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What if creating a more loving, connected life begins with something as simple as being friendly? In this episode of Connect 2 Love, Lisa LeRose and Michael J. Russ welcome Carol Collins and the Teachers for a thought-provoking conversation that challenges how we understand love. Discover how a simple shift in perspective—from defining love to recognizing friendliness—can transform the way we treat ourselves, connect with others, and experience everyday life.
🔹 EPISODE SUMMARY
During this channeled conversation, the Teachers offer an unexpected perspective: the word love has become distorted through the many ways we use it, while friendly and unfriendly provide a more accessible way to recognize how we’re expressing ourselves.
Lisa, Michael, Carol, and the Teachers explore why friendliness begins with the way we treat ourselves, how our intentions influence our interactions, and why meaningful connection doesn’t always require grand gestures.
From the importance of inner guidance to the simple act of introducing ourselves to a neighbor, this conversation invites us to reconsider what it means to live lovingly.
Because perhaps love isn’t always something we need to define. Sometimes we can begin by choosing to be a little more friendly—to ourselves, to others, and to life.
🔹 WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
💛 A HEART-CENTERED REFLECTION
Are you friendly to yourself in the way you speak, the way you respond to mistakes, and the way you honor your needs? And what might change if you brought that same friendliness into your relationships with others?
Perhaps love doesn’t always begin with a grand gesture. Maybe it begins with a smile, a kind word, a sincere hello, or simply allowing ourselves to be who we are without judgment.
What if we stopped searching for the perfect definition of love and started noticing the opportunities to express it?
Because perhaps one of the simplest ways to bring more love into the world is to become a little more friendly with ourselves—and with one another.
Connect 2 Love is a space for remembering who you are, reconnecting with your heart, and choosing love—one thought, one moment, one connection at a time.
🎧 LISTEN & CONNECT
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🌎 If this conversation resonates with you, share it with someone who could use a little more kindness and connection in their day.
💬 What’s one way you can be more friendly to yourself—or someone else—today?
✨ ABOUT OUR GUEST
Through Carol, The Teachers—a collective of nonphysical beings—share teachings centered around conscious reality, love, unity, inner knowing, healing, and intentional creation.
Carol now works internationally with individuals and businesses and offers workshops, courses, special events, private readings, and other opportunities to explore The Teachers’ work.
To learn more about Carol Collins and The Teacher please visit www.channelingtheteachers.com
💛 ABOUT YOUR HOSTS
Michael J. Russ is an international best-selling author, keynote speaker, podcast host, and author of Zero Adversity.
✨ TOPICS EXPLORED
What if the most important relationship you’ll ever have is the one you have with yourself? In this episode of Connect 2 Love, Lisa LeRose and Michael J. Russ explore the transformative power of self-love and how the love we cultivate within ourselves can deepen our connections with others. Continuing their exploration of Leo Buscaglia’s teachings, they reflect on the importance of appreciating our uniqueness, embracing who we truly are, and discovering how loving ourselves can enrich every relationship in our lives.
🔹 EPISODE SUMMARY
Building on their conversation about Loving Your Way to Love, Lisa and Michael explore why loving ourselves is an essential part of creating meaningful connections with others. Through personal stories and reflections, they discuss the importance of maintaining our individuality within relationships, embracing our unique gifts, and releasing the need to become who others expect us to be.
From everyday acts of self-kindness to Michael’s inspiring 21-day Rediscovery Challenge, this conversation invites us to rediscover the joy of being ourselves.
Because perhaps loving ourselves isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about coming home to who we’ve always been.
🔹 WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
💛 A HEART-CENTERED REFLECTION
Are you as generous with your own heart as you are with the hearts of others? Do you offer yourself the same patience, kindness, and understanding you so freely extend to the people you love?
What if loving yourself isn’t selfish? What if it’s simply recognizing that you deserve to be included in the love you give?
Maybe self-love isn’t about becoming perfect or changing who we are to feel worthy. Maybe it’s about honoring our uniqueness, appreciating our gifts, and making small choices each day that reflect our own value.
Because perhaps the journey back to love doesn’t begin by searching outside ourselves. Maybe it begins by loving our way back to ourselves.
Here is a link to to one of Leo Buscaglia's lectures entitled Speaking of Love, where he explores the idea of love in its many meanings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7WsfAFmE8g&t=870s
Connect 2 Love is a space for remembering who you are, reconnecting with your heart, and choosing love—one thought, one moment, one connection at a time.
🎧 LISTEN & CONNECT
🎧 Listen to Connect 2 Love on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you enjoy podcasts.
💛 Subscribe for inspiring conversations exploring self-love, self-worth, emotional healing, inner peace, authenticity, conscious relationships, and human connection.
📱 Join us on Instagram & TikTok: @Connect2LoveEnergy
🌎 If this episode resonates with you, share it with someone who could use a reminder that loving themselves is just as important as loving others.
💬 What’s one small way you can show yourself more love today?
Lisa LeRose is an internationally respected natural health advocate, wellness educator, speaker, experiential journalist, eternal optimist, and founder of One Wisdom.
Michael J. Russ is an international best-selling author, keynote speaker, podcast host, and author of Zero Adversity.
✨ TOPICS EXPLORED
What if love isn’t something we find—but something we become through loving? In this episode of Connect 2 Love, Lisa LeRose and Michael J. Russ explore the transformative power of love, self-acceptance, and authentic connection, inspired by Leo Buscaglia’s beautiful reminder: “We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.”
This profound shift in perspective can transform how we experience love, deepen our relationships, and even change the way we see ourselves.
🔹 EPISODE SUMMARY
Drawing inspiration from Leo Buscaglia’s teachings, Lisa and Michael explore how love is not a transaction but an expression of who we truly are. They reflect on how societal conditioning, fear of rejection, and the desire for approval can lead us to compromise our authenticity in the hope of being loved.
Through personal reflections and meaningful conversation, they explore why self-love, vulnerability, and courage are essential to creating deeper connections. Rather than changing ourselves to meet someone else’s expectations, what if we learned to embrace our uniqueness and express love without needing something in return?
Because perhaps love isn’t something we have to chase. It’s something we cultivate through kindness, compassion, and the simple act of loving.
🔹 WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
💛 A HEART-CENTERED REFLECTION
What might that mean for your relationships and the way you see yourself? Are you allowing yourself to express love freely, or are you holding back because of fear or past experiences?
What if love isn’t something we have to earn, chase, or prove ourselves worthy of receiving? What if we could stop trying to become who others expect us to be and simply allow ourselves to love—and be loved—as we truly are?
Maybe love isn’t about finding someone who completes us. Maybe it’s about recognizing the love already within us and allowing it to find expression through our words, our choices, and our connections.
Because perhaps we don’t find our way to love by searching for it. We love our way to love. 💛
Connect 2 Love is a space for remembering who you are, reconnecting with your heart, and choosing love—one thought, one moment, one connection at a time.
🎧 Listen to Connect 2 Love on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you enjoy podcasts.
🌎 If this episode resonates with you, share it with someone who could use a reminder that love isn’t something we have to earn—it’s something we can express.
Lisa LeRose is an internationally respected natural health advocate, wellness educator, speaker, experiential journalist, eternal optimist, and founder of One Wisdom.
Michael J. Russ is an international best-selling author, keynote speaker, podcast host, and author of Zero Adversity.
✨ TOPICS EXPLORED
If someone could hear the way you speak to yourself all day, would they hear love—or criticism, fear, and doubt? In this episode of Connect 2 Love, Lisa LeRose and Michael J. Russ explore what our inner dialogue can reveal about our deepest beliefs—and how asking one simple question, “What would love say?”, can begin to transform the relationship we have with ourselves and the world around us.
🔹 EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode, Lisa and Michael explore how our self-talk can reveal the beliefs we carry about ourselves and how becoming aware of those inner conversations can create an opportunity for meaningful change.
Inspired by a thought-provoking conversation from Darius Wright, they explore the relationship between our beliefs, self-worth, and the way we experience our lives. Rather than simply trying to “think positively,” Lisa and Michael invite us to consider something deeper: What would it mean to think lovingly?
Through self-awareness and self-compassion, we can begin questioning the thoughts that no longer serve us and choose a different response. One simple question can become a powerful compass: “What would love say?”
Because sometimes love says rest. Sometimes it says try again. Sometimes it says forgive yourself, speak up, let go, or simply you are enough.
Perhaps transforming our lives doesn’t always begin with changing what’s happening around us. Sometimes it begins by changing the voice within us.
🔹 WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
💛 A HEART-CENTERED REFLECTION
We don’t have to fight every negative thought.
And perhaps, one thought at a time, the voice within us begins to sound a little more like the love we’ve always deserved to receive.
Because maybe love isn’t merely something we’re searching for outside ourselves.
And when we change that relationship, we may begin meeting the rest of our lives differently too.
Connect 2 Love is a space for remembering who you are, reconnecting with your heart, and choosing love—one thought, one moment, one connection at a time.
🎧 LINKS + CALL TO ACTION
🌎 If this episode speaks to you, share it with someone who could use a little more love in the way they speak to themselves today.
💬 The next time your inner critic speaks, ask yourself: “What would love say instead?”
Lisa LeRose is an internationally respected natural health advocate, wellness educator, speaker, experiential journalist, eternal optimist, and founder of One Wisdom.
Michael J. Russ is an international best-selling author, keynote speaker, podcast host, and author of Zero Adversity.
✨ TOPICS EXPLORED
What if the story you’ve been telling yourself about who you are isn’t the truth—but simply a story you’ve learned to believe? In this episode of Connect 2 Love, Lisa LeRose and Michael J. Russ welcome Angela Orr, the Holistic Pharmacist and Integrative Transformation Mentor, for an inspiring conversation about self-love, identity, nervous-system regulation, and our capacity to create meaningful change from the inside out.
🔹 EPISODE SUMMARY
I’m not enough.
But what if those old stories don’t have to determine who you become?
Angela Orr joins Lisa and Michael to share her deeply personal journey of healing, self-discovery, and transformation. After facing breast cancer and other significant life challenges, Angela began reevaluating not only how she was living, but how she was relating to herself.
Her search eventually led her to explore meditation, neuroplasticity, nervous-system regulation, HeartMath practices, EFT/TFT, and the relationship between our thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and identity.
But underneath the tools and techniques lies something even more powerful: learning to become someone you love.
Together, Lisa, Michael, and Angela explore how limiting beliefs and negative inner dialogue can quietly shape our self-image—and how awareness gives us an opportunity to begin choosing differently.
Angela shares why transformation isn’t simply about positive thinking. It can involve learning to recognize old patterns, regulate our responses, practice greater self-compassion, and take small intentional actions that provide new evidence of who we’re becoming.
Because perhaps transformation isn’t about rejecting the person you’ve been. It’s about loving yourself enough to choose what comes next.
🔹 WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
💛 A HEART-CENTERED REFLECTION
Maybe somewhere along the way you learned to believe:
But awareness gives us something extraordinary: choice. You can notice the old thought without automatically accepting it as truth. You can meet yourself with compassion instead of criticism. You can choose another response. Another thought. Another action. Another way of speaking to yourself. And little by little, those choices can become evidence of something new. Maybe transformation doesn't require you to reject who you’ve been.
And perhaps the question isn’t simply: “Who have I been?” Perhaps the more powerful question is: “Who am I choosing to become?”
Connect 2 Love is a space for remembering who you are, reconnecting with your heart, and choosing love—one thought, one moment, one connection at a time.
💛 ABOUT ANGELA ORR
A former independent pharmacy owner and lifelong entrepreneur, Angela is also a Certified HeartMath Practitioner, EFT/TFT practitioner, speaker, retreat facilitator, and contributing author. Her own healing journey following breast cancer led her to expand beyond traditional healthcare and dedicate her work to helping others transform how they think, feel, and live.
To learn about Angela’s mentorship to those searching for a way to reach their goals offering private sessions, group programs, women’s retreats, book clubs and courses please visit https://angelaorrconsulting.com
🎧 Listen to Connect 2 Love on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you enjoy podcasts.
🌎 If this episode resonates with you, share it with someone who may need a reminder to slow down, reconnect, and come back to themselves.
💬 What story are you ready to rewrite in your life?
Lisa LeRose is an internationally respected natural health advocate, wellness educator, speaker, experiential journalist, eternal optimist, and founder of One Wisdom.
Michael J. Russ is an international best-selling author, keynote speaker, podcast host, and author of Zero Adversity.
✨ TOPICS EXPLORED
What if grounding isn’t simply about calming yourself—but becoming quiet enough to hear who you really are beneath all the noise? In this episode of Connect 2 Love, Lisa LeRose and Michael J. Russ explore how grounding can help us return to the present moment, reconnect with our inner wisdom, and create a life rooted in love, clarity, and authenticity.
🔹 EPISODE SUMMARY
We become so focused on what’s happening around us that we stop listening to what’s happening within us.
Lisa and Michael explore grounding as something deeper than simply becoming calm. Grounding can be an invitation to come back to yourself—to become present enough to hear your own inner wisdom and remember what truly matters.
Together, they reflect on the ways we can become consumed by external circumstances and give our energy to things beyond our control. By redirecting attention inward and becoming conscious of where our energy is going, we create greater space for clarity, self-trust, and inner peace.
The conversation also explores simple ways to become more grounded through nature, mindfulness, meditation, sensory awareness, and intentionally returning attention to the present moment.
But grounding isn’t only about becoming still. It’s also about embodiment.
What happens when the inspiration, dreams, and inner guidance we receive are brought into our everyday lives through our choices and actions?
Like a tree reaching toward the sky while remaining deeply rooted in the Earth, perhaps we don’t have to choose between expansion and grounding. The deeper the roots, the greater our capacity to rise.
Grounding becomes the bridge between what we know within ourselves and how we choose to live.
🔹 WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
Connect 2 Love is a space for remembering who you are, reconnecting with your heart, and choosing love—one thought, one moment, one connection at a time.
🌎 If this episode resonates with you, share it with someone who may need a reminder to slow down, reconnect, and come back to themselves.
💬 What helps you feel grounded and most connected to yourself?
💛 A HEART-CENTERED REFLECTION
When life gets loud, we can become so occupied with everything outside ourselves that we lose touch with the quiet voice within.
Grounding gives us an opportunity to return. To our breath. To our bodies. To the Earth beneath us. To this moment. To ourselves. And in that stillness, we may begin to hear what the noise was covering up all along. This matters to me. This doesn’t. This feels true. This needs to change. This is where I want to go. This is who I am.
And then grounding invites us to do something beautiful:
Because perhaps grounding isn’t the opposite of expansion. A tree doesn’t choose between its roots and the sky. It needs both. Maybe we do too. And perhaps coming back to ourselves doesn’t require finding something that was lost. It simply requires becoming quiet enough to remember what was there all along.
Lisa LeRose is an internationally respected natural health advocate, wellness educator, speaker, experiential journalist, eternal optimist, and founder of One Wisdom.
Michael J. Russ is an international best-selling author, keynote speaker, podcast host, and author of Zero Adversity.
What if the joy you’ve been waiting for isn’t somewhere in the future—but already here, hidden inside the moment you’re living right now? In this episode of Connect 2 Love, Lisa LeRose and Michael J. Russ explore the power of being present and why learning to fully participate in your own life can deepen joy, inner peace, gratitude, and connection.
EPISODE SUMMARY
Inspired by an insight from Bashar that every moment matters, Lisa and Michael explore what happens when we stop treating life like a series of tasks to complete and begin experiencing it as a collection of moments to actually live.
Together, they reflect on how easily we can rush through our days, overlook ordinary beauty, and postpone joy while focusing on where we think we should be going next.
But what if fulfillment isn’t waiting at the destination? What if it is available in the meal you’re eating, the conversation you’re having, the dog walking beside you, the sunlight coming through the window, or the single breath you’re taking right now?
This conversation is an invitation to become an active participant in your own life—to notice more, appreciate more, and recognize that presence itself can become an act of love.
Because your life is not simply happening in the milestones. Your life is happening now.
WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
💛 A HEART-CENTERED REFLECTION
Waiting for Friday.
Maybe the invitation isn’t to stop dreaming about tomorrow.
Because the ordinary moments we rush past may someday become the moments we wish we could experience one more time.
Perhaps presence is one of the greatest ways we can say yes to our own lives.
And maybe being fully present is also an act of remembering our connection to love.
Connect 2 Love is a space for remembering who you are, reconnecting with your heart, and choosing love—one thought, one moment, one connection at a time.
LINKS + CALL TO ACTION
🎧 Listen to Connect 2 Love on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms.
💛 Subscribe for conversations exploring love, inner peace, emotional healing, self-worth, conscious living, and authentic human connection.
📱 Join us on Instagram and TikTok: @Connect2LoveEnergy
🌎 If this episode resonates with you, share it with someone who may need a reminder that life isn’t only found in the big moments.
💬 And tell us in the comments: What helps you come back to the present moment?
Lisa LeRose is an internationally respected natural health advocate, wellness educator, speaker, experiential journalist, eternal optimist, and founder of One Wisdom.
Michael J. Russ is an international best-selling author, keynote speaker, podcast host, and author of Zero Adversity.
✨ TOPICS EXPLORED
What if finding your true self isn’t about becoming someone new—but letting go of everything you were taught you needed to be? Beneath the people-pleasing, expectations, roles, and identities you’ve outgrown, something extraordinary is waiting to be remembered: you.
🔹 EPISODE SUMMARY
The conversation begins with a powerful question posed by astrologer Bryan Coulter:
“Who are you when the lights go out?”
Who are you when no one is watching—when there is no one to please, impress, accommodate, or live up to?
And perhaps an even deeper question:
Who were you before the world told you who you needed to be?
Lisa and Michael explore how easily we can build identities around what we believe our lives should look like. We become the caretaker, the achiever, the peacekeeper, the people pleaser—and somewhere along the way, we can lose touch with our own inner voice.
But awakening isn’t necessarily about becoming someone better.
Perhaps it’s about remembering who you’ve always been.
Like a sculptor revealing the masterpiece already hidden within the marble, self-discovery can be a process of gently releasing what no longer fits—while honoring the experiences that helped bring us to where we are today.
Beneath those layers are the unseen treasures that make you uniquely you: your creativity, joy, wisdom, gifts, inner radiance, and capacity to love.
The light was always there.
🔹 WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
💛 A HEART-CENTERED REFLECTION
Maybe your authentic self has never been missing.
Perhaps beneath the expectations, conditioning, and identities you’ve accumulated is a radiant part of you simply waiting to be expressed.
Perhaps letting go isn’t about losing yourself. Perhaps it’s how you finally come home to yourself.
And when you come home to yourself, you come home to love.
💛 ABOUT CONNECT 2 LOVE
🎧 Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you enjoy podcasts.
💛 Subscribe for conversations exploring love, authenticity, conscious living, emotional healing, inner peace, and the human spirit.
📱 Instagram & TikTok: @Connect2LoveEnergy
🌎 If this episode speaks to you, share it with someone who may need a reminder of their own inner light.
💬 What part of your true self are you ready to uncover—or finally allow the world to see?
Lisa LeRose is an internationally respected natural health advocate, wellness educator, speaker, experiential journalist, eternal optimist, and founder of One Wisdom.
Michael J. Russ is an international best-selling author, keynote speaker, podcast host, and author of Zero Adversity.
✨ A THOUGHT TO CARRY WITH YOU
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Perhaps becoming who you truly are isn’t really about becoming at all.
Remembering the person beneath the expectations.
✨ TOPICS EXPLORED
What do you do when you’re unsatisfied with life—but you don’t know what needs to change or how to change it? What if that feeling isn’t telling you something is wrong, but inviting you to become quiet enough to discover what truly matters? In this episode of Connect 2 Love, Lisa LeRose and Michael J. Russ explore how dissatisfaction can become a doorway to clarity, inner peace, and greater joy.
🔹 EPISODE SUMMARY
In this heartfelt episode of Connect 2 Love, Lisa and Michael begin with a powerful question Michael posed:
Rather than treating dissatisfaction as evidence that something is broken, they explore another possibility: What if dissatisfaction is information?
Sometimes the feeling that life is “off” may be an invitation to pause, turn down the external noise, and become curious about what your inner world is trying to communicate.They share their thoughts on how to approach these moments as an invitation rather than a problem—creating enough stillness to listen for what feels meaningful, alive, and true. They explore how focusing repeatedly on what isn’t working can intensify dissatisfaction, while consciously noticing what brings joy, gratitude, meaning, and satisfaction can begin to shift our perspective. Together, they examine the role of contrast: sometimes discovering what we don’t want helps us recognize more clearly what we do want.
And that changes the question from: “What’s wrong with my life?” to: “What is my life helping me discover?”
The conversation explores mindfulness, self-awareness, gratitude, language, positive focus, and the importance of creating quiet spaces where clarity can emerge.
Because we don’t always need to immediately change our entire lives. Sometimes the first change is simply becoming still enough to hear ourselves again.
This episode is for anyone who feels stuck, restless, overwhelmed, disconnected, or uncertain about their next chapter—and is ready to move from dissatisfaction toward clarity, from external noise toward inner peace, and from simply going through life toward becoming an active participant in it.
🔹 WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
Maybe you don’t need to have everything figured out today.
And perhaps one day you’ll realize that inner peace wasn’t something waiting for you at the end of the journey.
Connect 2 Love is a space for remembering who you are, reconnecting with your heart, and choosing love—one thought, one moment, one connection at a time.
May this episode remind you that your journey towards clarity and joy is a personal one, filled with opportunities for growth and self-discovery. Remember, you have the power to create the storm that will change your life.
“Dissatisfaction isn’t failure. It’s feedback.”—Unknown
🎧 Listen to Connect 2 Love on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms.
💛 Subscribe for weekly conversations exploring emotional healing, self-worth, inner peace, conscious living, and authentic human connection.
📱 Join the conversation on Instagram and TikTok: @Connect2LoveEnergy
🌎 If you know someone who feels stuck or uncertain about their next chapter, share this episode with them. Sometimes the reminder that we don’t have to know the entire path can make all the difference.
✨ We’d love to hear from you:
When life feels “off,” what helps you find your way back to yourself?
Lisa LeRose is an internationally respected natural health advocate, wellness educator, speaker, and eternal optimist and is the founder of One Wisdom, a healing arts collective focused on creating life-changing transformations.
Michael J. Russ is a keynote speaker, the author of Zero Adversity, and the founder of Life Moves Podcast. Learn more about Michael J. Russ at LifeMovesPodcast.com.
Topics explored on Connect 2 Love:
What if becoming who you truly are isn’t about creating a new version of yourself—but remembering the person underneath everything the world taught you to be? In this episode of Connect 2 Love, Lisa and Michael explore authenticity, self-worth and self-expression—and why allowing yourself to be fully you may be one of the greatest gifts you can offer the world.
🔹 EPISODE SUMMARY
Inspired by astrologer Bryan Coulter’s thought-provoking question, “What is the thing that only I can say?”, Lisa and Michael invite you to consider something deeper:
What exists within you that only you can bring to the world?
Your authentic expression doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s. It might emerge through words, music, creativity, kindness, relationships, service, nature—or simply through the unique energy you bring into a room.
Using music as a metaphor, Lisa and Michael explore the idea that each of us carries a unique note within the larger symphony of life. When we silence that note because we’re afraid of judgment, comparison or not fitting in, something is missing. But when we allow ourselves to live authentically, our individual expression contributes to something much greater than ourselves.
The conversation also explores how external influences and societal conditioning can gradually disconnect us from our own inner knowing. We become so accustomed to asking Who should I be? that we forget to ask:
Who am I when I’m simply being me?
Through personal stories and reflections on music, creativity, nature and everyday moments of joy, Lisa and Michael remind us that authenticity doesn’t require becoming extraordinary. Sometimes it begins by noticing what makes you feel most alive. And perhaps your unique expression isn’t something you need to find at all. Perhaps it’s something you need to stop hiding.
This conversation is for anyone who has struggled with self-worth, comparison or external expectations and is ready to reconnect with their inner guidance, embrace their individuality and experience the freedom of being fully themselves.
🔹 WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER
Your life doesn’t need to sound like anyone else’s.You have your own note to play. And when you stop asking the world for permission to play it, something beautiful happens: you begin to remember that being yourself was never something you had to earn. Perhaps that’s where freedom begins.Not in becoming someone new. But in remembering who you have always been.
Connect 2 Love is a space for remembering who you are, reconnecting with your heart, and choosing love—one thought, one moment, one connection at a time.
“What is the only thing that I can say?” — Bryan Coulter, Astrologer
🎧 Listen to Connect 2 Love on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms.
📱 Join the conversation on Instagram: @Connect2LoveEnergy
Lisa LeRose is an internationally respected natural health advocate, wellness educator, speaker, and eternal optimist and is the founder of One Wisdom, a healing arts collective focused on creating life-changing transformations.
Michael J. Russ is a keynote speaker, the author of Zero Adversity, and the founder of Life Moves Podcast. Learn more about Michael J. Russ at LifeMovesPodcast.com.
Topics explored on Connect 2 Love:
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What if a more meaningful life isn’t about becoming someone new—but becoming more present to the love, wisdom, joy, and connection already within you and around you?
Connect 2 Love is an uplifting podcast about love, conscious living, inner peace, emotional healing, self-love, personal growth, and authentic human connection.
Hosted by Lisa LeRose and Michael J. Russ, each episode explores what it means to live with greater awareness, presence, curiosity, joy, and connection. Through inspiring conversations, thought-provoking questions, personal reflections, and wisdom from fascinating guests and thought leaders, we explore new perspectives on relationships, consciousness, emotional well-being, self-worth, gratitude, trust, synchronicity, inner guidance, and the extraordinary possibilities within everyday life.
Connect 2 Love isn’t about fixing who you are. It’s an invitation to remember who you are.
Together, we explore questions like: What becomes possible when you choose love over fear? How does changing your perspective change your experience? What happens when you quiet the external noise and listen within? How can curiosity, gratitude, generosity, presence, and meaningful connection transform the way you experience your life?
Whether you’re exploring personal growth, seeking greater inner peace, deepening your relationships, or simply curious about living a more conscious and connected life, Connect 2 Love offers uplifting conversations to help you see yourself, others, and the world from new perspectives.
Because life isn’t simply something to get through. It’s something to experience.
🎙️ Follow Connect 2 Love and join us in living life with more love, peace, joy, and connection—one thought, one moment, one connection at a time.