On today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, I talk about how our lives can be transformed through brief and spontaneous moments of connection. As my kids will tell you, I am a connection junkie and will strike up a conversation with just about anyone anywhere. As I have been thinking about this in the context of this year-long exploration of Connections, I am present to the incredible richness this has added to my life. These are not connections that are likely to last a lifetime - sometimes they last just hours or minutes, but the degree to which they transform a moment in time is striking.  

Maybe it’s just me, but I can think of loads of times that I have shied away from making a connection, told myself I couldn’t reconnect with someone because it had been too long, or let a story I had concocted in my head convince me that I shouldn’t connect with someone. I don’t really think it is just me. Despite the fact that the science is clear - we are social beings that are happier in connection, we come up with stories that can be fatal to building, rejuvenating and strengthening our connections. In today’s episode, I explore some of these stories as well as offer what happened when I pushed through some of mine.

As we walk through life on a daily basis, we pass and interact with many people. We may have hundreds or thousands of friends on social media, work in a building with hundreds or thousands of people, drive on the road with thousands of other people, and shop online where we do not even see or have awareness of the myriad people serving us. There are TONS of connections, but not always many REAL connections. And my sense is, we are starving for those real ones. I know I am. Join me on this 2018 inaugural episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant in which I launch a year-long journey focused on building real and heartfelt connections to help repair a broken world.

In today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I talk about the stories that we associate with transition or tell during times of transitions (ours or other people’s transitions), and how we experience the mixed pot of emotions that arise during a transition. As I have often indicated, a transition is natural, as natural as aging, leaves falling, and the earth spinning. It is neither bad nor good. It takes on the characteristics or qualities that we attribute to it. It becomes what it will be in response to how we show up to it. Join me for this continued discussion of the nature of transition and our human experience of it.

Just like animals that go into hibernation or trees that become dormant in winter, I have been in a period of quiet which often accompanies a period of transition or reinvention. While I am not yet ready to share the nature of the transition (more to come soon), in today’s episode of  Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I do share my tools and strategies for navigating transition. Just a trees lose leaves and then grow them again, waves come in and out, the moon waxes and wanes, we - as humans - are constantly cycling through periods of transition. It is part of nature. Nonetheless, despite the fact that change and transition are inevitable, many people fear them, resist them and struggle painfully through them. There is always discomfort with change and transition, but with the tools and strategies I outline in the podcast, it is my hope that we can all come to experience them as opportunities for new growth.  

In today’s episode of I Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I go a bit out there. We are familiar with facts like two-thirds of our body is made up of water. Or.... We have 206 bones in our body. But what does it mean that we are 99.99% energy? Actually, that we as humans, and all other matter, are almost all energy! Listen and explore what it means to be an energy being and how understanding this can change your life.  

If we are not your thoughts, feelings or flesh, what are we? If we are not defined by the roles we play, things we do, or awards we earn, then who are we? The questions are both intriguing and unusual. Join me for today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant when April retreat co-facilitator, Henry Yampolsky and I continue to explore the essence of BEING.  In addition to facilitating at Brilliance of Being, Henry brings an eclectic mix of interest in motorcycles, yoga, meditation, mediation, and car shopping! to his work of guiding people to peace and inner contentment.

This episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant may truly be one of the most transformative conversations I have ever been part of. I talk with Dr. Christine Kiesinger, an Integrative Wellness Education & Coach on BEING. What does Being mean? What is our Being? How do we connect with our Being? What is that experience? Christine generously shares why connecting with our being is so extraordinary and how we can begin doing this. You do not want to miss this episode and please share with others. It can be life-changing!

If you acquired a precious artifact, piece of jewelry or rare memorabilia, how would you care for it? Most of us would handle these items with kid gloves, wouldn’t we?  We would store or display them in a safe or special place. We would handle with care. We would protect them, wouldn’t we? On today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I get curious about how we handle time. Isn’t time a precious resource? Aren’t our life’s moments finite and irreplaceable? Isn’t our time as precious as these physical items? If so, do we treat it accordingly? Hmmmmm. I invite you to take a precious moment and get curious about this with me. I wonder how it might completely transform your relationship with time.

Today is the Spring Equinox - the day on which there is an equal amount of light and dark, a pivotal moment as we turn toward a time when the days grow longer (if you are in the northern hemisphere :). Symbolically, the spring is a time of seed planting, new beginnings, and birth. How will you harness the energy of this time? What will you plant for this next season? Join me on today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant for some tools to align with the energy of the Equinox.