60 Mindful Minutes

We connect with other people all day long, in person and online. But how often do we take the time to connect with ourselves, to really check in and see how we're doing and feeling? It's not a practice our busy, fast-paced society allows for. In fact, it feels like we're more distracted from ourselves than ever. Any given moment we have a multitude of things puling at us, demanding our attention. But there is so much value in coming home to ourselves. In this discussion with performance coach Angie Byrd we dig into why we don't connect with ourselves and what we're missing. And we also discuss how we can create self-connection practices and their immense benefits.

Guest Bio

Angie Byrd is a teacher, writer and partner to women in motion. She serves women through intense, experiential engagements that demand presence, honesty and the shared possibility of something more. With Angie's help, women see, feel and experience themselves as powerful beings that matter, have deep connection with themselves and in their relationships, and can pursue lives of passion and purpose. Though these transformational partnerships, Angie devotes herself to powerful, courageous women who take a stand for the lives and world they want to create. She works with clients one-on-one and in group structure designed for intense impact, speaks to audiences of all sizes and shares her work through her writings.

Learn more at www.angiebyrd.com

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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte

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In this discussion with performance coach Angie Byrd we dig into why we don’t connect with ourselves and what we’re missing. And we also discuss how we can create self-connection practices and their immense benefits.

There's so much more to travel than the places we can cross off our bucket list or the photos we can take. International travel writer Rachelle Lucas invites travelers to break from the pack and get lost in a city. The best travel experiences are the ones that we never expected to happen, and they can only be found when we put down the map or the guidebook and just explore.

Travel gives us the opportunity to connect with ourselves, with our fellow travelers and with the culture we are visiting. When we're open to it, it can broaden our belief systems, question our biases, and open our mind and heart.

Guest Bio

Rachelle Lucas is an international travel writer whose worked with People magazine, Travel Channel. The New York Times and USA Today. She founded the website The Travel Bite, a food and travel blog for inspiring active culinary vacations.

Learn more at https://thetravelbite.com/.

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International travel writer Rachelle Lucas invites travelers to break from the pack and get lost in a city. The best travel experiences are the ones they we never expected to happen, and they can only be found when we put down the map or the guidebook and just explore.

During this interview, we discuss how we can prime our emotional state, refine our inner awareness and create better attention skills that result in us having a greater capacity to monitor our mind and body in real time.

Key Takeaways

• "We have emotional deficit disorder around our own potential."
• Excellence is having the ability to create an exceptionally stable and clarified mind… we do this through contemplative practices.
• When we refine our emotional awareness, we come home to ourselves more readily.
• We must boldly re-envision our lives as something with meaning and purpose.

Guest Bio

Ryan Redman is the Executive Director of Flourish Foundation, a social profit dedicated to promoting contemplative based practices in communities for the purpose of achieving mental balance and universal compassion.

He has spent most of his life learning to make the time and the space to visit his inner world. The result has been the creation of a curriculum on topics such as contemplative practices, mindfulness and emotional regulation that he now teaches to adults, teens and kids in his home state of Idaho and also across the country.

Learn more at flourishfoundation.org/.

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During this interview, we talked about how we can prime our emotional state, refine our inner awareness and create better attention skills that result in us having a great capacity to monitor our mind and body in real time.

Here's something we don't think about very much: how does a relationship occur for you and how do you occur for people who you are currently in a relationship with? What are we really committed to in our relationships with our partners, our family, friends and coworkers. Try on, as a possibility, that this sits at the foundation of your relationships. If you have no idea what I am talking about, give this episode a listen.

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"Everything you do has an impact. Who you are – that you are – actually matters. In an interconnected world (the only kind we have), our actions and the actions of others are inextricably linked- we are always and forever in a dance of mutual influence with those with whom we directly and indirectly participate. It is the unavoidable reality of being social creatures, only magnified by an ever-increasingly complex and interwoven societal structure. We matter to each other."

- Paul Greiner

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Brandon Craig is a master creator, listener and results visionary coach accustomed to working in high stakes environments. Prior to building his highly successful individual coaching practice, he founded and grew a multi-million-dollar industrial services firm. He co-leads the Create Powerful Course two times each year.

Learn more at ontocore.com.

Here’s something we don’t think about very much: how does a relationship occur for you and how do you occur for people who you are currently in a relationship with?

John P. Strelecky is on a mission to inspire people to think about and start pursuing their Big Five for Life: the five things they want to see, do or experience in their lifetime that would truly define their life as well-lived.

And while he's living his Big Five every day, he'll be the first to admit that setting out on a new path, especially one that looks very different from the one you are already one, isn't easy.

In this conversation John defines the Big Five for Life concept and what it means to think about the museum of your life. We also talk about purpose and the impact fulfilling your goals has on other people.

And of course, he tells us how people start to change or shift when they start to orient themselves towards their purpose and towards their Big Five for Life.

Key Takeaways

• We don't have to wait until a tragedy or health crisis happens to take stock of our life and start living our dreams.
• We make such a positive impact on the people in our lives when we start pursuing our Big Five for Life.

Guest Bio

John P. Strelecky is an international best-selling author and creator of the Big Five for Life concept. As of 2017, his books have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide and been translated into 29 languages.

Learn more at johnpstrelecky.com.

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John P. Strelecky is on a mission to inspire people to think about and start pursuing their Big Five for Life: the five things they want to see, do or experience in their lifetime that would truly define their life as well-lived.