At the age of 20 years old, Sam Mitchell is a true Pioneer fighting to end the stigmatism around mental health, and more specifically, from the perspective of Autism Awareness.

I had the honor of meeting Sam in person at Podfest Expo 2022 when he attended my talk on podcasting in the mental health space to stop the stigma. Sam has such a carefree and light spirit despite all his challenges in his youth, and his story to rise above his circumstances is a true light and blessing in today's world.

His mission is to spread the mission + mantra "don't let your differences define you" and this episode brings much light and clarity to help you capture the spirit of this message to rise above whatever you're going through right now. 

Sam now wants to change the perspective of autism, destigmatizing the negativity that often surrounds this type of brain wiring. Sam is using his platform to first and foremost, help those on the spectrum or anyone that feels as though they do not belong because they simply feel "different." 

About Sam:

Sam has Autism and runs his own podcast called, Autism Rocks and Rolls.Sam Mitchell, himself, has autism. He was diagnosed at the age of 4, and today at 20 years old, is a well-known podcaster, entrepreneur, writer, podcast coach, public speaker, TEDX Speaker, and Executive Director of Autism Rocks and Rolls NonProfit 501c3. Sam also has a published TED Talk called Souled Structure. 

Sam just hosted his first GALA in Bloomington, Indiana, called “Success for All and How We Get There,” with his keynote speaker being Dr. Temple Grandin. Sam has also spoken at The Griffin Promise Conference in OK, the ASET conference in Ontario, Canada and the Podfest conference in Orlando, FL. He is scheduled to speak in Texas, Maryland, and Indiana in the fall.

Sam is doing what he preaches: Those on the spectrum can be successful, if given the correct opportunities and chances. Sam runs his own podcast called, Autism Rocks and Rolls. It has grown over the last three years and has become very, very successful. 

Podcasting was an outlet for Sam. It actually saved his life. All self-taught, Sam wants to share what worked for him while he built his podcast and nonprofit and to spread the message that the definition of success is in the eye of the beholder. 

Sam has gained several sponsors and this has boosted his mission and business exponentially. He is nearing 10K downloads. 

He has had some big names on his show: Armani Williams, first NASCAR driver open about h

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Her philosophy is simple, create bliss. In this heartwarming and dynamic conversation with the design genius, Taniya Nayak,  we go behind the curtain of not just her success (Hello, Restaurant Impossible ,The Great Christmas Light Fight, and HGTV fans!) but the blissful beauty behind it all. 

She's a trailblazer in the design business, but bares all in speaking on everything from facing your fears of failure and rejection to her inspiration of livable luxury, which is her impressive touch on creating  the feeling of richness in your home design without costing a fortune. She also reveals how you can find your own unique design style just by looking in your closet! Her main love, however, is in restaurant design, where she also reveals to us the secret ingredient to your food + well, your life! 

She says it takes effort to make something look effortless, but this conversation was anything but that, truly a product of what she embodies with her #createbliss. 

About Taniya:

Taniya Nayak is one of the nation’s foremost interior designers. She became a household name as a design expert member on HGTV and Food Network. Taniya owns a successful, Boston-based interior design firm, Taniya Nayak Design, Inc. where she adds a fresh, clean look to both commercial and residential spaces.

Known for her sunny smile and sharp eye, Taniya Nayak’s approachable take on interior design has won over everyone from rock stars to first time homebuyers. Taniya’s knack for bringing rich textures and unexpected finishes together with practical, real-life functionality has made her a go-to expert for design programs on major networks including ABC, HGTV and Food Network.

Taniya has served as host and designer for a variety of HGTV mainstays like Designed to Sell, Billion Dollar Block, House Hunters on Vacation and Urban Oasis in Boston. Taniya is a featured designer on Robert Irvine’s Food Network series, Restaurant: Impossible, where she utilized her design prowess and professional experience to rescue and transform suffering restaurants. Married to Brian O’Donnell, a successful restaurateur in Boston, Taniya’s personal life as both an interior designer and a restaurant industry insider is the perfect parallel to her multifaceted design role in the television realm.

In 2005, Taniya started her own design firm, Taniya Nayak Design, Inc. 

Taniya is an active participant helping to raise funds for charitable organizations such as Akshaya Patra

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Just know that whatever you are going through in life right now, you don’t have to do this anymore. You have a life worth living. In this episode, Jason Carter explains why and how he moved through his struggles with anxiety, depression, and alcoholism to beginning his path to not only recovery, but dedicating his life to helping others who feel limited by life. 

To learn how to choose a different path, and the first steps towards “breaking the cycle” outside of your circumstances. To confront your demons knowing that the answers you seek lie in the emotions you feel + moving through them with grace, humanity, and heart. 

To know that you don’t have to do THIS anymore, whatever THIS is - a soul sucking career, a partner or spouse that is not for you, a relationship that isn’t serving your Soul, a business that does not align with your heart, or even your own negative thoughts that consume you and keep you stuck in spirals. 

YOU are in control, and today, our greatest desire in this episode is to give you that spark of change to drive HOPE again. 

To live a life worth living! 

“The man who realizes his limits has no limits.” - Jason Carter 

About Jason: 

Jason Carter is a husband, father and entrepreneur who struggled for decades with depression and alcoholism before beginning the journey to recovery. In his new memoir, To Hell I Ride: When a Life Examined Became Worth Living (Lioncrest Publishing, Jan. 2022), he takes an unflinching look into the darkest corners of his past and how he found clarity—and ultimately redemption—on a reflective road trip from Texas to Telluride.

Years ago, most people assumed Jason lived a normal, happy life. (And certainly, on the surface, this was true.) He had a remarkable wife, three great kids and a spacious house near the country club. So, why was he engaging in suicidal ideation on his morning run? What no one realized was that, for 30 years, he had also lived with a combination of excessive drinking, deep-rooted insecurity and depression that was taking a significant toll.

That is, until one fateful therapy session. After discussing his thoughts of suicide with his psychiatrist, Jason was forced to address his drinking head on and reevaluate the effect it was having on his mental health—and the trajectory of his life. That’s when he piled his family into their Suburban for a 17-hour road trip to Colorado, simultaneously taking a parallel journey down memory lane to confront the memories that had influenced his descent into despair. This time, he woul

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Your word is your wand, as the great Florence Scovel Shinn said. Words are energy, and have such immense power that is exercised through your voice. The feminine voice has historically been suppressed, and so many women have been called to the cause to rise, speak up, and elevate the feminine collective. 

One such femme force is my guest on this episode, Sarah Haefling, who has impressively started her own podcast at 24 years old, and now podcasting agency by the age of 25! 

She is truly a force in the podcasting space by showing women the power they have in using their voice no matter what age, race, religious affiliation, or narrative society has placed upon her. 

To be defiant in an age that questions experience relative to youth, Sarah has proven that the younger generation has much to teach us through the power of podcasting. 

And if you’ve been curious about how to start your own podcast, Sarah has some valuable tips for you on how to get started today. 

Check out Sarah’s brand new 8-week program, the 'Step-by-Step Podcast Launch Program' specifically for ambitious women looking to elevate their voices through podcasting!

As a thank you for being a listener, Sarah is offering 15% off with the code ALIVE15. 🤍

About Sarah:

Sarah Haefling is a 25-year-old entrepreneur who at the age of 24, started her own podcast, 'Made it Happen,' to highlight the voices of female entrepreneurs. Since launching in May of 2020, the podcast has grown to have thousands of downloads, many incredible sponsorships & partnerships, and reached #6 on Apple Podcast's Top Entrepreneurship Podcast Charts in some countries, #36 in Canada, Top 40 in Greece, and Top 50 in Mexico!

She has interviewed female business owners and changemakers from all across Canada and the United States including Forbes Top 30 Under 30, Influencers, Mental Health advocates, local business owners, and more. From starting her own podcast she then went on to start her own podcasting agency, Elevate Podcast Co. With her background in Business and Marketing, she now helps businesses & individuals launch and grow podcasts they are proud of. Sarah was the top winner in the 'Take Your Shot' event, a pitch competition for young entrepreneurs & the top winner in the Venture Women Final Pitch Competition, for female entrepreneurs.

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What would it feel like to be the conscious creator of every choice in your life?  To feel empowered in every decision, standing in your power with complete confidence, unapologetically doing what feels RIGHT for you? 

In this episode, you will feel this resonance in the wisdom of Katie Krimitsos, Founder of the Women's Meditation Network which has over 55 million downloads (as of this episode) and growing! 

Katie shares her journey as a story of "breakdown to breakthrough" in how she moved from a rebellious woman + feminist to a Mother (of 2 gorgeous girls!) who fully embodies the sacred feminine, a woman who is nurturing yet wildly fierce in her power + presence.

In this embodiment, her mission to create a global, yet individual movement created a conscious community for women to use the tool of a meditative practice to know herself and consciously create lives she loves wholeheartedly.

About Katie:

What do you get when you raise a girl in the Arizona desert with 5 siblings, a strong matriarchal mom, a soft-spoken feminist dad, and an innate desire to LIVE BIG?  You get Katie Krimitsos - an ever-curious woman who continues her evolution as a loving being of light - who is having fun being a mom, wife, creator and friend in this life.  Whose softness and wisdom has often come as the result of painful experiences. Whose ego is always trying to get the best of her. Who's deeply in love with a Greek man she's definitely known in another life. Who's lived through 12 step programs, athletics and half a dozen businesses.  Who creates meditations for women as songs to light their souls and wants to save all the animals of the world. She believes life keeps on getting better the older she gets.  And so far, she's right. ;)

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Women's Meditation Network: https://womensmeditationnetwork.com/

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Spirituality at times can seem heavy and burdensome, but what if for a moment, you visualized how to find the humor in it all to fully step into your superpower?

To see the lotus flower as an embodiment of rising from the mud unapologetically with a lightness of spirit that is laughter. 

Here, the spirit of today’s guest, Jennifer Zenz-Olson of Laughing Lotus Wellness, is born. I met Jennifer over a year ago in the pandemic at a time when life felt so dense and I couldn’t see the way out. 

In joining her live sessions on the Insight Timer app, I saw for the very first time, how a spiritual practice can be light and full of laughter instead of laced with guilt, shame and resentments of the past. 

In this episode, Jen enlightens you to “start letting go of expectation” and open to the empowerment that lies within your Superpower. 

Just like a lotus she awakens you to rise from the mud within your mind to see the infinite possibilities on your path to a purpose-driven life, amplified!

Jen’s Mission: I am a transformative, soul-based purpose amplifier living a life of service. I connect with other souls in order to be a conduit for transformation and deep purpose-awareness using my humor, transparency, laughter, creativity and wisdom.I believe in our ability to begin again and again, like the lotus where we RISE UP into the highest form of our souls to live a life of service and impact!

About Jen: 

Jen is a transformational purpose coach and expert who helps women who are brilliantly successful in their life, business or career, but still feel unhappy to tap into their inner knowing and strength to create a life of purpose and impact! Offering a unique coaching experience, Jen combines her certifications in numerous energetic and healing practices with her foundation of providing over 20 years of clinical psychotherapy as a Clinical Social Worker.  The combination of psychology, personal growth, spirituality and energy work helps her clients embrace their unique gifts, inner-knowing and power to transform their life and follow their path to purpose! 

Connect with Jen @Laughing Lotus Wellness:  

Website: Laughinglotuswellness.com

Connect on Instagram @laughinglotuswellness 

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Mental health is at the core of all our suffering. The stigma stops with YOU. 

It is such a taboo topic in our society that is attached to such shame and suppression, which exacerbates the issue. 

In my talk at @podfestexpo last Friday, I shared how 1 in 5 people suffer from mental illness globally. 

Among our youth, ages 18-25 this number increases to 1 in 3. 

Yes, 1 in 3 people ages 18-25 suffer. 

Most in silence. 

It is not socially acceptable to admit our mental struggles, yet we continue to ignore the very root cause of human suffering in all forms. 

When will we wake up? 

When will we see that any ideology rooted in fear and manipulation of the mind to suppress the human Spirit is the very thing that is keeping us stuck? 

The stigma stops with ME. 

The stigma stops with YOU. 

It’s our time to stop the stigma as a collective to finally admit we are all a destined part of the healing experience needed to elevate ourselves out of the chaos that is not our own to hold. 

The month of May in mental health awareness is over, but my message remains strong and amplified.

This episode unlocks more portals of conscious and subconscious energies to help us collectively STOP THE STIGMA.

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As Holistic Hilda teaches, everything in life is a map or a mirror. Something to guide you, or show you the place where healing happens.

In this episode, Hilda will reveal the ancient health hacks to heal yourself, and take your POWER back to have health autonomy and freedom.

The post-pandemic reality has been so challenging for many as we navigate a time when so much weight is placed on trusting the experts instead of trusting our own body + knowing what YOU need to nurture your needs.

Most importantly, trusting that the conditions you are experiencing are a direct reflection of your brain + your body telling YOU what it needs to heal itself.

Hilda speaks to the effects of technological stress + Spirit's perspective on how long exposure may "steal the essence of our Soul", how to align yourself with the Circadian rhythms, and cultivate a practice of stillness so you can truly HEAR yourself speak by tuning out the noise of conflicting information that may not be best for you.

How can you listen if you're constantly consuming? The Aboriginal tradition calls this cultivating "dadirri" or deep listening.

Hilda challenges us to think, "would you buy your life at the store"?

About Hilda:

Hilda Labrada is the host and producer of the popular WiseTraditions podcast. She is a certified health coach and an ancestral health advocate. She is known as Holistic Hilda and has traveled the world exploring traditional practices for optimal well-being. Hilda shares the best of experts, experiences, and epic adventures on the podcast, her Holistic Hilda YouTube channel, and on ancestral health tours and retreats that she leads. Hilda is also a podcast coach and the author of “Podcasting Made Simple”. She especially enjoys helping people in the health & wellness space launch and improve their shows. Hilda has energy to spare thanks to her love for sunshine and liverwurst.

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Free pdf on my website “Three Ways to Boost Your Health Anytime”, snag your copy:   https://holistichilda.com/

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If you've been feeling neglected in your relationship and desiring more emotional and/or physical intimacy with your Partner or Spouse, I invite you to join me and Dr. Viviana for a deeply intimate conversation today.

Dr. Viviana is a Licensed Marriage + Family Therapist, a Doctor of Marriage + Family Therapy, and a Certified Sex Therapist, where she practices with her Team at Houston Relationship Therapy.

Many know Dr. Viviana as "America's Intimacy Expert" and the Marriage + Intimacy Expert on Lifetime's hit show, Married at First Sight. Personally, this episode was a dream as I have been a long-time fan of the MAFS show, and have taken the tools and advice given by the experts in this series to deepen and strengthen the bonds in my own marriage!

The pandemic posed many challenges for couples spending more time together and feeling old wounds coming to light as a result of the collective trauma we have all endured, many ending in divorce and separation.

In our conversation, we move beyond the traditional 5 love languages into a more lasting + fresh perspective with Dr. V's 4 Intimacy Styles from her latest book, The 4 Intimacy Styles: The Key to Lasting Physical Intimacy.

We dive deeper into the advice introduced in the book on understanding communication styles, inner child wounds, and overcoming resentments to help keep the spark ALIVE in your relationships and/or marriage so you can feel SEEN by your partner + spouse in a way that continuously invites and explores intimacy.

Come find out what brings you pleasure with me and Dr. V and come ALIVE to live your best LOVE life today!

“Sexual incompatibility is a myth.”- Dr. Viviana

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LICENSED RELATIONSHIP AND SEX THERAPIST, AMERICA’S INTIMACY EXPERT

Dr. Viviana Coles is President and Lead Psychotherapist at her private practice Houston Relationship Therapy. She is also President of the National Sex Therapy Institute, a virtual Sex Therapy Certification program for mental health professionals. Dr. Coles holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in Marriage and Family Therapy and is a Certified Sex Therapist.

Since 2003, Dr. Viviana Coles has exclusively focused on her work with couples and individuals experiencing emotional and physic

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Have you been intrigued by spirituality, and longed to dabble in the Divine...but for fear of being ostracized, you stayed silent? Or feared the wild unknown that arises from a deeper connection to Spirit?

Do you have callings or feelings within you, but you don't know why or what is the deeper meaning behind these sensations within? 

If so, this episode will be a breath of fresh air to know you are not alone, and will give you the courage to explore your own spiritual path in a way that feels aligned and resonant to your Soul - to come out of your own spiritual closet.

Carla has a way with words that will spark infinite possibilities with her Psychic abilities to channel and guide energy with the help of her Blue Team, call them archangels, ascended masters,  aliens...it depends on your belief system,  but at the end of the day, she calls this "connecting with your Divine energy", your Higher self that is longing to be seen, held, and freed in a society that shames spirit or the concept of faith for being misunderstood.

Carla even gives us a personal reading + channeling from her guides on the episode of DEEP LOVE, heart connection, and past lives, the kind of alignment that "dreams are made of", where she encourages you to step into the LIFE that is whispered to you in thoughts, dreams, and seemingly random encounters!

Yet, nothing in life is random. This episode will show you why....

About Carla:

Carla is a Psychic, Spiritual Teacher and Yoga Teacher. They channel a group of higher dimensional light beings that they call the Blue Team. Their being and body is now committed as an instrument for spirit in alignment with the highest good for all.

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