ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner

WHAT IF ...
there was A WAY
to walk with intent
and radiate inner joy
every day, not based on
circumstances, but from within?

As Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Derek Lin,
author of "THE TAO OF HAPPINESS: Stories
from Chuang Tzu for Your Spiritual Journey,"
explains - from the Taoist sense, real happiness
is a “process” and a lifelong journey
that doesn't rely on external factors.

The key to true happiness is within us,
Lin says, paraphrasing Tzu's philosophy.
Lin continued: "We should journey through life
with a carefree heart no matter how bumpy
that journey may be."

In the simplest sense, Tao is a Chinese
character which means "the way" or "the path."

Chuang Tzu was the sage who stood apart
from all others in Chinese history.
His mastery was such that he could explain
the Tao with simple stories, and his humor
was such that he could see the joy
in ordinary things.

He taught his students about “carefree wandering” —
the path of moving through life with a free
and happy heart, regardless of how turbulent
the journey might be.

We may not have the instability or the clash
of massive armies indicative of Chuang Tzu’s time,
but we have a lot of stress and tension in our modern world.

Many of us find ourselves fighting little battles
on the personal front just to get through the day.
We can benefit greatly from Chuang Tzu’s teachings.

Join Julie Ann and master teacher of the Tao Derek Lin
to discover how to cultivate the happiness
that can fill every moment, as well as last a lifetime.

If you've ever turned down
the volume on your dream ...
cared so much for eveybody else
that you've caught yourself
living someone else's life ...
or even secretly yearned
for a second chance,
a second act,
a second wave ...

... here's your invitation to transform loss
into living your true legacy.

Blending just the right balance of
inspiration and irreverence, Jennifer Boykin,
founder of Life After Tampons, says
"the thing I most want to do is help other women
at MidLife implement the answer to this question:
What would you do
if you KNEW you COULD NOT FAIL?"

If you're looking for Mid-Life Mojo and Moxie -
or just to renew your trajectory toward
Legendary Living ...
join Julie Ann and Jennifer for this
ConsciousSHIFT Show!

ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring
JENNIFER BOYKIN / TRANSFORMING LOSS INTO LEGACY

If you've ever turned down
the volume on your dream ...
cared so much for eveybody else
that you've caught yourself
living someone else's life ...
or even secretly yearned
for a second chance,
a second act,
a second wave ...

... here's your invitation to transform loss
into living your true legacy.

Blending just the right balance of
inspiration and irreverence, Jennifer Boykin,
founder of Life After Tampons, says
"the thing I most want to do is help other women
at MidLife implement the answer to this question:
What would you do
if you KNEW you COULD NOT FAIL?"

If you're looking for Mid-Life Mojo and Moxie -
or just to renew your trajectory toward
Legendary Living ...
join Julie Ann and Jennifer for this
ConsciousSHIFT Show!

ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring
SELF-TRANSFORMATION THROUGH STORY / BARBARA MAINGUY & LEWIS MEHL-MADRONA

Story shapes our world - and reshaping our stories
can positively transform how we experience our lives

Stories are the units of meaning-making
that help us make sense of our world.

And, as Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guests Barbara Mainguy and Lewis Mehl-Madrona - co-authors of REMAPPING YOUR MIND: The Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story - share with us, retelling your personal, family, and cultural stories can transform your life, your relationships, and your world.

Where we may have been thrown into an unhappy
or even hostile story, we have ways to remap
and re-story our lives ... and through conscious
story-telling, we may transform the inner
and outer landscapes of our lives.

We'll discover a road map - traced by neuroscience -
through which we may view the inner landscape
of our collective minds as the territory of stories we live by.

We tell ourselves and others who we are, what motivates us, how we arrived where we are today, and what kinds of challenges we face in the stories we live by.

As it turns out, stories are far from passive, inert influences in our lives; they can be every bit as dangerous as they are healing.

The latest neuroscience research on memory, brain mapping, and brain plasticity confirms the power story
exerts on our lives and how we experience the world.

Moreover, when we engage our stories consciously,
we may experience transformation and transcendence by being able to story our life differently.

Join Julie Ann, Barbara and Lewis, as we go on a gentle journey to discover our inner (and outer) storytellers - and learn how to negotiate with them, to form coalitions of healthier voices, to oppose the views of more negative voices .. and in this way influence our experience, and co-creation, of our world.

Patty will share practical exercises to assist us
in finding a more balanced sense of ourselves
in the midst of outer activity.

As Patty reminds us, the old Shaker song says
“It’s a gift to be simple” - and tells us that
the solution is in the turning, until “by turning,
turning, turning we come ‘round right.”

When we turn away for a short time from activities,
goals and commitments — and toward the inner self —
we discover a world that’s just as active
and full of surprises as the outer one.

Turning our attention to the world within
allows us to reconnect with that person
who we essentially are, in the depths of our being.

Join Julie Ann and Patty, as they explore some of the
52 reflections on familiar life situations from FINDING TIME, that you may use to stay inwardly alive and present to meet life’s many challenges — to pause and reflect at any moment of the day.

Today we see the emergence
of a liberating new way of being in the world -
one that weaves together the deep Nature wisdom of Indigenous traditions,
the spiritual insights of Eastern philosophy, and the quantum breakthroughs
of modern science.

By making this worldview part of our daily lives,
we usher in an era of greater health and awareness,
for ourselves and for society.

For all of the achievements of modern "progress,"
the Western way of thinking has led us - personally
and collectively - to a crisis.

We experience ourselves as fragmented beings,
separated from one another and Nature,
and this alienation has led to destructive behavior
that endangers the future of life on this planet.

But each of us has the potential to transcend this crisis,
and leave the era of separation behind.

Glenn Aparicio Parry calls this new world view ORIGINAL THINKING.

Through Original Thinking, we can strip away the destructive practices
of rationalist Western thought, and reconnect with the Source
that brings us health and the experience of our truest selves.

"It is important to incorporate Native wisdom into our lives
because the separation we feel is only illusory.
Nature and human nature; being and Human Being, are One.
The concepts we routinely use, the way we see the world,
has perpetuated certain illusory ways to seeing and being
in the world that are dangerous. We treat the plants, animals,
and all the elements poorly because we don't understand they
are us," as Glenn shares.

Join Julie Ann and Glenn to explore how ORIGINAL THINKING
offers a radical revisioning
of how we think - and what it means to be human.

Ready or not - our world is hurtling
into a deep dive of accelerating creation
of those once-future technologies
long-considered science fiction,
into tangible realities happening now ...

And it is prime time to explore - not only
what these new creations are, and what
TOMORROWLAND will look like ... but also
what it means to be a part of this
BRAVE NEW WORLD.

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest NYTimes bestselling author
Steven Kotler - author of TOMORROWLAND: Our Journey from
Science Fiction to Science Fact - has written extensively
about these pivotal moments when science and technology
have disrupted - and fundamentally reshaped - our world.

He joins us to share the best of his best, to guide us
on a mind-bending tour of the far frontier,
and how these advances are radically transforming our lives.

From the ways science and technology
are fundamentally altering our bodies and our world
(the world’s first bionic soldier, the future of evolution)
to those explosive collisions between science and culture
(life extension and bioweapons),
we’re crossing moral and ethical lines
we’ve never faced before.

As Kotler writes, “We can’t put Pandora back in the box.
When you strip everything else away, technology
is nothing more than the promise of an easier tomorrow.
It’s the promise of hope. And how do you stop hope?”

Join Julie Ann and Steven to discover the profound questions
and startling advances that are changing our future, NOW.

Intent means "purpose."

No one understands this better than Mallika Chopra.

Taught how to meditate at the age of nine
by her world-renowned father Deepak Chopra,
an authority in the practice
of mind-body medicine and spiritual healing,
Mallika is well-versed
on how to harness the power of intention.

The 40-year-old mother of two daughters, author, and former MTV executive is now looking to help others do the same.

As the founder and CEO of Intent.com, Mallika offers people a place to set an intention and have a community-at-large offer support and help spur accomplishment.

Mallika Chopra found herself consistently overwhelmed with the stress of trying to balance being a mother, wife, and successful entrepreneur.

Even though she speaks to audiences around the world about bringing balance into their lives, Mallika realized that she had lost her own purpose, balance, and peace.

Being the daughter of famous healer Deepak Chopra doesn’t mean you are immune to the chaos, exhaustion, and stress that so many people experience each and every day.

But it does mean that when you realize you need help, you can access a world of wisdom.

In her quest to create more balance in her life, Mallika sat down with experts, including Andrew Weil, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, Daniel Siegel, Arianna Huffington, and Caryl Stern for wisdom and valuable advice.

As Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Mallika Chopra, author of LIVING WITH INTENT: My Somewhat Messy Journey To Purpose, Peace, and Joy, shares her personal journey and a practical road map, full of wisdom and insights, that we all can use to create a more meaningful life.

In the midst of our fast-fast world,
filled with time pressure and stress -
it's no wonder nearly every one of us
feels OVERWHELMED.

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest Brigid Schulte -
author of OVERWHELMED: Work, Love, And Play
When No One Has The Time - as a harried
mother of two, was stunned by a report
that insisted American women had 30 hours
of leisure each week ... and set out
to discover the roots that give rise
to overwhelm in our modern life.

It's no wonder so many feel time is like
a “rabid lunatic” running naked and screaming
as your life flies past you - as we worry about
all there is to do and the pressure of feeling
like we’re never have enough time to do it all,
or do it well.

Brigid, an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post,
set out to understand the historical and cultural roots of overwhelm,
and will share how it is “contaminating” our experience of time,
how time pressure and stress is resculpting our brains and
shaping our workplaces, our relationships and squeezing
the space that the Greeks said was the point of living a
Good Life: that elusive moment of peace called leisure.

We'll be guided by two questions:
Why are things the way they are?
and, How can they be better?

Join Julie Ann and Brigid as we discover
how neuroscience, and the science
of both play and leisure,
can lead us to illuminating insights -
and a hopeful path forward to shift
out of overwhelm - and into a state
of balance, and yes, even serenity.

Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos -
there’s a reason they’re not like entrepreneurs
of any previous era.

They’re examples of a new and fast growing breed
of “exponential entrepreneur” — those visionaries
able to tap the incredible potential of exponentially
accelerating technologies (infinite computing,
robotics, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing,
to name but a few).

These technologies are democratizing the power to change the world, both driving us towards
an age of Abundance - and allowing those in the know
to create extraordinary wealth along the way.

Who are today’s “exponential entrepreneurs”
and how can you join their ranks?

What strategies do they employ?
How can you emulate their ability think at scale?

How can you harness the same technologies, tools
and techniques they use for having a global impact?

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest, Steven Kotler,
co-author with Peter Diamandis, of the New York Times
bestseller Abundance - joins us for a conversation
around the duo's new book, BOLD, a radical guide
for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking,
and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth
while also positively impacting the lives of billions.

Join Julie Ann and Steven to discover how today’s
big thinkers can become tomorrow’s bold leaders,
using crowd-powered tools accessible to everyone.