Abundantly Curious

About This Episode

In this week’s episode we explore both the science-backed and spiritual benefits of meditation with Dr. Rashmi Schramm, a certified family physician and meditation teacher. Listen to learn about accessing elevated states in meditation, relaxing into synchronicity, and the many paths to reaching homeostasis for physical healing.

Time Stamps

06:27 - Traditional Medicine in the Modern Medicine World

13:08 - The Science-Backed Benefits of Meditation

19:45 - The Spiritual Experience of Meditation

20:44 - Accessing Ecstasy During Meditation & Beyond

25:51 - The Power of Surrender and Synchronicity

30:46 - Getting Out of Our Own Way to Experience Bliss

32:50 - How to Decide When to Let Go

36:35 - The Pineal Gland and Intuition

38:57 - Reaching Homeostasis for Physical Healing

42:22 - Choosing Your Style of Meditation

About Dr. Rashmi Schramm

Dr. Rashmi Schramm is a board certified family physician, a certified meditation teacher and coach. Her practice spans over two decades of working with thousands of patients. She is the founder of Optimal Wellness, where she helps busy women tap into inner peace and power so they can live more energetic and purposeful lives. She is passionate about teaching, practicing and coaching on meditation and mindfulness.

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

Guest Links

Website + Free Evidence-Based Meditation: https://optimalwellnessmd.org 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.rashmischramm 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drrashmischrammoptimalwellness 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dr.rashmischramm 

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About This Episode

In this week’s episode we explore accessing your power with Allen Bittaker, whose work in chiropractic and network spinal has led him to his energy practice at a Center for A New Paradigm. Tune in to get curious about energy work, different levels of mind and experience, and how to create more presence and personal power.

Time Stamps

08:12 - Allen's Introduction to Network Spinal

10:50 - About Allen's Network-Related Type of Energy Work

13:05 - Sensing Areas of Energy Richness in Your Body and Field

14:56 - About Different Levels of Mind and Experience

19:51 - Exploring What It Means to Be Awakened

25:30 - What is Power and How to Access It

About Allen Bittaker

Allen Bittaker is a doctor of chiropractic, a certified functional movement and nutrition expert, and an energetic embodiment coach. His awakening path over the last 10 years has led him to become a gifted healer, as he supports leaders in accessing their energy and embodying presence, power and love within business, relationships & wellness.

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

Guest Links

Website: https://www.centerforanewparadigm.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drallenbittaker/ 

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In this week’s episode we sit down with Jenny Scholl, a studied expert in religion and spirituality, to expand our view of religion, Christianity, and connection to something bigger than us. We explore paths to the divine, accessing higher levels of consciousness, and the power of ancient wisdom.

Time Stamps

09:26 - Jenny's Journey with Religion and Religious History

13:48 - Exploring Through Non-Duality

25:12 - About Gnosticism and Christian Mysticism

26:32 - Experiencing Heart Coherence and Connection

28:34 - Multiple Paths to Enlightenment and The Divine

33:26 - Ancient Wisdom and Intelligence Outside of the Mind

38:18 - Finding Our Way Back to Community

44:17 - Mary Magdalene and The Missing Gnostic Gospels

49:55 - The Limitations of Language in Relating Experiences

52:21 - The Science of Miracles

53:33 - Accessing Higher Levels of Consciousness

About Jenny Scholl

Jenny Scholl holds degrees and certificates in Religion & Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, and is currently a postgraduate student of Luminous Awareness Institute which weaves together ancient wisdom roots with developmental psychology, attachment repair, somatics, nervous system repair and energetic awareness & awakening. As an Embodiment Coach, she helps people come back to their self and their center, utilizing non-dual practices to help bridge the gap between Spirituality and Religion, between Self and Cultural Conditioning & Programming.

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

Guest Links

Jenny LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jennyscholl 

Jenny Scholl Website: www.jennyscholl.com 

Jenny Scholl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennyscholl/ 

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Show Links:

The Naked Now by Richard Rohr

What The Mystics Know - Richard Rohr

Mary Magdalene Revealed - Meggan Watterson

The Yoga of Jesus - Paramahansa Yogananda  

This week we learn about the Human Design System, a synthesis of ancient and modern sciences that helps you discover what makes you unique. Our guest is human design coach Esther Ruurda, who opens our minds to new possibilities in finding our purpose, making aligned decisions, and navigating a world that wasn't built for all of us. You can find your design at mybodygraph.com. 

Time Stamps

4:26 - The world is designed for 70% of the population

9:26 - What is Human Design and how do I find mine?

11:31 - About The Design Types: Generators and Manifesting Generators

13:07 - About the Design Types: Projectors

14:53 - About the Design Types: Manifestor

16:49 - About the Design Types: Reflector 

18:37 - How the types impact one another

23:43 - Following Your Type’s Strategy and Authority

26:01 - Following Your Design to Make Decisions  

33:34 - Finding Your Purpose Through Human Design

About Esther Ruurda

Esther is a certified yoga teacher, herbalist and Human Design Coach who aims to provide people with tools for their journey into alignment. She was born and raised in Amsterdam before moving to California, where she eventually founded The Malibu Sangha, a gathering place where people come to connect and be part of a movement to create a more conscious, equal world for the benefit of all beings. Esther thrives by inspiring people to create a life true to themselves. She believes that when people live in alignment with their souls’ purpose, they are happier, able to share their light with the world and raise the vibration for society as a whole.  

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. 

Guest Links

Esther Website: www.malibusangha.org  

Esther IG: https://www.instagram.com/malibu_sangha/ 

Esther Human Design IG: https://www.instagram.com/journey_with_humandesign/ 

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/estherruurda 

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Geri Paige Butner Website: https://www.geripaige.com/ 

Show Links:

Find Your Human Design: MyBodyGraph.com  

In our fourth episode, we interview clinical board certified hypnotist, Nicole Hernandez. Nicole shares what it means to be hypnotized, explains how we enter a state of hypnosis multiple times a day, and how we can harness hypnotherapy to heal everything from anxiety to physical ailments to infertility and more. 

Time Stamps

4:05 - Nicole's Journey Healing Anxiety, Alopecia, and Gastritis

8:21 - How Curiosity led Nicole to Launch a Thriving Hypnotism Practice

10:17 - The Difference Between Clinical Hypnosis & Stage Hypnosis

14:55 - Hypnosis While Consuming Media

17:26 - The History of Hypnosis

21:03 - How Shifts Occur in Hypnosis

26:36 - How Hypnosis Can Help with Anxiety

37:05 - What to Look For In Your Hypnotist

About Nicole Hernandez

Known as The Traveling Hypnotist, Nicole Hernandez is a clinical Board Certified hypnotist based in New York City with globe-trotting tendencies. She is also an anxiety educator, speaker, and Resident Healer for the Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown. Nicole specializes in helping anxious high achievers become impactful, conscious leaders that can navigate life transitions with a sense of clarity and ease. After healing her own anxiety-related illness with hypnosis, she felt a deep calling to demystify the healing modality and help others. Her signature approach combines modern hypnotherapy, mindfulness, somatics, and her intuitive gift. She has been featured in Cosmopolitan, BeLatina, BestLife, Forbes, Success, Texas Monthly, Wall Street Journal, and more.

Guest Links

Free Love Yourself Hypo-Meditation Download: www.thetravelinghypnotist.com 

Nicole Hernandez Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetravelinghypnotist/ 

Nicole Hernandez Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenicolehernandez/ 

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Geri Paige Butner Website: https://www.geripaige.com/ 

Research Links

Using hypnosis to accelerate the healing of bone fractures: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10069091/ 

About This Episode

Today, we are geeking out on lucid dreaming. Our guest expert is going to help us understand what lucid dreaming is, how it is different from our regular dreaming and even vivid dreaming and all of the many ways that you can use lucid dreaming to change your waking day to day life. 

Time Stamps

1:33 - How Lana found lucid dreaming

4:26 - What is Lucid Dreaming?

12:31 - Lana's Research on Lucid Dreaming and Depression

15:39 - Lucid Dreaming in the Scientific Community

31:45 - Sleep Paralysis and False Awakenings

34:18 - How to initiate a lucid dream

37:17 - Fascinating lucid dreaming experiences

45:10 - How to stay in your lucid dream

About Lana Sackwild

Lana is a British lucid dreaming and lucid living coach and scientific researcher with a Masters of Science in consciousness, spirituality, and transpersonal psychology. She has been lucid dreaming for 25+ years and is a pioneer in the lucid dreaming field for mental health research and lucid dreaming for entrepreneurship, working with clients across the globe.

Guest Links

Website: https://www.lanasackwild.com/ 

Online course: https://www.lanasackwild.com/the-lucid-entrepreneur-lab 

Masterclass: https://www.lanasackwild.com/livingtosucceed 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lanasackwild 

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lanasackwild  

Email: [email protected] 

Weekly Freebies in Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/luciddreamingandliving

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/getlucidwithlana

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Geri Paige Butner Website: https://www.geripaige.com/ 

Research Links:

Lucid Dreams: An electro-physiological and psychological study: https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.458729 

In our third episode, we sit down with Clayton Kim, a multi-skilled renaissance man who is passionate about acquiring new skills, learning new disciplines, and leading the way in performance technology and research. Clayton shares his processes for learning and becoming great at new things. Tune in to learn about his optimized weekly schedule, how to achieve a structured flow state, and what you can start doing today to begin picking up a new skill.

Time Stamps

2:05 - Clayton’s background

3:55 - Clayton’s journey in circus arts

6:40 - Overcoming fear and the suck of skill acquisition

10:28 - Clayton's process for learning new skills

19:36 - Performance optimization and research at Fount

21:14 - Balancing performance with rest and care

24:48 - Achieving a structured flow state

30:56 - Crossover in skill disciplines

About Clayton Kim

Clayton Kim spends every day making learning his superpower. Clayton is a self-taught coder, photographer, chef, and derivatives algorithms developer. He has competed and performed in boxing, powerlifting, rugby, aerial straps, and the cyr wheel (it’s fascinating), and is always looking for a new skill to learn. Clayton is also the COO and Head of Product at Fount, where he builds teams to solve hard problems. His work also includes artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts, which he’s led at Boston Consulting Group and Wayfair.

Guest Links

Fount Performance Program: http://fount.bio/ 

Clayton Kim Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheClayMethod 

Clayton Kim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theclaymethod/ 

Clayton Kim Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claykim/ 

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About This Episode

In this introductory episode of Abundantly Curious, your host Geri Paige Butner lays the foundation for an exciting season of interviews with fascinating guests. Geri explores how our tribal nature shapes our belief systems on everything from the products we buy to the way we heal ourselves, and shows us a path forward to true exploration and expansion through three guiding principles of curiosity.

Key Takeaways

• Understand how our tribal nature groups us into camps of belief and thought, and how those camps shape our life.
• Examine common social consequences of curiosity as a result of our tribe’s cognitive biases.
• How “idea branding” has simplified some of our thought processes at the expense of true curiosity, exploration, and understanding.
• How we can use curiosity to expand into new possibilities and gain true alignment in our beliefs, practices, and ways of being and doing.
• Three guiding principles for how to approach curiosity and explore new information for positive impact.

Time Stamps

0:00 - Intro

0:39 - Building beliefs as tribal beings

3:26 - Idea Branding: What is it and how does it impact us?

11:42 - Social consequences of curiosity or challenges to cognitive biases

15:33 - What we get curious about on Abundantly Curious

16:34 - Curiosity Principle 1: Listen for insight, not agreeable.

18:03 - Curiosity Principle 2: Embrace the power of the “and,” and release the tyranny of the “but.”

20:38 - Curiosity Principle 3: Expand into possibility.

About Geri Paige Butner

Geri is a leader in the art of personal freedom, working to create powerful catalysts for individual change and transformation. She serves through her work as a freedom-focused entrepreneur, speaker, coach and highly curious being who has learned that when we follow our curiosity, we're led to what lights us up and propels us forward. Geri is the creator of The Business Firestarter and The Liberated Life programs, where she guides people on their journey to create a life and work they love. You can find her on Instagram @geripaige.

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Geri Paige Butner Website: https://www.geripaige.com/ 

Research Links:

Tribalism is Human Nature, 2019: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721419862289 

“Brand” Etymology: https://www.etymonline.com/word/brand 

Apple Market Share Statistics: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held-by-smartphone-platforms-in-the-united-states 

Apple Mac vs. PC advertisement: https://simplified.co/blog/branding/apple-branding-strategy/ 

Apple Loyalty Rates: https://9to5mac.com/2021/10/28/iphone-loyalty-rate-data-switchers 

What's Next?

In episode 2, we get curious about the fascinating world of Lucid Dreaming with expert researcher and coach Lana Sackwild. Listen now!

Listen to the Trailer for the Abundantly Curious podcast! Season one launches on July 7 with fascinating weekly explorations of lucid dreaming, how to master new skills, hypnosis, human design, and so much more.

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