Awaken and Align

Emily, also lovingly referred to as "20 questions" has always loved figuring out people's stories. Born in Florida she moved to Connecticut at the ripe age of 12. As a sexy middle schooler, she became famous for being Frida Khalo's doppelganger, and after being asked what Latin American country she yielded from she decided to study Spanish and Communications (girl needed to communicate!) at a small Liberal Arts school in Ohio. Upon graduating from Denison University, she moved to Buenos Aires to master her Spanish and worked in various industries (ask her about Malbec).   Following her return to New York City, she landed in the Fashion world specializing in Events & Marketing working at Ralph Lauren, Club Monaco, Tory Burch and INTERMIX. In 2017, she took the leap and left her beloved NYC for SF to be with her guy (now husband). When she’s not connecting others or coaching solopreneurs, you can find her exploring new restaurants, drinking bold bottles of wine, taking early morning workout classes, planning her next trip or playing the name game. Follow her adventures at @emilyamerrell.
In This Episode We Talk About:

• How she started Six Degrees Society based on her own experiences planning events and networking.
• How she took Six Degrees Society from side hustle to a full-time career.
• Her tips on how to make a life change. 
• What makes Six Degrees Society, not your average networking event. 

Show Notes:

• Six Degrees Society Website
• Six Degrees Society Instagram
• Emily Merrell Instagram

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Early on, Dorothea was recognized as a quiet yet deeply intuitive artist & healer. Her natural childhood giftings were nurtured in the countryside of Jarna, Sweden, the center of the anthroposophical movement within Scandinavia.

An unexpected meteoric rise in the fashion industry brought Dorothea, not only the bright career opportunities to model for such clients such as Prada, Chanel, Calvin Klein, Valentino, Vogue, W Magazine, and many others; but it also brought her the freedom and abundance to travel the world and deepen her love for truth.

Her lifelong awareness and fascination with Creation and Consciousness led her to explore many healing modalities; including the art of Sound Healing, plant medicine, shamanic work, & adviata/vedanta non-duality self inquiry.

Today, Dorothea holistically embodies and beautifully balances her warrior-spirit approach with an embodied feminine sensitivity, both anchored in her undeniable connection to the subtle realms of Nature & Love. She shares the universal language of Light via sound transmissions, energy work, and presence.

In This Episode We Talk About:

• Why she transitioned from a high fashion modeling career to sound healing.
• Her spiritual awakening and journey.
• On attracting love based on your shadow and why that's not energetically aligned love. 
• Her first steps toward doing shadow work. 
• Working with the 2nd chakra; an important chakra to heal for women.  

Show Notes:

• Dorthea Barth's Website
• Dorothea Barth's Instagram

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Morgan Greenseth is the Founder & Creative Director of Room Service. She has spent over two decades building her expertise across all facets of hospitality including designing guestrooms and public spaces to owning and operating restaurants. She continuously investigates the new luxuries of the world and brings them to life with clever fashion. Morgan is a visionary leader who is revolutionizing hotel life for not only luxury travelers but also global nomads. TheThe magic of Morgan’s work is identifying and creating subtle energetic shifts to bring the space into alignment with growth and dreams. When the energy of a space is shifted and aligned; it creates an invigorated, vibration and endless possibilities.   In This Episode We Talk About:

• Growing up in North Dakota to being a world traveler. 
• How she went from a Feng Shui interior designer to a 5D designer for the new luxury spaces for global nomads. 
• On creating your own rules for your life.
• Abundance lessons on the playa.
• Worrying - The thing that everyone does. 
• Her epiphany about how hotels have been her home away from home. 

Show Notes:

• Cosmic Morgan Website
• Cosmic Morgan Instagram

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Happy January 1st 2020! In this episode, I share with you the lessons I learned from 2019 and what I'm letting go of. Based on what I'm letting go of, the things I'm cultivating for 2020. I also share what I'm currently working through.   Connect with Awaken and Align:

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Fereshteh Forough is the Founder and CEO of Code to Inspire. As a refugee, she learned, great things can start with empty hands! Fereshteh was born in a small town on the border of Iran and Afghanistan. She grew up in a family of eight kids. Fereshteh’s family left Afghanistan in the early 80's because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 

One year after the Taliban regime collapsed, Fereshteh and her family moved back to Herat, Afghanistan. After returning to Herat, she earned her Bachelors in Computer Science and then her Master’s from Technical University of Berlin in Germany. She taught as a professor at the Computer Science faculty of Herat University for almost three years. 

In January 2015, she founded the first coding school for girls in Herat, Afghanistan teaching around 150 girls how to code. Fereshteh often cites her favorite poem by Rumi to describe the resilience and change that is happening in modern-day Afghanistan, “Where there is ruin, there is hope for great treasure.”

 

In This Episode We Talk About:

• Her experience as a refugee.

• The concept of home and how it's beyond our physical location. 

• Demystifying modern day Afghanistan.

• How she started Code to Inspire and why.

• How she is able to change culture in a male-dominated traditionally conservative country.

• How she continues forward even when she gets backlash.

Show Notes:

• Code to Inspire Website

• Code to Inspire Instagram

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Nicky Clinch is a transformational coach, spiritual mentor, speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of the Warrior Woman movement. It is her purpose in life to empower women to become their most authentic and aligned selves, knowing that everything they need is already within them. 

Over the last two decades, Nicky has been walking the warrior path herself, from the depths of addiction to becoming a pioneer in the transformation work she teaches today.

Nicky is a certified integrative macrobiotic counselor, energy palm healer, and transformational coach. She completed her transformational training at The Concord Institute of Integral Studies.  Nicky also spent several months as an apprentice to a Shaman of Plant Medicine in the Peruvian Rainforest. 

Nicky has spent over 10 years expanding her business in London and beyond and now works with thousands of women all over the world. From powerful transformational mentorship, women in leadership training, life-changing transformational retreats and her Warrior Woman curriculum 3 level training, Nicky offers many opportunities for women to heal their pasts, redefine the stories and beliefs that define them and their lives and create the life they were born to live with freedom, power and in alignment. 

 

 

 

In This Episode We Talk About:

• The one thing that saved her life when she hit rock bottom.
• How she had the most spiritual experience living in NYC. 
• How to start the process of transformation; coming back home to ourselves. 
• Her thoughts on entrepreneurship and how working harder is an illusion. 
• How she kept going despite rejection and people not showing up to her events at the beginning of her business. 

Show Notes:

• Nicky's Instagram
• Nicky Clinch Website

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Hello my beautiful friends! As a thank you to this community, this week, I’m offering a guided meditation of your ideal day in your dream life. This meditation is inspired by Martha Beck’s Find Your Calling. Visualization is a powerful tool to create the emotions you need to experience your dream life now. Just follow my words and allow the vision to come through. Don’t question it, it’s our subconscious mind at work. When we’re done, you can jot down the details of your journey in your journal.

 

Before we begin, make sure you are not driving. If you are walking or multi-tasking, hit pause and come back to this meditation. Please give yourself the gift of time; time for yourself. Think of this as your ultimate expression of self-care.  

 

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Erin Claire Jones is a leadership coach specializing in Human Design. She has been featured in Forbes, Nylon, Well+Good, Mind Body Green and more.

She helps individuals and teams step into their highest potential by offering them the self-knowledge and tools to perform at the top of their personal and professional games. She has consulted for startups all over the world, built companies supporting executives, partnerships and small teams to operate more harmoniously and effectively, and conducted research on leadership challenges at 90+ early-stage companies.

In This Episode We Talk About:

• What is Human Design?
• What are the different types in Human Design?
• How can Human Design help you in your life?
• How did Erin know that this business would be viable?

Show Notes:

• Erin's Instagram
• Look up your design
• Get your Blueprint here

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Lisa Levine MS LAc is a licensed acupuncturist, reiki master, a natural healer and an artist as well as the founder of Maha Rose. The tools she uses are needles and moxa, touch, shiatsu, reiki, guided visualization, the breath, laughter, and on very full moons- a song. She wants you to remember who you really are; letting go of everything that isn't serving you and connecting with your more radiant self.  She specializes in mental and emotional disorders as well as trauma and major life changes. She is available for acupuncture, reiki, body and breathwork, spiritual business consulting and group breathwork and laughter sessions.

In This Episode We Talk About:

• How Lisa knew what she was meant to do. 

• What does being rich really mean?

• How she runs a spiritual business while being in the present moment. 

• How she started Maha Rose. 

Show Notes:

• Maha Rose Website

• Maha Rose Instagram

• Retreats in Mexico this Winter

• Lisa's upcoming classes: Here, Here, and Here

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Megan Bruneau is a registered clinical counselor with over 12+ years of experience. She provides crisis support, therapy, and coaching. Deepak Chopra quoted her as the "Millennials' therapist." Megan's relatable approach to therapy and coaching has landed her on The T.D. Jakes Show, Good Morning America and New York 1 Morning News. She is very open about her own journey with mental health, eating disorder history, frequent heartaches and uncertain entrepreneurial life in New York City. Her very vulnerable and humorous writing-style has inspired dozens of viral articles – making her a Huffington Post – homepage regular, MindBodyGreen, and Forbes favorite.   In This Episode We Talk About:

• Why positive thinking can be harmful to one's mental health journey.
• Our unplanned therapy sesh where I get super vulnerable and emotional to Megan about my own experience growing up.
• What is spiritual bypassing?
• Giving yourself permission to feel all the emotions like guilt and shame and why that's important. 

Show Notes:

• Megan Bruneau Website
• Megan Bruneau Instagram

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