Everyday Mindfulness Show

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151: Learn to Drop The Ball, Be Available As A Human with Cheryl B. Englehardt Mar 16, 2020

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Holly interviews Cheryl B. Englehardt, singer-songwriter, composer and podcaster. Some of the questions they explore: What are the things that you’ve learned in your creative career that can be brought to corporate executives? How self aware are you as a leader? How can music be used in corporate situations to make better connections? How do we create the business case for bringing music into business events? Cheryl shares that she worked in a way that wasn’t healthy for her in the beginning. She started using morning routines and looking into meditation and gratitude practices. She experienced panic attacks and shares her experiences with her audiences with the hope that they will take away the ability to be available as human beings. Perhaps all the things that are going on in the world are inviting us to be more present. In business settings, Cheryl recommends using music to help alleviate the “waiting period” moments. Music can also support the meditative process. She shares her experience with different types of music and what wasn’t working for her to keep her present and focused on the process of release and attraction. The lack of suitable music gave birth to her own musical creations in her album Luminary. The world is experiencing evolutionary processes that we are not responding to the way our bodies were meant to. There are no tigers that are going to eat us, but the stress levels are out of control! Cheryl designed her music to support a higher energy than most meditation music. Her tracks are balanced to awaken the masculine and feminine energies in order to bring out peace and focus. Learn to become a master of dropping the ball and be available. She uses calendars rather than to do lists. She trusts the past version of herself that knew to put it on the calendar. If she moves it more than a couple of times she reviews whether it is actually a priority or if it needs to be broken down to smaller tasks. Cheryl realized that one of the most important things is translating and realizing whose job it is to translate. This can be used across communication arenas whether it’s music, or art, or business. All problems can be resolved if we can have clarity around what we want to feel or what our customers are feeling. Cheryl believes that mindfulness is the act of practicing self awareness. Something you do to know yourself, your shadows, or the parts you don’t want others to see. If you can be aware then these things won’t come out when they shouldn’t. You can find out more about Cheryl Englehardt and her work at https://www.iamaluminary.com/ or https://www.cbemusic.com/ and you can find it anywhere music is streamed. You can also follow her on Instagram @cbemusic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

150: Mindful Sales & Leadership with Eric Szymanski Mar 10, 2020

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If you are a sales person, you can choose to be the model of a great sales person. Holly interviews her co-author and business partner, Eric Szymanski. Eric shares is definition of mindfulness as "Mindfulness is sanity." It takes all of what is going on in life and provides clarity and intention, removing the chaos. Questions they explore: How did you meet? What is the cost of success in sales if you are not being mindful? In their conversation, Eric admits that for most of his high demand sales career, mindfulness wasn’t even on his radar and he was sacrificing his own mental health and sanity, as well as his family. He turned to Holly as a coach and she asked: Does it have to be that way? Does it have to be so stressful? He started reading Holly’s book, Everyday Mindfulness and using the tips each day to find the path out of the chaos. He and Holly entered a coaching relationship, and he realized that he could drive success without chaos. He realized that there are great benefits to applying mindfulness to the sales profession and wanted to share this with people living in the high stress world of sales. Holly and Eric have woven the Seven Practices of Sales and the Seven Practices of Mindfulness into their book, Sell More Stress Less: 52 Tips to Create Mindful Sales. They have been doing co-facilitation workshops with these practices all over the world. The book has three sections. The first addresses the business case for mindfulness, then presents the seven steps for successful sales. The final section presents readers with weekly tips to connect mindfulness practices to daily sales business. Along with the book, Holly and Eric offer deeper resources through the Mindful Leadership Council hosted by the C-Suite Network. The Council assists leaders in bringing the mindfulness way of life to their organizations. They also invite you to meet face to face in May at their Mindful Leader Conference. The first day is full of mindful leadership teaching and the second will be a day for couples to learn how to live in the essence of intention. Eric’s intention is prosperity for 2020. Living a life of intention and expanding into prosperity for himself and all those that he and Holly have the opportunity to work with. Eric leaves listeners with the thought that if you could just take a step back and realize that it’s ok to allow yourself not to live with stress and chaos. Step into your best life using mindful practices offered through the resources that Eric and Holly have created. Find out more about Holly and Eric’s work at www.mindfulsalestraining.com and www.leadershipsolutionsintl.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

149: Recalculating What Life Wants To Give Me with Karen Jacobsen Mar 02, 2020

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Holly interviews the GPS Girl, Karen Jacobsen whose everyday mindfulness practice included started doing yoga and meditation some twenty years ago. She became frustrated with herself because her meditation practice was very sporadic. Like so many, she believed that meditation had to be very strictly followed in order to be effective, but what she realized is that it was more about making the commitment to meditate, rather than making it a restrictive practice. She became very interested in transcendental meditation. Last year she took a course and has been doing meditation twice a day ever since. Questions Holly and Karen explore: How does this inform your creative endeavors? How can this help us choose differently in how we deal with our experiences? How can you put well being above all other priorities? How does the way we phrase descriptions of our experience affect our reality? Karen shares that sleep is very important - optimal rest is essential for well being. Meditation fills her well and adds to her ability to be present and notice when she’s going off course. She also believes that meditation allows for the full feeling of human emotion. Choosing the way you recalculate relationship with time, creates powerful change in how we can look at life and its priorities. Karen’s tells more in her book, Recalculate – Directions for Driving Performance Success. In 2020, Karen is listening to what life wants to give her. She is releasing a new album with new music as well as a musical memoir full of music, motivation and inspiration. For more information, visit Karen’s website at https://thegpsgirl.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

148: Elegance of Simplicity with Sophie McLean Feb 24, 2020

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Connecting the physical reality with quantum reality. Holly interviews Sophie McLean, author of Elegance of Simplicity A Wisdom Teacher’s Epic Journey to Awareness. Questions they explore: What is the ego? How can we use the ego as a tool in our lives? How would you help people through dealing with the negative aspects of ego? What was Sophie’s journey to writing her book? How are you addressing the misconception that spirituality and mindfulness doesn’t belong in the business world? We need energy to survive. Part of the ego is learning what energy keeps us alive. Now we have a world where we have people who survive each other the same way we used to survive in the beginning and Sophie believes this is why we suffer. Holly calls the ego - Expanding God Opportunity. We are entering the time of Homo Spiritus!! There is a groundswell movement of people who believe there is more to living than just suffering. Sophie says you cannot survive material existence without an ego! You need to distinguish between your personality and your ego, then you are free to be who you want to be. When you are really connected to your soul, then what you create is directly connected to the Divine. Sophie refers to the Dali Llama: "If you seek enlightenment for yourself you are a fool. If you seek enlightenment for others, then you are wise." Sophie gives an example of doing meditation and all she could think about was where she was going to put her rug. (silent laughter from this transcriber) Sophie went on a nine year sabbatical to walk her spiritual journey. She reached a place where she needed to give away what she got out of it. Teachers are people who impart the knowledge gained. As part of her work, Sophie offers a year long course that nurtures participants as they integrate soul work into their lives and elevating the collective consciousness. Holly and Sophie close the show with the question: Imagine yourself at the end of your life, what kind of human being would like to have been? Learn more about Sophie at https://www.sophiemclean.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

147: Living Nomadically with Mindfulness with Lori Anne Rising Feb 17, 2020

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Did you pack your life vest? Author, coach, life adventurer and digital nomad who is house sitting her way around the world, Lori Rising has created a life where she gets to travel and make her living exclusively online. She shares her experience of letting go and stepping into the unknown when she packed what she could fit in her car and started this lifestyle. “It is all unknown and it is ok!” Questions Holly and Lori explore: What is a digital nomad? What is the call that invited you to live this life? In your life, what is that thing you’re waiting to do? What did you pack in the car? Lori teaches English as a foreign language online to students all over the world. One of the things that she lives by is addressing fear, which she so aptly gives the definition of: Friendly Energy Awaiting Recognition. “What is a necessity and what can I carry?” - Lori went through quite a process to pare her belongings down to what she could take with her in the car. It really came down to what she needed to work and survive along with a couple of coffee mugs. She found that her relationship with “stuff” changed entirely. She doesn’t collect things anymore, and she has redefined community and home for herself. It’s an ongoing practice of detachment and being in the moment. Lori is building an online community at The Tribe of Rising Women on Facebook. She will share this safe space and more of her story there as it unfolds. She invites women to join and explore what it is that brings them to life. You can find out more about Lori at https://www.loriannerising.com/. Her book, You Rising, is available on Amazon or downloadable version are on her website. As a special for our listeners, Lori is offering a starter kit free! Click here for yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

146: Ditching Perfection and Creating Connection with Lisa Braithwaite Feb 10, 2020

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“You're not going to make a huge impact and transform your audiences’ lives and work if you're hiding. I'll help you break out of your shell and emerge as a fully expressed version of the real you.” Lisa Braithwaite, speaker, coach and author, shares her definition of mindfulness: “Being aware of what’s happening around you and inside your body and your head.” A self admitted non-meditator, she does do her best to get into nature in her town of Ojai, California. There is an oak forest just outside her window where she retreats when she needs to get grounded. She also focuses on what she puts into her body. Questions they explore: How does mindfulness show up in your life? How do you inspire people to be real and create community? How much can we serve and connect with others? Are you willing to have the courage to ask for help? What is something you can do today to move your business forward? How can we engage listeners better? How can listeners catapult their message into the world? Part of Lisa’s work is teaching networking techniques, assisting clients with mindset changes to connect with others. In public situations, Lisa uses her ability to connect people to resources that they need. Holly and Lisa discuss how women today are helping and inviting goodness into the world. Holly suggests the mantra of “Let those who I need to serve or be served by show up.” CliftonStrengths Finder is a resource that Lisa uses and recommends. Her number one strength is “Activator”. Presenting for Humans, Lisa’s book was written to help people with engagement and connection and remind those who speak that we are all just human, no matter the audience. She reminds us to ditch the perfection and just be in the moment, get out of your head, and engage with the audience in a way that they interact with you and share what is important to them. There is no such thing as a person that is naturally talented getting to great heights without working on their skills. Lisa's life work is helping people become better humans so they can serve other humans. Find out more about Lisa’s work at https://coachlisab.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

145: Relationships and the Choice of Possibilities with Brendon Watt Feb 03, 2020

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Holly interviews Brendon Watt about his new book Relationship: Are You Sure You Want One. Interestingly, he wrote the book while being in a relationship with Simone Milasas and ended the relationship before the book came out. They navigated the publicity as a team, even though they were stepping out of their relationship. When asked how he could claim to be an expert on relationship when he was breaking his up, Brendon responds: “Becoming an expert really involves what you’re willing to say that other people won’t say.” Questions they explore are: What is another example of a time your life when you let the question create for you? What can I be today that I wasn’t before? What is the truth of “Me”? What am I going to “BE” today? What are the societal myths that keep you from living a full life and how can Access Consciousness help change those? What is your body telling you? Brendon explains how he lives each do to the fullest by following the edict of “This was me yesterday - but that doesn’t have to be me today.” Choosing for yourself never means choosing against someone or something else. After years of depression, He found Access Consciousness and changed his life by using the tools and processes that can change any area of your life, through four steps: question, choice, possibility, contribution. Access Consciousness empowers you to know what you already know. What feels heavy is a lie! The problem is that we’ve been trained to do what we’re told instead of going with this knowing. Four question he uses when analyzing what is the body saying: What is this? What do I do with it? Can I change it? How do I change it? Another is question is, “Is this mine?” So many times we feel other’s emotions and it’s important to determine if what we are feeling is actually our own emotions or someone else’s. True living comes from being in every moment and asking yourself “How can I make this greater?” The joy that comes from this and the courage that it takes to choose this way of living He discusses the idea of bravery for men, courage is the willingness to choose what’s best for you not based on the image of “being a man.” Be willing to be vulnerable. You do not have to give up your life to be in a relationship. Have a great love with yourself first and if a relationship is not adding to your life, the it isn’t right for you. Holly asks: “What are you looking to add to your life in 2020?” Brendon: “Everything! How do I be more so I can contribute more to the world so we have somewhere to live that’s happy!” Brendon leaves the listener with this thought for 2020: “Allow yourself to look at the one choice that you think you can’t have and allow yourself to have it in your world, even if you don’t choose it. Don’t push it away, just let it be in your life. “ Drawing upon his transformation from a struggling tradesman and single dad to global speaker and CFO, Brendon facilitates classes and workshops all over the world, empowering others to know they are not wrong, that anything is possible and that they are only one choice away from change. Find Brendon every week on his podcast "One Choice from Change" on iTunes, on Amazon, and on the Access Consciousness® website. Find out more about Brendon at https://www.brendonwatt.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

144: Living the Life You're "Not" Supposed to Have with Simone Milasas Jan 27, 2020

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Holly interviews Simone Milasas, Joy in Business expert. “True leadership is knowing where you are heading and not allowing anyone to stop you. You have to know what you wish to create.” Simone Milasas is the worldwide coordinator of Access Consciousness, a forever expanding company in over 176 countries. She is the author of JOY OF BUSINESS translated into 13 languages and best-selling book GETTING OUT OF DEBT JOYFULLY translated into 5 languages. She is currently working on her 3rd book with Brendon Watt called; Relationship. Are you sure you want one? Work doesn’t have to be hard. One of Simone’s original businesses was importing and selling goods and was having a great time and her friends kept asking “when are you going to get a real job?” Questions that Holly explores with Simone: What if your business was something that you loved and you could make money and an impact? How do we self sabotage ourselves? What are some of the things you did to attract more money into your life? What would it take for more money to show up? How do you build your support network? What tools and resources are you using to move beyond what society says you should be doing? Simone follows the philosophy that nobody should have money problems. At one point in her life, she was $187,000 debt, and she made the conscious choice to have a debt free life. Now, she has debt that is consciously building wealth. She made the demand that she would get out of debt and actually start to create money. If you could create everything with your logical mind, you could have everything you want, but we think with our insane points of view that lock us up. She recommends taking a look at your reality around money. Look at the familial and social beliefs around money. Take a look at how you “un-invite” money. Make sure that you receive when money shows up, or someone offers to buy you somethings. Allowing good experiences to be received. So often if we decide that things should look a certain way, and when it doesn’t happen the way we think, we automatically things something is wrong. What if nothing was wrong? What if it shows up completely differently and we just need to acknowledge the situation and be grateful? Find joy in creating from chaos. Use your intuitive questions with curiosity and discovery to create from that chaos. There is a difference from chaos and frantic. If you instill chaos into your life, it’s like a banquet and you get to choose from the many options. “Life is a banquet and there are people starving to death.” - Auntie Mame Simone’s most recent book, Relationships: Are You Sure You Want One, with Brendon Watt. She and Brendon tell a lot of stories about their relationship in the seminars that they give. One of the tools she uses is making everything about the other person, and how this can turn around a relationship and give you more of what you want. Everything starts with having a healthy relationship with yourself. This becomes a healthy foundation for everything else in your life. For 2020, Simone asks for change and freedom every day. Her current question is “What is my reality and how do I find it?” This creates the mindset of allowing the Universe to show up with options you might not have realized. Access consciousness helps her bring in her networks and resources. Find out about Simone’s new program, Just Start - https://www.simonemilasas.com/ or discover more about her life changing work with Access Consciousness at https://www.accessconsciousness.com/. Stay open to the possibilities that YOU can choose the life you love! Stay tuned next week for Holly’s interview with Brendan Watt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

143: Power Habits and “Afformations” with Noah St. John Jan 20, 2020

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We don’t rise to the level of our goals; we fall to the level of our systems. Holly comes into Divine alignment with Noah St. John to discuss his new book that addresses the system of changing habits for success: Power Habits®: The New Science for Making Success Automatic® www.powerhabitsbook.com. In it, he studies the power habits of the “naturals of success” and how they are unconsciously competent at allowing themselves to succeed. Noah’s work has centered around “Afformations” or the reframing of how the mind answers the questions that we ask ourselves. What if instead of asking lousy questions and getting lousy answers. What if instead these questions were empowering? The Shower that changed everything. April 1997, while in the shower and after years of “affirmations” he realized that human thought is the process of searching for answers to questions. “Why am I so rich?” instead of saying “I am rich.” Ask empowering questions that create phenomenal answers! Questions Holly and Noah explore: What are appropriate ways to use social media? What is a belief? What does it mean to be unconsciously successful? Why did he write his latest book? What question are you using right now for 2020? Why am I attracting just the right people to me so that we can all reach our goals together? He says he would rather brag about what the people he’s working with are accomplishing. He measures his own success and the success of others by asking the question, “Have you helped anyone else get what they want?” Noah shares the four stages of competence: Unconscious incompetence - don’t know you don’t know Conscious incompetence - know you don’t know Conscious competence - you know you know Unconscious competence - do without thinking What is Noah’s goal for 2020? To reach more people internationally. He’s reached people in over 120 countries and he intends to visit more of the countries where his customers are buying his products. Visit www.powerhabitsbook.com and purchase his book, it includes a digital gift pack and tickets to one of his live events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

142: Mindful Research with Dawson Church, PhD Jan 13, 2020

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Love yourself enough! Join Holly as she interviews Dawson Church, PhD, and they discuss how science is proving the affects of living a mindful life on the body. In his book, Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality Dr. Church shares: “As Mind to Matter drops each piece of the scientific puzzle into place, it leaves us with a profound understanding of the enormous creative potential of our minds. It also gives us a road map to cultivating these remarkable brain states in our daily lives.” So many people are skeptical of meditation, but Dr. Church’s brain science is proving that mindfulness creates vast health benefits. At one time in his life, he was one of those skeptical people. He suffered from depression, anxiety and PTSD from his early childhood. He joined a spiritual community and joined an ashram for several years and studied psychology to fix his own suffering. Around 2000 he got into energy psychology and committed to a daily meditation practice. His entire life changed. In the ashram they directed, “Sit down, be still, close your eyes, clear your mind.” Well, the mind doesn’t clear itself. He set about studying science and how the brain reacts to how the body reacts to seven simple steps of the method he’s created and shares in his book, Mind to Matter. Some of the questions that Holly and Dr. Church explore are: How do you maintain and have emotional regulation once your eyes are not longer closed for meditation? Did you know there is an emotional control network in your brain? How would you advise people to find and make time for meditation? How do little introductory tools create bigger results? How can this industry support and change the narrative to preventing stress, rather than a reactive state? In his book, he shares a story from the first chapter of Graham Phillips, who was a television show Catalyst in Australia. He and his camera team and did a study of him for eight weeks. The results were astounding! This study biologically proved that meditation and mindfulness can actually produce growth of the emotional control network parts of the brain. Energy is where it all begins. When you change your energy field, it affects the world around you in a very direct way. Meditation is the foundation. Dr. Church offers more than thirty options, of which he states that two are the most essential; meditation and tapping. These have dramatic effects on PTSD, weight control, anxiety and traumas. His studies have revealed that over the course of one week many participants lower cortisol, the stress hormone, by more than 30%. He claims that results can be produced in as little as fifteen minutes a day. He suggests using aides to help get started. Guided meditations are very helpful. Shadow work is very important to address the past and work on traumas to shift into a powerful state of mind and body. Clearing our own past issues helps release old triggers from the past. When people are in tune with non local mind their brain activity changes. Huge surges of oxytocin occur, and the brain actually gets to an “at one with everything” state. Tuning in to the universe if you will. In “flow” state of consciousness, people are five times more productive and creativity doubles! Don’t just get the book and read it but help by giving him a review about how it helps change and create a mindful world! Will YOU commit to 15 minutes every morning to meditate and see how it can change your life? Don’t check your phone or the news, start your day with meditation! Love yourself enough to give yourself this start! Find out more about Dawson’s work at https://mindtomatter.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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