Previous Guests
March 3rd - The Secret Gifts of Being Present - LISTEN NOW!
We often hear advice to be more present or be here now. But why is this so important?
Nicole Shostak, founder of Presence Wellness joins me again on this week’s show as we explore the gifts of being present. Why it is valuable and what being present can do for you.
You will also receive a beautiful meditation guided by Nicole to help you get more present in your daily life, no matter what the circumstances.
February 24th - Will Your Foundation Handle Life’s Earthquakes? – LISTEN NOW!
What do you do when it seems like the whole world is falling apart around you?
The key to smoothly moving through such upheavals is practice.
When we have a strong practice we can rely on this practice no matter what comes along. It is like our old friend to whom we can always turn.
Nicole Shostak
One of the greatest examples I have ever met of the benefits of maintaining a strong practice, Nicole Shostak, founder of Pressence Wellness in Hingham, Massachusetts will be joining me.
Nicole’s approach to spirituality is learning to see and breathe the sacred in everything while attaining equanimity over life’s “triggers”.
Her techniques aim to create healthy habits for the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies to sustain a level of health that is reliable and satisfying in and of itself.
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She runs her energetic bodywork practice in Hingham, Massachusetts, and facilitates self-healing workshops that incorporate guided visualization, breathwork and yoga. Nicole’s teaching helps you build a spiritual practice as an anchor – not as an escape from the real world but as a portal into a more honest and empowered life.
Join us in an exploration of practice in health, connection, amusement, balance, knowing yourself and much more.
February 17th – Working for Good with author Jeff Klein - LISTEN NOW!
As CEO + Activator of Cause Alliance Marketing, Jeff produces alliance-based marketing programs that drive social and environmental change, while addressing the business objectives of alliance partners.
An enthusiastic practitioner and proponent of conscious business, Jeff was one of the visionaries and driving forces behind Private Music (a record company sold to BMG in 1996), the career of musician Yanni, the Spinning fitness program, Seeds of Change (the organic, open pollinated seed company), the ChiRunning fitness program, and FLOW, the nonprofit organization that gave rise to Conscious Capitalism,
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Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs™ and Peace Through Commerce. He has consulted for the Esalen Institute, the National Geographic Society, GlobalGiving, the Institute o f Noetic Sciences, and Peace Cereal, among others.
Jeff is passionate about connecting, collaborating, and facilitating people and processes to catalyze positive individual, social, and environmental change.
Jeff wrote his award-winning book, Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living, to support conscious entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, leaders, and change agents at work. He is a founding director of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., an organization dedicated to liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good – co-founded by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market.
February 10th – Emotional Balance with Dr. Roy Martina – LISTEN NOW!
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Emotional Balance: The Path to Inner Peace and Harmony is a practical handbook through a powerful and comprehensive healing system called ‘Omega Healing’ developed by Dr Martina. This preventative system has been acknowledged as one of the most powerful healing techniques currently available. It tackles the root cause of problem—not just the symptoms— by balancing the emotional body and returning to our core essence to restore health, ease and happiness.
Dr Martina has spent the last 25 years studying acupuncture and numerous holistic techniques in order to offer people a profound level of healing that work swiftly and effectively. This work has put him at the leading edge of the holistic and self- help world. In this extraordinary book, he offers the reader a practical guide to understanding and working with the dynamics of unresolved emotions, self-sabotage, karma, blocks to self-healing, chakra balancing, cell-memory, emotional reversal, forgiveness, and true spirituality. It is a walk along the path to inner peace where we are able to restore lost parts of the Soul.
February 3rd - Lover’s Yoga with America’s Relaxation Expert - Darrin Zeer - LISTEN NOW!
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Lovers’ Yoga is similar to traditional partner yoga but with extra oomph. “I want to create that magic that happens between couples when their bodies are together.” says author Darrin Zeer. “There’s an incredible melting and intimacy that happens, but also a profound relaxation.”
To encourage closeness without making couples feel uncomfortable, Lovers’ Yoga starts like a tantric workout focusing on fun & play and then progresses slowly to a more intimate level. In “Playful Partner Yoga,” the first of five chapters, couples begin with the “Happy Hug.” By the last one–“Passionate Partner yoga”–you will be blissfully cuddling up in “Spooning Savasana.” As Zeer says, “Just by doing these simple partner stretches, you’ll be feeling in love with your partner and in love with yourself. It’s a fun journey into more love, intimacy & play with your partner, without stress or struggle.”
Check out Darrin’s Lovers Massage demonstration on the CBS Early Show
January 13th, 2011 – Purpose: The ‘Do Not Pass Go’ Key to Your Success in The New Conscious Economy with Lissa Boles – LISTEN NOW!
Lissa Boles - The Soul Mapper
The originator of The Soul Map™, Lissa Boles is the founder and CEO of Soul Full Filled Living, a company dedicated to helping service-based entrepreneurs discover their life’s purpose and the one-of-a-kind path to getting paid well for their passions by being who they already are: the ones we’ve been waiting for.
Wise & deeply skilled at connecting the dots in life – and making the mysterious magically make sense – veteran Purpose Coach Lissa Boles breaths fresh new life into the ancient art of astrology. Her contemporary take on it – called Soul Mapping™ – allows anyone to discover what their life purpose is and map out the plan they designed long ago for living it, particularly through inspired business.
Using this new take on an ancient art form, Lissa’s also able to reveal and track up-coming opportunities for growth and good-fortune, including options to live each opportunity to optimum win/win advantage, something that’s prompted many a client to call her a purpose-preneurial GPS.
Go to The Soul Map.com to learn more.
December 30th – Creativity From The Inside and Out - LISTEN NOW!
Explore the role of creativity in getting free from your Goo with two very special guests.
Kurt Flecksing is an artist who spent years of working as a musician, wood-worker, recreational enthusiast and house painter prior to entering the formal art world and receiving a degree in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2008. His current work is focused on public participatory environments and conversations, AND expanding sites where art is encountered.
His recent project The S’mores Cart was recently named Best Public Art in Kansas City. It is designed as art to promote art since the profits are used to fund micro grants for other artists or groups involved with public art. You can find out more about this project at smoresgrant.blogspot.com
Want to have the S’mores Cart at an event in your town? Email Kurt at smoresgrant@gmail.com to let him know your interest.
Kurt recently was awarded a Warhol Foundation Grant and is supported by the Charlotte Street Foundation and The Spencer Museum of Contemporary Art. He lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri.
Rebecca Wirtel is the co-director of The In Arts NW. A 30 person live-in Arts Collective in Seattle WA.
They offer affordable housing to all genre of artists: Crafters, musicians, painters, theatre, open mic and audio/visual media arts, etc. in an 11,000 sq ft building on Capital Hill in Seattle.
They also host public events in their Self-built theatre, The Tunnel theatre, such as open mic and live theatrical performances. They also host fundraisers for other non-profits.
Their mission statement is: The In is a collective of learners fostering and nurturing the community through artistic and educational action to incite social change.
Their goal is to create several studios that are for both public and private use. Such as a photography studio, art studio, recording studio, and a screen printing studio. Plus hold talks, educational forums, dinner theatre and orgies. Just kidding…making sure you are paying attention!
Click here to find out more about The In Arts NW
December 2nd – Darrin Zeer – Minimizing Stress During The Holidays – LISTEN NOW!
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Darrin Zeer, America’s Relaxation Expert, joins me to share tips and techniques to minimize the stress you encounter during this holiday season. Rather you are attending parties, sending cards, buying gifts or preparing your home the stress you have doing these things can be minimized. Listen now to learn how.
Darrin is a speaker and best selling author. His relaxation and stress management books including “Office Yoga” and “How To Mess Up Your Life” have sold over half a million copies. He has appeared on CNN, in Time magazine and consults with companies like General Motors & CNN. Darrin spent seven years in Asia studying yoga & meditation and now lives in Colorado.
For information on all Darrin’s offerings go to www.DarrinZeer.com
November 4th - Robert S. Tipton – Jump! – Get Unstuck - Extraordinary Life Breakthroughs Using Innovative Change – LISTEN NOW!
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Robert Tipton is an expert in innovative change management solutions, and has developed the JUMP! Innovative Change Model™ over the past several years while helping individuals, teams and entire organziations get unstuck, get moving, and create sustainable change.
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JUMP! brings together the principles of quantum physics, ancient philosoply, spiritual practices and sound leadership in a a two-part book. Part good-old story telling (the fable), and part consulting tools (the model), JUMP! is chocked full of innovative, practical tools and advice on how to successfully manage your life, career, and organizational change.
The leadership fable in JUMP! is a composite of many of JUMP!-related projects and clients—designed to show the model “in action.” Real clients get testy about sharing the details of their situations, so the fable is a made-up story, but one steeped in real-life wisdom. The process model in JUMP! is a high-level, yet comprehensive depiction of the actual consulting practices and tools used in the JUMP! Innovative Change Model™.
- The fable? Right-brainers love it.
- The process model? Left-brain heaven.
- Together? A powerful combination.
Click here to go to www.ourjump.com for more on how you can get unstuck!
October 21st - Diane Israel – Beauty Mark – Body Image & the Race for Perfection – LISTEN NOW!
Diane Israel was a very successful professional triathlete and runner for 15 years. After retiring from professional competition, she became a psychotherapist specializing in domestic violence with offenders. A recovering athletic bulimic, Diane counsels people in physical, mental and spiritual integration. She has made it her mission to provide strong support and guidance for others in the areas of body image, nutrition and rekindling life’s passions and direction.
A note from Diane – “Frustrated and exhausted by our culture’s fixation with thinness and external beauty, I set out on a mission to understand this mania. After years of being a very driven and compulsive athlete, this became my new obsession. I wondered what our world would be like if all the energy and time we spent seeking fulfillment outside ourselves was turned toward helping others. Were there others who felt the way I did?
With the guidance and support of my childhood neighbor, Carla Precht (who became my Co-Director), and other crew members, I was forced to see that I had to be willing to tell my own story if anyone would believe our film. I never imagined that my life would become a central thread to this story. With this film I hope to encourage each of you to ask yourself ‘what is my unique beauty?’ I am learning that when we begin to live our own Uniqueness, that is Beauty Mark!”
Click here to go to www.beautymarkmovie.com
Beauty Mark is for anyone who has ever felt invisible because they didn’t conform to our culture’s impossible, unhealthy, abnormal beauty standards. The film examines popular culture’s toxic emphasis on weight and looks through the eyes of Boulder-based psychotherapist and former world-class triathlete Diane Israel, who tells her own story while interviewing other champion athletes, body builders, fashion models and inner-city teens about their experiences relating to self-image.
September 23rd - Suzanne Falter-Barns & Jeffrey Van Dyk – ‘Naked Originality; How to Stand Out and Get Noticed on the Web’ And In Life. LISTEN NOW!
Suzanne Falter-Barns and Jeffrey Van Dyk are committed to helping you stand apart and get seriously known for what you’re on earth to do. They do it by hooking you up to your own Trusted Source – and then help you build a powerful, unique platform around that very special gift you alone can provide.
Think of it as niching on divine steroids. Because this work combines spiritual guidance with super practical marketing tools … so you stand apart and get known for that gift YOU are here to give.
That’s what platform is – your inch wide, mile deep place to stand online. Your unique, memorable offer. Your powerful brand and USP (tagline.) And the more spiritually grounded in your purpose it is … the more nakedly original it becomes … and the more buzz it generates.
Claim your FREENaked Originality Toolkit here!
Suzanne and Jeffrey will take you through a powerful checklist that helps you determine:
- What you don’t know about your target market that’s hurting your bottom line
- Whether your brand is unique enough or not
- The critical mistake almost all marketers make
- And why your business may be getting lost in the shuffle
Check out their Spiritual Marketing Quest – Oct 15 – 17 in San Francisco, CA
“I am going and would love to meet you there!” – Ken
And look at this amazing CD program – Coming Out Of Hiding
9/16/10 – Alison Armstrong – Educating Women About Men. LISTEN NOW!
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I have studied and taught about male/female communication and relationship issues for nearly 15 years and Alison Armstrong, Creator of the Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women® workshop series is by far THE EXPERT on demystifying men and women.
The information she shares will change your world! Not only is it powerful information for women on better appreciating men, but it helps men understand themselves better too.
Sign up to attend a FREE Making Sense of Men seminar in your area:
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Don’t live in an area where the free Making Sense of Men seminars are held? No worries, all the information from the seminar plus more is available in the book:
Making Sense of Men: A Woman’s Guide to a Lifetime of Love, Care and Attention from all Men
Born in Laguna Beach, California in 1960, Alison Armstrong has been designing and leading transformational programs for adults for over 20 years. In 1995, after four years of studying men for her personal benefit, she created the Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women workshop to share her extraordinary findings with women across the nation. With her friend Joan McClain, a banking executive, she founded PAX Programs Incorporated with the mission of “altering society’s culture by transforming the way women relate to men.”
9/2/10 - Gay Hendricks: Author, Educator & President – The Hendricks Institute. LISTEN NOW!
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Imagine you are on your deathbed pondering the question, “Was my life a complete success?” If the answer is that it was not, what would be the things you’d wish had happened that would have made it a success?
Gay shares with us how to take this simple scenario and determine for ourselves what are our Five Wishes. The result is a simple process that anyone can use to find wealth, wisdom, and a joyful, fulfilled life.
Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., has served for more than 35 years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind therapies. Along with his wife, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, Gay is the co-author of many bestsellers, including Conscious Loving and Five Wishes. He is the author of 33 books, including The Corporate Mystic, Conscious Living and The Big Leap. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford in 1974. After a twenty-one-year career as a professor of Counseling Psychology at University Colorado, he and Kathlyn founded The Hendricks Institute, which is based in Ojai, California and offers seminars worldwide.
Connect with Gay’s work here: The Relationship Solution or The Hendricks Institute
8/12/10 – I interview Simon Sinek, author of “Start With Why,” about the role why plays in inspiring people. LISTEN NOW!
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Beginning as a student in anthropology, Simon turned his fascination withpeople into a careerof convincing people to do what inspires them. His earliest work was in advertising, moving on to start Sinek Partners in 2002, but he suddenly lost his passion despite earning solid income. Connecting with his “Why” made all the difference.
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8/05/10 – Nicolas Cage and the cast of the movie “Adaptation” explore The Power of Permission.LISTEN NOW!
What if you had permission, consent, license, approval, blessing, allowance, empowerment, the thumbs up, the green light to do anything, be anyone or have as much as you can envision? How would your life change?
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7/12/10 – Amazing insights with the help of John Travolta,Kyra Sedgwick, Robert Duvall and Forrest Whitaker. This show will change your life.LISTEN NOW!
The cast of Phenomenon assist me in exploring the possibilities that exist for each of us as we trust our intuition, open to all the alternatives in front of us and step out of the Goo that is keeping us down.
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6/28/10 – Join me to learn from one of the greatest peace makers of all time, Nelson Mandela, through scenes from the movie “Invictus.” LISTEN NOW!
Nelson Mandela dedicated his life to the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. We tap into his wisdom with stories of forgiveness, inspiration and much more.
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6/14/10 – Life Is Simple – Just Ask Forrest Gump. LISTEN NOW!
Tom Hanks, Sally Field and Gary Sanise from the cast of Forrest Gump assist me in exploring how amazing life can be when we allow it to be simple.
Learn from Forrest Gump himself how to lead an extraordinary life…simply.
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5/24/10 – Releasing the Goo of Self-Doubt with Ray Charles. LISTEN NOW!
I know Ray Charles is no longer alive, but a person does not have to be alive to be a teacher. Ray Charles may not be someone we typically associate with Self-Doubt, but he, like all of us, had his issues.
Come learn how to release the Self-Doubt you are experiencing in your life.
Ken Bechtel, Transitions Coach
