Grief is a profoundly painful and difficult experience everyone must go through; but how do we transform that feeling into something that can help us grow wiser and more resilient? In this episode, we explore good grief with Holly McIlwain and Amy Hooper Hanna, the co-authors of For She Who Grieves: Practical Wisdom for Living Hope. We dive deep into their book, which explores the effects of grief and the transformative power it holds. Holly and Amy share their personal experiences and how they found resilience in the face of grief. They discuss the inspiration behind writing the book and the process of collecting stories from various individuals who have navigated grief in their own unique ways. Throughout the conversation, Holly and Amy highlight the importance of embracing grief, feeling the emotions associated with it, and finding hope and healing through action. Join us as we explore the depths of grief and discover the wisdom and hope that lies within its embrace.

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Within the Palace of Light, discover the sacred journey of ascension, where the threads of human evolution interweave with cosmic forces. Today, we have a truly remarkable guest joining us: Lisa McCardle. In addition to being a bestselling author worldwide, Lisa is an award-winning speaker, quantum healer, transformational life coach, and spiritual teacher, and also channels guidance from a source of light. In this episode, Lisa dives into her latest masterpiece, Palace of Light. This incredible book serves as an inspirational yet practical guide, leading readers on a transformative journey of ascension. Lisa divulges her creative process behind the book, its five main pillars of light, and her ambition to bestow enlightenment that can guide one's journey toward elevated awareness and spiritual development. Prepare to be captivated by Lisa's enchanting storytelling and the profound impact of her book. Tune in now!

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All of us aspire to manage our financial future, and that means defining our wealth goals. When we become clear on our wealth goals and create a specific plan to achieve them, our likelihood of succeeding will increase. Today, wealth management advisor and entrepreneur Jennifer Wines joins us to talk about her new book, Invisible Wealth: 5 Principles for Redefining Personal Wealth in the New Paradigm, where she takes us on an insightful exploration into reimagining and redefining wealth. Tune in and learn how to use the personal wealth algorithm to identify your values and wealth goals, optimize your most valuable asset, which is your time, and how technology can support your wealth and wellbeing. It’s time to reimagine and redefine what wealth means to you, so don’t miss this episode!

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Is it possible to encode empathy into artificial intelligence? How can we tap that lever of productivity? Minter Dial, the author of Heartificial Empathy, discusses the untapped lever of productivity in business. He suggests practicing being empathetic to yourself before you can encode empathy effectively. One of the key takeaways of this conversation is the awareness of difficulties and limitations to emphasize daily. Dive into this episode and learn more from this special guest.

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When life decides to crash one tragic and heartbreaking event after another on you, it can be so difficult to find light and hope through it all. Life is not okay, and you can crumble under the weight of it all. However, even with these moments, life must continue. And this episode’s guest has written a book that can help you rise up and have hope again. Cyndie Spiegel, the author and Founder of Dear Grown Ass Women, has a new book that details how she found the bits of beauty or humor or unexpected light amidst the darkness. Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay was born in 2020, an awful year for most and that was especially awful for Cyndie. She lost her mother to cancer. Her nephew was murdered. She was diagnosed with breast cancer. With all the loss and grief, she found it nearly impossible to surface except in small moments that she began to call "microjoys." Together with Alicia Dunams, she details her incredible and inspirational journey of getting back up and later on writing the book. Join this great conversation and learn from Cyndie how you can hone the ability to access joy despite it all.

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Desange Kuenihira's life has been all about learning how to dance in the chaos. No matter how many hardships she faced, she remained an undefeated woman. Desange lived in Uganda for twelve years as a refugee before moving to the U.S. to become an American citizen. She then founded Speak Undefeated, a non-profit organization that provides education for underprivileged youth and women.

Join Alicia Dunams as she talks to Desange about her book "unDEfeated Woman." Discover why she decided to write such a powerful book and how it can inspire you to move forward no matter the odds. Have faith, keep hope, and be undefeated.

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What does it really take to achieve financial freedom? In this episode, Alicia Dunams is joined by special guest Jacent Wamala, who tells her money journey and shares gold nuggets from her book, the Financial Freedom Formula. She explains why wealth building requires not only strong income revenue but also a resilient self who can properly handle negative emotion and self-doubt. Jacent also discusses what it takes to defeat imposter syndrome to unleash your confident and financially savvy self. Join us in learning how Jacent achieved financial freedom and how you can do it too!

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Social media is an incredible technology that carries a lot of benefits to mankind. But it also has this dark side where we beings are given the power of anonymity and impunity – this ability to say things to others that we don’t have to be accountable for. Is civility a dying ideal in these crazy times? Civility Rules! couldn’t have been published in a better time. There is probably no milieu in which the book’s message of resonates more with what’s happening in the world than right now. Its author, Shelby Scarbrough started going through the rabbit hole of civility after years of accumulated experience in public service and the private sector. Her unique take on the topic is something that rings very true in our time and age. Tune in as she gives us snippets of what’s there to learn about civility in this episode of Authoring Life with Alicia Dunams.

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The new world of work is upon us because of the pandemic. Things are moving quicker and uncertainty is everywhere. People have to start being more empathetic towards each other in the workplace. When you have a meeting, make sure you are empathetic to those who are attending and who isn’t. If you’re selling, you need to be more empathetic towards your customer. Really get to know and understand their problem. Empathy is something that needs to come front and center in this new world of work. Join Alicia Dunams as she talks to work futurist and author of the book, Empathy Works, Sophie Wade. Learn what empathy means and why it’s so important right now. Listen in for some tips on how you can cultivate an empathetic work culture.

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Are you struggling to hear your voice? If you knew how powerful you are, what would you create? In this episode, Mary Jo Lorei, author of Practical Inspirations: Where the Bumper Sticker Meets the Road, leads you to your access points to listen, learn, and act on your wisdom. She suggests that we should bring joy in this game of life no matter if we get bogged down. All we need is to bring in some effort. This episode allows you to tap into your operating system to gain insight and clarity for maximizing your efforts into results. Don’t miss this opportunity and let your mind open, your heart lead, and your most excellent possibility live by tuning in to this episode of Authoring Life with Mary Jo Lorei!

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