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In this episode, I chat with Molly Mandelberg, the the founder of Wild Hearts Rise Up. Molly has an unusual combination of spiritual, visionary, and high tech, practical business savvy. She is an artist, a globe trotter, a writer, a speaker, a facilitator and a leader.

Molly is also the host of the Tactical Magic Podcast, which I recently appeared on. The show has been running since 2018 and varies between showcasing different healing modalities, transformational leadership techniques, and business and marketing prowess for healers, coaches and holistic practitioners.

In today’s conversation, Molly highlights her vision for Wild Hearts Rise up and how she helps clients find their people and benefit from what she calls the magnetics of marketing. We also explore the challenges Molly faced in her journey as an entrepreneur and how overcoming those challenges enabled her to help others bridge the gap between where they are now, and where they want to be.

Connect with Molly

WildHeartsRiseUp.com

Read Molly's Book

Follow on Facebook

Instagram

Tactical Magic Podcast

Reveal the Game of Life Podcast

Money Machine Blueprint

Oracle Deck

Client Attraction Summit

Thought Leaders Expanding Their Reach FB Group

Episode highlights:

00:11 Molly's vision for Wild Hearts Rise Up

01:10 What is magic and the magnetics of marketing?

11:00 How Molly started using hypnotherapy

14:23 Overcoming challenging beliefs

19:10 Using data to help yourself

21:54 About the Magnetic Influencer Collective

25:08 Creating hot content and content that lasts the test of time

30:32 Molly's book, Wild Hearts Rise Up!

32:58 Van life

38:58 Combining the creative and practical

39:14 Working with Molly

43:00 Mastering energy balance and downtime

47:39 What's next for Molly

Production

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• Music: Kid Kodi by Skittle and These Times by The Pine Barrens from sessions.blue

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In this episode, founder and executive producer of Kickass Conferences, Isaac Watson, reveals how top-notch strategy and exceptional event design will make your audience sit up, take notice and get motivated to make real change.

Isaac shares his experience turning a community event into a successful online summit and highlights essential considerations for planning your next (or first!) event. We also discuss the trends in bringing communities together after the pandemic, the importance of understanding specific elements of an event budget, and how to determine the best design for an event.

Kickass Conferences help community builders upgrade to the next step: community management. Community management is the process of building an authentic community among an organization through various types of interaction.

Isaac has produced over 50 conferences and gatherings worldwide, specializing in event strategy and design for communities. He is also an avid traveler and advocate for sustainable entrepreneurship. He splits his time between Vancouver and Palm Springs, California, with his husband Justin and their dog Zeus.

Follow Kickass Conferences and connect with Issac:

LinkedIn

TikTok

Instagram

Episode highlights:

02:11 About Kickass Conferences and why Isaac founded the company

06:12 Propelling an event forward to make sure it reaches the finish line with ease

07:17 Community building with events

09:16 Maximizing impact on event attendees

11:14 Event budgeting and walking through decision-making

15:40 What Isaac learned about planning events during the pandemic

21:05 Choosing an event location and venue

32:23 Hybrid event challenges and opportunities

38:24 The power of virtual events to promote individual contributions

42:00 Speaker compensation packages and measuring speaker impact

50:07 Using AI for event planning support

53:54 What's next for Kickass Conferences and Isaac

Production

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• Music: Kid Kodi by Skittle and These Times by The Pine Barrens from sessions.blue

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In this episode, Talk to People Podcast host Chris Miller and I chat about the importance of social fitness and community connections. I also share personal stories about connecting with others after a move to a new city and the lingering challenges of building relationships after the pandemic.

The Talk to People Podcast unpacks how to build better relationships. Listeners learn how to have better conversations, tell better stories, ask thoughtful questions, and build a community of people around them. The thesis of the show is that life is better when you talk to people. In addition to hosting the Talk to People Podcast, Chris is the founder of the Social Fitness Lab newsletter.

Episode highlights:

01:46 Chris explains why he created the Talk to People Podcast and his experience so far

03:52 The impact of the Harvard Longitudinal Study on happiness in our lives

06:04 Face-to-face interaction and the relative value of using video calls

07:23 Why going 'back to the office' (back to how things used to be) isn't the answer

12:52 Social fatigue and awkwardness

16:25 Saying goodbye to friendships and friendship breakups

19:49 Relational intensification

25:12 Comparing physical fitness to social fitness

31:16 Connecting vs friendship

37:00 Trends in social fitness and mental health

38:40 What it's like to move to a new city and try to forge new connections

42:08 One surprising tip for breaking the ice with strangers

46:58 Making friends and building community if we're not religious or sporty

52:27 Advice for those feeling lonely and making small steps

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• Music: Kid Kodi by Skittle and These Times by The Pine Barrens from sessions.blue

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In this episode, I speak with Rachel Décoste. Guided by a DNA test, in 2018 she visited five countries in as many months – Senegal, Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana and Benin – each country held a piece of her ancestry. When Rachel returned home, she recorded an audiobook about her adventures called The Year of Return: A Black Woman’s African Homecoming. Rachel recounts her journey with vivid imagery and humour – her pan-African trek is peppered with unexpected twists and delightful discoveries.

This conversation was originally released in 2020 on the Audiobook Reviews in Five Minutes podcast, and since we first met, Rachel’s story went viral thanks to this CNN article.

Rachel Décoste is an educator and immigration policy expert. She was a member of both presidential campaign teams of Barack Obama. Upon graduating with a Masters from The George Washington University, she was appointed National Director of the Congressional App Challenge, a tech education initiative created recently by the United States Congress. Rachel was named to the Top 100 Accomplished Black Canadian women in 2018. She was a Huffington Post contributor for over 5 years. The subject of her op-eds touched on diversity, immigration and Black history.

Episode highlights:

02:18 Rachel's childhood background and ancestry discovery

04:00 Preconceived ideas about Africa

19:44 Shopping at the biggest market in West Africa

26:38 Creating an audiobook

35:58 Finding love in West Africa’s Republic of Benin

44:58 Rachel's experience with technology, government and her background as a software engineer

56:00 Rachel's Whitney Houston fan site

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• Music: Kid Kodi by Skittle and These Times by The Pine Barrens from sessions.blue

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In this episode, I speak with Monique Giroux, who left her 30-year career in financial services and the not-for-profit sector after a transformative experience in Bali in 2019. She now lives a minimalist, nomadic lifestyle and is dedicated to helping clients slow down, feel calm and grounded, and reconnect with nature and themselves.

Monique is a certified Forest Therapy Guide, Reiki Master, and meditation, yoga nidra, and restorative yoga teacher. She shares her expertise through The Flourishment Collective, where she is a distance reiki practitioner, mentor, and trainer for women's retreats and new forest therapy guides. Monique is also the founder of the global community of forest therapy guides, the Forest Guide Circle, and the climate impact startup, Homes to Zero. She is currently writing a book to inspire others to live a life they don't need a vacation from.

Connect with Monique:

Instagram

LinkedIn

Website, blog, contact, and other links

Episode highlights:

06:10 About the Flourishment Collective

07:39 Monique's journey

11:46 Recognizing signs of anxiety

17:45 Learning to slow down again... and again

24:53 Learning how to practice new ways of being and embodied insights

28:39 Letting go of a need for control

33:09 How Monique came up with the idea for her book

38:04 About yoga nidra

42:54 What's next for Monique and sharing what she's learned

Production

• Audio production by The Podcast Distillery.co
• Music: Kid Kodi by Skittle and These Times by The Pine Barrens from sessions.blue

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This episode is also available on the Audiobook Reviews in Five Minutes podcast

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? The authors of The Good Life promise the answer may be closer than you realize!

Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz are the director and associate director of The Grant Study, also known as the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies ever done, beginning in 1938 and continuing up to the present. The study initially followed the lives of two groups of men: one group of socially disadvantaged men (inner-city Boston boys from working-class families), and another group of privileged men (graduates of Harvard College). The study aimed to understand the factors that contribute to a successful and fulfilling life, and eventually expanded to include the spouses and children of these men.

My hope is that by amplifying the findings of this extraordinary study, we can reframe popular ideas about happiness, health, and success! And if you’re not quite ready to commit to listening to this 11 hour audiobook, consider listening to these two recent interviews:

Ten Percent Happier #549. Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness | Dr. Robert Waldinger

Making Sense with Sam Harris episode #308 The Long Game (with Robert Waldinger)

Goodreads review of The Good Life

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In this episode, Alpaca My Bags podcast host Erin Hynes and producer Kattie Laur chat with me about evolving ideas on sustainable travel and tourism, as well as the ethics of travelling with an escapist mindset. We also talk about whether a tourist is any different than a traveller, the problems with over-tourism, and our experiences travelling to our ancestral countries.

Connect with Erin & Kattie:

Twitter

pinatravels.org travel blog and discoveries website

Pod the North biweekly newsletter for the Canadian podcasting community

Episode highlights:

02:23 Philosophy of responsible travel

03:23 Becoming a lifelong traveller

08:02 Travelling with severe food allergies

11:43 Traveller vs tourist: is there a difference

22:58 Destination and resort travel

29:39 Catfishing travel photos and misleading tourist marketing

34:18 Over-tourism and alternative choices

36:56 Visiting your ancestral country

45:52 Travel trends and what's next

Production

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• Music: Kid Kodi by Skittle and These Times by The Pine Barrens from sessions.blue

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"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905. This audio narration episode is a thank you to all our listeners who have supported the podcast and let us know how much Access Ideas means to you. We look forward to returning in 2023 with more episodes and wish you all Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas!

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In this episode, voice actor and audio branding podcast host Jodi Krangle reveals how powerful sound can be – and how it can cut through the noise to make a deeper connection with your listener.

Jodi shares why audio branding matters and highlights the art and business of voiceover acting – and how being musical helps! We also explore strange facts about sound: did you know that you can influence what you *taste* by what you hear?

Jodi has been voice actor since 2007 and has worked with clients from major brands all over the world, including Dell, BBVA & Kraft. Her podcast, Audio Branding: The hidden gem of marketing, offers advice on making an impact with sound and how sound influences us - both in our buying decisions and our daily lives.

Connect with Jodie:

YouTube

Twitter

Facebook

Website

Episode highlights:

00:02:12 Jodi's early love of music

00:04:43 Voiceover work

00:07:45 An introduction to audio branding

00:09:15 Sounds in everyday life

00:14:19 Sound correlation to taste

00:17:20 Noise pollution and health

00:21:52 Audio trends in movies and TV

00:35:00 Adding sound back to electric cars

00:41:00 Being a solopreneur and podcaster

00:45:00 Social audio, Clubhouse, and audio trends

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• Music: Kid Kodi by Skittle and These Times by The Pine Barrens from sessions.blue

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In this episode, Steph Fuccio discusses her mission to connect podcast editors so that they can learn from each other and help podcasters get their voices and stories out into the world.

Steph is an American expat who has lived outside the United States for the majority of the past 20 years. She produces the Geopats podcast, which features international conversations about niche topics like expat life, language, books, coffee, and of course, podcasting! She’s also the founder of the Global Podcast Editors community, which hosts LIVE Chats on YouTube AND she publishes an information packed newsletter on Substack.

Steph has a unique perspective on podcasting and I think you’ll feel energized by her enthusiasm, curiosity, and creative approach. We explore her international adventures as an expat podcaster in multiple countries, and we talk about how to find the right format for content, whether audio or video.

Connect with Steph:

YouTube

Twitter

Instagram

Website

Episode highlights:

00:00:48 Steph's story

00:06:57 Transition from teaching to podcasting

00:12:55 Steph's podcast editing vision

00:16:150 Audio vs video

00:22:55 Health and wellness podcast trends

00:27:32 "Geopats" and podcasting globally

00:29:06 Advice for digital nomads and expats

00:36:35 Global travel and access to healthcare

00:40:00 Building a community of podcasters and podcast editors

00:49:00 Steph's podcast loves and recommendations

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• Music: Kid Kodi by Skittle and These Times by The Pine Barrens from sessions.blue

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