A Quest for Well-Being

— "Practicing mindfulness allowed me to pay mind to my emotions, validating them without adding judgment or blame to myself or others."

Valeria Teles interviews Alana Cahoon — the author of "Mindfulness, Mantras & Meditations: 55 Inspirational Practices to Soothe the Body, Mind & Soul."

Alana Cahoon serves professionals to transform their lives & relationships by creating a solid foundation for workflow and life balance. She assists professionals to strengthen their leadership skills, leap into entrepreneurial endeavors, and to manage transitions.

Ms. Cahoon began her studies in Holistic Health at the New York Open Center in NYC, and is certified as a Natural Health Professional with concentration in Nutrition; Reiki Master in several lineages; and Hatha Yoga. One of her fondest moments was organizing the visit of Buddhist Monk & Nobel Peace Laureate, Thich Nhat Hanh. Her business acumen was formed through a journey of temporary assignments in NYC's corporate offices. She was Manager at the American Business Council in Dubai, UAE; Program Director of one of New York State's technology business incubators; and Marketing Consultant. One of her business accolades was serving on the grant writing committee that became the recipient of a $6M award.

As an artist, Alana has recorded numerous CDs of original music and covers. These can be found on Amazon & iTunes. Her voice has been described as sultry, angelic & bluesy. She is a graphic designer, videographer, photographer, painter, dancer & actress. Her Bachelors Degree in Theatre lead her to NYC where she performed Off-Broadway and in the Jazz & Progressive Rock club circuit. One of her favorite theatrical experiences was going on tour performing Moliere.

To learn more about Alana Cahoon and her work please visit: https://www.alanacahoon.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— There is an innate magical transformation that happens when one cares deeply enough to share their story with the world. The only real failure in life is the failure to grow from what we go through. Change empowers us to see life's transitions as opportunities for growth and provides not only the keys for shaping our lives today, but also hope for transforming our world into a place of greater love, peace, connection, and wholesomeness. Through Audra Weeks' healing journey… A Hero's Journey… Audra has become an advocate for the positive that comes with change and bringing the light of truth in the lives of others. Audra's life has prepared her with unique experiences, well-earned wisdom, creative talents, and treasured gifts that she is sharing with the world. Indeed, to come to this place, she had to Move Mountains. Valeria Teles interviews Audra Weeks — the author of "Moving Mountains: A Hero's Journey"

Audra Weeks is a true Arizona native. She grew up in the heart of Phoenix. Belonging to a large family, she was the youngest of six children. In her adolescent years, she was an athlete involved in soccer, softball, gymnastics, and ballet. She studied psychology, philosophy, world religions, and criminal profiling in college. She later received her clinical certification in hypnotherapy as well as her certification as a Reiki Master. Audra is currently a professional nanny and a holistic healer. She is the doting mother to three children and Ommi to four grandchildren.

Audra has experienced several traumas in her life that left her with PTSD, traumatic response, and trauma patterning. She recently embarked on a healing journey through cognitive reframing therapy. Through this successful journey and her follow-up work, Audra has come to understand that trauma can be treated and even healed. She has made it her mission to share her story, and she hopes to bring hope and help to those who are navigating the pain that their own traumatic experiences have brought them.

Audra has stepped firmly onto the path of helping others and continues to put herself in the arena to change lives. She can frequently be found as a guest and co-hosting on a variety of self-exploration podcasts and live talks.

To learn more about Audra Weeks and her work please visit: https://audrareneweeks.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Good leaders must make good decisions for good reasons."

Valeria Teles interviews Craig B. Whelden — the author of "Leadership: The Art of Inspiring People to Be Their Best."

Craig's leadership journey began as an Eagle Scout at age 14. Thirty years later, he was the youngest General in the United States Army.

Combined with another nine years as a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) with the U.S. Marine Corps, he has led thousands of Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Civilians... while serving 10 years in Europe and another 12 in the Pacific.

In 2011, he was inducted into the Purdue University Tri-Service ROTC Hall of Fame. In March 2019, he published Leadership: The Art of Inspiring People to Be Their Best, winning three book awards and attaining #1 international bestseller status on Amazon.

Craig is now a Global Fortune 500 Speaker and lives in Bluffton, South Carolina.

To learn more about Craig B. Whelden and his work please visit: https://www.craigwhelden.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life to the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "The True You exists beyond the story, because your story has been created from everything that the little you believe."

Valeria Teles interviews Nicole Bayliss — the author of "A Shift to Bliss: The Seven Beliefs That Limit Love, Happiness, Peace and Prosperity."

Nicole Bayliss is a spiritual healer and teacher. Through experiencing her own life challenges many years ago, she experienced an awakening that entirely changed her life. Through meditation, prayer and study, Nicole began to receive truths and was shown we are all here to align to our soul and to live a life of joy, purpose and abundance. In order to do this however, we must be cleared of the old programming, conditioning, wounding and self-limiting beliefs that prevent us from knowing who we really are.

Nicole is a trained Forensic Energy Healer, Transpersonal Counsellor and Life Path Guide. The content of Nicole's work is channelled. She has written three books, A Shift to Bliss, 5 Steps to Finding Love and Soul Magic. Her current online courses are available from her website and she offers free live events on her Facebook Group Path of Light.

Nicole's mission is to share what she has learned and assist others on their journey to awakening.

To learn more about Nicole Bayliss and her work please visit: https://www.nicolebayliss.com.au

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "My sufficient healing is ongoing and intentional, since I am, and always will be, a work in progress"

Valeria Teles interviews Michelle Andrea Williams — the author of "Wound-Proofing Our Writing Practice: Introducing the S.C.A.R.S. Method."

Michelle Andrea Williams, MBA., works full-time as a data specialist manager for an award-winning healthcare analytics company in Boston, MA. She is a Chapter Leader for the Nonfiction Authors Association and holds monthly meetings to help authors and writers navigate the self- and traditional publishing world. She developed a writing method to traverse past traumas through journaling called The SCARS Method® and teaches local and online classes on the technique.

She is the author of three books including Wound-Proofing Our Writing Practice for writers working on their memoir, especially geared for writing about traumatic events. She is passionate about self-awareness, brain hacks, and discovering holistic and spiritual methods to healing mind, body and spirit.

Michelle is the co-founder and current board member of MBS4God International, Inc., a non-profit organization helping the poor and underserved around the world by supporting self-sustaining projects, education, and food and resources.

To learn more about Michelle Andrea Williams and her work please visit: https://www.michelleandreawilliams.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "I choose to feel joy, give joy, receive joy, and experience joy in abundance."

The year of 2020 has brought so many unsettled changes, fear, worry and stress. As the pandemic has spread throughout the world, many people have felt suffering and unhappiness. Anxiety, depression, stress, overwhelm and exhaustion have been higher than ever. And that is why, "Rise Up and Awaken to the Joy of Being Human" is so important right now. This beautiful journal is a masterpiece of art, poems and daily journaling questions that are designed to help you awaken more joy in every moment of your life. With 30 days of a guided journal practice that helps you retrain your brain to seek joy, notice joy, and create joy, this journal invites you to let go of suffering and expand into joy.

The daily journal sections will help you reclaim joy in your life! This journal equips you with new ideas, tools and practices to help you let go of suffering and overwhelm while waking you up to feel more joy! The artwork by the remarkable artist, Marni Butikofer were intentionally placed throughout the journal to activate the feelings of joy in your body. With the combination of artwork, poems, and a daily journaling practice, this book will guide you to living a life with more joy, more connection, more happiness, and with feeling fully alive!

As you embark on this miraculous journey of awakening to joy, you will see all of the areas of your life transform. You will not only see suffering clear away, but you will see that you are now an activator of joy for those around you. You will see that the light within you will be ignited and your world will become a world of happiness, connection and joy!

Valeria Teles interviews Keira Poulsen — the author of "Rise Up and Awaken to the Joy of Being Human."

Keira Poulsen is a mother to 5 amazing children. She is also an intuitive, energetic healer and creator. Keira is a spiritual entrepreneurship coach for Lightworkers, healers, change-makers and leaders. She helps women create their soul work and successful businesses derived from their gifts and purpose. Keira believes that now is the time that leaders are awakened and share their light with the world. She is also the founder of Freedom House Publishing Co. where she helps writers and thought leaders become published authors! At Freedom House, she focuses on liberating authors and readers with powerful messages of light!

Keira believes that we all have a deep purpose that the world needs. And when we connect up to The Divine and remember our own inner Divinity, we can create massive change in this world.

To learn more about Keira Poulsen and her work please visit: https://www.keirapoulsen.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "What we often miss is the fear that comes up from our subconscious and is created by our belief system,"

Our world has increasingly become fear-based, but when we don't understand the sources of this fear, we can't heal them. We each hold collective fears, like dying in a pandemic, and individual fears, many of which we aren't aware of because they arise from conditioning and deeply embedded beliefs. We are meant to live in joy, not in fear. Even if everyone around us is in fear, this doesn't have to be our personal experience. By taking us on a treetop journey through quantum physics, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, and more, A Book On Fear gives us tools and awareness to see where our fear comes from. When we see how our belief systems were created, how they limit us, and what we have become attached to that creates fear, we will come to know ourselves at a deeper level. Then we can make different choices to transform our fears. The end of each chapter includes a suggested simple exercise that can be done quickly but that will shift the reader into an immediate higher state of awareness about that chapter's topic. Once we bring awareness to how we may have operated unconsciously before, we set out on the road to positive change. Author and entrepreneur Lawrence Doochin is someone who has experienced, processed, and released a great amount of fear. Allow him to guide you out of the fear tunnel and back into the sunlight.

Valeria Teles interviews Lawrence Doochin — the author of "A Book On Fear: Feeling Safe In A Challenging World."

Lawrence Doochin is an author, entrepreneur, and devoted husband and father. A survivor of harrowing childhood sexual abuse, he traveled a long journey of emotional and spiritual healing and developed an in-depth understanding of how our beliefs create our reality. In the business world, he has worked for or been associated with enterprises from small startups to multinational corporations. He is the cofounder of HUSO sound therapy, which delivers powerful healing benefits to individuals and professionals worldwide. In everything Lawrence does, he strives to serve a higher good.

To learn more about Lawrence Doochin and his work please visit: https://www.lawrencedoochin.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Your intuition is like having your own personal language."

Valeria Teles interviews Catherine Wilkins — the author of "Soul's Brain: The Neurology and Logic of Your Intuition."

Chiropractor, Veterinarian, Founder of Fractology and author of The Soul's Brain: The Neurology and Logic of Your Intuition, Dr Catherine Wilkins is passionate about conscious intuition. Fractology grew out of her own need to resolve the conflicts in her own life between science and intuition as she was born an intuitive cuckoo in the nest of a scientific family. Turning her science-mind onto the processes of intuition she deciphered the principles of this powerful skill into a step-by-step system that anyone can use. You can read all about it in her book. Having a conscious process turns your intuition turns into an everyday skill and importantly teaches us how to use pattern-based and systems-thinking to move past our old right-wrong thinking and open to expansive solutions for the future. This type of thinking shows you the super-power hidden in your own authenticity. The more you live according to Who You Truly Are the more expansive and fulfilling your life becomes on all levels, and the more mutual this expansion can become with all those around you. The system Catherine founded, Fractology, shows you how to do just that and she has shared all those principles in The Soul's Brain.

To learn more about Catherine Wilkins and her work please visit: https://www.fractology.info/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life to the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "You are not a random blob of cells. Every part of you brims with intention. Your heart doesn't question why it beats. Your lungs don't get bored pumping air. Your hair doesn't stop growing because you're having a bad day. Each sub-atomic particle you consist of knows what role it plays in the great coming together as you. If none of your building blocks waver about their purpose, why should you?

Deep down, you know there is someone you're meant to be. Every so often, you catch a glimpse of that someone. It happens when you speak up for yourself, even when it's difficult; when you're proud of a job well done, no matter what others say; when you do things for the love of doing them, not because you're expected to. It happens in those unexpected moments when you look in the mirror and see not your perceived flaws but a person you're amazed of being. Is that really me?! Yes, that's really you."

Valeria Teles interviews Chris Cirak — the author of "Be You: The Journey of Self-Realization"

Chris Cirak has a passion for turning sophisticated topics into accessible, meaningful, and inspiring experiences. With an extensive background in design, psychology, and tech, he has spearheaded empathy-based design in education and business environments alike. In private, Chris enjoys meditating, playing tennis, and writing music. He resides in Los Angeles, California.

To learn more about Chris Cirak and his work please visit: https://www.cirak.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life to the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

—Trevy Thomas pulls from a deeply personal loss to share insights into the ebb and flow of grief. Her perspective is hopeful and empathetic, with a focus on transitions, connection, and simple activities to foster strength. The work offers non-clinical and approachable concepts on grief work while welcoming grievers to participate with writing prompts and meditations.

Sharing her most personal thoughts and experiences after losing her husband, Trevy's mission is to offer hope to others who are similarly struggling.

Valeria Teles interviews Trevy Thomas — the author of "Companion in Grief: Comforting Secular Messages for the Daily Journey Through Grief"

Trevy Thomas is a short story and creative non-fiction writer with published work in a variety of literary magazines. Her book, Companion in Grief, is a deeply personal look at grief and loss with inspiration taken from her journals and letters after her husband's sudden death. She hopes that her perspective on grief and healing will bring hope and peace to others who are grieving.

To learn more about Trevy Thomas and her work please visit: https://www.trevythomas.com/

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.