100% BS with Bella Solanot

In this solo episode, Bella explores the depths of RELEASING resentment, anger, and bitterness and why it will free your mind, body, and soul. Forgiveness and letting go have many social, cultural, historical, and even scientific contexts that help us understand how our conditioning may play into whether or not we want to release negative emotions. Listen to learn about these contexts, my personal experience with letting go, and ways that you can move toward the mind-body freedom that comes from releasing, too.

"Forgiveness and letting go require you to feel something empathetic toward a human you’re convinced is incredibly undeserving… Yet giving it anyway." (read more here)

Themes + Learnings:

• My personal story behind learning to forgive despite my ego holding onto hardship
• The religious and spiritual themes interwoven with forgiveness
• Visualizations and thought processes for letting go
• Why over-identifying with hardship is breeding lingering resentment in your body
• Western culture's lack of forgiveness and discouragement of letting go
• Zen Buddhism's approach to detachment

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Episode References:

https://www.wisdomtimes.com/blog/health-benefits-of-forgiveness/

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Zen-David-Scott/dp/0760703094

https://www.amazon.com/Way-Zen-Alan-W-Watts/dp/0375705104/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GRUM1BXH9EN8&keywords=way+of+zen+alan+watts&qid=1651690401&s=books&sprefix=way+of+zen+al%2Cstripbooks%2C124&sr=1-1

Disagreement 101! The mindset, strategy, and reframes you need to get better at disagreement and to help you understand why you should be doing it MORE. In this episode, disagreement is defined in a new way to shift it from being a scary confrontation you'd avoid to an opportunity for expansion and connection.

Themes & Lessons:

• The mindset and mechanics of disagreement
• How to steer the ship of any conversation
• The benefits of separating ideas from people
• How to talk about taboos and perceived "bad" ideas without endorsing them
• Being curious without interrogating others
• The inner work needed to facilitate better confrontations 

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100% BS is joined by internationally recognized breathwork and meditation instructor and leader, Ava Johanna. This is the kind of high-caliber woman you do not want to miss. This conversation ties the knot on why and how almost everything you desire can be created from within you. From healing, communication, and career to relationships, health, understanding culture, and connection to the Universe... Ava teaches us that we can go from "breath to breakthrough".

Learn how breathwork and meditation can shift your conventional thinking and reveal innate capabilities powerful enough to reverse-engineer the life you want - right here, right now.

Ava's Bio + Links:

Ava Johanna is the founder and visionary behind The Academy of Breath, an international breathwork and meditation school focused on making these ancient embodiment practices household tools across the globe. Having worked with top wellness brands like Alo Yoga, Mindbodygreen and Yoga Journal, Ava’s mission is to bridge the gap between modern neuroscience and mysticism so breathwork and meditation are made accessible to everyone from high-level executives to stay-at-home parents. With hundreds of certified teachers under Ava’s Academy of Breath, her teachings in breathwork and meditation are taking the world by storm, showing us all how conscious breathing can change your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health.

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This week we're graced by the in-person presence of MIKI ASH, a yoga + meditation teacher, photographer, retreat facilitator, artist, and creative leader. Through Miki's story about her discovery of yoga and meditation, hitting rock bottom, traveling the world, and getting to where she is now, we learn what it looks like to break away from victim mentality and expand into loving ownership and responsibility for oneself.

This is Practical Consciousness: The tools, the mindsets, the shifts, and the takeaways for an expansive state of existence.

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Miki's Bio + Links:

Miki is a certified yoga, meditation, and breathwork teacher with over 10 years of experience in the wellness space. She's currently based in Austin, TX where she teaches classes weekly, and hosts wellness circles and retreats all over the globe. She's an incredible conscious content creator who consistently shares tools for everyone to feel and be their best.

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Joshua Tree (May '22)

Mexico (Oct '22)

The past 2 years (almost to the date) have been a time of extreme polarity, discomfort, and most of all, some of the deepest levels of dissonance we've witnessed in ourselves and society. The stories we've been sold and the truth within us feel completely at odds. Unable to have dialogue, resistant to conflict, afraid to step into nuance, concerned for our wellbeing and our place in society - there's enough to make you never want to ruffle any feathers ever again. But what if you could face the disarray? What if you can lean into the confusion stirring inside of you as the world, your relationships, and your Self are faced with a crumbling of what we think we know?

To dance with dissonance is to allow ourselves to expand beyond binaries, identities, labels, and fear of the other.

Mark Groves is a Human Connection Specialist, founder of Create the Love and Mine'd and host of the Mark Groves Podcast. In other words, he's a speaker, writer, motivator, creator and collaborator. Mark's work bridges the academic and the human, inviting people to explore the good, the bad, the downright ugly, and the beautiful sides of connection. His purpose? To empower individuals to step into their power, transform the way they relate to themselves and others, and create authentic change for a life + love they’ll look back on with a resounding “f*ck yes!

Mark's Links:

www.createthelove.com

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www.instagram.com/itsmarkgroves/

www.markgroves.doyoumined.com

Bella's Links:

www.instagram.com/bellasolanot

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This episode warms my heart!! My sister and I speak with our father, Sergio Solanot to learn all about his childhood in Argentina, the tumultuous times he experienced, and its impact on daily life and culture. We reflect on family adventures, sailing trips that pushed the limits of comfort, and the evolution of our respective spiritual beliefs. My father is a wealth of wisdom and a genuine soul - he imparts a valuable outlook on life and philosophy that left us feeling expanded and joyful!

I hope you enjoy getting a little look into our family!

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Highlights:

• My dad’s childhood and formative years in Argentina amid unrest, violence, and social division
• Family adventures sailing, scuba diving, and experiences traveling
• What we learned from sailing 52 hours straight to Bonaire
• How he views our version of manifestation and goal-setting and the way it allows us to deal with hard times in an effective way
• The power of visualization from the view of an engineer and businessman + programming your mind for results
• My own journey going from atheism to being deeply spiritual and open to higher powers
• My father’s journey with belief and atheism (and crystals lol)
• Oli and my experience in Sedona, witnessing women channel messages
• Ghosts!

“We are not the owners of the truth, we can only be in search of the truth” - Sergio Solanot

This episode is a solo rant covering the Joe Rogan controversy and what I think it's really about: an attempt to silence a powerful dissenting voice by any means necessary via cancel culture and character assassination that has nothing to do with the accusations and everything to do with the crumbling trust in mainstream narratives. Tune in to hear my full explanation!

Topics & Themes Covered:

• Following the money & power trail
• Conflicts of interest in mainstream media
• The dynamics of character assassination AND character defense
• The woke aspect of the smear campaign and how entitlement plays a part
• The Streisand effect
• A breakdown of the incentives for mainstream media versus independent media
• The role of apologies
• Symptoms of cancel culture and performative virtue signaling

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This week is a quickie on AUTHENTICITY VS BELONGING - the eternal dance. This is an important episode to get you to understand how often you are self-abandoning in order to fit in and what that may be costing you. When it comes to the battle of authenticity and expression versus belonging, oftentimes belonging wins. But what if you choose differently?

I cover:

• How to create feelings of belonging in yourself when you choose authenticity.
• Reconsidering relationships with people who have conditional love for you.
• Figuring out the cost of self-abandonment when choosing belonging.
• Recognizing where compromise is important and how to still feel authentic in that compromise.
• Getting into the core of "why are you choosing belonging over authenticity?"

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We're back, baby! This episode dives deeper into 5 of the 25 lessons & learnings I shared on Instagram earlier this month on my birthday. A huge theme of 2021 was facing reality, as it is, in all its glory and darkness - to embrace its complexity. The 5 lessons & learnings from 2021 are:

1. You are not responsible for changing anyone’s mind but your own.  Imposing your will and your views on others is a complete disrespect of their path

2. Let people be wrong.

3. People who say “believe science” do not know what they are talking about.

4. If you wish to know the truth, sit in silence and write what you hear.

5. Most people cannot accept the existence of darkness in the world because they have shamed and ignored the darkness inside of them.

Tune in for my explanation of these lessons and why they are important takeaways for moving into 2022. Let me know which lesson resonates with you most!

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Peter Attia Article I mention at the beginning: https://peterattiamd.com/why-im-for-covid-vaccines-but-against-vaccine-mandates/

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Lindsey Simcik from Almost30 on the pod! This conversation was so very cozy and grounded —  covering relationships, becoming heart-led, the ways we can tune up our sense of self, and how creativity can be harnessed. I loved how Lindsey spoke about her engagement while respecting her privacy and boundaries set around what is shared and what is kept for just her and her partner. In diving into relationships, we discuss the energetics of having so many other people involved and the public spectacle that is normalized for engagements. Lindsey brought calm energy that helped us to express our own experiences in relationships, both romantic and platonic, as well as uncover the aspects of relationships that suffer from inauthenticity and outsourcing our needs to another person. Finally, we share what it means to cultivate creative flow and create room for your talents. Lindsey shares her journey in producing music and the ways that she gets out of her own way in order to let her gifts shine through.

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