In this episode, host Misti Dian speaks with Marcella Bakari. Marcella is an expert dietitian, a yoga instructor, and a holistic coach.

They discuss:

• Yoga helps you clear mental blocks that limit you from reaching your full potential.
• Yoga helps you address areas of life where you are really stuck and helps clear those blockages. You can move forward and see yourself grounded.
• With yoga you can easily clear your mind to understand the meaning of your life.
• Marcela discusses how you have to be your true authentic self to be a yoga teacher.
• Meditating helps reduce stress, facilitate peace and improve your overall lifestyle.
• Learning to listen to your body is one of the most important things about your nutrition.
• The quality of your food, not the quantity is what helps with your nutrition.
• Individualize your detoxing and fasting. Detox by, reducing your meat intake and adding fruit, such as berries or green leafy vegetables. Don’t fast to detox.
• Probiotics and replenishing probiotics are very important. It helps replenish intestinal bacteria.
• Juicing is a good way to detox and get probiotics.
• Finding alternative healing modalities are good for your health. Some of these would be essential oils, homeopathy, acupuncture etc.
• Kundalini Yoga is a lot of breathing and movements. It lets your higher self, create a balance of homeostasis within your body on a very spiritual mental and physical level.
• You can reach Marcela at [email protected].

In this episode, host Misti Dian speaks with Suzi Kerr Wright. Suzie is a leadership coach and a spiritual coach. She is an astrologer, psychic medium and a certified holistic life coach with radiant coaches.

They discuss:

• Suzi speaks of her mentorship program that includes a man named Tony Stockwell, who is a medium as well from the UK.
• “All mediums are psychic but not all psychics are mediums.” Suzi stated.
• There are ethical and moral boundaries, and they start with you.
• Suzi as a life coach, spends her time coaching other people who have discovered their gift on how to use it appropriately and help other people.
• To be of service to someone, you need to do the work first. You need to discover yourself on a deeper level.
• The more you teach, the more that you learn, the more that you learn, the more you can teach.
• Being authentic and your true self is what people need. People can sense when you aren’t being authentic and true to who you are.
• If you want to flow with things, you need to use the energy that is guiding you.
• You must put your time and effort into using energy with the planetary configurations that are happening.
• The host Misti Dian pulls a tarot card and receives guidance on reaching a goal she would like to reach. Her tarot card speaks, that there is a different a better path to reach her goal. The card also shows a well-grounded person, whether a business partner or someone else, will be helping her reach this goal. Misti will be, according to the tarot card, challenged and forced to rise above.
• The difference of a true medium ship is a total vibration. It’s energy that is pulling or a spirit guide saying to impart a message. With this medium ship they are being more intentional.
• “You can live everyday as if nothing is a miracle or if everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein.
• Living life as if it’s a miracle, will make you more positive and in return receive more miracles.
• With god on your side there is more miracles, and everything is in divine order.
• When you are depressed, you are living to far in the past. When you are anxious, you are living to far in the future. When you’re in the moment, in the present, that’s when the peace comes.
• So much of our time is wasted on trying to be something other than we are.
• We only get experience from learning lessons from our hardships.

In this episode, host Misti Dian speaks with Amanda North. Amanda is a certified relationship coach through Radiant Coaches Academy.

They Discuss:

• Amanda speaks how her life experience with a divorce brought her to get a major in communication and a minor in psychology.
• Amanda speaks about her journey through divorce and how it brings her to discover Tantra. She was able to learn about intimacy, relationships and her inner self, which she used to get back into dating. That experience brought her to want to help other people do the same.
• Intimacy is the most necessary part of a healthy relationship. Amanda speaks about how without it, it started her experience with divorce.
• In order to heal and understand intimacy, you must get comfortable with all the parts of yourself.
• Yoga can help you realize that there’s a whole world out there, that most don’t access.
• You can live life to the fullest despite fear if you still trust.
• With feminism and masculinity evolving, we can choose what path and kind of relationships we want to have in life.
• Women are evolving into more masculine roles, so they are choosing to have partners instead of needing them.
• A lot of men are now staying home with the kids while women are the breadwinners of the family.
• Roles in society are universal, still having feminism and masculinity but it not having to be defined for one gender.
• “We are now coming to this place where fully evolved women and fully evolved men, are not only aware that they both have to have their own balance of masculine a feminine energy, they are doing the work to make sure that they keep their energy in check” Amanda stated.
• In order to have good intimacy a woman needs to surrender and let a man support her emotionally.
• “It takes two to tango.” It takes both partners to support each other equally to get good intimacy.
• You need to have trust to have intimacy. You need to trust yourself fully and each other.
• Intimacy is a very vulnerable place; you need to trust yourself enough to be transparent.
• In order to have good intimacy, you must have a receiver and a giver so there’s a flow of energy.
• You can build your love and relationships on a blank canvas. “create a life you love, create a love that you love, and a love that loves you back”
• Coaching helps peel back layers of old condition patterns to find out who we are and what we want.
• “Another person’s past doesn’t belong in my present or future.”
• Living in the past traumas and experiences can affect your present and future.
• The power of moving and speaking with your bodies instead of being in your head is what makes for good intimacy.
• Using energy to express and exchange feelings or to talk is what helps most with finding intimacy.

In this episode, host Misti Dian speaks to Corine Sandifer. Corine is a business and life coach in the Nashville area. She helps business owners who are changing careers in transition, to find their next position. Corine also helps business owners spruce up their LinkedIn, she helps with negotiations and if they’re needing coaching and interviews. She also hosts a podcast called Rising Stories that can be found on iTunes, Spotify and YouTube.

They discuss:

• Corine speaks about her motive which is, empowering women.
• Corine speaks about how she is the regional leader of the Cheryl Foundation. This foundation is women who support each other, empower each other and fight gender and unconscious bias.
• Lean in circles are small impromptu meetings held, where businesswomen come to meet and empower each other.
• Powerful businesswomen should be given props. They deserve to get credit where credit is due and where they put their heart and soul into everything they do.
• It takes vulnerability to receive mentoring and being able to expand in your business as a growing businesswoman.
• Life coaching is about a career relationship and health. Those are the two most important things.
• It’s hard for women to pick themselves back up, especially as they get older so coaching them helps bring out greatness and empowers them to transition into a better career.
• The biggest fear a lot of women must transition is, the fear of the unknown. It’s also the fear of being able to live up to todays market. With a boost and empowerment women can see there’s nothing to fear and they can express their greatness and why it would be beneficial to hire them.
• Corine discusses how her professional life and personal life align and how it doesn’t sometimes. Having an impact and empowering women, even indirectly and directly are what aligns the two. She says being a workaholic is when they do not align.
• When you find what you are doing is who you are, then that is a magical sort of balance that happens in life.
• Corine speaks of her personal interests in movies, books and places to travel.
• Corine speaks about caretaking of your soul as a life couch. Its to help people, find a spiritual connection and stability with their highest self. She speaks about her self-practices, meditating and quieting her spirit and soul as a Christian.
• We are all connected by collective consciousness. This happens when you are in constant prayer and conversation. An example of this would be, when someone says they were just thinking about you or when someone says, “it’s funny that you called me.” etc.
• God is there to bear all your burdens that you share during devotion.
• The most important thing is to connect with each other and with god.
• Corine discusses her use of her devotional “Jesus Calling” everyday on her phone. She discusses how she loves to share scriptures with people that she feels are close connection and in circle with her, that it empowers them.
• Misti asks Celeen what her big long-term dream would be. For her personal dream, she would love to open a breakfast place to share her passion. For a professional dream, she would love to continue to build her business and sell it to someone who would continue to empower women in the Nashville area. Corine would love to take her vision and it become greater than her.

In this episode, host Misti Dian speaks with Jessie Trout. Jessie Trout is a professional life coach and works mainly with men. Jessie also does some speaking, as well as some facilitation and mentoring with college students.

They Discuss:

• Jessie brings his substance abuse recovery and life experiences to his coaching to better meet the needs of society at large.
• Men are viewed as having toxic behaviors, which need to be coached to repair and facilitate healing on those behaviors.
• We need to deprogram society on the views of men to help them learn, grow, heal and become more honest about toxic behaviors.
• Be honest with yourself that you make mistakes or that you have toxic behaviors so you can start self-healing.
• Feeling and understanding your emotions can help to better understand why you have these behaviors.
• When listening to someone venting about having these toxic behaviors, you should mirror back what they are saying and show you are truly listening to them.
• Acknowledging you are afraid because you have these toxic behaviors is okay. In order to grow you need to know that its okay to be afraid of how to deal with them.
• People, especially females have a hard time supporting men on these toxic behaviors. Men need someone to love them unconditionally and give them great support no matter what they do.
• There’s a stereotype that men feel they need to follow in order to show they are masculine, but then society makes them contradict themselves. Society tells them “be a man” and then “don’t be such a man”, so in return they end up getting confused and do more toxic behaviors.
• Courage and honesty are key to facing your fears that you have these behaviors and the first step to getting support for them.

In this episode, host Misti Dian speaks with Megan Johnson Rox. Megan is a fellow coach, a teacher and an entrepreneur.

They discuss:

• Megan has been residing in Nashville for almost nine years.
• Megan always wanted to study how people interact and communicate with each other, so she received a master’s degree but decided teaching was her calling.
• A lot of times it’s a common thread for people to get stuck as entrepreneurs. They need guidance to focus on themselves, to have self-care.
• It is very common for people to have an issue having tough conversations.
• Understanding the humanity in other people is very important with communication.
• Sometimes we get caught up with our own feelings a judgement and that hurts our communication.
• Your perception is not always the truth, it’s just your perception. We all are different, come from different places, and have our own biases. When you understand this, you have more compassion.
• The point of communication isn’t so someone will agree with you.
• As a leader, it is sometimes hard to get someone to understand their perceptions.
• Reacting and behaving out of fear does not get you your own way.
• Self-awareness is very important with your communication.
• There are many paths to get to the end, we just must recognize where we are at and deal with learning and discovering things we need to discover.
• Megan speaks about her band that plays synth pop and electro music, a unique sound. She speaks how it is her cathartic outlet.
• Breaking through your mold and letting your light shine through, despite your fear is your greatest achievements.
• Being your authentic self and working on progress not perfection is very important for your communication.
• Public speaking helps you overcome your nervousness and fear so you can become your true self with communication.
• People relate to you more if you are your true self.
• We tend to critique ourselves more then anyone else.
• We need to all help each other reach our full potential and we all need to help lift each other up.