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  • How to Find Joy Again After Experiencing Trauma in Your Life with Ilene Smith

    How to Find Joy Again After Experiencing Trauma in Your Life with Ilene Smith

    Ilene Smith joins me this week on the podcast, and I’m really excited to be sharing this episode with you. The author of “Moving Beyond Trauma: The Roadmap to Healing from Your Past and Living with Ease and Vitality” Ilene is a trauma healer and speaker and a Somatic Experiencing…

  • Lunar Abundance: Cultivating More Joy, Peace and Purpose with Dr. Ezzie Spencer

    Lunar Abundance: Cultivating More Joy, Peace and Purpose with Dr. Ezzie Spencer

    In this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by Dr. Ezzie Spencer, author of “Lunar Abundance” and the “Lunar Abundance Journal.” After first hearing her interview with Jess Lively in 2017, I was deeply inspired by her story. Ezzie started out as a lawyer in Australia, and also holds a…

  • Jennifer Louden on “Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next”

    Jennifer Louden on “Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next”

    Jennifer Louden is a coach, author, and all around delightful powerhouse of self care, and I’m delighted to have her on the show to talk about her upcoming book: Why Bother: Discover the Desire for What’s Next. Considered a pioneer in the self care movement, Jennifer wrote her first book,…

  • Embracing Your Creative Process and Getting in ‘The Bubble’ with Best Selling Author Fred Waitzkin

    Embracing Your Creative Process and Getting in ‘The Bubble’ with Best Selling Author Fred Waitzkin

    Fred Waitzkin joins me this week to talk about his creative process, and his latest book, “Deep Water Blues.” Fred is the author best known for “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” the story about his son Josh, who was a chess prodigy at age six. It’s with great pleasure that I…

  • Paul Selig on Being a Psychic & Medium, and Channeling The Book of Truth

    Paul Selig on Being a Psychic & Medium, and Channeling The Book of Truth

    This week, I’ve got a very special treat for you, it’s an interview with best selling author, psychic, and medium Paul Selig, in the celebration of the release of his new book, The Book of Truth. It’s the first time I’ve had someone channel on the show, and I know…

  • Renee Linnell on “The Burn Zone” and Being in a Cult (Episode 177)

    Renee Linnell on “The Burn Zone” and Being in a Cult (Episode 177)

    Renee Linnell is the author of The Burn Zone, and a serial entrepreneur. At age 33 she woke up one morning and realized that she had very unintentionally joined a Buddhist cult. What had started as a quest for spiritual learning, and finding a place that felt like home to…

  • Sharon Prentice on Becoming Starlight and a Shared Death Experience (Episode 175)

    Sharon Prentice on Becoming Starlight and a Shared Death Experience (Episode 175)

    Sharon Prentice is a psychotherapist, spiritual counselor, and author of the book Becoming Starlight: A Shared Death Journey from Darkness and Light. Her journey includes having lost her daughter, and her husband, and then having a shared death experience with him when he passed away. At the time, she experienced…

  • Gemma Hartley on Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

    Gemma Hartley on Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

    Gemma Hartley is the author of” Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward,” and I’m thrilled to have her on the podcast to talk about emotional labor. Defined as “the invisible work women do to keep people around them happy,” emotional labor is a topic that doesn’t get…

  • Andrea Owen on How to Be Taken Seriously Even When You’re Not a Serious Person

    Andrea Owen on How to Be Taken Seriously Even When You’re Not a Serious Person

    This week on the show, Andrea Owen returns for a second visit and this conversation is, hands down, the hardest I’ve laughed in quite some time. Andrea is a coach, author of two books (52 Ways to Live a Kick Ass Life and How to Stop Feeling Like Shit), and…