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EP130: The Undeniable Value of a Retreat with Kirsteen MacLeod May 18, 2021

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These days, disengaging, even briefly, is seen by many as self-indulgent and unproductive. Yet creating space for solitude, reflection and deliberate restoration and rejuvenation is a basic human need. Everyone can benefit, whether it's for a weekend, a month, or a lifetime. Through her book, In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World, author Kirsteen MacLeod takes readers on an engaging and inspiring journey into our modern ways of retreating ― where we go, why we're drawn, and how it's urgent. Included is a historical perspective of retreating, but also Kirsteen's own personal experience on retreats, from pilgrim paths to forest cabins, rented hermitages to arts temples and quiet havens for yoga and meditation.

Guest Bio

Kirsteen MacLeod is a writer and yoga teacher. Her debut collection of short stories, The Animal Game, was published in 2016. Her fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction have appeared in prominent literary journals, including The New Quarterly and The Malahat Review; scores of her articles have been featured in leading Canadian magazines; and her work has been a finalist for the CBC Literary Award in creative non-fiction, among other awards. She divides her time between Kingston, Ontario, and a riverside cabin in the woods near Bancroft.

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Kristen Manieri is certified both as a habits coach and mindfulness teacher. She specializes in: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, focus, habit formation, rest rituals, and prioritizing personal well-being. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 120 authors and thought leaders about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional AND joyful life. Learn more at https://kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me/.

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Guest's website: https://www.kirsteenmacleod.ca/

Guest's book: In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World https://bookshop.org/books/in-praise-of-retreat-finding-sanctuary-in-the-modern-world/9781770414730

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EP129: The Profound Identity Shift of Motherhood with Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco May 11, 2021

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Becoming a mother is a joyful rite of passage, but it can also bring overwhelming emotional upheaval, exhaustion, and self-doubt. And is it any wonder? Motherhood changes everything, right down to a woman's brain chemistry. In her new book, Mom Brain: Proven Strategies to Fight the Anxiety, Guilt, and Overwhelming Emotions of Motherhood--And Relax Into Your New Self, Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco, Ph.D (mother of two) offers a compassionate, science-based psychological strategy for helping moms cope with common challenges and make peace with their transformed identity.

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Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco, Ph.D. is a NJ and NY State licensed clinical psychologist and writer specializing in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety and stress, with a sub-specialty in working with mothers of young children. She is the Founder/Director of the North Jersey Center for Anxiety and Stress Management in Summit, NJ and a Diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She was previously an Assistant Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. She earned a B.A. in psychology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Rutgers University. Dr. Dobrow DiMarco's writing on maternal stress and anxiety has been featured in Motherwell, Motherly, Pop Sugar Moms, Psychology Today, Scary Mommy, The Week, and Today Parenting, as well as on her own blog, DrCBTmom.com. She is the author of Mom Brain: Proven Strategies to Fight the Anxiety, Guilt, and Overwhelming Emotions of Motherhood--And Relax Into Your New Self, to be published by Guilford Press in May 2021.

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Guest's website: https://drcbtmom.com/

Guest's book: Mom Brain: Proven Strategies to Fight the Anxiety, Guilt, and Overwhelming Emotions of Motherhood--And Relax Into Your New Self https://bookshop.org/books/mom-brain-proven-strategies-to-fight-the-anxiety-guilt-and-overwhelming-emotions-of-motherhood-and-relax-into-your-new-self-9781462543212/9781462540266

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EP128: The Amazing Female Brain with Tracy Packiam Alloway May 04, 2021

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Neuroimaging clearly shows that the female brain has many unique strengths. Whether it's related to decision-making, leadership or relationships, the female brain has exceptional competencies. And yet, women often believe disempowering myths about themselves. In her new book, Think Like a Girl: 10 Unique Strengths of a Woman's Brain and How to Make Them Work for You, award-winning psychologist, professor, and TEDx speaker Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway invites us to dispel the myths and stop underestimating our abilities and stunting our successes.

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Tracy Packiam Alloway, PhD, is an award-winning psychologist, professor, author, and TEDx speaker. She has published fifteen books and over one hundred scientific articles on the brain and memory. Dr. Alloway shares her insights about the brain with Fortune 500 companies, and her research has been used in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Bloomberg. As a teaching professor and in her private psychology practice based in Jacksonville, Florida, Dr. Alloway helps many women learn how to use their uniquely female brains to live their best lives.

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Guest's website: https://www.tracyalloway.com/

Guest's book: Think Like a Girl: 10 Unique Strengths of a Woman's Brain and How to Make Them Work for You https://bookshop.org/books/think-like-a-girl-10-unique-strengths-of-a-woman-s-brain-and-how-to-make-them-work-for-you/9780310361206

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EP127: Getting Into Action for Personal Growth with Kate Eckman Apr 27, 2021

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Growing takes work. When we choose to take on our personal evolution with intention but also effort, that's when we start to truly grow, stretch and strengthen ourselves. In The Full Spirit Workout, author Kate Eckman draws from her multifaceted training (as an athlete, executive leadership coach and meditation teacher) to present daily mind-body-spirit exercises and neuroscience-based practices that keep us engaged in our growth and moving toward our goals.

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Kate Eckman is the author of The Full Spirit Workout and a Columbia University–certified executive leadership coach. She leverages her experience as a well-known communications, performance, and mindfulness expert, accomplished entrepreneur, and elite athlete to equip leaders with the tools, methodology, and energetic boost they need to excel. Kate's work is rooted in neuroscience, positive psychology, and whole-person coaching techniques. Passionate about mindfulness practices for both brain and body health, Kate is a meditation teacher and course creator for Insight Timer, the world's number-one ranked free meditation app.

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Guest's website: https://kateeckman.tv/

Guest's book: The Full Spirit Workout: A Ten-Step System to Shed Your Self-Doubt, Strengthen Your Spiritual Core, and Create a Fun and Fulfilling Life https://bookshop.org/books/the-full-spirit-workout-a-ten-step-system-to-shed-your-self-doubt-strengthen-your-spiritual-core-and-create-a-fun-and-fulfilling-life/9781608687213

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EP126: Creativity, Joy and Self-Discovery with Jacob Nordby Apr 20, 2021

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Creativity is not limited to artists. In fact, every human being is creative, and having a regular creative practice is a vital key to a happy and fulfilling life. But, if we don't exercise our creativity regularly, our lives can feel dull, stagnant, and colorless. In his powerful book, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life, author and creative coach Jacob Nordby offers creativity as a pathway to joy and self-discovery, and a way to reinvigorate the soul.

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Jacob Nordby is a writer, creative coach, and teacher of the popular online course Creative UnBootcamp. He is the author of Blessed Are the Weird: A Manifesto for Creatives, and the founder of the Blessed Are the Weird Facebook community page, which has over 100,000 highly engaged followers. Visit him at jacobnordby.com.

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Guest's website: jacobnordby.com

Guest's book: The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

Three Questions for Journaling:

How do I feel?
What do I need?
What would I love?

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EP125: How to Become Deeply Curious About Other People with Ximena Vengoechea Apr 13, 2021

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When we're not paying attention, listening is something we mostly do on autopilot. We hear people but we're often missing crucial opportunities to go deeper and create authentic, lasting connections. In her book, Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection, Ximena Vengoechea shares tried-and-true strategies and techniques for not only improving listening and building rapport, but for discovering who people truly are at their core. Honed in her own research sessions and drawn from interviews, Ximena offers a warm, funny and immensely practical approach to learning to listen with intention and attention.

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Ximena Vengoechea is a user researcher, writer, and illustrator whose work on personal and professional development has been published in Inc., The Washington post, Newsweek, and Huffington Post. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Listen Like You Mean it: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection. She is a contributor at Fast Company and The Muse, and writes Letters from Ximena, a newsletter on tech, culture, career, and creativity. She is best known for her project The Life Audit. An experienced manager, mentor, and researcher in the tech industry, she previously worked at Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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Guest's website: https://www.ximenavengoechea.com/

Guest's book: Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection: https://bookshop.org/books/listen-like-you-mean-it-reclaiming-the-lost-art-of-true-connection/9780593087053

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EP124: You Are Normal with Emily Nagoski Apr 06, 2021

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"You are normal; it is the world around you that's broken" writes Emily Nagoski in her New York Times bestselling book, Come As You Are (The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life). Using a research-based approach to understanding female sexuality, Emily aims to help women embrace and celebrate their bodies and sexual response mechanisms in a world that urges them to judge and second-guess themselves. Her approach to women's sexuality is a transformative pathway to better sex and wellbeing.

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Emily Nagoski is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling Come As You Are and The Come As You Are Workbook, and coauthor, with her sister, Amelia, of New York Times bestseller Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. She earned an M.S. in counseling and a Ph.D. in health behavior, both from Indiana University, with clinical and research training at the Kinsey Institute. Now she combines sex education and stress education to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies. She lives in Massachusetts with two dogs, a cat, and a cartoonist. https://www.emilynagoski.com/

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Guest's website: https://www.emilynagoski.com/

Guest's book: Come as You Are (The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life): https://www.amazon.com/Come-You-Are-Surprising-Transform/dp/1476762090

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle: https://www.amazon.com/Burnout-Secret-Unlocking-Stress-Cycle/dp/1984818325

Emily's romance novels: https://www.emilynagoski.com/home

Mind Over Medicine - REVISED EDITION: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Medicine-Scientific-Yourself/dp/1401959881

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EP123: Understanding Your Empathic Nature with Wendy de Rosa Mar 30, 2021

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In many ways, we are a head-centered species. But the trouble with being so caught up in our minds is that we neglect to tap into our intuition and deep inner guidance system, which live in the body. The body is also where we feel our innate vibrancy, aliveness and wisdom. In her book, Becoming an Empowered Empath: How to Clear Energy, Set Boundaries & Embody Your Intuition, author Wendy De Rosa helps us become more embodied, grounded and present.

Guest Bio

Wendy De Rosa is an international intuitive energy healer, speaker, and teacher. For over two decades she has offered education and training programs for spiritual and personal growth, empowering thousands of empaths to joyfully experience their gifts. The founder of the School of Intuitive Studies, she lives in Longmont, Colorado.

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Guest's website: https://schoolofintuitivestudies.com/

Guest's book: Becoming an Empowered Empath: How to Clear Energy, Set Boundaries & Embody Your Intuition: https://bookshop.org/books/becoming-an-empowered-empath-how-to-clear-energy-set-boundaries-embody-your-intuition/9781608687190

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EP122: Lessons from Lockdown with Marie-Claire Donnelly Mar 23, 2021

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The global pandemic has brought heartache and sadness, but it's also given us opportunities to think more deeply about how we live our lives and to learn and grow from adversity. Through her book, It Is What It Is: Universal And Everlasting Lessons From Lockdown, Marie-Claire Donnelly shares her experience of using lockdown to go deep within and find the silver lining in such an unexpected situation. Along the way, she reconnects with the importance of faith, self-acceptance, and ultimately, self-love.

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Marie-Claire is the author of It Is What It Is which details the many valuable lessons she learnt during lockdown. Lessons of acceptance, forgiveness, love and hope. The book outlines the toolkit which she has accumulated over the last 20 years of studying personal development and how this toolkit helped her navigate the storm of a global pandemic. It is additionally about her deep faith in God and how this faith has helped her overcome so much. Marie-Claire is also the creator of Dream Magic Superfood Powders, a Quantum Energy Coach and runs Dream Fitness with her sister Joanna. She is super passionate about all things related to improving Health, Fitness and Mental Wellbeing and loves helping her clients to look and feel their best - mentally and physically.

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Guest's website: https://www.instagram.com/coachingbymc/

Author's book: It Is What It Is: Universal And Everlasting Lessons From Lockdown https://bookshop.org/books/it-is-what-it-is-universal-and-everlasting-lessons-from-lockdown/9781913479794

Daily Centering Practice Guide & 28-Day Workbook: https://kristenmanieri.com/product/practice-guide-28-day-workbook/

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EP121: Life Admin and How to Conquer It with Elizabeth Emens Mar 16, 2021

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There is an invisible labor in life that we rarely notice or address. Whether it's forms at a doctor's office, scheduling travel, asking for a refund, coordinating school activities, or planning weddings, funerals or births, we all face an onslaught of paperwork and life admin that just comes with everyday living. Through her book, The Art of Life Admin, Elizabeth Emens aims to help us do less, do better and live more.

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Elizabeth Emens is an Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she is the Director of the Mindfulness Program and Co-Chair of the Davis Polk Leadership Initiative. In recent years, she has been writing about the office work of life—"life admin"—and examining the burdens and inequities that surround this invisible labor that afflicts us all. Her first book, The Art of Life Admin: How To Do Less, Do It Better, and Live More helps us see this labor, understand it, and figure out what to do with it—individually and collectively. Her teacher training in mindfulness has been through the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, the Mindful Schools program, and, most recently, the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. She earned her J.D. from Yale University; her Ph.D. from King's College, Cambridge, where she was a Marshall Scholar; and her B.A. from Yale University. In addition to her academic writing, Emens writes a blog for Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-admin). Learn more at www.elizabethemens.com.

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Author's book: https://www.elizabethemens.com/home

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