingly contrasting parts of one's design Self-doubt and overthinking Open Centers and conditioning READ THE SHOW NOTES WORK WITH ME JOIN THE COMMUNITY CONNECT ON INSTAGRAM

Thank you for listening to our podcast. Karen Noe is a renowned psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and healer with a two-year waiting list. She is the author of We Consciousness, Your Life After Their Death, The Angel Quest Oracle Card Deck, Through the eyes of Another and The Rainbow Follows the storm. She has taught many workshops at the Omega Institute, the Association of Research and Enlightenment, The Open Center, I Can Do It Events across the country, and has also recently finished a very successful Master Class for Humanity's Team with Serena and Saje Dyer about Life After Death. Karen is the founder of the Angel Quest Center in Waldwick, New Jersey, where she teaches classes, gives readings and practices alternative healing. You can listen to Karen on the Angel Quest show on all podcast platforms. Where you can find us: daughters.moon.podcast@gmail.com YouTube – Daughters of the Moon Podcast IG @daughtersofthemoonpodcast Facebook - Daughters of the moon podcast https://daughtersmoonpodca.wixsite.com/mysite Information: www.KarenNoe.com IG – karennoeauthor Facebook – karennoeauthor Podcast – Angel Quest Show Please like, share, follow and subscribe to our podcast. If you would like to be on our podcast, please contact us to let us know what you would like to share with our followers and us. Our guests and topics are for informational purposes and may not align with everyone.   We respectfully acknowledge the land on which we live and work is Treaty 6 Territory, the traditional lands of the indigenous and the Metis People. For as long as the sun shines, the rivers flow, and the grass grows, this land will be recognized as Treaty 6 Territory.

Nancy Aronie – Memoir as Medicine: Healing Through the Power of WordsAired Monday, October 9, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM GMT / 8:00 PM CETHave you ever wondered if your life's messy, imperfect, and unruly experiences could be the raw material for a powerful memoir that not only heals your soul but touches the hearts of others? Well, you're in for a treat!In this captivating interview, Kara Johnstad dives deeply into conversation with the remarkable Nancy Aronie, author of the groundbreaking new book, “Memoir as Medicine: The Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but Gorgeously Yours) Life Story.”Join us as we delve into the profound connection between writing, creativity, and healing. Founder of the Chilmark Workshops, Nancy Aronie, will guide us through discovering our authentic writing voice and using it as a vehicle for self-healing and world transformation.On this healing path, we'll explore how to alchemize life's challenges into storytelling gold. Nancy's wisdom reminds us that writing and sharing our stories in a safe and sacred space may help us save on medical bills. Yes, writing from your heart is that powerful.Explore with us the alchemical process of turning life's traumas into art, stories of repair, resilience, and courage. Learn how writing your memoir can be a sacred act of self-discovery and a gift to others seeking healing and meaning in their journeys.Don't miss this opportunity to connect with Nancy Aronie and uncover the healing magic of storytelling.About Our Guest:Nancy Slonim Aronie has been a commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She was a Visiting Writer at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, wrote a monthly column in McCall's magazine, and received the Eye of The Beholder Artist in Residence award at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Nancy won the Teacher of the Year award for all three years she taught at Harvard University for Robert Coles.She gives writing workshops and lectures at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Omega Institute, Rowe Conference Center, Esalen, Wain-Wright House, and The Open Center in New York City. She teaches at Harvard University.Writing From The Heart: Finding Your Own Voice is a nurturing workshop for the beginning writer and a jump-start for the burnt-out professional. You will take home your powerful, one-of-a-kind golden voice filled with self-esteem, honor, and joyVisit Nancy Aronie at https://chilmarkwritingworkshop.com/nancy-aronie#NancyAronie #MemoirAsMedicine #HealingThroughWriting #VoiceRising #KaraJohnstadTo get in touch with Kara, go to http://www.karajohnstad.com/Visit the Voice Rising show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/voice-rising/Subscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

Join Tosha and special guest Sarah Olivieri as they shed light on nonprofit boardroom dynamics and fiscal planning in this episode of A Modern Nonprofit. Their conversation dives deep into the heart of nonprofit boardrooms, going beyond typical approvals and banter, and confronting the pressing issues surrounding budget planning. Sarah brings forward her fresh insights gained from years of experience, transforming the concept of 'budget' into a 'projection', thereby redefining the mindset around how funds are allocated to fulfill the mission of 501c(3) organizations. Sarah's innovative approach reshapes the process of program evaluation, aligning revenue and impact with organizational costs. This is a conversation you don't want to miss if you're part of a nonprofit looking to innovate the way your organization thinks about budgets and projections. Ready to reimagine your budgeting process and strengthen your nonprofit's mission? ----------------------------------------- More on our Guest: Sarah Olivieri, a seasoned leader in the nonprofit sector, leverages over 18 years of experience to guide organizations towards success. As the CEO and Founder of PivotGround, Olivieri implements her innovative Impact Method™ to simplify operations, create aligned teams, and increase impact. Beyond her work with PivotGround, which was founded in 2014, Olivieri also co-founded the Open Center for Autism and served as the executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. Known for challenging traditional strategic planning and promoting a less conventional, data-centric decision-making approach, Olivieri continues to push the boundaries of nonprofit management.

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Sarah Olivieri about why great leadership requires more than great leaders. Sarah Olivieri (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri/) is a business coach and strategist with a passion for helping nonprofit organizations thrive, a #1 international bestselling author, and a former nonprofit Executive Director who now helps nonprofit teams as CEO and Founder of her company PivotGround. Her Impact Method™ is a framework that helps nonprofits simplify their operations, build aligned teams, and make a bigger impact without overwhelm. Sarah has over 8 years of nonprofit leadership experience, she also co-founded the Open Center for Autism and was the executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. She is also a published author who co-wrote Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs and was a featured expert in the international, best-selling series “The One Thing Every Mompreneur Needs to Know”. Sarah created PivotGround in 2014 to teach other nonprofits how to run their businesses better. She created a framework that helps nonprofits become more organized, build effective teams, and make a bigger impact. Sarah and her team are moving the needle for nonprofits in one of the most valuable and under-leveraged areas - planning. Sarah debunks the idea of traditional strategic planning and also challenges our industry's current focus on "data-driven" decision-making. Part of the LinkedIn Podcast Network #LinkedInPresents Further explore the topics discussed in this episode with the new HCIConsulting Chatbot: https://poe.com/HCIConsulting. Please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon and leaving a review wherever you listen to your podcasts! Go to HelloFresh.com/hci50 and use code hci50 for 50% off, plus your first box ships free! Check out CrowdHealth and start your free trial at joincrowdhealth.com and use promo code HCI. Check out the HCI Academy: Courses, Micro-Credentials, and Certificates to Upskill and Reskill for the Future of Work! Check out the LinkedIn Alchemizing Human Capital Newsletter. Check out Dr. Westover's book, The Future Leader. Check out Dr. Westover's book, 'Bluer than Indigo' Leadership. Check out Dr. Westover's book, The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership. Check out the latest issue of the Human Capital Leadership magazine. Each HCI Podcast episode (Program, ID No. 627454) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Each HCI Podcast episode (Program ID: 24-DP529) has been approved for 0.50 HR (General) SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCPHR recertification through SHRM, as part of the knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™). Human Capital Innovations has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. Each HCI Podcast episode qualifies for a maximum of 0.50 points. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With so much riding on your shoulders, it can be so easy to think that being overwhelmed and burnt out are just part of the job of being a leader. But this episode's guest tells you that you don't have to be. In fact, you can take more of your time back and still create a bigger impact. Penny Zenker sits down with Sarah Olivieri, who is the founder of PivotGround, co-founder of the Open Center for Autism, Executive Director of the Helping Children of War Foundation, and the Deputy Director of GRASP. With all these leadership positions under her belt, Sarah is well-familiar with the challenges of many busy leaders. She joins us to talk about how she is helping those struggling in their roles with her framework, The Impact Method. At the heart of it, Sarah shows us the importance of being time-rich. She discusses the difference between time goals and money goals and doing what makes you fulfilled. Follow along to this insightful conversation to learn more!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

In episode 64 of Mission: Impact, Carol and her guest, Sarah Olivieri discuss: How systemizing your processes can free up time for staff to think bigger How to measure your capacity and be realistic about what is on your organizational docket How to have a productive team meeting Guest Bio:Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit leader like you who used to spend days and nights asking questions like: “how do I get my board to work with me and not against me?”, “how can I raise more money for this important mission?” and, “how can I show up and love my job as much as I love this mission?”. Sarah has over 18 years of nonprofit leadership experience. She was the co-founder of the Open Center for Autism, the Executive Director of the Helping Children of War Foundation, and co-author of Lesson Plan a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago with a focus on globalization and its effect on marginalized cultures, and a master's degree in Humanistic and Multicultural Education from SUNY New Paltz. As the founder and heart behind PivotGround, Sarah helps nonprofits become financially sustainable world changers.Important Links and Resources: A short guide to Kanban Kanban examples  https://www.pivotground.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri/ https://www.instagram.com/pivotground/?hl=en

My guest today is Sarah Olivieri. Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit leader and former executive director like you who used to spend days and nights asking questions like: How do I get my board to work with me and not against me? How can I raise more money for this important mission? How can I show up and love my job as much as I love this mission?   Sarah is a #1 International Best-Selling author. She received her BA from the University of Chicago with a focus on globalization and its effect on marginalized cultures and holds a master's degree in Humanistic and Multicultural Education from SUNY New Paltz.   Sarah has over 18 years of nonprofit leadership experience. She was the co-founder of the Open Center for Autism, the Executive Director of the Helping of War Foundation, and co-author of Lesson Plan a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs.   As the founder and heart behind PivotGround, Sarah helps nonprofits become financially sustainable world changers.   Here's what to expect during the episode: Who should be involved in the budgeting process?  What role does the board play concerning an organization's budget? Why is it essential to involve board members in decision-making? Who is responsible for budget approval? Why is trust important in an organization?   Connect with Sarah Olivieri! Website: https://www.pivotground.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahfolivieri/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pivotground/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pivotground LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri/ The case study Sarah mentions: https://www.pivotground.com/50dfcec4   Get your free guide: Create Your Own Weekly Renewal Plan in 3 Easy Steps. Go to: https://www.hilandconsulting.org/request-weeklyrenewalplan.   Mary's book is available on Amazon or wherever books are sold: Love Your Board! The Executive Directors' Guide to Discovering the Sources of Nonprofit Board Troubles and What to Do About Them.   Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated!     Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on Facebook.   Connect with Mary! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryhiland Inspired Nonprofit Leadership Facebook Group: https://tinyurl.com/inspirednonprofitleadership Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

Gahl Sasson is an established author and has been teaching workshops on Storytelling, Kabbalah, Astrology, and Mysticism around the globe for over 20 years. His first book, A Wish Can Change Your Life, has been translated into over eight languages and is endorsed by HH the 14th Dalai Lama. His second work, Cosmic Navigator, is the essential reference guide to understanding your astrological makeup. Since 2018 Gahl has been publishing a yearly bestselling book on the astrology of the upcoming year. He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, and Astrology.com, and has been named "Los Angeles' Best Astrologer" by W Magazine. He is a guest lecturer at USC, Tel Aviv University, and teaches at Esalen, Omega Institute, University of Judaism, and the Open Center in NYC. He has appeared on CNN, ABC News, KTLA-TV Los Angeles to name a few. His academic paper, Symbolic Meaning of Names in the Bible was published by the Journal of Storytelling, Self, & Society. He currently resides in Los Angeles but gives seminars and workshops regularly in over 13 countries. His website is www.CosmicNavigator.com and has a podcast – the Cosmic Navigator Astrology Show.   TOPICS OF CONVERSATION: His journey to becoming the Cosmic Navigator About The Astrology of 2023 and the significance of Traversing the Bridge Who will benefit from reading this book? Basic knowledge points about Astrology for those interested in learning more Key dates in 2023 How The Astrology of 2023: Traversing the Bridge stands apart from other books on Astrology   THE ASTROLOGY OF 2023: TRAVERSING THE BRIDGE Prepare for and plan the next 12 months with this essential astrological guide written by The Cosmic Navigator, Gahl E. Sasson. The 2023 Manual combines Kabbalah, Astrology, Tarot, history, and Mythology. The first part of the book provides a list of important dates for each month. The second part details the major astrological trends of the year 2023, while the third section lays out a month to month forecast for each zodiac sign. What days are good for finance? Which dates are auspicious for love and relationships? When should you pay attention to your health or start a diet? When will Mercury retrograde? When are the eclipses and what do they mean for each sign? How to manifest your New Year's resolution? Why is the numerology of 2023 lucky 7? What does it mean that Pluto moves into Aquarius for the first time since the French Revolution? Get your guide to the stars to help you navigate the Astrology of 2023.   CONNECT WITH GAHL SASSON! Website: https://cosmicnavigator.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_navigator/  Links to Webinars, Live Events and Free Goodies: https://linktr.ee/cosmic_navigator 

"As above, so below."This paraphrase of the second verse of the Emerald Tablet describes the idea that what happens in a higher realm or plane of existence also happens in a lower realm. Since the dawn of time, humankind has looked to the higher realms of the stars for guidance, whether for navigation of our oceans and planet, or via astrology for the navigation of our destinies.Astrology dates back to the 2nd millennium BC, when the Babylonians developed the first organised system of interpretation of the celestial bodies and their influence on human affairs. Until the 17th century, astrology was actually considered a scholarly tradition. Famous people of science and scholars such Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton and Carl Gustav Jung used astrology to guide their lives and work. Do the answers lie in the stars? Today we are welcoming a man on the show who says, yes, they do.Gahl Sasson is an expert astrologer, storyteller, and teacher. He is a guest lecturer at USC, Tel Aviv University and teaches at Esalen, Omega Institute, University of Judaism and the Open Center in NYC. With deep roots in the ancient art of Kabbalah, astrology, and psychology, Gahl helps his students and clients interpret their past and design their future in illuminating and life-changing ways. Gahl is a bestselling author and his first book, A Wish Can Change Your Life, has been translated into over eight languages and is endorsed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. His second work, Cosmic Navigator, has been called the essential reference guide to understanding our astrological makeup. Since 2018 Gahl has been publishing a yearly bestselling book on the astrology of the upcoming year. In this episode we will talk about the history of astrology, the application of it to our lives, as well as the power our names hold. And last but certainly not least, Gahl will share with us his predictions and book for 2023, which has the title Traversing the Bridge - Movement of the People.In this episode with Gahl Sasson, you'll discover:-Founding origins of astrology and why Gahl believes it is the key to a better life…03:46-The role of the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians and Greeks in promulgating the practice of astrology…10:09-Gahl's journey into the realm of mastery of astrology…12:30-Gahl's thoughts on the upcoming “astrological traffic jam” of 2023 and beyond…21:10-Gahl does an on the spot astrological prediction on Ariane… 28:45-Gahl's take on time, past lives, etc…33:00-The importance of our names, why we choose our names before we're even born, and why they are fundamentally important to our life's story… 39:46-About the “shadow element” of our name…47:10-Gahl's best personal practice…49:38-And much more…Resources mentioned:Cosmic Navigator websiteTraversing the Bridge - Movement of the PeopleA Wish Can Change Your LifeCosmic NavigatorGuest's social handles:FacebookInstagram

Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit business strategist, #1 International Best Selling author, and former Executive Director. She is a frequent presenter at conferences and online trainings and has been a featured expert on more than 50 podcasts. Sarah is the creator of the Impact Method™ - a framework that helps nonprofits simplify their operations, build aligned teams, and make a bigger impact without getting overwhelmed or burning out. Sarah has over 17 years of nonprofit leadership experience. She was the co-founder of the Open Center for Autism, the Executive Director of the Helping Children of War Foundation, and co-author of Lesson Plan a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs. As the founder and heart behind PivotGround, Sarah helps nonprofits become financial sustainable world changers. Come sail away on a podcast adventure as Sarah shares her story with Lou Diamond on Thrive LouD. ***CONNECT WITH LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD***

Gibbs A. Williams. Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York. His choice of profession is an outgrowth of three major interests - philosophy, depth psychology, and spirituality. He received a B.A. from Columbia University, majoring in philosophy; an M.S. in psychology from Yeshiva University; and a Ph.D. in vocational rehabilitation counseling from New York University. His dissertation topic studied the relationship among male heroin addicts, selected treatment programs, and ego weakness. He continued his involvement with addiction, working with a number of New York substance abuse programs. He was the assistant director of Odyssey House, a therapeutic community. His duties included planning, developing, and coordinating therapy; participating in overall policy decisions and patient evaluations; administering and interpreting psychological tests; leading and supervising individual, group, and marathon therapy sessions; giving lectures and conducting educational seminars; participating in, coordinating, and leading family and marital therapy groups; organizing and administering a group home (''the pressure cooker'') for thirty addicts. Other substance abuse programs included Samaritan Village (formerly known as The Samaritan Half-Way Society) as well as the female program run by the New York State Narcotics Control Commission. He was the primary care consultant for The Lowell Institute, an outpatient program for substance abusers (drugs and alcohol). He received a certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from The Greenwich Institute in 1980 and went on to become an instructor and supervisor in the same institute. The courses he taught there included Ego Strength/Ego Weakness; Ego Psychology; and Transference/ Countertransference. He taught a course on crisis intervention to incoming interns for ten years. Additionally he has taught at other colleges and learning centers in New York. These include New York University, The New York School For Social Research, Adelphi University, The Discovery Center, and The Open Center. He is also on the faculty of The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, on the alcoholism training faculty. Other courses he has taught include: Psychopathology and Mental Health; The Addictive Personality; Psychoanalysis and The Occult; Decoding Meaningful Coincidences: Spirituality And The Agnostic Addict; Coping With Hard Times (stress management), Crisis Intervention and Psychoanalysis, and Striving For Wholeness: Preventing Substance Abuse in Pre-Teens.

Ralph White is co-founder of The Open Center and currently serves as Senior Fellow and Conference Director. Since The Open Center's inception in 1984 he has created hundreds of programs across the spectrum of holistic learning. In particular, he directs the Esoteric Quest conferences in Europe, the Western Tradition that have now continued for twenty years, and the Art of Dying conferences  that address the emergence of a more holistic understanding of death in contemporary America. From 1995 to 2001 he edited Lapis Magazine, winner of the Alternative Press Award 2000 from Utne Reader. A writer and speaker, he is the author of the memoir, The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning. More information about the guest can be found at www.opencenter.org

Jeff sits down for a deep conversation with Ross Guttler, the CEO of Open Center in NYC, which is the longest running urban holistic center in the United States.He shares very deeply about how he began on his spiritual path, about his evolution, and about his passion for integrating meditation and other healing modalities into everyday life and work and for providing all kinds of transformative and enlightening learning and growth opportunities for people all around the world.ABOUT ROSS GUTTLERRoss Guttler is Chief Executive Officer of The Open Center, the country's longest-running urban center for personal growth and spiritual practice. Throughout his time with The Open Center, Guttler has led the evolution of a four decade-old New York City institution into a global changemaker with an engaged audience from more than 180 countries. After a career in wellness real estate, exploring how the built environment makes us healthier, happier, kinder and more creative, Ross found his calling at The Open Center, where wisdom traditions and spiritual practices, balanced with modern day medical and behavioral science, art and sound, are used to help us live more harmoniously with ourselves, each other and the earth. Prior to joining The Open Center, Guttler was Chief Operating Officer for Global Treehouse, a Tokyo-based startup combining meditation, creativity, collaboration and problem solving for large corporate clients. He previously led the growth of several business lines at Delos, a health, technology and real estate firm that focuses on optimizing the built environment for occupant health. Ross has served as an advisor to startups in the wellness and proptech spaces, currently sits on the board of Women in PropTech and has held leadership roles on numerous other industry and non-profit boards. He received a B.S. in Economics from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

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Ralph White is cofounder of the New York Open Center, America's leading urban center of holistic learning. He was the former editor of the award-winning Lapis magazine. Born in Wales, he now resides in New York City. His current activities include the Esoteric Quest series of conferences in Europe that focus on the lost spiritual history of the West. He also presents the Art of Dying conferences. He is the author of the memoir The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning (Divine Arts 2015)Interview Date: 9/22/2015 Tags: MP3, Ralph White, Vision Quest, Peru, holistic retreat centers, Open Center, Esoteric Quest, Tibet, South America, Travel, History, Global Culture, Social Change/Politics

Ralph White's life reads like some sort of Indiana Jones story with a spiritual flavor. He grew up on the coast of Wales and then moved to a grimy industrial city on Northern England. You'll be enthralled by his amazing tales of travels to New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Peru, Ecuador, Tibet, Russia, and more. In between he established The Open Center in New York. His current activities include the Esoteric Quest series of conferences in Europe that focus on the lost spiritual history of the West. He also presents the Art of Dying conferences. He is the author of the memoir The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning (Divine Arts 2015)Interview Date: 9/22/2015    Tags: MP3, Ralph White, Huddersfield England, the moors, music, University of Sussex, Vancouver Canada, Machu Picchu, The Open Center, Esoteric Quest, Tibet, Global network of holistic centers, China, Waldorf Schools, Rudolf Steiner, Robert McDermott, Russia, Travel, History, Global Culture, Social Change/Politics

My guest today is Sarah Olivieri. Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit business strategist, #1 International Best Selling Author, and former Executive Director. She is a frequent presenter at conferences and online training and has been a featured expert on more than 50 podcasts. Sarah is the creator of the Impact Method - a framework that helps nonprofits simplify their operations, build aligned teams, and make a bigger impact without getting overwhelmed or burning out. Sarah received her BA from the University of Chicago with a focus on globalization and its effect on marginalized cultures and holds a master's degree in Humanistic and Multicultural Education from SUNY New Paltz. Sarah has over 17 years of nonprofit leadership experience. She was the co-founder of the Open Center for Autism, the Executive Director of the Helping of War Foundation, and co-author of Lesson Plan a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs. As the founder and heart behind PivotGround, Sarah helps nonprofits make a big impact with relative ease. Here's what to expect during the episode: What is the nonprofit executive director position description? To promote the organization's mission and “voice”! The unspoken challenges of being an executive director. No one told us!  How do you address the conflict of interest in nonprofit organizations? Who really makes the big decisions? The executive director or the board members? Leadership traits every great executive director should have. Do leaders need to be experts? Why is it important that there is a good relationship between the board and executive director? And much more!   Connect with Sarah Olivieri! Website: https://www.pivotground.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahfolivieri/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pivotground YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxB2J-XcixGeGaZvcu_cVxA   Free Guide: 6 Steps You Must Know to Unleash the Potential of Your Nonprofit Board  https://hilandconsulting.org/6stepsreport   Mary's book is available on Amazon or wherever books are sold: Love Your Board! The Executive Directors' Guide to Discovering the Sources of Nonprofit Board Troubles and What to Do About Them.   Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated!   Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that, and follow us, on Facebook.   Connect with Mary! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryhiland Inspired Nonprofit Leadership Facebook Group: https://tinyurl.com/inspirednonprofitleadership Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hilandconsulting Website: https://www.hilandconsulting.org

Why is movement such a powerful healer? What does it mean to move your body? On today's episode, we'll be featuring our guest, Beth Riley, who is a global leader in somatic movement education and therapy. She's a seasoned somatic movement activist, with over 40 years of experience, facilitating workshops in movement, yoga and meditation. A founding member of Mt Madonna Center, she has also been an invited presenter at Esalen, The Open Center in NYC and the Skyros Institute in Greece. Her website is: www.themovingwell.com. We talk about: ✅ What movement means to her, in her words ✅ Why movement is so important? ✅ How she discovered movement as a healing modality in her life ✅ The movement work of Continuum that she has been involved in ✅ How movement is a way to become embodied ✅ How her life changed with movement, and how she's been able to transform the life of others ✅ How we (the audience) can establish a home practice of movement centered meditation in our daily lives Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you'd like to stay connected.

Why is movement such a powerful healer? What does it mean to move your body? On today's episode, we'll be featuring our guest, Beth Riley, who is a global leader in somatic movement education and therapy. She's a seasoned somatic movement activist, with over 40 years of experience, facilitating workshops in movement, yoga and meditation. A founding member of Mt Madonna Center, she has also been an invited presenter at Esalen, The Open Center in NYC and the Skyros Institute in Greece. Her website is: www.themovingwell.com. We talk about: ✅ What movement means to her, in her words ✅ Why movement is so important? ✅ How she discovered movement as a healing modality in her life ✅ The movement work of Continuum that she has been involved in ✅ How movement is a way to become embodied ✅ How her life changed with movement, and how she's been able to transform the life of others ✅ How we (the audience) can establish a home practice of movement centered meditation in our daily lives Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you'd like to stay connected.

FEATURED GUEST: Stacie Aamon Yeldell, MA, MT-BC, AVPT, is a Board Certified Music and Vocal Psychotherapist and international speaker with 15 years of experience in mental health treatment. Her transformative work was featured on CBS news, and most recently, in the docuseries “Proven.” She received a Masters degree in Music Therapy from New York University and a certification in Sound and Music Healing from the Open Center in New York. Stacie is also a Vocal Psychotherapist (AVPT), which emphasizes the use of the voice as a path to wellness and healing. She is the creator of The Amontra Mindfulness Method™, a music therapy method, as well as the Song Tapestry™ method. She has also performed on NBC's The Voice and as a contributing vocalist with the legendary group Earth, Wind and Fire. In addition, she has performed at a variety of venues in New York, including the Canal Room, Sullivan Hall, the Blue Note and at the Fort Greene Music Festival where she was an opening act for rapper Common. RESOURCES MENTIONED ON THE SHOW: https://www.stacieaamon.com/ Stacie featured on the Kennedy Center Healing Breath You Tube Series Stacie's You Tube channel Stacie's Summit Session: Sing Like No One Is Listening: Transmuting Trauma Through the Healing Power of the Voice

My guest today is Ross Guttler, CEO of The Open Center, the country's longest-running urban center for personal growth and spiritual practice. Prior to this, Ross worked in wellness real estate, served as an advisor to startups in the wellness and prop-tech spaces, and held leadership roles on numerous industry and non-profit boards.We talked about how he used to literally say “I'm not someone who breaks trail”, his path to becoming his own boss, and that “productive time” isn't more noble than non-productive time. Learn more about the Open Center at OpenCenter.orgEditing and social media support from Michael Moeri (@thatsamoeri)Find and subscribe to the Trail Breaker Podcast in Apple Podcasts or in your favorite podcast app.More info and interviews at AaronFeinberg.com

In this episode of Nonprofit Architect, Travis talks with Sarah Olivieri.  Sarah Created the Impact Method, a framework that helps non-profits simplify their operations. Sarah and Travis talk about the process of improvement, the need to hear from the people on the ground, and why It is O.K. to pay your staff.      Conversation Highlights:  {00:35} Introduction of our guest {02:39} Explanation of the Impact Method {05:03} The Process of Improvement {09:54} The analogy of a sailboat racer  {12:10} Get your people to the point where they are coming with solutions instead of problems {20:19} How to make sure you are not strangling the growth of your organization {24:30} It is O.K. to pay yourself and others for the talents they bring to the table {28:12} How to be sustainable  {30:47} There are no unsolvable problems {32:04} The charitable experiments that showed people on the ground have the solutions {41:54} Solutions that are relatable, reliable, easy to implement {51:43} Finding the better, easier way to accomplish your goals   Remarkable quotes:  It is a living breathing thing that everybody who is running the organization is involved with.  Your essentially looking for trouble, we want to find it before it comes and finds you.  You need to be clear on who you are as an organization. If you cannot get by on 90% of your income than 120% of your income won't make a difference. You must refill your cup. You must put on your own mask first. Regulations and loopholes and weird things that happen because policymakers, not people on the ground, are setting the constraints for who gets money. The people in the non-profit who are doing the workday today need to be the ones who are determining strategic direction. If you're not including people that are boots on the ground or the direct care workers, you're missing the opportunity to get a solution. We have a structured process of how to set goals. Resources:  sarah@pivotground.com www.pivotground.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri/ https://www.facebook.com/sarahfolivieri/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxB2J-XcixGeGaZvcu_cVxA  Bio: Sarah Olivieri   Sarah Olivieri is a non-profit business strategist, #1 International Best-Selling author, and former Executive Director. She is a frequent presenter at conferences and online trainings and has been a featured expert on more than 50 podcasts. Sarah is the creator of the Impact Method™ - a framework that helps non-profits simplify their operations, build aligned teams, and make a bigger impact without getting overwhelmed or burning out. Sarah received her BA from the University of Chicago with a focus on globalization and its effect on marginalized cultures and holds a master's degree in Humanistic and Multicultural Education from SUNY New Paltz. Sarah has over 15 years of non-profit leadership experience. She was the co-founder of the Open Center for Autism, the Executive Director of the Helping of War Foundation, and co-author of Lesson Plan a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs. As the founder and heart behind Pivot Ground, Sarah helps non-profits make a big impact with relative ease. Nonprofit Architect Podcast Links     Website: http://nonprofitarchitect.org   Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NonprofitArchitect    Ultimate Podcast Guide https://www.fatfreecartpro.com/ecom/gb.php?&i=1698463&cl=377219&c=cart&ejc=2&custom=card Subscribe and leave a review https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nonprofit-architect-podcast/id1481292481 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/NonprofitArchitect Watch on YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQm8fnR2sHyrmLpV2jKYajA Listen to these other great podcasts from Veterans. https://nonprofitarchitect.org/veteran-podcast-network/ Want help getting your podcast started? https://nonprofitarchitect.org/podcast-production-services/  

In this episode of Nonprofit Architect, Travis talks with Sarah Olivieri.  Sarah Created the Impact Method, a framework that helps non-profits simplify their operations. Sarah and Travis talk about the process of improvement, the need to hear from the people on the ground, and why It is O.K. to pay your staff.      Conversation Highlights:  {00:35} Introduction of our guest {02:39} Explanation of the Impact Method {05:03} The Process of Improvement {09:54} The analogy of a sailboat racer  {12:10} Get your people to the point where they are coming with solutions instead of problems {20:19} How to make sure you are not strangling the growth of your organization {24:30} It is O.K. to pay yourself and others for the talents they bring to the table {28:12} How to be sustainable  {30:47} There are no unsolvable problems {32:04} The charitable experiments that showed people on the ground have the solutions {41:54} Solutions that are relatable, reliable, easy to implement {51:43} Finding the better, easier way to accomplish your goals   Remarkable quotes:  It is a living breathing thing that everybody who is running the organization is involved with.  Your essentially looking for trouble, we want to find it before it comes and finds you.  You need to be clear on who you are as an organization. If you cannot get by on 90% of your income than 120% of your income won't make a difference. You must refill your cup. You must put on your own mask first. Regulations and loopholes and weird things that happen because policymakers, not people on the ground, are setting the constraints for who gets money. The people in the non-profit who are doing the workday today need to be the ones who are determining strategic direction. If you're not including people that are boots on the ground or the direct care workers, you're missing the opportunity to get a solution. We have a structured process of how to set goals. Resources:  sarah@pivotground.com www.pivotground.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri/ https://www.facebook.com/sarahfolivieri/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxB2J-XcixGeGaZvcu_cVxA  Bio: Sarah Olivieri   Sarah Olivieri is a non-profit business strategist, #1 International Best-Selling author, and former Executive Director. She is a frequent presenter at conferences and online trainings and has been a featured expert on more than 50 podcasts. Sarah is the creator of the Impact Method™ - a framework that helps non-profits simplify their operations, build aligned teams, and make a bigger impact without getting overwhelmed or burning out. Sarah received her BA from the University of Chicago with a focus on globalization and its effect on marginalized cultures and holds a master's degree in Humanistic and Multicultural Education from SUNY New Paltz. Sarah has over 15 years of non-profit leadership experience. She was the co-founder of the Open Center for Autism, the Executive Director of the Helping of War Foundation, and co-author of Lesson Plan a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs. As the founder and heart behind Pivot Ground, Sarah helps non-profits make a big impact with relative ease. Nonprofit Architect Podcast Links     Website: http://nonprofitarchitect.org   Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NonprofitArchitect    Ultimate Podcast Guide https://www.fatfreecartpro.com/ecom/gb.php?&i=1698463&cl=377219&c=cart&ejc=2&custom=card Subscribe and leave a review https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nonprofit-architect-podcast/id1481292481 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/NonprofitArchitect Watch on YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQm8fnR2sHyrmLpV2jKYajA Listen to these other great podcasts from Veterans. https://nonprofitarchitect.org/veteran-podcast-network/ Want help getting your podcast started? https://nonprofitarchitect.org/podcast-production-services/  

Gibbs A. Williams. Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York. His choice of profession is an outgrowth of three major interests - philosophy, depth psychology, and spirituality. He received a B.A. from Columbia University, majoring in philosophy; an M.S. in psychology from Yeshiva University; and a Ph.D. in vocational rehabilitation counseling from New York University. His dissertation topic studied the relationship among male heroin addicts, selected treatment programs, and ego weakness. He continued his involvement with addiction, working with a number of New York substance abuse programs. He was the assistant director of Odyssey House, a therapeutic community. His duties included planning, developing, and coordinating therapy; participating in overall policy decisions and patient evaluations; administering and interpreting psychological tests; leading and supervising individual, group, and marathon therapy sessions; giving lectures and conducting educational seminars; participating in, coordinating, and leading family and marital therapy groups; organizing and administering a group home (''the pressure cooker'') for thirty addicts. Other substance abuse programs included Samaritan Village (formerly known as The Samaritan Half-Way Society) as well as the female program run by the New York State Narcotics Control Commission. He was the primary care consultant for The Lowell Institute, an outpatient program for substance abusers (drugs and alcohol). He received a certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from The Greenwich Institute in 1980 and went on to become an instructor and supervisor in the same institute. The courses he taught there included Ego Strength/Ego Weakness; Ego Psychology; and Transference/ Countertransference. He taught a course on crisis intervention to incoming interns for ten years. Additionally he has taught at other colleges and learning centers in New York. These include New York University, The New York School For Social Research, Adelphi University, The Discovery Center, and The Open Center. He is also on the faculty of The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, on the alcoholism training faculty. Other courses he has taught include: Psychopathology and Mental Health; The Addictive Personality; Psychoanalysis and The Occult; Decoding Meaningful Coincidences: Spirituality And The Agnostic Addict; Coping With Hard Times (stress management), Crisis Intervention and Psychoanalysis, and Striving For Wholeness: Preventing Substance Abuse in Pre-Teens. Thank you for listening to this XZBN Show episode. XZBN radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; and many others! To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com

TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/hjM1_-QDWCEJeff sits down for a deep conversation with Ross Guttler, the CEO of Open Center in NYC, which is the longest running urban holistic center in the United States. He shares very deeply about how he began on his spiritual path, about his evolution, and about his passion for integrating meditation and other healing modalities into everyday life and work and for providing all kinds of transformative and enlightening learning and growth opportunities for people all around the world.ABOUT ROSS GUTTLERRoss Guttler is Chief Executive Officer of The Open Center, the country's longest-running urban center for personal growth and spiritual practice. Throughout his time with The Open Center, Guttler has led the evolution of a four decade-old New York City institution into a global changemaker with an engaged audience from more than 180 countries. After a career in wellness real estate, exploring how the built environment makes us healthier, happier, kinder and more creative, Ross found his calling at The Open Center, where wisdom traditions and spiritual practices, balanced with modern day medical and behavioral science, art and sound, are used to help us live more harmoniously with ourselves, each other and the earth. Prior to joining The Open Center, Guttler was Chief Operating Officer for Global Treehouse, a Tokyo-based startup combining meditation, creativity, collaboration and problem solving for large corporate clients. He previously led the growth of several business lines at Delos, a health, technology and real estate firm that focuses on optimizing the built environment for occupant health. Ross has served as an advisor to startups in the wellness and proptech spaces, currently sits on the board of Women in PropTech and has held leadership roles on numerous other industry and non-profit boards. He received a B.S. in Economics from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. ABOUT THE OPEN CENTERThe New York Open Center’s mission is to bring the holistic, ecological and spiritual worldview into the contemporary world. Founded in 1984 in the heart of downtown New York City, The Open Center offers programs, workshops, conferences, lectures and performances that awaken the potential of the human spirit and help turn our society toward a future of well-being and sustainability.The Open Center’s purpose is to advance and further the creation of a more conscious world, and to do so from the standpoint of urban America, where different cultures, ethnicities, beliefs and races converge and coexist in harmony. For over 36 years, we have presented a diverse offering of dynamic programs of different practices, traditions and belief systems, so that we may learn from each other to find the path best suited for ourselves.It is our pursuit to help build a more multicultural, sustainable and just world. One open to the world’s mystical traditions, eager to learn from neglected health and wisdom sources and dedicated to the inner growth and human potential of all.Drawing on practices and ideas from a wide variety of sources long neglected by mainstream academia, The Open Center focuses on the development of the body, the psyche, the spiritual faculties, the creative arts and on the social and ecological transformation of society.

The talk will unpack the title itself: what is the structure of feeling in our time and how does it relate to a shifting *consciousness of time*, itself? What does a new relationship with time do for enabling us to actualize new futures? How does this moment make sense in the context of the whole (process) of cultural evolution in which we are situated? Jeremy Johnson has worked in the online learning field for five years with companies such as Evolver and the Open Center in New York City. He is an editor for Revelore Press and contributing editor at Reality Sandwich magazine. He has published on OMNI, Conscious Lifestyle Magazine, Kosmos Journal, Evolve Magazine, and Evolve and Ascend. Jeremy is the current president of the International Jean Gebser Society. He is forthcoming author of Passages From Tomorrow. Links: Parallax Magazine Support Parallax on Patreon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4/message

EIC Host Kash Khan interviews Dr. John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D., a composer, licensed counselor, and naturopathic doctor. He’s considered one of the most important pioneers in the realm of sound and healing. In this particular episode Dr Beaulieu discusses The Open Center’s Sound and Music Institute Certificate Program which is now available for anyone to join. The Open Center addresses the rel-life challenges of existence through spiritual, holistic and integrative practises to create a harmonious relationship between ourselves, each other and the planet. If you are interested in learning more please visit opencenter.org/sound2020/kash and use discount code KASH100 for $100 off the SMI total program. John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D., is one of the foremost philosophers and major innovators in the area of sound healing therapies. "Vibration, sound, and consciousness are fundamental manifestations of the universe that largely define the nature of existence and the structure and organization of everything that exists. BioSonic tuning forks are designed by Dr. John Beaulieu based on the mathematical modeling of the human body related to sonic intervals. Listening to Biosonic tuning forks creates an instant state of mental and physical coherence that that can be scientifically measured through the release of constitutional nitric oxide and related biochemical markers that are fundamental to health and well-being."  – John Beaulieu He is the author of Music and Sound in the Healing Arts and his latest book: Human Tuning. His CDs include: “Calendula: A Suite for Tuning Forks” and “Cave of Whispers”. His website is: biosonics.com . John is truly one of the great visionaries of sound healing. His pioneering work includes the first use of tuning forks in the United States as a therapeutic modality as well as a system of vocal energetics that would allow assessment and healing of a client through use of the voice. These are but two of the extraordinary aspects of sound healing he has helped initiate. Please rate and review this podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/educateinspirechange/ Follow Educate Inspire Change Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EducateInspireChange.org Support Educate Inspire Change: https://educateinspirechange.org/donate/ Website: https://educateinspirechange.org/ Follow host Kash Khan on Instagram @ConsciousKash This podcast is sponsored by:  Rythmia: http://rythmia.link/khan Quote educateinspirechange for a free $300 shuttle to and from the airport Eco Life: Please visit www.ecolifesupplements.com/shop/  to learn more. For a 10% discount use the coupon code inspirechange.  Currently delivering in the USA only. RA Optics: https://raoptics.com/ and use the code  EIC15 for an amazing 15% discount on your first purchase.  NeuroHacker: https://educateinspirechange.org/qualia , They are offering 50% off the first month of a cancel-anytime subscription and they are also offering a further 15% off to our community. Type in the code EIC15 to get your discount off your first purchase.

Catharine DeLong is a music thanatologist—thanatology is the interdisciplinary study of dying, death, and grief—who plays the harp and sings for hospice patients as they approach the end of life.She's also the facilitator of the Integrative Thanatology Certificate Program, which I completed last year, at The Open Center in New York City.In this episode, I speak with Catharine about her compassionate and compelling work at the bedside of people who are dying, including her visit with my grandmother just hours before she died last year. You can connect with her at DeLong Harp or by email.And, as usual, I share my daily mortality mantras with you. I say both to myself every morning, usually during the ice cold shower I take shortly after getting out of bed to help wake my groggy ass up and start the day off right. I hope they help you as much as they help me.ConnectEnjoying Mortality Minded? Please take a moment to rate the podcast and share this episode. It would be helpful and much appreciated as I continue working to turn my vision into reality.You can join me in exploring mortality and its corollaries by subscribing to Mortality Minded wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes and other content are also available on Mortality Minded.If social media's your thing, I’m @MortalityMinded on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Or if you prefer to kick it old school, email me at connect@mortalityminded.comThanks for listening. Until next time, stay mortality minded.(Music: Brass Beat by Blake © 2011 licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.)

If the current pandemic has taught us anything, it’s the power of being flexible and adaptable as an agency owner. But it’s just as important to focus on your strengths as you pivot.  That’s why Sarah Olivieri, from PivotGround, revamped her entire agency by automating processes, mastering the powerful skill of delegation, and focusing on one goal at a time.  Sarah is a nonprofit business strategist, #1 International Best Selling author, and former Executive Director. She has been featured on over 30 podcasts and is the creator of the Impact Method™ — a framework that helps nonprofits simplify their operations, build aligned teams, and make a bigger impact without getting overwhelmed or burning out. Sarah has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership experience. She was the co-founder of the Open Center for Autism, the Executive Director of the Helping of War Foundation, and co-author of Lesson Plan a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs. In this episode, Sarah and I dive into why scaling your organization doesn’t always mean growing your team, the importance of sticking with a goal for a longer period of time, and why you should always have a partner to work with to keep you organized and accountable.  Tune in to learn: How to break those big goals down into bite sized chunks Why you should always assume that you are miscommunication — and how to be intentional with your communication The value of saying “no” during your sales process Connect with Sarah at pivotground.com and on Facebook and LinkedIn.For sales books mentioned by Sarah, check out The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson.

Gahl Sasson is an established author and has been teaching workshops on Storytelling, Kabbalah, Astrology, and Mysticism around the globe for over 20 years. His first book, A Wish Can Change Your Life, has been translated into over eight languages and is endorsed by HH the 14th Dalai Lama. His second work, Cosmic Navigator, is the essential reference guide to understanding your astrological makeup. He recently published a book on the astrology of 2018 and 2019. He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, and Astrology.com, and has been named “Los Angeles' Best Astrologer” by W Magazine. He is a guest lecturer at USC, Tel Aviv University, and teaches at Esalen, Omega Institute, University of Judaism, and the Open Center in NYC. He has appeared on CNN, ABC News, KTLA-TV Los Angeles to name a few. In 2017 his academic article, Symbolic Meaning of Names in the Bible was published by the Journal of Storytelling, Self, & Society. He currently resides in Los Angeles but gives seminars and workshops regularly in over 13 countries. In this episode we speak about everything from: ~ why you can rely on astrology based on its history ~ the surprising reason the Sumerians developed astrology in the first place ~ a simple way to connect with the universe to create your desires (and the magic ways in which they show up) ~ the difference between what men and women ask about when inquiring through the lens of astrology ~ key reasons and accurate perspective when looking to astrology for insight ~ specific cycles, their effects and the age you will experience them ~ Kabbalah and the connection to astrology ~ the connection between soul awakening and moving your body ~ astrology and relationships ~ and much more!   Connect with Gahl Sasson Website |         www.CosmicNavigator.com Newsletter |    SpiriTalk Instagram |     Eye_Witness Facebook |      Gahl.Sasson      *****   MOJO MEMBERSHIP What do you think of when you hear the words: Confidence Feminine radiance Enthusiasm Sensuality Intuition Gratitude Ease Joy Do you feel inspired? Or disconnected? Do you think yes! I'd like all of that and then some? Well, I've got good news for you. There's something so simple waiting for you right now. It's online and accessible with one simple click. And it's all yours FOR LIFE, IF you choose to take advantage of it. Curious? Get all the deets here: www.mojomembership.com   *****   Connect with Deborah Website | http://therealundressed.com/ Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/therealundressed/   https://www.instagram.com/deborahkagan/ Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/mojorecoveryspecialist/     Subscribe to The Real Undressed Podcast iTunes | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-real-undressed-with-deborah-kagan/id1494643770 Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/1eOQaw6kryBsXo7Jb6qEnv   Please remember to: Subscribe Rate Review the podcast. I read every single one and your feedback is valuable.    

1.  Beatty's daily tips for keeping ourselves safe and sane.  Are you taking control of all the things that we all can DO to improve the quality of our lives and relationships?   2.  Today is a National Call of Mourning and Fasting...A Message from Reverend Dr.William Barber.   3. Beatty's 3 guests today are :  (a) Ed Echloeman, Founder and Chairman of Operation Warrior Shield, a retired Chief Master sergeant from the New York Air National Guard and a Vietnam Marine Veteran.  Operation Warrior Shield has partnered with the Open Center and offers no cost virtual healing services not only to our Veterans..but to an expanded audience of our Front Liners and any of our NY community seeking help. (b)  Ross Guttler, CEO of the Open Center in New York City (c)  Brett Cotter is a stress relief expert specializing in group facilitation, one -on-one coaching and instructional design.  He is the founder of www.StressisGone.org and the author of The 3 Keys to Managing PTSD.   TO LIFE AND LOVE, xxxBEATTY

The Future of Digital Fundraising and How to Get Ahead of the Curve Interview with Sarah Olivieri Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit strategist with a passion for helping organizations thrive in the digital age. The founder of PivotGround, Sarah helps human-service nonprofits increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and make the world a better place. She is the creator of the Impact Method™ - a business framework for nonprofits designed to help nonprofits thrive in the digital age. She has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership. Sarah co-founded the Open Center for Autism and was the executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. She is also a published author whom co-wrote Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs.  For more about Sarah's work, go to https://pivotground.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We interview Sarah Olivieri about the Impact Method and how to apply it to your nonprofit.  https://pivotground.com/   Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit business strategist, #1 International Best Selling author, and former Executive Director. She has been featured on over 30 podcasts and is the creator of the Impact Method™ - a framework that helps nonprofits simplify their operations, build aligned teams, and make a bigger impact without getting overwhelmed or burning out. Sarah received her BA from the University of Chicago with a focus on globalization and its effect on marginalized cultures, and holds a master's degree in Humanistic and Multicultural Education from SUNY New Paltz. Sarah has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership experience. She was the co-founder of the Open Center for Autism, the Executive Director of the Helping of War Foundation, and co-author of Lesson Plan a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs. As the founder and heart behind PivotGround, Sarah helps nonprofits make a big impact with relative ease.

Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit strategist with a passion for helping organizations thrive in the digital age. The founder of PivotGround, Sarah helps human-service nonprofits increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and make the world a better place. She is the creator of the Impact Method™- a business framework for nonprofits designed to help nonprofits thrive in the digital age. She has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership. Sarah co-founded the Open Center for Autism and was the executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. She is also a published author who co-wrote Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs.    Connect with Sarah Olivieri Website: https://pivotground.com/ Twitter: @pivotground LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahfolivieri Blueprint mentioned: https://pivotground.com/5-ways-to-increase-capacity-at-your-nonprofit-without-spending-money/ Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexperience/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.co

Episode 273: Gahl Sasson is an established author and has been teaching workshops on Storytelling, Kabbalah, Astrology, and Mysticism around the globe for over 20 years. His first book, A Wish Can Change Your Life, has been translated into over eight languages and is endorsed by HH the 14th Dalai Lama. His second work, Cosmic Navigator, is the essential reference guide to understanding your astrological makeup. He recently published a book on the astrology of 2018 and 2019.   He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, and Astrology.com, and has been named “Los Angeles’ Best Astrologer” by W Magazine. He is a guest lecturer at USC, Tel Aviv University, and teaches at Esalen, Omega Institute, University of Judaism, and the Open Center in NYC. He has appeared on CNN, ABC News, KTLA-TV Los Angeles to name a few. In 2017 his academic article, Symbolic Meaning of Names in the Bible was published by the Journal of Storytelling, Self, & Society. He currently resides in Los Angeles but gives seminars and workshops regularly in over 13 countries. His web site is www.CosmicNavigator.com   Show notes:  Candor is a company fiercely devoted to being radically honest. Madelyn’s go-to morning beverage is their nootropic Matcha Coconut drink: it warms up her spirit and provides sustainable energy throughout her entire workday. Go to www.choosecandor.com/maddy and use code “MADDY10” for 10% off your next order. Embodied Archetype Retreat: Learn how to integrate your “shadow sides” so that they not only feel welcomed in your life but they also create more love, peace and feminine/masculine harmony. Apply here. Feminine Spirit School: this school is the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy! Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up here. The significance of Gahl's name. The significant impact that Gahl's name has had in his life.  In America, roughly 50% of the most popular names are from the Bible. Different spellings of your names have different energies, but they all carry the same story. When debating what to do in life, it’s important to ask: what would your name do? Your name is cross-cultural. When things are repeated amongst cultures, we need to pay attention. What lies behind your name contains all of your DNA.  What do you do if you’re named after someone you don’t like? Your name is the most important word in your life and is what creates the most emotion for you. What do nicknames do to our souls? People who don’t like their names normally have a problem with themselves — there is a part of themselves that they're denying.  How Gahl feels about people changing their names.  Transgender and changing your name. Gahl's story of how he almost had a different name. Does Gahl believe in coincidences? Having a strong connection to naming your children a particular name. The significance of the Lord of the Rings’ names. Are last names as important as first names? Must-read book: Circe by Madeline Miller    Connect with Gahl: New York City Event Newsletter Signup Website  Facebook  

Episode 273: Gahl Sasson is an established author and has been teaching workshops on Storytelling, Kabbalah, Astrology, and Mysticism around the globe for over 20 years. His first book, A Wish Can Change Your Life, has been translated into over eight languages and is endorsed by HH the 14th Dalai Lama. His second work, Cosmic Navigator, is the essential reference guide to understanding your astrological makeup. He recently published a book on the astrology of 2018 and 2019. He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, and Astrology.com, and has been named “Los Angeles’ Best Astrologer” by W Magazine. He is a guest lecturer at USC, Tel Aviv University, and teaches at Esalen, Omega Institute, University of Judaism, and the Open Center in NYC. He has appeared on CNN, ABC News, KTLA-TV Los Angeles to name a few. In 2017 his academic article, Symbolic Meaning of Names in the Bible was published by the Journal of Storytelling, Self, & Society. He currently resides in Los Angeles but gives seminars and workshops regularly in over 13 countries. His web site is www.CosmicNavigator.com Show notes:  Candor is a company fiercely devoted to being radically honest. Madelyn’s go-to morning beverage is their nootropic Matcha Coconut drink: it warms up her spirit and provides sustainable energy throughout her entire workday. Go to www.choosecandor.com/maddy and use code “MADDY10” for 10% off your next order. Embodied Archetype Retreat: Learn how to integrate your “shadow sides” so that they not only feel welcomed in your life but they also create more love, peace and feminine/masculine harmony. Apply here: http://maddymoon.com/events Feminine Spirit School: this school is the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy! Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up here: http://maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit The significance of Gahl Sasson's name. The significant impact that Gahl's name has had in his life.  In America, roughly 50% of the most popular names are from the Bible. Different spellings of your names have different energies, but they all carry the same story. When debating what to do in life, it’s important to ask: what would your name do? Your name is cross-cultural. When things are repeated amongst cultures, we need to pay attention. What lies behind your name contains all of your DNA.  What do you do if you’re named after someone you don’t like? Your name is the most important word in your life and is what creates the most emotion for you. What do nicknames do to our souls? People who don’t like their names normally have a problem with themselves — there is a part of themselves that they're denying.  How Gahl feels about people changing their names.  Transgender and changing your name. Gahl Sasson's story of how he almost had a different name. Does Gahl believe in coincidences? Having a strong connection to naming your children a particular name. The significance of the Lord of the Rings’ names. Are last names as important as first names? Must-read book: Circe by Madeline Miller https://amzn.to/2pT49wq Connect with Gahl: New York City Event: https://www.threejewels.org/past-life-regression Newsletter Signup: https://eepurl.com/duHhaj Website: http://www.CosmicNavigator.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gahl.sasson/ [Tweet "Look up the significance of your name. You can learn profound insight into your life. #mindbodymusings"] COACHING: receive personalized, 1:1 coaching from Maddy Moon to create your own feminine and masculine embodiment. Heal your heart, build confidence, create an online business (if that’s a goal!) or simply feel happier. Apply here: http://maddymoon.com/coaching FEMININE SPIRIT SCHOOL: this school is the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy!

Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit strategist with a passion for helping organizations thrive in the digital age. The founder of PivotGround, Sarah helps human-service nonprofits increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and make the world a better place. She is the creator of the Impact Method™ - a business framework for nonprofits designed to help nonprofits thrive in the digital age. She has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership. Sarah co-founded the Open Center for Autism and was the executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. She is also a published author whom co-wrote Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs.

Sarah has over 13 years of experience working on the web and over 16 years of experience working in and leading nonprofit organizations. She co-founded the Open Center for Autism in 2005 with Valerie Paradiz, served as the deputy director of the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership (GRASP), and executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. Sarah received her BA from the University of Chicago with a focus on globalization and its effect on marginalized cultures, studying in Spain, Tanzania, and Cuba, and finally moving to Japan to teach English. In 2009 she completed a master's degree in Humanistic and Multicultural Education at SUNY New Paltz. She is the co-author of Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs (AAPC Publishing).

Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit strategist with a passion for helping organizations thrive in the digital age. The founder of PivotGround, Sarah helps human-service nonprofits increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and make the world a better place. She is the creator of the Impact MethodTM - a business framework for nonprofits designed to help nonprofits thrive in the digital age. She has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership. Sarah co-founded the Open Center for Autism and was the Executive Director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. She is also a published author who co-wrote ​Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs​. This episode is brought to you by my book "So You Want to Start a Business; the 7 steps to create, start and grow your own business" This is the only advertising on this podcast! My guess is that you are here for one of 2 reasons: Are you curious about what it’s like to start a business? Do you wonder if you have what it takes? Would your idea work? How much does it actually coss to build a successful business? OR   Have you been in business for a few months or a year or 2 and things aren't going quite the way you thought they might? I’ve written this book to answer pretty much all of your questions “So You Want to Start a Business” and you can download the first 20 pages at www.thestartupsteps.com My 15 years of experience working with start up and small businesses are condensed into this book. This is your step by step guide to launch your business smarter and faster. It’s so exciting to be sharing it with you. Please share your progress Are you ready to buy the book? Head over to Amazon Happy reading!  

Send us a question or comment and you might be featured on Women Conquer Business: https://www.speakpipe.com/womenconquerbusiness Get your Women Conquer Business swag! https://www.jenmcfarland.com/shop Meet Sarah Olivieri Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit strategist with a passion for helping organizations thrive in the digital age. The founder of PivotGround, Sarah helps human-service nonprofits increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and make the world a better place. She is the creator of the Impact Method™ - a business framework for nonprofits designed to help nonprofits thrive in the digital age. She has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership. Sarah co-founded the Open Center for Autism and was the executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. She is also a published author whom co-wrote Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs. PivotGround: https://pivotground.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahfolivieri/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pivotground/about/ About Jen McFarland, CEO, Women Conquer Business Jen McFarland ditched her comfy C-suite tech project management job in pursuit of freedom. She helps business owners work logically and intuitively from their biggest business goals to the smallest tasks, including how all of the stars need to align to reach those goals. If growing a business feels like rocket science, let's fix that: www.jenmcfarland.com/free. Follow Women Conquer Business: www.facebook.com/jensmcfarland

"Entrepreneurship & Nonprofits" with Sarah Olivieri, Founder of Pivot Ground on Women Entrepreneurs Radio Sarah shares: How she founded her agency and positioned it in the nonprofit space Transitioning from employee to freelancer to entrepreneur How she structured her business to include employee profit sharing Sarah Olivieri has over 13 years of experience working on the web and over 16 years of experience working in and leading nonprofit organizations. She co-founded the Open Center for Autism in 2005 with Valerie Paradiz, served as the deputy director of the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership (GRASP), and executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. Sarah received her BA from the University of Chicago with a focus on globalization and its effect on marginalized cultures, studying in Spain, Tanzania, and Cuba, and finally moving to Japan to teach English. In 2009 she completed a master's degree in Humanistic and Multicultural Education at SUNY New Paltz. She is the co-author of Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs (AAPC Publishing). She has owned her own for-profit business since 2005. At PivotGround, Sarah combines her backgrounds to help agents of change, both nonprofit and for profit, leverage growth-hacking, proven business skills, and the best of web-technology to grow and make a positive impact in the world. For nonprofits especially, Sarah is on a mission to help increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and hopefully make the world a little better. https://www.facebook.com/sarahfolivieri/ https://pivotground.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri/

Sarah Olivieri has over 13 years of experience working on the web and over 16 years of experience working in and leading nonprofit organizations. She co-founded the Open Center for Autism in 2005 with Valerie Paradiz, served as the deputy director of the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership (GRASP), and executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. Sarah received her BA from the University of Chicago with a focus on globalization and its effect on marginalized cultures, studying in Spain, Tanzania, and Cuba, and finally moving to Japan to teach English. In 2009 she completed a master's degree in Humanistic and Multicultural Education at SUNY New Paltz. She is the co-author of Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs (AAPC Publishing). She has owned her own for-profit business since 2005. At PivotGround, Sarah combines her backgrounds to help agents of change, both nonprofit and for profit, leverage growth-hacking, proven business skills, and the best of web-technology to grow and make a positive impact in the world. For nonprofits especially, Sarah is on a mission to help increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and hopefully make the world a little better. https://www.facebook.com/sarahfolivieri/ https://pivotground.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri/       //

Ralph White is a founder of the Holistic Centers Gathering. He is also co-founder of New York Open Center [1], America’s leading urban institution of holistic learning where his current role is Senior Fellow and Conference Director. The Open Center has presented the major writers and speakers in the fields of wellness, social/ecological change, inner development, world spiritual traditions, art and creativity for over thirty four years. In this rollicking conversation with Paulo, Ralph displays his uncanny mystical eloquence in fine fashion (even after a couple glass of wine). Great fun! Visit Ralph White’s website: ralphwhite.net [2] or esotericquest.org [3] Visit HCN's website: centersnetwork.org [4] [1] https://www.opencenter.org/ [2] http://ralphwhite.net [3] http://esotericquest.org [4] http://centersnetwork.org

Sarah Olivieri: Owner of PivotGround Sarah Olivieri has over 13 years of experience working on the web and over 16 years of experience working in and leading nonprofit organizations. She co-founded the Open Center for Autism in 2005 with Valerie Paradiz, served as the deputy director of the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership (GRASP), and executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. Sarah received her BA from the University of Chicago with a focus on globalization and its effect on marginalized cultures, studying in Spain, Tanzania, and Cuba, and finally moving to Japan to teach English. In 2009 she completed a master's degree in Humanistic and Multicultural Education at SUNY New Paltz. She is the co-author of Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs (AAPC Publishing). She has owned her own for-profit business since 2005. At PivotGround, Sarah combines her backgrounds to help agents of change, both nonprofit and for profit, leverage growth-hacking, proven business skills, and the best of web-technology to grow and make a positive impact in the world. For nonprofits especially, Sarah is on a mission to help increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and hopefully make the world a little better. Watch the full episode here: https://projectegg.co/sarah-olivieri About The Project EGG Show: The Project EGG Show is a video talk show that introduces you to entrepreneurs from around the world. It is broadcast from studios in Metairie, Louisiana to online platforms including YouTube, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and Stitcher, and hosted by Ben Gothard. Our goal is to give you a fresh, unscripted and unedited look into the lives of real entrepreneurs from around the globe. From billionaires to New York Times best selling authors to Emmy Award winners to Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients to TEDx speakers – we present their real stories – uncensored and uncut. Subscribe To The Show: https://projectegg.co/podcast/ Get Access To: 1. Resources: https://projectegg.co/resources/ 2. Financing Solutions: https://projectegg.co/epoch/ 3. Payment Solutions: https://projectegg.co/sempr/ 4. Services: https://projectegg.co/resources#services 5. Courses: https://projectegg.co/resources#courses 6. Software: https://projectegg.co/resources#software 7. Book: https://projectegg.co/resources#books --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/projectegg/support

Sarah Olivieri helps businesses get organized and get going! Whether you are a nonprofit, a for-profit, or just really interested in building better businesses, Sarah Olivieri has something you are going to enjoy in this podcast. As she worked with numerous nonprofits, she realized that they are often well-meaning but slightly disorganized. Don’t misread me here. These are wonderful organizations. The leadership and their staff are not dysfunctional but just in need of a little more focus, structure and process tools for growing their passion and their purpose. Sarah created those tools and they are transforming the organizations with which she works. We share her approach so you can think about your own organization. Maybe you too need to see it with fresh eyes. Enjoy this podcast, learn and share! Most nonprofits are organized with a lot of heart, which is to say, are relatively disorganized.  When they do manage to get “organized," silos often form, with invisible walls hampering communication and collaboration between departments, or between administration and non-administration.  There can also be entire functions that are missing, resulting in stagnated growth and diminished impact. Without the right kind of organizational structure, nonprofits are bound to feel overwhelmed as they struggle with delegation and wearing too many hats. What to do? Call Sarah Olivieri! Is your nonprofit stuck in the growth process? Sarah can fix that. The founder of PivotGround, Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit strategist with a passion for helping human-service nonprofits increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and best of all, make the world a better place.   Resulting from her many years working with nonprofits, Sarah has created a clear process for Executive Directors to not only stay focused on moving the organization forward but to overcome obstacles which naturally arise from growth.  Called the Impact Method™, Sarah's proprietary process breaks down a nonprofit's big, audacious goals into clear, easy-to-understand components. Designed to unlock an organization's true capacity and harness it to its full potential, the Impact Method enables everyone involved in an organization, from employees to donors to volunteers, to be energized, focused and pursuing the same bold strategy.  Sarah follows that up with the Impact Strategy™ and Continuous Action Plan™, so nonprofits can make clear progress and know exactly what to focus on next.  At SAMC, we tell our clients they need to know where they're going and have a plan for how they're going to get there. Helping them develop that plan is part of the work we do to help them drive change. Sounds like Sarah and us are on the same page! Some background on Sarah Sarah Olivieri has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership. Notably, she co-founded the Open Center for Autism and was Executive Director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. She is also a published author, co-writing Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs.  4 podcasts about driving change you might enjoy: Ask Andi—Why Companies Have Got To Change Or They Will Not Thrive Kimberly Davis—Leading Change: Are You A Brave Leader? Michelle Turman—Positive Changes Needed To Keep Your Business Growing Warren Whitlock—How to Overcome the Pain of Change Additional resources: Sarah's company: PivotGround Sarah's book: Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants    Download the 1-page synopsis of my book, "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" here

My guest today is Sarah Olivieri. Sarah is a nonprofit strategist with a passion for helping organizations thrive. The founder of PivotGround, Sarah helps human-service nonprofits increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and make the world a better place.  She has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership experience. Sarah co-founded the Open Center for Autism and was the executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. She is the creator of the Impact Method™ - a business framework for nonprofits designed to help nonprofits thrive in the digital age. She is also a published author who co-wrote Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs. Sarah and I discuss these questions and more: 1. What is strategy and why is it important to have a strategy? 2. What are the elements of a great strategy? 3. There's a tradition in nonprofit strategic planning to plan based on a 3 or 5 year cycle. What's wrong with this model in today's context? You can connect with Sarah via her website: PivotGround. Please sure to subscribe and, while you’re at it, rate and review. For more details about me or my work please go to: Hiland Consulting To get the free guide I created for you go to: 6 Steps You Must Do To Unleash The Potential of Your Nonprofit Board.

Death educators Gina Colombatto and Meredith Hays, facilitators of the workshop series The Ultimate Shavasana: Where Examining Death Makes Life a Little Bit Easier, speak about the importance of embracing our mortality.Transcript:Ojig: This is Method to the Madness, a biweekly public Affair show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area innovators. I'm your host Ojig Yeretsian. Today I'm speaking with Gina Colombatto and Meredith Hayes, death educators who recently led workshops entitled The Ultimate Shavasana where examining death makes life a little bit easier. Ojig:Welcome to the show Gina and Meredith and thanks for joining us. Gina: Great to be here! Ojig: Tell us what you do and the problem you're trying to solve.Gina: The problem we're trying to solve is that everyone is going to die and no one wants to talk about it. But it's something that we all have in common and it happens all the time. We all have loved ones who die and as a death educator I want to continue to bring creativity and levity into the subject of death and dying so that it becomes something that is SO normal instead of fear-based, it would be much more a celebration of whoever has died. So we do death education.Meredith: What I do is I work as a death Doula or an end-of-life Doula. And my hope is that we can fill the gap between over the nurses who were working so hard and the caregivers who are coming from their homes and they're exhausted. And both sides of the medical professional and the personal they need help, and so doulas can step in. We are not medical; we offer practical, emotional and spiritual support and we can be there when the caregiver needs a break or if the nurses are too busy and can't answer a call right away. We’re hoping to make it more of a normal, comfortable situation for everyone.Ojig: And as a death Doula, can you describe things you would do?Gina: Yeah, well first the word Doula comes from the Greek and it means to serve or a female servant or female slave and while I don't love that there is some truth to it. We serve, that's what we do and we don't have to be female, the majority of us are. Like I said before it's non-medical and we can do pretty much anything. Our job is to serve the family of the dying person and the dying person themselves and to a larger degree the community. And we do that however we can, whether it's running errands for someone, whether it's holding a ceremony of some sort, or calling in a spiritual counselor, whatever it is. Ojig: It sounds like it's really important. I'd like to follow up about the fear of death that Gina mentioned. There seems to be a taboo around acknowledging dying and there is silence around planning for death. Why is it so hard for us to talk about this?Gina: I think it moved from being very home based during the Civil War when we had soldiers going across country and they would die somewhere else and we needed them to get home. We wanted their bodies home. Before that, someone would die in the neighborhood and you would bring them to the parlour, which we now called the living room, oddly enough. And you would gather and you would lay out your dying or your dead and everyone in the neighborhood would come and women would wash the body and there would be preparation of the coffin by the men. It was very divided. But it was also very familial and community based. You knew who was dying and you knew when they were dying and you knew how they died and it was all very open. Whereas for us, we've turned death into dirtiness and it's like you don't touch a dead bird, it's going to be toxic, or you don't get near a dead body, it’s is going to smell. We’ve really created that from the Civil War because these bodies were far away and we needed to get them home so we started the embalming process. The embalming made it easier to get a body across country, but what happened at that time, though, is we started looking at there are only certain people who know how to take care of bodies and those are the the embalmers. We shifted at that point that only people who knew how to embalm would take care of the bodies. And we are bringing back home funerals because we want to remind ourselves that death isn't scary, it's perfectly normal, it's not dirty. Yes there can be blood, just like in birth there is the birth doulas, in death, there is the death doula. It’s the end of life. It's messy. Life is messy. But it's also so amazing and brilliant and then we can all share it so when someone dies you don't have to say, ‘quick! get someone to take away the smelly body.’ A body can be in your home for three days. It can be even longer if you're just putting it on ice and everyone can come and say their goodbyes and reminisce about that person.Meredith: I think we’ve made death seem like an emergency and it really isn't. When a person dies, there's nothing to do. The status isn't going to change. The first thing that I think people should do when someone dies is take a breath and just sit and be and don't rush and don't pick up the phone and don't call out for the nurse. You don't need to do that. It's not an emergency. Gina: And people do find things that are important to them at that time. And it may be something as simple as singing to the dead or reading a poem or telling stories about that person. And that person’s not going anywhere. They're not rotting away. They're just a body that's lying there and you can enjoy all the memories of who they are, right there. They’re right there with you.Ojig: Your perspective is that this is just a natural part of the process of living. It’s just the end stage. Meredith: Exactly. Yeah, and we need to also, part of the education is letting our kids know about this and to open up the conversation for not just adults, but for the younger ones as well because we hide away our old people and unless you have the fortune of living with your grandmother or something, kids don't really talk to old people that much. And there's so much wisdom and so much beauty there. We need to work on that. We really, really do!Ojig: Religion and medicine are the usual realms that death is discussed. However, in Mexico, loved ones who died are acknowledged and celebrated. Is our fear of death a western or American phenomenon?Gina: It's hard to say American because we’re made up of everything right, but that's a little tricky but it's yes, it’s definitely more western culture. At the same time there is Mexico in the western culture, so it's very different group to group and how we've been raised. I like that you mentioned Dia de Los Muertos. Coco, the film that came out last year that just covered everything in a playful way. It was very joyous. It was very easy for everyone to watch. There's a little bit of the Disney piece in there that you just go ‘really?’, but it opened that door as culturally some religions do talk about it, you may also have someone that understands it from their religious perspective, but they still have terror.Ojig: And what is thanatology? Gina: Thanatology is the study of death. We got into the study of death. That's where we met.Meredith: Yes, we met at the open center in New York City four years ago. We did a 9-month study in a course called The Art of Dying and I think that's how I describe thanatology because it covers so much and we talked about every aspect-- the physical aspects of dying, spiritual, emotional, historical, you name it, we covered it.Gina: Part of what the thanatology brought to us was that there are so many ways to look at death. And you had mentioned medicine and religion. And in medicine we study how to not die, and that becomes a real problem because doctors aren’t trained, raised, experienced in saying, ‘Oh, this person is going to die. How great!’ That's not a reality in a hospital. They’ve been trained to save us. That’s how we’ve given them that job. You need to save us. And you'll find some people who really, and we learned this in school from the palliative care doctor, there are some people who want to stay alive, to stay alive. What are you going to do by being alive? I want to have more chemo. What are you going to do with more chemo? Stay alive. Is that really living or is that just surviving or what exactly is that? And doctors are supposed to offer everything they can and as a culture again we don't say oh you know what that maybe pretty miserable do you want to go that route because otherwise maybe hospice and doula and end-of-life practitioners that know how to offer what can you do in this body that you can still do while you're here.Meredith: Right. There's still definitely a way to live while you die and that gets overlooked and what matters to someone at the end of life may not matter to someone else. We've heard stories of people who all they want to be able to do is be with their kids and eat chocolate ice cream and that's, to them, that's living, and if they can't do that, then they're done. And those are the questions that doctors are now starting to ask. You know, what is it that makes you want to wake up in the morning? We hope to see more and more of that but doctors aren't taught that in their schools and we do see it changing now which is awesome.Ojig: That’'s great.That gives us hope. And what is the standard practice in the field of thanatology? Is it bereavement counseling?Gina: As a culture, we are very grief-based. Grief actually comes from a French word that is to burden and I think that we all sign up for the burden. By looking at death as grief, as loss, instead of as the joy of that person was with you for as long as they were, what a different experience we’d be having. Bereavement is one, that yes, it's very important to be able to sit with someone and, and this is one of the parts of an end-of-life doula, is being able to sit with the family in anticipatory grief in that place where the person is not all the way gone, but they may be gone in their minds but their body is still there, so that pain is, is pretty intense because you love someone that's really not the way that you want them to be. And so, those places of bereavement, to be able to sit it that and be able to say that’s painful, it really is, tell me more, who were they, because they lived, and we tend to focus on, they’re gone. Ojig: What have you found to be with a common need with patients that you’ve helped?Meredith: Well, every person is different and every death is different. I try really hard. We were taught this too, you walk into a situation and let everything go. No expectations, your own baggage, you gotta deal with that first, or else it’s trouble. Walking into a situation, it can be anything and you have to be okay with that. People grieve differently. They can be freaking out and screaming and yelling. There could be tears or there could be silence. And as a doula, you accept that, and you just embrace it and let the people do whatever they have to. As for the dying person, again, it could be anything. I've seen a lot of sadness. I would call it sadness. I've seen fear and hope, a lot of hope. Also humor. Some very funny things happen at the end of life and I have some of my best memories, gosh, from people who were dying. That's a hard question to answer because it's all over the map. I think you get every single emotion. Ojig: if you're just tuning in, you’re listening to Method to the Madness, a bi-weekly public affairs show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area innovators. Today’s guests are Gina Colombotto and Meredith Hayes. They're speaking about their recent workshop series entitled, The Ultimate Shavasana, where examining death makes life a little bit easier.Ojig: I wanted to now ask about your workshop. So the flyer reads: The Ultimate Shavasana-- where examining death makes life a little bit easier. Lose your fear of dying, get wrapped in a lively conversation, and then in a beautiful shroud or coffin. How are you innovating in this field of death education and tell us about your workshops. Gina: When we started, I was like, this is what I want to do. It’s a dream of getting people to get really close to their fears and really what their fears are is about the love of their bodies, or their love of someone that has left or their love of someone that they don't want to die. So it’s really all about love which sounds so corny, but it’s so true. To me, it’s like OK, how can we remind people that you’re invited to come look at why it’s so fearful and then touch upon how can we make it less fearful. I like to add art into it. I like to add creativity into it so it’s not all dark and black and dungeon-like.Meredith: I call it part death cafe, part meditation, part party, because there is a celebration aspect to it. There is a point where you're invited to climb into a coffin or get wrapped in a shroud and do a short meditation. People have come out of that, transformed seems like a large word, but I would say transformed, and there's this look of relief and happiness. That's not to say it’s super scary beforehand. It is for some people, but not for everyone. it's a safe place. It's very calm, but happy. Gina: We’re planning on taking this all around-- to continue to invite people to look more closely and laugh more closely with and around death and dying. We have been in Maine and New York and Berkeley. But it is a serious, it's a serious step. It's 2 hours.Meredith: Yeah it's pretty powerful. And back to where we hope to have these workshops, we’re reaching out now to hospice groups, and hope to be part of their training and offer the workshop to the volunteers so the volunteers can get sort of up close and personal and take the experience when they go volunteer with hospice patients.Gina: For anyone who doesn’t do yoga, shavasana is the corpse pose that is for the ultimate letting go at the end of oftentimes yoga classes. It has a long long history of being that hardest thing to experience. Ojig: You sound like you're both these containers for holding it all together for folks to take this risky step and check out their fears and demystify a little bit and think critically about what they’re wrapped up in. Who attends your workshop? Is there a cultural group or social group that’s more open to talk about our mortality?Gina: I’ve been doing death cafe’s probably for 4 or 5 years and I've had so many people come through and usually I would expect it would be all elders, but actually there's quite a few of the 20-somethings, 18-35 somethings. It's a huge age range and people have different reasons they're there. Someone might come because they have cancer and they're in their eighties and they are kind of thinking, I have everything in order, but you know I'm here to learn anything else and you think, how great, they’ve shown up, and then someone else will arrive and they're 18 and their best friend just did an opioid overdose and it's a hard thing because nobody wants to talk about it. With suicide, I will always turn it around and say, instead of the person, you know they took their life, I will always say, they gave their life, because if you just look at it from that angle, they were here as long as they could stay, so maybe they were here for 18 years, like they gave their life for 18 years. What were they like? Tell me about them. We forget that piece because we focus on the end, that last hour, and that’s how we define the person forever after.Ojig: You’re shifting the focus from the loss to the gifts, to what was given. So important.Meredith: I just want to say, some people show up to these events, not knowing why they are showing up. There’s a lot of that. When we ask, ‘What brought you here?’ Oh, I don’t know. I’ve just always been interested in death.’ And in this circle of people, we have people nodding, ‘oh, I know what you mean, I know what you mean.’ When I say it now, it sounds a little weird, but it makes all the sense in the world. And people are exploring. They want a place to be able to talk about this.Ojig: Yeah, because it’s not something you grow up with. You’re not learning it at school or in your family. If there’s taboos around it or it’s unsafe to ask anyone.Gina: I think what the humor is is that we all are going there and when you start talking about it people will say the most amazing things. You know, we had a woman say ‘what is the worst thing that could happen to your body’ and she said, ‘I know this is odd, but I’d actually have my legs cut off and I think it's that wouldn't be so bad because I would become the best swimmer.’ Now we're just sitting there looking, going HUH, okay well, that's good, but she thought about it and she hasn't told anyone anything like that and yet that's her getting closer to letting go of her body. Like how can I let go? What would be comfortable? What would that be like?Meredith: And then there was a woman who wanted her body to be eaten by alligators and she was dead serious. And when we said, how would you like to go, she didn’t miss a beat. She said, I’d like to be pulled apart by alligators.Gina: And, don’t tell my mother until after it’s done. And for us, it’s amazing how hard it is for people to sign up for these workshops. People are so fearful that it’s ‘please, don’t talk to me about it. No, I can’t show up. If we talk about it, we’re going to die’. Yeah, that’s true, but maybe not tomorrow.Ojig: When you educate about dying and death, do you also share information about what options folks have for what to do with their bodies? Gina: Yes, we have lots of what to do. And different states have different things that they can do with bodies. So first of all there are dead bodies everywhere and we don't know that. You know, in the hospitals, there’s tons of dead bodies. They're just not parading them through for you but that's where people go to die so we forget that and we think oh my god really there's dead bodies. It’s like yeah, and that's normal, and that's okay, and those people were loved, they're all fine. And then some of the green burial options, we like to think of cremation as a very green way to go but actually it’s incredibly toxic. The mercury and the toxicity that goes into the air even with all the filters is pretty extreme. In Maine, which is where I'm living now, has alkaline hydrolysis, which is water cremation. It’s also called aqua-cremation and bio-cremation where you put the bodies into basically a big canister and it’s all stainless steel. The body is on a rack. It fills with water. They put in potassium, I believe, to break down the PH level and then every part of the body except for the bone just disintegrates. And it goes into the water system as no DNA, there’s no DNA in the water. It's all just liquid and it's perfectly fine to go into the water system. People say YUCK, it’s going into the water system, forgetting that when a person is embalmed, everything that’s taken out of that body goes straight into the water system.Ojig: This is fascinating. We are SO not informed.Meredith: True. A lot of people are turning to green burials and choosing to be wrapped in just shrouds or bamboo caskets or cardboard caskets and and just being put into the ground. Also there's a lot of movement for making your own casket and I don’t know if you’ve seen these caskets that are made to place into furniture, like a bookcase that you can use until you're ready for it to use it as a casket, so you can get to know it--and like live with it for a while. Until you die with it. Yeah, so I’m sure there’s going to be more creative things coming up.Gina: It’s exciting. There are different ways that we're looking and people are trying and planting bodies and what people have an illusion about is that when someone is burned in cremation and you have ashes, they said we're going to plant a tree in these ashes, well, that's not really good for the tree. They won't grow in ashes. There’s not a whole lot of good stuff for the tree in ashes. But you can put them around a tree.Ojig: How did you find your way into this field?Meredith: I was one of those kids who always liked to talk about death. It was a pretty open conversation in my family. We always talked about how we wanted to die and where we wanted to be buried or cremated and it was like a conversation around the kitchen table, so there was that. But then my dad died about six years ago and he and I didn't know much about the industry and he was in hospice his last 4 days. It actually was awful. I think in retrospect I think part of the awfulness was because I wasn't informed and everything came as a shock to me. Also I think we did not have a cracker jack staff at the time at the hospice. But it was painful for my entire family and my dad was someone who was in service of other people his whole life and for him to struggle and suffer this way, it just seemed completely wrong and extremely difficult to get through. And on the third day...he was there four days... on the third day I just, I had lost it, and I thought, why is this happening to this man who is like the greatest, kindest man. It was like a slap on the side of my head. I thought, oh my God, he's doing this for me. He was like YO, wake up daughter, and see what what I'm doing for you because this is what we need. We need people to figure this out and to make it so that no one else has this experience. Once that I had that thought, I thought, okay, let's do it then. It was his definitely, his last gift to me. I went away from there thinking, I got to do something. And it took a couple years to figure it out, Googling end-of-life opportunities, death jobs, you know, and then I made my way to the Open Center and that's where it all started. Yeah, so it was very personal and it wasn't until I worked through all this baggage with my dad that I was able to be ready to help other people because I think that's super important. You have to do the work. It's hard and it takes a long time, but you can't go on to serve others until you've got that figured out. Ojig: And how about you Gina? How did you find your way into this field?Gina: I have a lot of people who've died and who I loved dearly and they've all had different deaths. I happen to have a larger amount of people who have given their own lives or taken their own lives. Even when I was younger and people would be very critical of that, I just had a different feel towards it and I thought well, it’s a another way to leave. And I know that just riles people. And at the same time, I think that we emphasize mental illness. And, yes, I think that that can play a part in it and I also think that there are some people who there just done, they’ve had a good life, they lived their lives and they're done. It's easier for us to accept that when they're 85 years old than if they're a 25 year old and who’s to know. We just don’t know. So I think it's always been this intrigue that I haven’t looked at death as the worst thing ever but more a real curiosity and how we all get there is so fascinating. Ojig: The poet Mary Oliver wrote “And When Death Comes”:When it's over I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. What does it mean to die well and what does a good death look like to you? Meredith: Personally a good death for me would be I would like to be aware. I hope not to be in pain. I think that’s a pretty universal thought for people. But really, I want to know what's going on and I would like to be able to relay what's going on to those around me, especially my family and my son. If things go according to you know the laws of nature I will go before him, and I won't be there with him when he dies, and so I would like to give him the gift of explaining what I'm experiencing. So that maybe he'll experience the same thing or maybe he won't be scared when something comes up. And I think if he can then pass that on, then I guess a good death to me would be to leave that legacy.Gina: I don't know if there is such a thing as a good death. And a good death, I think, as with everything, it’s individual, because if I weren't aware and I have been around people who are leaving with dementia and people say, oh I would just hate to have dementia, but you don't know and the person who has dementia seems, we don't know, but seems to be perfectly fine and it's almost a gift to those around. It may look like a very uncomfortable death but maybe that's the gifting like your papa gave you. That there's a gift there. I would love to say that I go with grace... who knows. And I ask in death cafes over and over and over what’s a good death and it's so individual. I mean a good death for one person is I'm all alone, I'm on a mountain, and I have a heart attack, and someone else's is I have my whole family around me and I've had cancer for 6 months so I can say goodbye to everyone and it's loud and the kids have pans and they're dancing around and you’re thinking, oh, well those are both good deaths.Ojig: Young people, children, are not very prepared for talking about the last days. And most deaths happen out of sight in hospitals. How do you help youngsters navigate? What can we do to educate the next generation?Meredith: I don't agree with the fact that they're not ready to talk about it. I think in fact they are more ready than anyone else. It's just that people don't know how to bring it up with them, how to educate them. I think we just need to start the conversations. There's a way to get some sort of education in schools and I I don't know what that is yet. I think if they can talk about sex ed why can't they talk about death ed? There’s no difference. At my house, my boy has a death plan for his pet snails. We know that he wants them cremated and and he wants to bury them then. And we talked about that and he knows what I want and it's a normal conversation for us. We went to the dentist and the fish in the fish tank died and the nurse ran over saying, ‘don't look, don't look, don't look’ and he said, he stepped right in front of her and said, don't worry, my mama knows everything about death and the nurse was like what are you talking about? That fish shouldn't be whisked away without any explanation. I think it just has to be normalized and I hope that there will be some programs. I hope to work on that in my communities.Gina: And I want to add to that that we do talk to children about death. We just talk in the same mode of fear. Because we are taking kindergarteners to active shooter drills in their school. So you have five and six year olds who are learning how to not die because it's gonna be really terrifying and this is what we need to do to avoid that at all costs and that's what they hear about death. And then they hear that someone famous died and the flag is at half mast but we don't really talk about that, it's just you know you're supposed to be quiet and honor it, but not really talk about it and so I think as Meredith says, it’s so important to have the conversation.Ojig: If people want to learn more about your innovative work and get more information about your workshops, how can people contact you?Gina: I actually make contact on Instagram with just the Fine Art of Living and Dying. If you look up The Ultimate Shavasana we will be taking that around and so that will pop up. Another way to reach us would be through email: andthenwhathappens@gmail.com because we really don't know.Ojig: We tend to think of death as a separate thing and not connected at all to the living process and that's where we need to shift our thinking and expand life to include the ending chapter. Similar to other transition points in life where we get help and guidance like with the birth process, college counseling, athletic coaching, career building, wedding or marriage counseling... end of life is just another phase for which we can also get support. And I want to thank you Gina and Meredith for sharing about your process and the important work that you do to bring death and dying into the discussion about how we live.Meredith:Thank you! Gina: Thank you very much!Ojig: You've been listening to Method to the Madness, a bi-weekly public affairs show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area innovators. You can find all of our podcast on iTunes University. See you again in two weeks. 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In this episide I interview Art Medicine Woman Aviva Gold. Aviva Gold MFA, MPS, CSW, ATR-BC, REAT, and Art Medicine Woman discovered the enchanted bliss and healing in nature and art as a lonely child. Thus began a lifetime of guidance from the muses found in art and nature. Aviva graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Art Education and Painting in 1962, taught art to children in Harlem and Spanish Harlem, New York City, received a Masters in Painting from Pratt Institute, was Mom to three sons, wife to a young doctor, and a natural childbirth and lactation coach, and she painted, exhibited and taught drawing and art history at New Mexico State University… all in what she sees as her "first" life. Aviva's message - that painting can be a conduit to humankind's most profound wisdom - has messianic quality: one hears it and begins to nod in agreement. For this reason, Aviva has spent much of her professional life seeking out and welcoming opportunities to describe the principles and method of Painting from the Source. She has presented her message, through lectures and workshops, in many personal growth centers throughout the world. These include workshops at Interface, Boston, Massachusetts; Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York; Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California; Kripalu, Lenox, Massachusetts; Common Boundary Conference, Washington D.C.; Synergia Ranch, Santa Fe, New Mexico (where she conducts extended workshops on a regular schedule); Knowledge Network, Albany, New York; Wainwright House, Rye, New York; Leading Edge Seminars, Asheville, North Carolina; Atsitsa, Skyros Island, Greece; Center for Harmonious Living, Athens, Greece; Open Center, New York City; Sedona Fellowship Center, Sedona, Arizona; Rowe Conference Center, Rowe, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1996, and at regular intervals Aviva has retreats at her own creative arts center, in Spencertown, New York.You can find her workshops at paintingfromthesource.com

From taking advantage of the latest technology to getting more done with less, Sarah Olivieri shares several golden nuggets in her interview. These are steps any organization can start applying right away. We discussed the range of topics that impact digital fundraising including artificial intelligent and ever-changing online tool. Press play to hear this vibrant discussion as as Sarah Olivieri of PivotGround shares how non-profit organizations can organize, optimize and thrive in the digital age. About Sarah: Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit strategist with a passion for helping organizations thrive in the digital age. The founder of PivotGround, Sarah helps human-service nonprofits increase capacity, deliver better programming, attract more funding, and make the world a better place. She is the creator of the Impact Method™ - a business framework for nonprofits designed to help nonprofits thrive in the digital age. She has over 15 years of nonprofit leadership. Sarah co-founded the Open Center for Autism and was the executive director of the Helping Children of War Foundation. She is also a published author who co-wrote Lesson Planning a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students with Special Needs. Find Sarah Olivieri on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahfolivieri Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-olivieri/ Sections: The Full Picture of Breaking into Digital Fundraising•The Don’ts of Digital Fundraising•Don’t Get Stuck in the Crowdfunding Box•How Artificial Intelligence and Innovations Shape Digital Fundraising•Innovative Tools that Aid in Digital Fundraising•Getting More Done with Less•Work With PivotGround Read along as you listen on our website at: https://danielletowner.com/category/dreamers-den-podcast/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dreamers-den/message

Debra Silverman, astrologer to the stars, wants to help you to get to know yourself better. Are you water, fire, air or earth? Dan Tomasulo creator and director of the Open Center’s certificate training in Positive Psychology, is a psychologist, author, psychodramatist and assistant instructor for Martin Seligman, founder of Positive Psychology, at the University of Pennsylvania. He recommends at quick computer test to find your strengths. Get to know yourself. You are amazing. xoKc

For Life on Purpose Episode #76, my guest is Dr. Eric Maisel, a retired family therapist, active life coach, and the author of more than fifty books. Eric was one of my first guests on Life on Purpose and returns to the show for a wide-ranging conversation on meaning, life purpose, and the epidemic of phantom "mental disorders" in children. And we focus on his new book, Your Difficult Family: 8 Skills for Thriving in Any Family Situation, in which he shows how to stay sane when family isn’t, providing practical strategies that can be implemented immediately.   This empowering book is a “field guide” to common types of dysfunctional families, and a big helping of real life success stories that are dinner table tested and approved. Readers will learn to maintain inner peace in the midst of family chaos and maybe even create a better life for their whole family. “There is no pill that can make family life easy. There is no pill that can spare you pain if one of your parents is alcoholic, one of your children is troubled, or your mate is cheating on you. M. Scott Peck begins The Road Less Traveled with a simple, eloquent announcement: “Life is difficult.” Tolstoy famously begins Anna Karenina in an equally eloquent way: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”" About: Eric Maisel was born in the Bronx, New York, where he lived until the age of 5. He grew up in Brooklyn, attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, and briefly attended Brooklyn College. After serving in the Army from 1965 – 1968 he attended Oregon State University and the University of Oregon, where he received a B.S. in philosophy. Dr. Maisel subsequently lived in Boston, New York and San Francisco and traveled extensively in Europe, spending time in London, Dublin and Budapest. He earned a master’s degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University while ghostwriting mysteries and nonfiction and self-publishing fiction. In the ’80s he returned to school and earned a second bachelor’s degree in psychology, a second master’s degree in counseling, and a doctorate in counseling psychology. After completing training, Dr. Maisel became a California licensed family therapist and worked exclusively with creative and performing artists. In time he moved from therapy and the medical model to coaching, where he founded the profession of creativity coaching. Dr. Maisel has a son, David Maisel, by his first marriage, and two daughters, Natalya Maisel and Kira Maisel, with his wife Ann Mathesius Maisel. In 2012 Eric and Ann celebrated 35 years together.  They live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Maisel served as adjunct faculty at St. Mary’s College (Moraga, California) for ten years and created and wrote Callboard Magazine’s Staying Sane in the Theater column. He has presented lectures and workshops for the American Psychological Association, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the Paris Writers Workshop, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Savannah College of Arts and Crafts, the U. C. Berkeley Counseling Center, and many other venues. Dr. Maisel has been a guest on, quoted in, or interviewed by Redbook, Glamour, Cosmo Teen, Men’s Health, Body and Soul, KRON television news, Martha Stewart Living, Self, Marin Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Daily News, The Arizona Republic, Common Boundary, and has provided hundreds of radio, television, and print interviews. Dr. Maisel has been the keynote speaker at the Jack London Writer’s Conference, Pikes Peak Writer’s Conference, William Saroyan Writer’s Conference, Indiana Arts’ Administrators Conference, Mendocino Writer’s Conference, Santa Fe Conference on Creative Tourism, Arizona State University Arts & Letters Convocation, and many other conferences. He presents workshops at the Omega Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, the Esalen Institute, The Hollyhock Centre (in Canada), the Open Center, and Rowe; and at locations worldwide, including in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Antwerp, Prague, and Berlin. Dr. Maisel writes the Rethinking Mental Health blog for Psychology Today online, a monthly print column for Professional Artist Magazine, and occasional pieces for the Huffington Post. He hosted a hundred episodes of The Joy of Living Creatively and Your Purpose-Centered Life with the Personal Life Media Network and provides core trainings for the Creativity Coaching Association. To learn more about Dr. Maisel's work, visit: http://ericmaisel.com/.

A pioneer in end-of-life care, Frank Ostaseski brings his Buddhist practice—and a startlingly respectful compassion—to the bedsides of people who are face to face with dying. In his new book, The Five Invitations: What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully, he has learned lessons that “are too important to be left to our final hours”: By turning away from death, he says, we also turn away from the preciousness of life and our ability to live fully.  Ostaseski guides us through what is otherwise scary territory with kindness, warmth, wisdom and humor. As Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., writes in her exquisite introduction, “Death, like love, is intimate, and that intimacy is the condition of the deepest learning.” Contributing editor Amy Gross sits down for a conversation with Ostaseski about his work in our latest Tricycle Talk. Gross teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction at the Open Center in New York City.  His lessons can help all of us—the sick and the well, the old and the young—live a life of bravery, intimacy, honesty, and ease, even alongside our fear of dying.

Aired Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 8:00 PM ET Henry Fersko-Weiss – Caring for the Dying We live in a world where for the most part, we are welcomed into life with joyous and loving anticipation. Many of us have been born in hospitals and some have been welcomed at home with our arrival facilitated by a mid-wife or doula. As joyful and warm as our arrivals may be, how often it seems that our departure from this life is cold, sterile, sad and incomplete for those we leave behind. What if there was a doula to support us and our families when we pass in a life affirming way that liberates the spirit and brings maximum comfort to our loved ones? Such doulas do exist and my guest this week on Destination Unlimited, Henry Fersko-Weiss, created the first End of Life Doula Program in the United States in 2003. Henry is executive director of the International End of Life Doula Association and has built many programs based upon his original model. His work has been featured in the NY Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere. Henry is on the faculty of the Open Center’s Art of Dying Institute. He joins me this week to discuss his new book, Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death.

“Hey John … What the HECK is going on here?” New York based astrologer John Marchesella has been reading the stars since 1976. He believes that astrology indicates what ‘season’ we’re born into, and therefore what purpose we serve in life. That useful information can also yield good information about the current times we live in. I was moved to call John for an interview as our politics in the U.S. becomes more and more splintered, divisive and mean-spirited … and as chaos threatens to rein at any moment. What’s up with all this, anyway? This seemed like a great time to hear from an astrology pundit like John. And he is, indeed, a pundit. John has designed curriculums for prestigious institutions like New York’s Open Center, been a driving force in the Astrology community, serving on boards as well as as President of the New York chapter of the NCGR. His resume is long, full ad studded with achievements. In addition to giving private readings, John is also a bereavement counselor and a licensed psychotherapist, giving him even greater access to the healing nature of his readings. Listen to our conversation, and you’ll hear about: The huge ‘detoxing’ transition that began on the planet in 2008 … and what lessons it holds for us The astrological cause of ‘fake news’ The remarkable, world-shaping events in the U.S. the LAST TIME this influence was in place How to handle the uncertainty of the era and ‘ride the wave’ more smoothly The opportunity of the Trump era, and how we can use it for our own personal evolution What to do about your five year plan in these uncertain times How to use the chaos to actually feel better … a new context to hold it in What happens to everyone’s chart every 29 years — and why that matters now … and so much more.

Gibbs A. Williams. Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York. His choice of profession is an outgrowth of three major interests - philosophy, depth psychology, and spirituality. He received a B.A. from Columbia University, majoring in philosophy; an M.S. in psychology from Yeshiva University; and a Ph.D. in vocational rehabilitation counseling from New York University. His dissertation topic studied the relationship among male heroin addicts, selected treatment programs, and ego weakness. He continued his involvement with addiction, working with a number of New York substance abuse programs. He was the assistant director of Odyssey House, a therapeutic community. His duties included planning, developing, and coordinating therapy; participating in overall policy decisions and patient evaluations; administering and interpreting psychological tests; leading and supervising individual, group, and marathon therapy sessions; giving lectures and conducting educational seminars; participating in, coordinating, and leading family and marital therapy groups; organizing and administering a group home (''the pressure cooker'') for thirty addicts. Other substance abuse programs included Samaritan Village (formerly known as The Samaritan Half-Way Society) as well as the female program run by the New York State Narcotics Control Commission. He was the primary care consultant for The Lowell Institute, an outpatient program for substance abusers (drugs and alcohol). He received a certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from The Greenwich Institute in 1980 and went on to become an instructor and supervisor in the same institute. The courses he taught there included Ego Strength/Ego Weakness; Ego Psychology; and Transference/ Countertransference. He taught a course on crisis intervention to incoming interns for ten years. Additionally he has taught at other colleges and learning centers in New York. These include New York University, The New York School For Social Research, Adelphi University, The Discovery Center, and The Open Center. He is also on the faculty of The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, on the alcoholism training faculty. Other courses he has taught include: Psychopathology and Mental Health; The Addictive Personality; Psychoanalysis and The Occult; Decoding Meaningful Coincidences: Spirituality And The Agnostic Addict; Coping With Hard Times (stress management), Crisis Intervention and Psychoanalysis, and Striving For Wholeness: Preventing Substance Abuse in Pre-Teens.

Gibbs A. Williams. Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York. His choice of profession is an outgrowth of three major interests - philosophy, depth psychology, and spirituality. He received a B.A. from Columbia University, majoring in philosophy; an M.S. in psychology from Yeshiva University; and a Ph.D. in vocational rehabilitation counseling from New York University. His dissertation topic studied the relationship among male heroin addicts, selected treatment programs, and ego weakness. He continued his involvement with addiction, working with a number of New York substance abuse programs. He was the assistant director of Odyssey House, a therapeutic community. His duties included planning, developing, and coordinating therapy; participating in overall policy decisions and patient evaluations; administering and interpreting psychological tests; leading and supervising individual, group, and marathon therapy sessions; giving lectures and conducting educational seminars; participating in, coordinating, and leading family and marital therapy groups; organizing and administering a group home (''the pressure cooker'') for thirty addicts. Other substance abuse programs included Samaritan Village (formerly known as The Samaritan Half-Way Society) as well as the female program run by the New York State Narcotics Control Commission. He was the primary care consultant for The Lowell Institute, an outpatient program for substance abusers (drugs and alcohol). He received a certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from The Greenwich Institute in 1980 and went on to become an instructor and supervisor in the same institute. The courses he taught there included Ego Strength/Ego Weakness; Ego Psychology; and Transference/ Countertransference. He taught a course on crisis intervention to incoming interns for ten years. Additionally he has taught at other colleges and learning centers in New York. These include New York University, The New York School For Social Research, Adelphi University, The Discovery Center, and The Open Center. He is also on the faculty of The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, on the alcoholism training faculty. Other courses he has taught include: Psychopathology and Mental Health; The Addictive Personality; Psychoanalysis and The Occult; Decoding Meaningful Coincidences: Spirituality And The Agnostic Addict; Coping With Hard Times (stress management), Crisis Intervention and Psychoanalysis, and Striving For Wholeness: Preventing Substance Abuse in Pre-Teens.

      This week we talk to Ralph White  Ralph White is co-founder of the New York Open Center, America’s leading urban institution of holistic learning where his current role is Creative Director. The Open Center receives almost 60,000 visits annually from participants in its year round programs and has presented the major writers and speakers in the fields of wellness, social/ecological change, inner development, world spiritual traditions, art and creativity  for over twenty seven years. He is an international speaker on spirituality, consciousness, the history of the Western Tradition. He is also editor of the award winning Lapis magazine, and taught the first fully accredited course in holistic thinking and learning at New York University. His new memoir is called: The Jeweled Highway: On The Quest For a Life of Meaning  In This Interview, Ralph White and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable His latest book, The Jeweled Highway The role of music in his life His involvement in building spiritual retreat centers How you retain your centeredness in an urban environment If there are parts of the world that are more conducive to places of spiritual retreat than others The powerful role of retreat centers of bringing together people of like mind The importance of contact with nature The importance of a spiritual practice The importance of cultivating community For more show notes visit our website     A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other.  One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear. The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?” The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable. This parable goes by many names including: The Tale of Two Wolves The Parable of the Two Wolves Two Wolves Which Wolf Do You Feed Which Wolf are You Feeding Which Wolf Will You Feed It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs.

Marianne Williamson joins us to discuss her newest book, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment, to argue that our desire to avoid pain is detrimental to our lives, disconnecting us from our deepest emotions, preventing true healing and spiritual transcendence.  Marianne Williamson, an internationally acclaimed lecturer and massively best-selling writer, is the author of such classics as A Return to Love, Everyday Grace and, most recently, Tears to Triumph. Williamson also founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves over 1000 homebound people in the Los Angeles area daily, and co-founded the Global Renaissance Alliance (GRA), a worldwide network of peace activists. www.marianne.com See her at the Open Center in NYC on July 12th.  Music credits: Jed Luckless

My guest today is holistic center pioneer and all around Dharma good guy, Ralph White. Ralph was the first program director for the Omega Center up in Rhinebeck NY as well as one of the founding members of The Open Center in NYC. We discuss a whole bunch of topics in this episode so here are some bullet points to make it easy for you: Topics Discussed in This Episode The rise of holistic centers in the U.S. and beyond Holistic Hustlers The Importance of Discernment Adventure Journeying to Tibet as a Westerner Science of the Spirit Rudolf Steiner Ralph turned me onto Rudolf Steiner at the end of this episode and for that I'm eternally grateful. Ralph just wrote a memoir, "The Jeweled Highway: On The Quest for A Life of Meaning" which is fantastic and I finished it in four days so maybe check that out why dontcha? Also, I'm giving away a copy of Ralph's book for this week's Synchronicity book giveaway contest. Remember, all you need to do to enter the book giveaway contest is join the Synchronicity Community which you can do right here: eepurl.com/bSWrqT. And as always be sure to Subscribe to Synchronicity and rate and review on iTunes and Stitcher.

Tune in and feel the power that is in and around you! Dr. Anne Marie Chiasson is a MD and energy healer. Meet her next weekend at the Open Center in NYC. Dr. Timothy Keller can teach you a simple way to feel God's love. Sherianna Boyle shows you how to use the universal power of love as a tool. I'm loving this Health & Happiness Show! It airs Sunday Feb. 7 on 100.7 WHUD. Thanks for listening, Kacey

Death is just like going to sleep.. And then we are going to wake up. The way, in which we wake up, has to do with how we have lived today. In this podcast Professor Thurman offers a discourse on the topic of death and dying: what is happening, when we die, what follows it? Can we take rebirth where we like, and what is the difference between conscious and unconscious dying? The episode was recorded on April 24, 2015 at the Open Center conference “The Art of Dying: Spiritual, Scientific and Practical Approaches to Living and Dying”. This week’s episode’s of the Bob Thurman Podcast was brought to you in part through the support of the Tibet House US Membership Community and Menla Retreat and Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, New York and Wisdom Publications. To listen to more archive recordings from from past Robert A.F. Thurman teachings + public events please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. To Learn about the benefits of Tibet House US Membership please visit: www.tibethouse.us. The song ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved. “The Art of Dying : Buddhism 101 – Ep. 37″ of the Bob Thurman Podcast” is apart of the Buddhism 101 series using classic teachings from the archives of Robert AF Thurman to elucidate basic concepts of the tradition.

I was lucky enough to catch Emiliya Zhivotovskaya near the end of Camp GLP and we were able to sit down in her small room on the floor, holding microphones and have this conversation. I think we were both very tired after a great weekend at camp. She had delivered numerous workshops, emceed the Talent Show and was feeling under the weather to boot. Nonetheless it was a wonderful and warm conversation. Enjoy!! At the age of 5, Emiliya and her family fled from Kiev, escaping the fall of Communism and the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. She found herself in a new land, faced with challenges completely foreign to the average kid growing up in a New York suburb. Then, 9 years later, she faced yet another tragedy, the sudden loss of her brother as he ran to save his fiancé from drowning and lost his life in the process of saving hers. And years later, the loss of her mother. From this place of deep challenge, she could have turned to the dark side. She could have given up, blamed the world and walked away from joy. From happiness. From possibility. Instead, she found awakening, strength and a renewed sense of gratitude. She discovered within herself a wellspring of resilience and a relentless desire to understand where this came from and how to bring a similar lens to others. She was determined to help others flourish. Her exploration quickly developed into a lifelong quest, leading her to study psychology at Long Island University, then get her masters degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania under the guidance of the legendary founder of the science, professor Martin Seligman. Graduating summa cum laude, she has gone on to found the Certification in Positive Psychology program at the Open Center and head up her own endeavor, The Flourishing Center. Emiliya is also currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine at Saybrook University, where she is also on the graduate faculty. (Curriculum Vitae) Emiliya Zhivotovskaya is widely acclaimed for her striking ability to share the transformative power of positive psychology, deliver actionable and specific strategies that yield tangible, measurable results. And share these ideas in a wonderfully engaging and entertaining way.  In This Interview Emiliya and I Discuss... The One You Feed parable. How both wolves are part of the human condition. How to feed both wolves and integrate them. Courage is not a lack of fear but having the ability to move through it. The bad wolf is trying to protect us, it is part of our evolutionary programming. What is positive psychology? How both positive and negative emotions are useful. The role of positive psychology in handling depression and anxiety. Depression masquerading as loneliness. Why there are not more depression support groups. Depression as learned helplessness. The criticality of exercise in handling depression (Want to be depressed? Don't exercise!) The BDNF and Serotonin loop. Taking micro-steps to build new habits. The biological wiring of social comparison. The role of gratitude in feeling better. How gratitude shifts the brain into a more expansive state. The small tweak that makes gratitude much more powerful. How negative emotion and problem solving are not connected, they can be pulled apart. That negative emotions make problem solving worse and narrows our ability to see options. How positive emotions help us move into broaden and build mode. That pain as a motivator falls prey to the law of diminishing returns. Eustress-the role of useful stress. The difference between useful and destructive stress. Thinking about being happier but not taking any action is worse than not thinking about it all. The fixed vs growth mindset. How you can't enjoy the journey when stuck in the fixed mindset and the growth mindset creates the conditions to enjoy the journey. Emiliya Zhivotovskaya Links Emiliya Zhivotovskaya Homepage Emiliya Zhivotovskaya Facebook Emiliya Zhivotovskaya Twitter Certificate in Positive Psychology created by Emiliya Zhivotovskaya Some of our most popular interviews that you might also enjoy: Kino MacGregor Strand of Oaks Mike Scott of the Waterboys Todd Henry- author of Die Empty Randy Scott Hyde See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elizabeth Harper is an internationally acclaimed metaphysical artist and has been featured in national magazines including Woman's World, Redbook and Health. A regular contributor to radio and television in the US and Australia, she is the award-winning author of Wishing: How to Fulfill Your Heart's Desires. Her new book in which she is co-publisher is 365 Days of Angel Prayers, which will be completely comprised by prayers submitted by others. Today we'll discuss how YOU can contribute to this book and be promoted! No Psychic Readings today. Originally from England, she has studied a variety of metaphysical and mystical arts, including Color Therapy and Soma. She pursued professional training at the College of Psychic Studies, the Spiritualists Association of Great Britain and Arthur Findlay College.  Her pioneering work with color inspired her uniquely revealing ColorScope, featured globally in print and online magazines and weekly webcasts. Elizabeth shares her gift of healing through her jewelry designs, Silk Energy Wraps, magical tools, meditations and oracles. She regularly facilitates workshops at some of the nation's most renowned organizations including the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, the Open Center, Lily Dale Assembly and the Learning Annex. To review an array of products and talismans or to contribute a prayer for her book, visit http://www.sealedwithlove.com/. “Elizabeth is a gifted teacher and intuitive. Her workshops at Omega have helped students from around the world find their own inner compass. Not only does she know her subject matter inside and out, but she is also a truly giving and genuine person. She walks her talk and that is a gift indeed!” ~Elizabeth Lesser, Cofounder of Omega Institute

Audrey Pellicano is a nurse, mentor, educator, speaker, author, mom, wife and widow.   Audrey helps clients tap into the power of their minds to heal from loss. Audrey hosts Death Café at The Open Center of New York City and is the author of the handbook  Six Secrets to Surviving Widowhood. https://audio.opentohope.com/Audrey-Pellicano.mp3

We examine the human voice and how we use it to communicate with each other and with a higher power through singing, chanting, and story telling. We talk to Amy Cooper from the New York Eye and Ear Infimary, Katherine Preston about her upcoming memoir Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice, M. Lamar about his music and family history, and Thomas Amelio from the Open Center on mantra and chanting. 

Holistic Nutritionist & Author "Vibrant Living: Creating Radiant Health and Longevity" Body & Soul Nutrition With over twenty-five years experience in the field of holistic health, Sally Kravich is widely regarded as an authority on nutrition, vitality, and wellness. Her advice has been cited in Harper's Bazaar, W, Essence, and many other publications. Sally was featured on NBC's "Dateline" as the nutritional expert on motherhood for Aleta St. James. As a co-anchor on "New Vitality Live" radio show, Sally's knowledge of herbal wisdom, vitamin supplementation, and historical remedies added insight to the show as a modern shaman. Sally's specialized programs integrate practical wisdom from multi-cultures with modern methods for achieving vibrant, radiant health. Her personalized programs include: whole food nutrition, juicing, herbal remedies, vitamin supplements, iridology, kinesiology, cooking, cleansing, meditations, holistic healing, pregnancy preparation, raising healthy children, and how to have "Body & Soul" balance. Sally holds a M.S. in Holistic Nutrition, has completed Ph.D. studies in Holistic Healing, along with studies and certifications that spans a lifetime with forerunners in the natural health field. The naturopathic journey began in Switzerland at the age of 12, and led her around the world to study holistic modalities. Sally personally studied with Dr. Bernard Jensen, with whom she studied Iridology, a unique specialty for determining the state of one's health by observing the eyes. Sally's combination of extensive global studies, first-hand experience of historical and cultural remedies, and a vast knowledge of food as medicine, with mediations for creating healthy cells supports clients on the path of wellness and vibrant living as reflected in the title of her book, Vibrant Living: Creating Radiant Health and Longevity, along with her "Living a Vibrant Life" 3-part DVD series from her classes taped at The Open Center in NYC. Sally has maintained a holistic healing practice for 25 years, with a bi-coastal practice between NYC and LA since 1995. Gayle Naftaly founded access.office in 1998 and has provided marketing, public relations and premier alliance connections (identifying groups, individuals and opportunities to form powerful alliances that positively affect her clients' businesses) ever since. By partnering with gifted and talented professionals, the business expanded in many directions. Currently Gayle is the Director of Communications for the Independent Business Women's Circle, the Marketing Coordinator of Expos Your Business NY Multicultural Business Expo and the Asian American Cultural Festival, sits on the advisory business counsel of the Long Island Business Institute, is a member of Powerful You! Women's Network, and the Queens Chamber of Commerce. MOXIE MOMENT: Mentoring her two daughters and their friends in business and in life! And, as the Queen of Connecting, giving back to the community is a personal commitment. She offers her expertise and services to the local high school (The Queens High School of Teaching) where they have a Habitat for Humanity chapter. Gayle and her team have helped them get media attention, including TV and print, as well as helped them gain funds, raffle prizes and a full service event production company to run their fundraising event each year. HIDDEN TALENTS & OTHER FLAIR: Forming meaningful connections with those that have a natural affinity- those people with the"IT" factor. She's a natural connector of people and opportunities. MOXIE SPOT: In a NYC restaurant running a meeting, or at my best friend's home in Hollywood Florida, sharing time with my favorite woman on earth.

Please join me as I interview Crystal Williamson. Crystal is a certified life coach who enjoys helping small business people, coaches, VAs and other solo-preneuers with their technology and computer application needs. She has a show on Blog Talk Radio – Ask the Computer Coach – this weekly show explores the ins and outs of what you need to get your new business up-and-running Crystal stumbled into computer training in 1986 when she was an administrative assistant with a non-profit organization. She quickly became computer savvy. This was pre-Windows days! Her computer prowess spread throughout the company -- including high-level management. Soon after, she was answering computer queries from the CEO, CFO, and a few Senior VPs. After about a year, a computer trainer position opened up. Crystal began to branch out and began consulting in 1997. She has worked with many Fortune 500 companies in many realms including: media conglomerates, financial firms, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, legal firms, government (state and city), cosmetics, fashion, a tobacco company(!), insurance companies, and auction houses. Crystal's interest in coaching began right after 9/11. She was drawn to coaching after seeing psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, and coaches help the survivors through the trauma. Crystal became a certified coach in 2007. After doing extensive research Crystal found the best place to become a certified coach -- The Open Center in New York City. The day after sending in her initial payment, she was laid off. After getting home a little rejected that evening she received a letter from her school. It was the confirmation for the coaching course. She hasn't looked back since then! We appreciate you tuning in to this episode of Your Partner In Success Radio with Host Denise Griffitts. If you enjoyed what you heard, please consider subscribing, rating, and leaving a review on your favorite podcast platform. Your support helps us reach more listeners and create even better content!Stay ConnectedWebsite: Your Partner In Success RadioEmail: mail@yourofficeontheweb.com